Cats, cats, cats

Laura shares four ways you can become more resilient, Robin asks for help dealing with meanieheads at networking events, an impeachment update and what happens when building an endurance base starts feeling like a hopeless case.

Australia's on fire; do we care about more than koalas? January finds lap swimmers everywhere at their most outrageous. Sometimes group mentality is group mixup, and we end up doing what everyone thinks everyone else wants to do -- but no one actually wants to do. And how much care do we need to put into personal grooming, anyway?

Laura discovers that details matter in her advanced research methods course and explains what you can expect when you're reconnecting with a friend after a long (loooong) time. Robin discovers that new memes came out while she was in Tahiti for six weeks, and talks about slowing down and culture shock after coming back to the U.S.

Reward folly, the societally unacceptable side of excitement, failing at a new sport and learning to use a pole spear. We recorded this episode before Robin's sabbatical. Spoilers, she's back in the states now ;)