Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Lindy Elkins-Tanton - Recognizing flourishing, leading teams, and an education for living


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Lindy Elkins-Tanton is one of the world's foremost scientists. Couple that with an unprecedented understanding of how teams work and a sense of care that is exceedingly rare in our world and you recognize her for what she is: altogether unexampled. Her's is a story of exploration, of universe, of planet, of society, and of self. 

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Show Notes:

  • Her memoir: A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman (04:40)
  • A Feeling for the Organism by Fox Keller (11:40)
  • Tronto and Fisher on an ethics of care (14:40)
  • ongoingness and Danielle Allen (15:30)
  • The Great Askers (Episode 1 on Origins and an essay) (23:00)
  • Rubric for assessing the excellence of questions (24:15)
  • Psyche mission (26:00)
  • The Science of Team Science (26:30)
  • The Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State (44:00)
  • Worldbuilding and NK Jemisin (47:00)
  • Dawnby Octavia Butler (47:20)
  • Lightning Round (49:20)
    • Book: The Captive Mindby Czesław Miłosz
    • Passion: living and working with animals
    • Heart sing: photographing and mosaicking 
    • Screwed up: early relationships
  • Find Lindy online:
    • https://lindyelkinstanton.com/
  • 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
    • Lindy’s playlist


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