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  1. Does the apparent design in the natural world point to the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent God? In his posthumous Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, perhaps his finest work, David Hume put some devastating criticisms o
  2. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century. In 1696 the Edinburgh student, Thomas Aitkenhead, claimed theology was "a rhapsody of feigned and ill invented nonsense". He was hanged for his trouble - just one v
  3. The year 2023 has been absolutely packed with RPGs, and there's always something flying under the radar. Darkest Dungeon 2 might just be one of those - a follow-up to a beloved dungeon-crawler that still feels like it hasn't had quite the same
  4. Video animation by: Big FlowersIntro/Outro beat by: BLOODBLIXINGThe Plug (0:21).The Interview (1:57).So I’m kind of annoying when it comes to certain things with music.Albums where the last verse isn’t from the main artist? It just doesn’t
  5. Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, Kenya hands out 100 million saplings and calls a public holiday to plant them. Also: a new drug to treat two rare blood disorders, and a woman from Scotland who walked acros
  6. Jon Mackenzie is joined by Liam Tharme and Alex Barker to introduce the tactical revolution taking place within Ligue 1 and explore some of the reasons why it might be happening.Is youth development the reason why the league wasn’t exactly ta
  7. For the third week of Nintendo Month, Karl & Will present a spotlight on the music of one of the most legendary video games of all time: Super Mario 64! Featuring almost every single track from the game,the guys dive deep into what makes th
  8. Andrew Schlecht and Jay Smith discuss the Thunder's win against the Lakers and answer your twitter questions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  9. The Oklahoma City Thunder fell to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday. The OKC Thunder were awful for the most part in Houston; what went wrong for Mark Daigneault's squad? The Thunder saw Shai Gilgeous-Alexander dominate, but everyone else strugg
  10. Hey, Super Ninfriendos! In this week's episode, Seth & the NVC crew unpack all the year's biggest surprises and disappointments coming from Nintendo. With everything from Super Mario Bros. Wonder, to even more Tears of the Kingdom talk, and eve
  11. Before the NVC crew gets full of turkey and pumpkin pie for the holidays, we wanted to give thanks to Super Mario RPG being everything we hoped it would be. We also take a look back at Nintendo's 2023 and discuss the great games that have relea
  12. In this episode of Battleground Ukraine, Saul David speaks to David Patrikarakos from our sister podcast Disorder. David has just returned from Ukraine where he has been reporting on and off since the initial Russian Invasion in 2014. He discus
  13. Sponsored by FactorIt was an embarrassment of RPG riches as well as just plain embarrassment at this year's Game Awards 2023 as Keighley Fest 2023 once again brought us trailers, celebrities, and way too much Hideo Kojima. Nadia, Kat, and Eric
  14. Sign up for emails related to our Life and Fate read along here!Show Notes:This week, it’s time for Office Hours, which Matt and Cameron are contractually obliged to hold at least once per quarter. This episode they’ll be revealing a little som
  15. American fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC has found its way onto the Christmas dining tables of millions of Japanese families. Hosts Charmaine Mok and Sam Evans explore how this surprising holiday tradition started. They speak with
  16. Welcome to Triple Click, a podcast about video games! On this debut episode, Kirk Hamilton, Maddy Myers, and Jason Schreier introduce themselves and then talk a bit about the language of video games. With tons of people stuck inside and playing
  17. Ukraine is been at war for nearly 22 months, with airports closed and many sea ports blockaded. Yet NPR's Nathan Rott has found sushi in the country is widely available. And, he says, that says something about the supply chain and the resilienc
  18. Show Notes: This week, Matt and Cameron sit down with Robert Chandler, a prolific translator of many authors including our own beloved Grossman. Robert Chandler’s translations from Russian, mostly for NYRB Classics and Vintage Classics, include
  19. Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron take on “The Nose,” by Nikolai Gogol. Written in 1835-6, “The Nose” tells the story of a mid-ranking St. Petersburg bureaucrat who loses his nose. The story recounts how Major Kovalyov’s nose takes on a li
  20. The world's oldest novel. A hero who is a paragon of beauty with an extreme Oedipus complex.(CW: sex, rape, incest, pedophilia.)Get in touch at www.readjapaneseliterature.com.Support RJL on Patreon.com.Buy your books from Bookshop.org.All conte
  21. Video animation by: Big FlowersIntro/Outro beat by: BLOODBLIXINGThe Plug (0:21).Main Body of Review (2:28).You may be thinking, why am I, an esteemed member of the rap journalism industrial complex… reviewing the music of an artist historic
  22. By this point, you shouldn't be surprised that, of course, Putin and Russia, being close allies of Maduro, are also involved in this mess.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for
  23. This week, we take a journey into the dystopian abyss of Blade Runner 2049. Contrary to popular opinion, we aren’t crazy about Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel, with Chris disappointed in the story and Travis frustrated about the visuals. We di
  24. Exploring the thriving tradition of classic Japanese whodunnits. Thanks to my guests, On Nomoto, grandson of honkaku writer Seishi Yokomizo, and Daniel Seton, commissioning editor at Pushkin Press. No major spoilers about clues or endings in th
  25. Danielle Chapman joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Zbigniew Herbert's poem "Mr. Cogito Laments the Pettiness of Dreams," and her own poem "The Tavern Parlor."
  26. Ed Pulford and Soren Urbansky on the cross-cultural and diverse past and present of the Russian Far East.The post The Far East appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.
  27. In this special bonus episode, we talk to actress and activist Shakina Nayfack on providing the voice of Hana in the new English dub of Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers, produced by GKIDS.Follow Ghibliotheque on Twitter:@ghibliotheque@MichaelJLea
  28. Around 2010 I became somewhat obsessed with Japanese pop and ambient music of the 1980s - in particular the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the solo records of the members of the group: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi and music
  29. This week, Matt and Cameron start up the December Supporter Drive 2023, aiming to raise their paying monthly supporters by 10 people. If you're interested in supporting us, you can do so here.So why are we asking for the money? To answer that,
  30. Recorded by Lynn Xu for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 27, 2023. www.poets.org
  31. This week, Matt and Cameron start up the December Supporter Drive 2023, aiming to raise their paying monthly supporters by 10 people. If you're interested in supporting us, you can do so here.So why are we asking for the money? To answer that,
  32. Savory, chewy, and, above all, slurp-able, a delicious bowl of ramen is one of the triumphs of Japanese cuisine. That's also a bit odd, because, for most of Japanese history, heavy, meaty, wheaty noodle soup would have had no place in the archi
  33. The final Sweeper episode of 2023 starts off with a look at continental competitions across the world in Part 1. We talk about the CONCACAF Champions Cup with its incredible away trips and interesting array of clubs – from Lionel Messi’s Inter
  34. Doom and gloom in western media, I've caught covid, and Russian officers are torturing soldiers for christmas gifts.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
  35. This week, Matt and Cameron start up the December Supporter Drive 2023, aiming to raise their paying monthly supporters by 10 people. If you're interested in supporting us, you can do so here. So why are we asking for the money? To answer that,

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