April 2020
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Extraction!
Brief comments on Netflix’s Extraction: thin plot, elided Bengali subtitles, implausible organised-crime impunity in Dhaka, and Chris Hemsworth beating up much shorter men.
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Open Thread, 04/25/2020 Brown Pundits
Do your thing.
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Leadership in Crisis Times; Who is your Wallfacer?
Using Cixin Liu’s ‘wallfacers’ as a metaphor for leaders who act without revealing their reasoning, the author asks which world leaders handle the COVID-19 crisis well, calling Trump corrupt and…
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Browncast Episode 95: Stanford serological study incorrectly underestimates infection fatality rate
In Browncast Episode 95, a participant in the Stanford serological study explains the selection bias in its sample and why the study wrongly underestimates the infection fatality rate, arguing against…
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Razib Khan corona-casting in the time of coronavirus
A roundup of Razib Khan’s coronavirus podcasts, from 17 February with Spencer Wells to a recent talk with Kushal Mehra, with an episode on Two for Tea to come.
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Interview with a Mujahid: Maj Gen Tajammal Hussain Malik
An interview Major Amin conducted in 2001 with the late Maj Gen Tajammal Hussain Malik, a devout officer who planned to assassinate Zia, posted with a long introduction as a…
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Hindus are the most authentic Indians
Raised in America as ‘Indian’ despite Bangladeshi Muslim roots, Razib Khan reflects on Hindu claims that Muslim and Christian holy sites lie elsewhere, and on how India’s native religious traditions…
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Open Thread, 04/18/2020 Brown Pundits
Open thread for 18 April 2020; the opening post asks readers how they view the lockdown and India’s response to COVID-19, and allows any other non-vulgar topic.
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Two leaders of Western European countries of Indian background?
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India’s COVID-19 heterogeneity
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