Alex Feinberg: former professional athlete and techie turned trainer
Listen now (50 min) | Leverage your instincts to build a better body and make better choices
The modern human conquest of earth
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks about the rise of modern humans, from their beginning as just one population among a diverse set of human species, to the dominant and only remaining lineage of hominids in the present. His reflec…
Cousin marriage in Bangladesh
This piece arguing for the end to cousin marriage in the UK in The Times (driven by Pakistanis) took me to a paper in PLOS One, Genetic and reproductive consequences of consanguineous marriage in Bangladesh: The mean prevalence of CM in our studied population was 6.64%. Gross fertility was higher among CM families, as compared … Continue reading Cousin marriage in Bangladesh
The Green Sahara and Fulani
Echoes from the last Green Sahara: whole genome analysis of Fulani, a key population to unveil the genetic evolutionary history of Africa: Background The Sahelian Fulani are the largest nomadic […]
Adam Mastroianni: a history of experiments in social psychology
Listen now (57 min) | Is peer review a problem for science?
Pre-Persian Iran: from the invention of agriculture to the Aryan onslaught
Prehistoric Iranians’ genetic roots and Indian entanglements
RKUL: Time Well Spent 04/04/2023
April Showers Edition
Iran through the ages: civilization’s eternal crossroads
Parsing Persian genetics
Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
Twenty-one years ago, Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature was published. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Blank Slate firmly established Pinker as one of the major public intellectuals in 21st-century America; it fo…
David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
Listen now (67 min) | The rise of the machine…tools
David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
The rise of the machine…tools
The modern human conquest of earth
Listen now (76 min) | A narrative genetic history of humanity
David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
Dr. David Sloan Wilson is a Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. Co-founder of the Evolution Institute and Prosocial World, Wilson is the author of Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish B…
Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib hosts three guests, Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell, Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute and Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept. Razib, Haider, Hamid and Hussain discuss the current state of the …
Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib hosts three guests, Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell, Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute and Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept. Razib, Haider, Hamid and Hussain discuss the current state of the …
Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
Listen now (67 min) | Reflections on the blank slate, the ghost in the machine and the noble savage
ChatGPT 4.0 Tries to write a Razib Khan style essay
Query: write a razib khan style essay on the genetic history of india Title: The Genetic Kaleidoscope: A Razib Khan Style Essay on the Genetic History of India Introduction India, […]
The Scandinavian sequence
It is done. After the Ice: how foragers and farmers conquered Scandinavia, Chariots of Ice, Coursers of the Sun, The 100-year-winter and the coming of Ragnarök and Fury out of the North: […]