Curious Worldview Podcast

This has stood out to me…

• Andrea Wulf - The Invention Of Nature

Although this is presented as a biography on Alexander Von Humbolt, The Invention Of Nature is as well a deep dive into the worldview that informed Darwin and the theory of evolution.

Von Humbolt is one of histories greatest thinkers, certainly one of humanities great scientists, and most close to my heart. One of our great explorers.

His list of achievements are phenomenal. He was the inspiration to Darwin, Jefferson, Göthe and so many more.

Read or listen, here.

This is what I want you to engage with most…

Air Siren’s Woke Me Up Early On Saturday, October 7th

David De Jong is the Middle East Correspondent for the Dutch Newspaper, FD. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, and has been reporting from the ground since the early hours of October 7th.

He’s been non-stop for almost 3 weeks now.

David’s first hand experience over the last 2 and a half weeks, includes the horror of being among the first reporters on the ground at the music festival, to some of the sites hit worst from October 7th through to disinformation and how to think about the media coverage of this conflict so far. 

Follow David De Jong Twitter here…

Here is #154 w/ David De Jong on his first hand reporting throughout Israel since October 7th.

This is a photo worth saving…

This photo was taken by Lisa Kristine, an American fine-art photographer. She has an ongoing series on modern day slavery which, alongside her TED talk, is a heartbreaking look into modern day slavery.

I stumbled across Lisa Kristine because she liked something Matthew Friedman was tagged in on Linkedin (finally something worthwhile discovered on the worlds most forced social media).

Her photos are absolutely incredible, and you can expect she will feature as a photo to save in many future editions of the weekender.