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  • Episode 24: David Jay Brown - Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity
    2024/11/22

    In his book Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity David Jay Brown interviews people who look at the world in some very non-traditional ways. I talked to him about how we experience the world and why psychedelics like DMT might be the door to a new understanding of our minds and consciousness.

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    30 分
  • Episode 23: Robert Jensen - It's Debatable
    2024/11/08

    Robert Jensen is an emeritus professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin. he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. His latest book, It’s Debatable, defines his political and ethical positions and how he arrived at them.

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    30 分
  • Episode 22: Rebecca Renner - Gator Country
    2024/10/25

    Rebecca Renner's book Gator Country takes readers into an undercover operation in the Florida Everglades. Alligator hides worth millions of dollars are harvested every year. Most of them come from alligator farms but alligators don't breed in captivity so eggs must taken from wild nests. Conservation efforts have brought alligators back from the brink of extinction but enforcing rules and regulations with people who face down angry alligator mamas has hazards of its own.

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    30 分
  • Episode 21: Erin Quinn-Kong: Hate Follow
    2024/10/11

    Do children need to be protected from their parent’s on-line activity? That’s the question at the heart of Erin Qiuinn-Kong’s debut novel Hate Follow. The story is fiction but the issues about child privacy and modern parenting are very real.

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    28 分
  • Episode 20: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson - What if we get it right?
    2024/09/25

    Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist who is not ready to give up on the future. Her book What if we got it right? Visions for the Future is filled with conversations, poetry and essays about the kind of world we could create. A world where we can all flourish.

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    30 分
  • Episode 19: Justin Nobel - Petroleum -238
    2024/09/10

    Justin Nobel has spent seven years investigating the way the oil and gas industry deals with the enormous amount of waste products it produces. All of it is toxic but some of it is also radioactive. Lax regulation and legal loopholes expose workers and people living near the wells to levels of radiation far in excess of legal limits. Waste from the fracking process is dumped into watershed where it will become more radioactive over time as elements like radium and radon decay into daughter elements. His book is Petroleum 238.

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    30 分
  • Episode 18: Brea Baker - Rooted
    2024/08/28

    In her book Rooted Brea Baker looks at how land theft from black and indigenous people has shaped not only the economic landscape but also the natural environment. Baker makes a case for reparations based on documented cases where stolen land robbed not only the historical people involved but also robbed their descendants of generational wealth.

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    30 分
  • Episode 17: Zoe Weil - The Solutionary Way: Transform Your Life, Your Community, and the World for the Better
    2024/08/16

    Zoe Weil has been a humane educator for decades. In her book The Solutionary Way she has developed a system for bridging divides, addressing the causes of complex and persistent problems and creating a framework for doing the most good and the least harm for people, animals and the environment.

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    30 分