Media Channels and Platforms

Have you ever wanted to learn about the history of medical practices, like radiation therapy, or the story behind the resurrection men: the dudes who dug up bodies in the 19th century to dissect them? Or how about the story behind newer, "medical" trends like kombucha, or the ketogenic diet? No? Okay, well, alright. Talk to you later I guess... So I listen to a fair amount of podcasts in my free time. Most of them are goof-goof-comedy podcasts, which don't necessarily help me become a better person in any way. There are however some that are at least adjacent to intellectual content, like Sawbones, which is a medical history podcast. It's a podcast where dr. Sydnee Mcelroy and her husband Justin Mcelroy talk about "all of the dumb, bad, gross, weird, and wrong ways we've tried to fix people." I think it's cool to hear about these things from the perspective of an actual doctor. She speaks about the history of the practices as well as talks abou...

I was interested in the idea of the movie Arrival (2016) when the trailer came out, but not actually interested enough to actually go to the movies to watch it. That's why I was happy to see it on Netflix. *I won't spoil anything that wasn't shown in the trailer here* The movie is about an American linguistics professor dr. Louise Banks, played by Amy Adams, who is asked to decipher an alien language after they have landed on earth. There are 12 of the alien spacecrafts all around the earth, and one of the biggest plot points in the film is the different countries' failure to communicate effectively with each other to figure out why the aliens have arrived and what they want. *Here there be some spoilers* I mostly wanted to watch the movie because I'm interested in languages and fascinated by constructed languages. I loved the idea that a linguist was the main character in a sci-fi movie. That's why I was disappointed by how t...

I gave up trying to find a music video with both characters and a plot of some sort from the bands I listen to so I ventured to the trending page on youtube. I ended up picking the song Woman like me from the four-person girl group Little Mix and Nicki Minaj. (Is girlband the correct term as opposed to boyband?) I picked it solely on the name of the song assuming that it'd have something to do with gender. Who knew, I was right! So there's really no plot in the video, but the song is about whether or not this theoretical man could ever fall in love with a woman like them. The man is told to be kind of shy while the singers have no filter, cause trouble and dress fancy. It's a pretty tired set-up but I'm more interested in what is shown in the video. Besides showing the singers dancing or just standing around the video shows the women balancing stacks of books on their heads, ironing, and posting around a massive scale. They also show the women eating, but their...