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On this, our 346th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the Cornell 7, sex in modern times, and the plague. Civil charges have been brought against seven men and several institutions, including Cornell University, by a woman who claims to have been drugged and gang-raped in a fraternity house on campus in October 2024. We go through legal documents and journalism about what happened and discuss consent, drinking and drugs, the Greek system, and what sex has and has not become. Then: a woman has died of plague in Russia; is a global pandemic coming? We discuss what to look out for.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Anna Bower at Slip Opinion with Cornell 7 docs (including the DA, the Civil Suit, and Kretzschmar petition): https://annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-cornell-7-documents

NYT on what transpired at Cornell in the Fall of 2024: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/nyregion/cornell-rape-accusation-reporting.html

Cornell has a sex ed problem: https://jaredlederman.substack.com/p/cornell-has-a-sex-education-problem

Jennifer Bilek: https://x.com/bjportraits/status/2107171941014536280?s=20

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Signed Copies in Seven Languages 
00:05:34 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
00:08:55 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:10:33 Sponsor: Caraway
00:14:05 The Cornell 7 Case: A Misleading Name
00:18:23 Believe Women, or Wait for Evidence?
00:23:46 Why Sue Everyone? The Strike Price
00:30:11 Naive About Frats? Not Since 1987
00:36:03 In Everyone's Care, Custody and Control
00:42:31 Regret Is Not a Lack of Consent
00:45:41 Blame Cornell, Blame the Bar?
00:52:38 Kretzschmar's Negative Hair Test
00:59:05 Her Sworn Statement vs. the Lawsuit
01:07:23 How Her Account Changed
01:14:05 What Rape Once Took From a Woman
01:21:49 Two Strategies for Men, One for Women
01:27:25 Cornell's Sex Ed: Yes, No, Maybe So
01:36:28 Why Sex Belongs Behind a Closed Door
01:39:27 A Special Prosecutor and Mob Rule
01:42:07 Why Are We Fed These Stories?
01:50:38 Plague: A Lab Worker Dies in Siberia
01:53:15 Pneumonic, Bubonic, and a Starving Flea
01:57:56 Is This the Next COVID?
02:06:15 Watch the Tabletop Exercises
02:11:10 Tiger Cats of the Andes

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Jeffrey Tucker on the subject of the COVID story the establishment is willing to tell, and the much larger one it isn't.

Find Jeffrey Tucker on X at https://x.com/jeffreytucker and Brownstone Institute at https://brownstone.org.

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Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan
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Mentioned on this episode:

- Brownstone Institute https://brownstone.org
- Cries for Help Buried in V-Safe Data https://brownstone.org/articles/cries-for-help-buried-in-v-safe-data/
- All-In Summit: Bill Gurley https://x.com/theallinpod/status/2101106499527282815
- React19 https://react19.org
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025–2030 https://realfood.gov
- Moderna product pipeline https://www.modernatx.com/research/product-pipeline

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 The Covid Story They'll Tell
00:06:03 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
00:08:26 Sponsor: VanMan
00:10:19 The Middle Ground Scramble
00:15:01 Why Great Barrington Had to Be Crushed
00:19:01 DEFUSE: An Answer Before the Inquiry
00:22:37 mRNA Was Supposed to Be Dead
00:27:45 Sponsor: Redmond Re-lyte
00:30:23 What Is a Vaccine Supposed to Do?
00:34:38 Why Wall Street Loves mRNA
00:42:18 Is Every Booster a Roll of the Dice?
00:56:21 V-Safe: The Injury Reports CDC Ignored
01:08:47 Sam Harris Asked: Where Are the Bodies?
01:12:07 Inflated Deaths and Rewritten Definitions
01:22:14 Can RFK Jr. Beat the Pharma Goliath?
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On this, our 345th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss immigration, AI, and rawness. First: a new Harper’s article chronicles the effects on local people of the mass migration across the Darién Gap in Panama between 2021 and 2025, and what has happened since the number of people coming up from Colombia has dropped to a trickle. The reporting on the ground is excellent—human and honest—while the political analysis is naïve at best. Then: what is it to be raw, how is it inherently human, and what is its relationship to grief, and to AI?
 
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Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan
This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net
Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net
 
Thumbnail  Courtesy Getty Images: John Moore / Getty Images South America
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Mentioned in this episode:
Minding the Gap: https://harpers.org/2026/09/general-interest-minding-the-gap-belen-fernandez-jasmine-liu/
Fernández – At the Edge of Empire: https://harpers.org/archive/2026/10/at-the-edge-of-empire-belen-fernandez-panama-immigration-towns/
Heying – Raw: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/raw
Crawford, Why We Drive: [can you create an affiliate link for this] https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Drive-Toward-Philosophy/dp/0062741969/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y-PChdMBwHIDKvANAvihY7QLld0SKDGsAFdX8CZrjpTCa4LSx-TBsJo41Sl6JPbm-Ag2zIDy2woM-RCOjRAS0caXHPTH9ozjlifRrjsqc9Q.XcCZSCGXxdZVue61CBJ8YSVti4Emu5qyMkb7a1mFUiw&qid=1790800365&sr=8-2

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Boredom Makes the Time Go Slow
00:03:57 Sponsor: Cozy Earth
00:07:35 Sponsor: Puori
00:09:22 Sponsor: SaunaSpace
00:12:05 Fat Bear Week: The Prepper's Mascot
00:16:40 Back to the Darién Gap
00:18:52 Invasion or Migration? Both.
00:24:24 How America Carved Panama From Colombia
00:30:33 Is a Boom Now a Right?
00:35:41 Where Did the Aid Organizations Go?
00:40:53 The Surge Was Too Fast to Be Organic
00:44:41 Why There's No Road Through the Darién
00:46:31 Great Reporting, Bad Geopolitics
00:51:00 Mayorkas, HIAS, and the Chinese Camp
00:52:10 Deport Only the Worst of the Worst?
00:58:09 This Is All of Us
01:02:12 Migration as Osmotic Pressure
01:06:15 The Feminization of Systems
01:10:01 Raw: Unprocessed, Unfiltered, Unclothed
01:21:02 The AI That Couldn't Lace a Wheel
01:27:27 Speedometer vs. the Wind in Your Hair
01:33:16 The Rawness of Grief
01:35:41 Why Can't Sociopaths Fake Grief?
01:39:59 Real Grief Is Raw. AI Is Cooked.
01:42:34 Playgrounds With Nails Sticking Out

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Bret Weinstein speaks with John Cullen on the subject of the unanswered questions surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.

Find John Cullen on X at https://x.com/I_Am_JohnCullen and on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/cw/IAMJOHNCULLEN. 

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Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan
This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net
Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net

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Mentioned on this episode:

- Was Charlie Kirk Killed With a Drone? Viva Frei and Jimmy Dore on DarkHorse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO76X9CFhUI

- How Many Shooters? John Cullen on the Trump Assassination Attempt (July 2024): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hKuo2qW6uE

- Multiple Shooters? John Cullen & Clay Martin (TPC #1,538): https://rumble.com/v592bhg-multiple-shooters-john-cullen-and-clay-martin-tpc-1538.html

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Can You Trust a Man With a Pen Name?
00:01:39 Tyler Robinson, Acting Alone?
00:03:42 Sponsor: Lovebird Cereal
00:05:33 Why John Cullen Is Irrelevant
00:22:10 Sponsor: Mars Men
00:23:07 A Pentagon Spy Plane at UVU
00:32:24 Back 25 Minutes After the Shot
00:57:31 The Drones Nobody Wants to Explain
01:10:42 Bird of Prey: A Rifle That Flies
01:17:55 The Round Left on the Roof
01:37:34 Why Was There No Exit Wound?
01:43:27 Butler and the Spiral of Silence
01:50:42 Wouldn't Someone Have Seen It?
01:59:37 Las Vegas: No Shots From the Window
02:05:31 Was the Real Target MBS?
02:19:47 Three Women, a Minivan, 24 Guns
02:27:35 Flushing Out the Crown Prince
02:39:46 Who Broke the Window?
02:47:01 The Deadliest Gunman in History?
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On this, our 344th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss new cats, fat bears, and overwhelmed frogs. The tilcayo, a newly named species of cat from Bolivia, is part of a group of New World “tiger cats” that live on the outskirts of the Amazon basin. We discuss Carnivoran relationships, cats more specifically, and what is known about the history and ecology of the tilcayo in particular. Then: it’s fat bear week at Katmai National Park in Alaska, where grizzlies are fattening themselves on salmon for the Winter ahead; we discuss hibernation, reproductive diapause, and general chonkiness in bears. Finally: female Cope’s gray treefrogs have a harder time choosing good mates when there’s a lot of noise, and when there are too many suitors—kind of like how women often make bad choices when confronted with chaos and wingmen.

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Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3AGANGg (commission earned)

Check out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org

Music: "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan
This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net
Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net

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Mentioned in this episode:

Lescroart & Nogales-Ascarrunz et al 2026. Phylogenomics and museomics reveal five distinct species of tiger cats in South America. Current Biology 36: 1-15: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)01110-3

National Geographic’s tilcayo pics: https://news.nationalgeographic.org/photos-new-wild-cat-species/

Meet the bears: https://explore.org/meet-the-bears#h_75305921118711789688140871

Hemingway et al 2026. Choice overload constrains mate choice independent of energetic masking. iScience 29: 1-13: https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-0042%2826%2902464-8 

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 It Smells Like Autumn
00:01:42 Cats, Fat Bears, and Overwhelmed Frogs
00:05:23 Sponsor: Cowboy Colostrum
00:09:23 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:12:01 Sponsor: Branch Basics
00:16:00 The Tilcayo: A Brand-New Cat
00:20:30 An Orphaned Kitten in the Andes
00:23:45 Inside Phylogenetics
00:28:19 Carnivores vs. Carnivorans
00:29:56 Hyenas: Cat Adjacent, Not a Cat
00:37:36 The Answer Is Software
00:44:48 Meet the Tilcayo
00:46:51 Five Cryptic Species of Tiger Cat
00:50:01 Why So Many Little Cats?
00:59:15 Sympatric, Allopatric, or Parapatric?
01:01:47 Apologies to the Dog People
01:03:57 80% Neurotic, 10% Psychotic
01:07:37 A Raccoon, a Lemur, and a Wild Kitten
01:13:33 Fat Bear Week
01:18:12 The Bears' Cupboard Strategy
01:23:45 Yes, Bears Have Diapause
01:26:26 Strategy, Luck, or Dominance?
01:33:26 Overwhelmed Frogs
01:39:19 Why Are Frog Choruses So Loud?
01:45:29 What Counts as a Good Choice?
01:47:07 Clubs, Wingmen, and Bad Decisions
01:51:05 Hot Guys With Less to Say
01:52:02 Be Good to the Ones You Love
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