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Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...
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- Added: Jun 16, 2020
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This week we talk about ad hominem, Soviet propaganda, and red herrings.
We also discuss Pravda, logical fallacies, and hypocrisy.
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 27:25
This week we talk about chemical weapons, North Korea, and misspeaking on camera.
We also discuss Yugoslavia, the MOAB, and Aleppo.
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 48:15
On this week’s episode we talk about chatbots, social media cheats, and robot lawyers.
We also discuss logic trees, digital familiars, and the Mat...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 45:45
On this week’s episode we talk about fossil fuels, the EPA, and the yoga industry.
We also discuss the Carboniferous period, clean coal, and corpo...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 41:13
This week we talk about terrorism, acronyms, and Doge.
We also discuss memetics, mass surveillance, and the Irish Republican Army.
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 42:21
This week we talk about blackballing, #DeleteUber, and the spirit of the law.
We also touch on taxes, Freemasons, and ride-share unions.
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 41:52
This week we talk about chronological snobbery, signaling theory, and the Chicken Connoisseur.
We also discuss social cognition, Discover Weekly, ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 44:37
This week we discuss dark patterns, Facebook, and the tycoon monomyth.
- Added: Mar 07, 2017
- Length: 47:55
This week we talk about the Harlem Hammer, COINTELPRO, and punching nazis.
- Added: Feb 28, 2017
- Length: 42:03
This week we discuss brachycephalic dogs, maize, and birth control.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 38:41
This week we talk about enemies who are friends, globalization, and non-polarized opinions.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:24
This week we talk about noble lies, compassion fatigue, and addiction.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:55
This week we talk about smart mobs, reddit, and Kompromat.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 41:27
This week we discuss hackers, video games, and Project Xanadu.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 32:10
This week, we talk about self-driving trucks, Malthusian catastrophes, and human obsolescence.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 47:03
This week we discuss protests in several different contexts.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 52:53
This week we talk about the net-casting spider, space junk, and Kessler syndrome.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 42:04
This week we talk about the German kunstschutz unit, the Venus de Milo, and slavery reparations.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 44:53
In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China.
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 06:00
This year saw the Academy Awards ceremony awash in racial controversy.
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Television is not just news. It has become the lynchpin of the lynchmob.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 06:00
As more writers return awards and honors, cynics ask if this is an outbreak of Award Returnitis
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 06:00
After it was posted on WhatsApp that Aklhaq Mohmamad's family was eating beef a mob beat and stoned him to death.
But what was the mob being fed?
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 06:00
When Narendra Modi came by last week to the Bay Area the titans of tech pulled out all stops to give him a red carpet welcome.
Amidst all this jub...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 06:00
