Adam Rutherford

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I WARNED YOU. I WARNED YOU ALL. DID YOU LISTEN?

Yar, there's a chapter on this in How To Argue With a Racist.

that puts mine to shame.

New addition to my dork fest office.

I read this regularly.

www.thestranger.com/film/2010/05...

He switched from applying to do sport at uni to politics. So seems to love it.

in the spirit of solidarity for @sathnam.bsky.social

My son, doing politics A-level, uses @originstorypodcast.bsky.social as research. I have however advised him not to describe Marx as a ‘messy bitch’ in his coursework, regardless of how accurate it plainly is.

As every year, I'm sure the work of these people is very good, and well done for that. Hate the game not the players.

The History of Bad Ideas: Nobel Prizes 133

Apropos of nothing much @ppfideas.bsky.social

www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the...

Another great series. You get the feeling with so many podcasts that the presenters have not really done the reading, with Origin Story it feels like they've done too much reading, if anything. Always wonderfully digested.

That was one of the greatest, not just cos of Chappers sprint from the dugout. Wes Burns trivela tho.

O actual M G. This is incredible. The combination of two of my passions.

Left foot too, absolutely twatted it.

So emo. Dorothy Parker, just top level content.

Is there a difference?

I think a whole podcast on what historical figures would've been like online. Marx, persistent pile on trollmonger. Darwin, coy and self deprecating. Kurt Cobain, full on conspiracy maniac.

Well, that was a long time coming. COYB!

I think if Newton were around today, we'd classify him as an irritable crank.

Dawkins calls this 'the tyranny of the discontinuous mind'.

...but more impactfully in scientific racism. We should not be in terested in what a thing IS, but what it DOES. In the case of Neanderthals, they were our ancestors from a time where science has decided they were a different species. So the question is wrong.

TLDR: the invention of species classification was essentially an essentialist and creationist scala natura idea from a pre-Darwinian era. It has some utility. But often does not, and when wedded to it we reinforce pre-evolutionary ideology. This includes in basic biology...

I can’t work out how serious an answer you want. I have DETAILED notes (and wrote about 3 books on this matter). But here’s a jolly podcast on it

share.google/XINafjGQtqA1...

BTW, the amount of earnest wrongness in your replies is wow.

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Steven Pinker on common knowledge Steven Pinker, Aleks Krotoski and David Edmonds, with Adam Rutherford.

Thank you to @adamrutherford.bsky.social and the team at Start The Week for a great start to my week! Listen again to me, Steven Pinker and David Edmonds philosophising about common knowledge, immortality, and the effectiveness of our altruism on @bbcsounds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Absurd.

So you saw this in the US? Did it have an impact there?

That scene, so
Iconic, still gives me chills.

La Haine at the Prince Charles. Mon dieu what a film.