Breaking The Fever Podcast
1) Breaking the Fever takeover: The Aftermath finale - Timothy Morton on how to panic cheerfully
This episode of Breaking the Fever features a podcast takeover by interdisciplinary researcher Nithya Iyer, who has been investigating existential risks and systemic change. The theme of the takeover ...Show More
2) #31 - Combatting Bullshit in the Workplace with Ian McCarthy
In this episode of the podcast, we speak with Ian McCarthy about the many faces of bullshit — how it’s different from lies, the harmless and harmful forms it can take, and what organizations can do to...Show More
3) #30 - A More Prosocial World in Theory and Practice with David Sloan Wilson
In this episode of the podcast, we speak with David Sloan Wilson about cooperation—how it evolved in social beings, how culture and norms can support and disrupt it, and how to sustain it across diffe...Show More
#30 - A More Prosocial World in Theory and Practice with David Sloan Wilson
1:04:21 | Oct 2nd, 2021
4) #29 - How Political Polarization Affects Our Personal and Professional Lives with Alison Goldsworthy, Laura Osborne & Alexandra Chesterfield
In this episode of the podcast, we speak with Alison Goldsworthy, Laura Osborne, and Alexandra Chesterfield about the manifestations of political polarization in our personal and professional lives an...Show More
5) Breaking the Fever takeover with Chris Mason
This episode of Breaking the Fever features a podcast takeover by Nithya Iyer — a Preventable Surprises Research Fellow investigating existential risks and systemic change. This takeover episode featu...Show More
6) Breaking the Fever takeover: the aftermath with Vinay Gupta
This episode of Breaking the Fever features a podcast takeover by Nithya Iyer - a Preventable Surprises Research Fellow investigating existential risks and systemic change. Over the course of three ep...Show More
7) #28 - The Science of Collaborating Effectively: A Conversation with Debra Mashek
In this episode of the podcast, we speak with Debra Mashek about how true collaboration emerges within and between groups, why it breaks down, and what companies can do to foster it.We discuss:- The s...Show More
#28 - The Science of Collaborating Effectively: A Conversation with Debra Mashek
50:23 | Jun 1st, 2021
8) #27 - Change the Paradigm, Change the System: A Conversation with Denise Hearn
In this episode of the podcast, we speak with Denise Hearn about the most significant opportunities and concerns with capitalism, the need for ESG and corporate governance to evolve, and the ideas beh...Show More
#27 - Change the Paradigm, Change the System: A Conversation with Denise Hearn
48:19 | Apr 16th, 2021
9) #26 - Regulating Finance to Avert Climate Disaster
In this episode, the third (and final) in our miniseries on climate finance, we speak with Colleen Orr and Graham Steele about how regulators in the United States can wield financial tools and soft po...Show More
10) #25 - Insurance Companies Can Help Phase Out the Fossil-Fuel Industry
In this episode, the second in our miniseries on climate finance, we speak with Peter Bosshard and Elana Sulakshana about the insurance sector’s role in maintaining status-quo climate policies, and wh...Show More