On this episode of Ways & Means, what gets in the way of innovation in government?  And what do we need to know about ourselves to make something new work? Guests include Professor Dan Ariely of the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University.
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Dan Ariely, Government Innovation

Thinking about memes with Hua Hsu, associate professor at Vassar College and culture writer for the New Yorker, and Grace Sparapani (aka tequilafunrise), art history student at UT Austin.
Music: Tous Les Mêmes by Stromae

Meme Talk: In conversation with Hua Hsu and Grace Sparapani

All music by Duke Ellington - (in order) Pie Eye's Blues; In a Mellow Tone; Blues in Orbit

Thanks to Sumaya Abubaker, Hebah Farrag, Richard Flory, Brie Loskota, Nick Street, Tarra McNally and Nali Gajaweera!

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Data & People: Locating the Intersection of Research and Community Engagement at the CRCC

What does it mean to be a musician? And what might it mean to be a musician with another person…who also happens to be your life partner? Like…how to do spend virtually all of your time with one person and not go insane? These are some of the questions we’ll explore with the Italian duo She Owl in this episode of Cozy Boat! (Produced by Emily Shaw and recorded by George S. Rosenthal at the Complex Recording Studio.)

Music by She Owl:

Over the Bones (She Owl)

Animal Animal (Animal Eye)

Nanna (Animal Eye)

About the Sea (Animal Eye)

Dance of the Mothers (Animal Eye)

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Photo by George S. Rosenthal

Cozy Boat Episode 3: "When I Completely Disappear" (She Owl)

Listen to the official trailer for The Sounding Line, a forthcoming podcast about starting out & starting over. 

Subscribe at thesoundinglinepodcast.com to find out when we launch. 

Written, produced, and edited by Abra Sussman. 

Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano.

The Sounding Line Official Trailer

This year will mark the 18th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, the forever war characterized by regime change, a surge, drawdowns, and then re-engagement across three Presidential administrations. We take a retrospective of the entire war, from the forgotten events of the lead-up to its total financial and moral costs to date. Journalist Douglas Wissing and Professor Neta Crawford of the Cost of War project take us through the staggering amounts of money spent on prosecuting the war and the development of Afghanistan, and we investigate where the money went. Veterans who served at each stage of the conflict, from the Gen Xers of the early days to the millennials of the Obama surge, give us the changing, and unchanging picture of the unending war. Finally, philosopher Seth Lazar and Barry talk about sunk costs and the role that thinking about past sacrifices play in rationalizing the indefinite continuation of war.

Special thanks the veterans who gave their stories for this episode, Ian Fishback, Joshua Maxwell, Gaven Eier, Pat DeYoung, and Romario Ortiz.

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S3, Episode 4: The Forever War (Mar. 16, 2019)

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