We talk to Sarah of It Came From The Sea pod about how much plastic is in the oceans, how you estimate it, and the vast mystery that is between about 20m and the bottom of the sea.You can find Sarah at: @fromtheseapod on Twitterht...
We are visited by ex-academic Joh, to talk about the working conditions for teaching staff at universities and why your subjects may be shit.The mailbag chart was found on Twitter: https://twitter.com/antihobbes/status/15109315015...
Mathematicians treat chaotic and random systems as different things. We talk through what each of those mean, how they relate to each other, and how you can use a combination of the two to model the chaotic real world.References:P...
We talk about the consumer price index and the wage price index, how the CPI is used to measure inflation, and why these metrics are particularly bad for reflecting the experience of the very poor.Support the pod on Patreon for bo...