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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. […]
Election Day crackles through the studio as we kick off with a Springsteen surprise and a reminder to vote, then veer into the strange economics of spectacle: The Naked Cowboy, busking myths, and why consistency can out-earn talent in the right crossroads. From there our patience runs out on Halloween creep—medical shows in silly glasses, […]
A ballet clip sent us spiraling back to Kate Bush, and that simple scroll unlocked a bigger conversation: how we hear things differently with time, and why owning your work can change the arc of your career. We start with Wuthering Heights—divisive, daring, unforgettable—and trace a line to Stranger Things, […]
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 […]
Happy birthday Joselyn! Anne the Office Manager, Many things to realize about Anne, Anne the Expert Gift Giver, The Shopping Genius of Anne Levine, Stuff Anne has given Michael (Made-In Cookware), Another very big present, Anne goes to the Eye Doctor (Human pincushion stories), The New Doctor, Sticky Stuff in […]
The Halloween Season, Rudy, Chris Hayes on Maron, War in Israel and Gaza, Network Problems, Reacher (TV -Amazon Prime), Handling your Subscriptions, The Moon, Anne’s new wardrobe, Matching Socks (WOW), The Flip & Fold™, Animals, and a New Yorker Cover Question.
YES (Going for the one), Socks, The Bad Art Contest™ comes back to bite me, It seems like only 200 years ago, The Painting is wrong, Rob Lowe’s Podcast (Literally), Dana Carvey, When your girlfriend’s dad is Cary Grant, Neck Roll Pillowcases ($47,000), Help Silver Lake, and The Cost of […]
