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18: Michael Pollan, Yanis Varoufakis, Simon Winchester, Khaled Beydoun
In The Moment podcast
English - May 26, 2018 01:19 - 30 minutes - 54.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts News Politics artsandculture civics science townhall townhallseattle Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Michael Pollan outlines the remarkably positive outcomes of the latest medical research on psychedelic substances (2:04); Yanis Varoufakis highlights the importance of understanding our own roles in the economy, and explains the ways in which it affects everything around us (10:45); Simon Winchester discusses precision engineering and asks us to consider whether we're becoming too reverent of perfection (15:45); and Steve Scher interviews Khaled Beydoun about the religious, racial, and social history of Islamophobia in America (20:58). Hosts Jini Palmer and Steve Scher select standout moments from the previous two weeks of events and look forward to the next.