Words To That Effect
Words To That Effect is a narrative storytelling show that explores the intriguing places where fiction, history, science, and popular culture intersect and inspire. From the Victorian past to utopian futures, dinosaurs to detectives, zombies to mummies.- Conor Reid
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31: Steampunk, Pt 2 (Even Greater London)
One way of thinking about steampunk is to divide it into two parts – the steam and the punk.
The steam is the Victorian element: the fascination and engagement with the 19th century – whether satirizing or poking fun at Victorian conventio...
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30: Steampunk, Pt1 (Fetch Me My Fighting Trousers)
Note: This episode is Part 1 of a double episode on steampunk.
There are cultures, and subcultures, and sub, sub, sub
cultures.
There’...
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29: Travels in Four-Dimensional Space
We have no problem thinking mathematically about four-dimensional space.
Where a 3-d cube has 8 vertices, a 4-d hypercube has 16 vertices.
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28: Pulp Fiction (Amazing Stories of the Sisters of Tomorrow)
If you want to understand how we ended up with anything from Star Wars to Star Trek, Superman to Batman, intergalactic travel to microscopic worlds, profound medi...
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27: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
What would happen if humanity ceased to exist?
Well, assuming, of course, that earth itself has not been destroyed in this hypothetical apocalypse, t...
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26: Unwrapping the Egyptian Mummy
In the 19th century, a very popular form of entertainment was the mummy unwrapping party. Yes, you could go to a private or public event at which an ancient Egypt...
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