VPZD Ep. 42: Macklemore, Confidence Intervals, LG Spying

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0:00 Welcome to VPZD episode 42

0:22 Macklemore, Ed Sheeran, and getting booted from a tour over a political statement

5:37 Land acknowledgments and where the impulse to acknowledge everything comes from

7:49 T-Rex body temperature and tooth enamel isotopes as an aside

9:00 Amateur archaeology, human evolution, and how much to trust ancient science

10:00 The fluoride debate, dental benefit versus IQ concerns

13:00 A university awards ceremony hijacked by political chanting

15:34 Jonathan Haidt's three great untruths and campus fragility

19:04 Why geopolitical conflict resists the kind of activism suited to local issues

20:39 Ancestry, Zoroastrian roots, and a Leonard Nimoy autograph story

21:52 Wall Street Journal's inconsistent editorial stance on drug approvals

26:40 Understanding p-values, split alpha, and confidence intervals

32:12 New ACGME resident work-hour rule changes

35:55 Why administrative burden, not just hours, makes residency miserable

40:02 Angela Duckworth's concept of grit and descriptive versus prescriptive fallacies

45:57 Ambition, cortisol, and the hungry ghost of never feeling successful

46:20 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

47:05 A JAMA paper linking pilots and flight attendants to radiation-induced cancer

48:48 More skepticism about routine dental X-rays

50:56 Hot tub lung disease and questionable AI health advice

53:05 Cold plunges, Wim Hof, and the data thing

55:00 Why explicit political art feels worse than subtle political art

58:00 Mathematicians upset that an AI helped solve a Navier-Stokes-adjacent problem

1:02:19 LG TVs allegedly recording audio and network data

1:04:51 Trusting Apple more than LG, rightly or wrongly

1:07:05 Old-school 90s hip-hop versus modern rap's explicitness

1:08:03 Wrapping up and signing off