164! Permeated Nonsense and Youth Culture

Why do we keep doing things that don't make any sense at all? And is youth culture always the same? [24:34]

This week, Jess and Joey talk about Pi Day, songlines, dead reckoning, Billy Joel, the Flynn effect, and the global mean hat size. They don’t talk about the Tau of Pooh.

references

• Give Me ... the Beach Boys?
• NPR: Ways to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine
• "We'll do it live!"
• Vihart: Pi is (still) wrong.
• Smart by Design: Base 12 - Why Counting In Twelves Would Make Life Easier
• Songlines: the Indigenous memory code
• Dead reckoning
• "TikTok is just ..."
• Remembering GeoCities, the 1990s Precursor to Social Media
• Billy Joel's "Piano Man"
• James Flynn's Ted Talk: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'
• The Flynn effect