#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.
Read more#1579 Positive masculinity is a process
Air Date: 8–23-2023
For decades, we have rightly been focused on dialing back endemic misogyny and poking holes in the patriarchy in the hopes of a new normal of gender relations emerging that would be genuinely healthier for everyone, not just women. But, with so much of the focus on the type of masculinity men and boys shouldn't embrace, we may have fallen short on giving positive direction to boys about what they should be and do.
Read more#1578 A.I. is a big tech airplane with a 10% chance of crashing, should society fly it?
Air Date: 8–20-2023
Big tech is currently scrambling to bring untested A.I. products to market, over-promising, under-delivering, and working hard obscure and ignore any possible downsides for society. Big tech needs A.I. regulation now before we all suffer the easily foreseeable consequences as well as some unforeseeable ones.
Read more#1323 Maui Fire and Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control
Original Air Date: 12–07-19
Today we take a look at the reaction to decades of the fetishization of privatization in the form of a reinvigorated movement for public ownership of institutions meant to serve the public such as utilities, banks, train systems, and so on. But this isn't your grandfather's top-down public ownership, the new movement has bottom-up, accountable, democratic control of institutions at the very core of its mission.
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