Eliah Overbey: the birth of bioastronautics
Spaceflight and genomics
You can’t beat us if you join us
Strategically minting new citizens: lessons from Rome & the US
When in (the) America(n century), do as the Americans do
How immigrant societies endure: considering the US & France
Open Thread – 7/19/2024 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
Aria Babu: pro-natalism in the shadow of empire
A British Zoomer’s perspective on the fertility decline and the reduced stature of Britain in geopolitics
Human to Neanderthal gene flow and high quality Denisovan genomes
Recurrent gene flow between Neanderthals and modern humans over the past 200,000 years: Our understanding of admixture between humans and Neanderthals has changed dramatically over the past decade and a […]
Should we Invest in Curing Rare Diseases or Making Them Rarer?
An guest-post from Noor Siddiqui and Nikki Teran of Orchid Rare diseases cost Americans around 8 trillion dollars a year. About half of that is direct medical costs. If families are […]
Louise Perry: overcrowded Britain and the ennui of a post-imperial nation
The UK’s housing and immigration crises
J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans found?
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes back a returning guest, J. P. Mallory, to discuss his reaction to the recent preprint The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans. Mallory is the author of In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Langu…
J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans found?
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes back a returning guest, J. P. Mallory, to discuss his reaction to the recent preprint The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans. Mallory is the author of In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Langu…
RKUL: Time Well Spent 07/07/2024
Midsummer Edition
Bryan Ward-Perkins: The material consequences of the fall of Rome
An archaeologist reflects on the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Sean Anthony: the Muhammad of history
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to professor Sean Anthony about his book Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. Anthony is a historian in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The …
Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Nikolai Yakovenko, a returning guest to the podcast, about his new AI startup, DeepNewz, and the state of the LLM-driven AI landscape circa the summer of 2024, where we are in relation to earlier …
Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Nikolai Yakovenko, a returning guest to the podcast, about his new AI startup, DeepNewz, and the state of the LLM-driven AI landscape circa the summer of 2024, where we are in relation to earlier …
Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age
The future is mostly the past and AGI is still just a dream
Chad Niederhuth: genetics in plants, from Mendel to GMOs
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Chad Niederhuth, an erstwhile academic plant geneticist now working in industry. Niederhuth and Razib discuss the reality that in 2024 it is often human genetics that gets the glory, even though e…
Chad Niederhuth: genetics in plants, from Mendel to GMOs
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Chad Niederhuth, an erstwhile academic plant geneticist now working in industry. Niederhuth and Razib discuss the reality that in 2024 it is often human genetics that gets the glory, even though e…
Scions of Sahul: the steadfast Australian settlers who held off sedentarism for 45,000 years
Tales from a weird continent: on Mega Marsupial slayers, the many races of Denisovans, etc.
J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans found?
Revisiting the search for Indo-European homeland more than 30 years later