Nicole Stott - Ambassador to the cosmos and to our humanity
01/03/23 • 61 min
Nicole Stott has a towering range of knowledge and experience, from the heights of outer space as a NASA astronaut to the depths of the ocean as an aquanaut, from the rigor and structure of science to the openness and imagination of art. She continually defies category, and her life embodies the creativity and interconnection that we are called to in the face of planetary challenges.
Origins Podcast Website
Flourishing Commons Newsletter
Show Notes:
- Early mentors (06:30)
- Keeping wonder alive (11:15)
- The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance by Alex Vuocolo (11:15)
- Exceptional collaboration (14:45)
- Collaborative capacity (18:20)
- Crewmates on spaceship Earth (18:30)
- How is conflict addressed on the space station? (19:00)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 'the simplicity on the other side of complexity' (22:30)
- Her book Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet and Our Mission to Protect It.(23:10)
- We live on a planet, we are all Earthlings, only line that matters is the thin blue line of our atmosphere
- Living and cooperating in space a guide for how to live and cooperate on Earth
- Morning routine (29:00)
- The Overview Effect by Frank White (31:00)
- Concluding astronaut career (36:00)
- Space for Art Foundation (40:30)
- Social and relational 'technologies' (41:30)
- Curiosity for difference (42:00)
- Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker Palmer (43:00)
- David Vaughan (45:00)
- Parenting (47:30)
- Messages of hope (45:50)
- Lightning Round (53:40)
- Book: West with the Nightby Beryl Markham
- Passion: Art and creativity side
- Heart sing: Women in space & Space for Art Foundation
- Screwed up: Self-confidence
- Find Nicole online:
- Website
- Twitter: @Astro_Nicole
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
Nicole Stott has a towering range of knowledge and experience, from the heights of outer space as a NASA astronaut to the depths of the ocean as an aquanaut, from the rigor and structure of science to the openness and imagination of art. She continually defies category, and her life embodies the creativity and interconnection that we are called to in the face of planetary challenges.
Origins Podcast Website
Flourishing Commons Newsletter
Show Notes:
- Early mentors (06:30)
- Keeping wonder alive (11:15)
- The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance by Alex Vuocolo (11:15)
- Exceptional collaboration (14:45)
- Collaborative capacity (18:20)
- Crewmates on spaceship Earth (18:30)
- How is conflict addressed on the space station? (19:00)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 'the simplicity on the other side of complexity' (22:30)
- Her book Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet and Our Mission to Protect It.(23:10)
- We live on a planet, we are all Earthlings, only line that matters is the thin blue line of our atmosphere
- Living and cooperating in space a guide for how to live and cooperate on Earth
- Morning routine (29:00)
- The Overview Effect by Frank White (31:00)
- Concluding astronaut career (36:00)
- Space for Art Foundation (40:30)
- Social and relational 'technologies' (41:30)
- Curiosity for difference (42:00)
- Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker Palmer (43:00)
- David Vaughan (45:00)
- Parenting (47:30)
- Messages of hope (45:50)
- Lightning Round (53:40)
- Book: West with the Nightby Beryl Markham
- Passion: Art and creativity side
- Heart sing: Women in space & Space for Art Foundation
- Screwed up: Self-confidence
- Find Nicole online:
- Website
- Twitter: @Astro_Nicole
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
Previous Episode
David Sloan Wilson - Archipelagos of knowledge, commons, and the science of cooperation
David Sloan Wilson is one of biology’s most prolific and impactful scientists. He is author of paradigmatic contributions to evolutionary theory and how organisms behave, such as multilevel selection and core design principles for the efficacy of groups. But the reach of his work is far beyond the domains of biology and sociology, in whole a toolkit for improving how we live together and weaving between areas of thought.
Origins Podcast Website
Flourishing Commons Newsletter
Show Notes:
- Atlas Hugged (06:30)
- Sociobiology by EO Wilson (12:00)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Steven C Hayes (21:00)
- Science proceeds by seeing really good reasons for not believing the current model for reality Lindon Eaves (25:40)
- Elinor Ostrom (26:15)
- EO Wilson (26:15)
- Elliott Sober (27:00)
- Ostrom design principles for governing the commons (31:00)
- The Tragedy of the Commons [Hardin, 1968] (34:20)
- The Neighborhood Project by Sloan Wilson (41:30)
- Richard A Kauffman (David's graduate student)
- Core competencies of prosociality (48:50)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (49:10)
- The knowledge commons (51:00)
- The Noosphere and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Lynn Margulis (53:50)
- Dual inheritance theory (55:00)
- Lightning round (01:01:00):
- Book: Origin of Species by Charles Darwin and The Secret of our Successand The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich
- Passion: being stewards of the natural world
- Heart sing: stewarding prosociality
- Find David online:
- Website: https://davidsloanwilson.world/
- Twitter: @David_S_Wilson
- Prosocial Commons: https://thisviewoflife.com/introducing-the-prosocial-commons/
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
Next Episode
Frank White - The Overview Effect and a planetary civilization
Frank White is a philosopher of space. In 1987 he coined the term "the overview effect," referring to the life-altering experience astronauts received upon witnessing our planet from outer space. His work, as his life, bring this transformation of perspective into sharper focus, presenting an alternative perception of ourselves, our world, and our future.
Origins Podcast Website
Flourishing Commons Newsletter
Show Notes:
- The Overview Effect & The Cosma Hypothesis(03:00)
- Being a part of something larger than yourself (06:30)
- The overview effect as an experience (13:00)
- Gerard K. O'Neill and the Space Studies Institute (14:00)
- Hope in the Darkby Rebecca Solnit (23:40)
- Holonomy: A Human Systems Theory by Jeff Stamps (27:30)
- Nurturing a movement (29:00)
- "The further out human beings look the further inward we see" (30:00)
- Pale blue dot (30:00)
- Overview Institute (31:00)
- Space Frontier Foundation (31:10)
- 'boundary objects' (38:00)
- Institute of Noetic Sciences (40:00)
- Human Space Program (40:30)
- Edgar Mitchell and virtual reality (41:20)
- William James and noetical quality (43:00)
- Bring indigenous thinking to the conversation (47:00)
- Dan Hawk (47:00)
- Orbital Assembly Corporation (48:00)
- Danielle Wood (51:00)
- Atul Gawande "What Matters in the End" (51:00)
- From Age-ing to Sage-ing by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald Miller (52:00)
- Maria Popova on the supreme art of living (56:00)
- Lightning Round (56:00)
- Book: The High Frontier by Gerald K O'Neill
- Passion: spirituality
- Heart sing: artificial intelligence
- Screwed up: not getting PhD
- Find Frank online:
- Twitter: @fwhite66
- Website: https://frankwhiteauthor.com/about
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
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