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044: A philosopher’s take on artificial intelligence and value (with Tyler Branston)

We learn from Tyler Branston about philosophy and the importance of critical thinking. We learn about what philosophy is, what a philosopher does, why the values of society will create destructive art...

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043: Whales are worth a trillion dollars (with Grace Baer)

This month on the Infinite Monkeys cast, we chat with friends from BC whales. We not only talk about what BC whales does as an organization, but about why whales are so important to our ecosystem and ...

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042: Science is a house of cards

After chatting with Tao, the monkeys ponder why it takes so long to get an enjoyable job, and why this oppressive model builds a house of cards rather than a solid, reinforced structure. Will this one...

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041: What exactly does a mathematician do? (with Tao Gaede)

A conversation with Tao Gaede about his journey to becoming a mathematician and how he discovered at an older age that he wants to do math for a living. Tyler does not understand math, so he tries to ...

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040: A mad scientist growing brain tissue from his own blood (with Tyler J Wenzel)

A lot has happened in the last 2 years. Tyler is now a doctor and we have all had to deal with the global plague. Tyler, apparently motivated by the bizarre world we now live in, now grows brain tissu...

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039: Casual chat about cooking & feeding your dog mold

The bloody weather again. Gunnar cooks professionally as meat engine with guanciale.  Tyler gets ignored.  Chefs are sleezy used car salesmen who add value to meats by cutting them to pieces like t...

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038: Essential coronavirus misinformation

ESSENTIAL CORONAVIRUS MISINFORMATION.  CORONAVIRUS specs into evolutionary lethality skill tree.  ETHANOL YOUR DRIVEWAY.  Dragonball Z Canadian public health with PhD twitter follower, Tyler J. Wenzel...

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037: Coronavirus and Nick Cage

Today on the podcast, the monkeys chat coronavirus and colonizing space. Tao tells us about some neat space science and how he thinks an interplanetary trade network would work and Gunnar applies some...

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036: Trash heaps, masturbation, and trains

The robots tried to sabotage our transmission this week, but we hope you enjoy this week’s cast despite the slightly garbled audio. This week we discuss our entire gamut of feelings: (1) Tyler has a s...

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