Lives Well Lived: The 341st Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

On this, our 341st Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss two lives well-lived, both of which ended on August 31, 2026: our beloved labrador Maddie, and Wendell Berry. Maddie was adventurous and loyal; she helped raise our children; and she gave unconditional love. Wendell Berry was a writer, an environmentalist, and a philosopher and defender of the land, and of traditional ways of being and doing. He died at 92 at his home in Kentucky, having lived a deep life farming, thinking, and writing.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Wendell Berry in 2012 in Humanities: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/mayjune/conversation/wendell-berry-landsma

Berry obit in NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.htm

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 A Rough One Today
00:02:07 Sponsor: Timeline
00:06:01 Sponsor: Cowboy Colostrum
00:09:09 Sponsor: CrowdHealth
00:11:22 We Lost Maddie on Monday
00:14:01 Why Does She Love Me Unconditionally?
00:15:38 Dogs May Save the World
00:18:03 The Longest-Standing Domesticate
00:20:53 Cats See Mothers, Dogs See a Team
00:23:43 Please Wait for Dad to Get Home
00:30:50 Why We Buried Her Ourselves
00:37:26 Sun Lakes and a Dog With a Job
00:43:09 Photographs of Maddie
00:45:57 Grief Is the Downside of Love
00:48:07 What We Surrender to the Market
00:55:58 Wendell Berry, 1934-2026
01:01:02 The Unsettling of America
01:02:25 Monoculture of Crops and of Ideas
01:07:23 The Cult of the Future
01:13:53 Manifesto: The Mad Farmer
01:16:46 A Meeting, and Goodbye

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