Consilience with Pete and Charlie: the Intersection of Science and the Humanities
213 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsConsilience with Pete and Charlie is a podcast about the intersection of science and the humanities after all the lights start blinking and the cars crash into each other and everyone is screaming but no one is hurt because they were all wearing seatbelts.
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Episodes
Episode 208: What Have We Learned?
March 29, 2017 18:21 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBPete and Charlie end their run of the podcast with a simple question and a bunch of answers.
Episode 207: What are the Humanities?
March 08, 2017 13:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBPete and Charlie try to get to the bottom of all this "hippy dippy touchy feely" stuff.
Episode 206: What is Science?
March 01, 2017 13:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBPete and Charlie try to articulate a small answer to a big question.
Episode 205: What is the Future of Education?
February 22, 2017 13:00 - 25 minutes - 24.3 MBPete and Charlie wonder what's next for their profession.
Episode 204: What Will ***** Mean for Science and the Humanities?
February 15, 2017 13:00 - 33 minutes - 31.6 MBPete and Charlie look into the abyss and it stares right back at them.
Episode 203: What is Our Work?
February 08, 2017 05:30 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBPete and Charlie try to explain just what it is they do here.
Episode 202: Scholarly Communication
February 01, 2017 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBPete and Charlie try to deliver final thoughts on academic publishing.
No Show This Week!
January 25, 2017 21:04 - 41 seconds - 1.54 MB application/octet-streamThis week, Pete and Charlie didn't record! Oh no!
Episode 201: Teaching
January 19, 2017 17:55 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBPete and Charlie begin to close up shop on the podcast by trying to get at the heart of their philosophies of teaching.
Episode 200: Multidisciplinary Life
January 11, 2017 05:30 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBPete and Charlie wonder if you can teach it or if you have to live it.
Episode 199: The Good Life
January 04, 2017 05:30 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBPete and Charlie can't agree on what they'd do if they won the lottery.
Episode 198: Depressed
December 28, 2016 06:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBPete and Charlie have had enough of 2016.
Episode 197: Politically Incoherent
December 21, 2016 05:30 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBPete and Charlie are still looking for a way to talk about the next four years.
Episode 196: Casual Relativism
December 14, 2016 05:30 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBPete and Charlie argue about truth, lies, and pizza.
Episode 195: Evidence
December 07, 2016 05:30 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBPete and Charlie question the science/humanities split.
Episode 194: Science Translators
November 30, 2016 05:30 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBPete and Charlie worry that they've got everything all wrong.
Episode 193: Podcasting
November 23, 2016 05:30 - 30 minutes - 29.4 MBPete and Charlie talk about conceptualizing podcasts and the four-section rule.
Episode 192: Trompe L'oeil
November 16, 2016 05:30 - 32 minutes - 31 MBPete and Charlie have thoughts on the recent election.
Episode 191: A Meeting at the Library
November 09, 2016 05:30 - 28 minutes - 27.8 MBPete and Charlie discuss Google, arguments, and transformations.
Episode 190: Road Rage
November 02, 2016 04:30 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBPete and Charlie discuss mistakes, motorcycles, and misanthropy.
Episode 189: Drownproofing
October 26, 2016 04:30 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBPete and Charlie discuss the assessment of experiential learning.
Episode 188: The DMV
October 19, 2016 04:30 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBPete and Charlie talk about mean motor scooters.
Episode 187: Highly Illogical
October 12, 2016 04:30 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBPete and Charlie talk evidence.
Episode 186: On the Job
October 05, 2016 04:30 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBPete and Charlie talk resumes, careers, and service.
Episode 185: Reputation
September 28, 2016 04:30 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBPete and Charlie talk about what they risk and what they don't.
Episode 184: Flip It Good
September 21, 2016 04:30 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBPete and Charlie return to flipped classrooms.
Episode 183: Creative or Not?
September 14, 2016 05:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBPete and Charlie question their creativity.
Episode 182: Teaching is Magic
September 07, 2016 04:30 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBPete and Charlie look at the good to make up for the bad last week.
Episode 181: How Not To Teach
August 31, 2016 13:19 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBPete and Charlie tell stories of failures and jerks.
Episode 180: Words, Words, Words (Part 2)
August 24, 2016 13:07 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBPete and Charlie finish with legal definitions.
Episode 179: Words, Words, Words (Part 1)
August 17, 2016 04:30 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBPete and Charlie get started on one kind of definition and end up at another.
Episode 178: Think About It
August 10, 2016 04:30 - 32 minutes - 30 MBPete and Charlie talk critical thinking, metaphors be damned!
Episode 177: White, Male, Bald
August 03, 2016 04:30 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBPete and Charlie discuss diversity. Spoiler alert: they are for it.
Episode 176: Pop Culture Problems
July 27, 2016 04:30 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBPete and Charlie get from Pokémon GO to Caddyshack in three easy steps.
Episode 175: Who's Uptight?
July 20, 2016 04:30 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBPete and Charlie talk about social conservatism in college students.
Episode 174: What's Funny About That?
July 13, 2016 04:30 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBPete and Charlie take a dip into humor studies.
Episode 173: Ch-ch-ch-changes!
July 06, 2016 04:30 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBPete and Charlie talk about what was and what may be.
Episode 172: Exposure
June 29, 2016 04:30 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBPete and Charlie talk about giving it away.
Episode 171: Dumbed Down
June 22, 2016 04:30 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBPete and Charlie talk about getting your idea across.
Episode 170: Not Reefer Madness
June 15, 2016 04:30 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBPete and Charlie discuss opioid-alternatives that don't get you high.
Episode 169: Silly Science, Stupid Art
June 08, 2016 04:30 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBPete and Charlie bemoan the state of funding in America.
Episode 168: Ethnography
June 01, 2016 04:30 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBPete wants to talk ethnography and Charlie does not.
Episode 167: Square
May 25, 2016 04:30 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBPete and Charlie debate one of the central tenets of the philospher Huey Lewis.
Episode 166: Bathroom Humor
May 18, 2016 04:30 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBPete and Charlie flummox through transgender rights as only a pair of straight white guys can.
Episode 165: More Drugs!
May 11, 2016 04:30 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBPete and Charlie celebrate 4/20 as soberly as possible.
Episode 164: Cure For Pain
May 04, 2016 04:30 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBPete and Charlie discuss going off medication cold turkey.
Episode 163: Octopuses
April 27, 2016 04:30 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBPete and Charlie discuss the tentacles of big data.
Episode 162: Not Up to Code
April 20, 2016 04:30 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBPete and Charlie wonder whether a Renaissance man or woman can read the Matrix.
Episode 161: Granted
April 13, 2016 17:11 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBPete and Charlie discuss the shenanigans that are grant-funded research.
Episode 160: Renaissance Engineers
April 06, 2016 04:30 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBPete and Charlie try to clarify the term "Renaissance Engineer" and fail.