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Lair Of SecretsSci-Fi & Fantasy Summer Reading List 2024In the latest episode of the Lair of Secrets podcast, we delve into our summer reading lists, exploring a mix of thrilling, nostalgic, and intellectually stimulating books. Ken kicks things off with Action Park by Andy Mulvihill, reminiscing about the notorious amusement park of his youth. David follows with a dive into sci-fi novels, including Larry Niven's Ringworld Engineers and Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest.
After the reading lists, we've got the obligatory Overlord banter, with Ken's 20-mile hike, David's ongoing writing course, and our upcoming Fallout 2d20 actual play RPG game.
Need more books? Check out our previous summer...2024-07-2638 minLair Of SecretsSci-Fi & Fantasy Summer Reading List 2024In the latest episode of the Lair of Secrets podcast, we delve into our summer reading lists, exploring a mix of thrilling, nostalgic, and intellectually stimulating books. Ken kicks things off with Action Park by Andy Mulvihill, reminiscing about the notorious amusement park of his youth. David follows with a dive into sci-fi novels, including Larry Niven's Ringworld Engineers and Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest.
After the reading lists, we've got the obligatory Overlord banter, with Ken's 20-mile hike, David's ongoing writing course, and our upcoming Fallout 2d20 actual play RPG game.
Need more books? Check out our previous summer...2024-07-2638 min
The Wonder Dome#137 The Dao and the Dragon (with Ken Liu)Ken Liu is a multi-award winning speculative fiction author and third-time guest of The Wonder Dome. Even if you haven't read one of his dozens of stories, it’s likely you’ve seen work he’s contributed to on places like Netflix and AMC. His writing has reached a tremendous influence in the zeitgeist when we think about questions of humanity; identity; artificial intelligence; creativity; innovation and the future. In today’s conversation, Ken and I discuss two of his recent pieces of work. The first is an achingly beautiful short story called The Passing of the Dragon...2024-02-071h 14
Metacast: Behind the scenes49. Our favorite books, podcasts, products and experiences of 2023To close off 2023, Arnab and Ilya sat down for a lighthearted review of our favorite books, podcasts, products and experiences of 2023.
Segments
[01:51] A lesson in geology
[03:16] Our top books of 2023
[23:46] Our favorite podcasts of 2023
[41:04] Our favorite products
[49:34] Experiences of the year 2023
Show notes
Books
Arnab’s
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
The Mom Test: How to talk to...2024-01-0359 min
Long Overdue: A Franklin Public Library PodcastBook Clubs, Hunger, Crooks, and AssistantsIn this episode librarians Andy and Sam discuss some of their recent reads.
In this episode we talked about:
The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
The World's Worst Assistant by Sona Movsesian
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
We also mentioned:
When We Were Animals by Joshua Gaylord
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B...2023-08-3044 min
Retro Movie RoundtableThe Legend of Drunken Master (1994)RMR 0150: Join your hosts Chad Robinson, Dustin Melbardis and Russell Guest for the Retro Movie Roundtable as they revisit The Legend of Drunken Master (1994) [R]
Genre: Marital Arts, Action, Fighting, Comedy
Starring: Jackie Chan, Lung Ti, Anita Mui, Felix Wong, Chia-Liang Liu, Ken Lo, Kar Lok Chin, Ho-Sung Pak , Chi-Kwong Cheung, Yi-Sheng Han, Andy Lau, Wing-Fong Ho, Kar-Yung Lau, Siu-Ming Lau, Suki Kwan
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Recoded on 2022-02-23
2023-02-201h 33
The Wonder Dome#101 Change Begins in Art (with Ken Liu, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Ray Nayler)Back for our second episode of the Summer Celebration Series are Ken Liu, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Ray Nayler. All three of these writers add so much depth and richness to the tapestry of our lives. When you leave this conversation today, I encourage you to listen to my other interviews with them and to read their work. Their writing has the potential to change your relationship to what's possible for the future of our species.Ursula K. Le Guin said that “Change begins in art.” The divine rights of kings seemed to be a permanent fact...2022-06-301h 56
Long Overdue: A Franklin Public Library PodcastBlack History Month 2022In this episode of Long Overdue librarians Andy, Briony, Keri, and Sam discuss a wide range of books and celebrate Black authors for Black History Month 2022.
In this episode we talked about:
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability, and More by Blair Imani
Black Buck by Mateo...2022-02-1155 min
Say Podcast and Die!S02E12 - Are You Terrified Yet? (Goosebumps Series 2000 #9)Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #9: Are You Terrified Yet? Along the way, they discuss Battleship Potemkin, the meaning of bravery, crushing, strange bets, Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority, changing schools, There's Someone Inside Your House, runaway babies, The Witches, Louise Erdrich's "I'm a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy," being caught up in someone else's bet, the Rocky movies,The Phantom Menace, faking scares, Extremity, the big giant head, Imposter Syndrome, Galaxy Quest, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Ken Liu's "The Litigation Master and the Monkey King," heroism, maintaining your reputation on the middle school junk heap...2022-01-241h 06
The Climate QuestionIs science fiction holding back climate action?For centuries, we’ve been reading, watching and listening to science fiction. And all too often, it’s pretty pessimistic about our future, especially when it touches on the topic of climate change.
This is leading some to ask whether these doom and gloom stories are doing the climate fight more harm than good - causing us to feel so anxious and powerless that we don’t take action.
So for this week's climate question, Graihagh Jackson is asking: Is sci-fi holding us back?
First broadcast on 5th April 2021.
Graihagh Jackson is joined by:
Amy Brady, editor-in-chief of the Chicag...2022-01-0327 minLong Overdue: A Franklin Public Library PodcastEnd of the 2021 Wrap Up EpisodeIn this episode librarians Andy, Keri, Sam, and Sarah talk about their favorite books they've read during 2021 and preview some books they're excited about in 2022.
In this episode we talked about:
Don't Believe It by Charlie Donlea
The Girl Who Was Taken by Charlie Donlea
The Suicide House by Charlie Donlea
Some Choose Darkness by Charlie Donlea
Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
Sergeant Salinger by Jerome Charyn
Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture...2021-12-1754 min
Books To Last PodcastEp. 9 - Science Is Magic We Understand with Rachel from Let Me In The LibraryIn homage to the BBC's classic Desert Island Discs, the Books to Last Podcast challenges book lovers and readers from all over to select the five books they would take to their mystery remote locale. Tangents and anecdotes likely.This week we are joined by Rachel from Let Me In The Library and we had the most amazing discussion about sci-fi, YA tropes, feminism, books that make you cry, culture and everything in between. This was such a fascinating one and I hope you enjoy! Guest Details:Channel: Let Me In The...2021-05-041h 59
Math Ed PodcastEpisode 2009: Kenneth Frank & Jihyun KimKen Frank from Michigan State University and Jihyun Kim from Lehigh University discuss their article, "From interpretation to instructional practice: A network study of early-career teachers' sensemaking in the era of accountability pressures and Common Core State Standards," published in the American Educational Research Journal, co-authors Salloum, Bieda, Youngs.
Article URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0002831220911065
Ken's Professional Webpage
Jihyun's Professional Webpage
Other articles related to the project:
Bieda, K. N., Lane, J., Evert, K., Hu, S., Opperman, A., & Ellefson, N. (2020). A large-scale study of how districts’ curriculum policies and practices shape teachers’ mathematics lesson...2020-10-2628 min
The Wonder Dome#27 Making Our Home in a Story (with Ken Liu)My guest today is the speculative fiction author, futurist, and polymath, Ken Liu. Ken has one of the most beautiful minds I've ever encountered. As a novelist and storyteller, he's claimed just about every award there is here in America for his groundbreaking work in the realms of fantasy and science fiction. He's also received top genre honors in Japan, Spain, France, and many other countries. His work has been adapted into multiple film and television projects, including the Netflix breakout adult animated series LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS and AMC’s Pantheon.When he's not writing or...2020-10-131h 05