VSI Episode 14

Original Website Blurb from 2011

This one is a hog, folks.  Almost 40 minutes long, and that’s after I cut an hour of us talking about other stuff.  Just the upload gave me time to read my son his bedtime chapters of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  We’re up to where the giant computer Deep Thought gives the philosophers Majikthise and Vroomfondel another 7.5 million years to argue about Life, the Universe, and Everything while it is processing its own answer.  Is this appropriate reading for a nine-year-old?  He seems to think it's funny.

It goes without saying (although I'm saying it anyway) that the opinions expressed in this podcast by Hager and me are in no way supported by the National Science Foundation, the Freemasons who secretly run the country, or the good people at Big Bone Lick State Park, "The Birthplace of American Vertebrate Paleontology."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bone_Lick_State_Park

I got to thinking again about the complete unreality of money when I heard an NPR report about a brand-new and completely made-up online currency called BitCoin.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/08/24/138673630/what-is-bitcoin

Updates from 2021

The Ark Park

Is open now, with a museum, a zoo, a restaurant, and zip lines (‘cause they totally had those in the Bible). And great news, all COVID restrictions are lifted.

https://arkencounter.com/

Cryptocurrencies

I spent several years writing a blog on Steemit.com, which I always described as a cross between BitCoin and Reddit, where authors got paid for writing and curators got paid for voting. A lot of what I wrote there was book reviews, but there was other good stuff, too. Some of it was about trying to make sense of cryptocurrencies themselves, and how they might be made useful, rather than just a toy for speculators to bet on.

REFERENCES from the show

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/fallacies.html

https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/fallacies/

https://pandasthumb.org/

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gee-time.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hovind

https://www.icr.org/

https://www.discovery.org/

https://evolution-institute.org/profile/david-sloan-wilson/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_painting

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poe

https://landoverbaptist.org/

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/