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Episode art by Dan Pecci for Illuminations: Experimental Methods
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Ministry of Ideas: Illuminations Ep 1 — Experimental Methods
- The Big Idea: A new limited series from Ministry of Ideas about the surprising interconnected history between science and religion.
- This first episode is a fascinating look at how modern scientific thinking and the Royal Society sprung forth from a religious framework.
- This series so far doesn’t try to argue that religion is necessarily important for the future of science, but lays a compelling narrative on how their histories cannot be unlinked and that they haven’t been as incompatible as you might think.
- A good portion of the episode is about Micrographia, the first scientific best seller and the book that put the Royal Society onto the scene. Here is info from the Royal Society about the digital version of Micrographia, and here is a link to check out the full digital version in its entirety. It’s a book filled with excellent drawings of microscopic creatures, the first time many people were able to see such strange things.
All There Is: Facing What’s Left Behind
- The Big Idea: Anderson Cooper’s new show about grief. It's moving and very well done. It’s a combination of unpacking (literally and figuratively) the death of his brother decades ago and the recent death of his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, as well as talking to celebrities about their own grief.
- This first episode sets everything up, and the second episode is an interview with Stephen Colbert (whose two brothers and Dad died in a plane crash decades ago), which is excellent and thought provoking.
Terrestrials: The Mastermind [Podcast website with transcript and great episode artwork]
- The Big Idea: The first episode of a new delightful kids podcast (with great songs) from Lulu Miller and Radiolab. This episode is about octopuses and their truly intelligent behavior and legendary escape artist skills.
- You can certainly listen without kids around. Kids educational content is sometimes the best way to learn something to be honest.
Articles of Interest: American Ivy — chapter 1
- The Big Idea: The third season of Avery Trufelman’s Articles of Interest has launched, and as always, I’ve found myself way more interested in the fashion world than I would have ever guessed.
- This entire season is dedicated to American Ivy, or basically, the preppy look. The first episode sets up nicely why this is so interesting.
- Pictures, behind the scenes, and transcripts can be found in Trufelman’s Substack publication.
Obsessions: Wild Chocolate — The Hunt
- The Big Idea: All chocolate you can find in a grocery store comes from cacao trees on a farm, but there is new interest in hunting for rare wild cacao trees, which have a magic, life-changing quality to them.
- Journalist and host Rowan Jacobson tags along with a professional cacao hunter in Bolivia in an opening episode that is way more captivating than any show about chocolate deserves to be. Just listen. It’s really good.
Who’s Gonna Save Us?: The energy it takes to be extremely online
- The Big Idea: From the ABC in Australia and producer Joel Werner comes this great episode about the hidden physical structure of the internet and its not so hidden carbon footprint.
- This story is out of Australia, but all the details work for any country you could randomly point to on a globe.
- “99% of all international communication goes through undersea cables and there are 1.3 million kilometers of undersea cables.”
The Outlaw Ocean: Episode 1 — The Murder Video
- The Big Idea: 50 million workers are employed within international waters (12 miles out from shore), which is one of the most neglected and least policed areas in the world, with less than 1% of crimes investigated, let alone solved.
- This 7-part series from CBC and the LA Times is the culmination of over eight years of reporting about what goes on in the open ocean.
- The first episode details brazen acts of violence in the open seas and is absolutely wild.
- Hat tip to Calen for putting on my radar.
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PODCAST LINKS
As I mentioned above, the podcast riddle challenge ends soon (end of Nov 11). Why not go through and guess them all at once? You can still win a Sonos Roam! There are hundreds of submitted answers. Can you rise to the top? For any ties, the winners will be randomly selected so no disadvantage to submitting your guesses now. May the odds ever be in your favor!
An Indie Audio Maker's Manifesto. A excellent read from Wade Roush of the always great Hub & Spoke podcast network.
What’s the most mind blowing thing that you’ve learned from a podcast that you can recall? Now that's my kind of Reddit thread. Lots of great recommendations. Thanks to Inside Podcasting for putting on my radar.
Roundup of podcast visuals: A new "unofficial" riddle that you may be able to guess. Don't talk to me before my morning podcast. Labors of love.
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OTHER LINKS TO MAKE YOU THINK
Astronomy Picture of the Day: From NASA. You can't pick a better site to start each morning.
Keep Your Bird-Watching—I’m a Spider Man. "Some of you are thinking, Ewww, no way. But open your hearts to the truth: spiders are among the most fascinating creatures on earth, and great neighbors to boot (goodbye, mosquitos!)." I'm not gonna lie, I so agree with this article. The opening graphic and the pictures are just the best. Please don't unfriend me. This is who I am.
For fun: Daddy's on the phone. It's not jingle foot time. Do yourself a favor and look through previous ones too.
That's all for today. See you in two weeks!
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Erik
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