Open Questions Podcast – Open Questions Podcast

This is the second part of my conversation with the environmental enthusiasts Gunnar Rundgren and Claudia French.

In this closing episode of 2012 I speak with Pär Holmgren - meteorologist, educator, writer and speaker on the issues of climate change. Pär talks about what scientists know about climate change and that has received attention in the main-stream media but also about the less known to the general public information.

My guest is Hugo Mercier, cognitive scientist at Université de Neuchâtel, interested in the way people reason. Together with Dan Sperber, Hugo has developed an argumentative theory of reasoning according to which our reasoning abilities have been designed by evolution to allow us to exchange arguments rather than to reason on our own.

My guest is Ellen Bakker, a singer and vocal coach from the Netherlands, who sees it as her mission to contribute to healthy, effective and 'happy' vocal habits, for singers and speakers alike. Learn the imaginary technique of projecting the voice into the back of your head, that results in a bigger and warmer sound and much more!

In this episode I speak with Leif Lindh, the founder of Gårdsjö Elkpark, a place where everyone is guaranteed a chance to come close to a moose. We discuss the charm of these magnificent animals, how Leif first came up with the idea of starting an animal park and what it takes to make something like this happen.

I speak with Emily White about her memoir Lonely: Learning to Live With Solitude, in which Emily recounts her struggle to comprehend and overcome her chronic loneliness. Emily discusses some of the roots of loneliness and how the existing in the Western societies stigma around the state makes it harder for people who feel isolated and rejected, to batter loneliness.

In this episode Dr Dave and I discuss pre-cognitive and psychic dreams, synchronicities and simple but effective techniques to improve our dream recall. Dr Dave, host of Shrink Rap Radio Psychology Podcast and Wise Council Podcast, also talks about his podcasting career, its challenges and rewards.

Psychologist and podcaster Dr David Van Nuys talks about the benefits of keeping a dream journal and of being part of a dream group. Dr Dave shares some of his experience of working through real life examples of nightmares and how we can use nightmares in our dream life as growth opportunities in the waking life.

I talk over Skype with psychologist and host of the Shrink Rap Radio Psychology Podcast Dr David Van Nuys. "Dr Dave" talks about Freud's and Jung's understanding of the unconscious and the functions of dreams and the methods the two big minds used to work with dreams. Follow the drama as self-diagnosed (diagnosis: chronically ironic) and interested in psychology Baasztian passionately sings out his desire of "killing lew wallace", the inventor of the snooze button, on this track from his latest album.

I speak with Gözde Sütçü about the transformative power of art and how painting without concern for the outcome increased her self-understanding and helped her release the pain she had been carrying for years.