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21 Year End Podcast – 2020 Final Thoughts and F-Words
In the last podcast of 2020, Phrost and Submessenger review and ruminate on the events and hot-button topics of the past year, from culture war skirmishes to natural and man-made catastrophes.
Your No-BS guide to BMI – Body Mass Index
72% of Americans are obese, but before you make that New Year’s Resolution you have no intention of keeping, let's clarify those numbers and graphs for you...
The Zipper Merge, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Traffic Engineers
No, you're not being a nice guy by getting in line as soon as possible, you're making everyone's commute take longer.
20 Covid Vaccine and Pandemic Update
As the vaccine for Covid-19 rolls out to the United States and the rest of the world, Immunologist Dr. Jason Goldsmith joins us to discuss the implications, considerations, and specifics of how it was created so quickly, putting to rest conspiracy theories and nonsense about the state of the pandemic.
Self Defense Against BS
Arguing with Idiots: a Brief Guide
People who tell you not to argue with idiots are probably idiots. Here's a handy guide on how to do it properly without being an idiot yourself.
How to Spot a BS Argument #2: Ergo Decedo
If you don't like this article, then GTFO.
Just kidding, we need the ad revenue. But seriously, that's how this fallacy works... or rather, doesn't...
Crawl Out of Your Cave
If we’re going to make it as a species we need to devote time to more than staring at our own navels and the little boxes we hold in front of them.
Why Your Social Media Groups are Making You Dumber
Social media covers up the fact that half of us are not nearly so bright as the other half and very few of us are as smart as we think we are.
