Why You're Wrong

If less is more, imagine how much more MORE could be! As it turns out, things don't always scale quite as linearly as you'd hope. Looking at how we make decisions, information fiends and foes, why we sometimes pick the worse option, if more news is good news, and if GMO labelling is useful.

In retribution for the sports episode, Tim gets to talk about various military misconceptions. Explaining the difference between rifles and guns, ships and boats, different ranks and how they came to be, and why everyone hates the air force. Bonus trivia is sprinkled haphazardly throughout.

Being scared or worried is a natural reaction that's hard to shake, but we're not often scared of the right things. This episode we're looking at what's worth worrying about with swimming pools, guns, animal attacks, and kidnapping.

Mental disorders, maybe more than any other disease, are often misunderstood and misrepresented in society and the media. Looking at what it means to have a mental disorder and clarifying differences between obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, schizophrenia, dissociative identity disorder, psychopathy, sociopathy, and borderline personality disorder.

Is college worth it? In our changing world, is a college degree as valuable as it used to be? In this episode, we look at earning potential, costs, benefits, drawbacks, and levels of personal satisfaction over the last few decades to see if getting a degree is all it's cracked up to be.

Listener feedback and questions. Looking totally unqualifiedly at the structure of the universe, North American politics, listening to music too loudly, and colourblindness.

Sports myths, facts, and legends. Sports drinks, stretching, football and intelligence, home field advantage, Michael Jordan, and marathons.

More winter facts and myths while there's still snow on the ground and a chill in the air.

The facts and fictions behind fluoridated water: what it is, what it does, and why you should or shouldn't be worried about it.

Not every cost/benefit relationship is a linear one, so knowing the point of diminishing returns prevents getting frustrated or wasting your time, money and effort.