Hello GFPs!
What do Liu Cixin’s Three Body Problem trilogy (Remembrance of Earth’s Past), William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and High Conflict by Amanda Ripley have in common?
If you want to find out (and how could you not!), you’ll have to listen to this week’s edition of this newsletter’s semi-regular podcast wherein Nathan and I discuss, well, pretty much whatever we feel like. This time we’ve done something we’ve been thinking about doing for a while, which is to talk to each other about some of the things we’ve been watching and reading recently. It’s something we do a lot on our own anyway, and we thought it might be interesting to do it as a podcast episode. YMMV! With apologies for all the times Nathan whacked his mic; I tried to get rid of it in post-p but then it got rid of me laughing because literally no AI can handle female laughter apparently 🙄 and what is the point of life if you can’t hear me laugh??
Links to stuff we discussed:
3 Body problem: the books, the Netflix adaptation, the Netflix podcast, the Rehydrate book podcast
Faulkner’s speech
Alice McDermott’s speech
Rolf Dobelli’s article and subsequent book on why you should stop reading the news
We’re looking forward to hearing what you thought of this — did you enjoy it, find it interesting? Would you like us to do more? Let us know in the comments!
In other news, next week I’m going to be away travelling. I’m giving a talk in Hamburg, followed by a talk at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. I often say no to these kinds of talks to international bodies as I find them rather frustrating: it often feels like there’s nothing but talk going on and it’s just a waste of my time to be involved.
But this one felt different. The Council of Europe is not a legislative body, but it does draw up agreements that, if signed, are then enforceable. One of these is the Istanbul Convention, of which this event marks the tenth anniversary. More pertinently for GFP purposes, it also marks the launch of the Council’s gender quality strategy for 2024-29. Anyone for making sex-disaggregated data collection a legal requirement for anyone doing research or design?? 😍 I will report back!
Until next time, my dear GFPs….xoxoxo
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