Latest Complexity Podcast Episodes
Nothing Happens Without Critical Mass
NonTrivial - February 06, 2024 05:00 - 31 minutesImportant things see the light of day, not by some plan or deterministic outline, but by making changes en-route to the goal. It's adaptability that matters in the face of real world situations. Finding the right mix of people, places and things happens as you move. Suggested Reading Related to...
What can physics tell us about ourselves?
COMPLEXITY: Physics of Life - January 31, 2024 21:27 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 239 ratingsGuests: Vijay Balasubramanian, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania Geoffrey West, Shannan Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes Producer: Kath...
Finding Our Authenticity
NonTrivial - January 31, 2024 00:00 - 17 minutesSome performances deliver deep authenticity, with standup comedy being a good example. Extremely authentic performances show us something we all should have; that ability to reach deep within us and share what we're really thinking, despite the risk this might pose to our normal, settled lives....
To Be Brutally Honest
NonTrivial - January 31, 2024 00:00 - 17 minutesSome performances deliver deep authenticity, with standup comedy being a good example. Extremely authentic performances show us something we all should have; that ability to reach deep within us and share what we're really thinking, despite the risk this might pose to our normal, settled lives....
"The Southern Province" with the Rev. Dr. Craig Atwood
In All Things - January 30, 2024 16:11 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe welcomed the Rev. Dr. Craig Atwood to Calvary for a 3 week lecture series about the history of the Moravian Church. This lecture was originally recorded on October 25th, 2023 and is on the subject of the Southern Province.
"Zinzendorf" with the Rev. Dr. Craig Atwood
In All Things - January 30, 2024 15:51 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe welcomed the Rev. Dr. Craig Atwood to Calvary for a 3 week lecture series about the history of the Moravian Church. This lecture was originally recorded on October 18th, 2023 and is on the subject of Count Zinzendorf.
"Ancient Unity" with the Rev. Dr. Craig Atwood
In All Things - January 30, 2024 15:37 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe welcomed the Rev. Dr. Craig Atwood to Calvary for a 3 week lecture series about the history of the Moravian Church. This lecture was originally recorded on October 11th, 2023 and is on the subject of the Ancient Unity.
The Great Askers (episode 1): Sara Hendren and Krista Tippett
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan - January 30, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOrigins Podcast Website Flourishing Commons Newsletter and the post introducing Great Asking Show Notes: Sara Hendren's Origins Conversation start of a living conversation (05:20) Ignorance by Stuart Firestein (06:00) questions are the oxygen of imagination (08:00) curiosity is a moral mu...
Relaunch of Complexity Podcast Trailer
COMPLEXITY: Physics of Life - January 29, 2024 22:53 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 239 ratingsTrailer for Complexity: Physics of Life, from the Santa Fe Institute
You Need More Bad Ideas
NonTrivial - January 19, 2024 17:00 - 24 minutesHistory is loaded with "bad" / "dumb" ideas. And this includes those made by high-ranking officials and government agencies. Looking at the various schemes and plots left on the drawing board one wonders how anyone took them seruously. But most of today’s useful inventions were deemed absurd at...
171. Thoughts and Prayers and Wagers
Ravel - January 17, 2024 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsStephen has officially entered his atheist Philosophy Era (think Taylor Swift's Reputation Era with equal amounts of confidence with a dash of ennui-bordering-on-nihilism) and wants to play with the classic thought experiment presented by Blaise Pascal: the famous "wager." We discuss th...
A Beginning of the Year Announcement
Ravel - January 10, 2024 09:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsWe at the pod are using the classic New Year energy to reevaluate priorities and goals and have come to a decision to dial back the pod to an every-other-week release schedule. We have additionally decided to retire our social media presence as @ravelpod. Stay subscribed and look forwar...
James Evans - Cultural observatories, knowledge communities, and a life resplendent with ideas
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan - January 09, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJames Evans' life is one resplendent with ideas. His trajectory into research and learning in areas as wide as network science, collective intelligence, computational social science, and even how knowledge is created, is as irreducible as it is exhilarating, and is a beacon in disorienting times...
The Danger of Being Disconnected
NonTrivial - January 08, 2024 00:00 - 38 minutesOur lives are adversely impacted when our interactions are purely transactional. We see this play out in devastating fashion in industry, where certain businesses can cause great harm to society due to their insulation and disconnection from the lives they sell to. But this isn't just for busine...
170. How Cringe Thou Art
Ravel - January 03, 2024 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsWe're starting the year off right by talking about the cRiNgE thrown around by Christians and atheists alike. What's at the root of the cringe response? Why do we hate it? What do we love to hate it? Mentioned in the episode: Matthew 18:15-20 Support us: Join our Patreon community ...
Finding Stability in Change
NonTrivial - January 02, 2024 22:00 - 32 minutesPeople look for stability in the labels we give ourselves. Our job, our title, our salary, the associations we join. But the only thing truly constant in life is its ever-changing nature. Those labels we take comfort in are in constant flux, getting reshaped and redefined by a changing economy,...
Channel the Mystery
NonTrivial - December 30, 2023 01:00 - 26 minutesWe do things for the mystery more than the facts. Scientists go on into the deepest parts of the ocean, yes to conduct research, but under highly uncertain and dangerous circumstances. What really drives deep sea exploration is the mystery. This is true of anything we create. If we are writing ...
Rob Bell: Where'd You Park Your Spaceship?
Ravel - December 27, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 105 ratingsROB BELL pulls up a stool to the Ravel table! We're overjoyed to bring you one final audio offering in the year of our Lord, 2023, where Stephen and Emily get to spend a whole 90 minutes with the singular Robell (with one B) in the great living room in the sky. Stephen guides our time t...
169. Crossing The Fence Of Comfort
Ravel - December 20, 2023 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsEmily is feeling reflective this year about where we've had the comforts come and go from our lives. But Stephen is feeling silly and derails the episode almost immediately by insisting the LOTR quote Emily brought to share was actually from the blockbuster film masterpiece, The Chicken...
Gifted and Distractible: Understanding, Supporting & Advocating for your Twice Exceptional (inner ) Child! Meet Julie Skolnick
Gifted Unleashed - December 17, 2023 13:00 - 53 minutesFeeling misunderstood or out of place can be a common experience for twice-exceptional (2e) individuals. This episode of Gifted Unleashed welcomes Julie Skolnick, author of "Gifted and Distractible," to shed light on the unique challenges faced by this remarkable group. Driven by self-love and u...
Ep5 Green Growth with Joanne Bate
Growth Lab Podcast Series - December 15, 2023 20:10 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode of the South Africa Growth Through Inclusion series, Ketan Ahuja, Research Fellow at the Growth Lab, joins Joanne Bate, Chief Operating Officer of South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation, for a discussion on how South Africa can build new engines of economic growth in gr...
Ep4 Urban Planning and Spatial Exclusion with Carel Kleynhans, Divercity
Growth Lab Podcast Series - December 15, 2023 20:09 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode of the South Africa Growth Through Inclusion series, Alexia Lochmann, Research Fellow at the Growth Lab, speaks with Carel Kleynhans, CEO of Divercity Property Group. Divercity is South Africa's leading investor in well located affordable housing precincts. Carel worked closely wi...
Ep3 Electricity Crisis with Chris Yelland
Growth Lab Podcast Series - December 15, 2023 20:09 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode of the South Africa Growth Through Inclusion series, Chris Yelland, a Johannesburg based energy analyst, engineer and the founder and Managing Director of e-Business Intelligence talks with former Growth Lab Research Manager Kishan Shah. The conversation focuses on the electricity...
Ep2 Operation Vulindlela with Nomvuyo Guma & Saul Musker
Growth Lab Podcast Series - December 15, 2023 20:09 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode of the South Africa Growth Though Inclusion series, Tim O'Brien, Senior Manager of Applied Research at the Growth Lab, speaks with Nomvuyo Guma, Chief Director of Microeconomic Policy at the National Treasury and Saul Musker, Director of Strategy and Delivery Support of the privat...
Ep1 (Intro) Growth Through Inclusion In South Africa with Ricardo Hausmann
Growth Lab Podcast Series - December 15, 2023 20:09 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this introductory episode, Ricardo Hausmann, the founder and Director of Harvard's Growth Lab and the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School and Andres Fortunato, Research Fellow at the Growth Lab, discuss the key takeaways of their ...
The Worst Time to Learn What You “Learned” in School Was When you Were in School
NonTrivial - December 13, 2023 21:00 - 48 minutesSchool shows us topics worth learning, but it does not, I would argue, impart genuine comprehension. And yet, everyone’s life contains the same patterns that lead to what we are shown in school. This means that the knowledge locked away in textbooks is actually most useful to us later in life. I...
168. Clean Up On Exile Four
Ravel - December 13, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsWe're doing some soul care today while Stephen struggles with what Josh affectionately coins as "the downward dog-ness of the soul." Experiencing a darkness and a weight on the soul, we discuss the feelings of being in exile and discuss Emily's life-giving definition of self care: creat...
Gifted Unleashed: We went through a "Positive Disintegration"
Gifted Unleashed - December 10, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutesEver felt like a square peg in a round hole? Maybe it's not you, maybe it's your giftedness. I, Nadja, once wrestled with this notion, but through my journey of self-discovery, I've come to embrace my giftedness and ADHD, viewing them as unique strengths rather than limitations. Join me on this ...
Gifted Unleashed: we went through a "positive disintegration"
Gifted Unleashed - December 10, 2023 12:00 - 9 minutesEver felt like a square peg in a round hole? Maybe it's not you, maybe it's your giftedness. I, Nadja, once wrestled with this notion, but through my journey of self-discovery, I've come to embrace my giftedness and ADHD, viewing them as unique strengths rather than limitations. Join me on this ...
The Detriment of Passion: Why the Best Time to Work is When We’re Not in the Mood
NonTrivial - December 08, 2023 22:00 - 33 minutesWhen we are not in the mood our energy is low. But when our energy is low our mind is better aligned to what matters when it comes to doing good work; contemplation, reflection, prioritization. Critically, not being in the mood means not going down too many wrong paths. In this episode I argue t...
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