Episode 24: The Two Bit Geeks Hall of Fame
Ped & Tom celebrate a year of podcasting with their first inductions into the Two Bit Geeks Hall of Fame.
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Too Many Cats! [00:00]
ʻOumuamua Update [03:04]
- The first known interstellar object
- Light curve of ‘Oumuamua
- Relevant XKCD 1919 - Interstellar Asteroid
- Asteroid Capture
- Sagan standard
- Occam’s razor
- Cueball and Megan
Evidence Tangent [11:15]
A Two Bit Anniversary [18:10]
- Two Bit Geeks Episode 1: Roll for Initiative!
- Don’t Start a Podcast (College Humor) h/t to Charlie
- Two Bit Geeks Episode 9: All Aboard from Silly Town!
- The Two Bit Geeks Subreddit h/t to /u/loonling
The Two Bit Geeks Hall of Fame [24:27]
- Adam Ruins Everything - Why Mount Rushmore is the Weirdest Monument
- Archimedes
- Randall Munroe
- Relevant XKCD 1732 - Earth Temperature Timeline
- Relevant XKCD 1262 - Unquote
- Martin Gardner
- The Top 10 Martin Gardner Scientific American Articles
- M. C. Escher
- Martin Gardner bibliography
- Conway’s Game of Life
- Benoit Mandelbrot
- Vi Hart
- Vi’s YouTube channel
- Numberphile by Dr. Brady Haran
- Standup Maths by Matt Parker
- Hexaflexagons by Vi Hart
- How to Make a Hexaflexagon: The Definitive Guide by Vi Hart
- Twelve Tones by Vi Hart
- Nikola Tesla
- Why Nikola Tesla Was the Greatest Geek Who Ever Lived - The Oatmeal
- Elon Musk
- “Weird Al” Yankovic
- White & Nerdy by “Weird Al”
- Gary Gygax
- Dave Arneson
- The great 1980s Dungeons & Dragons panic
- Zork
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Deathtrap Dungeon
- Leonard Nimoy
- Tom Baker: the definitive Doctor Who?
- “You may be A doctor, but I am The Doctor. The definite article, you might say.”
- ”Fezzes are cool.”
Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)