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Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeReclaiming the Acid QueenWe all know Timothy Leary, the high priest of ‘60s psychedelia, but his partner, Rosemary Woodruff Leary, has largely been forgotten. She also had a remarkable life, even breaking Leary out of prison with the help of the Weather Underground. Now, biographer Susannah Cahalan tells her story — from the heady Sixties to a life on the run for decades.Original Air Date: November 08, 2025Interviews In This Hour: Guests: Susannah CahalanNever want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast.Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and f...
2025-11-0847 min
The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician MomThe Discipline Reframe Every Parent Needs: Teach Don’t PunishIf you’ve ever wondered why traditional discipline like timeouts, threats, punishments feel off or doesn’t actually work, this episode will change the way you see toddler behavior.
I’m joined by Devon Kuntzman, toddler expert and founder of Transforming Toddlerhood, to talk about how we can move from managing our kids’ behavior to teaching through it. We unpack why toddlers act out, how to handle power struggles without punishment, and how parents can stay calm (and human) in those messy moments. Devon shares her framework for effective discipline, the difference between natural and arbitrary consequences, and the...
2025-10-2242 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeFarewell from TTBOOKYou listened on car trips and overnight flights, in tents and canoes, kitchens and living rooms. You shared our love of ideas, our search for wonder, our curiosity and our belief in the future. Now, after 35 years, it’s time for us to say goodbye. In this hour, Anne talks with TTBOOK’s producers about some of their favorite interviews and why public radio is such a powerful medium.Music in this hour was provided by the Aurora Principle, AurbanniAudio, Kai Engel, and Tom Blain.Original Air Date: September 27, 2025Interviews In This Hour: A...
2025-09-2752 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeThomas Metzinger on why we need a “culture of consciousness”Thomas Metzinger is a renowned German philosopher. He has a longtime fascination with psychedelics, stemming from his own experience and also from his work as an analytic philosopher. He says altered states of consciousness give us profound insights into the nature of the mind. And he believes modern society has an ethical imperative to foster a “culture of consciousness.”Original Air Date: August 02, 2025Interviews In This Hour: Guests: Thomas MetzingerNever want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast.Want to hear more from us, including extended inter...
2025-08-0240 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeMarcelo and Kari Gleiser on tripping with your partnerMost psychedelic stories are highly personal, but there’s a different dynamic when two people share the experience — especially a married couple. Steve talks with theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser and clinical psychologist Kari Gleiser about their transformative experiences.Original Air Date: May 9, 2025Guests: Marcelo Gleiser, Kari GleiserNever want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast.Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? Subscribe to our newsletter.For more from Luminous: ttbook.org/luminous
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Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeMarcelo and Kari Gleiser on tripping with your partnerMost psychedelic stories are highly personal, but there’s a different dynamic when two people share the experience — especially a married couple. Steve talks with theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser and clinical psychologist Kari Gleiser about their transformative experiences.Original Air Date: April 28, 2025Guests: Marcelo Gleiser, Kari GleiserNever want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast.Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? Subscribe to our newsletter.For more from Luminous: ttbook.org/luminous
2025-05-091h 00
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeChris Timmerman on how DMT can deconstruct the mindChris Timmerman is a neuroscientist with a deep interest in phenomenology—what’s actually happening in our minds during psychedelic experiences. He leads the DMT Research Group at Imperial College, where he’s found that a single psychedelic experience can transform a person’s belief system, often turning materialists into panpsychists. In this wide-ranging conversation, Steve talks with Chris about everything from fractals and ayahuasca ceremonies to whether scientists who study psychedelics should talk openly about their own experiences.Original Air Date: March 01, 2025Guests: Chris TimmermanMore from Luminous: ttbook.org/luminous
2025-03-0154 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeSpring Washam, the Buddhist ShamanBuddhist meditation and psychedelic journeys have a lot of shared DNA—both take you deep inside your mind and can change your life. But many Buddhists say psychedelics violate the prohibition against intoxicants. Do they? Spring Washam straddles this divide as both a Buddhist teacher and founder of an ayahuasca church. Her own story is fascinating—how she’s merged these two practices.Original Air Date: January 25, 2025Guests: Spring WashamMore from Luminous: ttbook.org/luminous
2025-01-2549 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeDo psychedelics reveal a deeper dimension of reality?There’s a huge question swirling around the really big psychedelic experiences. Are these mind-blowing trips just hallucinations – the brain shot full of chemicals, playing tricks on you - or do they crack open some transpersonal dimension of consciousness? Most scholars who study psychedelics won’t go anywhere near this question, and yet it’s central to how you interpret these experiences. If you’re in psychedelic-assisted therapy, you want to know if this glimpse of the divine was real or just some figment of your imagination. Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes believes we need a metaphysics of psychedelics to explain the...
2024-11-3043 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeKatherine MacLean on Mushrooms and the Limits of Consensus RealityPsychedelic people are practicing at the very edge of anyone else’s comfort zone,” says psychologist Katherine MacLean, author of the psychedelic memoir “Midnight Water.” MacLean was a pioneering psychedelic researcher at Johns Hopkins, who then left her job to pursue her own unconventional psychedelic journey. She talks with Steve Paulson about her work as a psychedelic guide, her personal history with psychoactive substances, and why she reveres the Mexican healer Maria Sabina.Original Air Date: August 30, 2024Guests: Katherine MacLeanFor more from Luminous: ttbook.org/luminous
2024-08-3149 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeErik Davis on LSD, the psychedelic underground and visionary experienceErik Davis’ “Blotter” is really three books in one: It’s about the way LSD tabs were embedded in blotter paper so they wouldn’t be detected by the authorities; it’s also a deep dive into the psychedelic underground; and finally, it’s an art book — gorgeously illustrated, with lots of very trippy blotter art. Steve talks with Erik about the wildness of psychedelic experiences and whether they reveal a deeper dimension of consciousness.Original Air Date: July 20, 2024Guests: Erik DavisFor more from Luminous: ttbook.org/luminous
2024-07-2044 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeDid the ancient Greeks use drugs to find God?Brian Muraresku makes the controversial argument that the famous Eleusinian Mysteries were fueled by a psychedelic wine. And he speculates that this secret ceremony, with its mind-altering drugs, became the Eucharist — the foundational event of early Christianity.Original Air Date: May 04, 2024Guests: Brian MurareskuMore from Luminous: ttbook.org/luminous
2024-05-0449 min
The African ExperiencexStoriesAfrican Ubuntu philosophy and the art of being dislikedIn this episode, I delve into the profound realm of African Ubuntu philosophy, exploring its essence and intricate connections to the complexities of human interactions. From the roots of Ubuntu in communal values to its relevance in contemporary society, we unravel the layers of this ancient African wisdom.
As we navigate the philosophical landscape, I introduce the intriguing concept of "The Art of Being Disliked." Reflecting on this idea, we contemplate the societal implications of embracing Ubuntu philosophy—an art form challenging norms and inviting discomfort.
Join me on this thought-provoking journey as we unravel the threads connecting Ubuntu to th...
2024-02-2053 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeListen to this: The What, Why and How of Intellectual HumilityToday we're bringing you a conversation from "Kelly Corrigan Wonders." As a podcaster, Kelly is a kindred spirit – curious, genuine, caring — and this conversation is from a series about one of TTBOOK’s own core values – intellectual humility. It’s about the magic that happens when we stop trying to be right all the time.
In this episode, Kelly talks with researcher and academic Daryl Van Tongeren about how we come to conclusions and what, if anything, can interrupt the creation of overconfident, under-researched, ironclad, and divisive by nature convictions.
Daryl teaches at Hope College in Michigan...
2024-02-0733 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeIs it the drug or is it the trip?For all the talk about how psychedelics might transform psychiatric care, there's still a fascinating question at the heart of psychedelic science. Is it the mind-blowing experience that fundamentally changes a person’s outlook on life? Or is it the powerful molecules that rewire the brain?
Check out more from the series at ttbook.org/luminous.
Original Air Date: December 16, 2023
Interviews In This Hour:
Does psychedelic therapy need the trip? — Will psychedelics replace antidepressants? — Spiritual warriors in the psychedelic underground
Guests:
David Olson, Charles Raison, Rachel Harris
Never wan...
2023-12-1652 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeLuminous: Is it the drug or is it the trip?For all the talk about how psychedelics might transform psychiatric care, there's still a fascinating question at the heart of psychedelic science. Is it the mind-blowing experience that fundamentally changes a person’s outlook on life? Or is it the powerful molecules that rewire the brain?
Check out the full series: ttbook.org/luminous
Original Air Date: December 16, 2023
Interviews In This Hour:
Does psychedelic therapy need the trip? — Will psychedelics replace antidepressants? — Spiritual warriors in the psychedelic underground
Guests:
David Olson, Charles Raison, Rachel Harris
Never want to m...
2023-12-1652 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeShapeshiftingThere are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time in those shapeshifting stories — a recognition that the membrane between what's human and more-than-human is razor thin.
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible only by the good graces of our many companions. In partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation, To The Best...
2023-11-2551 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeDeep Time: The Cosmos and UsOur lives are so rushed, so busy. Always on the clock. Counting the hours, minutes, seconds. Have you ever stopped to wonder: what are you counting? What is this thing, that’s all around us, invisible, inescapable, always running out? What is time?
Original Air Date: November 18, 2023
Interviews In This Hour:
Time, loss and the Big Bang — Finding solace in the vastness of space — Carlo Rovelli's white holes, where time dissolves
Guests:
Marcelo Gleiser, Marjolijn van Heemstra, Carlo Rovelli
Check out the full series at ttbook.org/deeptime
2023-11-1851 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeCan you have too much transcendence?Some people dabble in psychedelics, others are more serious psychonauts. And then there’s Chris Bache. Over the course of 20 years, he had 73 high-dose LSD experiences — doses so high that the human body couldn’t tolerate anything more. For Bache, who was a religion professor, these were journeys into deeper dimensions of reality. These were grueling experiences — at times terrifying and other times ecstatic. He believes he transcended every aspect of personal identity and ultimately encountered the Divine – what he calls “the infinite creative intelligence of the universe.” And he ended up in a really interesting place, wondering if it’s possible t...
2023-11-1837 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeLuminous: Can Psychedelics Be Decolonized?It’s easy to get caught up in the hype about how psychedelics might revolutionize the treatment of mental illness. But there are also lots of ethical concerns. And probably none are so troubling as the charges of exploitation and cultural appropriation. The fact is, the knowledge about many psychedelics — like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca — comes from the sacred ceremonies of Indigenous cultures. But over the past century, Western scientists and pharmaceutical companies have been going into these cultures, collecting plants and synthesizing their chemical compounds.
Even if science is all about building on the knowledge of earlier d...
2023-10-2152 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeCan psychedelics be decolonized?It’s easy to get caught up in the hype about how psychedelics might revolutionize the treatment of mental illness. But there are also lots of ethical concerns. And probably none are so troubling as the charges of exploitation and cultural appropriation. The fact is, the knowledge about many psychedelics — like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca — comes from the sacred ceremonies of Indigenous cultures. But over the past century, Western scientists and pharmaceutical companies have been going into these cultures, collecting plants and synthesizing their chemical compounds.Even if science is all about building on the knowledge of earlie...
2023-10-2152 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeGoing for Broke: Making Up Our MindsHow we live is indelibly intertwined with the care and empathy we give to each other. What if we put care into helping Americans find homes and build dwellings, into keeping their bodies and minds sound, and finding meaningful and well-paid work? In this three part series, "To The Best Of Our Knowledge" and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project bring you real life stories about economic struggle in our time, as well as ideas for solutions.
Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into poverty. Meanwhile, the experience of financial desperation can also cre...
2023-09-0251 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeGoing for Broke: Change of AddressHow we live is indelibly intertwined with the care and empathy we give to each other. What if we put care into helping Americans find homes and build dwellings, into keeping their bodies and minds sound, and finding meaningful and well-paid work? In this three part series, "To The Best Of Our Knowledge" and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project bring you real life stories about economic struggle in our time, as well as ideas for solutions.
In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke" all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us...
2023-08-2652 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeDeep Time: How Earth Keeps TimeAre you ready to think in centuries instead of seconds? Eons instead of hours? It’s time to make thousand-year plans and appreciate how Earth keeps time.
For more from this series, visit ttbook.org/deeptime.
Original Air Date: August 19, 2023
Interviews In This Hour:
Shifting your mind to 'geologic' time — Discovering the wonders of ancient cave art — Making art inspired by the ancestors
Guests:
Marcia Bjornerud, Stephen Alvarez, Dustin Illetewahke Mater
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2023-08-1952 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeWhat happens to an octopus on MDMA?Psychedelics have a unique capacity to open up the mind so that everything feels fresh and full of possibilities. Especially as you get older, it can be easy to get stuck in a rut — but under a psychedelic, the brain can become more plastic. This time period, though, is limited - it might last just a few days, or a few weeks. So it’s really important to understand this “critical period” when our minds are so open — and also so vulnerable.
These “critical periods” are what Gul Dolen has been studying for years. She’s a neuroscientist a...
2023-08-1250 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeMelissa Etheridge on AyahuascaJust a few years ago, it was pretty unusual to hear big-time celebrities talk about their own psychedelic experiences. But that stigma is starting to fade thanks to people like the rock star and music icon Melissa Etheridge.
For her, this psychedelic renaissance has gotten very personal. Three years ago, her son Beckett died at the age of 21 from an opioid drug overdose. When Etheridge heard that clinical trials with psilocybin were showing real promise for treating addiction, she became an outspoken advocate for psychedelic therapy. And she started her own nonprofit organization, the Etheridge Foundation, to su...
2023-07-0816 min
NOMADIKATEPull Yourself Together! 4 Philosophies from Around the World to Change Your LifeIn this episode, we're going to explore the philosophies of Sisu, Wabi-Sabi, Ubuntu, and Meraki. These philosophies from Finland, Japan, South Africa, and Greece will give us insight about the world around us and reframe our lives for the better. We're going to investigate their rich origins, profound meaning, and talk about how these concepts can apply to how we navigate through life and interact with the world. Resources: "Sisu- The Finnish Art of Inner Strength": https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180502-sisu-the-finnish-art-of-inner-strength"Sisu -Transforming Barriers into Frontiers" (TedTalk): https...
2023-07-0623 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeEye-To-Eye Animal EncountersThere's a certain a kind of visual encounter that can be life changing: A cross-species gaze. The experience of looking directly into the eyes of an animal in the wild, and seeing it look back. It happens more often than you’d think and it can be so profound, there’s a name for it: eye-to-eye epiphany. So what happens when someone with feathers or fur and claws looks back? How does it change people, and what can it teach us?
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerg...
2023-05-2751 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeBuilding The Psychedelic RevolutionIn the last decade, an unlikely place has emerged as a hub for the latest psychedelic renaissance — Madison, Wisconsin. And the Usona Institute is a major part of that.
Usona is currently building a 93,000-square foot structure devoted to psychedelics. There’s nothing else like it. The man behind it all is the psychedelic CEO Bill Linton. He prefers to stay out of the spotlight, but he recently sat down for a rare interview with Steve Paulson.
In this episode of "Luminous," we go inside Usona’s chemistry lab and go deep with Bill Linton about h...
2023-05-1736 min
DDCAST - Was ist gut? Design, Kommunikation, ArchitekturDDCAST 143 - Keneilwe Munyai "KNOWING HOW TO ASK FOR HELP"
Dr. Keneilwe Munyai ist eine unabhängige Beraterin für menschzentriertes Design mit Sitz in Kapstadt. Sie arbeitet auf dem gesamten afrikanischen Kontinent an Projekten in den Feldern ökologisches Unternehmertum, Aufbau menschzentrierter Design-Innovationskapazitäten und Stärkung der Jugend durch das Programm "Design Your Life". Dieses Programm soll das jungen Menschen helfen, ihr Leben und ihre Berufung sinnvoll zu gestalten.
In der Vergangenheit hat sie an Hochschulen als Designlehrerin und -forscherin gearbeitet. Sie hat auch als Produktentwicklerin gearbeitet. Sie arbeitet auch mit lokalen und internationalen Organisationen zusammen, um Einzelpersonen und Organisationen darin zu schulen und zu befähigen...
2023-05-0731 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeWhat Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying?In the first episode of "Luminous," our series about the philosophy and the future of psychedelics, how can psilocybin ease our fears about dying? And how can psychedelics change the way we approach the end of life?
Original Air Date: April 08, 2023
Interviews In This Hour:
How a pioneering psychedelic researcher 'leaned in' to his terminal cancer diagnosis — Dying without fear: How psychedelics can ease the anxiety of terminal illness — The terror and the ecstasy of psychedelics
Guests:
Roland Griffiths, Lou Lukas, Anthony Bossis
Check out the full series at t...
2023-04-0851 min
Luminous: A Podcast about Psychedelics from To The Best Of Our KnowledgeComing April 8: Luminous, a podcast about psychedelicsAre you ready for the psychedelic revolution? In the next few years, the FDA is likely to approve these mind-bending drugs for treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Some states have already decriminalized psilocybin, the active ingredient in "magic" mushrooms. But for all the headlines, many questions are swirling around this psychedelic renaissance. How do we make these drugs effective, safe and accessible to the people who need the most help? And how can they be used ethically, when much of the knowledge about plant medicines comes from Indigenous cultures?
Psychedelics also raise profound questions about the n...
2023-04-0504 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeShapeshiftingThere are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time in those shapeshifting stories — a recognition that the membrane between what's human and more-than-human is razor thin.
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible only by the good graces of our many companions. In partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation, To The Best...
2023-02-0451 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeWhen Mountains Are GodsIf you look at a mountain, you might see a skiing destination, a climbing challenge, or even a source of timber to be logged or ore to be mined. But there was a time when mountains were sacred. In some places, they still are. What changes when you think of a mountain not as a giant accumulation of natural resources, but as a living being?
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible only by the good gra...
2022-12-2451 min
Going for BrokeAnne Strainchamps and Ray Suarez talk about reporting on poverty and why the care economy mattersThe hosts of "Going for Broke" discuss reporting on poverty and how to give economic insight a tone of empathy and a tangible sense of human connection.More about the series at ttbook.org/goingforbroke.
2022-11-2614 minGoing for BrokeCan Work Be Love?In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, the search for jobs that pay enough to live, and what happens to people who look for work while also having a disability that’s invisible to most.Original Air Date: November 19, 2022Guests: Andrea Dobynes Wagner — Angela Garbes — Rodrigo Toscano — Barbara EhrenreichInterviews In This Hour: Do they need to know that I'm blind? — The work of care is vital. Why don't we pay like it is? — A sonnet for a lineworker...
2022-11-1951 minGoing for BrokeMaking Up Our MindsPost-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into poverty. Meanwhile, the experience of financial desperation can also create even more trauma, even more suffering. How do you break the cycle? How do we truly care for people mentally and financially?If you or someone you know are having mental health struggles, we wanted to make sure you are aware of some resources. The National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available 24 hours a day by calling 9-8-8. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reminds us that one in five people in the US...
2022-11-1251 minGoing for BrokeChange of AddressIn the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke" all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic human right. But in America, it can be hard to come by.Original Air Date: November 05, 2022Guests: Bobbi Dempsey — David Harvey — Annabelle Gurwitch — Justin Garrett MooreInterviews In This Hour: When the walk home from school keeps changing — Creating a compassionate geography — More supportive housing can start with sharing space. And upending assumptions. — The infrastructure of care...
2022-11-0551 min
Going for BrokeComing November 5: Going For Broke on the Care EconomyGoing for Broke returns and this time, we're talking about the care economy. This three-part series hosted by broadcaster Ray Suarez centers on Americans who have lived on the edge. They share their sometimes startling economic experiences and also insight into our society as a whole. Each hour also includes some of our country’s top thinkers on income inequality, among them the legendary writer Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the classic “Nickel and Dimed,” who passed away in September 2022. In each episode we ask: what would result if we put more care into how we dealt...
2022-10-2201 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeEye-To-Eye Animal EncountersThere's a certain a kind of visual encounter that can be life changing: A cross-species gaze. The experience of looking directly into the eyes of an animal in the wild, and seeing it look back. It happens more often than you’d think and it can be so profound, there’s a name for it: eye-to-eye epiphany. So what happens when someone with feathers or fur and claws looks back? How does it change people, and what can it teach us?
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerg...
2022-08-2051 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeShapeshiftingThere are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time in those shapeshifting stories — a recognition that the membrane between what's human and more-than-human is razor thin.
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible only by the good graces of our many companions. In partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation, To The Best...
2022-06-2551 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgePlants As PersonsOver the past decade, plant scientists have quietly transformed the way we think of trees, forests and plants. They discovered that trees communicate through vast underground networks, that plants learn and remember. If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should they have rights?
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible only by the good graces of our many companions. In partnership with the Ce...
2022-04-1651 min
TTBOOK Presents: KinshipEthnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan on embracing the 'wisdom of the desert'Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan has been called the “father of the local food movement.” For decades he’s campaigned for seed diversity and sustainable food production. Some of his insights come from the farming practices of Indigenous people living near the U.S.-Mexico border, who’ve grown food in arid habitats for centuries. Originally from the Midwest, Nabhan moved to the Arizona desert several decades ago. He reflects on “the wisdom of the desert,” and also talks about his work to foster a “radical center” where ranchers and environmentalists can come together to find common ground.
Human identity c...
2022-04-1636 minTTBOOK Presents: KinshipBiologist Merlin Sheldrake on the mind-bending world of mushroomsThe fungal world is mind-bending. Mushrooms may look like plants, but taxonomically, fungi are more closely related to animals. They go inside their food to eat it and “play games with individuality,” says biologist Merlin Sheldrake, author of “Entangled Life.” One underground fungal network in Oregon spreads over four square miles, but genetically, it’s a single organism. As Sheldrake says, “they are everywhere at once and nowhere in particular.” He talks with Steve Paulson about his lifelong fascination with fungi, his experiments with ancient recipes for fermented alcohol, and the maverick Stoned Ape Theory, which claims that magic mushrooms spar...
2022-04-0939 minTTBOOK Presents: KinshipEcologist Suzanne Simard on the internet of treesThirty years ago, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard was a lone voice in the wilderness, arguing that commercial logging practices were destroying the symbiotic relationships between different tree species. She showed how mycorrhizal networks fused with tree roots to create complex systems of communication and cooperation. Today, Simard is a celebrated scientist. Her concept of “mother trees” helped inspire James Cameron’s blockbuster movie "Avatar," and she was a model for one character in Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Overstory.” In this interview, she reflects on her childhood growing up in a Canadian logging family, her pioneering insights about “forest intellig...
2022-04-0142 minTTBOOK Presents: KinshipAnthropologist Enrique Salmon on 'kincentricity'Anthropologist Enrique Salmon formulated the concept of “kincentricity,” a worldview that sees everything around us — plants, animals, rocks, wind — as our direct relative. As Salmon says, “the rain is us, and we are the rain.” In his native Raramuri culture, culture and language are embedded in the mountain landscape of Chihauhau, Mexico. Salmon teaches a class called “American Indian Science,” in which he asks his students to incorporate their personal experiences into their observations about the world. He tells Steve Paulson that any theory of reality must account for lived experience, which pushes against the scientific paradigm that seeks an “objective” u...
2022-03-2638 minTTBOOK Presents: KinshipShapeshiftingThere are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time in those shapeshifting stories — a recognition that the membrane between what's human and more-than-human is razor thin.
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible only by the good graces of our many companions. In partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation, To The Best...
2022-03-1851 minTTBOOK Presents: KinshipWhen Mountains Are GodsIf you look at a mountain, you might see a skiing destination, a climbing challenge, or even a source of timber to be logged or ore to be mined. But there was a time when mountains were sacred. In some places, they still are. What changes when you think of a mountain not as a giant accumulation of natural resources, but as a living being?
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible only by the good gra...
2022-03-1851 minTTBOOK Presents: KinshipPlants As PersonsOver the past decade, plant scientists have quietly transformed the way we think of trees, forests and plants. They discovered that trees communicate through vast underground networks, that plants learn and remember. If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should they have rights?
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emerging research suggests that being human is a complicated journey made possible only by the good graces of our many companions. In partnership with the C...
2022-03-1851 minTTBOOK Presents: KinshipEye-To-Eye Animal EncountersThere's a certain a kind of visual encounter that can be life changing: A cross-species gaze. The experience of looking directly into the eyes of an animal in the wild, and seeing it look back. It happens more often than you’d think and it can be so profound, there’s a name for it: eye-to-eye epiphany. So what happens when someone with feathers or fur and claws looks back? How does it change people, and what can it teach us?
Human identity cannot be separated from our nonhuman kin. From forest ecology to the human microbiome, emer...
2022-03-1851 minTTBOOK Presents: KinshipKinship With The More Than Human WorldWhen you think about your neighbors, your friends and family, do you consider the nonhuman relationships in your life? With the birds and trees, the rivers and hills around you?
This idea of "kinship" with our plant and animal neighbors — and the broader ecosystem around us — is the focus of "Kinship With The More Than Human World," an eight-part podcast and radio series produced by TTBOOK in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation.
In this series, leading scientists, philosophers and writers illuminate ways in which “personhood” transcen...
2022-03-1102 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeWhen Mountains Are GodsIf you look at a mountain, you might see a skiing destination, a climbing challenge, or even a source of timber to be logged or ore to be mined. But there was a time when mountains were sacred. In some places, they still are. What changes when you think of a mountain not as a giant accumulation of natural resources, but as a living being?Today’s show is part of our project on kinship with the more-than-human world — produced in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Nature, and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation. You’ll find m...
2021-07-2451 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeWhen Mountains Are GodsIf you look at a mountain, you might see a skiing destination, a climbing challenge, or even a source of timber to be logged or ore to be mined. But there was a time when mountains were sacred. In some places, they still are. What changes when you think of a mountain not as a giant accumulation of natural resources, but as a living being?Today’s show is part of our project on kinship with the more-than-human world — produced in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Nature, and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation. You’ll find m...
2021-07-2451 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeWhen Mountains Are GodsIf you look at a mountain, you might see a skiing destination, a climbing challenge, or even a source of timber to be logged or ore to be mined. But there was a time when mountains were sacred. In some places, they still are. What changes when you think of a mountain not as a giant accumulation of natural resources, but as a living being?
Today’s show is part of our project on kinship with the more-than-human world — produced in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Nature, and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation. You’ll find m...
2021-07-2451 min
Øl og Ævl – SUPERKULTUREpisode 134 – Irish Craft Pale Ale og Ål
Det var utroligt svært ikke at droppe vores navneregler denne gang og kalde afsnittet for Øl og Ål helt rent. Ud over ål snakker vi også videre om vores metafysiske, epistemologiske og ontologiske opgør med mimesis, begge dele foranlediget af en lytterhenvendelse fra vores gode ven Allan fra Superkultur. I dette afsnit afsløres det også endeligt, at Mathias bedre kan lide Frasier, end han kan lide memes
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We believe the clips in this episode where we u...
2021-04-2400 min
BookmarksComing April 30: Bookmarks, Kid's Book EditionNeverland. Wonderland. Magic wands and unicorns. Your escape from COVID-19 is just a wish-upon-a-star away. Season 3 of Bookmarks — the kid’s book edition — is flying in on a fire-breathing dragon.
In this ragtag collection, awesome writers share their favorite children’s books from an audio treehouse of hope in tough times. Because you know what you need right now? An orphan on an adventure where she triumphs against all odds! It’s Black Girl Magic meets White Fang on a raft down the Mississippi with a little Search for Delicious along the way.
Bookmarks is brought to y...
2021-04-2301 min
Hello SomebodyLet's Get US with Actor-vist Danny GloverRecorded during Black History Month, SNT speaks with the Lethal Weapon, Mr. Danny Glover. More than a walk down memory lane, these two activists recall motivating moments in history that demonstrate our proximity to pain (and glory). This inspirational episode comes from love -- signifyin’ and testifyin’ that these two are our generational heroes. #HelloSomebodyLinks:Alabama Amazon workers – unionization and intimidationhttps://www.democracynow.org/2021/3/23/amazon_workers_union_drive_bessemer_alabamaKwame Nkrumah – First Prime Minister and President of Ghanahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_NkrumahAthol...
2021-04-0157 min
Did You Do Your Homework? | A Pop Culture PodcastEpisode 98: His Dark MaterialsHave you ever wanted to spend a whole podcast episode listening to two nerds get down and dirty with their (arguably) favorite franchise? Have I got the show for you!
Interviews referenced:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-fallen-worlds-of-philip-pullman
https://www.ttbook.org/interview/his-dark-materials-author-philip-pullman-consciousness-all-things
https://highprofiles.info/interview/philip-pullman/
2021-02-271h 22
Think It Through: the Clearer Thinking PodcastEpisode 12: Fallacy Watch: the Misplaced Burden of ProofSend us a textApril talks about one of the sneakiest fallacies, the misplaced burden of proof. Here's an example:Friend: George told me he's not getting the vaccine because it's dangerous.You: How do you know it's dangerous?Friend: I'm just telling you what George said. How do you know he's wrong?You: I...um...what?Here's what it is, and what to do when it happens to you.Show Notes:Here's an explanation of the misplaced burden of proof:https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof...
2021-02-1612 min
DDCAST - Was ist gut? Design, Kommunikation, ArchitekturDDCAST 23 - Dr. Keneilwe Munyai „From Design ‚for‘ to Design ‚with‘“Was ist gut? Design, Architektur, Kommunikation
Dr. Keneilwe Munyai ist – das kann man sagen – ein Phänomen. Als Beraterin für human centered design ist sie auf dem gesamten, riesigen afrikanischen Kontinent tätig. Sie berät Institutionen und NGOs in Algerien, Malawi, Marokko, Kenia, Nigeria, Südafrika, Tansania und Sambia. Mit Hilfe von Multi-Stakeholder-Prozessen und Design-Thinking-Methoden begeistert sie Menschen und Organisationen dafür, wirklich partizipativ zu arbeiten.
Ihr geht es darum zu vermitteln, wie man Strategien, Dienstleistungen und Produkte nachhaltiger machen kann. Und sie hilft beim Verständnis von Verfahren und Methoden, um lokale Lösungen aktiv selbst...
2021-01-2430 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeBooks We Can't ForgetIs there a book you can’t forget? A book that left a mark on you? On Bookmarks, our micropodcast, we share tiny stories from writers, about the books they love most. This week, we’ll preview Season One and celebrate books and reading with an eclectic cast of writers from around the country.
Original Air Date: November 16, 2019
Guests:
Chloe Benjamin — Anne Lamott — Rebecca Traister — Natalia Sylvester — Tommy Orange — Pamela Paul — Shannon Henry Kleiber — Jericho Brown — Susan Orlean
Interviews In This Hour:
Anne Lamott on 'Pippi Longstocking' — Powerful Book Encounters — Tommy Orange on 'A Confedera...
2020-09-1251 minBookmarksWhat Books Have Left A Mark On You?Why does Philip Pullman love maps? How does Petina Gappah see Jane Austen as African? What science fiction stories did a young Karl Ove Knausgaard read before bed?
Bookmarks, season 2. Coming March 13.
Learn more at ttbook.org/bookmarks
2020-02-2801 minBookmarksYour Life, Told Through BooksThe next season of Bookmarks starts on March 13. In the meantime, we wanted to share a few stories we've heard from listeners about the books that have shaped them.
Have your own story to share? Email us at listen@ttbook.org or leave a voicemail at the bottom of the page at ttbook.org/bookmarks.
2020-02-2103 min
Slow Drag with Remedy :: An Elvis Costello Appreciation26 :: Before You Start to Cry :: A Slow Drag with "You Tripped at Every Step"Today's slow drag is with "You Tripped at Every Step," from "Brutal Youth," released in 1994. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello's birth name. . . . Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson Twitter: @slowdragremedy Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag References: Elvis Costello Wiki Resource: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/You_Tripped_At_Every_Step "You Tripped at Every Step" https...
2020-01-1211 min
HauntedologyA Crime of Passion in Old SavannahLurking quietly on Madison Square in Savannah sits the Sorrel-Weed House. Nicknamed shady corner by the family itself due to all the big beautiful trees casting a shade upon this mansion in the city. In the end though, the only thing shadier than the trees around the house would be the family and their dark, hidden, and somewhat twisted secrets. Resources: https://www.ttbook.org/interview/uncovering-buried-history-savannahs-ghost-tours
https://m.ranker.com/list/scary-ghost-stories-from-savannah-georgia/sabrina-ithal Music Credits for Hauntedology :
Music: The Gatekeepers by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
Music: Dank Halloween by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
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2020-01-0622 minBookmarksBookmarks: Books that left their mark on us.Bookmarks are stories mined from our secret lives as readers. Stories of intimate relationships and life-changing encounters with books. Stories about the books we can’t forget. In this micropodcast, the producers behind “To The Best Of Our Knowledge” ask writers and creators to share what they’ve read and how it shaped them.
New episodes every Friday. For more info, visit ttbook.org/bookmarks
2019-10-1801 min
The Podcast HourListening to the city: To The Best of Our KnowledgeTTBOOK (as it's known to its friends) started life as a radio show back in 1990 on Wisconsin Public Radio. 28 years later and it's still on the radio on nearly 200 different US stations, and of course now you can podcast it too! Husband and wife team Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson do most of the interviewing, with Anne taking the lead role as host. And the format's perhaps best described as 'variations on a theme'. Each episode takes a big idea and explores it with a range of different interviews. Recent topics have included the search for meaningful work, automation, and...
2018-12-0100 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeWe've Had 30 Years Of Prozac. Why Are We Still Depressed? [Rebroadcast]Modern anti-depressants have saved a lot of minds. And lives. But our 30-year experiment with modern anti-depressants is taking a toll. What have they done to our bodies? And how do we navigate that trade-off between body and mind? Is it clear that they even work?
There are a lot of us who struggle with mood disorders or mental illness of one sort or another. If you do, we here at TTBOOK want you to know that you’re not alone. If you're looking for more in-depth knowledge on what you might be going through, the National All...
2018-11-1750 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeLove + Evolution: Live in MadisonThere’s arguably no greater mystery than who we fall for. Why do some romances fizzle out, while others flourish, and grow into lifelong companionship? What can science reveal about lust, romance, and compassion? In a live show recorded onstage from the Majestic Theater in Madison, To the Best of Our Knowledge, in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature, explored the science of love. What people or things bring love into your life? We're building an evolving look at love, and we need your help. If the live show inspired you in any way, send us a not...
2017-02-261h 01
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeThe Mass Murderers Among Us (TTBOOK Extra)The shooting rampage in Orlando has led to a lot of speculation about Omar Mateen’s politics and state of mind. There's still so much we don't know, but maybe we can learn from another mass murder. Consider the case of Anders Breivik, the gunman who killed 77 people, mostly teenagers, in 2011. It was one of the biggest mass murders in modern history and a national trauma for Norway. Breivik was a white supremacist, so his politics were different from Mateen's. But the two mass muderers were both alienated, self-radicalized loners. And as we struggle to find out what we can...
2016-06-1633 min
DFW Audio ProjectInfinite Jest interview from TTBOOK Program “Unwholesome Entertainment” 1996Infinite Jest interview from TTBOOK Program “Unwholesome Entertainment” 1996
2014-12-2400 minDFW Audio Project“Another Supposedly Fun Thing” Essays from TTBOOK Program “Pursuit of Pleasure” 1997“Another Supposedly Fun Thing” Essays from TTBOOK Program “Pursuit of Pleasure” 1997
2014-12-2400 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeMaking It In America (Repeat)With minimum wage on many ballots this election season, TTBOOK looks at just what it takes to "make it" in America these days Living Poor; So Rich, So Poor - Peter Edelman; Bootstrapping; Sonic Sidebar: American Dreams; American Promises; BookMark: Eileen Gunn on “Filter House” ; On Our Minds: Easy Money.
2014-09-2152 min
I'll Drink To ThatWhat Do I Have to Offer?
So many anniversaries
Interviews
Big news revealed
"Where have all the flowers gone" Pete Seeger
60s serendipity
Ttbook
Gaycetera
Mindy Project inspiration
Special snowflakes
Golden Girls homeless lady
Ken burns The Dust Bowl
Easy Rider
Nebraska
Asian girl in rain
Rupaul Bots
Pippin Finale
Fantasia 2000 Firebird Suite
2014-02-131h 20
The SubGenius Hour of Slack PodcastHour of Slack #1350 - SubGenius Family Vacation Pt. 1: Typhoid Ivan, Penn Jillette Vs. GodWhile Princess Wei and Rev. Stang made their trek from Ohio to Texas, L.A. and San Francisco, and back, spreading disease, climbing rocks in national monuments, and breaking limbs all the way, they recorded daily road reports for HOUR OF SLACK. While these too-honest reports admittedly required strenuous editing, interspersing them with "regular" abnormal SubGenius material (such as rants about religion, stupidity and conspiracies) has made them at least seemingly more seemly. Other contributors include Mr. F. LeMur, The Large, Rev. Penn Jillette, Rev. Frodis "Suds" Pshaw, Dr. Sinister, Dr. Hal, Lonesome Cowboy Dave, Puzzling Evidence, The Firesign...
2012-03-081h 01