What’s the Return on ROI? The 213th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
In this 213th 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 sex, gender, and plants. First up: sex is binary, gender is downstream of sex, and rare Disorders of Sexual Development do not put the lie to the sex binary. Then: Duke University is deep-sixing its world class herbarium. We discuss the value of natural history museums, and of libraries, and defend the liberal arts and sciences as fundamental not just to human inquiry, but to human flourishing.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Colin Wright on Eric Weinstein’s appearance on Modern Wisdom: https://x.com/SwipeWright/status/1759718664369050058
Me, She, He, They: Reality vs Identity in the 21st Century (Heather on sex and gender):https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/meshehethey
Duke plans to close its Herbarium, “A tragic mistake”: https://www.science.org/content/article/tragic-mistake-decision-close-duke-university-s-herbarium-triggers-furor
Herman, S.G., 2002. Wildlife biology and natural history: time for a reunion. The Journal of wildlife management66(4): 933-946. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3802927
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast, live stream number 213. |
| 0:11.9 | I am Dr. Brett Weinstein, You are Dr Heather Hying and yet again |
| 0:16.1 | there's stuff that needs discussing. Yeah we're gonna talk about sex and |
| 0:20.8 | gender, plants, politeness. |
| 0:24.0 | Plants. |
| 0:25.0 | Wow, all right. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, now I can see a synergy there. |
| 0:29.0 | In that order, I think. |
| 0:30.0 | And the relationship between the three undoubtedly. I don't know about that. Maybe. All right. |
| 0:36.0 | That's how I just not it's not how I see it but you never know what will happen. |
| 0:40.2 | Emergence happens. We embrace our own deputy here in our course. Yep. So we sure do. So, but only after asking its consent. No, we don't. |
| 0:50.0 | All right, that was a bridge too far and I recognize it. Wow that was quite a look. |
| 1:02.0 | Okay, hey come join us on rumble. That was quite a look. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, hey, come join us on rumble and subscribe to our channel here and please consider becoming a local supporter. Right now we've got the watch party going on there. |
| 1:13.3 | We did two Q&As on locals this past week, |
| 1:16.9 | including our monthly private Q&A |
| 1:18.6 | that we've been doing since almost the beginning of Dark Horse, |
| 1:20.8 | which we've moved to locals. We don't do any public |
| 1:23.5 | Q&As anymore. They're all on locals and a lot of fun. Obviously there's been |
| 1:27.5 | a lot of great stuff on locals this last month with conversations that you |
| 1:31.8 | had with Chris Martinson and with Michael Yawn during your trip to Panama, |
| 1:37.8 | including the Darien and the Panama Canal in January, and there's lots more great stuff coming up so please join become |
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