Ringtone-induced panic? This week, M&C explore how the biggest breakthrough in communication has become the handheld symbol of anxiety. Answer the call...if you dare.

Sources

The Cut

The Conversation

CNET History of the Telephone

Inside Hook

Social Media Today

Mobivity

The First Transatlantic Phone Call

Alexander Graham Bell

National ITPA

This week on D.Y.E.T.A. we talk INTENTION. Does it matter at all or can you just cover up the scumbag you really are?

Sources

BBC - Moral Duty

HiPhi Nation Season 4

IdeaPod

Letter between Sam Harris & Noam Chomsky

We're back! In this episode, Candice and Merida think about rituals, routines, and traditions, and try to figure out what drives humans to act out these repetitive habits.

Sources

The Conversation

Scientific American

SBS

After Skool

This week Merida & Candice investigate what the opposite state of gratitude is. CONTENT WARNING: We get a little bit frivolous with a couple of heavy topics this episode. Just in case you don't feel like joking about suicide, you can give it a skip. 

Sources for this episode include:

Karens Gone Wild

Medium

Greater Good Blog

Take a seat, kids. This week Candice shares with Merida the surprising history of the unassuming chair and her fascination with poppin' a squat.

Sources include:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/25/the-tyranny-of-chairs

Better Health Victoria

Slate

Wikipedia - Aeron Chair

Kmart Elon "scoopy chair"

Monoblock chair

The D.Y.E.T.A guide to spotting stupidity in its natural habitat. SPOILER: We are ALL stupid sometimes. 

Sources for this episode include:

Thomas Frank for The Guardian

World Wildlife Fund

Treehugger

Psychology Today

NRDC

The Guardian (again)

In Part 2 of Advertising: M & C discuss if the powers of marketing can be used for good instead of evil.

Sources for this episode include:

Empire Today

AAPT Smartchat

ACCC - AAPT 'Smartchat' advertising misled

Partnership for a Drug Free America

Get Up!

Respect Victoria

ATTENTION:THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT

Just an informative collection of words to let you know we are doing an episode on advertising.

* Also: BUY STUFF YOU WANT *. *

Click here to sign Kevin Rudd's Petition for an Inquiry into Murdoch's Media Monopoly

Sources for this episode include:

The Gruen Transfer

Fortune Magazine

AdWeek

Ad Standards

The Conversation

Trick or Prank? On our Spooooky second relaxed fit episode, we explore the mischievous aspect of Halloween and do our best to cause permanent psychological damage.

Sources for this episode include:

Goliath

MTV Punk'd Season 2 Episode 3

Vice

Prank Monkey

History.com

Ever played the waiting game? Merida and Candice discuss the necessity and nature of waiting: Is it a welcome mental intermission or a painful gap between events? Who knows? You will have to wait and see.

Sources for this episode include:

Smithsonian Magazine

Ness Labs