Show summary
We’re excited to welcome you to our first podcast episode. Today we discuss a wide range of nagging social issues. We make a few observations about independent kids in Germany vs. kids in Canada, your online freedom and personal privacy, low-sugar diets, gut bacteria, the supermarket scene in Germany and yes... goose fat.
Show notes
- Independent German kids

- Parenting styles (authoritarian, anti-authoritarian and helicopter)

- Discussion at NYU School of Law with Jonathan Haidt (YouTube link)

- "News doesn't tell you what you need to hear, it tells you what you want to hear"

- James Damore and Heather Heying at Portland State University "Should we be paranoid about Google?"

- ProtonMail: Secure, free and encrypted email based in Switzerland (ProtonMail’s homepage)

- The monopoly of information by private enterprise: Black boxes like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google

- The Edward Snowden revelation (recommended documentary)

- Concern about privacy and social media practices in Germany

- German protests against a national census and the Canadian long-form census

- WHO guideline for added sugar consumption (press release)

- Dr. Rhonda Patrick Joe on Rogan’s podcast - How a high-sugar, low-fibre diet can cause inflammation (Joe Rogan Experience #1054 - Dr. Rhonda Patrick)

- "Your immune system is really affected by your gut bacteria"

- A better brand of pasta (Barilla’s homepage)

- "You think Europeans are healthy... I think that's a prejudice"

- Canada is a land of imported food

- Discount super market chains galore in Germany

- "I like goose fat... Should you say that on the podcast?" (Schmaltz)

- "Public enemy number one... one bear, it was treated like Godzilla" (First bear in Germany in 170 years)

- Why can't we buy wild game in stores in Canada? (News article)

- Vilifying food and outdated food guides

- "This whole anti-fat thing is based on flawed research"

- "I somehow learned to take a shower without this class lol!"