Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Artist/Materialist
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Artist/Materialist
By Susanna KingSociety & Culture
Artist/Materialist episodes
- Ep. 38 - Envisioning a Reusable Future
We discuss the article "Meet Loop, the new zero-waste platform for consumer products" by Adele Peters in Fast Company. Our conversation touches on recycling, bulk shopping, delivery services, conference swag, and microplastics.
#recycling #environment #shopping
31 min - Ep. 37 - Navigating the World of Dating Apps
We discuss the article "How Tinder Changed Dating for a Generation" by Ashley Fetters in The Atlantic.
In this episode:
- The history of dating apps and online dating
- What's made some apps succeed and others fail
- Fear Of a Better Option (FOBO)
- Why it's harder to meet people in person nowadays
- How dating can actually be hard work
32 min - Ep. 36 - Hopepunk: A light in the dystopian darkness
We discuss the article "Hopepunk, explained: the storytelling trend that weaponizes optimism" by Aja Romano in Vox.
30 min - Ep. 35 - Searching for the World's Best Strawberries
We discuss the article "How Driscoll's Reinvented the Strawberry" by Dana Goodyear in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/how-driscolls-reinvented-the-strawberry/amp
26 min - Ep. 34 - Kids, Screens & Mental Health
We discuss the article "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?" by Jean M. Twenge in The Atlantic.
31 min - Ep. 33 - Crops vs. Water in California
We discuss the article "A Kingdom from Dust" by Mark Arax in the California Sunday Magazine (https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust).
40 min - Ep. 32 - We're back with a book club for long reads
We've returned from our break with a slight format change. Check our blog at artistmaterialist.com to see which article we'll be discussing next week.
3 min - Ep. 31 - The Art of Selecting Background MusicWe discuss the article "Inside the booming business of background music" by Jake Hulyer in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/06/inside-the-booming-business-of-background-music35 min
- Ep. 30 - The Sport of FashionWe discuss the article "Everything You Wear Is Athleisure" by Derek Thompson in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/bicycle-bloomers-yoga-pants-how-sports-shaped-modern-fashion/574081/31 min
- Ep. 29 - New Life for Old TownsWe discuss the article "Can You Curate a Town?" by Jennifer Miller in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/style/mountain-dale-new-york.html31 min
About Artist/Materialist
From the publisher's feed
Susanna is a graphic designer. Dan is a materials scientist. Each week, we discuss a long read about science or culture from our unique points of view.