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The Òrga Spiral Podcasts — 223 episodes

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The Romana Acoustic Passport

2

The Internal Colonization of the Highlands

3

Rhythm’s Hidden Power

4

How Dance Built and Broke Empires

5

Nature strikes back in global literature

6

Poetry was humanity's original hard drive

7

Pushkin and the Battle for the Russian Soul

8

Walt Whitman and the Poetry of Forgetting

9

How Shakespeare Weaponized His Invented Words

10

Shakespeare Invented the Modern Human Personality

11

The History of Theatres

12

Desmond Barrit: The Accountant that Conquered the Theatre.

13

Alexandra Kollontai's Blueprint for Love and Labour

14

Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four

15

China's Tiangong Station and 2030 Moon Mission

16

The Genius Who Refused a Million Dollars

17

Weaponizing Flowers For Protest And Profit

18

Langston Hughes: The Poet Laureate and the Radical

19

The Logic of Escher's Impossible Worlds

20

Fractal Expressionism: The Mathematics of Nature in Art

21

Fractals and the Infinite Coastline Paradox

22

Golden ( Órga (Scottish gaelic -archaic)) Ratio: Factoring the Fibonacci Myths

23

Writing to Survive Behind Prison Walls

24

China's Solid-State Battery and Chip Breakout

25

Lenin's Wife Was The Revolution's Architect

26

Zapatistas Dissolve Government to Survive Cartel War

27

The Colonial Lie That Africans Cannot Think

28

Christopher Caudwell: The Pulp Writer Who Anticipated Quantum Theory

29

Ancient Indian Astronomy and Mathematics: A Brief History

30

Poemage: Visualizing the Sonic Topology of a Poem

31

The Mapper Algorithm: Advancements and Applications in Topological Data Analysis

32

The Skeleton of Singularities: Forecasting Mental Health Episodes

33

Boiling Tea in 196,884 Dimensions

34

The Spectre of Dietzgen: Topological VSA and Verifiable AGI

35

The Silver Inversion: Imperial Decay and the War of Manoeuvre

36

1939: The Alliance That Never Was

37

Biomimicry: Life's Genius

38

Propaganda and Structural Control

39

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025

40

Goethe's Colour War against Newton

41

Common Sense: From Scottish Philosophy to Gramsci to Modern AI

42

UNESCO Ethics and the Lisp AGI Soul

43

Poetry and Celestial Anthropology

44

Sorley MacLean: Tradition, Politics, and Poetic Forms

45

REM Sleep Theta Activity and Emotional Memory

46

Tangled Hierarchies and the Topological Dynamics of Intelligence

47

Metrics for Ethical Cybersecurity Resilience

48

Augmented Reality in Education and Training

49

Engineering Robustness and Complexity in Biology

50

Persian Literature: Sháh Námeh, Rubáiyát, Divan, Gulistan

51

Frankenstein's Scottish Secret

52

The Plebeian Fair: Lyrical Genius, Body Snatchers, and the Fight for Reform

53

Elspeth King: Scottish Curator and Historian

54

The Scottish Folk Revival: Matt McGinn and the Birth of a Radical Cultural Identity

55

UNESCO's Twentieth Anniversary: Human Rights and Future Programs

56

Culture's Case for Scottish Independence

57

A New Psychodynamic Theory of Schizophrenia by Torsten Oettinger

58

Situationist International: Critique and Revolutionary Action

59

The History of Heroin: From Miracle Cure to Global Plague

60

The Two-Fisted Life of Jack London: A Deep Dive

61

The Manufacture of Meaning: Unpacking the Politics of Cultural Construction

62

Poetry as Engine: How Avant-Garde Poets Built the Modern World with Words

63

Paradise Project: Ethical AR for Urban Regeneration

64

Sorley Maclean, Spanish Civil War, and Dàin do Eimhir

65

Ranavalona I: Jezebel or Madagascar Patriot?

66

Hamish Henderson: - The First Gramscian

67

Battlestar Galactica the Hard-hitting Sci-fi Show-- Decoding the Darkness

68

Freddy Anderson's Declaration of War Uncovering Glasgow's Suppression of Working Class Culture

69

Staging the Revolution: The Politics and Praxis of Scottish Theatre from Thatcher to Today

70

Palestine: Centre of Worldwide Anti-Colonial Struggle

71

Scottish Response to the French Revolution

72

The Living Rosetta Stone: Universal Phonetic System

73

The Three Columns of Ethical AI

74

The Limits of Knowledge and Ignorance

75

Latin American Philosophies of Anarchism

76

Scotland's Storybook: Ancient lore of Scotland

77

Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race {Ireland and Wales}

78

Dreams: Gateways to the Collective Unconscious and MultiverseDreams:

79

R. D Laing and the Ontological Security Showdown

80

The Sci-Fi Lab: Deconstructing Power, Identity, and Colonial Amnesia

81

Universal Dreams Versus Cultural Realities

82

Global Perspectives in Philosophical Thought

83

FringeWiki: The Alternate Universe Detailed

84

Thomas Muir: Exile and the Fight for Freedom

85

Colonial Hoax? Scotland's Explosive UN Petition to Redefine the UK

86

James Hogg: Shepherd, Visionary, and Divided Self

87

The Deep Psychology of Entitled Loss: From Burke to Neoliberalism

88

Modern African Feminism: Resistance, Reclamation, and Revolution

89

Interstices: Cracks of Subversion and Social Transformation

90

Gaelic Philosophy of Harmonious Doing and Scotland's Future

91

The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story

92

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: A Rough Guide

93

A Trial of Fear: The Enduring Injustice of Sacco and Vanzetti

94

Ivor Cutler and Critical Failure Studies

95

The Problems of Everyday Life by Leon Trotsky

96

The Challenge of Non-Western Philosophies .

97

Dolores Huerta: Architect of Personal Politicking in Farmworker Organizing (Sí se puede}

98

The Possibility Expansion Engine: AI as a Co-Pilot

99

A Call to Action for Modernizing Education Systems

100

A Debate: The Architecture of Scientific Revolutions

101

Quantum Entanglement:Carol Lynne Knight's Poetic Quest for Self-Discovery

102

African Feminist Theories: Stiwanism, Motherism, Nego-feminism

103

Unpacking Biodiversity Loss and the Big Bad UK

104

Kropotkin - Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

105

The Dead Kennedys: with Dario Fo and Jello Biafra

106

The Pogues: with Brendan Behan and Shane MacGowan

107

The Empire of Cotton: A Global History

108

John Couzin's Life and Legacy (The Spirit of Revolt (Archive)

109

Black Athena: The Linguistic Evidence

110

Akira: Catalyst for Anime's Western Renaissance

111

Archaeology's Colonial Legacy and Restitution

112

Re-thinking Gender: A Yoruba Perspective

113

So Long a Letter: Senegalese Feminism and Social Critique

114

Buddenbrooks: Capitalism's Self-Consuming Cycle

115

The Clash: with Bertolt Brecht and Joe Strummer

116

The Dialectics of Quantum Computing

117

40 Years of Injustice. The Battle of Orgreave.

118

Topy-as a Bridge to Hodge's Conjecture, Quantum Electronics and String Theory

119

The Complete Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery

120

Against Empires, the Audacious Free Press :Guy Aldred and Richard Carlile

121

Democratizing Literary Journalism: Beyond Tom Wolfe's Legacy

122

How: an Operational Calculus for Geometric Design can revive Joseph Dietzgen (1828/88)?

123

The Pythagorean Path: Life, Lore, and Wisdom

124

Babylon 5: The Complete Collection (1995-2001)

125

The Doll's House :A Commentary on Marriage and Morality

126

Helen Crawfurd- the Fearless Organiser,

127

The Jute-Mill Song

128

The Pathfinder Paradox: Historicizing African Art within Global Modernity

129

Unpacking Scotland. From Lord Byron's Peaks to Hidden Female Voices

130

Kurihara Sadako: Let Black Eggs Hatch!

131

Iceland's Kitchenware Revolution: Crisis and Political Change

132

The Black Jacobins: San Domingo's Revolution and Toussaint Louverture

133

A History of Beauty: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde

134

The Historian and Progress in a Changing World

135

The Second Sex: Woman's Reality and Myth

136

Tillie Olsen: Voice, Silence, and the Human Condition

137

The Poetry and Prose of Heinrich Heine

138

Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism

139

Contextualising Chomsky. Barthes and Leonard: Demystifying Language and Ideology

140

Becker's Structure of Evil: Denial and Immortality Projects

141

French Materialism: From Metaphysics to Communism

142

UNESCO's Global Gender Equality Initiatives

143

Same Old Story: A Topography of Anti-Colonialism

144

Ireland Unfree Shall Never Be at Peace

145

Robert Emmet's Final Appeal: For Ireland and History

146

Nothing About Us Without Us: Direct Participation Principle

147

Imaginary Matrices: An Algebraic Approach to Topology

148

Mesoamerican Astronomy: Celestial Influence on Culture and Architecture

149

Alan Watts: Eastern Wisdom for the Western Mind

150

The Role of the Individual in History

151

Specters of Marx: Debt, Mourning, and the New International - Derrida

152

Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit

153

Ancient Chinese Mathematics: Unseen Modern Impact

154

Igniting Revolution. A Concise History of Liberation Theology

155

Chichikov's Grand Acquisition of Dead Souls (Gogol)

156

In Remembrance of James D Young Scottish Historian

157

UNESCO's Evolving Decentralization Strategy and Caithness

158

Marxism, Literature, and Alienation: A Critical Overview

159

Don Quixote: Adventures and Musings of a Knight-Errant

160

Guantanamera: Verses of the Soul

161

Jane the Virgin: Telenovela Heart, Modern Smart

162

The Prisoner: The Finale.

163

The Water Margin: 1973 Japanese TV Series

164

Marx, Money, and Shakespeare's Timon of Athens

165

Fibonacci's Ocean: Spirals, Waves, and Sampling

166

A Concise History of Oceanography

167

Star Lore of All Ages

168

Ikebana: The Art of Living Flowers

169

Rebel Journalism: Wilfred Burchett's Global Dispatches

170

Aboriginal Storytelling: Culture, History, and Identity

171

Bury My Heart: A Call for Global Justice

172

Saving Scottish Gaelic and Other Endangered Languages

173

The Dawn of Greek Philosophy and Science

174

Paul Robeson: A Poem and Biography

175

An Introduction to Key Concepts of Derrida and European Identity

176

Victorian Poems of Hope and Despair

177

The Cosmos -our pale blue dot.

178

The Disappearing Spoon-The Secret Lives of the Chemical Elements

179

AI: Building an Accessible Future for Persons with Disabilities

180

Undecidable Questions When Math Breaks Reality Splits

181

Men in Prison by Victor Serge

182

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

183

The Last Emperor Film: A Comprehensive Overview

184

Ukraine Conflict: Diplomacy, Sanctions, and Global Power Dynamics

185

Marx's Ethnological Notebooks: A New Road to Revolution

186

Pablo Neruda and Victor Jara: A Chilean Artistic Legacy

187

The Good Soldier Švejk: Fortunes in the World War

188

African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice Reviewed

189

Josef Dietzgen: Proletarian Philosophy's Theoretician

190

Unlocking Magic Realism.

191

Fibonacci Anyons: Quantum Computing's Topological Future

192

American Samoa's Paradox and Decolonisation

193

Poetry's Canon: Anthologies, Modernism, and Cultural Construction in India

194

Chinese Poetry: Mind, Mayhem, and Money

195

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

196

Hamish Henderson: War, Poetry, and Scottish Culture

197

The Many Faces of Resistance: Global Movements to Everyday Acts

198

Rethinking Math: The Maverick Tradition, Proof, and the Human Element

199

The Mathematician's Lament

200

A History of the Scottish People

201

Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry

202

Pepe Escobar: The Raging Twenties: Geopolitics, Economy, and Biosecurity

203

The Sufis: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life

204

Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism": US Global Economic Dominance

205

Transactional Analysis Made Simple: A Core Guide

206

I Am a Strange Loop

207

Tolstoy's Resurrection: A Tale of Moral Transformation

208

Marxism and Literature: A Critical Examination of Cultural Theory

209

Robert Tannahill: Artisan, Poet, and Radical Thinker by Jim Ferguson

210

John Maclean: Scotland's Accuser of Capitalism

211

Candide: Or, Optimism's Progress Through Suffering

212

The Destruction of Reason's German Roots

213

How Euler's Number and the Golden Ratio Shape Nature, AI, and the Future of Intelligence

214

Illusion and Reality: The Social Sources of Art

215

Richard Carlile: Printer, Reformer, and Free Press Champion

216

To Have or to Be: A Path to Human Flourishing

217

Overcoming Emotional Blindness: A Path to True Selfhood

218

Alan Horn's Inversion of the Enigma

219

Gaelic Spirit: Magic, Resistance, and Sorley MacLean

220

Astronomy, Art, and the Human Superstructure

221

From Eurocentrism to Global Philosophy: A Reassessment

222

Modern Art's Eurocentric Lens

223

The Decline of Imperialism and the Uneven Development of Capitalism