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Breadcrumbs
By Elias Lanz & Sean LunsfordSociety & Culture
Breadcrumbs episodes
- 178: Illegitimate Cucumber
Elias and Sean wonder how many grains of sand make a heap.
Links and Show Notes
- Gravity Leadership Podcast
- Corona-Maßnahmen: "Viele Menschen sind wieder sorgloser" | tagesschau.de
- Continuum fallacy - Wikipedia
- List of VeggieTales characters - Wikipedia
- What If?
- Fuzzy logic - Wikipedia
- Defuzzification - Wikipedia
- Neural networks - YouTube
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr 4 min - 177: Legitimacy by Proxy
Elias and Sean try to figure out what makes something legitimate.
Links and Show Notes
- RecordSetter is this generation's Guinness World Records
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr - 176: Glasses Manufacturing Plant
Elias and Sean talk about what makes a worldview and how one’s worldview influences one’s understanding of the truth.
Links and Show Notes
- Worldview - Wikipedia
- UK phone masts attacked amid 5G-coronavirus conspiracy theory | UK news | The Guardian
- Amazon.com: Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World eBook: Harrison, Scott, Sweetingham, Lisa: Kindle Store
- This Week in Virology | A podcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick
- H.I. #87: Podcast of the Century -- Hello Internet (34:15 -- Overcast | Castro)
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
59 min - 175: Uzbek Homeopath
Elias and Sean tackle conspiracy theories, why they persist, and what makes them so enticing to both adherents and skeptics.
Links and Show Notes
- List of conspiracy theories - Wikipedia
- Conspiracy theory - Wikipedia
- Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213 - YouTube
- Ungeniused #64: Chemtrails - Relay FM (Overcast | Castro)
- The Spectacular Finale of Mad Mike | HuffPost
- Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr 4 min - 174: Urgency Virus
Elias and Sean share personal updates from the fallout of the pandemic and then reflect further on the Medium post from last week’s episode.
Links and Show Notes
- Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo - Medium
- Federico Viticci on Twitter: "It's going to be a tough few weeks for everyone as more countries impose lockdowns to fight #COVID19. In Italy, we'll have it until April 3 at the earliest. Here are some tips @_silviagatta and I learned over the past ~10 days of lockdown here in Rome. A thread. 🧵" / Twitter
- Benedict's Newsletter -- Benedict Evans
- Why Your Newsfeed Sucks - Smarter Every Day 212 - YouTube
- Das Coronavirus-Update mit Christian Drosten | NDR.de - Nachrichten - NDR Info
- Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) -- Statistics and Research - Our World in Data
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr 6 min - 173: Picnic on the Train Tracks
Elias and Sean talk about the coronavirus and trying to convince people of the truth.
Links and Show Notes
To inform yourself and understand the risk to the public we recommend to rely on your government body responsible for health and the World Health Organization.
- Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo - Medium
- Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) -- Statistics and Research - Our World in Data
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Rosling, Hans, Rönnlund, Anna Rosling, Rosling, Ola - Amazon.com
- "5-Bullet Friday" email newsletter by Tim Ferriss
- Tim Ferriss: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | TED Talk
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr 2 min - 172: Deception Detection
Elias and Sean discuss falsehood and truth’s relationship to reality.
Links and Show Notes
- Truth - Wikipedia
- Deception - Wikipedia
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
42 min - 171: Meaning Transporters
Elias and Sean consider the relationship between meaning and truth.
Links and Show Notes
- Consensus theory of truth - Wikipedia
- xkcd: Scary Names
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
59 min - 170: Instruments to Measure God
Elias and Sean discuss the relation between our individual consciousness and the truth.
Links and Show Notes
- Socrates quote
- Epistemic Paradoxes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Dunning--Kruger effect - Wikipedia
- logic - Is finding truth possible? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
- Truth - Wikipedia
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
1 hr - 169: 7 Billion Words for “Circle”
Elias and Sean search for truth.
Links and Show Notes
- True/False Paradox
- Truth - Wikipedia
- Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia
- Linguistic description - Wikipedia
- The Trouble with Transporters - YouTube
@breadcrumbsfm | @splunsford | @muffinworks
Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
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About Breadcrumbs
From the publisher's feed
Elias and Sean grew up together overseas before studying engineering in Germany and the US respectively. Breadcrumbs is their weekly chat about things past, present, and future.