Imagine the path you are walking through life. You make decisions and proceed. Imagine that clustering around you are many of other possibilities from which to choose. Telmo's curiosity drives him to select the less probable alternatives because his curiosity disturbs networks of connections that we know little about. He wants to investigate the novel, unexpected, strange and unplanned. In this episode you will gain the courage to disrupt your life to discover new ways of proceeding. You will experience more meaningful coincidences by being curious and by deviating from the expected. Science has sailed on, buoyed by the winds of serendipity. Increase those happy accidents by taking risks, getting lost, talking with strangers, trying new things. Most of all, let your curiosity flag fly! Telmo Pievani (1970) is Full Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Padua. Past President (2017-2019) of the Italian Society of Evolutionary Biology, he is Fellow of several academic Institutions and scientific societies. He is member of the editorial boards of Evolution: Education and Outreach, Evolutionary Biology, Istituto Treccani, and the Italian edition of Scientific American. He is author of 347 publications, included several books, the most recent: “Imperfection. A natural history” (MIT Press, 2022); “The Earth after us” (Contrasto, 2019; with F. Lanting’s photos), “Finitude” (Cortina, 2020); “Serendipity” (MIT Press, 2024); “Nature is bigger than us” (Solferino, 2022); "All Possible Worlds" (Cortina, 2024). He is Director of “Pikaia”, the Italian website dedicated to evolution. He is Director of the University of Padua web magazine, Il Bo LIVE. With Niles Eldredge, Ian Tattersall and Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, he curated International science exhibitions. Author of books for children and theatre scientific shows, he collaborates with RAI radio and TV projects, he is a columnist for Il Corriere della Sera, and the magazines Le Scienze and Micromega. In February 2024, the International Astronomical Union dedicated an asteroid to him: 120098 EJ50 2003. https://www.telmopievani.com https://www.pikaia.eu https://ilbolive.unipd.it https://internationalmusic.it/artisti/telmo-pievani-e-gianni-maroccolo-in-nomadic https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=120098%20Telmopievani

Radio talk show host Doug Grunther sharpens our human context--nature and AI. The Buddhist purchases a mandala, handing the clerk at $50 bill. As they wait for receiving the difference between the cost and the bill, the clerk does nothing. The Buddhist asks, "Where is the change?" The clerk says "Change comes from within."

Technological advances often reflect aspects of the human body or mind. AI reflects the hyperfunctioning of our rational, logical, knowledge filled left hemisphere. Its remarkable information intelligence is forcing humanity to go where AI cannot--to the intuitive, empathic, cooperative and loving capacities of our right hemisphere. Nature is not a series of objects to be manipulated. Nature is analogical like our right brains. AI is encouraging our analogical thinking and feeling, connecting us to our hearts.

Douglas Grunther is the creator/host of the Woodstock Roundtable, a rollicking--and multi award-winning--radio talk show spiced with humor and informed by his love of philosophy, depth psychology, and spiritual insight. His guests have been among the most original visionaries of our time.

Grunther graduated from Columbia University where he was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist. He has been the featured speaker in front of national audiences, and is a dream work facilitator certified by Dr. Jeremy Taylor. https://douglasgrunther.com

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The brilliant Vienna biologist, Paul Kammerer was found dead by questionable suicide. How did his pre-Jung study of coincidences create the backlash against him that may have contributed to his death? Seeking scientific rather than metaphysical explanations still created a hostile environment. Too mystical for many. His seriality differs from synchronicity. While synchronicity usually involves a mental event and an objective event, seriality always involves the possibility that the two or more events making up the coincidence are observable by someone other than the experiencer. Early on you will hear an extraordinary serial coincidence involving two women named Nadia--one in the 1920s and another in the near present. How did these two women end up being so similar? Jason Bulkeley served in the DoD as a translator and intelligence analyst during the Cold War and has a degree in English and Linguistics from UMBC. He translated and published numerous books from Russian to English on scientific and human-interest topics. He ran a restaurant for over 20 years, which spurred his interest in coincidence and synchronicity by connecting with interesting people from all over the world. He now has an international online store on Ebay specializing in rare books on philosophy, history, and metaphysical topics. He recently published the first English translation of The Law of Seriality by Paul Kammerer, the first comprehensive study of the theory of coincidence, written in 1919.

Come to Jason's real life Coincidence Café: Orchard Market & Cafe8815 Orchard Tree LaneTowson, Maryland 21286For reservations please call (410) 339-7700The website is: ⁠www.orchardmarketandcafe.com⁠ Customers can purchase Jason’s translation of The Law of Seriality: https://www.amazon.com/Law-Seriality-Theory-Recurrences-Events/dp/B0CTHLBPWD

Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project.⁠https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences⁠ to purchase Dr. Beitman's new book "Meaningful Coincidences". Visit ⁠https://www.coincider.com/⁠ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research

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