Author: Razib Khan
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Bonus monologue: Finland as Germania
Are the proto-Germans from Finland? Are the Finns from Asia?
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 5/05/2025
edición de cinco de mayo
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Khanversation #39: The fragile energy grid, Europe’s only indigenous people, and “race war” on GiveSendGo
Khanversation episode thirty-nine
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Lost Green Saharans: ancient DNA unearths a new race from a verdant North African interlude
These 7000-year-old humans are neither Eurasian nor sub-Saharan African
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Homo with a side of sapiens: the brainy silent partner we co-opted 300,000 years ago
Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #4
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Laura Spinney: rise of the proto-Indo-Europeans
The Yamnaya and their scions
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Bonus monologue: ancient North Africans and the Green Sahara
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib comments on a new paper in Nature, Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage. Here is the abstract: Although it is one of the most arid regions today, the Sahara De…
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Germans are from Finland, Finns are from Yakutia
Genetic truth is stranger than fiction: nth reboot
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Khanversation #38: The Pope dies, the economy is constipated and America’s national parks are not wild
Khanversation episode thirty-eight
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Bonus monologue: man the hybrid monster
Modern humans result from a very recent hybridization in Africa
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John Sailer: a time of troubles in higher education
Covering higher education for the Manhattan Institute
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Jacob Shell: academia must diversify or die
An academic writes about what the institution needs to do to reform itself
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Khanversation #37: Brendan Hodge of Pricing Evolution talks tariffs and the macroeconomy
Khanversation episode thirty-seven
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Eternally Illyrian: How Albanians resisted Rome and outlasted a Slavic onslaught
Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #3
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Matt Welch: from blog pioneer to podcasting mainstay
The rise of blogging and podcasting from the viewpoint of a journalist who has seen it all
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Bonus monologue: ancient North Africans and the Green Sahara
A new human lineage in Libya
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Khanversation #36: Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs
Khanversation episode number thirty-six
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 4/04/2025
April Showers and Early Spring Edition
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Andrew Song: cooling the planet with technology
Geoengineering and fighting global warming
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Khanversation #35: Greeland annexation, free speech on campus and Natal conference 2025 in Austin
Khanversation episode twenty-five