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Our guest today is Maria Popova, who thinks and writes about our search for meaning — sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian (born in 2006 under the name Brain Pickings), an online publication, which she has fought to keep free and advertisement free. It features her writing on books, art, science, philosophy and poetry. It is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She’s also the author of Figuring, and maker of the live show “The Universe in Verse” — a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry, which is now also a book.

In addition to her writing and related speaking engagements, she has served as an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow, as the editorial director at the higher education social network Lore, and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired UK, and other publications.

We will talk about:

• Dissatisfaction as propulsive force
• Productivity as a band aid
• Performative Identity versus Soul
• Instagram Wisdom
• Everyone is a living question - the question is what is the question
• Poetry as a side door to consciousness
• Writing as a clarifying force
• Resisting Dinner Parties
• The Price of consciousness is awareness of mortality
• ”The Republic of Letters”

Now let’s search for meaning.

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In this episode we talk to Ben Macintyre. He is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He is also an award winning authour and one of the most acclaimed writers of espionage history. His books Agent Zigzag A Spy Among Friends, The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy, Operation Mincemeat, Double Cross and SAS: Rogue Heroes have reached bestseller status and many have been adapted for the screen.

Ben’s latest book Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle tells the astonishing true story of history’s most infamous prison and became the biggest selling history book of 2022 and a No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller. His upcoming book The Siege is about the greatest SAS hostage drama held in the Iranian Embassy London.

We will talk about:

• The ultimate history curriculum
• How reality is always stranger than fiction
• Historical quantum leaps
• Agent versus structre theory
• Uncovering the hidden stories of spies
• How much of history is the story of the victors
• How much virality could change the way we tell history in the future

You can pre-order Ben's new book "The Siege" here.

Let’s travel through time!

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In this episode we speak to Dr. Roslind Watts. Dr Watts is a clinical psychologist, and a nature lover. Her work as the Clinical Lead for Imperial College London’s psilocybin trial has made her one of the most prominent voices and minds in the field of psychedelic research.

Dr Watts has been named as one of the 50 Most Influential People in Psychedelics. She builds tools and structures to foster connectedness after psychedelic experiences, finding inspiration for their design from nature. She co-founded the UK's first psychedelic integration group, and in 2022 launched ACER a global online integration community.

We will talk about:

• The difference between Macro and microdosing
• Categorising synthetic and natural compounds
• The Importance of post trip integration
• How psychedelics are changing approaches to therapy
• The condundrum of corporate interests and democratisation use
• Regulation
• ACER
• Appropriation of indegenous practices
• “Doing the work” and being a tenant of your own trauma
• The Default Mode Network

More about Dr. Rosalind Watt's ACER framework here.

Now let’s go on a trip!

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