Episode 84 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This topic discusses why youth are so reckless, how stress impacts tooth decay, and whether mRNA vaccines have any long-term risks.
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00:00 Intro
00:00:41 Question 1 (Reckless youth)
00:11:12 Question 2 (Stress and teeth)
00:18:59 Question 3 (mRNA vaccines)
Episode 83 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the uncanny valley feeling chatbots trigger, why animals have white tummies, and the truth about Tylenol and autism.
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00:00 Intro
00:00:41 Question 1 (Uncanny valley chatbots)
00:12:43 Question 2 (Animals’ white tummies)
00:17:50 Question 3 (Tylenol and autism)
Episode 82 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses updates on the Park Avenue shooter, trauma release exercises (TRE) and their effectiveness, and how extreme weather impacts our behavior.
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00:00 Intro / CTE update
00:01:30 Question 1 (Trauma release exercises)
00:10:54 Question 2 (Extreme weather and emotions)
Episode 81 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on the late great Jane Goodall and her contributions to primatology and conservation.
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00:00 Intro
00:24 Part 1: Goodall’s Background
00:05:08 Part 2: Conservation Work
00:07:52 Part 3: Chimp Research
00:15:16 Part 4: Criticisms
00:20:25 Part 5: Controversies
00:26:16 Part 6: Sapolsky and Goodall (Hoarding)
Episode 80 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the psychology of hoarding, and Sapolsky’s all-time favorite experiments.
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00:00 Intro
00:14 Question 1 (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy)
00:17:59 Question 2 (All-time experimental designs)
00:30:16 Question 3 (Hoarding)
Episode 79 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include which other species cheat on their partners, what visceral fat is, and whether other animals lie like humans.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Question 1 (Cheating species)
00:11:47 Question 2 (Visceral fat)
00:25:59 Question 3 (How animals lie)
Episode 78 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses whether pet parenting makes you attractive to mates, the role of consciousness with no free will, and how a Galápagos tortoise is coming back from extinction.
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00:00 Intro
00:01:34 Question 1 (Pet ownership and attraction)
00:10:22 Question 2 (Consciousness with no free will)
00:17:50 Question 3 (Galápagos Tortoises)
Episode 77 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on the differences between hunter-gatherer and WEIRD childhoods, how stress and social ranking really interact, and the role metabolic health plays in Alzheimer’s.
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00:00 Intro
00:14 Question 1 (Hunter-Gatherer parenting)
00:15:49 Question 2 (Stress and ranking)
00:28:35 Question 3 (Metabolic health and Alzheimer’s)
Episode 76 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the biology of morning versus night people, whether an internalized locus of control is protective, and if the Hungry Judges study is still valid.
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00:00 Intro
00:14 Question 1 (Morning vs Night People)
00:14:08 Question 2 (Locus of Control)
00:25:25 Question 3 (Hungry Judges Study)
Episode 75 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses what boredom is about in the brain, why rates of homosexuality were high in ancient Greece, and Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy.
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00:00 Intro
00:51 Question 1 (Boredom)
00:14:14 Question 2 (Historical homosexuality)
00:22:13 Question 3 (Carl Linnaeus, father of taxonomy)
Episode 74 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the reason for menopause, why capuchin monkeys are stealing howler monkey babies, and the occurrence of jumping genes in humans.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Question 1 (Menopause)
00:20:58 Question 2 (Capuchin thieves)
00:29:38 Question 3 (Jumping Genes)
Episode 73 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how male risk-taking behaviors impact sex ratios, thyroid-related autoimmune diseases, and the TikTok twin telepathy challenge.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Question 1 (Male risk taking)
00:06:32 Question 2 (Thyroid function and diseases)
00:20:11 Question 3 (TikTok twin telepathy challenge)
Episode 72 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether the mother or father is more evolutionarily dominant, why bottom-up emergence matters, and how other primates respond to offspring bullying.
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00:00 Intro
00:23 Question 1 (Importance of mothers vs fathers)
00:12:04 Question 2 (Bottom-up Emergence)
00:23:08 Question 3 (Primate protective parenting)
Episode 71 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how our IQ’s are increasing, why that one song is stuck in your head, and whether we think or feel our way to decisions.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Question 1 (IQ’s)
00:09:39 Question 2 (Earworms)
00:16:30 Question 3 (Thinking vs Feeling)
Episode 70 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include placebos, updates on Sapolsky’s lectures, and whether Israel is simply doing tit-for-tat.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Question 1 (Placebos)
15:03 Question 2 (Updated Lectures
16:01 Question 3 (Israel: tit-for-tat?)
Episode 69 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on questions about sex, such as penis sizes, clothing as sexual modesty, BDSM and the relationship between arousal and fear, and why humans have face-to-face sex.
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00:00: Intro
00:23: Question 1 (Penis Sizes)
00:15:36: Question 2 (Clothing as sexual modesty)
00:18:14: Question 3 (BDSM)
00:27:20: Question 4 (Missionary Position)
Episode 68 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses gestural expression, whether animals have political systems, and why others’ bodily secretions disgust us.
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00:00 Intro
00:19 Question 1 (Gestural expression)
09:48 Question 2 (Animal politics)
19:34 Question 3 (Bodily secretions)
Episode 67 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether night shift rotating is ideal, why we wince, and the hippocampal damage of PTSD.
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00:00: Intro
00:20: Question 1 (Night Shift rotating)
00:15:30: Question 2 (Wincing)
00:21:16: Question 3 (PTSD Hippocampal Atrophy)
Episode 66 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the optimal living environment for humans, how we forgive, and whether suicide attempts can really be predicted and prevented.
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00:00: Intro
00:43: Question 1 (Optimal living environment)
17:13: Question 2 (The science of forgiveness)
30:56: Question 3 (Suicide prediction)
Episode 65 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the 1% difference between human and chimp genomes, how stress hormones can be addictive, and if one can lose weight with a metaphorical diet.
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00:00: Intro
00:43: Question 1 (Genome differences)
00:17:13: Question 2 (Stress hormone addiction)
00:25:28: Question 3 (Metaphorical diets)