Podcasts about doomsday book

What happened in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings? What horrors did William the Conqueror have to inflict upon his Anglo Saxon subjects in order to consolidate his new realm? And, what role did castles, the Harrowing of the North, and the Doomsday Book play in the creation of a new England? Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss William the Conquerer's new reign in the wake of the Battle of Hastings, and the true nature of the Norman Conquest. _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett + Aaliyah Akude Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jon Herold and Chris Paul return with a jam-packed episode of Devolution Power Hour, connecting dots across election lawfare, border militarization, global finance, and Trump's quiet economic revolution. The show opens with a takedown of the sudden cheerleading around Tulsi Gabbard's election machine comments, unpacking why her words may be too little, too late, and why the real focus should be on Trump's executive actions dismantling the election interference infrastructure. From there, the duo dives into the declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents, highlighting how old narratives are being reintroduced for public reconditioning ahead of something much bigger, possibly what Chris dubs “RICO Grande.” They also explore the “Doomsday Book,” Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs), and why former regime operatives are panicking about Trump's use of constitutional war powers on domestic soil. The second half turns to Trump's border memo authorizing military jurisdiction over federal lands to fortify the southern border, potentially transforming sections into National Defense Areas. Then, the focus shifts to global trade and Trump's emerging Mar-a-Lago Accord: a five-step plan to reshape global currency flows, devalue the dollar on U.S. terms, and return manufacturing and monetary power back to the homeland. It's a financial reset, America First style. With laughs, clarity, and brutal honesty, this episode cuts through fear porn and controlled narratives to spotlight what's really being reset, and who's in charge of the lever.

In this episode of Danny Hurst´s Unusual Histories Bridge Series, you are getting the inside track on the history of two instead of just one bridge. It is the turn of the Kew Railway Bridge and Kew Bridge and some of the iconic features in the surrounding area. He shares the connection between the TARDIS, anti-tank guns, botanical gardens, the Doomsday Book, a hippy encampment, silent movies, Banksy, Turner and much more. If you can´t get enough of these podcasts, head to https://www.patreon.com/DannyHurst to access my exclusive, member-only, fun-filled, and fact-packed history-related videos. KEY TAKEAWAYS The first bridge on the site was built in 1759. Kew Railway Bridge has a strong Doctor Who connection. There are 4 medieval villages in the area. Nearby Kew Gardens are the largest botanical gardens in the world. Oliver´s Island was named after Oliver Cromwell. Danny explains why this is actually an example of misnaming. Oliver´s Island sits in the middle of The Thames near Kew. It is a haven for birds including herons and cormorants. In 1983, both bridges became grade II listed. BEST MOMENTS “Kew Railway Bridge is one of those Marmite bridges. Meaning, for non-British listeners, people either love it or hate it.” “Justice just can't be done in this podcast in describing Kew Gardens. They have to be seen.” “It was often damaged by barges.” “The bridge was sold at auction.” “Banksy famously painted his mountain goat mural just near the southern end of the bridge.” EPISODE RESOURCES https://www.citybridgefoundation.org.uk Oliver´s Island - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%27s_Island HOST BIO Historian, performer, and mentor Danny Hurst has been engaging audiences for many years, whether as a lecturer, stand-up comic or intervention teacher with young offenders and excluded secondary students. Having worked with some of the most difficult people in the UK, he is a natural storyteller and entertainer, whilst purveying the most fascinating information that you didn't know you didn't know. A writer and host of pub quizzes across London, he has travelled extensively and speaks several languages. He has been a consultant for exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum and Natural History Museum in London as well as presenting accelerated learning seminars across the UK. With a wide range of knowledge ranging from motor mechanics to opera to breeding carnivorous plants, he believes learning is the most effective when it's fun. Uniquely delivered, this is history without the boring bits, told the way only Danny Hurst can. CONTACT AND SOCIALS https://instagram.com/dannyjhurstfacebook.com/danny.hurst.9638 https://twitter.com/dannyhurst  https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-hurst-19574720

Aunt Murgatroyd is back to challenge potential problem solvers with more riddles, puzzles and problems! This time the Troublemaking Trolls are after the Domesday Book! (Pronounced Doomsday!) But don't worry, it's not as scary as it seems. The book is an 11th century census of Norman, England! Can you help Aunt M. defeat the trolls and save this invaluable treasure trove of historical data?

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Listener Presses: This year we have 20 fantastic titles from our listeners. Our TBRs exploded, and we hope yours do too! Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  .  2:19 - Your Listener Presses 3:48 - The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown (pressed by Katie) 6:40 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 7:32 - Poison for Breakfast by Daniel Handler i.e. Lemony Snicket (pressed by Kimberly) 10:30- The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore (pressed by Jessie) 12:38 - @thewilltoread on Instagram 12:41 - Reproduction by Louisa Hall (pressed by Bill) 13:32 - Chouette by Claire Oshetsky 13:33 - Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky 14:53 - The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard (pressed by Emer) 18:29 - The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin (pressed by Heather) 18:51 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 21:30 - Go As A River by Shelley Read 22:11 - Zorrie by Laird Hunt 22:49 - The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (pressed by Mirabella) 24:54 - The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 26:18 - Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Azemien (pressed by Matt) 28:05 - Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro (pressed by Ana) 31:08 - Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer (pressed by Amy) 31:14 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer 34:35 - In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lovato (pressed by Amanda) 35:48 - A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter 35:50 - Breathless by Amy McCulloch 36:45 - The Body in Question by Jill Ciment (pressed by Alana) 40:40 - The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin (pressed by Avery) 44:26 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 44:27 - All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle 44:33 - The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher (pressed by Kristen) 45:36 - Roscoe Books 46:12 - Hearts and Daggers podcast 46:43 - @birdbrainbooks on Instagram 46:45 - Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka (pressed by Holly) 49:02 - Leaving Coy's Hill by Katherine A. Sherbrooke (pressed by Aubrey) 50:33 - Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts 51:46 - I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalize Sue (pressed by Hannah) 53:01 - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 53:02 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 53:35 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 53:38 - The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel 55:08 - Country Dark by Chris Offutt (pressed by Cindy) 57:25 - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (pressed by Jessica) 59:46 - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (pressed by Abi) 1:01:17 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe 1:02:03 - Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. July's IPL comes to us from Booktenders in West Virginia! All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

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Democrats are telling their sheeple they have a secret "Doomsday Book" that gives them the power to nationalize social media, round up their opposition, use the military on our soil & more. What are they preparing for?(Please subscribe & share.)Sources:https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/12/14/fmr_dhs_chief_of_staff_miles_taylor_trump_could_invoke_emergency_powers_to_turn_off_the_internet.htmlhttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/it-will-be-a-revenge-machine-why-a-second-trump-administration-would-be-much-worsehttps://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Warning-Save-Democracy-Trump/dp/1668015986  

Democrats are telling their sheeple they have a secret "Doomsday Book" that gives them the power to nationalize social media, round up their opposition, use the military on our soil & more. What are they preparing for?(Please subscribe & share.)Sources:https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/12/14/fmr_dhs_chief_of_staff_miles_taylor_trump_could_invoke_emergency_powers_to_turn_off_the_internet.htmlhttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/it-will-be-a-revenge-machine-why-a-second-trump-administration-would-be-much-worsehttps://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Warning-Save-Democracy-Trump/dp/1668015986  

In today's episode:Applying the lens of the information warMelania Trump speaks before a naturalization ceremony at NARA, despite Donald Trump being indicted for not giving them documentsRudy Giuliani is hit with a ridiculous $148m liability for defaming Ruby Freeman and Wandrea MossThe NDAA passes with a strange provision re NATOCharles McGonigal is sentencedThe case of the missing binderDonald Trump and the Doomsday Book.Connect with Be Reasonable: https://linktr.ee/imyourmoderatorHear the show when it's released. Become a paid subscriber at imyourmoderator.substack.comVisit the show's sponsors:Make life more comfortable: mypillow.com/reasonableDiversify your assets: kirkelliottphd.com/reasonableOther ways to support the work:ko-fi.com/imyourmoderatorbtc via coinbase: 3MEh9J5sRvMfkWd4EWczrFr1iP3DBMcKk5Merch site: https://cancelcouture.myspreadshop.com/Follow the podcast info stream: t.me/imyourmoderatorOther social platforms: Twitter, Truth Social, Gab, Rumble, or Gettr - @imyourmoderator Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/be-reasonable-with-your-moderator-chris-paul. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode:Applying the lens of the information warMelania Trump speaks before a naturalization ceremony at NARA, despite Donald Trump being indicted for not giving them documentsRudy Giuliani is hit with a ridiculous $148m liability for defaming Ruby Freeman and Wandrea MossThe NDAA passes with a strange provision re NATOCharles McGonigal is sentencedThe case of the missing binderDonald Trump and the Doomsday Book.Connect with Be Reasonable: https://linktr.ee/imyourmoderatorHear the show when it's released. Become a paid subscriber at imyourmoderator.substack.comVisit the show's sponsors:Make life more comfortable: mypillow.com/reasonableDiversify your assets: kirkelliottphd.com/reasonableOther ways to support the work:ko-fi.com/imyourmoderatorbtc via coinbase: 3MEh9J5sRvMfkWd4EWczrFr1iP3DBMcKk5Merch site: https://cancelcouture.myspreadshop.com/Follow the podcast info stream: t.me/imyourmoderatorOther social platforms: Twitter, Truth Social, Gab, Rumble, or Gettr - @imyourmoderator Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/be-reasonable-with-your-moderator-chris-paul. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thanks to a FOIA request, an internal document from the Federal Reserve, known as the "Doomsday Book" has been released. The purpose of it is to guide The Fed's actions during emergencies. Emre Kuvvet, professor of finance at Nova Southeastern University says "the central bank—or at least the legal team at its dominant member bank—apparently believes it can rely on precedent to justify virtually any emergency action." Do laws lose their purpose when virtually anything can be justified? Perhaps Tacitus was right: "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

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The Doomsday Book Pt 1 https://www.audacy.com/989word The Charlie James Show   Listen on Spotify : https://spoti.fi/3MXOvGP Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-charlie-james-show-podcast/id1547262821   Follow us on Social Media Join our Live Stream Weekdays - 3pm to 7pm   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/989word Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2031096 X: https://twitter.com/989word Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/989word/   "Red Meat, Greenville." 12/15/23

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As humanity builds settlements beyond Earth, myriad ethical issues will arise--many in a different way than they do terrestrially. Astrophysicist and space communicator Erika Nesvold has devoted extensive thought and research to how to ethically govern space settlements, most notably on her podcast Making New Worlds and in her book Off-Earth.In a conversation that pairs well with Shane Harris's March 2022 Chatter discussion with astrobiologist Lucianne Walkowicz about ethical space exploration, David Priess spoke with Erika about her grounding in Star Trek and other science fiction, the JustSpace Alliance that she co-founded with Lucianne, that alliance's interactions with space industrialists, Erika's application to be an astronaut, conflicting motivations for humanity to settle space, how we should select space settlers, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, the concept of legal personhood for non-terrestrial bodies, labor law and criminal justice in space settlements, how motivations for settling space influence openness to various forms of government, and more.Among the works mentioned in this episode:The podcast Making New WorldsThe book Off-Earth by Erika NesvoldThe Chatter podcast episode Ethical Space Exploration with Lucianne WalkowiczThe Star Trek universeThe Foundation book series by Isaac AsimovThe Dune book series by Frank HerbertThe YouTube video All TomorrowsThe movie 2012The book 2010 by Arthur C. ClarkeThe book Artemis by Andy WeirThe movie SunshineThe book A Brief History of Equality by Thomas PinkettyThe book series The Wheel of Time by Robert JordanThe book Doomsday Book by Connie WillisChatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As humanity builds settlements beyond Earth, myriad ethical issues will arise--many in a different way than they do terrestrially. Astrophysicist and space communicator Erika Nesvold has devoted extensive thought and research to how to ethically govern space settlements, most notably on her podcast Making New Worlds and in her book Off-Earth.In a conversation that pairs well with Shane Harris's March 2022 Chatter discussion with astrobiologist Lucianne Walkowicz about ethical space exploration, David Priess spoke with Erika about her grounding in Star Trek and other science fiction, the JustSpace Alliance that she co-founded with Lucianne, that alliance's interactions with space industrialists, Erika's application to be an astronaut, conflicting motivations for humanity to settle space, how we should select space settlers, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, the concept of legal personhood for non-terrestrial bodies, labor law and criminal justice in space settlements, how motivations for settling space influence openness to various forms of government, and more.Among the works mentioned in this episode:The podcast Making New Worlds The book Off-Earth by Erika NesvoldThe Chatter podcast episode Ethical Space Exploration with Lucianne Walkowicz The Star Trek universeThe Foundation book series by Isaac AsimovThe Dune book series by Frank HerbertThe YouTube video All TomorrowsThe movie 2012The book 2010 by Arthur C. ClarkeThe book Artemis by Andy WeirThe movie SunshineThe book A Brief History of Equality by Thomas PinkettyThe book series The Wheel of Time by Robert JordanThe book Doomsday Book by Connie WillisChatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which Dumbledore comes to fetch Harry from the Dursleys and finally gives them a piece of his mind. Support the SAG-AFTRA strike! https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/ Email us at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com to tell us what you thought of Will and Won't or even what you think of us! We'd love to read your email on the show. Be sure to subscribe to know right away about new episodes, and rate and review! SUPPORT US ON OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/therestrictedsection THANK YOU LOVE YOU BUY OUR MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/user/restricted-section-podcast THANK YOU LOVE YOU IG: https://www.instagram.com/restrictedsectionpod/ TW: https://twitter.com/restrictedpod FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rspoddetentioncrew/   Check out our other amazing Deus Ex Media podcasts! www.deusexmedia.org   This episode featured: Emily Strand and Katy McDaniel from Potterversity! Check out Potterversity: https://www.mugglenet.com/mugglenet-family/potterversity/ Pre-order Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter, which is coming out this October! https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9781476690537 Find Emily on Twitter https://twitter.com/ekcstrand Check out Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9781648896712 Also check out Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9781648895944 Read The Second War Was Won On the Quidditch Pitch(ed) https://carmelcollege.academia.edu/EmilyStrand (you need to sign up for a free acct to access) Emily plugged Doomsday Book by Connie Willis https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9780553562736 Emily also plugged Deep Space Nine https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/star_trek_deep_space_nine/ Find Katy  Katy plugged The Princess Bride by William Goldman https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9780156035217 Katy also plugged Kubo and the Two Strings https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4302938/ Also, Song of the Sea https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865505/ Also, the Secret of Kells https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485601/ Christina Kann https://linktr.ee/christinakann Christina continues to plug the Three Dark Crowns series and forgetting she's plugged it 100 times already Brooke Matherly IG @passion_for_parks https://www.instagram.com/passion_for_parks/ TW @grumpybrooke https://twitter.com/grumpyBrooke Brooke plugged Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9780316066419

We've all been feeling like something is wrong with the timeline. In this episode, we ask what alternate history, fake history, and secondary world history can teach us about the present. Does exploring the past in fiction help us learn from history or are we doomed to repeat it? History-obsessed authors Connie Willis (Blackout, Doomsday Book) and R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War) offer their thoughts too. Show notes: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes

Dr. Ralph La Guardia has spent over three decades researching alternative ways of treating and preventing diseases of all types. He has been in private practice in Connecticut for more than thirty years. During that time, he has learned what alternative and natural methods work and which ones are “snake oil.” He has read hundreds of books and research articles on alternative ways of treating different diseases. In fact, he has a huge personal library of many out-of-print books. Moreover, he is well known in the medical underground of pioneering integrative medical practitioners. Integrative medicine is the highly effective combination of traditional and alternative medicine. Additionally, he authored “The Doomsday Book of Medicine,” considered by many to be the best book on medical prepping. He also wrote “The Bible of Alternative Medicine.” Recently, Dr. La Guardia released his newest book entitled “Infected: Secrets from The Medical Underground.” He lives on an organic farm in Connecticut with his lovely wife Lynne, his feisty 91 year old mother Mary, and their three dogs and four horses. When not practicing medicine or writing, he spends most of his time in his orchards or his geodesic dome greenhouse. While there, he enjoys experimenting with growing and propagating edible fruits of all kinds. Bible of Alternatie Medicine:  https://bibleofalternativemedicine.com/buy-now/   INFECTED: Secrets From The Medical Underground http://drralphlaguardia.com/  

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This month we read Doomsday Book, Connie Willis's 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel. We had no idea it was going to be an eerily prescient pandemic story, with parallels to today, right down to the oft-mentioned toilet paper shortage. Necrotic! Amy is DM.  Transcript Library  Music by Pets of Belonging   Links: Doomsday Book, the 1992 time-travel novel that sheds light on today's pandemic. (slate.com) New York Review of Science Fiction

How would you find satisfaction in a nuclear holocaust?'On The Beach' by Nevil Shute is a story set in Melbourne of two naval officers and their friends/family as impending death from radioactive fallout comes ever closer. The Northern Hemisphere is uninhabited apart from a mysterious signal coming from Seattle. It examines people reactions to mortality and how they mentally cope with the realisation of inevitable death.I summarised the book as follows. "I had to set aside some time after reading this for some pondering as there is a lot to digest. I liked how the plot was moved forward by the submarine cruise and that it started off with the holocaust already well underway. It's not exactly a fun read but I think will inspire some worthwhile introspection."I hope you have a fantastic day wherever you are in the world. Kyrin out!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro(0:31) - Synopsis(2:58) - Nuclear Holocaust: How would humanity behave?(11:07) - Satisfaction: What brings individuals pleasure?(17:57) - Observations/Takeaways(22:28) - SummaryConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/

As fall approaches this week Jack and Char make "Dutton Muffins" in honor of another maternal line, the Duttons. The muffins do no justice to this regal line going back to William the Conqueror and Odard, Ist Lord of Dutton and the first to use the surname. 

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Teri, Anne, and Ethan discuss books about time travel.  Book discussed:  Doomsday Book by Connie Willis  Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel  This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone 

"Christian" workers of iniquity; Accusations toward the churches; Social justice seekers; Charitable institutions; Marriage failing of late; Extinction?; Cataclysms; "Age of Reason"; Seeking truth; "Modern Church" teachings; More harm than good; Idolatry; Wrath of God; Guidance by Holy Spirit; Communist Manifesto; Hopeless enslavement; Your war with Hell; Forbidden (by Christ) Exercising Authority; Runaway inflation; Abiding in His love; The Way of Christ - antithesis of modernism; Lady Godiva; Doomsday Book; Postmodernism; Denominationalism; Hue and Cry; Division and conquering; What can you do?; Gathering to be of service to each other; Thriving as Christians; Tolerating differences; Perfecting ideology; Peter's revelation; Hearing Christ; Recognizing patterns in history; Taking back your responsibility; Accessing the Tree of Life; Forgiveness; Patience; Charity; Trust in God.

Two Nerds got a request we watch Automata, a steampunky short about a human private detective, his robot partner, and a murder mystery. This made us consider what robots do, as a trope, and what questions narratives with robots tend to pose. Mostly, we came back to the concepts of sentience, autotomy, and humanity, and how the robot shows those concepts in tension with one another. We speak at length about the middle section of a film called Doomsday Book, which concerns an enlightened robot, Blade Runner, the novel Autonomous by Annalee Newitz, the various androids in the Alien franchise, and droids in the Star Wars universe.

Chinese is one of the oldest still-spoken languages in the world. But when technologies arrived like telegraphy and computing, designed with the Roman alphabet in mind, if Chinese wanted to be able to participate then it had to choose between adapting, or paying a heavy price. And sometimes both were inevitable. Jing Tsu, author of Kingdom of Characters: the Language Revolution that Made China Modern, recounts how Chinese contended with obstacles like alphabetisation, Romanisation and standardisation. Find out more information about the topics in this episode at theallusionist.org/character, plus a transcript and the full dictionary entry for the randomly selected word. Sign up to be a patron at patreon.com/allusionist and not only are you supporting independent podcast, you get fortnightly patron-exclusive video livestreams and a Discord community full of language chat, craft pics and word game camaraderie. The Allusionist's online home is theallusionist.org. Stay in touch at twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow and instagram.com/allusionistshow.  The Allusionist is produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. The music is by Martin Austwick. Hear Martin's own songs via palebirdmusic.com. Our ad partner is Multitude. To sponsor an episode of the show this year, contact them at multitude.productions/ads. This episode is sponsored by: • Bombas, whose mission is to make the comfiest clothes ever, and match every item sold with an equal item donated. Go to bombas.com/allusionist to get 20% off your first purchase. • BetterHelp, online therapy with licensed professional counsellors. Allusionist listeners get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/allusionist. • Squarespace, your one-stop shop for building and running a sleek website. Go to squarespace.com/allusionist for a free 2-week trial, and get 10 percent off your first purchase of a website or domain with the code allusionist.  Support the show: http://patreon.com/allusionist See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

INFECTED: SECRETS FROM THE MEDICAL UNDERGROUND, will teach you how to prevent and treat ANY INFECTION you may encounter. Learn how the different systems of your body work to repel infections, and how you can enhance each one. You will learn previously unknown methods to supercharge your body's immune system, preventing most infections from ever starting. These are secrets only known to a handful of courageous doctors, who have done their own research, networked and discovered ways to "hack" your immunity. These are universal principles that will work to prevent any infection and are currently unknown. Learn how to use over the counter items to "hack" your nebulizer, making it into an infection killing machine as well as a chronic disease healing dynamo. Learn the secrets the medical underground uses to combine certain vitamins, minerals and plant-based nutrients and even over-the-counter meds into surprisingly potent treatments. Discover the powerful, previously unknown ways the unconventional doctors of the medical underground use to prevent and treat any infection including COVID-19, colds, flu and urinary tract infections to name but a few. This ground-breaking book is ALL YOU WILL EVER NEED TO PREVENT AND TREAT ANY INFECTION, all without the use of any prescription medications. The book is available at writersrepublic.com and on amazon.com Dr. Ralph La Guardia has spent over three decades researching alternative ways of treating and preventing diseases of all types. He has been in private practice in Connecticut for more than thirty years. During that time, he has learned what alternative and natural methods work and which ones are "snake oil." He has read hundreds of books and research articles on alternative ways of treating different diseases and has a huge personal library of many of these out-of-print books. He is well known in the medical underground of pioneering integrative medical practitioners. Integrative medicine is the highly effective combination of traditional and alternative medicine. He has authored the The Doomsday Book of Medicine, considered by many to be the best book on medical prepping. He has also written The Bible of Alternative Medicine. He lives on an organic farm in Connecticut with his lovely wife Lynne, his feisty ninety-one-year-old mother Mary, and their three dogs and four horses. When not practicing medicine or writing, he spends most of his time in his orchards or his geodesic dome greenhouse, experimenting with growing and propagating edible fruits of all kinds. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support

How many eligible men can we send to fight France? Are there enough food supplies to feed the population for the next century? Until 10th March 1801, the British Parliament weren't sure - which is why they commissioned the first national headcount since the Doomsday Book.  Unlike a modern-day census - which harvests data on religion, education and even sexuality - their first efforts only totted up the numbers of men and women, and their engagement in certain employment, such as agricultural work. Despite this, they still managed to balls it up - with some parishes never bothering to return the paperwork properly. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain why birthplace and employment came to be introduced in later surveys; consider the problem of dishonesty in self-declaration; and reveal how suffragettes used the census as a clever tactic for protest…  Further Reading: • ‘10 March 1801: Britain conducts its first census' (MoneyWeek, 2020): https://moneyweek.com/383334/10-march-1801-britain-conducts-its-first-census • ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers' (Thomas Malthus, 1798):  http://www.esp.org/books/malthus/population/malthus.pdf • ‘Who Had To Return To Their Birthplace For The Census?' (QI, 2003): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWa7LEl36UY Photo courtesy of Essex University. For bonus material and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/Retrospectors We'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/Retrospectors The Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill. Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham. Copyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Here is a visual representation of the Kardashev scale and the amount of energy for each step: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#/media/File:Consommations_énergétiques_des_trois_types_de_l'échelle_de_Kardashev.svg] Why is there a scale? It's hard to have an intelligent conversation about something if you don't have a way to think critically about it. Classification schemes is one way of creating a frame of critical thinking. You have to create criteria for the different levels. How did we get the Kardashev scale? Russian astrophysicist, Nikolai Kardashev, created the scale in a paper he published in 1964 called, “Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations”. The scale measures a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is able to use. What is the scale? Type 1 through 3. Frequently referred to as K1 through K3. A Type I civilization, also called a planetary civilization, has the capability to use all of the energy of its planet. A technological achievement that a K1 society would likely have is weather control. An example of this in movies would be any science fiction movie that shows Earth United by one government, or close cooperation, such as the movie Interstellar and 2010 Space Odyssey. References: the movie Interstellar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film) Stanley Kubrick Space Odyssey: * 2001 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/ * 2010 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/ A type II civilization, also called a stellar civilization, can use and control energy at the scale of its planetary system. Technological achievements that K2 civilizations would likely have is the ability to terraform and build megastructures. An example of a near type 2 is the TV series The Expanse. Most space operas fall into this category such as any Star Trek. I wanted to place Star Wars here to but since Sith lords frequently entertain ruling the galaxy, they must be nearing K3 contrary to Star Trek, where the galaxy is still a vast place that takes lifetimes to span even with warp drive. Another delightful noir/cyberpunk book series is the Takeshi Kovacs novels by Richard K Morgan. The first of which, Altered Carbon, was made into a Netflix movie. References: The Expanse: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/ Star Trek serieses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek Richard K Morgan's Takeshi Kovacks book series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kovacs A type III civilization, also called a galactic civilization, can control energy at the scale of its entire host galaxy. Movies like this do casually travel the wide reaches of the galaxy and the galaxy is as well known as any of us today see the Earth as well known and prospected by various nation states. The most famous example of this in movies would be, as I've already said, is Star Wars. More choices are Jupiter Ascending, as well as Valarian and the City of a Thousand Planets. In literature we have books like Vernor Vinges Zones of Thought, and Asimov's The Foundation. The Vinge book showcases civilizations up and down the kardashev model and so I highly recommend that to those who have a love for alien civilizations and interest in socio-economic development. Apple TV has produced and is streaming The Foundation as a multi series TV show, and it is very enjoyable and well acted, so go check it out. A feature length movie script that Hal Dace and I wrote Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens falls into the K3 category as well but with the unique angle that despite having the ability to casually travel the galaxy like in Star Wars, there are no aliens so the film focuses on that mystery. I'll put a link to the short film version in the show notes. The short film version of the feature length movie, by the way, won an award at a Belgium film festival. References: the movie Star Wars: https://www.starwars.com/films the movie Jupiter Ascending: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1617661/ the movie Valarian and the City of a Thousand Planets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_and_the_City_of_a_Thousand_Planets Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought novel series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/52585-zones-of-thought Isaac Asimov's The Foundation book series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series the TV series The Foundation: https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/what-to-watch/ct-ent-review-foundation-apple-tv-plus-20210924-3rzd3lon7rbrhidtrlpv5pl4t4-story.html Is the Kardashev scale any good? As you've heard on the show, it does help to quickly categorize levels of civilizations. A common criticism is that the jump from K2 to K3, from controlling the energy of a solar system to the ability to control all the energy of all the suns of a galaxy is too big of a step. But that said, it did actually do the job when analyzing science fiction movies. Another criticism is what about beyond K3? This brings us to the next topic. Typical adds to the scale At the front of the scale, it's typical to use 0 for civilizations that are just starting out or have yet to master energy generation. At the other end of the scale, it's common to add a level 4 beings who can control or use the entire universe. Because seriously, why would a Sith stop at making only a galaxy of beings unhappy when she could put an entire universe into a bad funk? Adding level 5 brings gives us a category for those who control collections of universes, or said another way, multiple dimensions. For those who have seen Valarian, remember the extraction scene that the main character, Valarian was involved with required them to go to another dimension. And for those who have seen the Thor movies, this gives us a catagory for Asgardians. References: Miss Wisenheimer: Short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJpyfhkfm3QFacebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MissWisenheimer/TV interview about the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EItnd8bXhdkMiss Wisenheimer and the Aliens film page: https://www.facebook.com/MissWisenheimer Valarian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_and_the_City_of_a_Thousand_Planets Jupiter Ascending: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ascending What are the dangers of advancing on the scale? There are some books that follow characters through the changes that happen to a civilization as they climb the Kardashev scale. Charles Stross' Accellerando describes a progression from K0 to K2. In Italian, accelerando means "speeding up" and is used as a tempo marking in musical notation. In Stross' novel, it refers to the accelerating rate at which humanity in general, and/or the novel's characters, head towards the technological singularity. This story focuses mostly on human culture. To the author's credit, he does all of this in one book. Accellerando: Vernor Vinges Zones of Thought novels, shows civilizations climbing to high parts of the scale, and many falling to lower parts of the scale. And like The Foundation, there is a group who is interested in helping to prevent a fall or helping to shorten the dark ages that follow after a fall. A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a communication medium resembling Usenet. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993, sharing it with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. This series contains a lot of wonderfully thought out and dramatic alien culture. Zones of Thought: Wikipedia entry about Kardashev: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale These Issac Arthur videos make a great companion video to this podcast episode. Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations Tips from Kardashev 2 Engineers, part 2 Acknowledgements Thanks to Freesound.org user Nanakisan for: Evil laugh 04 - Gen 4.wav If you enjoyed this episode, you'll also enjoy listening to: JPL Scientist Jonathan Jiang on Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy: Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.

In this episode we talk to the delightful Dr. Lotte Reinbold, professor of Medieval Literature!  We ask her all our weirdest questions about chivalry, old manuscripts, and which historical figure she'd most want to date, and in return she grants us knowledge.  Topics include: Dungeons & Dragons, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Robert Cotton, Tide PODS, Lord of the Rings (as usual), The Canterbury Tales, forgery, Thomas Chatterton, female sexuality, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Christian mysticism, co-option of Medieval symbolism, The Princess Bride, Daniel Radcliffe, The Knight Before Christmas, young Stalin, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, and Joe Rogan.   References and recommendations:  Check out Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) on Twitter to see the cat footprints! Misogyny Is Everywhere by Phyllis Rackin A Knight's Tale is the Best Medieval Film (No, Really) by Michael Livingston  https://www.tor.com/2018/11/16/a-knights-tale-is-the-best-medieval-film-no-really/ Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Bill, Joel, and Special Guest Christy go through Connie Willis's masterful and award-winning novel Doomsday Book!

Цикл об истории донорманнской Англии. Усложнение структуры общества в конце IX-X веке, выделение различных типов крестьян (geneatas, kotsetla, geburas). Rectitudines singularum personarum - источник о правовых отношениях в донорманнское время. Связь с терминами из Doomsday Book (radknights, cottarii, bordarii, villani). Становление манориальной системы, различие частных и королевских маноров. Знатное сословие, от gesith к thegn, дифференциация тэнов и развитие феодальных отношений в начале XI века. Особенности системы англо-данов в Danelaw (что такое wapentake, sochemanni, plogesland). Боро и бурги. Крупнейшие города донорманнской Англии.Присоединяйтесь к моему сообществу на Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/val_khokhlov See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Będziemy dzisiaj mówić o historii Coventry. Tak więc będzie dzisiaj sporo o historii Anglii, a także języka angielskiego. Nie martwcie się jednak, będzie też także sporo o Polakach. Były okresy, kiedy Polacy zniszczyli Coventry, a były takie, kiedy odbudowywali to miasto.Historia Anglii jest dłuższa od historii Polski gdzieś o 1000 lat. Uczniowie w Polskich szkołach muszą się uczyć historii Polski gdzieś od Chrztu Polski w 966 roku. Anglicy mają o wiele więcej historii do nauki. Rzymianie pod wodzą Juliusza Cezara przeprawili się do Brytanii już w 54 p.n.e. Cezar pokonał Brytów, ale dopiero cesarz Klaudiusz w 43 roku n.e. podbił Brytanię. Wtedy właśnie powstały rzymskie forty na całym brytyjskim terytorium.Zaraz przy Coventry jest taki fort rzymski, który został odtworzony. Można tam pojechać i przebrać się w strój rzymskiego żołnierza. Rzymianie podbili całą Anglię i na granicy ze Szkocją zbudowali mur, zwany murem Hadriana do imienia cesarza. Rzymianie wprawdzie podbili Anglię i brali podatki, ale zapewnili spokój na długie lata. Jednak na przełomie III i IV wieku coś się wydarzyło.W imperium rzymskim doszło do kolejnej wojny domowej. Rzymscy żołnierze byli potrzebni na kontynencie. Anglię pozostawiono bez obrony. Kto na tym skorzystał?Z północy zaatakowali Szkoci i Piktowie, a z zachodu przypłynęli też Irlandczycy. Ale to nie wszyscy, kto jeszcze zaatakował?Od zachodu przypłynęli Anglowie i Saksonowie. Były to plemiona germańskie. Od nich pochodzi nazwa Anglia, bo zajęli ją między innymi Anglowie. Mniej więcej w tamtych czasach miał żyć legendarny król Artur i jego rycerze okrągłego stołu. Od Saksonów i Anglów mówili językiem germańskim, który dzisiaj znamy jako język angielski. Osiedlili się oni także w miejscu, w którym dzisiaj jest Coventry.Nazwa Coventry pochodzi od pewnego drzewa. Sakson o imieniu Coffa miał drzewo. Po angielsku nazywało się ono Coffa’s tree. Właśnie od tej nazwy “Coffa’s tree” powstała nazwa Coventry. Istniało więc osiedle przy drzewie Coffy oraz ten rzymski fort w pobliżu. Wtedy jednak przybyli kolejni zdobywcy, wśród których byli także Polacy.Kanut Wielki był siostrzeńcem Bolesława Chrobrego. Bolesław Chrobry pożyczył mu trochę swoich żołnierzy. Tak więc Kanut Wielki w 1016 roku zdobył Anglię, w tym także Londyn. Zdobył też Coventry, a ten rzymski fort spalił.Jak już mówiłem język angielski pochodził od germańskich plemion Anglów i Sasów. Teraz jednak przybyli wikingowie pod wodzą Kanuta Wielkiego. Dodali oni do angielskiego słowa wikingów. Takie słowa jak np. egg - jajko, czy cake - ciastko pochodzą właśnie z języka wikingów. To jednak nie wszyscy najeźdźcy i nie wszystkie zmiany w języku angielskim. Coś bardzo ważnego zadarzyło się w 1066, albo jak to mówią Anglicy w roku ten-sixtysix.W 1066 Anglię najechali kolejni Wikingowie. Byli to jednak Wikingowie z Francji, którzy nazywali się Normanami. Kawałek Francji do dzisiaj nazywa się Normandia. Właśnie Normanowie z Normandii, którzy choć byli Wikingami mówili po francusku… właśnie oni najechali Anglię w 1066. Rozegrała się wtedy bitwa pod Hastings, której przebieg można oglądać na takiej tkaninie. Co ona przedstawia?Na tej tkaninie jest taki komiks pokazujący całą bitwę. Łącznie z tym jak po bitwie ściągano zbroje z martwych rycerzy. Jest tam też człowiek, ze strzałą w oku, a przy nim łaciński napis. Królem Anglii był wtedy Harold. Został jednak pokonany przez Wilhelma Zdobywcę, który wraz z Normanami podbił całą Anglię. Jak już mówiłem, Normanowie mówili po francusku.Od tej pory Anglicy paśli świnie, ale jedli je Francuzi. Tak więc żywą świnię nazywano po angielsku pig, a martwą pork, bo jedli ją Francuzi. Tak samo było z krowami. Do dzisiaj na żywą krowę używa się angielskiego słowa cow, a na mięso z krowy mówi się z francuskiego beef.Normanowie napisali też księgę, która miała złowieszczą nazwę. Właśnie w Doomsday Book jest opisane Coventry oraz jego właścicielka Lady Godiva. Z nią jest związana pewna legenda. Mąż Lady Godivy chciał ogromnych podatków od mieszkańców Coventry. Jego żona prosiła, aby je zmniejszył. On powiedział jej, że zrobi to jedynie wtedy gdy ona przejedzie nago przez całe miasto. Był pewny, że ona tego nie zrobi, bo była bardzo religijna. Ona jednak tak chciała pomóc ludziom, że zgodziła się na to. Wszyscy ludzie pozamykali okna, aby nikt jej nie widział jak nago jedzie na koniu. Był jednak pewien Tom, który podglądał i za karę oślepł. Dzisiaj w Coventry jest zegar, który o pełnej godzinie pokazuje Godivę na koniu i podglądającego Toma, po angielsku peeping Tom.Czy Godiva naprawdę nago jechała na koniu? Być może rzeczywiście była naga. Ale niektórzy historycy mówią o tym, że jeżeli kobieta z wyższych sfer nie ubrała swojej biżuterii oraz pięknych szat to mówili, że jest naga, a ona mogła być po prostu ubrana jak zwykły człowiek.Tak więc Doomsday Book to była książka o tym kto ma ile podatków płacić. Jest w niej zapisana jako właścicielka Lady Godiva. Ale ludzie pamiętają ją właśnie z tego, że chciała aby jej mąż obniżył podatki.W XVII wieku wybuchła angielska wojna domowa. Anglicy wygonili wtedy króla z Anglii i przez jakiś czas nie było króla tylko lord protektor. W tym okresie narodziło się powiedzenie “send to Coventry”. Dosłownie oznacza ono “wysłać do Coventry”. W Coventry było więzienie i dlatego wysłanie kogoś do Coventry oznaczało wysłanie do więzienia. Dzisiaj ma to trochę inne znaczenie. Ludzie, którzy oczekują na azyl polityczny w Anglii są wysyłani właśnie do Coventry i tam czekają na decyzję czy będą mogli zostać w Anglii.Mówiliśmy dzisiaj sporo o języku angielskim, ale historia Coventry ma związek także z językiem polskim. Angielska firma Rover skonstruowała safty bike czyli taki bezpieczny rower. Polacy zaczęli więc używać nazwy tej firmy na określenie tego pojazdu i właśnie z tego powodu w języku polskim jest słowo rower.Podczas II wojny światowej wiele miast na świecie zostało całkowicie zniszczonych. Zniszczona była Warszawa. Jakie miasto było najbardziej zniszczone w Anglii? Bombardowanie Coventry zaczęło się 14 listopada 1940 roku, a skończyło nad ranem 15 listopada. Trwało 10 godzin bez przerwy. Anglicy wiedzieli o tym, że Niemcy chcą zbombardować to miasto. Wiedzieli o tym dzięki Enigmie, którą dostali od Polaków. Było to urządzenie pozwalające podsłuchiwać rozkazy niemieckie. Anglicy nie chcieli jednak aby Niemcy się domyślili, że znają ich rozkazy i pozwolili na to bombardowanie.Podczas wojny dużo Polaków walczyło w obronie Anglii. Co się z nimi stało po wojnie? Podczas wojny w Anglii premierem był Churchill. Jednak po wojnie jego partia straciła władzę i zaczęła rządzić Partia Pracy. Nie chcieli oni polskich żołnierzy i chcieli aby Polacy wrócili do Polski. W Polsce jednak zaczął się komunizm i wielu Polaków bało się wrócić. Zostali oni więc w Anglii i pomogli w odbudowie Coventry.Wielu Polaków do dzisiaj mieszka w Coventry. Między innymi właśnie dzieci, z którymi nagrywałem ten odcinek. Co szczególnie wam utkwiło w pamięci z tego odcinka?Nazwa Coventry prawdopodobnie podchodzi od drzewa, które się nazywało Coffa’s tree.Ludzie nie lubili podatków 1000 lat temu i dzisiaj dalej nie lubią.Podsumowując. W Coventry mieszkali Celtowie. Później przyszli Rzymianie, ale odeszli w IV wieku. Wtedy przyszli Anglowie i Saksonowie. Oni przynieśli język angielski. Później jednak Anglię zdobyli wikingowie i do języka angielskiego weszły takie słowa jak egg - jajko, czy cake - ciastko. Potem przybyli Normanowie i do angielskiego weszły francuskie słowa takie jak pork - wieprzowina czy beef czyli wołowina. Polacy byli w Coventry wielokrotnie. Najpierw wraz z Kanutem Wielkim zniszczyli to miasto, a po drugiej wojnie światowej pomagali je odbudować.

Hey there, WoHos!This week Mac and I did a deep dive on Korean director Kim Jee Woon. Mom looked at" The Quiet Family" and "I Saw the Devil" and Mac looked at two of Director Kim's short films, "Memories" and "The Heavenly Creature". We hope you listen and enjoy!Did you know we did a separate episode on "A Tale of Two Sisters" and "The Invited"? Heck, Yeah, we did and you can listen to that episiode here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1618444/episodes/8263288Did you know that it was Mom's birthday this month? Well, it was and she would be over the moon if you would subscribe to the show. It's quick and painless and it would mean the world of horror to her, truly.Next week on the mini C and Q will do a deep dive on Greta Gerwig. Why? Because she is a legend!In two weeks on the main, Mom and Mac will discuss the 1973 Scottish (Is it Scottish?) film The Wicker Man and the American remake.Thanks for everything. Get in touch. We love you. Don't go into the basement!! Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xafupi)

Episode Description: On this week's episode of Duchess, our host meets Hollywood actress and Countess of Devon, A.J. Devon. The Countess opens up about her career in Hollywood, explains the difficulty of transitioning to a life in the peerage, the Duchess quizzes her on the amazing history of Powderham, and we hear how the Countess' will transform the estate into a community space for wellness, health, and happiness.  Have you ever watched Bridgerton, The Crown or Downton Abbey and wondered what it's really like to be a Duchess? If so, this is the podcast for you. Top Quotes: “ I did realise these houses can eat you.I did lose myself to this house” - The Countess of Devon  “I wasn't brought up to be beautiful. I was brought up to be authentic, empowered, and to use my voice.” - The Countess of Devon “Running these homes, there's an immense need and expectation to take care of our communities.”- The Duchess of Rutland “We can get caught up in the bricks and mortar. But it's our souls that we really put into these homes.” - The Duchess of Rutland “I will always remember the late Duchess of Devonshire's advice: You must run it; It must not run you.” - The Duchess of Rutland About the Guest and Stately Home: Deep in the picturesque county of sunkissed Devon, is one the UK's most unique manor homes: Powderham. With its unique combination of Georgian, Victorian and Gothic architecture, battlement towers, and crenellations, Powderham's exterior is an extraordinary sight. Many of the lavish interiors are simply spectacular, such as the turquoise Rococo staircase, or the incredible music room, designed by venerated architect James Wyatt.  Like the richness of appearance, the estate has a rich history. Seat of the Earls of Devon, the manor of Powderham appeared in the Doomsday Book, and has remained in the Courtenay family for 600 years. One of the more well known Viscounts was the third, William Courtenay who, along with adding many of the extraordinary features of the estate, would scandalise the family and be forcefully exiled due to his sexual orientation.  Now, Lord Devon runs the estate with his wife Countess of Devon - Hollywood actress A.J. Devon of My So Called Life, Baywatch, and Private Practice. Together, the couple have two children, and have worked at transforming Powderham into a community oriented space promoting health, happiness, and freedom of expression.  About the Host: Emma Rutland, The Duchess of Rutland, did not always stride the halls of stately homes. Born Emma Watkins, the Duchess grew up the daughter of a Quaker farmer, in the Welsh marsh countryside. She trained as an opera singer in the Guildhall School of Music, and worked as a successful interior designer before meeting her future husband David Manners, the 11th Duke of Rutland, at a dinner party. Their marriage in 1992 would transform Emma Watkins into the 11th Duchess of Rutland, thrusting her into the world of aristocracy, and handing her the responsibility of one of the nation's great treasures: Belvoir Castle. While simultaneously running the day to day operations of the castle, and raising five children, The Duchess became fascinated with the history and importance of the other stately homes of the UK. Join The Duchess as she embarks on a wonderful journey through time, to learn more about the incredible homes that have defined Great Britain and, most importantly, meet the other extraordinary women who work tirelessly behind their doors to preserve their history and magic for future generations.  Resources: https://www.belvoircastle.com/ (https://www.belvoircastle.com/) https://www.onefineplay.com/ (https://www.onefineplay.com/) https://www.powderham.co.uk/ (https://www.powderham.co.uk/) https://www.emmaduchessrutland.com/ (https://www.emmaduchessrutland.com/)

Two Nerds Sitting on a Couch wrapped up our inquiry into teen dystopias last week with The City of Ember, which is kinda funny because the book is aimed younger than teen, and it's not really a dystopia. After a period of despondency, we decided our new theme is going to be time travel! Rather than go through the travels in time one by one, we've aggregated the last five movies into one podcast. So you can follow along at home, the five movies we watched were 24, The Final Countdown, Primer, The Time Machine, and Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel. We decided re-watchability of these movies is low, except for Primer, which is either ∞ or 2. We also mention the following time travel narratives, in no particular order: Map of Tiny Perfect Things, Safety not Guaranteed, Time Cave, Interstellar, Tenet, Arrival, Butterfly Effect, Groundhog Day, Palm Springs, The Sound of Thunder, Hot Tub Time Machine, Bell & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Russian Doll, The Umbrella Academy, The Doomsday Book, & Edge of Tomorrow. Richard couldn't remember the names of two Spanish-language time travel movies he watched, but I figured out what they are: The Incident and Timecrimes. Though not a time travel movie, I also take some time out to slag Ad Astra while I was slagging Interstellar. We have a list of four or five movies we're going to watch for our next installment, but if you have any suggestions, please drop us a line!

Our usually silliness mixed with some seriously dark subjects? That's what you're in for!

En stor del af appellen ved tidsrejser er jo, at lave ting om. Dræbe Hitler som spæd og den slags… Men hvis man ikke kan ændre noget som helst, fordi naturlove forhindrer tidsparadokser, så bliver det mindre spændende. Det er præmissen i Connie Willis "The Doomsday Book," hvor tidsrejser udelukkende bedrives af nørdede historikere. Indlægget Ep. 80: Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book blev først udgivet på SCIFI SNAK.

Seth is joined by Rebecca Barry, to discuss the 1993 co-winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis. Content warning: pandemic. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hugospodcast Time Codes: Start – 8:18 Intro/getting to know my guest 8:19 – 17:34 Non-Spoiler discussion 17:35 – end Spoiler discussion Notes & Mentions: The Sparrow The Left … Continue reading "Hugos There Podcast #49: Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis (feat. Rebecca Barry)"

PLUS EPISODE 0020 DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS Richard welcomes an author and creator of a popular website which provides its audience with insights on how things work.  They discuss the science behind some of the numerous existential threats facing humanity. Guest: Marshall Brain is most widely known as the founder of HowStuffWorks.com, an award-winning website that offers clear, objective and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world around us actually works. The site, which he created as a hobby in 1998 and took through several rounds of venture funding totaling approximately $8 million, was purchased for $250 million by Discovery Communications in 2007. As a well-known public speaker with the ability to deliver complex material in a way that is easily understood by audiences of all types, Brain is a regular guest on radio and TV programs nationwide. He has been featured on everything CNN and Good Morning America to The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2008 and 2009, he was the host of the National Geographic Channel's Factory Floor With Marshall Brain, a series of one-hour factory tours taking the viewer on a journey into the world of product design, engineering and manufacturing. Brain is also the author of more than two dozen books as well as a number of widely known web publications including How to Make a Million Dollars, Robotic Nation and Manna. His latest book is The Doomsday Book, which focuses on the science behind 25 of humanity's most imminent threats.  

Doomsday Book, Connie Willis's 1992 novel blending sci-fi and historical fiction, considers the incarnation of Christ from an intriguing angle, although the book suffers from tedious pacing and poor plot development. I'm Rachelle Ferguson of Kittywham Productions, and Unknown Friends is my weekly book review podcast, where I discuss classic and contemporary literature from my personal reading list. Visit the Unknown Friends homepage at https://kittywhamproductions.com/podcast/. While studying English and classical languages at Hillsdale College I founded my company Kittywham Productions, where I publish original play scripts and skits for churches, schools, homeschool groups, and Christian theaters. To learn more about me and my writing, visit my website at www.kittywhamproductions.com. Get in touch on Instagram: www.instagram.com/rachelle.ferguson Connect on Facebook: www.facebook.com/kittywhamproductions Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share with your book-loving friends!

The first regular episode of 2021 kicks off with a new guest - Kim. She talks about how she made it through 2020 by doing a lot of rereading books with disaster magnets, rich brothers, and fire cats. Jenny pitches in with one recent and one deep backlist title. We may fawn over Portland a little as well.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 211: Rereads and Romance. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes LackeyWe Ride Upon Sticks by Quan BarryJust One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi TaylorThe Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year by Louise ErdrichNeanderthal Seeks Human by Penny ReidOther mentions:Powell's BooksAnnie Bloom's BooksSilvia Moreno-Garcia (the book referenced is Mexican Gothic)Book Riot - Get Booked PodcastCurrently Reading PodcastFrom the Front Porch PodcastHome Cooking PodcastPop Sugar Reading ChallengeBook Riot Read Harder ChallengeValdemar Series by Mercedes LackeyQuan Barry makes a powerpointDoomsday Book by Connie WillisBlackout/All Clear by Connie WillisThe Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise ErdrichWilla CatherKnitting in the City series by Penny ReidWinston Brothers series by Penny ReidTruth or Beard by Penny ReidWinds of Fate by Mercedes LackeyBurke's Law by Brian BurkeThe City of Brass by S.A. CharkabortyRelated episodes:Episode 119 - Bread and Butter Writing with Paula Episode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira RamirezEpisode 184 - Theme Night at Book Club with KalaEpisode 190 - The Good Life with AlexStalk us online: Kim at GoodreadsJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors.

Harvey Danger - Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas Jane Siberry: Hockey The Killers - The Cowboys' Christmas Ball Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Il est né / Ça bergers Cléa's book: Monsieur 50: French Canadian Recipes Jamie's book: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Townes van Zandt - Snowin' on Raton Damien Robitaille: Digadigadoo Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal Bruce Cockburn: Huron Carol

On this episode, we are shifting into a more serious register to talk about plague narratives. In light of the current pandemic, we urge you to check in with yourself before listening to this episode--are you doing okay? Are you good to listen to this right now? Please take care of yourself, and don't listen to this episode right now if it'll be an emotional overload for you. It'll always be here for you later. That said, the tentpoles for this episode are:  The Monster of Elendhaven, The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, and the eighth episode of the first season of X-Files, called “The Ice.”   What We’re Into Lately The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings Drowned Country by Emily Tesh Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather The Case for Socialism by Alan Maass Paris or Maybe Hell by basingstoke Scum Villain fanfic   Other Stuff We Mentioned malariotherapy Episode 60 Extravaganza! The Untamed To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis Children of Men by P.D. James Blindness by José Saramago Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit Night Watch by Terry Pratchett Newsflesh series by Mira Grant A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker Handshaking Con Crud Handwashing Zombies Kingdom Shaun of the Dead (2004) Epidemiology “With Fire in Their Eyes” by Askerian “House of the Living” by astolat The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin For Next Time The Student Prince by fayjay   Transcription The transcript of this episode is available here. Seriously, though, special thanks to our scribes for tackling this one.

Before you begin this episode, make a list of ten people closest to you. They can be family, friends, loved ones — anyone whose loss would impact you. Ok, ready? With all the spread and seriousness of the coronavirus — or COVID19 — this last month, Doc and Nina’s have another topical discussion. Responsible for wiping out 30% of medieval Europe, the Black Plague (better known as the Bubonic Plague) spread from China via the fleas of rats. To demonstrate the substance of this loss, Doc has Nina make her own list and pick three random loved ones from her life. The results are unnerving! After Doc has Nina kill off most of her support system, he then kills off the rumors about a certain nursery rhyme’s connections to the Black Plague. We promise this episode will make you laugh, everyone. Show Notes Make sure you read Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron as we might be doing a follow up episode about it! ( https://www.amazon.com/Decameron-Penguin-Classics-Giovanni-Boccaccio/dp/0140449302/ ) Nina’s Recommendations Historyteacher’s Black Death (“Hollaback Girl”) (https://youtu.be/rZy6XilXDZQ) Crash Course’s World History 203: Disease! (https://youtu.be/1PLBmUVYYeg) Doc’s Recommendations Connie Willis The Doomsday Book. (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24983.Doomsday_Book?from_search=true&qid=du14fOtzBB&rank=7) Have a recommendation for us? Send Doc and Nina and email at podcast at profawesome dot com!

Fires in Australia; Illusive magnification; Media manipulation; CNN lawsuit; Global warming?; 1974 Australia fire comparison; Solar causes; Correlation vs causation; Free society = volunteerism; Paradise fire - excess fuel; Why start fires?; False bible narratives; Balance news sources; Early Church organization; Episkopos; Kingdom - God in hearts of every individual; Oregon Article 2 Section 22; Kylee, Kristen and Chemo; Polio facts; Saulk's testimony; Critical thinking - hearing out others; Put Doing into action; Kidnapping by medical community; Sharing stories among network; Dentist of Bergamon; Christ's commanded organization; Greatest allies of evil = good men doing nothing; Fake Gospel; Verify information; Be willing to see you were wrong; You should already be part of a network; Daily ministration of sharing; U.S. troops overseas; Seeking Kingdom is an individual activity; Philippians 4; Chap 3 recap - press toward the mark; Offering testimony that you MIGHT be saved; Paul in the context of Christ; Wholeness of Gospel; Be the benefactors who exercise love; "conversation"; God has already made the law; Pharisees were condemned; "Worship" defined; Book of Life; 1066; Doomsday Book subject to king; Are you keeping God away by not Doing?; Understanding Paul's "imprisonment"; Make straight or OK to be crooked?; Kingdom = Daily Ministration of Pure Religion; Spiritual accounting; "Religion"; Searching your soul; Forced welfare is what John/Christ preached against; "Not to be that way with you"; Perfect savages? Visit San Francisco; Weightier matters of law, judgement, mercy and faith; Gregory's father the lawyer; Christ took kingdom away and appointed to Apostles; Thrived during decline and fall of Roman Empire; Why is there a "swamp"?; Acceptable sacrifice; Temples are government buildings; "Our" father; Saints own all things common; Who's who in the New Testament; Cultures of fear; Do what Christ said!; Know them by their fruits; Getting the whole armor of God.

Sarah Stewart: Hello and welcome to the GDS Podcast. I’m Sarah Stewart. Today’s podcast, the final one of 2019, is a special one, it’s GDS’s Year in Review. Last year, Angus and I went through the year very methodically picking out our highlights. It was quite fun. It’s my last podcast, so I wanted to do something better than quite fun. And what’s better than quite fun? A quiz! I’m going to host a quiz!   So I’m going to be asking 24 questions about GDS, 2 for each month. Obviously, the person with the most points will win. Producer Emily is going to keep score. So let’s meet our contestants.   Contestant number one, what’s your name, what do you do and where are you from?   Laura Stevens: So my name is Laura Stevens. I’m a writer here at GDS. And I’m from a small village in Surrey called Tadworth.   Sarah Stewart: What’s Tadworth known for?   Laura Stevens: So it’s not known for very much, so I had to look this up before I came on the podcast. But it was referenced in the ‘Doomsday Book’ so it’s very old. In the ‘Doomsday Book’ it was known as having woodland worth 4 hogs. So you know, I don’t really know like what --   Sarah Stewart: What a sum!    Laura Stevens: Yeah, like I don’t really know what that equates to but I thought it was quite a fun fact.   Sarah Stewart: You don’t see hogs very much anymore.   Angus Montgomery: How many trees per hog?   Sarah Stewart: And what kind of tree?   Laura Stevens: Yeah, and what kind of hog? I mean...   Angus Montgomery: All good questions.   Sarah Stewart: And Laura, what is your specialist subject at GDS would you say?   Laura Stevens: So I would say my specialist subject would be design here at GDS. But I am wary of saying that because I know that Angus is also very into design and I feel like he may you know, show me up in this quiz and take all the design answers.    Sarah Stewart: Which is a good segue into asking contestant number two, what’s your name and where do you come from?   Angus Montgomery: Hello. I’m Angus Montgomery. I’m a Strategy Advisor and I live in Woodbridge in Suffolk.    Sarah Stewart: Woodbridge. Isn’t that where the celebrities live?    Angus Montgomery: Yeah. Well, it depends on your definition of celebrity, I suppose. So Woodbridge’s most famous son was Thomas Seckford, who was an advisor to Elizabeth I. More contemporary famous sons include Brian Eno and Charlie from Busted.   Sarah Stewart: Oh my gosh.    Laura Stevens: Is Charlie the one with the eyebrows?   Angus Montgomery: I think so, yeah. The handsome one. He did a solo career.   Sarah Stewart: Yes. Fightstar.   Angus Montgomery: That’s it, yeah.    Laura Stevens: That’s excellent Busted knowledge.   Sarah Stewart: So Angus, what’s your specialist subject at GDS?   Angus Montgomery: I don’t know, it sounds a bit creepy if I’m going to say it out loud but the people at GDS. Like I think that’s the thing that I’m most interested in, is all the people who work here and the things that they do.   Sarah Stewart: So it’s good to meet you contestants.    Angus Montgomery: Good to be here.   Sarah Stewart: I need you to press the buzzer when you have the correct answer.    Cue the tense intro music Emily, Producer Emily. Let’s do this.    In January, we recorded a podcast with the Global Digital Marketplace team. They are helping to tackle corruption – a $2.6 trillion problem. The team visited 5 countries, talking to people at state and local level. Can you name all 5 countries? Laura.   Laura Stevens: Okay. I think I’ve got this: South Africa, Malaysia, Colombia, Indonesia… I’m going to fall down on the last one!   Angus Montgomery: I think I know the last one.   Laura Stevens: What’s the last one?    Sarah Stewart: No no no no, we can’t do that.    Angus Montgomery: Oh.    Laura Stevens: Oh so do I just..?   Sarah Stewart: You’re compromising the integrity of the quiz.    Laura Stevens: Do I get a hint or do I just…?   Sarah Stewart: Here’s your clue. Its name also features in the name of its capital city. Massive clue...   The answer was Mexico.   Laura Stevens: That’s really annoying.   Sarah Stewart: Mexico City. Okay. So, I’m afraid no one can take a point from that.    Okay, next question. The first ever Services Week took place from 28th January to 1st February. It was a nationwide, cross-government event that explored how people could work together to deliver end-to-end user-focused services. Now, one of the workshops during Services Week was designed to improve online forms. It was a sell-out workshop but what was the name of that workshop? Angus.   Angus Montgomery: Was it called Formapalooza?    Sarah Stewart: Correct! One point to Angus.    Angus Montgomery: Boom.   Laura Stevens: First one on the scoreboard, you know.    Angus Montgomery: Yeah.   Sarah Stewart: Okay, moving onto February now. In February, the GDS Academy turned 5 and launched a new course – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence [AI] in Government. Can you name an example of where AI is already being used in government? Laura.   Laura Stevens: Aren’t we using it here at GDS to do supervised machine learning on GOV.UK?   Sarah Stewart: Excellent, Laura. One point.   Laura Stevens: Yes! Back in the game.   Sarah Stewart: Next question. GovWifi is a common component that we all know and love. It provides free, secure wifi in public sector buildings. It’s used 2 million times a month. We noticed that it was also being accessed through which surprising device?   Laura Stevens: Is it a device you would find in a home?   Sarah Stewart: Yes, perhaps in the home of a teenager.   Laura Stevens: PlayStation.   Sarah Stewart: Correct answer. And actually, there were 6 PlayStations that were recorded.   Angus Montgomery: Who’s brought a PlayStation in?   Sarah Stewart: I don’t know. It could be in any public sector building.    Next question. The 11th competition for the GovTech Catalyst opened in March. Technology firms were invited to apply to develop innovative solutions for a challenge submitted by Oxfordshire County Council but what was that challenge?   Laura Stevens: Was it something to do with the traffic system?    Sarah Stewart: Yes.   Laura Stevens: And driverless cars..?   Sarah Stewart: Yes! Yes! Well done. Next question.   A team, a new team was created for GOV.UK to maintain and operate the GOV.UK platform. What was the new team called? Laura.   Laura Stevens: Is it the Platform Health team?    Sarah Stewart: Correct.   Sprint is GDS’s flagship conference. In April, we announced the agenda and that we would travel to 5 locations across the UK to discuss the impact of digital transformation on public services. Name those cities. Angus.   Angus Montgomery: In order: Edinburgh, Cardiff, Leeds, Belfast and London.    Sarah Stewart: One point to Angus. I almost said Laura then.   Laura Stevens: Give me all the points.    Angus Montgomery: Shall we have a check in on the scores?   Sarah Stewart: Yeah, let’s check in on the scores. Wow. Okay. Laura’s ahead.    In April, there was an Unconference at GDS. People were invited to pitch and present on topics of their choosing. Richard Towers held a discussion on making coding more accessible to people at GDS. Which of the following is a programming language that we do not use at GDS? Ruby, Python, Node.js, Go, Java, C#, Scala. Angus.    Angus Montgomery: C#?   Sarah Stewart: Correct!   Laura Stevens: Did you know that?   Angus Montgomery: I don’t know that much about programming languages. But I’ve heard people talking about the other ones.   Sarah Stewart: Okay. Well just to say, there was a trick answer in there as well. So for those people who really know their programming, we don’t use Scala anymore but there is an old project that’s still is in Scala but it’s not maintained.    Laura Stevens: Ooh I like that, a trick question.   Sarah Stewart: Okay so this is May. GOV.UK Pay – a free and secure online payment service for government and public sector organisations – took its first payment for a service in a language other than English. For half a point, what was that language? And, for the full point, how do you say seamless integration in that language? Laura.   Laura Stevens: Welsh. I’m just going for the half point. I don’t, I don’t have the other half of it.    Angus Montgomery: Not confident?   Laura Stevens: I’m not confident. I’ve never spoken Welsh so I wouldn’t want to offend anybody. Do you have, do you know it?   Angus Montgomery: No.   Laura Stevens: I don’t know. You knew about programming languages, so I thought you might also have-   Angus Montgomery: Welsh knowledge?    Laura: Yeah, Welsh knowledge..   Angus Montgomery: The two don’t always go together.    Sarah Stewart: Okay. Well, I’ve got it written down here and I don’t want to offend anyone either. It’s been quite a good year for common components, has it not?   Angus Montgomery: It has. So, I mean, as well as GOV.UK Pay, you’ve got GOV.UK Notify, which is a great success and is used by more than half the local authorities across the UK.   Laura Stevens: Yeah. It helps them do things like sending letters, which can be really time-consuming and where mistakes can be made.   Sarah Stewart: Okay. With changing regulations affecting public sector accessibility requirements, we advised how to publish an accessibility statement but where can you find that? Angus.   Angus Montgomery: GOV.UK.   Sarah Stewart: Yes! In June, we’re halfway through.   Laura Stevens: Yeah!   Sarah Stewart: How fun.    In June, a strategy and a guide were published. What was the name of that strategy and what was the name of the guide? I need the official names, please.    Laura Stevens: I think the first one is the Government Technology Innovation Strategy then it’s ‘A Guide to Using AI in the Public Sector’?   Sarah Stewart: Correct. Laura has got the full point.    In June, Kevin Cunnington, GDS’s Director General stepped down after 3 years leading the organisation. He took a new role on, at the International Government Service, and Alison Pritchard was named as Interim DG [Director General]. Can you tell me where in the world she was when she was offered the job? Angus.   Angus Montgomery: I think she was near Madagascar, wasn’t she, in the Indian Ocean?   Sarah Stewart: I...I don’t think I can accept that.   Angus Montgomery: Oh. She was on a boat in in, at sea.    Sarah Stewart: And well it...I’m going to accept Indian Ocean because she was sailing on a boat somewhere between Darwin and Christmas Island. So I would have accepted Timor Sea or the Indian Ocean.    Okay, so technically this happened in June, July was a little bit quiet.    So GDS’s step by step work on GOV.UK won a D&AD Award for Service Design. Please can you name my favourite step by step journey on GOV.UK? Angus.   Angus Montgomery: Is it Reporting Found Treasure?   Sarah Stewart: Correct!   Laura Stevens: I mean, even if I’d got in first, I would have actually been wrong. I thought it was actually Bring Your Pet to the UK.   Sarah Stewart: Where would I be bringing it from?   Laura Stevens: I don’t know. You might have bought your pet abroad.   Sarah Stewart: Oh yeah. I actually did look into dog rescue in Greece.   Laura Stevens: So you know, clearly I could have been right. But alas, it was more finding treasure.   Sarah Stewart: So what’s so good about step by step?   Laura Stevens: Well, there are now 47 live, and obviously, it’s really good that they are winning awards and everything but also they’re being, they’re really helping people. They are also helping the other parts of GOV.UK like our voice assistant work. So now you can ask your Alexa or Google Home if you want to learn to drive a car. And yeah, it's helping people where they need it.   And it’s quite like, when I spoke to Kate [Ivey-Williams] and Sam [Dub] about it, Kate was saying what motivated her is that ease to make government like, as invisible as possible. So say you’re dealing with a very distressing situation, like somebody has passed away, you don’t want to be like dealing with any government admin at that point. And so if the step by step can just give you the answers that you need and tell you very clearly, that’s a really helpful thing to do for users.   Sarah Stewart: What is your favourite step by step journey, Laura?   Laura Stevens: My favourite step by step journey is quite a boring one but I like it because I’m on the video for it. It’s How to Drive a Car. I feature saying it into a phone. Then it got screened at Sprint 18.   Sarah Stewart: Wow.   Laura Stevens: So you know, me in this jumper, it’s quite an old jumper. I didn’t really expect to be used in filming that day. It’s been immortalised.   Sarah Stewart: So if you want to have a visual picture of Laura, if you want to connect the voice to the face, watch that journey. It’s on YouTube.   In July we released, oh this is, actually, this next question could be in Laura’s advantage, just given your specialist subject for design. In July, we released new updates to the colours and font on GOV.UK. The GOV.UK colour palette is made up of 7 colours – grey, black, blue, red, yellow, green and white. Which 2 colours weren’t updated? Angus.    Angus Montgomery: Black and white?   Sarah Stewart: Correct!   Laura Stevens: That is great knowledge.   Sarah Stewart: Angus is in the lead.   Angus Montgomery: Yes!    Sarah Stewart: Wow.   Laura Stevens: Oh so I need to make a comeback?   Angus Montgomery: Yeah, Laura needs to make a comeback.   Laura Stevens: Is that because he’s got lots of half points? Trying hard but...   Sarah Stewart: He’s not committing.   Angus Montgomery: What’s that meant to mean?   Sarah Stewart: In August we talked about work we had to do following July’s reshuffle. When there is a reshuffle, GOV.UK needs to update the information as quickly as possible. True or false – the GOV.UK team knows this information before the public?   Laura Stevens: False.   Sarah Stewart: Correct. They find out at the same time as everyone else.    Laura Stevens: Yeah July...during the reshuffle in July, because it was quite like a big change and the changes were coming quite like quickly, the team really had to step up. And so that’s working late nights, making sure that GOV.UK is always like the canonical source of information.   Sarah Stewart: Yeah.    Laura Stevens: So they had to make updates to 100 individual ministers’ GOV.UK roles. They had to update ministers’ biographies. They had to add profiles to GOV.UK for people who hadn’t worked for Government before. They had to reorder the list of ministers on 22 department pages. And they had to reorder the Government Ministers page. And obviously there’s a lot of eyes on GDS, well on GOV.UK and GDS’s team, GDS’s work through that. So yeah, they did really well.   Sarah Stewart: Go team. Ok, next question.   Alison took up the role of DG [Director General] at GDS and wrote an introductory blog post sharing a little bit about her past. It’s incredibly well written. Alison has a fantastic background in public service but what was her very first job serving the public?   Angus Montgomery: I feel like I know this.   Sarah Stewart: It was in the blog post, if you read it.    Angus Montgomery: I don’t know if it was her very first job but she was Minister Responsible for Cage Fighting at one stage, wasn’t she?    Laura Stevens: That’s quite a high entry as your first job. Minister for Cage Fighting.    Angus Montgomery: Not Minister, obviously. She was a senior civil servant responsible for cage fighting in some capacity.    Laura Stevens: She was pulling pints…?   Sarah Stewart: You can’t give them clues.    Angus Montgomery: I thought you said first job in the civil service.    Sarah Stewart: No.    Angus Montgomery: Oh, first job.   Laura Stevens: No. It was first job serving the public.    Angus Montgomery: Oh so serving the public.   Laura Stevens: Is this a pun?   Sarah Stewart: Yes.    Laura Stevens: Oh!   Angus Montgomery: You’re operating on a level that I’m not!   Sarah Stewart: Yes! She was a barmaid when she was eight.    Laura Stevens: Oh. Is that...   Angus Montgomery: Is that legal?    Laura Stevens: Do we need to check in on that?    Sarah Stewart: It was…   Angus Montgomery: Do we need to check on the legality of that claim?   Laura Stevens: You need to investigate some pub wherever she grew up.   Sarah Stewart: It was her family pub and she just served soft drinks.   Sarah Stewart: Ok, so September. Plans for a new permanent secretary level Government Chief Digital Information Officer (GCDIO) were announced at Sprint. Alison said that GCDIO was a bit of a mouthful, so what was the title shortened to? Angus.   Angus Montgomery: She calls them ‘The Big G’.    Sarah Stewart: Correct. Adding that it incorporates a sense of scale and seniority for that particular post.    Mark Hurrell, the former Head of Design for GOV.UK and the Head of Graphic Design at GDS wrote the most popular blog post in Design in Government blog history. What was it about? Laura.   Laura Stevens: So I feel like I need to claw this back after Angus took my specialist subject earlier. Is it the post about the design principles posters?   Sarah Stewart: Correct. Yes, well done.   Laura Stevens: There was also a very nice… we can plug the Instagram here as well, because I believe Roger Valentine did a very nice animation about those posts as well.   Sarah Stewart: Oh.   Laura Stevens: Yeah.   Sarah Stewart: Great. In October, 2 members of the Sustainability Network – Emily Labram and Will Pearson – estimated the maximum amount of CO2 that GDS produces. How many tonnes of CO2 did they estimate we produced? Laura.   Laura Stevens: Was it 4,000?   Sarah Stewart: Correct!   Laura Stevens: Ah! That’s so much.   Sarah Stewart: That’s a lot but it’s an important piece of work. It’s good to know exactly what your impact is.   Laura Stevens: And is it on the blog post?   Sarah Stewart: It is. All of the details are on the blog post and how they calculated it as well.   Angus Montgomery: And where does that come from, the CO2?   Sarah Stewart: It’s things like data centres that are consuming lots of energy. Like and whether that energy is, I mean the question is whether you can have renewable energy sources to keep things like data centres up and running and...   Laura Stevens: Yeah and I think also, that blog post got a lot of comments, as well. So I think it’s something that other government departments or like arm’s length bodies, or whatever are looking into.   Sarah Stewart: Yeah cause you, yeah, I guess you think that the big culprits are fashion, oil and gas industries. Actually, everyone is sort of-   Laura Stevens: Yeah, everyone is responsible.    Sarah Stewart: Yes. In October, GOV.UK turned 7. Tell me, what was notable about the desks that the team worked on when GOV.UK was launched? Laura.   Laura Stevens: Is this from an article you wrote?    Sarah Stewart: Me? Or Secretary of State?   Laura Stevens: Sorry, sorry, the ghostwriting that doesn’t exist.   Sarah Stewart: Yeah, yeah.    Laura Stevens: Is it that they were cardboard boxes?   Sarah Stewart: Correct. Thank you for reading that by the way.   I’m going to read a quote from a GDS figure. Please can you identify the speaker, their job title and tell me what they are talking about. The quote starts, “Unlike many publishers or commercial organisations, we’re not incentivised by statistics like page views or the number of visitors. Our interest is in making sure we are where the user is,” end quote. Angus.   Angus Montgomery: That is Jen Allum, who is Head of GOV.UK, talking about, well I guess the sort of success metrics for GOV.UK. And it’s interesting what she’s saying about that, that obviously we’re not a commercial organisation, we’re an organisation that’s here to serve user needs. So the traditional kind of understanding of people, you know you want to increase the number of people coming to your site, like that’s not how we operate.   I mean it’s good to know those figures obviously. And it’s good to know who’s coming and what they are looking at and what’s getting a lot of traffic and stuff. But that’s not ultimately what motivates people and that’s not what motivates their future vision for GOV.UK, which is about serving users, helping them to do whatever it is that they need to do, regardless of whether that’s a simple thing or a complex life event.   Sarah Stewart: Perfect answer. One point.   November saw the creation of another community at GDS. GDS has got so many lovely communities. What was that community? Laura.   Laura Stevens: Was it Muslims at GDS?   Sarah Stewart: Correct! Networks are a nice thing, aren’t they?   Laura Stevens: They are.   Sarah Stewart: What’s your favourite network? What networks are you part of?   Laura Stevens: So at GDS I’m part of the Women’s Network. I’ve also recently joined the Mental Health Network because I interviewed Ben on the podcast, Ben Carpenter on the podcast last month. What about you Angus?   Angus Montgomery: I’m not a member, although I probably ought to be. But I go to quite a lot of the Women’s Network events, which are really good. I think it’s great obviously not being a woman and being able to go to these things and being part of that community.   But no, I think the good thing about the networks is, even if you are not a member, they are really visible so I’ve been to quite a few events that the LGBT Network have done as well. I just think it’s really good that, yeah they’re so active and there is so much going on.   Laura Stevens: Yeah, I think that part about being open to all is really nice. Because often you can just join them by joining the Slack channel, and that’s very, you can just be there. So if you’re joining GDS as a person who’s not been in government before or anything, you can just be like, “here’s a few friendly faces” and you don’t have to...you can be kind of as active or as inactive as you want to be as part of the network.    So what networks are you part of?   Sarah Stewart: I dip my toes into a few pools. Does that work? I mean not physiologically. Metaphorically. I’m really interested in the work that the Women’s Group do, particularly around negotiating pay rises and public speaking. But also the Mental Health Network is really valuable because it’s such an everyday thing here. Well it’s becoming more of an everyday thing here to talk about how you are feeling. And I think that in other organisations, that’s not the case. I think there is a real push to normalise talking about it, which is ultimately very healthy.   Laura Stevens: And it’s really nice that GDS can take like a leading role in that then, in setting a precedent on how that’s a good thing.   Sarah Stewart: Yeah. Okay, we’ve only got 2 questions left. We’re almost at the end. So can you tell me how many types of chocolate were tried by GDS Chocolate Club in 2019? And I should add that GDS Chocolate Club is funded by its members and is an out of hours club.    Angus Montgomery: 6.   Sarah Stewart: Laura.   Laura Stevens: I’m going to go much higher. I’m going to go like 24.    Sarah Stewart: Well you’ve both fallen short. 65 chocolates were tasted in 2019.   Angus Montgomery: Woah.    Laura Stevens: Is this the final question?   Sarah Stewart: This is the final question of the quiz. Name every person in the Creative Team who made the GDS Podcast series possible this year.   Angus Montgomery: Laura.   Laura Stevens: Angus.    Angus Montgomery: Sarah.   Sarah Stewart: Thank you.   Laura Stevens: Producer Emily.   Angus Montgomery: To give her her full title. Animator and photographer, Roger.    Laura Stevens: And we’ve got filmmaker Graham. Producer Megan Painter.   Sarah Stewart: Yeah.   Laura Stevens: Designer Charlotte.   Angus Montgomery: Couldn’t possibly forget Alastair Mogford, who not only set up this podcast but documented how we do it and wrote down a very long description which we’ve all been using now because we all forget like what the set-up is and stuff. So thank you, Alastair.   Laura Stevens: Shout out to Alastair.    And also we’ve got to shoutout to our social media star, Lou Mullan.    Angus Montgomery: And thanks obviously to Chris Watson.   Sarah Stewart: Oh wait. How do we attribute points to this?    Angus Montgomery: Everyone gets points for that.   Laura Stevens: Because it’s a team effort.    Angus Montgomery: Yes.   Sarah Stewart: Aw that’s nice. That’s the spirit, isn’t it?   Laura Stevens: Well, well done team though, because we’ve done 14 podcasts!    Angus Montgomery: Yeah!   Laura Stevens: Thanks to everyone there.    Sarah Stewart: And thank you so much to all of our listeners for your loyal support over the past year.   Ok so Emily, can you tell us, can you hand me the final scores. I’m going to announce who the winner is-   Angus Montgomery: Ah!   Laura Stevens: Drumroll.   Sarah Stewart: After I announce who the runner-up is.    Angus Montgomery: Oh.   Sarah Stewart: It was Angus.   Angus Montgomery: Yay!   Sarah Stewart: Well done.    Laura Stevens: Well done Angus.   Sarah Stewart: But today’s winner is Laura Stevens. So, your prize is 3 chocolate bars wrapped up inside a civil service lanyard.    Laura Stevens: Oh that’s very kind of you, thank you.   Sarah Stewart: So claps for..   Laura Stevens: Aww! Well, but there’s 3 so you know we can divide amongst…   Angus Montgomery: Oh, well how convenient. Apart from Producer Emily.   Laura Stevens: I tried to do that really nicely.   Angus Montgomery: There, there are actually 4 of us in the room.    Laura Stevens: I will share that out amongst all of us here.   Sarah Stewart: That’s very magnanimous of you.    Laura Stevens: Aww.   Sarah Stewart: Aww, good winner. Ok so that brings us to the end of the last podcast of 2019. How did you think it went?   Angus Montgomery: It was very challenging.    Sarah Stewart: It doesn’t sound...   Laura Stevens: But I did come out as a winner, so I mean..    Angus Montgomery: Yeah.   Laura Stevens: I feel like-   Angus Montgomery: I mean obviously I came out as a runner up, so it was more challenging for me.   Sarah Stewart: 2019 has been quite a year, hasn’t it?   Laura Stevens: Yes.   Angus Montgomery: Uh huh.   Sarah Stewart: What have your highlights been?    Angus Montgomery: Well I moved team. So I’m now on the Strategy Team, which explains why I’m not as involved in the podcasts as I was before. So yeah, that’s a highlight. But obviously being on the Creative Team was also a highlight.    Laura Stevens: Aww.   Sarah Stewart: That’s sweet. Laura, what’s your highlight been?    Laura Stevens: I’ve really liked actually getting more involved in the podcasts, which is quite an appropriate thing to say in this podcast episode.    Angus Montgomery: On the podcast..   Laura Stevens: But no I’ve spoken to really interesting people, like Kate Ivy-Williams and Sam Dub. Yeah, lots of other people as well, on the podcast.    Sarah Stewart: Great. Okay.    Laura Stevens: But what about you? What was your highlights for the year?    Sarah Stewart: Well I helped Alison with the presentation that she delivered at the Women into Leadership Conference. And we made a spoof book about Alison. It’s called ‘Alison by Alison Pritchard’.   Laura Stevens: Yeah.   Sarah Stewart: Because we were talking about like stories from her life and someone thought it was real.   Laura Stevens: Yes. I believe also, I’m quite surprised by this because you actually wrote in fake reviews, I believe.    Sarah Stewart: Yeah, I did reviews from ‘People’s Friend’ and ‘Time Magazine’. That was really funny, and it was a really good event as well.  So thank you to all of our listeners over 2019. It’s been quite the year in the world of the GDS Podcast, we’ve covered lots of topics. So thank you for your loyal support and lending us your ears.   Laura Stevens: And please keep listening.    Sarah Stewart: You can listen to all the episodes of the Government Digital Service Podcast on Apple Music, Spotify and all other major podcast platforms. You can read the transcripts on Podbean. Bye.   Angus Montgomery: Bye.   Laura Stevens: Bye 2019. 

Celebrating the holidays Tipsy Nerds style, in this episode, the Nerds discuss Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. In the future, an Oxford history student time travels to merry old plague-infested England during the Christmas holidays. The Nerds are cooking up a seasonal drink with a rich history. Gather round the wassail bowl and get your medieval on with the Tipsy Nerds.Support the show (http://www.Patreon.com/tipsynerdsbookclub)

Jundo and Kirk take a look at the zen of the future, discussing whether or not robots are sentient, and whether they have Buddha nature. Kannon Bodhisattva robot unveiled at Kyoto temple to share Buddha's religious teachings (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/23/business/tech/robotic-kannon-unveiled-kyoto-temple/) Guanyin (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin) The hard question (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness) Trolley problem (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem) Susan Blackmore (https://www.susanblackmore.uk) Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me (https://amzn.to/2Hh7aMU) Love in another dimension: Japanese man 'marries' Hatsune Miku hologram (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/12/national/japanese-man-marries-virtual-reality-singer-hatsune-miku-hologram/) Doomsday Book (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Book_(film)) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

For today's Author's Shelf episode, Andrew Klavan asked Craig and Kenn to read Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis. The three of them discuss the incredibly well drawn characters, the devastating emotional climax, and the relief of having a time travel story that -- wouldn't you know it -- actually works! Our thanks to Andrew Klavan for coming on the show, and we hope you'll check out his recent effort, Another Kingdom.   Check out Another Kingdom, in PODCAST or BOOK form.   Support the show on Patreon Join the conversation on Reddit Music: "Adventure Time" and "The Seven Seas" courtesy of https://www.philter.no/

The Doomsday Book of Medicine is a powerful resource that all preppers should have in their library. Its over 900 pages and we have an interview on the I AM Liberty Show with Author Ralph La Guardia. Enjoy this on Medical Monday!

A day full of exhibitions, started off at the British Library for the Giant Bible and Doomsday Book, then headed off to the Royal Academy of Art for Michelangelo and Bill Viola. Then ended the day at Canary Wharf's Light Festival :) Also, met my boyfriend's mom, a super cool lady and a historian~

We've all been feeling like something is wrong with the timeline. In this episode, we ask what alternate history, fake history, and secondary world history can teach us about the present. Does exploring the past in fiction help us learn from history or are we doomed to repeat it? History-obsessed authors Connie Willis (Blackout, Doomsday Book) and R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War) offer their thoughts too. Episode notes at www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com

Idioms: Through thick and thin Every cloud has a silver lining Fly off the handle Sponsored by: No one, but we got the attention of a celebrity on Twitter. Links: More chickens than people (I didn’t actually believe this one, that’ll teach me…) World population clock Battery farming Nandos (cheeky) Wedding vows CGI Banana's Introduced to the UK It's a Wonderful Life Fat sign of wealth Henriest Henry Feeding the multitude (5000, woop) Spartans 300 (60%… it deserves much more than that…) Battle of Thermopylae (boom, got that one right) Midas The Land Before Time Triceratops (not one of those dinosaurs that textbooks got wrong!) Doomsday Book (got this one right too!) Non-Newtonian fluid Bird’s Custard (and this one, good podcast for vague history!) Smash (the very phrase ‘instant mashed potato’ inspires dread) Angel Delight Chaucer The Lord of the Rings (boring) Rosetta Stone Voynich Manuscript (didn’t recall this one though…) Berenstain Bears Pawadox Atlantis Batman: The Brave and the Bold Jason Momoa (will forever be Ronon from Stargate to me) P. T. Barnum Star Wars, misquoted Bleeding Gums Murphy Bleeding Gums’ voice actors (not JEL) James Earl Jones Kimba the White Li

We've got over Star Wars and followed up on our enjoyment of Snowpiercer by watching three more slices of South Korean science fiction. Monster movies, zombie movies, an eight ball hurtling into the earth and a fish man, this week has pretty much everything. GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/science-fiction-rating-system/id1200805447) Get in touch! (https://www.sciencefictionratingsystem.com/contact) Visit the Website! (https://www.sciencefictionratingsystem.com) See the list so far! (https://letterboxd.com/scifirating/list/science-fiction-rating-system-rankings/) And we're on Twitter (https://twitter.com/scifirating), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/scifirating/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/scifirating/) too!

This week we have a lot to say about wine, some to say about Amazon's Lord of the Rings series and loads to say as we wrap up Connie Willis' Doomsday Book. Plus we kind of sort of kick off December's Book, California Bones.

Amanda and Jenn discuss book group picks, medieval fiction, sci-fi short stories, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libby and the Book Riot Bookstore Giveaway. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here.   Questions 1. Hi- going on a road trip with my 22 year old daughter from North Carolina back home to Texas in late November. Looking for an audiobook recommendation to listen to on the drive- something possibly set in the south with a mystery or supernatural bent. We like smart characters and a plot that is twisty. --Jen   2. Hi ladies! I am a librarian at a small library outside Philadelphia with a HUGE book-club-in-a-bag collection (it comes with books, audiobooks, discussion materials--the whole works). I've just recently taken over the collection and I realized that it is tragically white. I'm doing what I can to remedy that, but I was hoping for some suggestions for diverse, newer, fairly accessible book-club lit (or non-fiction!) for the collection. We've got The Underground Railroad, The Mothers, Little Fires Everywhere, Behold the Dreamers, and Between the World and Me, to name a few. Thanks so much! --Katherine   3. Hi Amanda and Jenn!! I listen to Get Booked religiously, and you guys have steered me into so many things I've absolutely loved. I just finished the Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and it's left me craving more books with meaningful, adult-child relationships where at least one party is choosing to be in the others' life (adoption, mentor-ship, and similar.) What I specifically loved about A.J. and Maya was how genuinely they liked each other as people. I'd love to read more in that vein, if you have any recommendations? Thanks! --Lauren   4. Hello! First I want you to know that I love the show. My TBR list is huge now and My husband keeps side eyeing me as I bring new books home. I'm currently reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and it has made me realize how much I love books about the Middle Ages or Medieval times. I've also read the Inquisitor's Tale and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. What other recommendations do you have that take place in that time or are similar to those books? Thanks so much!! --Olivia   5. I suffer from a chronic pain condition and would like to find books that have conditions similar to mine (or other disabilities). Memoir or fiction would be great. I've read both of Jenny Lawson's books and cried when I found out that she had arthritis because I do not get to read about people with similar experiences much. (No Me Before You please!) --Emily   6. Hi Get Booked Ladies! I have always loved Science Fiction and in the last few months have really gotten into short story collections. I have recently read "Stories of Your Life" by Ted Chiang (this is probably going to be my favorite book of the year), "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler, and "Three Moments of an Explosion" by China Mieville. I have also loved in the past "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury. I currently have "​Beyond the Rift" by Peter Watts and "Miracle" by Connie Willis on my upcoming TBR. I am looking for some more interesting and well written sci-fi short story collections!​ ​I enjoy hard sci-fi and first contact stories. Dark, weird, speculative, and bizarre are also great ​descriptors​ for me. ​Just FYI...​I don't​ really​ like fantasy​​ (I never understood why sci-fi and fantasy are ​clumped together). Thank​ you so much​ and love your show! --Andrea :)   7. Hi! I teach high school English, and often listen to the podcast on my way to work, which makes for a lovely commute (but also makes it impossible to write down all of the books I want to read). I work with several young people who are hunters, and want to read about hunting/survival/outdoorsy stuff. We have Paulsen's Hatchet and sequels and Si-cology 101 (Duck Dynasty), which have been popular among this group, and one student is reading Where the Red Fern Grows. Another of these readers started American Sniper but never finished it, and they've all read The Hunger Games. I'm ordering some Jon Krakauer, but I'm looking for more recommendations that might strike a chord with this group of readers - fiction or nonfiction, especially things that are a little more grownup (YA is awesome - more of that, please, but I worry they're not challenged by some of the middle grades texts we have available). Thanks, and I promise to stop the car to listen to your reply (or, even better, listen with students) :) --Jennifer   Books Discussed A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet Jade City by Fonda Lee Crooked Letter Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin The Cutting Season by Attica Locke   Shelter by Jung Yun The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Frederik Backman, translated by Henning Koch (recommended by Elizabeth) Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig A Bed of Spices by Barbara Samuel Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin The Escape by Mary Balogh The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked, edited by Annabelle Hayse, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen Pain Woman Takes Your Keys by Sonya Huber Overclocked by Cory Doctorow Galactic Empires, edited by Neil Clarke The Land by Mildred Taylor (recommended by Danika) The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

OMG. Patrick Rothfuss is best buds with Lin-Manuel Miranda and they're doing a TV prequel to Kingkiller Chronicles, while Felicia Day plays Poppy the Dragonologist AND Amazon wants to do a Tolkien series. And that doesn't even begin to shed light on how good our book pick Doomsday Book is. But the piece de resistance of the show is one man's story of losing power and trying to read.

Books! Love 'em - don't have a lot of time to read 'em anymore.  Blame modern life, or whatever, but a good book takes time and deserves an attentive reader, so no smartphone distractions, or Netflix binge-athons please.  In the end we packed our bags, stuffed in a few paperbacks, and over a week of sunshine read: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis The Death of Grass by John Christopher Slade House by David Mitchell Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Twisted Clay by Frank Walford Among others.   

I knew this was going to be an insightful interview, because Guy had already laid down the parameters of his argument: In just 10 years time humanity would become extinct on our planet. In the intro before we went to air - I asked Guy if he was open to me looking at ALL possibilities and to even humour me in my indulgences. So read on dear reader - this is a very unique interview and I will summarise what subjects I was unable to totally cover at the end. I knew this was going to be an insightful interview, because Guy had already laid down the parameters of his argument: That in 10 years humanity on our planet would become extinct. Well, I am 12 years older than Guy and have heard statements like this before... but 10 years! Then he opened the door to take him up on his following statement on his website: Nature Bats Last. (www.guymcpherson.com) As always, I’m open to alternative views. In fact, I’m begging for them, considering the gravity of this particular situation. I was ready for Guy, but I needed another hour to be able to build out a more compelling case for a global shift in consciousness. Or to at least seed the ideal. One of my first interviews (that I do not have a record of) was with NZ’s top scientist for 2004, Peter Barrett. At that time he was Director of the Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington. In his acceptance speech for the Marsden medal for exceptional scientific achievement he stated: “We have to change our ways because continuous growth and business as usual on our planet, will cause us to become extinct within the next 100 years." Well, the status quo in Wellington were not happy and he was asked to recant and offer up another statement, which he duly did, and stated: “the end of civilisation as we know it!" That same year I also interviewed James Lovelock, instigator of the Gaia hypothesis, that our planet is a super organism. He too implied that we had reached a tipping point. His two subsequent books The Vanishing Face of Gaia and The Revenge of Gaia were grim and pessimistic outlooks at what was happening due the sustained abuse and avarice that we humans have been engaged in, especially over the last 70 years in exploiting our great sustainer.   He too said that we would not make it into the next century. He said “Enjoy life while you can. Because if you’re lucky, it’s going to be 20 years before it hits the fan.” That was early 2008, however he later stated in 2012 that he was an alarmist. He still maintains that by the end of this century 80% of the population will be wiped out.   When hearing Guys pronouncement last week that "humanity would become extinct in 10 years time", I was already case hardened. As a ‘trooper’ it did not phase me - I was/am ready. I've been steeled for this since 1975, when I read the Doomsday Book by a Gordon Rattray Taylor. This book covered the fate of what we as a humanity were doing to our planet. In one nights reading it shocked the daylights out of me altering me substantially to this day. His foreboding narrative of the future of Planet Earth painted a collision course with the death of humanity, into a morbid, lifeless, Martian outlook. So I opened up with the recent Paul Henry morning TV3 show where ‘NZ’s loose canon and fervent denier of so many things’ was totally gob smacked. For this was the first time of hearing of his 10 years death sentence to his future dreams, unfinished diatribes and indulgences. He was like a goldfish blowing bubbles, yet looking very closely at Guy, you could see his eyes intently staring out at the world. The original 4 minute sound bite interview turned into a 10 minute one, as Paul wavered all breaks for advertising. He wanted more information about his starkly shortened future! In short, Guy maintains that planetary temperatures are all locked in already. We have blown the thermostat of our planet and we can’t do anything now. It’s like giving the command for an oil supertanker that has been at top speed to stop! This takes something like 120 miles or so to bring it to a complete halt, as its momentum is so powerful. Guy encourages us to go back to the land, take action and protest this takeover, such as in South Dakota at Black Rock. “It’s the right thing to do”, he says. People today suffer from NDD or ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’. We have lost our connection and don’t know where much of our food comes from. Hence our lack of consciousness of our living planet.   There are always consequences. Year after year we have failed to solve the problem of growth at all costs. Not to mention the poisons we produce due to extraction of resources from the bounty of the land we inhabit. We have had the warnings time and time again and we took no action. We have all been born into the situation to find we are now born into captivity! Lack of Connection Kevin says the 1% are not burdened with empathy, to care about what they do. It’s a huge social disconnection that when they make decisions, they hurt the world. My question to Guy:    Do you think we have sociopaths running the high end of our planet? Yes, we have. He could argue that we are all part of the problem because we (in my words) have all become consumers, consuming ourselves and our common future.  That basically 95% of us always vote on our bank balance and what’s in it for Me? Kevin then jumped in and stoically stated that he wanted to be the last person planting the last tree on our planet, before the lights go out. I then leapt in and said I would be there with him! Ready to eat of the fruit of that tree! We are Slow Learners Then I introduce the concept that: 50 Years ago we heard that we would destroy our civilisation possibly in around 100 years or so  -  if we did not change our ways.    20 years ago they revised it to possibly 40 years 15 years  it was down to 30 years Now Guy today is saying about 10 years to go... It nearly rhymes with. 50 years ago the human race were only using 10% of their potential 20 years ago they then said it was  7% 5 years ago it was down to 5% 2 years ago it was we were only using 2% of our potential So we are using less and less of our potential … to find out we're using less and less of our potential … What is going to happen in 5 years time? Guy jumped in and said yes, we have totally lost our way. Changing the Whole Focus: From Disaster to Changing of Human Consciousness Without grinding into what is actually happening …  temperatures rising, droughts, catastrophic events, etc. (I was even going to ask him about Geo engineering however our time was short and this is covered in my summary at the end.) I decided to beat a path to the inner self, to our potential as a human and what can we as a humanity do, seeing the situation in Guys words was so dire. Albert Einstein said that we cannot solve the problems with the same consciousness that caused them in the first place. Where do you see yourself in relationship to this Guy?  And he says he is all for it, but we have not done anything about it. Next, Nikola Tesla said "when mankind starts researching the invisible he will make more progress in 10 years that he will have in the whole of civilisation". Guy says that there is a lot that we do not know, because it is invisible and we have not learnt enough to become more evolved. Tesla talked about the ‘luminous akasha’ as to where he tapped into Akashic Records .  Akasha is a sanskrit word that Buddhists believe in “a permanency of records in the Akasa” and “the potential capacity of man to read the same". What do you think Tesla was saying here?   (listen to the interview for more) We are one Molecular Unified Energy Field. What about the fact that our planet is one unified molecular field that we are all connected - you to me in the gigantic sphere of atomic frequency - the air molecules between us, our bodies and this building is all one field oscillating at a particular frequency. Guys says ‘that we are that.’ This is fact YES?  We are “one field". We Humans are the Nerve Endings of Our Planet I mention that James Lovelock says that we humans are the nerve endings for Gaia, Mother Earth and that when someone stands up in the Amazon with a sign saying “No more deforestation!” they are a nerve ending telling the world that the Amazon is wanting help. Same for someone standing up in Palestine with a sign saying “We want Peace”. This again is another nerve ending communicating with all other nerve endings that we need to change, stop war and heal for Peace. Well the planet is inflamed and the ones who are hearing the Earth’s call and feeling this calling deeply, are coming in with compassionate mindfulness to be a part of ‘her immune response!" Guy says that he is open to a miracle - and that we need to ‘Passionately Pursue a Life of Excellence’   We have the saying the ‘anima mundi' which is Latin for World Soul?  So for arguments sake we could be all connected at the energy unified field? We share the one breath - all of us. This is all unseen and is invisible. Kevin adds that the Nuclear power stations in the US are still going and there are dangers of invisible radiation escaping. The US government has now extended the power station’s licenses by many more years. Even though virtually all have passed their use by date. They are now extremely dangerous because the cost of decommissioning them is outrageously enormous. The Japanese reactors at Fukushima are equally dangerous because they have been idle and out of action for 5 years.  They are now being recommissioned, and this is fraught with problems. Guy says of Tesla and regarding ‘the invisible' that there is so much we do not know. He talks of 'dark matter' and that science is now recognising there are many other Universes other than our own. It’s a Multi verse. And he says about a change of consciousness - is there enough time for a change of consciousness? … Mass consciousness?  He says he does not know, but is open to it for sure. Also mentioned are Walter Russell (the American mystic) and Viktor Schauberger, who have seen into the invisible. Schauberger, (known as the 'father of water'), was able to lie down beside rivers and ‘become one with them’ in consciousness. Meditation was mentioned as a way of being able to find solace from the outside world as well as heal from grief, which is what many people are experiencing as we learn of the plight of our home planet, mother earth. The conversation then moves to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross where 1600 people came to listen to her tell of her research at the Auckland Town Hall. She had interviewed 20,000 people who had had ‘near death and out of the body’ experiences that we were more than a mere body. This was to extend the conversation beyond the limitations of seeing the world from a 3 dimensional world devoid of spirit or soul. That there is far more to existence than this world of the so called 5 senses.    I mention names like: Drs. Kenneth Ring Drs. Raymond Moody Ian Stevenson University of Virginia Who have all studied death and Guy agrees that death and dying plus sex are taboo subjects. Also there are books like Super Nature - Dr Lyall Watson, prolific author of many books on life The Secret Life of Plants and the Secrets of the Soil  by Peter Thompkins & Christopher Bird. These books on nature extend our knowingness about how ‘alive’ nature is. And we are now running out of time, to extend our view of the human capacity to learn and grow. Guy says that finding joy and to be open to allow joy to find us is so important. Find your tribe. Go back to grass roots working with your neighbourhood. Pursue excellence. These are the best things we can do at present. Guy says that extinction is a natural process and we are in the 6th great extinction. Kevin says, that now he knows his time is limited, it has freed him up immensely. He can do far more things that benefit the community that he is part of, on the island that he lives on. And there is no better time than the now. Guys says, if we had made the change during the cultural or flower power revolution in 1966-67 it may have made a difference to the world if it had spread. However, our children and grandchildren are not being factored into our future. This interview covers many other heartfelt subjects and is well worth the listen as it is sprinkled with little gems. In Summary: So that was it, we ran out of time. However, I also wanted to cover the other unknowing capacities of the human being such as: The story of savants There was the 'Mega Savant' Kim Peek, best known by the movie character he inspired the “Rain Man” played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1988 film of the same name. Fast absorption was no problem for Peek, who could just as easily read and memorise a telephone book as a compendium of Shakespearean plays. Kim could take in 10,000 words-per-minute reading two pages at a time—the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye. If a human can do this, can not any other human, once we tap into that aspect of our psyche? Then there was fire walking - Fijians and Indians in South Asia and their diaspora in Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Réunion, South Africa, Malaysia and Singapore, who celebrate the Thimithi festival. David Willey, professor of physics with the University of Pittsburgh, says he believes fire walking is explainable in terms of basic physics and is not supernatural nor paranormal. Willey notes that most fire walks occur on coals that measure about 1,000 °F (538 °C), but he once recorded someone walking on 1,800 °F (980 °C) coals. Mind over matter? What about Speed reading? Anne Jones, six times World Speed Reading Champion told the Guardian media that most of the time, she reads at speeds between 800 and 1,500 words per minute. This is much higher than the average for a good reader given by  fellow academics, of 200 to 400 words per minute. Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt was among the most intelligent U.S. Presidents and famous for his efficient reading skills. He would often take in an entire book before breakfast. If time permitted after dinner, he’d read through a few more before bed. Then his relative, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Inspired by his fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt adopted old Teddy’s auto didactic approach and taught himself to speed read. He began by fixating on two-to-three words at a time. He then pressed on to three-to-four, six-to-eight, and so on. Eventually, America’s beloved four-term President could read whole paragraphs like ordinary folks read individual words. Following in the Roosevelt’s footsteps, President John F. Kennedy made speed reading a personal priority during his tenure in the White House. With practice, he cultivated a rate of 1,2000 wpm, as he wanted to be able to read two or three books daily. JFK wanted his brother Bobby to learn to speed read, too, and the pair of Kennedy’s took classes together to that end. So what is the capabilities of the human mind?  This is the never ending question. I also had many other questions about some yogi’s in India that I wanted to talk about. Information that’s not publicised in the main stream media such as Paramahansa Yogananda and his astounding death. ET Intervention? Plus, in my pre-talk with Guy before the interview, I did even mention to him the ET situation. Captain Edgar Mitchell (6th man to walk on the moon) mentioned on Campbell Live here in Auckland in 2008 that the US authorities have bodies and that they have been studied. So there is most definitely an Extra Terrestrial equation that has to be at least discussed. If our planet is in free fall and losing it and they have super energy technologies that can reverse all the heating and reflect sunlight back into space... They could have reason to push into our world, defying the prime directive not to intervene in another planet’s evolution, however again I ran out of time to bring this subject back up. Post Thoughts on 10 years or not? With the subject based on only 10 years to live as a species, I personally have another slightly optimistic opinion. The Antarctic ice is close to 1.9 km (1.2 mi; 6,200 ft) in thickness and covering an area of almost 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles) containing 26.5 million cubic kilometres (6,400,000 cubic miles) of ice. It will take a long time to melt, as it is in darkness and cold for 4 to 6 months a year. And Greenland has a mean altitude of ice at 2,135 metres (7,005 ft). The thickness is generally more than 2 km (1.2 mi) and over 3 km (1.9 mi) at its thickest point and covers an area of 1,710,000 km2 (660,000 sq mi).  And yes there is the slowing down of the Atlantic ocean gulf stream too. There are many, many other contingencies to play out before I adhere to Guys 10 year statement, though he has far more up to date information than I. I remain confident that I am still going to enjoy a long life of a degree of happiness, bearing in mind we are in such a majorly critical evolutionary phase. Yes, Geo Engineering!  I was going to ask Guy about what is happening about Geo Engineering. (geoengineeringwatch.org) I see there is a large in-house disagreement between them and Mr.G Edward Griffin of  ‘What in the World Are They Spraying?’. However as this is still unclear - I decided against it. Yes we live in very interesting times!

Julie wonders what color her gobstopper will turn next. Scott wishes someone would invent a cell phone. They both need some more practice with the bells and... oh no, here comes Mrs. Gaddson! Doomsday Book by Connie Willis is the subject of Episode 133.Download or listen via this link: |Episode #133| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE|

SFBRP #246 – Connie Willis – Doomsday Book Juliane joins Luke as he talks (rants) about possibly his least favorite book in the entire history of the SFBRP. That’s Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Get this audiobook for free, or any of 100,000 other titles, as part of a free trial by visiting this link: […]

Aren't these guys dead yet? On this episode Suedepup and Damian Legion talk about reaching survivors outside the United States. Pup likes the Z Nation debut trailer, and Damian chats up a Suicide Girl. Reading comics on a tablet vs. holding a real TPB. Why is Walt Disney rolling over in his grave? Good news for Dead Island fans! The zombie part of Doomsday Book is reviewed. And can someone get us the lyrics to a Goatwhore song about zombies? All this plus the usual Dead Drops and weekly "Whatchoo Lookin' At?" Thanks for listening and subscribing! Please leave us a written review on iTunes and Stitcher! Stay safe out there! (email: zeddradio@icloud.com / Twitter: @ZEDDRadio)

Novel Ideas returns with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, a novel by one of the most well regarded authors you’ve probably never heard of. Connie Willis is a Grand Master of science fiction and one of the most decorated science fiction authors in the history of the genre. This book is her classic tale of […]

Just to make sure things don't get boring, this week's theme is slightly specific: foreign horror / sci-fi films! First up, Adam joins Desmond for a review of the Korean futuristic anthology film Doomsday Book. Then Duane and Desmond take a look at the morose Swiss space travel film Cargo. Then Desmond goes solo on the latest Eclipse Series box set from Criterion called When Horror Came to Shochiku, which contains the following obscure Japanese horror / sci-fi flicks: The X From Outer Space; Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell; The Living Skeleton; and Genocide. There's some science fictiony tunes to check out as well: "Let the End Begin" by Ancient VVisdom, "Don't Open 'Til Doomsday" by The Misfits, "Into the Void" by Nine Inch Nails, "Skeletons of Society" by Hellsongs, and "Science Gone Too Far" by The 69 Eyes. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213. Follow @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Visit www.dreadmedia.com and www.stayscary.wordpress.com.

Just to make sure things don't get boring, this week's theme is slightly specific: foreign horror / sci-fi films! First up, Adam joins Desmond for a review of the Korean futuristic anthology film Doomsday Book. Then Duane and Desmond take a look at the morose Swiss space travel film Cargo. Then Desmond goes solo on the latest Eclipse Series box set from Criterion called When Horror Came to Shochiku, which contains the following obscure Japanese horror / sci-fi flicks: The X From Outer Space; Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell; The Living Skeleton; and Genocide. There's some science fictiony tunes to check out as well: "Let the End Begin" by Ancient VVisdom, "Don't Open 'Til Doomsday" by The Misfits, "Into the Void" by Nine Inch Nails, "Skeletons of Society" by Hellsongs, and "Science Gone Too Far" by The 69 Eyes. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213. Follow @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Visit www.dreadmedia.com and www.stayscary.wordpress.com.

Just to make sure things don't get boring, this week's theme is slightly specific: foreign horror / sci-fi films! First up, Adam joins Desmond for a review of the Korean futuristic anthology film Doomsday Book. Then Duane and Desmond take a look at the morose Swiss space travel film Cargo. Then Desmond goes solo on the latest Eclipse Series box set from Criterion called When Horror Came to Shochiku, which contains the following obscure Japanese horror / sci-fi flicks: The X From Outer Space; Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell; The Living Skeleton; and Genocide. There's some science fictiony tunes to check out as well: "Let the End Begin" by Ancient VVisdom, "Don't Open 'Til Doomsday" by The Misfits, "Into the Void" by Nine Inch Nails, "Skeletons of Society" by Hellsongs, and "Science Gone Too Far" by The 69 Eyes. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213. Follow @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Visit www.dreadmedia.com and www.stayscary.wordpress.com.

Just to make sure things don't get boring, this week's theme is slightly specific: foreign horror / sci-fi films! First up, Adam joins Desmond for a review of the Korean futuristic anthology film Doomsday Book. Then Duane and Desmond take a look at the morose Swiss space travel film Cargo. Then Desmond goes solo on the latest Eclipse Series box set from Criterion called When Horror Came to Shochiku, which contains the following obscure Japanese horror / sci-fi flicks: The X From Outer Space; Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell; The Living Skeleton; and Genocide. There's some science fictiony tunes to check out as well: "Let the End Begin" by Ancient VVisdom, "Don't Open 'Til Doomsday" by The Misfits, "Into the Void" by Nine Inch Nails, "Skeletons of Society" by Hellsongs, and "Science Gone Too Far" by The 69 Eyes. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213. Follow @dreadmedia on Twitter! Join the Facebook group! Visit www.dreadmedia.com and www.stayscary.wordpress.com.

Science Fiction and Politics: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Part 2), Fall 2010, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Part 2), Fall 2010, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Part 1), Fall 2010, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Part 1), Fall 2010, Emory University

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An introduction to medieval and early modern sources relating to English and Welsh local history. Sean Cunningham and James Ross explore the vast collection of accounts, surveys, court rolls, inquisitions, deeds and taxation records held at The National Archives.

 Winner of six Nebula and nine Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time. Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction. Her award-winning titles include Fire Watch, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Doomsday Book. Her latest full-length novel, Passage, deals with near-death experiences and the sinking of the Titanic. Join Connie Willis for a discussion of her works prior to her weekend appearance at Balticon 42.Recorded On: Thursday, May 22, 2008