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Daily 057: Wondrous Wednesday - Origin of Life

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Wondrous Wednesday on origin of life (mentions Richard Dawkins, clay theory). Amazing Tales RPG with one student. Afternoon heavy RPG session. Minecraft hangout. Ashley's makeup session (photos on Discord). Article Club on Tripoli firefighters. Kwanzaa presentation at 3pm. Discord channels reorganized.

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0:00 Welcome to ANI, in the air, online, and around Baltimore, your daily podcast briefing of
0:06 all the goings-ons, ins and arounds, arts and ideas, and very school.
0:12 So today is Wednesday, which meant that I recorded a wondrous Wednesday.
0:21 This time a few words on the origin of life.
0:27 So you can check that out, got a little long-winded towards the end, but, and I forgot to actually
0:34 mention one of my favorite authors for reading about this stuff, Richard Dawkins, and in
0:43 one of his books, The Blind Watchmaker, or The Selfish Gene, I think one of those two,
0:52 he had mentioned a cool process involving clay and the origin of life.
1:00 But it was a long, maybe like 15 years ago when I read it.
1:04 So I don't actually remember what he said about it, but it was cool stuff.
1:11 Anyway, so yeah, you can check out the wondrous Wednesday to learn more about that.
1:17 Now what happened today in our little world, well, let's see, I did my amazing tales, which
1:32 was kind of a storytelling RPG, very light.
1:38 Just kind of had one student show up, I don't know, it's kind of hard to get this thing
1:42 started, I'm not sure if I will continue, but it was fun.
1:48 I mean, it's basically come up with a setting, a character, a story, roll some dice, and
1:57 see what happens.
2:02 Also continuing on with a more heavy role-playing game experience in the afternoon, I think
2:12 that group is working out well, having some adventures, we'll see how well it goes.
2:23 There was also, I believe, a Minecraft hangout in the afternoon.
2:30 And then there was also a makeup session by Ashley as well.
2:38 So some cool stuff going on.
2:42 I think there are some pictures on Discord about the makeup, you should check that out.
2:52 Tomorrow, Thursday, there'll be Article Club at one, it's about kind of firefighters trying
3:02 to do their job in the city of Tripoli in Libya, kind of after the revolution and the
3:16 more or less essential, you know, the lack of much governmental presence and the rise
3:26 of militias to fill that need and sort of these firefighters trying to do their job
3:33 in the midst of basically a lot of armed conflict going on.
3:38 So that's cool, now that'll be at one o'clock at 3 p.m., I believe Ashley is going to talk
3:46 about Kwanzaa, which is, you know, a winter holiday.
3:54 It's pretty cool to learn and find out about, so go check that out at three o'clock today.
4:04 Again, look on Discord for what voice channel it will be in.
4:10 And let's see, I believe there's also going to be photos, so hanging out on the field
4:19 today, I'm not, I guess I should probably check out what that time is, probably eleven
4:29 or noon or something or other, tomorrow from eleven to two.
4:42 So yeah, so if you want to spend some time outside at our field, you can buy from eleven
4:57 to two and the carriage house will be open for use of bathroom, but otherwise, you know,
5:03 the building is off limits.
5:07 So lots of cool stuff going on, and that's basically where we're at.
5:17 I should also, I don't think I mentioned this before, but there was some folder reorganization
5:25 done on Discord, so hopefully the text channels are a little bit easier to navigate.
5:34 There's sort of the more formal aspects of Discord, such as school meeting chat, on a
5:44 text channel, and then there's kind of activities, the various clubs and so forth, like Article
5:50 Club, Creative Writing Club, Minecraft, you know, all that good stuff.
5:56 And then there's kind of the more personal and fun stuff, and then alumni channels.
6:03 So if Discord was a little overwhelming before, maybe you can check it out now and see how
6:13 that goes.
6:15 All right, I think that's all for now.
6:19 Hope you have a good day and talk to you all later.
6:25 Bye bye.