When looking at the news, the best analysis quite often comes with a fair bit of ‘dot connecting’. Ideally, we seek to understand our world and the major events unfolding as deeply as possible, but we're too often served a dish of two-dimensional news that furthers our knowledge just so much and not much more. So when a writer in the alternative news world manages to draw upon history, philosophy, science, and any number of other areas and disciplines - broadening our perspective in the process - we notice. This week on MindMatters we are joined by just such a voice: author and lecturer Matthew Ehret. <br /><br />Matthew is like the college prof you wish you had, enlivening his knowledge base with an infectious enthusiasm and command of the relevant facts. A veritable plethora of subject matter is on the table: Darwin and Malthus, Planck and Einstein, Kepler's genius, the retrograde motion of Mars, the nature of conspiracies, and why you need to watch Resurrection: Ertugrul. Join us this week as the owner and contributor of the Canadian Patriot and the Rising Tide Foundation reminds us that academic-level research need not be a dry and listless affair, but can expand our world views in ways not previously anticipated.<br /><br />@Rising Tide Foundation <br />Canadian Patriot Press: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2oIpISybXqY0Og9D4-XYw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2oIpISybXqY0Og9D4-XYw</a><br /><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://canadianpatriot.org/</a><br /><a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://risingtidefoundation.net/</a><br /><br />show mp3: <a href="https://media.sott.net/srn/20201210mnd-picking-matthew-ehrets-brain-how-darwinism-took-over-the-world-and-why-ertugrul-is-awesome.mp3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://media.sott.net/srn/20201210mnd-picking-matthew-ehrets-brain-how-darwinism-took-over-the-world-and-why-ertugrul-is-awesome.mp3</a><br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yAitkCMvP0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yAitkCMvP0</a>