At a Distance

A podcast by The Slowdown

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167 Episodes

  1. Rebecca Solnit on Slowness as a Superpower

    Published: 12/11/2023
  2. Charlayne Hunter-Gault on History as a Compass for Navigating the Present

    Published: 11/20/2023
  3. Sarah Lohman on Creating a More Affordable, Healthful, and Moral Food System

    Published: 10/23/2023
  4. David W. Orr on the Inextricable Links Between Climate and Democracy

    Published: 9/18/2023
  5. Pedro Gadanho on How Architecture Must Adapt to Our Ecological Emergency

    Published: 7/10/2023
  6. Chris Impey on the New Space Race and Exoplanet Habitation

    Published: 6/5/2023
  7. Lesley Lokko on Imagining the Future Through an African Lens

    Published: 3/13/2023
  8. Dacher Keltner on Why We All Need Daily Doses of Awe

    Published: 2/27/2023
  9. Marina Koren on Rethinking the “Overview Effect”

    Published: 2/13/2023
  10. Sarah Jaquette Ray on Navigating the Emotional Havoc of Climate Anxiety

    Published: 12/26/2022
  11. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber on Applying the Intersectional Thinking of the Bauhaus to Today

    Published: 12/19/2022
  12. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on the Inextricable Links Between Colonialism and the Climate Crisis

    Published: 12/12/2022
  13. Moshe Safdie on Architecture as a Means to Uplift the Spirit

    Published: 12/5/2022
  14. Alec Nevala-Lee on the Enduring Legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller

    Published: 11/28/2022
  15. Suzanne Lee on the Circular, Lower-Impact Potential of Biomaterials

    Published: 11/21/2022
  16. Vasant Dhar on Why We Need Guardrails Around Internet Data

    Published: 11/14/2022
  17. Karenna Gore on Applying Ethics to the Climate Conversation

    Published: 11/7/2022
  18. Dr. Tara Stoinski on the Whole-Earth Impact of Gorilla Conservation

    Published: 10/31/2022
  19. John Mack on Why Reality Cannot Actually Be “Augmented”

    Published: 10/24/2022
  20. Elizabeth Adams on A.I. Ethics as a Guide to the Future

    Published: 10/17/2022

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A podcast about the bigger picture. Host Spencer Bailey calls on leading minds, from scientists and technologists to artists and climate activists, to zoom out and look at some of the planet’s most pressing issues from a whole-earth, long-view perspective.