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People are preparing for the worst of COVID-19, & it’s certainly yet to come, but when so much is uncertain, what’s the proper amount of prepping one should do? (Hint: It involves washing your hands a bit more than usual.) Video: http://youtu.be/vTSfC4JeqGE Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2020/03/22/184.-Disaster-Preparedness.html

Whistles nonchalantly & gestures at episode title Video: http://youtu.be/fHCfB_e82fU Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2020/03/07/183.-Indirect-Speech.html

You wouldn’t expect a 45-year-old book on programming to be relevant today, but Fred Brooks’s “The Mythical Man-Month” contains many lessons about project management & design that should resonate with modern coders, problem-solvers, & creators. Video: http://youtu.be/HuJfEHnjZyY Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2020/02/20/182.-Lessons-From-'The-Mythical-Man-Month'.html

Many shower praise on utilitarianism as The Objectively Correct Ethical System, but is it possible they’re putting the cart before the horse? Do its uncomfortable edge cases give us cause for caution? Video: http://youtu.be/QA2JwEhJss8 Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2020/02/05/181.-Issues-of-Utilitarian-Ethics.html

Scribbling on chalkboards is antiquated, pass…and perhaps the most powerful technology we’ve developed to date to discover abstract truths. Video: http://youtu.be/nLXhqT3PCds Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2020/01/23/180.-On-Chalk-and-Cognition.html

Come join the Discord server! https://discord.gg/FaHAjXn Video: http://youtu.be/4Uz1trCLfww Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2020/01/08/179.-Rationality-Without-Justification.html

You probably learned how to do long multiplication by hand in school. Computers used the same algorithm to multiply large numbers together, until computer scientists discovered much, much faster methods, including one published this year that’s “perfect!” Video: http://youtu.be/UK9XUAfRhCc Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2019/11/20/178.-Multiplication-Menagerie.html

How is philosophy like fashion? …that’s not a setup for a pun, I promise. Video: http://youtu.be/kJWmmvLInzo Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2019/11/06/177.-A-Philosophy-on-Philosophy.html

Violent crime quadrupled in the US between 1970 & 1990, then fell the same amount. What could have caused such a dramatic trend? Economics? Culture? …Lead? Video: http://youtu.be/lt2yD8RTbrI Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2019/09/25/176.-The-Lead-Crime-Hypothesis.html

Experienced coders can sometimes tell bad code on sight, not from any aspect of its inherent functionality, but from largely aesthetic characteristics. Turns out those principles have some use in other fields. Video: http://youtu.be/HH8HvHj5eFQ Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2019/09/11/175.-The-Aesthetic-of-Programming.html