Gen Y Chronicles Podcast
GenYChron Ep. 0018 – Birthdays, Pareto distributions and spirit molecules
Show summary
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).
Show notes
1:52 - The Secret Language of Birthdays by Gary Goldschneider and Joost Elffers
5:08 - Gary Goldschneider’s Wikipedia page
7:10 - Confirmation bias
8:10 - “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”.
10:00 - The Pareto principle
10:25 - Vilfredo Pareto
12:14 - Systems Theory
13:05 - Simulation hypothesis
13:57 - “The universe has a bias towards inequality”.
15:30 - The Matthew principle
20:28 - DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
20:38 - DMT stands for N,N-Dimethyltryptamine
24:27 - NDE or Near-death experience
30:10 - Psychedelic substances can potentially reduce criminal behaviour