#1580 Bet Your Life: Sports betting is opening new and expensive ways to waste your time and destroy your mental health.
Air Date: 9–3-2023
Sports gambling through smartphones has become widely available and wildly addictive but the effects are being felt beyond the individual gambler's bank account and anxiety levels. Partnerships between gambling companies and colleges, influencers, and even journalistic institutions like ESPN are changing the fundamentals of the sports themselves and how they're understood by fans - all for the worse.
Read more#TBT #1152 Rise of the Oligarchs like the Ones Taking Clarence Thomas on Trips (Money in Politics) (Throwback)
#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment (Repost)
Original Air Date: 8–10-2022
Origins of the European colonial land-grab, the need for the #Landback movement, and the benefits to society and the environment in the context of the climate crisis to return stewardship of the land to native peoples.
Read more#1504 Neurodiversity is Strength: Autism, ADHD and Beyond (Repost)
Original Air Date: 8–2-2022
Explaining neurodiversity and why it should be seen as a strength and benefit to society when accommodated properly rather than a problem to be solved or, worse, ignored. Autism, ADHD and other examples of neurodiversity all have positive attributes that rarely get talked about which blinds society to those benefits but also perpetuates stigma.
Read more#1209 Being part of the solution (How to argue your values)
Today we take a look at some strategies to, and reasons why we need to, have better political conversations.
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