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DarkHorse Podcast

Babies by Design: The 280th 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

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Today we discuss hummingbirds, baby making, longevity hacking, and Jeffrey Epstein, before finishing up with a short discussion of the riots in LA. A new company is promising future parents that they will be able to create long-lived babies—what could go wrong? Also, how likely are they to be able to make good on their promises? We discuss, as always, with an evolutionary lens. Also: what a great business model! And: it is easier to fix something that is broken than it is to improve something...

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0:00.0

Hey, folks, welcome to the 280th Dark Horse Live Stream podcast.

0:14.1

So many words.

0:14.9

I can tell you have all in the right order.

0:16.3

I've corrected me.

0:16.8

I got the number, right?

0:17.6

I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein.

0:18.9

You were Dr. Heather Heying.

0:22.8

It is late spring. It's very hot here, I will the number right. I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You were Dr. Heather Heying. It is late spring.

0:27.6

It's very hot here, I will say, already. Although, when I check to see what temperature,

0:31.6

it actually thinks it is, it doesn't read as hot. But it feels very hot, which may just be that we've become weak living in a cooler climate. No, something is wrong with our measures.

0:38.5

I feel certain, at least with the is wrong with our measures. I feel certain.

0:44.4

At least with the app's representation of measures because it has been, you know,

0:50.1

startlingly hot, like August levels of hot for here in early June, early mid-June.

0:53.6

And, you know, we're told that the high was 64.

0:56.2

Like, no, that did not happen.

0:57.4

Yeah, it felt like 80.

0:57.8

Yeah.

0:59.5

No, and I think it did hit.

1:03.6

I think it is understood to have hit into the mid-80s places on the island. But somehow there's either inconsistency in really the technology or the way that we are measuring things, or as we've talked about before,

1:12.4

there is something well beyond temperature that is relevant to our experience of heat.

1:17.7

And the sun going full wonk on everything right now may be related to that.

1:24.1

May impinge because conduction, conduction, all the various different kinds of heat

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