the way a magician thinks about the world
A Biship, a Rabbi and a Comedian sit down in a Garage… Dave Rubin might have had tremendous success getting medium- and high-profile intellectuals to come on and talk to him. But his great weakness is his eagerness to agree with his guests. He’s also primarily interested in politics and doesn’t have much of a […]
Read MoreI’ve always wanted to add comedy to my show. And Facebook is always advertising the Masterclass series to me so I thought I’d try one.
Read MoreNow eight years old with over two million views, this video from “Non Stamp Collector” looks at bible contradictions. (Non Stamp Collector is a reference to the joke that if Atheism is a religion then ‘not collecting stamps’ is a hobby.) It’s important to remember how books were written in their actual context. Recently people […]
Read Morehttps://fireside.fm/s/6KyWinhM+YeaIb9jj/iframe I was listening to the most recent episode of Very Bad Wizards, on a long late-night drive home from an event in the freezing rain. The first part of the podcast focuses on the metaphysics of holes. (The amount I feel I need to congratulate them both for their maturity while discussing holes cannot be […]
Read MoreA curious interview popped up in my feed. This is Daniel Dennett, a professor at Tufts University and the kinder, gentler horseman. Here he is talking about consciousness and its implications for artificial intelligence, hitting on many of the themes he has in his lectures in recent years; Gaudi and the termite colony, the soul […]
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