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A Word with Tom Merritt

A weekly Society and Culture podcast featuring Tom Merritt
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A Word with Tom Merritt

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A Word with Tom Merritt

Tom Merritt

A Word with Tom Merritt

A weekly Society and Culture podcast featuring Tom Merritt
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Tom talks to architect and founder of Kara Water Cody Soodeen about how a beetle inspired him to fix the world's supply of fresh water.Featuring Tom Merritt and Cody Soodeen. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/a-word-with-tom-merritt.
Tom talks to Craig Porter who just took a job in Antarctica, about what it's like to be on the least populated continent in the world.Featuring Tom Merritt and Craig Porter.djfission.com Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/a-word-with-t
Gary Fisher talks about his experiences with empathy throughout his life.Featuring Tom Merritt and Gary Fisher.Gary's link:http://seniorgeek.substack.com/ Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/a-word-with-tom-merritt.Hosted on Acast. S
Editor and producer of A Word with Tom Merritt, Anthony Lemos, aka Amos talks about his perspective as a veteran, on the word veteran.Featuring Tom Merritt and Anthony Lemos.anthonylemos.com@ethancaine77 on TikTok#ask-amos in the DTNS Discord B
Matt Donnelly of Ice Cream Social joins us to talk improv. Yes and he tells us how it's done right and how it can go wrong.Featuring Tom Merritt and Matt Donelly.Matt and Mattingly's Ice Cream Social Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/
Author Gail Carriger is known for comedy-of-manners fantasy like the Parasol Protectorate or Finishing School. But she also is a huge fan of K-pop and has worked it into her Tinkered Starsong series.Featuring Tom Merritt and Gail Carriger.Visit
Allison Sheridan joins us to talk about demos. From Steve Jobs to Douglas Englebart to her own demo experience in her career. Why do we do them and why doe we enjoy watching them?Featuring Tom Merritt and Allison Sheridan.podfeet.com Become a m
In our first return guest, we talk to creator/influencer Lamarr Wilson about the word career. Lamarr talks about changing his career later in life from education to content creation. Why he switched and how his early interests and experiences
Zipline has been delivering medicine and other things by drone for more than a decade and just keeps on expanding. Tom talks with the CTO of Zipline, Keenan Wyrobek, about the word drone. What does it mean to him, why do they call their drones
Tom wraps up the first season of "A Word" and asks for your suggestions for season two!Featuring Tom Merritt.Send us your suggestions: feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/a-word-with-tom-merritt.Hosted
Code switching. What is it? Why does it happen? Is it necessary? Robb Dunewood shares his personal experience to help us understand what it is and what it isn't.Featuring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.Links:SMR PodcastThe Tech Jawn Become a mem
Hawaii is a paradise but there's more to it than meets the postcard. Ryan Ozawa is a native and advocate and talks to us about his perspective on the island and what makes it great.Featuring Tom Merritt and Ryan OzawaLinks:https://twitter.com/h
Humanity is facing a threat and a possible replacement from machines. But is it as bad as we might think? Ruby Justice Thélot talks to us about the philosophy of the future of humanity.Featuring Tom Merritt and Ruby Justice Thélot.Ruby's Links:
Author and venture capitalist Rob Reid talks to us about danger. He's done whole books and podcasts about future dangers so it's fair to say he has some thoughts. But how do you make people take danger seriously? We'll explain.Featuring Tom Mer
Is fear the mind killer? Can we live without fear? We talk to pilot Captain Brian Hoffman about his perspective on fear. He also has some good tips for dispelling it, espeically when on a plane. “No real Zombies were harmed in the making of thi
Derrick Goold, baseball writer and lead beat writer for the St. Louis Cardinals at the St. Louis-Post-Dispatch talks about what makes sports so popular. Especially spectator sports. Why do so many of us care so much about what other people are
Manipulation is the name of the game in tech. Is there any escape? How do we identify when we're being manipulated? Tom talks to Natalia Antelava about that and her thoughts on how to fight it.Coda StoryUndercurrents: Tech, Tyrants, and Us Beco
Tom talks with the first guest to have also visited the actual front rooms of yore, his sister Meg, and they discuss avoiding issues with intent.Featuring Tom Merritt and Meg Sybert.Link:Marios Pizza Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/
Tom uses the word authority to have a talk about how we don't always differentiate the medium from the message. Featuring Tom Merritt.https://www.tommerritt.com Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/a-word-with-tom-merritt.Hosted on Ac
Scott Johnson talks about what he thinks makes a good Dad, how he tried to be that and what he learned from his Dad.Featuring Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson.https://www.frogpants.comTwitter Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/a-word-with
Medieval times were not stinky or even technologically backward. In fact is it possible we could have a second medical era? Historian Eleanor Janega talks to us about that and more.Featuring Tom Merritt and Eleanor Janega.The Middle Ages: A Gra
How do we learn? What role does empathy play in it? How we unlearn and why that's important. We talk about learning with YouTube educator Michael Kinney. Yeah, he was also Coach Armstrong in Degrassi. Don't worry. We'll address that too.Featuri
What does it mean to immigrate? We talk to Josh Grisdale who immigrated from Canada to Japan.Featuring Tom Merritt and Josh Grisdale.Links:Accessible JapanTabiFolk@JoshGrisdale on TwitterTurning Japanese Become a member at https://plus.acast.co
What does it mean to be scared? Cass Khaw talks to us about what scares them, and when it's good and when it's bad to be scared.Featuring Tom Merritt and Cass Khaw.Breakable ThingsNothing but Blackened Teeth Become a member at https://plus.acas
What is Identity? Political scientist Andrea Jones-Rooy talks about how we decide our identities, what they mean how complex they are and whether they are as important as we think they are. Also why her neighbors keep playing New York New York!
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