Happy October, Shit Givers!
It’s finally spooky season! 👻
The last few months have been a bit of a whirlwind with cross-country moves, vacations, kids going back to school, et cetera, et cetera, but we still somehow managed to produce a lot of content we’re excited about, including the new newsletter format and some awesome conversations on the podcast.
So, ICYMI: Here’s everything we published in August and September!
💻️ On the web
📚️ The Best Kinds of Stories: Sharks, Barbie, Tom Hanks, and Jackie Robinson
📝 The Next Big Test: This will (always) be on the test
⭐️Did You Hear The One About The Starfish?: Why I missed dinner last night
⛑️ How To Help Libya and Morocco: Verified Action Steps you can take right now
🪖 The Long Defeat: And how we defeat it, dammit
🥵 The Coolest Year of The Rest of Your Life: Unless we have something to say about it
🎧️ On the mic
🧬 What Can You Do With Just 493 Genes? with evolutionary biologists Roy Moger-Reischer and Brandon C. Ogbunu
🫄 How To Access Better Maternal Mental Health Care with Simmone Taitt from Poppy Seed Health
🌊 Turning The Tide On Microplastics with Julia Yan from Baleena
Like to watch? All of our podcast conversations are available on YouTube.
📰 In the news
🆕 A new news newsletter (induction stoves, forever chemicals, and octopus hot tubs)
🌴 Save the rainforest, save the world (medical debt, green hydrogen, and A.I. speech therapy)
🤖 How can we use A.I. for good? (climate leaders, depression treatments, and creepy cars)
🦞 The lobsterman to seaweed farmer pipeline (climate denial, MDMA therapy, and underground bees)
👷 20,000 new climate jobs (influencer dieticians, climate lawsuits, and insect-scale robots)
🧡 Every Child Matters (government shutdown, feminist cancer treatments, and brainless jellyfish)
⭐️ Members only
Members received all of this exclusive bonus content:
🧠 Top of Mind:
Plus a couple of email-only Not Important essays (bi-weekly recommendations for books, articles, playlists, and more)
Want to get this stuff and support our work? Do it here.
👀 Other shit
👂️What you told us about yourselves, and about what you’d like to see more and less of in the newsletter
🤝 Donate or volunteer with Run For Something to support their 50 State School Board Strategy
That’s it!
Have a great rest of your week,
Willow