#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

//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

//www.michaelshermer.com/tag/morality/

Get started with rbutr here

//rbutr.com/

Doubtful news - Sharon hill

//doubtfulnews.com/

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

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

Hiyaa podcast

//www.hiyaapodcast.com/

Warrior Rituals fail

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

Scientific followup

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

The science of martial arts

//fightnomics.com/

Magician telling the truth - max maven

//www.maxmaven.com/

Cara Maria's posts

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

The honest liar - Jamie Ian Swiss

//honestliar.com/

Studies on human morality behavior

//danariely.com/

Eventually all the TAM videos will be available here

//www.amazingmeeting.com/videos/