Episodes

Much of what we take for granted in the affluent West is a direct result or consequence of the impulse to protest injustices and other forms of oppression. There are more ways than ever, in the modern world, to express …

From ancient Etruscan jewelry to barbed wire to submarine cables criss-crossing the world’s oceans, the ubiquity of wire in underpinning our current way of life is undeniable. Not only is the history of wire fascinating, it’s...

TSP202 - Ph Factor: The Joy of We - Celebrating Collaboration No one flies solo in this world. All life forms, from beginning to end, are engaged in acts of ongoing collaboration, the joys of which should be extolled. Duratio...

TSP201 - PH Factor: Surviving The Lifeline - Cutting the cord. Smartphones have become the Swiss Army knives of the 21st century, in that they provide one source access to many tools. Has our dependence on smartphone technolo...

TSP200 - PH Factor: Flying Loose - The Sill lands on 200. In this milestone - 200th episode of The Sill, hosts Peter and Harry mine the audio landscape created over the last six years. Favourite episodes, experiences gained a...

TSP199 - Time Trek: Renaissance Redux - Culture’s Quantum Leap The dynamics of the late Middle Ages, which included the Black Plague, famine and religious wars, paved the way for the historical period most commonly referred t...

TSP198 - PH Factor: The World As It Could Be - Our Vital Choices We struggle with defining what it means to be happy and/or free and yet, these two states of being are critical to the functioning of a …

TSP197 - PH Factor: Universe Or Multiverse - The jury is out. From religion to art to technology, the notion of worlds beyond our own has captured our imagination for a very long time. How can considering and working with …

TSP196 - PH Factor: The Nation State - On the road to extinction? In a world that’s becoming globalized, the question of the nation state becomes more pertinent than ever. Is it possible to get to a place where national …

TSP195 - PH Factor: Rip In The Fabric - Conspiracy or Consensus? Given that many people are currently experiencing to varying degrees a profound existential dilemma, exacerbated by a lack of clear thinking, how are we to resp...

TSP194 - PH Factor: When Winning Is Losing - How success fails us. Our preoccupation with winning at all costs can often lead to pyrrhic victory. Repercussions can include everything from addiction to poor sportsmanship, ramp...

TSP193 - PH Factor: Talking Points - Language Defaced Is language going to the dogs? Have we lost our ability or motive to communicate, heart to heart, three years into our relatively enforced social separation? Duration - 37...

TSP192 - PH Factor: Sonic Tools - All The Bells and Whistles Two of the most fundamental sounds in our sonic tool belt are bells and whistles. The use of these two tools have been an integral part of our …

Walking literally represents our nascent step in life, and its loss the signal to our journey’s end. From civil rights marches to celebratory parades and benefits to our overall health, walking remains fundamental to our phys...

Working with the themes of time travel, science gone wrong, alien contacts, and others, the genre of science fiction has reflected back to us the state of our humanity. What draws us to science fiction, and what can learn fro...

In the latter stages of Covid as a world emergency we, as individuals and as a collective, have come to the realization of just how wounded we are. How do we reconcile the divisiveness we are experiencing, both within and …

This is possibly a first Covid to Covid conversation, in which the hosts struggle with their respective mental fogs, to explore first hand getting beyond the disheartened self. Duration: 28:02 Posted: October 23, 2022

As a follow up to part one on The Sill’s growing older series, the hosts ruminate on their own experience of growing older, including changes to libido, dealing with regret and forgiveness and a plethora of other associated r...

From ageism to medical assisted suicide to issues with technology, seniors are now facing unprecedented challenges. Part one, of a two part podcast, exploring the world of aging. Duration: 34:06 Posted: September 25, 2022

Unusual and unexpected - Confucianism, a 2,500 year old philosophy, hangs out with K.I.S.S (keep it simple stupid) a 21st century systems principle. Surprisingly, they have much in common, despite the millennial gap. Duration...

From technology to brain chemistry to complacency, we are replete with challenges to transformation. Are we capable of pushing past what holds us back? Duration: 27:25 Posted: August 28, 2022

On July 8, 2022, a major national telecom company experienced a critical network failure that affected an entire nation. It’s not the first time, nor will it be the last, that such an event has occurred or will occur. Are …

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For the first time in our five years of doing this podcast, we’ve elected to repurpose a podcast we recorded in 2018. Over the years we’ve had listeners comment or ask us questions on many of our podcasts and, amongst …