The Cultures

By The Cultures

Adrian Hon, Andrea Phillips, and Naomi Alderman talk about technology, books, publishing, games, science, religion, films, TV, politics, and how to live a good life.... more

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April 12, 201591: Nudging Credit Cards, Disney's Magic Band, Tripcodes and Anonymity
Imperfect Recall: The Impact of Composite Spending Information Disclosure on Credit Card Spending
Apple Watch and Disney's Magic Band, inevitable comparisons (Metafilter discussion)
Tripcodes, 4chan, and Anonymity
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35min
April 05, 201590: Not Loving Your Job, Dating, The $3500 Shirt, 16 Years at Metafilter
No, You Absolutely Do Not Have to Love Your Job, and why dating is harder now than it used to be (maybe)
The True Value of Hand-Crafted Work: The $3500 Shirt (Metafilter thread, Mesopotamian Letters)
Matt Haughey, the founder of Metafilter, leaving after 16 years
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37min
March 29, 201589: Suffering and Empathy, Transforming Society, Alienating Videogame Characters
Child mortality, and how suffering affects your capacity for empathy
Death is Optional and How Silence Works: how quickly can society change?
Are increasingly accurate videogame characters more alienating? (Creatures Such As We, the game Adrian mentioned)
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30min
March 22, 201588: Racism and White Privilege, Character vs. Plot-Driven Story, Group Diners
Racism and white privilege (question to yoisthisracist)
Character-driven story vs. plot-driven story (Andrea's book, Revision)
Group dinners are terrible - how do we make them better? (inspired by the Guardian)
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35min
March 15, 201587: Punctuation, Nuclear Weapons safety, Adultery and Morality
NY Times on Punctuation
The Secret Life of a Public Library Security Guard
Command and Control, on nuclear weapons (Guardian review)
Adultery and morality (NY Magazine piece from 2009, NY Times 'Vows' example)
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33min
March 08, 201586: Martha Graham, Minority Report, Aeroflot, Being OK not knowing things
Martha Graham on expression and creating art
Underrated Movie Club: Minority Report
Aeroflot
Being OK admitting you don't know things
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41min
March 01, 201585: Our Boring Dystopia, Oliver Sacks, and more Dragon Age
Feedback from Henry Cooke
Intergenerational wormholes: Margaret Atwood's dad
The boring dystopia we live in/framing making a dystopia vs. a utopia
Oliver Sacks's on learning he has terminal cancer (Metafilter comment, How Doctors Die)
Adrian plays Dragon Age: Inquisition
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43min
February 22, 201584: Writing for games vs. books, ARGs, The Patriarchy
Writing for games vs. books
Are ARGs coming back? (The Beast ARG)
The Patriarchy and feeling like maybe there are No Good Men
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35min
February 15, 201583: Friends and Foes, Vocal Fry, Bureaucracy, Human Wormholes
When people you like hate each other (the Five Geek Social Fallacies)
Vocal fry (relevant This American Life episode)
In Praise of Bureaucracy (What it's like when you're an American using Britain's NHS by Jim Edwards)
The 'great span' of intergenerational memories (via Kottke)
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37min
February 08, 201582: Evil Notifications, Microsoft Hololens, Dragon Age, Reinvention
Evil notifications and how they steal centuries of our lives
Microsoft Hololens
Dragon Age: Inquisition
"Inventing" things that we already had
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33min

FAQs about The Cultures:

How many episodes does The Cultures have?

The podcast currently has 285 episodes available.