Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Rásarupplýsingar
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Origins are conversations with thought-leaders across an eclectic mix of disciplines (science, engineering, art, and design), crafted specifically for the category-defying society that we live in. We explore the thoughts, passions, and stories that defined these pioneers’ fascinating trajectories, a...
Nýlegir þættir
81 þættir
Dan Jay - Doubt, collectivity, and transformative creativity
Dr. Dan Jay has a mission to inspire where art and science meet. His life has been spent in the liminal and generative space between and among these d...
Zachary Ugolnik - Science & spirituality, heightened states of community, and new conceptions of flourishing
Zachary Ugolnik has for years been charting a new path that refuses the tired and inanimate narrative about the separateness of science and spirituali...
Jennifer Wiseman - Ultra-deep fields, the numinous, and an omnipresent call to wonder and awe
Dr. Jennifer Wiseman gives expression to our cosmos, as a pioneering astrophysicist, an outspoken advocate for science within policy and the public, a...
Susan Magsamen - Neuroscience, NeuroArts, and the mystery that life really is
Susan Magsamen makes her life at the frontier: the frontier of neuroscience, of institutional change, of the intersection of art and science. Her's is...
Season Eight Trailer: A meditation on conversation and the collective narrative of our time
Origins Podcast Website
Hello friends, a new season of Origins arrives next week, on Tuesday, May 20.
This next chapter of Origins is abo...
David Woods - the science of resilience, graceful extensibility, and facilitating insight
Few concepts are more important to our society than resilience. Agnostic of domain, of nation, culture, and scale (as vital, indeed, to the individual...
Paul Smaldino - Social identities, collective intelligence, and an ambling open life
Paul Smaldino is an explorer. That might seem like an odd way to describe a professor of cognitive science, but anyone who has glanced at his biograph...
John Paul Lederach - Peacebuilding, critical yeast, and the language of imagination
I've been following John Paul Lederach's work for years, finding the words he uses inordinately relevant to all of the details and spaces of my life....
Creating encounters with flourishing: A 'salon' at the National Academy of Sciences
Flourishing is not a fixed state; it is an unfolding. In this time of rupture we need encounters with flourishing, to know it in our lived experiences...
Talia Stroud - Digital communities, civic signals, and connective democracy
Natalie (Talia, as she goes by) Stroud has for years been studying the ways that our lives online show up in and shape our lives together. Her scholar...
Simon DeDeo - Studying society, the science of science, and collisions with the strange
Simon DeDeo's inquiry takes on the most immense topics: astrophysics, history, epistemology, culture. He brings the precision of a physicist, the capa...
Lindy Elkins-Tanton - Recognizing flourishing, leading teams, and an education for living
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is one of the world's foremost scientists. Couple that with an unprecedented understanding of how teams work and a sense of care t...
Jane Hirshfield - Possibility, Poetry, and a Life of Attention
It would feel wrong to place labels on Jane Hirshfield. Language would fail to reach there, ironic for someone who has devoted their life to the pract...
Agustín Fuentes - A master class in anthropology and a life lived among complexity
Agustín Fuentes reads a multi-million year history of our world, a student of its myriad lessons that often subvert unquestioned modern narratives and...
Albert-László Barabási - Network science, breakthrough orientation, and a life made around discovery
Albert-László Barabási thinks in networks and his scholarship, as his life, is embodiment of the explorative, imaginative, and generative nature of ne...
Origins and Ongoingness: Thoughts on Season Seven
Hello friends, a new season of Origins is coming NEXT WEEK. Last season of this show was a season of flourishing. The episodes ahead we not be a seaso...
The Great Askers (episode 1): Sara Hendren and Krista Tippett
Origins Podcast Website
Flourishing Commons Newsletter and the post introducing Great Asking
Show Notes:
Logo artwork by Cristina Go...
James Evans - Cultural observatories, knowledge communities, and a life resplendent with ideas
James Evans' life is one resplendent with ideas. His trajectory into research and learning in areas as wide as network science, collective intelligenc...
Ingrid Daubechies - The "Godmother of digital image" on the beauty of the world
Ingrid Daubechies is endlessly, irrepressibly, beautifully curious. She is a Belgian physicist and mathematician whose scientific achievements have ri...
Mark Granovetter - Weak ties, living questions, and the history and future of social science
Mark Granovetter has made and remade our understanding of social networks, social theory, collective action, and economic sociology, making and remaki...
Tina Eliassi-Rad - A master class in network thinking and the kind of life it makes
Tina Eliassi-Rad is a network science pioneer, and an intrepid explorer of where network science shows up in our world and how we understand that. Her...
Judith Donath - Technology, trust, and what holds society together
Flourishing Commons Newsletter
Show Notes:
Artwork Cristina Gonzalez
C. Thi Nguyen - This conversation will change how you see the world
There is something irresistible about the way C. Thi Nguyen thinks about and structures the world. From the lenses of trust, art, games, and communiti...
Paul Wong - Reinventing cybernetics and composing a life
We find ourselves living in a time of great complexity and flux, where the very fabric of our societies is being rewoven by the rise of artificial int...
Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn - Understanding curiosity, nourishing a life, and how thoughts move
Twins Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn are curious. Their work, individually and together, gives new conception and language to what curiosity is, the work...
Julio Ottino - chaos, the capacity for emergence, and timeless ideas
Every so often someone comes along whose thinking and work inspire you with the kind of awe that always feels new and fills you with an energy that br...
Season Six Trailer: A season of flourishing
After a generative break from new episodes, Origins Podcast is back with Season Six!
2023 has been a year of rapid change even as we carry the r...
Frank White - The Overview Effect and a planetary civilization
Frank White is a philosopher of space. In 1987 he coined the term "the overview effect," referring to the life-altering experience astronauts received...
Nicole Stott - Ambassador to the cosmos and to our humanity
Nicole Stott has a towering range of knowledge and experience, from the heights of outer space as a NASA astronaut to the depths of the ocean as an aq...
David Sloan Wilson - Archipelagos of knowledge, commons, and the science of cooperation
David Sloan Wilson is one of biology’s most prolific and impactful scientists. He is author of paradigmatic contributions to evolutionary theory and h...
Ed Finn - Thoughtful optimism, intellectual voyaging, and a Center for Science and the Imagination
Ed Finn might be best described as an imaginer. The rest of the many things that he is and does kind of fall into place with that foundation. He start...
Alex McDowell - A master class in worldbuilding and designing holistic spaces
Alex McDowell is a worldbuilder. He builds future realities to envision worlds that don't yet exist. By working across disciplines to imagine the futu...
David Hassler - Leaping thought, authoring a life, and a spirit of passionate inquiry
Poetry comes up so often in my conversations these days. Our society in crisis seems to be desperate for it, without being able to name that desperati...
Alicia Juarrero - the philosopher who will change how you think about complexity
Alicia Juarrero is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College and the author of Dynamics in Action, a text that many conside...
Brandon Ballengée - Biodiversity, muscular hope, and the persistence of life
Brandon Ballengée has a unique quality of attention, one that is not constrained by traditional distinctions between art & science and working & livin...
Origins Season Five Trailer
Welcome back to Origins, listeners. After a few month hiatus, we're back with an exhilarating, generative, spacious season of the show--the hiatus was...
Sara Hendren - Healthy relationality, how we meet the built world, and the curriculum of the future
Subscribe to The Flourishing Commons - a newsletter to accompany Origins episodes and to build a community around a rich forum for exchange.
Michael Hochberg - mystery and our pivotal moments, innovation, and science from cells to societies
Michael Hochberg is Distinguished Research Director with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (the French National Centre for Scientific R...
Dave Snowden - Sensemaking, complexity, and frameworks for living
For years Dave Snowden has helped me understand how to navigate a complex world better than perhaps any other thinker. He draws so widely from all sch...
Katy Börner - Networks, noticing what we don't expect, and an atlas for navigating our world
Katy Börner is one of the great mappers of our age. Her maps tell the history of science, trace how communication has evolved from the stone age to mo...