Podsongs
174 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratingsMusicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song.
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Dorian Lynskey on protest songs and The Ministry Of Truth (ft. Musical Guest Kai Mata)
March 16, 2022 07:10 - 1 hour - 191 MBBalinese activist and singer Kai Mata interviews English writer Dorian Lynskey—author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs and The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984—on episode #106 of the Podsongs podcast. Challenged to come up with a song that covers both subjects, she creates an anti-protest song—an anthem for peace. LYRICS: To those who call for uprising And bloodshed to begin Who holler that the system must be torn down from within If yo...
Diana Winston and her MAP to mindfulness
March 02, 2022 17:19 - 59 minutes - 119 MBToday's guest is Diana Winston, author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness, and the co-author of Fully Present, the Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness. She has taught mindfulness for health and well-being since 1993 in a variety of settings including the medical and mental health field, and in universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools. At UCLA, where she is the Director of Mindfulness Education at MARC, she developed the ...
Prof. Dan Siegel - On how overcoming chaos or rigidity is the secret to healthy psychology
February 16, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 183 MBMusicians Jack Stafford and Will Clapson interview world-renowned professor of psychology Dan Siegel to understand their own psychology and write a song inspired by their insights. /This interview is also available on Youtube, and you can as artist Ciro Fabbozzi creates the artwork for the single while listening to their conversation.) Daniel J. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and...
Jen Sincero: How to make your brain your bitch (ft. musical guest Gregory Harrington)
February 02, 2022 10:35 - 1 hour - 188 MBThis episode of Podsongs—where inspirational people inspire a song—is Jen Sincero, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, speaker and motivational cattle prod who’s helped countless people transform their personal and professional lives via her products, speaking engagements, newsletters, seminars and books. Her #1 New York Times bestseller, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life (2013), has been on the NY Times bestseller list for over four ...
Binyamin Appelbaum on how economists rose to rule the world
January 19, 2022 08:04 - 56 minutes - 114 MBBinyamin Appelbaum, of The New York Times, talks about his book, The Economists' Hour, which traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government, unleashing corporations and hastening globalization. Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on business and economics for the Editorial Board of The New York Times. He joined the board in March 2019. He was previously a Washington correspondent for the...
Joel Bakan on the psychopathic personality profile of Corporations
January 05, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBJoel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia, and an internationally renowned legal scholar and commentator. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, Bakan has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard. His critically acclaimed book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), electrified readers around the world (it was published in over 20 languages), and became a bestseller...
100th episode! Unique one-off celebratory album track-by-track with Brian Keneipp and Paul Nugent
December 22, 2021 16:16 - 1 hour - 156 MBWe made it to 100 episodes in just over a year. Well done to the whole team. Thanks to the guests, the musicians, the listeners, everyone! How should we celebrate our one-hundredth episode? - it has to be something special edition. And it is. Because I originally started Podsongs as a way to help publicise the Aetherius society, the spiritual organisation that I’m a member of. And about 12 of the last 100 guests were from the Aetherius Society. Two directors of the society in LA—Brian Keneip...
Martyn Williams - Mountaineer: on a lifetime filled with barely believable adventurers
December 15, 2021 20:42 - 1 hour - 163 MBAn incredible episode with a mountaineer turned Transformational Teacher and Coach for living an Enlightening Life. He's a world-record-holding expedition leader, who led expeditions to Everest, the North Pole, and the South Pole. As well as succeeding in business: he created the first commercial airline in Antarctica and other multiple multi-million dollar businesses. Other notable achievements include initiating a global youth empowerment project involving 60 million young people and produ...
Charles Eisenstein on the unravelling of civilisation (ft. musical guest Brian Bulger)
December 08, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutes - 108 MBCharles Eisenstein is an American public speaker and author. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes explored include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture. According to Eisenstein, global culture is immersed in a destructive "story of separation", and one of the main goals of his work is to present an alternative "story of interbeing". Much of ...
Sandor Katz on the Art of Fermentation (ft. musical guests The Silent Comedy)
December 01, 2021 07:43 - 1 hour - 187 MBAcclaimed food author and fermentation guru Sandor Katz whose renegade revival of ancient culinary rituals has transformed his relationship with life and death, inspires songwriters Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman of The Silent Comedy to create a new track. Sandor Katz is a rock star of the food world. Since 2003 when his book Wild Fermentation was published, he has taught hundreds of workshops demystifying fermentation and empowering people to reclaim this important transformational process ...
Charles van Rees on invasive species (ft. Musical guests Creature Comfort)
November 24, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 210 MBCharles van Rees is a conservation biologist and naturalist specializing in freshwater ecology, ornithology, and human-wildlife water conflict. Freshwater ecosystems are a primary focus of his work because of their extremely high levels of threat, important ecosystem services, and multifarious interactions with water resources management for societies. He also co-hosts the Nature Guys podcast - https://natureguys.org/ https://cbvanrees.wordpress.com Musical guests: Creature Comfort Creatur...
Richard Lawrence on the Nine Freedoms
November 17, 2021 07:00 - 58 minutes - 120 MBRichard Lawrence is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and Africa, which is the oldest UFO contacts organizations in Britain, and possibly the world. He is also a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. Richard has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997) - founder of the Society - with whom he co-authored Contacts with the Gods from Space. He also the host of the Spiritual Freedom Show: a fortnightly podcast bringing...
The legend of Janet Varney (featuring Frances Luke Accord)
November 10, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 197 MBJanet Varney is an Emmy-Nominated actor, comedian, writer and producer. In the animation world, she is lucky enough to be the award-winning voice of Korra on Nickelodeon’s critically-acclaimed standout hit “The Legend of Korra,” a role for which she continues to be invited to comic cons to give sweaty handshakes the world over. She can also be seen as the entitled and bitchy Becca on FX’s (via hulu) “You’re the Worst” (named as one of the last decade’s best comedies), and fighting dark force...
Dennis Tirch on treating yourself with compassion
November 03, 2021 20:29 - 1 hour - 119 MBDr. Tirch is the Founder of The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy, the first clinical training center for Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) in the United States. Dr. Tirch has been described as one of the country’s foremost leaders in compassion training and evidence-based therapy. He is an internationally acknowledged expert therapist, supervisor and trainer in CFT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Buddhist Psychology (BP). Dr. Tirch is an ...
VOCAL MASTERCLASS with Lisa Paglin and Marianna Brilla
October 27, 2021 06:34 - 2 hours - 230 MBThis is a special one-off episode where I’ve invited revolutionary singing teachers Lisa Paglin and Marianna Brilla back on the show (listen to Episode 58 first), to give advice to singers with vocal problems. Thank you to these talented artists who volunteered to have their vocal issues discussed on the show that more singers, suffering with the same problems, can listen and learn: Tiz McNamara https://tizmcnamaramusic.com/ is an Irish singer-songwriter based in Toronto, Canada. McNamara’...
Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 8
October 20, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 110 MBA commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews. 1 Sweet Dharma 2 Pranayama 3 Don't Dwell on Your Physical Shell 4 The Violet Flame 5a Electric Cars (ft. Helen Austin) 5b Electric Maybellene 6 People Of The Garden (ft. Shane Thomas) 7 You Are The Average 8 Between The Worlds 9 Plastic ...
Catherine Rampell of The Washington Post on what she'd like from her country
October 13, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBCatherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism. She is also an economic and political commentator for CNN, a special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a contributor to Marketplace. Before joining The Post, she wrote about economics and theater for the New York Times. Rampell has received the Weidenbaum Center Award for Evidence-Based Journalism a...
David Holmgren on how to become resilient in an energy descent future
October 07, 2021 17:53 - 1 hour - 142 MBAustralian environmental designer, ecological educator and writer. He is best known as one of the co-originators of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. His latest project is RetroSuburbia is part manual and part manifesto. The book shows how Australian suburbs can be transformed to become productive and resilient in an energy descent future. It focuses on what can be done by an individual at the household level (rather than community or government levels). RetroSuburbia is a source...
Michael Lennox on dreams and astrology
September 29, 2021 08:53 - 1 hour - 133 MBDr. Michael Lennox obtained his Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School and his Doctoral Dissertation, Astrology, and Personality, is published by Lambert Academic Publishing. Dr. Lennox is also the author of two books on dreams, Dream Sight: A Dictionary & Guide for Interpreting Any Dream and Llewellyn's Complete Dream Dictionary. Dr. Lennox leads workshops and retreats all over the United States and conducts a worldwide private practice based in Southern California. Hi...
Michael Lennox on dreams and astrology (rerelease)
September 29, 2021 08:53 - 1 hour - 133 MBDr. Michael Lennox obtained his Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School and his Doctoral Dissertation, Astrology, and Personality, is published by Lambert Academic Publishing. Dr. Lennox is also the author of two books on dreams, Dream Sight: A Dictionary & Guide for Interpreting Any Dream and Llewellyn's Complete Dream Dictionary. Dr. Lennox leads workshops and retreats all over the United States and conducts a worldwide private practice based in Southern California. Hi...
Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, campaigner for clean air and mother of the only person in the world to have 'officially' died from air pollution
September 22, 2021 20:31 - 58 minutes - 118 MBRosamund Kissi-Debrah is a grassroots campaigner in London, UK raising awareness of asthma and the health problems that can be caused by air pollution. Kissi-Debrah's campaign for clean air followed the death of her 9 year old daughter, Ella Roberta, in 2013 who had experienced a series of severe asthma attacks over several years. A 2014 inquest focused only on Ella's medical care, prompting Kissi-Debrah to campaign for air pollution to be included on her child's death certificate, after lea...
Robert Svoboda on Ayurveda
September 15, 2021 17:09 - 1 hour - 151 MBDr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 – 1983. (Inf...
Chad Nelsen the surfer campaigning for plastic-free seas
September 08, 2021 11:50 - 52 minutes - 106 MBChad Nelsen is the head of The Surfrider Foundation, a grassroots environmental organization dedicated to protecting oceans and beaches. Its major programmatic work is carried out by sixty local chapters around America. They've more than forty thousand members, as well as affiliates in Europe, Brazil, Australia, and Japan. Its membership is made up of surfers, swimmers, divers, bodyboarders, kayakers, and beach enthusiasts who have learned to be effective advocates for the ocean environment ...
Jeffrey Babcock - the curator of Amsterdam's underground cinema scene
September 01, 2021 16:02 - 1 hour - 101 MBJeffrey Babcock is an American alternative film curator and cultural activist now in Amsterdam. As a promoter of independent film culture he is currently the programmer of several underground cinema venues throughout the city, where he places the films he screens into a historical, aesthetic, political and biographical context. As a student of Stan Brakhage, he developed a keen interest in experimental cinema and philosophy. He also has a keen eye for finding elements of experimental film-la...
Steven C Hayes on how to ACT on your thoughts (re-release)
August 25, 2021 20:26 - 1 hour - 116 MBSteven C. Hayes is one of the godfathers of modern American psychology - and Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, his career has focused on an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering. He is the developer of Relational Frame Theory, an account of human hi...
Gregg Caruso puts the case against free will (ft. Nate Frederick)
August 18, 2021 20:26 - 57 minutes - 89.8 MBGregg D. Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at the New College of the Humanities (NCH London), and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is also Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network housed at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. His research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, punishment, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, moral psycholog...
Carlos Tanner on Ayahuasca and Healing (re-release)
August 15, 2021 11:53 - 1 hour - 116 MBHi folks This is one from the archives... the very first Podsong interview. I'm having some issues getting new songs from my producer as we're cooking in the Italian heatwave... but please enjoy this interview in the meantime. New episodes will follow shortly Happy Holidays! Jack
Yasmine Mohammed argues how the Hijab is a tool to oppress women (ft. special musical guest Shane Thomas)
August 04, 2021 18:17 - 2 hours - 219 MBYasmine Mohammed is an ex-Muslim Canadian educator, human rights activist and author who is critical of Islam. Mohammed, who escaped a forced, abusive marriage to an Al-Qaeda operative, became an advocate for women's rights through her non-profit organization Free Hearts, Free Minds. She is a member of the Center for Inquiry Speaker's Bureau and on the board of advisory for the Brighter Brains Institute. Through her initiative Free Hearts, Free Minds she supports closeted ex-Muslims from Mu...
Robert Llewelyn explains everything there is to know about Electric Cars
July 28, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBRobert Llewellyn is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the TV engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He also presents a YouTube series, Fully Charged. Llewellyn was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. Llewellyn's first foray into the world of show business started out as a hobby, organising a few amateur cabaret evenings in a riverside warehouse overlooking Tower Bridge in Lond...
Chrissie Blaze on the Art of Astrology
July 21, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBChrissie Blaze is the author of 12 books, a metaphysician and astrologer. She has been a student/practitioner of the psychic and spiritual sciences from a young age. She is a regular media guest and conducts lectures and classes in the U.S.A. and U.K. Blaze is a professional astrologer who qualified at the Faculty of Astrological Studies, London in the early 1980s. She qualified as a lecturer with credentials from the University of London, England. She was a longtime close student of renowne...
Nehemiah Davis, yogi and teacher of mystic practices
July 14, 2021 11:18 - 1 hour - 124 MBNehemiah Davis is a yogi and teacher of mystic practices. From early childhood Nehemiah’s father (Althair H. Davis) taught him to manipulate cosmic energies (prana) through prayer and mantra with metaphysical teachings that stress balanced karmic methods of actions through life. With this, his father instructed him in several forms of yoga, which included; karma yoga, hatha yoga, bhakti yoga, raja yoga, mantra yoga, mudra yoga, pranayama (yogic breathing exercises) and kundalini yoga. As a c...
Ayub Malik on Pranayama
July 07, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBAyub Malik is a Spiritual pioneer and Expansion Committee member of the international spiritual organisation called The Aetherius Society – a group which has a unique and very active role in the Divine Plan for the enlightenment and salvation of humanity that is gradually unfolding. He was born into a large traditional muslim family in England, and is based in London, United Kingdom. He has a life long natural love for yoga, deep conversations with like-minded souls interested in personal...
Lama Karma Justin Wall on Dharma, Buddhism and mindfulness
July 02, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes - 113 MBLama Karma is a Milwaukee native who first left home to attend college at Columbia University in NYC. After a long period of desperation and depression, he found a bit of light in studying the non-dual teachings of Sufiism, Christianity, and the Indo-Tibetan tradition of Buddhist philosophy. Through developing a connection with teachers such as Robert Thurman and Peter Awn, he wrote a wordy honors thesis on hermeneutics, literary theory, and Madhyamika philosophy. Although his head was full...
Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 7
June 28, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBA commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews. 1 Vaccinate 2 A Girl Called Corona 3 Apophenia 4 Unnecessary Music 5 Something That Sounds Like A Song 6 The Mighty Sun 7 If The Bombs Go Off 8 Civilised to Death 9 The Death of Expertise 10 We Don't Know What We Don't Know 11 Sure Would...
Eddie Glaude on the third founding of America (featuring musical guest Angela Predhomme)
June 25, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBEddie S. Glaude Jr. is an intellectual who speaks to the complex dynamics of the American experience. His most well-known books, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, take a wide look at black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States, and the challenges our democracy face. He is an American critic in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In his writings, the c...
Lawrence Krauss on known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns (ft. Musical Guest Heather Pierson)
June 21, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 128 MBLawrence Krauss is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project, now called ASU Interplanetary Initiative, to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director. Krauss is an advocate for public understanding of science, public policy based on sound empirical data, scientific skepticism, and science educ...
Lawrence Krauss on known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns
June 21, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 128 MBLawrence Krauss is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project, now called ASU Interplanetary Initiative, to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director. Krauss is an advocate for public understanding of science, public policy based on sound empirical data, scientific skepticism, and science educ...
Tom Nichols on the Death of Expertise
June 18, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBTom Nichols is an academic specialist on international affairs, currently a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and at the Harvard Extension School. His work deals with issues involving Russia, nuclear weapons, and national security affairs. He was previously a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Nichols taught international relations as ...
Chris Ryan on Sex at Dawn and how civilisation is the heart of what's wrong with everything
June 14, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBChristopher Ryan is an American author best known for co-authoring the book Sex at Dawn. He received a B.A. in English and American literature in 1984, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook University, an accredited hybrid low-residency/online learning program based in San Francisco, twenty years later. His master's thesis examined differences in specific personality measures between working fashion models and the general public. His doctoral dissertation analyzed the prehistoric...
Katherine Hudson, CND, on why we're 100 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock
June 11, 2021 16:00 - 56 minutes - 108 MBKate Hudson has been General Secretary of CND since 2010, having served as chair since 2003. She first became active in the peace movement in the early 1980s in the big upsurge of activity against cruise missiles. One of her proudest moments was helping to Embrace the Base at Greenham Common in December 1982, along with 30,000 other women. With the end of the Cold War, like many others, Kate felt that the issue of nuclear weapons had gone away, so she turned to other campaigning work. But by...
Mark Bennett on the cosmic religion of the future
June 07, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 120 MBMark Bennett is an International Director of The Aetherius Society, a worldwide spiritual organisation, whose teachings of King Yoga he chose as his spiritual path at an early age. His varied work includes spreading spiritual wisdom through giving radio interviews and lectures around the UK. His television appearances include being invited as an expert to take part in two live debates on the BBC show The Big Questions, with an estimated million viewers per week. He is the co-author of two b...
Sodajerker on songwriting
June 04, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 131 MBSodajerker is a songwriting team from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Founded by co-writers Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor, Sodajerker is the creative outlet for two friends raised on the celebrated songbooks of such luminaries as Lennon and McCartney, Bacharach and David, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Goffin and King and The Chic Organisation. Like the profession from which they take their name, Sodajerker use their hard-won skills to conjure artistry from the everyday. Their songs have been he...
Reed Berkowitz: a game designer’s analysis of QAnon
May 31, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 102 MB"I am a game designer with experience in a very small niche. I create and research games designed to be played in reality. I’ve worked in Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), LARPs, experience fiction, interactive theater, and “serious games”. Stories and games that can start on a computer, and finish in the real world. Fictions designed to feel as real as possible. Games that teach you. Puzzles that come to life all around the players. Games where the deeper you dig, the more you find. Games wit...
Eric Feigl-Ding on COVID19 and his work against the virus
May 28, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 103 MBDr. Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiologist and health economist and a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC, and Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International. He was previously a faculty and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Chan School of Public Health between 2004-2020, and an epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In January 2020, he was recognized in the media as one of the first to alert the public on the pandemic ris...
Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 6
May 26, 2021 06:00 - 45 minutes - 105 MBA commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.
Maria Neira on going from refugee camp work with Médecins Sans Frontières to battling for clean air through the WHO
May 24, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 81.7 MBMaria Neira joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993 as the Coordinator of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control. In 1999, she became the Director of the Department of Control, Prevention and Eradication. She was then appointed as the Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health in 2005. During her career, Maria also worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in refugee camps in Central America. Maria served as the Vice Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs ...
Michael Shermer on scepticism and free speech
May 21, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBMichael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members. Shermer engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism. Shermer is producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television series Exploring...
Marc Lipsitch Harvard Epidemiologist on COVID-19 and the dubious art of "gain-of-function" research
May 17, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 94.8 MBMarc Lipsitch is an American epidemiologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. He is currently working on modeling the transmission of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Lipsitch attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1991. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, studying zoology, and received hi...
Murilo Gun the most creative man in Brazil
May 14, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 99.7 MBMurilo Gun is a speaker, master of ceremonies, professor of creativity and founder of Keep Learning School. LYRICS: Everything is perfect Faultless without a defect Everything you've ever been through. Happened exactly as it was meant to Everything is perfect Everything's exquisite The world & everything in it I love it all, my heart is bursting. But nobody sees it, that's the worst thing Everything's exquisite Everything is perfect Utterly in all ways correct I wouldn't cha...
Robby Soave on what makes Zillenials tick and Libertarianism
May 10, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBRobby Soave is an award-winning American journalist based in Washington, D.C. He is an editor at Reason. He enjoys writing about college news, education policy, criminal justice reform, and television. Soave has penned articles for The New York Times, New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, The Orange County Register, and The Detroit News. In 2016, Forbes named him to the 2016 "30 Under 30" list in the category of law and policy. He won a 2015 Southern California Journalism Award...