Mike and Jon touch on: fitness and stretching, traveling from China to Peru, and some of their pet peeves.  They then go in depth on an archeological breakthrough regarding the origins of humans in the Americas and discuss the types of information they consume and how they think about the news media.

 

Links:

Jon purchased tickets to leave China:

Flights: Beijing to Chungdu to HongZhou to Los Angeles to Mexico City to Lima Peru

Peruvian Blood Festival: condors are tied bulls and made to fight

 

Peeves:

Classic Asian squat toilets

Shoe prints on the toilet seats

Southern California traffic vs Montana traffic  

 

Articles about discovery of evidence of earliest human existence in the Americas:

Nature; The Guardian  

 

 

Nature Podcast

 

Earliest modern humans in Asia ~75k years ago

 

Aboriginals of Papua new Guinea arrived via boats ~60k years go

 

Columbus’s estimated the Earth’s circumference as 16,305 nautical miles, 25% less than its actual 21,600 nautical miles

 

Colonial Williamsburg

 

Jon’s many Magazine Subscriptions:

The economist - International News and Business

Fast company – technology and business

Wired – technology

Harvard Business Review – Academic Management

Bloomberg – Business and News

 

Podcast: Science Friday – NPR

 

Reddit - Online message boards and chat rooms

 

Cortex Podcast

 

CGP Grey