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Sam's Watch of the Week:
Feeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to stop worrying about tomorrow's tasks or stewing over office tensions with three simple techniques aimed at helping you truly relax and recharge after work.
Sam's Podcast Pick:
This podcast consists of short (10 to 20 minute) bits of new scientific information.
I recommend this because it's free for everyone, new episodes release often, and their length means they don't take an extremely long time to listen to.
Wren's Watch of the Week:
Chef and TED Fellow Dieuveil Malonga traveled to nearly every country in Africa, tasting flavors straight from farms and local kitchens, to learn about the traditions that transform a dish. Today, he runs a center to train the next generation of top chefs from across the continent, collaboratively crafting food that shares each country’s culinary secrets with the world. (Recorded at TED Fellows Films 2025 on April 7, 2025)
Wren's Podcast Pick:
This podcast is about how the transatlantic slave trade, and colonization, propelled fatphobia into the limelight, and how those roots grew into the beast that is modern day fatphobia.
I think its a valuable resource in coming to an understanding of how the commodification of black and brown bodies has been rebirthed within the twenty first century.