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La gravitation est l'un des phénomènes fondamentaux qui régit l'Univers, mais elle reste aujourd'hui encore profondément mystérieuse. Si la physique contemporaine parvient un jour à percer ses secrets, ce sera l'une des plus grandes révolutions du savoir scientifique. Claudia de Rham dévoile ce que l'on sait aujourd'hui de ce phénomène et comment les plus grands esprits de la physique — de Newton et Einstein à Stephen Hawking, Andrea Ghez et Roger Penrose — l'ont conduite à pousser nos connaissances au-delà des limites et au-delà de l'Univers tel que nous le connaissons. Mais ce sont aussi les hauts et les bas de la recherche scientifique qui seront partagés et savoir saisir chaque défaite non comme un épilogue mais au contraire comme l'occasion d'investiguer la nature et de l'apprécier à un niveau plus profond encore. - Claudia de Rham, née en Suisse, est une physicienne théoricienne et professeure à l'Imperial College de Londres. Spécialisée en cosmologie, elle a marqué le domaine en 2010 avec sa théorie de la gravité massive. Elle a reçu en 2021 le prix Blavatnik pour ses contributions révolutionnaires à la physique. Formée à l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) et à Cambridge, Claudia de Rham est une figure incontournable, inspirant de nouvelles recherches sur la nature de l'univers. - Enregistré au Club 44 le 7 janvier 2025

SUB TO THE PPM PATREON TO ACCESS "NOID-MAXXING (#2)" IN ITS CRYPTO-BABYLON MAPPING ENTIRETY: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping In which we cont eulogizing Max A z z a r e l l o, the parapol Icarus who flew too close to the noided sun & self-immolated in front of the Trump trial—celebrating his life & constructively critiquing his blog, for which Casolaro, McGowan, Ghost Stories, TrueAnon, etc were points of reference We discuss: The capitalist class's collective buy-in on crypto; Larry David—Bankman-Fried fam friend—hawking FTX; SBF's indictment & arrest in the Bahamas; Max excelling when covering crypto (other times not so much); SBF's tax code scholar daddy; Dem Party mixers @ Bankman household; parapolitical truisms; SBF as sacrificial scapegoat for the true crypto profiteers; SBF funneling defrauded customer fiat currency into Dem & GOP campaign coffers darkly to consolidate support for the imminent Zio genocide; the litany of SBF Congressional beneficiaries (Gillibrand, Booker, Murkowski, etc), Protect Our Future superpac, & Pres B i d e n (who got a cool $5.2 mil) The anemic quality of Max's parapol oeuvre when it comes to contending w/ Zio infiltration of American politics by way of sex + financial blackmail & HUMINT; Epstein network's lineage of M o s s a d honeypot ops (conducted in concert w/ the C I A? ); Robert & Ghislaine Maxwell; Clinton Global Initiative pushing crypto (formed w/ Epstein's aid, per Dersh's testimony); Agent Mega; SBF hobnobbing w/ Mayor Adams (Diddy), Gov Hochul (Larry Silverstein & other Zio donors like Blavatnik), & Bill Clinton in the months prior to his arrest; May 25, '22: SBF makes a $250k donation to Dem Majority for Israel, which, w/ AIPAC & Reid Hoffman, injected a huge infusion of funds to candidates opposing the nascent mini-faction of lukewarmly pro-Palestine, DSA-adjacent aspiring & incumbent electeds; SBF $s cratering relatively outspoken Nina Turner's polling via contributions to her opponent Shontel Brown in OH; the massive war chest AIPAC's collected since Oct 7, including from Fully-Automated Kompromat Kingpin Leonid Radvinsky (OnlyFans) & Epstein mentor Les Wexner (who started a Wall St Zio social club called Mega Group w/ Charles Bronfman of the sus Seagram's fam); speaking of which, Sam Bronfman running guns on behalf of Haganah & the I O F & Bronfman heiress Clare's recruitment for sex cult NXIVM, merging the 2 concerns of sex blackmail & sus Zio dealings; following his arrest, the possibility SBF's comments referring to his effective altruism & "woke" politics as a cover & use of the phrase "shibboleth" were an argot (to use one of Max's fav phrases) akin to Kevin Spacey's "Let Me Be Frank" vid in which he threatens the Royal Fam & other Epstein clients; SBF's investment in Silicon Wadi crypto Co StarkWare & Solidus; Thiel, Epstein, & Ehud Barak funded geolocation emergency services startup Carbyne (PROMIS, any one?), which features an absurd litany of US & Israeli military & intel figures among its board or stakeholders: Erik Prince (ex Blackwater), Gen Petraeus, Trae Stephens (Palantir), Lital Leshem (ex Black Cube), Amir Elichai (I O F intel corps, etc)...and which Robert Kraft also invested in, solidifying interlocks b/w the pervy oldster / Diddler Freak-Off attendee and Epstein... Material, structural, & economic dynamics b/w the US & Israel—hegemon & satellite metropole... Jessica Seinfeld & Epstein client Bill A c k man funding Zio counterprotests, frat chud shock troops, & atrocity porn big screen; the Zio injected lab rat attack @ UCLA encampment... Finally, having given the noided self-immolator some cred, we take him to task for his wretched piece of unconscious hasbara entitled "The Fake Israel-Hamas War Outrage Sweeping College Campuses" & his mishandling of Epstein's Israeli connections. Songs (some culled from Max's farewell Spotify playlist): | Takeoff, Rich the Kid - "Crypto" | | REM - "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" |

In science, the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists were announced this week. the prestigious award went to three scientist from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in recognition of their groundbreaking work in various fields. Each recipient will also receive a 100 thousand dollar prize.  We spoke with one of the recipients, Dr. Moran Shalev-Benami, a senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, who is working on sensing and signaling mechanisms in the brain that may help treat appetite disorders.(photo: Blavatnik Awards) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Governments often tackle similar issues again and again – from day-to-day matters to major challenges such as natural disasters, public health threats or global financial or security crises. So it is vital that governments learn from experience about what works – and what doesn't – to improve the functioning of government. But extensive churn in ministers – and the civil servants who support them – means that institutional memory can be lost. In the mid-2010s, the Treasury was grappling with how to maintain and improve public service performance as budgets were squeezed. Senior officials in the department identified the need for a review of historic evidence to ensure they understood what the experience of previous decades showed about how to manage public spending effectively The Nuffield Foundation funded a project involving the Institute of Fiscal Studies (Paul Johnson, Rowena Crawford and Ben Zaranko) and a team based at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford (Christopher Hood, Iain McLean, Maia King and Barbara Piotrowska). The task of the IFS team was to assess what happened to UK spending over 1993–2015 from the available statistics, while the Blavatnik team explored the more qualitative aspects of public spending control over the same period from a mixture of published sources, interviews and archival material – now published in book form (The Way the Money Goes: The Fiscal Constitution and Public Spending in the UK). Drawing on that work, this event will reflect on the value – but also the challenges – of historical research on government and explore what can be learnt from past experience in the planning and control of public spending. To discuss these questions and more, we were joined by a panel of experts: Sir Charles Bean, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and former member of the Budget Responsibility Committee at the Office for Budget Responsibility (2017–21) Mark Franks, Director of Welfare at the Nuffield Foundation Catherine Haddon, Programme Director at the Institute for Government Professor Christopher Hood, Visiting Professor at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University Conrad Smewing, Director General, Public Spending at HM Treasury The event was chaired by Dr Gemma Tetlow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government.

Welcome to the George Santos Tribute Episode, lasting as long as his tenure in Congress.The Russian-linked Ponzi Scheme is on his way out. He lavishly spent campaign cash on his honeymoon in Las Vegas, spa treatments, luxury shopping sprees, Botox (he's 35!), and the naughty fun time site OnlyFans. We have questions, mostly: Did his Russian-linked backers get their money's worth by having major American embarrassment Santos in Congress? The answer is yes. On an oddly related note, super mogul Len Blavatnik, whom you're not allowed to call a Russian oligarch (or else he might sue you), owns Warner Music Group. The industry giant is developing a creepy and dangerous A.I.-generated Edith Piaf biopic. Blavatnik, whose cousin Andrea got into a screaming match with at the start of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, throws his money around, including to the Democratic Party and the Council on Foreign Relations. As explained in this episode, this is reputation laundering and influence peddling, given Blavatnik's well-documented ties to Putin's court of oligarchs. Are you ready for this? Blavatnik is a longtime friend and business partner of notorious sanctioned “Putin wallet” Viktor Vekselberg in various oligarchy-type ventures like Rusal, Russia's largest aluminum company owned by Oleg Deripaska, that thug who won the aluminum wars during the car bomb 1990s in Russia. (Paul Manafort was on the hook to Deripaska for a bunch of money in a media venture gone wrong, and made it up to him by running Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016…for free). Blavatnik's friend/business partner Vekselberg has a seemingly unlucky cousin named Andrew Intrater, a financier who gave George Soros $625,000 to invest in a Florida based fund that turned out to be a Ponzi scheme. Despite losing all that money, Intrater went on to put his full trust in Santos by pumping his Congressional campaign full of cash. A campaign that turned out to be…you guessed it, a Ponzi scheme. It should be noted that longtime friends and associates Intrater, Vekselberg, and Blavatnik all gave heavily to Trump's inaugural committee–otherwise known as a Russian victory lap.  This week's bonus episode includes questions from listeners on topics ranging from white rage extremism and who's tracking it, to how to stay hopeful during these dark times. If you didn't hear your question answered this week, look out for it soon! Next week's bonus episode will be the Make Art Workshop–a thank you to our community and a way for us to build up our resilience and fight back with joy. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!  Show Notes: Get your ‘Tis the Season to Prosecute Treason T-shirt featuring an original design by Hamish Smyth here: http://tee.pub/lic/_vLBHBoWkeg 68-percent of Americans support a ceasefire in Gaza https://www.reuters.com/world/us-public-support-israel-drops-majority-backs-ceasefire-reutersipsos-2023-11-15/ Israeli opposition leader says time has come to replace Netanyahu https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-opposition-leader-says-time-has-come-replace-netanyahu-2023-11-16/ Hamas leader being grilled on live TV and lying https://twitter.com/arash_tehran/status/1715354932595847322 Santos Won't Seek Re-election After House Panel Finds Evidence of Crimes The findings, which were referred to prosecutors, are likely to prompt another attempt to expel the embattled congressman from the House. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/nyregion/george-santos-ethics-committee.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20231116&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=48614702&segment_id=150214&user_id=097a378032011d6e8be1570cdce0a176 A Soviet-Born Billionaire Is Buying Influence at US Institutions. Anti-Corruption Activists Are Worried. The Council on Foreign Relations is under fire for accepting Len Blavatnik's gifts thanks to his tie to oligarchs and Russian corruption. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/council-on-foreign-relations-leonard-blavatnik-russia/ Music's Mystery Mogul: Len Blavatnik, Trump and Their Russian Friends Len Blavatnik is not only a backer of films and potential buyer of a Hollywood studio but also reportedly on the fringe of the Russia probe thanks to GOP giving and links to oligarchs with ties to Putin. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/why-is-warner-music-group-owner-len-blavatnik-russia-probe-1150550/ How an Investor Lost $625,000 and His Faith in George Santos Andrew Intrater, a wealthy businessman, has been in touch with the S.E.C. about Mr. Santos's dealings on behalf of a company accused in a Ponzi scheme. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/nyregion/george-santos-sec-intrater.html NY Fund Manager Linked to Russian Oligarch Invested Big With Santos. Now He Claims He Was Conned. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/george-santos-andrew-intrater/ A Putin-Friendly Oligarch's Top US Executive Donated $285,000 to Trump The head of Viktor Vekselberg's American affiliate helped finance Trump's inauguration. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/a-putin-friendly-oligarchs-top-us-executive-donated-285000-to-trump/ ‘It's shameful': Russian-linked billionaires have given enormous sums of money to the West's leading educational and cultural institutions https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/us/russian-oligarchs-philanthropy-ukraine-war-invs/index.html Oleg Deripaska: Putin ‘favourite' with strong ties to UK politics https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/oleg-deripaska-profile-putin-britain  

In 1986, Blavatnik founded the holding company, Access Industries Holdings, of which he is chairman and president. The New York-based business controls 21% of LyondellBasell, the world's largest producer of polypropylene. Through Access Industries Holdings, Blavatnik owns most of Warner Music Group and has stakes in several publicly traded assets. Len Blavatnik $30B $120M (0.40%)Real Time Net Worth as of 11/9/23#46 in the world today About Len Blavatnik Born in Ukraine, and raised north of Moscow, Len Blavatnik immigrated to the U.S. in 1978 with his family; he studied computer science at Columbia University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He made an early fortune from Russian oil company TNK-BP, including billions in dividends paid by the joint venture and the sale of his stake in 2013 for $7 billion. After purchasing Warner Music in 2011 for $3.3 billion, he took the company public in June 2020 at quadruple the value. His investment firm Access Industries holds stakes in chemicals firm LyondellBasell, energy conglomerate Calpine, and house flipping website Opendoor. Blavatnik says he has given or pledged over $1 billion to philanthropy, mostly to universities, including Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard. He is a dual citizen of the U.S. and the U.K. The Blavatniks have given to both political parties in the U.S., from Trump's inaugural committee to Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign. Join the powerful platform for continuous momentum, growth, and success. The KaaGee LPM Mastermind group offers a combination of brainstorming, education, and peer accountability to sharpen your personal and business skills. What YOU will Learn:  You will learn about being a LEADER among your peers.  You will Learn About Facing Failure to succeed.  You will learn about standing up for yourself and stop being pushed around.  You learn about putting yourself first and taking care of yourself.  You will learn about starting and building your dream business and attaining financial freedom and finally.  You will learn about being LEGENDARY and Live life fully. Join the KaaGee LMP Mastermind and Accountability https://chat.whatsapp.com/BdbyaJHdXRtJCODzjt1opj --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-kaagee-mante/message

We are honored to be sharing with you all a brand new film revealing the contents and story of the Blavatnik Honresfield Library on this episode of #ScotsinUS. Prior to watching the full film, ASF President Camilla G Hellman hears from Amina Shah (Chief Executive of the National Library of Scotland) along with the members of the other two partners of the film, Giles Ingram (Abbotsford Home of Sir Walter Scott) and Sarah Beattie (National Trust for Scotland). The recent acquisition for the nation of the Blavatnik Honresfield Library holds an extraordinary collection of manuscripts by the Brontës, Jane Austen, Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. The Library was formed towards the end of the 19th century by William Law (1836-1901), a Rochdale mill owner. It has been largely inaccessible for the last 80 years, until the work of Friends of the National Libraries enabled the collection to be purchased for the nation in 2021. It is now known as The Blavatnik Honresfield Library, and around 1,700 printed books have in addition been donated by the Friends of the National Libraries to nearly 70 libraries across the UK. All episodes of #ScotsinUS are available on Spotify, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Facebook, and Youtube & are released the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month. For more information on the American Scottish Foundation, visit our website: americanscottishfoundation.org An American Scottish Foundation Production.

Er gehört zu den geheimnisvollsten Figuren im internationalen Sportbusiness: Leonard Blavatnik. Der in der Sowjetrepublik Ukraine geborene Staatsbürger, ist der Hauptanteilseigner der DAZN Group. Blavatniks vielfältige Firmenbeteiligungen sind undurchsichtig, auch seine Nähe zu russischen Oligarchen steht im Fokus seiner Kritiker.Von Piet Kreuzerwww.deutschlandfunk.de, Sport am SonntagDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

Er gehört zu den geheimnisvollsten Figuren im internationalen Sportbusiness: Leonard Blavatnik. Der in der Sowjetrepublik Ukraine geborene Staatsbürger, ist der Hauptanteilseigner der DAZN Group. Blavatniks vielfältige Firmenbeteiligungen sind undurchsichtig, auch seine Nähe zu russischen Oligarchen steht im Fokus seiner Kritiker.Von Piet Kreuzerwww.deutschlandfunk.de, Sport am SonntagDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

In this episode of the RISE Podcast, RISE Research Director Lant Pritchett speaks to Asyia Kazmi. During the episode, they walk through Asyia's wide-ranging experiences spanning her 25-year career in education—as a teacher, mentor, advisor, and educationalist—and they reflect on the legacy of Girin Beeharry, the inaugural Director of Global Education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They also discuss the critical importance of getting kids literate and numerate, as well as the need to build systems that champion quality teaching and restore children's confidence in their ability to succeed.  Links: The Girls Education Challenge: https://girlseducationchallenge.org/ (https://girlseducationchallenge.org/) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ (https://www.gatesfoundation.org/) A Symposium on Girin Beeharry's Manifesto for Global Education: https://www.cgdev.org/blog/symposium-girin-beeharrys-manifesto-global-education (https://www.cgdev.org/blog/symposium-girin-beeharrys-manifesto-global-education) The Pathway to Progress on SDG 4 Requires the Global Education Architecture to Focus on Foundational Learning and to Hold Ourselves Accountable For Achieving It, by Girindre Beeharry: https://www.cgdev.org/reader/pathway-progress-sdg4-symposium?page=1 (https://www.cgdev.org/reader/pathway-progress-sdg4-symposium?page=1) Sleeping Soundly in the Procrustean Bed of Accounting-Based Accountability by Lant Pritchett: https://www.cgdev.org/reader/pathway-progress-sdg4-symposium?page=16 (https://www.cgdev.org/reader/pathway-progress-sdg4-symposium?page=16) Building on Solid Foundations: Prioritising Universal, Early, Conceptual and Procedural Mastery of Foundational Skills: https://riseprogramme.org/publications/building-solid-foundations-prioritising-universal-early-conceptual-and-procedural (https://riseprogramme.org/publications/building-solid-foundations-prioritising-universal-early-conceptual-and-procedural) Quality Education for Every Girl for 12 Years: Insights from RISE Programme Research: https://riseprogramme.org/publications/quality-education-every-girl-12-years-insights-rise-programme-research (https://riseprogramme.org/publications/quality-education-every-girl-12-years-insights-rise-programme-research) Andy Hargreaves: http://www.andyhargreaves.com (http://www.andyhargreaves.com) Guest biography: Dr Asyia Kazmi is the Global Education Policy Lead at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with a focus on effective instructional practices, education advocacy and edtech. Nearly half of Asyia's 25-year career in education was spent as a mathematics teacher and teacher coach. Before joining the Gates Foundation, Asyia was a management consultant in PwC leading the Girls' Education Challenge, a $1bn fund set up by the UK to support the education of 1.5 million girls in 17 countries. Asyia has worked in three UK Government departments: as a senior education adviser in DFID, a project director in the Department for Education, and a senior Her Majesty's Inspector in Ofsted, where she inspected schools, local authorities, initial teacher education and trained inspectors. Her areas of expertise include teaching, learning and formative assessment; school improvement; and large-scale programme management. Asyia has a Masters in Applied Mathematics from Imperial College London and a Doctorate in Education on teaching and learning mathematics from the Institute of Education, University College London. She has a PGCE in Leadership development and educational consulting, and a PGCE in mathematics teaching. Attribution: RISE is funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Programme is implemented through a partnership between Oxford Policy Management and the Blavatnik School of Government at...

In this episode of the RISE Podcast, Carmen Belafi, RISE Research Associate at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, speaks with Professor Brian Levy. During the episode, they discuss Brian's decades of work on governance, and how governance interacts with institutions and power. They talk about systematic ways to analyse different governance contexts, and how this can guide action. They also discuss Brian's latest book, “The Politics and Governance of Basic Education: A Tale of Two South African Provinces,” and how issues around governance matter for aligning education systems for learning. Not least, Brian offers insights on the legacy that South Africa's first democratic government inherited from the Apartheid regime, and he compares and contrasts the unique challenges that persist in the different South African provinces until today. Links: Levy, B., Cameron, R., Hoadley, U. and Naidoo, V. 2018. (Eds.). The Politics and Governance of Basic Education: A Tale of Two South African Provinces. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  Levy, B. 2014. Working With The Grain. Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. World Bank. 2018. World Development Report 2018: Learning to realize education' promise. Washington DC: World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/28340 (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/28340).  World Bank. 1997. World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World. New York: Oxford University Press and World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/5980 (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/5980).  Guest biography: Brian Levy is a Professor of the Practice of International Development at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC and Academic Director of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town. Prior to this, Brian had a 23-year career at the World Bank, where he was at the forefront of sustained efforts to integrate governance concerns into the theory and practice of economic development. Between 2007 and 2010 he was head of the secretariat responsible for the design and implementation of the World Bank Group's governance and anti-corruption strategy. He worked in the Bank's Africa Vice Presidency from 1991 to 2003, where his role included leadership of a major effort to transform and scale-up the organisation's engagement on governance reform. He has worked in over a dozen countries, spanning four continents. He has published numerous books and articles on the institutional underpinnings of regulation, on capacity development in Africa, on industrial policy, and on the political economy of development strategy. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1983.  Attribution:  RISE is funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Programme is implemented through a partnership between Oxford Policy Management and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. The Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford supports the production of the RISE Podcast.

In this episode of the RISE Podcast, Jason Silberstein, a RISE Research Fellow at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, speaks to Professor Adam Ashforth. The conversation draws on Adam's ethnographic research to explore what the education system looks like for the average person in Malawi. He shares accounts from the Malawi Journals Project, which shed light on what most families see as the core purpose of education. In doing so, we learn just how absent the state is in many schools and how this space is filled with local relationships of accountability.  Links An Analysis of the Political Economy of Schooling in Rural Malawi: Interactions among Parents, Teachers, Students, Chiefs and Primary Education Advisors (Working Paper), by Susan Watkins and Adam Ashforth: https://riseprogramme.org/publications/analysis-political-economy-schooling-rural-malawi-interactions-among-parents-teachers (https://riseprogramme.org/publications/analysis-political-economy-schooling-rural-malawi-interactions-among-parents-teachers) The Malawi Journals Project (Archive): https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/113269 (https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/113269) Institutionalising Reforms from Below: When the State Fails to Lead (Blog), by Masooda Bano: https://riseprogramme.org/blog/institutionalising-reforms-below-when-state-fails-to-lead (https://riseprogramme.org/blog/institutionalising-reforms-below-when-state-fails-to-lead) Summary of RISE's Political Economy Implementation team and work: https://riseprogramme.org/countries/political-economy-implementation (https://riseprogramme.org/countries/political-economy-implementation) Guest Biography Adam Ashforth is a Professor in Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Adam has published extensively on state formation and the political implications of spiritual insecurity in everyday life in South Africa. During South Africa's transition to democracy he spent many years living and writing in Soweto. He is currently researching responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in everyday life in rural Malawi and ethnic conflict in Kenya's Rift Valley. His publications include four books: The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa (Oxford, 1990); Madumo, A Man Bewitched (Chicago, 2000); Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa (Chicago, 2005) [winner of the Herskovits Award, 2005]; and The Trials of Mrs. K.: Seeking Justice in a World with Witches (Chicago, 2018). Attribution RISE is funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Programme is implemented through a partnership between Oxford Policy Management and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. The Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford supports the production of the RISE Podcast.

La stagione 2021-2022 si annuncia ricca di novità per gli appassionati di calcio in Tv: ecco come cavarsela tra Dazn, Sky, Amazon e Mediaset. Grandi manovre sul fronte dello streaming: dopo l'annunciata fusione tra Warner Media e Discovery, Amazon punta all'acquisizione di Mgm. L'entertainment balla, un po' meno le discoteche che vorrebbero sperimentare il green pass.

"We have just a few kinds of antibiotics, and certain kinds of bacteria are totally resistant to these. If these bacteria spread, as every biologist knows is about to happen at some point, we are totally helpless." The Israeli biologist Oded Rechavi is here. The practitioner of what he describes as "radical science," he spends his life studying one millimeter long roundworms called C. elegans... but what does this have to do with humans, with inheritable traits, with our potential for survival now and in the future? Well, a lot actually. From his early passions studying art in Paris, to his breakthrough biological discovery during his PhD studies at Columbia, to his descriptions of bacteria and the possibility they can be resistant to the tools humans have developed to fight back-- the conversation is illuminating and even scary. We also learn how fortunate we are that SARS-CoV-2 turned out to be a very simple genetic code for which to combat using vaccines, and what might happen if we are confronted with a more lethal, more complex virus. It's a wild scientific world out there, and Oded Rechavi helps us sort it out. Support Talking Beats with Daniel Lelchuk on Patreon. You will contribute to continued presentation of substantive interviews with the world's most compelling people. We believe that providing a platform for individual expression, free thought, and a diverse array of views is more important now than ever. Professor Oded Rechavi’s mission is to challenge fundamental long-held scientific dogmas. He found an exception to the original “Cell Theory," provided the first direct evidence that an acquired trait can be inherited, elucidated an alternative transgenerational inheritance mechanism (that depends on inherited small RNA molecules, not DNA molecules), discovered a mechanism that allows nematodes’ brains to control the behavior of their progeny, discovered a neuronal circuit-level mechanism that explains economic irrationality, and demonstrated that parasites can be genetically engineered to deliver drugs to the nervous system. Recently, Prof. Rechavi utilized genome sequencing to “piece together” fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof. Rechavi is an ERC Fellow, and was awarded many prestigious prizes, such as the Schmidt Science Polymath award, the Kadar award, Blavatnik award, the Krill Wolf award, the Alon, and F.I.R.S.T (Bikura) Prizes, and the Gross Lipper Fellowship. Prof. Rechavi was selected as one of the “10 Most Creative People in Israel Under 40”, and one of the “40 Most Promising People in Israel Under 40”.

I got interested in this topic last year when the Yale Medical School got a $10 million Blavatnik grant for more work in the specific area of Immunobiology.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With a generous donation from Len Blavatnik, the new Blavatnik School of Government has been set up. Professor Ngaire Woods explains the history and progress of this bold and high-profile new school.

With a generous donation from Len Blavatnik, the new Blavatnik School of Government has been set up. Professor Ngaire Woods explains the history and progress of this bold and high-profile new school.

Former Chilean Minister of Finance and Fellow of the Center for International Development at Harvard, Andres Velasco, delivered a lecture on the subject 'Fiscal policy in natural resource intensive countries: some theory and the experience of Chile.'.

Former Chilean Minister of Finance and Fellow of the Center for International Development at Harvard, Andres Velasco, delivered a lecture on the subject 'Fiscal policy in natural resource intensive countries: some theory and the experience of Chile.'.