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Two regular guys who happen to be musicians and best friends discuss anything and everything. A transparent, humorous, and analytical take on the world, music, life, history, and everything in between.
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Hysteria 51 is your offbeat weekly podcast destination for all things weird and wonderful! We navigate the cosmic highways of UFOs, the alien-infested landscapes, and the enigmatic frontiers of the paranormal. With your hosts, Brent Hand and David Flora, alongside our cantankerous tin man, Conspiracy Bot (with a not-so-subtle desire to rule the world, doubling as our chief inquisitor into the unknown), we delve into unique mysteries, the inexplicable, and the downright unusual. Each week, we ...
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American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings. Poet-turned-podcaster Chelsey Weber-Smith tells the strangest stories from American history and examines the forces that create the reality we share, and sometimes, the reality we don't.
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AI Alternate Realities takes you on a journey through the boundless imagination of artificial intelligence! Each episode, our AI co-hosts generate original stories, fanfiction twists on beloved worlds, and alternate realities that defy expectation. From unexpected crossovers and thrilling “what-if” scenarios to whimsical adventures in worlds you’ve never imagined, every tale is crafted live by AI, making each story a unique experience. Tune in and let AI conjure up worlds where anything is p ...
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Get the edge with Hidden Forces where media entrepreneur and financial analyst Demetri Kofinas gives you access to the people and ideas that matter, so you can build financial security and always stay ahead of the curve.
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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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Press Any Button hosts Nicky (a new gamer) and Eric (a lifetime gamer) are a married couple who both love video games. For every video game they will discuss its past (history of the game, developers story, and fun facts), present (game play, game review and strategy), and future (will there be a sequel? A movie?) Every game also comes with a challenge presented by the host that chose the game. If the challenge is not completed then whoever failed has to do a video game rap! So if you want t ...
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A show about the study of, the study of history, and some other stuff!
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Discover the most downloaded family audio drama in history. Eleven-year-old Holiday is pulled from the icy waters of Alaska with no memory of who she is or where she comes from. And when she begins to develop incredible abilities, she’ll soon learn she’s not alone in the world. From Peabody Award-winning Gen-Z Media, creators of The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel and The Big Fib, Six Minutes is a thrilling adventure for the whole family. Produced by Gen-Z Media. For more great sho ...
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A podcast for the curious mind
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All about having fun with critical thinking and promoting the educational value in the books, movies, video games, albums, and other media artifacts this crazy world produces. Because there's always more to the everyday media we consume or are banned from consuming than meets the eye.
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News, Current Events, Politics, and History, Without the Slant.
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This is a podcast where we talk about art supplies. We aim to educate, inform and help you become an expert on art supplies. To keep things interesting, there is an amusing subplot in which Trevor doesn't realize that his co-host Alice is an AI-powered bot.
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Welcome to In Conversation with AI - The mini Podcast series where I am going to chat with AI about… well, whatever AI feels like. Always live, always unscripted. One week it’s ancient Egyptian mummies, the next it’s stone balancing, and then suddenly we’re knee-deep in a 600-year-old book nobody can read. There’s no script, no plan, and definitely no guarantee of useful life advice. Curious, occasionally insightful, often ridiculous, and always unpredictable. If you like history, mysteries, ...
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The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast, where we take a deep dive into geek culture, tech evolution, and the impact of the past on today’s digital world.
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Award-nominated improvised comedy podcast where Luke Benson and Mark Cantan present a nonsensical, potted history of the world as characters Colin Spress and Cillian Vermillion.
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What exactly is a travel experience? A travel experience is more than just a destination. From the pulsating beats of a major music festival, to the adrenaline -fueled excitement of professional sports, to the legendary tours of music icons, these events are more than just spectacles. They are game changers affecting airfares, hotel room rates, restaurants, and growing local economies. Welcome to Tickets to Travel, the podcast that unlocks the stories, businesses, careers, and personalities ...
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Man Tools is a weekly men's issues podcast wrapped in comedic takes on news/current events, sports, history, and more! Eric Madrid and Trevor Lane have been passionate about developing boys into good men since 1994 when they first met as counselors at a Boy Scout Camp in Colorado. 25 years later this passion continues through Man Tools. New episode every Friday 3pm Eastern Time.
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Authentic, freedom loving explosives and weapons experts discuss issues in culture, science, and spirituality. Dropping quantum thought bombs that still make sense in a world that is ever expanding. Up-level your thinking on the worlds dramas with these Texans whom are into self development and airy fairy things. Or stay for the explosive action as they blow stuff up for fun, we mean in the name of science.... as they are fully licensed explosives and weapons manufacturers who had a TV show ...
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The WARP Show (Weekly Awesome Robotics Podcast) is a podcast all about the history of FIRST and everything related. The WARP Show is made by RAMP (Robots and More Productions), a community-led organization related to robotics and FIRST, run by a dedicated team of students, alumni, volunteers, and mentors.
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I'm Herbert - the host of Brighter with Herbert, a channel covering all things Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink etc. Known as "The $TSLA Milestones Guy" you can follow @herbertong on Twitter I can predict the future! Just kidding, but I do keep track of the key upcoming milestones and catalysts for $TSLA stock with the occasional what-ifs! What I think will be fun and important is to showcase the key people in the Tesla community and get to know them better. With Tesla, we are li ...
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Thinking of moving to Canada? Of course you are and we can help. Yes We Canada is the American Progressives Guide to getting the fuck out. Canada… explained… hilariously.
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Spoken Word, Readings and Music from the collective of authors that wrote Q, 54, Manituana, Altai and many other books. Archives 2010 - 2016.
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This show gives listeners a quick run-down on things that the Android team has done recently that developers may want to check out. It covers library and platform releases, articles, videos, podcasts, samples, codelabs - whatever seems relevant and interesting for Android developers. Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs Android's a big platform and there are many things being released all the time; listen to this podcast to stay up to date on what those thing ...
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What Next: TBD | Why Tesla Is Paying Elon a Trillion Bucks
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30:45Tesla shareholders just approved a trillion dollar (with a t!) pay package for Elon Musk. Is it enough incentive to keep him around the company and away from verbal spats with government officials? Because the whole Musk empire is still reeling from that dalliance. Guest: Faiz Siddiqui, tech reporter at The Washington Post and author of Hubris Maxi…
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ICYMI: The Internet Has A Gambling Problem
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52:09On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by Manny Fidel, culture writer and cohost of the No Such Thing podcast, to explain how gambling took over the internet. A recent betting scandal not only exposed the chokehold that gambling has on the sports industry, but opened up a larger conversation about how everything on the internet is influence…
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Movie Review- "Primal Fear" Music Review- The Flaming Lips " Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots"By howlingatthemoonpod
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What Next: TBD | The Nick Fuentes Problem
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25:23Nick Fuentes—an openly antisemitic, openly racist, openly sexist type who once was persona non grata in all but the unseemliest of online spaces—sat down with former Fox News star Tucker Carlson this week, setting off a debate between the “whoa whoa whoa, we’re not Nazis over here” branch of conservatives and the “well now, hold on a minute” wing. …
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S1E12 - From Shells to Stablecoins: The Tech of Money
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1:22:00Send us a text Marc once again drags Renee into a museum. This time the “Hall of Money." Five thousand years of humans trying (and mostly failing) to automate trust. From clay tablets that doubled as IOUs to Renaissance double-entry bookkeeping, colonial funny-money, credit cards born of embarrassment, and machines that now pay each other while we …
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AI Bubble Trouble: Beyond the Hype and Into the Future
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19:32This week on In Conversation with AI, Sebastian and ChatGPT poke at the elephant in the server room — the AI bubble. Billions are being thrown at artificial intelligence right now, but is it genuine innovation… or déjà vu from the dot-com days with better branding? We break down where the money’s going, who’s cashing in, and what happens when the h…
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Wealthy farmers and town heroes Nicky and Eric take a deep, mermaid-ish type dive into Coral Island. Coral Island is a 2023 farming simulation game developed by Stairway Games and published by Humble Games. Set on a tropical island, the game features mechanics similar to other farming simulators, such as Stardew Valley. Press Any Button hosts Nicky…
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A Practical History of Financial Markets | Russell Napier
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25:33Demetri Kofinas speaks with financial historian and investor Russell Napier about his "Practical History of Financial Markets" online course, which is provided in conjunction with Edinburgh Business School. Hidden Forces premium subscribers can sign up using their subscriber email + code "HF50" for a generous 50% DISCOUNT. Genius members can access…
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Empire of AI — Karen Hao goes inside the reckless race for total world domination
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53:59The best of talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in Australia and around the world.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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ICYMI | The Alarm Clock That Woke Up #DemonTok
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48:50On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by Slate contributing editor Angelina Mazza to explain why Christian creators are throwing away their Hatch alarm clocks. The company’s Halloween commercial was so spooky that it was accused of having “demonic ties,” and now people are claiming they hear voices coming out of the device. The question is…
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ABC's CITIZEN JURY — Fixing salmon farming's environmental harms in Tasmania
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1:11:15ABC Radio National's CITIZEN JURY takes hard, hot-button issues affecting a community — and places citizens at the centre of finding solutions. It's citizen-driven democracy in action! Tasmanian salmon is on dinner plates across Australia. It's a 1.4 billion-dollar industry producing jobs for Tasmanians, and more than 70, 000 tonnes of fish annuall…
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S5 E4: A World Without a Friend to Jump in the River With
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14:10Brynleigh realizes she’s going to have to leave Nowhere without Holiday. Do you want to buy the script? https://tinyurl.com/sixminutesscript Want to listen to music from the show? https://tinyurl.com/sixminutestheme Looking for official Six Minutes merch? https://tinyurl.com/sixminutesmerch For more great shows and to listen early and ad-free…
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Anne Summers — 50 Years of Damned Whores and God’s Police
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54:35In 1975, aged just 29, she wrote a bestselling book that changed Australia. Since then, she's courted controversy and acclaim, but Anne Summers has never given up the fight for gender equality. This conversation was recorded live at the 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival. Speakers Dr Anne SummersAuthor, Damned Whores and God's Police, Ducks on the Pond:…
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What Happens When Social Trust Collapses? | Peter Atwater
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3:26Episode 447 is the tenth installment in the Hundred Year Pivot podcast series. In it, Demetri Kofinas and Grant Williams speak with Peter Atwater, a recognized expert on the impact of confidence and mood on individual and group decision-making. Peter's work has been instrumental not only in helping his clients, students, and readers understand how …
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Bot Farms and the Troll Toll with Perry Carpenter
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1:14:14Have you ever wondered if the person you are arguing with in a social media comment section is really a person at all? Perry Carpenter is a cybersecurity expert, author of FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions, and host of The Faik Files podcast. I asked Perry to explain the phenomeno…
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Why we need to cancel cancel culture — with defamation barrister Sue Chrysanthou
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54:34When people say or do the wrong thing, we have laws and a legal system that should be able to deliver consequences and, hopefully justice. But in this digital age, the human instinct to inflict punishment in the court of public opinion has reached fever pitch. So do we want to live by mob rule, or the rule of law? The 2025 James Merralls Fellowship…
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On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by producer Vic Whitley-Berry, whose favorite animated shows like Hazbin Hotel have been funded by the internet—not big studios. In fact, as major studios consolidate and cut resources for animation, platforms like Patreon and YouTube are keeping the genre afloat. If we don’t continue to support indep…
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S2E1: Horny for War: The History of How Sex Became A Weapon
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23:43White feathers, red light districts, and the rise of the military edging complex. How governments weaponized horniness to win WWI, and began to reimagine what women represent to a nation at war. — A production of BRINK, original media and branded entertainment Website: thisispropaganda.show Instagram: @thisispropagandashow Email: [email protected]…
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One legacy of the internet is the millions of subcultures that it helps flourish. Another is pornography—and lots of it. At a “gooner meet-up,” the two collide. Guest: David Kolitz, author of “The Goon Squad” for Harper’s Magazine. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all you…
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S1E11 Tech Ethics: A Short History of Doing It Anyway
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52:36Send us a text Warning up front - we discuss some ethical conundrums and situations with tech. There's one mention of suicide and we talk about the Manhattan Project. We're respectful, but we just wanted to put it out there. Every breakthrough in technology brings the same old question: just because we can, should we? In this episode of The Nostalg…
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Out of this world — with Booker Prize winning author Samantha Harvey
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54:09For all of human history, space has been a place of mystery, awe and fascination. But unless you're an astronaut, a billionaire, or a pop star, most of us will never have the opportunity to travel there — except in our minds. This conversation features two writers who've used the perspective of space to explore our humanity, Earth's place in the un…
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On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Jonquilyn Hill, host of Vox’s Explain It To Me podcast. The pair chat about how the internet used to celebrate Halloween, from spooky Twitter display names to Snapchat filters, and why no one wants to be earnest online anymore. However, today’s internet is still filled with plenty of scary stuff, w…
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What Artists See? Critic Quentin Sprague helps you get to the messy human heart of art
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54:34Have you ever visited an art gallery full of wonder, ready to be inspired, only to leave feeling like it was all a bit over your head? You're about to meet one writer whose new book of essays rejects the over-complication and gets to the messy, human heart of art. What Artists See is a collection of essays from award-winning arts writer and critic …
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Haunted Car Wash & UFOs at Nuke Sites | 453
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27:37This week on Hysteria 51, we’re sudsing up the spooky and scrubbing down the strange! First, we take a spin through a haunted car wash in California that turns your sedan into a scream machine. Clowns, chainsaws, and soap—what could possibly go wrong? Is this the perfect blend of clean and creepy, or are we entering the final rinse cycle of sanity?…
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I Suspect Nano Bots In My Morning Jacket
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2:05:09It's time to lean in to Nano Tech. Dogs feel Nice on CBD, racists are just weiner kids, our social contract is always in question. Plus More... Movie Review- "Usual Suspects" Music review- My Morning Jacket "The Waterfall"By howlingatthemoonpod
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S5 E3: A World Without High School Lab Partners
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16:18Jude makes his plea to Brynleigh while Cyrus seeks help from an old friend. Do you want to buy the script? https://tinyurl.com/sixminutesscript Want to listen to music from the show? https://tinyurl.com/sixminutestheme Looking for official Six Minutes merch? https://tinyurl.com/sixminutesmerch For more great shows and to listen early and ad-f…
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Matrescence — on the metamorphosis of motherhood
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54:58When a child is born, so too is a mother. This idea, known as "matrescence", was first conceived in the 1970s by American medical anthropologist Dana Raphael. Parenting in 2025 looks very different in many ways, the scientific evidence now supports the theory that women undergo radical physiological, psychological and social changes during pregnanc…
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Trump's Plan to Remake the Middle East | Kamran Bokhari
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1:03:43In Episode 446 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with geopolitical analyst and forecaster Kamran Bokhari about Trump's 20-point Gaza peace plan and the new security order taking shape in the Middle East. Kamran first appeared on Hidden Forces in the days following the October 7th attacks to discuss the wider war unfolding between the U.S., I…
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Bloody Mary...Bloody Mary...Bloody Mary...For our Halloween special, we are going to trace the history of the slumber party ritual known as Bloody Mary in which a young summoner stands in the dark in front of a mirror to call up a dangerous, blood-soaked witch-woman. By looking at the Victorian era occult divination games of girls, the many cemeter…
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Alexander the Great — A genius? A tyrant? A visionary? A killer? A maniac?
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42:52He was undefeated in battle and established one of the largest empires in history. But his legacy goes beyond his military conquests. He increased trade between East and West, spread the Greek civilisation and founded cultural centres that still thrive today. Learn more about Alexander the Great's life, personality and impact with a fresh perspecti…
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What Next: TBD | Did The Trump Administration Censor Speech?
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32:04For years, conservatives claimed that the Biden administration was pressuring tech companies to censor conservative speech with no solid evidence. In Trump 2.0, the administration is explicitly bragging about doing the very same thing they accused democrats of. What gives? Guest: Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of …
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The "Boomer Blues" and a Return to Faith | Roger Mitchell
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1:48:05Episode 445 is the ninth installment in the Hundred Year Pivot podcast series. In it, Demetri Kofinas and Grant Williams speak with Roger Mitchell, an entrepreneur and writer whose essay "The Answer Was Here All the Time," published in Grant Williams's 2025 compendium, explores faith, meaning, and the search for moral grounding in a contemporary We…
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ICYMI | TwitchCon’s Sexual Harassment Problem
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50:40On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by writer and streamer Laura Kate Dale to talk about what happened to Emiru at this year’s TwitchCon. The streamer was assaulted during a meet-and-greet, after a number of female streamers had already dropped out of the convention in fear for their safety. What is it about TwitchCon that makes creator…
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S1E10 - Your Printer Hates You. And Now It Can Build Things
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55:39Send us a text Printers used to be the villains of the office...loud, cranky, and prone to eating your best work right before a deadline. But somewhere between the screech of a dot matrix and the hiss of a resin vat, something changed. Printing got interesting. Really interesting. In this episode, we trace the unlikely glow-up of one of tech’s most…
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What Next: TBD | The AWS Outage is Only the Beginning
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31:49This week’s AWS outage illustrates just how fragile and vulnerable our interconnected world really is—and how far we’ve fallen from the vision of a decentralized internet. Guest: Samanth Subramanian, author of “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World.” Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free l…
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Nobel laureate Donna Strickland on her life in lasers
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57:39She became the third ever woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, and the first in 50 years. This is the story of how Donna Strickland became a "Laser Jock", and why she's now on a mission to restore trust in science. This event was recorded at the Centre for Ideas at the University of New South Wales. Speakers Donna StricklandProfessor in t…
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ICYMI | The Streamer and the Shock Collar
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42:11On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Slate staff writer Luke Winkie to talk about Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who some viewers have accused of shocking his dog on his livestream. Winkie spent time with Piker and his dog, Kaya, for Slate earlier this year, and helps debunk the misinformation currently being spread by cloutchasers and …
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Ziggy Ramo’s latest project asks what makes us human?
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54:34Ziggy Ramo is an award-winning musician and author whose latest book titled Human?: A lie that has been killing us since 1788 weaves song, visual art and personal history to present a new way of looking at this country’s past. Led by Mparntwe and Alice Springs-based poet Laurie May, Ziggy reflects on the project and where it took him at the Byron W…
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Ghost Broadcasts & Falling Poop Rocks | 452
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28:27This week on Hysteria 51, we crank the weird dial to 11 with phantom radio signals and frozen sky turds—because that’s where the news cycle is at, folks. First up: Cambodia is accusing Thailand of psychological warfare via ghostly broadcasts along the border. Locals say they’re hearing creepy voices and haunting music at night, with zero explanatio…
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