Jack of All Graves

Ep. 148: Evolution & neurodivergence [w/ Boffin Eileen!]

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We’re in for a huge treat this week as our favorite scientist Eileen Marks-Nelson joins us once again, and absolutely BLOWS OUR MINDS with a look into the relationship between neurodivergence and evolution.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Eileen and Anna and Eileen about stupid and dangerous things people do for views on the internet
[40:07] We give a brief overview of our Christian backgrounds and why it brought us to this topic; plus an inevitable climate change and capitalist dystopia rant, and how we’re doing!
[49:27] What we watched! [High Spirits, Bloodz vs. Wolvez, Meet The Robinsons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Greener Grass, Wrath of Becky, The Pope’s Exorcist, Fear]
[79:23] Anna and Eileen’s terrible Christian science education is discussed
[101:13] Has neurodivergence ever been evolutionary advantageous? Is it now? Eileen explains!

Stuff we referenced:
  • The Masai Part II: A Glimpse of the Masai Diet at the Turn of the 20th Century — A Land of Milk and Honey, Bananas From Afar
  • TikTok ‘Liver King’ touted raw organ meat diet. He also took steroids.
  • The rise and fall of the Liver King—a social media sensation who is now being sued by his followers for $25 million
  • Meet the Scientist Studying How Humans Started Eating Meat
  • Meat-Eating Among the Earliest Humans
  • What’s Cookin’? Nothing, If You Were an Early Human
  • ‘Skull-Breaker Challenge’ going viral on TikTok could be fatal, doctors warn
  • Arizona mom warns others after son injured during TikTok challenge
  • Cherry Hill family warns of ‘skullbreaker’ challenge on TikTok
  • Colorado boy left brain-dead after TikTok ‘blackout challenge’ dies
  • Family warns of viral TikTok ‘Benadryl Challenge’ after daughter dies
  • The ‘high’ of becoming TikTok famous is killing millennials and Gen Zs
  • ‘I’ll buy anything TikTok tells me to’: A TikTok ‘nurse’ is pushing turpentine cures—don’t be fooled
  • Wellness influencers are telling followers potentially toxic doses of vitamins will protect them from the coronavirus
  • Wellness influencers like Belle Gibson promote dangerous pseudoscience as a cure for disease
  • Liver King eats testicle cereal
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