How Whites first appeared and spread

(WATIVY) The ancient human gene mutation that changed everything about race

• Cheddar Man? (Euro-African dark skin, blue eyes)

(Paint It Simple) How did ancient humans lose their dark skin?

Science: Early Irish people had blue eyes and dark skin.

The real truth about women: Schopenhauer

(The Selves) The real truth about women: Schopenhauer

C'mon, Arty, you don't mean it! Come hug me.

Arthur Schopenhauer (Feb. 22, 1788–Sept. 21, 1860) was a German philosopher and writer known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung), which was expanded in 1844.

It characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will [11, 12, 13].

I'll get him, girl. Watch me

Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism [8, 9].

Schopenhauer was among the first philosophers in the Western tradition to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self, and the notion of the world-as-appearance [14], as an ILLUSION the Buddha and other Dharmic teachers called Maya. More

Atheism is wrong, right? (South Park)

(Armchair Analysis) When South Park hilariously satirized ATHEISM?

Our dating life explained by science

8,000 years ago females made a choice that erased 90% of males forever

(Psychryptoria) Dec. 6, 2025: Eight thousand years ago, 17 females reproduced for every 1 male. And 90% of male bloodlines vanished—not through war, plague, or disaster, but through female choice and economics.

This is the story of the "Neolithic Bottleneck (population bottleneck)." Discover how

• the agricultural revolution (spread of farming) created the most extreme genetic selection event in human history,
• why Y-chromosome diversity collapsed while female lineages stayed intact, and
• how this ancient pattern still shapes modern dating,
• wealth inequality, and
• reproductive dynamics today.

What viewers will learn:

• The genetic evidence behind the 17:1 ratio
• How agriculture transformed mating selection
• Why hypergamy became an evolutionary strategy
• The connection between ancient bottlenecks and modern dating apps
• What this means for our DNA and relationships today

How empire profits from boys

Research Notes and Key Sources:

• Karmin et al. (2015) - "A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture" Genome Research, 25(4):459-466 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25770...
• Zeng et al. (2018) - "Cultural hitchhiking and competition between patrilineal kin groups explain the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck" Nature Communications, 9:2077 https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
• Schulting & Fibiger (2023) - "Conflict, violence, and warfare among early farmers in Northwestern Europe" PNAS, 120(16) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
• von Rueden & Jaeggi (2016) - "Men's status and reproductive success in 33 nonindustrial societies: Effects of subsistence, marriage system, and reproductive strategy" PNAS, 113(39):10824-10829 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
• Rivollat et al. (2023) - "Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community" Nature, 620:600-606 https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

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• 8,000 Years Ago Women Made a Choice That Erased 90% of Men Forever

The Uncanny Valley: What is 'human'?

Not all humans today are of earthling origin, which is to say, there are many hybrid ETs

• North 02: What is the uncanny valley?

Humans on all fours: karma, devolution?

I was traveling as a vegan through India which, while mostly Hindu, at that time had about 100 million Muslims. (It now has 200 million or more).

I came to a strangely barren outdoor marketplace made of stone and clay. I watched from a distance as a bad smell of BBQ wafted through the air like an accident. Imagine the smell of burning plastic, upholstery, oil, textiles, and diesel fumes.

Men began to congregate, each at their own stall with animals, mainly sheep, lambs, or goats in tow. I blended in, holding still, just observing. And I began to realize these were butchers, killing animals by slicing their throats, beheading them, draining their blood, separating their corpses into portions, and piling bloody flesh on the stall tops for sale.

Shoppers, Muslims following their religion to eat the dead and Hindus violating theirs by buying carcasses (and therefore paying butchers to kill) for consumption, which is at odds with ahimsa ("nonharming"), were gathering.

• The Dharmic religions enjoin humans to abstain from killing and from encouraging anyone else to kill. Butchers are encouraged to slaughter when people pay them to do it. Am I blameless for eating meat? It would be as if the Mafia godfather were to say, "I've never killed anybody" when he has hired and directed men to kill by paying them to do so. Is he blameless or as blameworthy as those Mafia men for all those killings? Butchers, paid for yesterday's killing, kill for tomorrow in full expectation that there is money to be made by those not doing the dirty work.
• I'm a woman traveling around the world. Here are the 5 places I felt the least safe

The flies. The dirty hands. The dust and pollution of uncovered stalls. The floors of stalls were a sheen of blood. There was some baying of the young sheep.

The men all seemed very nice, not yelling or argumentative, all in their workaday mode, thinking nothing wrong with slaughtering and selling in unhygienic conditions.

A modern human family walking on all fours?

Then, thinking of karma, I saw it. No one seemed to pay any mind, but I could not wrap my head around what people must be thinking they were seeing and why it was so. People probably go along to get along by not thinking.

An Ulas family member or distant relative, walking on all fours through the blood slats, was going from stall-to-stall begging. He had a Muslim cap like the others and clogs (rope and wood sandals) on his feet, which gave the appearance and sound of cloven hooves, as he ambled from butcher to butcher, who pitied him (or wanted him to move on).

They have him a few coins (backsheesh) or slivers of red flesh. To explain it to myself, I imagined that this man -- in a past life or earlier in this one -- was a butcher like them but then went crazy and decided to go on all four like a dog-duty ascetic.

But he was no ascetic, not one to do penance or tapas (fiery austerities), not Hindu or a member of one of the Dharmic religions. Yet, by his concurrent good deeds, possibly giving to beggars, he managed to gain rebirth in this world (on the human plane) rather than The Downfall (niraya), the worlds of woe that result from killing living beings and other cruelties.

Karma is such that the way it works out is not only strange but incomprehensible, one of the Four Imponderables. It is possible, particularly in this world of mixed karma (skillful and unskillful deeds), that one form of karma interferes with the other. Killers are not always immediately reborn in perdition.

It is possible by good karma (keeping the Five or Eight Precepts) that merit is made that counters unskillful actions for a time. The result of killing animals is not that one will one time be killed or reborn in hell but that it will happen again and again and those mental impulsions (javanas) formed in the doing come to fruition by conditioning a rebirth. One act (good or bad) has exponential karmic-results (vipaka, phala), ripening like fruit.

The man walked like a tall, skinny cow from booth to booth. The butchers gave charity. And he moved on to work the whole marketplace. I turned in disbelief, gobsmacked, and saw a girl selling piles of colorful powder dyes. It is not clear in what, ubiquitous plastic bags or wrapped in yesterday's newspaper. The piles were perfect and very likely synthetic and she seemed miserable to be there.

Then the smell hit me again and I saw smoke. It was a kind of hibachi, and an old Muslim man was placing something on the sooty grill. The smoke did not seem to bother the miserable salesgirl, but from a farther distance, it sure bothered me.

The man smiled at me, seeing my camera. I approached slowly and got close enough to discern what was burning. It was a pile of small heads of recently living lambs. It is the strangest thing to see a beheaded face separated from its torso, disconnected from its neck. The eyes were gently closed and I felt sure they might open at any moment. Was he cooking their brains in the skulls?

Surely, this was butcher offal (trash). What was he doing? I came to understand that he was singing the hair off to sell the heads for buyers to eat the face. Like a dog gnawing on a bone for marrow and gristle, scraps of remaining tendon, the smear of blood or scent of flesh, someone would buy this.

• Discovery of bone-filled urns under tree could rewrite ancient Amazon civilization history

Price? 5 cents (It's hard to do the arithmetic conversion with moving exchange rates, and this was a long time ago when the US greenback fetched about 40 rupees). The man kindly smiled at me. All the men were nice, seemed nice, seemed well adjusted to their task, with wives and families at home, well-fed with lots of dead meat. India is a kaleidoscope. I thought that man an anomaly. But here is a whole family:

Family that walks on all fours have 'undone the last three million years of evolution'

Story by Harriet Brewis, Indy 100, 8/27/24

The skin on the palms of their hands is as thick as it is on their feet (60 Minutes AUS/Indy 100).

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All families have their own quirks and habits, but one group of relatives has such a distinct trait that scientists have branded them a total anomaly of the human species.

I told you, Darwin. - No, Wallace, I already knew.

The Ulas family has been the subject of evolutionary fascination for years after they were discovered in a remote village in Turkey walking on all fours. Back in the early 2000s, a scientific paper was published on five of the Ulas siblings and their strange bear crawl-style of movement, with experts divided over the cause of the anomaly.

In the years following the paper’s publication, evolutionary psychologist Prof. Nicholas Humphrey of the London School of Economics (LSE) travelled to Turkey to meet with the extraordinary family.

Alfred Wallace, the unfamous father of evolution

The Ulas mother and father had a staggering 18 children. However, of these, only six were born with quadrupedalism (walking on all fours), which has never been seen before in modern adult humans.

“I never expected that even under the most extraordinary scientific fantasy that modern human beings could return to an animal state,” Prof. Humphrey told 60 Minutes Australia, which made a documentary about the family back in 2018.

“The thing which marks us off from the rest of the animal world is the fact that we’re the species which walks on two legs and holds our heads high in the air,” he added. More

• Family that walk on all fours have 'undone the last three million years of evolution' (msn.com)
• Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly, Aug. 27, 2024; Harriet Brewis, Indy 100, 8/27/24; Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhist creation myth: Science v Bible

This Buddhist creation myth BEATS Judeo-Christian Bible and Islam's Quran

(Maya Wisdom) Explore the profound teachings of Buddhism's primary creation myth, the Agganna Sutta, and its relevance to modern scientific understanding. This video examines:

1. The Buddhist perspective on cyclical cosmic evolution and devolution

2. How it challenges traditional creation narratives

3. The concept of Dependent Origination and its implications

4. Buddhism's unique approach to deities (devas, light beings, shining ones) and divine intervention

5. The Buddha's emphasis on personal experience over scriptural authority.

Gain insights into how this ancient wisdom offers a transformative view of human nature, societal structures, and our relationship with the cosmos.

A Buddhist Genesis?

Dharma...Evolution (Sugunasiri)

Sadly, the Agganna Sutra is not really a proper creation myth. It is only a general explanation of life on earth, and it doesn't even fully explain that. Its principal interest is to emphasize the power and significance of karma (deeds, those things willed, carried out, and stored up). How did human life begin on this plane, this planet, this earth? One day a light being (possibly a light beam if Dr. Sugunasiri's theory (Dhamma Aboard Evolution: A Canonical Study of Agganna Sutta in Relation to Science) holds up under scrutiny. He suggests it is symbolic or metaphorical, not a literal accounting. The Buddha was famous for being able to take ancient teachings from the subcontinent (proto-India) and earlier Vedic culture, which possibly encompassed the great Indus Valley Civilization and city-states of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, that people would have been familiar with and imbuing them with Buddhist knowledge of life, the universe, and everything. The problem with creation myths, including Science-ism's Big Bang Theory, is that they begin in the middle. For instance:

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  What was that? - Just another Bang

  SCIENCE MYTH 1: Once upon a time, before everything came into existence, this happened, then it came into existence in a spontaneous Big Bang.
  
• Q: Well, how did that happen if there wasn't anything yet?
• A: Uh, umm, question does not compute, insufficient data, syntax error, program will now shut down for regularly scheduled maintenance.
• 4H MYTH: (Popular in the Dharmic religions). One day God (who spontaneously arose in the midst of a great void and nothingness) got bored so He made everything (maya) else to amuse Himself, and to keep it interesting and full of drama (lila) forgot it was just Him (because we're all Him or figments of His imagination in this illusion), so it's alright whatever happens, just a part of a big game with Hells and Heavens, Hierarchies and Holes in the story (so don't read too much into it).

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  God animated dust with breath to create Adam.

  CHRISTIAN MYTH: (Applicable to all of the Abrahamic faiths, i.e., Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Yazidism, Gnosticism, Bahai, and probably their progenitors Mithraism, Zoroastrianism, ancient Mesopotamian, Babylonian, and Sumerian religion). Once upon a time, God was bored in heaven, so He made a terrarium and populated it with all sorts of creatures and even a little man like Himself, in His own image, called him Adam, gave him a partner named Lilith, whom he later divorced and remarried another named Eve, and had a whale of a time creating other fantastical living beings to be in His garden, even a scaly man who was a big smartass and troublemaker, talking Eve into all kinds of mischief so that He had to empty out the project and toss the main characters to the east, which is how we all came about in this sucky world suffering from the cradle to the grave. Nighty night, no question, time for bed!
• Our Lady of La Salette Marian apparition (miracle)

Ooh, let's land on that blue-green one! It looks nice and inviting, and we can b*ng there.

We revolve in a cycle until liberation.

• BUDDHIST MYTH: Once upon a time, in a land near, near this way, two light beings (or beams) alighted on this preexisting celestial body we call Earth, a garden like place, after flying in space and going about in their refined way. They liked it and stayed, and in so doing, they became coarser and coarser, devolving from their previous state.

Yay for Aldebaran! (Maria Orsic)

• The beings were engaging in gathering, eating, tasting, and sensual experiences like sex, experiencing the results (vipaka and phala) of their collective deeds (karma), which had a profound impact on their environment, being reborn over and over, until we find ourselves in our present state with people not realizing that the things they say and do had a previous meaning they've forgotten. And that, monks, is how things in the present are like things in the past, and it's always a good idea to keep good conduct, be pure, and evolve back to that Golden Age of Truth (Satya Yuga) when things will be better before eventually, invariably, decline again and devolve in this spiraling cyclical pattern we call samsara.
• Q: That's a "creation" myth?
• A: No, where in the sutra does it say anything about "creation"? This is just a story about how humanoid life began on this planet/plane, devolving from a higher plane by the workings of karma.

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  This is how it happened, according to math.

  SCIENCE MYTH 2: Once upon a time everything declined and collapsed falling in on itself then there was a Big Bounce and it re-expanded until we find ourselves and our universe expanding again as evidenced by the Doppler Effect of the redshift of visible light and there's no discernible beginning or end to it, just like the Buddha taught.
• In science, anything is possible: Physicists turn light into one-dimensional gas with incredibly strange properties (IFL Science) The Big Bang is utterly dumb as a theory of everything because it says there is no need for miracles except this one. Just grant that everything came out of nothing in a nano-instant then everything else we explain will be rational, lawful (in accordance with demonstrable principles), and predictable.
• Maya Wisdom (video), Sept. 3, 2024; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What drives evolution, climate or competition?

Wallace, Darwin's forgotten "frenemy"

(SciShow) June 29, 2017: Everyone knows the name Charles Darwin, but his lesser known frenemy, Alfred Russel Wallace, was developing a lot of the same ideas around the same time. Hosted by: Hank Green. For 10% off Squarespace: http://squarespace.com/scishow  ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: scishow

Homo Floresiensis skull, hominin species analyzed in the study (The Duckworth Laboratory)

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It's bizarre: humans are competitive like animals

(University of Cambridge via Newsweek) Human evolution might be more "bizarre" than we once thought, according to a new study.

In the past, scientists (anthropologists) believed that hominin evolution was largely driven by changes in climate. But now, research from the University of Cambridge has suggested that competition was, in fact, fundamental to hominin evolution.

Wallace, you were right. - I know, Darwin.

"We have been ignoring the way competition between species has shaped our own evolutionary tree," said lead author Dr. Laura van Holstein, a University of Cambridge biological anthropologist from Clare College.

"The effect of climate on hominin species is only part of the story." Interspecies [not to be confused with intraspecies or between humans] competition is common among most other vertebrates: in any new environment there is an explosion of species evolution as each species adapts to fill a particular niche.

I shoulda killed that Wallace to evolve.

However, once all the niches are filled, competition kicks in and this explosive evolution flatlines. "The pattern we see across many early hominins is similar to all other mammals," van Holstein said. "Speciation rates increase and then flatline, at which point extinction rates start to increase. This suggests that interspecies competition was a major evolutionary factor."

However, when van Holstein studied the evolution of our own genus, Homo, things started to get much more peculiar.

(Biographics) Alfred Russel Wallace: The Forgotten Father of Evolution

"The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation," she said. "So when those niches got filled, something drove even more species to emerge. This is almost unparalleled in evolutionary science."

In other words, it appears as if competition between different Homo species actually drove the evolution of even more Homo species — a complete reversal of what we would expect to see based on the evolution of most other vertebrates.

Here's what would happen if ALL humans completely disappeared (Aperture)

COMMENTARY

So Long, Thanks for All Fish

(WQ) Given this breakthrough, we should start having competitive games not (intra) between humans and humans but (inter) between humans and animals. The all-female chicken league can go up against Missourians in worm finding. Bull teams can go up against matadors with horn helmets instead of swords. We can launch Iditarod II, a race where hungry dogs or wolves chase humans across the ice and snow to see who crosses the line first. There can be a surfer versus shark competition in the summers to see who can exclude the other from more waves. Fisherpersons can get out of boats and into the water to have it out with schools of sportfish. We can film a "Survivor Congo" mixed gender social strategy game between bonobos and humans. And we can have an international dolphin versus nerds test of intellect, where we will insist on a handicap for having smaller brains than the sea mammals.

• Pandora Dewan [pronounced dawn?], Newsweek.com via MSN.com, June 11, 2024 ('Bizarre' finding changes the way we think about human evolution); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Origin and purpose of blue eyes (video)

Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Shakyamuni ("Scythian Sage") had blue eyes.

The Origin and Purpose of Blue Eyes

(Survive the Jive) Jan. 22, 2024: Why do some people have blue eyes? What is the Darwin/Wallace evolutionary advantage of having blue eyes? Where did blue eyes evolve?

• Physical characteristics of the Buddha like blue eyes

Blue eyes are an ancient thuman rait.

Blue eyes have piqued curiosity for centuries, standing out as a mesmerizing and rare trait among humans.

Discover the underlying science behind blue eyes as we explore various theories and genetic factors that contribute to their existence.

They were mainly associated with Mesolithic Western hunter gatherers like Cheddar man but the origin and story of this phenotype is complicated. A new study from Liverpool may have the answer as to what benefit this trait has -- better ability to see in low light.

Sources

• biorxiv.org/content/10.11...
• sciencedaily.com/releases...

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Nan Madol: ancient artificial island (video)

The Mystery of Nan Madol: An Ancient Human-Made Island Built with Unexplained Technology 

(Dark5 Ancient Mysteries) July 14, 2023. This is the mysterious megalithic city of Nan Madol. Located off the coast of Pohnpei Island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the dark, colossal basalt pillars of its ancient artificial islands rise from an emerald sea.

(Dark5 Ancient Mysteries) 5 out of place objects archeologists can't explain

Its remnants, an intricate labyrinth of enormous stones and waterways, capture stories of an ancient civilization lost in the tides of time. This architectural marvel poses a confounding puzzle: How were these stone blocks, some weighing up to 50 tons, transported here off the coast amidst the crashing waves and coral reefs?

Considered to be inhabited by spirits according to local folklore, Nan Madol is rife with legends of sorcerers and flying dragons. This mysterious city, once the ceremonial and political hub of the Saudeleur Dynasty, now sits deserted, with few clues as to the fate of its inhabitants. Who built this island marvel, and what secrets do its ruins tell?

Evolution created the human cell?

Darwin's evolution or some intelligent design mechanism?

(Answers in Genesis Canada) June 30, 2023. Christian fanatic Calvin Smith takes a deep dive into the amazing kinesin protein. Unfortunately, Darwinian evolution proponents claim this protein is the result of chance, but if one takes the time to listen to the experts who have researched the topic, this video may change some minds.

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Satanic? King Diamond, Mercyful Fate music

Christian The Metal Mystic, 10/31/22; Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"But the other half is just too old. It's for the trash can," King Diamond goes on to say.

The Satanic Philosophy of King Diamond and Mercyful Fate

(The Metal Mystic) Oct. 31, 2022. Welcome to the debut episode of The Metal Mystic, which analyzes the occult philosophy of some favorite metal artists from an Orthodox Christian perspective.

Mercyful Fate: The Early Years (metal documentary) 1981-1985

(Ruthless Metal) May 2, 2021. The Danish heavy metal icons Mercyful Fate formed in Copenhagen in 1981 after the dissolution of the early punk band Brats. And during a short span of four years, they changed the world's perception of metal. They released one EP (Mercyful Fate) and two full-length LP's (Melissa and Don't Break the Oath). They were fronted by the charismatic King Diamond who laid his falsetto vocals over the riffs of the dynamic duo of Hank Shermann and Michael Denner, while bassist Timi Hansen and drummer Kim Ruzz kept the beat. Let's take a deep dive into the early career of one of the greatest metal bands of all time.

This European guy, all modern and rational, makes a lot of sense to me: Hedonism, yeah!

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Like LaVey, I'm a hedonist on stage w/my cross.

Today being Halloween, let's take a look at the Satanic philosophy of one of metal's most influential and enduring figures, the master of the metal macabre Danish King Diamond (born Kim Bendix Petersen) -- both with his original band, the legendary Mercyful Fate, as well as his subsequent self-titled solo band.

King has always been an outspoken proponent of Anton LaVey and the American hedonists known as the "Church of Satan." As one soon finds out, King Diamond holds his own unique spiritual beliefs.

• Hedonism: There's nothing higher than sensual pleasure

The Christian God is evil if He were real.

Music by Karl Casey@White Bat Audio (unless otherwise noted) "God Speaks to Moses" by Gospod gospod.bandcamp.com #metalmystic #synaxis #synaxispodcast #kingdiamond #mercyfulfate #satanism #satanic #occult #occultism #esoteric #satanicbible #lavey #antonlavey #orthodox #orthodoxchristian #orthodoxy #metal #heavymetal #philosophy

Fyodor Dostoevsky quote in The Brothers Karamazov, Book 6, Chapter 3.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Mushrooms (Joe Rogan)

NDT; BuzzFeed; Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I'm richer and get better drugs than you, Neil.

Tyson, an American [actor,] astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, shared one thing that keeps him up at night, leaving Rogan speechless.

On Tyson's TikTok, the famed astrophysicist, known for bringing science to the masses, shared a clip captioned, “We have more in common with mushrooms than you think.”

With his 4.8 million followers, it is no wonder that the clip quickly went viral. The comment section was on fire, with many making fun of the host [Joe Rogan].

One user wrote, “This is why I love Neil. He makes science understandable for everyone, even Joe Rogan.”

Another shared, “Joe Rogan had no idea what he was talking about during this whole interview, and it’s awesome.” More:

• "We have more in common with mushrooms than you think": Neil deGrasse Tyson leaves Joe Rogan dumbfounded