11/2/19

1:47 News

4:17 the little things that make Emily happy

18:52 stories in Stories: "Nervous" a story-telling event at Stories Books & Cafe

24:45 Andrew's true-life story

34:30 Q&A: Emily grills Andrew about live story-telling and this particular story

42:20 Quote of the Week

10/26/19

:50 News

3:15 Top 5 + 2 scary books series and/or authors for middle school/junior high

17:30 Joy Division / New Order = 2nd most influential band in band-based history??

18:35 anachronisms in Shakespeare

39:30 Poem of the Week

10/19/19

:40 News

5:05 things that we don't think to talk about (memory associations, synesthesia, brain tingles)

25:55 Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky

39:05 Quote of the Week

10/13/19 [Guest Hosts: Danny and Junebug]

:58 News

2:16 aging, time, creativity, and jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders

7:05 how we perceive the passage of time

12:15 smells that grab you

15:48 linchpin memories

25:02 repetitive tasks (Rubik's Cube, learning the U.S. presidents)

35:46 people talking to each other on the bus. or not.

10/5/19

:40 News

3:59 how there are multiple sides to every story (4:51 cars banned from 14th Street in Manhattan; 10:55 Universal Orlando fires actor for using ok symbol; 17:24 two books about adoption (All You Can Ever Know, Motherhood So White); 19:52 CA Assembly Bill 5 gig workers as actual employees)

29:40 driving and road rage

50:15 Tip of the Week

9/28/19

1:07 News

4:57 To Live and Die in L.A. [podcast] and true crime feelings

7:48 The Dream [podcast] and "pyramid opportunities"

8:44 Veronica Mars Investigations [podcast]

9:28 A Beautiful Mess [blog] posts about adoption

10:37 Bad Blood [book] about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes

13:40 National Center for Disability and Journalism's Disability Style Guide [Lifehacker post]

16:37 OK symbol listed a symbol of hate by Anti-Defamation League

18:00 The Great Recession (2007-2009)

38:45 Tip of the Week

9/21/19

:40 News

3:05 not following the "typical"/expected life path and valuing found family

24:00 books by women (and some men) who are single and/or not parents

27:27 books by or about women who are older than 40

29:35 books by women who are otherwise marginalized

31:26 books by women about their non-romantic relationships with men

36:35 Tips of the Week

9/15/19

:40 News

2:10 aging and family (we are time after all)

21:37 clearing out Emily's Safari tabs: 23:20 Fish in a Tree; 25:11 traffic problems on Everest (NYT article); 26:00 Dewey medal renamed; 27:27 Vox horror movies; 30:13 Braille Institute transcribing team; 30:34 Icelandic Name Registry; 32:22 SF (sci-fi) Masterworks; 33:16 Books Behind Bars; 33:38 help Library of Congress transcribe stuff; 34:11 Outside magazine protect America's trails; 34:43 books to read for every age (1-100) (Washington Post); 35:44 vegan cafe and CFIA; 39:09 Homestead Act of 1862; 40:09 Babadook; 40:19 City in the Middle of the Night optioned for TV; 40:38 Rohner Textil and Cradle to Cradle certification

44:25 Tip of the Week

9/6/19

:50 News

3:44 what scares us? the unknown, nature, and the evil than men do in movies, books, and dreams

24:28 movies you manage to go years without seeing and bands you manage to never listen to

38:22 why this will never be a politics podcast

38:34 Tips of the Week

8/31/19

:41 News

2:27 walking into spiderwebs as a consequence of height

8:23 The Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket," etc., briefly

10:14 pumice island/raft in the South Pacific

15:40 some early memories

23:25 Nature Neuroscience article about creating an artificial memory, false memories or maybe not, Radiolab episode Memory and Forgetting

38:08 Tips of the Week