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SMART Moves...BIG Gains! with Jimmy Newson | Season 5 - Episode #15

Charged Up Studio Podcast - May 02, 2024 12:51 - 47 minutes
Welcome to Charged Up Studio! This week, Danna Olivo continues the "Market Smart: Winning Strategies for Small Business Success" focused series with a special guest, Jimmy Newson, also known as the Impact Influencer. As a business and growth strategist, Jimmy has helped countless small businesses...

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Paul Wolfowitz on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and a Life in Foreign Policy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Uncommon Knowledge - May 01, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Currently a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Paul Wolfowitz previously served as director of policy planning at the State Department, as US ambassador to Indonesia, as under secretary of defense for policy, as dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, as ...

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Searching for Another England, with Caroline Lucas and Grace Blakeley, Part Two

Intelligence Squared - April 27, 2024 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Englishness has been hijacked by the right. The flag of St. George’s Cross is proudly waved at far-right rallies. Conservative politicians insult the Left as being anti-English. And our history has been weaponised by cheerleaders for Brexit, exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia. That's the argum...

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Searching for Another England, with Caroline Lucas and Grace Blakeley, Part One

Intelligence Squared - April 25, 2024 23:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Englishness has been hijacked by the right. The flag of St. George’s Cross is proudly waved at far-right rallies. Conservative politicians insult the Left as being anti-English. And our history has been weaponised by cheerleaders for Brexit, exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia. That's the argum...

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Arash Azizi on Iran's Turbulent Past and its Uncertain Future

Intelligence Squared - April 23, 2024 23:10 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Regularly embroiled in international conflicts – both militarily and diplomatically – and locked in a cycle of protest and heavy government crackdowns on the domestic political front, Iran has rarely been out of the international spotlight over the past decades. The protests in recent years that ...

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Getting Weird with Physics, with Harry Cliff

Intelligence Squared - April 21, 2024 23:10 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
For this episode, particle physicist Harry Cliff takes us on a deep dive into some of the universe's most perplexing scientific mysteries. His recent book, Space Oddities, draws on many findings found during his work at the University of Cambridge. Why are stars flying away from us faster than an...

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Istanbul: Crossroads of the World, with Alexander Christie-Miller

Intelligence Squared - April 20, 2024 23:10 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Alexander Christie-Miller is a former Istanbul correspondent for The Times newspaper, whose writing has also appeared in outlets such as Newsweek, The Atlantic and The White Review. His recent book, To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul, combines tales drawn from centuri...

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Keir Starmer, Will Hutton, Alastair Campbell and Sonia Sodha on How to Remake Britain, Part Two

Intelligence Squared - April 18, 2024 23:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
This is Part Two of a three-part episode. Britain is in big trouble. The country has dipped into recession, local councils are going bankrupt and trust in our politics has collapsed. Could Labour leader Keir Starter remake Britain after the next election? According to political economist, writer ...

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397 - ACGC - Upholding the Ruggie Principles in Colombia's Private Sector

Democracy That Delivers - April 17, 2024 18:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Episode Description The Ruggie Framework is a three-pronged approach that includes the obligations of corporations to uphold human rights, the responsibility of the state to protect those rights, and the provision of effective remedies for any infringements.  In this CIPE Anti-Corruption and...

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Keir Starmer, Will Hutton, Alastair Campbell and Sonia Sodha on How to Remake Britain, Part One

Intelligence Squared - April 16, 2024 23:10 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Britain is in big trouble. The country has dipped into recession, local councils are going bankrupt and trust in our politics has collapsed. Could Labour leader Keir Starter remake Britain after the next election? According to political economist, writer and author, Will Hutton, and political str...

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The Rise of the Machines: John Etchemendy and Fei-Fei Li on Our AI Future | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Uncommon Knowledge - April 16, 2024 18:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
John Etchemendy and Fei-Fei Li are the codirectors of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), founded in 2019 to “advance AI research, education, policy and practice to improve the human condition.” In this interview, they delve into the origins of the technology, ...

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From Ordinary to Extraordinary | Season 5 Episode #14

Charged Up Studio Podcast - April 16, 2024 18:16 - 50 minutes
Welcome, everyone, to another exhilarating episode of Charged Up Studio! This week’s episode features a remarkable guest I’m sure you won’t want to miss. He is a marketing luminary on a mission to empower small business owners to stand out amidst the clamor of the marketplace. Jeff Barnes, from D...

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LIVE from DC: Redefining the Center (with Heather Boushey)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - April 16, 2024 15:48 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
This special episode of Pitchfork Economics features a live conversation from the "Redefining the Center: How to Make Middle-Out Economics the New Mainstream" conference hosted by Democracy Journal in Washington, D.C. Heather Boushey, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, join...

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The Great London Novel, with Andrew O'Hagan

Intelligence Squared - April 15, 2024 11:46 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Andrew O’Hagan has written seven novels, three non-fiction books, a play and many standout journalism pieces on topics ranging from the origins of cryptocurrency to the story of the Grenfell Tower fire. The Booker Prize-nominated novelist's 2020 book Mayflies was adapted for television by the BBC...

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The F Word: Re-evaluating Society's Approach to Body Image, with Kate Manne

Intelligence Squared - April 14, 2024 18:50 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
In her latest book, writer and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, Kate Manne, turns her analytical lens towards prejudice and discrimination against larger bodied people, which she says is on the rise. In Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia, Manne blends the political and th...

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Unlocking the Power of Memory, with Charan Ranganath

Intelligence Squared - April 12, 2024 19:50 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Charan Ranganath is the Director of the Memory and Plasticity Program and a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California at Davis. His new book, Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us, is a radical exploration of human engagement with memory, askin...

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Going Nuclear: Could a Catastrophic Conflict Take Place? with Annie Jacobsen

Intelligence Squared - April 10, 2024 14:40 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author whose books probe the periphery of what we know about state warcraft and read like unputdownable thrillers. As a result, a her Pulitzer-nominated work can be found in both journalistic pieces and fiction including Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan tv ...

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The True Crime of Wage Theft (with Terri Gerstein)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - April 09, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
In the shadows of corporate greed and exploitation lies a sinister crime that is silently perpetrated, leaving countless victims in its wake—a crime that affects millions of hardworking Americans every year and sucks billions out of our economy —Wage Theft. No industry is immune to this insidious...

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Finding the Story within Ordinary Human Failings, with Megan Nolan

Intelligence Squared - April 08, 2024 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Megan Nolan is an Irish journalist and author who has made a name for herself by cutting to the quick of the most uncomfortable facets of the human experience. She first appeared on Intelligence Squared to discuss her widely acclaimed debut, Acts of Desperation, back in 2022 and she returns now w...

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Why We Need to Slow Down to Save the Planet, with Kohei Saito

Intelligence Squared - April 06, 2024 23:10 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Kohei Saito is the Japanese philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo, whose ideas have become highly influential in the conversation surrounding how to better use economics to combat the looming climate crisis. His book, Slow Down, is a bestseller. Joining him ...

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A Journey Into Our Geopolitical Future, with Elliot Ackerman

Intelligence Squared - April 05, 2024 22:50 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
With AI's capabilities now beginning to conjure visions reminiscent of science fiction, it's fiction writers who are pointing the way to where these tools will take us in decades to come. 2054, the second of a trilogy of books depicting the AI-infused geopolitical landscape of decades not so far ...

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Breaking Boundaries | Season 5 Episode #13 | Anthony Joiner

Charged Up Studio Podcast - April 04, 2024 18:01 - 42 minutes
Are you ready to revolutionize your approach to publishing? Join us on the latest episode of Charged Up Studio as we delve into the fascinating world of DIY publishing with none other than Anthony Joiner, the visionary CEO of BLOOKSY. In this highly anticipated episode, we sit down with Anthony J...

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396: Combatting Corruption in Sudan: A New Coalition Emerges

Democracy That Delivers - April 03, 2024 15:20 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Anticorruption Taskforce Sudan, ACT-Sudan, is a newly established coalition of local Sudanese civil society organizations dedicated to identifying and combating corruption in Sudan to achieve the ultimate goal of ending the war and bringing justice to the people of Sudan. The task force aims to ...

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Are You Free? How Work Relentlessly Eats Up Our Time

Intelligence Squared - April 03, 2024 13:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratings
In a world increasingly built around convenience, why do we often feel so short of free time? It’s a question that’s been on the minds of authors Nick Srnicek and Helen Hester. Srnicek is Lecturer in Digital Economy in the Department of Digital Humanities at Kings College London. Hester is Associ...

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KQED's 'On Our Watch' Uncovers Corruption and Abuse at California’s New Folsom Prison

KQED's Forum - April 02, 2024 22:39 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
California State Prison, Sacramento – also known as New Folsom Prison – is considered one of the state’s most dangerous. It’s one of several facilities in California that house the most violent offenders, and corrections officers there use force at a rate that’s nearly 40% higher than in other pr...

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California Fast Food Workers Get Minimum Wage Increase

KQED's Forum - April 02, 2024 22:34 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
This week, California implements a minimum wage of $20 per hour for fast food workers. Proponents of the measure believe that it will not only allow workers to meet essential needs, but potentially move them up the economic ladder to greater financial security. Restaurant owners and operators con...

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Andrew Roberts on “Conflict: The Evolution of War from 1945 to Ukraine” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Uncommon Knowledge - April 02, 2024 18:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Historian Andrew Roberts is the author of more than a dozen major works of history, including Napoleon: A Life, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, and The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III. His latest book, coauthored with General David Petraeus, is Conflict: The Evolutio...

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Productivity is a Policy Choice (with Preston Mui)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - April 02, 2024 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Preston Mui, Senior Economist at Employ America, recently authored a report titled "The Dream of the 90s is Alive in 2024: How Policy Can Revive Productivity Growth." The report offers a blueprint for policymakers seeking to emulate the successes of an unparalleled period of productivity in the U...

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'The Alternative' Describes More Ethical Economic Practices

KQED's Forum - April 01, 2024 19:34 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
Our current growth-based economic systems do not take into account their human cost, argues journalist Nick Romeo. And while there are economic initiatives and programs around the world that have been shown to improve local citizens’ lives, these are few and far between. Yet they provide models, ...

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These Israelis and Palestinians Look Beyond War to 'A Land For All'

KQED's Forum - April 01, 2024 19:18 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
As fighting between Israel and Hamas continues, what will happen after the war ends? The so-called two state solution has long been one of the most prominent ideas, where independent states of Israel and Palestine exist side-by-side, but previous attempts to solidify an agreement have fallen shor...

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