Episodes

  • Book Burning Bonanza

    Book Burning Bonanza
    Dec 13 2021
    Earlier this week, someone asked me if I would help get the word out about a book they thought should be banned from our public school libraries. “Pornographic,” I believe was the accusation. I didn’t endorse the message, but it did leave me wondering: what makes a book bannable? And what impact do all of these cries for censoring books actually have?

    Links to resources:
    • American Library Association (ALA)
    • ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)
    • Banned Books Lists, 2001-2020
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    19 mins
  • Battle Station: Omicron

    Battle Station: Omicron
    Nov 29 2021

    If you happened to have listened to the episode last week, I was talking about when to take our masks off. You may remember me saying something like “these assumptions may change” or “take them off after your entire household is vaccinated.”

    Well...assumptions changed. Let's go visit Battle Station: Omicron.

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    14 mins
  • When Can We Take Off Our Masks?

    When Can We Take Off Our Masks?
    Nov 22 2021
    After a year and a half of shutdowns, quarantines, and other public drama, we're still waiting for a collective answer to the question that affects us the most in our daily lives: When can I take off this mask?

    Bad Data doesn't have a definitive answer for you on that one, but can provide at least one person's assumptions and position on when. Support the show

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    19 mins
  • Hot Tub Data Time Machine

    Hot Tub Data Time Machine
    Nov 15 2021
    Take a brief trip through history as we look back 1, 10, 50, and 100 years at how diseases, vaccines, politics, and technology have evolved and impacted our lives.

    "The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." -Mark TwainSupport the show

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    19 mins
  • The 1776 Project PAC Money Airdrop (clean)

    The 1776 Project PAC Money Airdrop (clean)
    Oct 30 2021
    (NOTE: this is a clean / non-explicit version of the original Episode 6.)

    Among the thousands of various local government positions up for grabs, nearly 400,000 students are at risk of having their school boards turned upside-down by one political action committee. Don’t believe me? Let’s follow the money.Support the show

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    18 mins
  • The 1776 Project PAC Money Airdrop

    The 1776 Project PAC Money Airdrop
    Oct 29 2021
    Among the thousands of various local government positions up for grabs, nearly 400,000 students are at risk of having their school boards turned upside-down by one political action committee. Don’t believe me? Let’s follow the money.Support the show

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    18 mins
  • Death Data

    Death Data
    Oct 22 2021

    There is so much data orbiting each of us. And it all carries on a life of its own, propelled by some kind of digital momentum. But your absolute final piece of data - your cause of death - is riddled with errors...and always has been. Why?


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    13 mins
  • Thought Exercise

    Thought Exercise
    Oct 1 2021
    This week's (shorter-than-usual) episode walks through some quick mental math on what "normal" looks like in a year, what that costs us in dollars and souls, and what we earn in return.

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    10 mins