Episode 255: Reasoning & Irrationality

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We humans are funny critters, with loves and hatreds and outright loathings that too often bear no real resemblance to any cogent rationality. Yet it's all we've got. I explore this in Episode 255: Reasoning & Irrationality.

In this episode, I read from: A Seattle Times article on a movie about the old Rainier ads; and Steven Johnson's book, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World.

I play: a bit of the trailer for the 1932 movie Freaks; Lord David Puttnam's TED Talk about the media's duty of care; and Pee Wee Herman commenting on large exceptions. Musically, KMFDM backs Mr. Ceglowski in the intro; and I close today with Julie & Rolf & The Campfire Gang doing "Over the Rainbow".