Episode 5: Obvious Deception

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

https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/plowy-mcplowface-austin-plowers-among-winning-names-chosen-for-barrie-s-snowplow-fleet-1.5306888  

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/