Critical Cactus Podcast

 Do we need feelings in society, or should we just go with Evidence?

Are we as a society manipulated by our feelings at every level, or does it just feel that way.

How did people vote -Trump supporter thinking or feeling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elec
tions_by_popular_vote_margin
Prime Day http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.prime.num.html
New York Times breaks the email story for Trump Jr. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html?mcubz=2
Gwyneth Paltrow Goop Stickers https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/06/26/gwyneths-school-of-witchcraft-and-wizardy-now-selling-stickers/#4657138745b6
Water based fuel https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-cars-use-water-for-fuel/
King James Bible -Christians thinking or feeling https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/
How to get people to make decisions based on thinking instead feelings
Confirmation Bias http://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/soc_psych/lord_death_pen.html
Dunn and Kruger https://psmag.com/social-justice/confident-idiots-92793f

Michael Shermer https://www.amazon.com/Believing-Brain-Conspiracies-How-Construct-Reinforce/dp/1250008808
Happiness Hypothesis https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Hypothesis-Finding-Modern-Ancient/dp/0465028020

Thanks NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/postsecondary/features/F_At_the_Hostipal_with_NASA.html

Turns out it is highly likley Depression is closer to you than you realize.  It was for us Critical Cacti, so join us for a critical/logical look at the subject.  

The team tries to look at depression from a critical thinking perspective, the guys crack open and pour out their hearts in a fantastic display of compassion.

What science knows about depression?  Who cares, it's real and we gotta talk about it.

Tom's struggles with it since he was 8, and Dman was around 10.  Serious look at the subject without holding back. 

Please get help, you probably need to talk to someone, it's important: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Thanks for listening.

Reviewing the arguments that homosexuality is bad from a logical perspective, can it be done?

What science says about homosexuality.

With a special guest, Gary provides us with an LGBTQ perspective, and has a lifetime of stories to tell as a gay man in the US.

Gay swan

https://www.livescience.com/1125-homosexual-animals-closet.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5LVunYzM5M

How does homosexuality contribute to the human gene pool?  And how is it considered a vitial contributor to our species?  Listen to find out more.

How do you feel about rich people, some say they lie cheat and steal.   This study proves it, right?

We dive into the newly published pnas study: "Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior".

What we like, our biases, what we don't like, and why taking candy from a baby is totally ethical.

Continuing with the theme of "What makes up our world view" we turn the lens to infrastructure, and specifically cyber security infrastructure.

We want to understand what people think, we want to so badly. Let's talk about that, as well as:

• Should you need an Internet License

An interview with Louis Grenzebach Great discussion, hope you get a chance to give us a listen.

Thanks.

Continuing with the theme of "What makes up our world view" we turn the lens to infrastructure, and specifically cyber security infrastructure.

We want to understand what people think, we want to so badly. Let's talk about that, as well as:

• Should you need an Internet License

An interview with Louis Grenzebach Great discussion, hope you get a chance to give us a listen.

Thanks.

We want to understand, we want to so badly.  Everyone wants to understand the other persons viewpoint, but no one listens.

Why, what do we have to do to hear each other?  Let's talk about that, as well as science news such as:

• Mining in the Grand Canyon

An interview with Tom Stahler, an inside look at Paloverde Nuclear Power Plant and our options for clean energy moving forward.

Great discussion, hope you get a chance to give us a listen.

Thanks.