Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

By Razib Khan

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Razib Khan engages a diverse array of thinkers on all topics under the sun. Genetics, history, and politics. See: http://razib.substack.com/

Episode Date
Noah Carl and Bo Winegard: probing the intellectual darker web
May 30, 2025
Tim Lee: 2025 and the driverless car revolution
May 24, 2025
Bonus monologue: Finland as Germania
May 21, 2025
Laura Spinney: rise of the proto-Indo-Europeans
May 17, 2025
Bonus monologue: man the hybrid monster
May 11, 2025
John Sailer: a time of troubles in higher education
May 10, 2025
Jacob Shell: academia must diversify or die
May 02, 2025
Matt Welch: from blog pioneer to podcasting mainstay
Apr 30, 2025
Bonus monologue: ancient North Africans and the Green Sahara
Apr 30, 2025
Andrew Song: cooling the planet with technology
Apr 23, 2025
Zineb Riboua: realism in foreign policy in 2025
Apr 17, 2025
Mark Lutter: charter cities and the urban future
Apr 06, 2025
Graeme Wood: Germany's turn to the right
Mar 28, 2025
Leighton Woodhouse: against the rise of the anti-woke cancel culture and MAGA cultural hegemony
Mar 23, 2025
Kevin Klatt: Nutrition, health, MAHA and GLP-1
Mar 15, 2025
Charles Murray: 50 years on the public scene
Mar 10, 2025
Titus Techera: Post-Modern Conservative in a post-national Europe
Mar 04, 2025
Nathan Lents: Sex, truths and gender wars
Mar 03, 2025
Antonio Regalado: CRISPR babies 6 years later
Feb 27, 2025
Daniel McCarthy: American conservatism after Trump (and before)
Feb 27, 2025
Tade Souaiaia: the edge of statistical genetics, race and sports
Feb 20, 2025
Shadi Hamid: pessimism on Palestine but hope in America
Feb 12, 2025
Conn Carroll: Sex and the Citizen
Feb 07, 2025
Dan Hess: the fertility collapse
Jan 29, 2025
Brian Chau: welcoming the AI-age and DeepSeek
Jan 29, 2025
John Hawks: 2024 in Neanderthals, Denisovans and Hobbits
Jan 26, 2025
David Mittelman: pushing the genomic frontier in 2024
Jan 23, 2025
In Search of Indo-Europeans in 2024: of Catacombs and Corded Ware
Jan 20, 2025
Megan McArdle: American food culture, artisanal to industrial
Jan 17, 2025
Nikolai Yakovenko: the Singularity is not here
Jan 14, 2025
Yascha Mounk: American democracy in 2024
Jan 11, 2025
Anatoly Karlin: Russian nationalism to American globalism
Jan 08, 2025
The Horse: Man's Most Useful Companion
Jan 05, 2025
Wilfred Reilly: confronting historical myths propagated in schools
Jan 02, 2025
Leighton Woodhouse: chaos and corruption in urban America
Dec 30, 2024
Lyman Stone: a demographer against the birth dearth
Dec 27, 2024
Peachy Keenan: cosmopolitan radical traditionalist
Dec 19, 2024
Jesse Singal: after the replication crisis and into the youth gender medicine debate
Dec 15, 2024
Sam Hammond: I for one welcome our A.I. overlords
Dec 11, 2024
14,000 years of natural selection
Dec 02, 2024
Europe: 40000 BC to 1200 BC
Nov 27, 2024
Misha Saul: the Antipodean Anglosphere
Nov 24, 2024
Crémieux Recueil: US election 2024 analysis
Nov 07, 2024
Rachel Haywire: the edge of the avant-garde
Nov 05, 2024
Halie May: the democratization of genomics
Oct 30, 2024
Inez Stepman: Silicon Valley's post-human world
Oct 19, 2024
Christina Buttons: navigating the gender wars
Oct 15, 2024
Sarah Haider: activist to podcaster and public intellectual
Oct 11, 2024
Aria Babu: pro-natalism in the shadow of empire
Aug 28, 2024
Louise Perry: overcrowded Britain and the ennui of a post-imperial nation
Aug 06, 2024
Bryan Ward-Perkins: The material consequences of the fall of Rome
Aug 02, 2024
J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans found?
Jul 10, 2024
Sean Anthony: the Muhammad of history
Jul 02, 2024
Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age
Jun 26, 2024
Chad Niederhuth: genetics in plants, from Mendel to GMOs
Jun 23, 2024
Jonathan Keeperman: becoming Lomez
Jun 16, 2024
Ryan Burge: Losing Our Religion
Jun 07, 2024
Lost civilizations and the promise of new knowledge
May 31, 2024
Akshar Patel: Modi's India in the 21st century
May 23, 2024
Jeremy Carl: The Unprotected Class - How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
May 20, 2024
The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans
May 14, 2024
John Massey: Chinese dreams through Western eyes
May 13, 2024
Colin Wright: In the trenches of the gender wars
May 07, 2024
Eric Cline: After 1177 B.C.
Apr 24, 2024
Kristian Kristiansen: DNA and European prehistory
Apr 16, 2024
Samo Burja: Palladium Magazine, China, Russia and the future of Eurasia
Apr 06, 2024
Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
Mar 30, 2024
Murtaza Hussain: Gaza and the global left
Mar 22, 2024
Chris Stringer: human evolution in 2024
Mar 15, 2024
Zoe Booth and Iona Italia: Quillette's dynamic duo
Mar 07, 2024
Nick Cassimatis: fear not AI, this too shall pass
Mar 03, 2024
James Miller: the end of world as we know it
Feb 23, 2024
Rob Henderson: foster-kid to Ivy League graduate
Feb 22, 2024
Wilfred Reilly: a social scientist in the culture wars
Feb 08, 2024
Erich Schwarz: in the beginning was the worm (C. elegans)
Feb 03, 2024
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - Who Makes the NBA?: Data-Driven Answers to Basketball's Biggest Questions
Jan 31, 2024
Alexander: the psychology of dating
Jan 30, 2024
David Lightbringer: mythopoetic interpretations
Jan 29, 2024
Cesar Fortes-Lima: the three thousand-year odyssey of the Bantu
Jan 28, 2024
Cody Moser: the adaptive landscape of cultural evolution
Jan 09, 2024
Katherine Brodsky: After 10/7 in Israel, Europe and the US
Jan 09, 2024
Introducing GenRAIT: when technology drives science
Jan 09, 2024
Philippe Lemoine: French food and American immigrants
Dec 14, 2023
Mark Safranski: the 21st-century way of war and the exhaustion of the American Empire
Dec 10, 2023
Brent Roberts: let's talk about personality
Dec 05, 2023
Carl Zha: Chimerica to the Thucydides's Trap
Nov 29, 2023
Nikolai Yakovenko: OpenAI in chaos, the future of artificial intelligence and effective accelerationism
Nov 21, 2023
Curtis Yarvin: reflections on a life of poetry
Nov 19, 2023
Michael Muthukrishna: A Theory of Everyone - The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
Nov 17, 2023
Peter Nimitz: the end of the first civilizations 4,300 years ago
Nov 15, 2023
Steinn Sigurðsson: Black Holes, causality and exoplanets
Nov 06, 2023
Gregory Clark: what has genetics to do with social status?
Oct 29, 2023
John Logsdon: what has genomics done for evolution?
Oct 19, 2023
Christopher Rufo - America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.
Oct 15, 2023
IBW Episode #3: The Israel-Palestine conflict
Oct 14, 2023
Richard Hanania: The Origins of Woke - Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
Oct 08, 2023
Sundar Iyer & Sudha Jagannathan: the accused speaks the truth about caste and the "Cisco Case"
Oct 03, 2023
The Indian caste system: origin, impact and future
Oct 01, 2023
David Anthony: when we were Yamnaya
Sep 24, 2023
Erik Hoel: The World Behind the World
Sep 15, 2023
Katherine Dee: Is Twitter just our default?
Sep 13, 2023
Inez Stepman: fixing higher education
Sep 12, 2023
Cory Clark: adversarial collaborations in science
Sep 12, 2023
Alex S. Young and James J. Lee: quantitative genetics in 2023
Sep 03, 2023
Diana Fleischman: evolution, sex and eugenics
Aug 30, 2023
Nicola Buskirk: old books for a new generation
Aug 24, 2023
Hannah Frankman: unlearning the lessons of the past
Aug 22, 2023
Lyman Stone: God is dead, long live the Lord!
Aug 20, 2023
IBW Episode #2: Muslims vs. LGBTQIA+
Aug 04, 2023
Samuel McIlhagga: the UK as a zombie nation
Aug 04, 2023
Renu Mukherjee: Affirmative Action's End
Jun 29, 2023
Elizabeth Jones: ancient DNA as "celebrity science"
Jun 23, 2023
Lee Fang: investigative journalism and investigating journalists
Jun 14, 2023
Ross Douthat: fantasy and the literary imagination
Jun 08, 2023
Samo Burja: China's future, Russia's present and archaeology's past
Jun 04, 2023
Timothy B. Lee: don't rage against the machine
May 29, 2023
The collapse of the Bronze Age civilization
May 29, 2023
Peter Nimitz: Seven Ages of Western Eurasia
May 29, 2023
Alex Feinberg: former professional athlete and techie turned trainer
May 10, 2023
Adam Mastroianni: a history of experiments in social psychology
May 10, 2023
David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
Apr 20, 2023
The modern human conquest of earth
Apr 10, 2023
Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
Apr 02, 2023
David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
Mar 22, 2023
Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
Mar 19, 2023
Human pigmentation: the genetics and evolution of human shades
Mar 09, 2023
Glenn Loury: four decades in economics
Mar 04, 2023
Virginia Postrel: from synthetic meat to synthetic fabric
Feb 23, 2023
Charles Fain Lehman: homicide, death in the charts
Feb 18, 2023
The prehistoric genetic roots of the Chinese
Feb 10, 2023
Madagascar: where Asia and Africa met
Feb 04, 2023
Jonathan Anomaly: To Make a Better World
Jan 26, 2023
Bryan Caplan: Open minds and Open borders
Jan 20, 2023
John Hawks: A Year in Paleoanthropology
Jan 13, 2023
Shadi Hamid: Democracy in America and Araby
Jan 04, 2023
Nikolai Yakovenko: GPT-3 and the rise of the thinking machines
Dec 29, 2022
Joshua Lipson, Aric Lomes and Leo Cooper: the medieval origins of the Ashkenazim
Dec 22, 2022
Michael Bonner: Iran's Sassanid Empire
Dec 16, 2022
Eurocentrism, the West, and white supremacy
Dec 08, 2022
Garett Jones: The Culture Transplant - How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left
Dec 02, 2022
Cody Moser: Universal Baby Talk
Nov 30, 2022
Nikolai Yakovenko: a Twitter engineer on machine learning and his former company's prospects
Nov 20, 2022
Razib Khan: Anatolia over 10,000 years
Nov 18, 2022
Erik Hoel: neuroscience is dead, long live neuroscience!
Nov 04, 2022
Jonathan Haidt: Social media kills the internet utopia
Oct 28, 2022
Religion in China, India and the West
Oct 22, 2022
Oliver Traldi: welcome to the intellectual dark web
Oct 13, 2022
Tania Reynolds: let's talk about intrasexual competition
Oct 06, 2022
Richard Hanania: markets in every prediction
Sep 29, 2022
Kerry of Mary Lincolniana: America made in the image of Massachusetts
Sep 22, 2022
Razib Khan: the "southern arc" and Indo-European origins
Sep 17, 2022
Katherine Brodsky: from internet entrepreneur to cultural commentator
Sep 10, 2022
Razib Khan: surveys of the great ancient human DNA Diasporas
Sep 07, 2022
Jason Walters: from Salafism to Sartre
Aug 31, 2022
Ed West: Albion past and future
Aug 19, 2022
Ethan Strauss: the sports journalism disruptor is in the house
Aug 14, 2022
Maxim Lott: getting to the truth of the matter
Aug 08, 2022
Manvir Singh: beyond anthropological dreams
Aug 01, 2022
Judge Glock: it's still morning in America!
Jul 23, 2022
Dr. Iona Italia: a cosmopolitan liberal in an identitarian age
Jul 15, 2022
Stuart Buck: making 21st-century science better
Jul 09, 2022
Claire Lehmann: an Australian at the heart of the heterodox web
Jun 30, 2022
Manuel L. Quezon III: Explaining the Philippines
Jun 23, 2022
Alex Palazzo: drifting into molecular evolution
Jun 16, 2022
Ananyo Bhattacharya: The Life of John von Neumann
Jun 13, 2022
Stuart Ritchie: bad science, good science and behavior genetics
Jun 05, 2022
Jason Richwine: an immigration restrictionist speaks
May 27, 2022
Sir Walter F. Bodmer: from R.A. Fisher to genomics
May 19, 2022
Francis Young: Lithuanian paganism during the Reformation
May 12, 2022
Rand Simberg: Elon Musk's Starship and making spaceflight great again
May 05, 2022
Molson Hart: "Chimerica" and the supply chain
Apr 28, 2022
Alex Nowrasteh: the last migration expert standing
Apr 21, 2022
James Lee: genes and educational attainment
Apr 14, 2022
Josiah Neeley: energy matters
Apr 08, 2022
Jacob L. Shapiro: geopolitical pasts, present and futures
Apr 01, 2022
Samo Burja: Bismarck Analysis and geopolitical uncertainty
Mar 26, 2022
Zack Stentz: Andromeda to X-Men
Mar 17, 2022
Sarah Haider: from Ex-Muslim to gender atheist
Mar 14, 2022
Muhammad Sohail Raza: A Pakistani genomicist in Beijing
Mar 04, 2022
Suhag Shukla: American Hinduism in 2022
Feb 25, 2022
A black American technologist in China
Feb 18, 2022
Caleb Watney: onward and upward with progress
Feb 12, 2022
Chad Orzel: A Brief History of Timekeeping
Feb 04, 2022
William Gunn: from the bench to tech
Jan 27, 2022
Rav Arora: psychedelics and spirituality
Jan 25, 2022
Chris Arnade: walking across America
Jan 20, 2022
R. Taylor Raborn: evolutionary genetics, good enough for government work
Jan 13, 2022
David Sloan Wilson and Charles C. Mann on E. O. Wilson's legacy
Jan 11, 2022
Eric Kaufmann: shall the religious still inherit the earth?
Jan 08, 2022
Leighton Woodhouse: from the labor left to the radical center
Dec 31, 2021
Xiaotong Yao: a Chinese biologist in America
Dec 23, 2021
Megan McArdle: Escape from New York
Dec 16, 2021
Charles C. Mann: 1491 fifteen years later
Dec 09, 2021
Timothy B Lee: reporting on the intersection between policy and economics
Dec 02, 2021
Tanner Greer: the American New Right
Nov 25, 2021
Eric Berger: SpaceX and Elon Musk
Nov 18, 2021
Carole Hooven: let's talk about testosterone
Nov 11, 2021
Alexander Young: everything you want to know about cognitive genomics
Nov 04, 2021
Joshua Lipson: on Jewish genetic genealogy
Oct 28, 2021
Trent Colbert: standing athwart the mob
Oct 26, 2021