Podcasts Recommendations

Yes, it has been a while since I lasted posted. Folks are asking for podcast recommendations so I put together a quick listing. I had not subscribed to Serial but am considering it this season. Considering as I already have more in queue than I have hours in the day to listen to.



Podcasts Recommendations:

Serial
All the rage two years ago, season three just started
https://serialpodcast.org/


99% Invisible
Interesting stories about design
https://99percentinvisible.org/

Roman Mars did a TED talk on flags that is delightful to see how he does what he does
https://www.ted.com/talks/roman_mars_why_city_flags_may_be_the_worst_designed_thing_you_ve_never_noticed?language=en

This one on curb cuts would be a good indicator of what they do
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/


Marc Maron = WTF Podcast
Marc is a stand up comic and a good interviewer, he talk with a wide variety of folks
http://www.wtfpod.com/


On Being

“The groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning public radio show and podcast. Conversation about the big questions of meaning in 21st century lives and endeavors — spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and the arts. What does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? And who will we be to each other? Each week a new discovery about the immensity of our lives. Hosted by Krista Tippett”

https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/


RadioLab

“Since 2002, Radiolab has been devoted to investigating a strange world. Created by Jad Abumrad and hosted by Jad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab has won Peabody Awards, a National Academies Communication Award “for their investigative use of radio to make science accessible to broad audiences,” and in 2011 Abumrad received the MacArthur Genius grant. The show has an archive of hundreds of episodes and has toured in sold out shows nationwide.”

https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab


More Perfect - a project of RadioLab focusing on Supreme Court decisions
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/481105292/more-perfect


Other NPR podcasts can be found in this directory
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/organizations/1

Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead

Stanley McChrystal's TED Talk is insightful and memorable.



What would you take away from this?


BTW - the full text of the Ranger Creed can be found here

National Day of Listening

StoryCorp's National Day of Listening is today.

If you are out and about shopping, listen to what is going on around you. Identify someone you would want to interview, even for a few minutes. Make their day better!

If you are with family, this is a good time to find out what happened in the 'old days', how they did it when they were growing up, etc.

The Story Corp publishes a free guide to this listening project with great tips on how to do the interview:

• Listen closely. Look your storyteller in the eyes. Smile. Stay engaged.
• Stick with the good stuff. Try to keep to the topics that move you. If the current topic isn’t what you wanted to put on tape, gently steer the conversation in another direction.
• Ask emotional questions. Asking “How does this make you feel?” often elicits interesting responses. Don’t be afraid to ask.
• Respect your subject. If there is a topic that your interview partner doesn’t want to talk about, respect his or her wishes and move on.
• Take notes during the interview. Write down questions or stories you might want to return to later.
• Be curious and honest, and keep an open heart. Great things will happen.

Who will you listen to today?

Signal?

Are you looking for a signal?

The first place to look is within, not out there!

Listen to that good inner voice (yes, that one, not the other one that says you can't do it)!

Reading & Listening

Christina captures this wonderfully:

Sometimes when I walk in the woods behind my house, I realize after it is already too late that I have walked through a spider’s web spanning the seven or eight feet of path; tiny gossamer threads invisible to me until I feel them. Long after I’ve continued on, I’m still brushing away the sticky threads that linger, clinging to my cheek or hair. Reading is like this for me. A line, a character, a scene, small fragments of the prose I’ve read remain in my mind long after I’ve put the book aside. Annie Dilliard’s essay “Total Eclipse” is like this. Though the first time I read it was nearly ten years ago, I still get caught in its imagery: I cannot imagine an eclipse without imagining hers.

Read Christina's full posting here.