Episode 5: Obvious Deception
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On this episode: “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact” (Arthur Conan Doyle).
Diversions/Explorations include:
- The snake ripping your throat out is the one to worry about
- Some great discussion defining ‘obvious facts’
- The King of Red
- We are not chemists
- Barry Schwartz’s Paradox of Choice
- Francis Fukuyama and ‘The End of History’
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Sources you might like:
Canadian Snow Plow Names
Sir Ernest Rutherford
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1908/rutherford/biographical/
Atomic Structure https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understanding-radiation/what-is-radiation/ionising-radiation/atomic-structure
How Scientists View Quantum Physics
https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/how-scientists-view-quantum-physics/
Paradox of Choice
https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice?language=en
The End of History - Francis Fukuyama
https://www.embl.de/aboutus/science_society/discussion/discussion_2006/ref1-22june06.pdf
But What If We're Wrong?
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533521/but-what-if-were-wrong-by-chuck-klosterman/
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