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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)

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)

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Cloaked under a bright gold bird-like mask, Claptone travels the world playing shows while picking up new fans at each stop along the way. His productions have become the talk of the town with praise being tossed around by everyone from Pete Tong and DJ Sneak to A-Trak. Hit output for the esteemed Exploited imprint in 2012, kicking off with the infection “Cream,” started the revolution gaining top ten honors on the Beatport chart. Since that release Claptone has gone from strength to strength. “Wrong”, “Night On Fire”, “Good To You” and "No Eyes" being prime examples.


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Claptone - Deep House Amsterdam's Exploited Podcast #001

This is Krista Tippett's complete, unabridged conversation with David Sloan Wilson that's included in the show "Evolving a City."  

David Sloan Wilson believes that evolution is not just a description of how we got here. He says it can also be a tool kit for improving how we live together. He’s taken what he’s learned in studying evolution in animals and is now applying it to the behavior of groups in his hometown of Binghamton, New York. His goal is to help people behave pro-socially — at their best, and for the good of the whole.

http://www.onbeing.org/program/evolving-city/4720



[Unedited] David Sloan Wilson with Krista Tippett

Who knew that the architect behind St. Paul's Cathedral was also an anatomist who diagrammed the human brain? Today, scientists of the brain are learning why our sensory experience in a place like a cathedral — the incense, the soaring music, the stained glass, and the light — is physiologically good for us:

    "What is it about beautiful vistas of mountains, about the infinite horizon of the ocean, about a cathedral? There are certainly physiological and neuroscientific bases to that feeling, and I am convinced — I know — that these things can be measured. And that's the exciting new frontier for me, to ask exactly that question."

Esther Sternberg is an immunologist and a pioneer on this new frontier that's giving rise to disciplines like neuroimmunology and environmental psychology. Architects are working with scientists to imbue the spaces we move through — the sights, sounds, and smells of them — with active healing properties. And Esther Sternberg says all of us can create surroundings and even portable sensations to manage stress and tap our brain's own internal pharmacies.

http://www.onbeing.org/program/the-science-of-healing-places/4856

Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places

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You might call Tami Simon a spiritual entrepreneur. She's built a successful multimedia publishing company with a mission to disseminate "spiritual wisdom" by diverse teachers and thinkers like Pema Chödrön and Eckhart Tolle, Daniel Goleman and Brené Brown. She offers compelling lessons on joining inner life with life in the workplace &mdash; and advice on spiritual practice with a mobile device.

Tami Simon — Inner Life at Work: Business, Meditation, and Technology (May 30, 2013)

Joanna Macy is a philosopher of ecology, a Buddhist scholar, and an exquisite translator of the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. We take that poetry as a lens on her wisdom on spiritual life and its relevance for the political and ecological dramas of our time.

See more at: http://www.onbeing.org/program/wild-love-world/61

[Unedited] Joanna Macy with Krista Tippett

Guest 1: Jim Smith
Title:  CIO, Office of Information Technology, State of Maine

Guest 2:  Jonathan Reichental, Ph.D.
Title: CIO, City of Palo Alto, CA

An important aspect of being a successful leader is to be able to connect well with others at a human level and get them to voluntarily follow your vision. This is social intelligence. Managers are measured on getting the job done vs. interpersonal effectiveness. How do we groom managers who are step up leadership candidates on this vital trait?

Developing Social Intelligence in Managers

What is social intelligence and why do you need it? What are the best social data and listening tools out there? How can you calculate ROI on social media intelligence? To get the answers, I've had a chat with Catriona Oldershaw, co-founder of The Insights Distillery and previous speaker at Social Media London.

Read all about it: http://linkhumans.com/podcast/social-intelligence-catriona-oldershaw

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A Guide to Social Intelligence, with Catriona Oldershaw of The Insights Distillery

In an age of Enron and WorldCom, how can we imagine a place for business ethics, much less religious virtue, in the global economy? We speak with a Hindu international business analyst who offers learned, fascinating observations about how the world's myriad religions have shaped global business norms and practices. 

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/gods-business/199#sthash.4Qf34SrR.dpuf

Prabhu Guptara — The Gods of Business (Feb 23, 2006)

Stuart Brown, a physician and director of the National Institute for Play, says that pleasurable, purposeless activity prevents violence and promotes trust, empathy, and adaptability to life's complication. He promotes cutting-edge science on human play, and draws on a rich universe of study of intelligent social animals.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/play-spirit-and-character/143

Stuart Brown — Play, Spirit, and Character (July 2, 2009)

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An expansive reflection on work, education, and civic imagination with an esteemed researcher and teacher at UCLA and a poetic writer. We explore his perspective, through life and scholarship, on hard subjects that drive to the heart of who we are -- literacy, schooling, social class, and the deepest meaning of vocation.

See more at: www.onbeing.org/program/meaning-intelligence/208

Mike Rose — The Meaning of Intelligence (Aug 30, 2012)

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)

Are we in the matrix? Physicist S. James Gates reveals why string theory stretches our imaginations about the nature of reality. Also, how failure makes us more complete, and imagination makes us more knowledgeable.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/uncovering-codes-reality/1457


S. James Gates — Uncovering the Codes for Reality (June 6, 2013)

http://www.onbeing.org/program/meredith-monks-voice/1398

Singer and composer Meredith Monk is a kind of archeologist of the human voice. She says that "the voice could be like the body" — flexible and fluid with practice. Through music as through meditation, the longtime Buddhist practitioner pushes the boundaries of what we can do without words.

Meredith Monk's Voice (June 27, 2013)

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.

Mike Rose — The Meaning of Intelligence (Aug 30, 2012)

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