Wandering Barycenter EP39 - Animal Cognition & Göbekli Tepe

Do our dogs really understand us when we talk to them? Or do they just hear us and think “that is a terrible sounding bark”? Alex gets us indistinguishably closer to the answer by discussing methods used by researchers to study the cognitive abilities of animals. Bryan tries to convince everyone that Göbekli Tepe represents a lost human civilization that if true, would upend the currently accepted timeline of our ancestors.

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Wandering Barycenter EP26 - Weather Manipulation & Left vs Right Brain

Bryan hails the modern history of man’s attempt to control the weather. Has our desire to dominate our surroundings (and others) resulted in successfully manipulating the weather on command? Equally questionable is the potential left/right bias of the human brain. Do you feel you’re more analytical or creative? Alex splits this user suggested theory in half for the second topic this week.

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