Elucidate No. 40 - Will Ludwigsen

Will Ludwigsen is a published writer of novels and short stories mainly in the Sci-fi and horror genres. He's also an adjunct professor of writing at University of North Florida. - In this episode I get to know Will a little better, and there's a lot to talk with him about that we didn't get to, even for a two hour episode. Hopefully he'll return to continue our conversations. - In this episode we talk about what it's like growing up in a staunch republican environment in “The South”, society, the internet, writing, and books.

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/I86L4gfB71c
Audio of this podcast can be downloaded here: http://off.li/2mKwn

Show notes: 

- Will's twitter: https://twitter.com/will_ludwigsen
- Will's novels on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Will-Ludwigsen/e/B001K89AOS
- Will's blog: http://will-ludwigsen.com/
- Some of Will's articles on Medium magazine: https://medium.com/@will_ludwigsen

Things we talked about:

- Eyes On the Prize (documentary): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/
- A Hero With A Thousand Faces (book): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

Elucidate No. 39 - Mitchell Knight

Mitchell is interested in society, politics, arts, philosophy, good books, technology, and media. At the time of this podcast he works as a server at a Thai restaurant. - We talk about politics, read-only and read/write technology, social media, and some about books.

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/bN6X6sCYC8s

Audio of this podcast can be downloaded here: http://off.li/Zrssn

Show notes: 

- Mitchell Knights facebook page: facebook.com/mitchellcoreyknight

Things we talked about:

- Media consolidation: http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart

- Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-blueprint-for-armageddon-i/
- Dog Whistle Politics: http://billmoyers.com/episode/ian-haney-lopez-on-the-dog-whistle-politics-of-race/

- What Social Media Is Doing To Our Brains: http://www.cnet.com/news/this-is-what-social-media-is-doing-to-your-brain/

- Facebook's trust engineers: http://www.radiolab.org/story/trust-engineers/

- Why social media makes us unhappy: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/04/08/new-study-links-facebook-to-depression-but-now-we-actually-understand-why/

- Blood Meridian book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian

- Ismael book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel)