Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews

Episode 133 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the work of Stanford’s Karl Deisseroth that earned him his recent Nobel Prize, as well as a deep dive into the research on whether wealthier people really are more selfish.

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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Deisseroth’s Nobel Prize winning work)
00:22:57 Question 2 (Wealth and empathy/selfishness)

Episode 132 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include what hemispherectomies teach us about neuroplasticity, and the strange new “sport” that is sperm racing.

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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Hemispherectomies and neuroplasticity)
00:18:22 Question 2 (Sperm racing)

Episode 131 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of laughing diseases and similar “epidemics,” and the role that hookworms play in our immune systems, as well as touching on the case at Cornell that is dominating headlines.

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00:00 Intro/A Comment on Cornell
00:00:48 Question 1 (Laughing diseases)
00:26:09 Question 2 (Hookworms and our immune systems)

Episode 130 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the worldwide falling fertility rates, and whether this is a concern for humankind, as well as the theories as to why we have this mysterious thing called a bladder.

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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Dropping fertility rates)
00:20:17 Question 2 (Why we have bladders)

Episode 129 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include how birth order actually influences personality, sexual orientation, and IQ (among other traits), and the leading theories on why we and other species yawn, along with how yawns just might be extremely sexy.

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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (The effect of birth order)
00:20:17 Question 2 (Yawning)