THUNK Josh Pelton

Scaremongers drive many to search frantically for something, anything that will make them feel safe, but safety isn’t a thing you can buy - it’s a feeling you have to build for yourself.

Video: http://youtu.be/ob7XTCtZn6U
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/05/13/251.-Safety-and-Risk-Management.html

Angkor Wat & the thousand stone temples surrounding it are some of the most impressive structures humanity has produced - what happened to the society that built them?

Video: http://youtu.be/mYu-BBoW9g8
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/04/15/250.-Angkor-Wat-and-Collapse.html

Why is there something, rather than nothing?

Video: http://youtu.be/-Z9qi41lrK0
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/03/06/249.-Information-Overload.html

Trying to understand something in terms of its parts is natural…but when is it justified?

Video: http://youtu.be/YHkS4upFy_4
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/02/13/248.-Reductionism.html

Gretchen, stop trying to make Vactrains happen! It’s not going to happen!

Video: http://youtu.be/dp2r1C9LDJQ
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/01/21/247.-Zombie-Sci-Fi-Technologies.html

“Worldbuilding” has become a necessity for authors of genre fiction, but sci-fi author M. John Harrison thinks it’s crippling both writers & their audiences.

Video: http://youtu.be/QJHR2NB7Wt4
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2023/12/30/246.-Against-Worldbuilding.html