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#37 - Montessori Education w/ Matt Bateman
We're joined today by Matt Bateman, one of the founders of Higher Ground Education, to discuss the Montessori method of education and how it compares…
4 years, 6 months ago
#36 - Analyzing Effective Altruism as a Social Movement
In what is hopefully the last installment of Vaden and Ben debate Effective Altruism, we ask if EA lies on the cultishness (yes, that's a word) spect…
4 years, 7 months ago
#35 - Climate Change III: Fossil Fuels
Come experience the thrill of the shill as we discuss the somewhat-controversial natural resource called "fossil fuels". In this episode, we drill d…
4 years, 9 months ago
#34 - Climate Change II: Growth, Degrowth, Reactions, Responses
In this episode Ben convinces Vaden to become a degrowther. We plan how to live out the rest of our lives on an organic tomato farm in Canada in Dece…
4 years, 10 months ago
#33 (C&R Series, Ch. 3) - Instrumentalism and Essentialism
Galileo vs the church - whose side are you on? Today we discuss Chapter 3 of Conjectures and Refutations, Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge. Thi…
4 years, 10 months ago
#32 - Climate Change I: Initial Thought-Crimes
After the immensely positive response to our previous episode on the Weinstein brothers - thanks @robertwiblin! - we thought we would keep giving th…
4 years, 11 months ago
#31 - The Fall of the Weinstein Republic
Today we take your twitter questions before doing a deep dive into the Weinstein fiasco (Bret and Eric, not Harvey.) If you haven't heard of the Wein…
5 years ago
#30 - Let's all just have a good cry (w/ Christofer Lövgren)
Christofer Lövgren, host of the marvelous Do Explain podcast and world's most famous Swede (second perhaps only to that Alfred fellow with the peace …
5 years ago
#29 - Some Scattered Thoughts on Superforecasting
We're back! Apologies for the delay, but Vaden got married and Ben was summoned to be an astronaut on the next billionaire's vacation to Venus. This …
5 years ago
#28 (C&R Series, Ch. 9) - Why is Logic Applicable to Reality?
Why do logic and mathematics work so well in the world? Why do they seem to describe reality? Why do they they enable us to design circuit boards, bu…
5 years, 1 month ago