Answering one of the tough questions of life: "Hey, how are you?"

A few more ideas on how to reply to this challenging question.

What would you even ask of a genie, given a wish?

It's weird to live in a body not knowing how it even works.

Calculating the probability that the romantic partner of your dreams is actually in your city.

A cautionary tale about statistics before you try to be so smart, like I was trying to be in the previous episode.

The first episode of an on-going series we're going to have here on the show all about funny animals and plants that used to exist on Earth.

On minimalism.

A novel "out of 10" scale.

One time I was in discussion with a garbage man and we disagreed on something regarding batteries. He said "Do you even know what electricity is?" As a matter of fact, I did not. I hope this first episode of a mini-series about electricity of will help you avoid a similar fate.

Continuing with our completely engrossing series about electricity.

The final episode (for now) of our riveting series about electricity.

I've eaten this every day for months and months on end. I'm still not bored of it.

Tugging at the table cloth under our most precious belief... for fun and sport!

Moe told me that Burt Reynolds past away yesterday and so I should do an episode about what it's like to have a mustache.

And... we're back with another episode about freewill.

If you put your brain and the rest of the universe into the exact state it was before you made your last decision, can you make a different choice? If so, if it's not the things in your brain making the decision, what made the decision?

The world is so confusing for a 2D object :(

Things to think about whilst eating lunch in a Walmart parking lot.

Color confused me until I realized it was fake. But it's a really interesting hallucination.

Why fluorescent colors are weirdly bright and never made it into the rainbow.

Have fun by smiling where no one else is: at the grocery store.

A story about escaping from North Korea and then onto dissolving financial worries without any willpower.

Sometimes when you lose, you win!

One more thought about budgeting. If you can make it a game, it takes little willpower.

If you want to be tough, be tough.

Who are we talking to when we think our inner thoughts?

Apparently, Generation Y is inheriting a horrific world. But it's hard to think of a better place to be.

The beginning of Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell.

A canoeing miracle.

The question "What do you want?" asked repeatedly, brings people to tears.

Brian Eno wrote the music.

Literally the beginning of the book.

... it's also handy for bubbles in your mouth.

Something is wrong. Piece of shaped metal lower than it should be.

People watching gets more and more fun the more you know about people.

Beware of realists!

When it comes to motivations, there's the good reason and the real reason.

A glimpse into how we explain our actions, even when we couldn't possibly know why we did it.

The best way to get over someone ... is the best way to win them back.

They are apparently distillations of truths about our psyches?

A tip for fake smilers.

The quest to make a writing utensil that works in space.

So many problems. But it's okay.

How to defend yourself when someone makes the argument about you instead of about what you say.

When people argue against a fake version of your perspective.

Possibilities for the last billion years of life on Earth.

Another episode about arguing.

A Grade 6-level science fair project that can trick anyone into loosing their grip on what's them and what's the outside world.

Billionaires aren't the only ones who aren't willing to help.

Sometimes it's better to just look into it.

...whether we're zig-zagging around, or doing a long haul in one direction.

Mushrooms are closer related to us than the vegetables they are put next to in our grocery stores.

Maybe you were wondering.

If you don't feel like being humiliated for a time, try "Creating not Dating"

The answer is obvious.

It really does.

Just the coolest sounding thing in psychology. No big deal.

A reason to reconsider trying to understanding your own psyche.

Chimpanzees don't work together. Chimpanbees do.

The beginnings of Slaughterhouse Five, Girl at War, 100 Years of Solitude, Pride and Prejudice and other beginnings.

A creative way to leave your lover.

More beginnings of books.

Is it a proper noun?

Things that you don't know anything about are boring.

Alanis raises a good question.

It's not that easy to be super smart chimps. Give us a break, will ya!

Apparently 80% of contemporary music is about romantic relationships.

Make dream conversations fun.

The best idea since the best idea before sliced bread.

Time for another episode of Winning Arguments.

Why do we get together and talk?

You can always tell.

If you don't know where you're going, you aren't alone.

How Scrooge spent his evening.

It's a miracle.

We become more judgemental when we smell farts.

Even more beginnings of books

Even more beginnings of books.

Having an Annual General Meeting with yourself.

New Year's resolutions

There's no fun in high jump if you never make it over the bar.

The arbitrarily New Year is a nice edge to work with.

Living without a core night's sleep or without a weekend.

Even more beginnings of books.

"The basis of invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity."

The journey from guitar to brain.

One particularly bad day.

It's still possible to take video of life on Earth 66 million years ago.

What is music?

Music seems to be about nothing and quite a lot at the same time.

So much ambiguity. Such a difficult world.

Kind of weird that there are only five.

...is one way to look at a rose.

Interesting times ahead for residents of Milky Way and Andromeda.

How we know Andromeda will collide with the Milky Way.

*If we're talking base-ten.

How some Mormons changed the game.

More about freewill.

Can an idea be no one's idea?

Defining boiling the easy way and the hard way.

The likelihood of dying by various things.

How many Watts does a human heater throw?

How Richard Feynman caught up in biology class.

Three ways to figure things out.

Some people alive today are definitely going to live in the year 2100.

Bach may have been a genius, but he also put in the work.

Two middle-aged gentlemen from the United States came to the rural community where I live in Canada. They played a house concert and slept in the basement.

The entertaining first page of the infamous book Radical Honesty.

Etymology of "groovy"

Dust to dust. Mexico to salsa jar.

For Valentine's Day, a hot part of Nabokov's Spring in Fialta. Music by the Crooked Brothers.

Mid-February check in.

The trade-off that comes with consciousness.

To other animals, it sound like we're just making random noises to each other.

How many leaps would it take for the world to be unrecognizable?

We are a species of light shiners.

The plan in case Neil and Buzz got stranded on the Moon.

Test it and see.

Dealing with people who hate on the scientific method.

Covering the basics.

The on-going mission to understand where we are.

It's interesting being somewhere between your first day and your last.

An episode about a man in the background of a photo.

The same things are funny everywhere.

Don't just cut things out, substitute.

New series: great obits!

Continuing with our new series of great obits, this woman suggests never throwing out pantyhose.

The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars.

When the nerds win.

Something to think about while watching movies.

Learning from a beer commercial.

Sometimes the only way to be a Devil's Advocate is to be positive a cheery and kind.

Time for another episode of Winning Arguments.

Singing for mood augmentation.

Alien species add to regional biodiversity.

What book would you write?

Some book summaries from the Brautigan Library of unpublished manuscripts.

More random unpublished manuscripts from the Brautigan Library

Even more random unpublished manuscripts from the Brautigan Library. This time, the humour category.

Yet another episode of unpublished manuscripts from the Brautigan Library. Today, the "All the Rest" category of misfits.

Just wondering where all the UFO videos went -- everyone's ready with their iPhones.

Another episode of Winning Arguments.

State of your hair vs. state of the world

The time the NY Times said that it was impossible for rockets to work in space.

Maybe the only person you want to be is yourself anyway.

What is time?

This year the web turned 30 years old.

All of our problems are interpersonal.

If you only had one dream it would really stick in your mind.

What we mean when we say we just about did something.

Do we have to leave the Shire? Do we really have to be on Life's Great Adventure?

Who is it?

We get precious few reprieves from the churning of our minds.

More beginnings of books.

...but it's even weirder to look forward.

Sometimes things that we think are beautiful just appeal to us because they remind us of things. Maybe.

The premise of the world doesn't sounds made up.

The title says it all.

This Smurf song went to #1 in sixteen countries. It held the record for the most consecutive weeks at #2 on the UK charts for ~14 years, only to eventually be surpassed by "I'm Too Sexy".

Time for another episode of Winning Arguments.

Time for another episode of Winning Arguments. On this episode, a one-word answer.

On today's episode of Definitions: "consciousness", "fascist" and "God".

Apparently 50% of all violent crime involves alcohol.

Songwriters often seem so hard-done-by in their relationships.

Part 1 of a series about the inventions listed in Dire Straits' Money for Nothing.

Part 2 of a series about the inventions listed in Dire Straits' Money for Nothing.

The exciting conclusion of a series about the inventions listed in Dire Straits' Money for Nothing.

Reading Wikipedia to get excited about new music.

Nerdy behaviour turned cool.

Stole this title from Sam Harris, but anyway, just some thoughts about observing humans at the mall or anywhere.

One of the polar bears at the Zoo was brought to the Zoo because in the wild it was bothering the homo sapiens.

We learned to hunt at a distance by throwing things and we are fascinated by throwing to this day.

...and no one noticed.

Bob Dylan dropping by someone's house.

A story about a boy who grew up without human contact

...maybe it's not hard after all.

...the bikers will have to find a new way to scare people.

Baseball is the sport where there's always an audience.

How do chip cards and RFID tags transmit a radio signal with no apparent power source.

If fragile objects make you nervous...

Good buildings are a work in progress.

The joy of buildings where no one cares what you're doing in there.

Digital speedometer display vs analogue needle.

We're going to go through this book called A Pattern Language, a weird book that will let you make guesses about whether places you observe in the world will be enjoyable to be in or not.

"Parks are dead and artificial. Farms, when treated as private property, rob the people of their natural biological heritage -- the countryside from which they came".

"The artificial separation of houses and work creates intolerable rifts in people's inner lives."

People need "an identifiable spatial unit to belong to".

Supposedly, high buildings damage people's minds and feelings and have no advantages except for in the bank account balances of developers.