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If you have a hammer, everything is a nail
The reaction to my piece on caste by the Indian and Indian American Left has been interesting, and fraught with confusion. First, the reaction by this Indian (now in America) Leftist is to accuse me of being an upper-caste Muslim. This is not that far from how Hindu nationalists react to me, which illustrates that…
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Unsupervised Learning 2022 Reader survey
Demographics, habits and views
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Reactions to caste piece in UnHerd
It’s out, America’s fake caste war. Quick thoughts – The piece is illustrated with a photo of Aziz Ansari, an atheist from a Tamil Muslim background. This shows you that caste-in-the-West is a racial issue, and non-subcontinental people will view it as such. – Some people of Caribbean and other Diasporic backgrounds are complaining that…
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America’s fake caste war
The media is confecting racial division
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America’s fake caste war
The media is confecting racial division
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America’s fake caste war
If you listen to NPR or read The Atlantic, The New York Times and The Washington Post, you might think that Indians who live in the US, immigrants and their native-born children, are determined to impose the subcontinent’s caste system on North America. Perhaps you’ve read about the caste-based lawsuit aimed at Cisco Systems, or…
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America’s fake caste war
The media is confecting racial division
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The haplogroup is dead, long live the haplogroup! (part 2)
What mtDNA and Y-chromosomal lineages can still tell us
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Republican dominated states that are more pro-choice than you think
Because our politics have been nationalized, it’s easy to forget there are still regional quirks and variations. Comparing Pew’s 2014 views on abortion by state with 2020 election results, you […]
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Magna Graecia lives!
Assessing temporal and geographic contacts across the Adriatic Sea through the analysis of genome-wide data from Southern Italy: Southern Italy was characterised by a complex prehistory that started with different […]
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Epoche and detachment in analysis
I want to make a short and quick comment about a style of argumentation that I’ve noticed in people from the Indian subcontinent (though not exclusive to them). In addition to verbosity, there tends to be an aggressive hyperbolic emotionality. That’s fine if you want to scream on cable television, but it’s really hot air…
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Manuel L. Quezon III: Explaining the Philippines
A bit over one percent of Americans are of Filipino ancestry, making them one of the largest Asian American subgroups. Unlike Chinese, Mexicans or Europeans, Filipino immigrants are unique in that their homeland, the Philippines, was actually an Americ…
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Stuart Buck: making 21st-century science better
Listen now (76 min) | The buck stops here (for bad research)
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The haplogroup is dead, long live the haplogroup! (part 1)
Why mtDNA and Y-chromosomal lineages matter
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The last glacial maximum bottlenecks and human phylogeny
I’ve mentioned The genomic origins of the world’s first farmers a few times. It’s an intense model-based paper that revises some expectations and models of the origins of diverse human […]
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New David Reich talk
Eurogenes points me to a new talk by David Reich, that has a nice new long abstract online. I’ll just insert my comments within the blockquote… We present an integrative […]
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The modern human family tree might be shallower that I’ve been saying
Estimating population split times and migration rates from historical effective population sizes: The estimation of effective population sizes (Ne) through time is of fundamental interest in population genetics, but the […]
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Browncast episode 194: Caste, Hindus in America and Hinduphobia
On this episode of the Brown Pundits Browncast I had a long conversation with Nikunj Trivedi and Pushpita Prasad of the Coalition of Hindus of North America. One of the things we talked extensively about during this podcast is the Carnegie Endowment study Social Realities of Indian Americans: Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes…
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Alex Palazzo: drifting into molecular evolution
In 1973 the eminent evolutionary geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote an essay entitled “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.” Presumably, that would include molecular biology, and as Dobzhanksy was writing, the field of …
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Claire Lehmann: an Australian at the heart of the heterodox web
Listen now (58 min) | The IDW, anti-vaccination and social media as a detriment