Also, two #Podcast episode recs from recent listening:
Remember Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't? These dudes are WICKED confident in some extremely technical know-how, but there's a lot of interesting science beyond the wave of names. A recent episode on fungi had some choice facts.
https://www.spreaker.com/user/16676611/a-conversation-about-new-zealand-fungi_1
And Maddow's Déjà News posted a bonus crossover on Spiro Agnew, & what a deal in 1973 did to protect democracy that might be relevant for today's US politics. Cheers!
😂 Bitter Monday night indeed!
Do consider diving into the rebroadcast of the Bag Man episode, then! It's a really good, chewy piece reflecting on the many different legal moves sometimes necessary to sustain a country's democracy while pursuing criminal cases against sitting or actively running politicians.
(Or get back to writing that book! ;) Lots of options!)
Very kind of you, but I tend not to follow people so much as topics of interest. Maddow's latest projects tie into my love of historiography: thinking about how we've constructed our histories a certain way to tell a certain kind of story about the present, and what connecting our current crises with human behavioural consistencies over time can empower us to do to build a better world.
Sounds like you need a good break after all of today's work, though! Hope you find it! 🤞
@MLClark Okay. Stephie is an acquired taste.
I agree about Rachel's history lessons. Whenever she starts a show with a history lesson, I wonder, "Okay, where is this going ..."