Season 1

7 years ago

27 D for Derivative ABBA

In which Harry and Mairead discuss gardening and pop music.

Harry’s theme was inspired by gardening, and he Googled to find his terms.

For more on pop music, Mairead recommends the podcast Switched on Pop, this poster about complementary choruses, and this article about slant rhyme. She referenced the following songs: Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, Landslide by Fleetwood Mac, Oops!...I Did It Again by Britney Spears, You Need to Calm Down by Taylor Swift, and Take The Money And Run by The Steve Miller Band.

Our engineer is Nick Shoup.

We’re on instagram @aforeffortcast, with art by Marielle Wall.

Our music is “Chop Shop (Instrumental)” by White Flowers, and our logo is by ei8htz.

7 years ago

28 G for Great, moving on

In which Harry and Mairead discuss the silk road and immunization.

For more on the silk road, Harry recommends the book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan.

Mairead's theme was inspired by news about outbreaks of measles related to low vaccination rates, like this episode of the podcast Today, Explained.

We’re on instagram @aforeffortcast, with art by Marielle Wall [Instagram, website].

Our music is “Chop Shop (Instrumental)” by White Flowers, and our logo is by ei8htz.

6 years ago

29 W for Word Camel Word Camel Word

In which Harry and Mairead discuss the economics of human migration and data science. No camels (or words) were hurt in the making of this episode.

For more about the economics of human migration, Harry recommends the special report on migration from The Economist. We also emphasize that we are not sponsored by The Economist.

For more about data science, Mairead recommends reading R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund.

We’re on instagram @aforeffortcast, with art by Marielle Wall.

Our music is “Chop Shop (Instrumental)” by White Flowers, and our logo is by ei8htz.

6 years ago

30 L for Lax Evasion

In which Harry and Mairead discuss Netflix and tax justice.

For more on Netflix, Harry recommends the Netflix Wikipedia page, and this interview with Ted Sarandos, the current chief content officer for Netflix.

For more on tax justice, Mairead recommends the book The Triumph of Injustice by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. She also references this Tweet about online brick and mortar stores.

We’re on instagram @aforeffortcast, with art by Marielle Wall. You can email us at [email protected].

Our music is “Chop Shop (Instrumental)” by White Flowers, and our logo is by ei8htz.