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RKUL: TIme Well Spent 05/16/2025
School’s out for summer edition
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Brave new human: counting up the de novo mutations you alone carry
Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #5
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Steve Hsu: China’s inevitable rise and America’s confused response
Breaking down the America-China rivalry
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The Punic Paradox: Genetically, Rome’s great African rival was startlingly European
Ancient DNA charts the cosmopolitan Carthaginians’ deep rift between culture and ancestry
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Khanversation #43: Jane Smith on cargo cults and Curtis Yarvin in the New Yorker
Khanversation episode number forty-three
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David Gress: Plato and NATO 25 years later
A historian of the West and Danish cultural critic speaks
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Ethan Strauss: sports and the end of the culture wars
From sports journalist to cultural commentator
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Noah Carl and Bo Winegard: probing the intellectual darker web
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Bo Winegard and Noah Carl, the editors behind the online publication Aporia Magazine, founded in 2022. Winegard and Carl are both former academics. Winegard has a social psychology Ph.D. …
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Khanversation #42: Memorial Day, the end of reading and Glenn Loury’s Israel about-face
Khanversation episode forty-two
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Tim Lee: 2025 and the driverless car revolution
Today Razib talks to Tim Lee, a previous guest on Unsupervised Learning. Lee hosts Understanding AI. Lee covered tech more generally for a decade for Washington Post, Ars Technica, and Vox.com. He has a master’s degree in computer science …
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Manvir Singh: the shamanic roots of all religion
Shamanism’s eternal persistence
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Bonus monologue: Finland as Germania
This podcast accompanies my post Germans are from Finland, Finns are from Yakutia. The two preprints at the heart of this post are, Postglacial genomes from foragers across Northern Eurasia reveal prehistoric mobility associated with the spread…
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Bonus monologue: Finland as Germania
This podcast accompanies my post Germans are from Finland, Finns are from Yakutia. The two preprints at the heart of this post are, Postglacial genomes from foragers across Northern Eurasia reveal prehistoric mobility associated with the spread…
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Khanversation #41: Biden has cancer, 23andMe and Trump’s bounce-back
Biden has cancer
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Laura Spinney: rise of the proto-Indo-Europeans
Today Razib talks to Laura Spinney, Paris-based British author of the forthcoming Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. A science journalist, translator and author of both fiction and non-fiction, she has written for Nature, National Geo…
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Noah Carl and Bo Winegard: probing the intellectual darker web
Two academic exiles tell their story
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Nomads to natives: how Bronze-Age Sami newcomers became eternally Nordic
A circum-polar toolkit, a Uralic tongue and hybrid genetics set the Sami apart
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Khanversation #40: Pharm price controls, American Pope and war in the subcontinent
Khanversation episode forty
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Bonus monologue: man the hybrid monster
Today, Razib talks about a new paper, A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans: Understanding the history of admixture events and population size changes leading to modern humans is central to …
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John Sailer: a time of troubles in higher education
On this episode of the podcast Razib talks to John Sailer. Sailer is currently the director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He covers issues of academic freedom, free speech, and ideological capture in…