Khannnn!!!!
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Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin. View all posts by Razib Khan
Nothing against the Hu, but they’re entry-level Mongolian rock at best.
Admittedly, I prefer traditional style over rock for my steppe music*, but Altan Urag is miles ahead of the Hu in quality, as are pretty much any of the many Mongolian rock bands coming out of China. Ethnic Zorigoo is more rap than rock but he’s great too.
The Hu are pretty damn good at promoting themselves, however. I’ve even seen Peter Turchin tweeting one of their songs.
*If you really wanna feel the spirit of Tengri, Batzorig Vaanchig is the bard of our age:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tVGei24TdQ
Asking from genuine ignorance – there’s people with the name Khan in all corners of the subcontinent, from Afghanistan to Tamil Nadu covering a wide range of phenotypes. Does the name imply Central Asian ancestry or is it just a honorific?
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