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In this short podcast episode, we explore the fascinating world of conceptual art through the lens of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings and the ongoing debate about authenticity, authorship, and originality. Using the case study of a major LeWitt piece owned by the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, we unpack what it means to “move” a work of art that exists primarily as an idea. Can a redrawn wall drawing still be considered the same artwork? What happens when someone follows LeWitt's instructions without his approval? Join us as we question everything—from the role of artistic intent to the value of replication in conceptual art.

In this episode your host Violet, and guests Ian and Nikole , discuss the difficulties that the Carnegie Institute face with their plans to “move” a Wall Drawing by Sol LeWitt. Is it the same piece of art? Or would it be considered a forgery? Find out what we think, and more, in this episode of the Exploring Art Podcast.

In this episode of the Exploring Art PodcastMari and Lucca dive into Sol LeWitt's Walldrawings and the repercussions of re-drawingsaid pieces of art following the originalinstructions. Mari and Lucca will also diveonto the definition of conceptual art and whatpertains to the art regarding Sol LeWitts wallpaintings. This topic all stems from thesituation in the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg,where they wish to “move” the wall drawing byLeWitt, and claim that the wall drawing is thesame as the original. Through some criticalquestions Mari and Lucca are able todetermine if the painting would be the same orif the total of original can only belong to thefirst painting that followed the originalinstructions.

In this episode, we delve into the fascinating world of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings. We will explore questions of ownership, and authenticity. The Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh owns one of these monumental works, but if they move and "recreate" the piece in another location, Is it the same work of art? We will also consider the authenticity if we were to recreate the piece ourselves. Join us on our discussion as we further explore what makes original art. 

Dr. Susan Wessler is a Distinguished Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Riverside. She is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and the Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences. Sue is a geneticist whose research focuses on transposable elements, which are pieces of DNA that move from one site to another. In the process of moving they often make more copies. All organisms have these pieces of mobile DNA, and they make up a large portion of our genome. Sue wants to know how organisms survive and thrive with all this extra DNA, why it exists, and whether it provides any benefits. Outside of science, Sue loves to read, exercise, and read while exercising. She has also been enjoying exploring the mountains and beaches in Southern California. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from Cornell University. Susan then spent time as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institute of Washington. She served on the faculty at the University of Georgia for over 25 years before moving to UC Riverside. Susan has received many awards and honors over the course of her career. She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also the recipient of the Stephen Hales Prize from the American Society of Plant Biologists the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Excellence in Science Award, and the McClintock Award from the Maize Genetics. Susan is with us today to tell us all about her journey through life and science.

Zandy Forbes, Founder, President, and CEO of MeiraGTx, joins host Rahul Chaturvedi in this compelling episode. Zandy shares her inspiring journey from academia, where she developed a deep interest in molecular biology and genetics, to her significant role in biotech investing, and eventually leading a groundbreaking gene therapy company. She elaborates on Meira's cutting-edge approach to genetic medicines, focusing on the development of innovative therapies for non-inherited diseases. Zandy discusses the unique challenges and opportunities that arise in the biotech sector, shedding light on the strategies Meira employs to navigate this complex landscape. Biography: Alexandria Forbes, Ph.D. is the President and CEO of MeiraGTx (NASDAQ: MGTX). MeiraGTx is a vertically integrated gene therapy company with core capabilities in viral vector design and optimization and gene therapy manufacturing, as well as a potentially transformative gene regulation technology. The company is developing innovative gene therapy products to cost effectively treat a range of serious medical disorders, with clinical programs currently in the eye, salivary gland and CNS. Prior to founding MeiraGTx, Dr. Forbes served as Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations at Kadmon Holdings, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, from September 2013 to April 2015.Before joining the biotech industry, she spent 10 years as a healthcare investor at Sivik Global Partners (Argus Partners) and Meadowvale Partners. At Sivik, Dr. Forbes was responsible for investments in biotechnology, specialty pharmaceuticals and diagnostics public equities and was portfolio manager of the Sivik Global Life Science Fund, a long-biased public markets fund investing in biotechnology companies globally. During her time as a biotechnology investor, Dr. Forbes covered over 300 companies and gained expertise in biotechnology business strategies and clinical drug development as well as a wide range of disease areas. Particular areas of focus included HIV, HCV, diabetes, obesity, autoimmune disorders, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, kidney disease and liver disease. Before entering the hedge fund industry, Dr. Forbes was an academic scientist studying the regulation of stem cell identity and different aspects of embryogeneis. She was a Human Frontiers/Howard Hughes postdoctoral fellow at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, where her research focused on cytoplasmic determinants and cell signaling pathways involved in the migration, establishment and maintenance of germ line stem cells in Drosophila melanogaster. Prior to this, Dr. Forbes was a research fellow at Duke University and at the Carnegie Institute at Johns Hopkins University where she studied the role of the hedgehog gene and its signaling pathway in the Drosophila embryo and adult. Dr. Forbes received her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from Oxford University, UK and attained a double first degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, UK. Dr. Forbes serves on the Board of Directors of MeiraGTx, and as a Trustee and Director of the Selfridges Group Foundation, the European arm of the Weston Brain Institute, a charity supporting research into neurodegenerative diseases with the aim of speeding the time to the development of disease modifying treatments for these currently intractable diseases, particularly Alzheimer's.

Dr. Carmel Majidi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. There, he also holds courtesy appointments in the Robotics Institute and in Civil and Environmental Engineering. In Carmel's soft machines lab, they are engineering new types of materials that can be used to make machines and robots soft, flexible, and more lifelike. The goal is for these machines to move more like natural organisms. When not working, Carmel is often out engaging in physical activities including hitting the gym or walking/jogging in nearby parks and along river trails. He also enjoys the arts and travel. Carmel travels frequently for work, and he likes to block off extra time on these trips to visit museums and cultural landmarks. Carmel received his B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University as well as at Harvard University before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon. Over the course of his career, Carmel has received numerous awards and honors, including the Young Faculty Awards from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). He has also received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Early Career Faculty Award, as well as the George Tallman Ladd Award and Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean's Early Career Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, Carmel was named a PopTech Science Fellow in 2013. In our interview Carmel discusses his experiences in life and science.

Will Dwyer (2023 cohort) imagines a world where future generations can look towards the natural world for joy and inspiration. He joins hosts Willie Thompson, Taylor Goss, and guest host Sydney Hunt to discuss his experience immigrating to the US from France, his love for plants and their otherworldly biochemistry, being captain of an ultimate frisbee league, and expressing himself through writing. (Also, special guest appearance by Taylor's guitar and original song, flower facts!) Highlights from the episode:(6:23) Will's experience growing up in France and moving to America as a teenager and running track in high school(16:40) How Will became interested in plant biology through reflecting on plants during a summer in New York City(21:53) Will's experiences working at the Carnegie Institute before matriculating as a PhD student at Stanford, and his current research using electron microscopes(27:20) Will's Imagine a World statement about creating ways for future generations to have non-extractive and joyful relationships with nature(29:10) The role of storytelling in Will's experiences with Knight-Hennessy, from a story he told in a weekly storytelling workshop about going to see Hyperion and subsequently published on Knight-Hennessy's website, to leading last quarter's Community Reads program(35:59) Will's thoughts on the importance of language and writing in science, from his research on the language of scientific taxonomies to his work writing and editing newsletters for the nonprofit The Good Scientists(44:52) Will's hobbies at Stanford, getting to sf to play ultimate frisbee in a queer league, and taking weekend trips into nature(48:56) How Knight-Hennessy has shaped Will's Stanford experience, including his friendship with Imagine a World co-host Sydney Hunt(52:28) Will's improbable facts collecting the periodic table of elements as a kid and affection for the snooze button of his alarm clock(57:18) Flower Facts with our friend, Will Dwyer (featuring an original composition by Taylor Goss)(59:16) Will's advice to applicants to Knight-Hennessy, to not be afraid to think out of the box and put your “weird foot forward” in the application

fWotD Episode 2533: Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of the featured Wikipedia article every day.The featured article for Thursday, 11 April 2024 is Kurt Vonnegut.Kurt Vonnegut ( VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published 14 novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works; further collections have been published after his death.Born and raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut attended Cornell University, but withdrew in January 1943 and enlisted in the U. S. Army. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and the University of Tennessee. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was interned in Dresden, where he survived the Allied bombing of the city in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. After the war, he married Jane Marie Cox. He and his wife both attended the University of Chicago while he worked as a night reporter for the City News Bureau.Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952. It received positive reviews but was not commercially successful at the time. In the nearly 20 years that followed, he published several novels that were well regarded, including two—The Sirens of Titan (1959) and Cat's Cradle (1963)—that were nominated for the Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel of the year. He published a short-story collection, Welcome to the Monkey House, in 1968. Vonnegut's breakthrough was his commercially and critically successful sixth novel, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). Its anti-war sentiment resonated with its readers amidst the ongoing Vietnam War, and its reviews were generally positive. It rose to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list and made Vonnegut famous. Later in his career, Vonnegut published autobiographical essays and short-story collections such as Fates Worse Than Death (1991) and A Man Without a Country (2005). Since his death, he has been hailed for his dark humor commentary on American society. His son Mark published a compilation of his unpublished works, Armageddon in Retrospect, in 2008. In 2017, Seven Stories Press published Complete Stories, a collection of Vonnegut's short fiction.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:55 UTC on Thursday, 11 April 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Kurt Vonnegut on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Stephen Neural.

Professor Peter Littlewood is the chair of the University of Chicago's Department of Physics. He was formerly the Associate Lab Director and then Lab Director at Argonne National Lab. Professor Littlewood also serves on the advisory boards of several institutes, including the Faraday Institution, the Simons Foundation, the Paul Scherer Institute, the Carnegie Institute for Science, and the Max Planck Institutes at Halle and Hamburg. In this episode, he shares his journey to creating and teaching as a scholar and his aspirations for the future.

Did you know that according to the Carnegie Institute, 91% of customers would be willing to give you a referral, but shockingly, only 11% of salespeople ever ask for them? It's time to change that! In this week's episode, we reveal a simple yet highly effective 3-step referral system that could transform your business. This is not just theory; it's a proven method that has generated real results for businesses. Remember, it's not about doing thousands of different things; it's about mastering a few key strategies that can lead to massive success. Tune in to the full podcast episode today and discover the secrets to increasing your referrals by 62% to 800%. P.S. If you're interested in even more ways to double your sales and uncover untapped potential in your business, visit HowToDoubleSales.com and sign up for a no-obligation consultation. This is your chance to explore how you can maximize your revenue and stop leaving money on the table. ------------------ Connect with us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.Instagram.com/UltimateSalesMachine⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.Facebook.com/UltimateSalesMachine⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.Twitter.com/ChetHolmes⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.Linkedin.com/company/chetholmesint

Daniel Coit Gilman is one of the Gilded Age's most important university presidents, and finally we have a book about his influence at Berkeley and Johns Hopkins universities and the Carnegie Institute. His biographer is a university president, too. Michael T. Benson, president of Carolina Coastal University joins the show to talk about Gilman and the start of modern universities in America.Essential Reading:Michael T. Benson, Daniel Coit Gilman and the Modern University (2023).Recommended Reading:John Thelin, A History of American Higher Education (2019, third edition). Jonathan Cole, The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected (2012).Hal Boyd and Michael Benson, "The Public University: Recalling Higher Education's Democratic Purpose," NEA Journal (2015). Daniel Coit Gilman's inaugural speech (1876 at Johns Hopkins). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Years before Robert Oppenheimer led the Los Alamos lab that developed the first nuclear weapons, physicists in Washington, D.C., thrust the world into the atomic age — inside a narrow, zigzagging tunnel running underneath Chevy Chase. It happened at the Carnegie Institute of Science's "atom smasher" in 1939. On the show, institute librarian, Shaun Hardy, and president, Eric Isaacs, tell this little known and unlikely D.C. story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Years before Robert Oppenheimer led the Los Alamos lab that developed the first nuclear weapons, physicists in Washington, D.C., thrust the world into the atomic age — inside a narrow, zigzagging tunnel running underneath Chevy Chase. It happened at the Carnegie Institute of Science's "atom smasher" in 1939. On the show, institute librarian, Shaun Hardy, and president, Eric Isaacs, tell this little known and unlikely D.C. story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Years before Robert Oppenheimer led the Los Alamos lab that developed the first nuclear weapons, physicists in Washington, D.C., thrust the world into the atomic age — inside a narrow, zigzagging tunnel running underneath Chevy Chase. It happened at the Carnegie Institute of Science's "atom smasher" in 1939. On the show, institute librarian, Shaun Hardy, and president, Eric Isaacs, tell this little known and unlikely D.C. story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Located in Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Mellon is a medium size institution home to about 7300 undergraduate students. In 2022, CMU accepted about 11 % of the applicant pool.  The best way to learn about Carnegie Mellon is to tell the TALES of its founders: Born in 1835 in Scotland, Andrew Carnegie immigrated to the US in 1848. According to Wikipedia - by the 1860s Carnegie had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks. He built Carnegie Steel Company which he later sold to JP Morgan in 1901 for 480 million dollars. With this sale, Andrew Carnegie surpassed Rockefeller as the richest man in America. He spent the remainder of his life as a philanthropist – and built  Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and of course, Carnegie Mellon University, first formed as Carnegie Institute of Technology.  Richard B. Mellon assumed the presidency of Mellon bank, after his brother, Andrew Mellon was appointed Treasury Secretary. Richard's prior experience included President of Pittsburgh Reduction Company and he was invested in the city's Coal Company. Richard and his brother Andrew made several large donations to their alma mater, University of Pittsburgh, including a large sum to create the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, founded in 1913. In 1967 the Carnegie Institute of Technology and Mellon Institute of Industrial Research merged to form Carnegie Mellon University.   Given the backgrounds of the two men, it is no wonder that the College of Engineering is consistently ranked in the top 10 in the US and US News and World Report has the Tepper School of Business ranked as #6 this year. If you are looking for top engineering and/or business programs, CMU offers a quality education and a rich city in which to take what you learn in the classroom and apply it in a work experience.  There are TWO more cool things about CMU: First, the campus is covered in red circles that line the sidewalk at CMU. Like golden stars on Hollywood Blvd, Carnegie Mellon proudly boasts : 114 Emmy Award Winners, 43 Tony Award laureates, 9 Academy Award Winners Please NOTE: You MUST audition for the School of Drama and School of Music – your admission to the college 80% audition and 20% academic.  Second, they have an annual spring carnival. Students build incredibly colorful, innovative, and imaginative booths and super fun competitions that only the creative minds CMU students could create.  The best part of this tradition is that school shuts down for three full days so everyone can enjoy the fun.  This tells me that the college understands that college is not just about academics, but rather it is also about fun and memory making. When a college recognizes that students are rejuvenated by innovation, creation, imagination, and relaxation – they are better equipped to push through the home stretch of the school year. Click to Watch Video⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click to Read Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE: Download 10 Sample Essays⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE: Watch Mini College Essay Training⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Book a Call with Dr. C⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit the website

Expert literacy consultant Sharon Callen chats to Ted Egan, prolific singer, song writer and lover of Australian characters and their stories, about how access to quality literature made a huge difference to a remote community in northern Australia. Sharon then links this amazing story to the latest research on 'access to  literature'  being key to success in reading and learning about our language.Ted chats about:How  David Attenborough named the small, fascinating  community of book lovers, 'The Hermits of Booraloola'How the local policeman turned his hot jail cell into a quality library that led to prolific reading and wisdom in the community over decadesHow weekly debates grew the interest and  knowledge of the 'bushies' and how Ted captured their stories in song.Sharon then chats about:The research on access to literature  making the greatest difference to literacy levels in our schools (Stephen Krashen)How better access means getting students engaged in their reading, not  just acquiring resourcesAccess means availability and engagement in reading at a classroom, school, home and public library leveland much more!Enjoy, and let us know thoughts and feedback in our Facebook Group.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast player.FEATURED RESOURCESWebsitesTed Egan websiteBooks/ articlesThe Power of Reading by Stephen KrashenEvery Child, Every Day by Richard Allington and Rachael GabrielJOIN CUE LEARNING'S NEXT LIVE WEBINAR!Find upcoming events here and previous webinars (online video courses) here.Other matching PDF resources can be found at Teachific. Got any questions? Feedback? Thoughts? Email the Cue office at: admin@cuelearning.com.auThe Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy is the free podcast for motivated teachers and school leaders who want the latest tips, tricks and tools to inspire their students and school community in literacy learning. Hear from literacy expert and founder of Cue Learning, Sharon Callen, and special guests.At Cue Learning, our literacy specialists draw on over 30 years of teaching and international consulting experience to deliver world-class learning solutions. We equip, empower and support teachers to become their authentic selves. To find out about upcoming events, and about how Cue can help you and your school, visit the Cue Learning website http://www.cuelearning.com.au/ and sign up to our newsletter https://cuelearning.com.au/contact/And you can get even more amazing teaching resources, right now, at Teachific https://www.teachific.com.au/.To make sure you don't miss any literacy learning tips and insights, please subscribe to our show on your favourite podcast player.MORE INFORMATION AT A GLANCE:Visit cuelearning.com.auSubscribe to the Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy podcasts  or join on Apple  Podcasts hereContact the Cue office:  admin@cuelearning.com.auJoin our Teacher's Toolkit facebook groupFind connected resources on TeachificSee upcoming online eventsSee our online video courses hereAnd finally, read our insightful blogs hereProduced by Apiro Media https://apiropodcasts.com

This week on Soul of the Nation, we continue our series on White Christian Nationalism by welcoming Rachel Kleinfeld to the podcast. Kleinfeld is a senior fellow in Carnegie's Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program. Her work on troubled democracies facing problems such as polarized populations, violence, corruption, and poor governance bridges the United States and international cases. In their conversation, Rachel discusses the rising threats facing modern democracy in America and what can be done to subvert these attempts to overthrow democracy as we know it.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On today's episode, we'll be discussing the fascinating, multi-layered, and complex topic of space settlement and the myriad of things we'll need to figure out if we want to build an ethical and sustainable future society in outer space.  We'll be speaking with Dr. Erika Nesvold, author of Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space, which is set to release on March 7th, and explores the “potential ethical pitfalls of becoming a multi-planet species.”Erika earned her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and has conducted astrophysics research at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, the Carnegie Institute's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, and the NASA Frontier Development Laboratory.  She currently works as an Astrophysicist & Developer on the Universe Sandbox astronomy simulator game, and has written articles on astronomy, history, and other topics for Astronomy Magazine, The Planetary Society, and DamnInteresting.com.  More information on her research and writing can be found on her website.Erika produced and hosted the 13-episode Making New Worlds podcast, which explored the ethical issues involved in settling space.  In 2018, Erika co-founded The JustSpace Alliance in partnership with Lucianne Walkowicz.Erika has two upcoming books: Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space (MIT Press), coming out March 7, 2023, and is an update and expansion of Making New Worlds podcast, exploring the ethical challenges we'll face during space settlement.  She also co-edited an anthology called Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration (Oxford University Press), which is also coming out in 2023.We also want to extend a big thank you to our sponsors this year for supporting our show!Learn more about our Gold Sponsor Multiverse Media, an integrated media company focusing on space exploration, science, and technology, and check out the Cislunar Market Opportunities report produced by NewSpace Global, a Multiverse Media property, for a snapshot and user guide to the players and opportunities ahead for the cislunar economy.  To get your own copy please go to cislunar.report and use coupon code citizen10 for 10% off a single user license.Learn more about our Silver Sponsor the Colorado School of Mines Space Resources Program, a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary program that offers Certificate, Master of Science, and Ph.D. degrees for professionals around the world interested in the emerging field of extraterrestrial resources here.Support the showSubscribe to our newsletter and follow us on social media!Instagram: @thecelestialcitizenTwitter: @celestialcitznLinkedIn: Celestial CitizenYouTube: @thecelestialcitizen

Renowned sculptor Selma Burke arrived in Pittsburgh in the late 1960s to found the Selma Burke Art Center, an important hub for arts in East Liberty. With classes, lectures, and performances, the SBAC was an important meeting place for youth, local artists, and visiting creators. While not in Oakland, the SBAC is tied to our story through its funders, the Mellon Trust and the Carnegie Institute. This is the story of the Selma Burke Art Center.

Episode one hundred and fifty-three of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Heroes and Villains” by the Beach Boys, and the collapse of the Smile album. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a sixteen-minute bonus episode available, on "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" by the Electric Prunes. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources There is no Mixcloud this week, because there were too many Beach Boys songs in the episode. I used many resources for this episode. As well as the books I referred to in all the Beach Boys episodes, listed below, I used Domenic Priore's book Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece and Richard Henderson's 33 1/3 book on Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle. Stephen McParland has published many, many books on the California surf and hot-rod music scenes, including several on both the Beach Boys and Gary Usher.  His books can be found at https://payhip.com/CMusicBooks Andrew Doe's Bellagio 10452 site is an invaluable resource. Jon Stebbins' The Beach Boys FAQ is a good balance between accuracy and readability. And Philip Lambert's Inside the Music of Brian Wilson is an excellent, though sadly out of print, musicological analysis of Wilson's music from 1962 through 67. Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson by Peter Ames Carlin is the best biography of Wilson. I have also referred to Brian Wilson's autobiography, I Am Brian Wilson, and to Mike Love's, Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy. As a good starting point for the Beach Boys' music in general, I would recommend this budget-priced three-CD set, which has a surprisingly good selection of their material on it, including the single version of “Heroes and Villains”. The box set The Smile Sessions  contains an attempt to create a finished album from the unfinished sessions, plus several CDs of outtakes and session material. Transcript [Opening -- "intro to the album" studio chatter into "Our Prayer"] Before I start, I'd just like to note that this episode contains some discussion of mental illness, including historical negative attitudes towards it, so you may want to check the transcript or skip this one if that might be upsetting. In November and December 1966, the filmmaker David Oppenheim and the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein collaborated on a TV film called "Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution".  The film was an early attempt at some of the kinds of things this podcast is doing, looking at how music and social events interact and evolve, though it was dealing with its present rather than the past. The film tried to cast as wide a net as possible in its fifty-one minutes. It looked at two bands from Manchester -- the Hollies and Herman's Hermits -- and how the people identified as their leaders, "Herman" (or Peter Noone) and Graham Nash, differed on the issue of preventing war: [Excerpt: Inside Pop, the Rock Revolution] And it made a star of East Coast teenage singer-songwriter Janis Ian with her song about interracial relationships, "Society's Child": [Excerpt: Janis Ian, "Society's Child"] And Bernstein spends a significant time, as one would expect, analysing the music of the Beatles and to a lesser extent the Stones, though they don't appear in the show. Bernstein does a lot to legitimise the music just by taking it seriously as a subject for analysis, at a time when most wouldn't: [Excerpt: Leonard Bernstein talking about "She Said She Said"] You can't see it, obviously, but in the clip that's from, as the Beatles recording is playing, Bernstein is conducting along with the music, as he would a symphony orchestra, showing where the beats are falling. But of course, given that this was filmed in the last two months of 1966, the vast majority of the episode is taken up with musicians from the centre of the music world at that time, LA. The film starts with Bernstein interviewing Tandyn Almer,  a jazz-influenced songwriter who had recently written the big hit "Along Comes Mary" for The Association: [Excerpt: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution] It featured interviews with Roger McGuinn, and with the protestors at the Sunset Strip riots which were happening contemporaneously with the filming: [Excerpt: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution] Along with Frank Zappa's rather acerbic assessment of the potential of the youth revolutionaries: [Excerpt: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution] And ended (other than a brief post-commercial performance over the credits by the Hollies) with a performance by Tim Buckley, whose debut album, as we heard in the last episode, had featured Van Dyke Parks and future members of the Mothers of Invention and Buffalo Springfield: [Excerpt: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution] But for many people the highlight of the film was the performance that came right before Buckley's, film of Brian Wilson playing a new song from the album he was working on. One thing I should note -- many sources say that the voiceover here is Bernstein. My understanding is that Bernstein wrote and narrated the parts of the film he was himself in, and Oppenheim did all the other voiceover writing and narration, but that Oppenheim's voice is similar enough to Bernstein's that people got confused about this: [Excerpt: Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution] That particular piece of footage was filmed in December 1966, but it wasn't broadcast until April the twenty-fifth, 1967, an eternity in mid-sixties popular music. When it was broadcast, that album still hadn't come out. Precisely one week later, the Beach Boys' publicist Derek Taylor announced that it never would: [Excerpt: Brian Wilson, "Surf's Up"] One name who has showed up in a handful of episodes recently, but who we've not talked that much about, is Van Dyke Parks. And in a story with many, many, remarkable figures, Van Dyke Parks may be one of the most remarkable of all. Long before he did anything that impinges on the story of rock music, Parks had lived the kind of life that would be considered unbelievable were it to be told as fiction. Parks came from a family that mixed musical skill, political progressiveness, and achievement. His mother was a scholar of Hebrew, while his father was a neurologist, the first doctor to admit Black patients to a white Southern hospital, and had paid his way through college leading a dance band. Parks' father was also, according to the 33 1/3 book on Song Cycle, a member of "John Philip Sousa's Sixty Silver Trumpets", but literally every reference I can find to Sousa leading a band of that name goes back to that book, so I've no idea what he was actually a member of, but we can presume he was a reasonable musician. Young Van Dyke started playing the clarinet at four, and was also a singer from a very early age, as well as playing several other instruments. He went to the American Boychoir School in Princeton, to study singing, and while there he sang with Toscaninni, Thomas Beecham, and other immensely important conductors of the era. He also had a very special accompanist for one Christmas carolling session. The choir school was based in Princeton, and one of the doors he knocked on while carolling was that of Princeton's most famous resident, Albert Einstein, who heard the young boy singing "Silent Night", and came out with his violin and played along. Young Van Dyke was only interested in music, but he was also paying the bills for his music tuition himself -- he had a job. He was a TV star. From the age of ten, he started getting roles in TV shows -- he played the youngest son in the 1953 sitcom Bonino, about an opera singer, which flopped because it aired opposite the extremely popular Jackie Gleason Show. He would later also appear in that show, as one of several child actors who played the character of Little Tommy Manicotti, and he made a number of other TV appearances, as well as having a small role in Grace Kelly's last film, The Swan, with Alec Guinness and Louis Jourdain. But he never liked acting, and just did it to pay for his education. He gave it up when he moved on to the Carnegie Institute, where he majored in composition and performance. But then in his second year, his big brother Carson asked him to drop out and move to California. Carson Parks had been part of the folk scene in California for a few years at this point. He and a friend had formed a duo called the Steeltown Two, but then both of them had joined the folk group the Easy Riders, a group led by Terry Gilkyson. Before Carson Parks joined, the Easy Riders had had a big hit with their version of "Marianne", a calypso originally by the great calypsonian Roaring Lion: [Excerpt: The Easy Riders, "Marianne"] They hadn't had many other hits, but their songs became hits for other people -- Gilkyson wrote several big hits for Frankie Laine, and the Easy Riders were the backing vocalists on Dean Martin's recording of a song they wrote, "Memories are Made of This": [Excerpt: Dean Martin and the Easy Riders, "Memories are Made of This"] Carson Parks hadn't been in the group at that point -- he only joined after they'd stopped having success -- and eventually the group had split up. He wanted to revive his old duo, the Steeltown Two, and persuaded his family to let his little brother Van Dyke drop out of university and move to California to be the other half of the duo. He wanted Van Dyke to play guitar, while he played banjo. Van Dyke had never actually played guitar before, but as Carson Parks later said "in 90 days, he knew more than most folks know after many years!" Van Dyke moved into an apartment adjoining his brother's, owned by Norm Botnick, who had until recently been the principal viola player in a film studio orchestra, before the film studios all simultaneously dumped their in-house orchestras in the late fifties, so was a more understanding landlord than most when it came to the lifestyles of musicians. Botnick's sons, Doug and Bruce, later went into sound engineering -- we've already encountered Bruce Botnick in the episode on the Doors, and he will be coming up again in the future. The new Steeltown Two didn't make any records, but they developed a bit of a following in the coffeehouses, and they also got a fair bit of session work, mostly through Terry Gilkyson, who was by that point writing songs for Disney and would hire them to play on sessions for his songs. And it was Gilkyson who both brought Van Dyke Parks the worst news of his life to that point, and in doing so also had him make his first major mark on music. Gilkyson was the one who informed Van Dyke that another of his brothers, Benjamin Riley Parks, had died in what was apparently a car accident. I say it was apparently an accident because Benjamin Riley Parks was at the time working for the US State Department, and there is apparently also some evidence that he was assassinated in a Cold War plot. Gilkyson also knew that neither Van Dyke nor Carson Parks had much money, so in order to help them afford black suits and plane tickets to and from the funeral, Gilkyson hired Van Dyke to write the arrangement for a song he had written for an upcoming Disney film: [Excerpt: Jungle Book soundtrack, "The Bare Necessities"] The Steeltown Two continued performing, and soon became known as the Steeltown Three, with the addition of a singer named Pat Peyton. The Steeltown Three recorded two singles, "Rock Mountain", under that group name: [Excerpt: The Steeltown Three, "Rock Mountain"] And a version of "San Francisco Bay" under the name The South Coasters, which I've been unable to track down. Then the three of them, with the help of Terry Gilkyson, formed a larger group in the style of the New Christy Minstrels -- the Greenwood County Singers. Indeed, Carson Parks would later claim that  Gilkyson had had the idea first -- that he'd mentioned that he'd wanted to put together a group like that to Randy Sparks, and Sparks had taken the idea and done it first. The Greenwood County Singers had two minor hot one hundred hits, only one of them while Van Dyke was in the band -- "The New 'Frankie and Johnny' Song", a rewrite by Bob Gibson and Shel Silverstein of the old traditional song "Frankie and Johnny": [Excerpt: The Greenwood County Singers, "The New Frankie and Johnny Song"] They also recorded several albums together, which gave Van Dyke the opportunity to practice his arrangement skills, as on this version of  "Vera Cruz" which he arranged: [Excerpt: The Greenwood County Singers, "Vera Cruz"] Some time before their last album, in 1965, Van Dyke left the Greenwood County Singers, and was replaced by Rick Jarrard, who we'll also be hearing more about in future episodes. After that album, the group split up, but Carson Parks would go on to write two big hits in the next few years. The first and biggest was a song he originally wrote for a side project. His future wife Gaile Foote was also a Greenwood County Singer, and the two of them thought they might become folk's answer to Sonny and Cher or Nino Tempo and April Stevens: [Excerpt: Carson and Gaile, "Somethin' Stupid"] That obviously became a standard after it was covered by Frank and Nancy Sinatra. Carson Parks also wrote "Cab Driver", which in 1968 became the last top thirty hit for the Mills Brothers, the 1930s vocal group we talked about way way back in episode six: [Excerpt: The Mills Brothers, "Cab Driver"] Meanwhile Van Dyke Parks was becoming part of the Sunset Strip rock and roll world. Now, until we get to 1967, Parks has something of a tangled timeline. He worked with almost every band around LA in a short period, often working with multiple people simultaneously, and nobody was very interested in keeping detailed notes. So I'm going to tell this as a linear story, but be aware it's very much not -- things I say in five minutes might happen after, or in the same week as, things I say in half an hour. At some point in either 1965 or 1966 he joined the Mothers of Invention for a brief while. Nobody is entirely sure when this was, and whether it was before or after their first album. Some say it was in late 1965, others in August 1966, and even the kind of fans who put together detailed timelines are none the wiser, because no recordings have so far surfaced of Parks with the band. Either is plausible, and the Mothers went through a variety of keyboard players at this time -- Zappa had turned to his jazz friend Don Preston, but found Preston was too much of a jazzer and told him to come back when he could play "Louie Louie" convincingly, asked Mac Rebennack to be in the band but sacked him pretty much straight away for drug use, and eventually turned to Preston again once Preston had learned to rock and roll. Some time in that period, Van Dyke Parks was a Mother, playing electric harpsichord. He may even have had more than one stint in the group -- Zappa said "Van Dyke Parks played electric harpsichord in and out." It seems likely, though, that it was in summer of 1966, because in an interview published in Teen Beat Magazine in December 66, but presumably conducted a few months prior, Zappa was asked to describe the band members in one word each and replied: "Ray—Mahogany Roy—Asbestos Jim—Mucilage Del—Acetate Van Dyke—Pinocchio Billy—Boom I don't know about the rest of the group—I don't even know about these guys." Sources differ as to why Parks didn't remain in the band -- Parks has said that he quit after a short time because he didn't like being shouted at, while Zappa said "Van Dyke was not a reliable player. He didn't make it to rehearsal on time and things like that." Both may be true of course, though I've not heard anyone else ever criticise Parks for his reliability. But then also Zappa had much more disciplinarian standards than most rock band leaders. It's possibly either through Zappa that he met Tom Wilson, or through Tom Wilson that he met Frank Zappa, but either way Parks, like the Mothers of Invention, was signed to MGM records in 1966, where he released two solo singles co-produced by Wilson and an otherwise obscure figure named Tim Alvorado. The first was "Number Nine", which we heard last week, backed with "Do What You Wanta": [Excerpt: Van Dyke Parks, "Do What You Wanta"] At least one source I've read says that the lyrics to "Do What You Wanta" were written not by Parks but by his friend Danny Hutton, but it's credited as a Parks solo composition on the label. It was after that that the Van Dyke Parks band -- or as they were sometimes billed, just The Van Dyke Parks formed, as we discussed last episode, based around Parks, Steve Stills, and Steve Young, and they performed a handful of shows with bass player Bobby Rae and drummer Walt Sparman, playing a mix of original material, primarily Parks' songs, and covers of things like "Dancing in the Street". The one contemporaneous review of a live show I've seen talks about  the girls in the audience screaming and how "When rhythm guitarist Steve Stillman imitated the Barry McGuire emotional scene, they almost went wiggy". But The Van Dyke Parks soon split up, and Parks the individual recorded his second single, "Come to the Sunshine": [Excerpt: Van Dyke Parks, "Come to the Sunshine"] Around the time he left the Greenwood County Singers, Van Dyke Parks also met Brian Wilson for the first time, when David Crosby took him up to Wilson's house to hear an acetate of the as-yet-unreleased track "Sloop John B". Parks was impressed by Wilson's arrangement techniques, and in particular the way he was orchestrating instrumental combinations that you couldn't do with a standard live room setup, that required overdubbing and close-micing. He said later "The first stuff I heard indicated this kind of curiosity for the recording experience, and when I went up to see him in '65 I don't even think he had the voices on yet, but I heard that long rotational breathing, that long flute ostinato at the beginning... I knew this man was a great musician." [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Sloop John B (instrumental)"] In most of 1966, though, Parks was making his living as a session keyboard player and arranger, and much of the work he was getting was through Lenny Waronker. Waronker was a second-generation music industry professional. His father, Si Waronker, had been a violinist in the Twentieth Century Fox studio orchestra before founding Liberty Records (the label which indirectly led to him becoming immortalised in children's entertainment, when Liberty Records star David Seville named his Chipmunk characters after three Liberty executives, with Simon being Si Waronker's full forename). The first release on Liberty Records had been a version of "The Girl Upstairs", an instrumental piece from the Fox film The Seven-Year Itch. The original recording of that track, for the film, had been done by the Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra, written and conducted by Alfred Newman, the musical director for Fox: [Excerpt: Alfred Newman, "The Girl Upstairs"] Liberty's soundalike version was conducted by Newman's brother Lionel, a pianist at the studio who later became Fox's musical director for TV, just as his brother was for film, but who also wrote many film scores himself. Another Newman brother, Emil, was also a film composer, but the fourth brother, Irving, had gone into medicine instead. However, Irving's son Randy wanted to follow in the family business, and he and Lenny Waronker, who was similarly following his own father by working for Liberty Records' publishing subsidiary Metric Music, had been very close friends ever since High School. Waronker got Newman signed to Metric Music, where he wrote "They Tell Me It's Summer" for the Fleetwoods: [Excerpt: The Fleetwoods, "They Tell Me It's Summer"] Newman also wrote and recorded a single of his own in 1962, co-produced by Pat Boone: [Excerpt: Randy Newman, "Golden Gridiron Boy"] Before deciding he wasn't going to make it as a singer and had better just be a professional songwriter. But by 1966 Waronker had moved on from Metric to Warner Brothers, and become a junior A&R man. And he was put in charge of developing the artists that Warners had acquired when they had bought up a small label, Autumn Records. Autumn Records was a San Francisco-based label whose main producer, Sly Stone, had now moved on to other things after producing the hit record "Laugh Laugh" for the Beau Brummels: [Excerpt: The Beau Brummels, "Laugh Laugh"] The Beau Brummels  had had another hit after that and were the main reason that Warners had bought the label, but their star was fading a little. Stone had also been mentoring several other groups, including the Tikis and the Mojo Men, who all had potential. Waronker gathered around himself a sort of brains trust of musicians who he trusted as songwriters, arrangers, and pianists -- Randy Newman, the session pianist Leon Russell, and Van Dyke Parks. Their job was to revitalise the career of the Beau Brummels, and to make both the Tikis and the Mojo Men into successes. The tactic they chose was, in Waronker's words, “Go in with a good song and weird it out.” The first good song they tried weirding out was in late 1966, when Leon Russell came up with a clarinet-led arrangement of Paul Simon's "59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy)" for the Tikis, who performed it but who thought that their existing fanbase wouldn't accept something so different, so it was put out under another name, suggested by Parks, Harpers Bizarre: [Excerpt: Harpers Bizarre, "Feeling Groovy"] Waronker said of Parks and Newman “They weren't old school guys. They were modern characters but they had old school values regarding certain records that needed to be made, certain artists who needed to be heard regardless. So there was still that going on. The fact that ‘Feeling Groovy' was a number 10 hit nationwide and ‘Sit Down, I Think I Love You'  made the Top 30 on Western regional radio, that gave us credibility within the company. One hit will do wonders, two allows you to take chances.” We heard "Sit Down, I Think I Love You" last episode -- that's the song by Parks' old friend Stephen Stills that Parks arranged for the Mojo Men: [Excerpt: The Mojo Men, "Sit Down, I Think I Love You"] During 1966 Parks also played on Tim Buckley's first album, as we also heard last episode: [Excerpt: Tim Buckley, "Aren't You the Girl?"] And he also bumped into Brian Wilson on occasion, as they were working a lot in the same studios and had mutual friends like Loren Daro and Danny Hutton, and he suggested the cello part on "Good Vibrations". Parks also played keyboards on "5D" by the Byrds: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "5D (Fifth Dimension)"] And on the Spirit of '67 album for Paul Revere and the Raiders, produced by the Byrds' old producer Terry Melcher. Parks played keyboards on much of the album, including the top five hit "Good Thing": [Excerpt: Paul Revere and the Raiders, "Good Thing"] But while all this was going on, Parks was also working on what would become the work for which he was best known. As I've said, he'd met Brian Wilson on a few occasions, but it wasn't until summer 1966 that the two were formally introduced by Terry Melcher, who knew that Wilson needed a new songwriting collaborator, now Tony Asher's sabbatical from his advertising job was coming to an end, and that Wilson wanted someone who could do work that was a bit more abstract than the emotional material that he had been writing with Asher. Melcher invited both of them to a party at his house on Cielo Drive -- a house which would a few years later become notorious -- which was also attended by many of the young Hollywood set of the time. Nobody can remember exactly who was at the party, but Parks thinks it was people like Jack Nicholson and Peter and Jane Fonda. Parks and Wilson hit it off, with Wilson saying later "He seemed like a really articulate guy, like he could write some good lyrics". Parks on the other hand was delighted to find that Wilson "liked Les Paul, Spike Jones, all of these sounds that I liked, and he was doing it in a proactive way." Brian suggested Parks write the finished lyrics for "Good Vibrations", which was still being recorded at this time, and still only had Tony Asher's dummy lyrics,  but Parks was uninterested. He said that it would be best if he and Brian collaborate together on something new from scratch, and Brian agreed. The first time Parks came to visit Brian at Brian's home, other than the visit accompanying Crosby the year before, he was riding a motorbike -- he couldn't afford a car -- and forgot to bring his driver's license with him. He was stopped by a police officer who thought he looked too poor to be in the area, but Parks persuaded the police officer that if he came to the door, Brian Wilson would vouch for him. Brian got Van Dyke out of any trouble because the cop's sister was a Beach Boys fan, so he autographed an album for her. Brian and Van Dyke talked for a while. Brian asked if Van Dyke needed anything to help his work go smoothly, and Van Dyke said he needed a car. Brian asked what kind. Van Dyke said that Volvos were supposed to be pretty safe. Brian asked how much they cost. Van Dyke said he thought they were about five thousand dollars. Brian called up his office and told them to get a cheque delivered to Van Dyke for five thousand dollars the next day, instantly earning Van Dyke's loyalty. After that, they got on with work. To start with, Brian played Van Dyke a melody he'd been working on, a melody based on a descending scale starting on the fourth: [Plays "Heroes and Villains" melody] Parks told Wilson that the melody reminded him vaguely of Marty Robbins' country hit "El Paso" from 1959, a song about a gunfighter, a cantina, and a dancing woman: [Excerpt: Marty Robbins, "El Paso"] Wilson said that he had been thinking along the same lines, a sort of old west story, and thought maybe it should be called "Heroes and Villains". Parks started writing, matching syllables to Wilson's pre-conceived melody -- "I've been in this town so long that back in the city I've been taken for lost and gone and unknown for a long, long time" [Excerpt: Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, "Heroes and Villains demo"] As Parks put it "The engine had started. It was very much ad hoc. Seat of the pants. Extemporaneous values were enforced. Not too much precommitment to ideas. Or, if so, equally pursuing propinquity." Slowly, over the next several months, while the five other Beach Boys were touring, Brian and Van Dyke refined their ideas about what the album they were writing, initially called Dumb Angel but soon retitled Smile, should be. For Van Dyke Parks it was an attempt to make music about America and American mythology. He was disgusted, as a patriot, with the Anglophilia that had swept the music industry since the arrival of the Beatles in America two and a half years earlier, particularly since that had happened so soon after the deaths both of President Kennedy and of Parks' own brother who was working for the government at the time he died. So for him, the album was about America, about Plymouth Rock, the Old West, California, and Hawaii. It would be a generally positive version of the country's myth, though it would of course also acknowledge the bloodshed on which the country had been built: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Bicycle Rider" section] As he put it later "I was dead set on centering my life on the patriotic ideal. I was a son of the American revolution, and there was blood on the tracks. Recent blood, and it was still drying. The whole record seemed like a real effort toward figuring out what Manifest Destiny was all about. We'd come as far as we could, as far as Horace Greeley told us to go. And so we looked back and tried to make sense of that great odyssey." Brian had some other ideas -- he had been studying the I Ching, and Subud, and he wanted to do something about the four classical elements, and something religious -- his ideas were generally rather unfocused at the time, and he had far more ideas than he knew what to usefully do with. But he was also happy with the idea of a piece about America, which fit in with his own interest in "Rhapsody in Blue", a piece that was about America in much the same way. "Rhapsody in Blue" was an inspiration for Brian primarily in how it weaved together variations on themes. And there are two themes that between them Brian was finding endless variations on. The first theme was a shuffling between two chords a fourth away from each other. [demonstrates G to C on guitar] Where these chords are both major, that's the sequence for "Fire": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow/Fire"] For the "Who ran the Iron Horse?" section of "Cabin Essence": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Cabinessence"] For "Vegetables": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Vegetables"] And more. Sometimes this would be the minor supertonic and dominant seventh of the key, so in C that would be Dm to G7: [Plays Dm to G7 fingerpicked] That's the "bicycle rider" chorus we heard earlier, which was part of a song known as "Roll Plymouth Rock" or "Do You Like Worms": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Bicycle Rider"] But which later became a chorus for "Heroes and Villains": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains"] But that same sequence is also the beginning of "Wind Chimes": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wind Chimes"] The "wahalla loo lay" section of "Roll Plymouth Rock": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Roll Plymouth Rock"] And others, but most interestingly, the minor-key rearrangement of "You Are My Sunshine" as "You Were My Sunshine": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "You Were My Sunshine"] I say that's most interesting, because that provides a link to another of the major themes which Brian was wringing every drop out of, a phrase known as "How Dry I Am", because of its use under those words in an Irving Berlin song, which was a popular barbershop quartet song but is now best known as a signifier of drunkenness in Looney Tunes cartoons: [Excerpt: Daffy Duck singing "How Dry I Am" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap4MMn7LpzA ] The phrase is a common one in early twentieth century music, especially folk and country, as it's made up of notes in the pentatonic scale -- it's the fifth, first, second, and third of the scale, in that order: [demonstrates "How Dry I Am"] And so it's in the melody to "This Land is Your Land", for example, a song which is very much in the same spirit of progressive Americana in which Van Dyke Parks was thinking: [Excerpt: Woody Guthrie, "This Land is Your Land"] It's also the start of the original melody of "You Are My Sunshine": [Excerpt: Jimmie Davis, "You Are My Sunshine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvgNEU4Am8] Brian rearranged that melody when he stuck it into a minor key, so it's no longer "How Dry I Am" in the Beach Boys version, but if you play the "How Dry I Am" notes in a different rhythm, you get this: [Plays "He Gives Speeches" melody] Which is the start of the melody to "He Gives Speeches": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "He Gives Speeches"] Play those notes backwards, you get: [Plays "He Gives Speeches" melody backwards] Do that and add onto the end a passing sixth and then the tonic, and then you get: [Plays that] Which is the vocal *countermelody* in "He Gives Speeches": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "He Gives Speeches"] And also turns up in some versions of "Heroes and Villains": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains (alternate version)"] And so on. Smile was an intricate web of themes and variations, and it incorporated motifs from many sources, both the great American songbook and the R&B of Brian's youth spent listening to Johnny Otis' radio show. There were bits of "Gee" by the Crows, of "Twelfth Street Rag", and of course, given that this was Brian Wilson, bits of Phil Spector. The backing track to the verse of "Heroes and Villains": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains"] Owed more than a little to a version of "Save the Last Dance For Me" that Spector had produced for Ike and Tina Turner: [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner, "Save the Last Dance For Me"] While one version of the song “Wonderful” contained a rather out-of-place homage to Etta James and “The Wallflower”: [Excerpt: “Wonderful (Rock With Me Henry)”] As the recording continued, it became more and more obvious that the combination of these themes and variations was becoming a little too much for Brian.  Many of the songs he was working on were made up of individual modules that he was planning to splice together the way he had with "Good Vibrations", and some modules were getting moved between tracks, as he tried to structure the songs in the edit. He'd managed it with "Good Vibrations", but this was an entire album, not just a single, and it was becoming more and more difficult. David Anderle, who was heading up the record label the group were looking at starting, would talk about Brian playing him acetates with sections edited together one way, and thinking it was perfect, and obviously the correct way to put them together, the only possible way, and then hearing the same sections edited together in a different way, and thinking *that* was perfect, and obviously the correct way to put them together. But while a lot of the album was modular, there were also several complete songs with beginnings, middles, ends, and structures, even if they were in several movements. And those songs showed that if Brian could just get the other stuff right, the album could be very, very, special. There was "Heroes and Villains" itself, of course, which kept changing its structure but was still based around the same basic melody and story that Brian and Van Dyke had come up with on their first day working together. There was also "Wonderful", a beautiful, allusive, song about innocence lost and regained: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wonderful"] And there was CabinEssence, a song which referenced yet another classic song, this time "Home on the Range", to tell a story of idyllic rural life and of the industrialisation which came with westward expansion: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "CabinEssence"] The arrangement for that song inspired Van Dyke Parks to make a very astute assessment of Brian Wilson. He said later "He knew that he had to adhere to the counter-culture, and I knew that I had to. I think that he was about as estranged from it as I was.... At the same time, he didn't want to lose that kind of gauche sensibility that he had. He was doing stuff that nobody would dream of doing. You would never, for example, use one string on a banjo when you had five; it just wasn't done. But when I asked him to bring a banjo in, that's what he did. This old-style plectrum thing. One string. That's gauche." Both Parks and Wilson were both drawn to and alienated from the counterculture, but in very different ways, and their different ways of relating to the counterculture created the creative tension that makes the Smile project so interesting. Parks is fundamentally a New Deal Liberal, and was excited by the progresssive nature of the counterculture, but also rather worried about its tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater, and to ignore the old in pursuit of the new. He was an erudite, cultured, sophisticated man who thought that there was value to be found in the works and attitudes of the past, even as one must look to the future. He was influenced by the beat poets and the avant garde art of the time, but also said of his folk music period "A harpist would bring his harp with him and he would play and recite a story which had been passed down the generations. This particular legacy continued through Arthurian legend, and then through the Middle Ages, and even into the nineteenth century. With all these songs, half of the story was the lyrics, and the folk songs were very interesting. They were tremendously thought-driven songs; there was nothing confusing about that. Even when the Kingston Trio came out -- and Brian has already admitted his debt to the Kingston Trio -- 'Tom Dooley', the story of a murder most foul 'MTA' an urban nightmare -- all of this thought-driven music was perfectly acceptable.  It was more than a teenage romantic crisis." Brian Wilson, on the other hand, was anything *but* sophisticated. He is a simple man in the best sense of the term -- he likes what he likes, doesn't like what he doesn't like, and has no pretensions whatsoever about it. He is, at heart, a middle-class middle-American brought up in suburbia, with a taste for steaks and hamburgers, broad physical comedy, baseball, and easy listening music. Where Van Dyke Parks was talking about "thought-driven music", Wilson's music, while thoughtful, has always been driven by feelings first and foremost. Where Parks is influenced by Romantic composers like Gottschalk but is fundamentally a craftsman, a traditionalist, a mason adding his work to a cathedral whose construction started before his birth and will continue after his death, Wilson's music has none of the stylistic hallmarks of Romantic music, but in its inspiration it is absolutely Romantic -- it is the immediate emotional expression of the individual, completely unfiltered. When writing his own lyrics in later years Wilson would come up with everything from almost haiku-like lyrics like "I'm a leaf on a windy day/pretty soon I'll be blown away/How long with the wind blow?/Until I die" to "He sits behind his microphone/Johnny Carson/He speaks in such a manly tone/Johnny Carson", depending on whether at the time his prime concern was existential meaninglessness or what was on the TV. Wilson found the new counterculture exciting, but was also very aware he didn't fit in. He was developing a new group of friends, the hippest of the hip in LA counterculture circles -- the singer Danny Hutton, Mark Volman of the Turtles, the writers Michael Vosse and Jules Siegel, scenester and record executive David Anderle -- but there was always the underlying implication that at least some of these people regarded him as, to use an ableist term but one which they would probably have used, an idiot savant. That they thought of him, as his former collaborator Tony Asher would later uncharitably put it, as "a genius musician but an amateur human being". So for example when Siegel brought the great postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon to visit Brian, both men largely sat in silence, unable to speak to each other; Pynchon because he tended to be a reactive person in conversation and would wait for the other person to initiate topics of discussion, Brian because he was so intimidated by Pynchon's reputation as a great East Coast intellectual that he was largely silent for fear of making a fool of himself. It was this gaucheness, as Parks eventually put it, and Parks' understanding that this was actually a quality to be cherished and the key to Wilson's art, that eventually gave the title to the most ambitious of the complete songs the duo were working on. They had most of the song -- a song about the power of music, the concept of enlightenment, and the rise and fall of civilisations: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Surf's Up"] But Parks hadn't yet quite finished the lyric. The Beach Boys had been off on tour for much of Brian and Van Dyke's collaboration, and had just got back from their first real tour of the UK, where Pet Sounds had been a smash hit, rather than the middling success it had been in the US, and "Good Vibrations" had just become their first number one single. Brian and Van Dyke played the song for Brian's brother Dennis, the Beach Boys' drummer, and the band member most in tune with Brian's musical ambitions at this time. Dennis started crying, and started talking about how the British audiences had loved their music, but had laughed at their on-stage striped-shirt uniforms. Parks couldn't tell if he was crying because of the beauty of the unfinished song, the humiliation he had suffered in Britain, or both. Dennis then asked what the name of the song was, and as Parks later put it "Although it was the most gauche factor, and although maybe Brian thought it was the most dispensable thing, I thought it was very important to continue to use the name and keep the elephant in the room -- to keep the surfing image but to sensitise it to new opportunities. One of these would be an eco-consciousness; it would be speaking about the greening of the Earth, aboriginal people, how we had treated the Indians, taking on those things and putting them into the thoughts that come with the music. That was a solution to the relevance of the group, and I wanted the group to be relevant." Van Dyke had decided on a title: "Surf's Up": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Surf's Up"] As the group were now back from their tour, the focus for recording shifted from the instrumental sessions to vocal ones. Parks had often attended the instrumental sessions, as he was an accomplished musician and arranger himself, and would play on the sessions, but also wanted to learn from what Brian was doing -- he's stated later that some of his use of tuned percussion in the decades since, for example, has come from watching Brian's work. But while he was also a good singer, he was not a singer in the same style as the Beach Boys, and they certainly didn't need his presence at those sessions, so he continued to work on his lyrics, and to do his arrangement and session work for other artists, while they worked in the studio. He was also, though, starting to distance himself from Brian for other reasons. At the start of the summer, Brian's eccentricity and whimsy had seemed harmless -- indeed, the kind of thing he was doing, such as putting his piano in a sandbox so he could feel the sand with his feet while he wrote, seems very much on a par with Maureen Cleave's descriptions of John Lennon in the same period. They were two newly-rich, easily bored, young men with low attention spans and high intelligence who could become deeply depressed when understimulated and so would get new ideas into their heads, spend money on their new fads, and then quickly discard them. But as the summer wore on into autumn and winter, Brian's behaviour became more bizarre, and to Parks' eyes more distasteful. We now know that Brian was suffering a period of increasing mental ill-health, something that was probably not helped by the copious intake of cannabis and amphetamines he was using to spur his creativity, but at the time most people around him didn't realise this, and general knowledge of mental illness was even less than it is today. Brian was starting to do things like insist on holding business meetings in his swimming pool, partly because people wouldn't be able to spy on him, and partly because he thought people would be more honest if they were in the water. There were also events like the recording session where Wilson paid for several session musicians, not to play their instruments, but to be recorded while they sat in a pitch-black room and played the party game Lifeboat with Jules Siegel and several of Wilson's friends, most of whom were stoned and not really understanding what they were doing, while they got angrier and more frustrated. Alan Jardine -- who unlike the Wilson brothers, and even Mike Love to an extent, never indulged in illegal drugs -- has talked about not understanding why, in some vocal sessions, Brian would make the group crawl on their hands and knees while making noises like animals: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains Part 3 (Animals)"] As Parks delicately put it "I sensed all that was destructive, so I withdrew from those related social encounters." What this meant though was that he was unaware that not all the Beach Boys took the same attitude of complete support for the work he and Brian had been doing that Dennis Wilson -- the only other group member he'd met at this point -- took. In particular, Mike Love was not a fan of Parks' lyrics. As he said later "I called it acid alliteration. The [lyrics are] far out. But do they relate like 'Surfin' USA,' like 'Fun Fun Fun,' like 'California Girls,' like 'I Get Around'? Perhaps not! So that's the distinction. See, I'm into success. These words equal successful hit records; those words don't" Now, Love has taken a lot of heat for this over the years, and on an artistic level that's completely understandable. Parks' lyrics were, to my mind at least, the best the Beach Boys ever had -- thoughtful, intelligent, moving, at times profound, often funny, often beautiful. But, while I profoundly disagree with Love, I have a certain amount of sympathy for his position. From Love's perspective, first and foremost, this is his source of income. He was the only one of the Beach Boys to ever have had a day job -- he'd worked at his father's sheet metal company -- and didn't particularly relish the idea of going back to manual labour if the rock star gig dried up. It wasn't that he was *opposed* to art, of course -- he'd written the lyrics to "Good Vibrations", possibly the most arty rock single released to that point, hadn't he? -- but that had been *commercial* art. It had sold. Was this stuff going to sell? Was he still going to be able to feed his wife and kids? Also, up until a few months earlier he had been Brian's principal songwriting collaborator. He was *still* the most commercially successful collaborator Brian had had. From his perspective, this was a partnership, and it was being turned into a dictatorship without him having been consulted. Before, it had been "Mike, can you write some lyrics for this song about cars?", now it was "Mike, you're going to sing these lyrics about a crow uncovering a cornfield". And not only that, but Mike had not met Brian's new collaborator, but knew he was hanging round with Brian's new druggie friends. And Brian was behaving increasingly weirdly, which Mike put down to the influence of the drugs and these new friends. It can't have helped that at the same time the group's publicist, Derek Taylor, was heavily pushing the line "Brian Wilson is a genius". This was causing Brian some distress -- he didn't think of himself as a genius, and he saw the label as a burden, something it was impossible to live up to -- but was also causing friction in the group, as it seemed that their contributions were being dismissed. Again, I don't agree with Mike's position on any of this, but it is understandable. It's also the case that Mike Love is, by nature, a very assertive and gregarious person, while Brian Wilson, for all that he took control in the studio, is incredibly conflict-avoidant and sensitive. From what I know of the two men's personalities, and from things they've said, and from the session recordings that have leaked over the years, it seems entirely likely that Love will have seen himself as having reasonable criticisms, and putting them to Brian clearly with a bit of teasing to take the sting out of them; while Brian will have seen Love as mercilessly attacking and ridiculing the work that meant so much to him in a cruel and hurtful manner, and that neither will have understood at the time that that was how the other was seeing things. Love's criticisms intensified. Not of everything -- he's several times expressed admiration for "Heroes and Villains" and "Wonderful" -- but in general he was not a fan of Parks' lyrics. And his criticisms seemed to start to affect Brian. It's difficult to say what Brian thinks about Parks' lyrics, because he has a habit in interviews of saying what he thinks the interviewer wants to hear, and the whole subject of Smile became a touchy one for him for a long time, so in some interviews he has talked about how dazzlingly brilliant they are, while at other times he's seemed to agree with Love, saying they were "Van Dyke Parks lyrics", not "Beach Boys lyrics". He may well sincerely think both at the same time, or have thought both at different times. This came to a head with a session for the tag of "Cabinessence": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Cabinessence"] Love insisted on having the line "over and over the crow flies uncover the cornfield" explained to him, and Brian eventually decided to call Van Dyke Parks and have him come to the studio. Up to this point, Parks had no idea that there was anything controversial, so when Brian phoned him up and very casually said that Mike had a few questions about the lyrics, could he come down to the studio? He went without a second thought. He later said "The only person I had had any interchange with before that was Dennis, who had responded very favorably to 'Heroes and Villains' and 'Surf's Up'. Based on that, I gathered that the work would be approved. But then, with no warning whatsoever, I got that phone call from Brian. And that's when the whole house of cards came tumbling down." Parks got to the studio, where he was confronted by an angry Mike Love, insisting he explain the lyrics. Now, as will be, I hope, clear from everything I've said, Parks and Love are very, very, *very* different people. Having met both men -- albeit only in formal fan-meeting situations where they're presenting their public face -- I actually find both men very likeable, but in very different ways. Love is gregarious, a charmer, the kind of man who would make a good salesman and who people use terms like "alpha male" about. He's tall, and has a casual confidence that can easily read as arrogance, and a straightforward sense of humour that can sometimes veer into the cruel. Parks, on the other hand, is small, meticulously well-mannered and well-spoken, has a high, precise, speaking voice which probably reads as effeminate to the kind of people who use terms like "alpha male", and the kind of devastating intelligence and Southern US attention to propriety which means that if he *wanted* to say something cruel about someone, the victim would believe themselves to have been complimented until a horrific realisation two days after the event. In every way, from their politics to their attitudes to art versus commerce to their mannerisms to their appearance, Mike Love and Van Dyke Parks are utterly different people, and were never going to mix well. And Brian Wilson, who was supposed to be the collaborator for both of them, was not mediating between them, not even expressing an opinion -- his own mental problems had reached the stage where he simply couldn't deal with the conflict. Parks felt ambushed and hurt, Love felt angry, especially when Parks could not explain the literal meaning of his lyrics. Eventually Parks just said "I have no excuse, sir", and left. Parks later said "That's when I lost interest. Because basically I was taught not to be where I wasn't wanted, and I could feel I wasn't wanted. It was like I had someone else's job, which was abhorrent to me, because I don't even want my own job. It was sad, so I decided to get away quick." Parks continued collaborating with Wilson, and continued attending instrumental sessions, but it was all wheelspinning -- no significant progress was made on any songs after that point, in early December. It was becoming clear that the album wasn't going to be ready for its planned Christmas release, and it was pushed back to January, but Brian's mental health was becoming worse and worse. One example that's often cited as giving an insight into Brian's mental state at the time is his reaction to going to the cinema to see John Frankenheimer's classic science fiction horror film Seconds. Brian came in late, and the way the story is always told, when he was sat down the screen was black and a voice said from the darkness, "Hello Mr. Wilson". That moment does not seem to correspond with anything in the actual film, but he probably came in around the twenty-four minute mark, where the main character walks down a corridor, filmed in a distorted, hallucinatory manner, to be greeted: [Excerpt: Seconds, 24:00] But as Brian watched the film, primed by this, he became distressed by a number of apparent similarities to his life. The main character was going through death and rebirth, just as he felt he was. Right after the moment I just excerpted, Mr. Wilson is shown a film, and of course Brian was himself watching a film. The character goes to the beach in California, just like Brian. The character has a breakdown on a plane, just like Brian, and has to take pills to cope, and the breakdown happens right after this: [Excerpt: Seconds, from about 44:22] A studio in California? Just like where Brian spent his working days? That kind of weird coincidence can be affecting enough in a work of art when one is relatively mentally stable, but Brian was not at all stable. By this point he was profoundly paranoid -- and he may have had good reason to be. Some of Brian's friends from this time period have insisted that Brian's semi-estranged abusive father and former manager, Murry, was having private detectives watch him and his brothers to find evidence that they were using drugs. If you're in the early stages of a severe mental illness *and* you're self-medicating with illegal drugs, *and* people are actually spying on you, then that kind of coincidence becomes a lot more distressing. Brian became convinced that the film was the work of mind gangsters, probably in the pay of Phil Spector, who were trying to drive him mad and were using telepathy to spy on him. He started to bar people who had until recently been his friends from coming to sessions -- he decided that Jules Siegel's girlfriend was a witch and so Siegel was no longer welcome -- and what had been a creative process in the studio degenerated into noodling and second-guessing himself. He also, with January having come and the album still not delivered, started doing side projects,  some of which, like his production of tracks for photographer Jasper Daily, seem evidence either of his bizarre sense of humour, or of his detachment from reality, or both: [Excerpt: Jasper Daily, "Teeter Totter Love"] As 1967 drew on, things got worse and worse. Brian was by this point concentrating on just one or two tracks, but endlessly reworking elements of them. He became convinced that the track "Fire" had caused some actual fires to break out in LA, and needed to be scrapped. The January deadline came and went with no sign of the album. To add to that, the group discovered that they were owed vast amounts of unpaid royalties by Capitol records, and legal action started which meant that even were the record to be finished it might become a pawn in the legal wrangling. Parks eventually became exasperated by Brian -- he said later "I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery" -- and he quit the project altogether in February after a row with Brian. He returned a couple of weeks later out of a sense of loyalty, but quit again in April. By April, he'd been working enough with Lenny Waronker that Waronker offered him a contract with Warner Brothers as a solo artist -- partly because Warners wanted some insight into Brian Wilson's techniques as a hit-making producer. To start with, Parks released a single, to dip a toe in the water, under the pseudonym "George Washington Brown". It was a largely-instrumental cover version of Donovan's song "Colours", which Parks chose because after seeing the film Don't Look Back, a documentary of Bob Dylan's 1965 British tour, he felt saddened at the way Dylan had treated Donovan: [Excerpt: George Washington Brown, "Donovan's Colours"] That was not a hit, but it got enough positive coverage, including an ecstatic review from Richard Goldstein in the Village Voice, that Parks was given carte blanche to create the album he wanted to create, with one of the largest budgets of any album released to that date. The result was a masterpiece, and very similar to the vision of Smile that Parks had had -- an album of clever, thoroughly American music which had more to do with Charles Ives than the British Invasion: [Excerpt: Van Dyke Parks, "The All Golden"] But Parks realised the album, titled Song Cycle, was doomed to failure when at a playback session, the head of Warner Brothers records said "Song Cycle? So where are the songs?" According to Parks, the album was only released because Jac Holzman of Elektra Records was also there, and took out his chequebook and said he'd release the album if Warners wouldn't, but it had little push, apart from some rather experimental magazine adverts which were, if anything, counterproductive. But Waronker recognised Parks' talent, and had even written into Parks' contract that Parks would be employed as a session player at scale on every session Waronker produced -- something that didn't actually happen, because Parks didn't insist on it, but which did mean Parks had a certain amount of job security. Over the next couple of years Parks and Waronker co-produced the first albums by two of their colleagues from Waronker's brains trust, with Parks arranging -- Randy Newman: [Excerpt: Randy Newman, "I Think It's Going to Rain Today"] And Ry Cooder: [Excerpt: Ry Cooder, "One Meat Ball"] Waronker would refer to himself, Parks, Cooder, and Newman as "the arts and crafts division" of Warners, and while these initial records weren't very successful, all of them would go on to bigger things. Parks would be a pioneer of music video, heading up Warners' music video department in the early seventies, and would also have a staggeringly varied career over the years, doing everything from teaming up again with the Beach Boys to play accordion on "Kokomo" to doing the string arrangements on Joanna Newsom's album Ys, collaborating with everyone from U2 to Skrillex,  discovering Rufus Wainwright, and even acting again, appearing in Twin Peaks. He also continued to make massively inventive solo albums, releasing roughly one every decade, each unique and yet all bearing the hallmarks of his idiosyncratic style. As you can imagine, he is very likely to come up again in future episodes, though we're leaving him for now. Meanwhile, the Beach Boys were floundering, and still had no album -- and now Parks was no longer working with Brian, the whole idea of Smile was scrapped. The priority was now to get a single done, and so work started on a new, finished, version of "Heroes and Villains", structured in a fairly conventional manner using elements of the Smile recordings. The group were suffering from numerous interlocking problems at this point, and everyone was stressed -- they were suing their record label, Dennis' wife had filed for divorce, Brian was having mental health problems, and Carl had been arrested for draft dodging -- though he was later able to mount a successful defence that he was a conscientious objector. Also, at some point around this time, Bruce Johnston seems to have temporarily quit the group, though this was never announced -- he doesn't seem to have been at any sessions from late May or early June through mid-September, and didn't attend the two shows they performed in that time. They were meant to have performed three shows, but even though Brian was on the board of the Monterey Pop Festival, they pulled out at the last minute, saying that they needed to deal with getting the new single finished and with Carl's draft problems. Some or all of these other issues almost certainly fed into that, but the end result was that the Beach Boys were seen to have admitted defeat, to have handed the crown of relevance off to the San Francisco groups. And even if Smile had been released, there were other releases stealing its thunder. If it had come out in December it would have been massively ahead of its time, but after the Beatles released Sgt Pepper it would have seemed like it was a cheap copy -- though Parks has always said he believes the Beatles heard some of the Smile tapes and copied elements of the recordings, though I don't hear much similarity myself. But I do hear a strong similarity in "My World Fell Down" by Sagittarius, which came out in June, and which was largely made by erstwhile collaborators of Brian -- Gary Usher produced, Glen Campbell sang lead, and Bruce Johnston sang backing vocals: [Excerpt: Sagittarius, "My World Fell Down"] Brian was very concerned after hearing that that someone *had* heard the Smile tapes, and one can understand why. When "Heroes and Villains" finally came out, it was a great single, but only made number twelve in the charts. It was fantastic, but out of step with the times, and nothing could have lived up to the hype that had built up around it: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains"] Instead of Smile, the group released an album called Smiley Smile, recorded in a couple of months in Brian's home studio, with no studio musicians and no involvement from Bruce, other than the previously released singles, and with the production credited to "the Beach Boys" rather than Brian. Smiley Smile has been unfairly dismissed over the years, but it's actually an album that was ahead of its time. It's a collection of stripped down versions of Smile songs and new fragments using some of the same motifs, recorded with minimal instrumentation. Some of it is on a par with the Smile material it's based on: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wonderful"] Some is, to my ears, far more beautiful than the Smile versions: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wind Chimes"] And some has a fun goofiness which relates back to one of Brian's discarded ideas for Smile, that it be a humour album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "She's Going Bald"] The album was a commercial flop, by far the least successful thing the group had released to that point in the US, not even making the top forty when it came out in September, though it made the top ten in the UK, but interestingly it *wasn't* a critical flop, at least at first. While the scrapping of Smile had been mentioned, it still wasn't widely known, and so for example Richard Goldstein, the journalist whose glowing review of "Donovan's Colours" in the Village Voice had secured Van Dyke Parks the opportunity to make Song Cycle, gave it a review in the New York Times which is written as if Goldstein at least believes it *is* the album that had been promised all along, and he speaks of it very perceptively -- and here I'm going to quote quite extensively, because the narrative about this album has always been that it was panned from the start and made the group a laughing stock: "Smiley Smile hardly reads like a rock cantata. But there are moments in songs such as 'With Me Tonight' and 'Wonderful' that soar like sacred music. Even the songs that seem irrelevant to a rock-hymn are infused with stained-glass melodies. Wilson is a sound sculptor and his songs are all harmonious litanies to the gentle holiness of love — post-Christian, perhaps but still believing. 'Wind Chimes', the most important piece on the album, is a fine example of Brian Wilson's organic pop structure. It contains three movements. First, Wilson sets a lyric and melodic mood ("In the late afternoon, you're hung up on wind chimes"). Then he introduces a totally different scene, utilizing passages of pure, wordless harmony. His two-and-a-half minute hymn ends with a third movement in which the voices join together in an exquisite round, singing the words, "Whisperin' winds set my wind chimes a-tinklin'." The voices fade out slowly, like the bittersweet afternoon in question. The technique of montage is an important aspect of Wilson's rock cantata, since the entire album tends to flow as a single composition. Songs like 'Heroes and Villains', are fragmented by speeding up or slowing down their verses and refrains. The effect is like viewing the song through a spinning prism. Sometimes, as in 'Fall Breaks and Back to Winter' (subtitled "W. Woodpecker Symphony"), the music is tiered into contrapuntal variations on a sliver of melody. The listener is thrown into a vast musical machine of countless working gears, each spinning in its own orbit." That's a discussion of the album that I hear when I listen to Smiley Smile, and the group seem to have been artistically happy with it, at least at first. They travelled to Hawaii to record a live album (with Brian, as Bruce was still out of the picture), taking the Baldwin organ that Brian used all over Smiley Smile with them, and performed rearranged versions of their old hits in the Smiley Smile style. When the recordings proved unusable, they recreated them in the studio, with Bruce returning to the group, where he would remain, with the intention of overdubbing audience noise and releasing a faked live album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "California Girls [Lei'd studio version]"] The idea of the live album, to be called Lei'd in Hawaii, was scrapped, but that's not the kind of radical reimagining of your sound that you do if you think you've made an artistic failure. Indeed, the group's next albu

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Activision and Atari bury the hatchet CES is flooded with 3rd party VCS carts Video games give Wall Street the jitters These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in June 1982. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Mads from the Retro Asylum is our cohost. You can find his other fine podcasts here: http://retroasylum.com and https://playthroughpod.com/ Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com Links: 7 Minutes in Heaven: Naughty Boy Video Version - https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-boy-69425784 https://www.mobygames.com/game/naughty-boy Corrections: May 1982 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/68285778 https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/super-cobra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey Tron - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-2600/pac-man Wild Bill Stealey - Microprose - https://www.patreon.com/posts/36710924 1822 Charles Babbage announces Difference Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/engines/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop#Babbage's_(1984%E2%80%931994) 1972 The Carnegie Institute sees computers as future of education https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/02/archives/electronics-seen-as-education-key-carnegie-study-urges-us-aid-for.html?searchResultPosition=16 Nolan Bushnell contracts with Bally https://archive.org/details/1974-06-25-john-britz-depositon-and-exhibits/1974-06-25%20John%20Britz%20Exhibit%202/page/n0/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutting_Associates Atari incorporated https://twitter.com/GameResearch_E/status/1541419743646720001 1982: Bankers bearish on coin-op Games People Pay Early-June 1982 pg. 1 Federal spending cuts hit coinop Play Meter June 15th, 1982 pg. 22 https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/03/garden/issue-and-debate-should-video-games-be-restricted-by-law.html?searchResultPosition=3 Chuck E Cheese reports earnings The Pizza Times June 1982 pg. 5 Atari, Gottlieb split Krull license Play Meter June 1st, 1982 pg. 32 https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_04_1982-06_Reese_Communications_US/page/n7/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.mobygames.com/game/krull Japanese imports drying up Play Meter June 1st, 1982 pg. 32 Experts suggest arcade games may become collectible Games People Pay Early-June 1982 pg. 6 Thief ads list Bernie Stolar as director Play Meter June 1st, 1982 pg. 43 https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/thief__ https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1735&image=1 Count Up to the Crash! Video Games add pep to dreary CES https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/09/business/the-video-game-sales-war.html?searchResultPosition=2 GCE introduces Vectrex Toy & Hobby World June 1982 pg. S9 Lange Nacht der Computerspiele - https://computerspielenacht.htwk-leipzig.de/computerspielenacht-start/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex Entex introduces Adventure Vision Toy & Hobby World June 1982 pg. S34 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Vision http://www.adventurevision.com/SystemPictures-loose.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entex_Industries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_(pinball) Stand-alone electronic games bet on licenses Toy & Hobby World June 1982 pg. S1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Professor https://www.achtziger-forum.de/viewtopic.php?p=16206 Mattel has finally launched the Intellivision keyboard component... sorta https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_04_1982-06_Reese_Communications_US/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater Don Daglow Part 1 - PDP - Mattel - Intellivision - EA - https://www.patreon.com/posts/38445119 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision#Keyboard_Component ColecoVision to have VCS add-on https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_04_1982-06_Reese_Communications_US/page/n8/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColecoVision#Atari_2600_expansion Tiger Electronics enters the VCS market Toy & Hobby World June 1982 pg. S20 https://www.mobygames.com/company/tigervision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Electronics https://www.mobygames.com/game/miner-2049er https://www.mobygames.com/game/manic-miner Gauntlet Handheld - https://archive.org/details/hh_tgaunt Fox enters cartridge market https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/07/business/fox-to-offer-video-games.html?searchResultPosition=3 https://www.mobygames.com/company/fox-video-games-inc Jerry Jewell - Sirius Software - https://www.patreon.com/posts/57602735 Activision and Atari bury the hatchet https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_04_1982-06_Reese_Communications_US/page/n8/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision#Early_years_(1980%E2%80%931982) Activision announces new games Toy & Hobby World June 1982 pg. S21 https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/activision-publishing-inc/offset,1450/so,1d/list-games/ Activision earnings jump ten-fold Toys Hobbies and Crafts June 1982, pg. 13 https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/11/business/mattel-profit-17.1-million.html?searchResultPosition=7 Gregory Fischbach Part 1 - Activision - Acclaim - https://www.patreon.com/posts/46578120 Fears of crash hit Warner stock https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/04/business/market-place-pac-man-and-beyond.html?searchResultPosition=4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros.#New_owners Toy retailers prepare for the cartridge onslaught Toy & Hobby World June 1982, pg. S1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSR,_Inc. Toy retailers urged to attend CES Toy & Hobby World June 1982 pg. S4 Osborne 1 gets reviewed https://archive.org/details/sim_byte_1982-06_7_6/page/n351/mode/1up?view=theater Corvus shows off their Concept https://archive.org/details/sim_byte_1982-06_7_6/page/5/mode/1up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine-1982-06/page/n25/mode/1up Commodore takes on IBM https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/22/science/personal-computers-how-much-memory-to-buy.html?searchResultPosition=2 IBM has no time for the UK https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1982-06-03/page/n4/mode/1up Speccy and Beeb get off to rocky starts https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly?query=1982-06 Timex launches the Sinclair 1000 Toy & Hobby World June 1982 pg. S4 7 Minutes in Heaven - 3D Monster Maze - April 1982 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-3d-66504463 Sinclair to go public https://archive.org/details/Sinclair_User_003/page/13/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Research Llamasoft advertises Vic20 games http://minotaurproject.co.uk/lshistory8.php https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1982-06-03/page/n5/mode/1up Creative Computing isn't giving up on video discs https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1982-06/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater 7 Minutes in Heaven - Adventures in Video Land - https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-in-61568657 Byte goes video disk crazy https://archive.org/details/sim_byte_1982-06_7_6/page/3/mode/1up?view=theater Professor equates video games to masturbation Replay June 1982, pg. 83   Recommended Links: The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play. 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https://designdisciplin.com/rtd-intro:: Related Books, Links, Resources*+ Bowers  (2012). The Logic of Annotated Portfolios: Communicating the Value of ‘Research through Design'. In Proc. DIS: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2317956.2317968+ Change by Design by Tim Brown: https://geni.us/change-by-design+ Conversation with Virgil Abloh on Vestoj: http://vestoj.com/does-your-jacket-have-three-armholes/+ Design Issues Journal: https://direct.mit.edu/desi+ Design Studies Journal: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/design-studies+ Desmet, Overbeeke, & Tax (2001). Designing Products with Added Emotional Value: Development and Appllcation of an Approach for Research through Design. The Design Journal https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2752/146069201789378496+ DiSalvo, Forlizzi, & Gemperle (2004). Discovering and Extracting Knowledge in the Design Project. In Proc. DRS: https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2169&context=drs-conference-papers+ Drone Chi: https://www.baytas.net/research/dronechi/+ Hauser, Oogjes, Wakkary, & Verbeek (2018). An Annotated Portfolio on Doing Postphenomenology through Research Products. In Proc. DIS: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3196709.3196745+ La Delfa et al. (2020). Designing Drone Chi: Unpacking the Thinking and Making of Somaesthetic Human-Drone Interaction. In Proc. DIS: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3357236.3395589+ La Delfa et al. (2020). Drone Chi: Somaesthetic Human-Drone Interaction. In Proc. CHI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3313831.3376786+ Lesko (1997). Industrial Design at Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1934–1967. In Journal of Design History: https://academic.oup.com/jdh/article-abstract/10/3/269/337126+ Odom et al. (2016). From Research Prototype to Research Product. In Proc. CHI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2858036.2858447+ Odom et al. (2018). Attending to slowness and temporality with olly and slow game. In Proc. CHI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173651+ Odom et al. (2019). Unpacking the Thinking and Making Behind a Slow Technology Research Product with Slow Game. In Proc. C&C: https://doi.org/10.1145/3325480.3326567+ RTD | Research through Design Conference: https://www.researchthroughdesign.org/+ Slow Game by Will Odom: http://willodom.com/portfolio/portfolio/slow-game/+ Sprint by Jake Knapp: https://geni.us/sprint-dd+ The Double Diamond by the Design Council: https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/news-opinion/double-diamond-universally-accepted-depiction-design-process/+ The Lean Startup* by Eric Ries: https://geni.us/lean-startup-dd:: Connect with Design Disciplin+ Website: http://designdisciplin.com​+ Podcast: http://podcast.designdisciplin.com​+ Instagram: http://instagram.com/designdisciplin/​+ Twitter: http://twitter.com/designdisciplin/​+ YouTube: http://youtube.com/designdisciplin+ Bookstore: http://designdisciplin.com​/bookstore:: Episode Bookmarks00:00 Intro02:00 Who is this for and what to expect05:18 Origin: What is RtD and why does it exist?12:13 Purpose: What is RtD good for?15:15 Example: Xerox (1980s)17:52 Example: Slow Game (2018)20:29 Example: Drone Chi (2020)22:27 Recap and Closing*: May contain affiliate links – at no extra cost to you, we earn a commission if you purchase from these links.

Episode originally aired on Monday, June 20, 2022, at 9:30am, on WRCR 1700AMWe turned our attention to the life and legacy of Millia Davenport. David Bisaha, Assistant Professor of Theater at SUNY Binghamton joined host Clare Sheridan to discuss this remarkable and trailblazing woman who lived most of her life in Rockland County. Among her many contributions include writing the definitive book of theatrical costume history, The Book of Costume. Published in 1948, it remains the gold standard. (Royalties from the book were donated to the New City Library.)Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 31, 1895, to Charles B. and Gertrude Crotty Davenport, Millia Davenport lived in New City for more than 70 years. Her father and mother were biology teachers at Harvard and Radcliffe, respectively. They were genetic researchers and helped establish the Station for Experimental Evolution of the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.After attending Barnard and Parsons, Millia Davenport created artwork for and edited The Quill, a literary magazine. Later, she became one of the first female scenic design painters in America. She worked as a costume designer for a number of Broadway theater companies, including Maxwell Anderson's Playwrights Company and Orson Welles's Mercury Theater.In 1981, she received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan the same year that she received the highest honor given by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology for a lifetime of distinguished contribution to the performing arts. In 1991 the Costume Society of America established the Millia Davenport Publication Award recognizing excellence in costume scholarship.Davenport died in 1992.David Bisaha is a scholar and practitioner who studies performance design, theatrical space and architecture, and the history of theatrical creativity. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater at SUNY Binghamton. He specializes in the history of scenic design in the United States, mostly in the first half of the twentieth century, and in the more recent history of immersive and participatory performance. His other research interests include theatre historiography, cognitive sciences and performance, directing theory, and memory studies.Bisaha's current book project, American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism, is a cultural labor history of scenic designers and designing in the United States. At Binghamton, Bisaha teaches theater and performance history, dramaturgy, and theater theory in the MA and BA programs. He is the Curator of the Theatre Collection of the Department of Theatre, and is affiliate faculty and a steering committee member of the Material and Visual Worlds Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence (TAE).  The Millia Davenport papers are housed there.***Crossroads of Rockland History, a program of the Historical Society of Rockland County, airs on the third Monday of each month at 9:30 am, right after the morning show, on WRCR Radio 1700 AM and www.WRCR.com. Join host Clare Sheridan as we explore, celebrate, and learn about our local history, with different topics and guest speakers every month. We are pleased to announce that we have begun loading our archived podcasts to all major Podcast platforms.The Historical Society of Rockland County is a nonprofit educational institution and principal repository for original documents and artifacts relating to Rockland County. Its headquarters are a four-acre site featuring a history museum and the 1832 Jacob Blauvelt House in New City, New York.www.RocklandHistory.org

Synopsis The British composer Gustav Holst lived and worked in a West London neighborhood called Hammersmith for many years – and in 1930, Holst gave that name to a work for wind band he wrote on commission from the BBC. “Hammersmith” opens with a "Prelude" representing the river Thames, which, said Holst, "goes on its way unnoticed and unconcerned." A “Scherzo” section represents the hustle and bustle of Hammersmith's market, exemplified, according to Holst's daughter, by a large woman at a fruit stand who always called her father 'dearie' when he bought oranges for their Sunday picnics. In 1931, “Hammersmith” was first performed in England in the composer's own orchestral arrangement by the BBC Symphony led by Adrian Boult – and the piece was booed. Holst's bad luck continued the following year: He was scheduled to conduct the premiere of the band version of “Hammersmith” on today's date at the 1932 American Bandmasters Association Convention in Washington, D.C., but had to cancel his trip due to illness. The DC premiere took place as scheduled, but with the U.S. Marine Band led by Taylor Branson, rather than the composer. For the next 22 years, the original, wind band version of “Hammersmith” remained neglected until Robert Cantrick and the Carnegie Institute of Technology Kiltie Band in Pittsburgh gave what they thought was its world premiere performance in 1954. It seems even Holst's publisher had forgotten all about its 1932 American premiere. Music Played in Today's Program Gustav Holst (1874-1934) — Hammersmith (Dallas Wind Symphony;Howard Dunn, cond.) Reference Recordings 39

When a long lost journal leads a group of anthropologists to supposedly unexplored Mayan ruins deep in the Yucatan Peninsula, the researchers from the Carnegie Institute of Washington learn there's more to fear than malaria and bandits on jungle expeditions. Cast:Claire - Dr. Melissa JohnsonRob S - Dr. Curtis BouchardRob - SlaterBaz - Dr. Hugo SwensonCheck out Rob Stith's RPG: The Orpheus ProtocolCheck out Baz's Twitch streams: Future Wolfington and New Game Never PlayedCatch The Black Pants Legion on YouTubeOpening theme: techtheist - Another Autumn in Despair

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhwestover/) talks with Dr. James Hardt about developing more meaningful workplace relationships using biofeedback and brainwave training. See the video here: https://youtu.be/even0gGo2Mk.  Dr. Hardt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-hardt/) is a celebrated research scientist with an established history of over 40 years in the study and research of biofeedback. Hardt has authored or co-authored countless scientific research papers on the subject and he currently has more than 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain-centered portion of various virtual reality applications. His findings have been published in numerous scholarly journals such as Science, Psychophysiology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology, just to name a few. Dr. Hardt has also spoken in front of the United Nations. Dr. Hardt received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, as well as a master's degree, and Ph.D., in psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University. Check out Dr. Westover's new book, 'Bluer than Indigo' Leadership, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/bluerthanindigo.    Check out Dr. Westover's book, The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/leadershipalchemy.    Check out the latest issue of the Human Capital Leadership magazine, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-magazine.    Ranked #6 Performance Management Podcast: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/  Ranked #6 Workplace Podcast: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/  Ranked #7 HR Podcast: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/  Ranked #12 Talent Management Podcast: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/  Ranked in the Top 20 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/  Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/

In today's podcast episode, Jolyn and Kristin will be discussing Sol LeWitt's drawing at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. The museum wants to “move” this painting, but what happens when moving a painting means creating a whole new piece of artwork? Would redrawing the painting still be considered Sol LeWitt's art even after it's "relocated"? Sol LeWitt was an American conceptual artist linked to various movements including conceptualism and minimalism. He is known for his contribution to the philosophy of conceptual art. Part of his contribution was his somewhat controversial way of creating and distributing his art. Sol LeWitt had a unique way of sharing his art, known for providing clear instructions to artist technicians to create and execute his wall drawings following his original blueprint. Does who draws the art matter as much as what is drawn? Does moving the art change the way the art is viewed? Does it change the value of the work? Is it fraud or not? Find out in this episode as Kristin and Jolyn dive in to discuss their perspectives on this topic.

Dr. James V. Hardt is the Founder of The Biocybernaut Institute and an expert in training with biofeedback. He has worked with the likes of Tony Robbins and other high-powered executives to elevate states of intelligence and consciousness for over 40-years. The Institute has centers located in the United States, Canada and Germany. After having a life-changing event that completely altered his view on religion, life, and the cosmos Dr. Hardt has devoted his life to the study of the electrophysiological basis of advanced spiritual states. He has traveled the globe in pursuit of his research, and to India especially to study advanced Yogis, with his technology. From Zen masters to Christian prayer, Dr. Hardt has continued his relentless pursuit of advanced brainwave and meditation connections that allow people to become the best form of themselves: including • reducing limitations and addictions • experiencing more joy, less anxiety • improving health and awareness • developing more meaningful relationships Dr. Hardt is a celebrated research scientist with an established history of over 40 years in the study and research of biofeedback. Hardt has authored or co-authored countless scientific research papers on the subject and he currently has more than 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology, and brain-centered portion of various virtual reality applications. His findings have been published in numerous scholarly journals such as Science, Psychophysiology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology, just to name a few. Dr. Hardt has also spoken in front of the United Nations. Dr. Hardt received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, as well as a master's degree, and Ph.D., in psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University. Find him HERE #brainwaves #alphawaves #neuroscience #biofeedback #science #spirituality #spiritualshit #religion #yogi #Zen Find me here and hang out with me on PATREON for monthly workshops, moon circles, meditations and personal message me there! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alealovely/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alealovely/support

SUMMARY:Our guest on this episode of Songcraft is musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer Van Dyke Parks. Best known for his work with Brian Wilson on The Beach Boys' legendarily ill-fated Smile album, Parks has released a number of solo albums, scored several films, arranged countless sessions, and worked with a long list of artists, including The Byrds, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, Little Feat, U2, Fiona Apple, Joana Newsom, and many others. PART ONE:Scott and Paul chat about why they're approaching this episode a little differently than usual, the saga of The Beach Boys' Smile, and why Paul should stop checking stuff out from the library. PART TWO:Our in-depth interview with the legendary Van Dyke ParksABOUT VAN DYKE PARKSVan Dyke Parks is one of the more unique American musicians, songwriters, arrangers, and record producers to emerge in the 1960s. Born in Mississippi, he attended the American Boychoir boarding school in Princeton, New Jersey, in his formative years. His first career was as a child actor, appearing on over 100 episodes of various TV shows, including his role as “the kid from downstairs” on The Honeymooners. He did theater and appeared in films, including The Swan with Grace Kelly and Alec Guinness, before going on to study music at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, where he briefly studied with Aaron Copland. In the early 1960s Van Dyke began playing acoustic guitar, and moved to the West Coast where he and his brother Carson performed on the coffee house circuit as a duo known as The Steeltown Two. He landed his first arranging job with “The Bare Necessities” for Disney's The Jungle Book in 1963 before a brief stint as an MGM recording artist in the middle of the decade.  He is perhaps best known, however, for his collaborations with Brian Wilson with whom he worked as a lyricist on The Beach Boys' ill-fated Smile album. The pair revisited their work with the release of Brian Wilson Presents Smile in 2004. Though the Smile recordings weren't released at the time, Van Dyke signed with Warner Bros. Records and, in 1967, released his album Song Cycle, an ambitious debut that incorporated a wide range of traditional American musical influences with experimental recording techniques. He went on to produce the debut albums by Ry Cooder and Randy Newman, and took a job as an executive at Warner Bros. Records in the 1970s. He became enamored with calypso music in that era, releasing a couple of albums as an artist showcasing the genre, and producing The Esso Trinidad Steel Band. Toward the end of the decade he began composing film soundtracks before returning in the 1980s with two albums of original material, Jump!, which explored the Uncle Remus and Br'er Rabbit stories, and Tokyo Rose, which explored the intersection between Japanese and American culture in the context of a trade war. In the 1990s, he and Brian Wilson teamed up once again to release the album Orange Crate Art. His most recent full-length album as a solo artist is 2013's Songs Cycled. The long list of musicians Van Dyke has worked with includes The Byrds, Tim Buckley, Harry Nilsson, Little Feat, Steve Young, Phil Ochs, Frank Zappa, Ringo Starr, U2, Fiona Apple, Joanna Newsom, Skrillex, and many others.  

Non è facile avere nelle proprie case un quadro di un famoso artista, perché di solito l’opera d’arte è una e unica, escludendo le copie. Andy Warhol ha avuto il merito di commercializzare l’arte, come se fosse un comune bene di consumo, esasperando il concetto di riproducibilità. Le frasi su Andy Warhol ci raccontano delle idee dell’artista. Il poliedrico e carismatico Andy Warhol Andrew Warhola (in arte Andy Warhol), considerato da molti il simbolo della Pop Art, nasce il 6 agosto del 1928 i Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh, da genitori cecoslovacchi emigrati poi negli Stati Uniti d’America. Dopo aver conseguito la laurea di Carnegie Institute of Technology, decide di trasferirsi a New York, seguito poi dalla madre che diventerà la sua più fidata collaboratrice. Nonostante lavorasse presso alcune delle più prestigiose riviste come Harper’s Bazar e Vogue, Warhol coltiva segretamente la sua passione per l’arte che lo porterà tra gli anni 50 e 60, a esporre le prime serigrafie: la sua concentrazione si focalizza sulla rielaborazione di beni di consumo in un periodo in cui si afferma sempre maggiormente la società dei consumi. Nelle sue opere prodotte in serie, allo scopo di rendere l’arte fruibile a tutti, compaiono lattine di Coca-Cola, Popeye, Superman e scatole di zuppa Campbell: in quest’ultimo caso, l’opera “100 Coins” vede la presenza di 100 barattoli di zuppa, simbolo dell’America consumista dell’epoca. Nelle opere di Warhol non c’è biasimo, critica o sentimentalismo: ogni soggetto è privato di umanità e sentimento, arrivando a raffigurare il disastro aereo del 1962, rendendolo solo una pura immagine visiva. Le opere più importanti di Andy Warhol Nel 1965 Andy Warhol decide di fondare la Factory, vista non solo come luogo di produzione di serigrafie ma anche come luogo di ritrovo di artisti come Haring, Clemente e Basquiat. Tra le opere più famose di Andy Warhol c’è senza dubbio la sua Marilyn Monroe, ma di grande successo sono state poi le serigrafie raffiguranti Elvis Presley, Che Guevara e Mao Tse-tung. Nel Museo del Novecento a Milano è conservata “Sixty Last Suppers”, l’Ultima Cena rivista da Warhol in chiave Pop Art. Andy Warhol, da artista poliedrico quale si è dimostrato, ha dato il suo importante contribuito anche al mondo del cinema e a quello della discografia: ha infatti finanziato il primo album del gruppo Velvet Underground. Dopo il ferimento per mano di una femminista nel giugno del 1968, Andy Warhol si allontana dalla scena pubblica fino alla morte nel 1987, per un banale intervento alla cistifellea.

The Soviet Union detonated their first nuclear bomb in 1949, releasing 20 kilotons worth of an explosion and sparking the nuclear arms race. A weather reconnaissance mission confirmed that the Soviets did so and Klaus Fuchs was arrested for espionage, after passing blueprints for the Fat Man bomb that had been dropped on Japan. A common name in the podcast is Vannevar Bush. At this point he was the president of the Carnegie Institute and put together a panel to verify the findings. The Soviets were catching up to American science. Not only did they have a bomb but they also had new aircraft that were capable of dropping a bomb. People built bomb shelters, schools ran drills to teach students how to survive a nuclear blast and within a few years we'd moved on to the hydrogen bomb. And so the world lived in fear of nuclear fall-out. Radar had come along during World War II and we'd developed Ground Control of Intercept, an early radar network. But that wouldn't be enough to protect against this new threat. If one of these Soviet bombers, like the Tupolev 16 “Badger” were to come into American airspace, the prevailing thought was that we needed to shoot it down before the payload could be delivered. The Department of Defense started simulating what a nuclear war would look like. And they asked the Air Force to develop an air defense system. Given the great work done at MIT, much under the careful eye of Vannevar Bush, they reached out to George Valley, a professor in the Physics Department who had studied nuclear weapons. He also sat on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and toured some of the existing sites and took a survey of the US assets. He sent his findings and they eventually made their way to General Vandenberg, who assigned General Fairchild to assemble a committee which would become the Valley Committee, or more officially the Air Defense Systems Engineering Committee, or ADSEC. ADSEC dug in deeper and decided that we needed a large number of radar stations with a computer that could aggregate and then analyze data to detect enemy aircraft in real time. John Harrington had worked out how to convert radar into code and could send that over telephone lines. They just needed a computer that could crunch the data as it was received. And yet none of the computer companies at the time were able to do this kind of real time operation. We were still in a batch processing mainframe world. Jay Forrester at MIT was working on the idea of real-time computing. Just one problem, the Servomechanisms lab where he was working on Project Whirlwind for the Navy for flight simulation was over budget and while they'd developed plenty of ground-breaking technology, they needed more funding. So Forrester was added to ADSEC and added the ability to process the digital radar information. By the end of 1950, the team was able to complete successful tests of sending radar information to Whirlwind over the phone lines. Now it was time to get funding, which was proposed at $2 million a year to fund a lab. Given that Valley and Forrester were both at MIT, they decided it should be at MIT. Here, they saw a way to help push the electronics industry forward and the Navy's Chief Scientist Louis Ridenour knew that wherever that lab was built would become a the next scientific hotspot. The president at MIT at the time, James Killian, wasn't exactly jumping on the idea of MIT becoming an arm of the department of defense so put together 28 scientists to review the plans from ADSEC, which became Project Charles and threw their support to forming the new lab. They had measured twice and were ready to cut. There were already projects being run by the military during the arms buildup named after other places surrounding MIT so they picked Project Lincoln for the name of the project to Project Lincoln. They appointed F Wheeler Loomis as the director with a mission to design a defense system. As with all big projects, they broke it up into five small projects, or divisions; things like digital computers, aircraft control and warning, and communications. A sixth did the business administration for the five technical divisions and another delivered technical services as needed. They grew to over 300 people by the end of 1951 and over 1,300 in 1952. They moved offsite and built a new campus - thus establishing Lincoln Lab. By the end of 1953 they had written a memo called A Proposal for Air Defense System Evolution: The Technical Phase. This called for a net of radars to be set up that would track the trajectory of all aircraft in the US airspace and beyond. And to build communications to deploy the weapons that could destroy those aircraft. The Manhattan project had brought in the nuclear age but this project grew to be larger as now we had to protect ourselves from the potential devastation we wrought. We were firmly in the Cold War with America testing the hydrogen bomb in 52 and the Soviets doing so in 55. That was the same year the prototype of the AN/FSQ-7 to replace Whirlwind. To protect the nation from these bombs they would need 100s of radars, 24 centers to receive data, and 3 combat centers. They planned for direction centers to have a pair of AN/FSQ-7 computers, which were the Whirlwind evolved. That meant half a million lines of code which was by far the most ambitious software ever written. Forrester had developed magnetic-core memory for Whirlwind. That doubled the speed of the computer. They hired IBM to build the AN/FSQ-7 computers and from there we started to see commercial applications as well when IBM added it to the 704 mainframe in 1955. Stalin was running labor camps and purges. An estimated nine million people died in Gulags or from hunger. Chairman Mao visited Moscow in 1957, sparking the Great Leap Forward policy that saw 45 million people die. All in the name of building a utopian paradise. Americans were scared. And Stalin was distrustful of computers for any applications beyond scientific computing for the arms race. By contrast, people like Ken Olsen from Lincoln Lab left to found Digital Equipment Corporation and sell modular mini-computers on the mass market, with DEC eventually rising to be the number two computing company in the world. The project also needed software and so that was farmed out to Rand who would have over 500 programmers work on it. And a special display to watch planes as they were flying, which began as a Stromberg-Carlson Charactron cathode ray tube. IBM got to work building the 24 FSQ-7s, with each coming in at a whopping 250 tons and nearly 50,000 vacuum tubes - and of course that magnetic core memory. All this wasn't just theoretical. Given the proximity, they deployed the first net of around a dozen radars around Cape Cod as a prototype. They ran dedicated phone lines from Cambridge and built the first direction center, equipping it with an interactive display console that showed an x for each object being tracked, adding labels and then Robert Everett came up with the idea of a light gun that could be used as a pointing device, along with a keyboard, to control the computers from a terminal. They tested the Cape Cod installation in 1953 and added long range radars in Maine and New York by the end of 1954, working out bugs as they went. The Suffolk County Airfield in Long Island was added so Strategic Air Command could start running exercises for response teams. By the end of 1955 they put the system to the test and it passed all requirements from the Air Force. The radars detected the aircraft and were able to then control manned antiaircraft operations. By 1957 they were adding logic and capacity to the system, having fine tuned over a number of test runs until they got to a 100 percent interception rate. They were ready to build out the direction centers. The research and development phase was done - now it was time to produce an operational system. Western Electric built a network of radar and communication systems across Northern Canada that became known as the DEW line, short for Distant Early Warning. They added increasingly complicated radar, layers of protection, like Buckminster Fuller joining for a bit to develop a geodesic dome to protect the radars using fiberglass. They added radar to what looked like oil rigs around Texas, experimented with radar on planes and ships, and how to connect those back to the main system. By the end of 1957 the system was ready to move into production and integration with live weapons into the code and connections. This is where MIT was calling it done for their part of the program. Only problem is when the Air Force looked around for companies willing to take on such a large project, no one could. So MITRE corporation was spun out of Lincoln Labs pulling in people from a variety of other government contractors and continues on to this day working on national security, GPS, election integrity, and health care. They took the McChord airfare online as DC-12 in 1957, then Syracuse New York in 1958 and started phasing in automated response. Andrews, Dobbins, Geiger Field, Los Angeles Air Defense Sector, and others went online over the course of the next few years. The DEW line went operational in 1962, extending from Iceland to the Aleutians. By 1963, NORAD had a Combined Operations Center where the war room became reality. Burroughs eventually won a contract to deploy new D825 computers to form a system called BUIC II and with the rapidly changing release of new solid state technology those got replaced with a Hughes AN/TSQ-51. With the rise of Airborn Warning and Control Systems (AWACS), the ground systems started to slowly get dismantled in 1980, being phased out completely in 1984, the year after WarGames was released. In WarGames, Matthew Broderick plays David Lightman, a young hacker who happens upon a game. One Jon Von Neumann himself might have written as he applied Game Theory to the nuclear threat. Lightman almost starts World War III when he tries to play Global Thermonuclear War. He raises the level of DEFCON and so inspires a generation of hackers who founded conferences like DEFCON and to this day war dial, or war drive, or war whatever. The US spent countless tax money on advancing technology in the buildup for World War II and the years after. The Manhattan Project, Project Whirlwind, SAGE, and countless others saw increasing expenditures. Kennedy continued the trend in 1961 when he started the process of putting humans on the moon. And the unpopularity of the Vietnam war, which US soldiers had been dying in since 1959, caused a rollback of spending. The legacy of these massive projects was huge spending to advance the sciences required to produce each. The need for these computers in SAGE and other critical infrastructure to withstand a nuclear war led to ARPANET, which over time evolved into the Internet. The subsequent privatization of these projects, the rapid advancement in making chips, and the drop in costs while frequent doubling of speeds based on findings from each discipline finding their way into others then gave us personal computing and the modern era of PCs then mobile devices. But it all goes back to projects like ENIAC, Whirlwind, and SAGE. Here, we can see generations of computing evolve with each project. I'm frequently asked what's next in our field. It's impossible to know exactly. But we can look to mega projects, many of which are transportation related - and we can look at grants from the NSF. And DARPA and many major universities. Many of these produce new standards so we can also watch for new RFCs from the IETF. But the coolest tech is probably classified, so ask again in a few years! And we can look to what inspires - sometimes that's a perceived need, like thwarting nuclear war. Sometimes mapping human genomes isn't a need until we need to rapidly develop a vaccine. And sometimes, well… sometimes it's just returning to some sense of normalcy. Because we're all about ready for that. That might mean not being afraid of nuclear war as a society any longer. Or not being afraid to leave our homes. Or whatever the world throws at us next.

When a long lost journal leads a group of anthropologists to supposedly unexplored Mayan ruins deep in the Yucatan Peninsula, the researchers from the Carnegie Institute of Washington learn there's more to fear than malaria and bandits on jungle expeditions. Cast: Claire - Dr. Melissa Johnson Rob S - Dr. Curtis Bouchard Rob - Slater Baz - Dr. Hugo Swenson   Check out Rob Stith's RPG: The Orpheus Protocol Check out Baz's Twitch streams: Future Wolfington and New Game Never Played Catch The Black Pants Legion on YouTube Opening theme: techtheist - Another Autumn in Despair

Dr. James V. Hardt serves as the President and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a Masters Degree in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and he has done Post-Doctoral work in Psychophysiology at the Langley Porter Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the University of California at San Francisco.Dr. Hardt has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers and professional presentations.  He has authored, co-authored or has pending over 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain-centered portion of virtual reality applications. He has dedicated his life in the research and development surrounding brain wave training.Dr. Hardt was mentored by Dr. Joe Kamiya, the scientist who first discovered, in 1962, that humans could voluntarily control their own brain waves if they were given brain wave feedback. Dr. Hardt has earned a national reputation as a preeminent research scientist for his over 40 years of work in biofeedback.

In the closing episode of our first season, Julia Parsons discusses how after graduating from Carnegie Institute of Technology, she went on to break secret German submarine codes during World War II.

Another deep dive into The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson for part eight! We continue on from where we were in part seven, looking at the "Java man" discovery of what would later be come known as Homo Erectus, by Eugene Dubois, and the problems and arguments surrounding those finds at the time.We read about another paleoanthropologist, von Koenigswald, returning to the same site in Java to look for further evidence of this "missing link", and the problems with his methods. There is also an interesting event in which a Jesuit priest, who had been involved in the discovery of Beijing Man and the Piltdown fossils, arrives and helps von Koenigswald get connected with the Carnegie Institute for funding of his work.

Back to our deep dive into The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson for part eight! We continue on from where we were in part seven, looking at the "Java man" discovery of what would later be come known as Homo Erectus, by Eugene Dubois, and the problems and arguments surrounding those finds at the time.We read about another paleoanthropologist, von Koenigswald, returning to the same site in Java to look for further evidence of this "missing link", and the problems with his methods. There is also an interesting event in which a Jesuit priest, who had been involved in the discovery of Beijing Man and the Piltdown fossils, arrives and helps von Koenigswald get connected with the Carnegie Institute for funding of his work.Brothers of the Serpent Episode 202If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element

This features our first tag team on the podcast, with an engaging discussion with Jared “Jerry” Cohon, who served as President of CMU from 1997-2013, and Dr. Mark Kamlet, who was his provost. The two describe the key initiatives they led that built on the successful momentum of their predecessors, Richard Cyert and Robert Mehrabian, that enabled CMU to advance quickly from a regional technical school with a strong arts program to one of the world's leading research universities. This begins with a discussion of the merger that formed CMU in 1967 between Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute. They share how with limited resources they were able to transform CMU from a predominantly Pittsburgh-based institution with some small satellite degree programs in the U.S. into one of the world's most global universities, with campuses in Rwanda, Portugal, Qatar, Australia, and Silicon Valley. At the same time, they partnered with the University of Pittsburgh to help bring about the resurgence of their home city, transforming it from a reliance on heavy industry to an innovation hub focused on Eds & Meds, with CMU's tech transfer office serving as the engine of growth for Pittsburgh's emergence as a leader in Robotics, AI, driverless vehicles, and Computer Science. Cohon concludes: “My hope is when education scholars look back in 2050 to understand how CMU, with a fraction of Harvard's endowment, was able to pass it as the world's leading research university, it will be because we made the decision to bring CMU to students around the world, while Harvard decided they must continue to come to Cambridge, MA.” David Finegold is the president of Chatham University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This features our first tag team on the podcast, with an engaging discussion with Jared “Jerry” Cohon, who served as President of CMU from 1997-2013, and Dr. Mark Kamlet, who was his provost. The two describe the key initiatives they led that built on the successful momentum of their predecessors, Richard Cyert and Robert Mehrabian, that enabled CMU to advance quickly from a regional technical school with a strong arts program to one of the world’s leading research universities. This begins with a discussion of the merger that formed CMU in 1967 between Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute. They share how with limited resources they were able to transform CMU from a predominantly Pittsburgh-based institution with some small satellite degree programs in the U.S. into one of the world’s most global universities, with campuses in Rwanda, Portugal, Qatar, Australia, and Silicon Valley. At the same time, they partnered with the University of Pittsburgh to help bring about the resurgence of their home city, transforming it from a reliance on heavy industry to an innovation hub focused on Eds & Meds, with CMU’s tech transfer office serving as the engine of growth for Pittsburgh’s emergence as a leader in Robotics, AI, driverless vehicles, and Computer Science. Cohon concludes: “My hope is when education scholars look back in 2050 to understand how CMU, with a fraction of Harvard’s endowment, was able to pass it as the world’s leading research university, it will be because we made the decision to bring CMU to students around the world, while Harvard decided they must continue to come to Cambridge, MA.” David Finegold is the president of Chatham University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

This features our first tag team on the podcast, with an engaging discussion with Jared “Jerry” Cohon, who served as President of CMU from 1997-2013, and Dr. Mark Kamlet, who was his provost. The two describe the key initiatives they led that built on the successful momentum of their predecessors, Richard Cyert and Robert Mehrabian, that enabled CMU to advance quickly from a regional technical school with a strong arts program to one of the world’s leading research universities. This begins with a discussion of the merger that formed CMU in 1967 between Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute. They share how with limited resources they were able to transform CMU from a predominantly Pittsburgh-based institution with some small satellite degree programs in the U.S. into one of the world’s most global universities, with campuses in Rwanda, Portugal, Qatar, Australia, and Silicon Valley. At the same time, they partnered with the University of Pittsburgh to help bring about the resurgence of their home city, transforming it from a reliance on heavy industry to an innovation hub focused on Eds & Meds, with CMU’s tech transfer office serving as the engine of growth for Pittsburgh’s emergence as a leader in Robotics, AI, driverless vehicles, and Computer Science. Cohon concludes: “My hope is when education scholars look back in 2050 to understand how CMU, with a fraction of Harvard’s endowment, was able to pass it as the world’s leading research university, it will be because we made the decision to bring CMU to students around the world, while Harvard decided they must continue to come to Cambridge, MA.” David Finegold is the president of Chatham University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

In this episode we talk to Dr. Erika Nesvold, creator of the podcast miniseries Making New Worlds and cofounder of nonprofit the JustSpace Alliance. Erika Nesvold has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and has conducted astrophysics research at NASA Goddard and the Carnegie Institute of Washington. She currently works as an Astrophysics Engineer on the Universe Sandbox astrophysics simulator. Nesvold created the podcast miniseries Making New Worlds in 2017 about the ethical issues of settling in space. In 2018, she co-found a nonprofit called the JustSpace Alliance, along with Lucianne Walkowicz, to advocate for a more ethical and inclusive future in space. The mission of the JustSpace Alliance is to advocate for a more inclusive and ethical future in space, and to harness visions of tomorrow for a more just and equitable world today. If you’d like to contact and/or listen to Erika’s limited podcast series, please refer to the links below: Limited Podcast Series: Making New Worlds JustSpace Alliance Erika on Twitter If you are keen to hear on the go, this episode is available on Audius, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and other podcasting platforms under Clayming Space. Enjoy! And please like, share, and subscribe, so we know the type of content you want us to produce. Support Clayming Space by becoming a Patreon supporter or on Anchor for listener directed content. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clayming-space/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clayming-space/support

What you will learn from this episode: Find out why you should focus more on understanding the soft side of your skills more than the technical ones Discover tools and resources to help you uncover your strengths and leverage them Find out how other people perceive you to help you build your personal brand and your real estate business 3R's - Read, Resource, Reflect Read: The Brand You 50 by Tom Peters Resource: StrengthsFinder Assessment https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/strengthsfinder.aspx Reflect: "A brand is not what you say it is. It's what they say it is" - Marty Neumeier Summary: As a real estate investor, people would associate you with other real estate investors' attributes. And it gets you in the game. It gets you considered. But it doesn't differentiate you. How, then, do you stand out from the rest? A strong brand's foundation is built on maximizing one's strengths. Every interaction, every time somebody comes across you, hears of you -- they make that connection back to your brand. In this episode, Paul shares that understanding your soft skills helps you uncover your strengths and leverage them more than focusing on technical skills. That even years back, working on soft skills -- negotiating, communicating, and leading had already established and made successful personal solid brands more than relying on technical skills. Topics Covered: 01:18 - Paul's confession 02:26 - Personal brand - understanding your soft skills and less emphasis on the technical side 04:36 - How branding established and made a success of engineer personal products years back 08:09 - The core foundation of personal branding 09:08 - The three key areas of a great personal brand -- why the need to understand these three 11:45 - Why it's critical to know how others perceive you in terms of your brand and your business 12:56 - What you should do to know how people perceive you 14:13 - Why look for emotional more than your rational attributes when getting feedback from others 15:34 - Disadvantages of using this feedback approach 15:47 - A FREE tool for 15-day access to help you get honest feedback: 360 Personal Brand Assessment. Click here: https://www.reachcc.com/reach/survey.nsf/page/home 17:31 - What you can uncover and make of the feedback from the tool used 17:57 - Leveraging your strengths 19:23 - More tools and books recommendation to help you in building your personal brand 19:50 - What is this tool, StrengthsFinder 2.0, all about, and what does it help you with? 22:21 - How to highlight the strengths uncovered from the StrengthsFinder tool Key Takeaways: “85% of your financial success is due to personality, the ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. Only 15% is dependent on technical skills.” - from the Carnegie Institute of Technology research “It is up to you nowadays to own the definition of who you are. You really can't let your work speak for itself. If you're only relying on the technical skills and the technical side of running your real estate investing business, that is probably not going to be enough.” - Paul Copcutt “A brand is a person's gut feeling about a product, or service, or a company” - Marty Neumeier. “When I look at that quote, it's one that I can certainly extend further out into a person because a brand is a person's gut feeling about another person.” - Paul Copcutt “A great personal brand kind of focuses on three key areas, like a Venn diagram, with three circles. The first circle is you; the second circle is the target audience. And the third circle is competition. And if you kind of intersperse those or relay those over each other and right in that center that where those three circles intersect is the essence of a great personal brand.” - Paul Copcutt “If you took just you and target audience, but you ignored the competition, it's very difficult for people to compare; they're confused and might misinterpret what you're saying because they don't really have anything to compare it against.” - Paul Copcutt “If you look at target audience and competition, but you ignore you, there's no connection for people, there's no differentiating, you'll end up being in the areas of a commodity because there is no kind of personal influence there.” - Paul Copcutt “If you look at you, and the competition, but you ignore the target audience, you could be spending and wasting a lot of time and resources and marketing dollars trying to reach your target audience you haven't even identified.” - Paul Copcutt “When you're getting those feedback from people, you won't be looking for those rational attributes; you want to be looking for emotional attributes, the differentiators. It might be that you're caring; you don't necessarily need to be caring to be a great real estate investor. The emotional attributes are the reasons why somebody will want to work with you potentially as an employee or a contractor, do business with you as a joint venture partner or private money lender.” - Paul Copcutt “Quite often, even though you don't know who said it [feedback from the tool used], because it's all anonymous, what you can do is lift some of that information and turn them into mini testimonials that you could potentially use on marketing materials.” - Paul Copcutt “The other thing you want to think about is uncovering other hidden talents that you have or maybe not so hidden. And one of those quite often is strengths.” - Paul Copcutt “You can spend a lot of time and energy trying to make a weakness a strength, when in fact, you've already got some great strengths.” - Paul Copcutt “The foundation of strong brands is built on maximizing your strengths. Take the time to get to know you, and then ensure that you're delivering on everything that you do.” - Paul Copcutt “Every interaction, every time somebody comes across you, hears of you, they make that connection back to your brand.” - Paul Copcutt Additional resources and recommendations: Books: The Brand Gap and ZAG, both by Marty Neumeier StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath Now Discover Your Strengths - Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton Resources: 360 Personal Brand Assessment - https://www.reachcc.com/reach/survey.nsf/page/home Connect with Paul Copcutt: reibranded.com LinkedIn E:podcast@paulcopcutt.com Music: Thank you to Zoax for the intro music

As the world continues to change at a rapid pace we need to help people in our organizations more than ever hardwire leadership fundamentals. To do so, we focus on the Nine Principles for Organizational Excellence. The best organizations continuously transform and review their practices to identify opportunities to improve, because we are only at our best when we strive for excellence in everything that we do. Today, Janet shares a preview of the Destination High Performance West Coast virtual experience over the next two days. Learn from successful organizations who have achieved positive results while facing incredible challenges, including an expert panel from the School District of Menomonee Falls, recognized for their improvement work by the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching. Our goal is to be an intellectual resource and thought-partner on your journey to excellence. When we network and learn together, we build a workplace experience that impacts the lives we serve in education: our students and our communities. Recommended Resources: Organizational Excellence, The Nine Principles for Organizational Excellence, Decision-Making Confidence & If-Then Recommended Podcasts: Improve by Measuring What Matters, Developing People to Become the Best Leaders, Continuous Improvement: Where Do You Start? & Jump All-In to Improve

In this episode, my co-host Alex Patel and I continue our conversation with Suzanne Nora Johnson, the former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, about investment banking and its role in finance and the economy. We delve into topics specialized investment banking activities, like underwriting and market making, the latest trends in investment banking, investment banking as a career, Suzanne’s legendary career at Goldman Sachs, and much more! Check out the episode to learn about investment banking in a simplified way! Suzanne Nora Johnson is the former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs and currently on the board of various companies. Suzanne started working at Goldman Sachs in 1985 after having worked as a lawyer for several years. She became a partner at Goldman Sachs in 1992, eventually becoming the vice chairman, chair of the Global Markets Institute, and head of the firm’s Global Investment Research Division. She served as vice chairman until 2007, and now serves on the boards of several companies, including but not limited to Visa and Pfizer, as well as several nonprofit institutions, including the Brookings Institution, USC, the Carnegie Institute for Science, and many more. In 2006, Forbes ranked Suzanne as one of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.” Suzanne earned her bachelors from USC and her JD from Harvard Law School. Follow StreetFins on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook here, and follow me on Twitter @rohaninvest! Find and subscribe to Finance Simplified on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Anchor.fm! If you enjoy listening to our episodes and are learning, then we’d be eternally grateful if you gave us a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts! We always love to hear from our listeners! If you have any feedback for us, we’d love to know! Fill out this 1-2 minute long feedback form to tell us what all you like and what we could do better in future episodes: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhJH8BU7955FuhEXhR40BjsgGP0ZnkT1lmsbAEhf8NB1xIMA/viewform

In this episode, my co-host Alex Patel and I talk to Suzanne Nora Johnson, the former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, about investment banking and its role in finance and the economy. We delve into topics like the basics of investment banking, the history of investment banks, the difference between buy side and sell side, and much more! Check out the episode to learn about investment banking in a simplified way! Suzanne Nora Johnson is the former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs and currently on the board of various companies. Suzanne started working at Goldman Sachs in 1985 after having worked as a lawyer for several years. She became a partner at Goldman Sachs in 1992, eventually becoming the vice chairman, chair of the Global Markets Institute, and head of the firm’s Global Investment Research Division. She served as vice chairman until 2007, and now serves on the boards of several companies, including but not limited to Visa and Pfizer, as well as several nonprofit institutions, including the Brookings Institution, USC, the Carnegie Institute for Science, and many more. In 2006, Forbes ranked Suzanne as one of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.” Suzanne earned her bachelors from USC and her JD from Harvard Law School. Follow StreetFins on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook here, and follow me on Twitter @rohaninvest! Find and subscribe to Finance Simplified on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Anchor.fm! If you enjoy listening to our episodes and are learning, then we’d be eternally grateful if you gave us a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts! We always love to hear from our listeners! If you have any feedback for us, we’d love to know! Fill out this 1-2 minute long feedback form to tell us what all you like and what we could do better in future episodes: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhJH8BU7955FuhEXhR40BjsgGP0ZnkT1lmsbAEhf8NB1xIMA/viewform

Stop whatever you’re doing and listen to this mind-blowing conversation with James Hardt, recorded from the Biocybernaut center in Arizona, where James’s incredible brain performance training takes place.  This is not a woohoo vibe talk. Every iota of his electrophysiological practice is backed by 40 years of intense research and studies, some of which you’ll hear more on today. If you’re into credentials, then this guy has them in spades: a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a Masters Degree in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University, a Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University, Post-Doctoral work in Psychophysiology at the Langley Porter Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the University of California at San Francisco.  All this laid the foundations for James to create a technology that heals and rewires brain mechanics to boost performance, IQ, and recognize spiritual and other-worldly realms based on brainwave patterns.  I know, your brain is doing somersaults, right?  Wait till you hear the actual episode…

Today's guest, Dr. James V. Hardt, is the Founder of The Biocybernaut Institute and an expert in training with biofeedback. He has worked with the likes of Tony Robbins and other high-powered executives to elevate states of intelligence and consciousness for over 40-years.Dr. Hardt is the president and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. The Institute has centers located in the United States, Canada and Germany. Biocybernaut offers 7 day intensive brainwave training programs.Dr. Hardt has devoted his life to the study of the electrophysiological basis of advanced spiritual states. He has traveled the globe in pursuit of his research, and to India especially to study advanced Yogis, withhis technology. From Zen masters to Christian prayer, Dr. Hardt has continued his relentless pursuit of advanced brainwave and meditation connections that allow people to become the best form of themselves that they can be including such positive results as:• reducing limitations and addictions• experiencing more joy, less anxiety• improving health and awareness• developing more meaningful relationships Dr. Hardt is a celebrated research scientist with an established history of over 40 years in the study and research of biofeedback. Hardt has authored or co-authored countless scientific research papers on the subject and he currently has more than 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain-centered portion of various virtual reality applications. His findings have been published in numerous scholarly journals such as Science, Psychophysiology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology, just to name a few. Dr. Hardt has also spoken in front of the United Nations. Dr. Hardt received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, as well as a master's degree, and Ph.D., in psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University. What you'll learn in this episode: How it is possible to use brainwaves to remotely assassinate someoneHow he measured the first ever Kundalini AwakeningHow consciousness interacts with the brainHow your personality is a function of brainwavesThe brainwaves of creativity Quotes "I'm motivated to help people to raise consciousness and usher in a golden age for all humanity." - Dr. James Hardt "Brainwaves rule!" - Dr. James Hardt "Your personality is a function of the brainwaves you are running" - Dr. James Hardt "A lot of people tried to stop me from doing this work." - Dr. James Hardt "Psychologists have physics envy because physics have formulas, psychology doesn't." - Dr. James Hardt "People who are having an active sexual relationship are a tuned to each other's brainwaves" - Dr. James Hardt "Delta wave, in my experience, are the most powerful waves." - Dr. James Hardt "In 1988, I was privileged to record, for the first time in science, the brain waves of kundalini." - Dr. James Hardt Continue the Adventure: James Hardt's website Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biocybernaut/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/biocybernautinstitute/ Other Episodes You Will Love: Ashley Wiegand | Using Neurofeedback for Peak Performance Robert Waggoner | The Wild World of Lucid Dreaming

Dr. James V. Hardt is the Founder of The Biocybernaut Institute and an expert in training with biofeedback. He has worked with the likes of Tony Robbins and other high-powered executives to elevate states of intelligence and consciousness for over 40-years. Dr. Hardt is a celebrated research scientist with an established history of over 40 years in the study and research of biofeedback. Hardt has authored or co-authored countless scientific research papers on the subject and he currently has more than 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain-centered portion of various virtual reality applications. His findings have been published in numerous scholarly journals such as Science, Psychophysiology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology, just to name a few. Dr. Hardt has also spoken in front of the United Nations. Dr. Hardt received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, as well as a master's degree, and Ph.D., in psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University. In this episode, Dr. Hardt shared his personal experiences with biofeedback and brainwave work in general and how he continued his relentless pursuit of advanced brainwave and meditation connections that allow people to become the best form of themselves that they can be including such positive results as reducing limitations and addictions; experiencing more joy, less anxiety; improving health and awareness; and developing more meaningful relationships and overall how brainwaves rule our thoughts, feelings, and intentions.

This episode is sponsored by Shift. Looking for a fun, interactive, self-paced course? Click Here!Dr. James V. Hardt is the Founder of The Biocybernaut Institute and an expert in training with biofeedback. He has worked with the likes of Tony Robbins and other high-powered executives to elevate states of intelligence and consciousness for over 40-years. Who is Dr. James V. Hardt? Dr. James V. Hardt, president and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. The Institute has centres located in the United States, Canada and Germany. Biocybernaut offers 7-day intensive brainwave training programs. Considered an expert in meditation and brainwave training some of the discussion topics can and could include: • Sharing of his personal experiences with biofeedback and brainwave work in general. The incredible documented results that biocybernaut training can deliver for improved health and wellness. • the importance of clearing emotional traumas and how they can be major impediments to brainwave improvement. • The Biocybernaut training process provides effective means to remove emotional trauma baggage that can limit an individual's progress forward. • The pillars of training and the means for achieving profound improvements in one's life. Dr. Hardt has devoted his life to the study of the electrophysiological basis of advanced spiritual states. He has traveled the globe in pursuit of his research, and to India especially to study advanced Yogis, with his technology. From Zen masters to Christian prayer, Dr. Hardt has continued his relentless pursuit of advanced brainwave and meditation connections that allow people to become the best form of themselves that they can be including such positive results as: • reducing limitations and addictions • experiencing more joy, less anxiety • improving health and awareness • developing more meaningful relationships Dr. Hardt is a celebrated research scientist with an established history of over 40 years in the study and research of biofeedback. Hardt has authored or co-authored countless scientific research papers on the subject and he currently has more than 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology, and brain-centered portion of various virtual reality applications. His findings have been published in numerous scholarly journals such as Science, Psychophysiology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology, just to name a few. Dr. Hardt has also spoken in front of the United Nations. Dr. Hardt received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, as well as a master's degree, and Ph.D., in psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University. Website: www.biocybernaut.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biocybernaut/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/biocybernautinstitute/ Twitter: @biocybernautLinkedIn: Biocybernaut Institute This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit debcrowe.substack.com

“Teaching is an art and not a science,” states David Blix, Wabash College. It is about “interacting with students” in a “friendly manner” which is to say that teaching is about what he does in his everyday life.  A deeply engaged student-centered teacher of religions of the world, Blix was a Carnegie Scholar at the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching in Palo Alto, California.This podcast was taken from the "The “I” That Teaches” - a video project that invites senior scholars to talk about their teaching lives. These scholar-teachers candidly discuss how religious, educational, and family backgrounds inform their vocational commitments and, also, characterize their teaching persona. From the vantage point of a practiced teaching philosophy we get an intimate account of the value and art of teaching well.

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Michael Mastrandrea - an affiliated scientist with the Carnegie Institute of science - about climate change and the impact of coronavirus on it.  Background Information:   Michael Mastrandrea has 20 years of experience in climate change science and climate and energy policy analysis to inform public and private decisions at global, national, and subnational scales. Since 2015, he has led Near Zero, a climate and energy non-profit based on Stanford campus that is focused on the design and implementation of the scientifically grounded policy. Previously, he was part of the leadership team for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, a global report on climate change science and policy options for world governments. He has also served as an Assistant Consulting Professor at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Michael received his Ph. D. from Stanford as the first graduate of the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER), where he was a Department of Energy Global Change Education Program Fellow. He serves on the Editorial Board and as Managing Editor for the journal Climatic Change. Hosts: Aneesh Muppidi Harry Cordeaux --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stemz-perspectives/message

Dr. James Hardt moved around a lot in his earlier childhood due to his father being a teacher. This shaped his thinking about the nature of reality and the importance of transcending culture. He accelerated in Mathematics, Science and English in High School, which earned him a Scholarship and went to Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Physics, and then a Masters Degree and PhD in Psychology along with a postdoc in psychophysiology at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco.  What is Psychophysiology?  Dr. Hardt explains this term as psyche meaning “mind” and physiology meaning “body”. This involves interactions between mind and body. Dr. Hardt is a brain scientist and international businessman, and enables people to work with their physiology, the electroencephalogram, learning to control their emotions and their thinking or experiences, all of which are dependent on underlying brainwaves. Brainwaves rule your life - your emotions, feelings, perceptions. Anything that people do to have an effect or experience, they only have an effect if it changes the brainwaves.  What is BioCybernaut? What is the service provided by you? What are the qualities of what you do?  BioCybernaut is to inner space what an astronaut is to outer space. Deconstructing the word, “bio” means body, “cyber” is the calculating technology.  Cipher - long ago - was used to mean doing arithmetic, and calculations.  Naut is a Greek suffix used to describe someone going on an adventure. We now have Cosmonauts and Astronauts and Biosevennauts who explore inner space.  If brain exploration was looked at from a perspective of travel across the United States - New York meaning you know everything, and California is you know nothing - how far do you think we have gotten?  Making the assumption that the trip started in San Francisco, at least halfway across the Bay Bridge, and we are heading to Oakland.  People seem extremely full of angst and depression when everything seems relatively peaceful if you look at the history of mankind, why are we such an unsettled creature?  We are very aware. A cow may not be anxious or worried when being led to the slaughterhouse because they may not be a very aware creature. Whereas humans have the ability to be aware of past, present and future.  Ramadas said “If you want to live high, you have to live outside of time” and Zen Master Suzuki Roshi said, “time is the basis of fear”.  You may be fine in the present, but you may not be in the future.  Dr. Hardt believes perfectionism is a curable disease. An obsession with perfection creates anxiety and impairs your abilities. Letting go of perfectionism you will be closer to perfectionism.  Early psychological research was able to show that anxiety could impair all forms of performance, mental or physical.  Alphas brain waves are like silver bullets against anxiety. This was a basis for a paper Dr. Hardt published in 1978, where he was able to show that if you took high anxiety people and taught them to increase their alpha, both types of anxiety would drop.  There are 6 and 12-month check-ups with previous patients that used this method and proved that they were actually better off further down the line than the day after training.  Why is there shame around anxiety?  If it is believed that something relating to your mental state that you believe is not optimal or as good as those around you, there will be shame.  Dr. Hardt can help relieve this.  If you look at types of drugs that reduce anxiety, are they messing with alpha brain waves, or how are they working? Is this the science-related between he pharma and what you do or is there a connection?  Humans are Bio Electro Magneto Chemical Organisms - our awareness is dependent on proper functioning of biochemistry, the electrical and the magnetic activity which is produced by biological chemical activity.  Drugs allow you to intervene with biochemistry.  When you are working towards doing something, there are activities in your brain when you are doing brainwave feedback where you are doing your processes through consciousness, which alter underlying biochemistry.  A study done by Jean Penniston discovered the alterations brain wave training has on the blood, which reduced beta-endorphins, which is a stress indicator in the brain.  Brain wave training reduces a bad marker of brain biochemistry, which allows you to intervene in the system any place you like.  How long have you been studying this? You don’t count your birthdays anymore, is that right?  Dr. Hardt had started studying this subject even before he was 26.  When anyone comes over for training, Dr. Hardt will have a cake and put a candle in the middle of it to celebrate the fact that this is their first year of their life.  What is your origin story?  Dr. Hardt was a senior in physics at Carnegie Institute of Technology when he came across a sign that said Dr. Joe Kumea will be talking on brain waves. He decided to go.  Dr. Kumea discovered that humans could control their own brain waves in April 1962, he reported this result to the Western Psychological Association meeting in San Francisco.  Dr. Hardt spent his time reading anything he could find on brain waves.  Dr. Hardt rode his motorcycle across the trans-Canadian highway down where he found the Coast Highway and showed up at Dr. Kumeas lab where he volunteered.  Dr. Hardt went to Joanne Gardner after his initial 3-day test and asked her if he could go into the closet with the equipment to play around. She agreed and continued with her work, evidently forgetting him in the closet. Through the 11th course of their 12th course Chinese lunch Joanne was having with her coworkers, she remembered Dr. Hardt was locked in the basement.  Paul Gorman explained to Dr. Hardt that what he experienced in the chamber was meditation, Dr. Hardt then knew after that summer that his life was going to be about this.  How does plant medicine compare and contrast? Is there a bridge that needs to be closed?  If plants change your brain waves, you’ll have experiences.  A friend of Dr. Hardt went to Peru to record the brain waves during Iowa Ceremonies, and it was reported that the increased alpha brain waves were similar to what Dr. Hardt's training started on, but it lacked the negative effect.  There was a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association where medical students who had access to a brainwave computer wanted to see the effects that smoking marijuana would have on their brain. It was established that it increased the power of alphas and had a slight slowing in frequency.  Marijuana destroys short term memory, whereas Dr. Hardt's training does not.  A Biofeedback researcher named Barbara Brown gave College students LSD - before it became illegal - she discovered that it higher the alpha brain waves in some students, and lowered the alpha brain waves in others. The dividing line was whether or not they were visualizers.  What was one of the biggest personal challenges you had as you developed Biocybernaut and what led you down this path?  Dr. Hardt registered during his senior year, he set up an exchange program between the site department at Duquesne University, where they had some professors who were Jesuit Priests from France, who were teaching phenomenology.  Many professors did not want Dr. Hardt to work within this area. He registered as a grad student and became friends with Timothy Leary. Leary and his wife did a lot of LSD, and he’s a social psychological phenomenon. No matter what Leary did he was studying the structure of his consciousness and noting the ways his body influenced his mind.  Dr. Hardt was doing meditation in the Yogananda tradition along with his work in science.  Dr. Hardt learned that brain waves affect the different response the alpha brain waves have in superconscious states, such as Zen and Yoga.  Dr. Hardt tells Dr. Terrence Barret this, and a few hours gets denied the use of the electrophysiological equipment on the grounds that anyone who is interested in consciousness could not be serious about pursuing a PhD in psychology.  The acting Dean showed interest in the study of consciousness, and this allowed Dr. Hardt to continue his studies.  Can you give us insights into what type of people go through your program? What are the benefits? Give us some stories?  Tony Robbins, his wife and her personal assistant have gone through this. Robbins speaks highly of the Biocybernaut program.  Dr. Hardt has trained royalty, European Royalty and Middle Eastern Royalty who bring a lot of people to partake in the training as well.  Dr. Hardt has trained over 200 Canadian Aboriginal people.  Dr. Hardt has also trained professional athletes.  Dr. Hardt trained the Co-Founder of Canada's second-largest oil and gas company.  Dr. Hardt had trained famous chiefs and Shaman and medicine men and women from who attended 12 years a month's schools that existed up until 1989. One individual trained was Chief Willie Little Child - who was on the Truth and Reconciliation commission - he was the first Aboriginal ever to be elected to the Canadian National Parliament. The work Dr. Hardt did in Canada, gave him an invitation to be adopted into the Cree Indian Nation, and was invited to speak at the United Nations Geneva.  Is there anything that you or your business need right now that people can help out with?  Biocybernaut has a program, a dream system which will allow training to be cut down from seven to five days.  Dr. Hardt requires some help with sharing and spreading his business.  Dr. Hardt built the world's first micro computerized brain wave feedback and analyzing system.  Biocybernaut is a very strong decision making tool.  Resources: Doug: dholt@buncher.com  James: jim@bioseparate.com  Website: www.biocybernaut.com

Il personal branding è un percorso che si può attivare per cercare di valorizzare le proprie competenze e i propri punti di forza e comunicarlo nella maniera più efficace on-line.Fare personal branding vuol dire analizzare i propri valori, trovare una forma originale e personale per comunicarli, raggiungendo le giuste persone che possono essere interessate a ciò che offriamo.Bisogna mettere in piedi un ecosistema che sia funzionale ai nostri obiettivi.Alcune volte mi è capitato di leggere definizioni che affermano che ogni professionista può progettare la comunicazione di se stessi, posizionarsi e vendersi come un prodotto commerciale..Ma in realtà non siamo prodotti, il personal branding si fonda sulla consapevolezza di sé stessi, un’analisi attenta su cosa ci distingue e qual è la corretta comunicazione per farlo sapere alle persone che ci interessano. (settore, clienti, utenti, collaboratori ..)Il personal branding non è una nuova disciplina, da sempre le persone mostrano le proprie competenze per raggiungere un ampio numero di utenti, dai giornali, alla radio, tv.Purtroppo però questi strumenti non erano ad appannaggio di tutti, in quando ci volevano risorse non indifferenti, con il digitale tutti possono accedere a più canali, interloquire e rapportarsi con una moltitudine di persone, presentarsi e raccontarsi, anche senza dover accedere a risorse finanziarie.Ma proprio grazie alla facile accessibilità molti si lanciano senza aver compreso in cosa differenziarsi e i propri valori, anche senza aver definito un piano strategico che porti risultati.Quindi il primo passo è definire i propri valori, le proprie competenze e capacità, quali sono gli obiettivi e qual è il percorso che vogliamo intraprendere.Propongo un modello, facilmente consultabile e scaricabile on-line, che rappresenta lo sviluppo, personale e professionale, del business model canvas; questo si chiama personal branding canvas.È un modello che permette di ordinare le informazioni, e quindi raccoglierle, dove si vanno a delineare quali sono le proprie competenze, quali sono le abilità che ci differenziano, quali benefici portiamo, cosa ci rende credibili, qual è il proprio posizionamento e a chi rivolgersi, ed infine quali sono i canali di comunicazione, le risorse necessarie e i risultati che ottengono.Anche questo documento va modificato e perfezionato nel tempo e non solo nella sezione risorse e risultati, ma anche in tutte le sue parti cambiando velocemente anche noi nel tempo.Lavorare su sé stessi è il primo passo da compiere, definire in quale area si è più talentuosi, i valori che ti fanno alzare la mattina entusiasta.Lavorare su sé stessi vuol dire trovare un modo per differenziarsi rispetto a tutte quelle persone che fanno il tuo stesso lavoro.Se ho problemi con la caldaia di casa e devo chiamare un tecnico, sceglierò, a parità di competenze, quello con il prezzo minore.Se invece con una piccola maggiorazione (o addirittura lo stesso prezzo) ricevo anche una copertura di intervento per 1 anno in caso di urgenza, è probabile che accetti questa condizione.Per promuovere sé stessi occorre trovare la propria voce in rete. Trasparenza e la naturalezza vengono premiate dal contesto.Il secondo passo consiste nel creare il proprio ecosistema di comunicazione, quindi quella struttura che permette di pubblicare contenuti, di valore, per un determinato tipo di target.Diventa necessario frequentare ambienti social che permettano di incontrare professionisti, di aggiornarsi e formarsi, entrare in contatto con opportunità, trovare clienti e coltivare relazioni professionali, come LinkedIn che se utilizzato bene offre tutte queste opportunità.È importante progettare un piano, strategico e operativo, che tenga presente il valore che vogliamo offrire, le risorse a disposizione da poter investire e il fattore tempo.Molte volte la strategia si basa sul mercato di nicchia, quindi diventare primi in una determinata categoria, in modo da poter esprimere il valore unico che si offre.Molte sono le nuove professionalità che sono emerse negli ultimi anni, grazie a imprenditori che hanno intercettato i bisogni di una nicchia di mercato non coperta e sono riusciti ad affermarsi per questo motivo.Ma il personal branding non è solo per libere professioni o marketers ma anche i dipendenti e i manager di un'azienda ne possono beneficiare.Anzi le figure apicali, proprio per responsabilità, hanno l'opportunità di trasmettere ancor più i valori del brand che rappresentano mostrando anche un lato umano che spesso è difficile far emergere.L’autore americano Kevin Kelly ha affermato che se riusciamo a raggiungere 1000 fan che sono disposti a spendere 100 dollari all'anno per quello che facciamo abbiamo creato un business sostenibile.La storia ci insegna che con una buona attività di personal branding in qualche anno è possibile raggiungere tranquillamente una fan base di questo numero.Le ricerche condotte dal Carnegie Institute of Technology dimostrano che l'85 percento del successo finanziario è dovuto alle capacità di "ingegneria umana", alla personalità e capacità di comunicare, negoziare e guidare. Sorprendentemente, solo il 15 percento è dovuto a conoscenze tecniche.https://www.forbes.com/sites/keldjensen/2012/04/12/intelligence-is-overrated-what-you-really-need-to-succeed/#f81499db6d2cQuesti dati un po’ rispondono alla domanda se è importante essere bravi o comunicare quanto si è bravi, da quello che emerge è evidente che comunicare, e saper comunicare, ha un'importanza fondamentale per il successo.Lavorare sul proprio personal branding significa quindi essere capaci di trovare un equilibrio nel proprio percorso professionale migliorando la comunicazione e il valore che trasmettiamo con quello che facciamo.Ultima nota, bisogna imparare a sbagliare, on line bisogna testare e sperimentare, anche se nel breve i risultati non arrivano; un buon lavoro di personal branding nel tempo, con costanza, coerenza e valore può portare grandi risultati.

Today we're going to cover a computer programming language many might not have heard of, ALGOL.  ALGOL was written in 1958. It wasn't like many of the other languages in that it was built by committee. The Association for Computing Machinery and the German Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics were floating around ideas for a universal computer programming language.  Members from the ACM were a who's who of people influential in the transition from custom computers that were the size of small homes to mainframes. John Backus of IBM had written a programming language called Speedcoding and then Fortran. Joseph Wegstein had been involved in the development of COBOL. Alan Perlis had been involved in Whirlwind and was with the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Charles Katz had worked with Grace Hopper on UNIVAC and FLOW-MATIC.  The Germans were equally as influential. Frederich Bauer had brought us the stack method while at the Technical University of Munich. Hermann Bottenbruch from The Institute for Applied Mathematics had written a paper on constructing languages. Klaus Samelson had worked on a computer called PERM that was similar to the MIT Whirlwind project. He'd come into computing while studying Eigenvalues.  Heinz Ritishauser had written a number of papers on programming techniques and had codeveloped the language Superplan while at the The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. This is where the meeting would be hosted. They went from May 27th to June 2nd in 1958 and initially called the language they would develop as IAL, or the International Algebraic Language. But would expand the name to ALGOL, short for Algorithmic Language. They brought us code blocks, the concept that you have a pair of words or symbols that would begin and end a stanza of code, like begin and end. They introduced nested scoped functions. They wrote the whole language right there. You would name a variable by simply saying integer or setting the variable as a := 1. You would substantiate a for and define the steps to perform until - the root of what we would now call a for loop. You could read a variable in from a punch card. It had built-in SIN and COSIN. It was line based and fairly simple functional programming by today's standards. They defined how to handle special characters, built boolean operators, floating point notation. It even had portable types.  And by the end had a compiler that would run on the Z22 computer from Konrad Zuse. While some of Backus' best work it effectively competed with FORTRAN and never really gained traction at IBM. But it influenced almost everything that happened afterwards.  Languages were popping up all over the place and in order to bring in more programmers, they wanted a formalized way to allow languages to flourish, but with a standardized notation system so algorithms could be published and shared and developers could follow along with logic. One outcome of the ALGOL project was the Backus–Naur form, which was the first such standardization. That would be expanded by Danish Peter Naur for ALGOL 60, thus the name. In ALGOL 60 they would meet in Paris, also adding Father John McCarthy, Julien Green, Bernard Vauquois, Adriaan van Wijngaarden, and Michael Woodger. It got refined, yet a bit more complicated. FORTRAN and COBOL use continued to rage on, but academics loved ALGOL. And the original implementation now referred to as the ZMMD implementation, gave way to X1 ALGOL, Case ALGOL, ZAM in Poland, GOGOL, VALGOL, RegneCentralen ALGOL, Whetstone ALGOL for physics, Chinese ALGOL, ALGAMS, NU ALGOL out of Norway, ALGEK out of Russia,  Dartmouth ALGOL, DG/L, USS 90 Algol, Elliot ALGOL, the ALGOL Translator, Kidsgrove Algol, JOVIAL, Burroughs ALGOL, Niklaus Firths ALGOL W, which led to Pascal, MALGOL, and the last would be S-algol in 1979.  But it got overly complicated and overly formal. Individual developers wanted more flexibility here and there. Some wanted simpler languages. Some needed more complicated languages. ALGOL didn't disappear as much as it evolved into other languages. Those were coming out fast and with a committee to approve changes to ALGOL, they were much slower to iterate.  You see, ALGOL profoundly shaped how we think of programming languages. That formalization was critical to paving the way for generations of developers who brought us future languages. ALGOL would end up being the parent of CPL and through CPL, BCPL, C, C++, and through that Objective-C. From ALGOL also sprang Simula and through Simula, Smalltalk. And Pascal and from there, Modula and Delphi. It was only used for a few years but it spawned so much of what developers use to build software today.  In fact, other languages evolved as anti-ALGOL-derivitives, looking at how you did something and deciding to do it totally differently.  And so we owe this crew our thanks. They helped to legitimize a new doctrine, a new career, computer programmer. They inspired. They coded. And in so doing, they helped bring us into the world of functional programming and set structures that allowed the the next generation of great thinkers to go even further, directly influencing people like Adele Goldberg and Alan Kay.  And it's okay that the name of this massive contribution is mostly lost to the annals of history. Because ultimately, the impact is not. So think about this - what can we do to help shape the world we live in? Whether it be through raw creation, iteration, standardization, or formalization - we all have a role to play in this world. I look forward to hearing more about yours as it evolves!

On today's episode of Happiness Habitat you'll get to hear from the pioneer in neurofeedback training, Dr. James V. Hardt. Dr. Hardt serves as the President and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a Masters Degree in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and he has done Post-Doctoral work in Psychophysiology at the Langley Porter Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Hardt has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers and professional presentations. He has authored, co-authored or has pending over 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain-centered portion of virtual reality applications. He has dedicated his life in the research and development surrounding brain wave training. I had the privilege to participate in the Biocybernaut Alpha 1 Premium Double training back in December 2019. This interview was taken place at the Biocybernaut Institute on the final day of my training. Learn more about Biocybernaut Institute: https://www.biocybernaut.com/ Learn more about Dr. James V. Hardt: https://www.biocybernaut.com/dr-james-hardt-biography/ Follow Dr. James V. Hardt: https://www.instagram.com/biocybernaut/?hl=en --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/happinesshabitat/support

Today on Rise of The Young I sat down with Dr. James V. Hardt & Jacqlyn Burnett to talk about the Biocybernaut Institute. Dr. James V. Hardt serves as the President and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a Masters Degree in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and he has done Post-Doctoral work in Psychophysiology at the Langley Porter Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Hardt has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers and professional presentations. He has authored, co-authored or has pending over 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain-centered portion of virtual reality applications. He has dedicated his life in the research and development surrounding brain wave training. Learn more about Biocybernaut Institute: https://www.biocybernaut.com/ Learn more about Dr. James V. Hardt: https://www.biocybernaut.com/dr-james-hardt-biography/ Follow Dr. James V. Hardt: https://www.instagram.com/biocybernaut/?hl=en Follow Jacqlyn Burnett: https://www.instagram.com/jacqlynburnett/?hl=en

Today we're going to celebrate an article called As We May Think and it's author, Vannevar Bush. Imagine it's 1945. You see the future and prognosticate instant access to all of the information in the world from a device that sits on every person's desk at their office. Microfiche wouldn't come along for another 14 years. But you see the future. And the modern interpretations of this future would be the Internet and personal computing. But it's 1945. There is no transistor and no miniaturization that led to microchips. But you've seen ENIAC and you see a path ahead and know where the world is going. And you share it.    That is exactly what happened in “As We May Think” an article published by Vannevar Bush in The Atlantic.    Vannevar Bush was one of the great minds in early computing. He got his doctorate from MIT and Harvard in 1916 and went into the private sector. During World War I he built a submarine detector and went back to MIT splitting his time between academic pursuits, inventing, and taking inventions to market. He worked with American Radio and Research Corporation (AMRAD), made millions off an early thermostat company, and founded the American Appliance Company, now known as the defense contracting powerhouse Raytheon.    By 1927 computing began to tickle his fancy and he built a differential analyzer, or a mechanical computer to do all the maths! He would teach at MIT penning texts on circuit design and his work would influence the great Claude Shannon and his designs would be used in early codebreaking computers. He would become a Vice President of MIT as well as the Dean of the MIT School of Engineering.    Then came World War II. He went to work at the Carnegie Institute of Science, where he was exposed to even more basic research than during his time with MIT. Then he sat on and chaired the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which would later become NASA - helping you get the Ames Research Crnter and Glenn Research Center started.    Seems like a full career? Nah, just getting started!     he went to President Roosevelt and got the National Defense Research Committee approved. There, they developed antiaircraft guns, radar, and funded the development of ENIAC. Roosevelt then made him head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development who worked on developing the proximity fuse. There he also recruited Robert Oppenheimer to run the Manhattan Project and was there in 1945 for the Trinity Test, to see the first nuclear bomb detonated.    And that is when he lost a major argument. Rather than treat nuclear weapons like the international community had treated biological weapons, the world would enter into a nuclear arms race. We still struggle with that fallout today.    He would publish As We May Think in the Atlantic that year and inspire the post World War II era of computing in a few ways. The first is funding. He was the one behind the National Science Foundation. And he advised a lot of companies and US government agencies on R&D through his remaining years sitting on boards, acting as a trustee, and even a regent of the Smithsonian.    Another was inspiration. As We May Think laid out a vision. Based on all of the basic and applied research he had been exposed to, he was able to see the convergence that would come decades later. ENIAC would usher in the era of mainframes. But things would get smaller. Cameras and microfilm and the parsing of data would put more information at our fingertips than ever. An explosion of new information out of all of this research would follow and we would need to parse it using those computers, which he called a memex. The collective memory of the world.   But he warned of an arms race leading to us destroying the world first.   Ironically it was the arms race that in many ways caused Bush's predictions to come true. The advances made in computing during the Cold War were substantial. The arms race wasn't just about building bigger and more deadly nuclear weapons but brought us into the era of transistorized computing and then minicomputers and of course ARPANET.    And then around the time that basic research was getting defunded by the government due to Vietnam the costs had come down enough to allow Commodore, Apple, and Radioshack to flood the market with inexpensive computers and for the nets to be merged into the Internet. And the course we are on today was set.    I can almost imagine Bush sitting in a leather chair in 1945 trying to figure out if the powers of creation or the powers of destruction would win the race to better technology. And I'm still a little curious to see how it all turns out.    The part of his story that is so compelling is information. He predicted that machines would help unlock even faster research, let us make better decisions, and ultimately elevate the human consciousness. Doug Englebart saw it. The engineers at Xerox saw it. Steve Jobs made it accessible to all of us. And we should all look to further that cause.   Thank you for tuning in to yet another episode of the History of Computing Podcast. We are so very lucky to have you.

A recent Forbes article published research by the Carnegie Institute of Technology which indicated only 15% of financial success actually comes from knowledge or technical skills. The remaining 85% of success comes from the ability to effectively communicate and negotiate with others, and a lot has to do with body language and habits. We sometimes have habits and act in certain ways that we do not even recognise in ourselves, and these behaviours can have either a positive or a negative effect on the way others see us. It is also easier for us to recognize these certain behaviours in others than in ourselves. Have you ever had a colleague, boss, or co-worker where you said to yourself, “oh I hate when he or she does that” or ”here we go again, I knew she/he would react that way”. Well people could be reacting to you in the same way and you may not know it. This episode explores behaviours that are often recognizable and can impact our careers.

By Davy Crockett  Part 4 of the Rim-to-Rim History Series. See also Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 For anyone hiking or running rim-to-rim, most people will usually stop at a location about a mile below Roaring Springs that today is called the Manzanita Rest area, named after a creek coming down a small nearby side canyon. But the name and the rest area are a fairly new, a 2015 creation. Newer visitors have no idea that there is a rich history that took place at that location from 1973-2005. For veteran rim-to-rim hikers and runners, they still call this place fondly, “The Aiken Home.” Yes, a couple lived there and raised three children in the depth of the canyon for more than three decades. The Aiken family made a deep impact on rim-to-rim history by helping, greeting, and even feeding thousands of visitors over the years. Bruce Aiken managed the crucial water system at nearby Roaring Springs completed in 1971, and Mary Aiken taught and raised their children and assisted hikers. Who were the Aikens? How did they come to live in the Canyon? What was it like for three energetic children to spend their childhood in the Canyon away from many modern conveniences and “normal” entertainment and childhood friends? What was life like for them? Their tale is now almost forgotten, and evidence that they lived there has been replaced by a rest area and ranger station. But when I visit that amazing spot (nearly 40 times), I always think about the Aiken family and visualize the unique family that lived there for so many years. Bruce Aiken’s early years Richard Aiken - painting by Margaret Aiken Bruce Aiken was born September 10, 1950 in New York City’s Greenwich Village to Richard and Margaret Aiken. He was the second of a family of five boys. His father, Richard Little Aiken (1918-1997) grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where his father was a lawyer. Richard graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1940, in theatre. He worked as a sports announcer for a local radio station and an actor. Following Pearl Harbor, Richard enlisted in the Navy, and became a naval aviator. He met Margaret during the war and afterwards they married and settled in Greenwich Village, New York City, where all their children were born. There, he worked for NBC as a television producer. Margaret Aiken - self portrait Margaret Davis Aiken (1924-2003) was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, raised in Arizona along the Mexican border, where her father was an immigration inspector. During the Great Depression her family moved to Phoenix, Arizona where she studied art at Arizona State University. During World War II, she served in the navy women’s reserve as a WAVE in Santa Ana, California, where she met Richard. Margaret became a very accomplished artist. Her paintings were widely shown in New York, Florida, and at the Grand Canyon. Bruce in 1963 The family moved to Long Island where young Bruce started to draw and paint with his mother. The family often went on vacations to Arizona, to visit his grandparents and cousins. A 1963 visit to the Canyon had a deep impact on young Bruce. In art school - 1968 In 1968, Bruce graduated from high school and was voted “most talented.” Following in his mother’s footsteps, he was interested in art and enrolled in New York’s prestigious School of the Visual Arts. His father wanted him to go into advertising because he believed that was where the money was, but Bruce wanted to be an artist. Bruce said, “I suppose he was trying to help, but I think he was too domineering, too demanding and too unwilling to hear or understand what I was trying to do.” This caused a rift between the two that would last for years. Aiken attended the art school for only two years, saying, “I got caught up in all the things happening in the ‘60s and decided that what I really wanted to do was live in the West. I fell in love with Arizona during my visits and knew I wanted to live there.” In 1970,

Elizabeth Catlett received a Lifetime Achievement Award in contemporary sculpture from the International Sculpture Center in 2003. Decades earlier, Carnegie Institute of Technology revoked her admission when the school learned she was Black. Jackie Copeland, Executive Director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, tells us more about the groundbreaking artist.

Elizabeth Catlett received a Lifetime Achievement Award in contemporary sculpture from the International Sculpture Center in 2003. Decades earlier, Carnegie Institute of Technology revoked her admission when the school learned she was Black. Jackie Copeland, Executive Director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, tells us more about the groundbreaking artist.

In tonight's episode your hosts will be discussing how the globalists admit to their population control. Eugenics and population control are long-time hobbies of the financial elites. In the early 1900s, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Institute were deeply involved in promoting eugenics laws in the US. These laws led to the forced sterilization of over 60,000 American citizens in states like California and thousands of rejected marriage licenses. #populationcontrol #globalistplan #wedonotconsent Reference https://www.activistpost.com/2019/11/the-globalists-are-openly-admitting-to-their-population-control-agenda-and-thats-a-bad-sign.html Patriot Watch Media, is not here to tell you what you want to hear. They tell you what you need to hear! You will always get the "Purity of Truth" with Patriot Watch Media! Be a part of the show and interact with them live by creating a free account at zoom.us! Once you've created your free account, simply login, click on 'Join a Meeting' and when prompted, type in 664 535 859. If you already have a ZOOM account, simply copy and paste the following link. https://zoom.us/j/664535859 You can now call in to the show at (234) 252-0059! Each call is limited to 5 minutes. Visit their official website, store and Patreon! https://patriotwatchmedia.com/https://teespring.com/stores/pwmediahttps://www.patreon.com/pwmedia Visit their affiliates! http://cpofohio.org/https://constitutionalmilitia.org/https://www.meehanmd.com/http://www.createhealthyhomes.com/ Disclaimer - The views expressed by the guests on our shows does not necessarily reflect the views of Patriot Watch Media. We pride ourselves on presenting all sides of an issue from the best sources available so that our audience may decide for themselves what to accept. **FAIR USE** Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976; allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Patriot Watch Media has neither monetized this work nor sought any profit from its distribution.

  What if you could retrain your brain in 7 days AND condense the benefits of 40 years of meditation into that one week? That's exactly what today's guest does for his clients. Dr. James Hardt of the Biocybernaut Center is here to tell us how his trainings reconfigure your brain for the better, and what the benefits of this training are for your business and your personal life. I also share my personal experiences with his alpha training, and the impact its had on me. In this episode of Awesome Health, you'll also hear: What are the three keys to manifesting anything? What percentage of your success is attributable to your IQ vs EQ? How I generated an extra 7 figures in 18 months (without extra effort). And much more! More About Awesome Health with Dr. James Hardt I had the pleasure of recording this show live from the Biocybernaut Center in Sedona, Arizona. A few years ago I came here and had an amazing transformation in my capacity to think, as well as a profound spiritual opening. Dr. James Hardt is the founder of this center and we've become friends since my initial visit. James' resume is impressive and clues you in on who he is and how he's become the pioneer in brain retraining. He holds a B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and he has done post-doctoral training in Psychophysiology at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at the University of California at San Francisco. He has dedicated his life in the research and development surrounding brain wave training. And it all began when he was a physics major at Carnegie Institute of Technology. He came out of the student union after lunch one day and there was a sign advertising Dr. Joe Kamiya speech on brain waves and consciousness. The speech started in ten minutes and James didn't have a class - it was the perfect set up and he attended. The talk was beyond fascinating for James, and after it was over he approached Dr. Kamiya. James was going to be in San Francisco that summer and asked if he could get in touch with Dr. Kamiya. When the doctor said he was too busy, Joe offered to write Dr. Kamiya a letter with big spaces where he could add his reply if he wanted to so they could correspond. Between that fateful talk by Dr. Kamiya and his summer in San Francisco, James read everything he could on brainwaves. He explains how they were discovered: in 1908 an Austrian psychiatrist named Hans Berger was conscripted into Austria's military services. During one of the country's skirmishes his horse was shot and fell on Dr. Berger's leg and broke it. While he was recovering, he spent many long months in a military hospital. When he got home to Austria months later, his sister showed him her diary in which she had written every detail of everything that had happened to him! Being a scientist, Dr. Berger started thinking there might be something to all of this ESP nonsense he had been hearing about. He had also heard about electric waves in the body so he went looking for electrical waves in the brain, thinking that would be the basis for ESP. With the primitive technology available to him he only found one, which he called alpha. It's the not the fastest or slowest, but it's the biggest. While he could never link alpha waves to ESP, he kept his discovery of the waves he did find a secret for 10 years! The Benefits of Alpha Training: Increased IQ, EQ, Creativity and Income We change gears and dig deeper into the benefits of retraining your brain, why you should do this and the value it holds for you. According to James, your brain waves rule your life, everything from your emotions, aspects of your body's performance, your thoughts. A great example of this is the first alpha training level, it has been shown to raise your IQ by 12 points. When it comes to EQ or emotional intelligence, the same training raised men's overall points by 12 again, and women's by about 9. This matters because EQ has a direct correlation with a person's success: 60-70% of a person's success is attributable to their EQ. In every country and every profession a person's success is significantly related to their EQ. Statistically, for every 1 point increase in a person's EQ their income goes up $1,300 according to Emotional Intelligence 2.2. The other area receiving an extremely positive impact is creativity: it has been measured to increase by 50%! For example, one man who participated in the alpha training had started his own creative company. In a typical year about he produced about 80 images that were good enough for production. In the 6 weeks following his alpha training, he made 110 images! So instead of 80 per year, he created 110 images in the six weeks after his alpha training. So whether it's IQ, EQ, artistic creativity, scientific creativity, or athletic creativity, increased alpha will give you a boost in performance. James explains alpha waves do this because they create an experience of oneness. Increasing Your Alpha Waves, and What Blocks Those Waves in Everyday Life Clearly a boost in alpha waves is important, so I asked James to give us some ways to boost them and tell us what may be blocking them in our everyday lives. Going back to the discussion about EQ levels and income levels, James says the 12 point increase from their alpha training would net men almost 1/3 of a million dollars more. Women would net over a quarter of a million dollars more from the alpha training's EQ boost. I saw this firsthand in my own life. When I attended alpha training for the first time, I went with a business partner of mine. We both found our ability to communicate and hear each other after the training transformed in both our personal and our business relationship. It was easier to see each other's points of view, so much so it generated an extra 7 figures in 18 months in our business! And we did it without killing ourselves in the process, we did it with a greater ease than we could have before the training. However, there are things we do in our day to day lives that decrease or block those alpha waves. James and his team send guidelines to his clients on how best to prepare before coming for their alpha training, and these guidelines are a good rule of thumb to avoid blocking alpha waves. Those guidelines are getting enough sleep (8 or 9 hours a night), eliminating alcohol, caffeine, onions and garlic. Personally, I could feel and understand the effects of garlic, onions and caffeine on my body after the alpha training. Also on this episode we talk about the awareness alpha training brings to people's lives, including a remarkable and profound impact it has had on a community of Canadian aboriginals. James also brings up the subject of forgiveness and its importance, what the shared feedback process is all about, and how he found his spiritual calling after he was accidentally left in the closet of Joe Kamiya's lab! These are just a small sampling of the subjects we cover in this remarkable and transformative conversation on episode 11 of the Awesome Health podcast.   Episode Resources Biocybernaut Center web site Alpha Trainings Dr. James Hardt's bio Emotional Intelligence 2.0, by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves Masszymes web site (promo code cheat10)

Dr. James V. Hardt is a celebrated research scientist and founder of The Biocybernaut Institute and an expert in training with biofeedback. He has worked with the likes of Tony Robbins and other high-powered executives to elevate states of intelligence and consciousness for over 40-years. Biocybernaut offers unique Brain training programs available Sedona, Arizona, Victoria, BC, Canada and Bavaria, Germany. Dr. Hardt has devoted his life to the study of the electrophysiological basis of advanced spiritual states. He has traveled the globe in pursuit of his research, and to India especially to study advanced Yogis, with his technology. From Zen masters to Christian prayer, Dr. Hardt has continued his relentless pursuit of advanced brainwave and meditation connections that allow people to become the best form of themselves that they can be including such positive results as: His findings have been published in numerous scholarly journals such as Science, Psychophysiology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology, just to name a few. Dr. Hardt has also spoken in front of the United Nations. Dr. Hardt received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, as well as a master’s degree, and Ph.D., in psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Astronomers find 20 new moons around Saturn and you can help name them Link: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/world/saturn-20-new-moons-scn/index.html The discovery of 20 previously unknown moons around Saturn has helped the ring planet surpass all others in our solar system, according to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. It now has 82 known moons; Jupiter has 79. The moons are all similar in size, spanning about three miles across. But 17 of the 20 have a retrograde orbit of Saturn, meaning they essentially orbit backwards from the planet and other moons. Carnegie Institute of Science astronomer Scott Sheppard and his team used the Subaru telescope in Hawaii to find the moons. Last year, Sheppard and his team located 12 new moons around Jupiter, including one with a retrograde orbit. "Studying the orbits of these moons can reveal their origins, as well as information about the conditions surrounding Saturn at the time of its formation," Sheppard said. Wanna name one of Saturn's moons? Scientists were able to locate the new moons thanks to more robust computing power and better algorithms for tracking faint distant objects, Sheppard said. What's more, you -- yes, you -- can help name the new moons. The contest opens Monday and will close on December 6. "I was so thrilled with the amount of public engagement over the Jupiter moon-naming contest that we've decided to do another one to name these newly discovered Saturnian moons," Sheppard said. "This time, the moons must be named after giants from Norse, Gallic or Inuit mythology." Check out Big Dime Sports podcast on Spreaker Link: https://www.spreaker.com/show/big-dime-sports_1 Troll News Carl Krauter Do you really think that "aliens" would visit a race that poisons their own air, food and water? Do you think that an "alien" would even land on this planet knowing what we do to things "not like us"? You really need to get a grip on reality. Intro Religious Philosopher (Gnostic) •Knight Grand Chaplain of the Order at Ancient Gnostic Order of Knights Templar •Knight at Ancient Gnostic Order of Knights Templar •Victorian Freemason at Lodge #912 •Freemason at Lodge #57 •Arch-Priest at Temple of Antioch •Studied Ancient history at University of Central Florida •Went to University High School (Irvine, California) •Lives in Perth, Western Australia •From Huntsville, Alabama •Widowed Show Stuff The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde TeePublic Store - Get your UBR goodies today! http://tee.pub/lic/2GQuXxn79dg UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

Astronomers find 20 new moons around Saturn and you can help name them Link: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/world/saturn-20-new-moons-scn/index.html The discovery of 20 previously unknown moons around Saturn has helped the ring planet surpass all others in our solar system, according to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. It now has 82 known moons; Jupiter has 79. The moons are all similar in size, spanning about three miles across. But 17 of the 20 have a retrograde orbit of Saturn, meaning they essentially orbit backwards from the planet and other moons. Carnegie Institute of Science astronomer Scott Sheppard and his team used the Subaru telescope in Hawaii to find the moons. Last year, Sheppard and his team located 12 new moons around Jupiter, including one with a retrograde orbit. "Studying the orbits of these moons can reveal their origins, as well as information about the conditions surrounding Saturn at the time of its formation," Sheppard said. Wanna name one of Saturn's moons? Scientists were able to locate the new moons thanks to more robust computing power and better algorithms for tracking faint distant objects, Sheppard said. What's more, you -- yes, you -- can help name the new moons. The contest opens Monday and will close on December 6. "I was so thrilled with the amount of public engagement over the Jupiter moon-naming contest that we've decided to do another one to name these newly discovered Saturnian moons," Sheppard said. "This time, the moons must be named after giants from Norse, Gallic or Inuit mythology." Check out Big Dime Sports podcast on Spreaker Link: https://www.spreaker.com/show/big-dime-sports_1 Troll News Carl Krauter Do you really think that "aliens" would visit a race that poisons their own air, food and water? Do you think that an "alien" would even land on this planet knowing what we do to things "not like us"? You really need to get a grip on reality. Intro Religious Philosopher (Gnostic) •Knight Grand Chaplain of the Order at Ancient Gnostic Order of Knights Templar •Knight at Ancient Gnostic Order of Knights Templar •Victorian Freemason at Lodge #912 •Freemason at Lodge #57 •Arch-Priest at Temple of Antioch •Studied Ancient history at University of Central Florida •Went to University High School (Irvine, California) •Lives in Perth, Western Australia •From Huntsville, Alabama •Widowed Show Stuff The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde TeePublic Store - Get your UBR goodies today! http://tee.pub/lic/2GQuXxn79dg UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

A fascinating conversation on increasing emotional intelligence, elevating consciousness, training 21 to 40-years of meditation in 7 days, the Akashic Records, and much more. Dr. James V. Hardt is the Founder of The Biocybernaut Institute and an expert in training with biofeedback. He has worked with the likes of Tony Robbins and other high-powered executives to elevate states of intelligence and consciousness for over 40-years.Who is Dr. James V. Hardt?Dr. James V. Hardt, president and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. (biocybernaut.com), shares his personal experiences with biofeedback and brainwave work in general, and the incredible documented results that biocybernaut training can deliver for improved health and wellness. The meditation and brainwave expert discusses the importance of clearing emotional traumas and how they can be major impediments to brainwave improvement. And the biocybernaut training provides effective means to remove emotional trauma baggage that can limit an individual’s progress forward. He discusses the pillars of training and the means for achieving profound improvements in one’s life.Dr. Hardt has devoted his life to the study of the electrophysiological basis of advanced spiritual states. He has traveled the globe in pursuit of his research, and to India especially to study advanced Yogis, with his technology. From Zen masters to Christian prayer, Dr. Hardt has continued his relentless pursuit of advanced brainwave and meditation connections that allow people to become the best form of themselves that they can be, reducing limitations and addictions, experiencing more joy, less anxiety, improving health and awareness, and developing more meaningful relationships.Dr. Hardt is a celebrated research scientist with an established history of over 40 years in the study and research of biofeedback. Hardt has authored or co-authored countless scientific research papers on the subject and he currently has more than 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain-centered portion of various virtual reality applications. His findings have been published in numerous scholarly journals such as Science, Psychophysiology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology, just to name a few. Dr. Hardt received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, as well as a master’s degree, and Ph.D., in psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University.Highlights[3:08] - Why should you want 40-years of Zen Meditation in 7 days[6:18] - How Dr. Hardt found altered states of consciousness[12:54] - A primer in brain waves[18:28] - Are you skeptical of the training?[27:47] - How long are the effects of the 7-day training?[31:02] - Theta Waves and the Akashic Records[40:20] - Kundalini Awakenings[46:42] - Foods which may impact getting into Alpha States[50:16] - Dr. Hardt answers the final questions[51:10] - Dr. Hardt's breakdown of Happy Hour (must listen)ResourcesThe Biocybernaut InstituteBiocybernaut LocationsThe Art of Smart Thinking by Dr. James V. HardtLetting Go by Dr. David HawkinsSatori from Zen BuddhismDr. Hans BergerThe Akashic RecordsAN ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC STUDY ON THE ZEN MEDITATION (ZAZEN)Kundalini AwakeningSponsorLooking to experience the Alpha One training from The Biocybernaut Institute? Me too. Head over to their website (https://www.biocybernaut.com/), fill out the contact form, and ask for Kate. Tell them Boomer from Decoding Superhuman sent you.DisclaimerThis information is being provided to you for educational and informational purposes only. This is being provided as a self-help tool to help you understand your genetics, biodata and other information to enhance your performance. It is not medical or psychological advice. Virtuosity LLC, or Decoding Superhuman, is not a doctor. Virtuosity LLC is not treating, preventing, healing, or diagnosing disease. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment. For the full Disclaimer, please go to (Decodingsuperhuman.com/disclaimer). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. James V. Hardt, President and Founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc., discusses his interesting work with brainwaves. Dr. Hardt holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, as well as a Masters Degree in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and a PhD in Psychology, also from Carnegie-Mellon University. Continuing his research and studies, Dr. Hardt immersed himself in intensive Post-Doctoral work in Psychophysiology at the Langley Porter Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the University of California at San Francisco. As Dr. Hardt explains, a biocybernaut is to inner space as an astronaut is to outer space. A biocybernaut utilizes advanced technology to go on an inner journey into their own mind. It's a journey of learning, growth, healing, and transformation. Dr. Hardt discusses their brainwave feedback training, and he shares that through this training people can become less anxious, increase their creativity by up to 50%, and simply become smarter across the board. The IQ boost, Dr. Hardt states is a remarkable 11.7 points, which stabilizes and is maintained. Dr. Hardt explains the origin of brainwave study which dates back to 1908. Dr. Hardt talks about his background and how he came to his current area of study and interest. Dr. Hardt discusses the basic elements of their training, and he compares and contrasts it to zen meditation. He explains that this meditation over many years, will allow one to change their brainwaves. But Dr. Hardt wanted a method to impact brainwaves that was more efficient and could impact great change in a shorter period of time. He talks about alpha waves and the powerful technology that the Biocybernaut Institute utilizes. As he explains, they use technology to boost the microvolt levels about one-hundred thousand times so brainwaves can be read by the computers which then turn amplitude of the brainwaves into the loudness of musical tones. Thus, people can sit in soundproof chambers and listen to their brainwaves emit tones of flutes, clarinets, and oboes, etc., and when the music becomes louder, this means that you're making more alpha. Thus, whatever you are doing you keep doing, to increase and advance your brainwaves.

In episode 27 (I forgot I did a 26th) I'm joined by Sarah Duffield. We discuss how adherence to the energy balance principal, is the single most important factor to consider when implementing a diet method for the goal of weight loss. We discuss why and how, an aggressive method of weight loss, can often be a great idea for appropriate individuals. We chat about some common myths associated with this controversial approach to losing weight. About Sarah, from the MNU website: "Sarah is Head of Nutrition at The Mac-Nutrition Collective and one of the lead tutors on MNU. She has a BSc from Loughborough University and an MSc in Sport and Exercise Nutrition from Leeds Metropolitan University. Sarah has previously worked as a nutrition and health advisor at the University of East Anglia, as well as a performance nutritionist for the Carnegie Institute for Sports Performance and Wellbeing where she supported a wide variety of both professional and amateur athletes. Sarah is also qualified kinanthropometrist and, before joining Mac-Nutrition, worked as part of the Powerade Sports Science team for 4 years supporting athletes with their nutritional preparations for events." If you're interested in MNU, see the link below. https://www.mac-nutritionuni.com/ Or just follow Sarah and Martin MacDonald on Instagram. @sarahduff_mn @martinnutrition

  Dr. James V. Hardt reveals how brain waves can transform your life How would you like to access all of your brain s innate capacity to learn, invent, create and solve problems? Would it improve your life if you could think more clearly, access your intuition, reduce stress and anxiety, and prevent your brain from aging? We've all heard that we use only a tiny percentage of our brains natural capacity. If you've ever wondered why, today's second interview with Dr. James V. Hardt will offer insights into this and several other topics. LINK: Dr. James V. Hardt serves as the President and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a Masters Degree in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and he has done Post-Doctoral work in Psychophysiology at the Langley Porter Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Hardt has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers and professional presentations. He has authored, co-authored or has pending over 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain-centered portion of virtual reality applications. He has dedicated his life in the research and development surrounding brain wave training. Dr. Hardt was mentored by Dr. Joe Kamiya, the scientist who first discovered, in 1962, that humans could voluntarily control their own brain waves if they were given brain wave feedback. Dr. Hardt has earned a national reputation as a preeminent research scientist for his over 40 years of work in biofeedback. Dr. Hardt's research has been supported by private and Federal grants and contributions from prestigious organizations such as the Fetzer Foundation. He presents at numerous, prestigious national and international meetings and has published in leading scholarly journals such as Science, Psychophysiology, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Biofeedback and Self-Regulation and Advances In Mind-Body Medicine. For over 40 years Dr. Hardt has been studying the electrophysiological basis of advanced spiritual states. He has traveled to India several times to study advanced Yogis with his technology, has studied Zen meditators and Zen masters, and explored Christian prayer and contemplation. He has developed a technology based on electroencephalographic (EEG) measurement and feedback, combined, in a highly optimized methodology, with computerized measures of subjective states, depth interviews, and extensive coaching in forgiveness, engaged indifference [TM] and non-attachment. This technology and training methodologies have demonstrated significant effectiveness in healing and transforming core dimensions of personality dysfunction, reducing stress and anxiety, reversing key aspects of the brain's aging process, increasing creativity by 50% and boosting IQ by nearly 12 points on average, enhancing peak performance, facilitating conflict resolution, and expanding spiritual awareness and increasing access to advanced spiritual states. ======================= BUSINESS INSIDER: A $15,000 retreat claims it teaches people like Tony Robbins how to control their own brain waves By Erin Brodwin Mar. 15, 2017 The cerebral workout plan was created in the 1980s by James Hardt, a physicist and psychologist who claims that a week of his program “expands your awareness more than 20 years of Zen meditation.” Hardt's company, called the Biocybernaut Institute, is centered around neurofeedback, a form of therapy that uses information about the brain's electrical patterns to teach people about how their minds work. The idea is that people can learn to control their brain activity in specific ways — from increasing focus or creativity to decreasing the symptoms of anxiety, depression, or even ADHD. At its most basic, the treatment involves placing electrical sensors designed to monitor brain waves at various points on the scalp — kind of like you would if you were to get an EEG at the doctor. Those sensors are then connected to a source of feedback, like a video screen, with images that shift based on the type of brain waves a person is emitting. “We give people real-time data on their own brain waves and then they change them,” Alice Miller, a Biocybernaut trainer, told Business Insider. Our electric brains Theoretically, if you can control these brain waves, you can control your levels of alertness. But to understand how that works, you have to know two important things: First, our brains are electric. Second, certain brain wave frequencies have actually been linked with various states of alertness. The first person to measure the brain's electricity was Austrian psychiatrist Hans Berger, who reported a technique for “recording the electrical activity of the human brain from the surface of the head” in 1924. It was the world's first electroencephalogram, or EEG. Today, we know that most of the electrical activity from the scalp falls in a range of roughly 1 to 20 Hertz (Hz). Neuroscientists typically divide this activity into 4 specific ranges, or bands. Each level corresponds to a specific type of alertness — at the lowest, called delta, you're literally asleep; at the highest, called beta, you're focused and attentive. It breaks down like this: Delta: 1-4 Hz — activity your brain emits while you're asleep Theta: 4-8 Hz — what your brain waves might look like when you're “zoning off” or not really paying attention Alpha: 8-12 Hz — your relaxed but wakeful state Beta: 12-30 Hz — the the brain waves your noggin tends to emit when you're sharply focused Neurofeedback operates on the principal that you can become aware of when your brain is in which state — or band of activity — and then consciously shift from one to another. If you can't focus and your brain is showing lots of theta activity, the idea goes, you need to shift up into an alpha state. If you're anxious and angry all the time and your brain is trapped in beta, you want to shift down into alpha. Dr. James V. Hardt, Tony Robbins, brain wave, alpha waves, beta, Biocybernaut Institute, neurofeedback, Outer Limits of Inner Truth, Ryan McCormick

Dr. James V. Hardt, president and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. (biocybernaut.com), shares his personal experiences with biofeedback and brainwave work in general, and the incredible documented results that biocybernaut training can deliver for improved health and wellness. Dr. Hardt is a celebrated research scientist with an established history of over 40 years in the study and research of biofeedback. Hardt has authored or co-authored countless scientific research papers on the subject and he currently has more than 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain-centered portion of various virtual reality applications. Much of his extensive research has been supported by private and federal grants as well as generous contributions from respected organizations such as the Fetzer Foundation, and others. Hardt is a valued guest and keynote speaker and he has presented presentations at many prestigious national as well as international events. His findings have been published in numerous scholarly journals such as Science, Psychophysiology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology, just to name a few. Dr. Hardt received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, as well as a master's degree, and Ph.D., in psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Hardt states that a biocybernaut is to inner space what an astronaut is to outerspace. The name biocybernaut is derived from linguistic components: bio, cyber, and naut. Naut is a Greek suffix that is defined as someone who ‘goes on a voyage or adventure.' Cyber, which is derived from the word ‘cypher' is used to denote ‘calculations' and is, today, commonly referred to in computer calculating technology. Biocybernauts go on an inner adventure into the depths of their awareness. He recounts an interesting story that details his first experience with this type of training, in a research study many years ago. He describes that he became so interested in the research study that he requested to have additional time in the chamber that the study participants utilized. While taking his own time in the chamber, after hours, he was subsequently forgotten about, and was kept in the chamber for several hours, and during this time he experienced profoundly moving states and alpha surges that supercharged him to research and study the field further, which led to his eventual founding of the Biocybernaut Institute. As is similar to meditation, the biocybernaut training is an attempt to tune into the interior state of mind. Brainwaves rule our thoughts, feelings, and intentions. Dr. Hardt explains that when we change our brainwaves we can actually, fundamentally change who we are. He discusses some of his federally funded projects that delved into the study of biofeedback in regard to anxiety. As Hardt explains, anxiety is more prominent in women than men, and in both sexes, it increases with age in those who suffer from it. His findings showed that the biocybernaut training provided new benefits to those in the study at 6 months and also at 12 months. Dr. Hardt relates how the training expands awareness, so individuals see themselves more accurately and in greater depth. With traditional meditation, the process is effective at increasing alpha waves, but it can be quite slow, as it can take 21 to 40 years to be rated ‘advanced' in Zen meditation. The benefit to biocybernaut training is that it uses technology to speed up the process, to detect and amplify alpha waves up to 100,000 times, so the signal is large enough to be worked with by computers. Feedback is given when the alpha waves increase, and the tones get louder, essentially producing a symphony of your own mind's creation. Essentially, biocybernaut training allows the brain to know what it's doing, while it is doing it, and as a result, the brain can improve in a myriad of ways. Dr. Hardt details how creativity, IQ, as well as emotional intelligence (EQ) can all be dramatically increased through the process and training.  The meditation and brainwave expert discusses the importance of clearing emotional traumas and how they can be major impediments to brainwave improvement. And the biocybernaut training provides effective means to remove emotional trauma baggage that can limit an individual's progress forward. He discusses the pillars of training and the means for achieving profound improvements in one's life.  Dr. Hardt has devoted his life to the study of the electrophysiological basis of advanced spiritual states. He has traveled the globe in pursuit of his research, and to India especially to study advanced Yogis, with his technology. From Zen masters to Christian prayer, Dr. Hardt has continued his relentless pursuit of advanced brainwave and meditation connections that allow people to become the best form of themselves that they can be, reducing limitations and addictions, experiencing more joy, less anxiety, improving health and awareness, and developing more meaningful relationships.

Dr. Carmel Majidi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. There, he also holds courtesy appointments in the Robotics Institute and in Civil and Environmental Engineering. In Carmel’s soft machines lab, they are engineering new types of materials that can be used to make machines and robots soft, flexible, and more lifelike. The goal is for these machines to move more like natural organisms. When not working, Carmel is often out engaging in physical activities including hitting the gym or walking/jogging in nearby parks and along river trails. He also enjoys the arts and travel. Carmel travels frequently for work, and he likes to block off extra time on these trips to to visit museums and cultural landmarks. Carmel received his B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University as well as at Harvard University before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon. Over the course of his career, Carmel has received numerous awards and honors, including the Young Faculty Awards from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). He has also received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Early Career Faculty Award, as well as the George Tallman Ladd Award and Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean’s Early Career Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, Carmel was named a PopTech Science Fellow in 2013. In our interview Carmel discusses his experiences in life and science.

"Superfood" is a term that we are starting to hear a lot more of these days and algae is most definitely deserving of that title. This is the first podcast episode of its kind, where I get down with the founder of a nutrition brand that I am SUPER passionate about because of the LEGIT science behind the benefits of algae + my own validation towards it anecdotally.  Catharine Arnston is the Founder + CEO of Energy Bits, an superior quality algae brand that consists of chlorella + spirulina tablets.  Energy Bits is one of safest + purest algae brands on the market (if not The most).  The health benefits of CLEAN algae consumption are unarguable.  There is an abundance of research that proves how greatly beneficial adding algae to our diets can be.  I dig deep with Catharine to unpack the Science backed health benefits of algae in this episode. Some conversation highlights we discuss are: Why algae is healthy for us How algae can be especially great for Vegans, Vegetarians AND diets with heavy meat consumption.  Why the quality of algae makes a major difference (clue: LEAD should not be a part of our diets) How algae consumption supports longevity The importance of consuming the FULL spectrum (essential + non essential) of Amino Acids  The incredible similarities between Chlorophyll + our hemoglobin  Consuming Algae on a Ketogenic diet  Why Algae is endorsed by NASA, the United Nations and Carnegie Institute as the most nutrient-dense food in the world.  I hope you enjoy this episode that we created to EMPOWER you with knowledge + tools that can support your optimal health/life performance.    If you love it, let me know in your IG stories, comments- I love hearing from you! xRx  You can purchase energy bits with a 20% discount via www.energybits.com by using BLACKBELTBEAUTY in the promo code!  

President Trump had a headline-grabbing visit to Europe. During the trip, he called the European Union a foe of the United States and received sharp blowback for his deferential approach to contentious questions such as whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Over in Israel, a controversial bill that would define the character of the state passed over the objections of Israel’s president and leading Jewish organizations around the world, including AJC. Joining us to discuss the reaction to the Trump-Putin summit is Andrew Weiss, Vice President at the Carnegie Institute and long-time Russia expert, who spent years serving in administrations of both parties advising on Russia policy. We’re also joined by Dr. Stephen Bayme, AJC Director of Contemporary Jewish Life and American Jewish-Israeli relations to discuss Israel’s nation-state bill, what it means for Israel, and what it means for Israel-diaspora relations. Full nation-state law: https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Read-the-full-Jewish-Nation-State-Law-562923 AJC Press Release: https://www.ajc.org/news/ajc-criticizes-knesset-adoption-of-nation-state-bill

Today, astronomers announced the discovery of 12 new moons around Jupiter. Inverse writer Matthew Phelan sat down with the Carnegie Institute’s Scott S. Sheppard who led the team that located the Jovian moons to tell us what this means for our solar systems and why one of the moons is especially odd. Two of the new dozen were uncovered in the spring of 2017 by Sheppard’s team bringing Jupiter’s moon count to 69 (nice), which means we now know there are 79 moons orbiting Jupiter. Questions Include: How did we find these new Jovian moons and why was it a serendipitous finding? What is the criteria that determines whether or not an object is a moon? How many new moons around Jupiter did we find? How do we detect new moons? What are Trojan asteroids? What are prograde and retrograde moons? What is this new “oddball” moon Valetudo and why is it different? Will there be more moons discovered around Jupiter? Is there a minimum size for a moon? What do retrograde and prograde objects tell us about the formation of our solar system? How do moons in our solar system get their names?Follow ‘I Need My Space’ on Social Media:Twitter: @INeedMySpacePodInstagram: @INeedMySpacePodFB Group: I Need My Space PodTo continue the conversation from this episode, use the hashtag #INeedMySpaceFollow Dr. Scott S. Sheppard on the Web:https://carnegiescience.edu/scientist/scott-sheppardhttps://sites.google.com/carnegiescience.edu/sheppard/home?authuser=0 About Inverse:Inverse sparks curiosity about the future. We explore the science of anything, innovations that shape tomorrow and ideas that stretch our minds. Our goal is to motivate the next generation to build a better world.Credits:‘I Need My Space’ is an Inverse production hosted by Steve Ward, produced by Sam Riddell, and executive produced by Hannah Margaret Allen and Weston Green. This episode was also produced and hosted by Matthew Phelan. Our intro and outro music was created by Andrew Olivares. Steve: @stevejohnhenrywAndrew: https://soundcloud.com/andrewoOther Topics Discussed Include: Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, The Jupiter Trojans, The Kuiper Belt, The Galilean Moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Himalia, Valetudo