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Sources

• YouTube Short
• River Monsters — Most DANGEROUS Fishing Spots Jeremy Wade Has Ever Fished In
• MagellanTV — Congo: the Untamed Heart | Wildest Africa
• BBC Africa — Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa
• Lewis Blake — 3 Days Crossing the CONGO Jungle (Without a Map)

Timestamps

00:00 Intro & What Exactly Is the Congo?
15:00 A Ridiculous Amount of Water
31:39 Boyoma Falls & Fishing the Rapids
41:22 River Barges & Floating Markets
47:47 Into the Rainforest: Wildlife, Bugs & Jungle Life
1:01:59 Peatlands & the Trouble with Building Roads
1:14:30 The Lower Congo: Wild Currents & Invisible Fish Barriers

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🎙 Episode Title

A Gentle Lil' River Ride Down the Congo

📌 Episode Summary

McKyler takes Daniel on a not-so-lazy river cruise through the Congo, exploring its powerful river, dense rainforest, and the communities that call it home. Along the way, they discuss fishermen navigating wild rapids, river barges doubling as floating markets, and peatlands that store enormous amounts of carbon. Things get especially strange downstream, where intense currents create invisible barriers between fish populations and the river’s influence stretches into the Atlantic. Naturally, the trip includes geography confusion, questionable jungle survival prospects, and plenty of detours.

🎥 About Doing Learning

Doing Learning is the podcast version of hanging out with curious friends on the couch. Daniel and McKyler follow their childlike curiosity into history, science, and strange stories—not to prove a point, but just to see what we’ll discover together. No pressure, no pop quizzes, just learning for the sake of learning and inviting you to wonder right along with us.

Thank You to Our Patrons

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• Seth T.
• Irvin H.
• DaDog
• Brice T.
• Kirk K.

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0:00 Intro: Fall Weather & Tornado Season
6:21 Tornadoes in Colorado
15:30 Why Tornadoes Are So Fascinating
19:50 The Earliest Recorded Tornadoes
30:10 Tornadoes in Medieval Europe
36:45 The London Tornado & the Fujita Scale
45:00 Modern Tornado Warnings, Radar & Ratings

🎙 Episode title:

Twist and Shout about the Enhanced Fujita Scale

📌 Episode summary:

Daniel takes McKyler on a whirlwind tour through the history, science, and strange cultural legacy of tornadoes. From Aristotle’s early descriptions and destructive storms in ancient Rome to modern radar, storm warnings, and the Enhanced Fujita Scale, they explore how people have tried to understand these powerful storms for centuries. Along the way, they talk Colorado tornadoes, Twister, storm chasing, and why tornado ratings are based on the damage left behind. It’s a fun, curious dive into one of nature’s most fascinating—and terrifying—weather phenomena.

🎥 About Doing Learning

Doing Learning is the podcast version of hanging out with curious friends on the couch. Daniel and McKyler follow their childlike curiosity into history, science, and strange stories—not to prove a point, but just to see what we’ll discover together. No pressure, no pop quizzes, just learning for the sake of learning and inviting you to wonder

Sources

Triumph — Wu-Tang Clan
Love Is the Message (12" Version) — MFSB
Shrunk — Aesop Rock
Roadwork Rappin' — Aesop Rock
Long Legged Larry — Aesop Rock
Doomsday — MF DOOM

Rap and Hip Hop: Crash Course Black American History #47
How MF DOOM Made "Doomsday"
Founding Fathers The Untold Story of Hip Hop
Hip-Hop & Shakespeare? Akala at TEDxAldeburgh
Damian Lewis as Antony in Julius Caesar: 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' | Shakespeare Solos
Lupe Fiasco: Why (And Maybe How) You Should Appreciate Aesop Rock

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🎙 Episode title:

Hip Hop Anonymous

📌 Episode summary:

McKyler and Daniel got time to learn to rhyme. We discuss poetry, which naturally leads to poetry in motion—hip hop. Even if hip hop isn't your favorite, come learn why it's worth a listen.

🎥 About Doing Learning

Doing Learning is the podcast version of hanging out with curious friends on the couch. Daniel and McKyler follow their childlike curiosity into history, science, and strange stories—not to prove a point, but just to see what we'll discover together. No pressure, no pop quizzes, just learning for the sake of learning and inviting you to wonder right along with us.

Thank you to our Patrons:

• Liz D.
• Seth T.
• Irvin H.
• DaDog
• Brice T.
• Kirk K.

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• History.com: Florence Nightingale
• National Army Museum: Florence Nightingale, Lady with the Lamp
• National Library of Medicine / PMC Article
• Wikipedia: Florence Nightingale
• American Association for the History of Nursing
• Florence Nightingale Museum: About Florence Nightingale
• Nursing Before Florence Nightingale
• Wellcome Collection
• Florence Nightingale’s Coxcomb Chart
• Flight of the Wild Swan

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00:00 Welcome to Doing Learning
01:17 Why Florence Nightingale?
12:16 A Privileged Childhood and a Calling
24:31 Choosing Nursing Against the Odds
38:54 The Crimean War and Scutari Hospital
51:10 The Lady with the Lamp: Sanitation and Data
1:01:46 Nightingale’s Lasting Legacy

The Lady of the Lamp--How One Amazing Woman Changed an Industry

In this episode, Daniel teaches McKyler about Florence Nightingale: the “Lady with the Lamp,” pioneering nurse, reformer, and data-driven problem solver whose work changed healthcare forever. They follow her journey from a privileged upbringing and a calling to serve, through the horrifying conditions of the Crimean War, to the sanitation reforms, statistics, and nursing education that became her enduring legacy. Along the way: bad 1800s medicine, the Crimean War, telegraphs, coxcomb charts, and why washing your hands turned out to be a world-changing idea.

Doing Learning is the podcast version of hanging out with curious friends on the couch. Daniel and McKyler follow their childlike curiosity into history, science, and strange stories—not to prove a point, but just to see what we’ll discover together. No pressure, no pop quizzes, just learning for the sake of learning and inviting you to wonder right along with us.

• Liz D.
• Seth T.
• Irvin H.
• DaDog
• Brice T.
• Kirk K.

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https://around.com/the-information/

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1. 00:00 Welcome Dr. Seth Z. & The Information
2. 05:06 What Is Information?
3. 11:21 The Printing Press and Information Overload
4. 14:20 African Talking Drums, Signal Fires & Redundancy
5. 26:28 Language, Writing & the Origins of Logic
6. 38:00 Aristotle, Boolean Logic & Thinking by Machine
7. 42:20 Lost Knowledge, Constantinople & the Renaissance
8. 49:00 Printing, Ciphers & Encoding Meaning
9. 59:20 The Telegraph, Morse Code & a Smaller World
10. 1:15:00 Claude Shannon, Bell Labs & Information Theory

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

In this episode, we sit down with our friend Dr. Seth Z. and try to make sense of information: what it is, how we share it, why it gets lost or distorted, and how it became one of the most important ideas behind the modern world.

Using James Gleick’s The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood as our launchpad, we follow the story from African talking drums, ancient signal fires, writing, logic, and the printing press to the telegraph, Morse code, weather forecasting, and the ways faster communication started changing society. We talk about why redundancy—saying more than the bare minimum—can make a message easier to understand, while systems like the telegraph pushed people toward brevity, codes, and efficiency.

Then we get into the people and ideas that helped turn information into a real science: Aristotle and formal logic, George Boole and binary thinking, Claude Shannon’s landmark work at Bell Labs, relays and logic circuits, the transistor, and the birth of information theory. Along the way, we wrestle with entropy, randomness, error, encryption, computers, AI, DNA, and quantum information—and ask whether information is just something we communicate or something much more fundamental about the universe.

Doing Learning is the podcast version of hanging out with curious friends on the couch. Daniel and McKyler follow their childlike curiosity into history, science, and strange stories—not to prove a point, but just to see what we’ll discover together.

No pressure, no pop quizzes, just learning for the sake of learning and inviting you to wonder right along with us.

• Liz D.
• Seth T.
• Irvin H.
• DaDog
• Brice T.
• Kirk K.

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References

The Engineering Behind the Longest Tunnel in the World | Blueprint

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Chapters

0:00 Intro & Our Wildest Tunnel Experiences
2:30 Iceland’s One-Lane Mountain Tunnels
8:45 Norway, Mexico & Tunnels Beneath the Sea
12:30 The Gotthard Base Tunnel: Building Through the Swiss Alps
18:00 Seeing Through Rock & Giant Tunnel-Boring Machines
37:40 Precision, Explosives & Engineering Around Unstable Ground
45:30 Safety Systems, Ventilation & High-Speed Trains Underground

🎙 Episode title:

Dig a Tunnel....Through the Entire Mountain Range...

📌 Episode summary:

Daniel takes McKyler underground to explore the fascinating world of tunnels—from one-lane mountain passages in Iceland to underwater routes in Norway and the beautiful tunnel network beneath Guanajuato, Mexico. Then we take a deep dive into Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel: the massive engineering project built through the Alps. We talk giant tunnel-boring machines, using seismic technology and lasers to navigate solid rock, and the extreme safety systems needed to move trains at high speed underground. It’s a journey through human ingenuity, huge machines, and the strange places we build when the mountain is in the way.

🎥 About Doing Learning

Doing Learning is the podcast version of hanging out with curious friends on the couch. Daniel and McKyler follow their childlike curiosity into history, science, and strange stories—not to prove a point, but just to see what we’ll discover together. No pressure, no pop quizzes, just learning for the sake of learning and inviting you to wonder right along with us.

Thank you to our Patrons:

• Liz D.
• Seth T.
• Irvin H.
• DaDog
• Brice T.
• Kirk K.

#DoingLearning #Podcast #History #doyourownresearch #staycurious

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🎙 Episode title:

Cannonball! -- The Illegal Coast to Coast Race

📌 Episode summary:

Start your engines...quietly! McKyler teaches Daniel about the illegal time trial from New York to L.A. Would you drive that fast for that long?

00:00 If You Could Abolish One Law?

03:12 What Is the Cannonball Run?

07:12 The 1970s Outlaw Protest Race

16:55 Fast Cars, Wild Teams & the Fake Ambulance

35:30 The Cannonball Run Goes Underground

37:53 The “Nerd Era”: Technology, Tactics & Airborne Spotters

44:05 Modern Records, COVID-Era Runs & the Ethics of Speed

🎥 About Doing Learning

Doing Learning is the podcast version of hanging out with curious friends on the couch. Daniel and McKyler follow their childlike curiosity into history, science, and strange stories—not to prove a point, but just to see what we’ll discover together. No pressure, no pop quizzes, just learning for the sake of learning and inviting you to wonder right along with us.

Thank you to our Patrons:

• Liz D.
• Seth T.
• Irvin H.
• DaDog
• Kirk K.

#DoingLearning #Podcast #History #doyourownresearch #staycurious

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🎙 Episode title:
Big River Man: They Say He's Still Swimming

📌 Episode summary:
Daniel teaches McKyler about the prolific long distance swimmer, river conquerer, and piranha fighter--Martin Strel. Find out how an unknown music-loving man swam his way through the worlds longest and most polluted rivers. Come for the sleeping while swimming, stay for the daily blood transfusions.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro, chaos, and catching up
02:30 – The mystery DVD and region‑locked Big River Man
07:30 – Who is Martin Strel and how this episode came to be
15:00 – Early river swims and building a life around the water
30:00 – Record‑setting epic swims from Africa to Europe and the Danube
50:00 – What Big River Man says about obsession, risk, and purpose

🎥 About Doing Learning
Doing Learning is the podcast version of hanging out with curious friends on the couch. Daniel and McKyler follow their childlike curiosity into history, science, and strange stories—not to prove a point, but just to see what we’ll discover together.

No pressure, no pop quizzes, just learning for the sake of learning and inviting you to wonder right along with us.

Thank you to our Patrons:

• Liz D.
• ​Seth T.
• ​Irvin H.
• ​DaDog
• ​Kirk K.

#DoingLearning #Podcast #History #doyourownresearch #staycurious

🎧 All our links, episodes, and ways to support:https://doinglearningpod.com/links📸 Follow us on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/doinglearningpod🤝 Support the show on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/c/DoingLearning💬 Join the Discord community:https://discord.gg/FYg6T5q7xK---🎙 Episode title:Lord Timothy Dexter: Secret Genius or Lucky Idiot?📌 Episode summary:Happy 250th, USA! McKyler teaches Daniel about the shrewd farmer turned speculator extraordinaire(?)--Lord Timothy Dexter. Born poor, Dexter sought to improve his station in life. His wild success leaves us wondering--was it all due to cunning and skill, or the luckiest string of decisions anyone has ever made?🎥 About Doing LearningDoing Learning is the podcast version of hanging out with curious friends on the couch. Daniel and McKyler follow their childlike curiosity into history, science, and strange stories—not to prove a point, but just to see what we’ll discover together.No pressure, no pop quizzes, just learning for the sake of learning and inviting you to wonder right along with us.Thank you to our Patrons:- Liz D.- ​Seth T.- ​Irvin H.- ​DaDog- ​Miles T.- ​Kirk K.#DoingLearning #Podcast #History #doyourownresearch #staycurious

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🎙 Episode title:

Why the NES is the Greatest Console

📌 Episode summary:

Daniel and McKyler get nostalgic on gaming consoles. Daniel explains how the NES saved console gaming from a world of oversaturated, poorly made games. Daniel talks about his other S-Tier console--the Xbox and what made it so culturally significant.

🎥 About Doing Learning

Doing Learning is the podcast version of hanging out with curious friends on the couch. Daniel and McKyler follow their childlike curiosity into history, science, and strange stories—not to prove a point, but just to see what we’ll discover together.No pressure, no pop quizzes, just learning for the sake of learning and inviting you to wonder right along with us.

#DoingLearning #Podcast #History #doyourownresearch #staycurious