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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
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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