Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
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Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Susan Magsamen - Neuroscience, NeuroArts, and the mystery that life really is
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Ryan McGranaghan
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Season 8
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Episode 2
Susan Magsamen makes her life at the frontier: the frontier of neuroscience, of institutional change, of the intersection of art and science. Her's is a life full of wisdom for how to live amongst mystery and befriend complexity.
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Show Notes:
- spontaneous "you are my sunshine" (02:00)
- T. S. Eliot (08:00)
- implementation science (08:40)
- therapeutic recreation (11:00)
- Trabian Shorters and asset framing (15:00)
- Daniel Kahneman (16:00)
- neuroplasticity (22:30)
- Howard Gardner and Kurt Fisher and Mind, Brain, and Education Program at Harvard (26:15)
- Karl Alexander (27:30)
- Curiosity Kits (28:30)
- NeuroArts (32:00)
- Gileadby Marilynne Robinson (36:00)
- more than scientific knowledge (38:00)
- "Social Support and the Perception of Geographical Slant" (45:00)
- Resmaa Menakem (46:30)
- NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative (46:40)
- "Cirque du Soleil and the neuroscience of awe" on Vox (47:40)
- Global Watering Hole (51:30)
- Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards (52:30)
- Rachel Naomi Remen (56:30)
- Lightning Round (01:03:00)
- Book: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Passion: horseback riding
- Heart sing: grandchildren
- Screwed up: articulation in these times
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