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 012: Artists, Models, and the End of the World
May 15, 2013 04:30 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBPete and Charlie flicker through painters, poets, The Big Bang Theory, simulations, Tom Clancy, losers, apocalyptic narratives, Blue Thunder, and Die Hard.
Episode 011: Inventions, Engineers, and Learning by Doing
May 08, 2013 04:30 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBPete and Charlie pursue class creation, the GaTech/UGA rivalry, studio teaching, Vulcans, artists, design, problem-based learning, Z-racks, PVC pipe, cyanide salts, BPA, homasote, pretzel bread, and chicken wire.
Episode 010: Kanye West, Chemistry, and the Check Engine Light
May 01, 2013 04:30 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBPete and Charlie dabble in opera, catalysts, holiday staffing, WOVEN, car maintenance, fail-safes, floor coverings, witches, science fiction, vegetarianism, jazz, and questioning doctors.
Episode 009: Coffee, Hedgehogs, and Ten-apple Pies
April 24, 2013 04:30 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBPete and Charlie struggle with urchins, The Sixth Sense, transport, baldness, driving forces, coffee, unit conversion errors, and fracking.
Episode 008: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Inside Baseball
April 17, 2013 04:30 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBPete and Charlie toss around Moneyball, parenthood, STEM, The Trouble With The Curve, jargon, Hokies, and biodegradable packaging.
Episode 007: Balance, Nostalgia, and Reading Moby-Dick
April 10, 2013 04:30 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBPete and Charlie sort out Happy Days, cynicism, rainy days, cold opens, digital natives, gratuitous sex, cross-products, cornstarch, product integration, and Jolly Ranchers.
Shameless Self-promotion
April 08, 2013 13:25 - 4 minutes - 40.3 MB application/octet-streamPete and Charlie take a few minutes to tell you how to get in touch and ask a favor.
Episode 006: Triangles, Taxidermy, and Bloom's Taxonomy
April 03, 2013 04:30 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBPete and Charlie tackle Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains along with carbohydrates, the Flat Earth Society, mnemonics, multiplication, titration, smoking, scaffolding, being on fire, and turkey bacon.
Episode 005: Management, Marketing, and Making the Grade
March 27, 2013 04:30 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBPete and Charlie chew on test-taking, grading, Scantron, marketing STEM, sports in their youth, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, assessment plans, Back To School, teaching vs. research, and weed-out courses.
Episode 004: Classrooms, Quarks, and Claiming the Conch
March 20, 2013 04:30 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBPete and Charlie circle lecture styles, classroom behavior, science narratives old and new, Lord of the Flies, the Higgs-Boson blues, student engagement, Facebook, and James Joyce. Mentioned during the show: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Amazon link).
Episode 003: Factoids, Consensus, and Fighting Wikipedia
March 13, 2013 04:30 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBPete and Charlie chase after teleology, gravity, Wikipedia, fact-checking, refutation, and the platypus.
Episode 002: Failure, Ivy, and Plaid Stuffed Bunnies
March 06, 2013 05:30 - 34 minutes - 47 MBPete and Charlie wrestle with religious narratives, economics, innovation, failure, safe spaces, and aloha shirts. The books mentioned during the show: D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, and The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science- and Reality (Amazon links).
Episode 001: Bald, Angry, and Stuck in the Ivory Tower
February 28, 2013 01:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBTo launch this new podcast, Pete and Charlie grapple with the ivory tower vs. the real world, along with bacon, John Mayer, Randy Olson, narrative in science education, online degrees, higher education, jargon spin, and the definition of "consilience."