Podcast Episodes
Back to Search[Classic] Reverse Voxsplaining: Drugs vs. Chairs
Episode 401
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-drugs-vs-chairs/
[Content note: this is pretty much a rehash of things I’ve said before…
5 years, 9 months ago
[Classic] A Modern Myth
Episode 400
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/27/a-modern-myth/
1. Eris
A middle-aged man, James, had come on stage believing it was an audition for American …
5 years, 9 months ago
[Classic] A Theory About Religion
Episode 399
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/08/a-theory-of-religion/
Related to Monday’s post but spun off for length reasons: my crazy theory about where r…
5 years, 9 months ago
Here Are The Nine Ways The Election Could End
Episode 398
Link: https://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/633822178059730944/here-are-the-nine-ways-the-election-could-end
You are Joseph R. Biden Jr. You s…
5 years, 9 months ago
[Classic] The Ideology Is Not The Movement
Episode 397
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Why is there such a strong Sunni/Shia divide?
I know the Comparative Religion 101 answer. The early Muslims were debating who was the rightful cal…
5 years, 9 months ago
[Meetup Audio] Jason Crawford: "The Non-Linear Model of Innovation"
Episode 396
This week the SSC Meetup features guest speaker Jason Crawford, author the blog The Roots of Progress, discussing 'the non-linear model of innovation…
5 years, 10 months ago
[Classic] Weak Men Are Superweapons
Episode 395
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There was an argument on Tumblr which, like so many arguments on Tumblr, was terrible. I will rephrase it just a little to make a point.
Alice sai…
5 years, 10 months ago
[Classic] Skin in the Gane
Episode 394
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One of the most interesting responses I got to my post supporting the junior doctors strike was by Salem, who said that this situation was (ethica…
5 years, 10 months ago
[Meetup Audio] David Friedman: "Legal Systems Very Different from Ours"
Episode 393
David Friedman on Legal Systems Very Different from Ours: A brief survey of a range of legal system, past and present, from Imperial China and Pericl…
5 years, 10 months ago
[Classic] In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous To Fifteen People
Episode 392
[Epistemic status: not very serious]
[Content note: May make you feel overly scrutinized]
Sometimes I hear people talking about how nobody notices th…
5 years, 10 months ago