What’s Your Problem: John Green Tests the Limits of YouTube
- The Big Idea: When it comes to his identity, author and YouTuber John Green considers himself an educational video person before considering himself an author.
- This is a new show for Pushkin from Jacob Goldstein, former Planet Money host, where “entrepreneurs and engineers talk about the future they’re trying to build – and the problems they have to solve to get there.”
- I’ve never read a John Green book, but I love his podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and I have consumed hours of his YouTube content over the years. It’s fascinating getting an inside look at the origin and early days of the Green brother’s (John and Hank) educational YouTube empire.
What I Believe: Richard Dawkins
- The Big Idea: An interview from Humanist UK exploring the values, ideas, and convictions of famed biologist Richard Dawkins.
- So much of the conversation surrounding Dawkins tends to focus on atheism, but this interview starts with his love of science and science communication and where that came from.
- I’m happy to hear that Dawkins is in the Carl Sagan camp of science communication, where the beauty and wonder of science should be celebrated publicly from scientists themselves.
- Shoutout to Kavein for bringing to my attention.
Feed the Queue: We Share The Same Sky
- The Big Idea: “We Share the Same Sky is a seven episode narrative podcast that tells the story of Rachael’s decade-long journey to retrace her grandmother’s war story.”
- Adela and Lauren set this podcast up quite nicely. I know I keep mentioning Feed the Queue, but I really do keep finding great shows I had never heard of.
- I just read the short book Night, which is a devastating personal account of the holocaust, and I found this podcast to be an interesting unintentional companion to it.
- There is a transcript on the website for We Share the Same Sky.
Revisionist History: “I Was A Stranger and You Welcomed Me”
- The Big Idea: Acts of kindness are some of the most underrated qualities of community and society. Also, an interesting fact is that Canada brings in more refugees per capita than any other country, largely due to the informal nature of it, as opposed to the extremely rigid and bureaucratic process in the US.
- One of the most touching episodes of a podcast I’ve heard in a while, and really made me evaluate my current efforts around acts of kindness.
- Show website that includes transcript.
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PODCAST LINKS
Podcast riddle: can you guess the show this riddle refers to? Reply on the Twitter post or directly to this email if you know it (or even if you don't). Doing something fun soon with podcast riddles and just wanted to gauge how difficult these are.
The riddle is also below:
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OTHER LINKS TO MAKE YOU THINK
Is it okay to refuse to pay for a bottle of wine after tasting it in a restaurant? [Quora]. An interesting answer to this question on Quora. Basically, this ritual is to ensure the wine didn’t go bad, not to actually approve if you like the wine or not. Well, aren't I just a basic person for having no idea.
Mark Rober Gives Up on Science While Eating Spicy Wings [YouTube]. If you know me then you know I love Hot Ones interviews and regularly watch them when I should be doing something else. I can heartily recommend this one here because Mark Rober is one of the best educational YouTubers out there and fits a surprising amount of interesting science into an interview as his mouth is on fire.
That's all for today. See you in two weeks!
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Erik
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