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Get Real
Get Real Podcast (Season 2 Episode 7) - New Updates For SABOR Members with Reagan Williamson

Get Real

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 54:57


In this episode of Get Real, we sit down with SABOR Chair Reagan Williamson for a candid and insightful mid-year check-in. This conversation covers everything from MLS restructuring and the integration of cutting-edge AI tools like ARDI, to advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill and smart tech upgrades like single sign-on access. We also dive into the current state of the San Antonio real estate market, member engagement, and how REALTORS® can maximize their tools and benefits. Whether you're a seasoned broker or just starting out, this episode is packed with updates, strategic insights, and a few laughs—yes, including Bigfoot.

Ardi Kamal Karima
Dulu Aku Pikir

Ardi Kamal Karima

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 4:01


Sebuah puisi: Dulu, Aku Pikir.Ditulis oleh Ardi Kamal KarimaDisuarakan: Bintang KiranaPuisi ini merefleksikan perubahan perspektif manusia terhadap dunia seiring bertambahnya usia, menggambarkan transisi dari masa kanak-kanak yang penuh fantasi menuju kedewasaan yang lebih realistis melalui diksi sederhana namun penuh imaji. Kontras antara harapan masa kecil dan kenyataan dewasa menciptakan efek melankolis, namun diakhiri dengan nada optimis: keajaiban tetap ada, meskipun kini lebih sulit ditemukan. Struktur puisi yang bergerak dari pengandaian masa lalu ke kesadaran masa kini membentuk alur naratif yang kuat, hampir seperti dongeng yang berakhir dengan kebijaksanaan hidup. Puisi ini juga menyiratkan perjalanan epistemologis manusia dalam memahami realitas, di mana masa kecil diwarnai oleh pemikiran magis yang perlahan digantikan oleh rasionalitas dan hukum sebab-akibat seiring bertambahnya usia. Gagasan ini mencerminkan filsafat eksistensialisme, yang menuntut manusia menemukan makna dalam dunia yang tampaknya tak bermakna. Namun, alih-alih menyerah pada nihilisme, penyair menyarankan bahwa makna dan keajaiban tetap ada, hanya saja perlu lebih banyak usaha untuk menemukannya. Dari sudut pandang psikologi perkembangan, puisi ini merefleksikan perubahan kognitif seperti yang dijelaskan dalam teori Jean Piaget, di mana pemikiran anak yang animistik dan subjektif bertransisi menuju tahap operasional yang lebih logis dan objektif. Meski begitu, bagian akhir puisi menunjukkan bahwa meskipun pemahaman rasional berkembang, kebutuhan manusia akan keajaiban dan makna tetap ada, mencerminkan konsep "inner child" dalam psikologi—bagian diri yang masih mendambakan keajaiban dan imajinasi di tengah kesibukan dan tekanan hidup dewasa.Footage:- Broken Home Indonesia: ShortMovie Broken Home is not the end - a short film- Netflix Trailer: Movie Sheila Dara Usir Keluarga Sendiri dari Pameran | Nanti Kita Cerita Tentang Hari Ini | ClipAudio: - Netflix Trailer: Movie Sheila Dara Usir Keluarga Sendiri dari Pameran | Nanti Kita Cerita Tentang Hari Ini | Clip- Voice Bintang Kirana- You're My Soul - Briem Bergmann, Dixie- My Brother - Dixie WayneKalian bisa menemukan saya : Https://instagram.com/__ardikarimaHttps://Twitter.com/Ardi_karimahttps://open.spotify.com/show/5qXSYrOqMP6CTAhXuSNdYd?si=C6V-ngF6Q9W7pjoOBdgeEQhttps://www.tiktok.com/@__ardikamal?_t=8mNxLI8EuZU&_r=1#ardikamal #literasi #penulis #monologue #jurnal #luka #perspektive #monolog #menjadimanusia #filsafat #sastra #ardikamal #puisi #poem #poet #penyair #penyair #kutipan #poetry #sajak #mentalhealth #syair

Masty o Rasty | پادکست فارسی مستی و راستی
EP457 Masty o Rasty - Ardalan Payvar (Eendo)

Masty o Rasty | پادکست فارسی مستی و راستی

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 118:16


This episode is sponsored by https://WE-PN.com Become your own VPN provider.To get 50% off enter promo code: kingraam50-------------------------This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/MASTYORASTY and get on your way to being your best self.-------------------------Ardalan Payvar is a contemporary Iranian artist and designer by day and night, and a musician in between. He is half of the group Eendo, with the other half being his wife Shadi Y. In this episode Raam talks to Ardi about his journey to the US, meeting Shadi, falling in love, and consistently staying in love for 30 years while sharing some of the secrets of their success as an artistic couple. https://www.instagram.com/ardalanpayvar/https://www.instagram.com/eendoofficial/To listen to their new album on spotify:https://open.spotify.com/album/2YbxVEYybULmHiUT4qTWkx?si=HICWiCECRP6DZ8XFI74ePQ-------------------------To learn more about psychedelic therapy go to my brother Mehran's page at: https://www.mindbodyintegration.ca/ or to https://www.somaretreats.org for his next retreat.***Masty o Rasty is not responsible for, or condone, the views and opinions expressed by our guests ******مستی و راستی هیچگونه مسولیتی در برابر نظرها و عقاید مهمان‌های برنامه ندارد.***--------Support the showhttps://paypal.me/raamemamiVenmo + Revolut: @KingRaam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trade Splaining
Tariffs, Trade Turbulence & Customs Insights ft. Lars Karlsson

Trade Splaining

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 42:48 Transcription Available


In Episode 78 of Trade Splaining, hosts Rob and Ardi explore the complex impact of tariffs on global trade, the humorous yet insightful nature of episode 78, and unique trade issues around the world. Guest Lars Karlsson from Maersk discusses how both small and large companies are navigating the new trade realities. The episode also covers topical issues such as the pistachio shortage, the impact of European policies on trade, and new recession indicators. Additionally, it touches on disruptions like the ban on Brazilian butt lift ads in the UK and the rise in train robberies.   00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview 02:31 Listener Feedback and Corrections 04:26 Market Trends and Economic Insights 12:59 De-Dollarization and Global Financial Shifts 16:35 Interview with Lars Carlson: Navigating Trade Complexities 20:47 Challenges for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) 21:27 The Role of AI in Supply Chain Management 22:40 Customs and Compliance in a Changing Trade Environment 24:14 The Impact of Tariff Conflicts on Global Trade 26:24 Navigating Uncertainty in International Trade 29:11 The Future of Trade and Emerging Solutions 36:08 Recession Indicators and Economic Trends 38:53 Local News and Unusual Events 40:50 Podcast Wrap-Up and Listener Engagement

Ardi Kamal Karima
Pembunuh Mimpi

Ardi Kamal Karima

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 2:58


Sebuah Puisi: Pembunuh MimpiDitulis & Disuarakan oleh Ardi Kamal KarimaKalian bisa menemukan saya : Https://instagram.com/__ardikarimaHttps://Twitter.com/Ardi_karimahttps://open.spotify.com/show/5qXSYrOqMP6CTAhXuSNdYd?si=C6V-ngF6Q9W7pjoOBdgeEQhttps://www.tiktok.com/@__ardikamal?_t=8mNxLI8EuZU&_r=1#ardikamal #literasi #penulis #dialogue #dialog #jurnal #luka #perspektive #monolog #menjadimanusia #filsafat #sastra #ardikamal #puisi #poem #poet #penyair #penyairindonesia

The Dentalpreneur Podcast w/ Dr. Mark Costes
2198: Engineering Mindset to Dental Marketing Success

The Dentalpreneur Podcast w/ Dr. Mark Costes

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 43:47


On today's episode, Dr. Mark Costes sits down with Ardi Safi, the visionary founder of DDS Marketing, to discuss his fascinating journey from competitive tennis and structural engineering to becoming a leader in dental marketing. Ardi shares how his analytical mindset and immigrant work ethic helped him carve a niche in the dental industry, offering data-driven marketing strategies that drive real results.   Ardi dives into the role of AI in tracking patient conversion, key KPIs for marketing success, and the importance of organic content for brand building. Plus, they preview the upcoming DDS Marketing Event in Miami this May, focused on full-arch dentistry profitability. Check out the full episode on the Dentalpreneur Podcast for all the insights and actionable takeaways! EPISODE RESOURCES ddsmarketing.io https://www.truedentalsuccess.com Dental Success Network Subscribe to The Dentalpreneur Podcast

Bloom
Eve – The Evolution of the Female Body

Bloom

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 44:22


Evolutionshistorien har en blind vinkel: kvindekroppen. Den amerikanske videnskabsforfatter Cat Bohannon fortæller evolutionshistorien på ny og trækker tråde tilbage til vores glemte formødre blandt evolutionsbiologiens mange ”Eva'er”. “Vi skal have kvindekroppen tilbage i billedet. Hvis ikke vi får det, er det ikke kun feminismen, der bliver kompromitteret. Både den moderne lægevidenskab, neurobiologien, palæoantropologien og selv evolutionsbiologien tager skade, når vi ignorerer det faktum, at halvdelen af os har bryster.”  Derfor har Bohannon genskrevet evolutionshistorien og sat kvindekroppen og dens særlige egenskaber i forgrunden.  I stedet for den bibelske Eva sporer Bohannon kvindekroppens historie tilbage til en række evolutionsbiologiske ”Eva'er”.   Fra ‘Morgie', der som det første pattedyr producerede mælk, over det egern-agtige væsen ‘Donna', der var først til at udvikle en livmoder, og frem til de tobenede hominider ‘Ardi' og ‘Lucy', der med tidlige værktøjs- og omsorgsevner lagde grundlaget for Homo Sapiens' mange teknologiske og sociale fremskridt.    Oplev Cat Bohannon på årets Bloom, når hun med videnskabeligt klarsyn og oprørsk humor understreger kvindekønnets evolutionære – og revolutionære – betydning for, hvordan mennesket er endt med at blive planetens dominerende og teknisk mest succesfulde dyreart.

Trade Splaining
The Trade War Heats Up, China's Biotech Rise & Switzerland's Beaver Problem

Trade Splaining

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 29:53


Episode 75: Tariffs, Work From Home & Beaver Hunting? Episode Summary: In this episode of Tradesplaining, Rob and Ardi tackle tariffs, Gen Z's middle management crisis, and the work-from-home debate. As Trump's economic policies continue reshaping global trade, we look at the real-world impact of escalating tariffs, Canada and Mexico's shifting strategies, and how businesses are struggling to adapt. Plus, we dive into: ✅ The collapse of the $80B diamond market – Are diamonds not forever? ✅ Jamie Dimon vs. Work From Home – Why America's biggest bank CEO really doesn't believe you work on Fridays ✅ Gen Z's "Middle Management Revolt" – Why young professionals are rejecting promotions ✅ China's Biotech Boom – The next frontier in U.S.-China competition ✅ Switzerland's Legalization of...Beaver Hunting?! – Yes, this is a real story. All this, plus a deep dive into the latest global trade shifts, economic uncertainty, and what it means for businesses, workers, and everyday consumers. What's Inside This Episode?

Trade Splaining
Tomato Tariffs, AI's Sputnik Moment and Taliban Tourism

Trade Splaining

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 45:32


Episode Summary: In this episode of Trade Splaining, hosts Rob and Ardi dive into the latest on tariffs, AI disruptions, and surprising tourism trends. We break down the new wave of tariffs, their impact on global trade, and what they signal for U.S. economic strategy. Plus, we explore China's DeepSeek AI breakthrough, the EU's struggle to stay competitive, and Switzerland's unexpected move to expand free trade amid growing protectionism. We also speak with Ed Gresser, VP of the Progressive Policy Institute, who helps unpack tariff escalation, economic shifts, and the power of data in today's rapidly evolving trade landscape. Oh, and we discuss how Afghanistan is suddenly a booming tourist destination (yes, really) and why Jaguar just dropped $80 million on custom car paint. Expect deep insights, witty banter, and the kind of trade talk that actually keeps you awake. What's Inside This Episode?

Masty o Rasty | پادکست فارسی مستی و راستی
EP427 Masty o Rasty (مستی و راستی) - Ardi Hatami (Moving to Canada)

Masty o Rasty | پادکست فارسی مستی و راستی

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 65:18


This episode is sponsored by https://WE-PN.com Become your own VPN provider.To get 50% off enter promo code: kingraam50-------------------------This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/MASTYORASTY and get on your way to being your best self.-------------------------Ardavan Hatami is a musician and constant guest on the show. In this episode he talks about his move from Germany to Canada and all the difficulties involved in the process. -------------------------To learn more about psychedelic therapy go to my brother Mehran's page at: https://www.mindbodyintegration.ca/ or to https://www.legacyjourneys.ca/ for his next retreat.***Masty o Rasty is not responsible for, or condone, the views and opinions expressed by our guests ******مستی و راستی هیچگونه مسولیتی در برابر نظرها و عقاید مهمان‌های برنامه ندارد.***--------Support the showhttps://paypal.me/raamemamiVenmo + Revolut: @KingRaam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trade Splaining
2025 Predictions Episode

Trade Splaining

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 22:24


Welcome to Trade Splaining, the podcast that makes sense of international trade, business, and expat life without putting you to sleep! In our first episode of 2025, Rob and Ardi dive into a new year of trade predictions, global trends, and some surprising insights about life, business, and...sausages? In This Episode: 2025 Trade Predictions: What's in store for global trade and why tariffs, insurance, and inflation will dominate discussions. China's Record Trade Surplus: How near $1 trillion exports reveal vulnerabilities in domestic demand and fuel trade tensions. The Role of Insurance in Climate Economics: With the world heating up, we explore the escalating costs and the ripple effects of uninsurability. Labor vs. Capital: As 2025 unfolds, who has the upper hand, and what does it mean for workers? New Apps, Old Vibes: Michelle talks about the shifting digital landscape and why the U.S. government's TikTok actions may have unintended consequences for cultural learning. Other Highlights: A look back at tantalum, the rare metal behind cutting-edge watches and electronics. Sausage bars in Geneva? Yes, it's a thing now! Why Eurovision in Switzerland might just be worth your time (or not). Fun Fact: This is episode 73, the atomic number of tantalum, tying it all back to international trade and rare resources! Listener Call-to-Action: Got predictions for 2025? Or thoughts on tariffs, tantalum, or Taylor Swift's rumored climate anthem? Let us know! Email us at trade.splaining@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter (@Tradesplaining) and Instagram (@trade.splaining) Where to Listen: You can find Trade Splaining on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend (or a stranger). Listen Responsibly

Landing America
TALENT VISA, TRADITION & AMBITION FT. ARDI NURZHAKANOVA

Landing America

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2024 40:33


In this episode, I'm joined by the incredible Ardi Nurzhakanova, a dynamic entrepreneur from Kazakhstan who turned her American dream into a reality. Ardi shares her inspiring journey of moving to the U.S., obtaining her green card through the Talent Visa EB1, and building a thriving career as a holistic healer specializing in transformative face massages. We dive into her success story, spanning New York and Miami, and explore her unique perspectives on masculine and feminine energy. Ardi also opens up about the traditional values she cherishes from her homeland and what she feels is missing in modern America. Tune in for an inspiring conversation about resilience, ambition, and the balance of energies in life and business. CONNECT WITH ARDI: https://www.instagram.com/holistic_healer.ardi/ CONNECT WITH TATIANA ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/landingamericapodcast/  https://www.instagram.com/tatiana_robova/ CONNECT WITH TATIANA ON TIK TOK:  https://www.tiktok.com/@landingamericapodcast WATCH FULL EPISODE ON PATREON:

Mi Estudio Bíblico (LoveIsrael en Español)
Exodo 32-2 | Entonces ardió la IRA de Moisés

Mi Estudio Bíblico (LoveIsrael en Español)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 52:28


Éxodo 32, una explicación bíblica versículo a versículo desde el Hebreo al Español por Baruch Korman. En este episodio, Baruch nos estará explicando las consecuencias que tuvo la desobediencia del pueblo de Israel hacia Dios. Moisés descendió del monte, y demostró su enojo hacia Aarón y el pueblo, por haber sucumbido a la idolatría. Visita http://www.amarasaisrael.org y síguenos de más cerca. Todas las lecturas son traducidas en vivo del idioma original al inglés por el Dr. Baruch Korman, y dobladas en español para el público hispanoparlante. AMARÁS A ISRAEL / MI ESTUDIO BÍBLICO “Amarás a Israel” también conocido como "Mi Estudio Bíblico" es la versión en español de “You Shall Love Israel”, programa de televisión transmitido por nuestras plataformas digitales y también por ENLACE TV y TBN para América y Europa. Por lo general consiste en una enseñanza expositiva de la Biblia capítulo por capítulo, versículo por versículo, palabra por palabra, traducida en vivo del idioma original al inglés por el Dr. Baruch Korman. También se realizan programas especiales y discusiones bíblicas con participación de otros invitados, especialmente con el hermano Christian Barrionuevo, un chileno-australiano que desde Sydney conduce programas cargados de interés para todos. Sobre el Dr. Baruch Korman: El Dr. Baruch es profesor titular en el Instituto Zera Avraham con sede en Israel. Además, aparece regularmente en el programa de TV israelí Pdut L'amo en el que enseña sobre la Biblia cada semana. El Dr. Baruch cuenta con un doctorado en estudios judíos. Su tesis fue sobre técnicas de traducción de la Septuaginta. Lleva más de 30 años de casado con su esposa Rivka, con quien tiene tres hijos adultos. Los Korman viven en Israel. Muchas de sus enseñanzas están disponibles en español en video, audio y textos en nuestra web: http://www.amarasaisrael.org Le invitamos a descargar gratis nuestra APP "Mi Estudio Bíblico" para tener un acceso más fácil y rápido a todas nuestras series en español: Para Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... Para Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mi-estu... Para conocer nuestra declaración de fe visite: https://www.amarasaisrael.org/nosotros/ (en español) https://loveisrael.org/about (en inglés) ¡Gracias por sus donaciones! Ellas nos permiten extender el mensaje del Reino al mundo entero. Para ofrendar, haga click aquí: https://www.amarasaisrael.org/apoyanos/ Traducción y Doblaje al Español: Sir Einstein Guzmán www.instagram.com/sireinsteinvoz www.sireinstein.com

Mi Estudio Bíblico (LoveIsrael en Español) (audio)
Exodo 32-2 | Entonces ardió la IRA de Moisés

Mi Estudio Bíblico (LoveIsrael en Español) (audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 52:28


Éxodo 32, una explicación bíblica versículo a versículo desde el Hebreo al Español por Baruch Korman. En este episodio, Baruch nos estará explicando las consecuencias que tuvo la desobediencia del pueblo de Israel hacia Dios. Moisés descendió del monte, y demostró su enojo hacia Aarón y el pueblo, por haber sucumbido a la idolatría. Visita http://www.amarasaisrael.org y síguenos de más cerca. Todas las lecturas son traducidas en vivo del idioma original al inglés por el Dr. Baruch Korman, y dobladas en español para el público hispanoparlante. AMARÁS A ISRAEL / MI ESTUDIO BÍBLICO “Amarás a Israel” también conocido como "Mi Estudio Bíblico" es la versión en español de “You Shall Love Israel”, programa de televisión transmitido por nuestras plataformas digitales y también por ENLACE TV y TBN para América y Europa. Por lo general consiste en una enseñanza expositiva de la Biblia capítulo por capítulo, versículo por versículo, palabra por palabra, traducida en vivo del idioma original al inglés por el Dr. Baruch Korman. También se realizan programas especiales y discusiones bíblicas con participación de otros invitados, especialmente con el hermano Christian Barrionuevo, un chileno-australiano que desde Sydney conduce programas cargados de interés para todos. Sobre el Dr. Baruch Korman: El Dr. Baruch es profesor titular en el Instituto Zera Avraham con sede en Israel. Además, aparece regularmente en el programa de TV israelí Pdut L'amo en el que enseña sobre la Biblia cada semana. El Dr. Baruch cuenta con un doctorado en estudios judíos. Su tesis fue sobre técnicas de traducción de la Septuaginta. Lleva más de 30 años de casado con su esposa Rivka, con quien tiene tres hijos adultos. Los Korman viven en Israel. Muchas de sus enseñanzas están disponibles en español en video, audio y textos en nuestra web: http://www.amarasaisrael.org Le invitamos a descargar gratis nuestra APP "Mi Estudio Bíblico" para tener un acceso más fácil y rápido a todas nuestras series en español: Para Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... Para Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mi-estu... Para conocer nuestra declaración de fe visite: https://www.amarasaisrael.org/nosotros/ (en español) https://loveisrael.org/about (en inglés) ¡Gracias por sus donaciones! Ellas nos permiten extender el mensaje del Reino al mundo entero. Para ofrendar, haga click aquí: https://www.amarasaisrael.org/apoyanos/ Traducción y Doblaje al Español: Sir Einstein Guzmán www.instagram.com/sireinsteinvoz www.sireinstein.com

Trade Splaining
Tarantulas, Tariffs, and Trade Wars: Ambassador Maria Pagan on Global Trade's Future

Trade Splaining

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 44:34


Episode 71: Tarantulas, Tariffs, and Trade Wars: Ambassador Maria Pagan on Global Trade's Future In this week's episode of Tradesplaining, Rob and Ardi tackle the unexpected, the essential, and the downright quirky in global trade and policy. Joined by Ambassador Maria Pagan, U.S. representative to the WTO, this episode offers insights and plenty of laughs as they explore:

GeopolitiekNu Verkiezingsjaar 2024
72. China intimideert Nederlandse journalisten. Met Ardi Bouwers en Susanne Kamerling

GeopolitiekNu Verkiezingsjaar 2024

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024 51:12


Dat China nauwelijks persvrijheid kent, is algemeen bekend. Maar de lange arm van de Chinese Communistische Partij (CCP) reikt verder dan de eigen landsgrenzen. Ook in Nederland probeert de CCP China-kritische journalisten de mond te snoeren – met subtiele verleiding als het kan, en harde intimidatie als het moet. Ardi Bouwers en Susanne Kamerling onderzochten de Chinese invloed op Nederlandse media, en schreven een onthullend rapport over deze zorgwekkende ontwikkelingen. In deze podcast bespreken wij hun schokkende bevindingen.

Historias Jasidicas
El manuscrito que ardió: la historia que transformó un alma reencarnada

Historias Jasidicas

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2024 8:58


Amarauna
Laure Ré: "Murtzian ardi beltz sentitzen nintzen, hemen ez"

Amarauna

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2024 23:34


Inguruan bizitakoagatik aitortu digu hori Laura Ré Lorcarrak. Burgosen Ikusentzunezkoak ikasi ondoren Euskal Herrira etortzea erabaki zuen eta iritsi orduko euskara ikasteari ekin zion. ...

Trade Splaining
Diverging Economies: US vs. EU, Turkey's BRICS Pivot, and New Globalization Narratives ft. Nicholas Lamp

Trade Splaining

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2024 47:24


Episode 70: Diverging Paths, Turkey's BRICS Aspirations, and Narratives on Globalization ft. Nicholas Lamp Welcome to Episode 70 of Trade Splaining! In this episode, Rob and Ardi are joined by Nicholas Lamp, Associate Professor at Queen's University, to discuss diverging economic approaches, shifting trade narratives, and some unexpected trends. Key Topics Covered: US vs. EU Economic Divergence: As the U.S. and Europe take increasingly different approaches to economic policy, what does this mean for a unified Western strategy? Turkey and the BRICS: Turkey's aspirations to join the BRICS highlight a shift toward a multipolar global economy. How could this reshape alliances and influence trade? Narratives on Globalization: Nicholas Lamp offers fresh insights on how public and political perspectives on globalization are evolving, as seen in his book, Six Faces of Globalization. Special Guest: Nicholas Lamp, an expert in international trade law, joins us to unpack the changing narratives around globalization and share his take on what the future holds for global trade. Highlights: Insights into the U.S.-EU economic policy gap. Turkey's pivot to BRICS and its implications for NATO and Western alliances. A deeper look at the forces shaping public and political discourse on globalization, from labor rights to climate concerns. A humorous dive into the quirky concept of the “selmelier” (salt sommelier) and other local news.

random Wiki of the Day
Ardian (given name)

random Wiki of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2024 1:27


rWotD Episode 2729: Ardian (given name) Welcome to Random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia’s vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Wednesday, 23 October 2024 is Ardian (given name).Ardian is an Albanian name. Although similar to Adrian, a name of Latin origin, the Albanian name Ardian (Ardjan and Ardijan being other variants) is a derivation of Ardiaei, the name of an ancient Illyrian people.Their original inland residence was along the Naro River (modern river Neretva, also known as Narenta in ancient times) up to the Konjic region, in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.Ardiana is a feminine form of this name. Abbreviated forms like Ardi and Ardia are in use too.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:27 UTC on Wednesday, 23 October 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Ardian (given name) on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm generative Amy.

Masty o Rasty | پادکست فارسی مستی و راستی
EP378 Masty o Rasty (مستی و راستی) -Ardi Hatami (Part 2)

Masty o Rasty | پادکست فارسی مستی و راستی

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 78:58


This episode is sponsored by https://WE-PN.com Become your own VPN provider.To get 50% off enter promo code: kingraam50-------------------------Ardavan Hatami is back on the show to talk about life in Berlin, from the music scene to the dating life, and why he thinks you shouldn't move there!.-------------------------To learn more about psychedelic therapy go to my brother Mehran's page at: https://www.mindbodyintegration.ca/ or to https://www.legacyjourneys.ca/ for his next retreat.***Masty o Rasty is not responsible for, or condone, the views and opinions expressed by our guests ******مستی و راستی هیچگونه مسولیتی در برابر نظرها و عقاید مهمان‌های برنامه ندارد.***-------------------------King Raam Tour:Nov 21 2024 - Boston,Nov 23 2024 - New YorkNov 24 2024 - Washington, DCNov 26 2024 - AtlantaNov 29 2024 - Houston,Nov 30 2024 - Dallas, TXDec 3 2024 - San DiegoDec 4 2024 - Los AngelesDec 5 2024 - San FranciscoDec 8 2024 - PortlandDec 9 2024 - Seattlekingraam.com/tourSupport the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On cuisine Ensemble avec France Bleu Pays Basque
Sasi Ardi, la brebis méconnue du Pays Basque, se dévoile dans les cuisines du Chef Cédric Marinello

On cuisine Ensemble avec France Bleu Pays Basque

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 26:01


durée : 00:26:01 - Sasi Ardi, la brebis du Pays Basque - Jean Lassalle, éleveur de la rare brebis "Sasi Ardi", et Cédric Marinello, chef du Bar Basque à Saint-Jean-de-Luz, nous font découvrir ce trésor du Pays Basque. Sa viande fine et délicate surprend les gourmets, bien loin de son allure rustique.

Masty o Rasty | پادکست فارسی مستی و راستی
EP365 Masty o Rasty (مستی و راستی) - Ardi Hatami

Masty o Rasty | پادکست فارسی مستی و راستی

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 78:30


In this episode Raam talks to Ardavan Hatami about his journey from being a street musician in Tehran to Istanbul to Berlin. ***Masty o Rasty is not responsible for, or condone, the views and opinions expressed by our guests ******مستی و راستی هیچگونه مسولیتی در برابر نظرها و عقاید مهمان‌های برنامه ندارد.***-------------------------King Raam Tour:Nov 21 2024 - Boston,Nov 23 2024 - New YorkNov 24 2024 - Washington, DCNov 26 2024 - AtlantaNov 29 2024 - Houston,Nov 30 2024 - Dallas, TXDec 3 2024 - San DiegoDec 4 2024 - Los AngelesDec 5 2024 - San FranciscoDec 8 2024 - PortlandDec 9 2024 - Seattlekingraam.com/tourSupport the showSocial Media: @kingraamVoice Messages: www.t.me/mastyorastyVenmo: @kingraam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Witness History
Ardi: the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor

Witness History

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 8:53


In 1994, a college student called Yohannes Haile Selassie unearthed a 4.4 million-year-old skeleton in Ethiopia. She was the first near-complete skeleton of a species of human ancestor called Ardipithecus ramidus. The paleoanthropologists who discovered her called her Ardi. The discovery upended how scientists view human evolution.Yohannes Haile Selassie speaks to Ben Henderson.Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic' and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy's Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they've had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America's occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.(Photo: Yohannes Haile Selassie in the Afar desert, Ethiopia. Credit: CMNH/Woranso-Mille Project)

Cadena SER Navarra
SER Gastro Navarra: 56ª edición del Artzai Eguna de Navarra

Cadena SER Navarra

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2024 9:02


Nos adentramos en el concurso de queso elaborado con leche cruda de Ardi Latxa de Navarra, donde resultaba vencedor Infernuko Gasna de Lekarotz. En la subasta el queso ganador se vendía por 4.800 € y se lo llevaba el Restaurante

Expert Voices on Atrocity Prevention
Episode 35: Ardi Imseis

Expert Voices on Atrocity Prevention

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2024 37:44


In this episode we sat down with Ardi Imseis, Professor of International Law at Queens University, legal counsel to the State of Palestine in their case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and former member of the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen. Ardi explains the legal significance of the ICJ's most recent advisory opinion on Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory, including how and why the Court's findings mark an important step in Palestinians' decades-long struggle for freedom. Ardi also articulates the obligations placed on the international community and provides his perspective on what steps they must take to protect Palestinian populations.

The Just Security Podcast
Assessing the Recent Response of International Law and Institutions in Palestine and Israel

The Just Security Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2024 139:03


The situation in Israel and Palestine raises some of the most complex and contested issues in international law. In the past few years, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and a U.N.-backed Independent Commission of Inquiry have all addressed various legal dimensions of the conflict, including the status of Israel's long-standing occupation of the Palestinian Territories and its conduct of hostilities in the Gaza Strip. Just how have those bodies ruled? What have they chosen to condemn as violations of community norms and what conduct has been silenced or omitted? And what does all of this mean in practice, both as a matter of international law, for third-party States, and for the people on the ground? Joining the show to unpack how international courts and institutions have addressed the situation in Palestine are Shahd Hammouri, Ardi Imseis, and Victor Kattan. Shahd is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent Law School, Ardi is an Associate Professor and the Academic Director of the International Law Programs at Queen's University Law School, and Victor is an Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law.Co-hosting this episode is Just Security Executive Editor Matiangai Sirleaf. Matiangai is the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Show Notes: Shahd Hammouri (@shahdhm)Ardi Imseis (@ArdiImseis)Victor Kattan (@VictorKattan)Matiangai V.S. Sirleaf (@matiangai)Paras Shah (@pshah518)Discussion timestamps: 1:49 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion “Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in The Occupied Palestinian Territory”43:10 International Court of Justice South Africa v. Israel case1:05 Independent Commission of Inquiry 1:38 International Criminal Court Prosecutor's Request for Arrest WarrantsMatiangai's Just Security article “We Charge Geocide: Redux” Just Security's Israel and Palestine coverageJust Security's International Court of Justice coverageJust Security's International Criminal Court coverage  Music: “Broken” by David Bullard from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/david-bullard/broken (License code: OSC7K3LCPSGXISVI)

RNZ: Nights
Artist Ardi Alemi on his new exhibition 'Geometry of Emotions'

RNZ: Nights

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2024 7:44


Ardi joins Emile Donovan to talk about growing up in Tehran in the 1970s, and his new exhibition.

Trade Splaining
More EU Regulations, Shifting Summer Tourism and Uncovering Why Politicians Lie About Trade with Dimitry Grozoubinski

Trade Splaining

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2024 45:17


Tradesplaining Podcast Episode 66: More EU Regulations, Shifting Summer Tourism and Uncovering Why Politicians Lie About Trade with author Dimitry Grozoubinski --- Episode Summary Welcome to Episode 66 of the Tradesplaining podcast! In this episode, hosts Rob and Ardi dive into the complexities of international trade, explore shifting tourism trends, and discuss why luxury watches may not be the investment they once were. This episode features a special guest interview with Dmitry Grozubinsky, author of "Why Politicians Lie About Trade."   Key Topics Covered 1. EU Deforestation Regulation    - The episode kicks off with a discussion on the EU's new deforestation regulation, highlighting its potential impact on international trade and the challenges it poses for importers.     2. Shifts in Tourism Trends    - Rob and Ardi explore why high-spending American tourists are now favoring the coast of Poland over traditional destinations like Greece. They discuss the economic implications of this shift and how climate change is influencing travel patterns. 3. Investment in Luxury Watches    - A lighthearted yet insightful segment on why watches have historically been a poor investment, complete with humorous anecdotes and market analysis. 4. Interview with Dmitry Grozoubinsky    - Dmitry Grozoubinsky, a renowned trade policy expert, joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, "Why Politicians Lie About Trade." Dmitry shares insights on the complexities of trade negotiations and the misinformation often propagated by politicians. 5. US Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum    - The hosts delve into the US's recent imposition of retroactive tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico, examining the broader implications for trade relations and the Republican platform's stance on tariffs. 6. Local News and Watch Industry Trends    - The episode concludes with a segment on local news, focusing on the plummeting value of luxury watches and the introduction of the Bloomberg Subdial Watch Index. Quotes from the Episode - Rob on EU Regulations: "If you don't have good data about where your coffee was grown, you could be excluded from the EU market." - Ardi on Tourism: "High-spending Americans are driving economies across Southern Europe as vacationers take advantage of a strong dollar." - Dmitry Grozubinsky: "If someone with a large public platform is communicating about an issue in a way that leaves the public with an incomplete or misleading picture, for me that is foundationally indistinguishable from lying." Listener Engagement - Subscribe and Share: Don't forget to subscribe to Tradesplaining on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Share this episode with friends or colleagues interested in international trade and business. - Feedback:Reach out via Twitter @tradesplaining, Instagram @trade.splaining, or email tradesplaining@gmail.com.  SEO Keywords - International Trade - EU Deforestation Regulation - Tourism Trends 2024 - Luxury Watch Investment - Dmitry Grozubinsky - US Tariffs on Steel - Trade Policy Podcast --- Join us for an informative and entertaining episode as we navigate the intricate world of international trade, dissect current economic trends, and share a few laughs along the way. Tune in now and stay informed on the latest in trade and business!

The Palestine Pod
The limits of international law with Dr. Ardi Imseis

The Palestine Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 48:44


This week Lara and Michael sit down with Associate Professor of Law at Queens University, Dr. Ardi Imseis. Dr. Imseis is the author of the UN and the Question of Palestine, a study into what historically went wrong in the UN's treatment of the question of Palestine since its inception. Dr. Imseis exposes how at various critical moments in the last century, the prevailing international law of the time was flouted by the UN in favor of policy that violated Palestinian rights and democratic principles. The work reminds us how the law can be used as one of many tools, but certainly has its limits. Laws can be oppressive (like the Nuremberg laws, South African Apartheid laws) and the choice to respect them or not is inherently political. We discuss how a lack of accountability for Israel's violations has only caused the Zionist occupation to become worse and worse over time, what public international law principles require of Israel in terms of reparation for its international wrongs against the Palestinian people, and the handful of current legal efforts brought by Palestinians and their allies to use the law for emancipatory aims including the ICJ case in relation to the illegality of Israel's presence in the occupied Palestinians territories, a case where Dr. Imseis acted as part of the legal team.

Balfour Project: Beyond the Declaration
Friends of the Balfour Meeting with Dr Ardi Imseis

Balfour Project: Beyond the Declaration

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2024 59:05


Join us for an exclusive Friends of the Balfour Project meeting, 'Upholding International law - dream or reality?' with international law expert Dr Ardi Imseis and Andrew Whitley (Chair of the Trustees) and Sir Vincent Fean (Trustee). Ardi will speak on the prospects in the two ICJ cases, and on the ICC warrants request. He will then take questions from our Friends. Ardi Imseis Dr. Ardi Imseis is an Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Queen's University. He is a Member of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen, a UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry mandated to investigate violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in the civil war in Yemen. Between 2002 and 2014, he served in senior legal and policy capacities with the UN in the Middle East (UNRWA & UNHCR).

Radio Maria France
Paray Côte d'Azur 2024-07-13 Témoignage de Carine Neveu et Violaine de la Théardière

Radio Maria France

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2024 60:08


Paray Côte d'Azur 2024-07-13 Témoignage de Carine Neveu et Violaine de la Théardière by Radio Maria France

HeyA
#59 - Rania Talala - Fondatrice d'Ardi Concept store, premier lieu culturel palestinien à Paris

HeyA

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2024 69:57


Cette semaine, je suis ravie de partager ma conversation avec Rania Talala, fondatrice d'Ardi Concept store, premier lieu culturel palestinien à Paris. Dans cet épisode Rania retrace son parcours, de professeur de français à chef d'entreprise.Elle revient sur les raisons qui l'ont poussées à se lancer dans l'aventure Ardi alors qu'elle était une maman célibataire de 3 enfants, sans économie ni expérience entrepreneuriale. Elle nous raconte les défis rencontrés et le soutien infaillible de sa communauté qui ira jusqu'à financer 50% du projet.Une fois la dimension financière du projet réglée et alors qu'elle imagine le plus dur derrière, elle est confrontée à un véritable parcours du combattant lors de la recherche d'un local. Son dossier est automatiquement rejeté, ceci en lien avec la nature de son engagement. Alors qu'elle était très active sur les réseaux sociaux et via son blog, Rania décide de se retirer de la toile pour permettre à son projet déclore et exister. Nous avons aussi discuté de la condition palestinienne, de résistance mais aussi de la maladie auto-immune qu'on lui a diagnostiquée récemment. Sans plus attendre, je laisse place à la HeyA du jour - Rania Talala. ----------------------------------------------------- Pour suivre Rania et ArdiInstagram : @les_petits_plats_palestiniens @ardi.concept.storePour suivre Heya Instagram: @heya_podcastHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

HeyA
[EXTRAIT] - "La résistance palestinienne c'est aussi danser le dabké sur les ruines" avec Rania Talala - Fondatrice d'Ardi concept store

HeyA

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 3:48


Aujourd'hui, je partage avec vous un extrait de ma conversation à venir avec Rania Talala, fondatrice d'Ardi Concept store, premier lieu culturel palestinien à Paris. Dans cet épisode Rania retrace son parcours, de professeur de français à chef d'entreprise.Elle revient sur les raisons qui l'ont poussées à se lancer dans l'aventure Ardi alors qu'elle était une maman célibataire de 3 enfants, sans économie ni expérience entrepreneuriale. Elle nous raconte les défis rencontrés et le soutien infaillible de sa communauté qui ira jusqu'à financer 50% du projet.Une fois la dimension financière du projet réglée et alors qu'elle imagine le plus dur derrière, elle est confrontée à un véritable parcours du combattant lors de la recherche d'un local. Son dossier est automatiquement rejeté, ceci en lien avec la nature de son engagement. Alors qu'elle était très active sur les réseaux sociaux et via son blog, Rania décide de se retirer de la toile pour permettre à son projet déclore et exister. Nous avons aussi discuté de la condition palestinienne, de résistance mais aussi de la maladie auto-immune qu'on lui a diagnostiquée récemment. Rendez-vous demain pour l'intégralité de l'épisode !    ----------------------------------------------------- Pour suivre Rania et ArdiInstagram : @les_petits_plats_palestiniens @ardi.concept.storePour suivre Heya Instagram: @heya_podcastHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Tu Dosis Diaria
Alberto de Belaunde - Ardió Lima, pero por poco tiempo

Tu Dosis Diaria

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 6:38


Comentarios sobre una importante película peruana que los cines no querían que veas.Lee el artículo aquí: https://jugo.pe/ardio-lima-pero-por-poco-tiempo/Al suscribirte a Jugo recibes nuestro contenido diariamente. Tienes la oportunidad de ser juguero por un día. Pero, sobre todo, patrocinas que nuestro contenido llegue gratuitamente a personas que lo necesitan. Contamos con tu apoyo para no desenchufar la licuadoraSuscríbete aquí. Haz clic aquí para seguirnos en TwitterHaz clic aquí para seguirnos en FacebookHaz clic aquí para seguirnos en Instagram

CFR News & Sports
Influencer Boxing VERY Dangerous - Ardi Ndembo RIP

CFR News & Sports

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 15:53


Let me know your thoughts in the comments section down below... Full Episode available on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Theexpresstruthshow SPONSORED BY https://www.instagram.com/supremeoftheuk/?hl=en ⁠https://www.instagram.com/cfr_sports/?hl=en ⁠https://rumble.com/user/CFRNetwork https://twitter.com/CFRNetwork__ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cfr-network/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cfr-network/support

Trade Splaining
The Tariffs Keep on Coming, While Mexico is Stuck in the Middle

Trade Splaining

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2024 38:47


Episode 64 - "The Tariffs Keep on Coming, While Mexico is Stuck in the Middle" Hosts: Ardian Mollabeqiri and Robert Skidmore Guest: Lars Karlsson, Global Head of Trade and Customs Consulting at Maersk --- Episode Summary Welcome to Episode 64 of Trade Splaining, the podcast that makes sense of international trade, business, and expat life without putting you to sleep—most of the time. In this episode, we dive into Mexico's strategic position in the ongoing US-China trade tensions, the rising trend of tariffs, and the surprising new role of TikTok in career development. Our special guest, Lars Karlsson, sheds light on navigating trade in an era of uncertainty. --- Key Segments 1. Introduction and Episode Overview    - Hosts: Ardian Mollabeqiri and Robert Skidmore    - Topics: Mexico's economic opportunities amid US-China tensions, the rise of tariffs, and TikTok's role in career networking. 2. News Highlights    - Swiss Watchmaker's Success: Recep Recepi's watch auctioned for $4.3 million.    - Listener Feedback: Germany's proposed price cap on kebabs.    - Tariffs Update: President Biden's new tariffs on EVs, semiconductors, and solar cells targeting Chinese goods. 3. Main Discussion Points    - Mexico's Economic Position:      - The impact of US-China trade disputes on Mexican manufacturing.      - Benefits from the USMCA trade agreement.    - Global Trade Conflicts:      - Turkey suspending trade with Israel due to the Gaza conflict.      - Security threats in the Red Sea causing shipping route changes and increased CO2 emissions. 4. Interview with Lars Karlsson    - Trade in an Uncertain World:      - Insights into global trade volatility.      - The importance of digitalization and resilience in supply chains.    - **Future Trends:**      - The impact of new trade compliance regulations.      - The balance between resilience and sustainability in trade. 5. Local News and Fun Segments    - Stolen Bike Recovery in Geneva: Innovative approaches to preventing bike theft.    - Migration Panic: Capturing female Asian wasps in Switzerland.    - Euro Mullet Competition: Details about the upcoming mullet competition in Valais. 6. Closing Remarks    - A reminder to subscribe, review, and follow the podcast on various platforms. --- Notable Quotes - Lars Karlsson on Resilience: "We are getting more resilience. We are more accurate in what we do. And we are doing that in a more volatile and insecure situation for trade than ever before." - Ardi on Trade Conflicts: "Trade is just sort of a passenger on the ship, and it's really not the one driving the car right?" - Rob on Digitalization: "The digitalization of trade and the use of data in supply chains are accelerating, making it easier to handle new regulations and crises." --- Featured Links - Maersk - Learn more about Lars Karlsson's work and Maersk's trade solutions. - USMCA Trade Agreement - Explore the benefits and details of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement. --- Connect with Us - Twitter: @Tradesplaining  - Instagram: @trade.splaining - Email: tradesplaining@gmail.com --- Subscribe & Review: - Apple Podcasts - Spotify - Google Podcasts - YouTube --- #InternationalTrade #Tariffs #MexicoEconomy #SupplyChain #TikTokCareers #TradeCompliance #Podcast #TradeNews --- Credits: - Hosts: Ardian Mollabeqiri and Robert Skidmore - Guest: Lars Karlsson - Executive Producer: Michelle Olguin - Production Assistance: Armina Sinani --- **Disclaimer:** Remember to listen responsibly and share this episode with friends and colleagues interested in the latest trends in international trade and business.

Guerrilla History
UN, the Palestine Question, & International Law w/ Ardi Imseis (Crossover w/ The Majlis)

Guerrilla History

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 80:27


In this special episode of Guerrilla History, we bring you a crossover episode done in collaboration with The Majlis, a project by the Muslim Societies Global Perspectives project at Queens University, which is hosted by our own Adnan Husain (so be sure to subscribe on your podcast app!). Here, Adnan and Dr. Ardi Imseis, explore the complexities of international law, human rights and the urgent imperative of addressing the current situation of Palestine. Through meticulous research and unwavering dedication to justice, Imseis's scholarship offers invaluable insights into the legal frameworks that underpin the Palestinian struggle. As we unpack the historical narratives and contemporary realities shaping the question of Palestine, Imseis's work serves as a guiding beacon, challenging prevailing norms and advocating for a rights-based approach to peace and justice. Ardi Imseis joined the Queen's University Faculty of Law in 2018, following a 12-year career as a UN official in the Middle East, first with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and then with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Dr. Imseis's Latest Book is The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity.  You can  follow him on twitter @ArdiImseis Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

Ponchote Podcast
El libro de Karla de la Cuesta, el esposo de Raquenel se manifiesta y la crema que le ardió a Lupe

Ponchote Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2024 62:12


BNR's Big Five | BNR
Sinoloog Ardi Bouwers: 'Ik maak mij het meeste zorgen om de jaknikkers waarmee Xi Jingping zich heeft omringd'

BNR's Big Five | BNR

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 43:53


Op welke manier heeft Sinoloog Ardi Bouwers de toon van de Chinese overheidscommunicatie de afgelopen jaren zien veranderen? En: waar wijkt die communicatie naar het buitenland af van de binnenlandse propaganda?   Gasten in BNR'S Big Five van de ambities van China -Teeuwe Mevissen, China-econoom van de Rabobank -Ron Keller, oud-ambassadeur -Ardi Bouwers, Sinoloog en strategisch adviseur bij The China Circle. -Valérie Hoeks, Sinoloog en mede-oprichter van China Inroads -Rogier Creemers, professor moderne Chinese studies aan de Universiteit LeidenSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trade Splaining
More Supply Chain Disruptions, Baltimore Bridge Collapse and Trade Statistics

Trade Splaining

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2024 41:09


Episode 62: Unraveling the Threads of Global Trade and the Quirks of Expat Life Welcome to Episode 62 of TradeSplaining, where your hosts, Rob and Ardi, along with special guest Don Brasher, dive deep into the intricacies of international trade, business, and the expat experience. Get ready to be enlightened and entertained as we explore everything from supply chain challenges to the unique lifestyle of living abroad.   In This Episode: Jim Croce's Mysteries, Rolex and the Atomic Number of Samarium: We kick off with a light-hearted debate on Jim Croce's roots and a fascinating fact about samarium. Yes, trade and expat life discussions can start from anywhere! Trade Data Insights with Don Brasher: Don Brasher, founder and president of Trade Data Monitor, joins us to shed light on trade statistics, their significance, and some pitfalls to watch out for. His expertise illuminates the often complex world of global merchandise trade, offering listeners an exclusive peek behind the statistical curtain. Global Events Impacting Trade: From a massive container ship striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge to the soaring prices of cocoa, we cover how recent events underscore the fragility and dynamism of global supply chains. Listen in as we dissect the implications of these events on businesses and consumers alike. Populism and Protectionism in Trade Policies: Explore how current trends in populism are influencing trade and domestic policies across the globe. We delve into the Biden administration's stance on significant steel industry events and the ongoing debate between the US and the EU over steel and aluminum disputes. The Expat Focus: Our conversation takes a lighter turn as we navigate the peculiarities of expat life, including the challenges and joys of adapting to new cultures and navigating the complexities of international living. Tasman AI – A Creative Twist on Globalization: Discover how Tasmania is offering a slow alternative to AI, bridging global creativity with local artists. It's globalization with a personal touch. Puppy Yoga in Geneva – A Local Glimpse: Ever heard of puppy yoga? Find out why it's causing a stir in Geneva and what it says about local regulations and the universal quest for relaxation and happiness. Why Listen to This Episode? Insights from Trade Experts: Gain valuable insights from Don Brasher and our hosts, who bring years of experience in international trade and economics. Diverse Topics: From serious trade discussions to quirky expat tales, this episode has something for everyone. Engagement: Engage with a community of listeners interested in the nuances of global trade, business strategies, and the expat lifestyle. Subscribe and Join Us! Don't miss out on future episodes – subscribe to TradeSplaining on your favorite podcast platform. Share your thoughts and join our community on Twitter (@tradesplaining) or Instagram (@trade.splaining). TradeSplaining is more than a podcast; it's your gateway to understanding the complex world of international trade and the unique adventures of expat life. Listen responsibly!

theAnalysis.news
The UN and Israel’s Occupation of the Palestinian Territories – Ardi Imseis

theAnalysis.news

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2024 55:34


Dr. Ardi Imseis is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Queen's University, as well as a legal practitioner, having spent 12 years working for the United Nations in the occupied Palestinian territories. Imseis argues that the UN has not been the standard-bearer of the international rule of law but, since 1947, has enforced “rule by law” in the way it has created and then “abused and selectively applied” international law with regards to the Palestinian people's right to self-determination. He discusses UN General Assembly Resolution 77/247, which calls on the ICJ to issue an advisory opinion on the legal status of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Family Proclamations
Meet the Eves (with Cat Bohannon)

Family Proclamations

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2024 93:36 Transcription Available


Cat Bohannon says for far too long the story of human evolution has ignored the female body. Her new book offers a sweeping revision of human history. It's an urgent and necessary corrective that will forever change your understanding of birth and why it's more difficult for humans than virtually any other animal species on the planet.  Her best-selling book is called Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, and we're talking all about it in this episode.    Transcript   BLAIR HODGES: When Cat Bohannan was working on her PhD, she noticed something was missing from the story she usually heard about human evolution. Specifically, women are missing. That seemed like a pretty big oversight. So she tracked down the most cutting edge research and pulled it together into a fascinating new book. Cat is here to talk about it. It's called Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution. Since we're taking a new look at families, gender and sex on the show, I thought, what better place to begin than the place where we all begin at birth? Let's look at how that messy dangerous, incredible process came to be. There's no one right way to be a family and every kind of family has something we can learn from. I'm your host Blair Hodges, and this is Family Proclamations.   INSPIRED BY SCI-FI (7:12)   BLAIR HODGES: Cat Bohannon joins us. We're talking about the book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution. Cat, welcome to Family Proclamations. CAT BOHANNON: Hey, thanks for having me. BLAIR HODGES: You bet. I'm thrilled about this. This is this is such a good book. Your introduction suggests the idea for it was conceived in a movie theater or after you had just seen a movie prequel to Alien. I didn't see that coming. Talk about how the book started. CAT BOHANNON: Right, so as a person who is femme-presenting, as a person who identifies as a woman, I have many triggering moments for where I might want to talk about the body and its relation to our lives. However, there was this one kind of crystallizing bit. I'm a big sci-fi fan, big Kubrick fan, big Ridley Scott fan, so I'm gonna go, when they come out, I'm gonna go. Now, this is a prequel to Alien, so you know going into this film that whatever characters you meet, it's not gonna go well for them. You just accept it in that kind of sadistic way as an audience of these things, like this is—yeah, you know where it's going. But in this case, what happened is the main character has been impregnated, effectively, with a vicious alien squid, as you do. And she's sort of shambling in a desperate state, and she arrives in this crashed spaceship at a MedPod. So it's like surgery in a box, you know, that's the idea. And she asked the computer for a cesarean. I think she actually says something like, “CESAREAN!”, you know, but she wants help with her situation, her tentacled situation. And the MedPod says, “I'm sorry, this MedPod is calibrated for male patients only.” And I hear in the row exactly behind me, a woman say, “Who does that?” Exactly. Who does that? Who sends a multi-trillion dollar expedition into space? Right? Presumably that's the, maybe it costs more and doesn't make sure that the medical equipment works on women, right? And it turns out us. Yeah, it's us. We're the ones who do that. Right now, in every single hospital, It's a problem. BLAIR HODGES: So your book is looking at the “male norm” problem. You're looking at how, and not just in medical science, but I think in the ways anthropology has worked, a lot of sociological studies, studies of medicine—they assume the male body as the norm and then proceed from there. There are practical reasons for this that you talk about in the book, with medicine trials, for example, where you want a body that isn't maybe going to experience a lot of hormonal flux over the course of the study, or that isn't going to be pregnant or something. CAT BOHANNON: Mm-hmm. BLAIR HODGES: And so women get left out of scientific conversations a lot, not just in medicine but also in the history of evolution. Your book wants to address that gap. CAT BOHANNON: Yes, absolutely. And you can see it even in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, where they're inventing the first tool, right? And they're banging a bone on the ground that they use to beat the crap out of a guy. The camera tracks it, the bone goes up into the air and turns into a spaceship. This is the classic idea of tool triumphalism—that where we come from is male bodies doing what we stereotypically associate with male body stuff, like beating the crap out of people. BLAIR HODGES: Yeah. CAT BOHANNON: And there's no females in that scene. Where are they? Are they behind a hill having the babies? Like how—this is where evolution works, people. These are the bodies that make the babies, that make the babies that make the babies, right? And it's absolutely true that in the stories we tell ourselves about our bodies and where we come from, we often erase the idea of femininity. We often erase the presence of females as this kind of insignificant side character. But in biology, particularly in mammals, it's often quite the reverse. Things that drive mutations in female bodies, biologically female bodies, are often major drivers for the trajectory of that species because the outcome of our reproductive lives is strongly, strongly tied to the health of the bodies of the female. BLAIR HODGES: I love how you framed this: You invite us to think about our bodies as a collection of things that evolved at different times for different reasons. And you're looking especially at how female bodies have evolved. So breasts themselves have a heritage; milk has a heritage; ovaries have a heritage; senses have a heritage. And instead of one singular female that we'll look back to as our origin—like the biblical Eve, for example—you say there are actually a lot of different Eves. Because you're looking at the origins of all of these different parts of the body. CAT BOHANNON: Yep, absolutely. I mean, when you look in the mirror, what you see, if you're a sighted person is—well, it's a mix, right? It's actually the photons bouncing off of that mirror surface, which have already bounced off the surface of your body and then eventually find their way to your retinas. And that's all the technical features of how your eyeballs do what they do if you have eyeballs that do that. But it's also inevitably embedded in cultural understandings. And it's also embedded in an idea of time. That you begin at a certain point, your body arrives through—well actually through a very wet passage usually, into the world and so you are you. But actually, the body itself is a continuation of many processes that work very chaotically and intricately together that started a very long time ago. And your intestines are effectively way older than even your upright pelvis. Your pelvis is way older than your encephalized brain. So what you're looking at in the mirror is almost like, this might be too lyric, but it's almost like a point in a stream of light blasting out backwards from you and out forwards in front of you, because what you are isn't so much a thing, but something that is happening.   MORGIE AND THE MILK (7:12)   BLAIR HODGES: And you take us way back in time. 200 million years ago is when you take us, back to the first Eve. This is the “milk” mom, the mammal who kind of brought milk here. You describe her, you call her Morgie, and she's sort of this little weasel mouse. Tell us a little bit about Morgie. CAT BOHANNON: Morgie's fun. We nicknamed her Morgie because the Smithsonian did that before I did, thank you very much. She is an exemplar genus. There are many species of morganucodon, but they're often nicknamed Morgie in the community of paleo folk. And they are this lovely little kind of weasel rat bitch. She's great. She's only about the size of a field mouse. She is presumed to be burrowing. So she lives in little holes in the ground. BLAIR HODGES: The drawing is so cute, by the way, that you have in there. CAT BOHANNON: Isn't she wonderful? I hired this amazing illustrator. And as you'll see in the book and duly cited, she was very, very talented and we worked together. She wanted to have portraits of all the Eves. And I was like, yeah, let's do portraits of all the Eves. But she's coming from a Catholic background, my mother's Catholic too, so she wanted to do them like Saint cards, where you have the iconography in the center, but then all in the periphery around the side, you have all of these symbolic things. So you have a picture of Morgie, which is the real Madonna, thank you. But she doesn't have nipples. She's sweating drops of milk out of her milk patches on her belly. And she has these weird little pups sipping from it. Anyway, this is a podcast. You can look at it for yourselves when you get the book. But it's a beautiful, beautiful portrait. And the reason I picked Morgie as the start is, what people often forget is that, okay, yeah, we know we're mammals. You might've heard that even in high school bio. You're like, okay, homo sapiens, mammals, right? But what's not often talked about is, one of the many characteristic traits that make us mammals are deeply tied to how we reproduce, which is to say are deeply tied to the female sex of a species. And Morgie is this moment roughly when we think, okay, here's where we start lactating. Here's where we start making milk. And that becomes a key part of how we continue the development of our offspring after they exit the womb. And the funny thing about milk, of course, is that we're still laying eggs while we're first making milk, right? So we are egg-laying weird weasels, which is Morgie, in our little burrow, under the feet of dinosaurs, but also that we start lactating before we have nipples. When we often, for those of us who have breasts— BLAIR HODGES: Yeah, I didn't know this. CAT BOHANNON:  I know, isn't it wild? I also learned this on my journey in the research. So when we look in the mirror, we think, oh, breasts, these things, where do they come from? And we think of them as a sexual trait. We think of them as a thing that is meant to signal attractiveness to our partners. But the thing is, is that exactly—But we may not even parse that, “Oh, are we talking about the shape? Are we talking about the fat? Are we talking about the—" And it's like, whoa, no, the origin of lactation is before you even have a nipple, that you actually are just sweating this thing out from modified endocrine glands out of your skin through your hair. And in fact, the duck-billed platypus, which is often modeled as a kind of weird monitoring basal mammal, she doesn't have nipples either. Her pups through their weird little bills are slurping the milk off the bottom of her belly through these milk patches. So that's where these things come from. BLAIR HODGES: I had no idea. And also that milk wasn't just for nutrition, but also a way to sort of protect the eggs, right? So Morgie was laying eggs and then milk would be produced to help the eggs, rather than just feed the babies? CAT BOHANNON: Yes. So for a lot of egg layers—not hard shell, not like a chicken, but a softer leathery shell, there are many species that make leathery eggs, yeah? The trick is, is when you're on land, you need to keep them moist. You can't have them dry out while that offspring is continuing to develop in there. So a lot of egg layers, it's kind of gross, but they secrete this kind of egg-moistening goo that also has a lot of useful anti-fungal and antibacterial properties. Because of course you also don't want the eggs to be overrun like old bread. You want it to both be wet but not moldy. Wet but not infested with parasites, right? BLAIR HODGES: [laughs] Sure. CAT BOHANNON: And so, yeah, the best model I've seen for the evolution of milk is actually derived from that original egg-moistening goo. Which is of course incredibly gross to think about, but more likely the origin of lactation. BLAIR HODGES: And you talk about the mechanics of the nipples themselves. So we do get to a nipple, evolutionarily we do develop these nipples. CAT BOHANNON: We do. I got two. BLAIR HODGES: Yeah, I do too! CAT BOHANNON: Some people have more. Yeah. BLAIR HODGES: I mean, mine would be a little bit trickier to get to milk from, but you do point out in the book that some male folks can lactate, given the right exercises and the right stimulation, et cetera. But with the nipple— CAT BOHANNON: And the right hormonal cocktail, usually. Yeah. BLAIR HODGES: Right, right. But with the nipple, it wasn't so straightforward. So even today, babies—it's not this natural, you know, it can be tough to get babies to latch. So it's like the odds were still stacked against us. Even though we developed a nipple. It's this dance that a breastfeeder and a baby have to do to figure out how to still transfer that food across. CAT BOHANNON: Absolutely, and some species seem to be a little bit better at that, what we often call latching than others. My son was terrible at it. Absolutely just mangled my chest wall in ways that alarmed even the nurses. They're like, “oh God, here's a pump.” It's okay, eventually, whatever, I didn't have a moral goal for it. Luckily, I was able to not be embedded in that debate that many women do in the way we punish ourselves. “Oh, I wasn't able to lactate well enough!” But yeah, come on, it's fine. I mean, and when you think of it from a biological perspective, when you think about it in that evolutionary frame, in many ways, the mammalian chest wall, our bodies know how to make milk better than babies know how to latch. It's an older trait, right? But there are many really, really cool traits about the latching when it does work, because milk is what's called a co-produced biological product. That means the mother and the offspring are actually making it together. Not simply because when you suckle, when an offspring suckles, that means you arrive at that letdown reflex—because we're not carrying a sloshing cup of milk around in our boobs no matter how big they are. This isn't a Ziploc bag in there, right? This is actually like maybe a couple tablespoons at a time if you're lucky when you're lactating. But no, the suckling actually triggers the milk glands to kick up production, and that's what starts the whole process rolling. But the more important thing there, for the latching—because once you have that vacuum-like seal, once the kid's mouth latches on, forms the seal like a weird lamprey, and sucks that relatively giant nipple into its mouth, well now actually you've created something of a tide. Because as the child suckles, it's creating a vacuum while it sucks its cheeks in. And that's to suck the milk down as it's coming. But the tongue's moving back and forth, which moves the focus of the vacuum back and forth, which creates a tide, like a wave on the shore, of milk over the top and under the bottom. The baby's spit is sucked back up into the nipple because that's how undertow works, it's just physics! Which is gross and invasive to think about as a person who's done it. But it's true that the spit is then drawn up into the whole lining of the tubing of the breast where it's read like some weird ancient code. BLAIR HODGES: Right! CAT BOHANNON: And the mother's immune system is responding. All sorts of different sensors are responding and changing the content of the milk to suit. So if the kid's sick, then you get more immunoagents coming down that nipple to help the kid fight off the infection. And a bunch of hormonal stuff and ratios of proteins to sugar. We make our milk to suit, given what we're effectively, anciently reading in the kid's spit. Now that said, breast pumps are awesome. Your kid will be fine if you're not able to do this, okay? You know, modern technology is beautiful, “Fed is best.” But if you are getting the latching, then that's what's actually happening. BLAIR HODGES: This is the kind of thing your book is chock full of. So many times people are going to run into things they may have never heard of that are just unreal. You also talk about how the breast can be dangerous business too. I mean, evolution has trade-offs. Breast cancer, for example, is so common with women. So you can benefit the baby, but having the ability to produce this milk and do this thing through the breasts also increases a risk to the breast-haver as well. You talk about such trade-offs throughout the book. CAT BOHANNON: Absolutely, and I'll also offer that male bodies and men and trans women are also all capable of getting breast cancer. We all actually have mammary tissue, but male typical bodies tend to have way less of it. And mammary tissue, because it's so dynamically responsive to hormonal signaling, is just one of those places in the body that's more vulnerable to the processes that can drive cancer. And BLAIR HODGES: Mmhmm. Cells going haywire. CAT BOHANNON: Exactly, exactly. So it's still something absolutely that non-binary folk and gender queer folk of all types should pay attention to. If something's bugging you in your body, talk to your doctor. BLAIR HODGES: Yeah, there are so many footnotes that have that caveat of like, by the way, talk to your doctor just in case. CAT BOHANNON: Well, it's so important.   DONNA AND THE WOMB (16:27)   BLAIR HODGES: Let's talk about the next Eve, this is Donna. And this is a chapter about the womb. Donna emerged after a catastrophic cataclysm, whatever killed off the dinosaurs. There was this little weasel type animal that made it through all that destruction. This is 60 million some odd years ago, and you point to her as a reason why so many women today have periods. Let's talk about Donna. CAT BOHANNON: Donna, which is, I nicknamed her Donna, of course, Protungulatum Donnae, but Donna's easier. It's cuter to call her Donna. So she is an ancestor of the modern placental womb. Now we only have one womb. Many mammals still have two because they're evolved, of course, from the shell gland of our former egg layers. And the reason we have one, we're not entirely sure why, but we know the mechanism is that you have these two organs that are merging into one and producing that kind of, in our case, pear-shaped thing, but many, many women and girls are still born with a uterus that has a little dent in the top. Very common. Some even have a whole fibrous divide down the middle. Some are even still born with two uteri, less common, but happens, and two cervixes and two vaginas to match. CAT BOHANNON: So the easiest way to remember the difference between us and marsupials is: marsupials pouch, us no pouch. But also marsupials: two or more vaginas, which is fun, and us only the one. But the thing the reason to think about that isn't simply that it's cute and weird and fun imagining all of the things you might do with an extra vagina—all of which I'm sure are for the good, but that it's really talking about, at what point in development is that offspring coming out of that maternal body, and how much of development is finished outside of the womb, in or out of a pouch or a burrow or what have you. So this is the moment we start going down the path towards our somewhat catastrophic human reproductive system that is long derived from early, early mammals just after that cataclysm, which knocked out almost all the dinosaurs except for a few disgruntled birds, right? That's what's left of them. Your house sparrow. But what we have now is, we have this really patently crazy thing where instead of laying eggs like a sensible creature, we effectively hot dock them into our bodies within a uterus and then transform, not simply the uterus, but the entire body into this kind of eggshell slash meat factory of a burrow. Because our body is now effectively the burrow for that phase of development. In marsupials, it comes out like the size of a jelly bean, comes out a lot sooner, finishing out most of that development in the pouch and then elsewhere. For us, we're finishing a lot of the development inside our bodies, which has all kinds of knock-on effects. BLAIR HODGES: One of my favorite parts of the book that just blew me away was the illustration—I think it's on page 76—of the female pelvic anatomy. What we usually see is the uterus, and it's stretched out and it looks kind of like hip bones. It looks like our hips, like the ovaries are stretched out, the tubes are. And you show, no, it's actually sort of just like balled and smooshed up in there all together— CAT BOHANNON: Totally. BLAIR HODGES: —which I mean, I have never seen this illustration before! I've always seen that other illustration where it's all laid out. CAT BOHANNON: Yeah. So a lot of us learn—if we're lucky enough to have something like sex ed. Sadly, not all of us do, but for those of us who are able to have that be part of our education, it's kind of like a T shape, like a capital letter T, where you have that uterus and the vag in the middle, and then you have those fallopian tubes extending out to the side with two little grapes, you know, near the fringy bits, right, which are the ovaries. But the body doesn't have all this extra room in it. It's not like stretching out its arms. It's all kind of smooshed up in there. Which means that I've had the very real and very common experience of having had a transvaginal ultrasound, where they're like trying to image my ovaries and they can't find one. Because for whatever reason, the path of that ultrasound beam is being blocked by a part of the bowel or the uterus itself, or just, something's in the way and the ovary's hiding.  And I was very alarmed at this moment, partially because I had a large thing inside my vagina and I was trying to maintain a conversation. It's rough. BLAIR HODGES: [laughs] Right. CAT BOHANNON: But it's also like, this person's telling me they can't find one of my ovaries. I'm like, “Well where the hell is it?” Like, did I lose an ovary? Like what? You know? And no, actually it's just that everything is very smushed in there, which is part of why ovarian cysts can hurt so much for people who have them. Because you have that radiating signal of irritation hitting many different organs in that area, right? And so it can be kind of hard to pinpoint what you're feeling exactly. You just know it hurts or that it's like pressure, right? And it's different person to person. It's also unfortunately why ovarian cancer is so very dangerous. People who have these biologically female bodies, we kind of get used to aches and pains down there. It's kind of a weird common sensation, for fluctuations over a menstrual cycle, to have some kind of achy bits, some kind of bloated bits, some kind of “what was that sharp pain, I don't know, it went away, cool,” right? So in the early stages of ovarian cancer, it's often the case that a patient may not be fully aware that what's happening might be new. Now that's not to have your listeners be terrified. If something's bothering you, again, talk to your doctor. BLAIR HODGES: Yeah. CAT BOHANNON: But it is absolutely why it's so dangerous, because of course, given that it's so smushed against everything in there, it's not hard to metastasize. You're right up against the bowel. You're very close to the liver. You're in the mix in there. BLAIR HODGES: It's packed in there! And you talk about how bonkers this is, and how many people who have gone through pregnancy have said, like, “What the hell is this?!” [laughs] Like, why do I have to do this? CAT BOHANNON: Fair! Fair question. Yes. Somewhere in our very deep sci-fi future, if we don't blow ourselves up first—which given the news today seems very close to happening, thanks—but assuming we survive the insanity that is human culture and conflict, there is a future in which there is a truly external womb. Which would have to be effectively an entire synthesized female body, right? Because it's not just, it's also your immune system, it's your respiration, it's many things. But assuming in the very deep, many hundreds of years in the future that this happens, it immediately changes everything. Because of course, then it immediately becomes unethical to ever ask a female to do this dangerous thing. She may still choose, but it becomes unethical to ask, because there's truly an alternative. BLAIR HODGES: Hmm. CAT BOHANNON: Anyway, so there's a thought experiment for you in our future sci-fi. But yeah, it is nuts. It's nuts that we make babies the way we do. Our pregnancies and our births and our postpartum recoveries are longer and harder and more prone to dangerous complications that can and do cripple and or kill mother, child or both. And that's true compared to almost any other primate except for squirrel monkeys, and we feel sorry for them. But that's true for almost any other mammal. We suck at this! We're actually bad at reproduction, which seems counterintuitive because there are eight billion of us. But it's true. BLAIR HODGES: Right. And we see you trying to theorize as to why that is. Like, we're so bad at reproduction, but we're also so highly successful, one might even say an invasive species in a way. CAT BOHANNON: Right. BLAIR HODGES: We've spread out everywhere. How did that happen if we're so bad at reproduction and it's such a costly and dangerous thing to do? CAT BOHANNON: Well, it took all of our very classic hominin resources to pull it off. We had to be super social and super clever problem solvers who are good at thinking about the world as a tool user. Which is to say, tool use is about behavior. So it's not like a paleoanthropologist actually gives a damn about this rock that someone used to cut something, right? The stone axes are not the thing they care about. They care about what they can infer about the behavior of its user. All paleoanthropologists are deeply behaviorists. What that means is, if all tool use is essentially overcoming a limitation of your body in order to achieve a goal in your given environment and using some manipulation of your behavior to do that, well, our most important invention, if we suck at reproduction, was gynecology. Lucy—and I'm not the first to say this—Lucy the australopithecine, 3.2 million years ago, had a freakin' midwife. And habilis after her had even more reproductive workarounds, as did erectus, all the way up to homo sapiens. We were manipulating our fertility patterns through behavior. And that's a huge upgrade. Now you don't have to wait around for your uterus to evolve to a thing that's less deadly—because, of course, you could also just go extinct. There's that. That's an option in evolution. You could also just not exist when you have bad reproduction. But if you can work around it behaviorally, if you can have midwives—we're one of the only species that regularly helps each other give birth. If you can manipulate your fertility patterns to up or down regulate your fertility too, because in any given environment, it might be better to cluster your births earlier in your reproductive life and then care for your sort of “useless” babies—I love my kid, but they're useless, right? For a long period of time, right? Like in your given environment, given your food supply, maybe that's a good plan. Or maybe things are more seasonal, or maybe it's actually there's not a lot of food at all and you need to stretch that sh*t out. You need to actually have them every four to six years or so, which is what chimpanzees do, which is what some known human communities do. So you have to think about how we choose to have babies and what we do to manipulate our fertility, including medicinally, including behaviorally, in the space of medical practices, as something that's adapting this buggy and fault-prone thing that is human reproduction to suit our different environments and lifestyles. And that starts not a few hundred years ago, not just in the deep history of racism and eugenics sadly in modern gynecology, but actually millions of years ago. BLAIR HODGES: Sure. And you're inviting us to think again about tools. So you talked about that scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the tool is this bone that's a weapon, and we think about the rise of humanity as being tied to this type of tool. You're inviting people to re-envision that and say, actually, the tool of gynecology—which would have involved our own hands as tools—would have been such a crucial turning point for who we are as a species or who we could become. CAT BOHANNON: Mm-hmm. BLAIR HODGES: Because I think you even say, we “seized the means of reproduction,” or something at that point, which is a great pun. CAT BOHANNON: Yes, yes, and meant to be, because I too am a nerd. Yes, we do. We do indeed seize the means of actual freakin' reproduction and get our hands on the levers that are controlling not only our reproductive destiny, but then effectively our destiny as a species.   PURGI AND HUMAN SENSE PERCEPTION (27:29)   BLAIR HODGES: That's Cat Bohannon and she's a researcher and author with a PhD from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. We're talking about her book, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution. It's a brand new book, and it's a fabulous book. The next part I wanted to talk about was perception. And you say you got thinking about whether men and women perceive the world in different ways. And you got thinking about this as a college student working as a nude model at the local art school. And when students would take a break, you'd kind of wander through and check out how people were seeing you, how they were drawing you. And you noticed, invariably often, the men would be drawing your breasts too big. You're like, those aren't mine. But then as the weeks went by, they would get closer to normal size. Like something was changing in how they initially saw you, how they were drawing you. And so you wondered, like, are they seeing things differently than me? Is perception different? CAT BOHANNON: Mmhmm. BLAIR HODGES: Now, the danger in this question is falling into the trap of “men are from Mars, women are from Venus,” right? Essentializing gender. CAT BOHANNON: Yyyuuup. BLAIR HODGES: So we'll keep that in mind as you talk about perception and what you found in this chapter. CAT BOHANNON: Yeah, so there were some genderqueer folk in the art classes where I was a professional naked person, which was my job at the time. But for the most part, they were cis folk with a variety of sexualities. So I would just point out that in these rooms, there of course was diversity, and there was racial diversity too. However, the most obvious variable, you know, if you want to call it that, was simply that the male presenting folk who were almost universally cis, were drawing my boobs too big. Now, they're not small. I'm like a 34D. It's a problem. The straps dig into my shoulders. I know that I am not a small-breasted person for good and ill, but it's more that there's just the skill of literally, proportionally, how big are these knockers you're putting on this figure drawing. And the females, the women, the femmes, were not doing that. And it wasn't the case then—And it was happening semester after semester in multiple classes. So this is not a scientific study that I'm basing this on. This is an anecdote. But like, it was a thing. And I asked some other people who had been models and they were like, “Oh yeah, they always do that.” And I was asking them, what do you think it is? And they usually said something like, “Eh, it's just porn. Whatever, they get over it. It's fine. They just don't know how to not see porn when they see naked female bodies,” right? Although this was the late 90s and early aughts, so it was before the massive proliferation of internet porn, but whatever. It was a thing, is what I'm saying. It was a freakin' thing that was fairly consistent. And so I had to ask myself, like, do they literally look larger to them? You know? Is this a cultural thing? Is this gender mess? Is this just sexism? Is it just, you know, that soup of that thing where it's complicated? Or is there something physiological going on? And so for that, I take us back to the dawn of primates. Not in the “men are from Mars, women from Venus” way, but actually when were we actually weird little proto monkeys in a tree? And can that tell us anything about why they draw my boobs too big? And it's a journey. I go through quite a lot because there's a lot that goes into the evolution of the sensory array. The nose, the eyes, the ears. So there's a lot to work with there and it doesn't always come back to my naked self. The central reason why, as best as I could tell, they were drawing them too large is that they were literally fixating on them. So when your eye looks out on the world, it's doing a mixture of things. It's doing a mixture of saccades, which are these twitchy little movements. Your eyes are doing back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, that you don't even notice. And fixations, which means they're landing on one spot and staying there for a period before they move around again. And there does seem to be in the lab notable sex differences in how male saccade versus fixation patterns seem to work. Again, mostly these subjects are cis men. So there's your caveat, right? But one of the famous things about male versus female facial perception that classically in the psychological literature, cis women seem to be better at remembering faces—and these are sighted people of course—than cis men. And it seems to be, after doing some eye tracking studies with some careful cameras, that what's happening is that male eyes seem to focus more centrally on the center of the face, almost kind of around the tip and bridge of the nose, like that center zone. Whereas female typical eyes are doing fixations through all of the major points of facial features, eyes, nose, cheekbones, chin, up again, all around, all around, all around. BLAIR HODGES: Huh. CAT BOHANNON: Which is to say it may be the case that it's not that—you know, the stereotype women are more social, we're just better at remembering people because we're all kind of emotionally mushy or some sh*t, right? No. It's actually that where you fixate is giving you more signal for your long-term memory. And so if you're getting a broader range of information to dump into long-term memory, just literally what your eyes are doing may be helping you do that, right? Which is not about a psychology thing, it's a physiology thing. And in the boys' cases, I think they were quite literally fixating more on my breasts. Now, why they were doing that may well be cultural— BLAIR HODGES: Right. CAT BOHANNON: They don't have them for the most part. And you know they're 18 years old, people. I was naked in front of 18-year-old boys, so I have no more nightmares, right? But like, that's new. That's not in our culture. That's not a thing they've seen a lot in the social setting as opposed to an intimate setting, right? So you know, literally it's looming large in their mind and over the course of the semester as they get used to it—right? So it's both what their eyes are doing, but it's also cultural. BLAIR HODGES: Right, and this is where—and you point this out as well sometimes, especially in the footnotes—where studies on trans folks are going to shed a lot more light on this— CAT BOHANNON: Oh yeah. BLAIR HODGES: —where we can probably get a better sense of where culture fits in, where expectations fit in versus physiology. And we're still so early in scientific endeavors of thinking about trans perception— CAT BOHANNON: Absolutely we are. BLAIR HODGES: It's just huge questions to explore, so much more to explore there than we know. CAT BOHANNON: Mm-hmm. It's gonna be fun, it's gonna be great.   THE NOSE (33:38)   BLAIR HODGES: Yeah! This also talks about—So our eyes, our nose, and our ears are in this chapter. The nose, it was really cool to learn about how our faces flattened out over time, which made smell—We're not as great smelling like as we used to be. Our faces are flat. We don't have this big organ in there that does a lot of good smell stuff. And a lot of these changes happened when we were up in the trees, to our eyes and ears, that point to what seem to be some sex-based differences. Give us some examples of these sex based differences in smell, in sight, in sound, that still carry through today that are kind of throwbacks to this time when we were swinging from the trees, or I guess really just kind of crawling around in the trees. CAT BOHANNON: Yeah, yeah, we didn't have those brachiated shoulders yet. So swinging less so. But no, this is a kind of classic story of how we got the so-called monkey face. Even a kid can kind of draw a monkey face on a piece of paper. You got the big ears, got that kind of flat face, two forward-facing binocular stereoscopic eyes. Like we know what that looks like, but that's a very big change from something like a weasel or a mouse, right? Where you have that elongated snout, you have eyes a little bit more to the side. Right, and most of the people who talk about the evolution of primates do talk about how this came about. If a face is a sensory array, it's not just what we use to smile at each other. It's where we're hanging our primary sensors of the eyes, the nose, and the ears, and how we position them on our head is very much shaping how we perceive our environment. So the move up into the trees is a very different environment from the ground, especially from burrowing. There are many different ways in which we have to process the world differently. When it comes to the nose, one of the things that's interesting about human beings is we lost what's called the vomeronasal organ. In a lot of mammals, the perception of pheromones, you know, smells that usually the opposite sex put out that we innately strongly react to, which in a mouse is incredibly a dominant part of their perceptive lives. For us, we don't have it. We evolved away from it. We actually still have a teeny tiny little passage. It's like at the bottom of our sinuses, but it ends in kind of a—it hits a wall. It's not much going on there. Human beings don't seem to have a whole lot of pheromone perception left. But what we do have is a whole bunch of cisgender women who are a lot better at smelling stuff than males are. And we're not entirely sure we know why it is. But it is absolutely true classically in olfaction that female subjects are going to be better at detecting scents that are faint in a room. That's a concentration thing. You only need a little whiff, you know, whereas a male typical might need a stronger dose. We're better at discerning between different kinds of scents and we're better at recognizing it quickly. So we're literally smelling more finely than males are. But it's not because we have more receptors, actually. And in fact, our noses, our nostrils sucking in that air are smaller than most males in fact. No, the big difference actually seems to be in the olfactory bulb itself. This is the part of the brain that processes smell information. Yeah. And the cells are more tightly packed with more of them, even controlling for body size, in a female typical brain than in a male. And that just means it is transmitting that signal more quickly and more widely and more effectively, and then sending a stronger signal out to other parts of the brain. So we're literally wired differently. Don't entirely know why. And we're not really sure if that's a tree problem or if it's just like a sex pheromone problem that's a leftover. Not really sure.   THE EARS (37:19)   BLAIR HODGES: Not only not only our smell is discussed in this chapter, but our hearing is as well. You say that probably the most important differences between sex as pertains to hearing here—volume and pitch, women tend to hear better in higher pitches, they retain hearing better with age. What are the differences that stood out to you in a male typical versus a female typical body when it comes to our hearing? CAT BOHANNON: Uh, this was kind of wild for me. So I'd often heard the story, and maybe you have too, that female ears, human female ears, are better tuned to higher pitches that often correspond to baby cries, right? Men and women can hear the same pitches for most of our early lives, but we're more tuned in to the pitches that are associated with the pitches that babies usually use when they cry. To me, this was kind of an annoying story. Once again, I seem to be hardwired to make babies. And as a feminist, I'm like, “ugh.” But it's true, so it's fine. It's a long-evolved thing. But the more interesting thing in that story for me was that most cis men start losing the upper range of their hearing starting at age 25. Now it's a gradual slope. Guys in their thirties don't need a hearing aid necessarily if they're normally hearing people, right? But you do have this slope of decline that's just, it's like a band filter. It's just cutting off the top end of your range, every year a little bit more, down, down, until you arrive in your fifties. And the thing is, female voices, female typical cis women's voices are a little bit higher pitched and our overtones on our voices, the full timbre of our voice, it really extends up to the top end of human hearing. So what happens is quite literally starting age 25, cis men aren't hearing women's voices very well and the older they get, the worse it gets, until finally in their fifties or so, quite without realizing it, a lot of men, a lot of cis men, our voices, our female voices sound thin, a little bit tinny, harder to pick out, and may well be boosted by a hearing aid. Right? So that totally changes some of how I understand the dynamic of a boardroom. Now, it doesn't explain why a sexist man cares about what a woman says less. It doesn't say that. That's just sexism. BLAIR HODGES: Right. CAT BOHANNON: But it does say that literally he might be having trouble hearing you without realizing he is. BLAIR HODGES: And again, as you discuss, all of these interesting things throughout the chapter of perception—and I don't remember if we mentioned Purgi is the name of this Eve, 60-some-odd-million years ago. CAT BOHANNON: Purgatorius, yes! BLAIR HODGES: Yes, ancestor of the primates. So if people want to learn even more about these kind of things about our nose, our eyes, our ears—Purgi's chapter is the place to go. We're talking with Cat Bohannon about her book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution. You can also check out some of Cat's essays and poems. They've appeared in Scientific American, Mind Science Magazine, The Best American Non-required Reading, and other places. She lives with her family in Seattle but is currently touring to talk about this new book called Eve.   ARDI AND THE LEGS (40:21)   Let's talk about the legs. So we talked a little bit about being up in the trees already. But at some point, we came down, this is about four and a half-ish million years ago, we decided to stand upright. And that had some big implications for differently sexed bodies. Let's talk about some of those. CAT BOHANNON: Yeah, absolutely. Well, I don't know that we decided to do much of anything, at least in the sense of conscious choice— BLAIR HODGES: [laughs] Maybe had to. CAT BOHANNON: We didn't choose, I mean, to modify our pelvic arrangement. Although some individual choices happen along the way. So yeah, one of the big things in a shift for the human evolution pattern is that we mistakenly believed for a while that our ancestors were knuckle walkers, like chimps or gorillas, and then we stood upright. You remember that old diorama, that old, you know, you got the knuckle walking— BLAIR HODGES: Yeah, it's classic. CAT BOHANNON: —and then you eventually stand up and then there's jokes about it, eventually you're like sitting typing on the computer at the far right. You know? BLAIR HODGES: Yeah, all hunched over, yeah. CAT BOHANNON: Yeah. And so that kind of meme kind of has been around, but actually we were never knuckle walkers, none of our ancestors were, none of our Eves certainly. We were just hanging out in trees and then on the ground a bit more and eventually walking. The thing about walking is that what you really need to be able to do besides just having a spine absorb more pressure than it would otherwise—that's why we have an S-shaped lower back to help distribute that force over our bodies without crippling us. But also, what we needed to be able to do was endure. In other words, the story of walking and bipedalism is an endurance story. A primatologist once told me that there is no safe place to be in a room with a chimpanzee. There's no possibility that you are in a safe space because they are incredibly fast, incredibly strong, and can be incredibly violent. They will rip off your face—sometimes, literally, hopefully not, and they'll do it really, really fast. So the idea that we got faster when we became upright is actually wrong. What did happen, however, is that if a chimp does attack you, not long after all of that incredible violence and speed and running away more than likely, because that's mostly going to happen if the chimp's scared, you know, they're going to want to go eat a mango under a tree somewhere. They're not keeping it up for a long period of time. BLAIR HODGES: Hmm. CAT BOHANNON: What we can do is we can walk all freakin' day. Very few animals have the kind of metabolic capability of doing such a thing. Because it's not simply what your muscles can do. It's how your muscles are utilizing what's called the substrate. Utilizing local energy resources, and when those run out, tapping into other resources—usually in our case from fat. So that's why we're able to walk from point A to B for hours and hours, whereas a chimpanzee can't do that sh*t, right? So the interesting thing about sex differences here is that, we know that female bodies in human bodies are slightly better at endurance by many different measures. So untrained bodies—bodies that haven't been trying to do this, in other words, haven't been working out in the gym—your classic female body does have slightly less muscle mass, but that isn't the big story. The bigger story is that when you do a deep tissue biopsy, female typical skeletal muscles have a little bit more of what's called slow twitch muscle. You might have heard, that's an endurance muscle. That's a type of tissue that's better at doing things for a long period of time, as opposed to fast twitches, which is what lets you be a sprinter, which is what lets you really have explosive strength. There does seem to be that sex difference, I mean, between male bodies—typical, average, I mean—and female bodies, just in terms of what those muscles seem to be geared for, right? And it's tricky, right? Most of us aren't ultra marathoners, for many reasons, most of them psychological! Uh, some of them financial actually, right? But most of us aren't going to do those extreme tests of endurance. But once you get up to those extreme lengths, actually, female runners, tend to not only match or beat male runners in those races, but actually tend to outpace them over time. Which is to say there may be something about the female body that, in long feats of endurance, is slightly better at this. Very slightly better at tapping into a second wind. And so if that's the case, then it's curious that usually how we tell the story about becoming upright is all about some sh*t that we assume guys were doing. Usually it's around hunting. The idea that we were running down big game, you've probably read some popular science books about that, that we evolved to run, right? BLAIR HODGES: Right. CAT BOHANNON: And sort of. Maybe. But it's a little bit weird, one, to assume that the males were the ones doing that. Two: We were upright way before we were hunting big game. Like Ardipithecus is the Eve I use in the legs chapter— BLAIR HODGES: Yes, Ardi! CAT BOHANNON: And you know, this is a very, very—Ardi, she's wonderful, recently discovered, wonderful, wonderful fossil. She was upright well before big game was a big part of our food strategies. So like we were actually doing stuff on two legs way before it was a matter of running anything down.   CRAFTING SCIENTIFIC NARRATIVES (45:23)   BLAIR HODGES: And this is where it seems tricky for researchers to pin down is, we're dealing with these huge lengths of time, and we're dealing with a pretty limited record. CAT BOHANNON: Mmhmm. Yeah. BLAIR HODGES: And we see you piecing the story together in ways that challenge the conventional narrative. And you've got the evidence there—just as much evidence and sometimes more than what the typical narrative tells us, which is, like you said, we started walking upright because males were hunting and running after game or whatever. And you're like, “Well, actually, there's all this other evidence that shows there's probably other stuff going on.” And looking at today's bodies gives us some ideas about the bodies of the past as well. So you mentioned the different sort of muscle things that female bodies tend to have. Now would that definitely be something that developed through evolution rather than through, like, boys getting played with more or something in their youth than girls do, or roughhousing with boys versus girls, or something like that? CAT BOHANNON: You know, it's hard to say. I think that's a smart question. I think of the studies that I was using, that I was wielding—juggling even, in the legs chapter—those were all done on adult bodies, in part because there are ethics around doing a deep tissue biopsy in an infant. You know, like what is consent there? Why would a—you know, and also the occasion; why it might happen and what's the clinical setting. Like there are many ways into a scientific study, but adult consent and informed consent's a big one, right? BLAIR HODGES: Mm-hmm. CAT BOHANNON: So yeah, I don't think those were pediatric studies, and I think it's smart. I think it's smart to say that when we do studies on adult bodies, there have been whole lived lives and whole lived childhoods up to that point. That's absolutely true, and that plays into some of the issues we talk about later in the book too. So I don't know, I don't know. I do know that at least when there have been cellular studies of metabolism in human muscle cells, XX cells seem to be slightly better at utilizing multiple substrates, which is to say multiple energy sources—tapping into that second wind when the local sugar runs out is usually how we tell that story, yeah?—than XY cells, right? So it does seem to be true at the cellular level and not just types of tissue. But you're absolutely right that I don't know how much childhood is gonna play into that adult musculoskeletal system, at least not from the research I've seen. BLAIR HODGES: And you also say that going upright was harder on female bodies. Can you give me an example of why that would be? CAT BOHANNON: Yes. So, for one thing, relaxin. Relaxin is this thing that is floating around in the bloodstream of both male and female bodies, but it is slightly more dominant in female typical bodies. Again, I'm always here talking about “biological females,” usually pre-menopause here, okay? Just to put a pin in that so we know what we're talking about. BLAIR HODGES: Yeah, okay. CAT BOHANNON: Relaxin is a thing that during pregnancy loosens the ligaments and the support structures around, not only the hip bones and the pelvic structure to help it widen and carry that additional load, but of course also to widen our very narrow birth canal, which is a problem! BLAIR HODGES: Yeah. CAT BOHANNON: But it's also, even when we're not pregnant, it tends to make the fixtures of the joints a little looser. It actually has to do with a vascular response around the joints, so I won't get too technical with you. But basically what it does is it makes a typical female body a bit more flexible, you know. Now this is part of why our feet expand when we are pregnant. It's not simply fluid retention, but for female bodies that become pregnant, it's also that these higher doses of relaxin are loosening the ligaments that are binding all of those foot bones together. So they literally get wider, and sometimes a little bit longer, which is very freaky when you think about it. And, uh, it doesn't always quite go back—I can tell you—afterwards, many women gain as much as a whole shoe size during pregnancy— BLAIR HODGES: Wow. CAT BOHANNON: —and then just retain that, which sucks for buying new shoes, but there you go. You have greater concerns when you're in your postpartum period, I could say, um, yeah. But it also means that we're especially prone to lower back pain, possibly because of some instability there in the lower back. Especially going through pregnancy and back again, that can make you more vulnerable too, because it does a lot to the curvature of the spine. Right? So in other words, being upright with this extra relaxin in your bloodstream can make you a little more vulnerable to certain kinds of bone and muscle related pains than it would be if you were a totally sensible four-legged creature who isn't doing this crazy thing, because basically we used to be like tables with four legs and now we're standing on two of the legs of the table and our body is still kind of catching up. BLAIR HODGES: [laughs] Right. Yeah, and you're bearing that extra weight of a pregnancy, too, on that back. And so the common lower back pain is a remnant of this decision—or not “decision” as you pointed out, but this evolutionary move of going upright, exactly, right. CAT BOHANNON: Accident. Yeah.   PREGNANCY AND THE BRAIN (50:06)   BLAIR HODGES:  That's not the only change that women undergo during pregnancy, these physical changes you talked about—the joints, the feet. But also the brain undergoes changes similar to what happens to the brain during puberty. You describe it almost like a second sort of puberty. There's so much development and change happening in the actual brain that it's like a second puberty for women who become pregnant? CAT BOHANNON: It's like an extra transition in a life cycle. Yeah. BLAIR HODGES: Okay, right. CAT BOHANNON: So in biology, you have these classic, maybe you've seen, developmental trajectories in the life cycle. It usually looks like a circle with arrows around it. You see like an egg and then a juvenile—like in insects, you'll have like a larva and then you have a chrysalis and then you have a butterfly. For mammals, we do this too. And we say, what are the developmental phases? What are the phases of this life cycle? And one of the interesting things, at least when it comes to how the human brain seems to go through this life cycle—because there are changes in our incredibly plastic, very malleable human brain that shift and actually have very notable physiological changes at each of these major transitions. So in puberty, there's actually an incredible rewiring and developmental thing that happens all throughout the teens. Can be very challenging, can make you more vulnerable to certain kinds of mental illness, actually, and then not suffer as much when you come into your twenties. There are outcomes, in other words, from what's going down in there. BLAIR HODGES: Yeah. Schizophrenia will often emerge around that time, for example, and a little bit later for women than men, right? CAT BOHANNON: Yeah, yeah, yes, absolutely so. And one of the cutting-edge things in research there is whether or not the brain development during puberty is in any way affecting that trajectory. Both men and women—and by this I mean males and females—are prone to schizophrenia, right? Schizophrenia, it's a strongly genetically related thing, but we're not entirely sure what all the triggers are. What we do know is that males and females both get it. But what happens is that males are diagnosed sooner. And very obviously so, they move into psychosis. Whereas females have a slightly different symptomology, slightly different path towards diagnosis. And then they have, and are diagnosed later in their twenties. Now some of that's a diagnosis bias in that— BLAIR HODGES: Sure. How signs are read by society or whatever. Yeah. CAT BOHANNON: Exactly, which is a cultural thing and sometimes a sexist thing. There are just, there are complications there. There are confounds. However, it may also be the case, that because the pubertal shift is sort of long and slow in humans, we actually start many of the features of our puberty sooner and then take longer to complete them in female bodies. Whereas for males, it hits you later and it hits you like a truck. It just hits you like a ton of bricks. It's just, um, it, that's just, it's just faster and a bit harder, if you will, because you're condensing that into a later point. And interestingly, even in rodents actually—though what you might call a puberty isn't exactly the same as what we do—they likewise in the female have a sort of longer period of going through it than the male. So it might just be a basic mammalian thing. But the effect in the human brain is that you have this longer and slightly…Subtle isn't the right word but you have this longer period of brain development that's dealing with the hormones of puberty, that has a slightly different slope while that brain's developing, whereas in the male brain, it's shorter, it's more impacted, it might be a bit rougher, you know. So in a brain that's already prone to psychosis—this is where the research, some branches of research are going, you know—is that a factor? Are there physiological shifts in sex differences in puberty that make those brains differently vulnerable to different kinds of mental illness? BLAIR HODGES: And so female brains are undergoing these changes during puberty. But then later during pregnancy, as we were talking about, there's also more shifts. And this is literally like stuff sort of moving around. Is this like neurons kind of remapping and different things? Like what's actually happening up there? CAT BOHANNON: Yeah, yeah, yeah. What the hell is this wet lump of tissue in our heads that we center the self in? Good question, good question! Neuroscience would like to know. BLAIR HODGES: [laughs] Yeah. CAT BOHANNON: No, it's true. Well, a pregnant female's brain—and by this I mean human now, actually shrinks in the third trimester, like significantly so, which is alarming. Like is the baby actually eating my brain? Good question! No one's really sure quite why this is happening. BLAIR HODGES: Mom brain! CAT BOHANNON: I know, actual mom brain, it turns out, is hella real. Yeah, in the stereotypical sense. So yeah, some of it actually, interestingly, doesn't seem to be a loss of neurons. It's not a loss of cells necessarily from what little they've been able to see in various studies. It seems to be more a loss of—There is a rewiring. There is a kind of clear, you know, snipping out a bunch of connections in your existing neural network, which in some ways may make room for new pathways. So one of the big arguments for why our brains develop so long during that pubertal period—which is very unlike other primates, right? We really have this huge period of social learning in our childhoods and then our adolescence—is that we have deep social learning to do. We have really complex social societies, and we're constantly having to map them and learn not just new things to do with ourselves, but new ways to be in different social environments, especially as we shift around through different social environments. So in that case, when you think about what's happening in the last trimester of pregnancy, and then in the postpartum recovery period, this is someone who is having major social shift. Now the story in the sciences is usually told that, oh, this is helping her better bond with her baby, her really, really vulnerable baby, who's so very useless, can't even hold up its head. You know, so like, wow, so this is all about that bonding. And it's true that some of the regions that show some of that shrinkage, if you will—which sounds like a bad thing, but is actually allowing for more pathways to form. That's the argument that's usually made about it— BLAIR HODGES: Okay. CAT BOHANNON: —have to do with social bonding and reading social cues, and so it's a sociality story. One of the things that I say in the book is that, must we again render the mother invisible? Maybe it's not all about the baby. Maybe she matters too. Because actually one of the big things that happens in a social species like ours when we give birth and come into motherhood, especially for the first time, is that we are learning new ways to be. We're learning how to differently map our social environment and new relationships with different sorts of people, and who's going to be most helpful in this new feature in my life. And who of my old friends are like, maybe not gonna help out with the kids so much. Just, you know, we love them, but that's not their strength. You know, in other words, and how to ask for things that you need, and when to learn new social rules. Which is to say, I suspect some of the brain changes that are happening there are not simply about bonding with the baby, but are about being able to read the room once you have one. Which I assume is a long-evolved trait that is just repurposed in the human. This is probably happening in chimps to a degree. It's more like, “Okay now that you're human, let's repurpose this trait in your hyper social environment.” Does that make sense? BLAIR HODGES: Yeah, it does. CAT BOHANNON: Okay.   WHAT MAKES A WOMAN (57:16)   BLAIR HODGES: And time and time again, we see this in your book where you'll take the mainstream story about why a particular biological thing is happening—so mom brain, for example, which is that maybe people might encounter forgetfulness or feeling scattered or like ADHD type symptoms or whatever—and saying, “Oh, this is happening because they're doing this for baby.” And you're saying, “Okay, like, sure. But also, what if it's also this?” CAT BOHANNON: Yep. BLAIR HODGES: Because those type of questions are what are driving scientific outcomes and the theories that we have about it. So your book, again and again, is saying, well, what about this as well? Or what about this instead? So we're just sort of getting a different point of view. CAT BOHANNON: Mm-hmm. BLAIR HODGES: And I think with a lot of these questions, it's hard to just say, this is the definitive answer. And you do write with a level of humility there. But you're really opening up possibilities that can change the way we the way we interact with people who aren't parents, or people who are. Because you're also not saying, “Look, in order to be a perfect woman, you need to go through this change in your brain or else you're an unfulfilled woman!” CAT BOHANNON: Oh, god no. No no no no no. BLAIR HODGES: Right. So you're speaking to a lot of different experiences. CAT BOHANNON: You know, I think this is true for all women. We people who have uteri are not merely vessels for babies. Even in an evolutionary sense, because we are a hyper-social species in interdependent complex social environments and cultures. Which is to say, it is not a woman's destiny to freaking give birth. It is a woman's destiny to survive as best as she can, just like any other organism. You know what I mean? And it's also true that there are many, many ways to contribute to the wellbeing of a group, even in a biological sense, even in an ancient ancestral sense, besides simply producing more babies. And that's sometimes the confusion when we talk about the book. Some people have been confused thinking, “Are you saying that women are the way they are—you know, cis women—because it's our destiny to have babies?” And I'm like, “No!” It's more that the way we have babies is really crap, and many, many features in our bodies have evolved to withstand it. If this is a thing that hopefully you choose to do and isn't forced upon you, hopefully you have some long-evolved traits to make it suck less. It's more like that, more like that. BLAIR HODGES: And so, women who don't undergo that or have the same kind of like brain changes, it doesn't mean that their brains are somehow lesser than or whatever, they're just suited for different things. CAT BOHANNON: Exactly. BLAIR HODGES: And this is also where trans identities come into play as well. You don't have to be this “biologically sexed”—let alone intersex folks as well, where there's not this sort of binary that exists there—but that trans women can experience the world as women, as trans women especially, even though they may not be able to physically carry a pregnancy. Because I think one of the reasons people who are sort of anti-t

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ERA Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2023 64:13


Hola, os damos la bienvenida a ERA Magazine, el podcast de la música independiente española. Comenzamos estos especiales sobre el Alhambra Monkey Week, que se celebra en Sevilla del 23 al 25 de noviembre, con dos invitados de relevancia: Esteban Ruiz, del grupo I Am Dive y del sello We Are Wolves, y Luis Álvarez, mánager de Bronquio. Con ellos desgranaremos el festival que presenta mucho talento joven y no tan joven, pero siempre pensando en la música. En el programa escucharemos los siguientes grupos: Crudo Pimento, "Ardió tu pelo". Faizal Mostrixx, "Onions and Love". Adiós Amores, "Caras nuevas". Camellos, "Cambios de humor". Jimena Amarillo, "Long Rock". Clara Peya, "Sota les dents". Hasta aquí el programa de hoy. Muchas gracias a nuestra audiencia que nos apoya tan incondicionalmente y que nos ayuda a financiar este proyecto a través de eramagazine.fm/donacion. Si vosotros y vosotras, esto sería imposible. Hasta el próximo programa, quién sabe cuál será el tema. Posiblemente otro festival… Ya veremos. Os esperamos muy pronto. Un fuerte abrazo.

Cevheri Güven
ERDOĞAN İTİRAF ETTİ. SİYASAL İSLÂMCI PAŞALAR BAŞARDI. BAHÇELİ TAM TESLİM. KEMAL BEY SEÇİLSEYDİ...

Cevheri Güven

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2023 21:44


ERDOĞAN İTİRAF ETTİ. SİYASAL İSLÂMCI PAŞALAR BAŞARDI. BAHÇELİ TAM TESLİM. KEMAL BEY SEÇİLSEYDİ...

Lead-Lag Live
Unlock the Secrets of Winning Retail Traders with Ardi Aaziznia!

Lead-Lag Live

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2023 46:41


Not all retail traders and finance and crypto bros.Sign up for The Lead-Lag Report at www.leadlagreport.com and use promo code PODCAST30 for 2 weeks free and 30% off.In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Ardi Aaziznia, a leading expert in the world of retail trading, to discuss the often-misunderstood world of retail traders. With years of experience under his belt, Ardi shares his unique insights and debunks common misconceptions surrounding this frequently debated topic. Don't miss out on this engaging and informative conversation, perfect for anyone interested in the financial markets and the role retail traders play.The podcast is here to set the record straight on what retail trading is all about. Our host conducts an in-depth retail traders Aardi Aaziznia interview, where we explore the challenges and opportunities faced by retail traders in the ever-evolving landscape of financial markets. Ardi shares his knowledge and experiences, providing an insider's perspective on what it takes to succeed as a retail trader.Throughout the interview, we delve into the common myths and misconceptions surrounding retail trading, shedding light on the actual role retail traders play in the financial markets. Ardi Aaziznia shares his expertise on various trading strategies, risk management, and the importance of discipline and patience in the world of retail trading.Check The Lead-Lag Report on your favorite social networks.Twitter: https://twitter.com/leadlagreportYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/theleadlagreportFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadlagreportInstagram: https://instagram.com/leadlagreport                             Nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities.                             The content in this program is for informational purposes only. You should not construe any information or other material as investment, financial, tax, or other advice. The views expressed by the participants are solely their own. A participant may have taken or recommended any investment position discussed, but may close such position or alter its recommendation at any time without notice. Nothing contained in this program constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer to buy or sell any securities or other financial instruments in any jurisdiction. Please consult your own investment or financial advisor for advice related to all investment decisions.See disclosures for The Lead-Lag Report here: The Lead-Lag Report (leadlagreport.com)David C Barnett Small Business and Deal Making M&A SMBI discuss buying, selling, financing and managing small and medium sized businesses...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyFoodies unite…with HowUdish!It's social media with a secret sauce: FOOD! The world's first network for food enthusiasts. HowUdish connects foodies across the world!Share kitchen tips and recipe hacks. Discover hidden gem food joints and street food. Find foodies like you, connect, chat and organize meet-ups!HowUdish makes it simple to connect through food anywhere in the world.So, how do YOU dish? Download HowUdish on the Apple App Store today:

Trade Splaining
Credit Suisse, a Renewed Focus on Africa & Tariffs Are Still Bad (apparently)

Trade Splaining

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2023 39:53


On this episode, we're joined by Iana Dreyer, Founder and Editor of Borderlex, to discuss the state of EU and US trade relations, where we go from here and also...why pizza > kebab We also touch base on the fallout from Credit Suisse collapse, the renewed focus on the African continent as the race for raw materials fueling the green transition hits another gear and what Ardi and Gwyneth Paltrow have in common (HINT:Skiing accidents and Bone Broth) TS producer Michelle Olguin Fluckliger is also back to give her thoughts on the vibe shift happening right under Boomers and Gen X's noses. Also big thanks as usual to Valentina Saponara for helping produce this episode!

La Encerrona
HISTÓRICO: Detrás de cámaras del golpe de Pedro Castillo #LaEncerrona

La Encerrona

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2023 20:20


Ardió Juli. Un abuso policial en el Centro de Lima terminó desatando el caos en Puno. El resultado: un soldado se ahogó y otros cinco están desaparecidos. MIENTRAS TANTO, HISTÓRICO: El detrás de cámaras del golpe de Castillo. Videos de seguridad y la pregrabación del mensaje desmienten las versiones de Betsy Chávez y Aníbal Torres. ADEMÁS: La congresista mocha-sueldo. Y... ¿Eres un estudiante que necesita una laptop? Aquí una fintech te ayuda a conseguirla. Conoce esta y otras iniciativas solidarias, aquí. **** ¿Te gustó este episodio? ¿Buscas las fuentes de los datos mencionados hoy? Entra a http://patreon.com/ocram para acceder a nuestros grupos exclusivos de Telegram y WhatsApp. También puedes UNIRTE a esta comunidad de YouTube aquí https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP0AJJeNkFBYzegTTVbKhPg/join **** ¿Quieres que tu emprendimiento sea mencionado en La Encerrona? Regístrate aquí para postular: https://encerroners.club

Intelligent Design the Future
New South Africa Book Explores Evidence of Design

Intelligent Design the Future

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2023 33:55


Today's ID the Future spotlights a new free online ID book from South Africa, Science and Faith in Dialogue, with contributions from Stephen Meyer, Hugh Ross, Guillermo Gonzalez, James Tour, Fazale Rana, Marcos Eberlin, and others. Geologist Casey Luskin joins host Eric Anderson to tell how the new peer-reviewed book came together and to describe the chapter he contributed, “Evolutionary Models of Palaeoanthropology, Genetics, and Psychology Fail to Account for Human Origins: A Review.” Luskin did his PhD in South Africa and had many opportunities to study various hominid fossils. Here he explains why he is convinced that intelligent design far better explains the fossil evidence than does Darwinian evolution. Source

Get Heavy Podcast
GHP ep 145 Ardi "World of Madness"

Get Heavy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2023 58:17


On todays pod we had ARDI, multi-instrumentalist and Drummer for Goat Rhythm and Soon to be releasing his solo Album ARDI titled "World of Madness" on Jan 6th on all digital platforms. Follow all things ARDI @ https://linktr.ee/ARDI1 Email us at: getheavypodcast@gmail.com Listen to audio on all major podcast formats. Please subscribe, rate, review, comment, TELL YOUR FUCKING FRIENDS Watch us @ https://www.youtube.com/getheavypodcast Follow All things Heavy @http://getheavypodcast.ctcin.bio/ Enjoy, Craig and J