Listen to episode 313 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Exit: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch)
- Death Stranding/Hideo Kojima Twitter joke
The Cultures Ep 312: Coronavirus Begin
Listen to episode 312 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
The Cultures Ep 311: Daf Yomi
Listen to episode 311 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Daf Yomi (Wikipedia)
- Sefaria
- The Disputation (YouTube)
- St. John’s College Great Books Curriculum
The Cultures Ep 310: One Laptop Per Child
Listen to episode 310 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- The Charisma Machine by Morgan G. Ames
- OLPC XO (Wikipedia)
- Selling a Charismatic Technology (LA Review of Books)
- The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (HBO documentary)
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
The Cultures Ep 309: The Good Place, Disco Elysium, Picard, The Morning Show
Listen to episode 309 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- The Good Place (ending spoilers!)
- Disco Elysium
- Star Trek: Picard
- The Morning Show (more spoilers)
The Cultures Ep 308: The Dating Market
Listen to episode 308 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- The Dating Market: Thesis Overview (PDF, Tyro Partners)
The Cultures Ep 307: The Impossible Whopper and the rebranding of veganism
Listen to episode 307 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’ (NY Times)
The Cultures Ep 306: Ructions in the Young Adult books community
Listen to episode 306 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Famous Authors Drag Student in Surreal YA Twitter Controversy (Vulture)
- Related Metafilter discussion
- Ghislaine Maxwell (Wikipedia)
The Cultures Ep 305: Tikkun olam Every Day (or not)
Listen to episode 305 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Tikkun olam (Wikipedia)
- Effective altruism (Wikipedia)
- Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Reith Lectures
- Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton (Wikipedia)
- Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for events — and some are furious (The Verge)
- Note: this has now been reversed
- Yahoo will delete all Yahoo Groups content on December 14th (The Verge)
The Cultures Ep 304: Us, and movies that get better the more you think about them
Listen to episode 304 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
