Net Zero and Other Delusions: What Can't, Won't and Might Happen | Frankly 90
Language is one of humanity's most unique and powerful tools. We are amazingly good at imagining the pictures created through words - almost to the point that even the most fantastical things can seem...
4 Apr 202520min
Rewilding 15 Million Acres: Why True Wealth Means More Than Money with Kristine Tompkins
While the wealth of the world's richest individuals continues to accumulate year after year, funding billions into AI, technology, and innovation, our true wealth—the planet's natural ecosystems—recei...
2 Apr 20251h 12min
Digital Democracy: Moving Beyond 'Big Tech' to Save Open Societies with Audrey Tang
As the world is increasingly shaped by the dominance of 'Big Tech' – including the race for Artificial Intelligence – the outsized impact on our democratic and information systems has left many with f...
26 Mar 20251h 24min
The Mad Scramble for Power: Global Superpowers' Strategies for Energy, Economics, and War | Reality Roundtable #16
The rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape of recent years can be hard to follow. With economic conflicts between global superpowers and violent clashes across multiple continents, today's events can...
23 Mar 20251h 29min
Thinking and Feeling | Frankly 89
The human brain has proven to be particularly good at breaking down all sorts of things into categories and dichotomies - even our perception of the world itself is often split between 'thinking' and ...
21 Mar 202510min
Threats to U.S. Security: Aging Infrastructure, Fragile Systems, and Information Warfare with Dan O'Connor
The threats facing the United States' stability seem to be escalating daily - from aging electric grids and deteriorating infrastructure to rising information warfare from domestic and international s...
19 Mar 20251h 25min
The Lost Art of Grieving: Grief as Ritual, Resistance, and Resilience with Francis Weller
Western culture, particularly in the United States, is often characterized by a profound discomfort and suppression of grief. Without healthy outlets to process loss and pain – especially in communal ...
12 Mar 20251h 38min
Snow, The Singularity, and Rocks in the River | Frankly 88
As the world continued its increasingly chaotic series of events this week - with disruptive events in everything from politics to artificial intelligence, a spring blizzard swept through the upper Mi...
7 Mar 202514min
