Susan Magsamen makes her life at the frontier: the frontier of neuroscience, of institutional change, of the intersection of art and science. Her's is a life full of wisdom for how to live amongst mystery and befriend complexity.

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Show Notes:

• spontaneous "you are my sunshine" (02:00)
• T. S. Eliot (08:00)
• implementation science (08:40)
• therapeutic recreation (11:00)
• Trabian Shorters and asset framing (15:00)
• Daniel Kahneman (16:00)
• neuroplasticity (22:30)
• Howard Gardner and Kurt Fisher and Mind, Brain, and Education Program at Harvard (26:15)
• Karl Alexander (27:30)
• Curiosity Kits (28:30)
• NeuroArts (32:00)
• Gileadby Marilynne Robinson (36:00)
• more than scientific knowledge (38:00)
• "Social Support and the Perception of Geographical Slant" (45:00)
• Resmaa Menakem (46:30)
• NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative (46:40)
• "Cirque du Soleil and the neuroscience of awe" on Vox (47:40)
• Global Watering Hole (51:30)
• Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards (52:30)
• Rachel Naomi Remen (56:30)
• Lightning Round (01:03:00)
  • Book: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  • Passion: horseback riding
  • Heart sing: grandchildren
  • Screwed up: articulation in these times
• Find Susan online:
  • International Arts + Mind Lab

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Hello friends, a new season of Origins arrives next week, on Tuesday, May 20.

This next chapter of Origins is about exploring conversation, that great practice of placing two things next to one another and allowing them to be astonished by the other. It is also about exploring the collective narrative of our time.

This trailer is both introduction and meditation on how Origins is more than a podcast: a space for collective inquiry into living well in a fractured world.

Over on Substack we’re cultivating not just conversation but community—a space for listening, reflection, and co-creation. This season, you’ll find templates born from the gatherings surrounding some of these episodes: guides for more generative encounters, wider conversations, and more generous questions. These tools aren’t prescriptions, but invitations.

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Few concepts are more important to our society than resilience. Agnostic of domain, of nation, culture, and scale (as vital, indeed, to the individual life as to the planetary civilization), it would be impossible to overstate the pressure on us to understand it. If resilience is a core competency of our time, it would not be hyperbole to say that Dr. David Woods one of our most important thinkers.

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Show Notes:

• three mile island (07:20)
• resilience engineering (12:30)
• the theory of graceful extensibility (12:30)
• The Risk Society by Ulrich Beck (13:10)
• how do you know? (14:00)
• scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts (15:00)
• retrenchment vs revitalization (16:00)
• the novelty inequality (28:00)
• Simon DeDeo on Origins (28:30)
• Mars Climate Orbiter report (31:00)
• 'faster, better, cheaper' pressure (32:00)
• Erik Hollnagle and Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off principle (33:30)
• graceful extensibility (36:20)
• Douglas Hofstadter and strange loops (41:00)
• SNAFU catchers (42:00)
• dialectic between the individual and collective (44:00)
• Arnold Toynbee (45:00)
• multi-hazards and changing climate (52:20)
• John Doyle (54:00)
• Elinor Ostrom and reciprocity (54:20)
• Lightning Round (01:01:30):
  • Book: Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
  • Passion: History and Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History by Helen Hornbeck Tanner
  • Heart sing: graceful extensibility and resilience engineering video series
  • Screwed up: building interfaces to the knowledge of resilience
• Find David online:
  • Ohio State University site

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