Fury out of the North: from pagan slavers to Christian kings
Heathen sea nomads, scourges of civilization
Human pigmentation: the genetics and evolution of human shades
This monologue is incomplete, for the complete monologue, checkout: Razib Khan’s Unsupervised Learning Podcast Substack Why does human skin color vary so much? And what is the relationship between hair color, eye color and overall pigmentation? What ge…
Precise medicine is accurate medicine
More than 40 years ago my mother got a shocking result in her yearly check-up when she was a new immigrant to the US: she had very high cholesterol. The doctors were perplexed, because she was thin and did not have a cholesterol-heavy diet (remember wh…
David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
Listen now (66 min) | A wide-ranging conversation with evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson on his past work and future projects
The Yamnaya probably did ride horses…
One of the major weak points of The Horse the Wheel and Language is that there isn’t good evidence for horsemanship during the period of Yamnaya expansion. More recently, the […]
Intellectual Brown Web
Sarah Haider, Shadi Hamid, myself and Murtaza Hussain recorded an impromptu podcast that we titled the “Intellectual Brown Web.” These are basically people I know well (I am good friends with both Sarah and Shadi) or who got involved in Twitter threads repeatedly (Murtaza). But there is no “Hindo-origin person.” Since I don’t give a … Continue reading Intellectual Brown Web
The 100-year-winter and the coming of Ragnarök
Pagan Scandinavia’s beginning and end
Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
Listen now (70 min) | A view from outside the gates in 2023
Glenn Loury: four decades in economics
Today on the podcast Razib talks to Dr. Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University. Loury also has a Substack that grew out of his conversations with John McWhorter on bloggingheads.tv starting in 2008. He is the…
Artificial intelligence and life science in the 21st century: chatGPT, genomics and the path…
Artificial intelligence and life science in the 21st century: chatGPT, genomics and the path forwardA query to ChatGPTUnless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you’ve been reading about and experiencing how the new generation of artificial intelligence…
RKUL: Time Well Spent 03/03/2023
The green shoots of almost-Spring
Chariots of Ice, Coursers of the Sun
Scandinavia’s Golden (Bronze) Age at globalization’s first light
Human pigmentation: the genetics and evolution of human shades
Listen now (67 min) | Why do some humans blue eyes and others dark skin?
Virginia Postrel: from synthetic meat to synthetic fabric
On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib talks to Virginia Postrel, the author of The Fabric of Civilization, The Power of Glamour, The Substance of Style and The Future and its Enemies. Formerly a columnist at The Wall Street Journa…
The great modern vs. Neanderthal see-saw
Bow-and-arrow, technology of the first modern humans in Europe 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France: Consensus in archaeology has posited that mechanically propelled weapons, such as bow-and-arrow or spear-thrower-and-dart combinations, […]
CRISPR/Cas9: the genetic engineering century
If you were in and around genetics laboratories in the early 2010’s, one thing would be immediately apparent: CRISPR was going to revolutionize the field. Many research groups were shifting from their long-preferred genetic engineering techniques to th…
America is turning into India: our coming “caste wars”
Seattle may become the first U.S. city to outlaw caste: One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved […]
After the Ice: how foragers and farmers conquered Scandinavia
The placid north’s earliest origins in an age of mud, bloodbath and genocide
Charles Fain Lehman: homicide, death in the charts
https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan’s Substack and original video content. In April of 2021, this Substack published a piece, The ultimate price of costless gestures, that anticipated a spate of art…
Open Thread, 2/17/2023, Brown Pundits
Nimrata Nikki Haley is running for President of the United States of American. 1) She’s a donor-class wet dream and a throwback to the pre-Trump Republican party. I don’t think this is going to work, but who knows? 2) It’s America, you do what you want, but not going to lie; Bobby Jindal was always … Continue reading Open Thread, 2/17/2023, Brown Pundits