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+Review:
Our Worst & Best
Ayumu Chinen and Tim Murphey
Review: The Biology of Our Worst & Best Selves
Robert Sapolsky’s 2017 TED Talk
There is a huge distinction between natural science and social science in our society
(and unfortunately also academia). To understand human beings, it is obvious that it
is necessary that we seek to understand both. However, we occasionally forget about
one or the other as we try to understand human beings. Sapolsky helps us
understand very microscopic differences in which people begin to trust guns and
violence by gradually going back in time in a bio-anthropological time-travel
narrative. The narrative time-machine allows us to transcend the distinction between
natural science and social science. For both types of scientists, and gracefully for the
general public, this transcendence opens many doors and can help explain many
more phenomena than when we stay enclosed in silos.
Neurologist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University gave what we
believe to be one of the best TED Talks ever in April 2017, looping in some authentic
storytelling and making biology very relevant to our everyday lives.
He starts off with a recurring dream he has about killing Hitler. He does so