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 See omnystudio.c...
Jun 30, 2021•22 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 23, 2021•18 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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’ Afte...
Jun 16, 2021•28 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 09, 2021•13 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 tha...
Jun 02, 2021•23 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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 m...
May 26, 2021•28 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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 st...
May 19, 2021•29 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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 ...
May 12, 2021•18 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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 ...
May 05, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 37
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 D...
Apr 28, 2021•21 min•Season 2Ep. 36
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 eb...
Apr 27, 2021•10 min
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 Priz...
Apr 21, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 35
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 ou...
Apr 14, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 34
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 Tale...
Apr 07, 2021•12 min•Season 2Ep. 33
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 Appro...
Mar 31, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 32
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 Z...
Mar 24, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 31
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 Mena...
Mar 17, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 30
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:...
Mar 10, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 29
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...
Mar 03, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 28
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 Algorit...
Feb 24, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 27
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 Fo...
Feb 17, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 26
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 Na...
Feb 10, 2021•35 min•Season 2Ep. 25
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...
Feb 03, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 24
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 ...
Jan 27, 2021•20 min•Season 2Ep. 23
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...
Jan 20, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 22
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-...
Jan 13, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 23
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 ...
Dec 23, 2020•16 min•Season 2Ep. 20
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....
Dec 16, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 19
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 S...
Dec 09, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 18
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 Healt...
Nov 25, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 17
