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Listen in as Real Science Radio host Fred Williams and co-host Doug McBurney review and update some of Bob Enyart's legendary list of not so old things! From Darwin's Finches to opals forming in months to man's genetic diversity in 200 generations, to carbon 14 everywhere it's not supposed to be (including in diamonds and dinosaur bones!), scientific observations simply defy the claim that the earth is billions of years old. Real science demands the dismissal of the alleged million and billion year ages asserted by the ungodly and the foolish.     * Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: Charles Darwin's finches are claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. Hear about this also at rsr.org/spetner.  * Finches Speciate in Two Generations vs Two Million Years for Darwin's Birds?  Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are said to have diversified into 14 species over a period of two million years. But in 2017 the journal Science reported a newcomer to the Island which within two generations spawned a reproductively isolated new species. In another instance as documented by Lee Spetner, a hundred birds of the same finch species introduced to an island cluster a 1,000 kilometers from Galapagos diversified into species with the typical variations in beak sizes, etc. "If this diversification occurred in less than seventeen years," Dr. Spetner asks, "why did Darwin's Galapagos finches [as claimed by evolutionists] have to take two million years?" * Opals Can Form in "A Few Months" And Don't Need 100,000 Years: A leading authority on opals, Allan W. Eckert, observed that, "scientific papers and textbooks have told that the process of opal formation requires tens of thousands of years, perhaps hundreds of thousands... Not true." A 2011 peer-reviewed paper in a geology journal from Australia, where almost all the world's opal is found, reported on the: "new timetable for opal formation involving weeks to a few months and not the hundreds of thousands of years envisaged by the conventional weathering model." (And apparently, per a 2019 report from Entomology Today, opals can even form around insects!) More knowledgeable scientists resist the uncritical, group-think insistence on false super-slow formation rates (as also for manganese nodules, gold veins, stone, petroleum, canyons and gullies, and even guts, all below). Regarding opals, Darwinian bias led geologists to long ignore possible quick action, as from microbes, as a possible explanation for these mineraloids. For both in nature and in the lab, opals form rapidly, not even in 10,000 years, but in weeks. See this also from creationists by a geologist, a paleobiochemist, and a nuclear chemist. * Blue Eyes Originated Not So Long Ago: Not a million years ago, nor a hundred thousand years ago, but based on a peer-reviewed paper in Human Genetics, a press release at Science Daily reports that, "research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today." * Adding the Entire Universe to our List of Not So Old Things? Based on March 2019 findings from Hubble, Nobel laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and his co-authors in the Astrophysical Journal estimate that the universe is about a billion years younger than previously thought! Then in September 2019 in the journal Science, the age dropped precipitously to as low as 11.4 billion years! Of course, these measurements also further squeeze the canonical story of the big bang chronology with its many already existing problems including the insufficient time to "evolve" distant mature galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters, enormous black holes, filaments, bubbles, walls, and other superstructures. So, even though the latest estimates are still absurdly too old (Google: big bang predictions, and click on the #1 ranked article, or just go on over there to rsr.org/bb), regardless, we thought we'd plop the whole universe down on our List of Not So Old Things!   * After the Soft Tissue Discoveries, NOW Dino DNA: When a North Carolina State University paleontologist took the Tyrannosaurus Rex photos to the right of original biological material, that led to the 2016 discovery of dinosaur DNA, So far researchers have also recovered dinosaur blood vessels, collagen, osteocytes, hemoglobin, red blood cells, and various proteins. As of May 2018, twenty-six scientific journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, PLoS One, Bone, and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, have confirmed the discovery of biomaterial fossils from many dinosaurs! Organisms including T. Rex, hadrosaur, titanosaur, triceratops, Lufengosaur, mosasaur, and Archaeopteryx, and many others dated, allegedly, even hundreds of millions of years old, have yielded their endogenous, still-soft biological material. See the web's most complete listing of 100+ journal papers (screenshot, left) announcing these discoveries at bflist.rsr.org and see it in layman's terms at rsr.org/soft. * Rapid Stalactites, Stalagmites, Etc.: A construction worker in 1954 left a lemonade bottle in one of Australia's famous Jenolan Caves. By 2011 it had been naturally transformed into a stalagmite (below, right). Increasing scientific knowledge is arguing for rapid cave formation (see below, Nat'l Park Service shrinks Carlsbad Caverns formation estimates from 260M years, to 10M, to 2M, to it "depends"). Likewise, examples are growing of rapid formations with typical chemical make-up (see bottle, left) of classic stalactites and stalagmites including: - in Nat'l Geo the Carlsbad Caverns stalagmite that rapidly covered a bat - the tunnel stalagmites at Tennessee's Raccoon Mountain - hundreds of stalactites beneath the Lincoln Memorial - those near Gladfelter Hall at Philadelphia's Temple University (send photos to Bob@rsr.org) - hundreds of stalactites at Australia's zinc mine at Mt. Isa.   - and those beneath Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. * Most Human Mutations Arose in 200 Generations: From Adam until Real Science Radio, in only 200 generations! The journal Nature reports The Recent Origin of Most Human Protein-coding Variants. As summarized by geneticist co-author Joshua Akey, "Most of the mutations that we found arose in the last 200 generations or so" (the same number previously published by biblical creationists). Another 2012 paper, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Eugenie Scott's own field) on High mitochondrial mutation rates, shows that one mitochondrial DNA mutation occurs every other generation, which, as creationists point out, indicates that mtEve would have lived about 200 generations ago. That's not so old! * National Geographic's Not-So-Old Hard-Rock Canyon at Mount St. Helens: As our List of Not So Old Things (this web page) reveals, by a kneejerk reaction evolutionary scientists assign ages of tens or hundreds of thousands of years (or at least just long enough to contradict Moses' chronology in Genesis.) However, with closer study, routinely, more and more old ages get revised downward to fit the world's growing scientific knowledge. So the trend is not that more information lengthens ages, but rather, as data replaces guesswork, ages tend to shrink until they are consistent with the young-earth biblical timeframe. Consistent with this observation, the May 2000 issue of National Geographic quotes the U.S. Forest Service's scientist at Mount St. Helens, Peter Frenzen, describing the canyon on the north side of the volcano. "You'd expect a hard-rock canyon to be thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years old. But this was cut in less than a decade." And as for the volcano itself, while again, the kneejerk reaction of old-earthers would be to claim that most geologic features are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, the atheistic National Geographic magazine acknowledges from the evidence that Mount St. Helens, the volcanic mount, is only about 4,000 years old! See below and more at rsr.org/mount-st-helens. * Mount St. Helens Dome Ten Years Old not 1.7 Million: Geochron Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass., using potassium-argon and other radiometric techniques claims the rock sample they dated, from the volcano's dome, solidified somewhere between 340,000 and 2.8 million years ago. However photographic evidence and historical reports document the dome's formation during the 1980s, just ten years prior to the samples being collected. With the age of this rock known, radiometric dating therefore gets the age 99.99999% wrong. * Devils Hole Pupfish Isolated Not for 13,000 Years But for 100: Secular scientists default to knee-jerk, older-than-Bible-age dates. However, a tiny Mojave desert fish is having none of it. Rather than having been genetically isolated from other fish for 13,000 years (which would make this small school of fish older than the Earth itself), according to a paper in the journal Nature, actual measurements of mutation rates indicate that the genetic diversity of these Pupfish could have been generated in about 100 years, give or take a few. * Polystrates like Spines and Rare Schools of Fossilized Jellyfish: Previously, seven sedimentary layers in Wisconsin had been described as taking a million years to form. And because jellyfish have no skeleton, as Charles Darwin pointed out, it is rare to find them among fossils. But now, reported in the journal Geology, a school of jellyfish fossils have been found throughout those same seven layers. So, polystrate fossils that condense the time of strata deposition from eons to hours or months, include: - Jellyfish in central Wisconsin were not deposited and fossilized over a million years but during a single event quick enough to trap a whole school. (This fossil school, therefore, taken as a unit forms a polystrate fossil.) Examples are everywhere that falsify the claims of strata deposition over millions of years. - Countless trilobites buried in astounding three dimensionality around the world are meticulously recovered from limestone, much of which is claimed to have been deposited very slowly. Contrariwise, because these specimens were buried rapidly in quickly laid down sediments, they show no evidence of greater erosion on their upper parts as compared to their lower parts. - The delicacy of radiating spine polystrates, like tadpole and jellyfish fossils, especially clearly demonstrate the rapidity of such strata deposition. - A second school of jellyfish, even though they rarely fossilized, exists in another locale with jellyfish fossils in multiple layers, in Australia's Brockman Iron Formation, constraining there too the rate of strata deposition. By the way, jellyfish are an example of evolution's big squeeze. Like galaxies evolving too quickly, 

Listen in as Real Science Radio host Fred Williams and co-host Doug McBurney review and update some of Bob Enyart's legendary list of not so old things! From Darwin's Finches to opals forming in months to man's genetic diversity in 200 generations, to carbon 14 everywhere it's not supposed to be (including in diamonds and dinosaur bones!), scientific observations simply defy the claim that the earth is billions of years old. Real science demands the dismissal of the alleged million and billion year ages asserted by the ungodly and the foolish.   * Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: Charles Darwin's finches are claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. Hear about this also at rsr.org/spetner.  * Finches Speciate in Two Generations vs Two Million Years for Darwin's Birds?  Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are said to have diversified into 14 species over a period of two million years. But in 2017 the journal Science reported a newcomer to the Island which within two generations spawned a reproductively isolated new species. In another instance as documented by Lee Spetner, a hundred birds of the same finch species introduced to an island cluster a 1,000 kilometers from Galapagos diversified into species with the typical variations in beak sizes, etc. "If this diversification occurred in less than seventeen years," Dr. Spetner asks, "why did Darwin's Galapagos finches [as claimed by evolutionists] have to take two million years?" * Opals Can Form in "A Few Months" And Don't Need 100,000 Years: A leading authority on opals, Allan W. Eckert, observed that, "scientific papers and textbooks have told that the process of opal formation requires tens of thousands of years, perhaps hundreds of thousands... Not true." A 2011 peer-reviewed paper in a geology journal from Australia, where almost all the world's opal is found, reported on the: "new timetable for opal formation involving weeks to a few months and not the hundreds of thousands of years envisaged by the conventional weathering model." (And apparently, per a 2019 report from Entomology Today, opals can even form around insects!) More knowledgeable scientists resist the uncritical, group-think insistence on false super-slow formation rates (as also for manganese nodules, gold veins, stone, petroleum, canyons and gullies, and even guts, all below). Regarding opals, Darwinian bias led geologists to long ignore possible quick action, as from microbes, as a possible explanation for these mineraloids. For both in nature and in the lab, opals form rapidly, not even in 10,000 years, but in weeks. See this also from creationists by a geologist, a paleobiochemist, and a nuclear chemist. * Blue Eyes Originated Not So Long Ago: Not a million years ago, nor a hundred thousand years ago, but based on a peer-reviewed paper in Human Genetics, a press release at Science Daily reports that, "research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today." * Adding the Entire Universe to our List of Not So Old Things? Based on March 2019 findings from Hubble, Nobel laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and his co-authors in the Astrophysical Journal estimate that the universe is about a billion years younger than previously thought! Then in September 2019 in the journal Science, the age dropped precipitously to as low as 11.4 billion years! Of course, these measurements also further squeeze the canonical story of the big bang chronology with its many already existing problems including the insufficient time to "evolve" distant mature galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters, enormous black holes, filaments, bubbles, walls, and other superstructures. So, even though the latest estimates are still absurdly too old (Google: big bang predictions, and click on the #1 ranked article, or just go on over there to rsr.org/bb), regardless, we thought we'd plop the whole universe down on our List of Not So Old Things!   * After the Soft Tissue Discoveries, NOW Dino DNA: When a North Carolina State University paleontologist took the Tyrannosaurus Rex photos to the right of original biological material, that led to the 2016 discovery of dinosaur DNA, So far researchers have also recovered dinosaur blood vessels, collagen, osteocytes, hemoglobin, red blood cells, and various proteins. As of May 2018, twenty-six scientific journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, PLoS One, Bone, and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, have confirmed the discovery of biomaterial fossils from many dinosaurs! Organisms including T. Rex, hadrosaur, titanosaur, triceratops, Lufengosaur, mosasaur, and Archaeopteryx, and many others dated, allegedly, even hundreds of millions of years old, have yielded their endogenous, still-soft biological material. See the web's most complete listing of 100+ journal papers (screenshot, left) announcing these discoveries at bflist.rsr.org and see it in layman's terms at rsr.org/soft. * Rapid Stalactites, Stalagmites, Etc.: A construction worker in 1954 left a lemonade bottle in one of Australia's famous Jenolan Caves. By 2011 it had been naturally transformed into a stalagmite (below, right). Increasing scientific knowledge is arguing for rapid cave formation (see below, Nat'l Park Service shrinks Carlsbad Caverns formation estimates from 260M years, to 10M, to 2M, to it "depends"). Likewise, examples are growing of rapid formations with typical chemical make-up (see bottle, left) of classic stalactites and stalagmites including: - in Nat'l Geo the Carlsbad Caverns stalagmite that rapidly covered a bat - the tunnel stalagmites at Tennessee's Raccoon Mountain - hundreds of stalactites beneath the Lincoln Memorial - those near Gladfelter Hall at Philadelphia's Temple University (send photos to Bob@rsr.org) - hundreds of stalactites at Australia's zinc mine at Mt. Isa.   - and those beneath Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. * Most Human Mutations Arose in 200 Generations: From Adam until Real Science Radio, in only 200 generations! The journal Nature reports The Recent Origin of Most Human Protein-coding Variants. As summarized by geneticist co-author Joshua Akey, "Most of the mutations that we found arose in the last 200 generations or so" (the same number previously published by biblical creationists). Another 2012 paper, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Eugenie Scott's own field) on High mitochondrial mutation rates, shows that one mitochondrial DNA mutation occurs every other generation, which, as creationists point out, indicates that mtEve would have lived about 200 generations ago. That's not so old! * National Geographic's Not-So-Old Hard-Rock Canyon at Mount St. Helens: As our List of Not So Old Things (this web page) reveals, by a kneejerk reaction evolutionary scientists assign ages of tens or hundreds of thousands of years (or at least just long enough to contradict Moses' chronology in Genesis.) However, with closer study, routinely, more and more old ages get revised downward to fit the world's growing scientific knowledge. So the trend is not that more information lengthens ages, but rather, as data replaces guesswork, ages tend to shrink until they are consistent with the young-earth biblical timeframe. Consistent with this observation, the May 2000 issue of National Geographic quotes the U.S. Forest Service's scientist at Mount St. Helens, Peter Frenzen, describing the canyon on the north side of the volcano. "You'd expect a hard-rock canyon to be thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years old. But this was cut in less than a decade." And as for the volcano itself, while again, the kneejerk reaction of old-earthers would be to claim that most geologic features are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, the atheistic National Geographic magazine acknowledges from the evidence that Mount St. Helens, the volcanic mount, is only about 4,000 years old! See below and more at rsr.org/mount-st-helens. * Mount St. Helens Dome Ten Years Old not 1.7 Million: Geochron Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass., using potassium-argon and other radiometric techniques claims the rock sample they dated, from the volcano's dome, solidified somewhere between 340,000 and 2.8 million years ago. However photographic evidence and historical reports document the dome's formation during the 1980s, just ten years prior to the samples being collected. With the age of this rock known, radiometric dating therefore gets the age 99.99999% wrong. * Devils Hole Pupfish Isolated Not for 13,000 Years But for 100: Secular scientists default to knee-jerk, older-than-Bible-age dates. However, a tiny Mojave desert fish is having none of it. Rather than having been genetically isolated from other fish for 13,000 years (which would make this small school of fish older than the Earth itself), according to a paper in the journal Nature, actual measurements of mutation rates indicate that the genetic diversity of these Pupfish could have been generated in about 100 years, give or take a few. * Polystrates like Spines and Rare Schools of Fossilized Jellyfish: Previously, seven sedimentary layers in Wisconsin had been described as taking a million years to form. And because jellyfish have no skeleton, as Charles Darwin pointed out, it is rare to find them among fossils. But now, reported in the journal Geology, a school of jellyfish fossils have been found throughout those same seven layers. So, polystrate fossils that condense the time of strata deposition from eons to hours or months, include: - Jellyfish in central Wisconsin were not deposited and fossilized over a million years but during a single event quick enough to trap a whole school. (This fossil school, therefore, taken as a unit forms a polystrate fossil.) Examples are everywhere that falsify the claims of strata deposition over millions of years. - Countless trilobites buried in astounding three dimensionality around the world are meticulously recovered from limestone, much of which is claimed to have been deposited very slowly. Contrariwise, because these specimens were buried rapidly in quickly laid down sediments, they show no evidence of greater erosion on their upper parts as compared to their lower parts. - The delicacy of radiating spine polystrates, like tadpole and jellyfish fossils, especially clearly demonstrate the rapidity of such strata deposition. - A second school of jellyfish, even though they rarely fossilized, exists in another locale with jellyfish fossils in multiple layers, in Australia's Brockman Iron Formation, constraining there too the rate of strata deposition. By the way, jellyfish are an example of evolution's big squeeze. Like galaxies e

David Dorf, Head of Retail Industry Solutions at AWS, joins Omni Talk to break down how Agentic AI—the next evolution beyond generative AI—is poised to reshape the retail industry. From recommendations and virtual analysts to autonomous shopping assistants, David shares real-world retail examples already in use today. Plus, he explains why the next frontier may be agent-optimized websites and what that means for advertising, loyalty, and even SEO.

On the latest episode of Skin in the Game VC, Saxon and Tom sit down with Rohan Shah, co-founder of Extend, for a conversation that blends grit, humor, and sharp insight into building in tech. Rohan shares his journey from growing up in the Bay Area with entrepreneurial parents to launching his first startup out of Stanford, and eventually co-founding Extend—a platform modernizing the extended warranty and protection plan space.He dives into the early challenges of startup life, why his time at BCG taught him how to build for the enterprise, and how a Sunday football lineup and a conversation with a DraftKings exec sparked the idea behind Extend. What started as a playful concept around insuring fantasy sports lineups evolved into a fast-scaling company that now partners with major brands like Peloton and Brilliant Earth.Rohan gets candid about raising $260M from SoftBank during the ZIRP era, making hard calls early, and steering Extend toward profitability.Whether you're a founder, investor, or just love a great startup story—this one's worth a listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Taxpayers are getting screwed—Department of Defense drops $10,000 on HDMI cables worth $20, billions vanish in Haiti relief, funneled through DC NGOs for the elite. The Institute of Peace? A $55M do-nothing grift with Kennedys on board. George Soros snags $260M to push soft-on-crime prosecutors, while we borrow from China to give China aid. Nancy Pelosi's vineyard gets $14M for ‘experimental farming,' and Senator Whitehouse steers $14.2M to his wife's Ocean Conservancy gig. We're defiled, and it's tough to love the culprits. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

OR legislative Dems want to fund a 10.5M illegal alien defense fund: https://oregoncatalyst.com/84203-hb2543-105-million-immigration-legal-services.html Can OR Dems stop Trump administration's freeze on funding to sanctuary states and cities? https://www.koin.com/news/politics/oregon-trump-bondi-immigration-sanctuary-states-crackdown-02062025/ WA and OR Dems want rent control of manufactured housing parks that will create less of them. Hurts affordable housing: https://www.opb.org/article/2025/02/06/oregon-washington-rent-manufactured-home-parks-increase-landlords-mobile-home-park/ USAID funneled 260M to organizations linked to Soros: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/george-soross-open-society-foundations-receive-260-million/ DOGE is a ray of light to the American Taxpayer: https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/07/doge-is-deadly-to-the-swamp-and-a-ray-of-light-for-the-american-taxpayer/ DOGE says they uncovered 100B in Medicare/Medicaid waste: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-musk-exposes-shocking-100-billion-waste-medicare/ Treasury Secretary Bessent sets the record straight: https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1887654927314325753   

Howie and Harlan are joined by Lisa Rosenbaum, a cardiologist and the national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, to discuss her writing illuminating critical topics in medicine. Harlan reports on the companies claiming to prevent illness through a non-invasive full-body scan; Howie explains the healthcare impact of the Trump administration's freeze of federal aid.  Links: Body Scanning “Neko Health raises $260M to expand body scan service, fund R&D” Neko Health “Kim Kardashian Promotes $2,500 Body Scan—Here's What To Know And Why Some Experts Warn Against It”“ “Daniel Ek's body scanning startup hits £1.4 billion valuation with 100,000 people lining up to pay £299 for a health check” “The rise and fall of Theranos: A timeline” Lisa Rosenbaum Lisa Rosenbaum: “Gray Matters: Analysis and Ambiguity” Lisa Rosenbaum: Not Otherwise Specified podcast Lisa Rosenbaum: “Beyond Moral Injury—Can We Reclaim Agency, Belief, and Joy in Medicine?” Lisa Rosenbaum: “Being Well while Doing Well—Distinguishing Necessary from Unnecessary Discomfort in Training” “The Case Against the Trauma Plot” “The Rise of Therapy-Speak” Lisa Rosenbaum: “On Calling—From Privileged Professionals to Cogs of Capitalism?” “The Moral Crisis of America's Doctors” The Ezra Klein Show: “Democrats are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.” IMDB: The Doctor The New Administration “Kennedy, Polarizing Pick for Health Secretary, Makes His Senate Debut” “WATCH: Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions RFK Jr. in confirmation hearing” “Trump aid freeze stirs chaos before it is blocked in court” “Trump administration rescinds order attempting to freeze federal aid spending” “Uncertainty Causes Chaos as Trump Threatens Funding Pause for Schools” “Read the Memo Pausing Federal Grants and Loans” Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

Howie and Harlan are joined by Lisa Rosenbaum, a cardiologist and the national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, to discuss her writing illuminating critical topics in medicine. Harlan reports on the companies claiming to prevent illness through a non-invasive full-body scan; Howie explains the healthcare impact of the Trump administration's freeze of federal aid.  Links: Body Scanning “Neko Health raises $260M to expand body scan service, fund R&D” Neko Health “Kim Kardashian Promotes $2,500 Body Scan—Here's What To Know And Why Some Experts Warn Against It”“ “Daniel Ek's body scanning startup hits £1.4 billion valuation with 100,000 people lining up to pay £299 for a health check” “The rise and fall of Theranos: A timeline” Lisa Rosenbaum Lisa Rosenbaum: “Gray Matters: Analysis and Ambiguity” Lisa Rosenbaum: Not Otherwise Specified podcast Lisa Rosenbaum: “Beyond Moral Injury—Can We Reclaim Agency, Belief, and Joy in Medicine?” Lisa Rosenbaum: “Being Well while Doing Well—Distinguishing Necessary from Unnecessary Discomfort in Training” “The Case Against the Trauma Plot” “The Rise of Therapy-Speak” Lisa Rosenbaum: “On Calling—From Privileged Professionals to Cogs of Capitalism?” “The Moral Crisis of America's Doctors” The Ezra Klein Show: “Democrats are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.” IMDB: The Doctor The New Administration “Kennedy, Polarizing Pick for Health Secretary, Makes His Senate Debut” “WATCH: Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions RFK Jr. in confirmation hearing” “Trump aid freeze stirs chaos before it is blocked in court” “Trump administration rescinds order attempting to freeze federal aid spending” “Uncertainty Causes Chaos as Trump Threatens Funding Pause for Schools” “Read the Memo Pausing Federal Grants and Loans” Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

In this episode, Brian and Jason kick things off by highlighting the troubling state of the gaming industry, with 11% of developers laid off in 2024, according to a GDC survey. Meanwhile, Elon Musk finds a new way to perplex us all by admitting he pays people to play video games for him.They then unpack a whirlwind of news, including Trump's controversial pardon of Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht and his ongoing crusade against perceived social media bias. Elon Musk's antics take center stage as he mocks America's tech elite, clashes with Trump over the flashy “Stargate” AI project, and battles AI cost concerns as hype begins to wane. On the corporate front, Amazon halts drone deliveries after crashes, Instagram blocks political hashtags, and Neko, a body-scanning startup co-founded by Daniel Ek, secures a whopping $260M at a $1.8B valuation. In media candy, the hosts revisit the charming chaos of the Lilo & Stitch franchise and dive into music documentaries like Yacht Rock and Echo in the Canyon. And let's not forget Netflix's price hikes and yet another mediocre Star Trek installment with Section 31. Dave wraps things up with The Dark Side, covering Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, ham radio tools, and even a shoutout to Morse code. Packed with biting commentary, this episode is a mix of tech absurdity, media nostalgia, and the trademark Grumpy Old Geeks snark!Sponsors:Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!!1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordDeleteMe - Head over to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use the code "GOG" for 20% off.Show notes at https://gog.show/681FOLLOW UPEleven percent of game developers were laid off in 2024, according to GDC surveyElon Musk Admits to Paying People to Play Video Games for HimIN THE NEWSJoe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos: Tech Titans, Celebs at InaugurationTrump Orders Government to Stop ‘Trampling' Conservatives on Social MediaSilk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Seen Leaving Prison Holding a Small PlantPresident Trump Pardons Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in PrisonElon Musk Plays DOGE Ball—and Hits America's Geek SquadInstagram blocked searches for #democrats and other political hashtagsWhy You May Automatically Be Following Trump and Vance NowAI-Generated Junk Science Is a Big Problem on Google Scholar, Research SuggestsWhat is the ‘Stargate' AI project?Trump's $500 Billion AI Deal Includes Funding by UAE Royal Family Linked to Astonishing Number of Scandals, Including Human TortureTrump Showing Love to Sam Altman Is Clearly Driving Elon Musk Into a Jealous FurySatya Nadella says he's 'good for $80 billion' after Elon Musk claims Stargate Project doesn't have the cashTrump staff ‘furious' after Musk trashes AI projectAI Hype Is Dropping Off a Cliff While Costs Soar, Experts WarnAmazon puts its drone deliveries on hold following two crash incidents‘Neo-Nazi Madness': Meta's Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the CompanyApple must face suit over alleged policy of underpaying female workersAmazon to close Quebec facilities, but says it's not because of that new unionNeko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuationMEDIA CANDYLilo & StitchLilo & Stitch 2 - Stitch Has a GlitchLeroy & StitchYacht Rock: A DOCKumentaryThe Wrecking Crew!Echo in the CanyonLolla: The Story of LollapallozaNetflix plans now cost between $8 and $25 after yet another subscription price hikeEverything to Remember Before Star Trek: Section 31Section 31 Is a Mediocre Action Movie, and an Even Worse Star Trek OneFail Better with David Duchovny - Catching Up with Gillian AndersonJames Cameron: Special Video Message at the SCSP AI+Robotics SummitAPPS & DOODADSIntroducing OperatorDeveloper Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training BotsBest Cooking Equipment for Meal Kits (2025), Tested and ReviewedTrump Executive Order GeneratorAT THE LIBRARYThe Breakthrough Effect by Douglas E. RichardsNot Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse Book 5) by Dennis E. TaylorTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEDave BittnerThe CyberWireHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopOnly Malware in the BuildingStar Wars: Skeleton CrewHam Radio PrepHam StudyGLAARGGGMorseMorse Code - I Love YouParks on the Air ® (POTA)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Stockholm startup Neko Health has made a big bet on consumers wanting to learn about their state of health and how to prevent things going wrong. Now, investors are making a big bet on Neko.  The startup has raised a fresh $260 million in funding, a Series B that values Neko at $1.8 billion post-money Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Download Chris's FREE E-Book on “How To Find Ultra High Net Worth Clients" from ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://UHNWC.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠   Cory Sims, AWMA®, CRPC®, CES, is the Founder, Managing Member, and Investment Advisory Representative for Sims Investment Management, LLC. Cory discusses his journey from a solo practitioner in 2013 to managing a firm with over $260 million in assets under management. Cory shares his early entrepreneurial spirit, his experience building a client base, and the importance of focusing on comprehensive financial planning. In this episode, Chris and Cory discuss: 1- Building the Business: Strategies and Challenges 2- The Importance of Client Relationships 3- Mentorship and Learning from Experience 4- Hiring and Developing Advisors LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-sims-971a9011/ Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sims-investment/  Website: https://www.simsinvestment.com/team-member/cory-sims  Maximize your marketing, close more clients, and amplify your AUM by following us on:  Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://instagram.com/ultrahighnetworthclients⁠⁠⁠⁠  TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tiktok.com/ultrahighnetworthclients⁠⁠⁠⁠  YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@uhnwc⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/UHNWCPodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠  Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/uhnwcpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠  iTunes:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ultra-high-net-worth-clients-with-chris-brodhead/id1569041400⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4Guqegm2CVqkcEfMSLPEDr⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://uhnwc.com⁠⁠⁠⁠  Work with us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://famousfounder.com/fa⁠⁠⁠⁠  DISCLAIMER: This content is provided by Chris Brodhead for the general public and general information purposes only. This content is not considered to be an offer to buy or sell any securities or investments. Investing involves the risk of loss and an investor should be prepared to bear potential losses. Investment should only be made after thorough review with your investment advisor considering all factors including personal goals, needs and risk tolerance.

This emergency doc paid off over $455,000 in less than one year! That huge number was a combination of undergrad and med school loans as well as some loans from his wife's education. They were on the same page from the beginning and agreed to set the goal of paying everything off within one year of completing training. They poured every dollar they could into their debt and even paid off two car loans in the process. He talks about the power of focus when you have a solid goal. Once that goal was set they did what it took to get it done. After the episode we will be taking about stock indexes for Finance 101. Learn why physicians have invested over $260M with DLP Capital, a familiar name within the WCI community as a long-time member of our investment opportunities list. If you want to invest with a high-growth IMPACT investor who believes in doing well while doing good, we encourage you to check out DLP Capital and its real estate-backed investment funds. DLP Capital aims to build wealth and prosperity for all of its members, investors, clients, and partners—plus, their funds have historically had zero losses. Find out more at https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/dlp They're a must-consider if you're thinking about diving into the world of investment housing. The White Coat Investor has been helping doctors with their money since 2011. Our free financial planning resource covers a variety of topics from doctor mortgage loans and refinancing medical school loans to physician disability insurance and malpractice insurance. Learn about loan refinancing or consolidation, explore new investment strategies, and discover loan programs specifically aimed at helping doctors. If you're a high-income professional and ready to get a "fair shake" on Wall Street, The White Coat Investor channel is for you! Be a Guest on The Milestones to Millionaire Podcast: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/milestones  Main Website: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com  Student Loan Advice: https://studentloanadvice.com  YouTube: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/youtube  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewhitecoatinvestor  Twitter: https://twitter.com/WCInvestor  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewhitecoatinvestor  Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/whitecoatinvestor  Online Courses: https://whitecoatinvestor.teachable.com  Newsletter: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/free-monthly-newsletter 

Send us a textSubscribe to AG Dillon Pre-IPO Stock Research at agdillon.com/subscribe;- Wednesday = secondary market valuations, revenue multiples, performance, index fact sheets- Saturdays = pre-IPO news and insights, webinar replays00:06 | SpaceX Sets New Record in Civilian Space Travel- Space payload delivery and satellite internet company- Polaris Dawn mission: first commercial spacewalk, civilian crew led by Jared Isaacman- Crew spent 20 minutes outside SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule- Reached 870 miles above Earth, setting a civilian space travel record- Tested new EVA suits, conducted 40 experiments- Secondary market valuation: $223B (+6.3% vs Jul 2024 round)01:20 | OpenAI Launches New AI Model, "OpenAI o1"- AI large language model business- Announced "OpenAI o1," focusing on enhancing reasoning abilities in math, coding, and science- Achieved 83% on International Mathematical Olympiad exam (up from 13% with prior models)- Available to ChatGPT Plus and Team users- Competitors like Google and Anthropic developing similar AI models01:59 | OpenAI in Talks for $6.5B Funding Round at $150B Valuation- OpenAI in discussions to raise $6.5B at a $150B valuation (primary round)- Previous valuation: $86B earlier in 2024- Seeking $5B in debt via revolving credit facility- Key investors include Thrive Capital, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, and UAE-backed MGX fund02:55 | OpenAI's ChatGPT Hits 10M Paying Subscribers- ChatGPT: 10M paying subscribers, 1M on higher-priced business plans- Generates $225M in monthly revenue, or $2.7B annually- Projected $4B in annual revenue in the next 12 months (up from $1.6B in late 2023)- Valuation at $150B, 37.5x forward revenue03:48 | Glean Raises $260M Series E, Valued at $4.6B- Enterprise AI solutions company- Raised $260M in Series E, valuing Glean at $4.6B (primary)- Competes with Microsoft Copilot and Amazon's chatbot- Global generative AI spending expected to rise to $143B by 202704:30 | Klarna Cuts Losses and Integrates AI Across Operations- Consumer credit and payments company- Severed ties with Salesforce and Workday, focusing on AI automation- 2023 losses dropped to $241M (from $1B in 2022)- AI-powered customer service assistant handled 2.3M interactions in its first month- Headcount reduced from 4,500 to 3,800, aiming for 2,000- Secondary market valuation: $10.1B (+50.4% vs Jul 2022 round)05:33 | Poolside in Talks to Raise $500M, Potential $3B Valuation- AI solution for software developers- In talks to raise $500M, potentially valuing the company at $3B (primary)- Co-founded by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner and Eiso Kant- Secured $126M in seed funding; secured Nvidia GPUs with Iris Energy Ltd06:17 | eToro Settles with SEC, Limits Crypto Offerings in the U.S.- Retail brokerage company- Agreed to $1.5M penalty with SEC over operating as an unregistered broker and clearing agency- U.S. users can trade only Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ether; 180-day window to sell/withdraw other tokens- 38M registered users globally, offering over 100 cryptoassets outside the U.S.- Secondary market valuation: $7.3B (+107.7% vs Mar 2023 round)07:05 | Anduril Launches Modular, Autonomous Barracuda Air Vehicles- Defense contractor- Introduced Barracuda family of autonomous air vehicles with three versions- Barracuda-100, 250, and 500 models: ranges from 85 to 500 nautical miles- Systems are 30% cheaper and 50% faster to produce than competitors- Secondary market valuation: $17.0B (+21.5% vs Aug 2024 round)08:10 | Pre-IPO Stock Market Weekly Performance09:08 | Pre-IPO Stock Vintage Index Wee

New Balance just passed Under Armour in sales… because of its Dad Shoe pivot.Warren Buffett's newest investment? $260M in Ulta Beauty… because Ulta changed how ya buy makeup.A wild new study breaks down a big new tradeoff… Every $1 in sports betting is $1 not invested.Plus, only 11 states have a single area code… and 603 New Hampshire is fighting to remain one of them.$DKNG $ULTA $UASubscribe to our Saturday Newsletter: tboypod.com/newsletter Watch us on YouTube Submit Facts & Shoutouts Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn (Nick) & LinkedIn (Jack)About Us: From the creators of Robinhood Snacks Daily, The Best One Yet (TBOY) is the daily pop-biz news show making today's top stories your business. 20 minutes on the 3 business, economics, and finance stories you need, with fresh takes you can pretend you came up with — Pairs perfectly with your morning oatmeal ritual. Hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The market is looking decidedly green this morning, and there are a number of bullish metrics for Bitcoin: Open interest is on the rise, BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF pulls in a quarter of a billion dollars on a random Tuesday, and establishing a $65,000 support could propel BTC to a new all-time high. Elsewhere, Solana has its own bullish story unfolding, the Li.Fi protocol sees $10 million drained, and Craig Wright updates his website to include a disclaimer that states he is not Satoshi Nakamoto.Further reading:Traders eye $71.5K Bitcoin price as open interest jumps 13%BlackRock's IBIT draws $260M as Bitcoin ETFs notch 8th day of inflowsBTC price tags $66K — Can Bitcoin bulls beat out $100M of asks?Solana traders chase $180 target after SOL gains 13% in 2 daysLi.Fi protocol attacked, $10M drainedCraig Wright admits he's not Satoshi, issues disclaimer on his websiteSo, grab yourself a coffee, and let's get into it!Rise'n'Crypto is brought to you by Cointelegraph and is hosted and produced by Robert Baggs. You can follow Robert on Twitter and LinkedIn. Cointelegraph's Twitter: @CointelegraphCointelegraph's website: cointelegraph.comThe views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are its participants' alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph. This podcast (and any related content) is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice, nor should it be taken as such. Everyone must do their own research and make their own decisions. The podcast's participants may or may not own any of the assets mentioned.

Tommy Mello, owner and operator of A1 Garage Door Service, shares his journey, personal learning and key advice on how he built and scaled his $260M company from scratch.Find out more about Tommy:Podcast: The Home Service ExpertInstagram: @officialtommymelloWebsite: www.tommymello.comEvent: www.freedomevent.comHome Service Expert CommunityWant To Quit Your Job In The Next 6-18 Months Through Buying Commercial Real Estate & Small Businesses?

This VA emergency doc has paid off $370,000 in student loans in only 5 years! Not only that but he and his wife are already millionaires.  He said it is impossible to overstate how good it feels to have paid off those student loans. They have also put a huge percentage of their income towards building wealth. They are currently completely debt free and cruising towards financial independence. After the interview we will be talking about what false diversification means for Finance 101. Learn why physicians have invested over $260M with DLP Capital, a familiar name within the WCI community as a long-time member of our investment opportunities list. If you want to invest with a high-growth IMPACT investor who believes in doing well while doing good, we encourage you to check out DLP Capital and its real estate-backed investment funds. DLP Capital aims to build wealth and prosperity for all of its members, investors, clients, and partners—plus, their funds have historically had zero losses. Find out more at https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/dlp. They're a must-consider if you're thinking about diving into the world of investment housing. The White Coat Investor has been helping doctors with their money since 2011. Our free financial planning resource covers a variety of topics from doctor mortgage loans and refinancing medical school loans to physician disability insurance and malpractice insurance. Learn about loan refinancing or consolidation, explore new investment strategies, and discover loan programs specifically aimed at helping doctors. If you're a high-income professional and ready to get a "fair shake" on Wall Street, The White Coat Investor channel is for you! Be a Guest on The Milestones to Millionaire Podcast: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/milestones  Main Website: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com  Student Loan Advice: https://studentloanadvice.com  YouTube: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/youtube  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewhitecoatinvestor  Twitter: https://twitter.com/WCInvestor  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewhitecoatinvestor  Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/whitecoatinvestor  Online Courses: https://whitecoatinvestor.teachable.com  Newsletter: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/free-monthly-newsletter 

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.minimumcomp.comThis Day in Legal History: Wiretapping ConstitutionalOn June 4, 1928, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a significant decision in the case of Olmstead v. United States, ruling that wiretapping private telephone conversations without judicial approval was constitutional. The case involved Roy Olmstead, a suspected bootlegger during the Prohibition era, whose phone conversations had been wiretapped by federal agents without a warrant. The evidence obtained was crucial in convicting him. In a 5-4 decision, Chief Justice William Howard Taft wrote the majority opinion, holding that the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures did not extend to wiretapping because the Amendment only protected tangible property and physical intrusion.Justice Louis Brandeis penned a notable dissent, emphasizing the right to privacy and warning of the potential for abuse and overreach in government surveillance. He argued that the Constitution should adapt to modern technological advancements, including the methods of communication. The decision highlighted a significant tension between law enforcement interests and individual privacy rights, a debate that has continued to evolve with advancements in technology.This ruling stood until 1967, when the Supreme Court overturned it in Katz v. United States, establishing that the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places, thus extending privacy rights to include electronic communications. The Olmstead decision remains a pivotal moment in legal history, reflecting the complexities of interpreting constitutional protections in the face of new technological realities.

The Daily Business and Finance Show - Tuesday, 4 June 2024 We get our business and finance news from Seeking Alpha and you should too! Subscribe to Seeking Alpha Premium for more in-depth market news and help support this podcast. Free for 14-days! Please click here for more info: Subscribe to Seeking Alpha Premium News Today's headlines: New immigration order will see border action from Biden AI intrigue: Elon Musk reportedly directed Tesla's Nvidia chips to go to xAI Cashing out of stocks may be tempting, but there's further upside for the S&P 500: WFII Oregon jury awards talc plaintiff $260M in verdict against Johnson & Johnson Apple's wearable sales decline 19% in Q1 on lack of new AirPods, Watch ban Nvidia in focus as Mizuho lifts target on Blackwell success, pending stock split Oil prices hit four-month lows; U.S. buys another 3M barrels for strategic reserve 'Roaring Kitty's' GameStop trades come under probe by Massachusetts regulator - report Explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. This podcast provides information only and should not be construed as financial or business advice. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this conversation, Eric Chadderdon shares his journey from growing up with parents in the real estate business to becoming a successful multifamily real estate investor. He discusses the importance of financial education and early entrepreneurship in shaping his mindset around money. Eric emphasizes the power of perseverance and not quitting, sharing his experiences of overcoming challenges and rejection. He also highlights the significance of networking and building relationships in the real estate industry. Finally, Eric discusses his upcoming venture in the education business, where he aims to teach others how to succeed in multifamily real estate. The conversation covers topics such as membership places and risk, the game of business and success, surrounding yourself with the right people, recording and editing videos, course quality and feedback, future plans and gratitude, and requirements to become a general partner. Chapters 00:00 - Growing Up with Money 06:28 - Parents' Real Estate Ventures 08:06 - Financial Education and Early Entrepreneurship 11:06 - Transition to Multifamily Real Estate 22:22 - Multifamily Real Estate Journey 24:48 - Investing in Yourself and Mentorship 28:23 - The Importance of Networking and Relationships 34:07 - Launching an Education Business 36:41 - The Value of Investing in Yourself 37:49 - Membership Places and Risk 38:14 - The Game of Business and Success 39:02 - Surrounding Yourself with the Right People 39:17 - Closing Remarks

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Correction [02:25]: Mineral Resources has recently noted the total purchase price for the Bald Hill lithium mine will be higher than the $260M referenced in this episode and by the AFR."Welcome to the Equity Mates Summer Series, proudly brought to you by CommSec, the home of investing. Over 12 episodes we're deep diving into some of the most exciting, interesting and well-known companies from around the world. Mineral Resources Limited (MIN), an Australian company, specialises in diversified mining services and resources, focusing on iron ore, lithium, and energy. As one of Australia's leading iron ore producers and a significant producer of lithium spodumene concentrate, MIN is committed to being a world-class entity in its field. This commitment is evident in their dedication to innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence, aiming to deliver outstanding value to shareholders, customers, and employees. To chat about it with us, is Fraser Christie - who's a member of the investment team at TDM Growth Partners.The Equity Mates Summer Series is proudly supported by CommSec, the home of investing. If you've just started investing, or looking to build confidence, CommSec has free tools and resources available, before you even sign up, to help you on your journey. Get a grip on all the investing basics with CommSec. Start investing with as little as $50 through the CommBank app. Go to commbank.com.au for more. CommSec T&Cs and other fees and charges apply.If you want to go beyond the podcast and learn more, check out our accompanying email. Buy a copy of Don't Stress, Just Invest now, click here.You could win $500 by filling out our EM Community Survey. Click here.*****In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Equity Mates Investing Podcast acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. *****This episode contained sponsored content from Commsec.*****Equity Mates Investing Podcast is a product of Equity Mates Media. This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional. Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.Equity Mates is part of the Acast Creator Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a recent article maligning open source large language models. Simon has so much practical experience with LLMs, and brings so much clarity to what they can and can't do. How do these systems work? How do they break? What are open and proprietary LLMs out there?Recorded 1/15/2024We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Simon Willison.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:IEEE Spectrum: Open-Source AI Is Uniquely DangerousNewsroom Robots with Simon WillisonOxF: Another LPC55 ROM VulnerabilitySimon Willison: Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023llama.cppMistral AIFrance's Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAISimon again: The AI trust crisisReply All: Is Facebook Spying on You?Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language ModelsNew York Times Sues OpenAILycosChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure WhySimon posted a follow up blog article where he explains using MacWhisper and Claude to make his LLM pull out a few of his favorite quotes from this episode:Talking about Open Source LLMs on Oxide and FriendsIf we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

In this episode, Sonny Vu, Founder of Alabaster and former founder of Misfit Wearables, and Jeremy Au discuss three main themes: 1. Vietnam & America Roots: Sonny talked about growing up in the Midwest as his older brother's sidekick and a Vietnamese immigrant who spoke Vietnamese to his American friends. He decided to study Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois, but quickly realized his passion lay elsewhere - and shifted to eventually studying computational linguistics at MIT under Professor Noam Chomsky. He also shared why he felt Noam Chomsky was misunderstood by the broader public. 2. Founding Misfit Wearables ($260M acquisition by Fossil): Sonny's entrepreneurial journey started when he participated in the MIT $50K Business Plan Competition with FireSpout, a startup focused on machine learning-assisted natural language processing (NLP). After selling his first startup, he co-founded other startups including AgaMatrix, an electrochemical biosensor for diabetes management, and Misfit Wearables, a wearable technology company that was eventually acquired by Fossil for $260 million. He discussed how he figured out product-market fit by reading 5,000 reviews of competitors' wearables and emphasized the importance of timing and market needs. He also stressed the importance of assembling a crew that's deeply committed to the mission beyond personal gain and celebrates the rare and precious servant leaders who prioritize the team and the mission over themselves. 3. Navigating Tough Decisions: Sonny shared a story of physical bravery while hiking in Turkey, as well as a critical business decision during his second company's near bankruptcy, where ethical considerations led him to reject a term sheet that would have been detrimental to previous investors. He asserted that true bravery and courage emerge not from the absence of fear but from facing and navigating through it despite potential risks. The key is considering the long-term perspective of self-perception and integrity. Jeremy and Sonny also talked about how the disciplines of art, math, and languages and are a unified pursuit of beauty, the evolving nature of entrepreneurship, failure as a more potent teacher than success, the importance of sales in startups, and the value of continuous learning. Watch, listen or read the full insight at https://www.bravesea.com/blog/sonny-vu Get transcripts, startup resources & community discussions at www.bravesea.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CeL3ywi7yOWFd8HTo6yzde Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4TnqkaWpTT181lMA8xNu0T YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JeremyAu Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/brave-southeast-asia-tech-singapore-indonesia-vietnam/id1506890464 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZC5jby9icmF2ZWR5bmFtaWNz TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeremyau Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyauz Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bravesea Learn more about Hive Health here: https://www.ourhivehealth.com #PublicService #Philippines #Healthcare #Harvard #SME #Telehealth #SocialImpact #Entrepreneurship #BRAVEpodcasts

-- Finches Diversify in Decades, Opals Form in Months,  Man's Genetic Diversity in 200 Generations, C-14 Everywhere: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams present their classic program that led to the audience-favorites rsr.org/list-shows! See below and hear on today's radio program our list of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things! From opals forming in months to man's genetic diversity in 200 generations, and with carbon 14 everywhere it's not supposed to be (including in diamonds and dinosaur bones!), scientific observations fill the guys' most traditional list challenging those who claim that the earth is billions of years old. Many of these scientific finds demand a re-evaluation of supposed million and billion-year ages. * Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: Charles Darwin's finches are claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. Hear about this also at rsr.org/spetner. * Opals Can Form in "A Few Months" And Don't Need 100,000 Years: A leading authority on opals, Allan W. Eckert, observed that, "scientific papers and textbooks have told that the process of opal formation requires tens of thousands of years, perhaps hundreds of thousands... Not true." A 2011 peer-reviewed paper in a geology journal from Australia, where almost all the world's opal is found, reported on the: "new timetable for opal formation involving weeks to a few months and not the hundreds of thousands of years envisaged by the conventional weathering model." (And apparently, per a 2019 report from Entomology Today, opals can even form around insects!) More knowledgeable scientists resist the uncritical, group-think insistence on false super-slow formation rates (as also for manganese nodules, gold veins, stone, petroleum, canyons and gullies, and even guts, all below). Regarding opals, Darwinian bias led geologists to long ignore possible quick action, as from microbes, as a possible explanation for these mineraloids. For both in nature and in the lab, opals form rapidly, not even in 10,000 years, but in weeks. See this also from creationists by a geologist, a paleobiochemist, and a nuclear chemist. * Finches Speciate in Two Generations vs Two Million Years for Darwin's Birds?  Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are said to have diversified into 14 species over a period of two million years. But in 2017 the journal Science reported a newcomer to the Island which within two generations spawned a reproductively isolated new species. In another instance as documented by Lee Spetner, a hundred birds of the same finch species introduced to an island cluster a 1,000 kilometers from Galapagos diversified into species with the typical variations in beak sizes, etc. "If this diversification occurred in less than seventeen years," Dr. Spetner asks, "why did Darwin's Galapagos finches [as claimed by evolutionists] have to take two million years?" * Blue Eyes Originated Not So Long Ago: Not a million years ago, nor a hundred thousand years ago, but based on a peer-reviewed paper in Human Genetics, a press release at Science Daily reports that, "research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today." * Adding the Entire Universe to our List of Not So Old Things? Based on March 2019 findings from Hubble, Nobel laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and his co-authors in the Astrophysical Journal estimate that the universe is about a billion years younger than previously thought! Then in September 2019 in the journal Science, the age dropped precipitiously to as low as 11.4 billion years! Of course, these measurements also further squeeze the canonical story of the big bang chronology with its many already existing problems including the insufficient time to "evolve" distant mature galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters, enormous black holes, filaments, bubbles, walls, and other superstructures. So, even though the latest estimates are still absurdly too old (Google: big bang predictions, and click on the #1 ranked article, or just go on over there to rsr.org/bb), regardless, we thought we'd plop the whole universe down on our List of Not So Old Things!   * After the Soft Tissue Discoveries, NOW Dino DNA: When a North Carolina State University paleontologist took the Tyrannosaurus Rex photos to the right of original biological material, that led to the 2016 discovery of dinosaur DNA, So far researchers have also recovered dinosaur blood vessels, collagen, osteocytes, hemoglobin, red blood cells, and various proteins. As of May 2018, twenty-six scientific journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, PLoS One, Bone, and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, have confirmed the discovery of biomaterial fossils from many dinosaurs! Organisms including T. Rex, hadrosaur, titanosaur, triceratops, Lufengosaur, mosasaur, and Archaeopteryx, and many others dated, allegedly, even hundreds of millions of years old, have yielded their endogenous, still-soft biological material. See the web's most complete listing of 100+ journal papers (screenshot, left) announcing these discoveries at bflist.rsr.org and see it in layman's terms at rsr.org/soft. * Rapid Stalactites, Stalagmites, Etc.: A construction worker in 1954 left a lemonade bottle in one of Australia's famous Jenolan Caves. By 2011 it had been naturally transformed into a stalagmite (below, right). Increasing scientific knowledge is arguing for rapid cave formation (see below, Nat'l Park Service shrinks Carlsbad Caverns formation estimates from 260M years, to 10M, to 2M, to it "depends"). Likewise, examples are growing of rapid formations with typical chemical make-up (see bottle, left) of classic stalactites and stalagmites including:- in Nat'l Geo the Carlsbad Caverns stalagmite that rapidly covered a bat - the tunnel stalagmites at Tennessee's Raccoon Mountain - hundreds of stalactites beneath the Lincoln Memorial - those near Gladfelter Hall at Philadelphia's Temple University (send photos to Bob@rsr.org) - hundreds of stalactites at Australia's zinc mine at Mt. Isa.   - and those beneath Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. * Most Human Mutations Arose in 200 Generations: From Adam until Real Science Radio, in only 200 generations! The journal Nature reports The Recent Origin of Most Human Protein-coding Variants. As summarized by geneticist co-author Joshua Akey, "Most of the mutations that we found arose in the last 200 generations or so" (the same number previously published by biblical creationists). Another 2012 paper, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Eugenie Scott's own field) on High mitochondrial mutation rates, shows that one mitochondrial DNA mutation occurs every other generation, which, as creationists point out, indicates that mtEve would have lived about 200 generations ago. That's not so old! * National Geographic's Not-So-Old Hard-Rock Canyon at Mount St. Helens: As our List of Not So Old Things (this web page) reveals, by a kneejerk reaction evolutionary scientists assign ages of tens or hundreds of thousands of years (or at least just long enough to contradict Moses' chronology in Genesis.) However, with closer study, routinely, more and more old ages get revised downward to fit the world's growing scientific knowledge. So the trend is not that more information lengthens ages, but rather, as data replaces guesswork, ages tend to shrink until they are consistent with the young-earth biblical timeframe. Consistent with this observation, the May 2000 issue of National Geographic quotes the U.S. Forest Service's scientist at Mount St. Helens, Peter Frenzen, describing the canyon on the north side of the volcano. "You'd expect a hard-rock canyon to be thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years old. But this was cut in less than a decade." And as for the volcano itself, while again, the kneejerk reaction of old-earthers would be to claim that most geologic features are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, the atheistic National Geographic magazine acknowledges from the evidence that Mount St. Helens, the volcanic mount, is only about 4,000 years old! See below and more at rsr.org/mount-st-helens. * Mount St. Helens Dome Ten Years Old not 1.7 Million: Geochron Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass., using potassium-argon and other radiometric techniques claims the rock sample they dated, from the volcano's dome, solidified somewhere between 340,000 and 2.8 million years ago. However photographic evidence and historical reports document the dome's formation during the 1980s, just ten years prior to the samples being collected. With the age of this rock known, radiometric dating therefore gets the age 99.99999% wrong. * Devils Hole Pupfish Isolated Not for 13,000 Years But for 100: Secular scientists default to knee-jerk, older-than-Bible-age dates. However, a tiny Mojave desert fish is having none of it. Rather than having been genetically isolated from other fish for 13,000 years (which would make this small school of fish older than the Earth itself), according to a paper in the journal Nature, actual measurements of mutation rates indicate that the genetic diversity of these Pupfish could have been generated in about 100 years, give or take a few. * Polystrates like Spines and Rare Schools of Fossilized Jellyfish: Previously, seven sedimentary layers in Wisconsin had been described as taking a million years to form. And because jellyfish have no skeleton, as Charles Darwin pointed out, it is rare to find them among fossils. But now, reported in the journal Geology, a school of jellyfish fossils have been found throughout those same seven layers. So, polystrate fossils that condense the time of strata deposition from eons to hours or months, include: - Jellyfish in central Wisconsin were not deposited and fossilized over a million years but during a single event quick enough to trap a whole school. (This fossil school, therefore, taken as a unit forms a polystrate fossil.) Examples are everywhere that falsify the claims of strata deposition over millions of years. - Countless trilobites buried in astounding three dimensionality around the world are meticulously recovered from limestone, much of which is claimed to have been deposited very slowly. Contrariwise, because these specimens were buried rapidly in quickly laid down sediments, they show no evidence of greater erosion on their upper parts as compared to their lower parts.- The delicacy of radiating spine polystrates, like tadpole and jellyfish fossils, especially clearly demonstrate the rapidity of such strata deposition. - A second school of jellyfish, even though they rarely fossilized, exists in another locale with jellyfish fossils in multiple layers, in Australia's Brockman Iron Formation, constraining there too the rate of strata deposition. By the way, jellyfish are an example of evolution's big squeeze. Like galaxies evolving too quickly, galaxy clusters, and even human feet (which, like Mummy DNA, challenge the Out of Africa paradigm), jellyfish have gotten into the act squeezing evolution's timeline, here by 200 million years when they were found in strata allegedly a half-a-billion years old. Other examples, ironically referred to as Medusoid Problematica, are even found in pre-Cambrian strata. - 171 tadpoles of the same species buried in diatoms. - Leaves buried vertically through single-celled diatoms powerfully refute the claimed super-slow deposition of diatomaceous rock. - Many fossils, including a Mesosaur, have been buried in multiple "varve" layers, which are claimed to be annual depositions, yet they show no erosional patterns that would indicate gradual burial (as they claim, absurdly, over even thousands of years). - A single whale skeleton preserved in California in dozens of layers of diatom deposits thus forming a polystrate fossil. - 40 whales buried in the desert in Chile. "What's really interesting is that this didn't just happen once," said Smithsonian evolutionist Dr. Nick Pyenson. It happened four times." Why's that? Because "the fossil site has at least four layers", to which Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart replies: "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha", with RSR co-host Fred Williams thoughtfully adding, "Ha ha!" * Polystrate Trees: Examples abound around the world of polystrate trees:  - Yellowstone's petrified polystrate forest (with the NPS exhibit sign removed; see below) with successive layers of rootless trees demonstrating the rapid deposition of fifty layers of strata. - A similarly formed polystrate fossil forest in France demonstrating the rapid deposition of a dozen strata. - In a thousand locations including famously the Fossil Cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, polystrate fossils such as trees span many strata. - These trees lack erosion: Not only should such fossils, generally speaking, not even exist, but polystrates including trees typically show no evidence of erosion increasing with height. All of this powerfully disproves the claim that the layers were deposited slowly over thousands or millions of years. In the experience of your RSR radio hosts, evolutionists commonly respond to this hard evidence with mocking. See CRSQ June 2006, ICR Impact #316, and RSR 8-11-06 at KGOV.com. * Yellowstone Petrified Trees Sign Removed: The National Park Service removed their incorrect sign (see left and more). The NPS had claimed that in dozens of different strata over a 40-square mile area, many petrified trees were still standing where they had grown. The NPS eventually removed the sign partly because those petrified trees had no root systems, which they would have had if they had grown there. Instead, the trees of this "fossil forest" have roots that are abruptly broken off two or three feet from their trunks. If these mature trees actually had been remnants of sequential forests that had grown up in strata layer on top of strata layer, 27 times on Specimen Ridge (and 50 times at Specimen Creek), such a natural history implies passage of more time than permitted by biblical chronology. So, don't trust the National Park Service on historical science because they're wrong on the age of the Earth. * Wood Petrifies Quickly: Not surprisingly, by the common evolutionary knee-jerk claim of deep time, "several researchers believe that several millions of years are necessary for the complete formation of silicified wood". Our List of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things includes the work of five Japanese scientists who proved creationist research and published their results in the peer-reviewed journal Sedimentary Geology showing that wood can and does petrify rapidly. Modern wood significantly petrified in 36 years these researchers concluded that wood buried in strata could have been petrified in "a fairly short period of time, in the order of several tens to hundreds of years." * The Scablands: The primary surface features of the Scablands, which cover thousands of square miles of eastern Washington, were long believed to have formed gradually. Yet, against the determined claims of uniformitarian geologists, there is now overwhelming evidence as presented even in a NOVA TV program that the primary features of the Scablands formed rapidly from a catastrophic breach of Lake Missoula causing a massive regional flood. Of course evolutionary geologists still argue that the landscape was formed over tens of thousands of years, now by claiming there must have been a hundred Missoula floods. However, the evidence that there was Only One Lake Missoula Flood has been powerfully reinforced by a University of Colorado Ph.D. thesis. So the Scablands itself is no longer available to old-earthers as de facto evidence for the passage of millions of years. * The Heart Mountain Detachment: in Wyoming just east of Yellowstone, this mountain did not break apart slowly by uniformitarian processes but in only about half-an-hour as widely reported including in the evolutionist LiveScience.com, "Land Speed Record: Mountain Moves 62 Miles in 30 Minutes." The evidence indicates that this mountain of rock covering 425 square miles rapidly broke into 50 pieces and slid apart over an area of more than 1,300 square miles in a biblical, not a "geological," timeframe.  * "150 Million" year-old Squid Ink Not Decomposed: This still-writable ink had dehydrated but had not decomposed! The British Geological Survey's Dr. Phil Wilby, who excavated the fossil, said, "It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft and sloppy as an ink sac fossilised in three dimensions, still black, and inside a rock that is 150 million years old." And the Daily Mail states that, "the black ink was of exactly the same structure as that of today's version", just desiccated. And Wilby added, "Normally you would find only the hard parts like the shell and bones fossilised but... these creatures... can be dissected as if they are living animals, you can see the muscle fibres and cells. It is difficult to imagine... The structure is similar to ink from a modern squid so we can write with it..." Why is this difficult for evolutionists to imagine? Because as Dr. Carl Wieland writes, "Chemical structures 'fall apart' all by themselves over time due to the randomizing effects of molecular motion."Decades ago Bob Enyart broadcast a geology program about Mount St. Helens' catastrophic destruction of forests and the hydraulic transportation and upright deposition of trees. Later, Bob met the chief ranger from Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui, Mark Tanaka-Sanders. The ranger agreed to correspond with his colleague at Yellowstone to urge him to have the sign removed. Thankfully, it was then removed. (See also AIG, CMI, and all the original Yellowstone exhibit photos.) Groundbreaking research conducted by creation geologist Dr. Steve Austin in Spirit Lake after Mount St. Helens eruption provided a modern-day analog to the formation of Yellowstone fossil forest. A steam blast from that volcano blew over tens of thousands of trees leaving them without attached roots. Many thousands of those trees were floating upright in Spirit Lake, and began sinking at varying rates into rapidly and sporadically deposited sediments. Once Yellowstone's successive forest interpretation was falsified (though like with junk DNA, it's too big to fail, so many atheists and others still cling to it), the erroneous sign was removed. * Asiatic vs. European Honeybees: These two populations of bees have been separated supposedly for seven million years. A researcher decided to put the two together to see what would happen. What we should have here is a failure to communicate that would have resulted after their "language" evolved over millions of years. However, European and Asiatic honeybees are still able to communicate, putting into doubt the evolutionary claim that they were separated over "geologic periods." For more, see the Public Library of Science, Asiatic Honeybees Can Understand Dance Language of European Honeybees. (Oh yeah, and why don't fossils of poorly-formed honeycombs exist, from the millions of years before the bees and natural selection finally got the design right? Ha! Because they don't exist! :) Nautiloid proves rapid limestone formation. * Remember the Nautiloids: In the Grand Canyon there is a limestone layer averaging seven feet thick that runs the 277 miles of the canyon (and beyond) that covers hundreds of square miles and contains an average of one nautiloid fossil per square meter. Along with many other dead creatures in this one particular layer, 15% of these nautiloids were killed and then fossilized standing on their heads. Yes, vertically. They were caught in such an intense and rapid catastrophic flow that gravity was not able to cause all of their dead carcasses to fall over on their sides. Famed Mount St. Helens geologist Steve Austin is also the world's leading expert on nautiloid fossils and has worked in the canyon and presented his findings to the park's rangers at the invitation of National Park Service officials. Austin points out, as is true of many of the world's mass fossil graveyards, that this enormous nautiloid deposition provides indisputable proof of the extremely rapid formation of a significant layer of limestone near the bottom of the canyon, a layer like the others we've been told about, that allegedly formed at the bottom of a calm and placid sea with slow and gradual sedimentation. But a million nautiloids, standing on their heads, literally, would beg to differ. At our sister stie, RSR provides the relevant Geologic Society of America abstract, links, and video. *  Now It's Allegedly Two Million Year-Old Leaves: "When we started pulling leaves out of the soil, that was surreal, to know that it's millions of years old..." sur-re-al: adjective: a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy. In this case, the leaves are the facts. Earth scientists from Ohio State and the University of Minnesota say that wood and leaves they found in the Canadian Arctic are at least two million years old, and perhaps more than ten million years old, even though the leaves are just dry and crumbly and the wood still burns! * Gold Precipitates in Veins in Less than a Second: After geologists submitted for decades to the assumption that each layer of gold would deposit at the alleged super slow rates of geologic process, the journal Nature Geoscience reports that each layer of deposition can occur within a few tenths of a second. Meanwhile, at the Lihir gold deposit in Papua New Guinea, evolutionists assumed the more than 20 million ounces of gold in the Lihir reserve took millions of years to deposit, but as reported in the journal Science, geologists can now demonstrate that the deposit could have formed in thousands of years, or far more quickly! Iceland's not-so-old Surtsey Island looks ancient. * Surtsey Island, Iceland: Of the volcanic island that formed in 1963, New Scientist reported in 2007 about Surtsey that "geographers... marvel that canyons, gullies and other land features that typically take tens of thousands or millions of years to form were created in less than a decade." Yes. And Sigurdur Thorarinsson, Iceland's chief  geologist, wrote in the months after Surtsey formed, "that the time scale," he had been trained "to attach to geological developments is misleading." [For what is said to] take thousands of years... the same development may take a few weeks or even days here [including to form] a landscape... so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief... wide sandy beaches and precipitous crags... gravel banks and lagoons, impressive cliffs… hollows, glens and soft undulating land... fractures and faultscarps, channels and screes… confounded by what met your eye... boulders worn by the surf, some of which were almost round... -Iceland's chief geologist * The Palouse River Gorge: In the southeast of Washington State, the Palouse River Gorge is one of many features formed rapidly by 500 cubic miles of water catastrophically released with the breaching of a natural dam in the Lake Missoula Flood (which gouged out the Scablands as described above). So, hard rock can be breached and eroded rapidly. * Leaf Shapes Identical for 190 Million Years?  From Berkley.edu, "Ginkgo biloba... dates back to... about 190 million years ago... fossilized leaf material from the Tertiary species Ginkgo adiantoides is considered similar or even identical to that produced by modern Ginkgo biloba trees... virtually indistinguishable..." The literature describes leaf shapes as "spectacularly diverse" sometimes within a species but especially across the plant kingdom. Because all kinds of plants survive with all kinds of different leaf shapes, the conservation of a species retaining a single shape over alleged deep time is a telling issue. Darwin's theory is undermined by the unchanging shape over millions of years of a species' leaf shape. This lack of change, stasis in what should be an easily morphable plant trait, supports the broader conclusion that chimp-like creatures did not become human beings and all the other ambitious evolutionary creation of new kinds are simply imagined. (Ginkgo adiantoides and biloba are actually the same species. Wikipedia states, "It is doubtful whether the Northern Hemisphere fossil species of Ginkgo can be reliably distinguished." For oftentimes, as documented by Dr. Carl Werner in his Evolution: The Grand Experiment series, paleontogists falsely speciate identical specimens, giving different species names, even different genus names, to the fossil and living animals that appear identical.) * Box Canyon, Idaho: Geologists now think Box Canyon in Idaho, USA, was carved by a catastrophic flood and not slowly over millions of years with 1) huge plunge pools formed by waterfalls; 2) the almost complete removal of large basalt boulders from the canyon; 3) an eroded notch on the plateau at the top of the canyon; and 4) water scour marks on the basalt plateau leading to the canyon. Scientists calculate that the flood was so large that it could have eroded the whole canyon in as little as 35 days. See the journal Science, Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood, and the Journal of Creation, and Creation Magazine. * Manganese Nodules Rapid Formation: Allegedly, as claimed at the Wikipedia entry from 2005 through 2021: "Nodule growth is one of the slowest of all geological phenomena – in the order of a centimeter over several million years." Wow, that would be slow! And a Texas A&M Marine Sciences technical slide presentation says, “They grow very slowly (mm/million years) and can be tens of millions of years old", with RWU's oceanography textbook also putting it at "0.001 mm per thousand years." But according to a World Almanac documentary they have formed "around beer cans," said marine geologist Dr. John Yates in the 1997 video Universe Beneath the Sea: The Next Frontier. There are also reports of manganese nodules forming around ships sunk in the First World War. See more at at youngearth.com, at TOL, in the print edition of the Journal of Creation, and in this typical forum discussion with atheists (at the Chicago Cubs forum no less :). * "6,000 year-old" Mitochondrial Eve: As the Bible calls "Eve... the mother of all living" (Gen. 3:20), genetic researchers have named the one woman from whom all humans have descended "Mitochondrial Eve." But in a scientific attempt to date her existence, they openly admit that they included chimpanzee DNA in their analysis in order to get what they viewed as a reasonably old date of 200,000 years ago (which is still surprisingly recent from their perspective, but old enough not to strain Darwinian theory too much). But then as widely reported including by Science magazine, when they dropped the chimp data and used only actual human mutation rates, that process determined that Eve lived only six thousand years ago! In Ann Gibbon's Science article, "Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock," rather than again using circular reasoning by assuming their conclusion (that humans evolved from ape-like creatures), they performed their calculations using actual measured mutation rates. This peer-reviewed journal then reported that if these rates have been constant, "mitochondrial Eve… would be a mere 6000 years old." See also the journal Nature and creation.com's "A shrinking date for Eve," and Walt Brown's assessment. Expectedly though, evolutionists have found a way to reject their own unbiased finding (the conclusion contrary to their self-interest) by returning to their original method of using circular reasoning, as reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, "calibrating against recent evidence for the divergence time of humans and chimpanzees,"  to reset their mitochondrial clock back to 200,000 years. * Even Younger Y-Chromosomal Adam: (Although he should be called, "Y-Chromosomal Noah.") While we inherit our mtDNA only from our mothers, only men have a Y chromosome (which incidentally genetically disproves the claim that the fetus is "part of the woman's body," since the little boy's y chromosome could never be part of mom's body). Based on documented mutation rates on and the extraordinary lack of mutational differences in this specifically male DNA, the Y-chromosomal Adam would have lived only a few thousand years ago! (He's significantly younger than mtEve because of the genetic bottleneck of the global flood.) Yet while the Darwinian camp wrongly claimed for decades that humans were 98% genetically similar to chimps, secular scientists today, using the same type of calculation only more accurately, have unintentionally documented that chimps are about as far genetically from what makes a human being a male, as mankind itself is from sponges! Geneticists have found now that sponges are 70% the same as humans genetically, and separately, that human and chimp Y chromosomes are  "horrendously" 30%

Broadcasting LIVE from The Folds of Honor Collegiate Tournament, at Amercian Dunes Golf Club …CT, Phil, & Rich welcomed 4 very Special Guests to the show! Folds of Honor Founder & CEO, Lt. Col Dan Rooney joined us and it was an amazing conversation!  His charity has raised over $260M and has given away over 5400 scholarships to the families of Veterans and First Responders!  The F-16 Fighter Pilot and former professional golfer founded Folds of Honor in 2007 after sitting on an airplane in Grand Rapids; witnessing a family at their darkest of times.  He is a true American Hero.  Tune in to hear his Great Story!  https://foldsofhonor.org/ Friend of the show, Scott Tolley, FOH Tournament Director joined us and we had an amazing conversation.  He also shared 2 hilarious videos from a recent golf afternoon with Jim Nantz!  Wow, we are in awe of Scott, he is definitely the most famous phone number that we have stored in our phones!   Doug Bell, General Manager of American Dunes Golf Club, shared his journey from graduating from Ferris State to now helping design and launch this iconic course.  It is a powerful story as his family has been personally touched by Folds of Honor!  He is now working to make a difference in so many others lives by managing a course that generates much needed charitable dollars.  It is an experience of a lifetime. https://americandunesgolfclub.com/ Steve Milewski, Interim Head Golf Coach at Grand Valley kicks off the episode and we were amazed with his positivity and tremendous leadership skills! So very proud of these two episodes, it was an absolute honor for us.   Thank you to Scott for making this all a possibility!  ASGP is POWERed by MediaSkapes!  Love, CT & Rich … and Phil!!!   (me) (Rich) (Phil)  

Broadcasting LIVE from The Folds of Honor Collegiate Tournament, at Amercian Dunes Golf Club …CT, Phil, & Rich welcomed 4 very Special Guests to the show! Folds of Honor Founder & CEO, Lt. Col Dan Rooney joined us and it was an amazing conversation!  His charity has raised over $260M and has given away over 5400 scholarships to the families of Veterans and First Responders!  The F-16 Fighter Pilot and former professional golfer founded Folds of Honor in 2007 after sitting on an airplane in Grand Rapids; witnessing a family at their darkest of times.  He is a true American Hero.  Tune in to hear his Great Story!   https://foldsofhonor.org/ Friend of the show, Scott Tolley, FOH Tournament Director joined us and we had an amazing conversation.  He also shared 2 hilarious videos from a recent golf afternoon with Jim Nantz!  Wow, we are in awe of Scott, he is definitely the most famous phone number that we have stored in our phones!   Doug Bell, General Manager of American Dunes Golf Club, shared his journey from graduating from Ferris State to now helping design and launch this iconic course.  It is a powerful story as his family has been personally touched by Folds of Honor!  He is now working to make a difference in so many others lives by managing a course that generates much needed charitable dollars.  It is an experience of a lifetime.  https://americandunesgolfclub.com/ Steve Milewski, Interim Head Golf Coach at Grand Valley kicks off the episode and we were amazed with his positivity and tremendous leadership skills! So very proud of these two episodes, it was an absolute honor for us.   Thank you to Scott for making this all a possibility!  ASGP is POWERed by MediaSkapes!  Love, CT & Rich … and Phil!!!   (me) (Rich) (Phil)  

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Fund Transit With Development, published by jefftk on September 22, 2023 on LessWrong. When transit gets better the land around it becomes more valuable: many people would like to live next to a subway station. This means that there are a lot of public transit expansions that would make us better off, building space for people to live and work. And yet, at least in the US, we don't do very much of this. Part of it is that the benefits mostly go to whoever happens to own the land around the stations. A different model, which you see with historical subway construction or Hong Kong's MTR, uses the increase in land value to fund transit construction. The idea is, the public transit company buys property, makes it much more valuable by building service to it, and then sells it. While I would be pretty positive on US public transit systems adopting this model, I have trouble imagining them taking it on. Instead, consider something simpler and more distributed: private developers paying to expand public transit. Consider the proposed Somernova Redevelopment, in Somerville MA: This is a proposed $3.3B 1.9M-sqft development, adjacent to the Fitchburg Line. A train station right next to it would make a ton of sense, and could be done within the existing right of way without any tunneling. Somernova briefly mentions this idea on p283, where they say: Introducing a new train station on campus could dramatically reduce commute times, making all of Somernova within a five minute walk from the station. We look forward to ongoing dialog about these transit possibilities with the community and advocates, ensuring we continue to explore all options for enhanced connectivity longterm. This is pretty vague compared to the rest of the plan, which has a ton of estimates, but we can make our own. The MBTA recently completed a long and expensive project to extend the Green Line along this right of way, which stops at Union Square. Extending it to Dane Street would require another 0.9km of track and another station. The overall Green Line extension cost $2.2B for 7.6km, or $290M/km, though this included a bunch of over-designed work that needed to be thrown away and it should have been far less. This portion is relatively simple compared to the other work, with no maintenance facility or elevated sections, though it does include three bridges and moving a substation. Accepting the $290M/km figure, though, we could estimate $260M. A $260M extension would raise Somernova's construction costs by under 8%, less if you include the costs of the land, and I expect would raise the value of the completed project by well more than that - rents right next to subway stations are generally a lot higher than farther away. So even though Somernova would not capture all of the benefits of the new station they would capture enough to come out ahead. This isn't a new idea: in 2011 the Assembly Row developers made a deal with the MBTA to fund an infill station for their development. Because this was just a station it was cheaper: $15M from the developer and $16M from the federal government. Another place where something like this could make sense is building housing at Route 16. The other branch of the Green Line Extension, along the Lowell Line, could be extended 1.4km to Route 16. Figuring the same $290M/km this would be $400M, though as a straight-forward project in an existing right of way it should be possble to do it for about half that. Next to the site is a liquor store and supermarket, about 150k sqft: Let's say you build ground-floor retail (with more than enough room for the current tenants) and many stories of housing above it. It's not currently zoned for this, but zoning is often dependent on transit access and this is something the city could fix (ex: Assembly Square got special zoning). A hard...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Fund Transit With Development, published by jefftk on September 22, 2023 on LessWrong. When transit gets better the land around it becomes more valuable: many people would like to live next to a subway station. This means that there are a lot of public transit expansions that would make us better off, building space for people to live and work. And yet, at least in the US, we don't do very much of this. Part of it is that the benefits mostly go to whoever happens to own the land around the stations. A different model, which you see with historical subway construction or Hong Kong's MTR, uses the increase in land value to fund transit construction. The idea is, the public transit company buys property, makes it much more valuable by building service to it, and then sells it. While I would be pretty positive on US public transit systems adopting this model, I have trouble imagining them taking it on. Instead, consider something simpler and more distributed: private developers paying to expand public transit. Consider the proposed Somernova Redevelopment, in Somerville MA: This is a proposed $3.3B 1.9M-sqft development, adjacent to the Fitchburg Line. A train station right next to it would make a ton of sense, and could be done within the existing right of way without any tunneling. Somernova briefly mentions this idea on p283, where they say: Introducing a new train station on campus could dramatically reduce commute times, making all of Somernova within a five minute walk from the station. We look forward to ongoing dialog about these transit possibilities with the community and advocates, ensuring we continue to explore all options for enhanced connectivity longterm. This is pretty vague compared to the rest of the plan, which has a ton of estimates, but we can make our own. The MBTA recently completed a long and expensive project to extend the Green Line along this right of way, which stops at Union Square. Extending it to Dane Street would require another 0.9km of track and another station. The overall Green Line extension cost $2.2B for 7.6km, or $290M/km, though this included a bunch of over-designed work that needed to be thrown away and it should have been far less. This portion is relatively simple compared to the other work, with no maintenance facility or elevated sections, though it does include three bridges and moving a substation. Accepting the $290M/km figure, though, we could estimate $260M. A $260M extension would raise Somernova's construction costs by under 8%, less if you include the costs of the land, and I expect would raise the value of the completed project by well more than that - rents right next to subway stations are generally a lot higher than farther away. So even though Somernova would not capture all of the benefits of the new station they would capture enough to come out ahead. This isn't a new idea: in 2011 the Assembly Row developers made a deal with the MBTA to fund an infill station for their development. Because this was just a station it was cheaper: $15M from the developer and $16M from the federal government. Another place where something like this could make sense is building housing at Route 16. The other branch of the Green Line Extension, along the Lowell Line, could be extended 1.4km to Route 16. Figuring the same $290M/km this would be $400M, though as a straight-forward project in an existing right of way it should be possble to do it for about half that. Next to the site is a liquor store and supermarket, about 150k sqft: Let's say you build ground-floor retail (with more than enough room for the current tenants) and many stories of housing above it. It's not currently zoned for this, but zoning is often dependent on transit access and this is something the city could fix (ex: Assembly Square got special zoning). A hard...

What does it take to seal a €260 Million deal? Before you negotiate next, LISTEN to this! Welcome to DealTalk, the show where you learn the art and science of deal-making.This episode puts YOU in the driver's seat for your next negotiation.Adam shares valuable insights and practical advice on what to do before, during, and after your negotiation. Tune in and unlock the secrets to becoming a better communicator and leader.Before you negotiate next, LISTEN to this! Learn more about Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/dolejsadamHosted by Shane Ray Martin a seasoned negotiator passionate about helping you harness the power of effective communication using AI.Follow Shane: linkedin.com/in/shaneraymartin

In this edition of 2 ThousTrend, Jack and Miles discuss Nathan Fielder & the Safdie Brothers' new show The Curse, ProPublica published a story revealing that Harlan Crow cut his taxes via yacht trips with Clarence Thomas, Universal suspiciously trimmed several trees near their studio that provided shade for striking writers and actors amid the current heat wave in Los Angeles, Kim Kardashian is launching a new super-caffeinated energy drink, Jesse Watters' new show debuted on Fox News and Boppenheimer (Barbie + Oppenheimer) is predicted to have a $260M combined opening weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is presented by DPH Biologicals. Learn more at DPHBio.com Anthony Howcroft is the CEO of SWARM Engineering. SWARM is a Software-as-a-Service platform that uses next generation cognitive computing to tackle challenges in the agri-food supply chain to save costs, reduce waste, and deliver environmental benefits. The SWARM platform is structured around a multi-agent approach which utilizes a curated market of algorithms to optimize key processes such as load planning, inbound and outbound logistics, demand/supply planning, maximizing yield, and pricing optimization. SWARM provides an easy way for business users to define problems, and rapidly match them to advanced solutions without any software coding, knowledge of advanced AI, or machine learning. Anthony has more than 25 years' experience in technology, in a mix of corporate and startup roles that cover software engineering, sales and marketing. He was co-founder and VP Sales of DATAllegro, the data warehouse appliance vendor acquired by Microsoft for $260M in 2008. He subsequently ran Microsoft's Big Data team in EMEA for 5 years, showing triple digit growth each year. After a 3-year stint mentoring CEOs in California, he launched SWARM. He has a Creative Writing Diploma from the University of Oxford and has lectured on the use of narrative in business. His non-fiction book Questions: A User's Guide was published in October 2020, achieving Amazon bestseller status, and the research behind the book is being used to enhance the approach of the SWARM Challenge Modeler product. Connect with SWARM Website | LinkedIn Giveaway! Rate & Review the podcast and send proof to tyler@themodernacre.co. The first 5 entries will win Anthony's book Questions

Wir steuern auf das Sommerloch zu und dennoch gibt es viele spannende Themen, über die es sich zu berichten lohnt! Wir betrachten … 37signals' Cloud Exit[1] (und schwelgen in Erinnerungen wie das Deployment bei ImmobilienScout bereits vor über 10 Jahren funktioniert hat [2]), werfen einen Blick auf die technischen Entwicklungen im AI Umfeld [3] (Stichwort: GPT4 Architektur –> Mixture of experts) und philosophieren wohin die Reise gehen wird, ordnen den Hype rund um Mistral AI [4] (ein EUROPÄISCHER Player im AI Markt) ein und disktuieren den - in der Presse gefühlt unterrepresentierten - Hack von “MOVEit” [5] (der schon einige Tage her ist) und seine Folgen Viel Spaß beim Reinhören. Gebt uns gerne bei Twitter (@hmzePodcast) oder per E-Mail (webmaster@hmze.io) Feedback. Links [1] We have left the cloud [2] YADT - Yet another deployment tool [3] George Hotz - Latent Space Ep 18: Petaflops to the People [4] France's Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI [5] Hackers launch another wave of mass-hacks targeting company file transfer tools

Robby Kalland joins the show today and we dive deep into Days 2 and 3 of NBA Free Agency! 0:00 Intro 5:10 Damian Lillard asks for trade from Portland 23:25 What are the Houston Rockets doing? Sign Dillon Brooks to a 4-yr/80M deal; miss out on Brook Lopez; sign Jock Landale; trade TyTy Washington, Usman Garuba, KJ Martin, Josh Christopher? 50:23 Brook Lopez back with MIL on 2-yr, $48M deal 58:46 Austin Reaves re-signs with Lakers: 4-yr/54M 1:08:18 Max Strus gets to Cleveland; 4-yr, 63M; Cedi, Lamar Stevens, 2nd go to SAS, 2nd goes to Miami; Cavs sign Ty Jerome; Cavs trade for Damian Jones; 1:15:33 Extension Time! Domantas Sabonis signs 5-yr, $217M with SAC; $197M in new money; Also sign Sasha Vezenkov to 3-yr/22M deal 1:22:55 LaMelo Ball signs 5-yr, $260M extension with CHA; Also, Miles Bridges signs qualifying offer for $7.9M 1:32: 13 Tyrese Haliburton signs 5-yr, $207M extension with supermax language with IND; IND also trades for Obi Toppin 1:37:03 Desmond Bane signs 5-yr, $207M extension with MEM 1:40:18 Donte DiVincenzo signs 4/50M deal with NYK 1:44: 17 SPEED ROUND Jalen McDaniels to TOR for 2-yr, $9M deal; Dallas re-signs Dwight Powell; Nuggets sign Justin Holiday; Vasa Micic to OKC 1:52:00 SHOUT OUT RICKIE FOWLER Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane and AJ are extra silly today. Shane's in Mexico and AJ's in London! We've got lots of good stuff for you on today's show. Including but not limited to the office mandate people are getting desperate about, the founders of Bitwise misleading investors, salary transparency, and finally an IPO we're actually excited about. Founded by three friends with Greek roots, fast-casual Mediterranean restaurant chain Cava made its stunning public debut last week and investors are excited. Is this the end of the IPO ice age? We shall see. Links More Startups Throw in the Towel, Unable to Raise Money for Their Ideas France's Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI Founders of Collapsed Job-Training Startup Misled VCs, Investor Alleges Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase A Job With a Fair Salary? What Pay Transparency Laws Are Revealing. Crypto Gets Its Moment of Clarity, But Not the One It Wanted Cava's explosive IPO hints that public markets are more ready for growth stories than founders thought Thrift store chain Savers Value Village sets terms for $300 million IPO Welcome to White Castle. Would You Like Human Interaction With That?   Leave Us a Voicemail Want to know more about working with BrooklynFI, contact us here

That Sheel Mohnot, Founding Partner of BTV, is a natural storyteller and a good hang, you can just figure that out with his Twitter feed and his track record of creating one of the most popular startup podcasts. That he also happens to be one of the sharpest minds in FinTech investing which makes him an exceedingly interesting guest.This is a wide-ranging conversation that covers Sheel's early days, what he learned as a founder, and how he's grown as an investor. Enjoy!A word from our sponsor:The team at Ripple is always focused on helping our founders and portfolio companies find the best partners to work with within the tech and venture capital ecosystem. And that is why we are so excited to announce our partnership with the incredible team at Torys LLP. When it comes to legal support and advice, the team at Torys is the best in class. Torys is a storied Canadian law firm with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Halifax and New York City. Torys has been around since its founding in 1941.They have always worked closely with players across the emerging startup ecosystem in all aspects of the creation, acquisition and commercialization of businesses. They help founders determine when and how much to fundraise, how to achieve the right economic structure, how to think about board and control issues and how to successfully navigate different stages of growth. They are also advisors to VC funds, strategic investors, private equity funds and other institutional investors on fund formation and shareholder arrangements to buyouts and other exits.In fact, Torys recently acted as counsel to Maverix PE on the transformative $260M  Miovision Technologies growth funding with an advisory team that included Dany Assaf, Konata Lake and Max Schwartz-Labell on that investment.So whether you are negotiating a new business arrangement or developing a new service offering, Torys helps clients seize new opportunities and build creative, market-leading business models in this fast-paced world we live in every day space.Visit torys.com to learn more.About Sheel Mohnot:Sheel Mohnot is a founding partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures. Before BTV, Sheel was a Partner at 500 Startups, running the 500 FinTech Fund and the FinTech track within the San Francisco Accelerator program. His recent startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits – a payments company and a high-stakes auction company. He also created and hosted a podcast called The Pitch.He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and did Microfinance work at the non-profit Kiva. Sheel holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BS from Carnegie Mellon. In this episode we discuss:(02:58) Sheel's journey to becoming a FinTech investor(07:55) How did growing up in India and around the world help shape him(11:14) Sheel's time at Fee Fighters and why they sold to Groupon(13:33) What he learned at Groupon(16:31) How the Pitch Podcast came to be(18:58) Selling the podcast to Spotify(20:58) How Sheel started as an Angel investor(22:24) 500 FinTech as a stepping stone to becoming a VC(25:05) His first fundraising experience(28:30) Investing in BTV's first company before they had finished fundraising(30:18) How his investing journey has evolved(32:22) The importance of being a sounding board for founders(33:20) BTV's investing thesis(35:18) Who Sheel looks up to as investors(36:29) Why VC needs to be collaborative(37:28) The importance of partnership in the VC/Founder relationship(38:56) Concrete things early-stage founders should ask from their VCs(39:37) How power law informs all of VC and portfolio construction(43:14) Lessons from Sheel's anti-portfolio(44:59) His stay with Brian Chesky at Airbnb LAFast Favorites*

Hold onto your seats for another thrilling episode of the Liquidity Event Podcast! We've got a pandemic move update: founders and being clawed back to SF due to the AI boom. Then we've got fallen crypto industry titans in Bali and how optimizers are using Notion to plan their entire lives. Some CEOs claim employees are less productive at home but we say that's bad management. And finally, Japanese company Pixie Dust files for a very tiny IPO. Get ready to be entertained and informed on the Liquidity Event Podcast! Links Layoffs and AI Are Changing Tech's Once-Invincible Job Market Spotify Takes a Sharp Turn With Its $1 Billion Podcast Division Americans Are Leaving Portugal as Golden Visa Honeymoon Ends Their Crypto Company Collapsed. They Went to Bali. Teaser's AI dating app turns you into a chatbot This Little-Known Pandemic-Era Tax Credit Has Become a Magnet for Fraud American worker productivity is declining at the fastest rate in 75 years—and it could see CEOs go to war against WFH Meet the people who use Notion to plan their whole lives Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation by 41% since 2021 investment Amazon in talks to offer low-cost or free mobile service to Prime customers, report says PGA Tour agrees to merge with Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf IPO: Pixie Dust Technologies They Fled San Francisco. The A.I. Boom Pulled Them Back. Why Is Everyone Watching TV With the Subtitles On? Revenge Spending Helped Push Prices Higher. The Trend Is Turning. France's Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI Remote work taxation bill set for final votes ChatGPT passes CPA exam on V. 4.0 Flight of Affluent Taxpayers Catches Up With New York   Want to know more about working with BrooklynFI, contact us here

Big news this week with Matt and John, we cover Cohere raising $270M at a $2.1B valuation (02:24), Salesforce announcing their AI platform that may be vaporware (06:27), Shopify selling its delivery business (09:50), Nasdaq acquires Adenza for $10.5B (13:40), and TCV and Tiger missing their fund goals (15:43).A word from our sponsor:The team at Ripple is always focused on helping our founders and portfolio companies find the best partners to work with within the tech and venture capital ecosystem. And that is why we are so excited to announce our partnership with the incredible team at Torys LLP. When it comes to legal support and advice, the team at Torys is the best in class. Torys is a storied Canadian law firm with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Halifax and New York City. Torys has been around since its founding in 1941.They have always worked closely with players across the emerging startup ecosystem in all aspects of the creation, acquisition and commercialization of businesses. They help founders determine when and how much to fundraise, how to achieve the right economic structure, how to think about board and control issues and how to successfully navigate different stages of growth. They are also advisors to VC funds, strategic investors, private equity funds and other institutional investors on fund formation and shareholder arrangements to buyouts and other exits.In fact, Torys recently acted as counsel to Maverix PE on the transformative $260M  Miovision Technologies growth funding with an advisory team that included Dany Assaf, Konata Lake and Max Schwartz-Labell on that investment.So whether you are negotiating a new business arrangement or developing a new service offering, Torys helps clients seize new opportunities and build creative, market-leading business models in this fast-paced world we live in every day space.Visit torys.com to learn more.Follow Matt Cohen and Tank Talks here!Podcast production support provided by Agentbee.ai This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tanktalks.substack.com

Mistral AI secures $113 million seed funding to compete against OpenAI with a unique approach, while Hugging Face partners with AMD to optimize transformer performance. The Beatles announce a final record using John Lennon's voice via AI assist, raising concerns about the ethics of AI in music. We also dive into research papers exploring the efficiency of language models, the use of retrieval-enhanced models, and advanced techniques for next-gen language models. Contact:  sergi@earkind.com Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:39 France's Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI 03:34 Hugging Face and AMD partner on accelerating state-of-the-art models for CPU and GPU platforms 05:12 The Beatles will release a final record, using John Lennon's voice via an AI assist 06:27 Fake sponsor 07:58 Orca: Progressive Learning from Complex Explanation Traces of GPT-4 10:03 A Quantitative Review on Language Model Efficiency Research 11:47 Retrieval-Enhanced Contrastive Vision-Text Models 13:36 Outro

State Rep Cory McGarr talks about important things in the budget like more money for ESAs, giving $260M back to taxpayers; the border, Kari Lake's lawsuit and more.

Mike Ginnitti details the 5 year, $260M contract for Lamar Jackson, including guarantee structure, potential out scenarios, & plenty more. Plus, a MLB Payroll vs. Win Percentage update, and an MLB Luxury Tax snapshot breakdown.

We start episode 141 with Faheem & Nelly J discussing the interaction between Giannis Antetokounmpo and a reporter during the postgame press conference following Milwaukee Bucks first round exit. In our FOR THE CULTURE segment we highlight Lamar Jackson (Baltimore Ravens QB) for his recent 5 year/ $260M contract making him the NFL's highest paid player ever - without using an agent. We conclude episode 141 with THATS ABSURD where we discuss Phil Jackson claims he hasn't watched NBA basketball after the use of BLM slogans during the 2020 Bubble Season. Please comment and share your thoughts, thanks for taking the time to watch or listen to the episode GOOD ROOKIES. DO GOOD and BE GOOD. Do you have a great topic suggestion? Please email us goodrookiespodcast@gmail.com Get alerts when we drop new episodes by subscribing and turning on your alerts. :)

Charles Robinson, Charles McDonald and Jori Epstein kick off the show by discussing Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson signing a record-breaking 5 year, $260M contract. Although the process was long and contentious, the Ravens and Jackson finally come to an agreement they can both be happy about. The group attempt to set expectations for the Ravens heading into 2023, as they must now attempt to build a better offense around their franchise quarterback.Next, the trio react to and give their key takeaways from the 2023 NFL Draft. Each host gives their favorite and least favorite draft classes and Charles Robinson discusses why Philadelphia Eagles GM Howie Roseman has received so much praise over the course of the draft. The group also discuss how the members of the All-Juice Team fared on draft day and which quarterback-team fits they like best.1:50 - Lamar Jackson signs a record-breaking contract with the Ravens. This deal was able to come together after the Jalen Hurts contract gave both parties a realistic reference point. Expectations should be set high for the Ravens this season as they surround Jackson with the most offensive talent he's ever had.20:05 - Least favorite draft classes: Detroit Lions and Atlanta Falcons. Both teams reached for non-premium positions while failing to address the larger problems affecting the roster.28:00 - Charles Robinson loved the Eagles draft and gives GM Howie Roseman his due credit for always staying one step ahead when building his roster.40:10 - Favorite draft classes: Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks and New York Jets. All three teams looked like they had a plan going in and executed it perfectly.49:50 - How did the All-Juice Team fare in the draft? WR Zay Flowers, OL O'Cyrus Torrance and DL Mazi Smith were among the favorite player-team fits.55:50 - Favorite quarterback-team fits: Jori is most excited about Bryce Young to the Carolina Panthers, while Charles McDonald can't wait to see CJ Stroud as a Houston Texan. Charles Robinson is concerned about Will Levis' fit with the Tennessee Titans. Either way, the AFC South just got interesting.Please support Terez Paylor's legacy:• Buy an All-Juice Team hoodie or tee from BreakingT.com/Terez. All profits directly fund the Terez A. Paylor scholarship at Howard University.• Donate directly at giving.howard.edu/givenow. Under “Tribute,” please note that your gift is made in memory of Terez A. Paylor. Under “Designation,” click on “Other” and write in “Terez A. Paylor Scholarship.”• Donate directly to the PowerMizzou Journalism Alumni Scholarship in memory of Terez PaylorSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fool #1 is in for your favorite play cousin.  $260M for Lamar Jackson in Baltimore.  DAMN!!!  Jalen Hurts will stay with Philly.  Did you see the NFL Draft?  Steve saw something!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My quick thoughts on Lamar Jackson mega deal with the Baltimore Ravens 

Hosts Michael Lombardi and Femi Abebefe recap Day 1 of the NFL Draft, including winners and losers from Thursday night. Plus, the guys break down Lamar Jackson's five-year, $260 million extension with the Ravens. Femi and Michael also look ahead to Day 2-3 of the draft and go over the best players available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reese, Kmac and Pam discuss yesterday's Lamar Jackson signing news. Yesterday, Lamar Jackson made an agreement with the Baltimore Ravens on a 5-year deal for $260M, with $185 guaranteed. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts became the highest-paid player just a couple of weeks ago and this deal pushes Jackson to the top making him the highest-paid player in the league. Jackson was able to get this deal done without an agent. Is Jackson's contract fair for both Jackson and the Ravens? What are the best and worse quarterback contracts in the NFL?  Also, Ian Parks joins the show with Always Bet on Black.   

Less than 24 hours after Baltimore cut the check on a record-setting 5-year deal worth $260M for Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, CBS Sports Senior NFL Insider Josina Anderson reflects on the breaking news and discusses how it all went down. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coach Heupel talks Hendon Hooker and the possibility of being a legitimate NFL QB and how Cedric Tillman has handled the draft process and the impact he'll have on the team who drafts him. Plus, ESPN fires MLB reporter Marly Rivera for dropping C-Bomb on fellow reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1:12 - Not My Beat: Nicki Jhabvala on Lamar Jackson's new contract + NFL Draft preview 15:23 - More reaction to Lamar Jackson agreeing to an extension with the Ravens 26:18 - Guest: Scott Jackson with a Commanders NFL Draft preview 40:16 - Craig has himself a ‘slow' moment

1:12 - NFL Draft Day: Broad Thoughts 9:54 - Who are your Top 5 cornerbacks in this year's draft? 22:34 - Who are your Top 5 offensive linemen and top 5 other players to draft? 36:52 - Breaking News: Lamar Jackson agrees to 5-yr, $260M deal with Ravens

On this week's show, I don't have a live guest. I have been away, and unfortunately, a few of the guests have not been able to record their own yet.So, instead, I'm bringing back one of the most listened to and interesting episodes I've ever recorded, and that's with James Caan CBE. Most people know James Caan from his time on Dragons' Den. What most people don't know is that James made his money from the recruitment sector.James launched his own business, Alexander Mann Solutions, and is now the founder of Recruitment Entrepreneur, helping recruiters startup and scale up recruitment organisations all over the world. James is a celebrity, and in this episode that I recorded at the beginning of 2021, we got right into James's story and advice for anyone else growing, starting, launching, and becoming a successful recruitment owner.We covered:

Brian C. Adams is the President and Founder of Excelsior Capital, Based out of Nashville TN. Excelsior is a private equity firm that has acquired over 65 Total Projects worth over $450M in Acquisition ValueShow Highlights:Business OverviewSyndication Model versus Fund Model Type of assets they focus on. How his leadership team is structuredMarkets they focus on and why. 260M in AUMManagement StrategyJourneyHis BackgroundWife's family officeHow he found his business partnerFund business and winding that downSimple, Ugly deals. Avoiding institutional investors. Staying intentionally lean and efficient. Case Study - Fort Myers Flex Industrial AssetAsset OverviewSourcing the dealAcquisition PriceDebt and Equity StructureBusiness planCurrent StatusConnect with our Guest:https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-c-adams/WATCH THE SHOW ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLeadSponsorSUPPORT OUR SPONSORS:Canovo Capital - Hassle-Free Commercial Real Estate InvestingDealCheck.io - Analyze Any Investment Property in Seconds ( Use "CANOVO25" for 25% off)SyndicationPro - Investor Portal - Raise More Capital in Less Time FREE RESOURCES:Download Our Passive Investor Guide to Multifamily Syndications CONNECT WITH US!YouTube | Linkedin | Instagram | Website | Facebook | Twitter LOVE THE SHOW? Please subscribe, rate, review and share! Thank you!

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Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they're available. Stories we discuss in this episode (with links): Tesla expands ‘high-volume' hiring in Quebec amid rumors of a factory The sounds of a Tesla: A guide to sounds your electric car makes Tesla is rumored to be looking to invest in Mexico Magna will invest $500 million to expand EV facilities and bring over 1,500 new jobs to Michigan Lotus unveils Eletre all-electric hyper-SUV starting around $95K that goes 0-60 in under 3 seconds Bosch dives deeper into the EV industry with +$260M electric motor expansion Hyundai grew EV sales by 27% in Q3, but foreign automaker demand drop ‘seems inevitable' in US https://youtu.be/_Lxu8cNCV_U var postYoutubePlayer;function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() { postYoutubePlayer = new YT.Player( "post-youtube-video" ); } Subscribe to the Electrek Daily Channel on Youtube so you never miss a day of news Follow Mikey: Twitter @Mikey_Electric Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify TuneIn Share your thoughts! Drop us a line at tips@electrek.co. You can also rate us in Apple Podcasts or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show!

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here. Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to another episode of our Daily Fintech Podcast. THE NEWS HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY IS Klarna is reportedly close to inking a new round of funding that would slash its valuation to $6.5 billion — about 1/7 of what the company was valued in June of 2021. When it raised $639 million in a round led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 last year it was valued at a $45.6 billion. JUST IN: Deel has partnered with the United Arab Emirates government to speed up the visa process for foreign workers as the country aims to attract international talent. ALSO: The U.S. federal government is working on stablecoin legislation with Congress that could become law by the end of the year, an administration official told CoinDesk. WHAT ABOUT FUNDING ROUNDS AND INVESTMENTS? Antler closed three pre-seed investments of €100,000 each as part of its Dutch portfolio expansion. WEVESTR raised €2.2M in a fresh round of funding. Mottu raised $30 million in equity in a Series B round of funding. OppZo announced over $260M in debt and equity funding Mapan - PT Ruma closed a successful Series A round of US$15 million. Vibrant.io raised €4 million in a seed round. Stake closed a $12m Series A financing round. WHAT'S THE LATEST ON VENTURE FUNDS? MassMutual Ventures announced that its U.S.- based team has launched a new fund to continue investing in early and growth-stage companies OP Crypto is raising $100 million for its new investment, dubbed “Fund of Funds”, to deploy capital into emerging fund managers focused on early-stage crypto investments. WHAT ABOUT CRYPTO? Prominent crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Pte Ltd has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670 million.

#TheFreightCoach Morning Show is The TOP Transportation Morning Show is LIVE every weekday at 10:30 AM CST to breakdown THREE transportation industry headlines! Mark your calendars! https://www.geekwire.com/2022/convoy-which-just-raised-260m-lays-off-7-of-workforce-in-latest-tech-startup-cuts/ https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-revising-guidance-on-truck-brokers-and-agents https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-everyone-is-freaking-out-about-targets-inventory Check out my YouTube Channel for further industry insights!  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjrL70IEnCfDkNaiYMar3jw Make sure to subscribe and share! Thank you to my sponsor: https://www.vhubapp.com/ They are the new wave for freight brokers and freight brokerages to separate themselves from the competition! To learn how to Maximize your carrier network, Drive more carrier sales and get better load coverage with seamless onboarding, TMS integration, and smart load coverage, visit: https://brokercarrier.com/

Volta Trucks — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build better urban delivery vehicles and other trucks that are safer and take up a smaller carbon footprint than their gas-guzzling, more clumsy, existing counterparts.

Inspirato (ISPO) completed a SPAC merger with Thayer Ventures. The deal has an estimated value of $1.18B and Inspirato expects to receive approximately $260M is cash. Inspirato is a luxury travel subscription business using multi-million dollar homes and cruise ships. They have over 13,800 subscribers in their two programs, one program being $600 per month and the other is $2,500 per month.

Lowell Ricklefs is a 30-year veteran in the SaaS and M&A space. He is currently co-founder & CEO of Traction Advising, a company that helps B2B SaaS companies get acquired. Before starting his firm, Lowell was the COO of a publicly traded company he helped bring to a $260M exit. We cover a lot of ground on today’s show around why buyers want to purchase a business and the real reasons why sellers want to exit. With decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions, Lowell gives his thoughts on business owners tying their identity to the business and the impact that has on everything else, from your family to your health. He has seen this many times — as a buyer as well as an investment banker — and when it comes time to sell, these kinds of owners have a really hard time letting go . . . even after saying, for years, that they want out. We get into the weeds about why it’s so important to understand what you want from the business, emotionally and financially, and the potential challenges you’ll face if you aren’t clear on your intention. If you’re ready to run a better business, this episode is for you! What You Will Learn The drivers behind financial buyers vs strategic buyers Why strategic buyers will buy a company to avoid losing out on a competitive advantage rather than the benefits the new company will provide Why playing “the emotional game” will place your business in the right hands when selling Why Lowell believes selling a business is no different than a product or service Why certainty and alleviating risk (that the buyer identifies) before the deal is final will suppress the “ripple effect.” How the owners identity impacts what they want long term for the company Why it’s important to understand what you “what you want to leave behind” when it comes to an exit Why Lowell moved to SaaS startups after being in the corporate world for years How a consulting company can create automated platforms to solve a problem in their business and sell it to similar companies with the same problem Why no attorney should solely do a deal and who they need on their deal to get the deal done right // USE YOUR FINANCIALS TO CLARIFY A PATH TOWARDS A MORE VALUABLE BUSINESS: Intentional Growth Financial Assessment Bio: Lowell is the CEO & Founder of Traction Advising which specializes in helping B2B SaaS companies with >$5M ARR get acquired. Lowell’s been a Co-founder/CEO/Chairman, COO of a $120M public company, Startup CRO and Global VP Rockwell. He’s a Global Mentor, Investor, Board member and CEO coach. With company buying/selling experience of more than 30 organizations, he knows what internal stakeholders need to approve a transaction. As a founder/CEO he knows what it’s like to start up a company, build a product, hire employees, raise money, find customers, keep them happy and make payroll. He leverages this experience to craft acquisitions that get the best outcome for the founders/investors structured to maximize success. Quotes: 09:21 - “Ultimately the company is worth what somebody is willing to pay for it. And that can be wildly different, and they can pay for it in different way.” - Lowell Ricklefs 22:53 - “The goal is to have multiple options because it drives competition and drives the price up.” - Lowell Ricklefs 28:00 - “I find some people don’t realize how much of the business has become an extensi

Lowell Ricklefs is a 30-year veteran in the SaaS and M&A space. He is currently co-founder & CEO of Traction Advising, a company that helps B2B SaaS companies get acquired. Before starting his firm, Lowell was the COO of a publicly traded company he helped bring to a $260M exit. We cover a lot of ground on today’s show around why buyers want to purchase a business and the real reasons why sellers want to exit. With decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions, Lowell gives his thoughts on business owners tying their identity to the business and the impact that has on everything else, from your family to your health. He has seen this many times — as a buyer as well as an investment banker — and when it comes time to sell, these kinds of owners have a really hard time letting go . . . even after saying, for years, that they want out. We get into the weeds about why it’s so important to understand what you want from the business, emotionally and financially, and the potential challenges you’ll face if you aren’t clear on your intention. If you’re ready to run a better business, this episode is for you! What You Will Learn The drivers behind financial buyers vs strategic buyers Why strategic buyers will buy a company to avoid losing out on a competitive advantage rather than the benefits the new company will provide Why playing “the emotional game” will place your business in the right hands when selling Why Lowell believes selling a business is no different than a product or service Why certainty and alleviating risk (that the buyer identifies) before the deal is final will suppress the “ripple effect.” How the owners identity impacts what they want long term for the company Why it’s important to understand what you “what you want to leave behind” when it comes to an exit Why Lowell moved to SaaS startups after being in the corporate world for years How a consulting company can create automated platforms to solve a problem in their business and sell it to similar companies with the same problem Why no attorney should solely do a deal and who they need on their deal to get the deal done right Bio: Lowell is the CEO & Founder of Traction Advising which specializes in helping B2B SaaS companies with >$5M ARR get acquired. Lowell’s been a Co-founder/CEO/Chairman, COO of a $120M public company, Startup CRO and Global VP Rockwell. He’s a Global Mentor, Investor, Board member and CEO coach. With company buying/selling experience of more than 30 organizations, he knows what internal stakeholders need to approve a transaction. As a founder/CEO he knows what it’s like to start up a company, build a product, hire employees, raise money, find customers, keep them happy and make payroll. He leverages this experience to craft acquisitions that get the best outcome for the founders/investors structured to maximize success. Quotes: 09:21 - “Ultimately the company is worth what somebody is willing to pay for it. And that can be wildly different, and they can pay for it in different way.” - Lowell Ricklefs 22:53 - “The goal is to have multiple options because it drives competition and drives the price up.” - Lowell Ricklefs 28:00 - “I find some people don’t realize how much of the business has become an extension of themselves as a human being.” - Lowell Ricklefs 30:35 - “It’s easy to lose perspective when you’re in the middle of a deal, when the emotions and the

Ralf Wenzel is the Founder & CEO @ JOKR, a global platform for instant retail delivery at a hyper-local scale serving both the US and LATAM. Ralf has raised over $260M for the company, most recently valuing it at $1.2BN. Prior to JOKR, Ralf spent 7 years as the Founder & CEO @ foodpanda, as well as, enjoying roles as Chief Strategy Officer @ Delivery Hero, Interim Chief Product and Experience Officer @ WeWork and even moving to the other side of the table as a Managing Partner with Softbank. In Today's Episode with Ralf Wenzel You Will Learn: 1.) What is the unit economic breakdown for quick commerce business models? What levers can be used to improve it over time? 2.) Comparing the US to LATAM: What is the AOV (average order value) in the US vs LATAM? What is the order frequency in the US vs LATAM? How does labour cost vary when comparing LATAM to the US? How does real estate cost for fulfilment centres differ when comparing LATAM to the US? How do product margins on a per product basis differ when comparing US to LATAM? 3.) New Market Growth and Maturation: What is the payback period for new markets? How has this changed over time? How does the payback period reduce with every new market being opened? What % of AOV is spent on marketing when a new market is opened? How does this marketing spend change over time? In mature markets, how much new customer acquisition is organic vs paid? What is the average weekly growth rate in new vs mature markets? 4.) Business Model Expansions: How does Ralf and JOKR approach the potential for private label goods? How does private label change the margin structure of the goods? What have been their lessons from starting their first private label goods? How does Ralf approach the ability to integrate advertising and paid search? What is needed for paid search and advertising to be a meaningful part of the business?

On this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with the CEO of one of the largest and fastest growing insurance agencies in the United States. That man is Ricky Spiro, and he is the CEO of the Hilb Group.For 2021, Insurance Journal lists the Hilb Group at #13 on the list of largest insurance agencies in the US with more than $260M in P&C revenue. As of July, they've completed more than 100 acquisitions and they have more than 100 offices, with more than 1500 employees, in 21 states. Ricky and I discussed:· What is Hilb's company culture like?· What's an ideal agency for Hilb Group?· Advice for a brand new employee at Hilb· What's the future for the Hilb Group?· What could disrupt the insurance world?

Ep #110 - This week on the podcast, I'm joined by Lowell Ricklefs, the founder and managing partner of Traction Advising, a premier boutique M&A firm focusing on B2B SAAS companies between $5M and $20M ARR. Lowell has orchestrated acquisitions of over 30 technology companies, and specializes in helping founders find the right acquirer while negotiating the best deal. Lowell twice built the leading company in the insights data collection industry: at GMI (sold to WPP for $100M) and Toluna (sold to a private equity firm for $260M). He later co-founded FlexMinder (Healthcare IT sold to JellyVision). He was involved in over 12 acquisitions from the buy side. He knows how and why buyers buy, is an expert on selling small technology companies, and is able to negotiate better deals with a higher likelihood of closing. Lowell is hands on with every transaction from start to finish. Learn More About Lowell Ricklefs and Traction Advising: Visit the Traction Advising website: https://www.tractionadvising.com/ Follow Lowell Ricklefs on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lowellricklefs/ Also, please remember to subscribe, rate, and leave a written review for the show if you find value in it. Your reviews help this show to reach a wider audience and I appreciate everyone that has been leaving them. FOLLOW CHARLES GAUDET ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Follow Charles Gaudet on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/charlesgaudet Follow Charles Gaudet on Facebook: https://facebook.com/charlesgaudet Follow Charles Gaudet on Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlesgaudet   VISIT THE PREDICTABLE PROFITS WEBSITE: https://PredictableProfits.com

With E-commerce Booming and accounting for 27% of all consumer purchases, the last mile sector has become a particularly attractive part of the logistics supply chain for many entrepreneurs. Aligning yourself with the logistical leaders in this space can be a smart way to strategically sustain and quickly grow a transportation business. With good execution, you are able to implement already proven systems, have access to large networks and also maintain a consistent customer. That said, one of these Mega Carriers, Fed Ex Ground, have always uniquely offered the opportunity to buy your way in, Unlike some of its competitors. FedEx Ground is made up of 5,600 independent contractors all who “Own” the Fed Ex Ground routes or (zip code) deliveries Collectively, these entrepreneurs make up an entire network of last mile solutions providers (CSP's) all operating under FedEx's DOT authority. This provides a opportunity for entrepreneurs to basically purchase a “turn key” transportation business. Spencer Patton, Founder and President of Route Consultant, purchased his first FedEx Ground operation at age 26 in 2013 (10 Routes) online and now oversees 225 employees and 275 fleet of vehicles on the road making him “The Largest FedEx Contractor in the US. His company, Route Consultant, offers 26 services with in the vertical from the buying and selling of FedEx Ground and Amazon routes to financing, safety and maintenance your equipment. The company brokers about 50% of all FedEx routes accounting for roughly $260M in sales annually. Spencer's tenacity, business acumen and finance background is unique. With No transportation knowledge to start 8 years ago, Spencer has been able to leverage his skills to build and impressive vertically integrated operation and also carve out his own lane by adding value In this last mile solution space. For more check out www.routeconsultant.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1. Prices Continue To Rise: CPI 2. July Budget Deficit Hits $302B 3. Senate Dems Advance $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan 4. Southwest Airlines: Delta Variant Hurting Biz 5. 3 Major Airlines Won't Require Vaccine

1. Prices Continue To Rise: CPI 2. July Budget Deficit Hits $302B 3. Senate Dems Advance $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan 4. Southwest Airlines: Delta Variant Hurting Biz 5. 3 Major Airlines Won't Require Vaccine

[While Bob & Cheryl Enyart go fishing we invite you to enjoy from the RSR archives our favorite List of Not So Old Things! Photos from today, June 25, 2021.] -- Finches Diversify in Decades, Opals Form in Months,  Man's Genetic Diversity in 200 Generations, C-14 Everywhere: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams present their classic program that led to the audience-favorites rsr.org/list-shows! See below and hear on today's radio program our list of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things! From opals forming in months to man's genetic diversity in 200 generations, and with carbon 14 everywhere it's not supposed to be (including in diamonds and dinosaur bones!), scientific observations fill the guys' most traditional list challenging those who claim that the earth is billions of years old. Many of these scientific finds demand a re-evaluation of supposed million and billion-year ages. * Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: Charles Darwin's finches are claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. Hear about this also at rsr.org/spetner. * Opals Can Form in "A Few Months" And Don't Need 100,000 Years: A leading authority on opals, Allan W. Eckert, observed that, "scientific papers and textbooks have told that the process of opal formation requires tens of thousands of years, perhaps hundreds of thousands... Not true." A 2011 peer-reviewed paper in a geology journal from Australia, where almost all the world's opal is found, reported on the: "new timetable for opal formation involving weeks to a few months and not the hundreds of thousands of years envisaged by the conventional weathering model." (And apparently, per a 2019 report from Entomology Today, opals can even form around insects!) More knowledgeable scientists resist the uncritical, group-think insistence on false super-slow formation rates (as also for manganese nodules, gold veins, stone, petroleum, canyons and gullies, and even guts, all below). Regarding opals, Darwinian bias led geologists to long ignore possible quick action, as from microbes, as a possible explanation for these mineraloids. For both in nature and in the lab, opals form rapidly, not even in 10,000 years, but in weeks. See this also from creationists by a geologist, a paleobiochemist, and a nuclear chemist. * Finches Speciate in Two Generations vs Two Million Years for Darwin's Birds?  Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are said to have diversified into 14 species over a period of two million years. But in 2017 the journal Science reported a newcomer to the Island which within two generations spawned a reproductively isolated new species. In another instance as documented by Lee Spetner, a hundred birds of the same finch species introduced to an island cluster a 1,000 kilometers from Galapagos diversified into species with the typical variations in beak sizes, etc. "If this diversification occurred in less than seventeen years," Dr. Spetner asks, "why did Darwin's Galapagos finches [as claimed by evolutionists] have to take two million years?" * Blue Eyes Originated Not So Long Ago: Not a million years ago, nor a hundred thousand years ago, but based on a peer-reviewed paper in Human Genetics, a press release at Science Daily reports that, "research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today." * Adding the Entire Universe to our List of Not So Old Things? Based on March 2019 findings from Hubble, Nobel laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and his co-authors in the Astrophysical Journal estimate that the universe is about a billion years younger than previously thought! Then in September 2019 in the journal Science, the age dropped precipitiously to as low as 11.4 billion years! Of course, these measurements also further squeeze the canonical story of the big bang chronology with its many already existing problems including the insufficient time to "evolve" distant mature galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters, enormous black holes, filaments, bubbles, walls, and other superstructures. So, even though the latest estimates are still absurdly too old (Google: big bang predictions, and click on the #1 ranked article, or just go on over there to rsr.org/bb), regardless, we thought we'd plop the whole universe down on our List of Not So Old Things!   * After the Soft Tissue Discoveries, NOW Dino DNA: When a North Carolina State University paleontologist took the Tyrannosaurus Rex photos to the right of original biological material, that led to the 2016 discovery of dinosaur DNA, So far researchers have also recovered dinosaur blood vessels, collagen, osteocytes, hemoglobin, red blood cells, and various proteins. As of May 2018, twenty-six scientific journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, PLoS One, Bone, and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, have confirmed the discovery of biomaterial fossils from many dinosaurs! Organisms including T. Rex, hadrosaur, titanosaur, triceratops, Lufengosaur, mosasaur, and Archaeopteryx, and many others dated, allegedly, even hundreds of millions of years old, have yielded their endogenous, still-soft biological material. See the web's most complete listing of 100+ journal papers (screenshot, left) announcing these discoveries at bflist.rsr.org and see it in layman's terms at rsr.org/soft. * Rapid Stalactites, Stalagmites, Etc.: A construction worker in 1954 left a lemonade bottle in one of Australia's famous Jenolan Caves. By 2011 it had been naturally transformed into a stalagmite (below, right). Increasing scientific knowledge is arguing for rapid cave formation (see below, Nat'l Park Service shrinks Carlsbad Caverns formation estimates from 260M years, to 10M, to 2M, to it "depends"). Likewise, examples are growing of rapid formations with typical chemical make-up (see bottle, left) of classic stalactites and stalagmites including:- in Nat'l Geo the Carlsbad Caverns stalagmite that rapidly covered a bat - the tunnel stalagmites at Tennessee's Raccoon Mountain - hundreds of stalactites beneath the Lincoln Memorial - those near Gladfelter Hall at Philadelphia's Temple University (send photos to Bob@rsr.org) - hundreds of stalactites at Australia's zinc mine at Mt. Isa.   - and those beneath Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. * Most Human Mutations Arose in 200 Generations: From Adam until Real Science Radio, in only 200 generations! The journal Nature reports The Recent Origin of Most Human Protein-coding Variants. As summarized by geneticist co-author Joshua Akey, "Most of the mutations that we found arose in the last 200 generations or so" (the same number previously published by biblical creationists). Another 2012 paper, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Eugenie Scott's own field) on High mitochondrial mutation rates, shows that one mitochondrial DNA mutation occurs every other generation, which, as creationists point out, indicates that mtEve would have lived about 200 generations ago. That's not so old! * National Geographic's Not-So-Old Hard-Rock Canyon at Mount St. Helens: As our List of Not So Old Things (this web page) reveals, by a kneejerk reaction evolutionary scientists assign ages of tens or hundreds of thousands of years (or at least just long enough to contradict Moses' chronology in Genesis.) However, with closer study, routinely, more and more old ages get revised downward to fit the world's growing scientific knowledge. So the trend is not that more information lengthens ages, but rather, as data replaces guesswork, ages tend to shrink until they are consistent with the young-earth biblical timeframe. Consistent with this observation, the May 2000 issue of National Geographic quotes the U.S. Forest Service's scientist at Mount St. Helens, Peter Frenzen, describing the canyon on the north side of the volcano. "You'd expect a hard-rock canyon to be thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years old. But this was cut in less than a decade." And as for the volcano itself, while again, the kneejerk reaction of old-earthers would be to claim that most geologic features are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, the atheistic National Geographic magazine acknowledges from the evidence that Mount St. Helens, the volcanic mount, is only about 4,000 years old! See below and more at rsr.org/mount-st-helens. * Mount St. Helens Dome Ten Years Old not 1.7 Million: Geochron Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass., using potassium-argon and other radiometric techniques claims the rock sample they dated, from the volcano's dome, solidified somewhere between 340,000 and 2.8 million years ago. However photographic evidence and historical reports document the dome's formation during the 1980s, just ten years prior to the samples being collected. With the age of this rock known, radiometric dating therefore gets the age 99.99999% wrong. * Devils Hole Pupfish Isolated Not for 13,000 Years But for 100: Secular scientists default to knee-jerk, older-than-Bible-age dates. However, a tiny Mojave desert fish is having none of it. Rather than having been genetically isolated from other fish for 13,000 years (which would make this small school of fish older than the Earth itself), according to a paper in the journal Nature, actual measurements of mutation rates indicate that the genetic diversity of these Pupfish could have been generated in about 100 years, give or take a few. * Polystrates like Spines and Rare Schools of Fossilized Jellyfish: Previously, seven sedimentary layers in Wisconsin had been described as taking a million years to form. And because jellyfish have no skeleton, as Charles Darwin pointed out, it is rare to find them among fossils. But now, reported in the journal Geology, a school of jellyfish fossils have been found throughout those same seven layers. So, polystrate fossils that condense the time of strata deposition from eons to hours or months, include: - Jellyfish in central Wisconsin were not deposited and fossilized over a million years but during a single event quick enough to trap a whole school. (This fossil school, therefore, taken as a unit forms a polystrate fossil.) Examples are everywhere that falsify the claims of strata deposition over millions of years. - Countless trilobites buried in astounding three dimensionality around the world are meticulously recovered from limestone, much of which is claimed to have been deposited very slowly. Contrariwise, because these specimens were buried rapidly in quickly laid down sediments, they show no evidence of greater erosion on their upper parts as compared to their lower parts.- The delicacy of radiating spine polystrates, like tadpole and jellyfish fossils, especially clearly demonstrate the rapidity of such strata deposition. - A second school of jellyfish, even though they rarely fossilized, exists in another locale with jellyfish fossils in multiple layers, in Australia's Brockman Iron Formation, constraining there too the rate of strata deposition. By the way, jellyfish are an example of evolution's big squeeze. Like galaxies evolving too quickly, galaxy clusters, and even human feet (which, like Mummy DNA, challenge the Out of Africa paradigm), jellyfish have gotten into the act squeezing evolution's timeline, here by 200 million years when they were found in strata allegedly a half-a-billion years old. Other examples, ironically referred to as Medusoid Problematica, are even found in pre-Cambrian strata. - 171 tadpoles of the same species buried in diatoms. - Leaves buried vertically through single-celled diatoms powerfully refute the claimed super-slow deposition of diatomaceous rock. - Many fossils, including a Mesosaur, have been buried in multiple "varve" layers, which are claimed to be annual depositions, yet they show no erosional patterns that would indicate gradual burial (as they claim, absurdly, over even thousands of years). - A single whale skeleton preserved in California in dozens of layers of diatom deposits thus forming a polystrate fossil. - 40 whales buried in the desert in Chile. "What's really interesting is that this didn't just happen once," said Smithsonian evolutionist Dr. Nick Pyenson. It happened four times." Why's that? Because "the fossil site has at least four layers", to which Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart replies: "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha", with RSR co-host Fred Williams thoughtfully adding, "Ha ha!" * Polystrate Trees: Examples abound around the world of polystrate trees:  - Yellowstone's petrified polystrate forest (with the NPS exhibit sign removed; see below) with successive layers of rootless trees demonstrating the rapid deposition of fifty layers of strata. - A similarly formed polystrate fossil forest in France demonstrating the rapid deposition of a dozen strata. - In a thousand locations including famously the Fossil Cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, polystrate fossils such as trees span many strata. - These trees lack erosion: Not only should such fossils, generally speaking, not even exist, but polystrates including trees typically show no evidence of erosion increasing with height. All of this powerfully disproves the claim that the layers were deposited slowly over thousands or millions of years. In the experience of your RSR radio hosts, evolutionists commonly respond to this hard evidence with mocking. See CRSQ June 2006, ICR Impact #316, and RSR 8-11-06 at KGOV.com. * Yellowstone Petrified Trees Sign Removed: The National Park Service removed their incorrect sign (see left and more). The NPS had claimed that in dozens of different strata over a 40-square mile area, many petrified trees were still standing where they had grown. The NPS eventually removed the sign partly because those petrified trees had no root systems, which they would have had if they had grown there. Instead, the trees of this "fossil forest" have roots that are abruptly broken off two or three feet from their trunks. If these mature trees actually had been remnants of sequential forests that had grown up in strata layer on top of strata layer, 27 times on Specimen Ridge (and 50 times at Specimen Creek), such a natural history implies passage of more time than permitted by biblical chronology. So, don't trust the National Park Service on historical science because they're wrong on the age of the Earth. * Wood Petrifies Quickly: Not surprisingly, by the common evolutionary knee-jerk claim of deep time, "several researchers believe that several millions of years are necessary for the complete formation of silicified wood". Our List of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things includes the work of five Japanese scientists who proved creationist research and published their results in the peer-reviewed journal Sedimentary Geology showing that wood can and does petrify rapidly. Modern wood significantly petrified in 36 years these researchers concluded that wood buried in strata could have been petrified in "a fairly short period of time, in the order of several tens to hundreds of years." * The Scablands: The primary surface features of the Scablands, which cover thousands of square miles of eastern Washington, were long believed to have formed gradually. Yet, against the determined claims of uniformitarian geologists, there is now overwhelming evidence as presented even in a NOVA TV program that the primary features of the Scablands formed rapidly from a catastrophic breach of Lake Missoula causing a massive regional flood. Of course evolutionary geologists still argue that the landscape was formed over tens of thousands of years, now by claiming there must have been a hundred Missoula floods. However, the evidence that there was Only One Lake Missoula Flood has been powerfully reinforced by a University of Colorado Ph.D. thesis. So the Scablands itself is no longer available to old-earthers as de facto evidence for the passage of millions of years. * The Heart Mountain Detachment: in Wyoming just east of Yellowstone, this mountain did not break apart slowly by uniformitarian processes but in only about half-an-hour as widely reported including in the evolutionist LiveScience.com, "Land Speed Record: Mountain Moves 62 Miles in 30 Minutes." The evidence indicates that this mountain of rock covering 425 square miles rapidly broke into 50 pieces and slid apart over an area of more than 1,300 square miles in a biblical, not a "geological," timeframe.  * "150 Million" year-old Squid Ink Not Decomposed: This still-writable ink had dehydrated but had not decomposed! The British Geological Survey's Dr. Phil Wilby, who excavated the fossil, said, "It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft and sloppy as an ink sac fossilised in three dimensions, still black, and inside a rock that is 150 million years old." And the Daily Mail states that, "the black ink was of exactly the same structure as that of today's version", just desiccated. And Wilby added, "Normally you would find only the hard parts like the shell and bones fossilised but... these creatures... can be dissected as if they are living animals, you can see the muscle fibres and cells. It is difficult to imagine... The structure is similar to ink from a modern squid so we can write with it..." Why is this difficult for evolutionists to imagine? Because as Dr. Carl Wieland writes, "Chemical structures 'fall apart' all by themselves over time due to the randomizing effects of molecular motion." Decades ago Bob Enyart broadcast a geology program about Mount St. Helens' catastrophic destruction of forests and the hydraulic transportation and upright deposition of trees. Later, Bob met the chief ranger from Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui, Mark Tanaka-Sanders. The ranger agreed to correspond with his colleague at Yellowstone to urge him to have the sign removed. Thankfully, it was then removed. (See also AIG, CMI, and all the original Yellowstone exhibit photos.) Groundbreaking research conducted by creation geologist Dr. Steve Austin in Spirit Lake after Mount St. Helens eruption provided a modern-day analog to the formation of Yellowstone fossil forest. A steam blast from that volcano blew over tens of thousands of trees leaving them without attached roots. Many thousands of those trees were floating upright in Spirit Lake, and began sinking at varying rates into rapidly and sporadically deposited sediments. Once Yellowstone's successive forest interpretation was falsified (though like with junk DNA, it's too big to fail, so many atheists and others still cling to it), the erroneous sign was removed. * Asiatic vs. European Honeybees: These two populations of bees have been separated supposedly for seven million years. A researcher decided to put the two together to see what would happen. What we should have here is a failure to communicate that would have resulted after their "language" evolved over millions of years. However, European and Asiatic honeybees are still able to communicate, putting into doubt the evolutionary claim that they were separated over "geologic periods." For more, see the Public Library of Science, Asiatic Honeybees Can Understand Dance Language of European Honeybees. (Oh yeah, and why don't fossils of poorly-formed honeycombs exist, from the millions of years before the bees and natural selection finally got the design right? Ha! Because they don't exist! :) Nautiloid proves rapid limestone formation. * Remember the Nautiloids: In the Grand Canyon there is a limestone layer averaging seven feet thick that runs the 277 miles of the canyon (and beyond) that covers hundreds of square miles and contains an average of one nautiloid fossil per square meter. Along with many other dead creatures in this one particular layer, 15% of these nautiloids were killed and then fossilized standing on their heads. Yes, vertically. They were caught in such an intense and rapid catastrophic flow that gravity was not able to cause all of their dead carcasses to fall over on their sides. Famed Mount St. Helens geologist Steve Austin is also the world's leading expert on nautiloid fossils and has worked in the canyon and presented his findings to the park's rangers at the invitation of National Park Service officials. Austin points out, as is true of many of the world's mass fossil graveyards, that this enormous nautiloid deposition provides indisputable proof of the extremely rapid formation of a significant layer of limestone near the bottom of the canyon, a layer like the others we've been told about, that allegedly formed at the bottom of a calm and placid sea with slow and gradual sedimentation. But a million nautiloids, standing on their heads, literally, would beg to differ. At our sister stie, RSR provides the relevant Geologic Society of America abstract, links, and video. *  Now It's Allegedly Two Million Year-Old Leaves: "When we started pulling leaves out of the soil, that was surreal, to know that it's millions of years old..." sur-re-al: adjective: a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy. In this case, the leaves are the facts. Earth scientists from Ohio State and the University of Minnesota say that wood and leaves they found in the Canadian Arctic are at least two million years old, and perhaps more than ten million years old, even though the leaves are just dry and crumbly and the wood still burns! * Gold Precipitates in Veins in Less than a Second: After geologists submitted for decades to the assumption that each layer of gold would deposit at the alleged super slow rates of geologic process, the journal Nature Geoscience reports that each layer of deposition can occur within a few tenths of a second. Meanwhile, at the Lihir gold deposit in Papua New Guinea, evolutionists assumed the more than 20 million ounces of gold in the Lihir reserve took millions of years to deposit, but as reported in the journal Science, geologists can now demonstrate that the deposit could have formed in thousands of years, or far more quickly! Iceland's not-so-old Surtsey Island looks ancient. * Surtsey Island, Iceland: Of the volcanic island that formed in 1963, New Scientist reported in 2007 about Surtsey that "geographers... marvel that canyons, gullies and other land features that typically take tens of thousands or millions of years to form were created in less than a decade." Yes. And Sigurdur Thorarinsson, Iceland's chief  geologist, wrote in the months after Surtsey formed, "that the time scale," he had been trained "to attach to geological developments is misleading." [For what is said to] take thousands of years... the same development may take a few weeks or even days here [including to form] a landscape... so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief... wide sandy beaches and precipitous crags... gravel banks and lagoons, impressive cliffs… hollows, glens and soft undulating land... fractures and faultscarps, channels and screes… confounded by what met your eye... boulders worn by the surf, some of which were almost round... -Iceland's chief geologist * The Palouse River Gorge: In the southeast of Washington State, the Palouse River Gorge is one of many features formed rapidly by 500 cubic miles of water catastrophically released with the breaching of a natural dam in the Lake Missoula Flood (which gouged out the Scablands as described above). So, hard rock can be breached and eroded rapidly. * Leaf Shapes Identical for 190 Million Years?  From Berkley.edu, "Ginkgo biloba... dates back to... about 190 million years ago... fossilized leaf material from the Tertiary species Ginkgo adiantoides is considered similar or even identical to that produced by modern Ginkgo biloba trees... virtually indistinguishable..." The literature describes leaf shapes as "spectacularly diverse" sometimes within a species but especially across the plant kingdom. Because all kinds of plants survive with all kinds of different leaf shapes, the conservation of a species retaining a single shape over alleged deep time is a telling issue. Darwin's theory is undermined by the unchanging shape over millions of years of a species' leaf shape. This lack of change, stasis in what should be an easily morphable plant trait, supports the broader conclusion that chimp-like creatures did not become human beings and all the other ambitious evolutionary creation of new kinds are simply imagined. (Ginkgo adiantoides and biloba are actually the same species. Wikipedia states, "It is doubtful whether the Northern Hemisphere fossil species of Ginkgo can be reliably distinguished." For oftentimes, as documented by Dr. Carl Werner in his Evolution: The Grand Experiment series, paleontogists falsely speciate identical specimens, giving different species names, even different genus names, to the fossil and living animals that appear identical.) * Box Canyon, Idaho: Geologists now think Box Canyon in Idaho, USA, was carved by a catastrophic flood and not slowly over millions of years with 1) huge plunge pools formed by waterfalls; 2) the almost complete removal of large basalt boulders from the canyon; 3) an eroded notch on the plateau at the top of the canyon; and 4) water scour marks on the basalt plateau leading to the canyon. Scientists calculate that the flood was so large that it could have eroded the whole canyon in as little as 35 days. See the journal Science, Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood, and the Journal of Creation, and Creation Magazine. * Manganese Nodules Rapid Formation: Allegedly, as claimed at the Wikipedia entry from 2005 through 2021: "Nodule growth is one of the slowest of all geological phenomena – in the order of a centimeter over several million years." Wow, that would be slow! And a Texas A&M Marine Sciences technical slide presentation says, “They grow very slowly (mm/million years) and can be tens of millions of years old.” But according to a World Almanac documentary they have formed "around beer cans," said marine geologist Dr. John Yates in the 1997 video Universe Beneath the Sea: The Next Frontier. There are also reports of manganese nodules forming around ships sunk in the First World War. See more at at youngearth.com, at TOL, in the print edition of the Journal of Creation, and in this typical forum discussion with atheists (at the Chicago Cubs forum no less :). * "6,000 year-old" Mitochondrial Eve: As the Bible calls "Eve... the mother of all living" (Gen. 3:20), genetic researchers have named the one woman from whom all humans have descended "Mitochondrial Eve." But in a scientific attempt to date her existence, they openly admit that they included chimpanzee DNA in their analysis in order to get what they viewed as a reasonably old date of 200,000 years ago (which is still surprisingly recent from their perspective, but old enough not to strain Darwinian theory too much). But then as widely reported including by Science magazine, when they dropped the chimp data and used only actual human mutation rates, that process determined that Eve lived only six thousand years ago! In Ann Gibbon's Science article, "Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock," rather than again using circular reasoning by assuming their conclusion (that humans evolved from ape-like creatures), they performed their calculations using actual measured mutation rates. This peer-reviewed journal then reported that if these rates have been constant, "mitochondrial Eve… would be a mere 6000 years old." See also the journal Nature and creation.com's "A shrinking date for Eve," and Walt Brown's assessment. Expectedly though, evolutionists have found a way to reject their own unbiased finding (the conclusion contrary to their self-interest) by returning to their original method of using circular reasoning, as reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, "calibrating against recent evidence for the divergence time of humans and chimpanzees,"  to reset their mitochondrial clock back to 200,000 years. * Even Younger Y-Chromosomal Adam: (Although he should be called, "Y-Chromosomal Noah.") While we inherit our mtDNA only from our mothers, only men have a Y chromosome (which incidentally genetically disproves the cla