Joe Henrich and Cosimo Posth: the weirdest people in the world and the genetics of Ice Age Europe β’ Cultural evolution and ancient DNA
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Joe Henrich and Cosimo Posth: the weirdest people in the world and the genetics of Ice Age Europe β’ Cultural evolution and ancient DNA
04.02.2026 11:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Peter Nimitz: the story of the Slavs β’ The archaeology, genetics and history of the Slavic peoples
30.01.2026 15:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jesse Arm: Gen Z Republicans and their views β’ Demystifying the next generation of Republican voters
23.01.2026 15:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Davide Piffer: how Europeans became white β’ Talking about ancient DNA and polygenic predictions
16.01.2026 03:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Aneil Mallavarapu: why machine intelligence will never be conscious β’ A systems biologist explains how intelligence and consciousness differ
09.01.2026 16:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Richard Hanania: his break with the Right and the rise of kakistocracy β’ Richard Hanania talks about his differences with the American Right in 2025
04.01.2026 17:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Monologue: sex differences, 2 billion years B.P. to now β’ How do biological sex differences impact our society and culture?
02.01.2026 00:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0RKUL: Time Well Spent, 1/1/2026 β’ Modest-resolutions edition
01.01.2026 08:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Monologue: year-end review of Proto-Indo-European origins and humanity's deep evolution and diversity β’ Razib tackles two big stories in genetics in 2025
29.12.2025 01:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Francis Young: Baltic paganism in modern times β’ Francis Young's new book, Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europeβs Last Pagan Peoples
25.12.2025 09:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Eric Cline: Love, War and Diplomacy, international relations in the Bronze Age β’ The legacy of the Amarna Letters
17.12.2025 05:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Antiquityβs miracle skin whitening method: migrate to Sweden, wait millennia β’ Journal Club #11: the DNA of ancient pigmentation and the drive to pallor
15.12.2025 22:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0RKUL: Time Well Spent, 12/13/2025 β’ Christmas Edition
13.12.2025 06:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Shadi Hamid: American power and the post-woke age β’ Political scientist and Washington Post op-ed writer Hamid talks about his new book
12.12.2025 15:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Waiting Game: Past, Present and Future of Indian Genomics β’ Wringing every drop of insight from modern samples, awaiting ancient ones
11.12.2025 23:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Vishal Ganesan and Anang Mittal: American Hinduism out of Indian Hinduism β’ The future of Indian Americans and their religious beliefs and practices
05.12.2025 02:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Two Steppes forward, one step back: parsing our Indo-European past β’ Ancient DNA closing the book on centuries of speculation and debate
03.12.2025 06:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0John Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my! β’ Two paleoanthropologists talk about the state of the field
29.11.2025 13:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0RKUL: Time Well Spent, 11/27/2025 β’ Gratitude edition
28.11.2025 03:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The cave where it happened: Denisova cavernβs congress of ancient peoples β’ A second high-coverage Denisovan genome holds a mirror up to our own lineage
27.11.2025 17:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sean Trende: 2025 elections and political demographics, past and future β’ Political pundit and scientist Sean Trende
21.11.2025 06:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Alex Young: IQ, disease and statistical genomics β’ A statistical geneticist discusses the controversies and advances in his field
14.11.2025 05:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Zineb Riboua: Zohran Mamdani and Third-Worldism ascendent β’ The return of the repressed
07.11.2025 04:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ghost Population in the Machine: AI finds Out-of-Africa plot twists in Papuan DNA β’ Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #9
05.11.2025 03:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ed West: visitor from a dying empire β’ A British journalist talks about the political scene in the United Kingdom
01.11.2025 16:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Noah Smith: Japanese and American politics β’ An econblogger on trans-Pacific relations in 2025
25.10.2025 04:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Coltan Scrivner: the evolution and psychology of horror β’ Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away
17.10.2025 13:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0RKUL: Time Well Spent, 10/10/2025 β’ Autumn chill edition
10.10.2025 23:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0