Razib Khan

1 week ago | razibkhan.com | Razib Khan

Your time is finite. Your phone and the internet stand ready to help you squander it. Here are my latest picks for spending it well instead. Feel free to add more in the comments. Anthropology sometimes gets a bad rap from non-anthropologists in the US because postmodernist, post-scientific cultural theorists dominate the field’s public image. But genuinely interesting work is still out there if you know where to look. Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning is a reader-supported publication.

1 week ago | razibkhan.com | Razib Khan

For 2025, I’m trying out a new occasional feature for paying subscribers, the Unsupervised Learning Journal Club: I’ll offer a brisk review and consideration of an interesting paper in human population genomics. In the spirit of a conventional journal club, at the end of each post, interested subscribers can vote on next papers to review. I’m open both to covering the latest papers/preprints and reflecting back on seminal publications from across these first decades of the genomic era.

2 weeks ago | razibkhan.com | Razib Khan |Steve Hsu

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -15:05Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. 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 economic, military and political rival to the US.

2 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Razib Khan

Ceterum (autem) censeo Carthaginem esse delendam, "Furthermore, I think that Carthage must be destroyed.” This was the parting phrase with which Cato the Elder consistently concluded his speeches to the Roman Senate in the mid-2nd-century BC lead-up to the Third Punic War.

3 weeks ago | razibkhan.com | Razib Khan

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