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  • 1

    In this episode, we chat about ethics in code, with Nashlie Sephus, applied science manager at Amazon Web Services, AI, and Abram Walton, Director of the Center for Lifecycle and Innovation Management...Show More

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    As developers, we have a HUGE responsibility to impart “informed consent”, knowledge of how our products work, and privacy awareness to those in the general public and policy makers. Remember, the gen...Show More

  • 2

    On My Mind: RBG, Surge Capacity, and Play as an Energy Source

    Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

    32:58 | Sep 23rd, 2020

    In this episode, I share my thoughts on the power of dissent, what happens when we max out our surge capacity during a crisis, and how time spent without purpose can refuel and reconnect us.

  • 3

    Brené with Sonya Renee Taylor on "The Body is Not an Apology"

    Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

    1:20:19 | Sep 16th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    In this episode Sonya Renee Taylor and I talk about body shame, radical self-love, and social justice. This conversation was a big unlocking for me - especially when it comes to understanding the conn...Show More

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    In light of radical self-love, we should understand the concept that we are not individual in our society but rather we are part of a collective fabric that binds us all together. As a society, we hav...Show More

  • 4

    Invisible Allies

    Radiolab

    41:59 | Jul 31st, 2020

    4 recommendations

    As scientists have been scrambling to find new and better ways to treat covid-19, they’ve come across some unexpected allies. Invisible and primordial, these protectors have been with us all along. An...Show More

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    Part1: What happens when two carbon atoms (proto-cholesterol) are hit with sunlight? đŸ€“ Well it turns out, we make Vitamin D - of course following a couple more steps in our physiology! Vitamin D g...Show More

  • 5

    Fungus Amungus

    Radiolab

    31:48 | Sep 4th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    Six years ago, a new infection began popping up in four different hospitals on three different continents, all around the same time. It wasn’t a bacteria, or a virus. It was ... a killer fungus. No on...Show More

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    Why are our bodies at exactly 37°C (98.6°F)? Why are we considered “warm-blooded”? It turns out, our body’s natural baseline temperature may be integral in the fight against the natural enemy of fungi...Show More

  • 6

    Should China ban 'wet' markets?

    The Food Chain

    28:35 | May 14th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    China’s so-called ‘wet’ markets have been under intense scrutiny ever since the first coronavirus cases were linked to one in Wuhan six months ago. Now a growing number of influential figures, includi...Show More

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    Before we talk about shutting down “wet markets” (the term doesn’t even exist in Chinese), let’s talk about the nuances of these markets! Today, these markets are comparable to farmer’s markets/super...Show More

  • 7

    Is modern society making us depressed?

    The Gray Area with Sean Illing

    1:33:21 | Apr 16th, 2018

    8 recommendations

    “What if depression is, in fact, a form of grief — for our own lives not being as they should?” asks Johann Hari. “What if it is a form of grief for the connections we have lost yet still need?” In hi...Show More

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    Depression and loneliness isn’t as simple as how socially-connected we are or a biochemical imbalance in our brain, but rather how we feel about our circumstances and the ways in which society and pow...Show More

  • 8

    How to Get More Sleep

    The New Way We Work

    32:56 | Feb 10th, 2020

    4 recommendations

    On this episode of Secrets of the Most Produtive People, Scott Mebus, VP of video and podcasts for Fast Company and Inc., shires his longtime battle with getting enough sleep with co-host Anisa Purbas...Show More

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    Can’t get enough Zzz? This episode looks at sleep-deprivation and the effects of it (even when we don’t know it!): eating fatty and sweet foods, irritation, cravings, and a whole lot of other issues t...Show More

  • 9

    Dr. Vivek Murthy and Brené on loneliness and connection

    Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

    54:01 | Apr 21st, 2020

    2 recommendations

    Have you ever struggled with feeling lonely - even when you’re surrounded by people you love? I have. It’s painful and confusing. In this episode, I talk to Dr. Vivek Murthy, a physician and the 19th ...Show More

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    This episode is a TRUE GEM and what everyone needs to hear about social connection and love, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic and beyond 💯💎 Understanding our relationship and intim...Show More

  • 10

    The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodi...Show More

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    A beyond profound episode on embodied and inter-generational trauma by Resmaa Menakem, a therapist and trauma specialist. Why do people get visceral responses - tightening of the vocal cords, vagal re...Show More

  • 11

    Brené on Shame and Accountability

    Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

    46:29 | Jul 1st, 2020

    1 recommendation

    In today’s solo episode, I share my thoughts about why accountability is a prerequisite for change, and why we need to get our heads and hearts around the difference between being held accountable for...Show More

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    “Shame cannot be used as a social justice tool”. Shame kills empathy and love. Shame keeps us accountable. Shame is NOT the same as guilt - one is “I am bad” and the other is, “I’ve done something ba...Show More

  • 12

    Brené on Strong Backs, Soft Fronts, and Wild Hearts

    Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

    24:27 | Nov 4th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    In this solo episode recorded on Election Day 2020, I talk directly to our wholehearted community about the practice that helps me when I'm feeling fearful, worried, or wobbly, and why this work is th...Show More

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    In this time of uncertainty, how do we make sure we are guided by love (Soft Front), upheld by courage (Strong Back), and still maintain our passion and willingness to venture out in the unknown - the...Show More

  • 13

    Mental health is a topic that we get many messages about from our listeners. It’s a sensitive and complicated topic, and especially with all the recent world events that have occurred, we thought now ...Show More

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    Great episode on mental health and breaking down stigmas of mental health in the Asian-American diaspora. How do we know someone close to us is struggling? How do we validate our own feelings as well ...Show More

  • 14

    Annahid Dashtgard narrates this intimate story of the pandemic as exile, and the land as a source of resilience and hope.

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    In trauma research, exile ranks at the top. A relaxing and humanizing narration of our losses, grief, reckoning, and hopes during the pandemic. The current pandemic has stripped us many of the things ...Show More

  • 15

    Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist and primatologist. He’s the author of a slew of important books on human biology and behavior, including most recently Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our...Show More

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    Highly, highly recommend this episode! Dr. Sapolsky, Stanford professor and the author of “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers” speaks about the biological/physiological responses our bodies have under stress...Show More

  • 16

    Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away

    The Gray Area with Sean Illing

    45:35 | Jan 28th, 2021

    2 recommendations

    Vox's Sean Illing talks to Yale professor and author Jason Stanley about why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism, how Donald Trump demonstrated how easy it was for our country to...Show More

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    Understanding the limits of democracy and what happens when democracy and its societies fall into pathology shows us why fascism exists and how it’s enabled. Perhaps there’s a better way of defining f...Show More

  • 17

    Episode 24: Tribes and Traitors

    Hidden Brain

    27:31 | Mar 22nd, 2016

    1 recommendation

    This week on Hidden Brain, two remarkable stories of empathy... And why showing empathy for another group can feel so threatening to our own tribes.

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    Reconciling differences can be deeply destabilizing especially in the context of trauma. This episode explores the experiences and perspectives of a former Israeli-Jewish soldier, and a Palestinian-Ar...Show More

  • 18

    We’ve seen a lot about anti-black racism in policing and during this pandemic, but what about the everyday insidious ways anti-Black racism is perpetuated in our organizations and by many well-intenti...Show More

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    Is systemic police violence the only “violence”, indignity, and discrimination that Black people experience? A critical and profound episode diving into the intersections of anti-racism, sexism, workp...Show More

  • 19

    The Edge of Gender

    Hidden Brain

    50:13 | Nov 19th, 2018

    1 recommendation

    Gender is one of the first things we notice about the people around us. But where do our ideas about gender come from? Can gender differences be explained by genes and chromosomes, or are they the res...Show More

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    “Gender is a social construct” might not be a complete explanation for gender differences! And to say that gender is 100% biological is also too simplistic just as it is to say biology has no bearing....Show More

  • 20

    90: Jenny

    Darknet Diaries

    1:12:17 | Apr 13th, 2021

    3 recommendations

    Meet Jenny Radcliffe, the People Hacker. She’s a social engineer and physical penetration tester. Which means she gets paid to break into buildings and test their security. In this episode she tells u...Show More

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    This episode interviews Jenny Radcliffe, known as the “People Hacker”. Yes, like a hacking / penetration tester, but for people. She specializes in social engineering and psychology and teaches negoti...Show More

  • 21

    You know Malcolm Gladwell's “10,000-Hour Rule.” But did you know that, according to David Epstein, it doesn't work? That's what Epstein argues in his new book, “Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Spe...Show More

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    David Epstein, the author of, “The Sports Gene”, has a wholesome discussion with Malcolm Gladwell, the guy behind the “10,000 Hour Rule”. Epstein discusses why success in life isn’t always based on hi...Show More

  • 22

    In this "On My Mind" episode, we talk about shame and accountability. We discussed this a bit last summer, but I’m going deeper today in light of the insurrection at the US Capitol building and the re...Show More

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    Another great by Brené Brown! This episode delves right into how shame and dehumanization - from both left and right politics - undermines accountability. Citing a psych study by Forscher and Kteily (...Show More

  • 23

    In this episode, I talk with David Eagleman, a neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author, TED speaker, and Guggenheim Fellow, all about the brain and how it works. It’s mysterious, malleable, ...Show More

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    You’ll be a different person after listening to this episode than when you started it! This is the brilliance of the human mind’s capability to be “plastic”. Throughout our lifespans, different areas ...Show More

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