This is the Zoroastrian custom of leaving the dead to be consumed by vultures. Although “sky burials” also exist in other cultures with hard ground and no trees like Tibet, its a definite evidence that BMAC was Iranic.

More junk in linguistics… allegedly the top 9 female sounding politicians are male. And “feminine sounding people are perceived as more trustworthy”

The Zamdani guy knows that the other candidates have no self knowledge and therefore he can invent a random requirement of “visiting a mosque” which is irrelevant to running for Mayor. Without self knowledge you can be manipulated by others simply by passing judgement on

Economic incentives exert more power on behavioral change than even violence. Levying a 1% extra income tax on those who spit paan in public for example, would be more powerful than even banning ghutka

Dust on solar panels is a huge problem in the desert

Since lions were traditionally depicted with stripes, it becomes apparent that the mane in this Indus seal represents a lion. The unicorn therefore is also likely to be a composite image.

The correct answer is that Y-dna distribution is highly unstable and subject to wide swings in a very short time (see Amjadi 2025). This also makes Y-dna useless to reconstruct any "male mediated language change". I was just poking to see if our self-proclaimed expert knows this

Indian muslims have Ramzan/Ramadhan discussions. Hindus have Diwali/Deepavali discussion. Same same but different

Shows you that high fashion is all about outrage and none about aesthetics

Reminds me of this indus seal

The magic of archaeological context! One of the criticisms on my decipherment is that "I haven't used archaeological context" to decipher the script. This is yet another imagined constraint. What context was used to decipher the Kushana script? The Copiale codex? The closest was

Razib does not seem to have any ability to critically examine anything or grasp anything in any paper unless explicitly spelled out. The answer to my question should have been easy for a "genetics expert" who is claiming to be up to date on research. Instead he resorts to ad

Mark Twain died before the invention of Onlyfans

People need a space, community and a worldview. This was traditionally provided by religion. Eventually, other groups started to extract market share. Occupational groups is a big one. Political and investment groups are another. Some of these groups will conflict because they

The Christian god commanded genocide and did a few himself. So pretty much all evil can be blamed on him

Morality applies to humans, not gods. Krishna’s antics illustrate the naughtiness of boyhood (he was under 8 years old) while Yahweh commands his people to do literal genocide.

Essentially smarter people are smart enough to resolve issues without resorting to violence.