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“Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.” – Anne Wilson Schaef

In this conversation with Dr Smriti Murali Krishna, she is answering our health questions with an emphasis on cardiovascular health.

Dr Krishna is a Research Officer and a Senior Scientist in the field of cardiovascular diseases. Her work has been published in many leading specialist journals. Dr Krishna has a strong interest in research for community benefit and has been involved in mentoring, lecturing, collaborating and interacting with immigrant community, culturally & linguistically diverse community, hospital advisory council etc.

Episode hosts: Dr Smriti Murali Krishna  & Bino Manjasseril

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Let's talk about feminism!

Joining me today Jeena Rajesh (Author of the book Akkaldhamayile Silpi Paranja Katha) in a conversation on feminism and women's rights in the context of several recent social events.

Episode hosts: Jeena Rajesh & Bino Manjasseril

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In the past few episodes, we have addressed the question of the relevancy of socialism in the modern world.
Today, we are exploring the other side of the coin, capitalism. 
Whether you like it or not, capitalism has impacted the majority of the people who currently live in this world. 
Whether it’s a positive or negative impact is something that is subjective.
Today’s guest, Stanley Samuel, is bringing some relevant arguments for capitalism and helping us to address a few common challenges in the economics, ethics, and sustainability of capitalism.

Episode hosts: Stanley Samuel & Bino Manjasseril

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How did Little Rock Nine change America? How did Panchami change Kerala? A peak into how youngsters played a crucial role in making education accessible to marginalized. Contrasting two historically significant event that occurred in two different parts of the world in two different times.

Episode host: Bino Manjasseril

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In Part one of this two part series,  we addressed why Capitalism failed to deliver on its promises. In this episode we are looking into the economics and morality contrasting Capitalism and Socialism. Does Socialism solve the inherent instability and unsustainability of capitalism? We look into how socialism can make the economic process more democratic and ethical. 

We will also discuss a number of practical ways socialism can be implemented through the process of democratization of the workplaces and how worker Cooperatives (Workers self directed enterprises) can be a real game changer for achieving economic justice throughout the world.

Episode hosts: Roy Vrindavanam & Bino Manjasseril

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Is socialism or communism still relevant today? Is it an outdated economic system? Has it’s past failures indicate socialism cannot be revived? These are some of the questions we are attempting to address in this episode. 

In part one of this series, we want to analyze how capitalism is failing to deliver on its promises, the economic divide it created globally and its built-in inequality.  We touch on the history of both socialism and capitalism, it’s origins, failures and the effects in the global economy.

In part two, we will look into potential solutions to some of the problems capitalism has created,  and attempt to lay out the future and practicality of socialism through the democratization of our workplaces.

Episode hosts: Roy Vrindavanam & Bino Manjasseril

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Maitreyan answering questions on the pitfalls of current education system, basics of maintaining good physical health in light of how our bodies were evolved, COVID-19 pandemic related mental health issues, consciousness, hard problem of consciousness and evolution.

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When was the last time you made a significant decision in your life that you regretted later? If you were to backtrack your life today to that very same moment you made that decision, do you think you would have made a different decision?

This is the question Stanley and I are addressing today looking into how human mind operates on the issue of Free will.

Do we really have the freedom we think we have? After all, you made that decision to eat a fruit for snack, and not a cookie, out of your freewill, right? Well, it might be a little bit more complex than that.

If a person's choice to commit a crime  is determined by a certain pattern of neural activity, which is also the product of prior causes, bad genes, a dramatic childhood, lost sleep, or even cosmic-ray bombardment that mutated one of his genes, can we really say that his will was “free” when he committed that crime?

We understand an average person's basic intuition is wanting to punish criminals. But before we jump into that conclusion lets listen to this conversation. This might completely change your attitude towards criminals and make you more compassionate towards people who make bad choices in life.

Episode hosts: Stanley Samuel & Bino Manjasseril

References:

Sam Harris's Book on Free will
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Will_(book)

Sam Harris's  article on Illusion of Free will
https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-illusion-of-free-will

Does Benjamin Libet's finding's prove that the  action of lifting the hand were caused by the readiness potential? 
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/9/2172/files/2020/01/C11.pdf

A paper by Miller and Trevena (2009) show that the RP may only be the brain's preparation to make a conscious act, rather than a cause for it.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19736023/

An article from the popular press debunking Libet's experiment as a proof against free-will
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/

Laplace's Demon - his take on the deterministic nature of the universe, derived from classical mechanics occurs in his book A philosophical essay on probabilities (1814): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58881/58881-h/58881-h.htm

A critique of Sam Harris book on Free will by John Horgan:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/will-this-post-make-sam-harris-change-his-mind-about-free-will/

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Here is a conversation I had with Sam Mathew, a friend of mine, on his journey out of religious fundamentalism; to be specific, Christian fundamentalism. 

Sam is someone who comes full circle in terms of his intellectual curiosity about God and the universe; and I am sure you would find his storytelling so down to earth, honest, relatable and stimulating.

Sam’s narrative is a great example of someone who deliberately hung on to truthful seeking, which led him to a phenomenal evolution of personal growth, and a gradual development of a more progressive, inclusive and scientifically rooted mindset.

I am deeply grateful for his honesty and transparency about his own struggles through the different phases of his life’s journey, yet not hesitant to expose the hypocrisy, dishonesty and deceitfulness of religion.

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When babies are born, are they born with a moral sense?  Or do we need society and parental nurturing to develop morally sensible individuals?

Joining me today for a conversation on the origin of morality, Stanley Samuel. In an earlier episode, Stanley and I discussed the objective and subjective nature of morality. Today we are addressing the question of who is the author of moral sense among sentient beings, specifically humans. 

Is morality merely a self-preserving tendency for humans? Don’t we all like nice behavior because it guarantees us pleasure and less suffering? Or is there a more deeper source for our moral compass?

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Immigration is an area filled with several myths and our intention is to separate fact from fiction in this conversation.

Examples of these myths include,

“Immigrants are a major source of crime.”

“Immigrants increase economic inequality.”

“It’s easy to immigrate to America and we’re the most open country in the world.”

These talking points have long plagued the conversation surrounding immigration. 

We will also take a look at the 'model minority' myth and how it masks its overt racism as an uplifting of Asian Americans at the expense of other racial and ethnic groups such as black and Hispanic Americans.

Today we would like to discuss the validity of these claims and implore our listeners to further this conversation on their own with questions such as “should immigration be a human right?” 

Episode hosts: Jessica Manjasseril & Bino Manjasseril

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Should humanity plan to colonize Mars?

Exploration beyond planet earth inspires many, provides more in-depth observational research than unmanned rovers and economic expansion into Mar's resources.
Settlement in Mars could decrease the very likelihood of human extinction.

However, is permanent settlement in Mars merely a science fiction?

In this episode we are getting into the weeds of various challenges for humans to live in Mars.

Episode hosts: Roy Vrindavanam & Bino Manjasseril

For further reference:

• The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
• The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

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Why we must explore space and beyond? Should humanity plan to colonize Mars, The Red Planet? Is permanent settlement outside planet earth merely a science fiction?

A fascinating conversation about space exploration, global travel from any point on Earth to another in an hour or less; orbital hotels; moon bases with incredible space observatories; human settlements on Mars, the asteroids, and the moons of the outer planets; and then, breaking all limits, pushing onward to the stars.

Episode hosts: Roy Vrindavanam & Bino Manjasseril

For further reference:

• The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
• The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

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Today's episode is a short conversation with my son, Jonathan on the subject of IMF.

We all have heard enough conspiracies about global financial organizations like International Monetary Fund (aka IMF) and World Bank.

Do they exist to turn the world into a giant marketplace by growing the global economy indefinitely?

They claim, they promote international financial stability, facilitates international trade, promotes employment and sustainable economic growth, and helps to reduce global poverty.

How true are these claims?

Let's take a look at how these institutions operate and some benefits and pitfalls of their existence.

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Do you easily get offended if your faith is challenged? Are you open to grapple with the dichotomy of faith and reason?

Joining me today, Sunil Devasia to have a sincere and audacious conversation on this.

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Curious about the prospect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medicine?

Have you ever felt the doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken and the doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients?

In this conversation, Roy & Bino is making an attempt to explore Deep Medicine and how it can make healthcare human again.

Our attempt is to look at the pros and cons of using  such advanced technologies in Healthcare. And the big question is do the benefits outweigh the cost?

Episode hosts: Roy Vrindavanam & Bino Manjasseril

For further reference:
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

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In this episode Dileep Vasudevan is presenting an important subject, addressing the hidden traits of various cognitive and social biases in all of us in different levels. In this monologue Dileep is doing a deep dive into the psychological and evolutionary reasons for both conscious and unconscious biases we all experience in our daily lives.
He is not only addressing the issues here, but offering helpful insights for consciously overcoming the hidden biases in us.

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What we call moral truths today, are they objective or subjective?

In other words, are moral truths objectively true and thus true independently of what our society says?

Stanley Samuel, who is also a moral realist, someone who believes there are fundamental moral principles that are objectively true regardless of the context in which they are used, joining Bino Manjasseril for an open conversation on this.

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From stories of Santa clause to the conspiracy theories about 9/11, have you ever wondered why we believe in fictional stories?
Is there a science behind it?
Is it the result of cognitive biases we developed from our past?
Here in this episode of Day 2 Project, we are making an attempt to explore these questions.
Hope you find this as fascinating as we do.
Thank you for tuning in.

Episode hosts: Roy Vrindavanam & Bino Manjasseril

References:
Confirmation bias
Proportionality bias

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In this episode, I have my dear friend and brother, Thomas Junior, joining me in a very personal and moving conversation. 

Listen to this powerful narrative of perseverance, courage and an extraordinary positive attitude while going through a serious health challenge at a young age. 

We talk about life in general, work, parenting, and a lot more.

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