10 Bestest

Apr 25 2022
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Each week Karen McFarlane Holman & Brian Hart spend their time curating the world’s coolest things and then pass them along to you. 10 Bestest is a condensed way for you to learn new things to enhance various aspects of your life. We (Brian Hart & Karen McFarlane Holman) take turns spending two minutes describing something – a “cool sheet” – that we use or enjoy. When two minutes are up, Boom! The other host shifts onto the next topic, giving a total of ten cool sheets for each show. Our #coolsheets vary widely: a gadget, a book, a nonprofit, a movie, an app, a life philosophy… anything goes! You can then find out more about each cool sheet by clicking the links that we provide here on 10bestest.com along with each episode.

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Episode 233 | Darkest Sky, Amazing Humans, Water Science & More!

Apr 25 2022 39 mins  
This week, Karen shares the biggest darkest sky, a water non-profit trying to change the world, a cool time-lapse feature built-in Google Earth, a hilarious YouTube channel, and water attraction and repulsion science. Brian shares a great app to get out of your podcast rut. Plus, two unique humans, Amy Herman, will teach you to expand your perspective, and James Hoffmann will teach

Episode 232 | Better Than an Air Fryer, Morning Pages, Pirates and more!

Apr 11 2022 45 mins  
This week Brian shares his newest kitchen gadget that is better than an air fryer, one of his favorite TikTok chefs, and one of his favorite foodie websites. Plus, he shares an article that explains why baby carrots come are always wet and a newsletter to learn something new every day. Karen shares the best map app, an incredibly creative book, the most unique pirate show, and a po

Episode 231 | Underwater music, illusionary makeup, interpretive dance that is awesome and more!

Mar 28 2022 40 mins  
This week Karen shares the exceptional underwater music performance of Between Music that you will have to see to believe. She also shares the Dance Your Ph.D. Contest and the science of the water-splitting reaction. Then she shares a great book by Albert Camus called Create Dangerously and the international fixed calendar and asks you if you would like to adopt something like it.

Episode 230 | Drones Planting Trees, Films for Action, Sound Art, & More!

Mar 07 2022 42 mins  
Brian shares Drones Planting Trees with the incredible company Drone Seed. He also explains why Dan Mace is his newest favorite Filmmaking YouTuber, a fantastic sound art website and podcast, Constellations. Brian also explains why he changed his mind about the electric toothbrush and his favorite cooking YouTube channel of the moment, Adam Ragusea. Karen shares a beautiful animate

#229 | Girls Make Games, Sci-Fi book,Telescopes, and more!

Feb 21 2022 41 mins  
This week Karen shares the great company Girls Make Games. Their mission is to inspire the next generation of designers, creators, and engineers. She also discovers a beautiful and essential documentary project, Sal y Cielo, points us to an article to help you pick out your first telescope, a new fuel source in Japan, and explains why salt makes food taste better. Brian shares a gr

#288 | Sauna Blankets, How to Signal For Help, Friendship and more!

Feb 14 2022 44 mins  
This week Brian shares his Higher Dose sauna blanket Review. He also shares a fun animated short that spans the world and a couple of the only supplement companies he completely trusts. He also shares how the quirky-cool Hollywood star Jeff Goldblum taught him to be a better person, why we make snap first impressions, and how to slow it down to make better ones before we do or say

#227 | Mel Robbins, Graham Norton, Best of Sundance, and more!

Feb 07 2022 40 mins  
This week, Karen shares a top-notch podcast series by Mel Robbins called "Here's Exactly What To Do." She also shares one of her favorite board games, a movie that she only saw once years ago. However, she can still remember almost every part of it and how the fantastic technology of 2-D polymers will change our future forever. Lastly, she talks about a great TED-ED video and ponde

#226 | The Wire 20 yrs later, James Webb, Treat Yo Self, Production hack, Digital magazine & more!

Jan 31 2022 43 mins  
Even though "The Wire' is usually ranked in the top 3 shows of all time, Brian explains how the Wire is still underrated. He is also learning how to embrace the "Treat Yo Self" lifestyle and shares how the Elgato Stream Deck became an instant 'cool sheet' and is a game-changer for way more than just streaming! Within the first day of unboxing it, he cut his edit time of the 10 Best

#225 | Psychology, The Room, Bloodwork, Flow, & more! Stay curious!

Jan 24 2022 49 mins  
Have you ever entered a room to do something and suddenly forget what it was? There is a psychological explanation for that! Karen shares this wild phenomenon and a fantastic organization that helps BIPOC humans feel more inclusive in the surfing community, a wicked crowdfunded from the outback that has us chuffed, and what invented languages can teach us. She also shares a great b

#224 | Almost cool sheets!

Jan 17 2022 47 mins  
This week Karen & Brian share their 'almost cool sheets.' Maybe not a full-fledged cool sheet, but still pretty cool. The best part is we go even more rapid-fire and talk about 20 different things ranging from a wide variety of topics. This is an episode you won't want to miss. Listen here or on your favorite podcast app. Show notes on our website www.10bestest.com/almost2021. Catc