250 episodes
THUNK Josh Pelton
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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A show about things that tickle your brain.
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250. Angkor Wat and Collapse
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 -
249. Information Overload
Why is there something, rather than nothing?
Video: http://youtu.be/-Z9qi41lrK0
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/03/06/249.-Information-Overload.html -
248. Reductionism
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 -
247. Zombie Sci-Fi Technologies
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 -
246. Against Worldbuilding
“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 -
245. The STEM Shortage
The 2023 tech sector layoffs have claimed a quarter of a million jobs to date, but this hasn’t seemed to make a dent in the enthusiasm for getting more kids into STEM - what’s going on here?
Video: http://youtu.be/BraS-fMgB5A
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2023/11/16/245.-The-STEM-Shortage.html
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Thinking is hard
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Always good!
Seriously. Informative and entertaining! And who doesn’t like a terrible pun? Concise and bite size Thunk pieces on otherwise complex issues. Keep it up!