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Iran through the ages: civilization’s eternal crossroads
Parsing Persian genetics
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Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
Twenty-one years ago, Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature was published. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Blank Slate firmly established Pinker as one of the major public intellectuals in 21st-century America; it fo…
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David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
Listen now (67 min) | The rise of the machine…tools
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David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
The rise of the machine…tools
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The modern human conquest of earth
Listen now (76 min) | A narrative genetic history of humanity
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David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
Dr. David Sloan Wilson is a Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. Co-founder of the Evolution Institute and Prosocial World, Wilson is the author of Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish B…
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Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib hosts three guests, Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell, Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute and Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept. Razib, Haider, Hamid and Hussain discuss the current state of the …
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Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib hosts three guests, Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell, Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute and Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept. Razib, Haider, Hamid and Hussain discuss the current state of the …
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Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
Listen now (67 min) | Reflections on the blank slate, the ghost in the machine and the noble savage
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Open Thread, 03/16/2023, Brown Pundits
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Open Thread, 03/16/2023, Brown Pundits
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ChatGPT 4.0 Tries to write a Razib Khan style essay
Query: write a razib khan style essay on the genetic history of india Title: The Genetic Kaleidoscope: A Razib Khan Style Essay on the Genetic History of India Introduction India, […]
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The Scandinavian sequence
It is done. After the Ice: how foragers and farmers conquered Scandinavia, Chariots of Ice, Coursers of the Sun, The 100-year-winter and the coming of Ragnarök and Fury out of the North: […]
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Fury out of the North: from pagan slavers to Christian kings
Heathen sea nomads, scourges of civilization
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Human pigmentation: the genetics and evolution of human shades
This monologue is incomplete, for the complete monologue, checkout: Razib Khan’s Unsupervised Learning Podcast Substack Why does human skin color vary so much? And what is the relationship between hair color, eye color and overall pigmentation? What ge…
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Precise medicine is accurate medicine
More than 40 years ago my mother got a shocking result in her yearly check-up when she was a new immigrant to the US: she had very high cholesterol. The doctors were perplexed, because she was thin and did not have a cholesterol-heavy diet (remember wh…
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David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
Listen now (66 min) | A wide-ranging conversation with evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson on his past work and future projects
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The Yamnaya probably did ride horses…
One of the major weak points of The Horse the Wheel and Language is that there isn’t good evidence for horsemanship during the period of Yamnaya expansion. More recently, the […]
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Intellectual Brown Web
Sarah Haider, Shadi Hamid, myself and Murtaza Hussain recorded an impromptu podcast that we titled the “Intellectual Brown Web.” These are basically people I know well (I am good friends with both Sarah and Shadi) or who got involved in Twitter threads repeatedly (Murtaza). But there is no “Hindo-origin person.” Since I don’t give a…
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The 100-year-winter and the coming of Ragnarök
Pagan Scandinavia’s beginning and end