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Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
Listen now (70 min) | A view from outside the gates in 2023
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Glenn Loury: four decades in economics
Today on the podcast Razib talks to Dr. Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University. Loury also has a Substack that grew out of his conversations with John McWhorter on bloggingheads.tv starting in 2008. He is the…
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Artificial intelligence and life science in the 21st century: chatGPT, genomics and the path…
Artificial intelligence and life science in the 21st century: chatGPT, genomics and the path forwardA query to ChatGPTUnless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you’ve been reading about and experiencing how the new generation of artificial intelligence…
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 03/03/2023
The green shoots of almost-Spring
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Chariots of Ice, Coursers of the Sun
Scandinavia’s Golden (Bronze) Age at globalization’s first light
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Human pigmentation: the genetics and evolution of human shades
Listen now (67 min) | Why do some humans blue eyes and others dark skin?
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Virginia Postrel: from synthetic meat to synthetic fabric
On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib talks to Virginia Postrel, the author of The Fabric of Civilization, The Power of Glamour, The Substance of Style and The Future and its Enemies. Formerly a columnist at The Wall Street Journa…
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The great modern vs. Neanderthal see-saw
Bow-and-arrow, technology of the first modern humans in Europe 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France: Consensus in archaeology has posited that mechanically propelled weapons, such as bow-and-arrow or spear-thrower-and-dart combinations, […]
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CRISPR/Cas9: the genetic engineering century
If you were in and around genetics laboratories in the early 2010’s, one thing would be immediately apparent: CRISPR was going to revolutionize the field. Many research groups were shifting from their long-preferred genetic engineering techniques to th…
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America is turning into India: our coming “caste wars”
Seattle may become the first U.S. city to outlaw caste: One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved […]
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After the Ice: how foragers and farmers conquered Scandinavia
The placid north’s earliest origins in an age of mud, bloodbath and genocide
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Charles Fain Lehman: homicide, death in the charts
https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan’s Substack and original video content. In April of 2021, this Substack published a piece, The ultimate price of costless gestures, that anticipated a spate of art…
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Open Thread, 2/17/2023, Brown Pundits
Nimrata Nikki Haley is running for President of the United States of American. 1) She’s a donor-class wet dream and a throwback to the pre-Trump Republican party. I don’t think this is going to work, but who knows? 2) It’s America, you do what you want, but not going to lie; Bobby Jindal was always…
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Glenn Loury: four decades in economics
Ascolta ora (55 min) | From econometrics to public policy
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Genomic data “eating the world”
What do we plan to do about it?Most of you have probably seen the NHGRI chart that illustrates the crash in the sequencing cost per human genome. To get some perspective, it cost $3 billion to sequence the first human genome over ten years in the year …
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The prehistoric genetic roots of the Chinese
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib explores the history of China through the lens of genetics and ancient DNA. This podcast is a companion to the recent two pieces, Genetic history with Chinese characteristics and Venerable Ancestors: untan…
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Virginia Postrel: from synthetic meat to synthetic fabric
Listen now (67 min) | The cultural politics of lab-grown meat and the economic history of fabric
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GenRAIT goes to PAG 30
Furthering the life science data revolution in plant and animal genomicsRazib Khan, Taylor Capito, and Santanu Das at PAG 30During the second week of January 2023, the GenRAIT leadership team attended the Plant & Animal Genome Conference in San Die…
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What the Neanderthal could do
These Extinct Elephants Were Neanderthals’ ‘Biggest Calorie Bombs’ – A study of butchered bones from 125,000 years ago offers what researchers call “the first clear-cut evidence of elephant-hunting in human […]
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They forgot to teach and advise
Survey: Many MIT Faculty Fear Speaking Freely While Students Support Barring Speakers with Opposing Views: The MIT survey shows that we are raising the most speech-intolerant generation in our history […]