The Influence of Psychopaths: Why Humanity Is Better Than We Think
In this week's Frankly, Nate reflects on intraspecies predation (ours) and the impact psychopathic actors have on the mean and median of human behavior – in the past all the way up to our modern socie...
26 Syys 202522min
The Past and Future of Societal Collapse: Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp
For many people today, the idea of societal collapse is unimaginable. Yet history shows that well-established civilizations have fallen again and again – often for similar reasons. In fact, the same f...
24 Syys 20252h 15min
Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems | RR 19
Psychopathy is often portrayed as a rare and distant phenomenon – something confined to movie villains or prison cells. Yet when psychopathy is combined with narcissism and Machiavellianism to form wh...
17 Syys 20251h 24min
This Week's Learnings: Gold Holdings, Political Divides, and the DOE Climate Report | Frankly 107
In this week's Frankly, in a continuation of his 'This Week's Learnings' series, Nate updates viewers on things he learned in the past week, and the implications for our sociocultural trajectory. Thi...
12 Syys 202516min
Why We Need Forests: Their Vital Role in Climate Dynamics, Rain, and The Biotic Pump with Anastassia Makarieva
To best understand this episode, please watch this ~2 minute video on the biotic pump. It's widely known that Earth's forests provide home to countless numbers of species, act as a vast sink for car...
10 Syys 20252h 1min
10 Things Worth More Than a Pound of Gold | Frankly 106
In this week's Frankly, Nate weighs the value of a pound of gold with other things that we derive worth from in our lives – from dollars and bitcoin to...less pecuniary markers. Although gold is simpl...
5 Syys 202515min
How Water Shapes Our Planet: The Undervalued Resource that Supports Everything We Do | Reality Roundtable 18
Water has always been a fundamental force shaping our planet – both in sustaining life across ecosystems and in guiding the organization and survival of human societies. Yet, many of us are unaware of...
3 Syys 20251h 14min
Where Will Humanity Move When the World Gets Too Hot? Mass Climate Migration & The Rise of Uninhabitable Regions with Sunil Amrith
In the next 25 years, the International Organization for Migration estimates that one billion people will be displaced from their homes due to climate-related events. From island nations underwater to...
27 Elo 20251h 20min
