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Episode 104: Joes de Natris (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joes-de-natris/) graduated from LUC, majoring in GED, in 2014. He did a Research Masters at the University of Amsterdam in social sciences, and is now doing a PhD in Economics at the University of Groningen working on the political economy of Dutch local governments and working as a researcher at the Centre for research on local government economics (COELO).

Joes's blog:

https://policonomy.wordpress.com/

Covid:

https://thecoronakremlinologists.wordpress.com

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/616669/

https://sketchplanations.com/the-swiss-cheese-model

Hayek and Schumacher:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom

https://www.econlib.org/what-would-hayek-do-knowledge-and-vaccines/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful

Episode 103: Willem Zents (https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemzents and https://wbhz.github.io) is an MSc Candidate in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He's interested in applying data science techniques to better understand how humans behave in an increasingly complex, digital world. In particular, his work focuses how technology shapes economic life. Willem graduated from LUC's GED major in 2019.

Weapons of Math Destruction (DZ's review):

http://www.kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/02/weapons-of-math-destruction-the-review

The A-Z of AI developed by my department and Google: https://atozofai.withgoogle.com/intl/en-US/

On the need for social data science: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/why-social-data-science-matters-to-societal-resilience/

On Google Flu Trends: https://www.wired.com/2015/10/can-learn-epic-failure-google-flu-trends/

Classic social data science for economic development example: http://sustain.stanford.edu/predicting-poverty

Cool talk on countering COVID misinformation on closed platforms like Whatsapp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlWM5oksrSE

On why social science matters more than ever in the age of big data:

https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1512&context=asc_papers

Sociological perspective on big data: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198843498.001.0001/oso-9780198843498-chapter-11

Episode 102: Paul Behrens (https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-behrens-6b586427/) is an author and academic in environmental change at Leiden University. His popular science book The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science describes humanity’s possible futures in paired chapters of pessimism and hope is available September 2020. He wrote Food and Sustainability a transdisciplinary textbook with colleagues, out January 2020 with Oxford University Press. His research on food, energy and climate change has appeared in leading scientific journals and in 2018 he was awarded Leiden University’s Discoverer of the Year. His work on science communication has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, and the BBC.

Paul's book:

https://www.theindigopress.com/the-best-of-times

UK Climate (Citizen) Assembly

https://www.climateassembly.uk

Paul's past appearance (JT 72): https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/72-paul-behrens-brings-hope-to-our-sustainability-challenges

Episode 101: Kristin Makszin (https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/kristin-makszin#tab-2) is an Assistant Professor of Political Economy. She completed her PhD in Political Science at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She researches political economy and public policy in Europe, with a focus on social and monetary policy and the complex interaction of public and private, international and domestic, political and bureaucratic actors and their influence on policy outcomes.

Links:

Some analysis of the Canadian child allowance:

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-pros-and-cons-of-canadas-child-benefit

A summary of the academic debates over the paradox of redistribution:

https://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/is-the-paradox-of-redistribution-dead/

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2017/05/31/rethinking-the-universalism-versus-targeting-debate/

The original Welfare Queen

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-true-story-behind-the-welfare-queen-stereotype

https://www.sceneonradio.org/episode-33-made-in-america-seeing-white-part-3/

"In the colony of Virginia, in 1640, an African indentured servant by the name of John Punch runs away from his servitude. John has figured out that this wasn’t what he imagined it to be. Interestingly, John doesn’t run away alone. He runs away with a Dutchman and a Scotsman. They are all indentured servants; they are all living in identical circumstance."

Episode 100 (released 2 Nov 2020): Femke Gunneweg checks in a year after we last spoke. In this conversation, we talk about her time with Extinction Rebellion, what she learned on various jobs and travel, and how she's doing with her new university choices :)

Links:

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/47-femke-gunneweg-acts-on-the-climate-threat

Enactus: http://enactusmaastricht.nl/

Jay Shetty's On Purpose Podcast: https://jayshetty.me/podcast/

Episode 99: David Ehrhardt (http://www.davidehrhardt.com)is an Associate Professor in International Development at Leiden University College (LUC). He studies the role of informal authorities and other brokers in governance and development, particularly in Africa, and experiments with new ways to teach transferable skills to students and practitioners. He teaches international development and African studies.

Episode 98: Adam Buben (https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/adam-buben#tab-1) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Leiden University. His research explores the topic of death in the history of philosophy, the varied impact of technological developments on the philosophy of death, and the desirability of immortality. Before coming to the Netherlands, Adam spent time studying and teaching in Denmark, Guam, Japan, and the US.

__Links__

Find happiness by contemplating your mortality:

https://www.wecroak.com/

What is philosophy?

https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2020/10/10/philosophy/

A Future Without Goodbyes? Hanging Out with the Virtual Dead.

https://livewire.thewire.in/personal/a-future-without-goodbyes-hanging-out-with-the-virtual-dead/

VPRO documentary “The Future is Fantastic,” Episode 6: Death (21 Nov 2019) https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/de-toekomst-is-fantastisch/kijk/afleveringen/aflevering-6.html#

Episode 97: Joris Larik (twitter.com/JorisLarik) is Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law. He is an expert in EU external relations, comparative foreign relations law, global governance, and the external ramifications of Brexit. His work has been acknowledged with several awards, and he's often busy talking with policy makers as well as academic crowds.

Episode 77: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/77-joris-larik-explains-brexit-chaos

Declaration on the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations https://undocs.org/A/75/L.1

UNA-UK statement on the finalisation of the UN75 Declaration

https://www.una.org.uk/news/una-uk-statement-finalisation-un75-declaration

What Impact Do U.S. Contributions Have on UN Agencies and Programs? https://tinyurl.com/y6bajkym

UN 2.0: Ten Innovations for Global Governance https://tinyurl.com/yyd95szu

Episode 96: In this episode, Niall Farrell, an Irish academic, interviewed me for his podcast, At the Margin (https://www.irisheconpod.com), where this episode will also appear. We discuss many important questions on how we (mis)manage water, pricing water (or carbon) for scarcity without harming the poor, and so on.

The struggle for residential water metering in England and Wales

https://www.kysq.org/pubs/Art9-1-6.pdf

My book (free to D/L) Living with Water Scarcity

https://www.kysq.org/lwws/

Citizen regulators

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2014/07/do-you-trust-your-neighbors/

Episode 95: Lisa Andrews (https://www.kwrwater.nl/en/experts-expertises/experts/lisa-andrews-2/) works as a researcher in the Innovation and Valorisation team at KWR (Watercycle Research Institute) and is also the Engagement Manager for Watershare. Her work is divided between research and the practical application of engagement, knowledge transfer, learning theories, science communication, and collaboration across EU and international projects. Aside from her work at KWR, Lisa works on international consulting projects with The Nature Conservancy, IWA, and the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities. She is also currently serving on the SWAN Forum Rising Smart Water Professionals (RiSWP) 2020 Leadership Team.

Motto: "Science only helps if people can understand it."

KWR -- Sewage surveillance projects

https://www.kwrwater.nl/en/actueel/covid-19-publicaties/

Podcast with colleague Gertjan Medema

https://soundcloud.com/user-647738337/how-is-the-recent-corona-research-preparing-us-for-current-and-future-pandemics%C2%A0

Report on Science and Crisis Communication

https://www.kwrwater.nl/en/actueel/how-to-effectively-communicate-science-during-a-public-health-crisis-covid19/

Sewers4covid website:

https://devpost.com/software/sewers4covid

Anglian water explains COVID to customers:

https://www.anglianwater.co.uk/help-and-advice/coronavirus/

Shop window raising awareness on saving water and money

https://www.anglianwater.co.uk/news/pop-to-the-smarter-drop-shop--its-top/

My paper on Dutch drinking water companies: https://www.kysq.org/pubs/NL-DWCs.pdf

City water project: https://kysq.org/cwp/

Blog post, testing at the tap: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2013/04/delivering-water-quality-to-the-tap/