Series Name (Blog, Podcast, YouTube Channel) | Topic | Top Episodes / Shows / Blog Posts / Resources | 1-Sentence Summary | Creator(s) | Type | Recommended By | Series Link |
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Bitcoin Documentaries | Crypto | Turns the best essays on Bitcoin/crypto into mini-documentaries. | YouTube Channel | www.youtube.com | |||
WTF Podcast | ComedyPersonal StoriesInterview | In-depth convos with comedians, musicians, and actors. Started off with just comedians. | Podcast | ||||
Armchair Expert | ComedyPersonal StoriesInterview | Podcast | |||||
Lex Fridman Show | InterviewArtificial IntelligenceScience | In-depth convos on AI, philosophy, spirituality, health, and science. | Podcast | ||||
Brain Pickings | ArtScienceLiteraturePsychologyCreativity | Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain PickingsAntidotes to Fear of Death: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Our Creaturely Tremblings of HeartYes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of MeaningSeasons in a Pandemic: Mary Shelley on What Makes Life Worth Living and Nature’s Beauty as a Lifeline to Regaining SanityCreativity in the Time of COVID: Zadie Smith on Writing, Love, and What Echoes Through the Hallway of Time Suddenly Emptied of HabitI Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her LifeBloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of BeingThe Cosmic Miracle of Trees: Astronaut Leland Melvin Reads Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Earth’s ForestsStanding on the Shoulders of Solitude: Newton, the Plague, and How Quarantine Fomented the Greatest Leap in ScienceNick Cave on Living with Loss and the Central Paradox of Grief as a Portal to AlivenessWalt Whitman on What Makes a Great Person and What Wisdom Really MeansSingularity: Marie Howe’s Ode to Stephen Hawking, Our Cosmic Belonging, and the Meaning of Home, in a Stunning Animated Short FilmThe Radical Act of Letting Things Hurt: How (Not) to Help a Friend in SorrowOctavia Butler on How (Not) to Choose Our LeadersThe Spirit of the Woods: Poet and Painter Rebecca Hey’s Gorgeous 19th-Century Illustrations for the World’s First Encyclopedia of TreesWhat It Takes to Grow Up, What It Means to Have GrownThe Osbick Bird: Edward Gorey’s Tender and Surprising Vintage Illustrated Allegory About the Meaning of True LoveA Lifeline for the Hour of Despair: James Baldwin on 4AM, the Fulcrum of Love, and Life as a Moral Obligation to the UniverseHow an Artist is Like a Tree: Paul Klee on CreativityHow to Live and How to Die | For 15 years, Maria Popova has been spending hundreds of hours following and sharing her curiosity. | BlogSummarizer | |||
The Tim Ferriss Show | InterviewProductivityPsychedellics | Podcast | |||||
TED | TechnologyEntertainmentDesign | Conferences with short presentations that showcase important research and ideas from all disciplines from brilliant thinkers and explore how they connect. | Conference | ||||
Longreads | Investigative ReportingProfileStorytelling | The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat PeopleWhatever Happened to ______ ?The Danger of Befriending CelebritiesDeconstructing Disney: The Princess Problem of ‘Frozen II’ | Dedicated to helping people find and share the best storytelling in the world. | PodcastReportingInterviewProfileEssay | longreads.com | ||