Episodes

  • Episode 48 (with Deb Roy and Alex Kelly Berman)

    Episode 48 (with Deb Roy and Alex Kelly Berman)
    Dec 21 2024

    Part 2 of our 3 part series on MIT's Cortico project. Deb Roy and Alex Kelly Berman join Night Owls to further explain how Cortico's mission and how it works.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 47 (With Deb Roy and Kathy Cramer)

    Episode 47 (With Deb Roy and Kathy Cramer)
    Dec 11 2024
    Cortico, in collaboration with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC), has built a platform that connects rather than divides communities, and in so doing, helps create a healthier society. We talked to its CEO and co-founder, Deb Roy, and one of its Directors, Prof. Kathy Cramer, about how it works and how it's working.
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    39 mins
  • Episode 46 (with Jane Metcalfe Part 2)

    Episode 46 (with Jane Metcalfe Part 2)
    Dec 4 2024

    Part Two of our interview with Jane Metclafe, a woman who saw the future clearly. Twice.

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    42 mins
  • Episode 45 (with Jane Metcalfe Part 1)

    Episode 45 (with Jane Metcalfe Part 1)
    Dec 3 2024

    Part One of our interview with Jane Metclafe, a woman who saw the future clearly. Twice.

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    33 mins
  • Episode 44 (Barbara Walter)

    Episode 44 (Barbara Walter)
    Nov 19 2024

    An interview with University of California San Diego Professor Barbara Walter, whose book -- "How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them" -- examines the risk factors that presage civil wars. Those factors are "anocracy," factionalism, loss of power and loss of hope, all hyper-linked by social media. The U.S. has been on her watch list for civil war for some time. She's keeping it there.

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    1 hr
  • Night Owls Episode 43

    Night Owls Episode 43
    Nov 2 2024

    A last look at the 2024 presidential campaign. A disagreement about Jeff Bezos. A watershed moment in Germany. And more!

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    55 mins
  • Episode 42 (with RIta Singh)

    Episode 42 (with RIta Singh)
    Oct 19 2024
    Rita Singh is one of the leading voice forensics scientists in the world. In this podcast, she discusses her work at length; what our voices tell us about our physical stature, our ethnicity, our age, our health, our honesty, our intentions and our mental states. It's riveting.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Night Owls Episode 40

    Night Owls Episode 40
    Oct 3 2024

    Three topics -- the VP debate, the Middle East and Hurricane Helene -- in 30 minutes. Joe's experience covering the Middle East is on full display.

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    36 mins