Terrorism and Voting, Multipotentialites, Holiday Conservation

Terrorism and Voting (15:30) Dr. Gregg Murray is an Associate professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. He is the Executive director of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. His primary research focuses on political behavior and, in particular, how evolutionary theory may help explain some of our political behaviors that are seemingly irrational. Dr. Murray shares with Dr. Townsend his research into terrorism's effect on voter turnout. Multipotentialites (1:03:06) Emilie Wapnick doesn’t like labels, but if she had to use them, she’d use some combination of artist, entrepreneur, writer, speaker, and coach. She was a law student then became interested in entrepreneurship, launched a business, became a coach, and wrote a book "Renaissance Business". She is the author of the blog: Puttylike and a has a popular TEDx talk entitled “Why some of us don’t have one true calling”. Emily joins Dr. Townsend to discuss how we decide what we want to be and why we may not need to do that anymore. Holiday Gift Your Mother Earth (1:46:14) Dr. Kenneth Worthy is the author of Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide between People and the Environment and is a research associate at the University of California. He teaches environmental history, philosophy, and ethics at UC Santa Cruz, St. Mary’s College of California, and UC Berkeley. You can read more of Dr. Worthy’s work on his blog “Finding the Human Place in Nature”