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Is "Wrestling" Fixed?
The new report "Wrestling with social and behavioral genomics" has good points, but risks being interpreted so as to bias scientific research. In…
May 30
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Natural selection: I still have no clue about the effect size
A scientific report of "meh"
Apr 14
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Natural selection: what's the effect size?
A work in progress, a.k.a. a cry for help
Apr 7
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A pattern in world history
Do societies and nations contain the seeds of their own decay?
Mar 31
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🍾 Bubbles: SVB, GPT4, books and links 🍾
I’ve been down with ’flu (or Covid?) for a few days, so this is just a few incompletely-baked ideas. SVB and Credit Suisse The story of Silicon Valley…
Mar 18
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The Italian city-states as a distant mirror
Two possible images of the future
Mar 3
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Square pegs and round holes in cultural change
Here are two examples of something. A sad story erupted a few weeks ago in academic economics, in which one well-known professor accused another…
Feb 17
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Is the gender equity theory of fertility a cope?
One function of social science is to sell cope: to tell societies what they want to hear on challenging topics. I wish it weren’t so, but it is just a…
Feb 11
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