Ras Janus
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Janus is the roman god of beginnings and endings, portals and passages, times and duality. He is depicted as having two faces looking spatiotemporally all around, one towards the past and the other towards the future. Ras is an Ethiopian Epithet that conveys authority equivalent to Duke.
This podcast is an all round, unspecialized discussion of two heads, looking all around. The global perspective is tinted with our personal and Ethiopian identity. The specific color of the podcast shall emerge in due time.
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Episodes
Episode 5: It's The Holidays!
January 18, 2021 04:33 - 1 hour - 176 MBIt's officially The Holiday Season, or is it? Holidays are times of celebration and coming together. What is celebrated and how differs from society to society and home to home drastically. In many cultures, many holidays have been celebrated over centuries, particularly religious holidays. The nature of these legacy holidays have been changing quite drastically over the years. Many other holidays have also gone extinct along with the society that celebrated them and the context they were ce...
Episode 4: Economics is Fun, Sometimes!
January 18, 2021 02:17 - 3 hours - 229 MBAt the sound of the word of Economics, most brains of most human beings in most modern societies buzz with wiggly charts, unfathomably large numbers and folks with dark suits and a brief case, with an air of omniscience, walking the sides of Wall Street. Economics, however, is a field with its own unique and intertwined history, albeit short in comparison to fellow Social Sciences. It has a very special place, on par with the likes of Philosophy and Psychology, in that it is beyond a field o...
Episode 3: DNA, Twists and Turns.
December 29, 2020 08:00 - 2 hours - 155 MBDNA (DeoxyRiboNucleic Acid) is the fascinating organic compound that universally encodes genetic information of almost all organisms on our planet, RNA viruses being notable exceptions. From the brilliant experiments of Gregor Mendel to the cutting edge of DNA sequencing, Dawit Asrat Wachelo and Michael Legesse Shiferaw discuss the discovery of DNA, its structure and function in grinding detail. Besides its linear sequential nucleotide base structure, DNA has twisting and folding structures t...
Episode 2: The Greatest Inventions
December 21, 2020 04:05 - 2 hours - 156 MBModern Humans have existed for a few millennia. In the even shorter span of Civilization, human beings have been quite innovative. From detaching from their fire-lit hominid circles and making foraging and combat tools, to having space stations that orbit the Earth at 410 km above its surface at a tangential speed of 27,600 km/hr, from developing farming to engineering life forms, humans have brought into existence incredible inventions. In this Episode, Dawit Asrat Wachelo and Michael Leges...
Episode 1: Life and The Universe
December 14, 2020 03:18 - 1 hour - 184 MBIn this maiden podcast, The Ras Janus Crew, Dawit Asrat Wachelo and Michael Legesse Shiferaw, have an extended conversation on the Fascinating improbability and design of life, the dirty, slow, brutish yet effective process of evolution, the nature of life, our neighborhood, that is the solar system and the universe at large, going into personal anecdotes at times.