This week, we kick off the show with Adam addressing listener email about his Hilary Clinton vs NASA segment. Cristina looks into a curious headline about migrating Russian eagles running up huge data roaming charges. Adam asks, are kids these days really worse than kids of days gone by? Finally, Darren revisits an oldie but a goodie, Peter Singer’s Practical Ethics.
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Did Eagles Rack Up Roaming Charges?
Kids These Days
Kids these days: Why the youth of today seem lacking – Science Advances
People have always whinged about young adults. Here’s proof – BBC
The Coddling of the American Mind
Peter Singer’s Practical Ethics
Great podcast, as always. Kudos to Christina for looking up the pronunciation of “Novosibirsk.” Would Adam had done us the same courtesy with Poitiers and Agincourt. (Adam! French! You’re CANADIAN!)
But as much fun as it is to rib Adam, back to Novosibirsk. You may (or may not) be interested in its etymology. The “Novo” part, exactly like Portuguese and almost like French, means “new,” and “Sibirsk” means “Siberian” (Sibir = Siberia; -sk = adjective suffix), so the whole thing means something like “New Siberian City.”
“New” is, of course, a relative term: Novosibirsk was founded in the 1890s. It’s Russia’s third largest city after Moscow and St. Petersburg, with about the same population as Montreal.
Great show as always.
Thanks so much for the kind words and the fun history lesson!
– C.