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        <description>Are you a student activist?  Or do you feel school is missing something?  Or is someone trying to keep you from learning about racism or sex or evolution or transgender people and you wish you had a way to push back?  Many scientists and teachers have been working for decades reboot the public education system.  Shouldn’t we use our 21st century knowledge to tell a story of the world for the 21st century?

	I’m from a tri-racial family of teachers, artists, and scientists.  We’ve been connecting ideas to tell a bigger story of the world for almost a century.  I’m a professional theatre artist and also a Certified Flight Instructor.  I help create worlds to tell stories, and I can also teach you to feel science happening with your hands and feet.

	How do you help people see a bigger picture of the world?  Do you raise your hand in class and ask insightful questions?  Do you set up an after school club?  Do you organize open mic nights?  Do you go on strike every Friday like Greta Thunberg?  Do you…

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	I’m from a tri-racial family of teachers, artists, and scientists.  We’ve been connecting ideas to tell a bigger story of the world for almost a century.  I’m a professional theatre artist and also a Certified Flight Instructor.  I help create worlds to tell stories, and I can also teach you to feel science happening with your hands and feet.

	How do you help people see a bigger picture of the world?  Do you raise your hand in class and ask insightful questions?  Do you set up an after school club?  Do you organize open mic nights?  Do you go on strike every Friday like Greta Thunberg?  Do you…

	(Teachers, parents, and supporters of science and education are welcome to listen too.  Education is a community effort!)</itunes:subtitle>
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        <itunes:summary>Are you a student activist?  Or do you feel school is missing something?  Or is someone trying to keep you from learning about racism or sex or evolution or transgender people and you wish you had a way to push back?  Many scientists and teachers have been working for decades reboot the public education system.  Shouldn’t we use our 21st century knowledge to tell a story of the world for the 21st century?

	I’m from a tri-racial family of teachers, artists, and scientists.  We’ve been connecting ideas to tell a bigger story of the world for almost a century.  I’m a professional theatre artist and also a Certified Flight Instructor.  I help create worlds to tell stories, and I can also teach you to feel science happening with your hands and feet.

	How do you help people see a bigger picture of the world?  Do you raise your hand in class and ask insightful questions?  Do you set up an after school club?  Do you organize open mic nights?  Do you go on strike every Friday like Greta Thunberg?  Do you…

	(Teachers, parents, and supporters of science and education are welcome to listen too.  Education is a community effort!)</itunes:summary>
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                    <![CDATA[S1E48  Courage, Not Hope:  Preparing for the Future]]>
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                                            <![CDATA[And now, for our season finale… Our story of Being Human on Planet Earth needs one last thing.  How do we use it to plot a new course into the future?  What can young activists start doing now that will add up to a future they want?  What opportunities do young people have that they can take advantage of?   ACT I Scene 1 How is the story of Being Human on Planet Earth supposed to end?   There’s only one way that story can end, and we don’t want that.  That’s what Extinction Rebellion is rebelling against.   As…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[And now, for our season finale… Our story of Being Human on Planet Earth needs one last thing.  How do we use it to plot a new course into the future?  What can young activists start doing now that will add up to a future they want?  What opportunities do young people have that they can take advantage of?   ACT I Scene 1 How is the story of Being Human on Planet Earth supposed to end?   There’s only one way that story can end, and we don’t want that.  That’s what Extinction Rebellion is rebelling against.   As…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[And now, for our season finale… Our story of Being Human on Planet Earth needs one last thing.  How do we use it to plot a new course into the future?  What can young activists start doing now that will add up to a future they want?  What opportunities do young people have that they can take advantage of?   ACT I Scene 1 How is the story of Being Human on Planet Earth supposed to end?   There’s only one way that story can end, and we don’t want that.  That’s what Extinction Rebellion is rebelling against.   As…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[And now, for our season finale… Our story of Being Human on Planet Earth needs one last thing.  How do we use it to plot a new course into the future?  What can young activists start doing now that will add up to a future they want?  What opportunities do young people have that they can take advantage of?   ACT I Scene 1 How is the story of Being Human on Planet Earth supposed to end?   There’s only one way that story can end, and we don’t want that.  That’s what Extinction Rebellion is rebelling against.   As…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E47: A Generation of Heroes]]>
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                                            <![CDATA[The environmental crisis, and the destruction it’s bringing, are part of life now.  How do we adapt to that?  Where do we find role models for adapting?   We’ve all seen heroes in movies.  What qualities do they have that help them succeed at their goals, and that we admire?  What can we learn from them that we can use in our own lives?    ACT I Scene 1 [112 bpm] The environmental crisis is part of life now.  Carbon dioxide has risen to levels it’s only reached a few times in the history of our planet, and that it’s…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The environmental crisis, and the destruction it’s bringing, are part of life now.  How do we adapt to that?  Where do we find role models for adapting?   We’ve all seen heroes in movies.  What qualities do they have that help them succeed at their goals, and that we admire?  What can we learn from them that we can use in our own lives?    ACT I Scene 1 [112 bpm] The environmental crisis is part of life now.  Carbon dioxide has risen to levels it’s only reached a few times in the history of our planet, and that it’s…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The environmental crisis, and the destruction it’s bringing, are part of life now.  How do we adapt to that?  Where do we find role models for adapting?   We’ve all seen heroes in movies.  What qualities do they have that help them succeed at their goals, and that we admire?  What can we learn from them that we can use in our own lives?    ACT I Scene 1 [112 bpm] The environmental crisis is part of life now.  Carbon dioxide has risen to levels it’s only reached a few times in the history of our planet, and that it’s…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The environmental crisis, and the destruction it’s bringing, are part of life now.  How do we adapt to that?  Where do we find role models for adapting?   We’ve all seen heroes in movies.  What qualities do they have that help them succeed at their goals, and that we admire?  What can we learn from them that we can use in our own lives?    ACT I Scene 1 [112 bpm] The environmental crisis is part of life now.  Carbon dioxide has risen to levels it’s only reached a few times in the history of our planet, and that it’s…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[S1E46 The Evolution of Economics]]>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Classical economics treats money as if it’s the foundation of economic systems.  But that doesn’t explain why people want things in life that money can’t buy.   Environmental economics is the study of how organisms try to get energy and resources they need to live and that they can use to grow and reproduce.  Human economics is a subset of environmental economics, where we all try to get the things we need to live and prosper.  Money is a very complex social development that’s built up around a simple technological development.  The real value of money comes from an interaction…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Classical economics treats money as if it’s the foundation of economic systems.  But that doesn’t explain why people want things in life that money can’t buy.   Environmental economics is the study of how organisms try to get energy and resources they need to live and that they can use to grow and reproduce.  Human economics is a subset of environmental economics, where we all try to get the things we need to live and prosper.  Money is a very complex social development that’s built up around a simple technological development.  The real value of money comes from an interaction…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[S1E46 The Evolution of Economics]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Classical economics treats money as if it’s the foundation of economic systems.  But that doesn’t explain why people want things in life that money can’t buy.   Environmental economics is the study of how organisms try to get energy and resources they need to live and that they can use to grow and reproduce.  Human economics is a subset of environmental economics, where we all try to get the things we need to live and prosper.  Money is a very complex social development that’s built up around a simple technological development.  The real value of money comes from an interaction…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Classical economics treats money as if it’s the foundation of economic systems.  But that doesn’t explain why people want things in life that money can’t buy.   Environmental economics is the study of how organisms try to get energy and resources they need to live and that they can use to grow and reproduce.  Human economics is a subset of environmental economics, where we all try to get the things we need to live and prosper.  Money is a very complex social development that’s built up around a simple technological development.  The real value of money comes from an interaction…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E26: Black Theatre Artists Matter!]]>
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                                            <![CDATA[(Here’s the missing Episode 26.) The principles of modern theatre let actors create realistic human behavior onstage consistently.  That means all human behavior.   The economics of the theatre industry have led the business managers of theatre companies to choose plays that will bring in the most money.  That means plays that appeal the most to wealthy old White people, the traditional base of theatre patrons.  That means plays that are mostly by White playwrights, about White characters.. That has a number of negative effects on Artists Of Color.  It makes it harder for Playwrights Of Color to get their…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[(Here’s the missing Episode 26.) The principles of modern theatre let actors create realistic human behavior onstage consistently.  That means all human behavior.   The economics of the theatre industry have led the business managers of theatre companies to choose plays that will bring in the most money.  That means plays that appeal the most to wealthy old White people, the traditional base of theatre patrons.  That means plays that are mostly by White playwrights, about White characters.. That has a number of negative effects on Artists Of Color.  It makes it harder for Playwrights Of Color to get their…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E26: Black Theatre Artists Matter!]]>
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                    <![CDATA[(Here’s the missing Episode 26.) The principles of modern theatre let actors create realistic human behavior onstage consistently.  That means all human behavior.   The economics of the theatre industry have led the business managers of theatre companies to choose plays that will bring in the most money.  That means plays that appeal the most to wealthy old White people, the traditional base of theatre patrons.  That means plays that are mostly by White playwrights, about White characters.. That has a number of negative effects on Artists Of Color.  It makes it harder for Playwrights Of Color to get their…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[(Here’s the missing Episode 26.) The principles of modern theatre let actors create realistic human behavior onstage consistently.  That means all human behavior.   The economics of the theatre industry have led the business managers of theatre companies to choose plays that will bring in the most money.  That means plays that appeal the most to wealthy old White people, the traditional base of theatre patrons.  That means plays that are mostly by White playwrights, about White characters.. That has a number of negative effects on Artists Of Color.  It makes it harder for Playwrights Of Color to get their…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E45:  The Evolution of Science]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Science today depends on the same five steps of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate as it did 500 years ago.  But how has the role of science in society changed since then because of other developments?  When you say the word science today, what are you talking about?   How has that affected scientists?  How has the world changed in the 50 years since the environmental crisis was discovered?  How are leaders in science today hanging onto obsolete ideas from before the environmental crisis was discovered? ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] What does it mean in the…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Science today depends on the same five steps of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate as it did 500 years ago.  But how has the role of science in society changed since then because of other developments?  When you say the word science today, what are you talking about?   How has that affected scientists?  How has the world changed in the 50 years since the environmental crisis was discovered?  How are leaders in science today hanging onto obsolete ideas from before the environmental crisis was discovered? ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] What does it mean in the…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Science today depends on the same five steps of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate as it did 500 years ago.  But how has the role of science in society changed since then because of other developments?  When you say the word science today, what are you talking about?   How has that affected scientists?  How has the world changed in the 50 years since the environmental crisis was discovered?  How are leaders in science today hanging onto obsolete ideas from before the environmental crisis was discovered? ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] What does it mean in the…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Science today depends on the same five steps of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate as it did 500 years ago.  But how has the role of science in society changed since then because of other developments?  When you say the word science today, what are you talking about?   How has that affected scientists?  How has the world changed in the 50 years since the environmental crisis was discovered?  How are leaders in science today hanging onto obsolete ideas from before the environmental crisis was discovered? ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] What does it mean in the…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E44: Mental Obstacles within the Environmental Movement]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Why are some environmental activists opposed to science?   We can use the Web of Human Behavior as a map to follow people’s motivations.  Why do people become environmental activists?  And how do those motivations lead many activists toward environmental science, but lead others away from it?   ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] We know about the religious, economic, and political opposition to climate science and environmental activism.   But there are a couple others that I’ve encountered in my years of activism, which no one seems to want to talk about much.   One is anti-science attitudes among…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Why are some environmental activists opposed to science?   We can use the Web of Human Behavior as a map to follow people’s motivations.  Why do people become environmental activists?  And how do those motivations lead many activists toward environmental science, but lead others away from it?   ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] We know about the religious, economic, and political opposition to climate science and environmental activism.   But there are a couple others that I’ve encountered in my years of activism, which no one seems to want to talk about much.   One is anti-science attitudes among…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E44: Mental Obstacles within the Environmental Movement]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Why are some environmental activists opposed to science?   We can use the Web of Human Behavior as a map to follow people’s motivations.  Why do people become environmental activists?  And how do those motivations lead many activists toward environmental science, but lead others away from it?   ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] We know about the religious, economic, and political opposition to climate science and environmental activism.   But there are a couple others that I’ve encountered in my years of activism, which no one seems to want to talk about much.   One is anti-science attitudes among…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E43:  The Fundamental Sensory Illusion of the Environmental Crisis]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[We naturally perceive some parts about how the environment works better than we perceive other parts of it.  Those are the things we have to learn about to understand.  Our most profound sensory illusion is a misunderstanding of how energy moves through the environment versus how it moves through the universe as a whole.  But if we can understand that illusion, we can understand all the others. ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] How far back in our past did the environmental crisis begin?   At what point did people start misinterpreting how the environment works and making the decisions…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[We naturally perceive some parts about how the environment works better than we perceive other parts of it.  Those are the things we have to learn about to understand.  Our most profound sensory illusion is a misunderstanding of how energy moves through the environment versus how it moves through the universe as a whole.  But if we can understand that illusion, we can understand all the others. ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] How far back in our past did the environmental crisis begin?   At what point did people start misinterpreting how the environment works and making the decisions…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E43:  The Fundamental Sensory Illusion of the Environmental Crisis]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>43</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[We naturally perceive some parts about how the environment works better than we perceive other parts of it.  Those are the things we have to learn about to understand.  Our most profound sensory illusion is a misunderstanding of how energy moves through the environment versus how it moves through the universe as a whole.  But if we can understand that illusion, we can understand all the others. ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] How far back in our past did the environmental crisis begin?   At what point did people start misinterpreting how the environment works and making the decisions…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[We naturally perceive some parts about how the environment works better than we perceive other parts of it.  Those are the things we have to learn about to understand.  Our most profound sensory illusion is a misunderstanding of how energy moves through the environment versus how it moves through the universe as a whole.  But if we can understand that illusion, we can understand all the others. ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] How far back in our past did the environmental crisis begin?   At what point did people start misinterpreting how the environment works and making the decisions…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:14:43</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E42: The Environmental Crisis]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625226</guid>
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                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[The environmental crisis is caused by limitations in our perceptions.  We think about things we want much more than we think about things we don’t want.   When you buy anything at the store, you think about what you’re going to use it for much more than you think about how much pollution was generated in creating it.   Our religions, political systems, and economic system are built on that misperception.  Our ancient and modern beliefs about what’s supposed to happen,  what we should do, and what it means to be in control of our lives, are based mainly on…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[The environmental crisis is caused by limitations in our perceptions.  We think about things we want much more than we think about things we don’t want.   When you buy anything at the store, you think about what you’re going to use it for much more than you think about how much pollution was generated in creating it.   Our religions, political systems, and economic system are built on that misperception.  Our ancient and modern beliefs about what’s supposed to happen,  what we should do, and what it means to be in control of our lives, are based mainly on…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E42: The Environmental Crisis]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>42</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[The environmental crisis is caused by limitations in our perceptions.  We think about things we want much more than we think about things we don’t want.   When you buy anything at the store, you think about what you’re going to use it for much more than you think about how much pollution was generated in creating it.   Our religions, political systems, and economic system are built on that misperception.  Our ancient and modern beliefs about what’s supposed to happen,  what we should do, and what it means to be in control of our lives, are based mainly on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The environmental crisis is caused by limitations in our perceptions.  We think about things we want much more than we think about things we don’t want.   When you buy anything at the store, you think about what you’re going to use it for much more than you think about how much pollution was generated in creating it.   Our religions, political systems, and economic system are built on that misperception.  Our ancient and modern beliefs about what’s supposed to happen,  what we should do, and what it means to be in control of our lives, are based mainly on…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:27:00</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E41:  The Biology of Patriarchy]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625206</guid>
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                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Patriarchy is an ongoing political system of men assuming they’re supposed to get what they want from women, and expecting women to go along with it.  How does it start?  And what keeps it going?   Men’s and women’s different reproductive instincts give us different ideas of common sense and good decisions.  Some of the patriarchy of today is the result of old traditions that favor men.  But other parts are the result of all of us acting on our feelings without understanding completely why we feel that way or how the other side feels.   By understanding the origins…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Patriarchy is an ongoing political system of men assuming they’re supposed to get what they want from women, and expecting women to go along with it.  How does it start?  And what keeps it going?   Men’s and women’s different reproductive instincts give us different ideas of common sense and good decisions.  Some of the patriarchy of today is the result of old traditions that favor men.  But other parts are the result of all of us acting on our feelings without understanding completely why we feel that way or how the other side feels.   By understanding the origins…]]>
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                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E41:  The Biology of Patriarchy]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>41</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[Patriarchy is an ongoing political system of men assuming they’re supposed to get what they want from women, and expecting women to go along with it.  How does it start?  And what keeps it going?   Men’s and women’s different reproductive instincts give us different ideas of common sense and good decisions.  Some of the patriarchy of today is the result of old traditions that favor men.  But other parts are the result of all of us acting on our feelings without understanding completely why we feel that way or how the other side feels.   By understanding the origins…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Patriarchy is an ongoing political system of men assuming they’re supposed to get what they want from women, and expecting women to go along with it.  How does it start?  And what keeps it going?   Men’s and women’s different reproductive instincts give us different ideas of common sense and good decisions.  Some of the patriarchy of today is the result of old traditions that favor men.  But other parts are the result of all of us acting on our feelings without understanding completely why we feel that way or how the other side feels.   By understanding the origins…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:32:44</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E40: The Biology of Good Relationships]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625201</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e40-the-biology-of-good-relationships</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Men and women have many different feelings about relationships.  Relationships both partners are happy with always have some important things in common.  If men keep those in mind, it’s much easier for them to get on a path to finding and keeping good relationships.  If women keep those things in mind, it’s easier to explain them to men.   ACT I  Scene 1 [108 bpm] For the past 5 episodes we’ve been talking about many different ways men’s and women’s reproductive instincts affect how we think.  That can lead to a lot of misunderstandings and disagreements.  But if we use…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Men and women have many different feelings about relationships.  Relationships both partners are happy with always have some important things in common.  If men keep those in mind, it’s much easier for them to get on a path to finding and keeping good relationships.  If women keep those things in mind, it’s easier to explain them to men.   ACT I  Scene 1 [108 bpm] For the past 5 episodes we’ve been talking about many different ways men’s and women’s reproductive instincts affect how we think.  That can lead to a lot of misunderstandings and disagreements.  But if we use…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E40: The Biology of Good Relationships]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Men and women have many different feelings about relationships.  Relationships both partners are happy with always have some important things in common.  If men keep those in mind, it’s much easier for them to get on a path to finding and keeping good relationships.  If women keep those things in mind, it’s easier to explain them to men.   ACT I  Scene 1 [108 bpm] For the past 5 episodes we’ve been talking about many different ways men’s and women’s reproductive instincts affect how we think.  That can lead to a lot of misunderstandings and disagreements.  But if we use…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Men and women have many different feelings about relationships.  Relationships both partners are happy with always have some important things in common.  If men keep those in mind, it’s much easier for them to get on a path to finding and keeping good relationships.  If women keep those things in mind, it’s easier to explain them to men.   ACT I  Scene 1 [108 bpm] For the past 5 episodes we’ve been talking about many different ways men’s and women’s reproductive instincts affect how we think.  That can lead to a lot of misunderstandings and disagreements.  But if we use…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
                                    <itunes:image href="https://episodes.castos.com/65516c9fc86588-99368346/images/1625201/c1a-v5v1m-2o1d44vxfnd1-hgoghe.jpg"></itunes:image>
                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:18:47</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                            </item>
                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E39:  The Biology of Consent]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625198</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e39-the-biology-of-consent</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Men and women have a lot of different feelings surrounding sex.  Some of those feeling can lead men to not notice, not care, or not feel it’s important, that women don’t consent to having sex with them.   If we frame our discussions about sex and consent in terms of our different biology, instincts, and sex motivations, it’s easy to understand what consent means and why it’s always important, no matter how badly a man wants to have sex. ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] I’m going to be talking about sexual assault in this episode again. Our story of…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Men and women have a lot of different feelings surrounding sex.  Some of those feeling can lead men to not notice, not care, or not feel it’s important, that women don’t consent to having sex with them.   If we frame our discussions about sex and consent in terms of our different biology, instincts, and sex motivations, it’s easy to understand what consent means and why it’s always important, no matter how badly a man wants to have sex. ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] I’m going to be talking about sexual assault in this episode again. Our story of…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E39:  The Biology of Consent]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>39</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[Men and women have a lot of different feelings surrounding sex.  Some of those feeling can lead men to not notice, not care, or not feel it’s important, that women don’t consent to having sex with them.   If we frame our discussions about sex and consent in terms of our different biology, instincts, and sex motivations, it’s easy to understand what consent means and why it’s always important, no matter how badly a man wants to have sex. ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] I’m going to be talking about sexual assault in this episode again. Our story of…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Men and women have a lot of different feelings surrounding sex.  Some of those feeling can lead men to not notice, not care, or not feel it’s important, that women don’t consent to having sex with them.   If we frame our discussions about sex and consent in terms of our different biology, instincts, and sex motivations, it’s easy to understand what consent means and why it’s always important, no matter how badly a man wants to have sex. ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] I’m going to be talking about sexual assault in this episode again. Our story of…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:28:58</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                            </item>
                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E38: The Biology of Sexual Assault]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625195</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e38-the-biology-of-sexual-assault</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Relationships between men and women get complicated because our different reproductive instincts make us want different things from relationships.  That makes some men misunderstand, or not ever care, about women consenting to sex. Using the Web of Human Behavior to look at people’s motivations makes women’s and mens feelings surrounding rape easy to understand.  Rape makes women feel bad in ways men can’t guess by comparing to their own feelings.  Rape also feels like a good idea to some men for reasons women can’t guess by comparing to their own feelings.   By talking about our different motivations combined with…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Relationships between men and women get complicated because our different reproductive instincts make us want different things from relationships.  That makes some men misunderstand, or not ever care, about women consenting to sex. Using the Web of Human Behavior to look at people’s motivations makes women’s and mens feelings surrounding rape easy to understand.  Rape makes women feel bad in ways men can’t guess by comparing to their own feelings.  Rape also feels like a good idea to some men for reasons women can’t guess by comparing to their own feelings.   By talking about our different motivations combined with…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E38: The Biology of Sexual Assault]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>38</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[Relationships between men and women get complicated because our different reproductive instincts make us want different things from relationships.  That makes some men misunderstand, or not ever care, about women consenting to sex. Using the Web of Human Behavior to look at people’s motivations makes women’s and mens feelings surrounding rape easy to understand.  Rape makes women feel bad in ways men can’t guess by comparing to their own feelings.  Rape also feels like a good idea to some men for reasons women can’t guess by comparing to their own feelings.   By talking about our different motivations combined with…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Relationships between men and women get complicated because our different reproductive instincts make us want different things from relationships.  That makes some men misunderstand, or not ever care, about women consenting to sex. Using the Web of Human Behavior to look at people’s motivations makes women’s and mens feelings surrounding rape easy to understand.  Rape makes women feel bad in ways men can’t guess by comparing to their own feelings.  Rape also feels like a good idea to some men for reasons women can’t guess by comparing to their own feelings.   By talking about our different motivations combined with…]]>
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                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter 37: The Mathematics of Gender Differences]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625192</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-37-the-mathematics-of-gender-differences</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Men are fertile much later into their lives than women are.  That means there have always been more fertile men in the world than fertile women.   That means there has always been competition among men for fertile women.  That gives women choices of which men to have children with.  But that also means men have put a lot of thought over the millennia  into how to compete for women.   Our reproductive instincts have evolved to this mathematical relationship between fertile men and fertile women.  Talking to each other about our feelings about relationships gets a lot easier when…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Men are fertile much later into their lives than women are.  That means there have always been more fertile men in the world than fertile women.   That means there has always been competition among men for fertile women.  That gives women choices of which men to have children with.  But that also means men have put a lot of thought over the millennia  into how to compete for women.   Our reproductive instincts have evolved to this mathematical relationship between fertile men and fertile women.  Talking to each other about our feelings about relationships gets a lot easier when…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter 37: The Mathematics of Gender Differences]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>37</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[Men are fertile much later into their lives than women are.  That means there have always been more fertile men in the world than fertile women.   That means there has always been competition among men for fertile women.  That gives women choices of which men to have children with.  But that also means men have put a lot of thought over the millennia  into how to compete for women.   Our reproductive instincts have evolved to this mathematical relationship between fertile men and fertile women.  Talking to each other about our feelings about relationships gets a lot easier when…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Men are fertile much later into their lives than women are.  That means there have always been more fertile men in the world than fertile women.   That means there has always been competition among men for fertile women.  That gives women choices of which men to have children with.  But that also means men have put a lot of thought over the millennia  into how to compete for women.   Our reproductive instincts have evolved to this mathematical relationship between fertile men and fertile women.  Talking to each other about our feelings about relationships gets a lot easier when…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:51:42</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E36:  The Biology of Attraction]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625191</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e36-the-biology-of-attraction</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Men and women each have their own ways of reproducing physically.  That means we have different instincts for reproducing.  Part of our reproductive instincts are instincts for being attracted to people who have qualities we need in a mate.  Women are attracted to men who seem like they’d be good fathers, and men are attracted to women who seem like they’d be good mothers.   We have different reasons for being attracted to each other because we have different ideas about what the other person needs to be a good mother or father, and we can imagine having different kinds…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Men and women each have their own ways of reproducing physically.  That means we have different instincts for reproducing.  Part of our reproductive instincts are instincts for being attracted to people who have qualities we need in a mate.  Women are attracted to men who seem like they’d be good fathers, and men are attracted to women who seem like they’d be good mothers.   We have different reasons for being attracted to each other because we have different ideas about what the other person needs to be a good mother or father, and we can imagine having different kinds…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E36:  The Biology of Attraction]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>36</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[Men and women each have their own ways of reproducing physically.  That means we have different instincts for reproducing.  Part of our reproductive instincts are instincts for being attracted to people who have qualities we need in a mate.  Women are attracted to men who seem like they’d be good fathers, and men are attracted to women who seem like they’d be good mothers.   We have different reasons for being attracted to each other because we have different ideas about what the other person needs to be a good mother or father, and we can imagine having different kinds…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Men and women each have their own ways of reproducing physically.  That means we have different instincts for reproducing.  Part of our reproductive instincts are instincts for being attracted to people who have qualities we need in a mate.  Women are attracted to men who seem like they’d be good fathers, and men are attracted to women who seem like they’d be good mothers.   We have different reasons for being attracted to each other because we have different ideas about what the other person needs to be a good mother or father, and we can imagine having different kinds…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:18:38</itunes:duration>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E35:  The Biology of Gender Differences]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[Men and women reproduce differently.  That’s why we have different reproduction organs.   That also means we have different reproductive instincts for the best ways to reproduce.  The differences in how men and women think start with the differences in our reproductive instincts.   This isn’t a question of whether men are smarter than women, or vice versa. We’re each better than the other at some things, because our mental abilities are better adapted for doing the kinds of things that help us reproduce. ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Men and women reproduce differently.  That’s why we have different reproduction organs.   That also means we have different reproductive instincts for the best ways to reproduce.  The differences in how men and women think start with the differences in our reproductive instincts.   This isn’t a question of whether men are smarter than women, or vice versa. We’re each better than the other at some things, because our mental abilities are better adapted for doing the kinds of things that help us reproduce. ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E35:  The Biology of Gender Differences]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>35</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Men and women reproduce differently.  That’s why we have different reproduction organs.   That also means we have different reproductive instincts for the best ways to reproduce.  The differences in how men and women think start with the differences in our reproductive instincts.   This isn’t a question of whether men are smarter than women, or vice versa. We’re each better than the other at some things, because our mental abilities are better adapted for doing the kinds of things that help us reproduce. ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Men and women reproduce differently.  That’s why we have different reproduction organs.   That also means we have different reproductive instincts for the best ways to reproduce.  The differences in how men and women think start with the differences in our reproductive instincts.   This isn’t a question of whether men are smarter than women, or vice versa. We’re each better than the other at some things, because our mental abilities are better adapted for doing the kinds of things that help us reproduce. ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:46:45</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E34: Racism and Evolution]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625166</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e34-racism-and-evolution</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Our species originated in Africa.  At the time, there was no way for our ancestors to evolve a dislike for people from other continents, because there were no people from other continents.  Racism is xenophobia connected to physical features of people from different continents.  Imperialism and colonialism depended on the colonial governments writing different laws for different groups of people, which gave the colonizers the right to take land and resources from the people they were colonizing.  Slavery was another way that laws gave different groups of people different sets of rights.   Those different sets of laws created different…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Our species originated in Africa.  At the time, there was no way for our ancestors to evolve a dislike for people from other continents, because there were no people from other continents.  Racism is xenophobia connected to physical features of people from different continents.  Imperialism and colonialism depended on the colonial governments writing different laws for different groups of people, which gave the colonizers the right to take land and resources from the people they were colonizing.  Slavery was another way that laws gave different groups of people different sets of rights.   Those different sets of laws created different…]]>
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                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E34: Racism and Evolution]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>34</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Our species originated in Africa.  At the time, there was no way for our ancestors to evolve a dislike for people from other continents, because there were no people from other continents.  Racism is xenophobia connected to physical features of people from different continents.  Imperialism and colonialism depended on the colonial governments writing different laws for different groups of people, which gave the colonizers the right to take land and resources from the people they were colonizing.  Slavery was another way that laws gave different groups of people different sets of rights.   Those different sets of laws created different…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our species originated in Africa.  At the time, there was no way for our ancestors to evolve a dislike for people from other continents, because there were no people from other continents.  Racism is xenophobia connected to physical features of people from different continents.  Imperialism and colonialism depended on the colonial governments writing different laws for different groups of people, which gave the colonizers the right to take land and resources from the people they were colonizing.  Slavery was another way that laws gave different groups of people different sets of rights.   Those different sets of laws created different…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:25:53</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E33:  Human Universals]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625164</guid>
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                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Anthropology is the study of differences and similarities among cultures.  That means that similarities that all cultures share give us valuable clues to mental traits of our species.  That gives us valuable clues to the brain structure of our species.  At the same time, this paints a vivid picture of the diversity of humanity.  Most of these universals are ways that people all over the world have thought of the same ideas, but found different ways to use them.   If you’re looking for things you have in common with other people, you have a lot to choose from.  …]]>
                                    </description>
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                    <![CDATA[Anthropology is the study of differences and similarities among cultures.  That means that similarities that all cultures share give us valuable clues to mental traits of our species.  That gives us valuable clues to the brain structure of our species.  At the same time, this paints a vivid picture of the diversity of humanity.  Most of these universals are ways that people all over the world have thought of the same ideas, but found different ways to use them.   If you’re looking for things you have in common with other people, you have a lot to choose from.  …]]>
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                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E33:  Human Universals]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>33</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Anthropology is the study of differences and similarities among cultures.  That means that similarities that all cultures share give us valuable clues to mental traits of our species.  That gives us valuable clues to the brain structure of our species.  At the same time, this paints a vivid picture of the diversity of humanity.  Most of these universals are ways that people all over the world have thought of the same ideas, but found different ways to use them.   If you’re looking for things you have in common with other people, you have a lot to choose from.  …]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Anthropology is the study of differences and similarities among cultures.  That means that similarities that all cultures share give us valuable clues to mental traits of our species.  That gives us valuable clues to the brain structure of our species.  At the same time, this paints a vivid picture of the diversity of humanity.  Most of these universals are ways that people all over the world have thought of the same ideas, but found different ways to use them.   If you’re looking for things you have in common with other people, you have a lot to choose from.  …]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:19:32</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E32: Privilege versus Adaptation]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625154</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e32-privilege-versus-adaptation-1</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to pursue what they value in life, and they think of more ideas in the process.  The idea of privilege is one way people talk about how differences in people’s abilities, environments, and ideas affect the outcomes of what they do in life.  Recognizing that is a big part of  understanding the diversity of humanity. Within a high school you can meet diverse people who each have their own stories about how they’ve used their abilities and ideas in their environments to live their lives.  In a college you can…]]>
                                    </description>
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                    <![CDATA[People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to pursue what they value in life, and they think of more ideas in the process.  The idea of privilege is one way people talk about how differences in people’s abilities, environments, and ideas affect the outcomes of what they do in life.  Recognizing that is a big part of  understanding the diversity of humanity. Within a high school you can meet diverse people who each have their own stories about how they’ve used their abilities and ideas in their environments to live their lives.  In a college you can…]]>
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                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E32: Privilege versus Adaptation]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>32</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
                                <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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                    <![CDATA[People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to pursue what they value in life, and they think of more ideas in the process.  The idea of privilege is one way people talk about how differences in people’s abilities, environments, and ideas affect the outcomes of what they do in life.  Recognizing that is a big part of  understanding the diversity of humanity. Within a high school you can meet diverse people who each have their own stories about how they’ve used their abilities and ideas in their environments to live their lives.  In a college you can…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to pursue what they value in life, and they think of more ideas in the process.  The idea of privilege is one way people talk about how differences in people’s abilities, environments, and ideas affect the outcomes of what they do in life.  Recognizing that is a big part of  understanding the diversity of humanity. Within a high school you can meet diverse people who each have their own stories about how they’ve used their abilities and ideas in their environments to live their lives.  In a college you can…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E31:  Worldviews and the Principles of Learning]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625151</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e31-worldviews-and-the-principles-of-learning-1</link>
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                                            <![CDATA[People live their lives using their abilities and ideas in their environments, and they think of new ideas in the process.  The ideas they think of and learn over the course of their lives affect how they see the world.   What does education psychology tell us about that?  Teachers use principles of learning in school to make ideas memorable.  How do those principles play out with ideas that we learn outside of school, and how does that affect how we remember them?  ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] We’ve been talking about conflicts between worldviews.  People live their lives…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[People live their lives using their abilities and ideas in their environments, and they think of new ideas in the process.  The ideas they think of and learn over the course of their lives affect how they see the world.   What does education psychology tell us about that?  Teachers use principles of learning in school to make ideas memorable.  How do those principles play out with ideas that we learn outside of school, and how does that affect how we remember them?  ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] We’ve been talking about conflicts between worldviews.  People live their lives…]]>
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                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E31:  Worldviews and the Principles of Learning]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>31</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[People live their lives using their abilities and ideas in their environments, and they think of new ideas in the process.  The ideas they think of and learn over the course of their lives affect how they see the world.   What does education psychology tell us about that?  Teachers use principles of learning in school to make ideas memorable.  How do those principles play out with ideas that we learn outside of school, and how does that affect how we remember them?  ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] We’ve been talking about conflicts between worldviews.  People live their lives…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[People live their lives using their abilities and ideas in their environments, and they think of new ideas in the process.  The ideas they think of and learn over the course of their lives affect how they see the world.   What does education psychology tell us about that?  Teachers use principles of learning in school to make ideas memorable.  How do those principles play out with ideas that we learn outside of school, and how does that affect how we remember them?  ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] We’ve been talking about conflicts between worldviews.  People live their lives…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E30:  The Pros and Cons of Rigid Morality]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e30-the-pros-and-cons-of-rigid-morality-1</link>
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                                            <![CDATA[People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to decide what to do in life.  They think of more ideas in the process.  Those ideas build up to a  personal history and cultural background of ideas they use to interpret the world and keep making their decisions.   What do you think of other people’s worldviews?  How similar do they have to be to yours for you to feel they’re compatible?   That tells us something about cultural development already.  The more dangerous people’s living conditions are, the more their societies depend on morality to keep people working…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to decide what to do in life.  They think of more ideas in the process.  Those ideas build up to a  personal history and cultural background of ideas they use to interpret the world and keep making their decisions.   What do you think of other people’s worldviews?  How similar do they have to be to yours for you to feel they’re compatible?   That tells us something about cultural development already.  The more dangerous people’s living conditions are, the more their societies depend on morality to keep people working…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E30:  The Pros and Cons of Rigid Morality]]>
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                                                <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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                    <![CDATA[People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to decide what to do in life.  They think of more ideas in the process.  Those ideas build up to a  personal history and cultural background of ideas they use to interpret the world and keep making their decisions.   What do you think of other people’s worldviews?  How similar do they have to be to yours for you to feel they’re compatible?   That tells us something about cultural development already.  The more dangerous people’s living conditions are, the more their societies depend on morality to keep people working…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to decide what to do in life.  They think of more ideas in the process.  Those ideas build up to a  personal history and cultural background of ideas they use to interpret the world and keep making their decisions.   What do you think of other people’s worldviews?  How similar do they have to be to yours for you to feel they’re compatible?   That tells us something about cultural development already.  The more dangerous people’s living conditions are, the more their societies depend on morality to keep people working…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E29: Understanding Worldviews]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[One easy way to see the Web of Human Behavior and Empathy Formula play out is by looking around at people you know.  The people who relate to best are usually the people you feel you have the most in common with.  But you can relate to anyone if you can figure out how their life is different from yours.   What does that tell us about how people see the world?  How do differences between your life and someone else’s affect their feelings about what happens in life and what they should do?    ACT I Scene 1 [105…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[One easy way to see the Web of Human Behavior and Empathy Formula play out is by looking around at people you know.  The people who relate to best are usually the people you feel you have the most in common with.  But you can relate to anyone if you can figure out how their life is different from yours.   What does that tell us about how people see the world?  How do differences between your life and someone else’s affect their feelings about what happens in life and what they should do?    ACT I Scene 1 [105…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E29: Understanding Worldviews]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>29</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[One easy way to see the Web of Human Behavior and Empathy Formula play out is by looking around at people you know.  The people who relate to best are usually the people you feel you have the most in common with.  But you can relate to anyone if you can figure out how their life is different from yours.   What does that tell us about how people see the world?  How do differences between your life and someone else’s affect their feelings about what happens in life and what they should do?    ACT I Scene 1 [105…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[One easy way to see the Web of Human Behavior and Empathy Formula play out is by looking around at people you know.  The people who relate to best are usually the people you feel you have the most in common with.  But you can relate to anyone if you can figure out how their life is different from yours.   What does that tell us about how people see the world?  How do differences between your life and someone else’s affect their feelings about what happens in life and what they should do?    ACT I Scene 1 [105…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:20:58</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E28: The Empathy Formula]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[We’re all human, and we’re all unique.  How do we see through our unique differences to see our fundamental similarities?   The Web of Human Behavior connected the first principles of evolutionary psychology and modern theatre.  That shows us a map of human decision making, which we can use to tell our own and other people’s stories, and to understand our own and other people’s stories.   We’ve seen the big picture of how we see our similarities with other people.  How do we fit the pieces together subconsciously and feel our similarities with other people?  When we empathize with…]]>
                                    </description>
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                    <![CDATA[We’re all human, and we’re all unique.  How do we see through our unique differences to see our fundamental similarities?   The Web of Human Behavior connected the first principles of evolutionary psychology and modern theatre.  That shows us a map of human decision making, which we can use to tell our own and other people’s stories, and to understand our own and other people’s stories.   We’ve seen the big picture of how we see our similarities with other people.  How do we fit the pieces together subconsciously and feel our similarities with other people?  When we empathize with…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E28: The Empathy Formula]]>
                </itunes:title>
                                    <itunes:episode>28</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[We’re all human, and we’re all unique.  How do we see through our unique differences to see our fundamental similarities?   The Web of Human Behavior connected the first principles of evolutionary psychology and modern theatre.  That shows us a map of human decision making, which we can use to tell our own and other people’s stories, and to understand our own and other people’s stories.   We’ve seen the big picture of how we see our similarities with other people.  How do we fit the pieces together subconsciously and feel our similarities with other people?  When we empathize with…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[We’re all human, and we’re all unique.  How do we see through our unique differences to see our fundamental similarities?   The Web of Human Behavior connected the first principles of evolutionary psychology and modern theatre.  That shows us a map of human decision making, which we can use to tell our own and other people’s stories, and to understand our own and other people’s stories.   We’ve seen the big picture of how we see our similarities with other people.  How do we fit the pieces together subconsciously and feel our similarities with other people?  When we empathize with…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:49:28</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                            </item>
                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E27: The Web of Human Behavior]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1625127</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e27-the-web-of-human-behavior</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Modern theatre and evolutionary psychology are founded on parallel discoveries of the same first principles.  What’s an easy and effective way to translate between the two?   The Web of Human Behavior is a checklist of 20 components of human behavior.  It starts with the five fundamental traits of human mental activity, of our instincts for survival and reproduction and our abilities of memory, imagination, and communication.  Those create nine patterns of behavior that are also universal traits.  How we each use those nine patterns of behavior as individuals is affected by six variable factors.   This gives us a…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Modern theatre and evolutionary psychology are founded on parallel discoveries of the same first principles.  What’s an easy and effective way to translate between the two?   The Web of Human Behavior is a checklist of 20 components of human behavior.  It starts with the five fundamental traits of human mental activity, of our instincts for survival and reproduction and our abilities of memory, imagination, and communication.  Those create nine patterns of behavior that are also universal traits.  How we each use those nine patterns of behavior as individuals is affected by six variable factors.   This gives us a…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E27: The Web of Human Behavior]]>
                </itunes:title>
                                    <itunes:episode>27</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Modern theatre and evolutionary psychology are founded on parallel discoveries of the same first principles.  What’s an easy and effective way to translate between the two?   The Web of Human Behavior is a checklist of 20 components of human behavior.  It starts with the five fundamental traits of human mental activity, of our instincts for survival and reproduction and our abilities of memory, imagination, and communication.  Those create nine patterns of behavior that are also universal traits.  How we each use those nine patterns of behavior as individuals is affected by six variable factors.   This gives us a…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Modern theatre and evolutionary psychology are founded on parallel discoveries of the same first principles.  What’s an easy and effective way to translate between the two?   The Web of Human Behavior is a checklist of 20 components of human behavior.  It starts with the five fundamental traits of human mental activity, of our instincts for survival and reproduction and our abilities of memory, imagination, and communication.  Those create nine patterns of behavior that are also universal traits.  How we each use those nine patterns of behavior as individuals is affected by six variable factors.   This gives us a…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:45:01</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E25:  The Magic of Modern Theatre]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621434</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e25-the-magic-of-modern-theatre</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Constantin Stanislavski pioneered modern theatre by discovering a set of  artistic principles.  They let actors construct the subconscious levels of their characters’ thought processes.   Those discoveries are parallels to first principles of evolutionary psychology.  We can talk about those artistic principles using ordinary words, and we can see actors using them in movies and TV shows.  That makes the concepts of evolutionary psychology much easier to relate to everyday life.  ACT I Scene 1 [106 bpm] How does real life happen?  Most people don’t think about that most of the time.  When everything people care about happens they way…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Constantin Stanislavski pioneered modern theatre by discovering a set of  artistic principles.  They let actors construct the subconscious levels of their characters’ thought processes.   Those discoveries are parallels to first principles of evolutionary psychology.  We can talk about those artistic principles using ordinary words, and we can see actors using them in movies and TV shows.  That makes the concepts of evolutionary psychology much easier to relate to everyday life.  ACT I Scene 1 [106 bpm] How does real life happen?  Most people don’t think about that most of the time.  When everything people care about happens they way…]]>
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                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E25:  The Magic of Modern Theatre]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>25</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Constantin Stanislavski pioneered modern theatre by discovering a set of  artistic principles.  They let actors construct the subconscious levels of their characters’ thought processes.   Those discoveries are parallels to first principles of evolutionary psychology.  We can talk about those artistic principles using ordinary words, and we can see actors using them in movies and TV shows.  That makes the concepts of evolutionary psychology much easier to relate to everyday life.  ACT I Scene 1 [106 bpm] How does real life happen?  Most people don’t think about that most of the time.  When everything people care about happens they way…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Constantin Stanislavski pioneered modern theatre by discovering a set of  artistic principles.  They let actors construct the subconscious levels of their characters’ thought processes.   Those discoveries are parallels to first principles of evolutionary psychology.  We can talk about those artistic principles using ordinary words, and we can see actors using them in movies and TV shows.  That makes the concepts of evolutionary psychology much easier to relate to everyday life.  ACT I Scene 1 [106 bpm] How does real life happen?  Most people don’t think about that most of the time.  When everything people care about happens they way…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:34:11</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E24:  The First 24 Centuries of Theatre]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621429</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e24-the-first-24-centuries-of-theatre</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Theatre turns human behavior into an art.  But people are very perceptive of human behavior.  We have highly developed instincts for interpreting why people do the things they do.  For actors to produce realistic human behavior onstage is very complicated.  Theatre artists struggled with that problem for about 2,400 years.  They found many ways to make human behavior interesting, but all of them fell short of consistent realism.   In the 1890s Constantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor and director, finally solved that problem.  His discoveries elevated the art of theatre to a new level.  Consistent realism lets actors play characters…]]>
                                    </description>
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                    <![CDATA[Theatre turns human behavior into an art.  But people are very perceptive of human behavior.  We have highly developed instincts for interpreting why people do the things they do.  For actors to produce realistic human behavior onstage is very complicated.  Theatre artists struggled with that problem for about 2,400 years.  They found many ways to make human behavior interesting, but all of them fell short of consistent realism.   In the 1890s Constantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor and director, finally solved that problem.  His discoveries elevated the art of theatre to a new level.  Consistent realism lets actors play characters…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E24:  The First 24 Centuries of Theatre]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>24</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Theatre turns human behavior into an art.  But people are very perceptive of human behavior.  We have highly developed instincts for interpreting why people do the things they do.  For actors to produce realistic human behavior onstage is very complicated.  Theatre artists struggled with that problem for about 2,400 years.  They found many ways to make human behavior interesting, but all of them fell short of consistent realism.   In the 1890s Constantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor and director, finally solved that problem.  His discoveries elevated the art of theatre to a new level.  Consistent realism lets actors play characters…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Theatre turns human behavior into an art.  But people are very perceptive of human behavior.  We have highly developed instincts for interpreting why people do the things they do.  For actors to produce realistic human behavior onstage is very complicated.  Theatre artists struggled with that problem for about 2,400 years.  They found many ways to make human behavior interesting, but all of them fell short of consistent realism.   In the 1890s Constantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor and director, finally solved that problem.  His discoveries elevated the art of theatre to a new level.  Consistent realism lets actors play characters…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:13:24</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                            </item>
                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E23: Agriculture and the Clashes of Civilizations]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621425</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e23-agriculture-and-the-clashes-of-civilizations</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[The development of farming led to further social and technological developments.  The increase in food production led to the specialization of labor and population growth.  Population growth led to cities and kingdoms.  The specialization of labor led to the inventions of metal working and writing.  The growth of cities led to plagues.  Each of these developments made the societies that had them even more physically powerful.   The increase in food production and these new developments combined with each other to create new developments.  Metal tools let farmers grow even more food.  Metal weapons and armor made armies more powerful. …]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[The development of farming led to further social and technological developments.  The increase in food production led to the specialization of labor and population growth.  Population growth led to cities and kingdoms.  The specialization of labor led to the inventions of metal working and writing.  The growth of cities led to plagues.  Each of these developments made the societies that had them even more physically powerful.   The increase in food production and these new developments combined with each other to create new developments.  Metal tools let farmers grow even more food.  Metal weapons and armor made armies more powerful. …]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E23: Agriculture and the Clashes of Civilizations]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>23</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[The development of farming led to further social and technological developments.  The increase in food production led to the specialization of labor and population growth.  Population growth led to cities and kingdoms.  The specialization of labor led to the inventions of metal working and writing.  The growth of cities led to plagues.  Each of these developments made the societies that had them even more physically powerful.   The increase in food production and these new developments combined with each other to create new developments.  Metal tools let farmers grow even more food.  Metal weapons and armor made armies more powerful. …]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The development of farming led to further social and technological developments.  The increase in food production led to the specialization of labor and population growth.  Population growth led to cities and kingdoms.  The specialization of labor led to the inventions of metal working and writing.  The growth of cities led to plagues.  Each of these developments made the societies that had them even more physically powerful.   The increase in food production and these new developments combined with each other to create new developments.  Metal tools let farmers grow even more food.  Metal weapons and armor made armies more powerful. …]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:33:55</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E22:  Geography and the Spread of Farming]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621423</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e22-geography-and-the-spread-of-farming</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Farming was developed first in the Middle East, about 10,000 years ago.  It was developed in China 1,000 years later, and in three parts of the Americas several thousands of years later.   The environmental conditions of the Middle East at the time made it the most favorable environment in the world for people to develop farming.  Several geographical factors fit together to make it the easiest place in the world for people to figure out how to domesticate plants and animals, and made it the easiest place in the world for people to produce food.   That combination of…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Farming was developed first in the Middle East, about 10,000 years ago.  It was developed in China 1,000 years later, and in three parts of the Americas several thousands of years later.   The environmental conditions of the Middle East at the time made it the most favorable environment in the world for people to develop farming.  Several geographical factors fit together to make it the easiest place in the world for people to figure out how to domesticate plants and animals, and made it the easiest place in the world for people to produce food.   That combination of…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E22:  Geography and the Spread of Farming]]>
                </itunes:title>
                                    <itunes:episode>22</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Farming was developed first in the Middle East, about 10,000 years ago.  It was developed in China 1,000 years later, and in three parts of the Americas several thousands of years later.   The environmental conditions of the Middle East at the time made it the most favorable environment in the world for people to develop farming.  Several geographical factors fit together to make it the easiest place in the world for people to figure out how to domesticate plants and animals, and made it the easiest place in the world for people to produce food.   That combination of…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Farming was developed first in the Middle East, about 10,000 years ago.  It was developed in China 1,000 years later, and in three parts of the Americas several thousands of years later.   The environmental conditions of the Middle East at the time made it the most favorable environment in the world for people to develop farming.  Several geographical factors fit together to make it the easiest place in the world for people to figure out how to domesticate plants and animals, and made it the easiest place in the world for people to produce food.   That combination of…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E21:  The Evolution of Farming]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621403</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e21-the-evolution-of-farming</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[The first people in the world ate wild food that they hunted and gathered.  Over the millennia they learned about the lifecycles of plants and animals and used that to increase the food productivity of their environments.  In five places on Earth, and maybe four others, people had combinations of environmental factors that led them all the way to full time farming.  That changed the world.  Farming led to population growth, cities, kingdoms, metal working, writing, plagues, and imperialism.   ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] Our story is up to 8,500 BC.  Humans are spread over all the continents,…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[The first people in the world ate wild food that they hunted and gathered.  Over the millennia they learned about the lifecycles of plants and animals and used that to increase the food productivity of their environments.  In five places on Earth, and maybe four others, people had combinations of environmental factors that led them all the way to full time farming.  That changed the world.  Farming led to population growth, cities, kingdoms, metal working, writing, plagues, and imperialism.   ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] Our story is up to 8,500 BC.  Humans are spread over all the continents,…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E21:  The Evolution of Farming]]>
                </itunes:title>
                                    <itunes:episode>21</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[The first people in the world ate wild food that they hunted and gathered.  Over the millennia they learned about the lifecycles of plants and animals and used that to increase the food productivity of their environments.  In five places on Earth, and maybe four others, people had combinations of environmental factors that led them all the way to full time farming.  That changed the world.  Farming led to population growth, cities, kingdoms, metal working, writing, plagues, and imperialism.   ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] Our story is up to 8,500 BC.  Humans are spread over all the continents,…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The first people in the world ate wild food that they hunted and gathered.  Over the millennia they learned about the lifecycles of plants and animals and used that to increase the food productivity of their environments.  In five places on Earth, and maybe four others, people had combinations of environmental factors that led them all the way to full time farming.  That changed the world.  Farming led to population growth, cities, kingdoms, metal working, writing, plagues, and imperialism.   ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] Our story is up to 8,500 BC.  Humans are spread over all the continents,…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:17:00</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                            </item>
                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E20:  The Critical Race Theory of Evolution]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621305</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e20-the-critical-race-theory-of-evolution-1</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Genetic evolution for our species is slow, because it depends on parents passing genes down to children generation by generation.  Human intelligence evolved over millions of years and hundreds of thousands of generations. Our intelligence has evolved from genes to ideas.  We evolve mentally much faster now by thinking about ideas and deciding which ones we like the best.   Racism is the assumption that people from one continent have less mental ability than the people from another continent.  But our brains evolved along with the rest of our bodies, while our ancestors still lived together in Africa.  When people…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Genetic evolution for our species is slow, because it depends on parents passing genes down to children generation by generation.  Human intelligence evolved over millions of years and hundreds of thousands of generations. Our intelligence has evolved from genes to ideas.  We evolve mentally much faster now by thinking about ideas and deciding which ones we like the best.   Racism is the assumption that people from one continent have less mental ability than the people from another continent.  But our brains evolved along with the rest of our bodies, while our ancestors still lived together in Africa.  When people…]]>
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                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E20:  The Critical Race Theory of Evolution]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>20</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Genetic evolution for our species is slow, because it depends on parents passing genes down to children generation by generation.  Human intelligence evolved over millions of years and hundreds of thousands of generations. Our intelligence has evolved from genes to ideas.  We evolve mentally much faster now by thinking about ideas and deciding which ones we like the best.   Racism is the assumption that people from one continent have less mental ability than the people from another continent.  But our brains evolved along with the rest of our bodies, while our ancestors still lived together in Africa.  When people…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Genetic evolution for our species is slow, because it depends on parents passing genes down to children generation by generation.  Human intelligence evolved over millions of years and hundreds of thousands of generations. Our intelligence has evolved from genes to ideas.  We evolve mentally much faster now by thinking about ideas and deciding which ones we like the best.   Racism is the assumption that people from one continent have less mental ability than the people from another continent.  But our brains evolved along with the rest of our bodies, while our ancestors still lived together in Africa.  When people…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:26:32</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E19: Around the World in 40,000 Years, and 7 Failed Explanations of Race and Intelligence]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621292</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e19-around-the-world-in-40000-years-and-7-failed-explanations-of-race-and-inte-1</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Our ancestors originated in a small part of Africa and spread all over the world.  They adapted to life in different places by using their intelligence to figure out how to live there. Many people have tried to explain the differences in people’s lifestyles on different continents by explaining how people in different parts of the world could’ve evolved different levels of intelligence.  All of those hypotheses failed because they never defined human intelligence correctly in the first place.  The history of failed explanations for the relationship between race and intelligence lays the foundation for the real connection between intelligence…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Our ancestors originated in a small part of Africa and spread all over the world.  They adapted to life in different places by using their intelligence to figure out how to live there. Many people have tried to explain the differences in people’s lifestyles on different continents by explaining how people in different parts of the world could’ve evolved different levels of intelligence.  All of those hypotheses failed because they never defined human intelligence correctly in the first place.  The history of failed explanations for the relationship between race and intelligence lays the foundation for the real connection between intelligence…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E19: Around the World in 40,000 Years, and 7 Failed Explanations of Race and Intelligence]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>19</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Our ancestors originated in a small part of Africa and spread all over the world.  They adapted to life in different places by using their intelligence to figure out how to live there. Many people have tried to explain the differences in people’s lifestyles on different continents by explaining how people in different parts of the world could’ve evolved different levels of intelligence.  All of those hypotheses failed because they never defined human intelligence correctly in the first place.  The history of failed explanations for the relationship between race and intelligence lays the foundation for the real connection between intelligence…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our ancestors originated in a small part of Africa and spread all over the world.  They adapted to life in different places by using their intelligence to figure out how to live there. Many people have tried to explain the differences in people’s lifestyles on different continents by explaining how people in different parts of the world could’ve evolved different levels of intelligence.  All of those hypotheses failed because they never defined human intelligence correctly in the first place.  The history of failed explanations for the relationship between race and intelligence lays the foundation for the real connection between intelligence…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:28:24</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E18:  Religion and the Evolution of Conflicting Thought Processes]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621234</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e18-religion-and-the-evolution-of-conflicting-thought-processes-1</link>
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                                            <![CDATA[Religion played an important role in the evolution of our species.  Many people still feel it’s important today.  But it can also lead people to make bad decisions.   How do religions make people feel like they’re finding what they’re looking for in life?  And how can that bring people’s feelings into conflict with each other?  How do religions seem to give people the answers they’re looking for, but do it in ways that keep them from noticing better answers from outside their religion?  Where does religion turn into religious fundamentalism?   ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] Which came…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Religion played an important role in the evolution of our species.  Many people still feel it’s important today.  But it can also lead people to make bad decisions.   How do religions make people feel like they’re finding what they’re looking for in life?  And how can that bring people’s feelings into conflict with each other?  How do religions seem to give people the answers they’re looking for, but do it in ways that keep them from noticing better answers from outside their religion?  Where does religion turn into religious fundamentalism?   ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] Which came…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E18:  Religion and the Evolution of Conflicting Thought Processes]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>18</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Religion played an important role in the evolution of our species.  Many people still feel it’s important today.  But it can also lead people to make bad decisions.   How do religions make people feel like they’re finding what they’re looking for in life?  And how can that bring people’s feelings into conflict with each other?  How do religions seem to give people the answers they’re looking for, but do it in ways that keep them from noticing better answers from outside their religion?  Where does religion turn into religious fundamentalism?   ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] Which came…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Religion played an important role in the evolution of our species.  Many people still feel it’s important today.  But it can also lead people to make bad decisions.   How do religions make people feel like they’re finding what they’re looking for in life?  And how can that bring people’s feelings into conflict with each other?  How do religions seem to give people the answers they’re looking for, but do it in ways that keep them from noticing better answers from outside their religion?  Where does religion turn into religious fundamentalism?   ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] Which came…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:21:57</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                            </item>
                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E17:   The Evolution of Religion]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621231</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e17-the-evolution-of-religion-1</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Human intelligence lets us see a big picture of the world, and makes us wonder how to see an even bigger picture.  All over the world people have asked the same questions about life, and have used what they knew about the world to look for answers.   Religions tell stories about the origin of the world, what make the world function, morality, and the purpose of life.  The answers people have found are different, but the questions they asked are the same.  Which part of religion is more important?  The answers people believe in, or the questions people ask?…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Human intelligence lets us see a big picture of the world, and makes us wonder how to see an even bigger picture.  All over the world people have asked the same questions about life, and have used what they knew about the world to look for answers.   Religions tell stories about the origin of the world, what make the world function, morality, and the purpose of life.  The answers people have found are different, but the questions they asked are the same.  Which part of religion is more important?  The answers people believe in, or the questions people ask?…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E17:   The Evolution of Religion]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>17</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Human intelligence lets us see a big picture of the world, and makes us wonder how to see an even bigger picture.  All over the world people have asked the same questions about life, and have used what they knew about the world to look for answers.   Religions tell stories about the origin of the world, what make the world function, morality, and the purpose of life.  The answers people have found are different, but the questions they asked are the same.  Which part of religion is more important?  The answers people believe in, or the questions people ask?…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Human intelligence lets us see a big picture of the world, and makes us wonder how to see an even bigger picture.  All over the world people have asked the same questions about life, and have used what they knew about the world to look for answers.   Religions tell stories about the origin of the world, what make the world function, morality, and the purpose of life.  The answers people have found are different, but the questions they asked are the same.  Which part of religion is more important?  The answers people believe in, or the questions people ask?…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:29:07</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E16:  The Two Main Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">
                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621199</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e16-the-two-main-arguments-against-evolutionary-psychology-1</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[If we have survival instincts, why do people commit suicide?  Why do people  sometimes sacrifice their lives?   If we have reproductive instincts, why are some people homosexuals?  Why do some people not want to have children?   These questions seem to some people to disprove evolutionary psychology.  But in fact, they give us some of the best pictures of how people’s feelings come into conflict, and how the decisions people make are the best ways they find to move forward on the combination of motivations they feel.   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] Evolutionary psychology is zoology applied…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[If we have survival instincts, why do people commit suicide?  Why do people  sometimes sacrifice their lives?   If we have reproductive instincts, why are some people homosexuals?  Why do some people not want to have children?   These questions seem to some people to disprove evolutionary psychology.  But in fact, they give us some of the best pictures of how people’s feelings come into conflict, and how the decisions people make are the best ways they find to move forward on the combination of motivations they feel.   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] Evolutionary psychology is zoology applied…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E16:  The Two Main Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>16</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[If we have survival instincts, why do people commit suicide?  Why do people  sometimes sacrifice their lives?   If we have reproductive instincts, why are some people homosexuals?  Why do some people not want to have children?   These questions seem to some people to disprove evolutionary psychology.  But in fact, they give us some of the best pictures of how people’s feelings come into conflict, and how the decisions people make are the best ways they find to move forward on the combination of motivations they feel.   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] Evolutionary psychology is zoology applied…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[If we have survival instincts, why do people commit suicide?  Why do people  sometimes sacrifice their lives?   If we have reproductive instincts, why are some people homosexuals?  Why do some people not want to have children?   These questions seem to some people to disprove evolutionary psychology.  But in fact, they give us some of the best pictures of how people’s feelings come into conflict, and how the decisions people make are the best ways they find to move forward on the combination of motivations they feel.   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] Evolutionary psychology is zoology applied…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:20:49</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E15:  The Stone Age + 50,000 Years]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">
                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621188</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e15-the-stone-age-50000-years</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Archeology shows us that 50,000 years ago our ancestors had invented art, religion, music, and all the other patterns of behavior we have today.  That means people 50,000 years ago had all of the brain components we do.  What sets us apart from people 50,000 years ago is that we’ve had 50,000 years to think of new ideas and inventions.  But the instincts, feelings, and motivations we have for making our decisions today are the same as people had back then.   Some things people do today don’t seem to make any sense.  Some things we do because they feel…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Archeology shows us that 50,000 years ago our ancestors had invented art, religion, music, and all the other patterns of behavior we have today.  That means people 50,000 years ago had all of the brain components we do.  What sets us apart from people 50,000 years ago is that we’ve had 50,000 years to think of new ideas and inventions.  But the instincts, feelings, and motivations we have for making our decisions today are the same as people had back then.   Some things people do today don’t seem to make any sense.  Some things we do because they feel…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E15:  The Stone Age + 50,000 Years]]>
                </itunes:title>
                                    <itunes:episode>15</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
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                    <![CDATA[Archeology shows us that 50,000 years ago our ancestors had invented art, religion, music, and all the other patterns of behavior we have today.  That means people 50,000 years ago had all of the brain components we do.  What sets us apart from people 50,000 years ago is that we’ve had 50,000 years to think of new ideas and inventions.  But the instincts, feelings, and motivations we have for making our decisions today are the same as people had back then.   Some things people do today don’t seem to make any sense.  Some things we do because they feel…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Archeology shows us that 50,000 years ago our ancestors had invented art, religion, music, and all the other patterns of behavior we have today.  That means people 50,000 years ago had all of the brain components we do.  What sets us apart from people 50,000 years ago is that we’ve had 50,000 years to think of new ideas and inventions.  But the instincts, feelings, and motivations we have for making our decisions today are the same as people had back then.   Some things people do today don’t seem to make any sense.  Some things we do because they feel…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:23:17</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E14:  The Five Mental Traits of Evolutionary Psychology]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">
                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1621166</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e14-the-five-mental-traits-of-evolutionary-psychology</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Intelligence, for any animal species, starts with brains doing five basic things.  All of animal behavior is the results of the interaction of those five mental functions.   Everything people think, feel, and do begins with the same five mental functions.  The next step in understanding human psychology is to look at how our instincts for survival and reproduction, and our memories, our imaginations, and communication with other people affect our thoughts, feelings, and decisions.  x ACT I Scene 1 [106 bpm] What does biology show us about psychology?   At the level of molecular biology, genes are molecules that…]]>
                                    </description>
                <itunes:subtitle>
                    <![CDATA[Intelligence, for any animal species, starts with brains doing five basic things.  All of animal behavior is the results of the interaction of those five mental functions.   Everything people think, feel, and do begins with the same five mental functions.  The next step in understanding human psychology is to look at how our instincts for survival and reproduction, and our memories, our imaginations, and communication with other people affect our thoughts, feelings, and decisions.  x ACT I Scene 1 [106 bpm] What does biology show us about psychology?   At the level of molecular biology, genes are molecules that…]]>
                </itunes:subtitle>
                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E14:  The Five Mental Traits of Evolutionary Psychology]]>
                </itunes:title>
                                    <itunes:episode>14</itunes:episode>
                                                    <itunes:season>1</itunes:season>
                                <itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
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                    <![CDATA[Intelligence, for any animal species, starts with brains doing five basic things.  All of animal behavior is the results of the interaction of those five mental functions.   Everything people think, feel, and do begins with the same five mental functions.  The next step in understanding human psychology is to look at how our instincts for survival and reproduction, and our memories, our imaginations, and communication with other people affect our thoughts, feelings, and decisions.  x ACT I Scene 1 [106 bpm] What does biology show us about psychology?   At the level of molecular biology, genes are molecules that…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Intelligence, for any animal species, starts with brains doing five basic things.  All of animal behavior is the results of the interaction of those five mental functions.   Everything people think, feel, and do begins with the same five mental functions.  The next step in understanding human psychology is to look at how our instincts for survival and reproduction, and our memories, our imaginations, and communication with other people affect our thoughts, feelings, and decisions.  x ACT I Scene 1 [106 bpm] What does biology show us about psychology?   At the level of molecular biology, genes are molecules that…]]>
                </itunes:summary>
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                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <item>
                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E13: The Three First Principles of Evolutionary Psychology]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">
                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1607376</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e13-the-three-first-principles-of-evolutionary-psychology</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[Our story has led us from philosophy to math to physics to chemistry to biology to the origin of our species and the evolution of our intelligence.   The next step is evolutionary psychology.  That means understanding how the evolution of our intelligence affects how we think and feel now.  That starts with our looking at three underlying themes in everything people think, feel, and do.  ACT I  Scene 1 [110 bpm] Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution brought together centuries of observations scientists had made of living things into the science of biology.  That was with The Origin of Species,…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our story has led us from philosophy to math to physics to chemistry to biology to the origin of our species and the evolution of our intelligence.   The next step is evolutionary psychology.  That means understanding how the evolution of our intelligence affects how we think and feel now.  That starts with our looking at three underlying themes in everything people think, feel, and do.  ACT I  Scene 1 [110 bpm] Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution brought together centuries of observations scientists had made of living things into the science of biology.  That was with The Origin of Species,…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E13: The Three First Principles of Evolutionary Psychology]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>13</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[Our story has led us from philosophy to math to physics to chemistry to biology to the origin of our species and the evolution of our intelligence.   The next step is evolutionary psychology.  That means understanding how the evolution of our intelligence affects how we think and feel now.  That starts with our looking at three underlying themes in everything people think, feel, and do.  ACT I  Scene 1 [110 bpm] Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution brought together centuries of observations scientists had made of living things into the science of biology.  That was with The Origin of Species,…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our story has led us from philosophy to math to physics to chemistry to biology to the origin of our species and the evolution of our intelligence.   The next step is evolutionary psychology.  That means understanding how the evolution of our intelligence affects how we think and feel now.  That starts with our looking at three underlying themes in everything people think, feel, and do.  ACT I  Scene 1 [110 bpm] Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution brought together centuries of observations scientists had made of living things into the science of biology.  That was with The Origin of Species,…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:24:55</itunes:duration>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E12: Africa 7 Million Years Ago]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Seven million years ago our ancestors were chimpanzees living in a forest in Africa.  Then a drought caused a food shortage, and some of them walked into the grassland looking for food.  That change in their environment set the evolution of human intelligence in motion.   ACT I Scene 1 [113 bpm] 7 million years ago, in southeastern Africa, there was a forest, where chimpanzees lived.  They weren’t chimpanzees as we know them today.  They were the ancestors of the chimpanzees of today.  But I’m still going to call them chimpanzees.   Scene 2 Chimpanzees, and all other primates, have…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Seven million years ago our ancestors were chimpanzees living in a forest in Africa.  Then a drought caused a food shortage, and some of them walked into the grassland looking for food.  That change in their environment set the evolution of human intelligence in motion.   ACT I Scene 1 [113 bpm] 7 million years ago, in southeastern Africa, there was a forest, where chimpanzees lived.  They weren’t chimpanzees as we know them today.  They were the ancestors of the chimpanzees of today.  But I’m still going to call them chimpanzees.   Scene 2 Chimpanzees, and all other primates, have…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E12: Africa 7 Million Years Ago]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>12</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[Seven million years ago our ancestors were chimpanzees living in a forest in Africa.  Then a drought caused a food shortage, and some of them walked into the grassland looking for food.  That change in their environment set the evolution of human intelligence in motion.   ACT I Scene 1 [113 bpm] 7 million years ago, in southeastern Africa, there was a forest, where chimpanzees lived.  They weren’t chimpanzees as we know them today.  They were the ancestors of the chimpanzees of today.  But I’m still going to call them chimpanzees.   Scene 2 Chimpanzees, and all other primates, have…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Seven million years ago our ancestors were chimpanzees living in a forest in Africa.  Then a drought caused a food shortage, and some of them walked into the grassland looking for food.  That change in their environment set the evolution of human intelligence in motion.   ACT I Scene 1 [113 bpm] 7 million years ago, in southeastern Africa, there was a forest, where chimpanzees lived.  They weren’t chimpanzees as we know them today.  They were the ancestors of the chimpanzees of today.  But I’m still going to call them chimpanzees.   Scene 2 Chimpanzees, and all other primates, have…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:24:30</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E11: Plants and Worms to Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">
                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1607316</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e11-plants-and-worms-to-fish-amphibians-and-reptiles</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[How did we get from single celled organisms to all the diversity of life in the world today?   If you focus on how many differences there are between one species and another, you’ll be overwhelmed with information.  But if you look at the critical differences between one species and another, suddenly it’s a coherent story.  Now you’re looking at how few differences it took between one species and another to make all the rest of the differences evolve.   What had to change in those original cells to make the simplest plants evolve?  Then the simplest animals?  Then more…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[How did we get from single celled organisms to all the diversity of life in the world today?   If you focus on how many differences there are between one species and another, you’ll be overwhelmed with information.  But if you look at the critical differences between one species and another, suddenly it’s a coherent story.  Now you’re looking at how few differences it took between one species and another to make all the rest of the differences evolve.   What had to change in those original cells to make the simplest plants evolve?  Then the simplest animals?  Then more…]]>
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                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E11: Plants and Worms to Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>11</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[How did we get from single celled organisms to all the diversity of life in the world today?   If you focus on how many differences there are between one species and another, you’ll be overwhelmed with information.  But if you look at the critical differences between one species and another, suddenly it’s a coherent story.  Now you’re looking at how few differences it took between one species and another to make all the rest of the differences evolve.   What had to change in those original cells to make the simplest plants evolve?  Then the simplest animals?  Then more…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[How did we get from single celled organisms to all the diversity of life in the world today?   If you focus on how many differences there are between one species and another, you’ll be overwhelmed with information.  But if you look at the critical differences between one species and another, suddenly it’s a coherent story.  Now you’re looking at how few differences it took between one species and another to make all the rest of the differences evolve.   What had to change in those original cells to make the simplest plants evolve?  Then the simplest animals?  Then more…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:27:57</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                <title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E10: A Conceptual Detour of Evolutionary Biology]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1607314</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e10-a-conceptual-detour-of-evolutionary-biology</link>
                                <description>
                                            <![CDATA[There are a lot of steps in between the evolution of multicellular life and the evolution of the plants and animals as we think about them today.  We can fill in that part of the story by talking about the meanings of vocabulary words from biology.  Each of those words refers to a concept in biology that tells a story about some part of evolution.  Each vocabulary word is a piece of the puzzle, and together they tell a much bigger story of  the patterns of life.    ACT I  Scene 1 [90 bpm] Our story of the evolution of…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[There are a lot of steps in between the evolution of multicellular life and the evolution of the plants and animals as we think about them today.  We can fill in that part of the story by talking about the meanings of vocabulary words from biology.  Each of those words refers to a concept in biology that tells a story about some part of evolution.  Each vocabulary word is a piece of the puzzle, and together they tell a much bigger story of  the patterns of life.    ACT I  Scene 1 [90 bpm] Our story of the evolution of…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E10: A Conceptual Detour of Evolutionary Biology]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[There are a lot of steps in between the evolution of multicellular life and the evolution of the plants and animals as we think about them today.  We can fill in that part of the story by talking about the meanings of vocabulary words from biology.  Each of those words refers to a concept in biology that tells a story about some part of evolution.  Each vocabulary word is a piece of the puzzle, and together they tell a much bigger story of  the patterns of life.    ACT I  Scene 1 [90 bpm] Our story of the evolution of…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[There are a lot of steps in between the evolution of multicellular life and the evolution of the plants and animals as we think about them today.  We can fill in that part of the story by talking about the meanings of vocabulary words from biology.  Each of those words refers to a concept in biology that tells a story about some part of evolution.  Each vocabulary word is a piece of the puzzle, and together they tell a much bigger story of  the patterns of life.    ACT I  Scene 1 [90 bpm] Our story of the evolution of…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:20:23</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E09: The Evolution of Life]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1607313</guid>
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                                            <![CDATA[Genes are molecules.  Evolution is caused by the replication, variation, and selection of genes.  For life to begin on Earth, the geology of the Earth had to start a chemical reaction that could evolve.  How did that happen?  How did the evolution of genes lead to cells?  To chromosomes?  To multicellular life forms?   The evolution of genes eventually created our brains.  We use our brains to keep ourselves alive, which makes us keep evolving.  How do the underlying themes of  evolution show through in things people have thought about throughout history and think about today? ACT I  Scene 1…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Genes are molecules.  Evolution is caused by the replication, variation, and selection of genes.  For life to begin on Earth, the geology of the Earth had to start a chemical reaction that could evolve.  How did that happen?  How did the evolution of genes lead to cells?  To chromosomes?  To multicellular life forms?   The evolution of genes eventually created our brains.  We use our brains to keep ourselves alive, which makes us keep evolving.  How do the underlying themes of  evolution show through in things people have thought about throughout history and think about today? ACT I  Scene 1…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E09: The Evolution of Life]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[Genes are molecules.  Evolution is caused by the replication, variation, and selection of genes.  For life to begin on Earth, the geology of the Earth had to start a chemical reaction that could evolve.  How did that happen?  How did the evolution of genes lead to cells?  To chromosomes?  To multicellular life forms?   The evolution of genes eventually created our brains.  We use our brains to keep ourselves alive, which makes us keep evolving.  How do the underlying themes of  evolution show through in things people have thought about throughout history and think about today? ACT I  Scene 1…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Genes are molecules.  Evolution is caused by the replication, variation, and selection of genes.  For life to begin on Earth, the geology of the Earth had to start a chemical reaction that could evolve.  How did that happen?  How did the evolution of genes lead to cells?  To chromosomes?  To multicellular life forms?   The evolution of genes eventually created our brains.  We use our brains to keep ourselves alive, which makes us keep evolving.  How do the underlying themes of  evolution show through in things people have thought about throughout history and think about today? ACT I  Scene 1…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:26:26</itunes:duration>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E08: The Big Bang to the Periodic Table of the Elements]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1607312</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e08-the-big-bang-to-the-periodic-table-of-the-elements</link>
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                                            <![CDATA[The Big Bang was a huge explosion of energy.  Some of it condensed into matter.  That set the universe in motion.  It led to the formation of atoms.  It also led to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.   Physics is the study of matter and energy.  Atomic physics leads directly into chemistry.  Electrons are attracted to the nuclei of atoms.  What happens because of that?   That sets the stage for the evolution of life on Earth.  How did chemistry create biochemistry?   ACT I Scene 1 [72 bpm] The universe began with an extremely dense concentration of…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The Big Bang was a huge explosion of energy.  Some of it condensed into matter.  That set the universe in motion.  It led to the formation of atoms.  It also led to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.   Physics is the study of matter and energy.  Atomic physics leads directly into chemistry.  Electrons are attracted to the nuclei of atoms.  What happens because of that?   That sets the stage for the evolution of life on Earth.  How did chemistry create biochemistry?   ACT I Scene 1 [72 bpm] The universe began with an extremely dense concentration of…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E08: The Big Bang to the Periodic Table of the Elements]]>
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                                    <itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode>
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                    <![CDATA[The Big Bang was a huge explosion of energy.  Some of it condensed into matter.  That set the universe in motion.  It led to the formation of atoms.  It also led to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.   Physics is the study of matter and energy.  Atomic physics leads directly into chemistry.  Electrons are attracted to the nuclei of atoms.  What happens because of that?   That sets the stage for the evolution of life on Earth.  How did chemistry create biochemistry?   ACT I Scene 1 [72 bpm] The universe began with an extremely dense concentration of…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The Big Bang was a huge explosion of energy.  Some of it condensed into matter.  That set the universe in motion.  It led to the formation of atoms.  It also led to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.   Physics is the study of matter and energy.  Atomic physics leads directly into chemistry.  Electrons are attracted to the nuclei of atoms.  What happens because of that?   That sets the stage for the evolution of life on Earth.  How did chemistry create biochemistry?   ACT I Scene 1 [72 bpm] The universe began with an extremely dense concentration of…]]>
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                                                                            <itunes:duration>00:17:58</itunes:duration>
                                                    <itunes:author>
                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E07: A Philosophy of Four Mathematical Laws]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[Math is the metaphysics of science.  Every scientific discovery is the discovery of a mathematical pattern in the world.   To tell a mathematical story of the world that people can grow up with, we need to start with games we can show to preschoolers to help them visualize the fundamental mathematical patterns in the world.  As they get older they can use what they learned from their game to understand the world better. The scientific story of the world only depends on 4 mathematical laws that you can demonstrate with building blocks.   ACT I Scene 1 Gym class…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Math is the metaphysics of science.  Every scientific discovery is the discovery of a mathematical pattern in the world.   To tell a mathematical story of the world that people can grow up with, we need to start with games we can show to preschoolers to help them visualize the fundamental mathematical patterns in the world.  As they get older they can use what they learned from their game to understand the world better. The scientific story of the world only depends on 4 mathematical laws that you can demonstrate with building blocks.   ACT I Scene 1 Gym class…]]>
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                                    <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E07: A Philosophy of Four Mathematical Laws]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Math is the metaphysics of science.  Every scientific discovery is the discovery of a mathematical pattern in the world.   To tell a mathematical story of the world that people can grow up with, we need to start with games we can show to preschoolers to help them visualize the fundamental mathematical patterns in the world.  As they get older they can use what they learned from their game to understand the world better. The scientific story of the world only depends on 4 mathematical laws that you can demonstrate with building blocks.   ACT I Scene 1 Gym class…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Math is the metaphysics of science.  Every scientific discovery is the discovery of a mathematical pattern in the world.   To tell a mathematical story of the world that people can grow up with, we need to start with games we can show to preschoolers to help them visualize the fundamental mathematical patterns in the world.  As they get older they can use what they learned from their game to understand the world better. The scientific story of the world only depends on 4 mathematical laws that you can demonstrate with building blocks.   ACT I Scene 1 Gym class…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E06: The Philosophical Foundation of Science]]>
                </title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                    https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/57024/episode/1607310</guid>
                                    <link>https://our-lives-matter.castos.com/episodes/our-lives-matter-s1e06-the-philosophical-foundation-of-science</link>
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                                            <![CDATA[Science is a philosophy.  The metaphysics are math.  The epistemology is the five step process of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate.  Those lead to hypotheses and theories.   But we could just as easily call these the underlying themes in the story of the world.   A scientific story of the world doesn’t turn the whole world into science class.  A scientific story of the world is everything fitting together at once to tell a reliable story of the world.   ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] Y’all know what themes are?  Telling a good story depends on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Science is a philosophy.  The metaphysics are math.  The epistemology is the five step process of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate.  Those lead to hypotheses and theories.   But we could just as easily call these the underlying themes in the story of the world.   A scientific story of the world doesn’t turn the whole world into science class.  A scientific story of the world is everything fitting together at once to tell a reliable story of the world.   ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] Y’all know what themes are?  Telling a good story depends on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E06: The Philosophical Foundation of Science]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Science is a philosophy.  The metaphysics are math.  The epistemology is the five step process of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate.  Those lead to hypotheses and theories.   But we could just as easily call these the underlying themes in the story of the world.   A scientific story of the world doesn’t turn the whole world into science class.  A scientific story of the world is everything fitting together at once to tell a reliable story of the world.   ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] Y’all know what themes are?  Telling a good story depends on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Science is a philosophy.  The metaphysics are math.  The epistemology is the five step process of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate.  Those lead to hypotheses and theories.   But we could just as easily call these the underlying themes in the story of the world.   A scientific story of the world doesn’t turn the whole world into science class.  A scientific story of the world is everything fitting together at once to tell a reliable story of the world.   ACT I Scene 1 [105 bpm] Y’all know what themes are?  Telling a good story depends on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E05: Religious Fundamentalism versus Education]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Teachers learn eight principles of learning in the course of their certification training, which show us different ways of making information memorable.  If you compare how religious leaders use them to make their religious stories memorable to how teachers use them in public school, you can see a number of ways that religious fundamentalists are competing against public school and winning.  What can we do to turn the table and make public education more memorable than religious fundamentalism?   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] What’s the best way to tell a story?  How you tell a story depends on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Teachers learn eight principles of learning in the course of their certification training, which show us different ways of making information memorable.  If you compare how religious leaders use them to make their religious stories memorable to how teachers use them in public school, you can see a number of ways that religious fundamentalists are competing against public school and winning.  What can we do to turn the table and make public education more memorable than religious fundamentalism?   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] What’s the best way to tell a story?  How you tell a story depends on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E05: Religious Fundamentalism versus Education]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Teachers learn eight principles of learning in the course of their certification training, which show us different ways of making information memorable.  If you compare how religious leaders use them to make their religious stories memorable to how teachers use them in public school, you can see a number of ways that religious fundamentalists are competing against public school and winning.  What can we do to turn the table and make public education more memorable than religious fundamentalism?   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] What’s the best way to tell a story?  How you tell a story depends on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Teachers learn eight principles of learning in the course of their certification training, which show us different ways of making information memorable.  If you compare how religious leaders use them to make their religious stories memorable to how teachers use them in public school, you can see a number of ways that religious fundamentalists are competing against public school and winning.  What can we do to turn the table and make public education more memorable than religious fundamentalism?   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] What’s the best way to tell a story?  How you tell a story depends on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E04: The Evolution of Intelligence and Religion]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Archeology shows us a lot about the origin of religion.  History and current events tell us a lot about where religions went from there.  Different religions have different stories about the world.  But all of those stories are answers to the same questions people everywhere ask about life.    Religions bring people together into communities through shared stories and shared beliefs.  That means we can bring more people together with bigger shared stories and more shared beliefs.   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] Y’all know what archeology is?  It’s the science of bones and stones.   In Africa the…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Archeology shows us a lot about the origin of religion.  History and current events tell us a lot about where religions went from there.  Different religions have different stories about the world.  But all of those stories are answers to the same questions people everywhere ask about life.    Religions bring people together into communities through shared stories and shared beliefs.  That means we can bring more people together with bigger shared stories and more shared beliefs.   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] Y’all know what archeology is?  It’s the science of bones and stones.   In Africa the…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E04: The Evolution of Intelligence and Religion]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Archeology shows us a lot about the origin of religion.  History and current events tell us a lot about where religions went from there.  Different religions have different stories about the world.  But all of those stories are answers to the same questions people everywhere ask about life.    Religions bring people together into communities through shared stories and shared beliefs.  That means we can bring more people together with bigger shared stories and more shared beliefs.   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] Y’all know what archeology is?  It’s the science of bones and stones.   In Africa the…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Archeology shows us a lot about the origin of religion.  History and current events tell us a lot about where religions went from there.  Different religions have different stories about the world.  But all of those stories are answers to the same questions people everywhere ask about life.    Religions bring people together into communities through shared stories and shared beliefs.  That means we can bring more people together with bigger shared stories and more shared beliefs.   ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] Y’all know what archeology is?  It’s the science of bones and stones.   In Africa the…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E03:  The Philosophies of Religion and Science]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>STEAM APE</dc:creator>
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                                            <![CDATA[Science is the systematic search for reliable information.  Religions are stories about the world that assume events have supernatural origins, but that bring believers together.  Those two seem incompatible at first.  But we can see common themes among them if we look at them both as philosophies.   ACT I Scene 1 (114 bpm) We got Christians in the house? We got Muslims in the house? We got Agnostics in the house? We got Atheists in the house? We got everybody in the house? Religion comes between a lot of people, so let’s talk about that now and get on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Science is the systematic search for reliable information.  Religions are stories about the world that assume events have supernatural origins, but that bring believers together.  Those two seem incompatible at first.  But we can see common themes among them if we look at them both as philosophies.   ACT I Scene 1 (114 bpm) We got Christians in the house? We got Muslims in the house? We got Agnostics in the house? We got Atheists in the house? We got everybody in the house? Religion comes between a lot of people, so let’s talk about that now and get on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E03:  The Philosophies of Religion and Science]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Science is the systematic search for reliable information.  Religions are stories about the world that assume events have supernatural origins, but that bring believers together.  Those two seem incompatible at first.  But we can see common themes among them if we look at them both as philosophies.   ACT I Scene 1 (114 bpm) We got Christians in the house? We got Muslims in the house? We got Agnostics in the house? We got Atheists in the house? We got everybody in the house? Religion comes between a lot of people, so let’s talk about that now and get on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Science is the systematic search for reliable information.  Religions are stories about the world that assume events have supernatural origins, but that bring believers together.  Those two seem incompatible at first.  But we can see common themes among them if we look at them both as philosophies.   ACT I Scene 1 (114 bpm) We got Christians in the house? We got Muslims in the house? We got Agnostics in the house? We got Atheists in the house? We got everybody in the house? Religion comes between a lot of people, so let’s talk about that now and get on…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E02: Learning by Stories]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[People think and learn in terms of stories.  We think about how things happen in terms of a beginning, a middle, and an end.   All your classes in school tell stories.   A functional society depends on its members agreeing on a story of how the world works, because that that’s how they make plans for how they can work together.   Science and history classes tell the biggest stories in school.  So how do we fit them together, and fit all the other classes into that, to tell the biggest, most thorough story of the world we can?…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[People think and learn in terms of stories.  We think about how things happen in terms of a beginning, a middle, and an end.   All your classes in school tell stories.   A functional society depends on its members agreeing on a story of how the world works, because that that’s how they make plans for how they can work together.   Science and history classes tell the biggest stories in school.  So how do we fit them together, and fit all the other classes into that, to tell the biggest, most thorough story of the world we can?…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E02: Learning by Stories]]>
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                    <![CDATA[People think and learn in terms of stories.  We think about how things happen in terms of a beginning, a middle, and an end.   All your classes in school tell stories.   A functional society depends on its members agreeing on a story of how the world works, because that that’s how they make plans for how they can work together.   Science and history classes tell the biggest stories in school.  So how do we fit them together, and fit all the other classes into that, to tell the biggest, most thorough story of the world we can?…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[People think and learn in terms of stories.  We think about how things happen in terms of a beginning, a middle, and an end.   All your classes in school tell stories.   A functional society depends on its members agreeing on a story of how the world works, because that that’s how they make plans for how they can work together.   Science and history classes tell the biggest stories in school.  So how do we fit them together, and fit all the other classes into that, to tell the biggest, most thorough story of the world we can?…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E01: Many Songs with One Chorus]]>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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                                            <![CDATA[Greta Thunberg’s school strike has spread all over the world. Black Lives Matter and most other movements for inclusion have student branches. Student activists, and changes to the education system, are always a big part of every political movement.   Many scientists and educators have been finding ways to update the education system to the 21st century.  The information is readily available. But the people who keep trying to ban Critical Race Theory and books about transgender people are never going to approve of it. A 21st century public education system depends on the kind of student-led movements we already…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Greta Thunberg’s school strike has spread all over the world. Black Lives Matter and most other movements for inclusion have student branches. Student activists, and changes to the education system, are always a big part of every political movement.   Many scientists and educators have been finding ways to update the education system to the 21st century.  The information is readily available. But the people who keep trying to ban Critical Race Theory and books about transgender people are never going to approve of it. A 21st century public education system depends on the kind of student-led movements we already…]]>
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                                <itunes:title>
                    <![CDATA[Our Lives Matter S1E01: Many Songs with One Chorus]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Greta Thunberg’s school strike has spread all over the world. Black Lives Matter and most other movements for inclusion have student branches. Student activists, and changes to the education system, are always a big part of every political movement.   Many scientists and educators have been finding ways to update the education system to the 21st century.  The information is readily available. But the people who keep trying to ban Critical Race Theory and books about transgender people are never going to approve of it. A 21st century public education system depends on the kind of student-led movements we already…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[Greta Thunberg’s school strike has spread all over the world. Black Lives Matter and most other movements for inclusion have student branches. Student activists, and changes to the education system, are always a big part of every political movement.   Many scientists and educators have been finding ways to update the education system to the 21st century.  The information is readily available. But the people who keep trying to ban Critical Race Theory and books about transgender people are never going to approve of it. A 21st century public education system depends on the kind of student-led movements we already…]]>
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                    <![CDATA[STEAM APE]]>
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