John Massey: Chinese dreams through Western eyes
On this unusual “from the vault” episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to John Massey, a retired Australian engineer who has been a long-time correspondent. Massey and Razib recorded this podcast in the spring of 2021, at the height of the COVI…
Akshar Patel: Modi’s India in the 21st century
An American talks about traveling in India
Colin Wright: In the trenches of the gender wars
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Colin Wright, a returning guest, host of the Reality’s Last Stand Substack and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Before digging deep into the biology of sex and the cultural politics of gender …
RKUL: Time Well Spent 05/05/2024
America after Christianity edition
Jeremy Carl: The Unprotected Class – How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
The end of American identitarianism
Little Steppe earthquakes: upheavals both demographic and scholarly
Silent all these years, ancient Yamnaya DNA finally speaks in groundbreaking preprint on the origins of Indo-Europeans
The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans
And the Hittites too!
Eric Cline: After 1177 B.C.
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to George Washington University archaeologist Eric Cline. The author of 1177 B.C. – The Year Civilization Collapsed, Cline has a new book out, After 1177 B.C. – The Survival of Civilizations….
Eric Cline: After 1177 B.C.
The end of the Bronze Age and the birth of the Iron Age
Roma Termini: why cities both make us and break us as a species
The eternal tradeoff of dynamism and fertility in urban centers
Kristian Kristiansen: DNA and European prehistory
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Kristian Kristiansen, an archaeologist at the University of Gothenburg and affiliate professor at the Lundbech Center for Geogenetics, Copenhagen University. A past guest on this podcast, Kristian…
John Massey: Chinese dreams through Western eyes
Dreaming of the Asian century
Elamo-Dravidian and the Koraga
Novel 4,400-year-old ancestral component in a tribe speaking a Dravidian language: Research has shown that the present-day population on the Indian subcontinent derives its ancestry from at least three components identified with pre-Indo-Iranian agriculturalists once inhabiting the Iranian plateau, pastoralists originating from the Pontic-Caspian steppe and ancient hunter-gatherer related to the Andamanese Islanders. The present-day … Continue reading Elamo-Dravidian and the Koraga
Samo Burja: Palladium Magazine, China, Russia and the future of Eurasia
Today on Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to long-time podcast favorite Samo Burja. Burja is the founder of Bismarck Analysis and Bismarck Brief, a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation and The Foresight Institute. He is also now the cha…
RKUL: Time Well Spent 04/05/2024
April Showers Edition
Colin Wright: in the trenches of the gender wars
2024, the year gender ideology peaked?
Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Steve Hsu, physicist, entrepreneur and public intellectual. Hsu is an Iowan who earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Berkeley. Later he was a Harvard Junior Fe…
Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Steve Hsu, physicist, entrepreneur and public intellectual. Hsu is an Iowan who earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Berkeley. Later he was a Harvard Junior Fe…
Kristian Kristiansen: DNA and European prehistory
One of the preeminent archaeologists of Northern Europe talks about where we are in 2024
Murtaza Hussain: Gaza and the global left
Today Razib talks to Murtaza Hussain about the social, cultural and political context of recent fissures in the US around the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Hussain is a reporter at The Intercept and has his own Substack. They begin their conversation t…