About this podcast
Medicine for intellectual boredom. Host Dr Mark Fabian of Cambridge University brings together an eclectic mix of creative young folk to discuss the most stimulating ideas at the knowledge frontier, from data governance to the metamodern cultural mode, and everything in between. The world's most thoughtful people, having a chat - and you're invited! So turn off your socials, throw away your popular science books, and get ready for some legit galaxy brain takes. Thanks to Keith Spangle for the spaceship cat avatar https://www.deviantart.com/keithspangle
Episodes
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- AI in government · 46 min · Season 7 Episode 5Dr Aleksei Turobov is an Assistant Professor at the Bennett School of Public Policy. His research examines the critical gap between the global ambitions of AI policy and the…
- Eat your way to a better world · 1 h 4 min · Season 7 Episode 4Paul Behrens is British Academy Global Professor at the University of Oxford and Reapra Senior Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre there. He is an industrial…
- Video games and the zeitgeist · 1 h 7 min · Season 7 Episode 6Dr Stephen Mallory is assistant professor of game design at Lawrence Technical University in Southfield, Michigan. After a career in the video game industry, Stephen turned his…
- Metamodernism - culture after the end of history · 1 h 5 min · Season 7 Episode 4Timotheus Vermeulen is a full professor of media, culture and society at the University of Oslo in Norway. Together with Robin Van Den Akker, he coined the term metamodernism and…
- An insider's guide to the innovation ecosystem · 1 h 2 min · Season 7 Episode 3Innovation is crucial for improving quality of life and clearing away ossified and unhelpful ways of doing and being, like fossil fuel capitalism. So how do we get it moving? The…
- Data data everywhere yet no meaning to be found · 58 min · Season 7 Episode 2It seems these days that we are awash in data. Indeed, in their recent book The Ordinal Society, Marion Foucard and Kieran Healy argue persuasively that the passive data…
- Welcome to metamodernity - complexity science, meaning making, and the return of spirituality · 1 h 4 min · Season 7 Episode 1Metamodernism is the cultural mode that is emerging after postmodernism, and boy do we need it. Postmodernism was a period of deconstruction. A necessary deconstruction, I hasten…
- TL;DR Truth Bombs - The Essence of Aphorisms with James Geary · 1 h 1 min · Season 6 Episode 9In one of his Letters Provinciales, the French philosopher and Theologian Blaise Pascal apologises that “I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had the time…
- Replication, preregistration, and open science – what’s all the fuss about? · 51 min · Season 6 Episode 8The so-called “replication crisis” engulfed psychology over the last 10 years, with numerous failures to reproduce canonical studies from the biggest names in the discipline like…
- Will EdTech change the university? · 60 min · Season 6 Episode 7Dr Shreeharsh Kelkar from UC Berkeley on to discuss massive online open courses or “MOOCs” and other varieties of education technology. Are they destined to displace the…
- Intimate stories of infidelity · 1 h 1 min · Season 6 Episode 6Simone Schneider is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation explores the meanings and experience of infidelity in intimate relationships…
- Decolonising development economics: learning from India · 59 min · Season 6 Episode 5This episode’s guest is Dr Maria Bach, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and host of Ceteris Never Paribus: the History of Economic Thought…
- Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment · 1 h 30 min · Season 6 Episode 4A special issue episode where regular host Dr Mark Fabian is on the other side of the microphone being interviewed by @economeager about his new book - Beyond Happy: How to…
- Would you ever trust a bot? · 54 min · Season 6 Episode 3Anyone on social media these days has encountered a bot. An algorithm-driven fake account that engages in some nefarious activity, whether it’s turning uncontroversial points…
- How will Trump impact global development philanthropy? · 59 min · Season 6 Episode 2Trump is back in the White House and as anticipated, his administration is moving fast and breaking things. One of the first aspects of government to get stepped on was USAID…
- How to get more climate policy legislated · 57 min · Season 6 Episode 1Climate change is the single biggest policy challenge facing the world today. A global political coordination problem of epic proportions, with baggage from colonialism, short…
- Regenerating democracy with less polling and more deliberation · 1 h 14 min · Season 5 Episode 10Democracy is unwell. Trust in politicians, institutions, experts, and other people is steadily falling across the OECD, and even young people seem to be losing faith in the…
- Empowering mission driven bureaucrats to provide better public services · 1 h 1 min · Season 5 Episode 9In the UK, up to 80% of a social worker’s time can be spent filling out forms rather than helping the desperate people in their care. This is an example of what Dan Honig calls…
- Realising the potential of digital governance with Aaron Maniam · 58 min · Season 5 Episode 8“Digital governance” is a term commonly used to refer to the transformative potential of integrating contemporary technological advances into the day-to-day activities of…
- Evidence based ways to help your loved ones with eating disorders · 57 min · Season 5 Episode 7Dr Jaclyn Siegel from NORC at the University of Chicago joins regular ePODstemology host Dr Mark Fabian to discuss the psychological science of eating disorders and body image…
