Month: April 2014

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TLDR - #23 – A Bitcoin Story for People Who Don’t Care About Bitcoin

When Wired reporter Andy Greenberg read Newsweek's cover story claiming to have found mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, he was disappointed. Not so much that the mystery had been solved, but that the answer to the search was not all that interesting. But then, as the Newsweek started getting picked apart, he got a tip about another possible Bitcoin creator: a very ill, very brilliant cryptographer named Hal Finney. 

Andy Greenberg is the author of This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information.

Donate to Hal Finney's care here. 

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Serious Inquiries Only - AS26: CJ Werleman and Noah Lugeons, Part 2

CJ, Noah and Thomas continue the discussion of CJ’s contentious article about atheists and Islamic terrorism.  Then, Thomas talks about a segment which was meant to debut in this episode but didn’t. Because of that, he then introduces a replacement segment called “WTF Salon.com” or something like that. Article discussed: http://www.salon.com/2014/04/19/science_doesnt_disprove_god_where_richard_dawkins_and_new_atheists_go_wrong/ Also, for an exclusive, … Continue reading AS26: CJ Werleman and Noah Lugeons, Part 2 →

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #32 – “The Happiest Place on Earth” with Brent Schmidt

In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys talk to comedian Brent Schmidt about his time working in the two happiest places on Earth: on the lifeguard stand at Disneyworld and in the halls of power as a Senate page in Washington D.C. Plus: Who is the biggest asshole on Capitol Hill? Who gets to fuck the Disney princesses? All these questions and more will be answered! Dig in, daddy. Find Brent on Twitter @IAmBrentSchmidt.  Follow the show @TheGoodsPod  Rivers is @RiversLangley  Dr. Pat is @PM_Reilly  Mr. Goodnight is @SepulvedaCowboy  Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

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Start the Week - James Lovelock

Picture of James Lovelock provided by the Science Museum

Anne McElvoy looks back at the life of the maverick scientist James Lovelock who pioneered the theory of Gaia, of a self-regulating Earth. Lovelock also looks to the future and the next evolution of Gaia which could lead to the extinction of human life, and a rise of Artificial Intelligence, but the writer and ecologist George Monbiot prefers his future world with wolves, wild boars and beavers living alongside humans. The UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change has warned to expect more volatile weather patterns, and the physicist Joanna Haigh explains how scientists from all disciplines are working together to measure the impact of solar activity on the Earth's climate.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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Serious Inquiries Only - AS25: Are Atheists Ignorant About Islamic Terrorism? with CJ Werleman and Noah Lugeons

Thank you, amazing Patreon Patrons!!!! Then, another week of Tommentary, which was well received in it’s debut. After that, Thomas has CJ Werleman and Noah Lugeons on to discuss CJ’s contentious article “How Hatred of Islam Creates Strange Bedfellows of Christians and Atheists.” Listeners who like Atheistically Speaking on Facebook will know that Thomas has some … Continue reading AS25: Are Atheists Ignorant About Islamic Terrorism? with CJ Werleman and Noah Lugeons →

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Magic Numbers

Do you have a favourite number - one you love, one you think stands out from all the others? Author Alex Bellos joins us to talk about his quest to find the world's favourite number and discuss whether numbers really can be magical, mystical and memorable, or whether it's all mumbo jumbo. Why are odd numbers so appealing? Which number strikes fear into some people's hearts? And why do lists of questions like these always come in threes? This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Were there really ‘lost races’ of man?

We've all heard about Neanderthals -- but what else was out there? Join the guys as they take a closer look at the facts behind the folklore, digging deeper to see if there's any grain of truth to the legends of giants, gnomes and more.

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