The Babblery

Arts & Culture Podcasts

The Babblery features conversations about who we are and how we got this way. Modern humans can seem like the ancients building the Biblical Tower of Babel, cursed by God/nature never to understand each other. As Visiting Translators at the Tower of Babel, our guests delve into their work, their research, and their own experiences to try to explain the bits they've learned about Earth's most perplexing species. Though we all speak different languages, here at The Babblery we aim to promote understanding, one conversation at a time.

Location:

United States

Genres:

Arts & Culture Podcasts

Description:

The Babblery features conversations about who we are and how we got this way. Modern humans can seem like the ancients building the Biblical Tower of Babel, cursed by God/nature never to understand each other. As Visiting Translators at the Tower of Babel, our guests delve into their work, their research, and their own experiences to try to explain the bits they've learned about Earth's most perplexing species. Though we all speak different languages, here at The Babblery we aim to promote understanding, one conversation at a time.

Twitter:

@sukiwessling

Language:

English

Website:

https://babblery.com/

Episodes

“This dysfunctional town square” with TV producer Stephanie Jacobs

12/17/2024

Stephanie Jacobs has had a long career covering elections for CBS News. But it wasn't until she moved to California and became a California girl that politics became personal.

Duración:01:05:48

Minibabble: Brenda Laurel on Girls and Games

12/9/2024

Writer, researcher, designer and entrepreneur Brenda Laurel started in theater, moved to videogames and then virtual reality, and ended up as an academic. This mini-episode, based on the full-length interview....

Duración:00:17:08

Minibabble: I can’t say I failed

11/30/2024

A couple of months ago, my fellow K-Squid programmer, Debra Sloss, asked me to help with an episode of her show, State of Mind. She’d received some beautiful, thoughtful pieces....

Duración:00:11:19

On being a storyteller in an infinite village

11/24/2024

Near the end of my recent interview with Brenda Laurel, she talks about the responsibility of content creators in our current world. “What we can do, what I hope we....

Duración:00:09:02

Play Like a Girl (or not) with Brenda Laurel

11/19/2024

In this conversation with Brenda Laurel, we explore how girls play and what that means for women and game designers. We talk about the relationship between theater and gaming, and how the gaming world grew to change the way children live and develop. We talk about the importance of teaching. But most of all, we talk about what it means to be a creator in this world, someone who asks others to entrust their minds to our work.

Duración:00:57:41

Minibabble: In which I say things that are true and also not true

11/7/2024

This is a Minibabble, just me talking to you. I’m struggling this week. As a woman. As a person who values decency. As a mother. As an educated person. As....

Duración:00:11:07

Minibabble: Vote for women’s health

10/28/2024

I was driving in my car to a rehearsal. Michelle Obama’s speech had been playing on the radio when I started the car and so I kept listening. It was....

Duración:00:05:54

Wiring the Mind for Love: Melding science and faith with neuroscientist Nicole Tetreault

10/22/2024

“Every time I danced, I thought about the gratitude I had to move my body when simultaneously my mother was bound to a wheelchair. It shifted my perspective on the gift of life.”....

Duración:00:57:00

Minibabble: Tapping that Well of Goodwill with Karin Tamerius

9/30/2024

How do we talk to people on the other side of the political divide? It used to be commonplace—Americans lived, worked, and went to school with people from a mixture....

Duración:00:18:04

A Deep Well of Goodwill: Political Conversation with Karin Tamerius

9/17/2024

How do you talk to people you don’t agree with so that you can continue the conversation? Karin Tamerius was passionate about politics as a young person, but she also....

Duración:00:59:11