Six Degrees
Finding the right six people to make a difference. What does it mean to be connected to every person on earth? {listen}
From beyond the grave
trying to hold onto someone after they are dead
The Inventor and The Thief / Snap Judgment, “Legacy”
This story is a pretty good example of how capitalism kills innovation and how the mob and capitalism work in very similar ways.
Allusionist 58: Eclipse
It's August 2007. Lauren Marks is a 27-year-old actor and a PhD student, spending the month directing a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She's in a bar, standing onstage,…
What Happens to Fiction When Our Worst Climate Nightmares Start Coming True?
Movies, books and poetry have made predictions about a future that could be rapidly approaching {read}
Free Thinking: Will Self, R. D. Laing and Mandy.
the mind, consciousness, ADHD, Alzheimer’s and PTSD
Avoiding Armageddon With Dr. Carrie Nugent
Dr. Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter at the California Institute of Technology’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. She even has an asteroid named after her: Asteroid 8801 Nugent. On…
What kind of rights should it have?
This two pieces of media go well together. BBC Discovery “Can Robots Truly Be Intelligent?” and Why do we give robots female names? Because we don’t want to consider their…
Culture through the lens of robots
I feel like these three Podcast Eps are really interesting to listen to one right after the other. About what culture means and how it impacts the way we see…
Beyond the Iron Curtain
Comrades! The USSR pioneered the craft of science fiction long before the decadent West. This is not an opinion - this is a scientific fact. Noted intellectuals Anindita Banerjee, Sibelan…