Episode 45: Rounded Brains and Balanced "Play Diets"
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2014
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
A British tabloid article about kids, brains, and spatial skills somehow provokes the biggest argument ever on the podcast. Dave and Tamler get into it about gender, toys, properly rounded brains, and balanced "play diets." Is Dave a sanctimonious toe-the-line academic liberal? Is Tamler a Fox-News watching, mysoginist genetic determinist? Do they actually disagree about anything?
Plus Dave takes Tamler back after his fling with Partially Examined Life, and we discuss whether the new documentary The Unbelievers the atheist version of God is Not Dead?
Links
- The Partially Examined Life podcast, and Tamler's Precognition of Ep. 93. [partiallyexaminedlife.com]
- Girls and boys DO have different brains – should they have different toys? by Rachel Carlyle [express.co.uk]
- The Unbelievers [unbelieversmovie.com]
- My Growing Disappointment with the New Atheist Movement: A Review of the The UnBelievers. Ami Palmer. [missiontotransition.blogspot.com]
- Nosek, B. A., Banaji, M. R., & Greenwald, A. G. (2002). Math= male, me= female, therefore math≠ me. Journal of personality and social psychology, 83, 44. [briannosek.com]
- Cvencek, D., Meltzoff, A. N., & Greenwald, A. G. (2011). Math–gender stereotypes in elementary school children. Child development, 82, 766-779. [washington.edu]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:06.5 | having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics. |
| 0:09.9 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say, |
| 0:14.2 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.8 | And you know those Chinese boxes, one, inside the other, inside the other, inside the other? |
| 0:23.2 | I feel like I'm in the last box! |
| 0:26.4 | You son of a bitch! |
| 0:29.4 | I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man. |
| 0:54.8 | Welcome to very bad wizards, I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 0:58.8 | Dave, I was an idiot, I honestly don't know what came over me, but now I realize you're |
| 1:05.9 | the only co-host for me. |
| 1:08.5 | Will you take me back? |
| 1:09.9 | I'll take you back, but it's going to be on a trial basis. |
| 1:15.3 | You know the way I feel like it was indescent proposal, you got indescent proposal. |
| 1:20.1 | And I've always said to myself, without the money, without even a dime, we get the listener |
| 1:29.2 | you know, I profited off of your horde, so I can't blame you too much for doing it, |
| 1:35.8 | so as long as you bring me the results of the medical test, showing that you're clean. |
| 1:41.4 | It would be like a rubber red for a came up to my wife, and you're like, yes, I'd like to sleep |
| 1:46.5 | with your wife. Anything like, that's it, you just want to sleep with my, yep, I do that, |
| 1:51.6 | that's it. |
| 1:54.8 | I'm Dave Pizarro from Cornell University currently at Duke. |
| 1:57.8 | You know, you're right, we did get a nice listener bump, so thanks to the partial exam |
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