Oct 21, 2026 · 37 min · 9 segments
Having experienced technology and culture in real life, Amanda and Isabel talk about all their travels and the wondrous sights they've seen, like a robot making lemonade, and also, wet Spiderman. See…
Amanda SilberlingHost
Isabel J. KimHostbasically my goal in going to this festival, it was like, an event put on by the MIT museum, which as you might guess, kind of does like a art tech intersection type vibe.
And so this festival was like half like weird artists doing weird shit related to technology.
So it was kind of like everything like, But I feel like I just had like a really kind of childlike sense of wonder in that I was for the first time in my life allowed to learn about science in an academic setting without worrying that I was going to have to take a test.
I was always so bad at science in school, which I think I just had bad teachers because I was really good at math, but I had a really good math teacher.
Every single one of our labs that we did together just was a miserable fucking failure.
It is really funny how being a journalist puts you in a position where you have reason to just corner people that are like... really advanced in their field and be like, Hey, you have to talk to me for half an hour because vibes.
Like, cause it is kind of like, yeah, it depends on the level of the academic.
And if someone is like a PhD student who is doing really cool research, but it's still kind of in like the grunt work phase of academia, then they're like, hell yeah, this is the coolest thing ever.
basically my goal in going to this festival, it was like, an event put on by the MIT museum, which as you might guess, kind of does like a art tech intersection type vibe.
And so this festival was like half like weird artists doing weird shit related to technology.
So it was kind of like everything like, But I feel like I just had like a really kind of childlike sense of wonder in that I was for the first time in my life allowed to learn about science in an academic setting without worrying that I was going to have to take a test.
I was always so bad at science in school, which I think I just had bad teachers because I was really good at math, but I had a really good math teacher.
Every single one of our labs that we did together just was a miserable fucking failure.
It is really funny how being a journalist puts you in a position where you have reason to just corner people that are like... really advanced in their field and be like, Hey, you have to talk to me for half an hour because vibes.
Like, cause it is kind of like, yeah, it depends on the level of the academic.
And if someone is like a PhD student who is doing really cool research, but it's still kind of in like the grunt work phase of academia, then they're like, hell yeah, this is the coolest thing ever.
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