The Beans

This week, Sam speak to Dr. Rachel Bronson manages the Doomsday Clock! We talk about the threat of nuclear war, how the clock was conceived and what we can do from now!

If you want more info & links on this story, Sam wrote a blog at thebeanspodcast.com - you can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at [email protected]

Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias).

Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and themicroband.bandcamp.com/

Sam talks about TV shows and their finales, going through a list of the weirdest ones! We make a special stop at Lost and discuss the way they decided to end that whole thing...

If you want more info & links on this story, go to thebeanspodcast.com and look it up on our blog! You can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at [email protected]

Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias).

Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and themicroband.bandcamp.com/

It's that time of the month when we discuss someone else's work on the show! On today's podcast we have a look at Elisa Gabbert's piece; 'Bedroom in Alcatraz', which discusses the uncanny parallels between Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles and a diagram of a prison cell in Alcatraz. You can read the article here:

http://themapisnot.com/issue-vi-elisa-gabbert/

And explore some of Gabbert's work (which we recommend!), here:

http://www.elisagabbert.com/essays/

If you want more info & links on this story, go to thebeanspodcast.com and look it up on our blog! You can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at [email protected]

Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias).

Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and themicroband.bandcamp.com/

Erin gets inspired by childhood memories of a special museum display and explores the strange ability of some sea creatures to make their own light, as well as a look at a few of the ways humans have made use of this.

If you want more info & links on this story, go to thebeanspodcast.com and look it up on our blog! You can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at [email protected]

Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias).

Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and themicroband.bandcamp.com/

Sometimes when you don’t pay attention to new technology it continues on developing without you. Recently Valerie found out some of the ladies in her reading group—all in their seventies—had been on a virtual reality tour of the V&A. The ladies talked about it like it was some normal, run of the mill thing, while Valerie didn’t even know that technology already existed. The future? It’s now. In a rush to catch up with the zeitgeist, Valerie interviews Shauna Witherspoon, an employee at a virtual reality startup in California, about now and the future.

If you want more info & links on this story, go to thebeanspodcast.com and look it up on our blog! You can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at [email protected]

Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias).

Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on https://alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and https://themicroband.bandcamp.com/

Ryan McLeod from the podcast Creative Chit Chat Dundee tells us the history of KFC and Colonel Sanders! You can find his pod on cccdundee.com

If you want more info & links on this story, go to thebeanspodcast.com and look it up on our blog! You can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at [email protected]

Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias).

Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and themicroband.bandcamp.com/

Erin tells us all about the Common Riding and the shaping of this Scottish tradition! Thanks to @EttrickValley for the photo!

If you want more info & links on this story, go to thebeanspodcast.com and look it up on our blog! You can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at [email protected]

Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias).

Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and themicroband.bandcamp.com/

On this minisode Valerie talks about the Cassini–Huygens, a probe on a mission to reach Saturn! Have a look at some of the Cassini images on this excellent piece: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/14/science/cassini-saturn-images.html

Also, in the first of four appearances, Ryan McLeod from the podcast Creative Chit Chat Dundee joins the conversation! You can find his pod on cccdundee.com

If you want more info & links on this story, go to thebeanspodcast.com and look it up on our blog! You can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at [email protected]

Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias).

Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and themicroband.bandcamp.com/

This week Sam is thinking about his bias. He speaks to artist Miriam Mallalieu who has explored Encyclopedia Britannica and its bias, on a recent piece. Also, tune in to hear Sam saying 'breakfast' instead of 'brexit'. You can check Miriam's work, here: http://cargocollective.com/miriammallalieu/An-Encyclopaedia-of-Existing-Knowledge-Structured-2017

If you want more info & links on this story, go to thebeanspodcast.com and look it up on our blog! You can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at [email protected]

Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias).

Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and themicroband.bandcamp.com/

In this minisode we have some fun reading advice columns!

If you want more info & links on this story, go to thebeanspodcast.com and look it up on our blog! You can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at [email protected]

Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias).

Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on https://alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and https://themicroband.bandcamp.com/