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00:16:25 Welcome!
00:17:07 Discord Question: What are your thoughts on Colin Wright's Peer Review initiative opening up critiques to published works and encouraging an open academic dialogue? Is it something you two might contribute to, or have you thought about undertaking something similar? I must admit Heather's teardowns of bad science are some of my favorite, if infrequent segments on Darkhorse.
00:27:58 50 year old man here, which supposedly comes with lifestyle changes and medical tests. Like you, I have completely lost trust in the medical system but also worried avoiding it completely may be… dangerous? Do you still go to the doctors if something in your body feels off, or do you rely on other things? Sorry if vague and THANK YOU always.
00:34:41 Hi Heather&Bret. After a long period of enjoying being a single man, not for the hedonism but for the simplicity, I have, in recent years realised that id like to have a family. Obviously I should aim for a woman young enough to be fertile & to reduce the potential for complications. I’m a very young 40s, in great athletic shape & I consider myself to be well-rounded, kind, resilient & I have resources to be a good father &family man but dating apps will probably filter me out of the parameters of many women in their early thirties so I feel I should attempt to meet women in real life. This is not as efficient as online dating. Do you have any suggestions? I’m looking to meet like-minded women that I imagine would be a DarkHorse listener
00:37:53 Hypothesis on the origin on language & music:
Being able to start & tend to fire is a great evolutionary advantage that must be transmitted through culture. Depending on the material at hand & weather conditions, different techniques will be used. Blowing is more efficient when air vibrates at certain frequencies. Reeds can help - flutes. Using tool for scratching & such create sounds that are tuned to transmit vibrations efficiently. The music of the “right tune” is memorized & passed on. The vibrations that are out of tune are perceived as bad because not efficient. Preferred musical frequencies therefore overlap between all successful cultures. Language is an additional cultural layer.
What are your thoughts? Thanks a lot, much love 2u2
00:41:43 Bret’s going to Oxford this week!
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."
Bret speaks with John Cullen on the subject of the unanswered questions surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/7m31LcCTf10
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0LEGBkh2yXDTl3QqU38Qid?si=KtxnJF0IT3i4XGhE_Sm0cg
Locals: https://darkhorse.locals.com/post/8227721/the-drone-hypothesis-john-cullen-on-darkhorse
Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7g2ny2-the-drone-hypothesis-john-cullen-on-darkhorse.html
Bret and Heather discuss new cats, fat bears, and overwhelmed frogs. The tilcayo, a newly named species of cat from Bolivia, is part of a group of New World “tiger cats” that live on the outskirts of the Amazon basin. We discuss Carnivoran relationships, cats more specifically, and what is known about the history and ecology of the tilcayo in particular.
Then: it’s fat bear week at Katmai National Park in Alaska, where grizzlies are fattening themselves on salmon for the Winter ahead; we discuss hibernation, reproductive diapause, and general chonkiness in bears.
Finally: female Cope’s gray treefrogs have a harder time choosing good mates when there’s a lot of noise, and when there are too many suitors—kind of like how women often make bad choices when confronted with chaos and wingmen.
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