Our Lives Matter S1E47: A Generation of Heroes
The environmental crisis, and the destruction it’s bringing, are part of life now. How do we adapt to that? Where do we find role models for adapting? We’ve all…
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 S1E42: The Environmental Crisis
The environmental crisis is caused by limitations in our perceptions. We think about things we want much more than we think about things we don’t want. When you buy…
Our Lives Matter S1E28: The Empathy Formula
We’re all human, and we’re all unique. How do we see through our unique differences to see our fundamental similarities? The Web of Human Behavior connected the first principles…
Our Lives Matter S1E19: Around the World in 40,000 Years, and 7 Failed Explanations of Race and Intelligence
Our ancestors originated in a small part of Africa and spread all over the world. They adapted to life in different places by using their intelligence to figure out how…
Our Lives Matter S1E18: Religion and the Evolution of Conflicting Thought Processes
Religion played an important role in the evolution of our species. Many people still feel it’s important today. But it can also lead people to make bad decisions. How…
Our Lives Matter S1E17: The Evolution of Religion
Human intelligence lets us see a big picture of the world, and makes us wonder how to see an even bigger picture. All over the world people have asked the…
Our Lives Matter S1E07: A Philosophy of Four Mathematical Laws
Math is the metaphysics of science. Every scientific discovery is the discovery of a mathematical pattern in the world. To tell a mathematical story of the world that people…