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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
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Hiding in plain sight: uniting Denisovans’ famous DNA with a set of mysterious physical remains
The Denisovans were always right in front of us
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Khanversation #45: MAGA fractures over Iran bombing (?), Mission Impossible, the turn against trans
Khanversation episode number forty-three
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Iran is not Iraq
Key demographic and historical data points for American observers (plus a quiz!)
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Nathan Cofnas: Judaism’s group evolutionary strategy and hereditarianism defended
A rogue philosopher talks about his heterodox views
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Khanversation #44: Israel Attacks Iran, immigration protests and arrests, Elon vs. Trump
Khanversation episode forty-four
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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