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
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
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)
The Cultures Ep 282: Knowing What’s Real in an Age of Information Warfare
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)
