How to practice emotional first aid | Guy Winch

We’ll go to the doctor when we feel flu-ish or a nagging pain. So why don’t we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss, loneliness? Too many of us deal with common psychological-health issues on our own, says Guy Winch. But we don’t have to. He makes a compelling case to practice emotional hygiene — taking care of our emotions, our minds, with the same diligence we take care of our bodies.

How To Extract the Transcript for Captions on YouTube Videos

Finally, as I was writing this, I learned that you can simply enter the following JavaScript into the Console of the developer tools in your browser.

if(yt.config_.TTS_URL.length) window.location.href=yt.config_.TTS_URL+"&kind=asr&fmt=srv1&lang=en"

On a Mac, you enter it here:

    1. Chrome: View > Developer > JavaScript Console
    1. Firefox: Tools > Web Developer > Web Console
  1. Safari: Develop > Show Web Inspector

Note that the JavaScript above ends with lang=en, meaning the language is English. If the transcript is in a different language, replace “en” with the two letter language code of the language you want to retrieve. For example, “ar” for Arabic or “es” for Spanish.

YouTube Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4D4I0qNEYU

Example Raw Transcript: https://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext?v=A4D4I0qNEYU&key=yttt1&sparams=asr_langs%2Ccaps%2Cv%2Cxoaf%2Cxorp%2Cexpire&expire=1549420733&signature=20C1932AD521B297CF6683D461CB580538C0156A.E99BA7F7D42647E7CE68DB1C1F6DDC060FC306F9&xorp=True&xoaf=1&caps=asr&hl=en&asr_langs=ko%2Cit%2Cde%2Cja%2Cen%2Ces%2Cnl%2Cfr%2Cru%2Cpt&lang=en&name=en&fmt=srv3

Authoritarianism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the growing number of authoritarian leaders around the world, their common characteristics, and whether or not one of them is currently our president.

  1. Projecting Strength
  2. Demonizing Enemies
  3. Dismantling Institutions: The Press, Courts