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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 […]
Moving forces a brutal question: what do you keep when every box has a weight limit? From a crowded Cape Cod headquarters to a new life in Los Angeles, we talk through the emotional logic of “stuff” and why ordinary objects refuse to stay ordinary. A mystery key, an empty […]
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. […]
Send us Fan Mail A capybara sprints into freedom, a buffalo becomes a political lightning rod, and a cemetery turns out to be one of the biggest bee neighborhoods scientists have ever documented. That’s where we start, and it only gets better from there. We’re coming to you from Cape […]
Send us Fan Mail A cat runs for office with an honest one-word platform, “Crime,” and somehow that’s only the start. I’m Michael Over There, and I’m keeping The Anne Levine Show rolling with the same curious tone, a little grief in the background, and a lot of strange stories that might make […]
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 […]
The digital era has birthed a new class of con artists, fraudsters who construct elaborate facades online and infiltrate our most trusted institutions. From LinkedIn phantoms to fraudulent medical professionals, the audacity of these deceptions reveals uncomfortable truths about our collective vulnerability. Consider Jackson Simmons, “the most fake man on LinkedIn” – an […]
Summer is waning on Cape Cod, and Anne Levine and Michael Over There are feeling it. As the days grow shorter and the distinctly un-summery weather continues, they reflect on how climate patterns have shifted over the years, creating what feels like one amorphous season rather than the distinct four they once […]
