Sit up straight, pay attention, and no talking in the back of the class while Miss is speaking! It's time for this month's TWOsday Project!
This time, Hayley plays the part of teacher, effortlessly segueing from strict disciplinarian to 1950s-drunk-on-gin-teacher trope, while Shaun and Alex embarrass ourselves by answering maths questions from an example 11+ exam.
We also reprise Episode 12 by talking about Cyril Burt and his influence on the 11+.
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This month's icon uses a drawing of Bristol Grammar School from Wikimedia Commons. (OK, it's an independent public school rather than a state-run grammar, but we liked the photo.)
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With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Done your homework yet? Don't worry, you don't have to. The Last Tuesday Project is here to provide you with its own unique form of education!
This month the Dimbleby is you, the listener! Alex, Hayley and Shaun decide to veto a question on women's rights and the two World Wars, which leaves them having to take a closer look at the English grammar school, including the 11+ exam.
Speaking of which, our next TWOsday episode will be us taking the 11+ exam! You'll be able to download that on the 11th July.
This month's icon uses a drawing of Bristol Grammar School from Wikimedia Commons. (OK, it's an independent public school rather than a state-run grammar, but we liked the photo.)
Hayley's dramatic music is Rapture by Ross Bugden, released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Want to get in touch? We're on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, you can email us at podcast@lasttuesdayproject.com.
With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Welcome to The Last Tuesday Project Election Special!
Guest Tuesday Simon takes the reins in this recording, while Alex, Hayley, and Shaun, take a deep-dive into the manifestos of six biggest political parties in the UK: Labour, The Conservatives, The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), The Liberal Democrats, The Green Party, and The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).
Note that this is a very long episode - over two hours - but it's packed full of the usual interesting information and irreverent chat that you know and love. So sit back, settle in, and enjoy listening to us tease apart a lot of political words and policies.
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This month's icon uses an image from Wikimedia Commons.
With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Góður dagur og velkominn! It's episode 11 of The Last Tuesday Project, thank Týr! this month we've abandoned the comparatively warm climes of the UK and have shifted our gaze northwards.
Alex asked Hayley, Shaun, and Guest Tuesday Tammy, why Icelandic has hardly changed since the Sagas were written in the 11th, 12th and 13th Centuries. With many references to the little known website Whykyperdeea, we talk etymology, migration and invasion. We also discuss whether there are other languages which have followed a similar path, and what's so vulgar about Romansh.
Plus, as this is a British podcast, there are a number of references to a certain frozen food supermarket chain...
Our next TWOsday episode will be a UK General Election Special! No clues (mainly because, at the time of writing, we hadn't recorded it yet), but it will be released on Tuesday 6th June, two days before us Brits decide our own fate. Because that always goes well, right?
Also, have you heard our last TWOsday episode? It was Mental Health Awareness Week, so 5 of us spent some time talking about our own experiences with depression and anxiety. It's a long listen, but it's honest, frank, and surprisingly funny. Listen to Episode 10a to find out more.
This month's icon uses a drawing of Hörður Grímkelsson from Wikimedia Commons.
Want to get in touch? We're on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, you can email us at podcast@lasttuesdayproject.com.
With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Welcome to TWOsday! Yes, it's the second Tuesday of the month, so here's this month's TLTP extra episode.
Episode 10 was on the subject of whether mindfulness meditation works as a treatment for depression. Normally these extra episodes include outtakes from the main episode, plus a little extra discussion loosely based on the topic covered. However, the extra discussion turned out to be not so little. Because of this, we've decided to release that discussion by itself. It's quite a long chat, but it's a lot of fun.
Alex, Hayley and Shaun are joined by guest Tuesdays Simon and Kirioth, to talk about our own experiences with depression and anxiety. We discuss mental health and work, dealing with social situations, plus some random (and funny) experiences of our own.
Want to get in touch? We're on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, you can email us at podcast@lasttuesdayproject.com.
This month's icon uses a drawing of Indian saint and yogi Mahavatar Babaji from Wikimedia Commons.
With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Relax, breathe, be present, and accept the thoughts which enter your mind... while listening to this month's episode of The Last Tuesday Project.
Our Guest Tuesday this month is Simon, a rationalist, skeptic, curry fan, and all-round-nice-guy. Also, like Shaun, Hayley, and Alex, has some experience with the theme of this month's episode.
As Mental Health Awareness Week is coming up in May, we decided that this month's theme would be mental health. Shaun takes the Dimbleby role whether there is any evidence for mindfulness meditation as a treatment for depression. We talk about the potential harms of mindfulness meditation, our experiences with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Plus, rockstar Hayley sings us into the episode.
Don't forget that we'll be releasing our Extra TWOsday companion episode on Tuesday 9th May 2017, on the theme of mental health, plus the usual levels of irreverent conversation.
Not listened to the most recent TWOsday companion episode? Listen to our thoughts on various conspiracy theories (Lost Cosmonauts, dead Paul McCartney and dead Avril Lavigne) and Neil Young's Pono, all on Episode 009a.
Want to get in touch? We're on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or, you can email us at podcast@lasttuesdayproject.com.
This month's icon uses a drawing of Indian saint and yogi Mahavatar Babaji from Wikimedia Commons.
With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Welcome to The Last Tuesday Project's first companion episode!
This episode is directly link to March 2017's Episode 9 - The Vinyl Countdown. It includes sections not in the original episode, some of which are related to the subject of vinyl. Other sections... not so much.
Subjects covered include:
Plus, Tom Eastwood makes an appearance like some sort of hip hop Beetlejuice to give his unique opinion on all things audio.
With huge thanks, as always, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Welcome to the new, gripping, thrilling, exciting episode of The Last Tuesday Project. And, vinylly, we can reveal our next topic.
But first, we're happy to welcome our first Guest Tuesday! Kirioth runs a YouTube channel dedicated to the delights of video gaming. He was an absolute delight, and we're certain you'll enjoy the episode even more with his added presence.
This episode Hayley asks Alex and Kiri whether vinyl really is better than CD. We attempt to put aside our own personal biases, and discuss technicalities of sound, mastering, ritual, hipsters, and pure retro-love.
This month's icon is based on an image from Wikimedia Commons, and was vectorised by Alex Brown.
With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Welcome to Episode 8 of The Last Tuesday Project, a subtle blend of irreverence and inanity, masquerading as some sort of podcast.
Alex takes on the mantle of Dimbleby this month, managing to convince Hayley and Shaun to research the Windsor Hum. We talk about industrial noise, blast furnaces, government cover-ups, the ghost of Marvin Gaye, and fish sexytimes.
This month's icon is from page 276 of 'Metallurgy. The art of extracting metals from their ores, and adapting them to various purposes of manufacture, etc', from the British Library collection on Flickr.
With huge thanks, as usual, to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Welcome to Episode 7 of The Last Tuesday Project, where we can clearly see that 2017 has neatly picked up from where 2016 left off.
Shaun is our Dimbleby this month. When Alex, David, and Hayley veto the first question on cultural appropriation, we're left with a very interesting question about breast cancer screening. We discuss whether screening actually prevents deaths, clarify the difference between screening and diagnosis, and consider Nu Truth.
This month's icon is the X-Ray Room at the Kitchener Hospital, from the British Library's photo archive on Flickr.
With huge thanks to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Welcome to Episode 6 of The Last Tuesday Project, where we celebrate Christmas the only way we know how - to "intellectually" dissect it.
This month Hayley takes the Dimbleby role, asking Alex, David, and Hannah, about the three gifts brought by the three wise men to that wee bairn, the Baby Jesus. Will gold help you feel indestructible? And what the hell are frankincense and myrrh anyway?!
Plus, David gives us some corrections for last month's episode on US politics.
With huge thanks to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Welcome to Episode 5 of The Last Tuesday Project, where a group of Brits show up their countryfolk and prove how clueless they actually are. And this episode is no exception.
This month David takes the role of Dimbleby and gets Hayley, Alex, and Shaun discussing the American Electoral College. What is its purpose? How democratic is the system? Is it possible to game the system? And where does this whole thing leave President Elect Donald Trump and former presidential candidate Hilary Clinton? Plus, are Americans allowed to take the limbs of bears?
With huge thanks to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
Welcome to the fourth episode of The Last Tuesday Project. Each month, this gaggle of rag-tag ruffians meet up to discuss one topic. Only one of us knows what that topic will be, and we get just one hour to research it. The outcome is a podcast full of laughs, stories, facts and tips on how to dig deeper.
This month, Alex, Hayley, Hannah, Shaun, and David veto a question on psychology and take a look at direct action activism. We talk about striking, Greenpeace, and the definition of "effective."
Welcome to the third episode of The Last Tuesday Project. Each month, this gaggle of rag-tag ruffians meet up to discuss one topic. Only one of us knows what that topic will be, and we get just one hour to research it. The outcome is a podcast full of laughs, stories, facts and tips on how to dig deeper.
This month, Alex, Hayley, Hannah, Shaun, and David have the daunting task of looking at The Beginner's Guide and specifically asking the question of whether Coda, a major character in the game, is real. We take a look at the creator Davey Wreden, his previous creation The Stanley Parable, and the morality of giving someone else's intellectual property away. Plus, we consider jam, Shaun's beard, and rabbit holes, although not necessarily at the same time.
WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE STANLEY PARABLE AND THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE
With huge thanks to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
TLTP 002 - Trust Me... I'm An Expert
Welcome to the second episode of The Last Tuesday Project. Each month, this gaggle of rag-tag ruffians meet up to discuss one topic. Only one of us knows what that topic will be, and we get just one hour to research it. The outcome is a podcast full of laughs, stories, facts and tips on how to dig deeper.
This month, Alex, Hayley, Hannah, Shaun, and new recruit David discuss what it means to be an expert. We mull over 10,000 hours (the concept - the episode isn't that long), which sources to trust, the difference between being an expert and having expertise, plus some thoughts on chess.
Plus, this episode features our first topic veto. A decision which we later come to regret...
With huge thanks to Strong4Life for the use of his music.
TLTP 001 - Fungus In Salem
Welcome to the first episode of The Last Tuesday Project! Each month one of us will come up with a topic which the others will spend an hour researching. Then we'll get back together and talk about that subject. Will we come to any conclusions? Who knows! But that doesn't matter - it's the process that counts.
Trust me, it's funnier than it sounds. :-)
This month, Alex, Hannah, Hayley and Shaun are going to be talking about the Salem Witch Trials. What evidence was there for claims that is was the result of ergot poisoning? What other options can we come up with? Plus, other random thoughts about cholera epidemics and "relieving hysteria."
With huge thanks to @strength4life for the use of his music.
