Podcasts about Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Could the mysteries of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the ancient Ark of the Covenant reveal untapped links between radiation and rapid evolutionary processes? As modern science ventures deeper into the secrets of natural selection and genetic adaptation, might we uncover a blend of ancient wisdom and cutting-edge technology that reshapes our understanding of life itself? Follow Eric Here! - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3xyLPb3_UBvYfecQ9ZRAqwIf you are having a mental health crisis and need immediate help please go to https://troubledminds.org/help/ and call somebody right now. Reaching out for support is a sign of strength.LIVE ON Digital Radio!  http://bit.ly/40KBtlWhttp://www.troubledminds.net or https://www.troubledminds.orgSupport The Show!https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio--4953916/supporthttps://ko-fi.com/troubledmindshttps://rokfin.com/creator/troubledmindshttps://patreon.com/troubledmindshttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/troubledmindshttps://troubledfans.comFriends of Troubled Minds! - https://troubledminds.org/friendsShow Schedule Sun-Tues-Thurs-Fri 7-10pstiTunes - https://apple.co/2zZ4hx6Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2UgyzqMTuneIn - https://bit.ly/2FZOErSTwitter - https://bit.ly/2CYB71U----------------------------------------https://troubledminds.substack.com/p/channeling-chaos-accelerated-evolutionhttps://indiandefencereview.com/chernobyls-dogs-are-evolving-faster-than-any-species-on-earth/https://www.livescience.com/animals/can-animals-learn-another-species-languagehttps://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/6c5ano/alien_covenant_evolution_chart_mild_spoilers/https://art19.com/shows/ancient-aliens/episodes/e4651cb5-7bc7-4677-b231-b1942470faddhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronautshttps://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/1219032799/bacteria-radiation-resistant-conan-bacteriumhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radioduranshttps://www.livescience.com/64932-the-ark-of-the-covenant.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manna_Machinehttps://openlibrary.org/books/OL4293125M/The_manna_machinehttps://gizmodo.com/the-engineer-who-said-the-ark-of-the-covenant-was-a-gia-1598583115https://nypost.com/2021/02/20/at-least-800-ethiopians-killed-after-defending-ark-of-the-covenant/https://www.galaxie.com/article/bspade08-3-02

Headlines: P6.352 trillion budget of the national government, approved by the Lower and Upper Chambers of Congress | Operation of traditional jeepney and UV express which have applied to the consolidation will be extended until December of next year | Hundreds of radioactive feral dogs at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, being studied how they survived in the harsh radioactive environment.You can also listen with Tagalog transcript and English translations here: https://www.tagalog.com/podcast/play.php?podcast_id=336Listen to all our transcribed episodes here: https://www.tagalog.com/podcast/

Hear Ric's stories from Afghanistan, Burundi, Chad, Eretria, Mauritania, Papua New Guinea, Abkhazia and Transnistria.  ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show's Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ In Part 2 of this interview, Ric Gazarian talks about his decision to pursue the goal of traveling to all 193 U.N. recognized countries. He shares stories of watching the sport of Buzkashi in Afghanistan, getting a private performance by the Royal Drummers of Burundi, and attending the Gerewol Festival in Chad. Ric talks about two very different train experiences in Eretria and Mauritania, describes his overnight tour of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and explains why one of his most unique trips was to Papua New Guinea. He then discusses the contested definition of what constitutes a country, explains what a micronation is, and shares his experiences visiting Transnistria, Abkhazia, and the Principality of Sealand. Ric then talks about his “Counting Countries” podcast and his biennial conference “The Extraordinary Travel Festival”. Finally, he talks about how he designs culturally immersive travel experiences, how his perception of travel has changed over the years, how all of this travel has impacted him, and what travel means to him today. FULL SHOW NOTES WITH DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED ARE AVAILABLE HERE.  ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that's not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn  See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally.  You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Another one of those movies that we had better memories of.. J - 5/10 M - 4/10 For daily horror movie content follow the podcast on Twitter / Instagram @darkroastcult Each week we choose a movie from one of the horror genre to discuss the following week. Follow along each week by keeping up with the movies we are watching to stay in the loop with the movie club! Check out other podcasts, coffee and pins at www.darkroastcult.com ! THANKS TO ANDREW FOR MAKING THE INTRO SONG. (soundcloud.com / andoryukesuta)@andoryukesuta Chris, his girlfriend Natalie, and their mutual friend Amanda are traveling across Europe. They stop in Kyiv, Ukraine, to visit Chris' brother, Paul, before heading on to Moscow, Russia, where Chris intends to propose to Natalie. Paul suggests they go for an extreme tour of Pripyat, an abandoned town which sits in the shadow of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Chris is against going on the tour and would rather stay on the original plan of going to Moscow, but Paul insists. They meet tour guide Uri and are joined by a backpacking couple, Norwegian Zoe and Australian Michael. Uri drives them through Ukraine, before they arrive at a Chernobyl Exclusion Zone checkpoint, where they are refused entry by the Ukrainian military. He then takes them to an alternate entry he discovered years ago. The group stops at a river where Uri points out a large, mutated fish apparently able to live on land; while returning to their van several other mutant fish are seen. The group is worried about radiation poisoning, but Uri assures their safety with a Geiger counter. After spending a few hours exploring, Uri takes them to the upper floor of an apartment building and shows them the Chernobyl nuclear plant on the near horizon. After hearing noises at the other end of the apartment, it is found to be a bear which runs through the hallway past them, but not harming them. The group prepares to leave Pripyat, but Uri finds the wires in his van have been chewed through. He tries to radio for help, to no avail. As night falls, the group decides on whether to hike to a nearby checkpoint which is 20 km (12 miles) away, or to stay put and wait for help. Suddenly, strange noises come from outside, so Uri goes out to investigate and Chris follows. Shots are heard and Paul runs out to investigate, returning with Chris, whose leg has been severely mauled, and claiming that Uri has been taken. While they decide to stay the night in their locked vehicle, they are attacked by dogs. The next day, Paul, Michael, and Amanda go out to look for Uri. They follow a trail of blood to an abandoned cafeteria and find Uri's mutilated body. They take his gun and are chased by a creature through the building before returning to the van. Amanda checks her camera and one of the pictures shows a humanoid creature inside one of the apartment buildings. Natalie stays with the wounded Chris while the others begin the hike to the checkpoint.

Galina Ackerman is Editor in Chief at Desk Russia, and is a French writer, historian, journalist, translator, and researcher at the University of Caen, specializing in Ukraine and Post-Soviet states. She was also a translator for the Russian journalist murdered by the Putin regime, Anna Politkovskaya. Galia was born into a Russian Jewish family and holds a doctorate in history from the University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne. In 1998, Galia translated into French 'Chernobyl Prayer' by Svetlana Alexievich, a book about the Chernobyl disaster. While working on the translation, she travelled to the poisoned territories called the 'Zone' (short for Chernobyl Exclusion Zone) and interviewed local people who had witnessed the nuclear catastrophe at first hand. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galia_Ackerman https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galia_Ackerman https://x.com/GaliaAckerman https://x.com/DeskRussie https://www.linkedin.com/in/galina-ackerman-8305b790/ ---------- BOOKS: L'Ukraine: Atlas géopolitique d'une idée européenne Edizione Francese | di Philippe Lemarchand, Galina Ackerman, e al. (2023) ---------- ARTICLES: https://desk-russie.eu/auteur/galia-ackerman https://desk-russie.info/2024/05/23/giorgi-gakharia-this-law-serves-russian-interests.html https://desk-russie.info/2024/05/12/comrade-putins-sexennial-plan.html https://desk-russie.info/2024/05/10/the-quarrels-of-the-russian-opposition.html https://desk-russie.info/2024/04/22/the-russian-state-in-the-face-of-terrorism.html ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

From Chernobyl's anticancer wolves to amazing, death defying incidents and discoveries of rare earth minerals, there's a lot to cover on this Friday Night Live. The wolves that live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed anticancer abilities. 2.34 billion metric tons of rare Earth minerals were just discovered in Wyoming—and the implications on the world's economy are major. Katy Perry got a miraculous or angelic sign from “the beyond” after her manager Martin Kirkup (who also managed Counting Crows, Tracy Chapman, the Go-Go's, Adam Lambert, and more) passed away. The 2024 Super Bowl made history for several reasons, but Rob found another bit of Super Bowl history from the past that nobody expected … least of all those who were targeted in one sting operation. Join Rob Counts for discussions on all these topics, plus a “Dig Deep” Live Q&A segment followed by the Top 10 Weirder News of the Week in this episode of Friday Night Live.   Top 10 Weirder News of the Week: One man calls police in North Yorkshire, England with an unusual crime report. There's exposing wrongdoing, there's being a tattle tale, and there's being a good Samaritan … but how about when you're all three?    Former military men claim an alien craft (UAP) was caught on camera disabling a nuclear missile in 1964. Modern proof from UFO whistleblower David Grusch corroborates it.   Some high schoolers dream of being scientists, some want to be pro football stars, some want to make art … and others just want to be left alone to play some cornhole. Two Colorado teens make history for doing just that.   Is it impossible to make plants taste like meat? Your plant-based meat could soon contain this counterintuitive ingredient.   A beady-eyed suspect is accused of spying for China. Why do Indian authorities think his unusual attributes made him the perfect criminal?   A man spends 8 years making a matchstick model of the Eiffel Tower and, much to his chagrin, is rejected by Guinness World Records.   A traveler in Boston Logan International Airport tries to fool authorities about what's in his bag. One sharp-nosed officer sniffs him out, revealing a haul nobody anticipated.   Police storm a hotel after reports of a man with a “large knife,” but their day “magically” turns out fine.   Life finds a way: A stingray is pregnant, but nobody knows how … except for one Jurassic Park theory.   A teen driver has possibly the most intense, shocking near-death experience ever recorded—and the scariest part may have saved her life.

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In 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, releasing radioactive material into northern Ukraine and Belarus. It was the most serious nuclear accident in history. Over one hundred thousand people were evacuated from the surrounding area. But local gray wolves never left — and their population has grown over the years. It's seven times denser than populations in protected lands elsewhere in Belarus. This fact has led scientists to wonder whether the wolves are genetically either resistant or resilient to cancer — or if the wolves are simply thriving because humans aren't interfering with them. This episode, researchers Shane Campbell-Staton and Cara Love talk through what might be causing this population boom. Plus, why researchers in the field of human cancer are eager to collaborate with them.Want to hear about other ways humans are impacting the planet? Email us at shortwave@npr.org.

We tend to think of evolution as a slow, gradual process playing out over millions of years. But evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton says nature is now changing at breakneck speed to keep up with the world humanity has built. From tuskless elephants who escape poachers to wolves living in the radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Campbell-Staton unpacks how life is rapidly adapting in surprising ways -- and asks us to rethink how we can protect the planet's biodiversity.

We tend to think of evolution as a slow, gradual process playing out over millions of years. But evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton says nature is now changing at breakneck speed to keep up with the world humanity has built. From tuskless elephants who escape poachers to wolves living in the radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Campbell-Staton unpacks how life is rapidly adapting in surprising ways -- and asks us to rethink how we can protect the planet's biodiversity.

We tend to think of evolution as a slow, gradual process playing out over millions of years. But evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton says nature is now changing at breakneck speed to keep up with the world humanity has built. From tuskless elephants who escape poachers to wolves living in the radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Campbell-Staton unpacks how life is rapidly adapting in surprising ways -- and asks us to rethink how we can protect the planet's biodiversity.

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This event is part of the Intermarium Lecture Series and was recorded live at The Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. on Monday, October 17, 2022. About the Lecture After spending time on the ground in Ukraine as a guest of Ukrainian law enforcement, and after visiting bombed-out police stations and learning something of the trauma that a country endures when lawlessness takes over, she came to believe that one of the great unmet needs in Ukraine today is helping law enforcement recover from the invaders' attempts to destroy it. In this lecture, Mitzi will share information on what the invaders did, how this has encouraged human trafficking, and what it's meant for the proliferation of the sale of irradiated scrap metal poached from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. She'll end with reasons why she believes the Ukrainians will prevail. For a hint, the reasons involve breadcrumbs, colorful nail polish, and a large yellow rose. About the Speaker Mitzi Perdue is an anti-human trafficking advocate, a former rice farmer, past president of the 40,000-member American Agri-Women and a US Delegate to the United Nations Decade on Women Conference in Nairobi. In the 1990s, and early 2000s her nationally syndicated column, “The Environment and You,” was the most widely syndicated environmental column in the US. Recently she's written a biography of Mark Victor Hansen, the Chicken Soup for the Soul guy. Hansen is in the Guinness Book of Worlds' Records for selling half a billion books. Royalties for Mark Victor Hansen, Relentless will go to supporting Law Enforcement in Ukraine. IWP Admissions https://www.iwp.edu/admissions/ Support IWP https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E231090&id=

In this episode, we take you inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with Dominik Orfanus founder of ChernobylX and lead tour guide, Lara Graldina. What is it like inside the "Zone"? Who lives there? What can you do to help? This and more on Episode 38. Note: This episode does not discuss the disaster itself. To hear about that event, listen to Episode 16 - The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster with Adam Higginbotham. Send an email to ChernobylX to find out how you can contribute to their humanitarian work in the Exclusion Zone. Send an email to My Nuclear Life or visit our website mynuclearlife.com. Please leave a 5-star review on iTunes and subscribe to My Nuclear Life wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is a revamped version of a previous episode. I will select a few of my older episodes and remake them with better quality than before! On April 26, 1986, an explosion erupted the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine when the number four reactor, after a routine test, suddenly dropped power to near zero before overloading. Built up steam blew the 1,000 ton reactor lid through the roof, exposing a 700 mile radius to 400 times more radiation than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Two workers were killed in the initial explosion, while 29 others would die in the days and weeks following, mostly firefighters who were unaware of the exposure. The nearby town of Pripyat was evacuated three days later. The roughly 50,000 residents were told the move was temporary. They never returned. The cleanup efforts were costly and long, with many workers being exposed to high amounts of radiation. After almost a year, a steel sarcophagus was placed over the reactor to contain the radiation. In 2016, a dome like concrete sarcophagus was built over the reactor and old protection that will last 100 years. At the time of the explosion, the Soviet government did everything to conceal the event. Even the manager of the test that lead to the explosion threatened his workers and said that no explosion actually occurred. It wasn't until other European countries noticed the high levels of radiation, when the Soviet Union admitted to the world what had happened. The Soviet government continued to lie to its citizens in the surrounding area of the power plan and said they were fine. Since 1986, over 100,000 deaths are attributed to the explosion. The official death toll remains at 31 according to Soviet records. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone won't be livable for another 24,000 years. the soil, plants, water and animals are highly contaminated, although animals a seemed to adapted to the radiation and appear fine.

What is the Chernobyl exclusion zone? It's just over 36 years since the worst nuclear disaster in history. On April 26th 1986, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Following the accident, an exclusion zone of around 1,000m2 was established by the Soviet army.  It covers the areas most affected by radioactive contamination, including the city Prypiat situated 2 miles away. Built in the 1970s to house workers from the nuclear plant, it was seen as a model Soviet metropolis, but became a ghost town when its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated. Does the exclusion zone still exist today? So can humans go inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone nowadays? What about temporary visits? Will people be able to live in Chernobyl again one day? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: What is the insider-outsider theory? What is stalkerware? Who is Alexei Navalny? A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russia has taken over another nuclear facility in Ukraine, after shelling the site on Thursday night.The attack of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been condemned worldwide, with reports that the attack continued even as emergency services tried to put out the resulting fire.In response, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Authority Rafael Grossi, is planning to travel to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to negotiate with the Ukrainians and the Russians to uphold the principles of nuclear safety.Malcolm Grimston, a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London's Centre for Energy Policy and Technology discusses the risk associated with Russia's attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and why they have taken over the site.You can find our Ukraine fundraiser here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 The Chernobyl disaster / nuclear accident, occurred on April 26th, 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of Ukraine. The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, ultimately involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated US$68 billion, adjusted for inflation. The current Chernobyl Exclusion Zone covers an area of approximately 2,600 km2 (1,000 sq mi) in Ukraine, immediately surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where radioactive contamination is highest and public access and inhabitation are restricted. The Exclusion Zone's purpose is to restrict access to hazardous areas, reduce the further spread of radiological contamination, and conduct radiological and ecological monitoring activities. Today, the Exclusion Zone is still one of the most radioactively contaminated areas in the world and draws significant scientific interest for the high levels of radiation exposure in the environment, as well as increasing interest from tourists. Despite the extremely high radioactivity of the region, the zone has become a thriving sanctuary with natural flora and fauna with some of the highest biodiversity and thickest forests in all of Ukraine. On this episode of our show, we are joined by Mykola Tolmachov, of the Chernobyl-51 Industrial Cluster, discussing their novel public-private partnership for both ecosystem restoration and the production of both energy and chemical byproducts, in the exclusion zone. English translation during the episode is performed by Ms. Victoria Laskina-Ustimenko. 

This week we take a virtual trip to Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster and discuss the tourist appeal of the site and the exclusion zone. With President Zelennkyy's plan to vitalise the area into a tourist destination, we explore what draws visitors to the area and why its remains an iconic site to this day. 

My guest today is Derek Baron, the creator of the popular travel website called “Wandering Earl”. On December 25th, 1999, Derek left the USA for a three-month, post-graduation trip to Southeast Asia. The idea was for him to backpack around Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and then return home and start a career in the sports industry (He wanted to be a Sports Agent). When Derek landed in Bangkok, he had $1500 USD to his name and that was it. Since then, he has visited over 100 countries on 6 continents and has lived, worked, traveled and volunteered all over the world. He has been to India thirty times and was even kidnapped by inept kidnappers for three days in Bangladesh (and yes, he shares that story). He visited and stayed three days in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and visited the Galapagos Islands among many more. Derek worked also worked as a Tour Manager aboard cruise ships and I asked him to recount a tour-from-hell story and boy...did he deliver! This very funny story involves Mount Kilimanjaro. Why is that funny you ask? Well, the excursion was in Hawaii, for one, but I'll let Derek tell that tale. It's not just the traveling that Derek loves, as he prefers to focus on the human interactions and the life lessons learned along the way. These incredible aspects of travel are what keep Derek Baron going after 18+ years traveling the world. Please check out his travel blog website and his social media listed below. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.wanderingearl.com/ https://www.wanderingearl.com/wandering-earl-tours/ https://www.instagram.com/wanderingearl/    

If you live in the UK, you should soon be able to drink vodka... from Chernobyl! Which might sound like a radioactive nightmare, but the stuff is - supposedly - completely safe to drink. Not only do radioactive particles get removed during the distillation process, there were few originally there at all - thanks to how well much of the environment around Chernobyl has recovered since the 1986 disaster. The project is the brainchild of researchers in Ukraine alongside environmental scientist Jim Smith from Portsmouth University. They've just distilled the first batch of their vodka, but... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

If you live in the UK, you should soon be able to drink vodka... from Chernobyl! Which might sound like a radioactive nightmare, but the stuff is - supposedly - completely safe to drink. Not only do radioactive particles get removed during the distillation process, there were few originally there at all - thanks to how well much of the environment around Chernobyl has recovered since the 1986 disaster. The project is the brainchild of researchers in Ukraine alongside environmental scientist Jim Smith from Portsmouth University. They've just distilled the first batch of their vodka, but... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

What is the Chernobyl exclusion zone? Thanks for asking! It’s just over 35 years since the worst nuclear disaster in history. On April 26th 1986, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Following the accident, an exclusion zone of around 1,000m2 was established by the Soviet army. It covers the areas most affected by radioactive contamination, including the city Prypiat situated 2 miles away. Built in the 1970s to house workers from the nuclear plant, it was seen as a model Soviet metropolis, but became a ghost town when its 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated.Does the exclusion zone still exist today? So can humans go inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone nowadays? What about temporary visits? Will people be able to live in Chernobyl again one day? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!To listen to the last episodes, you can click here:What is the insider-outsider theory?What is stalkerware?Who is Alexei Navalny? A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode One | February 2021 - Welcome to Cinebasterds, where three basterds talk about film. This February edition of the podcast focuses on The Last Airbender, the new instalment of Paul Blart Mall Cop 'Paul Blart Mall Cop 3: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone' and how shaving your head can make you go Mach 10 on a kite. Featuring The Last Airbender Movie & TV Show, Rampage, Here Comes The Boom and Valiant.

Vodka distilled from grain and water sourced in a nuclear disaster zone? Normally when alcohol inspires world-changing ideas, they don't turn out that well, but this University of Portsmouth Professor is clear-headed about how to help kick-start Chernobyl's economy. Professor Jim Smith explains his findings after years of studying the impact of radiation upon wildlife and the food chain in nuclear exclusion zones. It turns out that people living in semi-evacuated areas aren't experiencing life-limitations as a result of radiation as much as the limited economic opportunities. In Life Solved, Jim battles the myth of Chernobyl as exacerbated by popular culture, and explains how his safe, good-tasting and high-quality vodka is the first consumer product to come out of the area since the 1986 disaster. He argues that land is now safe to grow crops and plans for 75% of the products sales to go back into the local community and wildlife conservation projects. It's his hope that the Chernobyl Spirit Company's Atomik Vodka will be the first of many innovations to change the fortunes of people living in the area, and showcase the real Chernobyl to the wider world. Points of Interest:Chernobyl Spirit Company: Atomik Vodkahttps://www.atomikvodka.com The First Liquor Grown from Crops in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49251471https://allthatsinteresting.com/chernobyl-atomik-vodkaFollow our latest research - https://www.port.ac.uk/research Professor Jim Smith - http://www2.port.ac.uk/school-of-earth-and-environmental-sciences/staff/jim-smith.htmlSolve Magazine- port.ac.uk/solve https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/magazines/solve-magazine Portsmouth Social Media LinksFacebook - facebook.com/universityofportsmouthInstagram -instagram.com/portsmouthuni/Twitter - twitter.com/portsmouthuniLinkedIn - linkedin.com/school/university-of-portsmouth/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ukraine has fallen into a constitutional crisis following a controversial decision from the countries constitutional court. This week we look at President Zelenkyy's high stakes response to this ruling, as well as the shenanigan's happening inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Chernobyl Children International, has expressed deep concern at the decision of the Ukrainian Government to allow extensive dredging operations to take place in a major river close to the still dangerous, highly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Adi Roche founder and voluntary CEO of Chernobyl Children spoke to Fran on Tipp Today this morning.

Doc interviews author and adventure blogger Jonny Blair about his upcoming book, Backpacking Centurion, his blog, Don'tStopLiving.Net, and his travels and adventures in over 180 countries.  Tune in and hear about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Tasmania, Antarctica, Jonny's fascination with unrecognized countries, and the uncanny connection with Lock In Lee! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnfreakinmuir/support

No Political Bias, But Mistakes Were Made, in FBI's Initiation of Russia Probe (0:33)Guest: Ryan Vogel, JD, Director of the Center for National Security Studies, Utah Valley UniversityThe Trump Administration has maintained for some time that all of the investigations into the President and his campaign have been politically motivated –starting with the FBI investigation into possible collusion with Russia, which morphed into the Mueller Investigation. So, the Department of Justice had its independent inspector general look into how that all went down and whether it was driven by anti-Trump bias within the bureau. Today, that report is out, and it finds that no, the FBI's investigation was not driven by some deep state conspiracy against President Trump.  But the inspector general's report also criticizes the FBI of omissions, inaccuracies and sloppiness in the way it gathered information and obtained a warrant to monitor a former Trump campaign adviser. An Unlikely Wildlife Sanctuary in Chernobyl (18:21)Guest: James Beasley, PhD, Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of GeorgiaThe Chernobyl Nuclear Plant meltdown in 1986 is the worst nuclear disaster in history. Everyone within a 19-mile radius of the plant was evacuated and today that area remains off-limits to human inhabitants. But non-human inhabitants are welcome. And in fact, they seem to be thriving. University of Georgia wildlife ecologist James Beasley tracks animal populations inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and has found even a few endangered species are doing well there. Paying Gang Members in Boston to Stay in School (36:49)Guest: Mark Culliton, Founder and CEO of College Bound DorchesterIn Boston, a small group of youth –less than one percent of the total population –is responsible for the majority of shootings –more than 75 percent. So a nonprofit program called Boston Uncornered is taking a laser-like approach to getting those young people off street corners and into school. Most are gang members. Boston Uncornered pays them cash to turn their lives around. The program is run by a nonprofit called “College Bound Dorchester.” Christmas Tree Farms are Slowly Going Away, but Demand is Consistent (50:42)Guest: James Farmer, Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana UniversityAre you a cut-your-own Christmas tree at the farm kind of family? Or do you run to the Home Depot on Christmas Eve just hoping to find something decent you can decorate before Santa arrives? Unless something changes, we may all soon be stuck buying trees from a tree lot or big box store. Christmas tree farms are in decline, for a variety of reasons that James Farmer has studied. For the First Time Ever, You'll Be Able to Fill Out the U.S. Census Online (1:05:17)Guest: Victoria Glasier, Chief of the Statistics in Schools Program, U.S. 2020 Census Bureau; Erika Becker-Medina, Chief of the Decennial Communications Coordination Office, U.S. Census Bureau2020 is nearly here, can you believe it? And since it's the start of a decade, 2020 also means another U.S. Census, where the government tries to count every person in the country. With more than 300 million of us, it's a mammoth task. And for the first time ever, we'll be able to fill out the Census questionnaire online. Welcome to the 21st Century, eh? Understanding Immigration's Impact on Support for Trump in 2016 (1:19:33)Guest: Gregory A. Huber, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Yale UniversityFrom the first speech of his Presidential campaign, Donald Trump invoked the threat of immigration as a key message. Candidate Trump kept up with that rhetoric right through the campaign –and into his first term as President. How much did hostility toward immigrants drive President Trump's support among voters? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, UC-San Diego and Yale University wondered if the clearest evidence of this might be found in neighborhoods that have had the largest influxes of migrants in the last decade. Were those voters more likely to respond to the Trump campaign's immigration rhetoric? 

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, what is dark matter and what would happen if flies don't exist?

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, what is dark matter and what would happen if flies don't exist?

In this weeks "Little Diddle" Scotty, Kyle & Robert Discuss "Radioactive Vodka". It seems The Chernobyl Spirt Company has started distilling Vodka from rye grain grown in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and promises that its no more radioactive that any other Vodka. Sit back relax and let the Taradiddles buy you a Shot!! As always check out our Facebook page, our website thetaradiddles.com or email show ideas at thetaradiddles@gmail.com  

This week, a question from Bill. "My question is about Chernobyl and why it is that wildlife seems to be thriving there and yet we understand that humans still can't survive there. Why is this?" Phil Sansom spoke to someone who's actually been there - Victoria Gill, a science correspondent for BBC News... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Nancy and William talk about the animal world in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Nancy clarifies her politically incorrect position regarding the proposed fur ban in New York.Our special Guest: Gabriella Skollar, Director of Gibbons Conservation Center and Emmy winning filmmaker, Alex Azmi. We discuss the heartwarming new documentary film, Violet is Blue: A Tale of Gibbons and Guardians. gibboncenter.org.

HBO’s show about the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster is the highest rated show on IMDB of all time in part because of its ability to make otherwise dull topics—meetings, shoveling, courtroom exposition—riveting. To suss out fact from fiction, Paul and Matthew invited Matt Crozat from the Nuclear Energy Institute to discuss the show’s portrayal, the history of nuclear plant disasters—including Three Mile Island and Fukushima—and the future of the nuclear energy in America and around the world.How accurate was the HBO show Chernobyl? Why was Chernobyl so catastrophic? What is considered a high radiation level? Should we be optimistic about nuclear power? Have we come a long way since Chernobyl? How is Chernobyl a story about toxic leadership?Further Reading:Why HBO’s “Chernobyl” Gets Nuclear So Wrong, written by Michael ShellenbergerChernobyl and the dangerous ground of ‘dark tourism’, written by Francesca StreetPhotographs capture an abandoned world inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, written by Oscar HollandRelated Content:The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, Free Thoughts PodcastA Libertarian Approach to the Green New Deal, Building Tomorrow PodcastCapitalism Can Save the Environment, Free Thoughts Podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we figured out how an RBMK reactor explodes by watching the hit HBO show Chernobyl. What caused the nuclear power plant disaster? How did the Soviet leadership and the Russian people respond to the crisis? If vodka is really such a powerful medicinal wonder, can it be covered by your health care insurance? Tim Westmyer (@NuclearPodcast) and special guests Meghan McCall (@Nuclear_Ginger_) and Geoff Wilson (@NuclearWilson) answer these questions and more. Our special guests also have excellent podcasts on nuke topics to enjoy: -Meghan McCall's Press the Button -Geoff Wilson's Nukes of Hazard Before we hug our dogs closer than normal, we recommend checking out: -Chernobyl, Podcast by Craig Mazin and Peter Segal -Chernobyl VR Project, The Farm 51 -The China Syndrome, 1979 movie -Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, 2019 -Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, 2006 -David McMillan and David Baillargeon, David McMillan: Growth and Decay: Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 2019 -Pandora’s Promise, 2013 documentary -Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, 2014 -Metro video game series Check out our website, SuperCriticalPodcast.com, for more resources and related items. We aim to have at least one new episode every month. Let us know what you think about the podcast and any ideas you may have about future episodes and guests by reaching out at on Twitter @NuclearPodcast, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, SuperCriticalPodcast@gmail.com, and YouTube. Enjoy!

This week, the gang goes to the barren radioactive landscape of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a place where anything is possible... as long as it's fuckin' two-headed fuckin' animals, two-headed dogs and donkeys and shit. But does this movie make the most of its setting? Join us as we decide.

This week, the gang goes to the barren radioactive landscape of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a place where anything is possible... as long as it's fuckin' two-headed fuckin' animals, two-headed dogs and donkeys and shit. But does this movie make the most of its setting? Join us as we decide.

This month, we spoke with Dr Alexandre de Menezes, soil microbiologist. Last year, Dr de Menezes went to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to see how the nuclear disaster is impacting the microbes in the soil, over 30 years later. We will cover what the soil microbiome is, why is it important and how microbes are affected by radiation

Guest Bio: Dylan is a software architect, conference speaker, and musician. He designs APIs and distributed systems based on Microsoft .Net and he also helps to run the London .Net User Group.   Episode Description: In this episode, Phil talks with software architect Dylan Beattie about everything from understanding that software is not always the solution to a problem, avoiding getting burnt out, how writing websites can eventually get you speaking at conferences halfway around the world, and the future of tech will involve difficult lessons about community interaction and a greater shift towards user-inclusivity. Dylan also talks about finding the fun in IT, even the uninteresting parts, and why he’s glad he chose a career in IT over one playing guitar.   Key Takeaways:   (1.05) Phil opens by asking Dylan to tell a bit more about himself, with Dylan recounting his early days as a webmaster and that he got into IT purely because he thought it was fun and then learned that he could make a career out of it, and is currently working as a CTO at Skills Matter.   (2.50) When Phil asks Dylan for a unique career tip, he tells a story about how senior manager at a company he was working at had asked him to create a secure digital storage system for some sensitive documents. After learning that they only had 30 or 40 documents to store, Dylan advised them to just use a safe instead, offering up the tip that even when you’re a software developer, software is not going to be the solution to every problem.   (5.11)Phil then asks Dylan to share the worst moment in his career in IT and Dylan explains that he’s never had a specific worst moment, but several “worst periods” where he was getting burnt out working too hard on projects that he didn’t really care about. He recalls struggling with companies that were more concerned with a big picture vision than a clear roadmap of steps, milestones or deliverables necessary to get there.   (8.14)Phil changes tack to ask about career highlights and Dylan discusses starting out going to user groups and community events to listen and learn new things and that, before long, he was the one giving the talks at this events, eventually moving up to conferences and keynote speeches in other countries.   (9.25) Dylan specifically recalls going with a group to speak at  a conference in Ukraine and going to the chance to go to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and marveling at how strange it was that his particular career journey had allowed him to experience this, finishing by saying, “The highlights are the things which are unexpected.”   (10.35) When Phil asks Dylan’s opinion of what’s the most exciting thing about the future of IT, he and Dylan recall the massive impact smartphones have had on how software interacts with the world and that back in the 1990s, no one could have even conceived of it. Dylan says that he thinks that another, similar paradigm shift will happen soon, involving how we think about online communities and interactions.   (13.52) Dylan also talks about a shift towards making things not only more user accessible, but more generally inclusive, and that software development needs to catch up with that movement, joking that, “We think we can solve anything by making the fonts bigger.”   (15.54) From there, Phil moves into the Reveal Round, asking Dylan why he started working in IT, to which he reiterates that he always thought it was fun and was interested in the potential of machines and making them better, and then realized he could get paid to do that.   (17.22) On the subject of the best career advice that he’s ever received, Dylan remembers initially wanting to be a professional guitar player, only to have a local guitarist he looked up to tell him not to play for a living. He says that playing is something you do because you love it and if you make it your job then you’ll have to do it even when you don’t feel like it and you’ll grow to hate it.   (18.41) Dylan contrasts this with the career in IT that he pursued instead, saying that in tech, even when you don’t want to do something, there’s usually a compensating factor, like if a problem is boring, finding the solution might be interesting, or vice versa.   (19.34) Phil asks Dylan what he would do differently if he was just now leaving university to start a career in IT, and Dylan says he’d be at a bit of a loss because he has had the luxury of having software development complexity grow along with him and now things are much more technical and specialized.   (22.54) Phil then asks Dylan about his current career objectives, and Dylan is at a loss for an answer and instead talks about Rockstar, a new programming language he created as part of a joke that recently went viral in the online dev community. Dylan jokingly says that he’d like to make refining Rockstar a career objective and be able to go to conferences with stickers and branded swag just as a laugh.   (25.10) Phil’s asks Dylan about what he thinks is the most useful non-tech skill to have, and he says that he thinks communication is incredibly important and that the two big parts of that are writing well and be able to comfortably speak up and share ideas. But he adds that these skills are so tied-in with the job that they don’t really count as “non-tech” and changes his answer to being able to make good coffee.   (26.07) Finally, Phil asks Dylan for some parting words of advice for the listeners, and he talks about not being afraid to explore other job opportunities out of fear that you won’t be able to find another job as good as the one you currently have. He adds that he wishes that there a healthier and more natural way to change careers than the way recruitment currently works.   Best Moments:   (4.43) Phil: “So, almost trying to provide a solution and then find a problem that will fit that solution.” Dylan: “Yeah, trying to find an excuse to do something cool with hardware...we get hard problems to solve that actually matter, this is not one of them.”   (9.45) Dylan: “I got here because I started writing web pages and then started talking about it and now we’re here inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the former Soviet Union. This is completely unexpected.”   (11.06) Dylan: “Microsoft’s mantra in the 80s and early 90s used to be ‘a computer on every desktop.’ They weren’t even thinking that nobody was going to care about desktops anymore because the computer would literally be a thing in their pocket that had started out as a telephone and evolved superpowers.”   (15.44) Dylan: “Even the most daring things we can think to dream at the moment can be completely turned on their hand within the next ten years, and who knows where that’s gonna lead.”   (20.32) Dylan: “Find a problem you care about and don’t worry too much about the software you’re using to solve it.”   Contact Dylan Beattie: Website: www.dylanbeattie.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie @dylanbeattie GitHub: www.github.com/dylanbeattie YouTube: www.youtube.com/dylanbeattie LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanbeattie/  

The Secrets Of The Snout Scientist and researcher Frank Rosell joins us live from Norway to talk about our pet's incredible nose and smelling capabilities. He'll explain why your friend's dog is "all-up-in-your-business" and just how far and how much our dog can smell stuff. They can even smell cancer. Listen Now 65-year-old Woman Has Had Her Pet 56 Years Here's a story you don't hear very often. Jeanna Smith got her pet tortoise during the Kennedy administration, and it might still be alive for the Bieber administration. Not many people live most of their life with their childhood pet. Listen Now Chernobyl Dogs Headed To U.S. In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted down creating a huge evacuation zone for more than 120,000 humans with many pets being left behind. Over the last 32 years, the surviving former pets have multiplied, creating a community of hundreds that live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Now, a dozen of those homeless puppies will head to the United States for adoption. Listen Now What To Do When You Can't Reach A Veterinarian The Fear Free Pets Expert Series continues with Dr. Dawn Crandell. She'll teach you how to evaluate and treat your pet when a veterinarian isn't easily accessible. Before you take your dog on a summer trip or camping, make sure you're prepared for the unexpected. Listen Now Your Turn To Weigh In On Airline Service Animal Policy The Transportation Department announced it's seeking comments for drafting rules for dealing with animals flying with passengers on planes. The proposal asks for comments about questions such as: whether to treat psychiatric service animals the same as other service animals, such as for the blind and deaf; whether to require emotional-support animals to travel in containers or with a harness or leash; and limiting the types of animals qualifying as emotional-support animals. Comment Here. Listen Now

In this second of a two-part conversation on Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker, Phil and JF explore the film's prophetic dimension, relating it to Samuel R. Delany's classic science-fiction novel Dhalgren, the cultural revolution of the 1960s, the affordances of despair, the spookiness of color, the transformation of noise into music, and the Chernobyl disaster. They even come up with a title for a novel Robert Ludlum never wrote but should have written: The Criterion Rendition! REFERENCES Andrei Tarkovsky (dir.), Stalker (https://www.criterion.com/films/28150-stalker) Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhalgren) (foreword by William Gibson) H.P. Lovecraft, "The Colour Out of Space" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space) John Searle, Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception (https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Things-They-Are-Perception/dp/0199385157) Steve Reich, Come Out (https://pitchfork.com/features/article/9886-blood-and-echoes-the-story-of-come-out-steve-reichs-civil-rights-era-masterpiece/) Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 (http://gustavmahler.com/symphonies/mahler-symphony-1.html) Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology) Stanley Kubrick, The Shining (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/) The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone) Sigmund Freud, [Beyond the Pleasure Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeyondthePleasurePrinciple)_

Photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart’s work explores the human impact of environmental change. His projects have taken him to Bhopal, India, the Semey Polygon nuclear testing site in Kazakhstan oilfields in Azerbajian, and the Canadian, Arctic. A Fulbright Fellowship enabled him to spend two years in Chernobyl, photographing and interviewing those who remain a generation after the 1986 accident. He lived in Sukachi, Ukraine a small farming village just outside of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Rothbart recently started a new project, Fracking Pennsylvania, documenting the effects of natural gas drilling on rural communities. Previously he was a staff photographer for the University of Wisconsin and an Associated Press photographer in Central Asia. He now lives in upstate New York and photographs for magazines, newspapers and educational institutions.   Resources:   Michael Forster Rothbart   After Chernobyl http://www.afterchernobyl.com/   Doug Dubois http://dougdubois.com/   Matt O’Brien http://www.mattobrienphotography.com/#Images/Projects/No%20Dar%20Papaya/4   Build your website today by taking advantage of Squarespace’s free trial. Remember to use the offer code “Candid Frame” to receive 10% of your first purchase.   http://www.squarespace.com/stories?channel=podcast&subchannel=candidframe&source=candidframe   Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device.   Click here to download for . Click here to download Click here to download for   Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with your donations via PayPal.   https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=CI-u8DvU5TkpiSnoDY8Lf12JgmERHeb985rGgHpS6ysfXpNJhLPd-nSuCmO&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8defcd6970d4fd9d661117ac2649af92bb  

In this week's podcast, I talk about:  how we can be tourists in our own town how we can make the most of our away-from-home holidays how we can visit the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone  how we can travel the world without leaving home  how I record all our rich holiday experiences in my homeschool records book  how I found lots of interesting history, geography and science resources   My daughter Sophie also joins me to chat about The Wedding! We tell the story of Elsa the Bride!I hope you'll join me for this week's episode. You will find the notes on my blog Stories of an Unschooling Family.Music: 60's Quiz Show by Podington Bear, (CC BY-NC 3.0)    

This week, the gang goes to the barren radioactive landscape of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a place where anything is possible... as long as it's fuckin' two-headed fuckin' animals, two-headed dogs and donkeys and shit. But does this movie make the most of its setting? Join us as we decide.