It’s Turing, not Turning! Please do your homework!

Always enjoy topics presented and great interview partners are picked. I’ve learned a lot from various episodes. Listening from Germany.

A comprehensive exploration of historical ideas about the value, purposes and models of universal education. A glaring omission is any reference to half of those potential students: girls and women.

Excellent story told thru the lens of many.

We are stuffed to our gills with podcasts these days but IDEAS, which I guess is a radio show on Canada and is available everywhere else as a podcast, is one of the oldest and still one of the most thought provoking in its choice and treatment of subjects. Perhaps Canada doesn’t have much to show for itself in glorious civilization achievements but this modesty has been turned to its advantage because it can approach other cultures’ achievements with an open mind. I am particularly struck role played by the Palestinian-Canadian host Nahlah Ayed. She brings a Muslim sensibility and a Muslim bias to so many of the topics. I can think of no other country’s flagship radio station that has given so much prominence to Islamic culture and thought. I mean that as a compliment.

Lots of good ideas but light on details and support. Some are science by anecdote and others are just feelings.

Kind of blown away by the elegance with which this team has managed to integrate very rich and in-depth reflections on themes like authoritarian personality with narratives that bring the issues to life. Hollywood and war is eye opening and I am teaching and researching in these areas — definitely an incentive to up my game in the classroom and a very valuable and mesmerizing resource for us all.

If only American public radio had the same freedom of expression.

This is by far the most consistently thought-provoking podcast I have found.

This was a thoughtful and interesting episode. The idea that identity and achievement should be separate is profound even if it sounds simple. I would quibble though that we (Americans, at least) should get off the success/failure see-saw. What about « the timid souls » anyway, and what really is success? In America it’s hard to see the case for it being other than money, credentials, and expensive possessions. The woman with the failed start-up reminded me, by complete contrast, with Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos fame whose moral failings are on trial. The former woman is a moral success. I have spent my life feeling that I failed at most things I tried, that I have too few presentable achievements. But I turned 70 and realize it hardly matters; in spite of whatever is lacking I do have an identity built on books, travel, questions, curiosities, and relationships. It’s not bad for a life.