Know Thyself 38: Witch Hunts and Black Mass

By special request from a brilliant young listener - an episode about the moon!Be careful what you wish for, because it's all here lol.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podc...

18 Mai 44min

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being Bipedal was a key step in becoming human. Many of our other abilities, and liabilities, began with bipedalism.  On this episode:When bipedalism?Why bipedalism?We dispell some myths and establish...

24 Nov 202431min