Juggling Dynamite

Amber Sullins gets a minute or two to tell up to two million people about some extremely complicated science, using the tools of her trade: a pleasant voice, a green screen, and small icons denoting sun, clouds, rain, and wind. She is the chief meteorologist at ABC15 News in Phoenix, so her forecasts mostly call for sunshine. Within this brief window, however, Sullins sometimes manages to go beyond the next five days. Far beyond. Here is a direct video link.

A few years ago, I wrote to Home and Garden Television and proposed a new show that featured green renovations. Instead of all the old tech, dinosaur drivel, let’s show viewers all the incredibly smart innovations pouring onto the market all around the world to make homes emission-free, net energy producers rather than net drag, cash flow guzzlers.  I am still waiting on that show, but in the meantime Netflix has launched an important new Bill Nye show on these topics.

Watch this series with your kids and grand kids.  Today more than ever, people need information, hope, leadership and proactive steps forward.  This show is about all the solutions.   I also recommend Nye’s latest best-selling book  Unstoppable: harnessing science to change the world.  Naysayers double down on defeatist nonsense as an excuse to do nothing, thinking people have to learn and lead.

Bill Nye – science guy, educator, mechanical engineer, and curator of curiosity – returns with a new show. Each episode of Bill Nye Saves the World tackles a specific topic or concept through lively panel discussions, wide-ranging correspondent reports from a crackerjack team, and Bill’s very special blend of lab procedure and sly personality.  Bill Nye Saves The World is now streaming, only on Netflix.  Here is a direct link to the trailer.

A year ago we downloaded a free app that plays nature soundtracks on a timed loop.  The one I use is called White Noise. It changed my life.  I used to have difficulty falling asleep and would wake several times a night.  Now I go down with ocean waves for 8 hours straight, and look forward to a spa like rejuvenation every time.  (Your spouse has to like it too of course).  It turns out, it may also be good for an aging memory. Bonus!  See,  Pink noise synced to brain waves deepens sleep and boosts memory in older adults: