Because the Best Things in Life are Off-Topic

How Nomadic Matt got COVID-19. Plus: Reports from stranded travelers

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How Nomadic Matt got COVID-19. Plus: Reports from stranded travelers
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Global reports on pandemic-age travel, including Matt Kepnes on contracting COVID-19.

How to make sense of health data in a time of pandemic (and beyond)

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How to make sense of health data in a time of pandemic (and beyond)
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Dr. JP Santiago on how to discern useful health info from nonsense in the time of COVID-19.

How to enhance your career by becoming a better public speaker and reader

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How to enhance your career by becoming a better public speaker and reader
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A TED Talk cheat sheet: Elena Passarello on how to share your expertise via public speaking.

On sabbaticals: How to take a career break without breaking your career

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Lifestyle coach Tara Quinn on how to take time off from work to travel.

Ari Shaffir and Rolf do a deep-dive on the finer points of indie travel

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Ari Shaffir and Rolf do a deep-dive on the finer points of indie travel
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Comedian Ari Shaffir and Rolf have an open-ended talk on joys and idiosyncrasies of independent travel.

Remembering Nirvana, and how music can frame experience (and memory)

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Remembering Nirvana, and how music can frame experience (and memory)
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Rolf and novelist Aaron Hamburger talk about Nirvana, and how music can frame experience and memory

How music affects you when you’re young (or, the joys of Jane’s Addiction)

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How music affects you when you're young (or, the joys of Jane's Addiction)
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Rolf and Tod Goldberg unpack their youthful fixation with the band Jane’s Addiction

Life-changing travel experiences: China and Mongolia with my parents

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Life changing travel experiences: A journey in Asia with my mom and dad

Why dinosaurs matter (also: Rolf fact-checks the dino book he wrote at age 7)

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Why dinosaurs matter (also: Rolf fact-checks the dino book he wrote at age 7)
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Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara fact-checks the dinosaur book Rolf wrote at age 7.

What Matt Green discovered by walking every single street in New York City

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What Matt Green discovered by walking every single street in New York City
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Matt Green walked across America, then walked down every street in NYC. This is his story.