Human Growth Plants and Zen and the Art of Lying

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In an effort to combat global hunger, scientists are attempting to create crops with a higher yield without enlarging their footprint. Researchers have even transferred a human protein into plants to supersize them, with results that are surprising even them. Jeff and Anthony discuss this bizarre and promising method and what it might mean for the world. Then, how do we know when someone is lying? A new study shows that our instincts for determining the honesty in other might be completely skewed. Anthony and Jeff lie to each other to find out.

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0:00.0	I'm not a good guy.
0:07.0	I'm not a good guy.
0:14.2	Angers meet deeply and I refuse to talk about it anymore.
0:17.4	This is we have concern.
0:18.4	Ty Jeff Canada.
0:19.4	Hi Anthony Cardbone.
0:20.7	Hello concerned citizens.
0:22.2	Oh Anthony, I want to talk a little bit about World Hunger.
0:27.3	It is a very complicated problem.
0:29.9	Is it?
0:30.9	Yeah, it turns out.
0:31.9	Or is it just capitalism and protectionist and nationalist sort of interests?
0:42.7	Well, it does the world not have enough abundance for everyone is what I'm asking.
0:46.9	It's simplistic in its source perhaps, but it is complex in its problems.
0:53.4	Right.
0:54.4	Because we are all assholes, true.
0:58.2	But also despite the fact that 9 million people are said to succumb to hunger.
1:06.7	They didn't get that soilent that we sent them.
1:10.0	Yeah.
1:11.0	It's that didn't happen.
1:12.0	I thought soilent was going to solve that.
1:15.7	No, not the soilent is people, right?
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