Best Krumm Podcasts (2024)

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Alicia Escott, Heidi Quante: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture 50:30

5M ago50:30

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The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a participatory artwork facilitated by artist Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante which collaborates with the public to create new words for feelings and experiences for which no words yet exist. Recognizing the climate crisis is causing new feelings and experiences that have yet to be named, the project was created…

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Jonathan Cordero: Indigenous Sovereign Futures 55:33

5M ago55:33

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Alternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power. How can indigenous perspectives and knowledge inform the structural transformation necessary to improve the health of the natural world and of human communities? Dr. Cordero will discuss how indigenous episte…

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Denise Hearn: Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World 56:04

6M ago56:04

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Economic policy can seem abstract and distant, but it manifests the physical world – affecting us all. Our economic stories shape our systems, and they in turn shape us. What myths continue to constrain us, and how might new stories emerge to scaffold the future? This talk will explore concepts we often take as gospel: profits, competition, economi…

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Jared Farmer: Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees

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Big trees, old trees, and especially big old trees have always been objects of reverence. From Athena’s sacred olive on the Acropolis to the unmistakable ginkgo leaf prevalent in Japanese art and fashion during the Edo period, our profound admiration for slow plants spans time and place as well as cultures and religions. At the same time, the utili…

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Abby Smith Rumsey: Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures 55:37

10M ago55:37

55:37

As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell ourselves about our collective history become a battleground for competing visions of the future. Drawing extensively from Russian history in the 20th century, Rumsey offers a framework to discuss our current social and political tensions and how our increasing polarization…

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Henry Farrell: The Complex Aftermath of Globalization 59:03

10M ago59:03

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Over the last two years, the US government has started thinking about the future of the world in a very different way. Across speeches and policy papers, a vision of world politics has emerged which breaks sharply both with the old logic of the Cold War and the newer politics of globalization. The globalization bet has turned sour, but it has creat…

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Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization 31:42

11M ago31:42

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Coco Krumme traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America's founding principles, to its dominance as the driving principle of our modern world. Optimized models underlie everything and are deeply embedded in the technologies and assumptions that have come to comprise not only our material reality, but what we make of it. …

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Bette Adriaanse, Chelsea T. Hicks: Radical Sharing 56:32

12M ago56:32

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Our bodies, our houses, our land, our space - we humans don’t always like to share. Author Bette Adriaanse talks with Chelsea T. Hicks, and virtual guests Brian Eno and Aqui Thami, about property and sharing, and how to make a lasting positive change in the way we share the world with each other. Alternating between thinkers and doers, whose action…

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Catching Up with Kelly Bravo 15:22

1y ago15:22

15:22

Carlos catches up with student Kelly Bravo, who is now a college graduate from Florida State UniversityBy College Avenue Club

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: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future 1:04:57

1y ago1:04:57

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2 nights of live science storytelling, art & music the evenings of May 12th & May 13th at St. Joseph's Arts Society; there is one show each night, doors are at 7:00pm and the show starts at 8:00pm. The Long Now Foundation has teamed up with Anthropocene Magazine (a publication of Future Earth) and Back Pocket Media to take the magazine’s new fictio…

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Playoff Push 1:05:01

1y ago1:05:01

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Jack discusses the Sailors, Phantoms, and Grimsby at length as all three teams chase potential playoff spots.

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Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation 1:04:20

1y ago1:04:20

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How can we turn the tide on species loss and help biodiversity and bioabundance flourish for millennia to come?Ryan Phelan is Executive Director of Revive & Restore; the leading wildlife conservation organization promoting the incorporation of biotechnologies into standard conservation practice. Phelan will share the new Genetic Rescue Toolkit for …

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Becky Chambers, Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia 55:58

1+ y ago55:58

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Join us for a thought-provoking conversation between two Hugo award-winning science fiction authors, Becky Chambers and Annalee Newitz. Known for challenging classic science fiction tropes such as war, violence, and colonialism, both authors create vivid and immersive worlds that are filled with non-human persons, peace, and a subtle sense of hope.…

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Halfway 48:57

1+ y ago48:57

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In this episode pf Between The Cones, Jack takes a look at the biggest sleeper in League, Why the Hoosiers may struggle moving forward, The Blue Angels debate, and some advice to the Phantoms of how to increase Cole Flemings already productive season.

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College Avenue At NAFSA Conference: Heidi Weiss-Krumm, Director of International Student Services 25:20

1+ y ago25:20

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College Avenue Club was at the NAFSA annual conference and expo in Washington D.C. and spoke with Heidi Weiss-Krumm, the Director of International Student Services at La Sierra University about her story and career into education and advice for college students and international students.By College Avenue Club

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High School Graduate Maria Amortegui 20:17

1+ y ago20:17

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High School Graduate Maria Amortegui by College Avenue ClubBy College Avenue Club

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NEXT GEN 41:47

1+ y ago41:47

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Jack breaks down some of the stats, studs, and duds of week one while previewing week two.

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Jenny Odell: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock 1:01:37

1+ y ago1:01:37

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"What first appears to be a wish for more time may turn out to be just one part of a simple, yet vast, desire for autonomy, meaning, and purpose." -Jenny Odell Join us for an evening on long-term thinking with a talk & reading from Jenny Odell and conversation with Long Now's Executive Director Alexander Rose.Artist and writer Jenny Odell brings he…

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Ismail Ali: Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads 58:02

1+ y ago58:02

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Psychedelics and other mind-altering substances have been used for thousands of years across the world in religious, spiritual, celebratory, and healing contexts. Despite a half century of a "War on Drugs" in the United States, there has been a recent resurgence in public interest in ending drug prohibition and re-evaluating the roles these substan…

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Ryan North: How to Invent Everything

1+ y ago

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How would someone fare if they were dropped into a randomly chosen period in history? Would they have any relevant knowledge to share, or ability to invent crucial technologies given the period's constraints? Ryan North uses these hypothetical questions to explore the technological and implicit knowledge underpinning modern civilization, offering a…

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Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception 57:34

1+ y ago57:34

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Tracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future - Adam Rogers shows the expansive human quest for the understanding, creation and use of color. We meet our ancestors mashing charcoal in caves, Silk Road merchants competing for the best ceramics, and textile artists cracking the centuries-old mystery of how c…

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Old Faces in New Places: Part Two 59:27

1+ y ago59:27

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Dawg’s Preston Long, Jack’s Nick Downs, Grimsby FC Peter Boyer, and Hoosiers Jaidan McCloud joins the show to discuss their teams.

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Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny 1:05:54

1+ y ago1:05:54

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The map of humanity isn’t settled -- not now, not ever.In the 60,000 years since people began spreading across the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility—the ever-constant search for resources, stability and opportunity. Driven by global events from conflicts, famine, repression and changing climates - to opportunit…

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Eric Debrah Otchere: Sonic Spaces: A Psychology of Music and Work 50:58

1+ y ago50:58

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Eric Debrah Otchere's research revolves around the power of music in the context of work; covering an ambitious range from ethnographic research on Ghanaian indigenous fishing culture to personalized musical preferences via modern technology. Throughout history, the power of music to enhance productivity and focus at work has been explored, leverag…

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Wade Davis: Activist Anthropology 55:36

1+ y ago55:36

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What is the role and purpose of Anthropology today? Wade Davis looks back at the pioneering work of Franz Boas in the early 20th century that upended long-held Western assumptions on race & gender, along with definitions of "social progress". Boas and his students used comparative ethnography to advance “cultural relativism”-- the idea that every c…

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Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need 56:49

1+ y ago56:49

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Urbanist, researcher and writer Johanna Hoffman joins us to talk about speculative futures -- a powerful set of tools that can reorient urban development help us dream and build more resilient, equitable cities. Navigating modern change depends on imagining futures we’ve never seen. Urban planning and design should be well positioned to spearhead t…

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Old Faces in New Places Part One: 52:43

1+ y ago52:43

52:43

Jack interviews half of the league captains regarding their 2023 draft classes.

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Kate Darling: The New Breed: What Our Animal History Reveals For Our Robotic Future 54:29

1+ y ago54:29

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Robot ethicist Kate Darling offers a nuanced and smart take on our relationships to robots and the increasing presence they will have in our lives. From a social, legal, and ethical perspective, she shows that our current ways of thinking don’t leave room for the robot technology that is soon to become part of our everyday routines. Robots are like…

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Suzanne Simard: Mother Trees and the Social Forest 59:43

1+ y ago59:43

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Forest Ecologist Suzanne Simard reveals that trees are part of a complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground mycorrhizal networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities, and share and exchange resources and support. Simard's extraordinary research and te…

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