January continues

January continues. A parent tugs a child on a sled in a snowy, wintry setting.
Wake us up when January ends. Don Petersen / Associated Press
January continues. A parent tugs a child on a sled in a snowy, wintry setting.
Wake us up when January ends. Don Petersen / Associated Press

January continues

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Is it just us, or has January been four years long?! Well, hopefully this episode will make you feel like you’re a step closer to springtime. Eric Eddings and Brittany Luse, hosts of the podcast For Colored Nerds, join us to discuss everything from the controversy over the reboot of Snow White, to Neil Young’s standoff with Spotify, to a very special spam email.

Then, one of our favorite readers, Liberty Hardy of Book Riot, walks us through some of the best books coming out in the early months of 2022. 

Those titles include…

And speaking of the longest January of all time, we ask physicist Chad Orzel, “what is time?!” His new book is A Brief History of Timekeeping.