It would feel wrong to place labels on Jane Hirshfield. Language would fail to reach there, ironic for someone who has devoted their life to the practice of poetry and the practice of Zen Buddhism. Jane is a modern master, change-maker, and wise and winsome voice.

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Show Notes:

• The Ritual Process by Victor Turner (09:30)
• nonattachment (14:00)
• Poem: "My Skeleton" (21:30)
• Poem: "For What Binds Us" (28:20, read 33:00)
• Poets for Science (29:10; 56:30)
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (31:00)
• Poem: "Let Them Not Say" (32:10)
• Gary Snyder (32:00)
• Palimpsest (36:20)
• Poem: "My Hunger" (42:20)
• Poem: "I Sat in the Sun" (45:30)
• Man's Search for Meaningby Victor Frankl (48:00)
• Neti Neti (49:00)
• Poem: "Possibility: An Assay" (50:30)
• Stuart Kauffman's theory of adjacent possible (55:30)
• The 'assay' form of poetry (56:30)
• Poets for Science in New York Times (57:00)
• Poem: "On the Fifth Day" (58:40)
• March for Science (59:00)
• Wick Poetry Center and David Hassler on Origins (01:01:00)
• Nobel Science Summit (01:01:00)
• Videos of poets in poets for science mentioned (01:02:00)
• Brian Eno (01:06:30)
• Lightning Round (01:06:00):
  • book: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
  • passion: being an embodied person outside of words; natural horsemanship
  • heart sing: conversations
  • screwed up: Poem: "My Failure"
• Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri (01:12:00)
• Find Jane online:
  • The Asking: New & Selected Poems

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Agustín Fuentes reads a multi-million year history of our world, a student of its myriad lessons that often subvert unquestioned modern narratives and the problematic ways we've arrived at them. His is an anthropological, ecological, refreshingly unalloyed sensibility, an uncommon concoction whose life of scholarship and insight illuminate what we all might need to cultivate for the world we are walking into.

Origins Podcast Website

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Show Notes:

• Positionality (04:20)
• Interest in the transcendent (06:15)
• Willingness to contend with complexity (11:30)
• Awe and beautify of biology and anthropology (14:20)
• Eric Wolf '[anthropology is] the most scientific of humanities, the most humanistic of sciences' (16:20)
• Phyllis Dolhinow (18:00)
• Karl Popper and falsifiability (22:00)
• Margaret Lock and local biologies (24:00)
• Dialectic (24:30)
• Curriculum for the future (25:00)
• Myth of 'evolution as progress' (26:00)
• Teju Cole (33:00)
• Complexity: connecting the micro and macro (37:00)
• Approach to teaching and sharing knowledge (40:00)
• Cultural moment with the idea that we need to hold two truths at once (42:30)
• 'healing comes in the return' (46:40)
• Jeff Tweedy on writing (49:00)
• Lightning Round (50:00)
  • Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Passion: Travel, being on planes
  • Heart sing: Book he's writing (and his prior book Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You)
  • Screwed up: a couple of relationships and guitar
• Find Agustín online:
  • Website
  • Princeton
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
  • Agustín’s playlist

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Albert-László Barabási thinks in networks and his scholarship, as his life, is embodiment of the explorative, imaginative, and generative nature of networks. It would be difficult to imagine a person better suited to steward us through the innate and seemingly universal tendency of things to connect to each other and all of its implications.

Origins Podcast Website

Flourishing Commons Newsletter

Show Notes:

• Preferential attachment (10:00)
• What he tells his students (13:30)
• Breakthroughs (14:00)
• 'Shelf Time' (14:30)
• The Science of Science (19:00)
• Bridging (network science) (19:00)
• His first and second papers in network science (22:00)
• Danielle Allen (28:30)
• David Lazer (https://lazerlab.net/home) 'network based decision making' (31:00)
• Hélène Landemore epistemic democracy (32:00)
• Northeastern University Network Science Institute (35:30)
• Center for Complex Network Research (36:00)
• Alessandro Vespignani (37:00)
• János Kertész (38:00)
• Jane Hirshfield "Let Them Not Say" (42:00)
• Joan Didion "I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means." (44:30)
• His writing practice (44:30)
• His routines (45:00)
• Commonplace book (53:00)
• Robert K Merton "Singletons and Multiples in Scientific Discovery" (56:30)
• What does it mean to flourish? (59:00)
• Lightning Round (01:03:30):
  • Book: Isaac Asimov The Foundation Trilogy
  • Passion: art (Hidden Patterns exhibition; 150 years of Nature)
  • Heart sing: Network medicine
  • Screwed up: Failing to invest in Google
• Find László online:
  • https://barabasi.com/
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
  • László’s playlist

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