Original Syndrome: The 218th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
In this 218th 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 plants, a lot, in service of understanding what a “syndrome” is, and why it matters. This is not mere semantics, but if you feel that it is, focus on the tropical forests instead! There are plenty of bats to go around. What can you predict about the pollinators of flowers that are bright and showy and have no smell? How about those that are white and have a musty smell? What can you predict about jungle trees that grow fast and die young? How does such predictive power and pattern recognition relate to how to make sense of the world in which you live? Also: update from Panama: the San Vicente Camp is now closed, and a fire has apparently destroyed all of its records. Curious, that.
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Mentioned in this episode:
San Vicente Camp in Panama destroyed: https://apnews.com/article/panama-migrants-darien-colombia-disturbance-6d45b7fc7f581ad0c0a8bcff7247b9bf
Introduction to Antipode: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/antipode-introduction
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream number 200 it's at 18 it is |
| 0:14.0 | 218 I'm Dr Brett Weinstein you are Dr Heather Hying history is hurtling along it |
| 0:21.4 | doesn't feel like history when it's happening, but then it becomes that very quickly thereafter. |
| 0:26.0 | We have a rather shocking new situation. |
| 0:31.0 | Bobby Kennedy has named Nicole Shannon. |
| 0:36.5 | Shannon. |
| 0:37.5 | Shanahan, excuse me, as his VP pick. |
| 0:41.7 | And this creates an interesting predicament because she is not well known |
| 0:45.8 | Which means that we have a long shot who has now named a wild card who that's an interesting move for him to have made but I would say it is made |
| 0:57.5 | even more interesting by the fact that he is running against two non-starters so I think the long shot is a shoe in. |
| 1:05.4 | That was a lot of metaphors. It was a lot of metaphors. That's quite right, but I think we need them all. I think we're not going to... |
| 1:13.4 | Not all the non-starters. |
| 1:14.6 | All those metaphors I think are necessary to describe this. |
| 1:19.3 | I didn't tell you, but I had a literal rude awakening this morning. |
| 1:25.0 | I awakened to a text message from a phone number that is not known to me |
| 1:32.0 | and it said simply get a haircut with an |
| 1:36.2 | emoji with a picture of like a white guy getting a haircut from a barber who is not |
| 1:42.2 | rendered in the emoji but in any case I found |
| 1:45.2 | that spooky so you joke but really everyone including you should turn off your notifications. |
| 1:54.0 | Well that's certainly true. |
| 1:57.0 | Yes. |
| 1:58.0 | Yeah, I'm my perspective especially you. |
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