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Weekly Why 016: Fuck Marshall McLuhan!

24 January 2016 By StephenTorrence 0 In Podcast, Weekly Why

Local poet Marc Powell joins Stephen for some high-frequency riffing on world systems, philosophy …and each other

activism, Adam Smith, addiction, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Anarcho-Syndicalism, art, Austin, Beehive Collective, beer, bees, Capital Factory, capitalism, cartoons, celebrity, communication, conservative fusionism, culture, David Holmgren, death, EFF-Austin, environmentalism, Facebook, FarmVille, flooding, food, gentrification, Heidegger, hubris, humility, Iain McGilchrist, IMF, intellectualism, Ivan Illich, John Michael Greer, Jon Lebkowsky, language, Marc Powell, Masanobu Fukuoka, meta, mythology, Neal Postman, Neil Degrasse-Tyson, permaculture, poetry, politics, privilege, progress, reality, religion, Richard Dawkins, Roland Barthes, San Francisco, science, Silicon Valley, Socrates, somatic experience, Stephen, stereo, Taoism, technology, The Holy Mountain, The Internet, The Peripheral, The Singularity, Tony Robbins, TV, Wendell Berry, William Gibson, World Bank

Episode 159: Same As It Ever Was

06 January 2015 By StephenTorrence 2 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.

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

Episode 137: Keep Your Pants On, Monkey Brain

07 May 2013 By StephenTorrence 0 In Podcast

What do trees, brains, and pants have in common? Kevin, Stephen, John Elliott, and Matt Epperson explore our complex world through the works of Manuel Lima.

Amazon, Amsterdam, Anatta, brain, Buddhism, Charles C. Mann, complex networks, complexity, connectome, consciousness, cyborgs, data, data visualization, dialup, Dunbar's Number, education, emergence, Facebook, functionalism, Google Fiber, identity, Inca, individualism, intelligence, Janet Jackson, John Elliott, Kevin, Leonhard Euler, Manuel Lima, Matt Epperson, memory, Monkeysphere, network visualization, New Hampshire, philosophy of mind, rhizome, Royal Society of the Arts, self-awareness, SkyNet, Star Wars, Stephen, stock market, The Internet, The Power of Networks, Traveling Salesman Problem, trees, Visual Complexity

Episode 124: Finches on a Guitar

30 July 2012 By StephenTorrence 1 In Podcast

New guest Bryson Rushing joins Kevin, Stephen, and John Elliott to debate the nature of science, the Higgs Boson, and avian progressive rock bands.

ATLAS, beer, Big Bang, black holes, Brick, Bryson, Buddha, causation, CERN, CMS, correlation, DARPA, Eagle Scout, Einstein, faith, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Higgs Boson, idealism, Inception, induction, internal consistency, John Elliott, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Looper, NeXT, Pascal's Wager, physics, post-structuralism, probability, religion, Russell's Teapot, science, scientific method, Standard Model, statistics, Stephen, structuralism, Texas Tech University, The Internet, The Matrix, Tim Berners-Lee, Tycho Brahe, World Wide Web

Episode 107: Killer Hipstinct

07 November 2011 By StephenTorrence 0 In Podcast

Stephen returns to Texas Tech to analyze hipsters and counter-culture with Shawn, Matt, and Bryan.

Amazon, Amazon Prime, Angry Birds, AOL, Apple, Arcade Fire, babies, Bryan M, Canada, Carl Young, Cars, Chipotle, counter-culture, Digital Media Studio, Dreamwidth, emo, Facebook, Ford, Foursquare, Freebirds, Google, HEB, hipsters, iPhone, iPod, iRiver H10, Kent Hance, Kia, King Supers, Kroger, Last.fm, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, maple syrup, Matt, memes, meta, Microsoft, music, pancakes, Predictably Irrational, retro, Risk, Sanyo, Saturn, sex, Shawn, Stephen, Texas Tech University, The Atlantic, The Decemberists, The Internet, Twitter, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Windows, Zune

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Weekly Why 016: Fuck Marshall McLuhan!

Episode 159: Same As It Ever Was

Episode 137: Keep Your Pants On, Monkey Brain

Episode 124: Finches on a Guitar

Episode 107: Killer Hipstinct

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