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Farewell… at least for now!

8.23: Things Get Weird When You Add New Technology

8.22: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

8.21: Twitter and Tear Gas—Examined

8.20: Twitter and Tear Gas—Explained

8.19: Contact—Examined

8.18: Contact—Explained

8.17: Evolution as a Religion—Examined

8.16: Evolution as a Religion—Explained

8.15: The Real World of Technology—Examined

8.14: The Real World of Technology—Explained

8.13: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness—Examined

8.12: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness—Explained

8.11: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change—Analogs to the Internet

8.10: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change—Explained

8.09: Jurassic Park—Examined

8.08: Jurassic Park—Explained

8.07: The Age of Spiritual Machines—Examined

8.06: The Age of Spiritual Machines—Explained

8.05: The Postmodern Condition—Examined

8.04: The Postmodern Condition—Explained

8.03: Phaedrus Examined

8.02: Phaedrus Explained

8.01: A Book Club!

Jake Meador: In Search of the Common Good

7.13: A Healthy Tension

7.12: An Experiment in Moral Imagination, Pt. 3

7.11: An Experiment in Moral Imagination, Pt. 2

7.10: An Experiment In Moral Imagination, Pt. 1

7.09: Frictioneers

7.08: Literally Metaphorically Listen for Earthquakes

7.07: The ERLC AI Statement, Part 2

7.06: The ERLC AI Statement, Part 1

7.05: Chattanooga, China, and Subsidiarity

7.04: Not Better Enough

7.03: Ari Wallach

7.02: People Who Don’t Want To Do Things

7.01: Do We Really Need to Keep the Internet Around?

[Bonus] 7.01 Outtake: Twitter is Strongbad

Jessica C. Blank

6.13: A Four-in-One Special

6.12: Beer Rules

6.11: Very Thoughtful Ethics Dogs

100!

6.10: The Future of Something Like Work

6.09: Granular Levels of Tomato Tracking

6.08: People Do Reject Technologies, Part 2

6.07: People Do Reject Technologies, Part 1

6.06: A Kind of Blindness

6.05: Crispr

6.04: Move Slowly and Fix Things

6.03: I’m Not Puttin’ That Chip in My Cheek

6.02: The Ethics of Technology

6.01: Actual Luddites

The Last Jedi

Some Sciency Stuff!

5.12: Resisting and Sustaining

5.11: Fences, Neighbors, Etc.

5.10: Super Duper, Even Uber Bad

[Bonus] Fall 2016 Lecture (B)

[Bonus] Fall 2016 Lecture (A)

5.09: Regulate All The Things!

[Follow-up] 5.08b: On Andrew Jackson

5.08: Empathy is Hard Work

5.07: Books, The Internet, and Homeless People

5.06: Ghost of a King

5.05: “Faint Not”

5.04: Stuffy, Boring, Old, Lame

5.03: It's Not Like Uber

5.02: Playing Monopoly: Never Okay

[Bonus] Apologia

5.01: A Ph.D.-Level Math Problem

4.14: This Money Might Be Illegal

4.13: We Live in a Different Culture Than the Bible

4.12: Five Years of Facepalming (Live at NC State)

4.11: How People Read C.S. Lewis (Live at NC State)

4.10: The Ancient Wisdom of Usenet

4.09: We're Idealist Realists

4.08: A Ghost in Singapore

4.07: A Muscle-Flexing Flyby

4.06: Kickstarting a Hyperlocal Super-Farm

4.05: The Price of Democracy

4.04: But Was It a Good Movie?

4.03: The Podcast Awakens

4.02: Helpiness

4.01: Unambiguously Meh

3.15: Smorgasbord, Part II

3.14: Smorgasbord, Part I

3.13: Inevitable? (Live at NC State)

3.12: Hungarian Folk Music

3.11: Augustine's Podcast

3.10: Saying “Enough”

3.09: Many Beautiful Things

3.08: Juice up the Weird Edges of the Ecosystem

3.07: One Size Does Not Fit All

3.06: SPACE!

[Bloopers] 3.05: You Have Agency. Use It.

3.05: You Have Agency. Use It.

3.04: Mom Memes

3.02: The Ad-Driven Web, Part II