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Talk of Today

Explore developments in the world and what they could mean for our future with Sam Barton.

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Chaos, Order, and Emergent System Design with Matthew Pirkowski

Chaos, Order, and Emergent System Design with Matthew Pirkowski

Matthew Pirkowski (@MattPirkoswki) is one of Twitter's most incisive thinkers, offering penetrating insights in things r... Read more

10 May 2020

2hr 15mins

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Biohacking with Amal Graafstra

Biohacking with Amal Graafstra

We can now take our evolution into our own hands. Amal Graafstra is Chief of Awesome and Dangerous Things, a Biohackin... Read more

9 Mar 2017

55mins

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The Earth Charter and Global Community with Clem Campbell

The Earth Charter and Global Community with Clem Campbell

The Earth Charter is an international declaration of fundamental values and principles for building a just, sustainable,... Read more

17 Apr 2017

37mins

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The Psychedelic DMT with Dr Rick Strassman

The Psychedelic DMT with Dr Rick Strassman

DMT(dimethyltryptamine - more like dimethyltripdaeffout) is a psychedelic substance that's found throughout nature and w... Read more

24 Apr 2017

1hr 15mins

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Coral Bleaching and the Great Barrier Reef

Coral Bleaching and the Great Barrier Reef

Today's guest is Brett Lewis, a marine researcher from the Queensland University of Technology. He was a part of the tea... Read more

6 Apr 2017

48mins

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America's Freedom Farce

America's Freedom Farce

Through the lens of opportunity and freedom — what people can do and be in the world — most Americans are far less free ... Read more

3 May 2020

14mins

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How to beat COVID-19 with Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam

How to beat COVID-19 with Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam

COVID-19 has caused titanic global shifts that are continuing to reverberate across the planet, thrusting our societies ... Read more

23 Apr 2020

1hr 12mins

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Happiness and Society with Dr. Kostadin Kushlev

Happiness and Society with Dr. Kostadin Kushlev

What makes us happy? What affects do the decisions we make have on our subjective well-being? How does money, or paren... Read more

18 Apr 2020

1hr 55mins

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The Scaling Laws of Life with Geoffrey West

The Scaling Laws of Life with Geoffrey West

What are the universal scaling laws of life and what do they mean for how our societies today function and their surviva... Read more

10 Apr 2020

2hr 3mins

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High-voltage living with Visakan Veerasamy

High-voltage living with Visakan Veerasamy

Visakan Veerasamy is an eccentric Singaporean who weaves together of sparkling web of insight, wit, and positivity throu... Read more

31 Mar 2020

1hr 49mins

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How Emotions are Made with Lisa Feldman Barrett

How Emotions are Made with Lisa Feldman Barrett

Our understanding of the biology of emotions has changed dramatically in recent years. We don't experience our emotions,... Read more

17 Jul 2019

58mins

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Design Thinking: The Scientific Method Applied to Business

Design Thinking: The Scientific Method Applied to Business

This is a reading of a blog post I wrote on Design Thinking and the scientific method. Show notes can be found at samh... Read more

15 Jul 2019

7mins

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Sorry Trump. You're wrong about Sovereignty

Sorry Trump. You're wrong about Sovereignty

This is an audio essay on the issue of state sovereignty in an interconnected world, inspired by Trump's recent address ... Read more

26 Sep 2017

11mins

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Psychedelics with Chris Timmerman

Psychedelics with Chris Timmerman

Chris Timmerman is a PhD student in the Psychedelic Research Group from Imperial College in London. He's currently condu... Read more

7 Sep 2017

42mins

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Meditation and the Brain with Dr Sarah Lazar

Meditation and the Brain with Dr Sarah Lazar

Meditation has exploded in popularity in recent years. Once thought of as a purely spiritual practice, the physical an... Read more

19 Jul 2017

50mins

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