Podcast Brunch Club: Ologies Host, Alie Ward [interview with great science communicator].
- Ologies is a great science podcast, and Alie Ward is an amazing host.
- This is a delightful interview with her that will make you an instant fan.
- Ward is full of quotable lines, but I liked this one the most. It's my new guiding principle. “If you go into a bookstore and you have an hour or two to kill, the subject that you want to go to first, look to that to maybe be a guiding force to what you want to do.”
The Allusionist: Alarm Bells [the language of climate change].
- An excellent discussion from Helen Zaltzman around the importance of the words we use for discussing climate change.
- I've heard the argument many times from climate change deniers that the language keeps changing to suit the scientific "agenda". I couldn't believe to learn that it was in fact a politically powerful climate change denier who pushed hard for the alarmist sounding "global warming" to instead be "climate change."
Following Harriet: Becoming Harriet [short-run series on Harriet Tubman].
- The excellent first episode of a series about Harriet Tubman.
- She was never caught and most of her work on the underground railroad was saving her extended family from slavery.
- She would take the train when traveling back south even as a wanted woman. Looking the part and having an open newspaper were all she needed to avoid any suspicion.
- Her birth name was Araminta Ross.
- She served in the Union army during the Civil War and was instrumental in several raids.
Deep Tech: Why Google and IBM are feuding over the meaning of "quantum supremacy" [new science show from MIT].
- This is the first of four free episodes of a newly launched show from MIT Technology Review. The rest will require a subscription. It also must be listened to via the link because it isn't listed in podcast players.
- Host Wade Roush walks us through how quantum computers work using a pipe organ, in a segment that reminded me of the Colors episode from Radiolab (in a good way).
- Honestly a satisfying synopsis that delivers exactly what the headline promises.
What I'm excited about in my Queue: Sum of All Parts (new season!), On Point (NPR), The Lonely Palette, more Ologies.
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