049_ Discussion: web3 is advancing tech and challenging ethics | how technology and society dance
A hot discussion on web3, what it is, how it can be implemented, and all the conundrums between.
This is a first for the series, as we have a discuss...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020014_ Conversation: the edge of the next great depression
At the end of this month, extended unemployment benefits and the CDC eviction moratorium end. When almost half of all renters in America can’t pay ren...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020013_ Interview: context, consciousness, contingency
This is my interview with author and historian Dr. James Gelvin, professor of Middle Eastern history at UCLA.
The episode is centered around the Isr...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020012_ Interview: an unwritten constitution
In this episode I interview historian and author of Killing for the Republic, Steele Brand.
We talk about what made the Roman Republic so successful,...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020011_ Interview: view from above
This is my interview with Dr. Heiko Balzter, Copernicus Award winner, Professor of Physical Geography and Director of the Centre for Landscape and Cli...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020010_ Conversation: the greatest sin is inaction
This is my conversation with Dr. Ari Novy, author, biologist and CEO of the San Diego Botanic Garden.
It was a fun conversation that covers a lot of ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020009_ Essay: welcome to the anthropocene
This is the start to an ongoing arch dedicated to the anthropocene.
Here I lend some thoughts as to what it is, what the purpose of this arch will be...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020008_ Interview: culture is the frame of reference
This episode I interview Felipe Fernández-Armesto, one of the most authored in volume, width and breadth, historian of our time.
We talk about the p...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020007_ Interview: barbarians are at the gates
I interview Nathanael Johnson, author and senior writer at grist.org.
We talk about the current state of forest management in California, how it got ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020006 _ Essay: turbulence
A thought on how we can use lessons from fluid dynamics, as a framework to understand the world of ideas around us.
Friday, October 23, 2020005_ Interview: buttar v. the status quo
I interviewed musician, author, poet, activist, lawyer, and Congressional Candidate Shahid Buttar.
We talked healthcare, corporate consolidation, the...
Thursday, October 22, 2020002_ Interview Only: it felt too big to panic
This episode I interview my friend Rowan about his experience living and working, just a few blocks away from the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001....
Thursday, October 15, 2020004_ Interview: make tending your backyard a tradition
On this episode, I speak with Tribal Chairmen of the North Fork Mono Tribe Ron Goode, about his culture, traditions that extend beyond Sapiens, the te...