It may be hard to imagine, but that sweet dog you love started out as a wild, predatory wolf. Their evolutionary story began at least 20,000 years ago, when humans were hunter-gatherers. In 2022, 60 Minutes reported on the origin of man's best friend. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly ...

0/ Privacy in the Ethereum ecosystem is undergoing an evolution. A Renaissance, even, to sound a bit fancy.What exactly is behind these changes and how might neo-Cypherpunk be involved?A guest thread by @post_polar_ and @nicksvyaznoy. ...

RT Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole)Wild strawberry: Tiny (5mm across), tart, barely any flesh, white interior, seasonal for 2 weeks maximumModern strawberry: 20x larger, bred from crossing different wild species, red throughout, available year-round, 5% sugarPaleolithic humans: Might eat a handful during the 2-week window they were available if they stumbled across a patchModern humans: "Strawberries were a Paleolithic staple!"You can fit 20 wild strawberries on a teaspoon. They provide approximately 4 calories tota ...

RT Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole)Wild strawberry: Tiny (5mm across), tart, barely any flesh, white interior, seasonal for 2 weeks maximumModern strawberry: 20x larger, bred from crossing different wild species, red throughout, available year-round, 5% sugarPaleolithic humans: Might eat a handful during the 2-week window they were available if they stumbled across a patchModern humans: "Strawberries were a Paleolithic staple!"You can fit 20 wild strawberries on a teaspoon. They provide approximately 4 calories tota ...

[music] The astronomer Carl Sean once said, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Great. But simply inventing the universe doesn't explain why flour, sugar, cinnamon, or apples come into existence, or why they would ever mix and transform into a steaming apple pie. Carl Sean told us that the primordial ingredients for apple pies were created at the beginning of time.And he's not wrong, but actually making an apple pie takes a lot more than that. Now, apple pies ...

I'm in the radio business right now and it is a major turn is taking place right now. Radio's taking a dive down. The reason it's taking a dock down is because of advertising. the opportunity to be able to reach all of you. A business, a organization, a company, a candidate wants to reach you and wants to maximize the ability to touch base with you so you can buy their product, you can get the vote, whatever it may be, right? And so they want to be able to find you wherever you're at. And so what radio was ...

[music] The sound of gunfire grenades is a sort of cur that I've been generally familiar with. That's back in my army days. But the chaos which I'm going through right now in my brain standing in front of this amazing audience.I'm just freezing up. It's it's a bit strange. I'm not sure as to why this is with the fiasco which happened with me right right now the chaos which happened with right now coming on stage and my mic goes blank [snorts] but not to worry I'm not nervous it's just my system getting rebo ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)There are a ton of people, including but not limited to religious people, who just don't put much value in reality beyond what they need for their career and other practical considerations. The facts of evolution in particular don't touch upon most practical life enough to matter.Indeed the fantasies of creationism seem to have some benefits. I'd love for to hear your thoughts on this question: why do creationists have a higher Darwinian fitness than evolutionists? ...

There are a ton of people, including but not limited to religious people, who just don't put much value in reality beyond what they need for their career and other practical considerations. The facts of evolution in particular don't touch upon most practical life enough to matter.Indeed the fantasies of creationism seem to have some benefits. I'd love for to hear your thoughts on this question: why do creationists have a higher Darwinian fitness than evolutionists?Colin Wright (@SwipeWright):What is keeping ...

seeking truth from facts. And it sounds very obvious, but it is very hard to do it. It can be hard to just look at facts and actually observe the world as it is rather than the observer the world that we want.>> I think part of it is a habit. >> Mhm. Same.>> If I mean I think that if we're if we're taught the emotional like um what is real. Yeah. Reality >> is interesting. Reality is beautiful in a sense.If you take evolution and things die, if you recognize that and you think that way and it's all part of ...