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GMoL46 How Creative People Learn
Nobody is born into the world already able to design a brochure, cut a dress, light a photoshoot or shred on the guitar. All of it has to be learned. The question this episode asks is how, and whether the answer has anything to...
GMoL45 Sport and Learning with Donald Clark
What education and workplace learning can take from sports coaching. Modern sports coaching has abandoned the drilling of isolated techniques in favour of practice that is variable, contextual and informed by data. Opening Season 8, John Helmer and Donald Clark ask what education and...
TI06 Three Predictions from SF That Came True … And Three That Didn’t.
Did science fiction predict AirPods? Neuralink? The death of God? For this final episode of Season One, John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach give you what hacks call a listicle: three transcendently significant things prefigured in science fiction that definitely came true — and three...
TI05 Frankenstein: Man Made Man
How a teenage girl’s waking dream birthed what is (probably) the first science fiction novel – and in the process gave the world its most enduring image of technology gone wrong. This time we’re coming for the myth, the curse, the cliche that is...
TI04 Asimov 2: Foundation
Can the future of an entire civilisation be calculated like the behaviour of gas molecules? In the second of two episodes on Isaac Asimov, John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach turn from his robots to his other great franchise — the Foundation saga — and...
TI03 Asimov 1: The Robot Laws
In 1942, a 22-year-old chemistry student and part-time writer set down three short rules for how a fictional robot ought to behave. His aim was to kill off the lazy “robot-as-Frankenstein-monster” cliché. More than eighty years later, real engineers, real ethicists and real lawmakers...
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