Podcast Recommendations For Giving a Shit (copy 01)

Understanding Why: Podcast recs by and for people who give a sh*t

August 15, 2021

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Five episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person

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Why did you choose this theme? 

Giving a shit is awesome, but if we really want to change the world, we need to get to the bottom of why it is the way it is. Understanding the root cause to any problem helps us better carve out a solution. These podcast episodes allow us to do just that. 

Podcast Picks:

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Space Archaeology (SPACE JUNK) with Alice Gorman 

Space junk doesn't feel like something that is going to make or break humanity, but our free-wheeling tendency to fill the sky with garbage isn't far off from what we do to the air and the ocean already. Understanding the fundamental business, economic, and sociological reasons why we, society, do what we do will help pave the way for cleaner, more responsible ways of conducting ourselves.

DrilledThe API Was Pushing Climate Denial Way Earlier Than Anyone ThoughtThere are few better climate journalists than Amy Westervelt, and in this episode, she gets to the bottom of why fossil fuel companies have been so successful for the past few decades, without fail.

How To Save a PlanetKelp Farming, For the PlanetEveryone's favorite marine biologist, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson digs deep into coastal waters to explain why and how kelp, of all things, can slow sea level rise, feed us, and clean the waters. Go Kelp!

The Ezra Klein Show 

The Author Behind ‘Arrival’ Doesn’t Fear AI. ‘Look at How We Treat Animals.’

There are few more present-day science fiction writers who are as influential and thoughtful as Ted. His answers about magic, alchemy versus chemistry, and religion versus science are incredibly compelling and mind-blowing.

Important, Not Important Black Moms Matter

The U.S. is the only developed country in the world where maternal death rates are rising, and that's primarily because new Black moms are dying at 3-4x the rate of white moms. Congresswoman Lauren Underwood explains the root inputs into the problem, and how her "Momnibus" act can help rebuild maternal care from the ground up.

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A Bintel Brief Podcast 

In 1906, the Forward started A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for “A Bundle of Letters.” Now our classic Jewish advice column is a podcast. Our co-hosts, two very different Jewish mothers, dish on the dilemmas of Jewish-American life, identity, culture, and politics.Listen.

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