Razib Khan’s Content Aggregation Site
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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…
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Rand Simberg: Elon Musk’s Starship and making spaceflight great again
Listen now (76 min) | An aerospace engineer discusses the possibilities for space in the 21st century
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In defense of behavior genetics
Stuart Ritchie, the author of Intelligence: All That Matters and Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, has written a trenchant critique of The […]
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The werewolves were the koryos of yore
The London Review of Books has a review of a book between two scholars, Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective. The crux is the case […]
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Euro Vision (part 1)
Who qualifies as a European anyway?
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Molson Hart: “Chimerica” and the supply chain
Listen now (54 min) | An American businessman talks about his experiences in international trade
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Dan Davis prehistory YouTuber par excellence
I’ve been on the record of being skeptical of a lot of content being generated on YouTube, but I think the author Dan Davis does a really great job. The […]
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James Lee: genes and educational attainment
In this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to James Lee, a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. Lee is a co-author of a new paper in Nature, Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from ge…
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A video on the Sintashta Culture
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The truth still matters
On Twitter I ran into a peculiar argument about vegetarianism and Brahmanism: This is just factually wrong from what I know. The standard narrative I was taught is that the shift toward vegetarianism was driven by non-Brahmin-led religious movements, in particular the Sramanic sects like Jainism and Buddhism (that seem to have had a Kshatriya…
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Games within games
Many years ago I read Adin Steinsaltz’s The Essential Talmud. Steinsaltz was a Charedi (Chasidic more specifically) rabbi who spoke about the text and work from the perspective of an […]