Tag: thecultures

Listen to episode 296 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?
• The Rise of the Meritocracyby Michael Young, the book that coined the term satirically 
• Liquid Death sells water to punks who are too cool for alcohol
• Note: No Naomi this ep

Listen to episode 295 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Alternis on Serial Box
• “A Taste of Armageddon” (the Star Trek ep Adrian was talking about)
• Memories of the Alhambra
• Note: No Naomi this ep

Listen to episode 294 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

OK, so it’s just Adrian this episode – due to life happenings, it’s been difficult for us to all get together these past few weeks and so rather than leave you hanging, we thought we should post at least something to tide you over. He’s not used to recording on his own, so please forgive any awkwardness!

• Airpods Are a Tragedy
• Naomi’s Twitter thread on apologies
• The Three Parts of a Meaningful, Heartfelt Apology
• John Profumo volunteering at a charity
• Naomi’s Twitter thread on ending a story well
• Codecademy vs. The BBC Micro
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

Listen to episode 293 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Cruise utilisation optimisation
• Gamified Amazon Warehouses

Listen to episode 292 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Old people who spend two hours or more a day on a hobby live longer (US News)

Listen to episode 291 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• The Hiddleston Centrum Ad
• A good man is hard to find: China’s ‘leftover women’ look for love abroad (SCMP)

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 by Chuck Wendig
• The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
• The Lady From The Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara
• The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1

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

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

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