Tea: Bai Hao/Oriental Beauty. Damon talks differential privacy and tracking. Michael mentions the Raspberry Pi and its use in a couple of open-source style alternatives to home assistant devices. Both show off their knowledge of sports and play the “which social media site is best” game. Plus: shout outs, virtual reality (VR), games, and more!
This episode was brought to you by Floating Leaves Tea. Use coupon code techtea for 30% off the 2014 Bai Hao harvest (Damon’s favorite) or the 2015 Oriental Beauty (Michael’s favorite).

Show notes
- Floating Leaves blog post with photo of the brewing method we used
- Interview with Dr. Selina Ahmed about climate change and tea
- The leafhopper
- Eric Scott’s description of Bai Hao research in China
- A chemical common to tea, jasmine, and other plants
- Differential privacy
- Wifi tracking monitors in downtown Seattle
- DuckDuckGo
- Alexa “available” on Raspberry Pi
- Raspberry Pi
- Mycroft
- IFTTT.com (and how to pronounce it)
- Recipe for Super Bowl lights
- Dustin W. Stout on Twitter and on Google+
- Stats for Tech Tea’s first week online
- Cortex 32 on the experience of virtual reality
- Rubber Hand Illusion: not exactly the pencil thing, but close
Our theme music was written by Lisa Purdy. You can contact Damon and Michael (and even pass along a message to Lisa if you’d like her to make some music for you) by visiting the Contact Us page on TechTea.fm
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