13 November 2013
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
How did you feel about the staff at your university when they enforced policy? When they told you that something wasn’t in your best interest? When they offered to help you through tough times? It’s been a while since we’ve visited the subject of Higher Education, and we’ve perhaps never approached it from quite the same vector as this episode. Student Affairs veteran and resident synesthete Shawn Brackett joins me and Kevin for an insider’s look at institutionalized paternalist / maternalist practices in public universities, historical precedents for them, and some questions around the ethics of their implementation. So settle in for some free pizza, free condoms, and free thought in this week’s BF.
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adulthood, alcohol, Alexander Graham-Bell, Arthur Chickering, autonomy, bachelor’s degree, childhood, drugs, economics, education, Fermat’s Last Theorem, high school, higher education, in loco parentis, Kevin, maternalism, paternalism, Reed College, sex, sex education, Stephen, student affairs, Texas Tech University, The Purge, The Simpsons, University of California System
22 February 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
The Bad Philosophers tackle education once again. Can Ken Robinson, Montessori schools, and John Dortmunder save the day?
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beer, Columbia, Columbus Day, Dan Brown, dinosaurs, Double Fine, education, enlightenment, games, high school, Horace Greeley, Horace Mann, Jon Dortmunder, Jon Stewart, Jonathan Larson, Kevin, kindergarten, Liam Neeson, Merrells, Montessori, Museum of Computer Culture, NPR, Patrick Stewart, Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Planet Money, Rent, RSA Animate, Shawn, Shiner Dortmunder, Sir Ken Robinson, Slings and Arrows, Sloyd, spoiler wars, standardized testing, Stephen, Stephen Pinker, synesthesia, Texas Education Agency, This American Life, United States, Wikipedia
16 April 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Every once in a while we here at BF like to have a gratuitously self-indulgent show that focuses purely on our own half-baked accomplishments and personal history. This time it was all about the K-man, mister Kevin Saunders himself. We had live Skype callers on the show once again, talked a little history, and answered […]
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Bad Astronomy, Canada, census, Dollhouse, education, Foursquare, Freebirds, genealogy, high school, history, Jackass, Jonathan Coulton, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, Lubbock, Lubbock Tweetup, physics, questions, Stephen, Texas Tech University, theatre, time travel, Twitter
22 February 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Another Valentine’s Day has come and gone. Love was in the air. Some relationships soared, others crashed and burned. For those of us on the sidelines, it was quite a sight to behold and discuss. Here at BF we gathered a completely new panel of guests for our most estrogen-infused episode ever. Single ladies Kiki […]
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alcohol, Arnold Schwarzenegger, chocolate, Christmas, conformity, Dodge, Family Guy, feminism, flowers, Google, gore, guilt, Hallmark, Harry Potter, high school, holidays, Hollywood, horror, ice skating, identity, Ivy, Jared, Jonathan Coulton, Kay Jewelers, Kiki, Lord of the Rings, marriage, Megan, Mother's Day, movies, New Years, nonconformity, relationships, seasons, sexism, Single's Awareness Day, sociology, Star Trek, steak, Stephen, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, The Night of Sevens, The Olympics, time, tradition, TV, Twitter, Valentine's Day, Wikipedia, YouTube
07 April 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Since the dawn of time, man has peered out humbly at the world through his eyeballs and tried to make sense of it all in some systematic fashion. Aristotle famously set this ship of science on its way when he remarked casually one fine Grecian day, “You know, studies show that women have fewer teeth than men.” Of course, he was full of s***, but that’s beside the point! The A-man set a precedent of discourse that has continued to this very day, according to some experts.
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aerogel, Aristotle, Bill Nye, Brave New World, chemical, common sense, David Hume, desiccants, Dogpile, double pendulum, education, elementary school, Eric, grits, high school, Hulu, job, Jonathan Coulton, Justin.tv, Kevin, laser tag, meta, motivation, MythBusters, Pavlovian, physics, pi, Pluto, positive reinforcement, potatoes, pragmatism, psychology, radiation, science, Shakespeare, silica, sociology, South Plains Regional Science and Engineering Fair, special relatively, Stephen, Stickam, tracking, turkeys, TV, unions
