Episode description
Episode description
In this 108th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
This week, we talk about 12 important books, and the media, and the democrats, and public health messaging, and more.
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Q&A Link: https://youtu.be/hQM7CCYW4x8
Mentioned in this episode: Elaine Scarry’s Thinking in an Emergency
Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head
Oliver Sacks’ An Anthropologist on Mars
John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s Mother Nature
Chandler Burr’s The Emperor of Scent
Jerry Muller’s The Tyranny of Metrics
Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma
Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic
Rod Dreher’s Live Not By Lies
Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer
Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff
Sebastian Junger’s Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
And this, from The Hill: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/584905-biden-is-delivering-the-fastest-economic-recovery-in-history-why-hasnt