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The Cultures episodes
- 81: 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
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
33 min - 80: 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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42 min - 79: 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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38 min - 78: 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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32 min - 77: 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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39 min - 76: 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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36 min - 75: 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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37 min - 74: 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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38 min - 73: 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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44 min - 72: 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)
Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia
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About The Cultures
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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.