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Laura Schewel is the CEO of StreetLight Data which provides data to help mold and monitor transportation systems to be more environmentally friendly. Check out the links below to some of the resources that Schewel mentions in this episode.

Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee

The Power Broker by Robert Caro 

Dream Cities by Wade Graham 

Track your own transportation data: The Miles App

Driversnote Mileage Tracker

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Jason DiGianni is the project lead for the Excelsior Pass. He thinks the free digital tool (which confirms negative COVID-19 tests and positive vaccine statuses) can help New York reopen safely and swiftly.

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Dr. Ayanna Howard is the dean of the College of Engineering of the Ohio State University as well as the founder and president of the board of directors of Zyrobotics, a company that develops mobile therapy and educational products for children with special needs. She believes that robots and artificial intelligence can make us better humans.

Here is a list of some of the resources that Dr. Howard mentions during this conversation:

Zyrobotics 

Tommy the Robot

New York Returns Police ‘Robodog’ After Public Outcry, Wired April, 2021

Wired Magazine

Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank. Research by David Zha. Sachar Mathias is Solvable's managing producer.

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Host Ronald Young Jr. offers this sneak peak into Pushkin's newest show, Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi. You can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

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If the world has learned one thing in lockdown, it’s that staying isolated and confined to one place is hard. But for some people living with disabilities, a sense of social isolation predates the pandemic. Steven Spohn is a writer, philosopher, Twitch streamer, and the Chief Operations Officer of AbleGamers. His non-profit organization advocates for people with physical and mental disabilities in the gaming world, providing peer counseling and adaptive technology to help them play the games that they love and connect with worlds beyond their own.

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A lot of popular music is dominated by the western musical constructions of scale and time but when it comes to creative work -- why be so limited? Khyam Allami is an Iraqi-British multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, researcher and founder of Nawa Recordings. In partnership with Counterpoint, (the creative studio of Tero Parviainen and Samuel Diggins), he launched new, free, transcultural music software to solve this problem and facilitate the creation of increasingly fresh music.

Learn more:

CTM 2021 Apotome Live Performance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn8XHijHUm8

Apotome software, https://ctm.isartum.net/

More about Apotome, https://khyamallami.com/Apotome-Khyam-Allami-x-Counterpoint

Leimma software, https://isartum.net/

Khyam Allami, https://khyamallami.com/

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Host Ronald Young Jr. speaks with Bill McKibben about how to break our destructive climate habits and about why we need a course correction urgently. Bill McKibben is an author, educator, environmentalist and the founder of 350.org.

Check out the links below for his suggestions about how to quickly and efficiently build a movement to slow down climate change before its too late.

350.org

Sunrise Movement

The Green New Deal

Fridays for the Future

Extinction Rebellion

Stanford engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert U.S. to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050 Stanford News, 2015

Biden’s “all of government” plan for climate, explained, Vox Jan 2021

Strengthening the Financial System to Meet the Challenge of Climate Change, by Governor Lael Brainard, Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System, December 2020

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

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Ronald Young Jr is the newest host of Solvable. Jacob Weisberg and Ronald Young Jr. talk about some of their hosting inspirations from Larry King, Studs Terkel, Terry Gross and Dick Cavett. 

Ronald Young Jr.

Seizing Freedom, Northern Virginia Magazine

Time Well Spent Podcast

Leaving the Theater Podcast

Dick Cavett with actor and comedian Don Rickles

Studs Terkel Radio Archive, WFMT

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR

Larry King with Jesse Thorn, The Turnaround

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Maria Konnikova is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Biggest Bluff, The Confidence Game, and Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes.

To learn more about scams and how to protect yourself check out the links below.

Ricky Jay Remembered, NPR 2018

The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova

The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova

The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by David Maurer

Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova

Psychological Manipulation is a Solvable Problem featuring Diane Benscoter

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Abby Maxman is President and CEO of Oxfam America and says “there's no reason in the 21st century that people should be going hungry.”

Want to learn more about how you can reduce hunger locally and globally? Check out the links below to learn more about the suggestions that Maxman makes in this episode:

Find Your Local Food Pantry, Feeding America 

Local Food Directories, USDA

The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow

The Hungry Farmer- My Moment of Great Disruption Roger Thurow at TEDxChange

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Netflix

Oxfam America

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