okidokiboki

I'm working on some new videos (including another library check-in), but in the meantime, I'm having fun keeping track of my books and other updates on substack. So if you'd like to keep up, just subscribe at okidokiboki.substack.com/

2 years ago | [YT] | 7

okidokiboki

I’m still in moving limbo and have a video in the queue to edit, but in the meantime I wanted to post a link to the latest episode of Tiny Matters, the science podcast I co-host with Sam Jones. Sam and I interviewed Dr. Moira McTier about her book The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy, which takes a first person perspective of the Milky Way that I found super fascinating and unusual in the context of science non-fiction. It was super cool to get to ask her more about her process, and if you like nonfiction book club, I think you’ll also enjoy this discussion.

open.spotify.com/episode/5XHJ...

3 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 10

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I haven't gotten a chance to work on as many videos the past few weeks...but it was for a very fun reason. This month, I'm hosting a little podcast miniseries on Scientific American's Science Talk where I take on two science/nature books each episode and just...chat about them. If you like the double book reviews I do here, then I think you'll enjoy this too.

The first episode is up today, and I'm talking about fish thanks to two books: Why Fish Don't Exist, and The Book of Eels. Let me what you think!

www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/science…

4 years ago | [YT] | 13

okidokiboki

hey all! we're changing our summer schedule for nonfiction book club a bit. we're moving our june discussion to july, which means that we'll be talking about The Stonewall Reader on July 10th at 5 pm ET on nicole's channel. And we'll be taking August off from doing a livestream. For other updates, subscribe to nonfictionbookclub.substack.com/

4 years ago | [YT] | 9

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I made my hosting debut on Journey to the Microcosmos this week! If you don't know Journey to the Microcosmos, it's a show about microbes and microscopy, featuring the stunning footage captured by our master of microscopes James.

I've been writing for the show for a while now, and it's been my sort of "I can't believe I get to do this for a living" thing. Getting to learn about microbes in a whole new way for me, and getting to connect it to so many other parts of our world--whether that's through ecology or history or the sheer absurdity of being human--is all just so much exactly the kind of science writing I wanted to do when I decided to go down this path. And it was very fun (and also a little anxiety-inducing) to get to step out from just writing the scripts to getting to narrate one!

https://youtu.be/CYIC70MNRWM

4 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 3

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another nonfiction book club thing: if you want to stay updated on what our next book is and when/where we'll be talking about it, you can subscribe to our newsletter at nonfictionbookclub.substack.com/

(If you hate newsletters, you can also just bookmark the link and check back in whenever you need to know what's going on).

4 years ago | [YT] | 7

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2 nonfiction book club things!

1. our next book will be Another Kind of Public Education by Patricia Hill Collins
2.) We're moving the discussion up a week, so we'll be gathering on Nicole's channel (youtube.com/user/sweeneysays) on february 6th at 5 pm ET

4 years ago | [YT] | 2

okidokiboki

Tomorrow is our last nonfiction book club of the year! Join me on Nicole's channel as we discuss The Managed Heart and emotional labor!

4 years ago | [YT] | 1

okidokiboki

Join Nicole and me tomorrow!

5 years ago | [YT] | 1

okidokiboki

Join Nicole and me tomorrow for our first nonfiction book club, featuring The Personality Brokers!

5 years ago | [YT] | 0