Mind the Shift
For the first time in history, all of humanity is interconnected. Imagine the impact of that.
This is a podcast for social geeks and seekers who watch the news with a gnawing feeling of emptiness. It is an attempt to find answers to the most ridiculously big questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?
Pretentious? You bet.
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Latest episodes
Jul 29, 2020 • 55min
7. Weather extremes may be less extreme than you think – Debby Guha-Sapir
”This is like a bushfire. If there is one spark, this thing will catch fire”, says epidemiologist Debby Guha-Sapir about the fact that authorities stopped measles vaccinations due to covid-19. Debby founded the world’s best and most reliable database on natural disasters, EM-DAT, at the university of Louvain, Belgium. Dry numbers can be more contentious than you think: ”We get a lot of hate mails about the fact that our data doesn’t show that disasters are increasing. Nobody wants good news.”
Jul 29, 2020 • 1h 3min
6. It shouldn’t lead only if it bleeds – Ulrik Haagerup
”The most important weapons for terrorists isn’t Kalashnikovs or suicide bombs, it’s journalists. We journalists are part of the problem of trust meltdown in society. Now we have to be part of the solution”, says this Danish former editor in chief, who fled the bleeding headlines and decided to dedicate his time to making journalism constructive. In 2017 he founded Constructive Institute. He is confident things will change: ”There is one force which is even stronger than fear, and that’s hope.”
Jul 22, 2020 • 1h 13min
5. Doing good better – Stefan Schubert
Why our charity is so ineffective. Why (just possibly) there is reason for optimism. And why we should plan for an extremely long-term future. Hear this Oxford psychology/philosophy researcher and Effective Altruism advocate answer mega-questions.
Jul 22, 2020 • 1h 4min
4. Some say failure is blessing in disguise – James Finney
”If life is a game, then the barriers are the game. If you wanna play big you need big barriers, if not you want smaller barriers. The mechanism is the same.”
This brit calls himself an expert on failures, but listen to his gems of wisdom.
Jul 22, 2020 • 44min
3. The silence around certain COVID-19 facts – Sunetra Gupta
”A lot of things have just not been discussed openly. We were met with an avalanche of harsh comments. They accused us of being irresponsible.”
The lockdowns are more harmful than the coronavirus itself, says this professor of epidemiology.
Jul 22, 2020 • 1h 15min
2. The reports of Democracy’s death are greatly exaggerated – Max Rånge & Mikael Sandberg
No, democracy isn’t dying. Setbacks in qualified democracies are offset by gains in autocracies, explain the men behind the world’s largest and most reliable dataset on regime types. Check out their work here.
Jul 9, 2020 • 4min
1. My mission and my vision
My name is Anders Bolling, and I’m your host. Who am I, and why am I starting this podcast? In this intro I talk about my background, my viewpoint, some pivotal happenings in my life and my driving forces.
