Podcasts about Analytical chemistry

Troy Valencia is an accomplished researcher, author, musician, and practitioner with a unique interdisciplinary background in science, psychology, and traditional Bwiti spiritual practice.  He holds Master's degrees in Analytical Chemistry and East-West Psychology and is completing his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.   Troy is also the founder of Root & Wisdom, an Iboga platform in Costa Rica with his wife Joaly Trinidad, and the founder of Sacred Roots Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to supporting Indigenous peoples and communities.  Of Gabonese lineage on his paternal side, Troy integrates his cultural heritage with scientific and psychological expertise.   This podcast will focus on his new work, Living Beyond the Mind:  The End of Personal Suffering (2025).  For more information about Troy and his blessed life, please see:  https://rootandwisdom.com/our-team/ https://www.instagram.com/troyvalencia_/ This podcast is available your favorite podcast platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-316-troy-valencia-living-beyond-the-mindbwitiremembering Have a blessed weekend!  

Today were talking hazardous materials, detection technology, and how it's reshaping our work in the fire and rescue services.Joining me is Dr. Mark L. Norman, a Senior Field Applications Scientist at 908 Devices and a leading subject matter expert in optical detection technologies. With over 20 years of experience in hazmat detection systems for emergency response, Mark brings both scientific expertise and real-world insight. He holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill, has authored peer-reviewed publications — including a 2003 collaboration with NASA climatologists — and is an inventor on two patents related to hazardous gas and vapor identification.In our conversation, we talk about the evolution of detection technology — from lab-based instruments to field-deployable units — and the shift that happened post-9/11 when incidents like the anthrax letters drove new levels of investment and innovation. We also unpack common hazmat misconceptions, the difference between gases and vapors, acute vs chronic exposures, and why understanding things like molecular weight and vapor density can literally save lives at the fireground.My hope is this gives you a clearer understanding of how to approach hazmat incidents more confidently, why good detection equipment matters, and how new threats like EV battery fires and fentanyl contamination are pushing the sector to adapt fast.So If you're a firefighter, incident commander, hazmat operator, or someone who just wants to deepen their operational awareness, this episode is packed with practical, relevant insight that will help you do the job better and safer.Connect with Dr. Mark Norman HEREACCESS THE PODCAST LIBRARY & EVERY EPISODE, DEBRIEF & DOCUMENT CLICK HEREPODCAST GIFT - Get your FREE subscription to essential Firefighting publications HERE A big thanks to our partners for supporting this episode.GORE-TEX Professional ClothingMSA The Safety CompanyIDEXFIRE & EVACUATION SERVICE LTD HAIX Footwear - Get offical podcast discount on HAIX HEREXendurance - to hunt performance & endurance 20% off HERE with code ffp20Lyfe Linez -  Get Functional Hydration FUEL for FIREFIGHTERS, Clean no sugar  for daily hydration. 80% of people live dehydratedSend us a textSupport the show***The views expressed in this episode are those of the individual speakers. Our partners are not responsible for the content of this episode and does not warrant its accuracy or completeness.*** Please support the podcast and its future by clicking HERE and joining our Patreon Crew

Join the conversation by letting us know what you think about the episode!Why is it important to acknowledge that this week's guest is a transgender scientist and a content creator? Tune in to find out!Amethysta Herrick, Ph.D., is a transgender scientist and content creator who has always been driven by an insatiable desire to understand why the universe works the way it does. Ami's academic journey led her through molecular biology to a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry. In 2022, when she transitioned gender to align the person she always knew she was on the inside with her external presentation, Ami recognized a new calling: to integrate her scientific background with her personal journey to help others understand and navigate the complex terrain of gender and identity. Where to find Amethysta Herrick:https://purplepawclan.comYoutube: @amethystaherrickSupport the showBe part of the conversation by sharing your thoughts about this episode, what you may have learned, how the conversation affected you. You can reach Raquel and Jennifer on IG @madnesscafepodcast or by email at madnesscafepodcast@gmail.com.Share the episode with a friend and have your own conversation. And don't forget to rate and review the show wherever you listen!Thanks!

Dr. Anthony Ferrari leads a team of scientists and researchers to develop innovative and effective CBD products. With over six years of experience in this role, he has successfully navigated the complex regulatory landscape of the CBD industry, ensuring compliance with FDA regulations and label requirements. Dr. Ferrari's expertise in analytical chemistry has enabled him to design and execute rigorous testing protocols, ensuring the quality and safety of the products his team produces. He is passionate about advancing the field of CBD research and education. He holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Florida State University.

Episode: 3014 Measuring Almost Nothing.  Today, we measure almost nothing.

In this episode of Eyeway Conversations, George Abraham speaks with Dr. B.S.M. Kumar, a visually impaired professional working at Continual Engine, a company developing AI-driven accessibility solutions for education and digital content.Dr. Kumar was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in his teenage years, leading to progressive vision loss. Despite accessibility challenges, he pursued MSc in Chemistry and M.Tech in Chemical Analysis and Control from IIT Delhi, followed by a PhD in Analytical Chemistry focusing on Air Pollution. In the GATE examination, he scored 98 percentile in Chemistry, securing an All India Rank of 10.Navigating higher education with limited access to Braille, screen readers, and assistive technology, he adapted innovative methods to continue his studies. His personal experiences with inaccessible academic resources shaped his understanding of digital accessibility and its impact on education.At Continual Engine, he develops AI-powered solutions to improve digital accessibility, ensuring that learning materials, documents, and online platforms become more inclusive for visually impaired users.Topics Covered:Adapting to vision loss and assistive technology Studying Chemistry at IIT Delhi and securing an AIR 10 in GATEAccessibility challenges in STEM educationTransitioning into a career in digital accessibility and AI The role of AI in making educational content inclusiveEyeway National Toll-Free Helpline:If you or someone you know with vision impairment needs guidance, contact1-800-5320-469.

On this episode of Beneath the Skin we spoke to Dr. John Swierk about his recently published research into what really is in tattoo inks.   The paper is Kelli Moseman, Ahshabibi Ahmed, Alexander Ruhren, and John R. Swierk  "What's in My Ink: An Analysis of Commercial Tattoo Ink on the US Market". Analytical Chemistry 2024 96 (9), 3906-3913. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c05687 and is attached below. Beneath the Skin Store Production by Thomas O'Mahony Artwork by Joe Painter (jcp_art) Intro music by Dan McKenna If you would like to get in touch you can email the show on beneaththeskinpod@gmail.com

Aphiwe Miya took on Darren Maule's Quick Quiz, hoping to win R1,000. When asked what she planned to do with the money, her answer revealed a deeper struggle. Aphiwe owes R7,722 in outstanding university fees. Without settling this debt, she can't receive her degree in Analytical Chemistry from Mangosuthu University of Technology. Dhamien Munien from KZN Slots stepped up and committed to pay off Aphiwe's outstanding fees in full. If you know someone who has finished their course but can't get their certificate due to outstanding fees? You can help change their life! Visit ecr.co.za, click on The Big Favour tab, and submit a motivation for someone who's completed their tertiary education, but can't graduate due to outstanding fees. Tell us about this student, where they studied, the course they studied, and how much they owe. The Big Favour with Darren, Sky and Carmen could be the key that helps them unlock their future. Webpage

L'omniprésence des microplastiques inquiète de plus en plus les scientifiques. Alors que la consommation de plastique est passée de 1,5 million de tonnes par an dans les années 1950 à plus de 400 millions aujourd'hui, la pollution générée par ces matériaux atteint des proportions alarmantes. D'ici 2050, on estime que 12 milliards de tonnes de plastique pourraient s'accumuler dans les décharges et la nature.Face à cette crise, les discussions politiques piétinent. En novembre dernier, 170 pays réunis en Corée du Sud n'ont pas réussi à finaliser un traité international contre la pollution plastique. Pendant ce temps, les chercheurs poursuivent leurs travaux pour évaluer l'impact de cette pollution sur l'environnement et la santé humaine. Une revue récente menée par des scientifiques chinois, publiée dans Trends in Analytical Chemistry, révèle que les microplastiques (moins de 5 mm) et nanoplastiques (moins de 100 nanomètres) s'infiltrent partout : dans nos voies respiratoires, digestives, et même dans nos organes, tels que le foie, le placenta ou les poumons. Ces particules, souvent inhalées, semblent particulièrement nocives pour les enfants et les personnes âgées.Des études toxicologiques commencent à établir des liens entre l'accumulation de ces particules et des maladies comme les inflammations chroniques, la thrombose ou certains cancers. Une corrélation inquiétante : les tissus lésés présentent des concentrations de microplastiques plus élevées. Cependant, reste à déterminer si ces particules sont la cause ou la conséquence des lésions. Une certitude : leur rôle dans le stress oxydatif, les inflammations et la mort cellulaire est établi. Les chercheurs appellent à agir rapidement. En attendant des preuves irréfutables, les décideurs sont invités à limiter l'exposition humaine aux microplastiques et à réduire la production plastique. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In this episode, podcast co-hosts Dr. Dwight Stoll and Dr. James Grinias talk with Dr. Benjamin Garcia. Dr. Garcia is the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics in the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests primarily focus on the development of mass spectrometry-based proteomic approaches for the analysis of post-translational modifications of proteins (PTMs) and modified proteomes. His group specializes in high-throughput and quantitative analysis of many classes of modified proteins, especially epigenetic histone PTMs. He is a prolific author and scientific leader, with an h-index approaching 120. He has received a LOT of awards to date, but we sat down with him at the Eastern Analytical Symposium where he was recognized for his recent EAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry. In the conversation we talk about the origins of Dr. Garcia's interests in analytical science, mass spectrometry, and biomedical research, and he shares his thoughts about the current state and near future for technologies used for biomolecule separations including peptides, proteins, and oligonucleotides. We also discuss Dr. Garcia's highly impactful efforts to promote participation in the analytical sciences by people from all backgrounds, and he shares some thoughts about the “to-do list” for his upcoming term as chair of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry.

Good Day and welcome to IAQ Radio+ episode 744. This week this week we welcome back Dr. Joe Spurgeon to give his perspective on the AIHA White Paper, Mold and Dampness in the Built Environment. We could not think of a better way to end the year than doing a wrap up show with Dr. Spurgeon. He is one of our most popular guests.  Joe Spurgeon, PHD, has a multidisciplinary doctorate degree in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Health from the University of Pittsburgh; and was a Certified Industrial Hygienist from 1993 – 2013. His career has included working as a research chemist on the NBS Lead-Paint Poisoning Program, directing the FAA's Combustion Toxicology Laboratory, performing Health Assessments for CDC/ATSDR, implementing US EPA's Laboratory Exposure Assessment Project, and working as a consultant specializing in microbial indoor air quality for US PHS. He has performed numerous residential and commercial investigations involving water intrusions and microbial contaminants; has taught courses on mold investigations, sampling, and data interpretation methods; and has served as an expert witness in numerous mold cases. His books are available at http://expertonmold.com/

* List of Discoveries Squeezing Evolution: Did you know that dinosaurs ate rice before rice evolved? That turtle shells existed forty million years before turtle shells began evolving? That insects evolved tongues for eating from flowers 70 million years before flowers evolved? And that birds appeared before birds evolved? The fossil record is a wonderful thing. And more recently, only a 40,000-year squeeze, Neanderthal had blood types A, B, and O, shocking evolutionists but expected to us here at Real Science Radio! Sit back and get ready to enjoy another instant classic, today's RSR "list show" on Evolution's Big Squeeze! Our other popular list shows include: - scientists doubting Darwin - evidence against whale evolution - problems with 'the river carved the canyon' - carbon 14 everywhere it shouldn't be - dinosaur still-soft biological tissue - solar system formation problems - evidence against the big bang - evidence for the global flood - genomes that just don't fit - and our list of not so old things! (See also rsr.org/sq2 and rsr.org/sq3!) * Evolution's Big Squeeze: Many discoveries squeeze the Darwinian theory's timeframe and of course without a workable timeframe there is no workable theory. Examples, with their alleged (and falsified) old-earth timeframes, include: - Complex skeletons existed 9 million years before they were thought to have evolved, before even the "Cambrian explosion".- Butterflies existed 10 million years before they were thought to have evolved. - Parrots existed "much earlier than had been thought", in fact, 25 million years before they were thought to have evolved. - Cephalopod fossils (squids, cuttlefish, etc.) appear 35 million years before they were able to propagate. - Turtle shells 40 million years before turtle shells began evolving - Trees began evolving 45 million years before they were thought to evolve - Spores appearing 50 million years before the plants that made them (not unlike footprints systematically appearing "millions of years before" the creatures that made them, as affirmed by Dr. Marcus Ross, associate professor of geology). - Sponges existed 60 million years before they were believed to have evolved. - Dinosaurs ate rice before it evolved Example - Insect proboscis (tongue) in moths and butterflies 70 million years before previously believed has them evolving before flowers. - Arthropod brains fully developed with central nervous system running to eyes and appendages just like modern arthropods 90 million years earlier than previously known (prior to 2021, now, allegedly 310mya) - 100 million years ago and already a bird - Fossil pollen pushes back plant evolution 100 million years. - Mammalian hair allegedly 100-million-years-old show that, "the morphology of hair cuticula may have remained unchanged throughout most of mammalian evolution", regarding the overlapping cells that lock the hair shaft into its follicle. - Piranha-like flesh-eating teeth (and bitten prey) found pushing back such fish 125 million years earlier than previously claimed   - Shocking organic molecules in "200 million-years-old leaves" from ginkgoes and conifers show unexpected stasis. - Plant genetic sophistication pushed back 200 million years. - Jellyfish fossils (Medusoid Problematica :) 200 million years earlier than expected; here from 500My ago. - Green seaweed 200 million years earlier than expected, pushed back now to a billion years ago!  - The acanthodii fish had color vision 300 million years ago, but then, and wait, Cheiracanthus fish allegedly 388 million years ago already had color vision. - Color vision (for which there is no Darwinian evolutionary small-step to be had, from monochromatic), existed "300 million years ago" in fish, and these allegedly "120-million-year-old" bird's rod and cone fossils stun researchers :) - 400-million-year-old Murrindalaspis placoderm fish "eye muscle attachment, the eyestalk attachment and openings for the optic nerve, and arteries and veins supplying the eyeball" The paper's author writes, "Of course, we would not expect the preservation of ancient structures made entirely of soft tissues (e.g. rods and cone cells in the retina...)." So, check this next item... :) - And... no vertebrates in the Cambrian? Well, from the journal Nature in 2014, a "Lower-Middle Cambrian... primitive fish displays unambiguous vertebrate features: a notochord, a pair of prominent camera-type eyes, paired nasal sacs, possible cranium and arcualia, W-shaped myomeres, and a post-anal tail" Primitive? - Fast-growing juvenile bone tissue, thought to appear in the Cretaceous, has been pushed back 100 million years: "This pushes the origin of fibrolamellar bone in Sauropterygia back from the Cretaceous to the early Middle Triassic..."- Trilobites "advanced" (not the predicted primitive) digestion "525 million" years ago - And there's this, a "530 million year old" fish, "50 million years before the current estimate of when fish evolved" - Mycobacterium tuberculosis 100,000 yr-old MRCA (most recent common ancestor) now 245 million- Fungus long claimed to originate 500M years ago, now found at allegedly 950 Mya (and still biological "the distant past... may have been much more 'modern' than we thought." :) - A rock contained pollen a billion years before plants evolved, according to a 2007 paper describing "remarkably preserved" fossil spores in the French Alps that had undergone high-grade metamorphism - 2.5 billion year old cyanobacteria fossils (made of organic material found in a stromatolite) appear about "200 million years before the [supposed] Great Oxidation Event". - 2.7 billion year old eukaryotes (cells with a nucleus) existed (allegedly) 1 billion years before expected - 3.5 billion year "cell division evidently identical to that of living filamentous prokaryotes." - And even older cyanobacteria! At 220 million years earlier than thought, per Nature's 3.7 billion year old dating of stromatolites! - The universe and life itself (in 2019 with the universe dated a billion, now, no, wait, two billion!, years younger than previously thought, that's not only squeezing biological but also astronomical evolution, with the overall story getting really tight) - Mantis shrimp, with its rudimentary color but advanced UV vision, is allegedly ancient. - Hadrosaur teeth, all 1400 of them, were "more complex than those of cows, horses, and other well-known modern grazers." Professor stunned by the find! (RSR predicts that, by 2030 just to put an end date on it, more fossils will be found from the geologic column that will be more "advanced" as compared to living organisms, just like this hadrosaur and like the allegedly 100M year old hagfish  fossil having more slime glands than living specimens.)  - Trace fossils "exquisitely preserved" of mobile organisms (motility) dated at 2.1 billion years ago, a full 1.5 billion earlier than previously believed - Various multicellular organisms allegedly 2.1 billion years old, show multicellularity 1.5 billion years sooner than long believed   - Pre-sauropod 26,000-pound dinosaur "shows us that even as far back as 200 million years ago, these animals had already become the largest vertebrates to ever walk the Earth." - The Evo-devo squeeze, i.e., evolutionary developmental biology, as with rsr.org/evo-devo-undermining-darwinism. - Extinct Siberian one-horned rhinos coexisted with mankind. - Whale "evolution" is being crushed in the industry-wide "big squeeze". First, geneticist claims whales evolved from hippos but paleontologists say hippos evolved tens of millions of years too late! And what's worse than that is that fossil finds continue to compress the time available for whale evolution. To not violate its own plot, the Darwinist story doesn't start animals evolving back into the sea until the cast includes land animals suitable to undertake the legendary journey. The recent excavation of whale fossils on an island of the Antarctic Peninsula further compresses the already absurdly fast 10 million years to allegedly evolve from the land back to the sea, down to as little as one million years. BioOne in 2016 reported a fossil that is "among the oldest occurrences of basilosaurids worldwide, indicating a rapid radiation and dispersal of this group since at least the early middle Eocene." By this assessment, various techniques produced various published dates. (See the evidence that falsifies the canonical whale evolution story at rsr.org/whales.) * Ancient Hierarchical Insect Society: "Thanks to some well-preserved remains, researchers now believe arthropod social structures have been around longer than anyone ever imagined. The encased specimens of ants and termites recently studied date back [allegedly] 100 million years." Also from the video about "the bubonic plague", the "disease is well known as a Middle Ages mass killer... Traces of very similar bacteria were found on [an allegedly] 20-million-year-old flea trapped in amber." And regarding "Caribbean lizards... Even though they are [allegedly] 20 million years old, the reptiles inside the golden stones were not found to differ from their contemporary counterparts in any significant way. Scientists attribute the rarity [Ha! A rarity or the rule? Check out rsr.org/stasis.] to stable ecological surroundings." * Squeezing and Rewriting Human History: Some squeezing simply makes aspects of the Darwinian story harder to maintain while other squeezing contradicts fundamental claims. So consider the following discoveries, most of which came from about a 12-month period beginning in 2017 which squeeze (and some even falsify) the Out-of-Africa model: - find two teeth and rewrite human history with allegedly 9.7 million-year-old teeth found in northern Europe (and they're like Lucy, but "three times older") - date blue eyes, when humans first sported them, to as recently as 6,000 years ago   - get mummy DNA and rewrite human history with a thousand years of ancient Egyptian mummy DNA contradicting Out-of-Africa and demonstrating Out-of-Babel - find a few footprints and rewrite human history with allegedly 5.7 million-year-old human footprints in Crete - re-date an old skull and rewrite human history with a very human skull dated at 325,000 years old and redated in the Journal of Physical Anthropology at about 260,000 years old and described in the UK's Independent, "A skull found in China [40 years ago] could re-write our entire understanding of human evolution." - date the oldest language in India, Dravidian, with 80 derivatives spoken by 214 million people, which appeared on the subcontinent only about 4,500 years ago, which means that there is no evidence for human language for nearly 99% of the time that humans were living in Asia. (Ha! See rsr.org/origin-of-language for the correct explanation.) - sequence a baby's genome and rewrite human history with a 6-week old girl buried in Alaska allegedly 11,500 years ago challenging the established history of the New World. (The family buried this baby girl just beneath their home like the practice in ancient Mesopotamia, the Hebrews who sojourned in Egypt, and in Çatalhöyük in southern Turkey, one of the world's most ancient settlements.) - or was that 130,000? years ago as the journal Nature rewrites human history with a wild date for New World site - and find a jawbone and rewrite human history with a modern looking yet allegedly 180,000-year-old jawbone from Israel which "may rewrite the early migration story of our species" by about 100,000 years, per the journal Science - re-date a primate and lose yet another "missing link" between "Lucy" and humans, as Homo naledi sheds a couple million years off its age and drops from supposedly two million years old to (still allegedly) about 250,000 years old, far too "young" to be the allegedly missing link - re-analysis of the "best candidate" for the most recent ancestor to human beings, Australopithecus sediba, turns out to be a juvenile Lucy-like ape, as Science magazine reports work presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists 2017 annual meeting - find skulls in Morocco and "rewrite human history" admits the journal Nature, falsifying also the "East Africa" part of the canonical story - and from the You Can't Make This Stuff Up file, NPR reports in April 2019, Ancient Bones And Teeth Found In A Philippine Cave May Rewrite Human History. :) - Meanwhile, whereas every new discovery requires the materialists to rewrite human history, no one has had to rewrite Genesis, not even once. Yet, "We're not claiming that the Bible is a science textbook. Not at all. For the textbooks have to be rewritten all the time!"  - And even this from Science: "humans mastered the art of training and controlling dogs thousands of years earlier than previously thought."- RSR's Enyart commented on the Smithsonian's 2019 article on ancient DNA possibly deconstructing old myths...  This Smithsonian article about an ancient DNA paper in Science Advances, or actually, about the misuse of such papers, was itself a misuse. The published research, Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines, confirmed Amos 9:7 by documenting the European origin of the biblical Philistines who came from the island of Caphtor/Crete. The mainstream media completely obscured this astounding aspect of the study but the Smithsonian actually stood the paper on its head. [See also rsr.org/archaeology.]* Also Squeezing Darwin's Theory: - Evolution happens so slowly that we can't see it, yet - it happens so fast that millions of mutations get fixed in a blink of geologic time AND: - Observing a million species annually should show us a million years of evolution, but it doesn't, yet - evolution happens so fast that the billions of "intermediary" fossils are missing AND: - Waiting for helpful random mutations to show up explains the slowness of evolution, yet - adaption to changing environments is often immediate, as with Darwin's finches Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: Charles Darwin's finches are claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. So Darwin's finches could diversify in just 17 years, and after 2.3 million more years, what had they evolved into? Finches! Hear this also at rsr.org/lee-spetner and see Jean Lightner's review of the Grants' 40 Years. AND: - Fossils of modern organisms are found "earlier" and "earlier" in the geologic column, and - the "oldest" organisms are increasingly found to have anatomical, proteinaceous, prokaryotic, and eukaryotic sophistication and similarity to "modern" organisms AND: - Small populations are in danger of extinction (yet they're needed to fix mutations), whereas - large populations make it impossible for a mutation to become standard AND: - Mutations that express changes too late in an organism's development can't effect its fundamental body plan, and - mutations expressed too early in an organism's development are fatal (hence among the Enyart sayings, "Like evolving a vital organ, most major hurdles for evolutionary theory are extinction-level events.") AND: - To evolve flight, you'd get bad legs - long before you'd get good wings AND: - Most major evolutionary hurdles appear to be extinction-level events- yet somehow even *vital* organs evolve (for many species, that includes reproductive organs, skin, brain, heart, circulatory system, kidney, liver, pancreas, stomach, small intestines, large intestines, lungs -- which are only a part of the complex respiration system) AND: - Natural selection of randomly taller, swifter, etc., fish, mammals, etc. explains evolution yet - development of microscopic molecular machines, feedback mechanisms, etc., which power biology would be oblivous to what's happening in Darwin's macro environment of the entire organism AND: - Neo-Darwinism suggests genetic mutation as the engine of evolution yet - the there is not even a hypothesis for modifying the vast non-genetic information in every living cell including the sugar code, electrical code, the spatial (geometric) code, and the epigenetic code AND: - Constant appeals to "convergent" evolution (repeatedly arising vision, echolocation, warm-bloodedness, etc.) - undermine most Darwinian anatomical classification especially those based on trivialities like odd or even-toed ungulates, etc. AND: - Claims that given a single species arising by abiogenesis, then - Darwinism can explain the diversification of life, ignores the science of ecology and the (often redundant) biological services that species rely upon AND: - humans' vastly superior intelligence indicates, as bragged about for decades by Darwinists, that ape hominids should have the greatest animal intelligence, except that - many so-called "primitive" creatures and those far distant on Darwin's tee of life, exhibit extraordinary rsr.org/animal-intelligence even to processing stimuli that some groups of apes cannot AND: - Claims that the tree of life emerges from a single (or a few) common ancestors - conflict with the discoveries of multiple genetic codes and of thousands of orphan genes that have no similarity (homology) to any other known genes AND (as in the New Scientist cover story, "Darwin Was Wrong about the tree of life", etc.): - DNA sequences have contradicted anatomy-based ancestry claims - Fossil-based ancestry claims have been contradicted by RNA claims - DNA-based ancestry claims have been contradicted by anatomy claims - Protein-based ancestry claims have been contradicted by fossil claims. - And the reverse problem compared to a squeeze. Like finding the largest mall in America built to house just a kid's lemonade stand, see rsr.org/200 for the astounding lack of genetic diversity in humans, plants, and animals, so much so that it could all be accounted for in just about 200 generations! - The multiplied things that evolved multiple times - Etc. * List of Ways Darwinists Invent their Tree of Life, aka Pop Goes the Weasle – Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes: Evolutionists change their selection of what evidence they use to show 'lineage', from DNA to fossils to genes to body plans to teeth to many specific anatomical features to proteins to behavior to developmental similarities to habitat to RNA, etc. and to a combination of such. Darwinism is an entire endeavor based on selection bias, a kind of logical fallacy. By anti-science they arbitrarily select evidence that best matches whichever evolutionary story is currently preferred." -Bob E. The methodology used to create the family tree edifice to show evolutionary relationships classifies the descent of organisms based on such attributes as odd-toed and even-toed ungulates. Really? If something as wildly sophisticated as vision allegedly evolved multiple times (a dozen or more), then for cryin' out loud, why couldn't something as relatively simple as odd or even toes repeatedly evolve? How about dinosaur's evolving eggs with hard shells? Turns out that "hard-shelled eggs evolved at least three times independently in dinosaurs" (Nature, 2020). However, whether a genus has an odd or even number of toes, and similar distinctions, form the basis for the 150-year-old Darwinist methodology. Yet its leading proponents still haven't acknowledged that their tree building is arbitrary and invalid. Darwin's tree recently fell anyway, and regardless, it has been known to be even theoretically invalid all these many decades. Consider also bipedalism? In their false paradigm, couldn't that evolve twice? How about vertebrate and non-vertebrates, for that matter, evolving multiple times? Etc., etc., etc. Darwinists determine evolutionary family-tree taxonomic relationships based on numbers of toes, when desired, or on hips (distinguishing, for example, dinosaur orders, until they didn't) or limb bones, or feathers, or genes, or fossil sequence, or neck bone, or..., or..., or... Etc. So the platypus, for example, can be described as evolving from pretty much whatever story would be in vogue at the moment...   * "Ancient" Protein as Advanced as Modern Protein: A book review in the journal Science states, "the major conclusion is reached that 'analyses made of the oldest fossils thus far studied do not suggest that their [allegedly 145-million year-old] proteins were chemically any simpler than those now being produced.'" 1972, Biochemistry of Animal Fossils, p. 125 * "Ancient" Lampreys Just Modern Lampreys with Decomposed Brain and Mouth Parts: Ha! Researches spent half-a-year documenting how fish decay. RSR is so glad they did! One of the lessons learned? "[C]ertain parts of the brain and the mouth that distinguish the animals from earlier relatives begin a rapid decay within 24 hours..." :) * 140-million Year Old Spider Web: The BBC and National Geographic report on a 140-million year old spider web in amber which, as young-earth creationists expect, shows threads that resemble silk spun by modern spiders. Evolutionary scientists on the otherhand express surprise "that spider webs have stayed the same for 140 million years." And see the BBC. * Highly-Credentialed Though Non-Paleontologist on Flowers: Dr. Harry Levin who spent the last 15 years of a brilliant career researching paleontology presents much evidence that flowering plants had to originate not 150 million years ago but more than 300 million years ago. (To convert that to an actual historical timeframe, the evidence indicates flowers must have existed prior to the time that the strata, which is popularly dated to 300 mya, actually formed.) * Rampant Convergence: Ubiquitous appeals to "convergent" evolution (vision, echolocation, warm-bloodedness, icthyosaur/dolphin anatomy, etc.), all allegedly evolving multiple times, undermines anatomical classification based on trivialities like odd or even-toed ungulates, etc. * Astronomy's Big Evolution Squeeze: - Universe a billion, wait, two billion, years younger than thought   (so now it has to evolve even more impossibly rapidly) - Sun's evolution squeezes biological evolution - Galaxies evolving too quickly - Dust evolving too quickly - Black holes evolving too quickly - Clusters of galaxies evolving too quickly. * The Sun's Evolution Squeezes Life's Evolution: The earlier evolutionists claim that life began on Earth, the more trouble they have with astrophysicists. Why? They claim that a few billion years ago the Sun would have been far more unstable and cooler. The journal Nature reports that the Faint young Sun paradox remains for the "Sun was fainter when the Earth was young, but the climate was generally at least as warm as today". Further, our star would shoot out radioactive waves many of which being violent enough to blow out Earth's atmosphere into space, leaving Earth dead and dry like Mars without an atmosphere. And ignoring the fact that powerful computer simulators cannot validate the nebula theory of star formation, if the Sun had formed from a condensing gas cloud, a billion years later it still would have been emitting far less energy, even 30% less, than it does today. Forget about the claimed one-degree increase in the planet's temperature from man-made global warming, back when Darwinists imagine life arose, by this just-so story of life spontaneously generating in a warm pond somewhere (which itself is impossible), the Earth would have been an ice ball, with an average temperature of four degrees Fahrenheit below freezing! See also CMI's video download The Young Sun. * Zircons Freeze in Molten Eon Squeezing Earth's Evolution? Zircons "dated" 4 to 4.4 billion years old would have had to freeze (form) when the Earth allegedly was in its Hadean (Hades) Eon and still molten. Geophysicist Frank Stacey (Cambridge fellow, etc.) has suggested they may have formed above ocean trenches where it would be coolest. One problem is that even further squeezes the theory of plate tectonics requiring it to operate two billion years before otherwise claimed. A second problem (for these zircons and the plate tectonics theory itself) is that ancient trenches (now filled with sediments; others raised up above sea level; etc.) have never been found. A third problem is that these zircons contain low isotope ratios of carbon-13 to carbon-12 which evolutionists may try to explain as evidence for life existing even a half-billion years before they otherwise claim. For more about this (and to understand how these zircons actually did form) just click and then search (ctrl-f) for: zircon character. * Evolution Squeezes Life to Evolve with Super Radioactivity: Radioactivity today breaks chromosomes and produces neutral, harmful, and fatal birth defects. Dr. Walt Brown reports that, "A 160-pound person experiences 2,500 carbon-14 disintegrations each second", with about 10 disintergrations per second in our DNA. Worse for evolutionists is that, "Potassium-40 is the most abundant radioactive substance in... every living thing." Yet the percentage of Potassium that was radioactive in the past would have been far in excess of its percent today. (All this is somewhat akin to screws in complex machines changing into nails.) So life would have had to arise from inanimate matter (an impossibility of course) when it would have been far more radioactive than today. * Evolution of Uranium Squeezed by Contrasting Constraints: Uranium's two most abundant isotopes have a highly predictable ratio with 235U/238U equaling 0.007257 with a standard deviation of only 0.000017. Big bang advocates claim that these isotopes formed in distant stellar cataclysms. Yet that these isotopes somehow collected in innumerable small ore bodies in a fixed ratio is absurd. The impossibility of the "big bang" explanation of the uniformity of the uranium ratio (rsr.org/bb#ratio) simultaneously contrasts in the most shocking way with its opposite impossibility of the missing uniform distribution of radioactivity (see rsr.org/bb#distribution) with 90% of Earth's radioactivity in the Earth's crust, actually, the continental crust, and even at that, preferentially near granite! A stellar-cataclysmic explanation within the big bang paradigm for the origin of uranium is severely squeezed into being falsified by these contrasting constraints. * Remarkable Sponges? Yes, But For What Reason? Study co-author Dr. Kenneth S. Kosik, the Harriman Professor of Neuroscience at UC Santa Barbara said, "Remarkably, the sponge genome now reveals that, along the way toward the emergence of animals, genes for an entire network of many specialized cells evolved and laid the basis for the core gene logic of organisms that no longer functioned as single cells." And then there's this: these simplest of creatures have manufacturing capabilities that far exceed our own, as Degnan says, "Sponges produce an amazing array of chemicals of direct interest to the pharmaceutical industry. They also biofabricate silica fibers directly from seawater in an environmentally benign manner, which is of great interest in communications [i.e., fiber optics]. With the genome in hand, we can decipher the methods used by these simple animals to produce materials that far exceed our current engineering and chemistry capabilities." Kangaroo Flashback: From our RSR Darwin's Other Shoe program: The director of Australia's Kangaroo Genomics Centre, Jenny Graves, that "There [are] great chunks of the human genome… sitting right there in the kangaroo genome." And the 20,000 genes in the kangaroo (roughly the same number as in humans) are "largely the same" as in people, and Graves adds, "a lot of them are in the same order!" CMI's Creation editors add that "unlike chimps, kangaroos are not supposed to be our 'close relatives.'" And "Organisms as diverse as leeches and lawyers are 'built' using the same developmental genes." So Darwinists were wrong to use that kind of genetic similarity as evidence of a developmental pathway from apes to humans. Hibernating Turtles: Question to the evolutionist: What happened to the first turtles that fell asleep hibernating underwater? SHOW UPDATE Of Mice and Men: Whereas evolutionists used a very superficial claim of chimpanzee and human genetic similarity as evidence of a close relationship, mice and men are pretty close also. From the Human Genome Project, How closely related are mice and humans?, "Mice and humans (indeed, most or all mammals including dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, and apes) have roughly the same number of nucleotides in their genomes -- about 3 billion base pairs. This comparable DNA content implies that all mammals [RSR: like roundworms :)] contain more or less the same number of genes, and indeed our work and the work of many others have provided evidence to confirm that notion. I know of only a few cases in which no mouse counterpart can be found for a particular human gene, and for the most part we see essentially a one-to-one correspondence between genes in the two species." * Related RSR Reports: See our reports on the fascinating DNA sequencing results from roundworms and the chimpanzee's Y chromosome! * Genetic Bottleneck, etc: Here's an excerpt from rsr.org/why-was-canaan-cursed... A prediction about the worldwide distribution of human genetic sequencing (see below) is an outgrowth of the Bible study at that same link (aka rsr.org/canaan), in that scientists will discover a genetic pattern resulting from not three but four sons of Noah's wife. Relevant information comes also from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) which is not part of any of our 46 chromosomes but resides outside of the nucleus. Consider first some genetic information about Jews and Arabs, Jewish priests, Eve, and Noah. Jews and Arabs Biblical Ancestry: Dr. Jonathan Sarfati quotes the director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Harry Ostrer, who in 2000 said: Jews and Arabs are all really children of Abraham … And all have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots over 4,000 years. This familiar pattern, of the latest science corroborating biblical history, continues in Dr. Sarfati's article, Genesis correctly predicts Y-Chromosome pattern: Jews and Arabs shown to be descendants of one man. Jewish Priests Share Genetic Marker: The journal Nature in its scientific correspondence published, Y Chromosomes of Jewish Priests, by scie

In this episode, podcast co-hosts Dr. Dwight Stoll and Dr. James Grinias talk with Dr. Farooq Wahab, Research Engineering Scientist at the University of Texas at Arlington. Wahab has interests and expertise in chiral separations, improving the green-ness of chromatographic separations, new detectors for chromatography such as microwave rotational spectroscopy, and new techniques for signal processing in chromatography, among other areas. He and several coauthors recently published a paper in Analytical Chemistry discussing their experiences using generative artificial intelligence (i.e. chatGPT) as a research assistant when working on tasks in measurement science ranging from extraction of rotational microwave spectra from free induction decay signals, to baseline removal from chromatographic data. In the conversation we talk about the origins of this study, strengths and weaknesses of chatGPT as a research assistant in the analytical chemistry space, and the role of generative AI in chemistry teaching and learning. We also touch on tips and tricks also published by Wahab and coworkers for dealing with equations and symbol-heavy text when using generative AI tools. One very interesting application of these tricks is in the translation of relatively old (decades) papers that were published before English became the standard language for much of science publication.

Nathan Tamulis, Esq., Committee for Public Counsel Services, Boston teaches you how to interpret results (and knowing when to consult with an expert) from these methods and analyses, excerpted from MCLE's 4/2/2024 live webcast: Toxicology for Lawyers: Drug & Alcohol Testing. The full program is available as an on-demand webcast or an MP3 here.  Get 24/7 instant access to hundreds of related eLectures like this one—and more—with a subscription to the MCLE OnlinePass. Learn more at www.mcle.org/onlinepass and start your free trial today! Connect with us on socials!Instagram: mcle.newenglandX (Formerly Twitter): MCLENewEnglandLinkedIn: Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE│New England)Facebook: MCLE New EngalndThreads: mcle.newnengland

Good Day and welcome to IAQ Radio+ episode 737. This week we welcome Joe Spurgeon, PhD. If you ever write a mold report and it goes to court Dr. Joe Spurgeon could well be the expertonmold.com that reviews your report. Dr. Joe has retired his CIH and does not get out in the field much these days but he still reviews reports and testifies in mold related case s on a regular basis. This week he has volunteered to tell us what makes a quality report and how to write a mold assessment report and not a data report. If you don't know the difference this is the show for you. In addition to the presentation he put together for us this week Dr. Spurgeon has put up a special free link https://expertonmold.com/product/iaq-radio-presentation-free-digital-download/ with his IAQ Radio presentation plus 38 new slides, copies of field sheets, "Notes on Writing a Mold Report", an example mold report and a mold site inspection list. You can also order any of Dr. Spurgeon's books from his website expertonmold.com. Another great show for continuing education credits learn more here https://www.iaqradio.com/ce-credits/ Joe Spurgeon, PHD, has a multidisciplinary doctorate degree in Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Health from the University of Pittsburgh; and was a Certified Industrial Hygienist from 1993 – 2013. His career has included working as a research chemist on the NBS Lead-Paint Poisoning Program, directing the FAA's Combustion Toxicology Laboratory, performing Health Assessments for CDC/ATSDR, implementing US EPA's Laboratory Exposure Assessment Project, and working as a consultant specializing in microbial indoor air quality for US PHS. He has performed numerous residential and commercial investigations involving water intrusions and microbial contaminants; has taught courses on mold investigations, sampling, and data interpretation methods; and has served as an expert witness in numerous mold cases. His books are available at http://expertonmold.com/

Early in her career, Dr. Jessica Reiner realized that she cared more about ensuring the accuracy of the measurements she was making than making the measurements themselves. This realization, combined with experience in working with PFAS, led to her current role as Research Chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).Join us to hear an insider's perspective on the PFAS topic, with a deep dive into the analytical methods used to detect, quantify, and identify PFAS species. Jessica and her team use LC-MS, anion exchange chromatography, and other orthogonal methods in their work and they focus on creating, validating, and maintaining reference materials (RM) and standard reference materials (SRM) that are used to help ensure that PFAS measurements are accurate and comparable with those made in other laboratories around the world. From challenges around defining a PFAS, to creating a stable, ultra-low concentration standard, to detecting ultra-high concentrations PFAS, Jessica provides an ace analytical chemist's perspective grounded in the metrology of it all.As always, and in addition to the great science, you'll get to learn about Jessica's personal career path, the ups and downs of her work, and hear her advice for career development. Related episodes: Season 4, Ep.2: The father of green chemistrySeason 2, Ep.7: Fresh urban waterSeason 1, Ep.3: There's chemistry in the air!Bonus content!Access bonus content curated by this episode's guest by visiting www.thermofisher.com/chemistry-podcast for links to recent publications, podcasts, books, videos and more.View the video of this episode on www.thermofisher.com/chemistry-podcast.A free thank you gift for our listeners! Request your free Bringing Chemistry to Life t-shirt on our episode website.Use code 0chemRcks in August, and BCTLisn3R in September. We read every email so please share your questions and feedback with us! Email helloBCTL@thermofisher.com

In Part I of this episode, host Evan Friedmann is joined by Jini Glaros, Chief Scientific Officer at Modern Canna Labs, discuss the importance of standardizing cannabis terminology to improve regulations, consumer education, and industry consistency. The Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society will be held in Denver August 16-22, with cannabis sessions in the morning and afternoon of Monday the 19th followed by the CANN mixer and then the Sci-Mix Poster Session. There will be additional cannabis sessions in the afternoon on Tuesday and Wednesday the 20th and 21st. To learn more, click the link below: https://www.acs.org/meetings/acs-meetings/fall.html The Annual Meeting of AOAC International will be held in Baltimore August 24-28, with Jini and my workshop taking place from 3-4:30pm on Sunday the 25th. Additional cannabis focused programming will be held Monday the 26th from 3:45-5:15pm, on Tuesday the 27th from 1245 to 230 The Cannabis Analytical Science Program (CASP) will meet followed by a Cannabis Community Meeting from 4:30-6pm, and then on Wednesday from 8:15 to 9:45am. To learn more, click the link below: https://www.aoac.org/2024-annual-meeting-exposition/ Literature Recommendations: 1. Marijuana: A Short History, 2nd Edition by John Hudak 2. The Analytical Chemistry of Cannabis: Quality Assessment, Assurance, and Regulation of Medicinal Marijuana and Cannabinoid Preparations, 1st Edition by Brian F. Thomas, Mahmoud A. ElSohly 3. Agricultural Agents Utilizing Matrix Calibrations for Accurate Quantification of Contaminants in Cannabis Products by Jini Glaros et al To be published this fall in the Journal of Testing and Evaluation from ASTM International

Bioconjugation of antibodies to drugs via chemical linkers is how antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) are made. We're joined by Matt Giese, Senior Scientist at Vector Laboratories, who talks us through the complex chemistry options and biodesign considerations that have to be considered and balanced when making a successful ADC.How does one build the skillset to work in biodesign of ADCs you might ask? Well, Matt's career path might not provide a clearcut roadmap like you might hope. That's because Matt started his career as an auto mechanic, moved into art, went back to auto mechanics, worked as baggage handler and as a construction worker, all before ever finding chemistry. If you think that's a convoluted path, just wait to hear about his academic and professional work journeys.  You'll revel in following this journey, and in the lessons and diverse skills learned along the way. Join us to hear it yourself, from who might just be the most interesting man in chemistry!Related episodes:Season 5, Ep.7: The life-altering impact of one chemist's sabbaticalSeason 2, Ep.1: Chemistry: a modern American dreamSeason 3, Ep.5: On the COVID pill and other process chemistry tales Bonus content!Access bonus content curated by this episode's guest by visiting www.thermofisher.com/chemistry-podcast for links to recent publications, podcasts, books, videos and more.View the video of this episode on www.thermofisher.com/chemistry-podcast. A free thank you gift for our listeners! Request your free Bringing Chemistry to Life t-shirt on our episode website.Use Podcast Code: LabRatsRul3 in July or OchemRcks in August. We read every email so please share your questions and feedback with us! Email helloBCTL@thermofisher.com

About 90% of tattoo inks in the United States contain ingredients not listed on their labels, according to a study published this spring in the journal Analytical Chemistry. So how can consumers know what is safe to put into their skin? To find out, Mike Rogers visited with Dillon Forte, a tattoo artist based in the Austin, Texas area, about how to know who to trust, the differences between black and colored tattoos, and how the industry is regulated differently in the U.S. than it is in Europe.

Today we sit down with Kevin Schug, the Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, to chat about his work using liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry to measure psilocybin potency in magic mushrooms. We geek out on all the analytical equipment, how they work, and what goes into analytically testing magic mushrooms for potency and even novel compounds. 

One year ago, the World Health Organisation declared that COVID-19 would no longer be categorised as a global health emergency. But the pandemic has left us with a new normal in all areas of our lives. From vaccine rollout to wastewater monitoring, we're asking: how has COVID altered the scientific landscape? Marnie Chesterton is joined in the studio by Linda Geddes, science journalist, and Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Professor in Environmental and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Bath, to discuss.Are ugly animals getting the short end of the conservation stick? Whilst a few beautiful creatures, like tigers and panda bears, get good marketing and attract the most conservation efforts, comedian and biologist Simon Watt argues that the endangered animals which are less pleasing to the eye are being forgotten.Also this week, we answer a listener's question about the accuracy of using bug splats on cars to measure insect populations. Lead data analyst from the Kent Wildlife Trust, Lawrence Ball, gives us the details about the national citizen science survey, Bugs Matter, which sees people around the country measure insect splats on vehicle number plates as a marker of insect abundance.And science journalist Roland Pease discusses the unprecedented scientific opportunity hurtling towards Earth in the form of asteroid Apophis. It will just miss our planet – in astronomical terms at least – but its proximity has astronomers excited. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producers: Ella Hubber, Sophie Ormiston and Hannah Robins Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!  This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we put YOUR questions to our team of experts, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about why grey squirrels on the run is so dangerous for their red counterparts? Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about the UK's latest astronaut, why NASA's plan to bring Mars' rocks down to earth has hit a snag & Dr Craig Shuttleworth from Bangor University explains why grey squirrels are the talk of the town after their recent escapades in Wales. Then we delve into your questions where Dan answers Amelia's question on how old is the world's oldest tree and we pose Zoe's question on why can some animals only eat vegetables or meat when humans can eat both to Dr Carlo Meloro from Liverpool John Moores University Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Strangling Fig and why it's a tree's worst enemy around the globe.The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Aoife Morrin from Dublin City University about why Analytical Chemistry is the best. What do we learn about? - Rosemary Coogan, The UK's latest astronaut - Why NASA's plans to bring back rocks from Mars is on hold? - Why grey squirrels are so dangerous to red ones? - Why some animals only eat meat or vegetables? - Is Analytical Chemistry the best type of science? All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks for joining us! Today we welcome Chris Jones a Retired Research Engineer from the University of Iowa and author of The Swine Republic, Struggles with Truth About Agriculture and Water Quality. Today he and Monte discuss the agricultural efficiencies and practices that we can make happen in more environmentally responsible ways. That includes a system approach to our entire management practices. Chris talks about how we can work to deploy these practices in enough areas that they can make a difference at the landscape scale. It's a powerful conversation so let's jump right in. Chris Jones retired in May of 2023 as a Research Engineer from IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa, where his work focused on water quality and water monitoring in agricultural landscapes. Previous to that he worked at the Des Moines Water Works and the Iowa Soybean Association. Chris has a BA in Biology and Chemistry from Simpson College and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Montana State University. He has authored 55 scientific journal articles, several book chapters and is author of the book The Swine Republic, Struggles with Truth About Agriculture and Water Quality. He also writes a weekly column posted on Substack at Riverraccoon.substack.com. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa. Tell us your background and how you reached today's line of work. I was born in Illinois and spent most of the rest of my life in Iowa and have observed firsthand how the state and its agricultural production systems have changed since the 1960s. While some things about agriculture's impact on the environment have improved, the environmental consequences of cornbelt agriculture are still severe and affect the quality of life of the region's residents. Consolidation in agriculture since that time has also had dire consequences for the prosperity and vitality of small-town Iowa. My work has focused on these consequences and how the condition of our environment can be improved within the backdrop of intense crop and livestock production. Got questions you want answered? Send them our way and we'll do our best to research and find answers. Know someone you think would be great on the AgEmerge stage or podcast? Send your questions or suggestions to kim@asn.farm we'd love to hear from you.

Dr. Henrique Marcelo Gualberto Pereira is Director of the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory and Professor in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Henrique is also President of the World Association of Anti-Doping Scientists (WAADS). In our conversation, we talk about his background, the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory, and the role of WAADS in the anti-doping community. He also shares some of the important research that he and his colleagues are working on, including using a zebrafish water tank model to better understand the metabolism of prohibited substances and research aimed at better detecting use of cobalt, a prohibited substance that can impact red blood cell production. 

Episode: 3014 Measuring Almost Nothing.  Today, we measure almost nothing.

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On this episode of SPOT Radio Podcast Charlie Webb CPPL speaks with Megan Frost PhD the founder and Chief Technology Officer and Kurt Yockey the CEO of Sterile State about their exciting new technology.  Could this sterilant be the future of medical device sterilization? Listen in and learn more about the emerging technology. Guest bio's:Megan Frost PhD is the founder and Chief Technology Officer for Sterile State. She has worked on the development of medical polymers and their applications to devices for over 20 years.  She earned a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of Notre Dame, a BS in Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics and an MS in Analytical Chemistry from Purdue University - Indianapolis, and a PhD in Chemistry with a Graduate Certificate in Cellular Biotechnology from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her dissertation work focused on the development of implantable, real-time sensors for medical analytes such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, pH, glucose, etc.  Industrial experience gained prior to completion of graduate studies includes working at Dow Elanco (Indianapolis, IN) in the Technology Applications Group. She also has experience as an analytical chemist at Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis, IN) and was a professor for 16 years and department head for Michigan Technological University.Kurt Yockey is the CEO of Sterile State, LLC and has worked extensively with physicians, hospitals, medical product manufacturers, and other healthcare professionals and entities for over 40 years. While practicing law, he was preferred counsel in complex litigation involving orthopedic surgery, emergency medicine, obstetrics, cardiology, and medical device matters. Kurt has been general counsel for innovative medical product development companies including Zip Pak Inc., J.M. Longyear, Pioneer Surgical, Frontier Medical Products, Samaritan Medical and Sterile State LLC. In 2005, Kurt was named a Michigan "Lawyer of the Year" by Michigan Lawyers Weekly for his role as hospital counsel in finding a defect in a medical device, leading to the manufacturer making a design change which avoided patient injury worldwide. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubble. Kurt received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in 1977 and graduated with honors from the Detroit College of Law in 1981.E-mail: info@sterilestate.comWebsite: www.sterilestate.comPhone: (906) 295-5250

 Best of Business 2023 - Part 4 2023 AZ TRT S04 EP52 (215) 12-31-2023 What We Learned This Week: Alan Payne on the Rise & Fall of Blockbuster Arthur Smith on Reality TV & Sports Trevor Pan of Bidbird on shipping efficiency & container skins Dr. Chuck & Francis of Ally Bio on Cannabis Innovation Chris Owen of J Galt on Commercial Credit Host Matt on Business Assets   Seg. 1 – Clips From: Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust w/ Alan Payne AZ TRT S04 EP34 (197) 8-27-2023     What We Learned This Week: ·         Blockbuster started in 1985, and scaled quickly after Wayne Huizenga purchased it in 1987, 10,000 stores at its height, dominant video rental co. ·         Alan Payne instituted the Video Rental model of HEB to the Blockbuster franchises he ran – segmented movies to rent new ones for more ·         Wayne Huizenga was a stellar Founder who built 3 fortune 500 companies – Waste Mgmt, Blockbuster, and Auto Nation ·         Viacom purchased Blockbuster in 1994 for $8.4 billion, and went on to lose 75% of the value over the next decade + ·         Competition was fierce from Hollywood Video, Redbox and then in 1997 by a new DVD rental by mail company called Netflix ·         Netflix scaled into the internet company it always wanted to be with streaming in 2009   Guest: Alan Payne Alan Payne spent thirty-one years in the movie rental business, the last twenty-five of those as a Blockbuster retail franchisee. He took over a small group of Blockbuster stores in 1993 and grew it into one of the largest and most successful chains in the company. He finally closed his last store in 2018, more than eight years after Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy. Book: Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust   From the Back Cover Blockbuster was phenomenally successful in its early years and made thousands rich beyond their wildest dreams. But it was consistently outsmarted and outmanaged by smaller companies. And the challenges began earlier than you think--long before Netflix was even an idea in the minds of founders Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Blockbuster became one of the most iconic brands in the history of American business, but it cracked at the first sign of a challenge. From its founding, Blockbuster was a company built to fail. Link: HERE     Full Show: HERE   Seg. 2 – Clips From: TV Tales of The Unbreakable Jay Glazer to Creating Competition Shows from American Ninja Warrior to Hell's Kitchen w/ Arthur Smith AZ TRT S04 EP28 (191) 7-16-2023     What We Learned This Week: ·   Jay Glazer's Unbreakable mindset gets him thru ‘the gray' of his daily life, working on his mental health ·   Arthur Smith's describes Reach as striving for our full potential to create amazing things ·   Creation of TV Classics like American Ninja Warrior & Hell's Kitchen   Arthur Smith, the chairman of A. Smith & Co. Productions, is a pioneering veteran of nonfiction television, known for creating and producing some of the longest running unscripted series in history, including Hell's Kitchen and American Ninja Warrior. Smith was honored as one of Variety's “Titans of Unscripted TV” in 2022, inducted into the Realscreen Awards Hall of Fame in 2021, awarded Broadcasting and Cable's “Producer of the Year” in 2020, Nominated for several Emmy Awards, and received dozens of awards, including NAACP Awards, Realscreen Awards, and Critics Choice Awards. Smith embarked on his career in television as a twenty-two-year-old wunderkind, talking his way into sports production at CBC in his native Canada. He quickly distinguished himself as a rising star at the network, where he produced three Olympic Games among countless other high-profile events. At the age of twenty-eight, Smith was named the youngest ever head of CBC Sports. His successful run at the network ended when American broadcasting icon Dick Clark lured him to Hollywood to develop and produce a wide variety of entertainment programming. Then as the head of programming and production at FOX Sports Net, Smith played an instrumental role in the launch and growth of this massive entity, before the biggest reach of his life—the creation of his eponymous production company that has thrived for more than twenty years. He lives in Los Angeles.     Full Show: HERE     Seg. 3 – Clips From: Cannabis Innovation by Ally Biotech w/ Dr. Chuck & Francis - AZ TRT S04 EP36 (199) 9-10-2023                    What We Learned This Week Ally Biotech offers highly bioavailable products to leading manufacturers and dispensaries of cannabis products Cannabis is competitive and it's all about the product quality. Arizona-based Chill PillTM brand is an expansive line of easy-to-swallow THC soft gels for the cannabis industry.       The goal of the company is to adopt the practices of big Pharma and make high grade products. FDA and DEA are actually working together. The DEA treats cannabis like any other Schedule One dangerous drug, like cocaine or heroin. Yet it does not have the same affects, nor addictive qualities. Many pain medication's have very serious side effects as well as the potential for problems with overdosing. Cannabis is a good alternative for pain mgmt.     Guests:   Dr. Chuck Johnson, CSO at Ally Biotech  After earning his BA in Chemistry from Northwestern University and PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Virginia Tech, Dr Chuck refined his craft while working The Procter & Gamble Company, Koch Industries, and Danaher, and expanded his scope of knowledge while working and consulting for DuPont, BATF, FBI, Army Corps of Engineers, Chiyoda Engineering, Toyo Engineering, Japan Gas Company, Yamato, Fisher Scientific, VWR Scientific Products, among others. Chuck brings with him experience with FDA regulatory compliance, LEAN (TPS) principles in Product Development and Manufacturing, competitive market analysis, mergers and acquisitions and technical sales. More recently he has provided consultation services and served as the Chief Science and Operations Officer in the Hemp and Cannabis sectors, including industrial farming, extraction, refining, GMP production, nutraceuticals, and FDA compliance.    Francis Baczek, V.P. of Business Development at Ally Biotech  Francis Baczek serves as Vice President of Business Development at Ally Biotech, a provider of leading-edge bioactive delivery solutions for cannabinoids. Baczek brings significant product development experience in the medical cannabis sector. Since 2013, he has been formulating precision-dosed edibles as lead cannabis chef for Uncle Herb's Health Center, a licensed Arizona operator. Baczek is credite      https://allybiotech.com/about-team/     Full Show: HERE     Efficiency in the Supply Chain by a New Container Invention w/ Trevor Pan of BidBird AZ TRT S04 EP41 (204) 10-15-2023   Things We Learned This Week Malcolm McLean was the inventor of the shipping Container, and a key person in trade & globalization BidBird invented a container skin, a smooth panel for the side to reduce wind resistance & improve fuel efficiency Patent process and Patent Cooperation Treaty to register an invention in foreign countries Building a Prototype and doing a road test with a Truck plus a Container on a race track   Guest: Tevor Pan, BidBird Principal Architect - February 2018 - Present Undergraduate Professional Degree - Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University,  Fort Collins, Colorado 2003 Master Degree - Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, Arizona 2006   o  Twitter o  LinkedIn     https://bidbird.co/about THE FIRST CONSTRUCTION MARKETPLACE, AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.   Trevor Pan, BidBird Founder & registered Arizona architect.   Spending 21 years as an architect immersed in construction, manufacturing, and design, I've built a unique understanding of the construction industry's constant movements and challenges. I know that construction professionals are exhausted by the RFP game—and the collusion that can come along with it.   I've seen invasive service platforms that trap users into thinking they're a lead generating machine, but then unethically charge them thousands with no quality results.   When I set off to launch BidBird, I wanted to eliminate the red tape and corruption for suppliers, manufacturers, contractors, and building owners. And when my barber approved the irresistible alliteration of the name, BidBird was born.   BidBird is the new way for construction professionals to achieve a constant-but-necessary thing: capture competitive bids for their materials through an efficient process.   At its core, our mission is simple. We connect construction industry professionals around the country through an honest platform that doesn't cost users unreasonable fees, or their dignity.   With its simplicity comes big things. BidBird is an opportunity to beat out the “big guys” by just a penny, equalizing the hunt for businesses around the country.   We strive to combine high-value jobs + the innovation to evolve with construction professionals' needs to transform businesses, one bid at a time.         Full Show: HERE   Seg. 4 – Clips From: Building Commercial Credit w/ Chris Owen of J. Galt AZ TRT S04 EP45 (208) 11-12-2023   Things We Learned This Week J. Galt Helps Small Businesses Optimize Cashflow & Manage Growth Helping Business Owners Access Loans & Credit, Endangering Their Personal Credit & Family Assets Small Business is the backbone of a community, when it thrives, so does the community 3 Types of Credit - Personal, Business & Commercial Credit - Business need to build their Commercial Credit     Guest: Chris Owen  LKIN: HERE Helping Business Owners Access Loans & Credit   Endangering Their Personal Credit & Family Assets When small businesses prosper, then the community also thrives. The passion I have for helping fellow entrepreneurs succeed is something I've fostered my entire life. As an advocate and advisor for small businesses I have seen the challenges they face firsthand. When businesses fail, they leave an average of $80K for the business owner and their family. Knowing these daunting stats, it has become my life's mission to help protect these incredible small businesses that are the bedrock of our economy. Can you imagine what your small business would look like in 12 months if… ✅     You didn't get turned down for the loan, credit card, or line of credit you needed? ✅     Your access to loans and credit didn't impact your personal credit or put your family home at risk? ✅     You had the money you needed to expand and meet new opportunities?   J. Galt: https://www.jgalt.io/cowen     Full Show: HERE     Rethinking What is an Asset AZ TRT S04 EP39 (202) 10-1-2023     What We Learned This Week:   ·         Knowledge as an Asset  ·         Industry You Work in as an Asset   ·         Your Network as an Asset  ·         Leverage as an Asset   ·         Focus as an Asset  ·         Traditional Investment Assets – Appreciating vs Harvesting       Full Show: HERE     Investing Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/investing   Tech Topic: HERE   ‘Best Of' Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+of+BRT      Thanks for Listening. Please Subscribe to the BRT Podcast.     AZ Tech Roundtable 2.0 with Matt Battaglia The show where Entrepreneurs, Top Executives, Founders, and Investors come to share insights about the future of business.  AZ TRT 2.0 looks at the new trends in business, & how classic industries are evolving.  Common Topics Discussed: Startups, Founders, Funds & Venture Capital, Business, Entrepreneurship, Biotech, Blockchain / Crypto, Executive Comp, Investing, Stocks, Real Estate + Alternative Investments, and more…    AZ TRT Podcast Home Page: http://aztrtshow.com/ ‘Best Of' AZ TRT Podcast: Click Here Podcast on Google: Click Here Podcast on Spotify: Click Here                    More Info: https://www.economicknight.com/azpodcast/ KFNX Info: https://1100kfnx.com/weekend-featured-shows/     Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the Hosts, Guests and Speakers, and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent (or affiliates, members, managers, employees or partners), or any Station, Podcast Platform, Website or Social Media that this show may air on. 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In this episode, podcast co-hosts Dr. Dwight Stoll and Dr. James Grinias talk with Dr. Kevin Schug, Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Texas, Arlington. Dr. Schug is an expert in separations and mass spectrometry, and leads a research program with diverse interests ranging from clinical analysis to environmental analysis. In their conversation, they discuss several of Dr. Schug's recent research articles focused on the thermodynamics of headspace analysis using ionic liquids as cosolvents, analysis of intact proteins using triple quadrupole mass spectrometry, and the coupling of supercritical fluid extraction with supercritical fluid chromatography. They also discuss several of Kevin's topic interests, including mentoring the next generation of separation scientists, and the importance of rigorous analytical chemistry in the courtroom. Finally, Dr. Schug shares a few bits of advice, in addition to a plea for academic institutions to reconsider the way they support major research instrumentation.

In this compelling podcast episode, Ricardo Karam engages in a fascinating conversation with Najat Saliba, a distinguished figure in the world of science, environmental conservation, and politics. As a Professor of Analytical Chemistry and an atmospheric chemist at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Saliba's career has been marked by a relentless pursuit of scientific excellence. Her notable achievements include serving as the Director of AUB's Nature Conservation Center from 2013 to 2020 and co-founding and directing Khaddit Beirut, an initiative born in response to Beirut's 2020 explosion. Additionally, she is the founder and director of the Environment Academy, a visionary project supported by the World Health Organization. Saliba's accomplishments extend beyond the laboratory and conservation efforts. In 2019, she was appointed a laureate of the prestigious L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science program, recognizing her exceptional contributions to the field. In a remarkable turn of events, Saliba was elected to the Lebanese parliament in 2022, adding a new dimension to her illustrious career. Najat Saliba's journey is a testament to her unwavering commitment to science, environmental stewardship, and public service. Her ability to bridge the worlds of academia, conservation, and politics makes her an inspirational and influential presence in Lebanon and beyond. في هذاالبودكاست، يلتقي ريكاردو كرم نجاة صليبا، الشخصية البارزة في عالم العلوم والحفاظ على البيئة والسياسة. بصفتها أستاذة الكيمياء التحليلية وكيميائية الغلاف الجوي في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت، اتسّمت مسيرة صليبا المهنية بالسعي الدؤوب لتحقيق التميّز العلمي. تشمل إنجازاتها البارزة عملها كمديرة لمركز حماية الطبيعة التابع للجامعة بين عامي ۲۰١٣ و۲۰۲۰ والمشاركة في تأسيس وإدارة "خضّة بيروت"، وهي مبادرة ولدت استجابة لانفجار بيروت عام ۲۰۲۰. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، هي مؤسسة ومديرة أكاديمية البيئة، وهو مشروع رؤيوي تدعمه منظمة الصحة العالمية. تمتدّ إنجازات صليبا إلى ما هو أبعد من جهود المختبر والحفظ. وفي عام ۲۰١٩، حازت على جائزة برنامج لوريال-اليونسكو للنساء في العلوم، تقديراً لمساهماتها الاستثنائية في هذا المجال. وفي تحوّل ملحوظ للأحداث، تمّ انتخابها لعضوية مجلس النواب اللبناني عام ۲۰۲۲، ممّا أضاف بعداً جديداً إلى مسيرتها المهنية اللامعة. إنّ رحلة نجاة صليبا هي شهادة على التزامها الثابت بالعلم والإشراف البيئي والخدمة العامة. وإنّ قدرتها على الربط بين عوالم الأوساط الأكاديمية والحفاظ على البيئة والسياسة جعلتها ذات حضور ملهم ومؤثّر في لبنان وخارجه.

The fascinating story of science in pursuit of the ghostly, ubiquitous subatomic particle—the neutrino.Isaac Asimov once observed of the neutrino: “The only reason scientists suggested its existence was their need to make calculations come out even. And yet the nothing-particle was not a nothing at all.” In fact, as one of the most enigmatic and most populous particles in the universe—about 100 trillion are flying through you every second—the neutrino may hold the clues to some of our deepest cosmic mysteries. In Ghost Particle, Alan Chodos and James Riordon recount the dramatic history of the neutrino—from the initial suggestion that the particle was merely a desperate solution to a puzzle that threatened to undermine the burgeoning field of particle physics to its modern role in illuminating the universe via neutrino telescopes. Alan Chodos and James Riordon are deft and engaging guides as they conduct readers through the experiences of intrepid scientists and the challenges they faced, and continue to face, in their search for the ghostly neutrino. Along the way, the authors provide expert insight into the significance of neutrino research from the particle's first, momentous discovery to recent, revolutionary advances in neutrino detection and astronomy. Chodos and Riordon describe how neutrinos may soon provide clues to some of the biggest questions we encounter today, including how to understand the dark matter that makes up most of the universe—and why anything exists in the universe at all.Alan Chodos is a Research Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington, a former Director of the Yale Center for Theoretical Physics, and the former Associate Executive Officer of the American Physical Society, where he is a Fellow.James Riordon is a science journalist who has written for Science News, Scientific American, New Scientist, Popular Science, Washington Post, Science, Ad Astra, Physics Today, and Analytical Chemistry. He is a past President of the DC Science Writers Association, and Cofounder of the Southwest Science Writers Association.Buy the book from Wellington Square Bookshop - ​https://wellingtonsquarebooks.indiecommerce.com/book/9780262047876

The NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP) is sponsoring a Risk e-Learning webinar series, hosted by CLU-IN, focused on research efforts to develop tools for sampling, monitoring, detecting, and characterizing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination. The three-part series will feature SRP-funded researchers and collaborators whose research focuses, in part, on understanding the distribution and fate of PFAS in the environment. The first session will feature SRP-funded investigators working on innovative methods to classify and/or quantify PFAS compounds. To learn about and register for the other sessions in this webinar series, please see the SRP website. Diana Aga, Ph.D., of the State University of New York at Buffalo (University at Buffalo) will discuss work affiliated with her R01 grant, Model-aided Design and Integration of Functionalized Hybrid Nanomaterials for Enhanced Bioremediation of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances. Discussed will be various complementary techniques used to identify and quantify known and unknown PFAS in complex environmental samples, such as liquid chromatography (LC) with high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), combustion ion chromatography (CIC), and fluorine nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (19F-NMR). Diana will examine the advantages and limitations of these techniques in terms of their applications in PFAS analysis in wastewater and biosolids samples. Erin S. Baker, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will illustrate how combining liquid chromatography, ion mobility spectrometry and mass spectrometry enables the evaluation of a broader range of chemical exposure, while uncovering novel species yet to be reported. Throughout life, people are frequently exposed to both naturally occurring and human-made chemicals such as PFAS. Associating these exposures to health risks can however be quite difficult since, for example, there are over 14,000 PFAS listed in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's PFAS Master List but only a few hundred standards available for targeted analytical tests and highlights how non-targeted approaches are of great importance. Lee Ferguson, Ph.D., of Duke University will focus on the development of novel non-targeted, high-resolution mass spectrometry methods and cheminformatics approaches for characterizing PFAS in the environment. He will discuss applications of these methods to assessment of PFAS contamination in drinking water and wastewater in North Carolina. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/PFAS-Characterization-1_100623/

The NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP) is sponsoring a Risk e-Learning webinar series, hosted by CLU-IN, focused on research efforts to develop tools for sampling, monitoring, detecting, and characterizing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination. The three-part series will feature SRP-funded researchers and collaborators whose research focuses, in part, on understanding the distribution and fate of PFAS in the environment. The first session will feature SRP-funded investigators working on innovative methods to classify and/or quantify PFAS compounds. To learn about and register for the other sessions in this webinar series, please see the SRP website. Diana Aga, Ph.D., of the State University of New York at Buffalo (University at Buffalo) will discuss work affiliated with her R01 grant, Model-aided Design and Integration of Functionalized Hybrid Nanomaterials for Enhanced Bioremediation of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances. Discussed will be various complementary techniques used to identify and quantify known and unknown PFAS in complex environmental samples, such as liquid chromatography (LC) with high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), combustion ion chromatography (CIC), and fluorine nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (19F-NMR). Diana will examine the advantages and limitations of these techniques in terms of their applications in PFAS analysis in wastewater and biosolids samples. Erin S. Baker, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will illustrate how combining liquid chromatography, ion mobility spectrometry and mass spectrometry enables the evaluation of a broader range of chemical exposure, while uncovering novel species yet to be reported. Throughout life, people are frequently exposed to both naturally occurring and human-made chemicals such as PFAS. Associating these exposures to health risks can however be quite difficult since, for example, there are over 14,000 PFAS listed in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's PFAS Master List but only a few hundred standards available for targeted analytical tests and highlights how non-targeted approaches are of great importance. Lee Ferguson, Ph.D., of Duke University will focus on the development of novel non-targeted, high-resolution mass spectrometry methods and cheminformatics approaches for characterizing PFAS in the environment. He will discuss applications of these methods to assessment of PFAS contamination in drinking water and wastewater in North Carolina. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/PFAS-Characterization-1_100623/

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Cannabis Innovation by Ally Biotech w/ Dr. Chuck & Francis - BRT S04 EP36 (199) 9-10-2023                    What We Learned This Week Ally Biotech offers highly bioavailable products to leading manufacturers and dispensaries of cannabis products Cannabis is competitive and it's all about the product quality. Arizona-based Chill PillTM brand is an expansive line of easy-to-swallow THC soft gels for the cannabis industry.       The goal of the company is to adopt the practices of big Pharma and make high grade products.       FDA and DEA are actually working together. The DEA treats cannabis like any other Schedule One dangerous drug, like cocaine or heroin. Yet it does not have the same affects, nor addictive qualities.       Many pain medication's have very serious side effects as well as the potential for problems with overdosing. Cannabis is a good alternative for pain mgmt.       Guests:   Dr. Chuck Johnson, CSO at Ally Biotech  After earning his BA in Chemistry from Northwestern University and PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Virginia Tech, Dr Chuck refined his craft while working The Procter & Gamble Company, Koch Industries, and Danaher, and expanded his scope of knowledge while working and consulting for DuPont, BATF, FBI, Army Corps of Engineers, Chiyoda Engineering, Toyo Engineering, Japan Gas Company, Yamato, Fisher Scientific, VWR Scientific Products, among others. Chuck brings with him experience with FDA regulatory compliance, LEAN (TPS) principles in Product Development and Manufacturing, competitive market analysis, mergers and acquisitions and technical sales. More recently he has provided consultation services and served as the Chief Science and Operations Officer in the Hemp and Cannabis sectors, including industrial farming, extraction, refining, GMP production, nutraceuticals, and FDA compliance.    Francis Baczek, V.P. of Business Development at Ally Biotech  Francis Baczek serves as Vice President of Business Development at Ally Biotech, a provider of leading-edge bioactive delivery solutions for cannabinoids. Baczek brings significant product development experience in the medical cannabis sector. Since 2013, he has been formulating precision-dosed edibles as lead cannabis chef for Uncle Herb's Health Center, a licensed Arizona operator. Baczek is credite      https://allybiotech.com/about-team/   About Ally Biotech:  Headquartered in Payson, Arizona, Ally Biotech offers highly bioavailable products to leading manufacturers and dispensaries of cannabis products since 2019. The company recently acquired the Chill Pill line of products. The company's Lipofusion® delivery technology combines nanotechnology and liposomal science to speed product differentiation and innovation. Ally Biotech offers product development services, and manufacturing-ready, water soluble Lipofusion THC that can be utilized as a raw ingredient in powder or liquid form in a variety of products. All of the company's products undergo rigorous testing for purity, potency, safety and efficacy at third-party laboratories. For more information, visit AllyBiotech.com. For more information about the Chill Pill, visit ChillPillsAZ.com.    About Chill Pill:  The Arizona-based Chill PillTM brand is an expansive line of easy-to-swallow THC soft gels for the cannabis industry. Formulated using hemp seed oil, Chill Pills are easy to absorb, metabolize, and come in a variety of strengths and strains, with effects ranging from highly responsive to highly relaxed. Chill Pill is owned and operated by Ally Biotech, a company committed to harnessing the power of science to create innovative THC products, such as their patented Lipofusion® technology. For more information, visit ChillPillsAZ.com.     Notes:   Seg 1   Cannabis is competitive and it's all about the product quality. Growing cannabis is a seasonal business.   Ally biotech has been around for two years, circa 2021. Working on a new product called Lipo fusion to be determined one will come out.   Ally purchase a product called chill pill in 2023 and they've tightened up the product with some of their own technology to stabilize the brand. They have three or four products.   Dr. Chuck has a manufacturing and farmer background. SOP of the product is the franchise potential.   Chill pill can be taken and a gummy or sugar edible. THC is 10 g per pill with other variations of 510 and even up to 125 g. Can also take it in liquid form.   They got a nighttime version CBN to stay asleep. Another version CBG daytime to give you energy. Any time product with non-enhanced oil.   There's an ongoing discussion of medicinal use for cannabis, vs recreational. Dr. Chuck believes all cannabis products is medicine.   The goal of the company is to adopt the practices of big Pharma and make high grade products.   Seg 2 They are creating pills, but not smokables. AZDHS or department of health has to monitor every product sold in Arizona.   They have the studies so you can check all the tests and confirm their product is safe.   In reality you can't find tests on prescription drugs, and many drugs are imported from Asia. It's hard to know what the actual quality is.   The chill pill products are made in Arizona using plants that must also be grown in Arizona. There is a strict chain of custody on plant growing as well as all types of test things like examples testing for metals.   The ingredients of THC and CBD actually come from the same plant. When they make their product they buy the extract from other easy growers and use easy labs for testing.   Overall the company has a model that would be easy to copy from the state of Arizona to other states.   Quality of most cannabis products is stagnant per Dr. Chuck. Any cannabis product they're making cannot claim use.   FDA costs are huge to run tests and prove use cases. Very few cannabis companies have the budget to do it. Estimated cost of $15 million to pass the FTA test. Cannabis products are not bad for you.   What most people don't realize is that over-the-counter drugs like Tylenol if you take 2 1/2x the recommended dose recommended dose it can actually be toxic.   Cannabis products you take microdoses, it would take 100 times the recommended doss to be toxic.     Seg 3   FDA and DEA are actually working together. The DEA treats cannabis like any other schedule one dangerous drug, like cocaine or heroin. Yet it does not have the same affects nor addictive qualities.   On schedule 2 are many pain medicines like oxycodone. These medicines are extremely dangerous and can be addictive.   Alcohol though regulated it's not on any drug schedule, it's totally legal and only has age restrictions.   Hundred milligrams per charge 10 per unit. Quick factor female cannabis state to state it's federally illegal when you've committed a crime. No interstate commerce. Cannabis must all be within the state.   It's highly regulated and only legal in about 60% of the states. It is unknown how the DEA will handle cannabis long-term. Arizona has a very viable medical market for cannabis as well as for pain medication.   Cannabis can be used for pain and it is less habit-forming. Medicines like steroids which help a lot of things in the body, also have many negative side effects. Any drug you taking must be careful of the dosage and it needs to be controlled.   Many pain medication's have very serious side effects as well as the potential for problems with overdosing. Per Dr. Chuck you take one chill pill at 5 mg and it will bring down swelling and pain in your body may be failing.     Seg 4   Take too much aspirin you can actually overdose very quickly. This is because aspirin is hard on the liver and can cause metabolism issues. 500 mg plus she took an OxyContin also at 500 mg could wind up having an overdose.   Steroids can do damage to the body but it actually takes a lot of time.   CBD and THC hit different receptions in your body receptors in your body and work well together. CBG actually helps with sleep.   Francis has a very personal story or cannabis treatment helped him with focus. Per Francis also helped relieve tumor size and his cancer treatment a few years ago.   He credits cannabis for a faster recovery. Initially during cancer treatment he was taking Percocet pain pills, also taking nausea drugs which he did not want to. Took Cannabis and it took care of everything.   Francis believes that doctor said prescribe cannabis to get people off opiates.   More information go to life is chill or chill pill a Z. They sell wholesale to dispensaries. No sugar in the product.   Try it for what helps you. The chill drops are the first Lipo products you can put the drops in the water. Go to jars locations to get their product.   Both Dr. Chuck and Francis believe and hope THC will be taken off the schedule one drug listing.       Cannabis Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Cannabis-Hemp-Marijuana   Tech Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Tech   Best of Biotech from AZ Bio & Life Sciences to Jellatech: HERE   Thanks for Listening Please Subscribe to the Podcast   AZ Tech Roundtable 2.0 with Matt Battaglia The show where Entrepreneurs, Top Executives, Founders, and Investors come to share insights about the future of business.  AZ TRT 2.0 looks at the new trends in business, & how classic industries are evolving.  Common Topics Discussed: Startups, Founders, Funds & Venture Capital, Business, Entrepreneurship, Biotech, Blockchain / Crypto, Executive Comp, Investing, Stocks, Real Estate + Alternative Investments, and more…    AZ TRT Podcast Home Page: http://aztrtshow.com/ ‘Best Of' AZ TRT Podcast: Click Here Podcast on Google: Click Here Podcast on Spotify: Click Here                    More Info: https://www.economicknight.com/azpodcast/ KFNX Info: https://1100kfnx.com/weekend-featured-shows/   Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the Hosts, Guests and Speakers, and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent (or affiliates, members, managers, employees or partners), or any Station, Podcast Platform, Website or Social Media that this show may air on. 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In this episode, we speak with Adam O'Leary, Analytical Scientist, and he walks us through the technology and instrumentation used when working with flavors. Learn how gas chromatography helps separate complex flavors and identify specific chemicals. Stick around to hear how analytical chemist can duplicate flavors or even substitute chemicals when needed.

Dr. Christy Haynes is the Elmore H. Northey Professor of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. In Christy's research group, they are working to develop new methods to monitor small quantities of important chemicals in complex environments. Their research also aims to develop new, safe nanomaterials for applications in human health and sustainable energy. When she's not at work, Christy loves to go for a run around the lakes of Minneapolis and spend time with her spouse and two kids. Her son has an analytic mind and is interested in competitive sports, while her daughter enjoys art and music. She completed her undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Macalester College and received her MS and PhD in Chemistry from Northwestern University. Next, Christy was awarded a National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award Post-Doctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 2005. Christy has received many awards and honors for her research, including the Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award, the Taylor Award for Distinguished Research from the University of Minnesota, the Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lectureship, the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award, the Joseph Black Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist from the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry, the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry Young Investigator Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the NIH New Innovator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Victor K. LaMer Award from the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Science. In addition, Christy has been recognized for her excellence in mentoring through receipt of the Advising and Mentoring Award and the Outstanding Postdoctoral Mentor Award both from the University of Minnesota. She has also been listed among the Top 100 Inspiring Women in STEM from Insight into Diversity magazine, the Analytical Scientist's “Top 40 Under 40” Power List, and one of the “Brilliant 10” chosen by Popular Science magazine. Christy is with us today to share stories from her journey through life and science.

Carolyn Harding with Michael Ketterer, PhD, an analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University. We'll talk about the Portsmouth Ohio Nuclear Site, otherwise known as the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, south of Piketon, Ohio, and HOT in Energy news NOW. Michael E. Ketterer, PhD, is an analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University. Michael holds a BS in Chemistry from University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Colorado. Michael has worked in private industry, as a chemist for USEPA's Office of Enforcement, and has taught at four different Universities. Dr. Ketterer specializes in understanding the sources, transport and environmental fates of long lived radioactive contaminants, such as uranium and plutonium, near former and active nuclear sites. Michael has performed mass spectrometric studies of uranium isotopes in off-site samples near the Portsmouth Nuclear Site (PORTS) which show conclusively, using modern nuclear forensics, that the contamination originated from PORTS. The US Department of Energy has contradicted but has not disproved Dr. Ketterer's results. Michael is currently providing technical assistance to communities throughout the US affected by legacy nuclear contamination. Ohio Nuclear Free Network website coming soon: www.onfn.org The Ohio Nuclear Free Network PRESENTS: A CITIZEN FORUM ON RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH and THE FUTURE OF THE PORTSMOUTH NUCLEAR SITE Saturday, June 10 at 1 pm At the Comfort Inn, 7525 US-23, Piketon, OH 45661 Speakers: Michael E. Ketterer, PhD, analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University “Contamination is forever: Radioisotopes near PORTS” Joseph J. Mangano, MPH, MBA, epidemiologist and Executive Director, Radiation and Public Health Project “Soaring Death Rate Near Ohio Uranium Plant”* Announcing the release of his NEW Seven-County Health Impact Study Terry J. Lodge, Esq. Specialist in Environmental Law and Civil Rights “Is Piketon's Disastrous Past a Prelude to Even Worse?" Following the presentations, the public will be invited to speak about health issues and environmental concerns. _______________________________________ In person, on livestream at https://bit.ly/portsforum, and recorded on the Ohio Nuclear Free Network YouTube Channel. GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!

Has rural farming and small town America changed where you live?  On today's episode of the Thriving Farmer Podcast, our guest is Chris Jones who has recently served as a Research Engineer at the University of Iowa. While there, he studied and wrote about the declining quality of water as a result of the changes in agriculture and the environment over the past century. He shares those thoughts and critiques through his blog which was released as a book entitled The Swine Republic on May 19th. Through authoring books, advocacy and research, few have attracted more attention to the causes and sources of farm-related pollution than Chris Jones.  Tune in to hear about Chris' thoughts on how we can protect our environment and the future of rural America. In this episode, you'll hear: How Chris got started in water quality research 1:51 About the water quality of the places Chris has researched 5:12 More on what happens when nitrate gets into the water 9:39 About Chris' role throughout the majority of his career 13:11 How people in Iowa can give political pushback in support of cleaner water 21:00 What Chris' new book is about and the future state of rural America 26:17 Products mentioned in the show: Chris' book The Swine Republic (or pre-order via Amazon) About the Guest: Chris Jones is a Research Engineer with IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa. He holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Montana State University and a BA in chemistry and biology from Simpson College. Previous career stops include the Des Moines Water Works and the Iowa Soybean Association. As an avid outdoorsman, he enjoys fishing, bird watching, gardening, and mushroom hunting in both Iowa and Wisconsin. While he spends most of his time in Iowa City, he is especially fond of the Upper Mississippi River and the Driftless Area. Resources: Blog: https://riverraccoon.blogspot.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiverRaccoon Substack: https://riverraccoon.substack.com/     This podcast is sponsored by Small Farm University, THE go-to resource for gardeners, homesteaders, and farmers around the world. Small Farm University delivers classes online and on demand, with training on how to grow crops AND how to grow a profitable farm business that serves you, your family, and your community well.  Applying what you learn in SFU could save you countless hours and thousands of dollars. And, it can save you the agony of costly mistakes some make, just because they “don't know what they don't know.” Delivered by real farmers with hands-on experience and expertise, it is unique in its approach, using the RIPEN method for growing and building a farm or farm business. To learn more, visit:  GrowingFarmers.com today!  

Dr. Diana Aga is the Henry M. Woodburn Chair and a State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo. She also serves as the Director of RENEW (Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water) Institute at the University at Buffalo. Diana is an environmental chemist. She studies sustainable agriculture and pollutants such as the “forever chemicals” (Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS)) that we frequently encounter in our everyday lives. When it's warm outside, Diana enjoys biking and hiking, and when it's cold she spends more time indoors watching movies. Cooking is another one of Diana's hobbies, and she is particularly fond of making Filipino food, creatively reusing leftovers, and recreating restaurant favorites at home. Diana received a B.S. degree in agricultural chemistry from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños and her PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Kansas. Afterwards, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. Diana worked on the faculty at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and then in industry at Bayer before joining the faculty at the University at Buffalo. She has received numerous awards for her research, teaching, and mentoring, including the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, the Koh Lectureship Award in Science from the Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering, the Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal of the Western New York Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Menzie Environmental Education Award from The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and the Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award from the University at Buffalo. Diana has also been named a Fulbright Fellow, an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, an ACS Fellow, and an ACS AGRO Fellow. In this interview, Diana shares more about her life and science.

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Rob O'Brien. Dr. O'Brien is CEO & CSO of Supra Research and Development in Canada and is an innovative solution provider with a strong experience base in Analytical Chemistry, Laboratory and Research team management, Scientific Education and Company Leadership. He is currently the Senior Executive for Scientific Affairs at ISURA, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving the safety and effectiveness of Natural Health Products through improved analytical technology and research. 1. Latest Research On THC Levels 2. Analytical Instrumentation * Twitter - @TheCannabisRev2 * LinkedIn - @thecannabisreview * Episode Library - https://www.thecannabisreview.ie + Supra Research & Development http://suprarnd.ca/

Nick talks with Nick Mosley, who is CEO of a cannabis testing lab called Confidence Analytics, which conducts analytical testing for legal cannabis products in Washington & California. They discuss: how analytical testing for cannabis products works; THC, CBD, and cannabinoid content; terpenes; pesticides, heavy metals, and microbial contaminants; the phenomenon of THC inflation & lab shopping in the legal marijuana industry; how consumers can discern whether cannabis products are safe & consistent.Try Everyday Dose, high-quality coffee & matcha altneratives with functional mushrooms & other supplements.Support the showSign up for the free weekly Mind & Matter newsletter:[https://mindandmatter.substack.com/?sort=top]Learn how you can further support the podcast: [https://mindandmatter.substack.com/p/how-to-support-mind-and-matter]

The Ig Nobel Prize celebrates discoveries and inventions that are unusual and imaginative. Think of it as the younger, more fun sibling of the revered Nobel Prize. Ig Nobel Prize winners are often recognized for research that might not make it into a more traditional science journal—one that doesn't publish studies about levitating frogs or constipated scorpions. You're in for a fun one. Links to the Tiny Show & Tell stories: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/the-angle-at-which-dogs-pee-inspired-optimal-design-for-splash-free-urinal/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03783-5     

This episode features an interview with Laura Borland, TA and Clinical Communications Director at Waters. Unlike most communications professionals, Laura has a PhD in Analytical Chemistry and began her career as a science consultant and government project manager. She found her passion in supporting scientists and communicating their stories to drive business outcomes.In this episode, Amanda and Laura discuss manager-led communications, strategies for reaching people globally, and helping leaders become better communicators.-------------------“Executives need to identify that the managers are your best representatives of the employee base. They're the ones that are eyes and ears; they're all around, they see it. They're at that sort of level, and they really should be, hopefully, empowered and respected and heard. And that when we communicate to them, find ways to better empower and not just assume that they're going to cascade verbatim the message from on high. There's a lot of contextualization, translation to get that message from what the executive sees at a high-level strategic business, and even strategic cultural level, down into the organization to really pump the blood through and get those tactics, those strategies, all those things from the business and culturally through the organization.” – Laura Borland-------------------Episode Timestamps:*(01:43): Laura's background*(06:48): Segment: Getting Tactical*(07:14): One strategy that gets overlooked when trying to reach people globally*(08:51): Laura opens her manager-led communication playbook*(23:16): Segment: Seat at The Table*(26:56): How Laura coaches leaders to be better communicators*(30:51): Segment: Asking for a Friend-------------------Links:Connect with Laura on LinkedInWatersConnect with Amanda on LinkedInwww.simpplr.com/podcast

"Kabrena Rodda is the group leader of Analytical Chemistry and Instrument Analysis which supports the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Technologies division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). As a forensic toxicologist, Rodda leads PNNL's capability strategy to combat emerging chemical threats. She holds a Ph.D. (Medicine) in forensic toxicology.Rodda served in the United States Air Force for 22 years prior to coming to the Laboratory. During that time, she managed a $30M nonproliferation program, advised on chemical issues at the National Counterproliferation Center, and commanded at the Detachment, Squadron, and Group levels before retiring as a colonel. She was a United Nations Special Commission inspector and laboratory chief in Iraq in 1995 and 1998 and advised Australian officials on consequence management in preparation for the Sydney Olympics. In 2012, she published a book-length policy paper against synthetic drugs titled, Legal Highs: US Policy for the New Pandemic. In 2017 and 2018, she led chemical threat response workshops at the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and headed the writing team for the American Chemical Society (ACS) policy statement, “Preventing the Reemergence of Chemical Weapons."Rodda is a recipient of the OPCW Director General's Medal, the Secretary of Energy Appreciation Award, and the Secretary of the United States Air Force R&D Award. She is a member of ACS International Activities Committee, the American Academy of Forensic Science, and the International Society for the Study of Emerging Drugs."Disciplines and SkillsChemistryMulti-drug interactionsPharmacodynamicsForensic and analytical toxicologyEducationDoctor of Philosophy, Medicine, Monash UniversityMaster of Science, National Security Strategy, National Defense UniversityMaster of Science, Chemistry, University of WashingtonMaster of Science, Project & Systems Management, Golden Gate University–San FranciscoBachelor of Science, Chemistry, United States Air Force Academy

Dr. Neil Kelleher is the Walter and Mary Elizabeth Glass Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and Medicine at Northwestern University. Neil is a protein biochemist. He weighs and analyzes proteins found in the human body, and he develops technology that allows scientists to measure new things. When he's not doing science, Neil likes to play basketball, and he has also been an avid golfer since he was young. He received his B.A. in chemistry from Pacific Lutheran University and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell University. He conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. In 2010, he joined the faculty at Northwestern University. Neil has received numerous awards and honors over the course of his career, including the Biemann Medal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Cottrell Scholars Award, the Burroughs Wellcome Award in the Pharmacological Sciences, a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, and others. In addition, he has received the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award, the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, and the A.F. Findeis Award in Measurement Science from the American Chemical Society, Division of Analytical Chemistry. Neil was also a Becman Fellow, a Sloan Fellow, a Packard Fellow, a Searle Scholar, and a Fulbright Scholar. In our interview, Neil shares more about his life and science.

Visit our sponsor: https://www.sound.ag/ (https://www.sound.ag/) April Clayton Twitter: https://twitter.com/AppleApril111 (https://twitter.com/AppleApril111) April the Apple Gal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DOJG_0BOYGv00KAw-CuxQ/videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DOJG_0BOYGv00KAw-CuxQ/videos) April on “Real Food, Real People”: https://realfoodrealpeople.org/april-clayton-002/ (https://realfoodrealpeople.org/april-clayton-002/) April on “The Farm Traveler”: https://thefarmtraveler.com/2020/04/22/podcast-episode-53/ (https://thefarmtraveler.com/2020/04/22/podcast-episode-53/) April on “What The Farm”: https://farmercitygirl.libsyn.com/144-april-clayton-organic-orchardist (https://farmercitygirl.libsyn.com/144-april-clayton-organic-orchardist)  I've been following April Clayton on Twitter for a while, she is @AppleApril111, and she puts out some great content about their life and work at Red Apple Orchard, where they grow organic apples and conventional cherries. She also has a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from my alma mater UC Davis, so she's actually Dr. April Clayton farm. Her and her husband are the second generation on their Washington fruit orchard.  A recent exchange on Twitter with April prompted me to reach out to her for this interview. She shared a video of a block of organic apples that she said they were considering not harvesting, due, in part to the labor situation. I wondered, just how expensive does labor have to be to make it not worth it to harvest certified organic fruit? Or was it that the labor was simply non-existent? Or were there other factors at play here I wasn't aware of? I also wondered if this meant the futuristic looking robotic apple pickers that I always see demo videos of might just be close to being an option for farmers like the Claytons.  These are the types of questions you're going to get some answers on today. I really enjoyed this conversation with April and Mike. These are the types of conversations that really help to provide the depth and nuance and complexity of an issue like farm labor.

Kimberly Lupo is the Founder & CEO of Portrett Pharmaceuticals. She is a 2022 recipient of the Coastal Entrepreneur Awards as an Emerging Company, sponsored by the Greater Wilmington Business Journal. Kimberly Lupo has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Serving clients at Metrics Contract Services (Mayne Pharma) for 13 years solidified Kimberly's desire to work closely with clients to meet their custom contract research needs. Additional experience with IRIX Pharmaceuticals (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and Quality Chemical Laboratories has assisted Kimberly in becoming highly experienced and knowledgeable with the pharmaceutical research industry. Kimberly earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from UNC Pembroke and a Master of Science in Analytical Chemistry from UNC Charlotte. She completed her Master of Business Administration at Eastern Carolina University. She also obtained her regulatory affairs certification (RAC US) in 2015. Portrett Pharmaceuticals website:  https://portrett.com/ (https://portrett.com/)   Kimberly Lupo LinkedIn Profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-lupo-ms-mba-rac-46a75a8/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-lupo-ms-mba-rac-46a75a8/)

This episode originally aired on 2/28/2020. New episodes coming soon. Learn about how quitting smoking may reawaken healthy cells; how researchers figured out how to tell the age of crime scene fingerprints to help investigators; and why you sometimes yawn while exercising or singing.Quitting smoking doesn't just slow lung damage, but can also reawaken undamaged cells by Grant CurrinGallagher, J. (2020, January 29). Lungs “magically” heal damage from smoking. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51279355Pfeifer, G. P. (2020, January 29). Smoke signals in the DNA of normal lung cells. Nature, 578(7794), 224–226. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00165-7Yoshida, K., Gowers, K. H. C., Lee-Six, H., Chandrasekharan, D. P., Coorens, T., Maughan, E. F., Beal, K., Menzies, A., Millar, F. R., Anderson, E., Clarke, S. E., Pennycuick, A., Thakrar, R. M., Butler, C. R., Kakiuchi, N., Hirano, T., Hynds, R. E., Stratton, M. R., Martincorena, I., … Campbell, P. J. (2020, January 29). Tobacco smoking and somatic mutations in human bronchial epithelium. Nature, 578(7794), 266–272. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1961-1It's been impossible to tell the age of crime scene fingerprints — until now by Grant CurrinDetermining Fingerprint Age with Mass Spectrometry Imaging via Ozonolysis of Triacylglycerols. (2020, January 3). Analytical Chemistry. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b04765Residues in fingerprints hold clues to their age. (2020, January 22). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/acs-rif012220.phpWhy we yawn during exercise by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Kate in Pennsylvania)Provine, R. R., Tate, B. C., & Geldmacher, L. L. (1987). Yawning: No effect of 3–5% CO2, 100% O2, and exercise. Behavioral and Neural Biology, 48(3), 382–393. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0163-1047(87)90944-7Massen, J. J. M., Dusch, K., Eldakar, O. T., & Gallup, A. C. (2014). A thermal window for yawning in humans: Yawning as a brain cooling mechanism. Physiology & Behavior, 130, 145–148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.03.032The science of the exercise yawn. (2017). Furthermore from Equinox. https://furthermore.equinox.com/articles/2017/09/yawningMcKinney, James C. The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults. (2005). Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=znaCDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=singing+yawn&ots=DKpXxdwhGJ&sig=IjgkdxkqyENjWLoXJTDaYB94G30#v=onepage&q=yawn&f=falseWant to learn even more? Head to discovery+ to stream from some of your favorite shows. Go to discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply.