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  • Dire Wolves and Beautiful Hubris
    Apr 12 2025

    Today Dr. Josh Stout discusses the dangers and beauties that can arise from our hubris.

    00:00 Dire Wolves and Beautiful Hubris

    00:56 The Dire Wolf is Back from the Dead

    01:49 Hubris as a Driver of Change, Art and Great Works

    03:27 Hubris in the Natural World - The White Throated Sparrow Song

    06:08 Hubris, Ego, Genius and Transcendent Beauty

    06:43 The Hubris of the Greeks, The Trojan War and the End of Civilisation

    09:12 Hunris: a two sided coin

    09:48 What is a Dire Wolf

    10:40 Colossal Bioscience is recreating the Dire Wolf

    12:49 The Answer to "Why?": Hubris. Maybe not right, but still very beautiful.

    17:01 How the Dire Wold was Re-Created

    19:53 Dr. Stout reads from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

    21:43 Wooly Mice, Wooly Mammoth and Dodos

    24:53 Wolves and Dogs - Our Oldest Mammal Companion by Far

    29:06 There is some evidence that we hunted with ancient dogs/wolves - or were we hunted?

    32:39 Rome is beautiful and, you know, you blood stained streets everywhere, but. Oh, my God, it's so gorgeous.

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    35 min
  • Treating ADHD With Diet and Lifestyle
    Apr 2 2025

    Calming ADHD with dopamine gardening of the microbiome.

    00:00 Treating ADHD With Diet and Lifestyle 01:23 ADHD is a low dopamine condition 02:05 The Gut, The Vagus Nerve and The Brain, a Deep Relationship 03:19 As Individuals, We Are Communities 03:32 Where the Dopamine Happens: The Limbic System and Basal Ganglia 04:31 What Makes You A Working Animal: Dopamine 05:51 The Special Badness of the Combination of Sugar and Fat - Especially for ADHD Sufferers 07:32 Context is of the Utmost Importance 09:58 Modulate the Height of Insulin Spikes to Reduce Triggers of Addictive Behaviors 12:34 Complex Carbohydrates Spread Out the Dopamine Reward and Allow You to Stay On Target 13:16 Soluble or Non Soluble Fiber? 14:18 The Bacteria In You: The Fiber-Based Metabolism, and Dopamine 15:58 Complexity and Variety in One's Diet is Healthy and a Reward 18:00 Easy Things Can Be Healthy and Provide Reward 21:43 Probiotics and ADHD

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    26 min
  • Brain Size Determines Psychology
    Mar 2 2025

    Today Dr. Josh Stout discusses how our psychological evolution is necessitated by our physiological evolution; big brains = big emotions

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    31 min
  • Stories from the Underground Railroad
    Feb 15 2025

    Through family stories and historical records, Dr. Josh Stout discusses how abolitionists orchestrated the daring rescue of Jane Johnson and others, as confrontations between state and federal authorities eerily mirror today's developing constitutional battles.

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    42 min
  • ADHD As a Superpower
    Jan 31 2025

    Low dopamine causes ADHD which is a disability but also a super power. Constantly seeking new stimulation can drive research and innovation, but what happens when a whole society is addicted to dopamine stimulation and we have no attention left to give?

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    16 min
  • A New Dopamine Model Explaining ADHD
    Jan 29 2025

    Dopamine mediated desire and reward explains why when dopamine is reduced we increasingly show ADHD symptoms. We combine low motivation with frantic reward seeking due to low dopamine.

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    16 min
  • Sumer and the Birth of Religion
    Jan 14 2025

    The Sumerians were ancient when the pyramids were built. Their religion and culture shaped ours, yet they were forgotten for 3,000 years.

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    28 min
  • True Crime, Archaeology, and Art
    Jan 14 2025

    There is a hill around the Tigris or Euphrates that has bulldozers digging into a lost civilization from the period of Sumer. From the very earliest civilizations on Earth, they are destroying their own heritage right now and selling it to me.

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    21 min