Bryan Pesta tells his story + the closing of HDF
Some years ago we published the world's first admixture regression studies. These were done using a series of datasets starting with the relatively small PING, then moving on to PNC/TCP,…
January book reviews (4-6): Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
There's 2 books left of the January books, but one of them were not that noteworthy in the literal sense that I didn't take any interesting notes while reading them.…
January book reviews (4): Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
In this 4th book review of those I read in January, we come to Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa,…
January book reviews (3): Matt Ridley’s How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time (2020)
I decided to review all books I read, which also serves as a motivator for making notes when reading (actually, I only highlight text and memory is usually enough reconstruct…
January book reviews: part 2 Acemoğlu & Robinson
We continue the January book reviews. I had initially wanted to put them all in one post, but that would have been obscenely long given my notes. So we move…
Book reviews for January 2026
I tend to write 2 types of book reviews: 1) full length singular posts, and 2) short summaries for many books by year's end. The trouble with the second approach…
Mini-reviews of books I read in 2025
I regularly post in-depth book reviews, but I don't review all books I read. This is due to some combination of sloth and them just not having enough quoteable content…
Review: Can we avoid another financial crisis? (Steve Keen)
Last year, I remembered that I think most books are too long. Perhaps one sensible response to this is to favor reading shorter books in general. So I sorted my…
Reviewing Karl Marx
By whatever accidents of history, the otherwise obscure German Jewish Karl Marx became an internationally known hero and villain (depending on your view). I was somewhat familiar with his ideas…
How much should we trust medicine? Review of Medical Nihilism (Jacob Stegenga)
There's a few main types of broad-side science criticism: Lowbrow religiously motivated typically focused on denial of biology (evolution) but sometimes expanding widely Verbal tilt philosophy, usually some brand of…
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