Contents Author, teacher, and Lone Star State original Arianne "Tex" Thompson joins our discussion. (00:00) A smart house outlasts humanity in Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story "There Will Come Soft Rains." (24:05) Longswords and lockpicks! Poisons and ponies! Tex describes these and other hands-on experiences at the annual Writers in the Field event in Dallas. (40:55) Continue Reading …
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
A Philosophy Podcast and Philosophy Blog
Constellary Tales is a speculative fiction (SF — science fiction and fantasy) magazine and podcast. The podcast examines SF storytelling on the page and screen and addresses (not too seriously) how SF intersects culture and society. Selected episodes feature interviews with writers and others in the SF world as well as narrated stories from Constellary Tales magazine.
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About The Partially Examined Life
The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don’t have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we’re talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion
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