If we are born to walk and run, why do most of us take it easy whenever possible? And how do we make sense of all the conflicting, confusing, anxiety-provoking information about rest, physical activity and exercise?
Professor Daniel Lieberman, Human Evolutionary Biologist at Harvard University has written a new book entitled EXERCISED: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding.
The notion of exercise is modern, weird and unpleasant, so the best way to do more is to find something you enjoy.
Respect for a free press is the cornerstone of democracy. But after all the fake news and tweeted lies, what will it take to restore public confidence and trust in American journalism? Charlie Sennott, founder of The Ground Truth Project, will share his ideas and we will hear from a couple of his young journalists working for Report for America who are injecting fresh energy into the field, on assignment around the country.
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Recorded 12/4/2020
Matt Taibbi, award-winning writer and celebrated Rolling Stone correspondent, will talk about the financial challenges facing the press and discuss his recent book, HATE INC.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another.
Learn why Taibbi says most people think of news as “a twisted wing of the entertainment business.”
Do you agree?
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Discover the art of building a good dialogue! Architect and designer, Fred Dust considers ways to have constructive conversations which are critical to problem-solving in all sorts of different settings from schools, to non-profits and governments.
Dust’s new book, Making Conversation offers readers a tool kit, outlining 7 essential elements for meaningful conversations.
Constructive conversation is one of humanity’s first and most powerful tools.
Recorded 11/16/2020
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Dust has designed conversations for all sorts of scenarios from the Aspen Institute to victims of gun violence in Brooklyn. Dust contends that 7 principles can be applied universally to stimulate conversation.
Dust chairs the board of Parsons School of Design and sits on the board of NPR, the New School and Sundance Institute.
Seth Henderson is from Aspen Institutes’s Better Arguments Project, a new national civic initiative created to help bridge ideological divides and help train Americans to conduct better arguments. He says that arguments don’t have to drive us apart but can bring us together and that the more Americans engage each other, the healthier and stronger our democracy will be.
Have we have reached an all-time low in terms of trusting our politicians and the media? Are we caught in a downward spiral that must end in institutional decay or even civil war, or can we restore trust through our shared social institutions?
Recorded October 23, 2020
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Kevin Vallier, author, political philosopher and libertarian blogger at Bowling Green State University tackles this question as Americans go about selecting a new leader.
Jane Mansbridge is a Harvard political scientist and one of the world’s most prominent scholars of democratic theory.
She warns, “Listening only to one’s own side can generate dangerous amounts of unrealism.”
Long an authority on the human mind, Professor Howard Gardner’s latest book reflects on his own childhood and intellectual development in addition to a review of his groundbreaking work on multiple intelligences- including his own.
Throughout his career, Gardner has focused on the human mind in general, and on specific minds of particular creators and leaders. Reflecting now, he concludes that he has a “synthesizing mind” – possessing the ability to survey experiences and data across a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. The thinkers he most admires – including biologist Charles Darwin and literary critic Edmund Wilson – are exemplary synthesizers. Gardner contends that the synthesizing mind is particularly valuable at this time and proposes ways to cultivate a possibly unique human capacity.
Howard Gardner is Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Best known as the originator of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, he is the author of more than thirty books.
WADE DAVIS recently attracted global attention with his opinion piece in Rolling Stone magazine raising this question: Does Covid-19 signal the end of the American era? Why did he ask this disturbingly profound question and why has it struck a chord around the world?
Wade Davis is an internationally acclaimed anthropologist, who currently holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk, at the University of British Columbia. He holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University.
Anthropologist Wade Davis latest book, MAGDALENA: River of Dreams brings to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia’s complex past, present, and future.
Wade Davis is an internationally acclaimed anthropologist, who currently holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk, at the University of British Columbia. He holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University.
Too Much Information, Cass R. Sunstein‘s latest book, examines the effects of excessive information in our lives. Policymakers emphasize the public “right to know” but Sunstein takes a different tack, arguing that the focus should be on human well-being and the information that contributes to it.
Recorded 9/11/20
In addition to being a Professor of Law at Harvard, Sunstein served as Administrator of the White House Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs under President Obama. He is author of several books including “Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness.”
Sunstein is interviewed by Charlie Sennott, the Editor-in-Chief of The GroundTruth Project.
Many Americans believe that we are currently experiencing a crisis in journalism due to the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and opinion, masquerading as fact. What do you think?
Writer, poet and teacher CLINT SMITH in conversation with Jude Nixon, Professor of English at Salem State University. Both men are educators and fathers, and their discussion explores what it means to raise children during this challenging period of Black Lives Matter.
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Recorded July 24, 2020.
Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and Emerson Fellow at New America. He currently teaches writing and literature in the DC Central Detention facility. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere.
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Smith’s first full-length collection of poetry, “COUNTING DESCENT” was published by Write Bloody Publishing in 2016. It won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award, and was selected as the 2017 ‘One Book One New Orleans’ book selection.
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This forum features three uniquely different farmers who are all equally passionate about smart and sustainable ways of growing our food.
Recorded June 26, 2020
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Addy Shreffler is a young but savvy farmer, who was an executive chef for several years before migrating into farming. She is committed to spreading her farming knowledge so that people can learn how to grow their own food and eat seasonally. Also through teaching canning and preserving skills, Addy wants to aid consumers to self-sufficiency.
Michael Chuisano is the owner of the Naked Farm in Marion, New York. Several years ago, he morphed from a Brooklyn businessman into a successful bio-intensive farmer, raising micro-greens for local and restaurant consumption.
Ronnie Cummings is an organic farming guru and member of the Regeneration International movement.
He is director of the Organic Consumers Association and runs a farming school in Mexico where he teaches bio-dynamics; Ronnie is also author of GRASSROOTS RISING.
