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Brooklyn Museum
In this episode of Brooklyn Talks, footwear designer Salehe Bembury joins abstract artist Futura and art critic Antwaun Sargent to explore the intersections of creativity, independence, and cultural evolution. The conversation traces Bembury's fifteen-year journey from an early obsession with shoes …
Chris Williamson
In this podcast episode, evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams explores sex differences through a unique framing device: how an alien scientist without sexes or culture would view humanity. He argues that while biological evolution explains many traits like aggression and jealousy, human …
The Diary Of A CEO
Harvard Professor Daniel Lieberman argues that modern health crises, including obesity, heart disease, cancer, and autoimmune disorders, stem from a fundamental mismatch between our evolutionary biology and contemporary environments. He defines these "mismatch diseases" as conditions arising because …
Lex Fridman
Ben Goertzel challenges the notion of a single, pure objective function driving human behavior, arguing instead that humanity is shaped by an unholy mix of evolutionary forces. He explains that humans are subject to both individual selection and group selection, concepts familiar in biology regardin …