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Mary Aiken is a Cyberpsychologist and Chair of the Department of Cyberpsychology Capitol Technology University in Laurel Maryland. She is a member of the Interpol Global Cybercrime Expert Group.

Want to learn more? Here are links to additional resources Dr. Aiken recommends:

The Cyber Blue Line (Aiken & Amann ) https://www.europol.europa.eu/europol-spotlight/europol-spotlight-cyber-blue-line

 The Cyber Effect - how human behavior changes online (Aiken, 2016)  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyber-Effect-Pioneering-Cyberpsychologist-Explains/dp/0812997859

 Manipulating Fast and Slow (Aiken, 2018 )  https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/manipulating-fast-and-slow#:~:text=As%20a%20discipline%2C%20cyberpsychology%20focuses,emerging%20technologies%20on%20human%20behavior.&text=this%20article%2C%20Dr.-,Mary%20Aiken%20talks%20about%20how%20the%20discipline%20helps%20us%20better,the%20context%20of%20recent%20elections.

15 minutes of Shame, Documentary HBO Max https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJrnNdH-aw

Master of Research (M.Res.) in Cyberpsychology https://www.captechu.edu/degrees-and-programs/masters-degrees/cyberpsychology-mres

Doctorate in Cyberpsychology https://www.captechu.edu/degrees-and-programs/doctoral-degrees/cyberpsychology-phd

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Sachar Mathias is the managing producer and Mia Lobel the executive producer.

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Wayne Modest is the Director of Content for the National Museum of Worldcultures and the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam and head of the Research Center of Material Culture. He is also professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Modest was previously, head of the curatorial department at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum in London, and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography in Kingston, Jamaica.

Additional resources that Dr. Modest recommends:

Decolonize This Place

https://decolonizethisplace.org/faxxx-1

Rhodes Must Fall

https://harvardpolitics.com/rhodes-must-fall/

Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage by Felwine Sarr and

Bénédicte Savoy

http://restitutionreport2018.com/sarr_savoy_en.pdf

Potential History, Unlearning Imperialism

by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3079-potential-history

History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas by Wilson Harris and Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe 

https://www.amazon.com/History-Fable-Myth-Caribbean-Guianas/dp/0911565205

Whiteness as Property by Cheryl Harris

https://harvardlawreview.org/1993/06/whiteness-as-property/

Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Global and Insurgent Legalities) By Brenna Bhandar

https://www.indiebound.org/buy-local/9780822371465

Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice 

By David Scott

https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=omens+of+adversity

Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire by Henrietta Lidchi, Stuart Allan, Alan Lester   

https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=Henrietta+Lidchi+dividing+the+spoils+

Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica by Deborah Thomas,

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822350688/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_thcv_p1_i1

Spotify playlist featuring

Peter Tosh, Equal Rights 

Bob Marley, Babylon System

Vybz Kartel: Reparations

Burning Spear, Days of Slavery

And more! 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wJXGFz7oHaXykSsESDVXM?si=251fe856f567481d

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and the Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.

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Jade Begay is the NDN collective’s Climate Justice Campaign Director. She is Diné and Tesuque Pueblo, has a Master of Arts degree in Environmental Leadership and is part of President Biden’s White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.

Here are some resources that Jade Begay mentions in this episode:

NDN Collective

https://ndncollective.org/

Chasing Ice, Documentary

https://chasingice.com/

Sal Y Cielo, Documentary

https://www.taylorfreesolorees.com/project/sal-y-cielo

The New Zealand river that became a legal person, BBC March 2020

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200319-the-new-zealand-river-that-became-a-legal-person

Will Northwest Seaweed Farming Finally Take Off?

https://www.nativeconservancy.org/2020/12/16/will-northwest-seaweed-farming-finally-take-off/

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, our managing producer is Sachar Mathias and our Executive Producer is Mia Lobel. 

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Dr. Susan Solomon’s research in the 1980’s confirmed that the presence of chlorofluorocarbons was largely responsible for the hole in the ozone and that led consumers, chemical companies and manufacturers to a path for fixing it. For her work, Solomon was awarded the National Medal of Science, the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore and was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in 2009. Solomon Glacier in Antarctica was named for her.

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Our managing producer is Sachar Mathias is the managing producer and Mia Lobel is the executive producer.

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Ronald Young Jr. talks with Malcolm Gladwell (author of David and Goliath and the co-founder of Pushkin Industries) about what we can learn about surviving our current challenges by studying human behavior during past eras of stress and national threat.

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Our managing producer is Sachar Mathias is the managing producer and Mia Lobel is the executive producer.

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Dr. Adrienne Keene is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She’s an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, co-hosts a podcast called “All My Relations” and she’s the author of the new book: Notable Native People.

Here are links to some resources that Dr. Keene mentions in this episode:

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene. Illustrations by Ciara Sana

Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States, Smithsonian Magazine, 2016

Landback.org

NDN Collective

Why Native Hawaiians are fighting to protect Mauna Kea from a telescope

Vox.com, 2019

Indigenous Opposition to Line Three

Reuters, 2021

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. The show's managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.

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Dr. Maya Shankar is the founder of the White House's Behavioral Science Team. She served as a senior advisor during the Obama administration and in 2016, Shankar was the first behavioral science advisor to the United Nations.

She is the host of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans.

Here are some resources that Dr. Shankar mentions in this episode: 

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

“A Slight Change of Plans” with Adam Grant

“A Slight Change of Plans” with Dr. Katy Milkman

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.

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Matthew Johnson is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University where research is underway to explore the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs to break through the crushing impact of addiction and other mental health disorders.

Here are some of the resources Johnson mentions in this episode:

Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research

https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/

National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials 

https://clinicaltrials.gov/

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) 

https://maps.org/

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.

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Host Ronald Young Jr. sits down with Malcolm Gladwell to talk about climate change: the power of individual choices, cultural shifts and what to expect from the business sector too. 

Meaningful climate action requires thoughtful engagement from across all sectors, regions, nations -- from all of us. Check out these recent Solvable episodes for additional solutions and for ways that you can get involved.

Destructive Agriculture is Solvable with Rachel Stroer

Wildfire Ignition is Solvable with Eric Appel

The Lack of Basic Sanitation in the United States is Solvable with Catherine Coleman Flowers

The Slow Regrowth of Vulnerable Coral Reefs is Solvable with Sarah Hamlyn

Fighting Climate Change Through Incentivized Prizes and Innovation with Anousheh Ansari

Making Transportation Systems Eco-friendly is a Solvable Problem with Laura Schewel 

Addiction to Fossil Fuels is Solvable with Bill McKibben

Executive Producer, Mia Lobel

Managing Producer, Sachar Mathias

Senior Producer, Jocelyn Frank 

Researcher, David Zha

Booking by Lisa Dunn

Very special thanks to Royston Beserve, Heather Fain, Nicole Morano, Carly Migliori, Eric Sandler and Maggie Taylor.

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Ben Kirby is the founder of PreachersNSneakers, an Instagram account and book, that both ask, “how much is too much” to spend when it comes to presenting a compelling image of the church and it’s leaders? Kirby's got some answers and some solutions.

Solvable is produced by David Zha, Jocelyn Frank, Sachar Mathias and Mia Lobel.

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