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All Things Connected

By: Jared Hocking
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  • Discussions span broadly across topics such as climate change, free speech, wealth inequality, the environment, balancing personal contentment and purpose, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, how the internet is shaping our lives, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, animal welfare, popular culture, and much more. Making Sense with Sam Harris meets Hidden Brain meets Terrestrial If you'd like to support this work: patreon.com/all_things_connected
    Copyright 2020 Jared Hocking
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Episodes
  • #16: Your Brain, and Body, on Nature

    #16: Your Brain, and Body, on Nature
    Sep 20 2020
    https://nres.illinois.edu/directory/fekuo (Dr. Ming Kuo), Professor of Environmental Psychology and Director of the Landscape and Human Health Lab at University of Illinois joins the podcast to discuss the myriad psychological and physiological benefits that exposure to nature can provide, from decreased aggression, improved executive function and memory, and more. We discuss Dr. Kuo's https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00139160121972846 (attention restoration hypothesis) and her research supporting decreases of crime in places with more green spaces, the inequitable distribution of trees and green spaces in urban environments, and much more. Among her many distinctions, Dr. Kuo is a panelist and contributing author for the Blue Ribbon Green Infrastructure Panel, a consultant to the City of Chicago on their Green Urban Design Initiative, and an expert panelist for the Robert Wood Johnson Active Living Research National Advisory Council. Background reading: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/12/750538458/you-2-0-our-better-nature (You 2.0: Our Better Nature) (NPR / Hidden Brain) https://neurosciencenews.com/greenspace-crime-reduction-15813/ (Green spaces can reduce violent crime )(Neuroscience News) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/24/climate/racism-redlining-cities-global-warming.html (How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering) (The New York Times) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00139160121972846 (Coping with Poverty: Impacts of Environment and Attention in the Inner City) (Dr. Ming Kuo) https://e360.yale.edu/features/ecopsychology-how-immersion-in-nature-benefits-your-health (Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health) (Yale University360) Support this podcast
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    48 mins
  • #15: The Long Fight for Environmental Justice

    #15: The Long Fight for Environmental Justice
    Sep 16 2020
    Dr. Paul Mohai, a giant in the environmental justice field and professor at University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainabilty, joins the podcast to discuss "what is environmental justice? and why is it important?" and issues related to the long fight for environmental justice across the nation and in Michigan Background reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/climate/climate-environmental-justice.html?campaign_id=54&emc=edit_clim_20200617&instance_id=19473&nl=climate-fwd%3A®i_id=56711652&segment_id=31148&te=1&user_id=b63b0963550f6ee10b4316cb678dbe80 (The Environmental Justice wake up call) (New York Times, Lisa Friedman and Julia Rosen) https://www.newsweek.com/2016/04/08/michigan-air-pollution-poison-southwest-detroit-441914.html (Choking to Death in Detroit: Flint Isn’t Michigan’s Only Environmental Justice Disaster) (Newsweek, Zoe Schlanger)  https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/21/philadelphia-covanta-incinerator-recyclables-china-ban-imports ("Moment of Reckoning" as China bans imports of US recyclables )(The Guardian) Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse (Tristan Baurick, ProPublica) Support this podcast
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • #14: The Dark Side of Wildlife Tourism

    #14: The Dark Side of Wildlife Tourism
    Sep 2 2020
    Writer and editor at National Geographic https://www.natashaldaly.com/ (Natasha Daly,) whose investigative reporting focuses on animal welfare, conservation, and the exploitation of animals, joins the podcast. In this episode, Natasha and Jared discuss in-depth Natasha's 2019 cover story for National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/06/global-wildlife-tourism-social-media-causes-animal-suffering/ (Suffering unseen: The dark truth behind wildlife tourism), which was one of the most widely read pieces of the year for Nat Geo. We discuss dark side of the captive wildlife tourism industry and how "selfie culture" and social media are implicated, the ethics of humans' treatment of nonhuman animals, including the difference between unconscious experience or capacity to suffer and intelligence, ways that travel-goers can have an ethical experience observing wildlife abroad, whether economic need provides a moral justification for exploiting animals, and other related topics. You can follow Natasha on her https://twitter.com/natashaldaly (Twitter )or https://www.instagram.com/natashaldaly/ (Instagram) also to read more of her work. Background reading: https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1979----.htm (Equality for Animals?) (Peter Singer) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/06/are-we-smart-enough-to-know-how-smart-animals-are-frans-de-waal-review (Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?) book review (Matthew Cobb, The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/26/pics-or-it-didnt-happen-mantra-instagram-era-facebook-twitter (Pics or it didn’t happen’ – the mantra of the Instagram Era) (Jacob Silverman, The Guardian) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/08/former-wildlife-tourism-hotspot-puerto-alegria-peru-transforming/ (How One Amazon Community Is Trying to Move on from Illegal Wildlife Tourism )(Natasha Daly, National Geographic) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/01/china-bans-wildlife-trade-after-coronavirus-outbreak/ (Chinese citizens push to abolish wildlife trade as coronavirus persists) (Natasha Daly, National Geographic) Support this podcast
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    1 hr and 3 mins
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