Tick, tick, tick, tick… Happy New Year! Tick, tick, tick… The clock doesn’t stop ticking when the ball drops. Another trip around the sun and we’re all another year older. They haven’t fixed aging yet. Death still seems a likely part of our future. What’s your take on that?
We are as much our biases as we are our perception to others. Fallibility. It works in mysterious ways. This week the Dawdlers present a discussion from an earlier time than the present moment. It’s a conversation they’ve been meaning to have but not really sure when to have it. Read more…
The Dawdlers offer some takes on the concept, possibility, and consequences of time travel. Not the kind we’re all doing every day [real time “forward”], but that kind from the movies where you can go at high speeds in both directions on the entropic autobahn. Does the idea even make Read more…
Harland and Ryan were born on the same day 3 years apart. December 22. To celebrate they’re doing an episode on consciousness and how you, yes you, dont have it!! Happy birthday to us, eh? Eh… They don’t know philosopher Keith Frankish’s birthday, but he doesn’t think you have consciousness Read more…
In this episode, the Dawdlers take on determinism. Are killers gonna kill? Haters gonna hate? Chefs gonna cook? Eh…Anyway, Harland plays therapist and Ryan plays games because they’re fun. And this is just the way it is because it has to be, as all things must be in the Determiverse.
People love to talk about the pitfalls of statistics and how we can “lie” with it. Those people don’t do statistics. In science, statistics is often quite difficult. It’s there to help us with very complicated problems, not to hurt others with simple craven power leveragings. The Dawdlers discuss the Read more…
Hello World. It’s us Dawds, trying out yet another new thing. We thought we’d discuss a kinda off-the-cuff, shootin’-from-the-hip type format in addition to the usual 2+ hours we do. It’s more of a relaxed stroll with intermittent skipping as opposed to the marathons we’ve been doing so far. This Read more…
There are these people in workplaces who have a talent for completing assigned tasks well. Their results are basically always excellent and up to the specifications and requirements for getting the job “done right”. Worker bees, we call them. And they are essential for the consistent and routine operation of Read more…
< cough, cough > < sniff, sniff > Ryan has kids. Kids have diseases and general poor hygiene. Thus, Ryan has diseases and sometimes poor hygiene. But he loves ‘em, those little rascals. In this episode, the Dawdlers explore this kind of parental affection, but for ideas. How much affection Read more…
“If you don’t mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. It’s like being a politician in opposition; that’s where you can be most sincere. But, of course, you sometimes look at people taking lead parts and think they’ve got all the gravy.” -Colin Firth Unremitting travelers Read more…