You are living the latest chapter in a 10,000-year story. Join storyteller Alex Leff on a search for better ways to understand and more clearly experience the incredible, terrifying, and ridiculous world we live in.
Human Nature Odyssey is produced by Alex Leff and hosted by Resilience.
Live Event: The King Is Dead, Now What?: The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy
Join us for a live online conversation inspired by the Human Nature Odyssey podcast tracing the long arc of the global battle between monarchy and revolution, authoritarianism and democracy, hierarchy and equality. Featuring podcast host Alex Leff, historian Dan Hoyer, and Post Carbon Institute’s Asher Miller.
Latest Episode
Human Nature Odyssey: Sex at Dawn, Civilized to Death, and Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Ryan joins the odyssey to discuss human nature. What’s universal, what’s cultural, and what’s personal? Can we really change the culture we live in? And are some societies better suited to human well-being than others?
August 28, 2025
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About the Host
Alex Leff is a documentary filmmaker, immersive theater creator, and podcast host. In addition to having worked for VICE and HBO, his 2022 film, Cycle of Memory, won “Best of the Festival” at the Sunset Los Angeles Film Festival. Alex studied documentary film at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Credits
Human Nature Odyssey is produced, edited, and hosted by Alex Leff, in collaboration with Post Carbon Institute.
Theme music is “Celestial Soda Pop” by Ray Lynch, from the album: Deep Breakfast. Courtesy of Ray Lynch Productions (C)(P) 1984/BMI. All rights reserved.