Little Brains Big Topics

William M. Arkin (born May 15, 1956) is an American political commentator, best-selling author, journalist, activist, blogger, and former United States Army soldier. He has previously served as a military affairs analyst for the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Checkout Bill Arkin's latest book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57007985-on-that-day Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the episode! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LittleBrainsBigTopics You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

If anyone wants the virology paper about Lab Leak email me at: littlebrainsbigtopics@gmail.com and I will send you the PDF. Paul Allan Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Former Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1992-2014), and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Offit is a Board Member of Every Child By Two and a Founding Board Member of the Autism Science Foundation. Offit has published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety, and is the author or co-author of books on vaccines, vaccination, and antibiotics. He is one of the most public faces of the scientific consensus that vaccines have no association with autism. As a result, he has been the frequent target of hate mail and death threats. Checkout Paul Offit's New Book: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/paul-a-offit-md/you-bet-your-life/9781541620391/ Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the episode! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LittleBrainsBigTopics You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

*Correction: Donald Hoffman is currently a Professor at Emeritus University. Donald D. Hoffman is a Full Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Emeritus. He is the author of Visual Intelligence, as well as over one hundred scholarly articles on various aspects of human perception and cognition. He received a distinguished Distinguished Scientific Award of American Psychological Association for early career research into visual perception, the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation, and the Troland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences. His TED Talk entitled “Do we see reality as it is?” has been viewed over 2.5 million times. In this interview we discuss his latest book, The Case Against Reality. Buy The Case Against Reality: Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NMRRJ48/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/The-Case-Against-Reality-audiobook/dp/B07VL5TCVF/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Case+Against+Reality&qid=1601548662&sr=8-1 We discuss: Evolutionary Game Theory and the relationship between Truth and our brains Simulation Theory What the sceptic think of Professor Hoffman's theory of Truth Space-time & Quantum Mechanics Whether mathematics and logic are grounded in truth Whether the Scientific method can ascertain reality Theory of conscious agents Free Will Holographic Universe Natural Selection Presentism vs Eternalism Meditation What keeps Professor Hoffman awake at night Meaning of life Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the episode! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LittleBrainsBigTopics You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Richard Walter Wrangham (born 1948) is an English anthropologist and primatologist. His research and writing have involved ape behavior, human evolution, violence, and cooking. In this episode we discuss: Biological Anthropology Humans Importance of fire Use of fire at increasing our brain size How our biology depends on culture Difference between roles of men and women in Hunter-Gatherer societies Relationships in Hunter-Gatherer societies Why all human societies have been patriarchal and possibility of matriarchal societies Warfare Buy Richard's Books: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003F5NSVK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FDPZNMY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the episode! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LittleBrainsBigTopics You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Topics Discussed : Your Brain Is A Time Machine Progress in neuroscience Presentism vs Eternalism Fear of Death and Religion Prospective Timing vs Retrospective Timing Drugs Meditation & Hypnosis Consciousness Free will Buy Dean's Book From: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Brain-Time-Machine-Neuroscience/dp/0393247945 US: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Time-Machine-Neuroscience-ebook/dp/B01HDSU0GK Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LittleBrainsBigTopics You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Buy Craig's book from: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Makes-Special-Craig-Callender/dp/0198797303 US: https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Special-Craig-Callender-ebook/dp/B073H6R4JB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2D92JCEEYDO36&dchild=1&keywords=what+makes+time+special&qid=1598998971&sprefix=what+makes+time+s%2Caps%2C228&sr=8-1 Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Eric Smith received the Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1993, with a dissertation on problems in string theory and high-temperature superconductivity. From 1993 to 2000 he worked in physical, nonlinear, and statistical acoustics at the Applied Research Labs: U. T. Austin, and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 2000 he has worked at the Santa Fe Institute on problems of self-organization in thermal, chemical, and biological systems. A focus of his current work is the statistical mechanics of the transition from the geochemistry of the early earth to the first levels of biological organization, with some emphasis on the emergence of the metabolic network. He is also the co-author of The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere. Buy Eric Smith's Book From Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Nature-Life-Earth-Emergence/dp/1107121884 Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Learn more about Fred Spoor: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/fred-spoor.html Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Andrew Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University. He received his B.A. in Geology from Lehigh University in 1973 and his Ph.D., also in Geology, from Harvard in 1977. Following five years on the faculty of Oberlin College, Knoll returned to Harvard as Associate Professor of Biology in 1982. He has been a member of the Harvard faculty ever since, serving as both Professor of Biology and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Professor Knoll's research focuses on the early evolution of life, Earth's environmental history, and, especially, the interconnections between the two. For the past decade, he has served on the science team for NASA's MER mission to Mars. He is also considered one of the 50 most influential scientists in the world today according to the best schools.org. Purchase Andrew Knoll's books from: https://www.amazon.com/Andrew-H-Knoll/e/B001IXU90Y/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester, where he studies olfaction, insect behavior, and the history of science. He earned his PhD in psychology and genetics from the University of Sheffield. He is the author of five books: Life's Greatest Secret, Generation, The Resistance, Eleven Days in August, and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England. Purchase The Idea of the Brain: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Matter-Quest-Understand-Brain-ebook/dp/B07G4J41GP Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Randall S. Abate is the inaugural Rechnitz Family and Urban Coast Institute Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy, and a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology, at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He also serves as the Director of the Institute for Global Understanding at Monmouth. He teaches courses in domestic and international environmental law, climate justice, constitutional law, and animal law. Professor Abate joined the Monmouth faculty in 2018 with 24 years of full-time law teaching experience at six U.S. law schools. He has delivered lectures and taught international and comparative law courses on environmental and animal law topics in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Cayman Islands, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the U.K, and Vanuatu. Books: What Can Animal Law Learn From Environmental Law? (Environmental Law Institute Press, 2d. ed., forthcoming July 2020) https://www.eli.org/eli-press-books/what-can-animal-law-learn-environmental-law-second-edition Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources (Cambridge University Press, 2019) https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/environmental-law/climate-change-and-voiceless-protecting-future-generations-wildlife-and-natural-resources?format=PB Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Ben Burgis is a Professor of Philosophy and the author of ‘Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left'. He is also one of the authors of the recently published book ‘Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson'. You can also find him on patreon.com/benburgis where he writes 2 essays a week exclusively for his patreons. Buy Ben's Books From: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/authors/ben-burgis Support Ben On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Neil Hirst is the Senior Policy Fellow for Energy and Mitigation at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London. He is currently working with China's Energy research Institute of the NDRC on a joint project on China and International Energy Governance. He is the lead author of the recent Grantham Institute/Chatham House Discussion Paper “The Reform of Global Energy Governance”. Get his latest book, The Energy Conundrum: Climate Change, Global Prosperity, and the Tough Decisions We Have to Make from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Energy-Conundrum-Prosperity-Decisions-Research-ebook/dp/B079Y2JK28/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1589723686&refinements=p_27%3ANeil+A+C+Hirst&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Dr. Kupers is a psychiatrist with a background in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, forensics and social and community psychiatry. He did his residency training at the University of California, Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute and, because of an interest in object relations theory, spent the third year of his residency at the Tavistock Institute in London. He also did a fellowship in social and community psychiatry. Since 1974, he has practiced psychiatry in both the public and private sectors. At Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital (and Charles Drew Postgraduate Medical School, where he was Assistant Professor) in South Central Los Angeles and the Richmond Community Mental Health Center in Richmond, he served as director or co-director of an outpatient clinic, a psychiatric residency program, and a partial hospitalization program. He left the Richmond Center in 1981, joined the faculty at the Wright Institute, and has continued to teach and to maintain his private practice while consulting to various mental health centers and social rehabilitation programs in the community. His forensic psychiatry experience includes testimony in several large class action litigations concerning jail and prison conditions, sexual abuse, and the quality of mental health services inside correctional facilities. He is a consultant to Human Rights Watch. Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Paul Allan Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Former Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1992-2014), and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Offit is a Board Member of Every Child By Two and a Founding Board Member of the Autism Science Foundation. Offit has published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety, and is the author or co-author of books on vaccines, vaccination, and antibiotics. He is one of the most public faces of the scientific consensus that vaccines have no association with autism. As a result, he has been the frequent target of hate mail and death threats. Order his latest book 'Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far' from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Overkill-When-Modern-Medicine-Goes-ebook/dp/B07V6BK7XG/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=overkill&qid=1587173233&sr=8-4 Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://twitter.com/big_topics https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Davidson Hamer is a Professor of Global Health and Medicine at the Boston University School of Public Health and School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Dr. Hamer, a board-certified specialist in infectious diseases with a particular interest in tropical infectious diseases, has extensive field experience in neonatal and child survival research including studies of micronutrient interventions, maternal and neonatal health, malaria, pneumonia, and diarrheal diseases. Full Biography at: https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/davidson-hamer/ We are going to have many more exciting interviews in the future! You can find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/ https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/ https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk littlebrainsbigtopics@gmail.com

This is the introductory video to Little Brains Big Topics podcast. Hosting Ashhad Noor and Mohammad Nemati. Please stay tuned for future episodes where we'll be discussing topics such as: • Isolation • Death • AI • Economy • Modern Day Slavery • Human Rights Violations • Quantum Mechanics • String Theory • Sleep • Consciousness • Evolution • History • Life • Science of attraction • Relationship dynamics • Global Warming • Security, civil liberties and surveillance And many more to come! We will also bring expert guests on to gain a deeper understanding of the topics. You can find us on: Instagram : @littlebrainsbigtopics Facebook: Little Brains Big Topics littlebrainsbigtopics@gmail.com