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The Penguin Podcast: The Archive

Some psychologists say teaching emotional literacy in school is key to better behavior—and better grades. Marc Brackett and Maurice Elias, two experts in social emotional learning, talk about how emotional literacy is woven into a standard curriculum, and how it can tackle problems like bullying and absenteeism.

Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic . . . and Respect?

Immigration debate at Festival of Ideas 2013

A Dividing Issue - The Immigration Debate

Director of Agriculture at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade policy on the need for political awareness among scientists and the productivity of thinking across multiple disciplines in understanding food.

Dr. M. Jahi Chappell: Good Science And Good Policy

In our series on American competitiveness, we look at how desirable American workers are, and what can be done to make us even more competitive. Plus, does political gridlock hurt our competitiveness?

Are American Workers the Best?

Thomas Edison one said:  "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Tom Kelley, partner at IDEO and co-author of "Creative Confidence," tells us that, in order to innovate, you have to be willing to try—and fail.

Creativity, Failure, and Innovation

On Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Existentialism is a Humanism” (1946), “Bad Faith” (pt. 1, ch. 2 of Being & Nothingness, 1943), and his play No Exit (1944).

What is human nature? Sartre says that there isn’t one, but there is a universal human condition, which is our absolute freedom. This freedom is a basic certainty in our experience, and it comes out of the mere fact of our being able to will, so no subsequent alleged science can contradict it. If you claim to be determined by your character or circumstances, you’re acting in “bad faith,” which is what for Sartre has to serve as an ethics given the lack of good and evil floating out there in the world or duties assigned to us by nature or God or any of that. He describes his project as a matter of teasing out the often unrealized implications atheism.

Though his reading is rife with fun, literary examples, we (the regular foursome) had trouble both with this insistence on absolute freedom in all circumstances and on on this claim about no human nature which ends up making bad faith seemingly inevitable: you can’t be “authentic” to your “true self” because there is no true self to be authentic to! So ha!

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Sartre on Freedom and the Human Condition - Partially Examined Life

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Troll Mix Vol. 9: Just The Tip *Valentine's Day Edition* (FREE DOWNLOAD)

In his talk, Professor Kennel will discuss the reasons why we may not be able to avoid 2C warming by 2050, and adaptive management strategy.

This term, CSaP's inaugural Visiting Research Fellow Professor Charlie F Kennel will deliver a series of seminars on adaptation to climate change, hosted by Christ's College Cambridge.

Professor Kennel is Vice-Chancellor and Director emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Christ’s College. He will be spending the next three months as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy.

Why and how we will have to adapt?

Bill rambles about technology, seeing Bill Cosby and getting a deep cleaning at the dentist there.

Monday Morning Podcast 2-17-14

Get ready to shake off the cobwebs on the old grey matter - whether it's a hefty hardback on mathematics or a fictional comedy that explores mental disabilities - this podcast is all about books that make you think.

The Penguin Podcast: Books To Make You Think feat. Dan Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Dick Swaab

This May, Pelican’s back!
 
What was this iconically blue bird all about? What did it publish? And most importantly, why do we need it today? 
 
We have the imprint’s editor Laura Stickney to tell us why we’re bringing back Pelican. We speak to our in-house designer Matthew Young, who has been a part of bringing Pelicans alive on the page, in bookshops and online. And finally, we fly off to the Bristol Festival of Ideas, to hear the economist Ha-Joon Chang. Enjoy.
 
Pelicans are now in stores around the world. Visit pelicanbooks.com to read the first chapters of the first five titles for free.


The Penguin Podcast: Pelican Books

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Above & Beyond Radio 1 Essential Mix Of The Year 2004

This episode of the Penguin Podcast focuses on one of literature’s favourite characters - the underdog.

The Penguin Podcast: Underdogs feat. Malcolm Gladwell, Matthew Frank & Elizabeth Fremantle

This summer we're hitting the road with #penguinjourneys, and the Penguin Podcast is coming along for the ride. The wonderful Clare Balding, author of My Animals and Other Family and new book Walking Home (out this autumn), introduces this jet-setting episode. 

We have also teamed up with our friends at Rough Guides to give you top travel tips for each continent along the way. Head over to http://www.roughguides.com/ for more summer travel inspiration and join us on Twitter for an #askapenguin #penguinjourneys special with the expert travel team at Rough Guides on the 8th August. 

Now settle down and listen to the amazing journeys and the audiobooks we've matched them to. Let us know where your #penguinjourneys are taking you this summer, and what books you're taking with you, over on Twitter and Facebook. 

You can pre-order Clare's new book, Walking Home here: http://www.clarebalding.co.uk/news/walking-home-my-family-and-other-rambles and you can buy all the books featured in the campaign over on iTunes (opens in iTunes): http://po.st/PenguinJourneysiTunes

Keep up with all our travels this summer and follow the #penguinjourneys board over on Pinterest: http://po.st/PJpins

Join the #penguinjourneys discussion on Penguin Facebook and Twitter:

https://www.facebook.com/penguinbooks

https://twitter.com/PenguinUKBooks

Happy travels listener!

The Penguin Podcast: Penguin Journeys feat. Clare Balding, Gruff Rhys and a Roald Dahl short story

Today marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War One and we wanted to share the stories we’ve come to know and love by our authors, about this momentous occasion in history.  From accounts by soldiers who lived in the trenches to fictional novels recreating the lives of people during that time, we’ll take you back a hundred years to give you a snapshot of those four long years at war.

The Penguin Podcast: Writing The First World War feat. Jeremy Paxman, Robert Graves and Pat Barker

This episode we’re focusing on the topic of art.  After all, Penguin has always had an upstanding reputation for brilliant, cutting edge book cover design and it’s something we take very seriously.  We have some fantastic interviews and clips lined up with arty people from Art Directors to video animators to critics to popular British artists. 

The Penguin Podcast: Art and Design feat. Grayson Perry, Lauren Child and Petra Börner

At 1.15 am on 17 April 1941 a German bomb landed on the air raid shelter at 50/52 The Cut, just across the road from where I now live. The Young Vic theatre now stands on the site.

Kit Murray remembers what happened:

This is a short excerpt from the fourth and final part of A Story of Waterloo, a tape slide show that I'm restoring.

Walklings Cake Shop

Via Duke University: http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/news/deafening-affects-vocal-nerve-cells-within-hours

Birdsong - After Deafness

The Bottle Story

The True Story of a False Prophet.

Vikram Gandhi grew weary of fake religious gurus. So he became one. He named his guru-self "Kumare."

Producers: Glynn Washington and Nick van der Kolk, with Anna Sussman

To see the film upon which this piece is based, go to www.KumareMovie.com

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The Penguin Podcast: Books To Make You Think feat. Dan Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Dick Swaab

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