Unfairness and the West: The 270th 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

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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In this week’s episode, we discuss ridiculous op-eds and letters to the editor in Nature this week, and the concept of fairness. First: gender equity for female scientists in war zones, and for women in mining. Are these laudable goals? Also: is division of labor between the sexes inherently objectionable? How does the concept of homeostasis relate to a body being given pharmaceutical interventions, a society being given equity interventions, or a government being given bureaucratic intervent...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 270.
0:10.4	Indeed.
0:10.9	I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:12.1	You are Dr. Heather Heying.
0:13.3	It is, well, spring is cooking along.
0:16.2	And I have to say, I love it.
0:18.1	It is cooking along.
0:19.1	It is good stuff.
0:20.2	It's wonderful.
0:21.3	We have the return of the Rufus hummingbirds. The Rufus hummingbirds, which have the craziest
0:28.1	vocalization, the most unlikely given a tiny little bird like that.
0:35.8	Well, this is the thing. It just seems way out of
0:38.8	scale for given what we know about the energy expenditures of hummingbirds already. There are
0:44.5	tiny little birds that are doing this like figure eight thing with their wings to stay
0:51.4	along. Uniquely, I think no other bird does that. I think no other bird does that.
0:55.2	We had a student, Wes, who did a study of hovering, did a literature review of hovering
1:01.0	in other species of birds.
1:01.9	And there are some other birds that do some hovering, but I think no one else manages to do
1:05.7	this figure eight thing with their wings.
1:07.9	But anyway, it's super expensive.
1:09.1	They have to be sucking down nectar all day
1:11.4	long. It's amazing they're up here at all. And the Rufus is a migrant. He comes back. He, she,
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