What I did today
Fighting off residual frustration by backtracking into happier times...
What I did today...
...I went into outer space, took a look at the universe, came back, witnessed the terror of an alien invasion, heard the trumpets that brought down the walls of Jericho, and fell in love for the first time.
It is so strange to describe podcasts as profound or deeply moving, but I am repeatedly in awe of their ability to reach a great number of people, each on an individual level, worming their way into a person's ear. I love having my horizons broadened, my eyes opened, my heartstrings pulled, and my funny bone tickled. A person might be able to learn more from podcasts than from any university.
And the majority of them? Free.
There are a great many that reach me, but today the one that's captured my imagination is "Radiolab," which some of you may be familiar with if you're a big NPR nerd. However, the advantage of podcasting is not having to be present for the air date and having access to an entire back log.
Radiolab is This American Life meets science. It's personal stories and questions about human existence examined from angles not traditionally considered by society. Questions such as, what if you had found the oldest living organism on the planet...but on this quest, you had killed it? Or whether cross-species communication is possible. Or imaginings on what happens when we die.
Or maybe I'm just hyperemotional and melodramatic, but if it turns every mundane hour of my work day into something stimulating, I fail to see how it can be a bad thing.
What I did today...
...I went into outer space, took a look at the universe, came back, witnessed the terror of an alien invasion, heard the trumpets that brought down the walls of Jericho, and fell in love for the first time.
It is so strange to describe podcasts as profound or deeply moving, but I am repeatedly in awe of their ability to reach a great number of people, each on an individual level, worming their way into a person's ear. I love having my horizons broadened, my eyes opened, my heartstrings pulled, and my funny bone tickled. A person might be able to learn more from podcasts than from any university.
And the majority of them? Free.
There are a great many that reach me, but today the one that's captured my imagination is "Radiolab," which some of you may be familiar with if you're a big NPR nerd. However, the advantage of podcasting is not having to be present for the air date and having access to an entire back log.
Radiolab is This American Life meets science. It's personal stories and questions about human existence examined from angles not traditionally considered by society. Questions such as, what if you had found the oldest living organism on the planet...but on this quest, you had killed it? Or whether cross-species communication is possible. Or imaginings on what happens when we die.
Or maybe I'm just hyperemotional and melodramatic, but if it turns every mundane hour of my work day into something stimulating, I fail to see how it can be a bad thing.