Yet the atmosphere in the city is tense. There is hope, but also frustration in the air. The political situation is uncertain, and the unemployment rate high. Private parks have opened. The governor’s office has been razed. Street vendors are no longer harassed by the police. People talk about politics in public. Taking part in this discussion at this time is something
Source : Polis
Thinking allowed covers two topics in every episode, it is hosted by Laurie Taylor a professor of social science. What makes this show great is that the host is actually trying to get the guests to enter into a dialogue with both the listeners and the subject matter.
Take a listen and let me know what you think. The listener feedback he reads out between the two parts of the show are some of the most insightful I have ever heard on radio.
“How does urban geography effect the way societies develop? What have streets given to politics?”
Place, Politics, Policy
Source :Thinking Allowed
“In an age that some describe as filled with anxiety and uncertainty, are we breeding a kind of fatalism towards the future that excludes any notion of utopia?”
Philosophy, Social Science
Source : Thinking Allowed
“The United States does not have the highest living standard in the world – The washing machine has changed the world more than the internet – People in poor countries are more entrepreneurial than people in rich countries: Three contentions from the economist Ha-Joon Chang”
Economics, Policy
Source : Thinking Allowed
“The British government is seeking to develop a way to accurately measure the happiness of the population. In France such a gauge already exists, but is happiness really the proper goal of life?”
Happiness, Culture
Source : Thinking Allowed
“We should regard ourselves as citizens of the world rather than members of nations..
Culture, Nations
Source : Thinking Allowed
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“When there is no longer any violence, there is no need for help Therefore you should not demand help, but abolish violence. Help and violence form a whole And the whole has to be changed” – Brecht
“It’s no coincidence that when this government came into power almost the first thing it did was raise VAT rates so that ordinary people would pay more tax and then cut corporate tax rates.”
Economics, Policy, Tax Rate,UK
Source :The Guardian
“Juan Carlos’ comments about countering gang activity through positive use of public space strike an important tone in the role of public space in Medellin.”
Community, Culture, Place, Urban
Source : Connective Spaces
“Acceptance of failure. Finally, if all of this so far makes Swedes sound like superhumans, take heart. They do in fact fail – pretty often, as it turns out. But here again a good cultural pressure-release valve comes to their assistance: a willingness to accept and learn from failure. While other cultures might blindly contend that failure is not an option, Swedes generally accept that some failure is bound to happen.”
Culture, Policy, Sweden
Source : Creative Social Blog
“When Murdoch heard the news that John Major had been re-elected he was on the lot at Twentieth Century Fox. He said two words: ” We Won” “
Media, UK, Culture
Source : BBC
“Thus seen, the ‘freedom’ of a market is, like beauty, in the eyes of the beholder. If you believe that the right of children not to have to work is more important than the right of factory owners to be able to hire whoever they find most profitable, you will not see a ban on child labour as an infringement on the freedom of the labour market. If you believe the opposite, you will see an ‘unfree’ market, shackled by a misguided government regulation.”
Economics, Culture, Markets, Global, Policy
Source : Truthout
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“It is the difference between the “organic” solution (solving the problem by returning to the purity of the original non-corrupted system) and the truly radical solution (identifying the problem as the “symptom” of the entire system, the symptom which can only be resolved by abolishing the entire system)”. – Living in the End Times – Slavoj Zizek
“Soda is still the most-consumed beverage in the U.S., with the average consumer chugging nearly 45 gallons of the fizzy stuff last year. So it’s no coincidence that three of the biggest measured-media budgets in the beverage category belong to soda brands.”
Culture, Health, Food
Source :Adage
“Many donors do care about how their money is spent. Brian Walsh, director of global social engagement at Liquidnet for Good, pointed to a recent study that showed 85 percent of donors say they care about performance. Nonetheless, only one third say they conduct research before they make a donation and only 3 percent say they make gifts based on a charity’s performance”
Nonprofit, Grants, Culture
Source : Philanthropy.com
““But maybe it should be. For me, a professional who is pushing every day to make a struggling museum relevant and sustainable, I find incredible joy in these simple visitor comments.”
Place, Culture, Museum
Source : Museumtwo
“Combined with Social Security benefit cuts, the rise of 401(k)s has led to growing retirement insecurity and an increase in the labor force participation of older workers. Still, workers with only 401(k)s are better off than the nearly half of full-time workers with no retirement plan at all.
Economics, Culture, Work
Source : EPI.org
“If we really want people to understand a given probability, then we have to play to the human brain’s strengths, and adjust how we present the information.”
Technology, Humans, Culture
Source : Arstechnica
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“Ignorance is the mother of arrogance – Hans Hoffman”
“Like every good artist, he makes us see the everyday differently but he does it without the pretension of so many other artists.”
Art, Commentary, Everyday
Source :The Guardian
“Everything I’ve ever learned about marketing, I learned in church,” says Andrea, one of the people featured in this film.”
Marketing, Ritual, Culture
Source : The Guardian
““After intense lobbying, banks won deregulation of commodities markets in the US in 2000, allowing them to develop these new products. Goldman Sachs pioneered commodity index funds”
Food, Poverty, Policy
Source : The Guardian
“I acknowledge that video games could be an amazing art form – but not until the people making them go back a bit, to the Aaron Sorkin way of thinking about character and motivation.”
Writing, Culture, Stories
Source : The Guardian
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Collected Reading 