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Farewell Tom Stoppard: A Genius for Animating the Hard Problems Tom Stoppard’s extraordinary gift for bringing the hardest problems in philosophy and science to life reminds us why storytellers remain essential to public understanding.

🙌We honor the life of playwright Tom Stoppard (1937-2025), renowned for his ability to animate the "hard problems" of philosophy & science on stage.

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📢Tomorrow | LIVE PODCAST

Join Duncan Gillard and David Sloan Wilson for a wide-ranging conversation relevant to the welfare of young people.

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✨Giving Tuesday is just around the corner. On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, we’ll be joining a global movement of generosity and shared purpose.

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✨As we enter this season of gratitude, we want to appreciate you! Your engagement, curiosity, and care make our work possible. This year, your support has helped us grow our global community & continue offering open-access resources.

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✨Ruffs, an Arctic shorebird, have four distinct male types shaped by a supergene, each with different hormones and mating strategies. Their diversity shows how vertebrate sex and behavior vary far beyond a simple male–female binary.

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From New York to Seattle, voters have swept in a new generation of progressive mayors. But how are they going to deliver on their ambitious agendas? There is much to learn from the city of Boston and a consortium of universities called the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI). I talk with the co-founder of BARI, Daniel T. O'Brien, about his new book The Pointillistic City and how all cities can emulate his highly participatory data-driven approach to evolving complex systems. Evolving Complex Systems in Boston and Beyond with Daniel T. O'Brien

📢Explore our new series - Prosocial Policies that Work with David Sloan Wilson. This series celebrates examples of positive change efforts. In this edition, they talk about why voters have swept in a new generation of progressive mayors.

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We’re scientists who study sex and gender. Here’s what Trump gets wrong about trans people OPINION: Despite what President Trump would have you believe, transgender people are a natural part of the human species, Joan Roughgarden and Jaimie Veale write.

🎯Transgender people are NOT a political ideology. They are a natural part of the human species, documented across cultures and rooted in developmental biology.

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Matt Lalonde - Ph.D from Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Mathieu also manages the safety program for the Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. The Science Behind the Paleolithic Diet

Why discuss the Paleo diet? 🌿 It challenges modern processed foods, favoring an ancestral approach. Dig into the science behind it with Harvard PhD Mathieu Lalonde in this classic 2012 talk. ⬇️ youtu.be/bmL0gKEz00Q

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Evolution for All: Support This View of Life Magazine | Prosocial World (Powered by Donorbox) For over a decade, This View of Life has brought evolutionary science to life for readers and listeners worldwide. We exist to make evolutionary science available to everyone, not just those in academic circles. Through podcasts, articles, discuss...

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David Sloan Wilson poses this question to Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion. Jonathan's answer might surprise you Who is More Phobic About Science--Conservatives or Liberals?

🎯This Wednesday, we bring controversy to the table: Who is More Phobic About Science--Conservatives or Liberals? This was one of our first interview videos from This View Of Life cycles.

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Beyond the Binary: The Compounding Complexity of Biological Sex Sex in nature is far more complex than a simple male–female divide, emerging instead as a diverse, overlapping continuum shaped by biology, development, and culture.

🌎Agustín Fuentes and Nathan Lents show that life generates diversity, and sex reshuffles it.

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Sex, Gender Diversity, and Evolution: Introduction To advance both science and society, we must reaffirm sex as a biological binary while expanding gender as an evolutionary spectrum of bodies and behaviors.

🏳️‍🌈Evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden urges scientists to clarify sex and gender, defining sex as a biological binary and expanding gender as an evolutionary spectrum across species.

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🌎Today is World Kindness Day, an annual event that encourages us to practice kindness in our daily lives. Here are some actions you can take to celebrate it:

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🌈Tomorrow! Join Joan Roughgarden, Nathan Lents, and David Sloan Wilson for our live podcast event: Evolution's Rainbow, Revisited: Sex, Gender, and Evolution.

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Here’s a little cosmic perspective for your day. ✨ A profound and beautiful reminder from Carl Sagan that we are literally stardust:

Listen to the Podcast (audio) version: https://goo.gl/a4XnME We apologize for the quality of this episode; It was recorded before Michael moved to the new recording studio. We still have a couple episodes to release from the old studio. Quality of subsequent episodes will be better. In this dialogue Dr. Shermer speaks with Dr. David Sloan Wilson, the renowned evolutionary biologist and Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. His previous books include Evolution for Everyone, The Neighborhood Project, Does Altruism Exist? and Darwin’s Cathedral. He is the president of the Evolution Institute and editor in chief of its online magazine, This View of Life. His new book, out this week, is This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution. He and Shermer discuss: • what it means to complete the Darwinian Revolution solving the “is-ought” and “naturalistic fallacy” through proper science and philosophy • why evolutionary psychology is an equal opportunity offender for liberals and conservatives • why both laissez faire and command economies fail • what is morality? • dispelling the myth of social darwinism • policy as a branch of biology • solving the tragedy of the commons through game theory • the evolutionary origins of good and evil • natural selection, group selection, multi-level selection and the debate with Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins over selfish genes • why nationalism is like religion • how a biologist thinks about immigration, nuclear deterrence and other policy issues • the rise of nationalism and what to do about it. This dialogue was recorded on February 1, 2019 as part of the Science Salon Podcast series hosted by Michael Shermer and presented by The Skeptics Society, in California. Listen to Science Salon via iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Soundcloud https://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/science-salon/ Watch past Science Salon videos https://www.skeptic.com/science-salon/ Learn more about Science Salon: https://www.skeptic.com/science-salon/about/ Learn more about Skeptic https://www.skeptic.com/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST You play a vital part in our commitment to promote science and reason. If you enjoy the Science Salon Podcast, please show your support by making a donation, or by becoming a patron. Your ongoing patronage will help ensure that sound scientific viewpoints are heard around the world. https://www.skeptic.com/donate/ #sciencesalon Michael Shermer with Dr. David Sloan Wilson — Completing the Darwinian Revolution (SCIENCE SALON#55)

🎯In this dialogue, Dr. Shermer speaks with David Sloan Wilson. Dr. Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, and executive director of The Skeptics Society.

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🚀 Next week, join us for a dialogue that kicks off This View of Life’s new series on S*x, Gender Diversity & Evolution, where academic research meets the timeless question of what it really means to be alive and diverse.

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🧠 Empathy is Contagious. New research shows simply learning that others can empathize across political divides makes us more curious and less likely to escalate conflicts.

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This View of Life takes a deep dive with the best and brightest thinkers on anything and everything from an evolutionary perspective. TVOL Podcasts are a product of ProSocial World and hosted by co-founder David Sloan Wilson.

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We share this past interview where David Sloan Wilson, one of ProSocial's founders, had a captivating talk with Ryan O'Donnell, a Behavior Analyst, creator of The Daily BA.

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🧠How do you actually optimize your brain for better performance? Neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman sits down with Patrick Bet-David to provide a masterclass on actionable brain science.

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How WEIRD is Donald Trump? Let’s hope future DNA studies don’t show a lot of Trump genes in the population.

Wealth once meant more wives and more children—but has that really changed? Research finds that in modern societies, high-income men still tend to have more biological children, while high-income women have fewer.

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💡#AI is evolving faster than most of us can think about it. Venture capitalist Peter Fenton joins evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson for a wide-ranging conversation about how evolution and #AI might shape each other.

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This month, we lost a pioneer in our field, Jane Goodall.

She transformed how science understands what it means to be human and revealed that the roots of morality, cooperation, and culture extend deep into our evolutionary past.

✨Lead the Change Our World Needs | Leading ProSocial 2025

This course equips you with the right techniques to elevate your impact and expand your professional opportunities.

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