Episodes
Resolution
Resolution Your host attempts to write a description for the Podcast. He seeks assistance from an old book, and the plot whisperer.
Artifacts (redux)
Artifacts (redux) Photographer Robert Burley takes pictures of the end of analog for his book The Disappearance Of Darkness. Christine Frohnert and Christiane Paul explain why it is difficult...
Instaserfs (III of III)
Instaserfs (part three of three) “This is part of the sharing economy, I am sharing myself” Our instaserfs series comes to a crushing conclusion, Hear Instapoder Andrew attempt to...
Instaserfs (II of III)
Instaserfs (part two of three) Instaserfs II: “Chipolte Strikes back” or “Seriously, in the sharing economy no one can hear you work” Either tagline works for our second installment...
Instaserfs (I of III)
Instaserfs (part one of three) In the sharing economy no one can hear you work. This is because companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates and others only employ “partners” or independent...
Art De Vivre (II of II)
Art De Vivre (II of II) Benjamen and Mathilde continue exploring the intersection between France and China over wine. In this installment they traverse China talking with winemakers, wine enthusiasts and...
Art De Vivre (I of II)
Art De Vivre (I of II) The voice of the ToE episode announcer revealed! (her name is Mathilde) and she joins our host for this two part series about the intersection...
The Dislike Club (finale/ABC version)
The Dislike Club (finale/ABC version) In this program (which originally aired on the ABC last December) your host makes his final attempt to build the ultimate anti-social-media-social-platform. Things continue...
New York After Rent (III of III)
New York After Rent (part 3 of 3) Our series concludes with an attempt to examine the suburbanized commodified inner cityscape of New York. Author and activist Sarah Schulman...
New York After Rent (II of III)
New York After Rent (part 2 of 3) Our series continues with a journey from Avenue B to Bushwick: Kathy Kirkpatrick tells us about the final days of her...
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New York After Rent (I of III)
New York After Rent (part 1 of 3) The financial crisis of September 2008 overshadows one of the most important events in recent New York History: the arrival of...
Radio WIFM
Radio WIFM Decades before the first shot was fired in the American revolution a band of runaway slaves known as the Maroons living in the mountains in Colonial Jamaica...
An Illumination
An Illumination Cédric Villani won the prestigious Fields Medal for his work in 2010. He wrote a book about his experience called Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure....
Occupy Siberia (dislike club prequel)
Occupy Siberia (dislike club prequel) Yours truly is recuperating from 2014 in France but wishing you a happy holiday. Hope you enjoyed the programming this year. The dislike club series...
Logical Fantasies (the dislike club part V)
Logical Fantasies (the dislike club V) In the penultimate episode of our series, Kathy Sierra tells us how one tweak could fix everything and ToE’s Chris tells us the secret origin of...
Wishful Thinking (the dislike club part IV)
Wishful Thinking (the dislike club part IV) In 2007 writer, programmer, and horse trainer Kathy Sierra quit the internet because of misogynist hate trolling. She stayed off the social...
If you dislike like, then you will… (the dislike club part III)
If you dislike like, then you will… (the dislike club part III) This week Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman tells us about the internet’s original Dislike Club, Anonymous. Biella has spent the...
Paying For It (the dislike club part II)
Paying For It (the dislike club part II) Our mini-series about the internet continues. This week we take a close look at the fundamental business model of the web...
Backspace to the Future (the dislike club part I)
Backspace to the Future (the dislike club part I) Paul Ford is a technologist and a writer, sometimes these two things blur. For example, he’s currently working on a...
Making it Happen
Making it Happen For this special installment of the Theory of Everything we explore Maker Culture. Makerbot co-founder Bre Pettis gives us a tour of his new venture: Bold...
Enchanting By Numbers
Enchanting by Numbers When I was in Beijing last summer I dropped by the Microsoft research campus to talk with Dr. Yu Zheng. He studies the air pollution in...
It will always be hard
It will always be hard When the photographer Garry Winogrand died in 1984 he left behind hundreds of thousands of unpublished negatives and undeveloped rolls of film and a few...
Man Without a Country (3 of 3)
Man Without a Country (3 of 3) What happens when you curse your own country? In this version of the classic Americana tale your host is sentenced to live...
Recent, Relevant, Random (r)
Recent, Relevant, Random (r) We don’t have metrics to measure what happens when we read something that changes our life. So this episode is an attempt to deal with...