Tag: thecultures

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

Listen to episode 286 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• How to mute all retweets on Twitter

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

Listen to episode 284 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Note: No Adrian this ep

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)