11 January 2016
By StephenTorrence
In Rule Set Update
After WAY too long, Stephen finally gets around to posting this incredibly important announcement episode.
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@midnight, Aaron Sorkin, Bill Mollison, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Chris Eccleston, Chris Hardwick, comedy, David Holmgren, dinosaurs, Doctor Who, growth, javascript, Karen Litfin, Kevin, limits to growth, Masanobu Fukuoka, Patton Oswald, peak oil, permaculture, Ray Kurzweil, Stephen, Steve Jobs, tabletop, The Nerdist, The Singularity, The West Wing, Tim Ferris, Toby Hemenway, transhumanism, Wil Wheaton
09 August 2015
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Fan Fiction, cultural appropriation, and deep geekery with guest expert Katherine
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50 Shades of Grey, Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse, BDSM, Big Bang Theory, Cards Against Humanity, China Miéville, Colonialism, cultural appropriation, Dead Poet’s Society, Doctor Who, erotica, fan fiction, FanFiction.net, fiction, gender, gender bias, Ghost, Hannibal, Harry Potter, He-man, head cannon, historiography, Katherine, Kevin, language, Leonard Nemoy, Les Miserables, My Immortal, My Little Pony, Neil Gaiman, romance novels, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, smut, social justice, Star Trek, Stephen, Steven Universe, supernatural, The Highlander, The Tomorrow People, Twilight, writing
08 December 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin and Stephen riff on absurdism, Too Many Cooks, and the fuzzy lines between postmodernism and poststructuralism (if they exist at all)
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie, absurdism, Adult Swim, Christopher Nolan, context, Dada, David Letterman, Doctor Who, film, Internet, Interstellar, Iron Man 3, meaning, Memento, Net Neutrality, Network culture, PBS Idea Channel, postmodernism, poststructuralism, Samuel Beckett, Star Wars, Theatre of the Absurd, Too Many Cooks, Transformers, Under Construction, virality, Waiting for Godot
09 February 2013
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
It’s a nice day to start again, folks. The end of January marked the beginning of the first Coursera MOOC purely focused on the venerable phield of philosophy. In this first application of the first week of material (what I meant but forgot to call “Coursera Diaries Part I”), Kevin and I test out Dave Ward’s […]
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Africa, Arrested Development, broadcasting, Canada, cell phones, Charlie Brooker, Choose Your Own Adventure, Contact, Coursera, David Ward, definition, Doctor Who, etymology, Halo 2, Hamlet, Hitler, house of cards, I Love Bees, Kevin, Leverage, Memento, metaphilosophy, mobile payments, My Little Pony, Netflix, Network, Oxford Dictionary, Philosophy Bites, Phineas and Ferb, Ryan North, Sherlock. radio serial, Stephen, structural dramaturgy, television, The Guild, The Hub, theatre, To Be or Not to Be: That is the Adventure, TV, University of Edinburgh, YouTube
30 December 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Is Doctor Who a religion? Kevin and Stephen respond to Idea Channel and ruminate on Facebook, memory and identity
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atheism, authenticity, censorship, Christianity, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, cosmology, David Tennant, definition, Doctor Who, Emile Durkheim, Facebook, history, identity, Instagram, journalism, Kevin, Matt Smith, memory, My Little Pony, obscenity, Pastafarianism, PBS Idea Channel, poststructuralism, PRI, Prometheus, radio, RadioLab, religion, religious exclusivism, Richard Dawkins, science, science fiction, scientology, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stephen, This American Life, truth
