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Crossings: Ben Goldfarb on How Roads Devastate Wildlife
A touching and funny podcast that explores how extraordinary people have been changed by an extraordinary animal. In this weekly show, Katya talks to fascinating guests about what their lives were like before and after they experienced a soul-level relationship with an animal. SUBSCRIBE: Spotify | RSS | iTunes FOLLOW: …continue
74:On The Move: Exploring Companion Animal Transport with Dr. Lori Jervis (S8)
Episode 3 of Series 8: The World of Animal Welfare and Sheltering TranscriptIn our discussion, we traverse through Dr. Jervis’s intriguing research on relocating companion animals from the overpopulated regions of the Southern US to the North, a mission that’s changing the landscape of animal welfare. We discuss the complexities …continue
Can technology help us understand what animals want?
Over recent years technology has progressed in leaps and bounds, and our ability to understand our world through this lense has dramatically advanced. But what does this mean for our animal friends? How might this technology be used? And if we are able to develop an animal version of Google Translate, …continue
Gabi Balcarce – Estudios Posthumanos
“Necesitamos cambiar las reglas del juego teórico en el que fuimos formades si no nos da las respuestas que necesitamos y para ello necesitamos todas las aliadas posibles” (Gabi Balcarce). Gabi Balcarce es especialista en Jacques Derrida, además de trabajar en investigación y en la Academia. Profe de Metafísica, Problemas Especiales …continue
Saving Animals in Nepal w/ Sneha Shrestha
There’s nothing we love more than talking to people who are saving animals in places we’ve never been to, and today we’ll be talking to Sneha Shrestha in Nepal about her extraordinary work saving dogs, helping farmed animals, and spreading veganism through her organization, Sneha’s Care. ABOUT OUR GUEST …continue
166: “An Aligned AGI would end factory farming” – Kat Woods – EA Charity Co-Founder – Sentientism
Kat is an effective altruist who co-founded Nonlinear (incubating artificial intelligence extinction risk non-profits), Charity Entrepreneurship (helping people start new, effective charities), and Charity Science Health. She describes her main focus today as trying “to make transformative artificial intelligence go well instead of poorly.” In Sentientist Conversations we talk about …continue
Human Privilege: The Power Dynamic between People and Animals
For his Master Thesis, Tim Reysoo developed the concept of human privilege by extending the notion of social privilege to make sense of the enormous power differential between humans and animals in society. He develops the concept and social category of “species privilege” and “human innocence”. Tim studied Philosophy and …continue
