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Pleased to have Kenny Burgos, the Chief Executive Officer of the New York Apartment Association (NYAA), on this episode.  NYAA owns & manages nearly 1M affordable housing units in the NYC metropolitan area, making Kenny the leader of the largest trade organization representing private multifamily building owners in the country.   Kenny was born and raised in the Bronx. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science and was an eco major at SUNY Albany.   Before heading up NYAA, Kenny was elected to represent the 85th Assembly District in the southeastern Bronx as a Democrat, the second youngest elected official in the state of NY.   Kenny is also a podcast host himself. His “Housing New York with Kenny Burgos podcast” is a weekly NYAA production that recaps housing policy news, provides insider analysis, and discusses issues like rent stabilization, zoning, and real estate trends. The podcast covers topics such as the City of Yes plan, composting fines, scaffolding regulations, and the housing court backlog. I shall plug the podcast link in our show notes.   Please follow Kenny at @kennyburgosny & NYAA @housingNY ON IG, and his presence on X may be followed at @kennyBurgosNY.

This year marks the thirtieth annual Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington festival, where high school big bands from around the country are selected to compete and perform. But this year, in honor of the anniversary, Jazz at Lincoln Center opened applications up to schools around the world, and bands from Australia, Japan, and Spain were selected to participate. To help preview the festival, students from the Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music big band, selected this year, perform some live numbers in WNYC's studio, including this one called "St. Louis Blues," which did not air during the original conversation.

This year marks the thirtieth annual Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington festival, where high school big bands from around the country are selected to compete and perform. But this year, in honor of the anniversary, Jazz at Lincoln Center opened applications up to schools around the world, and bands from Australia, Japan, and Spain were selected to participate. To help preview the festival, students from the Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music big band, selected this year, perform some live numbers in WNYC's studio. Plus, Penelope Smetters-Jacono, director of Bands at Celia Cruz, and Todd Stoll, Jazz at Lincoln Center Vice President of Education, discuss the importance of education in jazz. Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington festival is open to the public May 7-11.

Author JEFFREY STEPHENS Jeffrey Stephens was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at the age of 16; he completed a B.A. in Creative Writing from Pennsylvania State University at 19. Jeffrey began his first novel in 1970, which would not be completed for several years as he entered the Fordham University School of Law. His private legal practice has included extensive civil and criminal courtroom experience, and he has represented a wide range of celebrity clients. Continuing to practice law while completing several novels, he only recently decided to pursue his career as a novelist in earnest, with the encouragement of his wife, Nancy. Nancy and Jeffrey live in Greenwich, Connecticut, where they raised two sons, Graham and Trevor. All avid skiers, golfers and tennis players, they have traveled extensively as a family throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, including a fateful trip years ago to Portofino, Italy, the setting for the climax of TARGETS OF DECEPTION.

Send us a textEpisode 499Ray Donovan and I Am Legend ActorL Dash MihokDash joins me to talk about his new film "Armor" starting #sylvesterstallone we also talk about his previous work in Ray Donovan and I Am Legend.What a sincerely wonderful and sweet man.Dashiell Mihok(My-hock) AKA Dash and "Diz" Mihok, was raised in Greenwich Village, NYC.The actor, director, producer, musician's career, spanning over 30 years, include roles as Benvolio in Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo and Juliet", Pvt. 1cl. Doll in Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line", Jason in Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow, Sgt. Jeremy Mitchell in Wolfgang Peterson's "The Perfect Storm", Officer Keough in David O. Russell's "The Silver Linings Playbook", as well as his early work in Barry Levinson's "Sleepers' and more recently Adrian Lyne's "Deep Water."Mihok may be best known for creating the character of "Bunchy Donovan", in the hit series "Ray Donovan."His often eclectic choices from smaller independent projects like the recent "Wildflower", to playing the motion capture lead villain "Alpha Male" in big budget films like "I Am Legend", have branded him a multi-dimensional craftsman and friend among all who have collaborated with him. With 100 plus credits in television and film acting and directing.Dash Mihok's early roots in New York, originate growing up in Westbeth Artists Housing, to Andrea Mihok and Broadway actor Raymond Thorne are something the musical thespian has said looking back as -"One of the greatest gifts an overtly curious kid with Tourette Syndrome could ultimately ever have. Being immersed in a wild environment of everything - from painters, dancers, jazz musicians, actors, to graffiti artist's made me feel normal."Mihok attended the Bronx High School of Science as well as the Professional Children's School.www.mmcodcast.comhttps://linktr.ee/mondaymorningcritic#raydonovan #iamlegend #iamlegend2 #lievschreiber #willsmith

The authors of a recent Chalkbeat analysis discuss the Department of education's 2023 high school survey, which shows girls, especially girls of color, have much higher stress levels, and feel less supported, than boys. Michael Elsen-Rooney, an NYC public school reporter; Kae Petrin, a data and graphics reporter; and Liza Greenberg, a Bronx High School of Science senior, unpack the data, which the DOE has largely disregarded. The post NYC high school surveys: Disparities in student stress and support first appeared on Ethical Schools.

Pessy J. Sloan is an Associate Professor in the College of Arts, Sciences and Education of Daemen University. Dr. Sloan earned her Ph.D. in Clinical and School Psychology from Hofstra University in 2000. She teaches graduate courses in both early childhood and childhood special education. Prior to joining Daemen University, Dr. Sloan held various teaching positions in the undergraduate and graduate education field. She has many years of experience as a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist (CBT), school psychologist, psychoeducational evaluator, and researcher. Her primary research areas are gifted students and STEM education (with particular focus on women in STEM fields) and she is a passionate advocate for gifted education. Dr. Sloan published a number of journal articles and presented her research at international, national and state conferences. You can reach her at DrPJSloan@hotmail.com and/or 516-652-9583. References Colangelo, N., Assouline, S. G., & Gross, M. U. (2004). A nation deceived: How schools hold back America's brightest students. The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. Volume 1. Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development (NJ1). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED535137 Colangelo, N., Assouline, S. G., & Gross, M. U. (2004). A nation deceived: How schools hold back America's brightest students. The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. Volume 2. Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development (NJ1). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED535138 Sloan, P.J. (2020). Increasing gifted women's pursuit of STEM: Possible role of NYC selective specialized public high schools. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 43(2), 167-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162353220912026  Sloan, P.J. (2018). NYC selective specialized public high schools and honors college STEM degrees: A previously unexplored relationship. Journal of Advanced Academics, 29(4), 304- 320. https://doi.org/10.1177/1932202X18778816  Book Jolly, J. L., Treffinger, D. J., & Inman, T. F. (2021). Parenting gifted children: The authoritative guide from the National Association for Gifted Children. Routledge Parents and Teachers Support Organization National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC): https://nagc.org Enrichment Opportunities While Attending Yeshivas Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY): Grades 2-12: Online programs: Real-time, self-paced, session-based, and individually paced courses that fit individual learning styles and schedule. https://cty.jhu.edu Hollingworth Science camp: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/hollingworth/sciencecamp/ Gifted NYC Schools The Hollingworth center, Teachers College, Columbia University (Preschool) Hunter College Elementary School  The specialized high schools in New York City, original three: Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, and Brooklyn Technical High School. _________________________________________________ This week's episode is sponsored by Toveedo! The Jewish videos your kids love, all in one happy place. Use code JOWMA10 for $10 off at ⁠⁠https://toveedo.com/⁠⁠! _________________________________________________ • Sponsor the JOWMA Podcast! Email digitalcontent@jowma.org • Become a JOWMA Member! www.jowma.org  • Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/JOWMA_org  • Follow us on Twitter!www.twitter.com/JOWMA_med  • Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/JOWMAorg • Stay up-to-date with JOWMA news! Sign up for the JOWMA newsletter! https://jowma.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9b4e9beb287874f9dc7f80289&id=ea3ef44644&mc_cid=dfb442d2a7&mc_eid=e9eee6e41e

Send us a Text Message.Today, we take time to hold space, learn, and engage in a conversation about the power of voice. Our guest speaks to the importance of uplifting Black voices and lived experiences, sharing her personal journey as a Black woman and parent to a son with dyslexia.Our guest today is Resha Conroy, the founder and Executive Director of the Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children, a non-profit organization working to eliminate the amplified inequities for Black children experiencing unaddressed dyslexia and related learning disabilities.  She is the mother of two children with learning disabilities, including a son with dyslexia. Ms. Conroy is motivated by her family's journey to pursue her lifelong passion for educational equity. A proud lifelong New Yorker and Bronx High School of Science graduate, Resha holds a BA in Economics from Smith  College, an MPA focusing on non-profit management, and an MS in Communicative  Sciences and Disorders from New York University. Ms. Conroy is a speech-language pathologist with a strong interest in language, literacy, and culture. She also has over a decade of experience in education and non-profit management, serving on school leadership teams and as a consultant for schools in Washington, DC, and New York City. Ms. Conroy serves on the National Center on Improving Literacy (NCIL) Family Engagement Advisory Board, NYC Department of Education Literacy Advisory Council, Learning Ally National Advisory Board, Evidence Advocacy Center (EAC) Parent and Family Advocates Team, and the NYS Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Task Force.Learn more about Resha's Organization, the Dyslexia Alliance for Black ChildrenShare your thoughts and follow your host on X @OdegardTim

May 8, 2024 - With the ever-growing need to understand ourselves and humanity as a whole, it is necessary to examine the concepts of morality, ethics and universal values as guiding principles of the human condition. With generous support from Y.T. Hwang Family Foundation, The Korea Society presents a Series on Ethics and Common Values. This series promotes the understanding of central themes of our human existence - morality, ethics, personal responsibility, compassion and civility - through a series of lectures by distinguished speakers and conversation with extraordinary individuals who exemplify the universal values in line with the mission of Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation and The Korea Society. The Korea Society and Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation is proud to present Min Jin Lee in a conversation with Kyung B. Yoon. Min Jin Lee is the author of Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award. Lee is the recipient of the 2022 Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity. She has received fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee has been inducted into the Hall of Fame for the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Writers, and the Bronx High School of Science. She has been honored by the Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Korean American Community Foundation, the Council of Korean Americans, the Queens Public Library, and the Korean Community Center. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Chosun Ilbo, Vogue, and Food & Wine. She has introduced the Penguin Classics edition of The Great Gatsby. In 2023, Lee served as the Editor of the The Best American Shorts Stories. She is at work on her third novel, American Hagwon and a nonfiction work, Name Recognition. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College and serves as a trustee of PEN America and a director of the Authors Guild. Lee lives in Harlem with her family. Kyung B. Yoon is the President and CEO (as well as co-founder) of the Korean American Community Foundation (KACF), the first and largest philanthropic organization in the U.S. dedicated to strengthening Korean American communities. Her career in poverty alleviation, development economics, and media encompasses her roles as the Executive Producer of Television at the World Bank Institute and a correspondent for WNYW-Fox Channel 5 where she made history as the first Korean American broadcast reporter in NYC. Kyung is currently a contributing reporter to CUNY-TV's Asian American Life, which is broadcast nationally on PBS stations and for which she received an Emmy nomination. She has previously served as the board chair of Philanthropy New York and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, as a trustee of the New York Foundation, and as a board member of the United Way of New York City. For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1817-y-t-hwang-family-foundation-series-on-ethics-common-values-a-conversation-with-min-jin-lee

On Jan 31, 2024 we discussed a few things including the latest  state of #entrepreneurship, #funding and #acceleration. Speakers included:Kange Kaneene, is the Vice President of SAP.iO Foundries North and Latin America and Caribbean, SAP's global network of no-equity ask external startup accelerators. SAP.iO Foundries provide technical and go-to-market support to help startups integrate into SAP's portfolio and accelerate entry into SAP's ecosystem to be easily accessed and deployed by SAP customers. In her role she has overseen sourcing for 6 cohorts and has accelerated 38 startups, 66% of which are led by underrepresented individuals. This has resulted in 1 exit and $570M+ raised by the startups collectively.Gary Stewart is the Managing Director of the Techstars New York City Accelerator powered by J.P. Morgan. Born in Jamaica, he grew up in the Bronx, where he attended the Bronx High School of Science before attending Yale College and Yale Law School. He is a VC-backed, exited serial entrepreneur; an early-stage investor that managed a $1.6 billion start-up portfolio; a professor who has taught entrepreneurship at Yale Law School and IE Business School in Madrid, and been invited to speak at Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford and INSEAD; and a former contributor to Forbes Magazine. He is passionate about ensuring that underrepresented and overlooked founders get access to the social and financial capital that they need and deserve.The co-founder of Cela Innovation, John Lynn is a globally recognized expert and industry leader in startup accelerators. John has spoken on the topic at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as in multiple locations within China, throughout Japan, Haiti, Aruba, and the USA. His work has been published in Forbes, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and at the Nasdaq. Cela builds startup accelerators with the world's most influential institutions. Corporations, universities, venture capital groups, and governments all work with John and his team to set up their innovation and entrepreneurship programs. Cela is a venture-backed company, with an active list of corporate, university, and government client partnerships.#podcast #AFewThingsPodcast

Writer Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin) talks about getting detained in Egypt trying to get to the Rafah Border Crossing with Global Conscience Convoy. But first New York State Assemblymember for District 36 Zohran Mamdani talks about why he's joining other activists including Cynthia Nixon in hunger striking for a cease fire. Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of Mornings in Jenin, which was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, The Blue Between Sky And Water and Against the Loveless World. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the executive director of Palestine Writes (https://palestinewrites.org/). Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, moving to New York City with his family at the age of 7. A graduate of the NYC Public School System, he attended the Bronx High School of Science and received a Bachelor's Degree in Africana Studies from Bowdoin College. A few years later in 2018, he became naturalized as an American citizen. Prior to representing the 36th Assembly District and its neighborhoods of Astoria, Ditmars-Steinway, and Astoria Heights, Zohran worked as a foreclosure prevention housing counselor, helping low-income homeowners of color across Queens fight off eviction and stay in their homes. It was this job that led him to run for office. After having spent every day negotiating with banks that valued profits over people, he came face-to-face with the reality that this housing crisis – one which predated this pandemic – was not natural to our lives, but instead a choice. A choice that was the consequence of decades of pro-corporate policies enacted across our country as well as our state. Yet, like with any choice, we always have the opportunity to change and Zohran is excited to be a part of that. More than his professional experience, however it was the act of organizing that led to Zohran becoming politically active in the first place. In high school, Zohran co-founded his school's first ever cricket team, which would go on to participate in the Public School Athletic League's inaugural cricket season. This act, though not ostensibly a political one, taught him how coming together with a few like-minded individuals can transform rhetoric into reality. Prior to that, his politics had been expressed primarily through long Facebook posts whose impact was the same as the Yankees' rings from the last 10 years. Taking that lesson with him, he went on to co-found his college's first Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and later organize across the country with different progressive organizations seeking to win national elections as well as expand healthcare coverage. As life took its inevitable turns, with detours in film, rap, and writing, it was always organizing that ensured that the events of our world would not lead him to despair, but to action. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

Jonathan Zap is an author, philosopher, journalist, and teacher who has written extensively on psychology and contemporary mythology. Jonathan grew up in the Bronx and attended the Bronx High School of Science. He graduated from Ursinus College with honors in Philosophy and English, and received a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from NYU. He has taught English in high school and college and worked with troubled youth as the dean of a public high school in the South Bronx. As a wilderness guide, Jonathan has led inner-city kids and other young people on expeditions to remote desert canyons and Mount Rainier's summit. (See “Crossing the Great Stream—Education and the Evolving Self,” published in Holistic Education Review for more on his experiences in education.) Jonathan also has a GG–a degree in gemology, and worked at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) as a staff gemologist and instructor in diamond grading and gemstone identification. Jonathan is the author of numerous published articles, essays, screenplays, and the Zap Oracle. He is the author of Crossing the Event Horizon—Human Metamorphosis and the Singularity Archetype, and his related sci-fi epic, Parallel Journeys. Jonathan has done numerous radio and television interviews. He is a frequent guest on Coast-to-Coast AM and the Gaia network show, Beyond Belief. He was a contributing editor and featured correspondent at Reality Sandwich (before it was taken over and turned into something unsupportable) and published 150 articles on that platform. He's presented his work on the Singularity Archetype at the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) and the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). Jonathan has a background in Jungian psychology, paranormal research, literature, writing, and many other subjects. He uses his eclectic background to take a multi-disciplinary approach to many subjects. He resides in Boulder, Colorado.

Jonathan Zap is an author, philosopher, journalist, and teacher who has written extensively on psychology and contemporary mythology. Jonathan grew up in the Bronx and attended the Bronx High School of Science. He graduated from Ursinus College with honors in Philosophy and English, and received a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from NYU. He has taught English in high school and college and worked with troubled youth as the dean of a public high school in the South Bronx. As a wilderness guide, Jonathan has led inner-city kids and other young people on expeditions to remote desert canyons and Mount Rainier's summit. (See “Crossing the Great Stream—Education and the Evolving Self,” published in Holistic Education Review for more on his experiences in education.) Jonathan also has a GG–a degree in gemology, and worked at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) as a staff gemologist and instructor in diamond grading and gemstone identification. Jonathan is the author of numerous published articles, essays, screenplays, and the Zap Oracle. He is the author of Crossing the Event Horizon—Human Metamorphosis and the Singularity Archetype, and his related sci-fi epic, Parallel Journeys. Jonathan has done numerous radio and television interviews. He is a frequent guest on Coast-to-Coast AM and the Gaia network show, Beyond Belief. He was a contributing editor and featured correspondent at Reality Sandwich (before it was taken over and turned into something unsupportable) and published 150 articles on that platform. He's presented his work on the Singularity Archetype at the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) and the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). Jonathan has a background in Jungian psychology, paranormal research, literature, writing, and many other subjects. He uses his eclectic background to take a multi-disciplinary approach to many subjects. He resides in Boulder, Colorado.

Min Jin Lee could be considered an exemplar of the old adage “slow and steady wins the race.” The author's bestselling 2017 novel Pachinko—a National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller that was adapted into a television series for Apple TV+ in 2022—took 30 years to write from its inception as a short story. Her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires (2007), took five years. These extensive periods of time become understandable, or even seem scant, within the sprawling, multigenerational contexts of her novels—Pachinko spans almost a century—into which she pours deep anthropological, sociological, and journalistic research. Lee is also the editor of the just-published The Best American Short Stories 2023 (Mariner Books) anthology, and she's currently at work on American Hagwon, the third novel in her diasporic trilogy.On this episode, she talks about the complex role of time in Pachinko, her miraculous recovery from chronic liver disease, and why she likens short-story writing to polishing diamonds.Special thanks to our Season 8 sponsor, Van Cleef & Arpels.Show notes: [00:25] Min Jin Lee[03:39] Viet Thanh Nguyen[06:08] Free Food for Millionaires[06:10] Pachinko[06:19] The Best American Short Stories 2023[08:08] Amy Tan[08:09] Salman Rushdie[09:36] “Bread and Butter”[09:37] “Motherland”[09:38] “The Best Girls”[10:04] William Trevor[10:06] Alice Munro[12:45] Yale University[17:23] Harvard Business School[17:34] Fashion Institute of Technology[47:37] Queens Public Library in Elmhurst[49:21] The Bronx High School of Science[49:32] The Hotchkiss School[49:33] Phillips Exeter Academy[58:46] American Hagwon[01:03:33] Stoner by John Williams

This is the All Local 4pm update for October 27, 2023

We discussed a few things including:1. Gary's legal, corporate and entrepreneurial journeys2. Techstars vision3. Tips for entrepreneurs4. State of the funding and accelerator markets5. Future trends   Gary is the Managing Director of the Techstars New York City Accelerator powered by J.P. Morgan. Born in Jamaica, he grew up in the Bronx, where he attended the Bronx High School of Science before attending Yale College and Yale Law School.  He is a VC-backed, exited serial entrepreneur; an early-stage investor that managed a $1.6 billion start-up portfolio; a professor who has taught entrepreneurship at Yale Law School and IE Business School in Madrid, and been invited to speak at Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford and INSEAD; and a former contributor to Forbes Magazine.  As someone who has seen firsthand that talent is distributed evenly but opportunity is not, he is passionate about ensuring that underrepresented and overlooked founders get access to the social and financial capital that they need and deserve.  As an investor, he is particularly interested in companies that aim to change the world with a specific focus on healthcare, health and beauty, edtech and financial inclusion.#podcast #AFewThingsPodcast

Mack Rosenberg has the morning's top local stories from the WCBS newsroom.

Who's lived a more varied, interesting political life over the last 6 decades than Jeff Greenfield? Aide and speechwriter to Senator Robert Kennedy...staffer for NYC Mayor John Lindsay...successful political consultant with the famed David Garth...and then as an omnipresent political commentator at CBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN...5 time Emmy Award Winner...author of several books. This is a great, wide-ranging conversation with one of the most respected, enduring, and distinctive voices in American politics.IN THIS EPISODEHow the New York Yankees are responsible for Jeff's political obsession…The serendipitous path that led Jeff to become an aide to Senator Robert Kennedy…Jeff's memories of the U.S. Senate of the 1960s…Jeff on the political savvy of RFK…The stories behind two of RFK's most memorable speeches in the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr's Assassination…Jeff talks how the 1968 election might have played out had Senator Kennedy lived…What it was like writing a speech for Robert Kennedy…Jeff's theory on the right match of speechwriter and speaker…Jeff's time working with famed political consultant David Garth…The ad Jeff wrote as a media consultant of which he's most proud…Jeff talks his connection with longtime friend William F. Buckley…The story of Margaret Thatcher insulting Jeff on national TV…Jeff's move from political consulting to working in television…The media job Jeff held that was the most fun…Jeff's approach to interesting television commentary…Four of Jeff's pet peeves about contemporary political punditry…The “single most powerful event” Jeff ever attended…Recommendations from one of Jeff's favorite restaurants and favorite band…AND  Aeschylus, Muhammad Ali, Barney Greengrass, the Beatles, Tom Bettag, Beyonce, Big Pink, Tom Bradley, the Bronx High School of Science, Ron Brown, Buggs Bunny, bullshit measurements, Hugh Carey, William Sloane Coffin, communist cigars, computer manuals, Daffy Duck, Richard Daley, doo wop, Fred Dutton, Peter Edelman, Dwight Eisenhower, elephants, Firing Line, Joe Frazier, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Glenn, the Grateful Dead, Averell Harriman, Lester Holt, Hubert Humphrey, Inspector Javert, Irving Ives, Jacob Javits, journalistic utopias, jut jaws, Murray Kempton, Henry Kissinger, Ted Koppel, John Lindsay, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Lil Nas, losing altitude, Russell Long, the longest slogans in the world, Al Lowenstein, the Making of the President, Eugene McCarthy, Joe McCarthy, George McGovern, Stephen Miller, mock primaries, Bill Moyers, the National Review, The New York Times, Richard Nixon, Lee Harvey Oswald, particle physics, personal antipathy, Ronald Reagan, Robbie Robertson, Howard Samuels, Ted Sorensen, Aaron Sorkin, Adlai Stevenson, Norman Thomas, Donald Trump, two doses of herpes, Unconventional Wisdom, the unit rule, V-E Day, the violence of institutions, Adam Walinsky, wartime correspondents, Watergate, Billy Wilder, wretched ironies, Sam Yorty & more!

Historian Benjamin Hunnicutt has called the push for more free time the “forgotten American dream"; but somewhere along the way the pursuit of that happiness was replaced by the idea that work and wealth are ends in themselves. This week, we're imagining the utopian and dystopian futures of work. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, Khyriel Palmer, and Mayumi Sato. If you have something to say and want us to share it on the show, here's how you can send us a message: https://bit.ly/2Z3pfaW• Thank you to Alisha Bhagat, Muhammad Floyd, Rob Cameron, Brad Parks, James Earl King, Carlos Luis Delgado, Christopher Lazariuk, and the Kaleidocast podcast.• LINKSAssemblymember Kenny Burgos was born and lives in the Bronx, New York. Assemblymember Burgos graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and received his Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University at Albany. He has worked as a Deputy Chief of Staff and Budget Director on the New York City Council.Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is the global programs and research manager for 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit devoted to advancing the 4-day week. He also offers keynotes about deliberate rest through his own company, Strategy and Rest. Alex's work has been written about in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Financial Times, the Guardian, and other venues. Alex is the author of four books, including SHORTER: WORK BETTER, SMARTER, AND LESS– HERE'S HOW (US | UK); REST: WHY YOU GET MORE DONE WHEN YOU WORK LESS (US | UK); and THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION (US).Together, these books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His op-eds and articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, the South China Morning Post, and many other venues.Ashley Nelson is the Communications Director at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, a global network of over 300 historic sites, museums, and memory initiatives in more than 65 countries dedicated to remembering past struggles and addressing their contemporary legacies. In addition, Ashley has written on culture, politics and women for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and The Nation.Alisha Bhagat is a futurist focusing on the creative use of futures tools to impact long term positive change, particularly around social justice and equality. She utilizes systems thinking, mapping,and speculative futures to engage with stakeholders on strategic visions and the actions needed to achieve them. She has worked with public sector partners on topics such as the future of feminism, neo-nationalism, and the impact of COVID-19.Carlos Luis Delgado lives with his roommates and a large cat in Brooklyn, New York. He writes speculative fiction early in the morning before the cat wakes up to yowl for breakfast and edits other people's fiction at night after it's eaten dinner. In 2016 he won the People's Telly Award for Outstanding Comedic TV Writing. He holds a BA in English Literature from Rutgers University and wonders when he can let it go. Follow @Delgadowrites.Christopher Lazariuk is a writer, producer, creator, and sound designer seeking representation for his debut cli-fi thriller novel: THE PYRITE VICTORY. Christopher is a member of the Brooklyn speculative Fiction Writers group, and a contributor to the Kaleidocast Podcast.Rob Cameron is a teacher, linguist, and writer. He has poetry in Star*Line Poetry Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. His essays and short fiction have appeared in Foreign Policy Magazine, Tor.com, the New Modality, Solarpunk Magazine, and Clockwork Phoenix Five. His debut middle grade novel Daydreamer is forthcoming from Labyrinth Road, Summer '24. Rob is also lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, a guest host and curator for the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series, and executive producer of Kaleidocast. Follow @cprwords.The Kaleidocast podcast is an audio literary magazine with a mission to showcase new voices in speculative fiction alongside stories from today's top writers. The show was created to improve the writing of active Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers members by motivating them towards a tangible goal: Write at a professional level. The show is in its 4th season, and has recently partnered with the Octavia Project to mentor girls and non-binary youth: https://www.kaleidocast.nyc/post/octaviaprojectmentorship. Please support the Kaleidocast's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kaleidocastnyc.Muhammad Floyd is an accomplished self-starter with a wide skillset focused on start-to-finish photo/video production from setup to post. Muhammad is adept at photography, camerawork, lighting, and sound, with deep technical knowledge of Canon, Sony, Panasonic, and Blackmagic hardware. He is an end-to-end specialist well-versed in motion graphics, color grading, and other post-production techniques dedicated to delivering under budget and ahead of schedule, while always adhering to the client's vision.• MUSIC and CLIPSThis episode featured clips from the BBC series “Tomorrow's World”, ABC News, Business Insider, and “From the Archives (1966): Issues and Answers with Richard Nixon”. This episode featured music from freesound, setuniman, danjfilms, and podcastac. It also featured Harry Partch's “Delusion of Fury”, used by permission of Innova Recordings and the Harry Partch Foundation.• TRANSCRIPT: ~coming soon~• Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BRICTV Visit us online at bricartsmedia.org/Brooklyn-USA

In this specially commissioned series with Grantmakers in the Arts, The Lost Files, Dr. Durell Cooper invites artists, community organizers, researchers, cultural and racial studies experts, and scholars to think about the narratives driving the arts and cultural sector – as it intersects with systems of structural racism and economic exclusion – and what opportunities for narrative change exist.  In this Episode Dr. Cooper speaks with Majora Carter. Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She's responsible for the creation of numerous economic development, technology inclusion & green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training & placement systems.  She is also a lecturer at Princeton University's Keller Center.Majora is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture in DC: "Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one” - which is also the subtitle of her 2022 book, Reclaiming Your Community.In 2017, she launched the Boogie Down Grind, a Hip Hop themed speciality coffee & craft beer spot, and the first commercial “3rd Space” in the Hunts Point sectionof the South Bronx since the mid-1980s. This venture also provides a rare opportunity for local families to invest through SEC approved online investment platforms. Majora was born, raised and continues to live in the South Bronx. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science (1984), Wesleyan University (1988 BA, Distinguished Alum) and New York University (MFA).  After establishing  Sustainable South Bronx (2001) and Green For All (2007), among other organizations, she opened this private consulting firm (2008) - which was named Best for the World by B-Corp in 2014.

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As a high school student at the Bronx High School of Science, Dr. Christina B. Gee remembers being focused primarily on math and science because they didn't offer any psychology classes. She recalls that her interest in psychology only came after she started college at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. In this podcast interview, Dr. Christina B. Gee shares her academic and professional journey by discussing the fortunate events that led her to become aware of, and interested in, the field of psychology. In addition to discussing how she searched for psychology graduate programs in Illinois, and why she chose the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her master's and PhD in clinical/community psychology, Dr. Gee also shares the significant experiences and people that helped shape her life and the direction of her research. Throughout our discussion, Dr. Gee offers her thoughts, experiences, and advice regarding topics important to graduate students including finding the right internship and things to consider when searching for an internship, research and lab experience and how to find these opportunities, and how to decide if you are truly interested in research before applying to PhD programs. She also offers advice to those who are not sure what psychology career path to take (e.g., academic path or practitioner path). During her last year at Cornell, Dr. Gee realized that she wanted to attend graduate school and she also realized that she didn't have any research experience, so she began volunteering in a developmental psychology lab. She wanted to get more experience to be competitive for graduate school so she began cold emailing many different professors in New York, mostly NYU, to see if she could volunteer or work in their labs. She recalls that most of them never returned her emails, fortunately she got lucky and one of them did reply to her email. Professor Mary O'Brien, who was in the clinical psychology program, focused on the influence of marital conflict on child adjustment. Dr. Gee states “it was just very lucky for me that I got linked up with this lab and that really shaped the direction of my research for years to come.” Dr. Gee is now the Principal Investigator of a research laboratory at GW called the Diverse Family Relationships Lab where they work on a lot of different types of projects. The Lab “is interested in relationship process and adjustment for couples, parents, and families who are diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, and socio-economic status.” Some of the research studies the group has already completed include an Asian American Help-Seeking Study and Young Parents Study. They are currently working on the Unified Parenting Project which is “a study of coparenting processes in non-cohabiting parents. This study is also piloting the Coparenting Check-up, which is a free two-session assessment of how parents work together to support each other in raising their child.” As an Associate Professor in the Clinical/Community Psychology program in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at The George Washington University, she explains why students should consider attending their program if they “really want to attend a clinical program that doesn't just give lip service to diversity” because “diversity is really infused into all aspects of our program.” One thing that you may not know about Dr. Christina B. Gee is that she grew up in a restaurant family. Her father worked in the restaurant industry from the time he was a teenager until his late 40's. In fact, both her mom and dad are really great cooks. Because of this, she really loves to cook and admits “I probably spend about 50% of my free time thinking about food, planning to cook, or actually cooking.” She says, “our vacations are typically planned around finding the best foods, and it's really a plus that our sons are foodies as well.” Connect with Christina B.

When Students at the Bronx High School for the Visual Arts looked around their school, they had a bad case of the "blahs." It was an art school without art, they said. They dreamed of making change but felt powerless and stuck until an idea long hindered began to bloom. In this episode, they discuss how they worked with school administrators to develop a special art project and start a new tradition. This bonus episode of the Houses on The Moon podcast is part of HOTM & History UnErased's Youth Equity Podcast program. The program is funded by the New York City Council Committee on Education, and was developed by History UnErased in partnership with Houses on the Moon Theater Company.To learn more, visit https://unerased.org/resource/nycdoe-youth-equity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 1014: Ruined – Amber Heard: ‘I have always told the truth’ about ‘ugly, beautiful’ relationship – Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on record-high gas prices – Bronx High School students in e-Sports National Championship

Episode 1014: Ruined – Amber Heard: ‘I have always told the truth’ about ‘ugly, beautiful’ relationship – Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on record-high gas prices – Bronx High School students in e-Sports National Championship

Eric Zaltas developed an affinity for pedaling hard and the science of nutrition at a young age. Growing up in the Bronx, New York, this meant racing bikes through Central Park and attending the Bronx High School of Science. After college, he raced full time for the US National Road Team collecting 75 career victories including a US National Championship in the Team Trial. Amidst his bike racing career, Eric had the unique opportunity to base out of Switzerland, the home of Nestle world headquarters. While in Switzerland Zaltas helped lead research collaborations with some of the top sports scientists in the world including the UK-based Asker Jeukendrup and Louise Burk of Australia. In the realm of fueling for performance, Eric and his colleagues helped provide evidence based clarity by testing common questions in the lab and implementing them in the field. Eric doesn't have a PhD after his name– though he certainly could– if only he wasn't so busy spending his spare time with extracurricular activities. Hammering up all the famous climbs in the Alps, racing IM Switzerland, and prepping for his next marathon is just who he is–and I think that's a good thing. Here are the key questions Eric helps to answer in this episode of the podcast: -Carb Loading: Is it still a thing? If so, how do we do it? -Solids vs. semi-solids: salted red potatoes + bacon or caffeinated cake frosting? -Day to day Pre-session fueling: What, when, how? -How does a person train the gut to absorb what it needs for long efforts? -General parameters for intra-session fueling. -Protein: post training when and how much? If you'd like to support the podcast click here to donate or via the link below: https://www.gofundme.com/f/andrew-fast-podcast?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andrew-fast/support

Sunni and Lisa are joined by Majora Carter who talks about her book, Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One.Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous economic developments, technology & green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training & placement systems.Carter applies her corporate consulting practice focused on talent-retention to reducing Brain Drain in American low-status communities. She has firsthand experience pioneering sustainable economic development in one of America's most storied low-status communities: the South Bronx. She and her teams develop vision, strategies and the type of development that transforms low-status communities into thriving mixed-use local economies. Her approach harnesses capital flows resulting from American re-urbanization to help increase wealth building opportunities across demographics left out of all historic financial tide changes. Majora's work produces long term fiscal benefits for governments, residents, and private real estate developments throughout North America. In 2017, she launched the Boogie Down Grind, a Hip Hop themed speciality coffee & craft beer spot, and the first commercial “3rd Space” in the Hunts Point sectionof the South Bronx since the mid-1980s. This venture also provides a rare opportunity for local families to invest through SEC approved online investment platforms. Majora is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture in DC:"Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one”.Her ability to shepherd projects through seemingly conflicted socio-economic currents has garnered her 8 honorary PhD's and awards such as: 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, Silicon Alley 100 by Business Insider, Liberty Medal for Lifetime Achievement by News Corp, and other honors from the National Building Museum, International Interior Design Association, Center for American Progress, as well as her TEDtalk (one of six to launch that site in 2006).She has served on the boards of the US Green Building Council, Ceres, The Wilderness Society, and the Andrew Goodman Foundation. Majora was born, raised and continues to live in the South Bronx. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science (1984), Wesleyan University (1988 BA, Distinguished Alum) and New York University (MFA). After establishing Sustainable South Bronx (2001) and Green For All (2007), among other organizations, she opened this private consulting firm (2008) - which was named Best for the World by B-Corp in 2014.While at Sustainable South Bronx, Carter deployed MIT's first ever Mobile Fab-Lab (digital fabrication laboratory) to the South Bronx - where it served as an early iteration of the “Maker-Spaces” found elsewhere today. The project drew residents and visitors together for guided and creative collaborations. In addition, Majora Carter launched StartUp Box, a ground-breaking tech social enterprise that provided entry-level tech jobs in the South Bronx, operating it from 2014-2018. Majora Carter has helped connect tech industry pioneers such as Etsy, Gust, FreshDirect, Google, and Cisco to diverse communities at all levels.BOOK DESCRIPTION: Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better OneHow can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. Retaining homegrown talent is a critical part of creating a strong local economy that can resist gentrification. But too

Kwame Ture born Stokely Carmichael; June 29, 1941, was a prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science. He was a key leader in the development of the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), then as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and last as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP). Carmichael was one of the original SNCC freedom riders of 1961 under Diane Nash's leadership. He became a major voting rights activist in Mississippi and Alabama after being mentored by Ella Baker and Bob Moses. Like most young people in the SNCC, he became disillusioned with the two-party system after the 1964 Democratic National Convention failed to recognize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party as official delegates from the state. Carmichael eventually decided to develop independent all-black political organizations, such as the Lowndes County Freedom Organization and, for a time, the national Black Panther Party. Inspired by Malcolm X's example, he articulated a philosophy of Black Power, and popularized it both by provocative speeches and more sober writings. Carmichael became one of the most popular and controversial Black leaders of the late 1960s. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, secretly identified Carmichael as the man most likely to succeed Malcolm X as America's "black messiah”. The FBI targeted him for personal destruction through its COINTELPRO program, so Carmichael moved to Africa in 1968. He reestablished himself in Ghana, and then Guinea by 1969. There he adopted the name Kwame Ture, and began campaigning internationally for revolutionary socialist Pan-Africanism. Ture died of prostate cancer in 1998 at the age of 57. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/unlabeled/support

Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous economic developments, technology & green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training & placement systems, and is currently serving as Senior Program Director for Community Regeneration at Groundswell, Inc. Her ability to shepherd projects through  seemingly conflicted socio-economic currents has garnered her 8 honorary PhD's and awards such as: 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, Silicon Alley 100 by Business Insider, Liberty Medal for Lifetime Achievement by News Corp, and other honors from the National Building Museum, International Interior Design Association, Center for American Progress, as well as her TEDtalk (one of six to launch that site in 2006). Majora was born, raised and continues to live in the South Bronx. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science (1984), Wesleyan University (1988 BA, Distinguished Alum) and New York University (MFA).   Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in A Better One (On sale: February 1, 2022,) In this profoundly personal book, Carter writes about her brother's murder, transforming a local dump into an award-winning park, her experiences as a woman of color confronting the “male and pale” real estate industry and what she calls the “nonprofit industrial complex,” and more. Carter candidly shares her successes, her setbacks, and her struggles as a woman of color confronting the mostly “male and pale” real estate and nonprofit and philanthropic establishments.

Quote: "Being In This Skin Is the Only Way to Really Experience It" You simply have to listen to the conversation I had with Troy Prince. Troy is the Founder of Wall Street Bound, an education and training organization focused on the recruitment, exposure, licensing, and placement of inner-city youth into front office intern positions on Wall Street. Troy is also a graduate of the prestigious Bronx High School of Science and the NYU Stern School of Business. Troy and I talked about what it was like growing up in a strong, close-knit, education-focused family in the Bronx. The southern-most section of the Bronx is a mere 10.2 miles away from Wall Street according to Google Maps, and yet it may as well be on a different planet. Most kids that grow up in the Bronx have little to no exposure to the world of global finance nor the employment opportunities it presents. Troy is committed to changing this and believes that while IQ and Talent are equally distributed, opportunity is not. Troy and I have known each other for more than 20 years. We met when he was a buy-side trader at Barclays Global Investors in Tokyo and I was a sell-side portfolio trader at Goldman Sachs. We talked about our experiences in Tokyo and how it was the first time I experience being a 'visual minority', something that Troy has to deal with every day of his life. We also noted that it was the first time a lot of the foreign traders in Tokyo felt somehow out of their comfort zones. Troy also spent almost five years living and investing in Vietnam as an angel investor, but could not get the idea of 'Wall Street Bound' and the positive impact it would have on under-served communities out of his mind. He decided to stop thinking about it and start doing it, like a true entrepreneur. Wall Street Bound currently runs three impactful programs with more on the way. Most recently, WSB has created a program in partnership with Maverick Trading that trains urban youth to trade and manage real money in live markets. Listen to this episode and the rest of the Social Innovation Podcast to learn about how business principles can be applied to create profit and real social impact at the same time. If you would like to contact the team, e-mail them at info@wallstreetbound.org.

Ken Landau talks with Marion Zola, a retired English teacher from the Bronx High School of Science, who has become an advocate for the Adoption of Dogs, especially during COVID, who explains how to properly and legally adopt the best dog for you, and especially the benefits of adopting an older dog if you are retired. She is the author of "Romancing the Dog."

Imagine what it's like for any immigrant to embrace the culture and norms of a new nation. Then think about being a highly respected doctor, practicing for years in your native country. When you arrive in the United States, you learn that if you want to practice medicine, you'll have to dust off your organic chemistry and anatomy books and pass a rigorous exam.     That's what happened to Noor Ali who skipped undergrad, going straight from the renowned Bronx High School of Science into six years of medical school in Bangladesh, only to barely miss the cutoff when she sat for the U.S. exam to practice medicine. How did she cope?   Ali always knew she wanted to follow in her anaesthesiologist grandfather's footsteps and become a doctor, but she never envisioned being denied the ability to do so — especially after “paying her dues” and finishing med school. With a successful career in her home country of Bangladesh, Ali was recognized by the United Nations as a volunteer — bringing healthcare to pregnant women and children. Ali felt lost and downtrodden.   Ali's pivot? She founded a business, Dr. Noor Health, where she marries medical knowledge with health insurance in an advisory role, helping the “healthy and wealthy” find more fitting health insurance policies in the private market based on their health status.   Listen as Ali describes being an immigrant in New York City, volunteering in the slums of Bangladesh, and the price of reinvention on this episode of SheVentures. 

Tara Cannistraci is a stand-up comedian. She attended Bronx High School of Science. We talk about the importance of filming every set in comedy, being in a relationship during quarantine, hating high school, being the big fish in a small pond, and remembering to just have fun. Follow Tara @tarajokes!

Fool's Errand Puts a Patriotic Heart Into the Mafia-Thriller Tale Cisco and Falzon Hour Broadcast in Politics Call in to speak with the host: Cisco Acosta, Mark Falzon, and guest (845) 262-0988 Join us tonight, at 9:00 pm eastern time, with our guest, NOVELIST/POLITICAL ANALYST: Jeffrey S. Stephens, is a political analyst, columnist and author of the new book, Fool's Errand. Jeffrey Stephens was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at the age of 16; he completed a B.A. in Creative Writing from Pennsylvania State University at 19.  Stephens is the author of the Jordan Sandor thrillers, Targets of Deception, Targets of Opportunity, Targets of Revenge, and Rogue Mission, as well as the murder mystery Crimes and Passion. A native of the Bronx, Stephens now lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his wife, Nancy, where they raised their two sons Topics for discussion: Big Tech censorship, The new book  “Fool's Errand. “ Show Writer: Doreen Ann Show Sponsor: Studentsforabetterfuture.com

The family of Wan Li Zhu emigrated to America seeking new opportunities. Wan Li benefited from high-quality public education at Bronx High School of Science and went on to a perfect grade-point average at MIT. He studied under renowned quant wiz Andrew Lo and was poised for a career on Wall Street but was lured away by the prospect of hands-on responsibility for product features at Microsoft. After a prodigiously successful stint, during which he was involved in building and marketing Dynamics CRM, Microsoft’s fastest-growing product, he went to Harvard Business School. From HBS he was recruited by early-stage VC firm Fairhaven Capital.  The firm, known for its expertise in web security and digital advertising, now sees promise in various applications of artificial intelligence starting with self-driving technology. Wan Li is deeply engaged in bringing on the next generation of winning investments at Fairhaven Capital. Despite a busy professional life, Wan Li Zhu has found time to advise startups and to co-found MIT Angels in Boston. I learned a ton from my conversation with this wise, yet unassuming early-stage VC and angel.  HERE'S A LIST OF THE TOPICS COVERED: Wan Li Zhu Bio Studied with MIT Professor Andrew Lo – Used Natural Language Processing to Assess Market Sentiment Why Wan Li Zhu Went to Microsoft – Three Years at MS – Shipped Three Versions of the Product Wan Li Zhu Connects with Fairhaven Capital through HBS Resume Book Fairhaven Capital Is Thesis-driven – Attentive to Market Trends that Could Create Large Opportunities How the Fairhaven Capital Portfolio Is Doing What Wan Li Zhu Looks for in a Startup Investment Experienced Founders Can Actually Time Markets TVision Came Via MIT Angels – Measuring Engagement of TV Viewers AirFox – Enabling Wireless Carriers to Offer More Affordable Data Plans MIT Angels Company PathAI’s Deep Learning System Is Better at Detecting Tumor Cells than Human Pathologists Latch – Enterprise-grade Keyless Access System for Apartment Buildings The Investment Wan Li Zhu Regrets Not Making Wise VC Wan Li Zhu Continues to Be Very Bullish on AI

Christopher Gardner is the founder of iValue LLC as well as the author of the highly acclaimed book The Valuation of Information Technology: A Guide for Strategy Development, Valuation, and Financial Planning (John Wiley & Sons), and Measuring Value in Healthcare. Previously he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he led the Information Technology Strategy Group in the New York office. He was also a vice president at Bain & Company and worked at A.T. Kearney where he was elected principal by the Board of Directors. He began his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and has served clients across a wide-range of major industries. Prior to consulting, he worked in the high technology industry, joining the Digital Equipment Corporation after graduation, and working in central engineering as a manager in the semiconductor, office workstation, and VAX computer system development groups. With the support of Digital he co-founded The Software Agency in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a company engaged in the business of representing software authors to software publishers. He was educated at the University of Chicago where he received his MBA in Finance and a BA/BS in Physics a year earlier. He spent his summers working at Fermilab and at the Enrico Fermi Institute and is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. TAGS #Consulting #Technology #UniversityofChicago EPISODE LINKS Christopher's Email: cgardner@i-value.com Books: - The Valuation of Information Technology: A Guide for Strategy Development, Valuation, and Financial Planning: https://www.amazon.com/Valuation-Information-Technology-Development-Financial/dp/0471378313 PODCAST INFO Podcast website: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2NUTPAa Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3e6DEKK Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/masonhargrave/ Full episodes playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAAkUcxW_NWRXAlo7dlxjDuKfJ6c8OEBz Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAAkUcxW_NWQBBzYWp-GuOqLiM9kXb0A8 OUTLINE 0:00​ - Introduction FOLLOW ME - Twitter: https://twitter.com/MasonHargrave - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masonhargrave/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metaphysical_ramblings/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/masonhargrave/support

Basketball Coaches Roundtable welcomes Elliot Steinmetz as the guest of the roundtable. Coach Steinmetz is the head coach of Yeshiva University in NYC and currently has the longest winning streak in the NCAA. The Maccabee's ended the season undefeated ranked third in the nation. Topics Discussed at the Roundtable Do people still think it is strange that Yeshiva University is winning? What is the secret to your Man-to-Man Defense? What is your press offense? How has your coaching style changed since you started your career? What should people know about the Yeshiva basketball high school league? What makes the Yeshiva offense so special? How do you adapt your motion offense to play against a zone defense? What are you talking to your team about pre-game and at halftime? How have you and your team dealt with Anti-Semitism? What does the program and the University need to do to get to the next level? Sitting at the Roundtable Ben Newman - Host Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY Marc Skelton - Head Coach - Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS, Bronx, NY & Author of Pounding the Rock: Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx High School

Basketball Coaches Roundtable Podcast welcomes Matt Kingsley as the guest the of the roundtable. Coach Kingsley is the Associate Head Coach at Yale University. In the fifteen years, Coach Kingsley has been instrumental in making Yale a powerhouse in Ivy League. Topics Discussed at the Roundtable How did Yale use the time without a season to move the program forward? Where there any program overhauls that the coaching staff looked at during this time? How do you view the NYC Ivy League Prep league? How do you prepare for the big game? A walk-through of a NCAA game scout. What are your thoughts on the addition of the Ivy League tournament? What are the analytics that your looking at during halftime and after the game? How do you add value to your dummy offense during practice? What is your ice offense? How do you attack an odd-man front zone? What are some of the positives and negatives of running a double-drag screen in transition? How does Yale differentiate themselves from the other schools in the super competitive Ivy League? Sitting at the Roundtable Ben Newman - Host Elle Greene - Head Coach - BCAM HS, Brooklyn, NY Marc Skelton - Head Coach - Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS, Bronx, NY - Author of Pounding The Rock: Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx High School

On this episode of the Massimo show Rod sits down with a ghost writer and (his own) writing coach Wally Bock. Wally is an authority on the  issues of supervision, leadership, and management and has the various career endeavors to prove it. More recently he has spent his time helping others lean into and expound upon their own leadership qualities by helping them write about them.  Wally was born in New York City in 1946 to a Lutheran Pastor and his wife. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and graduated from there in 1963. He was a bright kid with scholarship opportunities for college as well. But one day his father told him about a relative who had gone off to a major university with their family paying the way. But this relative didn't go and study. They avoided going to classes for a year and a half, before their father found out. “I thought about that a lot. I realized that however bright I was, if I went to college right then I'd probably do pretty much the same thing.” Wally tells Rod.  Instead of potentially wasting his money and scholarships Wally decided to pursue a lifelong interest - the military. He joined the Marines and served from 1963 to 1968 and it was here that he learned a lot about courage and leadership and principles and about how your capacity is more than you ever imagined.   Why Books?   Wally's first book was called Budgeting for First Line Supervisors.  This was his first book because when he got out of the Marines he was teaching for a government program called Model Cities helping small businesses.  He started writing articles around that. An acquisition editor at a publishing company heard some of his speeches, read a couple of his articles and offered him the opportunity to do four books.  A couple of years after that, Wally moved on from the multinational to a non-profit, where he was the Business Manager at a graduate school. He got the numbers right and they  improved on every measurable performance indicator. But he messed up in other ways and got fired. “That is when I figured out the only person who would keep me hired was me.  That is when I started my own business.” Wally remembers.   He established his consulting firm in 1982 and for the next several years, he had a fairly conventional practice where he did business consulting as well as speaking, training, and writing on leadership issues.  “I was good at finding the story a business had to sell and turning that into something that helped them get business.” Wally tells Rod “ It is a dynamite skill to have, however it takes time to get the info out of the person who has the business.”  Wally had a skill of understanding the story behind the business.  It is the story that attracts the sales.   Mixing the old and the new  Wally is an excellent example of the merging of two very important skills: connection and progress. When asked how he marketed his books he simply says: Letters. “I wrote letters to people.  That and the yellow pages.  Letters are more important than ever today.  It is more important than email, twitter.  I am all for those, but I am for writing letters.” Additionally Wally was one of the first wave of people who engaged in e-commerce to sell his books.  Wally was writing for speakers, trainers and consultants for a report called Cyberpowers. A publisher came to him and asked him to write a book about “Taking on the Super Information Highway”.  That book came out in 1995 and resulted in 2 more large book contracts.  That was when he went from small to big.  The market warranted it and he was ready.  Why Coaching?  Wally was speaking across the globe and traveling all the time for business and then  911 happened.  After 911 travel was harder to travel. “I was going to come off the road and needed to figure out something else to do.” Wally says.  “Up until that time, all the books I had written were by myself but I wrote CyberPower for Business with Jeff Sonea and discovered I really liked working with somebody else.”  The idea of ghost writing came to him and it took off - that was over 20 years ago.  Wally and Rod talk about the types of ghostwriters, how the pandemic has forced people to shift in their businesses and the value of writing your story. Tune in to listen to the full podcast!   

Nobody would argue that all students with special needs don’t deserve to be supported and provided the resources they need to thrive. Why, then, do students with special talents--particularly for academics--sometimes lack access to the same consideration? Amy and Mike invited educator and author Tai Abrams to discuss the necessity of gifted and talented programs.  What are five things you will learn in this episode? What are the benefits of gifted and talented programs for the long-term success of a child?  In what ways do gifted and talented programs contribute to a national talent pipeline? Is tracking in the form of gifted and talented programs equitable? Has the pandemic changed the need for and access to gifted and talented programs?  Should gifted and talented programs be expanded? MEET OUR GUEST Tai Abrams, MA, is an education entrepreneur, podcast host and best selling author with a mission to position 10,000 children to get on the school-to-wealth pipeline where they can reap the rewards of gaining access to a high quality education and the soft skills training to thrive post graduation. Her first book, Who Am I? An A-Z Career Guide for Teens, provides a playbook for teens to experience early career success and minimize college debt. The daughter of Guyanese immigrants, Tai was the first one in her immediate family to attend highly selective schools by participating in Gifted and Talented programs and understands first-hand why these opportunities are critical. She graduated from The Bronx High School of Science, got her degree in Mathematics from Duke University and is obtaining a Masters in Mathematics Education from Brooklyn College.  Tai envisioned what is now AdmissionSquad after returning to NYC and noticing fewer and fewer underserved students were gaining access to NYC's Specialized High Schools. She quickly realized that the problem was two-fold; there was a significant information gap and content readiness gap at the K-8 education level. Students were not prepared to compete in the competitive NYC top high school admissions process. Throughout her own journey, she benefited from programs that offered strong academic and career guidance to first-generation students wanting to gain entry into competitive colleges and careers. Tai's goal has been to “close the gaps” for underserved students by creating a quality preparatory program to help high-achieving middle schoolers get into top high schools. Now entering their 6th year of operation, AdmissionSquad has evolved to offer online and in-person education programs at scale to empower and equip driven students to achieve their dreams. In light of the global pandemic that faced students all over the world, AdmissionSquad was proud to be in a position to quadruple enrollment and provide consistent access to quality enrichment so students could continue to thrive academically. Tai has been seen on CBS, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and more.  Find Tai at taiabrams.com and @iamtaiabrams. LINKS Who Am I? An A-Z Career Guide for Teens Why standardized testing is as valuable as ever School to Wealth Pipeline podcast RELATED EPISODES WHEN GIFTED AND TALENTED STUDENTS STRUGGLE WHY SELECTIVE SPECIALIZED SCHOOLS MATTER COLLEGE ADMISSIONS FOR TWICE-EXCEPTIONAL LEARNERS ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page.

Episode Summary: Our guest today once worked as a chemical engineer at Chevron. He now has over thirty-six years of real estate industry experience that helps him provide great insights for industry agents. Joining us is Ira Serkes, Real Estate Specialist at Compass Realty. Ira and his wife Carol specialize in helping sell and buy homes in Berkeley and the surrounding communities.  In this episode, join Ira and me to discover some of the advice Ira has to share from being in the industry for over three decades. We also discuss Ira's community and photography blog and his definition of work/life balance. Top Takeaways:  Ira Serkes' Advice for New Agents Ira Serkes had many great pieces of advice for new agents. He first recommends the book Ninja Selling by Larry Kendall, citing the book and the correlating class as the best he has taken and read.  Ira also shares his idea on real estate by saying, "Real estate is not your life; it simply funds it."  Ira mentions The Regret Minimization Framework concept, the thought process to minimize one's life regrets.  Ira urges new agents to seek a harmonious life rather than a balanced life as there will be many times when things in life require more time than usual.  Ira finished by saying, "Always remember what is important." As we reflect on the years, it is more evident than ever that we do not know what tomorrow will bring.  "That's my mission, is to let people be aware of these [decisive, life-altering] moments and recognize them ideally in time. Also, to recognize that real estate is not your life. It simply funds your life. The thing that is truly important is to live your life in a way that when you look back, you don't say, 'Gee, I wish I would have done something.'" – Ira Serkes [12:11] "I've never seen my role as selling things; that's a byproduct. What's it a byproduct of? Providing buyers or sellers with information so that they can make the right decision." – Ira Serkes [14:57] Episode Highlights: [00:18] Intro  [00:44] Meet Ira Serkes – Bronx to Berkeley  [01:25] Growing Up in the Bronx  [03:23] Attending the Bronx High School of Science  [06:04] Pursuing a Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering at Cooper Union  [09:15] Attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst for Master's  [10:07] Patents and Seizing the Opportunities Life Offers  [12:40] Working with Engineers in the Real Estate Industry  [17:20] Working for Chevron Led to Living in Berkeley Since 1974  [21:27] What Living in Berkeley Is Like  [24:26] Ira's Blog BerkeleyHomes.com  [28:03] Tips on Building a Business and Referring Out Leads  [35:29] Master of Yelp Reviews  [39:36] Ira's Advice for New Agents  [44:53] Connect with Ira  [45:46] Closing Thoughts  [46:17] Outro  Episode Notes:  Joining us today is Ira Serkes, Real Estate Specialist at Compass Realty, helping buyers and sellers alike in the Berkeley and surrounding communities. Ira Serkes grew up in the Bronx in New York City, sharing that he grew up with a view of the Bronx Zoo and frequently visited. Ira attended The Bronx High School of Science before attending The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. At Cooper Union, Ira Serkes earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. Ira continued his education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received his Master's in Chemical Engineering.  Ira Serkes describes his life as changing through countless one sentence decisive moments. One of those moments was taking a position as Research Engineer at Chevron in Berkeley, where he has now resided since 1974. Another one of those moments in his life led him to real estate. After investing in his first property, a seven-plex apartment building in Berkeley, Ira met his wife Carol, and they have been married...

Shawn Hardie chats with his former Bronx High School of Science classmate, NY State Senator Jamaal Bailey. They discuss why he decided to enter politics (2:15), his accomplishments in office, including repealing Section 50-a of the NY Civil Rights Law (which hid performance records of police officers) (20:00), how America has changed since 2016 (29:30) and why every vote matters, particularly in local elections (34:42). Finally, they discuss how their beloved New York Knicks can become contenders again (39:20). Follow Let The Minutes Reflect on Instagram and Twitter.

Larry Brooks Hockey hall of fame  plaque sits beside such literary legends as Red Fisher, Al Laney and Michael Farber, His passion for hockey began as a child growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, going on to Bronx High School of Science and then CCNY. He found his way to The Post in 1976, starting in rewrite and then getting the Islanders beat. He also covered baseball during that time, including the famous 1977 Yankees.In 1978, Brooks began covering the Rangers, and the next season, he segued into a role as a hockey columnist while still covering baseball. He left the paper in 1982 to become vice president of communications for the Devils, which included being the color commentator on radio.  By 1993, he returned to The Post and covered the Devils, adding the now-famous Sunday column known as Slap Shots in 1995. He reclaimed the Rangers beat in 1996,  and has stayed on the Blueshirts ever since. Tune in each week on 540 am in NY NJ CT and streaming on www.sportstalknylive.com as well as facebook live at 7pm Sundays for the live broadcast.Please take a moment to like our fan page WLIE 540 AM SPORTSTALKNY and follow us on twitter @sportstalkny and please check out Mark Rosenman and AJ Carters author page on amazon to purchase any of their books.

The hilarious Paul Provenza joins Eddie to chat about growing up in New York, Bronx High School of Science, and his prolific acting career. Paul is a stand-up comic, actor, director and producer. He has appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Northern Exposure, and directed The Aristocrats, a fantastic documentary about a dirty joke.

A Bronx native, graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and NYU Stern School of Business (BS '92). Troy is a 20 year+ Wall Street veteran with extensive buy & sell side trading experience at premier US & International firms and near 5 years as an angel investor in Vietnam.Support Wall Street Bound here: https://kindest.com/campaign/support-wall-street-bound

Today we explore what mathematicians would refer to as the non-trivial intersection between science and poetry. Guiding us through these overlapping sets is a person uniquely suited to the task, the science writer Dava Sobel. Dava is the author of prominent and best-selling science history books, including Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, A More Perfect Heaven, and The Glass Universe. She is also the editor of Meter, the poetry series in Scientific American. Dava began her career as a science journalist in 1970. She worked as a science writer for the Cornell University News Bureau and as a reporter for the New York Times. She also wrote pieces for many other outlets, including Harvard Magazine, Omni, Science Digest, Discover, Audubon, Life, and The New Yorker. She says that her best academic credential is undoubtedly her diploma from the Bronx High School of Science, where she graduated in 1964. Dava has received numerous literary prizes in recognition of her outstanding contributions to science history.

Kevin Ahern and Kyle Ahren, the 2019 NSDA National Champions in Duo Interpretation, share their advice for succeeding in Duo Interpretation. They will be coaches at the Ascend Debate camp this summer! Code ASCENDYOUTH at Ascend Debate Camp: https://www.ascendspeech.org/summer-program Kyle is a senior at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, FL, where he has served as Vice President and Speech Captain of his team. In the fall, Kyle will attend the University of Texas at Austin to pursue a degree in journalism. Kyle has competed in all the Interpretation events and has seen out rounds at national and state tournaments in all of them. Mainly competing in Duo and POI, he has championed the NSDA National Tournament, The Florida State Tournament, Florida Blue Key, The University of Texas at Austin’s Longhorn Classic, The Cypress Bay Tradition, and Nova Titan. Kyle also has made several final round appearances at Emory’s Barkley Forum (Duo and POI), The Tournament of Champions (Duo), The New York City Invitational (Duo and POI), George Mason University's Patriot Games (Duo, POI, and OI), and The Sunvitational (Duo and POI). Kyle believes that the interpretation of literature is an exercise in innovation and encourages students to try new things. He hopes to help students create performances that are personally fulfilling, intelligent, and rooted in advocacy. When not competing at tournaments or practicing his speeches, Kyle is an avid consumer of podcasts and films. His favorite movies include Parasite (duh), Little Women, Donnie Darko, and Eighth Grade. Kevin Ahern is a senior at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in Florida, where he serves as his Speech and Debate team’s President. He will be attending the University of Texas at Austin this fall and plans to compete on their forensics team. Kevin has competed in almost all the Interpretation events including Duo Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, Oral Interpretation, and Program Oral Interpretation. Most notably, Kevin was named the 2019 NSDA National Champion and final round winner in Duo Interpretation. Other significant accomplishments include championships at the FFL Varsity State Tournament, Patriot Games at George Mason University, the Florida Blue Key Invitational, The University of Texas at Austin’s Longhorn Classic, The Tradition at Cypress Bay, and the Nova Titan Invitational. Kevin has also seen final rounds at the Harvard National Forensics Tournament, the Barkley Forum for High School Students at Emory University, The Tournament of Champions, The Sunvitational, and the New York City Invitational hosted by the Bronx High School of Science. Nathan Fair has interviewed many National Champions. He has qualified for NSDA Nationals, qualified to NCFL Nationals and served as the presiding officer, and he broke to semifinals at a TOC qualifying tournament. He has placed 2nd at three separate varsity Congressional Debate tournaments. Finally, he served as a Presiding Officer for the Urban Debate League's tournament. His success was garnered after using the skills that are shared in this video.

In this inaugural episode of #IDTALK4EDLIVE, I had the pleasure of interviewing Stephanie Edmonds, who is a 10th Grade Global Studies Teacher at Bronx Law High School. She is also the host of the "Class Disruption" podcast, which you can catch every Friday on Instagram and YouTube. Tune in as we talk about establishing a healthy work-life balance as parents, developing a growth mindset as teachers, "staying foolish" in the process, and much more! BIO: Stephanie Edmonds is a New York City educator currently working at the Bronx High School for Law and Community Service, teaching 10th grade global history and serving as the reading intervention specialist and the Director of the Office of Student Life. Her approach to the classroom is a reflection of her "stay foolish" philosophy - the idea that learning happens when you are being your authentic self and having fun with it. In this way, Stephanie designs authentic learning experiences by pairing the content of the state's curriculum with projects that ask students to use real world skills to apply their knowledge. Some examples include class debates, writing and acting out plays, creating class newspapers, and making short documentaries. As Director of the Office of Student Life, Stephanie is able to fully realize her mission of authentic student learning by supporting all of her school's student clubs through leadership development and running school-wide events throughout the year. Perhaps she is most proud of introducing to her school, its first ever student government. And yet, the breadth and depth of the work to be done, keeps her humbled and focused on one thing - finding the small cracks between the prescribed state curriculum, the unfunded policy initiatives, the state testing, and the directives of administration to create the space to serve the wide variety of needs of her students. Remember, "Stay Foolish y'all!" You can connect with Stephanie on the following social media platforms: Instagram - @class.disruption Twitter - @classdisrupti0n --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/identitytalk4educators/support

Rob Massimi is one of those teachers that we all remember from high school. High energy, creative, humorous and someone who believes in giving his students agency to drive their own learning. In this podcast, Rob, an Economics teacher at Bronx High School of Science, describes his favorite activity, the Wheat Market game, shares his students' anxieties about money and highlights his approach to teaching investing. It's clear that he's created an Econ course that his students will remember. Enjoy! 

Witnessing her mom's health after a stroke, Sheila felt compelled to write her mom's story, then realized she wanted to write more. She transitioned from her first act to her second act as an author or dreamer, where she does not experience objective measurements. Sheila is very passionate about language, as she loves the way words and images resonate. She feels that writing is a way to share what experiences have taught her and to express her truth. Sheila shares the following powerful nuggets of life wisdom: - a book is the heart that beats in the chest of another - don't be afraid to make mistakes - don't second guess yourself - just keep going - transition takes time and can't be rushed - make decisions that bring you joy - for those that are transitioning from act one to act two:  you may not see the new work coming, embrace the surge, recognize that it will take time, the new work does not invalidate the old, it builds on it. Also, if you choose to take pursue a second act, then you get to keep your passions, you get to revise your purpose and find a payoff that you might not have previously anticipated. Writing as a "second act" is thrilling and humbling. Sheila uses skills and work habits learned in her first act to express thoughts and feelings--the fruit of decades--that she hadn't articulated before. She's still engaged with the world, but she's exploring in a different dimension. In addition to career and motherhood, she's practiced yoga, hiked, and dabbled in foreign languages. Born in a taxi in Manhattan, she studied at the Bronx High School of Science, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. She continues to live in Phoenix with her husband and her new, rescued dog. https://www.sheilagrinell.com/  https://www.instagram.com/sheilagrinell/  https://www.facebook.com/Sheila-Grinell-author-778119465648171/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheila-grinell-041b915  http://experiencemattersaz.org  https://designingyour.life/  tags:  Sheila, Grinell, author, The, Contract, Appetite, Novel, storiesthatempower.com, stories that empower, empowering stories, empowerment stories, stories of empowerment, stories of empowering others, self empowerment stories, stories empower, inspire, inspiring, inspiration, uplift, uplifting, upliftment, hope, light, Sean  

“What matters is: Are you a good problem solver? Are you moral? Are you a hard worker? Are you a good leader? Do you have insights into the field? These are the questions that matter.” — Neil deGrasse TysonAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) was appointed the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in 1996. Dr. Tyson’s professional research interests are primarily related to the structure of the Milky Way galaxy, and the formation of stars, supernovas, and dwarf galaxies.Dr. Tyson graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, received his BA from Harvard, and earned his PhD in astrophysics from Columbia University in 1991. In 2001 he was appointed by President Bush to serve on the 12-member Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry. In 2004 Dr. Tyson received a second appointment from President Bush, this time to the nine-member President’s Commission on the Implementation of the United States Space Exploration Policy (dubbed the “Moon, Mars, and Beyond” commission). In 2016 he was appointed by the US secretary of defense to be an advisor to the DoD on the future of sci-tech innovation.Dr. Tyson has been awarded 21 honorary degrees as well as the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, and he has authored multiple books on the universe, including Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier, Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, which was a New York Times bestseller, and The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet, chronicling his experience at the center of the controversy over Pluto’s planetary status.His newest book is Letters from an Astrophysicist, a companion to his 2017 bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.Since 2006 Dr. Tyson has appeared as the on-camera host of PBS-NOVA’s spinoff program NOVA ScienceNOW. He also hosts a popular radio show and podcast called StarTalk in addition to the Emmy-nominated StarTalk TV show on National Geographic.In 2014 Dr. Tyson hosted a reboot of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep. I recently moved into a new home and needed new beds, and I purchased mattresses from Helix Sleep. It offers mattresses personalized to your preferences and sleeping style without costing thousands of dollars. Visit HelixSleep.com/TIM and take the simple 2-3 minute sleep quiz to get started, and the team there will match you to a mattress you’ll love.Their customer service makes all the difference. The mattress arrives within a week, and the shipping is completely free. You can try the mattress for 100 nights, and if you’re not happy, it’ll pick it up and offer a full refund. To personalize your sleep experience, visit HelixSleep.com/TIM and you’ll receive up to $125 off your custom mattress.This episode is also brought to you by ShipStation. Do you sell stuff online? Then you know what a pain the shipping process is. Whether you’re selling on eBay, Amazon, Shopify, or over 100 other popular selling channels, ShipStation was created to make your life easier. ShipStation lets you access all of your orders from one simple dashboard, it works with all of the major shipping carriers, locally and globally, including FedEx, UPS, and USPS.Tim Ferriss Show listeners get to try ShipStation free for 60 days by using promo code TIM. There’s no risk and you can start your free trial without even entering your credit card info. Just visit ShipStation.com, click on the microphone at the top of the homepage, and type in TIM!***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the form at tim.blog/sponsor.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss

A native of New York City, Eric Branco attended The Bronx High School of Science and the School of Visual Arts before beginning his career in film. Branco has lensed several feature films including V/H/S (dir. Glenn McQuaid), EMERALD CITY (dir. Colin Broderick), and most recently, CLEMENCY (dir. Chinonye Chukwu), which took home the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. He has also shot numerous short films, such as NIGHT SHIFT (dir. Marshall Tyler), THE RIVER (dir. Sam Handel), MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES (dir. Alfonso Johnson), and THE COMPOSITOR (dir. John Mattiuzzi), winner of a 2013 Student Academy Award. Branco's work has screened at festivals worldwide, including Sundance, TriBeCa, Slamdance and SXSW. He was recently named one of Variety's "10 Cinematographers to Watch" 2019. Eric splits time between NYC and Los Angeles. On days off, he can usually be found in the upper deck of Yankee Stadium with his wife and daughter.

In this birthday special UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the first year of the podcast, the weekly contributions photographers have made, the themes that have developed, the importance of 'having a go' and the 'personal' in photography. Plus this week photographer Elliott Landy takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and The Baruch College of the City University of New York Elliott Landy began his photographic career working with Underground newspapers in support of the rising tide of anti-war sentiment throughout the United States during the late 1960s. His press pass and camera not only gave him access to the political scene but also provided him a personal entry into the new rock music counterculture. Albert Grossman who managed the careers of many of the most popular and successful performers of folk and rock music including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Peter, Paul and Mary, Richie Havens and The Band had seen Elliott's images of Janis Joplin and invited him to photograph The Band in Woodstock, photographs that were used on their iconic Music From Big Pink album. During this time, Elliott met Bob Dylan and his photo of him appeared on the cover of the September 1968 edition of the Saturday Evening Post. Within the next few years his celebrated images included portraits of Bob Dylan for his album Nashville Skyline, Janis Joplin for the Big Brother & The Holding Company album Cheap Thrills, Van Morrison for the album Moondance, alongside images of  Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Joan Baez, Eric Clapton, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Frank Zappa, John Lee Hooker and many others. His iconic photographs of Dylan and The Band during the years they resided and recorded in the small arts colony of Woodstock, NY and his coverage of the 1969 Woodstock Festival became synonymous with the town, and the famed 1969 Music Festival. Since 1967 Elliott's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide and published on the covers of major US and international magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, Life, Rolling Stone and the Saturday Evening Post. He is the author of eight books including his latest monograph, The Band Photographs, 1968-1969 which was the highest funded photographic book in Kickstarter history. In 1997 Landy began a syndicated column and website to recommend positive life-affirming films and films with strong, loving, accomplished woman as protagonists. He has created a new interactive music and video App, LandyVision, which lets the user blend still and video imagery with music to create a new form of musical and visual experience. After years of metaphysical observation, Landy developed and offers 'Sharing Stillness' Meditations, in which he transmits a spiritual (non-physical) energy that enables one to quickly reach a deep, meditative state. https://elliottlandy.com You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast Grant Scott is the founder/curator of the United Nations of Photography, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His next book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. He is currently work on his next documentary film project Woke Up This Morning: The Rock n' Roll Thunder of Ray Lowry. © Grant Scott 2019

The tables are turned in this very special episode, with Lon interviewing "Bri" about his childhood, Bronx High School of Science, Stoicism, and happiness.  (1:03).

4-22-19 Interview The Lynne Show Pod cast can be heard and downloaded at https://thelynneshow.com/?p=3978&preview=true and thelynneshow.com 4/15/19 Judith Leeds is an artist. She has always been an artist. But because she was so smart, in a special track in elementary school and easily got into Bronx High School of Science, her father insisted that she […]

Joseph A. Bondy is a federal criminal defense and cannabis business attorney in private practice in Manhattan. The New York Times has called him “armed with the eloquent demeanor of a surgeon,” with an “oratorical intensity [that] hovers at the evangelistic.” A native New Yorker, Mr. Bondy is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Columbia University, and Brooklyn Law School. He is admitted to practice law in New York State, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York, the District of Colorado, and the District of Connecticut, the United States Courts of Appeal for the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Circuits, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Bondy has been privileged to represent nearly one thousand clients, from all walks of life, in all stages of litigation. His dedicated courtroom advocacy and written work have resulted repeatedly in dismissals, trial acquittals, and appellate reversals. Mr. Bondy is a life member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and a life member of the legal committee for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). The American College of Trial Lawyers rates Mr. Bondy as one of the top 100 criminal trial attorneys in the United States. Mr. Bondy is also the Vice-President of the Cannabis Cultural Association (CCA), and founder of the cannabis law and policy livestream, In the Know 420. He advocates nationally on social justice, criminal law reform, and ending cannabis prohibition, and is a long-time faculty member at Cardozo Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP). Find NetWorkWise on: Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube LinkedIn  Reddit

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss If Cats Disappeared from the World, SHOUT, When the Irish Invaded Canada, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Libro.fm, The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson, out now from Grove Press, and ThirdLove. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: If, Then: A Novel by Kate Hope Day SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson [TW: Sexual Assault] When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland's Freedom by Christopher Klein Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope by Karamo Brown I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter by David Chariandy The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel by Genki Kawamura, Eric Selland (translator) Heroine by Mindy McGinnis [TW: Drug abuse, addiction, opioids] What we're reading: Internment by Samira Ahmed Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum More books out this week: Beware the Night by Jessika Fleck Tin Heart: A Novel by Shivaun Plozza The Woman in the Dark by Vanessa Savage My Very '90s Romance: A Novel by Jenny Colgan A Dangerous Collaboration (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery) by Deanna Raybourn The Summer of Dead Birds by Ali Liebegott American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan by Matt Farwell and Michael Ames Bertie: The Complete Prince of Wales Mysteries (Bertie and the Tinman, Bertie and the Seven Bodies, Bertie and and the Crime of Passion) by Peter Lovesey Prince: The Last Interview (The Last Interview Series) by Prince and Hanif Abdurraqib tsunami vs. the fukushima 50: poems by Lee Ann Roripaugh American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt by Stephanie Marie Thornton The True Queen (A Sorcerer to the Crown Novel) by Zen Cho The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson The Women Who Dared: To Break All the Rules by Jeremy Scott Fall Back Down When I Die by Joe Wilkins Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin  When the Sky Fell on Splendor by Emily Henry Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood by Andrew Rannells Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It) by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss Article 353 by Tanguy Viel, William Rodarmor (translator) The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack by HM Naqvi A Beautiful Corpse: A Mystery (A Harper McClain Mystery) by Christi Daugherty New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Pounding the Rock: Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx High School by Marc Skelton House on Fire by Bonnie Kistler Bloodleaf by Crystal Smith The Rosewater Insurrection (The Wormwood Trilogy) by Tade Thompson Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds Squad by Mariah MacCarthy The DNA of You and Me: A Novel by Andrea Rothman The Near-Witch by V.E. Schwab Ruse by Cindy Pon Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day by Giles Milton The Liar's Child: A Novel by Carla Buckley Mars: Stories by Asja Bakić, Jennifer Zoble (Translator) Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love by Abby Maslin All the Wrong Places by Joy Fielding On Intersectionality: Essential Writings by Kimberlé Crenshaw Tiny Americans: A Novel by Devin Murphy The Night Swimmers by Peter Rock A Desert Harvest: New and Selected Essays by Bruce Berger How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding by Ted Floyd Grace After Henry by Eithne Shortall Solitary by Albert Woodfox The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library by Edward Wilson-Lee This Scot of Mine: The Rogue Files by Sophie Jordan The Club by Takis Würger, Charlotte Collins (translator) Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez Elegant Defense, An: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives by Matt Richtel Izzy + Tristan by Shannon Dunlap Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning by Victoria Shorr Me for You by Lolly Winston The Tesla Legacy by K.K. Perez Another Kind of Madness: A Novel by Ed Pavlić Another Last Day: Poems by Alex Lemon A Boy of Good Breeding: A Novel by Miriam Toews Mercy River: A Van Shaw Novel by Glen Erik Hamilton The Widening Gyre by Michael R. Johnston

Being a big fish in a small pond can set unrealistic expectations. Dr. Anne Kaplan shares her experience with going to college. Follow NIU STEAM on Twitter: twitter.com/niusteam Facebook: www.facebook.com/NIUSTEAM/ Transcript: KB: Past successes are awesome! It feels great to have a win, and those wins can help us build self-confidence. Self-confidence can be a great asset—except when it's not. I'm Kristin Brynteson, and this is Failure Bites, the podcast where successful people tell bite-size stories of failure, growth, and success. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Anne Kaplan, vice president of Outreach, Engagement, and Regional Development here at NIU. Dr. Kaplan talks about her lessons learned when she took the plunge from high school to college. AK: Well, I would say my most spectacular failure at least psychologically was failing to test out of freshman rhetoric when I went to college. And the reason that was so alarming to me I suppose goes back to the fact that I grew up in a little town in the northwest part of the state. Its population was 1400, part of a consolidated school district where even with three little towns, we had a senior class of 50 and that included everybody. And I was something of a superstar in my class of 50. I was the class president, I was the editor of the yearbook, I was the lead in all the plays, I was the drum major... Anything that needed leading I would do, and anything that need writing I would do because everybody thought I could write better than anybody else, and I was so smitten by my own successes that I applied to one college, not imagining that anybody would turn me down. They didn't, which was something of a miracle after the fact, but when I got there, all students had an opportunity to test out of freshman rhetoric, which of course I thought I could do because I was an A+ student. I was going to college to be an English major. What's so hard about freshman rhetoric? Well, it was harder than I thought, and I did not test out of freshman rhetoric, which was quite a shock and set me on a completely different path through college where… for… the freshman rhetoric situation was only one example in many because the college was really very selective, recruited a lot of students cross country. So, I got there and had a roommate from Bronx High School of Science and was surrounded on my floor by kids from New Trier, people who had had all kinds of AP courses. My school didn't offer any AP courses, so, as a result, I was frankly terrified for about the first three terms, and I did nothing but study. In the end, I was probably very well served by that because the kids who came into school with far more robust academic backgrounds than I had were coasting, and in the end, I graduated with honors and I did quite a bit better than some of my more privileged colleagues. But I did learn this it's important to note the size of the pool when you think you're going to make a big splash, and really what had happened to me was that I was a very good student in a very small puddle. And that was a lesson that I took to heart and probably have used ever since. KB: Success is contextual. Sometimes, success comes easy because we are not being challenged. The challenges we have faced in one context have become familiar; we have already conquered them. Just because you can do a lap in your small pond does not mean you are ready to take on the Olympic-size pool. Your first, second, or third attempts might feel like they end in failure, but that failure shouldn't stop you it just means you need to work harder, study more, or in the words of our favorite forgetful fish, “just keep swimming.” I'm Kristin Brynteson, and this was Failure Bites. For more stories, leave a review, and subscribe! This podcast was produced by NIU STEAM at Northern Illinois University. Your future, our focus. www.niu.edu/niusteam

Andrew Smith Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Cerego (cerego.com), delivers an informative overview of the ways we learn and how technology and AI is improving learning and increasing retention. Lewis's passion for research was spawned at the Bronx High School of Science, and it was his insatiable curiosity for learning that carried him on to become one of the founders of Cerego's learning method. Lewis and his team launched Cerego to create an open platform that could improve memory and quantify knowledge. His obsession with advanced learning was the motivation behind his successful launch of three education and technology companies, including the notable Princeton Review of Japan.  As Lewis states, their mission is to make people smarter and improve learning through the use of AI and cognitive science. Lewis's company, Cerego, is an advanced platform that can successfully drive a business or collaborative team's training, learning, and skill set acquisition opportunities. Simple to use, yet multidimensional within, Cerego's platform reinvents the basic elements of learning software by focusing on precisely how people learn as opposed to what they learn, for a more immersive learning experience that gets results. Cerego is revolutionizing the learning and training process for many companies and universities, and others are coming forward steadily to adapt Cerego's successful platform for their teams. Lewis explains the importance of meta-cognition and the concept that very smart people may not necessarily be efficient learners, and Lewis intends to improve learning for everyone with his technology. The platform's algorithms deliver a schedule that efficiently guides learning for each individual, to help them achieve the maximum success in a manner that works for them by integrating detailed learning data, detailed scientific models of memory decay, and of course—the individual's own personal learning history. Cerego users have achieved stellar results, as Cerego utilizes evidence-supported cognitive science algorithms working at the root of the platform to deliver instructional and quiz content to users at the right time, before the information is forgotten, which supports their learning and increases retention. Lewis discusses the error corrective model, which is essential the platform's ability to learn and improve how it delivers its information pursuant to each individual's unique process. And he expounds upon some of the specific advantages, such as success rates for users and how in addition to the elevated number of users who now pass their tests more easily and quickly, their retention of the learned information is greatly increased as well. Additionally, instructors are reducing training time and repurposing that time on more one-on-one personal student interactions. Lewis discusses the company's focus on K-12 education, higher education, corporate, and government applications. Lewis explains how higher learning through technology teaching methods helps to create better, more satisfied employees and more successful, empowered students. Additionally, employers can access the learning data on individual employees, which can help employers place their employees into specific job functions, tasks, and areas in which they are best suited and will excel. 

On this special edition of Patch Notes. Adam Castar and Desiree Joy Frias sit down with the League of Legends team from the Bronx High School of Science to discuss video games, esports and what the future holds for professional video game players.For more information or if you want to be featured on an episode of Patch Notes, email Adam at adam@radiofreesouthbronx.com. This episode was produced and hosted by Adam Castar and Desiree Joy Frias and edited by Maximilian Camacho. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

https://entrearchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Carol-Kurth-Headshot-PK5063.jpg () 5 Steps to Success and Relevance in Architecture with Carol Kurth, FAIA Carol is the owner of https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiWhODyi9_VAhUE-J8KHW1oCwEQFggpMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarolkurtharchitects.com%2F&usg=AFQjCNEZrkV5wXr2fQ18g0nv_p7lEV6E1A (Carol Kurth Architecture + Interiors) in Bedford, New York. She specializes in architecture and interiors, and does some beautiful work. She’s a popular keynote speaker who’s sought after for her insights on architecture, design, sustainability and design trends. She’s won multiple awards and has been featured in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more. She’s been featured on NBC News and MTV Cribs. She’s a long time friend of Mark’s and he’s learned so much from her. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, 5 Steps to Success and Relevance in Architecture with Carol Kurth, FAIA. Carol’s Origin Story Carol grew up in Washington Heights in the northern tip of Manhattan. Looking across the Hudson River, she could see the New Jersey cliffs in the distance. She was really interested in crafts growing up, particularly making dolls and doll houses. When she was 13, she took a class at The Cloisters on doll-making and the New York Times featured her. She ended up going to The Bronx High School of Science and loved her technical drawing and drafting class. A distant relative, Irwin Chanin, who was very philanthropic and had lots of buildings named after him. He also designed the Chanin Building. Carol was very close to his wife growing up, and her aunt recognized Carol’s passion for dolls and dollhouses and encouraged her. She attended City College’s School of Architecture and loved being at an architecture school in the middle of the city where your professors were practicing architects whose work in the city you could actually see. How did you start practicing architecture? Carol worked throughout school for professors or doing part-time jobs. She worked in Seattle for a while and then got a job at the end of her fourth year where she ended up becoming a partner, marrying her former husband, and building a practice. In 1995 she went off on her own and opened her firm in Bedford. She’s been specializing in residential and commercial architecture. Many are on complicated sites, and Carol has always been undaunted by cliffs. 5 Steps to Success and Relevance 1: Choose and develop a target market In the beginning, Carol was in a firm where they did a little bit of everything and she didn’t feel the passion there. For her, the passion always came from the site, the building, and the client’s vision. There’s no two sets of clients, budgets, or sites that are alike, and the variety is what she thrives on. She loves the wholistic vision of working with a client to find a site all the way down to deciding on the table settings. 2: Schedule time for marketing and public relations Architects were pretty much advised to market and advertise until 1978, and architects didn’t really get the message until the mid 1980s. There was a long lag time between the logistics of allowing marketing happened and when architects actually went to do it. Carol felt she was on the early end and was always fascinated with the media. What is the relevance of architecture and design to clients? How do we keep ourselves fresh and at the forefront? Big firms have big marketing and PR divisions in their firms, perhaps 3-5 people who are dealing with their marketing. That means small firms need to know that too. Carol would spend the first hour of her day returning calls to new clients or doing something public relations and marketing wise like writing a paragraph, scheduling a photoshoot, or reaching out to a magazine....

Today's Flash Back Friday takes us to Episode 63 from December 2011. Join Jason Hartman and Jonathan Zap, researcher and philosopher, as they explore the psychology behind apocalyptic prophecies. Prophecies of the end times abound all over the world and have for decades upon decades. Search “end times” on the internet and you will find a host of books, websites, blogs, and articles on the subject. You will also find a plethora of speculations as to how it will come about. Where do all of these prophecies originate? In ancient texts? In dreams? Perhaps in the collective of human unconsciousness. Jonathan Zap calls this latter concept the Singularity Archetype, archetypes that help explain death and rebirth, changes that take place in people's lives, and their motivations. Listen for a deeper understanding of Jonathan's research at www.HolisticSurvival.com. Jonathan Zap grew up in the Bronx, attended the Bronx High School of Science, and graduated from Ursinus College with honors in Philosophy and English, and earned his Masters degree in English from NYU. Jonathan wears many hats. He is a photographer, author, teacher, paranormal researcher, and philosopher. He has written extensively on psychology and contemporary mythology, and he has worked as a staff gemologist and instructor for the Gemological Institute of America. He has also taught high school and college English courses and worked as the Dean of a South Bronx High School, helping troubled youth. He has led inner city kids and other youth on wilderness expeditions to remote desert canyons and to the summit of Mount Ranier. Jonathan has published numerous articles, many of which have been published by Reality Sandwich, essays, and experimental works of fiction and the Zap Oracle. He has also done numerous radio and television shows, including appearances on Coast to Coast AM. He has an extensive background in Jungian psychology, paranormal research, and dream interpretation. He uses the tools of Jungian psychology to study popular culture, contemporary mythology, and dreams. Originally published here Website: www.ZapOracle.com

The family of Wan Li Zhu did not see a future in China. His parents, persecuted by the one-party state, came to America when Wan Li was ten years old. China’s great loss became America’s brilliant gain. Wan Li benefited from high-quality public education at Bronx High School of Science and went on to a perfect grade-point average at MIT. He studied under renowned quant wiz Andrew Lo and was poised for a career on Wall Street but was lured away by the prospect of hands-on responsibility for product features at Microsoft. After a prodigiously successful stint, during which he was involved in building and marketing Dynamics CRM, MS’ fastest-growing product, he went to Harvard Business School. From HBS he was recruited by early-stage VC firm Fairhaven Capital. The firm, known for its expertise in web security and digital advertising, now sees promise in various applications of artificial intelligence starting with self-driving technology. Wan Li is deeply engaged in bringing on the next generation of winning investments at Fairhaven Capital. Despite a busy professional life, Wan Li Zhu has found time to advise startups and to co-found MIT Angels in Boston. I learned a ton from my conversation with this wise, yet unassuming VC. Here is a list of some of the topics broached: Wan Li Zhu Bio From Persecution in Communist China to Bronx High School of Science Studied with MIT Professor Andrew Lo – Used Natural Language Processing to Assess Market Sentiment Why Wan Li Zhu Went to Microsoft – Three Years at MS – Shipped Three Versions of the Product Wan Li Zhu Connects with Fairhaven Capital through HBS Resume Book Fairhaven Capital Is Thesis-driven – Attentive to Market Trends that Could Create Large Opportunities How the Fairhaven Capital Portfolio Is Doing What Wan Li Zhu Looks for in a Startup Investment Experienced Founders Can Actually Time Markets TVision Came Via MIT Angels – Measuring Engagement of TV Viewers AirFox – Enabling Wireless Carriers to Offer More Affordable Data Plans MIT Angels Company PathAI’s Deep Learning System Is Better at Detecting Tumor Cells than Human Pathologists Latch – Enterprise-grade Keyless Access System for Apartment Buildings The Investment Wan Li Zhu Regrets Not Making Wise VC Wan Li Zhu Continues to Be Very Bullish on AI

Dedication: Agent Edwin Pabón-Robles, Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto RicoEnd of Watch: Friday, September 23, 2016Jeffrey Stephens was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at the age of 16; he completed a B.A. in Creative Writing from Pennsylvania State University at 19. Jeffrey began his first novel in 1970, which would not be completed for several years as he entered the Fordham University School of Law. His private legal practice has included extensive civil and criminal courtroom experience, and he has represented a wide range of celebrity clients. Continuing to practice law while completing several novels, he only recently decided to pursue his career as a novelist in earnest, with the encouragement of his wife, Nancy.He is a contributor on DailySurge.comNancy and Jeffrey live in Greenwich, Connecticut, where they raised two sons, Graham and Trevor. All avid skiers, golfers and tennis players, they have traveled extensively as a family throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, including a fateful trip years ago to Portofino, Italy, the setting for the climax of TARGETS OF DECEPTION. jeffreystephens.com** James O'Keefe, Project Veritas latest scandal unveiled! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzYSouthern Sense is conservative talk Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Agent Edwin Pabón-Robles, Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto RicoEnd of Watch: Friday, September 23, 2016Jeffrey Stephens was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at the age of 16; he completed a B.A. in Creative Writing from Pennsylvania State University at 19. Jeffrey began his first novel in 1970, which would not be completed for several years as he entered the Fordham University School of Law. His private legal practice has included extensive civil and criminal courtroom experience, and he has represented a wide range of celebrity clients. Continuing to practice law while completing several novels, he only recently decided to pursue his career as a novelist in earnest, with the encouragement of his wife, Nancy.He is a contributor on DailySurge.comNancy and Jeffrey live in Greenwich, Connecticut, where they raised two sons, Graham and Trevor. All avid skiers, golfers and tennis players, they have traveled extensively as a family throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, including a fateful trip years ago to Portofino, Italy, the setting for the climax of TARGETS OF DECEPTION. jeffreystephens.com** James O'Keefe, Project Veritas latest scandal unveiled! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzYSouthern Sense is conservative talk Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Agent Edwin Pabón-Robles, Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto RicoEnd of Watch: Friday, September 23, 2016Jeffrey Stephens was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at the age of 16; he completed a B.A. in Creative Writing from Pennsylvania State University at 19. Jeffrey began his first novel in 1970, which would not be completed for several years as he entered the Fordham University School of Law. His private legal practice has included extensive civil and criminal courtroom experience, and he has represented a wide range of celebrity clients. Continuing to practice law while completing several novels, he only recently decided to pursue his career as a novelist in earnest, with the encouragement of his wife, Nancy.He is a contributor on DailySurge.comNancy and Jeffrey live in Greenwich, Connecticut, where they raised two sons, Graham and Trevor. All avid skiers, golfers and tennis players, they have traveled extensively as a family throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, including a fateful trip years ago to Portofino, Italy, the setting for the climax of TARGETS OF DECEPTION. jeffreystephens.com** James O'Keefe, Project Veritas latest scandal unveiled! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzYSouthern Sense is conservative talk Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Agent Edwin Pabón-Robles, Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto Rico End of Watch: Friday, September 23, 2016 Jeffrey Stephens was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at the age of 16; he completed a B.A. in Creative Writing from Pennsylvania State University at 19. Jeffrey began his first novel in 1970, which would not be completed for several years as he entered the Fordham University School of Law. His private legal practice has included extensive civil and criminal courtroom experience, and he has represented a wide range of celebrity clients. Continuing to practice law while completing several novels, he only recently decided to pursue his career as a novelist in earnest, with the encouragement of his wife, Nancy. He is a contributor on DailySurge.com Nancy and Jeffrey live in Greenwich, Connecticut, where they raised two sons, Graham and Trevor. All avid skiers, golfers and tennis players, they have traveled extensively as a family throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, including a fateful trip years ago to Portofino, Italy, the setting for the climax of TARGETS OF DECEPTION. jeffreystephens.com ** James O'Keefe, Project Veritas latest scandal unveiled! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY Southern Sense is conservative talk Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Visit our website at http://www.Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Lieutenant Waldemar Rivera-Santiago, Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto RicoEnd of Watch: Monday, September 5, 2016Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, and "CS" Bennett. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.comCassie Williams, FAIRUS.org handles all media inquiries, pitches stories, conducts research, maintains databases, and works as a liaison between FAIR and the press. She brings experience from multiple political committees, Capitol Hill, and local and national campaigns. She holds B.A. in History, Political Science, and Secondary EducationJeffrey S. Stephens, is a political commentator, contributor to the DailySurge.com, and author of Rogue Mission: A Jordan Sandor Thriller. He was born in New York and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at 16; he completed a B.A. in Creative Writing from Penn State University. He attended Fordham University Law. His private legal practice included civil and criminal courtroom experience, and he has represented a wide range of celebrity clients. He recently decided to pursue his career as a novelist, with the encouragement of his wife, Nancy.They've raised two sons. All avid skiers, golfers and tennis players, they have traveled extensively worldwide, including a fateful trip to Portofino, Italy, the setting for the climax of TARGETS OF DECEPTION. jeffreystephens.com

Dedication: Lieutenant Waldemar Rivera-Santiago, Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto Rico End of Watch: Monday, September 5, 2016 Southern Sense is conservative talk with  Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, and "CS" Bennett.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com Cassie Williams, FAIRUS.org  handles all media inquiries, pitches stories, conducts research, maintains databases, and works as a liaison between FAIR and the press. She brings experience from multiple political committees, Capitol Hill, and local and national campaigns. She holds B.A. in History, Political Science, and Secondary Education Jeffrey S. Stephens, is a political commentator, contributor to the DailySurge.com, and author of Rogue Mission: A Jordan Sandor Thriller.  He was born in New York and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at 16; he completed a B.A. in Creative Writing from Penn State University. He attended Fordham University Law. His private legal practice included civil and criminal courtroom experience, and he has represented a wide range of celebrity clients. He recently decided to pursue his career as a novelist, with the encouragement of his wife, Nancy. They've raised two sons. All avid skiers, golfers and tennis players, they have traveled extensively worldwide, including a fateful trip to Portofino, Italy, the setting for the climax of TARGETS OF DECEPTION. jeffreystephens.com

Dedication: Lieutenant Waldemar Rivera-Santiago, Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto RicoEnd of Watch: Monday, September 5, 2016Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis, and "CS" Bennett. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.comCassie Williams, FAIRUS.org handles all media inquiries, pitches stories, conducts research, maintains databases, and works as a liaison between FAIR and the press. She brings experience from multiple political committees, Capitol Hill, and local and national campaigns. She holds B.A. in History, Political Science, and Secondary EducationJeffrey S. Stephens, is a political commentator, contributor to the DailySurge.com, and author of Rogue Mission: A Jordan Sandor Thriller. He was born in New York and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at 16; he completed a B.A. in Creative Writing from Penn State University. He attended Fordham University Law. His private legal practice included civil and criminal courtroom experience, and he has represented a wide range of celebrity clients. He recently decided to pursue his career as a novelist, with the encouragement of his wife, Nancy.They've raised two sons. All avid skiers, golfers and tennis players, they have traveled extensively worldwide, including a fateful trip to Portofino, Italy, the setting for the climax of TARGETS OF DECEPTION. jeffreystephens.com

PATRICIA PARK was born and raised in Queens and is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. She earned her BA in English from Swarthmore College and an MFA in Fiction from Boston University. A former Fulbright Scholar and Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction, she has published essays in The New York Times, Slice, and the Guardian. She has taught writing at Boston University, CUNY Queens College, and Ewha Womans University in Seoul. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

James Kyson Lee stars in NBC's award-winning ensemble drama series "Heroes" as Ando Masahashi, a boisterous Tokyo executive who embarks on wild adventures with his time-traveling friend Hiro Nakamura. “Heroes” follows the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. Most recently, Lee starred in the Sci-Fi Channel’s TV movie “Termination Shock,” as well as the romantic comedy “White on Rice,” which hits theaters in 2010. At his first television audition, Lee landed a guest-starring role on “J.A.G.” He has since appeared on NBC's “Las Vegas,” “The West Wing” and “Heist,” as well as “Threat Matrix” and “All About the Andersons.” In film, Lee recently starred in the 2008 horror feature, “Shutter.” Born in Seoul, South Korea, Lee moved with his family to New York City at the age of 10. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science and continued his education at Boston University and New England Institute of the Arts, where he studied communications. While in New England Lee enrolled in music, dance, and improvisation courses. Inspired by his newly discovered passion for performing, he sold his used car for $1,800 in the summer of 2001 and purchased a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. Lee began training as a jazz singer, and eventually made the transition from music to acting. A student of improvisation and sketch comedy at I.O. West and the Upright Citizens Brigade, Lee also enjoys playing basketball in the NBA celebrity league and the piano, as well as reading and watching documentaries.