AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
2min snip
216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Radical Revision of the Secondary School Math Curriculum?
"It's a stupid story, sexist story, but it's relevant to this argument I'm going to make," he says. "Imagine that because of some cosmic catastrophe or toxins in the environment ... women became pregnant with 10 to 20 fetuses." He asks: What would people who are absolutist opponents of abortion do if they were forced to accept an increase in birth rates? And so again, just to get away from the absolutists position and the relevance of that to the, so George Maggia story is, well, once you get them off of this totally absolutistic position, then the rest is haggling about the details", writes Limbaugh.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode