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🎤 Podcasts
Tackling climate change with carbon capture: What exactly is carbon capture and how does it work? Two climate entrepreneurs from Helsinki and Oman discuss their different approaches to carbon capture. →Podcast 100 hours of audio memos later: A genre-bending podcast about this real life experiment that took place in 2020. Can the power of voice lead to a deeper connection? Hear what happens in this audio only matchmaking experiment based on the exchange of voice memos. No names, no direct contact, no pictures. → Podcast The happiness lab: A podcast on the psychology of happiness that takes you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness. → Podcast Why design matters – conversations with the most creative people in the world: Debbie Millman is the host of the long-running, multi-award-winning podcast Design Matters. She's distilled 17 years of interviews about creativity and design into one book, and in an incredible interview she answers questions like, What is good design? What are the politics of curation and how is it different from discernment? What gets in the way of a creative life? → Podcast Closing the gender data gap: Caroline Criado Perez has spent years investigating the gender data gap. In her new podcast, she investigates what happens next: how can we close the gender data gap and design a world that works for everyone? → Podcast Feminist finance literacy podcast for women: "What is financial feminism?","Overcome your psychological bullshit around money", "Beginner's guide to investing", "Practicing financial self-care" – these are just a few of the phenomenal beginner-friendly finance lessons. → Podcast Why self-compassion works better than self-esteem: Psychologists are turning away from an emphasis on self-esteem and moving toward self-compassion in the treatment of their patients. Dr. Kristin Neff, who has researched the subject for years, explains what self-compassion is, including what it isn’t, and why self-compassion works better than the high self-esteem we seem to always be chasing. → Podcast Building a career in the creative industry: A new podcast featuresthe world’s leading designers, artists, photographers and creative directors to hear how they built their careers. The hosts scrub away the Instagram gloss to understand the honest truths from people who make a living from their creativity. → Podcast A comedyish science show: Volcanoes. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Bee drama. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -ologists' obsessions. Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life.→ Podcast Innovations from the humanitarian world: A new 6-episode podcast series exploring innovations across the emergency aid sector. Each episode will focus on people, projects, or start-ups working in creative ways to improve the lives of those affected by conflict and disaster. → Podcast
The history of spiritual activism. Investing in crypto for beginners and... WTF is an NFT? Hundreds of free online courses to power job search. Online climate learning academy. 40 minute creative writing course by Internationally acclaimed British author Bernardine Evaristo (2019 winner of the Booker Prize), where you'll learn brilliant practical tips, and areas that will help any aspiring novelist.
What you could negotiate before accepting job offers. Instead of "following your passion", try this. Career advice from CEO of the Global Fund For Women. Social entrepreneurship is a buzz word: how can we reclaim it? A central place to manage your privacy settings. Secrets of brilliant speaking, and how to own the room. Build your creative confidence with a 30 circles game. Arab world's first sex education startup.
🧠interviews
Intro to mind gardening: The concept takes the idea of gardening, and applies it to the web of thoughts that cloud your brain "rent free." Instead of passively absorbing random pieces of information while scrolling online, learn how to make your mind a place that you've cultivated based on what you're actually interested in.→ Interview How to decolonize your sense of time: "I use my calendar, a tool of capitalist and industrial relationships to time, to schedule out my workouts, and schedule out time to go on the land. This is where decolonization of time becomes an act of resistance. All of these things bring me joy, and inform my ability to come to work but also to center my need for rest, and my need for joy. → Interview Intro to indigenous science: Indigenous peoples represent about 5% of the world’s population—and sustain nearly 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Dr. Jessica Hernandez (Maya Ch’orti’ & Binnizá) is a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest. She breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and offers Indigenous models that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. → Interview
🎥 videos
Global in depth investigation on climate crisis solutions: The coverage takes you from NASA's jet propulsion laboratory to the Arctic Ice project in Utqiagvik, Alaska.→ Film The link between imagination and sex: Sex is as much mental as it is physical – and imagination is the most powerful tool we have to expand our personal agency and capacity for pleasure. → Film Intersectional history of cannabis: The film offers a holistic approach to the narrative around marijuana and hemp, such as language, laws, uses, and cultural practices. By diving into the history of the plant, the film highlights the reasons for the cannabis industry's systemic racism. → Film
Life wisdom across 195 countries. Interactive maps and tools to visualize climate science – the website is divided like a book, with the first two chapters dedicated to Heat and Water.
Pleasure and protection – why sex ed programs should teach both. LinkedIn guide for nonprofits to connect with major donors and supporters. Ongoing collaborative multilingual document is a guide for gender inclusive language and nonbinary pronouns around the world.
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