The Dissenter
My name is Ricardo Lopes, and I’m from Portugal. Thank you for visiting my podcast. Over the past few years, I have conducted and released more than 700 interviews and talks with experts and academics from a variety of areas and disciplines, ranging from the Arts and Philosophy to the Social Sciences and Biology. You will certainly find a subject of your interest covered here. New interviews are released on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
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Dr. David Benatar is professor of philosophy at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa. He is best known for his advocacy of antinatalism in his book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, in which he argues that coming into existence is a serious harm, regardless of the feelings of the existing being once brought into existence, and that, as a consequence, it is always morally wrong to create more sentient beings. He’s also the author of books like The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys (2012), and The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (2017).
In this episode, we focus on anti-natalism, and its several ramifications. We tackle the asymmetry argument from different angles. We talk about how we are predisposed to evaluate life, and if we can do it objectively. We establish a distinction between a life worth continuing and a life worth starting. And we also go through some specific topics like life for nonhuman animals, abortion, suicide, euthanasia, and environmentalism.
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01:01 The anti-natalist position
01:54 The asymmetry argument, or comparing nonexistence to existence in terms of pain and pleasure
05:55 The biases we have to evaluate life
14:22 The is-ought problem
17:32 How to properly determine if life is worth living
22:33 Life worth continuing vs life worth starting
27:40 Does progress make a difference?
36:37 About growth through adversity
39:02 What about nonhuman animals?
41:58 Abortion
43:52 Suicide
50:31 Euthanasia
53:50 The various ways to measure pain and pleasure in life
55:51 Anti-natalism and environmentalism
58:54 More people = more innovation?
1:01:13 Follow Dr. Benatar’s work!
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Other books: https://tinyurl.com/yb6k7r4m
Twitter handle: @d_benatar
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Friday Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
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My guest today is the host of the Youtube channel, Virtutis Discipulus, where he promotes the study of the Latin and Greek origins of the Portuguese language, and also promotes a rational approach to virtue.
Here, we talk about his lectures, and the research work he does to prepare them; the evolution of language; the more recent spelling agreement implemented in Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries, and its critics; the relation between the way we talk and the way we write; and related topics.
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O meu convidado, hoje, é o Virtutis Discipulus, o anfitrião do canal do Youtube com o mesmo nome, onde ele promove o estudo das origens latinas e gregas da língua Portuguesa, e também uma abordagem racional da virtude.
Aqui, falamos sobre as suas “lecturas”, e o trabalho de pesquisa que faz para as preparar; a evolução da língua; o mais recente Acordo Ortográfico implementado em Portugal e noutros países de Língua Portuguesa, e os seus críticos; a relação entre a forma como falamos e a forma como escrevemos; e tópicos relacionados.
Virtutis Discipulus Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJMeIROyniRsLzIFDQoxB6w
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/VirtutisDiscipulus/
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Thursday Mar 07, 2019
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
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Dr. Rebecca Roache is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. She teaches practical ethics, logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of language, and early modern philosophy. She’s also been Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and Programme Manager of the Oxford Loebel Lectures and Research Programme, at the University of Oxford. Before that, she was James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute. Since 2013, Dr. Roache has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and since 2007 she has also been a contributor to Oxford's Practical Ethics: Ethics in the News blog.
In this episode, the central topic of discussion is philosophy of psychiatry. We go through some of the difficulties in classifying something as a “mental disease”, and even the social and moral aspects of it. We also talk about certain specific issues, like depression, mental suffering, suicide and euthanasia; human enhancement in psychiatry, the difference between enhancement and therapy, and the ethics behind it; and also when and how people should resort to psychiatry and neuroscience in the penal system, and issue regarding free will and moral responsibility. Toward the end, Dr. Roache also tells us about her upcoming book on swearing.
Time Links:
01:06 What is philosophy of psychiatry?
06:05 The problems with classifying something as a mental disease
13:34 Moralism in psychiatry
16:52 About evolutionary psychiatry and the evolution of mental conditions, like depression
25:37 How pathologizing certain conditions might serve the social interest of eradicating behaviors people don’t like
29:57 Depression, mental suffering, suicide and euthanasia
40:23 Human psychological enhancement
49:00 Psychiatry, neuroscience, free will, criminality and moral responsibility
59:18 Dr. Roache’s upcoming book on swearing
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Thursday Mar 07, 2019
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
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Claire Lehmann is an Australian writer and the editor and founder of the online magazine Quillette.
Here, we talk her academic background; what led her to launch Quillette; the philosophy being Quillette; its recent expansion; the Big Five personality traits, and which of them are important to leadership in the feminine; and fighting the current social, political, and academic trends by giving space to science and truth.
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A Claire Lehmann é uma escritora australiana e a editora e fundadora da revista online Quillette.
Aqui, falamos sobre o seu background académico; o que a levou a criar a Quillette; a filosofia por detrás da Quillette; a sua recente expansão; as características da personalidade Big Five, e quais delas são importantes para a liderança no feminino; e combater as atuais tendências sociais, políticas e académicas ao dar espaço à ciência e à verdade.
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
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Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
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Dr. Peggy Mason is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Chicago. She received both her BA in Biology and her Phd in Neuroscience from Harvard. Professor Mason has been on the faculty of University of Chicago since 1992. She has taught undergraduate, graduate and medical students and has received numerous teaching awards. Using her nearly 15 years of experience teaching medical students, Professor Mason wrote a single-author textbook designed for medical students (Medical Neurobiology, Oxford University Press, 2017). Professor Mason's research focuses on the neurobiological basis of empathy and helping.
In this episode, we talk about empathy and helping behavior in humans and other animal models, namely rats. We discuss first how empathy might have evolved, and the neurobiological bases of it, including the roles played by the amygdala, the hypothalamus, the prefrontal cortex and the temporo-parietal junction. We also talk about the flaws with the research surrounding mirror neurons. Then, we talk about the situations that invoke empathy. We also refer to Paul Bloom’s book, Against Empathy, and the difference between emotional empathy and cognitive empathy, and between empathy and compassion. We also briefly refer to how empathy might work in psychopaths. Finally, we talk about oxytocin and other hormones and neurotransmitters that participate in mediating empathic behavior, and the differences between pro-social behavior in humans and other animals.
Time Links:
00:52 How empathy evolved
04:55 How the brain processes empathy (amygdala, hypothalamus, prefrontal cortex)
08:57 The trouble with mirror neurons
11:44 The temporo-parietal junction
14:59 The types of behavior that invoke empathy
17:58 It also depends on the context and on the individual in question
25:25 Paul Bloom, Against Empathy, and emotional and cognitive empathy
29:55 Emotions as cognitive tools
33:32 Psychopathic behavior
38:24 What happens when individuals get distressed
41:48 Oxytocin, hormones, and neurotransmitters associated with empathy
47:04 Pro-social behavior in humans and other nonprimate mammals
50:50 People’s reports of their behavior and what they feel are very unreliable
54:18 Follow Dr. Mason’s work!
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Me
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
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Olof Gränström is the Project Manager at Gapminder. He is a political scientist with a background as an educator.
Here, we talk about some of the background story of Gapminder and Hans Rosling; the sources for the data Gapminder collects; the importance of the industrial revolution for world development; we have a short discussion about what could be considered the best socioeconomic model; the decrease in the number of children per couple shortly after the first industrial revolution, in the more developed countries; the doubling in longevity; the counterintuitive fact about the relation between the level of pollutants and economic growth; rates of violent crime; terrorist attacks; the importance and degree of economic inequality; and other impressive findings.
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Olof Gränström é o Gestor de Projetos da Gapminder. É um cientista político com background como educador.
Aqui, falamos sobre a história da Gapminder e do Dr. Hans Rosling; as fontes para os dados que a Gapminder reúne; a importância da revolução industrial para o desenvolvimento mundial; temos uma discussão breve acerca de qual poderia ser considerado o melhor modelo socioeconómico; a diminuição do número de filhos por casal pouco depois da primeira revolução industrial, nos países mais desenvolvidos; o aumento da longevidade para o dobro; o facto contraintuitivo sobre a relação entre os níveis de poluentes e o crescimento económico; as taxas de crimes violentos; ataques terroristas; a importância e o grau da desigualdade económica; e outros achados impressionantes.
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Saturday Mar 02, 2019
Saturday Mar 02, 2019
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Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture based in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
Fernanda Drumond is the Head of Operations at Gapminder. She holds a Master of Science degree in Development Studies, with background in International Relations. Fernanda likes to lecture about Dollar Street, showing how people really live across different income levels. She also talks about the mega misconceptions that skew people’s worldview in lectures and workshops to companies, universities, schools and non-profits.
In this episode, we talk about the possible consequences of having wrong ideas about progress and the current state of the world; the pros and cons of Big Data; a pragmatic attitude vs an ideological one in solving problems; if Gapminder could back up the effective altruism movement from a moral standpoint; the role of media in giving people a much more pessimistic and negative view of reality than it really is; how most problems stem from nature, and it is society that solves them; History as not being cyclic; the problem with predictions coming from specialists and activists; time and progress from a human perspective; and a perspective on climate change.
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A Gapminder Foundation é uma organização não-governamental com base em Estocolmo, Suécia, que promove o desenvolvimento global sustentável dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milénio das Nações Unidas, através do aumento do uso e compreensão de estatísticas e outros tipos de informação sobre o desenvolvimento social, económico e ambiental a nível local, nacional e global.
A Fernanda Drumond é a Chefe de Operações da Gapminder. Tem um Mestrado em Estudos do Desenvolvimento/Estudos Sobre Desenvolvimento, com background em Relações Internacionais. A Fernanda gosta de dar palestras sobre o Dollar Street, mostrando como as pessoas vivem verdadeiramente em diferentes níveis de rendimento. Ela também gosta de falar sobre como grandes equívocos moldam a visão do mundo que as pessoas têm, em palestras e workshops dirigidos a empresas, universidades, escolhas e organizações sem fins lucrativos.
Neste episódio, falamos sobre as possíveis consequências de ter ideias erradas acerca do progresso e do estado atual do mundo; os prós e contras da Big Data; atitude pragmática vs atitude ideológica na resolução de problemas; a possível relação da Gapminder com o movimento do altruísmo efetivo; o papel dos media em criar uma visão muito mais pessimista e negativa da realidade do que realmente é; como a maior parte dos problemas deriva da natureza, e é a sociedade que os soluciona; a História não é cíclica; o problema com as previsões de especialistas e ativistas; tempo e progresso de uma perspetiva humana; e uma perspetiva sobre alterações climáticas.
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Time Links:
00:29 Having wrong ideas about progress / Quando se tem ideias erradas sobre progresso
04:20 Pros and cons of Big Data / Prós e Contras da Big Data
07:45 Being realistic / Ser realista
09:13 Pragmatism vs ideology /Pragmatismo vs ideologia
15:00 Would Gapminder be into effective altruism? / Apoiaria a Gapminder o altruísmo efetivo?
25:24 The role of media in misinforming people / O papel dos media na desinformação&nb
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Friday Mar 01, 2019
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Dr. Filipe Nobre Faria currently works as a post-doctoral researcher in ethics and political philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy of the Nova University of Lisbon (IFILNOVA). Furthermore, he lectures on subjects of his expertise at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences/Nova. Previously, he earned his PhD in Political Theory (2016) from King’s College London and his master degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2011) from the University of East Anglia. He also taught within the areas of political theory and political economy at King’s College London. His main research interest lies in applying the insights of the behavioural and evolutionary sciences to issues in social and political philosophy.
In this episode, we talk about the relationship between evolutionary theory, philosophy, ethics and politics. We refer to the role of philosophy in a scientific world; the importance of selfishness and altruism in moral philosophy; evolutionary processes like kin selection, reciprocal altruism and group selection; how our moral values are influences by our personality and other innate proclivities; what is mora important for societies; the is-ought dichotomy, and if the naturalistic fallacy really exists; and also about the work of Friedrich Hayek, Karl Polanyi, and the positive aspects and limitations of market liberal morality, both at the individual and collective levels.
Time Links:
01:32 How to apply evolutionary theory to philosophy, ethics and politics
08:11 Philosophy in a scientific world
15:16 Selfishness and altruism in ethics and morality
20:14 Kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and group selection
31:02 Does it really matter if we behave well, but for selfish reasons?
35:06 Personality and preferences in morality
38:51 If we have to choose, what is more important in a society? Stability, or humanism?
45:09 The is-ought dichotomy, and the naturalistic fallacy
49:33 Is there really a naturalistic fallacy?
53:44 Philosophy, innateness, and political correctness
57:38 Friedrich Hayek, Karl Polanyi, and the evolutionary bases of market liberal morality
1:18:43 Biological and moral arguments for markets and liberalism (including group identity, selfishness, birth rates, and so on)
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Twitter handle: @filipefaria
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Friday Mar 01, 2019
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Dr. Norman Sandridge has a B.S. in Physics, with a minor in Mathematics by the University of Alabama; a M.A. in Latin by Florida State University; a M.A. in Greek by the University of North Carolina; and a Ph.D. in Classics also by the University of North Carolina. He’s an Associate Professor of Classics, Fellow in Leadership Studies and Greater Washington Outreach at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies. He’s been involved in the development of hybrid-online education programs on Classicism. And he also wrote the 2012 book, Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: The Foundations of Leadership in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus; and has several essays on Leadership published on his Medium account.
Here, we talk about the notion of leadership for Xenophon and the Hellenists; the three main leadership traits – philanthropia, philomatheia, philotimia; the influence of Socrates on Xenophon and Plato; the psychopathic personality and its relationship with leadership; Alcibiades; the Hero’s Journey applied to higher education; and more.
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O Dr. Norman Sandridge tem uma Licenciatura em Física, com um minor em Matemática pela Universidade do Alabama; um Mestrado em Latim pela Florida State University; Um Mestrado em Grego pela Universidade da Carolina do Norte; e um doutoramento em Clássicos, também pela Universidade da Carolina do Norte. É um professor associado de Clássicos, fellow em Estudos de Liderança e Greater Washington Outreach no Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Está envolvido no desenvolvimento de programas educativos online híbridos de Classicismo. Também escreveu o livro de 2012, Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: The Foundations of Leadership in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus; e tem vários ensaios publicados na sua conta Medium.
Aqui, falamos sobre a noção de liderança para Xenofonte e os helénicos; as três principais características de liderança – philanthropia, philomatheia, philotimia; a influência de Sócrates em Xenofonte e Platão; a personalidade psicopata e a sua relação com liderança; Alcibíades; a Jornada do Herói aplicada ao ensino superior; e mais.
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Check out Dr. Sandridge’s work:
Faculty Page: http://classics.coas.howard.edu/fac_sandridge.htm
Book Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674067028
Medium essays: https://medium.com/@normansandridge
Twitter handle: @NormanSandridge
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
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ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
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Dr. David Zaruk is the Risk-Monger. He has been an EU risk and science communications specialist since 2000, active in EU policy events from REACH and SCALE to the Pesticides Directive, from Science in Society questions to the use of the Precautionary Principle. He was part of the team that set up GreenFacts to encourage a wider use of evidence-based decision-making in the EU on environmental health matters. Dr. Zaruk is a professor at Odisee University College where he lectures on Communications, Marketing, EU Lobbying and PR.
In this episode, we start off by talking about the tactics that bad environmental activists use, how they oversimplify complex problems, and their anti-capitalism ideology. After referring to the importance of experts consulting environmental and health policy, we talk about the antiscientific approach that has been dominating the European Union, when it comes to agriculture, energy and the environment. We then move on to the SlimeGate series that Dr. Zaruk has been releasing, and an exposé of how tort law firms, scientists, NGOs, activists and politicians get together to promote pseudoscience and get easy money. Toward the end, we speak about the important difference between hazard and risk, and how fearmongers exploit people’s ignorance about that topic, and also about how the incidence of cancer has been declining over time.
Time Links:
01:04 Good and bad environmental activism
03:00 Oversimplifying complex problems
05:04 Anti-corporativism and anti-capitalism approaches
08:29 We need more experts in politics
15:00 The EU, glyphosate, GMOs, and organic farming
28:33 EU’s policies on climate change, nuclear energy, and renewables
36:43 The SlimeGate series: tort law firms, paid scientists, NGOs, activists and politicians
50:40 Hazard vs Risk, and how fearmongers exploit this difference
1:01:34 The incidence of cancer is going down
1:05:28 Follow Dr. Zaruk’s work!
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Risk-Monger blog: https://risk-monger.com/
Facebook page: https://tinyurl.com/ybqghrp7
Twitter handle: @zaruk
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Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
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Dr. Stephen Hicks teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of books like Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, and Nietzsche and the . Additionally, he has published articles and essays on a range of subjects, including entrepreneurism, free speech in academia, the history and development of modern art, Ayn Rand's Objectivism, business ethics and the philosophy of education, including a series of YouTube lectures.
Here, we talk about the differences between modernism and postmodernism; the influences of Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx and Heidegger on postmodernism; the role the Frankfurt School played on promoting Marxist ideas; the differences between Marxism and Postmodernism; the philosophy of Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, and Rorty; the current state of political and academic affairs and its relation to the several waves of postmodernism; and the relationship between existentialism and postmodernism.
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O Dr. Stephen Hicks dá aulas na Rockford University, onde também dirige o Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. É autor de livros como Explicando o Pós-modernismo: Ceticismo e socialismo - de Rousseau a Foucault, e Nietzsche and the . Para além disso, tem artigos e ensaios publicados sobre uma panóplia de temas, incluindo empreendedorismo, liberdade de expressão na academia, a história e desenvolvimento da arte moderna, Objetivismo de Ayn Rand, business ethics e a filosofia da educação, incluindo uma série de aulas no YouTube.
Aqui, falamos sobre as diferenças entre modernismo e pós-modernismo; as influências de Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx e Heidegger no pós-modernismo; o papel da Escola de Frankfurt na promoção de ideias marxistas; as diferenças entre marxismo e pós-modernismo; a filosofia de Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida e Rorty; o atual estado político e académico e a sua relação com as diversas correntes pós-modernas; e a relação entre existencialismo e pós-modernismo.
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Please, check out Dr. Hicks’ work
His Website: http://www.stephenhicks.org/
His book, Explaining Postmodernism: https://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Postmodernism-Skepticism-Socialism-Rousseau/dp/0983258406 ; Em Português: https://www.amazon.com/Explicando-P%C3%B3s-modernismo-Ceticismo-socialismo-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B00B4FCGM0/
And follow him on Twitter: @SRCHicks ; and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stephen.R.C.Hicks
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
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Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
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Roberto Calzadilla Rivera has studied Biology and Mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico, working in molecular and evolutionary genetics. He’s trained as a population geneticist. Currently he’s working as a computational biologist and biophysicist in a behavioral neuroscience lab.
I decided to invite Roberto on the show because in February we had a discussion on Twitter about human , and distribution in humans.
So, here we talk about chromosomal and anisogamy; how to deal with intersex people in terms of distribution; mating and gametes; genotype and phenotype; and a little bit about epigenetics.
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O Roberto Caldazilla Rivera estudou Biologia e Matemática na Universidade de Porto Rico, trabalhando em genética molecular e evolutiva. Tem formação como genético de populações. Atualmente, trabalha como biólogo e biofísico computacional num laboratório de neurociência comportamental.
Decidi convidar o Roberto para o canal, uma vez que em fevereiro tivemos uma discussão no Twitter sobre sexo humano, e distribuição do sexo em humanos.
Assim, aqui falamos sobre sexo cromossomal e anisogamia; como lidar com pessoas intersexo em termos de distribuição de sexo; sexo de acasalamento e gâmetas; genótipo e fenótipo; e um pouco sobre epigenética.
Follow Roberto on Twitter: @HaldanesGhost
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Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
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Dr. Eric Smith received the Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1993. He is External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Research Professor at George Mason University, and Principal Investigator at the Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a physicist specializing in the origin of life, non-equilibrium systems, economics, and the evolution of human languages.
Here, we go through the main content of his 2016 book, The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth; the history of the RNA-first world, and the metabolism-first world; the continuity between geochemistry and biochemistry; the biosphere as the 4th geosphere; the role of hydrothermal vents in the rise of biochemistry; the citric acid cycle (Krebs cycle); a new analysis suggesting relations between the rise of macromolecules (particularly the RNA and proteins in the ribosome) and the elaboration and fixing of more complex metabolic pathways; and the need (or not) for extraplanetary sources of chemicals.
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O Dr. Eric Smith recebeu a licenciatura de Ciência em Física e Matemática pelo California Institute of Technology, em 1987, e um doutoramento em Física pela Universidade do Texas em 1993. É um professor externo no Santa Fe Institute, investigador na George Mason University, e investigador principal no Earth-Life Institute, do Tokyo Institute of Technology. É um físico especializado na origem da vida, sistemas de não-equilíbrio, economia, e evolução das línguas humanas.
Aqui, percorremos o conteúdo principal do seu livro de 2016, The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth; a história do “RNA-first world”, e do “metabolismo-first world; a continuidade entre geoquímica e bioquímica; a biosfera como quarta geosfera; o papel das fontes hidrotermais no surgimento da bioquímica; o ciclo do ácido cítrico (ciclo de Krebs); uma nova análise sugerindo relações entre o surgimento de macromoléculas (particularmente, RNA e proteínas no ribossoma) e a elaboração e fixação de mais complexas cascatas metabólicas; e a necessidade (ou não) de fontes extraplanetárias de químicos.
Faculty page at Tokyo Institute of Technology: http://www.elsi.jp/en/research/member/researcher/professor/Eric-Smith.html
Faculty page at Santa Fe Institute: https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/d-eric-smith
Book The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Nature-Life-Earth-Emergence/dp/1107121884
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Monday Feb 25, 2019
Monday Feb 25, 2019
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Dr. William von Hippel is Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has published more than a hundred articles, chapters, and edited books in social psychology, and his research has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, The Economist, the BBC, Le Monde, El Mundo, Der Spiegel, and The Australian. He also recently published a book, “The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy” (2018).
In this episode, we go through the main topics of Dr. von Hippel’s book, The Social Leap. We compare humans with other animals. We talk about the movement from the rainforest to the savannah; the evolution of bipedality and our hands; meat, cooking, and diet; hunting, cooperative breeding, and the social brain hypothesis; alloparenting, pair-bonding and monogamy. We also refer to Christopher Ryan’s book, at Dawn, and the points where his thesis fails. We then go through the importance of language and culture, and gene-culture coevolution. We also talk about tribalism, the advent of agriculture, and hierarchy and economic, social and sexual inequality, and the problem with polygamic societies. Also, the mismatch between the ancestral environments we adapted to and the modern ones, and what our innate psychology tells us about what makes us happy, even in modern industrialized societies. We finish off by talking about a recently paper authored by Dr. von Hippel and Dr. David Buss, “Psychological barriers to evolutionary psychology: Ideological bias and coalitional adaptations”.
Time Links:
00:56 Humans and the Great Apes
03:44 From the rainforest to the savannah
04:50 The evolution of our bipedality, and the stone-throwing hypothesis
09:51 The importance of our hands
12:35 Meat and diet
16:28 Fire and cooking
17:47 The social brain hypothesis
20:32 Large brains, prolonged development, and cooperative breeding
22:53 Alloparenting and monogamy
28:08 Christopher Ryan, at Dawn, jealousy, polygamy and monogamy
32:40 Language and learning
35:41 Culture, and gene-culture coevolution
39:07 Tribalism and coalitional psychology
42:50 Agriculture and inequality
49:54 The mismatch between ancestral and modern environments
52:05 What makes people happy
56:40 Psychological barriers to Evolutionary Psychology
1:02:41 Follow Dr. von Hippel’s work!
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Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/yadugvvu
Website: https://williamvonhippel.com/
Psychology Today blog: https://tinyurl.com/yb7487az
Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/ycrabthn
Joe Rogan Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dtv8ibI1vk
The Social Leap: https://tinyurl.com/yct2nljn
Other relevant links:
at Dawn: https://tinyurl.com/y7rca225
at Dusk: https:/
Saturday Feb 23, 2019
Saturday Feb 23, 2019
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Jon Entine is an American author and journalist, and the Executive Director of the Genetic Literacy Project. He’s also a senior research fellow at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy at the University of California, Davis. He’s the author of seven books, including Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (2005); Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? (2006); and Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health. Before becoming a print journalist, Jon was a producer and executive for 20 years at NBC News and ABC News, winning 20 journalism honors, including a National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award and Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the former Soviet Union. He was head of documentaries and Tom Brokaw’s long-time producer at NBC News.
Here, we talk about the Genetic Literacy Project; genes and genetic manipulation; GMOs; what advantages GMOs have over organic and conventional farming; chemophobia; and scientific literacy.
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Jon Entine é um escritor e jornalista americano, e o Diretor Executivo do Genetic Literacy Project. É também um investigador associado do Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy da Universidade da Califórnia. É o autor de sete livros, incluindo Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (2005); Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? (2006); e Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health. Antes de se ter tornado um jornalista de imprensa, foi produtor e executivo durante 20 anos na NBC News e na ABC News, recebendo 20 prémios de jornalismo, incluindo o National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award e Emmys por especiais acerca dos movimentos de reforma na China e na ex-União Soviética. Dirigiu documentários e foi o produtor de longo termo de Tom Brokaw na NBC News.
Aqui, falamos sobre o Genetic Literacy Project; genes e manipulação genética; as vantagens dos OGMs sobre a agricultura biológica e convencional; quimiofobia; e literacia científica.
Genetic Literacy Project website: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/
Genetic Literacy Project Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeneticLiteracyProject/
Genetic Literacy Project Twitter handle: @GeneticLiteracy
Jon Entine’s Twitter handle: @JonEntine
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
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Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
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Dr. James Tabery is Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research focuses largely on the philosophy of science and applied ethics, as well as the intersection between those domains. On the philosophy of science side, he investigates questions of causation and explanation in biology; while on the applied ethics side, he explores how the answers to those questions have ethical, legal, and social implications. He’s also the author of the book Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture.
In this episode, we focus on some of the main topics of Dr. Tabery’s book, Beyond Versus. We go through the historical origins of the nature-nurture debate, and the early stages of Biology, and the influences of genetics and the study of development. Then, we address the complexity of the interaction between genes and the environment, and how they mediate each other’s effects on the organism. And we finish up with a couple of questions about the ethical implications of this science, including the dangers of focusing too much on nature, or believing in extreme environmentalism and views of the mind as a blank slate, and also the technical and ethical limitations to gene editing, human enhancement and eugenics.
Time Links:
00:48 The origins of the nature-nurture debate
04:30 Genetics and the eugenics movement
06:50 The introduction of development in Biology, and the nurture side
10:19 Are environmental effects always mediated by genetics?
12:38 Is it easier to identify genetic factors than environmental ones?
23:46 The trouble with the complexity of genetics, and pleiotropic effects
26:22 Are there any situations where the environment is the single cause?
29:24 Gene-environment correlations, and people creating their own environments
31:58 How to correctly frame the nature-nurture debate
35:30 The ethical dangers of focusing too much on nature
39:21 Sometimes, social justice is made on the basis of the innateness of certain traits
43:35 Also, the dangers of extreme environmentalism
49:07 On eliminating “negative” traits, and human enhancement
56:24 Follow Dr. Tabery’s work!
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entrances on genetics: https://tinyurl.com/y7qnpled
Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/yde5znvp
Beyond Versus: https://tinyurl.com/ya9af47a
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Thursday Feb 21, 2019
Thursday Feb 21, 2019
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Dr. Moshe Hoffman is a Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab & Lecturer at Harvard's Department of Economics. He applies game theory, models of learning and evolution, and experimental methods, to try to decipher the (often subconscious and subtle) incentives that shape our social behavior, preferences, and ideologies. Dr. Hoffman obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and his B.S. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He also co-designed and teaches "Game Theory and Social Behavior" which lays out a lot of the evidence and models behind this approach.
In this episode, we talk about Game Theory. We first establish the aspects of behavior Game Theory studies, and how it does it, referring to strategies of social interaction studied by Robert Axelrod, which Richard Dawkins talks about in The Selfish Gene. In the second part of the interview, we go through the critiques that Dr. Hoffman made of Evolutionary Psychology (https://twitter.com/Moshe_Hoffman/status/1073270050809937923), focusing on aesthetics, religion, and social norms and morality.
Time Links:
00:49 What is game theory, and how it works
11:39 Evolved strategies and environmental cues
24:20 Dawkins, Axelrod, The Selfish Gene, and strategies of social interaction
31:58 The evolution of cooperation and altruism
33:47 Norm enforcement
37:35 Evolutionary Psychology (EP)
40:29 What Dr. Hoffman thinks EP gets wrong – pre-adaptations
51:44 Beauty, aesthetics, and artistic behavior
59:43 Extrinsic properties and social aspects of art
1:06:55 Conspicuous consumption
1:19:59 Religion, and other by-products of mental adaptations
1:27:12 How social norms evolve, and the case of Chinese foot-binding
1:33:21 Innate cognition and cultural evolution
1:36:12 Emergent properties and “novel” strategies of the mind
1:46:27 Follow Dr. Hoffman’s work!
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Follow Dr. Hoffman’s work:
Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y7g2ubal
Personal website: https://tinyurl.com/yboyxvxu
Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/ybxwknfs
Twitter handle: @Moshe_Hoffman
Twitter thread on Evolutionary Psychology: https://twitter.com/Moshe_Hoffman/status/1073270050809937923
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
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Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
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Dr. Matt McGue is a behavior geneticist and Regents Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, where he co-directs the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research. Dr. McGue has authored or co-authored and published over 375 articles in academic journals. His h-index according to Google Scholar is 103. Dr. McGue participated in one of the greatest scientific endeavors of all time, the MISTRA (Minnesota Study on Twins Reared Apart), alongside big names of this type of research, like Thomas Bouchard, Nancy Segal, Auke Tellegen and David Lykken. Here, we talk about Behavioral Genetics; MISTRA; the types of studies done in Human Behavioral Genetics; what the studies with twins and adoptees tell us about human nature; some of the most interesting finding from the MISTRA; responses to people who only care about socialization; gender differences; and the concept of race and ancestry in Behavioral Genetics, and its implications.
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O Dr. Matt McGue é um geneticista comportamental e Professor Regente de Psicologia da Universidade de Minnesota, onde ele é codiretor do Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research. O Dr. McGue é autor ou coautor de 375 artigos em jornais académicos. O seu h-index, de acordo com o Google Scholar, é 103. O Dr. McGue participou numa dos maiores feitos científicos de sempre, o MISTRA (Minnesota Study on Twins Reared Apart), ao lado de grandes nomes deste tipo de investigação, como Thomas Bouchard, Nancy Segal, Auke Tellegen e David Lykken. Aqui, falamos sobre Genética Comportamental; o MISTRA; os tipos de estudos que se fazem em Genética Comportamental Humana; o que é que os estudos com gémeos e adotados nos indicam acerca da natureza humana; alguns dos mais interessantes achados do MISTRA; respostas de pessoas que apenas querem saber de socialização; diferenças entre os géneros; o conceito de raça em Genética Comportamental, e as suas implicações.
Dr. McGue faculty page: https://cnbd.umn.edu/bio/cnbd-faculty-staff/matthew-mcgue
Dr. McGue’s MOOC on Introduction to Human Behavioral Genetics: https://www.coursera.org/learn/behavioralgenetics
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
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ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g
Tuesday Feb 19, 2019
Tuesday Feb 19, 2019
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Jacob Little is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Ohio University, and obtained his MFA in Poetry at Minnesota State University. He is the Managing Editor of Brevity, and a co-founder and Consulting Editor of Profane. And he has written two wonderful pieces for Quillette, Rehabilitating Feminism, and Escaping Conformity, and that’s the reason why I invited him.
Here, we talk about conformity; political correctness; hate speech; and modern-day feminism, including the #metoo movement.
You can check Jacob’s website, where he also has links for his literary works: https://www.jacoblittle.net/
Jacob’s essays at Quillette: http://quillette.com/author/jacob-little/
And his Twitter handle: @Little_Jaycup
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I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
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PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p
ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g
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Monday Feb 18, 2019
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Dr. Paul Zak is an American neuroeconomist, who is known as a proponent of the field. His current work applies neuroscience to build high performance organizations and to understand and guide consumer decisions. Dr. Zak is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics, Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He has degrees in mathematics and economics from San Diego State University, a Ph.D. in economics from University of Pennsylvania, and post-doctoral training in neuroimaging from Harvard. He’s also the author of books like The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity, and Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies.
In this episode, we talk about neuroeconomics, and the role that oxytocin plays in attachment, and in promoting trust among people that are part of the same organization or society. We go through how oxytocin evolved, and the kinds of prosocial behavior that it mediates. We also refer to other hormones, like testosterone and cortisol, and how they interact with oxytocin and might change its behavioral effects. And, finally, we talk about how we can foster trust in companies and other sorts of human organizations, reduce stress, increase productivity, and empower employees.
Time Links:
00:55 What is neuroeconomics?
02:34 The sorts of things Dr. Zak studies
05:32 Oxytocin
10:57 How oxytocin influences behavior
16:40 The evolution of oxytocin
20:39 How other hormones (testosterone, cortisol) interact with oxytocin
25:40 differences in levels of oxytocin and other hormones, and behavioral traits
32:21 Promoting trust among people in the same organization
38:36 Money doesn’t work well as an incentive
41:42 Reducing stress in work environments
45:32 Self-empowerment
47:35 Follow Dr. Zak’s work!
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Follow Dr. Richerson’s work:
Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y8ctlfue
Personal website: https://www.pauljzak.com/
Ofactor: https://ofactor.com/
Books: https://tinyurl.com/ydygmv95
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A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BRIAN RIVERA AND ADRIANO ANDRADE!
I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018:
https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo
And check out my playlists on:
PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km
PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p
ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Monday Feb 18, 2019
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Mr. Kevin Lomangino is the managing editor of HealthNewsReview.org. He is also an independent health care journalist who was previously editor-in-chief of Clinical Nutrition Insight, a monthly evidence-based newsletter for physicians and dietitians. He has written for numerous professional and consumer health publications including Consumer Reports on Health. He was formerly senior editor at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a medical publishing company, where he developed new print and online publications for health care professionals and managed a portfolio of medical publications and newsletters.
Here, we talk about HealthNewsReview, whose mission is to “improve the public dialogue about health care by helping consumers critically analyze claims about health care interventions and by promoting the principles of shared decision-making reinforced by accurate, balanced and complete information about the tradeoffs involved in health care decisions. HealthNewsReview.org evaluates health care journalism, advertising, marketing, public relations and other messages that may influence consumers and provides criteria that consumers can use to evaluate these messages themselves”. We talk more specifically about the 10 review criteria they apply to the health news they review; the ones that are neglected the most; the reasons why this happens; and solutions to it.
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O Sr. Kevin Lomangino é o editor executivo da HealthNewsReview.org. É também um jornalista independente de cuidados de saúde que anteriormente era editor-chefe da Clinical Nutrition Insight, um boletim mensal baseado em evidência para médicos e nutricionistas. Escreveu para várias publicações profissionais e de saúde do consumidor, incluindo Consumer Reports on Health. Ele foi anteriormente editor sénior da Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, uma empresa de publicações médicas, onde desenvolveu novas publicações impressas e on-line para profissionais de saúde e geriu um portfólio de publicações médicas e boletins informativos.
Aqui, falamos sobre a HealthNewsReview, cuja missão é "melhorar o diálogo público sobre cuidados de saúde, ajudando os consumidores a analisar criticamente as reivindicações sobre intervenções de cuidados de saúde e promover os princípios de tomada de decisão, reforçada por informações precisas, equilibradas e completas sobre os tradeoffs envolvidos em decisões de cuidados de saúde. A HealthNewsReview.org avalia o jornalismo de cuidados de saúde, publicidade, marketing, relações públicas e outras mensagens que podem influenciar os consumidores, e fornece critérios que os consumidores podem usar para avaliar essas mesmas mensagens”. Conversamos mais especificamente sobre os 10 critérios de revisão que aplicam às notícias de saúde que reveem; aqueles que são mais negligenciados; as razões pelas quais isso acontece; e soluções para estes problemas.
Kevin Lomangino Twitter: @KLomangino
HealthNewsReview website: https://www.healthnewsreview.org/
HealthNewsReview Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HealthNewsReview.org
HealthNewsReview Twitter: @HealthNewsRevu
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I also leave you with the link to