#004 - Amazing Thoughts

Captain Storm and Dangerous Dan attend the Amazing Meeting conference in Las Vegas and discuss at least 10 different topics and 100 fascinating ideas. We take a few minutes to discuss each speaker we saw at the conference and some of the things we thought were especially interesting. You'll love this episode just because there are so many different interesting things to pursue more information about. 

Topics Include:
Martial Arts
Science Morality
Doubtful News
Sex

Con Men
Religion -vs- Science
and much much more!!

Sources

Michael Shermer & the Ask First principal

The ask first principal is outlined in Michael Shermer's book, The Science of Good and Evil

http://shop.skeptic.com/merchant.mvc?&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SS&Product_Code=b090PB

He also expands on these principals in a blog post reply to Massimo Piliucci

http://www.michaelshermer.com/tag/morality/

Get started with rbutr here

http://rbutr.com/

Doubtful news - Sharon hill

http://doubtfulnews.com/

Martey Klein - junk science moral panics and sex (slide deck)

http://www.martyklein.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/TAM-slides.pdf

Hiyaa podcast

http://www.hiyaapodcast.com/

Warrior Rituals fail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i5hCczfGYv0#t=259

Scientific followup

http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia/2007/10/01/martial-idiocy/

The science of martial arts

http://fightnomics.com/

Magician telling the truth - max maven

http://www.maxmaven.com/

Cara Maria's posts

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cara-santa-maria/

The honest liar - Jamie Ian Swiss

http://honestliar.com/

Studies on human morality behavior

http://danariely.com/

Eventually all the TAM videos will be available here

http://www.amazingmeeting.com/videos/