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Scott Menor, PhD hosts smenor/tangents, a technology show with 19 episodes published.
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Water_drop_001 by José Manuel Suárez Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License https://patreon.com/smenor Episode Transcript Hey there, I'm Scott, and this is Tangents. It's been at least a week since I did one of these.
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Indefensible Image via KABC/The Atlantic Episode Transcript there I'm Scott and this is Tangents. Well, I have a whole lot of stuff I need to do want to do and instead I'm just going to record another one of these. It is
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Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wheels_on_the_Bus.jpg Episode Transcript there I'm Scott and this is Tangents. Well it is the 26th of I was going to say February I don't know why. I'm looking at my the
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Episode Transcript there I'm Scott and this is Tangents But today is Friday the 19th of September 2025 and it is 1712 as I'm recording this I always I don't know why I want to tell you that but obviously as zero relevanc
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Correction: 1997 not 1977 Episode Transcript Hey there I'm Scott and this is tangents. Well this could be a long one although I never know. I have like seven pages worth of notes and sometimes that means something and so
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Episode Transcript Hey there I'm Scott and this is Tangents Well, I recorded one of these yesterday the 14th of September and today is the 15th of September I'm not sure I'm going to do this every day for the remainder o
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Episode Transcript The last thing that I wanted to talk about rambling on and get it putting a cap on this and the thing that I'm really disliked about More than and it's not that I don't like or that I that I'm okay wit
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Episode Transcript Hey there, I'm Scott, and this is Tangents. I have to say, I am getting annoyed with the audio quality on this. I hope that it's not bothering you, but I've been recording these on my AirPods Pros. And
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Show notesEpisode Transcript Hey there, I'm Scott, and this is Tangents. It is the, well, actually, as I'm recording this, the 27th of August 2025. Probably going to put this up on the 28th, so I've already marked the files as tha
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Re-recorded this one becuase the audio quality was awful Image By © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7279259 Episode Transcript Hey there, I'm Scott, and this is Tangents. It
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