R-Academy

The R-Academy podcast provides a platform for the democratization of information about highly localized and niche topics. Its host, Robert Contofalsky, firmly believes in the importance of “Open-Access” like platforms where conversations about psychology, history, and science do not have barriers or paywalls behind them. The future of our society depends on the information that we are given at the time, and he believes that this podcast would be a contribution to this overall goal. The topics discussed on this podcast will start where Robert has the most outreach: academia. He has maintained good relations with many professors and, thus, will begin by conversing with professors in Psychology and history, eventually expanding outwards. However, the “limited” faculty list is not a defect of the podcast, these are world-class scholars that he will be talking to, and the conversations will be nothing short of engaging and insightful. Here is a list of topics that will be covered: The nature of consciousness, language, and communication The Psychology of personality, pain, neuroscience, and Culture The heritability of behaviour and intelligence, and its societal implications Medieval history, translational history; the nature of writing The Cold War and American history This podcast will concentrate on academic affairs for the time being, with the hope of expanding outwards into more niche domains of scholarly topics. The potential for topics on this podcast will be infinite as professors are never done talking about their work, and that is the beauty of this podcast, is that it will allow the listeners to understand the work of top-shelf experts in a digestible format, and give them the opportunity to continue their curiosities in the topics that are discussed on this podcast. In sum, the purpose of this podcast is for the host to act like a tourist in the minds and workspace of his guests; it is a zone that is free of judgment, and its primary focus is inquiry.