Bio Eats World: Evolution—Animals, Aliens, and Ourselves
- A nice complement to the interview above.
- “The universal property of biology is the accumulation of complexity.”
Unexplainable: Is a ton of psychology just...wrong?
- The answer is not all, but close to half can't be replicated, which is....not great.
- Great overview of why the science community is pushing for more rigorous psychological research.
Resistance: I Want To Report A Theft
- Museums across the world are full of stolen artifacts. This is the story of a man named Mwazulu Diyabanza who has taken things into his own hands, literally.
Radiolab: What Up Holmes?
- Next time someone acts like we need to protect the ideas of the founding fathers at all costs, send them this episode. Most of what we see as American ideals were developed many years after all the founders were dead, modern free speech included.
Revisionist History: Druid Hills
- Below is a long but excellent quote from Malcolm Gladwell on the nature of science taken from this episode.
- “The lone success story in the pandemic thus far has been medical science. We have vaccines available just over a year after the pandemic started. That’s bananas. But we shouldn’t draw the lesson from this that science is fast. Science only looks fast. It’s actually really slow. The quote, unquote sudden development usually had 20 years of work behind it. And you can’t order up progress, because sometimes progress happens only at the end of a wandering serendipitous journey that may have looked like folly before it became a success. And what all this means is that progress doesn’t come from ideas, it comes from places where smart people have the time and freedom to wander around and make mistakes and pursue interesting ideas that one day may end up saving your life.”
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OTHER LINKS
Toonstack: Listen Up! Toonstack is a new newsletter put out by a collection of cartoonists that I've been enjoying quite a bit. This newest edition includes plenty of podcast recommendations as well as a few podcast related cartoons.
Do you remember that great collection of culturally relevant valentines The New Yorker put out a few years ago? One of which said "will you be my podcast guest?" I was lucky enough to interview the creator, Sophie Lucido Johnson about her visual creativity over at my other project.
Vanishing head illusion. This video is only a minute long and totally worked. Pretty cool.
What if you ran a 5k with the analogy in mind of 5k distance = timeline of life on Earth? A thread breaking it down.
The Secret of Synchronization. A super interesting video from the always interesting Veritasium YouTube channel.
Quick plug for my favorite non-profit
On Point for College celebration event. On Point for College is a local non-profit that I love to support. I can vouch for how well spent your money will be if you decide to donate. Their mission is to break down barriers that prevent young, underserved individuals from achieving education and career success. If you are looking for an organization to support, you'd be hard pressed to find a more impactful one that serves a community. In lieu of their annual gala, they have produced a video series showcasing the stories of a few students (the video also works great as just audio as it will be airing on a few local radio stations). Register to be notified when the video launches later this week if you would to learn more and have a new awesome non-profit to check out.
For fun: the iceberg finally has its say.
That's all for today. See you in two weeks!
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Erik
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