#181: The Slow Creep of Institutional Entropy (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

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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In this 181st 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.

In this episode we discuss higher ed—its goals and freedoms, how it is failing, what can be done to fix it. We discuss a thought experiment regarding the Special Olympics. We discuss new research on sex differences in certain kinds of cancers, and the reporting on it. And we talk a bit about hummingbirds.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Justice Frankfurter’s 1957 concurring opinion in Sweezy v New Hampshire: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep354/usrep354234/usrep354234.pdf

The Special Olympics: https://www.specialolympics.org

Nature News, June 21, 2023: How the Y chromosome makes some cancers more deadly for men: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01987-x

Weinstein and Ciszek 2002. The reserve-capacity hypothesis: evolutionary origins and modern implications of the trade-off between tumor-suppression and tissue-repair. Experimental gerontology 37(5):615-627.http://176.9.41.242/doc/longevity/2002-weinstein.pdf

LePage et al 2013. Genomic Imprinting Effects of the X Chromosome on Brain Morphology. Journal of Neuroscience 33(19): 8567-8574. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/19/8567

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number one eighty one. I am Dr.
0:14.0	Brett Weinstein. This is Dr. Heather Heing. It is July 5th, 2023. It is. Yeah, it is a it's the day after
0:22.3	Independence Day. I must say Independence Day has become a rather poignant event for those of us
0:29.7	who are concerned about this marvelous nation of ours. Yeah, I feel more explicitly patriotic
0:36.5	than I recall feeling before. Yeah, it's interesting. I don't I don't feel a difference in the patriotism
0:43.2	but I feel a difference in the urgency which maybe that's a distinction without a difference.
0:47.6	No, I get it. I think I understand. I think I think even though we did a lot of international
0:57.3	traveling early in our 20s and our 30s and it was in those travels that I came to understand
1:06.0	how much value there was in our home country and and how much we had going on even while there
1:12.5	were flaws. I think that in combination with what you are identifying as an urgency a sense of,
1:20.4	wow, this may actually this may actually be its serious risk due to many people's failure to
1:26.6	recognize what it is that we have has as a cause it to feel at this point like it's like we all
1:34.8	need to find our patriotism honestly. Yeah, yeah, I've been having many conversations with people
1:42.0	that we know and I think this is a a dawning collective realization about about the moment we
1:48.6	live in and I think about the back of the jeopardy is even it's well beyond the Republic. Yes,
1:55.6	obviously a global phenomenon. It is obviously a political jeopardy in the sense that authoritarianism
2:03.1	seems to be taking root. Lots of progressive belief structures seem to be returning with
2:08.8	evensions and I think also across the board people are also recognizing that the structures that
2:17.7	drive the world biotically are not healthy. Yeah, there is there is no shortage of jeopardy.
2:24.8	There is no shortage of jeopardy. Yes, unfortunately that is true. Okay, let's get to just top
2:31.7	the Aralogistic stuff before launching in. This is Lifetime 181 as you said, second half of the
2:38.3	twin prime with 179. Yeah, no, you couldn't do it. Twin prime are primes that are only one digit
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