Solvable: Recent Episodes
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Solvable showcases the world’s most innovative thinkers and their proposed solutions to the world’s most daunting problems. The interviews, hosted by Ronald Young Jr., will launch a dialogue that both acknowledges the complexity of the issues while inspiring hope that the problems are, in fact, solvable. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
George Santos runs for Congress and wins. Then the stories he told on the campaign trail start to fall apart. Semafor’s Kadia Goba wants to figure out where his money is coming from. Saurav Ghosh, of the Campaign Legal Center, finds the Santos filings suspicious. As Santos’ criminal trial approaches, Producer Amy Gaines McQuade walks Jake Halpern through the moment when the cracks began to show.
Note: George Santos is now expected to plead guilty, as first reported by Talking Points Memo.
This is a developing story. We will update listeners as more information becomes available.
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The Citizen’s Medal of Honor was first awarded in 2008 to recognize ordinary Americans whose actions “epitomize the concept of ‘service beyond self’ … ‘above and beyond’” their call of duty, whatever it may be.
Molly Hudgens' duty was as a guidance counselor at Sycamore Middle School, in Tennessee, where in 2016 she came face to face with a potential school shooter – and managed to talk him out of it.
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Legends are made at the Olympics and this summer shows across the Pushkin network are bringing their unique takes to Olympic stories. This special episode includes excerpts from a few: a Cautionary Tale about underestimating female marathoners, a Jesse Owens story from Revisionist History’s series on Hitler’s Olympics, and—from What’s Your Problem—the new technology that’s helping Olympic athletes get stronger.
Check out other show feeds as well, the Happiness Lab and A Slight Change of Plans are also going to the Games.
Sylvia Blemker of Springbok Analytics on What’s Your Problem
The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo on Cautionary Tales
Hitler’s Olympics from Revisionist History
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In the summer of 2020, a woman named Dia Abrams disappears from her home near Idyllwild, California. Her family and friends gather to search for her but some of their stories don’t quite add up.
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In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler granted a rare interview to the American journalist Dorothy Thompson. When Hitler later came to power, and prepared to stage the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Thompson’s warning about the man she’d met would frame the central debate over the games: Should we go?
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In the waning days of the Vietnam War, two Navy SEALs were dropped into enemy territory for a routine scouting mission. But within hours, Michael Thornton and Thomas Norris would be battling to save their team – and each other – against terrible odds. What Michael Thornton did that day would become SEAL legend…and a lesson in the true nature of courage.
Special thanks to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
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Welcome to Risky Business, a show about making better decisions.
Today, Maria has lessons from a poker tournament she recently played in Monte Carlo, where she made it to the final table. Then, Nate discusses what RFK Jr.’s impressive polling numbers could mean for Biden and Trump. And Nate and Maria discuss Caitlin Clark and what her story tells us – or doesn’t – about the gender pay gap.
Further Reading:
The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
On The Edge by Nate Silver (forthcoming)
"RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain" (NYT)
"What the conversation about Caitlin Clark’s pay gets wrong" (CNN)
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The Leap from Maria Konnikova
Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver
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The digital revolution has been happening for a while now, but with 5G, it’s about to reach a whole new level. IT departments are about to rule the world. So in this paid partnership with T-Mobile for Business, Malcolm sits with leaders in the world of retail and healthcare to discuss how their industries are changing.
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What can we learn from the centuries-long quest to eradicate smallpox, once the scourge of humanity? And how did it set the stage for all vaccines to come? First we meet Edward Jenner, a doctor in 18th century Britain who learned about the folk practice of “variolation” and found a safer way to inoculate people against smallpox. Then, Donald Hopkins of the Carter Center takes us back to the 1960s in Sierra Leone, where he discovered that successfully eradicating smallpox could be a feasible goal worldwide. Enjoy this episode from Incubation, another Pushkin podcast.
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In the battles over gun rights, a shadowy English nobleman from the 17th century has unexpectedly taken center stage. Who was he? What did he do that has — 300 years later — endeared him to a generation of legal scholars? Revisionist History explores the cult of personality around the mysterious Sir John Knight. Enjoy this episode from Revisionist History, another Pushkin Industries podcast.
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Former Solvable host Ronald Young Jr has a new podcast! “Weight For It unpacks the nuanced thoughts of fat folks, and of all folks who think about their weight all the time. Through narrative storytelling and some memoir, host Ronald Young Jr. hopes to have the conversations that we tend to avoid when it comes to our bodies.” Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts: https://apple.co/45kiRLG
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Seven stocks are powering the market: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla. How will they do in the second half of this year? Ethan Wu hosts as Rob ‘Value This’ Armstrong takes on Elaine ‘The Lex Flex’ Moore. In three rounds they pick their winners for the second half of 2023, and tell us why they chose them. If you enjoyed this preview of the new podcast Unhedged, subscribe to the show now: https://apple.co/478A3VS
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Here's a preview from Good Sport, a new show from TED. What does it take to be a sports hot-take artist? And, could Jody do it? Sports debate shows aren’t always about facts – they’re about getting people to watch by any means necessary. And these shows pretty much wrote the playbook on how we debate across the media. In this episode, Jody gets coached on how to argue like a sportscaster from sports television host and friend Katie Nolan, and dives into the history of “televised antagonism” with journalist James Andrew Miller. Listen to hear how sports debate shows changed the media landscape forever. Find Good Sport wherever you get your podcasts.
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Having a good data strategy can streamline the way a company does business. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell takes on this topic with Ronald Young Jr., host of Solvable, and guest Nicholas Renotte, Data Science and AI Technical Specialist at IBM. They discuss how data literacy can help make a business more efficient, the fundamentals of data management, and why data is step one to AI solutions.
A study quoted by Nicholas and referenced in this episode can be found here. Some of Nicholas’ guidance on machine learning can be found here.
This is a paid advertisement from IBM.
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This excerpt from Pushkin's new audiobook, The January 6 Tapes, features lawyer and legal analyst Preet Bharara's thoughtful breakdown of the January 6 Select Committee Hearings. The only compilation of the actual hearings, this audiobook is filled with the riveting testimonies that will define history. Go buy yourself a copy at pushkin.fm, Audible, Apple Books, Spotify or anywhere audiobooks are sold.
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We're sharing a preview of Some of My Best Friends Are, another podcast from Pushkin. Harvard professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad and journalist Ben Austen are friends, one Black and one white, who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago. On Some of My Best Friends Are, Khalil and Ben, along with their guests, have critical conversations that are at once personal, political, and playful, about the absurdities and intricacies of race in America.In this preview, Khalil and Ben talk with author Saladin Ambar about his new book, Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama. Through famous bonds ranging from Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, they explore the dynamics, benefits, and difficulties of cultivating interracial friendships. Hear the full episode, and more from Some of My Best Friends Are, at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/sbfs2?sid=solvable.
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Sharing a preview of the new season of Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm is obsessed with experiments – natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. This month, you'll hear a saga about self-sacrifice. Plus, Malcolm offers a mea culpa for an unintended consequence of his book Outliers.
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This week, we’re sharing an episode of host Ronald Young, Jr.s other podcast, Leaving The Theater. In this episode of Leaving the Theater, Ronald reviews Top Gun Maverick with Nichole Hill. Follow Ronald Young, Jr. on IG, and Twitter @ohitsbigron Follow Nichole Hill on IG - @nicholewthanh and Twitter @NicHill732 Subscribe to Leaving the Theater, everywhere you listen.
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Paul Rosolie is an Amazon Rainforest conservationist, author, and filmmaker. He is the co-founder of Tamandua Expeditions and Junglekeepers.
Here are links to those organizations he mentions in this episode:
Www.Junglekeepers.org
Www.Tamanduajungle.com
Www.PaulRosolie.com
Save the Sunlight, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editorial support for Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and the Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.
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Sterlin Harjo strives to tell the stories of Native and Indigenous people by positioning beauty and triumphs alongside honest frailty and shortcomings. Harjo is an award-winning film maker and he’s the creator and show runner of the TV show Reservations Dogs.
Here are some links to organizations and works he recommends in this episode:
https://illuminatives.org/
Reservation Dogs
Four Sheets to the Wind
Barking Water
Mekko
This May Be the Last Time
Love and Fury
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editorial support for Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and the Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.
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This week, we're sharing an excerpt of Michael Lewis' new audiobook. Michael published his first book, "Liar's Poker," in 1989. It’s about his time as a bond salesman on Wall Street — and it was a runaway best seller. For the first time, Pushkin is releasing an unabridged audiobook edition, read by Michael himself. Incorporating Pushkin’s signature sound design, scoring, archival tape and Michael’s incredible insight – this new edition of Liar’s Poker perfectly captures an era of greed, gluttony and outrageous fortune. But it is also the story of how young Michael Lewis became a writer and launched a storied and celebrated career.
Download the audiobook today at pushkin.fm/liarspoker and receive an exclusive listener's guide featuring additional commentary from Michael, the producers and editors of Liar's Poker as well as photos from Michael's personal archives.
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Laila Shabir is the co-founder and CEO of Girls Make Games. Here are some links to learn more about her game design studio, summer camp and quest to welcome more girls and women into the world of game design.
Girls Make Games
https://www.girlsmakegames.com/
What They Don’t Sea (2019) - Explore the underwater seas to collect special algae for an alternative energy project
Shredded Secrets (2022) - A game about bullying, that follows the bullied kid and the struggling bully as well. Nintendo Switch
Find Me (2021) - A beautiful and surreal 2D puzzle platformer about a lost shadow seeking to be reunited with her human girl, while searching for memories and avoiding the dangerous city lights. Steam, Playstation
Blubblub (2016) - Jennifer is out on a hunt to extract cuteness from anything and everything in sight to create the world's finest line of make up. It just so happens, BlubBlub is the cutest blub there ever was... Rescue your friends and thwart Jennifer's scheme for building a cosmetics empire. Down with the syringes! Steam, X-box
Interfectorem (2015) - A young sheriff-in-training who lives alone with her sister Sali in a small town next to the woods decides to go on a hike one day, but comes home to find her younger sister brutally murdered! Steam, Playstation
The Hole Story (2014) - When an unsuspecting young girl finds herself transported to a mystical world, she must rely on her trusty shovel and quick wits to find her way home. Steam
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, and editing support from Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.
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Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen are the hosts of the podcast, Game of Roses and they have ideas about how to solve The Bachelor and reality TV more generally.
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editing help from Keishel Williams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.
Here are additional resources suggested by Lizzy and Chad, where you can learn more:
How To Win The Bachelor by Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Win-The-Bachelor/Chad-Kultgen/9781982172947
Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101985915
TV Show: Unreal
https://www.hulu.com/series/unreal-dcd85133-0465-410f-8792-aeb94ebd5755
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The staff of Solvable discuss the problems, big and small, that they'd like to see solved in 2022 and beyond.
Special thanks to Maggie Taylor and Pushkin podcast hosts Sam Fragoso (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso), Tim Harford (Cautionary Tales), Michael Lewis (Against the Rules), Laurie Santos (The Happiness Lab) and Justin Richmond (Broken Record).
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, Editing support from Keishel Williams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and executive producer is Mia Lobel.
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Mike Gauyo is a TV writer in LA. Credits include Insecure (HBO) and Ginny & Georgia (Netflix) among other projects. He’s the founder of The Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative which is paving pathways for emerging Black writers in Hollywood.
Here are some resources Gauyo recommends in this episode:
Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes
Insecure
Fruit Podcast
The Writer's Room Podcast
The Screenwriters Rant Room Podcast
On Writing Podcast from WGA
The Screenwriter's Bible, A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your ScriptbyDavid Trottier
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Presenting: An Excerpt from Miracle And Wonder: Conversations With Paul Simon by Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Headlam. Download the audiobook today at miracleaudibook.com and receive an exclusive listener's guide pdf featuring additional commentary from Bruce, the producers and editors of Miracle and Wonder.
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Dr. Carmen Peralta is the Chief Medical Officer at Cricket Health. She co-founded the Kidney Health Research Collaborative at University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She works to provide support to patients, doctors and all the steps in between to improve kidney health outcomes.
Dr. Peralta recommends these sites to learn more:
CDC Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative
https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/index.html
UCSF Kidney Health Research Collaborative
https://khrc.ucsf.edu/
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha, Lisa Dunn and Keishel Wiliams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and our executive producer is Mia Lobel.
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Pushkin is thrilled to announce that A Slight Change of Plans was named Apple Podcasts' Best Show of the Year! This week, we're sharing an episode with Solvable listeners. A Slight Change of Plans is all about understanding the science of change. That understanding, mixed with a healthy dose of compassion, has made the show a perfect antidote for the times we’re living in. Dr. Maya Shankar has interviewed celebrities like Tiffany Haddish and Kacey Musgraves. But she’s interviewed real-life inspirations, too. People who have dealt with cancer diagnoses or the loss of a loved one, and somehow managed to learn and grow from those hard experiences.
In this episode, Maya discusses a heartbreaking change she recently experienced in her personal life, while on her way to becoming a mom. Maya's producer Tyler interviews her about her own “Slight Change of Plans.”
You can hear more A Slight Change of Plans episodes at https://link.chtbl.com/solvableslightchange
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adrienne maree brown is the author of We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, Pleasure Activism and also several works of fiction. She is the co-host of the podcasts How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia’s Parables and Emergent Strategy.
Below are links to topics, resources and mentors mentioned in this episode:
Ashlee Marie Preston calls on Netflix
https://www.them.us/story/activists-celebrities-protest-netflix-chappelle-special
Grace Lee Boggs Activist and American Revolutionary Turns 100, Code Switch NPR, 2015 https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/06/27/417175523/grace-lee-boggs-activist-and-american-revolutionary-turns-100
Mariame Kaba
http://mariamekaba.com/
Ways to Implement Restorative Practices in the Classroom
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-ways-to-implement-restorative-practices-in-the-classroom/2020/01
Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/prison-industrial-complex-slavery-racism.html
The Center for Nonviolent Communication
https://www.cnvc.org/
Hollow Water First Nations Community Holistic Healing Circle
https://cncfr.jbsinternational.com/node/589
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa
https://www.usip.org/publications/1995/12/truth-commission-south-africa
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
https://nctr.ca/
12 Ways to Engage in Truth and Reconciliation at Western University Ontario, Canada
https://indigenous.uwo.ca/initiatives/learning/12-ways.html
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Mary Aiken is a Cyberpsychologist and Chair of the Department of Cyberpsychology Capitol Technology University in Laurel Maryland. She is a member of the Interpol Global Cybercrime Expert Group.
Want to learn more? Here are links to additional resources Dr. Aiken recommends:
The Cyber Blue Line (Aiken & Amann ) https://www.europol.europa.eu/europol-spotlight/europol-spotlight-cyber-blue-line
The Cyber Effect - how human behavior changes online (Aiken, 2016) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyber-Effect-Pioneering-Cyberpsychologist-Explains/dp/0812997859
Manipulating Fast and Slow (Aiken, 2018 ) https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/manipulating-fast-and-slow#:~:text=As%20a%20discipline%2C%20cyberpsychology%20focuses,emerging%20technologies%20on%20human%20behavior.&text=this%20article%2C%20Dr.-,Mary%20Aiken%20talks%20about%20how%20the%20discipline%20helps%20us%20better,the%20context%20of%20recent%20elections.
15 minutes of Shame, Documentary HBO Max https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJrnNdH-aw
Master of Research (M.Res.) in Cyberpsychology https://www.captechu.edu/degrees-and-programs/masters-degrees/cyberpsychology-mres
Doctorate in Cyberpsychology https://www.captechu.edu/degrees-and-programs/doctoral-degrees/cyberpsychology-phd
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Sachar Mathias is the managing producer and Mia Lobel the executive producer.
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Wayne Modest is the Director of Content for the National Museum of Worldcultures and the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam and head of the Research Center of Material Culture. He is also professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Modest was previously, head of the curatorial department at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum in London, and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography in Kingston, Jamaica.
Additional resources that Dr. Modest recommends:
Decolonize This Place
https://decolonizethisplace.org/faxxx-1
Rhodes Must Fall
https://harvardpolitics.com/rhodes-must-fall/
Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage by Felwine Sarr and
Bénédicte Savoy
http://restitutionreport2018.com/sarr_savoy_en.pdf
Potential History, Unlearning Imperialism
by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3079-potential-history
History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas by Wilson Harris and Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe
https://www.amazon.com/History-Fable-Myth-Caribbean-Guianas/dp/0911565205
Whiteness as Property by Cheryl Harris
https://harvardlawreview.org/1993/06/whiteness-as-property/
Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Global and Insurgent Legalities) By Brenna Bhandar
https://www.indiebound.org/buy-local/9780822371465
Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice
By David Scott
https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=omens+of+adversity
Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire by Henrietta Lidchi, Stuart Allan, Alan Lester
https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=Henrietta+Lidchi+dividing+the+spoils+
Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica by Deborah Thomas,
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822350688/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_thcv_p1_i1
Spotify playlist featuring
Peter Tosh, Equal Rights
Bob Marley, Babylon System
Vybz Kartel: Reparations
Burning Spear, Days of Slavery
And more!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wJXGFz7oHaXykSsESDVXM?si=251fe856f567481d
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and the Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.
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Jade Begay is the NDN collective’s Climate Justice Campaign Director. She is Diné and Tesuque Pueblo, has a Master of Arts degree in Environmental Leadership and is part of President Biden’s White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Here are some resources that Jade Begay mentions in this episode:
NDN Collective
https://ndncollective.org/
Chasing Ice, Documentary
https://chasingice.com/
Sal Y Cielo, Documentary
https://www.taylorfreesolorees.com/project/sal-y-cielo
The New Zealand river that became a legal person, BBC March 2020
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200319-the-new-zealand-river-that-became-a-legal-person
Will Northwest Seaweed Farming Finally Take Off?
https://www.nativeconservancy.org/2020/12/16/will-northwest-seaweed-farming-finally-take-off/
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Dr. Susan Solomon’s research in the 1980’s confirmed that the presence of chlorofluorocarbons was largely responsible for the hole in the ozone and that led consumers, chemical companies and manufacturers to a path for fixing it. For her work, Solomon was awarded the National Medal of Science, the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore and was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in 2009. Solomon Glacier in Antarctica was named for her.
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Our managing producer is Sachar Mathias is the managing producer and Mia Lobel is the executive producer.
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Ronald Young Jr. talks with Malcolm Gladwell (author of David and Goliath and the co-founder of Pushkin Industries) about what we can learn about surviving our current challenges by studying human behavior during past eras of stress and national threat.
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Our managing producer is Sachar Mathias is the managing producer and Mia Lobel is the executive producer.
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Dr. Adrienne Keene is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She’s an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, co-hosts a podcast called “All My Relations” and she’s the author of the new book: Notable Native People.
Here are links to some resources that Dr. Keene mentions in this episode:
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene. Illustrations by Ciara Sana
Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States, Smithsonian Magazine, 2016
Landback.org
NDN Collective
Why Native Hawaiians are fighting to protect Mauna Kea from a telescope
Vox.com, 2019
Indigenous Opposition to Line Three
Reuters, 2021
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. The show's managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.
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Dr. Maya Shankar is the founder of the White House's Behavioral Science Team. She served as a senior advisor during the Obama administration and in 2016, Shankar was the first behavioral science advisor to the United Nations.
She is the host of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans.
Here are some resources that Dr. Shankar mentions in this episode:
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
“A Slight Change of Plans” with Adam Grant
“A Slight Change of Plans” with Dr. Katy Milkman
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.
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Matthew Johnson is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University where research is underway to explore the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs to break through the crushing impact of addiction and other mental health disorders.
Here are some of the resources Johnson mentions in this episode:
Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/
National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials
https://clinicaltrials.gov/
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
https://maps.org/
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Host Ronald Young Jr. sits down with Malcolm Gladwell to talk about climate change: the power of individual choices, cultural shifts and what to expect from the business sector too.
Meaningful climate action requires thoughtful engagement from across all sectors, regions, nations -- from all of us. Check out these recent Solvable episodes for additional solutions and for ways that you can get involved.
Destructive Agriculture is Solvable with Rachel Stroer
Wildfire Ignition is Solvable with Eric Appel
The Lack of Basic Sanitation in the United States is Solvable with Catherine Coleman Flowers
The Slow Regrowth of Vulnerable Coral Reefs is Solvable with Sarah Hamlyn
Fighting Climate Change Through Incentivized Prizes and Innovation with Anousheh Ansari
Making Transportation Systems Eco-friendly is a Solvable Problem with Laura Schewel
Addiction to Fossil Fuels is Solvable with Bill McKibben
Executive Producer, Mia Lobel
Managing Producer, Sachar Mathias
Senior Producer, Jocelyn Frank
Researcher, David Zha
Booking by Lisa Dunn
Very special thanks to Royston Beserve, Heather Fain, Nicole Morano, Carly Migliori, Eric Sandler and Maggie Taylor.
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Ben Kirby is the founder of PreachersNSneakers, an Instagram account and book, that both ask, “how much is too much” to spend when it comes to presenting a compelling image of the church and it’s leaders? Kirby's got some answers and some solutions.
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Host Ronald Young, Jr. presents a preview of Pushkin’s newest podcast, Some of My Best Friends Are… and talks with the hosts, Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Harvard professor) and Ben Austen (award-winning journalist) about some of their favorite moments together.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen grew up together on the South Side of Chicago. The two offer an unfiltered take on growing up in a deeply-divided country and navigating that divide as it exists today.
The full season can be found at http://podcasts.pushkin.fm/solvablebestfriends
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Mike Gauyo is a TV writer in LA including work on Insecure (HBO) and Ginny & Georgia (Netflix). He’s the founder of The Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative that is paving pathways for emerging Black writers in Hollywood.
Here are some resources Gauyo recommends in this episode:
Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes
Insecure
Fruit Podcast
The Writer's Room Podcast
The Screenwriters Rant Room Podcast
On Writing Podcast from WGA
The Screenwriter's Bible, A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your ScriptbyDavid Trottier
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Stephanie Cunningham is the director of Museum Hue which supports people of color within the museum field and works to situate and promote culturally informed museum exhibitions and experiences across the nation.
Here are some of the resources she mentions in this episode:
Museum Hue
Mounting Frustration: Art Museums in the Age of Black Power by Susan E. Cahan
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by Kellie Jones
Museums are Not Neutral
Museum Detox
MuseumNext
How to Be an Antiracist
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Dr. Joy Harden Bradford is a licensed psychologist, author, podcast host and the founder of Therapy For Black Girls – an online resource, and podcast, that supports the mental well-being of Black women and girls.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)
https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline
Here are some of the resources that Dr. Harden Bradford mentions in this episode:
Therapy For Black Girls
The Loveland Foundation: financial assistance to Black women & girls seeking therapy
https://thelovelandfoundation.org/
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives Of Black Women,by Inger Burnett-Zeigler
Rwenshaun Miller
Therapy For Black Men
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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is the author Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and he’s written four #1 New York Times bestsellers including How to Be an Antiracist.
Here are some resources for learning more about, and doing, antiracism work:
Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi
Books:
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010)
Carol Anderson, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (2021)
Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019)
Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (2021)
Paul Ortiz, An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018)
David Treuer, The Heartbeat on Wounded Knee: Native Americans From 1890 to the Present by David Treuer (2019)
Movies:
13th
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Selma
Just Mercy
Hair Love
The Hate U Give
Organizations:
Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research
Black Lives Matter (US, Canada, United Kingdom)
Stop AAPI Hate
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Hispanic Heritage Foundation
National Congress of American Indians
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Bri Campos is a licensed mental health counselor and body image coach. She works with clients to improve their relationships with food and with their bodies and to approach health in a holistic way.
Here are links to resources recommended in this episode:
Body Image with Bri
Food Addiction is Solvable with Michael Moss
Hating Your Body is Solvable with Gabi Fresh
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight By Lindo Bacon
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women By Naomi Wolf
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia By Sabrina Strings, Allyson Johnson
Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet ApproachByEvelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A.
Johann Hari, Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong (TED talk)
The View from Rat Park, Bruce Alexander
Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight By Lindo Bacon, Lucy Aphramor
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating By Christy Harrison
Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better) By Lindo Bacon, Ijeoma Oluo
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Gabi Fresh is a body positive digital content creator. She was formerly an MTV Twitter Jockey and InStyle's first plus-size editor.
Gabi Fresh on Instagram
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Michael Moss is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author of the books Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us and Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions. He explains that food addiction is not our fault but we can break out of it.
Here are some links to additional reading Moss recommends:
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease byDaniel Lieberman
Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Mattersby Gordon Shepherd
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Molly Burhans is the founder and executive director of GoodLands an organization that works to map the land holdings of the Catholic Church to encourage socially and ecologically sound decisions to help the future health of the earth and its people.
GoodLands
Biodiversity Observation Tracking on Lands Owned by the Catholic Church (and other Catholic Organizations) using iNaturalist, Saint Kateri Conservation Center
About the Great Backyard Bird Count, Audubon Society
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We’re excited to share with you the new season of Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast that re-examines something from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time. We’ve got to warn you, the new season is completely unbound. Malcolm Gladwell is finally out of the house, and taking you into the streets, and even under the sea. All in the name of continuing his journey through the overlooked and misunderstood. He plays chicken with cars. An Oscar winner helps him remake fairy tale history. He dives into your dirty laundry. I haven’t quite decided who he riles up most. College elitists? Nine year old girls? You’ll have to hear it for yourself to find out.
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Laura Schewel is the CEO of StreetLight Data which provides data to help mold and monitor transportation systems to be more environmentally friendly. Check out the links below to some of the resources that Schewel mentions in this episode.
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
Dream Cities by Wade Graham
Track your own transportation data: The Miles App
Driversnote Mileage Tracker
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Jason DiGianni is the project lead for the Excelsior Pass. He thinks the free digital tool (which confirmsnegative COVID-19 tests and positive vaccine statuses) can help New York reopen safely and swiftly.
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Dr. Ayanna Howard is the dean of the College of Engineering of the Ohio State University as well as the founder and president of the board of directors of Zyrobotics, a company that develops mobile therapy and educational products for children with special needs. She believes that robots and artificial intelligence can make us better humans.
Here is a list of some of the resources that Dr. Howard mentions during this conversation:
Zyrobotics
Tommy the Robot
New York Returns Police ‘Robodog’ After Public Outcry, Wired April, 2021
Wired Magazine
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Host Ronald Young Jr. offers this sneak peak into Pushkin's newest show, Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi. You can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!
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If the world has learned one thing in lockdown, it’s that staying isolated and confined to one place is hard. But for some people living with disabilities, a sense of social isolation predates the pandemic. Steven Spohn is a writer, philosopher, Twitch streamer, and the Chief Operations Officer of AbleGamers. His non-profit organization advocates for people with physical and mental disabilities in the gaming world, providing peer counseling and adaptive technology to help them play the games that they love and connect with worlds beyond their own.
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A lot of popular music is dominated by the western musical constructions of scale and time but when it comes to creative work -- why be so limited? Khyam Allami is an Iraqi-British multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, researcher and founder of Nawa Recordings. In partnership with Counterpoint, (the creative studio of Tero Parviainen and Samuel Diggins), he launched new, free, transcultural music software to solve this problem and facilitate the creation of increasingly fresh music.
Learn more:
CTM 2021 Apotome Live Performance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn8XHijHUm8
Apotome software, https://ctm.isartum.net/
More about Apotome, https://khyamallami.com/Apotome-Khyam-Allami-x-Counterpoint
Leimma software, https://isartum.net/
Khyam Allami, https://khyamallami.com/
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Host Ronald Young Jr. speaks with Bill McKibben about how to break our destructive climate habits and about why we need a course correction urgently. Bill McKibben is an author, educator, environmentalist and the founder of 350.org.
Check out the links below for his suggestions about how to quickly and efficiently build a movement to slow down climate change before its too late.
350.org
Sunrise Movement
The Green New Deal
Fridays for the Future
Extinction Rebellion
Stanford engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert U.S. to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050 Stanford News, 2015
Biden’s “all of government” plan for climate, explained, Vox Jan 2021
Strengthening the Financial System to Meet the Challenge of Climate Change, by Governor Lael Brainard, Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System, December 2020
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Ronald Young Jr is the newest host of Solvable. Jacob Weisberg and Ronald Young Jr. talk about some of their hosting inspirations from Larry King, Studs Terkel, Terry Gross and Dick Cavett.
Ronald Young Jr.
Seizing Freedom, Northern Virginia Magazine
Time Well Spent Podcast
Leaving the Theater Podcast
Dick Cavett with actor and comedian Don Rickles
Studs Terkel Radio Archive, WFMT
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR
Larry King with Jesse Thorn, The Turnaround
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Maria Konnikova is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Biggest Bluff,The Confidence Game, and Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes.
To learn more about scams and how to protect yourself check out the links below.
Ricky Jay Remembered, NPR 2018
The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by David Maurer
Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
Psychological Manipulation is a Solvable Problem featuring Diane Benscoter
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Abby Maxman is President and CEO of Oxfam America and says “there's no reason in the 21st century that people should be going hungry.”
Want to learn more about how you can reduce hunger locally and globally? Check out the links below to learn more about the suggestions that Maxman makes in this episode:
Find Your Local Food Pantry, Feeding America
Local Food Directories, USDA
The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow
The Hungry Farmer- My Moment of Great Disruption Roger Thurow at TEDxChange
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Netflix
Oxfam America
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The Bomber Mafia is the new audiobook by Revisionist History host (and Pushkin co-founder) Malcolm Gladwell. It examines the rise of air power, which created one of the greatest moral challenges of the Second World War. In The Bomber Mafia, you’ll hear the voices of the generals, aircraft soaring, and bombs crashing. It is history brought to life through the power of audio. Buy the audiobook at bombermafia.com and receive an exclusive Listener's Guide full of photos and commentary. Print and ebook editions available wherever books are sold.
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Angeline Murimirwa is executive director of the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED). By engaging local communities in their nomination process, young people and their families receive support that makes education more attainable and the benefits of that education more widely enjoyed.
Want to learn more about the UN Sustainable Development goal to provide basic education to all young people? Check out the links below.
My Better World: Lifeskills and Wellbeing Curriculum from CAMFED
Yidan Prize
Half the Skyby Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Half the Sky PBS Documentary
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Gender Justice, Development and Rights, edited by Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi
The 17 Goals, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Sustainable Development
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As part of our Setbacks series examining the impact of COVID-19 on global development, Paul Farmer explains why he is still optimistic after working for 40 years to end global health inequities. Paul Farmer is a professor at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and Co-Founder of Partners In Health. He believes that solutions flow from addressing social pathologies along with pathogens.
Looking to learn more about global health? Check out these links:
Partners In Health
Fevers, Feuds, And Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History by Paul Farmer
Bending the Arc, Netflix
Pragmatic Solidarity, by Paul Farmer for The Center for Compassion and Global Health
Rwanda starts administering second doses of AstraZeneca vaccines
Partners in Heath, Haiti
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Dasia Taylor is a senior at Iowa City West High School. She’s working to develop and produce medical sutures, dyed with beets, that can detect infections and alert patients to signs of risk.
According to the WHO patients with surgical site infections are twice as likely to spend time in an intensive care unit, five times more likely to be readmitted after discharge. And twice as likely to die.
Out of nearly 2000 students Taylor was recently named one of 40 finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Scholar program and awarded $25,000 for her work.
Want to learn more about health equity, surigical site infections and Taylor's work? Check out these links.
The difference between a stich and a suture, Healthline.com
Frequently Asked Questions about Surgical Site Infections, CDC.gov
Surgical site infections are the most common and costly of hospital infections, Science Daily
WHO Guidelines for Safe Surgery 2009
17-Year-Old Dasia Taylor Receives Recognition For Developing Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection” AfroTech.com
West High senior Dasia Taylor recognized as Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist, The Daily Iowan
Health equity: challenges in low income countries
Closing the Health Equity Gap, WHO
We Must Enhance—but also Decolonize—America’s Global Health Diplomacy, Scientific American
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Cults and other manipulative groups are an issue of public health and Diane Benscoter has strategies that may help.
Diane Benscoter is the founder of Antidote and the author of Shoes of a Servant: My Unconditional Devotion to a Lie.
Here are some links to additional information about cults and psychological manipulation and how to find support:
Support for Individuals, from Antidote
Support for Families, from Antidote
Freedom of Mind Institute
Cult Deprogramming vs. Strategic Interactive Approach from Steven Hassan
Course: Understand Cults: The Basics, by Steven Hassan
Open Minds Foundation: Resources
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Keller Rinaudo is the CEO and Founder of Zipline International. Their “sky ambulance” service is delivering medical supplies to hard to reach places via drone delivery.
Here are some links to information and resources that Rinaudo mentioned in this episode.
Zipline International
Factfulness by Hans and Ola Rosling
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Children: Improving Survival and Wellbeing, UN World Health Organization, Sept 8, 2020
Mobile Money Adoption in Kenya, TechCrunch, March 25, 2020
Zipline’s drones are delivering medical supplies and PPE in North Carolina, The Verge, May 2020
Walmart drone deliveries, The Verge, Sept 2020
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Resmaa Menakem is an author and psychotherapist working in Minneapolis Minnesota. As a specialist focused on racial trauma, Menakem works to help people metabolize intergenerational pain and pay attention to the cues their bodies are communicating rather than burying them.
Here are links that Menakem recommends to learn more about trauma and systemic racism, and links to some tools that can help to address both.
Hotlines for Survivors of Violence and Trauma
My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem
More about Somatic Abolitionism from Resmaa Menakem
Me and White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
Adrienne Maree Brown: http://adriennemareebrown.net/
Rachel Cargle: https://www.rachelcargle.com/
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Andrew Yang is running for Mayor of New York City and he thinks that extreme poverty is a solvable problem. Here are some links to learn more about universal basic income and guaranteed minimum income.
“2021 Will Be the Year of Guaranteed Income Experiments,” Bloomberg News, Jan 4, 2021
“Andrew Yang's 'People's Bank' to Help Distribute Basic Income to 55K New Yorkers,”
Newsweek, Feb 17, 2021
“Universal Basic Income: A Thoroughly Wrongheaded Idea,” Forbes, Jan 16, 2019
“Free cash handouts: What is universal basic income or UBI,” CNBC, June 27, 2019
“Payment Guaranteed: How Would Universal Basic Income Affect Business?” Business News Daily, May 11, 2020
“Universal Basic Income: Purpose, Pros and Cons,”The Balance, Aug 19, 2020
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Catherine Coleman Flowers is the Founder and Director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. She was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2020 for her work researching and documenting America’s waste water failures.
Learn more:
Have you faced local sanitation issues in the US? We want to hear from you, The Guardian, 2021
Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret ByCatherine Coleman Flowers
Catherine Coleman Flowers, Class of 2020, MacArthur Foundation
Biden Urged to Back Water Bill in Amid US Worst Crisis in Decades, The Guardian, 2021
The people suffering have to have a seat at the table, Southerly Dec. 2020
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 ByTaylor Branch
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Nathan Matias is a professor at Cornell University and leads the Citizens and Technology Lab. He believes that the strong tradition of scrappy, responsive, citizen science (which has led to positive changes in food safety and quality assurance regulations) can also bring positive changes to how algorithms impact our lives.
The Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University
Mozilla Foundation- volunteer opportunities
Algorithmic Justice League
Joy Buolamwini, TED Talk, Fighting Bias in Algorithms
The Markup
Consumer Reports
The History of the Good Housekeeping Institute
Elinor Ostrom’s Work on Governing The Commons: An Appreciation, LSE
Kurt Lewin, American Social Psychologist, Encyclopedia Britanica
Democratic, Authoritarian, Laissez-Faire: What Type Of Leader Are You?, Forbes 2019
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Eli Pariser is a social activist and technology entrepreneur. He sits on the U.S. Programs Board of the Open Society Foundation and the Information and Democracy Commission. He is currently co-director of the Civic Signals project with Talia Stroud, at the National Conference on Citizenship.
To learn more about urban planing and digital design check out these links below:
New Public by Civic Signals
What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?, Eli Pariser, TED
Palaces For the People, Eric Klinenberg
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William Whyte
Run Your Own Social, A social media toolkit
The Media is the Message, Marshall McLuhan
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Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, contributing writer at The Atlantic and a co-host of Solvable and she believes that political polarization is solvable.
Learn more about the topics that Anne discussed with Jacob:
Coexistence is the Only Option, The Atlantic, Jan 20, 2021
Quebec’s landmark 1995 independence referendum, The McGill Tribune, Nov 3, 2020
The Northern Ireland Peace Process, Council on Foreign Relations, March 5, 2020
Infrastructure and Peacebuilding, United Nations 2020 report of the Secretary General, January 2020
Bridging Divides: Trends in Demonstrations, Princeton University
Over Zero, working to prevent identity-based violence
Braver Angels, bringing red and blue together
One in five voters (21%) said they supported the Capitol insurrection, YouGov survey, Jan 2021
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Juan Manuel Santos is credited with ending the long and violent civil war in Colombia. He believes that every conflict can have a solution. This episode originally published in 2019.
Want to know more about making and maintaining peace in Colombia? Check out these links.
Juan Manuel Santos, Nobel Prize, 2016
Colombia peace built by British veterans of IRA accord, The Sunday Times, 2016
Colombia Signs Peace Agreement with FARC rebels, The New York Times, 2016
Colombia’s Peace Deal Promised a New Era. So Why Are These Rebels Rearming? The New York Times, 2019
Three Years After the Signing of the Final Agreement in Colombia: Moving Toward Territorial Transformation, Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,June 2020
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Dr. Anne Zink is the Chief Medical Officer for the state of Alaska and has helped to coordinate one of the nation's most successful vaccine distribution efforts to date.
Dr. Zink believes that part of their success comes from the many people joining in to the enormous effort, in creative and meaningful ways.
Want to learn more about how to volunteer to help with vaccine distribution? Contact your local health department and check out the links below.
Volunteer with the American Red Cross
How to Support Elderly Friends and Family During COVID-19, Cedars Sinai
Volunteering during a pandemic, Sterling volunteers
Talking to Recipients about COVID-19 Vaccines, CDC.gov
Frequently Asked Questions about COVID-19 Vaccination, CDC.gov
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Fact Sheet, FDA.gov
Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Fact Sheet, FDA.gov
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Dr. Wendy Wood is Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California.
Here are some links to the studies referenced in this episode and a few stories:
Reducing Elevator Energy Use: A comparison of posted feedback and reduced elevator convenience, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
How to Keep our Buildings from Making us Fat, Fast Company
Finding a Closer Gym May Be the Key to Working Out More, Men’s Health
Good Habits, Bad Habits, by Wendy Wood
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Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice is the President and Dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine. Even though systemic racism and a history of medical abuses against people of color are indisputable, she believes that the lack of trust in the COVID-19 vaccine can, should, and will be reversed.
Dr. Montgomery Rice suggested these links, from trusted sources, for more information about the COVID-19 vaccines.
Information about the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, CDC
Information about the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, CDC
What to Expect after Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine, CDC
COVID-19 vaccine information, National Institutes of Health
COVID-19 Vaccines and Allergic Reactions, CDC
Consider Joining a Clinical Trial, National Institutes of Health
Phase 3 trial of Novavax investigational COVID-19 vaccine opens, National Institutes of Health
Community Vaccination Saturdays, Morehouse School of Medicine
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Rachel Stroer is the acting president of the Land Institute. She believes that many of the ecological and economic problems stemming from our current dependence on monoculture farming can be solved through investing in regenerative agriculture.
Here are some ways to learn more!
The Land Institute
Project Drawdown
Regenerative Annual Cropping, Project Drawdown
The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Toensmeier
Perennial Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Nuts, The Spruce
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With so many worthy causes out there, GiveWell helps donors evaluate charities based on their ability to save and improve the greatest number of lives per dollar donated.
Buddy Shah is the managing director of GiveWell.
Here are some resources for learning more about informed giving.
GiveWell
The Life You Can Save, by Peter Singer
Doing Good Better, by William MacAskill
Strangers Drowning, by Larissa MacFarquhar
Charity Watch
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Award-winning technologist Lady Mariéme Jamme is the founder of iamtheCODE. Her organization seeks to educate women and girls about coding and to empower young women with digital skills that allow them to shape their own futures.
I Am The Code
The Gender Gap in Internet Access: Using a Women-Centred Method, 2020
Open letter to Bono and Bob Geldof, 2010
Marieme Jamme
Women Who Code
Girls Who Code
Scratch, Info For Parents
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Astronaut Scott Kelly is no stranger to the impacts of social isolation after spending 520 days in space. He talks with Jacob Weisberg about how to confront the depression and anxiety that we can all expect during this pandemic.
Here are some additional resources that Scott Kelly recommends:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
https://connect2affect.org/
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery, by Scott Kelly
How Volunteering Can Help your Mental Health, Greater Good
The Happiness Lab (podcast)
Knowable, Go For Launch, course with Scott Kelly
Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista. Senior producer: Jocelyn Frank. Managing producer: Catherine Girardeau. Executive producer: Mia Lobel.
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Mike Dickey is co-founder and chairman of the JackTrip Foundation and the creator of Virtual Studio.
The awkward and disjointed experience of making music over the internet is a solvable problem. Virtual Studio is a device that works with the open source software application JackTrip to enable musicians of all ages to collaborate across locations online.
Virtual Studio
JackTrip Open Source Software Application
JamKazam
11 Tools for Collaborating on Music Remotely
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Dr. Lutfi Lokman co-founded Hospitals Beyond Boundaries to provide culturally competent and financially sustainable healthcare. His clinic follows a model pioneered by Muhammad Yunus (founder of the Grameen Bank) which leans on cross-subsidization to address the healthcare needs of economically diverse communities.
Here are a few additional resources related to this episode:
Hospitals Beyond Boundaries
NGOs in Cambodia: It’s Complicated The Diplomat, Dec. 2013
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Flavia Kleiner is the co-founder of Operation Libero. The organization works to combat populism in Switzerland. Operation Libero has launched and won a variety of proactive campaigns to promote a more diverse and inclusive Switzerland. (This conversation was originally published in 2019)
Here are a few additional resources related to this episode:
Change the narrative: how a Swiss group is beating rightwing populists, The Guardian April 2019
Swiss voters appear to reject limiting jobs for EU citizens, Associated Press, Sept 2020
Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Kobe Guilford, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.
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Emily Bazelon is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She believes that disinformation is solvable.
Want to learn more about this and get more involved? Here are some ways to do so:
“The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation,” Emily Bazelon for the New York Times Magazine, Oct 15, 2020
The Cyber Policy Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Election Integrity Partnership
Avaaz
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
The Landscape For Campaign Finance, 10 Years After Citizens United, Ari Shapiro with Nate Persily for NPR, Jan 21, 2020
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Ahmed Badr is an Iraqi-American writer, social entrepreneur, former refugee and the founder of Narratio. Narratio is a creative platform and set of initiatives that carve out spaces for displaced young people to transcend the tragedies that may have initially caused their displacement.
Here are a few additional resources related to this episode:
Narratio.org
While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World
Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.
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Saving coral reefs will take a lot of teamwork and collaboration across scientists, industries and individuals. One important tool is micro-fragmentation and re-skinning. Sarah Hamlyn is a scientist at the Mote Marine Labs’ Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reefs Research and Restoration. She helps maintain 21 species of stony and branching coral and works to regrow damaged coral reefs off the Florida coast 40 to 50 times faster than they can regrow in the wild.
Here are a few additional resources related to this episode:
FishWatch.gov
Slow Release Fertilizers
Mote’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration
Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.
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Eric Appel is a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University. His lab has designed an improved delivery system for fire retardant to keep fires from starting across hotspots and known ignition areas.
Here are a few additional resources related to this episode:
Wildfire prevention through prophylactic treatment of high-risk landscapes using viscoelastic retardant fluids, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Stanford researchers have developed a gel-like fluid to prevent wildfires, Stanford News
Phos-Chek fire retardant
Developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans, US Forest Service
Mitigate Wildfire Risk, US Forest Service
Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.
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Michael Mina is an epidemiologist and immunologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:
Additional articles on rapid tests
Trump to Announce $750 million deal with Abbott, CNBC August 27, 2020
@michaelmina_lab
Sample letter about rapid tests to send to your representatives
www.RapidTests.org
Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland.
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John McWhorter is a linguistics professor at Columbia University, contributing writer at The Atlantic and hosts the podcast Lexicon Valley. He believes that “cancel culture” is solvable.
Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:
After Ann Coulter Backs Out Of Visit, UC Berkeley Braces For Free Speech Rallies
The Fine Line Between A Bad Date And Sexual Assault: 2 Views On Aziz Ansari
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom
Critical Race Theory
Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel.
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Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post and formerly the public editor with the New York Times. Her new book is called Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy. She believes that the decline of local news is solvable.
Here are a few resources related to this episode:
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan
Texas Tribune
MinnPost
Voice of San Diego
Buffalo News
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Sun Times
Saint Francis de Sales
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Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist. He teaches cyber security at the Harvard Kennedy School. Schneier believes that election security risks are solvable.
Here are a few resources related to this episode:
VerifiedVoting.Org
The Brennan Center for Justice
National Electorial Defense Coalition
National Mail Voter Registration Form (multilingual)
Voter Registration and Election Dates (by state)
Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank is the senior producer, Catherine Girardeau is the managing producer and Mia Lobel is the executive producer.
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Kirsten Clarke is the president and executive director of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The committee was established in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to address the inequities confronting African Americans and other minorities. Clarke believes that reversing, or preventing, the disenfranchisement of millions of American voters is central to her work and that voter suppression is solvable.
Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:
National Mail Voter Registration Form (multilingual)
Voter Registration and Election Dates (by state)
Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank and Catherine Girardeau.
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Michael Waldman is the president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The non-partisan center works to strengthen America's democracy. Waldman is the author of The Fight to Vote. He believes that the United States can have an election that is safe, participatory and with a robust turnout in 2020.
Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:
Voting by Mail / Voting Absentee
National Mail Voter Registration Form (multilingual)
Voter Registration and Election Dates (by state)
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Chiraag Bains is the Director of Legal Strategies at Demos, a think tank focused on strengthening democracy and fighting for racial justice. He previously served as Senior Counsel to the head of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He co-wrote the Ferguson Report. The Department of Justice sued Ferguson, Missouri, over unconstitutional policing and court practices. He believes that the lack of accountability for police violence is solvable.
Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:
Ending Qualified Immunity Act, introduced by Representatives Justin Amash and Ayanna Pressley June 4, 2020
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, introduced by Representative Karen Bass June 8, 2020
'CAHOOTS': How Social Workers And Police Share Responsibilities In Eugene, Oregon, NPR, June 10, 2020
Fatal Force, a study by The Washington Post (updated daily)
Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, March 4, 2015
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Insha Rahman is the director of strategy and new initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice. She believes that mass incarceration is solvable.
At Vera, Rahman’s work is focused on prosecutorial reform, bail, and decarceration, with an emphasis on developing advocacy-related strategies and accountability. Prior to Vera, Rahman worked as a public defender at The Bronx Defenders. She currently serves on the boards of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, and the New York State Appellate Division's Indigent Defense Organization Oversight Committee.
Here are a few of the resources mentioned in this episode:
13th, Ava Duvernay
Locking Up Our Own, by James Foreman
Solitary, by Albert Woodfox
How Conservatives Learned to Love Prison Reform, March/April 2014, Mother Jones
Prison reform: A smart way for states to save money and lives, January 2011, Washington Post
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Host Anne Applebaum speaks with Srdja Popovic about how strategic nonviolent action can bring about lasting and meaningful social change.
Srdja Popovic is the executive director of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS). He's a social change educator who draws on his experience as a leader of the student movement Otpor! Optor! is credited with helping to oust Serbian president Slobodan Milošević using creative and strategic techniques that marry humor and coalition building. He is the author of Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World.
Popovic references a series of short educational videos about nonviolent strategies which can be found at www.canvasopedia.org
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Jacob Weisberg talks to Dixon Chibanda about giving access to mental health care in non-Western nations.
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Anne Applebaum talks to Dr. Naveen Rao about fostering safe pregnancies and healthy deliveries worldwide.
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Jacob Weisberg talks to Michael Faye about cutting out the middle man in charitable donations via GiveDirectly.
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Jacob Weisberg talks with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz about closing the wealth gap in the United States.
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Anne Applebaum talks with Nicola Galombik about increasing access to future work for young people in South Africa.
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Jacob Weisberg talks with David Kaye about fostering public understanding of free speech on the internet and who should make the rules about regulation.
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Ahmed Ali Akbar talks with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy about using film to tackle violence against women in Pakistan.
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Malcolm Gladwell talks to former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu about mending race relations in the U.S.
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Malcolm Gladwell talks to Saumya Roy about using micro-financing to eliminate poverty amongst marginalized groups.
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Jacob Weisberg talks to global health advocate Steve Davis about eliminating or eradicating diseases causing great human suffering worldwide.
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Anne Applebaum talks to Anousheh Ansari about balancing the carbon cycle and fighting climate change through incentivized prizes and innovation.
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Jacob Weisberg talks to Mabel van Oranje, Chair of Girls Not Brides, about ending child marriage by 2030.
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Anne Applebaum talks to Dr. Urvashi Sahni--a social entrepreneur, women rights activist and educationist--about redefining education and curricula.
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Jacob Weisberg talks to Kevin Rudd about the need for diplomacy between China and the United States.
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Jacob Weisberg talks to Roy Steiner about changing global diets.
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Anne Applebaum talks with Ashvin Dayal about creating worldwide access to electricity.
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Malcolm Gladwell talks with Dr. Shashi Buluswar about fighting global poverty with the Institute for Transformative Technologies.
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Jacob Weisberg talks to Victor Ochen, Founder and Executive Director for African Youth Initiative Network, about building peace in Africa.
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Malcolm Gladwell talks to David Baltimore about his work that made a treatment for HIV/AIDS possible.
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Ahmed Ali Akbar talks to Sal Khan about bringing world class education to everyone, for free.
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Anne Applebaum talks to Vincent DeGennaro about building cancer programs in developing countries.
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Malcolm Gladwell talks to Julia Gillard, the first and only woman to be Prime Minister of Australia, about the underrepresentation of women in leadership around the world.
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Anne Applebaum talks to Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate, about ending more than 50 years of conflict in his country.
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Jacob Weisberg talks to Jake Porway about using big data for good.
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Anne Applebaum talks to Renée DiResta about building a more trustworthy Internet.
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Jacob Weisberg talks to Mariéme Jamme about teaching a million disadvantaged girls to code.
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Ahmed Ali Akbar talks to activist and author Tristram Stuart about using food scraps to eliminate waste.
Watch "The Ugly Carrot" video here: https://vimeo.com/105657593.
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Jacob Weisberg talks to David Miliband about helping refugees stay in work and in school.
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Anne Applebaum talks to Flavia Kleiner about how patriotic liberalism can beat xenophobic populists.
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Malcolm Gladwell talks to Rosanne Haggerty about ending homelessness for everyone. Forever.
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Solvable will be a recurring showcase for the world’s most inspiring thinkers to propose solutions to the world’s most daunting problems.
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