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I usually like to highlight episode specific art, but how could I not love this show art?
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The Subverse: The folds of life—exploring origami, proteins and human biology
- The Big Idea: Proteins in our cells fold in incredibly complex ways, and their shapes unlock the ability for life to work. Also, the directions proteins follow aren’t too dissimilar to the art of origami.
- A fairly new science show from the zine Dark N Light. This episode caught my eye from the first season but there are lots of interesting looking topics in the second season.
Feed The Queue: Israel Story
- The Big Idea: Discover new podcasts via expert curation of favorite episodes (in full) from the hosts.
- Feed The Queue continues to be a 100% hit rate for me as far as its great taste in podcast selections.
- Israel Story is an example of a show I probably wouldn’t have stumbled upon on my own and the highlighted episode is remarkable in many ways.
- I went in blind with this one, and I recommend you do the same. You won't be disappointed. The context Adela and Lauren provide at the top is all you’ll need.
Short Wave: Spiders Can Fear Other Spiders
- The Big Idea: Spiders: they’re afraid of spiders just like you!
- Studies have actually been done (really) to show that jumping spiders can be afraid of other jumping spiders.
- Short and sweet (and dare I say adorable?) little episode.
Science Vs: Abortion: The Science and the Supreme Court
- The Big Idea: The majority opinion of the Supreme Court in its overturning of Roe vs Wade cited many things that weren’t exactly based in science. This episode clears things up.
- An update to a previously aired episode that I previously recommended, but very much listening to for new context and content.
More Than a Feeling: Acceptance—You’re Okay, I’m Okay
- The Big Idea: In a show that’s all about our emotions, this story about acceptance from two women who run a hair salon for the elderly will give your heart some much needed warmth (sorry I’m assuming your heart could use warmth, but am I wrong? We all could right?)
- I loved everything about this episode. It could have come off as a bit sad, but was honestly sweet and full of wisdom.
Revisionist History: In Triplicate
- The Big Idea: Triplicate paper prescriptions for drugs with high abuse potential were required in only five states during the peak of the opioid epidemic, all of which had thousands of less opioid related deaths than similar states without this requirement.
- This season of Revisionist History is all about various kinds experiments (thought experiments, natural experiments, etc), and this one features the unfortunate clear results of the above natural experiment.
- There is an interesting wrinkle that Malcolm Gladwell himself is very much tied into this whole saga.
- I’ve said it before, but I would love a series from Gladwell that is solely science reporting.
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PODCAST LINKS
Nominations for the British Podcast Awards. Not a bad way to discover new shows. Although I found out about Teach Me A Lesson via this list, it wasn't quite the format I was hoping it would be (more on the entertainment spectrum, although very good).
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OTHER LINKS TO MAKE YOU THINK
These Veritasium videos are all about 17 minutes and very much worth your time if you love science or math. They are all accessible, well-explained, and a bit mind blowing. Also, the titles aren’t click bait. I don't invoke the name of this newsletter often, but these will literally hurt your brain.
For fun: Rachel Ray’s complicated history with baking
For going "woah": Slow motion water art
That's all for today. See you in two weeks!
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Erik
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