Lillian Tara: more babies for a better world
Listen now (55 min) | How can we make “pro-natalism” hot again?
Lillian Tara: more babies for a better world
Listen now (55 min) | How can we make “pro-natalism” hot again?
Alex Feinberg: former professional athlete and techie turned trainer
Alex Feinberg is anything but your typical trainer. An economics graduate from Vanderbilt, Feinberg willed himself to become a professional baseball player through focus and hard work and then talked his way into a sales and business development job at…
Adam Mastroianni: a history of experiments in social psychology
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Adam Mastroianni, who runs the Experimental History Substack. Mastroianni was the inaugural guest on the Intrinsic Perspective podcast, hosted by Erik Hoel, where they discussed his post, The ris…
Open Thread – 5/8/2023 – GNXP
I’m in New York City until Thursday. Might do some meet-ups… Email or DM me. Finally finished my Iran sequence… Iran through the ages: civilization’s eternal crossroads, Pre-Persian Iran: from […]
One door closes, another opens: the Persian Empire’s end and the rise of the Persianate world
The diverse cultural threads of modern Iran
One door closes, another opens: the Persian Empire’s end and the rise of the Persianate world
The diverse cultural threads of modern Iran
RKUL: Time Well Spent 05/05/2023
MEX 1, FRA 0 edition
Timothy B. Lee: don’t rage against the machine
Listen now (49 min) | Artificial intelligence is nothing to fear
The age of forensic genomics
An age of forensic genomicsJoseph James DeAngeloThe Golden State Killer, a sinister figure who terrorized Californians between 1974 and 1986, was apprehended on April 24, 2018. This elusive predator, known by various monikers such as the East Area Rapi…
We are all Zoroastrians: how Persian empires of the mind touched all humanity
Iran at the center of the Axial Age
Indian futures
Over at his Substack, Noah Smith has a pretty bullish take on India, Here…comes…INDIA!!!: The United Nations estimates that India has now surpassed China as the world’s most populous country — or, as we colloquially say, the world’s “largest” country. Obviously, crossing this threshold doesn’t mean much in practical terms. Being a tiny bit bigger … Continue reading Indian futures
The collapse of the Bronze Age civilization
Listen now (48 min) | The end of the first global world
70 years since Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
On April 25th, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. This paper helped Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins win the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962 (Rosalind Franklin…
Peter Nimitz: Seven Ages of Western Eurasia
Listen now (96 min) | Surveying the archaeological and genetic history of the last 11,700 years
David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
This week on Unsupervised Learning, Razib and his guest, David McKay, of the Standing on the Shoulders of Giants podcast (Razib was an early guest), discuss the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and the prospects for artificial general intelligence …
Introducing the GenRAIT Podcast
At the intersection of biology and technologyRecently we debuted the GenRAIT podcast, where we discuss the broad industry space that we aim to serve, the space where biology and technology merge together.You can listen to the podcasts at their dedicate…
The once and future India
A lot of the media is writing about how India’s population is now, or will be any moment, bigger than China. The issue I always have with these narratives is India is a big country; UP has a total fertility rate of around 3, while West Bengal is closer to 1.5. I assembled data on … Continue reading The once and future India
Perhaps the Indus Valley Civilization did descend from Zagrosian farmers?
On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics: These results show that at least with regard to the AG analysis, a key historical conclusion of the study (that the predominant genetic component in the Indus Periphery lineage diverged from the Iranian clade prior to the date of the Ganj Dareh Neolithic … Continue reading Perhaps the Indus Valley Civilization did descend from Zagrosian farmers?
Open Thread – 04/14/2023 – Brown Pundits
Since Pandits and Kamboj always ask me if it’s true if they’re Iranian, Iran through the ages: civilization’s eternal crossroads and Pre-Persian Iran: from the invention of agriculture to the Aryan onslaught. Part 3 and 4 will land next week. I have a post (right now at 5,500 words) that I’m working on relating to … Continue reading Open Thread – 04/14/2023 – Brown Pundits