Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything
By Benjamen Walker
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Description
Personally connecting the dots. All of them. Proud member of PRX's Radiotopia.
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Guided By Voices (r) | Philosopher Daniel Heller-Roazen tells us the story of Pythagoras and the fifth hammer and how Kant and Kepler both tried (and failed) to record the universal harmonies Pythagoras once heard. Your host sets out to make some money doing experimental med... | 7/14/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Instaserfs (III of III) | "This is part of the sharing economy, I am sharing myself" Our instaserfs series comes to a crushing conclusion, Hear Instapoder Andrew attempt to manserve... Plus we meet two former Uber drivers! Also this Thursday July 9th 3pm EST a live online ToE... | 7/7/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Instaserfs (II of III) | Instaserfs II: "Chipolte Strikes back" or "Seriously, in the sharing economy no one can hear you work" Either tagline works for our second installment in our future of work series. Andrew (our ToE instapoder) continues with his task of working for as . | 6/24/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Instaserfs (I of III) | 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 contractors. So your host decided to partner with Andrew Callaway, a 25 year old San Francisco native | 6/17/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 drinkers to find out what the emerging middle class of China, | 6/2/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 between France and China and wine. The story of the red obsession of Wealthy Chinese has been told many tim | 5/25/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 to decline: the phone in the hand becomes the phone on a stick in the hand. | 5/11/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New York After Rent (III of III) | Our series concludes with an attempt to examine the suburbanized commodified inner cityscape of New York. Author and activist Sarah Schulman tells us about the Gentrified Mind, plus we hear from one of the first Airbnbers of New York. | 4/30/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New York After Rent (II of III) | Our series continues with a journey from Avenue B to Bushwick: Kathy Kirkpatrick tells us about the final days of her Life Cafe in the East Village and essayist Tim Kreider tells us about his exile in Bushwick. | 4/22/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New York After Rent (I of III) | The financial crisis of September 2008 overshadows one of the most important events in recent New York History: the arrival of Airbnb. And while your host wasn't paying attention back then either, today he is fed up with the commodification of every sq... | 4/7/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dark Karma | "G.S." was one of the first friends I made when I moved to Bozeman, Montana many years ago. The story he told me about how bad karma brought him from Devon, England to the C.U.T. bomb shelters in Gardiner, Montana still haunts me. | 3/16/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 took on the British Empire and won. I've long been obsessed with the Maroons and so last summe.. | 3/2/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When You’re Lonely, Life is Very Long (rebroadcast) | After moving to New York alone, writer Olivia Laing discovered the truth about loneliness. She says it is a gift. Eric Klinenberg explains why more and more people are choosing to live alone and why cities like New York must invest in housing stock th. | 2/23/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. It is a book about where ideas come from. There is something spider like about Villani, | 1/26/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 pretty much contains everything I have ever wanted to say about social media. | 12/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Logical Fantasies (the dislike club part 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 Facebook. PLUS #marksbros (as in Zuckerberg) #marxhegel (as in Groucho) - | 12/22/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 web for 7 years but last year she came back to see what Twitter was like. | 12/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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. | 12/3/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 - advertising. In 1993 your host was a founding member of an international monkey wrench gang that fought billboards in outer spa.. | 11/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 book about webpages, but he’s also building a content management system for webpages - because you know it could help with the writi | 11/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 Machines. Plus we go to China to learn what the next generation of Chinese makers have planned fo.. | 11/4/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 his city, and the noise pollution in mine. Using algorithms he is able to predict what kinds of noises New Yorkers .. | 10/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 out of print books that are still treasured by connoisseurs and photo book collectors today. | 9/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 out the rest of his days in a hot air balloon. Our story concludes(?) when your host attempts to turn bread into wine. | 8/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Man Without a Country (2 of 3) | What happens when you curse your own country? In this version of the classic Americana tale your host is sentenced to live out the rest of his days in a hot air balloon. In part two of the story your host has his first human interaction in ten years. | 8/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Man Without a Country (1 of 3) | What happens when you curse your own country? In this version of the classic Americana tale your host is sentenced to live out the rest of his days in a hot air balloon. In part one we hear the story of what happened when he fought the "three strikes .. | 8/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Recent, Relevant, Random | 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 that. We begin with writer Rob Walker who tells us about his "New Old Thing, | 7/25/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guided By Voices | Pythagoras, Kant and Kepler all tried to record the harmonies of the universe, your host goes for the voice in his head. | 6/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stages on Life’s Way | Your host visits Copenhagen for a Kierkegaard pilgramage, A photographer tells us about the modern Bachelorette party and a retired hospice nurse shares his thoughts about life’s final stage. | 6/13/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Better Tomorrow | The legacy of Walter Benjamin for Radiotopia's long shadow series. | 5/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bootlickers | This week we see what we can get with a little bootlicking. | 4/25/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1984 (the year not the book) | In 1984 your host was twelve years old and like George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith, he kept a diary for the citizens of the future. Find out what totalitarianism really sounds like. | 4/4/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Prêt-à-Portable | This week we try on the idea of the wearable. Hear from Haight Crime victim Sarah Slocum, Digital Prophet Shingy and Hack Day mania! | 3/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When You’re Lonely, Life is Very Long | After moving to New York alone, writer Olivia Laing discovered the truth about loneliness. She says it is a gift. Eric Klinenberg explains why more and more people are choosing to live alone and why cities like New York must invest in housing stock th. | 3/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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F is for Fake | To Bot or Not? That's the big question for Data Scientist Gilad Lotan. His research suggests we may be damaging our online reputations if we choose not to play the fake follower game. Jason Q Ng, author of the book Blocked on Weibo, | 2/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Artifacts (2 of 2) | The Truth about Ephemeral images and what comes After Photography + preserving the transition from Analog to Digital. | 1/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Artifacts (1 of 2) | The end of Analog, the challenges of Digital Conservation and the truth about Edward Snowden and Snapchat | 12/31/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Not Soon Enough | This week your host tries to break through to the other side using the art of John Singer Sargent as a... jumping off point. Also we get an update from our corespondent Peter Choyce. When we last heard from Peter (in "admissions of defeat") he was head... | 12/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transformers | When Private Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison she announced her desire to transition from male to female. Yvette Gonzales tells us a first person story about what its like to be transgender in Prison. Gender theorist B. | 11/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Waiting In Line | About a year ago I travelled across America. I visited Airports, Amusement parks, Highways and Community Colleges in order to understand how the priority queue is changing the American experience of waiting in line. | 10/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Out Of The Office | Is there life outside of the office? This week we learn about Office Art and Remote Work. Plus a new TOE correspondent. | 10/14/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Admissions Of Defeat | We check in with a few of our TOE regulars Peter and Chris and your host goes to @psychic for a look into the Crystal Phablet | 10/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hacked | Gabriella Coleman tells us about her time among the Hackers, "Chris" makes his TOE debut with the truth about the alleged Chinese hacking of the NYT, and your host ponders hiring a hacker to break into George RR Martin's computer. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Red, White, Blue & Orange | A torture expert records an imaginary criterion commentary track for the torture scenes in Zero Dark Thirty. We learn about Umarov Muhibullah, one of the first innocent men to be released from Guantanamo. And your host ponders why Guantanamo is still o... | 5/13/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Clouds (part 3 of 3) | Our series concludes with some revelations. Metahaven uses the story of Wikileaks to show us the infrastructure of the cloud and its super-jurisdictional powers. The BBC’s Paul Mason takes us on a wild tour of China in his novel Rare Earth. | 5/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Clouds (part 2 of 3) | We continue our journey to the center of the cloud, by way of the earth: Rare Earth. China controls 95% of the market for the 17 Rare Earth elements that power our invisible technologies so your host decides to pay a visit to the Ganzhou region, | 4/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Clouds (part 1 of 3) | Twitter employee #7 tells us what happened when Justin Bieber joined twitter in 2009. An Amazon Data scientist, explains how the cloud is changing our relationship with technology, Obama’s CTO explains why the cloud is awesome + we tour Parse, | 4/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Benjamen Walker is brilliant.
I'm looking forward to this podcast -- his previous efforts have been amazing. Nobody combines fact with fiction with philosophy with the internet age like this guy.
Thank god he's back!
As a long time listener of Too Much Information, I was dismayed when Benjamin Walker seemingly disappeared and TMI dropped off. Thankfully, thanks to his Twitter feed I found my way to his new podcast. TOE proudly maintains the standards and style set by TMI and has quickly become one of my favorite podcasts.
Well played, Mr. Walker.
Well played.
TMI Continues
Fans of the old format of Too Much Information need to listen to this. Benjamen Walker's ability to curate current stories about the strange paradoxes of our modern world and mix them with fun disinformation, all set to music that changes your head-space remains intact here. If you like this, then check out the older episodes of Too Much Information
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- Language: English
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