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Offline Citizen Skeptic

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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #45 on: May 20, 2011, 12:00:52 PM »
Quote from: GodSlayer on May 20, 2011, 06:13:38 AM
Quote from: Rayna on May 20, 2011, 05:15:53 AM
Easiest Fact or fiction ever :)

Also, Rebecca, There is this other village/people that use rocks as currency as well although I have no references....

This village has this rock in the centre of the village, and when they trade they trade their share of the rock... Everyone in the village owns a specific amount of the rock and they barter for their shares of the rock.... Peoples shares are drawn/painted on it and changed when deals are done...

is this a Wall St joke?

if it isn't it should be.
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #46 on: May 20, 2011, 01:21:16 PM »
Quote from: Entropydave on May 18, 2011, 07:29:37 AM
Great podcast as usual....

Have to blow my own trumpet though.... for the first time EVAR I not only got the Science or Fiction correct, I got it correct immediately as the questions were asked!
I even knew that Mme Curie's first name is Sklowodska - because she has a uranium mineral named after her which i have in my collection called Cuprosklowodskite.

Not sure why i am telling you all... must be screaming "Validate me....please! Validate me!"
Jeez I'm pathetic.

 ???

You should know how proud I was when I had a question spawn a 'Name that Logical Fallacy'... although they couldn't pronounce a simple city name like Göteborg...
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #47 on: May 21, 2011, 01:40:10 PM »
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #48 on: May 21, 2011, 07:54:21 PM »
Quote from: Anders on May 20, 2011, 01:21:16 PM
You should know how proud I was when I had a question spawn a 'Name that Logical Fallacy'... although they couldn't pronounce a simple city name like Göteborg...

stupid Americans, spending their time learning critical thinking instead of Scandinavian grammar! critical thinking won't help them get directions to Oslo!
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #49 on: May 21, 2011, 08:25:36 PM »
wrong thread.
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #50 on: May 21, 2011, 10:17:17 PM »
Thanks Steve for that Element book idea, my 14 son will love it  ;D
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #51 on: May 22, 2011, 05:45:27 PM »
Quote from: GodSlayer on May 21, 2011, 07:54:21 PM
instead of Scandinavian grammar!
I saw a clip ages ago but couldn't remember it, this jogged my memory enough to find it again so I'll mention it: youtube a clip called danish language.. i nearly wet myself.. it has a little swearing in it if you care about that kind of thing.
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #52 on: May 22, 2011, 10:42:23 PM »
Quote from: Citizen Skeptic on May 20, 2011, 12:00:52 PM
Quote from: GodSlayer on May 20, 2011, 06:13:38 AM
Quote from: Rayna on May 20, 2011, 05:15:53 AM
Easiest Fact or fiction ever :)

Also, Rebecca, There is this other village/people that use rocks as currency as well although I have no references....

This village has this rock in the center of the village, and when they trade they trade their share of the rock... Everyone in the village owns a specific amount of the rock and they barter for their shares of the rock.... Peoples shares are drawn/painted on it and changed when deals are done...

is this a Wall St joke?

if it isn't it should be.

Nope dead serious... Although This was shared in my first year economics paper which was back in 2006 and this is all i remember so have no idea how to reference it.
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #53 on: May 23, 2011, 03:20:05 PM »
those stones were also discussed (I believe) in Dawkins' the god delusion, or the ones Rayna was talking about.

those asking about sociopath and psychopath, have you seen Steve's post related to the book over a week ago on neurologica?
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #54 on: May 23, 2011, 04:19:13 PM »
Quote from: magra178 on May 23, 2011, 03:20:05 PM
those asking about sociopath and psychopath, have you seen Steve's post related to the book over a week ago on neurologica?

nope.
is there a podcast version of his blog? :)
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #55 on: May 23, 2011, 05:15:33 PM »
haha, not that I know of, but here's the link:
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/categorizing-brain-function/

it's a great blog!
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #56 on: May 29, 2011, 02:34:57 PM »
Damn that SoF was easy. I immediately thought of bromine.
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #57 on: May 29, 2011, 02:49:39 PM »
Quote from: vespine on May 22, 2011, 05:45:27 PM
Quote from: GodSlayer on May 21, 2011, 07:54:21 PM
instead of Scandinavian grammar!

I saw a clip ages ago but couldn't remember it, this jogged my memory enough to find it again so I'll mention it: youtube a clip called danish language.. i nearly wet myself.. it has a little swearing in it if you care about that kind of thing.


I don't know about Danish, but that sounds like a description for this video introduction to Swedish:

Simple Swedish - Episode 1


I was choking on my drink by about half way through.

(click to show/hide)

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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #58 on: May 31, 2011, 10:50:21 AM »
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Re: Episode #304
« Reply #59 on: Jun 09, 2011, 04:15:56 PM »
Great episode.  As a chemist myself, I was really glad to hear some chem talk in this one.
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