Rationally Speaking #102 - Zach Weinersmith on His "SMBC" Webcomic

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Society & Culture, Skepticism, Science, Philosophy

4.6 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This episode features special guest Zach Weinersmith, author of "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal," a popular webcomic about philosophy and science. Zach clarifies his position in the ongoing "philosophy vs. science" fight, poses a question to Julia and Massimo about the ethics of offensive jokes, and discusses BAHFest, his "Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses" conference lampooning evolutionary psychology and his movie "Starpocalype." Somehow along the way, the three take a detour into discussing an unusual sexual act.

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0:00.0	Join us this spring for the sixth annual nexus, the Northeast's largest conference dedicated to critical thinking and science education.
0:08.0	It's all going down in New York City the weekend of April 11th through 13th, 2014.
0:13.0	We're excited to feature a keynote by physicist Lawrence Krause, who's authored bestsellers like the Physics of Star Trek,
0:19.0	and who just starred with Richard Dawkins in a new film last year called The Unbelievers.
0:24.2	This is in addition to a great lineup of other speakers like Paul Offutt,
0:28.4	expert on vaccines and infectious disease,
0:31.0	and Katie Coleman, veteran astronaut for NASA.
0:34.1	Of course, Massimo and I will be there taping a live episode of the rationally speaking podcast,
0:38.3	and so will the cast of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe. Get your tickets now at nexus.org. That's
0:44.4	nec-s-s-S-S-org. Registration prices go up after March 20th, so don't wait. Get your tickets today.
0:50.3	Music Get your tickets today.
1:10.4	Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City skeptptics, dedicated to promoting critical thinking,
1:11.6	skeptical inquiry, and science education. For more information, please visit us at NYCCEceptics.org.
1:21.6	Welcome to rationally speaking in the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.
1:31.5	I'm your host, Massimo Pilucci.
1:33.3	And with me, as always, is my co-host, Julia Gilev.
1:36.2	Julia, what are we going to talk about today?
1:38.6	Massimo, I'm personally very excited about today's guest.
1:42.3	We are pleased to welcome Zach Wienersmith, who is the author of
1:46.8	the very popular webcomic Saturday morning breakfast cereal, which I have plugged on this podcast before.
1:52.8	Yes. It's a twisted and hilarious and highly nerdy webcomic, which covers topics very near and dear to the rationally speaking
2:02.5	heart, like time travel paradoxes and utilitarian ethics, but without ever being stuffy.
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