Amazing Podcast Episodes: ~3x curated episodes per week

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Exponential Wisdom: Longevity Escape Velocity Apr 30, 2017

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Dan and Peter discuss their common desire to live a long and healthy life, and takeaways from Peter’s recent visit to a cutting-edge stem cell clinic in Panama. In this episode: Peter discusses his belief that if we’re able to stay alive for the next 50 years, we will have access to converging technologies that can keep us alive indefinitely -- what Ray Kurzweil calls reaching “longevity escape velocity” Peter explains what stem cells are and why they have the ability to rejuvenate the body. Watch this short animation for more information: https://youtu.be/y0R4iaVOswk Peter and Dan discuss the Young Blood experiments at Stanford University and what this research means for rejuvenating the human body.

Waking Up with Sam Harris: What Is Technology Doing to Us? Apr 27, 2017

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In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the arms race for human attention, the ethics of persuasion, the consequences of having an ad-based economy, the dynamics of regret, and other topics.

The Bernie Sanders Show: Bill Nye Apr 25, 2017

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Senator Sanders and Bill Nye the Science Guy sit down to talk about climate change and what actions we can take to transform our energy system.

Rationally Speaking: #181 - William MacAskill on "Moral Uncertainty" Apr 23, 2017

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This episode introduces "moral uncertainty," the idea that you shouldn't be overly confident in your moral judgments -- like whether it's okay to eat meat, for example, or whether it's okay to abort a baby. The episode's guest is Will MacAskill, a founder of the effective altruism movement and Oxford professor of philosophy. Julia and Will discuss how to take multiple moral systems into account when making a decision, and how to deal with "absolutist" theories that insist some actions have infinite badness, like lying.

Short Story Long: #42 - Liz Hernandez: Television/Radio Personality Apr 20, 2017

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I have my good friend Liz Hernandez, whom you may know from Big Boy's Neighborhood and Access Hollywood. Liz grew up in Riverside, California and attended USD studying communications and psychology. While in college she started interning at a radio station. She was sent out to Salinas, CA to be on the radio and had some trouble in radio. Liz was told she would never make it in radio which motivated her and not long after she landed a job with Power 106 co-hosting on Big Boy's Neighborhood. MTV took notice and in 2007 she became a news correspondent for their network. From MY FM and E!, listen in on Liz' journey to her career in radio broadcasting and television now working with Access Hollywood.

Trailblazers: Lights...Camera...Disruption Apr 17, 2017

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How the movie Jaws and a $40 late fee led to a complete disruption of the entertainment industry as we know it. Host Walter Isaacson explores a series of unusual partnerships, bold moves, and missed opportunities that defined television and film. For more on these stories go to delltechnologies.com/trailblazers

TED Radio Hour: Building Better Cities Apr 16, 2017

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Cities are among our greatest experiments in human co-habitation. Do they also hold the answers to some of our biggest problems? This hour, TED speakers explore how cities can change the world. (Original Broadcast Date: January 08, 2016).

Radiolab: Nukes Apr 11, 2017

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President Richard Nixon once boasted that at any moment he could pick up a telephone and - in 20 minutes - kill 60 million people. Such is the power of the US President over the nation’s nuclear arsenal. But what if you were the military officer on the receiving end of that phone call? Could you refuse the order?

Tara Brach: Realizing Your Deepest Desires Apr 09, 2017

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Realizing Your Deepest Desires (2017-03-15) - This talk differentiates between egoic intentions (driven by wants and fears), and our true aspiration (deepest desires) to manifest our full potential for awake awareness and love. We explore ways to realize and open to our deepest desires when we are stuck in self-promotion, grasping and conflict, so that our aspiration becomes a compass of the heart that can guide us in living with wisdom and compassion.

This American Life: Testosterone Apr 06, 2017

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Stories of people getting more testosterone and coming to regret it. And of people losing it and coming to appreciate life without it. The pros and cons of the hormone of desire.

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