John Hawks: 2024 in Neanderthals, Denisovans and Hobbits
Reviewing the last two years in paleoanthropology
Science giveth and science taketh away
Reading the evolutionary book of life in 2025
Khanversation #21: Naming names, the vibe shift and Luigi Mangione and Razib
Khanversation episode twenty-one
Jesse Singal: after the replication crisis and into the youth gender medicine debate
On this episode Razib talks to Jesse Singal, a journalist who has covered the social science beat for the last decade. Singal has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from University of Michigan and a master’s in public affairs from Princeton….
RKUL: Time Well Spent 12/12/2024
Philosophical footnotes for the year’s darkest days
David Mittelman: pushing the genomic frontier in 2024
Transforming forensics with whole-genome sequencing
Sam Hammond: I for one welcome our A.I. overlords
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to economist Sam Hammond. Canadian-born Hammond serves as the Senior Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation. His work primarily focuses on innovation and science policy, with particular…
Maha Landslide 2024
In this episode of Browncast, Gaurav and KJ talk to Indian Mango and Nitesh about the Landslide in the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024.
Maha Landslide 2024
In this episode of Browncast, Gaurav and KJ talk to Indian Mango and Nitesh about the Landslide in the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024.
Open Thread – 12/5/2024
Merry Christmas!
“But then I realized horses are just men-extenders”
How an equine catalyst gave civilization wings
War and Peace: horse power, progress and prosperity
The man-horse miracle, from dawn to decadence
In Search of Indo-Europeans in 2024: of Catacombs and Corded Ware
How Ancient DNA resolves issues in historical linguistics
14,000 years of natural selection
The full episode is available on: https://www.razibkhan.com/p/14000-years-of-natural-selection On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks about what we have learned from a blockbuster new preprint, Pervasive findings of directional…
Graphic Content & Cyber Monday: the year’s deepest discount
Population booms and busts, milk drinking, Jewish origins, Germanic languages
Khanversation #19: Jim O’Neill, Jay Bhattacharya, Thanksgiving and Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
Khanversation episode nineteen
Demographics Are Not Destiny, After All
Trump’s reelection reflects the final exhaustion of the post-World War II liberal and conservative cultural consensuses.
Megan McArdle: American food culture, artisanal to industrial
A cultural history of food
Europe: 40000 BC to 1200 BC
On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses the genetic and archaeological history of Europe from the arrival of modern humans (permanently) 45,000 years ago, to the end of the Bronze Age in the decades after 1200 BC. He covers thes…