The Roscast: Recent Episodes
The Roscasters
Here's a link to Melissa's reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/17/how-learning-thinking-in-a-foreign-language-improves-decision-making
The book that Ros reads from can be found here:
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780714825069/Ridgeway-Europes-Oldest-Road-0000-0714825069/plp
Duncan's reading can be found here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel
Melissa's article can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/06/ancient-uk-footpaths-trails-walking-holloways-hiking
Here's the link to another article mentioned in the outro: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-64322794
Ros's full reading can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/23/out-of-our-minds-opium-imperial-history-opium-wars-china-britain
Duncan's article can be read here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site
Melissa's reading can be found here: https://longreads.com/2023/01/03/the-strangely-beautiful-experience-of-google-reviews/
The article Ros read this episode can be found here: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/20/how-to-worry-wisely-about-artificial-intelligence
Here's the article read by Duncan: https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test
Check out the book here: https://books.google.se/books/about/The_King_and_the_Christmas_Tree.html
Duncan's reading can be found here: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_science_of_what_makes_people_care
Read more about Rhodes Must Fall on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Must_Fall
Find the full essay collection here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rhodes-must-fall-9781786993908/
Ros's reading can be found here: https://www.ladyscience.com/features/elaine-morgan-and-the-descent-of-woman-2021
Duncan's reading this episode this short story from Robin Sloan: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/23/1041334/science-fiction-short-story-climate/
Here's the book review that Melissa quotes in the introduction: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/18/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-review-have-we-got-our-ancestors-wrong
Read the full story on Substack: https://wrathofgnon.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-small-town-in-texas
Find out more about the Federalist Papers on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers
Here's the article from Duncan's reading: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/13/elizabeth-line-crossrail-opening-london
The full article that this exceprt was taken from can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/08/alcoholism-and-me-i-was-an-addicted-doctor-the-worst-kind-of-patient
Melissa's article can be found here: https://grist.org/article/2010-03-30-gink-manifesto-say-it-loud-im-childfree-and-im-proud/
Duncan's article can be found here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/08/manatees-are-better-than-us
Melissa's article was written by Irish Legal News:
https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/dr-sandra-duffy-puberty-blockers-ruling-will-have-chilling-effect
The Sussex University controversy mentioned by Duncan in the outro is covered in the Guardian here:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/16/campus-in-the-spotlight-how-sussex-became-focus-of-row-over-trans-rights
Duncan's article can be found here: https://forge.medium.com/its-time-to-replace-ambition-with-adaptation-945880f183f1
Duncan's story can be found here: https://tinyletter.com/waitingroom/letters/the-sandwich-order-that-brought-two-strangers-together
Melissa's story can be found as part of We Can Do Better Than This, an anthology about the future of LGBTQ+ rights, published by Penguin in June 2021: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1119608/we-can-do-better-than-this/9781529113303.html
Duncan's story is part of Cities of Light, a free collection of short stories of solar futures, compiled by the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University: https://csi.asu.edu/books/cities-of-light/
Melissa's article can be read in full on the website of Time Magazine:
https://time.com/5948677/four-day-work-week-spain/
Duncan's reading comes from The Ministry For The Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's not available free online, but can be purchased as an e-book from your favourite e-book store.
Melissa's article can be read in full on the website of Men's Health:
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a35256213/walking-benefits-exercise-health-lockdown
Links to the articles we read:
Melissa * https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedias-biggest-challenge-awaits-2021 * https://webfoundation.org/2021/01/celebrating-20-years-of-wikipedia/
Duncan * https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-need-courage-not-hope-to-face-climate-change/