Beautiful Illusions

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:12 - The “Big Mac” pizza is one of of many “Gourmet Pizzas” served at Illiano’s Pizza & Italian Cuisine in Middletown, CT 3:45 - See “The Definitive Guide to New Haven Pizza” , the “New Haven-style pizza” Wikipedia entry , and the website for Fra...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:00 - Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 12 - “A New Enlightenment: The Age of Cognitivism” from March 2021 2:09 - See Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett and Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Fooli...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:19 - The Yankees beat the Indians 1-0 in Game 3 of the 2017 American League Division Series, see “2017 American League Division Series (ALDS) Game 3, Indians at Yankees” ( Baseball Reference ) and 2017 ALDS Game 3 Highlights 3:25 - Boston Red Sox...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:10 - Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 06 - “What We Talk About When We Talk About Politics” 3:07 - See “U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided” ( Pew Research Center , 2020) 3:45 - See “ American News Pathways Projec...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:07 - See “Literary Periods, Movements, and History” ( The Literature Network ) 5:10 - See “What is Enlightenment?” by Immanuel Kant - “Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own underst...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:41 - The Darwin Fish 2:59 - “...you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone” ( BobDylan.com ) from “The Times They Are A-Changin’ ” (YouTube video) 3:18 - See “What is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution” (LiveScience, 2018) and “Darwin and Hi...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:05 - Treehouse Brewing Company 2:30 - The Brewers Association trade group , which represents the majority of American Brewing companies, defines an American craft brewer as a small, independent brewer with an annual production of 6 million barrel...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode *A note about the audio in this episode - due to COVID this conversation was recorded in a large garage on a brisk 40 degree November Sunday, so there’s a bit of natural reverb, along with the buzz of propane heaters and leaf blowers audible in the background. Like so...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:03 - Existentialism entry from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) and Existentialism: Crash Course Philosophy #16 (YouTube video) 2:20 - Atheism (IEP) 6:07 - The Quran , The Book of Mormon , The Bhagavad Gita , Buddhism , Daoism 10:41...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:00 - See the Ten Year Reading Plan from The Great Conversation Reading Group 3:07 - A Game of Thrones Novel & HBO TV Series  4:34 - Bo Knows Bo , No Direction Home , On The Road 5:58 - See “Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 5:53 - See “This is why you get worked up about politics, according to science” ( CNN , 2017) 7:58 - Difficult Conversations by by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen 11:04 - “ According to Peter Ditto , a psychology professor and researcher w...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:15 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ( Wikipedia entry on Frankenstein ) 2:25 - Google image search for Frankenstein (and for Herman Munster ) 4:20 - The movie The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) was the sequel to Frankenstein (1931), and featured Bori...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 2:00 - Context with Brad Harris podcast episode “The Two Cultures, by C.P. Snow” from November, 2018 2:06 - “The Two Cultures” by C.P. Snow 3:16 - “What is Science?” 3:34 - History of Science 4:45 - Snow gave the Rede Lecture at the University of C...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: The Art of Manliness Podcast episode #430 “Why You Need to Join the Great Conversation About the Great Books” Ten Year Great Books Reading Plan “Apology” and “Crito” by Plato The Art of Manliness Podcast episode #587 “How to Get More Pleasure and F...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: Bob Dylan lyrics by song title No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan by Robert Shelton “I Want You” from Dylan and The Grateful Dead’s 7/4/87 show in Foxboro, MA - not the exact version on the album (in terms of Dylan’s enunciation it’...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References:  “No one can opt out of this pandemic. And that will change us forever.”  by Alissa Wilkinson published by Vox on April 13, 2020: “The Pre-pandemic Universe Was the Fiction” by Charles Yu published by The Atlantic on April 15, 2020 This episode was...

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode Selected References: 1:46 - Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the Overman (Superman, or Ubermensch ) as presented in the prologue of Thus Spake Zarathustra : “I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All being...