Something Interesting
by Steve McCullough
Something Interesting is an audio essay anthology about how strange and complicated it is to be a person in the world. It explores the philosophical, the political, and the personal. Steve, your host, has an eclectic background. He headed to university to study applied physics but wound up doing a PhD on Holocaust memoirs. He also worked for years as a web developer, and has more recently been a digital writer and producer working in climate change, human rights, and public history. The theme music is "Dirt Rhodes" by Kevin MacLeod. The cover art is based on "Concentric squares forming a geometric maze pattern" by Cansu Sarp. </li
Episodes
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Crypto
What I find interesting in crypto isn't really crypto itself. I've never bought or sold any and don't think it's accomplished much as a technology. It does however embody and evangelize a worldview about relationships and values that I find fascinating and troubling. Crypto — and more generally…
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Birds
Birds have been a source of fascination for thousands of years. And people have long looked to birds to explain humans. For Aristotle, birds were one of the nonhuman species closest to us. The similarities are noted, however, en route to arguing that human beings are distinct, unique, and…
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Uncertainty
Being a person means constantly navigating deep and genuine uncertainty. We are uncertain about what we think, how we feel, what might happen, and what we should do. Being uncertain means confronting the limits of our knowledge or our foresight in our lifelong efforts to persist and thrive, to…
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Guns
Cuturally, we are both fascinated and repelled by guns. They play a huge role in our love of action films and our fears of criminal violence. There are deep divisions in knowledge and communication between the communities of people who do and do not own guns. The reality of guns is obscured and...
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Aphantasia
Aphantasia refers to the absence of internal sense perceptions when remembering or imagining. It means knowing that you just ate a delicious chocolate cake, but not being able to re-experience its taste in your mind. People with visual aphantasia don't generate an image in their mind’s eye when...
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Trailer
Something Interesting is an audio essay anthology that explores the philosophical, the political, and the personal. I’m Steve, your host. My background is eclectic. I headed to university to study Applied Physics but wound up doing a PhD on Holocaust memoirs. I've been programming computers since…
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About this show
Something Interesting is an audio essay anthology about how strange and complicated it is to be a person in the world. It explores the philosophical, the political, and the personal.
Steve, your host, has an eclectic background. He headed to university to study applied physics but wound up doing a PhD on Holocaust memoirs. He also worked for years as a web developer, and has more recently been a digital writer and producer working in climate change, human rights, and public history.
The theme music is "Dirt Rhodes" by Kevin MacLeod.
The cover art is based on "Concentric squares forming a geometric maze pattern" by Cansu Sarp.
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