A WEEKLY PODCAST FOR SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION
THE
DARKHORSE
PODCAST
In weekly livestreams of the DarkHorse podcast, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying explore a wide range of topics, all investigated with an evolutionary lens. From the evolution of consciousness to the evolution of disease, from cultural critique to the virtues of spending time outside, we have open-ended conversations that reveal not just how to think scientifically, but how to disagree with respect and love.
We are scientists who hope to bring scientific thinking, and its insights, to everyone. Too often, the trappings of science are used to exclude those without credentials, degrees, or authority. But science belongs to us all, and its tools should be shared as widely as possible. DarkHorse is a place where scientific concepts, and a scientific way of thinking, are made accessible, without diminishing their power.
In the 21st century, many people feel like the world’s problems are too many, too large, and too technical for them to have any sense of what to do about them.
Evolution is a powerful concept, which can reveal a unifying logic, in which a thousand problems can be explained with powerful and relatively simple tools. This revelation has provided relief, and hope, to many in our audience.
We welcome everyone in our audience, and have among our listeners and viewers many who do not look or sound like ourselves.
We are politically liberal, former college professors, and evolutionary biologists. Among our audience are conservatives, people without college educations, and religious folk. We treat everyone with respect, and do not look down on those with whom we disagree.
Bret and Heather began The Evolutionary Lens in March 2020, as part of the larger DarkHorse podcast, which Bret started in 2019.
Join us live every week, or at any moment thereafter, for a wide-ranging, scientifically careful, humanistic discussion of our world, and the human condition.
AND REMEMBER:
Be good to the ones you love
Eat good food, and
Get outside.
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