最高の Bufnagle ポッドキャスト (2024)

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Ep 188: The Rocket Equation and CubeSats — A Lesson in Putting Things Into Orbit (and not trusting the interwebs, AI, and other such things...) 38:38

5d ago38:38

38:38

A simple observation from a photo on the interwebs leads to a question, and then lots of Bufnagely discussion, about space and orbits and rockets and garage projects, marketing, and much, much more! Harry and Rafe are joined by not one but TWO (!) Big Brain Smart Heads™: Bob Luzenski, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™, and Dr Brian Donahue, Amer…

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Ep 187: The Joy of Summer School — And a Big Announcement! 41:19

12d ago41:19

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Harry and Rafe discuss summer school and other summer activities and finish with a big announcement from Rafe about this coming summer and what it means to the Buf!Bufnagle による

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Ep 186: Bounded and Right-sized — Doing Your Job to Save the World 16:32

19d ago16:32

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Rafe tackles the question of how to save the world using a little help from from a four-year-old with a wagon full of rocks.Bufnagle による

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Ep 185: Eclipse 2024 Retrospective 43:51

26d ago43:51

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Rafe talks to Bob Luzenski, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™, and Dr Brian Donahue, a Time Traveling Ham Radio Anesthesiologist™, about the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 as viewed from Bufnagle Global Headquarters in Westfield, IN.Bufnagle による

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Ep 184: Bufnagle Unscripted — Working Out Ways to Fulfill Duties to Others and Yourself 39:26

1M ago39:26

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Harry and Rafe work through a rare unscripted episode based loosely around the question of "How do you do what you need to do for yourself while also doing what you need to do for others?" What results is a random walk through a plethora of topics including, but not limited to, eclipses, celestial transits, the transitivity of transitivity, show pr…

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Ep 183: Springtime Shenanigans— All Sorts of Ways that Cultures Celebrate Spring 33:00

1M ago33:00

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Rafe does a solo episode that ties together all sorts of Springtime shenanigans from colored dust to "seven sins" to evading the Angel of Death to announcing the arrival of Truth Incarnate and lots in-between. Join us to celebrate Spring!Bufnagle による

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Ep 182: Big Rockets, Loose Screwdrivers, Pez Dispensers, and Mice — A Discussion of SpaceX' Starship Third Launch Test 42:45

2M ago42:45

42:45

The Buf is honored to again be joined by Bob Luzenski, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™, to discuss all the fun things that happened surrounding the March 14th test launch of SpaceX' Starship. Bob leads Rafe through all the interesting things that happened last week surrounding Starship and occasionally entertains with interesting side notes ar…

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Ep 181: Wind and Water and Springtime — God Makes All Things New 33:50

2M ago33:50

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Rafe and Harry look at wind and water and how these fundamental elements are used by God to make new things. Take a deeper look at the Genesis creation story, Noah's ark (How many animals did he take onto the ark?), Moses, and other stories to see the roles of water and wind, and learn how to see that He who "makes all things new" does this for you…

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Ep 180: "The 2024 Paris Olympic Farmers’ Market and Craft Show!" — Bufnagle European Trip Report, Part 3 43:49

2M ago43:49

43:49

Harry hosts Rafe's discussion of a trip to Paris. Along the way, we learn about Haussman's Paris, Notre Dame, Eglise St Etienne du Mont (and Owen Wilson!), Eiffel's Tower, US monuments in Paris, the Arc de Triomphe, the Avenue des Champs-Elysees, the Louvre, and much much more! Like the entire trip to Europe, the best part was the warm and hospitab…

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Ep 179: Bufnagle European Trip Report, Part 2 — A Weekend Train Trip to Assisi 46:13

2M ago46:13

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Harry hosts Rafe's discussion of a weekend train trip to the town of Assisi, birthplace and final resting place of St. Francis of Assisi. Rafe tells stories of train travel, the life and times of St. Francis and the circuitous route to his final resting place, the quaint and cozy town of Assisi in January, a castle on the hill above the town protec…

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Ep 178: Fairy Tale Princesses, Christmas Ghosts, Jane Eyre, and Stepping Outside the Narrative — A Most Delightful Conversation with Author and Podcaster Faith Moore 49:00

3M ago49:00

49:00

The Buf team welcomes Big Brain Smart Head™ author, editor, podcaster, commentator, wife, and stay-at-home mom Faith Moore to the show to discuss her books and podcast. Faith discusses her book "Saving Cinderella — What Feminists Get Wrong About Disney Princesses And How To Set It Right", a scholarly look into a consistent and helpful way to unders…

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Ep 177: More Rockets and Eclipse Updates with America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™ 48:51

3M ago48:51

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The Buf team is joined by Big Brain Smart Head™ and America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™ Bob Luzenski to discuss, of course, big rockets and the upcoming April 8th total solar eclipse. Bob and the team discuss new information surrounding the Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of Starship on November 18, 2023 and upcoming plans, hurdles, and whatnot for …

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Ep 176: Bufnagle European Trip Report, Part 1 — Florence's Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore 42:41

3M ago42:41

42:41

Harry hosts Rafe's discussion of a visit to Florence, Italy and a tour of the First Church of the Renaissance, Florence's Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Rafe tells the story of his tour of the Cathedral's massive dome and all the fun things found there inside, including spiraling secret passageways, Dante's Inferno, a wonderful ancient clock w…

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Ep 175: Hope and Despair — What Exactly Goes Into Models for Predicting Sports Outcomes? 29:02

3M ago29:02

29:02

Rafe goes solo, discussing wagering on sports situations, namely the NCAA tournament and going for 2 and going for it on fourth down in football. After some considerations he concludes that the things we really need in sports betting models are Hope and Despair, two of the many things that the we cannot measure and that the materialists refuse to e…

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Ep 174: "A Small Plot for a Free Man" — Reprising Some Ideas About Artificial Intelligence and Samwise Gamgee (and some other things!) 33:08

3M ago33:08

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The Buf team takes a little time to reprise some of the AI and Lord of the Rings topics from the last couple of weeks.Bufnagle による

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Ep 173: Dumb and Dumber — A Story About the Current Status of Artificial Intelligence 47:52

4M ago47:52

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Rafe and Harry relate a story of a conversation with an AI bot and come to the general conclusion that we've got some time before artificial intelligence takes over the world.Bufnagle による

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Ep 172: Boromir's Death — Confession, Death, Last Rites and Such Things in Lord of the Rings 34:58

4M ago34:58

34:58

Harry leads a discussion of Boromir's death in Lord of the Rings and notes the allegory it provides to understand sin and reconciliation and last rites. Boromir becomes enticed by the power of The Ring and his focus away from his Good leads to Sin. He recognizes his straying from the path, shows remorse, confesses and does penance and is reconciled…

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Ep 171: Bufnagle Classic Re-drop: Christmas Special 2020 — Christmas Movies and Change of Perspective with No Change in Circumstance 25:26

4M ago25:26

25:26

In this re-drop of a classic episode from Christmas 2020, Zach and Rafe, joined by Big Brain Smart Head™ guests Olivia and Chris DeCleene, discuss Christmas movies and what makes them unique. Discussion of some of the classics (and some you might not have thought of!) follows as we come to see that Christmas is about the ultimate change in perspect…

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Ep 170: Butter Curling, Beauty, and Joy — A Christmas Conversation with Big Brain Smart Head™ Ginny Horan 44:38

5M ago44:38

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Rafe is joined by a returning Big Brain Smart Head™ guest, the always-delightful Ginny Horan. What follows is a meandering conversation centered on Christmas, sprinkled generously with Joy, Goodness, Beauty, and Hope. Always live excellently, as your actions will ripple through time and impact people in ways you never could imagine. This episode is…

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Ep 169: "A nobody, a small rope, a tiny ladder" — Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe Change the World 36:20

5M ago36:20

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Harry and Rafe discuss the appearance of the Virgin Mary to Juan Diego in 1531. A decade after the fall of the Aztec empire, Diego, a peasant convert in present-day Mexico, is visited four times by the appearance of the Virgin Mary, who tells him to ask the bishop to build a church on Tepeyac Hill in her honor. When pressed for evidence, Our Lady a…

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Ep 168: "Peering Out of Tiny Eyes" — New Baby Siblings, Cousins, Parenting, and Virtue (of course!) 36:58

5M ago36:58

36:58

Harry and Rafe discuss the arrival of siblings and their impact on older children, songs by Elton John, parenting, role modeling, poems by Cecil B. Alexander, virtue, and other such things. This episode is kindly sponsored by BlendJet. Use our special link ("bufnagle") to save 12% at blendjet.com. The discount will be applied at checkout!…

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Ep 167: Columbus, Part 4 — The Final Voyages and the International Race to See What's Really Out There 29:24

5M ago29:24

29:24

Harry and Rafe finish the story of Columbus and his travels to the New World. Columbus struggles to keep control of the colony in the (West) Indies and also struggles to keep control of his reputation and name. The New World is becoming bigger and bigger and looking less and less like The East with every voyage someone, be it Columbus or the Portug…

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Ep 166: Bufnagle Classic Re-drop: The Pilgrims, Part 3 — Alliance, Divine Providence, and Thanksgiving 43:57

5M ago43:57

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In this re-drop of a classic episode from late 2022, Harry and Rafe discuss this final third part of our series on the Pilgrims, covering interactions with the Native Americans, an alliance with Massasoit and the Pokanokets and the consequences of that treaty. Nathaniel Philbrick's book Mayflower is the basis for these episodes and provides generou…

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Ep 165: Bufnagle Classic Re-drop: The Pilgrims, Part 2 — Massasoit and the Situation in New England on Arrival 39:06

5M ago39:06

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In this re-drop of a classic episode from late 2022, Harry and Rafe take up where they left off in Episode 164: the Pilgrims have arrived at Cape Cod, but what awaited them? The North American landscape was anything but a blank slate. Countless local tribes were living on the continent and with them were their cultures, their customs, and their pol…

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Ep 164: Bufnagle Classic Re-drop: The Pilgrims, Part 1 — An Incredible Journey Toward Building a New World 48:53

5M ago48:53

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In this re-drop of a classic episode from late 2022, Rafe is joined by Harry to discuss the first part of Nathaniel Philbrick's book Mayflower and the story of the Pilgrims and how they came to America. Starting as English puritans in Holland, the Pilgrims decide to pick up and move to America. This episode tracks the incredible travel from Leiden …

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Ep 163: Starship — What Did We Learn During November 18's Flight of SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy? 46:09

6M ago46:09

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Rafe is joined by Big Brain Smart Head™ and America's Favorite Rocket Scientist™ Bob Luzenski to discuss the November 18 launch of SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy. Bob walks us through the launch and short flight of both the booster Super Heavy (the first stage) and the spacecraft Starship (the second stage) during their less-than-ten-minutes flight.…

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Ep 162: Cinnamon Rolls, Saints, And The Prodigal Son — Who Are The Examples For Your Kids? 36:09

6M ago36:09

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Harry and Rafe discuss role models (not ROLL models) and the examples we put in front of our kids and in front of ourselves. If our wish for our children is for them to get to heaven, who should their role models be? This episode is kindly sponsored by BlendJet. Use our special link ("bufnagle") to save 12% at blendjet.com. The discount will be app…

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Ep 161: Columbus, Part 3 — Finding the Garden of Eden 38:41

6M ago38:41

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Harry and Rafe continue the story of Columbus and his travels to the New World. Columbus returns to the New World with 17 ships and 1,200 and in late 1493 and finds that the colony he established is completely wiped out. Further attempts to establish a foothold in this land aremet with all sorts of problems and also fail to result in gold or spices…

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Ep 160: Halloween Special: Frankenstein — Who Really Is the Monster? 1:02:28

6M ago1:02:28

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Rafe is joined this week by Big Brain Smart Head™ Angela Nash to discuss Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. As Rafe recounts the story, Angela provides a rich commentary on the understanding of the tale. If you haven't read the book but know anything of "Frankenstein", chances are that everything you know about the story is wrong. Set in Geneva in …

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Ep 159: Columbus, Part 2 — A Meeting of Cultures, Searching for Gold, and Lots of Confusion 38:53

6M ago38:53

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Harry and Rafe continue the story of Columbus and his travels to the New World. The three ships under Columbus' command find land on Oct 12, 1492, and Columbus and all his men believe they have arrived in the far eastern islands of Asia. Following interactions with the natives, several months of local explorations, and the Christmas grounding of th…

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Ep 158: "I will take his place." — St. Maximillian Kolbe Demonstrates the Christian Ideal 39:45

7M ago39:45

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The Buf welcomes Big Brain Smart Head™ Luke Donahue to discuss the story of St. Fr. Maximillian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic priest who sparked the ire of the Nazis in WWII, got sent to Auschwitz, and then literally gave his life so that another might live. Luke walks us through St. Max's story from his birth in 1894 to his canonization in 1982 and unv…

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Ep 157: Rockets, Annular Eclipses, and Just a Touch of Artificial Intelligence 41:45

7M ago41:45

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The Buf welcomes back Bob Luzenski, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist, to discuss the status of the big rockets underdevelopment and the impending annular eclipse scheduled for October 14, 2023. A little bit of spoiler commentary about the current state of AI fills out the show at the end. This episode is kindly sponsored by BlendJet. Use our spe…

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Ep 156: Columbus, Part 1 — Dogged Determination to Head West to the Indies 38:31

7M ago38:31

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Harry and Rafe start tackling the story of Columbus and his travels to the New World. A Genoese sailor, Columbus, while operating out of Portugal, becomes intrigued with the idea of sailing west to reach the spices of the Far East. At a time when a route to Asia had just been determined to be possible (but also impractical) around the Cape of Good …

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Ep 155: Hamlet, Madness, Good, and Bad — Does "Thinking Make It So"? 22:02

7M ago22:02

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Rafe discusses Hamlet's statement that "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so" from Act 2, Scene 2 of the Shakespeare tragedy. Examining the text and the Nature of the statement in the dialogue, we find that Hamlet asserts this statement while feigning madness; as such, we should consider this statement to be inconsistent wit…

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Ep 154: Promises to Keep and Miles To Go Before I Sleep — Robert Frost, Snow, Horses, Conscience, and Duty 35:33

8M ago35:33

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Harry and Rafe tackle Robert Frost's Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, a simple four-stanza poem in iambic tetrameter. The Bufnaglers walk through the poem and discuss the meanings, both revealed and hidden, and what they say to us today. Spoiler, if you haven't guessed: the horse is your conscience, telling you to stay true to your duty and re…

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Ep 153: "Living in the Stupidest Time Ever" — The Buf Takes On Some Listener Questions 37:53

8M ago37:53

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Harry and Rafe address some listener questions surrounding great saints, why so much focus on Imago Dei, and all the great stuff we have learned doing the Buf for all these years.Bufnagle による

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Ep 152: Work Hard and Do It Well Because It's Your Duty as Imago Dei 36:14

8M ago36:14

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Harry and Rafe discuss the nature of work, why we do it, what that means, and how we should view it in a fair and balanced perspective. God worked and then rested; as Imago Dei, it is your duty to work and to rest. It is in your Nature.Bufnagle による

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Ep 151: Reunion Weekend — Old Friends, Small Towns, Grand Basilicas, and Joy 33:18

8M ago33:18

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Rafe recounts his weekend road trip to his 40th high school reunion. The Dairy State proves up to the task and presents a wonderful trip full of memories and new discoveries, renewed friendships and peaceful contemplations, grand vistas and ordinary food made spectacular due to the company surrounding it.…

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Ep 150: From Good to Very Good — How Weddings Help You Fulfill Your Duties As Imago Dei 31:26

9M ago31:26

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Heroically fighting a cold, Rafe talks of a wedding he recently attended and the lessons that were learned, most importantly how children and grandchildren are the greatest blessings one can receive and how they fulfill our duty as Imago Dei.Bufnagle による

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Ep 149: Lessons from Gawain and the Green Knight — It Really is All About Duty and Honor 46:51

9M ago46:51

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Rafe goes solo and reviews and discusses the 2021 movie The Green Knight, a retelling of the 14th century chivalric tale of Sir Gawain, the Green Knight, and the famous Christmas challenge. The review and discussion points out a number of deviations from the poem but the movie is not much worse for the modifications; such is artistic license. A tru…

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Ep 148: Down the Rabbit Hole of Badgers 41:17

9M ago41:17

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Who knew there was so much to know about badgers and that so much of if was so awesome? Join Harry and Rafe for a lively and humorous discussion of all the things that one can find out about badgers: * They are fast. * You can eat them but you need to be careful. * They might eat you but they won't be careful. * People used to think that they had r…

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Ep 147: Humbly and Gratefully Standing on the Shoulders of 1000 Years of Giants — Math History, Part 2 43:14

9M ago43:14

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Picking up where we left off from the last episode, Harry joins Rafe to discuss further the Mathematics Genealogy Project and how one can show, for example, that Rafe is related to Nicolas Copernicus. Along the way, Euler and the number e are discussed further, we pick up tips on tessellations, and we wonder how things would have been different had…

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Ep 146: Math History and Why It Should Matter to You, Part 1 32:47

10M ago32:47

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Starting in the late 1600s and ending (at least for now!) in 1868, Rafe traces two branches of a mathematical genealogy. This list of some of the great minds of the history of mathematics includes two Bernoullis, Euler, Poisson, Gauss, and many others, people who developed tools that today we take for granted. All this work, of course, was done bef…

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Ep 145: Sawdust and Mistakes — The Art, Trials, and Joys of Working with Wood 40:32

10M ago40:32

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Harry and Rafe discuss Rafe's lifelong love of working with wood and what makes wood a great medium for construction and why it generally produces sawdust and mistakes. They discuss some biology, chemistry, engineering, and other things that one must learn to successfully tackle working with wood. In the end, then conclude that one should either bu…

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Ep 144: Standards, Gas Pipe, Tyrants, and Saints 36:37

10M ago36:37

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Harry and Rafe discuss standards: systems and methods that allows boundaries that result in flourishing, flexibility, and diversity. After a long discussion on everything from iron gas pipes to computer software to measurement systems to Lego, we learn that the right restrictions can actually improve flexibility and allow everyone to flourish and t…

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Ep 143: Gratitude For the Independence that a Career Has Given 32:49

10M ago32:49

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Rafe goes solo and tells a 40-year tale of computers, serendipity, generosity, and gratitude that starts with a Christmas present in 1980 and continues to today with a very welcome unofficial retirement. This episode is kindly sponsored by BlendJet. Use our special link ("bufnagle") to save 12% at blendjet.com. The discount will be applied at check…

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Ep 142: New Helicopters and Old Navigational Tools — Another Discussion with America's Favorite Naval Aviator 37:10

10M ago37:10

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Brock "Cinder" Friedman, America's Favorite Naval Aviator, joins the Buf again to catch us up on his life and to discuss the nuances of celestial navigation. We'll learn how to take delivery of a new helicopter, how to use a sextant, and why you need need to keep your chronometer in good working order!…

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Ep 141: Listener Questions; Pancakes to Cruises and Everything Inbetween 35:55

11M ago35:55

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Harry and Rafe entertain 7 (or 8, depending on how you count) fan questions and get to the bottom of important issues like breakfast foods, quarterbacks, vacation cruises, biographies of great people, and a lot more! "Everyone has failures; who cares about those? Tell me about greatness!" This episode is kindly sponsored by Nom Nom. Try Nom Nom tod…

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Ep 140: Technology and Automation — When Is It Too Much? 40:56

11M ago40:56

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Rafe does a solo show and discusses the plethora of home automation technology available today. When is it Good? When is it Bad? Is it just a gimmick or does it solve a real problem? Like all technology, it is only a tool and is neither Good nor Evil. If it helps you seek the Good, then keep it; if it causes you to falter, jettison it! This episode…

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Ep 139: Shackleton, Part 6, The Finale — Six Men Conquer the Drake Passage; Three of Them Conquer South Georgia Island; Human Endurance Prevails 49:20

11M ago49:20

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Harry and Rafe conclude Bufnagle: the Podcast, Book Club Edition and the discussion of Alfred Lansing's book Endurance, the tail of Earnest Shackleton's ill-fated adventure to the South Pole during 1914, 1915, and 1916. After two weeks fighting the Drake Passage, the James Caird and its six voyagers are out of potable water, South Georgia Island is…

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