Episode 108: There’s No Dressing Up Dress Codes
Mansplaining16 Mar 2025

Episode 108: There’s No Dressing Up Dress Codes

Send us Fan Mail The New York Yankees’ recent relaxation of half-century-old rules about facial hair got Joe to thinking about dress and codes generally. Why do they exist? Where do they come from? Mark takes Joe on a historical tour of dress codes, from ancient Rome and China through medieval Europe and Tudor England, ending in the modern era of school uniforms and casual Fridays. As our heroes discover, attire-related restrictions are less about affirming people than...

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Episode 139:  Standardized Testing and the Pretense of Meritocracy

Episode 139: Standardized Testing and the Pretense of Meritocracy

Send us Fan Mail With only 24 of 777 incoming seats in New York’s City’s premier public high school being offered to Black and Hispanic students, even though they make up 62% of the population, standa...

15 Aug 57min

Episode 138:  Geoengineering Our Way Out of Climate Disaster

Episode 138: Geoengineering Our Way Out of Climate Disaster

Send us Fan Mail With the world’s progress toward reducing carbon emissions fitful at best, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of not meeting international targets and staring instead at p...

2 Aug 1h

Episode 137:  Should Billionaires Exist?

Episode 137: Should Billionaires Exist?

Send us Fan Mail The recent IPO for SpaceX briefly turned Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire. One person having a net worth involving 13 digits is staggering to comprehend, leading Joe to a...

13 Jul 56min

Episode 136: Living a Meaningful Life

Episode 136: Living a Meaningful Life

Send us Fan Mail So much has been written and said about how to live a meaningful life. It’s been the pursuit of philosophers for millennia, a central focus of psychology for the last century and a ha...

27 Jun 57min

Episode 135: Gerrymandering: A Jerry-Built Contraption

Episode 135: Gerrymandering: A Jerry-Built Contraption

Send us Fan Mail In the wake of the Supreme Court’s disemboweling of the Voting Rights Act, many (former?) Confederate states are redistricting away Black members of Congress who aren’t Republicans. W...

14 Jun 52min

Episode 134: The Clock is Ticking to Doomsday

Episode 134: The Clock is Ticking to Doomsday

Send us Fan Mail You’ve probably heard of the Doomsday Clock. It’s the clock whose hands move closer to midnight every time humanity is judged to be closer to annihilation. A few months ago, it inched...

31 Mai 1h 3min

Episode 133: What is It About Dogs?

Episode 133: What is It About Dogs?

Send us Fan Mail It is thought that somewhere in Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene, an intrepid pack of gray wolves made a fateful decision to approach a human campfire seeking scraps. From that hum...

10 Mai 52min

Episode 132: Who’s Happier: Liberals or Conservatives?

Episode 132: Who’s Happier: Liberals or Conservatives?

Send us Fan Mail The media images we see of conservative politicians and voters depict people who are angry, fearful, and full of suspicion and outrage. So, why does study after study suggest that the...

26 Apr 1h 4min

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