Hi Norm here ... Cardboard Conjecture is a podcast where I talk about board games and I have opinions and conclusions formed on the basis of incomplete information!
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Two long-titted bozos shoot hypotheticals to one another. Travesty ensues. Starring Alex Keel & Vincent Cerreta (follow us on Twitter!)
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Sam Lay and Harry Crane present a podcast about two friends who don’t let a lack of information stop them from tackling the most fascinating questions of our time. “Conjecture” | Noun | An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.
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A Horror-ish Comedy Podcast. Come for the scares, stay for the laughs! Hosted by Rob, Laura and Greg.
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A show about film, tv, working in Hollywood and everything in-between that pops into our heads but without all the usual pretentiousness.
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Human Nurture Podcast -- Jason Brand, LCSW
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Where Factual and Fictional Engage In Fisticuffs! Have you ever wondered who would win a fight between the US Presidents? Have you ever shuddered at the possibilities of superheroes, movie characters, and literary icons coming to blows? Want to learn history in the most action movie way possible? Let the battle begin!
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Join Eric & Matt Fridays for THiRD SHiFT, our weekly Gearbox and gaming podcast!
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How much can we learn from an entombed skeleton? This album introduces Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, an Etruscan noblewoman whose remains, along with her magnificent painted sarcophagus and life-size model, provide us with an unequalled insight a Roman life around 150 BC. The Etruscans were the original inhabitants of Italy before the Romans, and Seianti’s sarcophagus and skeleton reveal a huge amount about their customs and society, as well as her own health, lifestyle and status. Medical artis ...
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This is a podcast largely about the work of David Deutsch and his books ”The Beginning of Infinity” and ”The Fabric of Reality”.
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Maths on the Move, the podcast from plus.maths.org, will bring you the latest news from the world of maths, plus interviews and discussions with leading mathematicians and scientists about the maths that is changing our lives. Hosted by Plus editors Rachel Thomas and Marianne Freiberger.
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A podcast by journalist, author, editor, broadcaster, and educator, Jeff Riggenbach.
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The most ambitious crossover event in history. Jack and Joe take two unrelated films and cram them together into one. Send us a message: contact@trickeyjoe.com
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The Whatever! Podcast with Charlie Stone is an exploration of Whoever, Wherever, and Whatever, from Cryptids to World History, to Pure Nonsense.
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My name is Tedy Nenu and I am the host of the 'Philosophical Trials' podcast. This is a place where philosophers, mathematicians, linguists and other bright individuals share with us fascinating aspects of their work. Whether you are interested in the nature of mathematical reality or how language works, there will be an episode here that caters to your interests.
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Conversations with technologists about technology. Hosted by Amy Tom and the HackerNoon Team
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--DISCLAIMER-- It is what it is. All information discussed in this podcast is solely the opinions and views of John Stothton and his extremely intelligent expert guests. In no way should this information be considered professional advice in any aspect of one's life. This information works for John solely because he is so much better than you.
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Every year the Arnold Sommerfeld Center (ASC) for Theoretical Physics at the LMU in Munich organizes a school for PhD students. It covers topics which are of current interest in theoretical physics and range from more applied fields like condensed matter physics to rather mathematical fields like string theory. Announcements of upcoming schools can be found on the ASC schools webpage and a list of past schools can be found in the archive of the ASC schools.
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Welcome to The Miami Chronicles. Season One is titled "Booby Trap" - it's a factual, coming of age story set in the suburbs of North Miami during the late 1970s. The story revolves around the tragic murder of a 14-year-old boy. Told by one of the victim’s friends, the story describes the antics of Gen-X teens that lead to the death of boy scout Richard Brush Jr., who was killed by a booby trap device set up by his scoutmaster, Carmine ‘Chuck’ Falco, in Falco’s home. The police wrote it off a ...
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What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole? … Well, like as not, you already know that story — the one told by Bill DeSmedt in his award-winning novel/podcast Singularity. What you may not know, though, is the story behind the story: the science behind Singularity. Surprisingly (or maybe not), you can learn a lot about primordial black holes and the Tunguska Event and black hole radiation and the Big Bang on the ...
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In Your House | Indie World, Nintendo Direct, Conjecture Land
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This week Matt smiles and irons, Eric's a scoundrel, we discuss the Nintendo 2-Pack (Indie World + Partner Showcase), and we break out the canoe to go to Conjecture Land! Releases: Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, Iron Meat, & Star Wars OutlawsBy THiRD SHiFT
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Deliberate Practice and Emotion-Focused Therapy- Empathic Conjectures
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You can also watch this webinar on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UgGAl4fq5KYBy humannurture
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What's in the Box? | Borderlands 4, Gamescom ONL
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This week Eric gets mythic, Matt goes West, Gearbox announces Borderlands 4, and we break down our favorites from Gamescom Opening Night Live! Releases: Black Myth: Wukong & ArcoBy THiRD SHiFT
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Deliberate Practice in Motivational Interviewing: Reflecting Change Talk
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This podcast is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-t3MTAHY_cBy humannurture
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Deliberate Practice for Psychodynamic Therapy: Using Metaphors
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Mid-Life Crisis | Borderlands movie, Tango Gameworks, Remedy, Mailbag
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This week Matt does things, Eric goes to Vegas, we share some thoughts on the Borderlands movie, the resurrection of Tango Gameworks, the latest updates from Remedy Entertainment, and we go hands-on in the Mailbag! Releases: Just Crow Things & Hellbreach: VegasBy THiRD SHiFT
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Book Boys | Borderlands movie, PSVR2, Game Informer, THQ Nordic
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This week Eric gets isekaied, Matt presses the button, PSVR2 gets its PC adapter, the Borderlands movie hits theaters, Game Informer says goodbye, and we catch a couple items from the THQ Nordic Showcase! Releases: I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ISEKAI Chronicles & One BTN BossesBy THiRD SHiFT
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This week Matt gives thanks, Eric goes hunting, Matt finally remembers Fallout London, and we discuss the latest layoffs from Bungie! Releases: Thank Goodness You're Here! & Star Wars: Bounty HunterBy THiRD SHiFT
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Deliberate Practice for Psychodynamic Therapy: Pointing Out Defenses and Inquiring About Underlying Fear
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The video of this webinar is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg3MP5KkmQgBy humannurture
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Deliberate Practice for Psychodynamic Therapy: Making Process Comments
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Cardboard Conjecture #161 - Critique of the BGG Top 100 : games #10 - #1
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Cardboard Conjecture #161 - Critique of the BGG Top 100 : games #10 - #1 In this episode, Chris and I finally get to complete the top 100 list by having a few words about the last ten games in our series. Have a listen, don't roll your eyes too much ... don't percussively exhale during comments, and of all things DON'T GO OUT AND BUY MORE GAMES. No…
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Something Weird | Resurrecting Dead Franchises
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This week Eric gets conscripted, Matt goes on the defensive, Borderlands 3 gets a surprise cosmetic drop, and the Mailbag has us discussing what video game franchises we'd like to see again! Releases: Conscript & Earth Defense Force 6By THiRD SHiFT
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Ep 214: Resources, Wealth, Technology, Error Correction and Knowledge Creation
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The title is long enough so you look for more here? ;) This one is largely, in truth about energy and what it can do for us. Across the almost 90 minutes I cover how the concepts in the title logically cohere and depend one upon the other and we take a look at "the universal constructor" and compare the possibilities for an optimistic distant futur…
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The secret to a happy summer: Seville, causality and staircases!
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We're getting excited for the summer here but before we all head off on holidays we catch up with Marianne in Spain at the European Congress of Mathematics, and Justin and Rachel in the UK having just attended some fascinating events in London and Cambridge held by the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Newton Gateway. Marianne…
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This week Matt walks the path, Eric's under siege, PlayStation Stars gets under our skin, and Matt has your hookup on Game Pass! Releases: Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess & Flintlock: The Siege of DawnBy THiRD SHiFT
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On the mathematical frontline: Modelling behaviour
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How we behave can have far greater impacts than just on our own daily lives. For example who we interact with and whether we get vaccinated affects how diseases spread through the community. So if we are going to use maths to try to understand such a challenge facing society, we need to make sure we include human behaviour in our mathematical model…
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Sleepybear Pants | The First Descendant, Zenless Zone Zero
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This week Eric catches a bug, Matt gets angry, and we get some hands-on time with The First Descendant and Zenless Zone Zero! How do they fare? You'll have to tune in to find out! Releases: Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III & Anger FootBy THiRD SHiFT
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This is a recording (with a brief introduction first) of a keynote address I gave to open the 2024 "Naturalistic Decision Making Association" conference. People from business, government and academia came together for 3 days to talk about how to make better decisions under pressure. It was an opportunity for me to share the work of David Deutsch an…
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This week Matt breaks through, Eric practices Zen, and we discuss The First Descendant and the (rumored? fake? real?) PS5 Pro! Releases: The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak & Zenless Zone ZeroBy THiRD SHiFT
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More questions, more lengthy and more verbose than ever. Enjoy, or drift of to sleep with me ;)By Brett Hall
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Babies in Jars | Shadow of the Erdtree, Food Lion, Mailbag!
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This week Eric gets haunted, Matt waits until then, we share some early thoughts on Shadow of the Erdtree, and a Mailbag question makes us revisit the Food Lion! [yes, we're still blocked on Twitter] Releases: Luigi's Mansion 2 HD & Until Then Short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/We8eUEGrYUs Long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v3TX2yGdEA…
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Fear not! ToKCast is not becoming a pure Q&A "show". This is literally a kind of "break" for me that I find easy and I note the listeners find fun. Today's a little shorter and - here's some of the topics covered! 00:00: David Deutsch mentioned on Lex Fridman 04:15: Dennis Noble debates Richard Dawkins on the selfish gene 16:47: The goal driven lif…
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We're very excited to be going to this year's European Congress of Mathematics (ECM), which will take place in Seville, Spain, in July! We noticed that mathematicians who win one of the prizes awarded at the ECM by the European Mathematical Society quite often go on to win a Fields Medal, one of the highest honours in mathematics. So to celebrate t…
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Ep 210: Livestream - Question, Answer and repeat for 2+ hours
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I put out a call on Twitter/@X for questions and got a deluge. Between those and more from YouTube itself - this is the result ranging over predicting the future, through to theories of learning, AGI and AI, optimism and epistemology - many of the major hits and more.By Brett Hall
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PTSD | Nintendo Direct, Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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This week Matt gets deep, Eric sits in the shade, we get super hyped from the Nintendo Direct and share our thoughts on Dragon Age: The Veilguard! Releases: Still Wakes The Deep & Shadow of the ErdtreeBy THiRD SHiFT
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Cardboard Conjecture e 160 Critique of the BGG Top 100 (20 - 11)
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Cardboard Conjecture e 160 Critique of the BGG Top 100 (20 - 11) On this episode we will continue with our critique of the BGG Top 100 by going over the games 20 to 11. We will also have a chat about the games that we've recently played ... and maybe some we picked up!?!By Norm Lepage
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We're very excited to be going to this year's European Congress of Mathematics (ECM), which will take place in Seville, Spain, in July! We noticed that mathematicians who win one of the prizes awarded at the ECM by the European Mathematical Society quite often go on to win a Fields Medal, one of the highest honours in mathematics. So to celebrate t…
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Riffing on Karl Popper and David Deutsch (especially). A broad overview, covering lots of the basics of "social" or "rational" choice theory, Bayesianism (again!), misconceptions, good ideas and bad. Errors my own as always.By Brett Hall
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The God Box | Summer Game Fest, Day of the Devs, Devolver Direct, Ubisoft Forward, Xbox Game Showcase
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This week we're blowing up the format and bringing you a super-sized show about (almost) all the biggest hitters from the shows around Summer Game Fest!By THiRD SHiFT
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We're very excited to be going to this year's European Congress of Mathematics (ECM), which will take place in Seville, Spain, in July! We noticed that mathematicians who win one the prizes awarded at the ECM by the European Mathematical Society quite often go on to win a Fields Medal, one of the highest honours in mathematics. So to celebrate the …
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A Strange Time | PSVR2, Yakuza series, Summer Game Fest, Mailbag!
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This week Matt fades to black, Eric takes a final, and we discuss the latest from PSVR2, the upcoming Yakuza series, our Summer Game Fest hopes and dreams, and we open up the Mailbag! Releases: SKALD: Against the Black Priory & Destiny 2: The Final Shape Strafe "All Star" Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLjZjxRVJHM Borderlands 3 "Mask of M…
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Ep 208: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 11 ”Time: The First Quantum Concept” Part 3
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Here we explore the distinction between classical notions of time (including spacetime physics) as approximations to how time is understood in the multiverse. How perfectly deterministic laws lead to subjective unpredictability. Consequences for free will, questions about what happened before time began (or after it ends), new discoveries since the…
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We're very excited to be going to this year's European Congress of Mathematics (ECM), which will take place in Seville, Spain, in July! And we noticed that mathematicians who win one the prizes awarded at the ECM by the European Mathematical Society quite often go on to win a Fields Medal, one of the highest honours in mathematics. So to celebrate …
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This week Eric runs it back, Matt dons a cape, and we get hyped over the latest State of Play! Releases: MultiVersus & CapesBy THiRD SHiFT
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In this episode, Mike and Leanna interview Willard Allensworth's sister, Donna.This is part 2 of a 2-part episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Dress-Up Boys | Call of Duty, Shadow of the Erdtree, Inside Gaming
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This week Matt paints the town red, no tv and no beer make Eric something something, we discuss Call of Duty's future on Game Pass, the latest Elden Ring DLC trailer, and this year's Inside Gaming poll results! Releases: Rakugaki & Senua's Saga: Hellblade II Fandom's Inside Gaming executive summary: https://about.fandom.com/news/inside-gaming-2024-…
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If you are distracted by, or simply prefer a version without, the background music - you can find that here: https://youtu.be/xSbqTTs1nl0 My preferred version is here: https://youtu.be/2IneL4VpShE as there are some helpful (though not essential) visuals. This is about knowledge creation and the the commonalities between the two forms known (evoluti…
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We're very excited to be going to this year's European Congress of Mathematics (ECM), which will take place in Seville, Spain, in July! One of the interesting things that happens at an ECM is that the European Mathematical Society (EMS) awards ten prizes to mathematicians who are under the age of 35 at the start of the year the prizes are awarded. …
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Blood Brothers | Square Enix, Episode 400!
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This week Eric takes a dive, Matt [SPOILER REDACTED], Square Enix has good and very bad news, and we celebrate Episode 400! Releases: Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER & Braid, Anniversary Edition Intro music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oJ8DKK4Lu0By THiRD SHiFT
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The murmuration conjecture: finding new maths with AI
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Artificial intelligence is changing our lives. Many of us use the voice activated features on our phones to recognise, understand and fairly complex speech. Students use ChatGPT to do their homework. And doctors use AI algorithms to help diagnose many diseases from medical data. But how is AI changing the lives of mathematicians? In this podcast we…
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Bubble Burst Beams | Microsoft, Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, Mailbag!
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This week Matt's like a fetus, Eric starts to rise, there's a deluge of free games, we discuss the latest (bad) news from Microsoft, and the doorbell rings! Releases: Heading Out & V Rising Bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em_WYo4sVg8By THiRD SHiFT
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Tying together black holes, quantum gravity and number theory
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"The 20th century was the interaction of geometry and physics, and the 21st century is the interaction of number theory with physics." This intriguing insight comes from our recent discussion with Yang-Hui He from the London Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Yang told us an amazing story about the flow of ideas between mathematics and physics, th…
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This week Eric feels blue, Matt's a real joker, Blizzard breaks the news, and we discuss the good stuff from the ID@Xbox Showcase! Releases: Endless Ocean Luminous & BalatroBy THiRD SHiFT
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Mathematics is a creative pursuit so it's not surprising that there are communalities between maths and art in all its forms. In this episode we explore the intersection between maths and art with physicist Andrzej Herczyński and mathematician Paul Glendinning. Andrzej Herczyński Andrzej and Paul were two of the organisers of the workshop Space, sc…
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Cardboard Conjecture #159 Critique of BGG Top 100 (30 - 21)
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Cardboard Conjecture #159 Critique of BGG Top 100 (30 - 21) In this episode we have Chris Cadieu on the episode to talk about games that we've played recently and to participate in our critique of the BGG Top 100 list and the games 30 to 21.By Norm Lepage
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Long Rest | Metaphor: ReFantazio Showcase
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This week Matt tells a tale, Eric is stellar, and we gush over the Metaphor: ReFantazio Showcase! Releases: Tales of Kenzera: ZAU & Stellar Blade (Lemonade Apocalypse actually looks pretty cool.)By THiRD SHiFT
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One of the most fascinating figures in the history of mathematics was Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian genius who formed a remarkable relationship with the Cambridge mathematician GH Hardy. Ramanujan was interested in problems in number theory, which are often easy to state, but incredibly difficult to prove. One amazing thing about Ramanu…
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Blanket Boys | Nintendo Indie World, The Triple-i Initiative
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This week Eric gets wet, Matt picks right, and we catch up on two indie showcases - The Triple-i Initiative, and Nintendo's Indie World! Releases: Final Fantasy XVI: The Rising Tide & Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred HeroesBy THiRD SHiFT
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Celebrating spring with new shoots of mathematics
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In this episode of Maths on the move we look at some favourite pieces of maths we have worked on so far this year. From a revolutionary new tile to new insights in topology, and from fooling cancer cells to bringing mathematical research into the classroom, we hope there's something interesting there for everyone. To find out more about the topics …
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Ep 206: Sam Kuypers (Time: The First Quantum Concept Part 3 - and more).
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Sam Kuypers is a theoretical physicist who specialises in the physics of time. If you have the time, Sam can take up as much of it as you like telling you about how our ideas of time have changed…over time. As Sam will reveals: times, they are not a-changing. But there is change! Newtonian physics has a notion of time (or at least Newton himself di…
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