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5:07

Bonus monologue: man the hybrid monster

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/04/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday, Razib talks about a new paper, A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans:Understanding the history of admixture events and population size changes leading to modern humans is central to human evolutionary genetics. Here we introduce a coalescence-based hidden Markov model, cobraa, that explicitly represents an ancestral population split and rejoin, and demonstrate

30:06

John Sailer: a time of troubles in higher education

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/04/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of the podcast Razib talks to John Sailer. Sailer is currently the director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He covers issues of academic freedom, free speech, and ideological capture in higher education. Sailer has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Free Press and Tablet Magazine. Sailer holds a master’s degree in philosophy and education from Columbia

30:14

Jacob Shell: academia must diversify or die

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/04/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Jacob Shell. Shell is a professor of geography at Temple University and author of Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants. Educated at Columbia and Syracuse universities, Shell is active on social media, where he comments extensively on the politicization of the academy.The

30:07

Matt Welch: from blog pioneer to podcasting mainstay

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/04/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Matt Welch. He co-founded the Prague-based newspaper Prognosis in the early 1990’s and later worked as an opinion section editor for the Los Angeles Times. From 2008-2016, Welch served as editor-in-chief of Reason magazine, where he currently holds the position of editor-at-large. He co-authored The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's

14:59

Bonus monologue: ancient North Africans and the Green...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/04/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib comments on a new paper in Nature, Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage. Here is the abstract:Although it is one of the most arid regions today, the Sahara Desert was a green savannah during the African Humid Period (AHP) between 14,500 and 5,000 years before present, with water bodies promoting human occupation and the spread of

20:04

Andrew Song: cooling the planet with technology

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/04/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Andrew Song, co-founder of Make Sunsets. An NYU graduate with a degree in economics, Song was a member of the Y Combinator class of winter 2016. Before becoming a founder, Song worked at firms involved in data analytics and artificial intelligence. A repeat attendee at the Founders Fund “Hereticon” conference, Song’s company has been profiled IEEE Spectrum, The New

25:05

Zineb Riboua: realism in foreign policy in 2025

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/03/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Zineb Riboua, a research fellow and program manager of Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. She specializes in Chinese and Russian involvement in the Middle East, the Sahel, and North Africa, great power competition in the region, and Israeli-Arab relations. Riboua’s pieces and commentary have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy,

25:04

Mark Lutter: charter cities and the urban future

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/03/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Mark Lutter. Lutter is an urban development expert known for his work on charter cities—new urban areas aimed at fostering economic growth and progress. He is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Charter Cities Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to building the ecosystem for charter cities, as well as the CEO of Braavos Cities, a charter city development company

15:09

Graeme Wood: Germany's turn to the right

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/03/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Graeme Wood. Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he usually covers geopolitics and international affairs. His work ranges from a profile of Richard Spencer, the American white nationalist public figure with whom he went to high school with, to the Islamic State. He is the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State. Wood grew up

29:59

Leighton Woodhouse: against the rise of the anti-woke...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/03/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes Leighton Akira Woodhouse back to the podcast for his third visit. Woodhouse is a journalist and documentarian based in Oakland, California. He grew up in Berkeley, and was a doctoral student in Sociology at UC Berkeley. After leaving academia he contributed to outlets like The Intercept, UnHerd and The Nation, before starting his own Substack, Social Studies. He

29:56

Kevin Klatt: Nutrition, health, MAHA and GLP-1

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/02/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Kevin Klatt, a metabolism researcher, dietitian and science communicator. Klatt holds a BA in biological anthropology from Temple University and a PhD in Molecular Nutrition from Cornell University. Before a current appointment as a research scientist at UC Berkeley, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor College of Medicine. Klatt’s primary platform to communicate

10:01

Charles Murray: 50 years on the public scene

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/02/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning, friend of the podcast, Charles Murray returns to chat with Razib again. Murray has been a public intellectual and scholar since the 1970’s. He is the author of Losing Ground, The Bell Curve, Human Accomplishment, Real Education, Coming Apart and What it means to be a libertarian and Human Diversity, among others. Born in 1943 in Newton, Iowa, Murray has a BA from Harvard, an MA

30:00

Titus Techera: Post-Modern Conservative in a...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/02/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Titus Techera, a Romanian living in Budapest, but commenting extensively on American and European culture. He is the Executive Director of the American Cinema Foundation, International Coordinator of the National Conservatism Conference and is a primary contributor to the Substack PostModernConservative. Techera also hosts a podcast for the American Cinema

20:01

Nathan Lents: Sex, truths and gender wars

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/02/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Nathan Lents about his new book, The Sexual Evolution: A Provocative Look at Sexual Behavior Through the Lens of Evolution. A professor at John Jay College in New York City, Lents earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences in 2004 at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and did his postdoctoral fellowship in cancer genomics at NYU Medical

20:03

Daniel McCarthy: American conservatism after Trump...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Daniel McCarthy, editor-in-chief of Modern Age. Former editor-in-chief of The American Conservative, his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, The Spectator, The National Interest and Reason. McCarthy also helped run communications for the 2008 Ron Paul campaign and was a senior editor at ISI Books. He earned a Ph.D. in classics from Washington

51:52

Brian Chau: welcoming the AI-age and DeepSeek

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/28

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Brian Chau, who writes at the From the New World Substack. A graduate of the University of Waterloo and former software engineer with a background in pure mathematics, today Chau is executive director of the Alliance for the Future, a think tank that believes artificial intelligence will transform our world for the better.Chau addresses the great “doomer vs. anti-doomer” debate, and argues for an anti-catastrosophist position. He also makes the

19:59

Tade Souaiaia: the edge of statistical genetics, race...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Tade Souaiaia, a statistical geneticist at SUNY Downstate about his new preprint, Striking Departures from Polygenic Architecture in the Tails of Complex Traits. Souaiaia trained as a computational biologist at USC, but also has a background as a division I track and field athlete.Razib and Souaiaia discuss what “genetic architecture” means, and consider what we're

30:11

Shadi Hamid: pessimism on Palestine but hope in America

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks with Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid. A native Pennsylvanian of Egyptian ethnic background, and Islamic faith, Hamid completed his Ph.D. in politics at Oxford University. He is an assistant professor at Fuller Seminary, co-host of the Wisdom of Crowds podcast and website, and now the author of his own Substack and a recent book, The Problem of Democracy: America,

30:02

Conn Carroll: Sex and the Citizen

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Conn Carroll, the author of Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy. Caroll is currently an editor for the Washington Examiner, but previously he was the communications director for Senator Mike Lee of Utah, an assistant director at the Heritage Foundation, White House correspondent for Townhall.com and a reporter at National Journal

22:52

Antonio Regalado: CRISPR babies 6 years later

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comSpecial note - 2025 Early Bird sale going nowLock in a lifetime low annual rate on Unsupervised Learning. Through 11:59pm, January 2 (CST), $50/year. January 3: $55/year. January 4: $60/year. Regular price is $79/year. This is one of only two annual discounts I offer. Thank you for supporting in-depth science writing!Feel free to add more in the comments.Today Razib talks to Antonio Regalado, reporter at MIT Technology

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