Saturday, November 18, 2017

Unseen Pub #7

We had Unseen Pub #7 on the 17th of November 2017. Participants were Marsha Barnhart, Patrick Festa, Nick Nielsen, and Paul Carr. As usual, the topics ranged widely. Or wildly.


Saturday, November 11, 2017

Episode 83 - Mind Legos: the Burger King James Version



Recorded: 10 November 2017
Released: 11 November 2017
Duration: 92 minutes, 12 seconds

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One of Caleb Carr's many lego creations

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists (King) James Garrison, Nick Nielsen (Benevolent Dictator of the Planet Entire), and (King of the Universe) Patrick Festa for a wide ranging conversation about education. Some of those Lego jokes fall a bit flat..
What would you do about education if you were Benevolent Dictator? Or Andrew Carnegie?

Links

Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
What's Your Problem with Higher Education?
Primitive Technology YouTube Channel
LEGO Women of NASA Kit
James Burke BBC Connections
Juvenile violent crime arrest rates
Chad Davies' Scientific Odyssey Podcast
Nick Nielsen: Was anyone 1000 years ago as smart as someone with average intelligence today?

Credits

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky
Platform: Google Hangouts on Air
Hardware: Shure, Pro Art, TASCAM, Focusrite, Apple, Plugable, & 1 crappy USB cable
Software: Chrome, Reaper, Loopback, Scarlett Mix Control, Auphonic Leveller, OS X Sierra

The Unseen Podcast is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.