
Episode 5 - Teaser trailer
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05/23/21 • 1 min
Is there anything more deceptive than an obvious fact? Catch the fever!
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Is there anything more deceptive than an obvious fact? Catch the fever!
@tbpod1
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Episode 4 - Drawing a clear line. (Featuring guest Aoife Abushaqra)
On this episode: Why is it so difficult to identify a clear line between accepted and disputed knowledge within a discipline?
Diversions/Explorations include:
- A Guest! The fantastic robot legged, Irish Khaleesi Aoife Abushaqra
- Some feedback from a loyal listener
- Art world controversy
- Avril Lavigne conspiracy theories
- Cognitive dissonance
- Power and knowledge
Get in touch:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @tbdpod1
Aoife’s podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-the-tok/id1537824943
Sources you might like:
- McCafe statistics:
https://qsrmedia.com.au/research/news/mcdonalds-mccafe-most-visited-coffee-shop-report-says
- Marcel Duchamp’s urinal:
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573
- Was math invented or discovered?
- Banana Art
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/man-eats-120-000-piece-of-art-a-banana-taped-to-wall
- Avril Lavigne clone
- Cognitive Dissonance Theory
https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/Cognitive-Dissonance-Intro-Sample.pdf
Next Episode

Episode 5: Obvious Deception
On this episode: “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact” (Arthur Conan Doyle).
Diversions/Explorations include:
- The snake ripping your throat out is the one to worry about
- Some great discussion defining ‘obvious facts’
- The King of Red
- We are not chemists
- Barry Schwartz’s Paradox of Choice
- Francis Fukuyama and ‘The End of History’
Get in touch:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @tbdpod1
Sources you might like:
Canadian Snow Plow Names
Sir Ernest Rutherford
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1908/rutherford/biographical/
Atomic Structure https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understanding-radiation/what-is-radiation/ionising-radiation/atomic-structure
How Scientists View Quantum Physics
https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/how-scientists-view-quantum-physics/
Paradox of Choice
https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice?language=en
The End of History - Francis Fukuyama
https://www.embl.de/aboutus/science_society/discussion/discussion_2006/ref1-22june06.pdf
But What If We're Wrong?
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533521/but-what-if-were-wrong-by-chuck-klosterman/
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