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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein: A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century. Frogs, Family, Freedom (#186)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein are evolutionary biologists. They both earned PhDs in Biology from the University of Michigan, where their research on evolution and adaptation earned awards. They've been visiting fellows at Princeton University, before that were professors at the Ever\xadgreen State College for fifteen years. Heather researched the evolution of social systems across a range of organisms, including humans, and my 2002 book, Antipode, is based on experiences in Madagascar studying the sex lives of poison frogs. In 2002, Bret published The Reserve-Capacity Hypothesis, which proposed that the telomeric differences between humans and laboratory mice have led scientists to underestimate the risks new drugs pose to humans in the form of heart disease, liver dysfunction, & related organ failure. They resigned from Evergreen in the wake of 2017 campus riots that focused in part on their opposition to a day of racial segregation and other college "equity" proposals. They cohost weekly livestreams of the DarkHorse podcast. Their new book, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century outlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life. It is a provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes--and what we can do about it. For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our troubles is clear: the accelerat\xading rate of change in the modern world has outstripped the capacity of our brains and bodies to adapt. In this book, Heying & Weinstein draw on decades of their work teaching in college classrooms & explor\xading Earth's most biodiverse ecosystems to confront today's pressing social ills. https://bretweinstein.net/ https://heatherheying.com/ LinkedIn Jobs is the best platform for finding the right candidate to join your business this fall. It’s the largest marketplace for job seekers in the world, and it has great search features so that you can find candidates with any hard or soft skills that you need. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit linkedin.com/impossible to post a job for free. Audible is hands-down my favorite platform for consuming podcasts, fiction and nonfiction books! With an Audible membership, you can download titles and listen offline, anytime, anywhere. The Audible app is free and can be installed on all smartphones and tablets. You can listen across devices without losing your spot. Audible members don’t have to worry about using their credits right away. You can keep your credits for up to a year—and use them to binge on a whole series if you’d like! And if you’re not loving your selection, you can simply swap it for another. Start your free 30-day trial today: Audible.com/impossible or text “impossible” to 500-500 📺 Watch my most popular videos:📺 A New Contender is Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6A6myur--c Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️Listen on audio only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Please contact [email protected] to learn more about sponsoring Into the Impossible. Credits: Produced by Brian Keating and Stuart Volkow Music by Theo Ryan, http://the-omusic.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi guys you're not going to want to miss this episode with Heather Hying and Brett Weinstein

0:05.2

authors of a hunter-gatherer's guide to the 21st century evolution and the

0:10.2

challenges of modern life we got into so much stuff on this

0:14.1

and thrilling,

0:15.1

almost two hour long podcast,

0:17.0

including my questions to them,

0:20.0

my so-called existential questions,

0:22.1

a thrilling three, you want to miss that, please do

0:24.4

subscribe to my newsletter Brian Keating.com if you want to get those.

0:28.0

And otherwise you'll hear fascinating kind of motivation, why do they write this book why now are we as a culture

0:35.1

experiencing senescence this degradation that is often spoken about often in the

0:40.5

context of telomeres which of course Brett made major contributions to, and this

0:46.9

notion of are there cultural or kind of epigenetic Telemirsiers as he corrected my pronunciation. We talked about their so-called

0:56.1

omega principle. We talked about the benefit of abstinence versus indulgence, hyper novelty, how to raise your kids, and of course I actually engaged in some

1:06.5

field work that you'll hear about visiting the famous Madagascar poisonous frog. And lastly, we concluded with kind of some takeaways as to both your audience questions, which I took on my YouTube channel, Dr Brian Keating, if you're listening to this.

1:22.0

And also questions as to what other

1:25.3

civilizations maybe not even earthbound maybe even alien civilizations what would they be

1:29.7

like and many other topics why experiments are good and bad and the kind of notion that the

1:38.0

internet is becoming what the campfire used to provide in ancient history.

1:42.7

So I hope you'll pick up a copy.

1:44.2

Hunter Gathers, God, I listened to it.

1:45.9

It's read by the two of them, quite phenomenal.

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