Teen Nerd Talks: Recent Episodes
Wisley Lau
A teenage nerd named Wisley chats with his friends about matters relating to science and ethics before turning the subject to everything science-related
Weekly with weird posting dates
Link for sources in season 1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w0TUaaXok23I88QX1gyaF00MDFdX-OPrv07UukgKj8o/edit?usp=sharing
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In this episode, Wisley joins Maki, Isabel, Malika, and new guest Megan to discuss the problems facing LGBT rights and the community. From bathroom bills, and transgender athletes to gender-affirming care and how the media like the New York Times cover trans issues. There is a lot of controversies to discuss and debate in this episode!
On the day before International Women's Day and during Women's History Month, Wisley listens to Malika and Maki as they discuss the progress and persisting issues regarding feminism and the journey of women's rights. They also discuss the societal issues behind the #metoo movement, sexual harassment, feminism without femininity, abortion rights, and what makes a woman a woman.
On this special news episode of Teen Nerd Talks, Wisley joins Malika and Maki in discussing the breaking news that Hong Kong ends the mask mandates on March 1st, the second year into the war in Ukraine, Russia's reeducation of Ukrainian children, western support for Ukraine waning while Russia escalates chances of a new world war, the IB allowing ChatGPT to be cited in students' essays, how AI and ChatGPT might become the next Wikipedia through hallucinating, Fox News getting sued by Dominion the voting machine company, how right-wing media operates, Dilbert Cartoonist's racist comments and newspaper reactions, and Elon Musk's ludicrous reaction.
Yeah, we talked a lot here...
On this Valentines' day, the group talks all things about friendships and romantic relationships! From how people define friendships, and how they grow and develop to how romantic friendships can be maintained. Also, a discussion about online friends and advice to those who need them on relationships!
What does CRT, M&Ms and gas stoves have in common? They’re all part of the culture wars of the 2020s. In this episode, Wisley, Malika, Maki, and Isabel discuss the elements that make culture wars so relevant, criticize the woke and anti woke sides for their problems, and discuss a way out of the toxic debate surrounding cancel culture and wokeism
In the first of the thematic episodes of TNT, Wisley and his friends Maki, Malika, and Isabel chat about the Y13 IB mock exams that happened in mid-January, rant about the applicability and flaws of tests and exams, and shine a spotlight on university applications and their abandonment of exams like the SAT.
In the final episode of 2022, Wisley joins Malika and Maki to chat about the royal family, especially the coverage and treatment by the UK press and the family on Harry, Meghan, and their new Netflix documentary. After that, they discuss the highlights and important events of 2022, from the War in Ukraine to howof the year affected women in good and bad ways. Also: Christmas celebrations, culture wars, and veteran treatments are briefly discussed.
Next episode will be recorded and published on Feb 2023
In this episode of TNT, Wisley joins Malika, Maki, and Isabel to discuss the excitement and controversies behind the World Cup currently happening in Qatar, how sports and human rights like LGBT rights should be treated, and the fun perks of whomever the winners of the World Cup could get. Meanwhile, the discussion also involves Blackpink awarded Time's Entertainer Of The Year, the influence of K-Pop fans, and the discussion with the capitalization of the music takes a swift turn to how Taylor Swift made everyone mad at Ticketmaster.
After more than a year, Teen Nerd Talks is back!
Joining with Wisley the host, Maki, Malika, and Isabel discuss what the hell is going on with Elon Musk's messed up Twitter, Kanye West's deranged, Nazi sympathizing and anti-semetic appearance with Alex Jones on Infowars, the end of Roe v Wade through cultural and social perspectives, how the midterms have changed the political chemistry in the US but the toxic discourse has clearly not.
I will be the first to admit not writing a script before this episode and the past two episodes is not really a good idea... But anyway, here is one monologue about the Harry Meghan interview, Piers Morgan (briefly), US Biden bills, cancel culture, and the China Russia moon deal. Then main stories will be about the three successful Mars missions, then about COVID restriction relaxing and vaccine issues, finally a brief notice on asteroid prevention.
This is all recorded in one time, no editing, no planning, no scripts, just directly out of my mind episode
IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE WHO IS FACING STRESS OR DEPRESSION
HELPFUL TO STUDENTS< KIDS AND TEENAGERS
This episode includes a monologue to recap the week (with bad humor), Dennis and Wisley talk causes and effects of stress and depression. Explores and experiments how to solve these problems by ranting about school work as the personal project, homework, and educational problems facing students like the get it done mentality.
I am back with season 2 of teen nerd talks (TNT). Featuring more guests, more topics, and (hopefully) more comedy, humor, and fun.
In the final episode, Wisley talks with his friend Shraddha about coronavirus response in the medical field, the technological and practical field, and the political field. With the ethical parts in it. PS: To all the people who are affected by the coronavirus, I wish you all recover soon and stay healthy, for the doctors and first responders, thank you so much, we are all owe to your debt, and to the rest of us not affected by COVID-19, stay safe, socially distance yourselves and wear a mask!
Wisley joins with his friend Dennis about the safety of gene editing on biohackers, embryo gene editing, and eugenics, see an entertaining discussion between the two as they delve it into the complicated and risky territory of the ethical world of genetics. Additional information: Jennifer Doudna, the discoverer of CRISPR, who we mentioned in the podcast, was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier for the discovery of gene editing, but we recorded the episode a week before the announcement, so here I would like to congratulate the both of them for awarding the Nobel prize
Wisley talks to his friend and podcaster Laurence from L Laurence's Podcast about AI, facial recognition, autonomous cars and limits of AI in this interesting podcast
Hello and welcome to my podcast, I am Wisley Lau and you are listening to Teen Nerd Talks, I will be uploading episodes to Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and other podcasting platforms within the next few weeks, so please make sure before that, please subscribe to it and I hope you all will love the dialogue in between.