Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews

Episode 71 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses how our IQ’s are increasing, why that one song is stuck in your head, and whether we think or feel our way to decisions.Captions available for translation.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00 Intro00:15 Question 1 (IQ’s)00:09:39 Question 2 (Earworms)00:16:30 Question 3 (Thinking vs Feeling)

Episode 70 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include placebos, updates on Sapolsky’s lectures, and whether Israel is simply doing tit-for-tat.Captions available for translation.NOTE: we are not accepting more questions for the time being, but the form will be reopened soon.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00 Intro00:15 Question 1 (Placebos)15:03 Question 2 (Updated Lectures16:01 Question 3 (Israel: tit-for-tat?)

Episode 69 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on questions about sex, such as penis sizes, clothing as sexual modesty, BDSM and the relationship between arousal and fear, and why humans have face-to-face sex.Captions available for translation.NOTE: we are not accepting more questions for the time being, but the form will be reopened soon.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:23: Question 1 (Penis Sizes)00:15:36: Question 2 (Clothing as sexual modesty)00:18:14: Question 3 (BDSM)00:27:20: Question 4 (Missionary Position)

Episode 68 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses gestural expression, whether animals have political systems, and why others’ bodily secretions disgust us.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00 Intro00:19 Question 1 (Gestural expression)09:48 Question 2 (Animal politics)19:34 Question 3 (Bodily secretions)

Episode 67 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether night shift rotating is ideal, why we wince, and the hippocampal damage of PTSD.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:20: Question 1 (Night Shift rotating)00:15:30: Question 2 (Wincing)00:21:16: Question 3 (PTSD Hippocampal Atrophy)

Episode 66 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the optimal living environment for humans, how we forgive, and whether suicide attempts can really be predicted and prevented.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:43: Question 1 (Optimal living environment)17:13: Question 2 (The science of forgiveness)30:56: Question 3 (Suicide prediction)

Episode 65 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the 1% difference between human and chimp genomes, how stress hormones can be addictive, and if one can lose weight with a metaphorical diet.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:43: Question 1 (Genome differences)00:17:13: Question 2 (Stress hormone addiction)00:25:28: Question 3 (Metaphorical diets)

Episode 64 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the brain fog experienced during chemotherapy, the effects of Botox on emotion, and how many calories chess players burn.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:15: Question 1 (Chemo brain fog)13:53: Question 2 (Botox and emotions)24:55: Question 3 (Chess and calorie burning)

Episode 63 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the loss of smell in COVID-19, the 1983 Libet study, and the relative standing of current inequality.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:15: Question 1 (COVID and smell)10:22: Question 2 (Libet et al.)28:28: Question 3 (Inequality — better or worse?)

Episode 62 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the function of language brain regions in other apes and monkeys, the “developmental origin of health and disease” and the Dutch Hunger Winter, and how this applies to Palestine.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:15: Question 1 (Monkey and ape language brains)13:28: Question 2 (Dutch Hunger Winter)25:44: Question 3 (Applicability to Palestine)

Episode 61 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses de-extinction, parasocial relationships and Jennifer Aniston Neurons, and whether autism is genetically or environmentally caused (by vaccines).Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:15: Question 1 (De-extinction)09:06: Question 2 (Parasocial Relationships)26:11: Question 3 (ASD: Genes or environment)

Episode 60 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include Tourette Syndrome, whether free will and God are mutually exclusive, and the timeline of human sexual maturation.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:23: Question 1 (Tourette Syndrome)21:07: Question 2 (Free Will vs God)25:44: Question 3 (Human Sexual Maturation)

Episode 59 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses wiring of different languages, whether the Professor and Offspring pass the Marshmallow Test, and addictive qualities of non-suicidal self-injury.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:20: Question 1 (First and second language wiring)13:40: Question 2 (The Marshmallow Test)22:04: Question 3 (Non-suicidal self-injury)SUPPORT RESOURCESS.A.F.E. Alternatives (Self-Abuse Finally Ends) – Organization dedicated to helping people who self-harm, with a helpline at 1-800-366-8288FREE Support for Self-Injury | Text SH to 741741 : Simply text HOME or HOLA to 741741 to reach a live volunteer Crisis CounselorText SHOUT to 85258 to start an anonymous, free conversation with a trained volunteerhttps://giveusashout.org/get-help/issues/help-self-harm/#:~:text=Text%20SHOUT%20to%2085258%20to,anything%20that's%20on%20your%20mind

Episode 58 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the condition misophonia, what the “cute aggression” urge stems from, and whether female orgasms have a purpose. Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro01:37: Question 1 (Misophonia)12:09: Question 2 (Cute Aggression)22:43: Question 3 (Female Orgasms)

Episode 57 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include dopamine’s role in introversion/extroversion, drugs that create real-life zombies, and the religiosity of Alcoholics Anonymous.Social & WebsitesQuestion Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolskyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky00:00: Intro00:33: Question 1 (Introversion/Extroversion and dopamine)11:07: Question 2 (Real-life zombie drugs)26:04: Question 3 (Religiosity of AA)