Normalizing Normativity: The 219th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
In this 219th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
In this episode, we discuss evolution and intelligent design, and why the failures of institutions and institutional science during Covid are causing people to question everything that science has concluded. We also discuss motonormativity—aka car brain—both steel manning it as a concept, and critiquing the research that named the phenomenon. Finally: sex chromosomes in cephalopods (octopus and their kin)—older than you think.
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Mentioned in this episode:
“Giving Up Darwin” - Gelernter’s review of Meyers’ book: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/giving-up-darwin/
Motonormativity: critical car theory (at Principled Bicycling): https://substack.com/home/post/p-142960056
Walker et al 2023. Motonormativity: how social norms hide a major public health hazard: https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJENVH.2023.135446?af=R
Oldest known animal sex chromosome evolved in octopuses 380 million years ago: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00637-0
Coffing et al 2024. Cephalopod Sex Determination and its Ancient Evolutionary Origin Revealed by Chromosome-level Assembly of the California Two-Spot Octopus: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.21.581452v2.full.pdf
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, Live Stream Pop Quiz. What number of live stream is it? |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, I know. Do you? Of course I know. I mean, it's my job to know. |
| 0:22.0 | It is your job to know yes what's 2 19 to 19 okay well then that |
| 0:26.8 | makes it very unlikely that the last one was 2 19 as I had recalled it so this is the |
| 0:30.8 | 219th live stream of the Dark Horse Podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | You continue to be Dr Heather Hying. |
| 0:36.9 | I am Dr. Brett Weinstein. |
| 0:38.8 | And, you know, reality is a ridiculous place, but it beats the alternatives yes indeed to |
| 0:45.7 | 19 not prime not prime semi prime I believe what that means uh it has two factors beyond itself and one. Maybe that's not right. We will |
| 0:58.6 | be corrected. Anyway, it does have two factors, believe beyond whether that makes it |
| 1:04.2 | semi prime or not exactly three at 73 three three and 73 yeah I did not see |
| 1:09.7 | 73 coming but of course three sure it had to have a pair didn't it all right well |
| 1:15.6 | so come join us on rumble and please consider supporting us on locals we got got the watch party going on there right now. |
| 1:25.2 | We did a fun Q&A there this weekend. We may actually put a couple little things. |
| 1:29.2 | We got so many good questions. We only got through less than half of them it's pretty |
| 1:34.2 | red I have to say it's also kind of a bargain right yeah it's a very good space |
| 1:39.2 | and it doesn't take that much to be there and anyway I think everybody who participates |
| 1:46.8 | digs it yeah including us so yeah anyway so this week here, not there, but here, |
| 1:54.0 | oh wow, that's happened to my computer, |
| 1:56.0 | we're going to be talking about |
| 1:57.0 | motor normativity and cephalopods and intelligent design. |
| 2:02.0 | So, |
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