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So as a result, the angular acceleration, denoted by the Greek letter alpha here, goes as 1 over R. It's inversely proportional to R. The smaller you make it, the more quickly you can turn.
For instance, the resting brain tends to generate a lot of alpha waves.
Now, we can measure this, and we can look at the relative power between the theta waves and the alpha waves.
But let's be real, I wear pearl earrings and my fashion aesthetic is rich-white-woman-running-errands, so I'm not angling to be an alpha.
Well, I have known many alpha males in my life, chimpanzee alpha males, and I'm going to talk about what an alpha male is, because I think we can all learn a lot from our close relatives where we have alpha males.
And I thought, this is the way to go for an alpha male.
So Amos was an example of a male who was liked as a leader, and I think the term alpha male, if you look it up on the internet, you will find all these business books that tell you how to be an alpha male, and what they mean is how to beat up others and beat them over the head and let them know that you are boss and don't mess with me and so on.
And basically an alpha male for them is a bully.
It's used in a very superficial way that doesn't relate to what a real alpha male is.
The highest ranking male is the alpha male.
The highest ranking female is the alpha female.
Every primate group has one alpha male, one alpha female, not more than that, there's only one.
What you see here is two male chimpanzees who are the same size, but one is walking upright, has his hair up, has a big rock in his hand, and he's the alpha male.
What you will see here is a female pant-grunting to an alpha male and you will see how that goes.
And they become extremely influential, and you may actually have old males who are more influential than the alpha male himself.
Just as an example, the three males that I used to work with most at the Dutch zoo long ago, where I worked, and the middle male here is a 17-year-old alpha male.
So you can imagine that that old male has an enormous amount of power, because he has made the alpha male alpha male.
It means, for example, that the smallest male in a group can be the alpha male.
The smallest male, if he has the right friends and keeps them happy, or he has female support, he can be the alpha male.
Now, how do you become an alpha male?
Now, what are the privileges and the costs of being an alpha male?
If you become alpha male this way, you need to keep your partners happy.
And what you see here is a graph where you see that the lower ranking the male baboon is, the higher is his cortisol level in the feces, but the alpha male, as you see, has just as high a level as the lowest-ranking males, and so you may think that being alpha male is nice and dandy and is wonderful, but it's actually a very stressful position, and we can demonstrate that physiologically.
And here, for me, it gets really interesting, and it deviates very much from your typical image of the alpha male.
The alpha male has two sorts of obligations.
And it's very interesting to me that alpha males, when they do this, they become impartial.
And so they become impartial, which is an unusual condition for a chimpanzee to be in, because they're usually very fond of their friends and so on, and these alpha males who are good at this, they can be very effective at keeping the peace in the group.
The more popular a male becomes as alpha male and the more the rest of them respects them and looks up to them, the better their position is defended in case it's going to be challenged by somebody else, because then, of course, the whole group is going to support that male because they want to keep a leader who is good for them.
But look at the alpha male.
The alpha male does far more than anybody else.
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