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Notes from 6. Caylan Ford

Posted on June 4, 2020

Here are the show notes from my conversation with Caylan Ford. As always, the actual minute will be around 1 -2 minutes later than usual. So if you want to hear about Caylan’s preference for milk oolong green tea, it won’t be at 0:00 but rather at 1:30 or 2:00 ish. If you’d like to do some reading on the texts that she ent which turned into a complete nightmare, they’re pretty easy to find by googling her name. IfRead More→

Shownotes from Zach

Posted on May 29, 2020

Here are the reading notes from my conversation with Zach. We talked for nearly two hours and talked about a bunch of things.  2.30 Trad arch: ornamentation, based on old designs. Modernism: clean lines, no ornamentation.  5:00 Zach’s experience at school: you’ve always got to “reinterpret” the architecture; you can’t just build a building. Notre Dame Architecture school, traditional architecture.  Immersion in minimalism and modernism, how Zach came to like traditional architecture. “Beauty” – the word. How architects reject the notion. Read More→

Show Notes from Michael Kudla

Posted on May 24, 2020

0:00 – Being a 7th day Adventist; how the community has its own education system.  6:30 – Being taught evolution in a Christian High School.  9:04 – Cracks in his faith – bible study, reading apologetics. 10:32 – More cracks – conversations with friends, watching the Four Horsemen online, debates.  13:00 – Solution to the doubt – a la Descartes! Figure out first principles. But also, how his social life disappeared.  15:33 – The personal and logical arguments he used to think aboutRead More→

Show notes from Nikola Kuzmanovic

Posted on May 7, 2020

Here’s where you can listen to the podcast: Anchor Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Here are the topics we covered, roughly speaking. 0:00 Why, Eugene, should you start a podcast? What do you seek to accomplish with it? COVID-19, epistemology, and what it means to be a contrarian. Changing people’s beliefs, encouraging critical thinking. Whether dialogue and discourse are worthwhile. Changing behaviours and actions. Finally, how face-to-face discourse reveals new options and invokes humanity. ~33:00 The place of experience in persuasion,Read More→