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Further refinements followed.

after norwegian outdoorsman ole f bergen added a curved metal frame to the backpack in 1909 his country's armed forces adopted his packs and the legendary norwegian explorer and mountaineer uh rolled um took one on the South Pole Expedition Lloyd F Nelson drew inspiration from the packs carried by Inuit he encountered while hiking across Alaska to stake a land claim in 1922 He crafted the original Trapper Nelson, a canvas bag with a detachable wood frame and steel pins.

The modern backpack began to take its true shape in the 1930s after Jerry Cunningham, a mountaineer who went on to serve with the 10th Mountain Division, added zippered compartments for easy access while rock climbing.

Cunningham switched to manufacturing nylon models in 1967.

There is scientific precedent for humans adapting to cold, known as the hunter's response.

Inuit hunters frequently work gloveless in extreme cold.

Several tests have shown that the surface capillaries on their hands periodically open, allowing surges of warm blood to pass into their exposed skin, maintaining temperature and muscle flexibility.

Perhaps Jinsong Hao possesses this ability on a much greater scale.

It doesn't make any sense.

You're crazy.

So just like the evolutionary trait found in the fingers of Inuit fishermen, Jin Song Hao's entire body continues pumping warm blood instead of shutting down like a normal human.

He's been sat in there for over an hour, still doesn't think it's enough of a competition.

The Pagans over there and just the paleo versus the primal.

Do I follow a European style or do I go towards the Maasai or do I go to the Inuit? It's all these different ideas.

But having established that, even more importantly, you have to distinguish between what human beings can actually survive on, what might be therapeutically useful in a particular context, and what constitutes an ideal diet.

Those are not interchangeable

It's something that brings us together, that we eat communally on the floor with our hands right into it and usually fresh food.

My mum's side of the family are from Nunavik, which is part of Inuit Nunangat, which is the Arctic part of Canada.

So I am Inuk.

In Canada, we have three First Nations, three Indigenous communities.

So First Nations, Inuit and Métis, and I'm part of Inuit Nunangat.

And on my father's side, he was Scottish, English, French heritage, that sort of thing.

And then in terms of fun, fun for me is travel, exploring, seeing new things, and something that I always did with my family growing up, so it's a big part of who I am.

Absolutely.

This podcast was recorded in Toronto, Canada.

We acknowledge the land we are meeting on is the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat people, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis.

We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.

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So, Rad, can you quickly talk about that Canadian tradition of documentary and especially that that approach of blending reality and fiction that that maybe this movie may have come out of?

Yeah, I mean, in one sense, you take this all the way back to a movie like Nunuk of the North, which is not a Canadian film, but it was shot up here in Canada, like up in the Inuk territory.

And, you know, in that movie, you got Robert Flaherty coaching performances out of these real subjects, out of these Inuk people.

And coaching them to stage their rituals of daily life.

But these are staging like walrus hunting in a way that they don't do it like that anymore.

What does that leave the water people? Water tribes.

gestures vaguely at like Inuit people I don't know like Mongols maybe I think they're just not from the same region of the world I guess all of their cultural stuff is like Arctic

right yeah no it is it is much more like Inuit sort of Native American

there may be like people in like the region of Russia that's around there that have some of these traits that I am unaware exist but

did you hear about that movie they made

You know, I don't understand how You know, her going against Trump, you know, a remote rural place like Alaska is not the place that Democrats are typically very powerful.

They have an Inuit population where the Democrats would play very well and then a blend of other folks.

But at the end of the day, Alaska is full of people that just want to be left alone.

And that is not a Democrat policy.

They're in our environment.

So like even the Inuit children are experiencing puberty earlier.

It's not just as Kara said, folks living in industrialized countries closer to pollution, although those kids we think have even higher risk of even earlier puberty because they are closer to these chemicals.

But then there's questions.