Razib Khan’s Content Aggregation Site
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Being Right, being agreeable, being nice
Many years ago I suggested to Ta-Nehisi Coates that he should interview Neil Risch after Coates waxed on about race and biology. He subsequently did so. The reason I suggested […]
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Open Thread – 12/19/2020 – Brown Pundits
We’re going to have Glenn Loury on on this Sunday’s Browncast. It was a fun conversation. Already up for patrons, and I also cross-posted to my Substack, because I think it’s such an interesting conversation. Loury is one of the most important public intellectuals alive today. He speaks for many, many, people. Many people in…
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Glenn Loury: heterodox academy of one
Listen now (62 min) | Today I had the privilege of talking to Dr. Glenn Loury for the Brown Pundits Browncast. The podcast will post live in a few days…but I thought I would cross-post here because I think it will be of particular interest to those who subscribe to Unsupervised Learning
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Jeremy Kamil: a virologist in the time of COVID
Listen now (52 min) | 2020 has been a difficult year for our species, as we’ve been hit by the greatest pandemic since 1918. But, we’ve learned a lot. Not always in ways we’ve wanted to learn. We know about the state capacity of the People’s Republic of China and the United States of America.…
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David Shor, the uncancellable
Razib talks to political analyst David Shor.
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On caste and a new Hinduism
Some of my Hindu American friends online engage in a defense of attacks on Hinduism by denying the necessary connection between caste and Hinduism. Since religion is made by men, this is true on the face of it. There is nothing necessary in any religion. But, Hinduism is a religion strongly associated with the Indian…
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A decade of bioengineering to come
Five years ago I wrote for the GSA weblog, Read/write access to your genomes? Using the past to jump to the future. The basic idea is that whole-genome analysis will […]
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Beyond “Out of Africa”?
Paradigm shifts for the 21st century
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Open Thread – 12/13/2020
Sorry about the spare “open thread”, but busy. I should mention I have a gated version of my David Shor interview up. Lots of talk about Miami and being Sephardic […]
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Back to Africa migration & Deep Learning
Revisiting the Out of Africa event with a novel Deep Learning approach: Anatomically modern humans evolved around 300 thousand years ago in Africa. Modern humans started to appear in the […]
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Open Thread – 12/12/2020 – Brown Pundits
I have a bunch of samples of people who say their four grandparents were born in India from DTC companies. I plotted them on 1000 Genomes with a focus on India. No Southern Dalits in the same for sure.
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Eric Cline and the End of the Bronze Age
Razib talks to archaeologists Eric Cline about his book 1177, and the end of the Bronze Age.
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David Shor: the uncancellable
Listen now (57 min) | David Shor is a young Democratic data scientist who was fired from Civis Analytics last spring over a social media firestorm. All reasonable people agree that this was unjust. But this is the world we live in now. Luckily for him, Shor has bounced back
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The Greeks in the mountains
The New Yorker has a long feature that explores the strange results from the paper last year, Ancient DNA from the skeletons of Roopkund Lake reveals Mediterranean migrants in India. […]
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Browncast: Abhinav Prakash and Karol Karpinski
Two BP Podcasts, one after another. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher (and a variety of other platforms). Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe to one of the links above! You can also support the podcast as a patron. The primary benefit now is…
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India’s revolt of the petite bourgeois Jatt class
What’s going on in India with the protests of farmers? The New York Times has a report, and that’s the sort of place many Americans will get their news from. […]
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Open Thread – 12/05/2020 – Gene Expression
I’ve been really busy, so I didn’t post an open thread last week and haven’t been keeping up with the book club. When I come up for some air I’ll […]
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Sharing a continent
25% of humans live in the Indian subcontinent. 18.5% live in China. Together that’s 43.5% of the world’s population in the two great Asian civilizations. Not a trivial number in the 21st century, especially in a nascent multipolar world. And yet the two societies often lack a deep awareness of each other, as opposed to…
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Open Thread – 12/05/2020 – Brown Pundits
Going to interview Tim Mackintosh-Smith today for the Brown Pundits podcast. He’s the excellent author of Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires. I’ve posted a podcast with Karol Karpinski for patrons. Karol was stationed in Dhaka with the World Bank, and we talk about his experiences (which includes unfortunate proximity to the…