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  Abdel Abdellaoui is Assistant Professor of Genetics in the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam.  Abdel Abdell...

Smart Leftists vs Dumb Leftists: Who qualifies as former? How about Soros, the top donor to the Democratic Party? A few years ago I gave a t...

From this interview with Robert Nozick : I had been at Harvard as an Assistant Professor in the mid-​sixties and then came back in 1969 as a...

  Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.  Sander has studied the str...

New results from Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative, a mega-biobank (>500k already genotyped). Diabetes predictor trained in TW as powe...

  Peter Byrne is an investigative reporter and science writer based in Northern California. His popular biography, The Many Worlds of Hugh E...

This is a very nice article on polygenic embryo screening and its prospects in Israel. Worth reading in full. Leading statistical genetici...

  Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable develo...

The state of Michigan required all public HS seniors to take the SAT last year (~91k out of ~107k total seniors in the state). This generate...

The transcript excerpts below are from my recent conversation with Brian Chau (aka Cactus Chu) on his podcast. Segments begin at 47m and 1h0...

New paper! Quantum Hair in Electrodynamics and Gravity   Xavier Calmet, Stephen D. H. Hsu  arXiv:2209.12798  We demonstrate the ex...

  Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in California, joined the Air Force at 17, attended Yale on the G.I. Bill, and is currently a Gates ...

This is a new paper which uses Genomic Prediction IVF family data, including genotyped embryo samples. Sibling Variation in Phenotype and G...

  Professor Goldstein recently retired after 20 years of service on the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (NWC). During his career at NW...

  Dwarkesh did a fantastic job with this interview. He read the scientific papers on genomic prediction and his questions are very insightfu...

  The guest for this episode is a recent graduate of Harvard College, now pursuing a STEM PhD at another elite university. We have withheld ...

I've been asked to write something about PRC military buildup and a potential Taiwan (TW) conflict.  1. My perspective and bona fides: M...

Some recent tweets which might be of interest :-) Tsinghua University (dad's alma mater) seems to be the only academic institution in ...

You may have noticed the post earlier today about the episode with Amy Chua of Yale Law School. That episode has been removed by request of ...

This is a short review of our recent work on black hole information for European Physics Letters. A Brief History of Hawking's Informati...

  Richard Lowery is a professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. In this conversation, he de...

  As promised , video from my talk in Amsterdam.  Seminar at the Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, 17 Jun 2022.  Title: Quantum...

Putting this tweet thread here for future reference. If you read this blog you may want to follow me on Twitter as I sometimes say things th...

  Tim Palmer is Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, and a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute. He is interested i...

This is a balanced and informative article in WIRED, excerpted from author Rachael Pells' forthcoming book ,  Genomics: How Genome Seque...