Best Hydropolitics Podcasts (2024)

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“We had to rethink many, many things”: Reflexivity in Scientific Practices during the Zika Epidemic in Recife, Brazil

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Thais Valim can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/04/we-had-to-rethink-many-many-things-reflexivity-in-scientific-practices-during-the-zika-epidemic-in-recife-brazil/. About the post: This piece explores how local experiences with the Zika epidemic in Recife, Bra…

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Tear Gas as Punishment

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jack Leff can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/04/tear-gas-as-punishment/. About the post: By examining the interplay between state use of tear gas to punish activists and the protestors fighting against it, we catch a glimpse into the racial capitalist operatio…

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Spatial Approaches to Livestreaming: A Methodological Exploration in Digital Ethnography

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Soojin Kim can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/04/spatial-approaches-to-livestreaming-a-methodological-exploration-in-digital-ethnography/. About the post: This is my reflection on the frustrations that I encountered during the initial phases of my fieldwork wi…

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Two Insomniacs Discuss Routine and Restlessness Through Google Tracking

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Alexandra Dantzer can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/04/two-insomniacs-discuss-routine-and-restlessness-through-google-tracking/. About the post: This piece approaches questions about life, time-waste, routine, and restlessness through a different lens. Namely…

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Recipes of Resistance: Global Digital Gastrosolidarity for Palestine

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/03/recipes-of-resistance-global-digital-gastrosolidarity-for-palestine/. About the post: In this essay, the author weaves together insights on Palestinian foodways with their past ruminations on digita…

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Ernest Scheyder | Mining The Cobalt, Lithium, Copper & Rare Earths To Electrify The Economy 53:51

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🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Spotify https://atlasgeographica.com/ernest-scheyder/ Ernest Scheyder runs directly towards the impossible trade-offs of mining in the ‘War Below’... The electrification of the economy…

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Bed-Time Storytelling

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Fei Yuan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/03/bed-time-storytelling/. About the post: Memories, hallucinations, and unfulfilled dreams are narrated from the bed during the final chapters of life. I seek to highlight the experiences of those in the hospice war…

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Jon Lee Anderson | A Life in Adventure & Journalism... From Che Guevara To The New Yorker 55:06

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🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #169 w/ Jon Lee Anderson On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #169 w/ Jon Lee Anderson On Spotify https://atlasgeographica.com/jon-lee-anderson/ I once responded to a question in a grant application that the people I admired most were great adventurers, great writers and …

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Who Knows About Ethical Research?: Reflections on Research Ethics and Vulnerability in Abortion Research

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lea Happ can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/03/who-knows-about-ethical-research-reflections-on-research-ethics-and-vulnerability-in-abortion-research/. About the post: As a feminist researcher, I have found it at times difficult to navigate the complex nexus o…

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Anthropology, STS, and the Politics of Imagination in Navigating Socio-Environmental Change

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jacob Weger can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/02/anthropology-sts-and-the-politics-of-imagination-in-navigating-socio-environmental-change/. About the post: Imagination is a critical resource in the pursuit of sustainable futures, yet it is often constrained …

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Patrick Watts | The End Of The American Empire 22:49

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🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #168 w/ Patrick Watts On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #168 w/ Patrick Watts On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-watts/ The following is with Patrick Watts who is one hell of an interesting fella, this was…

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Lonely Planet Looking for Connection: Citizen Science SETI Research at NASA

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by sebastian levar spivey can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/02/lonely-planet-looking-for-connection-citizen-science-seti-research-at-nasa/. About the post: The stakes here are cosmic and immediate: who are humans in extraterran (not yet extraterrestrial) relatio…

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Bill Browder | The Threat Of Putin Assassination + State Of Russian Culture & Russian Economy 28:31

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🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #167 w/ Bill Browder On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #167 w/ Bill Browder On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Bill Browder is back for his #2 appearance on the pod! This was recorded in his London offices, and builds upon the themes from our…

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Anna Sundberg | Wife Of A Jihadist... Radicalisation To Atheism In Extremist Islam 1:13:24

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🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #135 w/ Anna Sundberg On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #135 w/ Anna Sundberg On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Anna Sundberg co-authored a book of memoirs titled ‘My Beloved Terrorist’. This book is an incredible and rare story of how a you…

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Water Scarcity, Hydropolitics, and the Importance of Materiality at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Kimberly Sanchez can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/01/water-scarcity-hydropolitics-and-the-importance-of-materiality-at-the-foothills-of-the-rocky-mountains/. About the post: As one of many in a very visible, linear collective, surface waters and irrigation i…

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Milei, Crowds, and Concrete Waves in Argentina

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Renzo Taddei can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/12/milei-crowds-and-concrete-waves-in-argentina/. About the post: Thousands of individuals were now one massive block moving up and down. The stands shook. I felt the largest reinforced concrete stand in the larg…

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Magnus Ranstorp | Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Anders Brevik, The IRA... An Encyclopaedia On Modern Terrorism & Political Violence 1:11:09

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🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #158 w/ Magnus Ranstorp On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #158 w/ Magnus Ranstorp On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Magnus Ranstorp is a Swedish academic, hostage negotiator, teacher and author who has been researching and writing about terr…

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Platypod, Episode Eight: CASPR 2023

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In this special episode, we revisit the 2023 edition of CASPR: CASTAC in the Spring, an annual online event held by CASTAC. This year, guest speakers convened to discuss the topic of "digital ethnography." Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2023/12/platypod-episode-eight-caspr-2023/

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Marlene Laruelle | Russian Demographics & Current State Of Ukraine War 45:48

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🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Marlene Laruelle is a Research Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University in Washington DC. She is an expert on the culture and anthropology of Russia and many of the Stan…

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Algorithmic Imaginations in Agriculture: Automation?

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by ZIYA KAYA can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/11/algorithmic-imaginations-in-agriculture-automation/. About the post: Agricultural digitization not only sparks the imagination of humans being replaced by automation and data but also creates participatory models…

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Heidi Blake | The Great Cash-For-Carbon Hustle... It's Greenwashing All The Way Down 46:46

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🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/heidi-blake/ New Yorker Article - Great Carbon-For-Cash Hustle Heidi Blake is a writer at the New Yorker, author of two books, and recently wrote the most amazing magazine piece about …

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High Costs, Entangled Politics: What All Comes Inside a Medication’s Packaging

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lucas Nishida can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/11/high-costs-entangled-politics-what-all-comes-inside-a-medications-packaging/. About the post: In this process, the medication is not merely a chemical compound but is a product of and produces a network of re…

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Belly Versus Bin: How Digital Autoethnography Brought Me Back From the Brink of Disordered Eating

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Madhura Rao can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/11/belly-versus-bin-how-digital-autoethnography-brought-me-back-from-the-brink-of-disordered-eating/. About the post: I had become adept at ignoring rancid smells and increasingly comfortable with cutting off moul…

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Matthew Friedman | The Geography Of Human Trafficking & Slavery Today 1:32:17

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🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/matthew-friedman/ This is a podcast about human trafficking and modern slavery. The guest is Matthew Friedman, and he is the CEO of the Mekong Club, which is an organisation that mobil…

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David De Jong | Reporting On The Ground From Israel 47:50

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✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe David De Jong Twitter 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 The following is with David De Jong who is the Middle East Correspondent for the Dutch Newspaper, FD. He lives in Israel, and has been reporting from the ground since the early hours of October 7…

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On Algorithmic Divination

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rebecca Carlson, Heikki Wilenius and Jonathan Corliss can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/10/on-algorithmic-divination/. About the post: Algorithms are tools of divination. Like cowry shells, scapular bones or spiders trapped under a pot, algorithms are marshal…

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Plastic Chronicles: Navigating Mumbai’s Material Mazes

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Adwaita Banerjee can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/10/plastic-chronicles-navigating-mumbais-material-mazes/. About the post: It is here, amidst a sea of discarded materials, that a relationship evolves—one between the waste pickers, the myriad forms of plasti…

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Funeral for an Embryo

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Manon Lefevre can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/10/funeral-for-an-embryo/. About the post: Not long ago, it seemed that the science lab and the Catholic cemetery were two distinct worlds. Yet, surprising discursive and material connections complicate that dom…

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How to Imagine the Unknown: Choosing an Arm Prosthesis

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/10/how-to-imagine-the-unknown-choosing-an-arm-prosthesis/. About the post: An important cause of anxiety for her was how to choose a prosthetic and which one to choose. According to her, during one appoi…

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Staring Contest

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sophie Katz can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/10/staring-contest/. About the post: In the ICU, I watch my patients closely with my eyes, my hands, my machines. The more carefully I monitor them, the more keenly I feel myself being watched by a gaze I ultimate…

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Desmond Shum | Climbing To The Peak Of China's Business Elite & Fleeing Before Being Disappeared 1:46:38

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✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 After climbing the peak of China's Elite, Desmond Shum had to flee his country of birth out of fear of being disappeared. He was on the inside of the political apparatus along with his former wife, a multi billionaire…

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The Wild Pantry

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Muneezay Jaffery can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/10/the-wild-pantry/. About the post: The project we are working on is Plant Planet Plate, which brings together the work of the Green Shoots Foundation, which is led by me (a geographer), in rural development…

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"The Day I Discovered I Was Collaborating on a Eugenics Project": On Imponderables in Collaborative Research

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sandra Avila and Marisol Marini can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/09/the-day-i-discovered-i-was-collaborating-on-a-eugenics-project-on-imponderables-in-collaborative-research/. About the post: One day Avila realized that the recommendation she had received fr…

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Tim Butcher | Charles Taylor, Liberia, Sierre Leone & Voodoo Magic 2:17:20

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✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 Tim Butcher returns to the podcast with another incredible journey through an African nation. The first time Tim appeared he spoke about his adventures through the Congo, weaving a story of an incredibly rich and beau…

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Making Companion Species at a Robotics Lab

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Patrick Kho can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/09/making-companion-species-at-a-robotics-lab/. About the post: Approaching robots as companion species, we find the significance of storytelling in robot experiments. We find that science fiction fundamentally sh…

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"Blooming Biomes Mean Blooming Profits": 'Nature-based' Industrial Farming and the Politics of the Industrial Animal Microbiome

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Maggie Mang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/09/blooming-biomes-mean-blooming-profits-nature-based-industrial-farming-and-the-politics-of-the-industrial-animal-microbiome/. About the post: This blog post details how hype, imaginations, and promises over the …

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AI as a Feminist Issue

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/09/ai-as-a-feminist-issue/. About the post: For this episode, we'll read a story written earlier this year. This is a story about the public funding of artificial intelligence in the US and how tha…

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Female Truck Drivers in China Navigate Gender Norms on Douyin

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Anna Zhang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/female-truck-drivers-in-china-navigate-gender-norms-on-douyin/. About the post: Over the course of a month, I examined the content of four popular female truck drivers on the platform. I explored how their effor…

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Tim Marshall | The Future Of Geography, Europe & Sweden 1:09:30

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✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 This is his third appearance – he is the king of geography writing, he is the great and powerful Tim Marshall. This interview covers everything from Tim on what makes good writing, the success of prisoners of geograph…

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Between Pain and Relief: Morphine's Ambiguities in India

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nick Surawy Stepney and Nishanth Kunnukattil Shaji can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/between-pain-and-relief-morphines-ambiguities-in-india/. About the post: Morphine, the gold standard of medically prescribed painkillers, offers a troubling medical story,…

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Madam Cistern

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cydney Seigerman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/madam-cistern/. About the post: It’s been a long time since someone has fetched water from me. I’m old now, dried up… it rained a lot this winter, but I am no longer able to hold on to the rain that falls.…

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Fake, Real, Real, Fake: Salvarsan on the US Medical Market

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Colin Garon can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/fake-real-real-fake-salvarsan-on-the-us-medical-market/. About the post: Who could claim medical expertise? Should healers be allowed to advertise? What cures should laypeople be able to purchase for themselves…

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Hippocrates Against Protocols: Experiments, Experience, and Evidence-Based Medicine in Brazil

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rosana Castro can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/hippocrates-against-protocols-experiments-experience-and-evidence-based-medicine-in-brazil/. About the post: This episode addresses the processes in which science is being claimed, shaken, disputed, and unpre…

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Norman Ohler | Methamphetamines, Cocaine, The Nazi's & Hitler In WWII - Blitzed 1:20:32

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✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 Norman Ohler is a German screenwriter, author and journalist. Norman is most widely known as the author of Blitzed, an incredible book that documents the role of Pervatin (methamphetamine) and drugs during Nazi German…

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AI, Climate Adaptation, and Epistemic Injustice

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Angelina Chamuah, Hema Vaishnavi Ale and Vikrom Mathur can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/ai-climate-adaptation-and-epistemic-injustice/. About the post: Acknowledging the cultural, relational, and contextual dimensions of climate change is crucial in the r…

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Tokens, Voids, and Archives: Locating Berlin's NFT Projects

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Spencer Kaplan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/tokens-voids-and-archives-locating-berlins-nft-projects/. About the post: Berlin joins cities like Los Angeles, New York, Lisbon, and London as a hub of blockchain ventures. Yet Berlin’s NFT projects, Immers…

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Ed Conway | The Unbelievable Efficiency & Fragility Of Globalisation 1:35:25

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✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 The following is with Ed Conway, who has written one of the most intensely curious books, it is called Material World and looks at some of these raw ingredients that have shaped the world we live in. Namely, these mat…

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Ways of Knowing: Lessons on Agroecological Transitions from a Pothwari Farm

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ayesha Shahid can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/ways-of-knowing-lessons-on-agroecological-transitions-from-a-pothwari-farm/. About the post: As a researcher and self-identifying ‘citizen planner,’ I was curious if new methods of agriculture could make the …

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A Vocabulary for Junk in Four Movements

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rebecca Carlson, Emil Rieger and Sarah Thanner can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/a-vocabulary-for-junk-in-four-movements/. About the post: Trash and uselessness are related but not the same. Trash is problematic and needs to leave our ideological boundarie…

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Junk Anthropology: A Manifesto for Trashing and Untrashing

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rebecca Carlson can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/junk-anthropology-a-manifesto-for-trashing-and-untrashing/. About the post: But what does something like “junk” have to do with mice ear punches, chemical transmutation and mundane laboratory failures? Garb…

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