Archive - Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Manvir Singh: the shamanic roots of all religion

Shamanism's eternal persistence

May 23 •

1:02:56

Noah Carl and Bo Winegard: probing the intellectual darker web

Two academic exiles tell their story

May 16 •

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1:54:10

Nomads to natives: how Bronze-Age Sami newcomers became eternally Nordic

A circum-polar toolkit, a Uralic tongue and hybrid genetics set the Sami apart

May 15 •

Tim Lee: 2025 and the driverless car revolution

AI on the road?

May 9 •

55:32

Bonus monologue: Finland as Germania

Are the proto-Germans from Finland? Are the Finns from Asia?

May 7 •

45:56

RKUL: Time Well Spent 5/05/2025

edición de cinco de mayo

May 5 •

Lost Green Saharans: ancient DNA unearths a new race from a verdant North African interlude

These 7000-year-old humans are neither Eurasian nor sub-Saharan African

May 4 •

Homo with a side of sapiens: the brainy silent partner we co-opted 300,000 years ago

Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #4

May 3 •

Laura Spinney: rise of the proto-Indo-Europeans

The Yamnaya and their scions

May 1 •

1:01:04

April 2025

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