Ep. 48: Tech Shabbat + Perseverance

Rachel and Walls send their love to everyone suffering from power outages, water and food shortages, and extreme cold in Texas and other parts of the US. Walls shares some of the benefits she's experienced from taking a weekly tech break. Walls dreams about all the good she could do with obscene amounts of money. Rachel reflects on rebalancing what occupies her mental energy. Walls recommends supporting Girl Scout Troop 6000, comprised of kids in NYC's shelter system. Rachel rhapsodizes about the Mars rover Perseverance and the incredible science that made it possible.

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Music by Royer Bockus

Some resources:

Buy some cookies and/or support Girl Scout Troop 6000, comprised of kids in NYC's shelter system

Listen to Tiffany Shlain's experience of taking Tech Shabbats

Give your life more purpose with The Power of Ritual

Here's a list of resources to help aid the Texas recovery

Help victims of child abuse and domestic violence recover safely in Austin, Texas

Help immigrant communities recover from the blackouts and freezing temperatures in Austin, Texas

Help folks in Austin, Texas get access to food and assistance in the aftermath of blackouts and extreme cold

Here's how Perseverance fits into the history of NASA's Mars rovers

Watch a quick explainer about what makes the Perseverance Mars Rover special

Explore Perseverance's mission more in-depth and marvel at the science and engineering that made it possible

Watch Perseverance highlights with the first ever ACTUAL footage of a rover landing

Watch the entire NASA livestream of landing Perseverance on Mars (the earlier portion of the livestream has plenty of interviews. The spacecraft starts to descend into the Martian atmosphere at around 1 hour and 32 minutes into the livestream)

Watch a brief, poetic explainer of Voyager 1 & 2, the only manmade objects to ever leave our Solar System

Here's part of the message to aliens NASA sent on the Voyager probes

"Songs of Parting" by Walt Whitman

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