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The Makers Rage Podcast

The Makers Rage Podcast

Written by: Darren Koolman
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A podcast exploring the history of ideas and creativity with topics chosen from the Arts, Sciences, and "everything in between." Upcoming episodes will include the following titles: What Is Enlightenment, Western Canons, Accidental Genius and a series on Muses. Please feel free to suggest topics on IG, Twitter, or Facebook.

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Episodes
  • The Engineered Man: Styles of Victorian Masculinity
    Mar 28 2026

    In this episode, I explore how Victorian masculinity was not a fixed ideal, but a fragmented, competing set of identities forged in a time of social upheaval. From Sherlock Holmes to Oscar Wilde to Eugen Sandow, I trace how men attempted to redefine themselves in response to shifting gender roles, scientific doubt, and cultural anxiety. What emerges is not a single model of manhood, but a spectrum—intellectual, aesthetic, physical—each striving for dominance. Ultimately, I ask what this tells us about masculinity today, and whether, after decades of deconstruction, it’s time to build something new.

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    Music by LiteSaturation from Pixabay

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    39 mins
  • Thought Experiments: Relativity and the Quantum
    Jan 28 2026

    In this episode of The Maker’s Rage, I follow a simple but dangerous question: what happens when we trust our imagination enough to let it challenge reality?

    Starting with a 16-year-old Einstein riding a beam of light, I explore how thought experiments—humble acts of imagination bound by physical law—reshaped our understanding of space, time, and ultimately reality itself. Along the way, I revisit the great intellectual duels of 20th-century physics: Einstein versus Bohr, relativity versus quantum mechanics, clarity versus strangeness.

    This isn’t a technical lecture, and it isn’t a victory lap for genius. It’s a human story—of curiosity, doubt, stubbornness, and wonder. I reflect on the communicators who first opened these ideas to me, from Jacob Bronowski to Carl Sagan, and on why scientists kept arguing long after the experiments seemed settled.

    If you’ve ever felt both thrilled and unsettled by ideas like time dilation, Schrödinger’s cat, or “spooky action at a distance,” this episode is for you. I don’t promise easy answers—only an invitation to think alongside some of the greatest minds who ever tried to understand what kind of universe we’re actually living in.

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    Music by LiteSaturation from Pixabay

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    52 mins
  • Amadeus (2025): Artistic Licence or Cultural Gaslighting?
    Dec 30 2025

    Amadeus (2025) reignites a cultural fault line: who gets to rewrite history, and who doesn’t. Using the new miniseries as a starting point, I challenge the claim that race-swapping white historical figures is “harmless artistic licence” while similar changes elsewhere are branded as propaganda.

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    8 mins
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