Episode 69 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on questions about sex, such as penis sizes, clothing as sexual modesty, BDSM and the relationship between arousal and fear, and why humans have face-to-face sex.

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00:00: Intro

00:23: Question 1 (Penis Sizes)

00:15:36: Question 2 (Clothing as sexual modesty)

00:18:14: Question 3 (BDSM)

00:27:20: Question 4 (Missionary Position)

Episode 68 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses gestural expression, whether animals have political systems, and why others’ bodily secretions disgust us.

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00:00:00: Intro

00:00:19: Question 1 (Gestural expression)

00:09:48: Question 2 (Animal politics)

00:19:34: Question 3 (Bodily secretions)

Episode 67 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include whether night shift rotating is ideal, why we wince, and the hippocampal damage of PTSD.

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00:00: Intro

00:20: Question 1 (Night Shift rotating)

00:15:30: Question 2 (Wincing)

00:21:16: Question 3 (PTSD Hippocampal Atrophy)

Episode 66 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the optimal living environment for humans, how we forgive, and whether suicide attempts can really be predicted and prevented.

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00:00: Intro

00:43: Question 1 (Optimal living environment)

17:13: Question 2 (The science of forgiveness)

30:56: Question 3 (Suicide prediction)

Episode 65 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the 1% difference between human and chimp genomes, how stress hormones can be addictive, and if one can lose weight with a metaphorical diet.

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00:00: Intro

00:43: Question 1 (Genome differences)

00:17:13: Question 2 (Stress hormone addiction)

00:25:28: Question 3 (Metaphorical diets)

Episode 64 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the brain fog experienced during chemotherapy, the effects of Botox on emotion, and how many calories chess players burn.

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00:00: Intro

00:15: Question 1 (Chemo brain fog)

13:53: Question 2 (Botox and emotions)

24:55: Question 3 (Chess and calorie burning)

Episode 63 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the loss of smell in COVID-19, the 1983 Libet study, and the relative standing of current inequality.

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00:00: Intro

00:15: Question 1 (COVID and smell)

10:22: Question 2 (Libet et al.)

28:28: Question 3 (Inequality — better or worse?)

Episode 62 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the function of language brain regions in other apes and monkeys, the “developmental origin of health and disease” and the Dutch Hunger Winter, and how this applies to Palestine.

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00:00: Intro

00:15: Question 1 (Monkey and ape language brains)

13:28: Question 2 (Dutch Hunger Winter)

25:44: Question 3 (Applicability to Palestine)