Science giveth and science taketh away
Reading the evolutionary book of life in 2025
Khanversation #21: Naming names, the vibe shift and Luigi Mangione and Razib
Khanversation episode twenty-one
RKUL: Time Well Spent 12/12/2024
Philosophical footnotes for the year’s darkest days
David Mittelman: pushing the genomic frontier in 2024
Transforming forensics with whole-genome sequencing
Maha Landslide 2024
In this episode of Browncast, Gaurav and KJ talk to Indian Mango and Nitesh about the Landslide in the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024.
Maha Landslide 2024
In this episode of Browncast, Gaurav and KJ talk to Indian Mango and Nitesh about the Landslide in the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024.
Open Thread – 12/5/2024
Merry Christmas!
“But then I realized horses are just men-extenders”
How an equine catalyst gave civilization wings
War and Peace: horse power, progress and prosperity
The man-horse miracle, from dawn to decadence
In Search of Indo-Europeans in 2024: of Catacombs and Corded Ware
How Ancient DNA resolves issues in historical linguistics
14,000 years of natural selection
The full episode is available on: https://www.razibkhan.com/p/14000-years-of-natural-selection On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks about what we have learned from a blockbuster new preprint, Pervasive findings of directional…
Graphic Content & Cyber Monday: the year’s deepest discount
Population booms and busts, milk drinking, Jewish origins, Germanic languages
Khanversation #19: Jim O’Neill, Jay Bhattacharya, Thanksgiving and Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
Khanversation episode nineteen
Demographics Are Not Destiny, After All
Trump’s reelection reflects the final exhaustion of the post-World War II liberal and conservative cultural consensuses.
Megan McArdle: American food culture, artisanal to industrial
A cultural history of food
Europe: 40000 BC to 1200 BC
On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses the genetic and archaeological history of Europe from the arrival of modern humans (permanently) 45,000 years ago, to the end of the Bronze Age in the decades after 1200 BC. He covers thes…
Khanversation 18: Matt Gaetz, climate change and Thermidor (de-wokening)
Khanversation episode eighteen
Nikolai Yakovenko: the Singularity is not here
Is the AI revolution reaching a plateau?
Yascha Mounk: American democracy in 2024
The fate of Western liberal democracy