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“To ‘carry your heart’ means to pause, look at difficult experiences, hold them in a gentle way and make a bit of space for them.” (Unsplash)

Integrating Cree worldview with western psychology: Q&A with a psychotherapist

In his new book, Cree behavioural scientist Louis Busch walks readers through teachings from several prominent Indigenous Knowledge Holders to reveal how suffering can provide both personal insight and communal strength.
Lionel Messi playing for Inter Miami in Major League Soccer. Inter Miami News Hub

How the US finally fell in love with soccer

Listen to football historian John Sloop trace the history of soccer in the US on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
An Ebola victim is prepared for burial in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo during the ongoing outbreak. EPA

Two scientists on their race to make a new Ebola vaccine

The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola causing the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo currently has no vaccine. The Conversation Weekly podcast speaks to two researchers working to develop one.
The U.S. stores its strategic oil reserves in subterranean salt caverns along the Gulf Coast, like this one in West Hackberry, Louisiana, photographed on June 1, 1980. Robert Nickelsberg/Hulton Archive via Getty Images

How and where the world’s 2 billion barrels of strategic oil reserves are stockpiled

Geologist Scott Montgomery tells The Conversation Weekly podcast how strategic oil reserves work and why the U.S. keeps oil in underground salt caverns.

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