Nudie Reads The Necklace [[S3E40]

Afraid of calculus? Don’t be. Englishman Silvanus P.Thompson wrote the cult classic Calculus Made Easy in 1910 and it’s been a bestseller ever since. you'll find it charming and surprisingly easy to follow. Great writing about numbers. 📚➗🧠=✨💡

29 Touko 19min

George Orwell’s 1984 still sends shivers down the spine—this Sunday classic episode dives into the novel that defined dystopia and warned us all about the dangers of unchecked power. Big Brother is watching… but so are we. 📚👁️🕰️🧠🔥

25 Touko 56min

In 1941 John D Rockefeller Jnr gave a short radio address from the Empire State Building to help the morale of troops shortly to be sent to war and give their families comfort. 10 Beliefs. 10 Rules for Life. 🖋️ 🏙️ ✨ 📜 🧠

22 Touko 13min

Robert E Howard is the father of the fantasy literature sub-genre Sword & Sorcery. Conan The Barbarian was born from Howard's young and fertile Texan mind. It might not be high fantasy but it’s engaging and perfectly written for an audience craving weird adventure. 🧔‍♂️⚔️👑🐍🔥

18 Touko 29min

Joe Colombo’s 1972 MoMA design statement for his Total Furnishing Unit - a radical living pod with kitchen, bed, bathroom and wardrobe, all built in. He called it the future. MoMA called it art. Severance just called the props department. Bold ideas, and gorgeous writing from an Italian design guru. 🛋️⚙️🇮🇹📺🧠

15 Touko 15min

Jack and the Beanstalk—the 1807 version edited by Mary Shelley’s dad! Magic beans, golden eggs, a harp that sings, one courageous lad. And something missing! If you love folklore and great writing, this one’s for you.🎧 Listen and share! 🧑🐔🎵💰🌱

11 Touko 45min

What happens when the Cardinals take nearly 3 years to elect a Pope? You get conclave chaos, a roofless meeting hall, and a man named Teobaldo Visconti summoned home from Crusade to become Pope Gregory X. In this offbeat episode, I read from Archibald Bower’s vivid 1750 account of how one Pope cleaned up the mess with a decree that still governs papal elections today.⛪🗳️📜🌧️✉️

8 Touko 22min