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On this, our 346th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the Cornell 7, sex in modern times, and the plague. Civil charges have been brought against seven men and several institutions, including Cornell University, by a woman who claims to have been drugged and gang-raped in a fraternity house on campus in October 2024. We go through legal documents and journalism about what happened and discuss consent, drinking and drugs, the Greek system, and what sex has and has not become. Then: a woman has died of plague in Russia; is a global pandemic coming? We discuss what to look out for.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Anna Bower at Slip Opinion with Cornell 7 docs (including the DA, the Civil Suit, and Kretzschmar petition): https://annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-cornell-7-documents

NYT on what transpired at Cornell in the Fall of 2024: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/nyregion/cornell-rape-accusation-reporting.html

Cornell has a sex ed problem: https://jaredlederman.substack.com/p/cornell-has-a-sex-education-problem

Jennifer Bilek: https://x.com/bjportraits/status/2107171941014536280?s=20

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Signed Copies in Seven Languages 
00:05:34 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
00:08:55 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:10:33 Sponsor: Caraway
00:14:05 The Cornell 7 Case: A Misleading Name
00:18:23 Believe Women, or Wait for Evidence?
00:23:46 Why Sue Everyone? The Strike Price
00:30:11 Naive About Frats? Not Since 1987
00:36:03 In Everyone's Care, Custody and Control
00:42:31 Regret Is Not a Lack of Consent
00:45:41 Blame Cornell, Blame the Bar?
00:52:38 Kretzschmar's Negative Hair Test
00:59:05 Her Sworn Statement vs. the Lawsuit
01:07:23 How Her Account Changed
01:14:05 What Rape Once Took From a Woman
01:21:49 Two Strategies for Men, One for Women
01:27:25 Cornell's Sex Ed: Yes, No, Maybe So
01:36:28 Why Sex Belongs Behind a Closed Door
01:39:27 A Special Prosecutor and Mob Rule
01:42:07 Why Are We Fed These Stories?
01:50:38 Plague: A Lab Worker Dies in Siberia
01:53:15 Pneumonic, Bubonic, and a Starving Flea
01:57:56 Is This the Next COVID?
02:06:15 Watch the Tabletop Exercises
02:11:10 Tiger Cats of the Andes

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Jeffrey Tucker on the subject of the COVID story the establishment is willing to tell, and the much larger one it isn't.

Find Jeffrey Tucker on X at https://x.com/jeffreytucker and Brownstone Institute at https://brownstone.org.

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Mentioned on this episode:

- Brownstone Institute https://brownstone.org
- Cries for Help Buried in V-Safe Data https://brownstone.org/articles/cries-for-help-buried-in-v-safe-data/
- All-In Summit: Bill Gurley https://x.com/theallinpod/status/2101106499527282815
- React19 https://react19.org
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025–2030 https://realfood.gov
- Moderna product pipeline https://www.modernatx.com/research/product-pipeline

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 The Covid Story They'll Tell
00:06:03 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
00:08:26 Sponsor: VanMan
00:10:19 The Middle Ground Scramble
00:15:01 Why Great Barrington Had to Be Crushed
00:19:01 DEFUSE: An Answer Before the Inquiry
00:22:37 mRNA Was Supposed to Be Dead
00:27:45 Sponsor: Redmond Re-lyte
00:30:23 What Is a Vaccine Supposed to Do?
00:34:38 Why Wall Street Loves mRNA
00:42:18 Is Every Booster a Roll of the Dice?
00:56:21 V-Safe: The Injury Reports CDC Ignored
01:08:47 Sam Harris Asked: Where Are the Bodies?
01:12:07 Inflated Deaths and Rewritten Definitions
01:22:14 Can RFK Jr. Beat the Pharma Goliath?

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On this, our 345th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss immigration, AI, and rawness. First: a new Harper’s article chronicles the effects on local people of the mass migration across the Darién Gap in Panama between 2021 and 2025, and what has happened since the number of people coming up from Colombia has dropped to a trickle. The reporting on the ground is excellent—human and honest—while the political analysis is naïve at best. Then: what is it to be raw, how is it inherently human, and what is its relationship to grief, and to AI?
 

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Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan

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Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net
 
Thumbnail  Courtesy Getty Images: John Moore / Getty Images South America

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Mentioned in this episode:

Minding the Gap: https://harpers.org/2026/09/general-interest-minding-the-gap-belen-fernandez-jasmine-liu/

Fernández – At the Edge of Empire: https://harpers.org/archive/2026/10/at-the-edge-of-empire-belen-fernandez-panama-immigration-towns/

Heying – Raw: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/raw

Crawford, Why We Drive: [can you create an affiliate link for this] https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Drive-Toward-Philosophy/dp/0062741969/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y-PChdMBwHIDKvANAvihY7QLld0SKDGsAFdX8CZrjpTCa4LSx-TBsJo41Sl6JPbm-Ag2zIDy2woM-RCOjRAS0caXHPTH9ozjlifRrjsqc9Q.XcCZSCGXxdZVue61CBJ8YSVti4Emu5qyMkb7a1mFUiw&qid=1790800365&sr=8-2

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Boredom Makes the Time Go Slow
00:03:57 Sponsor: Cozy Earth
00:07:35 Sponsor: Puori
00:09:22 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
00:12:05 Fat Bear Week: The Prepper's Mascot
00:16:40 Back to the Darién Gap
00:18:52 Invasion or Migration? Both.
00:24:24 How America Carved Panama From Colombia
00:30:33 Is a Boom Now a Right?
00:35:41 Where Did the Aid Organizations Go?
00:40:53 The Surge Was Too Fast to Be Organic
00:44:41 Why There's No Road Through the Darién
00:46:31 Great Reporting, Bad Geopolitics
00:51:00 Mayorkas, HIAS, and the Chinese Camp
00:52:10 Deport Only the Worst of the Worst?
00:58:09 This Is All of Us
01:02:12 Migration as Osmotic Pressure
01:06:15 The Feminization of Systems
01:10:01 Raw: Unprocessed, Unfiltered, Unclothed
01:21:02 The AI That Couldn't Lace a Wheel
01:27:27 Speedometer vs. the Wind in Your Hair
01:33:16 The Rawness of Grief
01:35:41 Why Can't Sociopaths Fake Grief?
01:39:59 Real Grief Is Raw. AI Is Cooked.
01:42:34 Playgrounds With Nails Sticking Out

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Bret Weinstein speaks with John Cullen on the subject of the unanswered questions surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.

Find John Cullen on X at https://x.com/I_Am_JohnCullen and on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/cw/IAMJOHNCULLEN. 

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Mentioned on this episode:

- Was Charlie Kirk Killed With a Drone? Viva Frei and Jimmy Dore on DarkHorse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO76X9CFhUI

- How Many Shooters? John Cullen on the Trump Assassination Attempt (July 2024): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hKuo2qW6uE

- Multiple Shooters? John Cullen & Clay Martin (TPC #1,538): https://rumble.com/v592bhg-multiple-shooters-john-cullen-and-clay-martin-tpc-1538.html


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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Can You Trust a Man With a Pen Name?
00:01:39 Tyler Robinson, Acting Alone?
00:03:42 Sponsor: Lovebird Cereal
00:05:33 Why John Cullen Is Irrelevant
00:22:10 Sponsor: Mars Men
00:23:07 A Pentagon Spy Plane at UVU
00:32:24 Back 25 Minutes After the Shot
00:57:31 The Drones Nobody Wants to Explain
01:10:42 Bird of Prey: A Rifle That Flies
01:17:55 The Round Left on the Roof
01:37:34 Why Was There No Exit Wound?
01:43:27 Butler and the Spiral of Silence
01:50:42 Wouldn't Someone Have Seen It?
01:59:37 Las Vegas: No Shots From the Window
02:05:31 Was the Real Target MBS?
02:19:47 Three Women, a Minivan, 24 Guns
02:27:35 Flushing Out the Crown Prince
02:39:46 Who Broke the Window?
02:47:01 The Deadliest Gunman in History?

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On this, our 344th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss new cats, fat bears, and overwhelmed frogs. The tilcayo, a newly named species of cat from Bolivia, is part of a group of New World “tiger cats” that live on the outskirts of the Amazon basin. We discuss Carnivoran relationships, cats more specifically, and what is known about the history and ecology of the tilcayo in particular. Then: it’s fat bear week at Katmai National Park in Alaska, where grizzlies are fattening themselves on salmon for the Winter ahead; we discuss hibernation, reproductive diapause, and general chonkiness in bears. Finally: female Cope’s gray treefrogs have a harder time choosing good mates when there’s a lot of noise, and when there are too many suitors—kind of like how women often make bad choices when confronted with chaos and wingmen.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Lescroart & Nogales-Ascarrunz et al 2026. Phylogenomics and museomics reveal five distinct species of tiger cats in South America. Current Biology 36: 1-15: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)01110-3

National Geographic’s tilcayo pics: https://news.nationalgeographic.org/photos-new-wild-cat-species/

Meet the bears: https://explore.org/meet-the-bears#h_75305921118711789688140871

Hemingway et al 2026. Choice overload constrains mate choice independent of energetic masking. iScience 29: 1-13: https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-0042%2826%2902464-8 

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 It Smells Like Autumn

00:01:42 Cats, Fat Bears, and Overwhelmed Frogs

00:05:23 Sponsor: Cowboy Colostrum

00:09:23 Sponsor: CrowdHealth

00:12:01 Sponsor: Branch Basics

00:16:00 The Tilcayo: A Brand-New Cat

00:20:30 An Orphaned Kitten in the Andes

00:23:45 Inside Phylogenetics

00:28:19 Carnivores vs. Carnivorans

00:29:56 Hyenas: Cat Adjacent, Not a Cat

00:37:36 The Answer Is Software

00:44:48 Meet the Tilcayo

00:46:51 Five Cryptic Species of Tiger Cat

00:50:01 Why So Many Little Cats?

00:59:15 Sympatric, Allopatric, or Parapatric?

01:01:47 Apologies to the Dog People

01:03:57 80% Neurotic, 10% Psychotic

01:07:37 A Raccoon, a Lemur, and a Wild Kitten

01:13:33 Fat Bear Week

01:18:12 The Bears' Cupboard Strategy

01:23:45 Yes, Bears Have Diapause

01:26:26 Strategy, Luck, or Dominance?

01:33:26 Overwhelmed Frogs

01:39:19 Why Are Frog Choruses So Loud?

01:45:29 What Counts as a Good Choice?

01:47:07 Clubs, Wingmen, and Bad Decisions

01:51:05 Hot Guys With Less to Say

01:52:02 Be Good to the Ones You Love

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On this, our 343rd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss logic and scientific thinking, as it is done on politically hot topics (e.g. 9/11, Charlie Kirk), and on calmer topics like whether retrievers like to fetch (or just think that we like them to fetch), and whether domestic cats see people as big, clumsy cats. Putting all the hypotheses on the table, working hard to falsify even—especially—your favorite ones—and ending up with one left standing, is the scientific way, and how we arrive at answers that are most likely to be true.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Bret’s talk in NYC, 9-10-26, at Turning the Tide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9tol-sQZAM&t=4s

Shermer tweet: https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2099207300695429427

Dog fetch: https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2079691639153664273

Neighborhood punk cat: https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2093574318181474321
 
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Timestamps: 
 

00:00:00 Why 343 Beats 243

00:01:12 Unbelievably Stupid, Apparently

00:04:36 Sponsor: Ridge

00:08:29 Sponsor: Dose

00:10:53 Sponsor: Puori

00:12:43 When Logic Gets Suspended

00:17:05 Reading Shermer's Tweet Aloud

00:22:25 Just Asking Questions is Normal

00:28:17 Hypotheses on the Table

00:33:41 Is This the Right Moment?

00:41:38 Do Dogs Really Like to Fetch?

00:46:56 Testing Fetch with a Machine

00:52:49 Are Cats Just Big Clumsy Cats?

01:01:18 Cats Talk to You, Not to Cats

01:05:10 Fairfax's Nightly Gifts

01:19:37 Chimeric Testes

01:29:40 That Was 343

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Joel Salatin, whom he calls “one of the wisest people” he’s ever met, on the subject of soil, stewardship, and the kind of knowledge you can only get by doing.

Find Joel Salatin, owner of Polyface Farm on X at https://x.com/JoelSalatin and https://www.thelunaticfarmer.com

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Polyface Farm https://polyfacefarm.com

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front https://amzn.to/4gS6rD7  (commission earned)

Beavers? Bret Weinstein Speaks with Jakob Shockey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBmKwQ9SPt0

Brownstone Institute https://brownstone.org 

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan https://amzn.to/46oGfd5 (commission earned)

Greening the Desert Project (Geoff Lawton) https://www.greeningthedesertproject.org

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 One of the Wisest People 
00:01:15 Trump Spent His Political Equity
00:03:37 Sponsor: Sundays for Dogs
00:05:26 Sponsor: VanMan
00:07:19 Who Benefits? Bayer, JBS, & Trump
00:11:37 There Are No Global Problems
00:15:24 The Farm You Can Feel
00:19:30 Sponsor: Redmond Relyte
00:24:03 Biological or Mechanical?
00:28:13 Where Hubris Should Be Humility
00:31:32 Dominion Is a Destructive Idea
00:37:55 Petroleum Was Our Chance to Repair
00:39:35 North America Grew More Food in 1500
00:43:35 All True Stories Must Reconcile
00:48:35 Ice Age or Crispy Critters?
00:55:08 Bret’s Stadium of What He’s Burned
00:57:31 Learn a Skill
01:01:54 Not Wrong to Feel Betrayed
01:03:46 Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
01:10:23 Who Should Inspect Your Carrot?
01:18:28 All Regulations Are Scale Prejudicial
01:21:04 Food Emancipation

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On this, our 342nd Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss men, women, and feminism; and the love of our pets. Gloria Steinem died at 92 this week. She exposed working conditions at Playboy clubs in the 1960s by going undercover as a bunny; founded Ms. Magazine in the 1970s; took Ms. ad free in the 1990s, and became a feminist icon. We discuss her legacy, both good and bad. Then: cats, dogs, and the differences between them.

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Mentioned in this episode:

NYT obit of Steinem: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/politics/gloria-steinem-dead.html

A Bunny’s Tale: https://archive.org/details/a-bunnys-tale/page/n15/mode/2up 

Heying 2022: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02278-0

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On this, our 341st Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss two lives well-lived, both of which ended on August 31, 2026: our beloved labrador Maddie, and Wendell Berry. Maddie was adventurous and loyal; she helped raise our children; and she gave unconditional love. Wendell Berry was a writer, an environmentalist, and a philosopher and defender of the land, and of traditional ways of being and doing. He died at 92 at his home in Kentucky, having lived a deep life farming, thinking, and writing.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Wendell Berry in 2012 in Humanities: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/mayjune/conversation/wendell-berry-landsma

Berry obit in NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.htm

The Peace of Wild Things: https://amzn.to/4zQkzE6  (commission earned)

The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture: https://amzn.to/4zTQV0S (commission earned)

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 A Rough One Today
00:02:07 Sponsor: Timeline
00:06:01 Sponsor: Cowboy Colostrum
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On this, our 340th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the recent flash flood on the border of Nepal and Tibet, climate science, and the nature of evidence. What commonalities are there between a glacial dam breaking and flooding the valley below, taking out towns and villages; Dry Falls and the Columbia River Gorge in Washington state; the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean; and the 2011 earthquake that resulted in the destruction of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan? In some cases we have to infer what happened; in some cases we have direct observation; in all cases we have to construct a plausible story that fits all of the evidence. Meanwhile in climate science, a new paper reconstructs NOAA data from 1,200 weather stations from over 100 years, uses a different metric than NOAA does to describe the data, and concludes that the world—or at least the coterminous U.S.—is not heating up in the way we have been told. We discuss.

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Mentioned in this episode:

New York Post on flood: https://nypost.com/2026/08/26/world-news/flood-hits-china-nepal-border-leaving-many-dead-and-missing/
 
Flood video: https://x.com/weaponizedwheat/status/2092652586935763289?s=46
 
More flood video: https://x.com/charlesarthur/status/2092613128387211617?s=20
 
Christy 2026. Declines in hot and cold daily temperature extremes in the conterminous US, 1899–2025. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 157(5): 309: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-026-06200-3
 
Epoch Times: https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/climatologist-says-a-century-of-weather-data-contradicts-claims-of-record-heat-6072358

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 When Can You Trust Your Own Eyes?
00:03:49 Sponsor: Ethos
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00:10:35 Sponsor: Puori
00:12:55 Infinite Paper for a Paperless World
00:18:38 Disaster on the Nepal-Tibet Border
00:22:19 Only 10% of Those Who Get Wet Survive
00:28:25 Dry Falls, the Largest Waterfall Ever
00:33:13 But Where Did the Water Come From?
00:35:27 Glacial Lake Missoula Explodes
00:41:58 The Flash Flood That Nearly Killed Us
00:44:26 Flash Flood vs. Mountain Tsunami
00:48:10 Japan Built Below the Stones
00:55:52 The Huascarán Debris Avalanche
01:00:45 What Boxing Day Taught the World
01:05:35 Declines in Hot and Cold Extremes
01:14:02 Means vs. Extremes
01:17:34 The License to Discard Outliers
01:22:55 The Records NOAA Left Out
01:27:33 Systematic vs. Random Error
01:31:12 How It's Supposed to Be Done
01:36:28 Frogs Next Time

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