Was Farming Really a Step Up for Hunter-Gatherers?
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Science journalist and author James Nestor explains how you can breathe better. Then, learn about the secret identity of Bitcoin creator “Satoshi Nakamoto” and whether farming really was a step up for our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Additional resources for James Nestor:
- Pick up "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art" on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3qoXzaL
- James Nestor's website: https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/
- James Nestor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJamesNestor
No One Knows the Identity of Bitcoin's Creator by Cody Gough
- Patron, T. (2014, December). Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? – Diginomics Corporation. Diginomics.com. https://diginomics.com/2014/11/09/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto/
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- Business Insider UK. (2016, June 14). The mysterious creator of bitcoin is sitting on a $700 million fortune - Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/satoshi-nakamoto-owns-one-million-bitcoin-700-price-2016-6
- Satoshi Nakamoto. (2019, November 20). Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Manubot. https://git.dhimmel.com/bitcoin-whitepaper/
- Wallace, B. (2011, November 23). The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin. WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2011/11/mf-bitcoin/
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Was farming really a step up for our hunter-gatherer ancestors? by Cameron Duke
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- Dyble, M., Thorley, J., Page, A. E., Smith, D., & Migliano, A. B. (2019). Engagement in agricultural work is associated with reduced leisure time among Agta hunter-gatherers. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(8), 792–796. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0614-6
- Gallagher, S. (2019, April 21). What Can Hunter-Gatherers Teach Us about Staying Healthy? Duke Global Health Institute. https://globalhealth.duke.edu/news/what-can-hunter-gatherers-teach-us-about-staying-healthy
- O’Grady, C. (2019, May 24). Hunter-gathering seems to have been easier than farming. Ars Technica; Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/adopting-agriculture-means-less-leisure-time-for-women/
- Sahlins, M. (2006). The politics of egalitarianism : theory and practice (J. S. Solway, Ed.; pp. 79–98). Berghahn Books. http://www.vizkult.org/propositions/alineinnature/pdfs/Sahlin-OriginalAffluentSociety-abridged.pdf
- Yuval Noah Harari. (2019). Sapiens. Random House Uk.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:04.8 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff, and I'm Ashley Hamer. Today science journalist |
| 0:09.2 | James Nester is back to help you learn how you can breathe better. |
| 0:13.0 | Then you learn about why it's a big deal that nobody knows who invented Bitcoin |
| 0:18.0 | and why the development of farming may not have been a step up for our hunter-gatherer ancestors. |
| 0:23.6 | But satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:25.6 | Yesterday, James Nester told us why we were breathing all wrong. |
| 0:30.0 | But don't worry, he's back today to tell us how we can breathe better. |
| 0:34.0 | James Nester is a science journalist and author of the book, |
| 0:37.0 | Breath, the new science of a lost art. |
| 0:40.0 | And he says that better breathing starts with something surprisingly simple. |
| 0:44.4 | So the foundation of all of this is breathing awareness. |
| 0:48.9 | That's what it all starts with. |
| 0:50.6 | Whenever you meditate, what's the first thing that you do? You sit quietly in a |
| 0:55.2 | room and focus on your breath. So just maintaining breathing awareness, you're about 50% there and then after that you can start |
| 1:06.2 | really honing this depending on what you need. So what I've focused on instead |
| 1:11.2 | of looking at these individual breathing techniques, there's literally |
| 1:14.6 | thousands of them throughout history and it's completely overwhelming. |
| 1:19.2 | You pick up an old yoga book and there's 400 different breathing techniques with all these crazy names to them. |
| 1:25.0 | So a foundation of healthy breathing is awareness number one. |
| 1:29.1 | Breathe through your nose all the time, okay? |
| 1:31.2 | In and out through your nose all the time. |
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