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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning — 188 episodes

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Brian Chau: noticing with technology + investigative journalism

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Kyle Orton: Muslims before Islam

3

Gabriel Rossman: the late marvelous Dr. Arday and the state of sociology

4

Monologue: Jason Arday, Nathan Cofnas and the wages of DEI

5

Nikolai Yakovenko: the wages of the Hugging Face hack

6

Werner Zagrebbi: Adventures in Forbidden Data

7

Maxwell Meyer: magazines in a digital age

8

Daniel Di Martino: a Latino immigrant on immigration (and Venezuela)

9

Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer: noticing the kakistocracy

10

Jason Scharf: Austin's present and future as Texas' tech hub

11

Destiny (Steven Bonnell II): a liberal in the age of radical progressives and MAGA

12

Joseph Robertson: bringing Reform UK to the top of British politics

13

Zineb Riboua: Rising Tides of the Third World

14

Dan Hess: the end of Asians and humanity going to the retirement home

15

Brianna Wu: the case for liberalism

16

Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou: the last Hellenes and the children of the Yamnaya

17

Nikolai Yakovenko: 4 years into the age of AI

18

Chris Rufo: the California project

19

Gregory Cochran: 15 years after The 10,000 Year Explosion

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Russ Greene: the rise of Total Boomer Luxury Communism

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10,000 years of selection (in Western Eurasia)

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Matthew Schmitz: Christianity as identity, New Atheism and the Texas of Lord Hanuman

23

Megan McArdle: the follies of populism, impending fiscal crisis, and the whirlwind of AI

24

Monologue: Race - genetics, history and sociology

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Monologue: Out-of-Africa is not dead but hybridization lives

26

Chris Bradley: better science for longevity

27

Chris Masterjohn: COVID-19 to mitochondrial health, communicating and applying "the science"

28

Mike White: academia and genomics in the 21st century

29

Aaron Renn: Heartland urbanism and leaving Left Behind behind

30

Daniel Tabin: ancient DNA, the good, bad and ugly

31

Joe Henrich and Cosimo Posth: the weirdest people in the world and the genetics of Ice Age Europe

32

Peter Nimitz: the story of the Slavs

33

Jesse Arm: Gen Z Republicans and their views

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Davide Piffer: how Europeans became white

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Aneil Mallavarapu: why machine intelligence will never be conscious

36

Richard Hanania: his break with the Right and the rise of kakistocracy

37

Monologue: sex differences, 2 billion years B.P. to now

38

Monologue: year-end review of Proto-Indo-European origins and humanity's deep evolution and diversity

39

Francis Young: Baltic paganism in modern times

40

Eric Cline: Love, War and Diplomacy, international relations in the Bronze Age

41

Shadi Hamid: American power and the post-woke age

42

Vishal Ganesan and Anang Mittal: American Hinduism out of Indian Hinduism

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John Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my!

44

Sean Trende: 2025 elections and political demographics, past and future

45

Alex Young: IQ, disease and statistical genomics

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Zineb Riboua: Zohran Mamdani and Third-Worldism ascendent

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Ed West: visitor from a dying empire

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Noah Smith: Japanese and American politics

49

Coltan Scrivner: the evolution and psychology of horror

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Nate Soares: we are doomed (probably)

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Alexander Cortes: broscience, health science and fertility

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Kat Rosenfield: after the vibe shift

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Eric Kaufmann: a cultural revolution in winter

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Ryan P. Williams: the Claremont Institute standing athwart history

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Chad Orzel: the state of physics and academia in 2025

56

Jonathan Anomaly and James Lee: is eugenics in our future?

57

Jason Richwine: immigration moratorium now

58

Alex Nowrasteh: an immigration libertarian in Trump's America

59

John Hawks: varieties of humankind all mixed-up

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Noah Millman: from finance to the culture industry

61

Cesar Fortes-Lima: the Fulani out of the Green Sahara

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Jack Despain Zhou: in defense of tracking

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Nikolai Yakovenko: the $200 million AI engineer

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David Van Ofwegen: a peripatetic philosopher across Eurasia's antipodes

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Claire Lehmann: after the Intellectual Dark Web

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Nathan Cofnas: Judaism's group evolutionary strategy and hereditarianism defended

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Steve Hsu: China's inevitable rise and America's confused response

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David Gress: Plato and NATO 25 years later

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Ethan Strauss: sports and the end of the culture wars

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Manvir Singh: the shamanic roots of all religion

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Noah Carl and Bo Winegard: probing the intellectual darker web

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Tim Lee: 2025 and the driverless car revolution

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Bonus monologue: Finland as Germania

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Laura Spinney: rise of the proto-Indo-Europeans

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Bonus monologue: man the hybrid monster

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John Sailer: a time of troubles in higher education

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Jacob Shell: academia must diversify or die

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Matt Welch: from blog pioneer to podcasting mainstay

79

Bonus monologue: ancient North Africans and the Green Sahara

80

Andrew Song: cooling the planet with technology

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Zineb Riboua: realism in foreign policy in 2025

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Mark Lutter: charter cities and the urban future

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Graeme Wood: Germany's turn to the right

84

Leighton Woodhouse: against the rise of the anti-woke cancel culture and MAGA cultural hegemony

85

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

86

Charles Murray: 50 years on the public scene

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Titus Techera: Post-Modern Conservative in a post-national Europe

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Nathan Lents: Sex, truths and gender wars

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Daniel McCarthy: American conservatism after Trump (and before)

90

Brian Chau: welcoming the AI-age and DeepSeek

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Tade Souaiaia: the edge of statistical genetics, race and sports

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Shadi Hamid: pessimism on Palestine but hope in America

93

Conn Carroll: Sex and the Citizen

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Antonio Regalado: CRISPR babies 6 years later

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Dan Hess: the fertility collapse

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John Hawks: 2024 in Neanderthals, Denisovans and Hobbits

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David Mittelman: pushing the genomic frontier in 2024

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In Search of Indo-Europeans in 2024: of Catacombs and Corded Ware

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Megan McArdle: American food culture, artisanal to industrial

100

Nikolai Yakovenko: the Singularity is not here

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Yascha Mounk: American democracy in 2024

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Anatoly Karlin: Russian nationalism to American globalism

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The Horse: Man's Most Useful Companion

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Crémieux Recueil: US election 2024 analysis

105

Wilfred Reilly: confronting historical myths propagated in schools

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Leighton Woodhouse: chaos and corruption in urban America

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Lyman Stone: a demographer against the birth dearth

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Peachy Keenan: cosmopolitan radical traditionalist

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Jesse Singal: after the replication crisis and into the youth gender medicine debate

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Sam Hammond: I for one welcome our A.I. overlords

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14,000 years of natural selection

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Europe: 40000 BC to 1200 BC

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Misha Saul: the Antipodean Anglosphere

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Rachel Haywire: the edge of the avant-garde

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Halie May: the democratization of genomics

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Inez Stepman: Silicon Valley's post-human world

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Christina Buttons: navigating the gender wars

118

Sarah Haider: activist to podcaster and public intellectual

119

Eliah Overbey: the birth of bioastronautics

120

Aria Babu: pro-natalism in the shadow of empire

121

Louise Perry: overcrowded Britain and the ennui of a post-imperial nation

122

Bryan Ward-Perkins: The material consequences of the fall of Rome

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Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age

124

J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans found?

125

Sean Anthony: the Muhammad of history

126

Chad Niederhuth: genetics in plants, from Mendel to GMOs

127

Jonathan Keeperman: becoming Lomez

128

Ryan Burge: Losing Our Religion

129

Lost civilizations and the promise of new knowledge

130

Akshar Patel: Modi's India in the 21st century

131

Jeremy Carl: The Unprotected Class - How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart

132

The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans

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Eric Cline: After 1177 B.C.

134

John Massey: Chinese dreams through Western eyes

135

Colin Wright: in the trenches of the gender wars

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Kristian Kristiansen: DNA and European prehistory

137

Samo Burja: Palladium Magazine, China, Russia and the future of Eurasia

138

Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia

139

Murtaza Hussain: Gaza and the global left

140

Chris Stringer: human evolution in 2024

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Rob Henderson: foster-kid to Ivy League graduate

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Nick Cassimatis: fear not AI, this too shall pass

143

Zoe Booth and Iona Italia: Quillette's dynamic duo

144

James Miller: the end of world as we know it

145

Wilfred Reilly: a social scientist in the culture wars

146

Erich Schwarz: in the beginning was the worm (C. elegans)

147

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - Who Makes the NBA?: Data-Driven Answers to Basketball's Biggest Questions

148

Alexander: the psychology of dating

149

David Lightbringer: mythopoetic interpretations

150

Cesar Fortes-Lima: the three thousand-year odyssey of the Bantu

151

Katherine Brodsky: After 10/7 in Israel, Europe and the US

152

Cody Moser: the adaptive landscape of cultural evolution

153

Philippe Lemoine: French food and American immigrants

154

Mark Safranski: the 21st-century way of war and the exhaustion of the American Empire

155

Nikolai Yakovenko: OpenAI in chaos, the future of artificial intelligence and effective accelerationism

156

Brent Roberts: let's talk about personality

157

Carl Zha: Chimerica to the Thucydides's Trap

158

Curtis Yarvin: reflections on a life of poetry

159

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

160

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

161

IBW Episode #3: The Israel-Palestine conflict

162

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

163

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

164

John Logsdon: what has genomics done for evolution?

165

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

166

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

167

The Indian caste system: origin, impact and future

168

David Anthony: when we were Yamnaya

169

Erik Hoel: The World Behind the World

170

Katherine Dee: Is Twitter just our default?

171

Cory Clark: adversarial collaborations in science

172

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

173

Renu Mukherjee: affirmative action's end

174

Russia invades Ukraine and ends globalization?

175

Rav Arora: psychedelics and spirituality

176

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

177

Trent Colbert: standing athwart the mob

178

Patrick Wyman: Luther, Columbus and Gutenberg

179

Dragon Man ascending: two geneticists discuss the latest paleoanthropological discoveries

180

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

181

Texpocalypse Now: a postmortem

182

American Civil War? Richard Hanania thinks it unlikely

183

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

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Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 5, Suhag Shukla: Hindus in America

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Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 4, Alexander G. Ioannidis: Native American ancestry in pre-Columbian Polynesia

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Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 3, Thomas Chatterton Williams: beyond black and white

187

Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 2, Vagheesh Narasimhan: Indian genetic history

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Podcast countdown to 2021 - day 1, Shadi Hamid