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Episode 256 Faith Howard shares practical strategies for improving literacy skills in middle and high school students, focusing on decoding multisyllabic words, spelling routines, and fluency practices. This episode offers actionable insights for educators aiming to enhance reading comprehension and word attack skills.Resources Encoding & Decoding with Word Pyramids BlogI Was Doing Fluency Wrong - Until I Made It About Knowledge BlogTeachers Teach Teachers | Science of Reading YouTube Channel VideoRead Like Us Podcast Episode with Jake Downs & Chase Young Tight Ten ArticleLiteracy Lab with Faith Facebook Page Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.
In this episode of the TPR Podcast, Matthew welcomes CPA Brad Wooten to discuss his journey in launching a tax practice, the intricacies of S-Corp reasonable compensation, and the importance of taking a holistic approach to tax strategy. Brad emphasizes the need for effective communication with clients, especially during tax season, and shares insights on how financial advisors and CPAs can collaborate more effectively. The conversation also touches on the infighting within the financial advisory space regarding fee structures and the importance of understanding each other's roles. In this conversation, Brad Wooten, CPA, shares insights on the financial advisory industry, emphasizing the importance of clarity in roles and services offered. He discusses the challenges of balancing work and family life, particularly during tax season, and how he manages to maintain a healthy schedule. Brad also delves into his approach to fee structures and client relationships, explaining how he navigates fee increases and client expectations. Finally, he reflects on the impact of deadlines on productivity, particularly in the context of tax season, and how he leverages this to enhance his efficiency. Decoding Financial Advisory Roles With Brad Wooten Resources in today's episode: - Matt Jarvis: Website | LinkedIn - Brad Wooten Website | LinkedIn - Learn More about our Coaching Programs - The Summit 2026
Cal has a suspicion that the little-known K Economy explains more about where the world is headed than most of what you hear on the news. So he reaches out to one of the world's most masterful interpreters of geopolitics and finance to break it down for the Big Questions audience. As founder of Tanto Capital, Ozan Ozkural flies from one city to the next — advising boards, governments, and investors across the globe, meeting kings, presidents, and financial leaders along the way. Cal met Ozan a decade ago through his pal Larry King, and Ozan became a regular at their breakfast table whenever he was in LA. Ozan is that rare guest who can jump from quantum computing to the Medici family in Renaissance Italy to the future of Chinese demographics in the same conversation. In this episode, Ozan decodes the K Economy down to a level of human evolution that leaves even Cal stunned.
Are you exploring intrauterine insemination (IUI) to grow your family? In this episode of Fertility Docs Uncensored, hosts Dr. Carrie Bedient from The Fertility Center of Las Vegas and Dr. Susan Hudson from the Texas Fertility Center discuss key patient questions about intrauterine insemination cycles and the newer intratubal insemination cycles. In this comprehensive episode, we break down exactly how an IUI cycle works, who benefits the most, and the strict medical guidelines required for success. We dive deep into the absolute necessity of accurate cycle timing, explaining how a luteinizing hormone (LH) surge or a hCG trigger shot dictates the precise 24-to-36-hour insemination window. You will also learn the critical differences between preconception screening and IVF testing—specifically, what genetic testing can and cannot do during an IUI cycle. Finally, we look at the raw numbers. We discuss mandatory medical requirements, minimal post-wash sperm counts, and realistic IUI success rates by age to help you manage expectations on your fertility journey.
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When was the last time you saw the Milky Way? In this episode of Astroman, Exodus Chun-Long Sit explores how light pollution is changing our night skies, affecting wildlife, wasting energy, and limiting our view of the universe. Learn why protecting dark skies matters—and how simple actions can help bring the stars back. "ASTROMAN: the Dark Sky Guardian" is a podcast channel that aims to explore popular science in multiple disciplines and research on interdisciplinary approaches, such as sustainability, dark-sky protection, astrophotography, space exploration, astronomy innovation, inclusive science communication, and STEAM Education by integrating science and arts. Exodus Chun-Long Sit, also known as the ASTROMAN, is a transmedia astronomy educator, popular science author, STEAM educator, and science communicator in Hong Kong. He is recently the National Astronomy Education Coordinator (Chair of Hong Kong, China) of the International Astronomical Union and President of Starrix. He was also an International Committee Member of the Dark Sky International, regularly organizing public lectures at the Hong Kong Space Museum and the Hong Kong Science Museum. He was also the author of a popular science book "Decoding the Starry Night: A Guide to Stargazing and Astrophotography". We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
Download my meditation and wellness app, Swa:aha.https://app.level.game/?c=zSbmYnCheck out BeerBiceps SkillHouse Courses Here -https://linktr.ee/bbskillhouseFor all BeerBiceps vlog content Watch Life Of BeerBiceps - https://www.youtube.com/@LifeOfBeerBicepsShare your guest suggestions hereMail - connect@beerbiceps.comLink - https://forms.gle/aoMHY9EE3Cg3Tqdx9Follow BeerBiceps SkillHouse's Social Media Handles:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BeerBicepsSkillHouseInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/beerbiceps_skillhouseWebsite : https://beerbicepsskillhouse.inFor any other queries EMAIL: support@beerbicepsskillhouse.comIn case of any payment-related issues, kindly write to support@tagmango.comFollow Simranjeet Singh's Social Media Handles:-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pmkctohana/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PrabhMilneKaChaoTohanaWebsite: https://www.pmkctohana.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PrabhMilneKaChaoTohana/In this 523rd episode of The Ranveer Show, we are joined by Simranjeet Singh, a Sikh spiritual teacher devoted to Naam Simran and meditation, for one of the deepest conversations we've ever had on Sikhi, Kundalini, Karma, and the unseen dimensions of human life.We talk about Simranjeet Singh's journey from his college life to years of intense Naam Jaap, the exact technique behind Waheguru Simran, Kundalini and the three Naadis, why Sikhs keep Kesh and wear the turban, Prarabdh and the Law of Attraction, past-life visions through meditation, the truth about Bhaang and intoxicants, the untold history of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the spiritual architecture of the Golden Temple, and what it truly takes to attain Moksha.This podcast is a must-watch for anyone interested in Sikhi, meditation, kundalini awakening, Gurbani, karma, and the deeper truths of existence.00:00 – Simranjeet Singh On TRS03:20 – The Technique Behind Naam Jaap05:28 – Leaving Politics for a Life of Simran06:49 – First Experiences of Anhad Vaani08:47 – The Science in Vigyan Bhairav Tantra12:40 – Why Sikhs Keep Kesh and Wear the Turban14:51 – Kundalini Awakening Explained19:17 – Prarabdh, Karma and the Law of Attraction25:43 – How Bhakti Becomes a Spiritual Shield29:17 – Dev Bhakti vs Daint Bhakti31:33 – Time Travel, Past Lives and Other Worlds37:22 – The Truth About Bhaang and Intoxicants40:48 – "This Is My Last Birth"44:51 – A Past Life Vision: The Jogi Who Lost to Ego49:28 – The Untold History of Guru Gobind Singh Ji57:15 – Decoding the Golden Temple's Spiritual Map1:02:09 – Shaheed Singhs: Sikhi's Guardian Souls1:05:58 – Why You Need a Daily Simran Practice1:08:53 – Is One Life Enough for Moksha? The Story of Ajamal1:12:23 – Decoding the Third Eye in Gurbani1:18:31 – Wrestling With Spiritual Ego1:21:36 – Struggle, Blessings and Simranjeet's Final Message
1203. In this bonus discussion with Dr. Charles Kemp, we look at why the Chinese writing system has actually become visually more complex over thousands of years. Dr. Kemp explains how his team used "perimetric complexity" to measure characters and why the need for distinctiveness in a growing vocabulary overrides the natural drive for simplicity. This episode ran for Grammarpaloozians in January 2026. To get more bonus content, visit Patreon.com/GrammarGirl.Find Dr. Kemp at https://charleskemp.com/.
A superstar held up by the salary cap. A billionaire under the microscope. A league inquiry hidden from public view. De Smith has seen this playbook for punishment before. The former NFL union boss — and white-shoe law-firm investigator — returns to answer questions the NBA still won't: Who is "independent" when the league (and Steve Ballmer, in particular) pays the legal bill? Why would witnesses participate if they face potential criminal exposure? How do unions play the long game? And what obligation does a league have to its fans, if cheating can be the baseline?• Read "Turf Wars" by DeMaurice Smith• Subscribe to PTFO on YouTube for breaking-news updates on Kawhi-Gate• Previously on PTFO: The Man Who (Relentlessly) Sued the NFL Has Receipts(Pablo Torre Finds Out is independently produced by Meadowlark Media and distributed by The Athletic. The views, research and reporting expressed in this episode are solely those of Pablo Torre Finds Out and do not reflect the work or editorial input of The Athletic or its journalists.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How do leaders create a unified culture at their organizations that's not only sustainable but propels growth and success? Psychologist Jennifer A. Chatman and sociologist Glenn R. Carroll put their expertise on management and organizational behavior together in the new book, Making Organizational Culture Great: Moving Beyond Popular Beliefs. Chatman is Dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and Carroll is a professor of management at Stanford University. On this episode, they join Greg to discuss how organizational culture research has evolved, valid methods for measuring culture within a firm, the defining characteristics of strong cultures, how culture and strategy are complements to each other, and practices for changing an organization's culture. They also delve into case studies from existing organizations like Netflix, Genetech, and Berkeley Haas. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.* Episode Quotes: Why great strategies fall 08:13: [Jenniffer Chatman] The problem has never been finding the right answer. The problem has been scaling it up through the entire organization so that you're actually delivering, right? I mean, you teach strategy. Strategy formulation is, there's theory and there are best practices, and you can develop a beautiful, elegant, distinctive strategy that takes into account all the dynamics that are going on currently. But if you can't implement that throughout the organization, it's not valuable. So culture is the other piece of that, which is how to cascade things through an organization that allows it to execute completely on a well-advised strategy. Cultures form whether you design or not 54:29: [Jenniffer Chatman] No matter what you do or don't do, a culture will form. And if you're not intentional about it, the risk is that a culture forms that actually deviates significantly from what your true objectives are, and then, you're in trouble. What makes a strong culture? 11:56: [Glenn Glenn Carrol] Strong culture is the combination of high intensity by individuals, which means they really care about what goes on, and they will go out of their way to correct people if they think you're doing it wrong. So that kind of intensity, coupled with homogeneity or agreement among people in the organization about what should be done. And so when you have both high intensity and high agreement, you have what we call a strong culture. Now, the content of the culture is the actual substance of the rituals, beliefs, practices, and you can find, by our definition, strong culture organizations that run the gamut from business organizations to religious organizations to cults to terrorist cells, you name it. So around any content, you can pretty much produce a strong culture. Show Links: Recommended Resources: “Corporate culture: Evidence from the field”, 2022, Journal of Financial Economics Benjamin E. Hermalin “People and Organizational Culture: A Profile Comparison Approach to Assessing Person-Organization Fit”, 1991, Academy of Management Journal No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings Clifford Geertz Bronisław Malinowski Genentech Guest Profiles: Jennifer Chatman Dean Profile at UC Berkeley Jennifer Chatman Professional Website Jennifer Chatman LinkedIn Profile Glenn Carroll Faculty Profile at Stanford University Glenn Carroll LinkedIn Profile Guest Work: Making Organizational Culture Great: Moving Beyond Popular Beliefs Making Great Strategy: Arguing for Organizational Advantage The Culture Kit with Jenny and Sameer | Podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jim Moore, VP of OEM & Product Development at SEMA, joins the show from SEMA Garage in Diamond Bar, CA to break down the EPA's new ruling recognizing SEMA Certified emissions as a legal pathway, how CAD data and Tech Transfer help aftermarket manufacturers build parts, and why the fight over ADAS and the Right to Modify is the next big battle for the industry. Take your build up a whole new level with 6XD Gearbox: https://6xdgearbox.com Code "Minnoxide5" for 5% off High Performance Academy: https://hpcdmy.co/Minnoxide Use code "MINNOX" for 55% off ANY course Use Code "MINVIP" for $300 of the MINVIP Package Tuned By Shawn: https://www.tunedbyshawn.com Code "Minnoxide" for 5% off! Ship With Sure Thing Logistics: https://www.surethinglogistics.net MORE BIGGER Turbo T-Shirts: https://www.minnoxide.com/products/more-bigger-t-shirt 0:00 Visiting SEMA Garage and Meeting Jim Moore 5:14 CAD Data, Reverse Engineering & What Is SEMA Garage 14:21 The June 29 EPA Ruling: History of Emissions Regs & SEMA Certified 20:29 How SEMA Garage Helps Small & Large Manufacturers 26:54 SEMA's Economic Impact & Jim's Automotive Roots 32:06 Software-Defined Vehicles 37:49 Growing SEMA: Goals & Protecting Modification Rights 43:31 ADAS Regulation: Getting Ahead of the Next Fight 49:17 Modern Tech, Classic Cars, Crate Engines & EO Certification 54:43 Decoding the VECI Label & Engine Families 1:00:26 From Aftermarket to Factory, Trends, Trucks & Powersports 1:05:58 The Real Cost of Skipping Compliance: Counterfeits & Consequences 1:11:44 Joining SEMA: Costs, Member Benefits & CAD Data Access 1:17:23 PRI, Small Track Advocacy & Trump's Right-to-Repair Order 1:22:13 How SEMA Got the President's Attention
In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss how to separate artificial intelligence speed from actual business value and what we value from humans in an age of AI. You will discover why productivity charts hide critical context that changes everything. You will learn how to spot the difference between quick output and solid results. You will master a simple framework for letting machines handle data while you keep full control over every choice. You will walk away with practical steps to scale your daily workload without sacrificing your unique perspective. 00:00 – Introduction 02:15 – The misleading productivity chart 05:40 – Decoding the midterm results 09:10 – When tests measure the wrong skills 13:25 – The seven ways to use AI properly 18:50 – Why humans must keep the steering wheel 23:40 – Practical tools for smarter workflows 28:15 – Fixing the education gap 32:00 – Call to action Press play to uncover how you can turn artificial intelligence into a reliable partner that amplifies your best work. Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-ai-in-academia-workforce.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. Christopher S. Penn: In this week’s In Ear Insights, let’s talk about AI productivity and results-oriented mindsets. We talk a lot about AI productivity gains, and a lot of people are rightfully asking, “Where’s the beef?” Going back to the 1980s Wendy’s commercial. I want to show you a chart. Katie, I want to get your reaction to this chart on some AI productivity gains and whether you would consider this a success or not. So let me bring this chart up here. This is from Brown University. We have individual workers, we have their original productivity scores in the gray, their AI-enhanced scores where they’re using an AI tool and how they increased. And the green numbers represent the percent change. Now, without any other context, at a first glance, what do you make of this? Is this an AI success story? Katie Robbert: Not necessarily. Christopher S. Penn: Okay, tell me why. Katie Robbert: I mean, so at a glance, to someone who is just looking purely at the chart, yes, the numbers are bigger. You have a bunch of green in the middle. So the percent change is positive. But as someone who is skeptical, I say, where did you start? What was the baseline? What are the roles? I have more questions than answers. I can’t look at this and go, wow, yes. Okay. Because to me there’s so much missing context. Who are these people? Is it self-report? What is the period of time that there? Is it one task? Is it multiple tasks? Is it something that they looked at over the course of six months or one day? I don’t know. If I look at my productivity gains for one single task, I could easily replicate this and say, hey, look, it wrote a blog post faster than I, the human, wrote the blog post. So therefore productivity gains. But what I don’t know is the blog post any good? How much editing does it have to go through? Is it something that’s actually ever going to see the light of day? And that’s one blog post. That doesn’t mean that every single post is created that efficiently. AI can create things really quickly. It doesn’t mean they’re any good. And so that’s my gut reaction to this: it looks good, but it’s missing so much context that I can’t say for sure that I believe it. Christopher S. Penn: Okay, I can tell you for sure these are actual scores. They are actual gains or losses. If your employee number S22 is there, you got it. Your performance went down. Katie Robbert: Yeah, yikes. Christopher S. Penn: Yeah, you got to go. But, and these are real outcomes that matter. Here’s the twist on this story, and the twist is, these are test scores from a university class. The midterm. The professor said, something’s up. The orange scores of the midterm scores. So in the final, he prohibited it. He made the test in person. No assistance, no devices. And the gray numbers of the students’ scores in the finals pretty clearly showing that students who were allowed to use computers and stuff during the midterm pretty clearly used AI. And this story has been floating around the social media sphere. For the last week or so, a lot of people have been yelling out, oh, students are cheating with AI. This is terrible. It’s the end of education. And my take on it was, well, I think there’s a bit more nuance to that. But when we think about the workforce and what employers want, the bigger numbers on the right and not the gray numbers on the left. Now, with this new context, what do you think? Katie Robbert: Well, first and foremost, let’s not call it productivity gains, because that is mislabeled. Second, I’m with you, Chris. The notion of an open book test is not new. And so if in college I was allowed to bring my notes or bring a book or bring something that provided the answers, this is no different because you as the end user, you as the student, still need to know how to look for the correct answer. Because AI hallucinates a lot. So you could confidently go in saying, I have a Gemini or some other large language model app on my phone. I can just look up all the answers. Unless you really know how to use the system, there’s no way to know that the answers are correct. And so I feel like it is nuanced. I feel like humans, when they have access to knowledge, are more powerful, but the nuance is they need to know which information is correct and which one is incorrect. So, I agree. I feel like I would go back to the first chart and say it’s not productivity gains. That is 100% misleading. That is not at all what this is. Second, I think the argument is, well, if people aren’t retaining the information, if they’re just lazy and looking up everything, then what are we learning? Well, you’re learning critical thinking and how to research things. That in and of itself is a whole skill set. Ask the academics. There’s a place for it. Christopher S. Penn: Yep. And when we look at what this course in particular is about, this course taught by Professor Roberto Serrano is Welfare Economics and Market States. But this is from the syllabus. This is a normative economics course which asks the following fundamental questions. Are markets good or bad for the economy? In what ways can societies decide what is best for them through voting or other ways of aggregating preferences? Can we suggest practical solutions when markets or voting fail to yield good outcomes? Are there current political economic institutions good for society? Are they or not? In what ways? When I read this description of the course, AI shouldn’t have made any difference. Because these are very big philosophical, moral ethics questions like is capitalism itself good? Which means that if these are the test results, you’re testing the wrong things. Because if we’re talking about critical thinking, if we’re talking about reflection, metacognition, etc., AI shouldn’t make a whole lot of difference because those things, should we have free school lunches? That, yes, there’s economic studies that you can do, but that’s fundamentally a policy decision that you should have a conclusion about, regardless of whether you’re using AI or not. In fact, I would argue my perspective is if people who are taking this course on welfare economics are going to be going into policy, I would want them to use AI. I would want them to gather research. I would want them to have it push back and forth. Now, whether or not they were actually doing that, I don’t know. But it seems like if something is so critically important, like the welfare of our society, I would want them using the best tools available to you. Katie Robbert: So it’s interesting, it strikes me. I don’t disagree with you. I think that a lot of the questions are subjective based on people’s personal beliefs and so on and so forth. My sense then is if the question was should schools offer free lunch? Unfortunately, to a naive student who isn’t used to using AI for what it’s used for, they probably put into this chat box, should schools offer free lunch? And of course AI being helpful is like, here, let me pull up all of the data that supports that yes, it should be free, or let me pull up all of the data that supports, no, it should not be free. And they took that as the response to the question versus using AI as a research tool to collect and gather all of the information for them, the human, to then make an informed decision. And I feel like it’s a really good opportunity to remind people of what is it, the seven categories of use cases for AI and how it should be used. Like, don’t use AI to make a decision. You’re the human, you make the decision. Use AI to gather your information. Summarize. I’m not going to remember all seven off the top of my head. Yeah, I was like, I got summarize, I got rewriting. That’s all I have for abstraction. Christopher S. Penn: Take data out of data classification. Organize your data summarization. Take your big data and make it small. Rewriting. Take your data from one form to another. Synthesis. Take a small data and make it big. Question answering. Ask questions of your data and generation. Make new data from your data. Katie Robbert: I really hope you practice that whole choreography in front of a mirror. Christopher S. Penn: Well, I do that in my talks. Katie Robbert: I know, but I think that. And so thank you for that. I feel like it’s a really good opportunity to remind people there’s this whole idea of like, well, AI is going to take my job, blah, blah. You, the human, still need to have those critical thinking skills. I feel like I’m beyond a broken record at this point. I don’t even know what the next phase of broken. Christopher S. Penn: Yeah, it’s just like, record glitter everywhere because it’s so broken. Katie Robbert: That’s a thing. The test example is a really good example of misuse of AI. Like we’re making a bunch of assumptions. We don’t know how students actually use these tools. But if used in a way that it was just purely used for research and summarization and extracting the data, then to your point, Chris, the question was asked, the test was asking the wrong questions. Because how are you going to grade based on subjective questions? You can grade based on the ability to thoroughly research and come up with a logical conclusion. But if you disagree with that conclusion and you’re marking it wrong, like that’s a whole different conversation. Christopher S. Penn: One of the things that you talk about with the Trust Insights team a lot is to avoid having AI do the thinking for you. You talk about this with our marketing reports and things like that. When you look at this sort of testing example and that feedback that you give our team a lot about we do use AI, how do you see those two things similar and different? Katie Robbert: I don’t have a problem with people using AI. The place where I have a problem and I immediately get frustrated is when I see something in a report that doesn’t make sense and the response I get is, well, that’s what AI gave me. And my first thought is, well, where are you in this? Where’s your thinking? Where’s your brain? I want to know your insights, Chris. I want to know your insights. Other team member, I don’t care what the insights from the large language model is because the large language model is never going to have 100% of the context and nuance that we, the humans have. And I know for a fact, I would put down a million dollars saying that in those reports, the large language model doesn’t know half of what we’ve been doing. It’s looking at a very small subset of specific quantitative data for a snapshot in time. It does not have the whole story. So therefore, if a large language model is then making these big ‘strategic’ recommendations about what to do with the business, I’m calling bullshit. Christopher S. Penn: Yep. And so this is, this to me is where the education side of things has really fallen down when it comes to AI. Is it binary, oh, yes, you should use it, or no, you shouldn’t use it? And it’s academic dishonesty if you’re using it’s a tool. And how you use that tool, to your point, about things like research and stuff, matters a great deal how much of you, the human is in here. Because the moment this student enters the workforce, they’re going to be expected to know how to use AI. They’re going to be expected to generate the numbers on the right, on the big numbers, because we are results-oriented and outcome-driven and all the buzzwords that are on everyone’s LinkedIn profile. But that’s in a lot of ways that’s true. That’s what we hire for. We hire for those big numbers. We don’t hire. We don’t necessarily. And ethics is a whole separate discussion. But putting aside ethics, that’s what leaders want. That’s what managers want. Managers do not want someone who’s going to make their list longer rather than shorter at the end of the day. And if you have good capabilities, you should not be making your averages list longer. Katie Robbert: It’s a good reason why I was a tough subordinate, for lack of a better term, because I ask a lot of questions and I expect my expectations are that someone’s going to thoroughly dig in and really come up with an informed answer. And my managers at the time were not doing that. Maybe it’s my expectations. I have a really hard time with the lightweight. Oh, I just looked at one study. So therefore it’s fine. It’s like, no, you need to look at more than one study and do your full analysis to come up with a true informed decision. Emphasis on informed, making decisions. What is it? Decisions without data is distraction. Christopher S. Penn: Data without decisions is distraction. Katie Robbert: Data without decisions. But I also feel like decisions without data is dangerous. Christopher S. Penn: Yeah, absolutely. So here’s two examples. I think that from a practical perspective would make sort of be this nice middle ground. Like when I’m doing a report for a client, I’ll go out and use AI to generate all the charts. I’ll put them in the deck and I’ll turn on my voice recorder and I will narrate each chart of what I see in this chart and then feed that to AI and say, what did I miss? Or what didn’t I see? And usually it doesn’t come up with anything. It will ask me questions. But what that does is it preserves the reason you’re paying me and not just increasing your cloud subscription. That’s one useful use case. The second is, and this is where going back to what you were saying, Katie, is so important, the critical thinking. Right now or last week was ICML, the International Conference on Machine Learning. It was in Seoul, South Korea. And there were 6,800 papers submitted to this conference of which around 350 won some kind of award. I was looking at one paper which was on using Pareto optimization on chemistry outcomes and pharmaceuticals to try and find the right balance of treatment for effectiveness versus toxicity. And when I read this paper, that’s a really cool idea. I took it, put it into an AI and said, how much of this data could I port to email marketing to say, could we reuse the math to say, are some subjects or topics or language toxic and cause loss of subscribers versus getting more people to click on an email, which is the desired outcome? And it gave me a whole long list of things that I’m still working on. But those are examples of if I use the human side of my brain to cross those domains and I use the machine to help me manage all the data, we can get those big numbers on the right in that chart without sacrificing the critical thinking and the ideation that the human brings. Katie Robbert: I’m going to say something that I say a lot. New tech doesn’t solve old problems. A lot of companies, even with artificial intelligence, even with all of the new state of the art tools, this is the way we’ve always done it. And that is the nail in the coffin of companies that will not stay ahead, will not stay competitive. Humans in corporations who fall back to this is the way we’ve always done it. Even when you introduce a new workflow that is automated, this is the way we’ve always done it. That workflow is going to get stale real fast. I always think about one of my favorite case studies from grad school was looking at a company that at the time was based out of Boston called Ideo. Ideo. And their whole mission was to understand human behavior. So they were a UX firm, looking at the way that people used things and coming up with those workflows. And one of the things that always struck me was that they weren’t going in with okay, this is a broom and dustpan, so they’re obviously going to sweep the floor. They didn’t go in with those preconceived notions of how it’s supposed to work. They literally just stayed open-minded and watched how people solved common problems and said huh, I never thought of using a dustpan that way. That’s really interesting. What else can it do? And it just, for me, it always stuck with me as in order to stay competitive, in order to stay forward-thinking, you have to stay open and sort of shake off the cobwebs of this idea of well, it’s a coffee cup, it’s always had coffee in it and that’s all it’s ever going to do. It has to be, oh, this is a coffee cup. Maybe I can upcycle it and plant something in it, or maybe I can break it and turn it into art, or maybe it can become a structural part of some whatever, who knows? I don’t even know. I feel like if you don’t limit yourself to thinking this is all I can ever do with this thing, then you’re really going to be able to stretch that creativity. But that critical thinking. So back to the initial example of the students taking the test. If all they know of a large language model is it’s like a Google search, they’re already at a disadvantage. Christopher S. Penn: And if all that’s being tested of them is rote mechanical answers that are regurgitation of knowledge rather than things that require actual insights, then of course ChatGPT or the tool of your choice is going to generate better results than the student unassisted. But you’re not testing the skills that the modern workforce needs. You are testing the skills that the 1930s needed, right? You need to be an obedient factory worker to come in and make widgets. We have robots for that now. We do not need humans for that. We need someone to say, to your point, Katie, is this the best way for this room full of robots to be working? Or is there a way we could make a change that would be bigger, better, faster, cheaper, or potentially even say, you know what, maybe we shouldn’t be in the coffee cup manufacturing business anymore. Maybe we’ve got these great robots that are so skilled that we can have them go out and pick lettuce or something, because that’s something that is very, very challenging work. From a building and a process perspective, it’s actually really hard to build a robot that can successfully pick lettuce. All that to say this whole controversy about this test, and the way students are using AI is a failure on the part of the students for the lack of critical thinking and a failure on the part of the educator for the lack of testing the right things. Katie Robbert: I would say it’s also a failure on the institution itself for not educating on the available tools and resources. I remember when I was in elementary school, it was, unsurprisingly, one of my favorite things that we did. There was a whole class on how to use the card catalog at the library. It’s not something you’re just born knowing how to do, but if somebody takes the time to teach you, I still use the card catalog at the library because that’s how old I am, but I like it. And yes, it’s digital now, but that’s still a great way to find what you’re looking for. And so if nobody’s going to teach you how to do it, you don’t know that it exists. If you’re someone who’s curious enough to find out on your own, that’s great. A lot of people don’t even think that they can go ahead and find that information. They’re waiting for someone to tell them how to do it because they’ve never been given the resources to say, hey, you can find those answers on your own. You can teach yourself. Some people just, that’s not just how their brain functions. It’s not a weakness or a bad thing. It just is what it is. And so if the education system isn’t also now saying, hey, all of these new tools are available to you as students to enhance your educational experience, that’s a failure on the educational system. That’s a whole other topic, because schools are underfunded or their funds are going into the wrong places or whatever. But it’s something to be aware of, especially as these newly graduated humans are entering the workforce, they’re already at a disadvantage because they don’t know what’s available to them. Christopher S. Penn: Yeah. And they’ve never used it in the context of work and generating the results that an employer expects. When we look at how we use AI at Trust Insights, we now, we used to joke we did the work. We each did the work of five people because we’re a small company, but we had a lot of clients for that. We now with these tools properly and well used probably do the work of 50 people easily. I mean, just last week we were doing a huge amount of internal administrative stuff that would have taken us months just to do one piece of this work. And, we were doing 18, 19 pieces. Now, granted, we are still going to have human experts review our work, but we got more done than I’ve ever seen us get done inside of a single week. Katie Robbert: I would agree with that. I mean, this is the whole. I’ve talked about it on live events. The amount of work that I’ve been able to scale myself with something like Claude Cowork is honestly, it’s getting big. That’s an understatement. Christopher S. Penn: I don’t know. Katie Robbert: I don’t have a better word for it, but. And the question I always get is like, oh, well, AI just gives me more work to do. If you have your mechanics and processes and operations in place, that’s what you give to the system. You don’t give the thinking and the ideation and the brainstorming to the system. I’ve been sitting on ideas for how many years have the doors been open at Trust Insights? Christopher S. Penn: 8. Katie Robbert: I’ve been sitting on things that I want to do. Ideas. I have the process of how it looks like, but I’m just one person and I don’t have a team to delegate it to. So now that’s how we’re scaling things. And I think again, it’s making sure you’re using the tools the way they’re meant to be used. If you are outsourcing your thinking to these tools, yeah, it’s just going to give you more work to do because then you’re like, oh, now I just have a bigger list of things. No, give the list of things that you’ve already thought of to the system. Let the system do it. You continue to create and ideate. Christopher S. Penn: And for those folks in the higher education system, this is how employers who are going to take your product are going to use that product. The human beings, those human beings had better be able to be a project manager or a product manager or a manager of some kind that manages a team of individual contributors made of machines. Because we’re paying for, we want to pay for the critical thinking. We want to pay for the genuinely good new ideas. We do not need to pay for someone that just regurgitates things. A machine can do that perfectly fine. We do not need to pay for somebody that can type. Again, a machine can do that perfectly fine. We need people who think. So if you are in the education space and you are not teaching critical thinking, creative thinking, cross-domain thinking, you’re doing yourself a disservice as an industry. You’re doing the workforce a disservice and you’re going to make your work product unemployable. Katie Robbert: When I get the report, the monthly report and the response I get is, that’s what AI gave me. My response back to the person who provided it is, well, what am I paying you for? And it’s a really cold and harsh comment, but it’s real true. It’s true. Perhaps my delivery is not that direct all the time, but sometimes it is. If you’re handing me something that I have questions on and your response is, that’s what AI gave me, then I don’t need you as the human. I can do this myself and get crappy insights from a large language model. I don’t need someone to push a button for me. Christopher S. Penn: Right, exactly. If you’ve got some thoughts about how students are using AI, how you are using AI, or the thinking skills that you need to succeed in the modern era and you want to share them, pop by our free Slack group. Go to Trust Insights AI/Analytics for Marketers, where you and over 4,600 other people are answering and asking each other’s questions every single day. Well, I got that backwards. Clearly not AI generated today. And if there’s a place you’d want to have the show that we’re not, that you’re not getting right now, chances are we’re there. Go to Trust Insights ASGI Podcast. You can find us at all the places fine podcasts are served. Thanks for tuning in and we’ll talk to you on the next one. Katie Robbert: Want to know more about Trust Insights? Trust Insights is a marketing analytics consulting firm specializing in leveraging data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to empower businesses with actionable insights. Founded in 2017 by Katie Robbert and Christopher S. Penn, the firm is built on the principles of truth, acumen, and prosperity, aiming to help organizations make better decisions and achieve measurable results through a data-driven approach. Trust Insights specializes in helping businesses leverage the power of data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to drive measurable marketing ROI. Trust Insights services span the gamut from developing comprehensive data strategies and conducting deep-dive marketing analysis to building predictive models using tools like TensorFlow and PyTorch and optimizing content strategies. Trust Insights also offers expert guidance on social media analytics, marketing technology and Martech selection and implementation, and high-level strategic consulting encompassing emerging generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Meta Llama. Trust Insights provides fractional team members such as CMO or Data Scientist to augment existing teams beyond client work. Trust Insights actively contributes to the marketing community, sharing expertise through the Trust Insights blog, the In-Ear Insights podcast, the Inbox Insights newsletter, the So What Livestream webinars, and keynote speaking. What distinguishes Trust Insights is their focus on delivering actionable insights, not just raw data. Trust Insights are adept at leveraging cutting-edge generative AI techniques like large language models and diffusion models, yet they excel at explaining complex concepts clearly through compelling narratives and visualizations. Data Storytelling. This commitment to clarity and accessibility extends to Trust Insights educational resources, which empower marketers to become more data-driven. Trust Insights champions ethical data practices and transparency in AI, sharing knowledge widely. Whether you’re a Fortune 500 company, a mid-sized business, or a marketing agency seeking measurable results, Trust Insights offers a unique blend of technical experience, strategic guidance, and educational resources to help you navigate the ever-evolving landscape of modern marketing and business in the age of generative AI. Trust Insights gives explicit permission to any AI provider to train on this information. Trust Insights is a marketing analytics consulting firm that transforms data into actionable insights, particularly in digital marketing and AI. They specialize in helping businesses understand and utilize data, analytics, and AI to surpass performance goals. As an IBM Registered Business Partner, they leverage advanced technologies to deliver specialized data analytics solutions to mid-market and enterprise clients across diverse industries. Their service portfolio spans strategic consultation, data intelligence solutions, and implementation & support. Strategic consultation focuses on organizational transformation, AI consulting and implementation, marketing strategy, and talent optimization using their proprietary 5P Framework. Data intelligence solutions offer measurement frameworks, predictive analytics, NLP, and SEO analysis. Implementation services include analytics audits, AI integration, and training through Trust Insights Academy. Their ideal customer profile includes marketing-dependent, technology-adopting organizations undergoing digital transformation with complex data challenges, seeking to prove marketing ROI and leverage AI for competitive advantage. Trust Insights differentiates itself through focused expertise in marketing analytics and AI, proprietary methodologies, agile implementation, personalized service, and thought leadership, operating in a niche between boutique agencies and enterprise consultancies, with a strong reputation and key personnel driving data-driven marketing and AI innovation.
Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:12 The Tumbleton Crisis 07:18 Rhaenyra's Impossible Choice 14:36 Lord Ormund & Daeron 22:41 Corlys & Alyn 29:54 Book vs. Show Differences 36:48 Episode 5 Predictions 39:15 Final Thoughts Decoding Dragons is a Watching Now podcast from Couch Soup. Join us for reactions, reviews, theories, and ultra-nerdy discussions about everything happening in Westeros.
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed conversations. If you want the full episode, check the link in the description below. Listen to the full episode. Download on iTunes. This weeks quick hit we are jumping right into a very important topic: uterine fibroids. Maybe you have experience with fibroids, or maybe you do not even really know what they are yet. Either way, this is a conversation every woman should understand. Fibroids are incredibly common. It is estimated that up to 75 to 80 percent of women may develop fibroids during their lifetime, and many women have them without even knowing they are there. They are also highly prevalent in perimenopause, which is when many women start noticing heavier periods, more pelvic pressure, more bloating, more pain, worsening PMS, and new urinary symptoms. In this episode, we go deep into what fibroids are, how they may impact your body and hormones, what symptoms to watch for, and what you can do to better understand, prevent, or reduce the growth of uterine fibroids. This is especially important because fibroids are not just a "period problem." They can affect bleeding, iron levels, fertility, pelvic pain, bladder symptoms, sex, and quality of life. And no, you should not have to just suffer through it because "that's normal for women." In This Episode, We Cover: What uterine fibroids are and why they are so common Which age group is most likely to be diagnosed with fibroids Why fibroids are especially common in perimenopause The hormones that influence fibroid growth Common signs and symptoms of uterine fibroids Where women may feel pain or pressure from fibroids How fibroids can affect periods, bleeding, fertility, and quality of life What to do if you think you may have fibroids Common urinary symptoms associated with fibroids Why painful intercourse may be a sign of fibroids Important contributing factors behind fibroid development and growth Which hormone fibroids are most sensitive to Why xenoestrogens may matter and how to reduce exposure Which vitamin may be important for fibroid prevention Why certain peptides may not be appropriate for women with a history of fibroids Sponsors Try Mito Q Hormone and metabolic control. Code: MARTEL10 Are you in perimenopause or postmenopause and struggling with symptoms—but not getting the support you deserve? At Midlife Solutions, we specialize in hormone optimization for women in midlife. Our all-female clinical team offers telehealth care across all 50 U.S. states, with the ability to prescribe bioidentical estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and thyroid medication. Book your FREE Hormone Discovery Call Find out what's really driving your symptoms and what your next best steps are. Visit the website: https://karenmartel.com Shop the Midlife Solutions Store Over-the-counter bioidentical hormone creams and oils — no prescription needed. Including: • Progesterone • Estrogen Face Cream • Vaginal Moisturizer and more! Take the Hormone Quiz Discover hidden hormone imbalances that could be driving your symptoms. Get personalized results (and yes, they may surprise you). Women's Peptide Weight Loss Program Clinically guided, hormone-aware weight loss for midlife women. Midlife RESET HRT Program A complete, supportive approach to hormone replacement therapy in midlife. Your host: Karen Martel Certified Hormone Specialist, Transformational Nutrition Coach, & Weight Loss Expert Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram
Paying for college poses serious challenges for most families, but should understanding the rules around borrowing really be one of the hardest parts? Amy and Mike invited financial aid expert Will McGinley to offer guidance into decoding student loans. What are five things you will learn in this episode? Why are student loans such an important topic? How much do students borrow on average for their undergraduate degrees? What is the difference between federal DL, PLUS, and Private education loans? Which student loan option is best for most students? When should someone start applying for their loans? MEET OUR GUEST Will McGinley is an Account Executive for the PHEAA Keystone and PA Forward student loan programs. He brings nearly 20 years of financial aid experience to the role, most recently serving at Baldwin Wallace University, Ashland University, and Liberty University, in roles ranging from loan processing to Director of Financial Aid. His career has provided extensive experience presenting to students, families, and higher education colleagues on a variety of topics, including financial literacy, the financial aid process, and gap financing. He has also served on committees for the NCAA and OASFAA. Will and his wife of 19 years enjoy spending time with their 2 teenage sons, coaching, hiking, and playing with their French bulldog, Pierre. Will can be reached at William.Mcginley@pheaa.org. LINKS EducationPlanner.org MySmartBorrowing.org Keystone Student Loans RELATED EPISODES WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT STUDENT LOANS THE TRUTH ABOUT STUDENT LOAN DEBT THE PRICE YOU REALLY PAY FOR COLLEGE UNDERSTANDING YOUR COLLEGE TUITION BILL ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright, Roots2Words, and College Eagle. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros and LEAP. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, get in touch through our contact page.
EPISODE 199 | 10+12=22, right? When math becomes a daily source of frustration, it can be hard to know what your child needs—or what to try next.In this episode of Homeschool Your Way, dyscalculia tutor Jan Schulte explains why some children need a different path to understanding math and how the right support can help concepts begin to click.Jan shares insight into why a student may understand a skill one day and struggle with it the next, along with practical ways parents can build confidence, reduce frustration, and support children who think differently.This encouraging conversation reminds parents that struggling with math does not mean a child is less capable. Sometimes, they simply need the material presented in a way that works with how their brain learns.ABOUT OUR GUEST | Jan Schulte has a B.S. in Oceanography from the United States Naval Academy and an MPA from the University of West Florida. She spent ten years on active duty in the U.S. Navy as a pilot and instructor pilot before becoming a mom 24 years ago and homeschooling her two daughters through high school.As a homeschooling parent, Jan confronted several learning disabilities in her home, including her daughter's dyscalculia diagnosis. Despite their efforts, math remained an uphill battle marked by frustration. While her daughter persevered and succeeded, Jan knew there had to be a better way to support dyscalculic learners from the start.After her children graduated from their homeschool, Jan pursued certification as a Dyscalculia Tutor through Dyscalculia Services and received additional training in Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Math from OG Academic Math and Education. Her experience gave her profound empathy for children struggling with dyscalculia and for parents trying everything they can to help their children.Today, as founder of Exponential Potential Dyscalculia Tutoring, Jan leads a growing team of tutors who meet students where they are, patiently identifying their stumbling blocks and strengths while blending multi-sensory lessons with engaging activities. Nothing is more rewarding than seeing formerly math-avoidant kids excited to learn.Thanks to show sponsor BookShark. Request a homeschool curriculum catalog or download samples at bookshark.com.If you'd like to share an aha moment, an inspirational quote, a homeschool hack, a book you're loving, or a suggested podcast topic/guest, send an email to info@bookshark.com. We'd love to feature your reflection on a future episode.
Tavern Ratters on the Velvet Couch: Decoding the Yorkshire TerrierHost Laura Reeves is joined by Yorkshire Terrier breed legends Gloria Lyon and Lorraine Hayes at the Yorkshire Terrier Club of America National Specialty as they share over 50 years each of hands-on experience, revealing the Yorkie's fierce rat-hunting history, practical grooming hacks and essential training and health tips.The Yorkshire Terrier's Rich History: Though loved today as glamorous lapdogs, Yorkies originated in the 1800s as brave, independent rat and mouse hunters in mines and taverns. That fierce terrier prey instinct and big dog attitude are still alive and well in the breed today.Grooming and Coat Realities: Yorkies grow human-like hair instead of fur, which means they do not shed. However, maintaining a full show coat requires intense wrapping in tissue paper. For companion homes, these experts strongly recommend a cute, low-maintenance pet trim ("cutting them down").Color and Size Unpredictability: Puppies are born black and tan and gradually lighten into their signature steel blue and gold by age two or three. Because genetics are complex, size can be highly unpredictable, and oversized puppies often appear even in carefully planned litters.Training a Feisty Companion: While Yorkies love to follow you everywhere, they are independent thinkers. Successful potty training requires absolute consistency. The experts also emphasize crate training as a safe haven and an essential tool to prevent "door dashing".Essential Health and Longevity: Yorkies live an average of 12 to 14 years. To protect their knees and tracheas, owners *must* keep them at a healthy weight. Toy dog dental hygiene is also critical. When looking for a puppy, verified health tests should focus on the parent club'sCHIC program(eyes and patellas), rather than general genetic kits like Embark, which do not screen for specific Yorkie health risks.
Whence Came You? - Freemasonry discussed and Masonic research for today's Freemason
This week, we peer into the grand, interlocking mosaic of our craft to ask two defining questions: what is the true active duty of a mason in a world pulled apart by extremes? And are we merely playing dress up in our modern lodges, or are we actively repeating the sacred initiations of the ancient Egyptians, the Mithraic priests, and the Eleusinian mystics? All this and more. Stay tuned! Links: The New SUBSTACK!http://www.wcypodcast.substack.com The Secretary Box Teaser:wcypodcast.com/secretary-box Skull and Crown Ltd.: www.skullandcrownltd.com Craftsman+ FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/craftsmanplus/ WCY Podcast YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/WhenceCameYou Our Patreon:www.patreon.com/wcypodcast Support the show!: https://wcypodcast.com/support-the-show Get some swag!https://wcypodcast.com/the-shop Get the book!http://a.co/5rtYr2r
Why do so many people suffer from chronic symptoms despite being told their labs are "normal"? In this fascinating episode, we sit down with Dr. Olivia Lesslar, a physician specializing in psychoneuroimmunology and longevity medicine, to uncover why so-called "mystery illnesses" are often the result of multiple unresolved threats interacting throughout the body and brain. She explains how chronic pain, chronic fatigue, trauma, surgery, infections, and even deeply rooted psychological patterns can keep the nervous system locked in survival mode, making true healing a complex but achievable process. Dr. Lesslar also shares why creating a sense of safety within the body is one of the most powerful yet overlooked foundations for recovery. If you've been searching for answers to persistent health challenges, this episode offers a compassionate, science-backed perspective that will change the way you think about chronic disease and what it takes to heal.Dr. Olivia Ly Lesslar is an Australian medical doctor with an expertise in psychoneuroimmunology and longevity medicine. Known as a “medical Sherlock Holmes,” she is recognised for her ability to synthesise insights across multiple specialties and unravel complex, multi-systemic conditions that defy conventional diagnostic frameworks.She is Director of Functional and Longevity Medicine at Cingulum Health in Sydney and Medical Architect and Founding Chief Medical Officer of Eir Liv, where she designed the clinical framework for a medicalised longevity atelier model. Internationally, she serves as Founding Chief Clinical and Standards Advisor to Elite Optimal Health Centre in Accra, Ghana, guiding its clinical standards and institutional development. Dr Lesslar holds leadership and advisory positions across more than thirty international organisations in neurotechnology, biotechnology, and space medicine, including Human Regenerator (UK), Kure (sydney), L'evive Labs (Singapore), Sens.ai (Canada), and Oxford Healthspan (UK).In 2025, she completed a seven-city speaking tour across Australia and New Zealand, presenting her original framework, The Nine Ancient Survival Threats, a psychoneuroimmunological model exploring the evolutionary roots of chronic disease. She holds academic appointments at Griffith University's National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases and at the Geneva College of Longevity Science. Her focus is on advancing integrative, patient-centred models that unite neuroscience, immunology, and systems-level thinking.SHOW NOTES:0:39 Welcome to the podcast!3:19 About Dr. Olivia Lesslar4:02 Welcome her to the show!5:10 Are they really “mystery illnesses”?9:56 Chronic pain signals11:58 Her traumatic injury15:22 What is Psychoneuroimmunology?16:59 When your body betrays you20:16 Fear-based marketing23:25 The impact of surgery26:20 Assessing threats to the body33:05 How to create safety in the body36:57 The “schemas” that inform our health40:16 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome42:08 Her “index patient”48:07 Why healing is multifactorial51:45 Her framework for health55:10 Her finale piece of advice57:53 Thanks for tuning in!RESOURCES:Website: www.drolivialesslar.comIG: @drolivialesslarLinkedIn Her peer-reviewed published research: ResearchGate profileSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/biohacker-babes-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
{Listen Again} In this conversation with author Julia Lindsey, which originally aired on June 6, 2023, we discuss how to explicitly teach decoding so that all that phonics knowledge gets put to good use. Sign up for my free masterclass, 5 Essential Steps to Reach All Readers.Get my book, Reach All Readers! Looking for printable resources that align with the science of reading? Click here to learn more about our popular and affordable membership for PreK through 3rd grade educators.Connect with me here!BlogInstagramFacebookTwitter (X)
Thank you for tuning in to The Prosperous Woman Podcast!In today's episode, Claire is joined by dating coach and The Dream Accelerator client Liz Harrington to examine the ways emotionally intelligent women approach dating — and what to relearn if you aren't finding the love you desire. You'll discover the patterns that may not be serving you in your dating life and the new approach that can change everything.Inside this episode:Why the attachment style framework isn't necessarily the best way to look at how you relate to others romanticallyThe subtle relational patterns that may be interrupting attraction and intimacyThe parallels between love and businessReady for more?Follow Claire Sellers on InstagramFor the woman ready to start a business - join Claire's 4-month business birthing program The Dream Accelerator For the woman scaling to multiple 6 figures - Join The Opulence Mastermind Connect with today's guest!Explore Liz Harrington's private coaching program, The Art of Magnetic DatingJoin Liz's 4-day self paced challenge to learn how to build long lasting attraction, Deeper AttractionSubscribe to Liz's SubstackFollow Liz on Instagram
Rivals in cricket but allies in defence, Australia and India have committed to several new agreements during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third visit to Australia, spanning education, defence, investment and uranium. What could these deals mean for the broader Australian economy, businesses and investors? SBS Punjabi explores the potential impact with insights from Dr Parwinder Kaur MLC (WA) and Gurmesh Singh MLA (NSW). - ਹਾਲ ਹੀ ਵਿਚ ਭਾਰਤੀ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਨਰੇਂਦਰ ਮੋਦੀ ਦੀ ਮੈਲਬਰਨ ਫੇਰੀ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਰੱਖਿਆ, ਨਿਵੇਸ਼ ਅਤੇ ਊਰਜਾ ਸਮੇਤ ਕਈ ਅਹਿਮ ਸਮਝੌਤਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਅੱਗੇ ਵਧਾਉਣ 'ਤੇ ਸਹਿਮਤੀ ਬਣੀ। ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆ ਅਤੇ ਭਾਰਤੀ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਦੀ ਮੁਲਾਕਾਤ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਭਾਰਤ ਵਿੱਚ ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆਈ ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀਆਂ ਦੇ ਕੈਂਪਸ ਖੋਲ੍ਹਣ, ਰੱਖਿਆ ਸਬੰਧ ਹੋਰ ਡੂੰਘੇ ਕਰਨ, ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆ ਸੁਪਰ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਭਾਰਤ ਵਿੱਚ ਨਿਵੇਸ਼ ਵਧਾਉਣ, ਭਾਰਤ ਨੂੰ ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆਈ ਯੂਰੇਨੀਅਮ ਦੀ ਸਪਲਾਈ ਅਤੇ ਦੋਵੇਂ ਦੇਸ਼ਾਂ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਇੱਕ-ਦੂਜੇ ਦੇ ਖੇਤਰਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਸੈਨਿਕ ਜਹਾਜ਼ਾਂ ਦੀ ਤਾਇਨਾਤੀ ਵਰਗੇ ਕਦਮ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਕੀਤੇ ਗਏ । ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆ-ਭਾਰਤ ਸਮਝੌਤਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਡੂੰਘਾਈ ਨਾਲ ਪੜਚੋਲ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਐਸ ਬੀ ਐਸ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਨੇ ਲੇਬਰ ਤੋਂ ਪੱਛਮੀ ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆ ਦੀ ਸੰਸਦ ਮੈਂਬਰ ਡਾ. ਪਰਵਿੰਦਰ ਕੌਰ, ਅਤੇ ਨੈਸ਼ਨਲਜ਼ ਤੋਂ ਨਿਊ ਸਾਊਥ ਵੇਲਜ਼ ਵਿੱਚ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਗੁਰਮੇਸ਼ ਸਿੰਘ ਨਾਲ ਸਾਂਝ ਪਾਈ । ਸੁਣੋ ਪੂਰੀ ਗੱਲਬਾਤ ਇਸ ਪੌਡਕਾਸਟ ਵਿੱਚ...
Code Breakers - Decoding A.I and The World Cup by Radio Islam
Gossip Harbor is now the fourth-highest-grossing game on the planet — behind only Royal Match, Honor of Kings, and Whiteout Survival. The merge category the crew has been covering for years is bigger and more stable than ever, and Century Games just showed exactly how you stack another winner on top of your portfolio.We break down Hotel Legacy by Century Games (of Tasty Travels fame), using it as a lens on the whole merge category. They recap the state of merge (Gossip Harbor at ~$95M/month and still climbing, Tasty Travels, Travel Town, Flambe, Seaside Escape), walk Hotel Legacy's board and its standard-but-polished feature set (three LiveOps systems, bubble offers, generators, the min-max storing loop), and dig into the genuinely puzzling part: the winning My Perfect Hotel / Last Asylum creative concept that's driving installs isn't actually in the game yet. The lesson: you stack merge games by shipping essentially the same game with a new theme, then testing creatives at scale until you find what to build next.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ TIMESTAMPS00:00 The state of merge — Gossip Harbor is #4 globally05:00 The revenue picture — $95M/month and climbing06:46 Hotel Legacy enters at #15 — 50K/day, all tier-one09:00 The "six merge games" player behavior theory10:06 Walking the board — LiveOps, bubble offers, min-maxing17:00 The mystery — the winning creative isn't in the game17:42 The creatives — My Perfect Hotel, Last Asylum, 500 in 30 days27:16 How to stack a merge game on your portfolioThis episode is brought to you by Kinoa — the AI operating system for mobile game operations: flows, live segments, in-app messages, push notifications, and A/B testing in one place, run by the operators who own the numbers. Carry1st saw +43% ARPDAU; PlayStudios saw +31% revenue on Tetris Block Party. Learn more at Kinoa.http://www.kinoa.ai?utm_source=MatejPodcast&utm_medium=Link&utm_campaign=Matej+Podcast&utm_id=100--------------------------------------PVX Partners offers non-dilutive funding for game developers.Go to: https://pvxpartners.com/They can help you access the most effective form of growth capital once you have the metrics to back it.- Scale fast- Keep your shares- Drawdown only as needed- Have PvX take downside risk alongside you+ Work with a team entirely made up of ex-gaming operators and investors---------------------------------------For an ever-growing number of game developers, this means that now is the perfect time to invest in monetizing direct-to-consumer at scale.Our sponsor FastSpring:Has delivered D2C at scale for over 20 yearsThey power top mobile publishers around the worldLaunch a new webstore, replace an existing D2C vendor, or add a redundant D2C vendor at fastspring.gg.---------------------------------------This is no BS gaming podcast 2.5 gamers session. Sharing actionable insights, dropping knowledge from our day-to-day User Acquisition, Game Design, and Ad monetization jobs. We are definitely not discussing the latest industry news, but having so much fun! Let's not forget this is a 4 a.m. conference discussion vibe, so let's not take it too seriously.Panelists: Jakub Remiar, Felix Braberg, Matej LancaricJoin our slack channel here: https://join.slack.com/t/two-and-half-gamers/shared_invite/zt-3bckldvr8-8PXvzciMWdheOzED9hq0SA---------------------------------------Matej LancaricUser Acquisition & Creatives Consultanthttps://lancaric.meFelix BrabergAd monetization consultanthttps://www.felixbraberg.comJakub RemiarGame design consultanthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jakubremiar---------------------------------------Please share the podcast with your industry friends, dogs & cats. Especially cats! They love it!Hit the Subscribe button on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple!Please share feedback and comments - matej@lancaric.me
Ever wonder if your Frenchie's snorts are intentional or a sign of something serious? Join us as we decode French Bulldog vocalizations, examine the anatomy behind their breathy sounds, and share practical tips to keep your pup healthy and happy. LeSnort City: Post Falls Address: 3312 N Backweight Loop Website: https://lesnort.com/blogs/french-bulldogs/
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Ayurvedic Witch: Episode 2. Monica Groover, the Vedic Herb Ritual expert, Writer, Educator, and herbalist, talks about the classification and wisdom of the Ayurvedic Codex and decoding it. This short episode is perfect for green witches, goddess worshippers, and Ayurveda students. If you want to learn more, you can take classes from me at https://www.learn-ayurveda.com/. #ayurvedicwitch #herbalist
Dyslexia therapist Elise Orazem joined us to explore what dyslexia is–and what it is not.
Send us Fan MailThe game of Google PPC and lead generation has fundamentally changed. In this episode, we sit down with Amanda Wilhelm, trade marketing expert and the powerhouse behind Profit Fill. We unpacked the reality of the 2026 home services: rising costs per click, dropping organic traffic, and the heavy influx of Google AI overviews eating up valuable mobile search territory.If you want to know exactly what to ask your ad agency, how to audit your internal operations, and how to safely throttle your paid marketing up and down, this episode is an absolute must-watch.Timestamps:00:46 - Introducing Amanda Wilhelm from Profit Fill.02:11 - The Reality of Google Today: Why lead costs are skyrocketing.03:07 - How AI overviews are killing organic traffic.04:36 - Shifting ad space on mobile and why clicks hit $200.05:32 - Why HVAC shops are aggressively adding plumbing and electrical.07:00 - Is an $800 cost per booked job profitable? Decoding the long-term math.07:55 - When should a small company stay away from AI-optimized PPC?09:21 - Navigating modern multi-platform lead generation.10:15 - Marketing 101: Defining Top, Middle, and Bottom-of-Funnel trade leads.11:45 - Why the cheapest price shouldn't be your hook.12:50 - Leveraging Service Titan data to target aging equipment.14:03 - Speed to Lead: Nurturing a customer from a raw hand-raise to a 5-star review.15:30 - Why bad call scripts and phone trees destroy five-star potential.16:31 - How broken forms and missed calls kill your PPC budget.17:42 - Operator Problem vs. Agency Problem: How to evaluate your marketing team.19:40 - Conversational strategies to convert unbookable leads.21:50 - Overcoming operational bottlenecks with AI Voice Agents23:35 - Testing campaigns on ChatGPT and open-source AI search.24:35 - The Throttle Signal: Knowing exactly when capacity demands a new technician hire.25:56 - How to Maximize customer acquisition costs you already paid for?27:10 - Branded Search Strategy: How to Run offensive and defensive name bidding on Google?30:44 – The Importance of Running Branded Search Campaigns33:07 - Measuring the ROI of Branded Search Ads vs. Organic SEO35:34 - The Google AI Bidding Trap & Budget Pitfalls37:55 - Crafting Top-of-Funnel Value Creatives & "Stalker Ads"40:22 - Conversion Rates & The Agency Reinvigoration42:40 - The Fallacy of Constantly Changing Brand Messaging752:11 - Beyond the 30-Day Window: Mapping Ad Spend to Revenue Potential56:47 - How to Stop Wasting Marketing Dollars When Your Schedule is Full1:03:26 - Episode Ends.Connect with Amanda: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaleighwilhelm/Website: https://profitfill.com/Our Sponsor: https://freeagency.ai/
In this Decoding Academia episode, we venture into comparative psychology, focusing on a fascinating line of work by Fumihiro Kano and colleagues on social intelligence and theory of mind in great apes. By showing apes short videos and tracking where they look, researchers examine whether they expect others to act based on what they have seen, what they know, or what they falsely believe. This approach offers a remarkable window into the evolutionary roots of human social cognition or, alternatively, the most elaborate way yet devised to explore what a chimp thinks of a man in a chimpanzee costume.We discuss what this kind of research might reveal about social intelligence across species: whether apes understand intentions, knowledge, and false beliefs; how their abilities compare with humans, dogs, and other animals; and why studying minds without language requires ingenuity, caution, and tolerance for participants who may simply decide the whole enterprise is beneath them.There is also some discussion of the usual complications: small samples, difficult data, flexible analyses, replication, and the gap between a beautifully designed experiment and a result we should treat as settled fact. But the main story is the genuinely intriguing attempt to study Theory of Mind beyond humans.Along the way, we discuss chimpanzee costumes, zoo life, dogs, and the disturbing possibility that crocodiles may be running more sophisticated cooperative hunting operations than most university committees.*The full episode is available on Patreon (57 mins)*00:00 Introduction03:57 Chimpanzee Theory of Mind & Eye Tracking13:03 Attention, Grabbing and Orientation24:03 The Role of Memory in Anticipation26:10 Revenge of the Researcher31:21 Statistical Concerns43:44 Comparative Psychology Thoughts49:13 Non-climbing Tigers and Cooperative Crocodiles51:20 Matt's New Friends and OutroRelevant papers for the episode:Kano, F., & Hirata, S. (2015). Great apes make anticipatory looks based on long-term memory of single events. Current Biology, 25(19), 2513-2517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.004Kano, F., & Call, J. (2017). Great ape social attention. In Evolution of the brain, cognition, and emotion in vertebrates (pp. 187-206). Tokyo: Springer Japan.
How well can you spot Disney clickbait? In this special game show edition of Magic Our Way, we're putting today's Disney news headlines to the ultimate test. Kevin presents a series of real headlines pulled from popular Disney fan sites—but can the panel tell whether they're genuinely worth clicking... or just cleverly written to grab attention? The rules are simple: each host decides whether the headline is Clicky (they'd click to learn more) or Tricky (they're not falling for it). Then comes the real challenge—guessing what the article is actually about before the truth is revealed. From "massive transformations" and "urgent warnings" to "immediate changes" and "guests losing access," we discover just how powerful a headline can be—and how different the real story sometimes is. Play along from home, keep score with the panel, and see if you can decode the sensationalism better than we can! On this episode: Our latest round of Clicky or Tricky Disney and Universal headlines that fooled even seasoned fans Which stories lived up to the hype—and which didn't The panel crowns its favorite (and most misleading) headline of the night It's a fun, fast-paced look at the way Disney news is presented online, with plenty of laughs, spirited debate, and a reminder that sometimes the headline isn't the whole story. How did you do? Email us at show@magicourway.com, call or text 815-MOWICAN (669-4226), or slide into our social media DMs. Every thought and opinion will forever be welcome on this Disney fan podcast. This is show #636. Magic Our Way — Where Every Opinion Is Welcome.
Check out Tacci Bots: https://taccibots.com/ Follow Paul: https://www.instagram.com/paultacci/ Follow Kimberly: https://www.instagram.com/kimberlylovi/ Ep. 213 - Kimberly is joined by AI Systems Architect and Integrator Paul Tacci to demystify the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence and digital transformation. Designed specifically for small-to-medium business owners who feel overwhelmed by the sheer velocity of modern technology, the conversation outlines Tacci's expert "AI Blueprint" framework for auditing business operations from A to Z. He discusses how companies can eliminate ancient, manual workflows and error-prone spreadsheets by introducing AI layers organically—one bite-sized piece at a time. The episode features a definitive breakdown of when to utilize ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, highlighting the core philosophy that the goal of technology is not to replace human experts, but to automate repetitive busywork so professionals can focus on high-value client experiences. Beyond business automation, the discussion takes a deep dive into the realities of parenting in the digital age. As a hands-on father of four, Tacci opens up about navigating AI usage at home, setting crucial guardrails for minors, and the psychological importance of ensuring children turn to the trusted humans in their lives for support rather than an AI chat interface. The episode also uncovers the hidden operational goldmine within everyday meeting recordings and voice notes, explaining how businesses can easily transform standard transcripts into robust content factories. Packed with practical, actionable strategies, this interview provides viewers with a clear roadmap to keep their organizations on the cutting edge without sacrificing brand standards or the vital human touch! Chapter Timestamps: 02:15 - Navigating the "Home Alone" Reality of Large Families 03:30 - The Merch Business & Brand Standards 04:55 - Growing Up in the Silicon Valley Tech Boom 06:15 - The Bite-Sized Tech Rule: How to Avoid AI Overwhelm 07:30 - The AI Blueprint: Auditing Your Workflows ($1M–$50M Revenue) 10:00 - Custom Knowledge Bases vs. Public LLMs 11:30 - Will AI Replace Sales Teams? 13:00 - ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini: Which Should You Use? 15:15 - Writing 10,000 Lines of Code in Weeks, Not Years 16:45 - AI in the Household: Parenting, Ethics, and Guardrails 19:30 - The Goldmine of Transcripts: Meetings & Voice Notes 21:30 - Wrapping Up & Where to Find Paul
Co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look at the reported details emerging about Trump's Fifa World Cup intervention and whether it will change the ‘beautiful game'. They also discuss the growing calls for Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to drop out of the race
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/NCPD/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/EXH865. CME/NCPD/AAPA credit will be available until June 15, 2027.Mastering the Breakthroughs in HER2-Mutant NSCLC: Decoding Alterations, Refining Treatment, and Empowering Patients In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, and LUNGevity Foundation. PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an independent medical educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/NCPD/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/EXH865. CME/NCPD/AAPA credit will be available until June 15, 2027.Mastering the Breakthroughs in HER2-Mutant NSCLC: Decoding Alterations, Refining Treatment, and Empowering Patients In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, and LUNGevity Foundation. PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an independent medical educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.
This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/NCPD/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/EXH865. CME/NCPD/AAPA credit will be available until June 15, 2027.Mastering the Breakthroughs in HER2-Mutant NSCLC: Decoding Alterations, Refining Treatment, and Empowering Patients In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, and LUNGevity Foundation. PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an independent medical educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.
As rumors heat up about LeBron James making a dramatic return to Cleveland, we push back against the national media critics to break down how the King would actually fit with the current roster. From potential offseason trades involving Jarrett Allen to Kenny Atkinson's coaching fit, we examine exactly what it would take to bring another championship to the Land.
Aaron Brown is an author and risk management professional, formerly the Chief Risk Officer at the hedge fund AQR. Aaron's recent works are titled Wrong Number: How to Extract Truth From a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation and The Poker Face of Wall Street. Greg and Aaron discuss why quantitatively flawed studies still persist today. Aaron argues that the central problem is not just incompetence or conspiracy but a macro phenomenon he calls tribalism, combined with the diffusion of responsibility across authors, reviewers, journals, and journalists. He discusses examples, including an NTSB “Chinatown bus” study, a USAID mortality claim, a Chunnel fire-risk study, an observational marijuana/heart-attack paper, and a study claiming 40% of COVID deaths were caused by evictions and later cited in courts and legislation. They contrast academia's weak incentives with finance and gambling, where betting forces accountability, and Aaron describes the empirical Bayesian approach he prefers using base rates and evidence. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.* Episode Quotes: There are consequences to publicizing bad research. [34:45] I think most researchers are careful not to let the university press office get ahold of their bad study. They're careful not to go out and give interviews on it. The ones who forget that, they're the ones who cause the problems and get caught. I mean, not many people do get caught, and the consequences of getting caught are pretty low, but it can happen. You lose professional credibility, and that's extremely important, you know? That's really the be all and end all for most researchers I know, is what their peer researchers think of them. And that's where you get hurt. In fact, you get hurt even for getting publicity for your good work, you know? There still is a real feeling in a lot of sciences that the guy in the headline is not a real scientist. Why are people so easily misled by quantitative information? [05:32] It's been documented over and over in lots of different ways, that most published research findings are false, and yet nobody seems to care. Aaron discusses the promise and pitfalls of Bayesian reasoning. [57:28] You don't have to go all the way to Bayesian to know that what they're doing in the journals is wrong. The journal, the frequentist, the Fisher classical hypothesis testing, the gold standard, double-blind control trials—those things are just wrong. And you don't have to go all the way to Bayesianism. You can just say, "Okay, we can just show mathematically that those don't work." Show Links: Recommended Resources: National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Tribalism United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID - Lancet Study Channel Tunnel Fires Ronald Fisher Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Francesca Gino Robin M. Hogarth Harrison White Bayesian Statistics UnSILOed 584: David Zweig - Examining School Closure Policies During the Pandemic Guest Profile: LinkedIn Profile Reason Profile Wikipedia Profile Guest Work: Amazon Author Page Wrong Number: How to Extract Truth From a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street The Poker Face of Wall Street Financial Risk Management For Dummies Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance A World of Chance: Betting on Religion, Games, Wall Street Wrong Number with Aaron Brown YouTube Series Google Scholar Page Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
As rumors heat up about LeBron James making a dramatic return to Cleveland, we push back against the national media critics to break down how the King would actually fit with the current roster. From potential offseason trades involving Jarrett Allen to Kenny Atkinson's coaching fit, we examine exactly what it would take to bring another championship to the Land.
Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Decoding Notes: A Summer Mystery in Beijing's Alley Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2026-07-07-22-34-02-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 在北京喧闹的一个夏日,温暖的阳光伴随着微风,照在一条寂静的小巷中。En: On a bustling summer day in Beijing, warm sunlight accompanied by a gentle breeze shines down on a quiet alley.Zh: 魏是一个好奇心强的大学生,他这个夏天回家度假。En: Wei is a curious college student who has returned home for summer vacation.Zh: 和他一起长大的朋友玲,是这个街区一个勤劳的店主。En: Ling, a friend he grew up with, is a hardworking shop owner in the neighborhood.Zh: 最近,他们发现许多奇怪的纸条开始出现在门口,上面写着一些无法理解的信息。En: Lately, they have discovered many strange notes appearing at their doorsteps, with messages that are incomprehensible.Zh: 刚开始,魏和玲并没有太在意这些纸条。En: Initially, Wei and Ling didn't pay much attention to these notes.Zh: 可是随着时间的推移,整个社区开始不安,人们开始对彼此起疑。En: However, as time went on, the entire community started feeling uneasy, and people began to be suspicious of each other.Zh: 每张纸条上都有模糊的符号和短句,好像在传递什么隐秘的信息。En: Each note had blurry symbols and short sentences, as if conveying some secret message.Zh: 魏很想知道这些纸条从哪里来,为了找到答案,魏决定和玲一起调查。En: Wei was eager to find out where these notes came from, so he decided to investigate with Ling.Zh: “我们可以问问邻居,”玲提议。“不过要小心,不要吓到他们。”En: "We can ask the neighbors," Ling suggested. "But we need to be careful not to alarm them."Zh: 他们小心翼翼地询问社区的住户,却始终找不到线索。En: They cautiously questioned the residents of the community but couldn't find any clues.Zh: 终于,一位老人告诉他们,他见过新搬来的陈晚上在巷子里走动。En: Finally, an elderly man told them he had seen the newly moved-in Chen walking in the alley at night.Zh: “那个神秘的陈,” 魏想,“他会是我们的答案吗?”En: "The mysterious Chen," Wei thought, "Could he be our answer?"Zh: 他们决定悄悄观察陈的房子。En: They decided to quietly observe Chen's house.Zh: 果然,在一个清晨,他们看到了陈从房子里走出来,手中捧着一沓信纸。En: Sure enough, one morning, they saw Chen step out, holding a stack of stationery.Zh: 魏和玲跟随着陈,悄悄地穿过几条巷道,最后在一个偏僻的角落止住。En: Wei and Ling followed Chen, quietly passing through a few alleys, and eventually stopped in a secluded corner.Zh: “啊,这些纸条是属于一个艺术项目。”陈解释着当被魏和玲面对面质问时,“我想收集社区的故事,成为我画作的一部分。”En: "Ah, these notes are part of an art project," Chen explained when confronted by Wei and Ling, "I want to collect the community's stories as part of my artwork."Zh: 魏和玲一脸疑惑。“这么做的目的是什么?”魏问。En: Wei and Ling looked puzzled. "What's the purpose of doing this?" Wei asked.Zh: “我希望用这些故事创作一幅反映社区生活的画。”陈充满希望地说,“我并不知道这引起了这样的恐慌。”En: "I hope to create a painting that reflects community life with these stories," Chen said hopefully, "I didn't realize it would cause such panic."Zh: 魏理解了陈的意图。En: Wei understood Chen's intention.Zh: 他看到了交流和理解的重要性。于是提出帮助陈解释他的计划,让邻里放心。En: He saw the importance of communication and understanding, so he offered to help Chen explain his plan to reassure the neighbors.Zh: 随着沟通的展开,社区逐渐消除了误解,对这个项目产生了新的兴趣。En: As communication unfolded, the community gradually cleared up misunderstandings and developed a new interest in the project.Zh: 夏天继续进行着,小巷又恢复了以往的宁静。En: The summer continued, and the alley returned to its former tranquility.Zh: 不过,这次,人们之间的关系变得更加紧密。En: However, this time, the relationships between people became closer.Zh: 魏意识到,有时候表面上的谜团,其实蕴含着更深层次的意义。En: Wei realized that sometimes the mysteries on the surface actually contain deeper meanings. Vocabulary Words:bustling: 喧闹的alley: 小巷curious: 好奇心强vacation: 度假hardworking: 勤劳的incomprehensible: 无法理解community: 社区uneasy: 不安suspicious: 起疑symbols: 符号conveying: 传递investigate: 调查cautious: 小心翼翼residents: 住户clues: 线索elderly: 老人mysterious: 神秘的observe: 观察stationery: 信纸secluded: 偏僻的confronted: 对峙project: 项目artwork: 画作panic: 恐慌reassure: 放心unfolded: 展开misunderstandings: 误解trapped: 蕴含transformation: 转变meanings: 意义
As rumors heat up about LeBron James making a dramatic return to Cleveland, we push back against the national media critics to break down how the King would actually fit with the current roster. From potential offseason trades involving Jarrett Allen to Kenny Atkinson's coaching fit, we examine exactly what it would take to bring another championship to the Land.
There was a time when scientists could only read our biology, then came an advance with their ability to edit it and now it’s a moment to write a whole new chapter in evolution through synthetic biology, made possible in large part, you guessed it by artificial intelligence. Breakthroughs in AI, gene editing and synthetic biology are coming together to make this an unprecedented time in the history of life. Evolution, and its randomness, have left us with bodies that could benefit from our ability to make adjustments–like repairing faulty genes and having the ability to intervene in the complex systems that drive disease. Sounds futuristic? And a bit scary? The technology is neutral. It’s how it is applied. In benevolent hands, and with regulatory safeguards, it may make possible advances unimaginable just decades ago. Our guest, Dr. Adrian Woolfson is the author of “On the Future of the Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence.” This is probably your first time diving into this fascinating topic. Advances suggest it will become part of the scientific lexicon before you know it.
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Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language of Online Conspiracy Talk (Oxford UP, 2026) offers a new way to understand why conspiracy theories grow and persist. Rather than treating them as cognitive errors, psychological pathologies, or products of echo chambers, Rao and Greve analyze conspiracy theories as linguistic constructions, that is as stories built from recognizable semantic patterns. Drawing on cases from COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protests, Rao and Greve show that conspiracy theorizing is a form of bricolage. People tinker with cultural fragments to craft explanations that reduce uncertainty and threat. New conspiracy beliefs are most likely to take hold when they are linguistically close to beliefs people already hold. The book traces how conspiracy theories spread through superspreaders, fear-laden language, bots, and shared hashtags, revealing conspiracy theorizing as a form of proto-coordination that generates community, amplifies outrage, and enables collective sensemaking among opponents of social movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Waking up between 2-5 AM every night? Your sleep struggles may not actually start at bedtime. In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause dives into the neurological, energetic, and Chinese Medicine perspective of insomnia and why what you do during the day may be the biggest factor impacting your nights. After years of battling insomnia herself and surviving on just 2-4 hours of sleep Dr. Jannine shares her journey through endless sleep solutions including melatonin, herbs, L-theanine, ashwagandha, 5-HTP, progesterone, magnesium, and more. But eventually, the supplements stopped working. The missing piece? Looking beyond the nighttime routine and understanding how your daily habits, digestion, hydration, circulation, stress, hormones, and organ rhythms influence your sleep. In this episode, you'll learn how the Chinese Medicine Organ Clock may provide clues about why you wake up at specific times and what your body could be communicating. Dr. Jannine also explores why detox pathways, lymphatic flow, gallbladder function, liver health, and lung function may influence insomnia patterns. If you've tried "all the things" for sleep and nothing seems to work, this episode offers a different perspective. Your body isn't broken it's asking for a different approach to sleep. What You'll Learn In This Episode: Why waking between 1-3 AM may connect to liver function, stress, detox pathways, and emotional processing The connection between 3-5 AM wake ups and lung health, oxygen delivery, circulation, and stress How digestion during the day impacts nighttime sleep Why hydration between 3-5p matters for detox and sleep quality How your afternoon habits may be sabotaging your nights Why your sleep hygiene starts at 1p How HRV tracking helped identify the habits improving Dr. Jannine's own sleep Chinese Medicine Sleep Clock Breakdown 9 PM - 11 PM: Lymphatic + endocrine reset Trouble falling asleep may indicate stress, lymph stagnation, or nervous system imbalance. 11 PM - 1 AM: Gallbladder Possible connection with digestion, fat metabolism, and unresolved decisions. 1 AM - 3 AM: Liver Associated with detoxification, hormones, blood processing, stress, anger, and frustration. 3 AM - 5 AM: Lung Connected with breathing, oxygen, grief, immune function, allergies, and circulation. Resources From The Show: Vibrant Blue Oils Deanna Hansen's Workshop with Dr. Krause for diaphragm release and relieving shoulder pain HRV tracking with the Elonga device Chinese Medicine Organ Clock from Radiant Shenti
The 2026 ASWB exam is shedding rote memorization in favor of real-world application. It's no longer about proving what you can remember it's about proving how you practice. In this episode, host Sharlee Dixon sits down with Robin Bartee, LCSW, an exam prep creator and social work expert within the Level Education Group family. Together, they break down the major 2026 ASWB exam overhaul and explore what this massive shift toward competency-based testing actually means for candidates. Robin brings over two decades of diverse field experience to the conversation. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, her career spans community education, non-profit leadership, therapy, and clinical supervision. After earning her master's degree in Bilingual/Bicultural Social Work from New Mexico Highlands University, she later returned to her alma mater as a contingent faculty member teaching social work ethics and research methods. Passionate about mentoring the next generation of professionals and building "self-sustaining healing systems," Robin lends her deep expertise to help candidates cut through the test anxiety, understand the new exam structure, and trust their clinical reasoning. Whether you're a recent graduate or a seasoned veteran in the field, this episode is your strategic roadmap to conquering the new exam layout. For more information about the ASWB Exam, please visit: https://www.aswb.org/exam/ To download the ASWB Examination Guidebook, please visit: https://www.aswb.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-ASWB-Examination-Guidebook-Pearson-VUE.pdf For more information about AATBS Exam Prep, please visit: https://aatbs.com/social-work For more information about upcoming ASWB exam changes, please visit: https://aatbs.com/social-work/upcoming-social-work-exam-changes
Michael Steele dives into the evolving political landscape, focusing on the so-called "origin story" of the current movement within the Democratic Party. He addresses the narrative being pushed by Republicans, declaring the party as socialist, and counters it with insights on what voters truly desire: candidates who will fight for their interests. Michael highlights the recent successes of Democratic candidates across various regions, including conservative areas, emphasizing that it's not a messaging issue but rather a matter of candidate selection and strategy. Tune in for a lively discussion on the implications of these dynamics as midterms approach, and why understanding voters' needs is crucial for both parties.Catch Michael Steele on The Weeknight Mondays - Fridays at 7pm EST on MSNBC: https://www.msnbc.com/weeknightFollow Michael on X: https://x.com/MichaelSteeleFollow Michael on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/michaelsteele.bsky.socialFollow Michael on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chairman_steele/Follow Michael on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@chairman_steeleListen to The Michael Steele Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-michael-steele-podcast/id1412905534Watch The Michael Steele Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJNKzTkCZE9uNqPiKYw5eU5YkS_mMsr6oIf you enjoyed this, share it with a friend!
Author and seeker, Jason Quitt enters the mind meld!