Understanding: THE WORLD

By Timon Wunderlich

A young Student Interviews Experts to try to grasp the global interrelations that shape our world.... more

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December 16, 2023 Why Universal Basic Income also benefits the Rich w. Scott Santens
Buy Scott's Book: Let There Be Money - https://amzn.to/3RJP9ez
Scott Santens has been researching and advocating for the concept of unconditional universal basic income (or UBI) since 2013.
Acknowledged by former U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang as one of those who helped shape his thinking.
He is the founder and president of the Income To Support All Foundation (ITSA Foundation), the Senior Advisor for Humanity Forward, and also serves on the board of directors of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity and as the editor of Basic Income Today — a daily UBI news hub.
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1h 14min
December 11, 2023 Understanding: Big Pharma w. Dr. John Abramson
Buy John's Book: Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It - https://amzn.to/4a9x15j
John Abramson MD, MS, has served as a family physician for 22 years. He has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for 16 years, where he currently teaches health care policy. He currently consults as an expert in litigation involving the pharmaceutical industry and has served as an unpaid consultant to the FBI and Department of Justice. Dr. Abramson has appeared on more than 65 national television shows. He was written op-ed pieces in the New York Times LA Times and others. He is the author of the national best-selling book Overdo$ed America.
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00:00 🌐 Overview of Pharmaceutical Industry
04:54 🌍 Differences in U.S. Healthcare System
11:22 💊 Challenges and Solutions
26:19 🏥 Issues in Prescription Recommendations
27:39 📚Challenges with Evidence-Based Medicine
28:49 💊Issues with Drug Recommendations
29:16 🔄Sociological Impact on Medical Education
31:38 🔄Paradigm Shift and Commercial Influence
34:17 🌐Addressing the Systemic Issue
38:39 🛑 Potential Challenges in Reform
39:08 🤝 Alternative Information Sources
41:49💡 Journal Practices and Financial Interests
44:59 🌍 Science in Service of Humanity
46:19 🎯 Rapid Fire Questions
52:49 💸 Healthcare Investment and Transparency
55:46 💉 Booster Shots and Lack of Information
Keywords (please ignore):
John Abramson: Big Pharma | Lex Fridman Podcast #263 The Troubling Story of Vioxx
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57min
December 08, 2023 Understanding: Lukashenko's adaptive authoritarianism / Prof. Matthew Frear
Buy Matthew's Book: Belarus under Lukashenka - https://amzn.to/49UnwGU
Dr. Frear is Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Leiden University. He researches the politics the region and his book Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism was published in 2019.
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51min
December 06, 2023 Understanding: World Order w. Cambridge Prof. Ayşe Zarakol
Buy Ayşe's Book: Before the West - https://amzn.to/47JjIq6
Ayşe Zarakol is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, where she also has an appointment as a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College.
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42min
December 04, 2023 Understanding: NATO Enlargement/ Prof. James Goldgeier
Buy Prof. Goldgeier's Book: Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War - https://amzn.to/3sPU30b
Prof. James Goldgeier is a member of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Professor at the School of International Service at American University.
Additionally he has written several books on foreign policy.
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1h 1min
December 04, 2023 Understanding: Spin-Dictators / Prof. Sergei Guriev
Buy Sergei's Book: Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century - https://amzn.to/46tDswQ
Sergey Maratovich Guriyev is a Russian economist, who is provost and a professor of economics at the Instituts d'études politiques in Paris (Sciences Po). He is a former member of the Russian government. From 2016 to 2019, he was the chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was a Morgan Stanley Professor of Economics and a rector at Moscow's New Economic School (NES) until he resigned on 30 April 2013 and fled to France.
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57min
December 04, 2023 Fighting Populism in the EU / Prof. Marlene Wind
Buy Marlene's Book: The Tribalization of Europe - https://amzn.to/3N5CD6x
Dr. Marlene Wind is a Danish professor of Political science and law at the University of Copenhagen. She is educated at the EUI in Florence and works on the interplay between law and politics. She is also Special Advisor to the EU’s Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell. She has published 8 books and many academic articles and has been an active part of the public debate for the past 25 years.
She is currently working on a new book on democracy where she asks the basic question of whether Europe can survive without counter-majoritarian courts to defend human rights as several writers in recent years increasingly claim.
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0:00: Intro
0:08: 🌍 rising tribalism
12:37: 📰 Controlling Narratives
24:47: 📈 Reasons for Populism
30:42: 📚 Majoritarian Thinking
36:36: 🗳️ Institutions to protect democracy
42:35: 🔍 manipulating public opinion
48:47: 🗳️ defining democracy
54:45: 🔍 corruption in the EU
1:00:24: 📰 Where to get information from? / News
1:06:53: ⚖️ Rapid Fire Questions
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1h 19min
November 27, 2023 Decolonizing Journalism w. Dr. Chrisanthi Giotis
Buy Chrisanthi's Book: Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War - https://amzn.to/3GdPlfJ
Dr. Chrisanthi Giotis lectures in journalism at the University of South Australia. She researches decolonized journalism which connects marginalised communities to public discourse and connects local realities with global currents.
Chrisanthi's Twitter/X handle: @chrisanthi_g
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1h 6min
November 27, 2023 Understanding: Neoliberalism w. Prof. Manfred B. Steger
Buy Manfred's Book: Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction - https://amzn.to/49QTYtN
Manfred B. Steger is a Professor of ⁠Sociology⁠ at the ⁠University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa⁠.⁠
He is most known for his work in social and political theory, primarily discourses of ⁠globalization⁠.
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1h 6min
November 20, 2023 Understanding: Energy w. NYU Prof. Stephen Gross
Buy Stephen's Book: Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change - https://amzn.to/47ErvW6
Stephen Gross is an assistant professor in the department of history and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University.
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0:00: Intro
0:21: 🌍 Energy Basics
6:13: 🔒 Geopolitics/Energy security
12:23: 🔥 1. Phase
18:22: 💡 Nuclear
24:01: 🌍 Anti-Nuclear movement
42:02: 🌍 Nuclear De-Transitioning
47:32: ⚡️ Renewables
59:27: 💡 Rapid Fire Questions
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1h 7min

FAQs about Understanding: THE WORLD:

How many episodes does Understanding: THE WORLD have?

The podcast currently has 30 episodes available.