HBH 67: How to Build a Ghost: The Philip Experiment
In 1972, eight people in Toronto invented a seventeenth-century ghost named Philip Aylesford. They gave him a face, a tragic history, and a personality—then gathered weekly to contact him. For nearly ...
27 Jul 22min
HBH 65: Future Self Continuity and Bad Decisions
How well do you know your future self?How much do you like yout future self?The answer to these two questions has implications for how you plan and provide for that person.Today, we cover the work of ...
5 Jan 11min
HBH 64: Homo Antecessor: The Disturbing Dead End Cannibals of Atapuerca
Recent finds in the Atapuerca site in Spain have confirmed and expanded our understanding of the tates and culinary practices of Homo antecessor. This species is enigmatic and its place in the evolut...
12 Aug 202539min
HBH 63: Overkill! The Ongoing End of the Megafauna with Dr. Rhys Lemoine
Rhys Taylor Lemoine is a postdoctoral researcher in extinction, megafauna, rewilding, and novel ecosystems. Today he speaks to us about the late quaternary extinction. We discuss what megafauna are, t...
2 Aug 202531min
HBH 62: Megafauna Extinction Mystery
In the late quaternary period, from about 50 to 10 thousand years ago, vast populations of large animals died out. Among them are some of the most iconic of prehistoric creatures -- mammoths, mastodo...
15 Jul 202529min
HBH 61: The Moral Circle (Best Humans Ever Intro)
In this episode we begin a groundbreaking, never-before-attempted, altogether unprecedented series on the history of being human. We are going to cover some of the best people who ever lived. Aside f...
14 Apr 202526min
HBH 60: The Ship of Theseus and Personal Identity Through Time
On this episode we cover the famous, ancient "Ship of Theseus" thought experiment, and then stretch it into relevance for the very modern possibility of tranfering our psyche, and possibly our very id...
2 Mar 202522min
