Episodes
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Welcome to Risky Business, a show about making better decisions.
Today, Maria has lessons from a poker tournament she recently played in Monte Carlo, where she made it to the final table. Then, Nate discusses what RFK Jr.’s impressive polling numbers could mean for Biden and Trump. And Nate and Maria discuss Caitlin Clark and what her story tells us – or doesn’t – about the gender pay gap.
Further Reading:
The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
On The Edge by Nate Silver (forthcoming)
"RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain" (NYT)
"What the conversation about Caitlin Clark’s pay gets wrong" (CNN)
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The Leap from Maria Konnikova
Silver Bulletin from Nate Silver
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The digital revolution has been happening for a while now, but with 5G, it’s about to reach a whole new level. IT departments are about to rule the world. So in this paid partnership with T-Mobile for Business, Malcolm sits with leaders in the world of retail and healthcare to discuss how their industries are changing.
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Former Solvable host Ronald Young Jr has a new podcast! “Weight For It unpacks the nuanced thoughts of fat folks, and of all folks who think about their weight all the time. Through narrative storytelling and some memoir, host Ronald Young Jr. hopes to have the conversations that we tend to avoid when it comes to our bodies.” Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts: https://apple.co/45kiRLG
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Paul Rosolie is an Amazon Rainforest conservationist, author, and filmmaker. He is the co-founder of Tamandua Expeditions and Junglekeepers.
Here are links to those organizations he mentions in this episode:
Www.Junglekeepers.org
Www.Tamanduajungle.com
Www.PaulRosolie.com
Save the Sunlight, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editorial support for Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and the Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.
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Sterlin Harjo strives to tell the stories of Native and Indigenous people by positioning beauty and triumphs alongside honest frailty and shortcomings. Harjo is an award-winning film maker and he’s the creator and show runner of the TV show Reservations Dogs.
Here are some links to organizations and works he recommends in this episode:
https://illuminatives.org/
Reservation Dogs
Four Sheets to the Wind
Barking Water
Mekko
This May Be the Last Time
Love and Fury
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editorial support for Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and the Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.
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Laila Shabir is the co-founder and CEO of Girls Make Games. Here are some links to learn more about her game design studio, summer camp and quest to welcome more girls and women into the world of game design.
Girls Make Games
https://www.girlsmakegames.com/
What They Don’t Sea (2019) - Explore the underwater seas to collect special algae for an alternative energy project
Shredded Secrets (2022) - A game about bullying, that follows the bullied kid and the struggling bully as well. Nintendo Switch
Find Me (2021) - A beautiful and surreal 2D puzzle platformer about a lost shadow seeking to be reunited with her human girl, while searching for memories and avoiding the dangerous city lights. Steam, Playstation
Blubblub (2016) - Jennifer is out on a hunt to extract cuteness from anything and everything in sight to create the world's finest line of make up. It just so happens, BlubBlub is the cutest blub there ever was... Rescue your friends and thwart Jennifer's scheme for building a cosmetics empire. Down with the syringes! Steam, X-box
Interfectorem (2015) - A young sheriff-in-training who lives alone with her sister Sali in a small town next to the woods decides to go on a hike one day, but comes home to find her younger sister brutally murdered! Steam, Playstation
The Hole Story (2014) - When an unsuspecting young girl finds herself transported to a mystical world, she must rely on her trusty shovel and quick wits to find her way home. Steam
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, and editing support from Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.
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Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen are the hosts of the podcast, Game of Roses and they have ideas about how to solve The Bachelor and reality TV more generally.
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editing help from Keishel Williams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.
Here are additional resources suggested by Lizzy and Chad, where you can learn more:
How To Win The Bachelor by Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Win-The-Bachelor/Chad-Kultgen/9781982172947
Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101985915
TV Show: Unreal
https://www.hulu.com/series/unreal-dcd85133-0465-410f-8792-aeb94ebd5755
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The staff of Solvable discuss the problems, big and small, that they'd like to see solved in 2022 and beyond.
Special thanks to Maggie Taylor and Pushkin podcast hosts Sam Fragoso (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso), Tim Harford (Cautionary Tales), Michael Lewis (Against the Rules), Laurie Santos (The Happiness Lab) and Justin Richmond (Broken Record).
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, Editing support from Keishel Williams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and executive producer is Mia Lobel.
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Mike Gauyo is a TV writer in LA. Credits include Insecure (HBO) and Ginny & Georgia (Netflix) among other projects. He’s the founder of The Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative which is paving pathways for emerging Black writers in Hollywood.
Here are some resources Gauyo recommends in this episode:
Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes
Insecure
Fruit Podcast
The Writer's Room Podcast
The Screenwriters Rant Room Podcast
On Writing Podcast from WGA
The Screenwriter's Bible, A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by David Trottier
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Dr. Carmen Peralta is the Chief Medical Officer at Cricket Health. She co-founded the Kidney Health Research Collaborative at University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She works to provide support to patients, doctors and all the steps in between to improve kidney health outcomes.
Dr. Peralta recommends these sites to learn more:
CDC Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative
https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/index.html
UCSF Kidney Health Research Collaborative
https://khrc.ucsf.edu/
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha, Lisa Dunn and Keishel Wiliams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and our executive producer is Mia Lobel.
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adrienne maree brown is the author of We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, Pleasure Activism and also several works of fiction. She is the co-host of the podcasts How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia’s Parables and Emergent Strategy.
Below are links to topics, resources and mentors mentioned in this episode:
Ashlee Marie Preston calls on Netflix
https://www.them.us/story/activists-celebrities-protest-netflix-chappelle-special
Grace Lee Boggs Activist and American Revolutionary Turns 100, Code Switch NPR, 2015 https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/06/27/417175523/grace-lee-boggs-activist-and-american-revolutionary-turns-100
Mariame Kaba
http://mariamekaba.com/
Ways to Implement Restorative Practices in the Classroom
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-ways-to-implement-restorative-practices-in-the-classroom/2020/01
Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/prison-industrial-complex-slavery-racism.html
The Center for Nonviolent Communication
https://www.cnvc.org/
Hollow Water First Nations Community Holistic Healing Circle
https://cncfr.jbsinternational.com/node/589
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa
https://www.usip.org/publications/1995/12/truth-commission-south-africa
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
https://nctr.ca/
12 Ways to Engage in Truth and Reconciliation at Western University Ontario, Canada
https://indigenous.uwo.ca/initiatives/learning/12-ways.html
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Mary Aiken is a Cyberpsychologist and Chair of the Department of Cyberpsychology Capitol Technology University in Laurel Maryland. She is a member of the Interpol Global Cybercrime Expert Group.
Want to learn more? Here are links to additional resources Dr. Aiken recommends:
The Cyber Blue Line (Aiken & Amann ) https://www.europol.europa.eu/europol-spotlight/europol-spotlight-cyber-blue-line
The Cyber Effect - how human behavior changes online (Aiken, 2016) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyber-Effect-Pioneering-Cyberpsychologist-Explains/dp/0812997859
Manipulating Fast and Slow (Aiken, 2018 ) https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/manipulating-fast-and-slow#:~:text=As%20a%20discipline%2C%20cyberpsychology%20focuses,emerging%20technologies%20on%20human%20behavior.&text=this%20article%2C%20Dr.-,Mary%20Aiken%20talks%20about%20how%20the%20discipline%20helps%20us%20better,the%20context%20of%20recent%20elections.
15 minutes of Shame, Documentary HBO Max https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJrnNdH-aw
Master of Research (M.Res.) in Cyberpsychology https://www.captechu.edu/degrees-and-programs/masters-degrees/cyberpsychology-mres
Doctorate in Cyberpsychology https://www.captechu.edu/degrees-and-programs/doctoral-degrees/cyberpsychology-phd
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Sachar Mathias is the managing producer and Mia Lobel the executive producer.
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Jade Begay is the NDN collective’s Climate Justice Campaign Director. She is Diné and Tesuque Pueblo, has a Master of Arts degree in Environmental Leadership and is part of President Biden’s White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Here are some resources that Jade Begay mentions in this episode:
NDN Collective
https://ndncollective.org/
Chasing Ice, Documentary
https://chasingice.com/
Sal Y Cielo, Documentary
https://www.taylorfreesolorees.com/project/sal-y-cielo
The New Zealand river that became a legal person, BBC March 2020
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200319-the-new-zealand-river-that-became-a-legal-person
Will Northwest Seaweed Farming Finally Take Off?
https://www.nativeconservancy.org/2020/12/16/will-northwest-seaweed-farming-finally-take-off/
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, our managing producer is Sachar Mathias and our Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.
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Dr. Susan Solomon’s research in the 1980’s confirmed that the presence of chlorofluorocarbons was largely responsible for the hole in the ozone and that led consumers, chemical companies and manufacturers to a path for fixing it. For her work, Solomon was awarded the National Medal of Science, the prestigious Blue Planet Prize, shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore and was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in 2009. Solomon Glacier in Antarctica was named for her.
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Our managing producer is Sachar Mathias is the managing producer and Mia Lobel is the executive producer.
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Ronald Young Jr. talks with Malcolm Gladwell (author of David and Goliath and the co-founder of Pushkin Industries) about what we can learn about surviving our current challenges by studying human behavior during past eras of stress and national threat.
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. Our managing producer is Sachar Mathias is the managing producer and Mia Lobel is the executive producer.
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Dr. Adrienne Keene is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She’s an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, co-hosts a podcast called “All My Relations” and she’s the author of the new book: Notable Native People.
Here are links to some resources that Dr. Keene mentions in this episode:
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene. Illustrations by Ciara Sana
Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States, Smithsonian Magazine, 2016
Landback.org
NDN Collective
Why Native Hawaiians are fighting to protect Mauna Kea from a telescope
Vox.com, 2019
Indigenous Opposition to Line Three
Reuters, 2021
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn. The show's managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.
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Dr. Maya Shankar is the founder of the White House's Behavioral Science Team. She served as a senior advisor during the Obama administration and in 2016, Shankar was the first behavioral science advisor to the United Nations.
She is the host of the podcast, A Slight Change of Plans.
Here are some resources that Dr. Shankar mentions in this episode:
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
“A Slight Change of Plans” with Adam Grant
“A Slight Change of Plans” with Dr. Katy Milkman
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.
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Matthew Johnson is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University where research is underway to explore the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs to break through the crushing impact of addiction and other mental health disorders.
Here are some of the resources Johnson mentions in this episode:
Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/
National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials
https://clinicaltrials.gov/
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
https://maps.org/
Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel.
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Host Ronald Young Jr. sits down with Malcolm Gladwell to talk about climate change: the power of individual choices, cultural shifts and what to expect from the business sector too.
Meaningful climate action requires thoughtful engagement from across all sectors, regions, nations -- from all of us. Check out these recent Solvable episodes for additional solutions and for ways that you can get involved.
Destructive Agriculture is Solvable with Rachel Stroer
Wildfire Ignition is Solvable with Eric Appel
The Lack of Basic Sanitation in the United States is Solvable with Catherine Coleman Flowers
The Slow Regrowth of Vulnerable Coral Reefs is Solvable with Sarah Hamlyn
Fighting Climate Change Through Incentivized Prizes and Innovation with Anousheh Ansari
Making Transportation Systems Eco-friendly is a Solvable Problem with Laura Schewel
Addiction to Fossil Fuels is Solvable with Bill McKibben
Executive Producer, Mia Lobel
Managing Producer, Sachar Mathias
Senior Producer, Jocelyn Frank
Researcher, David Zha
Booking by Lisa Dunn
Very special thanks to Royston Beserve, Heather Fain, Nicole Morano, Carly Migliori, Eric Sandler and Maggie Taylor.
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Ben Kirby is the founder of PreachersNSneakers, an Instagram account and book, that both ask, “how much is too much” to spend when it comes to presenting a compelling image of the church and it’s leaders? Kirby's got some answers and some solutions.
Solvable is produced by David Zha, Jocelyn Frank, Sachar Mathias and Mia Lobel.
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