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Tear Down This Wall, Mr. BBC!
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No comments on Tear Down This Wall, Mr. BBC!When I opened my Overcast podcast app to listen to the latest episode of In Our Time, BBC Radio 4’s excellent show on the history of ideas, I was presented with this: Release dates matter. If they didn’t, the BBC would just release an entire season of In Our Time all at once, Netflix-style. Releasing them…
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Without Reservation
Since the pandemic began, I’ve taken to walking up and down a nearby hill every lunchtime. Every day, I pass the Burns Monument, a Neo-Greek temple commemorating Robert Burns. Normally it’s closed to visitors, but during the Edinburgh Art Festival this month you can visit a sound installation by Emeka Ogboh. Visiting is free, but…
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The V&A Dundee Museum is an £80 Million Mistake
What’s your favourite museum and what does it look like? For me, it’s hard to choose between the V&A Museum in London, with its beautiful, endless art and design galleries and its stylish special exhibitions; and the Exploratorium in San Francisco, which does the best job of explaining science and technology I’ve ever seen; and…
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First Draft
From my newsletter… Last week, I delivered the first draft of “Untitled Gamification Book” to my editor. I think it’s going to be a good book! It should have something new for even the most familiar with gamification, but it’s accessible for people who’ve never heard the word at all. I hope it will delight…
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The Cultures Ep 330: The Government Needs a Marketing Budget
Listen to episode 330 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Finnish school kids’ meal bag vs. British school kids’ meal bag (Twitter) UK Government Communication Service blog post example
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The Cultures Ep 329: Breaking Up the BBC
Listen to episode 329 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: 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…
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The Cultures Ep 328: NICHOLSON
Listen to episode 328 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: 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) Note: Adrian said the wrong episode number at the start, sorry!
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The Cultures Ep 327: American Politics
Listen to episode 327 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent by Zeynep Tufekci (The Atlantic) Note: Adrian said the wrong episode number at the start, sorry!
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The Cultures Ep 326: FEELINGS
Listen to episode 326 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Jesse Singal’s tweet linking to Vice’s story on Penguin Random House staffers’ reaction to their publishing Jordan Peterson’s next book 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…
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The Cultures Ep 325: AI, How to Start Reading Again
Listen to episode 325 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: A giant leap forward by DeepMind in AI protein-folding prediction 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…
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