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David Van Ofwegen: a peripatetic philosopher across Eurasia’s antipodes
Today on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to David van Ofwegen, a philosophy teacher based in Thailand. Razib and Ofwegen first met by chance while he was traveling in the US in 2003. A Dutch national, educated at the University of Leiden in the Nethe…
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Claire Lehmann: after the Intellectual Dark Web
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to returning guest Claire Lehmann. Lehmann has an undergraduate degrees in psychology and English from the University of Adelaide. She was enrolled in a graduate program in psychology, but left it af…
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Cesar Fortes-Lima: the Fulani out of the Green Sahara
The origins of the Fulani people of the Sahel
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Khanversation #49: Catholic vs. Protestant, There will never be another Silicon Valley Coldplay Cheaters
Khanversation episode forty-nine
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Nathan Cofnas: Judaism’s group evolutionary strategy and hereditarianism defended
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to philosopher of science Nathan Cofnas, whose specialty is biology and ethics. An American, Cofnas is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cam…
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Steve Hsu: China’s inevitable rise and America’s confused response
Today Razib talks to repeat guest Steve Hsu about China, a topic with so many currently relevant dimensions gIven the PRC’s clear emergence as an economic, military and political rival to the US. Hsu is a Caltech‑trained theoretical physicist who migra…
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Jack Despain Zhou: in defense of tracking
Against educational egalitarianism
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David Gress: Plato and NATO 25 years later
Today Razib talks to David Gress, a Danish historian. The son of an American literary scholar and a Danish writer, he grew up in Denmark, read Classics at Cambridge, and then earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from Bryn Mawr College in the US in 1981….
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David Gress: Plato and NATO 25 years later
Today Razib talks to David Gress, a Danish historian. The son of an American literary scholar and a Danish writer, he grew up in Denmark, read Classics at Cambridge, and then earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from Bryn Mawr College in the US in 1981….
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Khanversation #48: Epstein was framed!
Episode forty-eight
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RKUL: Time Well Spent, 07/14/2025
Bastille Day edition
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Ethan Strauss: sports and the end of the culture wars
On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib welcomes back Ethan Strauss, a writer who has covered sports and culture for the past decade, including in the book The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty. More r…
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Genghis Khan, the Golden Horde and an 842-year-old paternity test
Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #7
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Nikolai Yakovenko: the $200 million AI engineer
The AI hype-cycle continues
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Khanversation #47: Elon’s American Party, RainMaker and the Texas floods, Zohran the black man
Episode forty-seven
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David Van Ofwegen: a peripatetic philosopher across Eurasia’s antipodes
Today on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to David van Ofwegen, a philosophy teacher based in Thailand.
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The wandering Fulani: children of the Green Sahara
Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #6
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Khanversation 46: The Big Beautiful Bill, You Don’t Mess With the Zohran, racial discrimination at Columbia and summer camps
Khanversation episode forty-six
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Manvir Singh: the shamanic roots of all religion
Today Razib talks to Manvir Singh about shamanism, religion and anthropology. Singh is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. An artist and essayist, he is also now a regular contributor to The New Yorker…
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Claire Lehmann: after the Intellectual Dark Web
A heterodox editor reflects on the end of wokeness and what comes after