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Alexander Cortes: broscience, health science and fertility
A broscience influencer speaks
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Chad Orzel: the state of physics and academia in 2025
Chad Orzel is a physicist and science writer who has been blogging for nearly twenty-five years. He’s the author of four books, Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects, How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, How to Teach Rela…
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How the West was wrought
Who would we be without Greek reason, Hebrew spirit and Roman ashes?
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Fortune favors the fearless: millennia of Austronesian maritime feats
Epic Explorers of the Stone Age: the full scope of Austronesian audacity, part 1/2
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From Formosa to the Four Corners of the Earth: the Austronesian expansion’s long arc
Epic Explorers of the Stone Age: the full scope of Austronesian audacity, part 2/2
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Khanversation #56: Tylenol, autism and the Charlie Kirk Memorial
Episode number fifty-six
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Kat Rosenfield: after the vibe shift
The culture after the end of wokeness
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Jonathan Anomaly and James Lee: is eugenics in our future?
Recently, the new embryo-selection start-up Herasight has been in the news, finally coming out of stealth. Part of the buzz is because of the public involvement of well-known geneticists and academics like Alex Young and Joe Pickrell in Herasight’s alg…
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Eric Kaufmann: a cultural revolution in winter
A theorist of wokeness comments on its decline
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Khanversation #55: Charlie Kirk, a life, the assassination and his significance in 21st-century conservatism, and the return of “hate speech” and cancel culture
Khanversation episode fifty-five
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Khanversation #54: National Conservatism, Abundance and Black Crime
Khanversation episode number fifty-four
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Ryan P. Williams: the Claremont Institute standing athwart history
A conservative think-tank in the era of MAGA
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Jason Richwine: immigration moratorium now
On last week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib spoke with Alex Nowrestah, a vice president at the Cato Institute and a strong advocate for expanding legal immigration. This week, he turned to the other side of the debate with Jason Richwhine, a…
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The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter
The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.
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Khanversation #53: Alpha School and and education in 2025
Episode fifty-three of Khanversation
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Chad Orzel: the state of physics and academia in 2025
A physicist talks about science communication and the future of academia
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Alex Nowrasteh: an immigration libertarian in Trump’s America
Three years ago, Razib recorded two podcasts with two immigration experts on different sides of the issue, Alex Nowrestah and Jason Richwhine. While Nowrasteh, who works for the libertarian Cato Institute as Vice President for Economic and…
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Jonathan Anomaly and James Lee: is eugenics in our future?
A debate about fertility technology, selection and the human future
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John Hawks: varieties of humankind all mixed-up
Today on Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist who has been a researcher and commentator in human evolutionary biology and paleoanthropology for over two decades. With a widely read weblog (now on Substack), a book on …
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Jason Richwine: immigration moratorium now
The restrictionist looks fondly upon Trump’s first half-year in office