Two people with very different backgrounds and views on life discuss a wide range of topics from science to society, culture to creativity, politics to psychology and much more. Irreverent, light-hearted conversations about the topics that matter in life, because some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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episode 21: Human Adaptability
Episode 20: Is human adaptability a good thing or a bad thing? Is our ability to adapt to changing events a vice or a virtue, or does it depend on circumstances? Join us as Muna recounts her experiences of contrasting cities (including an earless man) and we discuss homelessness, classical music as a deterrent, the Ratchet Effect, public toilets, the constant baseline of happiness, the increasing rate of technological change and how we adapt (or not) to it, Muna's declaration of love, the effects of fast change on mental health, Alex's pronouncement of the death of globalisation, cultural equilibrium and global homogeneity... and onion-selling Frenchmen on bicycles. With an introduction to Alex's Pendulum and lazy Mexicans.