High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.
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High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.
How many other things do we have that we think of as imprecise but are actually pretty precise and agreed upon? This week, Joey and Jess talk about box plots, New York neighborhood names, Australian colloquialisms, measurement language, baking, and square roots. They don’t talk about The Smiths (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCAdHBrVD2E). references * Box plot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot) * Reading a Box and Whisker Plot (https://www.simplypsychology.org/boxplots.html) * Perceptions of Probability (https://x.com/ajthurston/status/1965724458251059695?s=46) * The New York Times: An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/upshot/extremely-detailed-nyc-neighborhood-map.html) * The Journal of Neuroscience: Distinct Contributions of the Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia to Arithmetic Procedures (https://www.jneurosci.org/content/44/2/e1482222023) * Goldilocks Zone (https://www.space.com/goldilocks-zone-habitable-area-life) * Square root (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root) * Spiral of Theodorus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_Theodorus) * Klein bottle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle)
Critical Nonsense
High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.