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The Cultures Ep 290: Recent Books We Like!
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No comments on The Cultures Ep 290: Recent Books We Like!Listen to episode 290 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: 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…
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The Cultures Ep 289: Empathy in 80s Science Fiction
Listen to episode 289 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: FT article (paywalled) about Against Empathy The Banality of Empathy on the NYRB
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The Cultures Ep 288: Anti-semitism
Listen to episode 288 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: David Schneider tweet on “dark forces” Luciana Berger interview Labour Party leadership election rules Conservative Party leadership election rules
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The Cultures Ep 287: Teenagers and Vaccines
Listen to episode 287 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Andrea’s viral tweet Assortative mating (and how it may relate to autism) Why We Sleepby Matthew Walker The secret lives of Facebook moderators in Americaon The Verge Note: No Naomi this ep
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The Cultures Ep 286: A Month Away From Twitter and Facebook
Listen to episode 286 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: How to mute all retweets on Twitter
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The Cultures Ep 285: “Everyone Lies” – Fyre Festival and Dan Mallory
Listen to episode 285 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Fyre Festival (and the duelling documentary controversy) Dan Mallory article on The New Yorker Rory Stewart’s invented Brexit statistic
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The Cultures Ep 284: KonMari and People Losing Their Damn Minds
Listen to episode 284 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Note: No Adrian this ep
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The Cultures Ep 283: Spaced Repetition Learning and Anki
Listen to episode 283 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: 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)
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The Cultures Ep 282: Knowing What’s Real in an Age of Information Warfare
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Listen to episode 282 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: That Photo ‘Debunking’ the Paris Protest Fires is Actually Bullshit (Gizmodo) Note: No Naomi this ep
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The Cultures Ep 281: AlphaFold, protein shape prediction, and the future of AI
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Listen to episode 281 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Proteins on Wikipedia AlphaFold @ CASP13: “What just happened?” Note: No Naomi this ep