Tangential Convergence
Three guys start out with a tech story, and end up through discussions of history and science fiction, somewhere else.
- Website
- http://www.tangentialconvergence.com/
- Description
- Where Tech, History and Sci Fi Converge
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-03-26 22:21
- last episode published
- 2023-02-25 15:34
- publication frequency
- 125.42 days
- Contributors
- Dave Brodbeck, Ken Hernden and Robin Isard
- Author Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 39
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2023-02-25 | It's been a year since Putin started his illegal invasion of Ukraine.We here at TC are staunchly pro democracy and pro Ukraine.I wonder how people feel about this in Russia?We could ask Russian. So we did.Daniil also told us the story of his leaving R... |
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| 2022-12-01 | It's Canadian National Day of Podcasting!It's also me and Ken.Hey, remember the occupation of Ottawa? Remember the Emergencies Act? Well the EA requires a commission be struck to look into the use of the EA, and well, that was our jumping off point.... |
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| 2022-10-23 | We're back.Well, Ken was for a bit, then there was a LIBRARY EMERGENCY!!Gee, what'll we talk about? How about Putin's war of choice in Ukraine?Putin knows little of the operational. art.Deception is key.This got us thinking about a lot of things, Baby... |
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| 2022-09-11 | It's been a heck of a few days.The Queen died.The Russians are rushin' away (sorry...)But a couple of weeks ago Mikhail Gorbachev died.Hey wait, now that's TC material. You know what else? I KNOW AN ACTUAL RUSSIAN!! His name is Daniil, and he escaped... |
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| 2022-04-24 | It's another in our ongoing coverage of Putin's war in Ukraine.Lots of weapons are coming in.Lots of war crimes are happening.We talked a bit about the history of war crimes.How can you get someone to do something evil?I talked a little Asch Line Exper... |
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| 2022-03-19 | This one is all about propaganda.Of course we've been both thinking about the topic ever since Russia invaded Ukraine.Does Putin actually believe his own propaganda?Are we swayed by propaganda (of course we are).I've. got a lot of problems with Noam Ch... |
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| 2022-02-27 | Hey it's us!Gee, what's been in the news? Maybe the Soviet Russian invasion of Ukraine?Is this a reboot of 1918 or 1938? (With credit to @docpinko). We think it's more like 1918.What is Russia's end game? We don't know, what the hell do we know abo... |
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| 2020-11-03 | We recorded this one at around 7pm EST. Some polls are closed, some are open, some people are still in line. I conducted a completely (scientifically) useless twitter poll. Many of our US friends voted in advance. Many of them didn't have lines. T... |
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| 2020-06-03 | Originally Ken and I were going to hop on Skype and talk about reopening economies.Then, the murder of George Floyd happened.So, we couldn't not talk about that. So we did. Though, really, we agree that white people ought to be doing a lot more liste... |
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| 2020-04-09 | Actual t shirt that I'm wearing as I type thisWe're back, and better than ever. Oh and there's a plague and we're all working from home.Also, Ken is now in entirely different city, so we're doing this over Skype for the first time.So of course we're t... |
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