No Dumb Questions

No Dumb Questions

By Destin Sandlin and Matt WhitmanSociety & CultureEducation
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  • 076 - Lord Of The Rings Style Beacon Systems

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    STUFF FROM THIS EPISODE

    The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

    Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Zhou Dynasty

    King You of Zhou

    Byzantine Beacon System

    House of Plantagenet

    Edward III of England

    The Spanish Armada and Queen Elizabeth's Beacon System

    The Drug Stopper

    Morse Code

    1942 Video Game

    1942 (NES) Music - Stage Theme

    Ultra

    Can You Send Sound On a Light Beam? (Mr. Wizard)

    Amplitude Modulation

    Photophone

    Hydraulic Telegraph

    Definition of Semaphore

    Optical Telegraph

    How the Astros cheating scandal played out

    Stealing Baseball Signs with a Phone (Machine Learning)

    Cryptocurrency

    Paul Van Riper

    Kobayashi Maru

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    1 hr 36 min
  • 075 - Why Do People Make Huge Statues?

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    STUFF FROM THIS EPISODE

    Vulcan Park, Birmingham, AL

    Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Statue of Liberty, New York, NY

    African Renaissance Monument, Dakar, Senegal

    Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

    Crazy Horse Monument, South Dakota

    Stone Mountain, Georgia

    Yogi Bear

    Gutzon Borglum

    NPS Junior Ranger

    John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway

    North by Northwest

    Yellowstone National Park

    Crazy Horse

    Sitting Bull

    Battle of the Little Big Horn

    Sand Creek Massacre

    Fort Robinson State Park

    Archimedes

    Wind River Indian Reservation

    The Punisher

    Korczak Ziolkowski

    Ellis Island

    Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi

    Richard Morris Hunt

    3D Printing Nerd

    Restoration of The Statue of Liberty

    Edward Wightman

    Colossus of Rhodes

    Titan of Braavos

    Eagle Bronze Foundry

    Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue

    The Mausoleum of Hadrian

    Mausoleum of Augustus

    James Webb Space Telescope

    Sculpture, Fallen Astronaut

    Reformation Wall

    China's AI News Anchors

    Cincinnatus

    Galvanic Action

    Tsunami Stones

    Stonehenge

    Georgia Guidestones

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    1 hr 40 min
  • 073 - Bad News For Good News?

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    STUFF FROM THIS EPISODE

    Mark Coddington

    Mark at Washington and Lee

    Mark on Twitter

    Mark's Book: Aggregating the News: Secondhand Knowledge and the Erosion of Journalistic Authority by Mark Coddington

    Nieman Lab

    Cobra Kai Sweep The Leg T-shirt

    The Elements of Journalism

    Infamous Scribblers by Eric Burns

    Hippocratic Oath

    Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics

    The Denver Post

    Rocky Mountain News

    Coloradoan

    Kimberly Essex

    Dan Rather

    Tom Brokaw

    Peter Jennings

    The Free State Project

    Joe Sheehan

    The New York Times

    The Athletic

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    1 hr 44 min
  • 072 - How Did Humans Find Hawaii?

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    STUFF FROM THIS EPISODE

    Wayfinding

    Polynesian Voyage Society

    Thor Heyerdahl

    David Livingstone

    Kon-Tiki Expedition

    Marshall Islands Stick Chart

    Marshall Islands Stick Chart on YouTube

    Nainoa Thompson

    Mau Piailug

    Ben Finney

    Tupaia

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    1 hr 7 min
  • 071 - What Is It Like to be an Immigrant?

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    STUFF FROM THIS EPISODE

    Pushbullet

    Samsung Galaxy S9

    Samsung Galaxy Note 8

    TDRS Satellite

    Don Pettit

    ISS Expedition 6

    Barn Door Tracker

    Zero G Cup

    TEDx Naperville 2019

    Pterosaur

    Quetzalcoatlus

    Atmosphere (unit of measurement)

    Pressure

    Geo Metro

    Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood

    Techtronic - Pump Up the Jam

    Didgeridoo

    Oriental Brothers

    True Grit by Charles Portis

    Clinton Portis

    The Count of Monte Cristo with Jim Caviezel

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    1 hr 24 min
  • 070 - Who Was the Marquis de Lafayette?

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    STUFF FROM THIS EPISODE

    Hamilton The Musical

    Marquis de Lafayette

    Destin's tweet asking about a biography on Lafayette

    Rochambault

    Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio

    Laura Auricchio

    Laura Auricchio on Twitter

    Laura Auricchio, Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center

    Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton

    Battle of Brandywine

    Battle of Barren Hill

    HBO Series on John Adams

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Bastille Day

    Cincinnatus

    Lafayette's Visit to Alabama

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    1 hr 19 min
  • 069 - How to Give and Receive Good Advice

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    STUFF FROM THIS EPISODE

    Willow Soundtrack

    Billy Barty

    Warwick Davis

    Fault Tree Analysis

    Kool-Aid Man

    Luke 14:7-11

    Washington and Lafayette

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    1 hr 9 min
  • 068 - How Phones Have Changed (and How They've Changed Us)

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    STUFF FROM THIS EPISODE

    Phone calling features and star codes

    What is a pager?

    Why Do Doctors Still Use Pagers?

    Pushbullet

    What is RCS?

    Rodecaster Pro

    Kid Needs Beer Money

    Radiolab - Right to Be Forgotten

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    1 hr 30 min
  • 067 - The Lost City of Nineveh

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    STUFF FROM THIS EPISODE

    Assyrian Empire

    Atlantis

    Austen Henry Layard

    Layard Early Exploration

    Nineveh

    Jonah

    Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie

    Cuneiform

    British Museum

    Library of Ashurbanipal

    Nimrod

    Genesis 10

    Herodotus

    Course Changes of the Mississippi River

    Protestant Reformation

    Nebuchadnezzar

    King Darius

    Pharaoh

    Lamassu

    Rosetta Stone

    What is a Snatch Block?

    How a Block and Tackle Works

    Nineveh and Its Remains by Austen Henry Layard

    Hammered Dulcimer

    Strip Built Kayak

    Akkadian Language

    Shalmaneser III

    Tell (archaeology)

    ISIS Destroys Gate

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    1 hr 32 min

About No Dumb Questions

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A science guy from the deep south (Destin) and a humanities guy from the wild west (Matt Whitman) discuss deep questions with varying levels of maturity.

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