Podcast #413: Armageddon and Learned Helplessness

We begin this episode by shouting out a couple DXP listeners who made their way to the Well & Table this past week, and then banter a bit about nothing in particular. We discuss "Planetary Defense," which is a recent NASA experiment in which we try to alter the trajectory of an asteroid (think the film Armageddon, only real). We talk about another experiment on the subject of "Learned Helplessness," which explains why, when you're down on your luck, it's so hard to turn things around. Biebers involve icemakers expired water.