778. Gender, Biology, Body Image, and Dieting
Discussing two articles that seem to be reporting on the obvious results of studying things we already knew.
777. Spies, Agencies, Elections, and Interference
Reviewing Substack article by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag
776. Borders, Laptops, Dossiers, and the Deep State.
Chatting about the flagrant display from the Deep State.
775. Extrinsics, Intrinsic, Trump, and Obsession
Reviewing the article “To beat Trump, we need to know why Americans keep voting for him. Psychologists may have the answer.”
774. Ai, Bots, Influencers, and Only Fans
Reviewing th trends toward AI and Sex Robots
773. Toxicity, Rock, Leggings, and Blessing
Reviewing the Youtube.com clip “Is This Toxic Masculinity? – Konstantin Kisin & Chris Williamson”
772. Eating, Drinking, Other Pleasures, and Flesh
Discussing the Amazon Prime documentary “Sticky” and the events of the week
771. Costumes, Technology, Tools, and Pi
Talking about the event of the week and working with Pi for Love Your Robot Day
770. Charge, Pi, Light, and 137
Chatting about the events of the week and that fine-structure constant 1/137 from the YouTube video “Why is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems in Physics” by Pbs Spacetime
769. Fat, Sugar, Salt, and Ultra Processing
Reviewing the article “Fat, Sugar, Salt… You’ve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong” by Matt Reynolds