"A large federally-funded study coming out of [US]America, published in Nature, 'marijuana users have enhanced cognitive abilities' ... [they] analysed brain imaging and cognitive data, from 37929 people. The cannabis consumers consistently outperformed the non-users in the cognitive tests. They had brain network characteristics typically associated with younger brains."

#ChrisFowlie, 2025

https://95bfm.com/bcast/95bfm-drive-w-halfqueen-r%C4%81pare-august-14th-2025

#podcasts#95bFM#MarijuanaMedia#UKBioBank #cannabis #cognition #research

"It might in the US seem impossible that a society based on 'American freedoms' could turn into this kind of repressive theocracy overnight."

#DavidRunciman, August, 2024

https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes

A year later ...

(1/?)

#podcasts#PastPresentFuture#GreatPoliticalFictions

People talking about fixing an economy that's bleeding out, with more cutting of regulation and public spending, is like a doctor proposing to save a person who's bleeding out, by doing more bloodletting.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=3bb48a4d-e5cb-4fd1-bd2b-209f8458de06

#podcasts#RNZ #FocusOnPolitics

"... there is no point knowing that we are right if we are left clinging to our mountains of evidence when the last tree is cut down.

What we actually have to do is not wring our hands about the 'missing million' voters. We need to go out and we need to find them, and we need to build trust with them. Not just when it's easy and convenient in election years, but outside of that."

#ChlöeSwarbrick, Co-leader, #NZGreens, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mata-with-mihingarangi-forbes?share=3cd12678-90ad-453b-b654-5ff2bd78ec39

#podcasts#RNZ#Mata

"Now online, they don't want you to go back down to calm. Because once you get back down to calm, you can engage the part of your brain that's logical and rational, and you go actually I've had enough time online. They keep you in an active emotional state."

#KathrynBerkett, educational psychologist, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019000868/the-emotional-gym-growing-your-child-s-resilience-muscle

#podcasts#RNZ#9ToNoon #psychology#PlatformPsychology

Complaining about of "maorification" of media, because they're starting to reflect the unique cultural mix of Aotearoa, is like complaining about "pacification" when institutions start taking meaningful action to prevent domestic abuse.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=e6bc82e6-bcc8-42bf-915c-f27d859a21df

#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch

#ShowerThoughts: 'More is better' is the ethos of a cancerous tumor.

The growth-based productivity obsession is deeply toxic.

https://opentodebate.org/debate/is-our-productivity-culture-toxic/

#podcasts #OpenToDebate #productivity

"Technology giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM, were named as central to Israel's surveillance apparatus, and the ongoing Gaza destruction. IBM hasn't met a genocide it didn't want to be part of.

Palentir Technologies - that's Peter Thiel's firm - was also mentioned for providing AI tools to the Israeli military. Although specifics on their use were not included.

Taylor this list goes on and on. These are just some."

#JordanUhl, 2025

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/vanishmode/episodes/Why-People-Are-Turning-On-DJ-Khaled-e352e6v

#podcasts#VanishMode

Given a choice between Nigel Farright and Jeremy Corbyn as hypothetical UK PM, Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart both pick Corbyn;

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/08/437-question-time-farage-vs-corbyn-the-uks-next-prime-minister/

Of course they do. One option is a lying, snivelling, intellectually bankrupt, corporatist, appeaser of actual fascists. The other is a Fabian socialist Parliamentarian. It's not a hard choice.

For all their faults, neither Campbell nor Stewart have sympathy for fascism of any kind.

(1/3)

#podcasts #GoalHanger #TheRestIsPolitics

"[IDF] have admitted it was deliberate attack, but it claimed that [Anas] al-Sharif was Hamas operative. They called him a 'mouthpiece of intellectual terrorism'..."

#HaydenDonnell, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=36b8bb92-d72c-404b-8948-5850ce600cf6

#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch#Gaza #journalism

"... looking at the roots of our wealth broadly, globally, and looking at the ways that we relate, especially in the field of global aid ... who's making decisions in that space and what are they for? We can think about philanthro-capitalism ... leveraging philanthropy to perpetuate a lot of the harm in our society."

#JohnOkhiulu, Decolonizing Wealth Project

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/season-one/decolonizing-wealth-project

@solarpunkpresents

#podcasts #SolarpunkPresents #SolarPunk #decolonisation #philanthropy #DecolonizingWealth

"We can't have this namby-pamby stand in education where we don't like winners and losers, we just like winners."

#BarrySoper, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=199b86ae-c200-4075-ab0c-f5dec7f2b80f

Why not? Why would we choose to structurally frame people struggling at school as "losers"? Why choose to make education a zero-sum game, when there's no evidence that moving away from that toxic framing does any harm?

https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/schooling2/learners/student-engagement-and-behaviour/29252

#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch #education#NCEA

Wow, the world is really waking up to the reality of Bibi's New Clothes;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=36b614ea-2ca6-43a1-a900-293694ea3e30

Intriguing to compare the rhetoric that led up to Irish independence with the rhetoric around the recognition of Palestinian statehood. Right down to the way they used the IRA as an excuse to refuse independence. Avoiding talks for handover to a transitional government by accusing people involved of being with the IRA ("we don't negotiate with terrorists")

(1/2)

#podcasts#RNZ #FocusOnPolitics

Wait, is @rabble saying what I think he's saying? That's there a central moderation power in BlueSky that you can't opt-out of? Even if you use an ATProto stack totally independent of BS services? Or does he just mean you can't opt-out if you're using the BS AppView, Relay, or either?

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/

#podcasts#WeDistribute#Decentered #moderation#BlueSky

@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa

A kiwi band called Thee Golden Geese have released a dungeon crawler game as a way of publishing an unreleased album, called Goose Your Own Adventure;

https://gooseyourownadventure.com/

They played through it, including playing the songs, on a recent edition of Freak The Sheep, the kiwi music show on student radio station bFM. Listening to the podcast version right now;

https://95bfm.com/bcast/freak-the-sheep-w-chris-cudby-and-taylor-mcgregor-july-23-2025

Great fun : P

#podcasts#bFM#FreakTheSheep #music #punk#ArtPunk#TheeGoldenGeese#GooseYourOwnAdventure

Are there any good #Australian#Podcasts?

I'm not a huge fan of Jacinda Ardern, and in fact I've criticised her government with absolute candour over things like the Christchurch Call. So I was expecting to do a lot of scoffing, snorting and rolling my eyes when I listening to her interview with The Rest is Politics;

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/06/137-jacinda-ardern-why-i-stepped-down-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand/

I was rather surprised when it brought me to tears. More than once.

(1/?)

#podcasts#Leading

"I guess that's what interests me always about these kind of 'conspiracy theory' conversations about hidden networks of people doing evil things, is that a) yes, people are doing evil things all the time that they're not telling you about, because that's how power works. And b) the way those things work I think are ... ways to understand the ways that you're being downtrodden, in society. Without making it an individualistic thing."

Simone, 2025

https://www.1of200.nz/podcast/1200-s2e148-lgnz-of-the-fall

#podcasts #1of200

"... one of his examples is ... if you want a good laptop, then you want it from a company called Apple, which is run as a kind of monarchy, as an autocracy, there's someone at the top ... You wouldn't want ... your laptop designed by the local council, because it would take ages and it would be much worse."

https://shows.acast.com/adambuxton/episodes/ep253-squid

False dichotomy much Yarvin?

#podcasts#CurtisYarvin

OMG 2 community theatre groups got a mention on an RNZ podcast, by a playwright whose work I performed with at least one of those groups, and I acted with both for years in my late teens;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/did-titanic-sink?share=07066cf0-bc2c-4c67-aee9-1836355308f7

I officially got my 0.5 minutes of fame.

#podcasts#RNZ#DidTitanicSink