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Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, and an anthropologist and as a Buddhist teacher. Over many decades, she has also collaborated with neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists to understand how contemplative practice can be a vehicle for social transformation. Through her unusual background, she developed an understanding of how our greatest challenges can become the most valuable source of our wisdom.

In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell--and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today.

Kyle Mitchell's podcast.

From the creator of the 100 Greatest Invention Podcast, and the philosopher behind the Monetary Revolution comes a brand new philosophy podcast which seeks to push the bounds of human knowledge and understanding far beyond that which we can see with our own eyes. Interests include: political philosophy, philosophy of time, philosophy of economics, sovereign individualism, the ethics of pleasure, and philosophy through literature.