We mention a lot of stuff in our podcast.

We talk about books, tv shows, movies, music, & more. Thanks to John Infantino for suggesting we collect these in a reading/listening/viewing list. Here is our total list of references (in progress). You can click in to find out more about each item.

S5.30 The Utica Train Station

Church of the SubGenius

The Bell Labs building

The Psychology of Severance

psychology today

Real Genius

Union Station (Utica, New York)

S5.25 “We’re in the transportation business”

S5.22 “I almost stayed in that world” – Don White

songwriter storyteller humorist teacher author

Squawk Magazine

angelfire (no really)

Comedy clubs in Harvard Square

David Cross

official david cross

On the Road: the Original Scroll Reader’s Guide

penguin random house

S5.21 “He got his start wiping windows.” Matthew Roazen pt 2

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The Paris Club

When the Soviet Union Paid Pepsi in Warships

The Americans

Putin's People by Catherine Belton

S5.20 “The Wild Wild East”

Katalyst Kombucha

product website

Whip City

hidden new england

Westfield Tobacco

explorewmass.blogspot.com

Alcohol consumption by country

Little Big

The Rise of The Russian Oligarchy

S5.19: “Everything is due to accident”

The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist

Soul of Money Institute

After Yang

Armageddon averted by Stephen Kotkin

internet archive

Rogue Heroes

Hey Jim!

Nomads of War: The Long Range Desert Group

warfare history network

S5.17 “This is just doing biz.”

Jury duty in Massachusetts

The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, And Glory In 14th Century Italy

Penguin Random House

Lord of War (film)

“Putin's chef”

Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello

The Steerswomen Series by Rosemary Kirstein

The Integral Trees

Michael Whelan website

The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

The Mona Lisa Curse

watch documentaries

Internet Archive

“It's not the fall that kills you...”

S5.15 “Meditation is a human thing.” ENCORE of S3.02

Mindful Aware

mindfulaware.com

The six paramitas

Shambhala publications

S5.14 Outskirters

The Steerswomen Series

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

A Wizard of Earthsea

Blackadder

Thomas Covenant Series

Dreamsnake

The Peripheral

Gravity’s Rainbow

Mayflower Poultry Company

infinite boston

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

The City & the City

Sarah Avery

Boston Gang Map

kulture vulturez

The Round House

Uprooted

A Darker Shade of Magic

S5.11 Unusual in unusual ways

Vice

Mortdecai

The Gods Themselves by Asimov

Do parallel universes exist?

The Expanse

Three Body

The Dark Forest Hypothesis

Espionage Book Recs From a Former CIA Spy

Brittany Butler at crime reads

The Best American Political Thrillers

The Americans

Andy Warhol stole forks

luxury launches

Review of Apple Spiralizers

the spruce eats

Gary Oldman in Slow horses

S5.09 Eric Schwartz

Official website

ericschwartz.com

S5.08 A face for radio

S5.07 Surprise guest: Chris Chandler

S5.06 Unreconciled

S5.04 Jeff Tareila

Jack Hardy's Songwriting Circle

Jack Hardy

Jeff Tareila on Spotify

Jeff Tareila on Apple Music

United States Virgin Islands

Jeff Tareila recording under the name "Lucky"

S5.03 Long Line of Orphans

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy

Plagues and Peoples

S5.02 Bang on Killer Virus

The TikTok Algorithm

Prof. Roy Casagrada

Dan McClellan

The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Printing Press As An Agent Of Change

Autonomous

S5.01 “There was a flag on the field”

S4.49 Hopefully Forward

Ducky Carlisle

69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields

Abbey Road by the Beatles

Fingertips: They Might Be Giants

Notable Productions

Mark Basquil's play Unreconciled

unreconciledtheplay

David Byrne's American Utopia

Scavengers Reign

Miyazaki & Moebius Catalogue D'exposition (2004-2005)

The Very Pulse of the Machine

Jibaro

Rebel Moon

His Dark Materials: BBC production

The Acolyte

Ahsoka

The Clone Wars

J. G. Ballard

The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o

There Will Come Soft Rains: Ray Bradbury

Canal Boatman: My Life on Upstate Waterways

Heaven is Ten Zillion Light Years Away by Stevie Wonder

S4.48 Jason Schneider 2

History of Games

The Royal Game of Ur

Perfect Information Game

Candy Land

Pandemic

Settlers of Catan

Forbidden Island

Terraforming Mars Game

Boda Borg

Piñata Origins

Ruby Vroom - Soul Coughing

youtube playlist

Treasure - Cocteau Twins

S4.45 Jim Hood

Pretorian typeface

Cooper Black

Guillaume Apollinaire

Akzidenz Groteque

MFA branding

Coolvetica typeface

ITC Avant Garde

Isabella Stewart Gardiner Logo

gardnermuseum.org

Ehrhardt (typeface)

Univers

Frutiger

Avenir

Filosophia

Apple Garamond

Franklin Gothic

Gill Sans

The Met logo

the Louvre’s logo website and branding

Garamond

S4.24 Detractions and Errata

DC Special #1

Parable of the Sower

The Ministry for the Future

Station Eleven

A Paradise Built in Hell

Margaret Atwood

Kindred

Wild Seed

Gideon the Ninth

Distraction

Infectious Generosity

infectiousgenerosity.org/

Craigslist Hall of Fame listing for a 1999 Toyota Corolla

News by Kraftwerk

Blue Eye Samurai

Samurai Jack

Zatoichi

Kung Fu Hustle

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Hanford Site

Oak Ridge

National Park Service

Cillian Murphy

Sunshine

Defending Your Life

Bardo

S4.23 Roadkill on the Way to the Future

Jan Švankmajer

Brothers Quay

Riddley Walker

Russell Hoban

Grindavík

Trust

A. O. Scott

Landscape with Invisible Hand

Frank Sinatra - Smells Like Teen Spirit (AI Cover)

Yuval Herari

The Diamond Age

Roger Stone Recordings

Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

S4.22 Barnabas Lives!

transparent OLED display

CES

keyboards you stick on your iPhone

the new round of visors

how AI can be used to get around restrictions imposed on AI

concerns about twitter’s security

I Ching Oracle Deck by Catherine Pilfrey

Carmel, CA

recent churn in the Pacific Ocean

Boekenoogen Wines

Carmel Road Winery

Parsonage

Hyundai Nexo

Bakelite

Cellophane

Mauve

The Family Atomics from Dune

Bolt EUV

Hempcrete

Jim’s cyber-hippie novel

wakeful wanderer

Pierson's Puppeteers

Larry Niven

sodium battery

France’s use of nuclear energy

battery storage for renewable power

renewable energy world

solar power cartoon

Vangelis

Vangelis and the Journey to Ithaka

Trust

Hernan Diaz Trust Novel Review

The Barbie Movie

Landscape with Invisible Hand

Robert Reich

2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Teletubbies

S4.05 Happy Birthday, Lionel

Personal Best Brewing - Juicy IPA

India Pale Ale

The Big Short

Margin Call

Batman Begins

Star Trek Into Darkness

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

The French Connection

Simon Pegg

Piranesi

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

The Magician's Nephew

Humans will trade pain for useless information

The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth

The Economic Man

America Revised

Carl Sagan

Jacob Bronowski

James Burke

Cosmos

The Ascent of Man

Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Foundation

Silo

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund

The Illustrated Man

Nova

S4.04 The Parasocial Book Club

All Your Days podcast about Utopia Revisited

podcasts.apple.com

{ feuilleton } A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.

The Art of Noises

The Art of Noise

theartofnoiseonline

Inferno

Escape from Hell

Neuromancer

The Difference Engine

The Flash

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

American Born Chinese

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Metamagical Themas

Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Magician’s Nephew

Empress

How to Live

Daily Afflictions

Blinkist

ps.blinkist.com

Let The World Forget Us by Ben Burns

John Somebody

Out of The Blocks podcast

Rich Men North of Richmond by Oliver Anthony

S4.03 Greg Olear

Empress

Greg Olear

PREVAIL

The Five 8

Anna Komnene

Alexios I Komnenos

S3.13 The Slithery Dee, Part 2

"You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills"

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

S3.12 The Slithery Dee

Whiskey

Freaky Deaky

The Slithergadee

The Peripheral (TV Series)

Consider Phlebas

The Library of Babel

S3.11 John Chin

John Chin’s creation video of Anything Mose!

Richard Julian

compassrecords.com

Anything Mose!

Vince Guaraldi

Smalls Jazz Club NYC

Undercover

Keith Jarrett

The Köln Concert

Standards Live

John Chin on Being an Asian-American Jazz Musician

Samuel Barber's Nocturne, Op. 33

Antonio Carlos Jobin

Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians

Fifth - John Chin Album

Brad Mehldau

Village Vanguard

Kurt Rosenwinkle

Domi and Jadi Beck

Gary Burton 1971 "Chega De Saudade" (No More Blues)

S3.10 Back to Humanity

The Wakeful Wanderer’s Guide Series

Utopia

The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story (The Gap Cycle #1)

A Memory Called Empire

A Half-Built Garden

Walkaway

Donald E. Westlake

Good Behavior

consideringstories

The Rise of Meritocracy

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

Nosedive (Black Mirror)

China’s Social Credit System

S3.08 We sell holes

Varasanos Pizza in Peach Tree Corners

Chef’s Table Pizza: Chris Bianco

Grep

That XKCD cartoon

Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories

A sci-fi magazine has cut off submissions after a flood of AI-generated stories

S3.07 From Iceland

Hafnarfjörður

Blue Lagoon

Sigtryggur Baldursson

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Oblivion

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

Prometheus

The Cloud Atlas

The City in the Middle of the Night

Brian Eno and Achtung Baby

Eno wanted to erase Where The Streets Have No Name

S3.06 The Milkman

Phonogram is it really phonograph?

Iceland calls them Phonograms

The Althing

99 Drams of Whiskey: The Accidental Hedonist's Quest for the Perfect Shot and the History of the Drink

the Whiskey Rebellion

Otto von Guericke

Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve

buffalotracedistillery

Mike West and Truckstop Honeymoon

truckstophoneymoon

Hyperspace by Beck

Gibson ES 120T

The Milkman “The Amp”

themusicemporium

The Irish National Stud Farm

irishnationalstud

Iceland reimbursement for recording costs

S3.05 Iron Maiden

The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains: An Introduction to Cryptocurrencies and the Technology that Powers Them

Termination Shock

Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse

Chromaspace: Conscript

chromaspace.net

Rai stones

Jeff Bezos’ Yacht

town and country

S3.04 Damien Cassin

A simple explanation of blockchain anyone can understand

Rothko, Motherwell, & Pollock in The Shock of the New

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830

M1 Abrams

M88 Recovery Vehicle

S3.03 Caller Tim

Pegasus virus

mSpy

Joe Frank: Work In Progress

Ken Nordine

1899

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

S3.02 Mindful Aware

Mindful Aware

mindfulaware.com

The six paramitas

Shambhala publications

S3.01 Donald Smith 2

First measurement of gravitational waves of colliding neutron stars

einstein-online

James Webb Telescope

Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Ptolemy

Michael Faraday

Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics

vicmansfield.com

Haverford Friends Meeting

quakercloud.org

Retarded time

Slo Mo Guys

Jim’s blog entry on models in thinking

jiminfantino.com

Tycho Brahe

Ansible

Nuclear Binding Energy

hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu

S2.14 Johnny Gottadoo

The Ghost Army Legacy Project

Operation Mincemeat

Pump Six and Other Stories

Michael Swanwick

Paolo Bacigalupi

windupstories.com

The Water Knife

The Windup Girl

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

Defending Your Life

Zoolander

Derry Girls

S2.13 Donald Smith

Don’s Excellent 1990s web page

guilfordphysics.com

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

Don’s student goes to ChatGPT to code a mini golf game

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures: Movie

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

The Butlerian Jihad

Vlad the Astrophysicist

Why intelligent life hasn't contacted us: Peter Mulvey at TEDxKC

Giordano Bruno

1899

Dark

Counterpart

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

whatever.scalzi.com

Gideon the Ninth

Light from Uncommon Stars

Our Opinions Are Correct: Books to Devour This Winter

ouropinionsarecorrect.com

The City in the Middle of the Night

Trail of Lightning

Black Sun

S2.12 Superstition Ain’t The Way

A Canticle for Leibowitz

The City & the City

Perdido Street Station

The Hunger Games

Gov. Greg Abbott bans TikTok on state phones

texastribune.org

Texas bans use of DJI Drones for government research

texasscorecard.com

Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Burn It With Fire (Nicholas Weaver)

ischool.berkeley.edu

Quantum Computing and Qbits

Web3 is going just great

web3isgoinggreat.com

Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough

Post.news

S2.11 Ben Burnes

Ben Burnes’ website

Ben Burnes on Spotify

abstraction.rocks/

Ben Burnes livestream on Twitch

twitch.tv/ben_burnes

Ben Burnes on Twitter (for now)

Support Ben on Patreon

Ben on YouTube

youtube.com/ben_burnes

Reddit Two Hour Track Sundays

Two Hour Track Challenge for Charity

2hac.abstractionmusic.com/

Particle Man

youtube.com/watch?v=vOLivyykLqk

Mammal

youtube.com/watch?v=14jjo7MtSzE

You Probably Get That A Lot

youtube.com/watch?v=anWrcmKsYI8

Larry Niven

Spiderhead

S2.09 Kurt Uenala

Kurt Uenala: Musicmaker

null + void music

hfnmusic.lnk.to/Cryosleep

Eurorack Doepfer A-100

Novation Bass Station Rack (1994)

Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Synthi A

vintagesynth.com

ARP 2600

Curetronic

MiniMoog

Korg DW-8000

Prophet 5

Jupiter 6

Native Instruments Maschine

native-instruments.com

Depeche Mode Austin City Limits 2013 Full Concert.

G.O.D. featuring Dave Gahan

Arrival (soundtrack)

Love What’s Gone

Mazzy Star

Hello Mary

hellomary.bandcamp.com/

John Gorka

epsy logidy pedal

premierguitar.com

Ólafur Arnalds: Broadchurch Soundtrack

S2.08 Bill Hanage

Jodi Whittaker

Arsenal Football Club

Gianni Infantino

The Damned United

The Damned Utd

Brian Eno NYTimes article

John Terry full kit wanker

footballburp.com

Thanksgiving, Lincoln, & FDR

Billy Butcher

the-boys.fandom.com

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Lab Girl

Intuition

The White Plague

The Plague

The Mathematics of The Walking Dead

valeriecoffman.com

Foot-and-mouth disease

The Corrupted Blood incident in World of Warcraft

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Jack Harkness

Delia Derbyshire

ALL Doctor Who Title Sequences

Bill Bailey - The Doctor Who theme reimagined as Belgian jazz

S2.07 Vance Gilbert

Vance Gilbert

vancegilbert.com

Vance’s Monday Acoustic Pajama Party

Vance's YouTube Channel

The Delfonics

Germantown, PA

Did you know New Jersey had a Levittown?

The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

BaD Dog Buffet

Tommy Malone

tommymalonemusic

a day in music: 12am

Good, Good Man by Vance Gilbert

Old White Men

A Soldier’s Things by Tom Waits

A Room Somewhere (written by David Goldfinger)

Billy Novick

BillyNovick.com

Bockscar

Paul Reiser

S2.06 Secret Aardvark

Secret Aardvark Original

Secret Aardvark Website

The Peripheral TV series

Educated

A Conversation with Tara Westover

S2.04 Nobody’s In Control

The Broken Earth Trilogy

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

The Peripheral

S2.03 Goats On Wings

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

The Wakeful Wanderer’s Guide to New New England & Beyond

wakefulwanderer.com

Author Series | Robert Gaudi | The War of Jenkins' Ear

Tom Keene

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

S2.02 Dan Cantor

African Underground Vol. 1 Hip Hop Senegal

African Underground Vol. 2 - Depths of Dakar

Democracy In Dakar

In the Name of Love: Artists United for Africa

S1.27 Imperfect people being uncomfortable

The Raw and the Cooked

Gorky Park

S1.26 Sarah Elkins

Dreamsnake

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1)

Never Let Me Go

Light from Uncommon Stars

A Civil Campaign

École Polytechnique massacre

The Handmaid’s Tale

Parable of the Sower

Kindred

Wild Seed

Up Against It

Pushing Ice

The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story (The Gap Cycle #1)

S1.24 We fill in the blanks

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Andy Weir

Goodreads author page

Project Hail Mary

William Gibson on starting to write Science Fiction

The Martian Chronicles

Dune

S1.23 Julia Tenney 2

Mary Daily

TERF

Star Trek TNG & men in skirts

A Song For A New Day

Mary Shelley

Ada Lovelace

Ringworld

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Fifth Sacred Thing

Woman on the Edge of Time

Library of Things

brookline library website

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Dark Skies

Counterpart

Dark

Octavia E. Butler

The Exile Waiting

S1.21 Dar Williams

What I Found in a Thousand Towns

I’ll Meet You Here: Dar Williams

darwilliams.com

‘The Cold Spring Five’ Are the Latest Players in Roger Ailes’s Upstate Newspaper Farce

Jaimie Raskin's closing remarks in 2nd impeachment

How to Write a Song that Matters

Nevada Test Site - National Sacrifice Zone - Protests

S1.18 Walter Dixon

Forte - Extra Dark Roast

Walter Dixon

American Nations by Colin Woodard

The Psychopath Inside by James Fallon

The Story of Earth by Robert M. Hazen

A Short History of Film by Wheeler Winston Dixon & Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

The Man Who Sold America by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, & Arthur W. Schultz

Neumann U87

Only A Game on WBUR

Full Fathom 5000 by Graham Bell

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Scott Brick Reads Dune

Island Infernos

AI Comes to Audiobooks

publishersweekly.com

Jim Dale

Stephen Fry Reads Harry Potter

Leo Kottke

Walter Dixon Sr.

walterdixon.com

S1.17 Julia Tenney

Nine Inch Nails with Gary Numan Cars

Francis of Delirium - The Funhouse (music video)

LCD Sound System I can Change

Einstürzende Neubauten

YouTube Channel

Anathem

The Long Now Foundation

Brian Eno: The Man Who Fell to Earth documentary

Against a Dark Background

Seveneves

Even Greater Mistakes: Stories

The City in the Middle of the Night

All the Birds in the Sky

Autonomous

The Future of Another Timeline

Our Opinions Are Correct podcast with Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders

ouropinionsarecorrect.com

Max Gladstone

Goodreads author page

The October Man

Perdido Street Station

Bill Bryson

Goodreads author page

A Song For A New Day

Notes from the Burning Age

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Piranesi

Allow Me to Retort

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Shadow and Bone (TV series)

The Witcher

Carnival Row

The Wheel of Time

Grace Lin

Goodreads author page

Severance

When You’re Ready by David Wilcox

The Good Place

The Aeronaut’s Windlass

S1.16 Everything Will Always Never Be The Same Again

S1.15 She who must not be named

Collings Guitars

collingsguitars.com

Uprooted

Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1: The Lightning Thief

Milarepa

The Library at Mount Char

Anathem

Snow Crash

Wreck-It Ralph

Steven Universe

{ feuilleton }

johncoulthart.com

craphound: repository by Cory Doctorow

The Shock of the New

McGruff The Crime Dog

Chris Burden

Chris Burden and ‘The Other Vietnam Memorial’

Banksy Artwork Shredded After Selling at Auction May Have Increased in Value

S1.13 The Book of Mom

Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson: Oh Superman

Muriel Rukeyser

Goodreads author page

Warner Free Lecture Series

harvardpress.com

Margaret Atwood

Goodreads author page

Ursula K. Le Guin

Goodreads author page

William Gibson

Goodreads author page

Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin debate science fiction vs. "realism"

Work: A History of How we spend our Time

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Martian Chronicles

The Wakeful Wanderer’s Guide to New New England & Beyond

wakefulwanderer.com

Chaco Canyon

Ringworld

The Plot Against America

Holy Fire

The Peripheral

Pattern Recognition

S1.12 That Which Does Not Kill Us

Barnes Foundation

Computer Security 161 Cryptocurrency Lecture by Nicholas Weaver

Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Burn It With Fire (Nicholas Weaver)

S1.11 Chris Chandler

Chris Chandler

chrischandler.org

Officer Don, The Popeye Club

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

Eli Whitney was an a**hole

blog from chrischandler.org

EXPLAINER: What will Neil Young’s protest mean for Spotify?

Chris Chandler’s Music and Books

chrischandler.org

Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey

Stone Mountain

Some see the monument as “the largest shrine to white supremacy in the history of the world.”

S1:10 Bob Loy

S1:09 A penny for your email

S1.08 Meet The Pope

The French Toast Alert System

universalhub.com

The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle #6)

Ringworld

The Peripheral

The Social Network

S1:07 In My Cult

S1.06 Why haven’t you already drilled a hole in my head?

S1.05 I could go on

S1.04 Don't recommend anything to Lionel

S1.03 American Nations

S1.02 The lost episode

S1.01 Pump Six

S01.001 something