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Jason Richwine: an immigration restrictionist speaks
Listen now (61 min) | America and its borders
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Francis Young: Lithuanian paganism during the Reformation
The official conversion of the nation of Lithuania to Christianity was in 1387. This means officially Lithuanians have been Christian for 635 years, and did not adopt the religion until more than 1,000 years after Constantine the Great accepted Christi…
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Open Thread – 05/08/2022 – Gene Expression
Happy Mother’s Day! Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s ouvre is appropriate, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, The Woman That Never Evolved and Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How […]
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Truth, even if we fail
There is an internet/social media controversy about the new book, The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe. The book itself is fine. I have a copy though I […]
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Eurasia, the Stone Age and revenge of the Danes!
In the last week, I put up a big two-part series of posts on Substack, The wolf at history’s door and Casting out the wolf in our midst, about the […]
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 05/05/2022
A fine day in May
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Sir Walter F. Bodmer: from R.A. Fisher to genomics
Listen now (67 min) | A career in human genetics
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Rand Simberg: Elon Musk’s Starship and making spaceflight great again
Rand Simberg is the author of 2014’s Safe Is Not An Option: Overcoming The Futile Obsession With Getting Everyone Back Alive That Is Killing Our Expansion Into Space, and a space business consultant, as well as a longtime blogger and commentator. Today…
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Casting out the wolf in our midst
How shepherd and wolf remade Eurasia in their image (part 2)
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When Surya left Olga of the Birch Forest
In the recent film The Northman the protagonist, Amleth, has a romantic relationship with a woman, “Olga of the Birch Forest.” Amleth was a Viking who raided Kievan Rus, and […]
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The Greece cline
Periodically I get asked about Greek genetics. I check the literature, and it doesn’t seem like a deep survey has been performed on the modern populations yet. Yes, there are […]
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Shield-maidens, fact and fiction
Ed West has a post up about the pervasiveness of shield-maidens in modern dramatizations of the Viking culture: The hunt for the kick-ass Viking girlboss. In terms of how it […]
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The wolf at history’s door
How shepherd and wolf remade Eurasia in their image (part 1)
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Molson Hart: “Chimerica” and the supply chain
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Molson Hart, founder and CEO of Viahart, an educational toy company. He is also co-founder of Edison, an intellectual property-focused litigation financing firm. Hart has gained some visibility as…
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Francis Young: Lithuanian paganism during the Reformation
Listen now (74 min) | Religion in Baltic, 1300 to 1600 AD
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Euro Vision (part 2)
Eurasia’s End
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Happy DNA Day (and whole genome sequencing yourself)
Today is “DNA Day,” I checked Nebula Genomics website to see if there was a deal. So I got the 30x whole genome sequencing for $199+$24.99/month subscription. The deal is […]
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Open Thread – 4/24/2022
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann is worth reading. It’s mostly science, and not too much about von Neumann’s personal life, though there is […]
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Open Thread – 4/22/2022 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on? Some Twitter controversy around Aurangzeb.
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Alex Nowrasteh: the last migration expert standing
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Alex Nowrasteh, the director of economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute. Alex is also the author of Wretched Refuse?: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions. His be…