Episode #21: George Dyson on The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle
George Dyson – historian, boat maker, and volunteer Staff Historian at Radiant Earth – returns to discuss Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud. We discuss the cultural conflicts that arise between scientists ...
31 Okt 202553min
Episode #20: Mark Chambers on Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Mark Chambers – my friend from high school (and former Chief Sustainability Officer of DC and NYC among other things) – joins us to discuss Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. We talk about the collisio...
30 Sep 20251h 36min
Episode #19: Matt Price on Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Matt Price – technology historian and dedicated educator – joins us to discuss Susanna Clarke's Piranesi. We talk about egos, ego death, cults, academia, Christianity, Buddhism, and psychedelics. No i...
30 Aug 20251h 32min
Episode #18: Noah Iliinsky on China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Noah Iliinsky – most-esteemed information visualization expert, speaker and author – joins us to discuss Maureen F. McHugh's China Mountain Zhang. We talk about what matters, heavy furniture, sensible...
26 Jul 20251h 13min
Episode #17: Daniel X. O'Neil on The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
Daniel X. O'Neil, the worldwide entertainment juggernaut of the 21st century, joins us to discuss T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. You will learn almost nothing about The Waste Land from this discussion, ...
23 Jun 20251h 14min
Episode #16: Alex Merose on Convenience Store Woman
Alex Merose extols the virtues of lazy action and calls on us to embrace Duchamp into our hearts through discussion of Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman and Maurizio Lazzarato's essay "Marcel Du...
30 Mai 20251h 7min
Episode #15: Johnny Rodgers on A Pattern Language
Johnny Rodgers, my friend from Tumblr (among other things), joins us to discuss Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language. We explore how Alexander's design philosophy has endured and influenced not ...
30 Apr 20251h 25min
Episode #14: George Dyson on Childhood's End
I had the pleasure of recording this on-site with George in his Bellingham workshop (a former tavern). I experimented with having Claude write shownotes for this episode, and it proposed this as a "ke...
1 Apr 20251h 25min
