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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.
Episodes
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330: The Government Needs a Marketing Budget
Finnish school kids' meal bag vs. British school kids' meal bag (Twitter) UK Government Communication Service blog post example Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected]...
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329: Breaking Up the BBC
The Progressive Case for Breaking Up the BBC – while increasing public funding for the good things it does! Things we're watching and reading, including: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders It's a Sin (Channel 4) Catch Me If You Can (Wikipedia) Kajillionaire Another Round Follow us at...
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328: NICHOLSON
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis by Nicholson Baker (New York Magazine) Did America Use Bioweapons in Korea? Nicholson Baker Tried to Find Out (New York Times book review) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at...
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327: American Politics
America's Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent by Zeynep Tufekci (The Atlantic) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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326: FEELINGS
Sorry for the poor audio quality on Adrian's bits, he accidentally turned down the gain on his mic, and while we were able to boost the volume, that introduced a bunch of noise! Jesse Singal's tweet linking to Vice's story on Penguin Random House staffers' reaction to their publishing Jordan...
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325: AI, How to Start Reading Again
Sorry for the poor audio quality on Adrian's bits, he accidentally turned down the gain on his mic, and while we were able to boost the volume, that introduced a bunch of noise! A giant leap forward by DeepMind in AI protein-folding prediction How to start reading again Follow us at…
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324: The Death of Flash, and Screen Time
The rise and fall of Adobe Flash Flash Game History The 'Screen Time' debate
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323: Virtual Travel Instructions
Naomi's virtual travel instructions! Look for music from the country Search on BBC Sounds (there's a prog called World Music Road Trip and also sometimes stuff in From Our Own Correspondent) Also try documentaries, especially Storyville Find the best movie you've never seen from that country...
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322: TV and Movie Recommendations
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) Ghosts (BBC) The Queen's Gambit (Netflix) The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) Upload (Amazon Prime) Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (Viki) After Life (BFI Player) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon...
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321: The BBC and 'Virtue Signalling'
BBC journalists told not to 'virtue signal' in social media crackdown (The Guardian) Official BBC social media guidance What Is The Internet Doing To Boomers' Brains? (Huffpost) The creation of Boris Johnson by Tanya Gold (Unherd) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon...
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320: VR and Facebook
Oculus Quest 2 VR headset Oculus now requires a Facebook account Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Adrian's mini-review on Twitter Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at...
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319: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (Wikipedia) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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318: Books Books Books
We talk about books we've recently enjoyed, including: The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 Charles Palliser (including The Quincunx) Gilgamesh Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley Logicomix Follow us at...
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317: News News News
Hot off the presses, we catch up with each other and talk about all the latest news! Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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316: Lockdown Mental Health, British Literary Shenanigans, JK Rowling, Hamilton, Vaccine Good News
Lockdown Mental Health British Literary Shenanigans with Baroness Nicholson, Damian Barr, and Janice Turner JK Rowling Hamilton Vaccine Good News Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected]...
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315: America Inc., Near-Future Writing, QAnon and ARGs, Being Creative Now
America Inc., Andrea's new book! Near-Future Writing QAnon and ARGs Being Creative Now Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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314: Shrug Emoji
Naomi Alderman Was Writing a Pandemic Novel Before the Pandemic Hit (New York Times) L'Île-des-Pins in New Caledonia (Wikipedia) 4K Japan Videowalks from Rambalac America, Inc. – Andrea's upcoming new book Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia...
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313: Our Best Staying-at-Home Activities, What Comes Next?
Exit: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch) Death Stranding/Hideo Kojima Twitter joke Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected]...
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312: Coronavirus Begins
Flatten the Curve Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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311: Daf Yomi
Daf Yomi (Wikipedia) Sefaria The Disputation (YouTube) St. John's College Great Books Curriculum Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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310: One Laptop Per Child
The Charisma Machine by Morgan G. Ames OLPC XO (Wikipedia) Selling a Charismatic Technology (LA Review of Books) The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (HBO documentary) Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on...
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309: The Good Place, Disco Elysium, Picard, The Morning Show
The Good Place (ending spoilers!) Disco Elysium Star Trek: Picard The Morning Show (more spoilers) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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308: The Dating Market
The Dating Market: Thesis Overview (PDF, Tyro Partners) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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307: The Impossible Whopper and the rebranding of veganism
Behold the Beefless 'Impossible Whopper' (NY Times) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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306: Ructions in the Young Adult books community
Famous Authors Drag Student in Surreal YA Twitter Controversy (Vulture) Related Metafilter discussion Ghislaine Maxwell (Wikipedia) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected]...
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305: Tikkun olam Every Day (or not)
Tikkun olam (Wikipedia) Effective altruism (Wikipedia) Kwame Anthony Appiah's Reith Lectures Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton (Wikipedia) Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for events — and some are furious (The Verge) Note: this has now been reversed Yahoo will delete all Yahoo...
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304: Us, and movies that get better the more you think about them
Us (Wikipedia) Get Out (Wikipedia) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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303: Russian Doll
Russian Doll (Wikipedia) Attachment theory (Wikipedia) Naomi's podcast on Groundhog Day (On Being) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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302: Personal attributes as things you DO vs. things that you ARE
Are you really the 'real' you? (The Guardian) on Faking It Related Metafilter discussion Who do you think you are – and how bad could you be? (The Guardian) Person–situation debate (Wikipedia) Doggerland (In Our Time) Why Some Americans Won't Move, Even for a Higher Salary (CityLab) Follow us at...
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301: Bad Notifications, Adrian's Robovac
How many automated notifications do you turn off? Adrian has a new robovac Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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300: Slack for the Family
The Slackification of the American Home (The Atlantic) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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299: Andrea's Oil Tank & Who Pays for the Environment?
As Floods Keep Coming, Cities Pay Residents to MoveAs Floods Keep Coming, Cities Pay Residents to Move (NY Times) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected]...
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298: Resettling Hong Kong in Northern Ireland
UK officials discussed resettling 5.5m Hong Kong Chinese in Northern Ireland (The Guardian) The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected]...
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297: Technology Illiteracy
What the Space Age taught us: Earth is the best of all possible worlds The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (UK) Office of Technology Assessment (US) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at...
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296: If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? The Rise of the Meritocracy by Michael Young, the book that coined the term satirically Liquid Death sells water to punks who are too cool for alcohol Note: No Naomi this ep Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman...
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295: Alternis
Alternis on Serial Box "A Taste of Armageddon" (the Star Trek ep Adrian was talking about) Memories of the Alhambra Note: No Naomi this ep Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected]...
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294: Airpods, Apologies, Ending Stories, Teaching Programming
OK, so it's just Adrian this episode – due to life happenings, it's been difficult for us to all get together these past few weeks and so rather than leave you hanging, we thought we should post at least something to tide you over. He's not used to recording on his own, so please forgive any...
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293: Cruise Utilisation Optimisation, Gamified Amazon Warehouses
Cruise utilisation optimisation Gamified Amazon Warehouses Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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292: What's a Hobby?
Old people who spend two hours or more a day on a hobby live longer (US News) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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291: The Hiddleston Centrum Ad
The Hiddleston Centrum Ad A good man is hard to find: China's 'leftover women' look for love abroad (SCMP) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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290: Recent Books We Like!
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky How Democracy Ends by David Runciman (Talking Politics podcast) The Salt Path by Raynor Winn The Miriam Black series by Chuck Wendig The...
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289: Empathy in 80s Science Fiction
FT article (paywalled) about Against Empathy The Banality of Empathy on the NYRB Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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288: Anti-semitism
David Schneider tweet on "dark forces" Luciana Berger interview Labour Party leadership election rules Conservative Party leadership election rules Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected]...
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287: Teenagers and Vaccines
Andrea's viral tweet Assortative mating (and how it may relate to autism) Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America on The Verge Note: No Naomi this ep Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on...
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286: A Month Away From Twitter and Facebook
How to mute all retweets on Twitter Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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285: "Everyone Lies" - Fyre Festival and Dan Mallory
Fyre Festival (and the duelling documentary controversy) Dan Mallory article on The New Yorker Rory Stewart's invented Brexit statistic Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected]...
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284: KonMari and People Losing Their Damn Minds
Note: No Adrian this ep Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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283: Spaced Repetition Learning and Anki
How to Remember Anything Forever(ish) interactive comic by Nicky Case Introductory Guardian article Fluent Forever book Anki The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages (New Yorker) Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on…
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282: Knowing What's Real in an Age of Information Warfare
That Photo 'Debunking' the Paris Protest Fires is Actually Bullshit (Gizmodo) Note: No Naomi this ep Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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281: AlphaFold, protein shape prediction, and the future of AI
Proteins on Wikipedia AlphaFold @ CASP13: "What just happened?" Note: No Naomi this ep Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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