Continuing our feature on Podcasts, we have a few suggestions for you and welcome your recommendations. What do you listen to? What’s your favorite? Do you prefer your news in the written word or streaming? Have you thought of making your own Podcast? Send your Podcast suggestions to j.hilburtdavis@comcast.net
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And now a few Podcast suggestions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI
“Happiness in America: The Secret to a Good Life according to an 80-year Study”
What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the director of 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, ancient wisdom on how to have a fulfilling, long life. You can dive deeper into this study with Waldinger’s book: The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness Kindle.
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-coldest-case-in-laramie-5146611
‘The Coldest Case in Laramie’
Kim Barker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, revisits an unsolved murder that took place while she was in high school in Laramie, Wyoming, nearly 40 years ago. She confronts the conflicting stories people have told themselves about the crime because of an unexpected development: the arrest of a former Laramie police officer accused in the murder.
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/svetlana-svetlana-5087558
‘Svetlana-Svetlana’
In 1967, Joseph Stalin’s daughter made her way over the Iron Curtain, carrying her secret memoir, and landed in America as the Cold War’s most famous defector. At 40 years old, Svetlana had left everything behind for a new life in the West and the chance to finally share her story. “What she found instead — “a controversial commune in the Arizona desert built by Frank Lloyd Wright, a whirlwind marriage dictated by destiny, and a Montenegrin matriarch with dreams of immortality— was far more complicated. In Svetlana! Svetlana! neurotic playwright Dan Kitrosser unravels the weird and wild life of his greatest muse.”
“WTF with Marc Maron” This podcast includes comedians, actors, directors, writers, authors, musicians, and folks from all walks of life for in depth conversations. Marc Maron is a standup comic that brings his irreverent, hilarious, and cutting style to the audio interview format. His show is often on the lists of the best comedy podcasts.
https://trending-globally.captivate.fm/episode/reimagining-cities-with-the-mayor-of-cambridge-ma “Reimaging Cities with the Mayor of Cambridge”
Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui is currently serving her third term on the Cambridge City Council, and second as Mayor of Cambridge. Her family moved to Cambridge from Karachi, Pakistan when she was two years old. She studied public policy at Brown and law at Northwestern, before moving back to Massachusetts. She joined the Cambridge City Council, and was elected Mayor -- just as the Covid pandemic was making its way to the East Coast of the US. This episode is a couple of years old but still a good look at the mayor and her thinking. On this episode, Watson Visiting Professor and Faculty Fellow Geri Augusto talks with Mayor Siddiqui about health, housing, social justice, and the future of cities in the time of coronavirus.
From Jessie von Hippel:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1FROg3Jj1PACIRgkTlIEih?si=4f3f705bd87f49a3&nd=1
An informative podcast list on Spotify ‘Well—12 health podcasts worth listening to” from Jancee Dunn of the NYT who “shares a dozen of my favorites. Some offer advice for better living, others pull back the curtain on health care, and a few explore mental health and relationships through candid interviews.” Her article describing the podcasts can be found at: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/well/mind/health-podcasts.html?smid=em-share
We hope you enjoy these and, now, search for your own favorites and let us know what you recommend! As always, we’d love to hear from you.
--Jane Hilburt-Davis