Rounded Brains and Balanced "Play Diets"

Rounded Brains and Balanced "Play Diets" is the 45th episode of the Very Bad Wizards podcast, released on April 21, 2014. The opening segment is a discussion on . The main segment is a discussion on . The preroll contains the standard disclaimer and theme_music.

Opening Quote

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Show Notes

A British tabloid article about kids, brains, and spatial skills somehow provokes the biggest argument ever on the podcast. Dave and Tamler get into it about gender, toys, properly rounded brains, and balanced "play diets." Is Dave a sanctimonious toe-the-line academic liberal?  Is Tamler a Fox-News watching, mysoginist genetic determinist? Do they actually disagree about anything?  Plus Dave takes Tamler back after his fling with Partially Examined Life,  and we discuss whether the new documentary The Unbelievers the atheist version of God is Not Dead?

• The Partially Examined Life
  
• Tamler's Precognition of Ep. 93. 
  
• Girls and boys DO have different brains – should they have different toys? 
  
• The Unbelievers
  
• Math= male, me= female, therefore math≠ me.
  
• Math–gender stereotypes in elementary school children.
  
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