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Khanversation episode thirty-nine

These 7000-year-old humans are neither Eurasian nor sub-Saharan African

Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #4

  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…

The Yamnaya and their scions

  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 …

  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…

Genetic truth is stranger than fiction: nth reboot

Khanversation episode thirty-eight

Modern humans result from a very recent hybridization in Africa

Covering higher education for the Manhattan Institute

  On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Andrew Song, co-founder of Make Sunsets. An NYU graduate with a degree in economics, Song was a member of the Y Combinator class of winter 2016. Before becoming a founder, Song worked at …

An academic writes about what the institution needs to do to reform itself

  Today on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Zineb Riboua, a research fellow and program manager of Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. She specializes in Chinese and Russian involvement in the Middle East, the…

  Today on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Zineb Riboua, a research fellow and program manager of Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. She specializes in Chinese and Russian involvement in the Middle East, the…

Khanversation episode thirty-seven

Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #3

The rise of blogging and podcasting from the viewpoint of a journalist who has seen it all

A new human lineage in Libya