Free Thinking - Age of Earthquakes

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar and Hans Ulrich Obrist explain the Extreme Present to Matthew Sweet. Their co-authored book The Age of Earthquakes builds on Marshall McLuhan's analysis of how technology influenced culture in the 1960s and is described as "a new history of how we are feeling in the world today when the future seems to be happening much faster than we ever thought." Also, Mathematician Hannah Fry and film critic Kevin Jackson explore the ways in which number-crunching geniuses have been depicted on the big screen.

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0:00.0	Can I just say?
0:01.5	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:04.0	It's such a wonderful listen.
0:05.6	So nice.
0:06.5	There are loads more like it on BBC sounds.
0:08.8	Different paces, different heights.
0:10.6	The roof is buckling.
0:11.9	Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.
0:14.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
0:16.6	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
0:21.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:25.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:26.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:29.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.8	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:34.7	And turn over your papers now.
0:37.4	Here are your questions for tonight's free thinking. Do the movies ascribe
0:41.4	positive or negative values to mathematicians? What does X plus Y equal, apart from a new film with
0:48.6	Raph Spall and Sally Hawkins? If I have eight apples in one hand and five apples in the other, what have I got,
0:55.3	mathematician Hannah Fry?
0:57.0	I have no idea. Big hands?
0:59.6	And if you need extra paper, just ask. First, though, some recent ideas from the 1960s.
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