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Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the National Institute of Technology

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Ben Mangrum

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Episode: 157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)

Mark Vellend

Professor of Biology at the Université de Sherbrooke and author of 'Everything Evolves'

Princeton University Press

Episode: Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Dr. Vanessa Warne

Author and scholar at the University of Manitoba

University of Manitoba

Episode: Vanessa Warne, "By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

Doyne Farmer

Director of the Complexity Economics Program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Institute for New Economic Thinking

Episode: J. Doyne Farmer, "Making Sense of Chaos" (Yale UP, 2024)

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Historian of energy at CNRS and EHESS in Paris

CNRS and EHESS

Episode: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, "More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy" (Harper, 2025)

Jonas Enander

Author and science communicator with a background in cosmology and astrophysics.

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Episode: Jonas Enander, "Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth" (The Experiment Press, 2025)

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Susannah Fisher, "Sink Or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Q: How can companies and governments work together on food systems in the face of climate change?

Fisher discusses the complexity of food systems and suggests that collaboration between public and private actors is essential for building resilience and adaptability in food production and distribution.

Susannah Fisher, "Sink Or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Q: What are some of those barriers that are stopping adaptations from being fully effective?

Fisher highlights insufficient funding and the lack of political incentives as major barriers to effective adaptation efforts.

Susannah Fisher, "Sink Or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Q: How can we know whether or not we're doing enough on adaptation?

Fisher explains that we need to assess the scale of expected climate impacts against our responses to see if they match up, indicating a caution that we might not be moving fast enough.

Susannah Fisher, "Sink Or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Q: Could you please start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?

Dr. Susannah Fisher introduces herself as a researcher at University College London, emphasizing her long-term work on adapting to climate change and her aim to make the topic accessible to a broader audience.

Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India

Q: Can you give us an example of how your research connects selfie practices to recent public debates?

Sanitation workers in India are required to upload selfies with geo tags while on duty, raising questions about digital surveillance and dignity.

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