The Cultures

Oct 27, 2013

• The hilarious @HardSciFiMovies Twitter feed and the balance between science and entertainment
• Peak Baby and the looming demographic shift
• How we find time (or not) to play good games, books, TV, and movies

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Oct 20, 2013

• Listener feedback about advertising from Leo Vegoda (on removing ads from TV shows) and Michael Anderson (on the importance of b2b ads for access to markets)
• The total discipline required in Kyudo (Japanese archery) and how that might translate to online work
• More on Dave Eggers' The Circle (SPOILERS!) and its...

Oct 13, 2013

• The Daily Routines blog (now a book, reviewed on the Guardian) about writers like W. H. Auden, Michael Lewis, and Churchill, and our own writing routines
• The Ad Industry is Evil; or, how marketing firms have pinpointed the times at which women feel the most ugly — i.e. the times when beauty products should...

Oct 6, 2013

• Joss Whedon's new TV show, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD (a spin-off of the superhero movie The Avengers)
• The depiction of technology in Dave Eggers' soon-to-be-released novel, The Circle (read an excerpt)
• What would you do if you had 1000x the money, and what would you do if you only had X days left to live? (read the...