Best Selfie Reflective Podcasts (2025)

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Space for the Departed: Bone Ash Apartments as an Alternative to Cemeteries in Urban China

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by xinyi wu can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/11/space-for-the-departed-bone-ash-apartments-as-an-alternative-to-cemeteries-in-urban-china/. About the post: The Bone Ash Apartments are at a grey zone of policy because turning residential units into burial sites …

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Press RESET- FAAF 238 17:04

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Press RESET- FAAF 238 In this 238th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from November 3-8, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E238FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 4th: Teachers on Fire “3-Minute Leadership RESET:…

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Space Selfie: Rethinking Scalarity Between Orbit and Home

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Denis Sivkov can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/11/space-selfie-rethinking-scalarity-between-orbit-and-home/. About the post: By attempting a space selfie, ham radio enthusiasts are not expanding their home to the size of the universe, nor are they simply conn…

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Series Introduction: The Politics of Writing About Platform Workers’ Organizing

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Isha Bhallamudi and Anushree Gupta can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/11/series-introduction-the-politics-of-writing-about-platform-workers-organizing/. About the post: We are a group of scholars and researchers who work with gig and platform worker unions in …

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Leadership Hangover - FAAF 237 15:25

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Leadership Hangover - FAAF 237 In this 237th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from October 27-31th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E237FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 29th: The Easy EdTech Podcast E343 “H…

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The Ones Who Walk Away from the Internet

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Martina Di Tullio can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-the-internet/. About the post: In the Andean cosmovision, constellations are not formed by connecting the dots of stars, but rather from the spaces of darkness in the night sky…

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Freud Among the Geneticists

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rogelio Scott-Insua can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/freud-among-the-geneticists/. About the post: Rather than striving to reinscribe their discipline in the right side of the scientific demarcation, psychoanalysts are creating a tertiary terrain between …

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Uterus Transplantation: A Scientific Advance or the Reflection of Gender Stereotypes?

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Juliana Vieira can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/uterus-transplantation-a-scientific-advance-or-the-reflection-of-gender-stereotypes/. About the post: After all, to what extent do highly innovative medical technologies, such as uterus transplantation, ceas…

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Education is about People - FAAF236 23:14

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Education is about People - FAAF 236 In this 236th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from October 19-24th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E236FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 19th: House of EdTech E263 “The…

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When Queer Lovers Collaborate: The Rough Edges of Smooth Knowledge in a Diabetes Research Project

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lyndsey Beutin and Cal Biruk can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/when-queer-lovers-collaborate-the-rough-edges-of-smooth-knowledge-in-a-diabetes-research-project/. About the post: Our research on a medical condition that only one of us has but both of us liv…

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Behind the Monster: Reading Frankenstein as a Warning Against Isolation, Greed, and Hubris in 21st Century Agritech

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Addison Kerwin can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/behind-the-monster-reading-frankenstein-as-a-warning-against-isolation-greed-and-hubris-in-21st-century-agritech/. About the post: An analysis of Mary Shelley's allocation of blame in the novel Frankenstein …

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Share Wisdom Bravely - FAAF 235 20:07

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Share Wisdom Bravely - FAAF 235 In this 234th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from October 6-11th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> <<< 13th: SMILE Factor S3E6 “Overcoming Obstacles and Moving Forward”; Teac…

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Hopeful Scepticism with AI - FAAF 234 20:39

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Hopeful Scepticism with AI - FAAF 234 In this 234th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from October 6-11th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E234FreshAirAtFivePlayist <<< 6th: #NewToMePodcast Nerducators…

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Necrovitality and Porous Exclusions: On Dying amidst Chemical Vitalities

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Misria Shaik Ali can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/necrovitality-and-porous-exclusions-on-dying-amidst-chemical-vitalities/. About the post: This piece introduces the concept of necro-vitality developed as a way of conversing about the intersection of mate…

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AI Can Navigate It - FAAF 233 17:18

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AI Can Navigate It - FAAF 233 In this 233nd episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from September 29th to October 3rd, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E233FreshAirAtFive <<< 30th: Reflecting on The National…

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Dreaming of Security through Lanyards and Bollards

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Samuel DiBella can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/dreaming-of-security-through-lanyards-and-bollards/. About the post: A perimeter is always porous, to certain people. Managing how it is perforated is a kind of professional work. Odd behavior is socially ma…

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Reflections on a Feminist Anthropology or a Mutirão Anthropology: Karipuna Girls and Women

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ana Manoela Karipuna can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/reflections-on-a-feminist-anthropology-or-a-mutirao-anthropology-karipuna-girls-and-women/. About the post: The ethnic reaffirmation of my mother, also an anthropologist, was important in stopping the …

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Caring for Kids - FAAF 232 14:53

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Caring for Kids - FAAF 232 In this 232nd episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from September 22nd to 26th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> E232FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 22nd: SMILE Factor S3E3 “Students Owning …

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Digital Colonialism as “Progress”: What Will Convince You to Swap Your Guitar for an iPad?

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Harshit Gujral, Selena Ling, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed and Tahiya Chowdhury can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/digital-colonialism-as-progress-what-will-convince-you-to-swap-your-guitar-for-an-ipad/. About the post: While Apple's controversial 'Crush' advertisem…

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A Feeling for Information: Technological Potentiality and Embodied Futures in Post-Socialist China

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Yue Zhao can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/a-feeling-for-information-technological-potentiality-and-embodied-futures-in-post-socialist-china/. About the post: Medical anthropologists and STS scholars have examined the epistemic roles of biomedical practice…

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From Uganda to LowTech and Resilience- FAAF 231 26:24

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From Uganda to LowTech and Resilience- FAAF 231 In this 231th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from September 15th to 19th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E231FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 15th: #NewToM…

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Later in the Days FreshAirAtFive - FAAF 230 14:28

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Later in the Days FreshAirAtFive - FAAF 230 In this 230th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from September 8th to 12th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E230FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 8th: The EdTech Th…

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Collaborating Bodies: Community Gardens and Food Forests in Central Texas

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nadia Luis can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/collaborating-bodies-community-gardens-and-food-forests-in-central-texas/. About the post: Soils depend upon their ability to form relationships with a myriad of organisms. Like the human bodies that interact wi…

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Feeling Adrift in the Ethnography of a Laboratory

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mauricio Baez can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/feeling-adrift-in-the-ethnography-of-a-laboratory/. About the post: This reflection explores the possibilities of broadening our perspective on laboratory work by incorporating an analysis of the ordinary dyn…

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Back from Vacation to Back to School - FAAF229 39:36

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Back from Vacation to Back to School - FAAF229 In this 229th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from August 25 to September 5th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> E229FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 25th: Carpenter T…

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Epstein Files: Secrets, Socials, and Selfies. The Truth Behind The Headlines 1:07:50

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Welcome back to our podcast! In this episode the crew dives deep into the headlines from the latest twists in the Epstein case, and the mystery of missing footage, to the blurred line between real and fake on social media. Nothing is off limits!By Jay Rob, Sugarhill, Kee, & Sam I Am

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Medicaid Millionaire to Middle Age Milestones 1:01:37

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#Welcome back to our podcast! In this episode we dive deep into the headlines and real life milestones that has everyone talking! We kick off things with the story of the "Medicaid Millionaire" unpacking the drama , the hustle, and what it means to everyday folks. Then we get real about life after 40; from health and career changes to personal grow…

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Can We Make Space for Technique?: Politics and Play in Digital Coaching

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Martin Jesper Larsson can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/can-we-make-space-for-technique-politics-and-play-in-digital-coaching/. About the post: In Sweden, youth soccer is expected to be fun –but in a specific way. Rooted in the 19th-century idealization of…

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Odors, Leakage and Containment: The Story of a Southern California Landfill

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Emma Jahoda-Brown can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/odors-leakage-and-containment-the-story-of-a-southern-california-landfill/. About the post: My interest in Chiquita Canyon and the community of Val Verde grew out of my involvement with the community oppo…

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For the Flourishing of Feminist Sciences: Distributing Seeds from the RAFeCT Network

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Clarissa Reche can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/08/for-the-flourishing-of-feminist-sciences-distributing-seeds-from-the-rafect-network/. About the post: In a political and scientific landscape that is becoming ever more arid, tense, and hostile to the strugg…

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The Politics of Translation Across Policy, Grant Proposal, and Agricultural Landscapes

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cydney Seigerman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/08/the-politics-of-translation-across-policy-grant-proposal-and-agricultural-landscapes/. About the post: In June, we submitted a modified scope and budget to align with new requirements and policy priorities…

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Maximizing Impact Summer 2025 - FAAF228 18:23

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Maximizing Impact Summer 2025 - FAAF228 In this 228th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from Aug 4th to 8th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E228FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 5th: House of EdTech E262 “Ho…

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Hawa-laat: Polluted Air in Delhi, India

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Vasundhara Bhojvaid can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/08/hawa-laat-polluted-air-in-delhi-india/. About the post: Experts ascertain that air pollution is a regional phenomenon engulfing the Indo-Gangetic Plain that encompasses northern and eastern India (inclu…

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Back in the Saddle Summer 2025 - FAAF227 24:05

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Back in the Saddle Summer 2025 - FAAF227 In this 227th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from July 28th to Aug 1st, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E227FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 30th: Check This Out E…

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Patch-“working” the Field: Methodological Reorientations During a Global Pandemic

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Anushree Gupta can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/patch-working-the-field-methodological-reorientations-during-a-global-pandemic/. About the post: My research has been a culmination of witnessing, participating, and archiving otherwise invisible acts of car…

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Reflecting on The Anxious Generation - FAAF225 22:08

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Reflecting on The Anxious Generation - FAAF225 In this 226th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from July 21th to 25th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> E226FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 23rd: Why Edify E66 “How T…

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Technics in the Dust

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Spencer Kaplan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/technics-in-the-dust/. About the post: Each year, thousands of Bay-Area tech workers attend Burning Man: an annual art festival in the Nevada desert. In this article, an ethnographer of AI development joins …

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Week 3 Summer 2025 - FAAF225 14:46

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Week 3 Summer 2025 - FAAF225 In this 225th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from July 14th to 18th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E225FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 15th: SMILE Factor S2E38 “SMILEFactor…

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The Sovereignty of Wearables: Indigenous Health and Digital Colonialism in Taiwan

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aaron Su can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/the-sovereignty-of-wearables-indigenous-health-and-digital-colonialism-in-taiwan/. About the post: While the language of an easy technological “solution” certainly cannot undo the history of Indigenous injustice i…

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Week 2 Summer 2025 - FAAF224 20:14

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Week 2 Summer 2025 - FAAF224 In this 224th episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from July 7th to 11th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> https://bit.ly/E224FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 7th: The STEM Everyday Podcast…

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“I Just Want to Be Happy!”: Singing, Scrolling, and Healing in a Chinese Senior’s Digital Life

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Hui Wen can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/i-just-want-to-be-happy-singing-scrolling-and-healing-in-a-chinese-seniors-digital-life/. About the post: Like many older adults in China, Auntie Zhang has found her own way into the digital world. Her fascination …

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Settling Into Summer 2025 - FAAF223 15:40

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Settling Into Summer 2025 - FAAF223 In this 223rd episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from June 30th - July 4th, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> https://bit.ly/E223FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 30th: Teaching Cham…

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“Excavating” Cosmotechnical Diversity in Colombia and Sweden

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Eric Orlowski and Juan Forero-Duarte can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/excavating-cosmotechnical-diversity-in-colombia-and-sweden/. About the post: "Excavating" Cosmotechnical Diversity in Colombia and Sweden offers an ethnographic comparative study of met…

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Simulating Systemic Violence: Game Design as Speculative Ethnography in "Seven Days of Destruction"

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mayshu (Meixu) Zhan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/simulating-systemic-violence-game-design-as-speculative-ethnography-in-seven-days-of-destruction/. About the post: “Seven Days of Destruction” is a speculative game that confronts the structural logics …

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Schools Out 2025 - FAAF222 15:31

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Schools Out 2025 - FAAF222 In this 222nd episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from June 23-27, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> https://bit.ly/E222FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 23rd: The EdTech Throwdown E191 “10 Ca…

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Smart Wallets and the Shifting Boundaries of Trust in Decentralized Finance

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Kate Zogaj can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/06/smart-wallets-and-the-shifting-boundaries-of-trust-in-decentralized-finance/. About the post: This article explores how smart wallets not only reflect changing technological norms but also reveal deeper social a…

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Submarine Cyborgs: At Sea with Haraway and Jue

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Elexis Williams Gray can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/06/submarine-cyborgs-at-sea-with-haraway-and-jue/. About the post: The history of human relations with the Earth’s oceans and seas is an old one, set back into deep time. As long as humans have been livin…

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Almost Year End, But Not - FAAF221 24:34

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Almost Year End, But Not - FAAF221 In this 221st episode, I share my daily reflection posted on BlueSky, TwiX @bryoncar and YouTube shorts @FreshAirAtFiver, from June 9-20, 2025. Check out the WHOLE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST I put together with all the listens mentioned below: >>> bit.ly/E221FreshAirAtFivePlaylist <<< 9th: 2 Prinicpals E130 “Building Resili…

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STS Academic Publishing As a Work of Service and Hope: A Conversation with Vivette García-Deister

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Vivette García-Deister can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/06/sts-academic-publishing-as-a-work-of-service-and-hope-a-conversation-with-vivette-garcia-deister/. About the post: I believe that my job as an editor is to encourage conversations and foster a dialog…

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Peasant Reserve Zones as Techno-socio-environmental Assemblages

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Julián Medina-Zárate and Nicolas Lara-Rodriguez can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/06/peasant-reserve-zones-as-techno-socio-environmental-assemblages/. About the post: Peasant Reserve Zones (Zonas de Reserva Campesina, or ZRCs in Spanish) constitute a legal fr…