How often do you think about how you access the internet? Not in the general sense, but the actual act of accessing it: the descriptive text you read underneath an item for sale, the buttons you click or tap to signal an intent or complete an action, or an input field to type a credit card number, select a country or state, or scroll through a set of dates. This is the stuff that, for many of us, fades away as we aimlessly look at memes or news stories. But it's important. Vital, even. Jennison Asuncion, LinkedIn's Head of Accessibility Engineering Evangelism, dedicates his time to ensuring that the digital world is accessible to everyone.Episode Transcript - Accessible PDFGlobal Accessibility Awareness DayAccessibility Camp Bay AreaWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) - Wikipedia#a11yWebAIMAgile Web Development - Comprehensive Overviewjennison.caJennison's Twitter: @Jennison----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

If there's anything we've learned over the last year, it's that it's not enough to get important information right - you have to communicate that information successfully, too. Because if the data you need to share isn't being heard by the very people that need to hear it, it may as well not exist! Social media consultant and communication specialist Sarah Mojarad teaches and advocates for effective science messaging.Communicating Science on Social Media, by Sarah Mojarad (YouTube)10 Facts About Americans and Coronavirus Vaccines - Pew ResearchA Year of U.S. Public Opinion on the Coronavirus Pandemic - Pew Research"Food Science Babe" - InstagramOnline Harassment: Death by 1,000 Tweets, by Sarah MojaradFirst Draft NewsRAND ResearchSarah's Twitter: @Sarah_Mojarad----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

How do you know what's true, and what's false? What's right, or wrong? How do you know... what you know? You likely heard all of it somewhere, and for you to hear it, somebody had to say it. Because for us to be able to figure out what's true - in order to form a more perfect union - we must be able to speak with one another, freely. Greg Lukianoff, President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, fights against speech restrictions being enacted in the very institutions that should be bastions of free expression.Foundation for Individual Rights and ExpressionState of the Law: Speech Codes - FIREPapish v. Board of Curators of the University of Missouri (1973)Innovation in the Collective Brain, by Michael Muthukrishna and Joseph HenrichWhat Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? - American Psychological AssociationTypes of Distorted Automatic ThoughtsHow Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm, by Conor FriedersdorfKindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, by Jonathan RauchEugene V. Debs' Canton Speech (June 18th, 1918)Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale (1974)Nicholas Christakis Yale Confrontation (2015)Greg's Twitter: @glukianoff----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

The vaccines are here, and they're amazing. But there's still so much pessimism and confusion about how effective these vaccines actually are, which ones are "best," and what anyone can actually do after they've been vaccinated. This is a special episode, to get you justifiably excited about the rest of the year, and your life going forward. Share it with friends and family who are doubtful or scared, because Dr. Monica Gandhi, Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF, has the credentials and the knowledge required to prescribe some much-needed optimism.Follow Monica: @MonicaGandhi9How Do mRNA Vaccines Work? Here's What You Should Know - Johns Hopkins YouTubeHow the Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Works - The New York TimesUniversity of Pennsylvania mRNA Biology Pioneers Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Enabled by their Foundational Research - Penn Medicine----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

These days, when we hear the phrase "growing up," it tends to mostly reference the growth in inches and feet. But for a child to a grow up, they don't just need to physically grow, they need to grow mentally and emotionally as well. The recent cultural normalization of what is colloquially referred to as "helicopter parenting" has brought with it ever-hovering adults and minute-by-minute-scheduled weekdays and weekends, which have significantly stunted that growth. Lenore Skenazy, Co-founder and President of Let Grow, shares both data and anecdotes that help to illustrate exactly why children need the freedom to grow independent.Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone, by Lenore SkenazyI Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone. I Got Labeled the ‘World’s Worst Mom.’ by Lenore SkenazyMother May I? by Lizzie WiddicombeLearn How the Let Grow Project Can Help Kids with Anxiety, Let Grow YouTubeLet GrowThe Let Grow ProjectLet Grow Play ClubFree Range KidsRaising Independent Kids - FacebookLenore's Twitter: @FreeRangeKids----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Children need adults. They need them for guidance, for discipline, for inspiration, and of course, formal education. But often when we talk about education, our attention is almost exclusively focused on those adults. What are they doing right? What are they doing wrong? What are they doing too much or too little of, and how can we stop them? And we too often lose sight of how the children are actually performing. Michaela Community School founder and headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh shares how her staff have gone about providing underserved children the ability to change their stars.Michaela Community SchoolThe Power of Culture: The Michaela Way, edited by Katharine BirbalsinghControversial Michaela Free School Delights in GCSE Success - The GuardianSuccess Academy Charter SchoolsThe Butterfly of Freedom, by Edward MonktonMichaela student achieves perfect GCSE scores - TwitterKatharine's Twitter: @Miss_Snuffy----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

In John Rawls' 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, he offers a thought experiment known as the Veil of Ignorance. Behind this veil, no knows who they are. They don't know their race, class, age, sex, privileges, disadvantages, or even their personality. Only once they step through the veil will they know their place in society. But before they take that step, they are tasked with designing it - its laws and its structures, its benefits and punishments. Imagine yourself behind the veil. How would you construct the world, if you weren't sure of your own place within it? Samuel Weiss, Executive Director of Rights Behind Bars, has a deep understanding of what certain corners of our society look like when that veil goes unconsidered.Rights Behind BarsPrison Policy Initiative - Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, by Shane BauerThe Jailhouse Lawyer's HandbookACLU National Prison ProjectPrison Law OfficeCivil Rights CorpsRight Behind Bars' Twitter: @RightsBehind----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Social distancing has separated us from the ones we care about, and cut us off from the day-to-day lives we've so long known. The mental and emotional toll of this prolonged isolation has been excruciating for many. But can we find a silver lining? May we use this time to become better friends and better partners, even fuller versions of ourselves? Humanistic psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman offers insight into how we may overcome life's struggles through continued growth and even, potentially, transcendence.The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry KaufmanTranscend: The New Science of Self-Actualization, by Scott Barry KaufmanSailboat Metaphor, by Scott Barry KaufmanTranscend with Scott Barry Kaufman, interviewed by physicist Sean Carroll - The Psychology PodcastMaslow’s hierarchy of needs: Updated for the 21st century, with Scott Barry Kaufman for Big ThinkThe Science of Self-Transcendent Experiences with David Yaden - The Psychology PodcastHumanistic Psychology - WikipediaJiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)scottbarrykaufman.comScott's Twitter: @sbkaufmanScott's Instagram: @scottbarrykaufman----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Society has got you figured out: they talk about you like they know you, like you're part of a collective. They take a group, and pair it with either an adjective or a noun. "White this." "Black that." There's too many of "you," and too few of "them." You talk like this long enough, and it can be easy to slip into a way of thinking about other people that makes them sound so different from you, and you lose sight of the fact that they're really... not. Motivational speaker and author Rahmaan Mwongozi has written extensively about his journey to discovering our human commonalities.Talking $#!t podcast, with Rahmaan MwongoziInner Demons: Blazing A Path To Happiness, by Rahmaan MwongoziTalking $*** About Life, Parenting, Sacrifice and Work w/ My Mother - Talking $#!t podcastWe Need a Second Great Migration, by Charles M. Blow via The New York Times“My N****s” & “White People," by Rahmaan Mwongozi223 w/ Van Lathan - "Productive Disagreements and Common Ground" - The Fifth Columnrocsworld.com@TheRocsWorld----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast

Why does nothing seem to make sense, anymore? Why do all of our important words seem so slippery, and our definitions ever harder to define? What is a liberal? What really is a conservative? And what does 'liberalism' - the philosophy that undergirds the foundation of American society - actually mean today? Writer and filmmaker Jay Shapiro has spent much of his life trying to figure out society's most confounding dilemmas.Criticizing Freedom: Food First, Philosophy Later, by Jay ShapiroS02E17: Atheistic Search for God - Dilemma PodcastTalking $*** About Tech, Capitalism, Culture, & Philosophy - Talking $#!t Podcast"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;" - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's CradleDogs' Eyes Evolve to Appeal to Humans - BBC NewsWalden, by Henry David Thoreau"God is dead." - Friedrich NietzscheWhy We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road, by Matthew B. CrawfordAfter Riding With Spanish Speakers, White Commuters Favored Anti-Immigration Policies - Big ThinkChesterton's Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking, by Shane ParrishEthics Explainer: DeontologyEthics Explainer: ConsequentialismAin't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society, by Peter McWilliamsThe Actual Abortion Debate, by Jay ShapiroFundamental Attribution Error - Ethics UnwrappedThe Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael SandelOn Directing Film, by David MametOriginal Position (Veil of Ignorance) - John Rawls"Abby Singer" - Filmmaking slang for 'Second to last shot of the day'Optimistic Nihilism - KurzgesagtThe Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, by David DeutschHow to Build a Dyson Sphere - KurzgesagtThe Fermi Paradox - Wait But Whywhatjaythinks.com----------Email: wherewegopod@gmail.comInstagram: @wwgnpodcast