Episode 192: Party City Trophies

TOPIC: Reinforcement, Aikido, and Fear

This week, Dan and Merlin try to tackle positive versus negative reinforcement.

Links for this episode:

• Ad-free time! | Blocking ads, unblocking Netflix, Pandora, Hulu, BBC and more
  
• Ernie Kovacs - Droongo - YouTube
  
• Published for the First Time: a 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity | MIT Technology Review
  
• 24 Surprisingly Divisive Pooping Habits
  
• Ep. 129: "Museo De Garbagemen" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
  Deep dive on the Savannah Cat mentioned after recording last week.
  
• Guitar for the Practicing Musician - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The awesome 'Guardians of the Galaxy' mixtape will be released on cassette | The Verge
  
• Big Red Machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Steve Garvey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Stephanie's New Born Lamb  | LEGO Shop
  
• Amazon.com: LEGO Friends 41029' Stephanie's New Born Lamb: Toys & Games
  
• Is This Working? | This American Life
  Stories of schools struggling with what to do with misbehaving kids. There's no general agreement about what teachers should do to discipline kids. And there's evidence that some of the most popular punishments actually may harm kids.
  
• Restorative practices - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Showbot
  
• Stanley Jordan playing "Over the Rainbow" - YouTube
  
• Tapping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Tapping is a guitar playing technique, where a string is fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion of being pushed onto the fretboard, as opposed to the standard technique being fretted with one hand and picked with the other.
  
• Autograph - Turn up the Radio - YouTube
  
• The Mountain Goats - "Cubs in Five"
  
• Aikido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to defend themselves while also protecting their attacker from injury.
  
• "AVOL" How I look to my kid the morning after... | kung fu grippe
  

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