Bret and Heather 181st DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: The Slow Creep of Institutional Entropy

In this 181st 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.

In this episode we discuss higher ed—its goals and freedoms, how it is failing, what can be done to fix it. We discuss a thought experiment regarding the Special Olympics. We discuss new research on sex differences in certain kinds of cancers, and the reporting on it. And we talk a bit about hummingbirds.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Justice Frankfurter’s 1957 concurring opinion in Sweezy v New Hampshire: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep354/usrep354234/usrep354234.pdf

The Special Olympics: https://www.specialolympics.org

Nature News, June 21, 2023: How the Y chromosome makes some cancers more deadly for men: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01987-x

Weinstein and Ciszek 2002. The reserve-capacity hypothesis: evolutionary origins and modern implications of the trade-off between tumor-suppression and tissue-repair. Experimental gerontology 37(5):615-627.http://176.9.41.242/doc/longevity/2002-weinstein.pdf

LePage et al 2013. Genomic Imprinting Effects of the X Chromosome on Brain Morphology. Journal of Neuroscience 33(19): 8567-8574. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/19/8567

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Wait
(05:48) Welcome
(11:48) Sponsors
(20:28) Correction around universities
(58:38) Hummingbirds in the garden
(01:02:48) Thought experiment about Special Olympics
(01:19:41) Cancers impacting men and women
(01:43:00) Wrap up