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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Decoding Passport Bros (4-2-24)
01:00 Passport Bros, https://www.businessinsider.com/digital-nomad-passport-bro-bromad-how-to-guide-love-abroad-2023-612:00 No such thing as true love15:00 Are passport bros exploitative? 18:00 The Buffered Identity, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14951220:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1441681:07:00 Phone charge correlates with credit scores 1:09:00 The God … Continue reading
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The Side Effects Of Religion, Recovery, Wellness, Exercise (3-31-24)
01:00 Everything comes with side effects04:30 Does Mindfulness Meditation Work for ADHD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFJBwdpSPmU23:00 The Emergence Of Conspirituality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15432224:00 Guardian: The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/17/eva-wiseman-conspirituality-the-dark-side-of-wellness-how-it-all-got-so-toxic25:00 Getting Too Good at the Wrong Thing, … Continue reading
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The United States Has Less Leverage Over Israel Than You Think
Harvard International Relations professor Stephen Walt writes in Foreign Policy Mar. 21, 2024: Biden’s critics assume that the United States has enormous leverage over this situation and that a firm word from the president—combined with threats to curtail or halt … Continue reading
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The Emergence Of Conspirituality
Here’s an important paper from 2011 by Charlotte Ward & Prof. David Voas in the Journal of Contemporary Religion, 26:1, 103-121: The female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated realm of conspiracy theory (with its … Continue reading
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Decoding Andrew Huberman (3-29-24)
02:00 Andrew Huberman of Stanford University, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-huberman-podcast-stanford-joe-rogan.html08:00 Candace Owens leaves the Daily Wire, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/mini-decoding-the-descent-of-jordan-b-peterson24:00 The Pseudoscience of Andrew Huberman, https://slate.com/technology/2024/03/andrew-huberman-huberman-lab-health-advice-podcast-debunk.html27:00 The descent of Jordan Peterson, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/mini-decoding-the-descent-of-jordan-b-peterson1:11:15 The business of podcasting, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/posts1:19:10 Tucker Carlson skeptical of American aid to Israel1:20:00 WP: … Continue reading
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