Worrying Bugs

By Certus Stone & Zak Sharp

Zak Sharp and Certus Stone host a podcast that is generally about our lives, but we promise it's more interesting than that. We might talk about milk politics, philosophy, technology, college life, e... more

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August 04, 2024Freely Shared Maps
Zak and Liz talk about mapping tools and displays of geograpic data. They also talk about the “gay pirate show”. Something for everyone this episode.
Recorded on April 24, 2022
More Maps Manifesto
Zak’s Tweet about Black Restaurant Week – Twitter
What is GIS? – Esri
Milwaukee Spec Hydrants
Edward Tufte
Milwaukee Food Deserts and Grocery Stores– Fox 6
Urban Milwaukee
On Milwaukee
Zak’s postcard map – ArcGIS
OpenBenches
Wikitravel
Atlas Obscura
GeoJSON
Content Management System– Wikipedia
Semantic Web – Wikipedia
Our Flag Means Death – IMDB

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August 03, 2024Measurably Proximal Signals
Zak and Liz talk about weighing a W boson (with “bonus content” for those who participated in the Worrying Bugs Book Club). Liz’s new old has bluetooth audio… if you’re willing to work for it. The 2016 Macbook Pro only has USB-C ports and drivers are a nightmare.
Recorded on April 10, 2022
Newly Measured Particles – Quanta
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Bookshop.org
Elden Ring Messages – Fextralife
The 7 Percent Solution – Section from Surely You’re Joking, on okstate.edu
Feynman diagram – Wikipedia
Schrödinger’s cat – Wikipedia
Standard Model – CERN
ORM – freeCodeCamp
Homomorphic Encryption – Wikipedia
Bluetooth
Why talking on the phone while driving is dangerous – CityMonitor
Proximity Effect
Backprop – Wikipedia
Genie – Stanford
Ethernet
DriverKit

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August 02, 2024Poorly Publicized Snotworm
Zak and Liz talk about Liz just wanting the all the levels of software to get along and Zak’s recent travel experience.
Recorded on April 3, 2022
Whale Fall – Wikipedia
I Contain Multitudes – Harper Collins
Chemosynthesis vs Photosynthesis – NOAA
Osedax mucofloris – Wikipedia
The Universe is Weird – Hank Green on YouTube
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Victor E. Frankl
Logitech’s Bad Software
Logitech MX Master Series
Better Touch Tool
Logitech G Hub
RansomWhere
Richard Stallman – Wikipedia
The Printer Story – gnu.org
OBS Studio
Kensington Trackball Mouse
Open Source Trackball Mouse – Ploopy
Train Review
Amtrak
Hiawatha Route – Amtrak
California Zephyr – Amtrak
Amtrak Not Owning Their Tracks – Atlas Obscura
Snowpiercer (film) – Wikipedia
PSA Source – The Atlantic

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April 01, 2024 Fairly Stressed Bugs
Zak and Liz are taking the fortnight off.
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April 27, 2023 Independently Corny Decisions
Zak and Liz talk about E15 gasoline; it’s like E10 gasoline, but 5 more.
Zak tells us what he has found out about the Home Front Energy Independence Act. There is a billion dollars on the line to accomplish 4 things (and the 4th thing is “Other”).
Recorded on March 12, 2022
Home Front Energy Independence Act
– Russia Invades Ukraine, one year on – Associated Press
– The Cold War – Wikipedia
– American Car Dependency – Bloomberg CityLab
– Redlining – Wikipedia
– American Sprawl and the Cold War – Treehugger
– Tear down this wall! – Wikipedia
– Is Modern Russia Communist? – Russia Beyond
– Oil crisis – Wikipedia
– Stop de Kindermoord – Environmental Justice Atlas
– Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency – StreetsBlog Chicago
– The Tweet Liz Was Talking About
– Inelastic Demand – Investopedia
– They Don’t Represent Us – IndieBound
– Senator Baldwin Supports Biofuel Bill, Blames Putin for Fuel Prices
– E15 – US Department of Energy
– Home Front Energy Independence Act – congress.gov
– Does Git actually keep track of changes? – stackoverflow
– Overton Window – Wikipedia
– Freight Rail Efficiency – BNSF

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April 25, 2023 Manifestly Tertiary Web
Zak and Liz talk about what Liz’s vision of a better Internet looks like. She’s got some radical ideas like “don’t make your website worse for the sake of profit”, “wow, online advertising is pretty intrusive these days”, and “putting existing infrastructure on a blockchain is strictly worse.”
Recorded on Feb 28, 2022
Screaming
– How to Scream – WikiHow
– How to bellow like a koala
Web 3.manifest0
– Tim O’Reilley Web 2.0
– Web 2.0 – Wikipedia
– Web Application – Wikipedia
– Gamergaters and Geek Masculinity – SagePub
– Big O Notation – Wikipedia
– Accessibility – W3C
– Is web accessibility as big of a deal as it seems? – Reddit
– As a designer, if accessibility is killing design for brands that exert fun. Would you move on? – Reddit
– Repeat Stuff by Bo Burnham – Genius.com
– 3 Ways We Fail to Take Accessibility Seriously – Reddit
– Polymer a11y – Web Components
– Accessibility for Everyone – A Book Apart
– SOLID – Wikipedia
– Markdown – Wikipedia
– tag – mdn
– The Big Short – Wikipedia
– ZeldaDungeon.net

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April 24, 2023 Markedly Watched P’dcast
Zak and Liz talk about their Lists.
Zak puts his body on the line to see if the vegan mac and cheese can pass as a comfort food.
Liz finds a suspicious infographic, so some research and incredulous journalism is done.
Liz shares her thoughts about the NFT video essay that Zak assigned as homework. They’re pretty sure that they’re not shouting at clouds, but time will tell.
Zak used Shortcuts automation to mimic focus modes on his Apple Watch. Liz suggests that a gayer time of day should have a gayer watch face.
Zak reviews the Tofutti Better Than Sour Cream and the Jenny’s Tofu Soy Milk. He also tells us about the Sprout Task Force, which Jenny’s Tofu is a part of.
Lastly, Zak fell into a rabbit hole about food certifications including kosher and vegan.
Recorded on February 13, 2022
Doctor
– CPAP on a Plane – TSA
Dairy-free Omnibus Part A
– Wicked Kitchen
– Woody Harrelson invests in Wicked Kitchen
– Seitan – Wikipedia
– Upton’s Naturals
– Be’f – Gardein
– Conagra Brands
– Meatless Mondays
– Maintenance Phase
– Meat Eater’s Guide – Environmental Working Group
– Non-GHG effects of car use – EcoWatch
– M’rry Me – Gardein Corporate Instagram
– Flexitarianism – Wikipedia
Line Goes Up
– The Website Obesity Crisis – Idle Words
– The Average Webpage Is Now the Size of the Original Doom – Wired
– Insular Dwarfism – Wikipedia
– The DAO – Wikipedia
– Snowcrash
– Neal Stephenson on Meta – Axios
– Project Loon
– PreShow Eye Tracking – Futurism
– Mindustry
– The Factorio Video – Folding Ideas on YouTube
Apple Watch Trick
– Details on the California Watch Face – Arun.is
Dairy Free Omnibus Part B
– DAIRY PRIDE Act
– Better Than Sour Cream – Tofutti
– Jenny’s Tofu Products
Hechshers
– Directory of Kosher Certifying Agencies – Chicago Rabbinical Council
– Blue Ribbon Kosher – Chicago Rabbinical Council
– Ⓥ – Vegan Symbols
– Vegan Trademark – Vegan Society
– Certification – Vegan.org
– Vegan Flag
– Israeli Vegan Domino’s – NPR

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1h 34min
February 24, 2023 Journalistically Hunted Containers
Zak and Liz talk about re-experiencing movie theaters, Zak explains how Docker works which is even nerdier than using Docker, Liz explains why she loves a Minecraft mod-pack which is even nerdier than playing it, and Zak untangles yarn of truth regarding some farmland that is owned by people who wear very expensive suits.
Recorded on January 30, 2022
Theater
– Marvel Cinematic Universe – Wikipedia
Docker
– Dockerfile
– Docker Hub
– Docker Desktop
– How is a container different than an image? – Atlassian
Vault Hunters
– Vault Hunters – Iskall85 on YouTube
– Mobs – Minecraft Wiki
Bill Gates Farming
– John Deere Right to Repair – Politico
– Bill Gates is About to Change the Way America Farms – Agriculture.com
– The Tweet Zak was Talking About – Twitter
– The Bureaucratic Explanation – U.S. Mission Geneva
– How Would a Wealth Tax Work? – NPR
– Protect Your Assets From President Warren – Forbes
– Farm Like A Billionaire – Forbes
– How A Carbon Price Could Gut Animal Agriculture Without Taxing Farmers And Ranchers – Forbes

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February 23, 2023 Agreeably Leaning Pickles
Zak and Liz talk about the latest Dairy Free Milk Alternative, Zak tried the Tofutti imitation cream cheese that Liz really liked, and Liz just got back from a road trip and there was a lot to think about, okay?
Recorded on January 21, 2022
(Not) Milk
– NotMilk
– Nextmilk – Silk
(Not) Dairy
– Tofutti
– Kite Hill Cream Cheese
– How is Cheese Made? – US Dairy
– Zak’s Pickle Kit
– Vom Fass
– Brain Gut Connection – Johns Hopkins
– Mind the Gut exhibit in Copenhagen’s Medical Museion – Labiotech.edu
This would not happen if the crab were on the torus. – Wikipedia
Liz’s Trip
– The Murderbot Diaries Series
– These Violent Delights – IndieBound
– Hey Riddle Riddle

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December 03, 2022 Lgebily Digitized Tiles
Zak and Liz try to figure out how their brains work by reciting the alphabet a few times.
Zak gives a brief history of computer handwriting recognition and tells us his opinions on the ReMarkable Tablet.
Want to meditate but can’t stop thinking about all the stuff you have to do? Zak has just the technique for you.
Zak has a new food goal for this year. The initialism is: ALDAPAIGTBVIAWDIDEAKTOISICHMTT-IGTBALAODBIBIAI year.
Recorded on Jan 2, 2022
Whisper of the Heart – Wikipedia
The Alphabet
– Alphabet in alphabetical order – @gray on Twitter
– H – BBC
– Because Internet – IndieBound
– IPA – Wikipedia
Handwriting Recognition
– PalmOS Graffiti – Wikipedia
– Reading Jumbled Letters – Science Alert
– Remarkable
– Learning Helm – O’Reilly
– GoodNotes
Tile Puzzle of the Mind
– Train Cab Videos – YouTube

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