Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNoah Millman: from finance to the culture industry
Season 1 Episode 258
Today Razib talks to Noah Millman. Millman is an American screenwriter and filmmaker, as well as a political columnist and cultural critic based in…
1 year, 2 months ago
Cesar Fortes-Lima: the Fulani out of the Green Sahara
Season 1 Episode 257
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to human geneticist Cesar Fortes-Lima about his paper from earlier this year, Popul…
1 year, 2 months ago
Jack Despain Zhou: in defense of tracking
Season 1 Episode 256
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Jack Despain Zhou, executive director of the Center for Educational Progress (CEP). Despain Z…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nikolai Yakovenko: the $200 million AI engineer
Season 1 Episode 255
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, in the wake of Elon Musk's xAI Grok chatbot turning anti-Semitic following a recent update, Razib catches u…
1 year, 3 months ago
David Van Ofwegen: a peripatetic philosopher across Eurasia's antipodes
Season 1 Episode 254
Today on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to David van Ofwegen, a philosophy teacher based in Thailand. Razib and Ofwegen first met by chance while …
1 year, 3 months ago
Claire Lehmann: after the Intellectual Dark Web
Season 1 Episode 253
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to returning guest Claire Lehmann. Lehmann has an undergraduate degrees in psychology and Englis…
1 year, 3 months ago
Nathan Cofnas: Judaism's group evolutionary strategy and hereditarianism defended
Season 1 Episode 252
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to philosopher of science Nathan Cofnas, whose specialty is biology and ethics. An American, Cof…
1 year, 3 months ago
Steve Hsu: China's inevitable rise and America's confused response
Season 1 Episode 251
Today Razib talks to repeat guest Steve Hsu about China, a topic with so many currently relevant dimensions gIven the PRC's clear emergence as an eco…
1 year, 3 months ago
David Gress: Plato and NATO 25 years later
Season 1 Episode 250
Today Razib talks to David Gress, a Danish historian. The son of an American literary scholar and a Danish writer, he grew up in Denmark, read Class…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ethan Strauss: sports and the end of the culture wars
Season 1 Episode 249
On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib welcomes back Ethan Strauss, a writer who has covered sports and culture for the past dec…
1 year, 3 months ago