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Samo Burja: China’s future, Russia’s present and archaeology’s past
Listen now (79 min) | From geopolitics of the future to Ice Ageprehistory
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Samo Burja: China’s future, Russia’s present and archaeology’s past
Listen now (79 min) | From geopolitics of the future to Ice Ageprehistory
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Midjourney v 5 and various Indian ethnicities
The image names can tell you the ethnicities. See if you can guess ahead of time.
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Open Thread – 05/14/2023 – Brown Pundits
Finished my Iran sequence, Iran through the ages: civilization’s eternal crossroads, Pre-Persian Iran: from the invention of agriculture to the Aryan onslaught and We are all Zoroastrians: how Persian empires of the mind touched all humanity and …
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Lillian Tara: more babies for a better world
Listen now (55 min) | How can we make “pro-natalism” hot again?
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Lillian Tara: more babies for a better world
Listen now (55 min) | How can we make “pro-natalism” hot again?
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Lillian Tara: more babies for a better world
Listen now (55 min) | How can we make “pro-natalism” hot again?
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Alex Feinberg: former professional athlete and techie turned trainer
Alex Feinberg is anything but your typical trainer. An economics graduate from Vanderbilt, Feinberg willed himself to become a professional baseball player through focus and hard work and then talked his way into a sales and business development job at…
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Adam Mastroianni: a history of experiments in social psychology
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Adam Mastroianni, who runs the Experimental History Substack. Mastroianni was the inaugural guest on the Intrinsic Perspective podcast, hosted by Erik Hoel, where they discussed his post, The ris…
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Open Thread – 5/8/2023 – GNXP
I’m in New York City until Thursday. Might do some meet-ups… Email or DM me. Finally finished my Iran sequence… Iran through the ages: civilization’s eternal crossroads, Pre-Persian Iran: from […]
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One door closes, another opens: the Persian Empire’s end and the rise of the Persianate world
The diverse cultural threads of modern Iran
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One door closes, another opens: the Persian Empire’s end and the rise of the Persianate world
The diverse cultural threads of modern Iran
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 05/05/2023
MEX 1, FRA 0 edition
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Timothy B. Lee: don’t rage against the machine
Listen now (49 min) | Artificial intelligence is nothing to fear
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The age of forensic genomics
An age of forensic genomicsJoseph James DeAngeloThe Golden State Killer, a sinister figure who terrorized Californians between 1974 and 1986, was apprehended on April 24, 2018. This elusive predator, known by various monikers such as the East Area Rapi…
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We are all Zoroastrians: how Persian empires of the mind touched all humanity
Iran at the center of the Axial Age
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Indian futures
Over at his Substack, Noah Smith has a pretty bullish take on India, Here…comes…INDIA!!!: The United Nations estimates that India has now surpassed China as the world’s most populous country — or, as we colloquially say, the world’s “largest” country. Obviously, crossing this threshold doesn’t mean much in practical terms. Being a tiny bit bigger…
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The collapse of the Bronze Age civilization
Listen now (48 min) | The end of the first global world
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70 years since Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
On April 25th, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. This paper helped Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins win the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962 (Rosalind Franklin…
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Peter Nimitz: Seven Ages of Western Eurasia
Listen now (96 min) | Surveying the archaeological and genetic history of the last 11,700 years