Our Lives Matter S1E45: The Evolution of Science
Science today depends on the same five steps of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate as it did 500 years ago. But how has the role of science in…
Our Lives Matter S1E44: Mental Obstacles within the Environmental Movement
Why are some environmental activists opposed to science? We can use the Web of Human Behavior as a map to follow people’s motivations. Why do people become environmental activists? …
Our Lives Matter S1E43: The Fundamental Sensory Illusion of the Environmental Crisis
We naturally perceive some parts about how the environment works better than we perceive other parts of it. Those are the things we have to learn about to understand. Our…
Our Lives Matter S1E41: The Biology of Patriarchy
Patriarchy is an ongoing political system of men assuming they’re supposed to get what they want from women, and expecting women to go along with it. How does it start? …
Our Lives Matter S1E40: The Biology of Good Relationships
Men and women have many different feelings about relationships. Relationships both partners are happy with always have some important things in common. If men keep those in mind, it’s much…
Our Lives Matter S1E39: The Biology of Consent
Men and women have a lot of different feelings surrounding sex. Some of those feeling can lead men to not notice, not care, or not feel it’s important, that women…
Our Lives Matter S1E38: The Biology of Sexual Assault
Relationships between men and women get complicated because our different reproductive instincts make us want different things from relationships. That makes some men misunderstand, or not ever care, about women…
Our Lives Matter 37: The Mathematics of Gender Differences
Men are fertile much later into their lives than women are. That means there have always been more fertile men in the world than fertile women. That means there…
Our Lives Matter S1E36: The Biology of Attraction
Men and women each have their own ways of reproducing physically. That means we have different instincts for reproducing. Part of our reproductive instincts are instincts for being attracted to…
Our Lives Matter S1E35: The Biology of Gender Differences
Men and women reproduce differently. That’s why we have different reproduction organs. That also means we have different reproductive instincts for the best ways to reproduce. The differences in…