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
Anatoly Karlin: Russian nationalism to American globalism
Taking the side of “Elite Human Capital”
RKUL: Time Well Spent 11/11/2024
A Season to Give Thanks Edition
The Horse: Man’s Most Useful Companion
A history of the ungulate that powered civilization
Crémieux Recueil: US election 2024 analysis
The American 2024 election