
(Episode 120) Newsletter 10: The Jubilee, Peace, Progress and Policing
The substack article with links can be found here: https://bretthall.substack.com/p/the-jubilee-peace-progress-and-policing?sd=fs&s=w#details
5 Juni 202218min

Ep 119: Work and Heat: An introduction to thermodynamics (a prelude to Ch 6 of ”The Science of Can & Can’t).
This is part of my series on Chiara Marletto's groundbreaking book on Constructor Theory "The Science of Can and Can't". In this episode, I do not read from the book but set the scene for newcomers wh...
2 Juni 20221h 29min

(Ep 118: The Planetary Health Authority)
Just a bit of fun more than anything else. A quick response (despite the length of the podcast!) to the pessimism, despair and implied authoritarianism found in an "article" on the Guardian penned by ...
23 Maj 202249min

(Ep 117: Heat, Work, Universality and Exams)
This is newsletter number 8 which is an unusually lengthy one, hence it is being released here also as an "irregular" podcast. The transcript and references can be found here: https://bretthall.sub...
19 Maj 202250min

Ep 116: Objective Knowledge
This is my succinct explanation of "Objective Knowledge" - the concept and not the book of the same name by Karl Popper. However that book of course informs this entire thesis of what Objective Knowle...
6 Maj 202235min

Ep 115: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 5 “Virtual Reality”
Although an episode devoted to "virtual reality" may seem quirky, parochial or quaint: the fact is that the concept of virtual reality runs very deep. Our understanding of reality is via virtual reali...
27 Apr 20221h 11min

(Ep 114) Newsletter 3: Manners and Misattributions
This is the podcast version of my Substack Newsletter number 3 here https://bretthall.substack.com/p/manners-and-misattributions?r=3r9kb&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Links referred to in the...
20 Apr 202229min

Ep: 113 Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 4 ”Probability and Randomness” Remarks and Analysis
Pinker lecturing on Rationality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW43X... Link to "psychological study" on what people think about meteorological predictions: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1... ...
18 Apr 20221h 19min



















