MY TOP SCIENCE/PHILOSOPHY BOOKS OF 2021 (not in any specific order).
1 - The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution, by Kim Sterelny
MY FAVORITE NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2023
(no particular order, and with links to some interviews)
1 - A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going, by Michael Muthukrishna (
@mmuthukrishna
)
Interview:
MY TOP NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2022
(not in any specific order)
1 - The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology, by Jon Wisman.
Link:
UPDATE
Hi, everyone. Just wanted to let you know that I'm feeling a bit better now, and I'm about to start recording more interviews this week.
I'll start a bit slower at the beginning, but then hopefully I'll pick up my usual pace.
I had the honor of interviewing the late great Dr. Frans de Waal twice. In our second interview, we talked about his terrific book, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.
#primatology
#Biology
#Science
Full interview:
What would it take for someone to convince Dr. Robert Sapolsky that free will exists? Watch my latest interview with him, about his new book, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will.
#Science
#neuroscience
Full interview:
Hello, everyone. Thank you very much for all your kind tweets, messages and emails. I haven't read them all yet, but when I feel better I promise I will read and properly reply to them.
Group selection, multilevel selection, and the extended evolutionary synthesis. Watch my first interview with Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Human Behavior, Evolution, Morality, and Free Will.
#biology
#evolutionarybiology
#evolution
#Science
Full interview:
I need help.
I’ve been struggling recently. Due to the awful effects of inflation, a few of my dear patrons had to cancel or reduce their support. Over the course of November and December 2022, I lost almost a third of my monthly support on Patreon. 1/
I never ever cried reading a non-fictional book.
I just finished "The Evolution of Life Worth Living" by Cas Soper, and I cried in the end.
There will be an interview on my channel about it in July.
New episode (882), with Dr. Luiz Pessoa (
@PessoaBrain
) about his fascinating book, The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together.
#neuroscience
#Psychology
#Science
YouTube:
Podcast:
Do antidepressants work? Learn about it in my interview with Dr. Camilla Nord (
@camillalnord
) about her great book, The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health.
#mentalhealth
#psychiatry
#Science
Full interview:
What is social cognition? Learn about it in my interview with Drs. Uta Frith (
@utafrith
) and Chris Frith (
@cdfrith
) about their fantastic book, "What Makes Us Social?"
#psychology
#Science
Full interview:
@clairlemon
There's no objective truth, except for the objective truth that there's no objective truth.
No one is born heterosexual, but people can be born homosexual or bisexual.
All cultures are relativelly good, except for the Western one, which is objectively bad.
And so on.
Also, a few honorable mentions from 2022 that I missed last year:
The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together, by Luiz Pessoa (
@PessoaBrain
)
Okay, guys, it seems that some sort of miracle happened, and
@TeamYouTube
finally transferred my channel back to me.
Could some of you please go to the channel and verify if the comments are enabled, if you see the link icons next to the cover image, 1/
New interview with Dr. David Buss (
@ProfDavidBuss
) coming out next Monday, about his new book (which I could not recommend enough), When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault.
Stay tuned!
In The WEIRDest People in the World, my favorite science book of last year, Dr. Joseph Henrich (
@JoHenrich
) talks about "The Catholic Church’s Marriage and Family Program". How did it affect the cultural evolution of WEIRD
#psychology
?
Full interview:
@WiringTheBrain
The gut-brain link is the new psychological epigenetics, the new mirror neurons, the new neuroplasticity. It explains everything and anything.
6 - Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior, by Moshe Hoffman (
@Moshe_Hoffman
) and Erez Yoeli (
@erezyoeli
).
Link:
Watch my interview with Dr. Robert Trivers to learn more about how he developed the theories of parental investment, reciprocal altruism, and parent-offspring conflict.
#Biology
#evolutionarybiology
#Science
Full interview:
New episode (839), my second interview with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna (
@mmuthukrishna
), about his book, A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going.
#Science
YouTube:
Podcast:
If there's no free will, is there still space for praise and blame? Watch my interview with Dr. Gregg Caruso (
@GreggDCaruso
).
#Philosophy
#ethics
Full interview:
@clairlemon
As I already said some time ago, a fourth-wave feminist once literally told me that a homeless white hetero cisgender male still was more privileged in our (first-world) society than Oprah Winfrey.
Hi, guys. Remember that Portuguese Bill on trans rights I did a video about more than a month ago? It got passed at the Parliament, but the President vetoed it, due to lack of scientific consensus!
@docamitay
@emily_zinos
@Muttmere1
@BroughPerkins
Watch my latest episode, with Dr. David Buss (
@ProfDavidBuss
). One of the topics is how to improve relationship satisfaction.
Full interview:
Also, take the time to watch our first talk:
New episode later today.