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http://www.onbeing.org/program/becoming-detroit-grace-lee-boggs-on-reimagining-work-food-and-community/1060

We’re used to hearing about Detroit as a symbol of economic collapse. With the recent news coverage of its declaration of bankruptcy, we travel to a city of vigor where joyful, passionate people are reimagining work, food, and the very meaning of humanity. The Chinese-American philosopher and civil rights legend Grace Lee Boggs is the heart and soul of this largely hidden story, which holds lessons for us all:

"When you live in a city like Detroit, it's not just buildings that have become ruins. It's that a way of life, a way of thinking has died and something else has been born — a new culture, a new spirit. And I think that's what you get in Detroit if you are able to look past the ruins. What an opportunity. What a time to be alive."

Grace Lee Boggs — Becoming Detroit: Reimagining Work, Food, and Community (July 18, 2013)

Speaker(s): Professor Karima Bennoune | Editor's note: The short film shown before Professor Bennoune's lecture has been edited out of the podcast. From Pakistani peace activists to Tunisian feminists, from Chechen journalists to Algerian victims of terrorism, Karima Bennoune highlights some of the most overlooked and important contemporary human rights struggles. Karima Bennoune is professor of international law and a member of the board of the network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws. Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:30:00 GMT

"Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here": the human rights struggle against Muslim fundamentalism [Audio]

In this interview, Todd Sattersten talks with Seth Godin about his new book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? (Portfolio, 2010). 

"Imagine an organization with an employee who can accurately see the truth, understand the situation, and understand the potential outcomes of various decisions. And now imagine that this person is able to make something happen." p50

Seth always expands the definitions for the words. In this interview, they talk about art, gifts, and the lizard brain. They also talk about shipping, emotional labor, and map-making.

Idea Arena Podcast - Linchpin Interview with Seth Godin

Fundamental forces of physics somehow determine everything that happens, as physicist Leonard Mlodinow has written, “from the birth of a child to the birth of a galaxy.” Yet he has intriguing perspective on the gap between theory and reality — and the fascinating interplay between a life in science and life in the world. As the child of two Holocaust survivors, he asks questions about our capacity to create our lives, while reflecting on extreme human cruelty — and courage.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/leonard-mlodinow-randomness-and-choice/6295

Leonard Mlodinow — Randomness and Choice (May 1, 2014)

A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most of his family, Wiesel is a seminal chronicler of that event and its meaning. Wiesel shares some of his thoughts on modern-day Israel and Germany, his understanding of God, and his practice of prayer after the Holocaust. 

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/tragedy-believer/232

Elie Wiesel — The Tragedy of the Believer (July 13, 2006)

Seth Godin addresses staff at The Economist's Group's Marketing Forum on September 6th in New York.

(due to technical error only first half of lecture recorded correctly)

Seth Godin speaks at Economist Marketing Forum

Seth Godin, entrepreneur, former Yahoo VP, and author of the "Icarus Deception" shares his views on education and the new "connection economy."

An original and helpful voice on this landscape of digital connection for which there are no maps. Seth Godin is a singular thought leader and innovator in what he describes as our post-industrial, post-geography "connection economy." Rather than merely tolerate change, he says, we are all called now to rise to it. We are invited and stretched in whatever we do to be artists — to create in ways that matter to other people.

Seth Godin — The Art of Noticing, and Then Creating (Jan 24, 2013)

Speaker Series with Margaret Sullivan, public editor of The New York Times and former editor of the Buffalo News.

The New Objectivity: How Social Media Is Changing Traditional Reporting | Shorenstein Center

As government budgets around the world come under increasing pressure, there is renewed interest in what public services can be better delivered by the private or social sector. The Cambridge MBA Not For Profit Special Interest Group invited Allison Ogden-Newton, Chair of the Transition Institute, to speak on UK best practices in this area. I had the opportunity to speak to Allison briefly after her talk.

An interview with Conrad Chua, Head of MBA Admissions and Marketing.

The motivation to deliver social value give social enterprises a competitive advantage

DJ Koze doesn't aim for technical perfection for its own sake, but rather to serve the purpose of giving birth to great music. On his debut 'Rue Burnout EP' from his own Pampa label, he plays with finesse and sophistication, and implicitly understands the importance of subtlety, leading from dreamy and restrained parts to a noisy frenzy at the end. 'Blume der Nacht' starts with a looped piano solo from Arabian dodecaphony, interwoven with bangs of violine bows, piercing high-pitched strings, almost shrieking glissandi, deep angel chants and obsessive sharp rhythms. The 37 year old constantly horny wunderkind producer has made a habit of creatively foiling expectations, and works also under the pseudonyms Adolf Noise, Swahimi and recently Madima Lokkah to redefine the boundaries of electronic music. This daring concept works perfectly in the title track 'Rue Burnout' - it is very rare that you find house music this excitingly light-fooded and precisely transparent. The musician cuts the pigtail off the term 'Kackmusik' for good, and demonstrates how sounds are capable of creating the most delicate musical interplay.
Amen.
DJ Koze, Germany, April 2010.

DJ Koze - Rue Burnout

A profound stutter as a child left Alan Rabinowitz virtually unable to communicate and to prefer animals to people. Now a conservationist of tigers and jaguars, an explorer of the world's last wild places, he has extraordinary insight into both animals and the human condition. 

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/voice-animals/60

Alan Rabinowitz — A Voice for the Animals (April 18, 2013)

One of the values of science is to make us uncomfortable says Lawrence Krauss. The particle physicist explains why we should all care about dark energy and the Higgs Boson particle. Science literacy matters, and, more importantly, he suggests we should take joy in science — just as we cultivate enjoyment of arts we may not completely comprehend.

http://www.onbeing.org/program/our-origins-and-the-weight-of-space-with-lawrence-krauss/5216


Lawrence Krauss — Our Origins and the Weight of Space

New York poet laureate Marie Howe reads her poem "The Meadow" during an interview with Krista Tippett. This poem is included in On Being's show "The Poetry of Ordinary Time." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

"The Meadow" by Marie Howe

http://www.onbeing.org/program/creativity-and-everyday-brain/1879

With new techniques of brain imaging, neuroscientist Rex Jung and his colleagues are gaining a whole new view of the differences and the interactions between intelligence, creativity, and personality: 

"With intelligence, there's the analogy I've used is there's this superhighway in the brain that allows you to get from point A to point B. With creativity, it's a slower, more meandering process where you want to take the side roads and even the dirt roads to get there."

How do we prime our brains to take the meandering mental paths necessary for creativity? Rex Jung unsettles some old assumptions, and suggests some new connections between creativity and family life, creativity and aging, creativity and purpose.

Rex Jung — Creativity and the Everyday Brain (May 2, 2013)

For Mother's Day, the celebrated Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist, mother, and grandmother: Sylvia Boorstein. The best way to nurture children's inner lives, she says, is by taking care of our own inner selves for their sake. At a public event in suburban Detroit, Krista Tippett draws out the warmth and wisdom of Ms. Boorstein, and, in a light-hearted moment that is an audience pleaser, Ms. Boorstein shares what GPS might teach us about "recalculating" and our own inner equanimity.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/what-we-nurture-with-sylvia-boorstein/242

Sylvia Boorstein — What We Nurture (May 9, 2013)

Seth Godin on 2013-04-29 at 10.01

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.

Seth Godin — The Art of Noticing, and Then Creating (Jan 24, 2013)

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