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028 Meg Wheatley – Warriors Wanted: It’s Time to Defend the Human Spirit

Internationally known author and expert on leadership, Meg Wheatley joins Terry to consider the global unraveling that’s occurring across cultures and societies. She shares her perspectives on hope and fear and how an unconditional and open-ended commitment to be of service might ultimately be more effective, sustainable and joyful than “hope.”  A few of the

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The Cataclysm Sentence

WNYC’s Radiolab recently released a podcast about what forms of knowledge are worth passing on to future generations. One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this question to a group of undergraduate students: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to

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Kim Stanley Robinson: “The Coronavirus is Rewriting Our Imaginations.”

Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson has written a powerful meditation on what the pandemic heralds for the future of civilization in The New Yorker. Possibly, in a few months, we’ll return to some version of the old normal. But this spring won’t be forgotten. When later shocks strike global civilization, we’ll remember how we

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027 Gail Hochachka – COVID Meets Climate: Salience and Luminosity

International development and climate change geographer Gail Hochachka examines similarities and differences between the COVID-19 pandemic and our more existential crisis of climate change. She and Terry discuss how the pandemic might be training institutions, leaders, scientists, and citizens to manage the climate crisis more effectively going forward. They also explore which new stories are

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More Evolutionary Philosophers to Contemplate

I’m adding to the philosophers I profiled in my last blog post titled: My “Armchair Philosopher” Series. These seven additional philosopher profiles were originally posted on my Facebook page. The posts garnered some interesting comments. Taylor Eminent philosopher Charles Taylor on the deep intuition of the reality of transcendence: “The individual pursuit of happiness as

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This Liminal Moment

    by Mark Allan Kaplan, Ph.D. We are in a profound moment for our species. The evolutionary challenge many of us have been talking about has now kicked into high gear and we are entering what anthropologists and systems theorists call the liminal phase. This moment is the chrysalis phase, the stage where the

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