Blubber, brown fat, and the real reason Inuit cultures didn’t need warriors. Today’s sketch was an Inuit hunter, and we talked adaptation, fasting, and cooperation in the Arctic.
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Today’s random object was a Safari Ltd. toy an Inuit hunter. I discussed what sets Arctic cultures apart from the rest of the continent. They didn’t chase herds, they didn’t fight over land, they prepared all year for brutal seasons, and built cultures around cooperation. That was the only way to survive. No trees, no farming, no reason to conquer the neighbor. That other tribe might be the one to save your cousin from falling through the ice.
We talked brown fat, blubber, fasting through winter, and how the Inuit didn’t just tolerate the cold, they adapted to it so well their diet ran on seal oil and dried meat long before any of us ever said “keto.” I touched on the idea of artificial blubber as a food source for space exploration. Their diet, their culture of conservation, and most of all, their spirit of cooperation are reasons we might want to learn from them before we pack for Mars.