Mic on Nature was the first session of the Audiocraft 2020 Festival. Presented by me and Sarah Allely (the Brain on Nature team), this session facilitated festival participants to go outside and make field recordings. The session's objective was twofold: to get people into the natural world before spending a day inside on their screens (this year's festival was online, due to the pandemic), and to collect sounds from the many places in the world people were tuning into the festival from.

At the end of 2019 I had a baby daughter. I've long been aware of the fact that there are fewer female characters in kids' books. But the unjust reality of that really hit home when I started to read to her. Here's a list of books I've found with strong and/or realistic female characters.