最佳Ideas Matter播客 (2024)

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Living Freedom: ’Online harms to trigger warnings: safetyism versus freedom.’ 19:32

1y ago19:32

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Trigger warnings and microaggression policies have become increasingly familiar on campus. But while we can snigger at ‘de-stressing parties’ with colouring books, are students any different from the rest of society? After all, many people believe we face an unprecedented range of threats. Anxiety allied to yearning for safety is evident in warning…

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Living Freedom: ’The ’stolen years’: understanding the lockdowns’ 18:05

1y ago18:05

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Features the discussion ‘The ‘stolen years’: understanding the lockdowns’ recorded at Living Freedom Summer School 2023. It’s not surprising lockdown was experienced as an era of loneliness, anxiety and fear. In every arena, freedom, autonomy and social life were restricted in favour of Zoom calls, family bubbles, and vaccine passports. Some say we…

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Living Freedom: ’What does it mean to be human in a world of generative AI?’ 23:11

1y ago23:11

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Features the discussion ‘What does it mean to be human in a world of generative AI?’ recorded at Living Freedom Summer School 2023. People are fascinated, amused and alarmed – often all three at once, at the generative AI tools that have taken the internet by storm over the last year. Some people welcome the new possibilities that these tools seem …

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Living Freedom: ‘The dangers of progress?’ 29:37

1+ y ago29:37

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Features the discussion ‘The dangers of progress?’ recorded at Living Freedom Summer School 2023. Historically, the quest for freedom was often understood to be bound up with the ideal of progress, but today, society seems less certain of the benefits of progress. Key features of modernity such as urbanisation, mobility, secularism and affluence ar…

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What feeds Chef Akshay Bhardwaj's passion? 39:53

1+ y ago39:53

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For Executive Chef Akshay Bhardwaj, becoming a chef was not always the plan. It took perseverance and a little bit of defiance for him to rise in the ranks and become the Executive Chef of Junoon, which at one time was the only Michelin Star restaurant in New York City serving Indian food. In this episode, you will hear about Akshay’s path to cooki…

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Living Freedom: ‘Dystopian or dysfunctional? The 21st-century state’ 12:59

1+ y ago12:59

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Features the lecture ‘‘Dystopian or dysfunctional? The 21st-century state’ recorded at Living Freedom Summer School 2023. In recent years, governments have appeared directionless and often incompetent. Institutions riven with disputes over cultural values seem unsure of what they stand for. Crisis seems to be the word of the year - energy crisis, c…

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Living Freedom: ‘Freedom in the age of identity politics’ 25:43

1+ y ago25:43

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Features the lecture ‘Freedom in the age of identity politics’ recorded at Living Freedom Summer School 2023. Loved or loathed, identity politics is inescapable in contemporary battles over freedom. To some, the political embrace of the personal is a vital tool in the struggle against oppressive institutions and practices. To others, identitarian p…

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Where does Cyndie Spiegel find Microjoys? 40:33

1+ y ago40:33

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For A Year of Positive Thinking author Cyndie Spiegel, writing her second book came after a year of personal struggle and loss in 2020. Yet, she still found moments of joy and documented them in her second book, Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay, a collection of personal essays designed to help us find joy wherever we can. …

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Living Freedom: ‘Freedom of conscience - 21st-century challenges’ 48:57

1+ y ago48:57

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Features the lecture ‘Freedom of conscience: 21st century challenges’ recorded at Living Freedom Summer School 2023. For many centuries, in religious and secular times alike, societies have wrestled with dilemmas as to how we should live in accordance with our inner-most thoughts and beliefs. What should we understand by the term freedom of conscie…

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What led Arielle Assouline-Lichten to build Slash Objects? 39:35

1+ y ago39:35

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Arielle Assouline-Lichten’s dream was to create a furniture design studio that creates social change - that’s what led her to start Slash Objects, an award-winning, sustainable design studio. Arielle is a Best of NYC x Design winner, and she was a finalist contestant on the HBO Max show Ellen’s Next Great Designer. In this episode, you will hear Ar…

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Why did Rob Herting press play on QCODE? 40:07

1+ y ago40:07

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Rob Herting saw a void within the podcast space where nobody else did – cinematic quality audio fiction. After leaving his job at a talent agency, he became the CEO and founder of QCODE, an audio-based production studio, creating a new outlet for creatives to tell their stories. QCODE is behind multiple critically acclaimed fiction podcasts like Bl…

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How did Dr. Zach Thomas grow his channel on YouTube? 48:41

1+ y ago48:41

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For Zach Thomas, the idea of doing anything other than teaching tennis seemed out of reach while studying at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. Now Zach is a podiatrist who runs the YouTube channel Foot Doctor Zach, where he reviews the latest performance shoe tech and breaks down the most advanced shoes for athletes. In this episode, you wi…

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What did Nathalie Walton expect with Expectful? 42:39

1+ y ago42:39

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Nathalie Walton found that there were not enough resources devoted to the mental health of expecting mothers. After a serious health scare during her pregnancy, Nathalie turned to the Expecftul app to find peace of mind. The app moved her so much that she became an advisor and eventually a late-stage co-founder and CEO. She helped transform Expectf…

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How did Neil Tanna find time for Howbout? 42:59

1+ y ago42:59

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For law school graduate Neil Tanna, the idea of losing touch with his university friends was heartbreaking. Motivated by the excitement of creating and keeping connections, Neil and his team made a UK-based social platform called Howbout. Howbout raises the question, “Why is it easier to schedule a meeting with your boss than it is to schedule a dr…

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Living Freedom: Artificial Intelligence and implications for freedom 14:34

1+ y ago14:34

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Living Freedom Forum in London in April explored Artificial Intelligence and the implications for freedom. Generative AI like ChatGPT and Midjourney have captured the public imagination and barely a day now passes without claim and counter-claim as to benefits or threats posed by artificial intelligence. But what actually is generative technology? …

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How did Gavin McIntyre grow Ecovative from the ground up? 37:35

1+ y ago37:35

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For Gavin McIntyre, what started as a classroom project and a passion for helping the planet, is now an audacious goal of ending the world's dependency on plastics through the mycelium materials company, Ecovative. Gavin and his partner Eben Bayer have used mycelium — aka fungi — to create leather alternatives, a meat substitute product, and a full…

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What made The Sloomoo Institute stick? 41:15

1+ y ago41:15

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For co-founders and longtime friends, Karen Rabinovitz and Sara Schiller, the idea of creating a place for play was always at the tip of their fingers. Together, they found joy and healing during difficult times in an unexpected way – by playing with SLIME. They partnered with artists, architects, and advocates to bring the concept of a sensory pla…

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What set the stage for Jessie Mueller? 40:00

1+ y ago40:00

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Jessie Mueller’s Broadway career started in 2011 with the revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, where she starred alongside Harry Connick Jr. She then went on to star in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical as Carole King and in Waitress as the lead Jenna. But before that, she was a theatre kid growing up outside Chicago and a student at Syr…

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Season 4 Trailer 2:45

1+ y ago2:45

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New episodes of Grey Matter: A Podcast About Ideas are launching soon and will release every other Tuesday. The Webby Award winning podcast is back with new guests, a new logo, and a new host! Follow to hear firsthand, how the best ideas were thought up from some of the most innovative creators, founder, and inventors.…

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Debating Matters Beyond Bars: Jon Floyd and Heather Phillips 25:18

2y ago25:18

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Initiated in 2015, Debating Matters Beyond Bars is a project which takes DM's schools-debating format inside prisons. Using our acclaimed substance-over-style format, teams of prisoners engage in debate with one another on a whole range of contemporary social, political and cultural topics. The programme aims to inspire them to think about issues b…

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Ideas Matter: Old Roots of the New Disorder – Academy 2022 teaser 18:43

2+ y ago18:43

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The theme of this year's The Academy, the weekend residential summer school, is ‘Old Roots of the New Disorder’. The event takes place on 16/17 July. In this special podcast, The Academy convenor Jacob Reynolds talks to Professor Frank Furedi, keynote lecturer, about why at a time when the global geo-political and economic crisis afflicts all dimen…

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Ideas Matter: ‘What’s wrong with the Professional Managerial Class?’ 34:46

3y ago34:46

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From the series ‘The elite: old and new’, theme of the boi charity’s event The Academy, held online in November 2021. The term ‘professional managerial class’ was coined in 1977. Thinkers on both left and right have drawn attention to the rise (and rise) of a seemingly new group in society who neither labour in traditional occupations nor own signi…

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Ideas Matter: ‘Brideshead Revisited: World wars and the end of the old elite’ 25:36

3y ago25:36

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From the series ‘The elite: old and new’, theme of the boi charity’s event The Academy, held online in November 2021. Published in the weeks after VE day in 1945, just as British voters swept a Labour Government into power, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited was a surprise bestseller in both the UK and America, and captured the imagination of gene…

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Six Feet Over: Shared Perspectives From The Time We Went Away 29:41

3y ago29:41

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This week, we're sharing a special episode of Grey Matter, featuring an idea from within the walls of Grey, a project called Six Feet Over. Six Feet Over is a collection of almost 400 artifacts, images, objects and stories submitted by the folks of Grey NY. It was designed to introduce and reintroduce us to each other by spotlighting our individual…

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Ideas Matter: ‘Globalism and the challenge to the international elite’ 34:11

3y ago34:11

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From the series ‘The elite: old and new’, theme of the boi charity’s event The Academy, held online in November 2021. In recent years, populist movements have thrived on a sense of anger at global elites who have distanced themselves from political control by their own national populations. The coronavirus pandemic has further served to suggest tha…

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Ideas Matter: ‘The Stonewall Phenomenon: takeover of the institutions?’ 46:55

3y ago46:55

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From the series ‘The elite: old and new’, theme of the boi charity’s event The Academy, held online in November 2021. From arguments in museums about the status of colonial-era collections to the proliferation of ever more expansive diversity policies in public service organisations, major institutions are at the forefront of the culture wars. What…

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Ideas Matter: ‘The insecurity of the ruling class and the rise of the cultural elite’ 36:19

3y ago36:19

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From the series ‘The elite: old and new’, theme of the boi charity’s event The Academy, held online in November 2021. Political discourse revolves around questions of power relations. Yet defining who really has power over society seems harder than ever. How do we understand the ‘elite’ and what gives them power? Has the elite changed its character…

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Ideas Matter: ‘The elite: old and new - introduction’ 11:32

3y ago11:32

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Introduction to the series ‘The elite: old and new’, theme of the boi charity’s event The Academy, held online in November 2021. Politics has always been inseparable from the question: who has power? In previous eras, the answer to that question was to examine the issue of social class. Today, it is harder to offer such easy answers. Many speak of …

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How did Christie Horvath unleash Wagmo? 32:20

3y ago32:20

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Wagmo is a pet insurance brand founded by serious dog-lover Christie Horvath. She learned just how important pet insurance could be after her dog was sadly diagnosed with a brain tumor. On this episode, we will discover how Christie went from business student to business owner with the support of her friends, family, and of course, her dogs! Grey I…

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Who inspires Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices? 45:28

3y ago45:28

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Alyse Nelson has spent her entire career empowering women worldwide. Her non-profit, The Vital Voices Global Partnership, has served more than 18,000 women leaders across 182 countries. On this episode, Alyse speaks with Grey New York Chief Creative Officer Justine Armour about how women lead and what they've learned from women leaders around the w…

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Where did Dennis Crowley pioneer FourSquare? 42:39

3y ago42:39

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Dennis Crowley created the first community that integrated social media with the real world when he invented Foursquare, the location-based technology company. On this episode of Grey Matter, we will pinpoint how this idea was crafted, track down its origins, and hear exactly where the mayor-badge was cooked up. Interviewer: Kenny Gold…

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Why is connection key for Susan McPherson? 32:42

3y ago32:42

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Susan McPherson was not expecting to spend a year in isolation when she sat down to write the book, The Lost Art of Connecting. Susan leads McPherson Strategies, is an angel investor and corporate responsibility expert, but is truly a connector at her core. On this episode, you'll hear about the foundations of Susan's book, how she learned to deepe…

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How did Jim McKelvey capitalize with Square? 32:36

3+ y ago32:36

32:36

When Jim McKelvey invented the Square card reader with Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey, he had no idea he was headed into a David vs. Goliath battle with Amazon that he would ultimately win! On this episode, you will hear what drove Jim to make payment simpler, how he and the team conquered competition, and what he's up to next. After listening to the …

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