Bad Philosophy

Is etiquette due for a scientific overhaul? Kevin, Eric, and Stephen downed some cookies, beer, and pizza this episode to find out. You’re welcome.

Ep098 Eticat [ 1:03:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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America, Brave New World, cannibalism, civilization, code, cognitive science, Coke, communication, conflict, copyright, culture, education, Emily Post, Eric, ethics, etiquette, Google, Karl Schroeder, Kevin, law, Miss Manners, morality, National Instruments, NOVA, objectivism, Pabst Blue Ribbon, physics, programming, progress, quantum physics, racism, Schrodinger's Cat, secular humanism, soda, Stephen, technology, trademark, Xerox

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 [...]

Ep062 iKevin2.0.net@blogspot.com [ 52:49 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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

Can you believe it? Fifty episodes! FIVE OH! Well… that is if you sorta count Episode Zero, don’t count the Lost Episode, count Episode 21b as Episode 21, count Episode 42b as Episode 42, count Episodes 46 and 49 even though they’re video only and… aw, screw it, just humor us, okay? So in homage [...]

Ep050 Includes Teeth [ 43:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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balloon boy, blogging, Bryan M, consciousness, CPR, David, Dungeons and Dragons, Ender's Game, error reporting, Facebook, First Amendment, Freebirds, Google Wave, Homeward Bound, Hot Pockets, Hot Topic, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, John Stuart Mill, Katie, Kevin, Matt, metaphysics, Michael A, Microsoft, Milo and Otis, Monty Python, music, mustaches, MythBusters, Nightmare Before Christmas, Penny Arcade, physics, programming, radio, Saturday Night Live, Speaker for the Dead, statistics, Stephen, time, Twitter, Weekend Update, Wikipedia

In a world, divided by history, separate but equal, teetering on the brink of the cosmos, one podcast dares to defy the axioms and go where no podcast has gone bef… well you get the idea. This week we’re talking Anathem! Neal Stephenson’s latest work of spec-fic awesomery is ripe with headiness, so we decided to bring on couple of powerhouses in the brain department. Former-KTXT and current Llano Idea DJ Benjamin Brown returns to duke it out in a literary smackdown for the ages with veteran Bad Philosopher and aspiring YouTube reviewer Kevin Saunders. If this were a book, it’d be a genuine page-turner. But you read with your ears, right? Of course you do. So have a listen…

Ep040 Meta-Mathic Smackdown [ 55:09 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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aging, Alan Turing, Amazon, Anathem, anime, apocalypse, Aquinas, Aristotle, Audible, Ben Brown, books, Canticle for Liebowitz, Christian Science, communication, Cory Doctorow, Cryptonomicon, cyberpunk, DRM, Dune, economics, Galileo, history, Isaac Asimov, J. R. R. Tolkien, Kevin, Kindle, KTXT, mathematics, Mendeleev, meta, Neal Stephenson, Occam's Razor, physics, piracy, pirates, Plato, publishing, Pythagorean Theorem, quantum physics, religion, Richard Feynman, Rifftrax, Robert Heinlein, sci-fi, science, scientology, Skype, Snow Crash, Special Relativity, sports, Starship Troopers, Stephen, technology, The Baroque Cycle, The Day After Tomorrow, The Llano Idea, The Long Now Foundation, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The World Without Us, TV, Twilight, Variable Star, WWII, XKCD