Episode 24: The Two Bit Geeks Hall of Fame

Two Bit Geeks

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]

• How Many Cats is Too Many?
• (Stuffed) Cat Chucking in Belgium

?Oumuamua 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]

• The Scientific method vs Anecdotal evidence

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)