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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November 23, 201471: Stereotype Threat, Where Ideas Come From, Bodies are Weird!
Stereotype Threat
Isaac Asimov on where we get new ideas
Bodies are Weird! (NY Times on skin smell receptors, BBC on reheated pasta)
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35min
November 16, 201470: Chronological Ethnocentrism, Blogging Every Day, Apple Watch
Chronological Ethnocentrism
Blogging Every Day (Adrian's blog)
Our thoughts on the Apple Watch
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33min
November 09, 201469: Perceptions vs. Reality, Is Naomi Becoming a Tory?!, SJW as a Pejorative
Perceptions are not reality: where common sense is wrong (plus The Guardian's visualisation of UK government spending)
Is Naomi becoming a Tory?! (harsher sentences for internet trolls and Lord Freud saying some disabled people are "not worth" the minimum wage)
"SJW" as a pejorative, and the dark side of the left (Religion, Dress and the Body, and being scrutinised as a young woman at school)
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35min
November 02, 201468: Anti-Procrastination Training, Hemingwrite, Writing Utopia Isn't Impossible
Stanford's Anti-Procrastination Training
The Hemingwrite word processor (and the Alphasmart Neo)
Writing Utopia Isn't Impossible
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36min
October 26, 201467: Why We Keep Playing the Lottery, Stable Marriages, Rebutting 10,000 Hours
Why We Keep Playing the Lottery
What Makes For a Stable Marriage? (original paper)
Rebuttals of the 10,000 Hours Thesis: BBC News article, Ericsson's reply (Word Doc)
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40min
October 19, 201466: Louise Mensch and Fat Pride, What is a "Child"?, and Friendship Online
Louise Mensch and Fat Pride
The deficiencies in using the word "child" to fit such a wide age range
Dunbar numbers, social networks, and the limits of friendship online
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40min
October 12, 201465: Stupid Fictional Institutions, Connoisseurship vs. Experimentation, Beards, 5G
Why are societies and institutions always so stupid in popular fiction? (David Brin's article, Our Favorite Cliche: A World Filled With Idiots)
Connoisseurship vs. Galiliean repeatable experimentation (PDF paper on Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method by Carlo Ginzburg and Anna Davin)
Beards in fashion as a way of reimagining masculinity in a more feminist world
5G mobile network requirements
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36min
October 05, 201464: X-Men, The Death of Adulthood, the Early Magic of the Internet
X-Men: Days of Future Past, and the stories of how persecuted minorities respond to persecution
The Death of Adulthood
Discuss: "The internet was a different, more strange and magical place in the past"
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44min
September 28, 201463: 'Awareness' and Changing the World, Retirees at The Villages, The Congress
'Awareness' and varying approaches to changing the world
The Villages: a retirement community with 100,000 residents
The Congress (NYT review)
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39min
September 21, 201462: Combatting Internet Mobs, Abusive Terms of Service, Artificial Telepathy
How to fix the behaviour of internet mobs, re: 'GamerGate' (see Zoe Quinn's uncovering of the 4chan mob, and a good background piece on what's been happening)
Laws to stop tech companies abusing Terms of Service that no-one reads (see the Facebook Messenger TOS, and Terms of Service; Didn't Read)
Artificial Telepathy (original PLOS One paper)
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36min

FAQs about The Cultures:

How many episodes does The Cultures have?

The podcast currently has 285 episodes available.