Interrupting the podcast for the first time to take a phone call; reviewing presentations by Jane McGonigal, Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future; enjoying the idea of life as game; and giving the example of the “super-secret project.”
50. Adversity, Opportunity, Challenges and Four Words
Rehearsing portions of speeches by Amiee Mullins at TED; remember that Christ has retained his scars; admitting a business venture that is proceeding in ignorance; and loving “The God Who Only Knows Four Words.”
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49. Airlines, Obesity, Flesh, and Consequence
Exploring the techniques that the flesh uses to delude us into believing that we understand the consequences of our decisions by examining a commentary by NRP’s Scott Simon on Kevin Smith’s encounter with Southwest Airlines.
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48. Religion, Entertainment, Politics and Business
Exploring the basic problem common to every human organization; quickly reviewing the book “Fast Food Nation” and the television series “Undercover Boss”; suggesting that we make every effort to treat everyone around us as human beings.
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47. Speeches, Toys, Libraries, and Quests
Practicing for a talk that I’ve been invited to give for students at my alma mater.
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46. Epigenetics, Famine, Gluttony, and Grandchildren
Rehearsing the week’s events; reviewing an article in Time magazine on the field of epigenetics; reflecting on a predictable response from evolutionary biologists; highlighting the important consequences of protecting our own genomes.
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45. Football, Cake, Fruit and Decision-Making
Commenting on Brett Farve’s performance in the Vikings vs. the Saints game; rehearsing the results of a fascinating study on the mechanisms involved in decision-making; offering some pointer on improving our decision-making
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44. Challenges, Relief, Destruction and Resilience
Recounting the interesting investigations at work; commenting on Haiti; recalling the 20/20 interview with Katie Piper; celebrating her resilience.
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43. Human-ness, Switches, Genes, and Intellectual Suicide
Reviewing the second half of the Nova program “What Darwin Never Knew”; considering the statistical analysis on the one percent difference between humans and chimpanzees; marveling at the number of “human accelerated regions” in the human genome; considering the intellectual suicide that is inherent in theory of atheistic evolution. (Oops, people didn’t believe in the “spark of God” for hundreds of millions of years, they supposedly believed in it for only hundreds of years!!!)
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42. Diversity, Mice, Genomes and Kings
Recalling the amazing diversity of life; rehearsing interesting portions of the first half of the Nova program “What Darwin Never Knew”; remember that we all battle with the flesh and the spirit.
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