Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews

Episode 100 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes how this podcast came to be, SSRI’s versus SNRI’s, gorillas and gibbons in Sapolsky life, and the allure (and neuroscience) of the occult.

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Question Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolsky
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00:00 Intro
00:00:51 Question 1 (Why This Podcast)
00:03:18 Question 2 (SSRI’s vs SNRI’s)
00:12:11 Question 3 (Gorillas)
00:16:16 Question 3 (Gibbons)
00:20:06 Question 3 (Belief in the occult)

Episode 99 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses whether cavemen actually existed and in what form, why we can feel weather in our limbs, and whether the age of consent should be raised to match brain maturation.

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Question Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolsky
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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Cavemen)
00:09:37 Question 2 (Feeling the weather)
00:12:55 Question 3 (Age of consent)

Episode 98 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of why blood pressure increase in exercise is a good thing, how loss of smell foreshadows Parkinson’s, and whether neural implants could be used to increase cognitive strength.

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Question Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolsky
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky

00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Benefits of exercise)
00:09:56 Question 2 (Parkinson’s smell loss)
00:18:31 Question 3 (Neural implants)

Episode 97 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether emotional associations with musical patterns are universal, if single genes can ever cause a psychiatric disorder, and how other primates provide medical care to themselves and others.

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Question Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolsky
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky

00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Music and emotions)
00:09:05 Question 2 (Singular gene causes)
00:18:35 Question 3 (Primate medical care)

Episode 96 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of the impacts of Buddhist practices on the brain, why out-of-Africa humans are less genetically diverse, and the truth about the viral “talking dogs” like Bunny. 

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Question Submission: https://ha66meqrpqz.typeform.com/sapolsky
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.sapolsky

00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Buddhism and the brain)
00:08:44 Question 2 (Out-of-Africa genetic diversity)
00:16:33 Question 3 (Talking Dogs)