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Think About It Michael
Thinking starts quietly, then builds everything loud: cathedrals, symphonies, apologies, terrible mistakes, and the small kindness that changes a day. The episode begins with that simple fact and turns it into a practical challenge: develop metacognition, the skill of noticing your own thoughts, and use it to improve critical thinking. […]
Time is the thing we trust most and the thing we understand least. We start with a deceptively simple question: how long is one day? From there, we unpack why solar time and sidereal time disagree by about four minutes, and how that tiny gap reshapes the night sky over […]
The best discoveries are not always buried at the end of the Earth. A lot of them sit right where we can see them, waiting for someone to take one more look. That is the thread running through this story-driven podcast: curiosity as a practical skill, not a personality quirk. […]
The cosmos keeps offering us fascinating phenomena to contemplate, from Black Moons to Saturn’s temporarily vanishing rings. Unlike Blue Moons (two full moons in one month), Black Moons occur when we experience an extra new moon – completely dark and invisible to observers on Earth. This celestial event sparked a […]
Here’s what happens when someone fakes their own death to avoid wedding costs, and can a librarian leaving $2 million to her cat change your perspective on loyalty? These stories and more await in our latest adventure through the strange corners of human experience. We kick off with birthday celebrations featuring Canadian musician Jacob Moon and his lovely wife […]
Send us a text We’ve got a papal election, celebrity soup moments, and dogs celebrating birthdays! Welcome to the delightfully unpredictable world of The Anne Levine Show, where host Anne and co-host Michael Over There™ “masterfully” weave through cultural touchpoints both global and hyperlocal. The Vatican’s white smoke signaled the […]
A phone call from a relative can be many things – informative, exhausting, hilarious, or touchingly poignant. When Anne receives a call from her cousin Jan (of Jan and Jan™), it becomes all these things and more, unfolding into a masterclass on family dynamics and the art of conversation. The […]
Pope Francis has passed, Sterling K. Brown‘s “Paradise” is mesmerizing television, and Michael has discovered the joy of creating music with AI. Welcome to another episode of The Anne Levine Show, where our conversations meander through culture, technology, and occasionally (like today), the end of the world. Michael enthusiastically shares […]
Freedom of expression forms the cornerstone of democracy, yet increasingly we’re witnessing troubling attempts to silence voices and restrict artistic freedom. When the mayor of Miami Beach moved to shut down an independent cinema for showing the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” simply because he disagreed with its message about […]
