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What on Earth is Going on?

Your weekly podcast for a world in flux. Globalization and climate change. The rise of social media and the decline and fall of Blockbuster Video. AI and VR. Donald Trump and Flat Earthers. The world is changing so fast that we can't get a grip on how we got here, let alone where we're headed. Join Ben Charland as he peels back the headlines to ask, what are the events, characters, forces and ideas that shape the human story today? Have things always been this nuts, or are they getting crazier by the day? Who were those barbarians that took down the Blockbuster Empire? Just what on Earth is going on?

info_outline ...with the new novel, Seven by Farzana Doctor (Ep. 101) 09/18/2020
info_outline ...after 99 Episodes (Ep. 100) 09/04/2020
info_outline ...with Changing Cities (Ep. 99) 08/21/2020
info_outline ...with Creativity, Music and Politics during COVID-19 (Ep. 98) 08/07/2020
info_outline ...with Kingston WritersFest (Ep. 97) 07/24/2020
info_outline ...with Disability (Ep. 96) 07/10/2020
info_outline ...with Rebuilding Democracy (Ep. 95) 06/26/2020
info_outline ...with Writing Biography (Ep. 94) 06/12/2020
info_outline ...with Politics and its Future (Ep. 93) 05/29/2020
info_outline ...with Acting, Gaming and Creativity (Ep. 92) 05/15/2020
info_outline ...with the Writing Process, Genre, and the Rise of Stupid (Ep. 91) 05/01/2020
info_outline ...with Writing Novels (Ep. 90) 04/17/2020
info_outline ...with Generations and the Ethical Choice to Have Children (Ep. 89) 04/03/2020
info_outline ...with Polling in Politics (Ep. 88) 03/20/2020
info_outline ...with the Power of Names (Ep. 87) 03/06/2020
info_outline ...with Political Philosophy (Ep. 86) 02/21/2020
info_outline ...with The Reality Bubble (Ep. 85) 02/07/2020
info_outline ...with Guy Gavriel Kay (Ep. 84) 01/24/2020
info_outline ...according to the novel, Ducks, Newburyport (Ep. 83) 01/10/2020
info_outline ...with Rebalancing Society (Ep. 82) 12/27/2019
info_outline ...with Poetry (Ep. 81) 12/13/2019
info_outline ...with Polygraphs, Technology and the Music of Plants (Ep. 80) 11/29/2019
info_outline ...with Theatre (Ep. 79) 11/15/2019
info_outline ...with Politics in the US and Canada (Ep. 78) 11/01/2019
info_outline ...with Gambling (Ep. 77) 10/25/2019
info_outline ...with Elections (Ep. 76) 10/11/2019
info_outline ...with Being and Becoming Indigenous (Ep. 75) 10/04/2019
info_outline ...with Gamification (Ep. 74) 09/27/2019
info_outline ...with Philosophy (Ep. 73) 09/20/2019
info_outline ...with Luck and Probability (Ep. 72) 09/13/2019
 
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