Listen to what happens when two cubers get together and discuss cubing. During this episode we talk about Gianni’s cubing background, our favourite events, the definition of a speedcuber, being colour neutral, smart cubes, cubing in public, cubing innovation in the last 10 years and cubing stories. 

Gianni D is a speedcuber from Belgium. His goal of this year is to solve a rubik's cube blindfolded. He has an instagram page and youtube channel about his cubecollection. He also does some cubepattern tutorials, reviews, cubing related stuff and as of recently cubemosaics. 

Instagram: https://instagram.com/belgianspeedcuber?igshid=u81o7a4tmqx

Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCvt7aefMC0KyK6Bg4sMcTSA

Nadia Maddy explains step-by-step the process of publishing her first book - The Palm Oil Stain. Nadia discusses her dad the late great Yulisa Amadu Maddy and how influential he was to her. She shares the pitfalls to avoid and her advice for writers. If you have aspirations of writing or publishing a book then this is a must listen interview!

Nadia Maddy social media

Instagram @nadiamaddy @ibshowafrica

Facebook nadia maddy

Facebook Indiebookshow africa

Link to her book

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Palm-Oil-Stain-Nadia-Maddy/dp/1908775122

Links to the indie book show Africa YouTube channel https://youtube.com/channel/UCk8tBc9cKmv2Kbh2xaKPG0A

Nadia's Dad, Yulisa Amadu Maddy articles:-

Staging the Amistad

https://www.ohioswallow.com/author/Yulisa+Amadu+Maddy

Yulisa Amadu Maddy Award in Creative Writing launched

https://www.jamesmurua.com/yulisa-amadu-maddy-award-in-creative-writing-launched-at-mboka-festival-2018/

Recorded Nov 2020

In this first episode of “Doing the Rubiks cube blindfolded” we explain blind cube solving, the equipment and resources you need. We discuss our current progress plus offer some valuable tips. We also reference Star Wars and Toy Story. With patience, practice and hardwork, we believe anyone can solve the Rubik's cube blindfolded. If you are interested there are other episodes in this series to listen to.

J-perm 2x2 and 3x3 tutorial

https://youtu.be/7pHnmNeoJkQ

https://youtu.be/ZZ41gWvltT8

Are you a couch potato? Are you new to running? Have you started the Couch to 5k (C25K) running programme? This episode is may be for you! Taking up running can be a daunting prospect if you are out of shape or unfit.

Sabrina and Reggie discuss starting the C25K programme which is a running programme for absolute beginners. It gets people from the couch to running 5km (30 minutes straight) within 9 weeks. They share their experience of the programme and their 3 top tips that worked for them. Come join us!

Links to free apps:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phe.couchto5K

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/one-you-couch-to-5k/id1082307672

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/get-running-with-couch-to-5k/

https://www.parkrun.org.uk

Life of Learning presents: The Neutral Zone! Reggie, Sabrina and Sukh are secret Trekkers. In this series we deep dive into our favourite Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. We explore the characters, themes and storytelling and give our takes. This week we are exploring Season 3 Episode 21 - Hollow Pursuits. Come join us!

We discuss our earliest music memories. We go back to the years where it was just vinyls and tapes, you had to go out to the record shops to buy your music, album covers were a piece of art, special times. We also discuss our favourite artists, bands and concerts.

Mandy lives in Washington state and started juggling in December of 2018 as project to expand her circus arts skills. Her instagram is @mandygoeshere where it chronicles her experience in learning how to juggle. She's been practicing the circus arts since 2014 with Spokane Aerial Performance Arts where she's taken classes for aerial silk, lyra, and hammock as well as cyr wheel and fire dancing. We discuss all this and more. Hope you enjoy the show!! 4 ball wimpy tutorial https://youtu.be/ZODIEyq8Y7I Recorded in Nov 2020

Our guest discusses his experiences during the various lockdowns that occurred in 2020 and 2021. It's an open and candid conversation. We hope that him sharing his experiences will help and inspire others. We also manage to get some Star Trek talk into the discussion. He offers some good advice on how to cope during the Lockdown periods. Recorded 10th Jan 21

Some people believe you are either born with talent or not. Others believe that with hard work, you can achieve anything. Our hosts discuss these different mindsets, the effects they have and what it takes to achieve success.

Lockdown FOMO, Nice Guys and Food-Phobia. We welcome our friend Sukh to join us for a special three-way Roundtable. We each share something that we've been exploring this week. This episode we discuss productivity pressures during lockdown, Nice Guys (not to be confused with nice guys, that is guys that are nice), and people who believe food is only fuel. Come join us!