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Gaze out the window while careening through the universe.
53 Episodes
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The first split second. But first, constants of nature versus prototype objects. But also, scientific notation.
Tay-Sachs, Greek prefixes, Order Anura, Linnaeus versus Hennig.
It occurs to Ben that giving up on public education might not be a great idea.
Ben turns to animism. Neil deGrasse Tyson bursts into the studio Kool-Aid style to hawk his wares.
Ben sits down with the Sun for an exclusive interview.
Ben finds out that someone beat the Irish to America. Recorded in the Honda Fit Studio in May 2020.
The Algic language family. Peter Minuit. Beavers. This episode has it all.
Ben proposes that all things have infinite causes and that one set of causes is “absent-factor” causes. He confides in the listener that he has genes on both strands of his DNA. And, subsequent to purportedly teaching it, he realizes that there’s a difference between inter-atomic and inter-molecular bonds and that liquids are caused by atmospheric pressure.
Ben attends an AA meeting for the cookies, inexplicably struggles to understand why someone can’t see you when you’re hiding behind a door, and argues that it’s misleading to say telescopes allow you to see back in time.
Ben defends the Emancipation Proclamation in his car.
Ben proposes a model of planetary and stellar development he calls the Developmental Trajectory of Gravitationally-Bound Spherical Objects, and then he drinks a seltzer in his car.
Ben talks about why he does the podcast, resenting people, and how to form durable memories. Ramses the Great pops in to discuss Richard Evans’ The Third Reich in Power over Bubly Bounce.
Ben opens his mouth and words come out, for better or worse. Robert Sapolsky remains nameless.
Based on the here’s another song.
Based on the movie that doesn’t exist.
Ben attempts to draw some lessons from the first four years of his teaching career but doesn’t.
Ben discusses the Algonquian and Iroquois people who first settled what would one day become New York State, the coastal geography of New York City, and the arrival of European explorers in North America, including John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazzano, and Henry Hudson. He also discusses what it means to discover.
Ben talks about the twelve fermions and six bosons that apparently constitute everything.
Ben argues that facts are mental models and proposes what he calls the spectrum of variability of independently-arrived-at ideas to help explain why some concepts seem too obvious to merit analysis while others seem infinitely fungible.
Ben explores how our minds trick us into achieving larger, hidden goals by inspiring us to pursue a series of seemingly unrelated proximal, local goals. He also explores the evolutionary significance of ridicule.
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