Wander

Ben defends the Emancipation Proclamation in his car.

Ben proposes a model of planetary and stellar development he calls the Developmental Trajectory of Gravitationally-Bound Spherical Objects, and then he drinks a seltzer in his car.

Ben talks about why he does the podcast, resenting people, and how to form durable memories. Ramses the Great pops in to discuss Richard Evans’ The Third Reich in Power over Bubly Bounce.

Ben opens his mouth and words come out, for better or worse. Robert Sapolsky remains nameless.

Based on the here’s another song.

Based on the movie that doesn’t exist.

Ben attempts to draw some lessons from the first four years of his teaching career but doesn’t.

Ben discusses the Algonquian and Iroquois people who first settled what would one day become New York State, the coastal geography of New York City, and the arrival of European explorers in North America, including John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazzano, and Henry Hudson. He also discusses what it means to discover.

Ben talks about the twelve fermions and six bosons that apparently constitute everything.

Ben argues that facts are mental models and proposes what he calls the spectrum of variability of independently-arrived-at ideas to help explain why some concepts seem too obvious to merit analysis while others seem infinitely fungible.