Roma Termini: why cities both make us and break us as a species
The eternal tradeoff of dynamism and fertility in urban centers
Kristian Kristiansen: DNA and European prehistory
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Kristian Kristiansen, an archaeologist at the University of Gothenburg and affiliate professor at the Lundbech Center for Geogenetics, Copenhagen University. A past guest on this podcast, Kristian…
John Massey: Chinese dreams through Western eyes
Dreaming of the Asian century
Elamo-Dravidian and the Koraga
Novel 4,400-year-old ancestral component in a tribe speaking a Dravidian language: Research has shown that the present-day population on the Indian subcontinent derives its ancestry from at least three components identified with pre-Indo-Iranian agriculturalists once inhabiting the Iranian plateau, pastoralists originating from the Pontic-Caspian steppe and ancient hunter-gatherer related to the Andamanese Islanders. The present-day … Continue reading Elamo-Dravidian and the Koraga
Samo Burja: Palladium Magazine, China, Russia and the future of Eurasia
Today on Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to long-time podcast favorite Samo Burja. Burja is the founder of Bismarck Analysis and Bismarck Brief, a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation and The Foresight Institute. He is also now the cha…
RKUL: Time Well Spent 04/05/2024
April Showers Edition
Colin Wright: in the trenches of the gender wars
2024, the year gender ideology peaked?
Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Steve Hsu, physicist, entrepreneur and public intellectual. Hsu is an Iowan who earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Berkeley. Later he was a Harvard Junior Fe…
Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Steve Hsu, physicist, entrepreneur and public intellectual. Hsu is an Iowan who earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Berkeley. Later he was a Harvard Junior Fe…
Kristian Kristiansen: DNA and European prehistory
One of the preeminent archaeologists of Northern Europe talks about where we are in 2024
Murtaza Hussain: Gaza and the global left
Today Razib talks to Murtaza Hussain about the social, cultural and political context of recent fissures in the US around the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Hussain is a reporter at The Intercept and has his own Substack. They begin their conversation t…
Samo Burja: Palladium Magazine, China, Russia and the future of Eurasia
The founder of Bismarck Analysis returns to talk about international and personal futures
Samo Burja: Palladium Magazine, China, Russia and the future of Eurasia
The founder of Bismarck Analysis returns to talk about international and personal futures
Beyond the Pale: Irish cultural uniqueness past Rome’s reach
How ancient history set Ireland on an alternate route despite genetic unity in the Isles
Chris Stringer: human evolution in 2024
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes back paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer. Affiliated with the Natural History Museum in London, Stringer is the author of African Exodus. The Origins of Modern Humanity, Lone Survivors: How We Came…
Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
Adventures in entrepreneurship and academia
Murtaza Hussain: Gaza and the global left
The return of Third-Worldism and Israel
Zoe Booth and Iona Italia: Quillette’s dynamic duo
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Zoe Booth and Iona Italia. Booth is community engagement officer and Italia is managing editor at Quillette. An Australian, Booth has degrees in French, Politics and Law from the University of Ne…
Zoe Booth and Iona Italia: Quillette’s dynamic duo
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Zoe Booth and Iona Italia. Booth is community engagement officer and Italia is managing editor at Quillette. An Australian, Booth has degrees in French, Politics and Law from the University of Ne…