The Coffee Bar Collective

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A research podcast exploring unexpected discoveries that emerge from overheard conversations at coffee bars—the informal third places where community happens accidentally. Three seasons, 27 episodes, following rabbit holes of curiosity into transformation, embodied knowledge, and navigating technological change. Each season explores three interconnected rabbit holes that create a system for seeing the world differently. | Things Overheard at the Coffee Bar began the way many rabbit holes do: with a fragment of someone else's conversation that refused to leave our minds. Not the hushed reverence of libraries. Not the performative discourse of conference halls. Something in between—where a graduate student explaining neural plasticity sits three feet from a parent troubleshooting their kid's screen addiction. Where someone codes an AI sorting algorithm while overhearing a debate about whether recycling actually works. The coffee bar operates as what sociologist Ray Oldenburg called a "th

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