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Sorry, Reci, I came across these. by accident, which made me think about compiling a list. Also, given that I tend to lose things a bit + you don't mind them&actually enjoy these sort of things (see Phaneron's thread) - your thread seemed like a safe storage space for me, for now.
If anyone wants to chip in with other suggestions, too - much appreciated.



A."INTELLIGENT" CHANNELS ON YOUTUBE

1.http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/197-educational-youtube-channels/

2..http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/50-educational-podcasts-you-should-check-out/

3.http://dailytekk.com/2015/04/20/the-100-best-youtube-channels-of-2015/

That is exactly what this thread is for, so have at it.

There is a TON of this kinda content. Since I am more audio than visual, I have subscribed to a legion of podcasts from colleges on a bunch of subjects.

Science and Cooking from Harvard is fantastic.

Michio Kaku and Dan Ariely have their own podcasts.

Easier than Youtube for me because I can set it and forget it to have the content download automatically.

As always ,Caustic Soda is my absolute favorite podcast, informative and funny and gross.
 
That is exactly what this thread is for, so have at it.

There is a TON of this kinda content. Since I am more audio than visual, I have subscribed to a legion of podcasts from colleges on a bunch of subjects.

Science and Cooking from Harvard is fantastic.

Michio Kaku and Dan Ariely have their own podcasts.

Easier than Youtube for me because I can set it and forget it to have the content download automatically.

As always ,Caustic Soda is my absolute favorite podcast, informative and funny and gross.

Many thanks.
Caustic Soda, of course, I remember it from the other thread.:)
 
Many thanks.
Caustic Soda, of course, I remember it from the other thread.:)

When I'm doing a lot of writing, like now and for the last 9 months, I have less time for podcasts and audio books, but I still catch Audible's news digest on weekdays and Caustic soda. Audible also has a fantastic set of lectures called Great Courses.
 
Hi, Reci,
I just LOOOVED this one. So practical, a life-saver!! Especially since I practically spend my life on my tablet, ipad, iphone, so they need charging almost constantly.

Unfortunately, here the wall-chargers are a bit oblique, so I wouldn't be able to buy one for myself. And my sister+in-law are more into using laptops, so I can't buy one for them.

Hope that you'll share my enthusiasm of this gem of a product, instead:
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...h-charger-and-power-strip-for-w?ref=discovery
 
ISOLATED BLURT (DNA)

Just talked over the phone with my parents and I'm Pissed Off.
I mean, they're among the best of parents, they raised me with kindness and they sacrificed a lot for the two of us, but they can be Soo intrusive!
They were so preachy and they tried -again- to meddle into my personal space. Even if it's coming from a good place, it's intrusive and I don't like it. I can't believe that I put the ocean between us, and it's still happening! At my age!
 
Hi, Reci,
I just LOOOVED this one. So practical, a life-saver!! Especially since I practically spend my life on my tablet, ipad, iphone, so they need charging almost constantly.

Unfortunately, here the wall-chargers are a bit oblique, so I wouldn't be able to buy one for myself. And my sister+in-law are more into using laptops, so I can't buy one for them.

Hope that you'll share my enthusiasm of this gem of a product, instead:
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...h-charger-and-power-strip-for-w?ref=discovery

That is very cool. I have not so much trouble with chargers myself, but I have a BIG house with a lot of people visiting, often during family emergency without much time to pack. I keep a ton of spare chargers in extra bedrooms and this would be great.
 
ISOLATED BLURT (DNA)

Just talked over the phone with my parents and I'm Pissed Off.
I mean, they're among the best of parents, they raised me with kindness and they sacrificed a lot for the two of us, but they can be Soo intrusive!
They were so preachy and they tried -again- to meddle into my personal space. Even if it's coming from a good place, it's intrusive and I don't like it. I can't believe that I put the ocean between us, and it's still happening! At my age!

My sympathies.

Some people do not comprehend boundaries. As long as you do, at least you can hold them and respect them in others.
 
Thanks for listening, Reci.
I just sent her an email telling her 'I love you but f… k offf from my personal life', which made me feel much better.

How are you doing? What have you been up to this weekend?
 
Thanks for listening, Reci.
I just sent her an email telling her 'I love you but f… k offf from my personal life', which made me feel much better.

How are you doing? What have you been up to this weekend?

Yeah, the toughest part of our relationship came over kids, really. I didn't trust my mother alone with them. She was prone to being drunk and negligent, even abusive. I'd tell her they couldn't visit, and would only let them visit with an escort like my sister.

So that sucked.

It's a rainy weekend here, it's starting to really look like and smell like fall, though we had a hard freeze and things wilted more than got crisp. My son's bringing me leaves. Those are some of my favorite presents, leaves and rocks and feathers, I have bowls of them.

How are you doing?
 
That's terrible. Fights with you - ok, maybe mother-daughter relationships are complicated,
but being abusive towards your kids… No excuse.
 
That's terrible. Fights with you - ok, maybe mother-daughter relationships are complicated,
but being abusive towards your kids… No excuse.

No, we didn't fight. She doesn't fight fair, just gets drunk, rants and doesn't remember.

When she threatened to kill herself or my dad, she was committed, then sweet talked her way out of it, then cut my sister out of her will for being a part of it and tortured my dad.

She does not respond well to having poor behavior pointed out.

I've been able to keep my distance, keep my kids safe, and mostly have to deal with her rants over Thanksgiving dinner. My kids are both grown, and my son, who is autistic, used to get into escalation arguments with her (to try to defend me) until he realized he was the grown up.
 
sorry to do the 'we know who on Lit psychoanalysis thing', but to any outsider, sounds like she has a (borderline) personality disorder.

Sweet little bugger, your son. My nephews are a bit like that, all heart and cute. My sister raised them so well - they have v. good self-esteem yet they also stick for the underdog, at school. It was hillarious to listen to them being all worked up about and talking about some scrawny kid being cornered at school etc.
 
sorry to do the 'we know who on Lit psychoanalysis thing', but to any outsider, sounds like she has a (borderline) personality disorder.

Sweet little bugger, your son. My nephews are a bit like that, all heart and cute. My sister raised them so well - they have v. good self-esteem yet they also stick for the underdog, at school. It was hillarious to listen to them being all worked up about and talking about some scrawny kid being cornered at school etc.

I'd go with narcissist, extreme narcissist. She really doesn't have much in the way of external empathy and she treats people like things. I always grew up knowing the house was more important than the people in it. Part of it cultural, but she's also got a lot of fear and anxiety. Borderline she shares some of the diagnosis points, but she's missing that internal void sense where she has no stable personality. She is highly physically sensitive (so am I, so I sympathize) where heat and cold and loud sound are impossible distractions that can ruin her day (so am I) and we share having migraines. So she's got some reasons to be who she is through temperament and culture. She was raised as Baton Rouge and New Orleans royalty with high social demand and requirement.

She's not destructive out of boredom or sexually promiscuous or looking for excitement or reaction.

So I sympathize with the lady, but I doubt she's ever really seen past herself to see me, and that's...kinda sad, to have a world that small.

My son's now about 6' 3" and charming, intelligent and funny.

Apparently now he says he's got a ladykiller reputation because a girl just asked him out to the prom and he said "How about not?"

"She should have gotten to know me first."

My favorite is when he was about his height but a few inches shorter, and a much younger girl asked him to a dance and he said no and said "Mom, I'm not a pedophile!"
 
That's fab!

My son's having a rough day at school, took too much caffeine this morning or ate something he didn't like so he's texting me in the table of elements.

"Did you get the potassium pun?"

"Na"

"Stop being so salty, mom."

"Au."

"U Mg BRu?"

"As IFe"

"I LuV U"

"U TeU!"

Nerds. Raging nerds.
 
Cute!
But even more sweet, the fact that you kept it all this time

Heh, nope. Found it on Tumblr.

But I do have boxes and boxes of stuff given to my by my kids. Most of the candy, bowls of rocks, stacks of drawings and notes.

My daughter used to leave little bits of paper around the house, sometimes crumped up, and I'd pick it up and unfurl it and it'd say "Made you look."
 
So nice to see that you're equally affectionate towards both your daughter and your son, Reci.

Because I noticed that quite a few mothers and mothers-in law tend to bawl over the guys (be they biological or in-laws). On the other hand, in many cases, they can be mean bitches towards their daughters (be they biological daughters or daughters in-law).
That disparity pisses me off, occasionally.
 
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