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The Masculine And The Dead by Frank Bill - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

The Plague Doctors by Karen Lord - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

Brief Exercises In Mindfulness by Calvin Baker - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

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Obsolesence by Martha Wells - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

The Sweet Spot by Achy Obejas - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

The Erasure Game by Yoon Ha Lee - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

Paradise by Hannah Lillith Assadi - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

The Flotilla At Bird Island by Mike McClelland - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

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Foreword by Roxane Gay - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

Opening - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel answers our question “what advice did you give your own children about developing healthy relationships?”

Enjoy this unedited conversation with psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel, who is recognized as one of today's most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. In the clip, RWJF’s Lori Melichar talks with Esther about how our relationships affect our health and how that has evolved over the course of time.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode RWJF senior program officer Paul Tarini connects with grantee Ted Smith, PhD, Chief of Civic Innovation in Louisville, Kentucky, to explore his work with Air Louisville. This program is using city-wide collaboration to gather real-time data as part of their mission to understand what contributes to health inequities in the city and how the data can be used to create policies and partnerships that will make the city of Louisville—and all cities—a healthier place to live.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode we explore the cognitive power of the brain through the lens of video games with Adam Gazzaley, professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry and director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at UC-San Francisco, and Jane Lowe, RWJF senior advisor for program development. Listen in as they discuss Gazzaley’s work and what happens when you use neuroscience to develop healthy video games.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode we explore resilience and using mindfulness to manage stress with Amit Sood, MD, MSc, FACP, professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College and chair of Mayo Mind Body Initiative, and Mike Painter, RWJF senior program officer. Together they discuss what Sood and his team are doing to improve health outcomes and quality of care through teaching compassion and utilizing the strengths of the brain.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode we explore a new cutting-edge idea with the potential to build a Culture of Health. Join us as we explore how virtual reality technology can be used to help build social good with Founding Director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, grantee Jeremy Bailenson and RWJF Senior Program Officer Tracy Costigan, and discuss Jeremy’s explorations in using virtual reality to build empathy and more.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode we explore a new batch of cutting-edge ideas with the potential to build a Culture of Health. We explore the potential for the collaborative economy (aka “the sharing economy”) to change how we engage with and experience health and health care. Next we reimagine medical education, where new online models are powering collaboration within and between medical schools, and we learn how “agile science” seeks to use research to spur discovery and adoption of healthy behavior change. Finally, we’ll hear one grantee’s personal vision of a Culture of Health where everyone has access to their personal health data.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode we explore a new batch of cutting-edge ideas with the potential to build a Culture of Health. We explore how technology can promote well-being by connecting us to our essential self; what our knowledge of social relationships—and social media—can mean for how we design our communities; and how institutions can create organizational cultures where health and socially conscious innovation thrive. Learn more about the ideas explored in this episode at: http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/culture-of-health/2015/03/wellness_in_a_networ.html

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode we explore a new batch of cutting-edge ideas with the potential to build a Culture of Health. We explore how technology can promote well-being by connecting us to our essential self; what our knowledge of social relationships—and social media—can mean for how we design our communities; and how institutions can create organizational cultures where health and socially conscious innovation thrive.: http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/culture-of-health/2015/01/unconventional_approaches_to_stress.html

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. This episode looks at innovations that ask, “What if?” We explore simple shifts in perspective, from doctors sharing notes with patients to rethinking how we help those in poverty, and we hear a historian’s take on building a Culture of Health. Learn more about the ideas explored in this episode at: http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/pioneering-ideas/2014/10/podcast_episode_6.html

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. This episode covers medical conspiracy theories, the ripple effects of not getting enough sleep, microbiomes and our built environment and ideas for measuring a Culture of Health. For more information about this podcast, please visit http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/pioneering-ideas/2014/07/podcast_episode_5.html.

In the fourth episode of RWJF's Pioneering Ideas podcast, we cover nurses innovating at the bedside, alternative marketplaces and up-cycling impacts on community health, our new data initiative Visualizing Health, and highlights from the TED 2014 master class led by entrepreneur-in-residence Thomas Goetz. For more information about this podcast please visit http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/pioneering-ideas/2014/05/podcast_episode_4.html

In the third episode of RWJF's Pioneering Ideas podcast, we explore the power -- and the burden -- of choice. What does our relationship with choice mean for our health and for the health care system as a whole? We also talk about the radical power of empathy and hear from Princeton students who are part of the next generation of health care innovators.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is back with Episode 2 of its Pioneering Ideas podcast, featuring behavioral scientist BJ Fogg, the Foundation's Entrepreneur-in-Residence Thomas Goetz, and other innovators working to transform health and health care. Get insight into the foundation's funding strategy and get inspired with ideas for creating a culture of health. Plus, a personal essay from program officer and physician Mike Painter on physician incentives.

Learn about groundbreaking research on the power of the placebo and how a platform called PatientsLikeMe puts health outcomes in patients’ hands. Also: weighing the pros and cons of making foundation proposals public to help ideas spread.