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/
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 70 minutes
- Episodes
- 214
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
R. Taylor Raborn: evolutionary genetics, good enough for government work
This week on the Unsupervised Learning podcast, R. Taylor Raborn, a genomicist and associate bioinformatics principal investigator at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBAC…
David Sloan Wilson and Charles C. Mann on E. O. Wilson's legacy
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 w…
Eric Kaufmann: shall the religious still inherit the earth?
This week on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks with Eric Kaufmann, political scientist and demographer, and the author of The Rise and Fall of Anglo-A…
Leighton Woodhouse: from the labor left to the radical center
This week on Unsupervised Learning Razib catches up with Leighton Woodhouse, a documentarian and journalist (with a Substack!), to discuss the rise of…
Xiaotong Yao: a Chinese biologist in America
This week on the Unsupervised Learning podcast Dr. Xiaotong Yao, a computational biologist specializing in cancer research at Cornell’s Weill Institut…
Megan McArdle: Escape from New York
This week on Unsupervised Learning author and Washington Post columnist (and former blogger) Megan McArdle join Razib for a wide-ranging conversation…
Charles C. Mann: 1491 fifteen years later
This week on Unsupervised Learning Charles C. Mann, author of 1491, 1493, and The Wizard and the Prophet joins Razib, to delve into the history of the…
Timothy B Lee: reporting on the intersection between policy and economics
This week on Unsupervised Learning, Razib is joined by Tim Lee, a former columnist at the Washington Post, Ars Technica, and Vox.com, to discuss his n…
Tanner Greer: the American New Right
This week on Unsupervised Learning, researcher, blogger, and essayist Tanner Greer joins Razib to consider the challenges facing conservatism in Ameri…
Eric Berger: SpaceX and Elon Musk
This week on the Unsupervised Learning podcast Razib turns his gaze to space with Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of Lifto…
Carole Hooven: let's talk about testosterone
This week on the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Harvard professor Carole Hooven joins Razib to discuss her new book T: The Story of Testosterone, the …
Alexander Young: everything you want to know about cognitive genomics
This week on the Unsupervised Learning Podcast, Razib gets into the genetics weeds again with Alex Young of the Social Sciences Genetic Association Con…
Joshua Lipson: on Jewish genetic genealogy
This week on the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib is joined by genetic genealogist Josh Lipson for a deep dive into the history and genetics of th…
Trent Colbert: standing athwart the mob
Recently Yale Law School (YLS) student Trent Colbert wrote Why I Didn’t Apologize For That Yale Law School Email: We must end the culture of performat…