Make sure to follow it up with Robin Pearson's History of Byzantium. He's still centuries away from done, but I like it even better than Mike Duncan's after it gets going.
sapo
You're welcome!! Hope it serves you and your cousin well :)
Carl Humpfries's Piano Handbook and Piano Improvisation Handbook are great, and cover enough for even an absolute beginner. I like noodling around with no previous musical knowledge, and they work very well for that. I think both include pretty decent sections on rhythms, and discuss pretty varied styles.
The Amazon is so close to the Equator that the seasons don't really affect the temperature that much. The main difference is that southern hemisphere winter is the dry season, hence the drought issues right now.
Not to downplay the role of climate change and deforestation, of course.
Anything by The Correspondents:
All done with practical effects and camera trickery. The making of videos are amazing: first second.
Also shoutout to the parody song Climate Change Denier.
Same goes for Tron Legacy.
I find the Tumblr migration kinda funny. Tumblr has already had many of the changes we hate seeing on Reddit right now. Lemmy and co are still small, but have a way stronger foundation and more room to grow.
The one podcast I listen to every week as it comes out is Lateral, a trivia show hosted by Tom Scott with rotating guests.
Other than that, I have a thing for casual and conversational history podcasts, including: