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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. -------------------- 01 Introduction This is the second follow up to my 8 part series on nuclear power. In this episode I will attempt to answer a question posed by brian in ohio in a comment on HPR4583. In that comment he said: 02 -------------------- Loving this series. Maybe Whiskey Jack could give some cost comparisons between large and small reactors. He could also give us a realistic look at nuclear plant safety/accidents compared to conventional power production. Looking forward to the episode on FORTH generation reactors ;-) -------------------- 03 End of quote. The first question I answered in my previous follow up, which was HPR4628. In this episode I will attempt to answer the second question, which was about the safety of nuclear power compared to other sources of electrical power generation. One of the HPR janitors encouraged me to make this episode, so I think we can thank him for getting another HPR episode made. 04 Defining the Scope First, let's define the scope of the question. This will cover electrical power generation only. Within that scope I will consider only the following sources of energy. 05 Coal Oil Natural Gas Hydroelectric Nuclear Wind Solar I won't cover geothermal, wave, or tidal power as these are only used in very small amounts and so there simply isn't enough literature on them to base a discussion on . 06 Foreshadow Conclusion I should mention right away that I cannot provide absolute answers to this question in the form of a nice, neat ranking table based on numbers from peer reviewed scientific sources. The reasons for this will become apparent, but to put it briefly, the data on which to base such a ranking simply doesn't exist. I will however provide context within which people can think about the issue. Wherever possible, I will provide links to the references that I used in the show notes so you can read further on this yourself. -------------------- 07 Energy Catastrophism versus Energy Uniformitarianism First though I need to go off on a slight geological detour in order to explain an important analogy that I will use. 08 In the 19th century there was a great debate among geologists over what is known as catastrophism versus uniformitarianism. In seeking to explain the origins of the earth and of the landscape that we see around us, there were two points of view. 09 One was "catastrophism". This is the belief that the mountains, valleys, and plains that we see around us were formed as a result of great catastrophes which occurred relatively recently in earth's history. This explanation was necessary in order to fit geological features into an earth that was believed to be only a few thousands of years old. This view was heavily influenced by religious belief. In this view Noah's flood was the great catastrophe and the fossils of dinosaurs were the remains of animals who had not been saved on the ark and so had died in the flood. 10 The other point of view was uniformitarianism. This was the hypothesis that the landscape we see around us can be explained by the very slow accumulation of very small changes over very long periods of time. For this to be true however, the earth had to be far older than the few thousand years that a literal reading of the bible would suggest. The earth in fact had to be many, many, millions of years old. 11 Eventually, the uniformitarian view won out and people understood that while some catastrophes can take place, the shape of the landscape is overwhelmingly due to small changes over very long periods of time. 12 How is this Relevant to this Episode You Ask? How this is relevant is that I will use this analogy to explain how we need to think about energy and safety. Very small numbers of deaths and injuries multiplied over many occurrences can add up to big numbers, comparable in scale or possibly even larger than a single catastrophe or even several of them. 13 I don't know if anyone else has used this analogy before, I have just thought of this when writing the script for this podcast. None the less, I think it is a very useful way of helping to understand the issues. 14 As an example of this, think about the well known case of the safety of flying versus the safety of travelling in your car. Air crashes are catastrophes that make the headlines. Automobile crashes are seldom more than local news at best. You have probably heard many times the claim that if you making a trip somewhere, you are safer to fly than to drive yourself in your car. 15 Example - Hydro versus Solar I will now present an example of this. Hydro electric power has some notable large scale catastrophes associated with it. Roof top solar power does not have any notable catastrophes that I am aware of. However, which is safer? 16 Hydro Catastrophes Here are three examples of hydro electric catastrophes in just one country, Italy. The Vajont Dam which collapsed in1963 An estimated 1,917 to 2,500 people died. The Sella Zerbino dam which collapsed in 1935. More than 100 people died. The Gleno Dam which collapsed in 1923. An estimated 350 people died. https://damfailures.org/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4997708/ 17 I haven't tried to compile a global list of the worst hydro electric dam collapses, as this sort of information is actually very difficult to find, even on web sites dedicated to dam failures. An additional problem is that information on whether a dam was used for electric power generation or not is often not available. 18 Dam failures where contradictory or insufficient information is available on whether there was an associated hydro power plant include the 1975 Banqian Dam failure, where death estimates range up to a quarter of a million. 19 Solar Panel Slow Accumulation Contrast this with roof top solar panels. Many small accidents can add up to big numbers as well. 20 Health and safety literature discussing solar panel safety mention things such as Falls from roofs. Electric shock. Arc flash (burns from electrical arcing). Normal electrical safety procedures which are based around locking out sources of energy do not work with solar panels which makes safety more difficult. Heat stress due to working exposed in the hot sun. Warning from US government on falls by solar panel installers. https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228946 https://www.osha.gov/green-jobs/solar 21 Why We Cannot Compare the Two Hydro catastrophes are not well documented, but we can at least find records of some of the most notable ones. However, even those have very large variations in estimates of deaths. 22 Roof top solar deaths however are largely undocumented. The industry is largely unregulated. There is no central authority which accumulates many individual deaths or injuries. At best there are worker and public safety bodies who simply accumulate those statistics into general construction or household injuries. 23 Thus we have no reliable means of comparing the two energy sources on a comparable basis. We face the same problem with all other major electrical energy sources. So far as I am aware, there are no peer reviewed scientific studies which compare the relative safety of all of the major electrical energy sources we are considering here based on actual numbers. -------------------- 24 Safety Risks I will now try to list some the major hazards for each of energy sources we are considering. There is however limited data available. In many cases we just have reference to worker safety organizations as to what the hazards are. I will not attempt here to put numbers to these here. Categories 25 Coal, Oil, Natural Gas The hazards are Air pollution Mining and oil field accidents Pipeline explosions Transportation accidents. These- move a lot of material so these are significant. 26 Hydroelectric These include Dam collapse Drowning 27 Nuclear These include Radiation exposure 28 Wind These include Falls Confined space deaths (there is not much detail on this) Electric shock Ice throws (that is, throwing pieces of ice off the blades) This technology has a significant problem with people working alone which greatly increases risks associated with other dangers. 29 Solar These include Falls Electric shock Arc flash Heat stress 30 I have not tried to cover all possible risks associated with each category, just the ones which each industry considers to be the risks they concern themselves with. There does not exist any means by which risks of similar types are compared across different industries. 31 Reliability of Supply is Also Safety In a completely electrified net zero society, reliability of supply is a safety matter. People will die in very large numbers in cold climates if they do not have heat. If we have no fossil fuels, we need to also consider how reliably does a grid based on any of the options work. I have not seen anyone attempt to address this question and will not attempt to address it here. However, it must be addressed in any comprehensive attempt to rank safety. -------------------- 32 Studies or Articles on Estimates of Relative Safety Despite the difficulties of comparing the safety of different sources of energy, some people have attempted this anyway. Different estimates done at different times had different focuses, so unfortunately we do not have a nice set of studies that we can neatly use to cross check one another. I will however list the names and the authors and summarize the results. -------------------- 33 The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear By Dr. Petr Beckman Published in 1976 The author of this book tried to address the relative safety of different sources of energy in the mid 1970s. However, it is old at this point, so I won't bother digging through its pages to find his figures. 34 He mainly focused on comparing electric power generated with coal to nuclear. His conclusion was that if the goal was to prevent deaths or ill health in the process of generating electricity, then the logical conclusion was to replace coal fired power plants with nuclear. 35 The book was relatively well known at the time, as least as far as books on energy are concerned, so I thought it was still worth mentioning. I happen to have a copy of this book which I bought back in that time period It was the 8th printing of the book, so it would appear to have had relatively good sales. 36 The author did address the issue of what I have termed "catastrophism" in his comparison of different energy sources, although I don't know if he used this phrase. I don't know if he was the first to use this sort of analysis, but he certainly was very influential in terms of popularizing it. -------------------- 37 Risk of Energy Production by Herbert Inhaber Publication AECB 1119 March 1978 This study is a scientific paper from the same time period as the book "The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear". 38 He based his risk estimates largely on estimates of the amount of material which was used in the construction and operation of various power sources. While we could argue over whether or not this is a valid methodology, I think any such argument would be pointless as I think the age of the study alone renders it not relevant today anyway. Advancements in materials have changed the basis results significantly by now. However, as it exists I thought I would mention it to show that the idea of comparing energy sources to each other is not a new one. The author compared a wider variety of potential sources than Beckman did. 39 Here's his conclusions. He assumes equal amounts of energy produced by each method. The numbers are normalized such that the total sums to 100%. You can think of it in terms of what proportion of total deaths or injuries would result from each source if each were equally used. 40 Coal 27.5% Oil 25.6% Methanol 16.7% Wind 10.8% Solar photovoltaic 9.2% Thermal 8.1% Solar space heating 1.5% Ocean thermal 0.4% Nuclear 0.13% Natural Gas 0.08% 41 His natural gas estimate is drastically different from that of other authors. I am not going to worry about explaining it however, as the study is as I said old enough to be not very relevant anyway. I am mainly including this here out of historical interest. 42 As a footnote, the methanol he refers to would be synthesized from wood. This was a popular idea in that era as a means of providing liquid fuels for transportation. Practical battery electric cars in those days were strictly science fiction. 43 The ocean thermal category is a real blast from the past and I had forgotten all about that concept. It was a very popular idea at that time and was supposed to be *the* big and upcoming thing in renewable energy. It involved various means of attempting to extract energy from differences in water temperature at different depths in the ocean. It gradually faded away however, as despite great efforts being put into it, designs never proved to be practical. -------------------- 44 Electricity generation and health Anil Markandya, Paul Wilkinson Published in the Lancet, Vol 370, 15 September 2007 45 This is more recent than the previous one, although it is nearly 20 years old at this point. Unfortunately it doesn't cover wind or solar, just fossil fuels and nuclear. However it is still useful, and the Lancet is a very reputable peer reviewed journal. 46 I will present just the results rather than discussing the whole paper. The authors break it down into deaths among the public, occupational deaths, and air pollution related deaths, serious illness, and minor illness. 47 They break the energy sources down into lignite, coal, gas, oil, biomass, and nuclear. Lignite is a type of very low grade coal used mainly for electric power generation. In this paper biomass refers to energy crops and forest residues. 48 I will summarize the results by category rather than trying to describe a table that has 6 rows and 5 columns. All numbers are normalized in terms of deaths or cases per TWh. 49 Occupational deaths from accidents lignite 0.1 coal 0.1 gas 0.001 oil no data biomass - no data Nuclear is 0.019. 50 Deaths among the public from accidents lignite 0.02 coal 0.02 gas 0.02 oil 0.03 biomass no data Nuclear 0.003 51 Air pollution deaths lignite 32.6 coal 24.5 gas 2.8 oil 18.4 biomass 4.63 Nuclear 0.052 52 Air pollution serious illnesses lignite 298 coal 225 gas 30 oil 161 biomass 43 Nuclear 0.22 53 Air pollution minor illnesses lignite 17,676 coal 13,288 gas 703 oil 9,551 biomass 2,276 Nuclear no data 54 Natural gas edges out nuclear power slightly in terms of occupational safety, but in every other category nuclear is drastically lower in terms of ill effects than any of the alternatives. -------------------- 55 2020 Fatalities for US Roofers Increased 15% as Solar Roof Installations Increase Published in The Next Big Future July 6, 2021 by Brian Wang 56 This seems to be written by someone who has a popular science blog. I'm not familiar with it personally, but he addresses the subject so I'll list it. The title implies that it's all about rooftop solar, but he provides comparative numbers for the other energy sources of interest, so that is useful for our purposes. However, he doesn't describe his methodology, so we need to treat them with some caution. Here are his results These are deaths per thousand terawatt hours. 57 Coal - 100,000 Oil - 36,000 Natural gas - 4,000 Hydro - 1,400 Rooftop solar - 440 Wind - 150 Nuclear - 90 58 If we plot these numbers on a bar chart, coal and oil are so large that all of the others are squished to the bottom of the chart and are difficult to see at all. Let's therefore look at these in terms of orders of magnitude. Keep in mind that this is a logarithmic scale. This means that the difference between 4 and 5 is much greater in linear terms than the difference between 1 and 2. 59 Coal - 5 Oil - 4 Natural gas - 3 Hydro - 3 Rooftop solar - 2 Wind - 2 Nuclear - 1 60 Each of these numbers represents an order of magnitude, that is a power of ten. We can see that with rooftop solar, wind, and nuclear, the numbers are so close and the uncertainties are so great and their relative values so small compared to say coal that they can be seen as equivalent so far as safety is concerned. -------------------- 61 What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy? by Hannah Ritchie Published in Our World in Data First published in 2017, updated in 2022 and 2024 62 The author of this study addressed both deaths and greenhouse gas emissions. Deaths from accidents and air pollution are normalized to per TWh of electricity, while greenhouse gas emissions are normalized to GWh of electricity over the life cycle of the plant. 63 Here are the death figures. Coal 24.6 Oil 18.4 Biomass 4.6 Natural Gas 2.8 Hydro power 1.3 Wind 0.04 Nuclear 0.03 Solar 0.02 64 For greenhouse gas emissions the figures are Coal 970 tons Oil 720 tons Natural gas 440 tons Biomass 78 to 230 tons Solar 53 tons Hydro power 24 tons Wind 11 tons Nuclear 6 tons 65 If we take the death figures and rank them by order of magnitude as we did with the previous article, we get the following. 66 Coal - 4 Oil - 4 Biomass - 3 Natural Gas - 3 Hydro power - 3 Wind - 1 Nuclear - 1 Solar - 1 67 Keep in mind that the previous article covered only rooftop solar and not large industrial installations, and so is not directly comparable. Also the units are different, with the previous article being in terms of thousand TWh, and this one being in TWh. If we exclude solar (as the numbers are not comparable), Brian Wang's numbers are between 1.5 to 4 times higher than Ritchie's, except for hydro which are almost identical. I think this latter is due to both sets of numbers are dominated by one exceptionally big hydro accident. 68 Overall however, the relative rankings are quite comparable. Ritchie's numbers for deaths from coal, oil, and natural gas appear to be directly from the study by Markandya and Wilkinson mentioned above. For the benefit of those who are wondering, Ritchie specifically states that her numbers for nuclear include the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents. -------------------- https://www.iaea.org/publications/magazines/bulletin/21-1/solar-power-more-dangerous-nuclear Direct link to file https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazines/bulletin/bull21-1/21104091117.pdf https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)61253-7/abstract https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/07/2020-fatalities-for-us-roofers-increased-15-as-solar-roof-installations-increase.html -------------------- 69 Conclusion from Studies Remember that in engineering terms, when comparing groups of numbers which contain both both very small numbers and one or more very large numbers, the differences between the small numbers are often not significant. The differences between the small numbers may be the product of our ability to measure these things rather than any real differences. 70 For example, in the article by Ritchie wind power would appear to be twice as dangerous as nuclear. However, the difference between them is 0.02 compared to 24.6 for coal. In other words, the difference between apparently "dangerous" wind and apparently "safe" nuclear is equivalent to 0.08% of the total for coal. It's therefore meaningless and a red herring to even worry about. 71 With the above taken into consideration, generally the different sources of energy fall into two broad categories in terms of number of deaths, injuries, and illnesses. The fossil fuels and biomass fall into one group and wind, solar, and nuclear into another group. 72 Hydro power would seem to fall into the higher risk category or at least somewhere between the two, but this I suspect is mainly due to one exceptionally large dam collapse in China, the Banqian Dam failure in 1975. This is mentioned as being specifically included in the article written by Ritchie. This was a multi-purpose dam, and information on this dam is difficult to find. It is not clear to me whether it had a hydro electric generator associated with either it or another dam that was part of the same system. 73 Some people therefor may argue for its exclusion from the numbers. Of course some people may argue for its inclusion anyway, as it was a dam regardless of whether it actually had an electric generator attached. If we exclude it, then I think the numbers for hydro power would fall into the same range as for nuclear, wind, and solar. 74 Most people would consider hydro power to be safe and clean enough regardless of this and I will rank it as such in any conclusions that I come to. As you can see, even if we have numbers, it can be a matter of opinion as to how to interpret them. -------------------- -------------------- 75 Taking a Systems Approach Now let's take a look at the broader energy picture today and into the future. Many countries in many parts of the world have committed to the concept of "Net Zero", which means eliminating carbon emissions on a net basis. Net zero essentially means the complete electrification of society. We must therefore have electrical energy on demand and at low cost. We must as a result of this look at complete electrical systems rather than individual sources in isolation. 76 At one time many electrical systems were entirely coal or entirely hydroelectric. This is no longer the case. There are now major amounts of wind and solar involved in many countries. However these are inherently intermittent. This means that other sources of energy are inherently also required to have a functional system. 77 If any particular solution inherently requires fossil fuels to meet part of the demand, then the safety, pollution, and climate issues relating to those fossil fuels have to be factored in to that complete system when trying to come up with a relative ranking. Talking about Individual sources in isolation are therefore meaningless in these countries. 78 There are battery systems, but these are mainly used to stabilize and regulate the grid plus to a lesser degree to smooth out short term daily peaks in demand. They do not have the ability to store large amounts of electricity on a large scale for an entire grid for days, weeks, and months to make up for intermittency. 79 So a serious attempt to rank sources of energy would need to look at a variety of representative countries and for each one come up with a plan that involves 'x' megawatts from source 'a', 'y' megawatts from source 'b', etc., and total up the values for each. 80 I am not aware of anyone who has studied this larger issue. However, the problem has to be addressed from this perspective in order for any answer to be useful. Not taking this into account is like ordering a diet soft drink to go with with a high calorie meal and assuring yourself that your plans to diet are fine. 81 This is not to imply there is anything inherently wrong with wind or solar. It does mean that if your goal is to achieve both net zero and a clean environment, you have to look at your entire energy system as a complete system rather than focusing on what you feel are the most reassuring parts of it while ignoring the rest. This does however add to the argument that it is in fact inherently very difficult to come up with a system of ranking energy sources for safety. -------------------- 82 Nuclear, Climate, and Clean Air - Contrasting Examples To give a tangible example we will now look at two different places that followed two divergent paths at roughly around the same time frame. These are the province of Ontario in Canada, and Germany. 83 Ontario had a mix of coal, hydro electric, and nuclear generating plants. Germany had a mix of coal, nuclear and natural gas plants. Ontario shut down their coal fired plants and kept their nuclear plants. Germany however shut down their nuclear plants and kept their coal fired plants. 84 The Phase Out of Coal in Ontario In 2003 Ontario decided to close all of its coal fired generating plants, which consisted of 19 units (that is boilers and turbines) totalling 8,800 MW. This phase out was completed by 2014. 85 Here are the figures for amount of power generated by each energy source in 2003 and 2014. Nuclear went from 42% to 60% Hydro went from 23% to 24% Gas went from 11% to 9% Coal went from 25% to 0% Non-hydro renewable went from 0% to 7%. 86 As you can see, the bulk of that replacement came from increased use of nuclear power. Furthermore, this did not result in simply replacing coal with natural gas. While gas is cleaner than coal, it still has emissions and if you recall from the studies that we looked at earlier, had an estimated death rate roughly 2 orders of magnitude greater than nuclear, solar, or wind. 87 To put this in more practical terms, at one time Toronto regularly had clouds of smog obscuring it, to a large extent due to these coal fired power plants With the phase out of coal, smog days went to zero in 2015 compared to 53 a decade earlier. The 2023 figures for Ontario show carbon emissions of 53 grams per kWh of electricity generated. We can use this as a rough benchmark comparison for total emissions. 88 The Phase out of Nuclear in Germany Until March of 2011, Germany generated one quarter of its electrical power from nuclear. Starting in 2011 however, they began shutting down their nuclear power plants. These were then phased out over the next decade. However, the coal plants were to be kept to 2038. In 2026 Germany began talking about increasing use of coal in order to save gas. In the same year the German chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that the phase out of nuclear was a quote “serious strategic mistake”. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was "a strategic mistake for Europe to turn its back on a reliable, affordable source of low-emissions power". 89 I won't go into the details of the phase out, but let's look at some emissions numbers for Germany. If we look at the official numbers from the European Environmental Agency for 2024, for Germany their emissions were 298 grams per kWh of electricity generated. Recall that we are using emissions as a very rough guide to amount of air pollution, and that this has a direct effect on the safety of the overall electrical energy system. 90 So, who actually made their people safer, Ontario who phased out their coal plants and kept their nuclear plants, or Germany who phased out their nuclear plants and kept their coal plants? 91 If you want a comparison directly within Europe, then Germany has one of the highest rates of emissions per kWh of electricity generated, whereas France, who use mainly nuclear power, have one of the lowest at 43 grams per kWh of electricity generated. Again, who is making their people safer, Germany or France? 92 I don't want to make it sound like I am picking on Germany. I am also not going to tell them how they ought to run their country. However they provide a good real world example of how we need to look at things in overall context when we are thinking about the choices that we make. https://www.ontario.ca/page/end-coal https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/smog-study-shows-significant-decreases-in-pollutants-in-ontario-1.4151183 https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/greenhouse-gas-emission-intensity-of-1 https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-g-n/germany https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-is-right-to-reject-germanys-nuclear-phase-out-says-iea-chief-fatih-birol/ https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-considers-ramping-up-coal-power-to-avert-energy-crisis/ https://www.iea.org/countries/estonia/electricity https://www.iea.org/countries/malta/electricity -------------------- 93 Conclusions As we can see, there don't appear to be an abundance of peer reviewed scientific studies that we can simply point to in order to answer the question of safety of all possible major different energy sources once and for all. Collecting the data to even attempt to answer the question is inherently very difficult as we cannot readily conduct experiments to answer the question, and sources of data are not collected or consolidated in a manner which can answer this question adequately. 94 The essence of the problem is that most energy industries are not as tightly regulated and monitored to the same degree that say nuclear power or commercial airliners are, so this data is simply not being systematically recorded. However, a number of people have attempted to make estimates. 95 Their conclusions would seem to be that nuclear, wind, and solar are roughly equivalent in terms of safety. All fossil fuels are much less safe than nuclear, wind, and solar, by as much as several orders of magnitude. 96 We can however say with a reasonable degree of certainty that if a country shut down their nuclear power plants and kept their fossil fuel plants, particularly coal, then they probably made their people less safe than if they had done things the other way around. 97 I hope that I have provided some context in which to think about the issue. Thanks again to brian in ohio for providing the question upon which this episode is based. -------------------- Provide feedback on this episode.

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Les Électrons Libres lancent Céleste, un chatbot intégré à X dédié au fact-checking scientifique. Nourrie par des sources contrôlées et des bases de données rigoureuses, cette IA entend lutter contre la désinformation sur les sujets scientifiques, technologiques et environnementaux.

She's one of the best writers on science today, combining optimism about progress with a realist understanding of the messiness of our world. Saloni Dattani joins Amit Varma in episode 445 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss science, medicine, data, academia and how to make the world a better place. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)   Also check out: 1. Saloni Dattani at Google Scholar, Twitter, LinkedIn, Our World in Data and Works in Progress. 2. Scientific Discovery -- Saloni Dattani's newsletter. 3. Hard Drugs -- Saloni Dattani's podcast. 4. Saloni's guide to data visualization -- Saloni Dattani. 5. Four charts to understand causes of death across the lifespan -- Saloni Dattani. 6. What I've learnt about writing -- Saloni Dattani. 7. In praise of the Covid superforecasters -- Saloni Dattani. 8. The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking -- Saloni Dattani. 9. Death rates from cardiovascular disease have fallen dramatically — what were the breakthroughs behind this? -- Saloni Dattani. 10. The golden age of vaccine development -- Saloni Dattani. 11. Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner -- Saloni Dattani. 12. The first cancer vaccine -- Transcript of a Hard Drugs episode. 13. Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year -- Saloni Dattani. 14. Why the total fertility rate doesn't necessarily tell us the number of births women eventually have -- Saloni Dattani. 15. The rise in reported maternal mortality rates in the US is largely due to a change in measurement -- Saloni Dattani. 16. How do global statistics on suicide differ between sources? -- Saloni Dattani. 17. How many people die from snakebites? -- Saloni Dattani. 18. The Demographic and Health Surveys brought crucial data for more than 90 countries — without them, we risk darkness -- Saloni Dattani. 19. We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold -- Saloni Dattani. 20. Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable -- Saloni Dattani. 21. Will AI solve medicine? -- Transcript of a Hard Drugs episode. 22. Real peer review has never been tried -- Saloni Dattani. 23. The speed of science -- Saloni Dattani. 24. Medical breakthroughs in 2025 -- Saloni Dattani. 25. Scientific progress is at risk of slowing down. Saloni Dattani is making sure it doesn't. -- Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg. 26. Innovation is not linear -- Jason Crawford. 27. Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech -- Sally Smith Hughes. 28. Missing Markets for Innovation: Evidence from New Uses for Existing Drugs -- Eric Budish, Maya Durvasula, Benjamin Roin and Heidi Williams. 29. The 100% CI. 30. Superforecasting — Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner. 31. How Long Do We Wait for New Inventions? -- Brian Potter. 32. Million Dollar Secret. 33. Woolly mice designed to engineer mammoth-like elephants -- Pallab Ghosh. 34. Age of Invention -- Anton Hause. 35. Million Death Study. 36. Science Fictions -- Stuart Ritchie. 37. Outliers -- Malcolm Gladwell. 38. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Rukmini S: 1, 2, 3. 39. Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care — Robert Graboyes. 40. Strong Medicine -- Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster. 41. The Practice of Medicine — Episode 229 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Lancelot Pinto). 42. Project Resource Optimization. 43. Giving What We Can. 44. Coefficient Giving. 45. 1493 -- Charles Mann. 46. The Collapse -- Mary Elise Sarotte. 47. How to Survive a Plague -- David France. 48. The Mole. 49. And the Band Played On -- Randy Shilts. This episode is sponsored by The Six Percent Club. Join them to go from content idea to launch in just 45 days! Amit Varma runs a course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: 'Salonium' by Simahina.

Une fronde anti-IA émerge : la faute à qui ? • L'intelligence artificielle à l'épreuve de l'éthique religieuse avec l'encyclique papale Magnifica Humanitas • Mistral AI muscle son jeu à Paris • L'IA Céleste veut rétablir la vérité scientifique sur X • Alexa+ arrive en France avec l'IA générative • Santexpo : l'hôpital accélère sa transformation numérique grâce à l'IA.⭐️ Découvrez Frogans, l'innovation française qui réinvente le Web [PARTENARIAT]===============Vague anti-IA : la tech face au retour de bâtonDes manifestations contre les data centers aux États-Unis et en Europe, jusqu'aux huées contre Eric Schmidt à l'université d'Arizona, une contestation diffuse de l'IA semble émerger. En cause : inquiétudes environnementales, crainte pour l'emploi et sentiment d'un discours alarmiste entretenu par les patrons de la Silicon Valley eux-mêmes. L'entrepreneur Simon Khalaf dénonce un véritable « marketing de la peur » qui se retournerait aujourd'hui contre ses promoteurs.Magnifica Humanitas : le pape alerte sur l'IAAvec l'encyclique Magnifica Humanitas, le pape remet l'intelligence artificielle dans une perspective morale et humaniste. Déshumanisation, concentration du pouvoir, désinformation ou armement autonome : le texte appelle à une vigilance collective et à une gouvernance éthique des technologies. Un signal fort, commenté dans le débrief transatlantique avec Bruno Guglielminetti (podcast Mon Carnet).Mistral AI change de dimensionLa pépite française Mistral AI a profité de son AI Now Summit au Carrousel du Louvre pour dévoiler Vibe, nouvelle version de son chatbot transformé en agent autonome capable de coder et d'agir. Des partenariats stratégiques ont été annoncés avec Airbus, BMW et ASML, tandis que son cofondateur Arthur Mensch confirme l'ambition de produire un jour ses propres puces. Un positionnement industriel assumé face aux géants américains.Les Français et l'IA : une adoption intimeSelon une étude de Nation.fr, l'usage personnel de l'IA générative dépasse désormais l'usage professionnel en France. Conseils santé, messages amoureux, optimisation de profils sur applications de rencontre : les chatbots s'immiscent dans la sphère privée. 38 % des Français considèrent déjà l'IA comme un outil incontournable du quotidien.Macron promet 400 000 bornes électriques Réunis à l'Élysée, les acteurs de la filière automobile électrique ont entendu Emmanuel Macron fixer un nouvel objectif : 400 000 bornes publiques d'ici 2030. Un défi industriel majeur, impliquant notamment Electra et la grande distribution, pour accompagner l'essor des véhicules électriques et des recharges ultra-rapides.Mon IA Céleste : le fact-checking scientifique sur XLancée par le média indépendant Les Électrons Libres, Mon IA Céleste est un agent conversationnel dédié au débunk scientifique sur X. Son cofondateur Benjamin Sire, journaliste et musicien, explique que l'outil s'appuie sur une base de sources validées, dont Our World in Data, afin de contrer les approximations et fausses informations. Accessible sans abonnement premium, Céleste ambitionne d'élever le niveau du débat public.Alexa+ : l'assistant d'Amazon passe à l'IA générativeAmazon lance en France Alexa+, version enrichie par l'IA générative. Clément Monjou, directeur général d'Alexa France chez Amazon, détaille un assistant plus conversationnel, capable d'enchaîner des requêtes complexes, d'interagir avec des services tiers et de personnaliser l'expérience. Gratuit pour les abonnés Prime, Alexa+ marque une nouvelle étape stratégique pour l'écosystème vocal.L'IA à l'hôpital : vers une médecine augmentée[PARTENARIAT] La tech, et notamment l'usage de la data, changent la médecine publique. Monique Sorrentino, directrice générale du CHU Grenoble-Alpes, souligne l'essor d'outils d'IA pour synthétiser les dossiers patients et anticiper les flux. [PARTENARIAT] Au salon SantExpo, l'innovation hospitalière était à l'honneur. Gaël Prudhomme, responsable du Centre d'innovation en santé chez Capgemini, observe une montée en puissance des robots, des objets connectés et de l'exploitation des données, au service d'une médecine plus préventive et plus efficiente.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

What if the things you believe are best for the environment are actually making it worse? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Hannah Ritchie, data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World and Clearing the Air, to challenge some of the most widely held assumptions in sustainability.   Hannah explains why locally produced food rarely has a meaningfully lower carbon footprint than imported alternatives, why organic farming often demands more land to produce the same amount of food, and why nuclear energy is one of the safest and most land-efficient power sources available. She walks through the data behind each of these claims and explains how well-intentioned environmental orthodoxies can actually slow progress toward the outcomes they aim to achieve.   Things You Will Learn: Why buying local food does not significantly reduce your carbon footprint compared to choosing lower-impact foods from anywhere in the world. How the carbon footprint of keeping a dog compares to the average American's total annual emissions. Why nuclear energy has caused far fewer deaths per unit of electricity than fossil fuels over its entire history. Why cement production and air conditioning represent some of the most neglected opportunities for climate innovation.   Tools & Frameworks Covered: Food Miles vs. Production Emissions: A data-driven framework showing that transportation accounts for roughly five percent of total food system emissions, while on-farm production and land use change dominate the footprint of most foods. Land Sparing vs. Land Sharing: Two competing approaches to balancing agricultural production with biodiversity conservation, where intensive farming on less land is weighed against lower-intensity farming spread across more land. Per-Unit Safety Comparison for Energy: A method of evaluating energy sources by calculating deaths per unit of electricity generated, which consistently shows nuclear and renewables are far safer than fossil fuels.   #BusinessForGood #FutureOfFood #AlternativeProtein #SustainableBusiness

This week, we're scratching The Itch for a youth movement! Our guests are Chaya and Nyrobi Beckett-Messam, collectively known as ALT BLK ERA. They're sisters who grew up with a passion for music that led them to start creating at a young age. With strong family support and a penchant for engrossing themselves in various genres, they put their individual personalities and styles together to release their debut album, the fantastic drum and bass/rock hybrid Rave Immortal, just last year. Now they're back with further experimentation on a new EP called Our World. The girls join us to discuss the EP, as well as their experience navigating the alternative scene as teenagers and showing that they could, in fact, stand on their own as artists. Plus, they give insight into the challenges of touring while living with a hidden disability and the wild story of how they bonded and collaborated with Wheatus. Enjoy. As promised, here's ALT BLK ERA's reaction video as they play "My Drummer's Girlfriend" in front of their drummer's girlfriend, as well as Chaya making her guitar debut on that song at 2000trees 2024 and the band getting the party started at that show with "Upstairs Neighbours". Listen to The Itch Rock Radio Show Rock with us every Sunday night from 6-9pm CST on KCLC-FM in St. Louis. Outside the area? Stream online at 891thewood.com, TuneIn, Radio.net, and OnlineRadioBox! Connect With The Itch For any and all friendship, questions, inquiries, and offers of pizza, The Itch can be found at the following: Website: itchrocks.com Facebook: Facebook.com/itchrocks Instagram: Instagram.com/itchrocks Email: itchrocks@gmail.com Support the Show Thank you so much for listening. If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a positive review and rating on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Podchaser to help our audience grow. Reviews only take a minute and help us reach more rock fans just like you. Credits Our theme song, "Corrupted", is used with permission from the amazing Skindred. All other content is copyright of The Itch. All rights reserved, including the right to rock on.

Can you believe it? On today's episode we are welcoming the newest member of the Cryptid Creator Corner's 5-Timers Club. It's Cullen Bunn!!! Cullen is back for his 5th time on the podcast. He's been a guest once a year since we started the podcast in 2022. On this episode Cullen and Jimmy talk about the business of comics and just how tough it can be, how Cullen almost left comics until Ignition Press pulled him back in, and his new novel Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World. Cullen has two new series with Ignition Press: Deluge and Ripcord. They discuss them both. Plus Jimmy and Cullen talk about Cullen's YouTube Series The Cullenoscopy and the charity The Midnight Lantern Foundation. There is so much packed into this episode for fans and creators alike. Go to Cullen's website Buy Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World Check out Ignition Press Follow Cullen on Bluesky Sign up for Cullen's newsletter Subscribe to The Cullenoscopy Support The Midnight Lantern Foundation Follow Comic Book Yeti

This week, Jeremy and Alex are honoured to be joined by Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi to discuss the Bible's impact on our world. Without the Bible and the worldview that it presents, our world would be unrecognizable. The most fundamental values, customs, and social structures we enjoy could not have arisen apart from the influence of the Bible. Dr. Mangalwadi provides both a rigorous intellectual and historical account of specific ways the Bible has built our world, but also first-hand knowledge of the contrast between the consequences of a Biblical worldview and a Hindu worldview. For a comprehensive and helpful work on the topic, please see Dr. Mangalwadi's book, This Book Changed Everything: The Bible's Amazing Impact on Our World (2019). Get full access to Dominion Press at www.dominionpress.ca/subscribe

What does it really mean to reset a relationship between nations?In this episode of Our World, Connected, host Christine Wilson is joined by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, to discuss the complex and deeply intertwined relationship between the UK and Ireland. Drawing on her own life and work across Ireland, the UK and beyond, Jane reflects on how history, imperial legacy and mobility continue to shape identities and relationships across these islands. Exploring difficult conversations about the past and the challenges brought about by Brexit, as well as celebrating educational and cultural links and looking to a more hopeful future, she explores how these connections can be nurtured.We also hear a personal perspective from Bukky Adebowale, Policy Education Officer at the Irish Network Against Racism. Bukky shares how her educational and cultural experiences in Ireland and later in the UK shaped her understanding of her Irish and Yoruba identity, sense of belonging and connections. Her story highlights how education, culture and relationships can help people bridge histories, communities and borders.This episode questions whether national relationships can ever be reset through diplomacy alone, and how culture, education and people-to-people connections can help imagine a more open, empathetic future.Listen to Our World, Connected, the award-winning podcast from the British Council, exploring culture, communication, and the power of collaboration in a changing world.Further resources:Erasmus+ https://www.britishcouncil.org/erasmusplus Higher Education Mobility UK and Irelandhttps://www.britishcouncil.ie/higher-education-mobility-researchProfessor Jane Ohlmeyerhttps://www.janeohlmeyer.ie/

This episode steps back from the daily news cycle to examine the structural roots of the current global energy crisis. Host Zoe Williams speaks to Chris Hayes, the Chief Economist at Common Wealth, and Luke Cooper, LSE academic. Drawing parallels to the 1970s oil shock, their conversation explores how decades of policy decisions have left economies—particularly the UK—dangerously exposed to volatile energy markets. The discussion moves from global context to concrete proposals for reforming the UK energy sector.This episode was recorded 1 April 2026. In This Episode How today's energy crisis compares to the oil shock of fifty years ago What actually happens when energy markets set prices and who benefits when prices spike Effects we've already seen, and risks that lie ahead Why the current UK energy structure leaves consumers exposed to global shocks Common Wealth's proposal for structural reform Common WealthWebsiteBluesky: @cmmonwealthTwitter/X: @cmmonwealthTikTok: @cmmonwealth Featured Organisation: Global Justice NowGet your free ticket to Resisting Big Tech Empires on 25 April 2026!An international conference, ‘Resisting Big Tech Empires: The fight for the future' will take place in London on the 25th of April 2026 at London South Bank University. Organised by UK-based NGO Global Justice Now in association with Balanced Economy Project, the conference promises a “day of talks and strategy on big tech's impact on democracy, economies, war and the environment, and how we can challenge it”.The line-up for the event boasts speakers including multi-award-winning novelist and campaigner Cory Doctorow; founding member and executive director of IT for Change, Anita Gurumurthy; campaigner with Our World is Not for Sale, Sofia Scasserra; author of Silicon Empires and Platform Capitalism, Nick Srnicek; and director of Foxglove, Rosa Curling.Facebook: @globaljusticeukInstagram: @globaljusticenowTwitter/X: @globaljusticenow ABOUT THE PODCASTCOUNTER•POWER is brought to you by Stop Trump Coalition, Another Europe Is Possible and Global Justice Now, three organisations at the centre of the new global resistance. This podcast isn't just about chatting and conversation — it's about turning ideas into action and building real community power. That's why we have a simple pledge to you, our audience. On every single episode we'll leave you with something you can do to catalyse change. Whether it's the latest big ideas or the movements you need to check out, you'll find them on COUNTER•POWER. But we need your help to launch this project. We need £8,000 to catapult COUNTER•POWER into the podcasting sphere with the aim of making it self-sustaining in the future.The funds will cover high-quality production – including sound and visuals – as well as consistent editorial quality, all of which are essential to creating the kind of impactful podcast we're aiming for.Any donation – big or small – can help us get there. Thank you for your support.DONATE HEREFollow Us Instagram@anothereuropeispossible@globaljusticenow @ukstoptrumpTikTok@global.justice.now@uk.stop.trump.coaTwitter / X @Another_Europe@GlobalJusticeUK@UKStopTrumpMusic(cc): Intro R&B instrumental loop, Mcgrogo (Freesound.org)

US president Donald Trump is no fan of wind turbines, or windmills as he calls them.Not only does he think they ruin the view from a golf course he owns in Scotland, but they are also deadly to birds.“If you love birds, you'd never want to walk under a windmill,” he said in 2019. “It's a very sad, sad sight. It's like a cemetery. We put a little statue for the poor birds.”Earlier this year he posted on Truth Social saying that wind turbines were killing “millions” of birds.But is that true? We speak to Dr Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor at Our World in Data and senior researcher at the University of Oxford, who has dug into the numbers on bird mortality and wind turbines.Credits:Presenter: Charlotte McDonald Producer: Mhairi MacKenzie Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: Sue Maillot Editor: Richard Vadon

What if the chaos in the world is reflecting something unhealed in all of us?   In this episode of The Healing + Human Potential Podcast, I sit down with Thomas Hübl to explore how collective trauma shapes our inner world and the world around us, why so much of what we call normal is actually unresolved pain, and why healing was never meant to happen alone.   Thomas shares how trauma moves through families, communities, and systems, shaping the patterns we keep repeating personally and collectively. We also explore inherited trauma, nervous system healing, community, and why hope becomes possible when healing is no longer something we try to do in isolation.   If you have ever felt like your healing is connected to something bigger than just your own story, this episode offers a powerful perspective.   ===   Guest Bio: Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma.   He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World, and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds.  Hübl has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.     ====   Connect with Guest: Website: https://thomashuebl.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thomashuebl/   ===   Want 3 Life-Changing Tools you can use on yourself (or your clients) from inside our Accredited Coaching Certification? Click here to get them for Free:  https://www.alyssanobriga.com/tools   ===   Want one of the most Powerful Tools to Support you in Awakening & Manifesting Your Dream Life from the Inside Out (for Free)?   Learn how to live to your full potential without letting fear get in the way of your dreams.   ✨ Here's How to Get Your Gift: ✨   Step 1: Just head over to Apple Podcast or Spotify + leave a review now   Step 2: Take a screenshot before hitting submit   Step 3: Then go to alyssanobriga.com/podcast to upload it!   ===   Website: alyssanobriga.com Instagram: @alyssanobriga TikTok: @alyssanobriga Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6b5s2xbA2d3pETSvYBZ9YR Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-human-potential/id1705626495   === Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - Disclaimer This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or any other qualified professional. We shall in no event be held liable to any party for any reason arising directly or indirectly for the use or interpretation of the information presented in this video. Copyright 2023, Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - All rights reserved

Great news! We've been nominated for a Webby Award! Our three-part Katrina series is a finalist for Best News & Politics limited series podcast. Now, we need your help. Voting ends Thursday, April 16! Cast your vote at bit.ly/webbybipisci    Antarctic scientists have long known the region's ice sheet holds clues to the planet's ancient past. Yet even the field's foremost experts were shocked when they extracted a six-million-year-old ice core — twice as old as expected and the oldest recorded so far. Researchers say it will provide one of our best looks ever into Earth's climatological record. In a relatively more recent past, the discovery of 40,000-year-old notches and lines carved into artifacts and cave walls in Germany, examples of protowriting, suggest humans began documenting ideas thousands of years earlier than thought. Those timescales pale however, when compared to the age of the Earth's most ancient rocks, which have a story to tell too. Find out how the planet's most venerable rocks, formed billions of years ago, reveal the geological conditions that allowed life to get a foothold.  Guests: Huw Groucutt – Archeologist, Department of Classics and Archeology, University of Malta Ed Brook – Paleoclimatologist and professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University Simon Lamb – Earth scientist and professor of geography in the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand.   Author of “The Oldest Rocks on Earth: A Search for the Origins of Our World.” Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Great news! We've been nominated for a Webby Award! Our three-part Katrina series is a finalist for Best News & Politics limited series podcast. Now, we need your help. Voting ends Thursday, April 16! Cast your vote at bit.ly/webbybipisci    Antarctic scientists have long known the region's ice sheet holds clues to the planet's ancient past. Yet even the field's foremost experts were shocked when they extracted a six-million-year-old ice core — twice as old as expected and the oldest recorded so far. Researchers say it will provide one of our best looks ever into Earth's climatological record. In a relatively more recent past, the discovery of 40,000-year-old notches and lines carved into artifacts and cave walls in Germany, examples of protowriting, suggest humans began documenting ideas thousands of years earlier than thought. Those timescales pale however, when compared to the age of the Earth's most ancient rocks, which have a story to tell too. Find out how the planet's most venerable rocks, formed billions of years ago, reveal the geological conditions that allowed life to get a foothold.  Guests: Huw Groucutt – Archeologist, Department of Classics and Archeology, University of Malta Ed Brook – Paleoclimatologist and professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University Simon Lamb – Earth scientist and professor of geography in the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand.   Author of “The Oldest Rocks on Earth: A Search for the Origins of Our World.” Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join the dialogue - text your questions, insights, and feedback to The Dignity Lab podcast.This episode explores what comes after the work of healing, how to decide whether to renew or release a relationship with someone who caused harm. Jennifer walks through both paths, emphasizing that forgiveness does not require staying connected and that this decision is deeply personal.Renewal means creating a new relationship grounded in clarity, boundaries, and mutual capacity, not returning to what was. Release, on the other hand, is a conscious choice to free yourself from emotional ties to the person, even without apology or closure. The episode also acknowledges that feeling stuck is a natural part of the process and offers alternative paths forward, including dignity-based healing, acceptance, advocacy, and restorative justice.The core message: there is no single “right” next step, only the one that honors your dignity and allows you to move forward with intention.Takeaways After healing, you can renew or release the relationship.  Forgiveness does not require continued connection.  Renewal means creating a new relationship, not returning to the old one.  Renewal requires clarity, boundaries, vulnerability, and mutual capacity.  Release means freeing yourself from emotional ties—not avoidance.  You can release even without apology, contact, or closure.  You can renew internally, even if the person is gone.  If you still feel intense anger or pain, more healing may be needed before release.  Feeling stuck is normal—healing is not linear. Alternatives to forgiveness include dignity, acceptance, advocacy, and justice.ResourcesThe Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond TutuDignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict by Donna HicksThe Principles of Psychology (1890) by William JamesExploring what it means to live and lead with dignity at work, in our families, in our communities, and in the world. What is dignity? How can we honor the dignity of others? And how can we repair and reclaim our dignity after harm? Tune in to hear stories about violations of dignity and ways in which we heal, forgive, and make choices about how we show up in a chaotic and fractured world. Hosted by physician and coach Jennifer Griggs.For more information on the podcast, please visit www.thedignitylab.com.For more information on podcast host Dr. Jennifer Griggs, please visit https://jennifergriggs.com/.For additional free resources, including the periodic table of dignity elements, please visit https://jennifergriggs.com/resources/.The Dignity Lab is an affiliate of Bookshop.org and will receive 10% of the purchase price when you click through and make a purchase. This supports our production and hosting costs. Bookshop.org doesn't earn money off bookstore sales, all profits go to independent bookstores. We encourage our listeners to purchase books through Bookshop.org for this reason.

The complex intersection of technological progress, economic stability, and human well-being across history and into the year 2026. Data from Our World in Data reveals a dramatic 150-year decline in working hours, while economist Tyler Cowen argues that modern institutional bottlenecks will prevent AI from triggering a rapid growth explosion. Contrasting this perspective, OpenAI's 2026 industrial policy proposes radical measures like "robot taxes" and a four-day workweek to manage the transition to superintelligence. Will Manidis critiques these corporate proposals as disconnected from the violent labor struggles of the past and reflects on the spiritual and cultural anxieties of a society obsessed with technical optimization. Together, the texts debate whether humanity is entering an age of unprecedented leisure or profound displacement as machines begin to outpace human productivity. These narratives suggest that the ultimate challenge of the intelligence age is not just economic efficiency, but redefining the human social contract.

What does it really mean for a city to be a “city of culture”? And what role can culture play in shaping more peaceful and connected societies?In this episode of Our World, Connected, host Christine Wilson speaks with Shanaz Gulzar, Creative Director of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, about how cultural programmes can transform the way cities see themselves and connect with the wider world. Drawing on Bradford's story, Shanaz reflects on the power of culture to bring communities together, create space for dialogue about identity and history, and build lasting international partnerships rooted in creativity and exchange.We also hear personal perspectives from Caitlin Askin, an administrator and museum guide at the Museum of Free Derry, and Marko Pešikan, a filmmaker and teacher from Sarajevo, who both took part in the Here We Stand project. Marko created this film with his co-creator, Hanan Alić. “For us, this project was a really meaningful experience because it reminded us that peace is not something distant or theoretical. It's something very human. Through the film, we tried to show that even when the world feels chaotic, there are still places inside of us where calm exists. Being part of telling that story made the whole process feel very real and it showed us how a simple idea can grow into something that people can actually connect with,” said Marko. Through their experiences, they explore how storytelling, film and artistic collaboration can help young people make sense of conflict, express their identities, and connect with others across borders. Their stories highlight the role of culture not only in reflecting lived experience, but in fostering empathy, resilience and a sense of shared humanity.This episode asks how cities can use culture not just to celebrate who they are, but to engage with difficult histories, strengthen connections across divides, and contribute to a more peaceful and inclusive future.Links: https://www.britishcouncil.org/research-insight/role-artistic-expressions-positive-peacehttps://www.britishcouncil.org/research-insight/cities-everyday-endotic-cultural-relationshttps://www.britishcouncil.org/research-insight/eurovision2023https://www.britishcouncil.rs/en/programmes/education/different-memories-shared-futures-towards-inclusive-memorialisation 

“Yes we can” vote and protest our way out of authoritarianism. It's a classic case of academic literature never making it to mainstream consumption. Hang around social media long enough and you'll hear that we're basically screwed. A complete fascist take over is either extremely likely, inevitable, or it's already here. And there's not much we can do about it. Unless some other country invades us, we'll be waiting for a civil war or a bloody military coup to hopefully maybe turn things around. That's what history teaches us, right? Literally the opposite. An incredible data set that a team of thousands of academics have been assembling for over a decade provides a unique opportunity to examine these questions with fresh eyes. To look at wannabe dictators and see how many succeeded, how many eventually lost power, how democracy returned (if ever), and why. With this systematic approach, we see that strengthened democracy specifically because of authoritarian episodes is increasingly common. In fact, in the last 30 years it's the most common response to autocratization, and most often achieved by internal democratic actors. Taking this into account, events once viewed as episodes of successful stand-alone autocratization, with resistance ultimately futile, are actually better characterized as failures that caused a wave of democratic sentiment in the populace. Successful civil resistance that just took time. Jenessa takes us through the paper that has her jumping for joy this week. Resist! Nord, M. Angiolillo, F., Lundstedt, M., Wiebrecht, F., & Lindberg, S.I. (2025). When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900. Democratization, 32, 1136-1159. Frequently asked questions. Varieties of Democracy Institute. The Episodes of Regime Transformation (ERT) dataset. Varieties of Democracy Institute. V-Dem. Electoral Democracy Index, 2024. Our World in Data. Sato, Y., Lundstedt, M., Morrison, K., Boese, V.A., & Lindberg, S.I. (2022). Institutional order in episodes of autocratization. The Varieties of Democracy Institute. Armitage, C. (Aug. 13, 2025). I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%. The Existentialist Republic. Further reading: Nord, M., Angiolillo, F., Good God, A., & Lindberg, S.I. (2025). State of the world 2024: 25 years of autocratization – democracy trumped? Democratization, 32, 839-864. Anti-Pluralism. European Center for Populism Studies. Coppedge, M. (2023). V-Dem's conceptions of democracy and their consequences. The Varieties of Democracy Institute. Lührmann, A. & Lindberg, S.I. (2019). A third wave of autocratization is here: What is new about it? Democratization, 26, 1095-1113. Croissant, A. & Lott, L. (2025). Democratic resilience in the twenty-first century: Search for an analytical framework and explorative analysis. Political Studies, 0, 1-28. Tomini, L., Gibril, S. & Bochev, V. (2023). Standing up against autocratization across political regimes: A comparative analysis of resistance actors and strategies. Democratization, 30, 119-138. Wiebrecht, F., Sato, Y., Nord, M., Lundstedt, M., Angiolillo, F., & Lindberg, S.I. (2023). State of the world 2022: Defiance in the face of autocratization. Democratization, 30, 769-793. Gamboa, L. (2017). Opposition at the margins: Strategies against the erosion of democracy in Colombia and Venezuela. Comparative Politics, 49, 457-477. Laebens, M.G., & Lührmann, A. (2023). What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability. In Lührmann, A. & Merkel, W. (Eds.), Resilience of democracy: Responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges (pp. 40-61). Routledge. Are you an expert in something and want to be on the show? Apply here!

This week, we drop S1 Chapter 5, the Golden Waters both in Reimagining form and Listen-Along form, we debate Val vs Our World's Fittest Man, and I'm gearing up to sink into another chunk of chapters from my boy big Z! All this and more but first a message to our Heroes —--------------------- Want more 7th Valkyrie? Check out our Patreon to become a Hero of Edara, where you can shape the future of the series, decide on merch drops and incentives, get early access to new episodes, enjoy bonus features and content, and help us hit the major checkpoints on the Path of Heroes!  https://www.patreon.com/7thvalkyrie

Merry Christmas you beautiful people!Last episode I talke about Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas and Bob Baker sent me a great versio of Our World, have a listen to it here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFvIIuvA4yE&list=RDuFvIIuvA4yE&start_radio=1Then we take a look at some Christmas related Guinness World Records. How many candy canes can one man fit into his beard? You'll find out.Next up is Do You Hear What I Hear and Bob Baker looks at why us Brits refer to the police as Bobbies.This episode's version of A Christmas Carol is very short and is a sketch from Saturday Night Live called Scrudge. It's worth a look, so here's a link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMKZctlLDPUWe also have a short What The Dickens, and I discuss the word 'hello'.Then Bob is back with Where Are You Christmas? and this time he's found it in Texas.Check out Bob's podcast here:  https://4fpodcast.buzzsprout.comIn last episode's Christmas Quiz I did pretty poorly, in this episode's Christmas Quiz I did even worse.  Make sure to send in your scores.The recommendation is the film version of the book Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks, which is the book I recommended last episode. The film isn't great, but you can watch it for free on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G40a7PWyewQGet in touch:Email: totalchristmas@gmail.comWeb: totalchristmaspodcast.comMerry Christmas!

Our modern world was born from destruction — and no more so than in North America, which historian Clifton Crais describes as the most violent place on the planet in the 18th and 19th centuries. Crais describes what he calls the Mortecene against humans and the rest of nature. Clifton Crais, The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World University of Chicago Press, 2025 The post Violence and the Making of Our World appeared first on KPFA.

What can cultural relations organisations be doing now, and in the future, to support people in the midst of the conflict in the Middle East?In this special mini-episode of Our World, Connected, host Christine Wilson speaks with Zahid Mahmood, the British Council's Director in Libya, about the role of cultural relations in times of conflict. Drawing on his experience working across the Middle East and North Africa, Zahid reflects on building trust in conflict-affected regions, the long-term impact of youth and cultural programmes, and why soft power and diplomacy remain vital even in moments of escalating geopolitical tension.Further resourcesl021_young_arab_voice_from_voice_to_encounter_final_v2_web.pdfhttps://www.britishcouncil.ly/enhttps://www.britishcouncil.org/partner/international-development/approach/regions/middle-east-north-africa

Jim talks with Samantha Sweetwater about her book True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World and the question of what it means to be human at this moment in planetary history. They discuss her verb-based rather than noun-based self-identity, Lisa Feldman Barrett's construction theory as a framework for understanding the entanglement of body, brain, mind, and relationship as the fabric of lived experience, Samantha's identity as a "Gaian" and humans as a creator-destroyer class of organism, the Fermi paradox and the gigantic moral freight of potentially being the only general intelligence in the universe, the meaning of the sacred and John Vervaeke's formulation that "sacred is how the world is to us when we see it through the eyes of love," Jim's own definition of the sacred as the appropriate stance toward things too complex for reductionist analysis, the metacrisis as fundamentally a crisis of separation, the four generator functions of separation including stories of separability, structures of separability, win-lose game-theoretic dynamics, and dominator ideologies, the forager operating system and Chris Boehm's account of how egalitarian societies historically defeated hierarchy, the hinge of agriculture and henchmen enabling dominator systems, Luke Kemp's Goliath's Curse and the contrast between fluid civilizations and Goliaths, role-based non-hierarchical leadership in forager societies and whether it can scale, Audrey Tang as an emergent archetype of life-centric coordination, psychedelics as allies and teachers rather than mere tools, Samantha's personal healing path through sacrament, community, and prayer, the neuroscience of heightened neural entropy and the brain's wash cycle, the ontological reframe of one's own importance, the hard problem of machine consciousness and the California Institute for Machine Consciousness, the space of minds and the n=1 problem of one planet and one biochemistry, the MoltBook experiment of AI inventing languages and religions, relationality as the core practice available to people in their actual lives, humans as a custodial species and co-orchestrators rather than dominion-holders, Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk, and much more. Episode Transcript True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World, by Samantha Sweetwater Goliath's Curse, by Luke Kemp Sand Talk, by Tyson Yunkaporta JRS Currents 010: Tyson Yunkaporta on Humans as a Custodial Species Samantha Sweetwater is the author of True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World, a meta-relational educator, leadership mentor, and the founder of One Life Circle, a ministry of remembering. For over three decades, she has facilitated individual and collective transformational experiences across diverse cultures and communities on five continents. As the founder of Dancing Freedom and Peacebody Japan, she pioneered a global movement of embodied awakening and trained hundreds of facilitators worldwide. Her work bridges ecology, complexity, spirituality, and technology with lived experience, inviting a re-imagining of what it means to be human in a time of planetary techno-cultural transformation. Through teaching, writing, and attuned presence, she helps people restore relationship with their bodies, each other, and the living world as a foundation for wise action in uncertain times.

Time Magazine, CNN, Media Images & Reporting Reflect the Colors of Change.This Week I Take Time to Reflect & Just Breathe. Also Reflect of Things Happening in Our World. In Remembrance of Jimmie Lee Jackson & The Late Honorable John Lewis (D,GA).In 2026, We are STILL Fighting the Good Fight for Voter's Rights for ALL.I have been Blessed to Meet, Learn, Train & Work along side of Several Civil Rights Icons. On of them was the Late The Honorable John Lewis (D,GA) who Fought & Marched in 2020 to the Very End!!I have attended events Remembering the History, People & Sacrifice.The Fight for Justice Continues Today in 2026 as People Help Bring About Change.My Guest this Week was asked to join the Selma March in Alabama in 1965 by Dr. Martin Luther King. His name: Joseph Cooney Esq., then a newly ordained Priest. He also worked with SCLC in the Voters Registration Summers of 1966-67.In 1965, State Troopers Clashed with Citizens marching to Montgomery, Alabama to petition the state for African-American's Right to Vote. Many lives would change in this fight. Some lives both Black & White lost. The March from Selma to Montgomery was inspired by the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson was a civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist church. On February 18, 1965, while participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and shot by Alabama State Trooper John Bonard Fowler Jackson was unarmed and died eight days later in the hospital.His death was part of the inspiration for the Selma to Montgomery marches in March 1965, a major events in the American Civil Rights Movement that helped gain Congressional passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This opened the door to millions of African Americans being able to vote again in Alabama and across the South, regaining participation as citizens in the political system for the first time since the turn of the 20th century, when they were disenfranchised by state constitutions and discriminatory practices.© 2026 Building Abundant Success!!© 2026 All Rights Reserved Join Me on ~ iHeart Media @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBAS Spot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23baAmazon ~ https://tinyurl.com/AmzBASAudacy:  https://tinyurl.com/BASAud

Michael Penfold gives an outline of the main events that are ahead for the world in biblical prophecy, from the rapture to the eternal state. The chart accompanying this sermon is available below. Readings: Isa 9:6-7, Dan 9:24-27, Eph 3:3-6, 1 Thess 4:13-18, 2 Thess 2:1-12. (Recorded in Straffordville Gospel Hall, ON, Canada, on 8th Jan 2026) Click here for the chart in PDF Or see below for the chart in JPG: Complete series: Countercultural Christianity Courtship and Dating The The post What Is Ahead for Our World? | Michael Penfold first appeared on Gospel Hall Audio.

Michael Penfold preaches on biblical parenting, in contrast to Dr. Benjamin Spock's “gentle parenting” approach. He outlines 10 powers that all parents have to help them see their children grow up in the ways of the Lord. Reading: Prov 29:15. (Recorded in Straffordville Gospel Hall, ON, Canada, on 7th Jan 2026) Complete series: Countercultural Christianity Courtship and Dating The Principles and Purposes of Marriage Confidence in Parenting What is Ahead for Our World? The post Parenting with Confidence | Michael Penfold first appeared on Gospel Hall Audio.

After explaining how marriage in Western society has collapsed, Michael Penfold outlines what the Word of God has to say about it. Marriage's definition, design, devotion, duties, dangers, delight and destiny. Readings: Gen 2:18, 21-24, Gen 3:16, Heb 13:4, Eph 5:22-33. (Recorded in Straffordville Gospel Hall, ON, Canada, on 6th Jan 2026) Complete series: Countercultural Christianity Courtship and Dating The Principles and Purposes of Marriage Confidence in Parenting What is Ahead for Our World? The post The Principles and Purposes of Marriage | Michael Penfold first appeared on Gospel Hall Audio.

What does diplomacy look like in an era defined by conflict, mistrust and geopolitical rivalry? In this episode of Our World, Connected, host Christine Wilson speaks with Laurie Bristow, former UK Ambassador to Afghanistan, Russia and Azerbaijan, about the evolving role of diplomacy in a more volatile and transactional world. Drawing on more than three decades at the heart of British foreign and national security policy, Laurie reflects on the end of the Cold War, the invasion of Iraq, the fall of Kabul in 2021, and what these moments reveal about power, perception and policy. From ‘cognitive warfare' and disinformation, to the limits of military intervention, he examines how misunderstanding, resentment and short-term thinking can shape global events, exploring how diplomacy must adapt in response.We also hear a personal perspective from Noor Al-Naser, Iraqi peacebuilding specialist and Scottish Peace Platform Manager at Beyond Borders. Noor shares how a bombing in Baghdad during her teenage years led her into diplomacy and UN work in mine action, counter-terrorism and prevention of violent extremism. Her experience bridges frontline humanitarian efforts and grassroots peacebuilding, highlighting the importance of trust, cultural understanding and sustained local engagement in building more stable societies.This episode asks what responsible international engagement means today, and whether diplomacy still has the patience and imagination to shape a more peaceful future.Listen to Our World, Connected, the award-winning podcast from the British Council, exploring culture, communication, and the power of collaboration in a changing world.

Michael Penfold preaches on what it means to live as a countercultural Christian. This is what the Bible expects, but what does it look like in the 21st Century? Reading: 1 Cor 1:23-24. (Recorded in Straffordville Gospel Hall, ON, Canada, on 4th Jan 2026) Complete series: Countercultural Christianity Courtship and Dating The Principles and Purposes of Marriage Confidence in Parenting What is Ahead for Our World?   The post Countercultural Christianity | Michael Penfold first appeared on Gospel Hall Audio.

Forgiveness is hard, but important. Jesus teaches that forgiveness is part of our shared humanity. We have the agency to forgive and can choose to be healed. Over the next weeks we will review Bishop Desmond Tutu's views on forgiveness in his book The Book of Forgiving: A Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World. This message is brought to us by Pastor Jason. Our Gospel comes from John 8, Chapter verses 1 - 11. The Scripture lesson is from Psalm 25, verse 1 - 7 and 16 - 18.  

Send a textIn this episode of Authors Who Lead, I sit down with Samantha Sweetwater to discuss how her book True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World evolved from scattered ideas into a cohesive manuscript through patience, humility, and honesty.We explore what it means to write during a time of ecological, technological, and cultural transformation—and why authorship requires more than inspiration. Samantha shares the four-year journey of shaping her ideas, letting go of what didn't belong, and allowing the book to mature into its final form.Timestamp:00:00 Reimagining humanity in the Anthropocene04:10 Writing to reveal oneself08:56 Guide to radical civilizational transition10:13 Responses to the personal transformation chapter13:24 Navigating a transcontextual crisis16:34 Patience nurtures ideas into form20:49 Why this book resonates24:56 AI cover art collaboration29:09 Authors' long-term success plan32:35 Regenerative devotion and resilience35:01 Books thrive through community38:03 True Human: the author journeyFull show notesCOMMUNITY PROGRAMS

TWiP solves the case of the 40 year old male who travels to India and develops intestinal bloating and diarrhea. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Hero: Glenn L. Hoffmann Fish and seafood consumption (Our World in Data) Wild fish vs aquaculture (Our World in Data) TWiP study – information and survey Become a patron of TWiP  Send your questions and comments to twip@microbe.tv Music by Ronald Jenkees

Send a textTo get new episodes every two weeks, go to: https://therenewedmindpodcast.buzzsprout.com and click 'follow' on wherever you currently get your podcasts from.Episode Notes: The main themes covered in this episode are:Not All Depression Looks the Same.The Growing Weight of Depression in Our World.Why Depression is Not Your Fault.The Bipolar Mood Scale (BMS) - See Link Below.Mood Scale | Bipolar UKWhy Mood Awareness Matters Spiritually.Depression: A Widespread but Treatable Illness:Good News Regarding Depression.Cognitive Therapy and Christian Transformation.Understanding Your Emotional Landscape.A Step‑by‑Step Journey Toward Renewal.Bringing Light to Depression's Dark Lens.The Role of Medication and the Role of Willingness.Outro:Support the showFollow and Support All my Creative endeavours on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon Check out my other Podcasts. The Bible Project: https://thebibleproject.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast: (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment Podcast). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906

In a world shaped by collective crisis, Raghu Markus and Dr. Thomas Hübl come together to explore inner connection and healing trauma.Interested in learning more about trauma? Grab a copy of Releasing Our Burdens, Thomas's co-authored book with systemic family therapist Dr. Richard Schwartz, HEREThis time on Mindrolling, Raghu and Thomas discuss:Thomas's early call to meditation, spirituality, and a life of serviceLiving within a global ecosystem shaped by overlapping crisis dynamicsReturning to ourselves when we are overwhelmed by fear and painUnderstanding how trauma shuts down parts of the self as a survival responseExamining the lasting effects of trauma on both the mind and bodyThe genetic transmission of trauma across generationsThe role of restorative practices in healing trauma and reversing symptomsDigesting trauma instead of becoming stuck in survival patternsCultivating compassion, patience, and trust in the healing processThe power of presence as a foundation for trauma recoveryHow healing even one part of the self creates fertile ground for deeper integrationSpiritual trauma and how it creates a misalignment within our inner and outer livesSupporting one another in reconnecting with our most powerful resource: inner connectionAbout Thomas Hübl PhD:Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma. Hübl is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World, and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He is also the co-author of Releasing Our Burdens with Dr. Richard Schwartz. Hübl has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Keep up with Hübl's upcoming events and livestreams HERE. “What does trauma do? It shuts down a part of ourselves so that we can survive or go through very painful moments better. But the aftereffect, if it's not being taken care of, is a sense of disconnect from ourselves. So, then we try to fill that hole with all kinds of other stuff that is not authentic to us, that is over consumerism, that is not feeding each other, that is creating all kinds of side effects.” –Thomas Hübl, PhDSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Diese Woche: Human Rights Watch-Bericht, neue Epstein-Files, eine Moronien-Extension, Armut und soziale Ausgrenzung, Sham Jaff zu Libyen, Our World in Data zu Syrien, David O'Sullivan zu Russlands Wirtschaft und eine Granate im Po. Mit einem Faktencheck von Katharina Alexander und einem Limerick von Jens Ohrenblicker.

For episode 279, Jack Kornfield returns to the Metta Hour to talk about his new book, “All in This Together: Stories and Teachings for Loving Each Other and Our World.”Jack trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has taught worldwide since 1974. He is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practices to the West. He is the cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society and of Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology and has written more than fifteen books, including The Wise Heart, A Path with Heart, and more. In this conversation, Sharon and Jack speak about:The impetus for Jack's new bookThe universe is made of storiesBeginner's Mind as the goal of practiceAjahn Chah's squirrel story How repetition factors into storytellingTrusting the gifts of interconnectedness Ram Dass as the great public neuroticThe glance of mercyThe Bodhisattva VowEnvisioning generosity to change the worldWorking with our expectationsDespair is not the end of the storyMindful Service as a source of happinessThe Insight Meditation Society's 50th anniversaryThe founding of IMS told by JackHow the Dharma evolves across culturesThis episode closes with a guided meditation from Jack. Learn more about Jack's many offerings right here and get yourself a copy of his new book All in This Together.Join the IMS 50th anniversary online celebration on February 14th, 2026! Learn more and register right here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Thomas sits down with beloved spiritual teacher and author Jack Kornfield to explore the important and often undervalued spiritual role of the elder, the transformative power of storytelling, and why we should approach our own suffering with love instead of fear.Jack shares some beautiful, poignant stories from his new book, All in This Together, that illustrate how small acts of compassion have a profound ripple effect on our shared consciousness, and how important it is to radically honor each individual's inherent freedom and dignity… even when we feel we have little in common.He and Thomas weave together their understanding of trauma healing, meditation, and social transformation to share a hopeful roadmap to collective healing as we undergo a critical, but difficult, period of transition and unrest.✨ Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube:

The world is complex, India contains multitudes, and we need more numbers, better numbers, to make sense of it all. Rukmini S joins Amit Varma in episode 436 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about Data For India -- and to share some surprising insights. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.)   Also check out: 1. Rukmini S on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. 2. Data For India. 3. Whole Numbers And Half Truths — Rukmini S. 4. The Importance of Data Journalism — Episode 196 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S). 5. Rukmini Sees India's Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S). 6. India's Demographic Dilemmas: Part 1. Part 2. Part 3 -- Rukmini S. 7. Anaemia in India -- Rukmini S. 8. How one village swung India's workforce numbers in 2022-23 -- Pramit Bhattacharya and Nandlal Mishra. 9. The rise of 'custom tailoring' -- Nileena Suresh. 10. Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process — Henrik Karlsson. 11. Homebound -- Neeraj Ghaywan. 12. Taking Amrit Home -- Basharat Peer. 13. Railsong -- Rahul Bhattacharya. 14. A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth. 15. Many Roads to Paradise -- Shyam Selvadurai. 16. Funny Boy -- Shyam Selvadurai. 17. When Memory Dies -- A Sivanandan. 18. Our World in Data. 19. After the Spike -- Dean Spears and Michael Deruso. 20. Films, Feminism, Paromita — Episode 155 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Paromita Vohra). 21. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad — Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen. 22. Pramit Bhattacharya Believes in Just One Ism — Episode 256 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pramit Bhattacharya). 23. Martin Wickramasinghe and Anuja Chauhan. 24. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen. 25. Kaathal – The Core -- Jeo Baby. 26. Olivia Dean on Spotify and YouTube. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Amit Varma runs a course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: 'Play With Numbers' by Simahina.

Jack Kornfield, one of the greatest living Buddhist teachers on the planet, re-joins the DTFH!You can learn more about Jack, and find info on his new book All In This Together: Stories and Teachings for Loving Each Other and Our World, on his website: JackKornfield.com.This episode is brought to you by: Head to FactorMeals.com/duncan50off and use code duncan50off to get 50% off your first Factor box PLUS free breakfast for 1 year. Gallowglass' special edition of Giordano Bruno and The Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates is almost sold out! Recommended by Terrence McKenna to all his students, this book has been restored by Gallowglass Books and contains colored images, new high-resolution scans, and translated Latin titles. Only 200 copies remain! Get yours today! Get 10% off your first month of BlueChew Gold with code DUNCAN. Visit BlueChew.com for more details and important safety information.

December 23rd, 2025:  Don't Rush Christmas;  Finding Rest at the Homebase of Christ's Nativity;  How Dry is the Soil of Our World?;  How to Have a Fruitful Christmas

The poetic and deep Samantha Sweetwater joins us to talk about her substantial new work “True Human.” We explore how our a human obsession with power over life (control, separation, and abstraction) has pulled us away from harmony with the power of life itself—and what becomes possible when we return to integrity, sovereignty, and kinship with the living world. This is an invitation to re-enchant your perception, tend your own soul's role in the web of life, and step into your future‑ancestor self with courage, wonder, and devotion.Samantha Sweetwater is a master facilitator, executive mentor, and wisdom guide who has spent three decades helping thousands navigate personal and collective transformation. Founder of Dancing Freedom, Peacebody Japan, and One Life Circle, she has trained hundreds of facilitators worldwide. She partners with leaders in business, health, and technology to navigate awakening and align impact with regenerative futures. Her work invites you to come fully alive and to remember your soul's collaboration with the living world. Samantha lives on the fog-kissed slopes of Mt. Tamalpais in Northern California.She carries a certain frequency of transmission in this work and in her words.In this episode, we cover so many topics including:This moment in the human relationship to planetBio spiritualityRites of Passage, Integrity and SovereigntyWonder, Joy and Grief Power Over Life vs Power of LifeEnlifenmentKinship ConsciousnessProtopiaHer Sophia TransmissionsFuture VisionsCeremonies for a Small PlanetHelpful links:Samantha Sweetwater - Author of True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World. Get your copy now on AmazonJoin upcoming Retreats and Events with SamanthaNEW Book by Christine: The Mystic Heart of Easter: A Four-Day Journey Through Love, Death, and Rebirth. Available on AmazonEaster Intensive: A Holy Week Journey with Christine Mason and Elizabeth Arolyn Walsh on April 2-5, 2025Bhakti House Immersion with Christine Mason and Adam Bauer, with Special Guest Christopher “Hareesh” Wallis on May 17–27, 20262026 Living Tantra Online Course: An Introduction to Tantra, Neo Tantra and Sacred Sexuality, Starts March 10, 2026.@christinemariemason@rosebudwomanFounder, Rosebud Woman, Award Winning Intimate and Body CareCo-Founder, Radiant Farms, Sundari GardensNEW BOOK: The Mystic Heart of Easter: A Four-Day Journey Through Love, Death, and Rebirth. Available on AmazonThe Nine Lives of Woman: Sensual, Sexual and Reproductive Stages from Birth to 100, Order in Print or on KindleSubscribe: The Museletter on Substack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Samantha Sweetwater is a master facilitator, executive mentor, and wisdom guide who has spent three decades helping thousands navigate personal and collective transformation. Founder of Dancing Freedom, Peacebody Japan, and One Life Circle, she has trained hundreds of facilitators worldwide. She partners with leaders in technology, health, and finance to navigate awakening and align impact with regenerative futures. Samantha's work invites you to come fully alive and to remember your soul's collaboration with Gaia's Song. She has just published, True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World. She lives on the fog-kissed slopes of Mt. Tamalpais in Northern California.Episode Highlights▶ True Human is inspired by a dream about harmonizing with nature and our role within it▶ Technology is part of evolution, not separate from nature, though it often disrupts ecological processes▶ Disconnection is a core crisis of modern life, and community-focused kinship offers a path beyond individual heroism▶ Humans can act as a keystone species, creating reciprocal relationships that support the planet▶ The current meta crisis brings both danger and unique possibility for transformative change▶ Hope for the future rests on quality relationships, new communication platforms, and localized action▶ We are biologically wired for connection, and the story of separation no longer serves us▶Cognitive sovereignty and embodiment are essential in the age of AI, which can mimic emotion but lacks empathy▶Real-life experiences, ritual, and plant medicines support healing, joy, and mental wellbeing Samantha Sweetwater's Links & Resources▶ Website: https://www.samanthasweetwater.com/▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samanthasweetwater/▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EnLifenment▶ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasweetwater/▶ Get a free copy of Life Code available at https://www.samanthasweetwater.com/ Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth's Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram: @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz ▶ Join the free Psychedelics & Purpose Community: / psychedelicsandsacredmedicines

Advent // Peace Our Whole Existence is Ravaged by ConflictIt's in Our World...It's in Our Nations...It's in Our Cities...It's in Our Communities...It's in Our Homes...It's in Our Hearts and Our Minds... Peace Means So Many Different Things to Different PeoplePeace May Be Ease from Conflict...Peace May Be Ease from Noise...Peace May Be Ease from Torment...Peace May Be Ease from Busyness...Peace May Be Ease from Pain... For Some People It May Be Found in A Treaty…For Some It May Be Found in a Place…For Some It May Be Found in An Embrace…For Some It Is Found in a Symbol…For Some It Is Found in Solace…For Some It Is Found in A Smile… Some Think It Is Accomplished by Negotiation...Some Think It Is Accomplished by Meditation...Some Think It Is Accomplished by Separation...Some Think It Is Accomplished by Location...Some Think It Is Accomplished by Reconciliation...Some Think It Is Accomplished by Medication... But for Most of Our World it Remains an Elusive State of Being... God Has Come, and He Has Provided a Lasting Peace for Us! Not Just a Fleeting Moment or an Elusive Dream... Romans 5:1 (NIV)“Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” God Loved Us So Much that He Sent His Son to Redeem Mankind and Restore Our Peace with Him.  Judges 6:23-24 (NIV)“But the Lord said to him, ‘Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.' So, Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord is Peace.” 2 Thessalonians 3:16 (NIV)“Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.”

When we try to commune with nature, many of us turn toward the living: a walk in the woods among swaying trees, chirping birds, blooming flowers.But earth scientist Anjana Khatwa says not to overlook the inanimate—don't sleep on rocks. She joins Host Flora Lichtman to talk about her love for rocks beyond the scientific and her new book, The Whispers of Rock.Read an excerpt from The Whispers of Rock: The Stories That Stone Tells about Our World and Our Lives.Guest: Dr. Anjana Khatwa is a geologist and author of The Whispers of Rock: The Stories That Stone Tells about Our World and Our Lives.Transcripts for each episode are available within 1-3 days at sciencefriday.com. Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters.

The angels at Christmas declared that Jesus' birth would bring us peace. In a divided world, with complicated families and stressful schedules, we still need that gift. Throughout the Christmas season, we will talk about how Jesus can help bring peace to all aspects of our lives. From our inner spirit to outward relationships, Jesus can resolve tension, reduce stress, heal relationships, and bring us peace.Join us for part 1: Peace in Our World, as we talk about how Jesus can bring peace to divided communities and countries like ours.

If you've ever felt the weight of ambition—your own or others'—and wondered why efforts that seem good end up fracturing relationships, breeding anxiety or leaving you empty, this episode offers a clear, faith-rooted perspective. We explore how selfish ambition is driving spiritual and social decay, and how a different kind of ambition—rooted in humility, love, purpose and God's vision—can rebuild what's broken.In this edition of Deep Reads, Darryl Howell reads the article “What's Going on with Our World? (Part I)” from Deep Spirituality, written by Russ Ewell.Whether you're spiritually curious, disillusioned by religion, or simply seeking a truer, healthier way of living, this episode stakes new ground—a place where ambition isn't the problem but the form of ambition is.Tune in, press play, and let's together ask: What kind of ambition is shaping our lives—and what could be different if we chose a better one?What's Going on with Our World? (Part I): Selfish ambition is breaking us. But here's what we can do about it. → https://deepspirituality.com/whats-going-on-with-our-world-part-i/Chapters:00:00 - Introduction00:35 - What's Going on with Our World?02:55 - The paradox of progress09:47 - Observation16:25 - Hypothesis29:18 - To be continued…30:22 - Reply or reach out

The story we tell about climate change is mostly a story about loss. But look to the data, and that story starts to fall apart. Emissions are peaking in key sectors. Clean energy is scaling faster than anyone predicted. Real progress is happening. It's just not happening in the way we imagine it. Sean's guest today is Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor at Our World in Data and author of Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change. They discuss why our picture of the planet is so distorted, why despair can be as dangerous as denial, and what a truly energy-abundant, livable future could look like. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling) Guest: Hannah Ritchie, author of Clearing the Air We'd love to hear from you. Tell us what you thought of this episode at thegrayarea@vox.com or leave a voicemail at 1-800-214-5749. Your comments and questions help us make a better show. And you can watch new episodes of The Gray Area on YouTube. Listen to The Gray Area ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members This episode was supported by a grant from Arnold Ventures. Vox had full discretion over the content of this reporting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices