Musings

Partly collected thoughts.

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Grunwald on Trump

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Michael Grunwald in Politico : a must-read for any concerned parties. The most consequential aspect of President Trump—like the most con...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

How the Aryan nonsense infects Persia

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The past few days have seen protests in Iran. @Ghasseminejad tweeted:  "Protestors in Iran: "We are Aryans! We don't worshi...

Help: some aDNA stuff

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Need help interpreting this (note this is a 2014 paper, and already could be out-of-date, so fast are the developments in the field of aDNA...
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Monday, December 25, 2017

USA: Is a Bachelor's degree the new IQ test?

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People like to point to IQ as a predictor of success (often based on studies done in the US military)  often failing to note that the IQ te...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Rakhigarhi news

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Tony Joseph in the Hindu writes: (highlights added) (PS: for a take on the non-news content of Tony Joseph's article, see this. ) Th...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

What David Frum wrote

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"Conservatism is what conservatives think, say, and do. As conservatives change ... so does what it means to be a conservative." @...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

IBM's predictions from December 2012

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IBM's predictions for today from five years ago: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/39685.wss ARMONK, N.Y.     - 17 De...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

On Petersen's nomination

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Mark Joseph Stern at Slate explains it : Trump’s Nominees Think Life Tenure on the Federal Bench Should Be Handed Out Like a Participation ...

The Newest Banana Republic

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The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases —  ...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

A British argument for Indian Unity

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This is from the Times of London, November 16, 1855: ...A dominion of this sort, in which so many squares of the chessboard were British ...

Police, crime statistics from India

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In 2014 in India, 560,000  out of 2,260,000 sanctioned police positions were vacant. At about 138 policemen per 100,000 population, India w...
Saturday, December 09, 2017

Rakhigarhi DNA commentary

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It is true that the Government of India can keep a scientific finding from being published.  But keep the finding secret?   The more upsett...

AOT

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If you thought you've seen all of the possible theories about Aryans in India, you're wrong.  After Aryan Invasion Theory, and Arya...
Friday, December 08, 2017

Oude, 1855

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Long ago, at one of the peak times of controversy over the Ramjanmabhoomi/Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, I discovered one of the joys of the full...
Monday, December 04, 2017

Two different trajectories - India, Korea

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Gross Domestic Savings and Gross Capital Formation as a fraction of GDP. India, Korea 1960-2017. World Bank Data. India's growth has...
Sunday, December 03, 2017

The fallacy in comparing men to chimpanzees

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Bonobos and chimpanzees are equally related to humans evolutionarily speaking , yet everyone links human societies to chimpanzees only.
Saturday, December 02, 2017

The History of Fingerprinting

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Anand Ranganath and Sheetal Ranganathan have a great essay, "The Forgotten Indian Wizards And The Birth Of Modern Forensics" , th...

Book memo - more Reacher

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Without Fail & Persuader.  Fictional world full of nasty people, but the good guy always wins.
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Al-Biruni on the strange manners and customs of the Hindus

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Al-Biruni (973-1048) or Alberuni was a contemporary of Mahmud of Ghazni and accompanied him in his invasions of India.  Al-Biruni is known ...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

A few things Mahatma Gandhi almost certainly never said

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 It is very hard to prove that somebody did not say or write something; absolute certainty is not possible.  But one can be very confident ...
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