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Alex Feinberg: former professional athlete and techie turned trainer
Alex Feinberg is anything but your typical trainer. An economics graduate from Vanderbilt, Feinberg willed himself to become a professional baseball …
3 years, 5 months ago
Adam Mastroianni: a history of experiments in social psychology
Season 1 Episode 128
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Adam Mastroianni, who runs the Experimental History Substack. Mastroianni was the inaugural …
3 years, 5 months ago
David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it
Season 1 Episode 127
This week on Unsupervised Learning, Razib and his guest, David McKay, of the Standing on the Shoulders of Giants podcast (Razib was an early guest), …
3 years, 6 months ago
The modern human conquest of earth
Season 1 Episode 126
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks about the rise of modern humans, from their beginning as just one population among a diverse …
3 years, 6 months ago
Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate 20+ years later
Season 1 Episode 125
Twenty-one years ago, Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature was published. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Blank …
3 years, 6 months ago
David Sloan Wilson: the past and future of multi-level selection theory
Season 1 Episode 124
Dr. David Sloan Wilson is a Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. Co-founder of the Evolution Institut…
3 years, 7 months ago
Introducing the intellectual brown web (IBW)
Season 1 Episode 123
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib hosts three guests, Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell, Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute a…
3 years, 7 months ago
Human pigmentation: the genetics and evolution of human shades
Season 1 Episode 122
This monologue is incomplete, for the complete monologue, checkout: Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning Podcast Substack
Why does human skin color var…
3 years, 7 months ago
Glenn Loury: four decades in economics
Season 1 Episode 121
Today on the podcast Razib talks to Dr. Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University. Loury also has a Substack…
3 years, 7 months ago
Virginia Postrel: from synthetic meat to synthetic fabric
Season 1 Episode 120
On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib talks to Virginia Postrel, the author of The Fabric of Civilization, The Power of Glamour…
3 years, 8 months ago