Listening to the Living World: Biologist DAVID GEORGE HASKELL on Flowers, Forests & Songs of Nature

Apr 18

Why Do We Listen to the Talkers More Than the Builders Saving the Planet? - TOM CHI - Highlights

Why does our economy treat environmental destruction as an inevitable side effect rather than a massive design flaw? How can shifting our focus from polarizing "talkers" to practical "builders" literally save the planet? We are repeatedly told that the climate crisis is too vast ... Show More

22m 25s

Apr 17

Climate Capital with TOM CHI - Google X Co-founder, Founding Partner At One Ventures

“In the book I spend a bunch of time basically teaching skills and teaching frameworks of thinking. Not to indoctrinate, it's not a framework like an ideology where you need to believe exactly these things. This is a lot more about how does one use their minds effectively to solv ... Show More

1h 27m

Apr 1

How Flowers Made Our World: DAVID GEORGE HASKELL on Deep Time, Plant Intelligence & Listening to the Living World

What if the defining revolution of Earth's history wasn't led by animals or humans, but by flowers? Are we truly individuals, or are our bodies and minds just walking ecosystems?Our guest today is David George Haskell, a biologist who has spent much of his life training himself t ... Show More

1h 26m

Nov 2025

LEMON DROP | Zohran Mamdani’s Historic Win in New York City

This morning, New York woke up changed. In a city that rarely rewards idealists, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the 34-year-old son of Uganda and India, a proud democratic socialist, just made history as the new Mayor of New York City. His victory wasn’t bought by billionaires or party bo ... Show More

7m 32s

Oct 2024

104: Donna Tartt - The Secret History

<p>Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History is a loveletter to Greek tragedy, that begins with a dedication from Nietzsche and Plato. Central to the story is the concept of the Dionysian, and the attempt of the main characters to experience the Dionysian. Richard Papen's fatal flaw ... Show More

2h 5m

Sep 2025

Elizabeth Gilbert on Losing the Love of Her Life

442. Elizabeth Gilbert on Losing the Love of Her Life Elizabeth Gilbert comes to Glennon’s home to talk about her love with Rayya Elias—the joy, the devastation, and the truth-telling that came after. Liz opens up about the brutal reality of addiction—Rayya’s drug addiction and h ... Show More

46m 56s

May 2014

David Simon - Some People Are More Equal Than Others (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)

There are two Americas. In one, bankers get golden parachutes, insider traders return to society as well-paid consultants, and influence is for sale. In the other, opportunity is scarce and forgiveness scarcer, jail awaits those caught possessing recreational drugs, and cries for ... Show More

1h 19m

May 2024

The Myth of Resilience (Soraya Chemaly)

“This is the richness of the traditional wife explosion, right? There's this simple idea that you get to choose. Now you're choosing to emulate a situation that's a fiction in that those women didn't choose anything. They had to dress like that. They had to live like that. They h ... Show More

58m 1s

May 2024

Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)

Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It (Melville House, 2023) makes an attempt to rescue philanthropy from its progressive decline into vanity projects that drive wealth inequality, so that it may support human flourishing as originall ... Show More

38m 36s

Sep 2024

Ep481 - Mary Pilon | Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game

Author Mary Pilon visits Google to discuss her book, "The Monopolists". The book reveals the unknown story of how the classic board game Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the g ... Show More

44m 27s

Jun 2025

28. for those who need a gateway to radical imagination

Reading is the powerful tool we have to unlock our imaginations. And right now, I believe it's time to use our imaginations to see a new world. Maybe one that's not dominated by "obsessive technologies," as Ursula K Le Guin so aptly put. Resources Mentioned: - American Library As ... Show More

23m 36s

Dec 2018

173. Wesley Yang (writer) - The Souls of Yellow Folk

Such and such “doesn’t suffer fools gladly”. That phrase has always bugged me a bit. It’s like someone has just squeezed a pillow infused with an admiration-scented vapor that then hangs in the air for just a second, leaving you to wonder: Who is this remarkable personage? And wh ... Show More

56m 2s

Listening to the Living World: Biologist...