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Curiosity ⇔ Entangled

Curiosity ⇔ Entangled

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Curiosity ⇔ Entangled brings together two experts from different fields for unscripted conversations fueled by mutual curiosity. Each episode explores intersections of science, technology, philosophy, and humanity, diving into topics like the origins of life, artificial intelligence, ancient and modern history, and the mysteries of the cosmos. These unique dialogues create opportunities for the cross-pollination of ideas, sparking new insights and innovation. Join us to discover where curiosity can lead. Produced by Accelerator Media, a nonprofit organization www.acceleratormedia.orgAccelerator Media Science
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  • Designing the Futures We Imagine | Anab Jain & Anand Pandian

    Designing the Futures We Imagine | Anab Jain & Anand Pandian
    Jul 27 2026
    This episode bridges speculative design, anthropology, ecological art, education, environmental ethics, material culture, and futures thinking to ask: how can imagination become a practical tool for building more open, connected, and livable worlds?Anab Jain, co-founder and creative director of Superflux and professor of Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, joins Johns Hopkins anthropologist Anand Pandian, author of Something Between Us and A Possible Anthropology, for a Curiosity Entangled conversation about speculative futures, ecological imagination, design, anthropology, and the more-than-human world. Together, they discuss how immersive experiences can make alternative futures tangible, why boredom and open-mindedness matter, and how art and design can create space for people to form their own relationships with possible worlds.They also explore authoritarianism and the political danger of imagination, Superflux’s future-home installations, the Jones Falls 2076 project in Baltimore, buried urban rivers, the afterlives of discarded objects, and the idea of the “Craftocene”—using craft, repair, and material experimentation to reverse the logic of consumption. Their conversation moves through abandoned vape batteries, aluminum cans, speculative artifacts, future museums, ecological education, community-building, hope, and the challenge of remaining creatively engaged when the future feels overwhelming.⸻TIMESTAMPS00:00:31 - Introductions: speculative design, anthropology, and shared inspiration00:04:35 - Possibility as embodied experience, not just an idea00:08:12 - Boredom, Walter Benjamin, and minds allowed to wander00:12:51 - Open-mindedness, jugaad, and wisdom from rural fieldwork00:23:03 - A lived 2050 apartment and imagination as slow activism00:26:16 - Jones Falls 2076: dreaming a buried river back to life00:34:10 - Telling terrible stories beautifully: loss and the Craftocene00:38:44 - Foraged vapes, burned cans, and reversing supply chains00:44:20 - The Future of Here: a culture built from what we discard00:48:30 - Museums of the future and objects that catch stories01:01:10 - Community, collective organizing, and sustaining hope01:07:46 - Getting unstuck: cognitive precarity and hope as making⸻GUESTSAnab Jain - Designer, Futurist & EducatorCo-Founder and Director, Superflux (London)Professor of Design Investigations, University of Applied Arts Viennahttps://superflux.in/https://superflux.in/index.php/team/a...Anand Pandian - Anthropologist, Professor & AuthorProfessor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins UniversityAuthor of A Possible Anthropology and Reel Worldhttps://anand.studio/https://anthropology.jhu.edu/director...⸻RELATED TOPICSSpeculative design, anthropology, ecological design, ecological imagination, experiential futures, futures thinking, more-than-human world, environmental ethics, open-mindedness, authoritarianism, immersive installations, climate change, storytelling, boredom, material culture, repair, waste, consumerism, Craftocene, Jones Falls 2076, buried rivers, urban ecology, discarded objects, future museums, speculative anthropology, design education, radical pedagogy, community, hope, art and science, longform conversation⸻FOLLOW ACCELERATOR MEDIATwitter/X: https://x.com/xceleratormediaInstagram: / xcelerator.medialinkedin: / accelerator-media-orgwebsite: https://acceleratormedia.org⸻ABOUT CURIOSITY ENTANGLEDCuriosity Entangled pairs distinguished thinkers from different disciplines for unscripted conversations about consciousness, science, technology, and humanity’s long-term future. Hosted by Accelerator Media, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to public engagement with science and long-term thinking.
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    1 h et 17 min
  • The Music of our Planet: Geology, Sound Art, and Deep Time with Marcia Bjornerud and Olivia Block

    The Music of our Planet: Geology, Sound Art, and Deep Time with Marcia Bjornerud and Olivia Block
    Jul 1 2026

    Geology is usually taught through rocks, minerals, mountains, and deep time. But structural geologist Marcia Bjornerud and sound artist Olivia Block show how Earth science also connects to sound, music, memory, climate change, architecture, and the way humans understand the planet.


    Marcia Bjornerud, professor of geosciences at Lawrence University and author of Timefulness and Turning to Stone, joins composer and sound artist Olivia Block for a Curiosity Entangled conversation about geology, sound art, deep time, and the more-than-human world. Together, they explore how rocks record Earth’s history, how mountains and continents move over immense timescales, and why listening can become a powerful way to think about geological change.


    They also discuss the Great Unconformity, Snowball Earth, the Great Oxygenation Event, banded iron formations, slow earthquakes, seismology, quarry landscapes, architectural stone, and the challenge of communicating Earth history to a human audience. The conversation connects science and art through Olivia’s sound installations and Marcia’s writing, while also touching on climate change, AI, scientific humility, and the importance of seeing Earth as an active, dynamic system rather than a passive background to human life.


    This episode bridges geology, sound art, Earth history, climate science, music, architecture, and deep time to ask: how can science and art help us better understand the planet we live on?

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    TIMESTAMPS

    00:00:31 - Introductions: Sound art, structural geology, and sonic connections
    00:01:05 - Weaving Earth history with memoir
    00:03:04 - Geological time, sound, and human perception
    00:09:28 - Rocks as animate, responsive, and more-than-human
    00:14:37 - The Great Unconformity and missing time in the geologic record
    00:15:43 - Snowball Earth and ancient climate shifts
    00:19:19 - The Great Oxygenation Event and how life transformed the atmosphere
    00:27:18 - Climate urgency, grief, and moving beyond human-centered thinking

    00:28:29 - AI, vulnerability, capitalism, and empathy for the nonhuman world
    00:34:42 - Selecting rocks for a sound art installation
    00:40:30 - Indiana limestone, architecture, and sound
    00:46:27 - Slow earthquakes and finding signals in noise
    00:58:52 - Scientific humility, jazz, and the limits of disciplinary boundaries

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    GUESTS

    Marcia Bjornerud - Structural Geologist, Professor & AuthorProfessor of Geosciences, Lawrence UniversityAuthor of Timefulness and Turning to Stonehttps://lawrence.edu/people/marcia-bjornerud-walter-schober-professor-of-environmental-studies-and-professor-of-geosciences


    Olivia Block - Composer & Sound ArtistMultichannel Installation ArtistComposer working across music, sound, electronics, and geological themeshttps://oliviablock.net/ https://instagram.com/oliviablocksound/https://oliviablock.bandcamp.com/

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    RELATED TOPICS

    Geology, Earth science, sound art, deep time, structural geology, rocks, Earth history, climate change, Snowball Earth, Great Unconformity, Great Oxygenation Event, banded iron formations, slow earthquakes, seismology, music, sound installation, architecture, limestone, quarries, science communication, art and science, AI, scientific humility, more-than-human world, longform conversation


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    ABOUT CURIOSITY ENTANGLED

    Curiosity Entangled pairs distinguished thinkers from different disciplines for unscripted conversations about consciousness, science, technology, and humanity’s long-term future. Hosted by Accelerator Media, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to public engagement with science and long-term thinking.

    #Geology #EarthScience #MarciaBjornerud #OliviaBlock #SoundArt #DeepTime #ClimateChange #Seismology #Rocks #ScienceCommunication #ArtAndScience #LongformPodcast #CuriosityEntangled
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    1 h et 5 min
  • What Chess Reveals About Gender, Intelligence, and Culture | Agustín Fuentes & Jennifer Shahade

    What Chess Reveals About Gender, Intelligence, and Culture | Agustín Fuentes & Jennifer Shahade
    Jun 21 2026

    Chess is often framed as pure strategy, competition, and calculation. But Jennifer Shahade and Agustín Fuentes reveal why the game also opens up deeper questions about bodies, culture, gender, intelligence, creativity, AI, and human variation.


    Jennifer Shahade, two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, author, and poker player, joins biological anthropologist Agustín Fuentes for a wide-ranging Curiosity Entangled conversation about what chess teaches us about the mind, and what it exposes about our assumptions. Together, they explore why claims about “male” and “female” brains fail to explain excellence in chess, how culture shapes opportunity and expectation, why representation matters for young players, and how simplistic ideas about IQ, aggression, and ability continue to circulate online.


    They also discuss AI in chess and beyond, including when computational tools help people learn, when they flatten creativity, and why being wrong is still essential to human thinking. The conversation moves from chess rankings and gender bias to trans inclusion, education, access, variation, and the importance of creating more open pathways for young people to discover what they are capable of.


    This episode bridges chess, anthropology, cognition, gender, AI, and culture to ask a bigger question: what do our games reveal about being human?


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    TIMESTAMPS


    00:00:31 - Introductions: Anthropology, chess, poker, and gender
    00:01:47 - Chess as nonstop mental action, stress, and emotion
    00:03:13 - Why chess is often framed as warfare and competition
    00:04:55 - Why sex and gender do not determine chess ability
    00:08:00 - How chess rankings work
    00:09:00 - Skill development, training, and different paths to mastery
    00:12:00 - Aggression, playing style, and gendered expectations
    00:15:00 - The “greater male variability” argument and why it fails
    00:18:00 - IQ claims, cognition, and misinformation online
    00:27:00 - Representation, role models, and opening possibilities for kids
    00:30:00 - AI, bias, labeling, and what algorithms reproduce
    00:42:00 - Creativity, unpredictability, and why variation matters


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    GUESTS


    Jennifer Shahade - Chess Champion, Author & Poker Player
    Two-Time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion
    Author of Chess Queens and Thinking Sideways


    Agustín Fuentes - Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
    Biological Anthropologist
    Author of Sex Is a Spectrum and The Creative Spark


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    RELATED TOPICS


    Chess, gender, cognition, anthropology, poker, AI, creativity, intelligence, human variation, education, representation, bias, chess culture, women in chess, trans inclusion, learning, skill development, algorithms, human behavior, science, longform conversation


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    ABOUT CURIOSITY ENTANGLED


    Curiosity Entangled pairs distinguished thinkers from different disciplines for unscripted conversations about consciousness, science, technology, and humanity’s long-term future. Hosted by Accelerator Media, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to public engagement with science and long-term thinking.


    #Chess #JenniferShahade #AgustinFuentes #Anthropology #Gender #AI #Cognition #Poker #WomenInChess #Science #LongformPodcast #CuriosityEntangled
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    59 min
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