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Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects. Right now, you are orbiting a black hole. The Earth goes around the Sun, and the Sun goes around the center of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole—the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy. In this podcast series, we are trying to uncover the weird and wonderful world of black holes, from the collapse of massive stars to the iconic first photographs of a black hole in 2019. A cosmic tale of discovery, here we discuss why black holes aren’t really ‘black,’ that you never want to be ‘spaghettified,’ how black holes are more like sofa cushions than hoovers, and why beyond the event horizon, the future is a direction in space rather than in time. In this first part of the podcast series, Roy explains how Stars are formed and how their graveyards are made from white dots to black holes.

Episode hosts: Roy Vrindavanam & Bino Manjasseril

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“Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.” – Anne Wilson Schaef

In this conversation with Dr Smriti Murali Krishna, she is answering our health questions with an emphasis on cardiovascular health.

Dr Krishna is a Research Officer and a Senior Scientist in the field of cardiovascular diseases. Her work has been published in many leading specialist journals. Dr Krishna has a strong interest in research for community benefit and has been involved in mentoring, lecturing, collaborating and interacting with immigrant community, culturally & linguistically diverse community, hospital advisory council etc.

Episode hosts: Dr Smriti Murali Krishna  & Bino Manjasseril

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Let's talk about feminism!

Joining me today Jeena Rajesh (Author of the book Akkaldhamayile Silpi Paranja Katha) in a conversation on feminism and women's rights in the context of several recent social events.

Episode hosts: Jeena Rajesh & Bino Manjasseril

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In the past few episodes, we have addressed the question of the relevancy of socialism in the modern world.
Today, we are exploring the other side of the coin, capitalism. 
Whether you like it or not, capitalism has impacted the majority of the people who currently live in this world. 
Whether it’s a positive or negative impact is something that is subjective.
Today’s guest, Stanley Samuel, is bringing some relevant arguments for capitalism and helping us to address a few common challenges in the economics, ethics, and sustainability of capitalism.

Episode hosts: Stanley Samuel & Bino Manjasseril

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How did Little Rock Nine change America? How did Panchami change Kerala? A peak into how youngsters played a crucial role in making education accessible to marginalized. Contrasting two historically significant event that occurred in two different parts of the world in two different times.

Episode host: Bino Manjasseril

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In Part one of this two part series,  we addressed why Capitalism failed to deliver on its promises. In this episode we are looking into the economics and morality contrasting Capitalism and Socialism. Does Socialism solve the inherent instability and unsustainability of capitalism? We look into how socialism can make the economic process more democratic and ethical. 

We will also discuss a number of practical ways socialism can be implemented through the process of democratization of the workplaces and how worker Cooperatives (Workers self directed enterprises) can be a real game changer for achieving economic justice throughout the world.

Episode hosts: Roy Vrindavanam & Bino Manjasseril

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Is socialism or communism still relevant today? Is it an outdated economic system? Has it’s past failures indicate socialism cannot be revived? These are some of the questions we are attempting to address in this episode. 

In part one of this series, we want to analyze how capitalism is failing to deliver on its promises, the economic divide it created globally and its built-in inequality.  We touch on the history of both socialism and capitalism, it’s origins, failures and the effects in the global economy.

In part two, we will look into potential solutions to some of the problems capitalism has created,  and attempt to lay out the future and practicality of socialism through the democratization of our workplaces.

Episode hosts: Roy Vrindavanam & Bino Manjasseril

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Maitreyan answering questions on the pitfalls of current education system, basics of maintaining good physical health in light of how our bodies were evolved, COVID-19 pandemic related mental health issues, consciousness, hard problem of consciousness and evolution.

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When was the last time you made a significant decision in your life that you regretted later? If you were to backtrack your life today to that very same moment you made that decision, do you think you would have made a different decision?

This is the question Stanley and I are addressing today looking into how human mind operates on the issue of Free will.

Do we really have the freedom we think we have? After all, you made that decision to eat a fruit for snack, and not a cookie, out of your freewill, right? Well, it might be a little bit more complex than that.

If a person's choice to commit a crime  is determined by a certain pattern of neural activity, which is also the product of prior causes, bad genes, a dramatic childhood, lost sleep, or even cosmic-ray bombardment that mutated one of his genes, can we really say that his will was “free” when he committed that crime?

We understand an average person's basic intuition is wanting to punish criminals. But before we jump into that conclusion lets listen to this conversation. This might completely change your attitude towards criminals and make you more compassionate towards people who make bad choices in life.

Episode hosts: Stanley Samuel & Bino Manjasseril

References:

Sam Harris's Book on Free will
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Will_(book)

Sam Harris's  article on Illusion of Free will
https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-illusion-of-free-will

Does Benjamin Libet's finding's prove that the  action of lifting the hand were caused by the readiness potential? 
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/9/2172/files/2020/01/C11.pdf

A paper by Miller and Trevena (2009) show that the RP may only be the brain's preparation to make a conscious act, rather than a cause for it.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19736023/

An article from the popular press debunking Libet's experiment as a proof against free-will
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/

Laplace's Demon - his take on the deterministic nature of the universe, derived from classical mechanics occurs in his book A philosophical essay on probabilities (1814): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58881/58881-h/58881-h.htm

A critique of Sam Harris book on Free will by John Horgan:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/will-this-post-make-sam-harris-change-his-mind-about-free-will/

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Here is a conversation I had with Sam Mathew, a friend of mine, on his journey out of religious fundamentalism; to be specific, Christian fundamentalism. 

Sam is someone who comes full circle in terms of his intellectual curiosity about God and the universe; and I am sure you would find his storytelling so down to earth, honest, relatable and stimulating.

Sam’s narrative is a great example of someone who deliberately hung on to truthful seeking, which led him to a phenomenal evolution of personal growth, and a gradual development of a more progressive, inclusive and scientifically rooted mindset.

I am deeply grateful for his honesty and transparency about his own struggles through the different phases of his life’s journey, yet not hesitant to expose the hypocrisy, dishonesty and deceitfulness of religion.

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