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What Use Is The Female Orgasm? - David Puts - #559 Dec 01, 2022

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David Puts is a Professor of Anthropology at Penn State whose research focuses on the evolution and development of human sexuality and sex differences.

Apparently women orgasm. Why they do it however, has been a mystery for a long time. They don't need to in order to get pregnant. And sometimes they don't do it at all, for ages. So what use is the female orgasm, and what predicts the sort of partner who'll make it happen?

Expect to learn if the female orgasm is just a gatekeeper for oxytocin, whether more dominant male faces predicted earlier orgasm, why men competed for women through contests rather than sexual selection, how male-male aggression, not female selection drove the evolved differences between men and women, whether you can tell a person's personality from their voice pitch and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:46) Why Does the Female Orgasm Exist? (07:26) The Purpose of Released Hormones after Sex (16:53) Is Too Much Dominance Bad? (22:19) How Sexual Selection Occurs in Humans (28:36) Unique Traits of Male Development (37:55) Are Male Traits Only Developed for Survival? (43:28) How Does Male-Male Aggression Attract Females? (54:47) Is there a Difference Between Male & Female Mental Capabilities? (1:04:26) Telling Someone’s Personality From Their Voice (1:18:06) Where to Find David

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How To Take Charge Of Your Life's Direction - Tim Urban - #558 Nov 28, 2022

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Tim Urban is one of the internet's most popular writers and the founder of Wait But Why.

When we look to our past, many of us believe that we could have behaved differently, perhaps that we should have behaved differently. Yet when we look to the future we believe that our path is locked in and genuine change is difficult, this couldn't be more backward and Tim explains it in a number of obvious, face-palm-inducing ways.

Expect to learn what Tim thinks about Elon's takeover of Twitter, why leisure time when you're not supposed to be having leisure time is a curse, why you should absolutely not marry the wrong person, Tim's best advice for dealing with procrastination, how he copes with criticism from strangers and peers, how to avoid dwelling on decisions you didn't make and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:19) How Sword-fights Are Legal in Texas (05:11) Life is Too Short to Waste Time (12:44) Mistaking the Comfortable for the Enjoyable (17:49) How to Not Dwell on Painful Regrets (25:24) Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter (35:37) Maintaining Motivation in a Big Project (47:14) The Struggle to Choose a Partner (53:00) How to Deal with Criticism (1:01:55) Where to Find Tim

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How Billionaires Are Preparing For Doomsday - Douglas Rushkoff - #557 Nov 26, 2022

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Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, futurist, writer and documentarian.

The world's richest people are preparing for the end. They're buying up farming land and below-ground bunkers in New Zealand. What catastrophe is it that they think is about to happen? And what happens if technology creates a techno-hell instead of a techno-utopia?

Expect to learn what happens when you're invited to brief billionaires on the future downfall of the earth, whether having your own sovereign nation at sea is a realistic idea, whether it's possible to live in an underground missile silo with an indoor infinity pool, what mindset is driving this techno-paranoia and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:56) How Billionaires Are Preparing Now for Doomsday (08:26) What Introduced Douglas to this Subject? (16:31) The Possibilities of Seasteading (26:33) Society’s Knee-jerk Reaction of Totalitarianism (31:46) The Parts of Preparation that Billionaires Struggle with (37:59) Desire for a Better, More Enjoyable Future (51:28) How Individuals & Society Can Improve (1:01:07) Where to Find Douglas

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How Men Compete For Status - Rob Henderson - #556 Nov 24, 2022

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Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran.

Men fight. Sometimes they look silly when they fight. But they also collaborate and team up to take on common enemies. Women fight in very different ways that are less obvious, but no less vicious, and they sometimes try to even scupper their own teammates.

Expect to learn how men's judgements of formidability are better at predicting future sexual partners than women's judgements of attractiveness, why male intrasexual competition is so much more obvious, my theory around why men hate to hear that women like dad bods, why there are rules in a "no rules" street fight, what happens if you get kidnapped by an Amazonian tribe and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:53) Rob’s PhD Thesis (09:30) The Male Warrior Hypothesis (17:45) Are Men the Cause of Tribalism? (23:05) Chimp Aggression is 100x Human Aggression (29:23) Why Women Liking Dad-Bods Offends Men (47:35) Is Formidability in Men More Attractive Than Appearance? (54:58) Are Women More Attractive the More They Are Respected? (1:01:11) The Male Monkey Dance (1:12:25) Insights on Male Aggression from the The Bourne Identity Movies (1:19:56) Where to Find Rob

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The Psychological Impact Of Hormonal Birth Control - Dr Sarah Hill - #555 Nov 21, 2022

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Dr Sarah Hill is a psychologist and professor at TCU whose research focusses on women, health, and sexual psychology.

Women ovulate, and this changes their behaviour across their cycle. Unless they take hormonal birth control that is, in which case their behaviour changes even more dramatically in ways that no one anticipated and there is evidence to suggest that this might not just be temporary.

Expect to learn why hormonal birth control can make women prioritise wealth in men, why women who come off are less sexually satisfied with partners they chose when they were on birth control, the relationship between taking the pill with anxiety, depression, bisexuality and stress, whether it's a good thing for women to have sex with men who they wouldn't marry and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (02:23) How Hormonal Changes Influence Behaviour (07:27) Learning About Hormones Shouldn’t Be Uncomfortable for Women (15:57) The Consequences of Using Hormonal Birth Control (29:03) Is Birth Control a Cause of the Mating Crisis? (40:44) How Birth Control Impacts Sexual Orientation (46:23) Does Birth Control Increase Depression? (54:38) Can Men Sense Ovulation in Women? (1:02:12) Looking to the Future of Birth Control (1:09:45) Where to Find Dr Hill

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9 Strategies To Better Control Your Time - Laura Vanderkam - #554 Nov 19, 2022

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Laura Vanderkam is a time management expert and an author.

Time is non-renewable. It's the single most important asset we have, and yet almost everyone wishes they spent their time differently. Thankfully Laura has distilled 9 of her best strategies from years of coaching people on how to control their time more effectively.

Expect to learn what everyone is getting wrong when it comes to writing their to-do lists, why intentionality is such a crucial skill to develop, how having a bedtime can fix your daytime schedule issues, how to make boring routine tasks suck less, a simple solution to ensure you do hard things and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:22) Why Is Time Management So Overwhelming? (04:44) Common Errors in Managing Time (09:28) Creating a Life That You Enjoy (19:49) The Need to Set a Bedtime (25:06) Use Fridays for Planning (29:50) Do Physical Activity By 3pm (32:47) Form Habits by Doing Something 3x a Week (38:42) Creating Backup Slots in Your Schedule (43:19) One Big Adventure, One Little Adventure (50:12) Batching the Little Tasks in Life (1:00:19) Where to Find Laura

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The Evolutionary Psychology Of Friendship - Dr Jaimie Krems - #553 Nov 17, 2022

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Dr Jaimie Krems is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University and a social psychologist whose research explores human social cognition, emotions, and behaviour.

Evolution has shaped the way that men and women make and break friendships. It's made us into life-saving, caring, aggressive, jealous, friend-guarding, backbiting, gossiping animals, but why is it that male and female friendships are so different, plus a ton of other fascinating insights.

Expect to learn why a woman's body shape is so important to her attractiveness, why venting is a manipulative social strategy, how men with dad bods are literally perceived as better dads, why women who have casual sex are seen as having lower self-esteem even though there's no data to back it up, how a pro-life stance on abortion might be less virtuous than people first think and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:24) How Male & Female Friendships Differ (08:38) The Female Need to Vent (18:01) How Attractiveness Impacts Female Friendships (25:30) Finding a Balance of Jealousy (31:49) Perceiving Women’s Shapes & Sizes (41:54) Why Women Dress the Way They Do (47:56) Does Slut-Shaming Come More From Men Than Women? (55:33) Attitudes to Abortion as a Mating Strategy (1:06:47) Impact of Sexual Strategy on Religious Beliefs (1:11:26) Relationship Between Casual Sex & Self-Esteem (1:19:29) What’s Next for Jaimie’s Research (1:24:46) The Need for Friendship for Happiness (1:29:34) Where to Find Dr Krems

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Understanding The Wisdom Of Psychopaths - Dr Kevin Dutton - #552 Nov 14, 2022

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Dr Kevin Dutton is a psychologist, author, and elite performance consultant whose research focuses on persuasion and social influence, psychopathic personality and elite cognition.

Psychopaths get a bad rap. Perhaps understandably. They have a branding problem to say the least. But there are some personality traits like emotional control, focus, drive and single-mindedness that elite performers can model off of psychopaths to improve their effectiveness.

Expect to learn how psychopathy exists at all, why teams kicking second in a penalty shootout have a 30% greater chance of missing, why psychopath pilots in world war 2 didn't make it home even though they won their fights, how different accents can be more prejudiced against than different races, why splitting the world into categories creates a foundation for huge biases to occur and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (03:13) Why Does Psychopathy Exist? (10:05) Psychology of Penalty Shootouts (18:01) The Human Ability to Categorise (28:13) Lessons on Narrow Focus from Hoarders (38:55) Kevin’s Studies of Conmen (47:30) The Evolution of Super-Categories (55:49) Why a Different Accent Evokes Prejudice (1:02:13) How Brains Conflate Simplicity with Truth (1:11:33) Where to Find Dr Dutton

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How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness? - Patrick House - #551 Nov 12, 2022

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Patrick House is a neuroscientist and writer whose research focuses on free will and how mind-control parasites alter their host's behaviour.

If it wasn't for us experiencing it, the universe would give us no indication that consciousness even exists. The most fundamental part of human experience has many proposed explanations, but just how well-grounded are these, and what are we missing?

Expect to learn why removing parts of the brain change some aspects of the self but not all of them, what it's like for animals who can put half of their brain to sleep at once, how the brain is intimately linked with timekeeping, why almost all explanations of consciousness are unsatisfactory, what the future of brain-research looks like and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:18) Do Deep Thinkers Suffer More? (08:38) The Gradient Descent of a Single Cell (18:38) Why is Consciousness Research So Difficult? (29:35) The End Result of Consciousness (34:34) How the Brain is Similar to an iPhone (42:06) Animals Who Sleep While Their Brain is Awake (47:00) Conversations as Health-Checks for the Brain (57:57) The Analogy of the Pinball Machine (1:05:18) Adaptive Functionality of the Brain (1:10:43) Patrick’s Favourite Explanation of Consciousness (1:20:42) Where to Find Patrick

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