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- Eastern Philosophy for Beginners From the wisdom of Confucius and the teachings of the Buddha to the meditations of Laozi and the insights of Zen masters, Eastern Philosophy for Beginners explores the ideas that shaped civilizations across Asia. This series introduces the core principles of Chinese, Indian, and Japanese thought—harmony, mindfulness, compassion, and balance—while showing how these ancient traditions remain deeply relevant today. Each episode makes complex ideas accessible, offering listeners a path to understanding the philosophies that continue to guide millions of lives. Produced by Selenius Media & The Artificial Laboratory
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- From Heraclitus’ fire of constant change to Aristotle’s roadmap for flourishing, from Epicurus’ surprisingly modern self-care tips to Sartre’s radical call to own our freedom. We reveals how ancient insights can ground today’s wellbeing practice, enrich civic discourse, and help us build sturdier selves. You’ll meet philosophers as people—rebels, mystics, gadflies—whose arguments shaped science, psychology, and democracy.
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- Welcome to season of long-form storytelling that follows the lives and revolutions of the great composers—how their cities, rivals, scandals, and breakthroughs shaped the music we still lean on today. We move chronologically from the craft of Bach and Handel through Mozart’s theatre of feeling, Beethoven’s insurgent will, and the 19th-century expansion of the orchestra with Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky; then into the shocks of modernism—Mahler’s vast architectures, Debussy’s color and light, Ravel’s precision, and the fractured century of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartók, and Schoenberg. Each episode is a cinematic, voice-first narrative that sets scenes, humanizes the myth, and links signature works to the world that produced them—war and courts, salons and factories, love affairs and late-night manuscripts—so listeners come away hearing familiar music as if for the first time. Produced by Selenius Media and The Artificial Laboratory.
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- Scientific Giants takes you on a journey through the lives and legacies of history’s greatest minds. From Newton and Curie to Einstein and beyond, these are the thinkers who reshaped our understanding of the universe and our place within it. Each episode uncovers the struggles, breakthroughs, and lasting influence of the scientists who changed the course of human history — showing how their ideas continue to shape the world we live in today. Produced by Selenius Media and The Artificial Laboratory
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- Addiction must be seen as a human condition rather than as a property of a drug. This podcast brings together clinical practice, public health, history, economics, and everyday logistics to describe how lives move from instability to ordinary routine. Across sixteen episodes and companion texts, the work follows a simple sequence: survival first, stability second, flourishing third. Survival means fewer preventable deaths and infections. Stability means housing, income, school or work attendance, and family roles that hold under stress. Flourishing means the return of purpose, connection, and ordinary pleasures that do not require a chemical key. Addiction is not a moral verdict or a genre of criminality, rather it is a predictable pattern that tightens when pain, isolation, and scarcity accumulate. Substances and compulsive behaviors are accelerants of existing pressures. Outcomes change when environments change—when clinics offer same‑day starts, when medications are treated as ordinary medicine, when outreach teams carry oxygen and naloxone, when housing is considered clinical infrastructure, when workplaces adopt return‑to‑work pathways, and when courts distinguish violence from illness. The focus remains on transparent procedures that anyone can verify: how emergency departments begin medication after overdose, how jails provide continuation of care, how pediatric and obstetric services coordinate with addiction treatment, how primary care screens and treats co‑occurring depression, anxiety, trauma, and pain, how recovery housing is overseen to prevent exploitation, and how employers retain trained workers with structured support. When the work describes harm reduction, the point is survival. When it describes contingency management, the point is retention. When it describes apprenticeships and short‑cycle credentials, the point is income that stabilizes households. When it describes dashboards, the point is public accountability: retention at 30/90/180 days, mortality, emergency utilization, infectious‑disease treatment, housing stability, school attendance, employment, and family reunification—disaggregated to reveal inequities and corrected in public. Behavior is separated from identity. Lapses are treated as information that adjusts care, not as occasions for moral theater. The aim is not to excuse harm but to reduce it and to build conditions in which repair is possible. The tone is serious because the subject is serious; restraint prevents the message from dissolving into story. Organization must be applied to this difficult problem at civic scale. Where ordinary competence takes root, funerals decline, leases hold, payrolls rise, and classrooms stabilize. That is the measure that matters. This podcast is brought to you by Niklas Osterman, BHPRN, MA. Niklas has worked on the frontlines in addiction care, crisis medicine and psychiatric emergency rooms his entire career. This is what he learnt. Thank you for listening. By Niklas Osterman BHPRN. MA Addiction Specialist
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- Filmmaking Giants – Season 1 Step into the worlds of the filmmakers who reshaped cinema forever. Filmmaking Giants tells the stories of visionaries who transformed moving pictures into the most powerful art form of the modern age. From D. W. Griffith’s groundbreaking continuity editing to Sergei Eisenstein’s explosive montage, from F. W. Murnau’s haunting shadows to Jean Renoir’s humanist eye, from Orson Welles’s innovations in sound and space to Alfred Hitchcock’s mastery of suspense—this season brings you ten giants whose influence still shapes every frame we see. We travel further: Akira Kurosawa’s rain-soaked epics, Yasujirō Ozu’s quiet tatami-level stillness, Satyajit Ray’s realism rooted in everyday life, and Ingmar Bergman’s intimate explorations of faith and existence. Each episode blends biography, context, and legacy—asking how these filmmakers changed the language of cinema and why their work still matters today. Season 1 is a guided tour through the foundation of world cinema. Whether you’re a student of film, a working creator, or simply someone who loves stories told on screen, this series gives you the tools to see movies differently—and to recognize the giants whose shoulders we all stand on.
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Selenius Media unites our shows in one place: Philosophy for Beginners (with upcoming Eastern Philosophy for Beginners and Writers of Note), the Giants series (Science, Classical Music, Filmmaking), AI — An Uncertain Future, and Addiction — Not a Moral Failing. We start from first principles, tell clear stories, and credit the humans that shaped us. Human contribution is what we all depend on. This Channel is a celebration of the ones that came before us.
Members get ad-free listening, early access to new drops, and subscriber-only extras: the monthly Selenius Media channel. Most public series release weekly; members can often binge full runs immediately.
Selenius Media is an independent studio. We keep Addiction — Not a Moral Failing free for everyone; member support funds the reporting, editing, and music that make all of this possible.