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Podcast: In Our Time (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Philippa Foot
Pub date: 2024-06-13

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century, Philippa Foot (1920 - 2010). Her central question was, “Why be moral?” Drawing on Aristotle and Aquinas, Foot spent her life working through her instinct that there was something lacking in the prevailing philosophy of the 1950s and 1960s which held that values could only be subjective. Could there really be no objective response to the horrors of the concentration camps that she had seen on newsreels, no way of saying that such acts were morally wrong? Foot developed an ethics based on virtues, in which humans needed virtues to flourish as surely as plants needed light and water. While working through her ideas she explored applied ethics and the difference between doing something and letting it happen, an idea she illustrated with what became The Trolley Problem.

With

Anil Gomes

Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, University of Oxford

Sophie Grace Chappell

Professor of Philosophy at the Open University

And

Rachael Wiseman

Reader in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool

Producer: Simon Tillotson

In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production

Reading list:

Philippa Foot, Virtues and Vices (Oxford University Press, 1978)

Philippa Foot, Moral Dilemmas (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Philippa Foot, Natural Goodness (Oxford University Press, 2001)

John Hacker-Wright, Philippa Foot's Moral Thought (Bloomsbury, 2013)

Benjamin Lipscomb, The Women Are Up To Something (Oxford University Press, 2021)

Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman, Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life (Chatto, 2022)

Dan Russell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics (Cambridge University Press), especially ‘Virtue Ethics in the Twentieth Century’ by Timothy (now Sophie Grace) Chappell

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Podcast: Whale Hunting (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Sudden Russian Death Syndrome
Pub date: 2024-07-10

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It’s a precarious time for the Russian elite. Caught up in the invasion of Ukraine and an immovable dictator, the noblesse russe have to tip-toe through economic and political conflict to survive. In the last two years, however, an increasing number have lost their footing. This week on Whale Hunting, host Bradley Hope welcomes Xenia Rakovshik, a Russian-American journalist who's been digging into so-called Sudden Russian Death Syndrome. Together they discuss the unusual spate of sudden deaths – from heart attacks to murder-suicides and falls from height – and their seemingly outsized occurrence among Russian oligarchs and businessmen of late. Xenia also shares one theory about why this spate of deaths may have begun following Russia's invasion of Ukraine (spoiler: Putin may not be behind all of them) and what life is like for those currently living within Putin's grip, including Russian journalists.

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Podcast: The Louis Theroux Podcast (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: S1 EP5: Nick Cave on his remarkable career, religion and dealing with grief
Pub date: 2023-07-03

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Louis sits down in the Spotify studio with musician, writer and poet Nick Cave. Nick tells Louis all about his remarkable life and career, including being a member of the “most violent band in the world”, his relationship with God and being high on Top Of The Pops with Kylie Minogue.  

 

Warnings: Some strong language and discussions of sensitive themes, including drug use, violence and death. 

 

Links:

Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faith-Hope-Carnage-Nick-Cave/dp/1838857680/ref=asc_df_1838857680/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=641789777959&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7392167829579645064&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006886&hvtargid=pla-1846328033232&psc=1&th=1&psc=1  

 

The Death of Bunny Monroe by Nick Cave 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Bunny-Munro-Canons/dp/1782115331  

 

The Birthday Party - ‘Junkyard’ 

The Birthday Party, "Junkyard" 

GG Allin 

The late GG Allin has violent and disturbing mood swings - DVLH (Rare documentary footage) 

Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave – ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ (Live Top Of The Pops) 

Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave - Where the Wild Roses Grow (Live Top Of The Pops 1995) 

Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave – ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ (Live Top Of The Pops) 

Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue on Top Of The Pops 

 

Jesus by A.N Wilson  

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jesus-N-Wilson/dp/0712606971/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29KGTJJJ4YTZN&keywords=A.n+Wilson+biography+of+jesus&qid=1687183752&s=books&sprefix=a.n+wilson+biography+of+jesus%2Cstripbooks%2C69&sr=1-1 

 

The Red Hand Files 

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/  

 

Blonde 

BLONDE | From Writer and Director Andrew Dominik | Official Trailer | Netflix 

Dahmer 

DAHMER Trailer (2022) 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads 

https://open.spotify.com/album/4EMI48u2Fn6srocaXjuAcJ?si=AAcpIaWeSzWffLMX8On1Xw  

 

Go The F**k To Sleep – book  

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/0857862650  

 

Partridge’s Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English - book   

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Partridges-Concise-Dictionary-Unconventional-English/dp/0026053500/ref=sr_1_1?crid=201ZDOQ771V6E&keywords=dictionary+of+slang+and+unconventional+english&qid=1687184223&s=books&sprefix=dictionary+of+slang+and+unconventional+english%2Cstripbooks%2C66&sr=1-1 

 

The Johnny Cash Show 

Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash - Jackson (The Best Of The Johnny Cash TV Show) 

Johnny Cash - ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ 

https://open.spotify.com/track/0LTSNmOLBt25GMjHlxp9OR?si=09c48ccf9dc34dc2  

 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - ‘Red Right Hand’ 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (Official Video) 

The Enneagram Personality Test - The Enneagram Personality Test 

 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - ‘Jubilee Street’ 

https://open.spotify.com/track/7rbw06Ngndbs8X4iPdepES?si=8fc5e05a1999454b  

 

Jimi Hendrix - ‘Hey Joe’ 

https://open.spotify.com/track/0NWPxcsf5vdjdiFUI8NgkP?si=cc43c3094ec5413e  

 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - ‘Ghosteen’ 

https://open.spotify.com/track/6tEFvxPkn2FRDmTPuu2GZV?si=9b0f84d7a43a426d  

 

Credits: 

Producer: Paul Kobrak 

Assistant Producer: Maan Al-Yasiri 

Production Manager: Francesca Bassett 

Music: Miguel D’Oliveira 

Show notes compiled by Shaloma Ellis 

Executive Producer: Arron Fellows 

 

A Mindhouse Production exclusively for Spotify 

www.mindhouse.co.uk 

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Podcast: The 404 Media Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Your Identity Hacked, Yet Verified
Pub date: 2024-07-03

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We start this episode talking about some exciting updates for the podcast! For the first story, Joseph explains how an ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, and X exposed driver licenses, in a sign of what may be come as more sites demand to know our real identities. After the break, Jason breaks down what the FBI found when it investigated a specific Zoom Bombing ring. In the subscribers-only section, Emanuel and Joseph talk all about TLO, a powerful data tool that is being advertised on Fiverr to dox anyone for $30.

Subscribe at gain access to bonus content at 404media.co.

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Podcast: Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: There's Only One Michael Mosley
Pub date: 2024-06-14

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Michael's last interview, How to Live a Good Life, is with psychologist Paul Bloom and was recorded in the BBC tent at the Hay Festival on 25 May, 2024.

Paul is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and he shares with Michael his top five tips for living a good life. And we hear Michael at his best - full of warmth, insight and enjoying his time with the audience and sharing some of his reflections on his life, career and the importance of family.

Presenter: Michael Mosley with Chris Van Tulleken

Producer: Nija Dalal-Small

Series Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald

Production Manager: Maria Simons

Executive Producers: Helen Thomas and Sasha Feachem

Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts

Studio Engineer: Richard Ward

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Podcast: The History of Literature (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter
Pub date: 2024-05-30

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Scottish writer John Buchan is perhaps best known for his pioneering thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, the source material for one of Alfred Hitchcock's first great films. But as his biographer (and granddaughter) Ursula Buchan tells Jacke, Buchan was far from a one-hit wonder. John Buchan wrote more than a hundred books of fiction and non-fiction and a thousand newspaper and magazine articles - and he was just getting started. Ursula's book Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan depicts the remarkable life of this twentieth-century writer (and scholar, antiquarian, barrister, journal editor, war correspondent, member of parliament, director of wartime propaganda, Governor-General of Canada, and more!).

PLUS Jacke reads a special letter by Ernest Hemingway, and Marsha Gordon (Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott) stops by to discuss her choice for the last book she will ever read.

Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature.

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Podcast: Spacewalk with Everyday Astronaut (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: EP: 3 - Cameras in Space
Pub date: 2024-04-10

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In this episode Tim answers some of your questions about cameras in space.

If you want your questions answered, just use hashtag #spacewalkpodcast and we’ll take questions from there each episode, but we’ll also be taking questions from our patron supporters, YouTube members and X subscribers as well.

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Podcast: Many Minds (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Consider the spider
Pub date: 2024-05-30

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Maybe your idea of spiders is a bit like mine was. You probably know that they have eight legs, that some are hairy. Perhaps you imagine them spending most of their time sitting in their webs—those classic-looking ones, of course—waiting for snacks to arrive. Maybe you consider them vaguely menacing, or even dangerous. Now this is not all completely inaccurate—spiders do have eight legs, after all—but it's a woefully incomplete and drab caricature. Your idea of spiders, in other words, may be due for a refresh.

My guest today is Dr. Ximena Nelson, Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand. Ximena is the author of the new book, The Lives of Spiders. It's an accessible and stunningly illustrated survey of spider behavior, ecology, and cognition.

In this conversation, Ximena and I do a bit of 'Spiders 101'. We talk about spider senses—especially how spiders use hairs to detect the minutest of vibrations and how they see, usually, with four pairs of eyes. We talk about web-making—which, by the way, the majority of spiders don't do—and silk-making—which all do, but for more reasons than you may realize. We talk about how spiders hunt, jump, dance, pounce, plan, decorate, cache, balloon, and possibly count. We talk about why so many spiders mimic ants. We take up the puzzle of "stabilimenta". We talk about whether webs constitute an extended sensory apparatus—like a gigantic ear—and why spiders are an under-appreciated group of animals for thinking about the evolution of mind, brain, and behavior.

Alright friends, this one is an absolute feast. So let's get to it. On to my conversation with Dr. Ximena Nelson. Enjoy!

A transcript of this episode is available here.

Notes and links

3:00 – A general audience article about our "collective arachnid aversion" to spiders.

8:00 – An academic article by Dr. Nelson about jumping spider behavior.

8:30 – In addition to spiders, Dr. Nelson also studies kea parrots (e.g., here).

12:00 – A popular article about the thousands of spider species known to science—and the thousands that remain unknown.

16:30 – A popular article about a mostly vegetarian spider, Bagheera kiplingi.

18:00 – For the mating dance of the peacock spider, see this video.

20:00 – A recent study on spider "hearing" via their webs.

24:00 – The iNaturalist profile of the tiger bromeliad spider.

29:30 – A recent study of extended sensing in humans during tool use.

33:00 – A popular discussion of vision (and other senses) in jumping spiders.

40:00 – An earlier popular discussion of spider webs and silk.

45:00 – For a primer on bird's nests, see here.

48:00 – An article describing the original work on how various drugs alter spiders' webs.

49:00 – A recent salvo in the long-standing stabilimenta debate.

54:00 – A video about "ballooning" in spiders.

57:00 ­– An article by Dr. Nelson and a colleague about jumping spiders as an important group for studies in comparative cognition.

1:01:00 – A study of reversal learning in jumping spiders, which found large individual differences.

1:07:00 – A study of larder monitoring in orb weaver spiders.

1:10:00 – A study by Dr. Nelson and a colleague on numerical competence in Portia spiders.

1:16:00 – An academic essay on the so-called insect apocalypse.

Recommendations

Spider Behaviour: Flexibility and Versatility, by M. Herberstein

'Spider senses – Technical perfection and biology,' by F. Barth

'Extended spider cognition', by H. Japyassú and K. Lala

Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, which is made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to UCLA. It is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with help from Assistant Producer Urte Laukaityte and with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd. Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala.

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Podcast: City Journal Audio (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Unimaginable—and Inevitable
Pub date: 2024-06-05

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Victor Davis Hanson joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss his book The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation.

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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Losing Attar
Pub date: 2024-06-14

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Attar is the essential oil that is produced when aromatics like jasmine and sandalwood are pressed and distilled. It has been a feature of life in India, as well as many other parts of the world, for over 5,000 years, and it has been the defining industry of the Indian city of Kannauj for over a thousand. But whereas once this ancient discipline employed nearly all the city’s residents, it’s now suffering severely from the impact of climate change and the rise of synthetic perfumes.

Journalist Jigyasa Mishra meets the farmers, flower pickers and traditional perfumers of Kannauj to better understand the way of life attar sustains and to ask: can anything be done to reverse the trend?

Producers: Jigyasa Mishra and Artemis Irvine

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