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Travel Tips, 2018 Edition
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5–7 minutes·
2 comments on Travel Tips, 2018 EditionI’ve been doing an awful lot more travelling for work this year. Most of it has been between Edinburgh and London, but I’ve also had last-minute trips to San Francisco and Shanghai that required quick packing. To stay sane and organised, I’ve tried to streamline my luggage as much as possible. I’ve always travelled light,…
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The Cultures Ep 260: Fifth Anniversary Podcast!
Listen to episode 260 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Topics from our last five years Changes in our personal lives What are the big political events of the next five years?
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Shanghai Disneyland in One Day
Yesterday(!), I visited Shanghai Disneyland at the end of a week-long trip to the China Digital Entertainment Expo (aka China Joy), as part of a UK trade delegation. Most of the week was taken up with briefings about the Chinese games industry; endless meetings with local companies; and raucous bar-hopping and karaoke. By the end,…
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The Cultures Ep 259: Our Work (From Home) Days, Jessica Price and Arenanet, Care and Feeding of Fan Communities
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1–2 minutes·
Listen to episode 259 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: How do you sort out your work-day (now that we’re all sort of working from home)! Jessica Price and Arenanet (bonus article from Adrian) Care and feeding of fan communities
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The Cultures Ep 258: The New Talking Machines, The Phantom of the Opera is Reddit
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1–2 minutes·
Listen to episode 258 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: The New Talking Machines The Phantom of the Opera is Reddit (Adrian Chen article on Ice Poseidon)
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The Cultures Ep 257: Gay Cakes and Sarah Huckabee
Listen to episode 257 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Followup from Alper Cugun: Anne Helen Petersen on people choosing to have fewer or no children Gay cakes and Sarah Huckabee (US case, UK case)
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BREX IT! Meal Kits
Take back control of your hunger! Inspired by various doomsday scenario planning guides that are telling Brits to stock up on beans and bottled water, I created the BREX IT! Meal Kits website in between laughing and crying about the political disaster that’s befallen our country.
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The Cultures Ep 256: Forgetting How to Ride a Bike, The World Cup and Nationalism
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1–2 minutes·
Listen to episode 256 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: On forgetting how to ride a bike The World Cup and nationalism Note: No Andrea this ep
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Injured Sovereigns, Foucault, and Jessica Price
Why does Jessica Price’s firing continue to attract so much attention? There’s plenty of other subjects I want to write about, but there is something about the story that draws me to it, just as it’s drawn literally thousands of people to my Twitter this blog, some of whom have called me “subhuman scum” and…
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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: Quick Notes
Quick notes on this book by Jeanne E. Arnold, Anthony P. Graesch, Enzo Ragazzini, and Elinor Ochs, a popularisation of a 10-year study in which 32 middle-class Los Angeles families opened their doors to archaeologists and anthropologists to photograph, count, and classify every single visible object in their house. Introduction In general, it’s fascinating to look…
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