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Pineal Express is a progressive and educational podcast based out of Binghamton, NY. The podcast features a variety of academics, thinkers, and activists who provide listeners a glimpse of the world through the lens of their field of expertise. Forward looking and multidisciplinary, Pineal Express touts itself as the place “where trains of thought intersect.” Amid that intersection, podcast hosts Julian Willard and Jim Mack aim to explore the human potential to solve existential challenges a ...
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Episode 28 - Lawrence Lessig on Fixing the Broken Government
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In the two years since Pineal Express has been running, we, its operators, have sought to raise awareness about the major problems facing our species. Such problems include climate change, the risk of technological dystopia, and the latest rise of the authoritarian far-right worldwide.These problems have been worsened by the United States. But the …
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Episode 27 - Soumya Basu on Blockchain Technology
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Blockchain is a kind of tamper resistant digital ledger. The ledger stores data in groupings called "blocks." What data gets stored in the blocks depends on what the blockchain is being used for (whether it's to transfer digital currency, or to store and distribute other transaction information like real estate or medical records, and so on). Also …
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Episode 26 - Eric Dietrich on Excellent Beauty
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In Episode 10 of Pineal Express, we spoke with Binghamton University Philosopher Eric Dietrich about consciousness, skeptic philosophy, and paradoxes. If you haven't already listened to it, we recommend you go back and listen to Episode 10 before listening to this one.In this episode, we invited Eric Dietrich back to discuss his book Excellent Beau…
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#13 - Preview - Derailments, Minutiae, and Tirades
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This is a preview of a full discussion episode, available for our patrons on patreon.com/pinealexpress :Jim and I (Julian) argue about the dystopian applications of CRISPR, where we use the term "CRISPR" as a shorthand for "Next Generation Gene Editing built upon current CRISPR technology."We also draw some comparisons to Star Trek, including Star …
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#12 - Preview - Derailments, Minutiae, and Tirades - 2020 Presidential Draft
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Hey listeners, Julian here.Jim and I, along with two friends of the show, produced a 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Draft episode for our Patrons on patreon.com/PinealExpressThis is a preview of that draft, during which the four of us took the opportunity to rag on former Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine, after I drafted him for my tea…
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#11 - Preview - Derailments, Minutiae, and Tirades
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Get the Full Episode on our Patreon Page: www.patreon.com/pinealexpressFull Episode Description:Hey, everybody, Julian here: In the discussion episode I talk about how my work as a disability analyst for the Social Security Administration and as a technician in an acute psychiatric hospital informed my views about social welfare programs like Socia…
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