A Million Little Gods

A Million Little Gods

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A Million Little Gods, hosted by Aaron Gowen and Ben Feddersen at the University of Hamburg, is podcast about being of two—or more—minds about things and being okay with that.

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We’ve reached the heart of the part of our series “Race: Is That a Thing?” devoted to statistics and data. Having laid the groundwork for understanding Bayesian techniques and machine learning—as well as the limits and discontents of those tools—in episodes nine and ten, we turn to how they’ve been used to understand the history and diversity of the human population.

Carl Zimmer, New York Times science journalist and author, and Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Professor of the Philosophy of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, help us unpack just how difficult it is to justify using our cultural inheritance of “race” to talk about our genetic inheritance.

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Recent Episodes

  • Season 2 Episode 11: "Don't Call It Race"

    4 years ago
  • An AMLG Thanksgiving Message

    4 years ago
  • Special Episode - Polling: We're Determined (But Nothing Else Is)

    4 years ago
  • Season 2 - Episode 10: "Ballpark Figures Part II"

    4 years ago
  • Season 2 - Episode 9: "Ballpark Figures Part I"

    4 years ago
  • Season 2 - Episode 8: "The Holy Family in a Pane of Frosted Glass" (encore)

    4 years ago
  • Season 2 - Episode 8: "The Holy Family in a Pane of Frosted Glass"

    6 years ago
  • Season 2 - Ep 7 Footcast Appendix

    6 years ago
  • Season 2 - Episode 7: "Categorical Declarative"

    6 years ago
  • Season 2 - Episode 6: "What the What?"

    6 years ago