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What I Learned Today

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A podcast for curious kids by a curious kid!

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Episodes

  1. Book Review: Max Einstein Saves the Future.

    Tommy does a book review for Max Einstein saves the future by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein.

  2. St. Petersburg Paradox

    Tommy discusses the economic theory known as the St. Petersburg paradox.

  3. Favourite Quote Friday #127

    Tommy shares a quote from Robert Frost.

  4. Into a Black Hole

    Tommy discusses what would happen if you fell into a black hole.

  5. The Speed of Light

    Tommy discusses what would happen if a human could travel at the speed of light.

  6. Favourite Quote Friday #126

    Tommy shares a quote from Heraclitus.

  7. Logical Fallacy- False Cause Fallacy

    Tommy discusses the false cause fallacy.

  8. Book Review: Black Beauty

    Tommy does a book review for Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.

  9. Planck Constant

    Tommy discusses the Planck Constant.

  10. Law of Diminishing Returns

    Tommy discusses the economic theory, the law of diminishing returns.

  11. Ghost Condensate Theory

    Tommy discusses the Ghost Condensate Theory.

  12. Favourite Quote Friday #125

    Tommy shares a quote from Ludwig Van Beethoven.

  13. The Overton Window

    Tommy discusses the Overton window.

  14. Rare Earth Elements

    Tommy discusses Rare Earth Elements.

  15. Favourite Quote Friday #124

    Tommy shares a quote from Ulysses S. Grant.

  16. Investing: SPACs

    Tommy discusses Special Purpose Acquisition Companies.

  17. AlphaFold

    Tommy discusses Google DeepMind’s latest endeavour AlphaFold.

  18. Favourite Quote Friday #123

    Tommy shares a quote from Sophocles.

  19. Electronegativity

    Tommy discusses Electronegativity.

  20. Book Review: Endling the First

    Tommy does a book review for Endling The First by Katherine Applegate.

  21. Favourite Quote Friday #422

    Tommy shares a quote from Henry David Thoreau.

  22. Game Theory: Nash Bargaining

    Tommy discusses the Nash Bargaining Problem within game theory.

  23. Logical Fallacy: The Slippery Slope

    Tommy discusses the Slippery Slope Fallacy.

  24. Favourite Quote Friday #139

    Tommy shares a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer.

  25. Reed’s Law

    Tommy discusses Reed’s Law as it relates to network effects.

  26. Quarks

    Tommy discusses elementary particles known as quarks.

  27. Favourite Quote Friday #138

    Tommy shares a quote from Bertrand Russell.

  28. Present Value Theory

    Tommy discusses Present Value as relates to economics and finance.

  29. RNA

    Tommy discusses Ribonucleic Acid.

  30. Favourite Quote Friday #137

    Tommy shares a quote from Abraham Lincoln.

  31. Law of Cosmic Expansion

    Tommy discusses the Law of Cosmic Expansion, also known as Hubble’s Law.

  32. OSIRIS-REx

    Tommy discusses the OSIRIS-REx NASA mission.

  33. Book Review: Endling The Last

    Tommy completes a book review for Endling The Last.

  34. Favourite Quote Friday #136

    Tommy shares a quote from Karl Popper.

  35. Path Dependency

    Tommy discusses Path Dependency Theory.

  36. Solomonoff Induction

    Tommy discusses the mathematical theory known as Solomonoff induction.

  37. Favourite Quote Friday #135

    Tommy shares a quote from John Archibald Wheeler.

  38. White Holes

    Tommy discusses the phenomenon of theoretical White Holes.

  39. Radiocarbon Dating

    Tommy discusses the process of Radiocarbon Dating.

  40. Greek Mythology- The Competition: Athena and Poseidon.

    Tommy discusses the story of The Competition between Athena and Poseidon.

  41. Favourite Quote Friday #134

    Tommy shares a quote from Marcus Aurelius.

  42. Book Review: The Last Battle

    Tommy does a book review for The Last Battle by C.S Lewis.

  43. Lessons of 400.

    In episode 400, Tommy shares some of his favourite lessons of the last 100 episodes.

  44. Favourite Quote Friday #133

    Tommy shares a quote from Frederick Douglass.

  45. Carbon Sequestration

    Tommy discusses carbon sequestration.

  46. Logical Fallacy: False Dilemma

    Tommy discusses the logical fallacy the false dilemma.

  47. Exaptation

    Tommy discusses the evolutionary biology idea, exaptation.

  48. Hydropanels

    Tommy discusses hydropanels.

  49. Favourite Quote Friday #132

    Tommy shares a quote from Richard Feynman.

  50. Spandrel

    Tommy discusses the evolutionary biology phenomenon known as Spandrels.

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