The modern human conquest of earth
Listen now (76 min) | A narrative genetic history of humanity
David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
Dr. David Sloan Wilson is a Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. Co-founder of the Evolution Institute and Prosocial World, Wilson is the author of Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish B…
Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib hosts three guests, Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell, Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute and Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept. Razib, Haider, Hamid and Hussain discuss the current state of the …
Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib hosts three guests, Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell, Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute and Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept. Razib, Haider, Hamid and Hussain discuss the current state of the …
Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
Listen now (67 min) | Reflections on the blank slate, the ghost in the machine and the noble savage
ChatGPT 4.0 Tries to write a Razib Khan style essay
Query: write a razib khan style essay on the genetic history of india Title: The Genetic Kaleidoscope: A Razib Khan Style Essay on the Genetic History of India Introduction India, […]
The Scandinavian sequence
It is done. After the Ice: how foragers and farmers conquered Scandinavia, Chariots of Ice, Coursers of the Sun, The 100-year-winter and the coming of Ragnarök and Fury out of the North: […]
Fury out of the North: from pagan slavers to Christian kings
Heathen sea nomads, scourges of civilization
Human pigmentation: the genetics and evolution of human shades
This monologue is incomplete, for the complete monologue, checkout: Razib Khan’s Unsupervised Learning Podcast Substack Why does human skin color vary so much? And what is the relationship between hair color, eye color and overall pigmentation? What ge…
Precise medicine is accurate medicine
More than 40 years ago my mother got a shocking result in her yearly check-up when she was a new immigrant to the US: she had very high cholesterol. The doctors were perplexed, because she was thin and did not have a cholesterol-heavy diet (remember wh…
David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
Listen now (66 min) | A wide-ranging conversation with evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson on his past work and future projects
The Yamnaya probably did ride horses…
One of the major weak points of The Horse the Wheel and Language is that there isn’t good evidence for horsemanship during the period of Yamnaya expansion. More recently, the […]
Intellectual Brown Web
Sarah Haider, Shadi Hamid, myself and Murtaza Hussain recorded an impromptu podcast that we titled the “Intellectual Brown Web.” These are basically people I know well (I am good friends with both Sarah and Shadi) or who got involved in Twitter threads repeatedly (Murtaza). But there is no “Hindo-origin person.” Since I don’t give a … Continue reading Intellectual Brown Web
The 100-year-winter and the coming of Ragnarök
Pagan Scandinavia’s beginning and end
Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
Listen now (70 min) | A view from outside the gates in 2023
Glenn Loury: four decades in economics
Today on the podcast Razib talks to Dr. Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University. Loury also has a Substack that grew out of his conversations with John McWhorter on bloggingheads.tv starting in 2008. He is the…
Artificial intelligence and life science in the 21st century: chatGPT, genomics and the path…
Artificial intelligence and life science in the 21st century: chatGPT, genomics and the path forwardA query to ChatGPTUnless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you’ve been reading about and experiencing how the new generation of artificial intelligence…
RKUL: Time Well Spent 03/03/2023
The green shoots of almost-Spring