Tea: Mo Gan Huang Ya. Damon talks about Pokemon shennanigans, and Michael talks technology in education. Also: plant genetics, glabrous vs. pubescent, playing style, dark social, UTM and hash fragments, bagpipes and accordions, Ingress, day camp, GPS, geocaching, the Dewey Decimal System, learning math, and room temperature.
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- Seven Cups Fine Tea: Mò Gān Huáng Yá, or “Mo Gan (mountain) Yellow Buds”
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Show notes
- Yellow tea processing
- Genetic relationship between Camellia sinensis and Camellia taliensis
- Review of No Man’s Sky where style of play matters
- Cross platform Minecraft play with The Friendly Update
- Anti-griefing mod for Minecraft
- Dark Social–the main article that popularized the term
- Benevolent tracking: Our Dreamhost affiliate link in full is https://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?202544 The “?202544” tells Dreamhost that Tech Tea sent them traffic (though it’s not really a hash fragment, which would look like #.luj5Kg8pk)
- UGH. Michael misspoke. It’s UTM, not UTC. Building a link with UTM attributes
- Damon doesn’t have to make Polkamon a thing…it already is
- Pokemon theme on a flaming bagpipe
- The Pokeball video
- Ingress
- Michael’s favorite pro-Enlightenment image
- Smarty Camp’s geocaching week
- Geocaching
- Letterboxing
- Milovico’s Architecture Tour geocoin
- The Seattle Public Libraries: Central cache
- Myst at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Michael usually plays modded Minecraft with Feed the Beast (The Infinity Evolved pack includes the Mystcraft mod)
- Puget Sound Community School
- Digipen Institute of Technology
Our theme music was written by Lisa Purdy.
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