Life's Stories Episodes

Text us your thoughts on the podcast It was a secret message hidden for over a century. By chance, engineers inspecting a Scottish lighthouse stumbled upon a 132-year-old message in a bottle. Support Links 1. Northern Lighthouse Board [website] 2. Fresnel lens [Wikipedia] 3. The Fresnel Lens: the Invention That Saved 1000 Ships [YouTube] 4. History of lighthouses [Wikipedia] 5. Message in a bottle: 10 famous floating note discoveries [ABC News] 6. Message in a bottle [Wikipedia...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast What if you do live forever? That means you'd outlive everybody you'd ever known on the planet. You'd watch your children and grandchildren and all your friends die before you. What would that be like? 1. "Here's My Honest Take on Bryan Johnson” - Dr Andrew Huberman [YouTube] 2. Bryan Johnson YouTube site [YouTube] 3. Immortality [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 4. More People Are Living to 100 Than Ever Before [Technology Networks] 5. U.S...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Good execution is about delivering well designed and non-buggy features or at least features with enough utility that people are willing to tolerate the bugs. The Humane AI Pin, wasn’t that product. 1. "Humane's Ai Pin Fail: Inside the Epic Flop of a Bold A.I. Device" [YouTube] 2. Humane [website] 3. Humane AI Pin review: not even close [The Verge] 4. Review: Humane Ai Pin [WIRED] 5. Humane AI Pin: Case Study in Poor Strategy and Poor Executio...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk Are Ready to Push Trumps Plans to Slash the Government. 1. What to know about Trump's Department of Government Efficiency [CBS NEWS] 2. Trump taps Musk/Ramaswamy to lead DOGE [NPR] 3. Elon Musk is looking to cut government waste [Business Insider] 4. Fareed Zakaria shares why he's excited for Trump's DOGE [CNN] 5. GAOverview: Understanding Waste in Federal Programs [GAO] 6. Most Americans Are Skeptical Trump Wil...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast There's a bold geopolitical move happening. It’s Vladimir Putin's plan to reshape the world order with the BRICS Summit. 1. BRICS [Wikipedia] 2. What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding? [Council on Foreign Relations] 3. BRICS: What is the group and which countries have joined? [BBC] 4. Q&A: The BRICS expansion and the global balance of power [MIT News] 5. G7 [Wikipedia] Contact That's Life, I Swear Visit my website: https://www.tha...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast The threat of a nuclear arms race is building. What would it feel like to live through a nuclear attack? supporting links 1. Role of nuclear weapons grows [SIPRI] 2. Is the world in a new nuclear arms race? [The Week] 3. Election 2024: Is the United States Looking at a New Nuclear Arms Race? [Council on Foreign Relations] 4. Atomic Bomb Survivors [National Park Service] 5. Now, I Am Become Death, The Destroyer of Worlds [That’s Life, I Swear Po...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Cows, pigs, chickens walking about on a boat. It’s not Noah’s Ark, but rather a new concept in farming. Think of a farm not on land, but instead, floating on water. supporting links 1. Floating Farm [Beyond Borders] 2. Floating Ecosystems [Biomatrix Water] 3. Floating farms of the future [YouTube] 4. How floating farms are helping Bangladesh [The Japan Times] 5. The Future of Food is Floating… So How do we Sell it? [Wharton] 6. Vertical Farm...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Can Perplexity's AI-powered search engine challenge, or for that matter, replace Google? supporting links 1. Perplexity AI Tutorial - How to use AI for Research [YouTube] 2. Why I use Perplexity AI MORE than Google and ChatGPT for Content Research [YouTube] 3. Perplexity AI Review: Features, Benefits, and Alternatives [ClickUp] 4. Perplexity AI: Exploring AI-powered search beyond Google [Search Engine Land] 5. The 8 AI Search Engines That You S...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies, aged 56. Wojcicki, one of the most prominent women in tech, had been living with cancer for two years. supporting links 1. Susan Diane Wojcicki [Wikipedia] 2. Marshmallow Experiment [James Clear] 3. YouTube [Wikipedia] Contact That's Life, I Swear Visit my website: https://www.thatslifeiswear.com Tweet us at @RedPhantom Listen to audios: -Apple https://apple.co/3MAFxhb -Spotify https://spoti.fi/3xCzww4 -My...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast "We Are the World." The iconic relationships and unforgettable moments that defined an era brought pop superstars together for one incredible night! For that one night we were the world. supporting links 1. Lionel Richie on the Making of “We Are the World” [CBS Sunday Morning] 2. 10 Facts About the Making of “We Are the World” [Mental Floss] 3. How Dan Aykroyd Ended up on We Are the World [Shark1053] 4. We Are the World [Wikipedia] 5. Tom Bahle...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast "Love Actually" is a romantic comedy that has become a beloved holiday classic for many, while simultaneously drawing criticism from others since its release in 2003. supporting links 1. Love Actually [Wikipedia] 2. Love Actually Trailer [YouTube] 3. All of the Love Actually Trivia Worth Knowing [Vogue] 4. Real reason Rowan Atkinson appears twice in Love Actually [LAD BIBLE] 5. ‘Love Actually’ Turns 20: Revisiting Its Incredible, Awful Greatnes...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Whether the Great Barrier Reef will endure as a living, breathing testament to the wonders of our planet, or succumb to the relentless march of climate change, remains to be seen. supporting links 1. What is coral bleaching? [National Ocean Service] 2. The end of coral reefs as we know them [VOX] 3. Great Barrier Reef [UNESCO] 4. Location of the Great Barrier Reef [Cairns Dive Adventures] 5. The biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef [National ...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Pearl Moore made basketball a labor of love. For Moore, basketball was about two things: winning and a sense of community supporting links 1. Pearl Moore [Wikipedia] 2. Sylvia Hatchell, Moore's coach at Francis Marion [Wikipedia] 3. Caitlin Clark passes Pete Maravich for scoring record [ESPN] 4. Women's college basketball all-time DI scoring leaders [NCAA] 5. Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame [website] 6. NCAA Division I women's basketball ca...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast With Donald Trump coming back, the United States stands at the edge, a moment of reckoning that would determine the very course of its future, even its existence. supporting links 1. How Trump pulled off an incredible comeback [BBC] 2. Donald Trump wins election in historic comeback after 2020 loss [CBS News] 3. U.S. House seats mainly won by the incumbent party [Pew Research] Contact That's Life, I Swear Tweet us at @RedPhantom Listen to audios...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast The economic challenges facing pharmacies impact everyone. As more locations close, those that remain are overwhelmed with an increasing patient load, often with the same or fewer staff and resources. 1. Pharmacy Deserts [CNN] 2. Pharmacy benefit management [Wikipedia] 3. Rite Aid Bankruptcy Explained [Newsweek] 4. Pharmaceutical industry [Wikipedia] 5. Pharmaceutical Industry Overview [YouTube] Buzzsprout Tags: pharmacy, drug store, medicat...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast A new scientific study shows when you’re drinking bottled water, you’re swallowing microscopic pieces of plastic or what’s called nanoplastics. supporting links 1. Visualizing the Relative Size of Particles [Visual Capitalist] 2. Thousands of nanoplastic bits in bottles of drinking water [LA Times] 3. Nanoplastics and Human Health [NIH] 4. Bottled water contains thousands of nanoplastics [CNN/Health] 5. Nanoplastics at the North and South Po...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Show notes AM radio fights to keep its spot-on US car dashboards supporting links 1. The Real Reason AM Radio is Being Removed from New Cars [Motorist Org] 2. Automakers Are Starting to Drop AM Radio in New Cars. Here’s Why [The Drive] 3. Is AM Radio Walking “The Last Mile?” [Jacobs Media] 4. Industry gives Congress static as they press AM radio mandate [Courthouse News Service] 5. Will EVs—Or Just Plain Progress—Kill the Broadcast Radio Star? ...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Fifteen governors have decided to thumb their nose at President Biden out of spite, and at the same time allowing over 8 million children to starve. supporting links 1. Why are GOP governors taking food out of the mouths of poor kids? [The Fern Org] 2. Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders [website] 3. Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen [website] 4. 2023 Kids Count Data Book [AEC Foundation] Contact That's Life, I Swear Tweet us at @RedPhantom Listen to aud...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast TreeTag sensors, developed by startup ePlant, can give homeowners, farmers and forestry managers early warning when trees are water stressed or in danger. supporting links 1. ePlant: How it Works [ePlant website] 2. This ‘Fitbit’ for tree health [MarketWatch] 3. Liquid Robotics [Website] 4. Growing Crops with Less Groundwater [College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences] 5. Sun World International [LinkedIn] Contact That's Life, I Swea...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Welcome to a discussion about a journey where water meets ambition and innovation bridges continents. We dive into the heart of one of the world's engineering marvels—the Panama Canal. supporting links 1. What the data says about Americans’ views of climate change [Pew Research Center] 2. TOP 15 navigable canals important for shipping and maritime logistics [Marine Digital] 3. Ship Canal [Wikipedia] 4. Ayman Omar [LinkedIn] 5. Oystein Kalleklev...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast Today we’re tackling a topic that hits close to home for millions of workers — tipping. Has tipping reached its limit, or are we just getting started? supporting links 1. How Americans Feel About the Basics of Tipping [Wikipedia] 2. Trump proposing tips be tax free. What would that mean for you? [AP] 3. What is the new etiquette for tipping? [NPR] 4. Tipping Is Out of Control. It’s Also a Serious Labor Issue [TIME] 5. Tipflation: What is it and...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast As more people cancel subscriptions, streaming video companies must work harder to sign up new users to expand their overall customer base. supporting links 1. Antenna [website] 2. The Future of Streaming: How to Cut Costs & Save Money [Cloudwards] 3. Streaming services keep getting more expensive [The Verge] 4. Price Storm: Why Major Streaming Services Have Hiked Rates [Variety] 5. Americans’ New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat [Mot...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast New prime minister or not, meet Larry, the cat. The chief mouser to the Cabinet Office who lives at 10 Downing Street. 1. Larry (cat) [Wikipedia] 2. Feline pushed out? [BBC] 3. Larry the Cat’s 12 Years as Chief Mouser [The Atlantic] 4. Larry the Cat [Twitter] 5. Justin Ng [Twitter] 6. Number 10 Downing Street [BBC] Contact That's Life, I Swear Tweet us at @RedPhantom Listen to audios: -Apple https://apple.co/3MAFxhb -Spotify https://spo...

Text us your thoughts on the podcast While privacy advocates had celebrated Google’s cookie-crushing plan, advertisers railed against it, saying it would only give the search giant even more of an ad-vantage. supporting links 1. First-party vs. third-party cookies: What's the difference? [TechTarget] 2. Google Chrome [Wikipedia] 3. If an app asks to track your activity [Apple Support] 4. The End of The Third-Party Cookie | All You Need to Know [Cookie Information] 5. What is digit...