6 episodes
Metaphorically Philosophical Nathan
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- Society & Culture
Thoughts about philosophy, science, and the weirdness of this place we're all in.
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And all we left was their corpses...
Instinctual moralization, self-comparison, and the transvaluation of all values
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The problem of too many inputs: ADD/ADHD from the inside.
The world is crazy from the perspective of someone with severe ADD /ADHD. You're always late. You've forgotten something again. Every morning, you have to go back in the house at least once to get something you forgot. And that's a *good* day. It helped me to understand that these are really disorders in the perception of time. I had to find ways to sync my clock.
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We lost the poetry of our past
Our nation's history is full of passionate poetry and prose. Why don't we talk about it? Why don't we teach the passion for it?
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A summary of the problem of too many summaries
Knowledge has exploded to the point where we cannot read it all. This brings new problems.
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Dark Matter is just a hypothesis
When you look at galaxies from a distance, they don't spin the way one might expect. We should be honest and admit that we don't understand it.
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Quantum Waveform Collapse at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Quantum mechanics makes a lot more sense in restaurants. Particularly when deep in your pints.