Latest Kavan Podcast Episodes
The Edge of Home
Guardians of the River - July 15, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsThe Okavango Delta is what happens when people pay attention to the environmental wealth of a place. It’s the world’s 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site. And for its animals and its immeasurable feeling of wilderness, it is a major tourism destination. But not all residents have been included in...
5. The Edge of Home
Guardians of the River - July 15, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsThe Okavango Delta is what happens when people pay attention to the environmental wealth of a place. It’s the world’s 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site. And for its animals and its immeasurable feeling of wilderness, it is a major tourism destination. But not all residents have been included in...
The Smallest Dragonfly
Guardians of the River - July 08, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsIn some Angolan traditions, magic is not just something people sit around campfires and talk about late at night, it lives in customs and day-to-day life. Owls are believed to see death. And snakes are agents of the devil. So what happens when a team of scientists and local Angolan guides embark...
4. The Smallest Dragonfly
Guardians of the River - July 08, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsIn some Angolan traditions, magic is not just something people sit around campfires and talk about late at night, it lives in customs and day-to-day life. Owls are believed to see death. And snakes are agents of the devil. So what happens when a team of scientists and local Angolan guides embark...
That's a Wrap
SCOTUS 101 - July 02, 2021 14:53 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsAfter an epic sprint to the finish, the Court has wrapped up the term. The justices handed down two of the term's biggest cases this week--the Arizona election-law case and the First Amendment challenge to California's nonprofit donor disclosure rules. Your hosts unpack those and the other three...
It's Raining Opinions
SCOTUS 101 - June 25, 2021 21:40 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court is making it rain opinions on us---ten in one week! We got some of the big ones too including the NCAA antitrust case, the "Cussing Cheerleader" case, and a significant property rights case. Your hosts discuss those cases and all the rest, which involve warrantless entry into the home,...
3. A Thousand Voices of Tempué
Guardians of the River - June 24, 2021 06:16 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsDue to civil conflicts, landmines, broken roads, and a decommissioned runway, a town called Tempué is cut off from the rest of Angola. As powers rise and fall, the town has guarded the rivers and lakes that run near it. Now facing an opportunity to reconnect to the rest of Angola -- and the worl...
A Thousand Voices of Tempué
Guardians of the River - June 24, 2021 06:16 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsDue to civil conflicts, landmines, broken roads, and a decommissioned runway, a town called Tempué is cut off from the rest of Angola. As powers rise and fall, the town has guarded the rivers and lakes that run near it. Now facing an opportunity to reconnect to the rest of Angola -- and the worl...
Obamacare Revisted. Again.
SCOTUS 101 - June 17, 2021 23:51 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe ball has finally dropped! This week we got two of the biggest cases of the term: California v. Texas, the latest challenge to Obamacare, and Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, which concerns Catholic foster care services. Your hosts discuss those cases and the many others released this week. Bu...
2. Ghost Elephants of Lisima
Guardians of the River - June 17, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsA population of elephants in Angola lives in hiding, and only a few villages know their secret. But one big hint to their whereabouts stands tall in the main rotunda of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. If the NGOWP team can find them, these elephants might be the key to smooth...
Ghost Elephants of Lisima
Guardians of the River - June 17, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsA population of elephants in Angola lives in hiding, and only a few villages know their secret. But one big hint to their whereabouts stands tall in the main rotunda of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. If the NGOWP team can find them, these elephants might be the key to smooth...
1. Power to Protect
Guardians of the River - June 10, 2021 12:13 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsA team of scientists and tribes members embark on an epic four-month National Geographic expedition to follow a trickle of water 1,500-kilometers across Southern Africa. As their journey unfolds, they realize their real quest will take trust, a team, and an alliance with a legendary snake-like d...
Power to Protect
Guardians of the River - June 10, 2021 12:13 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 221 ratingsA team of scientists and tribes members embark on an epic four-month National Geographic expedition to follow a trickle of water 1,500-kilometers across Southern Africa. As their journey unfolds, they realize their real quest will take trust, a team, and an alliance with a legendary snake-like d...
How to Become an Appellate Advocate
SCOTUS 101 - June 04, 2021 15:14 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Supreme Court keeps up the pace with two opinion days a week. Your hosts discuss the three opinions this week, which involve the scope of Indian police jurisdiction, an immigration issue, and a very unique statutory interpretation case that answers the question how do you become a cyber crim...
Food Court
SCOTUS 101 - May 28, 2021 02:38 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court had a calm and peaceful week taking no new cases and issuing three unanimous opinions in fairly technical cases. Your hosts explain all of those opinions, and then Zack has a fascinating discussion with Judge Douglas Ginsburg about his career, clerking for Justice Thurgood Marshall, a...
Tales from the D.C. Circuit
SCOTUS 101 - May 21, 2021 15:50 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsWith oral arguments over and the term on the home stretch, the Court is issuing opinions at high speed. But before they issued this week's opinions, the Justices threw a curve-ball at court watchers by taking Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a major abortion case that could see the court overtur...
Dueling Textualists, Part II
SCOTUS 101 - May 01, 2021 19:26 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt's full steam ahead as the Court finishes up its second-to-last week of oral arguments for the term. Among the six cases argued this week, were two blockbuster First Amendment cases, one that may decide the meaning of "freedom of association," and another that may decide whether schools can pu...
You're in, Luck!
SCOTUS 101 - April 23, 2021 04:21 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt was a very busy week at the Court with six oral arguments, three opinions, and a couple of noteworthy orders. GianCarlo discusses the Court's order striking down a California COVID-19 restriction that discriminated against religious practice and a patent case with facts fit for an episode of ...
Guns, Tech, and Free Speech
SCOTUS 101 - April 09, 2021 02:36 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week the Court issued a high-profile and very technical opinion in the copyright dispute between Google and Oracle. Your hosts break down the complicated issues in that case and cover other interesting orders from this week including an opinion by Justice Thomas about free speech and Big Te...
March Madness at the Court
SCOTUS 101 - April 02, 2021 02:48 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt was a busy week for the court with a number of high-profile orders, three oral arguments, and three unanimous opinions. In orders this week, the Justices announced that they will take up an abortion case but only to resolve a procedural issue, and they also delivered a very predictable rebuke...
Cases for the Casebooks
SCOTUS 101 - March 26, 2021 03:12 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week the Court takes us back to our first year of law school with cases destined for the casebooks. Oral arguments this week involved a takings case that touches on first-year property and the "bundle of rights," a Fourth Amendment case involving the community caretaking exception to the wa...
Looking Back at Bostock
SCOTUS 101 - March 12, 2021 02:27 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week, news that all of the Justices have received COVID-19 vaccines sparked a debate among advocates and law professors about remote vs in-person arguments. Zack fairly discusses both sides, while GianCarlo stakes out an aggressive position early on. GianCarlo also unpacks the one opinion ...
Justice Barrett Makes Her Majority Debut
SCOTUS 101 - March 05, 2021 06:47 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week the Court heard oral arguments in a voting rights case where Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich was both the petitioner and advocate. Zack unpacks that oral argument, and GianCarlo discusses the oral arguments in two other cases that involve challenges to patent and Social Security...
Back to Business
SCOTUS 101 - February 26, 2021 04:59 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court is back from its working recess and so are Zack and GianCarlo. Zack kicks off the show discussing the Court's denial of two 2020 election lawsuits out of Pennsylvania. GianCarlo and Zack then discuss the three oral arguments of the week, and GianCarlo unpacks this week's one opinion, w...
A Starr Joins the Show
SCOTUS 101 - February 05, 2021 01:47 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsFor the first time in years, the Supreme Court issued surprise opinions during its February working recess. It issued an opinion in the Nazi art case and another in a case about railroads and retirement plans. Zack and GianCarlo discuss those as well as the newest case on the court's docket, whi...
The VanDyke Show
SCOTUS 101 - January 29, 2021 02:38 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsGoing into its three week "working recess," the Court was relatively quiet, issuing a few orders and one DIG. What's a DIG? GianCarlo explains that, while Zack explains Munsingwear vacatur. GianCarlo then interviews Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke who shares his unusual path to law school ...
The Singing Judge
SCOTUS 101 - January 22, 2021 04:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt was a quiet week at the court with no new grants or opinions, but we did have two interesting oral arguments. Zack and GianCarlo discuss those cases, and then GianCarlo interviews Fifth Circuit judge Jennifer Walker Elrod. She tells us about her career, her musical talent, and her continuing ...
Bork, Sowell, and Maverick Walk into the Bar
SCOTUS 101 - January 15, 2021 07:04 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsWe're back from the holiday break and so is SCOTUS! This week we discuss orders that the Court issued in a capital-punishment case and an abortion case. Zack and GianCarlo also discuss this week's oral arguments, which among other cases, involve a unique First Amendment issue with far-reaching...
Christmas at the Court
SCOTUS 101 - December 18, 2020 16:34 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn this special holiday episode, Zack and GianCarlo prepare for the Court's Winter break with a review of the term so far and a preview of what's to come. Of course, no episode of SCOTUS 101 would be complete without trivia, so GianCarlo tests Zack's knowledge of the history of the Court's annua...
How to Succeed in Spiritual Life? - Swami Sarvapriyananda
VivekaVani - December 13, 2020 01:27 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsVideo File: How to Succeed in Spiritual Life? || Swami Sarvapriyananda ✅ To Subscribe Send 'Yes' on WhatsApp: 9640003646