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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 24 days 22 hours 46 minutes
RFT ReCast - Ep 320 - The Buyer Beware Edition
This Week: - The psychology of shopping - The Compromise effect - The Reality of Boxing Day - When less cost more and - A lot more on tricks retailers use to get your money.
RFT - Recast - Ep 315 The Juvenoia Edition
This Week's Webs Wisdom: Juvenoia - Vsauce, Why we hate cheap thing - The School of Life, Debunking Exoplanets - PBS Space Time, A history of Robotics - SciShow,and Periodic Table Song - ASAPScience.
RFT - Ep 357 - Feels Like The End Of The World Edition
This Week: Thought about the Trump Election, Web Wisdom: - What Does Dark Energy Really Do? - Did Dark Energy Just Disappear? - Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR - Weapons of Math Destruction - Talk by Cathy O'Neil...
RFT - Ep 356 - Lanour Coop Edition
This week some web wisdom on unions and the power of coops: - On Wealth and Labor - Progressive Faith Sermons www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gkejN5WSnU - The social and ecological benefits of sharing the load - Economic Update...
RFT - Ep 355 - The Presidential Edition
This week we take a deep dive into how one becomes President of the United States...how much power does the president really have. We close the show with some web wisdom from Crash Course Government and Politics: - Political Parties...
RFT - Ep354 - The Biased Algorithm Edition
The School of Life - History: Consumerism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Unq3R--M0 10 RSA Animate - Economics is for Everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbbcO35arw 11/49 James Gleick on Big Think - Time Travel in Science Fiction: A Brief...
RFT - ReCast - Ep 277 - Let's go GMO Edition
This week: A whine about the threat of AI to the future of humanity... Also, everything you need to know about GMO - We cover the basics of genetics... - How we have manipulated the genome of plants and animals for countless millenniums... - How...
RFT ReCast - Ep 241 - Debating God Edition
Don's Rant turned into a primer and tutorial about how to debate a charismatic christian apologist. Having listened to a debate between an Atheist and an Apologist on the topic "Is it rational to believe in god". However quickly the Apologist changed...
RFT - Ep 353 - The Saint Teresa Edition
This week web wisdom: How Words Can Harm - Crash Course Philosophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ESU5ONMMxs We Are Built To Be Kind - Fig. 1 by University of California https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWs6bf7tvI Medical Device Failure, and How...
RFT - Ep352 - The Bathroom Bill Edition
This week we are joined by one of our irregular regulars, Gulid who wants to know what's up with Bathroom bills south of the boarder. WE also take a deep dive into the concept of gender...what is it, why is it and just what does it really mean.