Gen Y Chronicles Podcast

Show summary We’re excited to welcome you to our first podcast episode. Today we discuss a wide range of nagging social issues. We make a few observations about independent kids in Germany vs. kids in Canada, your online freedom and personal privacy, low-sugar diets, gut bacteria, the supermarket scene in Germany and yes... goose fat. Show notes 0:55 - Independent German kids 3:20 - Parenting styles (authoritarian, anti-authoritarian and helicopter) 5:00 - Discussion at NYU School of Law with Jonathan Haidt (YouTube link) 6:45 - "News doesn't tell you what you need to hear, it tells you what you want to hear" 11:15 - James Damore and Heather Heying at Portland State University "Should we be paranoid about Google?" 13:30 - ProtonMail: Secure, free and encrypted email based in Switzerland (ProtonMail’s homepage) 17:05 - The monopoly of information by private enterprise: Black boxes like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google 18:25 - The Edward Snowden revelation (recommended documentary) 20:00 - Concern about priv