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An astrophysicist who’s also explored her science by way of a novel about two pivotal 20th-century mathematicians, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. Both pushed at boundaries where mathematics presses on grand questions of meaning and purpose. Such questions helped create the technologies that are now changing our sense of what it means to be human.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mathematics-purpose-and-truth/130

Janna Levin — Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth

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Discussing The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (2011) with Owen Flanagan.

What philosophical insights can we modern folks with our science and naturalism (i.e. inclination against super-natural explanations) glean from Buddhisim? Flanagan says plenty: Buddhism is founded on common human experience (not faith), and we can profitably put Buddhist ethics in dialogue with familiar types of virtue ethics. However, we need to be skeptical of any claims to scientific support the superior happiness of Buddhists.

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Flanagan on Buddhism Naturalized - Partially Examined Life

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Lyrics:
We're going to a party where music is in session
We're going to a party where music is in session
We're going to a party where music is in session
We're going to a party where music is in session

The sun has gone down and its friday night
I'm feeling good and great and now its time to unwind
Move it quickly pack it light take what we need
Going as far as the eye can see
Traveling down the road to the highway let this begin

We're going to a party where music is in session
We're going to a party where music is in session
We're going to a party where music is in session
We're going to a party where music is in session

And now the moment awaits and feels so close
I've chosen my way now I'm leaving home
We're almost there i can't wait to meet ya
Through the night our stories told
Until the dawn of early morning
Singing songs from our soul

When my mind is clear you know that i'm very near
When my mind is clear you know that i'm very near

We're going to a party where music is in session
We're going to a party where music is in session
We're going to a party where music is in session
We're going to a party where music is in session

In Session

http://www.onbeing.org/program/on-exoplanets-and-love/5029

For Natalie Batalha of NASA's Kepler Mission, it's just a matter of time before we look at the sky and know of planets where life exists. And that, she says, will transform our sense of ourselves:

    "When you look up at the sky on a very dark night at those stars or that crescent moon or whatever it is, what do you feel? You feel wonder, of course. You feel humility. But I think you also feel lonely, small, insignificant. There's a profound sense of loneliness, or just the universe is so big and I'm so small. But imagine in the near-term future, your grandchild or your great-grandchild looks up in the sky and his mother can point to a star and say, that star right there? That star has a planet just like Earth, and it harbors life. That's a different perspective. That's completely different when we can look up in the sky and know that. It's a game-changer."

A luminous voice of how we explore the heavens now — bringing the exuberance of science closer to home to us all.

    "We are extending our senses out into the cosmos in a very real, tangible way, and that makes it so much easier to capture our imagination, to inspire us. Through the Curiosity Rover, we are standing there in our hiking boots on the surface of Mars. Man, I can practically hear the crunching of the dirt underneath my feet. It feels like I could bend down and pick up a rock and toss it over that hill over there, you know? So in a very real way, these experiments are extending our senses out into the cosmos."

Natalie Batalha — Exoplanets and Love: Science That Connects Us to One Another (Aug 29, 2013)



"Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment."

Philosopher, historian, and poet Jennifer Michael Hecht has traced how western civilization has at times demonized those who commit suicide, at times celebrated it as a moral freedom. She proposes a reframed cultural conversation, based not on morality or rights but on our essential need for each other.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/jennifer-michael-hecht-hope-for-our-future-selves/6187

Jennifer Michael Hecht — Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves (Mar 27, 2014)

An astrophysicist who’s also explored her science by way of a novel about two pivotal 20th-century mathematicians, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. Both pushed at boundaries where mathematics presses on grand questions of meaning and purpose. Such questions helped create the technologies that are now changing our sense of what it means to be human.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mathematics-purpose-and-truth/130

Janna Levin — The Beauty of Mathematics

Janna Levin — The Finite and the Infinite

Janna Levin — The Miracle of our Understanding

An astrophysicist who’s also explored her science by way of a novel about two pivotal 20th-century mathematicians, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. Both pushed at boundaries where mathematics presses on grand questions of meaning and purpose. Such questions helped create the technologies that are now changing our sense of what it means to be human.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mathematics-purpose-and-truth/130


[Unedited] Janna Levin with Krista Tippett

Janna Levin — Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth (April 3, 2014)

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ROCK N' ROLL (WILL TAKE YOU TO THE MOUNTAIN)

Goliyan - Honey Singh Ft. Diljit (remix)

Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? Physicist and theologian John Polkinghorne applies the deepest insights of modern physics to think about how the world fundamentally works, and how the universe might make space for prayer.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/quarks-and-creation/148

John Polkinghorne — Quarks and Creation (Jan 13, 2011)

Four Jesuits in history have had asteroids named after them. Our guests are the two living astronomers with that distinction. Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father George Coyne study the composition of meteorites and the life and death of stars. They share their observations of life, faith, friendship, and the universe from their seats in the Vatican Observatory.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/asteroids-stars-and-love-god/68

Guy Consolmagno and George Coyne — Asteroids, Stars, and the Love of God (Mar 10, 2011)

Track called "Freeman" work in progress, just a short sample.

Freeman

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Janna Levin — Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth (April 3, 2014)

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