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When a Good Idea for a Podcast is a Bad Idea for a Podcast — 2017

17:05 "What's going on? I was trying to learn."

20:00 "The ocean ... felt like a giant church ... in the absence of extraneous influences. It was strangely magical."

22:00 The quietest day on the East Coast that anyone had heard in fifty years.

You need to give up on Slashdot.org. Slashdot has long since been over run with the worst moronic right wing global warming deniers and the lowest IQ types imaginable.

I was listening to a bit on the radio yesterday about a woman who contracted a eye worm that normally only infects horses. She ended up pulling a live worm out of her eye, but it didn't really harm her physical health much at all. She was a good sport about it, and emerged with her mental health, too.

So the CBC brings on the guy from the CDC and he's practically jizzing himself with enthusiasm over this rare cross-species infection (due to face flies, which feed on eye secretions, which allows the parasite larvae to jump ship and enter the eyeball).

They also bring on this other guy associated with Monsters Inside Me.

And what he says, basically, is that for almost every mammal (and presumably bird) you will find at least three different parasite species almost exclusive to that animal, so the parasites are always present in greater diversity in any healthy ecosystem.

Just a few parasites, and we're all supposed to quit? What's with that?

Field Guide: Diseases and Parasites of Marine Mammals of the Eastern Arctic — 2003

So the point is, how do whales actually run away from all the parasites? Where is this beautiful, clean oasis that isn't Slashdot the Fallen? Politics used to be like the grizzly bear, one could hibernate for six months and not miss much. But modern politics is way more like the ocean, with bleached coral reefs, red tides, and entire floating islands of petrochemical detritus.

Why Whale Stress Significantly Dropped After 9/11 — February 2015

HowSound #150 - When a Good Idea for a Podcast is a Bad Idea for a Podcast — May 2017

A good pitch has an idea and a plan.

This episode is about the short-lived podcast "How's Your Day?" It's about invisible, unreported stories that got buried on an iconic news day, with a surprising parallel. They found three needles, then caved, even before launch.

Surprisingly, most of this post-mortem episode is about the amazing day of the whales on 9/11.

It's that I don't feel bad asking the audience to work for it, but I think that's something people push against, they don't want anyone to be confused ever, they want everyone to understand things all the time.

The whale portion starts at 9m00; the whales on 9/11 portion begins at 16m00. Great place to bury your head in the sand for twenty minutes and not deal with the Great Parasite Load.

This is a sixty foot whale with visibility less than the length of their body.

They are acoustic animals, and the (normally) unbroken shipping thrum causes them constant stress, because the ocean is now overrun with ships, and maybe it's time for them to all crawl back up onto dry land, lose a few pounds, and live again like God intended for all mammals.

"The Moth" podcast recently featured Fab Morvan of Milli Vanilli talking about his rise to fame and infamy. While not really trying to justify what they did, it gives an interesting insight in to the conditions under which it occurred.

You should be able to access the podcast with this URL:
http://cdn.themoth.prx.org/moth-podcast-185-fab-morvan.mp3

I think that claiming that if most people wont be white then it will be a catastrophe, is simply racism

Rated -1 flamebait. Wow. Simply wow. One can only assume that the mod agrees that if most people aren't white then it is a catastrophe. Glad to see that racists and/or juvenile trolls are represented in the mod community.

Of course, if history is any guide, "White America," will just redefine "white" and regain the majority. :P

http://www.prx.org/pieces/30720

I think this is the same show i listened to this past weekend on NPR/RadioLab/...

It is very interesting. Ran about an hour.

Also, the stuff in our guts can identify each and every one of us probably as much as DNA does:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97303406

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