Philosophy, Ideas, Critical Thinking, Ethics & Morality: The Creative Process: Philosophers, Writers, Educators, Creative Thinkers, Spiritual Leaders, Environmentalists & Bioethicists
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Highlights - DEAN SPADE - Professor at SeattleU’s School of Law - Author of Mutual Aid, Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The legal system is a colonial legal system that is designed to preserve capitalist extraction and all the racial dynamics required to produce raci...
DEAN SPADE - Author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dean Spade is an organizer, speaker, author, and professor at Seattle University's School of Law, where he teaches courses on policing, imprisonmen...
Highlights - ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ - Host of Climate Connections - Senior Research Scientist, Yale School of the Environment
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"So the why really depends on where you are. People are not all the same. There is no such thing as the public. There are many, many, m...
ANTHONY LEISEROWITZ - Founding Director of Yale Program on Climate Change Communication - Host of Climate Connections
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D. is the founder and Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale...
Highlights - ALLEN STEELE - Hugo Award-winning Science Fiction Author of the Coyote Trilogy, Arkwright
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm really very glad. I was happy to see that within my lifetime that the prospects of not just Mars, but in fact interstellar space is being taken s...
ALLEN STEELE - Hugo Award-winning Science Fiction Author of the Coyote Trilogy, Arkwright
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does the future of space exploration look like? How can we unlock the opportunities of outer space without repeating the mistakes of colonization...
Highlights - RALPH GIBSON - Award-winning Photographer - Leica Hall of Fame Inductee
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I am more interested now in writing on aesthetics from a theoretical basis. I find I'm able to express certain things that I'd always wondered about ...
RALPH GIBSON - Award-winning Photographer - Leica Hall of Fame Inductee
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does the mind influence the mind? The mind cannot function without memory. And memory is just the mind aware of itself. So how do images tell us h...
Highlights - IAN ROBERTSON - Author of How Confidence Works - Co-Director, Global Brain Health Institute
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Narcissistic people have very high self-evaluations. This means they're able to do things in spite of not having mastered their brief. I'm thinking...
IAN ROBERTSON - Author of How Confidence Works: The New Science of Self-belief - Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How important is confidence? Psychologists say confidence is a series of mental, physical, and emotional habits that can be learned. What makes some p...
Highlights - RICK BASS - Author & Environmentalist - “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"So it's just a great joy to be passing this guitar made from the wood of an 800-year-old tree around to musicians and asking them to play a song of r...
RICK BASS - Environmentalist & Story Prize Award-winning Author of “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist...
Highlights - NAN HAUSER - Whale Researcher - Director, Cook Islands Whale Research - President, Center for Cetacean Research & Conservation
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I remember years ago, my Ph.D. advisor had asked me, 'How do you get such incredible footage of the whales and get them to stay with you?' So I said,...
NAN HAUSER - Whale Researcher - President, Center for Cetacean Research & Conservation - Director, Cook Islands Whale Research
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nan Hauser is the President and Director of the Center for Cetacean Research & Conservation and the Director and Principal Investigator of Cook Is...
Highlights - JIM SHEPARD - Award-winning Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come, Like You’d Understand, Anyway
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I do think that literature is all about extending the empathetic imagination. And so I'm always looking to educate myself in emotional terms, too. Be...
JIM SHEPARD - Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can literature help us extend our empathic imaginations? How can writing and reading expand our curiosity and compassion for people in situations ...
Speaking Out of Place: SARA AHMED discusses The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu and Azeezah Kanji talk with Sara Ahmed about her new book, The Femin...
BENOIT DELHOMME - Cinematographer of At Eternity’s Gate w/ Willem Dafoe, The Theory of Everything w/ Eddie Redmayne - Part 1
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What makes films memorable and meaningful? Great cinematographers are not only translators of a director’s vision but are involved in a dance betwee...
ROB VERCHICK - Leading Climate Change Scholar - Author of The Octopus in the Parking Garage
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Verchick is one of the nation’s leading scholars in disaster and climate change law and a former EPA official in the Obama administration.&...
Highlights - LESLEY HUGHES - Lead Author, IPCC 4th, 5th Assessment Reports - Biology Professor, Macquarie University
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Australia is generally considered one of the most vulnerable developed countries to the impacts of climate change, and I've been in the climate scien...
LESLEY HUGHES - Lead Author of IPCC 4th & 5th Assessment Reports - Director of Climate Council of Australia
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Now in the 21st century, with an abundance of renewable technologies, why is the world still using 18th-century energy technology? How can each of us ...
Highlights - JAMES BROWNING - Founder & Exec. Director, F Minus Research & Advocacy Group
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The lobbyists that represent the fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, Koch companies, and the American Petroleum Institute, they knew for years tha...
JAMES BROWNING - Founder of F Minus: Calling for Divestment from Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why are fossil fuel lobbyists also allowed to work for communities, schools, businesses, and nonprofit organizations being harmed by the climate crisi...