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Catch of the Week
BECAUSE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Distract the kids with our new favourite science communicator, who looks a bit like Thor: Kyle Hill, the science editor of Nerdist. com and the presenter of YouTube channel Because Science ( tinyurl.
com/NZLBecause). Hill looks into the science of movie nerd stuff, such as the physics of Thor’s hammer or how to fight a T rex. We like Never Do a Superhero Landing, “which is almost perfectly designed to break you”: tinyurl.com/NZL
Superhero. Hill has his own website, kylehill.net, and episodes are available at nerdist.com.
TALKING BOOKS: Booky types, do you like a good podcast? The Guardian Books podcast is an interesting listen that features discussion, interviews and readings. How about Bill Nighy reading children’s story The Invisible Child, by Tove Jansson ( tinyurl.com/NZLInvisible), or a chat with author Michael Pollan, whose new book is about the history and science of psychedelic drugs ( tinyurl.com/NZLPollan)? For more from the Brits, the Times Literary Supplement’s Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon is pretty good: acast.
com/tlsvoices. We have a soft spot for the New Yorker’s Fiction Podcast: tinyurl.com/NZLNYFiction.