A Thousand Things to Talk About

By Andrea Parrish

Questions to spark conversations. 2-3 minutes every weekday and the occasional weekend deep dive.... more

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The podcast currently has 749 episodes available.

A Thousand Things to Talk About episodes:

July 07, 2016 134: Being judged
Would you prefer trial by judge or trial by jury?
Show notes and links:
Why Trial by Jury is Usually a Better Choice than a Bench Trial (HG.org)
Judge v. Jury (ABA Journal)
The Evolution of the American Jury (excerpt from Judging the Jury)
The End of Jury Trials – Has it Actually Refined the Indian Legal System? (Legal Draft)
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July 06, 2016 133: Selling Out
Does everyone have a price?
Show notes and links:
Will babies ‘deal with the devil’? Only when price is right (Yale News)
Yale Study: Everyone Has Their Price, Even Babies (WSHU)
Every Man Has His Price (TVTropes)
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July 05, 2016 132: How you trust
What does it take for you to trust someone?
Show notes and links:
Go On, Trust Me: Why We Trust Some People But Not Others (BBB Blog via the Wayback Machine)
Why we trust people we don’t know (NBC News)
We Trust Strangers, Even When It Doesn’t Make Sense to Do So (Time.com)
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July 04, 2016 131: Who you trust
Why do you listen to the friends / celebrities / gurus / family that you do?
Show notes and links:
Why We Love Gurus (Newsweek)
Updated FCC Guidance Puts Social Media Marketers on Notice (Cyber Alert)
Scott Disick Accidentally Pastes Caption Instructions Into His Sponsored Instagram Post (X17)
Love It Or Hate It: Influencer Marketing Works (Forbes)
Men Spend More Than Women on Purchases From Social Media Recommendations, Ads [STUDY] (AdWe
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July 01, 2016 130: Bad intent
Should malicious hacking of public agencies / services be punished more severely than malicious corporate hacking?
Show notes and links:
Hacked vs. Hackers: Game On (New York Times)
DDoS Attack Volume Exploded in 2014 (PC Magazine)
The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs (Wired.com)
How computer hacking laws make you a criminal (NBC News)
Russia – a happy haven for hackers (ComputerWeekly.com)
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June 30, 2016 129: Relating
What is the most useful piece of advice about relationships you have ever gotten or seen?
Show notes and links:
Thank you to all the conversationalists who shared their initial answers on this topic when requested!
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June 29, 2016 128: What should be taught
Do you think education is best approached as a Liberal Arts curriculum or topically focused?
Show notes and links:
Providing a space to tinker and build, Barbara and Marty Mueller are here for good. (YouTube)
Getting Past the Lazy Debate (Inside Higher Ed)
Why Scientists Should Embrace the Liberal Arts (Scientific American)
Liberal Arts vs. STEM: The Right Degrees, The Wrong Debate (Forbes Education)
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June 29, 2016 127: The power of forgetting
Does forgiveness mean forgetting?
Show notes and links:
How Forgetting Helps Us Remember (BrainFacts.org)
Blessed and Cursed by an Extraordinary Memory (NPR)
Meet the Man Who Can Remember Everything (WNYC)
Forgetting Is Part Of Remembering (Association for Psychological Science)
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June 27, 2016 126: Ethical decisions
Do you differentiate between ethics and morals? If so, how?
Show notes and links:
Pharmcist Conscince Clauses: Laws and Information (National Conference of State Legislatures)
The Definition of Morality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Ethics vs Morals (Reddit /r/ELI5)
Ethics vs. Morality (The Ethics Guy)
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June 24, 2016 125: Operational security
What are your thoughts on the TSA?
Show notes and links:
Behind Long Airport Lines, a Chain of T.S.A. Cuts, Missteps and Crises (The New York Times)
2015 Year in Review (TSA Blog)
Why are we spending $7 billion on TSA? (CNN)
25,000 Airport Security Breaches Since 2001: Congress (ABC News Video)
Does the TSA Ever Catch Terrorists? (Slate)
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FAQs about A Thousand Things to Talk About:

How many episodes does A Thousand Things to Talk About have?

The podcast currently has 749 episodes available.