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Show summary
Listen to our experiences about moving to 4 different cities across the globe in 4 years. We share with you our nomad-like strategy for moving like a millennial. We also talk about a few random but hotly debated topics: marriage stats, controlled substances and vegetarianism. You may also learn something new about the “Imperial City”, “Athens on the Isar River”, “Haligonia” and the “Gateway to the World”.
Show notes
0:50 – The Gen Y moving strategy
4:00 – eBay classifieds in Germany and Kijiji in Canada (eBay classifieds group)
7:40 – How to negotiate prices on stuff you find on the classifieds
8:50 – Couch talk
15:00 – Random research about marriage (research and survey results)
17:10 – New cancer warning labels on coffee in California (news article)
19:00 – The cigarette buying experience in Germany and Canada
21:25 – Cannabis in Canada: The legalization of marijuana in Canada (news article)
22:50 – Age and alcohol: Canada vs. Germany
25:00 – “Beer is food here”
27:05 – The Viktualienmarkt in Munich (Wikipedia article)
27:55 – Rabbit liver pâté (recipe)
32:30 – Food poisoning in Vienna: “You said your friend recommended it, and said it was tasty”
34:05 – Pescetarianism: Is that a religion or a diet? (definition)
38:40 – “It’s not easy being a vegetarian”
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GenYChron Ep. 0018 – Birthdays, Pareto distributions and spirit molecules
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Join us this week as we talk about empirical evidence for birthday-dependent personalities, the eerie predominance of naturally occurring inequality within our universe and a psychedelic substance that our bodies produce, known as N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
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GenYChron Ep. 0007 – Epigenetics, fasting and outdated food guides
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Warning: listening to this week’s podcast episode may change the way you think about food and your genes. Did you know what you eat today can affect your great-grandchildren’s genes? Can fasting actually make you live longer? Did you know that the recommended limits on alcohol consumption significantly differ from country to country? Is eating eight servings of grain-based foods per day still a relevant recommendation?
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GenYChron Ep. 0026 – The forgotten meaning behind self-sacrifice
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We discuss “RULE 7 / Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)”, from Jordan B. Peterson’s best-selling book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. In this episode, we examine self-sacrifice, the dangers of expediency and a hypothesis about why evil exists.
Show notes
2:00 – Viewing the Biblical stories through a psychological lens
2:47 – Understanding sacrifice in a new way
3:18 – What does “expedient” mean?
6:37 – What happens when your sacrifice is rejected?
9:10 – Sharing with your future self
10:40 – “…the world is revealed to you through the template of your values.”
12:28 – Is it OK to bring a child into a world full of danger and suffering?
18:59 – Why does evil exist?
22:09 – Is lying actually expedient?
25:03 – Little lies are the seeds of totalitarian regimes
