Podcasts about abiotic

Growers can be poised for abundant crops, only to see their production take a major hit due to a stress event like a heatwave or cold spell. Abiotic stress can be detrimental to any crop. A weakened plant can also be more susceptible to biotic stresses like pests and disease. Redox Corporate Agronomist John Kelly said stress losses can be lessened when fields and orchards have proper nutrition that encourages strong plants, soil health, root growth and abiotic stress defense.  He said diKaP™ has long proven itself as a tremendous boost in this area. “It's a powerful biostimulant that also includes phosphorus and potassium nutrition,” he said. “diKaP™ stimulates the plant for better respiration. With better respiration, there's more energy ultimately coming into the plant,  which means that plant now has resources to withstand stress.” He said advancements in Redox technology can help growers succeed.“I've never been more enthusiastic,” Kelly said. “Where there's a motivation for change. Where there's motivation to improve for higher crop performance, that's where the opportunity is for Redox, to help identify what can be done to improve the bottom line.

It's a week full of lengthy video game titles. Does Leisure Suit Larry fit in the 21st century? Emilio starts his own local game store while Amanda and Taylor play the highly acclaimed Abiotic Factor. TOPICS Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry, Abiotic Factor, Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core, Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, Neverway, Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days For more content, check out dlgaming.net! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What's up, Listeners! Today we will be having a chat about the 50 Series Nvidia GPUs, Spiritual Successor to Minecraft, and Abioticx Factor! Make sure to check out our merch on cuboldgaming.com since we have a ton of new designs from games we really enjoy!

Happy new year! Nic takes a break from Marvel Rivals to see if Astro Bot lives up to the hype. Emilio is loving Path of Exile 2, but is it worth investing the time before a reset? Bobby uses science to craft and survive his way out of an alien-infested lab in Abiotic Factor. TOPICS Abiotic Factor, Astro Bot, Path of Exile 2, Gaseous Server, Space Engineers 2, Skydances' Behemoth For more content, check out dlgaming.net! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After recapping the latest (and Silksong-less) Nintendo Direct presentation, Nolan shares some exciting news with the community and ultimately opens the door for one of the most bizarre conversations we've had since "Zip-Whip-Pee." Nick digs deep into the rewarding and addicting systems of Black Myth: Wukong while also scoffing at the most ridiculous requests ever put to paper in a video game embargo (one which we are happily not beholden to). Brad and Krispy go onto to rave about Tactical Breach Wizards; The next game from the developer of Gunpoint which some describe as "a DnD campaign gone horribly right." Krispy also dabbled in the early access builds for Abiotic Factor and Deadlock. News - Recap of Nintendo Direct (1:40) Nolan's Special Announcement (24:25) Impressions - Black Myth: Wukong (37:00) Impressions - Tactical Breach Wizards (58:35) Impressions - Abiotic Factor (1:21:34) Fantasy Critic Update (1:43:50) 4Player Minute (1:52:30)

This is a preview, full episode: patreon.com/contain Episode all about oil, maybe the most important and controversial substance in the world and how it came to dominate our history and take over our planet Abiotic oil theory, climate change, is oil fake, the origin of the term fossil fuels, did Dinosaurs even exist, artificial scarcity, Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia, 'sentient oil', Soviet Neft Dashlari city built on water, wildcatters, creation of new cities, the history of fracking/new carbon extracting technologies, algae resetting the earth w/ oxygen, geological timescales, Clint Murchison Jr./Dallas Cowboys, WWI/WW2/Cold War, Baku, trucks that last forever, Patillo Higgins, The Regime of Disposability, Ahriman, Thomas Gold's hypothesis, L Fletcher Prouty  Jed is a researcher and typewriter refurbisher. For more information on oil go to Jed's Substack Music by Barrett and Alex Coolwater

Suresh Bansal has spent ~40 years investigating the topic of biogenic vs abiotic oil. Some of his conclusions: 1. ~80% of current fossil fuel theory and ~80% of current abiotic oil theory is correct. 2. Both sides are ignoring the scientific evidence of the opposite side for the SAME oil deposits—the SAME oil deposit often contains a mixture of biogenic hydrocarbons and larger percentage of abiogenic hydrocarbons. 3. People sometimes use the term “organic” to refer to complex hydrocarbons, but the assumption that all complex hydrocarbons are biogenic isn't true. 4. *Before* there was any life on Earth, a series of asteroid strikes created lots of abiotic hydrocarbons on Earth. 5. In conjunction with the series of asteroid strikes, a “gigafactory” involving lots of chemical reactions in the Earth's atmosphere resulted in simple hydrocarbons being transformed into complex hydrocarbons which then rained down to the surface of the Earth. 6. A key compound in #5 may be tholin, a complex organic compound formed through the irradiation of simple organic molecules like methane and nitrogen, typically by ultraviolet light or cosmic rays. It's believed to be common in the outer solar system, particularly on bodies like Titan. 00:00 Introduction to the Podcast 01:43 Suresh Bansal's Background and Research 04:19 Debunking Biogenic Theory 10:18 Explaining Abiogenic Theory 14:06 Balanced Hypothesis and Giga Factory Explanation 22:50 Source Rock Misconceptions 26:56 Deep Drilling and Hydrocarbon Reserves 43:12 Challenges in Scientific Consensus 46:39 The Balanced Hypothesis: A New Perspective 48:45 Challenges and Debates in the Scientific Community 51:40 The Conspiracy Theory Behind Oil Prices 52:25 Russia's Deep Drilling and Scientific Papers 54:14 Coal and Methane: Organic vs. Abiotic Origins 59:55 Sedimentation Process and Hydrocarbon Formation 01:14:49 Revisiting Fossil Fuel Theory and Kerogen 01:29:46 Future Prospects: Titan and Asteroid Collisions 01:33:23 Final Thoughts and Future Plans Suresh's email: deepthinkers7777@gmail.com https://x.com/sureshbansal342 ========= AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR X: https://x.com/TomANelson Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about

Der Sommer steht vor der Tür und wir quatschen über coole Themen. Heute geht es u.a. über den Vatertag und alle sind besoffen, eine Lobeshymne auf Abiotic Factor, Wirtschaftssim im FS22, aktuelle Extraktion Shooter,2 die Fun Pimps nehmen sich viel zu wichtig und Clarkson's Farm Staffel 3. Eure Fragen oder Themen unter dem Hashtag #die2onair Links zu den Themen der Folge ► Abiotic Factor https://store.steampowered.com/app/427410/Abiotic_Factor/ ► LS22 Nordgrad Map https://forbidden-mods.de/filebase/file/41869-nordgrad-map/ ► Arena Breakout Infinite https://store.steampowered.com/app/2073620/Arena_Breakout_Infinite/ ► Better Call Saul https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3032476/ ► Clarkson's Farm https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10541088/ ► Das Lumpenpack - Kann es sein, dass du dumm bist? https://youtu.be/Tw0GoC59pFI Die2 auf Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/die2onair

References Guerra, D. 2024. Previous Lectures: Authentic Biochemistry. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/authentic-biochemistry/id1454408625 Waters, R.1973. "Eclipse" from [Dark Side of the Moon]; Pink Floyd lp. https://youtu.be/k0xGxnZFNYs?si=VrfYPQuXef41Drfm Holst, G. 1918. "The Planets" https://youtu.be/HP5xhyPn58U?si=IdN_iqJNvt_tjQKP --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dr-daniel-j-guerra/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dr-daniel-j-guerra/support

Kodi Riedel, diagnostic laboratory supervisor at the Davey Institute, talks about her work in the lab, how a diagnosis happens and the common diagnoses she's seen in the lab.In this episode we cover:  What is a diagnostic laboratory supervisor (00:39)New things seen in the lab (2:09)How Davey keeps up with tree trends (2:41)How arborists use the lab (3:40)The lab's busiest times (5:30)Abiotic issues (5:58)Kodi's Davey journey (9:27)What Davey's lab looks like (10:47)Diagnosing common conditions (13:14)The most common diagnoses (14:26)Handling fatal diagnosis (16:29)The best part of Kodi's job (17:40)To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  To learn more about the diagnosis lab, visit our Diagnostic Laboratory webpage here.Connect with Davey Tree on social media:Twitter: @DaveyTreeFacebook: @DaveyTreeInstagram: @daveytreeYouTube: The Davey Tree Expert CompanyLinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. Have topics you'd like us to cover on the podcast? Email us at podcasts@davey.com. We want to hear from you!    

This week we played Helldivers 2 and the first of two demos for one of the worst named video games of all time - Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth! Then we dive into the unethical way the military is influencing your kids. Abiotic factor takes us back to the heyday of the Half-Life era, and Larian reminds us they made a great game and continue to make it greater. Lastly we discuss Millenia, a game that might give Civ a run for it's money! Helldivers 2 - The Galaxy's Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter. - Arrowhead Game Studios (Steam, PS5, available now) The US military is embedded in the gaming world. Its target: teen recruits - Article by The Guardian Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth - FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH is the highly anticipated new story in the FINAL FANTASY VII remake project, a reimagining of the iconic original game into three standalone titles by its original creators. In this game, players will enjoy various new elements as the story unfolds, culminating in the party's journey to “The Forgotten Capital” from the original FINAL FANTASY VII. - (PS5, Feb 29th 2024) Abiotic Factor - Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world's greatest minds must survive against the universe's biggest threats. - Deep Field Games (Steam, May 2nd 2024) Everything We Know About Baldur's Gate 3's Sixth Big Patch - Article by Kotaku Millennia - Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures. - C Prompt Games (Steam, Coming Soon)

Josh Citarella dives deep into Abiotic Oil for this edition of Deep Research. In this Patreon exclusive miniseries, Josh researches topics so outlandish that most people don't even bother looking into them beyond instant belief or instant dismissal. Hear the full episode on The Otherworld Patreon 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

On today's episode, we hear how liquid seaweed extracts might be a valuable tool for table grape growers with another hot summer around the corner.   Supporting the People who Support Agriculture Thank you to this month's sponsors who make it possible to get you your daily news. Please feel free to visit their websites. AgroPlantae Inc. - https://www.agroplantae.com/ Soil and Crop - https://mysoilandcrop.com/  

Sponsored by www.betterhelp.com/TheBarnDeathcore is a subgenre of extreme metal that emerged in the early 2000s, blending elements of death metal and metalcore. It is characterized by its heavy and aggressive sound, incorporating brutal breakdowns, guttural vocals, fast-paced guitar riffs, and complex drumming patterns. Deathcore bands often explore dark and intense lyrical themes, including violence, death, nihilism, and existentialism.The origins of deathcore can be traced back to bands such as Despised Icon, Job for a Cowboy, and The Acacia Strain, who helped shape the genre's sound and style. These bands incorporated the technicality and brutality of death metal with the breakdowns and melodic hooks of metalcore, creating a unique and distinctive sound.Deathcore quickly gained popularity among metal fans, particularly among those who enjoyed the extreme and aggressive nature of the genre. The heavy and relentless nature of deathcore music, combined with its intense live performances, attracted a dedicated and passionate following.One of the key elements of deathcore is the breakdown, a section of the song characterized by slow and heavy guitar riffs accompanied by powerful drumming. Breakdowns are often used to create a sense of heaviness and intensity, encouraging moshing and headbanging among fans during live performances. The breakdowns in deathcore songs are known for their bone-crushing impact, creating an exhilarating and cathartic experience for both the band and the audience.Lyrically, deathcore explores a range of dark and disturbing themes. Bands often delve into topics such as violence, horror, despair, and the human condition. The lyrics can be introspective and thought-provoking, examining the darker aspects of life and society. Some bands also incorporate elements of horror and the occult, further adding to the genre's macabre and sinister atmosphere.In conclusion, deathcore is a powerful and aggressive subgenre of extreme metal that combines the brutality of death metal with the melodic hooks and breakdowns of metalcore. It has carved its own niche in the metal scene, attracting a dedicated following of fans who appreciate its heavy sound, intense live performances, and exploration of dark and disturbing lyrical themes. Deathcore continues to evolve and thrive, pushing the boundaries of extreme music and leaving a lasting impact on the metal community.Whitechapel, Carnifex, Thy Art Is Murder, Suicide Silence, The Acacia Strain, Chelsea Grin, Despised Icon, Fit For an Autopsy, Oceano, Rings of Saturn, Lorna Shore, Enterprise Earth, Shadow of Intent, Slaughter to Prevail, Aversions Crown, AngelMaker, Infant Annihilator, Attila, Make Them Suffer, Spite, Emmure, Job for a Cowboy, Born of Osiris, I Declare War, Within the Ruins, Molotov Solution, The Black Dahlia Murder, Oceano, Suffocation, Annotations of an Autopsy, Conducting from the Grave, A Night in Texas, Acrania, Shrine of Malice, Impending Doom, Rose Funeral, Through the Eyes of the Dead, All Shall Perish, King Conquer, Aegaeon, I Killed Everyone, As Blood Runs Black, Abiotic, With Blood Comes Cleansing, Impurity of Mriya, Betraying the Martyrs, Arsonists Get All the Girls, The Red Chord, Martyr Defiled, Iwrestledabearonce, Ovid's WitheringThis episode is sponsored by www.betterhelp.com/TheBarn and presented to you by The Barn Media Group.

Sponsored by www.betterhelp.com/TheBarnhttps://icedwrist.bandcamp.com/What You Reflect https://amzn.to/3CDmpfcI https://amzn.to/3NC0pYsDeathcore is a subgenre of extreme metal that emerged in the early 2000s, blending elements of death metal and metalcore. It is characterized by its heavy and aggressive sound, incorporating brutal breakdowns, guttural vocals, fast-paced guitar riffs, and complex drumming patterns. Deathcore bands often explore dark and intense lyrical themes, including violence, death, nihilism, and existentialism.The origins of deathcore can be traced back to bands such as Despised Icon, Job for a Cowboy, and The Acacia Strain, who helped shape the genre's sound and style. These bands incorporated the technicality and brutality of death metal with the breakdowns and melodic hooks of metalcore, creating a unique and distinctive sound.Deathcore quickly gained popularity among metal fans, particularly among those who enjoyed the extreme and aggressive nature of the genre. The heavy and relentless nature of deathcore music, combined with its intense live performances, attracted a dedicated and passionate following.One of the key elements of deathcore is the breakdown, a section of the song characterized by slow and heavy guitar riffs accompanied by powerful drumming. Breakdowns are often used to create a sense of heaviness and intensity, encouraging moshing and headbanging among fans during live performances. The breakdowns in deathcore songs are known for their bone-crushing impact, creating an exhilarating and cathartic experience for both the band and the audience.Lyrically, deathcore explores a range of dark and disturbing themes. Bands often delve into topics such as violence, horror, despair, and the human condition. The lyrics can be introspective and thought-provoking, examining the darker aspects of life and society. Some bands also incorporate elements of horror and the occult, further adding to the genre's macabre and sinister atmosphere.In conclusion, deathcore is a powerful and aggressive subgenre of extreme metal that combines the brutality of death metal with the melodic hooks and breakdowns of metalcore. It has carved its own niche in the metal scene, attracting a dedicated following of fans who appreciate its heavy sound, intense live performances, and exploration of dark and disturbing lyrical themes. Deathcore continues to evolve and thrive, pushing the boundaries of extreme music and leaving a lasting impact on the metal community.Whitechapel, Carnifex, Thy Art Is Murder, Suicide Silence, The Acacia Strain, Chelsea Grin, Despised Icon, Fit For an Autopsy, Oceano, Rings of Saturn, Lorna Shore, Enterprise Earth, Shadow of Intent, Slaughter to Prevail, Aversions Crown, AngelMaker, Infant Annihilator, Attila, Make Them Suffer, Spite, Emmure, Job for a Cowboy, Born of Osiris, I Declare War, Within the Ruins, Molotov Solution, The Black Dahlia Murder, Oceano, Suffocation, Annotations of an Autopsy, Conducting from the Grave, A Night in Texas, Acrania, Shrine of Malice, Impending Doom, Rose Funeral, Through the Eyes of the Dead, All Shall Perish, King Conquer, Aegaeon, I Killed Everyone, As Blood Runs Black, Abiotic, With Blood Comes Cleansing, Impurity of Mriya, Betraying the Martyrs, Arsonists Get All the Girls, The Red Chord, Martyr Defiled, Iwrestledabearonce, Ovid's WitheringThis episode is sponsored by www.betterhelp.com/TheBarn and presented to you by The Barn Media Group.

Sponsored by BetterHelphttps://gorepig.bandcamp.com/https://fleshboundar.bandcamp.com/album/fleshboundGorepig - Father Hog https://amzn.to/42HIBzuGorepig - Swine/Flu - https://amzn.to/3Nzv1d4Gorepig - Way of the Tusk - https://amzn.to/3XelNGoGorepig - Pigsty - https://amzn.to/3Pfi2P6Fleshbound - Wounded https://amzn.to/3XgIUQKDeathcore is a subgenre of extreme metal that emerged in the early 2000s, blending elements of death metal and metalcore. It is characterized by its heavy and aggressive sound, incorporating brutal breakdowns, guttural vocals, fast-paced guitar riffs, and complex drumming patterns. Deathcore bands often explore dark and intense lyrical themes, including violence, death, nihilism, and existentialism.The origins of deathcore can be traced back to bands such as Despised Icon, Job for a Cowboy, and The Acacia Strain, who helped shape the genre's sound and style. These bands incorporated the technicality and brutality of death metal with the breakdowns and melodic hooks of metalcore, creating a unique and distinctive sound.Deathcore quickly gained popularity among metal fans, particularly among those who enjoyed the extreme and aggressive nature of the genre. The heavy and relentless nature of deathcore music, combined with its intense live performances, attracted a dedicated and passionate following.One of the key elements of deathcore is the breakdown, a section of the song characterized by slow and heavy guitar riffs accompanied by powerful drumming. Breakdowns are often used to create a sense of heaviness and intensity, encouraging moshing and headbanging among fans during live performances. The breakdowns in deathcore songs are known for their bone-crushing impact, creating an exhilarating and cathartic experience for both the band and the audience.Lyrically, deathcore explores a range of dark and disturbing themes. Bands often delve into topics such as violence, horror, despair, and the human condition. The lyrics can be introspective and thought-provoking, examining the darker aspects of life and society. Some bands also incorporate elements of horror and the occult, further adding to the genre's macabre and sinister atmosphere.In conclusion, deathcore is a powerful and aggressive subgenre of extreme metal that combines the brutality of death metal with the melodic hooks and breakdowns of metalcore. It has carved its own niche in the metal scene, attracting a dedicated following of fans who appreciate its heavy sound, intense live performances, and exploration of dark and disturbing lyrical themes. Deathcore continues to evolve and thrive, pushing the boundaries of extreme music and leaving a lasting impact on the metal community.Whitechapel, Carnifex, Thy Art Is Murder, Suicide Silence, The Acacia Strain, Chelsea Grin, Despised Icon, Fit For an Autopsy, Oceano, Rings of Saturn, Lorna Shore, Enterprise Earth, Shadow of Intent, Slaughter to Prevail, Aversions Crown, AngelMaker, Infant Annihilator, Attila, Make Them Suffer, Spite, Emmure, Job for a Cowboy, Born of Osiris, I Declare War, Within the Ruins, Molotov Solution, The Black Dahlia Murder, Oceano, Suffocation, Annotations of an Autopsy, Conducting from the Grave, A Night in Texas, Acrania, Shrine of Malice, Impending Doom, Rose Funeral, Through the Eyes of the Dead, All Shall Perish, King Conquer, Aegaeon, I Killed Everyone, As Blood Runs Black, Abiotic, With Blood Comes Cleansing, Impurity of Mriya, Betraying the Martyrs, Arsonists Get All the Girls, The Red Chord, Martyr Defiled, Iwrestledabearonce, Ovid's WitheringThis episode is sponsored by www.betterhelp.com/TheBarn and presented to you by The Barn Media Group.

Ep. 109 - John Matos (Abiotic) by Cali Death Podcast

Dr. Corsi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University's Department of Government in 1972, when he was 20 years old. From 1972-to 1982, he worked as a university professor, with his final faculty appointment at the University of Denver. There, Dr. Corsi conducted a National Science Foundation randomized field test proving telephone hearings met due process standards in unemployment and welfare fair hearings. He also published game-theoretic articles in scientific journals and received a national security clearance to work with the U.S. State Department on terrorism. For the next 25 years, Dr. Corsi worked in financial services, where he created two bank marketing companies that each reached sales totals of $1 billion a year in annuities and $1 billion in mutual funds. Since 2004, Dr. Corsi has written 30 books on politics and economics, two of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. He has retired from active involvement in day-to-day politics to devote more time to writing. He is also currently working with his wife, Monica Corsi, to create HablaConUnMD.com, a telemedicine Internet company providing Spanish-speaking medical doctors to conference remotely with Spanish-speaking patients. Author of the 2022 book: The Truth About Energy, Global Warming and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation." https://drjeromecorsi.com/ http://www.wnd.com/author/jcorsi/ Corsi mentions Thomas Gold's "The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth Of Fossil Fuels". Foreword by Freeman Dyson. —— Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html Notes for climate skeptics: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

In today's episode we discuss King Hubbert the technocrat and scientist with a flawed methodology and Malthusian worldview. We also go over a brief history of the Rockefeller starting with John D. Rockefeller's rapist snake oil salesman father up to the offspring that would dominate the world oil market during the Cold War years. The majority of the episode we discuss a theory outside of the conventional western geological orthodoxy that challenges the very notion that petroleum is dinosaur goo. Oh yeah, we're talking abiotic oil theory my friends. Abiotic oil would come out of the Soviet Union during the Cold War when Stalin realized that being dependent on the west for oil could be a possible death sentence for Russia so he would create a project to study all the various aspects of oil in a move that some people have compared to the Manhattan Project in scope. This is an interesting one and if the theory of Abiotic Oil is true it would change the way we think about geology and geopolitics at a fundamental level. I personally find the theory of Abiotic Oil persuasive, but I am by no means an expert in geology so take what I say with a grain of salt and enjoy this slippery ride.Sources:Myths, Lies and Oil Wars by F William EngdahlEndless Oil? (forbes.com)Odd Reservoir Off Louisiana Prods Oil Experts to Seek a Deeper Meaning - WSJFossil fuel without the fossils | NatureThe argument needs oiling | The EconomistStalin And Abiotic Oil (Or How Ruppert's 'Peak Oil' Pile is Gaining Tonnage) March 5, 2005 (educate-yourself.org)Dave McGowan Newsletter #55: Who Is Really Behind the 'Peak Oil' Scare? (educate-yourself.org)Songs:Dolly Parton-I'll Oilwells Love YouJohnny Cash-RoughneckMark Lanegan-Night Flight to Kabul

Farmers frequently battle less than perfect weather, but 2022 provided extra challenges in many regions.  Whether it was too hot, dry, cold or wet, many crops were stressed in the past year. As a result, abiotic stress defense has become an even bigger topic of discussion in agriculture. The good news is, success is possible through thoughtful planning that strengths your soil, promotes healthy roots, efficient nutrient uptake and better defends plants against stress.  Darin Moon, founder, owner and CEO of Redox Bio-Nutrients has been passionately working to help farmers succeed for decades. He said understanding and implementing a strategy centered on regenerative agriculture is key to success during climate volatility.  “Yes, it is very possible,”he said. “Even with the daunting task of environmental conditions and water quality, lack of water, and all of these changes that agriculture is going through right now. That simply means that we have to understand the system better. That simply means that no longer can we just put out a whole bunch of fertilizer, a whole bunch of product, and then just hope for the result in the end. We have to be more laser focused in what we do and how we do it. We have to be understand the types of soil we're farming. The type of water of water we're using. The type of crop we're planting in that soil, and view that system as a whole and not as individual parts.”

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/7/1492/htm Link to meta analysis discussed for first 1 hour 15 minutes roughly. This week the panel discusses the impact of abiotic factors of yield of dry flower and phytocannabinoids. We go through this meta-analysis which details 150+ scientific research papers on cannabis. We discuss the claims and highlight the papers which the meta analyses is sourcing the claims, and offer our input and feedback as to what we agree with and see in our own experiences as well as what doesn't seem to add up. This is a heavy research conversation that bounces around many different topics from pruning, altitude, c02, media and nutrients, temperature, ontogeny, light and plant density, water availability and more! In the second hour we give our thoughts on the studies generally, then @Zenthanol shares research on powdery mildew (PM) and how it has evolved, how long it has been around, how it infects plants and spreads, and what actual resistance is, as well as answering questions about common claims of ways to counteract, overcome or kill off PM. there is so much research we kept it mostly surface level, but we will do more individual deep dives on specific scientific research moving forward. This was more of a baseline to show what research exists out there now, in regards to these factors, to give a general sense of where we are at with the science regarding these topics. We will go into these more deeply and cover different subjects in the future, as well as continue to bring a mix of show types (grow talk about specific topics, chat q/a, chat guests, and featured guests). This week host @Jackgreenstalk (aka @Jack_Greenstalk on twitter/ig backup) [also available to be contact via email: JackGreenstalk47@gmail.com ] is joined by the always amazing panel with Matthew Gates aka @SynchAngel on instagram and twitter and @Zenthanol on youtube who offers IPM direct chat for $1 a month on patreon.com/zenthanol , @spartangrown on instagram only or email spartangrown@gmail.com for contacting spartan outside social media, any alternate profiles on other social medias using spartan's name, and photos are not actually spartan grown be aware, ,@Rust.Brandon of @Bokashi Earthworks who's products can be found at bokashiearthworks.com , @NoahtheeGrowa on instagram. This week we missed @TheAmericanOne on youtube aka @theamericanone_with_achenes on instagram who's amy aces can be found at amyaces.com . @Dr MJ Coco from cocoforcannabis.com as well as youtube where he tests and reviews grow lights and has grow tutorials and @drmjcoco on instagram , @ATG Acres Aaron The Grower aka @atgacres joins, his products can be found at atgacres.com and now has product commercially available in select locations in OK, view his instagram to find out details about drops! kyle breeder of @pure_breeding on all social media whos seeds can be found at pbreeding.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cheaphomegrow/support

Thats right. Abiotic oil theory is what it's called. I thought it was crazy to start pulling on this thread. But, of course it just took diligent research. It is a mineral made from earth compounds. As it comes up from the depths, sometimes it gathers bacteria or other life forms. The only proof that ever was offered that crude oil is from fossils...is seriously just biological contaminants. If 95% is oil and 5% is organic for instance, obviously its an earth mineral no different than a diamond. Who is behind this nefarious plan to make oil and natural gas scarce products we could run out of? 1892 Mr. Rockefeller took a group of scientist to a convention in Geneva, Switzerland to convince them to classify this resource as organic...or from fossils. It was accepted and since then the scarcity market place always plays with oil prices. The world fights over who can control the most wells. They don't run out...they fill back over time. It is literally the life blood of the earth. Fossil fuel is the theory or lie we have been tricked to believe. Oil is like water...we will never run out. For endless amounts of scientific literature and proof follow the link. joedubs.com/abiotic-fossil-fuel/ Thanks for listening in. Please rate, review, and share! Also look below for the link to support my efforts with the podcast for as low as $1 a month! Or you can send me a one time tip on VENMO@Jay-Scott-Mo --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jay-morris9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jay-morris9/support

W 2022 roku wielu ludzi na świecie pełni rolę niewolników, jaka jest skala tego dramatu? Jak plastik zakwasza oceany i czy ślina robaka może nam jakoś pomóc? W tym odcinku podkastu Naukowo przyjrzymy się również nowej symulacji od NASA pokazującej, jak szybko powstał Księżyc. Zapraszam serdecznie!Jeśli uznasz, że warto wspierać ten projekt to zapraszam do serwisu Patronite, każda dobrowolna wpłata od słuchaczy pozwoli mi na rozwój i doskonalenie tego podkastu, bardzo dziękuję za każde wsparcie!Zapraszam również na Facebooka, Twittera i Instagrama, każdy lajk i udostępnienie pomoże w szerszym dotarciu do słuchaczy, a to jest teraz moim głównym celem :) Na stronie Naukowo.net znajdziesz więcej interesujących artykułów naukowych, zachęcam również do dyskusji na tematy naukowe, dzieleniu się wiedzą i nowościami z naukowego świata na naszym serwerze Discord - https://discord.gg/mqsjM5THXrŹródła użyte przy tworzeniu odcinka:International Labour Organization, "Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage", https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/publications/WCMS_854733/lang--en/index.htmCristina Romera-Castillo, Arturo Lucas, Rebeca Mallenco-Fornies, Marina Briones-Rizo, Eva Calvo, Carles Pelejero, "Abiotic plastic leaching contributes to ocean acidification", https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158683Sanluis-Verdes, A., Colomer-Vidal, P., Rodriguez-Ventura, F. et al. Wax worm saliva and the enzymes therein are the key to polyethylene degradation by Galleria mellonella. Nat Commun 13, 5568 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33127-wJ. A. Kegerreis, S. Ruiz-Bonilla, V. R. Eke, R. J. Massey, T. D. Sandnes, and L. F. A. Teodoro, "Immediate Origin of the Moon as a Post-impact Satellite", https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac8d96Animacja symulacji powstania Księżyca, NASA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlhlCWplqk

On today's episode, we hear how microbes in soil can mitigate abiotic stressors, such as sunburn, drought stress and nutrient deficiencies, in crops. Additionally, Kylie Harlan provides a look at the small but powerful artichoke industry in California, which grows 100% of the country's supply.   Supporting the People who Support Agriculture Thank you to our sponsors who make it possible to get you your daily news. Please feel free to visit their websites. The California Walnut Board – https://walnuts.org/ PhycoTerra®  –https://phycoterra.com/ Verdesian - https://vlsci.com/  

This is the time of year when you may be wandering in your garden and your drawn to some funny looking aspects of your tomato plants. What is that brown leathery spot on the bottom of that tomato? What are all those cracks along the top of the tomato? What is that white spot on the side of the tomato? Why are the leaves curling? All of those are abiotic disorders of the plant. You can't attribute the problem to an insect, animal or a disease. It'd due to any number of things in the natural world: an imbalance of nutrients in your soil; too much water, too little water, too much sun; too little sun; smog; wildfire smoke; and plenty more, that you can't blame on an insect, disease or your dog. But you might have to blame yourself. Today, America's favorite retired college horticulture professor, Debbie Flower, delves into the world of abiotic disorders of tomato plants.We're podcasting from Barking Dog Studios here in the beautiful Abutilon Jungle in Suburban Purgatory. It's the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast, brought to you today by Smart Pots. And we will do it all in under 30 minutes. Let's go!Previous episodes, links, product information, and transcripts at the new home site for Garden Basics with Farmer Fred, GardenBasics.net. Transcripts and episode chapters also available at BuzzsproutPictured: Tomato Cracking Links: Subscribe to the free, Beyond the Garden Basics Newsletter https://gardenbasics.substack.com Smart Pots https://smartpots.com/fred/ Dave Wilson Nursery https://www.davewilson.com/home-garden/Abiotic Disorders of VegetablesHarvest Day, Aug. 6, at the Fair Oaks Horticulture CenterGot a garden question? • Leave an audio question without making a phone call via Speakpipe, at https://www.speakpipe.com/gardenbasics• Call or text us the question: 916-292-8964. • Fill out the contact box at GardenBasics.net• E-mail: fred@farmerfred.com All About Farmer Fred: The GardenBasics.net websiteThe Garden Basics with Farmer Fred Newsletter, Beyond the Basics https://gardenbasics.substack.comFarmer Fred website: http://farmerfred.com Daily Garden tips and snark on Twitter https://twitter.com/farmerfredThe Farmer Fred Rant! Blog http://farmerfredrant.blogspot.comFacebook:  "Get Growing with Farmer Fred" Instagram: farmerfredhoffman https://www.instagram.com/farmerfredhoffman/Farmer Fred Garden Minute Videos on YouTube As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases from possible links mentioned here.And thank you for listening.Healthy Lifestyle Solutions with Maya AcostaFood & exercise as medicine, meditate, breathe and sleep. This is lifestyle medicine.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Hello Listener, It has been a weird spring weather wise, and that weird weather may have stressed some of your plants out.  In this months episode we are talking all about abiotic disorder  in the garden.  Abiotic disorder in plants are caused by non-living factors such as weather,  and the enviroment .   We will give some examples of what we have seen so far this year,  and what you should be looking for in your garden . We also have our:  Native Plant of the Month  (Bottlebrush grass) at 26:45Bug of the Month (Green Lacewing) at 30:15Garden Tips of the Month at 36:45 If you have any garden-related questions, please email us at UMEGardenPodcast@gmail.com or look us up on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/GardenThymePodcas. For more information about UME and these topics, please check out the UME Home and Garden Information Center and Maryland Grows Blog at https://marylandgrows.umd.edu/.  The Garden Thyme Podcast is brought to you by the University of Maryland Extension. Hosts are Mikaela Boley- Senior Agent Associate (Talbot County) for Horticulture, Rachel Rhodes- Senior Agent Associate for Horticulture (Queen Anne's County), and Emily Zobel-Senior Agent Associate for Agriculture (Dorchester County).Theme Song: By Jason IncUniversity programs, activities, and facilities are available to all without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, national origin, political affiliation, physical or mental disability, religion, protected veteran status, genetic information, personal appearance, or any other legally protected class.

Dr. Champion discusses the two competing models that theorize from where petroleum originates. One is nonsense. The other is viable. Dave's books are found at https://drreality.news/store/

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In this episode, we frame up a multi-episode conversation about Korean Natural Farming-- its history, its application, and most importantly the science behind the utility of using minerals on any site. How does making minerals bioavailable work, and why is it so necessary to do these things today, despite having farmed for thousands of years without them?     Sources:    Krishnamoorthy, R., Alshatwi, A. A., Subbarayan, S., Vadivel, B., Periyasamy, V. S., Al-Shuniaber, M. A., & Athinarayanan, J. (2018). Impact of farm-made liquid organic nutrients jevamirtham and fish amino acid on growth and nutritional status in different season of Abelmoschus esculentus—a self-sustainable field trial. Organic Agriculture. doi:10.1007/s13165-018-0205-2    https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1270/   Wang, Rui, Yangbing, Qi, Wu, Juan, Shukla, M.K. Influence of the application of irrigated water-soluble calcium fertilizer on wine grape properties   O. Nur Faezah, S.A. Nurul Najihah, J.J. Nakasha and M.Y. Suhaili Fish amino acid application to improve growth performance and yield of Chinese Kale (Brassica oleracea)   Johari, N. S., Asilah, A. M., Zalina, I., Fazhana, I., Ab-Latif, Z., Shaibatul' Islamiah, C. M., Tang, J. R.  Effects Of Fish Amino Acid (Faa) Application on Growth and Development of Okra (Abelmoschus Esculentus) at Different Sampling Times   Leinweber, Peter, Hagermann, Philip, Kebelmann, Lutz. Bone Char As a Novel Phosphorus Fertilizer   Waheed, Marium, Sadiq Butt, Masood Eggshell Calcium: A Cheap Alternative to Expensive Supplements   http://organic.da.gov.ph/images/IECs/FAA2.pdf     Support this podcast by becoming a Patron at: https://www.patreon.com/PoorProlesAlmanac

4.2 underwater soundTranscriptCraig Eason, Fathom World & Podcast Host (0'00””)Hello again and welcome to the Aronnax podcast and in this episode we are looking underwater. So let's start with some music to the ears of anyone who loves the sea. Whale song of course.Whale song is perhaps the most well-known natural sound in the oceans, after perhaps the noise of waves crashing onto beaches and other weather-related sounds.In this episode we are going to hear how anthropogenic or human- negated noise is potentially impacting the environment, and that means noise from ships as well as other ocean economies, such as oil and gas and the growing number of wind farms. We will also hear how the clicks and noises of sperm whales could lead us to understand extra-terrestrial life.There are a lot of different noises and before I get into the deep decibels of this podcast episode, I have a little audio test for you. What do you think this is?The answer comes later in the programme. But first a quick look at what science calls the ocean soundscape, the noise that is in the oceans. What are the natural sounds of the oceans and what do they mean? Also, what is underwater sound? Have you ever wondered how your hearing is so different when you are in water? Nathan Merchant CFAS (2'03”)“Underwater sound is counterintuitive. We know we think of noise in human terms in terms of how, how far away something might annoy you if there was a noisy neighbour or whatever. underwater, because water is much denser than air and can travel 1000s of kilometres underwater. So, there was an experiment done in the 90s, which would not be conducted today. Where there was a low frequency sound source, I think it was somewhere off of Southern Africa, which was then heard pretty much all the way around the world through propagation. And it's believed that in ocean basins, for example, there, there's the potential for baleen whales to communicate right across them so many 1000's of kilometres.Craig Eason, Fathom World & Podcast Host (2'59”)That is Nathan Merchant, he works at the UK's Centre for environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture science or CEFAS, which is a UK government agency which advises Defra (that's the UK's Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) on lots of things to do with the marine environment, including underwater noise. Nathan is CEFAs's principal scientist for noise and bioacoustics.Nathan Merchant CEFA (3'23”)“So we're primarily interested in noise pollution. So noise generated by human activities that could have an effect on underwater life. A lot of our work is to do with monitoring levels of underwater noise pollution. in UK waters. It's one of our responsibilities. So, we have a network of hydrophones underwater microphones in English and Welsh waters. And we carry out the assessment of underwater noise levels in UK waters by mapping levels of shipping noise, in particular, using Aya ship tracking data in in UK waters. So, a lot of our work is trying to create visual representations of the soundscape in British waters.”Craig Eason, Fathom World & podcast host (4'24”)And that soundscape can be quite noisy already he says. There're three types of noise in the oceans. There's man made, or anthropogenic noise, there's biotic and abiotic. Abiotic is natural noise int eh seas form rainfall, waves, surf wind, lightning strikes and the biotic noise is that generated from animals.The worry is that the anthropogenic noise is drowning out and interfering with the biotic sound. One of the environmental groups that wants more to be done about the amount of anthropogenic underwater noise is IFAW, the International Fund for Animal Welfare.Sharon Livermore IFAW (5'07”)“Seismic, airgun surveys for oil and gas, naval sonar, pile driving for things like wind turbines or oil and gas platforms. Those are all impulsive noise. So, if you imagine a pneumatic drill outside of your house, with someone doing some building work, it could actually cause you to have hearing impairments as a result, especially if you are too close. And with those kinds of impulsive noises, animals again, the sensitive animals like whales and dolphins, they can have an acute response, which could actually be something as serious as death, or severe injury, with kind of what we call ambient noise, which is produced by shipping, that increases the background noise level throughout the world's oceans. And it travels incredibly efficiently. So basically, everywhere in the world that a underwater hydrophone has been dropped in the water, you can hear shipping noise from the equator to the North Pole to the Southern Ocean, there is a recording of, of shipping noise in the background. And it travels particularly well, because it is directed downwards into what's called the So Far channel, it's this deep, deep sound channel. And that allows the sound to travel over incredible distances and very, very efficiently. And it's actually the same channel that, you know, whales, whales use to communicate with one another. So that's where you're getting overlap and the distortion that masks the kind of natural sounds of the ocean.”Craig Eason, Fathom World & Podcast Host (6'37”)That's Sharon Livermore, IFAW's director of marine Conservation. And she's actively pushing for change to the 2014 guidelines that were written at the International Maritime Organization an underwater noise, but which she says have been largely ignored.Sharon Livermore IFAW (6'55”)“The guidelines, which, as you say, they were written in 2014, so, you know, it's good seven, eight years ago now. And they, they were intended to provide general advice on reducing underwater noise from shipping to designers to ship builders to ship operators. What we found, and actually sorry, you know, the Government of Canada has been very, very active in this space and they've done studies to kind of figure out, you know, why there is it not really been any uptake of these guidelines? Why haven't countries and shipping, done anything to try and action, this issue of underwater noise and we're, we're much more aware now of the impact it's having on marine life on the marine environment. But they're just not being used to make changes to reduce underwater noise. And this study that Canada did commission a couple of years ago found that there were quite a few barriers that are identified, and the main one really is the lack of regulation. So these guidelines are just that - they're not mandatory. And, you know, for that reason, the shipping industry and countries are always going to prioritize things that are mandated as, as they, as they have to, that's a requirement.The fact they're not legally binding, was one of the things. Other things that were identified with were things like the measurements around underwater noise not being completely clear. They wanted to see more data that really demonstrates the impacts of underwater noise. And we're sort of calling for baseline noise data as well. Many of these barriers we believe are, you know, they're not you know, we don't need to do more research on the impacts of underwater noise. It's well understood. Now, that noise is, you know, is a pollutant is recognized by the by UNCLOS, the International Law of the Sea, as a pollutant and under many other international agreements. So, the evidence is that we know it impacts marine species from the smallest invertebrates to the largest whales. The point is really that industry, as they should, industry does priority prioritize the implementation of mandatory initiatives. And undertaking voluntary measures, such as the ones to reduce underwater noise are never going to be prioritized so that the guidelines need to be reviewed to kind of update them with the latest understanding of noise from shipping, but also to kind of figure out, you know, next steps. Like how we encourage uptake around this important issue?”Craig Eason, Fathom World & Podcast Host (9'24”)The IMO's marine environmental protection committee has now agreed to relook at the guidelines and has passed it onto a subcommittee to review and make recommendations. IFAW and a number of other groups think that as the guidelines have been ineffective at reducing noise from ships, there should be something more mandatory in placeSharon Livermore IFAW (9'44”)“Well, the IMO is the competent agency to deal with underwater noise from shipping. So it would make sense for regulation on that particular pollutant to come from IMO.And, you know, as the kind of authority on all matters relating to the environment from shipping, that does seem to be the obvious place for it to land. You know, the barriers that have been identified, they're not, you know, not all of them are questionable. Many of them are Very, you know, they're very real barriers, you know, how do we reduce noise from ships, and some of the suggestions in the original guidelines around countries identifying the noisiest 10% of the ships in their fleet, which, which are creating pretty much the majority of the noise from the shipping industry, those kinds of actions, which needs to be taken in order to determine, okay, where are our noisy old ships? And what can we do with them to improve their efficiency around noise, so retrofitting them with, you know, new technologies, updating the propeller, which is the main source of noise for shipping, those kind of actions, which would have a huge effect on the entire global footprint, from the shipping industry, that, you know, that makes the most sense, really, in terms of what needs to be done. So it is identifying the ships that needs to be retrofitted, and, you know, basically getting on and doing it, but then also looking at the design of new ships and actually having noise as a factor that's considered when those ships are being designed and built, because at the moment, noise just isn't even on the radar for shipping architects and builders.”Nathan Merchant CFAS (11'03”)“There's very clear evidence now, that underwater noise is affecting individual animals. So certainly, there's very clear evidence for marine mammals. Lots of evidence emerging for a lot of fish species as well, as well as invertebrate species, which are the kind of less studied taxa. What's less clear is to what extent these effects that we can study in quite controlled circumstances or in field measurements on individual animals. Does that that translate into population level effects, does that translate into ecosystem scale effects? That question is a very difficult one to answer because there are so many other factors, human generated or natural, which effects, you know, population scale changes. So that's a really tricky, tricky question. But a key question for policymakers is, you know - Is underwater noise really a significant threat at the large scale. And so there, there are scientists who were dedicating a lot of time to trying to model the likelihood that this is having population scale effects. And of course, there are people who would advocate a precautionary approach and say, well, so many environmental indicators in marine habitats are not doing very well, at the moment, there's a lot of cumulative pressure on the marine environment from human activities. And perhaps noise is a relatively easy pollutants to control. And it's also one, which, you know, if you take noise out of the water, then it's pretty quickly gone away. Whereas some of the pressures on the marine environment are very kind of persistent chemical things that will be with us long before our time.”Craig Eason, Fathom World & Podcast Host (13'07”)Nathan and Sharon are also concerned about the other sources of noise in the marine environment from sources other than shipborne noise, particularly as nations build up their ocean economies.Nathan Merchant CFAS (13'20”)“It's not just shipping, we were also concerned about what we call impulsive noise, which loosely is things that go bang. So you know, explosions, seismic surveys, pile driving of offshore wind farms are examples of impulsive noise. and international coordination is very much needed, not only because the animals that could be affected, you know, don't respect whether they're in you know, German or Dutch waters, it doesn't really matter, you know. We need to kind of think about managing our, our oceans, on a kind of ecosystem basis, and not according to national boundaries. But also, because of many of these activities are very international in nature. When it comes to impulsive noise, we can kind of be, they tend to be activities, which you need to get permission to do anyway. So, if you want to build a wind farm, if you want to carry out a seismic survey to look for oil and gas beneath the seabed, then you need to get a license from a regulator and so through that process, we can look at imposing restrictions or providing incentives to do things quieter, when it comes to shipping it's a very international business, you know, your ship might be owned by, you know, your listeners are no doubt familiar with this, but the shipping industry, involving many different players, and its regulation needing to happen at an international level, which, which is the whole purpose of the IMO is very difficult for a single country or a single port, even to have much of an effect on the, you know, to provide much of an incentive, shall we say, to make ships quieter, it needs it needs that coordination. So that's, that's absolutely why these efforts at the IMO or are the right forum for that to happen. At the same time, you know, other international fora can help to kind of provide impetus to that, you know, it may be that, you know, coordination within Europe, for example, can help to show how some of these regulations could be implemented and to do some of the science that will be needed to, to make sure that they're well evidenced.”Craig Eason, Fathom World & Podcast Host (15'52”)But when it comes to the noise from a ship there are things that can be done. Many of the solutions that are suggested will also help reduce a ships fuel bill, a double benefit one may say as reducing noise, reduces fuel consumption and therefore reduces CO2 and other emissions into the air.I spoke to Dr Qing Yu, he's director of technology at the US classification society ABS wo told me that on a technology perspective ships generate three types of noise in general, that's airborne noise, shipborne noise which has a lot to do with passenger and crew comfort on a vessel and then the underwater noise generated by the ship as it sails though the water.Dr Qing Yu, ABS (16'34”)“Underwater noise, the main source of noise is from propeller. So that's the main noise generation mechanism, let's say on board, and also for commercial ships, those machineries on board will generate noise as well, either through noise emission directly into water of the structural vibration, because those machinery to the equipment on board we're causing a structural vibration and then structural vibration will generate underwater noise emission.The third way is a relatively small part of the equation, it is the flow around the ship will also cause some element of underwater noise.So, typically, the noise level generated by propeller will include two components. One is the so-called tonal noise. The frequency of that part of the noise is a multiple of propeller rotation frequencies. And then the second part is so called the broadband noise, which is very much associated with cavitation of the propeller. Once the propeller generates cavitation bubbles, and the bubble will burst, and we're talking not just one or two bubbles in it is a collection of huge amount bubbles, and then the underwater sound generated by the bubble bursting will create a broader band underwater noise.” Craig Eason, Fathom World & Podcast Host (18'19”)“When it comes to the technologies that one can put onto a ship - you have a white paper that he published earlier this year, and there's a list of ducts and fins etc. that can be installed. How does a duct - I've heard about the like the Mewis Duct being used to improve efficiency of a vessel so that the fuel consumption can be improved by one or two precent, but how does a duct, or these technologies, work in actually reducing the sound? And are they better fitted other technologies that are better fitted for certain ship types or certain types of propulsion? So, an azimuth, for example, is it better than a direct line propeller attached to a diesel engine?Dr Qing Yu, ABS (19'05”)Yep, that's a good question actually. When we are looking to know, kind of interesting design topic is the co-design of energy efficiency and underwater noise reduction. And that a ducted propeller or fins, designed to reduce the resistance to vessel, and can contribute to certain level of reduction of underwater noise.Remember, for underwater noise, one of the main sources is from the propeller. When we can design those ducts and finds in a certain way, they can regulate the flow coming into the propeller, and then they can adjust the pattern of the cavitation, the initiation of the cavitation, so that can, again to certain extent, reduce the cavitation induced noise. And, again, the design of those energy saving devices so far, is pretty much focused on energy efficiency. One of the main research topics right now is to look into the possibility to combine the design for energy efficiency and the design for underwater noise reduction. And certainly for propulsion system, there are some very specific designs, especially for the propeller. You can put those like twisting edge and put it in those specific type of propellers that are used to reduce the noise. And those are used for some time, especially for military vessels, but for commercial vessels they are still relatively less used than the common off-the-shelf propeller designs.Craig Eason, Fathom World & Podcast Host (21'08”)“One of the technologies that I've read about that began many, many years ago, and I've seen the US Navy using it is air bubbles, they used a system called the Prairie-Masker to produce bubbles coming out of the hull and even out of the propeller, to mask the sound prints of the vessels. It has naval and military implications to make sure that they weren't detected by submarines, enemy submarines, but likewise, I've heard of air bubbles being used an air curtain, I think it's called being used around pylons being driven into the ground to reduce the noise being spread of the of the pile I'm driving. And I know and I know also that there's a lot of work now with air lubrication systems on ships, again, another system that is being used to improve the efficiency of the vessel. But you mentioned a second ago that it was the bubbles bursting in the cavitation of the propeller that creates some of the noise. So how can we have noise from the bubbles bursting, but at the same time, have bubbles protecting the oceans from noise? Can you explain that a little bit?”Dr Qing Yu, ABS (22'22”)“Yeah, the cavitation generated bubbles will have different shapes and different frequencies and also the bursting of the bubble will generate a high energy noise emission. For those bubbles generated for air curtain, or now we have other type of energy saving technologies such as air lubrication also generates bubbles. Those bubbles are different from the bubble due to the cavitation and then there's a way to control the pattern of those bubbles, the size of those bubbles, and also the distribution of those bubbles. So, for those underwater noise generating cavitation, essentially the only way that we can do is to regulate the cavitation occurs, either reduce the speed or change the way that those cavitation bubbles are generated through the operation measures or design considerations.” For air lubrication system, and for the specific system designed by navies to mask the propeller generate the noise, the bubbles are generated again in a different way and also the noise created by those systems tend to be more, let's say, much more broadband. Essentially, I can mask the noise from propellers.”Craig Eason, Fathom World & Podcast Host (24'05”)Dr to Dr Qing Yu, who is director of technology at the US classification society ABS, on the sources of underwater noise form ships and the good and bad of the air bubble. Now, staying with the theme of underwater noise, let's talk about whale communication and artificial intelligence. Sperm whales have a particular call, and according to scientists each individual pod, possibly individuals, can have a characteristic vocal sound, Now, there's an ambitious project has been launched in the Caribbean island of Dominica to try and see if scientists can use recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning to translate the clicks of the sperm whale. It's called project CETI Where CETI means the cetacean translation initiative. It's non-human communication. It is a huge undertaking, and a well-funded one at that bringing together experts in cryptography, robotics, linguistics, artificial intelligence, marine biologists.It's developing a whale listening system of hydrophones and even robotic fish to listen to a specific pod of sperm whales in a 20 km square area off the Caribbean Island.Amongst the team is Professor Dan Tchernov the project's Chief Operations Officer, and a marine biologist at Haifa University in Israel. I spoke to him about the project and the possible outcomesProfessor Dan Tchernov, COO Project CETI, Marine Biologist Haifa University, Israel (25'43”)“With all the machine learning, technology and AI, this is all evolving really quickly, in the last decade, maybe now it's possible finally to decipher communication between sperm whales, because they're using actually something close to Morse Code, so, just single clicks with different positions and will put always with the same structure like five notes or three notes depends on the pod and already there is quite a bit of annotated data with which we can start with, to show proof of concept. And the big idea behind it is to finally break the institutional barrier, and therefore, for the first time perhaps, trying to communicate with these mammals, or actually any other creature on their own term, mainly listening to try and understand the communication. But finally, perhaps also sending messages and getting replies. This is called CETI also because it is theoretically the training wheels for the humankind to try and reach out to other civilizations, if they ever, if ever we encounter them, to understand how to try and decipher and communicate with something very, very different.Craig Eason, Fathom World & Podcast Host (27'02”)Dan Tchernov on sperm whales and the attempt to translate their underwater sounds using artificial intelligence and the potential in the future to apply such learning to other species, possibly even extra-terrestrial.Audio examples (27'24”)END (28'24”) Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/aronnax. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello Interactors,This week I’m coming to you from Cape Cod. Yesterday we saw “red tide” algal plumes stretching a quarter of a mile along a flat sandy beach against a receding tide. This is a common occurrence in Massachusetts, but the frequency of occurrences of “red tide” are increasing worldwide. The last couple weeks have seen extreme weather events in unsuspecting places worrying even the most conservative climate scientists. Perhaps it’s time we put less attention on the drama of the consequences of climate change and more on educating the public on the science behind it. As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…CSU AND TENNEESEE TOOOur family is on a trip visiting family on the east coast – and also few colleges for two rising seniors. I never visited my first college, Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, Colorado. I was mostly following a friend who, like I, wanted to study graphic design. CSU had a notable program, but it was mostly known as an agricultural school. It’s closer to the state of Wyoming than it is Denver and is flat with rolling plains of grassland that spread out below the foothills of the Rocky Mountains – cow country. A fact that becomes obvious when the wind blows from the east carrying the stench of livestock fields in neighboring Greely, Colorado.I had no idea Colorado State was also home to an international ecosystem research center, the National Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL). Ecology was not a new thing, but most ecological research was conducted by researchers in isolation of one another. This program, however, aimed to bring different disciplines together – like ecology, soil science, and climatology – to study their mutual effects on each other. This program was nearly as old as I was when I showed up there as a wide-eyed eighteen year old Iowa boy. Initial plans for this lab were formed in 1966 with initial seed funding coming from the Ford Foundation and then the National Science Foundation (NSF) soon after. It was run by one of the most influential and gregarious pioneers in the field of systems ecology, George Van Dyne. Systems ecology is a quantitative approach to studying, integrating, and synthesizing entire ecosystems made of living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components. And Fort Collins was the first U.S. site of a larger International Biological Program dedicated to exploring and combining big science and ecosystem ecology.Van Dyne grew up in south eastern Colorado as a true cowboy working the ranch by horseback. He satisfied his love and curiosity of western land and animals by studying animal science at CSU as an undergrad and range science for his masters degree from South Dakota State University. Continuing his focus on total ecological systems, he went on to earn a PhD at the University of California, Davis developing mathematical models of ecological data.After completing his PhD in 1963 there were few places in the world with the necessary computing power to crunch George’s differential equations that weaved a varied matrix of ecological variables. So he headed to Oak Ridge Tennessee to join the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); home to one of the country’s largest mainframe computer centers at the time.Van Dyne joined two professors at nearby University of Tennessee, Knoxville who had created the first systems ecology course in the United States. He would go on to author four papers a month, double the expected rate of a research scientist, all while enthusiastically teaching. In one noontime course he could be seen “writing on the chalkboard with his right hand, eating a sandwich with the left, and talking in his soft, intense baritone voice about many exciting developments in ecosystem modeling.” Many of Van Dyne’s over 120 refereed papers were written during his eighteen months in Tennessee. MAINFRAME MATHEMATICAL MODELLING Van Dyne’s work at Oak Ridge was on a nearby grassland, and the expertise he garnered analyzing the data led him to edit a seminal 1969 book entitled The Ecosystem Concept in Natural Resource Management. It was his love of the grasslands and his knowledge of the quantitative study of systems ecology that led him to run the National Resource Ecology Lab in Fort Collins focused on the west’s Grassland Biome – lands dominated by grasses. There he would assemble and analyze data coming in from grassland sites strewn across a rectangular block west from Oklahoma to California north to Washington and back east to South Dakota. Each site had researchers in the field estimating plant biomass from pre-determined and equivalent plot sizes. They all used the same statistical methods in attempts to maintain similar sample sizes across sites. The IBP program goals were to collect and estimate averages within 20 percent with 80 percent accuracy by leveraging models created by mathematicians and teams of postdoc researchers from a variety of backgrounds.Van Dyne and team were interested in the role abiotic factors play in the ecological health of grasslands. The model included over 180 internal state variables. For example, the number of herbivores or amount of organic minerals found in the sample sites. The model also included abiotic driving variables like rainfall or processes stemming from photosynthesis like radiation. Their work culminated in 4400 lines of computer code that included 500 parameters. It took seven minutes to compile and run a program that simulated two years of effects of grassland under the modelled conditions on a state of the art mainframe computer from the Computer Data Corporation, the CDC 6400. The follow-on to this model was the CDC 6500 which cost $8 million in 1967 – or over $63 billion in 2021 dollars – and weighed over 10,000 pounds. This same mathematical model would run almost instantaneously on a ordinary laptop today.In hindsight, the model is considered overly complex but it did satisfy the goals Van Dyne set out to achieve; “to create a model that would serve as a communications device and organizer of information, be useful as a research tool, and yield results that could help in elucidating biological phenomena in grassland ecosystems.” There were four basic questions the model was intended to address:What is the effect on net or gross primary production as the result of various abiotic disturbances?  How is the carrying capacity of a grassland affected by these disturbances? Are the results of a simulation model like this consistent with field data taken in the Grassland Biome Program, and if not, why? What are the changes in the composition of the producers as a result of these disturbances?The model didn’t prove to be robust enough to be a reliable predictor of the future, but it did succeed in demonstrating a systems approach to modelling an ecosystem. This was a highly controversial endeavor that was seen by many conservative practicing biologists and ecologists as obtusely abstract, misguided, expensive – and competitive. They witnessed large amounts of NSF money going toward Van Dyne’s ‘grand experiment’ and they began to worry their own individual research would dry up. Traditional ecological research had been a solitary endeavor and many of the older practicing scientists preferred the more conservative individualistic approach to science. Meanwhile, the younger liberal scientists were encouraged by the more open and collaborative approach of systems ecology Van Dyne encouraged. They preferred the teamwork required in collecting, analyzing, and publishing what was shared among a diverse array of contributors. It was a split in belief and approach that mimicked the cultural attitudes of the sixties and seventies. As a result, established scientists began speaking out and became critical of the big science approach to ecological systems research – and Van Dyne’s program in particular. They questioned the quality of data collected across so many sites by a variety of scientists of differing backgrounds and were dubious of the aggregation of data needed to conform to the models Van Dyne and his team of mathematicians had devised. Van Dyne did not give in easily, however, and by 1972 he had hired teams of ‘integrators’ to work with site directors and scientists to synthesize the large amounts of data in preparation for analysis. One of the original integrators and organizers was Jim Ellis. He was second only to Van Dyne in his understanding of the interaction of ecological processes with human societies. By encouraging standard methods of defining variables and measuring outcomes, the work these people did is considered by some to be some of the first examples of organized software quality assurance.By 1974, Van Dyne had amassed a team of over fifty researchers and integrators. By then, however, the NSF had been swayed by the critics and they seized funding the Grassland Biome Program. But some of this undoing was Van Dyne’s own making. While he was a dedicated scientist who gave much of his time to young scientists, he also created a confrontational work environment inviting competing opinions and relished in fostering heated debates. He also had a notorious top-down management style and many of the younger scientists chose to move to other projects than continue working in such an environment.(1)A MAN OF ACTION AND A CALL TO ACTIONThe roughly seven years of the IBP Grassland Biome Program was fast, inventive, and impactful producing mounds of scientific papers. The computer model the team devised was never able to answer the grassland questions they had hoped, but it marked a special point in ecological systems research and sparked the development of future ecological simulation modeling and research programs. Including centers at the University of Georgia, Colorado State University, Utah State University, San Diego State University, and Oregon State University. Ecological simulation models, and research programs, have improved over time and are now considered an essential part of ecological science. Any multi-variate questions being asked through today’s planetary ecological simulation models would likely not be possible without George Van Dyne and the IBP.Large scale, heavily funded ecological programs like the one Van Dyne choreographed do not exist today. Big science attention and dollars tend toward the human genome project, astronomy, interplanetary exploration, and biochemistry. And members of the mainstream media don’t help. They’d rather report on Bezos, Branson, and Musk comparing the size of their rockets and how far they can reach into the stillness of space. Not to take anything away from the innovations that have stemmed from the infusion of private money into the amazing advancements in modern-day rocket wizardry, but all three seem to have given up on planet earth. Perhaps the advertising industry and the mass media consuming public have too.But ecological systems scientists have not given up. Programs like the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) employ nearly 2000 scientists across 28 U.S. sites and includes an international component. Started in 1980, this program is funded by the NSF and data from their research can be found through the Environmental Data Initiative and DataONE. There’s also a program operated by Battelle called the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Also funded by the NSF, this program was conceived in 1999 and has been fully operational since 2019. Their mission is to “advance the ability of scientists to examine and understand the interactions between life and the environment at the scale of an entire continent.” Just like George Van Dyne, they seek to quantify ecological processes over time across large spatial extents through complex sampling across space and time. And the National Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) continues to function today out of Colorado State University in Fort Collins; as does the Fort Collins Science Center (FORT) as part of the United States Geological Society (USGS). They “develop and disseminate research-based information and tools needed to understand the nation’s biological resources in support of effective decision making.” My friend and former college roommate, Pat Shafroth, is a Research Ecologist there and was instrumental in studying the impact on riverside vegetation upon the destruction of the Elwha Dam, the opening of the Elwha River, and the return of spawning salmon. George Van Dyne was ahead of his time. His intuition to first study abiotic factors like rising water temperatures come into focus in light of this summer’s climate catastrophes. We no longer need simulations to tell us the Sacramento River is “facing a “near-complete loss” of young salmon, which cannot grow beyond their egg stage in waters heated by extended temperatures of over 100 degrees.” Abiotic perturbances from a warming planet have clearly effected the life of the living. Flooding is another abiotic perturbance that impacts the lives of living creatures across a large geographic area over a short period of time. The grieving families of the 122 Belgian and German lives that were lost in the flooding this week no longer need a mathematical model to warn them of the dire consequences of human-induced climate catastrophes. And that says nothing of the nonhuman lives taken by the insufferable rushing water.But dwelling on despair only breeds despair. If there’s one thing ecological systems scientists like George, and even my friend Pat, have taught us is that making one small change in a network of interdependent ecological variables can have a large scale impact. We just need to know where to make the change. Scientists know where to focus, but we need big government to act on the big investments they’ve made in big science and big ecology to enable big changes. Collective individual behavioral at the tips of fractal like ecosystem networks helps, but even if everyone on the planet did their part to reduce CO2 emissions, it’s still only four percent of total emissions. We need governments to enact legislation that gets us to clean energy policies quickly – small changes, further up the fractal chain that have big cascading impact through the network of life. So if you want to do your part to help, go to call4climate.com or dial 202-318-1885. Just punch in your zip code and you’ll be presented with the necessary talking points and then connected to your representative Senate offices. Do like George Van Dyne and take action. Subscribe at interplace.io

On today's episode we are going to be talking about rocky seashores Intro Learning outcomes Zones of the sea Tide Flora and fauna in each zone of the sea Adaptations of flora and fauna in rocky seashores Abiotic factors affecting rocky seashores specifically Abiotic factors affecting grasslands specifically Happy learning --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boombiology/message

Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com S2E18 TRANSCRIPT: ----more---- Mark: Welcome back to the Wonder Science-based Paganism. I'm your host, Mark. Yucca: And I'm Yucca. Mark: And today we are going to talk about the first four of the 13 atheopagan principles, which are embraced by those who follow the non theist pagan path of atheopaganism, which you can find much more. About@atheopaganism.org. These are ethical principles which are designed to help us guide our decision-making and how we live in our lives. They're not commandments they're virtues and there are things that we aspire to. So that's what we'll be talking about today. Yucca: And as always sharing this is not a saying. Like Mark, you were saying, this is not a commandment. This is not a saying you need to see the world in the exact same way that we do, right. This is us talking about it's this is a useful framework for us. Let's dive into what these concepts are, what these principles are and how they enrich our lives and experience as pagans in the modern world. Mark: Yes. For a couple of reasons, one of them kind of additive and one sort of subtractive in the additive sense just as we did. Episode on the four pillars, a couple of episodes ago, the four pillars of atheopagan ism, which are the four sacred things. These principles are sort of derived from the four sacred things that is, if you believe that those four things are sacred, then you will conduct yourself according to these principles. There's a logic there. Yucca: They really feed into each other. Mark: exactly. And so. What this does for us is it gives us an ethical framework that helps us, especially when dealing with thorny situational questions that are complex. We can ask ourselves, how does this square with these principles? I've embraced? How, you know, how do I best make a decision? That is in accordance with these guidelines. So that's sort of the additive sense. The other is the subtractive sense is that paganism has often been accused of being very weak in the world way of ethical development. There's a lot of, I have rights and I'm free and I'm going to do whatever I want because I'm free. And there's very little, well, there, you have to respect other beings and you have to be considerate about causing damage in the world and you have to be, you know, all those sorts of things Yucca: The responsibilities that come hand in hand with those rights. Mark: Precisely. And so, so when I was developing atheopaganism as a pagan path, one of the things that I really wanted to address was that paucity of ethical guidance and the atheopagan principles and the four sacred pillars are the results of that work. So today we're going to dive into the first four of the 13 atheopagan principles and we'll come back to the rest in subsequent episodes. Not all at once. We'll put some interruptions in between the principles episodes so that we have some variety. But I think this'll be a really great conversation about what we see as important in terms of perspective and behave. If you're in the world. Yucca: Just on a structural level. I really appreciate it being 13. That's really fun. There's the 13 moons and the one solar year. And I think it was somebody on the Facebook group who suggested applying the principles to the full moons. Mark: yes. Which was just a wonderful idea. I was so excited about it. We've just had the laughter moon and which is the perspective moon. And we'll be coming up soon on the Praxis moon, which is the regular well, we'll talk about that. When we talk about principle five But having 13, this is kind of a magic number for pagans because of the 13 moon cycles. And it's a prime and it's just got all those Yucca: just a fun number. Mark: it is, Yucca: That's great. Mark: kind of number And so as I worked up these principles and then kind of arrived at the end of the list and realized that I think I've covered everything that I wanted to, it turned out that there were 13. And so that was kind of a happy coincide. Yucca: Yeah, well, let's. Mark: dive right in. CRITICAL THINKING Yucca: Yeah, the first one, this is  really appropriate one to be right at the forefront is critical thinking. Mark: Yes. Yes. Skepticism and critical thinking, recognizing that the metaphorical is not the literal and that both have value. It's not that we're saying that the mytho poetic storytelling symbolic realm, isn't a value because of course it is. We wouldn't be pagans if we didn't understand that we wouldn't be humans, honestly, if we didn't understand that. But fact. Yes, but facts are facts. And there is an objective universe outside of our skins, which is behaving according to physical laws. And it would be doing that whether we were observing it or not. And. Our capacity to identify the factual from the unfactual is really important. And especially at this time in American society, particularly, but it's happening all over the world with the rise of conspiracy theories and sort of crazy radical nationalism and various kinds of bigotry rooted in, in, baseless ideas about the superiority of one group of people over another. It's really important for us to learn the tools of critical thinking and be able to look at a claim made by someone and say, is this consistent with the evidence? How good is the evidence? Is this just the say so of some dude on YouTube or is this the consensus of scholars who have studied this for decades, there's a difference there. And we need to understand what the gradations of that difference are. Yucca: Exactly. And then also not just on that level, but within our personal lives. Looking at our own beliefs and going, Oh, wait, let's step back. And look at this. Where is this coming from?  This just confirmation bias? Is this just me really wanting it to be true? let's let's look at the logic behind this. Mark: very much. So there are principles in In cognition theory called Apophenia and pareidolia. Apophenia is the recognition of patterns that aren't there. Seeing patterns in actually unrelated events or phenomena and a sub-case of that is pareidolia, which is the visual recognition of patterns where. They aren't really there. So seeing the Virgin Mary in your taco shell, for example, or seeing faces or clouds or bunnies or whatever, Yucca: Yeah, clouds is a great example for that. Mark: We're always looking for shapes, right? We're looking for faces particularly because that's what we can relate to. And that's what we are, we're most attuned to interacting with as human organisms. So we've got this pattern recognition built into us and it works very well in many ways. It helps us to identify what's going on in the world, around us, and then to make strategic decisions about the right thing to do in relation to the world. The problem is it works too well. We see patterns all the time that don't really exist. I was talking before we started recording. I've had some things happen recently that have been real blows. I got a notice that I'm going to have to move. And my, my wonderful beloved pet kitty died. And now today I've discovered that my electric car is not charging, which for an electric car is kind of a problem. Yucca: That's Mark: And I was saying, well, the myth is that these things come in threes, right. So, you know, maybe that's all that it will be for me for awhile. Identifying that pattern is completely fictitious. It's entirely an imagined the Tori in imagination function in my mind. There is no reason why more bad things shouldn't happen in the next 10 minutes or none for the next 10 years. Yucca: What we focus on is we then see the pattern because we're expecting to see that pattern. Mark: Precisely. And then once having seen a pattern like that confirmation bias kicks in, which is our desire to continue gathering evidence, to convince ourselves that what we think is true. So these are all kind of working against us as rational beings. They're useful for us in many ways, but they're also working against us as rational beings. And so having a core value of skepticism and critical thinking is. Is so important if we're truly going to be science-based pagans, if we're truly going to be the followers of the spirituality of the verifiably real, which is another way that I've described atheopagan ism many times, then we have to be willing to winnow the wheel from the real, from the unreal, through the process of critical thinking and skepticism. Yucca: Right. And building on that, one of the things that we've talked about before on this podcast, but it's really important to come back to is. That this is enriching, this isn't Oh, let's be boring. And do all this critical thinking and take all the magic out of everything. No reality is wondrous and incredible and amazing and critical thinking is a tool for us to discover even more that would have been unimaginable, say, 20 years, a hundred years ago. Mark: Yes Yucca: So it's really enriching. it's it's feeding and nourishing, not depriving us of fun. Mark: Right. Right. One thing that is true for many in our culture now, and I venture to say many, if not most in the broader pagan community is a desire to seek exaltation and joy in fantasy. And there is a lot of joy that can be found in fantasy, but there's so much joy to be found. In reality. Reality is obscenely. Cool. Yucca: Yes. Mark: was just kidding for three days last week, up on the North coast of the County that I live in at a state park called salt point state park and the wild flowers were out and there were carpets of wild flowers all over the place. Stunning, just stunning. And then. You know, my partner Nemea is a photographer. So she's getting down to these little macro, you know, photographs of individual blossoms and identifying different plants. And we found the California native orchid. There's only one, but we found one in bloom. There's, it's just so cool. Nature by itself holds so much to be. To be joyous about and excited and curious and stimulated about that. We don't have to limit ourselves to storytelling and poetry and paintings and imagery and music, and those kinds of artificially created human things Yucca: Which are wonderful. Mark: Oh, they're all. Yucca: But they're not the end. They're part of the picture. They have their role, which is amazing and incredible. But also there's this other half, which is the reality component. Mark: absolutely. Yucca: The objective. Yeah. Mark: And you know, one of, one of the questions that religion seeks to answer at its broadest definition is what's real. What is it? What am I what's here? What is this life? And those questions are best answered through the use of science and critical thinking. Really? That's not what does it mean? What does it mean is something that gets decided in a mythic poetic context, Yucca: that's not science. That's not scientific. Mark: That's absolutely right. It is not scientific to ask, you know, what do stars mean? There's there, there is many answers to that as there are possible observers. Yucca: But how did they form what happens when they run out of hydrogen? Those are questions that end up having some really amazing answers Mark: Yes. Yucca: to that. Then open just a floodgate of other questions and discoveries. Mark: right. Right. So the question of what is a star and understanding that as a process that starts long before there's any kind of a point of light and continues long after there is a point of light becomes this adventure that you can go on. And which astrophysicists go on every day of their lives, trying to figure out the answers to those very questions. And it's exciting and it's beautiful. Yucca: Yeah. REVERENCE FOR THE SACRED EARTH Mark: And I think that's actually a great place at which to transfer, to talking about the second atheopagan principle, which is reverence for the sacred earth and cosmos. We are assembled biological machines that have been erected by life on earth, which is a tiny sub-sector of the physical unfolding of the universe that are able to think and are self-aware and are able to look at this incredible magnificence around us and learn stuff. We are uniquely gifted with the ability to just revel in the wow of all this. And it is to my mind our obligation to live in that reverence. It's not just, yeah, nature is cool. It's a deep seated, spiritual reality. In me and in the non-ferrous pagans that I know that nature is magnificent and that we are deeply indebted to nature because we are in nature. We're not separate. And that all of those engagements that we make with the surrounding natural world, like eating are sacred activities. They're not just random, they're sacred activities, eating sex, excretion. All of those. They are Yucca: breathing. Mark: breathing. Yucca: Think about breath for a while. Think about what you are breathing in that oxygen. And when you breathe out the CO2, which comes from the cells of your body, come through the blood, back to your lungs and out, and what's going to happen to that. It's going over to the grass, to the trees, to the potted plant in your window. And they are then taking that in photosynthesizing and breathing out the oxygen for you and on this back and forth, and those same molecules going from your body to another body. And they came from stars to start with. Mark: Yeah. Yes. All of these reciprocal relationships and having reverence for something is part of understanding that you're in a reciprocal relationship with it. It's not something that you're just mining for resources. And it's not something that you are worshiping in the sense of, you know, basing yourself and saying, Oh yes I'm not worthy kind of story. That's not what it's about. Of course you're worthy. You're an organism here on earth. Of course you're worthy. You are worthy of the oxygen. You're worthy of the food. You're worthy of the warmth and the shelter and the many gifts that the Earth and sun provide us. Yucca: You are part of earth. We're not just on earth. We are part of earth. Mark: Yes, we are earth Yucca: Our, yeah our bodies are. This planet, when we talk about the formation of the planet, we're talking about the formation of us.  Mark: yes. And it can be hard sometimes because of the nature of the way academic disciplines have been divided up to understand that kind of big picture thinking because we have a little box called geology and we will have a little box called biology. And. Those kinds of, I won another wearily and and the physicist just sort of step back and chuckle about the whole thing. But that's the world isn't in those little boxes. That's those are just categories that humans have used to try to narrow down the enormity of what we're trying to understand into digestible bites. Yucca: a new box. That's a little bit bigger, still a box, but it's a great box, a new field, which is geobiology  is trying to look at those merge, those two fields that we've considered to be so separate and look at them together and go, okay. What's how does. How do things flow from the biotic to the Abiotic. And is that even a valid distinction when we're talking about a living planet like Earth and it's really a new field, Robert Hazen, I think has this, his name has a lot of incredible books and some lectures on like the great courses Mark: Hm. Yucca: interested in getting into that, seeing the evolution of mineralogy and biology as not being separate as being completely woven together. Mark: It's really cool and really timely. I mean, we do know from the history of the Earth that, that you know, gigantic algal blooms, for example, that have created huge amounts of oxygen have totally tipped the scales of the biotic activity in the world and change the climate, which has resulted in greenhouse conditions or in snowball earth. So the timeliness of this is very important because we are coming to understand that the primary driver of change in our atmosphere is humanity. It's it is biology. It's not it's not volcanoes it's us. Yucca: Yeah, they have a part, but not in the scale that we're seeing, Mark: Right? Yucca: right. That this is, and that doesn't make humans bad. Mark: No. Yucca: There's a jump that people often go to of, Oh, well, humans are causing this change and therefore humans are bad and everything would be better if we weren't around. That's pretty, in my opinion, pretty far to go. And I think it's lazy, right? To just choose to say, Oh, well, humans are bad. Humans are totally destructive. Instead of going, humans are powerful. We can do these changes. How do we be responsible with the power that we do have? How do we make sure that we aren't harming any even more? How do we make sure that we're restoring what has been harmed and improving the situation for more life and more of quote, unquote nature. Mark: Right. I don't know that I would use the word lazy, but I think we have a propensity to want to divide things in a dualistic sense, into good and bad. And the truth is that in almost all cases, things are complex. They're not good or bad. They're kind of good for some by some measurements and kind of bad by other measurements. And. Humanity is a remarkable species just by any measure, the simple fact that you and I are speaking across thousands of miles to have this conversation, so it can be recorded and downloaded by all these people all over the world is it's just an extraordinary achievement. And to. To denigrate that or to dismiss it, I think is simply to miss out on one of the many wonders of living. Because humans are just remarkable. The art, the music, the dance, the science, all of it is just remarkable, but that said, we are powerful drivers at this point of change. And the question is, which way do we want to drive? Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And given how adaptive we are, even if we've made a big mess, even if the Anthropocene continues, the biodiversity crash continues. The climate change continues. Humans are so adaptable that we are likely to persist even under very extreme conditions. So. My mind has always been to what kinds of values and models can we seek to get out there in the world as much as possible today so that those people then can maybe live a more sustainable life? Yucca: A lot of this is about that we're talking about, right? These principles, what are the things that are going to help us to do that? And the first two that we've talked about, the critical thinking, right? This can be as simple as, huh. If I pollute the water that I'm drinking, what's going to happen. Right. And then also the reference for the Earth and view of it as sacred that it's worth taking care of and protecting. And of course, when We say earth, but earth and cosmos. We're talking about reality. Mark: What is? Yucca: yeah, you don't have to. We're not specific to, although humans we're here on earth. We're part of earth, but we're not excluding everything else by saying earth. Mark: Well, because even at our scale, even at the relativistic scale, everything really is blurred into everything else. The. the Earth is bombarded by solar, radiation and solar wind and meteoroids and all kinds of Yucca: Of space debris. Mark: of space stuff all the time that is coming to add to our world. And to pretend that we are in this little capsule going around a star is. It's not reality. It doesn't hold up to that first principle of skepticism and critical thinking. So if you understand that it's all blurry, then revering, this earth is really not quite enough because there's that star up there, that's driving everything. And that star is a part of the system. And that system is a part of. A galaxy and the galaxy is part of a supercluster and the superclusters, it just goes on  Yucca: Laniakea to the cosmic web, to the observable universe and who knows what more Mark: Yes. Yucca: and how little of it we can see. Mark: So we Revere the Earth and the cosmos because man, they're cool. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: They're just so incredibly cool. Yucca: And by day it's also us, GRADITUDE Mark: Yes. And the next principle actually relates closely to this because if you're really aware of just how wow. the Earth and cosmos are the next principle, which is gratitude becomes a lot easier and gratitude is Its gratitude. Actually, it sounds like a noun, but it's not, it's a verb. Gratitude is something that you do. And it's those moments that we take when we go, wow. That was really beautiful. Or look at that flower or God that smells good. Or that's the best tasting chocolate I think I've ever had. Those acknowledging those moments and kind of gathering them to you in a way that informs that your life is joyous because atheopagan ism is a path that's about being as joyous as possible. It's about being happy as well as being effective and being an exponent for a better world. It's about just being happy because pleasure and happiness are good. It's good for you to be happy. So gratitude is something that, I mean, I know I could do a better job at it. I know I could I feel like there's no ceiling to how grateful one could possibly be. Maybe the Dalai Lama has hit the ceiling. I don't know. But I know that I certainly have farther to go.  Yucca: You too. Yeah. That's something that ritual and we've done a whole episode on this as well, but ritual can really help facilitate Mark: Yes. Yucca: and grow that sense of gratitude, which grows our own happiness, as you're saying and health as well Mark: Yes. For sure. Happier people are healthier people. They just are. I mean, Yucca: more effective. Mark: yes Yucca: Happier person is better able to take care of other people and to focus more. And all of those things. Mark: Yeah, I absolutely agree. So, yes, gratitude. And there are lots of different kinds of gratitude practices. There are people who just before they go to bed, they recount, you know, three things that I was grateful for today. There are people who have a gratitude jar and they put some, they write something down and stick it in the jar every day. And then at some point in the year, they take them all out and read them and then burn them and start over wonderful ritual practice. Um, Yucca: Is a great place for that too, because it sets the tone for your day. Okay. HUMILITY Mark: It announces I'm already coming into a world that gives me gifts that I feel great about now. Let's see. What's up. Yeah. So, that leads me to the fourth principle that we're going to talk about today, which is humility. And I find that gratitude and humility and reverence for the Earth and cosmos all kind of tied together. Because if I really comprehend the scope and scale of the Earth itself, not. Not to mention the cosmos, just the Earth itself in terms of its age and its size. Then I will understand that I am small and temporary and that whatever my concerns are, whatever my attitudes are or my initiatives that. They need to be understood in the context of a being that is small and temporary. And so I feel humility is a really important quality for us to have as non theists pagans because you know, we're not lording over people and telling them what to do. That's not what we're here about. What we're here about is being the best people we possibly can be and doing that in a way. With with a grasp reality, as much as possible and a solid set of things that we find sacred and of value and and a real sense of joy of gratitude as we go forward. So, and you know, I'll say I, I struggled with this when I was younger, I was taught to be really arrogant. My father was just a narcissistic asshole. And I just sort of followed along, trying to be like dad you know, very much a know it all kind of person. And what I found is that the less of that I exhibit in my life, the better my life gets and the truer, it feels so. Which I'm sure is one of the reasons why humility came up early in the list as I was developing the list. These are not in priority order, by the way, the atheopagan principles are the, are basically just in the order that I thought of them and wrote them down. Yucca: Yeah, Mark: so, Yucca: Touching on humility. This is one of those terms that can have very different emotional connotations for people. And when we say humility, we're not talking about belittling oneself, right. We're small, but that doesn't mean that we suck or that we're not important or that we're not worthy of love and attention and all of those things and respect, but that. It's really tying back into that gratitude where it's with the humility. Part of it is a recognition that the world doesn't owe us something. We are part of the world. And if anything, we owe the world, not that people should just be giving to us and no matter what all of that, um, That arrogance there's it really ties into that, that self-awareness and gratitude that just leads to a contentment and a humble outlook. Mark: Yeah. Yeah, because I mean, it's a little tail chasing in a way, because once again, You know, it's complex. All these things are true at once. Yes, I am small and temporary and trivial. Yes, I am amazing. It is amazing that I am here. I can do amazing things that is really fucking cool. And I'm small and temporary. And. My, whatever things I do in the grand course of the universe's history will inevitably be trivial, but it doesn't matter because I have that core understanding that I'm amazing at the same time. And we can hold all of those. We can be filled with gratitude for the gifts, the various genetic gifts and educational gifts and cultural gifts that we've been given. As well as to understand ourselves as being small and temporary and deserving of humility holding all of that together without flopping over into shame or Poor self-esteem on the one hand or narcissism and arrogance on the other hand is a part of the balance holding that's so necessary for us as non theist pagans. Yucca: With that those two understandings at once I think are epitomized by the sense of looking out at the dark starry sky and getting that incredible sense of, ah, I'm tiny and the universe is so fast and I'm part of it Mark: Yes, I am. Part of all this, all that extending out farther even than light has ever reached this planet. I'm part of all of it. Every molecule that makes me up arose shortly after the big bang and Yucca: and it's both true Mark: wow. Yes. It's all true. It's true. Yup. And you know, it's kind of an amazing thing to be able to get up in the morning and look in the mirror and say, hello, big bang. Good morning. Good morning, Starburst. How are you today? And you know, we've talked a lot in this podcast about how being a science-based pagan, being a. An earth revering pagan. A lot of it is about just learning to pay attention, looking for, you know, the little details of beauty and what nature is doing and how things are changing over the course of the seasons and all that. And I think that this is one of those places where this is true also that Noticing when we're given an opportunity to be kind of arrogant and we choose to be humble instead, noticing when we're provided with something unexpected and joyous. And we can be grateful about that, you know, keeping track of these meaningful events in our lives, because it's so easy for life to just turn into this sort of rush of. Not necessarily meaning associated moments, just kind of running through the routine and we're here to celebrate, you know, that's what our, that's what our religious path is for. We're here to celebrate and to be good people and to help other people celebrate and to make the world as good for other beings as we can. And that requires some cataloging. No you have to keep score at some level. You have to keep track of the good stuff. In order to remind yourself to be grateful Yucca: And learn to focus on that because it's a choice. Mark: Very much as a, as someone who has struggled with depression, when that filter drops down over my eyes, I can't see the good stuff. I just can't. And it's not that it isn't there, even though that voice in my head lies and says, it's not there. And I've been through enough cycles of this now that I know that's not true. But it sure seems true because that voice speaks with a lot of authority. So that's the first four of the 13 atheopagan principles. Love to have your feedback. We take. Email at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com, which is the wonder podcast, all one word Q s@gmail.com. Love to hear from you about this. And as I said, we'll be going over the rest of the principles in subsequent episodes. But not next week, we'll do something else next week. Just to kind of keep things mixed up in lively. UPDATE ON THE ATHEOPAGAN SOCIETY Yucca: Before we finish up for today, we did want to remind folks about the Atheopagan Society.  Mark: It's a nonprofit religious organization that we founded to to keep the ideas that the principles and values of atheopaganism moving forward into beyond the life of any one person and to help support atheopaganism around the world. Yucca is the chair of the council of the Atheopagan Society. And I serve on the council. We had a meeting last night and so we can report out some of the stuff that's going on with that. You want to start in on that Yucca Yucca: Sure. We'll, we've been, you know, we have our quarterly meetings and we're still getting our feet underneath ourselves, but we've been working with different committees, especially the educational committee, putting together material that can be used by anyone. So again, this is not a membership organization. You don't have to pay any dues. This is just the service that we're putting out to be available for anyone. But  working with that.  The clerical committee has worked on putting together material for anyone who wants to be a cleric and material like weddings. What other things are on that Mark? Mark: The introductory guide book for clerics includes a section on pastoral counseling. On conducting weddings on conducting funerals and working with the dying and on conducting other rites of passage, like naming ceremonies and passages into adulthood and all that kind of stuff. And it's downloadable from the Atheopagan Society website, which is theAPsociety.org. You can also see the bios of the members of the council there and download the bylaws if you're curious see what events are coming up all those kinds of things. So it gives you an overview about what the society is up to. We also talked quite a bit about diversity, equity and inclusion, which is something that's very important to us as a value. We're still trying to figure out how best to pursue DEI initiatives within the atheopagan community, but it is important to us and we're still looking for the right ways to. To conduct ourselves that way. Possibly by developing a statement and then an implementation plan for that statement. But it's early days yet. And we need help in order to do that because we don't have a whole lot of diversity on the Atheopagan Society council right now. And we really need more voices to be involved in that. Yucca: Exactly. Yeah. And so that's something that is, that really is taking a lot of our focus. Mark: Yes. Yucca: So, Mark: In the edge. Oh, go ahead. Yucca: Oh, I was going to say, and we were also talking about different media outreach and what ways that the society can really best serve the community and what platforms do we use to reach people and all of that. So that's another thing that we, of course, always really welcome input from folks on. Mark: Yes. And the last thing that I'd want people to be aware of is that we have begun discussions about an in-person atheopagan con. Or something like that. An in-person gathering in 2022. The, this is still a very nebulous concept, but we're looking at doing something somewhere in the middle of North America, probably the Denver area, because there are beautiful national parks nearby and it's air traffic hubs. So it's cheaper to fly into for people. We. We don't know exactly what it would be yet, but we know that there's a lot of interest in doing this and I've interacted with so many people online, especially over the last year that I want to hug. If they want to be hugged, Yucca: It'd be great to give you a hug. Mark: I would. Wouldn't that be great? Yucca: You know, all of this zoom it's would be wonderful to see people in person and know. Mark: it would be really great. So that has begun. And we're starting to gather a committee together that can help to produce that event. And that'll be a production of the Atheopagan Society. And we'll use our corporate nonprofit umbrella as the producer. So exciting things happening. And we just wanted to make sure that you knew about them now, not everybody who is a non theist pagan is an atheopagan. And we want to be clear about that. But if you want to come play with us, you're welcome to. Yucca: Yeah  Mark: and I don't know. I think that's about it. Yucca: I think so, but I'm glad we got to touch on that as well. A little bit in this episode. So yeah, as always, this has been wonderful. Thank you, Mark. Mark: I've really enjoyed it. Thank you so much. Yucca. See you next week.    

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