Razib Khan

Category: Cultural

  • Women at war

    The new Wheel of Time television show has a scene where an Aiel woman totally smashes a half a dozen male soldiers with her skilled usage of her spears (this […]

  • How the old gods die

    Many years ago I had a friend who was from a Southern Baptist background, but who became an atheist as an adult. We were discussing religion and rationality, and he […]

  • We stand on the shoulders of cultural giants

    In reading The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation in PNAS I couldn’t help but think back to a conversation I had with a few old friends in Evanston in 2003. They were graduate students in mathematics at Northwes…

Razib Khan