Podcasts about Dartmouth

What happens when the church becomes more concerned with managing its message than hearing difficult truths? Matthew Townsend joins Martha Tatarnic to discuss the role of journalism, truth-telling, and accountability within Christian institutions. Matthew served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 before leaving following a conflict over the treatment of confidential sources. Now a member of an Orthodox parish, he reflects on his experience in church journalism and the recent decision to end the Anglican Journal's journalistic independence and incorporate it into the Anglican Church of Canada's communications strategy. Martha and Matthew explore why churches need people willing to describe reality as it is, especially when institutions are anxious about decline or their future. They discuss journalism as a form of truth-telling, the relationship between accountability and institutional power, and why critical voices can contribute to better discernment even when they make leaders uncomfortable. Together they explore: What happened to the Anglican Journal's journalistic independence Why churches need truth-tellers and independent voices How institutional decline can intensify anxiety and message management Why progressive institutions aren't immune from failures of accountability The relationship between truth-telling, prophecy, and Christian faith Why the future of Christianity may require presence and stability rather than constantly seeking something new Matthew Townsend served as editor of the Anglican Journal, at the time a journalistic publication of the Anglican Church of Canada, from 2019 to 2021. Mistreatment of confidential sources prompted Matthew to leave his position, the denomination, and ecclesial work. Originally from Florida, Matthew and his family live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and worship at St. Vladimir Orthodox Church (OCA) in Halifax.   Mentioned Resources:

In this episode of The Reading List, Canadian author Sean Paul Bedell shares his inspiration drawn his paramedic life and a short excerpt from his novel The Shoebox. Author Sean Paul Bedell's second book, Shoebox, is published by Now or Never Publishing. In this gritty, emotional novel, Steve Lewis, a dedicated paramedic, faces the emotional aftermath of a fatal accident that casts a shadow over his commitment to saving lives. As Steve grapples with the high stakes of his job and community scrutiny, each life he saves rekindles his passion for his work. The novel explores the human spirit's capacity for healing.Sean's previous novel is Somewhere There's Music. He has been writing and publishing for more than 30 years. A longtime paramedic and captain with the fire service, he lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

You've heard about how AI tools could help meet demand for mental-health treatment, as well as some of the risks involved. Several U.S. states have passed laws limiting what these chatbots are able to do, leading to some changes in the industry. Meanwhile, federal regulators are taking a look at the AI therapy space. Today, we're bringing Tech News Briefing listeners the third and final bonus episode from our What's News series “The AI Therapist.” Host Alex Ossola delves into the changing regulatory landscape and where AI mental-health tools could go from here. The AI Therapist: A WSJ Podcast Series Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Joining us this episode is Jeff Walker, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and M&A at BraunAbility — a company that builds wheelchair-accessible vehicles, founded fifty-five years ago in an Indiana garage by Ralph Braun and now owned by the Swedish patient-capital investor Investor AB through its Patricia Industries arm. Educated at Yale and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, where he studied under the legendary endowment investor David Swensen, Jeff sees strategy through three lenses: the historian's pattern recognition, the economist's sense of cost versus value, and a parent's. In this conversation, we explore a deceptively simple question every strategy leader should be able to answer: what is the strategy office actually for, and how do you know it's adding value rather than quietly taxing the business it serves?Things we will cover:- Why "the center" is best understood not as a group of smarter people who second-guess the business, but as a decision boundary — the place where enterprise-wide choices naturally belongThe two tests for what truly belongs at the center: scale (cross-business leverage) and duration (the length of the strategic bet)- The "two seams" framework — a stated priority with no resources behind it, and a shadow project with no bets behind itJeff's sharpest warning: never mistake curiosity for value-creating results, and the passive-investing philosophy underneath it- Why every question you pose to the business is a tax that had better be driving alpha before you ask it- His make-versus-buy default for strategy work, and why he runs the center as a team of oneThe strategist as a parent — someone who sets things up, teaches, and gets out of the way, rather than the invisible hand behind the curtainFrom David Swensen's table to the M&A seat, Jeff offers an unusually honest set of tools for pressure-testing your own role. Before you ask the business your next recurring question, can you name the choice it might change — and why that change is worth the organization's time? For any strategy leader, it's a bracing invitation to earn your place at the center.Additional Resources:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreycwalker/BraunAbility: https://www.braunability.comLearn more about Outthinker's community of chief strategy officers - https://outthinker.com/Follow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outthinker-networksThank you to our guest Jeff Walker for such a thoughtful and honest conversation.Learn more about Outthinker's community of chief strategy officers - https://outthinker.com/Follow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outthinker-networks

On September 4, 2026, Lindsay Clancy's trial ended without a unanimous verdict on her criminal responsibility - a result that left the public divided and the deeper questions unresolved. I'm joined this week again by Dartmouth professor Clara S. Lewis, author of American Infanticide, for a wide‑ranging conversation about what the Clancy case reveals about maternal mental health, psychosis, and the limits of our legal system.We revisit Clara's earlier work on Emily Weaver, discuss Laken Snelling's recent manslaughter plea, and explore why society still struggles to assess, treat, and legally interpret crises like postpartum psychosis and pregnancy denial. Clara breaks down the centuries‑old narratives that continue to shape how these cases are prosecuted, while we reflect on the clinical and personal realities of psychosis that the courtroom often can't capture.Contact me at silverliningshandbookpod@gmail.comCheck out the Silver Linings Handbook website at:https://silverliningshandbook.com/Check out our Patreon to support the show at:https://www.patreon.com/thesilverliningshandbookJoin our Facebook Group at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1361159947820623Visit the Silver Linings Handbook store to support the podcast at:https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-silver-linings-handbook-podcast-storeVisit The True Crime Times Substack at:https://truecrimemessenger.substack.comJayson's Substack newsletter, The Center Holds, can be found at:The Center Holds | Jayson Blair | SubstackThe Silver Linings Handbook podcast is a part of the ART19 network. ART19 is a subsidiary of Wondery and Amazon Music.See the Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and the California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.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, Legal Tuesday with James, Glenn, and Dwayne — soft open after a Texas doctor run where Tesla FSD slammed the brakes and moseyed around two older ladies who took the whole road, saving what would have been a bad wreck and earning James another of his nine Tesla lives. They unpack Grok Heavy vs Grok Bot agents rolling into the car, Trump's UN gag renaming AI “Super Intelligence,” Starlink V3 birds that could juice the constellation ~3% on a half-load alone, and the Boring Company's Prufrock tunnels aiming Austin–San Antonio in ~30 minutes plus a Vegas Loop that already has 14 stations and knockout shafts. Space Force Academy bids (New Orleans, Houston, Ohio), a Dartmouth provost busted for a 100% AI “anti-AI cheating” op-ed, and Starbase Louisiana's claimed Cuba-corridor launch angles set up the real case card: the Eighth Circuit keeping Missouri's 7R–1D map after the state supreme court tried a mid-election rewind — with a Kavanaugh “too late” cite the room guesses but hasn't read — plus Harmeet Dhillon's DOJ plan for 1,000 general-election monitors. Trump evicts CNN/Politico/MSNBC, the rest walk out, Trump TV plugs the static, and Jackie Heinrich's WHCA line that a briefing-room badge is privilege not the First Amendment. Vivek's Polymarket doom, Mike Johnson's whisper for a temporary diesel export ban, Larry Ellison's Paramount-to-Tennessee / CNN rumor, Trump torching the UN on Christian persecution, a claimed FBI personnel-data hack, and Haitian-assassination defendants flown to Florida on PPP-fraud jurisdiction — then Maple Street doubles and PJ's Exit 33. Don't miss it!

These days, it seems like advice for how to “find your purpose” is everywhere. But what if purpose isn't some hidden answer waiting to be found? And what if anxiously searching for our one true calling actually makes it harder to live with purpose?On this episode, we explore some other approaches to the problem. Clinical psychologist Ross White tells us about how psychological flexibility can help us form purpose over time, and stay connected to it, even as our lives change. And we talk to philosopher Edward Slingerland about what early Chinese thinkers like Confucius and Zhuangzi would have made of our modern obsession with inventing a meaningful path from scratch. Ross White is an Honorary Professor of Clinical Psychology at Queen's University, Belfast and the Founding Director of Strive2Thrive. He is the author of the book The Tree That Bends: How a flexible mind can help you thrive, as well as the article “Your purpose isn't something you find, it's something you form.”Edward Slingerland is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth. He is the author of many books, including Trying Not to Try and the forthcoming title, Learning to See: Literature, Moral Perception and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics. Find out more about his work on his website.

On this episode we are joined by former Halifax Cllr, Stephen Adams and Halifax Council reporter and owner of The Grand Parade Newspaper, Matt Stickland. Both give their thoughts on the proposal and what it could mean for the city. Stephen lets us know how it will proceed through council and what Derek might need to do to get a quicker decision. Matt breaks down the Dartmouth and Halifax parts of the proposal and how we must keep a balance between the private and public parts of it. All this and more!!

Peter Giordano, Head of DoorDash Ads at DoorDash, argues that retail media stopped being an ad channel the moment the gap between an impression and a delivered order collapsed to minutes. He and Greg Kihlström get into what that changes for enterprise brands.Commerce platforms are becoming full-funnel media, not a lower-funnel add-on. DoorDash isn't a traditional retailer, and Espinosa explains what its data shows about consumer intent that a retailer's doesn't — and what strains first in an enterprise media plan built around flighting and frequency when the purchase happens in minutes."AI" hides very different decisions inside an ad system. Giordano draws the line between where a model is genuinely making the call — bidding, ranking, creative assembly — and where a person is still setting rules that a system simply executes faster.Retail media's credibility problem is that the network grades its own homework. On the LiveRamp partnership, what an advertiser has to be able to verify independently before an incrementality number means anything, and where DoorDash draws the line on data collaboration.When an AI agent places the order, there's no creative to persuade it. What has to be true about a brand's product data, pricing, and availability to get selected by a machine acting on the customer's behalf.About Peter GiordanoPeter Giordano is GM of Platform & Growth Services for DoorDash Ads. In this role, he is responsible for a variety of initiatives including global expansion; agency partnerships; scaling platform operations and productivity; and developing external integrations and offsite expansion.Previously he was COO at Seva, a venture-backed enterprise software business, where he led go-to-market for their early stage knowledge automation SaaS platform. Before Seva, he held various positions in Revenue Operations and Marketing at Simulmedia, a video advertising technology company, eventually serving as SVP of Sales Operations & Strategy. He started his career in various facets of the media industry in New York – including positions in strategy and marketing at Time Inc.; and roles in the network news division at NBC Universal, including that of producer on the “TODAY” Show. Peter received his undergraduate degree in Government cum laude from Harvard University, and an MBA with honors from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He lives outside of New York City with his wife and two daughters.Peter Giordano on LinkedIn---------- Resources ---------- https://www.doordash.comThe Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. We're proud to be a media partner for #MAICON26 - Oct. 13-15! Learn how AI can power your marketing and business and help you grow smarter. Use code AGILE150 to save! Reach your customers with Reddit. Spend $500 in ad spend, get $500 back in ad credit!Chaser is the only Slack-native project management platform that helps teams turn messages into tracked tasks, automate follow-ups, and maintain team-wide visibility, without adopting another tool. Now integrated with Claude and other GenAI tools. Learn more at trychaser.com and use code AGILEBRAND for a 3-month free trial (normal trial is 14 days).The most influential minds in software, AI, and engineering leadership will be at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, September 23-25 in San Jose.Start building your own apps with Replit and get $20 off. Enjoyed the show? Tell us more and give us a rating so others can find the show.Connect with Greg on LinkedInDon't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter, and check out Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology.The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter Giordano, Head of DoorDash Ads at DoorDash, argues that retail media stopped being an ad channel the moment the gap between an impression and a delivered order collapsed to minutes. He and Greg Kihlström get into what that changes for enterprise brands.Commerce platforms are becoming full-funnel media, not a lower-funnel add-on. DoorDash isn't a traditional retailer, and Espinosa explains what its data shows about consumer intent that a retailer's doesn't — and what strains first in an enterprise media plan built around flighting and frequency when the purchase happens in minutes."AI" hides very different decisions inside an ad system. Giordano draws the line between where a model is genuinely making the call — bidding, ranking, creative assembly — and where a person is still setting rules that a system simply executes faster.Retail media's credibility problem is that the network grades its own homework. On the LiveRamp partnership, what an advertiser has to be able to verify independently before an incrementality number means anything, and where DoorDash draws the line on data collaboration.When an AI agent places the order, there's no creative to persuade it. What has to be true about a brand's product data, pricing, and availability to get selected by a machine acting on the customer's behalf.About Peter GiordanoPeter Giordano is GM of Platform & Growth Services for DoorDash Ads. In this role, he is responsible for a variety of initiatives including global expansion; agency partnerships; scaling platform operations and productivity; and developing external integrations and offsite expansion.Previously he was COO at Seva, a venture-backed enterprise software business, where he led go-to-market for their early stage knowledge automation SaaS platform. Before Seva, he held various positions in Revenue Operations and Marketing at Simulmedia, a video advertising technology company, eventually serving as SVP of Sales Operations & Strategy. He started his career in various facets of the media industry in New York – including positions in strategy and marketing at Time Inc.; and roles in the network news division at NBC Universal, including that of producer on the “TODAY” Show. Peter received his undergraduate degree in Government cum laude from Harvard University, and an MBA with honors from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He lives outside of New York City with his wife and two daughters.Peter Giordano on LinkedIn---------- Resources ---------- https://www.doordash.comThe Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. We're proud to be a media partner for #MAICON26 - Oct. 13-15! Learn how AI can power your marketing and business and help you grow smarter. Use code AGILE150 to save! Reach your customers with Reddit. Spend $500 in ad spend, get $500 back in ad credit!Chaser is the only Slack-native project management platform that helps teams turn messages into tracked tasks, automate follow-ups, and maintain team-wide visibility, without adopting another tool. Now integrated with Claude and other GenAI tools. Learn more at trychaser.com and use code AGILEBRAND for a 3-month free trial (normal trial is 14 days).The most influential minds in software, AI, and engineering leadership will be at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, September 23-25 in San Jose.Start building your own apps with Replit and get $20 off. Enjoyed the show? Tell us more and give us a rating so others can find the show.Connect with Greg on LinkedInDon't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter, and check out Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology.The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Veronique Mead, MD, MA was a Dartmouth-affiliated assistant professor of family medicine and obstetrics. She retrained with a Master's degree in somatic psychotherapy from Naropa University and additional specialty training in pre and perinatal and other forms of trauma. For the past 25 years she has explored the scientific literature on how effects of trauma from the prenatal and other periods in a person's life can influence risk for autoimmune and other chronic illnesses. She shares the research on her blog Chronic Illness Trauma Studies.comFACEBOOKLINKED INYOUTUBE CHANNELINSTAGRAMTon Mazzone is the creator, director, filmmaker, and producer of the documentary Traumality: The Link Between Trauma and Mental Health Diagnoses. Driven by lived experience and a desire to better understand the root causes of psychological distress, Ton spent years researching the growing evidence linking childhood adversity, attachment, trauma and chronic stress to many of the mental health difficulties seen today. The result is a hopeful, evidence-led film inviting audiences to rethink mental health, challenge long-held assumptions and imagine a future where healing begins with understanding.#TraumalityFilm Traumality on IMBD Linked InFACEBOOKINSTAGRAMBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.---Thank you to our Sponsors: Jane App - use code GUY1MO at https://janesoftware.partnerlinks.io/ngvcwcxqt2jx-4afv8i (https://jane.app/book_a_demo)Beducated - Complete the quiz for one month free https://beduc.at/pd2640-traumatherapist

“Since Trump's second election we've been in a wave of cowardice, where people have decided — partly by observing what others like them are doing — that there's no viability to standing up on principle.” — Jacob Weisberg Michelle Goldberg devoted her Monday New York Times column to two new books shaming the elites who caved to Trump. Both of them have appeared on the show this week: Susan Neiman's Call It Evil on Monday, and now Jacob Weisberg's Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era. Reversing JFK's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage, Weisberg inducts eight powerful Americans who didn't stand up to Trump into his hall of shame. It's quite a list. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Wall Street's Stephen Schwarzman, big law's Brad Karp, Senator Mitch McConnell, Dartmouth College president Sian Beilock, Chief Justice John Roberts, media influencer Megyn Kelly, and — perhaps most controversially — former President George W. Bush. Rather than MAGA flunkeys, Weisberg wanted figures who had stood up to Trump in the first term and then folded in the second. People with, as he puts it, interior drama. Bezos gave up a $10 billion Pentagon contract rather than soften the Post, then he threw in the moral towel by going to Mar-a-Lago and paying Melania $40 million to make an Amazon documentary. What changed? According to Weisberg, Bezos was fearful that his space startup, Blue Origin, would lose out to SpaceX on government contracts. No, not exactly Eichmann. But nonetheless sad if true. Especially since Bezos has the billions to do whatever he wants. His eight and their ilk aren't monsters, Weisberg suggests. It's just that their fear, ambition and self-preservation are contagious, and such pathetic behaviour is herd-like. That's their soap operatic interior drama. The banality of cowardice. More grist for Susan Neiman's thesis about the nature of evil in the Trump epoch. Five Takeaways •       Not Kennedy's Book. The title is a departure point, not a homage — and Weisberg is quick to note the irony beneath it. JFK's Profiles in Courage was written at the height of the McCarthy era by a senator who was conspicuously uncourageous about McCarthy, ducking even the censure vote, and no better on civil rights; Weisberg's reading is that Kennedy wrote the book to give himself courage by studying senators who had sacrificed their careers for principle. (It won the only Pulitzer ever awarded to a president, with the help of a ghostwriter.) What he kept was the structure: eight representative figures, each standing in for a part of the problem. What he added was the inversion, and a working definition — not physical cowardice but moral cowardice, the rarer failure. His epigraph is Twain: why is physical courage so common, and moral courage so rare?•       Cowardice Is Contagious. The book's explanatory heart, and the reason it isn't a gallery of villains. Fear, greed and ambition motivate most people most of the time, Weisberg argues, and political behaviour is herd-like: people copy their peer groups. Courage is contagious — and so is cowardice. His cleanest illustration is the tech elite, who acted almost as one after January 6 to throw Trump off every platform and swear off donations to Republicans who voted against certification, and who now, again almost as one, think the opposite. Their defence is competitive necessity: standing up would hand an advantage to rivals. Andrew's challenge — the wildebeest crossing the river, where the first ones in are the brave ones, so shouldn't Andreessen get credit for jumping early? — got a firm no: a departure from your peer group that is entirely self-interested isn't courage. Since the second election, Weisberg says, we have been living through a wave of cowardice. Andrew's name for it: the banality of cowardice.•       Bezos and the Rocket. The book's most carefully argued chapter, and the one that explains the method. First-term Bezos meets Kennedy's definition of courage exactly: Trump pulled a $10 billion Pentagon contract because he didn't like the Washington Post's coverage, and Bezos didn't flinch. Second-term Bezos went to Mar-a-Lago and paid Melania $40 million for a documentary. What changed isn't character but priority. Weisberg traces the through line back to a high-school graduation speech about orbiting colonies: the thing closest to Bezos's heart is getting humans into space, a vision he calls more benign than Musk's — terrariums around Earth rather than cities on Mars — and one he may have built Amazon to fund. Between the terms, SpaceX pulled far ahead of Blue Origin, in a business almost wholly dependent on NASA and Pentagon contracts. To Andrew's Zhou Enlai objection — if the space vision pays off, won't history forgive the collaboration? — Weisberg's answer: nobody would respect him for sacrificing his children to his vision either. Some things you compromise; the social contract isn't one of them. Andrew's verdict: not exactly Eichmann, but sad if true — especially since Bezos has the billions to do whatever he wants.•       McConnell Went Home. The counterfactual at the centre of the book. After January 6, with the Senate about to vote on conviction, Mitch McConnell had decided Trump should be removed and barred from ever holding office again — he told people so — and Weisberg argues he could have delivered the ten additional Republican votes needed. Then he called a recess, went home to Kentucky, discovered Trump still commanded majority support inside the party, and changed his mind. Cowardice, Weisberg says, and fear — not of being beaten up but of losing his place in the world, which was the Republican Senate he had built into a machine. Bullying recurs across these lives: McConnell was bullied as a child, and so was Megyn Kelly, whose own memoir turns on a vow never to become a bully and always to stand up to them — which she did, magnificently, when Trump and Bannon set the dogs on her in 2015, before becoming, in Weisberg's account, more MAGA than MAGA and a considerable bully herself.•       The Case for Shame. Weisberg is careful about the charge he's making — he gives space to each subject's reasoning, on the grounds that none of us can be confident we'd choose better — but he is not neutral about the remedy. Shame, he argues, plays a constructive social function: a community asserting its values against someone who has deviated from them, with a salutary effect on everyone watching. Hence the inclusion of the sins of omission alongside the commissions: George W. Bush, who loathes Trump privately, watched PEPFAR dismantled and said nothing; Sian Beilock, whose Dartmouth took the Justice Department's free pass and declined to back Harvard — at the one college whose 1819 Supreme Court case established academic independence in the first place. And who would make a Profiles in Courage? Local people, he says: the Minneapolis neighbours who drove ICE out by peaceful protest, the lawyers who resigned rather than sign the deals, the people on his own small-town corner with honk-for-democracy signs. On RFK Jr., a candid pass — the theory of the case runs out. On 2028: not a return to normal, but something owed to the country, an apo...

Max Gavin has been a women's hockey assistant coach at Dartmouth and Boston College, and now he's stepping into the top role at Lindenwood. He joins hosts Nicole Haase and Todd Milewski on a preseason episode of The PodKaz to talk about the move.Gavin discusses the learning that he is doing with Lindenwood and the influences on his coaching career. He also talks about the opportunity to grow the Lions program.The PodKaz is a production of USCHO.com. Have a question for us? Reach out to Nicole (@NicoleHaase) or Todd (@ToddMilewski) on social media or email todd.milewski@uscho.com.

Episode 444 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Laura Rippy, Managing Partner and Board Member at Alumni Ventures. When you see the rankings of the top VC firms, you often hear the big brands out there like Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Sequoia, Accel, and others… but did you know that one of the top 20 VC firms, as determined by CB Insights, is based in Manchester, NH? Yes – Manchvegas, where I grew up, so I find that stat of particular interest. Founded in 2014, AV's mission has always been to provide individual investors with professional-grade access to elite venture capital investing opportunities. It is a category that they pretty much created and it is not only working, but it is thriving. AV is continuously listed as one of the most active VC firms with thousands of investments made and over $1.6B in committed capital. Portfolio companies include Groq, the buzzing AI chip startup; Oura, the smart ring wearable company that recently filed for an IPO; Mercor, which was most recently valued at a decacorn status; and Apollo Atomics, a company that you might recognize, as I just had their CEO on The VentureFizz Podcast a few weeks ago. Laura comes to venture capital with a deep background as a former CEO and operator. In addition to serving on the board, Laura oversees multiple fund families at Alumni Ventures, including their Dartmouth fund called Green D Ventures, their Harvard fund called The Yard Ventures, their Women's Fund, and US Strategic Tech Fund. In this episode, we cover: * Laura's background as an operator and how she made the transition into venture capital. * The story and model behind AV, and how they built a $1.6B+ platform that democratizes VC access for accredited investors. * The current state of the markets in terms of trends in private vs. public markets, and high-profile portfolio stories like Oura and Northwood Space which is founded by Bridgit Mendler. * Deep dives into the various sectors that Laura concentrates on in terms of making investments. * How AV leverages its massive network and AI back office to add tangible value to its portfolio companies. * What she looks for in early-stage founders and the specific deal dynamics that signal a winning investment. * And so much more!

In March 1944, three American OSS officers parachuted into Hungary on a mission to be taken prisoner. A story that was classified for decades, the team — a Dartmouth graduate, a World War I fighter pilot and a former New York Giants lineman who became an advertising executive — planned to get caught, tortured by The Gestapo, and “confess” to an Allied invasion that was a complete fiction. The OSS (the precursor to the CIA) knew what Hitler wanted to hear and how he'd react. This is what it looks like when an actual conspiracy of deception works.Watch Mission Implausible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionImplausiblePod

Nick Nichay is entering his first season at Dartmouth College as a Men's Basketball Assistant Coach under Brett McConnell.  Nick previously served as the Head Coach at D3 Franklin & Marshall College for seven seasons where he led the Diplomats to consecutive appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 2025 and 2026. Nichay was elevated to head coach in the spring of 2020. He served as the Interim Head Coach at the start of the 2019-20 season after spending the previous seven seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator with Franklin & Marshall. Prior to arriving at Franklin & Marshall, Nichay spent two years as an assistant coach at the Division II level with Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y.  and began his coaching career with one season as a Division III assistant at Hartwick College after graduating from Rutgers where he served as a manager for 3 seasons with the Men's Basketball Program. On this episode Mike & Nick discuss how his lifelong love of basketball developed from playing in his driveway and listening to Nets games on the radio. Nick explains how working as a manager at Rutgers and gaining experience in every aspect of college basketball helped him build the foundation for a coaching career. Nick reflects on the mentors and opportunities at Hartwick, Le Moyne, and Franklin & Marshall that shaped his coaching philosophy and taught him the value of preparation, relationships, and consistent improvement. He discusses taking over Franklin & Marshall after a legendary coach, rebuilding the program through challenges such as COVID, and eventually returning to an assistant role at Dartmouth alongside his former college roommate, Brett McConnell. Throughout the conversation, Nick emphasizes that success comes from embracing each opportunity, caring authentically about players, and focusing on getting one percent better every day. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @hoopheadspod for the latest updates on episodes, guests, and events from the Hoop Heads Pod. Make sure you're subscribed to the Hoop Heads Pod on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts and while you're there please leave us a 5 star rating and review.  Your ratings help your friends and coaching colleagues find the show. If you really love what you're hearing recommend the Hoop Heads Pod to someone and get them to join you as a part of Hoop Heads Nation. Grab pen and paper before you listen to this episode with Nick Nichay, Men's Basketball Assistant Coach at Dartmouth College. Website – https://dartmouthsports.com/sports/mens-basketball Email – Nick.nichay@dartmouth.edu Twitter/X - @NickNichay Connect with the Hoop Heads Podcast on social media! Twitter/x - @hoopheadspod Instagram - @HoopHeadsPod YouTube – Hoop Heads Podcast Facebook – Hoop Heads Podcast Subscribe to the Hoop Heads Pod Newsletter - https://hoopheadspod.com/newsletter/ Website - https://hoopheadspod.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Did Native Americans use seer stones? What if the roots of the Book of Mormon’s narrative trace back not just to revelation, but to a classroom? Book of Mormon Ties to Darmouth? In this second part of our conversation with anthropologist Dr. Thomas Murphy, we explore a detail of Smith family history that rarely gets discussed: Hyrum Smith’s education at Dartmouth’s Moor’s Indian Charity School, where he studied alongside Haudenosaunee students. It’s a small historical fact with potentially large implications for how we understand the origins of the Book of Mormon. https://youtu.be/9nNErpiSeb8 Don't miss our other conversations with Thomas: https://gospeltangents.com/people/thomas-murphy/ Copyright © 2026 Gospel Tangents All Rights Reserved Check out a transcript of the interview on Amazon. Shared Classroom, A Shared World Moor’s Charity School was founded with the explicit purpose of educating Native American students alongside colonial settlers. Hyrum Smith — Joseph Smith’s own brother — sat in classrooms with Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) peers! This raises a compelling question: how much of the cultural and spiritual knowledge exchanged in that setting might have made its way, directly or indirectly, into the Smith family’s later religious project? Murphy doesn’t claim to have all the answers, but he makes a compelling case that this connection deserves far more attention than it has historically received. Seer Stones and the Zelph Story Zelph was a supposed ancient warrior whose bones Joseph Smith claimed to have identified during Zion’s Camp. Murphy examines whether these practices and stories reflect genuine Native American spiritual traditions, Mormon religious innovation, or some blend of both — a question that sits at the heart of his broader research. This is part 2 of our multi-part conversation with Dr. Thomas Murphy on his book Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon. Subscribe to Gospel Tangents to follow the rest of the series, where we’ll explore Onondaga and Oneida connections, the ethics of Book of Mormon archaeology, and the long-running Heartland versus Mesoamerica debate. Gospel Tangents is dedicated to exploring Mormon history, science, and theology through in-depth conversations with scholars, historians, and researchers. Chapters 0:00 Dartmouth / Moor’s Indian Charity School Connection 4:00 Cultural Context, Not Plagiarism 9:27 Susquehanna Valley & Indigenous Prophetic Movements 12:20 Seer Stone Divination & Haudenosaunee Parallels 15:58 Catalyst Theory 18:38 Handsome Lake as Parallel Scripture Don't miss our other conversations with Thomas: https://gospeltangents.com/people/thomas-murphy/ Copyright © 2026 Gospel Tangents All Rights Reserved Check out a transcript of the interview on Amazon.

The guys decide to take just one episode off, and plenty happens in the meantime, mainly within the SEC.On today's episode, Eric and Victor give their thoughts on the 2027 SEC softball schedule, along with which games AREN'T on the schedule. They'll also share their thoughts on the latest between LSU and the SEC.In between, you'll hear from new Dartmouth head coach Hillary Smith on her journey from UCF to Dartmouth.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

   Retired Navy Captain Gerard Cox, MD, built a forty-year career out of a four-year commitment. He signed with the Navy's Health Professions Scholarship Program because his parents had already stretched to pay for an expensive undergraduate education, intending to serve his obligation and return to New England as a general internist. Three months into a medicine internship at Bethesda he knew that path was wrong. A flight surgeon tour with Marine squadrons out of Cherry Point gave him time to mature as a physician and to find emergency medicine, then a new and contested specialty. By the eleven-year mark the Navy had him, and he finished at thirty.    What followed is a tour of the places where military medicine meets national consequence. From 1999 to 2001 he served in the White House Medical Unit as a physician to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, spending most of his first year on the campaign trail with Vice President Al Gore. He explains what protective medical support actually requires: a physician with a black medical bag within seconds of the president at all times, monitoring the same Secret Service frequency, positioned on the far side of the armored limousine. That doctrine was written directly out of the 1981 Hinckley shooting, when the White House physician was left behind at the scene and never got into the car.    A decade later, he was Force Surgeon for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and Fleet Surgeon for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, administratively responsible for Navy medical personnel across Afghanistan, Kuwait, and every ship in the area of responsibility. The lesson he carries from that tour and from Desert Shield and Desert Storm is the same: international agreements and host-nation relationships are what allow the United States to operate medically in that theater at all.    He then spent nearly eleven years in senior Veterans Health Administration leadership, walking into the Office of the Medical Inspector three months after the 2014 access-to-care scandal broke, and later serving as Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Quality and Patient Safety and national co-lead of the VA high reliability organization rollout across more than 170 medical centers. His verdict on the word accountability is blunt. It was redefined to mean punishment, and you cannot fire your way to excellence.    The episode closes on advice a Navy admiral gave him in 1997 and on the fifteen-minute walk he and his wife have taken nearly every evening since, the habit that kept a forty-year career and a marriage intact. Chapters (01:11-08:39) An Accidental Navy Career (08:40-16:41) Inside the White House Medical Unit (16:42-24:26) Fifth Fleet, CENTCOM, and the Move from Clinician to Commander (24:27-37:01) Rebuilding Trust at VA: Accountability and High Reliability (37:02-43:24) Bridging the Military Health System and the VA (43:25-52:54) The Fifteen-Minute Walk: Resilience and Legacy Chapter Summaries (01:11-08:39) An Accidental Navy Career Dr. Cox traces the decision points that turned a four-year scholarship obligation into thirty years of active duty: an HPSP flyer on a Dartmouth bulletin board, an internal medicine internship he abandoned within months, and a flight surgeon tour with Marine squadrons at Cherry Point. That tour let him practice as the sole medical expert for a deployed squadron and pointed him toward the new specialty of emergency medicine. (08:40-16:41) Inside the White House Medical Unit As physician to Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, Dr. Cox describes protective medical support as a discipline of seconds and positioning, not of clinical complexity. He walks through the Hinckley shooting that shaped the doctrine, the advance planning that precedes a foreign trip, and the accelerated 2000 transition between administrations. (16:42-24:26) Fifth Fleet, CENTCOM, and the Move from Clinician to Commander Dual-hatted as Force Surgeon for NAVCENT and Fleet Surgeon for Fifth Fleet, CAPT (Ret) Cox was responsible for Navy medical personnel from the NATO Role 3 hospital in Kandahar to individual augmentees with Afghan units and every ship in theater. He then turns to the leap into command, where a physician stops being the team leader and becomes the leader of a team of leaders. (24:27-37:01) Rebuilding Trust at VA: Accountability and High Reliability Three months into his VA tenure, the 2014 access-to-care scandal forced out the Secretary, the Under Secretary for Health, and the Medical Inspector. Dr.Cox took the Medical Inspector role and rebuilt its investigative culture on a single rule: every whistleblower allegation has an equal chance of being true or not true. He then describes the six-year high reliability rollout and the just culture that has to underpin it. (37:02-43:24) Bridging the Military Health System and the VA Dr. Cox explains why enrollment in VA health care is still opt-in rather than automatic, and what the failed Ensuring Veterans Transition Act would have changed. He contrasts the two patient populations and argues for moving providers and patients across both systems to preserve clinical currency and use existing VA capacity. (43:25-52:54) The Fifteen-Minute Walk: Resilience and Legacy A Navy admiral told him in 1997 to turn off the computer and go home, because the work will still be there in the morning. Dr. Cox and his wife have walked the dog together for fifteen minutes nearly every evening for more than fifteen years. He closes on what he wants remembered: integrity, treating people as people, and keeping the patient at the center of every decision. Take Home Messages Protective medical support is a discipline of seconds, not of clinical complexity. Caring for a president is less about the medicine than about position, communication, and rehearsal — a physician within seconds of the principal at all times, on the same radio frequency as the protective detail, staged on the side of the vehicle away from the threat. Every one of those procedures exists because a real failure in 1981 exposed the gap. Contingency planning is what converts a bad day into a survivable one. Accountability was redefined as punishment, and the substitution did real damage. In its original meaning, accountability is an objective, independent process for determining what actually happened. Congressional pressure turned it into a body count of terminations. You cannot fire your way to excellence, and a system that tries will lose the trust it needs to surface problems early. A just culture balances system responsibility against individual responsibility. People do not set out to make mistakes, and roughly 99.9 percent of the time they do not intend to harm anyone. Human error is inevitable, so the work is building systems that stop those errors before they reach the patient. Leaders and the system they run carry as much responsibility for prevention as the individual who erred. Command turns you from the team leader into the leader of a team of leaders. A clinician promoted into command arrives fluent in credentialing and clinical operations and largely ignorant of logistics, pharmacy, laboratory, and facilities management. The response is humility and questions, not bluff. Show up in the radiology suite on a Saturday morning and talk to the technician on duty, because the risks are visible at the front line and invisible in the C-suite. Protect fifteen minutes a day and the rest of the career becomes survivable. The work will still be there in the morning, so turn off the computer, go home, and have dinner with your family. One couple made a pledge at command leadership school to walk the dog together every evening, and more than fifteen years later they still do it. Careers can be slowed by choices made in favor of family; legacies are not. Episode Keywords military medicine, WarDocs podcast, White House physician, White House Medical Unit, Navy medicine, emergency medicine, HPSP, protective medical support, Secret Service, Reagan assassination attempt, Fifth Fleet, NAVCENT, CENTCOM, Afghanistan, Veterans Health Administration, VA health care, whistleblower, patient safety, high reliability organization, just culture, military health system, veteran transition, military leadership, military medical career Hashtags #MilitaryMedicine, #WarDocs, #NavyMedicine, #VeteransHealth, #WhiteHousePhysician, #PatientSafety, #HighReliability, #MilitaryLeadership   Honoring the Legacy and Preserving the History of Military Medicine The WarDocs Mission- WarDocs exists to honor the legacy of Military Medicine, preserve its history, and inspire every generation — across all Services, Corps, and Ranks — to serve with excellence and pride. Through mentorship, coaching, and education, we equip those considering, entering, and serving in military medicine with the knowledge, connections, and community they need to thrive. We celebrate Who we are, What we do, and, most importantly, How we serve Our Patients, the DoW, and Our Nation. Find out more and join Team WarDocs at https://www.wardocspodcast.com/ Check our list of previous guest episodes at https://www.wardocspodcast.com/our-guests Subscribe and Like our Videos on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wardocspodcast Listen to the “What We Are For” Episode 47. https://bit.ly/3r87Afm WarDocs- The Military Medicine Podcast is a Non-Profit, Tax-exempt-501(c)(3) Veteran Run Organization run by volunteers. All donations are tax-deductible and go to honoring and preserving the history, experiences, successes, and lessons learned in Military Medicine. A tax receipt will be sent to you. 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It seems like chatting-it-up is part of Maritime culture. People love to talk, even with strangers. So, Jax Irwin has made a delightful gig of this friendly way of life. She's a Toronto broadcaster who is originally from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. On her social media, she calls random East Coast phone numbers, numbers in the 902 area code, and chitchats with whoever answers. We talk to her about what some of those conversations are, and why she calls herself a ‘phone call enthusiast.”

In 1973's Soylent Green, Charlton Heston discovers the miracle food is made of people. In 2026, we're being sold something similar. There is nothing artificial about artificial intelligence. The name was a branding exercise, invented at Dartmouth in 1956 by a man who didn't want to argue with Norbert Wiener about cybernetics. Strip out the god and what's left is the accumulated cognitive labour of humanity, compressed and sold back to us for twenty dollars a month. Not artificial. Collective. Which changes the question from "will the machine wake up" to "who enclosed the commons this time?" On Dartmouth, the Enclosure Acts, Marx's Fragment on Machines, and Vince Gilligan's Pluribus. PKD made me make this tshirt - https://damosays-shop.fourthwall.com New to the channel? Start here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc7I2hzudyX-dUh7nGMt19sNUVHihRaBl&si=ShXxZXGkPOOHFjd_

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Carsten Hamann, assistant program director at HonorHealth, associate professor at Dartmouth, and practicing dermatologist at Saguaro Dermatology in Arizona. Dr. Hamann gives an inside look at the residency application process from the other side of the table: ERAS changes, program signaling, what makes an application stand out, and how to build an application that genuinely reflects YOU as a future dermatologist. We hope you enjoy!If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with other students interested in dermatology!Connect with Dr. Hamann: hamann511@gmail.com---DIGA Instagram: @derminterestToday's Host, Laila: @lailanalrawi---For questions, comments, or future episode suggestions, please reach out to us via email at derminterestpod@gmail.com---District Four by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-fourLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license---

In this Episode Craig LeHoullier shares his lifelong journey from childhood gardening memories to becoming a renowned heirloom tomato grower, seed saver, and plant breeder. He explains the differences between heirloom, open-pollinated, and hybrid tomatoes and why preserving tomato genetics matters for future gardeners. Craig discusses the Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project, the story behind Cherokee Purple, growing tomatoes in containers and straw bales, and the importance of learning directly from your plants. He encourages gardeners to get their hands dirty, experiment, save seeds, and enjoy gardening as a lifelong journey.Our Guest: Craig is a North Carolina-based gardener, author, and plant breeder known for his deep expertise in heirloom tomatoes. With a PhD in chemistry from Dartmouth and a 25-year career in pharmaceuticals, he later shifted full-time into gardening and seed saving. Craig is a longtime advisor to Seed Savers Exchange, and is credited with helping popularize varieties like Cherokee Purple tomatoes. He co-leads the Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project and authored Epic Tomatoes, a widely respected guide for home growers.Key Topics & EntitiesCraig LeHoullier and his 40-year gardening journeyHeirloom, hybrid, and open-pollinated tomatoesSeed Savers ExchangeTomato seed saving and preservationThe Dwarf Tomato Breeding ProjectCherokee Purple tomatoTomato breeding and geneticsEpic TomatoesStraw bale gardeningContainer tomato growingVictory Seed CompanyGardening misinformation and experimentationFood systems and food desertsGardening as community buildingKey Questions AnsweredWhat makes a tomato an heirloom?Craig defines an heirloom as a genetically stable variety that can be passed down through saved seed, with age and a meaningful history or story associated with it.What is the difference between heirloom and open-pollinated tomatoes?All heirlooms are open-pollinated, but not every open-pollinated tomato is an heirloom. Craig uses 1949, when Burpee's Big Boy was introduced, as a useful guidepost for distinguishing older heirlooms from newer open-pollinated varieties.Why are hybrid tomatoes valuable?Hybrids can combine desirable traits such as disease resistance, heat tolerance, growth habits, and productivity. Craig emphasizes that there are excellent hybrids, heirlooms, and open-pollinated varieties.How did the Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project begin?Craig and Patrina began crossing large, flavorful heirlooms with dwarf tomato varieties to create tomatoes that could be grown in smaller spaces while retaining excellent flavor and interesting characteristics.Why is Cherokee Purple important to Craig?Craig received seeds in 1990 from J.D. Green, who told him they came through a Cherokee family history in Tennessee. Craig grew the tomato, named it Cherokee Purple, and helped distribute it so the variety and its story could continue.What makes a tomato variety worth preserving?Beyond flavor and popularity, a variety may contain genetic traits that could become important for future challenges such as heat, drought, water scarcity, or emerging diseases.What is one of the biggest mistakes gardeners make with tomatoes?Craig says gardeners need to pay attention to their plants. Daily observation can reveal early signs of disease, nutritional problems, water stress, and other issues before they become serious.What is the key to successful straw bale gardening?A straw bale is conditioned with nitrogen, water, and fertilizer for roughly two weeks before planting. The bale heats up as it decomposes and provides a productive growing medium that eventually becomes useful organic matter.What tomatoes work well in small spaces?Craig recommends Sun Gold cherry tomatoes, dwarf tomatoes, and micro-dwarf varieties for containers and limited growing spaces. Cherry tomatoes can also perform well with less sunlight than many larger varieties.What is Craig's advice for beginning tomato growers?Get your hands dirty, start with good seedlings or learn to start your own seeds, and let the plants teach you. Gardening is an education and a journey rather than a rigid set of instructions.Episode HighlightsCraig traces his love of gardening to childhood memories of working with his father and grandfather and describes how joining Seed Savers Exchange in 1986 sparked his passion for heirloom tomatoes.He explains how heirloom tomatoes preserve genetics, history, and stories—and why today's newer open-pollinated varieties may become tomorrow's heirlooms.Craig describes the Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project, which ultimately produced about 170 new varieties through collaboration among roughly 1,000 gardeners.He explains why preserving even ordinary tomato varieties can matter, since hidden genetic traits may provide future solutions for heat, drought, water shortages, and disease.Craig tells the remarkable story of how he received the tomato that became Cherokee Purple and how a chain of seed sharing kept the variety from disappearing.He explains why gardeners should observe their tomato plants every day and adjust their methods based on growing conditions rather than blindly following a fixed schedule.Craig describes straw bale gardening, including conditioning the bales, managing water and nutrients, and eventually reusing the spent straw as valuable growing material.He closes with a simple philosophy: get your hands dirty, grow something, turn off the distractions, and let gardening change your life.ResourcesCraig LeHoullier's Website — craiglehoullier.comInstagram — @nctomatomanEmail Craig — nctomatoman@gmail.comEpic Tomatoes — Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All TimeVictory Seed Company — victoryseeds.comJoe Gardener Organic Gardening School — Self-paced courses covering seed starting, organic vegetable gardening, and tomato growing.Seed Savers Exchange — Craig's longtime seed-saving community and an important part of his journey.Visit www.urbanfarm.org/EpicTomatoes for the show notes on this episode, and access to our full podcast library! Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges.You can chat with Greg or choose one of the senior members of our Urban Farm team to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!*Disclosure: Some of the links in our podcast show notes and blog posts are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase, we will earn a nominal commission at no cost to you. We offer links to items recommended by our podcast guests and guest writers as a service to our audience and these items are not selected because of the commission we receive from your purchases. We know the decision is yours, and whether you decide to buy something is completely up to you.

EPISODE 758 - C B Strul - Quantum Mable in the River of Time - Adding a Younger Audience to Your WorldIn this episode, science fiction author C B Strul joins the conversation to share the creative evolution behind his storytelling and the launch of a new chapter book series, Quantum Mabel in the River of Time. Broadcasting from Los Angeles and surrounded by a lively household that includes four rescue pugs, Strul brings both humor and depth as he reflects on his work, inspirations, and writing process.Strul explores the expansive nature of science fiction, emphasizing that the genre goes far beyond action-driven space adventures. His work blends thoughtful concepts with imaginative storytelling, drawing inspiration from authors like Isaac Asimov and Ursula K Le Guin. With Quantum Mabel, he shifts toward a younger audience while maintaining intellectual depth, վստահ that young readers are more than capable of engaging with complex ideas when presented in an accessible and engaging way.The story follows Mabel, a curious and adventurous ten year old from the future who can travel through time and space, accompanied by her protective robot companion, Dartmouth. Set in part within the Amazon rainforest, the book weaves together real scientific concepts, animal behavior, and quantum mechanics into a narrative designed to spark curiosity and discovery. Strul intentionally incorporates accurate research, even sourcing material from public libraries, with plans to include a bibliography to encourage further learning.A recurring theme in Strul's work is consequence. He discusses how every action, whether small or significant, creates ripple effects that shape outcomes. This idea is embedded in both his adult novels and the Quantum Mabel series, offering readers a lens through which to better understand their own decisions and impact on the world.The conversation also highlights his creative process, from balancing multiple projects to navigating world building across interconnected stories. While he embraces spontaneity in writing, he acknowledges the complexity of maintaining continuity within his expanding universe. His collaboration with illustrator Maya Sher brings a fresh visual identity to the series, reinforcing his commitment to human creativity over automation.Ultimately, this episode offers an inside look at a creator who is continuously evolving, challenging himself, and inviting readers of all ages to explore science, imagination, and meaning through story.Key takeaway: Young audiences are capable of engaging with complex ideas, and when storytelling combines curiosity, accurate knowledge, and imagination, it can inspire both learning and a deeper understanding of the consequences of our actions.https://odomslibrary.com/Support the show___https://livingthenextchapter.com/podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/Coffee Refills are always appreciated, refill Dave's cup here, and thanks!https://buymeacoffee.com/truemediaca

Join me, Kevin Mahoney, and Eli, two friends who were seniors at Dartmouth when we recorded this episode, as we unpack Matthew 11–13. We dive into what it looks like to live out your faith in your 20s, the different ways people respond to the Gospel, and how we can use the seasons and spaces we're in to grow in faith and influence those around us.

You've heard about how AI tools could help meet demand for mental-health treatment, as well as some of the risks involved. Several U.S. states have passed laws limiting what these chatbots are able to do, leading to some changes in the industry. Meanwhile, federal regulators are taking a look at the AI therapy space. In the third and final episode of our series “The AI Therapist,” What's News PM host Alex Ossola delves into the changing regulatory landscape and where AI mental-health tools could go from here. The AI Therapist: A WSJ Podcast Series Further Reading: Chatbots Are Replacing Therapists With Little Scientific Evidence Behind Them Teens Seek Mental-Health Help From Chatbots. That's Dangerous, Says New Study. How AI Advice Is Undermining Eating-Disorder Therapy When There's No School Counselor, There's a Bot What Parents Need to Know About OpenAI's New ChatGPT for Teens Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Join us as Ocean House owner and award-winning author Deborah Goodrich Royce has a conversation with The New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Beatriz Williams about her new book, When You Loved Me. Beatriz Williams is the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of Husbands and Lovers, The Summer Wives, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers, the Wicked City series, and several other works of historical fiction, including five novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before her first novel was published in 2012. Beatriz's books have won numerous awards, have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world. Her essays have appeared in magazines such as Real Simple and Southern Living, among others, and she regularly reviews fiction for the New York Times Book Review. Born in Seattle, Washington, Beatriz now lives in southeastern Connecticut with her husband and four mostly-grown children. About the Book: A love story steeped in New England legend. A young widow returns to her late father's New England estate, only to be drawn into the hunt for the rumored pirate treasure that consumed his life, in this thrilling and moving new novel from Beatriz Williams. Local history insists that a legendary pirate buried his treasure somewhere beneath Windward, the decayed Cooper estate on Winthrop Island, but Lucy Cooper never trusted the fable that broke her family apart. When a widowed Lucy returns with her young daughter to grieve her estranged father, she discovers catastrophe: the property's mired in debt she can't repay, and Ben Ressler has unexpectedly turned up on her doorstep. Thirteen summers ago, a teenaged Lucy never meant to fall in love with Ben, a Dartmouth football star vacationing nearby at the Peabody estate, and the object of an all-consuming crush by Laura Peabody, Lucy's best friend. Those few weeks were the best and worst of Lucy's life, dooming her friendship with Laura. Now Ben's returned to live quietly in the Peabodys' caretaker lodge, after a fatal accident ended his dazzling NFL career. He's also the last person who saw Lucy's father alive. As Lucy reconstructs her father's troubling final days, she uncovers his research on the frozen winter of 1717, when a desperately wounded pirate sought refuge on Winthrop Island with an enigmatic healer. To Lucy, this history points the way to a different kind of treasure: how to heal the fractures of the past and earn a second chance at love. But just as Lucy's long-buried emotions sear to the surface, a shocking turn of events reveals that someone else on the island will do whatever it takes to claim the fabled plunder. A timeless story of love and atonement, When You Loved Me maps both a centuries-old treasure hunt and the intimate territory of the human heart, weaving together past and present as only Beatriz Williams can. For more information about Beatriz Williams, visit beatrizwilliams.com, and for more on Deborah Goodrich Royce and her new release, Best Boy, along with information about the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com    

Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and co-author of Global by Design, explains how innovations developed for emerging markets can also serve wealthier countries. Building on his earlier work on reverse innovation, he argues that successful innovation requires business strategy and engineering science to be considered together. Vijay places this work within his Three Box Solution, a framework for improving the efficiency of the core business while simultaneously creating new businesses. The central challenge is developing the capabilities to manage efficiency and exploration at the same time. He describes effective innovators as "tempered dreamers." They think ambitiously without becoming detached from what is possible. This requires leaders to understand their current capabilities, determine which capabilities they can acquire, and remain humble enough to learn from others. Innovation should begin with a clear understanding of the customer's problem, independent of any proposed solution. Customers may not be able to articulate what they need, so Vijay recommends ethnographic research, direct observation, and immersion in their lives. Once the problem is understood, teams should divide the solution into components, test the most critical part first, learn, adjust, and proceed. His advice is to run innovation "as a marathon race, as a series of 400 meters," with each stage creating an opportunity to test and pivot. The conversation also addresses AI and the distinction between intelligence and judgment. AI can process extensive data and generate many options, but people must decide which option to pursue, persuade colleagues, and navigate organizational realities. As Vijay says, "AI doesn't substitute thinking. AI doesn't substitute judgment." It should be used to "augment human creativity," not replace independent reasoning. To prevent "cognitive surrender," Vijay asks students to analyze a case independently before consulting AI, compare their reasoning with its response, and refine their conclusions. He reports that this approach has improved the quality of their judgment, while requiring him to reconsider both what he teaches and how he teaches it. Vijay closes by explaining how his collaboration with MIT engineering professor Amos Winter strengthened Global by Design. Their different perspectives produced disagreements, but those disagreements led to a better book because they were examined with rigor and mutual respect. The broader lesson is that complex innovation benefits from multiple disciplines and perspectives, including those of customers, manufacturers, engineers, scientists, and business leaders. Get Vijay's book, Global by Design, here: https://tinyurl.com/5asv27jv Claim your free gift: Free gift #1 McKinsey & BCG winning resume www.FIRMSconsulting.com/resumePDF Free gift #2 Breakthrough Decisions Guide with 25 AI Prompts www.FIRMSconsulting.com/decisions Free gift #3 Five Reasons Why People Ignore Somebody www.FIRMSconsulting.com/owntheroom Free gift #4 Access episode 1 from Build a Consulting Firm, Level 1 www.FIRMSconsulting.com/build Free gift #5 The Overall Approach used in well-managed strategy studies www.FIRMSconsulting.com/OverallApproach Free gift #6 Get a copy of Nine Leaders in Action, a book we co-authored with some of our clients: www.FIRMSconsulting.com/gift

Im Sommer 1956 treffen sich 20 Wissenschaftler auf dem Campus des Dartmouth College in den USA. Mit ihren Diskussionen legen sie den Grundstein für künstliche Intelligenz. Von Christoph Tiemann.

THIS BILLION SECONDS AI @ 70 -- EPISODE ONE: AI TAKES THE PENSION On the 17th August 1956, artificial intelligence was born. The founders of the field reckoned they'd have thinking machines equivalent to humans in five year, perhaps ten at the most. What looked easy at the outset turned into a seven-decade struggle - across two "AI winters", when the discipline nearly faded away - before we got to ChatGPT. TRANSCRIPT: MARK PESCE, HOST: On the 17th August 1956, artificial intelligence was born. The final day of a six week workshop that ran through a hot lazy summer at Dartmouth University. A workshop on “artificial intelligence”. Words that had never been put together before - and would never be separate again. G'day, I'm Mark Pesce and this billion seconds are already unfolding as the most significant of this century. In this miniseries, celebrating the 70th anniversary of artificial intelligence, we're looking at where we’ve come from, how we got here - and where we seem to be going. Because we’re travelling at the speed of thought. The future looked bright at the beginning of artificial intelligence. This episode looks at how what seemed like a very straightforward goal - making machines that could think - turned into a 70 year struggle. That’s on this episode of THIS billion seconds. Claude Shannon. Marvin Minsky. John Conway. These aren’t household names, but in the halls of computer science and in the history of artificial intelligence they are renowned. Three of the founders of the field. They were among around 60 different individuals who passed through Dartmouth in the summer of 1956. The workshop was purposely constructed very casually. You could come in and stay for the whole thing - or just drop by check it out and move on. People were encouraged to give talks. They were encouraged to share their ideas. They were encouraged to brainstorm. On the very last day, the 17th of August, they had a set of presentations covering some of the things they’d learned from one another over those six weeks. This is the first moment when the shape of artificial intelligence - as we think of it today - becomes visible. The workshop participants returned to their respective institutions filled good ideas, high hopes - and completely unrealistic expectations. They reckoned they’d have machines that could think in five years. 10 years, tops. It didn’t work out that way. The most obvious obstacle was that no one had a workable definition of intelligence. Not human intelligence, and certainly not artificial intelligence. If you don’t know how to describe intelligence how can you build that into a machine? So the search for artificial intelligence became a quest to understand intelligence more broadly. That’s a hard problem. 70 years later it’s not clear that we have a much better idea of what intelligence is. But that didn’t stop these first pioneers. Instead, they borrowed from what they all agreed was a marker of high intelligence, deciding that if the computer could reproduce that capability, the computer must be intelligent. It's all so logical. And all so very wrong. Almost all of them were excellent chess players. All of them agreed that chess was an excellent example of intelligence. So why not teach the computer to play chess? It’s an interesting idea. But it was quickly disproven. Yes, you could teach a computer to play chess. Turns out, that wasn't even terrifically hard. A computer can think so much faster than a person it can simply work its way through every chess move available to it, selecting the best one. It has the advantage of speed. But not intelligence. By 1977 you could buy a little computer that could play chess - and beat the pants off of almost anyone except a master player. Those computers weren’t intelligent. Another approach taken early on worked from the idea that it might be possible to teach a computer enough facts about the world that the computer would be able to make intelligent decisions about how to operate in real world. This is called the 'top-down' approach to artificial intelligence. On the surface it sounds like a good idea. In practice it’s basically unworkable. Because there is so much knowledge that is embedded in this world, it is almost impossible to teach it to a machine. There have been multiple attempts. The last of them only drew to a close in 2017. None of them worked. Artificial intelligence was an incredibly active field of research in the 1960s and the 1970s as that first generation of pioneers worked its way through the hard problems. Only to learn that the hard problems didn’t get any easier. The people paying for all of this work got disappointed in a lack of progress, withdrew their funding, and forward progress in AI ground to a halt. This is known as the first “AI Winter“. Then came along the second generation of researchers, led by a brilliant Australian by the name of Rodney Brooks. Brooks took a look at the world. Creatures as simple as insects could make very good decisions about the world. With very little intelligence. How did they do that? Brooks decided to design computers and robots that took their cues from those insects. Suddenly robots could climb staircases. They could walk upright. All sorts of things that have been very hard to do before with the top-down approach - and which we don’t think of as intelligence but actually require a great deal of smarts - they all worked worked with Brooks' 'bottom-up' approach to artificial ingtelligence. This caused an enormous burst of enthusiasm. If it was possible to use simple techniques to solve complex problems, maybe, just maybe, we could build artificial intelligence from the bottom up rather than the top down. They gave it a red-hot go. And it's not that the approach failed. But there are limits. Insect intelligence is incredibly useful. It's given us all sorts of crazy robots that can balance themselves and perform dexterous tasks. But those body smarts aren't the smarts we think of as smarts - even though they are legitimately smart. The kinds of things researchers wanted to do with artificial intelligence... [ John Sculley on Agents.wav ] That's John Sculley, the man who famously fired Steve Jobs when running Apple Computer. Sculley wanted to leave his own mark on computing, so he pointed to an amazing future of autonomous agents. But there was one problem. Autonomous agents need artificial intelligence. And in 1987 - when Sculley introduced agents to the world - there wasn't any artificial intelligence they could use. Insects can't do research. And that was the great disappointment of the 2nd age of AI. Not that it didn't work.It did. But it didn't do hold the answer to the great promise of artificial intelligence: machines that think like people do. And so - despite the great robots and the robot vacuum cleaners that popped up in living rooms - interest in AI waned again. The second AI winter. That winter lasted for more than a decade. From the late 1990s through around 2010. And we come to what we think of as the 'modern' age of AI. Two great minds played complementary roles. Fei-Fei Li and Ilya Sutskever. Fei-Fei Li realised that you were going to need a lot of data to train artificial intelligence systems. So she put together the IMAGENET project. 14 million images. Each of them carefully labeled. A massive project that took years. When that was done, then Ilya Sustskever built software known as AlexNet on top of it. IMAGENET provided raw information, AlexNet provided the intelligence that allowed a computer program to recognise the difference bertween a dog, a boat and a cloud. To do that took huge amounts of information - and massive, massive amounts of computer power. But it worked. And because it worked, it kicked off the modern age of AI. Five years after AlexNet, eight researchers at Google invented the 'Transformer'. The foundation for all modern language models like ChatGPT, Claude - oh, yes, named after Claude Shannon, one of the founders of the field - and Google's Gemini. But it took another five years for for the Transformer to prove its worth. Because, like IMAGENET before it, it had to be trained on billions and billions and billions of words. And who was doing that? Ilya Sutskever - who had moved on from AlexNet to work at a not-for-profit research company. OpenAI. Everything he'd learned from AlexNet went into the tool OpenAI was building on top of the Transformer. On the 30th of November, 2022 - more than 66 years after the Dartmouth workshop on artificial intelligence, OpenAI launched their tool. ChatGPT. And - finally - AI had arrived. Sort of. In our next episode we'll take a look at the last three years of horrible AI, bad AI, mid AI, and finally, 'good enough' AI. And how that changed everything. That's on the next episode of THIS BILLION SECONDS. THIS BILLION SECONDS was written and recorded by Mark Pesce. Produced with assistance from Ampel Myrtle and Pine. If you like this show, please share it with a friend. And make sure to follow or subscribe to get all of the episodes in this series. This is Mark Pesce, thanking you for listening.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What an inspiring conversation with an entrepreneurial icon in our industry, Dr. Stephen Gunther!From an assistant professor at UCSF to founder of Shoulder Innovations, a company that rang the bell on the NYSE in 2025, a 20-year build of a most inspiring story!!Dr. Gunther saw a gap in shoulder arthroplasty that nobody else was solving (implant loosening, one of the leading causes of failure in the space) and instead of writing a paper about it, he patented the fix.The inset glenoid. 15 patents. A company that went from one Surgeon's idea to $47M+ in revenue and a public offering.Device Nation finds no holes in ANY tray as we "Open the Room" with Independent Distributor Mike Nelligan!We talk LinkedIn, "where have the sales reps gone", 4-pillars consulting, even the therapeutic benefits gained from setting things on fire!What stuck with me about both of these conversations was the Dartmouth-old-school mindset running through the whole thread — foundational things that work, not chasing change for the sake of change, just execute what we all know works.....and do it every single day.That's a lesson for Surgeons, Reps and budding entrepreneurs alike!Dartmouth 3D Scholars: https://www.3d-scholars.org/Shoulder Innovations: https://shoulderinnovations.com/ Dr. Stephen Gunther: https://www.sentara.com/find-a-doctor-or-provider/Gunther-Stephen-73361 Mike Nelligan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikenelligan/ 4 Pillars Consulting: https://www.fourpillarsconsultinggroup.com/ Energy Bus: https://a.co/d/09VzMyTe Can't Autom(AI)te Trust: https://a.co/d/0dRgFKEG Surgeon/Rep Townhall Meeting: https://devicenation.comJohn Cleese Sales Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2tiAkWsqz-IkeZHmA_UQ72YEgAG93v8zThank you for your Support!  https://account.venmo.com/u/DeviceNation

We are joined by Scott Anthony who is a professor of strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth where his research and teaching focus on the adaptive challenges of disruptive change.  Scott is also the author of the terrific book, "Epic Disruptions:  11 Innovations that Shaped our Modern World".  We have a terrific "CSI Chat" with Scott whereby we discuss the concept of "Disruption" and touch on: - A few specific case studies from his book, including Bethlehem Steel (a company that was disrupted) and Apple (a company that was the disruptor).  What can we learn from both of these examples? - What are the core characteristics of leaders and a workforce that can withstand disruption? - Generative AI and its impact as a "Disruptive Technology". I hope everyone enjoys the "CSI Chat" with Scott!  

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What if the most powerful mental health tool isn't more therapy or a smarter app — but the right skill at the right moment?Can just ten minutes change your mental health?The first time Benji Kaveladze came on the show, that was the question. Since then he's moved to Dartmouth's Jacobson Lab, deep in the fast-moving world of AI and mental health — and he's back to tell me what the science actually shows.We get into Benji's crowdsourced "megastudy," where 7,500 people were each given one of 12 different 10-minute interventions — and two of them measurably reduced depression a full month later. What made those two work wasn't meditating for its own sake; it was learning one real, repeatable skill you can actually use in the moment. We also talk honestly about AI therapy chatbots — what they're good at and where they get risky — why forcing wellness on people tends to backfire, and why choice, agency, and even suffering are part of the real story of mental health.Benji also shares 3 things to try this week.

Generative AI tools are rapidly evolving, filling social-media platforms with so-called AI slop—from Iranian-produced Lego videos to digitally manipulated campaign imagery in the U.S. In this second installment of Tech News Briefing's three-part series, "AI and the Blurring of Reality," WSJ personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen explores how this technology is turbocharging deepfakes and shaping politics. Further Listening: When AI Grandmas Go Viral, What Even Is Reality Anymore? Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

When you tell the story of the hardest thing that ever happened to you, is it a release, or is it a rerun? In the first episode of this four-part August series, Leah opens with a 1980 Dartmouth study that will change the way you think about pain: people wearing a fake scar that was secretly removed still reported strangers staring at it. The scar wasn't on their face. It was in their thinking. From there, Leah breaks down the difference between releasing pain and rehearsing it, why fluency in your own hard story is a warning sign and not a milestone, and the sneaky way wellness language keeps people retelling the same wound for years. You'll leave with one simple assignment: one raw truth, said once, all the way to empty, and one honest question to check what actually happened when you said it. Your story matters. It shaped you. And it is not your ceiling.   Understanding this work takes 25 minutes. Practicing it takes a place. InnerLab is Leah's membership, the space where you work ON your life instead of just living IN it, with live coaching, real feedback, and a community working the same four words all month long. Join us inside: https://link.fastpaydirect.com/payment-link/69cd96fec6a0e600f4d06f79

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by author, and Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth, Roopika Risam. They discuss her new book, Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate. Follow Roopika: @roopikarisam

I'm so excited to share this conversation with Ryan Montgomery, who placed third at Western States this year in a huge breakthrough race. The top three men all broke Jim Walmsley's previous course record, with Ryan running 13:53. This was his fourth consecutive year running Western States after placing seventh twice, and to say this was a breakthrough is a bit of an understatement. Being in the top 10 at Western States is a huge deal, but being on the podium is an even bigger deal. We talk about Ryan's history with running, how he fell in love with long distances, and the journey it took to get to this level. A lot of people might not know that his first 100-mile race took him 28 hours. The process he's walked through to achieve these really high-level goals is fascinating. He is truly dedicated to the craft. We also get into the backstory of Ryan's life and so much more. He set the FKT on the Wonderland Trail in 2020, placed second at the Javelina 100 in 2021, and recently earned his MBA from Dartmouth. I don't always get off an interview feeling like I really know a person, and I really felt like I knew Ryan at the end of this conversation. I loved this one so much. Ryan is also the founder of Out Trails and shares more about that in this conversation. We'll link all of the resources we talk about in the show notes. Stay connected: Ryan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ultra.ryan/ OutTrails on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/out_trails/ Tailwind Nutrition I trust Tailwind to keep my fueling simple before, during, and after long runs. Their products are easy to mix, easy to digest, and help me stay on top of my hydration and nutrition so I can perform my best. My favorite flavor is Dauwaltermelon! Use code ANOTHER20 for 20% off your first order. Goodr Goodr sunglasses are no-slip, no-bounce, all polarized, and actually affordable, with tons of fun styles and colors for summer. Go to goodr.com/another for $10 off your first order. Be the first to know about my Indianapolis Monumental Marathon & Half Marathon group training! Previnex – I start my day with Previnex Gut & Green Superfoods and end it with their Sleep Health Plus. I trust Previnex because their products are third-party tested, backed by science, and designed to help support energy, recovery, sleep, immunity, and healthy aging. Use code ANOTHER for 15% off your first order at Previnex.com. If you've already used that code, you can also use LindseySuperfoods, LindseySleep, or LindseyStrength depending on the product you're trying. The post Episode 698: Ryan Montgomery: From a 28-Hour 100-Miler to the Western States Podium appeared first on SandyBoy Productions.

The Boston Tea Party (1773) — Colonists protesting British taxation dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, sparking the American Revolution. Tea became a symbol of resistance and "taxation without representation."In the chill December air of 1773, Boston Harbor lay restless under a gray sky, its waters reflecting the tensions that had simmered for years between the American colonies and the distant British crown. The streets of the city pulsed with frustration. For nearly a decade, colonists had chafed under parliamentary taxes imposed without their consent—first the Stamp Act, then the Townshend duties—each one a reminder that they had no voice in the decisions that governed their lives. “Taxation without representation” had become a rallying cry, whispered in taverns, shouted in town meetings, and printed in broadsides that fluttered through the streets. Tea, that ordinary everyday drink, had become the unlikely flashpoint of a gathering storm.Parliament had passed the Tea Act that spring, a measure designed less to raise revenue than to rescue the struggling British East India Company from financial ruin. The company was granted a monopoly to ship its surplus tea directly to the colonies, bypassing middlemen and undercutting both legitimate merchants and the thriving trade in smuggled Dutch tea. The price would actually be lower for consumers, but the principle remained: a tax still had to be paid upon arrival, and accepting the tea meant accepting Parliament's right to tax the colonies at will. In other ports—New York, Philadelphia, Charleston—the consignees resigned under pressure, and the ships turned back. Boston was different. Governor Thomas Hutchinson, determined to uphold the law, refused to allow the vessels to leave without unloading and paying the duty.The first ship, the Dartmouth, arrived on November 28, carrying 114 chests of East India Company tea from China. Crowds gathered. Meetings filled the Old South Meeting House. Guards from the Sons of Liberty watched the wharves day and night to ensure nothing was landed. Then came the Eleanor on December 2, and finally the Beaver on December 15. By the morning of the sixteenth, three ships rode at anchor near Griffin's Wharf, their holds heavy with more than ninety thousand pounds of tea—Bohea, Congou, Souchong, Hyson, and Singlo—worth nearly ten thousand pounds sterling, a fortune in those days. The twenty-day legal deadline for the Dartmouth was about to expire. If the duty went unpaid, customs officials could seize the cargo and sell it. That morning nearly five thousand people, a third of Boston's population, packed into the Old South Meeting House and spilled into the surrounding streets. Voices rose in debate. Samuel Adams and other leaders pressed for the ships to return to England with their cargo intact. Governor Hutchinson remained unmoved. As darkness fell and the meeting dragged on without resolution, a signal passed among the crowd. War whoops echoed through the hall. Men began slipping away toward the waterfront.Under cover of night, somewhere between sixty and one hundred and fifty colonists—many of them members of the Sons of Liberty, some disguised in blankets and soot to resemble Mohawk warriors—moved in disciplined groups to the three ships. They were not a wild mob. They worked with quiet efficiency, knowing the harbor well, knowing the holds. Axes and tomahawks cracked open the wooden chests. The tea, dense and fragrant, was heaved over the sides. For nearly three hours the work continued, methodical and almost silent except for the splash of leaves hitting the water and the occasional order from a commander. Crew members on board offered no resistance. British warships nearby stayed still. When the last chest had been emptied, the men swept the decks clean, thanked the captains for their non-interference, and melted back into the city. Full Content More Podcasts

Welcome, Grace Statwick, a professional artist raised in Springfield, Missouri. Grace grew up knowing she'd be an artist. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in film and experience in set construction working for the school's drama department. She proceeded to work in prop and set construction for film, and then as a sculptor for Bass Pro Shops, building waterfalls and trees and traveling across the country. In 2016, she moved to South Korea to teach English, where she began to exhibit, in earnest, with a group of expat and Korean artists called The Exotic Beasts. After a few more years of artist residencies and natural-building projects in the States, she spent the pandemic growing her painting business out of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in rural Missouri, and later moved to Virginia. She has since landed in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where she now works as a muralist. Her work is high-chroma, high-contrast, theatrical, and magical. Her paintings energize a space. Grace recently spoke with The Artists Index's podcast host, Max Wickemeyer, about her life, practice, and journey. This episode was recorded at the  Spectrum Marketing Group studio at Howland Place in New Bedford.   Grace Statwick Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02748 Email | Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Other   We're not asking for you to finance a nonprofit. Instead, we are asking for your support to fund a legacy. Our mission is to preserve and document the lives and legacies of all South Coast Artists. If you would like to be a guest on The Artists Index or have a suggestion, please let us know!

What has made this moment feel different is not the anxiety about incivility, which has always been there, but rather the performance of it. It's relentless.” — Molly Brady on incivility in the age of the smartphone Whatever happened to the American front porch? Builders killed it to save money, says the Harvard law professor Molly Brady — and with this death went one of the key stages on which Americans have practiced the art of being neighbors over the last 250 years. Brady is a contributor to America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance, a new volume of 62 essays from the Harvard Law School faculty edited by Alexandra Natapoff. Brady's subject is the land, real-estate and local government law determining neighborliness. Thus her interest in front porches. Brady grew up in Utica, New York — on the old Erie Canal — a Rust Belt town whose fracking fights, abandoned housing, and urban renewal steered her toward property law. Utica is also, despite its red politics, a place well versed in the art of neighborliness — with the town warmly welcoming recent Bosnian and Iraqi refugees. Incivility isn't new, Brady says. What's changed, she argues, is its performative virality. With a phone in every pocket, we can now watch our fellow “citizens” behaving badly. Meanwhile the physical infrastructure of community — the front porches and corner stores — has been zoned, sprawled, and value-engineered away. Analogue porches have been replaced by digital chatrooms. Brady's remedy is unfashionably local. On Zoom or in person, she advises, show up at your local planning meetings. Brady even requires her Harvard students to attend at least one local meeting so as to demystify the real work of governance. The republic, as Ben Franklin so famously warned, is ours if we can keep it. Keeping it, Molly Brady suggests, may require in-person attendance on a Wednesday night at your local planning commission. And it might also require hanging out on your porch. If the builders ever give them back to us. Five Takeaways •       The Performance of Incivility. Americans have always fretted about incivility — the republic itself was born out of Europe's religious civil wars. What has changed, Brady argues, is technology. When difference was mediated through traditional publishers, you had to grapple with the people in your physical world: the workplace, the water cooler, the town meeting. Now everyone carries a phone on which fellow citizens can be found behaving horribly at any given moment. It is not the presence of incivility that makes this moment feel different — it is the relentless performance of it.•       The Death of the Porch. Brady writes in the tradition of Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone, updated for the post-smartphone age: suburbanization, the loss of third places, remote work — and a thousand micro-choices in property law that removed the physical alternatives to online life. Builders dropped the front porch to save money; developers in the South and West build almost nothing outside homeowners associations, so there is no meaningful market choice. People are human — they yearn for connection — but in the absence of physical competition, technological community wins by default.•       Tocqueville's Scalability Problem. What Tocqueville admired in New England — every citizen (nominally) arguing policy with neighbors at the town meeting — may never have been scalable to a continental republic, a question America has been grappling with since the Louisiana Purchase. But the local still scrambles our politics in useful ways: party preference, as the scholar David Schleicher observes, tells you nothing about road paving. The darker local truth is Bill Fischel's homevoter hypothesis — homeowners dominate participation and vote to maximize home values, which has helped produce the national affordability crisis.•       Glimmers: Zoom, Newton, and Showing Up. The shift to Zoom planning meetings completely changed the demographics of who participates in land use decisions — young parents cannot spend Wednesday from seven to midnight debating a corner store. Newton has produced genuinely pro-housing policies; Cambridge ran a charter commission that drew in residents of every kind; groups like Abundant Homes Massachusetts organize contingents to make sure meetings are not left to the usual voices. Brady requires her students to attend at least one local meeting. The lesson: do not think this is for someone else.•       2076: Best Case, Worst Case. Asked to imagine America's 300th birthday, Brady hopes for less polarization and demonization, and for a real confrontation of the housing and environmental crises — collective work that might itself rebuild the habit of cooperation. The worst case runs through Margaret Atwood and civil war scenarios to environmental degradation and lives lost to our incapacity to work together. The warning signs are already banal: middle-aged men now pay consultants to teach them how to make friends. The skills have atrophied — and local participation, Brady suggests, is the gym where a republic gets them back. About the Guest Molly Brady is a professor of law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches property, land use, and local government law. Raised in Utica, New York, she is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, and her scholarship on the history of American property law has won wide recognition, as has her teaching. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, and is a contributor to America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance, edited by Alexandra Natapoff and Guy-Uriel E. Charles (MIT Press, July 2026). References: •       America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance, edited by Alexandra Natapoff and Guy-Uriel E. Charles (MIT Press, July 2026). Bryan Stevenson: “A valuable contribution to understanding America at a critical moment.”•       Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam — the 2000 classic on America's vanishing social capital, written, Brady notes, before the smartphone made things worse. Putnam is an old friend of this show.•       Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville — the towering account of New England civic virtue that frames the episode's scalability question.•       Shade by Sam Bloch — the new book on the politics of shade that taught Brady about the money-saving death of the American front porch.•       Bill Fischel's “homevoter hypothesis” — the Dartmouth economist's account of why homeowner-dominated local politics maximizes home values and starves housing supply.•       Alexandra Natapoff — the volume's co-editor, whose own Keen On America conver...

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/RockPaperSwordsPodcastAll links: https://linktr.ee/RockPaperSwordsMatthew Harffy flies solo this week to welcome back bestselling historical novelist David Gilman — former firefighter, professional photographer, and Parachute Regiment reconnaissance soldier turned acclaimed author of the Master of War series.David joins the show to talk about his new standalone novel, The Knife Maker of Venice, the story of a brother and sister torn apart by Barbary pirates in 1604 Devon and sold into slavery across the Mediterranean. David reveals the strange true story behind the book's origins — a half-remembered plaque in Dartmouth that seemingly no longer exists — and shares the deep research that took him from blacksmith's forges to the back streets of Venice with a professional historian guide.Along the way: the brutal economics of the Barbary slave trade, why sword fights are more terrifying than gunfights, David's "pantser" approach to plotting, his wariness of AI for research, and a hair-raising true story about a parachute malfunction. It's a wide-ranging, funny, and fascinating conversation with one of Britain's most reliably thrilling historical novelists.The Knife Maker of Venice is out in hardback and audiobook on 13th August — pre-order now.Keywords: historical fiction, historical novel, Barbary pirates, Venice history, Master of War series, Thomas Blackstone, Hundred Years War, slavery history, Mediterranean slave trade, adventure novel, swashbuckling, author interview, historical fiction podcast

Halifax  Part 2 of 2   Welcome to the  Dr. Mary Travelbest Guide podcast. The FAQ is: What is the best messaging app in Asia for Dr. Travelbest women?   Answer: For Dr. Travelbest, women traveling in Asia, the best answer is: use WhatsApp as your home base, but add the local app for the country you're visiting. Use WhatsApp as your main travel messaging app, but download the local app for the country you are visiting. In Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand, that may be LINE. In South Korea, it is KakaoTalk. In China, it is WeChat. Set these up before you leave home, while you still have easy access to your phone number, email, passwords, and two-factor codes. Asia does not use one single messaging app everywhere. The best app depends on where you are going. Before your trip, create a small phone folder called Asia Travel Apps and put these inside: WhatsApp, LINE, KakaoTalk, WeChat, Google Translate, Google Maps or Apple Maps, and your airline app. For most Dr. Travelbest women, the safest and simplest strategy is to keep WhatsApp for home, use the local app for local connections, and not wait until you land to download everything. 60-second confidence challenge Your challenge today, Confidence Challenge Halifax Part 2     See Book A for addressing this concern. I'm an expert at messaging apps. Just ask. Find it on the website​​ at https://www.5stepstosolotravel.com/ or on Amazon. It's a several-part series.   Today's itinerary is Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Part 2 of 2 This episode is a three-day itinerary for a first-time visitor to Halifax, especially a solo woman traveler from the USA who wants history, waterfront views, local food, public transportation, and a relaxed pace. Halifax is a city where the harbor shapes everything. You will see ferries, cruise ships, navy activity, kayaks, boardwalks, seafood restaurants, and historic sites. My advice is to balance the serious history with time outside, because Halifax is best experienced both on land and near the water. Day One: Start with the waterfront and maritime history. Begin your first day with a walk along the Halifax waterfront boardwalk. This is the best way to feel the city. You may hear music, see cruise ships, watch boats moving across the harbor, and find places to sit outside. In summer, the waterfront can feel festive, especially if there are events or buskers. Look for Theodore the Tugboat, one of the cheerful harbor icons. It is a fun stop, especially if you like seeing the lighter side of a working port city. Then visit the Maritime Museum. This is one of the best first-day stops because it helps you understand Halifax's identity as a port city. Pay special attention to the history of the Halifax Explosion. In 1917, two ships collided in the harbor, causing a devastating explosion. The blast was massive, and the next day brought a blizzard. It is a sobering story, but it explains a lot about the city's strength and memory. After the museum, have lunch near the waterfront. This is a good time to try fish and chips, scallops, clams, or another seafood dish. If you are on a budget, balance one restaurant meal with simple food from a market or grocery store later in the day.   https://www.tripadvisor.com/AttractionProductReview-g154976-d23939015-Historic_Halifax_by_Foot-Halifax_Halifax_Regional_Municipality_Nova_Scotia.html In the afternoon, take the ferry to Dartmouth. The ferry is inexpensive; one of my notes said it costs about $2.50. Keep your ticket and enjoy the short ride across the harbor. You do not need to make this complicated. Sometimes the ferry ride itself is the experience. It gives you harbor views, a rest for your feet, and a different look back at Halifax. In the evening, return to the waterfront. Halifax is pretty at night, and if the weather is good, outdoor eating can be delightful. Stay aware of your surroundings, especially near nightlife areas. A local warning I heard was that areas with many bars can get rowdy. As a solo traveler, I would enjoy the evening but avoid getting pulled into a crowded late-night drinking scene. Day Two: Gardens, Citadel Hill, churches, and city views. Start day two at the Halifax Public Gardens. The main gate near South Park Street is a lovely entrance point. The gardens are peaceful, colorful, and a good contrast to the harbor. Go in the morning if you can, when the pace is slower. From there, head toward Spring Garden Road, one of the city's lively areas. You can find shops, cafes, and transit connections. If you like libraries, visit the newer Halifax Central Library and go up to the rooftop area for views and a sense of local life. I noted spring gardening and the rooftop as part of the library experience, and it is a good stop for travelers who like free or low-cost places. Next, walk or take transit toward the Citadel. The Citadel is up the hill, so wear comfortable shoes. Plan about two hours if you want to understand the military and cultural history. The views from the area also help you understand Halifax's shape. After the Citadel, visit St. Paul's Anglican Church downtown. It is an important landmark and one of the oldest buildings in Halifax, dating back to 1749. It is close enough to combine with other downtown stops and gives you a sense of the city's early colonial history. If you enjoy art, consider the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, especially for Maud Lewis's paintings. Her work is colorful, personal, and deeply connected to Nova Scotia. This is a good afternoon choice if the weather turns rainy or if you need a quieter indoor stop. For dinner, try seafood again or sample poutine if you have not already. Poutine is fries, cheese curds, and gravy. It may be unfamiliar to American visitors, but it is worth trying at least once in Canada. Day Three: Point Pleasant Park, universities, swimming, or a harbor adventure. On your third day, choose a pace that fits your energy.   My travel tip: combine one paid attraction each day with free or low-cost experiences like the Public Gardens, waterfront walks, the ferry, and Point Pleasant Park. Today's destination is My missteps: Leaving my cellphone behind. My mistake for this episode: Leaving my phone at the swimming pool in Toronto. I changed back into my clothes and left the phone on the bench. The phone is my lifeline when I travel. I was with a friend that day, so perhaps more distracted than normal. I called the pool, picked up the phone, and all was well. Don't leave your phone unattended when you travel. My travel tip on eSims: My Airalo discount code is:  MARY2856 for your savings of $3.00 or more. Install before you leave: Always download and install the eSIM while you are still at home on your secure, reliable Wi-Fi network. You don't want to activate it until the day before you arrive in the country you will use it, so have it downloaded already.   For most Dr. Travelbest women, the safest and simplest strategy is to keep WhatsApp for home, use the local app for local connections, and not wait until you land to download everything. AI was used to select some of the suggestions for this episode.   Connect with Dr. Travelbest 5 Steps to Solo Travel website Dr. Mary Travelbest X Dr. Mary Travelbest Facebook Page Dr. Mary Travelbest Facebook Group Dr. Mary Travelbest Instagram Dr. Mary Travelbest Podcast Dr. Travelbest on TikTok Dr.Travelbest on YouTube In the news  

What begins as the story of a shell collector quickly becomes something far more intriguing…In this episode, we explore the remarkable life of Vernon MacAndrew, a wealthy naturalist, sailor and photographer whose passion for collecting seashells carried him across the maritime highways of the British Empire.Following in the footsteps of his famous naturalist grandfather, MacAndrew transported his own yacht to the Red Sea and the Philippines in search of rare specimens. Yet among his photographs are not just shells and beaches, but Arab leaders, camel-mounted fighters, Hashemite flags and senior British officials operating in one of the most strategically sensitive regions of the world. Was he simply pursuing science, or was something more going on?To find out more Dr Sam Willis spoke with Dartmouth historian Jonathan Turner, who introduces a newly discovered archive of more than 5,000 photographs and reveals how MacAndrew's travels illuminate the connections between maritime exploration, natural history, photography, imperial power and global shipping networks. We also visit Dartmouth Museum to examine some of the spectacular shells MacAndrew collected, objects of extraordinary beauty that open a window onto the cultures, environments and sea routes of the early twentieth century.From the shores of Aqaba to the reefs of the Philippines, this is a story of curiosity, adventure and empire—showing how something as seemingly modest as a shell collection can reveal an entire maritime world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Success is Subjective, Joanna talks with entrepreneur, speaker, and author Ken Miller about his remarkable journey from Dartmouth graduate to more than two decades of homelessness, addiction, and multiple prison sentences. Today, Ken uses his story to encourage others that healing and lasting change are possible. Together, they discuss the difficult line between helping and enabling, why consequences can sometimes become the turning point toward recovery, and how parents can best support both their loved one and themselves through the process. This episode of Success is Subjective is a powerful reminder that success isn't defined by where you start—or even where you fall—but by the courage to keep moving forward.Ken's Resources: Website: Ken Miller SpeaksBook: Becoming KenLinkedIn: KenMillerSpeaksInstagram: @thekenmillerspeaksFacebook: Ken Miller - SpeaksX: Ken Miller - SPEAKSYouTube: Ken Miller SpeaksYouTube: Ken MillerConnect with Joanna Lilley  Therapeutic Consulting AssociationLilley Consulting WebsiteLilley Consulting on Facebook Lilley Consulting on YouTubeEmail: joanna@lilleyconsulting.com#TherapeuticConsulting #LilleyConsulting #Successful #TherapeuticPrograms #Therapy #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #Podcast #PodcastCommunity #TheJourney #SuccessIsSubjectivePodcast #TheUnpavedRoad #PFCAudioVideo #KenMillerSpeaks #BecomingKen #AddictionRecovery #Alcoholism #DrugAddiction #Sobriety

(00:00) Paul Perillo today is in for Fred and Andy Hart is in for Jon, and those guys talk about Jon being in London, their experience with each other, Hardy's daughter being in the same city as Jon, how bad is getting up for this shift at 4am, what happens in Dartmouth, Salem Country Club, Kings Roast Beef, what different places are known for food wise, dogs, and Hardy going to Dartmouth and what does he actually like. (00:22:56.92)(00:35:35.14) WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT: Andy has never had a Northshore beef, what has he had, Andy went to the Travelers Tournament, and then Hardy retells the Will Ferrell story from the Travelers. Then, they talk about how Paul can't go into work when there are World Cup games at Gillette Stadium, how good the World Cup has been, are other sports as boring as soccer can be, how corrupt is FIFA, and the Red Sox won 5-0 with Jake Bennett threw a really good game. Please note: Timecodes may shift by a few minutes due to inserted ads. Because of copyright restrictions, portions—or entire segments—may not be included in the podcast.CONNECT WITH TOUCHER & HARDY: linktr.ee/ToucherandHardyFor the latest updates, visit the show page on 985thesportshub.com. Follow 98.5 The Sports Hub on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Watch the show every morning on YouTube, and subscribe to stay up-to-date with all the best moments from Boston's home for sports!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

— How many times have we remained silent when something important needed to be said? How often have we hidden our thoughts, emotions, needs, or truths out of fear of judgment, rejection, conflict, or simply not being heard? Many of us learn, often from an early age, that staying quiet is safer than speaking up. Over time, those patterns can become so familiar that we hardly notice them. We silence our ideas, our creativity, our boundaries, our needs, and sometimes even our authentic selves. But what is the cost of that silence? Today, we'll explore how silence shapes our lives, relationships, workplaces, and communities, and how we can begin to recognize and unlearn the unconscious patterns that keep us from fully expressing who we are. We'll discuss the courage required to speak our truth, the importance of creating spaces where all voices are welcomed, and how authentic self-expression can lead to greater connection, belonging, personal growth, and well-being. At its heart, this conversation is an invitation to reclaim our voice—not to speak louder, but to speak more honestly, more intentionally, and more fully from who we truly are. Valeria interviews Elaine Lin Hering  — She is the author of  "Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully." Elaine Lin Hering is a speaker, facilitator, and former Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She works with organizations and individuals to build skills in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. She has worked on six continents and facilitated executive education at Harvard, Dartmouth, Tufts, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. She has served as the Advanced Training Director for the Harvard Mediation Program and a Managing Partner for a global leadership development firm. She has worked with coal miners at BHP Billiton, micro-finance organizers in East Africa, mental health professionals in China, and senior leadership at the US Department of Commerce. Her clients include American Express, Chevron, Google, Nike, Novartis, PayPal, Pixar, and the Red Cross. She was named a Thinkers50 global management thinker on the rise.  To learn more about Elaine Lin Hering and her work, please visit: https://elainelinhering.com/

Dartmouth president Sian Beilock, a psychologist by training, made her name studying why people choke. Now she's applying those insights to one of the most scrutinized jobs in America. No pressure!   SOURCES: Sian Beilock, president of Dartmouth College.   RESOURCES: "Growing share of Americans say the U.S. higher education system is headed in the wrong direction," by Kim Parker (Pew Research Center, 2025). "Standardized Test Scores and Academic Performance at Ivy-Plus Colleges," by John N. Friedman, Bruce Sacerdote, Douglas O. Staiger, and Michele Tine (NBER, 2025). "Americans' Trust in One Another," by Laura Silver, Scott Keeter, Stephanie Kramer, Jordan Lippert, Sofia Hernandez Ramones, Alan Cooperman, Chris Baronavski, and Bill Webster (Pew Research Center, 2025). Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To, by Sian Beilock (2011)   EXTRAS: "Why Does Vanderbilt Keep Winning?" by Freakonomics Radio (2026). "'A Low Moment in Higher Education,'" by Freakonomics Radio (2024). "'If We're All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?'" by Freakonomics Radio (2024). "Why We Choke Under Pressure (and How Not To)," by Freakonomics Radio (2018). Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Many of us know the feeling: we intend to go to bed but pull out our phones for one last scroll. Setting them aside hours later, we're wide awake, unable to fall asleep. For years, scientists have singled out blue light emitted from our devices as the key culprit behind our post-scrolling insomnia, but the scientific consensus is shifting. Although blue light signals to brains that its daytime, surprising new research suggests that our glowing screens may play a smaller role than previously thought. We present the fascinating science around biological mechanisms of sleep and wakefulness, why circadian rhythms have more in common with your grandfather's clock than you might think, and why scientists who question the role of blue light in causing nighttime restlessness, still don't let our phones off the hook completely. Guests: Michael Gradisar – clinical psychologist and sleep researcher, former professor at Flinders University in Australia. Currently serves a head of Sleep Science at Sleep Cycle, a sleep tracking app company Jay Dunlap – geneticist and molecular geneticist at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth who works the molecular basis of circadian rhythms Mariana Figueiro – photobiologist, Director of the Light and Health Research Center and Professor of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prince George of Battenberg, later the 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, was the third child of Louis Battenber and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, and was by all accounts a pretty good dude. Like his father, he set his sights on a naval career, and excelled at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, entering the Royal Navy in time to participate in World War I. His 1916 marriage to Countess Nadajda de Torby, called Nada by her friends, would become a source of significant scandal in 1934, when a former maid became a key witness in the high profile custody battle over young heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. The mail alleged on the stand that Nada and the girl's mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, were lovers, and the story was so salacious for its time that the judge cleared the courtroom entirely. After the family dropped "Battenberg" in favor of "Mountbatten" in 1917, at the height of anti-German sentiment in England, George Mountbatten would continue being one of the few stable presences in the life of Prince Philip, and Queen Elizabeth II, his eventual niece-in-law, was extremely fond of George. His death at the young age of 45, from bone marrow cancer, was yet another tragedy in young Philip's life, while Nada would remain close friends with Edwina Mountbatten, her sister-in-law, and the wife of Philip's next mentor, Louis Mountbatten. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at⁠ patreon.com/trashydivorces⁠! Want a personalized message for someone in your life?⁠ Check us out on Cameo⁠! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to ⁠info@amplitudemediapartners.com⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices