Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, Where do pets come from? What role do pets play? Is keeping pets moral? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com  Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists  REFERENCES Americans adopted millions of dogs during the pandemic | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/01/07/covid-dogs-return-to-work/ Freedom and Responsibility: Can you have one without the other? | Common Science Podcast Ep. 50 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lySTb4lHOZ0&t=1s | https://spoti.fi/39GxQaK | https://apple.co/3vb0sRQ Cats vs dogs: in terms of evolution | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/26/cats-vs-dogs-in-terms-of-evolution-are-we-barking-up-the-wrong-tree Arrival (film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film) Neuralink | https://neuralink.com/ Mantis shrimp | https://www.instagram.com/p/CIo9Z05gIQs/ @uw.art | https://www.instagram.com/uw.art/ Blackfish (film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfish_(film) Facts about US animal shelters | https://www.aspca.org/helping-people-pets/shelter-intake-and-surrender/pet-statistics#:~:text=Facts%20about%20U.S.%20Animal%20Shelters Lychee and Dog Meat Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychee_and_Dog_Meat_Festival Why pandas have trouble getting pregnant | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-to-make-a-baby-panda PODCAST INFO  Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/   Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK   Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821   FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/  Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists  TAGS   #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What do you do in nature? What benefits come from a walk in the woods? What have you learned from nature? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com  Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists  REFERENCES Ghandi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi Boredom Cast | https://spoti.fi/391DBzt | https://apple.co/3MvBpin Use Screen Time on Apple Products: https://apple.co/39fe468 Manage how you spend time on your Android phone with Digital Wellbeing | https://support.google.com/android/answer/9346420?hl=en Freedom and Responsibility Cast | https://spoti.fi/3rOUJ1U | https://apple.co/3vb0sRQ | https://youtu.be/lySTb4lHOZ0 How to start birding | https://www.audubon.org/birding/how-to-start-birding Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health | https://e360.yale.edu/features/ecopsychology-how-immersion-in-nature-benefits-your-health Walden (book by Henry David Thoreau) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden Winston Churchill | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill Wild (book by Cheryl Strayed) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_(memoir) Grandpa Dale Fladeboe | https://fladeboeland.com/history/ PODCAST INFO  Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/   Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK   Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821   FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/  Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists  TAGS   #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What’s the relationship between freedom and responsibility? Can freedom exist without responsibility? Why do we struggle with freedom and responsibility? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists REFERENCES Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning Free Will: Does it exist? | Common Science Podcast Ep. 49 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTB_sH3I2XE Scientific freedom: its grounds and their limitations | Torsten Wilholt | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.03.003 Jean-Paul Sartre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress | https://amzn.to/3Jqh248 The Rational Optimist | Matt Ridley | https://amzn.to/3O2tWJ2 Apoptosis | https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/apoptosis PODCAST INFO Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821 FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists TAGS #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What’s free will? Does it exist? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists REFERENCES Unconscious brain activity shapes our decisions | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/unconscious-brain-activity-shapes-our-decisions William James | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James Compatibilism | https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/ Paul in the Biblefree will and the devil, struggling to do what intended passage Predestination Calvinism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism The Value of Believing in Free Will: Encouraging a Belief in Determinism Increases Cheating | https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9280.2008.02045.x Daniel Dennett on Consciousness and Free Will | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Nj_rEqkyQ Just-world hypothesis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis How to play mafia | https://www.instructables.com/How-To-Play-Mafia-with-And-Without-Cards/ Complex system | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system Emergence | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence Building the periodic table | Dmitri Mendeleev | https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/stars-and-elements/knowing-stars-elements/a/dmitri-mendeleev The Music of Life | Denis Noble | http://www.musicoflife.website/ Brain tumour causes uncontrollable paedophilia | https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2943-brain-tumour-causes-uncontrollable-paedophilia/ Arthur Shopenhauer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Sam Harris | https://www.samharris.org/ Central Limit Theorem (video) | https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-statistics/sampling-distribution-ap/what-is-sampling-distribution/v/central-limit-theorem PODCAST INFO Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821 FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists TAGS #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What’s donut economics? Where did it come from? How might thinking in donuts save us? What other policies may build a brighter future? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists REFERENCES About Donut Economics | https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics Kate Raworth | https://www.kateraworth.com/ Kate Raworth: Building a thriving economy for people within our planetary boundaries | The Circular Economy Show | https://apple.co/3t8Aopp Behavioral Economics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics What Is Homo Economicus? | https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/homo-economicus.asp Amsterdam’s ‘doughnut economy’ puts climate ahead of GDP | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/amsterdams-doughnut-economy-puts-climate-ahead-of-gdp Externality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality Carbon tax | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax Why 5 cent plastic bags work | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/13/the-surprising-reason-why-those-5-cent-charges-for-plastic-bags-actually-work/ Sugar tax & American Revolution | https://www.britannica.com/event/Sugar-Act Baby bonds could shrink the Black-white wealth gap | Cory Booker | https://www.vox.com/22268500/baby-bonds-black-white-wealth-gap-booker-pressley Freedom Dividend | Andrew Yang | https://2020.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/ PODCAST INFO Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821 FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists TAGS #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, Do you like, love, or hate coffee, and why? Where did coffee come from? What has coffee done for human history? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists REFERENCES Fuelling Democracy – Ben Franklin and Coffee Houses | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGdyttFB-Oc How coffee forever changed Britain | King Charles II’s cronies try to ban coffeehouses | https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20201119-how-coffee-forever-changed-britain The Grecian Coffee House| Frequented by Sir Isaac Newton, etc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grecian_Coffee_House PTC Paper & The Genetics of Bitter Taste | https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/ptc/ Lutefisk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk Voltaire’s coffee addiction | And 8 other geniuses addicted to coffee | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/famous-coffee-drinkers_n_5358495 Caffeine: How much is too much? | Mayo Clinic | https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/caffeine/art-20045678#:~:text=Up%20to%20400%20milligrams%20 Coffee consumption and health: umbrella review of meta-analyses of multiple health outcomes | R Poole 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j5024 It’s very difficult to consume toxic levels of caffeine from drinks alone | https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/17/15649722/caffeine-overdose-health-risks-coffee-energy-drinks How Caffeine Addiction Changed History (ft. Michael Pollan) | WIRED | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD6cYabx0nk Wall Street started in the Tontine Coffee House | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine_Coffee_House Climate change: Future-proofing coffee in a warming world | https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56804147 Fair trade coffee | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade_coffee Black Ivory Coffee | Elephant poop coffee ☕️| https://blackivorycoffee.com/ Kopi luwak | Palm civet coffee | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak Fermentation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentation Nordic Coffee Culture Explained: From Fika to Kask | https://nordicperspective.com/culture/nordic-scandinavian-coffee-drinking-culture-explained Navigating Life’s Crap | Essay by Common Scientist Dré | https://commonscientists.com/navigating-lifes-crap/ PODCAST INFO Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821 FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists TAGS #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, How much water do you drink, and why? What makes water so critical to human life, and life in general? What does the future of water mean to us and the next generations? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists REFERENCES Water: How much should you drink every day? | Mayo Clinic | https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/water/art-20044256 Interstitial cystitis | Symptoms & Causes | https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/interstitial-cystitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20354357 “Overall, 71,812 individuals completed the survey, of which 61% reported having had ≥1 Gastrointestinal symptom in the past week.” | https://dx.doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41395-018-0256-8 | If you’re unable to access the article at its link, you can via the Unpaywall Browser Extension | https://unpaywall.org/ Dr. Lisa Sanders crowdsources diagnoses for mysterious and rare medical conditions. | Docuseries Diagnosis | https://www.netflix.com/title/80201543 Bell Museum, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA | https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/ Goldilocks Principle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_principle Proton motive force | https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/proton-motive-force Interactive Periodic Table | https://ptable.com/?lang=en Violence over Water Increases: New Data from the Water Conflict Chronology | Pacific Institute | https://pacinst.org/announcement/violence-over-water-increases-new-data-from-the-water-conflict-chronology/ Cryptosporidium (Parasite) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptosporidium “Farming accounts for 70 percent of the water consumed and most of its wasteful use, said representatives of 130 nations at the World Water Forum” | https://www.wired.com/2006/03/farms-waste-much-of-worlds-water/ PODCAST INFO Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821 FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists TAGS #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask, What are your favorite Disney movies and why? Why do their stories (and archetypes) attract us? Do stories (and archetypes) help us navigate uncertainty? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists REFERENCES The Walt Disney Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company Mulan (1998 Film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulan_(1998_film) Annie Oakley | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley Finding Nemo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Nemo Mentions: Holes, Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear 🐻, The Pacifier, Triple H (The Wrestler) Carl Jung | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung Jungian Archetypes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes The Role of a Schema in Psychology | https://www.simplypsychology.org/what-is-a-schema.html Brené Brown | Books, Podcasts, etc. | https://brenebrown.com/ The cutification / evolution of Mickey Mouse | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5yLBt2EfLc The science behind Pixar | https://www.pixar.com/science-exhibition The 12 Principles of Animation | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SplEuWp0Yw What’s the history of Khan Academy? | https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/202483180-What-is-the-history-of-Khan-Academy- Disney, Pixar, Death, and Dying | Professor Tenzek | https://www.socialworktoday.com/news/dn_102317.shtml Autumn Ridge Church (Rochester, MN) | https://autumnridgechurch.org/ Cognitive dissonance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance “Pink Floyd Cover” | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon Cute aggression | https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/31/679832549/when-too-cute-is-too-much-the-brain-can-get-aggressive The Last Lecture (Talk) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&vl=en The Last Lecture (Book) | https://amzn.to/32qbgQD Is Disney Disabling? | https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2018.1498573 Disney’s American Revolution | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875817000391 PODCAST INFO Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821 FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists TAGS #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask what do billionaires mean to the world? Where did they come from? What’s next? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists REFERENCES Billionaire (Song) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRor905cCw The World’s Billionaires | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires World’s Youngest Billionaire | https://www.forbes.com/profile/kevin-david-lehmann/?sh=2b7fa6b4143f AIDAN’S RECOMMENDATIONS I will teach you to be rich (book) | https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/ The four pillars of investing (book) | https://amzn.to/3nC09LP Stanford Marshmallow Experiment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment The System (Book) | Robert Reich | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634493/the-system-by-robert-b-reich/ PODCAST INFO Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821 FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists TAGS #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning

Dré, Lauren, and Aidan ask in this more serious cast, What’s the 1st amendment, a law that prevents other laws? Where did it come from? Why’s it unique? How does it impact their lives today? And more. Website & Newsletter | https://commonscientists.com Support Us | https://patreon.com/commonscientists REFERENCES First Amendment to the United States Constitution | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution Murder of George Floyd | ​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd Casting Crowns - City on the Hill (Song) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7MC2wu49Cw Hess v. Indiana | https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/461/hess-v-indiana Brandenburg v. Ohio | https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/189/brandenburg-v-ohio Brandenburg Test | https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/brandenburg_test January 6th, 2021 U.S Capitol Attack | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_attack How the Washington Post has changed under Jeff Bezos | https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/media/jeff-bezos-donald-graham/index.html Deplatforming | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatforming Death to 2020 Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veUqfcyZ_Bo The Anatomy of Trust | Delivered by Brené Brown | https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/the-anatomy-of-trust-by-brene-brown Frederick Douglass, American Abolitionist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass Chelsea Manning | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning Julian Asange | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange Edward Snowden, NSA whisleblower | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden Karen Silkwood & Plutonium Fuels | ​​https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interact/silkwood.html PODCAST INFO Podcast Website | https://commonscientists.com/common-science/ Apple Podcasts | https://apple.co/2KDjQCK Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3pTK821 FOLLOW US Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/commonscientists/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/commscientists TAGS #Storytelling #Science #Society #Culture #Learning