https://www.rollingstone.com/author/wade-davis/ While the Trump era is over, there looms a great question as to whether America is in any position to resume a leadership role in the world. As past plagues and pandemics have revealed, the weaknesses of empires often is recognized well after their influence has peaked. Wade Davis, an anthropologist from the University …
https://www.amazon.com/We-Possibility-Harnessing-Entrepreneurship-Problems/dp/1633699196 On the heels of the pandemic, we see that government has issues responding to a major, largely unseen, crisis. As trust in public institutions crumbles, the question is whether we can restore faith in our system by bold actions that jolt the public into a new belief in what’s possible. It’s a big job. …
https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Megaregion-Meeting-Urban-Challenges/dp/1642830437 As the US population grows-potentially by over 110 million people by 2050-cities and suburbs will continue expanding, meeting the suburbs of neighboring cities and forming continuous urban megaregions. The United States now has at least a dozen such megaregions, including one extending from Richmond, Virginia to Portland, Maine and another running from Santa Barbara, …
https://www.amazon.com/Retrofitting-Case-Studies-Ellen-Dunham-Jones/dp/1119149177 More Americans live in suburban settings than any other. Suburbs are not a monolith. Depending on factors like proximity to an urban center, they take on various forms. Sprawl is often noted as one of the worst aspects of suburban growth. As we continue to build more highways to satisfy the desire for many …
https://www.amazon.com/Abby-Schneiderman/e/B08KQM2WFP%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Our podcast is about looking down the road a bit. If we’re all honest with ourselves, we know how our personal story ends. The truth is few of us want to plan for it in the way we do for the arrival of our first child, purchasing our first home or our retirement. And …
https://royrichardgrinker.com/ ‘People are nuts’. That was a maxim of my dear mother. She was the kindest, most loving person I know. She meant no ill will by that designation. In fact, there was wisdom in it. In his new book, ‘Nobody’s Normal’, Roy Richard Grinker, a professor of anthropology at George Washington University, reveals the …
https://www.amazon.com/New-Honor-Code-Standards-Restoring/dp/1982154640 What shocked us in the past has somehow become the the new normal in our politics, workplaces and overwrought interest in a celebrity culture. In fact, through social media, we aspire to join that culture, at least for fifteen minutes, by some reckless, attention-seeking behavior. The reward structure for living life out loud, in …
https://www.alternativeradio.org/speaker/david-barsamian/ Once America declares you part of the axis of evil or decides that your behavior require heavy economic sanctions, it’s tough to escape the impact our actions can bring. That’s why the notion of the Iran nuclear deal pursued by the Obama Administration was such a risky political move. Yet, by the strict reporting …
https://isa.unc.edu/faculty-members/lindsey-smith-taillie/ If we’re honest, most of us love sweets. And while talking about my love of chocolate on a radio program, my guest, a nutritionist, admonished me by saying ‘no you love sugar’. Indeed, I do. What surprised me is how much of it we consume in a day without knowing or thinking about it. …
https://ncdp.columbia.edu/about-us/faculty-and-staff/ The twenty first century has been nothing, if not, eventful. From man-made disasters like 9-11 to an economic collapse affecting the United States and Europe to a pandemic traveling the superhighway of viruses and touching nearly all quarters of the globe. If you imagine that the world will now settle in to a more …