Conspiracy Clearinghouse

If we are not unique as a species, an intelligent one that builds civilizations, then there must be lots and lots of other civilizations out there in the galaxy and the rest of the universe beyond. But if so, where the hell is everybody?

That’s the question at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. And this has kicked off a chain of reasoning and speculation that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and lets us start to envision, not just what might be out there, but where we ourselves want to go as a global civilization.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:54 - First we feel, then we fall - The Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, the Wow! Signal, space is big
2. 09:22 - End here. Us then. Finn, again! - Abiogenesis, the Pulse-Transient Theory of Industrial Civilization, musings on the galactic situation
3. 18:48 - They lived and laughed and loved and left - The Great Filter, Von Neumann probes, the Berserker Hypothesis; loud, quiet and grabby aliens; the Dark Forest Hypothesis, the technological singularity, the Jevons Paradox and induced demand
4. 27:16 - The cross of your own cruelfiction - The Zoo Hypothesis, the Planetarium Hypothesis, the Deathworld Scenario, A Field Guide to Aliens, Calculating God and other science fiction, the Aestivation Hypothesis
5. 34:34 - Three quarks for Muster Mark! - The Kardashev Scale, Sagan's addition, megastructures, Barrow's anti-Kardashev scale, Galántai's variation, the Urbanization Hypothesis, Kardashev's six scenarios, what to look for
6. 43:04 - He is cured by faith who is sick of fate - They're here, Greer and UAP folks, MJ-12, the SETI Paradox, we are looking, light is fast but has a limit
7. 47:38 - Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear - Joseph Campbell and where do we go from here?

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Finnegans Wake glosses
• A skeleton key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell
• ‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake in The Guardian
• Finnegan’s Wake at 80: In Defense of the Difficult at LitHub
• Why Finnegans Wake Is Better than Ulysses
• Fermi’s Paradox on This American Life
• SETI Institute website
• Humanity Responds to 'Alien' Wow Signal, 35 Years Later
• This Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Universe in Forbes
• The Great Filter: a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox in Astronomy
• A list of solutions to the Fermi Paradox on It's only chemo
• Are We Alone in the Universe? Article looking at the Drake Equation
• How Many Aliens Are There? A look at the Drake Equation
• Drake Equation: Estimating the Odds of Finding E.T. on Space.com
• Template for calculating answers to the Drake Equation on PBS
• The Olduvai Theory: Toward a Re-Equalizing of the World Standard of Living
• The Berserker Hypothesis: The Darkest Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox
• Grabby Aliens website
• D...

The world is a cube, time is a cube, you are a cube - everything's a cube. That's what Gene Ray, an electrician from Florida said. And he should know, since he was "the wisest man on Earth" and "wiser than God".

This is the strange and occasionally disturbing story of one of the wildest theories to ever hit the internet - the Time Cube Theory. Don't be educated stupid! Burn the marshmallow!

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SECTIONS

1. 01:38 - An Introduction & an Overview
2. 03:45 - The Time Cube Theory
3. 07:17 - GMT, ONEism, Marshmallow Time & Belly Button Logic
4. 09:46 - Unicorns Are Evil & Easter Island is Bad
5. 11:27 - It's All About the Four (Burritos & Tacos Are Evil)
6. 12:19 - Some Obvious Refutations
7. 13:27 - The Time Cube Website - Green Ink, Haig's Law, Santa Claus & Design Considerations
8. 17:27 - He Was a Busy Bee - Four Websites, Actually (Musings on Religion & Race)
9. 19:48 - The Time Cube Law
10. 21:07 - The Man Himself - Marbles & Maybe Mental Illness
11. 24:31 - Not So Harmless - Ray's Views on Blacks, Jews & Gays
12. 27:17 - The Fan: Richard Janczarski
13. 30:36 - Man as Meme
14. 33:01 - Parodies & Theories (Satire, Sock Puppets & More)

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

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Guest: Kent Weishaus, licensed clinical social worker, author of Stop Breaking Down: The Secret to Avoiding Overwhelm and Crack-Up

Why are there so many adherents to conspiracy theories these days? What are the mechanisms that encourage people to latch onto a particular narrative?

We are modern creatures with out-dated brains. Clinical social worker (and former TV guy) Kent Weishaus talks about various theories and cognitive biases, and champions slow thinking in an age that seems too fast for our minds to keep pace with.

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SECTIONS

1. 03:48 - Smoke & Mirrors - TV, unreasonable expectations, wraparound for commercials, the hard edge
2. 09:49 - Cognitive Distortions - Daniel Kahneman's Availability Heuristic, it's the system, TV was Gen X's buddy, we love fat (and sugar)
3. 15:37 - Prospect Theory, Loss Aversion, the Endowment Effect, Aaron Beck's thought distortions, overgeneralization, "mind reading", slow thinking, I-know-how-this-will-end, please get raptured, humans crave structure, think about your thinking, Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems (IFS) says we are fragmented beings
4. 26:10 - Towards Accuracy - E-Prime, people are not their diagnosis, slow thinking helps counteract otherization
5. 33:46 - Too Much Information - Fast thinking feels good, apes with car keys, phantom urgency, unintentional dangers, too much sensory input
6. 41:39 - Slow Thinking - Emotions are not uncontrollable, list the systems you're embedded in, nothing goes away in the digital system, Thomas Piketty and late-stage capitalism, the system is out of control

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Kent Weishaus website
• Stop Breaking Down: The Secret to Avoiding Overwhelm and Crack-Up by Kent Weishaus
• Kent Weishaus on IMDb
• Availability Heuristic And Decision Making
• Prospect Theory: What It Is and How It Works, With Examples
• Loss aversion on BehavioralEconomics.com
• The Endowment Effect: Why Perceived Value Increases with Ownership
• Cognitive Distortions: Unhelpful Thinking Habits
• 13 Cognitive Distortions Identified In CBT
• Cognitive Distortions: 22 Examples & Worksheets (& PDF)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• About IFS (Internal Family Systems)
• E-Prime on Wikipedia
• Discovering E-Prime
• E-Prime and Linguistic Revision
• Wandering Gaia: Dispatches from the Anthropocene website for Gaia Vince
• Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Nature of the Modern Mind by Pierre Steiner
• Turning the stone: embedding systems thinking in the everyday by Oliver Standing
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