David talks about birds (surprise), we talk a little bit about RSA cryptography, and Grace struggles to remember her undergraduate language acquisition class.

White-bellied erpornis

Pitta

Sapayoa

Parrotbill

Recent African origin of modern humans

Coalescent theory

RSA (cryptosystem)

RSA-129 - Numberphile

Chinese room

Voice onset time

Praat: doing Phonetics by Computer

Formant

This episode is about bugs, bugs as food, and then global cuisines and what happens to foods that are transposed outside of their original habitat.

Recorded on 24 May 2020, before Bon Appetit imploded.

Hemiptera

On Data Formats and Speciation

Speech Jammer

Chagas disease

Wheel bug

Periodical cicadas

Independent divergence of 13- and 17-y life cycles among three periodical cicada lineages

Cave Dwellers, 1938

Moths come out to enjoy the weather

Fried spider

Competition with insectivorous ants as a contributor to low songbird diversity at low elevations in the eastern Himalaya

Boiled eggs > Soft-boiled eggs

The Bon Appetit test kitchen's race problem

Alison Roman, Bon Appétit, and the 'Global Pantry' Problem

7 (New York City Subway service)

Pandanus amaryllifolius

Tangyuan (food)

Peanut sauce

Grace is still obsessed with CS50x. We talk about development frameworks, rooting out bugs that are not your fault, and demonstrated skill as a professional calling card.

C$50 Finance

Commonplace book

Longform

jQuery

Bootstrap (front-end framework)

PHP

Dependency hell

The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet

Infosec Without a Degree - MalwareTech

Browser wars

Food, Nutrition and Health

Grace has a new obsession: Harvard's CS50x Introduction to Computer Science, so we talk about online education, and how to teach and learn online.

CS50x

Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share

The Perils of JavaSchools

Segmentation fault

Accidental Tech Podcast: 375: Wobbly Goblin

C - Pointers

Principal component analysis

Online Course: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari - YouTube

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Food, Nutrition and Health

Debugging

Hemiptera

Rubber duck debugging

CS50 2019 - Lecture 4 - Memory

CS50 Sandbox: Secure Execution of Untrusted Code

CS50 Shop

Regular expression

David and Grace talk about abstraction in statistics, computing, mathematics and a few other things besides.

Birth-death process

Akaike information criterion

Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Subtraction.com

The Law of Leaky Abstractions

Logic gate

The 10,000 Domino Computer

CS50's Introduction to Computer Science

Floating-point arithmetic

Single Variable Calculus

Zone of proximal development

principle of specificity

Progressive overload

Species distribution modelling

Population genetics

Coalescent theory

David and Grace talk about the relationship between human beings and the rest of the animal kingdom.

What is a wet market?

Pro Chef Tries Butchering a Whole Pig for the First Time | Bon Appétit

Snake wine

Bought for a Song: An Indonesian Craze Puts Wild Birds at Risk

Bill to amend Wild Animals and Birds Act introduced in Parliament

Exclusively Mongrels

SOSD Dog Shelter Volunteer & Donation Singapore | Dog Shelter

NYU Animal Studies

Monkey mind

We talk about remote audiovisual production, wrangling data, and genealogy in evolutionary biology.

Audio Hijack - Record any audio on Mac

Bon Appétit

Pro Chefs Make 13 Kinds of Pantry Pasta | Test Kitchen Talks @ Home | Bon Appétit

Have I Got News for You

The Mash Report

Someone Practicing

Final Cut Pro X

Material Exchange Format

FASTA format

FASTQ format

Help desk software

Airtable: Organize anything you can imagine

Cryptic and extensive hybridization between ancient lineages of American crows

Allopatric speciation

Proto-language

David is serving his Stay-Home Notice at a hotel with bad wi-fi. We talk a little bit about the state of Covid-19 in Singapore on 28 March (ahh, such innocent times), how science gets done, and what happens when science is done badly.

Recorded on 28 March 2020.

Everything you need to know about Stay-Home Notice

COVID-19: Stay-home notices for all travellers entering Singapore from ASEAN countries, Japan, UK, Switzerland

Wonder how dangerous a gathering can be? Here's how one event sparked hundreds of coronavirus cases across Asia

Tracking the Coronavirus: How Crowded Asian Cities Tackled an Epidemic

ICA | Singapore Permanent Resident Failed To Declare Recent Travel History To Indonesia

Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 study did not meet publishing society's "expected standard"

Bad Pharma

Bad Science (Goldacre book)

Compensatory Vowel Lengthening for Omitted Coda Consonants: A Phonetic Investigation of Children's Early Representations of Prosodic Words - Jae Yung Song, Katherine Demuth, 2008

'Avalanche' of spider-paper retractions shakes behavioural-ecology community

#pruittgate

A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning Us

MOH | Clinical Evidence Summaries