Have the parties flipped? The 248th 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

🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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In this 248th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.In this week’s episode, we begin and end by geeking out on biology: why there tend to be so many molecules in organisms that humans find useful (see: turmeric and ginger), why you can’t be both the fastest and the most agile anything, and new research that finds that some Atlantic fish with leg-like appendages can taste ...

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0:00.0	Hey folks welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast special Saturday live stream I believe even without looking it up it is our 248th is that right that's right
0:16.5	248th not remotely a prime I am dr. Brett Weinstein you are dr Heather Hying and the world is moving almost too fast to keep up.
0:26.2	Yes, as you say often and I hope that it stops being true.
0:30.3	Yes.
0:32.3	Yeah, I was going to say I'm ready for it to be over. I'm not ready for the world to be over at all.
0:36.6	But I am ready for some resolution on some things. Whatever is going to happen I would like to happen.
0:41.2	And whoever's living upstairs and however many feet they have,
0:45.5	could they just drop all the shoes and let us get other things.
0:50.2	The other closet full of shoes. We currently are living downstairs of millipedes, all of us.
0:55.0	Oh man, downstairs of millipedes.
0:56.8	That is not going to translate.
0:57.8	Downstairs of shoe-wearing millipedes.
0:59.8	Shoe-wearing millipedes.
1:01.8	Exactly. Yes, well, noedes all the way down.
1:02.8	Yes, well no all the way up because if they were downstairs you wouldn't hear
1:05.8	I'm dropping.
1:06.8	Yep, we have now botched this metaphor something fierce but I don't think so.
1:10.2	Okay.
1:11.2	Well in any case lots of shoes yet to drop but it would be great if we got it out of the way.
1:15.6	Yeah, so we've got a watch party going on locals. Please join us there. We also have our monthly private Q&A on locals tomorrow, Sunday, October, that'll be 20th,
1:27.8	from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific. Please join us there. These Q&As are great, they're fun, and especially with the Sunday ones,
1:35.0	two hour ones, we make sure to look at the chat and so I was going to respond to things going on in the chat.
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