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The Babblery

The Babblery features conversations about who we are and how we got this way. Modern humans can seem like the ancients building the Biblical Tower of Babel, cursed by God/nature never to understand each other. As Visiting Translators at the Tower of Babel, our guests delve into their work, their research, and their own experiences to try to explain the bits they"ve learned about Earth"s most perplexing species. Though we all speak different languages, here at The Babblery we aim to promote

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6:54

Minibabble: Woman holds the knife on the sharp side

The Babblery ·

2025/03/09

Some thoughts on the proverb, "Woman holds the knife on the sharp side." Why would she do such a thing? Is it because she was given a knife without a sturdy handle?

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27:46

Minibabble: Getting to Know Us – Liberal women in...

The Babblery ·

2025/02/25

This is your host, Suki Wessling. Since 1996, I have been living, working, raising children, and making music on the central coast of California. When the Women’s International Newsgathering Service....

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9:11

Minibabble: Don’t look at the tree!

The Babblery ·

2025/02/22

When I learned to ride a motorcycle, the instructor gave one of those specific pieces of advice that end up being applicable to life in general: “Your bike will go....

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12:56

Minibabble: Listening with our bodies

The Babblery ·

2025/02/09

Last month, I interviewed avant garde composer Anne Hege about her work as a musician, composer, and conductor. Find the full episode here. In this short piece, we focus on....

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6:04

Minibabble: Making music together = moving toward the...

The Babblery ·

2025/02/05

Making music together = keeping time togetherWe often talk about “spending” time with friends, but how about keeping time? When we make music together, we literally interact with the time that we’re “spending,” keeping it, beat by beat, as a shared resource. There’s really no other [public] activity that we can do with other humans that allows us to interact in this way: when we play music, our bodies move in sync, our mouths say words together or in response, we are literally joined together in

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55:44

A Walk Through Santa Cruz, or In Defense of Liberals

The Babblery ·

2025/02/01

I was ambivalent about going anywhere on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, this year otherwise known as Inauguration Day. It seemed like the two events were canceling each other out....

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7:08

Minibabble: Singing as…

The Babblery ·

2025/01/24

An ode to humanity’s first instrument In which host Suki Wessling reflects on a life of singing. Singing as therapy, singing as memory, singing as body, singing as meditation, singing....

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58:20

Bodies making music: composer Anne Hege

The Babblery ·

2025/01/21

“It’s really kind of transcendental, this way that a group can come together to bring meaning to sound through our bodies.” Composer Anne Hege practices a rarefied profession. Not only....

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26:14

Minibabble: Thinking about greed in the redwoods

The Babblery ·

2025/01/14

This is an unusual version of “Just me, talking to you.” In this case, I recorded my thoughts while walking in the redwoods. It’s largely unedited (I took out a....

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20:04

Minibabble: “The California girl I needed to be”

The Babblery ·

2024/12/28

A transgender elder reflects on the election I spoke to Stephanie Jacobs for the first time on the phone. It wasn’t until we’d spoken for a while about politics and....

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1:05:48

“This dysfunctional town square” with TV producer...

The Babblery ·

2024/12/17

Stephanie Jacobs has had a long career covering elections for CBS News. But it wasn't until she moved to California and became a California girl that politics became personal.

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17:08

Minibabble: Brenda Laurel on Girls and Games

The Babblery ·

2024/12/09

Writer, researcher, designer and entrepreneur Brenda Laurel started in theater, moved to videogames and then virtual reality, and ended up as an academic. This mini-episode, based on the full-length interview....

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11:19

Minibabble: I can’t say I failed

The Babblery ·

2024/11/30

A couple of months ago, my fellow K-Squid programmer, Debra Sloss, asked me to help with an episode of her show, State of Mind. She’d received some beautiful, thoughtful pieces....

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9:02

On being a storyteller in an infinite village

The Babblery ·

2024/11/25

Near the end of my recent interview with Brenda Laurel, she talks about the responsibility of content creators in our current world. “What we can do, what I hope we....

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57:41

Play Like a Girl (or not) with Brenda Laurel

The Babblery ·

2024/11/19

In this conversation with Brenda Laurel, we explore how girls play and what that means for women and game designers. We talk about the relationship between theater and gaming, and how the gaming world grew to change the way children live and develop. We talk about the importance of teaching. But most of all, we talk about what it means to be a creator in this world, someone who asks others to entrust their minds to our work.

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11:07

Minibabble: In which I say things that are true and...

The Babblery ·

2024/11/08

This is a Minibabble, just me talking to you. I’m struggling this week. As a woman. As a person who values decency. As a mother. As an educated person. As....

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5:54

Minibabble: Vote for women’s health

The Babblery ·

2024/10/28

I was driving in my car to a rehearsal. Michelle Obama’s speech had been playing on the radio when I started the car and so I kept listening. It was....

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57:00

Wiring the Mind for Love: Melding science and faith...

The Babblery ·

2024/10/22

“Every time I danced, I thought about the gratitude I had to move my body when simultaneously my mother was bound to a wheelchair. It shifted my perspective on the gift of life.”....

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18:04

Minibabble: Tapping that Well of Goodwill with Karin...

The Babblery ·

2024/09/30

How do we talk to people on the other side of the political divide? It used to be commonplace—Americans lived, worked, and went to school with people from a mixture....

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59:11

A Deep Well of Goodwill: Political Conversation with...

The Babblery ·

2024/09/17

How do you talk to people you don’t agree with so that you can continue the conversation? Karin Tamerius was passionate about politics as a young person, but she also....

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