192: TZ Discussion - Trillions and Trillions of Stars

Justin and Jason discuss how Jason missed Rob Walling's text message, the hiccups and challenges of the Pluggio mass emailing and why Pluggio is probably competing with HootSuite despite Justin being in denial about it, moving the AnyFu payment system to Balanced, why Ben Reyes needs to settle on a name, why Justin "needs" to tabulate the show's donations, how Jason is using DragonBox to teach algebra to his 7-year old son Colby, using projects and games as teaching tools for math and science, the rise of Google+ and why power Twitter users are rooting against it, Orrick LLP's documents, how SocialWOD reduced their cancellation rate by 87.5%, the 14-year old who was hit by a meteorite, the incredible size of galaxies, the Science Channel show Through the Wormhole and the theory that a black hole gives birth to a new universe, the surprisingly effective method of first mastering a new technique and then seeking out formerly difficult problems that will yield easily to it, Jason's idea of resolution-based learning, Kurt Vonneguts's advice to start as close to the end as possible and how that can be applied to teaching, Jason's drive to learn genome hacking and why he believes it might be possible to do without years of formal education.