Christopher Ryan, PhD is a psychologist, speaker, and author of New York Times best seller "Sex At Dawn"
References
- Christopher Ryan is the author of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships.
- The Festival of Dangerous Ideas is Australia's contrarian answer to TED
- On the topic of psychedelics, there is a mention of Kary Mullis who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction, which he attributes to insights received on an LSD trip. His book Dancing Naked in the Mild Field is seriously mind-expanding.
- Joe Rogan on Why Working out is Like Building a Sand Castle, an article Joe wrote for Maxim (not Esquire as said on the show).
- Chris Ryan praises the book Future Perfect, an utopian view of the future path of mankind and the effect of the Internet.
People Mentioned
Notes
- (0:00) Gavin mcguinness, religion and politics
- (10:00) Sexuality, reproduction and evolution
- (20:00) Psychology of trauma and psychadelics
- (30:00) Companies trying to abuse authors and entertainers
- (40:00) Cultural changes from porn and promiscuity
- (50:00) The effects of capitalism on the environment and climate change
- (1:30:00) Reproduction and family as the meaning of life
- (1:50:00) Positive effect on human evolution of the advent of internet