Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning we have a double-feature with Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer . Hanania holds a law degree from the University of Chicago and a PhD in political science from UCLA, and was previously a research fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He foun...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Today Razib talks to Jason Scharf , a biotech investor and podcaster . A native of San Diego, Scharf is an angel investor and startup advisor focused on the intersection of biology, technology, and business, particularly within TechBio and digital health. He has leadership experience in strategy and market intelligence...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Bonus podcast: Also, Razib guests on Steve Hsu’s Manifold podcast , Manifest 2026: Genetic Discoveries, AI, and Academia On this episode, Razib talks to streamer and political commentator Destiny (Steven Bonnell II). Destiny first gained prominence in the late 2000s as a professional player and content creator in the v...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com The UK is now in political turmoil, as Keir Starmer has announced his resignation . The next British election is still three years away, but it is hotly anticipated because Labour is going to faceoff against three parties of the Right: the Tories (also known as the Conservaties), Reform UK and Restore Britain. Reform,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Today 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 Israel...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib has a wide-ranging conversation, again, with Dan Hess, the man behind the More Births account on social media. An engineer with a large family in the DC area, Hess’ essays on topics like Israelis’ high birth rate have gained the attention of X. He has an account that has c...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Brianna Wu . Wu is an American video game developer, programmer, and political activist best known as the co-founder and CEO of the independent game studio Giant Spacekat. Raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, she attended the University of Mississippi to study jour...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to geneticist Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou about two papers, Ancient DNA evidence for the history of the Albanians and Uniparental analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals genetic continuity from the pre-Medieval era . He is an entomologist and evolutionary biologist s...

It’s been a minute since we’ve had Nikolai Yakovenko on the podcast. Yakovenko is a former professional poker player ,and was a research scientist at Google, Twitter and Nvidia. With a decade in computer science , Yakovenko has been at the forefront of the large-language-model revolution that has driven to prominence companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, and an ecosystem that has birthed...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Christopher Rufo . Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. A contributing editor at City Journal , author of the New York Times bestseller America’s Cultural Revolution , and 2025 Bradley Prize recipient, he also serves as a New Col...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning , Razib talks to physicist Gregory Cochran . Cochran is best known for his work in human evolution, often at the intersection of biology, anthropology, and history. Trained in physics, he later turned to population genetics and became widely known through collaborations with res...

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Russ Greene , who promoted the idea of “ Total Boomer Luxury Communism .” Greene currently serves as the Executive Director of the Prime Mover Institute, a public interest organization and think tank he launched to advocate for American energy dominance. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow for the Economy at the Stand Together Trust. In this r...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Despite the preprint being out for two years, Akbari et al.’s Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia publication in Nature this week has resulted in a massive media response. Though Razib has discussed this work before, he thought it would be useful to review it, and put it in context i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Today Razib talks to Matthew Schmitz, a journalist who previously served as an editor at the religious journal First Things . He is the cofounder of the online magazine Compact , alongside Edwin Aponte and Sohrab Ahmari. He currently serves as editor of Compact , religion editor of Washington Post Opinions, and co-host...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to returning guest Megan McArdle. She is the author of The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success and a Washington Post columnist and op-ed board member. McArdle grew up in New York City and attended Riverdale Country School. She obtained an undergra...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode, Razib talks about race, and how to think about this touchy subject. * Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease * The Apportionment of Human Diversity * Human genetic diversity: Lewontin’s fallacy * A Family Tree in Every Gene * How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode Razib talks about where we are when it comes to “Out-of-Africa,” Neanderthal origins and the broader state of understanding the dynamics of Homo evolution. Cited: * Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years ago explains Neandertal origins * Did Levallois tools make Neanderthals human? *...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Today Razib talks to Chris Bradley , a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and Co-Founder of Matter Bio , a company dedicated to preserving genome integrity and addressing the root causes of aging. With a multidisciplinary background spanning neuroscience, cell biology, and computer science, Bradley aims to translate early...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Today, Razib talks to Chris Masterjohn , a nutritional scientist and leading expert in mitochondrial biology who believes hidden energy bottlenecks underlie much of modern disease. After years of work as a professor and researcher, he founded Mitome , the first mitochondrial analysis designed for everyday health, and s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Mike White , a Genetics professor at the Washington University in St. Louis. White has a position at the School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he leads a research team focused on understanding the biophysical architecture of regulatory DNA. He earned a B.A. in m...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Aaron Renn . Renn is a writer , consultant, and urban analyst known for his work on the challenges facing American cities and religious institutions in the 21st century. He is a contributor to The American Reformer and the author of Life in the Negative World , a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Daniel Tabin , a 5th-year Ph. D. student in David Reich’s lab in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. His research focuses on using ancient and modern DNA to answer questions about human history. Tabin completed a degree in Computer Science and Math and M...

Between 2017 and 2020 Razib co-hosted the podcast The Insight . A year ago it went offline, but now the archives are back! On this episode of Unsupervised Learning , Razib re-posts two important episodes from The Insight . First, a conversation with evolutionary anthropologist Joe Henrich about his 2020 book The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particu...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Peter Nimitz about the rise of the Slavs . His Substack, titled Nemets , explores world history through the lenses of archaeology, paleogenetics, and historical processes. His writing focuses on "deep history," such as the Bronze Age Collapse and the migration of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode Razib talks to Jesse Arm , VP of external affairs at the Manhattan Institute. His writing and commentary have appeared in the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , The Atlantic , New York Post , Fox News, City Journal and Jerusalem Post . Arm graduated with honors from the University of Michigan, where...