Jun 14, 2025
Cindy teaches Harrison about the history of Father's Day, acknowledges the complicated feelings that the holiday can bring, and caps it all off with a relevant tale from Aesop about a father and his quarrelsome sons. Harrison puts out an RFP for cryptids. President Nixon gets some flowers for your dad.
Cindy also...
Jun 7, 2025
Cindy and Harrison explore the public domain and beyond in this discussion of copyright, its implications for software preservation, and how to support the wild Pac-Man population! Cindy reads Shakespeare's Sonnet 29. Harrison finds a disturbing Edwardian comic strip.
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May 29, 2025
Harrison and Cindy discuss the interesting case of "Unknown Man E," the Harem Conspiracy, and what this case can teach us about official records, historical erasure, compassion, and what we each leave behind.
2020 BBC Science Focus piece about the reconstruction of the priest Nesyamun's larynx
May 16, 2025
Cindy steps into Doomguy's armor-plated boots to rip and tear through a discussion of Doom (1993), the evolution of PC game control schemes, and the ways in which cultural knowledge of modern gameplay conventions can affect the retro-gaming experience.
May 9, 2025
In anticipation of this year's game-centric Summer Reading Program, Cindy and Harrison discuss some notable film adaptations of video games. Cindy is a Peach, and Harrison is a Peachette.
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Doom (franchise)
Super Mario Bros. (franchise)
Tomb Raider (franchise)
Pokemon: Detective...