June 2019
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Samosas vs. Pakoras
Prompted by a joke about Islamicate samosas versus indigenous pakoras, the author notes that core desi food is heavy on carbohydrate and light on protein, prefers Mughlai cooking to Arabic…
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Sajid Javid finally *owns* his Pakistaniness
Praises Sajid Javid’s Tory leadership campaign video on the immigrant experience, quoting a tweet by Tim Shipman, and says the author was finally moved because Javid owned up to his…
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Between Marx and the mullah
The author argues that ancient DNA shows massive past population turnovers, yet premodern states lacked the capacity for coordinated genocide, so Latin American collapse owed more to disease and famine,…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 47: Game of Thrones with Jennifer Raff and Patrick Wyman
A BrownCast episode in which Razib discusses the end of Game of Thrones with geneticist and anthropologist Jennifer Raff and historian and podcaster Patrick Wyman, with listening links and an…
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My letter to the Cambridge Union
The author reproduces his letter of complaint to the Cambridge Union after being turned away from a Pakistan Society event for not being a student, describing it as humiliating, as…
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The British have no contrition for what they did to India-
Argues that Britain writes about the Raj without contrition and that the whitewashing of empire has fed resentment of the EU, calling Brexit the imperial reckoning Britain avoided.
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To understand Islam one must understand religion
Writing for new readers, especially ‘internet Hindus’ and philosophical atheists, the author argues that understanding Islam first requires understanding religion as a natural phenomenon, drawing on cognitive anthropology, and criticises…
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Gene Expression status update
The author says the Gene Expression blog is offline after maxing out its shared-hosting CPU, possibly because of a DoS attack, and will return with its archives when he has…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
An open thread for discussion of any topic, with other posts kept on topic.
