00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:07:58 Welcome
00:08:13 "If school teachers were allowed to make their own curricula, there would be a distribution of quality with some really good and some really bad. If teachers were given a rigid curriculum to follow, it would probably be worse than the best, but better than the worst. Which of these two approaches is more beneficial for society?"
00:19:35 "Hi! None of my friends or family have cut out seed oils. How would you visit them for meals? I have severe digestive issues that force me to bring my own food, and my husband is starting to do the same; he wants to restrict his eating to actual food. Do you know an inoffensive way to avoid people's food-like meals? If we have to be conspicuous, I guess that's a wakeup call for them. Thanks, love you guys!"
00:37:46 "Follow-up on last Q&A on the evolution of crying?
Why do we sometimes cry when laughing?
Thanks, much love to you two!
PS: Bret, please do get your hypotheses out in the world before AI ;-)"
00:44:40 "Is every action you take intended to liberate the quality of existence for you and potentially others? Do all living systems share a fundamental value: existence—the capacity for experience? Could it be that humans share a basic objective: to liberate the quality of existence? Is it achieved in proportion to the quality and constructiveness of every interaction”?
Quality: duration and magnitude of value"
00:47:32 "What is your stance on the situation in Gaza?"
00:49:28 "Presume that around the time our ancestors reached anatomical modernity, they discovered that they suffered intractable and nearly universal motion sickness. (Perhaps by someone finding themselves floating on a log while in a body of water large enough to produce waves/swells.) How might today's world be different if this were the case?"
00:56:44 "I don't know if your glyphosate research has taken you there yet, but years ago I read an article by Stephanie Seneff on glyphosate's effect on collagen. Which made me weary of any pill casing for any medicine or supplement that I consider. I shudder to think of the influence of just that single point of toxicity on the human race given the amount of pills consumed every day.
https://aboutthesky.com/aboutthesky/smallstorm-blog/1140-stephanie-seneff-of-m-i-t-glyphosate-in-collagen"
01:01:38 "Hi Heather and Bret, My daughter just started college and I want to get her a water filter for her dorm room that filters out fluoride. I am wondering if you know what is the very best water filter to get her that will filter out fluoride. Do your boys have a water filter? Do you know if the Berkey filter is the best? She is in a dorm without a kitchen in the building so i am trying to visualize how she is going to fill whatever water filter I get her. She might have to buy jugs of water to fill it with. Thank you so much! And I wish your boys a great second year college!"
01:05:22 "Hi Heather and Bret. Hypothesis: new world plant foods including fruits will be potentially more problematic even for new world natives than old world plant foods including fruits."
01:08:54 "Hi, What are your thoughts about the Terrain theory as an alternative to the germ theory as the cause of disease?"
We have "cartesian blinders being put on us so that we are trying to make sense out of scraps of information and hints." - @bretweinstein
WEINSTEIN: I mean, even if you have your villains who are engaged in the behavior that motivated this war in Iran, even if that's the story, presumably most of the people in the path of these ferocious bombings that he is describing are not deserving of going back to the Stone Age.
In fact, I distinctly remember him telling us that part of what we were up to was liberating the people of Iran from their tyrannical regime.
So if it's the tyrannical regime that justifies the ferocious bombing, then it's a tragedy that other people are going to be sent back to the Stone Ages with them. Right?
HEYING: It's it's not a narrative. It's an incoherent set of talking points.
WEINSTEIN: Yeah, it's a kind of cheerleading that is completely inappropriate from the perspective of the president.
Bret Weinstein discusses the Trump administrations "back to the stone age" recent remarks in the latest episode of The Evolutionary Lens, Episode 320 "Are we back in the stone age?" on DarkHorse.
Bret Weinstein explains, "If you stop businesses from starting here, and if you drive people so that they move elsewhere—even though it's difficult to do—then the point is the tax base dries up, which then forces you to become even more predatory for the people who stayed.
And that's really the thing, right? They're setting themselves up so that they have to go after more and more people, because the people who are starting new businesses are not going to do it here."
