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Jonathan Haidt: social media kills the internet utopia
Listen now (59 min) | What hath Twitter wrought?
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HoD vs. RoP; game over
Rings of Power cost $60 million dollars per episode while House of the Dragon cost $20 million dollars per episode. These are astronomical figures, but RoP is arguably the most […]
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 10/10/2022
Halloween edition
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Religion in China, India and the West
Listen now (43 min) | The different role of religion in different world civilizations
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Tania Reynolds: let’s talk about intrasexual competition
Evolutionary psychology is a field that has made headlines ever since its inception as a distinct discipline in the 1980’s. In this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Dr. Tania Reynolds of the University of New Mexico, who researches intr…
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Ararat’s long shadow: Asia Minor’s major impact on humanity
What happens in Anatolia doesn’t stay in Anatolia (culturally and biologically speaking)
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Richard Hanania: markets in every prediction
How do we know when to trust the experts? On January 23rd, 2020, Vox published a piece titled The evidence on travel bans for diseases like coronavirus is clear: They don’t work. Journalists are largely limited to reporting what experts tell them, and …
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Oliver Traldi: welcome to the intellectual dark web
Listen now (69 min) | From understanding political beliefs through philosophy to being far too online
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A confused post-Empire
Truss learns the hard way that Britain isn’t America: If anti-Americanism was bad, look what its opposite has done. Britain is in trouble because its elite is so engrossed with the US as to confuse it for their own nation. The UK does not issue the world’s reserve currency. It does not have near-limitless demand…
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Kerry of Mary Lincolniana: America made in the image of Massachusetts
“Yankee go home!” has often been hurled at Americans indiscriminately. But the reality is that Yankee as a category initially meant the people of New England and its colonies across the northern fringe United States, from upstate New York to Minnesota….
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Tania Reynolds: let’s talk about intrasexual competition
Listen now (73 min) | Evolutionary psychology and the female behavioral ecology
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The Anglo-Saxonization of England happened through a mass migration
The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool: The history of the British Isles and Ireland is characterized by multiple periods of major cultural change, including […]
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Leicester!
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Razib Khan: the “southern arc” and Indo-European origins
Three blockbuster papers on ancient DNA just landed in Science Magazine: The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe, A genetic probe into the ancient and medieval history of Southern Europe and West Asia, and, Ancien…
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Open Thread – 9/15/2022 – Gene Expression
Re-reading The Turks in World History as I’m thinking about my next post in my series on the Eurasian steppe for Substack. The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in […]
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Richard Hanania: markets in every prediction
Listen now (61 min) | Why decision and prediction-making need to change
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Septimius Severus was not black, who cares?
Septimius Severus is important because he brought the Roman Empire back from the chaos ushered in by the assassination of Commodus. He was born in 145 AD and so grew […]
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Happy second anniversary, Unsupervised Learning!
You can’t touch this: a quiz for the diehards
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Kerry of Mary Lincolniana: America made in the image of Massachusetts
Listen now (81 min) | Is the American way the New England way?
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Katherine Brodsky: from internet entrepreneur to cultural commentator
Katherine Brodsky is today a freelance writer who in the early 2000’s was the founder and editor-in-chief of an online culture magazine that was registering 600,000 pageviews a month while herself still an undergrad. In this episode of the Unsupervised…