Our Lives Matter
STEAM APE
Are you a student activist? Or do you feel school is missing something? Or is someone trying to keep you from learning about racism or sex or evolution or transgender people and you wish you had a way to push back? Many scientists and teachers have been working for decades reboot the public education system. Shouldn’t we use our 21st century knowledge to tell a story of the world for the 21st century? I’m from a tri-racial family of teachers, artists, and scientists. We’ve been connecting ideas to tell a bigger story of the world for almost a century. I’m a professional theatre artist and also a Certified Flight Instructor. I help create worlds to tell stories, and I can also teach you to feel science happening with your hands and feet. How do you help people see a bigger picture of the world? Do you raise your hand in class and ask insightful questions? Do you set up an after school club? Do you organize open mic nights? Do you go on strike every Friday like Greta Thunberg? Do you... (Teachers, parents, and supporters of science and education are welcome to listen too. Education is a community effort!)
All episodes
Best episodes
Seasons
Top 10 Our Lives Matter Episodes
Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Our Lives Matter episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Our Lives Matter for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Our Lives Matter episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
01/18/24 • 17 min
The Big Bang was a huge explosion of energy. Some of it condensed into matter. That set the universe in motion. It led to the formation of atoms. It also led to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets. Physics is the study of matter and energy. Atomic physics leads directly into chemistry. Electrons are attracted to the nuclei of atoms. What happens because of that? That sets the stage for the evolution of life on Earth. How did chemistry create biochemistry? ACT I Scene 1 [72 bpm] The universe began with an extremely dense concentration of...
02/08/24 • 27 min
How did we get from single celled organisms to all the diversity of life in the world today? If you focus on how many differences there are between one species and another, you’ll be overwhelmed with information. But if you look at the critical differences between one species and another, suddenly it’s a coherent story. Now you’re looking at how few differences it took between one species and another to make all the rest of the differences evolve. What had to change in those original cells to make the simplest plants evolve? Then the simplest animals? Then more...
Our Lives Matter S1E12: Africa 7 Million Years Ago
Our Lives Matter
02/15/24 • 24 min
Seven million years ago our ancestors were chimpanzees living in a forest in Africa. Then a drought caused a food shortage, and some of them walked into the grassland looking for food. That change in their environment set the evolution of human intelligence in motion. ACT I Scene 1 [113 bpm] 7 million years ago, in southeastern Africa, there was a forest, where chimpanzees lived. They weren’t chimpanzees as we know them today. They were the ancestors of the chimpanzees of today. But I’m still going to call them chimpanzees. Scene 2 Chimpanzees, and all other primates, have...
Our Lives Matter S1E34: Racism and Evolution
Our Lives Matter
07/18/24 • 25 min
Our species originated in Africa. At the time, there was no way for our ancestors to evolve a dislike for people from other continents, because there were no people from other continents. Racism is xenophobia connected to physical features of people from different continents. Imperialism and colonialism depended on the colonial governments writing different laws for different groups of people, which gave the colonizers the right to take land and resources from the people they were colonizing. Slavery was another way that laws gave different groups of people different sets of rights. Those different sets of laws created different...
Our Lives Matter S1E47: A Generation of Heroes
Our Lives Matter
12/26/24 • 23 min
The environmental crisis, and the destruction it’s bringing, are part of life now. How do we adapt to that? Where do we find role models for adapting? We’ve all seen heroes in movies. What qualities do they have that help them succeed at their goals, and that we admire? What can we learn from them that we can use in our own lives? ACT I Scene 1 [112 bpm] The environmental crisis is part of life now. Carbon dioxide has risen to levels it’s only reached a few times in the history of our planet, and that it’s...
Our Lives Matter S1E32: Privilege versus Adaptation
Our Lives Matter
07/04/24 • 22 min
People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to pursue what they value in life, and they think of more ideas in the process. The idea of privilege is one way people talk about how differences in people’s abilities, environments, and ideas affect the outcomes of what they do in life. Recognizing that is a big part of understanding the diversity of humanity. Within a high school you can meet diverse people who each have their own stories about how they’ve used their abilities and ideas in their environments to live their lives. In a college you can...
Our Lives Matter S1E20: The Critical Race Theory of Evolution
Our Lives Matter
04/11/24 • 26 min
Genetic evolution for our species is slow, because it depends on parents passing genes down to children generation by generation. Human intelligence evolved over millions of years and hundreds of thousands of generations. Our intelligence has evolved from genes to ideas. We evolve mentally much faster now by thinking about ideas and deciding which ones we like the best. Racism is the assumption that people from one continent have less mental ability than the people from another continent. But our brains evolved along with the rest of our bodies, while our ancestors still lived together in Africa. When people...
02/22/24 • 24 min
Our story has led us from philosophy to math to physics to chemistry to biology to the origin of our species and the evolution of our intelligence. The next step is evolutionary psychology. That means understanding how the evolution of our intelligence affects how we think and feel now. That starts with our looking at three underlying themes in everything people think, feel, and do. ACT I Scene 1 [110 bpm] Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution brought together centuries of observations scientists had made of living things into the science of biology. That was with The Origin of Species,...
Our Lives Matter S1E29: Understanding Worldviews
Our Lives Matter
06/13/24 • 20 min
One easy way to see the Web of Human Behavior and Empathy Formula play out is by looking around at people you know. The people who relate to best are usually the people you feel you have the most in common with. But you can relate to anyone if you can figure out how their life is different from yours. What does that tell us about how people see the world? How do differences between your life and someone else’s affect their feelings about what happens in life and what they should do? ACT I Scene 1 [105...
Our Lives Matter S1E45: The Evolution of Science
Our Lives Matter
10/03/24 • 26 min
Science today depends on the same five steps of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate as it did 500 years ago. But how has the role of science in society changed since then because of other developments? When you say the word science today, what are you talking about? How has that affected scientists? How has the world changed in the 50 years since the environmental crisis was discovered? How are leaders in science today hanging onto obsolete ideas from before the environmental crisis was discovered? ACT I Scene 1 [108 bpm] What does it mean in the...
Show more best episodes
Show more best episodes
FAQ
How many episodes does Our Lives Matter have?
Our Lives Matter currently has 49 episodes available.
What topics does Our Lives Matter cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts, Education and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Our Lives Matter?
The episode title 'Our Lives Matter S1E04: The Evolution of Intelligence and Religion' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Our Lives Matter?
The average episode length on Our Lives Matter is 27 minutes.
How often are episodes of Our Lives Matter released?
Episodes of Our Lives Matter are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Our Lives Matter?
The first episode of Our Lives Matter was released on Nov 25, 2023.
Show more FAQ
Show more FAQ