In this podcast, students from the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg speak about important texts from their degree programme. Each episode features a different team of hosts who present one text. The hosts say why and how those texts are important and give an introduction in order to help access and read the long and often complicated texts.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 hours 20 minutes
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Episode 9: Happiness is a choice! How I chose happiness
Everyone wishes to find true happiness. But what exactly does genuine happiness encompass? Is it attaining a dream job, embracing parenthood, or obtaining a university degree? In this episode, Javad shares how he started his quest for happiness at a very low point in his personal and professional life...
Episode 8: Easy Breezy Leadership: Gen Z and Millennials in the Business Sea
Join hosts Nabila and Valdas as they delve into the intriguing dynamics of Millennial and Gen Z working styles. In this episode, Nabila and Valdas explore the defining traits of each generation and how they shape modern business practices. From tech savvy to entrepreneurial spirit, the two hosts dissect the nuances that drive workplace culture. Stay tuned for insightful discussions and an exclusive interview, which provides valuable insights from a Gen Z perspective...
Episode 7: How to get culturally UNshocked?
"From tea gifts to eating habits, join Manisha and Lina on a journey of cultural revelations!"
Manisha shares her journey from Sri Lanka to Germany, navigating cultural differences like gift-giving and direct communication. Lina adds insights into German behavior. They discuss punctuality, reservedness, and eating customs, offering perspectives on adapting to new cultural norms and experiencing reverse culture shock...
Episode 06a – “Ecology, Freedom, Equity – What is Social Ecology, how does it influence our lives and what makes it important?”
With climate change and Covid, times might look bleak but there is hope out there. According Murray Bookchin’s text The Ecology of Freedom the origin social and ecological problems are intertwined and cannot be solved by ignoring one party they are also equally rooted in the attempt to dominate everyone and everything...
Episode 05 - Introducing Multidimensional poverty
In episode 05-Introducing Multidimensional poverty Fabian Schmidl and Miriam El Agha talk about the multidimensional poverty index and the progress of countries, which have managed to reduce multidimensional poverty...
Introducing talking texts Season 02
In episode 0-introducing Talking Texts season 02 you will hear about what topics are covered in this season why you should listen and what the hosts like so much about the episodes.
Time cues00:23.1 01:06.2 What is talking texts
01:06.2 02:8.7 The single episodes in the season
02:08.7 03:19.4 Question 1:What are the episodes
about?
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Episdode 06b - Full length interview with Blair Taylor from the Institute for Social Ecology
In this Interview Tim and Blair discuss Social Ecology, what it is and how it can help tackle the crieses of today. Blair talks about his background in environmental and social activism and provides examples where the concept has already been sucessfully applied and how it can give hope to everyone.
Time cues00:00.0 00:18.7 Preliminaries
00:18.7 03:50.0 Introduction
03:50.0 06:12.0 Why is Social Ecology still relevant today?
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Ep. 4a Inferential statistics - mind the gap
In episode 4a of talking texts inferential statistics – mind the gap We, Karina and Bernadette,discuss the text: “Inference and error in surveys” in: Survey Methodology by Groves et al. We explain the meaning of the words inference and error, summarize the text and talk about why it is relevant. In addition, we talk about Sherlock Holmes and how statistics can make the world a better place...
Ep. 4b Inferential statistics - mind the gap
In episode 4b we, Karina and Bernadette, explain some of the notions of error and statistical concepts. We then discuss one of the tasks from the text and present our solutions ...
Ep. 3 Skipping class – Is attendance, the solution for good grades?
Introduction Welcome to episode 3 of the podcast “talking texts”. In this episode “skipping class – Is attendance, the solution for good grades?”, Jimmy and Luisa explain the main results of the scientific paper “Skipping class in college and exam performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity classroom” and discuss their own experiences with skipping...
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