Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
News:Politics
Join a Nobel Laureate physicist, a psychologist and a philosopher for a conversation about the tools and frameworks that scientists have developed to keep from fooling themselves, to chart a course through the profusion of possibilities, to better understand the world, and to make intelligent decisions. These trust-building techniques, which the authors call Third Millennium Thinking, can be used to tackle problems both big and small.
Ironically, the deluge of information over the internet has made it even harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does that article on GMOs even show what the authors claim? How should we navigate our next Thanksgiving discussion with our in-laws, who follow completely different experts on climate?
Based on a popular UC Berkeley course, Third Millennium Thinking offers a novel approach for making sense of the nonsense by thinking critically, making sound decisions, and solving problems—individually and collectively—using scientists’ tricks of the trade.
MLF ORGANIZER
George Hammond
A Humanities Member-led Forum program. Forums at the Club are organized and run by volunteer programmers who are members of The Commonwealth Club, and they cover a diverse range of topics. Learn more about our Forums.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
El Ultîmo Sueño De Frida Y Diego: Iconic Artists For Fashion, Art And Opera
CLIMATE ONE: Law and Oil: Taking Climate Offenders to Court
Jennifer Pahlka: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age
CLIMATE ONE: Peter Gleick on Water Poverty, Conflict, and a Hope for the Future
Rachel Nuwer: Understanding MDMA
Latest Developments in Alzheimer's and the AAPI, LGBTQIA+ Communities
GREG KING: RACISTS, "Greg King: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
CLIMATE ONE: Cory Booker: Taking on Big Ag & Going Big on Climate
Shiva’s Many Dances: The Tandava Nritya
Leah and Richard Rothstein: Challenging Segregation and the Color of Law
Sarafina El-Badry Nance: Discovering the Cosmos
CLIMATE ONE: REWIND: Saket Soni on the People Who Make Disaster Recovery Possible
CLIMATE ONE: Killer Heat: Confronting Disproportionate Impacts on Women and Girls
Bay Area Women Filmmakers Tell All
Illyanna Maisonet: Diasporican
PAKISTAN AND INDIA: COMMON ORIGINS, "Pakistan and India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories. Why?
David Ambroz: A Fostering Success Story
Stephen Vladeck: Behind the Closed Doors of the U.S. Supreme Court
CLIMATE ONE: Bringing Biodiversity Back from the Breaking Point
How to Boost U.S. Productivity in the AI Era
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free