What I’m Reading As I said in installment 6, please follow me on Twitter to keep up with the stories I’m reading and sharing. There’s too much to post here in any sort of definitive way. Turkey worries me… I discussed this Tweet in installment 6 — it has been…

Sorry for delay, but it’s been a very busy week. I’ve recorded two podcasts — one for The Insight (an important update on the state of the pandemic that I urge you all to listen to) and one for a friend’s Gene Food podcast that will drop in the next…

No Coronavirus content today — it’s the weekend, and we’re trying to focus on other things for a while. Yesterday we took the boat out to a fishing village on nearby Medang Isand, a 45-minute ride to the northwest.

There’s so much happening so quickly that I’ve been trying to post this for a couple of days, but it keeps expanding as new information pops up. I’m finally drawing a line under it, and posting what I have as of now (3am on Friday, March 27th Moyo time). What…

Things I’m Reading The library here has a guidebook on Maluku, the so-called Spice Islands in eastern Indonesia, which is the only place in the world where cloves and nutmeg used to grow. As a result, the people on the main islands of Ternate and Tidore became fabulously wealthy from…

Day 3 here on the island, and we’re getting into a rhythm. In order to streamline content, I’m going to start organizing this blog into three sections: Things I’m Reading, Moyo Life, and Random Thoughts. Things I’m Reading Some recent articles about the Coronavirus: Jakarta declares emergency over Coronoavirus outbreak…

I’ll start off by admitting that I’ve never been a blogger. I’ve been lucky enough that my writing has mostly been for school or published books. …

This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts and Stitcher) Spencer and Razib talk about genetic engineering in the 21st century with a very special guest. Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you probably know that there are claims coming out of China that two infants underwent a procedure to…

The field of human population genetics has lost a giant. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, known to his students and colleagues as Luca, died at the age of 96 on August 31, 2018 at his home in Belluno, Italy. …