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- Life is Sadness, life's a Bitch
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Life is sadness, life’s a bitch
I thought it might be interesting to record an audiotape about the origins of a song currently being worked on by music-making colleague GM Jon.
Sometimes you can trace an idea to some starting event. In this case, it was a suggestion from Jon that we should put together several candidate lyrics on the general topic of old age.
The idea struck me as sufficiently distant from most songs we had worked on that it at least considered serious considerations
I even had some thoughts that we could stray into regions that would result in the song being banned for dealing with some tricky issues such as euthanasia.
I even mentioned one of my favourite films it brought to mind, Springtime for Hitler in Germany…
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4 min - Natural talent and its weaknesses
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I came across a splendid analysis of the weakness of relying on natural talent, in a piece published in the Quora website. The author publishes under the title Halftime Legend.
It makes sense, and may even contribute to the debate on the nature of creativity.
It may be of more interest to Chess players, than to other listeners to my podcasts.
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4 min - Brexit Rap: Where do new ideas come from?
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Where do new ideas come from?
To compensate for my abysmal failure in steps per day, (according to my distance walked App) I resort to the treadmill at my local gym.
Recently, the experience was weird. My pounding on the treadmill seemed to produce a reaction. It was as if as if the treadmill was telling me something.
I interpreted its message as if I had been listening to a mechanical version of the Oracle at Delphi. The rest of this brief podcast explains what I heard and how I interpreted it…
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3 min - The Houdini tactic: An invaluable rescue weapon for the club player
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Written and narrated by Tudor Rickards
I cannot claim to have invented the Houdini tactic in chess. However, I hinted at it in one of my least successful books, The Double Houdini.
As will become obvious, the tactic does not work when you’re playing against a computer program.
This week, it contributed to a much needed victory by our second team, still with a fighting chance of gaining promotion into the first division of the Stockport league. Much needed, as some consolation for the dive into the second division by our first team.
I will now explain the basic principles of the Houdini tactic in preparation for next season, in whatever divisions we find ourselves….
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6 min - The Dark Side of the Augusta Masters Golf Championship
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Every year, the masters golf championship at Augusta, Georgia gets worldwide television coverage. The traditions are well-known, including ritual acceptance by the winner of the iconic green jacket, handed over by last year‘s winner.
This year, a contingency plan was smoothly executed as Rory McIlroy became the first player since 2002 to defend the Augusta title successfully.
But amid the drama and spectacle, there is a darker story of the most famous golf club, which can be seen as the Twickenham or Wembley of Golf…
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3 min - A late-night Trump rant against his enemies
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Donald Trump, in the midst of saving the world, finds time to excoriate his multiple enemies in a classic late-night rant on Truth Social...
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4 min - A Tale of Two Tweets: Donald Trump's Easter Messages
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12 min - Lewis Goodall: Where did it all go wrong?
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Listeners to this podcast will be aware that I have borrowed its title from a recent Channel 4 documentary entitled Kier Starmer: where did it all go wrong.
The broadcast triggered off a storm of criticism of its presenter Lewis Goodall, led by many disappointed supporters of his work in the United Kingdom, which had made him an icon of the left in a profession widely dominated by politically right-wing leaning journalists.
It was certainly a provocative headline by Channel 4. It was widely presumed to be signalling another hatchet job on the Prime Minister who has received more than the usual criticism of a new first minister from the largely conservative oriented mainstream media...
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4 min - Grandfather's Clock, by Henry C. Work
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A rendition of poem based on a favourite in the days of radio broadcasting by the BBC. With some help from tennis partners this morning (Lindsay, Neil, and Gordon) we reassembled what we believe to be the first lines of the poem, and quickly tracked down the original…
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4 min - Newt Gingrich solves the Strait of Hormuz problem
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In the middle of the fantasy politics show starring Donald Trump, it was good for us to be reminded of some of the eccentric politicians that had recently departed the scene.
One such figure was former speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.
This week, impatient with the suggestions of lesser Mortals, Newt popped up to offer the world a dynamic solution to The Strait of Hormuz problem…
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About TudoRama
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TudoRama explores the nature and practice of creativity in the arts, sciences, politics and above all in everyday life. Tudor Rickards is Emeritus Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at…
the University of Manchester. Tudor studied chemistry and radiation chemistry at The University of Wales at Cardiff. Following post-doctoral research at New York Medical College, he returned to the UK to work in technical management before joining Manchester Business School. He has published numerous books and articles on creativity, sporting management and leadership, as well as fictional works involving the mythical University of Urmston. He has been influential in the development of creativity-related projects in Europe, including the European Association for Creativity and Innovation (EACI), and was co-founder (with Susan Moger) of the journal Creativity and Innovation Management. He is also author of detective stories centred around the fictional University of Urmston, and a nearby chess club which houses a top-secret government surveillance operation. His recent switch to podcasting reaches out to a wider general audience interested in current affairs, and the processes of creativity previously described in his lectures, blogposts, and textbooks.