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If I have a dream, I retell the audience what I remember.
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Book Spider (previously known as The God Setebos) is a book-of-the-week podcast primarily covering novels, with the occasional detour into nonfiction, literary criticism, poetry, and music. We pride ourselves in running a smart podcast for the discerning listener, and we strive for the highest level of intellectual rigor. Our mascot, the book spider, sits in its cold corner, gathering its web of text, looking at the world with its calm, chilly eyes.
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Listen to the best science and mathematics jokes you haven't heard before. With an afterthought commentary following every joke, this will help you better understand or appreciate the humor. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antisensescience/support
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Once a month, Arik Devens and Allen Pike take turns sharing fun facts. Practical, historical, technical, and trivial facts all deserve their fair shake.
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Welcome to the Clambake Incident! The official Municipal podcast of Clam Harbor Maine!Here, laugh with your friends Sam & Reed as we cover all of the strange goings on in this small seaside town. Join the duo in the old ladies boathouse as they make you laugh, learn a thing or two, and keep an eye on the horizon for our good friend Blobby! www.theclambakeincident.com
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Big Boys Small Talk is a podcast where two funny boys, Shane Geller & Gavin Jerue talk about all of the things that they find interesting this week and give their useless and strange opinions!
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We're an actual play podcast of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure path Agents of Edgewatch. Join our cast of characters as they navigate the mean streets of the world's largest city, Absalom. Tasked with upholding the law as members of the Edgewatch, the city's newest guard force, can they survive the daily drudgery of patrols and the harrowing twists of sudden deadly fate?
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Darlene Schacht (Time-Warp Wife) and her family welcome you into their home for light-hearted conversations with a Christian perspective.
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Topics in Yoreh Deah are the mainstay of learning for smichah worldwide. Now on podcast for the first time, learn these classic sugyos of halacha with Rabbi Eli Reingold, a widely respected posek and rosh kollel. Follow inside to be guided in the Mechaber, Ramah, Shach, and Taz. This podcast is powered for free by Torahcasts. Start your own forever free Torah podcast today at https://torahcasts.com/sign-up/ and share your Torah with the world.
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After Animals uncovers trends and stories at the cutting edge of the global post-animal movement. What does a future look like, in which food, fashion and entertainment no longer have to exploit animals to be successful? In each episode, we share a remarkable and inspiring story about someone who is forging a more compassionate future for us all. After Animals seeks to activate a kinder, more compassionate world through innovation.
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The Adventures of the Starship Coconut is a unique bi-weekly comedy, sci-fi audio experience that follows the zany missions aboard the worst starship in the Confederation Space Force. Follow the misadventures of the most underwhelming crew in the Galaxy as they discover new life, try new food, and do their best not to screw up as they spread happiness and good cheer to a crazy galaxy. For more information head to www.starshipcoconut.com or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
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S4 Ep53: Gelatinous Eggs and Dead Anti-Worlds: The Mystery of Stanisław Lem's His Master's Voice
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In this episode, the Spiders discuss the heady and intriguing His Master's Voice, a first-contact novel that turns the trope upside down, to good effect.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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I had a scary dream
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A dream worth little to nothing
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S4 Ep54: Pacing and Tragedy in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
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The Spiders encounter Mary Shelley's The Last Man, in which grief is transfigured into a radically inventive and astonishingly bleak post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel whose impact and legacy are undone by a complete lack of editing.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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Google street view time travel adventure.
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A yezzir
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The car exploded lol
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S4 Ep52: Despicability and Empathy in Patrick Barney's Gusano
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In this episode, the hosts of Book Spider, along with special guest Eddie Kim, discuss the recently released horror novel Gusano, written by founding spider himself, Patrick Barney.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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Freamin
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S4 Ep51: Accepting the mushiness of Jeff Vandermeer's Acceptance
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In which the Spiders consider Acceptance, the third book in Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy, and a step down from the focused mood and mystery of the first two installments -- though not without its virtues.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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A wwwwwwwhhhaaaat?
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S4 Ep50: Transparent Satire and Opaque Plotting in Jeff Vandermeer's Authority
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A discussion of Jeff Vandermeer's Authority, the second book in the Southern Reach Trilogy. The spiders find that it strikes an uncommonly good balance between that which is understood readily and that which can't be understood at all.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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Intrusive thoughts blend the dream world and reality
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In this episode I describe what happens to me often before waking up
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A yup
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S4 Ep50: Inverted Emotional Polarities in the two Annihilations
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A discussion of Jeff Vandermeer's novel Annihilation, in which the Spiders can't help comparing it to Alex Garner's film adaptation, in particular the ways in which one character's arc turns her outward while the other's turns her inward.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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S4 Ep49: Part 3 of DeLillo's Underworld
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In which we finish the Underworld Triptych.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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Idk
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Arik uncovers what things are really named after, Allen goes subatomic, Arik marvels at astronomical coincidence, and Allen considers extraterrestrial flight. Titan Do subatomic particles have a colour?بقلم Arik Devens and Allen Pike
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A yup
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S4 Ep48: DeLillo's Underworld, part 2 and Patrick Barney's new novel, Gusano
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In this episode, we navigate the challenging and beautiful middle sections of DeLillo's Underworld. Before that, though, we listen to an excerpt from cohost Patrick Barney's new novel, Gusano.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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Not a dream just thinking
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Reality is often crazy
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S4 Ep47: Enjoying the Longest DeLillo - Underworld - Part 1
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The first in a three-parter in which we tackle DeLillo's meganovel, Underworld. In this episode we discuss just about the first third of the novel. And: We crack ourselves up imagining a Werner Herzog baseball documentary.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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Allen dives in to diodes, Arik explores the origin of taxis, and Allen reveals an unsavoury fact about zygotes. Steve Mould on LEDs and solar panels Why blue LEDs were almost impossible Thornton Blackburnبقلم Arik Devens and Allen Pike
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A iiiii
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Cockroach paranoia/ British grievance
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A yuppy
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I escape sexual assault and I’m hunted.
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I’m this dream, I was sexually assaulted by a man and a women. After escaping they send people to my house to kill me.
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Wooooo
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Impressions from dune 2 and LOTR
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S4 Ep46: The Opacity of Violence: Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun
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In this episode, the Spiders try to analyze Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun, a harrowing novel of the decades-long occupation of Palestine by Israel. However, the challenge is overwhelming, as it appears that violence may not be interpretable.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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Arik throws peanuts, Allen tries to cook vegetables, photographers try to prompt a good pose, and the earth’s magnetic field threatens to cause trouble. High-altitude cooking Say cheese Geomagnetic reversalبقلم Arik Devens and Allen Pike
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S4 Ep45: The boundary between golden myth and secret history in Don DeLillo's Pafko at the Wall
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The spiders consider the novella Pafko at the Wall, the first fifty pages of Don DeLillo's Underworld. Does its careful examination of its period kitsch reveal a deeper thematic weight? I mean, probably.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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A dream I had in the past
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A yup
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A little Zombie nibble turned me into a cat… :(
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A yiu
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S4 Ep43: Mysteries of connection and communication in Katie Kitamura's Intimacies
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A yuppy duppy
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Scientists discover where birds go, the trouble with coin flips, the limits of the human body, and what exactly you can find in the Perseus Molecular Cloud. The majestic Pfeilstorch XCKD’s What If: What if Nascar had no rules? The Perseus Molecular Cloudبقلم Arik Devens and Allen Pike
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S4 Ep44: The Joy and Frustration in Not Going Too Deep Into the Details of Nabokov's Pale Fire
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In which we struggle to talk about a text that is famous for generating endless discussion about how to talk about it.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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A yuppy
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S4 Ep42: Sandra Newman's Julia, and George Orwell's 1984
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In this episode, the spiders discuss Julia, by Sandra Newman, which is a retelling of 1984, by George Orwell. Julia tells the classic dystopian tale from the perspective of the original's main female character, and in so doing, retcons the original in both positive and negative ways.بقلم Xi Draconis Books
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Science discovers our galaxy’s flavor, machinists discover precision measurements, and Arik discovers why you shouldn’t rent a car in Germany. Galaxy’s centre tastes of raspberries and smells of rum, say astronomers What Does Space Taste Like and Why Does It Matter? Thousandth of an inchبقلم Arik Devens and Allen Pike
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