{"id":94487,"date":"2013-11-03T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=23132"},"modified":"2013-11-03T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T18:34:08","slug":"open-thread-1132013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/03\/open-thread-1132013\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread, 11\/3\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00BM9OD60\/geneexpressio-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-23133\" alt=\"Origins-of-the-Irish1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2013\/11\/Origins-of-the-Irish1.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00ET8B6Q6\/geneexpressio-20\">Ancestral Journeys<\/a>, I decided to get J. P. Mallory&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00BM9OD60\/geneexpressio-20\">The Origins of the Irish<\/a>. A bit on the academic side for some, but definitely a good dive into the literature. Mallory is well aware of the latest genetic research, so this is as up-to-date as it gets. It&#8217;s a good case study in how multidisciplinary prehistoric studies should be done.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve suggested earlier prehistory looks to be a good deal more complex than we had previous thought, so expanding beyond single methodological perspectives is probably essential if we really care about truth.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, a short piece in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/03\/world\/middleeast\/yemen.html?ref=international-home&amp;pagewanted=print\">The New York Times<\/a> refers to Salafis as &#8216;ultraconservative.&#8217; I think this misleads most people about the nature of Salafism: it is a radical utopian <i>system<\/i> which recently arose out of Islam&#8217;s confrontation with Western derived modernity. It isn&#8217;t conserving anything. This aspect of Salafism explains why <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/saudi-arabia-prophet-mosque-615\/\">Saudi Arabia condones the bulldozing of Muhammed&#8217;s tomb<\/a> and celebrates modern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2012\/oct\/23\/mecca-architecture-hajj1\">monumental architecture<\/a> in Islam&#8217;s holy city.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2013\/11\/23132\/\">Open Thread, 11\/3\/2013<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\">Gene Expression<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/ERTWtegTkA8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Ancestral Journeys, I decided to get J. P. Mallory&rsquo;s The Origins of the Irish. A bit on the academic side for some, but definitely a good dive into the literature. Mallory is well aware of the latest genetic research, so this is as up-to-date as it gets. It&rsquo;s a good case study in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2013\/11\/23132\/\">Open Thread, 11\/3\/2013<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\">Gene Expression<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94488,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94487\/revisions\/94488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}