BP Mindcast

In this episode, we are going to talk about the terms STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) used in education, and why I think the attempt to transition from STEM to STEAM is problematic.

In this episode, we are discussing why mathematics education is important. There have been recent attempts, such as Andrew Hacker's The

Here we discuss the very real problem of the corruption of experts. We often assume that experts are honest in the opinions they give, but that is sadly not true. Even entire disciplines have been corrupted by experts giving false (not just wrong) opinion.

In this episode we are going to discuss how expert knowledge, even when correct, has extremely limited direct applications.

In this episode we talk about whether much of so-called "expertise" is actually expert opinion or just recycled secondhand knowledge. That doesn't make it bad, but it does make it a lot closer to the equivalent to looking it up on the Internet.

This is the first episode in a series we are doing on experts, arguing against the book "The Death of Expertise" by Tom Nichols. In this first episode I make an important distinction between "experts" (the individuals) and "expertise" (the in-depth knowledge of a subject).

In this episode we cover liberty. Why do we have liberty? What are we supposed to do with it? Why is it good? We look at how each part of the political spectrum (libertarian, conservative, and liberal) looks at liberty, and why I think that conservatism is the best option.

In this episode we explore the differences in the default expectations of the different political viewpoints. How do we expect society to turn out if we don't do anything? What is humanity's default starting point? What sort of things should we find surprising and what sort of things should we expect?

This episode begins our discussion of politics. We look at the political spectrum in terms of how each view looks at the question of responsibility, where it comes from, how we respond to it, and what the government's role is.

In this episode we will dive into why Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), which are popular in many conservative investing circles, may be personally good for individuals but bad for the market as a whole.