Edumacation

List of episodes that I have
14-44
51-56
58-81

1
Sheldrake- Morphic Resonance

2
carrots dont help your eyes.  its world war two propaganda.  John Cat Eyes Cunningham and his miraculous night vision

3
The McDonalds Shake story
Thickened with some kind of potato product, but it used to be much better for you
They couldn't legally say "milkshake"

The McDonalds Egg White story
According to the name, one would expect a single ingredient.   However it actually had 11 ingredients!

Super Dogs
Whale hunting, ass cancer sniffing

Diagnosing the Fat Albert Gang

Apples are from Afghanistan
They are mostly spitters, bad tasting apple trees.   Grafting is used to improve them
"Mankind has conquered the apple!"
Johnny appleseed was not at the Alamo

4
gross ingredients in cosmetics

5
Superstitions
        Practical origins and ridiculous origins
         Ladders- things could fall and hurt you,
         but also because a ladder was used to get Christ down from   the cross
         all criminals used to be forced to walk under a ladder before hanging

         Bless you after sneezing- a virus killed people very quickly, the pope ordered people to say bless you so peasants didn't die without a final blessing
        
       Unlucky 13?- It comes from Loki and Norse myth.  12 gods were invited but he snuck in

       The crazy fly voice makes a long appearance

6
JFred Muggs
 edumacorrections
are people more paranoid because of more surveillance?
one fifth of all the active cameras are in London (for traffic)
cocaine tooth powder
heroin was a cough remedy, invented by the Bayer company
hair of the dog, an ancient rabies cure
antimony, a hand me down pill that rockets through you

Inventing the British Guys

HOAXES
Rabbit woman
the hundredth monkey effect

Deja Vu
Talking shit about Carl Jung
Dolpihns keep lifelong social memories

7
Barney blockers- Beta blockers are a type of pill to help some to stay calm, McEl's dad was on them but it was incredibly difficult for him to exerciset
ESP vs Microexpressions
Kato and the OJ trial



10
Star wars knowledge.....
meowsic
"Sacres the bejabbers out of me" --- a reference to castrating bulls
Robot and Frank--- Robutt...



11
Robot bees
The southamerican catfish that all penises fear
The squids confusing weapon
Paul Shaffer, its raining fun
The Big bang might not have happened
Gender neutral in Germany
Testicle Size and fatherhood
Wide faces are evil
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12

Misheard lyrics are called "mondegreens"
Songs stuck in your head are called

Sci
        Toxoplasmosis- the fearless mice
        Sneezing into the crook of the arm
        Various other sneezing conditions
Why
        Bermuda Triangle Theories
        Sudden release of methane changes the density of water or air
                    Boats or planes would suddenly drop beneath the sea
         Rogue waves, poor Tom Green's fishing story
         AUTECH theory- a testing area for advanced technology

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24
There are many other funny mineral names.   Vaginaton in particular.
Tyco Brahe had a gold nose and a pet moose who he got drunk

Sci
New part of the human body have been discovered, a ligament and a part of the cornea.
extra set of nostrils way in the back
class up your garbage
women can have ribs removed.  Apparently Cher is rumored to have it done.  Rachel Welsch did do it.

Fi
The Science of Batman
Physical Abilities from Scientific American
Strength and Conditioning (3-5 years), Martial Arts (8years), nonlethal MA (12-15 years)
training must constantly continue.......
cumulative effects of the beatings are wildly unreal....
ability to handle ten opponents--BS
The gadgets are almost all nonsense, but it is conceivable that in the future....

Why
Fart science.....   chicken and eggs have sulfur in them
Around a pint of gas a day is the personal average, 14 times a day
Could holding one in hurt you?   Almost certainly not.
(Changing the names of years once society loses faith in God
Imagine signing our checks "dick trickle")

Bye
3d food printer
The Mars Murder Conspiracy-- Driving a van off the side of a cliff.

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Christmas Podcast (near 18)

1. Christ wasn't born on Christmas
2. The names of the wise men relate to the little drummer boy
3. Christmas was illegal in Boston for many years
4. The first congress deliberately worked on Christmas
5. Washington Irving wrote a book of Christmas stories which created the fervor in America.

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Solos in the Silos 22

snopes quiz 48 minutes in
           RFIDs in students
          
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number 30 swipers existential crisis
Taste can be manipulated.... around 50 minutes in.r  Ham tastes more salty when its cold.  Cold things cannot be tasted as distinctly as warm... cold beer vs warm beer and bitterness.   Drinks in a blue cup were rated as more refreshing than drinks in other colors.    The Blind Wine Taste Test.... One is expensive.  One is cheap.   Surprise they are the same.    We enjoy things more with great adjectives in front of them.   The discussion of savory is a highlight.

ruth's cris steakhouse






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number 34  Garfield for President

The origins of nursery rhymes.   Humpy Dumpty (a cannon).  Mary Mary Quite Contrary (torturing opponents).   Scientists who experimented on themselves: Albert Hoffman, Jonas Salk, the speed guy.

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number 36- Manhattan mongoose

Invasive species, the starlin importation to America (Shakespeare related), the lionfish, the burmese python, the mongoose

Snopes quiz
      Et games really were in a landfill
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number 40
Dogs are both left pawed and right pawed.....
In humans it is 10 percent left handed.... dogs are even.

It is possible to tell if your dog is left or right handed....   the dominant paw is the one the dog will shake with...




number 46
The photographic memory dilemma
          One person had promise in one experiment.   The professor who ran the experiment married her and never had her tested again.
          Some people like Marylu Henner have great autobiographical memory.   They can't apply that to books.
          Noone has been apply to use photographic memory in court.
Jackie Gleason- amazing memory for scripts...



The Fear Strength Issue
          One prof says normals go from 60-72 percent of muscle capacity.
           Trained athletes go from 80-92 percent.   The professor was FSU kinesthesiology
           Under extreme fear/adrenaline people can access 100 percent of the potential....
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Edumacation 52
       metal is in our blood
       metal is in our bones
       "Head Game Hunters"

Grocery store marketing tricks
        type and tempo of music
        tile size variation
        narrow checkout isles to avoid putting away stuff
        large carts---more buying
        people only remember four prices---
                               milk, bread, eggs, bananas
        bread in paper bags vs plastic bags
        most items in the circular are not on sale....   people think they are
        10 for ten sale    89 cent tuna marked at 10 for 10 flew off the shelves

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edu number 53
       Head games hunters
       do bees have emotions?   put a can of bees in a paint agitator
       do hamsters and mice love running on wheels--- the forest wheels experiment
       robotic cockroaches
       the joyless mouse without dopamine
       transportation fears are discussed

       
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54 Guardyloo

That's what people used to say when they were emptying out champerpots in olden times.  




number 55
Smiling in pictures, when did it start and why did it start?
Mind Game Hunters- ideas for a show

Distractify article about timelines- Cleopatra was closer to the Iphone than the pyramids.

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number 56 barbara hershey

regional accents are important because talking in that accent makes it easier to understand the speech in that area.

why do we call only one liquid a gas?

A pill that makes farts smell like chocolate

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58
53 minutes    closing your eyes to improve memory
                     police bonding with witnesses...

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number 59
Cognitive biases/Recovered memories/Facial Feedback Hypothesis/ Invisible Gorilla

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Live at the Ice house 2

     miracle fruit and why sharks are safer that anything.   Vending machines kill 13 people per year.

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ugh Math
              Fake drugs vs Real Drugs "Anafranil"   "Bacta"   The Harvey Rant
              at the moment of death human beings do not lose weight...
              Do ostriches put their heads in the sand out of fear?-   checking eggs

              Deck of Cards have infinite orders
              23 people have a 50 percent change of shared birthday, 75 people have 99 percent.

              Why do people like bubble wrap?

              Kevin's I am no doctor seuss rant.    Fatwa



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Facts from unknown episodes

Fuck was first used in a hater poem from 1537
(which means that anyone who is a fan of dirty talk is also a fan of poetry)
Slang terms for lady parts.   He includes lots of them.  Here is a highlight
            AM- "The parenthesis"
            KS-  "They should have called it the exclamation point."
            AM- "As long as you don't call it the period."

            AM-"The goat milker"
            KS-  (isn't it obvious where he will go with this one)

Blowjob first appeared in print in the 1960s.   The source is that blow was a synonym for "come" for many years.


probably from 59
Bader-Meinhoff Phenomena
Hindsight Bias
Forer Effect-  (horoscope trickery)

A Way WIth Words

This podcast is all about words.   It has a focus on explaining the history of weird words and expressions.

Have you ever wondered why people describe giving up drinking as "going on the wagon"?

Relevant Episodes:
10-29-07   Dangerous Books
6-28-08 Paper to Pixels
8-11-08 Language Headlines (there are a number of eps with this title)
1-31-09  Riddled with riddles
6-6-09 Falling off the wagon
6-24-09 Serial Comma Usage
9-5-9 Texting, A Language Expert's Perspective
3-5-10 Write it Right (Ambrose Bierce)
1-22-10 Jack Lynch
4-24-10 Self Selected Reading
7-24-10 A Whole' Nother (Style Guide)
7-7-12 Forensic Linguists
10-27 12 FANBOYS and beginnings
9-17-13 Up Goer Five

Practice- Podcast Notes

What do we know about practice?

1. Ericcson's study of human expertise finds that the biggest contributor to human excellence is deliberate practice.

2. Csikszentmihalyi's study of flow says that we must attempt tasks of appropriate levels of difficulty in order to get "lost" in an activity, in order to get flow.

3. Practice must be deliberate. Practice must be toward a goal.

4. Practice must be regular. You can't cram for a physical fitness test.

5. Practice must have feedback.

6. You can practice too much.

7. Practice is not self-motivating.

Audience Podcast- My notes

Audience Podcast- My notes

Audience: Why English Class is not like Math class. One of the most important things to understand about college level writing is writing for an appropriate audience. This means writing for college professors is going to different than the writing that was done in high school. This means writing for professor Jones is going to be slightly different than writing for professor Smith. You wouldn’t could the exact same meal for two people with different tastes. You can’t write the exact same paper for two different audiences and have it be effective. In English class, we work with words, and one of the main things to understand about words is that we judge them based on a)whether they are correct and b) whether they are effective What we mean when we say writing is correct, is that it follows the standard rules of written English. What we mean when we say writing is effective, is that it gets the desired response from the audience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An example, 2+2= 4 You would write this the same way to an American and an Egyptian, a Brazilian, or South African. But you if you wanted to express thanks, you would write a different word to all four of these people. The point is that, in order to be effective, the words have to change when the audience changes. ------------------------------------------------------------ Because of this, it is smart to ask ourselves several questions about the audience for our particular paper when choosing a topic. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUDIENCE PODCAST Imagine that you are in the airport of a foreign country, and you suddenly realize that you need to go to the bathroom. You scan the section of the terminal, looking up and down the long corridors for signs. People hurry by in all directions, so you decide to stop one of them. Over and over you say, “where is the nearest bathroom?” But many of the travelers do not stop. And those that stop don’t speak English. Suddenly, at the last second, you remember that you are in Mexico, where the people speak Spanish. When you turn to the next person, you say, “donde esta el banjo?” He quickly responds by pointing down the hall, allowing you to dash off in time to avoid an embarrassing situation. [Pause] That anecdote is meant to prove a point, that smart people know that audience is important. In this podcast, I will explain why audience is important. Then I will cover the three main ways writing can be tailored to an audience. While I am explaining those things, I will give you a short list of concrete suggestions for how to tailor your writing for an academic audience. In order to gain something from listening to this, you will need to get out a pen and paper. When you hear me say the phrase: What You Need To Know, write down what I say. After listening, look at some of the examples and practice exercises, to get a better understanding. WHY AUDIENCE IS IMPORTANT Once of the most important things to understand about human communication is that we judge it differently than we judge mathematics. We judge communication according to the situation where it occurs. We call that situation the context. Since this is the case, a good communicator, a smooth talker tailors what he has to say to a specific audience. Since this is the case, a smart student or a successful employee does the same thing. There are lots of examples from daily life of judging words based on their contexts. If a person says something hurtful during an angry confrontation, we judge it differently than we would if it was said calmly over dinner. Comedians in comedy clubs say outrageous things that would get most people fired if the same statements were made at work. In other words, we judge whether a statement is appropriate by when and where it was said. We also judge it by whether it has its desired effect. Considering audience when speaking or writing is one of the most important things you can do to guarantee you are going to get the desired effect, whether you are writing a college essay or approaching a stranger to ask where the bathroom is. How TO CHANGE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING OR WRITING ACCORDING TO YOUR AUDIENCE There are three basic ways to adapt to an academic audience: choosing your words, choosing your examples, and choosing your presentation. These three methods are designed to give the audience the information they need in a way that they find convincing. Choosing words The first way we change our message to suit an audience is by changing the words we use to describe things. We use words that are familiar to the audience so that we avoid having to give unnecessary information. If I am talking to my grandmother, I say I sent a message to my friend. If I am talking to my girlfriend, I say that I texted them. This prevents my grandmother from becoming confused by a new word, and it keeps me from having to give an unwanted explanation. What you need to know is this: In academic papers, we avoid using words that are loaded with emotional connotations. We also try to use key terms from a subject in order to appeal to a specific audience. Choosing examples When writing a paper or trying to make a point, it is important to choose examples carefully. If you choose the wrong example, your audience might be confused, unconvinced, or offended. If you choose a truly terrible example, your audience might become all three. What you need to know is this: Different types of examples are considered to be more or less credible in a given subject. Within that subject, certain types of examples are going to be more or less effective. In academic writing, you want to find examples that are credible, comprehensible, and compelling to a wide audience. In general, this means avoiding pop culture references, personal experiences, and clichés. Pop culture references might not be understood. Personal experiences might not be believed, and clichés are not compelling. Some of the best examples to use are examples that relate to the personal lives of the members of your audience. Throughout these podcasts, I will be using a large number of examples about school, eating, work, and parents. I chose to do this because my audience is largely college students. Choosing your presentation Choosing the way you present your ideas is the third way to adapt to an audience, and it is the most difficult. It is much like choosing the outfit your wear to work or to school. Some people throw on the first thing that they see in their closet and walk out the door. If you’ve ever seen how I dress, you’ll know that I’m that type of guy. Other people plan out an entire outfit, making sure that the shoes match their shirt or their earrings match their necklace. When those people walk around, everyone who sees them gets the message, “I care about the way I look.” In college, choosing the way you present your ideas is all about sending the message that “I care about what I have to say in this paper.” What you need to know: In academic writing, your audience has certain expectations. There are different formats for different subjects, but you must be certain to follow those formats. Search online for a sample paper if you need help matching an MLA or an APA format paper. If your paper has specific requirements, you must be certain to meet those requirements. So let me recap the main points for you. For any audience, you will need to change the way you communicate in order to be effective. For an academic audience, you need to watch your word choices. Avoid slang. Include technical terms when you can be sure the audience will know them. Avoid terms with emotional connotations when possible. For an academic audience, you will need to watch your choice of examples. Usually this means no personal experiences, no pop culture references, and no clichés. And finally, for an academic audience, you will need to watch your presentation of ideas. If you are asked to do a certain type of paper, it is academic suicide not to follow the expected format.

Why is MLA format the way it is?-Podcast

WHY IS MLA FORMAT THE WAY IT IS?

"Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion, but everyone is not entitled to his own facts." -Daniel Webster (i think) Hook Draft When I think of the MLA, I think a little bit of the CIA, a faceless organization with great power and a desire for world domination. Except, for us, our waterboards are works cited pages and coordinating conjunctions. Seriously, since so many of you hear your professors talk about the MLA and about why it is so important to follow the format, I thought I'd explain the way a tutor sees the Modern Language Association. I'm not telling you the official story. You can get that from their website. I'm telling you a tutor's perspective on the situation. 

 The MLA is the way it is because we wanted a system that would be credible to a wide audience, that would treat other people's work with respect, and that would make the job of professors a little bit easier. I. Audience related issues- Because we wanted to insure maximum readability. a. English professors and scholars in similar fields. b. From multiple cultures. c. Perhaps far in the future. d. who are busy, skeptical people The Modern Language Association format came about for a number of different reasons. The first reason relates to issues about audience. We wanted a system that would help us to be credible with large audience. The first reason also relates to jealousy. Scholars in my field are a little bit jealous of science. One reason that science is so successful is that it is cumulative. Scientists build on the work of other scientists in order to make discoveries, and the reason they can do this is the scientific method. There is a standard for running experiments and reporting information which allows other scientists to build on earlier work. Everyone trusts the credibility of the science of the past. No matter who you are, you get in a car and expect that it will work. Even the critics of science get in an airplane that is designed according to very strict scientific laws. But what about new science? When a new scientific study comes out, why do most people believe it? The answer to that is simple. Scientific writing has a standard format. Scientists describe what they did in great detail before they tell you what the results were. They have a standard format which makes it possible for absolutely anyone to check the results. If you don't believe them, run a copy of that experiment. If you don't believe them, scientists make it easy for a person to see the truth for himself (or herself). The MLA format is our attempt to create a similar standard. Academics in the MLA wanted to create a standard, so that scholars and thinkers from multiple cultures could read each other's work and build on the ideas of the past, so we created a format that makes it easy for anyone who doesn't believe us to go and check our conclusions. So the first reason MLA is the way it is, is because we wanted to make it easy to check on our ideas. The second reason involves the song Happy Birthday. I hope you all know the song. I've been singing it at parties for years. However, I bet you didn't know this. If I sang "Happy Birthday" in front of my class as a teaching demonstration, I could be sued. Happy Birthday is a piece on property. A company owns it, and they will only let it be used under certain circumstances. You can sing it for free all day if you follow those rules. If you break those rules, you are stealing and they can sue. Their rule is that you can't sing the song in an environment where money is being made. If money is being made and "Happy Birthday" is involved, the company that owns it wants to get paid. The second reason MLA format is the way it is, is about property rights. Some people make cabinets and some make ideas. Professional writers make ideas, but here's the trick, ideas are always built on the back of previous ideas. With the exception of creative writing, all writing requires sources. The MLA is a system for making sure those sources get recognized and, sometimes, paid. So we made the rule that anytime a writer uses the words, the ideas, or the information of another, that use must be acknowledged. If the use is exact, we quote the words and cite the source. If the use is inexact, we still cite the source. If a student doesn't do that, he or she is stealing ideas. Changing the words doesn't change where the source came from. Teachers get paid to help us learn and sources get cited for helping us learn. As my friend Aaron Kerley once put it, "if I steal a car and then put another coat of paint on it, it doesn't magically become my car. It is a stolen car." So the first reason MLA is the way it is, is in order to be credible to a wide audience. The second reason why the MLA is the way it is, is to protect the property of thinkers. III. Convenience Issues -To save time and avoid confusion a. Headers were developed to help professors deal with large stacks of papers. b. Works Cited pages are arranged so a reader can quickly scan a large list in order to find a desired entry. The final reason that the MLA is the way it is, deals with the job of being a professor. Profesors deal with large stacks of papers all the time. Sometimes professors are well organized and sometimes they are not. The header information that is required in MLA format is to help professors keep papers organized. If a paper is placed in the wrong filing cabinet or the wrong mailbox, including the name, date, teacher, and class on the top left side of the first page means that anyone who finds it can quickly place it where it is needed. The name and page number that goes on the top right of the other pages has a simple one, staples. Over time or because of a bad stapling job. Papers sometimes come loose. The name and page number make it easy to get every page into the right order. Many of the other peculiarities of MLA style have this explanation. We use hanging indents on the works cited page so that it is easy to search through a long list to find exactly what you want. We don't include the year in with our in text citations because the humanities, unlike science, doesn't change much over time. Hamlet today, contains the same exact words that it did 50 years ago. So there you have it. We didn't create this system to torture you. We created it to gain credibility with a wide audience, to handle other people's ideas with respect, and to make it easy for professors to handle large numbers of papers. Now you know why the MLA format is the way it is. The hard part is what comes next, using MLA format to create a works cited page.