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Episode 224
When is Next Wednesday? Is it Wednesday? Or the Wednesday after that?
John Siracusa and Jason Snell
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4 years, 4 months ago
Money
Episode 223
What makes something money? Is gold money? Is Bitcoin?
John Siracusa and Jason Snell
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4 years, 4 months ago
Sundays
Episode 222
Do Sundays start the week, or end it? When does the week end, and is that the weekend?
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4 years, 4 months ago
Cooking
Episode 221
What’s cooking? Is making tea cooking? John’s answers may surprise you. They certainly surprised Jason.
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4 years, 5 months ago
Popcorn
Episode 220
The proper way to eat popcorn. ðŸ¿
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Camping
Episode 219
Listeners Jono and Chris, and friend Tony Sindelar, have questions about what John defines as ‘camping.’ Suffering is surprisingly part of the calcul…
4 years, 6 months ago
Photo
Episode 218
Listener Beth seeks enlightenment about what makes something a photo.
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4 years, 6 months ago
Floating Bridge
Episode 217
Listener Isaac wants us to judge if a certain “floating bridge” is actually a ferry. This leads, of course, to a discussion of infinite bridges and w…
4 years, 7 months ago
Grocery Robot Swarm
Episode 216
If robots at a grocery-store warehouse works in tandem, are they robots? If they have a hive mind, are they still robots?
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4 years, 7 months ago
A Criterion of Data
Episode 215
Singular or plural?
John Siracusa and Jason Snell
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4 years, 8 months ago