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It’s time again for another edition of the Mantastic Podcast. My name is Sean Kavanaugh your host and I’m here with Allen Wilterdink and John Georgilis. We’re gonna talk about manly stuff and Hopefully we’ll have some stupid fun along the way because we usually do.

Hello fellas how’s it hanging?

I always liked that question, it’s inherently funny to me because how are you supposed to answer? To the left? Real low today guys its hot outside?

Allen I know your grandpa passed this week. I am sorry about that. I know you were very fond of him. You’ve shared some stories about him, tell us some funny stories about him. He was quite a charater.

I wish I had a really sickly funny old grandpa. Both of mine died when I was very young. Grandpa Kavanaugh was a hard drinking hard fighting little Irishman and my grandpa Joe was a kind hearted gentleman who came home with a 40oz of Pabst Blue Ribbon and sat in front of the tube to watch his beloved Cubs. (Hey guess what Gramps? You haven’t missed a thing)

I’ve got a funny story about my grandpa Kavanaugh.

Have you guys seen the movie Backdraft with Kurt Russel, William Baldwin etc.? It was a pretty big movie back in 1991.

The Chicago Firehouse used in that movie was about a block away from the house I was born in. So I was like 2 year old and my gramps came over to take his grandson to the firehouse. Sounds sweet doesn’t it? Well the next day a neighbor came over and said to my dad “Hey Art I saw your son yesterday.” My dad was like what are you talking about “He said yeah I was at the bar a few doors down from the firehouse and he was sitting at the bar with a coke and a bowl of chips next to your dad”

FRUIT Fly hatred.

http://goo.gl/Srn7eX

Lets talk about Googles attempt to build a quantum computer. It seems like it’s more of a reality now than a pipe dream? Building that seems to me the lay person like a game changer. I’m shocked that the government isn’t on the shit like white on rice. Why would you let a corporation perfect the greatest leap in computing power since computers were introduced.

It literally makes current super computers look like TI 99s

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530516/google-launches-effort-to-build-its-own-quantum-computer/

Speaking of technology have you seen the article in The Atlantic about naturalists finding new species of animals by scouring the internets billions of pictures. It makes sense seeing as there are millions of camera phones and digital cameras out there all around the globe. Even isolated parts of the world have cell service and the ability to upload photos.  Maybe they will find the Yeti in Tibet.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/the-coming-age-of-the-internet-naturalist/379569/?google_editors_picks=true

So camera phones aren’t just for taking stupid drunken photos of your idiot friends they can actually do something useful.

There is a cool link to a home movie of group of ants in a daisy chain (no not that kind of daisy chain) pulling a huge worm. It looks nuts.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/scientists-cannot-explain-this-crazy-ant-behavior-but-they-love-it/379390/

So I’d like to talk college.

There has been a ton of talk about the price of college and the extraordinary debt students graduate with upon hitting the work force.

This article takes the argument in another direction. It tests students before college and then again after graduation.

The results surprised me a little.

They found a good % improved very little in critical thinking and Analytical reasoning on average they improved  less than half of one standard deviation and a 1/3 improved by less than a single point on a 100 point scale during their four years of college

Other Findings.

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• Two years after graduation 7% were unemployed consistent with national averages but still much less likely to unemployed than non college grads. However 16% were underemployed.
  

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• Those who finished with high C.L.A. scores were significantly less likely to be unemployed.
  

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• Check this one out. The students who scored low had almost no idea of the relationship. 3/4 reported having high levels of critical thinking in college even though their test scores pointed to the contrary.
  

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• Even after two years of struggling those same graduates continued to believe they had gotten a great education.
  

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/upshot/the-economic-price-of-colleges-failures.html?abt=0002&abg=0

I want to end on a humorous note. My wife shared this with me on my FB page. I wonder if shes trying to tell me something. You guys know I’ve got some metro sexual tendencies. So this little grooming tool is bad ass. It’s the Phillips Bodygrooming Series 5000. So if you’re a manscaper this is your best friend. It’s got a back shaving attachment so you can shave your own back. Sweet shizzle right there.

http://www.fashionbeans.com/2014/10-best-mens-grooming-products/