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Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places?

Join Paige Carter each week as she explores the world’s most mysterious and controversial conspiracy theories. From government secrets and cover-ups to ancient mysteries and secret societies, every episode dives into the unknown in search of truth. Follow now and join the community of truth seekers. ⚠️ Want full episodes, bonus content, and access to every podcast on The Forbidden Knowledge Network? 🔒 patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork

For the truly well-rounded "intellectual," nothing fascinates so much as the subversive, the contrarian, the suppressed, and the bizarre. Richard Zacks has unloosed his admittedly strange mind and astonishing research abilities upon the entire spectrum of human knowledge, ferreting out endlessly fascinating facts, and stories guaranteed to make you laugh, gasp in wonder, and occasionally shudder at the depths of human depravity. The result of his labors is this quasi-encyclopedia that provides alternative takes on art, business, crime, science, medicine, sex (lots of that), and many other facets of human experience.

🎙️ Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups Behind every official story lies another version of the truth. Hosted by Ben Carter, Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups exposes the hidden connections, leaked documents, and suppressed evidence behind history’s most controversial events. From secret government projects and covert wars to media manipulation, unexplained disappearances, and corporate deception — nothing is off limits. We don’t deal in speculation — only in facts, testimonies, and patterns that the world wasn’t meant to see.You won’t find wild claims here — just questions ...

For centuries, knowledge has been hidden — guarded by temples, secret orders, and powerful institutions that feared what it could reveal. Hosted by Ben Carter, Ancient Forbidden Knowledge uncovers the suppressed truths, lost civilizations, and hidden technologies that challenge everything we’ve been taught about human history. From ancient texts and forbidden archaeology to occult science and cosmic origins, each episode brings you closer to understanding the knowledge that was never meant to be forgotten. We don’t claim to know the answers.We follow the clues — the symbols, the ...

Fully updated chapters continue to address how technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Over the past several years, the rise of populism and conspiracy theories have taken this to new levels. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.

Jack McDonald and Jeremy Green discuss a wide range of topics around the fire during their various camping outings. Jack, an AP math and science teacher, and Jeremy, a social studies teacher, have unique perspectives on what is knowledge. They share experiences and what it means to be human.About the hosts: Jack has a degree in astrophysics and teaches high school AP math and science classes. Jeremy has a degree in political science and teaches high school government and social studies. They both share a love for each other’s disciplines and a love for camping.

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From science and technology to business and education, curiosity is often taken for granted as an unquestioned good. And yet, few people can define curiosity. Curiosity Studies marshals scholars from more than a dozen fields not only to define curiosity but also to grapple with its ethics as well as its role in technological advancement and global citizenship. While intriguing research on curiosity has occurred in numerous disciplines for decades, no rigorously cross - disciplinary study has existed - until now.

Stephen Fry presents this intriguing programme charting the history of knowledge, how technology changes our relationship with it, and how we know what we knowKnowledge. The Google generation thinks it doesn’t need to carry much of it around in its head any more. Much has already been written about the internet changing the way we think and learn. But is knowledge less valuable than it used to be?

The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Donna Drucker traces the history of modern contraception, outlining the development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the opening of Dr. Jacobs' clinic to the present.

Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose ideas and advice are sought after by corporations, nonprofits, universities, and governments around the world, makes a clear and compellingly pragmatic case for diversity and inclusion. He presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls "diversity bonuses".

“Essential reading for teachers, education administrators, and policymakers alike.” —STARRED Library Journal The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden...

"Big Data" is on the covers of Science, Nature, The Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. Borgman, an often-cited authority on scholarly communication, argues that data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure.

Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast is by philosophers for the general public. We sit down with philosophers from a wide range of backgrounds to learn more about their research. This podcast is produced by the Knowledge in Crisis project, which is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under the Clusters of Excellence programme (10.55776/COE3). We're a collaboration between the University of Graz, the University of Salzburg, and the University of Vienna, led by Central European University. Learn more at www.knowledgeincrisis.com.

The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world.

Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative society might be characterized as a series of services and startups that enable peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions though technology.

In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book's development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately. Contrary to the many reports of its death (which has been blamed at various times on newspapers, television, and e-readers), the book is alive.

Power. Control. Belief.For centuries, hidden groups have shaped the course of human history from the shadows. Hosted by Ben Carter, Cults and Secret Societies exposes the rituals, hierarchies, and mindsets of the most mysterious organizations on Earth — from ancient brotherhoods and spiritual movements to modern cults and secret global networks. Each episode reveals the psychological manipulation, the historical context, and the evidence behind how these groups operate — and how they’ve influenced everything from religion to politics. We don’t glorify them.We uncover them. Because what...