TWS213: Shameless, Blameless and Lameness
CQ: Having recently read “The Wealthy Barber”, and noting its lamentations about basic financial education, I started to think about other areas which could use some basic education. For example, where is the equivalent book for health and diet issues (“The Healthy Barber”)? What areas of basic education do we either do poorly or not at all?
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Bumper: Mainframe from Geek Out With Mainframe (gowmainframe.blogspot.com)
Promo: Kakophonos Internet Radio (kakophonos.com)
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- All Creatures (Fake and Small)
- Say It Ain’t So
- Antigovernmentarianism
- Extras
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TWS167: LeakyWicks
CQ: Is reason the enemy of imagination? Is rationality the death of dreaming?
Bumper: Mainframe
Promo: Wiener Blut (“Viennese Blood”) podnovel
Promo: Every World News
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- WackyLeaks
- Call It Like You Sees It
- Slyentific
- Extras
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Show Notes for TWS125: Do You Sense Me Sensing You?
On the show this week:
- For Great Justice!
- Distraction for Discovery
- Don’t Believe Everything You Sense
- Unsensed but not Unseen (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
I think it’s fair to say that today, we communicate with each other more than we ever have before: email, blogs, web pages, Twitter, telephones, instant messaging… But are we really saying anything more than we were 50 years ago — or anything that will be important in another 50? Or is the conversation always, essentially, the same?
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Show Notes for TWS116: So Little Time Is Now
On the show this week:
- The Past Tells A Story..
- (Not So) Simply Criminal
- The Future Holds Potential
- Uncertain Present (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Is Humanity is a rut?
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Thanks to @martyndarkly from the excellent Movie Mantras podcast for the Ibex tip and anim5 of The International Detective Dragons From Outer Space podcast for, well, just making me think.
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