Susan Magsamen - Neuroscience, NeuroArts, and the mystery that life really is
Susan Magsamen makes her life at the frontier: the frontier of neuroscience, of institutional change, of the intersection of art and science. Her's is a life full of wisdom for how to live amongst mystery and befriend complexity.Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:spontaneous "you are my sunshine" (02:00)T. S. Eliot (08:00)implementation science (08:40)therapeutic recreation (11:00)Trabian Shorters and asset framing (15:00)Daniel Kahneman (16:00)neuroplasticity (22:30)Howard Gardner and Kurt Fisher and Mind, Brain, and Education Program at Harvard (26:15)Karl Alexander (27:30)Curiosity Kits (28:30)NeuroArts (32:00)Gileadby Marilynne Robinson (36:00)more than scientific knowledge (38:00)"Social Support and the Perception of Geographical Slant" (45:00)Resmaa Menakem (46:30)NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative (46:40)"Cirque du Soleil and the neuroscience of awe" on Vox (47:40)Global Watering Hole (51:30)Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards (52:30)Rachel Naomi Remen (56:30)Lightning Round (01:03:00)Book: Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonPassion: horseback ridingHeart sing: grandchildrenScrewed up: articulation in these timesFind Susan online:International Arts + Mind LabLogo artwork by Cristina GonzalezMusic by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media
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Season Eight Trailer: A meditation on conversation and the collective narrative of our time
Origins Podcast WebsiteHello friends, a new season of Origins arrives next week, on Tuesday, May 20. This next chapter of Origins is about exploring conversation, that great practice of placing two things next to one another and allowing them to be astonished by the other. It is also about exploring the collective narrative of our time. This trailer is both introduction and meditation on how Origins is more than a podcast: a space for collective inquiry into living well in a fractured world.Over on Substack we’re cultivating not just conversation but community—a space for listening, reflection, and co-creation. This season, you’ll find templates born from the gatherings surrounding some of these episodes: guides for more generative encounters, wider conversations, and more generous questions. These tools aren’t prescriptions, but invitations.Flourishing Commons Newsletter
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David Woods - the science of resilience, graceful extensibility, and facilitating insight
Few concepts are more important to our society than resilience. Agnostic of domain, of nation, culture, and scale (as vital, indeed, to the individual life as to the planetary civilization), it would be impossible to overstate the pressure on us to understand it. If resilience is a core competency of our time, it would not be hyperbole to say that Dr. David Woods one of our most important thinkers. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:three mile island (07:20)resilience engineering (12:30)the theory of graceful extensibility (12:30)The Risk Society by Ulrich Beck (13:10)how do you know? (14:00)scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts (15:00)retrenchment vs revitalization (16:00)the novelty inequality (28:00)Simon DeDeo on Origins (28:30)Mars Climate Orbiter report (31:00)'faster, better, cheaper' pressure (32:00)Erik Hollnagle and Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off principle (33:30)graceful extensibility (36:20)Douglas Hofstadter and strange loops (41:00)SNAFU catchers (42:00)dialectic between the individual and collective (44:00)Arnold Toynbee (45:00)multi-hazards and changing climate (52:20)John Doyle (54:00)Elinor Ostrom and reciprocity (54:20)Lightning Round (01:01:30):Book: Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas HofstadterPassion: History and Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History by Helen Hornbeck TannerHeart sing: graceful extensibility and resilience engineering video seriesScrewed up: building interfaces to the knowledge of resilienceFind David online:Ohio State University siteLogo artwork by Cristina GonzalezMusic by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media
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Paul Smaldino - Social identities, collective intelligence, and an ambling open life
Paul Smaldino is an explorer. That might seem like an odd way to describe a professor of cognitive science, but anyone who has glanced at his biography will recognize that he lives his life in exploration. His scholarship as his life are inspiration for keeping the lines of inquiry wide open and the things we can discover in doing so.Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:The Dancing Wu Li Masters (08:00)The Quantum and the Lotus (12:30)Sagehood (15:00)J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm (17:00)Simone de Beauvoir (18:00)Science as an ongoing process of flourishing (18:15)Jeffrey Shank (26:00)Richard McElreath (27:40)"Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation" Richardson et al. (28:00)"Social conformity despite individual preferences for distinctiveness" (35:00)"Maintaining transient diversity is a general principle for improving collective problem solving" Smaldino et al. (38:00)Philip Kitcher (46:00)explore-exploit tradeoff (46:10)replication crisis (49:00)The Knowledge Machine Strevens (50:30)"Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles" by C Thi Nguyen (53:00)"Interdisciplinarity can aid the spread of better methods between scientific communities" Smaldino and O'Connor (56:00)Wicked problems (56:30)C Thi Nguyen on Origins (57:00)Flourishing (58:00)Lightning round (01:05:00):Book: Dune by Frank Herbert or Culture and the Evolutionary Process by Boyd and RichersonPassion: film and musicHeart sing: two kidsFind Paul online: WebsiteLogo artwork by Cristina GonzalezMusic by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media
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John Paul Lederach - Peacebuilding, critical yeast, and the language of imagination
I've been following John Paul Lederach's work for years, finding the words he uses inordinately relevant to all of the details and spaces of my life. John Paul is Professor of International Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame. He has been a teacher to me across time and space and I believe the ideas he brings into the world are teachers we all need for the world we are walking into. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Vocation (12:00)The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peaceby John Paul (12:30)Rumi poetry and the reed flute (19:00)Ongoingness (21:00)Peacebuilding (21:20)Pádraig Ó Tuama (31:00)wonder, wander, and wait (36:00)'bearing witness to more of the complexity of the other' (37:30)collective empathy (40:00)Paulo Freire (44:00)critical yeast (46:00)Francisco Varela and "The Logic of Paradise" (54:00)Mind and Life Dialogues (54:00)Poetry (55:00)Eduardo Galeano (56:00)Donald Hall (01:03:00)Ai-jen Poo (01:11:00)Lightning Round (01:05:00)Book: Tomorrow's Child by Rubem Alves Passion: poetry and physicsHeart sing: podcastingScrewed up: the significance and challenge of patienceFind John Paul online:https://www.johnpaullederach.com/Logo artwork by Cristina GonzalezMusic by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media
Origins are conversations with thought-leaders across an eclectic mix of disciplines (science, engineering, art, and design), crafted specifically for the category-defying society that we live in. We explore the thoughts, passions, and stories that defined these pioneers’ fascinating trajectories, arriving at the origins of the pivotal moments across their lives. Draw inspiration for your own trajectory from the intellectual and spiritual electricity of these eclectic conversations.
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