Explore developments in the world and what they could mean for our future with Sam Barton.

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Chamira Gamage is a Human Rights Advocate at Amnesty International who has been instrumental in campaigning and lobbying for the Assange campaign globally. He has taken a complex and at times unpopular case and ensured it was being given the attention it deserves, based on the core principles press freedom, freedom of expression, and the impact it has on us all, both now and in the future. Chamira is also the Co-Founder and CEO of Thinkrs, a critical thinking Chrome Extension and soon to come News App, which helps users consider context as they read in to help them be better informed.We cover: <ul><li>Chamira&#39;s background</li><li>The backstory of Julian Assange and Wikileaks</li><li>How has Assange been treated</li><li>Why does this matter to all of us</li><li>What can we do</li></ul> EPISODE LINKS<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/ChamiraGamage" rel="nofollow">Chamira on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/julian-assange-usa-justice/" rel="nofollow">Amnesty International&#39;s petition</a></li><li><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/" rel="nofollow">Write to the Whitehouse</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amnesty.org.au/prime-minister-scott-morrison-must-intervene-and-demand-the-us-drop-the-charges-against-julian-assange/" rel="nofollow">Letter to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison</a></li><li><a href="https://thinkrs.io/" rel="nofollow">Thinkrs.io</a></li></ul> SUPPORT:<ul><li><a href="https://buy.stripe.com/8wM3ft6gbdBx8ykcMM" rel="nofollow">Contribute to coffee fund</a></li><li><a href="https://app.ideamarket.io/i/twitter/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Back me on Ideamarket</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate Talk of Today on Apple Podcasts</a></li></ul> PODCAST INFO<ul><li><a href="https://app.redcircle.com/shows/3abd3649-afa6-4f43-9d85-3f9b651abd61/ep/samhbarton.com/podcast" rel="nofollow">Podcast Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/SamHBarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Julian Assange & Freedom of Expression with Human Rights Advocate Chamira Gamage

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Dr. Peter Rohde is an ARC Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Quantum Software &amp; Information at the University of Technology Sydney. Peter is also a mountaineer, musician, cryptoanarchist, and author of the recently released book &#34;The Quantum Internet&#34;.EPISODE LINKS:<ul><li><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/quantum-internet/8C8C709D5A393D16765116587A4E8A2C" rel="nofollow">The Quantum Internet</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2Fcore%2Fbooks%2Fquantum-internet%2F8C8C709D5A393D16765116587A4E8A2C&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVZaOF83b3VnWWxQTFl0amxOVlNBM09YQ012d3xBQ3Jtc0treGVYVHp2Q2JxejZ1eVpWSnBOakJtV1lvVGpyOU9vYWRmMzYtOU9nMFVuMW0tYnpBM0ZOV1JJbkFfOF95dG1ERnlNWU5DcHZHa1ZScXUzdGdrdDBlY1BZVWVmX2lqM3ZDQUJsWXNVWXlyaVRZcC1Tcw" rel="nofollow">‍</a><a href="https://peterrohde.org/" rel="nofollow">Peter&#39;s website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/peter_rohde" rel="nofollow">Peter&#39;s Twitter</a></li></ul> SUPPORT:<ul><li><a href="https://buy.stripe.com/8wM3ft6gbdBx8ykcMM" rel="nofollow">Contribute to coffee fund</a></li><li><a href="https://app.ideamarket.io/i/twitter/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Back me on Ideamarket</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate Talk of Today on Apple Podcasts</a></li></ul> PODCAST INFO<ul><li><a href="https://app.redcircle.com/shows/3abd3649-afa6-4f43-9d85-3f9b651abd61/ep/samhbarton.com/podcast" rel="nofollow">Podcast Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/SamHBarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

The Quantum Internet with Dr. Peter Rohde

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Tyson Yunkaporta is an Australian academic, arts critic, researcher, and member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He recently started the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, which is focused on applying Indigenous thinking to issues that complexity scientists and technologists are currently working on across domains including economics, governance, evolutionary dynamics, cognition, and the environment. Tyson is also the author of the world-view reconfiguring book &#39;Sand Talk&#39; which served as the basis of our conversation. In the book, Tyson explores our global systems from an Aboriginal perspective and how this viewpoint could help us resolve some of the complex sustainability issues facing our world.In our conversation we cover:<ul><li>The indigenous notion of story and the problem with the narrative at the heart of Western civilisation</li><li>The value in true diversity, identity, and place</li><li>Violence and the need for its integration in society</li><li>Why instead of pursuing growth we should seek &#39;increase&#39;</li><li>The need for humanity to retake our place as custodians of the land we&#39;re connected to.</li></ul> EPISODE LINKS<ul><li><a href="https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/tyson-yunkaporta" rel="nofollow">Tyson&#39;s Deakin University page</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Sand-Talk-Indigenous-Thinking-World/dp/192577399X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sand+talk&qid=1632637945&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Book: Sand Talk</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Sand-Talk-Indigenous-Thinking-World/dp/192577399X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sand+talk&qid=1632637945&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">‍</a><a href="https://anchor.fm/tyson-yunkaporta" rel="nofollow">Tyson&#39;s Podcast: The Other Others</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb3Bhm99xCM" rel="nofollow">Video: Why the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab matters</a></li></ul> SUPPORT:<ul><li><a href="https://buy.stripe.com/8wM3ft6gbdBx8ykcMM" rel="nofollow">Contribute to coffee fund</a></li><li><a href="https://app.ideamarket.io/i/twitter/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Back me on Ideamarket</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate Talk of Today on Apple Podcasts</a></li></ul> PODCAST INFO<ul><li><a href="https://app.redcircle.com/shows/3abd3649-afa6-4f43-9d85-3f9b651abd61/ep/samhbarton.com/podcast" rel="nofollow">Podcast Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/SamHBarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Patterns of Creation with Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta

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Jeremy is CEO of LBRY, a blockchain based protocol which is aiming to do what bitcoin has done for money for publishing. In that, rather than relying upon third parties to aggregate and distribute content, library has built a technology that allows this to be done peer to peer without fear of censorship or demonetisation. He&#39;s also CEO of Odyssee, a youtube-like video streaming platform built on LBRY technology. EPISODE LINKS:<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jeremykauffman" rel="nofollow">Jeremy on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="http://lbry.com/" rel="nofollow">LBRY.com</a></li><li><a href="http://odysee.com/" rel="nofollow">Odysee.com</a></li></ul> SUPPORT:<ul><li><a href="https://buy.stripe.com/8wM3ft6gbdBx8ykcMM" rel="nofollow">Contribute to coffee fund</a></li><li><a href="https://app.ideamarket.io/i/twitter/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Back me on Ideamarket</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate Talk of Today on Apple Podcasts</a></li></ul> PODCAST INFO<ul><li><a href="https://app.redcircle.com/shows/3abd3649-afa6-4f43-9d85-3f9b651abd61/ep/samhbarton.com/podcast" rel="nofollow">Podcast Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/SamHBarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

The LBRY of the World with Jeremy Kauffman

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Victor Kline is the Party Leader of the New Liberals in Australia. He&#39;s a Sydney based barrister specialising in the area of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Law. He&#39;s founder and director of the The Refugee Law Project as well as editor of the Federal Court Reports and Federal Law Reports.We cover:<ul><li>The need for an Independent Commission Against Corruption with teeth</li><li>The moral crisis of our immigration policies and some potential solutions</li><li>Australia&#39;s vast potential as an energy superpower</li><li>Brain drain, the crippling of Australian universities, and getting back on track to becoming the &#39;smart country&#39;</li><li>The plans the New Liberals have and the challenges they face.</li><li>Why Climate inaction is actually unAustralian</li></ul> EPISODES LINKS:<ul><li><a href="https://www.thenewliberals.net.au/" rel="nofollow">The New Liberals&#39; Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/victorklineTNL" rel="nofollow">Victor on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/The_NewLiberals" rel="nofollow">New Liberals on Twitter</a></li></ul> SUPPORT:<ul><li><a href="https://buy.stripe.com/8wM3ft6gbdBx8ykcMM" rel="nofollow">Contribute to coffee fund</a></li><li><a href="https://app.ideamarket.io/i/twitter/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Back me on Ideamarket</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate Talk of Today on Apple Podcasts</a></li></ul> PODCAST INFO<ul><li><a href="samhbarton.com/podcast" rel="nofollow">Podcast Website</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/SamHBarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

The New Liberals of Australia with Victor Kline

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In this episode I am once again joined by philosopher and economist Prof. Karl Widerquist, professor of philosophy at Georgetown University in Qatar. He was co-founder of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network, the first Basic Income network in the United States, and was also co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network from 2008-2017.He&#39;s recently coauthored a several of books, two of which served as the basis of our discussion. These are The Prehistory of Private Property which debunks three false claims commonly accepted by contemporary political philosophers regarding property systems, and the book Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy which explores how philosophers use and perpetuate myths about prehistory. While there&#39;s barely any mention of universal basic income in these texts, the conclusions that lead from them can be seen to be strongly support a social program like UBI.<h3>Links</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/karlwiderquist" rel="nofollow">Karl on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="http://widerquist.com/" rel="nofollow">Karl&#39;s Website</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Prehistory-Private-Property-Implications-Political/dp/1474447422/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=prehistory+of+Private+Property&qid=1628150603&s=books&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">Prehistory of Private Property</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Prehistoric-Myths-Modern-Political-Philosophy/dp/0748678662" rel="nofollow">Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Independence-Propertylessness-Basic-Income-Exploring-ebook/dp/B00C2RDY7K/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=freedom+as+the+power+to+say+no&qid=1628150626&s=books&sr=1-2" rel="nofollow">Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee)</a></li></ul> Support &amp; Shownotes<ul><li><a href="http://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/property-rights-and-universal-basic-income-with-prof-karl-widerquist" rel="nofollow">Podcast shownotes</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate it on Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNnk07d_OOshFT11SyPxtA" rel="nofollow">Subscribe on YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">By me a coffee</a></li><li><a href="https://app.redcircle.com/shows/3abd3649-afa6-4f43-9d85-3f9b651abd61/ep/twitter.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Universal Basic Income & Property Rights with Prof. Karl Widerquist

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This episode is another dive into what is one of the most fascinating and promising fields of our age: complexity science. It&#39;s a relatively new field that is transforming how we see and understand the world across multiple disciplines. Most importantly, it&#39;s can provide us with a deeper understanding of our collective interactions with the complex biophysical system we call, Earth and how we might avert the catastophes that loom.Joining me today is Professor Karoline Wiesner, Professor of Complexity Science at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and Associate editor for the journals <a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy" rel="nofollow">Entrop</a>y and <a href="http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/acs" rel="nofollow">Advances in Complex Systems</a>Her research focuses on the use of information theory in the study of formation, maintenance and stability of complex systems.She is also one of the authors of the recently released book What is a Complex System, which served as the basis of my interview with her.In our conversation, we cover:<ul><li>What is a complex system?</li><li>What is complexity and what are some ways we can measure it?</li><li>Why information theory and complexity science are such powerful tools for understanding the world?</li><li>We also spend some time discussing entropy, order, and disorder, as well as a bit on how these things might be related to ethical value, which, if has been a pet interest of mine in recent times.</li></ul>Unfortunately we didn&#39;t get to cover all of the topics I wishes to explore as we were bedevilled by technical difficulties, so the conversation might not flow as normal. Regardless, I still had a great time speaking with Prof. Wiesner and I hope you enjoy it as well.Links<a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Complex-System-James-Ladyman/dp/0300251106" rel="nofollow">Prof. Wiesner&#39;s Book: What is a Complex System?</a><a href="https://www.karowiesner.org/" rel="nofollow">Prof. Wiesner&#39;s website</a><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karoline-Wiesner" rel="nofollow">Prof. Wiesner on Research Gate</a><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karoline-Wiesner" rel="nofollow">‍</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Wealth-Remaking-Economics-Business/dp/1422121038/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=origin+of+wealth&qid=1625306103&s=books&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">Book mentioned: Origin of Wealth by Eric Beinhocker</a> Support &amp; Shownotes<ul><li><a href="http://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/democracy-earth-proof-of-humanity-id-universal-basic-income-with-herb-stephens" rel="nofollow">Podcast shownotes</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate it on Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNnk07d_OOshFT11SyPxtA" rel="nofollow">Subscribe on YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">By me a coffee</a></li><li><a href="https://app.redcircle.com/shows/3abd3649-afa6-4f43-9d85-3f9b651abd61/ep/twitter.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Complex Systems and Information with Prof. Karoline Wiesner

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This episode is a bit of a wild one. It&#39;s a three hour discussion bringing together a unifying principle for life, the free energy principle (a topic I explored in greater detail in my conversation with Maxwell Ramstead), with several pernicious problems that have plagued us for years, like consciousness, free will, intelligence, and what the hell is going on when we take psychdelic substances. Leading us on a tour of these awe-inspiring, interconnected, mind-bending topics is the scientist Dr. Adam Safron. Adam is has recently finished a postdoc the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and has moved on to the John&#39;s Hopkins Centre for Psychdelics and Consciousness Research.His work brings together neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from a complex systems perspective and is truly fascinating. His ultimate aim is is providing a multi-level account of the factors that help people to be adaptive, creative, and free in all aspects of their lives.One of his more recent projects has been developing a theory of consciousness, Integrated World Modeling Theory, which in the context of the free energy principle and integrated information theory, proposes that conscious experiences are what it is like to model an embodied self and world with coherent organization by space, time, and cause.In our conversation we cover:<ul><li>The Free Energy Principle</li><li>The Big 5 Personality trait model, and it&#39;s recent cybernetifaction</li><li>Intelligence and why the artificial intelligence of the future might have to be embodied in order to reach its purported potential</li><li>Adam then takes us through his theory of consciousness, Integrated World Modeling Theory,</li><li>Free will</li><li>Psychedelics and the brain</li></ul> Support &amp; Shownotes<ul><li><a href="http://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/democracy-earth-proof-of-humanity-id-universal-basic-income-with-herb-stephens" rel="nofollow">Podcast shownotes</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate it on Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNnk07d_OOshFT11SyPxtA" rel="nofollow">Subscribe on YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">By me a coffee</a></li><li><a href="https://app.redcircle.com/shows/3abd3649-afa6-4f43-9d85-3f9b651abd61/ep/twitter.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> <h3>Links</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/adamsafron" rel="nofollow">Adam on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/adam.safron" rel="nofollow">Adam on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=dZOoilgAAAAJ" rel="nofollow">Adam on Google Scholar</a></li><li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam-Safron" rel="nofollow">Adam on Research Gate</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Evolves-Daniel-C-Dennett/dp/0142003840" rel="nofollow">Book: Freedom Evolves by Dan Dennett</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Big-Picture-Origins-Meaning-Universe/dp/1101984252" rel="nofollow">Book: The Big Picture by Sean Carroll</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

The Free Energy Principle, Consciousness & Psychedelics with Dr. Adam Safron

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Herb is co-founder and treasurer of the Democracy Earth foundation, a non-profit building a blockchain-based open source &#34;liquid democracy&#34; governance platform, with the aim of bringing blockchain-based tools for democracy to the world at large, as well as executive Director of the Independent National Union, a new organisation with the aim of strengthening political power independent from the two-party system to enable the Independent governing of American cities, states and nation.He&#39;s a serial software entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, having built and sold multiple companies mostly building systems where power purposefully shifts to the user through technology. When he learned of blockchain technology in 2012, considering it to be &#34;the best invention since the Internet itself&#34;, Herb dedicated the rest of his career to social entrepreneurship. In our conversation, we cover:<ul><li>Sovereign identity and proof of humanity ID</li><li>Quadratic voting</li><li>Currency, nation-states, and the blockchain revolution we will see</li><li>How the Universal Basic Income token works, what the philosophy behind it is, and what the plans for it are</li><li>What&#39;s wrong with politics in the US at the moment</li></ul> Support &amp; Shownotes<ul><li><a href="http://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/democracy-earth-proof-of-humanity-id-universal-basic-income-with-herb-stephens" rel="nofollow">Podcast shownotes</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate it on Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNnk07d_OOshFT11SyPxtA" rel="nofollow">Subscribe on YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">By me a coffee</a></li><li><a href="https://app.redcircle.com/shows/3abd3649-afa6-4f43-9d85-3f9b651abd61/ep/twitter.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> <h3>Links</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.democracy.earth" rel="nofollow">Democracy.Earth</a></li><li><a href="http://proofofhumanity.id/" rel="nofollow">Proof of Humanity</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/HerbStephens" rel="nofollow">Herb&#39;s Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.inu.one/" rel="nofollow">Independent National Union</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Architecture-Technodemocracy-Technology-Revolutionize-Governments-ebook/dp/B07CMPKGXD" rel="nofollow">Book: Architecture of a Techno democracy</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Politics-Industry-Political-Innovation-Democracy-ebook/dp/B07V3NH4DY" rel="nofollow">Book: The Politics Industry</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Democracy Earth, Proof of Humanity ID, and UBI with Herb Stephens

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Today we&#39;re talking about climate change and the precarious position we are all in, threatened with the very collapse of our societies and the biosphere upon which they rest, all due to our inaction. Joining me to explore this sobering topic is Earth systems scientist Professor Will Steff. Will is a climate change expert and researcher at the Australian National University, Canberra. He&#39;s held many positions related to guiding our species back onto a sustainble climate trajectory. He was the Executive Director of the Australian National University&#39;s Climate Change Institute,he served as a Science Adviser to the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, he was a founding Climate Councillor of Australia&#39;s Climate Council, and has been an author and reviewer of five of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) assessments and special reports between 2000 and 2018. In our conversation, we cover:<ul><li>How bad is the current situation?</li><li>Tipping points</li><li>The difficulty of modelling a system as complex as our climate and thus, the need for a great deal of humiltiy and caution when dealing with climate change</li><li>The threat social collapse due to climate change</li><li>and why we really need to get our act together by 2030 in order to try and stablise the climate system. </li></ul> Support &amp; Shownotes<ul><li><a href="http://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/climate-change-collapse-with-prof-will-steffen" rel="nofollow">Podcast shownotes</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate it on Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNnk07d_OOshFT11SyPxtA" rel="nofollow">Subscribe on YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">By me a coffee</a></li><li><a href="https://app.redcircle.com/shows/3abd3649-afa6-4f43-9d85-3f9b651abd61/ep/twitter.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> <h3>Links</h3><ul><li><a href="https://iceds.anu.edu.au/people/academics/professor-will-steffen" rel="nofollow">Will&#39;s ANU Page</a></li><li><a href="https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/" rel="nofollow">Australian Climate Council</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x94fcoIG9GQ" rel="nofollow">Why we are facing a climate emergency talk by Will </a></li><li><a href="https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Game-Set-Match-Calling-Time-on-Climate-Inaction-Climate-Council-Sports-Report-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">Game, Set, Match: Calling Time on Climate Inaction</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Safe-Operating-Space-Treaty/dp/1443889032" rel="nofollow">Paulo Magalhaes&#39; The Safe Operating Space Treaty</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Climate Change & Collapse with Prof. Will Steffen

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Prof. Jason Potts is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at RMIT University and Co-director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT in Melbourne Australia. In our conversation we cover:<ul><li>The economy as a complex adaptive system</li><li>Why capitalism is a misnomer, and instead, the economic system in which we live might be better characterised as an institutional market society for the growth of knowledge.</li><li>We explore why innovation actually begins before the creative entrepreneur in what&#39;s called an innovation commons.</li><li>and, of course, what will likely become a defining technology in this decade and those to come: blockchain. Jason explains why this will be the base layer for the emerging digital economy and why NFTs, non-fungible tokens, are the start of a new age of experimentation in property rights.</li></ul> If you&#39;ve had any hesitancy or misgiving about blockchain technology in the past, Jason will likely change your mind. <h3>Support &amp; Shownotes</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/blockchain-economics-the-origins-of-innovation-with-prof-jason-potts" rel="nofollow">Podcast shownotes</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-today/id1215194224" rel="nofollow">Rate it on Apple Podcasts </a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNnk07d_OOshFT11SyPxtA" rel="nofollow">Subscribe on YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">By me a coffee </a></li><li><a href="twitter.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Follow Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> <h3>Links to things discussed</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/profjasonpotts" rel="nofollow">Jason&#39;s Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://rmitblockchain.io/" rel="nofollow">RMIT Blockchain Hub</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Wealth-Remaking-Economics-Business/dp/1422121038" rel="nofollow">The Origin of Wealth</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Entrepreneurial-State-Debunking-Public-Private/dp/0857282522" rel="nofollow">The Entrepreneurial State</a></li><li><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-General-Theory-of-Economic-Evolution/Dopfer-Potts/p/book/9780415279437" rel="nofollow">The General Theory of Economic Evolution</a></li><li><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691180960/a-culture-of-growth" rel="nofollow">The Culture of Growth</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/mintandburnRMIT" rel="nofollow">Mint and Burn Podcast</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Blockchain Economics & The Origins of Innovation

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My guest today is the philosophy professor Jonathan Wolff. Jonathan is the Alfred Landecker professor of values and public policy at the University of Oxford&#39;s Blavatnik School of Government. We cover:<ul><li>The Capability Approach</li><li>Global justice and the nation-state</li><li>The difficulties of translating philosophy into policy</li><li>Balancing Life &amp; Liberty in the context of the corona virus, and;</li><li>Universities in a post-covid world</li></ul> <a href="www.samhbarton.com/podcast/the-capability-approach-corona-virus-and-freedom-with-prof-jonathan-wolff" rel="nofollow">Shownotes</a> <h2>Links</h2><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/JoWolffBSG" rel="nofollow">Jonathan on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://jonathanwolff.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Jonathan&#39;s Website</a></li><li><a href="https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/jonathan-wolff" rel="nofollow">Jonathan&#39;s Faculty Page</a></li><li><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6509/1309" rel="nofollow">An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation</a></li><li><a href="https://www.jasonhickel.org/the-divide" rel="nofollow">The Divide by Jason Hickel</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen" rel="nofollow">Amartya Sen</a></li><li><a href="https://www.notion.so/v-58ff918a904f4dbf99bdf8b6e2ea2d63" rel="nofollow">Ethics and Public Policy book</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SMZO2E/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4" rel="nofollow">Disadvantage Book</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Political-Philosophy-Jonathan-University/dp/0199658013" rel="nofollow">Introduction to Political Philosophy</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393923592/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6" rel="nofollow">Introduction to Moral Philosophy</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003TXT09C/ref=dp_olp_1" rel="nofollow">Rawls&#39; Theory of Justice</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Capabilities-Human-Development-Approach/dp/0674072359" rel="nofollow">Creating Capabilities</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Development-Freedom-Amartya-Kumar-Sen/dp/0385720270" rel="nofollow">Development as Freedom</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathanwolff" rel="nofollow">Jonathan in the Guardian</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

The Capability Approach, Corona Virus, and Freedom with Prof. Jonathan Wolff

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My guest today is Michael Garfield, a writer, musician, artist, poet-philosopher, paleontologist-futurist who&#39;s setting the seeds for a planetary renaissance. With incisive eloquence, he takes the threads of technology, science, and the wonders of the natural world to weave together a cosmic story of Life, one that needs to be shared more wildly. In our conversation we cover:<ul><li>Corona virus and the epistemic crisis</li><li>Community and fragmentation</li><li>Evolution as a multi-billion year remix project</li><li>Psychedelics as training wheels for transhumanism</li><li>Nested complexity, restoring democracy, and regenerative communities</li><li>Rewilding the future</li><li>The power of ideas</li><li> </li></ul>http://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/rewilding-the-singularity-with-michael-garfield<h3>Links</h3><ul><li><a href="http://twitter.com/@michaelgarfield" rel="nofollow">Michael on Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/michaelgarfield" rel="nofollow">Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/145" rel="nofollow">Future Fossils #145: Weaving A New Prehistory to Rewild The Future</a></li><li><a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/how-to-live-in-the-future-part-1-the-future-is-a-place-ec1adf780aeb#.z8ji7vjq1" rel="nofollow">How to Live in the Future: The Future is a Place</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/future-fossils/id1152767505?mt=2" rel="nofollow">Future Fossils on Apple Podcasts</a></li><li><a href="https://michaelgarfield.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Michael&#39;s Website</a></li><li><a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-secret-language-of-relationships-gary-goldschneider/book/9780525426875.html" rel="nofollow">The Secret Language of Relationships </a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Bakker" rel="nofollow">Robert Bakker </a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Irwin_Thompson" rel="nofollow">William Irwin Thompson</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne_Association" rel="nofollow">Lindisfarne Association</a></li><li><a href="https://centerforneweconomics.org/envision/legacy/lindisfarne-tapes/" rel="nofollow">The Collective Lindisfarne Tapes</a></li><li><a href="https://centerforneweconomics.org/[[commons]]" rel="nofollow">Schumacher Centre for New Economics</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis" rel="nofollow">Lynn Margulis</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.nu/avsnitt/here-we-are/science-vs-human-nature" rel="nofollow">Podcast with Shane Moss, &#39;Science vs Human Nature&#39;</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Pharmacy-Plants-Evolution-Noosphere/dp/0295990953" rel="nofollow">Richard M. Doyle &#39;Darwin&#39;s Pharmacy&#39;</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Way-Merlin-Techniques-Transformation-Tradition/dp/1855381133" rel="nofollow">Roy J. Stewart &#39;The Way of Merlin&#39;</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfjnWkDwYrc" rel="nofollow">Michae&#39;s Video on Tech Ethics as Psychedelic Parenting</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Common-Air-Revolution-Art-Ownership/dp/0374532796" rel="nofollow">Lewis Hyde &#39;As Common as Air&#39;</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/More-Than-Two-Practical-Polyamory/dp/0991399706" rel="nofollow">Franklin Veau &amp; Eve Rickert &#39;More than Two&#39;</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wastewater-Gardener-Preserving-Planet-Flush/dp/0907791514" rel="nofollow">Mark Nelson&#39;s book &#39;The Wastewater Gardener&#39;</a> and the documentary <a href="https://www.spaceshipearthmovie.com/" rel="nofollow">Spaceship Earth</a></li><li>Stuart Davis&#39; podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/aliens-artists/id1516926791" rel="nofollow">Aliens and Artists</a></li><li><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/150" rel="nofollow">Michael&#39;s Future Fossils Podcast on A Unifying Meta-Theory of UFOs &amp; The Weird with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens</a></li></ul>‍ Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Rewilding the Singularity with Michael Garfield

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2020/10/20/9/a03b5601-ca26-4ee5-857f-226519f90b2f_nora_bateson_mixdown.mp3

Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, and as President of the International Bateson Institute, an organisation that integrates the sciences, arts and professional knowledge to create a qualitative inquiry of the integration of life. Her work is focused on the innumerable relationships that define our world and who we are, understanding the role that perception and context plays in our interactions. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems.In our conversation, we cover:<ul><li>Ineffability, perception, and the baggage of language</li><li>Why the changes we need begin with the changing our relationships with ourselves and each other</li><li>How COVID has shown us the perils of the incessant seeking of efficiency</li><li>The need to engage with the world with humility.</li></ul>‍<h3>Links</h3><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/NoraBateson" rel="nofollow">Nora on twitter @norabateson</a></li><li><a href="https://t.co/lssKq5sAyC?amp=1" rel="nofollow">The Bateson Institute</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Small-Arcs-Larger-Circles-Patterns/dp/1909470961" rel="nofollow">Nora&#39;s Book: Small Arcs of Larger Circles</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/SamHBarton" rel="nofollow">Sam on Twitter</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Living Between Frames with Nora Bateson

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Mike is the founder of IdeaMarkets, a stock market for credibility that&#39;s currently under development. His team hopes to align financial incentives with the credibility of publishers to help combat misinformation and to really make the truth pay for those who seek it.  In our conversation we cover:<ul><li>The promise of distributed ledger technologies, aka crypto</li><li>Decentralised finance</li><li>Idea markets and aligning financial incentives with truth seeking</li><li>Truth as an ordering force in the world</li><li>China&#39;s panopticon</li><li>The logic of non-violence</li><li>UFOs and undervalued ideas</li></ul>Find Mike Online:<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/harmonylion1" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a></li><li><a href="mikeelias.com" rel="nofollow">Website</a></li><li><a href="IdeaMarkets.org" rel="nofollow">IdeaMarkets</a></li></ul> <a href="www.samhbarton.com/podcast/idea-markets-with-mike-elias" rel="nofollow">Shownotes available here.</a> <ul><li><a href="www.samhbarton.com/podcast/idea-markets-with-mike-elias" rel="nofollow">Subscribe on YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://www.samhbarton.com/" rel="nofollow">Sign up to newsletter</a></li></ul> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Idea Markets with Mike Elias

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2020/7/13/8/c569ab4b-b179-4242-b309-5a3ccaf16b29_information_and_life_with_prof._paul_davies_mixdown.mp3

Topics covered:<ul><li>What is information?</li><li>What&#39;s the difference between computation and information processing?</li><li>What is order?</li><li>Emergence and reductionism</li><li>Cancer through the lens of information</li><li>Top-down causality</li></ul> I think this episode is on one of the most fascinating topics we&#39;ve explored so far. Today we&#39;re talking about information, a concept that we&#39;ve only had for less than a century, but one that is proving to be absolutely foundational to our understanding of the universe and the ongoing process of life. My interest in information started about 5 years ago when I was thinking about what a foundation for morality might be. Whenever we think about what might be a preferable state of affairs, we&#39;re fundamentally picturing realities with different configurations of matter. When making decisions of right and wrong, we&#39;re imagining worlds with matter organised in different ways. There&#39;s something about certain material configurations that makes us think that they have intrinsic moral worth, whether they&#39;re living systems with sentience or entire ecosystems. Configurations of matter, by definition, are information. Information is a quantity that is inextricably tied to entropy, the measure of how disordered a system is. In order to develop a fundamental understanding of right or wrong, one that extends beyond what our anthropocentric lenses may tell us, and encapsulates all of life, we must think about the physical makeup of these systems. There&#39;s no other way. As you&#39;ll learn in this episode, a deeper understanding of information will completely revolutionise how we see and interact with the world. It&#39;s impact is hard to overstate. Joining me to cover this topic is celebrated physicist and science communicator, Prof. Paul Davies. Paul is a British scientist who has focused on theoretical physics, cosmology, and astrobiology. At Arizona State University in Phoenix, he established the BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, a “cosmic think tank” devoted to brainstorming deep foundational questions across all the sciences. He&#39;s got a deep interest SETI, the (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and chairs the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup. He&#39;s also been involved in developing fascinating new theories of cancer which we cover in this episode. Paul has received numerous awards for his work, including the Templeton Prize, the Faraday Prize, and in 2007 he was named a member of the Order of Australia.Paul is also the author of 28 books. His most recent is The Demon in the machine —an eye-opening exploration of information and our world and was the basis of this conversation. Paul Davies&#39; personal website: <a href="http://cosmos.asu.edu/" rel="nofollow">cosmos.asu.edu</a>Paul Davies&#39; Facebook Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PhysicistPaulDavies/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/PhysicistPaulDavies/</a>Beyond Center website: <a href="http://beyond.asu.edu/" rel="nofollow">beyond.asu.edu</a>Beyond Center Facebook Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BeyondCenter/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/BeyondCenter/</a>Beyond Center Youtube Page: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_cmoMSKLD9rUMe4X7m_BOw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_cmoMSKLD9rUMe4X7m_BOw</a>Paul&#39;s Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Machine-Paul-Davies/dp/024130959X" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Machine-Paul-Davies/dp/024130959X</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Information and Life with Prof. Paul Davies

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The constructal law is a law of physics that predicts natural design and its evolution in biology, geophysics, climate change, technology, social organization, evolutionary design and development, wealth and sustainability.


The law states that for a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live) it must evolve such that it provides greater and greater access to the currents that flow through it.


If the second law of thermodynamics is seen as the irreversibility of energy flow, the constructal law describes just how these flows organise across time. The constructal says that as a flow system continues to evolve, its design will change to increase the rate of whatever is flowing through it.


The applications of the law are vast, as I&#39;m sure you can imagine. It explains why rivers form the way that they do, why the vasculature of our bodies and cities manifest in the branching ways that they do, why hierarchies manifest spontaneously, why birds fly in formation, even why wealth inequality arises. It&#39;s the physics principle that underpins economies of scale and the Pareto distribution (also known as the Matthew principle), the observation the majority of wealth is normally found within the hands of a few.


If you&#39;re like me, you&#39;re might be wondering why you&#39;ve never heard of it before. It might be because it&#39;s a relatively new development, but who knows. Regardless, I&#39;m thrilled to have come across it and to share it with you all.


My interest in it, apart from it being something foundational to the world we live in, is what it may mean for how we structure our societies and our moral and ethical viewpoints. Harnessing the flows of energy are foundational to life, from the smallest of organisms all the way to our technologically enhanced species. We do this better than any of the rest. It&#39;s our unique capacity to extract energy from the world and put it to use that&#39;s responsible for why we&#39;ve progressed so far, from apes playing with fire to people who can split atoms and channel the awesome power locked within.


As our interconnected global society continues to emerge, we must understand the natural laws that shape our world so that we&#39;re better equipped to build societies that work not just for those that live within them, but for the planet as a whole.


Joining me to explore this topic is distinguished Professor Adrian Bejan from Duke University, the man who formulated the constructal law in 1995.


To call Adrian prolific would be an understatement. He&#39;s authored more than 650 peer-reviewed articles as well as 30 books, one of which being the most widely-used engineering textbook in the English language. His books The Physics of Life, Design in Nature, and his most recent book*, Freedom and Evolution,* were the resources I used to base our conversation on.


He&#39;s ranked among the top 0.01% of leading world scientists in the new citations impact database created by Stanford University’s John Ioannidis. He&#39;s the recipient of 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries, In 2018 he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering for his pioneering interdisciplinary contributions in thermodynamics and convection heat transfer, and in 2019 he was awarded the Humboldt Research Award for lifetime achievement for his pioneering contributions to his field and the constructal law. Earlier this year, the French government awarded Adrian with the title of Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms, an award reserved for distinguished academics for their valuable services to universities, education and science.


I feel deeply privileged to have had a chance to speak to someone who has contributed so much to our understanding of the structure of reality.


In our conversation, we cover:


Adrian&#39;s background and history


what is constructal law and how shapes our world


why inequality is an unavoidable fact of nature


the physics of economies of scale and... <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Support this podcast</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

The constructal law is a law of physics that predicts natural design and its evolution in biology, geophysics, climate change, technology, social organization, evolutionary design and development, wealth and sustainability.


The law states that for a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live) it must evolve such that it provides greater and greater access to the currents that flow through it.


If the second law of thermodynamics is seen as the irreversibility of energy flow, the constructal law describes just how these flows organise across time. The constructal says that as a flow system continues to evolve, its design will change to increase the rate of whatever is flowing through it.


The applications of the law are vast, as I'm sure you can imagine. It explains why rivers form the way that they do, why the vasculature of our bodies and cities manifest in the branching ways that they do, why hierarchies manifest spontaneously, why birds fly in formation, even why wealth inequality arises. It's the physics principle that underpins economies of scale and the Pareto distribution (also known as the Matthew principle), the observation the majority of wealth is normally found within the hands of a few.


If you're like me, you're might be wondering why you've never heard of it before. It might be because it's a relatively new development, but who knows. Regardless, I'm thrilled to have come across it and to share it with you all.


My interest in it, apart from it being something foundational to the world we live in, is what it may mean for how we structure our societies and our moral and ethical viewpoints. Harnessing the flows of energy are foundational to life, from the smallest of organisms all the way to our technologically enhanced species. We do this better than any of the rest. It's our unique capacity to extract energy from the world and put it to use that's responsible for why we've progressed so far, from apes playing with fire to people who can split atoms and channel the awesome power locked within.


As our interconnected global society continues to emerge, we must understand the natural laws that shape our world so that we're better equipped to build societies that work not just for those that live within them, but for the planet as a whole.


Joining me to explore this topic is distinguished Professor Adrian Bejan from Duke University, the man who formulated the constructal law in 1995.


To call Adrian prolific would be an understatement. He's authored more than 650 peer-reviewed articles as well as 30 books, one of which being the most widely-used engineering textbook in the English language. His books The Physics of Life, Design in Nature, and his most recent book*, Freedom and Evolution,* were the resources I used to base our conversation on.


He's ranked among the top 0.01% of leading world scientists in the new citations impact database created by Stanford University’s John Ioannidis. He's the recipient of 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries, In 2018 he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering for his pioneering interdisciplinary contributions in thermodynamics and convection heat transfer, and in 2019 he was awarded the Humboldt Research Award for lifetime achievement for his pioneering contributions to his field and the constructal law. Earlier this year, the French government awarded Adrian with the title of Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms, an award reserved for distinguished academics for their valuable services to universities, education and science.


I feel deeply privileged to have had a chance to speak to someone who has contributed so much to our understanding of the structure of reality.


In our conversation, we cover:


Adrian's background and history


what is constructal law and how shapes our world


why inequality is an unavoidable fact of nature


the physics of economies of scale and...

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The Constructal Law with Prof. Adrian Bejan

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In this episode of Talk of Today we&#39;re joined by Richard Bartlett. Richard is an expert in bringing people together and catalysing decentralised forms of organising. He&#39;s co founder of Enspiral (Enspiral.com) - a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work.


He&#39;s currently working on a project called Microsolidarity (microsolidarity.cc) that&#39;s focused on building and sharing a collection of methodologies for community building, answering the questions of How can we build small scale, high trust, mutually developmental groups.


I&#39;m a huge fan of Richards work and the joy he seems to exhibit in living and interacting with people. I first came across his work on twitter — I highly recommend following him.


For show notes and links to Richard&#39;s work and other things discussed in our conversation, head to my website website (samhbarton.com) .


I&#39;m excited to share this conversation with you all. Our ability to tackle the grand global challenges we face ahead is dependent upon us, all of us, coming together in the places we call home, and taking action.


Links The Hum (https://www.thehum.org) 


Enspiral (https://enspiral.com/) 


Microsolidarity (microsolidarity.cc) 


Richard&#39;s Website (http://richdecibels.com/) 


Richard&#39;s Twitter (https://twitter.com/RichDecibels) 


Richards newsletter (https://richdecibels.substack.com/) 


Rich&#39;s Book: Patterns for Decentralised Organising (https://leanpub.com/patterns-for-decentralised-organising/) 


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In this episode of Talk of Today we're joined by Richard Bartlett. Richard is an expert in bringing people together and catalysing decentralised forms of organising. He's co founder of  Enspiral  (Enspiral.com) - a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work.


He's currently working on a project called  Microsolidarity  (microsolidarity.cc) that's focused on building and sharing a collection of methodologies for community building, answering the questions of How can we build small scale, high trust, mutually developmental groups.


I'm a huge fan of Richards work and the joy he seems to exhibit in living and interacting with people. I first came across his work on twitter — I highly recommend following him.


For show notes and links to Richard's work and other things discussed in our conversation, head to my website  website (samhbarton.com) .


I'm excited to share this conversation with you all. Our ability to tackle the grand global challenges we face ahead is dependent upon us, all of us, coming together in the places we call home, and taking action.


Links The Hum (https://www.thehum.org) 


Enspiral (https://enspiral.com/) 


Microsolidarity (microsolidarity.cc) 


Richard's Website (http://richdecibels.com/) 


Richard's Twitter (https://twitter.com/RichDecibels) 


Richards newsletter (https://richdecibels.substack.com/) 


Rich's Book: Patterns for Decentralised Organising (https://leanpub.com/patterns-for-decentralised-organising/) 




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Decentralised Organisations with Richard Bartlett

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The Free Energy Principle is a formal description of how life resist entropy across scales by minimising surprise. Surprise here being an information-theoretic view of how unlikely a particular sensory state of an organism is, not the psychological phenomenon of surprise — though they are definitely linked. The free energy principle describes how organisms attempt to reduce the difference between their model of the world and their perception of it. 


Joining me to shed light on this topic is Maxwell Ramstead. Maxwell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal and at the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University. He has coauthored several papers in leading journals, which exploring the applications of the free energy principle to the dynamics of cognition and the mind, phenomenology, ecology, and socio-cultural systems. 


In our conversation, we cover: 


- What is the Free Energy Principle


- What is active inference


- The 4 E A approach to cognition (embedded, embodied, enactive, extended and affective)


- Entropy


- Potential societal implications of the Free Energy Principle


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The Free Energy Principle is a formal description of how life resist entropy across scales by minimising surprise. Surprise here being an information-theoretic view of how unlikely a particular sensory state of an organism is, not the psychological phenomenon of surprise — though they are definitely linked. The free energy principle describes how organisms attempt to reduce the difference between their model of the world and their perception of it. 


Joining me to shed light on this topic is Maxwell Ramstead. Maxwell is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal and at the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University. He has coauthored several papers in leading journals, which exploring the applications of the free energy principle to the dynamics of cognition and the mind, phenomenology, ecology, and socio-cultural systems. 


In our conversation, we cover: 


- What is the Free Energy Principle


- What is active inference


- The 4 E A approach to cognition (embedded, embodied, enactive, extended and affective)


- Entropy


- Potential societal implications of the Free Energy Principle




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The Free Energy Principle with Dr. Maxwell Ramstead

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Matthew Pirkowski (@MattPirkoswki) is one of Twitter&#39;s most incisive thinkers, offering penetrating insights in things ranging from representations of value, the many problems of social media platforms and how we interact with them, the evolution of society, and designing emergent systems. In our conversation we cover:


- The substance underlying Jordan Peterson&#39;s main body of work and its implications for ethics.


- The role money plays in scaling social groups


- Specialisation as epistemic speciation


- Social media and our incoherent information environments


- Emergent system design


‍


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Matthew Pirkowski (@MattPirkoswki) is one of Twitter's most incisive thinkers, offering penetrating insights in things ranging from representations of value, the many problems of social media platforms and how we interact with them, the evolution of society, and designing emergent systems. In our conversation we cover:


- The substance underlying Jordan Peterson's main body of work and its implications for ethics.


- The role money plays in scaling social groups


- Specialisation as epistemic speciation


- Social media and our incoherent information environments


- Emergent system design


‍




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Chaos, Order, and Emergent System Design with Matthew Pirkowski

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Through the lens of opportunity and freedom — what people can do and be in the world — most Americans are far less free than the rest of the Western world. A vast proportion of Americans are shackled by wage slavery, unable to pursue the American dream. To fulfill the principles laid down by its forefathers, America needs to provide more for its citizens and unleash its latent entrepreneurial potential and become what it once was.


You can read the full essay at https://www.samhbarton.com/essays/americas-freedom-farce (https://www.samhbarton.com/essays/americas-freedom-farce) 


Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SamHBarton) 


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Through the lens of opportunity and freedom — what people can do and be in the world — most Americans are far less free than the rest of the Western world. A vast proportion of Americans are shackled by wage slavery, unable to pursue the American dream. To fulfill the principles laid down by its forefathers, America needs to provide more for its citizens and unleash its latent entrepreneurial potential and become what it once was.


You can read the full essay at  https://www.samhbarton.com/essays/americas-freedom-farce (https://www.samhbarton.com/essays/americas-freedom-farce) 


Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SamHBarton) 


Become a Patron (https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton) 




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America's Freedom Farce

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COVID-19 has caused titanic global shifts that are continuing to reverberate across the planet, thrusting our societies into territories unknown and crippling our economies. 


There have been few out there who have consistently contributed clear insights into the potential risks of a virus like COVID-19, how it can rapidly propagate across our interconnected world and wreak devastation, and most importantly, how to stop it, than Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam.


Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam is president of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) where they study how interactions within a system lead to its behavioral patterns, and how the system interacts with its environment.


His recent work recent quantitatively analyses the origins and impacts various complex phenomena, including pandemics. 


He&#39;s published over 200 research papers in professional journals, including Science and Nature, authored of two books: a textbook Dynamics of Complex Systems, and Making Things Work, which applies complex systems science to solving problems in healthcare, education, systems engineering, international development, and ethnic conflict. 


His work on the causes of the global food crisis was cited among the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2011 by Wired magazine


He has been a Visiting Scholar at Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He is currently Research Scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory.


In our conversation, we cover: 


- Why applying complexity science is the right approach to deal with issues of uncertainty like the pandemic we&#39;re facing


- What is the Precautionary Principle


- The structural problems of the World Health Organisation


- The need for global governance, but more importantly, effective decision-making


- What we can learn from biology about ethics


- Most importantly, how we can beat COVID-19, and why it will take all of us to do so. 


Support the podcast on patreon and keep up to date with podcasts developments:


patreon.com/samhbarton


samhbarton.com


twitter.com/samhbarton


Links: 


https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam


https://necsi.edu/yaneer-bar-yam


https://www.endcoronavirus.org/


https://necsi.edu/


https://necsi.edu/complexity-rising-from-human-beings-to-human-civilization-a-complexity-profile


https://necsi.edu/ethical-values-a-multiscale-scientific-perspective


Systemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens –


Coronavirus: A Note


https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b68a4e4a2772c2a206180a1/t/5e2efaa2ff2cf27efbe8fc91/1580137123173/Systemic_Risk_of_Pandemic_via_Novel_Path.pdf


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COVID-19 has caused titanic global shifts that are continuing to reverberate across the planet, thrusting our societies into territories unknown and crippling our economies. 


There have been few out there who have consistently contributed clear insights into the potential risks of a virus like COVID-19, how it can rapidly propagate across our interconnected world and wreak devastation, and most importantly, how to stop it, than Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam.


Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam is president of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) where they study how interactions within a system lead to its behavioral patterns, and how the system interacts with its environment.


His recent work recent quantitatively analyses the origins and impacts various complex phenomena, including pandemics. 


He's published over 200 research papers in professional journals, including Science and Nature, authored of two books: a textbook Dynamics of Complex Systems, and Making Things Work, which applies complex systems science to solving problems in healthcare, education, systems engineering, international development, and ethnic conflict. 


His work on the causes of the global food crisis was cited among the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2011 by Wired magazine


He has been a Visiting Scholar at Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He is currently Research Scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory.


In our conversation, we cover: 


- Why applying complexity science is the right approach to deal with issues of uncertainty like the pandemic we're facing


- What is the Precautionary Principle


- The structural problems of the World Health Organisation


- The need for global governance, but more importantly, effective decision-making


- What we can learn from biology about ethics


- Most importantly, how we can beat COVID-19, and why it will take all of us to do so. 


Support the podcast on patreon and keep up to date with podcasts developments:


patreon.com/samhbarton


samhbarton.com


twitter.com/samhbarton


Links: 


https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam


https://necsi.edu/yaneer-bar-yam


https://www.endcoronavirus.org/


https://necsi.edu/


https://necsi.edu/complexity-rising-from-human-beings-to-human-civilization-a-complexity-profile


https://necsi.edu/ethical-values-a-multiscale-scientific-perspective


Systemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens –


Coronavirus: A Note


https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b68a4e4a2772c2a206180a1/t/5e2efaa2ff2cf27efbe8fc91/1580137123173/Systemic_Risk_of_Pandemic_via_Novel_Path.pdf




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How to beat COVID-19 with Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam

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What makes us happy? What affects do the decisions we make have on our subjective well-being?


How does money, or parenthood affect our happiness? What are societies like when the people in them are happier? What affects do new technologies like smartphones, and constant connectivity, have on how happy we think we are?


If happiness, subjective well-being, or flourishing is important (which i&#39;m sure we&#39;d all agree it is), answering these questions has profound consequences for how choose to organise our societies.


Today we&#39;re talking to Kostadin Kushlev, an assistant professor in psychology at Georgetown University where he leads the The Digital Health and Happiness Lab, exploring questions of how digital technologies affect health and well-being.


The general themes covered in the podcast


Happiness helps health, productivity and being a good citizen


Components of well being


Using phones doesn’t make us feel worse, it just removes opportunities for potential happiness.


Parenthood and well being


Affects of do not disturb on people who have ADHD


Income and its affect on happiness/well being


Progressive taxation and its effect on the general population’s well being (In the States)


Living a Psychologically rich life and what that means


‍


Links Kostadin&#39;s papers (https://www.kushlev.com/papers#publications) 


ADHD and Smartphones (https://theconversation.com/are-our-smartphones-afflicting-us-all-with-symptoms-of-adhd-58330) 


Stop Checking Email So Often (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/opinion/sunday/stop-checking-email-so-often.html?_r=0) 


Smartphones and Well-being (https://theconversation.com/to-improve-digital-well-being-put-your-phone-down-and-talk-to-people-82057) 


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What makes us happy? What affects do the decisions we make have on our subjective well-being?


How does money, or parenthood affect our happiness? What are societies like when the people in them are happier?&nbsp;What affects do new technologies like smartphones, and constant connectivity,&nbsp;have on how happy we think we are?


If happiness, subjective well-being, or flourishing is important (which i'm sure we'd all agree it is), answering these questions has profound consequences for how choose to organise our societies.


Today we're talking to Kostadin Kushlev, an assistant professor in psychology at Georgetown University where he leads the The Digital Health and Happiness Lab, exploring questions of how digital technologies affect health and well-being.


The general themes covered in the podcast


Happiness helps health, productivity and being a good citizen


Components of well being


Using phones doesn’t make us feel worse, it just removes opportunities for potential happiness.


Parenthood and well being


Affects of do not disturb on people who have ADHD


Income and its affect on happiness/well being


Progressive taxation and its effect on the general population’s well being (In the States)


Living a Psychologically rich life and what that means


‍


Links Kostadin's papers (https://www.kushlev.com/papers#publications) 


ADHD and Smartphones  (https://theconversation.com/are-our-smartphones-afflicting-us-all-with-symptoms-of-adhd-58330) 


Stop Checking Email So Often (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/opinion/sunday/stop-checking-email-so-often.html?_r=0) 


Smartphones and Well-being (https://theconversation.com/to-improve-digital-well-being-put-your-phone-down-and-talk-to-people-82057) 




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Happiness and Society with Dr. Kostadin Kushlev

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What are the universal scaling laws of life and what do they mean for how our societies today function and their survival in the future?


The conversation I&#39;m going to share with you today is one of the most important I&#39;ve had to date. We live in a time characterised by extreme uncertainty, which is, in many ways, being driven by the impacts of insatiable hunger for growth. If we do not tame humanity&#39;s rapacious desire for more, it will spell disaster for all of us, and there&#39;s maths to prove it.


In order to solve this problem, we first need to understand it. There is no better lens to view things of this nature through than that off energy and information and how these primordial entities flow across time, space — across the scale of life in all of its forms, and the artifacts It creates.


Our guest today is Geoffrey West. Geoffrey is a theoretical physicist who turned his attention to biology, applying the mathematical rigour of one in his discipline to the complexities of life. He&#39;s spent decades exploring the universal mathematical scaling laws that suffuse biology, from mitochondria, to cells, people you and I, and entire ecosystems. These laws are the natural scaffolding that has guided the growth of life over the eons and can explain and predict certain characteristics of its manifestations, like lifespan, metabolic rates, and growth, with incredible precision.


Geoffrey then applied these insights to our societies and the cities they&#39;ve formed. He found that cities do indeed follow very similar scaling laws to life. Given that urbanisation is increasing rapidly around the world and that cities are critical to our economies and lives, understanding the mathematical laws that these cities follow as they function and scale is paramount to developing a coherent and mathematically principled framework for sustainability.


All of this and more is covered in his book Scale, which has been the source of inspiration of this conversation. It is in, in my opinion, one of the most important books of our time, one that should be in the hands of every policy maker, change-maker, urban planner, and intellectual explorer.


Geoffrey has been the recipient of a number of awards and accolades for his work over the years. In 2006 Geoffrey was named one of Time magazine&#39;s 100 Most Influential People in the World. He was the President of the Santa-Fe institute, the home of complexity science, and prior to that he was the leader, and founder, of the high energy physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


I feel deeply privileged to have had the opportunity to speak to Geoffrey and delight in sharing his insights with you in this episode.


In our conversation we cover:


what complexity science is and the characteristics of complex adaptive systems


scaling laws of life


the benefits of applying the computational, mathmetisable frameworks to problems in biology and society


how cities are engines of efficiency, and the scaling laws that make this possible


Most importantly, the desperate need for a fundamental shift in how societies around the world operate, or risk collapse.


 <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Support this podcast</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

What are the universal scaling laws of life and what do they mean for how our societies today function and their survival in the future?


The conversation I'm going to share with you today is one of the most important I've had to date. We live in a time characterised by extreme uncertainty, which is, in many ways, being driven by the impacts of insatiable hunger for growth. If we do not tame humanity's rapacious desire for more, it will spell disaster for all of us, and there's maths to prove it.


In order to solve this problem, we first need to understand it. There is no better lens to view things of this nature through than that off energy and information and how these primordial entities flow across time, space — across the scale of life in all of its forms, and the artifacts It creates.


Our guest today is Geoffrey West. Geoffrey is a theoretical physicist who turned his attention to biology, applying the mathematical rigour of one in his discipline to the complexities of life. He's spent decades exploring the universal mathematical scaling laws that suffuse biology, from mitochondria, to cells, people you and I, and entire ecosystems. These laws are the natural scaffolding that has guided the growth of life over the eons and can explain and predict certain characteristics of its manifestations, like lifespan, metabolic rates, and growth, with incredible precision.


Geoffrey then applied these insights to our societies and the cities they've formed. He found that cities do indeed follow very similar scaling laws to life. Given that urbanisation is increasing rapidly around the world and that cities are critical to our economies and lives, understanding the mathematical laws that these cities follow as they function and scale is paramount to developing a coherent and mathematically principled framework for sustainability.


All of this and more is covered in his book Scale, which has been the source of inspiration of this conversation. It is in, in my opinion, one of the most important books of our time, one that should be in the hands of every policy maker, change-maker, urban planner, and intellectual explorer.


Geoffrey has been the recipient of a number of awards and accolades for his work over the years. In 2006 Geoffrey was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He was the President of the Santa-Fe institute, the home of complexity science, and prior to that he was the leader, and founder, of the high energy physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


I feel deeply privileged to have had the opportunity to speak to Geoffrey and delight in sharing his insights with you in this episode.


In our conversation we cover:


what complexity science is and the characteristics of complex adaptive systems


scaling laws of life


the benefits of applying the computational, mathmetisable frameworks to problems in biology and society


how cities are engines of efficiency, and the scaling laws that make this possible


Most importantly, the desperate need for a fundamental shift in how societies around the world operate, or risk collapse.




Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations

The Scaling Laws of Life with Geoffrey West

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Visakan Veerasamy is an eccentric Singaporean who weaves together of sparkling web of insight, wit, and positivity throughout the world of twitter. The community of people he&#39;s built around him is eclectic, and the common sentiment i see among them is an overwhelming appreciation for the content he puts out. 


Some would call him a marketing consultant — but that&#39;s underselling him substantially. Marketing could be seen as the best way to categorise and monetise what I think his gift is: understanding what makes people tick. These come in forms of long twitter threads, covering things like friendships and partnerships, procrastination, marketing, aesthetics, community, — there&#39;s too many to list. All of these seem to be interconnected in a massive visa-web of insight. I think about it as the twitterfication of his brain. He&#39;s also well on his way to writing 1 million words, which can be found on his blog, 


He&#39;s one of my favourite people to follow, because I have no idea what I&#39;m going to read next, but I know it will make me see the world in a new way. 


We have a pretty sporadic chat, covering topics including: 


- Identity


- Diversifying your meaning portfolio 


- The Three S&#39;s -- Sensitivity, Smarts, Strength


- Aesthetics 


- ADHD 


- Being a high-voltage person. 


Visakan Veerasamy


Twitter: https://twitter.com/@visakanv


Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/visa


Blog: http://visakanv.com/


Visa&#39;s latest ebook (https://t.co/FhjOsfg9Gy?amp=1) 


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Visakan Veerasamy is an eccentric Singaporean who weaves together of sparkling web of insight, wit, and positivity throughout the world of twitter. The community of people he's built around him is eclectic, and the common sentiment i see among them is an overwhelming appreciation for the content he puts out. 


Some would call him a marketing consultant — but that's underselling him substantially. Marketing could be seen as the best way to categorise and monetise what I think his gift is: understanding what makes people tick. These come in forms of long twitter threads, covering things like friendships and partnerships, procrastination, marketing, aesthetics, community, — there's too many to list. All of these seem to be interconnected in a massive visa-web of insight. I think about it as the twitterfication of his brain. He's also well on his way to writing 1 million words, which can be found on his blog, 


He's one of my favourite people to follow, because I have no idea what I'm going to read next, but I know it will make me see the world in a new way. 


We have a pretty sporadic chat, covering topics including: 


- Identity


- Diversifying your meaning portfolio 


- The Three S's -- Sensitivity, Smarts, Strength


- Aesthetics 


- ADHD 


- Being a high-voltage person. 


Visakan Veerasamy


Twitter: https://twitter.com/@visakanv


Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/visa


Blog: http://visakanv.com/


Visa's latest ebook (https://t.co/FhjOsfg9Gy?amp=1) 




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High-voltage living with Visakan Veerasamy

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The topic of today has an importance in our lives than most of us may be unaware of: global insect populations. While these creepy crawlies may inspire disgust in some of us, the value insects bring to the natural world, and of course, to our world cannot be understated — they are inextricable, vital components of our global ecosystem, and the existence of up to 40% of insect species is threatened.


Joining me in this episode to talk about this ecological catastrophe is scientist Dr. Francicso Sanchez-Bayo.


Francisco is an environmental scientist and ecologist at the University of Sydney. He focuses on the the risk assessment of pesticide contaminants on organisms, particularly their affects on birds and aquatic ecosystems, and the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment. He&#39;s been the author or co-author of over 80 articles and book chapters — one of which is the focus of today&#39;s discussion.


Earlier this year he published a paper titled: Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers. The beginning of the abstract reads:


Biodiversity of insects is threatened worldwide. Here, we present a comprehensive review of 73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the underlying drivers. Our work reveals dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction of 40% of the world&#39;s insect species over the next few decades.The report states that main drivers of the population decline are intensive agriculture, pollution and climate change.


Speaking to ABC television in Australia, Dr Sanchez-Bayo said: “We are not alarmists, we are realists. We are experiencing the sixth mass extinction on Earth. If we destroy the basis of the ecosystem, which are the insects, then we destroy all the other animals that rely on them for a food source.


“It will collapse altogether and that’s why we think it’s not dramatic, it’s a reality.”


Heavy stuff.


In my discussion with The topic of today has an importance in our lives than most of us may be unaware of. Today we&#39;re talking about global insect populations. While these creepy crawlies may inspire disgust in some of us, the value insects bring to the natural world, and of course, to our world cannot be understated — they are inextricable, vital components of our global ecosystem, and the existence of up to 40% of insect species is threatened.


Joining me in this episode to talk about this ecological catastrophe is scientist Dr. Francicso Sanchez-Bayo.


Francisco is an environmental scientist and ecologist at the University of Sydney. He focuses on the the risk assessment of pesticide contaminants on organisms, particularly their affects on birds and aquatic ecosystems, and the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment. He&#39;s been the author or co-author of over 80 articles and book chapters — one of which is the focus of today&#39;s discussion.


Earlier this year he published a paper titled: Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers. The beginning of the abstract reads:


Biodiversity of insects is threatened worldwide. Here, we present a comprehensive review of 73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the underlying drivers. Our work reveals dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction of 40% of the world&#39;s insect species over the next few decades.The report states that main drivers of the population decline are intensive agriculture, pollution and climate change.


Speaking to ABC television in Australia, Dr Sanchez-Bayo said: “We are not alarmists, we are realists. We are experiencing the sixth mass extinction on Earth. If we destroy the basis of the ecosystem, which are the insects, then we destroy all the other animals that rely on them for a food source.


“It will collapse altogether and that’s why we think it’s not dramatic, it’s a reality.”


Heavy stuff.


In my discussion with... <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Support this podcast</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

The topic of today has an importance in our lives than most of us may be unaware of: global insect populations. While these creepy crawlies may inspire disgust in some of us, the value insects bring to the natural world, and of course, to our world cannot be understated — they are inextricable, vital components of our global ecosystem, and the existence of up to 40% of insect species is threatened.


Joining me in this episode to talk about this ecological catastrophe is scientist Dr. Francicso Sanchez-Bayo.


Francisco is an environmental scientist and ecologist at the University of Sydney. He focuses on the the risk assessment of pesticide contaminants on organisms, particularly their affects on birds and aquatic ecosystems, and the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment. He's been the author or co-author of over 80 articles and book chapters — one of which is the focus of today's discussion.


Earlier this year he published a paper titled: Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers. The beginning of the abstract reads:


Biodiversity of insects is threatened worldwide. Here, we present a comprehensive review of 73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the underlying drivers. Our work reveals dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction of 40% of the world's insect species over the next few decades.The report states that main drivers of the population decline are intensive agriculture, pollution and climate change.


Speaking to ABC television in Australia, Dr Sanchez-Bayo said: “We are not alarmists, we are realists. We are experiencing the sixth mass extinction on Earth. If we destroy the basis of the ecosystem, which are the insects, then we destroy all the other animals that rely on them for a food source.


“It will collapse altogether and that’s why we think it’s not dramatic, it’s a reality.”


Heavy stuff.


In my discussion with The topic of today has an importance in our lives than most of us may be unaware of. Today we're talking about global insect populations. While these creepy crawlies may inspire disgust in some of us, the value insects bring to the natural world, and of course, to our world cannot be understated — they are inextricable, vital components of our global ecosystem, and the existence of up to 40% of insect species is threatened.


Joining me in this episode to talk about this ecological catastrophe is scientist Dr. Francicso Sanchez-Bayo.


Francisco is an environmental scientist and ecologist at the University of Sydney. He focuses on the the risk assessment of pesticide contaminants on organisms, particularly their affects on birds and aquatic ecosystems, and the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment. He's been the author or co-author of over 80 articles and book chapters — one of which is the focus of today's discussion.


Earlier this year he published a paper titled: Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers. The beginning of the abstract reads:


Biodiversity of insects is threatened worldwide. Here, we present a comprehensive review of 73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the underlying drivers. Our work reveals dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction of 40% of the world's insect species over the next few decades.The report states that main drivers of the population decline are intensive agriculture, pollution and climate change.


Speaking to ABC television in Australia, Dr Sanchez-Bayo said: “We are not alarmists, we are realists. We are experiencing the sixth mass extinction on Earth. If we destroy the basis of the ecosystem, which are the insects, then we destroy all the other animals that rely on them for a food source.


“It will collapse altogether and that’s why we think it’s not dramatic, it’s a reality.”


Heavy stuff.


In my discussion with...

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Insect Population Collapse with Dr Francisco Sanchez-Bayo

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This podcast has the potential to significantly change the way you spend your time and money. And i’m not being hyperbolic.


In this episode I’m speaking with Rob Wiblin from 80,000 hours, an organisation that looks into how people can spend their most precious resource, their time, but more specifically, the time they spend working, to maximise for humanity’s well being. The number 80,000 hours is roughly how long someone spends working in their lifetime, hence the name.


It’s an organisation with its foundation in effective altruism, which is a philosophy and social movement that aims to apply evidence and reason to determine the most effective ways to benefit others.


If this is the first time you’ve been exposed to these ideas, i highly recommend you check out their websites and content. I’m sure it will change the way you think about how you navigate the world, and could realistically increase the positive impact you have on the world by orders of magnitude. This mode of thinking has really changed the way i view the world.


As i said at the start, my guest today is Rob Wiblin. Rob is director of research at 80,000 hours and hosts the 80,000 hours podcast. He studied genetics and economics at the Australian National University (ANU) and was named Young Alumnus of the Year in 2015.


He has worked as a research economist in various Australian Government agencies, he was Research Director and then Executive Director at the Centre for Effective Altruism in Oxford and then became Research Director for 80,000 Hours. He and the 80,000 hours crew also know how to throw a great party.


So we hit on quite a few topics in the 40 minutes we had to chat, which included:


What is ‘good’?


Universal basic income


Global issues that we face today


How to choose a career path


Websites you can visit to find out how to donate to charity more effectively


Why sorting out your mental health might need to be a priority


And some mental frameworks and tools to help you navigate the world.


Rob&#39;s Twitter (https://twitter.com/robertwiblin) 


The Dictators Handbook (https://www.amazon.com.au/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/1610391845) 


On What Matters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4tV1cWP1I) 


Pandemics (https://80000hours.org/2017/08/podcast-we-are-not-worried-enough-about-the-next-pandemic/) 


http://www.robwiblin.com/ (http://www.robwiblin.com/) 


The Importance of the long-run (https://80000hours.org/articles/why-the-long-run-future-matters-more-than-anything-else-and-what-we-should-do-about-it/) 


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This podcast has the potential to significantly change the way you spend your time and money. And i’m not being hyperbolic.


In this episode I’m speaking with Rob Wiblin from 80,000 hours, an organisation that looks into how people can spend their most precious resource, their time, but more specifically, the time they spend working, to maximise for humanity’s well being. The number 80,000 hours is roughly how long someone spends working in their lifetime, hence the name.


It’s an organisation with its foundation in effective altruism, which is a philosophy and social movement that aims to apply evidence and reason to determine the most effective ways to benefit others.


If this is the first time you’ve been exposed to these ideas, i highly recommend you check out their websites and content. I’m sure it will change the way you think about how you navigate the world, and could realistically increase the positive impact you have on the world by orders of magnitude. This mode of thinking has really changed the way i view the world.


As i said at the start, my guest today is Rob Wiblin. Rob is director of research at 80,000 hours and hosts the 80,000 hours podcast. He studied genetics and economics at the Australian National University (ANU) and was named Young Alumnus of the Year in 2015.


He has worked as a research economist in various Australian Government agencies, he was Research Director and then Executive Director at the Centre for Effective Altruism in Oxford and then became Research Director for 80,000 Hours. He and the 80,000 hours crew also know how to throw a great party.


So we hit on quite a few topics in the 40 minutes we had to chat, which included:


What is ‘good’?


Universal basic income


Global issues that we face today


How to choose a career path


Websites you can visit to find out how to donate to charity more effectively


Why sorting out your mental health might need to be a priority


And some mental frameworks and tools to help you navigate the world.


Rob's Twitter (https://twitter.com/robertwiblin) 


The Dictators Handbook (https://www.amazon.com.au/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/1610391845) 


On What Matters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4tV1cWP1I) 


Pandemics  (https://80000hours.org/2017/08/podcast-we-are-not-worried-enough-about-the-next-pandemic/) 


http://www.robwiblin.com/ (http://www.robwiblin.com/) 


The Importance of the long-run (https://80000hours.org/articles/why-the-long-run-future-matters-more-than-anything-else-and-what-we-should-do-about-it/) 




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80,000 hours with Rob Wiblin

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Tiago Forte is the the man behind the &#39;building a second brain course&#39;. Among many other things, Tiago helps people build their own trusted digital archive for their most valuable knowledge and ideas. 


We have a pretty wide-ranging discussion, covering where people go wrong when it comes to organising their information, general thoughts about twitter the social platform responsible for this conversation, his life philosophy servant hedonism, we talk a bit about trauma, and, why he thinks he&#39;s an arms-dealer for smart people.


Find Tiago online: 


Twitter: https://twitter.com/fortelabs


Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/simulacrumsquared


Website: https://www.fortelabs.co/


Links discussed: 


Body keeps the score: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score


Hyperion: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion


Eric Chaisson -- Cosmic Evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLtJyg_f3B0


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Tiago Forte is the the man behind the 'building a second brain course'. Among many other things, Tiago helps people build their own trusted digital archive for their most valuable knowledge and ideas. 


We have a pretty wide-ranging discussion, covering where people go wrong when it comes to organising their information, general thoughts about twitter the social platform responsible for this conversation, his life philosophy servant hedonism, we talk a bit about trauma, and, why he thinks he's an arms-dealer for smart people.


Find Tiago online: 


Twitter: https://twitter.com/fortelabs


Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/simulacrumsquared


Website: https://www.fortelabs.co/


Links discussed: 


Body keeps the score: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score


Hyperion: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion


Eric Chaisson -- Cosmic Evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLtJyg_f3B0




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Building a Second Brain with Tiago Forte

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Our understanding of the biology of emotions has changed dramatically in recent years. We don&#39;t experience our emotions, we construct them. Listen to Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of &#39;How emotions are made&#39; talk about the science of emotions and the implications of our new understanding of them. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Support this podcast</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

Our understanding of the biology of emotions has changed dramatically in recent years. We don't experience our emotions, we construct them. Listen to Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of 'How emotions are made' talk about the science of emotions and the implications of our new understanding of them.

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How Emotions are Made with Lisa Feldman Barrett

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This is a reading of a blog post I wrote on Design Thinking and the scientific method. 

Show notes can be found at samhbarton.com

Blog post originally posted on buckhamduffy.com <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Support this podcast</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

This is a reading of a blog post I wrote on Design Thinking and the scientific method. 

Show notes can be found at samhbarton.com

Blog post originally posted on buckhamduffy.com

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Design Thinking: The Scientific Method Applied to Business

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This is an audio essay on the issue of state sovereignty in an interconnected world, inspired by Trump&#39;s recent address to the UN General Assembly. 

The essay is available on talkoftoday.com and on medium -@shbarton. Links and sources can be found there as well.

You can support the podcast at www.patreon.com/talkoftoday or at talkoftoday.com/support <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Support this podcast</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

This is an audio essay on the issue of state sovereignty in an interconnected world, inspired by Trump's recent address to the UN General Assembly. 

The essay is available on talkoftoday.com and on medium -@shbarton. Links and sources can be found there as well.

You can support the podcast at www.patreon.com/talkoftoday or at talkoftoday.com/support

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Sorry Trump. You're wrong about Sovereignty

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Chris Timmerman is a PhD student in the Psychedelic Research Group from Imperial College in London. He&#39;s currently conducting brain imaging experiments on people under the influence of the psychedelic drug DMT. In this episode, we talk about the psychedelics in general, ego dissolutionment and DMT.

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Chris Timmerman is a PhD student in the Psychedelic Research Group from Imperial College in London. He's currently conducting brain imaging experiments on people under the influence of the psychedelic drug DMT. In this episode, we talk about the psychedelics in general, ego dissolutionment and DMT.

You can support this podcast at www.patreon.com/talkoftoday or at www.talkoftoday.com/support

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Psychedelics with Chris Timmerman

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Meditation has exploded in popularity in recent years. 

Once thought of as a purely spiritual practice, the physical and mental benefits of it are now being recognised by science. 

Secular institutions like schools and corporations are jumping onto the Zen train to reap these benefits, which range from increases in productivity, improved sleep quality, increased creativity, as well as reduced stress and anxiety, just to name a few.

On a side note, there’s also the fact that some people report of meditation inducing psychedelic experiences, which is a tantalizing prospect in of itself!

My guest in this episode is Dr Sara Lazar from Harvard University. In our conversation, we cover: 

- The benefits of meditation and the effects it can have on your brain

- Its effects on mental illnesses 

- Politics and neuroanatomy 

- Persona EEG devices that provide real-time neurofeedback 

- Whether or not meditation be widely prescribed, just like regular exercise, optimal nutrition, and sleep?

- And, of course, some helpful advice for those giving this ancient practice a go. 

Enjoy! Show notes can be found at talkoftoday.com/podcast-3

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Meditation has exploded in popularity in recent years. 
Once thought of as a purely spiritual practice, the physical and mental benefits of it are now being recognised by science. 

Secular institutions like schools and corporations are jumping onto the Zen train to reap these benefits, which range from increases in productivity, improved sleep quality, increased creativity, as well as reduced stress and anxiety, just to name a few.

On a side note, there’s also the fact that some people report of meditation inducing psychedelic experiences, which is a tantalizing prospect in of itself!

My guest in this episode is Dr Sara Lazar from Harvard University. In our conversation, we cover: 

- The benefits of meditation and the effects it can have on your brain
- Its effects on mental illnesses 
- Politics and neuroanatomy 
- Persona EEG devices that provide real-time neurofeedback 
- Whether or not meditation be widely prescribed, just like regular exercise, optimal nutrition, and sleep?
- And, of course, some helpful advice for those giving this ancient practice a go. 

Enjoy! Show notes can be found at talkoftoday.com/podcast-3

Support the podcast at talkoftoday.com/support or patreon.com/talkoftoday

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Meditation and the Brain with Dr Sarah Lazar

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In this episode, we explore the technologies that will shape our future as outlined in the book &#39;The Inevitable&#39; by Kevin Kelly. It takes the vast swathes of technological developments that we’ve seen over the past few decades, and paints a marvellous picture of what they could, and most likely will inevitably mean for the future. Topics covered in the podcast include: - Artificial intelligence and the cognifying of everything - The blockchain - Information abundance - Startup advice for would-be innovators - How these technologies will help us understand who we are. Enjoy! You can support the podcast at talkoftoday.com/support or at patreon.com/talkoftoday


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In this episode, we explore the techologies that will shape our future as outlined in the book 'The Inevitable' by Kevin Kelly.

It takes the vast swathes of technological developments that we’ve seen over the past few decades, and paints a marvellous picture of what they could, and most likely will inevitably mean for the future.

Topics covered in the podcast include: 
- Artificial intelligence and the cognifying of everything 
- The blockchain 
- Information abundance 
- Startup advice for would-be innovators 
- How these technologies will help us understand who we are.

Enjoy! 

You can support the podcast at talkoftoday.com/support or at patreon.com/talkoftoday

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The Inevitable Technologies that will Shape our Future with Kevin Kelly

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Today&#39;s episode is a bit different from the rest. Instead of talking about developments in science, tech and society, I&#39;m chatting to a man called Gosife Okenta about the ongoing subjugation and suffering of his people in Nigeria. He would not call himself Nigerian, however. Gosife is from Biafra, a secessionist state in eastern Nigeria that existed in the late 1960s. Though is no longer exists, there are millions of people who identify as Biafrans today, and are treated as second class citizens in Nigeria. 

I wanted to share Gosife and Biafra&#39;s story to get you to ponder some things like: 

- What is a national identity? 

- When should the global community intervene in the affairs of a country?

- Is sovereignty an outdated concept in our globalised world?

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Today's episode is a bit different from the rest. Instead of talking about developments in science, tech and society, I'm chatting to a man called Gosife Okenta about the ongoing subjugation and suffering of his people in Nigeria. He would not call himself Nigerian, however. Gosife is from Biafra, a secessionist state in eastern Nigeria that existed in the late 1960s. Though is no longer exists, there are millions of people who identify as Biafrans today, and are treated as second class citizens in Nigeria. 

I wanted to share Gosife and Biafra's story to get you to ponder some things like: 
- What is a national identity? 
-  When should the global community intervene in the affairs of a country?
- Is sovereignty an outdated concept in our globalised world?

You can support the podcast at talkoftoday.com/support or through patreon.com/talkoftoday, or by giving it a rating and sharing it with your friends!

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The Plight of the Biafran People with Gosife Okekenta

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Aging could become a thing of the past. Not in 100 years, but within our lifetime (whatever that means) 

In this episode, I&#39;m joined by Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey is a British biomedical gerontologist, chief scientist and founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an institution focused on using regenerative medicines to repair damage underlying the diseases of aging. 

In our conversation, we talk about some of the underlying causes of aging, where anti-aging research is at the moment, and what the near future might look like in the industry. 

Support the podcast at: 

talkoftoday/support 

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Aging could become a thing of the past. Not in 100 years, but within our lifetime (whatever that means) 

In this episode, I'm joined by Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey is a British biomedical gerontologist,  chief scientist and founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an institution focused on using regenerative medicines to repair damage underlying the diseases of aging. 

In our conversation, we talk about some of the underlying causes of aging, where anti-aging research is at the moment, and what the near future might look like in the industry. 

Support the podcast at: 
talkoftoday/support 
patreon.com/talkoftoday

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The Death of Aging with Aubrey de Grey

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There aren&#39;t too many decisions that we make daily that can have as much of an impact on the world as what we choose to eat. 

Today, we&#39;re joined by Dr Liz Specht from the Good Food Institute to talk about the future of food. 

In our conversation, we talk about what&#39;s going on in food-tech, why are these developments so important, and when will we taste the fruits of the labour of the rapidly evolving food-tech industry?

Links to what&#39;s discussed in the podcast can be found at talkoftoday.com

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There aren't too many decisions that we make daily that can have as much of an impact on the world as what we choose to eat. 

Today, we're joined by Dr Liz Specht from the Good Food Institute to talk about the future of food. 



In our conversation, we talk about what's going on in food-tech, why are these developments so important, and when will we taste the fruits of the labour of the rapidly evolving food-tech industry?

Links to what's discussed in the podcast can be found at talkoftoday.com

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The Future of Food with Dr Liz Specht

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This episode is with Dr Fatima Nasrallah, a senior scientist and researcher from the Queensland Brain Institute.

This is a discussion on concussions, yo. What do we know about them, how do we measure them, what are the long term impacts, and how should you use this information? 

Show notes available at talkoftoday.com/podcast-3

Links: 

www.talkoftoday.com/lifetab

www.globalcitizenship.today

Queensland Brain Institute:

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/

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This episode is with Dr Fatima Nasrallah, a senior scientist and researcher from the Queensland Brain Institute.

This is a discussion on concussions, yo. What do we know about them, how do we measure them, what are the long term impacts, and how should you use this information? 

Show notes available at talkoftoday.com/podcast-3

Links: 
www.talkoftoday.com/lifetab
www.globalcitizenship.today
Queensland Brain Institute:
https://qbi.uq.edu.au/
https://concussion.qbi.uq.edu.au/

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Concussions with Dr Fatima Nasrallah

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We now have a new way of observing the universe. Over a century ago, Einstein’s seminal work on the theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves which are ripples within the very fabric of the universe itself. 

In February of 2016, the existence of gravitational waves was confirmed by measurements made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. 

In this episode, I chat with Dr Jess McIver postdoctoral scholar in experimental physics at California Institute of Technology about the basics of general relativity, what gravitational waves actually are, how they’re created, and how did we measure them. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Support this podcast</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

We now have a new way of observing the universe. Over a century ago, Einstein’s seminal work on the theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves which are ripples within the very fabric of the universe itself. 

In February of 2016, the existence of gravitational waves was confirmed by measurements made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. 

In this episode, I chat with Dr Jess McIver postdoctoral scholar in experimental physics at California Institute of Technology about the basics of general relativity, what gravitational waves actually are, how they’re created, and how did we measure them.

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Gravitational Waves with Dr Jess McIver

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This episode is a bit different to the rest! Topics discussed are: 

- What the podcast is about and what to expect 

- Why I started the podcast 

- Brief bio on me(Sam Barton)

- An explanation of the Global Citizenship concept I&#39;ve discussed on other podcasts.

Links mentioned: 

www.globalcitizenship.today

www.talkoftoday.com

www.patreon.com/talkoftoday

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This episode is a bit different to the rest! Topics discussed are: 

- What the podcast is about and what to expect 
- Why I started the podcast 
- Brief bio on me(Sam Barton)
- An explanation of the Global Citizenship concept I've discussed on other podcasts.

Links mentioned: 
www.globalcitizenship.today
www.talkoftoday.com
www.patreon.com/talkoftoday
Instagram: @shbarton

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The Why behind the Podcast - Generalism and Global Citizenship

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Blockchain technology has potential to transform society. It&#39;s described as &#39;the trust machine&#39; - an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value. My guest for this episode is Kary Bheemaiah -a researcher, lecturer, writer, technology consultant based in Paris. Kary recently published book, ‘The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory’ explores the macroeconomic implications of the blockchain. His other writings have been published in WIRED, Harvard Business Review, and Les Echos among others. Topics covered in this conversation include: complexity economics, generalism, the blockchain (duh) and fractional banking. Show notes can be found at https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/the-blockchain-complexity-economics-and-generalism-with-kary-bheemaiah (https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/the-blockchain-complexity-economics-and-generalism-with-kary-bheemaiah) 


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Blockchain technology has potential to transform society. It's described as 'the trust machine' - an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value. 

My guest for this episode is Kary Bheemaiah -a researcher, lecturer, writer, technology consultant based in Paris. 

Kary recently published book, ‘The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory’ explores the macroeconomic implications of the blockchain. His other writings have been published in WIRED, Harvard Business Review, and Les Echos among others.

Topics covered in this conversation include: complexity economics, generalism, the blockchain (duh) and fractional banking.

Show notes can be found at www.talkoftoday.com/the-blockchain-complexity-economics-and-generalism-with-kary-bheemaiah

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The Blockchain, Complexity Economics and Generalism with Kary Bheemaiah

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DMT(dimethyltryptamine - more like dimethyltripdaeffout) is a psychedelic substance that&#39;s found throughout nature and within the human body. 

It&#39;s a substance that, after more scientific enquiry, could bridge the gap between science and spirituality due to the life-changing, and some would say, mystical experiences it can facilitate. 

Dr Rick Strassman is an author, specialist in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. He was the first to legally administer psychedelics to people in the United States in decades, giving dozens of volunteers DMT numerous of times over the course of 5 years. His research has been regarded as kicking off the &#34;psychedelic renaissance&#34;.

Links can be found at talkoftoday.com/the-psychedelic-dmt-with-dr-rick-strassman <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Support this podcast</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

DMT(dimethyltryptamine - more like dimethyltripdaeffout) is a psychedelic substance that's found throughout nature and within the human body. 

It's a substance that, after more scientific enquiry, could bridge the gap between science and spirituality due to the life-changing, and some would say, mystical experiences it can facilitate. 

Dr Rick Strassman is an author, specialist in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. He was the first to legally administer psychedelics to people in the United States in decades, giving dozens of volunteers DMT numerous of times over the course of 5 years. His research has been regarded as kicking off the "psychedelic renaissance".

Links can be found at talkoftoday.com/the-psychedelic-dmt-with-dr-rick-strassman

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The Psychedelic DMT with Dr Rick Strassman

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The Earth Charter is an international declaration of fundamental values and principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It &#34;seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family, the greater community of life, and future generations.

The four pillars and sixteen principles of the Earth Charter are:

I. Respect and Care for the Community of Life

1. Respect Earth and life in all its diversity.

2. Care for the community of life with understanding, compassion and love.

3. Build democratic societies that are just, participatory, sustainable and peaceful.

4. Secure Earth&#39;s bounty and beauty for present and future generations.

II. Ecological Integrity

5. Protect and restore the integrity of Earth&#39;s ecological systems, with special concern for biological diversity and the natural processes that sustain life.

6. Prevent harm as the best method of environmental protection and, when knowledge is limited, apply a precautionary approach.

7. Adopt patterns of production, consumption and reproduction that safeguard Earth&#39;s regenerative capacities, human rights and community well-being.

8. Advance the study of ecological sustainability and promote the open exchange and wide application of the knowledge acquired.

III. Social and Economic Justice

9. Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social and environmental imperative.

10. Ensure that economic activities and institutions at all levels promote human development in an equitable and sustainable manner.

11. Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care and economic opportunity.

12. Uphold the right of all, without discrimination, to a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity, bodily health and spiritual well-being, with special attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities.

IV. Democracy, Nonviolence, and Peace

13. Strengthen democratic institutions at all levels, and provide transparency and accountability in governance, inclusive participation in decision-making, and access to justice.

14. Integrate into formal education and life-long learning the knowledge, values and skills needed for a sustainable way of life.

15. Treat all living beings with respect and consideration.

16. Promote a culture of tolerance, nonviolence and peace.

Clem is a former Australian state politician and was a member of the Parliament of Queensland from 1983 to 1998.

In 2013, Clem Campbell became the president of the United Nations Association of Australia, Queensland

In 2014, Mr Campbell was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for his contributions to the community as an outstanding advocate for peace and environmental education and leadership in promoting ethics in public life. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Support this podcast</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

The Earth Charter is an international declaration of fundamental values and principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It "seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family, the greater community of life, and future generations.

The four pillars and sixteen principles of the Earth Charter are:

I. Respect and Care for the Community of Life

1. Respect Earth and life in all its diversity.
2. Care for the community of life with understanding, compassion and love.
3. Build democratic societies that are just, participatory, sustainable and peaceful.
4. Secure Earth's bounty and beauty for present and future generations.

II. Ecological Integrity

5. Protect and restore the integrity of Earth's ecological systems, with special concern for biological diversity and the natural processes that sustain life.
6. Prevent harm as the best method of environmental protection and, when knowledge is limited, apply a precautionary approach.
7. Adopt patterns of production, consumption and reproduction that safeguard Earth's regenerative capacities, human rights and community well-being.
8. Advance the study of ecological sustainability and promote the open exchange and wide application of the knowledge acquired.

III. Social and Economic Justice

9. Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social and environmental imperative.
10. Ensure that economic activities and institutions at all levels promote human development in an equitable and sustainable manner.
11. Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care and economic opportunity.
12. Uphold the right of all, without discrimination, to a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity, bodily health and spiritual well-being, with special attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities.

IV. Democracy, Nonviolence, and Peace

13. Strengthen democratic institutions at all levels, and provide transparency and accountability in governance, inclusive participation in decision-making, and access to justice.
14. Integrate into formal education and life-long learning the knowledge, values and skills needed for a sustainable way of life.
15. Treat all living beings with respect and consideration.
16. Promote a culture of tolerance, nonviolence and peace.

Clem is a former Australian state politician and was a member of the Parliament of Queensland from 1983 to 1998.
In 2013, Clem Campbell became the president of the United Nations Association of Australia, Queensland
In 2014, Mr Campbell was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for his contributions to the community as an outstanding advocate for peace and environmental education and leadership in promoting ethics in public life.

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The Earth Charter and Global Community with Clem Campbell

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Today&#39;s guest is Brett Lewis, a marine researcher from the Queensland University of Technology. He was a part of the team that filmed video of coral bleaching in action that ended up going viral. 

In today&#39;s episode ,we find out exactly what coral bleaching actually and what does it mean for the great barrier reef? Why is reef actually important, and we also discuss current issues in science communication. 

Links:

Twitter: BrettM_Lewis

fightforourreef.org.au

www.globalcitizenship.today

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Today's guest is Brett Lewis, a marine researcher from the Queensland University of Technology. He was a part of the team that filmed video of coral bleaching in action that ended up going viral. 

In today's episode ,we find out exactly what coral bleaching actually and what does it mean for the great barrier reef? Why is reef actually important, and we also discuss current issues in science communication. 

Links:
Twitter: BrettM_Lewis
fightforourreef.org.au
www.globalcitizenship.today
talkoftoday.com

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Coral Bleaching and the Great Barrier Reef

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We can now take our evolution into our own hands. 

Amal Graafstra is Chief of Awesome and Dangerous Things, a Biohacking company based out of Seattle, Washington. He&#39;s one of the guys that put biohacking on the map, with the RFID chip he&#39;s got implanted in his hand, that allows him to access his car and house without keys - and that&#39;s just the start! 

Technologies available today can allow us to do far crazier things - from paying for stuff with a wave of a hand, to actually changing our very own genetic makeup.

In this episode, we chat about: 

- Encryption and what could be the future of digital security 

- RFID and Magnetic Implants

- Transhumanism 

- Genetic Engineering

Links to Amal&#39;s awesome stuff: 

www.dangerousthings.com

www.facebook.com/DangerousThings/?ref=br_rs

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We can now take our evolution into our own hands. 

Amal Graafstra is Chief of Awesome and Dangerous Things, a Biohacking company based out of Seattle, Washington. He's one of the guys that put biohacking on the map, with the RFID chip he's got implanted in his hand, that allows him to access his car and house without keys - and that's just the start! 

Technologies available today can allow us to do far crazier things - from paying for stuff with a wave of a hand, to actually changing our very own genetic makeup.

In this episode, we chat about: 

- Encryption and what could be the future of digital security 
- RFID and Magnetic Implants
- Transhumanism 
- Genetic Engineering

Links to Amal's awesome stuff: 

www.dangerousthings.com
www.facebook.com/DangerousThings/?ref=br_rs
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgkNrrM3fkGjaVU1AvCUpWA/videos

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Biohacking with Amal Graafstra

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Universal Basic Income - an answer to our automated future and the beginning of a utopian future?

An idea backed by people on both sides of the political spectrum, technologists and futurists, a basic income may not just be philosophically appealing, it may be necessary.

Today&#39;s conversation is with Dr Karl Widerquist, a political philosopher and economist at Georgetown University, SFQ Qatar. He is co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network and an author of numerous books, including &#39;Independence, Propertylessness and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No.

In our conversation, we cover: 

- Philosophy of freedom as an argument for a universal basic income

- What is a UBI and how could it be administered 

- Some of the economics behind it

For more information on what is discussed in the podcast, head to the links below!

talkoftoday.com/podcast

University Profile: explore.georgetown.edu/people/kpw6/

Selected works: works.bepress.com/widerquist/

&#39;Independence, Propertylessness and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No: www.goodreads.com/book/show/160338…and-basic-income

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Universal Basic Income - an answer to our automated future and the beginning of a utopian future?

An idea backed by people on both sides of the political spectrum, technologists and futurists, a basic income may not just be philosophically appealing, it may be necessary.

Today's conversation is with Dr Karl Widerquist, a political philosopher and economist at Georgetown University, SFQ Qatar. He is co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network and an author of numerous books, including 'Independence, Propertylessness and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No.

In our conversation, we cover: 
- Philosophy of freedom as an argument for a universal basic income
- What is a UBI and how could it be administered 
- Some of the economics behind it

For more information on what is discussed in the podcast, head to the links below!

talkoftoday.com/podcast

University Profile: explore.georgetown.edu/people/kpw6/

Selected works: works.bepress.com/widerquist/

'Independence, Propertylessness and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No: www.goodreads.com/book/show/160338…and-basic-income

basicincome.org

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Universal Basic Income with Dr Karl Widerquist

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What makes an idea stick? What is it about an idea that causes it to plant itself in the mind and spread? In this episode, I talk to Dr Brendan Markey-Towler, an economist from the University of Queensland, about a paper he wrote called &#39;Competition of Ideas in the Public Sphere&#39;. Basically, what Brendan does in this paper is break dow what form an idea should take, to make an idea the fittest it can be in the marketplace of ideas. He does this using behavioural economics, psychology and graph theory, and comes up with a number of principles that make a lot of intuitive sense, and that can be implemented in your communication efforts immediately. In this episode, we cover Aristotle and his treatise Rhetoric, which is the original guidebook on how to communicate effectively. Brendan then builds on this with his principles behind a viral idea, and gives contemporary examples of the in action in the form of the caricature of American capitalism, Donald Trump, Most importantly, he stresses why that, in the battlefield of ideas, we must become soldiers of truth. www.talkoftoday.com Link to the Paper: &#39;Competition of Ideas in the Public Sphere&#39; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2907892 Brendan&#39;s Academic Profile: https://economics.uq.edu.au/profile/2529/dr-brendan-markey-towler Twitter: @B_MarkeyTowler Medium: https://medium.com/@brendanmarkeytowler <a href="https://www.patreon.com/samhbarton" rel="nofollow">Support this podcast</a> Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations'>https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations</a>

What makes an idea stick? What is it about an idea that causes it to plant itself in the mind and spread? 

In this episode, I talk to Dr Brendan Markey-Towler, an economist from the University of Queensland, about a paper he wrote called 'Competition of Ideas in the Public Sphere'.

Basically, what Brendan does in this paper is break dow what form an idea should take, to make an idea the fittest it can be in the marketplace of ideas.

He does this using behavioural economics, psychology and graph theory, and comes up with a number of principles that make a lot of intuitive sense, and that can be implemented in your communication efforts immediately. 

In this episode, we cover Aristotle and his treatise Rhetoric, which is the original guidebook on how to communicate effectively. Brendan then builds on this with his principles behind a viral idea, and gives contemporary examples of the in action in the form of the caricature of American capitalism, Donald Trump, 

Most importantly, he stresses why that, in the battlefield of ideas, we must become soldiers of truth.

www.talkoftoday.com


Link to the Paper: 'Competition of Ideas in the Public Sphere'
 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2907892

Brendan's Academic Profile: https://economics.uq.edu.au/profile/2529/dr-brendan-markey-towler

Twitter: @B_MarkeyTowler
Medium: https://medium.com/@brendanmarkeytowler

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