Razib Khan

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

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Razib Khan

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Jul 10, 2026

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Michael Muthukrishna: A Theory of Everyone - The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going 26.10.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid . Check them out at orchidhealth.com . On this episode of Unsupervised Learning , Razib talks to Michael Muthukrishna...

Peter Nimitz: the end of the first civilizations 4,300 years ago 19.10.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid . Check them out at orchidhealth.com . On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Peter Nimitz about wha...

IBW Episode #3: The Israel-Palestine conflict 14.10.2023

For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid . Check them out at orchidhealth.com . On the third episode of the Intellectual Brown Web (IBW) Razib , Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell (and her own Substack ), Shadi Hamid of The Washingon...

Gregory Clark: what has genetics to do with social status? 05.10.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid . Check them out at orchidhealth.com . On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes back Gregory Clark , a...

Sundar Iyer & Sudha Jagannathan: the accused speaks the truth about caste and the "Cisco Case" 03.10.2023

For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid . Check them out at orchidhealth.com . Related: The Indian caste system: origin, impact and future , The character of caste and Passing the civilizational purity test: India's 3000-year caste strai...

John Logsdon: what has genomics done for evolution? 28.09.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid . Check them out at orchidhealth.com . We’re about a generation into the “age of genomics,” or as it’s sometimes term...

Christopher Rufo - America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. 21.09.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid . Check them out at orchidhealth.com . Yesterday , Razib discussed Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke: Civil Right...

Richard Hanania: The Origins of Woke - Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics 20.09.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid . Check them out at orchidhealth.com . In September 2023, Harper Collins published Richard Hanania’s The Origins of W...

The Indian caste system: origin, impact and future 14.09.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com In the US, roughly 1 in 33 infants are born with a congenital disability, about 25 % of which have an identified genetic cause. For the first time ,, parents can use Orchid’s whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for these genetic variants and mitigate their baby’s disease risk. Check out orchidhealth.com , a...

David Anthony: when we were Yamnaya 06.09.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com 1 in 36 children in the US have Autism Spectrum Disorder, but did you know that 20-30% have a known genetic cause for their condition? Read more about how, for the first time, parents can use Orchid’s whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for these genetic variations, and mitigate their baby’s risk of disease...

Erik Hoel: The World Behind the World 31.08.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com 1 in 36 children in the US have an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis, but did you know that 20-30% have a known genetic cause for their condition? Read more how, for the first time, parents can use Orchid’s whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for these genetic variations, and mitigate their baby’s risk of...

Katherine Dee: Is Twitter just our default? 24.08.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib talks to internet commentator formerly known as default friend who is perhaps better known today as the internet culture writer Katherine Dee . Dee is a regular contributor to Retvrn , The Washington Examiner , The American Mind , Tablet Magazine and UnHerd ....

Cory Clark: adversarial collaborations in science 09.08.2023

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 Dr. Cory J. Clark , a behavioral scientist and executive director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project at the University of Pennsylvania. Clark got her Ph. D. in social psychology at UC Irvine, but her interests have broadened over her career as is clear in a...

Alex S. Young and James J. Lee: quantitative genetics in 2023 03.08.2023

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks with Alex Young of UCLA and James Lee of the University of Minnesota about quantitative genetics and its relationship to complex traits and the genomic revolution. Young, trained as a mathematician, and Lee, trained as a psychologist, have both converged upon researc...

Renu Mukherjee: affirmative action's end 29.06.2023

Today the Supreme Court ended affirmative action when it comes to university admissions as we know it. Anticipating this decision, Razib recorded a conversation with Renu Mukherjee a few months back. But today they also added a timely prologue reflecting on the decision, which shook out exactly as she expected (also see her report, Friends of the Court? Advocacy Groups as Amici in Students for Fai...

Russia invades Ukraine and ends globalization? 14.03.2022

Life comes at you fast. Sometimes faster than others. Given the events that have upended assumptions about international relations, shaken the financial system and riveted the world since Razib pre-recorded this week’s paid-subscriber podcast with Samo Burja , founder of political risk consultancy Bismarck Analysis , we recorded a bonus mini-episode for all subscribers. On this extra episode of Un...

Rav Arora: psychedelics and spirituality 25.01.2022

Rav Arora came to public prominence in 2020 with a column for The New York Post provocatively titled “ The Fallacy of White Privilege .” He suffered personal and professional blowback, but today the 20-year-old Canadian undergraduate has a semi-regular column in The New York Post , and is interviewed by the likes of Glenn Loury . Arora’s fearlessness in expressing his opinions on a wide range of t...

David Sloan Wilson and Charles C. Mann on E. O. Wilson's legacy 11.01.2022

The day after Christmas 2021, the great entomologist and evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson died at the age of 92. Carl Zimmer in The New York Times wrote an obituary that highlighted his seminal early contributions to science, as well as his role as a public intellectual after the publication of 1975’s Sociobiology . Wilson also wrote an autobiography, Naturalist , telling the story of his life...

Trent Colbert: standing athwart the mob 26.10.2021

This is a “bonus episode” of the Unsupervised Learning Podcast . Due to the time-sensitivity of the discussion, I am posting this simultaneously to Substack and Libsyn , so both free and paid subscribers are receiving this email. Your regularly scheduled weekly subscribers-only podcast will still be released this Thursday. Recently Yale Law School (YLS) student Trent Colbert wrote Why I Didn’t Apo...

Patrick Wyman: Luther, Columbus and Gutenberg 20.07.2021

Today on this bonus episode of Unsupervised Learning I’m excited to talk to Patrick Wyman about his new book, The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World . Full disclosure, I enjoyed The Verge , and a review will be posted from me on National Review Online within the next week. Wyman is the host of Tides of History , a podcast about history and assorted topics which I...

Dragon Man ascending: two geneticists discuss the latest paleoanthropological discoveries 01.07.2021

Last week two new hominin fossils were published in the scientific literature , and extensively reported on in the media . “Dragon Man”, discovered in Harbin, China , and dating to 140,000 years ago is claimed to be a new species that is the closest to the modern human lineage. Meanwhile, the hominin discovered at Nesha Ramla in Israel dates to 120,000-140,000 years ago, and it seems most similar...

Richard Hanania: Israel, "wokeness" is just civil rights, and the Chinese century 19.06.2021

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...

Texpocalypse Now: a postmortem 19.02.2021

I will be posting my usual weekly subscribers -only podcast with Cathy Young on the French Revolution soon. The French Revolution is a current passion of Cathy’s (well, the topic, not revolution!).  But since today is not the most “usual” Friday (I for one am just over 24 hours into regaining electricity), I’ve also thrown together a free series of conversations with friends who have a range of re...

American Civil War? Richard Hanania thinks it unlikely 13.01.2021

For this episode of Unsupervised Learning, I talked to Richard Hanania of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology . Normally my goal is to record podcasts that aren’t particularly time-sensitive (e.g., my conversation last weekend with Alina Chan about the possibility of “lab leak” of SARS-Cov-2 will be fresh for months, as will my chat with Armand Leroi about race, eugenics, and Ari...

Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 6, Chris Stringer: the state of paleoanthropology in the 2010's 31.12.2020

I'm counting down to the new year here by re-releasing favorite past episodes from the archives of my other podcast homes each day until 2021. Hope you'll discover a memorable voice or two you might have missed before. These episodes are free for all; next on the docket are new episodes for paying subscribers only, including conversations with  Armand Leroi  and  Alina Chan . My conversation with...

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