S1E48 Courage, Not Hope: Preparing for the Future (text)
ACT I Scene 1 How is the story of Being Human on Planet Earth supposed to end? There’s only one way that story can end, and we don’t want…
S1E46 The Evolution of Economics (text)
ACT I Scene 1 What is money? Get out a dollar bill. What kind of an invention is that? Is it technology? Is it a social development? Why…
S1E18 Religion and the Evolution of Conflicting Thought Processes (text)
(Posted out of order because the original had a technical issue.) ACT I Scene 1 Which came first in the evolution of our intelligence, science or religion? Both of…
S1E26 Black Theatre Artists Matter! (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Modern theatre began with Constantin Stanislavski’s discovery of his principles of acting that let actors produce realistic human behavior onstage consistently. That let the audience empathize…
A Generation of Heroes (text)
ACT I Scene 1 The environmental crisis is part of life now. Carbon dioxide has risen to levels it’s only reached a few times in the history of our planet,…
The Evolution of Science (text)
ACT I Scene 1 What does it mean in the 21st century to say that science is politically neutral? What does that mean for political activists? There was a…
Mental Obstacles within the Environmental Movement (text)
ACT I Scene 1 We know about the religious, economic, and political opposition to climate science and environmental activism. But there are a couple others that I’ve encountered in…
The Fundamental Sensory Illusion of the Environmental Crisis (text)
ACT I Scene 1 How far back in our past did the environmental crisis begin? At what point did people start misinterpreting how the environment works and making the…
The Environmental Crisis (text)
ACT I Scene 1 The environmental crisis is where Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion joined the story. The global environmental crisis was discovered in 1968, more than half…
The Biology of Patriarchy (text)
ACT I Scene 1 We’ve been talking about gender differences for 6 episodes now. Men and women reproduce differently, so our brains have evolved different reproductive instincts. Each pregnancy…