The 10 Best Ideas Podcast Episodes
1) The Joy of Mediocrity
Sick of aiming for excellence and feeling miserable when you fall short? You’re not alone. Explore the upsides of imperfection, lowered expectations, and outright failure with philosopher Daniel Milo,...Show More
shann recommended:
Love this so much. I've never been a competitive person so although I'm ambitious, I don't try to be the best. This episode is very validati...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) A Good Enough Life
Life is imperfect, and most quests for high achievement are destined to fail. Those truths have led some to advocate for a "good enough" future, prioritizing greater decency and sufficiency for the ma...Show More
3) How Internet Monopolies Threaten Democracy (Encore Dec 15, 2017)
The unfulfilled promise of the internet has been a long-term concern of Digital Media and Global Affairs expert Dr. Taylor Owen, who delivers the 2017 Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism. He argues the ...Show More
4) BBC Reith Lectures: Mark Carney, Part One
Mark Carney is the 2020 Reith Lecturer, the BBC’s flagship lecture series. In his lectures entitled, 'How We Get What We Value,' he argues the worlds of finance, economics, and politics have too often...Show More
jodym recommended:
Mark Carney talking sense again.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Tech's Moral Void
Lawyers and doctors have a code of ethics. Teachers have them. Even journalists have them. So why not the tech sector, the people who create and design our very modes of communication? Coders and desi...Show More
mm recommended:
This is a great episode on tech ethics! Lots of good points to chew on. Some quick highlights: - I didn't know that Twitter filters Nazis an...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6) Christopher Hedges: Farewell America
Christopher Hedges believes that America may well be in its last act. Addiction, income disparity and hollowed-out towns and cities are becoming the norm, he argues, while the political and financial ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) Everything at Once
Out of synch? No wonder: the pandemic clock is messing with us. Taking measure of a strange moment, with writers, sociologists, a therapist, and a mathematician.
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Sleeplessness is a strange state, but this is one of the most beautiful places I’ve discovered here — a meditative documentary on time that ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) The Librarian Who Won’t Stay Quiet
Libraries are under literal attack in Ukraine, and ideological attack amid North America’s culture wars. Oxford librarian and author Richard Ovenden is not about to stay quiet about it. He argues that...Show More
9) What role can solidarity play when confronting political and social issues?
In a time of rapidly changing politics and never-ending crises, what role can solidarity play in confronting political and social problems to create stronger bonds among people? A group of thinkers, w...Show More
10) IDEAS in the Hague: A Question of Genocide
Last week, South Africa and Israel were at the International Court of Justice with two starkly opposed versions of the conflict in Gaza: South Africa’s legal team argued Israel’s actions there violate...Show More