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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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Calming ADHD with dopamine gardening of the microbiome.

00:00 Treating ADHD With Diet and Lifestyle

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Ibn Khaldun wrote in the 14th century and spoke about the spiral nature of history. He saw the Mongol invasion do the exact same thing the contemporary rebels just did - move through the same cities in the same order because that's the only way to get to Damascus. And it happened very quickly.

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How Balancing Selection keeps our two party system in unstable equilibrium to the benefit of the ultra wealthy 1 percent.

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