My recent post that touched on the evolutionary applications to marketing was revelatory. Though it received fewer public comments...
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Today I’d like to share an interview of Geoffrey Miller, PhD recorded at Wieden + Kennedy (Portland) on May...
In his talk, “A New Tale of the Primate Split”, Dr. Todd Disotell delivers an interesting, if heady...
The Case Against Gluten: For Everyone
, Diet, Health, Paleo, An Edible History of Humanity, celiac, gluten, gluten intolerance, gluten sensitivity, The Paleo Diet, The Paleo Diet Cookbook, The Paleo Solution, The Primal Blueprint Cookbook, 47In the U.S., public awareness of gluten free diets has reached widespread recognition, but largely in name only. For...
Why Everything Is Paleo
, Diet, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Health, Paleo, Geoffrey Miller, The Last Human, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 19Heated debates about what definitively *IS* and what definitively *IS NOT* “paleo” abound. While that’s often an interesting question,...
UPDATE: President's Trainer Calling Paleo a "Silly Fad Diet" Is a Vegan Advocate
, Diet, Health, Paleo, Politics, Catching Fire How Cooking Made Us Human, The Paleo Diet Cookbook, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Paleo Solution, 16What? Am I psychic, or does my attempt to make a logically connected hypothesis just blow my own mind?...
The Paleo Diet and Politics
, Diet, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Health, Paleo, Politics, Religion, Catching Fire How Cooking Made Us Human, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Paleo Solution, The Primal Blueprint Cookbook, 56I hoped this day would never come. Alas, it was almost inevitable. Of the many #notpaleo concepts we face...
The Myth of Food
, Diet, Health, 16The biggest mistake we can make as individuals faced with the daily decisions about what to put in our...
Veganism, Propaganda, Paleo, & Religion
, Diet, Health, Religion, The Evolution of God, The God Delusion, The Vegetarian Myth, 22This is not a treatise on the merits of a veg*an diet versus a paleo diet from a health...
The Adventure Gene
, Adventure, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Featured, Health, Lifestyle, The Blank Slate, The Evolution of Cooperation, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Triathlete Training Bible, 46I may be defective. Not in the woe is me kind of way… more like “The Land of Misfit...
Understanding Evolutionary Psychology in 3 Seconds
, Business, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, 7Understanding the elemental foundation of evolutionary psychology is as simple as pondering this question: Why do we ride...
Yesterday, I made it to the bottom of the mountain before my bike did… shattering my clavicle in the process. Since...
The Pornography-Racism Connection
, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Morality, Survival of the Prettiest, The Blank Slate, The Compassionate Instinct, The Evolution of Desire, The Mating Mind, 9Why does pornography exist? No seriously, setting aside the self-righteously-moral-majority. The question of red dudes with pointy horns is...
*This post has been resurrected from my orphaned blog rulesoptional.com. It was written for entrepreneurs, but there are some...
Hunter-Gatherer: Mussels
, Diet, Health, Lifestyle, Paleo, An Edible History of Humanity, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Paleo Solution, 5Much of my training life consists of hikes and trail runs along the Southern Oregon Coast. I sometimes question...
Okay, not all social scientists are dunces. However, an unfortunately large proportion of social scientists are fond of launching...
Paleo Diet Timeline and Book List
, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Foundations, Paleo, An Edible History of Humanity, Catching Fire How Cooking Made Us Human, Guns Germs and Steel, The Last Human, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, The Paleo Solution, 20It’s easy to just talk about diet and the paleolithic era by saying “human evolution in the paleolithic”. That’s...
Does Darwin Illuminate Emotion & Spirituality?
, Darwinism, Evolutionary Psychology, Video, Born to Be Good, Emotions Revealed, Telling Lies, The Compassionate Instinct, The Greatest Show on Earth, 0Featured speakers Paul Ekman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, UC San Francisco and Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley...
Dr. Louann Brizendine Talks The Male Brain
, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Sex / Gender, Video, The Blank Slate, The Female Brain, The Male Brain, The Mating Mind, 0Dr. Louann Brizendine discusses her latest book, The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think....
Dr. Louann Brizendine Talks The Female Brain
, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Sex / Gender, Video, The Blank Slate, The Female Brain, The Male Brain, The Mating Mind, 5This comprehensive new look at the hormonal roller coaster that rules women’s lives down to the cellular level, “a...
Richard Dawkins Talks God Delusion
, Religion, Video, God Is Not Great, Richard Dawkins, The End of Faith, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Selfish Gene, 0Richard Dawkins discusses his bestseller, The God Delusion, in which he argues that there is no rational or moral...
Christopher Hitchens Talks God is Not Great
, Religion, Video, Christopher Hitchens, The End of Faith, The Evolution of God, The God Delusion, 0Christopher Hitchens speaks about his new book God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Hitchens, an always colorful...
Why Do People Believe Strange Things?
, Religion, Science, Skepticism, TED Talks, Video, Denialism, Michael Shermer, Why Darwin Matters, Why People Believe Weird Things, 7TED Talks: Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in “Stairway...
Robert Wright Discusses The Evolution of Compassion
, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Game Theory, Morality, TED Talks, Video, Nonzero, The Compassionate Instinct, The Evolution of Cooperation, The Evolution of God, The Moral Animal, 0Robert Wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we appreciate the Golden Rule (“Do unto others…”),...
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