sapo

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[–] sapo@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

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:

  • The Lesser Bonapartes (old but gold, the full backlog's only available on spotify under the title 'From the desk of Glen')
  • Dead Ideas
  • Some 'leader ranking' podcasts with the same formula: Rex Factor (British monarchs), Totalus Rankium (Roman Emperors and then American Presidents) and Pontifacts (Popes)
[–] sapo@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

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@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

You're welcome!! Hope it serves you and your cousin well :)

[–] sapo@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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.

 
[–] sapo@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] sapo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Anything by The Correspondents:

Fear and Delight

Inexplicable

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.

[–] sapo@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Same goes for Tron Legacy.

[–] sapo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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.