Episode 11 – Balls to the Wall with JT Eberhard

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0:00:25 INTRODUCTION

0:12:38 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 27TH

• 1540 – Jesuit order established
• 1938 – Franklin Roosevelt appeals to Hitler for peace
• 1938 – Poland Surrenders
• 1940 – The Tripartite Pact is signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan
• 1959 – Khrushchev ends trip to the United States

0:27:55 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Users: Apple iOS 6 maps are a mess

• SpaceX is headed back to the ISS

• Curiosity Update

  • Astronomy
  • Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS)

• The evolution of gliding

0:42:02 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• The crazy BS going on in the Middle East in protest to the “innocence of Muslims”

  • Google rejects request to remove clip
  • Summary on dwnomad
  • BBC
  • Wikipedia
  • Interactive Map

• Chase Community Giving results – Secular Student Alliance $50,000, Foundation Beyond Belief $20,000, and Camp Quest $20,000

0:52:01 MUSIC – The Existential Blues by Arthur Thomas Heist (Used by permission)

0:54:23 FEATURE – Interview with JT Eberhard
JT Eberhard blogs at What Would JT Do on Patheos and also contributes to AtheismResource.com. He is a co-founder of Skepticon, lead in the organizing of Skepticon 1, 2, and 3, and served as the Secular Student Alliance’s High School Specialist for a year and a half. Now JT is a full time writer and public speaker.

Aside from discussing his activism and writing, we discussed many topics of geeky interest.

Also joining us briefly was JT’s roommate Cambrige.

2:00:10 Poor Unfortunate Souls as performed by JT Eberhard in his operatic karaoke style. (Used by permission)

2:04:16 BLOOPERS

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