Science Friction: The 226th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Adaptation, Society & Culture, Science, Culture, Evolutionary Biology, News, Modernity, Natural Sciences, Politics

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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In this 226th 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 a new breakthrough in plant genetics: polyploid potatoes and corn from Ohalo Genetics, which are claimed to double the harvest from individual plants. Beginning with a discussion of naturally occurring polyploidy in other species, including frogs, we analyze the discussion of Ohalo’s new pro...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast, live stream number 226. It's 226. It's 226. It's 226 here in the end of May. The end of
0:18.6	May. End of May. The end of May. The end of May. I'm Dr. Brett Weinstein. You are
0:22.1	Dr Heather Hying and we are gonna we're gonna confront
0:26.3	some biology and some science today. Yep we sure are. Please join us on locals if you have not yet.
0:36.0	We have a watch party going on there right now and watch on rumble or YouTube or Spotify or listen anywhere that you feel like listening.
0:46.2	We ought to call it a gold watch party, I think.
0:52.2	Why? It just seems fancier and more expensive.
0:55.0	Oh, and that those those are two values that we definitely have.
0:59.0	Oh man, if this is not a
1:00.0	only show more fancy. What is? is yeah we're both barefoot right I
1:05.0	certainly am my my wool socks have pills on them so not that fancy at least at
1:11.0	sock level. Yeah, yeah.
1:14.0	Okay, yes, please join us on locals.
1:16.0	We got lots of great stuff going on there,
1:18.0	including Access to the Discord server and all of our Q&As.
1:20.0	And in fact, we're going to spend a lot of time talking today about a story that we first became aware of in the
1:26.4	Q&A that we did, the private Q&A that we did this last Sunday, which is available to everyone.
1:30.8	You don't have to have watched it in real time, but this is, it's increasingly
1:35.2	part of how we are learning about some things that we need to know about in the world and we hope that you
1:41.0	feel that you need to know about as well.
1:44.4	Without further ado we have as usual three sponsors right at the top of the hour.
1:48.3	What is you looking at like that for?
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