The Anglo-Saxonization of England happened through a mass migration
The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool: The history of the British Isles and Ireland is characterized by multiple periods of major cultural change, including […]
Razib Khan: the “southern arc” and Indo-European origins
Three blockbuster papers on ancient DNA just landed in Science Magazine: The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe, A genetic probe into the ancient and medieval history of Southern Europe and West Asia, and, Ancien…
Open Thread – 9/15/2022 – Gene Expression
Re-reading The Turks in World History as I’m thinking about my next post in my series on the Eurasian steppe for Substack. The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in […]
Richard Hanania: markets in every prediction
Listen now (61 min) | Why decision and prediction-making need to change
Septimius Severus was not black, who cares?
Septimius Severus is important because he brought the Roman Empire back from the chaos ushered in by the assassination of Commodus. He was born in 145 AD and so grew […]
Happy second anniversary, Unsupervised Learning!
You can’t touch this: a quiz for the diehards
Kerry of Mary Lincolniana: America made in the image of Massachusetts
Listen now (81 min) | Is the American way the New England way?
Katherine Brodsky: from internet entrepreneur to cultural commentator
Katherine Brodsky is today a freelance writer who in the early 2000’s was the founder and editor-in-chief of an online culture magazine that was registering 600,000 pageviews a month while herself still an undergrad. In this episode of the Unsupervised…
RKUL: Time Well Spent 09/09/2022
Almost Autumn Edition
Razib Khan: surveys of the great ancient human DNA Diasporas
This week takes The Unsupervised Learning podcast in a somewhat different direction. In response to a common listener request, Razib takes on his first “one-man-show,” digging into his stores of knowledge of the population genetics of ancient peoples a…
Rings of Power, first two episodes, initial reaction
Good – they spent much of the massive budget on decent special effects. The scenery and setting were often great – the Hobbits are weird, but the main Hobbit character […]
Razib Khan: the “southern arc” and Indo-European origins
Listen now (64 min) | Where were the Indo-Europeans from?
Jason Walters: from Salafism to Sartre
The recent killing by Ayman al-Zawahiri, erstwhile leader of al-Qaeda, brought many Americans back to awareness of an era that has been fading, the decade of the “War on Terror” that dominated geopolitics after the 9/11 terrorism attack. The World Trad…
Only from the mind of Martin: a perfect inbred queen
Disentangling the hard reality of inbreeding from Game of Thrones’ fantasy
Ancient DNA Selection Paper Just Dropped!
1,000 ancient genomes uncover 10,000 years of natural selection in Europe: Ancient DNA has revolutionized our understanding of human population history. However, its potential to examine how rapid cultural evolution […]
Katherine Brodsky: from internet entrepreneur to cultural commentator
Listen now (83 min) | Dispatches from the online elder millennial
The southern arc papers
Since David has not posted, here they are… The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe: By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern […]