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Resources on how to do good with your career — and anything else we here at 80,000 Hours feel like releasing.
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The Cryonics Underground podcast explores the fascinating and underappreciated world of Cryonics - the process of pausing your biological functions at the moment of legal death with the goal of reviving you in the future. Join us for in-depth discussions on the scientific, social, philosophical, technological, and political implications of this unique and extraordinary experiment. Featuring leaders in the Cryonics industry alongside futurists, philosophers, scientists, and many others. Get r ...
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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125 karma. If you'd like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.
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A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, specifically selected to help listeners get up to speed on effective altruism as quickly as possible.
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The Harvard Effective Altruism student podcast
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A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, designed to bring you up to speed on ten pressing issues the effective altruism community is working to solve.
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Join us as we explore how to use our resources to do the most good. Learn more about effective giving, high impact charities, philanthropy, and effective altruism.
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Hear This Idea is a podcast showcasing new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. Each episode has an accompanying write-up at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes.
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Bennett and Cas discuss historical moments in the cryptocurrency and finance industries, focusing on frauds, hacks, exit scams, and other malfeasance.
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Join the Mad Fientist as he interviews personal-finance icons like Mr. Money Mustache, Ramit Sethi, and JL Collins to discover the strategies they used to achieve financial independence and retire early! Learn about investing, tax avoidance, entrepreneurship, travel hacking, real estate, and all things related to financial independence and early retirement!
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'Utopia' Podcast: People solving world problems and alleviating suffering for sentient beings. This is an effective altruism podcast.
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A compilation of ten key episodes on artificial intelligence and related topics from 80,000 Hours. Together they'll help you learn about how AI looks from a broadly longtermist, existential risk, or effective altruism flavoured point of view.
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How can we enable us to create social change and effective altruism while addressing the dichotomy of our modern life and values driven by markets.
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Inspiring engineers to learn and think more about how they can have a positive social impact with their careers. We discuss how engineering professionals can deploy their skills to maximise their impact and work to solve some of the world's most pressing problems.
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We all want to make a difference — but knowing exactly what we should do with our limited time, money and energy is an extremely hard question. Doing Good Better is a podcast about using reason and evidence to figure out how we can do the most good, using the ideas of effective altruism. We talk to researchers, development economists, philosophers, journalists, charity workers, entrepreneurs, and social scientists to try to figure out what works — and just as importantly, what doesn't. More ...
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Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways you can best help others, whether through your charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Talks features presentations and discussions that can help you find something you're excited about. Lately, we've been focusing a lot on new opportunities in pandemic prevention, charity entrepreneurship, and AI safety. But we also have talks on other important topics like animal welfare, global health, nuclear securi ...
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The podcast of VSA Utrecht about all things vegan. From vegan history to speciesism and more, we explore everything that it entails to be a "vegan" in our modern world.
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Clearer Thinking is a podcast about ideas that truly matter. If you enjoy learning about powerful, practical concepts and frameworks, wish you had more deep, intellectual conversations in your life, or are looking for non-BS self-improvement, then we think you'll love this podcast! Each week we invite a brilliant guest to bring four important ideas to discuss for an in-depth conversation. Topics include psychology, society, behavior change, philosophy, science, artificial intelligence, math, ...
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Access the back catalog, become a paid subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lizgetsloaded/subscribe I have money and anxiety and juggling them both is fun. Short, conversational episodes about the way money messes with our head. Find me on Instagram @lizgetsloaded
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This is a show on the science of how people are different from one another, where these differences come from, how they develop, and why they matter. The podcast’s hosts are Lisanne de Moor, PhD, René Mõttus, PhD, and Rebekka Weidmann, PhD, three personality researchers. It is a collaboration of the European Journal of Personality and the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP), and sponsored by EAPP. www.personalitypsychologypodcast.com
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The show is an exploration of the characteristics that make up the human condition through the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, mythology, history, art, and science.
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Visit Our Facebook Page Join The Livegan Podcast with hosts Kevin Lahey and Ben Le Roi, as they interview inspirational leaders in the animal rights community and help vegan activists become more effective. Kevin is an ex-undercover investigator with CARE and Mercy for Animals Ben is co-founder of Nation Rising
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Waking Up with Brooke Sprowl | Leaders in Spirituality, Psychology, Mental Health, & Social Change
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Psychotherapist, entrepreneur, and author Brooke Sprowl interviews the foremost experts on self-discovery, psychology, spirituality, creativity, peak performance, cognitive science, philosophy, effective altruism, and personal and collective transformation. Brooke draws from her rich, cross-disciplinary experience in self-transformation, business, and neuroscience as she engages in emergent conversations with some of the greatest minds of our time.
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Build a strong, healthy body that’s sustainable for you and the planet. Kate Galli from strongbodygreenplanet.com shares short, actionable solo shows and longer form chats where we cut through all the complicated, conflicting and confusing health advice and make living a healthy plant based #plantstrong (!) lifestyle simple and sustainable.
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Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience
Cyrus Khambatta, PhD & Robby Barbaro, MPH (both living with type 1 diabetes
Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver’s seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life. We’ll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy, and get your BEST A1c following almost 100 years of evidence-based research in the Mastering Diabetes Program. Our program teaches you how to reverse prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, and how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizin ...
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Progressive Pockets: a podcast about the untapped power of our wallets to build the world we want
Genet "G.G." Gimja
A podcast at the intersection of social impact and personal finance that covers questions of how we might spend, donate, and invest more in line with our values. Hosted by Genet "GG" Gimja Formerly known as the Spend Donate Invest Podcast
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Interviews with fascinating people on science, ethics, and politics.
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I talk to the most interesting people about economic growth
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Brendon Marotta is a filmmaker, author, and speaker. He is best known for his feature-length documentary American Circumcision, which appeared on Netflix. He is the author of multiple books, the next of which explores the treatment of children as a social justice issue.
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Too long didn’t read, brought to you by The Alan Turing Institute, the national institute for data science and AI. The monthly podcast that reads the week’s big AI stories so you don’t have to. With new developments in artificial intelligence happening at lightning speed, it can be hard to keep up. That’s where too long didn’t read comes in. We know you’re busy, so we’ll get right to the main points on how breakthroughs in machine learning, neural networks, and other AI systems could impact ...
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The Antinatalist Advocacy Podcast presents interviews with interesting and knowledgeable people about how best to protect sentient beings from the harms of coming into existence. We speak with antinatalists, people who are adjacent to antinatalism on specific cause areas, or people who disagree with us wholeheartedly, with the sole aim of spreading ideas that can make the world a better place. If you want stimulating discussions on big ideas and how to put them into practice, as well as some ...
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Hi-Phi Nation is philosophy in story-form, integrating narrative journalism with big ideas. We look at stories from everyday life, law, science, popular culture, and strange corners of human experiences that raise thought-provoking questions about things like justice, knowledge, the self, morality, and existence. We then seek answers with the help of academics and philosophers. The show is produced and hosted by Barry Lam of UC Riverside.
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Columnist and author Tim Dowling gets world-leading experts to help him understand complex, interesting and unique topics.
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Welcome to the UnComplicated English podcast, where we learn English through interesting stories.
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Two friends and a blog.
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Winner of national Communicator and W3 Awards: the podcast for people who make progress. Your host: writer, consultant, and national media commentator Spencer Critchley.
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Thoughts from a couple of people that are constantly thinking about how to make things better. Check out our blog at http://justthinkinpodcast.blogspot.com.
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An interview podcast where I, Daniel Filan, interview guests about topics I'm interested in, with the aim of clarifying how the guest understands that topic.
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Two aspiring rationalists bring you mind-bending ideas from science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and medicine. Whether you enjoy wide-ranging discussions or are looking to upgrade your reasoning and critical thinking skills, this podcast will satisfy your intellectual hunger and sharpen your skeptical eye.
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What do socialism and effective altruism have in common? (with Garrison Lovely)
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Read the full transcript here. What does effective altruism look like from a leftist / socialist perspective? Are the far left and EA the only groups that take radical egalitarianism seriously? What are some of the points of agreement and disagreement between EA & socialism? Socialists frequently critique the excesses, harms, and failures of capita…
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130. Effective Altruism, AI, and Sam Bankman-Fried
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The philosophy of Effective Altruism captured the minds and wallets of Silicon Valley's elite - using reason and evidence to maximize positive impact. But is this clinical approach to the world’s problems really possible? And what happens now, after the shocking downfall of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, once a leader of the Effective Altruism comm…
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Amplifying Impact: Effective Altruism for a Vegan Lifestyle with Robert Cheeke
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In this episode of the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, the host discusses effective altruism and impactful veganism with Robert Cheeke, an expert in plant-based nutrition. They delve into Robert's newest book, The Impactful Vegan, which explores how individuals can reduce animal suffering significantly by adopting plant-based habits and making…
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4.18 Charitable giving hacks: 'Smart giving' through Effective Altruism and Donor Advised Funds: what I've learned and how it changed how I give. [From the archives]
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[From the archives] This week I mentioned donor advised funds in an IG story and got a few DMs asking if I could do an episode about them! So I'm re-running this episode from last year. Other episodes older than a year are behind a subscription on Spotify. - Charitable giving hacks: 'Smart giving' through Effective Altruism and Donor Advised Funds:…
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Bennett and Cas are joined by Travis Kimmel to discuss the purpose and role of venture capital. This video was recorded on May 9th, 2024.
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Audio is here if you prefer. Hope you like it. I got something to offer, all I ask is your time. And forgiveness for the form: a cheesy rhyme. You’re skeptical? Makes sense. But I know your type's vice. You strike me as a purveyor, of do-gooder advice. And it's pretty damn good, I don't mean to boast, This advice always fits. Well…sort of. Almost! …
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Concrete actions anyone can take to help improve AI safety (with Kat Woods)
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Why should we consider slowing AI development? Could we slow down AI development even if we wanted to? What is a "minimum viable x-risk"? What are some of the more plausible, less Hollywood-esque risks from AI? Even if an AI could destroy us all, why would it want to do so? What are some analogous cases where we slowed the development of a specific…
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“80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar orgs should do similarly)” by Raemon
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I haven't shared this post with other relevant parties – my experience has been that private discussion of this sort of thing is more paralyzing than helpful. I might change my mind in the resulting discussion, but, I prefer that discussion to be public. I think 80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from its job board, and similar EA job placement serv…
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131. How to Align Your Investments with Your Values
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This week, let’s chat about how to make your money work for both you and the world. From environmental sustainability to gender equality, learn how to screen out harmful companies and support those actively solving societal issues. Let’s also talk about how to leverage your shareholder voice to drive positive change. Tune in for actionable tips on …
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#45 Counterdispositional behavior with Evy Kuijpers
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In our daily lives, we may come across many situations in which we act in ways that are different from our typical personality. In this episode, Lisanne de Moor speaks with Evy Kuijpers about what counterdispositional behavior is and what the consequences of behaving in ways that are “out of character” are.…
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“Center for Effective Aid Policy has shut down” by MathiasKB🔸
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May 2024 marked the last month of the Center for Effective Aid Policy. This post serves as the public post-mortem. I have strived for it to be interesting to the average forum reader, who may not know much about the cause area. For professionals in development, we have a few internal private write ups which we may be more interesting, such as an ov…
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“How can we get the world to talk about factory farming?” by LewisBollard
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This is a link post. Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. Silence favors the status quo, which doesn’t favor animals It's easy to ignore factory farming. Inflation sparks public d…
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“We’ve renamed the Giving What We Can Pledge” by Alana HF, Giving What We Can
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This is a link post. The Giving What We Can Pledge is now the 🔸10% Pledge! We cover the why (along with our near-term plans and how you can help!) below. TL;DR: The name change will help us grow awareness of the pledge by reducing brand confusion and facilitating partnerships. We see it as an important part of reaching our goal of 10,000 pledgers b…
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“Animal Welfare Fund: Payout recommendations from May 2022 to March 2024” by Linch, kierangreig, KarolinaSarek, Zoë Sigle, Neil_Dullaghan
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This payout report covers the Animal Welfare Fund's grantmaking from May 1 2022 to March 31st 2024 (23 months). It follows the previous March-April 2022 payout report. Since the previous report was written, the Animal Welfare Fund made a conscious decision to deprioritize public reports so that fund managers can have more time and capacity to work …
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“Detecting Genetically Engineered Viruses With Metagenomic Sequencing” by Jeff Kaufman
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This is a link post. This represents work from several people at the NAO. Thanks especially to Dan Rice for implementing the duplicate junction detection, and to @Will Bradshaw and @mike_mclaren for editorial feedback. Summary Summary . If someone were to intentionally cause a stealth pandemic today, one of the ways they might do it is by modifying…
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AAP Bonus Episode: AAC23 | Discussing Suffering-Focused Ethics with Magnus Vinding
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Welcome back to another AAP bonus episode! We're bringing you our final session from December's Antinatalist Advocacy conference: a conversation on suffering-focused ethics with author Magnus Vinding. Where do antintatalism and suffering-focused ethics overlap or diverge? Is there too much of a focus on achieving 'best case' outcomes, and not enoug…
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“Announcing The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why” by jeffsebo
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Hi all, just a short post to let you know that my next book, The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why, is now available for preorder! This is the publisher's description: "Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we focus on humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast number of beings. In …
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This conversation was such a joy. I asked all my questions about Calming The Chaos of Perimenopause and Bria Gadd, The Period Whisperer was incredibly knowledgeable, warm and compassionate. We discuss the significant shifts that happen during perimenopause. How to know it is time for help in perimenopause. Peri-Rage! Undeserved Weight Gain. Underst…
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Mark Ramirez's Journey to Reversing Diabetes and Achieving Optimal Health
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In this episode of the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, Kylie and Lauren introduce their guest, Marc Ramirez, a plant-based coach and former University of Michigan football player. Marc shares his inspiring journey of reversing type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, psoriasis, obesity, and heartburn through a low-fat, whole-foo…
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“Distancing EA from rationality is foolish” by Jan_Kulveit
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Recently, I've noticed a growing tendency within EA to dissociate from Rationality. Good Ventures have stopped funding efforts connected with the rationality community and rationality, and there are increasing calls for EAs to distance themselves. This trend concerns me, and I believe it's good to make a distinction when considering this split. We …
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“Ten minutes to speak up for ~4.5 million caged chickens” by Ben Stevenson
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(You can read this post as a Google Doc. You might find this easier to share with animal-sympathetic non-EAs. Also: I work at Rethink Priorities, but I'm writing in a personal capacity.) A few weeks ago, I shared some suggested responses for a Defra consultation on welfare labelling. I was really pleased to hear that many EAs and animal rights advo…
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AI politicians, the voice of Her and animal communications
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As the UK’s general elections approach, we take a closer look at some of the novel characters emerging in the race to leadership. This month Smera and Jonah are joined by Michael Katell, an Ethics Fellow in the Turing’s Public Policy Programme, to discuss AI Steve – the chatbot standing in this year’s election. Smera gives the lowdown on Scarlett J…
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Update Episode: The Global Cryonics Summit in Miami
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In this quick update episode, Max and Daniel take a break from their usual guest format to update you on the Global Cryonics Summit in Miami this July 20th and 21st. Take a quick listen and then check out the show notes for details. If you haven't purchased your tickets yet, you can grab them at GlobalCryonicsSummit.com. Show Notes: The event will …
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Is veganism a religion? Can one be both vegan and Muslim? What does "dominion" really mean? In this thought-provoking episode of Lettuce Talk, we are joined by Ruben Venema, a VSA member and philosophy student, to delve into these intriguing questions. We discuss several religions - Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism - and their teachings about anim…
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Finding Joy in Fitness: Diabetes Management, Mental Health, and Active Longevity
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In this episode of the Mastering Diabetes podcast hosted by Kylie and Lauren, the conversation delves into the holistic benefits of fitness. They are joined by Cyrus, who shares his inspiring experience of managing insulin resistance through a plant-based diet and the joy of physical activity. The episode highlights the importance of enjoying exerc…
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“Kaya Guides Pilot Results” by RachelAbbott
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Summary. Who We Are: Kaya Guides runs a self-help course on WhatsApp to reduce depression at scale in low and middle-income countries. We help young adults with moderate to severe depression. Kaya currently operates in India. We are the world's first nonprofit implementer of Step-by-Step, the World Health Organization's digital guided self-help pro…
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“Are our Top Charities saving the same lives each year?” by GiveWell
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This is a link post. Author: Adam Salisbury, Senior Research Associate In a nutshell We’ve had a longstanding concern that some of our top charity programs, including insecticide-treated nets, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), and vitamin A supplementation (VAS), may have less impact than we've estimated due to “repetitive saving.” These prog…
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Bennett and Cas discuss DJT, which is not Donald Trump's official token, and it seems likely Barron will not even claim this mess that Martin Shkreli embroiled them all in. Protos Reporting on DJT Cas' Op-Ed on Pirate Wires Daniel Kuhn's Article for The Block This video was recorded on June 22nd, 2024.…
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Highlights: #190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #190 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode: Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious And if you're finding these highlights episodes …
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How Does Intuition Shape Our Understanding and Decisions?
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With this episode, let's delve into the fascinating concept of intuition and its inner workings. Discover how intuition taps into the unconscious mind, helping us understand ourselves and the world beyond immediate sensory experiences.
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Raising our happiness baseline (with Sasha Chapin)
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Read the full transcript here. How easy is it to shift our baseline level of happiness? What sorts of things can most effectively shift that baseline? And are they highly specific to each individual or generalizable to most people? What are the differences between conceptual and phenomenal self-love? Why might it be useful to view shame as a kink? …
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129. What's your relationship to Juneteenth?
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Here’s this week’s letter: I got the day off for Juneteenth and I’m trying to think about ways to honor the holiday and incorporate it into my family’s annual traditions. We have a nice tradition in my family of volunteering on Thanksgiving, we love it, it’s fun, it brings the family together, it reminds us to practice gratitude. We usually spend s…
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128. "I donate, but am I a philanthropist?" Apparently it depends on your identities...
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Do you donate money or volunteer your time for charitable causes? If so, you're engaging in philanthropic activities. But would you actually call yourself a "philanthropist"? According to a recent report from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, there's a major disconnect between the public's understanding of philanthropy and…
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“Why so many ‘racists’ at Manifest?” by Austin
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Manifest 2024 is a festival that we organized last weekend in Berkeley. By most accounts, it was a great success. On our feedback form, the average response to “would you recommend to a friend” was a 9.0/10. Reviewers said nice things like “one of the best weekends of my life” and “dinners and meetings and conversations with people building local c…
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Coach John Massengale on Plant-Based Nutrition and Endurance Training
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In this episode of the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, hosts Lauren and Kylie welcome endurance athlete, Registered Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist, and our coach, John Massengale to discuss his journey into plant-based nutrition and his work in diabetes education. They delve into John's personal story from his transi…
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If you want to use money to make you happier, stop thinking about what you can buy with it. Instead, think about how you can use it to remove the things in your life that make you unhappy. Full Article: https://www.madfientist.com/happiness-through-subtraction/
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Liz Douglas is a home cook, new mum and the person behind the easy, familiar plant-based recipes of Glow Diaries. As someone who had always loved food and liked cooking, when Liz became vegan, the challenge of recreating old favourite meals was exciting. She was curious, inspired and started sharing her new favourite hobby on Instagram to prove tha…
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