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Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning

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

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55:28

Richard Hanania: Israel, "wokeness" is just civil...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/07/11

Richard Hanania is the president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI). He also runs a Substack and a podcast that are “must-read/listen.” Richard is perceived as something of a contrarian, so I wanted to ask him about Israel and its role in American politics because he has opinions on that topic somewhat outside of the mainstream. But since I scheduled this podcast he’s “blown up” due to a piece he wrote, Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law. Eliciting responses from

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58:45

Samo Burja (again): finding "lost civilizations"

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/07/09

By popular demand, Samo Burja is my first repeat guest on this podcast. You’ve been asking for him, so when he wrote a great piece in Palladium Magazine, Why Civilization Is Older Than We Thought, I had to ask him back on. Much of the piece is specifically about Göbekli Tepe, an ancient site in Turkey that predates the Neolithic, dating to 11,600 years ago. Burja focuses on how our preconceptions shape how we understand the world and interpret data. For example, at first, archaeologists thought that

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52:42

Ramez Naam: a promising future

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/07/02

I’ve known Ramez Naam since 2003 when he wrote More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. Back then he was leading a team at Microsoft, and moonlighting as a writer. Over the last twenty years, he’s changed careers, and become a full-time writer and speaker. He’s the author of three science fiction books, Crux, Apex, and Nexus. Ramez has also written The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet. It’s because of the last book that he’s become an expert on the

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01:02:55

Colin Wright: wasps, New Atheism, and sex

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/06/25

Three years ago the Golden State Killer was arrested through genetic genealogy enabled by the new direct-to-consumer platforms. Over the past several years many more cases have been solved through new DNA techniques and database searches. But more recently, Montana and Maryland banned the practice. Six years after the original CSI went off the air, genomics and forensics have started to fuse into something new and far more powerful. David Mittelman is a scientist who is bringing “next-generation”

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57:39

David Mittelman: genomics for justice

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/06/18

Three years ago the Golden State Killer was arrested through genetic genealogy enabled by the new direct-to-consumer platforms. Over the past several years many more cases have been solved through new DNA techniques and database searches. But more recently, Montana and Maryland banned the practice. Six years after the original CSI went off the air, genomics and forensics have started to fuse into something new and far more powerful. David Mittelman is a scientist who is bringing “next-generation”

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01:22:37

James P. Mallory: finding the Indo-Europeans

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/06/11

James P. Mallory received in Ph.D. in Indo-European studies from UCLA in 1975 under the supervision of Marija Gimbutas. He is the author of In Search of Indo-Europeans, The Origins of the Irish, and The Tarim Mummies, and an emeritus professor at Queen’s University Belfast. Mallory devoted much of his career to understanding the origins of the Indo-Europeans. Over the first 30 minutes of he gives a magisterial overview of the question, the field, and where we are now. Mallory begins in the 18th

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57:30

Marie Favereau: the Golden Horde and world history

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/06/04

Dr. Marie Favereau is an associate professor at Paris Nanterre University. Her academic work has been on the Mamlukes of Egypt and the Mongol Golden Horde. Most recently, she is the author of The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World. I recently reviewed it for UnHerd, What the Mongols did for us: The Golden Horde wasn't barbarous, it created the modern world. Dr. Favereau and I discuss the origin of the Golden Horde, the Mongols of the northwest who ruled much of Eastern Europe for centuries,

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01:00:07

Kristian Kristiansen: the birth of Northern Europe

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/05/27

Dr. Kristian Kristiansen has been at the forefront of the synthesis between archaeology and ancient DNA. That new joint field has allowed for a deeper understanding of the transition to Indo-European languages in Northern Europe 5,000 years ago. In 2015 he was a co-author on Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia, which established that there was a massive migration of the steppe people into Europe that resulted in the emergence of the Corded Ware culture, the likely predecessor of most

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01:04:31

David Anthony: the origin of Indo-Europeans

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/05/21

David Anthony is an emeritus professor of Hartwick College and now a collaborator with David Reich at Harvard. Over the past four decades, Anthony has been involved in exploring the origin and rise of Indo-Europeans from the perspective of archaeology, most especially in his magisterial 2007 book The Horse, The Wheel, and Language. In the 2010’s he began collaborating with geneticists. He provided many of the Yamnaya samples for 2015’s Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European

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01:10:44

Thomas Olander: the origin and spread of...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/05/14

45% of humans speak an Indo-European language. English is Indo-European. Hindi is Indo-European. The language of the ancient Hittites was Indo-European. This is one reason the origin and expansion of this language family is so interesting to so many. Thomas Olander is an associate professor of Indo-European studies in Denmark. He has a deep interest in the question of when and where the Proto-Indo-European speakers flourished. In the podcast we talk about different hypotheses in terms of the

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56:51

Greg Clark: For Whom The Bell Curve Tolls

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/05/07

In the winter of 2021, I noticed a minor controversy regarding ‘academic cancellation’ around Gregory Clark, an economic historian at UC Davis. Representative pieces are Glasgow University in row over decision to invite guest speaker Gregory Clark, and Why is the woke mob so scared? The Free Speech Union put together a petition, Letter to Adam Smith Business School About No-Platforming of Professor Gregory Clark Signed by Over 70 Academics, signed by numerous public intellectuals after his talk was

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56:48

Benjamin Basset: pagans and Christians then and now

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/04/29

What are the relationship between Christianity, ancient paganism, and Western culture? Does mass secularization in the West presage a new pagan era? Where is “New Atheism” 15 years after its peak? These are just some of the questions Ben Bassett and I mull over. Bassett is an archaeologist but has a deep interest in ancient history. Three years ago he wrote: Progress and Polytheism: Could an Ethical West Exist Without Christianity? We also referenced Unbelievable? Is the God of the Bible a

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44:32

Abdel Abdellaoui: a behavior geneticist in the 21st...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/04/23

Abdel Abdellaoui is a researcher in the Netherlands who works in the intersection of psychology and genetics. He’s a pretty active figure on social media, and because of his subject matter interests, he has become embroiled in a few controversies. When scientists talk about genetics and psychology, behavior genetics, the public listens and offers opinions. Over the course of our conversation, I discuss how he got into behavior genetics, and what the lay of the land in the Netherlands is like for

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01:20:52

Gabriel Rossman: the sociologist who tells you that...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/04/17

Gabriel Rossman is a sociologist at UCLA. The author of Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation, Rossman takes a deeply analytic toolkit to questions such as why 2005’s “My Humps” became a viral hit. The last 1/3rd of the podcast is devoted to discussing a recent paper that he is an author on, Network hubs cease to be influential in the presence of low levels of advertising. But first, we discuss other topics. Recently Rossman has been seeing a change in

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51:44

Chris Stringer: 1,000,000 years of human evolution

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/04/09

Listeners to some of my podcasts on human evolution often tell me, in a friendly enough manner, that the jargon is often tough going. To be frank I can actually empathize with this. It is difficult for me to keep up with all the paleogenetics, let alone the ins and outs of paleoanthropology. What’s the difference between ergaster and heidelbergensis? Are Denisovans a species? Where in Africa did modern humans emerge? There are dozens of questions like this. This is why I often touch base with Dr

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01:20:13

Tom Booth: Cheddar Man and Beyond

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/04/02

Tom Booth is an English archaeologist who has had great timing in his career, as he’s been riding the massive wave of ancient DNA findings out of Britain over the past decade. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520225/

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01:13:47

Nick Patterson: cryptography to Neanderthals

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/03/26

Nick Patterson is a computational biologist at the Broad Institute. A collaborator with David Reich for nearly 20 years, Nick has traversed the world of genetics from its medical domain to the realm of anthropology and ancient DNA. But before he was a geneticist Nick had varied lives, including a stint with the British government, as a cryptographer, and a quant for Renaissance Technologies. We also discuss his background in dark post-World War II England, and how it shaped him.

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01:10:54

Matt Ridley: evolutionist, Thatcherite, and writer

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/03/18

Normally I post a photograph of the guest for the podcast. But in the case of Matt Ridley, I am making an exception. Rather, I’m highlighting his 1999 book, Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters. This book is incredibly influential for the generation of genomicists who came of age in the 21st century. Written in the late 1990’s when the genomics revolution was barely off the ground, Ridley’s elegant prose anticipated how exciting this field was going to be for many of

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01:03:13

Lee Jussim: he comes to abolish social psychology

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/03/12

Lee Jussim is a social psychologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Known outside of his field as a major critic of stereotype threat, Lee is involved in online science communication and the replication crisis. A major internal critical of his own field, Lee and I discuss: - His experience after Hurricane Sandy - What he actually believes is true in social psychology - The relationship between political uniformity and results in social science

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01:47:40

Cathy Young on the French Revolution

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/03/05

Cathy Young is a writer who contributes to Reason, Newsday, and Arc Digital. Born in the Soviet Union, she immigrated to the United States as a teen in the 1980s. Young is the author of Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood and Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality. In December she wrote The Guillotine Mystique: The French Revolution has long inspired progressive radicals ready for change at any cost for Reason. She has even started the French

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