Evolvify

Your Brain on Nature Vs. Life in a Box

Andrew — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:57:56 +0000

Why nature? I’ll admit it, I used to be skeptical of nature — not that I didn’t enjoy nature, but I wasn’t satisfyingly convinced that nature was necessary. I always appreciated it, but I was stuck in some postmodern relativist loop where everything was too subjective to trust. Despite my own intuitions, I also wasn’t [...]

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Think Like a Geek. Eat Like a Hunter. Train Like a Fighter. Look Like a Model.

Andrew — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:29:52 +0000

The fitness community surrounding "paleo" doesn't work for me. I don't mean it doesn't physically work, I mean that I don't find it satisfying in the context of pursuing a life less agrarian. I quit searching for the perfect thing a while ago. I couldn't bury the compulsion any longer, and I started building stuff.

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Epic Modern Hunter-Gatherer Adventure

Andrew — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:52:02 +0000

Announcing my next expedition, "Fatbikerafting the Arctic". It's been called epic, but there's a chance I might live.

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The Pick-Up Artists’ Alpha-Male Narrative Myth

Andrew — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:01:01 +0000

The narrative of human males evolving as tribal leaders in the paleolithic is a myth. The anthropology, evolutionary biology, and evolutionary psychology all refute the pick-up artist narrative.

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Hunter-Gatherer Thoughts on Thanksgiving

Andrew — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:37:40 +0000

I hope this is just as appropriate for non-United-Statesians as those celebrating Thanksgiving today. Over the past year, I witnessed a lot more criticism of evolutionary psychology than expected. Most of it seems to amount to little more than the political and emotional gasps of a dying blank slate paradigm. One criticism that I did [...]

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Training for the Unknown and the Unknowable: Or, What to Do If Life Accidentally Happens to You

Andrew — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:03:28 +0000

[Republished with permission from the officially fake weekly publication Crossfit Quarterly] I know, it’s a scary thought: What if, by the sheer stroke of fate, life somehow happens to you? For goodness sake let’s hope it doesn’t, but be prepared just in case. I mean, perish the thought, but honestly, what happens if you lose [...]

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Paying the Overlords to Live in a Wild World

Andrew — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:13:39 +0000

An Oregon wolf extermination hunt was temporarily delayed, and conservationists have been ordered to put up cash to compensate ranchers for the existence of wild animals.

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Weekly Recap – November 19, 2011

Andrew — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:33:21 +0000

Journal Article of the Week Externalities from grain consumption: a survey by Matthew Metzgar, PhD. Okay, well… I wanted this to be way more awesome than it actually is. Rather, it was kind of soft on the criticism of studies purporting benefits to humans from grain, while presenting a lukewarm case for avoiding grain. Despite [...]

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Vegan Diet with Soy Lowers Testosterone and Causes Erectile Dysfunction

Andrew — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:55:41 +0000

This article in the journal Nutrition was pretty simple. A 19 year old male sought treatment for lack of libido and sexual dysfunction. He had voluntarily started a vegan diet previously. The study measured the effects of ceasing a vegan diet and removing soy from the diet. Yeah, this study has been around for a [...]

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Book and Documentary: Agriculture Is Far from Benign

Andrew — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:36:14 +0000

Most of the response from my post, “Agriculture Is Imperialism“, was positive. There were a few naysayers, but none really had any substantive critiques, and tended to recycle the flawed “yeah, but we have to turn the entire planet into a factory farm to support an infinite population” argument — the same argument I pointed [...]