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Irshad Manji is an author, founder of the Moral Courage project, and lecturer at Oxford for the Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights. Buy Irshad’s new book: Don’t Label Me - How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07D2BXJTS&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_AMB2A762PQWAHW6FDZ77 Find Irshad on her website: https://irshadmanji.com/ Find Irshad on Twitter: @IrshadManji --- Find Bret Weinstein on Twitter: @BretWeinstein, and on Patreon. Please subscribe to this channel for more long form content like this, and subscribe to the clips channel @DarkHorse Podcast Clips for short clips of all our podcasts. DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. Support the show

In this 71st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. In this episode, we talk about trees and mental health and lockdowns and polar bears. Among other things. Does having trees outside your window help mitigate depression? If so, how close do they need to be? Does it matter what species they are? What’s so great about trees anyway? What about rivers or birds or volcanoes? Also: how do extended lockdowns affect teenagers in particular? What do we lose when we close schools, shut down organized sports, keep people from socializing? And: what do polar bears eat when melting sea ice keeps the seals out of reach? Duck eggs of course! Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is now available for pre-sale at amazon. Publication date: 9-14-21: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593086880/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_5BDTABYFKRJKZBT5GSQA DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal. Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Here are some, updated frequently: @DarkHorse Podcast Clips Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/sOzo7KThjWk Mentioned in this episode: Marselle et al 2020. Urban street tree biodiversity and antidepressant prescriptions. Scientific Reports, 10(1): 1-11. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79924-5 Mitchell et al 2015. Neighborhood environments and socioeconomic inequalities in mental well-being. American journal of preventive medicine, 49(1): 80-84. (paywalled) MacGillis, March 8, 2021. The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers. ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-lost-year-what-the-pandemic-cost-teenagers Jagielski, et al 2021. Polar bear foraging on common eider eggs: estimating the energetic consequences of a climate-mediated behavioural shift. Animal Behaviour, 171: 63-75. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59845a6359cc687d5ab8fd4d/t/5fcf8327505b451de18fbdf9/1607435075723/1-s2.0-S0003347220303316-main.pdf Support the show

Jordan Peterson is an author, YouTube lecturer, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. Buy Jordan's new book: Beyond Order - 12 More Rules for Life: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08NP6881K&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_8ZSEX3G3CRRHS6Y1N9JK Find Jordan on his website: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com Find Jordan on Twitter: @jordanbpeterson --- Find Bret Weinstein on Twitter: @BretWeinstein, and on Patreon. Please subscribe to this channel for more long form content like this, and subscribe to the clips channel  @DarkHorse Podcast Clips for short clips of all our podcasts. DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. Support the show

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying delve into the work of Dr. Seuss, discussing lessons, controversy, and the value of nuance. They explore rhyming schemes and language complexity, the psychedelic experience, racist undertones, influential educators, language misrepresentation, imagination, Halloween costumes, and flaws in scientific testing.

In this 69th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. In this episode, we begin by discussing power, race and social media, specifically regarding the app Clubhouse. We talk about how Covid outcomes are affected by preexisting conditions, such as obesity and hypertension. We ask: should children be vaccinated, and are the reasons being proposed to do so justified? We review a truly sexist obituary of an esteemed scientist, and ask what should be done about it. And we review a new finding in octopi. DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal.Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Here are some, updated frequently: @DarkHorse Podcast Clips Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/yq45vlkDjDE Mentioned in this episode:O’Hearn et al 2021. Coronavirus Disease 2019 Hospitalizations Attributable to Cardiometabolic Conditions in the United States: A Comparative Risk Assessment Analysis, published in the Journal of American Heart Association:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.1161/JAHA.120.019259 Vaccine trials ramp up in children and adolescents (Feb 26, 2021): https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/371/6532/874.full.pdf2019-20 Season’s Pediatric Flu Deaths Tie High Mark Set During 2017-18 Season, from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2019-2020/2019-20-pediatric-flu-deaths.htm?web=1&wdLOR=c5656CABB-FBB6-CB48-AD0A-446F825CCC75Obituary of Hertha Ayrton: https://www.nature.com/articles/112800a0Call to retract the obituary of Hertha Ayrton: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00472-7?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20210225&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210225&sap-outbound-id=CBFDD09F8D5DBA5A4D4963684E47377FB3D52DC8Perception: Feel the Light (a short story about what octopi can do, Feb 26, 2021): https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6532/twil?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2021-02-25&et_rid=337917989&et_cid=3679411Support the show

Tristan Harris, Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology, joins Bret Weinstein to discuss the negative impacts of big tech, the synergistic relationship between human consciousness and AI systems, the importance of trust and honesty, the challenges of restoring the body to health, the prevalence of extreme views, the power of tech platforms and the need for human discretion, and the dangers of allowing market forces to govern technology.

Evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss diverse topics including ice storms, education, fact-checkers, Clubhouse conversations, lab leak hypothesis, and dung beetles. They emphasize the importance of comprehensive education, the value of unique perspectives, and the need for open discussions. They also explore government regulation of speech, the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and the behavior of dung beetles as DNA detectors.

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss various topics including the origin of COVID-19, the lab leak hypothesis, rational thinking in pandemic policies, the impact of electric light on sleep, and the flawed idea of chemical imbalances in pharmaceutical solutions. They also touch upon female choice, the lack of humor critique towards the IDW, the acceptance of dogs in the IDW, and the failure of deep traditions in the West.

The first DarkHorse podcast with Daniel Schmachtenberger.From his website: "Daniel Schmachtenberger’s central interest is long term civilization design: developing better collective capacities for sense-making and meaning-making, to inform higher quality choice-making…towards a world commensurate with our higher values and potentials." Find Daniel at: http://civilizationemerging.com/ Find Daniel on the Neurohacker Collective: https://neurohacker.com/people/daniel-schmachtenberger Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. Support the show

In this 66th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. In this episode, we begin by discussing what the increasing visibility of a viable hypothesis for the origins of SARS-CoV2 says about modern science and politics. Then: Is eating red meat inflammatory? Is saying that eating red meat is inflammatory, inflammatory? What would it mean for evolutionary biologists to “stay in their lane” (and why shouldn’t we)? What does “follow the science” mean when we are being told to wear masks in National Parks? Is the New York Times punking us, or did they seriously just suggest that encrypted messaging services are dangerous because untrue things are sometimes said? What is the null hypothesis—in general, and in particular, with regard to the origins of SARS-CoV2? Does Sony’s classification system of “human, animal and bird” make any sense, and does it matter? And finally: what are sidewinders and how do they move, what are mangroves, and what on Earth could the connection possibly be?DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org Find more from us on Bret’s website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather’s website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret’s Paypal. Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Here are some, updated frequently: @DarkHorse Podcast Clips Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/wyG5u_GR_AQ Mentioned in this episode: Luthra-Guptasarma, M. and Guptasarma, P., Inflammation begets hyper-inflammation in Covid-19: Diet-derived chronic inflammation promotes runaway acute inflammation resulting in cytokine storms. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Purnananda_Guptasarma/publication/341411711_Inflammation_begets_hyper-inflammation_in_Covid-19_Diet-derived_chronic_inflammation_promotes_runaway_acute_inflammation_resulting_in_cytokine_storms/links/5ec1efe9458515626cb0a596/Inflammation-begets-hyper-inflammation-in-Covid-19-Diet-derived-chronic-inflammation-promotes-runaway-acute-inflammation-resulting-in-cytokine-storms.pdf Domingo, J.L. and Nadal, M., 2017. Carcinogenicity of consumption of red meat and processed meat: a review of scientific news since the IARC decision. Food and chemical toxicology, 105, pp.256-261. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278691517302053 Lindeberg, Staffan. 2010. Book: Food and Western Disease: Health and Nutrition from an Evolutionary Perspective. Executive Order, January 20, 2021. Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-protecting-the-federal-workforce-and-requiring-mask-wearing/ Meltzer, D.O., Best, T.J., Zhang, H., Vokes, T., Arora, V. and Solway, J., 2020. Association of vitamin D status and other clinical characteristics with COVID-19 test results. JAMA network open, 3(9), pp.e2019722-e2019722. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770157 The New York Times is punking us with this piece, right? Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/technology/personaltech/telegram-signal-misinformation.html?searchResultPosition=1 Brad Moon’s 5 types of snake locomotion: https://userweb.ucs.louisiana.Support the show