It’s Christmas in March as we discuss our favourite Christmas albums in this episode! For the main discussion, we revisit the letters we wrote to our future selves when we were writing our dissertations. Haley discovers fusion; Aparna discovers patenting a living organism!

Aparna spotlights the newsletter Fifty Two (https://fiftytwo.in)

Haley spotlights Team Trans’ first draft tournament in WC (https://thehockeynews.com/news/growing-the-game-first-all-trans-hockey-tournament-a-success)

Mentions:

Kelly Link's short story “The Wrong Grave” (2009)

“fanfiction is art now? the fanfic to published book pipeline” by Carley Thorne (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFDE-BX3pzg)

The Nylon’s "A Wish For You" Christmas album (2006)

Celine Dion’s "These Are Special Times" Christmas album (1998)

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack (1965)

Denise Levertov’s “Some Notes on Organic Form” (1965)

Hank Green Fusion TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@hankgreen1/video/7176414313681292549)

Thank you to Pádraig Ó Tuama whose poem “The Facts of Life” inspired the title of this podcast.

Cover image by Sanjana Kapur.