The History of Being Human
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The History of Being Human
History, anatomy and physiology, philosophy, psychology, anthropology. The podcast that attempts to resurrect sense and meaning from the dust of a billion factoids.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-history-of-being-human--5806452/support.
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HBH 64: Homo Antecessor: The Disturbing Dead End Cannibals of Atapuerca
Recent finds in the Atapuerca site in Spain have confirmed and expanded our understanding of the tates and culinary practices of Homo antecessor. Thi...
HBH 63: Overkill! The Ongoing End of the Megafauna with Dr. Rhys Lemoine
Rhys Taylor Lemoine is a postdoctoral researcher in extinction, megafauna, rewilding, and novel ecosystems. Today he speaks to us about the late quate...
HBH 62: Megafauna Extinction Mystery
In the late quaternary period, from about 50 to 10 thousand years ago, vast populations of large animals died out. Among them are some of the most ic...
HBH 61: The Moral Circle (Best Humans Ever Intro)
In this episode we begin a groundbreaking, never-before-attempted, altogether unprecedented series on the history of being human.
We ar...
HBH 60: The Ship of Theseus and Personal Identity Through Time
On this episode we cover the famous, ancient "Ship of Theseus" thought experiment, and then stretch it into relevance for the very modern possibility...
HBH 59: The Perils and Promise of Bipedalism
Being Bipedal was a key step in becoming human. Many of our other abilities, and liabilities, began with bipedalism. On this episode:
Wh...
HBH Short: The Inscrutable, Inexorable Arrow of Time
Borges wrote:
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroy...
HBH Short: The Mystery of Deja Vu
Most of us have had the feeling that we have experienced something before that we know we could not have expereinced before. It can vary intensity fr...
HBH 58: The Death of John Allen Chau
Today we go in depth about the death of John Allen Chau in 2018, including a complete reading of his own personal diary of the terrifying, disturbing...
HBH 57: Extreme Tribalism -- The North Sentinelese and the Death of John Allen Chau
Part 1: The most tribal of tribes, the Sentinelese of North Sentinel Island
We don't know much about them. We don't know what they call t...
HBH 56: The Psychopathography of Adolf Hitler
Hitler was a failure who achieved the opposite of nearly all of his stated intentions.
But was he insane as well?
His lif...
HBH 55: The Gruesome Wretched Death of Herod the Great
He's one of the most reviled people in Western history -- a man whose cruelty, jealousy, and violence are proverbial. And yet his legacy is much more...
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HBH 54: Homo Erectus
The OG, greatest generation of Human ever! At least if your metric is a dogged determination to keep existing.
For 2 million years these...
HBH 53: 23,000 Year-Old White Sands Footprints with Dr. Edward Jolie
This week I wander off the topic of Life Extension (more next episode) to take advantage of an opportunity to interview an anthropologist about the Wh...
HBH 52: Human Lifespan, Aging, and Death
It is time to take a trip to that Undiscovered Country and visit our greatest teacher. How long do we live, how long did we live, and why don't we ju...
HBH 51: Quantum Entanglement
In this episode we cover the underpinnings of the either/or, cause-then-effect, deterministic, distance-separates-things, no-info-travels-faster-than-...
HBH 50: Schrödinger's Cat Made Easy
To paraphrase Richard Feynman: If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
Along the same line...
HBH 49: What is Truth?
At Long Last - Pilate's Old Question Will Get an Answer!
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HBH 48: Night Vermin Triumphant
In this episode, the massive, rapacious king power lizards of the Cretaceous are finally taken off the board by an asteroid. We trace the origins and...
HBH 47: Life on the Installment Plan Redux
Continuing with the origins of everything that is, I present the history of planet Earth, from its birth to the age of mammals.
Included...
HBH 45: The Omphalos and the Oracle at Delphi
Attention: This is the episode that started the podcast -- the story of the maxim Know Thyself, the Prophetess at Delphi, Apollo and the python, Zeus...
HBH 44: Changes Coming To A Podcast Near You
In this brief announcement I discuss the philosophy and rationale for content choices and discuss a few changes coming to the podcast.
It...
HBH 43: The Mysterious, Tragic Death of Edgar Allen Poe
From the new Studio P, provided by Peyton, comes the death of Poe. In a sad case of life imitating art, Edgar Allen Poe, the master of the macabre and...
HBH 42: Alexander the Great's Amazing Life and Mysterious Death
Alexander was a prodigy in all things military and administrative, as unaccountably great in his own field as Mozart was in music or Michelangelo in a...
HBH 41: Friedrich Nietzsche's Mysterious Descent into Madness and Death
At the age of 44, Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most influential philosophers and writers of his age, suffered a psychotic breakdown. For the next 1...
HBH 40: King Tut's Mysterious Mother and her Mysterious Death
Even King Tut had a mother. Once. And not for very long, it seems. This episode is actually several mysteries in one. Who was King Tut's mother? Why...
HBH 39: The Death of King Tut
Tutankhamen died at 19 years old. No one is sure why or how. His tomb, his mummy, and his DNA offer some tantalizing clues, but no definitive answer....
HBH 38: Anaximenes and His Air Get Their Due
The third and final member of the Milesian school, once considered the weak little sister of the philosphers, now appreciated in all his Air-udite glo...
HBH 37: Anaximander of Miletus
Today we take a long, hard look at the great Anaximander, the second member of the Milesian School, and possibly one of the most influential thinkers...
HBH 36: The Greek Dark Ages, The Archaic Age, and Thales the Wise
In this episode we begin a series on the beginnings of "Western" thought and science. We start with the catastrophy of the Mycenean Collapse, the Gree...
HBH 35: Dyatlov Deaths on Dead Mountain 2
Today, part 2 of the Dyatlov Pass mystery. What killed the 9 expert, fit trekkers on Dyatlov Pass in 1959? Is the mystery finally solved? In this epi...
HBH 34: The Radioactive KGB Yeti UFO Bear on the Mountain of Death
This is actually the story of the Dyatlov Pass deaths of 1959 -- an event that remains mysterious and controversial to this day. 9 healthy Russian At...
HBH 33 The Fundamental Nature of Physical Reality
There are some things you just have to know to keep up with the headlines. Things that, in some cases, provide crucial insights into who we are and ho...
HBH 32: The Texas Tower Tumor of Terror
Today we cover the story of Charles Whitman, the erstwhile normal and successful young scout, altar boy, and marine sharpshooter who, in the course of...
HBH 31: The Terror of Torquemada
A late entry into the worst people ever compendium, Tomas de Torquemada, the first and greatest Grand Inquisitor of The Spanish Inquisition. A man wh...
HBH 30: Three Trials of Joan of Arc
In this episode we conclude our series on the inquisition with the story of Joan of Arc with her three "trials:" 1. The Examination at Poitiers (link...
HBH 29: The Short, Astonishing Life of Joan of Arc
Here it is: the pious childhood, the voices, the missions, the uncanny miraculous insights, the fearless warring, the taunting and threatening, the te...
HBH 28: The Life and Trials of Joan of Arc
In this episode we set the stage for the story of Joan of Arc, one of the most enigmatic and fascinating people in history. To understand Joan we hav...