Ladies Night on Planet Earth
James Brown said that "it's a man's world," but he may have changed his tune if he'd seen the recent studies on gender and evolution. In this podcast, Julie and Robert ask what makes a person male or female -- and why the days of males may be numbered.
Why the Y chromosome may become extinct and are women the species and males the mutation? Alternate reproduction without males and the fail safe.
Turns out a lot of those concepts you see on the sci-fi channel are actually based in reality. Natural cloning anyone? It's already being done.
I want you to look into the future, a future where men are long extinct and an all-female race of super-short humans rule the earth beside their robotic physicians. Welcome to the Y chromosome apocalypse, gentlemen.
Yes, we’ve got two exciting podcasts for you this week. In Ladies Night on Earth we discuss the inevitable extinction of males and ponder why. And since males are merely altered female why do we keep them around? Julie and I will discuss the advantages of sexual reproduction and, in a move that has been dubbed “epic man fail” on Twitter, I refuse to defend my own gender against charges that it mucked up the world. Am I right, ladies?
If gender politics and chromosomes aren’t your thing, fear not! The Overview Effect: Tripping Out in Space looks into the possibility that the human mind returns from orbit irreversibly altered. You may call it good old-fashioned space euphoria if you like, but a trip into the wild black yonder can really rewire your brain. Plus, what we can learn from deep sea divers and mountain climbers?