Bryan Ward-Perkins: The material consequences of the fall of Rome
An archaeologist reflects on the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age
The future is mostly the past and AGI is still just a dream
Scions of Sahul: the steadfast Australian settlers who held off sedentarism for 45,000 years
Tales from a weird continent: on Mega Marsupial slayers, the many races of Denisovans, etc.
J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans found?
Revisiting the search for Indo-European homeland more than 30 years later
Sean Anthony: the Muhammad of history
Understanding the world of early Islam
RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/06/2024
Almost Midsummer Edition
RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/06/2024
Almost Midsummer Edition
Chad Niederhuth: genetics in plants, from Mendel to GMOs
An erstwhile academic discusses the genetics of plants and why it matters
Razib Khan essay according to ChatGPT4o
My prompt: “Write a 5,000 word essay in the style and topic of Razib Khan” Sure, I can create a detailed essay inspired by the style and themes that Razib […]
Brazil: a melting-pot genetic present and an uncharted deep past
Glimpsing humanity’s genetic future in its 7th largest nation
Open Thread – 6/1/2024 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
Lost civilizations and the promise of new knowledge
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses the idea of “lost civilizations,” the possibility that there were complex societies during the Pleistocene Ice Age. This topic recently rose to salience after a dialogue between writer Graham Han…
Lost civilizations and the promise of new knowledge
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses the idea of “lost civilizations,” the possibility that there were complex societies during the Pleistocene Ice Age. This topic recently rose to salience after a dialogue between writer Graham Han…
Jonathan Keeperman: becoming Lomez
It’s the end of anonymity as we know it
Jonathan Keeperman: becoming Lomez
It’s the end of anonymity as we know it
Ryan Burge: Losing Our Religion
The great secularization of the 21st century in the US
Lost civilizations and the promise of new knowledge
The Golden Mean between pseudo-archaeology and calcified orthodoxies
The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks about the April 2024 preprint The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans. This blockbuster publication introduces nearly 300 new ancient DNA samples, uncovers the origins of the Yamnaya, and delves int…
Akshar Patel: Modi’s India in the 21st century
An American talks about traveling in India