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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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01:02:15

Chad Orzel: quantum jumps across science and writing

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/02/26

Chad Orzel is a spherical object…actually, no. He’s a physicist. More precisely, a physics professor at Union College, in Schenectady, New York. He’s the author of four books: Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist

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02:11:08

Texpocalypse Now: a postmortem

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/02/20

This week’s guests made time to chat at a moment’s notice over the last 24 hours as the luckiest of us are just beginning to get back to normal life (though many here remain without water even after power was restored). This is very much a rough draft of history, not my usual evergreen type of content. I’m learning something new daily and I hope you’ll get something out of it, too. My guests: Jon Stokes, a deputy editor at The Prepared. Jon talks about how and why even he was caught flat-footed,

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01:23:24

Rob Henderson: Red America to Oxbridge and Beyond

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/02/19

Rob Henderson is one of the most interesting young thinkers active today. A writer with an engaging Twitter account and must-subscribe newsletter, he is perhaps most well known today for his popularization of the concept of “luxury beliefs.” My conversation with Rob occurred in the midst of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. I was looking for his perspective on the world, and the reality of American decline, because his own life story is so unique, and yet so American. Given up for adoption by a

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01:37:55

A conversation with John Hawks: a life in...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/02/12

John Hawks is a paleoanthropologist who has been a researcher and commentator in the fields of human evolutionary biology and paleoanthropology for over two decades. With a widely-read weblog, a book on Homo naledi, and highly cited scientific papers, Hawks’ voice is essential to understanding the origin of our species. In this episode, Hawks talks about how he stumbled onto paleoanthropology, and his work in the 2000’s, where he was at the center of debates between various camps within the field

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51:03

Ramesh Ponnuru on the pro-life movement in America

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/02/05

On January 22nd, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States of America declared abortion legal in all 50 states when it decided Roe vs. Wade. This landmark decision was arguably one of the two biggest cases in relation to social policy in the US in the 20th century (the other being 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education). Though abortion has been on the back-burner as an issue over the past decade or so, for most of the whole period after Roe vs. Wade it has dominated and shaped cultural politics in

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01:25:41

American Civil War? Richard Hanania thinks it unlikely

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/01/29

For this episode of Unsupervised Learning, I talked to Richard Hanania of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

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43:49

Alina Chan on SARS-CoV-2 and "lab leak"

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/01/22

Alina Chan is a post-doctoral fellow at the Broad Institute. Since the spring of 2020 Chan has been prominent in online (and “offline”) discussions as to the nature of the origins of SARS-Cov-2. Her argument is that there needs to be more openness to alternative possibilities of the origin of SARS-Cov-2. She is a co-author on two preprints related to SARS-Cov-2: SARS-CoV-2 is well adapted for humans. What does this mean for re-emergence? Single source of pangolin CoVs with a near identical Spike RBD

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01:18:40

Armand Leroi: an evolutionist for all seasons

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/01/15

Armand Marie Leroi is the author of Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body and The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science. An evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London, Leroi has tackled race and eugenics, as well as published on the cultural evolution of music and the neutral theory of evolution. In a wide-ranging conversation, we discuss his attempts to tackle the concepts of race and eugenics as a public intellectual, his exploration of cultural evolution, and finally, the impact

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01:20:21

Samo Burja on "social technology," China, and the...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2021/01/08

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning I talk at length with Samo Burja, a public intellectual who focuses on the insights that history can provide to the present and future. To be frank, Samo is one of the most historically literate people I’ve ever met. This probably explains how we could talk so easily for well over an hour on topics as diverse as Confucianism, “social technology”, and the European view of America and China (the last might surprise you!).

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52:22

Jeremy Kamil: a virologist in the time of COVID

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2020/12/24

Dr. Jeremy Kamil is a virologist in the LSU system. He is one of the people I have encountered over the last year whose opinion I’ve learned to take to heart. Not because Jeremy holds forth from on high, but because he doesn’t. As you will hear in this conversation, he is candid about how little he truly knew at the beginning of 2020. A world transformed by COVID-19 has also seen a world of pundits and commentators rewriting history, testifying to their foresight. Masks are useless until they’re

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57:18

David Shor, the uncancellable

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2020/12/16

Razib talks to political analyst David Shor.

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55:39

Eric Cline and the End of the Bronze Age

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2020/12/10

Razib talks to archaeologists Eric Cline about his book 1177, and the end of the Bronze Age.

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01:28:11

A conversation with Charles Murray

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2020/12/03

Razib discusses the life and times of Charles Murray. They explore Murray's upbringing, time in Thailand, and his perspective on the USA today.

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01:04:35

Anders Bergstrom: The five lineages of Holocene dogs

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2020/11/26

On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, I talk to Anders Bergstrom about the new paper in Science, Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs, on which he is the first author.

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