Our Lives Matter

Our Lives Matter

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!)

Episodes

S1E48  Courage, Not Hope:  Preparing for the Future

January 1, 2025 • 40 mins
And now, for our season finale… Our story of Being Human on Planet Earth needs one last thing.  How do we use it to plot a new course into the future?  What can young activists start doing now that will add up to a future they want?  What opportunities do young people have that they can take advantage of?   ACT I Scene 1 How is the story of Being Human on Planet Earth supposed to end?   ...
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Our Lives Matter S1E47: A Generation of Heroes

December 26, 2024 • 23 mins
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...
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S1E46 The Evolution of Economics

December 19, 2024 • 36 mins
Classical economics treats money as if it’s the foundation of economic systems.  But that doesn’t explain why people want things in life that money can’t buy.   Environmental economics is the study of how organisms try to get energy and resources they need to live and that they can use to grow and reproduce.  Human economics is a subset of environmental economics, where we all try to get...
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Our Lives Matter S1E26: Black Theatre Artists Matter!

December 12, 2024 • 25 mins
(Here’s the missing Episode 26.) The principles of modern theatre let actors create realistic human behavior onstage consistently.  That means all human behavior.   The economics of the theatre industry have led the business managers of theatre companies to choose plays that will bring in the most money.  That means plays that appeal the most to wealthy old White people, the traditional ...
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Our Lives Matter S1E45:  The Evolution of Science

October 3, 2024 • 26 mins
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...
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Our Lives Matter S1E44: Mental Obstacles within the Environmental Movement

September 26, 2024 • 18 mins
Why are some environmental activists opposed to science?   We can use the Web of Human Behavior as a map to follow people’s motivations.  Why do people become environmental activists?  And how do those motivations lead many activists toward environmental science, but lead others away from it?   ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] We know about the religious, economic, and political opposition to cli...
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Our Lives Matter S1E43:  The Fundamental Sensory Illusion of the Environmental Crisis

September 19, 2024 • 14 mins
We naturally perceive some parts about how the environment works better than we perceive other parts of it.  Those are the things we have to learn about to understand.  Our most profound sensory illusion is a misunderstanding of how energy moves through the environment versus how it moves through the universe as a whole.  But if we can understand that illusion, we can understand all the ...
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Our Lives Matter S1E42: The Environmental Crisis

September 12, 2024 • 27 mins
The environmental crisis is caused by limitations in our perceptions.  We think about things we want much more than we think about things we don’t want.   When you buy anything at the store, you think about what you’re going to use it for much more than you think about how much pollution was generated in creating it.   Our religions, political systems, and economic system are built on th...
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Our Lives Matter S1E41:  The Biology of Patriarchy

September 5, 2024 • 32 mins
Patriarchy is an ongoing political system of men assuming they’re supposed to get what they want from women, and expecting women to go along with it.  How does it start?  And what keeps it going?   Men’s and women’s different reproductive instincts give us different ideas of common sense and good decisions.  Some of the patriarchy of today is the result of old traditions that favor men. ...
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Our Lives Matter S1E40: The Biology of Good Relationships

August 29, 2024 • 18 mins
Men and women have many different feelings about relationships.  Relationships both partners are happy with always have some important things in common.  If men keep those in mind, it’s much easier for them to get on a path to finding and keeping good relationships.  If women keep those things in mind, it’s easier to explain them to men.   ACT I  Scene 1 [108 bpm] For the past 5 episodes...
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Our Lives Matter S1E39:  The Biology of Consent

August 22, 2024 • 28 mins
Men and women have a lot of different feelings surrounding sex.  Some of those feeling can lead men to not notice, not care, or not feel it’s important, that women don’t consent to having sex with them.   If we frame our discussions about sex and consent in terms of our different biology, instincts, and sex motivations, it’s easy to understand what consent means and why it’s always impor...
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Our Lives Matter S1E38: The Biology of Sexual Assault

August 15, 2024 • 46 mins
Relationships between men and women get complicated because our different reproductive instincts make us want different things from relationships.  That makes some men misunderstand, or not ever care, about women consenting to sex. Using the Web of Human Behavior to look at people’s motivations makes women’s and mens feelings surrounding rape easy to understand.  Rape makes women feel ba...
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Our Lives Matter 37: The Mathematics of Gender Differences

August 8, 2024 • 51 mins
Men are fertile much later into their lives than women are.  That means there have always been more fertile men in the world than fertile women.   That means there has always been competition among men for fertile women.  That gives women choices of which men to have children with.  But that also means men have put a lot of thought over the millennia  into how to compete for women.   Our...
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Our Lives Matter S1E36:  The Biology of Attraction

August 1, 2024 • 18 mins
Men and women each have their own ways of reproducing physically.  That means we have different instincts for reproducing.  Part of our reproductive instincts are instincts for being attracted to people who have qualities we need in a mate.  Women are attracted to men who seem like they’d be good fathers, and men are attracted to women who seem like they’d be good mothers.   We have diff...
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Our Lives Matter S1E35:  The Biology of Gender Differences

July 25, 2024 • 46 mins
Men and women reproduce differently.  That’s why we have different reproduction organs.   That also means we have different reproductive instincts for the best ways to reproduce.  The differences in how men and women think start with the differences in our reproductive instincts.   This isn’t a question of whether men are smarter than women, or vice versa. We’re each better than the othe...
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Our Lives Matter S1E34: Racism and Evolution

July 18, 2024 • 25 mins
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 o...
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Our Lives Matter S1E33:  Human Universals

July 11, 2024 • 19 mins
Anthropology is the study of differences and similarities among cultures.  That means that similarities that all cultures share give us valuable clues to mental traits of our species.  That gives us valuable clues to the brain structure of our species.  At the same time, this paints a vivid picture of the diversity of humanity.  Most of these universals are ways that people all over the ...
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Our Lives Matter S1E32: Privilege versus Adaptation

July 4, 2024 • 22 mins
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 ...
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Our Lives Matter S1E31:  Worldviews and the Principles of Learning

June 27, 2024 • 15 mins
People live their lives using their abilities and ideas in their environments, and they think of new ideas in the process.  The ideas they think of and learn over the course of their lives affect how they see the world.   What does education psychology tell us about that?  Teachers use principles of learning in school to make ideas memorable.  How do those principles play out with ideas ...
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Our Lives Matter S1E30:  The Pros and Cons of Rigid Morality

June 20, 2024 • 18 mins
People always use their abilities and ideas in their environments to decide what to do in life.  They think of more ideas in the process.  Those ideas build up to a  personal history and cultural background of ideas they use to interpret the world and keep making their decisions.   What do you think of other people’s worldviews?  How similar do they have to be to yours for you to feel th...
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