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MIT Catalysts is a podcast series by the MIT Club of Northern California. Host Julia Yoo interviews MIT alumni, faculty and affiliates who are movers and shakers in the Bay Area.
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This podcast is focused on economics, finance and public policy, with a common thread to exploring some of the ideas of the late economist Milton Friedman titled after his 1962 book ”Capitalism and Freedom”.
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“MIT” stands for Mindset Into Transformation, which resonates with our belief that every key transformation begins in the mind. The same goes with investing. In a world with turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to obtain the right investment mindset to stay calm amidst market volatility. MIT Capitals is a Real Estate Investment Firm, aiming to be the most skilled and systemized and trustworthy multifamily residential acquirer in the market. Our purpose is to help people to ...
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The Digital Economist Speaker Series drives radical collaboration between global action leaders on the most urgent topics and challenges we face today: climate, health, society, economics. With the global population facing multiple man-made crises that threaten our existence and the wellbeing of the planet, using science and technology to serve human needs is no longer a choice – it's a necessity.
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Welcome to The Craft of Open Source, hosted by Ben Rometsch, Co-Founder and CEO of Flagsmith. This bi-weekly show is focused on the ins and outs of the Open Source Software Community. Join Ben as he speaks with the brightest minds that have brought us some of the most adopted technologies on earth. Each episode is an interview with creators, maintainers, entrepreneurs, and key contributors to the open source community. We will cover critical topics for open source developers, contributors an ...
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Andrew McAfee talks with the innovators, entrepreneurs, academics, investors, writers, scientists, executives, and other "alpha geeks" at the forefront of the Second Machine Age.
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Historische Interviews mit Schrifttsteller:innen, Philosoph:innen, Aktivist:innen und Intellektuellen aus aller Welt. Historical interviews with writers, philosophers, activists and intellectuals from around the world. Entretiens historiques avec des écrivains, des philosophes, des activistes et des intellectuels du monde entier. مقابلات تاريخية مع كتاب وفلاسفة ونشطاء ومثقفين من جميع أنحاء العالم. مصاحبه های تاریخی با نویسندگان، فیلسوفان، فعالان و روشنفکران از سراسر جهان.
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Private markets are opaque and unfamiliar to many people. Within the podcast series 'Private Markets Unleashed', we are interviewing fascinating individuals representing diverse alternative asset classes to enhance transparency and foster greater understanding of private markets.
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In the Decade of Biotech when there will be myriad opportunities to invest in angel-scale biotech startups. After decades of angel investing, I am focusing on the life science side of my portfolio and invite other angels to do the same. Here's why: https://www.labcoatventures.com/why-we-are-focused-on-early-stage-biotech/ I’m Sal Daher, host of the Angel Invest Boston Podcast. After immigrating to Boston as a child and attending Belmont High School, I studied engineering at MIT and Stanford. ...
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Interviews with Environmental Scientists about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies
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The NextGen VC Podcast is the premier podcast for forward-thinking venture capitalists eager to dive in and sharpen their skills. It unpacks the opportunities, challenges, and breakthroughs shaping life sciences investing today, and is curated by Wilson Sonsini and LaunchBio with hosts Michael Hostetler and Jen Fang. Email the show: questions@launchbio.org Learn about in-person NextGen VC events: launchbio.org/programs/nextgen-vc-forum/ Discover resources for the life sciences community: lau ...
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Podcast on entrepreneurship and investment by Riana Shah, concurrent degree student at MIT and Harvard. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/venture-vignettes/support
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Showcasing people from the Caribbean Diaspora building the future of tech and leveraging tech to build global brands.
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Psychology Interviews: Exploring brain, body, mind, spirit, intuition, leadership, research, psychotherapy and more!
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Get ready to step into the unfiltered world of entrepreneurship with the award-winning entrepreneur Susan Sly on the "Raw and Real Entrepreneurship" podcast. Recognized and featured by major media outlets such as Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review, CNBC, Fox, and CNN, Susan brings an exceptional blend of real-world experience and hard-earned knowledge to the podcasting stage. As the co-founder of a leading AI company, Susan harnesses her unique insider perspective to delve deep into the hea ...
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Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is betting big on crypto
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In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park to run a Bitcoin mine. But some are wondering what crypto has to do with conservation. This story was written by Adam Popescu and narrated by Noa (newsoveraudio.com)By MIT Technology Review
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Konstantin Vinogradov, General Partner At Runa Capital
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With their keen eye for innovation and their knack for spotting the next big thing, Runa Capital is at the forefront of the tech revolution. In this episode, Ben Rometsch delves into the world of open-source software with Konstantin Vinogradov, General Partner at Runa Capital. Konstantin reflects on the founding principles of Runa Capital and its c…
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Navigating Investment Markets: Insights on Growth, AI, and Strategic Value Creation with Richard Kunzer, Founding Partner at Integrum, EN #29
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In this week's podcast episode, we are excited to welcome Richard Kunzer, Founding Partner at Integrum. Integrum is a mission-driven, technology-focused investment firm founded by experienced leaders with diverse backgrounds. The firm invests in sectors like Insurance Services, Payments, Business & Professional Services, and Capital-Light Financial…
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Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" (Verso, 2024)
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Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the plastics used to produce and transport our consumer goods, to name just a few prominent uses. How did oil come to occupy its central position in the world economy? How did corporate power shape the uptake, pricing, and distribution of oil and petroche…
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Zygmunt Baumann: "Das Prinzip des Werdens - The principle of becoming - Le principe du devenir."
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Christoph Burgmer im Gespräch mit Zygmunt Baumann (1925-2017). Der polnisch-britische Soziologe und Philosoph Zygmunt Baumann war einer der herausragenden Intellektuellen Europas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. In diesem Gespräch geht es um die Auflösung von "Nationen Staaten", um die Anthropolgie des Menschens, um das Bestehen auf Demokratie und Mensc…
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Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning, "Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
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"Climate change is the biggest crisis of humankind. We can’t watch other people drive our future right against the wall.” This is a quote by Luisa Neubauer – the most famous German climate activist. As global climate change forecasts become more drastic and fear is spreading, young activists, like Luisa and Alexander, are taking the floor. Both are…
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We live in an undeniably gamified world. We stand up and move around to close colorful rings and earn achievement badges on our smartwatches; we meditate and sleep to recharge our body batteries; we plant virtual trees to be more productive; we chase “likes” and “karma” on social media sites and try to swipe our way toward social connection. But in…
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Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the distribution of beach trash in Chennai, chronicling disruptions in seasonal winds and currents along the Bay of Bengal. An essayist in the northeastern United States observes that maple sap flows earli…
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Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)
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Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the angels are reassured, the world holds together. Still, the tale suggests, the angels live in anxious anticipation of the End. Local beekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina retell the old tale with growing un…
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The Early 2020s: Former World Bank President David Malpass on COVID, Inflation, China, and Climate
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Jon Hartley and David Malpass discuss David’s career, and his service in government, including his time as president of the World Bank Group. They also discuss the changing role of China in international finance as well as the IMF and World Bank responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 sovereign deb…
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Jan Bodo Sperling: "Rourkela: Beginn des deutschen 'Wirtschaftswunders' - Beginning of the German ‘Wirtschaftswunder’."
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Johannes Laping (1949-2021 - Adivasi Koordination Deutschland) im Gespräch mit Jan Bodo Sperling (1928-2024). Das deutsche (BRD) so genannte Wirtschaftswunder der 50er Jahre basiert auf dem Export. Der Nachweis industrieller Leistungsfähigkeit gelang mit der Errichtung eines Stahlwerkes im indischen Dschungel. Neben dem Stahlwerk entstand die Stadt…
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Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite and alongside continuing violence. Departing from conventional approaches to the study of disaster and conflict that have dominated academic s…
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Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?
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Digital clones of people's dead relatives are far from perfect: they're occasionally impersonal and sometimes downright creepy. But if the technology might help us hang onto the people we love, is it so wrong to try? This story was written by news editor Charlotte Jee and narrated by Noa.By MIT Technology Review
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Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and coastal communities. The baseline for these measurements—sea level—may seem unremarkable, a long-familiar zero point for altitude. But as Dr. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveals, the history of defining …
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Anna Lora-Wainwright, "Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and wide range of emotions and strategies people develop to respond to toxicity in everyday life. An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of acti…
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Ulrich Beck: "Klimawandel & Kapitalismus - Climat Change & Capitalism."
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Stefan Fuchs (audio archiv) im Gespräch mit Ulrich Beck (1944-2015). Ulrich Beck ist einer der einflußreichsten Soziologen der Gegenwart. Sein Buch "Risikogesellschaft. Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne." wurde in 35 Sprachen übersetzt und prägte eine Generation, für die Kritik an Umweltzerstörung und okönomischer Globalisierung um jeden Preis im …
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Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests, deserts, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers, lakes, marshes, and seas. Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Coloni…
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A Deep Dive into MedTech VC, Part 2: Jeff Chu
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The NextGen VC Podcast's next episode highlights Jeff Chu, founder and managing partner of Features Capital, an early-stage medtech venture capital firm. Hosted by Mike Hostetler and Jen Fang, partners at Wilson Sonsini, the discussion explores Jeff's journey from owning a consulting firm to co-founding a venture fund, the unique approach that Feat…
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Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “super trees”
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A Silicon Valley startup wants to supercharge trees to soak up more carbon and cool the climate. Is this the great climate solution or a whole lot of hype? This story was written by Boyce Upholt and narrated by Noa.By MIT Technology Review
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Ivan Burazin proudly presents Daytona, a secure open-source development environment manager that allows developers to tailor their environments according to their specific needs. Ivan looks back on how their company started as an enterprise product before becoming an open-source project for individual developers. He breaks down its most important f…
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Today we present the first episode of Jacob Smith’s new eco-critical audiobook, Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves. In this audio-only book, Smith uses expert production to craft a wildly original argument about the relations between radio and bird migration. The rest of the book is available, free of charge, from The University of Mic…
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Heinz Halm: "Iran: Islamische Revolution - Islamic Revolution - انقلاب اسلامی"
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Heinz Halm im Gespräch mit Christoph Burgmer. Heinz Halm, emeritierter Islamwissenschaftler der Universität Tübingen, forscht inbesondere zu zeitgenössischen Fragen des Poltischen Islam. Die Ideologischen Grundlagen des Iran, Fragen zum 12er Shiismus, der islamischen Revolution, dem politischen Islam und Menschenrechte sind die zentralen Themen die…
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Former Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida Talks Pandemic Monetary Policy and Inflation
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Jon Hartley and Richard Clarida discuss the latter’’s career, academic contributions and government service, including his time as vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Their conversation covers key topics such as inflation in the early 2020s, monetary policy during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the upcoming Federal Reserve monetary policy framework revi…
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Inside VC technology investments: Takes on trends, AI, and investment strategies from Richard Clarke-Jervoise, Managing Director of Private Equity and Venture Capital at ODDO BHF
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In this week's podcast episode, we are excited to welcome Richard Clarke, Managing Director of Private Equity & Venture Capital at ODDO BHF. ODDO BHF is a European financial group with over 180 years of history, managing €142 billion in assets across Private Wealth Management, Asset Management, and Corporate & Investment Banking. Serving 60,000 cli…
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Roberta L. Millstein, "The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic has been both hugely influential in the environmental conservation movement – and also often misinterpreted. In The Land is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millenium (University of Chicago Press), Roberta Millstein aims to set the record straight. Millstein, who is professor emerit of philosop…
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Ryan Emanuel, "On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean. In these backwaters, Lumbees and other American Ind…
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Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
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A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions in the country. Recently, however, it has also become ground zero in the new “lithium gold rush”—the race to power the rapidly expanding electric vehicle and renewable energy storage market. The immens…
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Artificial intelligence is the hottest technology of our time. But what is it? It sounds like a stupid question, but it’s one that’s never been more urgent. MIT Technology Review takes a deep dive into the competing answers from titans of industry and helps us understand how we got here—and why you should care, no matter who you are. This story was…
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Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
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This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, global commodity chains or supply chains, exploitation of labour and environmental degradation, and resistance. To discuss these issues, we are joined by Dr. Alyssa Paredes, an environmental and economi…
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Rebeya Mueller: "Imamin für Muslime - إمام للمسلمين"
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Christoph Burgmer im Gespräch mit der Imamin Rebeya Müller (1957-2024). Rebeya Müller leitete das Institut für interreligiöse Pädagogik und Didaktik in Köln. Die muslimische Feministin vertrat eine geschlechterspezifische Pädagogik, bildete Lehrer:innen fort und gestaltete Bücher für einen islamischen Religionsunterricht an öffentlichen Schulen. Im…
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A Deep Dive into MedTech VC, Part 1: Jenny Barba
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This episode features an in-depth conversation with Jenny Barba, founder and managing partner of Features Capital, an early-stage medtech venture capital firm. Hosts Mike Hostetler and Jen Fang explore Jenny's journey from neuroscience and finance to founding her own VC firm, her passion for supporting diverse and first-time founders in MedTech, an…
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The growing business of surf pools wants to bring the ocean experience inland, making surfing more accessible to communities far from the coasts. These pools can use—and lose—millions upon millions of gallons of water every year. With many planned for areas facing water scarcity, who bears the cost of building the perfect wave? This story was writt…
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Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle promises to transform our lives and the world we live in, yet its time seems always yet-to-come or long-gone-by. In Bicycle (Bloomsbury, 2024) Dr. Jonathan Maskit takes us on an interdisciplinary ride to …
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Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
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Annette Kehnel joins Jana Byars to talk about The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (Brandeis University Press, 2024). A fascinating blend of history and ecological economics that uncovers the medieval precedents for modern concepts of sustainable living. In The Green Ages, historian Annette Kehnel explores sustainability initiativ…
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Noam Chomsky: "Political elites in democracy - Politische Eliten in der Demokratie."
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Stefan Fuchs (audio archiv) im Gespräch mit Noam Chomsky. Ein weiteres Interview mit Noam Chomsky aus dem Jahr 2002. Noam Chomsky erläutert Fragen nach der Legitimität von politischen Vertretern in kapitalistischen Demokratien. Stefan Fuchs (audio archiv) in conversation with Noam Chomsky. Another interview with Noam Chomsky from 2002. Noam Chomsky…
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Edward Glaeser on Zoning, Land Use Regulation, and Urban Economics
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Jon Hartley and Edward Glaeser discuss the latter’s seminal work on urban economics, zoning, land use regulation, and economic growth. They also discuss industrial policy, the important role of human capital and education in economic growth, as well as why crime has rebounded in recent years. Recorded on August 26, 2024. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Edward …
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How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play
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Open-world video games are inhabited by vast crowds of computer-controlled characters. These animated people—called NPCs, for “nonplayer characters”—populate the bars, city streets, or space ports of games. They make virtual worlds feel lived in and full. Often—but not always—you can talk to them. After a while, however, the repetitive chitchat (or…
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What would happen if you took red state rural voters on a walk into the woods with left-wing environmental activists and experimental music fans? Our guest this episode knows the answer. BRIAN HARNETTY is a composer and an interdisciplinary artist using sound and listening to foster social change. While Brian studied composition at the Royal Academ…
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Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, all precisely measured and perfectly aligned, turn both urban and rural America into a checkerboard landscape that stretches from horizon to horizon. In evidence throughout the country, but especially …
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Andrea E. Pia, "Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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On the podcast today, I am joined by anthropologist Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Political Science) to talk about his new book, Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics and Climate in Southwest China (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024). In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has seen an alarmed public endorsing techno-political sustainabi…
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Reinhard Schulze: "Islam in Deutschland - Islam in Germany - الإسلام في ألمانيا"
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Christoph Burgmer im Gespräch mit Reinhard Schulze. Reinhard Schulze (geb. 1953) lehrte an der Universität Bern Islamwissenschaft und Neuere Orientalische Philologie. Er gilt als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter einer neuen, selbstkritischen Islamwissenschaft, die versucht, die eurozentristische Rezeption des Orients zu überwinden. Seine These einer…
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Azra Hromadžić, "Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River" (CEU Press, 2024)
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In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér sat down with Azra Hromadžić (Syracuse University) to talk about her new book with CEU Press, Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River. In the podcast we discussed how in the Bosnian city of Bihać, people’s connection to the river Una has shaped not only the river itse…
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The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs
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At any given time, the US organ transplant waiting list is about 100,000 people long. Martine Rothblatt sees a day when an unlimited supply of transplantable organs—and 3D-printed ones—will be readily available, saving countless lives. This story was written by senior biomedicine editor Antonio Regalado and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com…
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John Schofield, "Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for which bold, creative, and messy solutions are typically required. The adjective 'wicked' describes the mischievous and even evil quality of these problems, where proposed solutions often turn out to b…
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Thomas White, "China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier" (U Washington Press, 2024)
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China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing desertification. State environmentalism - in the form of grazing bans, enclosure, and resettlement - has transformed the lives of many ethnic minori…
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Richard Sennett: "Cultur of survival in the new capitalism - Überlebenskultur im neuen Kapitalismus."
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Stefan Fuchs (audio-archiv) im Gespräch mit Richard Sennett. Richard Sennett (geb. 1943) ist Soziologe und Historiker an der New York Univercity und der London School of Economics and Political Science. Er beschäftigte sich in seinen Veröffentlichungen immer wieder mit den Folgen, die der entfesselte Kapitalismus auf den Einzelnen und seinen Lebens…
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Unlocking Secondaries: Insights on how to identify outperforming Private Equity Secondaries with Julien Marencic, Partner and Founder of Jera Capital, EN #27
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In this week's podcast episode, we are excited to welcome Julien Marencic, Partner and Founder at Jera Capital. Jera Capital specializes in providing selective exposure to unlisted companies through secondary transactions in partnership with leading private equity managers in North America and Western Europe. The firm focuses on acquiring stakes in…
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