The Sunken Treasures
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Risk, Reward, and Fairness - Nassim Taleb's 'Skin In The Game' Pt. 2
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is it moral for someone with no consequences to give advice? What if he stands to only gain and not lose? Is it foolish to receive such advice? Steadf...
Risk, Reward, and Fairness - Nassim Taleb's 'Skin In The Game' Pt. 1
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is it moral for someone with no consequences to give advice? What if he stands to only gain and not lose? Is it foolish to receive such advice? Steadf...
EXTENDED SUMMARY - Skin In The Game
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is it moral for someone with no consequences to give advice? What if he stands to only gain and not lose? Is it foolish to receive such advice? Steadf...
Movies, Ideology, and Slavoj Zizek - Pervert's Guide to Ideology
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do you find inside a Kinder Surprise Egg? In this documentary, it is philosopher Slavoj Zizek, squeezing the last drops of ideology from well-lov...
A Heavenly Hell - A Nice Place To Visit - The Twilight Zone 1959
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does the devil bear fangs? Horns? Visible malice, perhaps? In the work explored this week we meet a seemingly angelic creature that bestows all that a...
Movement and its Role in Life - Ido Portal
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With a background in martial arts and strength training, Ido Portal learnt that the common connection among his interests had been glaring him in the ...
Faith, Faithfulness, and the Folly of Youth - Super Deluxe (Indian Film)
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An unfaithful wife finds herself a suspect in her lover's murder. An abandoned child reunites with his transgender father. A group of kids dabbles...
Free to Choose - Are free markets really free? - Part 2
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible for a single entity, a great big government staffed by millions of highly intelligent members, to efficiently manufacture a typical p...
Free to Choose - Are free markets really free? - Part 1
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible for a single entity, a great big government staffed by millions of highly intelligent members, to efficiently manufacture a typical pen...
Religion Beyond Theology - Nassim Taleb on Religion
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is religion a scripture? Is it a tolerance (or intolerance) mechanism? Or is it just a broad set of dietary rules? This week we dive into Nassim Tale...
Rhetoric, Meaning & Cooperation - Discussing "The Rhetoric of Extraordinary Claim" by Dr. Peter Marston
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered why you believe what you believe? What about certain claims made you believe in them? Was it the evidence? Or perhaps the trust...
EXTENDED SUMMARY - Young Frankenstein
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This is an extended summary of the media we discuss in the adjoining episode. Young Frankenstein is Mel Brooks' take on a classic. The 1974 ...
Young Frankenstein - In time for Halloween, Mel Brooks' take on a Classic
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Young Frankenstein is Mel Brooks' take on a classic. The 1974 film that interprets the Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, 'Frankenstein', star...
EXTENDED SUMMARY - Martin Buber's 'I and Thou'
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This is an extended summary of the media we discuss in the adjoining episode. What is a man's relationship with the world? Can one relate to...
Relating To The World - I and Thou
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is a man's relationship with the world? Can one relate to the world beyond the discrete borders of one's being? Austrian philosopher Mart...
EXTENDED SUMMARY - Anthony Bourdain's "Don't Eat Before Reading This"
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This is an extended summary of the media we discuss in the adjoining episode. In a moment of frustration against the industry that gave him his ...
Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Secrets - Don't Eat Before Reading This
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a moment of frustration against the industry that gave him his life, a little known chef sets upon writing a tell-all into the dark secrets of his ...
EXTENDED SUMMARY - The Great Debaters
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This is an extended summary of the media we discuss in the adjoining episode. The Great Debaters - Words As Weapons This week we discuss The ...
Can Our Words Be Weapons? - The Great Debaters
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the Jim Crow south of the 1930s, an all black debate team finds an opportunity they could only dream of: debating a white college debate team. As t...
EXTENDED SUMMARY - The Last Question by Issac Asimov
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This is an extended summary of the media we discuss in the adjoining episode. In Isaac Asimov's seminal short story "The Last Question...
Can Entropy be reversed? - The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Isaac Asimov's thought-provoking short story "The Last Question", which intertwines the fate of the universe with humanity's relentless pursuit of kno...
EXTENDED SUMMARY - Fasting For Survival
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This is an extended summary of the media we discuss in the adjoining episode. Food, its availability, and its makeup have changed drastically ov...
Fasting For Survival - Eating (or not) like we're meant to
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Food, its availability, and its makeup have changed drastically over past millennia. Our body has not evolved to keep up. In the talk being discussed,...
EXTENDED SUMMARY - No Exit
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This is an extended summary of the media we discuss in the adjoining episode. Three people are stuck in a room together. One they find they can&...
Sartre's Version of Hell - No Exit
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three people are stuck in a room together. One they find they can't leave. The realisation that they are dead and are awaiting judgement, and likely h...
Race and Representation - The Hug Heard Around The World
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sammy Davis Jr., a famed member of Sinatra's 'Rat Pack', was a black icon. History has judged him unfaithful to the black community due to his support...
EXTENDED SUMMARY - The Hug Heard Around The World
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a summary of the media discussed in the next episode. Sammy Davis Jr., a famed member of Sinatra's 'Rat Pack', was a black icon. Histo...
One Man's View Of The World - Lee Kuan Yew talks about Singapore and Asia
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Singapore achieved independence in 1965. Lee Kuan Yew, its first Prime Minister, turned it into the metropolis it is today. In 2013, in the twilight o...
One Man's View Of The World - Lee Kuan Yew talks US and China
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Singapore achieved independence in 1965. Lee Kuan Yew, its first Prime Minister, turned it into the metropolis it is today. In 2013, in the twilight o...
EXTENDED SUMMARY - One Man's View Of The World - Lee Kuan Yew
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned by world leaders and businessmen alike, Singapore's founder Lee Kuan Yew occupied an important place among the great Statesmen of the world. ...
The Unanswered Question - Prophetic Power of Music
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a musician's toolbox is used to break the rules? This week we discuss American conductor Leonard Bernstein's lecture at Harv...
Stranger in a Strange Land - Aliens, Religion, and Sexuality.
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, we delve into the complex world of Robert A. Heinlein's groundbreaking science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange La...
Children of Men - Hope in a Bleak World
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world in 2027 is bleak. Mankind loses fertility and descends into a world without hope. As much of the world collapses into war and famine, London...
Being In The World - Man, Tech, and their relationship
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be a human being? What, if anything, gives meaning to life? What are the aspects of 'Being'? Diving into the above questi...
The Art Of Being Yourself - Can one person be multiple 'selves'?
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be yourself? Can being our own vibrant selves be our best contribution to the world? Caroline McHugh explores. 'The art of be...
Maria Montessori - Nurturing a Young Mind
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is a teacher's role to inform or to channel the thoughts of students? If not as a disciplinarian of a classroom, what can a teacher's role aspire to b...
War On Consciousness - Censorship, Consciousness, and Ayahuasca
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who controls what information gets disseminated? Are substances like Ayahuasca merely recreational or are they a channel to something bigger? How far ...
Soul - Memory, Life, and its Purpose
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A middle-school music teacher gets the gig of a lifetime to reach a dream that had long eluded him. Hopping away in joy, he meets his end as life pres...
La Haine (transl. - Hatred) - Police brutality, Race, and Revenge
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a young man from an impoverished neighbourhood is severely wounded in an act of police violence, people are on the edge. Protests wreak havoc an...
Hector and the Search for Happiness - Happiness of Pursuit?
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hector is a psychiatrist looking for happiness. Unhappy with his circumstance, he goes across the world in search of happiness. After confusion and pe...
Brave New World - Social Class, Caste, and role of Diversity
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The humanity of the future structures the world and human 'class' based on (convoluted) logic. Humans, almost manufactured, are assigned socie...
Brave New World - Belonging to Everyone = Belonging to No one?
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Humanity of the future structures the world and human 'class' based on (convoluted) logic. Humans, almost manufactured, are assigned societal ...
The Little Prince - Adventure, Childhood, and Love
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The narrator draws a boa constrictor that swallowed an elephant whole. He finds, quite disappointedly, that adults can not see the glaringly obvious a...
Indian Cinema interprets Hamlet - Haider
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A (quite literal) Shakespearean drama. Inspired by Hamlet, Haider is set in the heavily militarized Indian region of Kashmir. Haider returns from uni...
Common Sense - Monarchy, Government, and Thomas Paine's Call for American Independence
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
January, 1776. It is mere months before the signing of the Declaration Of Independence. The Stamp Act and the American Revolution that it caused are m...
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki - 2013
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two women. A conversation across an ocean. And perhaps, across time. Young Nao comes home to Japan. A home she neither knows nor understands. In pain ...
Searching For Sugarman - Malik Bendjelloul - 2012
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A man of music. A nation's love for his art. The quest to take it to him, an ocean away. Rodriguez's career in music never took off. Having st...
Intro - Meet The Gang!
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the gang of nerdy pirates! Alejandro, Cat, Danielle, Donovan, and Vikhyat (tiny group, we know), get together in this episode to talk about what ...