Science Friction: The 226th 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

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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In this 226th 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 episode, we discuss a new breakthrough in plant genetics: polyploid potatoes and corn from Ohalo Genetics, which are claimed to double the harvest from individual plants. Beginning with a discussion of naturally occurring polyploidy in other species, including frogs, we analyze the discussion of Ohalo’s new produ...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream number 226. It's 226. It's 226. It's 226 here in the end of May. The end of
0:18.6	May. End of May. The end of May. The end of May. I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are
0:22.1	Dr Heather Hying and we are gonna we're gonna confront
0:26.3	some biology and some science today. Yep we sure are. Please join us on locals if you have not yet.
0:36.0	We have a watch party going on there right now and watch on rumble or YouTube or Spotify or listen anywhere that you feel like listening.
0:46.2	We ought to call it a gold watch party, I think.
0:52.2	Why? It just seems fancier and more expensive.
0:55.0	Oh, and that those those are two values that we definitely have.
0:59.0	Oh man, if this is not a
1:00.0	only show more fancy. What is? is yeah we're both barefoot right I
1:05.0	certainly am my my wool socks have pills on them so not that fancy at least at
1:11.0	sock level. Yeah, yeah.
1:14.0	Okay, yes, please join us on locals.
1:16.0	We got lots of great stuff going on there,
1:18.0	including Access to the Discord server and all of our Q&As.
1:20.0	And in fact, we're going to spend a lot of time talking today about a story that we first became aware of in the
1:26.4	Q&A that we did, the private Q&A that we did this last Sunday, which is available to everyone.
1:30.8	You don't have to have watched it in real time, but this is, it's increasingly
1:35.2	part of how we are learning about some things that we need to know about in the world and we hope that you
1:41.0	feel that you need to know about as well.
1:44.4	Without further ado we have as usual three sponsors right at the top of the hour.
1:48.3	What is you looking at like that for?
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