Science, genetics and technology

Population genetics, ancient DNA, health, technology and AI.

(HIV) Cure is a 4 letter word (miracle is 7)

A report on genetically modified immune cells as a path to an HIV cure, with the poster’s comment that the best therapies will go to the rich while others wait…

Brown Pundits Archive6 March 201430 comments
A new (unwelcome) guest

A report on a possible polio-like virus affecting children in California, with the poster’s joke that polio already troubles the region enough.

Brown Pundits Archive5 March 20140 comments
Eternal youth

A brief comment on a 70-year-old Bahamas resident who says stem cell therapy is reversing his ageing, with a quip about the promised land where the rich stay young.

Brown Pundits Archive4 March 20140 comments
Thorium reactor #1 (only by 2025)

A report that India’s Advanced Heavy Water Reactor, a thorium-fuelled design from BARC, is ready, with the poster hoping the plans are meant and worrying that Kerala’s thorium reserves are…

Brown Pundits Archive4 March 20141 comment
Brown in space

A report on India’s $75 million Mars mission, far cheaper than NASA’s Maven, with the poster asking how an institutional science culture said to be lethargic produced it.

Brown Pundits Archive18 February 20144 comments
Another reason to hate Putin; fewer abortions?

The poster notes that Russian abortions fell from 2.5 per live birth in the 1990s to 0.42 after Putin took power, and wonders whether the West resents Russia’s resurgence or…

Brown Pundits Archive8 February 20141 comment
Bengalis are like Tamils, and Jatts are sui generis, and Syrian Christians are not Brahmins

Reading Zack Ajmal’s Harappa DNA sample, the author concludes that Bengalis, like Tamils, show a genetic split between Brahmins and non-Brahmins, that Jatts stand apart as a distinct group, and…

Brown Pundits Archive31 January 20142 comments

Science, genetics and technology

(HIV) Cure is a 4 letter word (miracle is 7)

A new (unwelcome) guest

Eternal youth

Thorium reactor #1 (only by 2025)

Brown in space

Another reason to hate Putin; fewer abortions?

Bengalis are like Tamils, and Jatts are sui generis, and Syrian Christians are not Brahmins