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Introductions

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Ben introduces Leonard to first impressions. And apparently, Leonard can play the Ukulele.

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How Many Seconds to a First Impression?

“Seven Percent of Communication is Verbal” Myth = BUSTED

Leonard's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/cubeamour

Hippos

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Leonard fleshes out the presumed cuteness of hippos and why that presumption is wrong. Hippos don’t mess around.

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Hippo facts (makes you look really cool at parties)

Plural of “Hippopotamus”

Ballpoint Pens

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Ben explains that China has been frustrated that they couldn’t produce a 100% domestic-made pen until just recently.

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Cool pens that exist

“First Class Industrial Power” Article

ISO Standards

Death

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Leonard examines the question, if death isn’t inevitable, what else may not be? A jovial, light-hearted conversation ensues.

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Statistical Significance

2045 Initiative (it’s really weird…)

Breakfast

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Ben posits that breakfast is not, in fact, the most important meal of the day; in fact, the research on the nutritional value of eating breakfast is quite conflicted.

Resources/Studies:

Comparative Obesity Rates

1992 Study/2014 Study: same trial, different results

2013 Overview (Belief in the PEBO…)

Cornell University 2013 Study (Consumed fewer calories by the end of the day)

Bacon Campaign and the beginning of American breakfast

Interview with Terence Kealey (professor of Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Buckingham)

Rubik's Cubes

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Leonard postulates that Rubik’s cubes aren’t impossible. Learning how to solve one is actually quite easy, if you break it down.

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Feliks Zemdegs Average of 12

How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube

Good first cube: Qiyi Sail

Pirates

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Ben chats with Leonard about how pirates fit the mold of what we think of them. Did you know pirates had bedtimes? Pirates have feelings too, you know.

Books

The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson

A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe

Dr. Seuss

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Leonard contends that Dr. Seuss’s books have literary merit; Ben postulates that they may have more literary merit than a lot of other classics.

Introverts

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This is the inaugural episode of Reconceived. As we didn't do much to introduce the idea in the episode, we'll mend that here. We think changing your mind is a healthy thing. So our goal is to take your preconceived notions about the world, and present them in a different way. To change your mind, or just to make you think.

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16personalities (Myers-Briggs type personality test)

Big 5 test