Ranked #1
This Is Not A Drill (False Alarm! part i)
This Is Not A Drill (False Alarm! part i)
Our New ToE series on the battle between the real and the fake begins with a text alert sent out to everyone in Hawaii o... Read more
3 Apr 2018
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36mins
Ranked #2
Guided By Voices (r)
Guided By Voices (r)
Philosopher Daniel Heller-Roazen tells us the story of Pythagoras and the fifth hammer and how Kant and Kepler both tri... Read more
12 Nov 2019
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33mins
Ranked #3
Stages on Life’s Way
Stages on Life’s Way
A few years ago your host took a pilgrimage to Copenhagen to walk the streets the great Dane Søren Kierkegaard once walk... Read more
13 Jun 2014
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34mins
Ranked #4
Red, White, Blue & Orange
Red, White, Blue & Orange
A torture expert records an imaginary criterion commentary track for the torture scenes in Zero Dark Thirty. We learn ab... Read more
14 May 2013
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40mins
Ranked #5
Man Without a Country (2 of 3)
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 li... Read more
8 Aug 2014
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46mins
Ranked #6
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 li... Read more
8 Aug 2014
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33mins
Ranked #7
1984 (the year not the book)
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 citi... Read more
4 Apr 2014
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53mins
Ranked #8
When You’re Lonely, Life is Very Long
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 ... Read more
3 Mar 2014
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28mins
Ranked #9
Fake Nudes (False Alarm! part ii)
Fake Nudes (False Alarm! part ii)
The future of face-swapping! The REAL deepfakes speaks! Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson tells us how technology has transfor... Read more
17 Apr 2018
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44mins
Ranked #10
The things we do for money
The things we do for money
Allen Ginsberg tries his hand at Market Research, Walter Benjamin goes on the radio and ToE’s Chris drops in on a new b... Read more
31 Oct 2015
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29mins
Ranked #11
Honeypot
Honeypot
Your host decides to follow back a Joy Division T-shirt that is following him around the internet. Plus the surveillance... Read more
25 Oct 2016
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29mins
Ranked #12
New York After Rent (I of III)
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 arri... Read more
8 Apr 2015
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27mins
Ranked #13
The Clouds (part 3 of 3)
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 c... Read more
6 May 2013
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23mins
Ranked #14
Useful Idiots
Useful Idiots
Your host discovers you can’t beat the Russians at the fake game and ToE’s Chris reviews Oliver Stone’s Edward Snowden. ... Read more
12 Dec 2016
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35mins
Ranked #15
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 ... Read more
4 Nov 2014
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20mins
Ranked #16
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 book... Read more
14 Nov 2014
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22mins
Ranked #17
Enchanting By Numbers (2015 version)
Enchanting By Numbers (2015 version)
We take another look at algorithms. Tim Hwang explains how Uber’s algorithms generate phantom cars and marketplace mirag... Read more
9 Oct 2015
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26mins
Ranked #18
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 ... Read more
6 Oct 2014
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25mins
Ranked #19
Influencers (part II of II)
Influencers (part II of II)
Frankie isn’t a real Media Influencer but the Government saw the 500k followers he bought for his Instagram profile back... Read more
28 Jun 2017
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15mins