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The Pod Delusion
by salimfadhley
My contributions to The Pod Delusion
Episodes
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Glyn Moody on Open Standards
In 2011 our government issued a policy document which outlined a clear preference that all newly procured software systems should be based on open standards. That means if the government invests in a new database, telephone system or document management system, these systems should be able to...
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Christian Nightmares with the Christian Nightmares guy...
Links: Merrill Womach: http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/236341102/christiannightmares "20 Minutes to go" http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/1602005708/20-minutes-to-go-possibly-the-most-amazing If like me, you are a connoisseur of the bizarre you might just have seen Christian...
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Professor Steve Furber on the BBC Micro's Legacy (Extra Edition)
30 years ago a small British company called Acorn Computers launched the BBC Micro. This computer was nothing much by today’s standards. It had 32 kilobytes of main-memory and a 2Mhz processor. In every way this computer was many thousands of times less capable than the phone in your pocket. And...
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The Darknet Project
the network should be an indiscriminate carrier of information regardless of the source, destination or nature of the information being transmitted. Some newly proposed legislation threatens to undermine: In America the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act propose to regulate the…
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Robert M Price on The Christ Myth Theory
For the show notes: http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/ - Robet M Price's blog ---- We try to do interesting interviews for people with very short spans of attention. Our listeners are intelligent but mostly will not have any previous interest or inclination towards this topic. I really want...
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Annie-Laurie Gaylor from the Freedom from Religion foundation: God's tax-evaders
Consider the statement "I can be good without god" - This statement is simply an affirmation that religious people do not hold a monopoly on good behavior. This statement was printed on a recent poster campoaign organized by the Freedom from Religion foundation - an organization intended to...
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Bill Johnston on Translating Stanislaw Lem's Solaris
Solaris by Stanislaw lem is arguably one of the most admired works of science-fiction in any language. Originally written in Polish in 1961 it's been made into 2 feature films. The book has been translated into many other languages with the notable exception of English. It's taken more than 50...
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Do violent games cause violent crime?
Some of the most famous studies into the risks associated with video games have studied playing games under laborotory conditions, in order to observe a number of markers for agression or violence. From reports of these studies the popular media has inferred that video games cause violence in...
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Widdershins narrated by frank key
Widdershins narrated by frank key by salimfadhley
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Teaching kids to code with Emma Mulqueeny
Links: http://youngrewiredstate.org/ - Young Rewired State http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/15081 - Emma's Downing St Petition --- By the age of 9 (year 5), any child following the UK's national curriculum for ICT, will hopefully be familiar with some very common computing activities…
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Tessa Kendal of the NSS on the Girl Guides' Promise
The British girl guides association sees promoting a certain kind of spirituality as one of it's core missions. Maddie Willet, a non-religious seven year old girl felt that she couldnt join her friends in the brownies because the organization requires it's members to say a pledge promising to…
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Marc Leeds on Kurt Vonnegut's Slaugherhouse Five
A Missori State university professor of management has fought and won a one-man battle to have certain books banned from the public schools in the city of Republic, Missouri. It's not uncommon for American school-boards to ban books for ideological reasons. Many of the greatest American novels…
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Frank Key on London Riots
In among much blather about the riots, one friend of mine made the definitively sensible comment: “I think the rioters just need to calm down and listen to some Soft Machine”. He was thinking specificallt of the song Hibou, Anemone and Bear from the dazzling second album, the lyrics of which are…
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Richy thompson on faith schools
In Pod Delusion 92 I covered the story of a school in Malton, North Yorkshire which may soon be taken over by the Church of England. I spoke with Richy Thompson who manages the British Humanist Association's Education campaign. I began by asking Richy why it is that schools can now be taken over…
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