May 30, 2018
EPISODE 65 // Gwern.net has published a list of small ways in which ordinary life has gotten better. Wow! That's very much up this podcast's alley! So we discuss, we note, we nitpick. We talk spaced repetition, planned de-obsolescence of planned obsolescence, fake holidays, and phone tag.
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May 23, 2018
EPISODE 64 // We devote the hour to the life of Sylvia Bloom, a legal secretary who passed away at the age of 96 this month and donated $8.2 million to charity. What was her life like? Is something like this still possible now? Just exactly how many friends did she have brunch with? Also: a special DUMPLING CORNER. All...
May 16, 2018
EPISODE 63 // We cleared out all the items left on Terrible Things: Spring Cleaning. The elderly! Discourse on the internet! And much more!
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May 9, 2018
EPISODE 62 // The three of us spent a long weekend in Austin without any internet and we wrote down all the queries we meant to Google. On this episode WE GOOGLE THEM: horses with Cushing's, Taylor Swift conspiracy theories, SEO spam, and more. Only an innovative groundbreaking podcast like ours would insert so...
May 2, 2018
EPISODE 61 is devoted to two different news articles about Ralph Nimmons, one in 1992 ("Black Is Victim of Beating By Hasidim in Crown Hts." in the New York Times) and one in 2018 ("Cops identify 'shoplifter' who died after grocery workers sat on him" in NY Post, and others). What must have his life been like? Why is it...