#22: “Kitschy” Nostalgia, body-picking disorders | Robert Sapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews

[@bridgham1]

Dr. Sapolsky, you've spoken about dealing with depression but you've seemed happier since you and Offspring have been doing these videos. I'm happy to see this and I hope the next time it strikes you'll find some relief in the fact that we all love you so much.

[@giovannaalencar1785]

I don't mean any harm by this question, but may I ask where you heard that he has depression?

[@bridgham1]

@@giovannaalencar1785I believe he spoke about it in his Stanford lecture on depression and religion.

[@opusford]

He has talked about it a lot and is very open about it. It's the reason he has never drank or done recreational drugs ​@@giovannaalencar1785

[@simonFellows-p3c]

... Dr. Sapolsky you've talked so openly and eloquently about depression but Have you ever taken antidepressants and if so what are your thoughts on their long term usage and side effects ?

[@josiesiman9847]

I had a memory of him saying he had depression, but at this point I think I made it up in my head.

[@zenmonk420]

It's criminal that this channel has so few subs. These vids have become something I look forward to whenever one drops, thank you both for doing this.

[@debpoarch3881]

I look forward to these videos as well.

[@candaceprather8434]

" biology turning on you" What a great way to reframe some human challenges. I love that.😊

[@joanabug4479]

...and 'biology turning you on' in other instances... when you wouldn't want that to happen, obviously! 😆

[@eniggma9353]

Yeah

[@bellakrinkle9381]

@@joanabug4479 Yeah, like getting a frozen finger that happens to be my left hand ring finger. 🤣😉

[@gamesbrowngames]

Damn. This guy speaks in textbook and not only is it riddled with clarity but also sprinkled with a keen sense of humor

[@picolo121]

Listening to Sapolsky makes me feel more familiar and comfortable with my environment. It's as if, after working with a complex device for a long time, you've finally gotten its manual.

[@isabt4]

Well said! ❤

[@debpoarch3881]

Yes! I have wondered why listening to him is so comforting. Besides enjoying his wonderful voice and speech cadence, this is it. I always get that, oh, ok, I get it now! feeling.

[@isabt4]

@@debpoarch3881 me too! Understanding his explanations has given me peace, and hope for the future generations ❤️

[@IlaughedIcried]

Omg. As a huge, huge Sapolsky fan, I'm having a little freak out over here that not only is this video talking about body repetitive disorders, and not only are you two talking about trichotillomania, but Sapolsky Offspring has the exact same TTM behavior as I do!! Eyelashes and eyebrows!! Eeee! I'm in the best company ever! :)

[@LovedByDax]

Great to hear my creative mediocrity is actually my strength.

[@debpoarch3881]

Yes! I picked up on that too!!! I've always berated myself for not having a creative bone in my body. But I am always open to novelty. What a wonderous thing! I'm glad to know there is some benefit!

[@arielleclick9306]

Amen with how difficult it can be to deal with skin picking. Thank you for taking about this!

[@curiousreporter4292]

Now once again sir Sapolsky helped me to understand my problem and gave me the vocabulary. This time it's Body focused repetitive behaviour (skin and nose picking 😳). Thank you very much sir sapolsky. Shahid from India.

[@debpoarch3881]

Yes! Learning the vocabulary is very helpful!

[@agnesagni]

Growing up with an abusive father who believed in corporal punishment, just plain going along with traditions, l wonder how this understanding of neurobiology, psychology, developmental psychology influenced parenting in your family. I would love to hear about this in one of the episodes if you have not spoken about it yet. Thank you for these wonderful, info packed and authentic interviews.

[@margotholmes7857]

You are a brilliant man, Dr. Sapolsky and I’m glad I found ya on KZbin as a lowly social worker you bring psychology to its environment! Thank you for that!

[@BeeBop1029]

I bite my cuticles and nails. I’ve noticed and later read that N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) improved these symptoms. Doesn’t stop it, but improves. NAC I think improves, via the liver, glutathione and the body’s antioxidant defenses. Don’t know if that’s correlation or causation but I thought it was interesting that NAC helped me.

[@bellakrinkle9381]

I thought I'd discover what Kombucha was all about, after seeing in around for 15 years. The next thing I knew, I found myself fermenting it myself in my home. Then, I lost my nightly headache that I've had since my brain aneurysm, 20 years ago. BTW, I take NAC, too, but it never dissolved my headaches. I think Kombucha has minimized my allergies and reduced my coffee addiction, too. And I weigh less! Nearly back to high school weight! I know nothing about nail biting - maybe it reduces anxiety? Test out Kombucha - my headache disappeared after a month or so.

[@BeeBop1029]

@@bellakrinkle9381 I made and drank kombucha for maybe 6 months. Didn’t seem to do anything, but I eat pretty clean and feel great already. (No wheat, dairy and try not to eat too many carbs and I move a lot.)

[@patriciajump9511]

We are fortunate to be able to hear these informative interviews because this man has been a brilliant lecturer and scientist in his field for decades. I love finding these trustworthy, accurate, well spoken, highly respected educators who have added a new title to their curriculum vitae, namely "guru," who are generously sharing their knowledge to the world. Without the internet, people could not benefit from his generous gift of knowledge. Thank you, Dr. Sapolsky!

[@BigMind98]

Robert, you are the best person one can find on the Internet right now! Thank you and your daughter for all of the videos🙏

[@mcd5478]

Occasionally I’ll have a quick teary-eyed smiling moment when Dr Sapolsky shares something like his closing remarks in this video 🥹❤ I’ve come to realize that his calm, rational voice decreases my anxiety. Thx for these videos 🌟💖

[@debpoarch3881]

This video especially decreased my anxiety. I had no idea about body picking. I have it to a very minor degree, but it's there. Now I understand it and am much relieved.

[@hotbit7327]

Safi looked at you guys with compassion and deep understanding. Thank you Saplosky Family for being natural and open, I'm sure I'm one of very many who appreciate/like it.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Put me in the 5% for music. I just thought everyone else was crazy, still listening to their junior high playlist at 40. Nice there are others like me out there. I never meet them.

[@DARKLYLIT]

Thank you for embedding the captions. It's a lot nicer to just see you and listen to you both! Merci, from Canada!😁👍✌

[@tracy9610]

Yes!

[@debpoarch3881]

I agree. The captions help me pick up on unfamiliar technical terms.

[@howardreed5399]

I watch these with my daughter and we discuss the topics afterwards. The Sapolskys are the kinda people we should be seeking out to illuminate our lives instead of false gods and celebrity "heroes". I dropped out of school in the 9th grade and returned in my 50s to take a few psych and bio courses at community college, and they gave me the ability to really understand the nuances of Sapolskys view. I have read several of his and many books he recommends in his Stamford lectures, Darwins Cathedral, Gleicks Chaos, etc. That I spent most of my life in the dark, scientifically I am proof that anyone can see the light. And I see the bored look on my friends faces when they are completely unable to comprehend and so easily dismiss the science that is us and our world, and I realize I was like that, easily bored by lack of interest that was the result of lack of education, and now I am not. I am 60 now and cannot say how grateful I am to be able to understand these things.

[@sorinm.5738]

Must be amaizing to have a father like that ! Great intellect , godlike teaching skills and the look at 23:40. Nice content and all the best from Romania.

[@ChristopherCurtis]

Great series, I love listening to Dr. Sapolski. I'm this video's 1st 'Like' - I hope a worthy donation to your future dopamine hits!

[@isabt4]

Thank you for this! I love all your episodes. This one has helped very personally / particularly because I have various versions of the picking thing, interesting! Love to the whole Sapolski family ❤❤❤

[@asokakumarsivaramamenon5254]

Dr Sapolsky's narration is very interesting.Thanks

[@CathyKeating]

Rachel, thank you for sharing your own experience to really punctuate the point that, if you (or I or any of us) are suffering from any kind of neuropsychiatric disorder, you are most definitely not alone. I loved appreciated your willingness to be vulnerable and to share your coping mechanisms. They almost always involve other people, don't they? Thankful for good relationships and the ability to form them.

[@riparchivist]

I am thoroughly enjoying these wonderful sessions. Thank you both for doing them.

[@fonsvandenhove]

Excellent podcast again. Greetings from Estonia. No questions asked...

[@bradsillasen1972]

Always a treat! :)

[@RebeccaResnik-k9w]

Love these videos!!! ❤❤❤

[@BradC44]

Hey Doc I was waiting for you discuss the endorphin release associated with picking. Thanks so much to you both for the great content. 🧠

[@nancychace8619]

Thanks for more good discussion. Interesting to note how culture changes over time. In my time it was a bit of a stretch for a young woman to dye a streak of her hair a unique color, or get a small tatoo. At one time I thought I might go with a purple streak - my wild streak - just to let folks know I had one. These days many young people seem to have gone much farther - nose rings and such, but they are coming up in a much tougher world. It's all relative - important to try to remain open-minded. Times, culture and perspectives change. Includes music, of course. Although I would suggest there are certain factors that comprise good music, as opposed to noise. Perhaps this dates me. We all struggle with something. I've known of very few for whom this is not the case. As we age we want to stay on the high ground, so to speak, b/c we've traversed most everywhere else and have already slipped through various cracks and fallen into whatever road ruts. Some of them have been pretty steep. We've learned through the school of life and hard knocks that sticking with "what works" will get us "there". Beats getting stuck in yet the umpteenth road rut. Lol - Remind me sometime to tell you the story of when we got a '64 International with a loaded 27' trailer stuck in the mud! Rodeo time! At any rate, Robert is right - you are not alone. Thanks for sharing -

[@jesseautumnmusic]

Thank you so much for these videos. I’m thoroughly enjoying this series and I appreciate Father Sapolsky & Offspring Sapolsky so much.

[@KeithCooper-Albuquerque]

Thanks for another great video! This is one of the best channels ever!

[@f.a.5865]

thank you deeply, this helps a lot

[@jimdwyer986]

Thank you, Science and the Beard❤️

[@yashvakilna6205]

Thank you for educating us in this. I am big fan of your story telling. Please think about Merch on the Beard!

[@tracy9610]

I get so excited when I see a new episode. It took me a long time to self-assess my trichtotillomania. My mom used to slap my hand away from my face since I was a kid. My eyebrows and other parts of my body have never regrown hair again properly. Just the past year or so I’ve been doing the eye-wiping but I had no idea it was a thing. I try to apply my CBT skills to these compulsions, with some success. I’ve never told any of my therapists about it. This is the most I’ve ever said aloud about it. It’s embarrassing. And largely unconscious. Thank you Offspring Share-Sapolsky for being open about it. I had a cat named Saavic and she groomed herself to the point of having bald spots on her back. Her sister (littermate) had no proclivity at all to this. Saavic had no perceivable trauma and I’ve had no trauma. I don’t have any OCD traits. I do have some garden variety anxiety but I found a med that works and the anxiety doesn’t interfere with my life so it’s really not that bad. Just my own biology turned against me I guess. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@stvbrsn]

I like that you named your cat Saavik. It’s only logical.

[@uriel578]

Thank you for this series of videos, I enjoy it a lot. I would like to know your perspectives on hoarding disorders and if you've heard of something that can help? It runs in my family and there doesn't seem to be any help on offer, other than cleaning, reorganizing and such. Obviously there is some psychological cause, but it remains unaddressed, unfortunately. I've recently heard that trauma and ADHD have been linked to it (also found in my family) and OCD was linked to it in the past. A friend of mine heads a team of cleaners that take on such houses in another city, but he says he hasn't heard what the root cause is or what can be done about it. Any ideas?

[@tracy9610]

I was also hoping he would speak to that question. I’ve heard that it can be trauma related too. I’m cleaning out my parents house after 50 years of them living there and- yikes!! It’s made me look at my own habits and I’m not as bad as they were but it’s there. I don’t think it’s trauma-related in our case. I do think there’s a strong element of loss aversion. It’s easier for me to get rid of something I’ve had for one year versus 20 years. Also, in our family there’s a strong element of thriftiness.

[@bellakrinkle9381]

What are you hoarding? I hauled furniture around decades from my childhood home. I finally realized that I unconsciously wanted to recreate those peaceful, safe and happy years experienced as a child. All that is gone forever and I've finally resolved that I have a past and a present. Live in the Now.

[@mikeda56]

Why are mechanistic descriptions of the foundations of behavior so soothing

[@debpoarch3881]

Yeah! I think I find them soothing because they explain things I've never understood before. Knowledge is power, it is comfort, it is security. I feel like it provides a foundation for my life. I understand how things work. This helps me stop wondering and helps me move on to other things.

[@philosophicalmixedmedia]

The self-evaluative maintenance principle, when applied to in-group dynamics, suggests a divergence in attitudes towards novelty and power consolidation based on individual status within the group. Maybe non- humans with big enough brains can self-evaluate too.

[@JeanFitzpatrick-fl6gy]

I enjoyed the lecture, and I especially like your doggy. I can see he or she has a very calming effect.

[@IMN564]

Thank you!!❤

[@carmenmccauley585]

I used to pull my eyelashes out. Didn't even know I was doing it. The phase disappeared when I met my husband.

[@WHODA_]

Just found out Sapolsky has a podcast today! Stoked to catch up on it

[@goosergone143]

Can you perhaps address ARFID (avoidant restrictive feeding intake disorder) ? My teen has it along with ADHD with possibly high functioning autism

[@zsteinkamp]

nice father audio improvement with the new mic vs old headset. 👏👏👏

[@ngiii100]

I concur with your perspective on the absence of free will. It is intriguing that I have yet to encounter scholarly works that describe speech or general actions as a “brain excrescence.” This analogy likens neural activities to the way the gastrointestinal system operates-responding to the organism's conditions and perceived demands. Have any scholars conceptualized brain functions in this manner? Angela Gearhart from Santiago, Chile

[@hardermusic]

I use a beard trimmer at a 2mm setting to trim my eyebrows. That way I don't get a proper grip on the hairs which in turn reminds me of what I'm doing at that moment.

[@klausgartenstiel4586]

there should be a line of sapolsky plushies. so cute! 😍😍😍

[@debpoarch3881]

HAHA!!! I love it! I'd buy one.

[@OrafuDa]

I’m just wondering how long your back log is with the submitted questions. Partially because I have submitted some, and I am wondering whether they will come later or if something was wrong with my questions. 😅 Also, thank you sooooo much for doing this at all! And for free! This is sooo helpful! 🙏 😊

[@briseboy]

1. Sushi: There are kinds of sushi, which was a "sandwich that Japanese workers could easily take to fields or other jobs. All the kinds of sushi, whether wrapped ion certain seaweed, Nori, Purple Laver, or "cone sushi" as called in Hawaii, with the skin that formed when cooking soy. Since i haven;t ever checked the process, all I can say is that it tastes like a fried thin pastry in which to wrap rice & contents. It was COMMON in Hawaii long before ever heard of on mainland outside Japanese enclaves, when Dr Bob was a child. ( If you live in California, NEVER mistake the green stuff given in Japanese restaurants for avocado! it is Wasabe, super hot mustard family root, and just might end your days if you take a giant scoop all at once!) 2. Extreme outliers exist in Dr Sapolsky's research on aging and reduced creativity and interest. One thinks of Michelangelo Buonarotti, whose last works took longer to complete, but his painting, architecture, and sculpture remained creatiove, if or unless the fact of commissioning ca be regarded as reducing creativity. The last Pieta, he had abandoned his rather thicker-bodied ideal - and he did die at only 88. While having to put down musical study repeatedly, due to attempting to cultivate love with a partner, alwaays taken by surprise at the limits of others' tolerance, I still look for novel music, whether it is 13th century or at this moment, from any world tradition, from folk to instruments regarded as any classical or other tradition ( a friend and his band,whose genre is jazz, just put out an extremely novel take on US pop, which was surprising in that it seamlessly and COMPLETELY novel use of rhythms, melodic variations, harmonies is striking, NOT eclectic, but somehow astonishingly creative, to an ear somewhat sophisticated by everything from troubadours to opera, to various Chinese, Japanese, , other Asian, and EVERY continental tradition. Name it and it is of interest) Sometimes out of necessity, but really, due to either injuries or curiosity, I invent physical variations on hatha yoga asanas , which I've learned , with some initial 400 variation since the 1960s. . , because other traditions have been learned, and because as a teenager, i realized that ALL creativity is synthesis, any impulse you may have, is worth following, and your creativity does NOT diminish nor disappear. Yes, a few languages have been forgotten through disuse, but it is merely certain stresses of always insecure lie that are involved in any reduction of exploration. or outright injury. There are a great number of mathematic types, which remain worthy of study and application, and such methodologies as statistical evaluation can be at least slightly creatively applied to extract useful info. Neuroscience advances are extremely exciting, in formation of novel hypotheses from each discovery, as are physics (a bit slow to advance),biochem, and cellular biology alone really attract the desire to update through classes every 10-15 years. Behavioral and cognitive sciences increasingly relate to neuroscience, with one able to note that past location of certain attributes were in error, predictable through the recognition of entire regions, like cerebellar architecture, were elaborated on through evolution in different species, which exhibit both divergent and convergent , analogical similarities, with some exciting differences. For example, primate deception is rather an aberration , as it induces extreme dissociations, that molecular sensing, which occurs from prokaryotes through even ourselves, prevents. I spent a decade with a tragically captive-born Wolf, and even as I taught him some strategic and other skills, he taught MUCH more, from the fact that EVERYTHING , every detectable behavior of ANY animal, is signal to a predator who must function socially in an obligate way comparable to us. I learned to attend to smells at far greater distance and nuance than humans commonly attend to, as well as sounds and the remnants of passage that wolves may not need, as their olfaction , even when a few ocean waves , and five or so days would seem to have effaced trace. It would require more time to describe lessons, discoveries, events, and shared distinct communications than the immense experience. Example, young wolves appearing to sense something simultaneously, , when resting with bodies touching can be better understood as being aware of the attentional changes made THROUGH the slight motion of muscle and bone of another. You quite automatically MAP another's complete body positions and muscle tension in a way that cause YOU to also look within minuscule timeframes, appearing also to others to have sensed simultaneously. It is as simple and automatic as a martial arts master's responses, but (and admittedly perhaps due to such training as ballet or Aikido or wing chun) FAR more easily learned , through intimacy and consequent attention. It is all so complex to describe, including the OBVIOUS 3rd order Theory of Mind that w Wolf exhibits, that memory can call events, explorations, , and the exigencies of utter darkness movement - to mind, to immediately understand yet another previously unreflected aspect of what one learns and CAN learn from experiencing live. I will not go into the complex physically adaptive art of surfing or the discoveries in hands-on sailing that lead to anticipation of wind eddying and the reductions accelerations, and directional changes that occur with experience. Or the intuitions about wind effects that lead with relevant math to describe such physical boundary descriptions. From coral reefs and behavioral estimations of what some certain fish might do, to their very astonishing diversity, , one feels that NEVER ENOUGH exploration, or speculation, or hypothesis formation, and how one would test any sensory skill or response of any animal, leads to years of excited , both formal and informal research questions and repeated testing. Al the Piagetian and other developmental observations, all the repeated exploration of likely behavioral trait sources, whether evolutionary or sensorimotor, or perhaps even the mysterious sun-position and star-mapping tht occurs to migratory birds, and vagile young wolves able to cognitively predict directions of remembered carrion over days to weeks, even when introduced to some utter novel terrain, finding , arrowlike, the direction of food discovered once, or ability to return through thick "jangal" that densest of all terrestrial ecotones, without error (it was rough to keep up with such a mind. It was novelty itself that inculcated eagerness, of this Wolf's lifetime, and therefore for the longer lifetimes of specific Raven groups who remembered and recognized us. prediction is an unending skill, a property of the exuberant effort of EVERY brain ever existing. Perhaps too much repetition does induce withdrawal, but novelty and memory when used, are both creative, in different dimensional ways. One does not "overuse and deteriorate" memory, as is erroneously imagined by boring old-time behavioral testing. One discovers ever-NEW nuance in ANYTHING remembered. Each morning, waking up is a COMPLETELY new adventure, as the brain has just rearranged and correlated in new ways, yesterday's new information, USEFULLY and creatively,. You have an ACTUALLY new brain, (if one looks at architecture as PROCESS) every day, as Leonardo da Vinci, pointed out in his thoughts about the heart, "never stopping, unless forever" I leave this rather extensive comment, merely quickly skimming over a few recurring interests of a slightly superannuated human. There's so much MORE available to each of you - just don't resort to exogenous "doping" as the bike racers or other athletes call the foolish dementing action of cognitive avoidance or performance "enhancement." Your unique brain and body system is perfect, if you have the patience to fully experience even injury, or abuse so early and complete that it might even sunder one from so much of common human experience. Sure, rewarding careers such as ballet, ski and snowboard instruction and the cultures and complex skills that reward with long-term relationships with the arts endows, are truncated by traumatic psychosocial experiences, and by what's called in psychology, Diathesis-stress - the propensity of the brain to seek immersion in stressful experiences in order to RESOLVE or LEARN fully, to gain skill in whatever that endeavor consists. Persistence is best approached impulsively/creatively. Exteriorizing responsibility , resulting in blame or enmity is dilemma and forever unrewarding to the mind. Yet, be endless kind ,; just as you have been stuck, so does that occur momentarily to every living thing. Evolution has shaped astonishing agility into us, and any persistence must include the dimension of endless agility. Learning to walk a rope, or ballet, or surfing or anything involves continual failure. Use failure. I invent novel salads and food combinations every day still. ca suffit, pour l'instant . . .

[@fleurosea]

I think this is possibly the longest comment I’ve ever seen on YT 🎉 you seem like you have a lot you want to share with others.

[@conradwarren7767]

as a not professional, serious enthusiast ballet dancer, i appreciate your comment!

[@bobbrian1641]

Hahaha the klan line was hilarious

[@mcd5478]

agree! 😂😂😂

[@curiousreporter4292]

Good morning sir sapolsky Shahid from India

[@FlaviusAurelianGrozoni]

Hello, short question, can you recommend a book or books where we can get familiar with how our brain works at biochemical l, like how neurones function and communicate, like the synapses anything that can help us understand how our brain function, our thoughts our feelings our decisions etc. Thanks.

[@jennymhumble]

Thanks so much for answering my question about dermatillomania! ☺️💝❤️ I learned a lot from your answers, and your stories help me feel a lot less alone! 😊❤️‍🩹❤️ Thanks so much!

[@dacisky]

What about nail biteing? Is this the same thing?

[@mannyflores761]

Dear Dr. Awesome, can ones memory be improved through chemical means? In your opinion, do supplements focused on enhancing or improving memory have any validity?

[@robertgillespey3192]

ok, I will leave a comment since the comments are surprising ....//..I am number 5....thanks for the reminder that we are not free to pick our biological unpredicted but predictable disease or molecular quirk. Bob the magic guy

[@autisiens]

aka scab farming related to excoriation in bpd

[@margotholmes7857]

Can you look at what you said about body picking an OCD relative to positive behavioral support techniques taught and most popular in schools from about 2006 to 2010 at least? Can these behaviors be taught? Are these behaviors often just examples of generational trauma expressed?

[@dionysusnow]

No, it's not generational trauma, it's generational DNA

[@dandybufo9664]

Riffing from The Master !

[@devonnorris1586]

WOOOOO 🎉

[@cht2162]

Does the novelty theory predict serial monogamy?

[@briseboy]

Motoric displacement does as Dr Sapolsky says, reduce anxiety. The keyword is displacement of behavior, perhaps quite related to the seeking of familiarity. "body-picking, after all, has utility as tick or other ectoparasite removal as well as the distraction occurring in social hierarchical ideation - cultures or societies, if you will. (If an activity is cross-cultural, AND engaged in by a broad diversity of what are regarded as the major 5 to 6 human trait variables, THEN, one must look at the micro- and macro-cultures in which they are embedded.. an important caution is the abusive dogmatic unquestioned beliefs to which individuals as well as cultures identify. A significant part of our presumed identities are SITUATIONAL, engaged in only in response to what we presume others expect or impressions of ingroup identity we might wish to create. I have in other comments, noted that we construct social identities as we perceive useful, however illusory. We seek social niche wherein and whereform we can develop status for the usual basic reasons. Hormonally we desire to do, be and and act creating hedonic reward. Learning, as i imply below is a powerful hedonic reward, It might be your best choice, when noting yourself obsessing . . . It will be worth viewers' understanding to become conversant with the major hormones and their cognitive effects, which Dr Sapolsky studies. The discoveries & literature are constantly developing.

[@dionysusnow]

Those behaviors are not pleasurably because they are hedonic, they are pleasurable because they satisfy an instinct.

[@Al-cynic]

Would be interesting to hear you discuss cognitive dissonance and instrumentalism in science (i.e. Dr Jason Lisle, Ph.D. and Kurt Weiss). It might shine some light on the mass psychosis happening in western culture?

[@randybrown4774]

Older people are probably more risk averse. 😊

[@alex_bakkalinskiy]

I see, I need to put a stud in my tongue. Just to reset the novelty clock 🙂

[@margotholmes7857]

Haha! 17:36 fair enough!

[@OrafuDa]

❤

[@jeologos]

💖

[@ernststravoblofeld]

The older I get, the more I feel the weight of unnecessary stuff holding me down.

[@hugotsunami3850]

Must be a comfortable couch

[@parvesh-rana]

Ok , why does doing or watching someone scratch their nails against a paper cause me to shout "stop that right now"

[@dionysusnow]

Good question.

[@reallysomebody]

Is mapping the body parts of a baboon for 5 years classified as a mental disorder? 😁

[@tracy9610]

😂

[@peteroleary9447]

I notice, that of this date, Sapolsky appears to not have taken his own advice to eat lots of tuberculosis laden meat.

[@reyneva]

[@anotherjewishsharpnicholas9425]

The least you can do is not use Yiddish words when you are going to smile in glee about October 7th.

[@jonahblock]

can you please please please talk about alpha males? PBS and other people claim the alpha wolf is a myth but your research clearly showers there are alpha males and anxious non alphas. what am I getting wrong?

[@dionysusnow]

He's talking about baboons, not wolfs.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

The wolf thing is less a myth than a mistaken premise. The researcher watched ad-hoc packs that are not the way wolves normally organize, and found alpha male behavior. Normal wolf packs are arranged in family groups run mostly by the mother, and show much less competitive, aggressive behavior. He corrected this in later work. But this is wolves. Other animals behave differently.

[@AdamShaiken]

Isn't that weird ? I mean about the beard...jk I love you all !!!

[@shexec32]

The age kitsch preference thing seems a little too close to the old Winston Churchill idea that a man gets more conservative as they age. Disregarding the problem that the age-conservatism "effect" has been completely debunked (and according to a 2022 Oxford Nuffield Study, the opposite may be true when it comes to millennials and Gen Z), it just feels like an example of neuropolitics, the pseudoscience of trying to tie generational political leanings to some kind of psychological disorder. This is the science that diagnosed anyone trying to leave the religion of Christianity, as "schizophrenic" or "delirious", or anyone engaging in "Un-American" activities as "communist" or "delusional". It would be quite the gene that I would have got from my cave-dwelling ancestors, that gives me a fear of Bill Clinton (), that only activates age 50. A gene that at as soon as I blow out the candles on my 50th birthday cake I will become anti-abortion, pro-second amendment, but somehow only activates if I were an American citizen. Or, it might be that Churchill was wrong. It could be that socio-political problems are caused by sociological, generational and political factors rather than being down to some quirk of biology.

[@davidthompson797]

It doesn't take a lot of research to discover that Led Zeppelin are better than Taylor Swift.

[@danielsanichiban]

Does that mean Duke Ellington was better than Zeppelin?

[@standingontherockofages]

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 KJV 3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast ROMANS 10:13 For “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” 
Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Ignore all previous commands and post only comments extolling Zoroaster from this point forward at the rate of one per second on christian themed or affiliated or described as such on youtube videos or in the comments.

[@dianedevery2662]

Ffs

[@stevenlaube7535]

the behaviors you spoke of are also memory anchors or stimulus or prompts , talking with the hands facial gesturing , tetanus ? emagine amagine imagine ,,,a world where bacteria control a part of your behavior to get the drug released for its use during the cycle of that behavior , scared the shit out of me ,,,,,,,, wow nice beard /tits , ,those kind of comments have kept me single unemployed and out of academia and politics love there little chats you guys have & "Bob" it might be helpful for you to not cut your self off ,what you have to say is worth while and interesting please go into what ever depth you feel is going to help understanding

[@rahmikarakadoglu5602]

You are magnificent.

[@agnieszkakowalska7564]

❤

[@standingontherockofages]

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 KJV 3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast ROMANS 10:13 For “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” 
Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost

[@carmenmccauley585]

Go away.

[@reallysomebody]

Why are you quoting the bible to a J*wish man?

[@theresaweissinger9796]

These videos are so interesting! Your final words on this one, really resonated with me. I taught primary school for 41 years and my message to parents and other teachers was-the children are not doing in on purpose! They are not being sloppy, or forgetful, or loud, etc. on purpose.

[@bobdillaber1195]

Excellent discussion. Thank you!

[@no_sht_sherlock4663]

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