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The genetics and history of the last great human Diaspora

  On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Philippe Lemoine, a fellow at CSPI, a philosopher of science trained at Cornell. Lemoine often wades into controversial topics, like whether Chinese COVID data is trustworthy, but recently…

Anti-Semitism, liberalism and the world’s changing geopolitics

Holiday Edition

  On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses war and diplomacy from 9/11 to 10/7 with Mark Safranski. Safranski is a long-time military affairs and foreign policy commentator who ran the popular weblog Zenpundit beginning in 2003. T…

How fragmented social networks might allow us to be more creative

Brent W. Roberts   On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib discusses personality with Brent Roberts, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. Roberts explains what personality actually is as a psychological construct, and h…

Brent W. Roberts   On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib discusses personality with Brent Roberts, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. Roberts explains what personality actually is as a psychological construct, and h…

The man who triggered a culinary controversy with a single tweet

For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid. Check them out at orchidhealth.com. On t…

Substack savings, three years of top posts and stacks of reading recs

Manspreading like the ancientsStar phylogenies and the rise and fall of hyper-patriarchy

Listen now (81 mins) | International relations between 9/11 to 10/7

Today, Razib interviews Nikolai Yakovenko, already a three-time guest on his podcasts (A Twitter engineer on machine learning and his former company’s prospects, GPT-3 and the rise of the thinking machines and AI and Biology). An artificial intelligenc…

Listen now (84 mins) | OpenAI’s leadership shakeup and its implications for the field of AI

For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid. Check them out at orchidhealth.com. On t…