Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Series produced by Benjamen Walker

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Personally connecting the dots. All of them.

Personally connecting the dots. All of them. Radiotopian. toe.prx.org.


37 Pieces

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Benjamen and Mathilde continue exploring the intersection between France and China over wine. In this installment they traverse China talking with ...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 34:30
  • Purchases: 2
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In the sharing economy no one can hear you work. This is because companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates and others only employ “partners” or indepen...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 32:42
  • Purchases: 3
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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 bet...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 33:46
  • Purchases: 2
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Your host makes his final attempt to build the ultimate anti-social-media-social-platform. Things continue to decline: the phone in the hand become...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 33:04
  • Purchases: 2
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Our series concludes with an attempt to examine the suburbanized commodified inner cityscape of New York. Author and activist Sarah Schulman tells ...

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  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 2
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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 ...

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  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 27:56
  • Purchases: 2
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The financial crisis of September 2008 overshadows one of the most important events in recent New York History: the arrival of Airbnb. And while yo...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 25:11
  • Purchases: 3
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“G.S.” tells the story that still haunts me about how bad karma brought him to the C.U.T. bomb shelters in Montana. Then astronomer Chris Impey exp...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 31:04
  • Purchases: 2
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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 Coloni...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 16:11
  • Purchases: 2
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Cédric Villani won the prestigious Fields Medal for his work in 2010. He knows how to catch ideas, and he wants to teach us how as well. We also ...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The dislike club series pretty much contains everything I have ever wanted to say about social media. Been thinking about all this stuff for quite ...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 55:25
  • Purchases: 1
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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 Fa...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 22:34
  • Purchases: 1
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In 2007, Kathy Sierra quit the internet because of misogynist hate trolling and stayed off the social web for 7 years.

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 26:25
  • Purchases: 2
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This week Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman tells us about the internet’s original Dislike Club, Anonymous. Biella has spent the last eight years ha...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 21:21
  • Purchases: 2
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When the photographer Garry Winogrand died in 1984 he left behind hundreds of thousands of unpublished negatives and undeveloped rolls of film and ...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 27:42
  • Purchases: 1
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This week we take a close look at the fundamental business model of the web – advertising. Ethan Zuckerman, the man who invented the pop up ad, ad...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 24:28
  • Purchases: 2
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This is the true origin story of the tilde.club. Yours truly also started a new thing it is called dislike.club. We also check in with Librarian an...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 21:23
  • Purchases: 2
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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 ventur...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 17:52
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 23:09
  • Purchases: 2
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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 th...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 31:17
  • Purchases: 2