Skill Collector: Recent Episodes
Mentor Palokaj
This SC podcast spends 10 minutes crashing through some interesting and random ideas. Some will be based on philosophy, others in technology and yet others in psychology and science. In essence everything is fair game.
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Zwarte Piet or Black Pete is the helper of Saint Nicholas in the Dutch Sinterklaas celebration. There is a current debate about abolishing him since people take the tradition of offensive.
Black Pete is not a racist tradition. To begin with he is not a black slave, but a Moor slavetrader. Besides that I'm disgusted by the attitude of our society in which everyone looks at everything trying their very best to interpret things in a hurtful way.
In this podcast we go into the history of Black Pete (Zwarte Piet) and discuss some moral arguments on the matter.
Bitcoins are relatively easy to understand. Their mathematical basis is more obscure, but to use them we don't need that :)
Reading is fun, but costs time. Let's go over some ways to speed up your knowledge acquisition skills...
5 days away from civilization packed with physical and psychological stress. What could possibly go wrong?
What does meditation do to your brain? It's fascinating and deserves 5 minutes of your attention.
Think about it for a second, did you ever sign a contract saying your government is your boss? So why can they boss you around? Let's have a look at the practical and philosophical aspects to this so you can sound fancy at a dinner party.
Alcohol is awesome. From a biochemical perspective I mean... Next time you drink, you will now be able to rationalize your behavior. Yay!
Genetics are not a blueprint. Stop being an idiot. Listen to this podcast, and then go out and get a PhD.
Living for a long time can be influenced by some lifestyle choices. In ten minutes we crash through some of the traditional, experimental and futuristic ones.
Today we're discussing some very widely believed things about food that are not true. This is stuff you really should know, but depressingly probably don't....
Democracy is not as good as it sounds. Let's discuss some of the problems so you can have an educated opinion...