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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February 01, 201581: The Curse of Meh, For-Profit Conferences, Anti-Electronics Fields
The Curse of 'Meh' (Maria Popova on Christian Rudder's Dataclysm)
For-profit conferences - adding vs. extracting value from a community
Anti-Electronics Fields
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33min
January 25, 201580: Charlie Hebdo, The Artist's Way, Franklin Planning System, Self Promotion!
Charlie Hebdo and the culture of "out of context quoting" (Oliver Tonneau article)
Andrea's plan to do The Artist's Way
Paper planning and the Franklin Planning System
Self Promotion!
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42min
January 18, 201579: Curating your Brain, Complicated Terms, Clickbait, Game Outcomes Project
On curating your brain to be an interesting place
Complicated terms you don't (or didn't) understand
Clickbait: the human impulse that makes it work and what we should do about it (New Yorker article on the King of Clickbait)
The Game Outcomes Project
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38min
January 11, 201578: Incrementally improving our lives, evo psych, nerd-shaming and smart-shaming
Why do we avoid incremental improvements in our lives?
Evolutionary psychology
Nerd-shaming and smart-shaming
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32min
January 04, 201577: Unplugging, King Charles III, 2015 and 2115
When and how we decide to switch off bits of connectivity (the National Day of Unplugging)
New Year's Resolutions
King Charles III (the play)
What are we looking forward to in 2015 - and 2115?
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39min
December 28, 201476: Holiday Variety Mix Part 2!
Questions for game designers
Categories of problems we no longer have
Excellent names for things
What's so good about competition?
The symbiotic relationship between advertising and art/tech culture
Anonymity online, again
Getting better at getting better
Symbol/signified
Tourism as religion and the tourist gaze
Workplace as family on TV
Tumblr culture and fandom
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36min
December 21, 201475: Holiday Variety Mix Part 1!
Exodus feedback from Margaret M.
Quantified Self and the Apple Watch: good thing/bad thing?
Serial and the rise of podcasts
Is elitism bad?
Male and female ways of thinking about time
"So what do we think about this?": tribes and groupthink
Coding yourself for subcultures
Enlightenment is like an asteroid that hit religion
Riccardo Muti and Va Pensiero, in defence of the arts
Becoming a connoisseur lessens your chances of happiness
Times that we have been really well sold-to
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37min
December 14, 201474: DRAGON AGES, Virtual Retirement Villages, Designing a Dream City
Andrea is playing Dragon Age: Inquisition
Virtual Retirement Villages
Adrian and Naomi's design for a dream city in Scotland
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38min
December 07, 201473: Exodus, Fan/Creator Relationships, Woo Things We Like
Adrian's thoughts on Exodus: Gods and Kings
Fan/creator relationships & power dynamics
Kind-of-embarrassing/hokey/woo-seeming things that have actually helped us (including Martha Beck's blog and Brooke Castillo's podcast)
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44min
November 30, 201472: An Awful T-shirt, Tattoos, Leaderless Social Movements
The Rosetta scientist's awful T-shirt
The increasing social acceptability of the tattoo
Leaderless social movements such as Scottish independence 'Cybernats', Gamergate, Occupy, etc. (not Cybermats)
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38min

FAQs about The Cultures:

How many episodes does The Cultures have?

The podcast currently has 285 episodes available.