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    Explore " austin" with insightful episodes like "The Night Time Stopped", "Ghosts Can't Talk", "The Last Ride", "Making Meaning in Challenging Times — with Jamie Wheal" and "Chiropterology Part 2 (BATS) with Merlin Tuttle" from podcasts like ""Dateline NBC", "Dateline NBC", "Dateline NBC", "Your Undivided Attention" and "Ologies with Alie Ward"" and more!

    Episodes (6)

    Making Meaning in Challenging Times — with Jamie Wheal

    Making Meaning in Challenging Times — with Jamie Wheal

    What helps you make meaning in challenging times? As you confront COVID, the climate crisis, and all of the challenges we discuss on this show, what helps you avoid nihilism or fundamentalism, and instead access healing, inspiration, and connection? 

    Today on Your Undivided Attention, we're joined by anthropologist and writer Jamie Wheal. Wheal is the author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind. In the book, he makes the case that in order to address the meta-crisis — the interconnected challenges we face, which we talked about in Episode 36 with Daniel Schmachtenberger, we must address the meaning crisis — the need to stay inspired, mended, and bonded in challenging times. Jamie argues that it doesn't matter whether we're staying inspired, mended, and bonded through institutionalized religion or other means as long as meaning-making is inclusively available to everyone.

    What we hope you'll walk away with is a humane way to think about how to address the challenges we face, from COVID to climate — by enabling us to make meaning in challenging times.

    Chiropterology Part 2 (BATS) with Merlin Tuttle

    Chiropterology Part 2 (BATS) with Merlin Tuttle

    PART 2: The stunning conclusion of a 3-hour gab session about frickin' bats with America's favorite chiropterologist, Dr. Merlin Tuttle. Learn about bat conversations, their close friendships, surprising dongs, where they keep their nipples, how to go bat spotting after the sun sets, more myths and misconceptions about bat danger, perhaps the grossest thing Merlin has ever put in his mouth, how to hang up a bat house for maximum bat party funtimes, the latest on white nose syndrome and how it feels to get slapped by a bat. Once again: Indiana Jones can get bent because Dr. Merlin Tuttle is the hero this nation needs.

    Learn more about bats & Dr. Merlin Tuttle's photography & work in conservation:

    www.MerlinTuttle.org

    Dr. Merlin Tuttle's bat books: www.merlintuttle.org/category/books/

    Social media links:

    www.instagram.com/merlintuttlephoto

    www.twitter.com/merlinsbats

    www.facebook.com/MerlinTuttlesBatConservation

    Sponsor links: kiwi.com/ologies; calm.com/ologies; hellofresh.com/ologies9, code: Ologies9; mytruition.com/ologies;

    More links up at alieward.com/ologies/chiropterology

    Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies

    OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and STIIIICKERS!

    Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies

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    Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris

    Theme song by Nick Thorburn

    Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

    Chiropterology (BATS) Part 1 with Merlin Tuttle

    Chiropterology (BATS) Part 1 with Merlin Tuttle

    “People fear most what they understand least." Words of wisdom from explorer/American treasure/bat expert, Dr. Merlin Tuttle. Alie headed to the bat capital of Austin and sat down with the legendary chiropterologist to discuss wild field stories and close calls and caves and comebacks and bat chatter and what a bat actually is and how big they get and what's up with their smushy noses, why folks are so frightened by them, the evolution of flight, echolocation, getting a bat out of your house, how they sleep upside down, which ones guzzle blood, and the latest on white nose syndrome -- which is not a drug problem. Sit back with a cup of tea or something stronger and get ready for adventure. Indiana Jones can get bent because Dr. Merlin Tuttle is the hero this nation needs.

    Learn more about bats & Dr. Merlin Tuttle's photography & work in conservation:

    www.MerlinTuttle.org

    Dr. Merlin Tuttle's bat books: www.merlintuttle.org/category/books/

    Social media links:

    www.instagram.com/merlintuttlephoto

    www.twitter.com/merlinsbats

    www.facebook.com/MerlinTuttlesBatConservation

    Sponsor links: periodbetter.com, code OLOGIES; Proactiv.com/skin; StitchFix.com/OLOGIES; Airbnb.com/animals

    More links up at alieward.com/ologies/chiropterology

    Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies

    OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and STIIIICKERS!

    Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies

    Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard

    Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris

    Theme song by Nick Thorburn

    Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies