Podcasts about homo sapiens

En un futuro relativamente cercano, los híbridos fungi-mamífero han desplazado de la cadena evolutiva al Homo Sapiens, y los pocos humanos que quedan, huyen  despavoridos en transbordadores espaciales en busca de otros planetas habitables; en uno de éstos, un espía del MI6 investiga una posible infiltración fúngica dentro de la nave: los principales sospechosos, un […]

The time has come! This is where our story truly begins.In Episode 4 of The Origins of Humankind, we finally turn the spotlight on Homo sapiens. Guiding us through this journey is Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a pioneer of one of the greatest scientific revolutions of our time: the science of ancient DNA.This ability to extract DNA from fossils has transformed our understanding of the human past—giving us tools to tell a genuinely global history of our species. In this episode, we use the magic of ancient DNA to explore the world our species was born into: a weird, wild Ice Age planet teeming with other human species, from Flores Hobbits to Neanderthal Giants. We touch on big questions, such as:How did Homo sapiens spread around the world?Why were our ancestors so successful? How did climate changes shape their story?What was palaeolithic life like?What happened to the Neanderthals? (Be prepared for a plot twist!)We end at the dawn of the Holocene—the warm, wet period that would give rise to farming, cities, and everything we call “history.” That's the story we'll tackle in the final episode of The Origins of Humankind. Stay tuned. And enjoy this episode!LINKSMore material: ⁠⁠⁠OnHumans.Substack.com/Origins⁠⁠⁠Support the show: ⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/OnHumans⁠⁠⁠Free lectures on human origins: ⁠⁠⁠CARTA⁠⁠⁠Krause's books: ⁠A Short History of Humanity⁠; ⁠Hubris: The Rise and Fall of Humanity⁠ABOUT THE SERIESThe ⁠Origins of Humankind ⁠is produced by On Humans and UC San Diego's Centre for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (⁠CARTA⁠). Other guests include Chris Stringer, Dean Falk, and Tim Coulson. KEYWORDSAnthropology | Biology | Human evolution | Human origins | Homo Erectus | Australopithecines | Brain evolution | Paleoneurology | Hominins | DNA | Homo sapiens | Climate changes | Pleistocene | Cognitive evolution | Cognitive archaeology | Stone tools | Palaeolithic | Neanderthals | Homo floresiensis | Denisovans | Homo longi | Sima de los Huesos | Gravettian | Cannibalism | Aurignacian | Svante Pääbo |

Mucho antes de la llegada del Homo Sapiens o incluso de los Neandertales, otros humanos poblaron Europa durante intensas glaciaciones hace medio millón de años. Tres sitios excepcionales dan testimonio de su paso. La cueva de Tautavel, situada a los pies de la cordillera de los Pirineos y excavada durante más de 60 años, ha permitido descubrir un sinfín de fósiles de animales, herramientas bifaciales y 152 restos humanos (entre ellos un cráneo de hace 450.000 años) pertenecientes a una especie poco conocida: el Homo heidelbergensis. Más recientemente, Atapuerca, declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO en España, ha superado a Tautavel como el ser humano más antiguo de Europa. Por su parte, el yacimiento de Schöningen (Alemania), situado junto al lago, ha permitido conservar de forma excepcional materiales orgánicos, entre ellos objetos de madera, huesos de oso y huellas humanas.

Darry Anka, channel for Bashar, join the podcast to reveal the key things we need to know to avoid a path of destruction and move towards a golden age (New Earth). He talks about the upcoming open contact with extraterrestrial beings and the role of hybrid children in assisting humanity's evolution. In this interview, Darryl Anka discusses various topics related to extraterrestrial life, channeling Bashar, and the nature of reality.Darryl talks about Bashar's Formula amongst other major predictions that will shape the way humanity interacts with the cosmos in the future. Bashar is a physical E.T, a friend from the future who has spoken for the past 37 years through channel Darryl Anka. He has brought through a wave of new information that clearly explains in detail how the universe works, and how each person creates the reality they experience. ___________________PODCAST CHAPTERS0:00 - Intro to Bashar / Darryl Anka1:21 - Is Physical Reality Like an Escape Room?3:51 - Darryl Reflects on Channeling Bashar for 40 Years6:45 - Synchronistic Experiences and Receiving Guidance7:56 - How to Avoid Destruction and Enter a New Golden Age9:32 - Where Does Our Soul Frequency Reside?10:52 - Entering a New 40-Year Cycle: Preparing for Galactic Contact12:27 - Who Are the Hybrid Children Among Us?14:11 - Are Current Children Born More Attuned to Spiritual Frequencies?16:16 - Darryl's UFO Sightings and the Impact on His Life17:23 - The Influence of Sci-Fi Stories on Our Perception of Reality20:09 - Will the Upcoming U.S. Election Influence Open Contact?21:59 - Dreams of Contact with Blue-Skinned Beings23:17 - Homo Sapiens to Homo Galacticus: Humanity's Evolutionary Reset25:08 - The Splitting of Parallel Realities: Choosing Our Future26:52 - The Most Difficult Choice People Face Right Now29:04 - Darryl's Personal Journey: Trusting Passion Over Fear31:32 - The Realness of Bashar's Messages: Evidence Through Experience32:08 - Maintaining a Natural Earth and the Possibility of Living on Ships33:49 - How the Grays Lost Their Ability to Feel Emotions38:01 - The Importance of Excitement as a Spiritual Guidance System40:57 - Overcoming Fear and Embracing Curiosity42:55 - Channeling as a Natural Altered State44:30 - The Role of the Heart in Receiving Spiritual Messages46:20 - Physical Reality as a Temporary Projection of Consciousness47:57 - Learning from Dolphins, Whales, and Other Sentient Species50:07 - Gaps in Human History and the Truth of Our Origins52:03 - Why Children May Be the First to Make Contact with ETs53:17 - Exercises for Preparing Children for Open Contact54:38 - Understanding the Five Laws 56:24 - Letting Go of Struggle58:40 - Advanced Souls and the Mastery of Limitation1:00:04 - Wrapping Up with Darryl Anka's Message to Humanity1:00:51 - The Final Trio Questions___________________Guest: Darryl Anka, Channel for BasharWebsite | https://www.bashar.org/Channeling Events | https://www.bashar.org/event-calendarWho Is Bashar? | https://www.bashar.org/aboutBashar's Store | https://www.basharstore.com/?kuid=01f74b2d-f4f2-4202-b594-06ab73791615&kref=VWTouqMHFwXcYouTube |  @BasharChanneledbyDarrylAnka  Darryl's Personal Website | https://darrylanka.com/Darryl's Escape Rooms | https://darrylanka.com/boggled-escape-roomsHost: Emilio OrtizInstagram | https://www.instagram.com/iamemilioortiz/Subscribe to YouTube Channel |  @EmilioOrtiz  Watch Emilio's latest series on 4biddenknowledge TV l https://bit.ly/AwakenThe6thSense___________________Special Offerings to Support the Show:✦ Make a One-Time or Recurring Donation on PayPal

Homo Sapiens, la specie umana moderna, ha avuto origine in Africa circa 200.000 anni fa, evolvendosi e diffondendosi fino a conquistare il pianeta.

(image source: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/ ) April Fools, puny humans! Host Emperor Splozzitrox, Supreme Ruler of the Planet Zurkabong, and co-host Karzagloth, the underest of underlings, discuss Homo sapiens, the recently exterminated ground vermin that once overpopulated this hunk of space rock named Earth, a backwater planet in the Goozapeg Sector. From the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene, this 5-6 foot tall hominid may not have lived the longest, had the sharpest claws or teeth, or run or swim the fastest, but damn if they didn't make an impact in their short tenure as Earth's dominant intelligence. Shame about all those reality shows and Minion memes that led to their well-deserved cosmic obliteration. Want to further support the show? Sign up to our Patreon for exclusive bonus content at Patreon.com/MatthewDonald. Also, you can get links to follow Matthew Donald and purchase his books at https://linktr.ee/matthewdonald. His latest book, Teslamancer, just released August 27th! And mild spoiler alert... there are kind of dinosaurs in it... mwuahahaha.Special thanks to Matt David Seivert for contributing to this week's episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fra innsiden av Svarttrost-reiret forteller Thomas Alkärr, Kari Hesthamar og Sindre Leganger om hva de jobber med og hører på. Thomas har fulgt en heroinists dagbok, Kari har forstått hvordan pyramidene ble bygget og Sindre har savnet stemmen til Jens Stoltenberg.   For flere podkasttips kan du melde deg på nyhetsbrevet vårt her: svarttrost.no/nyhetsbrev Hvis du vil høre alle seriene våre, kan du starte abonnement på Svarttrost Dok via Spotify her: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/svarttrost/subscribe , ved å trykke på abonner-knappen i Apples podkastspiller eller ved å bli medlem på vår YouTube-kanal.   Her er seriene våre som omtales i episoden: Heroindagboka: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5jlIPuVqVQ0EOSpo1loxLe?si=a1dd9069c48649b4   Her er podkastene det tipses om:  Kari: Lex Fridman Podcast - Yuval Noah Harari: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cDwZmBR7pbGsEM4dVmCl2?si=300da02703174847   Thomas: Back to the Music With Ingrid - Ane Brun: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4O5sFG791RmuzZyEGoPLSF?si=84f7a92106c046f4   Sindre: Den politiske situasjonen - Jens Stoltenberg og reformregjeringen over alle reformregjeringer: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5o8QGl015Af61YqLYzf6qC?si=1a3da04249ce4693 

Ludzie współcześni przez tysiące lat żyli równolegle z innymi hominidami, np. znanymi chyba wszystkim neandertalczykami (ale nie tylko). Nie żyliśmy w jednych grupach, ale na pewno się spotykaliśmy, a przez jakiś czas również się z nimi krzyżowaliśmy. Potem przestaliśmy (to zresztą bardzo ciekawe dlaczego, o czym niżej), ale raczej nie oznaczało to wrogości, nie mamy żadnych znalezisk świadczących o obopólnej agresji. Dzięki dostępności badań genetycznych nasza wiedza o innych hominidach gwałtownie się poszerzyła w ciągu ostatnich 20 lat. O aktualnym stanie wiedzy i niesamowitych perspektywach rozmawiam z prof. Małgorzatą Kot z Wydziału Archeologii UW, która za parę miesięcy ponownie wyrusza do Azji Centralnej, w wysokie góry zachodniego Tienszanu i Pamiro-Ałtaju, by tam szukać śladów relacji ludzi współczesnych z innymi hominidami, tym razem w projekcie finansowanym z grantu ERC Consolidator Grant.Od dawna wiemy, że człowiek współczesny wyewoluował w Afryce i stamtąd wywędrował na inne kontynenty. Genetyka mówi nam więcej: wyjść było kilka. Pierwsze trzy populacje, które dotarły do Europy, po prostu wymarły. My jesteśmy potomkami tej czwartej. Nasi przodkowie poradzili sobie w lodowatej Europie, choć byli przystosowani do warunków afrykańskich. – Brak morfologicznego dostosowania nadrobiliśmy kulturowo – opowiada badaczka. Czyli nauczyliśmy się, jak się ubrać, jak polować i jak mieszkać, by przeżyć. Dość szybko straciliśmy ciemny pigment, częściowo w wyniku ewolucji, a w dużej mierze dzięki krzyżowaniu się z neandertalczykami.Tajemnicza sprawa jest taka, że wcale nie trwało to długo. – Wiemy, że my z neandertalczykiem krzyżowaliśmy się tak naprawdę bardzo krótko, to było jakieś 4-5 tysięcy lat – mówi prof. Kot. A przecież spotykaliśmy się o wiele, wiele dłużej. Hominidy wędrowały w grupach rodzinnych po 8-10 osób. W grupach liczyło się pochodzenie „po mieczu”, mężczyźni byli ze sobą genetycznie spokrewnieni, a córki odchodziły do innych grup. Nie wiemy, jak to dokładnie przebiegało, ale pojedynczej kobiecie na pewno trudno byłoby przeżyć samotnie, więc do wymian musiało dochodzić przy okazji spotkań grup. – Myślę, że każde spotkanie z grupą ludzką było wtedy wartościowe, czy to byli neandertalczycy, czy denisowianie – tłumaczy badaczka. To była szansa na wzbogacenie puli genetycznej. Co ciekawe, nie znaleziono ani jednych szczątków neandertalczyka z genami ludzi współczesnych. Przypuszcza się, że kobiety ludzi współczesnych nie były w stanie urodzić dziecka neandertalczyka – to były dzieci większe, z dużo większą głową. Są też dowody na krzyżowanie się neandertalczyków z denisowianami, a stan wiedzy zmienia się z każdym nowym znaleziskiem.W odcinku usłyszycie też, jak się przygotować do badań w górach Uzbekistanu, dlaczego prof. Kot wierzy, że znajdzie tam ślady denisowian (byli genetycznie dostosowani do życia w wysokich górach!) i dlaczego to inne populacje wyginęły, choć my też byliśmy na granicy wymarcia. Jestem totalnie zafascynowana tym tematem (i panią profesor!)  Polecam gorąco!

Esto es HistoCast. No es Esparta pero casi. Iniciamos una nueva saga, en este caso vamos a analizar la enfermedad a lo largo de la Historia y su influencia en ella. Y lo hacemos con Pablo Marina Losada acompañado por @goyix_salduero.Presentación de PabloSecciones Historia: - Conceptos - 12:03 - Animales - 32:56 - Prehistoria - 1:30:24 - Revolución del Neolítico - 2:45:07 - Primera pandemia - 3:25:06 - Edad Antigua - 4:01:50 - El impacto - 5:04:37

Este importante descubrimiento podría tener un gran impacto en las teorías del origen y distribución de los primeros Homo sapiens. Las herramientas de piedra encontradas datan de hace 150 mil años. Escucha esta y otras historias positivas.

Evolutionshistorien har en blind vinkel: kvindekroppen. Den amerikanske videnskabsforfatter Cat Bohannon fortæller evolutionshistorien på ny og trækker tråde tilbage til vores glemte formødre blandt evolutionsbiologiens mange ”Eva'er”. “Vi skal have kvindekroppen tilbage i billedet. Hvis ikke vi får det, er det ikke kun feminismen, der bliver kompromitteret. Både den moderne lægevidenskab, neurobiologien, palæoantropologien og selv evolutionsbiologien tager skade, når vi ignorerer det faktum, at halvdelen af os har bryster.”  Derfor har Bohannon genskrevet evolutionshistorien og sat kvindekroppen og dens særlige egenskaber i forgrunden.  I stedet for den bibelske Eva sporer Bohannon kvindekroppens historie tilbage til en række evolutionsbiologiske ”Eva'er”.   Fra ‘Morgie', der som det første pattedyr producerede mælk, over det egern-agtige væsen ‘Donna', der var først til at udvikle en livmoder, og frem til de tobenede hominider ‘Ardi' og ‘Lucy', der med tidlige værktøjs- og omsorgsevner lagde grundlaget for Homo Sapiens' mange teknologiske og sociale fremskridt.    Oplev Cat Bohannon på årets Bloom, når hun med videnskabeligt klarsyn og oprørsk humor understreger kvindekønnets evolutionære – og revolutionære – betydning for, hvordan mennesket er endt med at blive planetens dominerende og teknisk mest succesfulde dyreart.

Retrouvez l'épisode en version française ici : https://www.gdiy.fr/podcast/reid-hoffman-fr/Reid Hoffman is a giant in the world of entrepreneurship. A founding member of the “PayPal Mafia,” he went on to create LinkedIn in 2003, firmly establishing himself as one of the OGs of the world's biggest tech companies.According to Reid, a startup can hardly succeed if its founding members work less than 80 hours per week, as Silicon Valley imposes a "fast and aggressive" pace upon the rest of the world.He was on a board member of some of the world's most important tech companies, including Airbnb, OpenAI, and Microsoft.Since AI's breakthrough to the public in 2022, he has already co-founded two companies in the sector (Inflexion AI and Manas AI). Reid has already co-founded two companies in the field—Inflexion AI and Manas AI. But his fascination with AI goes way back to 1990, when he studied AI and philosophy at Oxford to explore the nature of intelligence and language.His approach is fundamentally humanistic, and his goal is crystal clear:How can we leverage technology to become better people?A staunch tech optimist, Reid advocates—both politically and entrepreneurially—for humanity to embrace new technologies and harness their full potential.In this episode, Reid shares:Why 80-hour weeks are key to thriving in the startup worldTips for smart hiring and building a strong, healthy cultureHis take on AI regulation and how it might stifle innovationHow to use AI like a pro in everyday lifeA philosophical look at the relationship between humans and technologyThe entire GDIY team is thrilled to bring you this conversation with one of the most influential figures in global tech. Tune in to learn from one of the best in the business and get inspired to build tomorrow's great companies.TIMELINE:00:00:00 : How to maintain an "esprit de corps" and a healthy corporate culture00:10:15 : Homo technicus : the influence of technology upon humanity00:15:29 : AI and philosophy : using tech to become better humans00:25:03 : How to use the different AIs like a pro00:34:07 : The PayPal adventure and the never-ending concerns towards technology00:44:43 : The biggest European mistake : "regulation kills innovation"00:50:04 : A good hire can learn, iterate and work in teams00:55:10 : The best use cases for AI01:03:45 : Why governments have to care about the tech industry01:10:10 : The easiest way to be successfulWe referred to previous GDIY episodes :#210 - David Gurlé - Symphony - Apprendre aux côtés de Bill Gates à son apogée, le succès fou et les apprentissages d'un entrepreneur méconnuWe spoke about:LinkedInworkdayAneel BhusriPeter ThielInflection AIManas AIGreylock PartnersAI Action SummitReading Recommendations : SuperagencyBlitzcaling ou la croissance éclairBlitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable CompaniesThe Start-up of You: Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your LifeImpromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AIMasters of Scale: Surprising truths from the world's most successful entrepreneursThe Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked AgeThe Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insiderLa Déferlante: Technologie, pouvoir et le dilemme majeur du XXIe siècle (fr)SapiensAll Systems Red: The Murderbot DiariesYou can contact Reid on LinkedIn, X, Instagram.Do you like the theme music? It's thanks to Morgan Prudhomme! Contact him at: https://studio-module.com. Interested in sponsoring Generation Do It Yourself or proposing a partnership? Contact my label Orso Media through this form.

For hundreds of thousands of years Neanderthals have roamed the lands of what is today Europe and western Asia. But how did they survive, and what caused their decline?Tristan Hughes delves into the fate of the last Neanderthals and continues our Ice Age mini-series with Professor Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum. They explore how Neanderthals thrived across diverse climates and investigate the intriguing story of Neanderthals' eventual decline alongside the arrival of Homosapiens 60,000 years ago. Professor Stringer also shares the fascinating evidence of interbreeding that has left traces of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans and groundbreaking insights from recent archaeological and DNA research, that shed light on why Neanderthals went extinct.Presented by Tristan Hughes. The audio editor and producer is Joseph Knight. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.All music courtesy of Epidemic SoundsThe Ancients is a History Hit podcast.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here: https://insights.historyhit.com/history-hit-podcast-always-on

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Coraz głośniej mówi się o terapeutycznym znaczeniu więzi człowieka z naturą, ale też o silnej wzajemnej zależności. Mimo to, w codziennej gonitwie często zapominamy, że jesteśmy częścią globalnego ekosystemu. Dopadają nas wątpliwości czy jednostkowe decyzje mają wpływ na środowisko, a działania polegające na segregowaniu śmieci, oszczędzaniu energii i świadomych konsumenckich wyborach, faktycznie mają sens. Tym bardziej, że narosło wokół tego tematu wiele szkodliwych mitów. Tymczasem natura sama upomina się o swoje prawa i, czasem w bardzo brutalny sposób, przypomina nam o nierozerwalnym związku człowieka z ekosystemem. Czym dokładnie jest ekopsychologia i dlaczego stała się tak ważna w procesie wdrażania ekologicznych rozwiązań? Na czym polega zrównoważony rozwój? Czy istotnie mamy wpływ na zmiany klimatu? Jakie są społeczne nastroje w kontekście aktywności ekologicznej? Dlaczego bywamy zniechęceni i zdezorientowani? Jakie mity stały się źródłem dezinformacji? O tym wszystkim podczas spotkania opowiedziały nasze ekspertki: psycholożka, trenerka podejścia uważności i współczucia dr Julia E. Wahl oraz psycholożka, socjolożka, psychoterapeutka systemowa Agnieszka Wołyńska. W ramach cyklu „Prawdy i mity o ekologii. Jak być eko, kiedy jest się zielonym?” przyglądamy się najczęściej powtarzanym mitom na temat ekologii. W świecie pełnym sprzecznych informacji i uproszczonych odpowiedzi pomagamy oddzielić fakty od mitów, dostarczając wiedzy popartej nauką i doświadczeniem ekspertów. Naszym celem jest wspieranie świadomych wyborów oraz pokazanie, jak być naprawdę eko, nawet gdy dopiero zaczynamy swoją przygodę ze zrównoważonym stylem życia. Strefa Psyche Uniwersytetu SWPS to projekt popularyzujący wiedzę psychologiczną na najwyższym merytorycznym poziomie oraz odkrywający możliwości działania, jakie daje psychologia w różnych sferach życia zarówno prywatnego, jak i zawodowego. Projekt obejmuje działania online, których celem jest umożliwienie rozwoju każdemu, kto ma taką potrzebę lub ochotę, niezależnie od miejsca, w którym się znajduje. Więcej o projekcie: https://web.swps.pl/strefa-psyche

Une analyse de groupes sanguins pour en savoir plus sur l'Homo Sapiens Les brèves du jour Le parc de Miguasha: un trésor paléontologique méconnu en Gaspésie "Viagra" de Billy Ray Charles ou tout sur la petite pillule bleue

Chris Stringer places Homo longi with previously known ancient humans, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, and our own species, Homo sapiens.

C'est il y a 400.000 ans environ que se produit un événement déterminant dans l'histoire de l'humanité : la maîtrise du feu. A partir de là, à partir de ce tournant décisif, l'homme va pouvoir éloigner les dangers, s'installer dans des régions auparavant inhospitalières, cuire ses aliments, améliorer la fabrication d'outils, prolonger le jour : augmenter l'espérance de vie. Comment Homo erectus et, plus tard, Homo sapiens et Neandertal ont-ils appris à allumer le feu et le conserver ? Comment expliquer que, sans se rencontrer, ils aient été en mesure au même moment, en divers endroits de la planète, de l'apprivoiser ? C'est la leçon du jour. Invité : Henry de Lumley, paléontologiste, directeur de l'Institut de paléontologie humaine-Fondation Albert IE Prince de Monaco. « La domestication du feu aux temps paléolithiques » aux éditions Odile Jacob Sujets traités : Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, Neandertal , domestication, feu, paléolithiques Merci pour votre écoute Un Jour dans l'Histoire, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 13h15 à 14h30 sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes d'Un Jour dans l'Histoire sur notre plateforme Auvio.be :https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/5936 Intéressés par l'histoire ? Vous pourriez également aimer nos autres podcasts : L'Histoire Continue: https://audmns.com/kSbpELwL'heure H : https://audmns.com/YagLLiKEt sa version à écouter en famille : La Mini Heure H https://audmns.com/YagLLiKAinsi que nos séries historiques :Chili, le Pays de mes Histoires : https://audmns.com/XHbnevhD-Day : https://audmns.com/JWRdPYIJoséphine Baker : https://audmns.com/wCfhoEwLa folle histoire de l'aviation : https://audmns.com/xAWjyWCLes Jeux Olympiques, l'étonnant miroir de notre Histoire : https://audmns.com/ZEIihzZMarguerite, la Voix d'une Résistante : https://audmns.com/zFDehnENapoléon, le crépuscule de l'Aigle : https://audmns.com/DcdnIUnUn Jour dans le Sport : https://audmns.com/xXlkHMHSous le sable des Pyramides : https://audmns.com/rXfVppvN'oubliez pas de vous y abonner pour ne rien manquer.Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Homo erectus, not content with being confined to their African homeland, ventured into the vast landscapes of Europe and Asia. They were the first hominid species to leave Africa, setting the stage for a transformative chapter in evolutionary history. But the story takes an intriguing turn: the branch of Homo erectus that remained in Africa eventually gave rise to Homo sapiens—our own species.----more----Read full article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/homo-sapiens-neanderthals-didnt-share-space-time-interbred-exchanged-ideas/2442119/

Genevieve Willis from London, Ontario asks: Is there any evidence to suggest that “getting cold” by, say, dressing inadequately in cold weather, or sitting in a cold draft, actually increases our susceptibility to illness?For the frigid answer, we spoke with Michael Kennedy who is an associate professor of exercise physiology at the University of Alberta. Jim Raso from St. Albert Alberta wrote us: My question has to do with our sense of time passing. As I have gotten older – I am 73 now –  I noticed that time seemed to pass more quickly.  Why does this happen?For the answer, we asked Dr. Holly K. Andersen, a professor of philosophy at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.Dan from Chateau-Richer in Quebec writes: Where does moon dust come from?We reached out to planetary geologist Gordon Osinski, a professor of Earth Sciences at Western University, who has studied samples sent back from the Apollo missions. Scott Beach from East York Ontario asks: Why do dogs sniff and lick each other's butts?To get the answer, we reached out to Simon Gadbois, the principal investigator at the Canine olfaction lab at Dalhousie University.Robert Smith from Victoria asks: Is there evidence to suggest red-heads are particularly sensitive to pain? To find out, we spoke with someone who has studied this in the past: Jeffrey Mogil, the E.P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies at the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain at McGill University.Stephen Quinn from St. John's, Newfoundland asks: How can the universe be expanding at the same time as galaxies are colliding?For the smashing answer, we spoke with Sara Ellison, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Victoria. Susan Boyd from Ottawa asks: Since some of the elements in the periodic table do not occur naturally, is there a limit to the new elements that could be created? If so, what is the limiting factor? We went to the National Research Council Canada's element expert, Juris Meija, for this answer. Robert LaRoche in Halifax asks: Why is the color of wet clothes always more vivid than when they are dry?For the answer, we turned to Sarah Purdy, a Physicist at the University of Saskatchewan who uses light to investigate materials. Paul Vander Griendt of Newmarket, Ontario asks: If animals wake up at sunrise and go to sleep at sunset, how do they cope with the varying hours of sunlight? How do they do compared to humans who are supposed to get 8 to 9 hours of sleep regardless of the length of sunlight? For the answer we turned to Ming Fei Li a Phd candidate at the University of Toronto in Anthropology who is studying the sleep patterns of animals. Marie Beaudoin from Salt Spring Island, BC asks: How do birds where the males and females look the same tell each other apart when it comes to mating?” We went to Matt Reudinik, a professor of biology at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, for the answer. Warren Saylor of London, Ontario asks: Could Neanderthals speak? If they could not, would that contribute to the dominance of Homo Sapiens?We spoke to paleoanthropologist Dr. Bence Viola, an associate professor in the department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

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Farmer is the Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems at Oxford's Institute for New Economic Thinking. Before joining Oxford in 2012, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe Institute, where he studied complex systems and economic dynamics. During the 1990s, he took a break from academia to run a successful quantitative trading firm using statistical arbitrage strategies.Farmer has been a pioneer in chaos theory and complexity economics, including the development of agent-based models to understand economic phenomena. His work spans from housing markets to climate change, and he recently authored Making Sense of Chaos exploring complexity science and economic modeling.In This Episode* What is complexity economics? (1:23)* Compliment or replacement for traditional economics (6:55)* Modeling Covid-19 (11:12)* The state of the science (15:06)* How to approach economic growth (20:44)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. What is complexity economics? (1:23)We really can model the economy as something dynamic that can have its own business cycles that come from within the economy, rather than having the economy just settle down to doing something static unless it's hit by shocks all the time, as is the case in mainstream models.Pethokoukis: What does the sort of economics that people would learn, let's say, in the first year of college, they might learn about labor and capital, supply-demand equilibrium, rational expectations, maybe the importance of ideas. How does that differ from the kind of economics you are talking about? Are you looking at different factors?Farmer: We're really looking at a completely different way of doing economics. Rather than maximizing utility, which is really the central conceptual piece of any standard economic model, and writing down equations, and deducing the decision that does that, we simulate the economy.We assume that we identify who the agents in the and economy are, who's making the decisions, what information do they have available, we give them methods of making the decisions — decision-making rules or learning algorithms — and then they make decisions, those decisions have economic impact, that generates new information, other information may enter from the outside, they make decisions, and we just go around and around that loop in a computer simulation that tries to simulate what the economy does and how it works.You've been writing about this for some time. I would guess — perhaps I'm wrong — that just having more data and more computer power has been super helpful over the past 10 years, 20 years.It's been super helpful for us. We take much more advantage of that than the mainstream does. But yes, computers are a billion times more powerful now than they were when Herb Simon first suggested this way of doing things, and that means the time is ripe now because that's not a limiting factor anymore, as it was in the past.So if you're not looking at capital and labor per se, then what are the factors you're looking at?Well, we do look at capital and labor, we just look at them in a different way. Our models are concerned about how much capital is there to invest, what labor is available. We do have to assign firms production functions that tells, given an amount of capital and labor and all their other inputs, how much can the firms produce? That part of the idea is similar. It's a question of the way the decision about how much to produce is made, or the way consumers decide how much to consume, or laborers decide at what price to provide their labor. All those parts are different.Another difference — if I'm understanding it correctly — is, rather than thinking about economies that tend toward equilibrium and focusing how outside shocks may put an economy in disequilibrium, you're looking a lot more at what happens internally. Am I correct?We don't assume equilibrium. Equilibrium, it has two senses in economics: One is supply equals demand. We might or might not run a model where we assume that. In many models we don't, and if that happens, that's great, but it's an outcome of the model rather than an assumption we put in at the beginning.There's another sense of equilibrium, which is that everybody's strategy is lined up. You've had time to think about what you're doing, I've had time to think about what I'm doing, we've both come to the optimal decision for each of us to make, taking the other one into account. We don't assume that, as standard models typically do. We really can model the economy as something dynamic that can have its own business cycles that come from within the economy, rather than having the economy just settle down to doing something static unless it's hit by shocks all the time, as is the case in mainstream models. We still allow shocks to hit our models, but the economy can generate dynamics even without those shocks.This just popped in my head: To whom would this model make more intuitive sense, Karl Marx or Adam Smith?Adam Smith would like these models because they really allow for emergent behavior. That is, Smith's whole point was that the economy is more than the sum of its parts, that we get far more out of specializing than we do out of each acting like Robinson Crusoes. Our way of thinking about this gets at that very directly.Marx might actually like it too, perhaps for a different reason. Marx was insightful in understanding the economy as being like, what I call in the book, the “metabolism of civilization.” That is, he really did recognize the analogy between the economy and the metabolism, and viewed labor as what we put together with natural resources to make goods and services. So those aspects of the economy are also embodied in the kind of models we're making.I think they both like it, but for different reasons.Compliment or replacement for traditional economics (6:55)There are many problems where we can answer questions traditional methods can't even really ask.The way I may have framed my questions so far is that you are suggesting a replacement or alternative. Is what you're suggesting, is it one of those things, or is it a compliment, or is it just a way of looking at the world that's better at answering certain kinds of questions?I think the jury is out to find the answer to that. I think it is certainly a compliment, and that we're doing things very differently, and there are some problems where this method is particularly well-suited. There are many problems where we can answer questions traditional methods can't even really ask.That said, I think time will tell to what extent this replaces the traditional way of doing economics. I don't think it's going to replace everything that's done in traditional economics. I think it could replace 75 percent of it — but let me put an asterisk by that and say 75 percent of theory. Economists do many different things. One thing economists do is called econometrics, where they take data and they build models just based on the data to infer things that the data is telling them. We're not talking about that here. We're talking about theories where economists attempt to derive the decisions and economic outcomes from first principles based on utility maximization. That's what we're talking about providing an alternative to. The extent to which it replaces that will be seen as time will tell.When a big Wall Street bank wants to make a forecast, they're constantly incorporating the latest jobless claims numbers, industrial production numbers, and as those numbers get updated, they change their forecasts. You're not using any of that stuff?Well, no. We can potentially could ingest any kind of data about what's going on.But they're looking at big, top-down data while you're bottom-up, you're sort of trying to duplicate the actual actors in the economy.That is true, but we can adjust what's at the bottom to make sure we're matching initial conditions. So if somebody tells us, “This is the current value of unemployment,” we want to make sure that we're starting our model out, as we go forward, with the right level of unemployment. So we will unemploy some of the households in our model in order to make sure we're matching the state of unemployment right now and then we start our simulation running forward to see where the economy goes from here.I would think that the advent of these large language models would really take this kind of modeling to another level, because already I'm seeing lots of papers on their ability to . . . where people are trying to run experiments and, rather than using real people, they're just trying to use AI people, and the ability to create AI consumers, and AI in businesses — it would have to be a huge advance.Yes. This is starting to be experimented with for what we do. People are trying to use large language models to model how people actually make decisions, or let's say, to simulate the way people make decisions, as opposed to an idealized person that makes perfect decisions. That's a very promising line of attack to doing this kind of modeling.Large language models also can tell us about other things that allow us to match data. For example, if we want to use patents as an input in our modeling — not something we're doing yet, but we've done a lot of studies with patents — one can use large language models to match patents to firms to understand which firms will benefit from the patents and which firms won't. So there are many different ways that large language models are likely to enter going forward, and we're quite keen to take advantage of those.Modeling Covid-19 (11:12)We predicted a 21.5 percent hit to UK GDP in the second quarter of 2020. When the dust settled a year later, the right answer was 22.1. So we got very close.Tell me, briefly, about your work with the Covid outbreak back in 2020 and what your modeling said back then and how well it worked.When the pandemic broke out, we realized right away that this was a great opportunity to show the power of the kind of economic modeling that we do, because Covid was a very strong and very sudden shock. So it drove the economy far out of equilibrium. We were able to predict what Covid would do to the UK economy using two basic ideas: One is, we predicted the shock. We did that based on things like understanding a lot about occupational labor. The Bureau of Labor Statistics compiles tables about things like, in a given occupation, how close together do people typically work? And so we assumed if they worked closer together than two meters, they weren't going to be able to go to their job. That combined with several other things allowed us to predict how big the shock would be.Our model predicted how that shock would be amplified through time by the action of the economy. So in the model we built, we put a representative firm in every sector of the economy and we assumed that if that firm didn't have the labor it needed, or if it didn't have the demand for its product, or if it didn't have the inputs it needed, it wouldn't be able to produce its product and the output would be reduced proportional to any of those three limiting factors.And so we started the model off on Day One with an inventory of inputs that we read out of a table that government statistical agencies had prepared for each sector of the economy. And we then just looked, “Well, does it have the labor? Does it have demand? Does it have the goods?” If yes, it can produce at its normal level. If it's lacking any of those, it's going to produce at a lower level. And our model knew the map of the economy, so it knew which industries are inputs to which other industries. So as the pandemic evolved day by day, we saw that some industries started to run out of inputs and that would reduce their output, which, in turn, could cause other industries to run out of their inputs, and so on.That produced quite a good prediction. We predicted a 21.5 percent hit to UK GDP in the second quarter of 2020. When the dust settled a year later, the right answer was 22.1. So we got very close. We predicted things pretty well, industry by industry. We didn't get them all exactly right, but the mistakes we made averaged out so that we got the overall output right, and we got it right through time.We ran the model on several different scenarios. At the time, this was in April of 2020, the United Kingdom was in a lockdown and they were trying to decide what to do next, and we tested several different scenarios for what they might do when they emerged from the full lockdown. The one that we thought was the least bad was keeping all the upstream industries like mining, and forestry, and so on open, but closing the downstream, customer-facing industries like retail businesses that have customers coming into their shop, or making them operate remotely. That was the one they picked. Already when they picked it, we predicted what would happen, and things unfolded roughly as we suggested they would.The state of the science (15:06)Mainstream models can only model shocks that come from outside the economy and how the economy responds to those shocks. But if you just let the model sit there and nothing changes, it will just settle down and the economy will never change.I'm old enough to remember the 1990s and remember a lot of talk about chaos and complexity, some of which even made it into the mainstream, and Jurassic Park, which may be the way most people heard a little bit about it. It's been 30 years. To what extent has it made inroads into economic modeling at central banks or Wall Street banks? Where's the state of the science? Though it sounds like you're really taking another step forward here with the book and some of your latest research.Maybe I could first begin just by saying that before Jurassic Park was made, I got a phone call and picked up the phone, and the other end of the line said, “Hi, this is Jeff Goldblum, have you ever heard of me?” I said, “Yeah.” And he said, “Well, we're making this movie about dinosaurs and stuff, and I'm going to play a chaos scientist, and I'm calling up some chaos scientists to see how they talk.” And so I talked to Jeff Goldblum for about a half an hour. A few of my other friends did too. So anyway, I like to think I had a tiny little bit of impact on the way he behaved in the movie. There were some parallels that it seemed like he had lifted.Chaos, it's an important underlying concept in explaining why the weather is hard to predict, it can explain some forms of heart arrhythmias, we use it to explain some of the irregular behavior of ice ages. In economics, it was tossed around in the '90s as something that might be important and rejected. As I described in the book, I think it was rejected for the wrong reasons.I'm proposing chaos, the role it plays in here is that, there's a debate about business cycles. Do they come from outside? The Covid pandemic was clearly a business cycle that came from outside. Or do they come from inside the economy? The 2008 financial crisis, I would say, is clearly one that came from inside the economy. Mainstream models can only model shocks that come from outside the economy and how the economy responds to those shocks. But if you just let the model sit there and nothing changes, it will just settle down and the economy will never change.In contrast, the kinds of models we build often show what we call endogenous business cycles, meaning business cycles that the model generates all on its own. Now then, you can ask, “Well, how could it do that?” Well, basically the only plausible way it can do that is through chaos. Because chaos has two properties: One is called sensitive dependence on initial conditions, meaning tiny changes in the present can cause large changes in the future; but the other is endogenous motion, meaning motion that comes from within the system itself, that happens spontaneously, even in very simple systems of equations.Would something like consumer pessimism, would that be an external shock or would something more internal where everybody, they're worried about the futures, then they stop spending as much money? How would that fit in?If the consumer pessimism is due to the fear of a nuclear war, I would say it's outside the economy, and so that's an external shock. But if it's caused by the fact that the economy just took a big nose dive for an internal reason, then it's part of the endogenous dynamicsI spent many years as a journalist writing about why the market's going up, the market's going down, and by the end of the day, I had to come up with a reason why the market moved, and I could — I wasn't always quite confident, because sometimes it wasn't because of a new piece of data, or an earnings report, they just kind of moved, and I had no real reason why, even though I had to come up . . . and of course it was when I was doing that was when people started talking about chaos, and it made a lot of intuitive sense to me that things seem to happen internally in ways that, at least at the time, were utterly unpredictable.Yeah, and in fact, one of the studies I discuss in the book is by Cutler, Poterba, and Summers — the Summers would be Larry Summers — where they did something very simple, they just got the 100 largest moves of the S&P index, they looked up what the news was the next day about why they occurred in the New York Times, and they subjectively marked the ones that they thought were internally driven, versus the ones that were real news, and they concluded they could only find news causes for about a third of them.There is always an explanation in the paper; actually, there is one day on the top 12 list where the New York Times simply said, “There appears to be no cause.” That was back in the '40s, I don't think journalists ever say that anymore. I don't think their paper allows them to do it, but that's probably the right answer about two-thirds of the time, unless you count things like “investors are worried,” and, as I point out in the book, if the person who invests your money isn't worried all the time, then you should fire them because investors should worry.There are internal dynamics to markets, I actually show some examples in the book of simple models that generate that kind of internal dynamics so that things change spontaneously.How to approach economic growth (20:44)I'm not saying something controversial when I say that technological change is the dominant driver of economic growth, at least for the economy as a whole. You recently founded a company, Macrocosm, trying to put some of these ideas to work to address climate change, which would seem to be a very natural use for this kind of thinking. What do you hope to achieve there?We hope to provide better guidance through the transition. We're trying to take the kind of things we've been doing as academics, but scale them up and reduce them to practice so they can be used day-in and day-out to make the decisions that policymakers and businesspeople need to make as the transition is unfolding. We hope to be able to guide policymakers about how effective their policies will be in reducing emissions, but also in keeping the economy going and in good shape. We hope to be able to advise businesses and investors about what investments to make to make a profit while we reduce emissions. And we think that things have changed so that climate change has really become an opportunity rather than a liability.I write a lot about economic growth and try to figure out how it works, what are the key factors. . . What insights can you give me, either on how you think about growth and, since I work at a think tank, the kind of policies you think policy makers should be thinking about, or how should they think about economic growth, since that seems to be on top-of-mind in every rich country in the world right now?I'm not saying something controversial when I say that technological change is the dominant driver of economic growth, at least for the economy as a whole. And we've spent a lot of time studying technological change by just collecting data and looking for the patterns in that data: What does the technology cost through time and how rapidly is it deployed? We've done this for 50 or 60 technologies where we look at past technological transitions, because typically, as a technology is coming in, it's replacing something else that's going out, and what we've seen are a couple of striking things:One is, many technologies don't really improve very much over time, at least in terms of cost. Fossil fuels cost about the same as they did 140 years ago once you adjust for inflation. In fact, anything we mine out of the ground costs about the same as it did a hundred years ago.In contrast, solar energy from solar photovoltaic panels costs 1/10,000th what it did when it was introduced in the Vanguard satellite in 1958. Transistors have been going down at 40 percent per year, so they cost about a billionth of what they did back in 1960. So some technologies really make rapid progress, and the economy evolves by reorganizing itself around the technologies that are making progress. So for example, photography used to be about chemistry and film. Photography now is about solid-state physics because it just unhitched from one wagon and hitched itself to another wagon, and that's what's happening through the energy transition. We're in the process of hitching our wagon to the technologies that have been making rapid progress, like solar energy, and wind energy, and lithium ion batteries, and hydrogen catalyzers based on green energy.I think we can learn a lot about the past, and I think that when we look at what the ride should be like, based on what we understand, we think the transition is going to happen faster than most people think, and we think it will be a net saving of moneySo then how do you deal with a wild card, which I think if you look at the past, nuclear power seems like it's super expensive, no progress being made, but, theoretically, there could be — at least in the United States — there could be lots of regulatory changes that make it easier to build. You have all these venture capital firms pouring money into these nuclear startups with small reactors, or even nuclear fusion. So a technology that seems like it's a mature technology, it might be easy to chart its future, all of a sudden maybe it's very different.I'm not arguing we should get rid of nuclear reactors until they run their normal lifetime and need to be gotten rid of, but I think we will see that that is not going to be the winning technology in the long run, just because it's going to remain expensive while solar energy is going to become dirt cheap.In the early days, nuclear power had faced a very favorable regulatory environment. The first nuclear reactors were built in the '50s. Until Three Mile Island and Chernobyl happened, it was a very regulatorily friendly environment and they didn't come down in cost. Other countries like France have been very pro-nuclear. They have very expensive electricity and will continue to do so.I think the key thing we need to do is focus on storage technologies like green hydrogen. 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At a global level, Homo sapiens have reshaped the planet Earth to such an extent that we now talk of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. But each of us shapes our own worlds, physically, symbolically, and in the worlds of imagination. This symposium focuses especially on one form of construction, the construction of buildings, while stressing that such construction is ever shaped by diverse factors from landscape to culture and the construction of history embodied in it - and more. After a brief look at birds building their nests as an example of variation on a species-specific Bauplan, we sample a broad sweep of cultural evolution and niche construction from the earliest stone tools of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens through the Neolithic and the rise of cities to the formal and informal architecture of the present day. Finally, we explore the ways artificial intelligence may further change how humans construct their mental and physical worlds. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40170]

At a global level, Homo sapiens have reshaped the planet Earth to such an extent that we now talk of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. But each of us shapes our own worlds, physically, symbolically, and in the worlds of imagination. This symposium focuses especially on one form of construction, the construction of buildings, while stressing that such construction is ever shaped by diverse factors from landscape to culture and the construction of history embodied in it - and more. After a brief look at birds building their nests as an example of variation on a species-specific Bauplan, we sample a broad sweep of cultural evolution and niche construction from the earliest stone tools of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens through the Neolithic and the rise of cities to the formal and informal architecture of the present day. Finally, we explore the ways artificial intelligence may further change how humans construct their mental and physical worlds. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40170]

At a global level, Homo sapiens have reshaped the planet Earth to such an extent that we now talk of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. But each of us shapes our own worlds, physically, symbolically, and in the worlds of imagination. This symposium focuses especially on one form of construction, the construction of buildings, while stressing that such construction is ever shaped by diverse factors from landscape to culture and the construction of history embodied in it - and more. After a brief look at birds building their nests as an example of variation on a species-specific Bauplan, we sample a broad sweep of cultural evolution and niche construction from the earliest stone tools of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens through the Neolithic and the rise of cities to the formal and informal architecture of the present day. Finally, we explore the ways artificial intelligence may further change how humans construct their mental and physical worlds. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40170]

At a global level, Homo sapiens have reshaped the planet Earth to such an extent that we now talk of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. But each of us shapes our own worlds, physically, symbolically, and in the worlds of imagination. This symposium focuses especially on one form of construction, the construction of buildings, while stressing that such construction is ever shaped by diverse factors from landscape to culture and the construction of history embodied in it - and more. After a brief look at birds building their nests as an example of variation on a species-specific Bauplan, we sample a broad sweep of cultural evolution and niche construction from the earliest stone tools of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens through the Neolithic and the rise of cities to the formal and informal architecture of the present day. Finally, we explore the ways artificial intelligence may further change how humans construct their mental and physical worlds. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40170]

At a global level, Homo sapiens have reshaped the planet Earth to such an extent that we now talk of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. But each of us shapes our own worlds, physically, symbolically, and in the worlds of imagination. This symposium focuses especially on one form of construction, the construction of buildings, while stressing that such construction is ever shaped by diverse factors from landscape to culture and the construction of history embodied in it - and more. After a brief look at birds building their nests as an example of variation on a species-specific Bauplan, we sample a broad sweep of cultural evolution and niche construction from the earliest stone tools of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens through the Neolithic and the rise of cities to the formal and informal architecture of the present day. Finally, we explore the ways artificial intelligence may further change how humans construct their mental and physical worlds. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40170]

The symbolic tools we use to design and construct our environments have been transformed by the so-called Cybernetic revolution and the innovations in materials technology that have accompanied them. The integration of computers, the Internet of Things, embedded robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) supports the development of intelligent/smart buildings where specific levels of automation can be tailored to every type of building use and occupancy. This talk will emphasize smart architecture as being based on insights into how buildings may affect human well-being whether or not novel technology is employed. This involves a critical assessment of when and where AI and related technologies should be incorporated into the built environment. A complementary concern is with how AI will affect the way humans see their place in their social and "natural" worlds when we can no longer see humans as the only possessors of "intelligence." Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40168]

The symbolic tools we use to design and construct our environments have been transformed by the so-called Cybernetic revolution and the innovations in materials technology that have accompanied them. The integration of computers, the Internet of Things, embedded robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) supports the development of intelligent/smart buildings where specific levels of automation can be tailored to every type of building use and occupancy. This talk will emphasize smart architecture as being based on insights into how buildings may affect human well-being whether or not novel technology is employed. This involves a critical assessment of when and where AI and related technologies should be incorporated into the built environment. A complementary concern is with how AI will affect the way humans see their place in their social and "natural" worlds when we can no longer see humans as the only possessors of "intelligence." Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40168]

The symbolic tools we use to design and construct our environments have been transformed by the so-called Cybernetic revolution and the innovations in materials technology that have accompanied them. The integration of computers, the Internet of Things, embedded robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) supports the development of intelligent/smart buildings where specific levels of automation can be tailored to every type of building use and occupancy. This talk will emphasize smart architecture as being based on insights into how buildings may affect human well-being whether or not novel technology is employed. This involves a critical assessment of when and where AI and related technologies should be incorporated into the built environment. A complementary concern is with how AI will affect the way humans see their place in their social and "natural" worlds when we can no longer see humans as the only possessors of "intelligence." Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40168]

The symbolic tools we use to design and construct our environments have been transformed by the so-called Cybernetic revolution and the innovations in materials technology that have accompanied them. The integration of computers, the Internet of Things, embedded robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) supports the development of intelligent/smart buildings where specific levels of automation can be tailored to every type of building use and occupancy. This talk will emphasize smart architecture as being based on insights into how buildings may affect human well-being whether or not novel technology is employed. This involves a critical assessment of when and where AI and related technologies should be incorporated into the built environment. A complementary concern is with how AI will affect the way humans see their place in their social and "natural" worlds when we can no longer see humans as the only possessors of "intelligence." Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40168]

This talk explores the needs of the poor and homeless around the world, charting the interplay between formal and informal settlements. The key example for this talk will be the favelas of Saõ Paulo in the context of a broader concern with Latin American urbanism and the role of individual initiative, social forces and politics as agencies of urban transformation. Built environments are to be seen not only as technological artifacts but also as providing a spatial politics for transforming where and how vulnerable communities immigrate to cities. Key questions arise concerning the relation of informal housing to the formal infrastructural systems of cities, including access to utilities. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40167]

This talk explores the needs of the poor and homeless around the world, charting the interplay between formal and informal settlements. The key example for this talk will be the favelas of Saõ Paulo in the context of a broader concern with Latin American urbanism and the role of individual initiative, social forces and politics as agencies of urban transformation. Built environments are to be seen not only as technological artifacts but also as providing a spatial politics for transforming where and how vulnerable communities immigrate to cities. Key questions arise concerning the relation of informal housing to the formal infrastructural systems of cities, including access to utilities. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40167]

This talk explores the needs of the poor and homeless around the world, charting the interplay between formal and informal settlements. The key example for this talk will be the favelas of Saõ Paulo in the context of a broader concern with Latin American urbanism and the role of individual initiative, social forces and politics as agencies of urban transformation. Built environments are to be seen not only as technological artifacts but also as providing a spatial politics for transforming where and how vulnerable communities immigrate to cities. Key questions arise concerning the relation of informal housing to the formal infrastructural systems of cities, including access to utilities. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40167]

This talk explores the needs of the poor and homeless around the world, charting the interplay between formal and informal settlements. The key example for this talk will be the favelas of Saõ Paulo in the context of a broader concern with Latin American urbanism and the role of individual initiative, social forces and politics as agencies of urban transformation. Built environments are to be seen not only as technological artifacts but also as providing a spatial politics for transforming where and how vulnerable communities immigrate to cities. Key questions arise concerning the relation of informal housing to the formal infrastructural systems of cities, including access to utilities. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40167]

Comment utiliser les neurosciences pour améliorer l'expérience client ? Conférence de Marc Van Rymenant lors du CX Summit Eloquant. Van Rymenant Marc , auteur du livre Homo-Sapiens, 300 000 ans d'expérience client, nous explique en quoi les mécanismes du cerveau humain influents de manière totalement inconsciente sur l'expérience client perçue, et comment exploiter ces connaissances pour améliorer la satisfaction client et si possible créer des expériences client inoubliables. Préparez-vous à un voyage passionnant au cœur de l'esprit humain pour transformer durablement votre approche client ! 

The site of Göbekli Tepe is well known as a settlement of the transitional phase in SW-Asia, in which the greater mobility of the Palaeolithic increasingly gave way to the more permanent settlement of the Neolithic. This talk uses the example of Göbekli Tepe to explore the linkage of buildings with ecology, climate, economy, cultural, political, symbolic systems, and creation of networks between dwellings. The central question is to what extent it is possible to understand how people in the Neolithic constructed their world. Based on this, the talk will challenge the regnant hypothesis that Göbekli Tepe served as a central ritual site and meeting place that acted as a driving force for the spread of Neolithization. This provides an important addition to developing a perspective on the precursor forms of habitation for buildings whose architectural remains we can examine today. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40164]

The site of Göbekli Tepe is well known as a settlement of the transitional phase in SW-Asia, in which the greater mobility of the Palaeolithic increasingly gave way to the more permanent settlement of the Neolithic. This talk uses the example of Göbekli Tepe to explore the linkage of buildings with ecology, climate, economy, cultural, political, symbolic systems, and creation of networks between dwellings. The central question is to what extent it is possible to understand how people in the Neolithic constructed their world. Based on this, the talk will challenge the regnant hypothesis that Göbekli Tepe served as a central ritual site and meeting place that acted as a driving force for the spread of Neolithization. This provides an important addition to developing a perspective on the precursor forms of habitation for buildings whose architectural remains we can examine today. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40164]

The site of Göbekli Tepe is well known as a settlement of the transitional phase in SW-Asia, in which the greater mobility of the Palaeolithic increasingly gave way to the more permanent settlement of the Neolithic. This talk uses the example of Göbekli Tepe to explore the linkage of buildings with ecology, climate, economy, cultural, political, symbolic systems, and creation of networks between dwellings. The central question is to what extent it is possible to understand how people in the Neolithic constructed their world. Based on this, the talk will challenge the regnant hypothesis that Göbekli Tepe served as a central ritual site and meeting place that acted as a driving force for the spread of Neolithization. This provides an important addition to developing a perspective on the precursor forms of habitation for buildings whose architectural remains we can examine today. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40164]

Takaisin luontoon ei ole huono idea, sillä monipuolisissa kasvi-, eläin- ja mikrobikunnan kontakteista ihmisen immuunipuolustus kehittyy oikeaan suuntaan eikä lipsahda autoimmuunisairauksiin tai allergioihin. Kivikylässä kasvaminen on riskaabelia, sillä immuunipuolustus ei saa tarpeellista harjoitusmateriaalia eli monimuotoista mikrobistoa ynnä muuta lajistoa. Immuunipuolustus tarvitsee lajistoltaan monipuolista ympäristöä, jotta siitä kehittyisi ihmistä ulkoisilta uhilta suojaava puolustussysteemi. Elinympäristön monilajisuus, biodiversiteetti, ohjaa ihmiskehon puolustusta oikeille raiteille, mutta köyhtynyt biodiversiteetti sekoittaa immuunipuolustuksen ja se hyökkää siitepölyjä tai omia kudoksia vastaan. Biodiversiteetistä, immuunipuolustuksesta ja mielenterveydestä jatkavat erikoistutkija Jenni Lehtimäki Sykestä ja epidemiologi Jaana Halonen THL:stä. Tiedeykkösen toimittaa Leena Mattila.

Chris and Courtney sit down with Dr. Thomas Wynn, the Hand Axe Man, AKA: CU Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Colorado. Colorado Springs, where he taught from 1977 until his retirement. Dr. Wynn specializes in the archaeology of the Lower Palaeolithic, led pioneering research in Tanzania, and introduced psychological theory—specifically Piagetian concepts—into Palaeolithic studies, laying the groundwork for evolutionary cognitive archaeology. Dr. Wynn has published over 100 papers and authored key books such as The Rise of Homo Sapiens (2009) and How to Think Like a Neandertal (2012), which he co-authored with Dr. Frederick Coolidge. In 2011, Wynn co-founded the UCCS Center for Cognitive Archaeology, offering online courses on human cognition's evolutionary development. His recent work includes curating First Sculpture, an exhibition on Acheulean handaxes and early aesthetics, which opened at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas in 2018. ------------------------------ Find the book discussed in this episode: Wynn, Thomas, and Frederick L. Coolidge. How to think like a Neanderthal. Oxford University Press, 2011. ------------------------------ Contact Dr. Wynn via e-mail: twynn@uccs.edu ------------------------------ Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation/, Website: humbio.org, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Chris Lynn, Host Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, E-mail: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Courtney Manthey, Guest-Co-Host, Website: holylaetoli.com/ E-mail: cpierce4@uccs.edu, Twitter: @HolyLaetoli Cristina Gildee, SoS Co-Producer, HBA Junior Fellow Website: cristinagildee.org, E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu, Twitter:@CristinaGildee

This presentation will briefly trace 70,000 years of cultural evolution from the ancient crossing from Sunda to Sahul, via the swift continental colonization during the Ice Age, through the severe impacts on survival during the Last Glacial Maximum, and the socio-territorial reconfigurations during Holocene sea-level rise. The Australian Aboriginal world had become characterized by low environmental impact habitation, complex social organization systems anchored within constructed sacred origin histories, the persistence of relatively simple dwelling types situated within complex settlement sociospatial structures, and a high quality of life for most, with institutional dispute resolution mechanisms to contain conflicts. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40162]

This presentation will briefly trace 70,000 years of cultural evolution from the ancient crossing from Sunda to Sahul, via the swift continental colonization during the Ice Age, through the severe impacts on survival during the Last Glacial Maximum, and the socio-territorial reconfigurations during Holocene sea-level rise. The Australian Aboriginal world had become characterized by low environmental impact habitation, complex social organization systems anchored within constructed sacred origin histories, the persistence of relatively simple dwelling types situated within complex settlement sociospatial structures, and a high quality of life for most, with institutional dispute resolution mechanisms to contain conflicts. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40162]

Professor John Hoopes returns to continue our conversation about pseudoarcheology and ideas spearheaded by Graham Hancock. What did we talk about? What didn't we talk about? Giants - check. Hybrids - check. Yes, both nephilim and Homo Sapiens with other hominids. Megalythic structures - check. Pyramids on several continents and Baalbek and Henges. Nazca Lines - check. Vamanas or other flying machines - check. THE Crustal Skull - check. Nuclear glass and tectites - check. Huge regions of India unlivable due to nuclear radiation - check. White Gods and Lost tribes - check. Atlantis and other lost continents and lands - check. 

The transition from Neolithic villages to early cities marked the greatest social transformation faced by our species before the Industrial Revolution. Our ancestors had to learn how to live in new settlements that had more people, higher densities, and more activities than had been known previously. The new adaptations to urban life involved changes in society and social processes, not just individual learning. Some changes came about through social interactions in a process called energized crowding; these include innovations in housing and the use of space, and the establishment of neighborhoods in cities. Other changes were driven by powerful new institutions, including formal governments and social classes. Do ancient cities—and they ways they responded to shocks—might hold useful insights for the development of urban adaptations to climate change today? Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40165]

Humans construct their physical worlds in part by designing and constructing new tools, habitations, and in due course diverse buildings and, in some cases, towns and cities and construct their symbolic worlds by putting words together to tell stories, articulate plans, tell lies, seek truth, and much more. This talk offers hypotheses that address a key question for anthropogeny: How did biological evolution yield humans with the “construction-ready brains” and bodies that made us capable of the cultural evolution that created the diversity of our mental and physical constructs that we know today? Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 40161]

Bettymaya Foott is an astrophotographer and the Engagement Associate for DarkSky International. In this episode, we dive into a fascinating conversation about a photo she took with dinosaur tracks, the Milky Way, and herself. She also shares tangible ways that major satellites and light pollution have impacted indigenous cultures.  Visit NightSkyTourist.com/109   for more information about this episode. CHECK OUT THESE LINKS FROM EPISODE 109: Bettymaya Foott: https://www.bettymayafoott.com/  Bettymaya on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bettymaya.foott/  Bettymaya on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bettymaya.foott  DarkSky International: https://darksky.org/  Dark Sky Int'l on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darksky_intl/  Dark Sky Int'l on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IDAdarksky  4 Ways the Night Sky has Changed Me: https://nightskytourist.com/changed/  Episode 11: International Dark Sky Week with Bettymaya Foot: https://nightskytourist.com/changed/  Rate Night Sky Tourist with 5 stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. THANK YOU! FOLLOW NIGHT SKY TOURIST ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightSkyTourist  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nightskytourist/  SPREAD THE WORD Help us reach more people by subscribing to the podcast, leaving a review, and sharing it with others. GET TO KNOW US MORE Visit NightSkyTourist.com to read our great blog articles, check out our resource page, and sign up for our newsletters. Our monthly newsletter has content that is exclusive for subscribers. SHARE YOUR QUESTION We want to hear your questions. They could even become part of a future Q&A. Record your question in a voice memo on your smartphone and email it to us at Hello@NightSkyTourist.com. COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS Email us at Hello@NightSkyTourist.com.

He met an alien at Area 61. He traveled beneath Antarctica's ice and uncovered the Nazi UFO base. The X-Files? Yeah, that was based on his work.In this Special Halloween Episode of Open Loops, you'll find answers to such bone-chilling questions as:"Is our understanding of life and consciousness as fragile as our perception of reality?""What makes children our most valuable resource?""Is physics the new 'religion' guiding our belief systems?""Could cosmic alignments or distant planets like Mars actually mess with our minds? Or... is sustainable farming secretly a spiritual awakening in disguise?"Dr. Richard Alan Miller returns to Open Loops to take you on a whirlwind journey beyond the limits of reality and life itself. He'll blow your mind with his work on Embryonic Holography and A Holographic Concept of Reality.Just sit back, listen to him speak in riddles, metaphors, and real-life tales of triumph—and by the end, you too will bi-locate to Mars, get sucked through Saturn's black hole, and return to Earth...with a plastic pumpkin bucket full of processed chocolate bars and the occasional Smartie.Trick, treat, or both? You decide. (An apple with a razor inside technically qualifies as both....lucky!)Happy Holo-Ween....it's Open LooOOooOOOoops! Dr. Richard Alan Miller's Links:Main Website - https://www.richardalanmiller.com/Shop - https://www.richardalanmiller.com/bookstore  Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops