#142 Constitutional Myopia (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, News, Adaptation, Modernity, Culture, Politics, Science, Evolutionary Biology

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

In this 142nd in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

This week, we discuss how Chile’s newly proposed, and newly rejected, Constitution. Science journals and the media want us to believe that it’s super-sciencey, but a read of the actual document suggests otherwise. We also discuss affirmative action among STEM faculty, and also, why myopia is increasing, and what can be done about it. Hyper-novelty strikes again.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Chilean researchers saddened by vote to reject new constitution, Nature, Sept 7, 2022: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02850-1

Chile proposes new constitution steeped in science, Nature, July 28, 2022: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02069-0

Proposed new political Constitution of the Republic of Chile: https://www.chileconvencion.cl/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Texto-Definitivo-CPR-2022-Tapas.pdf

Covid-19 pandemic: Chile capital locks down despite mass vaccination, BBC, June 11, 2021: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57436861

DeepL Translator: https://www.deepl.com/translator

How we boosted the number of female faculty members at our institution, Nature, Sept 8, 2022: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02829-y

The myopia generation, The Atlantic Monthly, Sept 13, 2022: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/kids-glasses-vision-increased-nearsightedness-myopia/671244/

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(06:00) Sponsors

(13:00) Chilean constitution

(01:07:52) Nature article on boosting women's numbers in faculty

(01:20:27) Atlantic story on myopia

(01:52:25) Wrap up

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream numbers at 141 142.
0:06.2	It's 142 which was literally the last thing you said to you before became one air.
0:10.2	Really? Yeah. Okay, here's the thing. I do listen to you intently for all kinds of reasons.
0:15.7	And then there's moments before the podcast and things like that.
0:19.2	Yes. My mind is to have it. The buffer was full for sure.
0:22.1	The buffer. Thank you for rationalizing on my behalf. I appreciate that.
0:25.9	Yes. That's good stuff. Hello everyone. Here we are. Here we are. Here we are in this in this
0:33.5	makeshift setup where for those of you just listening we've been here before.
0:39.6	It is it's a bit clujy. It's going to remain a bit clujy for a while. We're still waiting on
0:44.4	the fiber optic for our new studio to get to burrow underneath a bunch of stuff and to get to
0:51.4	to the place. So it's going to be a few weeks of cluj. But hopefully it works. A few weeks of cluj.
0:57.5	A few weeks of cluj. Next level cluj. Yeah, next level cluj. Yeah. That's what we're shooting for.
1:03.0	All right. So we got some business. So today we're going to be talking about the
1:10.3	Chilean constitution a little bit and affirmative action for women in STEM and myopia.
1:17.5	Yeah. Europia. I considered all of our opia increasingly. Really? Wow. I tried it. It wasn't great.
1:25.9	It makes no sense at all. It was inexpensive. For you. Fair point. Okay. And here we have our
1:33.1	epic tabby joining us. Her fax is here. We got Madison snoring off screen here. Maddie.
1:40.2	All right. Name for James, even though she's a girl. Yes. And okay. Business. Business. I should
1:46.8	ask in a clap. I shoot everyone out of their seats. No, you don't want nothing. Yeah.
1:51.9	Okay. We follow these livestreams with the Q&A. We haven't for a couple of weeks. But we're
1:55.9	going to do that today unless in less tech problems get away. Please ask your questions. You can
2:00.0	start asking questions now. They've been formulated in their questions for weeks. For weeks. At
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