
Bufnagle: the Podcast
Join us for an entertaining and enlightening discussion of eclectic adventures in the pursuit of all things Good. Gain a better understanding of technology and science, history and philosophy, and leadership and success, all presented in a positive and affirming conversational framework. Big Brain SmartHead™ guests occasionally join the pair to bring actual expert knowledge to the conversation.
Podcasting since 2020 • 234 episodes
Bufnagle: the Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep 231: "Gravity is Lumpy and Athena Has Better Legs" — A Rocket Update with Big Brain Smart Head™ Bob Luzenski, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™
Rafe is joined by the Buf's most frequent guest, Big Brain Smart Head™ Bob Luzenski, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™, to discuss what is happening in the world of Bob and the world of rockets: winter, flowers and bulbs of Spring, model tra...
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Ep 230: Bufnagle Classic Re-drop: Shrove Tuesday — How Pancakes and Mob Football Lead You to Fasting and Lent
Re-dropping a classic episode from just Lent 2023, Harry and Rafe discuss wild, wonderful, and wacky Shrove Tuesday traditions and how they bring us to understanding the balance between feasting and fasting and staying in the the middle of the ...
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Ep 229: Interesting Connections — Serendipity, Rediscovering Old Things, and Proof By Contradiction
An chance encounter on a 100-watt radio station leads to learning all sorts of new things and discovering some things that Rafe never could have imagined.
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Episode 229
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Ep 228: Aphrodite and Meaning — How the True Nature of Meaning is Missing from AI
Rafe starts with a Shelley poem about the Birth of Aphrodite and wanders into backgammon, Christmas, AI images, mimesis, regression, aviation, and then emerges with the understanding that AI might be a fun toy but it's not possessing understand...
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Ep 227: "A Robot Can't Do That" — Nicholas Cage, Plato, Steampunk, and AI
Rafe discusses Nicholas Cage's lament over the coming of AI to film-making and along with it traces a history of Man's model for viewing Man as the hot technology of the times. Along the way we learn that Man is not a chariot, nor a wind-...
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