Pythagoras
Added 2025-01-06 15:51:43 +0000 UTCPythagoras of Samos[a] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC)[b], often known mononymously as Pythagoras, was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, the West in general. Knowledge of his life is clouded by legend; modern scholars disagree regarding Pythagoras's education and influences, but they do agree that, around 530 BC, he travelled to Croton in southern Italy, where he founded a school in which initiates were sworn to secrecy and lived a communal, ascetic lifestyle.
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Now I need the Citation Needed episode on "Immortality."
Ian (no, not that one)
2025-01-19 17:30:38 +0000 UTCDiagenes the Cynic, anyone?
Zach Van Stanley
2025-01-10 01:28:37 +0000 UTCNgl, I was so excited for this when I saw the subject. Ancient weirdos are the best.
Zach Van Stanley
2025-01-10 01:27:30 +0000 UTCThe Plato's allegory of the cave to Plato's Closet means I need to fight Tom if I ever meet him. I think that joke took years off my life
Denise Huston
2025-01-09 18:30:11 +0000 UTCDraft king ads in the free episode this week? Really? Huge rise in bankruptcy and suicides over this legalized scourge on the American people, and y'all just keep advertising for it eh? Honestly thought you'd have some integrity.
Anonymous ethicist, not a serial killer at all, just asking questions.
2025-01-09 07:22:30 +0000 UTCI had to use this theorem at work doing a scale rendering of a landscape design (making excel do it). Exciting to learn it is even more ancient than I thought.
Off-label Botanist
2025-01-09 03:45:05 +0000 UTCLast week my husband and I were arguing about how to do a house project, and finally I looked him dead in eyes and said, "A squared plus B squared equals C squared." And this week I learned that I spent a week crediting the wrong person with saving my marriage?
Erika Calabretta
2025-01-08 18:36:19 +0000 UTCDeadamame is amazing.
Annette Edelman
2025-01-08 04:52:43 +0000 UTC"Fart obsessed lunatic hiding in a cave from the number 11" made me laugh harder than almost any other sentence in the history of this podcast.
Jay Voigt
2025-01-07 19:20:05 +0000 UTCBack in 89, I engineered a session by a “Composer” obsessed by Musica universalis.. He had four tuned bells that’d to hung in a certain formation, had to be struck at a certain angle.. In breaks he would talk incessantly about Pythagorean concepts.. His opus gained little attention..
outaspaceman
2025-01-07 00:00:55 +0000 UTCI am guilty laughing cause Pythagoras is a homeboy. About the fava beans: the G6PD deficiency is very prevalent in Samos and those with both alleles get acute hemolytic anaemia when eating fava beans. So avoiding them altogether just made sense at the time.
AK
2025-01-06 17:20:09 +0000 UTCI have a theory about this episode
GJ
2025-01-06 15:53:02 +0000 UTC
