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Aneil Mallavarapu: why machine intelligence will never be conscious • A systems biologist explains how intelligence and consciousness differ
Aneil Mallavarapu: why machine intelligence will never be conscious
A systems biologist explains how intelligence and consciousness differ
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January 9, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Aneil Mallavarapu: why machine intelligence will never be conscious • A systems biologist explains how intelligence and consciousness differ
Richard Hanania: his break with the Right and the rise of kakistocracy • Richard Hanania talks about his differences with the American Right in 2025
Richard Hanania: his break with the Right and the rise of kakistocracy
Richard Hanania talks about his differences with the American Right in 2025
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January 4, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Richard Hanania: his break with the Right and the rise of kakistocracy • Richard Hanania talks about his differences with the American Right in 2025
Monologue: sex differences, 2 billion years B.P. to now • How do biological sex differences impact our society and culture?
Monologue: sex differences, 2 billion years B.P. to now
How do biological sex differences impact our society and culture?
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January 2, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Monologue: sex differences, 2 billion years B.P. to now • How do biological sex differences impact our society and culture?
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 1/1/2026 • Modest-resolutions edition
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 1/1/2026
Modest-resolutions edition
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January 1, 2026 at 8:33 AM
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 1/1/2026 • Modest-resolutions edition
Monologue: year-end review of Proto-Indo-European origins and humanity's deep evolution and diversity • Razib tackles two big stories in genetics in 2025
Monologue: year-end review of Proto-Indo-European origins and humanity's deep evolution and diversity
Razib tackles two big stories in genetics in 2025
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December 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Monologue: year-end review of Proto-Indo-European origins and humanity's deep evolution and diversity • Razib tackles two big stories in genetics in 2025
Francis Young: Baltic paganism in modern times • Francis Young's new book, Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
Francis Young: Baltic paganism in modern times
Francis Young's new book, Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
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December 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Francis Young: Baltic paganism in modern times • Francis Young's new book, Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
Eric Cline: Love, War and Diplomacy, international relations in the Bronze Age • The legacy of the Amarna Letters
Eric Cline: Love, War and Diplomacy, international relations in the Bronze Age
The legacy of the Amarna Letters
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December 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Eric Cline: Love, War and Diplomacy, international relations in the Bronze Age • The legacy of the Amarna Letters
Antiquity’s miracle skin whitening method: migrate to Sweden, wait millennia • Journal Club #11: the DNA of ancient pigmentation and the drive to pallor
Antiquity’s miracle skin whitening method: migrate to Sweden, wait millennia
Journal Club #11: the DNA of ancient pigmentation and the drive to pallor
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December 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Antiquity’s miracle skin whitening method: migrate to Sweden, wait millennia • Journal Club #11: the DNA of ancient pigmentation and the drive to pallor
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 12/13/2025 • Christmas Edition
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 12/13/2025
Christmas Edition
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December 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 12/13/2025 • Christmas Edition
Shadi Hamid: American power and the post-woke age • Political scientist and Washington Post op-ed writer Hamid talks about his new book
Shadi Hamid: American power and the post-woke age
Political scientist and Washington Post op-ed writer Hamid talks about his new book
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December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Shadi Hamid: American power and the post-woke age • Political scientist and Washington Post op-ed writer Hamid talks about his new book
The Waiting Game: Past, Present and Future of Indian Genomics • Wringing every drop of insight from modern samples, awaiting ancient ones
The Waiting Game: Past, Present and Future of Indian Genomics
Wringing every drop of insight from modern samples, awaiting ancient ones
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December 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The Waiting Game: Past, Present and Future of Indian Genomics • Wringing every drop of insight from modern samples, awaiting ancient ones
Vishal Ganesan and Anang Mittal: American Hinduism out of Indian Hinduism • The future of Indian Americans and their religious beliefs and practices
Vishal Ganesan and Anang Mittal: American Hinduism out of Indian Hinduism
The future of Indian Americans and their religious beliefs and practices
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December 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Vishal Ganesan and Anang Mittal: American Hinduism out of Indian Hinduism • The future of Indian Americans and their religious beliefs and practices
Two Steppes forward, one step back: parsing our Indo-European past • Ancient DNA closing the book on centuries of speculation and debate
Two Steppes forward, one step back: parsing our Indo-European past
Ancient DNA closing the book on centuries of speculation and debate
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December 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Two Steppes forward, one step back: parsing our Indo-European past • Ancient DNA closing the book on centuries of speculation and debate
John Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my! • Two paleoanthropologists talk about the state of the field
John Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my!
Two paleoanthropologists talk about the state of the field
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November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
John Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my! • Two paleoanthropologists talk about the state of the field
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 11/27/2025 • Gratitude edition
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 11/27/2025
Gratitude edition
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November 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 11/27/2025 • Gratitude edition
The cave where it happened: Denisova cavern’s congress of ancient peoples • A second high-coverage Denisovan genome holds a mirror up to our own lineage
The cave where it happened: Denisova cavern’s congress of ancient peoples
A second high-coverage Denisovan genome holds a mirror up to our own lineage
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November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The cave where it happened: Denisova cavern’s congress of ancient peoples • A second high-coverage Denisovan genome holds a mirror up to our own lineage
Sean Trende: 2025 elections and political demographics, past and future • Political pundit and scientist Sean Trende
Sean Trende: 2025 elections and political demographics, past and future
Political pundit and scientist Sean Trende
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November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Sean Trende: 2025 elections and political demographics, past and future • Political pundit and scientist Sean Trende
Alex Young: IQ, disease and statistical genomics • A statistical geneticist discusses the controversies and advances in his field
Alex Young: IQ, disease and statistical genomics
A statistical geneticist discusses the controversies and advances in his field
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November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Alex Young: IQ, disease and statistical genomics • A statistical geneticist discusses the controversies and advances in his field
Zineb Riboua: Zohran Mamdani and Third-Worldism ascendent • The return of the repressed
Zineb Riboua: Zohran Mamdani and Third-Worldism ascendent
The return of the repressed
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November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Zineb Riboua: Zohran Mamdani and Third-Worldism ascendent • The return of the repressed
Ghost Population in the Machine: AI finds Out-of-Africa plot twists in Papuan DNA • Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #9
Ghost Population in the Machine: AI finds Out-of-Africa plot twists in Papuan DNA
Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #9
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November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Ghost Population in the Machine: AI finds Out-of-Africa plot twists in Papuan DNA • Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #9
Ed West: visitor from a dying empire • A British journalist talks about the political scene in the United Kingdom
Ed West: visitor from a dying empire
A British journalist talks about the political scene in the United Kingdom
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November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Ed West: visitor from a dying empire • A British journalist talks about the political scene in the United Kingdom
Noah Smith: Japanese and American politics • An econblogger on trans-Pacific relations in 2025
Noah Smith: Japanese and American politics
An econblogger on trans-Pacific relations in 2025
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November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Noah Smith: Japanese and American politics • An econblogger on trans-Pacific relations in 2025
Coltan Scrivner: the evolution and psychology of horror • Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away
Coltan Scrivner: the evolution and psychology of horror
Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away
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November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Coltan Scrivner: the evolution and psychology of horror • Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 10/10/2025 • Autumn chill edition
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 10/10/2025
Autumn chill edition
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November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
RKUL: Time Well Spent, 10/10/2025 • Autumn chill edition
A Nile shadow 4,500 years long • 2500 BC genome closes old case, poses new questions about prehistory
A Nile shadow 4,500 years long
2500 BC genome closes old case, poses new questions about prehistory
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November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A Nile shadow 4,500 years long • 2500 BC genome closes old case, poses new questions about prehistory