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On this episode, we talked about the book "Subcontinental Synthesis," a collection of essays that document a brief period where a Moog Synthesizer ...
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- Added: Mar 16, 2024
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 1
Imam Ahmad Deeb has been serving communities from a very young age. Although he grew up in Orlando, FL he now happily serves as the Imam and Religi...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 06:10
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More and more celebrities are tweeting about the farmer protest in India, and while this is about the backbone of India but it’s not the farmers wh...
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 06:00
It may take a while to process your feelings once you’ve seen Hereditary, the scary debut feature from writer-director Ari Aster. A lot of horror m...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:45
A man of faith is tested to the limit in Paul Schrader’s latest film, First Reformed. Ethan Hawke plays Reverend Stoller, the minister of a Dutch R...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:35
Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has become my favorite living director. That might sound extravagant to say about someone who has only made fou...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 08:38
Egypt has the largest film industry in the Arab world. There have been movies produced in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, since the early silent era.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
Call Me by Your Name is a gay love story without the angst, struggle, campiness, social comment, or outright tragedy that we have come to expect fr...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:04
This last year saw the release of Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner. It’s rather unusual for a sequel to...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 04:40
This week we talk about ad hominem, Soviet propaganda, and red herrings.
We also discuss Pravda, logical fallacies, and hypocrisy.
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 27:25
This week we talk about chemical weapons, North Korea, and misspeaking on camera.
We also discuss Yugoslavia, the MOAB, and Aleppo.
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 48:15
On this week’s episode we talk about chatbots, social media cheats, and robot lawyers.
We also discuss logic trees, digital familiars, and the Mat...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 45:45
On this week’s episode we talk about fossil fuels, the EPA, and the yoga industry.
We also discuss the Carboniferous period, clean coal, and corpo...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 41:13
This week we talk about terrorism, acronyms, and Doge.
We also discuss memetics, mass surveillance, and the Irish Republican Army.
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 42:21
This week we talk about blackballing, #DeleteUber, and the spirit of the law.
We also touch on taxes, Freemasons, and ride-share unions.
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 41:52
This week we talk about chronological snobbery, signaling theory, and the Chicken Connoisseur.
We also discuss social cognition, Discover Weekly, ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 44:37
This week we talk about enemies who are friends, globalization, and non-polarized opinions.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:24
This week we talk about noble lies, compassion fatigue, and addiction.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 36:55
This week we talk about smart mobs, reddit, and Kompromat.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 41:27
This week we discuss hackers, video games, and Project Xanadu.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 32:10
India just lost its grand old man of letters. Khushwant Singh was 99 and still writing when he died in Delhi last week.
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 04:30
When the publishers Penguin and Random House merged, it called itself The world's first truly global book publishing company". Sounds powerful. But...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...
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- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 55:00
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After 54 years, the soap opera "As The World Turns" has come to the end of its run. A passing worthy of note? Commentator Mark Blackmon thinks so. ...
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 04:58
