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******Support the channel******Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenterPayPal: paypal.me/thedissenterPayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuyPayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9lPayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpzPayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9mPayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ******Follow me on******Website: https://www.thedissenter.net/The Dissenter Goodreads list: https://shorturl.at/7BMoBFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/Twitter: https://x.com/TheDissenterYT This show is sponsored by Enlites, Learning & Development done differently. Check the website here: http://enlites.com/ Dr. Kostas Kampourakis is author and editor of several books about science. He works at the Teacher Training Institute and the Section of Biology at the University of Geneva. At the Section of Biology, he teaches the courses “Biologie et Société” and “Comprendre l'évolution”. He is the author and editor of several books, including Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods. In this episode, we focus on Darwin Mythology. We start by talking about the problem with hero-worshipping in science, and what is a myth. We then go through several myths and falsehoods associated with Darwin, including whether his ideas were original to him; the Galápagos Islands and the finches; whether Darwin was an armchair theoretician; his reaction to Lamarck's ideas; Alfred Russell Wallace; whether Darwin's opponents had good arguments; the origins of the phrase “survival of the fittest”; essentialism; African human origins; whether Darwin's theory was revolutionary; and whether it makes sense to question Darwin. Finally, we talk about what we can learn about how science works by debunking such myths.--A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS/SUPPORTERS: PER HELGE LARSEN, JERRY MULLER, BERNARDO SEIXAS, ADAM KESSEL, MATTHEW WHITINGBIRD, ARNAUD WOLFF, TIM HOLLOSY, HENRIK AHLENIUS, FILIP FORS CONNOLLY, ROBERT WINDHAGER, RUI INACIO, ZOOP, MARCO NEVES, COLIN HOLBROOK, PHIL KAVANAGH, SAMUEL ANDREEFF, FRANCIS FORDE, TIAGO NUNES, FERGAL CUSSEN, HAL HERZOG, NUNO MACHADO, JONATHAN LEIBRANT, JOÃO LINHARES, STANTON T, SAMUEL CORREA, ERIK HAINES, MARK SMITH, JOÃO EIRA, TOM HUMMEL, SARDUS FRANCE, DAVID SLOAN WILSON, YACILA DEZA-ARAUJO, ROMAIN ROCH, DIEGO LONDOÑO CORREA, YANICK PUNTER, CHARLOTTE BLEASE, NICOLE BARBARO, ADAM HUNT, PAWEL OSTASZEWSKI, NELLEKE BAK, GUY MADISON, GARY G HELLMANN, SAIMA AFZAL, ADRIAN JAEGGI, PAULO TOLENTINO, JOÃO BARBOSA, JULIAN PRICE, EDWARD HALL, HEDIN BRØNNER, DOUGLAS FRY, FRANCA BORTOLOTTI, GABRIEL PONS CORTÈS, URSULA LITZCKE, SCOTT, ZACHARY FISH, TIM DUFFY, SUNNY SMITH, JON WISMAN, WILLIAM BUCKNER, PAUL-GEORGE ARNAUD, LUKE GLOWACKI, GEORGIOS THEOPHANOUS, CHRIS WILLIAMSON, PETER WOLOSZYN, DAVID WILLIAMS, DIOGO COSTA, ALEX CHAU, AMAURI MARTÍNEZ, CORALIE CHEVALLIER, BANGALORE ATHEISTS, LARRY D. LEE JR., OLD HERRINGBONE, MICHAEL BAILEY, DAN SPERBER, ROBERT GRESSIS, JEFF MCMAHAN, JAKE ZUEHL, BARNABAS RADICS, MARK CAMPBELL, TOMAS DAUBNER, LUKE NISSEN, KIMBERLY JOHNSON, JESSICA NOWICKI, LINDA BRANDIN, GEORGE CHORIATIS, VALENTIN STEINMANN, ALEXANDER HUBBARD, BR, JONAS HERTNER, URSULA GOODENOUGH, DAVID PINSOF, SEAN NELSON, MIKE LAVIGNE, JOS KNECHT, LUCY, MANVIR SINGH, PETRA WEIMANN, CAROLA FEEST, MAURO JÚNIOR, 航 豊川, TONY BARRETT, NIKOLAI VISHNEVSKY, STEVEN GANGESTAD, TED FARRIS, AND ROBINROSWELL!A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, TOM VANEGDOM, BERNARD HUGUENEY, CURTIS DIXON, BENEDIKT MUELLER, THOMAS TRUMBLE, KATHRINE AND PATRICK TOBIN, JONCARLO MONTENEGRO, NICK GOLDEN, CHRISTINE GLASS, IGOR NIKIFOROVSKI, PER KRAULIS, AND BENJAMIN GELBART!AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MATTHEW LAVENDER, SERGIU CODREANU, ROSEY, AND GREGORY HASTINGS!

This episode explores the fascinating intersection of science and the supernatural during the Victorian era, highlighting how prominent scientists like Michael Faraday, William James, and the Curies engaged with spiritualism. It delves into the rise of spiritualism as a social movement, the scientific investigations that sought to debunk or understand paranormal phenomena, and the legacy of these explorations in contemporary science.Keywords: Victorian era, spiritualism, science, supernatural, Michael Faraday, William James, Alfred Russell Wallace, Curies, Eleanor Sidgwick, idiomotor effect Become a patron of Breaking Math for as little as a buck a monthFollow Breaking Math on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Website, YouTube, TikTokFollow Autumn on Twitter and InstagramFollow Gabe on Twitter.Become a guest hereemail: breakingmathpodcast@gmail.com

Der Komet Donati hat 1858 die ganze Welt begeistert. Die Wissenschaft ebenso wie die Kunst, Literatur und sogar einen asiatischen König. Warum der Komet so super war, erfahrt ihr in der neuen Folge der Sternengeschichten: https://astrodicticum-simplex.at/?p=36891 Wer den Podcast finanziell unterstützen möchte, kann das hier tun: Mit PayPal (https://www.paypal.me/florianfreistetter), Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sternengeschichten) oder Steady (https://steadyhq.com/sternengeschichten)

Recibimos al vocalista del famoso grupo Sin Bandera, Noel Schajris. Cantante, compositor, pianista y ganador de un Grammy Latino en su carrera como solista. Presenta su nuevo proyecto como solista, que incluye una gira por España como solista con su álbum "Siempre Lo Supe" para Mayo de 2024. Hacemos un nuevo viaje con José Mª Pascual, a través de la exposición del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales "Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913) Biogeografía y evolución".Escuchar audio

This was the first ever episode of The Wild Life back in 2017, and it was never supposed to happen. That's right, The Wild Life, as a podcast, was an accident. The result of a series of unfortunate events. But that's life, isn't it? It happens in the most unexpected of ways. I never imagined that this is where I would be today, and I'm so incredibly grateful for the experience and all those who have been a part of it, as guests, as listeners, and as people who believed in the work I was doing and helped me to succeed.The mystery of zebra stripes has long been a subject of debate, at least since the days of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. Now, thanks to Dr. Tim Caro, a professor of wildlife biology at the University of California-Davis, we finally have our answer.Next week, we're exploring Shark Conservation with Alexandra McInturf!If you'd like to support the creation of this show, the blog, and my science communication efforts on social media, you can do so for as little as $1 per month at www.patreon.com/thewildlifePeace out, rainbow trouts!

On this, the anniversary of the first scientific paper documenting the theory of evolution being presented to the world, we talk about the man that made it all happen. And no, that one. Today's episode is dedicated to shining a light on one of biology's most overlooked figures as we celebrate the life and times of Alfred Russell Wallace - who came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection completely independently of Charles Darwin. Then, we buckle up for our first trip to the thunderdome with our pals Birda before Roddy gets into a battle with one of the most obscure animals on the planet - the Solenodon.  And finally, we answer the question on everyone's lips. Where in the world have we gone? And what, exactly, are we doing here...?    To learn more about our partners Birda and download their free birdwatching app, visit their website at https://birda.app/how-many-geese   To support the show by leaving us a donation to help keep growing the podcast, please visit: www.buymeacoffee.com/howmanygeese  

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski has been a conservationist with the World Wildlife Fund for over 40 years. He tells of his boyhood adventure in upstate New York State. He talks of following in the steps of his idol, Alfred Russell Wallace, who studied species with Charles Darwin, and of later quests in the jungles of Borneo, Laos and other exotic destinations around the world. Paul tells  of pandas, palm oil, orangutans -- ending with everything you want to know concerning a search about mysterious white elephants._____Paul Spencer Sochaczewski is an a conservationist, adventurer and author. pauls@iprolink.ch   www.sochaczewski.comHis latest books:A Conservation Notebook (just published)Searching for Ganesha / EarthLoveDead, But Still Kicking / Exceptional EncountersAn Inordinate Fondness for BeetlesCurious Encounters of the Human Kind (five book series)Redheads / Soul of the Tiger / Distant Greens  Share Your Journey: Mastering Personal Writing_____Podcast host Lea Lane blogs at forbes.com, has traveled to over 100 countries, written nine books, including Places I Remember, and contributed to many guidebooks. Contact Lea!  @lealane on Twitter; PlacesIRememberLeaLane on Insta; on  Facebook, it's Places I Remember with Lea Lane. Website: placesirememberlealane.com.  New episodes drop every other week, on Tuesdays. Please tell folks about us, and follow, rate and review this award-winning travel podcast!

Alfred Russell Wallace is the most famous scientist that you've never heard of. We talk about his work, the Wallace Line, and how he inspired Darwin.

Charles Darwin is often credited with the discovery of the theory of natural selection.  This is partially true, but it isn't totally true. He didn't do this alone. In particular, there was someone else who did much of the research that lead to the discovery. In the process, he also made a discovery that bear's his name and influenced the fields of both biology and geology. Learn more about Alfred Russell Wallace and the Wallace Line, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Record your family memories at Storyworth https://storyworth.com/everything Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Darcy Adams Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ Everything Everywhere is an Airwave Media podcast." or "Everything Everywhere is part of the Airwave Media podcast network Please contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on Everything Everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Darwin revolutionized the biology of today. Evolution has been a crucial concept. Darwin's principle of "natural selection" remains key to understanding this process.Keywords: Darwin's finches, Jean Baptiste Lamarck, Alfred Russell Wallace, Origin of SpeciesSUPPORT: **Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScienceWeSpeakSOCIAL MEDIA: *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sciencewespeak/*Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceWeSpeak*Telegram: https://t.me/sciencewespeak

If Alfred Russell Wallace (1823- 1913) is thought of at all, he is an after-thought to his far more famous counterpart Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection. However, he has also had an impact in other fields. Today, we'll be exploring the Wallace Line and Wallace's contribution to zoogeography. Sources for this episode: 1) Cain, M. L., Bowman, W. D. and Hacker, S. D. (2011), Ecology (Second Edition). Sunderland, Massachusetts, Sinauer Associated Ltd. 2) Camerini, J. R., Encyclopaedia Britannica (2021), Alfred Russell Wallace (online) [Accessed 10/06/2021]. 3) The Editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica (2019), Wallace Line (online) [Accessed 10/06/2021]. 4) Marshall, M., New Scientist (2021), The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans (online) [Accessed 11/06/2021]. 5) Scoville, H., ThoughtCo (2020), What Is the Wallace Line? (online) [Accessed 10/06/2021]. 6) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Phys (2016), Recent connection between North and South America reaffirmed (online) [Accessed 10/06/2021]. 7) Tang, C. M., Encyclopaedia Britannica (2018), Tethys Sea (online) [Accessed 11/06/2021]. 8) Thain, M. and Hickman, M. (2014), Dictionary of Biology (Eleventh Edition). London: Penguin Books Ltd. 9) University of Adelaide, Phys (2013), Mysterious ancient human crossed Wallace's Line (online) [Accessed 10/06/2021]. 10) Author unknown, Understanding Evolution (Berkeley, date unknown), Biogeography: Wallace and Wegener (online) [Accessed 11/06/2021]. 11) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Wallacea (online) [Accessed 11/06/2021].

Science Night, reimagined. Season 3 debuts a new format for your favorite podcast where we focus on the coolest science the stories behind it: past, present, and future! Episode 1 features the latest science developments from protein folding to time crystals, a brief history of 19th Century evolutionary theorist Alfred Russell Wallace, and an attempt to answer the question, “What is Science?” We hope you enjoy the new look and sound of Science Night! Be sure to check out the rest of the Alfred Wallace episode produced by our friends at the History's B-Side podcast (https://anchor.fm/historysbside). Links to the articles we talked about in this episode can be found at https://www.scinight.com/ Special thanks for attempting to answer the question “What is Science?”: Anne Burrows Craig Byron Steffi Diem Jen Ma Jon Marks Brian Shearer Ben Valentine Your Hosts: Chris Goulet (https://twitter.com/gr8goulet?lang=en) Jason Organ (https://twitter.com/OrganJM) James Reed (https://twitter.com/James_Reed3) Credits Editing-James Reed Mastering- Chris Goulet Music: Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell | https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill (https://riverpower.xyz/) family

Eat's Business #22Dans ce nouvel épisode de Eat's Business, la revue de presse du Business de la Bouffe, Olivier Frey et Daniel Coutinho reviennent sur la composition des cartes de restaurants, pas 100% françaises avec le chef Victor Mercier de FIEF, sur l'annonce d'AXA qui va indemniser 15 000 restaurateurs suite aux déconvenues de la crise sanitaire et le fruit exotique durian, sujet à discordes.Dans cet épisode, sont aussi évoqués la consommation d'avocats aux Etats-Unis toujours à la hausse, le succès du Spritz et un tour d'horizon des plateformes de livraison rapide à domicile. Pourquoi ne mange-t-on pas Français au restaurant ?Le Figaro, Pourquoi les restaurateurs ne jouent pas toujours la carte du 100% français, 01/06/2021On répète souvent aux consommateurs français de privilégier le made in France, mais force est de constater que les origines des viandes affichées dans les restaurants sont plus souvent irlandaises ou allemandes que françaises. Ce constat a d'ailleurs été mis en avant par Emmanuel Macron le 18 mai dernier lorsqu'il affirmait que “les tables françaises de la restauration servent à plus de 60% de la viande qui n'est pas française”.Les premiers fautifs selon l'article seraient les grossistes, et en premier lieu Metro, car '“les restaurateurs sont orientés par les propositions des fournisseurs et grossistes”. L'article précise toutefois que Metro “s'est engagé depuis 2020 dans une démarche de valorisation des produits hexagonaux”. Autre difficulté : la saisonnalité des productions. Ainsi, les tomates et les salades proposées sont à 90% françaises entre avril et octobre et l'offre de fruits et légumes est en général française à 60%. Pour Laurent Frechet, président de la branche restauration au GNI, afin de limiter les coûts des produits français “il suffit de travailler avec des produits de saison et pour cela il ne faut pas démarrer trop tôt”. Il explique ainsi que “les asperges, au début de saison sont à 35 euros le kilo, mais elles tombent à 7 ou 8 euros une fois la saison lancée”. Par conséquent “si on a une carte adaptée, cela ne coûte pas plus cher”.Michael Gautier patron du restaurant «Les Françaises» à Paris, et qui travaille à 100% en viandes françaises, propose de son côté la création d'« un label qui dit qu'on a une certaine part de produits français dans nos assiettes ». Toujours selon lui, il y a le problème des appellations. Ainsi, “entre une planche de Pata Negra et un porc noir de Bigorre, les gens vont choisir le premier”.  Du côté de la restauration collective, il y a une contrainte budgétaire qui “oriente fortement la recherche des produits”. L'article précise également que “pour les clients publics, il n'est pas autorisé de choisir explicitement un produit du fait de son origine géographique, en raison des règles de concurrence élaborées au niveau européen”. AXA VS Les restaurateursLe Monde, Axa France va débloquer une enveloppe de 300 millions d'euros pour 15 000 restaurateurs, 10/06/2021Pendant le premier confinement, nous avions suivi de près les échanges entre restaurateurs et assureurs. On rappelle que les assureurs, notamment AXA, disaient ne pas pouvoir indemniser les restaurateurs pendant la fermeture. Le chef de l'Ami Jean, Stéphane Jégo, avait beaucoup fait parlé de lui avec sa pétition, adressée directement à Bruno Le Maire, ministre de l'économie. Dans cette dernière, il militait pour que l'état de catastrophe naturelle sanitaire soit déclaré par les assurances. Malheureusement, son amendement a été rapidement débouté devant l'Assemblée Nationale.On avait aussi vu et entendu le restaurateur Stéphane Manigold se défendre contre AXA. Il a mené un véritable travail d'enquête pour démontrer que les assurances avaient les moyens d'indemniser les restaurants et qu'elles étaient même contraintes et obligées, selon une clause du contrat. Le tribunal de Paris a fini par lui donner raison. Cette décision a eu un retentissement international. Elle a été reprise par le New York Times, mais aussi en Espagne et Angleterre, jusqu'en Afrique du Sud.Finalement, AXA est revenu sur ses positions. L'assureur vient d'annoncer qu'il débloque 300 millions d'euros pour 15 000 de ses clients restaurateurs, pour éponger les dettes et les pertes dues à la crise sanitaire, soit environ 20 000 euros par restaurateur. Le directeur général d'AXA a déclaré sur Europe 1 : "Il est important de mettre derrière nous ces difficultés, le flou judiciaire qu'on a vécu dans le dossier des restaurateurs."Le groupe AXA enregistre au total 1 500 procédures judiciaires du même acabit. De plus, les 300 millions débloqués ne sont pas une indemnisation, mais une transaction. Si les clients acceptent l'argent, ils devront aussi renoncer à toutes actions en justice contre l'assureur. Les premiers paiements vont arriver rapidement, dès le mois de juin et s'échelonner jusqu'au mois de septembre. La surenchère des start-up de livraison rapideLSA, Embouteillage dans la livraison à domicile express (23 acteurs à la loupe), 03/06/2021Un article de LSA qui fait le point sur le maquis des acteurs du Q-commerce et de la livraison de courses à domicile.L'article rappelle un chiffre : en 2020, les courses alimentaires livrées à domicile ont bondi de 45 %. Mais, rapporté au global, la livraison à domicile ne représentait, en février 2021, que 0,5 % des achats alimentaires.Et comme l'explique Matthieu Vincent de DigitalFoodLab,  «  la rapidité de déploiement de ces start-up est étonnante. On remarque, en outre, qu'elles attirent dès leur création des investisseurs étrangers, ce qui est plutôt rare ». En moins d'un an d'existence Gorillas est ainsi devenue une licorne.LSA segmente les business models des entreprises de livraison de courses en plusieurs types :Celles reposant sur des “dark stores” comme Gorillas, Cajoo, Flink, Dija, Weezy et GetirCelles qui ont un assortiment plus vaste et proposent des temps de livraison supérieurs aux 10 minutes promises par la plupart des entreprises de la catégorie précédente. C'est le cas de Picnic, La Belle Vie ou encore mon-marché.fr.Celles qui proposent de la livraison collaborative, à l'instar de Everli.Celles qui sont des prestataires de livraison, par exemple pour la grande distribution, comme Deliveroo, Uber Eats et Frichti.  L'avocat a encore des beaux jours devant luiFood Navigator, Avocado consumption climbs with plenty of headroom for growth ahead, says Rabobank, 01/06/2021Un article déniché par Céline Laisney.Selon un rapport de Rabobank, la consommation d'avocats aux États-Unis a atteint des record en début d'année grâce à la reprise de l'économie ainsi qu'une perception toujours positive de l'avocat en tant que super aliment à la mode. Ainsi, les expéditions mensuelles d'avocats sur le marché américain en janvier 2021, ont enregistré une croissance en volume de 33 % par rapport à janvier 2020.La consommation d'avocats par habitant a augmenté à un taux de croissance annuel moyen de 8 % au cours de la dernière décennie. En 2010, la consommation d'avocats par habitant aux États-Unis était d'environ 4 livres, en 2018 elle était proche de 8,5 livres et Rabobank estime que ce chiffre pourrait dépasser 11 livres par personne d'ici 2026.Pour ceux qui veulent aller plus loin sur l'avocat, je vous invite à lire cet article que nous avons co-écrit avec Céline Laisney dans l'édition 2021 du Déméter. Le durian : un fruit polémiqueFinancial Times, The durian fruit, redeemed, 02/06/2021Un article qui s'intéresse à fruit que l'on ne trouve quasiment qu'en Asie et qui a une assez mauvaise réputation dans les pays occidentaux : le durian.Il s'agit d'un gros fruit vert, en forme de ballon de rugby et qui est originaire de Malaisie, d'Indonésie et de Brunei. Le durian est également cultivé en Thaïlande ou au Vietnam. Surnommé le "roi des fruits", il peut peser jusqu'à 4 kg et est couvert de pointes ("duri" signifie épine en malais).Ce fruit a une saveur complexe. Au 19è siècle, l'explorateur britannique Alfred Russell Wallace affirmait qu'il s'agissait du fruit parfait pour la "douceur gluante" de sa pulpe, qui ressemble à "une crème riche, semblable à du beurre, fortement aromatisée aux amandes [et entremêlée d'odeurs de] crème au fromage, de sauce aux oignons, de sherry brun et d'autres incongruités".Mais ce qui fait le plus débat à propos du durian est son odeur. D'ailleurs l'article précise que “la façon dont le fruit et son arôme sont présentés en Occident est devenue un sujet de discorde majeur”. Un article paru dans le New York Times en 2020 va même jusqu'à affirmer qu'il "pue la mort". A tel point que de nombreux asiatiques y voient tout simplement du racisme. Pour l'écrivaine gastronomique Anna Sulan Masing, “vous pouvez écrire que le durian n'est pas une saveur que vous aimez, comme vous pourriez le faire pour le roquefort. Et parler de la complexité de sa saveur. Mais c'est rarement fait comme ça. C'est plus souvent une excuse pour écrire des choses subtilement racistes”. Elle précise d'ailleurs que c'est une des raisons pour lesquelles la diaspora d'Asie du Sud-Est s'accroche au durian car “il y a un sentiment de réappropriation”. Le Spritz : un cocktail plébiscitéL'Opinion, « La guerre du Spritz aura-t-elle lieu ? », 04/06/2021Un article consacré à cet apéritif italien orange, que l'on trouve désormais dans tous les bars dignes de ce nom (et à des prix parfois exhorbitants).Tout commence au début des années 2000 lorsque l'entreprise Campari fait l'acquisition de Barbero, qui possède entre autres la marque Aperol. Comme l'explique Sébastien Abis, pour Campari, l'objectif est aussi et surtout de promouvoir un cocktail mixant ses liqueurs avec de l'eau gazeuse et du vin effervescent.Et pour accroître la notoriété du Spritz, Campari va mettre les moyens avec “opérations de séduction innovantes sur les places des grandes villes italiennes” ou “publicités spectaculaires à grand renfort de stars internationales du cinéma” mais également “création de festivals de musique de très haut niveau entièrement labellisés”. Et même s'il existe plusieurs variantes du Spritz (Campari Spritz, Select Spritz ou Aperol Spritz), c'est l'Aperol Spritz qui est la locomotive car il a un goût plus léger et est donc plus accessible.Et dans le Spritz, l'Aperol est désormais indissociable du prosecco (dont nous parlions il y a quelques semaines). Comme l'explique Sébastien Abis, le prosecco était, jusqu'au succès du Spritz, “méconnu en dehors des milieux professionnels et de sa zone géographique en Vénétie”. Désormais il fait même de l'ombre au champagne. D'ailleurs, en réponse, LVMH vient de lancer Chandon Garden Spritz.  Découvrez l'émission Eat's Businesshttps://businessofbouffe.com/podcast-eats-business  Pour vous abonner à la newsletter Eat's Businesshttps://businessofbouffe.com/revue-de-presse-eats-business-newsletter  

Episode 108 – A Flood of Truth Part 4 – St Scientific Support Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. Script/Notes: But God remembered Noah ... He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede. The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped. So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days … from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible. The Book of Genesis, chapter 8, verses 1 through 5. New Living Translation ******** VK: Hello. I'm Victoria K welcoming you to another episode of Anchored by Truth. I'm in the studio today with RD Fierro, author and Founder Crystal Sea Books. RD, I understand that today you want to continue our discussion about Noah and the flood that's described in the book of Genesis. We've been talking about Noah for a few episodes now. RD, would you like to say hello to the Anchored by Truth audience and catch us up on some of the important ideas that we've been discussing? RD: Sure. Let's start by reminding people that the Bible makes it clear that the story of Noah is one of the major steps in God's unfolding plan of redemption. But it couldn't be a real step in a real plan of redemption if the story wasn't real history. So, that's the first really big point. The Bible treats the story of Noah as literal history. A second major point is that because Noah's story is real we should be able to find evidence of the story's historicity in at least four different areas: the origin and after effects of the flood itself, the ark, the animals, and anthropology and genetics. By origin I'm obviously thinking about the very basic question of where did all that water come from? By after effects I'm including the paleontological and geological evidence that we should be able to see if the earth was at one time suddenly submerged under water. The questions about the ark and the animals are pretty self-evident. By anthropology and genetics I'm referring to the fact that flood stories exist in hundreds of different cultures around the world and that we can see evidence of a major bottleneck in the world's population today by looking at DNA. And a third major point is that, unlike some personalities from the Bible, the Bible never tells us that Noah had any special ability. The only reason we know about Noah today is because in a world of unrighteous people Noah was willing to obey God. VK: Well, I think that sets the stage pretty well. Before we get too far along into the heavy stuff let's start off on the lighter side with one of Crystal Sea's Life Lessons with a Laugh. This one will reinforce the historical reasonability of the ark's design as related by the Bible. ---- NOAH 4 – Stability in Rough Seas VK: Ok. I think I counted six or seven different names you used for Jerry in that exchange. I'm kind of amazed how much information you two actually manage to exchange while you keep playing ping-pong with something as simple as Jerry's name. RD: The challenge is keeping up with Jerry's ability to return serve. He doesn't really let me get away with much. VK: So I've noticed. But in between the Jermajesties and Jerbits I noticed that you brought out one of the points that we covered in our Life Lesson in the previous episode – the fact that the dimensions of the ark that God gave to Noah help produce a very stable ocean going vessel. In the Life Lesson we heard previously we heard that the ark had the size to carry a vast cargo of animals and their food. In this humor piece you pointed out that the ark's dimensions as described in the Bible provide a design that is very stable in rough seas. So, insofar as the ark is concerned we've now shown that the ark's size and stability are consistent with what we know about the real world. Is that one of the points you want to make? RD: Yep. And in the humor piece we're planning for next time we're going to talk about the ark's strength. So the Life Lessons are helping people have a great start in thinking about what kind of vessel would be necessary to successfully survive a flood of Biblical proportions – the necessary size, stability, and strength. So, that's one of the four lines of evidence that can be cited to demonstrate that the Genesis account is an accurate record of a historical event – that the ark described by the Bible was suitable for its intended purpose. So, now let's take a look at one of the other lines of evidence for the historicity of the flood story: the origin and after effects of the flood. VK: Sounds good. Where do you want to begin? RD: Let's start with a relatively simple point. Where did all the water come from? VK: Well, the Bible tells us that contrary to most of the cartoonish portrayals of the major source of flood the source of the flood came from down below not from up above. Genesis 7:11 tells us that “in the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.” So, the Bible shows us the water came first from sources deep within the earth's crust. RD: Exactly. And the fact that there is enough water present on the face of the earth to cover all the land is well known and has been known for over a century. Even Charles Darwin's colleague, Alfred Russell Wallace, famously wrote that if the surface of the earth were smoothed out the entire globe would be covered with water about two miles deep. We now know that Wallace was pretty close in his estimate. The actual depth would be about 1 and 2/3 miles. VK: So, there's plenty of water available on the earth to submerge all the land. But is there evidence that all the land on the earth was at one time submerged? RD: Actually there is. There are vast stretches of the planet covered by layers of sedimentary rocks. Sedimentary rocks are the type of rocks that are formed by the deposit and subsequent cementation of mineral or organic particles from a flowing body of water. Such deposits regularly happen on the floor of oceans or other bodies of water on the earth's surface. One of the best known of these layers is the Coconino sandstone that has an average thickness of over 300 feet and combined with equivalent sandstones to the east it covers an area of almost 200,000 square miles. Moreover, there is fossil evidence that demonstrates that some the highest geological structures on earth were at one point under water. Fossil evidence also demonstrates that large numbers of animals were, at one point, buried suddenly and in groups that contained mixtures of land and marine animals. Harold Coffin has a good article on Bibleinfo.com entitled “Is there evidence that the flood was global,” which has some good examples. VK: Why don't we mention one or two of the examples that Mr. Coffin cites? RD: Sure. There are massive graveyards of thousands and even millions of fish, dinosaurs, and mammals that are found in North America, Europe, and Africa. The same is true of plants. From Utah-Colorado north to Alberta-Saskatchewan, Canada, thousands of dinosaurs are found in certain beds such as the Morrison Formation. These sites along with others mentioned above reveal that great quantities of animals were buried together rapidly. The rapid burial resulted in excellent preservation of the remains and the position of mammals that suggest death by drowning. The geological processes seen in the modern world cannot account for such unusual conditions. A world-wide catastrophe involving water is the easiest explanation for these observations. VK: So part of the thinking is that such huge fossil beds wouldn't be present if all the animals hadn't been buried suddenly simultaneously? And that would make them all having been covered suddenly by a huge volume of mud and silt. The easiest explanation for how that could happen is being caught unexpectedly in a catastrophic flood. I mean if the water had risen gradually or the flood hadn't been so extensive they could have gotten away. RD: Exactly. And such fossil evidence isn't limited to North America. In Brazil there is a large plateau where fish fossils are found with the skin, muscles, organs etc. all preserved. The fish look like they had just been caught but they are petrified and hard as stone. They are abundant and distributed over several thousand square miles. The plateau where these fossils are found is well above sea level and a good 500 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. This is remarkable because experiments with fresh dead fish have shown that dead fish in water will disintegrate and their skeletons will fall apart in less than one week. Only catastrophic conditions would have enabled such an extensive collection of animals and plants so exquisitely preserved. A final example of fossil evidence is found unexpected fossil mixtures of amber which is petrified pitch from trees. It is easy to understand how insects could be caught in sticky pitch and wind could blow pieces of leaves and even flowers into the pitch. But how could sea animals such as coral be included? One explanation would be that waves or strong currents from the sea must have broken up and carried bits of coral that stuck to the pitch before it became hard or petrified meaning that forests where such amber is found must have been underwater at one time. VK: The point is then, that there is a lot of fossil evidence that is consistent with a sudden, widespread inundation of truly mammoth proportions. Naturally, we recognize that non-Christians would offer a different explanation other than a world-wide flood. But that just means that there are two competing truth claims on the table, right? And the fact that there are competing explanations means people should investigate the evidence for themselves to decide which explanation is more credible. But you mentioned that in addition to fossils there is also geological evidence that is consistent with an ancient, massive flood. RD: Yes. But before I move away from the fossil evidence, I just want to emphasize that the examples I mentioned are exactly that – only a few examples. There are lots of others. In these radio episodes we only have time to skim the surface – no pun intended – of the evidence available that supports the Biblical flood account. There are entire books that have been written on the subject as well as a lot of great resources available from the internet. VK: Well, to quote Jerry from the Life Lesson, true dat. We're really just starting the discussion here in the hope that listeners can take some time to investigate this subject for themselves. RD: True dat. So let's move on and take a brief look at some of the geological evidence. First, we've mentioned the presence of huge layers of sedimentary rocks are found all over the world. These include at levels that are far above current sea levels. The most common cause for the formation of sedimentary rocks is sediments – essentially earth and mud being carried along by moving water – being deposited when the water slows down or disappears completely. The sediments then cement together and the sedimentation process occurs fairly quickly if the sediment is given the opportunity to dry out. When the 2011 tsunami struck Japan, sedimentary layers were deposited as much as kilometers inland and formed layers up to 20 centimeters thick. All that occurred from an event that would have been dwarfed in size by an inundation such as the one described in Genesis. VK: But people who don't accept the Biblical account might say that these layers were built up over thousands or millions of years and not in a single catastrophic incident? RD: They could, but when geologists examine these layers they don't see evidence that the sedimentary layers were built up in successive events. If successive events were involved geologists would expect to see either soil formation or evidence of organic activity such as holes from burrowing insects or plant roots, but such soil formation or bioturbation is absent in many of these really thick layers. In general, the deeper the layer of sedimentary rock the larger the amount of sediment that was deposited in a relatively short amount of time and thus the greater the volume and flow of water that was involved. If a single tsunami deposited sediment layers up to 20 centimeters think, imagine how much water would have been involved to create a sediment layer hundreds of times thicker. VK: So both the fossil evidence and the geological evidence are both consistent with a flood of Biblical proportions? RD: Absolutely. And the geological evidence is not limited to just the presence of massive layers of sedimentary rocks present all over the world. Geologists also acknowledge that many of the great river valleys all over the world were created by truly epic floods. David R. Montgomery, a geology professor at the University of Washington, labeled the floods that created these river valleys “Noah-like” in a 2012 article for Discover magazine. In that same article Montgomery noted that the first geologist to propose that the river valleys of eastern Washington were caused by such floods, J. Harlan Bretz, was met with widespread disbelief when he first proposed the idea in the 1920's. Yet acceptance of the truth of Bretz's observations is so widespread today that, at the age of 97, Bretz was awarded the Geological Society of America's highest honor. Nor is the evidence of ancient flood carved landscapes limited to North America. It is also found in Europe and Asia. Other, geological phenomena also demonstrate that at one or more times in history megalithic hydrodynamic forces were acting on the surface of the earth. There are huge boulders perched on the tops of mountains in many parts of the world that are of are distinctly different from their surroundings. It's hard to see how they would have arrived there unless carried by to their positions by an enormous force such as that which would occur during a flood. In other words there is substantial evidence that at one point the entire surface of the world was affected by major hydrological forces. We recognize that not all observers will agree with this conclusion. But the point is that there is evidence from both paleontology and geology that is consistent with the Biblical account. And though all people might not arrive at the same conclusion about what the evidence means that doesn't do away with the evidence. VK: I think that's a point that should be emphasized. Just because there are people who are not persuaded that the fossil or geological evidence demonstrates the certainty of Noah's flood does not do away with the evidence, Disbelief in the occurrence of Noah's flood does not render the account any less likely. Science provides solid support that the earth contains physical remains of one or more past cataclysmic floods. Everyone is free to evaluate the evidence and arrive at their own conclusions. But it is entirely reasonable for Christians to use science as well as scripture in their pursuit of truth. So, again, what we see is that the Bible story makes perfect sense when we compare how the story stacks up against real-world considerations. RD: Exactly. One final reminder for today. By their very nature past events, especially those of the distant past – like the flood of Noah - cannot be repeated. So to make intelligent assessments about whether such a flood took place or is highly likely to have occurred we have to look evidence that is available today. And as we reminded everyone last time, all investigators, all interpreters of evidence, bring a viewpoint, a lens through which they interpret evidence. I'm hesitant to say they bring a bias because that word can have a negative connotation but we certainly should be aware of our interpretive lens. This is particularly important when it comes to evaluating the historicity of Bible events. VK: That is a very important point. Today Bible critics may try to criticize – say a geologist – who believes that the earth's crust provides evidence that a worldwide flood occurred by saying the geologist is a Christian. But that criticism would be no more valid than someone criticizing a non-Christian geologist who doesn't believe a flood occurred by pointing out that that geologist isn't a Christian. It's no more fair to say that a Christian geologist can't interpret geological evidence fairly than to say that a non-Christian geologist can't. Sounds to me like a good time for a prayer. Today let's listen to a prayer for us all to receive the illumination we need to bring the light of truth to our friends, communities, and world. ---- PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION BY THE HOLY SPIRIT (episode 92) We hope you'll be with us next time and we hope you'll take some time to encourage some friends to tune in too, or listen to the podcast version of this show. If you'd like to hear more, try out crystalseabooks.com where “We're not famous but our Boss is!” (Bible Quotes from the New Living Translation) The Book of Genesis, chapter 8, verses 1 through 5. New Living Translation https://creation.com/topics/global-flood https://activechristianity.org/6-unbelievably-good-reasons-to-read-your-bible https://answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/safety-investigation-of-noahs-ark-in-a-seaway/ https://christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a007.html Safety investigation of Noah's Ark in a seaway - creation.com https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/geologic-evidences-for-the-genesis-flood/ https://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-biblical-type-floods-real-absolutely-enormous https://considerthegospel.org/2014/03/28/the-noah-controversy-could-that-flood-have-happened/ https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/questions/there-evidence-flood-was-global

Bill Bailey has not just travelled in naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace's footsteps, he's crazy about him too. "I love him, I really do." Wallace is best known for what used to be known as the Wallace-Darwin theory of evolution. When he died in 1913, the New York Times called him the last of the 'giants belonging to that wonderful group of intellectuals ... whose daring investigations revolutionised and evolutionised the thought of the century." Born in 1823, Wallace was a collector, a writer, a keen conservationist, and Bill has been to Borneo to see Wallace's famous flying frog. With Sandy Knapp of the Natural History Museum, and presented by Matthew Parris. The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde.

Happy Darwin Day! Last year around this time, we were joined by Dr. Sarah Bray to discuss the life and times of Charles Darwin. This time, Sarah joins us again to discuss his colleague and natural selection co-discoverer, Alfred Russell Wallace. In 1858, the year before Darwin published his famous book, he received a letter from a young, adventurous, sometimes tragic man in the throes of illness in southeast Asia. To Darwin’s shock, the letter included precisely the same biological insights he had been working on. That letter came from Alfred Russell Wallace. Find Sarah and her colleagues on the podcast Discovering Darwin! http://discoveringdarwin.blogspot.com/ In the news: fast-evolving mice, a small-headed reptile, an early Antarctic archosaur, and really old amoebae. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00 News: 00:05:00 Main discussion, Part 1: 00:39:00 Main discussion, Part 2: 01:23:30 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/ PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Muscial Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

«How stupid not to have thought about that!» skal angivelig Darwins venn Thomas Huxley (1825-1895) ha sagt når han hadde lest On the Origin of the Species fra 1859. Hvordan kom Charles Darwin (1809-1882) egentlig frem til denne ideen, og hvorfor hadde ingen tenkt på det før? Det som i alle fall er sikkert er at han selv brukte lang tid på å endre syn, og at det ikke skjedde i et såkalt aha-øyeblikk hvor alt stod klart for han. «I feel not a shade of surprise at your entirely rejecting my views: my surprise is that I have been successful in converting some few eminent Botanists, Zoologists, & Geologists. In several cases the conversion has been very slow & that is the only sort of conversion which I respect.» - Darwin til en ukjent korrespondent, 14 mars 1861, sitert i Sulloway 1982: 321 Vi tar en tur gjennom Darwins historie, fra turen med Beagle, bearbeidelsen av materialet han samlet i løpet av turen, samarbeidet med mer etablerte vitenskapsmenn, kontakten med Alfred Russell Wallace, frem mot utviklingen av evolusjonsteorien og publikasjonen av On the Origin of Species, samt litt av den umiddelbare påvirkningen boka har. Darwin var definitivt en interessant person. Nysgjerrig og usikker, en brokete faglig bakgrunn, åpenbart mye både personlig og språklig sjarm, kombinert med en solid økonomisk arv som gir ham frihet til å drive med det han vil, et systematisk sinn og utholdenhet i arbeidet.   Til slutt, vi kan faktisk ikke anbefale nok å selv lese On the Origin of Species, som selv om det er litt tung lesing til tider, er et fascinerende innblikk inn i vitenskapelig tenking og hvordan teorier utvikles.   Kilder: Vitenskapshistoriker Frank J. Sulloway har skrevet en rekke gode og detaljerte artikler om Darwins tur til Galapagosøyene og hvordan det tok tid før han forstod og trakk de konklusjonene hans og andres observasjoner gjorde mulige, og til slutt utviklet evolusjonsteorien. Mange av hans artikler er tilgjengelig på: http://www.sulloway.org/Darwinpubs.html  Charles Darwin, de bøkene vi har brukt for episoden (en full bibliografi er lett tilgjengelig om man søker på nett, og de fleste verkene hans, samt alle brevene, er tilgjengelig i digitalt format, helt gratis). Den engelske wikipediaartikkelen er også veldig bra. On the Origin of the Species, Penguin 2009 Autobiography, Penguin 2002 Peter J. Bowler, Evolution: The History of an Idea, University of California Press 2009 Bill Bryson, A short history of nearly everything, Black Swan 2004 William Bynum, «Introduction», i Darwin 2009 Benedict Carey, How we learn, Macmillian 2014 Jerry Coyne, Why evolution is true, Oxford University Press 2009 Daniel Dennett, Darwin’s dangerous idea, Penguin Books 1996 Randall Fuller, The book that changed America. How Darwin’s theory of evolution ignited a nation, Penguin 2017 Howard Gardener, Creating Minds, Basic Books 1993 Tim Lewens, The meaning of science, Penguin 2015 Peter Medavar, The art of the soluble, Methuen & Co 1967 Frank Sulloway, «Darwin’s conversion: The Beagle Voyage and Its Aftermath», Journal of the history of Biology, vol.15,1982 «Darwin’s Early Intellectual Development: An Overview of the Beagle Voyage (1831-1836), The Darwinian Heritage, edited by David Kohn, 1985, s.121-154   Podkaster om tema: Darwin’s legacy: forelesningsrekke fra Stanford, med en rekke eksperter på relaterte felt, fra 2008-9 Fire episoder av BBC4s In our time med Melvyn Bragg fra 2009, til jubileumsåret. Discovering Darwin: Fire unge biologer diskuterer seg gjennom Darwins verk, et kapittel per episode. Første sesong er om Origin, og andre, og så langt siste, handler om The Voyage of the Beagle. ---------------------------- Logoen vår er laget av Sveinung Sudbø, se hans arbeider på originalkopi.com Musikken er av Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen, se facebooksiden Nygrenda Vev og Dur for mer info. ----------------------------   Takk for at du hører på. Ta kontakt med oss på vår facebookside eller på larsogpaal@gmail.com Det finnes ingen bedre måte å få spredt podkasten vår til flere enn via dere lyttere, så takk om du deler eller forteller andre om oss. Alt godt, hilsen Lars og Pål

The Natural History Museum in London houses the greatest collection of natural history specimens in the world, collected for centuries by British explorers and scientists.  In Part 2 of this episode on British explorers, my guests Andrea Hart and Max Barclay explain the role that these specimens and associated artwork played in the development of major scientific advances.  Foremost among these specimens are the beetles, which held an outsized role in the history of evolutionary biology as well as in the childhood pursuits of collectors such as Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace.  Andrea is the Head of Special Collections at the Natural History Museum, and Max is the Senior Curator in Charge of the beetle collection.  So let’s travel the world, from Africa to the Amazon to Australia and learn about the wonderful diversity of beetles, the eccentric people who collected them, and how their ideas changed the world.  We’ll do all this surrounded by annotated manuscripts, natural history drawings and specimens of the world’s largest beetles within a Special Collections room of the Natural History Museum.

21st Century Physicians in looking beneath the Quantum field are rapidly realising that the universe is consciousness and that they are calling it a ‘Greater Consciousness’ Tom Campbell Part Two of his cultural tour of New Zealand Tom Campbell PhD - from the US has an impressive career in applied physics. Having worked in military intelligence, reverse-engineering foreign technology, as well as in missile defence, including working on huge engineering projects for NASA - the US space agency - up until very recently. Tom was brought up and graduated in science within the mainstream university system and then by chance found himself living only 45 minutes drive from a person called Robert Monroe. Monroe had been experiencing situations where he would randomly shift his awareness to where it would be outside of his body and he would be ‘on the outside looking in’ and able to float and project his awareness to different locations. This has had some people labelling it soul travel, astral travel or plain ‘out of the body experiences’ and Monroe could not understand it. So he looked for some young scientists grounded in reality who had been basically educated that we live in a soulless and mechanistic world and that we are only a body with a mind that is inside the brain. Monroe, who had now spent a lot of time experiencing these differing states of being of - out of the body - and shifting his consciousness to other realms cut a deal with Tom and the other scientist. “Study what I do and make sense of it in a scientific context and I will show you how to do what I do.” This started a relationship right up until Monroe’s death.     https://www.monroeinstitute.org In this interview Toms says that at a subatomic level below the quantum reality we have to understand that everything is at its most basic level - is Consciousness. That Consciousness in turn is basically information and where does this information come from? – It turns out that consciousness -  is an information system and we humans are individuated units of consciousness (like you and I). We are chunks of consciousness that share information. That’s what you do if you are an information system  – so we pass information back and forth. As animated chunks of consciousness – we are aware – we know what we are doing -  but, what about this physical reality – what is it here for? This is where I mention : The four basic forces of nature are gravity, the strong force, the weak force, and the electromagnetic force. The theory of general relativity explains gravity, and quantum mechanics explains the other three forces. Right now, no one theory that everyone accepts can explain all four forces. String theory is a theory that could become the "theory of everything”. And questions like?   How large is the universe and how eternal?   The steady state Universe … 528 hertz is supposedly to be the frequency of Love No accidents in the universe ?  Correct? Where does sound come into it?   Because sound vibrating on liquid or sand particles can bring form into being … Is our universe part of a multi verse  like how a V 8 motor  sequence works.   Akashic records? Karma - the law of return? Why can you not contact Robert Monroe now? So there is so much to the makeup of reality. What’s its purpose? And the logic goes like this … If you are an information system  - you have to continually reduce entropy … entropy is a scientific word that is a measure of disorder.  Entropy has a way of just happening – like things have a way of … like decaying, falling apart – things tend to become unorganised. Disorganisation happens over time – it just naturally does that even eventually those molecules will breakdown  - that’s called Newton’s 2nd Law of the Thermodynamics it says the entropy always increases, that taken to its final conclusion has - from the scientific mind set - that if we wait long enough our universe will end up only with hydrogen atoms and elementary particles  - that is what science says that this is what will be left - as everything will disintegrate. However when we units of consciousness realise that we must slow down entropy we can consciously come together in a growing mass of shared consciousness and make a choice – follow the path of love or go down the path of fear. However, when the individual units of consciousness care about each other, are cooperative - they share – it’s about service to the greater whole - it is not about self. Fear on the other hand is that you trust no one, it is all about self and you are always protecting your back. Because everyone is looking to take your piece of the pie. However even in these situations they may strategically come together to group and then start to plunder the ones that are alone – then they may work together to corner the market – (so to speak) and with them having turf wars it finally ends up with conglomerates merging together. That when we see what’s happening today with the giant mega complexes – corporate raiding etc and what has happened on Wall St, in the USA - we see the down side of reality not serving the whole.     Where as the units that work together we have more trust – goodwill, shared success and growth and creativity. Like how can I help you – how can I help to better the whole. Which side is the better to involve yourself with? Especially for the future of children and it has to be the love side. The logical conclusion is that if you are an information system you want to survive – you need to lower entropy – the best way to do that is through cooperation it’s through being - Love. Caring about others. Also covered is the feed back mechanisms  - consequences, learning … and we are in a entropy reduction trainer for consciousness – just like pilots go to an inflight trainer to learn how to fly an airliner.  Whereas we are also in a simulation - a virtual reality and Tom sees it as our mission to become love. To decrease the entropy of our individual consciousness and by doing so we reduce the entropy of the whole consciousness system – and we are a part (albeit small) here to evolve the larger consciousness system and to keep evolving … Tom also states that Relativity and Quantum Mechanics can not work together at the level it is endeavouring to be understood. But when you see everything from a standpoint of consciousness being embedded in virtual reality - you are able to pull it all together. See the double slit experiment.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWI19Owk_1c This shows that our reality is not materialistic and not deterministic – it is probabilistic and particles don’t really exist – there is potential particles that obey the laws of probability – and that is how this world works . Tom has devised 6 experiments that he wants University physics departments or any institute world-wide that do research on things that are ‘impossible’ as in minor miracles as they crack open the old thought form and bring through a new reality of possibility and that consciousness is behind it all. What is happening today is the emerging consciousness that has been seen to be on the fringes of science and reality is now moving very quickly to the centre. This interview covers with Tim bring up other subject matter  bush as: Timothy Leary coming on stage in Los Angeles in 1988 and telling the audience that we are totally surrounded by information. That we decode this information and make sense of it.  He was an early up taker of seeing everything as being bits of information and data and frame it in those words Captain Edgar Mitchell 6th Man on the moon –of The Noetic Sciences  was also at the same Expo where he mentioned he had had synchronised experiments with telepathy between him whilst on the moon and people here on earth and the results were very promising.  Tom says that throughout most of the universities today, any  with a strong Physics Department you will find up to 20 - 30 % of the all physicists there, will be saying we want to look far more deeply into virtual reality and consciousness. Because that is where our next evolutionary step is taking us. Today at Cern in Switzerland they are now looking at electrons as having the properties of charge and the properties of mass  - thats the way you represent an electron in a computer – it’s a point with the attributes of mass and the attributes of charge – if they look at an electron that way – there math will predict correctly how experiments come out. If they think of it as a little chunk of mass with a charge – they can’t get the right answer – because it’s just information and their experiments will not come out correctly. This is where we are today. Also mentioned in this conversation is NZer Brian http://brianwhitworth.com/ from Massey university who too is on the leading edge of the consciousness revolution – talking up ‘virtual reality’ very early in this millennium. Covering mystics talking about reality from Shri Aurabindo to the Buddha seeing that this reality is illusionary – and Tom says this is about as close to saying that the reality we live in is as close to as you can get - to saying that this is a virtual reality. Yes, mystics have understood this, for millennia and it is available because we are an individuated unit of consciousness and we can have unlimited access to this … because the internet has connected us into one simultaneous web of interrelationship. That virtual reality is also sub set of something larger and must have behind it a greater consciousness – and when we surrender more and get out of our intellect and into our intuitive field – we see a larger consciousness as well as the wholesale emergence of spirituality and love making itself known. Also covered Holon’s Arthur Koestler that everything is nested in another archetypal system. This can be demonstrated in the holarchic relationship (subatomic particles ↔ atoms ↔ molecules ↔ macromolecules ↔ organelles ↔ cells ↔ tissues ↔ organs ↔ organisms ↔ communities ↔ societies) where it expands … Eco systems ↔ biosphere ↔ planetary ↔ solar system ↔galactic ↔ universal ↔ multiverse ? each holon is a "level" of organisation, and all are ultimately descriptive of the same set (e.g., a particular collection of matter). The top can be a bottom, a bottom can be a top, and, like a fractal, the patterns evident at one level can be similar to those at another. That had Alfred Russell Wallace been able to get his theory of evolution out to the world before Charles Darwin it would have shown far more cooperation within nature where animals and plants found certain non confrontational niches. Our culture today would not be so programed as in this - semi dog eat dog program we have been inculcated with. This is how Elisabet Sahtouris sees a differing kind of evolution. www.sahtouris.com/   Internationally known as a dynamic speaker and media personality, Dr. Sahtouris is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, author and consultant on Living. Show’s that within evolution there is a lot of co operation. Brucelipton.com   Bruce too signals that cooperation within nature is seen to be a way through for the human race to solve its many challenges Covering minerals evolving from 12 major minerals not long after the big bang to 4,000 plus today. Civilisations evolving and devolving especially when there is fear involved. Unity Consciousness: Using the information that Tom is bringing here to NZ and spreading it across the nation - through fibers of light across the web that covers our country – to stimulate peoples interest in unity consciousness – and that we are seen as important energy bundles expressing our inter-connectiveness and aspirations for a far better future for all biota and in particular our children and grandchildren … Tom mentions that we can not achieve it appropriately from the intellect – we must move our understanding down to our chest cavity and that is has to be fully embraced and felt from the heart – if we really want to initiate the much needed change that at soul level we have all been calling for. Tim mentions that we are nearing what Teihard de Chardin the Jesuit Priest (that did not find favour from Rome) called an Omega point – where at heart  we as a humanity transform into a type of global group mind where we retain our own identity yet are able to surrender into a greater consciousness … And that this momentum that we are in at present - is in Toms’ words – our destiny as a humanity. The larger consciousness can also for reference – be called God, the Divine, Source, the Creator and we are an integral part of it. This larger consciousness system is also finite, (which I Tim found is a very interesting statement) its not perfect, it’s a real system that is evolving. It’s not a done thing - it’s an evolving system. By expressing it this way – that is is a larger consciousness - it misses some of the dogma that we have either been programed with or held too zealously in our thought process. This way you do not get tied to the dogma, nor the ritual. The larger conscious system just keeps on evolving so as long as it keeps on growing it will be eternal – making us as  eternal too - this is a cosmic win win – forever - and is our destination.  ******* The Universe is immaterial — mental and spiritual. Live, and enjoy, - states Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland     

http://amzn.to/1333LVI SATAN AND HIS POWERFUL WATER AGENTS World leading financiers & heads of government participate in strange rituals:these rituals were sponsored by called the Hell Fire Club, Benjamin Franklin participated in.  See History Channel his involvement in the Hellfire Club, a secret society that conducted black masses and orgies. Remains of ten bodies hidden beneath the former London home of Franklin, a founding father of American independence. The remains of four adults and six children were discovered during the restoration of Franklin's home close to Trafalgar Square. There could be more bodies buried beneath the basement.  These bizarre, occult practices are still going on today in secret societies The Fabian socialists designed the new world order, but they also inspired secret occult societies and the Society for Psychical Research. Past and current members include Frederick Myers, Alfred Russell Wallace, Sigmund Freud, W. B. Yeats, C. G. Jung, William James, Peter Underword and Charles Tart. This group has ties to the Illuminati and mind control. Sigmund Freud and others helped establish the Tavistock Institute, which has implemented mind control and social engineering. Grove feature drug taking, orgies and the sacrifice of child-like effigies which burned in the hands of a giant statue of Moloch, who looks like an enormous owl. Why would Presidents, Vice Presidents, Prime Ministers, world's wealthiest men, and elite worship Moloch even in mock ceremonies?    

A hundred million plus hits on the internet. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding on the film about warlord Joseph Kony and why it's received the thumbs down from an audience in Uganda. A group of former paramilitaries and police officers from Northern Ireland have been to South Africa to see how combatants in the apartheid era there are now trying to come to terms with their troubled past -- Fergal Keane joined them. 'A steady pulse of pleasure' as Simon Worrall sails to the fabled Spice Islands in the wake of the great nineteenth century naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace. Joanna Robertson's been to the cinema in Paris seeing how French children are being educated to become the film experts of the future. And Peter Day describes the extraordinary Chinese ghost town -- empty streets, half-finished buildings -- which suggests to some that the great real estate bubble there has finally burst.

Transcript: Charles Darwin was born into a wealthy family in England in 1809. He had two famous grandfathers. One, Erasmus Darwin, was a noted scientist, and the other, Josiah Wedgwood, was one of the first entrepreneurs of the industrial revolution. Darwin enrolled in medical school, but it turned out he hated the sight of blood. He intended to become a minister, but then he took a job as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. At age twenty-two, Darwin embarked on the voyages that would change his view of biology and our view of life forever. Gathering data for five years, he made close observations of the species, especially on the Galapagos Island. His ideas were framed by ideas of Malthus about the competition of species in the natural environment. Together these turned into the idea of natural selection. He started to work on a manuscript. But he had thousands of pages of notes developed, and Darwin was actually afraid of the effect of his ideas on the society in England at the time. Then he received a manuscript from Alfred Russell Wallace who’d independently come up with the same idea. So in 1858, he hurried out his classic book The Origin of Species. Charles Darwin is buried in Westminster Abbey next to Isaac Newton.

Transcript: The idea of contingency was invented by Alfred Russell Wallace, a rival to Charles Darwin and co-discoverer of the idea of natural selection. In contingency, life diversifies according to genetic principles and then is pruned back according to adaptation to the natural environment, but the pruning or culling of life has an element of chance, of a lottery. Paleontologist Steven J. Gould, in his book Wonderful Life, wrote about the diversification of life in the oceans of the Earth during the Cambrian explosion. He argued that it was impossible with hindsight to decide which of the many body plans invented during this period would have or could have survived according to natural selection. The element of chance was strong. He went further and argued that if you replayed the tape of life on Earth under identical conditions, it would not be obvious that eventually you would get mammals or apes or Homo sapiens. We can see contingency in the Cambrian survivors and also in the more famous incident where the mammals and the dinosaurs coexisted. Rather than thinking of the mammals as natural and obvious successors to the more primitive dinosaurs, we should realize that mammals and dinosaurs coexisted successfully for over a hundred million years before the dinosaurs were wiped out by a chance event, the impactor from space.

Humans now engage the Earth at Gaian scale. How did Earth and humans get to this state? Given how we got here, how should we proceed? Tim Flannery finds that the evolutionary perspective of Alfred Russell Wallace offers better guidance than the more familiar Darwinian version of evolution. Australian biologist Tim Flannery is the renowned author of The Weather Makers, The Future Eaters, and a great ecological history of North America, The Eternal Frontier. His book Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet was published in 02011.

Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and is also a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute. His books include Answering the New Atheism and Ten Books That Screwed Up The World. His Newest is The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin. In this conversation with D.J. Grothe, Dr. Benjamin Wiker talks about his book The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin. He argues that Darwinism is a distortion of evolution, and based on the secular and atheistic influence of the "radical Enlightenment." He shares his skepticism of other historians' accounts of Darwin's anguish over the implications of his views for religious belief. He contends that Darwin was a third-generation religious skeptic, and that he had an atheistic agenda from early in his life. He relates Alfred Russell Wallace's critiques of Darwin's atheistic account of evolution by natural selection, and defends Wallace from the charges of Spiritualism. He compares evolutionists who accept natural selection with neurologists who think neuroscience may or will entirely account for the human self (without a soul), and suggests both views are based on ideology. He explains his motivations to criticize Darwin based on what he argues are the immoral effects of Darwinism in society. He links Nazism, Social Darwinism and eugenics to Darwinism. He talks about abortion in the context of the eugenics movement of the early 20th century. He discusses the "is-ought problem" in philosophy, and the "naturalistic fallacy." He criticizes Darwin's accounts of how human morality may have evolved. And he argues against creationists who reject evolution, even while he himself attacks "evolution by natural selection."