Can we learn about coming up with creative ideas from bikes today?

This week, Jess and Joey talk about bike infrastructure, dad wagons, folding bikes, stacked bikes, e-bikes, and mobility mixes. Oddly, they don’t talk about Bike Kill.

references

• The Science of Cycology: can you draw a bicycle?
• Penny-farthing
• Tall bike
• Brompton
• Velocipede
• The Asahi Shimbun: High school kids build Edo Period tricycle out of home center buys
• Rack City, bitch
• The New York Times: The Hustlers Who Make $6,000 a Month by Gaming Citi Bikes
• Red Panda
• Rascal Rides: 10 Best Family Cargo Bikes For Hauling Your Kids

How do we know if we're doing the right thing for potentially the wrong reasons?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about The Anxious Generation, social media, polio, experimentation, modes, rodents, and sesame paste. They don’t talk about Yusei Kikuchi.

references

• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
• Hank Green on X
• How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
• The Ezra Klein Show podcast: On Children, Meaning, Media and Psychedelics
• The New Yorker How CoComelon Captures Our Children’s Attention
• Corrections Department: Colloid

What is your comfort level with abstraction?

This week, Jess and Joey talk about math, the transitive property, cookbooks, slang, strange attractors and chameleons. They don’t talk about cake math.

references

• How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
• Transitive Property
• The Langlands Program: The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics
• Look Around You