23andYou: The 269th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, News, Adaptation, Modernity, Culture, Politics, Science, Evolutionary Biology

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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In this week’s episode, we discuss 23andMe – what does its impending bankruptcy mean for data security, and why did people think their genetic data were secure before the company went into bankruptcy? As we protect existing rights laid out in the Constitution, we also need to innovate new protections in a world with new threats and possibilities. Going back to what was will not be sufficient. Then: Bobby Kennedy Jr. and anti-Semitism; and Columbia University’s response to the Trump administra...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 269.
0:11.5	Now, interestingly, mathematicians are divided over whether or not it is prime.
0:15.7	The good ones all say it is.
0:17.7	And the crackpots don't say anything.
0:20.4	Oh, I guess there are three camps then. Yes,
0:22.2	the crackpots are divided over whether or not it is, it is prime. But I'm going with the,
0:27.7	the actually qualified mathematicians who all agree that it is. I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are
0:33.3	Dr. Heather Hearing, and I should say congratulations. Why is that? We survived another winter.
0:39.5	It's over.
0:40.4	Indeed.
0:40.7	Winter is over.
0:41.6	Spring is here.
0:42.2	We woke up this morning on this beautiful island on which we live, and it felt like spring.
0:47.4	And then the hail began and the thunder and the lightning and the winds.
0:52.6	And, you know, we're back in the thick of whatever
0:54.6	this is.
0:55.6	Yeah, although that's kind of the spring weather, especially early spring weather around
0:59.9	here, is a little unstable.
1:01.3	It's definitely warmer than it's been.
1:03.1	Yeah.
1:04.1	No, and I think, I mean, I think this is actually true in a lot of places that are so-called
1:07.1	temperate, that winter is actually a lot less exciting by and large.
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