• Critical Nonsense

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Critical Nonsense

By: SYLVAIN
  • Summary

  • High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander.
    Copyright 2024 Critical Nonsense
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Episodes
  • 266! Aging Well
    Jun 11 2024

    How do we age right?

    This week, Joey, Aaron, and Jess talk about aching, supplements, cognitive decline, Tom Brady, LeBron James, and the future. They don’t talk about Alphaville.

    references

    • L.A. Times: "Talking 'Men of a Certain Age' with Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher"
    • Radiolab Podcast: The Secret to a Long Life
    • John Meyer's "Why Georgia?"
    • The 5 Regrets Of The Dying: Life Lessons Everybody Learns Too Late...
    • New York Magazine: "The 12 Best Nice-Looking Pill Cases"
    • System Shock
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    34 mins
  • 265! Rules of Thumb
    Jun 5 2024

    What types of folk knowledge or rules of thumb do you live by?

    This week, Joey and Jess talk about cheating at science fairs, sleep, the rule of threes, tenets, the How I Met Your Mother pause, and concavity. They don’t talk about what Werner Herzog's thumb tastes like.

    references

    • Chris Brunet's X thread on the ISEF cheating scandal
    • Jean Yang's life lessons
    • Pause
    • The Idea of You (and Maybe Not Harry Styles)

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    40 mins
  • 264! Art in the City
    May 28 2024

    Why don't we have more public art?

    This week, Joey and Jess talk about toy poodles, graffiti, sidewalk chalk, murals, face painting, and sandals. They don’t talk about ESPO.

    references

    • Tom Otterness' Life Underground sculptures
    • The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
    • Street art by David Zinn
    • Mural Arts Philadelphia
    • 5Pointz

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    26 mins

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