Democracy's Deep Roots: From Hunter-Gatherers to Modern Society -- A conversation between Vivek Venkataraman and David Sloan Wilson
What if the roots of democracy run far deeper than ancient Greece or Enlightenment Europe, but back to our evolutionary origins as humans? In this thought-provoking conversation, evolutionary anthropo...
2 Juni 20251h 19min
Decolonizing Ecology: Rethinking Nature in a Broken World
A conversation between Madhusudan Katti and Amitangshu Acharya Join us for a thought-provoking virtual dialogue exploring how colonial worldviews have shaped modern ecology - and what it means to deco...
2 Maj 20251h 19min
Addressing the Wicked Problem of Housing Insecurity in Binghamton New York with Rebecca Rathmell
Originally published on September 9, 2024
1 Apr 20251h 3min
Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Human Origins, and Modern Democracies with Vivek Venkataraman (Part 2)
Hunter-gatherer societies are fascinating in their own right and--with appropriate caution--a major source of insight about our ancestral past, stretching back to our origin as a species. Remarkably, ...
1 Apr 20251h 30min
Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Human Origins, and Modern Democracies with Vivek Venkataraman (Part 1)
Originally published on January 8, 2025. Hunter-gatherer societies are fascinating in their own right and--with appropriate caution--a major source of insight about our ancestral past, stretching back...
1 Apr 20251h 17min
Barry-Wehmiller's Bold Experiment in Prosocial Cultural Evolution
Who is Barry-Wehmiller (BW)? Not a person, but a manufacturing corporation and star attraction of the Conscious Capitalism movement. If you are familiar with this movement, you might have read Everybo...
1 Apr 20251h 33min
Assessing the Complexity/Evolution Paradigm for Economics with Eric Beinhocker
The first book-length articulation of an economic paradigm based on complex systems science and evolutionary science was Eric Beinhocker's The Origin of Wealth, published in 2006. He is currently Prof...
1 Apr 202536min
Evolving Prosocial Cities, with Jonathan Rose
Few people know more about cities than Jonathan Rose, author of The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life. Jonathan i...
1 Apr 20251h 12min
