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
The Cultures Ep 281: AlphaFold, protein shape prediction, and the future of AI
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
The Cultures Ep 280: Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, The Four Tendencies, New Year’s Resolutions
Listen to episode 280 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective boardgame
- The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
- How do you decide what New Year resolutions to make?
The Cultures Ep 279: Twitter and Hedging, Bullshit Jobs, Online Patronage
Listen to episode 279 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Twitter and the impossibility of saying things without hedging
- Bullshit Jobs (Wikipedia)
- Online Patronage
The Cultures Ep 278: Hacking Printers, Lottery Spending, The Eichmann Problem
Listen to episode 278 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Somebody hacked a bunch of printers?
- US lottery spending (and average credit card debt per state)
- The Eichmann Problem (Openness to experiences)
The Cultures Ep 277: Laziness, Can a Robot be Jewish?, Surviving Winter
Listen to episode 277 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- What is “lazy”, anyway?
- Can a robot be Jewish?
- How do you survive winter?
The Cultures Ep 276: Are Sports Sexist, V+A Dundee and Showcase Museums
Listen to episode 276 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Are sports sexist?
- V&A Dundee and the problem of showcase museums (Pitt Rivers Museum, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? by Kwame Anthony Appiah)
The Cultures Ep 275: Solar Power, Climate Change
Listen to episode 275 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- A brief note on scheduling
- Solar power
- Climate change (Scotland is rising – literally)
- Note: No Naomi this ep
The Cultures Ep 274: US Elections, Brexit
Listen to episode 274 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- The US Election: a step back from the brink
- Brexit
- Note: No Naomi this ep
The Cultures Ep 273: Diablo III, Return of the Obra Dinn
Listen to episode 273 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Diablo III (Diablo Mobile controversy)
- Return of the Obra Dinn (Papers, Please)
- Note: No Andrea this ep
