Episode 109 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the work of the late Robert Trivers, the intrusive thoughts that are the Call of the Void, and when animals adopt their own and other species.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Robert Trivers)

00:23:57 Question 2 (Call of the Void)

00:35:58 Question 3 (When Animals Adopt)

Episode 108 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include why the Bubonic (Black) Plague went away, how hurricanes induce labor, and when the prefrontal cortex is too effective.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:13 Question 1 (How the Black Plague disappeared)

00:16:00 Question 2 (Hurricanes and births)

00:24:04 Question 3 (Overactive PFC’s)

Episode 107 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of how one mushroom causes a very specific hallucination, and the real-life hobbits who once existed.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Tiny People hallucinations)

00:09:42 Question 2 (Hobbits)

Episode 106 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses if there’s any validity to the White/Great Replacement Theory, the details of the glymphatic system, and the global phenomenon of Punch the Monkey.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (White Great Replacement Theory)

00:11:30 Question 2 (Glymphatic system)

00:21:19 Question 3 (Punch the monkey)

Episode 105 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include Rachel’s shock bracelets, the price of atheism, how to discuss banned topics, and the pathological “happiness” of mania. 

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Rachel’s shock bracelets)

00:04:08 Question 2 (Atheism and Taboo Topics)

00:21:20 Question 3 (Pathological happiness in mania)

Episode 104 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how the Default Mode Network fails in depression, why cultures do cranial deformation, and the evolutionary journey of monogamy.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:13 Question 1 (Default Mode Network in depression)

00:16:20 Question 2 (Cranial Deformation)

00:24:26 Question 3 (Pair-bonding in mammals)

Episode 103 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the woman who is able to smell Parkinson’s, the ratio of brain to body mass, and the role of ritualistic physical harm in religion.

NOTE this episode contains semi-graphic discussion of acts of physical harm.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (The Woman Who Smells Parkinson’s)

00:14:25 Question 2 (Brain body ratios)

00:19:38 Question 3 (Ritualistic harm in religion)

Episode 102 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the status of the reintroduced Galápagos tortoise species, why we get food comas, and the mysterious world of weasel war dances.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Tortoise updates)

00:05:10 Question 2 (Food comas)

00:15:16 Question 3 (Weasel war dances)

Episode 101 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include if and why humans are getting taller overall, what caused us to evolve without tails, and the pros and cons of senescence.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Human Heights)

00:15:22 Question 2 (How we lost our tails)

00:24:40 Question 3 (Senescence)

Episode 100 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes how this podcast came to be, SSRI’s versus SNRI’s, gorillas and gibbons in Sapolsky's life, and the allure (and neuroscience) of the occult.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:51 Question 1 (Why This Podcast)

00:03:18 Question 2 (SSRI’s vs SNRI’s)

00:12:11 Question 3 (Gorillas)

00:16:16 Question 4 (Gibbons)

00:20:06 Question 5 (Belief in the occult)