Today’s guest is Bret Weinstein. Bret is a former Evergreen State College Professor at the centre of a massive controversy and a tort claim (which he has just settled) surrounding a day of absence at the University, which you can read more about below. We got into numerous fascinating discussions about the nature and problems…
Category: Science/Tech
The Economic and Social Benefits of Taxing Marijuana
With Prince William questioning UK drug policy and the Liberal Democrats reaffirming their commitment to making marijuana legal for sale in the UK, despite the appointment of Vince Cable as leader, we wanted to take a look at some of the key arguments for legalising and taxing marijuana in the UK. Irrespective of…
Internet Censorship Is Not The Way To Combat Terrorism
During the lead-up to the 2017 General Election, the Conservatives mentioned proposals to heavily censor the internet in order to curb terrorism. They had already been vocal about their desires to prevent encryption on services like WhatsApp in an attempt to stop terrorists sending untraceable messages and in the wake of the Manchester…
Russian Bots, The US Election, And Trevor’s Axiom
South Park may be a cartoonish, poorly drawn parody of society, but more often than not they manage to cut through and make some fantastic insights into the way in which the world works. The clip above from the season 20 finale depicted an idea called “Trevor’s Axiom” (we can’t find a source…
West Virginia Is Being Crippled By The Opioid Crises
OK, not Heaven, almost Heaven. West Virginia to be exact, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River, my home-sweet-home for a few short years. That beautiful dark and dusty state is in the grips of a brutal opioid epidemic. It seems everyone knows at least someone who’s battling an opioid addiction, and everyone else tries…
Chatter #7 – Joe Scott on Simulation Theory, The Double Slit Experiment, and Becoming A YouTuber
Joe Scott is on today’s show to talk about his experience starting his YouTube channel, Answers With Joe, and a whole load of interesting bits of science and physics that he has covered on his channel, including the Double Slit Experiment, the Fermi Paradox, the Global Consciousness Project, and Simulation Theory. You can…
