Reflections on a few podcast episodes I've enjoyed lately

First, a short list:
"Teamwork Between Species Is the Key to Life Itself"
Science Friday, Sept 18, episode 1,124 (22 min)"
Interview with ecologist Rob Dunn, author of The Call of the Honeyguide.

"The Spark of Life"
Radiolab, Sept 19, episode 659 (41 min)
Scientist Nirosha Murugan is studying the light emitted by cells within living beings, called "biophotons" and still very much not understood.

"The King is Dead, Now What? The 250-year Struggle for Democracy"
Human Nature Odyssey, 3-part series:
part 1, May 22, Season 2, episode 5 (50 min)
part 2, June 26, Season 2, episode 6 (54 min)
part 3, July 24, Season 2, episode 7, (63 min)
Starting with the French Revolution of 1789 and leading up to today, this series explores conservatism, liberalism, and radicalism as competing solutions to how societies should be governed. Alex Leff, the host, brings these abstract ideas and the not-abstract history alive with humor and good storytelling.

"Beyond Paradox" interview with Iaian McGilchrist
Planet: Critical, September 10 (1 hr, 22 min)
Described by host Rachel Donald as "neuro-philosopher and psychiatrist," McGilchrist is author of The Master and His Emissary. They discuss many things, including left/right brain functions based on people with damage to one or the other hemisphere. I'm skeptical about basing our assumptions about healthy brains on damaged brains, but I like his conclusion that we as a society would do better to be in touch with our right-hemisphere functions of intuition and creativity.

These took longer than I expected to look up and refresh my memory of them.

I'm now about to go listen to another while I do dishes:
"The Magic in the Tales We Tell: Living New Stories in the Service to Life" with Paddy Loughman
Accidental Gods, Sept 23, Season 24, episode 12 (1 hour, 11 min)

There is currently a smattering of rain on the aluminum roof of the patio, which I can hear through the open back door. It's lovely and so is the fact that I can sit inside in a tanktop with the back door open and listen to rain! This is not a normal set of circumstances here, since rain usually only comes with cold weather.

I am feeling torn between getting on with the listening and dish washing on the one hand, and on the other hand, going in now to link each of the episodes above so they are clickable. However, I listen to podcasts on my phone, and I'm typing this on my laptop, so that would involved looking them all up again, finding the right episode, and wrangling with the failing mousepad on this device. At least for now, getting up out of my chair seems the best course of action.