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The Neverending Experiment
by Kimbdayle
Podcast about various topics on the arts, culture and sciences. I am a writer and filmmaker with a strong interest in ethnobotany but really I have too many interests, ideas and opinions and I hope to share them here.
Episodes
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Episode 20: Community
In the final episode of this podcast, I discuss our overuseof the word community and try to understand why real communities are unsuccessful. It's clear that there are many obstacles to create a community, but one way out could be to clearly understand what is and is not a community. We should be...
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Episode 19: Ableism
This difficult subject has come to media attention lately asthe government of Alberta has increased obstacles for disabled people. With a lifetime experiencing different levels of disability, I have learned more than I have wanted to about how negatively the average person can behave towards...
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Episode 18: Art
Art has dominated most of my career but I've found manydifficulties at both becoming an artist and understanding the surrounding culture. As I come to the end of my podcast I wanted to share my thoughts on this important and underappreciated subject.
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Episode 17: The New Age
This episode is a brief overview of the New Age and spirituality,a field that I believe more people need to be more balanced about. Globalization has brought us every culture's spiritual traditions and it's melded into something creative and open.
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Episode 16: Epigenetics
Most people mistake epigenetics for environmental influencesbut they're not the same. I go through some introductory understanding about this subject and emphasize that there is so much more research that needs to be done.
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Episode 15: War
One of the biggest reasons why people fight is because ofsimplistic thinking. I go through some of the things I've learned to avoid falling into mental and emotional traps that make difficult situations worse.
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Episode 14: Psychedelic Medicine
In this episode, I share an unusual story about dreaming andpsychedelics. There is so much more we can learn as a species if we shift our mentality to understand her mind's work and that includes researching and using entheogens.
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Episode 13: Random
It's easy to assume what random means; something that is unpredictable, but the reality is there are many kinds of random that are mathematically different from each other. Our pattern recognition as humans is perhaps not detailed enough for us to fully grasp what we are able to understand or...
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Episode 12: Lowered Baseline Syndrome
Do you ever wonder why a lot of technology and services keepgetting worse? Although many things have seemed to improve in society, the fact is the profit motivation and the desire for growth continuously and slowly erode at our quality of life.
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Episode 11: Menstruation & Evolution
Humans are one of the few species that menstruate, but it'snot totally clear why that is. There is an intriguing theory about why we have evolved menstruation that connects us to our ancient past and the knowledge that we may have lost.
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Episode 10: Subjective tests and self awareness
Today there are thousands of self tests from market researchto psychological diagnosis to silly pop culture characters. What is the purpose of these and how do they fit in to really understanding ourselves? Perhaps we're all a little bit deluded about what our personalities really are.
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Episode 9: Plants
As I begin planning this year's garden, I look at what my focus is with plants: food and medicine, native plants and staying organic despite the pressure from corporate interests.
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Episode 8: Economy
In this episode, I talk about some of the issues with the economy that hinder us from having a good quality of life. It's clear that we need change, but how do we implement it collectively?
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Episode 7: Gender
People have a lot of strong feelings about gender roles, identity and sexuality. I give my 2 cents about my own issues with gender and how I think we need to get smarter about the direction we've been headed over the last decade or so. I also give an update on the tarot card reading I did last year.
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Episode 6: Overpopulation
In this episode I give an overview of an area of research that I've been focused on for many years: overpopulation, including a few misconceptions around it.
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Episode 5: Colonizing and decolonizing
Colonialism is an overwhelming force in our cultures andspecies, and I go over some of the aspects of it that get overlooked as many of us try to decolonize in different ways.
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Episode 4: The Subjectivity of Significance
People often disagree because they don't have the same values, and they place significance on different things. I take a look at the fundamental differences in perspective that hold people back from understanding each other.
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Episode 3: Doom & Collapse
Why doomers are probably right and not as pessimistic as youmight think. The signs of collapse are everywhere if you recognize them.
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Episode 2: Feminism & Matriarchy
My contribution to the growing discussions on bringing backwhat's best about matriarchy to create an egalitarian society.
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Episode 1: Gardening
In my first episode of Season 2 I talk about the summer of landscaping and my idea for next year to start a gardening, permaculture and landscape design company.
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Episode 20: Do-goodery
It can be great when privileged people share but there is adark side to charity when it's used to manipulate others. The final episode of the season goes over do-goodery and when it goes bad.
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Episode 19: Correct words vs Politically correct
The words we use are constantly getting changed but are they actually improving and were the old words actually offensive? Maybe we need to look at what words mean instead of how they are perceived.
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Episode 18: Technophilia
Technophilia is the subject I keep bringing up because ithas infiltrated every part of our lives. I realized it is connected to something much older that has led us down a dark path.
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Episode 17: Fake news, misinformation & conspiracy theories
How do you know what to believe when you read the news? You can't know, but learning more and using doubt can help you navigate the confusing mess of misinformation and information in the media.
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Episode 16: Cognitive Dissonance
In this podcast I discuss some of what I learned from writing my book, especially about cognitive dissonance and how much it happens, specifically in science and ethics.
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Episode 15: Religion
In this episode I discuss some of the major world religions and their connection to patriarchal history. I also make a distinction between spirituality, culture and religion.
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Episode 14: Tarot cards
I talk a little bit about the history of the tarot and give a short reading.
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Episode 13: the Internet
Pondering the overwhelming World Wide Web and some of the more recent changes online.
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Episode 12: Therapy
Psychotherapy is very popular but is it really helpful?
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Episode 11: Patriarchy
Why I think patriarchy is a danger to the species and our well-being.
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Episode 10: Left and right politics
Breaking down the confusing disarray of democracy and party politics.
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Episode 9: Artificial reproduction
I go through and analyze many of the issues with artificial reproduction, surrogacy and IVF.
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Episode 8: Astrology
In this episode I go through some skeptical criticisms of astrology and how my perspective has changed over the years.
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Episode 7: Against birth
Taking a look at different groups of people pushing back against having kids for different reasons: antinatalism, childfree and overpopulation activism.
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Episode 6: Food
A little bit about my philosophy and relationship with food and what I've learned from being vegetarian and trying to grow my own food.
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Episode 5: Genealogical genetic tests
In this episode I discuss DNA tests and genealogy. I go over my results and share some advice if you're thinking of trying an online DNA test.
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Episode 4: ALS4
I have a rare disease called ALS4. In this episode I go over my story and how I've come to understand the research on this disease.
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Episode 3: Ethnobotany
I love plants and anthropology and this cross-disciplinary area of research, ethnobotany is endlessly fascinating to me, and extremely useful and important for all of humanity.
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Episode 2: Film Animation
In this episode, I talk about my background and inspiration in film animation.
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Episode 1: Follow your dream?
Should you follow your dream? Advice I wished I'd received when I was younger about career and education decisions.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Podcast about various topics on the arts, culture and sciences. I am a writer and filmmaker with a strong interest in ethnobotany but really I have too many interests, ideas and opinions and I hope to share them here.
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Kimbdayle
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