Dr. Dan Jay has a mission to inspire where art and science meet. His life has been spent in the liminal and generative space between and among these domains of inquiry that are too often considered separate, distinct, even opposing. Yet, it is transformative creativity only possible from the co-mingling and conversation of art and science that we seem to be called to in the 21st century.

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Flourishing Commons Newsletter

Show Notes:

• Falling Upward by Richard Rohr (05:20)
• Hinduism four stages of life (05:50)
• Society of Fellows (10:00)
• David Hubel (12:20)
• Will Ryman (13:00)
• Dan's hypercube series (20:00)
• self-emptying (24:30)
• Why we need an academic career path that combines science and art (27:00)
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund (28:00)
• Arthur Zajonc - 'something for the light to fall on' (31:00)
• Enfold initiative (32:00)
• collective over community (32:15)
• Ancient Greek symposium (35:00)
• Émile Durkheim - collective effervescence (38:30)
• Joie de vivre (38:30)
• vulnerability and frailty (41:30)
• compassionate leadership (42:40)
• flourishing (45:30)
• TS Eliot "The Four Quartets" (46:30)
• Souq al Arabi (48:20)
• "all flourishing is mutual" Robin Wall Kimmerer (52:00)
• encounters with flourishing (52:20)
• nuanced conception of flourishing (52:30)
• Lightning round (53:30)
  • Book: Civilisation by Kenneth Clark
  • Passion: spirituality
  • Heart sing: inspiration for his mission
  • Screwed up: failed marriage
• Find Dan online:
  • http://www.danjayart.com/
  • https://smfa.tufts.edu/directory/dan-jay

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Zachary Ugolnik has for years been charting a new path that refuses the tired and inanimate narrative about the separateness of science and spirituality, reason and religion. In his life we find rich possibility when those old illusory dichotomies are discarded, and from that possibility perhaps new wisdom for creating a society full of care and flourishing, one that embraces our inherent needfulness and borrows from theology, ecology, and the social sciences.

Origins Podcast Website

Flourishing Commons Newsletter

Show Notes:

• locate shared spaces of curiosity across disciplines (11:50)
• Émile Durkheim and collective effervescence (13:45)
• Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University (14:10 and 16:20)
• through lines between religion and social science (13:45)
• Victor and Edith Turner communitas (15:00)
• Simone Weil decreation (18:30)
• re-membering (22:00)
• Zach's book: The Collective Self (18:30)
• Theater of War (24:00)
• Byzantine iconography and perspective (26:00)
• Picasso "Le Taureau" (26:20)
• The Social Science of Caregiving (27:30)
• Flourishing Knowledge Commons (27:45)
• Margaret Levi communities of fate (27:50)
• "Mobilizing in the Interest of Others" by Levi and Ugolnik (30:00)
• Buddhism and interdependence (31:50)
• Collective action problems (34:40)
• flourishing systems (37:30)
• Ilya Prigogine and dissipative structures (39:30)
• Danielle Allen (42:15)
• philanthropy (44:30)
• Strother School of Radical Attention (52:30)
• Andrei Rublev (52:50)
• Daniel Kahneman (53:50)
• Syriac term Iḥidāyā (55:00)
• Lightning Round (57:30):
  • Book: The Way of the Pilgrimand The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō
  • Passion: travel
  • Heart sing: swimming with my kids
  • Screwed up: eulogy
• Find Zach online:
  • https://zacharyugolnik.com/

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Dr. Jennifer Wiseman gives expression to our cosmos, as a pioneering astrophysicist, an outspoken advocate for science within policy and the public, as well as a person of faith. Her's are sensibilities of a scientist, a theologian, and a human being in awe of the universe, recognizing that these parts of ourselves need not be in opposition but rather in beautiful and enriching conversation.

Origins Podcast Website

Flourishing Commons Newsletter

Show Notes:

• Discovery of comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff (14:30)
• Maria Mitchell (14:30)
• Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT (15:40)
• Jim Elliot (16:00)
• Needfulness (23:30)
• the 'lone genius' myth of science (26:00)
• the Science of Science (29:40)
• the society of science (30:00)
• "How Prayer Works" by Kaveh Akbar (30:15)
• 'coworkers in the kingdom of culture' W.E.B. Du Bois (35:00)
• The Hubble Space Telescope (37:00)
• Ultra-deep field image (37:00)
• William James and numinous experiences (37:15)
• discovery of exoplanets (43:00)
• "My God, It’s Full of Stars" by Tracy K Smith (43:30)
• what does it mean to flourish? (52:30)
• lightning round (58:30):
  • Book: A Grief Observedby C.S. Lewis & Life, the Universe and Everythingby Douglas Adam
  • Passion: nature and serendipity
  • Heart sing: the bigger picture, being part of a bigger story
    • a sense of awe and wonder and a sense of hope
    • Jane Hirshfield on Origins
  • Screwed up: worrying about different things in different stages of life
• I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter (01:07:00)
• Find Jennifer online:
  • At NASA
  • Wikipedia

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