Understanding Deep Time: A Conversation with Briana Pobiner, PhD
Humans have a hard time with wrapping their heads around events from long ago. When it becomes increasingly difficult to comprehend time beyond a human lifespan or two, how can we gain an understanding of the past of our human species? As a paleoanthropologist of food and diet, Dr. Briana Pobiner has a rich insights into how early human civilization was created, in part, through the stomach. While fads like the “paleo diet” abound, there is also much interest in what food is “naturally” meant to be consumed by humans. But when public intellectuals make appeals to human behavior that is “ancestral” or “natural,” what are they really talking about? How has food and eating built our society?
Sacred Science
Climate change. Genetic engineering. Truth and falsehood on social media. The psychology of how we flourish. For most Jews, we look to science for knowledge and wisdom on how to think and talk about these topics. But they also raise deep religious, ethical and philosophical questions, as well. Unfortunately, our political and cultural conversation pits ”science” against ”religion,” rather than trying to explore and integrate these human questions from multiple perspectives. ”Sacred Science,” hosted by Sinai and Synapses Founding Director Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman, talks with professors and rabbis, academics and practitioners, and scientists and religious thinkers to help us move beyond a simplistic and false ”either / or” dichotomy to go in depth on the biggest questions we face in this world -- personally, societally, and globally.
- No. of episodes: 12
- Latest episode: 2022-12-12
- Religion & Spirituality Science Religion
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