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4 months

Why do the Somali have such thin bodies and large foreheads? This physical type is often explained as an adaptation to desert heat, but occurs in no other desert population outside Africa. The real culprit is milk anemia, a disease common in pastoralists and, once, in Europeans.

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Those who attempt to understand the Industrial Revolution often travel down a dead end. Every old economy is mostly agrarian, so European agriculture must have been unusually good, right? But European grain yields were actually awful and they somehow succeeded in spite of them.

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In 18th century England young men and women had complete freedom to select their spouses. This distinguished England not only from India or China but France and Germany. Where did this freedom come from and what are its consequences? A thread on "Marriage and Love in England":

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Christianity has historically helped to spread monogamy, exogamy, and consensual marriage around the world. None of these practices, though, originate in the Bible. They are all European traits which have piggybacked on to the Catholic Church. Where, exactly, do they come from?

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@crimkadid

3 years

The truly great Norm Macdonald, one of the world’s few interesting people, is dead. Some notes on Norm’s strange life for devoted fans:

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@crimkadid

1 year

Jonathan Hutchinson was a Victorian era surgeon who had what some called an obsession with the idea that eating rancid fish was the true cause of leprosy. His 1906 book on the subject is now just a mocked Victorian curio, but I will show you how close he was to the truth.

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1 year

If you ask a population genetics guru to list the most interesting, unusual peoples in Europe they'll tell you all about the Saami, the Sardinians, the Basques. These groups are interesting because of their isolation; the English are interesting in exactly the opposite way.

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@crimkadid

4 years

I might start repeating something like this as a mantra: the most important thing in the world no one knows is that children born after the onset of autism epidemic are mentally and (the focus of these tweets) physically fucked up.

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1 year

If you go down a list of the world's popular sports you see one created in Scotland (golf), one in Canada (hockey), three in the US (basketball, volleyball, baseball) and all the rest by the English. Have you ever wondered why only Anglos are capable of inventing sports?

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1 year

This thread is all about your legal options if you were to travel back in time to medieval Europe and murder someone. It's also about measuring the decline of the extended family and the origins of English individualism. On Bertha Phillpotts' "Kindred and Clan in Past Time".

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@crimkadid

4 months

Some historians plausibly argue that the Industrial Revolution could not have happened had yields not reached some minima, say 20 bushels an acre. What’s awkward though is that this number had been reached 1,000 years before in China and earlier still in Egypt: nothing happened.

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@crimkadid

4 years

Every few years a different nerd discovers the same thing about NFL quarterbacks: that they're much, much more blue eyed than the general population. And yet somehow this information never spreads to the public; it's like the men in black show up and arrest the noticers.

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1 year

The most likely explanation for the enduring short stature and narrow build of East Asian peoples is that such a body type is an adaptation to an effectively vegetarian diet: in quite a few parts of pre-modern Asia 80-90% of calories were derived solely from rice.

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The Upper Midwest was first colonized by New Englanders, “Yankees”. After heroically clearing the land and founding the first towns, Yankee Man vanished. His place was taken by Germans, who have come to dominate the rural Midwest by being everything the Yankee was not.

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@crimkadid

2 years

Around 1000 Western Europe and Japan, up to that point unremarkable places, created two bizarrely similar feudal societies. By 1700 both were pulling far ahead of their neighbors. Of all historical puzzles this to me most interesting: why these two and no others?

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1 year

You can use Arabic names to measure Islamization in the Middle East, Biblical names to measure Christianization in Egypt. But if all you had to go on was first names you would conclude Christianity only reached Western Europe after 1000, when the first French "Jeans" appeared.

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1 year

Just as the emergence of Arabic names can be used to measure conversion to Islam, so too can historians use Biblical names to measure Christianization in Egypt. "Johannes" becomes dominant in the 6th century; Christians everywhere always seem to gravitate to that name.

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3 years

The essence of Norm’s comedy was his dislike of abstraction, of the way language can be used to distance a person from unpleasant realities. Patton Oswalt thought the worst part of Bill Cosby’s exposure was the hypocrisy, Norm thought it was the raping.

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@crimkadid

3 years

Which raises the question, which I think about a lot: can a person, if properly isolated at an early age, exist outside of their generation?

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@crimkadid

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While Napoleon’s armies were in Egypt they surveyed the country's agriculture and discovered that it was more than twice as productive per land unit as in France. What's more surprising is that, when irrigated, the land yielded more even than in industrial age England.

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@crimkadid

2 years

695 Harvard students and faculty died in World War II, not too far away from the total number of African American combat deaths (708). In Vietnam though the University lost just 22 people, about 1/4th or 5th of what you'd expect. Once upon a time, the "elite" earned their label.

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@crimkadid

2 years

Muslims who lived in Crusader Jerusalem told cuck jokes about the behavior of their Frankish rulers, who to them seemed absurdly naïve and too trusting of their women. From The Book of Medieval Anecdotes:

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@crimkadid

3 years

Going to argue today that societies in which agriculture is performed collectively in and around nucleated villages act to domesticate human beings via the same biological pathway as in dogs and cats and is apparent in a similar shortening and broadening of their skulls

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4 months

There are other African peoples, all pastoralists, that share many aspects of the Somali “look”. The type goes by many names: Hamitic, Cushitic, Ethiopid. Because they are often tall, the Belgian anthropologist Jean Hiernaux categorized them as “Elongated African".

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4 years

Going to come out of eight years of Twitter lurking to try and answer some basic problems of human variation, first one being: "why are Polynesians so big and strong?", with implications for some Europeans too. @Steve_Sailer , @gcochran99 , @espressosoldo , @bronzeagemantis

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4 months

What really separates our Red Africans from other desert peoples is their dependance on domestic animals. African pastoralists subsist on a diet very rich in milk, so much so that the Tuareg, Fulani, Tutsi, and Beja have rates of lactose tolerance only exceeded by west Europeans.

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Rice is a better crop than wheat and maize is better than both. Maize in Aztec Mexico could yield ~20 bushels an acre with a fraction of the labor costs of wheat or (especially) rice. "They were therefore free, perhaps a little too free" says Fernand Braudel.

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@crimkadid

4 months

The “F”s on Hiernaux’s map stand for Fulani, another pastoralist people. The Fulani have a striking physical resemblance to East African herders; many I think, could pass as Somali. There is though no close genetic link between them, something Hiernaux guessed 60 years ago.

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@crimkadid

4 months

Christianity really has helped to spread monogamy, exogamy, and consensual marriage around the world. It just needs to be understood that Christianity, as actually practiced, is a European religion and European cultural assumptions are built into its foundations.

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Wheat isn't the worst, though. When North Europeans couldn’t grow wheat, they grew rye and if it was too wet or cold for that they turned to oats, a fodder crop. Those that did ended up thinly populated shitholes: the Celtic countries, Norway, and the Alps make up “Oatmeal Land”.

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@crimkadid

4 months

Cow's milk can produce anemia not only because it is low in iron, but because its calcium actively interferes with iron metabolism. The addition of milk or cheese to common meals is enough to reduce iron absorption by 50-60%.

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@crimkadid

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China’s closest agricultural competitor in 1800 was probably not England but India where fertile river valleys brought in yields close to 30 bushels an acre. What was equally amazing to European eyes was that Indian rice fields did not need to be rested with a fallow period.

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Early European explorers were so impressed with the Fulani (and charmed by the good looks of their women) that they assumed they were either mostly Caucasian or related to East Africans. Neither is true: Fulani are 3/4th West African. The "Somali" type has evolved more than once.

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4 years

The central argument I’m making here is the apparent physical decline in grip strength suffered by millennials is actually a mental defect in disguise, a failure of their nerdy brains to effectively coordinate muscle at every level of the body.

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@crimkadid

3 years

Norm dropped out of high school when he was 15, then spent 10 years as a semi-criminal drifter, working as a lumberjack, picking tobacco, moving furniture, and stealing typewriters for re-sale on Indian reservations.

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Take this standard account from Robert Allen. It notes that on the eve of the Industrial Revolution English grain yields were good by the standards of northwest Europe, which itself “reaped yields twice those in most other parts of the world”. This is misleading in the extreme.

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@crimkadid

3 years

At the height of the 1970's crime wave there were at least 80 active serial killers in the US. There was a tremendous geographical skew in where they operated: very few in NYC (2) or New England (1), tons in California (23) and the West Coast.

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@crimkadid

2 years

Anthropologists who visited Appalachia around 1910 noted with curiosity that the natives referred to any American not from the mountains as a "furriner". What then, did they call real foreigners like Dutchmen or Dagos? "The Outlandish", they said, using the medieval English word.

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@crimkadid

4 years

There are generational changes that everyone notices but never really talks about. When you listen to tape recordings of even average Joes from the 50’s or 60’s it’s remarkable how crisp and clear their diction is, whereas millennials slur together syllables like drunks.

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The difficulty with this explanation is that there are other desert peoples outside Africa and none look Somali. The Sonoran Desert is 15+ degrees warmer than Mogadishu in the summer and yet its indigenous peoples, like the Cochimi, do not have bulging foreheads or petite bodies.

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@crimkadid

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All things held equal, rice is just a better crop than wheat. Perkins reports yields from two wheat growing provinces of China and they are awful, no better than medieval Europe. When Italians first took up rice the immediate effect was a x 2.5 multiplication in yield.

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Putting aside the important question of cause, it is incomprehensible to me that almost no one has noticed this association in the last 116 years. Imagine a parallel Earth where scientists were smart enough to cure malaria but not to figure out that it was spread by mosquitoes.

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@crimkadid

4 months

Maybe more than twice. In the hottest Saharan depths live the Tuareg, another pastoralist people. They are mostly North African by descent, but all the same Carleton Coon thought the closest physical comparison to be found was with the Somali. This keeps happening: Somalification

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@crimkadid

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European yields had once been even worse. The earliest surviving manor records from Dark Age France and Italy show seed ratios of 1: 2.5, which are so awful historians have had a hard time accepting them. Why would farmers work so hard to get so little?

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@crimkadid

3 years

American veterans of WWII in Europe did not seem to regard the war as a righteous crusade in the same way. their descendants did. After D-Day desertion reached catastrophic levels: in late 1944 there may have been in 20,000 US deserters in Paris alone.

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The point of all this is that if you accept that Europe only became properly Christian around 1000 then its upward trajectory after that date becomes very easy to explain. I feel stupid typing this but Christianity is an underrated historical force.

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@crimkadid

4 months

This is as far as I go. But readers who know more about African history than I do will perhaps be able to go even further. People so often tease the Somali for those big heads and never wonder: is there anything useful inside them? What, exactly? A question for someone else.

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@crimkadid

2 years

Lyndon Johnson was an unstoppable human virus who managed to seize control of every institution he ever entered through sheer ruthless sycophancy, despite being hated by nearly everyone. It was as though an Indian guy had lightened his skin and traveled back in time.

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@crimkadid

4 months

But even that is not much compared to what you see in Somalia. There were once nomads in that country who would subsist_entirely_ upon camel’s milk, 5 liters worth a day, something I didn’t think was possible.

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@crimkadid

4 months

Egypt is famously fertile, so might Allen’s generalization still hold for the rest of the world? These Chinese numbers are taken from Dwight Perkins. A typical value from Ming China is about 2 shih per mou after husking, ~25 bushels per acre, as against 20 in England c. 1800

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4 months

If iron deficiency is such a problem, you might ask why the Somali didn’t just evolve higher iron stores. The issue is that higher iron is closely associated with malaria infections, so much so that some doctors feel that giving iron tablets to the anemic hurts more than it helps

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This is not, I think, a coincidence. There is one ethnic group in the south of Europe who are universally lactose tolerant: the Basques. The Basques are physically unusual in a number of ways, but most obvious to see is a marked red flush which is out of place so far south.

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@crimkadid

4 months

When heavy milk consumption co-exists with malaria the result of selection is a thin body type. Because iron levels remain low, we could call this “acquiescence”. When the same diet is consumed in non-malarial areas the result is “adaptation”: iron overload, hemochromatosis.

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@crimkadid

2 years

As weird as it sounds, the use of chairs represents a fundamental dividing line between Christian and Muslim civilization. Spaniards who inspected the Moriscos were disgusted at their lack of chairs: "We Christians sit at a proper height, not on the ground like animals."

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@crimkadid

4 months

The diet of the Irish and Bretons is reminiscent of that of the Germans as described by Caesar. “They make not much use of corn for food, but chiefly of milk and cattle” is often assumed to be exaggeration but the example of Ireland and Somalia suggest this is indeed possible.

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@crimkadid

4 months

The large foreheads were produced through overproduction of red blood cells in the marrow of the skull. Ruling out malaria or sickle cell disease, the researchers concluded that this iron deficiency came about through excessive drinking of cow’s milk early in life.

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Moreover, the persistence of anemia throughout the lifespan would help to explain the gaunt, “Somali” physique as a body type designed, not to survive desert heat, but to function on a bare minimum of iron.

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4 months

Some old anthropologists classified the Fulani and Somali as part of the same race, called “Ethiopoid”, as here on the great Human Phenotypes site. What made this mistake understandable was that the Fulani and Somali share not only a build but a coloring: a kind of chocolate red.

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@crimkadid

4 months

Before the introduction of the potato c. 1600, the Irish diet revolved around milk to an extent unique in Europe. “According to various English commentators on the Irish scene, milk constituted virtually the sole food of the ordinary people during the summer season.”

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3 years

The decline in Western grip strength is neuromuscular and can be heard in the weak, unemotional, badly coordinated and slurred voices of millennials. Emotion itself is physical and the ultimate mental result of this trend is people who are dull, uncaring, and callous.

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@crimkadid

3 years

His memory was prodigious: on Tom Green’s podcast he once recited Shel Silverstein’s The Devil and Billy Markham at high speed from memory while barely missing a word:

Norm Macdonald - The Devil and Billy Markham by Shel Silverstein

Norm Macdonald - The Devil and Billy Markham by Shel SilversteinfromNorm Macdonald Interview - The Tom Green Show Live at the SModCastle (2010)

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@crimkadid

4 months

The biophysicist Paul Baker theorized that desert heat imposes a higher degree of stress on the body that typical African wet heat does. World War II-era studies of heat stroke deaths seem to show that lean men are less likely to perish in these environments.

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@crimkadid

4 years

Four years back a study was published that compared the grip strength of US millenials with those of a 1985 reference group and found a half standard deviation decline in grip strength during that period, equivalent to a 7 point drop in IQ.

Comparative study of millennials' (age 20-34 years) grip and lateral pinch with the norms - PubMed

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@crimkadid

3 years

I’m going to contend tonight that autism is a growth disorder whose prevalence increases with advancing average birth weight and height and which explodes in frequency when weight and height can increase no further, resulting in a kind of "spillover" of growth into the brain.

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4 months

Let’s more closely compare Chinese and Indian harvests with English ones. In the medieval period NW European yields hovered around 10 bushels an acre, before increasing to 20 at the dawn of industrialization. In 1500 English yields were less than _half_ those in China.

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@crimkadid

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Medieval farmers themselves measured yields by seed ratio, meaning grains harvested for every one planted. This helps to illustrate how bad yields were: the average is 1:4, meaning 25 percent of every harvest could not be eaten or sold but had to be saved for next year's planting

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4 years

The title of tonight tweetstorm is “How are the Blacks like the Irish?”, but it’s really about how selection against schizophrenia has been a powerful influence on differences in personality and intelligence between human groups. @Steve_Sailer , @DavidePiffer , @hbdchick

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4 months

The few anthropologists who have studied the issue have all come to the same conclusion: the lean physical type of the “Red Africans” is an adaptation to desert heat. Jean Hiernaux theorized that there are two types of Black African: those adapted to wet and dry environments.

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He had this weird rapport with old men: his best friend was Billie Joe Shaver (born 1939), on Norm’s show they reminisced about their childhood outhouses. He looked and talked and thought as though he was born in the Great Depression.

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Some researchers write about milk anemia as though it were a disease only suffered by children, because they reason that only at a young age can cow’s milk be so important in the diet. But among the Tutsi milk could represent >50% of dietary calories even in adulthood.

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When the Turkana first encountered the Maasai, Rendille, and Borana they called them "red people". JR Wilson-Haffenden's book on the Fulani is subtitled "Red Men of Nigeria". The skin color of the Somali has been called bronze, copper, caramel.

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3 years

Practically every zoomer girl, fat or thin, has a balloon for an ass and yet no one seems to think this the cause of this of change is worth investigating. Like most of what I write about, it’s too interesting to the average person and therefore undignified.

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3 years

Here are some basic notes on Tutsi genetics/appearance:

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In their writings on “Elongated Africans" Hiernaux and Baker didn’t even attempt to explain why desert environments would produce large foreheads in, say, Somalis. But I know of a condition induced by milk consumption which can swell the size of the forehead: the Bahima disease.

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In 1962 British doctors in Uganda made note of a number of young patients who had arrived in recent months with swollen foreheads and iron deficiency. The children were all part of the same minority group: the Bahima, close relatives of the Tutsi.

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3 years

When Morgan Worthy examined the eye color of white NFL players his big finding was that quarterbacks were much more likely to have blue eyes. But he also interestingly found that the blacker the NFL position, the darker eyed the whites who play it tend to be.

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Young Norm was a wild, dangerous man. On Adam Carolla’s radio show he told a story about how, when 19, he had anal sex with the wife of one of his friends while the two of them watched her husband mow the lawn.

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It's of note that schizophrenics are overrepresented in the ranks of vagabonds and compulsive gamblers. Norm lost all the money he ever made three times. All of his SNL money went down the drain after he bet on the Falcons in Super Bowl 33

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Like many extraordinary creatives Norm had a schizophrenic brother and it’s an open question how close Norm came to being psychotic. On Marc Maron’s podcast they bonded over having had psychotic breaks, upon hearing Marc’s story Norm said “Oh, yours was caused by cocaine?”

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The Dutch were about twice as wealthy as the English in the 17th century and yet their colonies were miserable failures. New Netherland never had more than 10,000 inhabitants, most of them non-Dutch. French Canada was in the same boat. It was the English, as always, who were odd.

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Russians are white. Ashkenazi Jews are white. Dagestanis are white. The peoples of Atlantic Europe are _red_ . They themselves are amazingly oblivious to this. Just as there are milk drinking, red faced African pastoralists, there are milk drinking, red faced European ones.

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Norm, half Scottish/Irish, liked to fight recreationally in bars until he came to New York and got in trouble for hitting a “connected” guy; he then decided to restrict his fighting to the SNL offices, where he punched out Ian-Maxtone Graham and wrestled with Wyatt Cenac.

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Some of the highest frequencies of C282Y outside of Ireland are found in West Brittany. William of Poitiers, the Conqueror's historian, described the Breton way of life c. 1066: "they live on plentiful milk and very little bread.... crops are almost unknown".

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East Asians consistently produce the world’s worst propaganda, as if they have an average theory of mind 5-10 years behind everyone else. I don’t know if they actually lie more, but their lies are more memorable because they’re so childishly implausible.

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In this way Norm was very old fashioned, in fact he was old fashioned in practically every way. Many people commented that he had “classical” or “1950’s” good looks (like 50’s stars, he also had no muscle), that he could have fit in as an ad executive in Mad Men.

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I am the only person in a million years who would have this thought, but I think the underlying factor is the same one driving the autism epidemic. Autistics are about 1 sd weaker than normal and interestingly their weakness correlates with their autism.

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Millennials don’t actually have opinions, just sort of recitations. What this means is that if you ever express one interesting, novel idea you get to be the leader of your own Taleb/SSC/BAP cult.

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The 12th century Catholic doctrine that consent alone makes the marriage is extremely unpopular and rejected almost everywhere except England. Where, then, did it come from? Not the Bible, not Greek or Roman culture. Alan Macfarlane believes it is originally Germanic.

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It used to be that just about every famous broadcaster had this rapidfire auctioneer’s patter: Chick Hearn, Vin Scully, Bob Uecker, Hot Rod Hundley or the best known example Johnny Carson. They could speak at incredible speed while never sacrificing emotional inflection.

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Trump's 2016 primary campaign (not the general) had an ethnic angle that went largely untalked about. It revealed a cultural split in the American Midwest between the descendants of Germanic immigrants who hated his boastfulness and the descendants of Old Americans who loved it.

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There are Somali minorities in Ethiopia and Kenya and in both places they are distinguished by their high anemia rates. The Somali region of Kenya was once unique in that blood disorders like anemia were the leading cause of death

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5,000 kms to the west, the milk drinking Fulani show the same distinct mortality pattern as the Somali. Compared to their immediate farmer neighbors like the Dogon they have much higher rates of anemia, but lower susceptibility to malaria.

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Margery Paston enjoyed a freedom in 1470 that did not exist in France even in 1900, where parental consent at her age was mandated. The rules governing consent were alike in France and Germany because both countries had adopted Roman Law, and with it, echoes of the paterfamilias.

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By 1600 leprosy was extinct in most of Europe. In some places though the disease lingered on, above all in Norway, whose last leper died only in 1946. Medical historians debated for decades “What is it that makes Norwegians so uniquely disgusting?”, which I thought was funny.

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Once I was looking for pictures of the Beja and I ran across this fellow. He was the first impossible person I’ve seen: impossible in that I was certain he was a photoshopped white man. The chin, the forehead, the lack of prognathism…none of it seemed right for someone so black.

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@crimkadid

4 years

One of the ways people born after the onset of the autism epidemic resemble autistics is in the dulled emotional tone of their voices: they have a hard time sounding genuinely threatening when they need to be or charming or…any emotion really.

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@crimkadid

4 months

A 2016 paper claims the gene spread as a way of increasing thermoregulation in chilly, damp parts of Europe. There’s a very strong correlation (.782) between a country’s number of rainy days and its modern frequency of C282Y.

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@crimkadid

3 years

The WWII Germans regarded the Americans as spoiled: a German division only required 1/4th the weight of supplies to function. The Chicoms in Korea though had less than 1/12th the supplies of the Americans: "there are levels of survival we are prepared to accept".

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@crimkadid

4 months

Greek city states were resolutely monogamous from the beginning, as was Rome. That polygamy survived so long in the Kingdom of Macedon can be taken as evidence that the polis itself, with its insistence on the equality of citizens, was the ultimate origin of Western monogamy.

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@crimkadid

4 months

Milk anemia was so common among the Bahima that their healers had a standard practice to treat it: they branded circular scars on the head. It may have been common elsewhere: I have seen images of Fulani and Rendille that have the same tower shaped skulls described in the paper.

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@crimkadid

4 months

In its original form Roman Law grants fathers lifelong control over the marriage and property of their children. At all ages his consent is required for a marriage to take place and he can unilaterally order a divorce for any reason.

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