Little Atoms: A lot of time

February 16, 2016 9:11 AM

Little Atoms is a London based website, podcast and magazine dedicated to ideas and culture with an emphasis on ideas of the Enlightenment. A radio show, that became a podcast, that has made the counter-zeitgeist move of recently creating an actual print edition. A ridiculous amount of brain food that will waste/enhance many a mefi’s (wo)man hours. Highlights (for me so far) Podcast: Peter Pomerantsev on Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible. Article: Blue Monday’s not real, but the happiness industry can still get you down. Random: David Bowie translated into Old English.

Above really a taster menu. Can't recommend highly enough the Peter Pomerantsev podcast about working in Russia, specifically for a Russian TV station and the co-option of subversion it discusses.

Seemed to me the whole site would be up many a mefite's street, for those times when you know that you can read about nigh on anything in the world but can't think of where to start.

posted by Gratishades (3 comments total)

It's a fantastic podcast, content-wise, but the sound quality is often iffy. I wish someone would get them some decent mikes, mixing gear, and a little pro bono know how to improve things.
posted by ryanshepard at 9:34 AM on February 16, 2016

if i have Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible on the pile to read (soon) should i listen to the podcast before, after, or not at all?
posted by andrewcooke at 9:42 AM on February 16, 2016

It pushed it near the top of my pile fwiw, but not cracked the spine. Didn't put me off buying book for sure.
posted by Gratishades at 10:25 AM on February 16, 2016 [1 favorite]