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Open Thread – 06/07/2022 – Gene Expression
I feel I may have read Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History but I don’t recall reading it. So I’m reading it. […]
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/06/2022
Your time is finite. Your phone and the internet stand ready to help you squander it. Here are my latest picks for spending it well instead. Feel free to add more in the comments. Books, what else? The idea that there was civilization before Greece and Rome seems self-evident to us today. But it wasn’t…
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Stop trying to make ‘caste happen’
Google’s plan to talk about caste bias led to ‘division and rancor’: In April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder and executive director of Equality Labs — a nonprofit that advocates for Dalits, or members of the lowest-ranked caste — was scheduled to give a talk to Google News employees for Dalit History Month. But Google employees…
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Stuart Ritchie: bad science, good science and behavior genetics
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning Stuart Ritchie joins Razib., Ritchie is the author of Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth and Intelligence: All that Matters. Ritchie is also a lecturer at King…
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Iberia: from Scourge of Islam to Launchpad of Conquest (part 2)
From reconquest to conquest
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Alex Palazzo: drifting into molecular evolution
Listen now | Molecular biology beyond Darwin
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Roland Fryer is back!
Harvard economist Roland Fryer has an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, How to Make Up the Covid Learning Loss: Paying students for attendance, behavior and homework can boost achievement. […]
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Is ancient DNA a biased view?
Over at my Substack Iberia: Ancient Europe’s Edge of the Earth (part 1) – Unpacking prehistoric Spanish and Portuguese genetics elicited a comment from Walter Bodmer questioning the representative of […]
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Iberia: Ancient Europe’s Edge of the Earth (part 1)
Unpacking prehistoric Spanish and Portuguese genetics
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Jason Richwine: an immigration restrictionist speaks
Last month Razib talked to Alex Nowrestah of the Cato Institute about the state of migration and policy in the US in 2022. An enthusiast for immigration, Nowrestah expressed some chagrin that the issue has fallen off the American public’s radar, at le…
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Ananyo Bhattacharya: The Life of John von Neumann
Listen now (86 min) | An alien among the Martians
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Open Thread – 05/20/2022 – Brown Pundits
‘We are going to die’: Food shortages add to Sri Lanka’s woes.
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Sir Walter F. Bodmer: from R.A. Fisher to genomics
Three of R.A. Fisher’s Ph.D. students remain active today, C. R Rao at age 101 and A. W. F. Edwards, and W. F. Bodmer, both 86. Bodmer was not only a student of Fisher, the cofounder of both population genetics and modern statistics, he was also mento…
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Cities are where people go to flourish, and then die
Stable population structure in Europe since the Iron Age, despite high mobility: Ancient DNA research in the past decade has revealed that European population structure changed dramatically in the prehistoric […]
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Stuart Ritchie: bad science, good science and behavior genetics
Listen now (71 min) | From the replication crisis to defending Kathryn Paige Harden’s honor
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Ashkenazi Jewis ethnogenesis in light of the Erfurt medieval DNA
Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century: We report genome-wide data for 33 Ashkenazi Jews (AJ), dated to the 14th century, […]
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War – part 2: the making and unmaking of man
When the engine of human progress has nothing left to give (part 2)
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Nick Patterson responds to Feldman and Riskin’s NYRB piece
Nick Patterson has responded on his Substack to the NYRB piece Why Biology is not Destiny, which itself is an attack on Kathryn Paige Harden’s book The Genetic Lottery. Patterson […]
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War: the making and unmaking of man
The origin story of violent human competition (part 1)