Mad Scientists: The 273rd 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

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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The middle ground scramble continues. Elites redefine their positions as if they had it right all along, and explain why they definitely need to be in charge of more stuff. We have been waiting for the reckoning; instead we are getting the anti-reckoning. Herein: how science isn’t done, why the scientific method is for everyone, and evidence that most who consider themselves elite don’t understand science. Also: the UK is moving forward with plans to dim the sun, because apparently we learned...

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0:00.0	Hey, folks.
0:05.3	Welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 273.
0:11.3	That is not a perfect square.
0:13.4	I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:14.6	But is it prime?
0:16.0	That's an interesting question.
0:18.4	I'm going to say no.
0:19.6	Yeah.
0:20.2	That's a no.
0:22.9	Statistically speaking, that was highly likely to be the correct answer. Three. Two. By 91. Seven by 39 and 13 by 21. Those are its factors. In addition to,
0:32.6	of course, one and 273 itself. So you don't learn something every day, but there are a lot of days on which you do learn something,
0:39.3	and this was one of them.
0:40.6	I don't think so because do you still know those factors?
0:44.8	I didn't say you remember the entire day on which you learn the mice.
0:48.8	I don't think it counts is learning if you hear it and immediately forget it.
0:51.5	That's not learning.
0:52.9	Well, let us just say that this is the perfect opportunities for some industrial strength sophistry in which I could argue that, yes, you did in fact learn it, even if you forgot it within whatever that first period is, that something decides whether it's going to be promoted to slightly longer term memory.
1:08.8	Five nanoseconds?
1:10.3	Something like that. Yeah. Three. You remember three. I nanoseconds. Something like that.
1:11.1	Yeah.
1:11.8	Three.
1:12.4	You remember three.
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