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American global leadership is due in great part to its innovators — visionaries who drive society beyond the preconceived limits. Historically, government-led initiatives like the Manhattan Project or the Apollo Project pushed boundaries. Today, too often, government lags behind technologically.Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with Katherine Boyle about American Dynamism, the spirit of pro-progress innovation, and how a new generation of Silicon Valley startups is spurring government to break out of its old habits.Boyle is a general partner at VC giant Andreessen Horowitz, having previously been a partner at General Catalyst and a general assignment reporter at The Washington Post. She primarily invests in national security, aerospace and defense, and public safety companies, among others.In This Episode* American Dynamism (1:25)* From software to the physical world (7:23)* Government collaboration: challenges & opportunities (11:29)* Playing the long-game in Washington (21:16)* Building the American Dream (24:35)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversationAmerican Dynamism (1:25)Let's just start with a little bit of definition about American Dynamism. Broadly, what challenges or problems is this effort directed toward?It's a bit of a long story as to what American Dynamism is, how it arrived to be a category of innovation, but the short definition is American Dynamism is built for companies that support the national interest. So a very broad category of companies, everything from aerospace, defense, national security, companies that sell directly to the US government and to our allies, but also things like housing, education, transportation, infrastructure, things that are built in the physical world where Washington or states usually like to regulate those things.So one of the things that we saw in our own portfolio is that there are a lot of companies that we used to be classifying as “enterprise” or “consumer,” and really what they were were government companies because they had to interface with a regulator much earlier in their trajectory, or they saw government as a potential buyer of the product. So in cases of things like aerospace and defense, those are very obvious government buyers, but things like public safety, where we have companies like Flock Safety, for example, that started out selling to homeowners associations thinking they were a consumer company, but ultimately got extraordinary pull from local governments and from public safety officials because of how good the technology was. So the companies, in some ways, they were these N-of-One companies, really solving really important civic problems, but over time it became very clear that this was a growing category of technology.But the broader underlying thesis, I'd say, of where the movement came from, and when we really started seeing this as an area where founders, in particular, were excited to build, I think it did come out of “It's Time to Build,” my partner Mark Andreessen's canonical post where he basically said during Covid that we have to be able to build things in the physical world. And there was sort of this realization that technology has solved many, many problems in the digital realm that I think, in some ways, the last 15 years of the Silicon Valley technology story has really been about changes in consumer technology or changes in the workplace, but now we're finally seeing the need for changes in government and civic goods, and there's just an extraordinary amount of momentum from young founders who really want to build for their country, build for the needs of the citizenry.Does it change what you do, or maybe the kinds of expertise that are needed, to think about these things as a category, rather than different companies scattered in these other kinds of categories. Thinking of them as like, “Oh, there's some sort of commonality,” how is that helpful for you?The thing that's interesting is that there's sort of a “yes” and “no” part to that question. The yes is that the founders are coming from different places. So the companies that have led to this sort of, I would say, extraordinary wealth of engineering talent where people are not afraid to tackle these problems, there's a handful of the companies that have scaled: it's companies like SpaceX, companies like Palantir, where, 20 years ago, they were banging their heads against the wall trying to figure out, “How do we sell to government?” In many cases, they had to sue the government in order to be able to sell and compete against the larger incumbents that have been around for, in many cases, 50, 70 years. But now you have these talented engineers who've sort of seen those playbooks, both in terms of, they understand what good engineering looks like, they understand the pace of innovation, how quickly you have to bring new products to market, and they also understand that you have to be in touch with your customer, constantly iterating.And so you now have companies that have scaled in these categories where there is this nice thing that happens in Silicon Valley, and I always say it's a mark of a really successful company when three, four, five years into the journey, you start seeing the early people at that company say, “Well, I want to solve this problem,” or “I want to go be a founder, myself,” and they start building more companies. So I think that, in some ways, the natural order of how Silicon Valley progresses, in terms of, do you need to have different expertise, or are there different talent pools? Yes, they're coming from different companies, but it's the same story of Silicon Valley Dynamism, which is, someone comes in, I always joke, they go to the University of Elon Musk and they learn how to manufacture, and then they say, “Well, actually, I don't want to just work on rockets anymore, I'd like to work on nuclear.” And so then you have companies like Radiant Nuclear that have spun out of SpaceX several years ago that are building in a totally different category for the built world, but have that sort of manufacturing expertise, that engineering expertise, and also know what it's like to work in a highly regulated environment.Does it require a different expertise, then, to advise these companies because of that government interface?I think in some ways it does, yes, the types of people who are investing in this category, maybe there's a number of investors where they got their start at Palantir, for example, or they understand the early journey of SpaceX. But at the same time, the thing that I think has been most surprising to us is just how quickly this movement caught on among the broader Silicon Valley ecosystem. And I think that's a very good thing, because, at its core, these are software companies in many cases. Yes, they're building hardware, but software is the lever that's allowing these companies to scale. So you are seeing the traditional venture capital firms that used to say, “Oh, I would never touch anything that is operating in the physical world,” or the meme you had five years ago, which is, “You'll never be able to sell anything to the US government, I'm not wasting my money there.” You've seen a complete 180 in the Silicon Valley ecosystem in terms of venture firms where they're now willing to take bets on these types of companies.And you're also seeing, there's a number of founders where their first company, for example, might've done very well, and it might've just been pure software, or in a consumer enterprise, sort of a more classical Silicon Valley domain, and now you're seeing those founders say, “Actually, I want to build for the civic need. I want to build for the national interests. These are issues I care about.” And so you're seeing those founders actually decide to build in the category and team up with founders who maybe have a little bit more experience in government, or maybe have a little more experience in terms of how they're building in the physical world.From software to the physical world (7:23)That period you referred to, which seems like a lot of what Silicon Valley was doing with the first 15 years or so of this century: they're doing internet, social media, very consumer-facing. How valuable was that period? Because that is a period that, here in Washington, is much criticized as trivial, “Why wasn't Silicon Valley solving these huge problems like we did in the '60s?” Again, there were some critics who just looked at it as a waste of brainpower. To what extent is that a fair criticism, and do you think, is that unfair? That stuff was valuable, people valued the kinds of products that were producedYou would actually be better able to speak to this than me, but I'll say, the graph or the chart that's going viral today, as we speak, is the comparison of 2009 US GDP versus Eurozone GDP, which were roughly equal in 2009, coming right off the Great Recession, to today, which I actually think it was tweeted something like, I think it's. . .  the US is 77 percent greater in terms of GDP than the Eurozone countries, which means that, for some reason, the Silicon Valley ecosystem — and it is largely attributed to Silicon Valley. When I first wrote the thesis on American Dynamism, I looked actually at 1996, because it was 25 years when I published it, but 1996, if you looked at the top US companies by market cap, all six of them were outside of technology as an ecosystem. They were energy companies, I would say almost archaic industries that had grown over a long period of time, but if you look at those six companies today, they are all tech companies. And so something has happened in the 21st century. You could say the new American Century is actually built off the back of software. It's built off of these large tech companies that were built in California, in many cases. And so the 15-year period that you're talking about, which is this sort of, it was a zero-interest-rate environment, cost of capital was very low, there was a lot of experimentation going on, it was, in many ways, the canonical example of American Dynamism broadly, that you had risk capital going after many new ideas in many different areas, but they were particularly really focused on the areas that government was not interested in regulating.And that's always been the theme of innovation in Silicon Valley is, “Let's go where they're not necessarily paying attention.” Maybe you had some one-offs in terms of, you'll always have to meet with your regulator at some point—in the case of Uber or Airbnb—but these companies were really born of the needs that founders understood. They were built off the back of a platform shift in terms of, 2007, 2008, the iPhone becomes the thing that everyone wants to build on, it becomes the mobile era. And so you really did have this focus of software, and enterprise software, and consumer, and companies were able to grow to extraordinary heights. And if you just look at what it has done for US GDP in comparison to even something like Europe, it is really extraordinary. So that is a story that I think we should be celebrating and telling.But what has happened, I think, since Covid is this new shift, which is, we've explored many of the digital frontiers that we can. And of course there's always a new digital frontier. Every time we think it's over, we get hit with a new one — in the case of AI. But the thing that I think has really changed is that entrepreneurs now are not afraid of the physical world, and they are realizing — and I hate to use the word “inevitable,” but in some ways this is an inevitability — that you are going to have to interface with government at a certain point if you are going to build in the physical world. And there are so many opportunities, there are so many different places where founders can build, that that really did take on new meeting post- this slew of black swan events, in the case of Covid, and then of course Russia invaded Ukraine, where I think it did wake up a lot of founders who said, “I want to work on these really hard problems.” And thankfully we have companies that have scaled during that time, that have trained these manufacturing capabilities, they've trained engineers how to do these things. So it is our view that that 15-year period was extraordinary for software, but the next 10 years are going to be extraordinary for these American Dynamism companies, as well.Government collaboration: challenges & opportunities (11:29)When you talk about interfacing with government, what popped into my head was a bit of video of a congressional hearing, and they were trying to decide, do we want to bring the private sector and SpaceX into the space program, and so not just have it be a government effort by NASA? And I just remember these senators just lambasting the idea. And I think they might've brought in some astronauts, too. And if I was interested in interfacing with government and I had seen that video, I'm like, “Boy, oh boy, I hope the attitude of government has changed since then, because it seems like that's a wall.” What is the attitude on the other side? You said the attitude of the entrepreneurs has changed, of funders, but what about on the other side? What is the openness to the kinds of solutions that your companies are presenting?I think it's changed because it has to, and I always point to the late former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who in 2015 started DIUx [Defense Innovation Unit Experimental] as an innovation unit for the DoD [Department of Defense], recognizing that there's a talent problem that US government has had; and it didn't start in the last 10 years. When I was exploring this talent problem, I actually realized that there had been a commission on the lack of talent going into the bureaucracy at the federal level.In the 1990s, Paul Volcker actually chaired the commission, it was called a “Quiet Crisis.” Basically that young people today, unlike in the '50s and the '60s where government was seen as this extraordinary job that you could have or that you could go into one of these companies and work in a company for 30 years and then draw a pension, that young people today want to go work in the private sector, and the growth and dynamism of the private sector has actually been an issue for government, and that is not a new issue. It was explored in the late '80s, early '90s, and it has gotten precipitously worse because of tech. I would say that the technological innovation risk capital going to Silicon Valley and saying, “We're going to fund young people as they come out of college because they understand this new type of engineering.” You're seeing some of the best and brightest young people decide not to go to traditional companies, which has been a huge issue for the prime contractors that supply 40 percent of the government programs for the DoD, but what has happened is you're seeing this extraordinary engineering talent go to startups. And so I think what even — this is 10 years ago now — DIU saw, if all of our best and brightest software talent is avoiding government, or much of it is avoiding government, they're avoiding traditional companies that we work with, we have to meet them where they are.And so the DoD I actually think was the first government organization to really recognize this crisis and to decide, we're going to need to have new interfaces. Now, whether that means new procurement, that's always going to be a debate, and that's a Washington issue that I think we've been fighting for several years now in order to change how these companies are able to work with the DoD on these big programs, but I think even just recognizing that this was an issue 10 years ago was a huge step for government.And over time now, we've seen a handful of what we would call “defense 1.0” companies, in terms of startups, many of them kind of built off the back of a company like SpaceX, now realizing that you can build for USG [US Government], you can build hardware-software hybrid that you can then sell into production contracts, and it's companies like Anduril that were started in 2017 when people said, “This is impossible to do. You're never going to be able to sell to USG,” and this year was chosen for a massive program, the CCA [Collaborative Combat Aircraft] program with the Air Force, over many prime contractors.And so I think that is the story now that Silicon Valley has seen, and I always joke that, particularly investors and founders, they really only need to see a handful of winners to know that something is a category, and so you're going to see more and more of these companies being founded, scaling, and I think that circuitous cycle and that virtuous cycle actually leads more to the DoD saying, “Okay, this is a real ecosystem now.” It's not as risky to take a chance on a startup, which is what government is always worried about, if we take a chance on anything innovative, are we going to look foolish? And so I think, in some ways, you are seeing the government respond to what's happened in the private sector, but this is not something that's a year old, two years old, or three years old, this is something that's been talked about for almost 10 years now, and of course SpaceX now is an over-20-year-old company.Is this still primarily a Defense Department-focused effort? Are there other areas of government who are looking at what's happening with DoD and they're drawing lessons? How diverse of an effort has this become?We see this across every sector that government cares about. So it's not just defense, it's aerospace, it's energy, it's logistics, it's transportation. We always joke, if there is a department in Washington that exists to regulate a sector, that is American Dynamism, and you are seeing innovation in those sectors. But it's happening at different rates. I'd say the DoD is one of the largest spenders. The largest private US company right now is SpaceX, so there's success in those categories, so you're seeing a lot of interest in it now, but then there's companies in public safety. That's an area where I think there's just been an extraordinary explosion of innovation in the last few years, largely driven by the fact that there is a labor crisis happening in public safety across America, but it is a different sale, it's not selling to federal government, selling to state and local.One of our companies, Flock Safety, which I mentioned at the beginning of our chat, they now are involved in solving 10 percent of vehicular crimes in America.What do they do?So, it's a great story about a company that was founded in Atlanta in 2017, and they built a very small modular license plate reader that only tracks cars, not people, and started building for homeowners associations with the recognition that most crimes in America are committed with a car, and so if you can put these in areas of high traffic, areas to augment the work of law enforcement, crime will go down. And they started selling to homeowners associations and immediately got pull around Atlanta and suburban Atlanta from police chiefs who said, “I need 10 of these in areas where we don't have enough people who can look at different areas.”So now this company is operating across America, they're in all 50 states, and what's extraordinary about what they've been able to do as a technology company, just putting up cameras in different sectors and following cars, is one of the hardest problems for law enforcement is when a car that has committed at theft or — one of the most extraordinary stories they've told us recently was there was a young girl kidnapped, a young child kidnapped in Atlanta, and the car went into a different county. And so when that happens, for law enforcement it's often one of the most difficult things, if a car goes into a different county, to do data sharing across these places. But if you have a network of cameras that can track the car, you find that kidnapped child, or you find that stolen vehicle much, much faster. In many ways, catching the cars at the moment where they've moved from county to county has actually solved one of the bigger data issues that law enforcement has.What's interesting about this example — and it provides a nice lead-in to my next question — is, in that situation, the solution wasn't to help the various databases communicate better, it was a completely different sort of solution. So, are what these companies doing — it seems like what they're not doing is taking existing operations and improving efficiency, but providing a new way to approach the problem that they're trying to tackle.Yes. And what's incredible about that story is it was not started as a company that was supposed to support law enforcement. It was started for homeowners associations, it was a consumerization of a civic problem. And I think that's what's really interesting is, one of the biggest issues, and this is why I think you're now seeing really interesting technology companies enter government at all levels is, you have a population that has grown up with consumer technology now. So as the boomers retire, the boomers remember what it was like to be in government, or to be in office places without Zoom, without the consumer internet, and without the things that make life much easier and tangible, as those people retire, you have young people demanding, “We have to use better technology.”And so the solutions are not, “Okay, let's iterate on the existing systems that we've used for the last 10 or 20 years,” it's, “Why can't my experience when I walk into my job in government feel exactly the same way that it does when I walk into my home and I experience the consumerization of everything around me?”So I think that is part of it, that you have this millennial generation that's now coming into leadership. In many cases, you have people who don't necessarily remember the world before the internet or didn't have formative experiences in the workplace or in government before the internet. And that is shaping and reshaping all of how government functions, and likely will for the next 20 years. The thing that, especially when we talk about the Department of Defense and the warfighter, the thing that has always been tragic is that you have more technology in your phone than you do when you go onto the battlefield. And so I think there's this understanding that young people are demanding to have the same level of technology and the same ease-of-use in all aspects of governance, in all aspects of civic goods.Playing the long-game in Washington (21:16)You seem like a very upbeat, positive person. My experience as people from Silicon Valley — or now, in your case, from Miami, a new startup hotbed — they come through Washington, they bring that optimism with them, then after a few days of dealing with people on Capitol Hill, the optimism is drained out of them, they go back shells of their former selves, because if you've dealt with a lot of people on Capitol Hill and staffers, what they're really good at saying is, “That will never pass . . . that will take 20 years . . . three of my predecessors worked on it, it didn't work . . .” How have you been able to maintain a fairly upbeat attitude, given that this is the world that your companies have to deal with?I agree with you that one of the biggest problems that we see, and which we joke about, is that the only reason why people in Silicon Valley 10 years ago were going to Washington was to apologize for the things that they did. They would get hauled in front of Congress, say they're sorry, and so I think what we've seen in these sectors, in particular, is it's a specific type of founder and person who knows that this is very mission-driven. They are called to build these companies. They care about these companies. They're passionate about the national interest. And so they know they have to go to Washington repeatedly, and I think some of the mistakes that, say, founders who had no exposure to Washington, or have no exposure to regulated industries, when they would go to Washington, they'd say, okay, maybe I go once a year, shake some hands, it's kind of fun, and then I go back and I build, and they would be surprised when they got nowhere. And of course, I think that the most sophisticated companies recognize that they have to learn to play the game that Washington cares about. And there is a totally different culture in Washington, there's a totally different set of incentives. I say it's really the difference between, Silicon Valley is a positive-sum culture: Everyone helps everyone, knowing that the pie can always get bigger, and you always want a piece of that bigger pie as it's growing, and so the more things that you're doing, the better. It's why we have this beautiful angel investing network. It's why we have all of these things that make no sense to people in Washington where it's elections, where 10,000 votes in a state could decide the election, and it's a zero-sum game, and that is what decides who is in office and who is in think tanks. And so it's a very different way of thinking about things.The thing that I think has changed the most about Silicon Valley is recognizing, we might not be good at zero-sum games and zero-sum thinking, but that is the people that we are interfacing with, and we need to understand their incentive systems when they decide to make a purchasing decision, when they decide whether they're going to vote on a bill in a certain way, when they think about, what do their constituents care about back home in a place that has nothing to do with Silicon Valley or California. So I think that level of empathy for what Washington does, which is very different than what Silicon Valley does, is important.Is it hard to stay optimistic? There are times where you're banging your head against the wall, we're on very short time horizons, Washington can go in perpetuity doing what it does without necessarily seeing much change. But having those points of connection, and constantly having the conversation, and recognizing that it is a long game and not a short game, I think has been very beneficial, and now there are success stories: Palantir, Anduril, Shield AI, these companies that have been around for 10 years now, that have really shown that it is possible to do good work and to support the needs of the DoD, and to speak the language of the DoD, as well, I think has really led to this next generation of founders understanding what they need to do to be successful as well.Building the American Dream (24:35)What kind of world are you trying to create? I'm sure it's intellectually challenging, I'm sure it's well-paying, but, fundamentally, why are you doing this? And I would think it's to create some world that is better than the one we're currently living. What is the world you're trying to create?I think there is a recognition post-Covid, in particular, for a lot of young people, a lot of engineers, that things were broken, things are broken in this country. The physical world has not kept up with the digital world, and there's been extraordinary changes, technology is moving as fast as it possibly can, and a lot of the things that people care the most about have been left out of that story: Education, which is something we haven't necessarily talked about yet, but education needs to be completely transformed in an era where technology is at our fingertips and where people who are good at learning learn faster than they ever possibly could, and people who are not good at learning don't, and so you have a disparity between those people.But there's an extraordinary amount of change that has happened in the last 25 years where the things that American citizens care most about have not changed in the way that they need to keep up with, again, the changes in the consumer internet and what we've seen in the enterprise.And so the story of, how do we make America strong? How do we continue to be the most dynamic country in the world? How do we make sure that all American citizens and the things they care about most in terms of the American Dream are part of that story? I think that is something that the founders who work in American Dynamism care deeply about. They recognize, and I always point this out, but there are so many founders now who are working at companies like Anduril, like Saronic, where they don't necessarily even remember September 11th — they weren't old enough — but they care deeply about the idea that America needs to be a strong country, and that we need to have a mode of deterrence, and we need to have a strong national defense that keeps America the most dynamic country so that people can build inside of it. The same thing with recognizing that there needs to be changes in housing, needs to be changes in education, these are things that were part of the American Dream when our parents were growing up and feel a little bit distant for a lot of other young people growing up today. So I think there is a recognition that technology has to be a part of those big sectors in order to support the American Dream that many of us grew up with and that many of us aspire to.Faster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

Nine chairman Peter Costello has been captured on video pushing a journalist to the ground at Canberra Airport, after the former federal treasurer refused to answer the reporter's questions relating to the rolling harassment scandal at the under-siege media company.  Four years on from the deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay, the couple's loved ones sat ­metres away from the man ­accused of murdering them.    The price tag of the Miles government's centrepiece “Big Build” has ballooned to $107bn over the next four years – almost the same cost, per minute, of the Apollo Project that landed men on the moon.    Port Adelaide has brushed off scepticism about its early-season form, believing it has set a really good platform to attack the second half of the campaign as it chases a flag. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nine chairman Peter Costello has been captured on video pushing a journalist to the ground at Canberra Airport, after the former federal treasurer refused to answer the reporter's questions relating to the rolling harassment scandal at the under-siege media company.  Four years on from the deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay, the couple's loved ones sat ­metres away from the man ­accused of murdering them.    The price tag of the Miles government's centrepiece “Big Build” has ballooned to $107bn over the next four years – almost the same cost, per minute, of the Apollo Project that landed men on the moon.    Port Adelaide has brushed off scepticism about its early-season form, believing it has set a really good platform to attack the second half of the campaign as it chases a flag. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nine chairman Peter Costello has been captured on video pushing a journalist to the ground at Canberra Airport, after the former federal treasurer refused to answer the reporter's questions relating to the rolling harassment scandal at the under-siege media company.  Four years on from the deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay, the couple's loved ones sat ­metres away from the man ­accused of murdering them.    The price tag of the Miles government's centrepiece “Big Build” has ballooned to $107bn over the next four years – almost the same cost, per minute, of the Apollo Project that landed men on the moon.    Port Adelaide has brushed off scepticism about its early-season form, believing it has set a really good platform to attack the second half of the campaign as it chases a flag. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nine chairman Peter Costello has been captured on video pushing a journalist to the ground at Canberra Airport, after the former federal treasurer refused to answer the reporter's questions relating to the rolling harassment scandal at the under-siege media company.  Four years on from the deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay, the couple's loved ones sat ­metres away from the man ­accused of murdering them.    The price tag of the Miles government's centrepiece “Big Build” has ballooned to $107bn over the next four years – almost the same cost, per minute, of the Apollo Project that landed men on the moon.    Port Adelaide has brushed off scepticism about its early-season form, believing it has set a really good platform to attack the second half of the campaign as it chases a flag. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Annie Fisk—an only child in Los Alamos, New Mexico—spends a lot of time investigating the treasure trove of objects at the back of her garden. Her father, with whom she is close, works long hours on the nuclear bomb project, her mother seems distant and preoccupied, and Annie has trouble making friends. But she is a gifted student, and she leaves home to major in physics and astronomy at a Texas college. At around the same time, she becomes romantically involved with Evelyn, an artist. Yet Annie's sights are set on the stars—more specifically, NASA, where the Apollo Project is underway. She graduates in 1962 and, against Evelyn's objections, heads for Houston, where she lands a job as a secretary—it's the 1960s, after all, and that's what women are expected to do. There she meets Norman Gale, a relationship that opens up her future both professionally and personally. But it's Annie's past, more than her present, that holds her back. And in this beautifully written debut novel, Isa Arsén ties all the disparate threads together in a unique and surprising way. Isa Arsén lives in South Texas with her husband and a comically small dog. When not writing, she is an audio engineer for interactive media. Shoot the Moon ((G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023), 2023) is her debut novel. C. P. Lesley is the author of two historical fiction series set during the childhood of Ivan the Terrible and three other novels. Her latest book, Song of the Storyteller, appeared in January 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Annie Fisk—an only child in Los Alamos, New Mexico—spends a lot of time investigating the treasure trove of objects at the back of her garden. Her father, with whom she is close, works long hours on the nuclear bomb project, her mother seems distant and preoccupied, and Annie has trouble making friends. But she is a gifted student, and she leaves home to major in physics and astronomy at a Texas college. At around the same time, she becomes romantically involved with Evelyn, an artist. Yet Annie's sights are set on the stars—more specifically, NASA, where the Apollo Project is underway. She graduates in 1962 and, against Evelyn's objections, heads for Houston, where she lands a job as a secretary—it's the 1960s, after all, and that's what women are expected to do. There she meets Norman Gale, a relationship that opens up her future both professionally and personally. But it's Annie's past, more than her present, that holds her back. And in this beautifully written debut novel, Isa Arsén ties all the disparate threads together in a unique and surprising way. Isa Arsén lives in South Texas with her husband and a comically small dog. When not writing, she is an audio engineer for interactive media. Shoot the Moon ((G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023), 2023) is her debut novel. C. P. Lesley is the author of two historical fiction series set during the childhood of Ivan the Terrible and three other novels. Her latest book, Song of the Storyteller, appeared in January 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Annie Fisk—an only child in Los Alamos, New Mexico—spends a lot of time investigating the treasure trove of objects at the back of her garden. Her father, with whom she is close, works long hours on the nuclear bomb project, her mother seems distant and preoccupied, and Annie has trouble making friends. But she is a gifted student, and she leaves home to major in physics and astronomy at a Texas college. At around the same time, she becomes romantically involved with Evelyn, an artist. Yet Annie's sights are set on the stars—more specifically, NASA, where the Apollo Project is underway. She graduates in 1962 and, against Evelyn's objections, heads for Houston, where she lands a job as a secretary—it's the 1960s, after all, and that's what women are expected to do. There she meets Norman Gale, a relationship that opens up her future both professionally and personally. But it's Annie's past, more than her present, that holds her back. And in this beautifully written debut novel, Isa Arsén ties all the disparate threads together in a unique and surprising way. Isa Arsén lives in South Texas with her husband and a comically small dog. When not writing, she is an audio engineer for interactive media. Shoot the Moon ((G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023), 2023) is her debut novel. C. P. Lesley is the author of two historical fiction series set during the childhood of Ivan the Terrible and three other novels. Her latest book, Song of the Storyteller, appeared in January 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/historical-fiction

Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the company's listing on the ASX this week and plans to develop the Apollo lithium project located in the James Bay region in Canada. The company is focused on the rapid exploration, expansion and development of its flagship Apollo lithium project which sits across 446 claims and 240 square kilometres in the James Bay region of north-west Québec. The company is led by Iggy Tan, a mining veteran with over 30 years of experience being the current managing director of Altech Batteries (ASX: ATC) and previously at Galaxy Resources which Iggy left took from a $10m market cap to $2.5b when he left. Lithium Universe was formerly trading as a tech company Mogul Games (ASX: MGG). Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/lithium-universe-employs-artificial-intelligence-apollo-exploration-strategy/https://smallcaps.com.au/lithium-universe-makes-asx-debut-after-public-offer/ https://smallcaps.com.au/lithium-universe-list-asx-next-week-plans-develop-apollo-project/ For more information on Lithium Universe:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/asx-lu7/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on The Cosmic Companion, we wrap up season six with a look at… SPACE: 2023. In the year 2023, a massive nuclear explosion will rip the Moon from its orbit, sending more than 300 inhabitants of a lunar colony careening into space. [No. No. That's not right.] Oh, yeah, ANYWAY!We are going to give you a look at what's happening in the night sky over the next 12 months, as well as looking forward to what's coming up on our show in the coming weeks.In January, we will take a glimpse at how 3D environments give us our best look yet at our future beyond the Earth. We will also imagine predators in space - what can animal hunters here on Earth teach us about possible predators on distant worlds? We'll be hunting down ideas with Shark week regular Paul de Gelder. On 28 January, we'll be discussing the history of diversity in space exploration, from its earliest days, up through the modern age and beyond, talking with Meredith Bagby, author of The New Guys. Check that out in episode four of our upcoming season, coming out 7 February. If that weren't enough, we'll be kicking February off with a new look at the amazing remastered images of the Apollo Project. We welcome NASA expert and historian Andy Saunders to the show, discussing his new work, Apollo Remastered. Here's a short clip from that interview.Join us starting on 4 February to watch the full interview with Andy Saunders, looking at Apollo to Artemis: Our Future on the Moon. Naturally, 2023 will feature the usual annular meteor showers, and the Moon is always going to be there. That is… unless a GIANT NUCLEAR EXPLOSION… But apart from that possibility, here's a look forward to the coming year in the night sky. On 20 April in the coming year, many amateur astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere will be treated to a hybrid solar eclipse. These events appear total in some areas, and partial in others, hence the name hybrid. This eclipse begins in the southern Indian Ocean, stretching toward western Australia and southern parts of Indonesia. People living on the islands of Indonesia and parts of Australia will be treated to a partial eclipse. [the kangaroos will enjoy it as well] (and, naturally, the kangaroos will enjoy it, as well). A penumbral lunar eclipse happening on 5 May will be seen over parts of eastern Europe and Africa, all of Asia, and Australia again.Our planetary companion, the Moon, comes in closer to Earth than average, producing a supermoon on 3 July. Another supermoon - this one also a blue moon - takes place on 31 August. On 14 October, as you're hanging Halloween decorations, an annular solar eclipse will develop in the Pacific Ocean west of southern Canada and spread toward the southwestern United States before moving into Central America and Brazil. Large swathes of North and South America will be treated to a partial eclipse from this event.Europe, Asia, Africa, and western Australia are going to see a partial lunar eclipse on 28 October - Halloween Weekend! [howl]If you enjoy The Cosmic Companion, also take a listen to our friends at Pale Blue Pod. This new podcast about space and astronomy, hosted by astrophysicist and folklorist Dr. Moiya McTier and comedian and science educator Corinne Caputo brings science to everyone with fun, lighthearted episodes. Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier earned a degree from Harvard and a PhD from Columbia University. Given her desire to teach science with humor, (and perhaps just as important to our narrative), she also went on to meet writer and comedian Corinne Caputo. Now, Caputo is a former game show host, and she wrote Space Trash for Yale's Summer Cabaret. Check out this podcast for people who are overwhelmed by the universe, but want to be its friend, at palebluepod.space. Next week, for our season seven premiere, we welcome Tony Tellado, host of the Sci-Fi Talk podcast to the show. We'll be envisioning our future in space, as seen through the revolutionary technologies of the metaverse and 3D environments. Please join us starting 7 January. Make sure you enjoy all the Universe around us has to offer and visit us each week here on The Cosmic Companion. You're always welcome in our corner of space!Clear skies and Happy New Year!JamesThe Cosmic Companion w/ James Maynard is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Start writing today. Use the button below to create your Substack and connect your publication with The Cosmic Companion w/ James Maynard Get full access to The Cosmic Companion w/ James Maynard at thecosmiccompanion.substack.com/subscribe

Tarku Resources (TSXV: TKU, OTCQB: TRKUF, FRA: 7TK ) President and CEO Julien Davy sits with Global One Media and shares their milestone of starting the drill program on the Apollo Project and finding themselves in the right geology, alteration, and environment. Julien also went over the potential risks in their explorations and their efforts to mitigate them, exploring for precious and base metals at the historic mining district of Tombstone, Arizona, as well as their strategic partners.

Global One Media's Bastien Boulay interviews Julien Davy, the President and CEO of Tarku Resources Ltd (TSXV: TKU | OTCQB: TRKUF | FRA: 7TK), about the latest news on their Apollo project in Quebec, in which they were able to generate over 5km long targets following a ground IP survey.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What success looks like, published by mariushobbhahn on June 28, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This article was written by Marius Hobbhahn, Max Räuker, Yannick Mühlhäuser, Jasper Götting and Simon Grimm. We are grateful for feedback from and discussions with Lennart Heim, SE and AO. Summary Thinking through scenarios where TAI goes well informs our goals regarding AI safety and leads to concrete action plans. Thus, in this post, We sketch stories where the development and deployment of transformative AI go well. We broadly cluster them like Alignment won't be a problem, . Because alignment is easy: Scenario 1 We get lucky with the first AI: Scenario 4 Alignment is hard, but . We can solve it together, because . We can effectively deploy governance and technical strategies in combination together: Scenario 2 Humanity will wake up due to an accident: Scenario 3 The US and China will realize their shared interests: Scenario 5 One player can win the race, by . Launching an Apollo Project for AI: Scenario 6 We categorize central points of influence that seem relevant for causing the success of our sketches. The categories with some examples are: Governance: domestic laws, international treaties, safety regulations, whistleblower protection, auditing firms, compute governance and contingency plans Technical: Red teaming, benchmarks, fire alarms, forecasting and information security Societal: Norms in AI, publicity and field-building We lay out some central causal variables for our stories in the third chapter. They include the level of cooperation, AI timelines, take-off speeds, size of the alignment tax, type of actors and number of actors Introduction There are many posts in AI alignment on sketching out failure scenarios. However, there seems to be less (public) work that talks about possible pathways to success. Holden Karnofsky writes in the appendix of Important, actionable research questions for the most important century: Quote (Holden Karnofsky): I think there's a big vacuum when it comes to well-thought-through visions of what [a realistic best-case transition to transformative AI] could look like, and such a vision could quickly receive wide endorsement from AI labs (and, potentially, from key people in government). I think such an outcome would be easily worth billions of dollars of longtermist capital. We want to sketch out such best-case scenarios for the transition to transformative AI. This post is inspired by Paul Christiano's What Failure Looks Like. Our goals are To better understand how positive scenarios could look like To better understand what levers are available to make positive outcomes more likely To better understand subgoals to work towards To make our reasoning transparent and receive feedback on our misconceptions Scenarios In the following, we will sketch out what some of the success stories for relevant subcomponents of TAI could look like. We know that these scenarios often lack important detailed counterarguments. We are also aware that every single point here could be its own article but we want this post to merely give a broad overview. Scenario 1: Alignment is much easier than expected The alignment problem turns out much easier than expected. Increasingly better AI models have a better understanding of human values, and they do not naturally develop strong influence-seeking tendencies. Moreover, in cases of malfunctions and for preventative measures, interpretability tools now allow us to understand important parts of large models on the most basic level and ELK-like tools allow us to honestly communicate with AI systems. We know of many systems where a more powerful actor is relatively well aligned to one or many powerless actors. Parents usually protect their children who couldn't survive without them, democratic governments...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What success looks like, published by Marius Hobbhahn on June 28, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. TL;DR: We wrote a post on possible success stories of a transition to TAI to better understand which factors causally reduce the risk of AI risk. Furthermore, we separately explain these catalysts for success in more detail and this post can thus be thought of as a high-level overview of different AI governance strategies. Summary Thinking through scenarios where TAI goes well informs our goals regarding AI safety and leads to concrete action plans. Thus, in this post, We sketch stories where the development and deployment of transformative AI go well. We broadly cluster them like Alignment won't be a problem, . Because alignment is easy: Scenario 1 We get lucky with the first AI: Scenario 4 Alignment is hard, but . We can solve it together, because . We can effectively deploy governance and technical strategies in combination together: Scenario 2 Humanity will wake up due to an accident: Scenario 3 The US and China will realize their shared interests: Scenario 5 One player can win the race, by . Launching an Apollo Project for AI: Scenario 6 We categorize central points of influence that seem relevant for causing the success of our sketches. The categories with some examples are: Governance: domestic laws, international treaties, safety regulations, whistleblower protection, auditing firms, compute governance and contingency plans Technical: Red teaming, benchmarks, fire alarms, forecasting and information security Societal: Norms in AI, publicity and field-building We lay out some central causal variables for our stories in the third chapter. They include the level of cooperation, AI timelines, take-off speeds, size of the alignment tax, type of actors and number of actors Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

“There was no choice but to be a pioneer.” Margaret Hamilton Mother of software engineering   Artwork: Hamilton's portrait in the Fearless Portrait project is based on an iconic photograph of her standing next to a stack of binders about as tall as she is. These binders contained the computer code she and her team wrote for the Apollo Mission. I've drawn her with black ink on a 1966 US Air Force map of the moon.   The Story: On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were three minutes away from making their historic landing on the moon when the lunar lander's onboard computer began spitting out emergency alarms.  Faced with the critical choice of aborting the mission or not, flight controllers in Houston chose to trust the computer's software that Margaret Hamilton, director of Apollo flight computer programming and her team at MIT's Draper Laboratory developed.  “It quickly became clear the software was not only informing everyone that there was a hardware-related problem but was compensating for it,” said Hamilton.  It turned out that the astronaut's checklist was at fault, telling them to set the rendezvous radar switch in the wrong position. The radar began bombarding the onboard computer with irrelevant information and overloading the computer. In a situation like this, Hamilton's code dictated the computer should reboot. The restarting process allowed the computer to reprioritize tasks—ignoring the incoming radar information and focusing on the critical landing calculations.  “If the computer hadn't recognized this problem and taken recovery action, I doubt if Apollo 11 would have been the successful Moon landing it was,” Hamilton would later write.  In an era before screens, Hamilton and her team manually typed 11,000 pages of code writing the Apollo Project software. Stacked up, the software was the same height as Hamilton. The monumental achievement of putting a man on the moon was all the more impressive as the astronauts had access to a mere 72 kilobytes of memory. A standard smartphone today has more than million times more storage space.  Six and half hours after the fraught landing, Armstrong made his historic first step on the moon, saying, “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”   Background on Hamilton: Hamilton was born on August 17, 1936 in Paoli, Indiana. After graduating in 1958 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, she took a job at MIT. It was supposed to be a temporary step, supporting her husband while he was in law school. It was here that she first learned what a computer was and how to write software. Her early experiences at MIT paved the way for her passion for building ultra-reliable software.  Initially planning to leave her job and pursue a master's in abstract mathematics, she caught the programming bug and continued working at MIT when the university was asked to work on the Apollo space program.  “I was the first programmer to join and the first woman they hired,” she said. “Male engineers were already working on the project, but they were hardware engineers and it wasn't their thing.” Within a few years, she was leading a whole team of programmers at MIT in what would later be known as Draper Laboratory.  Her work as a computer scientist and a mother often collided and Hamilton would bring her daughter, Lauren, to the lab at night and on weekends. One day, Hamilton was running a simulation of a moon mission and Lauren began punching buttons like her mom. Lauren began running a pre-launch program while the system was already “on the way” to the moon and the system crashed and erased the navigational data taking her to the moon.  “This could inadvertently happen in a real mission,” thought Hamilton and she pushed for software changes to address the issue. The higher-ups at NASA said the astronauts were too well trained to make such a mistake. On the very next mission—Apollo 8—astronaut Jim Lovell made the exact same error. NASA let Hamilton make the software fix after that.   Still in their infancy when Hamilton began her career, computer science and software engineering were not yet disciplines. Programmers often came from math backgrounds and learned on the job. As Hamilton put it, “there was no choice but to be pioneers.”  Ever the innovator, Hamilton coined the term “software engineering” while working on the Apollo project.  “I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it—and those building it—would be given due respect. I began to use the term ‘software engineering' to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline,” she explained.  Building on her Apollo work, Hamilton founded two companies—Higher Order Software (HOS) in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986.  Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, saying, “Her example speaks of the American spirit of discovery that exists in every little girl and little boy who know that somehow, to look beyond the heavens is to look deep within ourselves—and to figure out just what is possible.”   Music: This episode contains music by Geovane Bruno, Toma Mutiu, and Alex Chernykh.   Sources: American Experience. (2019, June 3). The Women Who Brought Us the Moon. American Experience | PBS. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chasing-moon-women-who-brought-us-moon/ Cameron, L. (2020, August 11). First Software Engineer. IEEE Computer Society. https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/events/what-to-know-about-the-scientist-who-invented-the-term-software-engineering/ Corbyn, Z. (2019, July 16). Margaret Hamilton: ‘They worried that the men might rebel. They didn't.' The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-hamilton-computer-scientist-interview-software-apollo-missions-1969-moon-landing-nasa-women George, A. (2019, March 14). Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/margaret-hamilton-led-nasa-software-team-landed-astronauts-moon-180971575/ Hamilton, M. H. (n.d.). Margaret H. Hamilton Quotes. Citatis.Com. https://citatis.com/a7438/ Matthews, D. (2019, July 17). Margaret Hamilton: the Apollo software engineer who saved the moon landing. Vox. https://www.vox.com/2015/5/30/8689481/margaret-hamilton-apollo-software McMillan, R. (2015, October 13). Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/ NASA. (2003, September 3). Margaret Hamilton. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11Hamilton.html Obama, B. (2016, November 23). Remarks by the President at Presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Whitehouse.Gov. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/22/remarks-president-presentation-presidential-medal-freedom Senkal, M. (2020, May 20). History of Computer Girls, Part 2: Margaret! Metal Toad. https://www.metaltoad.com/blog/history-computer-girls-part-2-margaret Wikipedia contributors. (2021, November 23). Margaret Hamilton (software engineer). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)  

This two-part podcast series features some of the artists involved in Queer Mind, Body and Soul, an exhibition on display in the National Gallery of Ireland from 30 July to 17 October 2021. A collaboration between the National Gallery of Ireland and Gaisce – The President's Award, the exhibition explores the experiences and perspectives of a group of young LGBTQIA+, gender non-conforming people and allies. In episode 2, Roibeárd Ó Braonáin, Beth Stallard and M – Gaisce LikeMinded participants and artists whose work is on display in the exhibition – delve into the messages in their artworks and in the exhibition as a whole. You can download a transcript (PDF) of this episode: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/sites/default/files/2021-09/transcript-qmbs-podcast-episode-2.pdf Content warning: this exhibition and podcast contains references to assault, homophobia and transphobia, which some visitors and listeners may find upsetting. If you are affected by this and need support, there are many organisations who can help. Visit the BeLonG To website for more details. This podcast contains some strong language. See an online presentation of the exhibition: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/queer-mind-body-and-soul Roibeárd Ó Braonáin's artwork: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/queer-mind-body-and-soul/roibeard-o-braonain Beth Stallard's artwork: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/queer-mind-body-and-soul/beth-stallard M's artwork: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/queer-mind-body-and-soul/m The National Gallery of Ireland's Apollo Project is a new way to experience the Gallery designed by young people for young people. Gaisce - The President's Award is a self-development programme for young people under the age of 26, and is a direct challenge from the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins to young people to ‘dream big and realise their potential'. The Apollo Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Apollo Foundation. The Gaisce LikeMinded Programme has been made possible with the support of Rethink Ireland and Norma Smurfit.

This two-part podcast series features some of the artists involved in Queer Mind, Body and Soul, an exhibition on display in the National Gallery of Ireland from 30 July to 17 October 2021. A collaboration between the National Gallery of Ireland and Gaisce – The President's Award, the exhibition explores the experiences and perspectives of a group of young LGBTQIA+, gender non-conforming people and allies. In episode 1, Victoria Piekarska-Daly, James Cody and Sarah H. – Gaisce LikeMinded participants and artists whose work is on display in the exhibition – discuss their artworks and the highs and lows of Gaisce – The President's Award and working with the Gallery. You can download a transcript (PDF) of this episode: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/sites/default/files/2021-09/transcript-qmbs-podcast-episode-1.pdf Content warning: this exhibition and podcast contains references to assault, homophobia and transphobia, which some visitors and listeners may find upsetting. If you are affected by this and need support, there are many organisations who can help. Visit the BeLonG To website for more details. This podcast contains some strong language. See an online presentation of the exhibition: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/queer-mind-body-and-soul James Cody's artwork: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/queer-mind-body-and-soul/james-cody Sarah H.'s artwork: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/queer-mind-body-and-soul/sarah Victoria Piekarska-Daly's artwork: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/queer-mind-body-and-soul/victoria-piekarska-daly The National Gallery of Ireland's Apollo Project is a new way to experience the Gallery designed by young people for young people. Gaisce - The President's Award is a self-development programme for young people under the age of 26, and is a direct challenge from the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins to young people to ‘dream big and realise their potential'. The Apollo Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Apollo Foundation. The Gaisce LikeMinded Programme has been made possible with the support of Rethink Ireland and Norma Smurfit.

Ford used their resources and created a completely new designed ventilator in just a few days using off the shelf parts and materials from the Ford F-150. In addition Ford produced 20 million face shields, all to help keep medical front line staff safe.

Wednesday-Red Pill Diaries-Hey President Trump, It Is Time To End Covid "Lockdowns: & Launch The New Apollo Project!   BIOGRAPHY Mike Church Biography – “Too Catholic For Satellite Radio” In May of 2015, Chris Ferrara wrote a bio pic essay on a talk-radio host who was then completely unknown to Catholic, talk-radio fans. The Mike Church Interview: A Remarkable Conversion to Tradition Changes the Face of Political Talk Radio Featured Chris wrote of me back then, words that were too kind but serve as a basis for this biography. Indeed, over the past year or so Mike Church has emerged as the only traditionally Catholic conservative in talk radio today, anywhere in the world. And I mean traditional. Not only during my appearances on the show, but now thematically, Mike has turned the longest running political talk show on Sirius Radio into an unabashed presentation of the Social Kingship of Christ, traditional Catholic moral teaching, and even the traditional Latin liturgy as the solution to what is evidently otherwise a terminal civilizational crisis. I have been invited on the show numerous times to defend all of these things explicitly, to speak of the one true Church, and even to call upon conservative Protestants to enter the Church if they are serious about saving our nation and our civilization. From there, on October 26, 2015, my 13 year run on Sirius Satellite Radio came to a close when my contract was not renewed. Chris would follow the above bio with an updated one titled, The Mike Church Show – Too Catholic For Satellite Radio. MIKE CHURCH BIOGRAPHY FACTS Born, February 2nd, New Orleans Begun talk-radio in 1992, WSLA, Slidell LA, I have been off air a total of 7 months since. Launched the Sirius Satellite Radio service as its FIRST – LIVE talk-show on 10 March, 2003. Promoted to Morning Drive on the SiriusXM Patriot Channel, May 2009, the 3rd most listened to show on the platform From July 2007 – present, founded Founding Father Films, wrote, produced, narrated and directed 9, full length audio features, two that made it to DVD! Returned to the Roman Catholic Church’s Tridentine Mass and Tradition in 2013. Consecrated to Our Lady via de Montfort’s formula in December 2014. I had been planning for SiriusXM to “whack me” since 2012 and had laid the structural groundwork for the next step in my career: launching the Veritas Radio Network and The CRUSADE Channel. On November 1st, 2015, in a video webcast for the press, I announced the VRN and that on November 15th, the Mike Church Show would be silent no more and would return to the air, this time on a platform custom built for LIVE talk radio. Smaller Government is Better! Avoid the Chastisement!

Film-Maker Massimo Mazzucco Analyzes the Moon Landings in his Film "American Moon" As the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 approaches, the nagging question remains: Did it really happen? Were the images seen by hundreds of millions on live television actually from the moon or from a NASA simulator? Italian film-maker, Massimo Mazzucco, in one of the most comprehensive films yet about the moon landings, explores all sides of the controversy.  His 2017 film, American Moon looks at the best evidence both for and against the moon landings. Plus the film analyzes for the first time ever the Apollo pictures in detail with commentary from some of the top photographers in the world.  You decide. Was the Apollo Project "the biggest achievement in the history of mankind, or the biggest fakery of all times?" The film is available on Amazon or to rent or buy on Vimeo.  Watch the trailer here.  Host John Shuck speaks live with Massimo Mazzucco about his film and takes your calls. In addition to American Moon, Massimo Mazzucco has produced the following films (from Wikipedia): The New American Century: a view of America's historical, philosophical, economical and political background. The Other Dallas - 2008: A documentary on the RFK assassination, also broadcast by Italian TV, that claims the man convicted for the crime -- one Sirhan Bishara Sirhan -- could not have physically killed the US senator. The Lords of the World - 2009: The UFO history and the military persistent interference, both American and Russian, in what seems to be a much larger issue than one would normally believe. Cancer: The Forbidden Cures - 2010: All the successful cures against cancer discovered in the last 100 years, and claims that they were suppressed. The True History of Marijuana - 2011: The True History of Marijuana' digs deep to expose a world-wide conspiracy, led by the petrochemical industry, that has outlawed one of the most useful plants known to mankind. September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor - 2013: A 5-hour documentary that claims to rebut of the commonly accepted account of 911 and shows the resulting analysis by The National Institute of Standards and Technology, (NIST), to be deeply and fundamentally flawed.

Kate: Apollo project

Iedere week neemt Hens Zimmerman ons mee naar de ruimte en onthult hij op zijn geheel eigen wijze de geheimen van ver buiten de dampkring. Deze week bespreekt hij het Apollo project en de landing op de maan.

Pioneered by Janine Benyus, "Biomimicry" is a way of looking at nature and life as our mentors to find solutions for every aspect of life. Recommended resources include the 26-minute Biomimicry video on YouTube and the book. [1:10] First read the book Biomimicry cover-to-cover in 1997. It changed my life. [1:20] Basic idea is that life has already solved all the complex design problems through 3.8 billion years of trial and error. [1:40] How would you make a super-strong adhesive underwater: non-toxic, biodegradable, self-assembling [2:00] Best shape for something strong and stretchy? [2:20] Cable stronger than steel and as elastic as rubber, Non-toxic, ambient temperature? [2:35] Resources: Biomimicry book and a gorgeous video on YouTube (Janine Benyus talking with nature photography) [3:10] What is biomimicry? Innovation inspired by nature. [3:20] The natural world has already solved any problem that we are trying to solve. [3:30] There are some 30-100 million species. In this diversity there is also unity. [3:50] Life’s operating instructions: how to be an earthling. Life’s principles (see below) [4:50] As a young species, consider ourselves as apprentices to masters. [5:00] Replace industrial chemistry with nature’s chemistry as an Apollo Project. [5:50] Organism make chemicals in and near their own body, so can’t afford high temperatures or toxicity. [6:00] Nature is good at making hard ceramics. [6:10] Example: mother-of-pearl inside of abalone shell using protein, with calcium and carbonate in seawater to self-assemble inspiring chemists to learn how to make hard ceramics without a kiln. [7:35] We can be humble apprentices learning from our biological elders. [7:50] This is a big shift from the egotistical view of thinking that we as humans have all the answers, know what’s best and can outdo nature. [8:00] If we can flip our thinking around, it makes our job easier because the blueprint is in front of us.   Life’s Principles: Life runs on current sunlight. (We run on ancient photosynthesis trapped in fossil fuels.) Life does its chemistry in water as the universal solvent. (We tend to use very toxic chemicals like sulphuric acid.) Life depends on local expertise. Organisms have to know the limits and opportunities of their places. Life banks on diversity and rewards cooperation. Life wastes nothing, upcycles everything and most of all does not foul its home. Life uses a small subset of the periodic table: the safe elements. (We use all elements.) Life uses low temperatures, low pressure, low toxicity. (We force elements to bond or break with high temperatures and pressures.) Quotes: The best ideas might not be ours. They might already have been invented. Janine Benyus As a young species, our best stance is to be apprentices to our biological masters. Janine Benyus Resources: Video Biomimicry with Janine Benyus Published by TreeTV on September 11, 2015 https://youtu.be/sf4oW8OtaPY Book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Janine Benyus, originally published in 1997 http://a.co/hvu175v   Thank you for listening!   Discover how to launch and grow a green team in your community. Suggest a topic, get the free Green Team Essentials including online community, avoidable mistakes guide and podcast discussion group at www.GreenTeamAcademy.com. If you like what you're hearing, please subscribe, rate and review!  

While the vast majority of so-called economists focus on monetary value, Lyndon LaRouche defines economic value as a measurement of the anti-entropic free energy of the economic process. To achieve this one must focus on scientific research and on technologies with increasingly higher energy flux densities. This is what LaRouche refers to as a science driver. Examples in recent U.S. history include the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Project. To expand the human economy, we must focus on such areas of fundamental research as fusion power, interplanetary flight and colonies on the Moon and Mars. In this class we will focus on what is required to achieve a tendency to increase the free energy of the system as reflected in LaRouche’s treatment of the ratio S′/C+V.

Bristol Studied at American University in Washington DC. She ran a film company called Good for several years in Los Angeles where she produced 4 films in 4 years. That’s a fast pace! Her shift to consciousness expansion has led her, like many people, to take the Journey, often called the Hero’s Journey in reference to Joseph Campbell’s human Journey map.She traveled around the world, exploring humans, societies, teachings, and ultimately found a path back to Los Angeles via some fellow travelers in Bali. She got her Masters in Spiritual Psychology from Santa Monica University.Having ‘gone thru it’ as an Executive and heavy hitter in the Business world, she’s now leading Execs back to health and wellness by coaching a select few into a value-based actions. Her website is www.innerastronauts.comShe’s teamed up with IONS, the Institute Of Noetic Sciences, www.noetic.org/ to build a Virtual Reality experience of Edgar’s ‘Noetic’ Moment when he was returning from being on the Moon.What the Apollo Project was for outer space Noetic is for Inner-space.Immersive VR, David and Sandra Whelan, created the Apollo VR experience with an overflow of Kickstarter Funds.I learned about the concept of the ‘Overview Effect.’ According to Bristol it’s a way for Humans to get a sense of responsibility to protect our Earth by seeing it from outer space. She likened it to Samadhi and called it a “Visceral Embodied experience of Truth. A deep knowing that there’s a complex interconnectedness beyond our processor’s capacity to comprehend.”I like how in VR Artists, Technologists, Healers, and Seekers come together to create VR experiences which can really be transformative. Many people I’ve spoken with have had moments of Awe in VR. Truly transformative moments. Also, in my personal experience an experience and sense of Wonderment can really help re-frame a person’s world-view away from the problem-orientation that we often live in and into a framework of Humanity and connectedness which can have tremendously beneficial impacts on us.One interesting project she mentioned in our talk was the Virtual World Society, a grassroots movement bringing together creators and organizations committed to leveraging the power of virtual worlds for social and environmental good. They have brought VR into schools to give students a power of creating their own desired world, really exploring the stories one could create, and how those naratives impact our lives.I’m eager to follow Bristol's development as an artist, coach, and integrator of technology with story-telling. She has a Science Fiction book on the horizon, and will be releasing the VR project with IONS (Noetic) in the coming years.Keep an eye out for her upcoming project Campaign Science, which offers training programs that teach Cognitive, Social and Lingusitic sciences to Candidates, Campaigns, and Causes. Empowering these people who are trying to change the world by helping them embody their causes.Follow her at: www.innerastronauts.com

Strap on those moon boots! This episode is ESSENTIAL to understanding crytocurrency. Kirk Durbin is a Crypto investor and trader, turned Crypto miner and creator. With the help of Catalyst Space (episode #315) the Apollo18 Crew is about to launch the Apollo18 token into the cryptocurrency marketplace. In this episode we cover: -What crypto mining is-What it takes to create a token (crytocurrency)-The importance of the legitimacy of a token-How it is sold and how you can buy in-Why the crytocurrency space is seen as sketchy-How to solve the issue-Plus a TON of stuff I can't remember right nowGet involved in the pre-sale for the token by visiting Apollo18.co.in. Meet the staff at their Meet and Greet at Catalyst Space in Altoona, PA on March 9th @ 7pm.Check out Kirk's life story in episode #311 of this podcast.Social Media Platforms:Twitter: https://twitter.com/apollo18cryptoFacebook: https://facebook.com/apollo18cryptoDiscord: https://discord.gg/TvYWynnTelegram: https://t.me/apollo18cryptoPhysical Address inside Catalyst Space:Apollo181331 12th Avenue Suite #205Altoona, Pa 16601Shoutout to the sponsors:The Comic's Vault @TheComicsVaultAltoonaHarlequin Pepper Yoga @HarlequinPepperYogaThe Clay Cup @TheClayCupTrade Secrets @SecretsInTradeJoos @TheJoosBarSports Evolution @LeadingAthletesYo Zebruh's leave me a voicemail @ (814) 799-0064Please give me a rating on iTunes. It would help the podcast tremendously.How can I make more $$$ for you and/or your business?Message me with "Fix My Social" on any of my platformsTwitter & Snapchat @RobZyoFacebook & Instagram @RobZRadioLinkedIn: RobZRadiowww.RobZRadio.comMy mission is to help businesses and individuals stand out through their social media networks. I like to describe it as taking a brick and mortar business and turning it into a personality that people can identify with. Giving businesses an identity. Call me (814) 799-0064 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kirk Durbin is a Bitcoin investor and trader. He has been into Bitcoin since back in 2012 and it has transformed his life. He lives in Altoona, PA and has gone through struggles with addiction and the law, but has now come out very successful on the other side. This is the story of his journey from being broke and in jail, to being free and on the top of his game. It's a great redemption story that everyone can benefit from. Enjoy! Check out his website: apolloproject.io Shoutout to the sponsors: The Clay Cup @TheClayCup Trade Secrets @SecretsInTrade Joos @TheJoosBar Harlequin Pepper Yoga @HarlequinPepperYoga Yo Zebruh's leave me a voicemail @ (814) 799-0064 Please give me a rating on iTunes. It would help the podcast tremendously. How can I take your Social Media to the Next Level? Message me with "Fix My Social" on any of my platforms Twitter & Snapchat @RobZyo Facebook & Instagram @RobZRadio www.RobZRadio.com My new mission is to help businesses and individuals stand out through their social media networks. I like to describe it as taking a brick and mortar business and turning it into a personality that people can identify with. Giving businesses an identity. Call my voicemail (814) 799-0064 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.