5 Fascinating Podcasts to Ease Your Commute This Week
This Monday feels particularly rough after last week's three-day weekend. Here are some great podcasts to ease you into this week.
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Yeah, this Monday feels particularly tough after last week's glorious three-day weekend. But hey, no moping! We've got something for you to get excited about this morning. Actually, we have something for you to look forward to at sunup every day this week. Here are our current Top Five podcast episodes, primed and ready to entertain you all the way to work. Happy commuting, everyone!
NPRCode Switch, "Can We Talk About Whiteness?”
For the first episode of NPR’s new race and identity podcast, *Code Switch*, hosts Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby chose a surprising focus: whiteness. As they see it, since we assume whiteness as the norm, we mistakenly don’t consider it as a separate interest group, in politics or beyond. Meraji and Demby talk about whiteness—and why we’re uncomfortable discussing it—with a series of thoughtful guests, including Peggy McIntosh, author of *Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack*; Catherine Orr and Chenjerai Kumanyika, professors who teach college courses on racial identity; and culture writer Tanner Colby, author of *Some of My Best Friends Are Black*. Listen [here](http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch).
WMFEAre We There Yet?, “Becoming ‘At Home in Space’”
Sure, *Are We There Yet?* often does deep dives on the science and tech behind space exploration. But it also routinely answers questions like, for example, "How do astronauts not get sick of each other?" In this installment, Phyllis Johnson, a professor at the University of British Columbia and the principal investigator of the "At Home in Space" study, looks at the issue through a sociological lens, and discusses the issues inherent in maintaining a work-life balance in outer space. Listen up and learn about “space culture,” or how astronauts from different nations and backgrounds share celebrations and traditions on the International Space Station—and how they might do so on a mission to Mars. Listen [here](https://play.google.com/music/m/D3do5bsskfku5yvn6b26zhuva3m?t=Becoming_At_Home_In_Space-Are_We_There_Yet).
