The Irrelevant

The future is always changing but the Concorde more than any other airplane is a relic of a past future. One where the idea of speed being superior exceeded all else. Speed over Comfort, progress over profit. That was the Concorde.

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A sandstone cliff in New Mexico became a place for people across thousands of years and three different cultures to make their presence known long after they've gone. What kind of record of presence would you like?

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Convservation of El Morro

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One tweet set me off on a beaver binge and I had to share what these amazing little rodents do to the environment and how they inspired me.

@EmilyFairfax 's tweet that started it all: https://twitter.com/EmilyFairfax/status/1097195169131024384

Here's The Lady and Tramp Clip which was my only intro to beavers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDFy3zoBGE

Emily Fairfax's Research

Sierra Club article

Landscape Architecture Magazine article

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What makes everyone like IKEA, when it's just cheap kinda cool looking furniture and how does THAT same effect apply to everything else we're into.

Read the full paper I spoke about on this episode here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1777100

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McDonald's is a delightful excessive tasteless gaudy amazing instution. The Grang Big Mac was PEAK McDonalds. I could talk about this restaurant all day but I only spoke about it for 11 minutes this time. Hear about this ridiculous burger and what it and McDonalds mean to me.

This is the commercial with MJ and Larry Bird playing for a Big Mac

I wrote about this wonderful burger twice. First here, then here.

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The news has always done a number on me. Especially when it's about California proposition 187. Passed in the 90s it did a lot to make Mexicans and people of Mexican descent feel unwanted in the USA but it also led me to finding rest and refuge in this oddly joyful and subversive song.

Listen to the RadioLab Border Trilogy Here

See the full text of Proposition 187 Here

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The first Stealth aircraft was BARELY an airplane, nothing looked like it before and nothing has since. It's the epitome of what early adoption looks like but so much of the modern world of airplanes is owed to this weird black polygon. What else could we be in the "early adoption" stages of that looks so different from what we could see in the future?

Here's The F-117 in all it's low res glory

This is how I saw them as a kid in the El Paso Sky

I mentioned N64/Playstation 1 era games alot, here's what one of the games looks like

This is the descendant of the F-117, the F-22

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Sneakers are more popular than ever, they're a big part of defining your personal style and in some cases transcend to define subcultures as a whole. The story of a shoe who did just that and also how I got my first ever "cool" basketball shoes.

Grant Hill ad here

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Originally a road legal version of a military vehicle it became a brand that symbolized excess and gaudiness of the early 21st century until it all came crashing down. Before that though, the government actually subsidized purchases of its biggest and most ridiculous car.

WARNING: Episode contains a reference to "Mortal Engines" the Peter Jackson box office bomb.

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Urinals existed to solve a problem, but kinda got stuck at being somewhat gross and everyone was just ok with it. Everyone except one inventor who took his ruined khakis as motivation to create a downright delightful invention and inspire me in a really weird way.

The Ekcos Screen can be seen here

Black Light video of the screen in action Here

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