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0:08 — Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and the faculty director of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. He studies the science of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, and how emotions shape our moral intuition.
0:08 — Yara Hawari is a Senior Analyst at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. She is also an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter. 0:33 — Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the center for antiracist research at Boston University. His newest book is How to Be a (Young) Antiracist.
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
0:08 — Kristin Ohlson, author and freelance journalist. Her newest book is Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World.
0:08 — Paul Stamets is a legendary mycologist. This talk was the keynote lecture at a conference called exponential medicine in January 2020.
0:11 — George Monbiot, author, Guardian columnist and environmental activist, whose current research focus is on the global food system. His latest book is Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet.
0:08 — David F. Walker, award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator.
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
0:08 — Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. 0:34 — Olena Gnes, Ukrainian tour guide, formerly living in Kyiv, now based in the US state of Georgia.
0:08 — Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
