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Readings, debates, lectures and so much more. Hear fascinating talks by authors, intellectuals, officials and regular folks with important stories recorded live all around Seattle.
Episodes
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How a UW course captured the impact of an unprecedented year
Reflections on 2020 help point to bridges forward
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2020 Hugo House Fellows share works of ‘Luminosity’ for the new year
Poets and essayists conjure post-holiday light
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Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett discusses ‘that big grey blob’ between your ears
If you’ve ever found yourself wishing you could better understand how the human brain works, then this talk is just for you.
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Jill Lepore on the ethically challenged birth of the computer age
'These men are going out to build a machine to understand how humans think and feel and would behave, and they don’t understand their wives and they don’t understand their children.'
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Where a booming oil market meets wind and solar alternatives, geopolitics happens
‘Peak oil, at this point, it looks like it’s around 2030, which used to sound far away, but it isn’t anymore.’
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The 'Seattle Process' in 2020. Are we becoming ungovernable?
‘Seattle is not silent. Seattle is not submissive. Seattle is not unthinking. Seattle will not be exploited, and Seattle is not obedient.’
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Dare to Speak. Discourse amid difference
‘We’re in an extremely polarized moment as a country, and we have to find ways to talk about these things.’
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'Seismic' literature inspires and changes Seattle through story
“Literature is an unopened umbrella in the rain ... literature is a cathedral.”
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Pandemic parenting. It gets better? A tool kit
‘Kids need to feel safe, they need to feel secure, they need to be seen, and they need to be soothed. Talk to them about what make them feel safer, or what makes them feel soothed.’
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Best-selling author discusses the fact and fiction in her sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s tale’.
As we approach a spooky time of the year (No, I’m not referring to the US election season) we may be finding ourselves slowly drawn towards unnerving but entertaining cautionary tales. One of those stories just may be the award-winning TV show The Handmaid’s tale based on the best-selling novel by author Margaret Atwood.
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It was an economic theory with little traction, then the pandemic hit
Modern Monetary Theory and you, with Stephanie Kelton
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Erica Barnett shakes-up and stirs the conversation around alcoholism and addiction
When Seattle based reporter Erica Barnett took her first sip of alcohol as a young teen, she had no idea just how impactful that moment would later become. Nor did she realize how inadequate rehabilitation centers, inspirational self-help mottos, and truisms about a “rock bottom” (something Barnett never truly felt) would be for her.