mindbodyevolution

Sugar and Our Evolutionary Health

Evolution wants us to do nothing more than eat potato chips and make babies. Our evolutionary history has encouraged us to convert starch into sugar, and sugar into fat, as fast as possible, to feed our giant brains.

Alchemy, Newton and the Cosmological Principle

Dr. Josh Stout believes Google is wrong. The universe is 13.7 billion light-years in all directions. Every point is the center, AND every point is the edge. Any direction you look is back in time. 

Teaching in the Age of AI

Dr. Josh Stout discusses how AI is changing student's work, but not in the way we expected.

AI and Evolution

Coevolution of humans and our technology defines our species. Dr. Josh Stout discusses how the development of AI as a new tool could shape our cultural evolution.

A Mathematical Cosmology Model

Observable distances (OD) in the universe are bounded by the age of the universe cubed.
 
Distance (D) = OD+(1/13.8bly-OD)^3

Human Sex

In this episode Dr. Josh Stout discusses how human sex is unique in the animal kingdom.

Encoding and Decoding

Today Dr. Josh Stout invites Jed Zion to speak with us about the implications of understanding writing as a technology and AI as in coevolution with humanity.

Evolutionary Diet

Dr. Stout provides an evolutionary explanation of why we want what is bad for us - and avoid what is good for us. Today's episode explores the co-evolution of our microbiome and our hunter-gatherer heritage.