Ross Douthat: fantasy and the literary imagination
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib hosts Ross Douthat, author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save…
RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/06/2023
June Heat Edition
RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/06/2023
June Heat Edition
Samo Burja: China’s future, Russia’s present and archaeology’s past
On this week’s Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes back a favorite repeat guest, Samo Burja, to discuss matters future, present and past. Burja founded the consulting firm Bismarck Analysis and developed the “great founder theory.” He contributes to P…
Lillian Tara: more babies for a better world
In 1968, Stanford ecologist Paul R. Ehrlich, published The Population Bomb, arguing that rapid growth in human numbers would result in environmental catastrophe and widespread famine. Overall the dire predictions of The Population Bomb did not come to …
Lillian Tara: more babies for a better world
In 1968, Stanford ecologist Paul R. Ehrlich, published The Population Bomb, arguing that rapid growth in human numbers would result in environmental catastrophe and widespread famine. Overall the dire predictions of The Population Bomb did not come to …
Lee Fang: investigative journalism and investigating journalists
Listen now (67 min) | Corruption, corruption, everywhere
Lee Fang: investigative journalism and investigating journalists
Listen now (67 min) | Corruption, corruption, everywhere
Timothy B. Lee: don’t rage against the machine
A few years ago now, Razib talked to Tim Lee about his new Substack Full Stack Economics, which featured deep dives into economic issues (as well as some on-the-ground-reporting, like when he drove Lyft to get a feel for its economics). But recently, L…
The collapse of the Bronze Age civilization
Recently, scientists discovered that a two-year mega-drought beginning in 1198 BC hastened the Hittite Empire’s collapse. The finding sheds new light on the history of the decades around 1200 BC, adding specificity to the timing and cause for the perio…
Peter Nimitz: Seven Ages of Western Eurasia
On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib talks to Peter Nimitz, the author behind the Nemets Substack, which explores topics as diverse as the 2014 Donbass War and the likelihood of Eurasian migration into Chad thousands of years ago…
Current status: it’s complicated
Getting over Out-of-Africa, our rebound in the meantime and the quest for a forever theory
Current status: it’s complicated
Getting over Out-of-Africa, our rebound in the meantime and the quest for a forever theory
Ross Douthat: fantasy and the literary imagination
Listen now (66 min) | Why do adults read non-realistic fiction?
Ross Douthat: fantasy and the literary imagination
Listen now (66 min) | Why do adults read non-realistic fiction?
Samo Burja: China’s future, Russia’s present and archaeology’s past
Listen now (79 min) | From geopolitics of the future to Ice Ageprehistory
Samo Burja: China’s future, Russia’s present and archaeology’s past
Listen now (79 min) | From geopolitics of the future to Ice Ageprehistory
Midjourney v 5 and various Indian ethnicities
The image names can tell you the ethnicities. See if you can guess ahead of time.
Open Thread – 05/14/2023 – Brown Pundits
Finished my Iran sequence, Iran through the ages: civilization’s eternal crossroads, Pre-Persian Iran: from the invention of agriculture to the Aryan onslaught and We are all Zoroastrians: how Persian empires of the mind touched all humanity and …
Lillian Tara: more babies for a better world
Listen now (55 min) | How can we make “pro-natalism” hot again?