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Yasmine Mohammed is an ex-Muslim Canadian educator, human rights activist and author who is critical of Islam. Mohammed, who escaped a forced, abusive marriage to an Al-Qaeda operative, became an advocate for women's rights through her non-profit organization Free Hearts, Free Minds. She is a member of the Center for Inquiry Speaker's Bureau and on the board of advisory for the Brighter Brains Ins...

Robert Llewellyn is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the TV engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He also presents a YouTube series, Fully Charged. Llewellyn was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. Llewellyn's first foray into the world of show business started out as a hobby, org...

Chrissie Blaze is the author of 12 books, a metaphysician and astrologer. She has been a student/practitioner of the psychic and spiritual sciences from a young age. She is a regular media guest and conducts lectures and classes in the U.S.A. and U.K. Blaze is a professional astrologer who qualified at the Faculty of Astrological Studies, London in the early 1980s. She qualified as a lecturer with...

Nehemiah Davis is a yogi and teacher of mystic practices. From early childhood Nehemiah’s father (Althair H. Davis) taught him to manipulate cosmic energies (prana) through prayer and mantra with metaphysical teachings that stress balanced karmic methods of actions through life. With this, his father instructed him in several forms of yoga, which included; karma yoga, hatha yoga, bhakti yoga, raja...

Ayub Malik is a Spiritual pioneer and Expansion Committee member of the international spiritual organisation called The Aetherius Society – a group which has a unique and very active role in the Divine Plan for the enlightenment and salvation of humanity that is gradually unfolding.  He was born into a large traditional muslim family in England, and is based in London, United Kingdom.  H...

Lama Karma is a Milwaukee native who first left home to attend college at Columbia University in NYC. After a long period of desperation and depression, he found a bit of light in studying the non-dual teachings of Sufiism, Christianity, and the Indo-Tibetan tradition of Buddhist philosophy. Through developing a connection with teachers such as Robert Thurman and Peter Awn, he wrote a wordy honors...

A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews. 1 Vaccinate 2 A Girl Called Corona 3 Apophenia 4 Unnecessary Music 5 Something That Sounds Like A Song 6 The Mighty Sun 7 If The Bombs Go Off 8 Civilise...

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is an intellectual who speaks to the complex dynamics of the American experience.  His most well-known books, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul , and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America , take a wide look at black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States, and the challenges our democracy face. ...

Lawrence Krauss is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project, now called ASU Interplanetary Initiative, to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director. Krauss is an advocate for public understanding...

Tom Nichols is an academic specialist on international affairs, currently a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and at the Harvard Extension School. His work deals with issues involving Russia, nuclear weapons, and national security affairs. He was previously a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and the John F...

Christopher Ryan is an American author best known for co-authoring the book Sex at Dawn. He received a B.A. in English and American literature in 1984, and an M.A. and Ph. D. in psychology from Saybrook University, an accredited hybrid low-residency/online learning program based in San Francisco, twenty years later. His master's thesis examined differences in specific personality measures between...

Kate Hudson has been General Secretary of CND since 2010, having served as chair since 2003. She first became active in the peace movement in the early 1980s in the big upsurge of activity against cruise missiles. One of her proudest moments was helping to Embrace the Base at Greenham Common in December 1982, along with 30,000 other women. With the end of the Cold War, like many others, Kate felt...

Mark Bennett is an International Director of  The Aetherius Society , a worldwide spiritual organisation, whose teachings of King Yoga he chose as his spiritual path at an early age. His varied work includes spreading spiritual wisdom through giving radio interviews and lectures around the UK. His television appearances include being invited as an expert to take part in two live debates on th...

Sodajerker is a songwriting team from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Founded by co-writers Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor, Sodajerker is the creative outlet for two friends raised on the celebrated songbooks of such luminaries as Lennon and McCartney, Bacharach and David, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Goffin and King and The Chic Organisation. Like the profession from which they take their name, Soda...

"I am a game designer with experience in a very small niche. I create and research games designed to be played in reality. I’ve worked in Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), LARPs, experience fiction, interactive theater, and “serious games”. Stories and games that can start on a computer, and finish in the real world. Fictions designed to feel as real as possible. Games that teach you. Puzzles that c...

Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiologist and health economist and a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC, and Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International. He was previously a faculty and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Chan School of Public Health between 2004-2020, and an epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  In Janu...

A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.

Maria Neira joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993 as the Coordinator of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control. In 1999, she became the Director of the Department of Control, Prevention and Eradication. She was then appointed as the Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health in 2005. During her career, Maria also worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in refu...

Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members. Shermer engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific s...

Marc Lipsitch is an American epidemiologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. He is currently working on modeling the transmission of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Lipsitch attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosop...

Murilo Gun is a speaker, master of ceremonies, professor of creativity and founder of Keep Learning School .  LYRICS: Everything is perfect Faultless without a defect Everything you've ever been through. Happened exactly as it was meant to    Everything is perfect Everything's exquisite The world & everything in it I love it all, my heart is bursting. But nobody sees it, that's...

Robby Soave is an award-winning American journalist based in Washington, D.C. He is an editor at Reason. He enjoys writing about college news, education policy, criminal justice reform, and television. Soave has penned articles for The New York Times, New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, The Orange County Register, and The Detroit News. In 2016, Forbes named him to the 2016 "30 U...

Laura Nirider is a lawyer and the co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth. Nirider represents individuals who were wrongfully convicted of crimes when they were children or teenagers and specialises in areas such as confessions and police interrogations. Her clients include Brendan Dassey , whose case was profiled in the Netflix Global series Making a Murderer, and Damien Echols...

Binalakshmi Nepram is a humanitarian, author, and female activist for the advocacy of gender rights and women-led disarmament movements with the objective of arresting gun culture and bringing about peace for her home state of Manipur in particular and northeast India in general. For her contributions in this field to Manipur and northeast India she is known by the epithet "The Face & Voice of...

Justin Wolfers is an Australian economist and public policy scholar. He is professor of economics and public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Wolfers holds a Ph. D. in Economics (1997–2001) and an Master of Economics (2000), both from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of E...