Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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George Mason University’s Access to Excellence podcast brings you the university’s most compelling research and stories. Hosted by Mason President Gregory Washington.
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Marginal Revolution has been one of the most influential economics blogs in the world for over two decades thanks to its sharp economic analysis and thought-provoking ideas. Now, co-creators Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen are bringing their nerdy winsomeness to your earbuds. Each episode features Alex and Tyler drawing on their decades of academic expertise to tackle whatever economic idea is currently tickling their noggins.
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Through conversations with top thinkers in the social sciences and beyond, economist Shruti Rajagopalan explores the ideas that will propel India forward.
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Hosted by David Beckworth of the Mercatus Center, Macro Musings pulls back the curtain on the important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
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From the construction of virtual realities to the internet of things to the watches on our wrists—technology's influence is everywhere. Its role in our lives is evolving fast, and we're faced with riveting questions and tough challenges that sit at the intersection of technology and humanity. Listen in every Friday, with host, journalist Sherrell Dorsey, as TED speakers explore the way tech shapes how we think about society, science, design, business, and more. Follow Sherrell on Instagram @ ...
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In Virtual Sentiments, Kristen Collins interviews scholars and practitioners grappling with the most pressing problems in political economy today with an eye to the past.
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The Hayek Program Podcast includes audio from lectures, interviews, and discussions of scholars and visitors from the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The F. A. Hayek Program is devoted to the promotion of teaching and research on the institutional arrangements that are suitable for the support of free and prosperous societies. Implicit in this statement is the presumption that those arrangements ...
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The voice of Econ Journal Watch, EJW Audio is hosted by Lawrence H. White, a co-editor of EJW and professor of economics at George Mason University. In a typical EJW Audio podcast, Professor White and the author of a recent EJW article discuss that article and related issues.
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Bringing the joy of financial planning to a cynical, skeptical, educated generation that needs to believe in the American Dream again. Views from a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, former United States Congressional candidate and Adjunct Instructor at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and American University in Washington, DC.
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Welcome to the podcast dedicated to Anthropology. On this podcast we will investigate different topics in anthropology, as well as interviewing a wide range of guests to hear about some of their experiences and learn about the remarkable research they are producing. Host Gabriella Campbell is graduate student at George Mason University, and she interviews guests such as university professors, graduate students, professionals, authors and curators from around the world.
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Ben Klutsey of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University engages in thought-provoking conversations with experts in the field of civil discourse. Klutsey facilitates discussions that explore ideas and practices essential for maintaining a free and open society, providing listeners with valuable insights and perspectives on this crucial topic.
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The First Gen+ Center at George Mason University introduces its latest podcast series, and the hosts share experiences as first-generation college students and first gen professionals.
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This podcast series is associated with George Mason University Cultural Studies' Colloquium Series. This year's series is called "Climate and Capitalism." The industrial revolution liberated human beings from the cycles of nature — or so it once seemed. It turns out that greenhouse gases, a natural byproduct of coal- and petroleum-burning industries, lead to global warming, and that we are now locked into a long warming trend: a trend that will raise sea levels, enhance the occurrence of ext ...
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Scientific Sense ® is an invigorating podcast that delves into the intricate tapestry of Science and Economics, serving as a nexus for intellectual exploration and fervor. This daily venture engages listeners by conversing with preeminent academics, unraveling their research, and unveiling emerging concepts across a diverse array of fields. Scientific Sense ® thoughtfully examines multifaceted themes such as the frameworks of worker rights and policy, the philosophical underpinnings of truth ...
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On the Discourse Magazine Podcast, you’ll hear from a diverse range of authors, thinkers, and scholars who are dedicated to discourse, to the notion that good thinking and good ideas arise amid the interplay of different viewpoints and perspectives. In these conversations, we discuss a variety of different topics, and almost everything is on the table. We hope that you enjoy the podcast and that these conversations help spark new thinking and more... discourse.
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Bail in the Midwest explores the integral role of bail in the criminal justice system. With its roots dating back hundreds of years, bail allows individuals charged with a crime to be free pending trial, while simultaneously ensuring public safety. However, efforts to reform the bail system have escalated across the country in recent years, with calls from advocates to reduce or even eliminate the incarceration of individuals charged with a crime. With violent crime on the rise, it has becom ...
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Scott Ford, M.Ed., is the ONLY talk show host in Texas and the United Stated that has been both a classroom teacher and worked for or with the DEA, FBI, and CIA. Scott has been an award-winning educator for over 16 years and has the honor of teaching public school and college students. In addition to his teaching, he also has done work for the DEA, FBI, and CIA. He walked away from a $150,000 position with the NSA because of their blatant and continuing violation of our civil rights. ------- ...
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The CopDoc Podcast: Aiming for Excellence in Leadership
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Visit our website: https://www.copdocpodcast.com The CopDoc Podcast delves into police leadership and innovation. The focus is on aiming for excellence in the delivery of police services across the globe. Dr. Steve Morreale is a retired law enforcement practitioner, a pracademic, turned academic, and scholar from Worcester State University. Steve is the Program Director for LIFTE, Command College - The Leadership Institute for Tomorrow's Executives at Liberty University. Steve shares ideas a ...
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Welcome to the official SECAF Podcast! For more than 20 years, the Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum has been helping small and emerging government contracting businesses scale to their fullest potential. On this podcast, we'll be interviewing Key Government Leaders and Subject Matter Experts to get a better understanding on GovCon customers and trends in the industry. We at SECAF believe there's space for everyone to succeed.
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The Ability Experience is a nonprofit organization with a simple mission: create shared experiences with people with disabilities and members of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. We do so through a variety of volunteer events, bringing students together from across the country to bike, build, and create lasting memories with the disability community. Our hosts, Zorth Pilonieta and Gary Sugg, interview members of our Ability Experience community and give them the platform to tell their shared experien ...
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DC, Maryland, and Virginia, aka the DMV, is widely acknowledged as one of the best basketball areas in the country. This hotbed of hoops has produced some of the best players and coaches at all levels of the game. Bleav in DMV Hoops will highlight many of the most influential local figures and help tell the stories that make this area as successful on the hardwood as it has been historically.
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Dr. David Weisburd - Police Need Cookbooks, Not Just Theory - George Mason University
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The CopDoc Podcast - Season 9 - Episode 160 What if police departments made decisions based on solid evidence rather than gut feelings? Dr. David Weisburd, a dual faculty member at George Mason University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has spent decades proving that scientific approaches can revolutionize policing. From his unexpected start ev…
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Prof. Tanya Luhrmann of Stanford on Porosity is the Heart of Religion
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Tanya Marie Luhrmann is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSen…
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Interview: The plant-based coating that is eliminating food spoilage | Jenny Du
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If food waste were a country, it’d be the third highest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions after China and the US, says Apeel Senior VP of Operations Jenny Du. Following her talk at TED2025, Du sits down for a conversation with host Sherrell Dorsey on how her lab is creating plant-based coating that can help reduce food spoilage. From combating fo…
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Sunny Rai on Using Large Language Models to Understand the Depiction of Shame and Pride in Bollywood versus Hollywood
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Our second scholar in the series is Sunny Rai, who is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from University of Delhi. Her research focuses on misinformation, mental health and cross-cultural variations in human language. We spoke about h…
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Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment
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Steven Pinker returns to Conversations with Tyler with an argument that common knowledge—those infinite loops of "I know that you know that I know"—is the hidden infrastructure that enables human coordination, from accepting paper money to toppling dictators. But Tyler wonders: if most real-world coordination works fine without recursively looping …
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Tyler and Alex revisit Tyler’s 1998 book and trace how commerce disciplines and amplifies creativity. Great artists bargained hard because money buys orchestras and time. “Inspired consumption” means high-quality audiences shape better art. Dynamic, Hayekian competition discovers new genres, while pulp cross-subsidizes the sublime. They disentangle…
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From Fine Arts to Tucson Police Chief: Chad Kasmar's Journey
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The CopDoc Podcast - Season 8 - Episode 160 What happens when you combine a fine arts degree with police leadership? Chief Chad Kasmar of the Tucson Police Department demonstrates how creative thinking transforms modern policing challenges into opportunities for innovation. Kasmer's journey from beach bum to nationally recognized police leader reve…
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Bail in the Midwest, David Kain, Police Instructor, Georgia
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Join host Shane Rolf and his guest, David Kain, who is a police instructor in Georgia. Kain sheds a little bit on the real world of bail enforcement and how those in the bail industry can avoid becoming the bad guys while they're bringing back the real bad guys. Kain is police officer in Georgia and is a state certified police instructor in multipl…
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Marc Giannoni on the Fed’s Framework Review, it’s Independence, and the Future of R-Star
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Marc Giannoni is a managing director and the chief US economist at Barclays Capital. In Marc’s first appearance on the show he discusses working on the 2020 Fed Framework Review, the troubling issues of Fed independence and fiscal dominance, the future of long rates and r-star, his influential 2006 paper about what good monetary policy looks like, …
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Prof. Shelly Flagel and Prof. Jacinta Beehner of the University of Michigan on goal/sign tracking
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Shelly Flagel is Prof. Shelly Flagel is Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor at the Michigan Neuroscience Institute. Her research focuses on understanding the biological and psychological factors that contribute to individual differences in vulnerability to mental illness, particularly addiction.. H…
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How to build in space for life on Earth | Ariel Ekblaw
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Is space the “final frontier” — or the perfect place to revolutionize life on Earth? Space architect Ariel Ekblaw reveals how self-assembling structures could build orbiting real estate in space dedicated to solving humanity’s greatest dilemmas on Earth, leading to scientific and medical breakthroughs only possible in zero gravity. Interested in le…
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Prof. Dani Bassett of UPenn and Prof. Perry Zurn of American University on curiosity.
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Dani Bassett is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Neurology, and Psychiatry. They are also an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. Bassett is most well-known for blending neural a…
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David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
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David Commins, author of the new book Saudi Arabia: A Modern History, brings decades of scholarship and firsthand experience to explain the kingdom's unlikely rise. Tyler and David discuss why Wahhabism was essential for Saudi state-building, the treatment of Shiites in the Eastern Province and whether discrimination has truly ended, why the Saudi …
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Michael Clemens on the Trillion-Dollar Question of Immigration
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On this episode, Nathan Goodman is joined by Michael Clemens to discuss why immigration policy matters not just for migrants themselves but for broader economic growth. Drawing on his influential work, including “Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?” (JEP, 2011) and “The Place Premium: Bounding the Price Equivalent of Mi…
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Samim Ghamami on the Treasury Markets Impact on the Future Path of Interest Rates and Inflation
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Samim Ghamami is former SEC economist. Samim returns to the show to discuss the fiscal trajectory of the US, the outlook of interest rates, the US Treasury market’s impact on inflation, potential reforms to the Treasury market and much more. Check out the transcript for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on August 5th, 2025 Subscribe to …
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Prof. Itay Goldstein of UPenn on financial institutions,.AI-Powered Trading, and Collusion
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Itay Goldstein is Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton Business School of University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include feedback effects between financial markets and real economy, financial fragility and crises, financial institutions, and market Please subscribe to this channel: htt…
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The AI revolution is underhyped | Eric Schmidt
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The arrival of non-human intelligence is a very big deal, says former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt. In a wide-ranging interview with technologist Bilawal Sidhu, Schmidt makes the case that AI is wildly underhyped, as near-constant breakthroughs give rise to systems capable of doing even the most complex tasks on their own. He explores the s…
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Kartik Srivastava on Referral-Based Hiring, Caste Networks, and Breaking Barriers in India's Labor Markets
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Our first scholar in the series is Kartik Srivastava, who is a PhD candidate at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. Before this, he received his bachelor's degree from Yale University, where he majored in Economics and Engineering Sciences. His research focuses on development economics, labor economics, and political economy. We spoke about h…
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Jerry Dwyer on the History of Free Banking and the Future of Bitcoin
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Jerry Dwyer is a professor emeritus of economics at Clemson, a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and is currently a senior fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. In Jerry’s first appearance on the show, he discusses what it was like having Milton Friedman as a mentor, the history of free banking, the status of cryptocurrencies …
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Prof. Angus Fletcher of Ohio State on Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Angus Fletcher is Professor of Story Science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative for the study of how stories work. His most recent book is Primal Intelligence, you are smarter than you know.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1…
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The future of finding love with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd | ReThinking with Adam Grant
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What will dating look like in the age of AI? Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder and CEO of Bumble, the popular dating app that has helped millions of people meet their match. In this episode, Whitney chats with Adam about her vision for the future of dating online and offline, her decision to take a break from leading Bumble, and the importance of p…
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Prof. Alison Galloway of UC Santa Cruz on bone color changes due to fire, wild fires and victims
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Alison Galloway is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a forensic anthropologist with research interests in skeletal biology and aging in addition to anthropology. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1…
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Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures
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Seamus Murphy is an Irish photographer and filmmaker who has spent decades documenting life in some of the world's most challenging places—from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to Nigeria's Boko Haram territories. Having left recession-era Ireland in the 1980s to teach himself photography in American darkrooms, Murphy has become that rare artist who …
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Chandran Kukathas on "Dialogues on Immigration and the Open Society"
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On this episode, Peter Boettke chats with political theorist Chandran Kukathas on his latest book, Dialogues on Immigration and the Open Society (Routledge, 2025), which addresses the most important ethical and political questions about immigration and aims to teach by questioning rather than preaching. He urges conceptual clarity about terms like …
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Hester Peirce on the role of the SEC, Financial Surveillance, and Crypto
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Hester Peirce is a current commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission and serves on its crypto task force. Hester returns to the show to discuss her time and role at the SEC, the SEC evolving role in the regulation landscape, the problems with our current state of the financial surveillance, the state of crypto for a regulator’s perspec…
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Prof. Kanaka Rajan of Harvard on Deep RL, Deep Behavior Analysis and Scalable Neural Forecasting
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Kanaka Rajan is Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and a founding faculty member of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. Her research seeks to understand how important cognitive functions—such as learning, remembering, an…
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A concrete plan for sustainable cement | Ryan Gilliam
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Cement is one of the most-consumed materials on Earth — second only to water — and it accounts for a whopping eight percent of the world's carbon pollution. What if we could turn this climate villain into a hero? Clean tech innovator and serial entrepreneur Ryan Gilliam reveals his company's surprisingly simple process for transforming waste from t…
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Narayani Basu on K. M. Panikkar: India’s Impossible Man
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Today my guest is Narayani Basu, who is a historian and the author of the latest book, A Man for All Seasons: The Life of K. M. Panikkar. Her last book was a biography of V.P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India. We talked about KM Panikkar, his comparison with VP Menon, the Indian nationalist movement in the interwar years, the origins of …
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For this special "Best Of" episode, we've compiled some of our most thought-provoking and compelling conversations between President Washington and our accomplished faculty. We'll revisit discussions that are more relevant than ever—from the vast mysteries of the cosmos to the hidden power of coffee grounds—to see how George Mason is blazing a path…
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Bruce O'Brien - From New Zealand to London: Policing Without Borders
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The CopDoc Podcast - Season 8 - Episode 159 When criminal networks operate across continents, police must work beyond borders. In this compelling conversation with Assistant Commissioner Bruce O'Brien, we explore the critical world of international police collaboration from the perspective of someone building these vital connections daily. As New Z…
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Prof. Madeleine Beekman of the University of Sydney on the Origin of Language
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Madeleine Beekman is a professor of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her latest book is the ORIGIN of LANGUAGE: How We Learned to Speak and WhyPlease subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1…
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Robin Brooks on the Dollar, Fiscal Dominance, and Geoeconomics
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Robin Brooks is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Robin returns to the show to discuss his previous appearance in March of 2020, life at a think tank, the changing or not-so-much status of the dollar, Trump’s trade war, the current landscape of geoeconomics and much more. Check out the transcript for this week’s episode, now with links.…
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A survival guide for musicians in the age of AI | Harvey Mason jr.
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Artificial intelligence can write a song in seconds, but does that mean human songwriters will become obsolete? Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. doesn’t think so. A songwriter himself, he offers a four-step “survival guide” for human creators to endure the age of AI, urging musicians to embrace technology while preserving the emotional essenc…
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Dr. Tristan Bekinschtein of Cambridge on sleep, alertness, breathwork, and cognitive digital therapy
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Tristan Bekinschtein is an EU Marie Curie Fellow and senior researcher at the MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. His lab is primarily interested in the complexity of thought and what makes us human.Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1…
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David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY)
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David Brooks returns to the show with a stark diagnosis of American culture. Having evolved from a Democratic socialist to a neoconservative to what he now calls "the rightward edge of the leftward tendency," Brooks argues that America's core problems aren't economic but sociological—rooted in the destruction of our "secure base" of family, communi…
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