Bad Philosophy

Matt, Kevin, and Stephen don their student hats once again to talk Dan Ariely, education, and soft colonialism… on the way to Mars!

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Barack Obama, cheating, college, Colonialism, Coursera, Dan Ariely, economics, education, English, essay mills, globalism, government, grading, Honduras, Hong Kong, Kevin, Mars One, Matt, outsourcing, plagiarism, SimCity, Stephen, Steve Jobs, Texas, The Wire, This American Life, Tim Cook, Triangulation

For no particular reason we’ve decided to try something *BRAND NEW* on this week’s episode of Bad Philosophy. Kevin and I pulled a few articles and a comic out of the news, grabbed a couple of beers, and dove in to the stories for an hour. What came was something of a nice balance between […]

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advertising, age, Apple, babies, beer, brain, Choose Your Own Adventure, CNN, Corky's, corporatism, Dan 3.0, Dan Brown, E!, epistemology, Facebook, fate, Firefox, gay marriage, Groupon, Hank Green, homosexuality, How I Met Your Mother, Japan, Josh Stevens, Kevin, marketing, Mashable, Massachusetts, Memphis, Neil Patrick Harris, Newton, patronage, philosophy of mind, Prop 8, QuakeCon, reality TV, Red Stripe, Risk, scams, Shiner, society, Squarespace, Stephen, SubNormality, Texas, TiVo, Todd TV, TV, Ulysses, VirusComix, Will and Grace

Progress is a tricky thing. It doesn’t always go like you think it should. Sometimes the days are Blue and Sunny, sometimes things blow up in your face, and sometimes you just have to put yourself out there and let it happen. What I’m trying to say is, of course, that BF had an AWESOME […]

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artificial intelligence, Bad Astronomy, broadcasting, Bryan, C++, Care Bears, censorship, Cory Doctorow, creationism, crowdsourcing, DiggNation, Dollhouse, DVR, education, evolution, facial hair, G4, George Carlin, HTML, Jonathan Coulton, Kansas, Kevin, magic, meta, Microsoft, Murphy's Law, music, non sequitur, Penn and Teller, Phil Platt, Ratty the Puppet, religion, Revision3, Ringo Starr, science, Shakespeare, SkyNet, Smurfs, Snorks, Stephen, Stickam, Sweeney Todd, TechTV, Texas, The Broken, theater, This Week at Texas Tech, This Week in Tech, Thomas the Tank Engine, To Kill a Mockingbird, Transformers, TWiT, Twitter, Voltron, Windows Live, X-Play, XML

We’re in a crisis today, peeps. Healthcare in the United States is whack, and everybody’s got a plan to fix it. We may not be Obama’s advisory board, but we’ll be darned if BF is gonna sit on the sidelines for this most relevant of issues. Numero Uno fanboy Jediah Cummins joined us for his first appearance alongside Matt Legler (and LO, the universe did NOT explode!). We had our crazy awesome microphone setup going once again, so hold onto your W2 form, strap on a heart monitor, and take a speed-of-light tour on the healthcare freeway – BF style!

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2012, AIDS, alcohol, altruism, American Sign Language, appendectomy, Arsenic and Old Lace, Articles of Confederation, Barack Obama, Battlestar Galactica, Bill Nye, Canada, cancer, Cary Grant, Catholicism, China, Chinese, cholesterol, Christianity, Colorado, Congress, Constitution, Coronado High School, corporations, crime, Cuba, cursing, Department of Homeland Security, diabetes, doctors, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog, Dungeons and Dragons, Durango, economics, England, Europe, Family Guy, Firefly, FOX, FOX News, frak, free market, French, Freudian slip, Frost/Nixon, George Carlin, grapples, Havana, health insurance, healthcare, Hillary Clinton, HMOs, Houston, Hypocratic Oath, imperial system, income tax, infant mortality, Jack Black, Japan, Jediah, John F. Kennedy, John Gabriel's Internet F***wad Theory, Jonathan Coulton, Joss Whedon, junk food, Kevin, life span, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Matt, MD Anderson, meta, metric system, Michael Moore, military, MIT, Monopoly, National Health Service, NRA, obesity, OECD, Oscars, Paris, Penny Arcade, personal responsibility, Pledge of Allegiance, pregnancy, prescriptions, preventative care, Quakers, quality of life, Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, selfishness, Serenity, SI, Sicko, Social Security, socialism, Spanish, Star Flight, Stephen, supply and demand, tariffs, taxes, Tenacious D, Texas, Texas Tech University, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Daily Show, The Internet, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Weather Channel, TV, Veronica Mars, Walgreen's, World of Warcraft