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Solvable

Solvable showcases the world?s most innovative thinkers and their proposed solutions to the world?s most daunting problems. The interviews, hosted by Ronald Young Jr., will launch a dialogue that both acknowledges the complexity of the issues while inspiring hope that the problems are, in fact, solvable. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries. 

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Climate Change Despondency is Solvable

Host Ronald Young Jr. sits down with Malcolm Gladwell to talk about climate change: the power of individual choices, cultural shifts and what to expect from the business sector too.  Meaningful climate action requires thoughtful engagement from across all sectors, regions, nations -- from all of us. Check out these recent Solvable episodes for additional solutions and for ways that you can get involved. Destructive Agriculture is Solvable with Rachel Stroer Wildfire Ignition is Solvable with Eric Appel The Lack of Basic Sanitation in the United States is Solvable with Catherine Coleman Flowers The Slow Regrowth of Vulnerable Coral Reefs is Solvable with Sarah Hamlyn Fighting Climate Change Through Incentivized Prizes and Innovation with Anousheh Ansari Making Transportation Systems Eco-friendly is a Solvable Problem with Laura Schewel  Addiction to Fossil Fuels is Solvable with Bill McKibben Executive Producer, Mia Lobel Managing Producer, Sachar Mathias Senior Producer, Jocelyn Frank  Researcher, David Zha Booking by Lisa Dunn Very special thanks to Royston Beserve, Heather Fain, Nicole Morano, Carly Migliori, Eric Sandler and Maggie Taylor. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-09-29
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Consumerism and Celebrity Culture in Faith Organizations are Solvable Problems

Ben Kirby is the founder of PreachersNSneakers, an Instagram account and book, that both ask, ?how much is too much? to spend when it comes to presenting a compelling image of the church and it?s leaders? Kirby's got some answers and some solutions. Solvable is produced by David Zha, Jocelyn Frank, Sachar Mathias and Mia Lobel. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-09-22
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Presenting: Some of My Best Friends Are...

Host Ronald Young, Jr. presents a preview of Pushkin?s newest podcast, Some of My Best Friends Are? and talks with the hosts, Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Harvard professor) and Ben Austen (award-winning journalist) about some of their favorite moments together. Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen grew up together on the South Side of Chicago. The two offer an unfiltered take on growing up in a deeply-divided country and navigating that divide as it exists today. The full season can be found at http://podcasts.pushkin.fm/solvablebestfriends Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-09-15
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The Lack of Creatives of Color in Positions of Power in Hollywood is Solvable

Mike Gauyo is a TV writer in LA including work on Insecure (HBO) and Ginny & Georgia (Netflix). He?s the founder of The Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative that is paving pathways for emerging Black writers in Hollywood.  Here are some resources Gauyo recommends in this episode: Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes Insecure Fruit Podcast The Writer's Room Podcast The Screenwriters Rant Room Podcast On Writing Podcast from WGA  The Screenwriter's Bible, A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by David Trottier Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-09-08
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Making Museums Relevant and Reflective is Solvable

Stephanie Cunningham is the director of Museum Hue which supports people of color within the museum field and works to situate and promote culturally informed museum exhibitions and experiences across the nation.  Here are some of the resources she mentions in this episode: Museum Hue Mounting Frustration: Art Museums in the Age of Black Power by Susan E. Cahan EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by Kellie Jones Museums are Not Neutral Museum Detox MuseumNext How to Be an Antiracist Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha and Sachar Mathias. Booking by Lisa Dunn. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-09-01
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The Scantiness of Mental Health Resources For Black People is Solvable

Dr. Joy Harden Bradford is a licensed psychologist, author, podcast host and the founder of Therapy For Black Girls ? an online resource, and podcast, that supports the mental well-being of Black women and girls. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline Here are some of the resources that Dr. Harden Bradford mentions in this episode: Therapy For Black Girls The Loveland Foundation: financial assistance to Black women & girls seeking therapy https://thelovelandfoundation.org/ Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives Of Black Women, by Inger Burnett-Zeigler Rwenshaun Miller Therapy For Black Men Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn and our managing producer is Sachar Mathias. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-08-25
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The Demands of Fighting Racism are Solvable

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent. He is the author Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and he?s written four #1 New York Times bestsellers including How to Be an Antiracist. Here are some resources for learning more about, and doing, antiracism work: Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi Books:  Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010)  Carol Anderson, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (2021)  Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019)  Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (2021)  Paul Ortiz, An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018)  David Treuer, The Heartbeat on Wounded Knee: Native Americans From 1890 to the Present by David Treuer (2019)     Movies:   13th   John Lewis: Good Trouble  Selma  Just Mercy  Hair Love  The Hate U Give     Organizations:  Boston University?s Center for Antiracist Research  Black Lives Matter (US, Canada, United Kingdom)  Stop AAPI Hate  Jews for Racial and Economic Justice  American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee  Hispanic Heritage Foundation  National Congress of American Indians Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-08-18
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Disordered Eating and Disconnection From Your Body are Solvable Problems

Bri Campos is a licensed mental health counselor and body image coach. She works with clients to improve their relationships with food and with their bodies and to approach health in a holistic way. Here are links to resources recommended in this episode: Body Image with Bri  Food Addiction is Solvable with Michael Moss  Hating Your Body is Solvable with Gabi Fresh Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight By Lindo Bacon The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women By Naomi Wolf Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia By Sabrina Strings, Allyson Johnson Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach By Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A.  Johann Hari, Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong (TED talk) The View from Rat Park, Bruce Alexander Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight By Lindo Bacon, Lucy Aphramor On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler  Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating By Christy Harrison  Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better) By Lindo Bacon, Ijeoma Oluo Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-07-28
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Hating Your Body Is Solvable

Gabi Fresh is a body positive digital content creator. She was formerly an MTV Twitter Jockey and InStyle's first plus-size editor. Gabi Fresh on Instagram Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-07-21
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Food Addiction is Solvable

Michael Moss is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author of the books Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us and Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions. He explains that food addiction is not our fault but we can break out of it.  Here are some links to additional reading Moss recommends: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters by Gordon Shepherd Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-07-14
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Mapping Catholic Lands Can Help Solve Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change

Molly Burhans is the founder and executive director of GoodLands an organization that works to map the land holdings of the Catholic Church to encourage socially and ecologically sound decisions to help the future health of the earth and its people. GoodLands Biodiversity Observation Tracking on Lands Owned by the Catholic Church (and other Catholic Organizations) using iNaturalist, Saint Kateri Conservation Center About the Great Backyard Bird Count, Audubon Society Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha, and Sachar Mathias. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-07-07
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Malcolm Gladwell is All Riled Up

We?re excited to share with you the new season of Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell?s podcast that re-examines something from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time. We?ve got to warn you, the new season is completely unbound. Malcolm Gladwell is finally out of the house, and taking you into the streets, and even under the sea. All in the name of continuing his journey through the overlooked and misunderstood. He plays chicken with cars. An Oscar winner helps him remake fairy tale history. He dives into your dirty laundry. I haven?t quite decided who he riles up most. College elitists? Nine year old girls? You?ll have to hear it for yourself to find out.  Find the new season of Revisionist History at http://podcasts.pushkin.fm/resolvable. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-07-01
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Making Transportation Systems Eco-friendly is a Solvable Problem

Laura Schewel is the CEO of StreetLight Data which provides data to help mold and monitor transportation systems to be more environmentally friendly. Check out the links below to some of the resources that Schewel mentions in this episode. Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee The Power Broker by Robert Caro  Dream Cities by Wade Graham  Track your own transportation data: The Miles App Driversnote Mileage Tracker Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-06-30
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Reopening New York Safely and Securely is Solvable

Jason DiGianni is the project lead for the Excelsior Pass. He thinks the free digital tool (which confirms negative COVID-19 tests and positive vaccine statuses) can help New York reopen safely and swiftly. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-06-23
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Under-Representation in Robotics and AI is Solvable

Dr. Ayanna Howard is the dean of the College of Engineering of the Ohio State University as well as the founder and president of the board of directors of Zyrobotics, a company that develops mobile therapy and educational products for children with special needs. She believes that robots and artificial intelligence can make us better humans. Here is a list of some of the resources that Dr. Howard mentions during this conversation: Zyrobotics  Tommy the Robot New York Returns Police ?Robodog? After Public Outcry, Wired April, 2021 Wired Magazine Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank. Research by David Zha. Sachar Mathias is Solvable's managing producer. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-06-16
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Presenting: Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi

Host Ronald Young Jr. offers this sneak peak into Pushkin's newest show, Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi. You can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-06-09
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Social Isolation is a Solvable Problem for People With Disabilities

If the world has learned one thing in lockdown, it?s that staying isolated and confined to one place is hard. But for some people living with disabilities, a sense of social isolation predates the pandemic. Steven Spohn is a writer, philosopher, Twitch streamer, and the Chief Operations Officer of AbleGamers. His non-profit organization advocates for people with physical and mental disabilities in the gaming world, providing peer counseling and adaptive technology to help them play the games that they love and connect with worlds beyond their own. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-06-02
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Cultural Asymmetry in Music Technology is Solvable

A lot of popular music is dominated by the western musical constructions of scale and time but when it comes to creative work -- why be so limited? Khyam Allami is an Iraqi-British multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, researcher and founder of Nawa Recordings. In partnership with Counterpoint, (the creative studio of Tero Parviainen and Samuel Diggins), he launched new, free, transcultural music software to solve this problem and facilitate the creation of increasingly fresh music. Learn more: CTM 2021 Apotome Live Performance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn8XHijHUm8 Apotome software, https://ctm.isartum.net/ More about Apotome, https://khyamallami.com/Apotome-Khyam-Allami-x-Counterpoint Leimma software, https://isartum.net/ Khyam Allami, https://khyamallami.com/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-05-26
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Addiction to Fossil Fuels is Solvable

Host Ronald Young Jr. speaks with Bill McKibben about how to break our destructive climate habits and about why we need a course correction urgently. Bill McKibben is an author, educator, environmentalist and the founder of 350.org. Check out the links below for his suggestions about how to quickly and efficiently build a movement to slow down climate change before its too late. 350.org Sunrise Movement The Green New Deal Fridays for the Future Extinction Rebellion Stanford engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert U.S. to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050 Stanford News, 2015 Biden?s ?all of government? plan for climate, explained, Vox Jan 2021 Strengthening the Financial System to Meet the Challenge of Climate Change, by Governor Lael Brainard, Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System, December 2020 Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha, Lisa Dunn, Sachar Mathias and Mia Lobel. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-05-19
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Introducing Ronald Young Jr., Solvable?s Newest Host

Ronald Young Jr is the newest host of Solvable. Jacob Weisberg and Ronald Young Jr. talk about some of their hosting inspirations from Larry King, Studs Terkel, Terry Gross and Dick Cavett.  Ronald Young Jr. Seizing Freedom, Northern Virginia Magazine Time Well Spent Podcast Leaving the Theater Podcast Dick Cavett with actor and comedian Don Rickles Studs Terkel Radio Archive, WFMT Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR Larry King with Jesse Thorn, The Turnaround Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-05-12
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Being Victimized by Scams is Solvable

Maria Konnikova is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Biggest Bluff, The Confidence Game, and Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes. To learn more about scams and how to protect yourself check out the links below. Ricky Jay Remembered, NPR 2018 The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by David Maurer Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova Psychological Manipulation is a Solvable Problem featuring Diane Benscoter Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-05-05
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Setbacks: Global Hunger is Solvable

Abby Maxman is President and CEO of Oxfam America and says ?there's no reason in the 21st century that people should be going hungry.? Want to learn more about how you can reduce hunger locally and globally? Check out the links below to learn more about the suggestions that Maxman makes in this episode: Find Your Local Food Pantry, Feeding America  Local Food Directories, USDA The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow The Hungry Farmer- My Moment of Great Disruption Roger Thurow at TEDxChange In Defense of Food: An Eater?s Manifesto by Michael Pollan The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Netflix Oxfam America Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-04-28
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Presenting: An Excerpt from The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

The Bomber Mafia is the new audiobook by Revisionist History host (and Pushkin co-founder) Malcolm Gladwell. It examines the rise of air power, which created one of the greatest moral challenges of the Second World War. In The Bomber Mafia, you?ll hear the voices of the generals, aircraft soaring, and bombs crashing. It is history brought to life through the power of audio. Buy the audiobook at bombermafia.com and receive an exclusive Listener's Guide full of photos and commentary. Print and ebook editions available wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-04-27
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Setbacks: Girls' Exclusion from Education is Solvable

Angeline Murimirwa is executive director of the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED). By engaging local communities in their nomination process, young people and their families receive support that makes education more attainable and the benefits of that education more widely enjoyed. Want to learn more about the UN Sustainable Development goal to provide basic education to all young people? Check out the links below.  My Better World: Lifeskills and Wellbeing Curriculum from CAMFED Yidan Prize  Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn  Half the Sky PBS Documentary  Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen  Gender Justice, Development and Rights, edited by Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi  The 17 Goals, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Sustainable Development Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-04-22
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Setbacks: Global Health Inequity is Solvable

As part of our Setbacks series examining the impact of COVID-19 on global development, Paul Farmer explains why he is still optimistic after working for 40 years to end global health inequities. Paul Farmer is a professor at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women?s Hospital in Boston, and Co-Founder of Partners In Health. He believes that solutions flow from addressing social pathologies along with pathogens. Looking to learn more about global health? Check out these links: Partners In Health Fevers, Feuds, And Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History by Paul Farmer          Bending the Arc, Netflix Pragmatic Solidarity, by Paul Farmer for The Center for Compassion and Global Health Rwanda starts administering second doses of AstraZeneca vaccines Partners in Heath, Haiti Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-04-14
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Surgical Site Infections in Developing Countries Can be Solved

Dasia Taylor is a senior at Iowa City West High School. She?s working to develop and produce medical sutures, dyed with beets, that can detect infections and alert patients to signs of risk. According to the WHO patients with surgical site infections are twice as likely to spend time in an intensive care unit, five times more likely to be readmitted after discharge. And twice as likely to die. Out of nearly 2000 students Taylor was recently named one of 40 finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Scholar program and awarded $25,000 for her work. Want to learn more about health equity, surigical site infections and Taylor's work? Check out these links. The difference between a stich and a suture, Healthline.com Frequently Asked Questions about Surgical Site Infections, CDC.gov Surgical site infections are the most common and costly of hospital infections, Science Daily WHO Guidelines for Safe Surgery 2009 17-Year-Old Dasia Taylor Receives Recognition For Developing Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection? AfroTech.com West High senior Dasia Taylor recognized as Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist, The Daily Iowan Health equity: challenges in low income countries Closing the Health Equity Gap, WHO We Must Enhance?but also Decolonize?America?s Global Health Diplomacy, Scientific American Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-04-07
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Psychological Manipulation is a Solvable Problem

Cults and other manipulative groups are an issue of public health and Diane Benscoter has strategies that may help. Diane Benscoter is the founder of Antidote and the author of Shoes of a Servant: My Unconditional Devotion to a Lie. Here are some links to additional information about cults and psychological manipulation and how to find support: Support for Individuals, from Antidote  Support for Families, from Antidote Freedom of Mind Institute  Cult Deprogramming vs. Strategic Interactive Approach from Steven Hassan Course: Understand Cults: The Basics, by Steven Hassan Open Minds Foundation: Resources Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-03-31
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Making Medical Deliveries by Drone is Solvable

Keller Rinaudo is the CEO and Founder of Zipline International. Their ?sky ambulance? service is delivering medical supplies to hard to reach places via drone delivery. Here are some links to information and resources that Rinaudo mentioned in this episode. Zipline International Factfulness by Hans and Ola Rosling  Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker  Children: Improving Survival and Wellbeing, UN World Health Organization, Sept 8, 2020 Mobile Money Adoption in Kenya, TechCrunch, March 25, 2020  Zipline?s drones are delivering medical supplies and PPE in North Carolina, The Verge, May 2020 Walmart drone deliveries, The Verge, Sept 2020 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-03-24
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Racialized Trauma is Solvable

Resmaa Menakem is an author and psychotherapist working in Minneapolis Minnesota. As a specialist focused on racial trauma, Menakem works to help people metabolize intergenerational pain and pay attention to the cues their bodies are communicating rather than burying them. Here are links that Menakem recommends to learn more about trauma and systemic racism, and links to some tools that can help to address both. Hotlines for Survivors of Violence and Trauma My Grandmother?s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem  More about Somatic Abolitionism from Resmaa Menakem Me and White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo Adrienne Maree Brown: http://adriennemareebrown.net/ Rachel Cargle: https://www.rachelcargle.com/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-03-17
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Extreme Poverty in New York City is Solvable

Andrew Yang is running for Mayor of New York City and he thinks that extreme poverty is a solvable problem. Here are some links to learn more about universal basic income and guaranteed minimum income.  ?2021 Will Be the Year of Guaranteed Income Experiments,? Bloomberg News, Jan 4, 2021 ?Andrew Yang's 'People's Bank' to Help Distribute Basic Income to 55K New Yorkers,? Newsweek, Feb 17, 2021 ?Universal Basic Income: A Thoroughly Wrongheaded Idea,? Forbes, Jan 16, 2019 ?Free cash handouts: What is universal basic income or UBI,? CNBC, June 27, 2019 ?Payment Guaranteed: How Would Universal Basic Income Affect Business?? Business News Daily, May 11, 2020 ?Universal Basic Income: Purpose, Pros and Cons,?The Balance, Aug 19, 2020  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-03-10
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The Lack of Basic Sanitation in the United States is Solvable

Catherine Coleman Flowers is the Founder and Director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. She was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2020 for her work researching and documenting America?s waste water failures.  Learn more: Have you faced local sanitation issues in the US? We want to hear from you, The Guardian, 2021 Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret By Catherine Coleman Flowers Catherine Coleman Flowers, Class of 2020, MacArthur Foundation Biden Urged to Back Water Bill in Amid US Worst Crisis in Decades, The Guardian, 2021 The people suffering have to have a seat at the table, Southerly Dec. 2020 At Canaan?s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 By Taylor Branch Solvable's senior producer is Jocelyn Frank. Research and booking by Lisa Dunn. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-03-03
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The Problems of Regulating Algorithms are Solvable

Nathan Matias is a professor at Cornell University and leads the Citizens and Technology Lab. He believes that the strong tradition of scrappy, responsive, citizen science (which has led to positive changes in food safety and quality assurance regulations) can also bring positive changes to how algorithms impact our lives.  The Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University Mozilla Foundation- volunteer opportunities   Algorithmic Justice League  Joy Buolamwini, TED Talk, Fighting Bias in Algorithms The Markup Consumer Reports The History of the Good Housekeeping Institute Elinor Ostrom?s Work on Governing The Commons: An Appreciation, LSE Kurt Lewin, American Social Psychologist, Encyclopedia Britanica Democratic, Authoritarian, Laissez-Faire: What Type Of Leader Are You?, Forbes 2019 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-02-24
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Designing Digital Spaces That Bring Us Together Is Solvable

Eli Pariser is a social activist and technology entrepreneur. He sits on the U.S. Programs Board of the Open Society Foundation and the Information and Democracy Commission. He is currently co-director of the Civic Signals project with Talia Stroud, at the National Conference on Citizenship. To learn more about urban planing and digital design check out these links below: New Public by Civic Signals  What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?, Eli Pariser, TED Palaces For the People, Eric Klinenberg  The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William Whyte Run Your Own Social, A social media toolkit The Media is the Message, Marshall McLuhan Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-02-17
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Political Polarization is Solvable

Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, contributing writer at The Atlantic and a co-host of Solvable and she believes that political polarization is solvable. Learn more about the topics that Anne discussed with Jacob: Coexistence is the Only Option, The Atlantic, Jan 20, 2021 Quebec?s landmark 1995 independence referendum, The McGill Tribune, Nov 3, 2020 The Northern Ireland Peace Process, Council on Foreign Relations, March 5, 2020 Infrastructure and Peacebuilding, United Nations 2020 report of the Secretary General, January 2020 Bridging Divides: Trends in Demonstrations, Princeton University Over Zero, working to prevent identity-based violence Braver Angels, bringing red and blue together One in five voters (21%) said they supported the Capitol insurrection, YouGov survey, Jan 2021 Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank with research and booking by Lisa Dunn. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-02-10
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Civil War is Solvable (Again)

Juan Manuel Santos is credited with ending the long and violent civil war in Colombia. He believes that every conflict can have a solution. This episode originally published in 2019. Want to know more about making and maintaining peace in Colombia? Check out these links. Juan Manuel Santos, Nobel Prize, 2016 Colombia peace built by British veterans of IRA accord, The Sunday Times, 2016 Colombia Signs Peace Agreement with FARC rebels, The New York Times, 2016 Colombia?s Peace Deal Promised a New Era. So Why Are These Rebels Rearming? The New York Times, 2019 Three Years After the Signing of the Final Agreement in Colombia: Moving Toward Territorial Transformation, Notre Dame?s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,June 2020 Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank. Research and Booking by Lisa Dunn. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-02-03
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Rural Vaccine Distribution is Solvable

Dr. Anne Zink is the Chief Medical Officer for the state of Alaska and has helped to coordinate one of the nation's most successful vaccine distribution efforts to date. Dr. Zink believes that part of their success comes from the many people joining in to the enormous effort, in creative and meaningful ways. Want to learn more about how to volunteer to help with vaccine distribution? Contact your local health department and check out the links below. Volunteer with the American Red Cross How to Support Elderly Friends and Family During COVID-19, Cedars Sinai Volunteering during a pandemic, Sterling volunteers    Talking to Recipients about COVID-19 Vaccines, CDC.gov Frequently Asked Questions about COVID-19 Vaccination, CDC.gov Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Fact Sheet, FDA.gov Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Fact Sheet, FDA.gov Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank. Research and booking by Lisa Dunn. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-01-27
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Bad Habits Are Solvable

Dr. Wendy Wood is Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California. Here are some links to the studies referenced in this episode and a few stories: Reducing Elevator Energy Use: A comparison of posted feedback and reduced elevator convenience, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis How to Keep our Buildings from Making us Fat, Fast Company Finding a Closer Gym May Be the Key to Working Out More, Men?s Health Good Habits, Bad Habits, by Wendy Wood Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank. Research and booking by Lisa Dunn. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-01-20
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Vaccine Hesitancy is Solvable

Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice is the President and Dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine. Even though systemic racism and a history of medical abuses against people of color are indisputable, she believes that the lack of trust in the COVID-19 vaccine can, should, and will be reversed. Dr. Montgomery Rice suggested these links, from trusted sources, for more information about the COVID-19 vaccines. Information about the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, CDC Information about the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, CDC What to Expect after Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine, CDC COVID-19 vaccine information, National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Vaccines and Allergic Reactions, CDC Consider Joining a Clinical Trial, National Institutes of Health Phase 3 trial of Novavax investigational COVID-19 vaccine opens, National Institutes of Health Community Vaccination Saturdays, Morehouse School of Medicine Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2021-01-13
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Destructive Agriculture is Solvable

Rachel Stroer is the acting president of the Land Institute. She believes that many of the ecological and economic problems stemming from our current dependence on monoculture farming can be solved through investing in regenerative agriculture. Here are some ways to learn more! The Land Institute Project Drawdown Regenerative Annual Cropping, Project Drawdown The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Toensmeier Perennial Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Nuts, The Spruce Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-12-23
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Identifying Cost Effective Charities is Solvable

With so many worthy causes out there, GiveWell helps donors evaluate charities based on their ability to save and improve the greatest number of lives per dollar donated. Buddy Shah is the managing director of GiveWell. Here are some resources for learning more about informed giving. GiveWell The Life You Can Save, by Peter Singer Doing Good Better, by William MacAskill Strangers Drowning, by Larissa MacFarquhar Charity Watch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-12-16
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The Tech Gender Gap is Solvable (again)

Award-winning technologist Lady Mariéme Jamme is the founder of iamtheCODE. Her organization seeks to educate women and girls about coding and to empower young women with digital skills that allow them to shape their own futures. I Am The Code The Gender Gap in Internet Access: Using a Women-Centred Method, 2020 Open letter to Bono and Bob Geldof, 2010 Marieme Jamme Women Who Code Girls Who Code Scratch, Info For Parents Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-12-09
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Solvable: The Depression and Anxiety We Can All Expect During This Pandemic

Astronaut Scott Kelly is no stranger to the impacts of social isolation after spending 520 days in space. He talks with Jacob Weisberg about how to confront the depression and anxiety that we can all expect during this pandemic. Here are some additional resources that Scott Kelly recommends: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ https://connect2affect.org/ Endurance by Alfred Lansing Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery, by Scott Kelly How Volunteering Can Help your Mental Health, Greater Good The Happiness Lab (podcast) Knowable, Go For Launch, course with Scott Kelly Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista. Senior producer: Jocelyn Frank. Managing producer: Catherine Girardeau. Executive producer: Mia Lobel. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-11-25
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Remote Music Collaboration Online (in real time) is Solvable

Mike Dickey is co-founder and chairman of the JackTrip Foundation and the creator of Virtual Studio. The awkward and disjointed experience of making music over the internet is a solvable problem. Virtual Studio is a device that works with the open source software application JackTrip to enable musicians of all ages to collaborate across locations online. Virtual Studio JackTrip Open Source Software Application JamKazam 11 Tools for Collaborating on Music Remotely Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-11-18
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Culturally Competent and Financially Sustainable Healthcare

Dr. Lutfi Lokman co-founded Hospitals Beyond Boundaries to provide culturally competent and financially sustainable healthcare. His clinic follows a model pioneered by Muhammad Yunus (founder of the Grameen Bank) which leans on cross-subsidization to address the healthcare needs of economically diverse communities. Here are a few additional resources related to this episode: Hospitals Beyond Boundaries NGOs in Cambodia: It?s Complicated The Diplomat, Dec. 2013 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-11-11
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Political Demonization is Solvable (again)

Flavia Kleiner is the co-founder of Operation Libero. The organization works to combat populism in Switzerland. Operation Libero has launched and won a variety of proactive campaigns to promote a more diverse and inclusive Switzerland. (This conversation was originally published in 2019) Here are a few additional resources related to this episode: Change the narrative: how a Swiss group is beating rightwing populists, The Guardian April 2019 Swiss voters appear to reject limiting jobs for EU citizens, Associated Press, Sept 2020 Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Kobe Guilford, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-10-28
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Disinformation is Solvable

Emily Bazelon is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She believes that disinformation is solvable.  Want to learn more about this and get more involved? Here are some ways to do so: ?The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation,? Emily Bazelon for the New York Times Magazine, Oct 15, 2020 The Cyber Policy Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Election Integrity Partnership Avaaz Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society  The Landscape For Campaign Finance, 10 Years After Citizens United, Ari Shapiro with Nate Persily for NPR, Jan 21, 2020 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-10-21
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Solvable: Stereotypical Refugee Narratives

Ahmed Badr is an Iraqi-American writer, social entrepreneur, former refugee and the founder of Narratio. Narratio is a creative platform and set of initiatives that carve out spaces for displaced young people to transcend the tragedies that may have initially caused their displacement. Here are a few additional resources related to this episode: Narratio.org While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World  Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-10-07
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The Slow Regrowth of Vulnerable Coral Reefs is Solvable

Saving coral reefs will take a lot of teamwork and collaboration across scientists, industries and individuals. One important tool is micro-fragmentation and re-skinning. Sarah Hamlyn is a scientist at the Mote Marine Labs? Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reefs Research and Restoration. She helps maintain 21 species of stony and branching coral and works to regrow damaged coral reefs off the Florida coast 40 to 50 times faster than they can regrow in the wild. Here are a few additional resources related to this episode: FishWatch.gov Slow Release Fertilizers  Mote?s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-09-30
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Wildfire Ignition is Solvable

Eric Appel is a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University. His lab has designed an improved delivery system for fire retardant to keep fires from starting across hotspots and known ignition areas. Here are a few additional resources related to this episode: Wildfire prevention through prophylactic treatment of high-risk landscapes using viscoelastic retardant fluids, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) Stanford researchers have developed a gel-like fluid to prevent wildfires, Stanford News Phos-Chek fire retardant Developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans, US Forest Service Mitigate Wildfire Risk, US Forest Service Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-09-23
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COVID-19 Transmission is Solvable

Michael Mina is an epidemiologist and immunologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital.  Here are a few of the resources related to this episode: Additional articles on rapid tests Trump to Announce $750 million deal with Abbott, CNBC August 27, 2020 @michaelmina_lab Sample letter about rapid tests to send to your representatives www.RapidTests.org Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel. Special thanks to Heather Fain, Eric Sandler, Carly Migliori and Khadijah Holland. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
2020-09-16
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