277! Innumeracy

How do we do math learning better? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about numeracy, literacy, discrete math, Carl Sagan, Cleopatra, and sushi. They don’t talk about Frank Ocean. 

references 

• math rock 

• Jay-Z "4:44" 

276! Fridgescaping

What does fridgescaping tell us about ourselves? 

This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about weirdly shaped foods, bookshelves, trad wives, gelatin molds, cluttercore, and gallery walls. They don’t talk about Jello Biafra's fridge. 

references 

• Rusted Root 

• Polyphonic Spree 

• The New York Times: Not Even the Inside of Your Fridge Is Safe From Decorating 

• @weirdoldfood 

• MTV Cribs 

• The Independent (UK): Marie Kondo says she’s ‘kind of given up’ on cleaning 

• HGTV Secret Revealed! Why Books Are Always Backwards 

• The New Yorker: The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife 

• Southern Living: Cluttercore Is The Design Trend That Embraces More 

• The Easiest Way to Hang a Gallery Wall 

• IKEA Kreativ 

275! Musical Turn Ons

What turns your ears on? 

This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about Detroit, groove, algorithms, Clyde Stubblefield, sampling, and flow states. They don’t talk about the late, great Biz Markie. 

references 

• Hair/Glam Metal 

• Chamois vs. chamois leather 

• Major 7th chord 

• Curtis Mayfield “Little Child Running Wild" 

• Clyde Stubblefield, the Funky Drummer 

• Puff Daddy + Biggie + Mase "Been Around the World" 

• David Bowie "Let's Dance" 

• Brian Eno’s “The Big Ship” and Me and Earl and The Dying Girl 

• Klaus Badelt "Pirates Of The Caribbean" 

• Sufjan Stevens "Mystery of Love" 

• Scrotal Recall aka Lovesick 

274! Science Tourism

How do we make more science tourism happen? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about scientific pilgrimage, CERN, the Large Hadron Collider, inspiring awe, Dolly the sheep, and particles. They don’t talk about the six flavors of quarks. 

references 

• CERN 

• Higgs boson 

• Large Hadron Collider 

• The ITER Tokamak 

• The Life of Dolly 

• Baikonur Cosmodrome 

• Micropia 

• Amplituhedron 

273! The Olympic Stroboscope

What can we learn about the state of entertainment when we look through the Olympics Stroboscope? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about the The Rottening, Summer Olympics, streaming platforms, culture wars, sports bodies, and shared viewership experiences. They don’t talk about artistic swimming. 

references 

• Stroboscopes 

• Metric Fucktonne 

• Adriana Ruano 

• Stephen Nedoroscik 

• What are Phryges? Everything to know about the Paris 2024 mascot 

272! Generational War

How does one engage in a generational war? 

This week, Joey and Aaron talk about Millenials, marketing demographics, being an afterthought, the policing of cool, Sambas, and othering to in yourself. They don’t talk about Billy Idol. Or Les Gilbert. 

references 

• Sambas 

• Control 

• System Shock 

271! Feelings

How do we decide what feelings matter? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about Inside Out 2, compound emotions, cognitive development, sonder, motivations, and sandwiches. They don’t talk about Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. 

references 

• Subscribe to our Progress Report newsletter 

• progressbysylvain.co 

• Inside Out 2 

• The 6 Types of Basic Emotions and Their Effect on Human Behavior 

• Compound facial expressions of emotion: from basic research to clinical applications 

• Time: The Real Science Behind the Animated Emotions of Inside Out 2 

• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 

• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder 

270! How We Argue

How should we be arguing? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about argument realms, Theranos, Steve Jobs, facts vs. feelings, and band names. They don’t talk about Monarch of a Great Kingdom. 

references 

• Tea etymology 

• Why Are We Yelling? by Buster Benson 

• PEMDAS 

269! Being a Champion

This week, Joey, Aaron, and Jess talk about the Boston Celtics, Jayson Tatum, Nikola Jokić, celebrity, debates, and Caitlin Clark. They don’t talk about Simone Biles' 10,000 crystals. 

references 

• Celtic Football Club (pronounced with a soft 'C') 

• Boston Celtics name origin 

• Jab Like Jayson Tatum 

• Hollywood Reporter: What Tina Fey Told Bowen Yang About Expressing Opinions Publicly 

• What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith (summarized nicely here) 

• mesophyte 

• Red Panda 

• Andscape: They Call Her Big Ellie: Meet the New York Liberty's viral mascot 

• Ladies Love Cool James 

• Coaster Studios' Dollywood Review 

• Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang 

268! Predicting the Future

How do we predict the future? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about polling, phone phobia, targeted advertising, e-mail compartmentalization, stacking ambiguity, and Airheads. They don’t talk about nomophobia. 

references 

• Adam Duritz 

• Irish Times: Why younger people don’t make phone calls 

Progress Report: Automating Our Instincts

This week, a takeover! Aaron shares his latest edition from SYLVAIN’s Progress Report newsletter: Automating Our Instincts: How AI Can Be Embraced Rather Than Feared By Creatives.

For more from SYLVAIN's Progress Report, see progressbysylvain.co.

267! Digital Poltergeists

How do y'all deal with your digital poltergeists? 

This week, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about search results, the endless repository of stuff, digital cleanup, emails, collateral distraction, and friendly ghosts. They don’t talk about warlocks. 

references 

• Dinosaurs eating Joey 

• Toe beans and the art of reading them 

• poltergeist 

• They're here! 

• Woah, my love, my darling ... 

• Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville "Don't Know Much" 

• Teenybopper 

• Manwich 

266! Aging Well

How do we age right? 

This week, Joey, Aaron, and Jess talk about aching, supplements, cognitive decline, Tom Brady, LeBron James, and the future. They don’t talk about Alphaville. 

references 

• L.A. Times: "Talking 'Men of a Certain Age' with Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher" 

• Radiolab Podcast: The Secret to a Long Life 

• John Meyer's "Why Georgia?" 

• The 5 Regrets Of The Dying: Life Lessons Everybody Learns Too Late... 

• New York Magazine: "The 12 Best Nice-Looking Pill Cases" 

• System Shock 

265! Rules of Thumb

What types of folk knowledge or rules of thumb do you live by? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about cheating at science fairs, sleep, the rule of threes, tenets, the How I Met Your Mother pause, and concavity. They don’t talk about what Werner Herzog's thumb tastes like. 

references 

• Chris Brunet's X thread on the ISEF cheating scandal 

• Jean Yang's life lessons 

• Pause 

• The Idea of You (and Maybe Not Harry Styles) 

264! Art in the City

Why don't we have more public art? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about toy poodles, graffiti, sidewalk chalk, murals, face painting, and sandals. They don’t talk about ESPO. 

references 

• Tom Otterness' Life Underground sculptures 

• The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon 

• Street art by David Zinn 

• Mural Arts Philadelphia 

• 5Pointz 

263! Stinky Fish and Mayo

How does one deal with being an acquired taste? 

This week, Aaron and Joey talk about stinky fish, mole vs. mayonanaise, blue cheese, safe spaces, leadership, and sandwich lubricants. They don’t talk about surströmming. 

references 

• Holiday in Spain 

• Did they ruin it for you? (Yeah | No) 

• Thelma and Louise 

• Stinky Fish activity 

• rumspringa 

• Aaron: We need antiheroes in the boardroom to spark progress in the workplace 

• Spread your wings and fly, Butterfly 

• Call Your Girlfriend 

262! The Bowl Generation

How are we using bowls? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about diversification of delivery methods, quick-serve restaurants, slushies, mush, ratios, and salads. They don’t talk about Prince. 

references 

• Fascinator 

• "Frozen in the Face of Tech": Joey @ Web Summit Rio 2024 

• Ramekin 

261! Neighborliness

How has neighborliness changed in the past five years? 

This week, Aaron and Jess talk about lost dogs, trash pandas, the pandemic, masking, isolation, and marble runs. They don’t talk about the McFeelys or Cousin Mary Owl. 

references 

• Aaron keeps your head ringing while The Sequence funks you up. 

• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 

• "Frozen in the Face of Tech": Joey @ Web Summit Rio 2024 

• Petco's Love Lost pet finder 

• 7 Signs of Undiagnosed Autism in Adults 

• Jelle's Marble Runs 

• The Lemonade Machine 

260! Tree Timebombs

Why should we be concerned wth generationally slow timebombs? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about trees, the Bradford pear, city planning, Barcelona, pilot programs, and the candy bowl theory. They don’t talk about Cameo. 

references 

• @jjvincent on the tree timebomb in the UK. 

• The Guardian: Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade 

• The New York Times from 1964: BRADFORD PEAR HAS MANY ASSETS; New Ornamental Fruit Offers Sturdy Form And Early Bloom 

• The New York Times from 2021: A Tree That Was Once the Suburban Ideal Has Morphed Into an Unstoppable Villain 

• Superilla 

• Biological Control 

• The Psychology of the Candy Bowl 

• Dunbar's number 

• Street activity sensors in NY 

• Definitely Maybe 

259! The Trend-Mill

What does this "trend-mill" mean, what does it say about us as people, and how bad is it, really? 

This week, special guests Claire and Chloe join Jess and Joey to talk about the mob-wife aesthetic, accessibility, TikTok, blueberry milk nails, social networks vs. social media, and Trader Joe's totes. They don’t talk about why the combination of peanut butter and jelly is a gotdamn abomination. 

references 

• Vogue: Blueberry Milk Nails Are Summer’s Most-Wanted Manicure 

• Zaria Parvez: How the Comment Section became Duolingo's new Push Notification 

• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt 

• onika burgers