Dire Wolves and Beautiful Hubris

Today Dr. Josh Stout discusses the dangers and beauties that can arise from our hubris.

00:00 Dire Wolves and Beautiful Hubris

00:56 The Dire Wolf is Back from the Dead

01:49 Hubris as a Driver of Change, Art and Great Works

03:27 Hubris in the Natural World - The White Throated Sparrow Song

06:08 Hubris, Ego, Genius and Transcendent Beauty

06:43 The Hubris of the Greeks, The Trojan War and the End of Civilisation

09:12 Hunris: a two sided coin

09:48 What is a Dire Wolf

10:40 Colossal Bioscience is recreating the Dire Wolf

12:49 The Answer to "Why?": Hubris. Maybe not right, but still very beautiful.

17:01 How the Dire Wold was Re-Created

19:53 Dr. Stout reads from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

21:43 Wooly Mice, Wooly Mammoth and Dodos

24:53 Wolves and Dogs - Our Oldest Mammal Companion by Far

29:06 There is some evidence that we hunted with ancient dogs/wolves - or were we hunted?

32:39 Rome is beautiful and, you know, you blood stained streets everywhere, but. Oh, my God, it's so gorgeous.