Podcasts about interdisciplinary program

This week, Enna chats with Dr. Casey Kenyon Brown, Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. She has received numerous honors and awards, including the prestigious Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute on Aging and the Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science.Casey's research examines how we share, understand, and influence one another's emotions. She's interested in how these interpersonal emotional processes are beneficial for healthy aging, and how these processes may go awry and contribute to depression. In this episode, Casey shares her journey in psychology, talks about her research on emotion and relationships, and provides advice on how we can build strong connections with people we love. Please join our substack (https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/) to stay connected with our community of listeners from all over the world! If you found this episode interesting, please consider leaving us a good rating. It just takes a minute but will allow us to reach more listeners to share our love for psychology. Casey's Lab Website: https://careslab.facultysite.georgetown.edu/ Casey's Lab Twitter: @CARESlab_GUCasey's paper on empathy and shared depression: https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221141852 Enna's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ennayuxuanchen/ Enna's Twitter: @EnnaYuxuanChenPodcast Contact: stanfordpsychpodcast@gmail.com Podcast Twitter: @StanfordPsyPod

Dr. Sara Konrath, the director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, joins Lisa Dent to discuss a recent study that revealed that empathy is on the rise with younger Americans. Follow The Lisa Dent Show on Twitter:Follow @LisaDentSpeaksFollow @SteveBertrand Follow @kpowell720 Follow @maryvandeveldeFollow […]

Join Israeli writer, journalist, television host and teacher, Dov Elbaum, in a frontier testing discussion addressing the relationship between Judaism and Shamanism, the real meaning of Idolatry, the Face of God and the End of the Law. Asking, how might one live if they saw the truth? Dov Elbaum is a Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute and chief editor of Yediot Ahronot Publishing. He has published extensively in Israel's leading Hebrew dailies. A graduate of the Interdisciplinary Program at Tel Aviv University, his academic expertise is in philosophy, Kabbalah and Hassidism. Dov edited and produced the documentary “Making Way” for Israeli television and is the host of the popular weekly television talk show “Mekablim Shabbat”. His publications include: Zman Elul (Am Oved, 1997); My Life with the Ancestors (Am Oved, 2001), which won the 2002 President Prize for Young Writers; and A Walk through the Void (Am Oved, 2007). Source: https://www.hartman.org.il/person/dov-elbaum/00:00 Excerpt 00:20 Judaism and Shamanism 08:05 India 13:13 Cross-Cultural Learnings 19:53 Brothers in Faith 23:34 Idolatry 28:53 Interfacing with Reality 31:53 the End of the Law 37:05 A Vision for the Future 43:28 Immanentizing the Eschaton 46:09 Moral safeguards 54:19 Are we ready? 59:10 A Love Story Join us: https://discord.gg/EQtjK2FWsmhttps://facebook.com/seekersofunityhttps://instagram.com/seekersofunityhttps://www.twitter.com/seekersofuhttps://www.seekersofunity.com Thank you to our beloved Patrons: Billy, Jackie, Andrew, Josh, Glenn, Zv, George, Ivana, Keenan, Gab, John, Victoria, Casey, Joseph, Brad, Benjamin, Arin, jXaviErre, Margo, Gale, Eny, Kim, Michael, Kirk, Ron, Seth, Daniel, Raphael, Daniel, Jason, Sergio, Leila, Wael, Simona, Francis, Etty, Stephen, Arash, William, Michael, Matija, Timony, Vilijami, Stoney, El techo, Stephen, Ross, Ahmed, Alexander, Diceman, Hannah, Julian, Leo, Sim, Sultan, John, Joshua, Igor, Chezi, Jorge, Andrew, Alexandra, Füsun, Lucas, Andrew, Stian, Ivana, Aédàn, Darjeeling, Astarte, Declan, Gregory, Alex, Charlie, Anonymous, Joshua, Arin, Sage, Marcel, Ahawk, Yehuda, Kevin, Evan, Shahin, Al Alami, Dale, Ethan, Gerr, Effy, Noam, Ron, Shtus, Mendel, Jared, Tim, Mystic Experiment, MM, Lenny, Justin, Joshua, Jorge, Wayne, Jason, Caroline, Yaakov, Daniel, Wodenborn, Steve, Collin, Justin, Mariana, Vic, Shaw, Carlos, Nico, Isaac, Frederick, David, Ben, Rodney, Charley, Jonathan, Chelsea, Curly Joe, Adam and Andre. Join them in supporting us: patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seekers paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RKCYGQSMJFDRU

Another edition of the Best of Roqe featuring one of our favourite guests, replaying a conversation from his first appearance on the program. Dr. Fathali Moghaddam is an Iranian-British psychologist, author, professor of psychology, and director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University. Fresh off his start appearance in the Netflix series, “How to be a Tyrant,” Dr. Moghaddam joined Jian from Washington DC for an animated and memorable discussion about the psychology of authoritarianism and the state of democracy in Iran and the rest of the world. Plus another instalment of our most beloved Roqe Funnies is revisited when we deconstruct the strange and disproportionate attraction that Iranians in Canada seem to have with visiting the water wonder that is Niagara Falls.

Social Psychologist Sara Konrath* discusses the personal happiness that arises through the act of giving.  She also considers how to teach empathy.  An old line is "It is better to give than to receive," which plays out at a practical level in this discussion.     *Sara Konrath is a social psychologist and Associate Professor who directs the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research (iPEARlab.org) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

In this episode, Dr. Patrick Grzanka, Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, discusses his integration of the Global Feminisms Project interviews in introductory to graduate-level classes to reveal the personal narratives behind broad social transformations. Podcast (Audio File; YouTube) Podcast Transcript Music credit: Banjo Arba Minch Garden by Cooper Moore. Creative Commons. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cooper-Moore/A_Retrospective_1990-2010/h_Banjo_Arba_Minch_Garden These episodes of “Contextualizing Feminist Voices: Teaching with the Global Feminisms Project” focus on how individual teachers have used the materials in their courses. In each episode, you will hear strategies for using the materials that different faculty tried, as well as their thoughts about what those strategies allowed them to accomplish in their teaching. Though each podcast is based on material for a particular course, we think they have ready applicability to courses on different topics GFP originated in 2002 to create an archive of oral histories from women scholars and activists from different countries around the world. Check out https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/globalfeminisms/ to access the interviews and additional resources on the country sites, including lesson plans and sample syllabi. The GFP is based at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan

We're kicking off our third season with a deep dive into how faculty inspire academic excellence in students. Listen to this episode to hear questions about how faculty support students in succeeding in and outside classrooms, how to design curriculum that brings out their best work, and what excellence means in the current era. _______________ Bios Mun Chun (MC) Chan, Assistant Teaching Professor, Biology Department and Faculty Fellow at CNDLS Charisma X. Howell, Visiting Associate Professor and Street Law Director, Georgetown Law Abigail Marsh, Professor, Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Georgetown Resources Georgetown's Street Law Program website Understanding Student Learning, resources from CNDLS Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship website (C The Prospect blog Additional Resources Brockman, A.J. (2021). “‘La Crème de la Crème': How Racial, Gendered, and Intersectional Social Comparisons Reveal Inequities That Affect Sense of Belonging in STEM.” Sociological Inquiry, 91(4), 751–777. Cardamone, C. (2021). “Balancing Flexibility and Rigor to Advance Equity in Course Design.” Teaching@Tufts. Gruber, M. J., Gelman, B. D., & Ranganath, C. (2014). “States of Curiosity Modulate Hippocampus-Dependent Learning via the Dopaminergic Circuit.” Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.), 84(2), 486–496. Holstead, C.E. (2022). “Why Students Are Skipping Class So Often, and How to Bring Them Back.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. McMurtrie, B. (2022). “Teaching: Staying Flexible Without Becoming Overwhelmed.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. Mathews, J. (2022). “Should we be easy on students after the pandemic? Maybe not.” Washington Post. Newman, J., & O'Brien, E. L. (1973). Street law. District of Columbia Project on Community Legal Assistance, Georgetown University Law Center Pryal, K.R.G. (2022). ““When ‘Rigor' Targets Disabled Students.” The Chronicle... Saul, S. (2022). “At N.Y.U., Students Were Failing Organic Chemistry. Who Was to Blame?” ProQuest.

We share traits with every single human on this planet. But often our differences define us more than our commonalities. In this episode we explore our empathetic potential, and how art just might be a bridge for creating better connection.Social psychologist Dr. Sara Konrath and Director of the National Gallery of Art guide us through an exploration of art and empathy, and we explore a new public art installation at the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial in Washington State. Head over to CreativeFuelCollective.com for more creative inspiration, prompts, online workshops and a robust creative community.Hosted by Anna BronesCo-Produced by Anna Brones & Gale StraubTheme Music is by cleod9 musicSeason 1 is Made with Support by Big CartelFeaturing: Kaywin Feldman: Kaywin Feldman is the director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She is the National Gallery's fifth director, and the first female to hold the position. Before coming to the National Gallery, she served for a decade as the director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Terra Foundation for American Art and a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the White House Historical Association, and the Chipstone Foundation. Feldman holds master's degrees in art history and archeology from the University of London.Links:National Gallery of ArtSara Konrath: Sara Konrath is a social psychologist who directs the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Her scientific research focuses on topics related to social and emotional intelligence. For example, her studies explore changes over time in these traits among American young people. Other research examines implications of these traits for individuals themselves and for other people. For example, she has published extensively on the health and happiness benefits of giving. She also creates and evaluates empathy-building training programs in a variety of groups, including young people, nonprofit professionals, art museum staff and visitors, and doctors. Konrath holds a PhD. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan.Links: ipearlab.orgCarol Reitz: Originally from Minnesota, Carol Reitz serves as the president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community on Bainbridge Island in Washington State. She is also a Bainbridge Island Rotarian and played piano for high school choirs. Loves to play pickleball, knit, and serve as a docent and volunteer host at the Exclusion Memorial educating visitors from around the world.Resources Mentioned & Places to Learn MoreBainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion MemorialScrovegni ChapelMinneapolis Institute of Art Center for Empathy and the Visual ArtsDoes Arts Engagement Increase Empathy and Prosocial Behavior?Eric Klinenberg, “Why Libraries Will Save the World”“Art as a Trojan Horse,” part of Dr. Konrath's column for Psychology Today, The Empathy GapImages of public art installation at the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial deckVideo of the production and fabrication of some of the components in Anna Brones and Luc Revel's artwork for the Bainbridge Island Japanese Exclusion MemorialSponsor LinksBig Cartel believes you don't have to sell out to sell online. With their simple stores for artists, makers, and creators, you won't be surprised by hidden fees and they don't take a cut of your sales like some other platforms. The sky's the limit on your sales and your success. Open your own shop at bigcartel.com.

Significant challenges to widescale clinical implementation of PGx include a lack of physician experience using PGx test data or confidence in interpreting PGx test data and integrating the data into the medication therapy management process. For PGx to be most impactful, prescribers must consider PGx data within the context of other non-genetic patient-specific factors. Pharmacists may help prescribers with PGx test data by creating a summary of medication therapy management recommendations for the patient that streamlines PGx report flags and identifies other pharmacotherapy interventions the pharmacist recognizes while applying non-genetic patient-specific data to the PGx test data. In this episode of the PGx for Pharmacists podcast, Dr. Becky Winslow discusses the research study, "Pharmacist Consult Reports to Support Pharmacogenomics Report Interpretation," with two of the research investigators, Dr. Anna Langerveld and Dr. David Bright. Dr. Langerveld and Dr. Bright share how this research adds to the growing evidence that clinical pharmacists can help improve the utility of PGx and prescribing. They also share how their study described a process for reducing PGx laboratory report information to a single page of patient-specific clinical recommendations. Lastly, they share that while clinical decision support tools are becoming more routine for pharmacogenomic management, the pharmacists in this study reduced the number of report-based alerts independent of sophisticated clinical decision support informatics. Anna Langerveld, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of Genemarkers, a contract research organization and CLIA/CAP certified testing laboratory specializing in genomics. Anna received her B.A. in Psychology from SUNY Binghamton and her Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Program in Neurosciences at Tulane University. After receiving her Ph.D., Anna served as a Research Assistant Professor at Western Michigan University. She founded Genemarkers in 2008. Under her leadership, Michigan Celebrates Small Business recognized the Company as one of the Top 50 Michigan Companies to watch. Anna is an author of peer-reviewed publications, an NIH grant recipient, and an invited speaker at a wide range of national meetings. Anna currently serves as an adjunct professor and an advisory board member for the Manchester University pharmacogenomics program and holds a community faculty position at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Anna has been instrumental in developing strategic community partnerships to implement the use of genomics in clinical care, with a particular focus on mental health and underserved populations. Dr. David Bright is a Professor of Pharmacy at Ferris State University, where he has taught therapeutics and medication therapy management. He received his PharmD degree from the University of Toledo, completed a community pharmacy residency with Kroger Pharmacy and the University of Toledo, and served on the faculty at the Ohio Northern University as a community pharmacy residency program director. His research has primarily involved the pragmatic implementation and improvement of non-dispensing pharmacy services, particularly in the outpatient setting. Most recently, that has involved the integration of pharmacogenomics into clinical practice through community pharmacy and ambulatory care practice models. Research discussed in the podcast episode: Bright D, Saadeh C, DeVuyst-Miller S, Sohn M, Choker A, Langerveld A. Pharmacist Consult Reports to Support Pharmacogenomics Report Interpretation. Pharmgenomics Pers Med. 2020 Dec 10;13:719-724. doi: 10.2147/PGPM.S276687. PMID: 33328756; PMCID: PMC7735940. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7735940/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Significant challenges to widescale clinical implementation of PGx include a lack of physician experience using PGx test data or confidence in interpreting PGx test data and integrating the data into the medication therapy management process. For PGx to be most impactful, prescribers must consider PGx data within the context of other non-genetic patient-specific factors. Pharmacists may help prescribers with PGx test data by creating a summary of medication therapy management recommendations for the patient that streamlines PGx report flags and identifies other pharmacotherapy interventions the pharmacist recognizes while applying non-genetic patient-specific data to the PGx test data. In this episode of the PGx for Pharmacists podcast, Dr. Becky Winslow discusses the research study, "Pharmacist Consult Reports to Support Pharmacogenomics Report Interpretation," with two of the research investigators, Dr. Anna Langerveld and Dr. David Bright. Dr. Langerveld and Dr. Bright share how this research adds to the growing evidence that clinical pharmacists can help improve the utility of PGx and prescribing. They also share how their study described a process for reducing PGx laboratory report information to a single page of patient-specific clinical recommendations. Lastly, they share that while clinical decision support tools are becoming more routine for pharmacogenomic management, the pharmacists in this study reduced the number of report-based alerts independent of sophisticated clinical decision support informatics. Anna Langerveld, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of Genemarkers, a contract research organization and CLIA/CAP certified testing laboratory specializing in genomics. Anna received her B.A. in Psychology from SUNY Binghamton and her Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Program in Neurosciences at Tulane University. After receiving her Ph.D., Anna served as a Research Assistant Professor at Western Michigan University. She founded Genemarkers in 2008. Under her leadership, Michigan Celebrates Small Business recognized the Company as one of the Top 50 Michigan Companies to watch. Anna is an author of peer-reviewed publications, an NIH grant recipient, and an invited speaker at a wide range of national meetings. Anna currently serves as an adjunct professor and an advisory board member for the Manchester University pharmacogenomics program and holds a community faculty position at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Anna has been instrumental in developing strategic community partnerships to implement the use of genomics in clinical care, with a particular focus on mental health and underserved populations. Dr. David Bright is a Professor of Pharmacy at Ferris State University, where he has taught therapeutics and medication therapy management. He received his PharmD degree from the University of Toledo, completed a community pharmacy residency with Kroger Pharmacy and the University of Toledo, and served on the faculty at the Ohio Northern University as a community pharmacy residency program director. His research has primarily involved the pragmatic implementation and improvement of non-dispensing pharmacy services, particularly in the outpatient setting. Most recently, that has involved the integration of pharmacogenomics into clinical practice through community pharmacy and ambulatory care practice models. Research discussed in the podcast episode: Bright D, Saadeh C, DeVuyst-Miller S, Sohn M, Choker A, Langerveld A. Pharmacist Consult Reports to Support Pharmacogenomics Report Interpretation. Pharmgenomics Pers Med. 2020 Dec 10;13:719-724. doi: 10.2147/PGPM.S276687. PMID: 33328756; PMCID: PMC7735940. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7735940/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Significant challenges to widescale clinical implementation of PGx include a lack of physician experience using PGx test data or confidence in interpreting PGx test data and integrating the data into the medication therapy management process. For PGx to be most impactful, prescribers must consider PGx data within the context of other non-genetic patient-specific factors. Pharmacists may help prescribers with PGx test data by creating a summary of medication therapy management recommendations for the patient that streamlines PGx report flags and identifies other pharmacotherapy interventions the pharmacist recognizes while applying non-genetic patient-specific data to the PGx test data. In this episode of the PGx for Pharmacists podcast, Dr. Becky Winslow discusses the research study, "Pharmacist Consult Reports to Support Pharmacogenomics Report Interpretation," with two of the research investigators, Dr. Anna Langerveld and Dr. David Bright. Dr. Langerveld and Dr. Bright share how this research adds to the growing evidence that clinical pharmacists can help improve the utility of PGx and prescribing. They also share how their study described a process for reducing PGx laboratory report information to a single page of patient-specific clinical recommendations. Lastly, they share that while clinical decision support tools are becoming more routine for pharmacogenomic management, the pharmacists in this study reduced the number of report-based alerts independent of sophisticated clinical decision support informatics. Anna Langerveld, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of Genemarkers, a contract research organization and CLIA/CAP certified testing laboratory specializing in genomics. Anna received her B.A. in Psychology from SUNY Binghamton and her Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Program in Neurosciences at Tulane University. After receiving her Ph.D., Anna served as a Research Assistant Professor at Western Michigan University. She founded Genemarkers in 2008. Under her leadership, Michigan Celebrates Small Business recognized the Company as one of the Top 50 Michigan Companies to watch. Anna is an author of peer-reviewed publications, an NIH grant recipient, and an invited speaker at a wide range of national meetings. Anna currently serves as an adjunct professor and an advisory board member for the Manchester University pharmacogenomics program and holds a community faculty position at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Anna has been instrumental in developing strategic community partnerships to implement the use of genomics in clinical care, with a particular focus on mental health and underserved populations. Dr. David Bright is a Professor of Pharmacy at Ferris State University, where he has taught therapeutics and medication therapy management. He received his PharmD degree from the University of Toledo, completed a community pharmacy residency with Kroger Pharmacy and the University of Toledo, and served on the faculty at the Ohio Northern University as a community pharmacy residency program director. His research has primarily involved the pragmatic implementation and improvement of non-dispensing pharmacy services, particularly in the outpatient setting. Most recently, that has involved the integration of pharmacogenomics into clinical practice through community pharmacy and ambulatory care practice models. Research discussed in the podcast episode: Bright D, Saadeh C, DeVuyst-Miller S, Sohn M, Choker A, Langerveld A. Pharmacist Consult Reports to Support Pharmacogenomics Report Interpretation. Pharmgenomics Pers Med. 2020 Dec 10;13:719-724. doi: 10.2147/PGPM.S276687. PMID: 33328756; PMCID: PMC7735940. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7735940/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology is the oldest university in the country and one of the leading universities in the world.   Its Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering is a unique department where expertise from many disciplines comes together. Israel is a global centre of food and agri-tech, producing remarkable innovations, and attracting astonishing levels of investment. But, like anywhere else in the world, there are problems; food waste, overfishing, unsustainable practices, feeding a growing population. Israel is facing all of the above and the issues are taxing its brightest minds. The Food Matters Live Podcast has looked at innovation in Israel before, but in this episode we are going to get a unique insight into one of the world's leading research centres. The Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering is led by Professor Marcelle Machluf, a remarkable woman who was named Lady Globe Magazine's ‘Woman of the Year' in 2018. Her work has been included in the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology's list of ‘Israel's 60 Most Impactful Developments'. During this episode of the Food Matters Live Podcast, we learn about the new Carasso FoodTech Innovation Center being built at Technion. It has an R&D centre, packaging laboratory, kitchens, tasting, and evaluation units. Professor Machluf says: "It's not enough to just sit in the classroom. Our students need the right equipment to develop their ideas and they need to be prepared for whatever the future holds." Listen to the full episode to hear her views on the importance of building relationships to drive innovation, learn more about the work being done at Technion, and how the institute is going about developing a centre for ideas that haven't yet been born. Professor Marcelle Machluf, Dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion Professor Marcelle Machluf is renowned for her cutting-edge cancer and drug delivery research, and her work in tissue regeneration.  She is head of the Technion's graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Biotechnology, a member of the Affiliate Engineering Faculty of the Technion Integrated Cancer Center, and former deputy executive vice president for research for the Technion's Pre-Clinical Research Authority. She also works closely with the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute. Professor Machluf is developing a targeted drug delivery system using modified stem cells called Nano-Ghosts to home in on tumours, unleashing its therapeutic load at the cancer site.  She is also developing scaffolding for tissue engineering of the pancreas, heart, and blood vessels, and developing carriers for cell delivery with applications for treating diabetes and more.  She has a laboratory at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, where she is working on a leading tissue regenerative project. Professor Machluf has authored book chapters and more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers in leading journals. Her work has been cited more than 2,800 times. She has six national patents and two approved international patents in the fields of drug delivery and tissue engineering.  She is the recipient of many honours including the Alon Award for excellence in science, the Gutwirth Award for achievements in gene therapy, the Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award, and the Juludan Research Prize for outstanding research.

We welcome on our Earth Day episode Dr. Kim Nicholas, Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund and author of UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World. We discuss the emotional side of the climate crisis – coping with feelings of fear, and nurturing your passions in becoming the best climate citizen you can be. Kim walks us through the the stages of Climate Acceptance, and we explore the value of community and trust building in the face of increasing environmental uncertainty. Prof. Kimberly Nicholas is a sustainability scientist at Lund University in Sweden. She has published over 55 articles on climate and sustainability in leading peer-reviewed journals; writes for publications such as Elle, The Guardian, Scientific American, and New Scientist; and is the author of UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World, and the monthly climate newsletter We Can Fix It. She gives lectures and moderates at about 75 international meetings and organizations each year across public policy, civil society, arts and culture, the wine industry, foundations, and academia. Her work has been featured by outlets including the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Vox, and USA Today. Born and raised on her family's vineyard in Sonoma, California, she studied the effect of climate change on the California wine industry for her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University.  Thank you to our sponsors today! TakeCareOf.com with code “ecochic50” DRINKLMNT.com/ECOCHIC shop.analuisa.com/ecochic with code “ecochic” Find me on: Instagram @ecochicpodcast + @lauraediez, on Facebook, Twitter, and now TikTok.

Often referred to as a distant problem, one that can be solved at a later date with an incredible, yet-to be-invented technology, climate change is here, we caused it, and it's bad. Dr. Kimberly Nicholas, author of the powerful book "Under the Sky We Make,"  breaks down the overwhelming scientific consensus on human-caused climate change and discusses with Steve the extreme urgency of the situation. They go into detail on the surprising power of individuals to affect change, and the need for the global wealthy (hint, that's not just billionaires they're talking about) to take responsibility for their carbon output right away.  What role do financial advisers play in all this?  A lot, it turns out.  Under The Sky We Make — Kim's book on Bookshop.orgWe Can Fix It — Kim's Substack newsletterNormative.io — Carbon accounting engineClimateNow — A multimedia platform explaining the key scientific ideas, technologies and policies relevant to the global climate crisis.The Zeroist — a finance newsletter for the net-zero revolutionRelated Article: DOL seeks public input on protecting retirement savings from climate risksGuest Bio:Prof. Kimberly Nicholas is a sustainability scientist at Lund University in Sweden. She has published over 55 articles on climate and sustainability in leading peer-reviewed journals; writes for publications such as Elle, The Guardian, Scientific American, and New Scientist; and is the author of UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World, and the monthly climate newsletter We Can Fix It. She gives lectures and moderates at about 75 international meetings and organizations each year across  public policy, civil society, arts and culture, the wine industry, foundations, and academia. Her work has been featured by outlets including the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Vox, and USA Today. Born and raised on her family's vineyard in Sonoma, California, she studied the effect of climate change on the California wine industry for her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University.  

One of our favorite guests, Dr. Megan Buning (Vol. 3 #4 from 10/1/21) steps into the Wednesday Wisdom rotation and shares a Professional Development technique called Instructional Rounds. This is a RESEARCH Based program that allows groups to focus and collaborate on improving a component of their teaching/coaching to better serve their student athletes. Dr. Buning specializes in the this type of cutting edge and applicable research and today we are the beneficiaries as she joins us on Wednesday Wisdom on The Educational AD Podcast! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/educational-ad-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/educational-ad-podcast/support

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxAOCDKdsPw&ab_channel=WestminsterInstitute In late 2020 the U.S. State Department added Nigeria to its list of Countries of Particular Concern, which names governments that have “engaged in or tolerated systematic ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom.” Apparently, Nigeria is the first democracy ever added to the list. Also, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has warned of a potential “Christian genocide.” Joining me today to discuss this troubling situation are two guests. Robert Destro is Professor of Law and founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Law and Religion at the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. He has recently served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy Human Rights and Labor. Professor Destro also served as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is the co-author of the book Religious Liberty in a Pluralistic Society. Joining us from Nigeria, Mark Jacob is a barrister in Abuja. He is the former Attorney General of Kaduna State and former national legal adviser of the then-ruling People Democratic Party from 2007 to 2009 afterwards he was director of legal services federal airports authority. He is currently engaged in private legal practice and advocacy for the rights of minority indigenous people.

Mary Miller, U.S. Representative for the 15th District of Illinois, discusses an upcoming vote in the House on a bill that could block state pro-life laws. Tate Reeves, Governor of Mississippi, shares how he is fighting back against President Biden's vaccine mandates. Robert Destro, Professor of Law and founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Law & Religion at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C., talks about how Christians and pastors can respond to the vaccine mandate. Brent Keilen, Vice President of FRC Action, discusses the Virginia governor's race and the highlights from FRC Action's second school board boot camp. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

A feature interview wtih popular Iranian-British psychologist and author, Dr. Fathali Moghaddam. Fathali joins Jian from Washington DC to explore the psychology of authoritarianism, why humans gravitate towards dictatorship, the current plight of democracy around the world, and the prospect of democratic change for Iran and Iranians. Dr. Moghaddam is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University, and has most recently been featured on the new Netflix series, “How to Become a Tyrant.” Plus the Roqe On-Air Team read the Letters of the Week.

Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Clare Hacksel, NDP candidate for MP in the Toronto Danforth Riding. Clare makes the case for why she should be elected to replace the incumbent Liberal MP Julie Dabrusin for her riding in Toronto. And, she weighs in on NDP leader Jagmeet Singh's bold promise to end for-profit long-term care should he be elected. ---- AN UPDATE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AFGHANISTAN Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Dr. Elliot Tepper, a professor of International Relations at Carleton University and Chris Ecklund, Founder of The Canadian Heroes Foundation. The situation in Afghanistan continues to escalate. Just this morning, two explosions were reported to have occurred outside of Kabul airport with casualties including Afghans, U.S. soldiers. Meanwhile, Canada's acting Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen. Wayne Eyre, has announced that our country's mission to evacuate Canadians and allies in Afghanistan has ended today and that "at this time, no further evacuation flights are being planned." So, where do we go from here? Our experts weigh in on the latest. ---- HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION THAT REMAINS UNVACCINATED

SummaryWhat makes some people more generous than others? And when it comes to altruism, how do we get more of it? In this episode, we learn about how altruism works in the brain, and the clues are surprisingly found in how psychopaths experience fear. Neuroscientist and professor Abigail Marsh will tell us what she's learned about altruism and the human brain. About Our Guesthttps://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RYGZAA4/abigail-marsh (Abigail Marsh) is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown University. She received her BA in Psychology from Dartmouth College in 1999 and her PhD in Social Psychology at Harvard University in 2004. Before Georgetown, she conducted post-doctoral work at the NIMH from 2004-2008. Her areas of expertise include social and affective neuroscience, particularly understanding emotional processes like empathy and how they relate to altruism, aggression, and psychopathy.  Useful LinksHer book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35142874-the-fear-factor (The Fear Factor): How One Emotion Connects Psychopaths, Altruists, and Everyone In-Between Published by Dr. Marsh in 2017 "What is responsible for the extremes of generosity and cruelty humans are capable of? By putting psychopathic children and extreme altruists in an fMRI, acclaimed psychologist Abigail Marsh found that the answer lies in how our brain responds to others' fear. While the brain's amygdala makes most of us hardwired for good, its variations can explain heroic and psychopathic behavior." TED Talk: Abigail Marsh asks an essential question in her https://www.ted.com/speakers/abigail_marsh (TED talk): If humans are evil, Why do we sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to help others even at a cost to ourselves? https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Dj71eIAAAAJ&hl=en (Google Scholar): Has over 8500 citations from Abigail Marsh. Twitter: Follow Dr. Marsh https://twitter.com/aa_marsh (@aa_Marsh) Other Resourceshttps://www.matthieuricard.org/en/ (Matthieu Ricard:) Points out that empathy on its own can lead to fatigue and burnout. https://som.yale.edu/faculty/michael-kraus (Michael Krauss): Research shows that increased wealth can actually reduce empathy and altruism. https://www.davedesteno.com/ (David DeSteno: )People who've experienced significant trauma or natural disasters themselves benefit from self-efficacy, which gives them the confidence to know what to do in a situation they are familiar with. More about Merit Leadershiphttps://meritleadership.com/the-book/ (Business Ethics Field Guide: )The ability to clarify individual and organizational values and to find a way forward when these values conflict. This book will help you develop those skills and apply them in your organization to become a better leader. https://meritleadership.com/education/ (Classroom In Box:) Do you teach ethics? Whether it's in a university, school, company, or agency you know how difficult it can be. Merit Leadership has compiled decades of award-winning experience teaching ethics and created lesson plans, videos, exercises, and assignments all in an online resource that's easy to use. Pleasant Pictures MusicJoin the Pleasant Pictures Music Club to get unlimited access to high-quality, royalty-free music for all of your projects. Use the discount code HOWTOHELP15 for 15% off your first year. https://pleasantpictures.club (https://pleasantpictures.club)

In this week’s episode, we are talking with Dr. Rajesh Miranda, P.h.D and Leah Davies, LMSW as we discuss the shame and stigma around Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and how stress is a common denominator that negatively affects both pregnant women and their families. Dr. Miranda is a faculty member at Texas A&M University, College of Medicine, a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, and is also involved in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. In addition to his academic research on the topics of fetal brain development, stem cells, microRNAs, and teratology, Dr. Miranda also leads the Texas FASD Collaborative which brings together professionals and people with lived experiences around FASD to work together to raise awareness and make change in our state.   Leah Davies is the Project Manager at the Texas Center for Disability Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Leah’s work centers on collaboration building and stakeholder engagement efforts, particularly related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) mental health and IDD, as well as the special education system. disabilities and their families.  Leah studied sociology at Texas A&M University and received her Master's degree in Social Work from The University of Texas at Austin. She firmly believes that the best "experts" are those who have lived experience - individuals with disabilities and their families.  Topics Discussed Benefits of executive functioning and abstract thinking Navigating the shame and stigma around alcohol and pregnancy Understanding how fathers can play a role in FASD How nutrition, relationships, & socio-economics can impact pregnancy Recognizing stress as a common denominator to an unhealthy pregnancy Unpacking risk, resilience, and long term effects with FASD The importance of evaluating mental health of mothers & their families Connect with Dr. Rajesh Miranda, P.h.D. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajesh-miranda-838718b1/  Connect with Leah Davies, LMSW LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-davies-lmsw-50217a147/ Connect with Positive Recovery MD Podcast Website: https://www.positiverecoverymd.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/577870242872032 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4JcDF1gjlYch4V4iBbCgZg Connect with Positive Recovery Centers online Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/positiverecoverycenters/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PositiveRecoveryCenters/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/positiverecoverycenters/ Contact Positive Recovery Centers If you or someone you know needs help, visit the website or call the number below to schedule an assessment. We are here to help. Call: 877-476-2743 Address: 902 West Alabama Street Houston, Texas 77006 Website: https://positiverecovery.com Services: https://positiverecovery.com/services/ FAQ: https://positiverecovery.com/faq/ About Positive Recovery MD Podcast The Positive Recovery MD podcast is hosted by Dr. Jason Powers, Addiction Medicine Specialist and creator of Positive Recovery. This podcast will not only inspire and motivate its listeners, it will provide the tools and foundation needed to thrive and flourish on their addiction recovery journey. Each week the Positive Recovery MD podcast community will come together to have authentic conversations around addiction, recovery and what matters – growth & progress, not perfection, all while developing positive habits for your life. To join the community, visit https://www.positiverecoverymd.com to sign up to receive the daily Positive Intervention that we’ll review, as well as gain access to EXCLUSIVE Positive Recovery content available only to Positive Recovery MD listeners. About Positive Recovery Centers Positive Recovery Centers is a strengths-based addiction treatment program with locations across Texas. We offer a full continuum of care, from medical detox to sober living all supported by an ever-growing alumni community network. Our evidence-based curriculum blends the best of the old with the new, all supporting our mission: that Recovery is best pursued when meaningful, intentional positive habits are formed through empowerment and resilience instead of negativity and shame.  What is Positive Recovery? Empathy and compassion drive our mission. Positive Recovery uses strengths as a pathway to help others flourish in recovery, at work, and at home. This is our core purpose, our “why.” We creatively apply science in order to improve outcomes. Positive Recovery is not wishful thinking, it is not a magic pill, and it is not self-help. Positive Recovery is an evidence-based addiction curriculum that links the best of the old with the new, integrating existing effective approaches to treatment with interventions that enhance well-being by cultivating its components: positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement.

Urban gardening dates back to ancient times. Community gardens are increasingly celebrated as a means to improve food security in urban settings, and especially for those experiencing economic hardship. However, many homeless persons are mobiles, and gardens are not. Kate Elliott joins us on GDP to share a story about making the gardens themselves mobile. The Gro-Carts of Vancouver are changing geographies of food security, homelessness, and indeed, happiness and community. You won't want to miss this episode. Kate Elliott is an educator, researcher, and writer, Kate is interested in the ways humans and non-humans weave the fabric of community. Trained as a lexicographer, she turned from stories of words to stories of people, working as a community health researcher before receiving her B.Ed. in Ottawa. After two decades teaching at high schools in Ontario and British Columbia, Kate entered a Master’s program in Urban Studies. Interested in re-imagining urban spaces, Kate’s research has looked at shared use of urban green space, the invisible labour of those who contribute to the health of urban environments, and the possibility of strengthening urban communities through opportunities for shared learning. Kate completed her masters in Summer 2019 and is now a PhD student in an Interdisciplinary Program at SFU. Sin Since 2015, she has been involved in Gro-Carts, an award-winning community project to engage people without access to land in mobile gardening. In 2017, she coordinated Simon Fraser University’s 7th Rethinking the Region conference, which brought together local and provincial stakeholders to discuss urban inequality. Her most recent engagement project, Hands on Vancouver, collects the stories of ordinary humans whose hands help shape the communities in which they live. Follow Herbert Gro-Cart on Twitter: @HerbertGroCart Follow Dr. Bob on Twitter: @ProfessorHuish

Shmuel Rosner and Hizky Shoham discuss Hizky's newest book and the differences and similarities of how Israel celebrates Passover and its independence day. Hizky Shoham is a cultural historian of Israel and Zionism. He is a research fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and a lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Follow Shmuel Rosner on Twitter.  

Hizky Shoham discusses the 'emotionologies' surrounding the Nazi-Zionist 'Transfer agreement.' Are boycotts emotional outbursts or practical political tools? The proposed paper looks at the emotional aspects of the public debate that raged in Jewish Palestine in the 1930s about the Nazi-Zionist agreement, in order to suggest a theory of boycotts as emotional scripts. The Ha'avara ('transfer') agreement enabled Jews to leave Germany and take some of their assets with them, in the form of German goods to be sold in Palestine, therefore breaking the worldwide anti-Nazi boycott. Drawing on contemporary media and archival sources and comparative studies about boycotts and 'buy national' campaigns, I analyze the discourse on emotions in the public debate about the agreement. Rather than so-called ‘practical' politics, the debate focused on various emotions such as humiliation, fear, anger, and vengeance, their role in politics, and the right way to contain or release them. The emotionology (as defined by historians Peter and Carol Stearns) of Zionist pride prescribed ‘practicability' as a demonstration of restraint and respectability, and denounced the anti-Nazi boycott movement as ‘exilic' Jewish submissiveness. Nonetheless, this emotionology did not fit the actual ability of the Jewish public to contain the harsh emotions. Under the guise of “buy national” campaigns, anti-German feeling was channeled into an effective boycott of the Templers, a small German community living in Palestine since the nineteenth century. Based on Theodor Sarbin's theory of emotions as cognitive schemes, the paper suggests theorizing boycotts as political dramas whose ‘effectivity' depends mainly on their emotional scripting. Bio: Hizky Shoham's works consist of anthropological history and sociology of Zionism, the Yishuv, and Israel; and cultural theory. He is a senior lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, and co-director of the Center for Cultural Sociology, Bar Ilan University, Israel; and a research fellow in the Kogod Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies at the Shalom Hartman institute in Jerusalem. His publications include Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism (Academic Studies Press, 2014); and Israel Celebrates: Festivals and Civic Culture in Israel (Brill, 2017).

Hizky Shoham discusses the 'emotionologies' surrounding the Nazi-Zionist 'Transfer agreement.' Are boycotts emotional outbursts or practical political tools? The proposed paper looks at the emotional aspects of the public debate that raged in Jewish Palestine in the 1930s about the Nazi-Zionist agreement, in order to suggest a theory of boycotts as emotional scripts. The Ha'avara ('transfer') agreement enabled Jews to leave Germany and take some of their assets with them, in the form of German goods to be sold in Palestine, therefore breaking the worldwide anti-Nazi boycott. Drawing on contemporary media and archival sources and comparative studies about boycotts and 'buy national' campaigns, I analyze the discourse on emotions in the public debate about the agreement. Rather than so-called ‘practical’ politics, the debate focused on various emotions such as humiliation, fear, anger, and vengeance, their role in politics, and the right way to contain or release them. The emotionology (as defined by historians Peter and Carol Stearns) of Zionist pride prescribed ‘practicability’ as a demonstration of restraint and respectability, and denounced the anti-Nazi boycott movement as ‘exilic’ Jewish submissiveness. Nonetheless, this emotionology did not fit the actual ability of the Jewish public to contain the harsh emotions. Under the guise of “buy national” campaigns, anti-German feeling was channeled into an effective boycott of the Templers, a small German community living in Palestine since the nineteenth century. Based on Theodor Sarbin’s theory of emotions as cognitive schemes, the paper suggests theorizing boycotts as political dramas whose ‘effectivity’ depends mainly on their emotional scripting. Bio: Hizky Shoham’s works consist of anthropological history and sociology of Zionism, the Yishuv, and Israel; and cultural theory. He is a senior lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, and co-director of the Center for Cultural Sociology, Bar Ilan University, Israel; and a research fellow in the Kogod Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies at the Shalom Hartman institute in Jerusalem. His publications include Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism (Academic Studies Press, 2014); and Israel Celebrates: Festivals and Civic Culture in Israel (Brill, 2017).

Concern and care for others’ feelings are virtues we seek to instill in our children, yet they are sorely lacking in many adult Americans today. There’s scientific research to back up the notion that Americans are caring less for others and more about themselves. Our guest is Sara Konrath, PhD, an associate professor of philanthropic studies at Indiana University and director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research. We’ll be exploring why empathy is declining and what we can do to create more kindness and caring in our communities.

Most colleges are organized as a collection of academic silos. Many challenging problems facing society,  though, are multifaceted. In this episode, Leigh Allison Wilson joins us to discuss the use of common problem pedagogy, an approach that allows students to address a problem from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Leigh is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Program and Activities Center at SUNY-Oswego. She is also the author of two collections of stories, one of which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, Grand Street, Harper's, The Kenyon Review, Smokelong Quarterly, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Leigh teaches creative writing at SUNY Oswego. In addition to the Flannery O'Connor award, she has received the Saltonstall Award for Creative Nonfiction, and a Pulitzer nomination by William Morrow for her collection Wind. Leigh is a Michener Fellow of the Copernicus Society and is a Henry Hoyns fellow of the University of Virginia. A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.

The Outer Limits of Inner Truth examines the medicinal & spiritual benefits of MDMA. Also known ecstasy, MDMA is a synthetic compound that produces hallucinations, feelings of emotional warmth and high levels of energy. The same psychoactive properties that make ecstasy so popular with partygoers may also make it useful in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Outer Limits of Inner Truth Show Guest Key: 02:14 - Dr. Julie Holland 25.01 - James Giordano, PhD. 42:77 - Psychic Medium Kerrie O'Connor 47:33 - Psychic Medium Lisa Caza Other research has found that MDMA has robust anticancer properties, particularly for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. In 2011, researchers from the University of Birmingham found that a slightly modified form of ecstasy was 100 times more potent at destroying cancer cells than the original form of MDMA. "Further work is required, but this research is a significant step forward in developing a potential new cancer drug," the researchers said in a statement. Featured Guests Include: Dr. Julie Holland is a board-certified psychiatrist in New York City. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Holland majored in the "Biological Basis of Behavior," a series of courses combining the study of psychology and neural sciences, with a concentration in psychopharmacology, or drugs and the brain. In 1992, Dr. Holland received her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine, where she performed research on auditory hallucinations, extensively interviewing nearly one hundred psychotic patients. In 1996, she completed a psychiatric residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she was the creator of a research project treating schizophrenics with a new medication, obtaining an IND from the Food and Drug Administration. In 1994, she received the Outstanding Resident Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. From 1996 to 2005, Dr. Holland ran the psychiatric emergency room of Bellevue Hospital on Saturday and Sunday nights. A liaison to the hospital's medical emergency room and toxicology department, she is considered an expert on street drugs and intoxication states, and lectures widely on this topic. She published a paper in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, describing a resurgence of the drug phenomenon smoking marijuana soaked in embalming fluid, which may be a carrier for PCP. She is available for forensic consultations involving embalming fluid intoxication. During her college years, Dr. Holland grew interested in a new drug being used as a psychotherapeutic catalyst, and authored an extensive research paper on MDMA (ecstasy), resulting in multiple television appearances, forensic consultations, and a book, James Giordano, PhD. , is Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program of the Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics; is a professor on the faculties of the Division of Integrative Physiology/Department of Biochemistry, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, and Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; and is a Senior Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a Washington D.C. area think tank devoted to the analysis and guidance of emerging science and technology. He serves on the Neuroethics, Legal and Social Issues Advisory Panel for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and is a Fellow of the Center for National Preparedness at the University of Pittsburgh, PA. His ongoing research addresses the neuroscience of pain, neuropsychiatric spectrum disorders, the neural bases of moral cognition and action, and the neuroethical issues arising in neuroscientific and neurotechnological research and its applications in medicine, public life, global relations, and national security. In recognition of his ongoing work, he was awarded Germany's Klaus Reichert Prize in Medicine and Philosophy (with longtime collaborator Dr. Roland Benedikter); was named National Distinguished Lecturer of both Sigma Xi, the national research honor society, and IEEE; and was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Psychic Medium Kerrie O'Connor Internationally known, Master Visionary Clairvoyant, , has the extraordinary ability to “Read” your unique energy field, and like a tuning fork, help you raise your vibrational level so that you can finally attract your heart's desires. With the help of her Guides and yours, the Angels, Ascended Masters and departed loved ones, Kerrie can tap directly into your soul to allow you to realize and achieve your purpose and passions in life. With loving compassion, Kerrie will work with you to identify and release energetic blocks and imbalances that have kept you limited, and can assist you in letting go of fear and negative thought patterns(both conscious and unconscious) so you can truly live your most joyous and fulfilling life. Psychic Medium Lisa Caza has been a professional clairvoyant medium for 20 years. She is world renowned for her honest – sometimes even blunt clairvoyant readings, but at the same time her in-depth and accurate services are always full of love, wisdom, and compassion for each of her clients. She has appeared on numerous popular psychic websites such as Mystic Playground, Psychic Link, Psychic Contact, and Global Psychics, and has made numerous appearances on many radio talk shows. (Lisa's mediumship abilities are quite unique where spirits ultimately seek HER out; and she is left with the detective work of having to figure out who the spirits are reaching out to!).

Listen NowApproximately 8,700 Americans die annually awaiting a kidney donation or become too ill to receive one.  This is half the number of those who annually receive a kidney, or 17,000.   Over 100,000 at any time are awaiting a kidney.  The median wait time is over three and a half years.  One-third of kidney donations are live donations typically from a child, parent, sibling, spouse or other relative.  However, an increasing number of live donations are made by strangers voluntarily choosing to donate. The number of these donations while small, at less than 400 annually, has doubled in recent years.  The benefits of receiving a donated kidney are pronounced, the expected benefits to the recipient are estimated at 100xs the expected costs to the donor. During this 26 minute conversation Professor Marsh explains why she became interested in altruism particularly extraordinary altruism, what her and her colleagues' research has found that explains donor reasoning in providing a kidney, how "social discounting" and other factors play into their decision making, how brain development, or the size of a donor's amygdala (the part of the brain responsible for decision making and emotional reactions including compassion), plays a factor and to what extent normalizing voluntary kidney donations may over time reduce or eliminate the shortage of kidney donations.Professor Abigail Marsh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown.  Prior to Georgetown, Dr. Marsh conducted post-doctoral work at the National Institute of Mental Health at the National Institutes of Health from 2004 to 2008.   Her areas of expertise include social and affective neuroscience, particularly understanding emotional processes like empathy and how they related to altruism, aggression and psychopathy.   Her work has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, the American Journal of Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry and Nature Human Behavior.  Dr. Marsh was graduated with a BA in Psychology from Dartmouth and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard.   Professor Marsh's June 2016 TED talk, "Why Some People Are More Altruistic Than Others," is at: https://www.ted.com/talks/abigail_marsh_why_some_people_are_more_altruistic_than_others.A 10-page, footnoted discussion weighing the pros and cons of voluntary donating a kidney can be found on the Effective Altruism Forum website, at: http://effective-altruism.com/ea/ay/kidney_donation_is_a_reasonable_choice_for/.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

Amy Pickering is an environmental health engineer and works as a research associate at Stanford University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and at the Woods Institute for the Environment. She combines social science, microbiology and engineering to study ways people in low-income countries can access safer water and better sanitation. People living in the developing world are often exposed to higher levels of bacteria and other germs, usually because of contaminated water and poor sanitation conditions. Pickering tries to reduce the spread of disease by travelling to areas with poor water quality and studying why people are getting sick and coming up with low-cost and low-tech solutions that can help minimize illnesses. She also runs research studies to test and evaluate how effective various interventions are at preventing the spread of disease. Pickering spends about 20% of her time in the countries in which she works and the rest at Stanford. Pickering has an undergraduate degree in biological and environmental engineering from Cornell University and a masters in environmental engineering with an emphasis on water quality from University of California, Berkeley. She completed a Ph.D in the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University. This career spotlight video is featured in our Engineering Is: Cleaning Poop from Drinking Water e-book. The e-book explores the science and engineering principles behind one of Amy Pickering's projects-- a device that purifies drinking water in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The e-book includes videos, interactives and media making opportunities. You can find our other e-books at http://kqed.org/ebooks.

In an increasingly global and interconnected world, cities from Chicago to Rio de Janeiro confront similar issues. Where and how will people live as urban centers become both larger and more dense? What are the effects of urban renewal on lower-income populations? Carol Camp Yeakey, director of the Center on Urban Research & Public Policy and Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, shares her perspectives on urban studies in a global context.

In an increasingly global and interconnected world, cities across the world confront similar issues. Where and how are people to live as urban centers become both larger and more dense? What are the effects of urban renewal on lower-income populations, and what sort of government policies can help bridge the widening divide between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'? Carol Camp Yeakey, founding director of the Center on Urban Research & Public Policy and Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, shares her perspecives on urban studies in a global context.

The latter half of the twentieth century highlighted the failure of redemptive understandings of the Shoah. Dividing the history of Holocaust studies into separable periods, we may identify (1) a period of silence, in which the survivors endeavored to speak and few cared to listen (1945-1960); (2) a period in which redemptive narratives flourished, begun perhaps with the Eichmann trial, and represented in popular culture by an event like the TV production "Holocaust" (1960-1985); and (3) a period in which anti-redemptive narratives began to appear, marked for example by Claude Lanzmann's film, Shoah, or the various stages of the so-called Historickerstreit, among other ways of engaging non-representational or anti-representational understandings--trauma studies, for example (1985-present). I wonder whether for the past ten years or so we have been broaching a fourth moment, one no longer focused exclusively upon either conscious or unconscious understandings but one that would include a new emphasis upon the structure of interpretation itself, and one in which the re-articulations of silences of the past, the activation of redemptive narratives, and the challenges to such interpretations (either in the form of anti-redemptive accounts or the invention of counter memory and counter redemptive accounts) would assume new significance in historiography, cultural analysis, literary analysis, and the modalities of memorialization. Sandor Goodhart is Director of Interdisciplinary Program in Classics, former Director of Jewish studies, and faculty in Philosophy and Literature Ph.D. Program at Purdue University. Goodhart received his Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo and was one of the earliest graduate fellows of the School of Criticism and Theory at the University of California at Irvine. With his English background, Goodhart specializes in dramatic literature, literary theory and criticism, and Jewish Studies. Good hart has published articles in Diacritics, Philosophy And Literature, and Modern Judaism, among many others. He is also a member of various editorial boards, including Contagion: Journal of Mimesis, Religion, and Culture and Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Currently Goodhart is at work on two books: Moebian Nights: Literary Reading After Auschwitz and The Tears of Esau: Reading, Revelation, And The Prophetic.

Roberto Blancarte is Professor and Director of the Center of Sociological Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. He is the founder and main counselor of the Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Religions (PIER) of El Colegio Mexiquense in Zinacantepec, Mexico. His research has dealt with sociology of religion, particularly Church-State relations, secularisation, “laicity” and lately around the connection between secular State and sexual and reproductive rights. Author and editor of several books, including Historia de la Iglesia católica en México (1992); Religión, Iglesias y democracia (1995); Laicidad y valores en un estado democrático (2000); Afganistán, la revolución islámica frente al mundo occidental (2001); El sucesor de Juan Pablo II: Escenarios y candidatos del próximo cónclave (2002); Entre la fe y el poder: Política y religión en México (2004); Sexo, religión y democracia (2008); Los retos de la laicidad y la secularización en el mundo contemporáneo (2008); Para entender el Estado laico (2008) and numerous articles in scientific reviews. He writes weekly a column on politics and religion for a national newspaper (Milenio) and participates actively in local politics, particularly around the subject of civil freedoms.