We live in an unjust society, let’s talk about how to fight it.

Mentioned in the show:

<ul>
 <li><a href="https://theestablishment.co/so-you-want-to-fight-white-supremacy-2b5735f22f9">So You Want To Fight White Supremacy</a> by Ijeoma Oluo</li>
 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law">Mike Godwin, author of Godwin’s law</a> tweeted <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/godwins-law-author-endorses-comparing-neo-nazis-to-nazis/">“By all means, compare these shitheads to the Nazis. Again and again. I’m with you.”</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://untappedcities.com/2015/04/02/this-former-nazi-town-on-long-island-with-adolf-hitler-street-still-exists/">Goebbels St. in German Gardens, Long Island, was renamed to Northside Ave.</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber">Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber</a> Wikipedia page.</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvMxLpce3Xw">Spock defined supererogation</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://twitter.com/LeftistFoxbutt/status/898687207937986560">A one-panel comic about the inverse of supererogation</a></li>
</ul>

We live in an unjust society, let’s talk about how to fight it.

Notion.farm: Episode Seven: White Supremacy

Episode Seven: White Supremacy

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Let’s go live on asteroids!

Mentioned in the show:

<ul>
 <li><a href="http://www.deepspaceecology.com/">Deep Space Ecology might be the kind of company that sets up terreria for colonists</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_of_Suns">Sun of Suns is the first book in the Virga series</a>, a set of stories that feature a society where gravity is expensive.</li>
 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt">Wiki article on the asteroid belt</a>, with details on the different types of asteroids.</li>
 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses#Lasting_impact">Robert Moses built bridges too low for busses to clear.</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam">The dam that was built near by Las Vegas was the Hoover Dam.</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://expanse.wikia.com/wiki/Mao-Kwikowski_Mercantile">Mao-Kwikowski is a reference to The Expanse series of books and TV show</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law">The inverse-square law states that the farther you go from the sun, the power you can draw from it decreases as the square of the distance.</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality/">A short article on how quantity trumps quality</a>, contains the little ceramics class example.</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.orbitbooks.net/2312/">Building a KSR-style Terrarium</a> Interactive made for the 2312 book.</li>
</ul>

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Let’s go live on asteroids!

Notion.farm: Episode Six: Terraria

Episode Six: Terraria

(&gt;|&lt;) and (&lt;|&gt;) are universally accepted and totally horrible.

Mentioned in the show:

<ul>
 <li><a href="https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/">Imaginary Worlds Podcast</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://imgur.com/a/a7X78">Photos of Ben’s coffee table</a>, with the sanding dust photo included</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVT1c0tr8NE">The Physics Girl’s presentation of the boat-rock problem</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://xkcd.com/1867/">XKCD 1867</a>, an oddly on-topic comic that came out two days after we recorded this.</li>
 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)">Priming is the effect that can keep you from seeing ambiguous situations as anything but your original impression.</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/-/JgEdIdn4pME3Mw?hl=en">The Underwave off Kanagawa</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3Fc_yG3p0">Paternoster elevators on Wikipedia</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/6nifbp/i_am_frank_drake_creator_of_the_drake_equation/">Frank Drake’s AMA</a></li>
</ul>

(&gt;|&lt;) and (&lt;|&gt;) are universally accepted and totally horrible.

Notion.farm: Episode Five: Elevator Door Buttons

Episode Five: Elevator Door Buttons

A follow up that doesn’t quite merit it’s own episode number.

Notion.farm: Interstitial Four: Touchbar Followup

Interstitial Four: Touchbar Followup

Which is more important, innate intelligence or acquired experience?

Mentioned in the show:

<ul>
 <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect">The Dunning-Kruger Effect</a></li>
</ul>

Which is more important, innate intelligence or acquired experience?

Notion.farm: Episode Four: Intelligence v. Knowledge

Episode Four: Intelligence v. Knowledge

Ben Etherington and Chris Radcliff have a lot of interests, and with a lot of interests come a lot of complaints. They started Notion.farm to convince each other the world isn't quite so bad.

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