Curiosity Daily Podcast: Cutting Back on Plastic in Your Home (w/ Will McCallum) and How Shapes Can Be Angry
Learn tips for using less plastic to help keep our planet clean, from Greenpeace UK’s Head of Oceans, Will McCallum. Then, you’ll learn about whether shapes can be angry, with some help from the spectral centroid.
September 26, 2019
Episode Show Notes:
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about whether shapes can be angry: https://curiosity.im/32Yz0Gd
Additional resources from Will McCallum:
- “How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time” on Amazon — https://amazon.com
- Follow Will McCallum @artofactivism on Twitter — https://twitter.com/artofactivism
- Penguin Random House bio — https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2189047/will-mccallum
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