Who knew there was so much to know about badgers and that so much of if was so awesome?

Join Harry and Rafe for a lively and humorous discussion of all the things that one can find out about badgers:
* They are fast.
* You can eat them but you need to be careful.
* They might eat you but they won't be careful.
* People used to think that they had really strange ways of mining.
* They are all over literature, especially books and stories for children.
* And much, much more!

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Picking up where we left off from the last episode, Harry joins Rafe to discuss further the Mathematics Genealogy Project and how one can show, for example, that Rafe is related to Nicolas Copernicus.  Along the way, Euler and the number e are discussed further, we pick up tips on tessellations, and we wonder how things would have been different had Liebniz's father had not married his third wife or if Steinhaus had not successfully hid from the Nazis in Poland during WWII.

Learning your history is a most humbling experience but it provides you with an opportunity to contemplate what might have been, to make the most of how things actually are, to show eternal gratitude for those who blazed trails before us, and  to show similar Grace to those who follow us.

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As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast. As such, some of you have asked how you can help out. Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:

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Starting in the late 1600s and  ending  (at least for now!) in 1868, Rafe traces two branches of a mathematical genealogy.  This list of some of the great minds of the history of mathematics includes two Bernoullis, Euler, Poisson, Gauss, and many others, people who developed tools that today we take for granted.

All this work, of course, was done before computers or calculators, using arcane notation, quill pens, and a desire to pull back the curtain and look inside the magic world of math.

Part 2 will take up where we left off with one Felix Klein, who did some really wacky stuff...

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As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast. As such, some of you have asked how you can help out. Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:

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Harry and Rafe discuss Rafe's lifelong love of working with wood and what makes wood a great medium for construction and why it generally produces sawdust and mistakes.

They discuss some biology, chemistry, engineering, and other things that one must learn to successfully tackle working with wood. 

In the end, then conclude that one should either buy or build heirloom furniture and that one of the best things that one learns working with wood is the virtue of humility.

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As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast. As such, some of you have asked how you can help out. Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:

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Harry and Rafe discuss standards: systems and methods that allows boundaries that result in flourishing, flexibility, and diversity.

After a long discussion on everything from iron gas pipes to computer software to measurement systems to Lego, we learn that the right restrictions can actually improve flexibility and allow everyone to flourish and that Virtue provides a standard that allows all of us to become Saints.

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As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast. As such, some of you have asked how you can help out. Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:

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Rafe goes solo and tells a 40-year tale of computers, serendipity, generosity, and gratitude that starts with a Christmas present in 1980 and continues to today with a very welcome unofficial retirement.

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As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast. As such, some of you have asked how you can help out. Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:

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Brock "Cinder" Friedman, America's Favorite Naval Aviator, joins the Buf again to catch us up on his life and to discuss the nuances of celestial navigation.  We'll learn how to take delivery of a new helicopter, how to use a sextant, and why you need need to keep your chronometer in good working order!

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As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast. As such, some of you have asked how you can help out. Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:

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Harry and Rafe entertain 7 (or 8, depending on how you count) fan questions and get to the bottom of important issues like breakfast foods, quarterbacks, vacation cruises, biographies of great people, and a lot more!

"Everyone has failures; who cares about those?  Tell me about greatness!"

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As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast. As such, some of you have asked how you can help out. Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:

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On this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that. Any little bit really helps! Thank you in advance!!!

Rafe does a solo show and discusses the plethora of home automation technology available today.  When is it Good?  When is it Bad?  Is it just a gimmick or does it solve a real problem?

Like all technology, it is only a tool and is neither Good nor Evil.  If it helps you seek the Good, then keep it; if it causes you to falter, jettison it!

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As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]

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As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast. As such, some of you have asked how you can help out. Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:

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On this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that. Any little bit really helps! Thank you in advance!!!

Harry and Rafe conclude Bufnagle: the Podcast, Book Club Edition and the discussion of Alfred Lansing's book Endurance, the tale of Earnest Shackleton's ill-fated adventure to the South Pole during 1914, 1915, and 1916.

After two weeks fighting the Drake Passage, the James Caird and its six voyagers are out of potable water, South Georgia Island is within striking distance, but reefs and storms block the path.  Two more days of master seamanship and just enough good fortune brings the Caird to a beachhead necessitating a crossing of the South Georgia Island, a mountainous hellhole that also possesses the Stromness Bay whaling station, a pinprick of civilization that just might finally be the end of this Successful Failure.

This episode is kindly sponsored by Nom Nom.  Try Nom Nom today, go to https://zen.ai/bufnaglethepod2 and use the offer code "bufnagle" and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping. 

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As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast. As such, some of you have asked how you can help out. Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:

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