Read the article: Meet Loop, the new zero-waste platform for consumer products
Ep. 38 – Envisioning a Reusable Future
Ep. 37 – Navigating the World of Dating Apps
Read the article: How Tinder Changed Dating for a Generation
Further Reading
- The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high
- Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity–What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
- FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnis
- Quote from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Tinder Algorithm, Explained
- The OkCupid Blog
- How Match.com Got Women to Sign Up for Online Dating
Ep. 36 – Hopepunk: A light in the dystopian darkness
Read the article: Hopepunk, the latest storytelling trend, is all about weaponized optimism
Further Reading & Listening
- Wikipedia entry for Grimdark
- Terry Pratchett
- The Ezra Klein Show – I build a world with fantasy master N. K. Jemisin (podcast)
- The Hugo Awards just made history, and defied alt-right extremists in the process
- Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” Defies Genre
- What we crave: Meaning, Belonging, & Self-Expression
- Hygge: The Danish Art of Cosiness
Ep. 35 – Searching for the World’s Best Strawberries
Read the article: How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry
Further Reading
- UC Davis Strawberry Breeding & Research
- The First GMO Field Tests
- We have no bananas today
- Berried Treasure
Next week’s article: Hopepunk, explained: the storytelling trend that weaponizes optimism
Ep. 34 – Kids, Screens & Mental Health
Read the article: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Further Reading
- Have smartphones really destroyed a generation? We don’t know.
- How Generation Z is Changing Technology
- Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for total access to their phone activity
- How teens use fake Instagram accounts to relieve the pressure of perfection
Next week: How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry
Ep. 33: Crops vs. Water in California
Read the article: A Kingdom from Dust
Further Reading
- Getting good advice about storytelling from Lynda Resnick
- California State Water Project
- Pop-Up Magazine
Next week’s article: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? by Jean M. Twenge in The Atlantic
We’re Back: The “Book Club” for Long Reads
Next week’s article: A Kingdom from Dust by Mark Arax in The California Sunday Magazine.
A Brief Hiatus
We’re taking a break from podcasting during the holidays, but plan to be back sometime in late January with more and better episodes.
In the meantime, if there’s a long article you’d like us to consider discussing, post a link in the comments. It doesn’t matter whether or not you’ve read it yourself, as long as it seems to have an interesting topic.
Ep. 31 -The Art of Selecting Background Music
Read the article: Inside the booming business of background music
Further Reading
- The Word “Curate” No Longer Belongs to the Museum Crowds
- All-too-easy listening
- How video game music waltzed its way on to Classic FM
Ep. 30 – The Sport of Fashion
Read the article: Everything You Wear Is Athleisure
Further Reading & Listening
- The Sneaky Way Clothing Brands Hooked Men on Stretch Jeans
- Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style (Gender and American Culture)
- 99% Invisible podcast – Blue Jeans: Articles of Interest #5
- Wikipedia: Thorstein Veblen
- Champion Apparel – Looking Back on a Century of Sweats
- Ocean Plastic Pollution: why our clothes are part of the problem
- Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against ‘no shorts’ policy
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