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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…
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Tim Lee: 2025 and the driverless car revolution
AI on the road?
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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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Jacob Shell: academia must diversify or die
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Jacob Shell. Shell is a professor of geography at Temple University and author of Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Workin…
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Laura Spinney: rise of the proto-Indo-Europeans
The Yamnaya and their scions
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Matt Welch: from blog pioneer to podcasting mainstay
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Matt Welch. He co-founded the Prague-based newspaper Prognosis in the early 1990’s and later worked as an opinion section editor for the Los Angeles Times. From 2008-2016, Welch served as …
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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