Critical Nonsense

High-low brow conversations about culture, science, and tech. With hosts Joey Camire, Aaron Powers, and executive producer/nerd herder Jess Vander. SYLVAIN is a strategy and design company.

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Progress Report: To Follow or Not to Follow

Posted March 21, 202500:07:14

Bonus episode: A takeover! Aaron shares his latest edition from SYLVAIN’s Progress Report newsletter:

302! Thought Bottling

Posted March 19, 202500:25:30

How should we start bottling things up? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about undesired thoughts, Nietzsche, folk wisdom, Marie Kondo, baggage,...

301! Hibernation

Posted March 10, 202500:33:31

When did we start calling it hibernation and when did hibernating start being a thing? 

This week, Jess and Joey talk about lux, vitamin D, dopamine,...

300! Random Nonsense Generator

Posted March 3, 202500:00:31

This week, Jess, Aaron, and Joey celebrate 300(!) episodes of Critical Nonsense by revisiting random episodes. They talked about 

299! Corn

Posted February 24, 202500:14:14

What are the things that we should be treating like corn that's better than corn? 

This week, Jess and Aaron talk about potatoes, clothing overabundance,...