Status and Personality with Patrick Durkee
What is status? What is inspiration? What is personality? It all sounds simple and obvious, but in this episode with Patrick Durkee (CSU Fresno), we make "the familiar strange" and think through how a...
24 Feb 2h 19min
The Microbiome with Katrine Whiteson
In this episode, we talk with Katrine Whiteson (UC Irvine) about her amazing work studying the human microbiome. We cannot stress enough how much we learned from this episode, from how to prevent your...
17 Feb 1h 56min
Views of Mind with Clark Barrett
In this episode, we talk to Clark Barrett (UCLA) about all the ways we understand the mind, and all the ways that that understanding may be weirder and wider that our intellectual inheritance would ha...
10 Feb 2h 19min
The Behavioral Immune System with Josh Tybur
It stinks to be sick. Our guest, Josh Tybur (VU Amsterdam), is the one of the foremost experts on how our brain--or better yet, our "behavioral immune system"--helps us avoid pathogens while still nav...
3 Feb 2h 17min
Selection with Paul Smaldino
Intentions be damned! Whats matter is selection! In this episode, Paul Smaldino (UC Merced) takes us on a tour of his work on social signals, social identities, the perverse incentives of science, the...
27 Jan 2h 4min
Consciousness with Michael Graziano
Consciousness: is it really that hard of a problem? In this episode, we talk to our favorite mechanistically-minded (and possibly clearest) thinker about consciousness we've had the pleasure to stumbl...
20 Jan 2h 9min
Peace with Luke Glowacki
The evolution of war has occupied science. But what about the evolution of peace? In this episode, we talk to Luke Glowacki about his framing of peace as requiring just as much, if not more, explanati...
13 Jan 1h 53min
Free Will with David Pietraszewski
Free will: Do we really have it? And what is it, exactly? In this episode, co-host David Pietraszewski takes the role of guest and explains his recent evolutionary, adaptationist approach to the prob...
6 Jan 2h 2min
