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Sheila Das explores our personal and societal conversations so we all can get to better connections, that is to flow, in our world. Communication is an essential part of our human nature and fulfills a basic human need. It also has been the driving force of human society, allowing us to flourish. Yet talking to each other is not always easy and seems increasingly fraught with challenges. Structures and skills matter. In frank exchanges with guests from a wide spectrum of experience, we uncover the power and problems of our talk today .
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every 35 days
Average audio length:
56 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
42 episodes
since Oct. 22, 2021
episodic
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Sheila Das investigates the role of silence, whether the pauses in conversation or of conversation. Why may we want to create them and linger? How do the faux silences that pepper our modern societies, like contactless groceries, affect us? If we are to create more deliberate spaces, like meditatio…
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In our first audio essay, Sheila Das reflects on the unique gains in conversing with old friends and how to keep making it better. Breaking with some of the current trends that push us to acquire social media "friends," find new friends or even AI companions, Sheila shows, through her own personal …
Megan Fritts guides us through the changes Large Language Models are making on our conversational skills, expression and content. LLMs (whether ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini) are wildly popular and widely used to lighten our workloads. But what about the effects on our connection with each other? We c…
Megan Fritts guides us through the changes Large Language Models are making on our conversational skills, expression and content -- and not for the better. LLMs (whether ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini) are widely used to outsource our written communication. But what are the effects on conversation? We c…
La conversation pour recréer l'espoir? Charles Clermont, membre fondateur de Kafou Lespwa (Carrefour de l'espoir), partage avec nous pourquoi et comment il a fait naître cette organisation qui a pour mandat de nourrir chez les Haïtiens le dialogue et la confiance pour travailler ensemble à un aveni…
Mark Kingwell is one of the most prominent voices in Canada calling for the openness of civil conversation. He shows how our discourse has been changing and why key gains, like justice, need a fresh consideration. And we examine some of the modes of conversation today that steer us off course, like…
Mystery writer Sophie Hannah turns to untangle the mystery of self-talk behind grudge creation in her acclaimed book How to Hold a Grudge (2018). Sophie and I return to grudges to lay out how at least some of us can be happier by making good grudge stories. We compare Ekhart Tolle's version of stor…
Hairstylists deal with a lot when they are talking with us. Having clients from all walks of life, they manage wide-ranging relationships, through our highs and lows, all the while channelling their artistry to create our desired look. How do they perform this balancing act between the work they ar…
Kazu Haga explores conflict and how we can talk it out… so we can change the world. Kazu dreams big. And so do I. We delve into why these conversations are so hard, and how shifts in attitude and approach - with a fierce vulnerability - may make them less confrontational and more of an invitation.…
If spoken language is the essence of conversation, linguist Julie Sedivy reveals how we grapple with it to make sense of the world, each other and ourselves.
From babies to chatbots, Julie unspools its singular importance by explaining language sounds that bond us, meanings that push us apart, and …
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