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Michael Strong — Let's Get Socratical (EP.252)

Michael Strong has spent decades quietly revolutionizing education by designing innovative schools and programs built around agency, critical thinking, entrepreneurship and creativity. He is the founder and CEO of The Socratic Experience, a virtual school that equips students for lifelong happines…

Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Human Origins, and Modern Democracies with Vivek Venkataraman (Part 1)

Originally published on January 8, 2025. Hunter-gatherer societies are fascinating in their own right and--with appropriate caution--a major source of insight about our ancestral past, stretching back to our origin as a species. Remarkably, hunter-gatherer societies also have much to teach us abou…

EP 302 Daniel Mezick on Games and Governance

Jim talks with Daniel Mezick on the theme of games and their relationship to governance. They discuss Jane McGonigal's four properties of games, the nature of authority, position-based vs role-based authority, formal vs. informal authority structures, finite & infinite games, mutable games, the par…

[~70,000BCE] - Language: The Cognitive Revolution that gave us Words, Art, Religion, Shame and Execution

How complex language evolved during the cognitive revolution, changing humanity and the world. Discover how language transformed from simple grunts and hand signals to complex communication, enabling us to cooperate, create cultures, invent stuff and build civilizations. We explore the evolution of…

Why Men Seek Male Approval

In this special listener-requested episode of Clear Minds In Color, mental-health coach Robert Saint Michael explores the psychology behind homosociality — the way men form identity and belonging through the approval of other men — and how this behavior shapes emotional connection, power, and intim…

#45 - Prof. Ian Morris : The Hidden Driver of Civilization: Energy & Human Values

We're joined by Ian Morris, British historian, archaeologist, and author of Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels Ian’s central argument is both simple and radical: our beliefs about fairness, justice, hierarchy, equality, and even democracy are not timeless moral truths floating above history. They…

Ep 3: Why Some Lives Matter Less — The Origins

ON PATRIARCHY, GENDER, AND THE ORIGINS OF OWNERSHIP Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy (Oxford University Press, 1986). Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Harper & Row, 1987). Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor…

The Why of War and the How of Peace, Part II: Lessons from Prehistory ~ Douglas P. Fry

How old is war? Does it stretch deep into human origins, or did warfare become common only as growing populations settled down?  In Part II of this conversation with Douglas P. Fry, we return to the long-running debate about the origins of war. Fry revisits his argument that aggression is ancient,…

EP #23 | Cultural Varieties of Status-Seeking

We all know the feeling. The urge to be respected, to be someone in the eyes of our peers. All of this arising from a human desire for social status. It is easy to think that this hunger for status is a modern obsession, a consequence and amplifier of inequities in various societies. If we buy into…

#45 - Prof. Ian Morris : The Hidden Driver of Civilization: Energy & Human Values

We're joined by Ian Morris, British historian, archaeologist, and author of Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels Ian’s central argument is both simple and radical: our beliefs about fairness, justice, hierarchy, equality, and even democracy are not timeless moral truths floating above history. They…