06 January 2015
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Our annual New Years show! How did we do in 2014? And what do we expect for 2015? Listen to find out! Special guest Matt Legler.
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Apple Pay, Apple Watch, Attack on Titan, Austin, Bitcoin, Black Mirror, blockchain, Boing Boing, books, cable, Capital in the 21st Century, Christopher Nolan, Coin, cold brew coffee, cord cutting, Cory Doctorow, economics, Edward Snowden, EFF, EFF-Austin, encryption, Ethereum, Franklin Barbecue, Fred Wilson, Friends, Google Fiber, Google Glass, GoPRO, Gravity’s Rainbow, Homeland, Infinite Jest, Internet of Things, Interstellar, Jack Conte, Java, Kevin, Kickstarter, law, Let’s Encrypt, Linguistic Labyrinth, Lyft, Matt, Matt Damon, Narrative Clip, Net Neutrality, Netflix, New Years, Nymi, Patreon, payment processing, PBS Idea Channel, Planet Money, podcasts, Pomplamoose, privacy, quantified self, RadioLab, Robert Bapst, security, Security Now, Serial, sharks, Sony Hack, Stephen, Steve Gibson, surveillance, The Circle, The Internet, They Might Be Giants, This American Life, Thomas Piketty, tokenized payments, Turkish coffee, Uber, Ulysses, Veronica Mars, wearables
17 April 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Is consumer capitalism played-out? Why is Roberto Unger so angry? And could cats save us all? Kevin and I ponder these questions and more.
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activism, Alton Brown, Android, anger, Barack Obama, breast cancer, capitalism, CCC, charity, Civil Rights Movement, consequentialism, Cory Doctorow, CSR, deontology, extrinsic value, FDR, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Google, Great Depression, healthcare, idealism, Infinite Cat Project, intrinsic value, Kevin, Marxism, minimum income, PBS Idea Channel, pessimism, Philosophy Bites, Planet Money, podcasts, power, protest, RadioLab, realism, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Rosa Parks, RSA, schizophrenia, slacktivism, socialism, Spider Robinson, Stephen, The Cold Equations, Theodore Sturgeon, Tumblr, United States, WPA, Zoom
27 January 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin, Brian, and Stephen burrow deep inside Shane Carruth’s mind-bending film Upstream Color
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Abita, Acquire, beer, Brian Eno, Brian Morgan, Bubble, Clue, Director’s Cut, evil, Fiasco, Fund Anything, Her, identity, improv, Inception, Inside Llewyn Davis, intelligence, Jack Black, Kevin, Kevin Smith, Margot at the Wedding, Mark Hamill, Martin Scorsese, mind control, Monopoly, Naked in a Fish Bowl, Penn and Teller, pigs, Primer, PTSD, RadioLab, rape, Red State, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rubber, Session, sexual assault, Shane Carruth, sitcom, Sonic, Soylent Green, Speed Racer, Stephen Wolfram, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, The Matrix, The Wachowskis, Tusk, TV, Upstream Color, Walden
22 January 2013
By StephenTorrence
In Weekly Why
Kevin challenges RadioLab’s aversion to exploring the issue of truth itself in a rare installment of the Weekly Why.
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Kevin, poststructuralism, RadioLab, reality, Stephen, truth
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
