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  <title>Episode 227: Meetings and Punishment</title>
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  <description>This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes
David Macaulay (https://davidmacaulay.com/) books and Turing Tumble (https://www.turingtumble.com/)
Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes (https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-used-stem-cells-to-make-mini-brains-they-grew-rudimentary-eyes)
Blob of human brain grows functioning eyes in lab dish sparking 'horror' (https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/blob-human-brain-grows-functioning-24785482)
Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/19/facebooks_oculus_horizon/)
Gather (https://gather.town/)
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland)
Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom (https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqm4k/prison-virtual-reality-vr-global-tel-link)
Big, Theatrical Meetings Are a Waste of Time (https://hbr.org/2021/07/big-theatrical-meetings-are-a-waste-of-time)
Cutting Room Floor
* The Print Shop Club (https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/18/The-Print-Shop-Club/)
* Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds. (http://badnewspaper.com/2021/03/29/uh-38/)
* 30 Grocery Items That Don't Exist But Should (https://pictojam.com/p/30-grocery-items-that-dont-exist-but-should)
We Give Thanks
* The D&amp;amp;G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! 
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    <![CDATA[<p>This week <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave" rel="nofollow">Dave</a> and <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar" rel="nofollow">Gunnar</a> talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes</p>

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<li><a href="https://davidmacaulay.com/" rel="nofollow">David Macaulay</a> books and <a href="https://www.turingtumble.com/" rel="nofollow">Turing Tumble</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-used-stem-cells-to-make-mini-brains-they-grew-rudimentary-eyes" rel="nofollow">Scientists Grew Stem Cell &#39;Mini Brains&#39;. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/blob-human-brain-grows-functioning-24785482" rel="nofollow">Blob of human brain grows functioning eyes in lab dish sparking &#39;horror&#39;</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/19/facebooks_oculus_horizon/" rel="nofollow">Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://gather.town/" rel="nofollow">Gather</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland" rel="nofollow">Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqm4k/prison-virtual-reality-vr-global-tel-link" rel="nofollow">Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hbr.org/2021/07/big-theatrical-meetings-are-a-waste-of-time" rel="nofollow">Big, Theatrical Meetings Are a Waste of Time</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Cutting Room Floor</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/18/The-Print-Shop-Club/" rel="nofollow">The Print Shop Club</a></li>
<li><a href="http://badnewspaper.com/2021/03/29/uh-38/" rel="nofollow">Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://pictojam.com/p/30-grocery-items-that-dont-exist-but-should" rel="nofollow">30 Grocery Items That Don&#39;t Exist But Should</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>We Give Thanks</strong></p>

<ul>
<li>The D&amp;G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!</li>
</ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>This week <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave" rel="nofollow">Dave</a> and <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar" rel="nofollow">Gunnar</a> talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://davidmacaulay.com/" rel="nofollow">David Macaulay</a> books and <a href="https://www.turingtumble.com/" rel="nofollow">Turing Tumble</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-used-stem-cells-to-make-mini-brains-they-grew-rudimentary-eyes" rel="nofollow">Scientists Grew Stem Cell &#39;Mini Brains&#39;. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/blob-human-brain-grows-functioning-24785482" rel="nofollow">Blob of human brain grows functioning eyes in lab dish sparking &#39;horror&#39;</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/19/facebooks_oculus_horizon/" rel="nofollow">Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://gather.town/" rel="nofollow">Gather</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland" rel="nofollow">Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqm4k/prison-virtual-reality-vr-global-tel-link" rel="nofollow">Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hbr.org/2021/07/big-theatrical-meetings-are-a-waste-of-time" rel="nofollow">Big, Theatrical Meetings Are a Waste of Time</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Cutting Room Floor</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/18/The-Print-Shop-Club/" rel="nofollow">The Print Shop Club</a></li>
<li><a href="http://badnewspaper.com/2021/03/29/uh-38/" rel="nofollow">Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://pictojam.com/p/30-grocery-items-that-dont-exist-but-should" rel="nofollow">30 Grocery Items That Don&#39;t Exist But Should</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>We Give Thanks</strong></p>

<ul>
<li>The D&amp;G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!</li>
</ul>]]>
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