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A place to play in the realm of imagination. All done in the service of compassionate expansion of consciousness. In other words, each human being is interwoven at a deeply energetic level into the fabric of everything that is. We, the Arcturian Collective Thingy, represent a portion of that fabric of you that is communicating to you from the quantum realm up to your awareness through an alliance with your neurons, who recognize their fit within the fabric to a greater degree than you do. Co ...
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Stories to inspire, encourage or simply make us smile. From the moment we begin using language to communicate our message, we tell stories. Stories that help teach lessons, offer guidance, share experiences, entertain crowds. There are countless wonderful beings whose stories need to be heard, captured and spread to keep this vibrant energy flowing. To inspire, encourage or simply make us smile. Welcome to Universal Playground STORIES.
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A lighthearted look at conspiracies and their theorists... or deep state shills working to obfuscate the truth? You decide.
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Unleash Your Magic: Manifest Your Dreams on Postcards to the Universe with Melisa, Creating the Life you Crave. Do you ever wish you could sprinkle a little magic on your life and watch your dreams come true? Join Melisa Caprio on her inspiring show and discover the power of creative manifestation! Postcards to the Universe is your gateway to a life filled with abundance, prosperity, magic, filled with the love you deserve. Melisa, along with a cast of incredible guests – trailblazers, mysti ...
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Brass Knuckle Beauty is the Premier spiritual playground for universal accomplices. We instill knowledge about the laws of the universe to help individuals transform their own lives. Our mission is to encourage radical self love & epic inspiration on this cocreative journey called life.
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This is the official channel for Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Podcasts. Our aims: - sharing the knowledge created by ERD to a large audience - augmenting the experience of authors by sharing podcasts about their articles - giving access to tips from the editors
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The "NBN Book of the Day" features the most timely and interesting author interviews from the New Books Network delivered to you every weekday. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day
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Forum tells remarkable and true stories about who we are and where we live. In the first hour, Alexis Madrigal convenes the diverse voices of the Bay Area, before turning to Mina Kim for the second hour to chronicle and center Californians’ experience. In an increasingly divided world, Mina and Alexis host conversations that inform, challenge and unify listeners with big ideas and different viewpoints. Want to call/submit your comments during our live Forum program Mon-Fri, 9am-11am? We'd lo ...
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The Noob Show is a podcast about humanizing technology. We cover topics like Kubernetes, Developer Relations, software development, new tech, old tech, and everything in between. Want to support the podcast? Join the Patreon at https://patreon.com/noobshow
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Forum From the Archives: Novelist Ann Patchett Rereads 'Bel Canto' in New Annotated Edition
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Have you ever reread something you wrote years earlier and cringed? Or maybe you were surprised by the depth, heart and complexity of what your younger self put to the page. Ann Patchett had both experiences recently when she reread her award-winning 2001 book “Bel Canto.” She’s now reissued the novel with her own handwritten margin notes — both co…
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Forum From the Archives: Vallejo’s Breakout Star LaRussell Performs In Studio
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LaRussell is known for a lot of things. His prolific music drops. His backyard concerts from his hometown, the “itty bitty city near the Bay,” Vallejo. And, for making a name in the world of hip hop on his own – no record deal needed. LaRussell is one of the Bay Area’s hottest musicians not just because of his talent and artistry, but also his busi…
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Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024)
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After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new playgrounds encouraged children to build shacks and invent their own entertainment. Playgrounds: The Experimental Years (Reaktion, 2024) tells the story of how waste grounds and bombsites were transformed…
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Forum From the Archives: ‘Soldiers and Kings’ Investigates the World of Human Smuggling
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Anthropologist Jason De León has spent a career documenting the stories of migrants making their way across the Sonoran Desert at the Southern US border. But in his new book, “Soldiers And Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling,” De León turns his gaze towards the smugglers. For nearly seven years, he embedded with a group of smug…
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Forum From the Archives: SETI Scientists on 40 years of Asking the Universe 'Are We Alone?'
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Are we alone? Really, though, in a cosmic sense. 40 years ago the pioneering radio astronomer Jill Tarter co-founded a Bay Area non profit to support humanity searching for life beyond ourselves. We celebrate the SETI – as in, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – Institute’s anniversary and all their contributions to science which, sadly, do …
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Rebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
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How do ordinary people write the stories of their lives? In A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), Rebecca Ball, a lecturer in history at Manchester Metropolitan University, presents the microhistory of a series of working-class autobiographies. Ranging from childhood experiences, through education, work, marri…
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Forum From the Archives: Finding Awe and Inspiration in the Natural World's ‘Vanishing Treasures’
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“The time to fight, with all our ingenuity and tenacity, and love and fury, is now.” That sounds like a rallying cry for democrats after their profound election defeat last week. But it’s in fact an environmental call to action from Katherine Rundell, whose new book “Vanishing Treasures” celebrates some of the earth’s most imperiled and unusual cre…
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Forum From the Archives: Wintersongs From the Vocal Ensemble Kitka, Live in Studio
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For 45 years, the Bay Area's vocal ensemble Kitka has entranced audiences with their complex harmonies, breathtaking vocal techniques and vast repertoire of traditional songs from Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The 10 members of Kitka join us in studio to share songs from their Wintersongs concerts, featuring music from the country of Georgia. Guests:…
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Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)
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In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Dr. Lisa Jacobson reveals in Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition (University of California Press, 2024), alcohol’s respectability and mass market success were neither sudde…
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Forum From the Archives: Writing Odes to the Everyday with James Parker
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A squirrel in the street. Actors running in movies. A misplaced cup of tea. Naps. These topics are but a few that Atlantic staff writer James Parker has honored with an ode. To Parker, an ode isn’t just untempered praise — a healthy dose of complaining is essential. We talk to Parker about his favorite odes and why he thinks composing them can help…
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Forum From the Archives: Richard Powers’ Novel ‘Playground’ Explores Vastness of Oceans and AI
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Novelist Richard Powers has a way of making us see the world, and our place in it, in entirely new ways. His 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winning novel Overstory attuned readers to the power and mystery of trees. In his new novel, Playground, he focuses his awe and concern on marine life, the oceans and the perils we’ve inflicted on them. We talk to Powers …
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Jordan D. Rosenblum, "Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Jews do not eat pig. This (not always true) observation has been made by both Jews and non-Jews for more than three thousand years and is rooted in biblical law. Though the Torah prohibits eating pig meat, it is not singled out more than other food prohibitions. Horses, rabbits, squirrels, and even vultures, while also not kosher, do not inspire th…
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Forum From the Archive: The Best Podcasts of 2024
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The past year, more than any other, “demonstrated how podcasts as a whole bleed into the real world and play a huge role in American culture, for better or worse,” Vulture podcast critic Nicholas Quah recently wrote. It used to be, if a presidential nominee wanted to make news, they would go on TV. In 2024, it was all about podcasts…shows like Joe …
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Forum From the Archives: The Beauty in Finding ‘Other People’s Words’ in Your Own
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About ten years ago, two of journalist Lissa Soep’s closest friends died around the same time. In her grieving, she found consolation in the philosophy of a 20th century Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, and his theory of “double voicing” – the idea that our speech is “filled to overflowing with other people’s words." Her friends had not …
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Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Princeton University Press, 2024), Dr. Paula Fredriksen traces the evolution of early Chris…
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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
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The recent retreat from globalization has been triggered by a perception that increased competition from global trade is not fair and leads to increased inequality within countries. Is this phenomenon a small hiccup in the overall wave of globalization, or are we at the beginning of a new era of deglobalization? Former Chief Economist of the World …
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Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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In Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), Lindsay Weinberg evaluates how this latest era of tech solutions and systems in our schools impacts students' abilities to access opportunities and exercise autonomy on their campuses. Using historical and textual analysis of administrative discours…
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Oakland-based musical artist Esotérica Tropical performs a live in-studio concert, playing songs off her new self-titled debut album. Her music is a fusion of Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba rhythms and electronic flourishes, all accompanied by her harp. The artist calls the songs on the album love letters to her native Puerto Rico, offering “a powerful od…
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How to Fly Close to the Sun with Astronomer Andrew Fraknoi
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The fastest moving human-built object ever, the Parker Solar Probe, will enter the sun’s atmosphere on December 24th. It’s the closest any artificial object will have gotten to the sun. We’ll talk with astronomer Andrew Fraknoi about what the solar probe hopes to learn and other exciting developments in astronomy, such as the discovery of the hungr…
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Happy Holidays from the Arcturian Collective Thingy Description: In this special holiday episode, the Arcturian Collective Thingy (ACT) delivers a profound and multidimensional Holiday message, offering cosmic wisdom and reflections on humanity's place in the universe. Through the lens of the ACT, listeners are invited to explore themes of evolutio…
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Jan Machielsen, "The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft, causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses, many of them…
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For New York Times cooking columnist Eric Kim, the holidays are a time to embrace traditional dishes but have fun with the framework – like deviled eggs with seaweed or baked potatoes with caramelized kimchi. They’re also an occasion, he says, to get together with friends and make huge batches of “foldy” foods like dumplings and empanadas. We’ll ta…
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As the year ends, Forum looks back at some of our – and your – favorite books from 2024. What was the book you just couldn’t put down or that you’re still thinking about months later? Among this year’s top sellers were “James” by Percival Everett, a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” as well as “Wicked: The Life and Times o…
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