Where We Go Next will return on December 3rd. There are many great conversations to come, and (though I'm biased) I think you're gonna love 'em.

Until then, please check out the work of two good friends of mine:

Angel Eduardo:
angeleduardo.com
Star-Manning
7: Challenging the Ethics of ”Cancel Culture,” with Angel Eduardo - Where We Go Next

Xavier Bonilla:
Converging Dialogues
A Very Special Crossover Episode with the Converging Dialogues Podcast - Where We Go Next

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Andy Lapsa is the co-founder of Stoke Space, a reusable rocket company started in 2019 with the knowledge that fully and rapidly reusable rockets represent the inevitable and necessary future of the space industry. Prior to founding Stoke, Andy was one of the original three members of Blue Origin’s BE-4 team, where he held architecture, design, analysis, and development test leadership roles.

Stoke Space

Stoke Space Aims to Build Rapidly Reusable Rocket With a Completely Novel Design - Ars Technica

First-Of-Its-Kind Rocket Engine Nears First Flight Test - Freethink

How Stoke Space's Unique Rocket Works // Exclusive Tour & Interview - Everyday Astronaut (YouTube)

Full Reusability By Stoke Space - Everyday Astronaut

The Pollution Caused by Rocket Launches - BBC

Air Pollution From Reentering Megaconstellation Satellites Could Cause Ozone Hole 2.0- Space.com

Radiative Forcing - MIT Climate Portal

71: Rescuing Animals From the Brink of Extinction, with Forrest Galante - Where We Go Next

The Risky Rush for Mega Constellations - Scientific American

Kessler Syndrome- Wikipedia

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Harper Carroll is an AI and Machine Learning software engineer and educator known for making complex AI concepts accessible to a wide audience. She has multiple degrees from Stanford University in Computer Science specializing in AI, and industry experience at Meta, working on augmented reality and civic integrity projects. Her online educational content has gained her a following of over 300,000 subscribers on Instagram and YouTube.

Harper's 10 Days of AI Basics

AI Avatar Demonstration

10 Days of AI x Nuclear: AI's Energy Needs

Ground News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off your subscription.

If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:

• 115: Spaceships, Silicon Valley, and Psilocybin, with Ashlee Vance
• 111: The Hidden Forces Driving Our Online Behavior, with Steve Rathje
• 104: The War for Critical Minerals and Our Electrified Future, with Ernest Scheyder
• 92: Bayesian Thinking and the Future of Artificial Intelligence, with Max Sklar
• 89: Harnessing the Revolutionary Power of Nuclear Energy, with Nick Touran
• 52: The Amazing and Optimistic Future of Augmented Reality, with David Rose
• 47: A New Philosophy of Progress and Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars, with Jason Crawford
• 27: How to Make the Internet Accessible for Everyone, with Jennison Asuncion

harpercaroll.ai
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Follow Harper on TikTok: @harpercarrollai
Follow Harper on X: @harpercarroll
Follow Harper on Patreon: @harpercarrollai

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Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo are former reporters for The New York Post and co-authors of Paper of Wreckage: The Rogues, Renegades, Wiseguys, Wankers, and Relentless Reporters Who Redefined American Media. Susan worked on Page Six from 1978 to 1985, including three years as editor. She has also written for The New Yorker and The New York Times. Frank worked as a Page Six freelancer in the late 1980s and was its editor from 1991 to 1993. He is currently an executive editor at Billboard.

The Gossip Behind the Gossip, by Frank DiGiacomo for Vanity Fair

Confessions of a Trump Tabloid Scribe, by Susan Mulcahy for Politico

A Tabloid Alum Blasts News to the New York Post Nation, by Susan Mulcahy for The New Yorker

Ground News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off your subscription.

If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:

• 108: Investigative Journalism Is in Jeopardy, with Nancy Rommelmann
• 105: Religious Cults, Fringe Science, and the Need for Belief, with Ross Blocher & Carrie Poppy
• 104: The War for Critical Minerals and Our Electrified Future, with Ernest Scheyder
• 101: Uncovering the Hidden Truths in Political Memoirs, with Carlos Lozada
• 91: Free Speech Isn't Just for People We Like, with Kat Rosenfield
• 65: Untangling Partisan Narratives and Fixing Political News, with Isaac Saul
• 45: Filming the News as It Happens, with Ford Fischer
• 6: Every News Story Is a Kind of Fiction, with Shaun Cammack

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Bertrand Cooper is a writer and education professional based in Los Angeles. Drawing on twenty six years of deprivation and a Master's in Education Theory and Policy, his writing explores the depictions of poverty in society.

Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?, by Bertrand Cooper

I Escaped Poverty, But Hunger Still Haunts Me, by Bertrand Cooper

The Failure of Affirmative Action, by Bertrand Cooper

Is it Possible for Black Creatives to Exploit the Poor? w/ Damon Young & Bertrand Cooper - Bad Faith podcast

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, by Karen and Barbara Fields

Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class (2007) - Pew Research Center

The Devastating Effects of Concentrated Poverty, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Architecture of Segregation, by Paul Jargowsky

Neighborhood Income Composition by Household Race and Income, 1990 - 2009 - Stanford

Black Boy Fly, by Kendrick Lamar (YouTube)

Identity Theft, by Zaid Jilani

Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks - SNL (YouTube)

Roger Ebert Speaks Out at a Better Luck Tomorrow Screening - YouTube

1,000 True Fans, by Kevin Kelly

Inequality Is High Within the Black Community, by Bertrand Cooper

Follow Bertrand on X: @_BlackTrash

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Salomé Sibonex is a writer, artist, and co-founder of The Black Sheep, a publication that frees people to take the path less traveled. She's given talks at FreedomFest and LibertyCon on how creative freedom allows us all to forge our own path—if we dare.

The Black Sheep

Ground News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my link at https://check.ground.news/Next for 15% off your subscription.

If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:

• 113: Freethinkers Only, Please, with Meghan Daum
• 107: We’re Getting “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” All Wrong, with Chloé Valdary
• 100: When Victimhood is Leveraged for Personal Gain, with Andrew Boryga
• 44: The Unresolvable Tension of Overlapping Identities, with Tomiwa Owolade
• 39: Black Culture Is Not a Monolith, with Bertrand Cooper
• 38: Curiosity Is a Skill We Can Learn, with Mónica Guzmán
• 36: True Inclusivity Requires Moral Courage, with Irshad Manji
• 12: How Tragedy Can Lead to Growth, with Ayishat Akanbi
• 3: A Challenge to Move Beyond Racialized Identities, with Inaya Folarin Iman
• 2: Expanding What It Means to Be American, with Zaid Jilani

Follow Salomé on X: @SalomeSibonex
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Harrison Duran is a field paleontologist whose popular social media accounts document his preparation and excavation in the American West. His videography and storytelling convey the work and skill required by paleontology, as well as its significance to our understanding of the natural world. Species which he has excavated and prepared include Triceratops, Edmontosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus rex.

If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next:

• 111: The Hidden Forces Driving Our Online Behavior, with Steve Rathje
• 104: The War for Critical Minerals and Our Electrified Future, with Ernest Scheyder
• 97: Climate Change Comes for Small-Town America, with Jonathan Vigliotti
• 89: Harnessing the Revolutionary Power of Nuclear Energy, with Nick Touran
• 71: Rescuing Animals From the Brink of Extinction, with Forrest Galante
• 70: Making Extinction a Thing of the Past, with Ben Lamm & George Church

Follow Harrison on TikTok: @duranosaur
Follow Harrison on Instagram: @duranosaur

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Where We Go Next will be back to its regularly scheduled programming next week. Until then, enjoy this re-release of Episode 68, with the brilliant Richard Reeves.

Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and writes for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, National Affairs, The Atlantic, Democracy Journal, and Wall Street Journal. His book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It, shows how the basic social structures defining masculine maturity and success have been shattered, and how they can — and must — be reinvented.

Episode 68: Episode Link & Show Notes

The Where We Go Next Sampler Platter:

• 110: The Mounting Evidence That COVID-19 Leaked from a Lab, with Alina Chan
• 105: Religious Cults, Fringe Science, and the Need for Belief, with Ross Blocher & Carrie Poppy
• 101: Uncovering the Hidden Truths in Political Memoirs, with Carlos Lozada
• 89: Harnessing the Revolutionary Power of Nuclear Energy, with Nick Touran
• 81: Mining Universal Truths From Personal Stories, with Sarah Hepola
• 74: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa
• 71: Rescuing Animals From the Brink of Extinction, with Forrest Galante
• 63: Choosing Between a Drowning Child and a New Pair of Shoes, with Jay Shapiro
• 60: The Unknown History and Surprising Benefits of Fasting, with Steve Hendricks
• 58: Making Andrew Yang a Household Name, with Zach Graumann
• 40: Great Writers Must Be Vulnerable in Public, with Andrew Sullivan
• 39: Black Culture Is Not a Monolith, with Bertrand Cooper
• 37: A Better Way to Police Communities, with Peter Moskos
• 30: How to Resolve Intractable Conflicts, with Amanda Ripley
• 27: How to Make the Internet Accessible for Everyone, with Jennison Asuncion
• 25: A Robust Defense of Free Speech, with Greg Lukianoff
• 23: Children Need Freedom to Grow Independent, with Lenore Skenazy
• 21: Defending the Rights of the Incarcerated, with Samuel Weiss
• 12: How Tragedy Can Lead to Growth, with Ayishat Akanbi
• 9: The Widening Gap Between the Wealthy and Working Classes, with Rob Henderson

(This list could have easily been made with 20 completely different episodes, 3 more times)

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