For thousands of years, merchants, travelers, diplomats, soldiers, and pilgrims crossed the vast network of routes we now call the Silk Road. Stretching across deserts, mountains, cities, and empires, these paths connected distant parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.This extra-long documentary explores how the Silk Road developed, who traveled along it, and what moved across its enormous network. Silk was only one part of the story. Alongside precious goods came religions, languages,

Send us Fan Mail We’re back for Series 7! This episode was recorded at Coventry’s Children’s and Education Services Conference, where Matt, Hannah and Arin were joined by some of the speakers from the day. Our first guest is Dez Holmes, Director of Research in Practice and Deputy Chief Executive at the National Children’s Bureau, who chats to Hannah and Matt about the importance of relational systems and leadership to enable relational practice. We are then joined by Roselyn and Bayley, two c...

Next door to the Valley of the Kings, lies an even more enigmatic necropolis - the Valley of the Queens. Investigators have unearthed 90 tombs here and are piecing together the truth of these forgotten rulers. Do these royal women hold more power than previously believed? How does one Queen manage to become a Pharaoh? And why are so many tombs catastrophically damaged? Now, investigators venture deep into the tunnels to hunt for clues to discover the golden age of Egypt’s queens. Learn

On this academic application edition of the Cultures of Energy podcast we are thrilled (16:57) to welcome old friend Leah Stokes back to the program to talk about her new book, The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet (MIT Press, 2026). We start with the problematic paradigm of the carbon footprint and why it doesn't model carbon responsibility either accurately or effectively. Then Leah tells us about how she came to the decision to tell intimate

Geoffrey West on urban populations growing faster than exponential, and the strange present in which some cities cannot build housing fast enough while others are already contracting.  He calls the far side of that growth a singularity: depopulation, contraction, and possibly collapse. The short-term future of cities is both problems at once.Find out more in the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠episode⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.If you would

In this special 100th episode of The Messy Social Work Podcast, Rich Devine and Tim Fisher hit pause to reflect on the journey so far. Armed with a list of 100 AI-generated questions inspired by their previous episodes, they take each other on a whistle-stop tour through five years of conversations, debates, learning, and occasional technical disasters. Together they explore what they've learned from speaking with academics, practitioners, people with lived experience, and thought leaders fro...

Piaget, Erikson, and Kohlberg all proposed stage theories of development, but the EPPP may test whether you can distinguish what each theorist believed was actually developing. This episode compares Piaget’s cognitive stages, Erikson’s psychosocial conflicts, and Kohlberg’s levels of moral reasoning using memorable examples and high-yield exam distinctions. You’ll also learn a simple strategy for identifying the correct theorist when an EPPP question gives you a developmental vignette.

Do we routinely mistake good luck with systemic resilience – until something blows up?Today I speak with Professor Robin Dillon-Merrill (Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business), who breaks down her 20+ years of research on decision-making under risk, outcome bias, and how organizations misinterpret near misses.We discuss:• The differences between resilient vs vulnerable near misses: How the perceived ‘margin of safety’ desensitizes organizations to risk when luck is the primary reason

In this episode of Somewhere in the Skies Classics, we revisit one of the most compelling and well-documented UFO cases in Canadian history: the Shag Harbour UFO Incident. On the night of October 4, 1967, residents along the coast of Nova Scotia watched a mysterious object descend toward the waters near Shag Harbour and seemingly disappear beneath the surface. What followed was an official search-and-rescue operation, military involvement, eyewitness testimony, and a paper trail that would help

Send us Fan Mail ABA on Tap is proud to present Chris Larson (Part 2 of 2): Private equity didn’t just “enter” ABA, it helped build the modern autism therapy industry as we know it and that reality comes with uncomfortable questions. Mike and Dan continue the brew with Chris Larson from Behavioral Health Business for part two, and we get specific about what investment capital changed at the macro level: access, scale, hiring, payer relationships, and the growth that followed insurance mandate...

In our increasingly distrusting and polarized world, accusations of hypocrisy are everywhere. But our attempts to stamp out hypocrisy may backfire, creating what Michael Hallsworth calls The Hypocrisy Trap. In his bookThe Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives (MIT Press, 2026)Hallsworth shows how our relentless drive to expose inconsistency between words and deeds can actually breed more hypocrisy and cynicism that corrodes our institutions. Through engaging

In our increasingly distrusting and polarized world, accusations of hypocrisy are everywhere. But our attempts to stamp out hypocrisy may backfire, creating what Michael Hallsworth calls The Hypocrisy Trap. In his bookThe Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives (MIT Press, 2026)Hallsworth shows how our relentless drive to expose inconsistency between words and deeds can actually breed more hypocrisy and cynicism that corrodes our institutions. Through engaging

Chris and Matt grapple with Face Huggers, ponder the mysteries of algebra, and have a heated exchange over the term "bespoke".*Sorry about some of Chris' audio: the microphone settings will be fixed next episode!The full episode is available to Patreon subscribers (2 hrs 12 mins).Join us at: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurusSupplementary Material 5600:00 Introduction01:58 The Hugging Face incident08:46 AI risks and AI discourse22:29 OpenAI’s presentation and the incentives around AI

Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us — and How to Stop It (OR Books, 2026). Artificial intelligence is perhaps the most discussed and most misunderstood topic today. Even to the experts and captains of industry, the frontier large language models are essentially black boxes. AI poses many reasons to be both skeptical and optimistic, yet it also poses a fundamental threat to our

Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us — and How to Stop It (OR Books, 2026). Artificial intelligence is perhaps the most discussed and most misunderstood topic today. Even to the experts and captains of industry, the frontier large language models are essentially black boxes. AI poses many reasons to be both skeptical and optimistic, yet it also poses a fundamental threat to our

We are kicking off this year's spooky seasons mini with a brief history of the town on fire. This is a real place in the United States that has become unlivable since the town accidentally set a gigantic, subterranean coal reserve. This inspired the video game and movie franchise, "Silent Hill." Have you been to Centralia? Support us on Patreon!Tell us your favorite memories of the show: info@wwdwwdpodcast.comLinks and

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On this day, 4 October 1945, US President Harry S. Truman ordered the Navy to seize half of the US's oil refining capacity in order to break a three-week strike of the nation's oil workers. More info in this excellent book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/strike-jeremy-brecherOur work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at

In the 19th century, Paris was becoming one of the most famous cities in the world, filled with grand boulevards, elegant buildings, cafés, theaters, and growing wealth. But behind the beautiful image of the City of Light was another Paris — crowded neighborhoods where working-class families struggled with poverty, poor sanitation, dangerous work, and difficult living conditions.Tonight, we step into the forgotten streets of 19th-century Paris to discover how ordinary people lived, worked,

How do you stop giving enormous emotional value to someone who already stopped choosing you?In Episode 386 of You’re Probably Right, MCM breaks down what it really means to “devalue” an ex after being discarded.This is not about revenge.It is not about humiliating them.It is not about pretending the relationship never mattered.It is about bringing their value in your mind back down to the level of the evidence.Sometimes the beginning was euphoric.The attention was intense.The chemistry was