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Tim Ferriss • #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
This disconnect is often described as “the mismatch hypothesis” or simply “mismatch.” In academic circles, biologists call it “the evolutionary discordance hypothesis.” But whatever you call it, this gap between our evolutionary heritage and modern life is a truly wicked, unprecedented problem, one that begs for an explanation and a resolution.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
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amazon.comOver two thousand years later, in 1966, the University of Chicago held a symposium on primitive hunter-gatherer societies.…
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Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
work of Harvard economist and philosopher Amartya Sen in the 1980s, which led to the adoption of the Human Development Index by the UN Development Program. Sen urged the measurement not of commodities but of capabilities, the achievement of human potential. The Human Development Index is a crude attempt to do this, combining GDP with life expectanc
... See moreKieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
“[…] the glass of anthropological knowledge has become darkened by despondency, dystopian, and extinction theories. The earth is exhausted, and ontologies are dying. Many anthropological monographs read as funeral rites for communities. Alternatively, anthropologists offer hyper-micro studies of specific communities and their life worlds that still
... See moreExhibit D: Evolution can be fast. Human evolution did not stop or slow down 50,000 years ago. It sped up. Gene-culture coevolution reached a fever pitch during the last 12,000 years. We can’t just examine modern-day hunter-gatherers and assume that they represent universal human nature as it was locked into place 50,000 years ago. Periods of massiv
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Ever since the rise of agrarian civilizations, cultures have justified their domination over those they conquered by claiming innate superiority. In recent centuries, as Europeans subjugated other regions, a discourse of white supremacy—one that retains its pernicious power even today—asserted superiority over other races. Among those who recognize
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