Think Fast: The 252nd 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

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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In this 252nd 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 start with corrections from last livestream, and a bit more about seed oils. Then: dry fasting. What are the cultural and biological precedents for abstaining from all food and drink for hours or days at a time? What religious traditions include dry fasting? Are their health benefits? What are ...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 252, if I am not mistaken.
0:11.8	Not prime, but highly palindromic.
0:14.3	Wow.
0:14.9	Yeah, all right.
0:15.6	Yeah.
0:15.7	Yeah.
0:16.3	I mean, it's not that impressive at three numbers, but, you know, still worth noting.
0:20.5	Perfectly so, though.
0:22.6	Yes. Yeah. Rather exact. I mean, Talandrome kind of has to be perfect. It does. Yeah.
0:27.3	Except for the spaces, which somehow don't count. True. A man, a planet canal, Panama. Yeah.
0:33.4	Spaces are all wrong. Yeah, spaces are all wrong. You are. Oh, I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are Dr. Heather Heying.
0:39.3	We have not really confessions, I guess, to both of us.
0:43.3	So we have confessions to offer today about the, um, the, uh, slight outbreak of
0:50.3	unprofessionleness at the beginning of the last podcast.
0:53.3	Yes.
0:59.5	And in fact, that's likely to be either all or most of what we're going to be talking about today is what we were involved in and the implications, even though there's obviously so
1:07.6	much happening in the world that we could be focusing on, but because this is something very, very real at the moment.
1:15.3	This is where we're going to be spending our time.
1:16.8	We're going to do a Q&A immediately after our live stream, about 15 minutes after, on locals.
1:21.0	Please join us there.
1:21.9	There's a watch party going on there now as well.
1:24.0	We did a Q&A this last Sunday there that's still up.
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