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According to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and its sister sites, people spent an estimated 2.9 billion hours reading English Wikipedia in 2024. I wondered: What does it take to be a trustworthy repository for all that curiosity? Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight has been a Wikipedia editor since 2007, and an administrator since 2009. With 100,000+ edits to her credit, she has created more than 4,000 new articles, with concentrations in geography, architecture, and women's biographies. In 2015, she co-founded a volunteer project intended to address the current gender bias in Wikipedia content and in 2021 she was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. Who better to talk with? Wikimedia Foundation: https://wikimediafoundation.org Theme music by Sean Balick; "Great Is the Contessa" by Contessa, via Blue Dot Sessions.

Read Online“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.” Luke 6:24–26Luke 6:20–49 offers us a shortened version of the Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew's Gospel. Luke's version of this sermon takes place on a plain, “a stretch of level ground.” The teachings in the two Gospels are very similar, despite their difference in length. Luke's teaching on the Beatitudes adds the “woe to you's” quoted above, which are not found in Matthew's version.The early Church Father Saint Bede comments that Saint Luke's version of the “woes” are meant for those who are “uninstructed hearers” because they “must first be brought by terrors to good works.” He goes on to say that the first part of the Beatitudes, the “blessings,” are meant for the “perfect” because they “need but be invited by rewards” rather than fear of punishment. The fact that Saint Luke includes a teaching for both the sinner and the saint should lead us to the conclusion that we can benefit from both approaches in our spiritual lives.When your spiritual life is strong and you are consistently avoiding serious sin, it might be more helpful to reflect regularly upon the blessings found in the Beatitudes. This will have the effect of drawing you into greater perfection as the desire for the reward of holiness becomes the object of your hope.When your spiritual life is weaker and you are regularly struggling with more serious sin, it might be more helpful to reflect upon the woes of the Beatitudes. This will have the effect of deterring you from the cycle of sin you struggle with, on account of the fear of the consequences of those sins.In the end, the Beatitudes and their subsequent woes are meant to point us interiorly to the desires of our hearts. We must become more and more aware of what occupies our thinking and desires. Ultimately, wealth or poverty, hunger or satisfaction, worldly praise or persecution do not matter. What matters is that our hearts are detached from the desires identified in this sermon so that we more fully desire only God and His holy will, regardless of the circumstances of life we find ourselves in.Reflect, today, upon your own spiritual and moral life and first consider whether you are blessed to be living a life that more imitates the saints or whether you more often reflect the serious struggles of the sinner. From there, try to choose which form of teaching you need the most. Do you need to ponder the rewards of seeking even greater beatitude in life so as to grow deeper in holiness? Or do you need Jesus' clear condemnations to help you break free from the cycle of sin with which you are struggling? Humbly identify that which is most helpful to you right now in your spiritual life and allow this full sermon of Jesus to help you on your journey to the Kingdom of Heaven.Lord of holiness, I do desire to follow You and become truly holy. Please free me from my sin so that I am able to avoid the consequences of those sins. Please help me to also desire the heights of holiness so that I will receive the great rewards that You promised to the saints in Heaven. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2025 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.Boston at English Wikipedia & John Stephen Dwyer, CC BY-SA 3.0

When Jesus stood before Pilate, he confessed that his kingdom, and thus his kingship, was not from this world. What did he mean by this? Is his kingdom and kingship utterly separate from this world? Or do they overlap and interlock together, such that this world will be changed when Jesus returns?Image: Boston at English Wikipedia & John Stephen Dwyer, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

We've put together some mind-blowing facts about India. It is a country where strange and unique things are possible. You will be amazed to find out what unusual traditions this culture is full of. India is the second largest English-speaking country in the world where followers of all the world's major religions live. There are crazy rich people in the country who build personal skyscrapers for their families and people who neglect modern culture. Here, there are 6 seasons in a year and a specific head gesture for agreeing. The divorce rate in the country is super low. No surprise India is home to the biggest family in the world. Genius local farmers have invented a very special use for Coca-Cola and Pepsi, and IDs for cows. More than that, the Indian people invented many things we all can't live without: from buttons and shampoo to wireless communication and cataract surgery. Preview photo credit: A UP policeman: By Siddhartha Shukla, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://www.flickr.com/photos/siddhar... Indian Police Service Officer of 1987 batch, Dr. C. Sylendra Babu IPS: By Diwan07 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Animation is created by Bright Side. Music: Sahara Rains - Hanu Dixit https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/... TIMESTAMPS Six seasons in a year 0:24 A specific head gesture for agreeing 0:57 Extremely polluted air in major cities 1:25 All the world's major religions 1:59 Home to the biggest family in the world 2:24 The second largest English-speaking country in the world 3:10 Policemen are paid for having mustaches 3:36 Cows carry ID 4:04 Spices galore 4:40 Low divorce rate 5:14 Pre-wedding detectives 5:45 Home of the “Love Commandos” 6:11 No locks, no worries! 6:40 An innovative way to use soda 7:15 Gold-clad housewives 7:43 Skyscraper home 8:13 The monkey menace 8:57 The mystery of Sentinel Island 9:28 The land of great inventions 9:58 Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: / brightside Instagram: / brightgram SMART Youtube: https://goo.gl/JTfP6L 5-Minute Crafts Youtube: https://www.goo.gl/8JVmuC Have you ever seen a talking slime? Here he is – Slick Slime Sam: https://goo.gl/zarVZo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week on the ole Pavement top 50 podcast, jD welcomes Amir from Providence to talk all about his Pavement origin story and to breakdown song 28!Transcript:Track 1:[0:00] Previously on the Pavement Top 50. Oh, I love this song so much. It's a song, I hadn't, it wasn't on my first wave of songs to study, even though I knew we were going to play it. But it wasn't, like, you know, there were other songs I felt like I had to nail more. So this was towards the end. I said, okay, let me get into this type slow jam. Hey, this is Westy from the Rock and Roll Band.Track 3:[0:24] And you're listening to The Countdown. Hey it's shay d here back for another episode of our top 50 countdown for seminal indie rock band pavement week over week we're going to count down the 50 essential pavement tracks that you selected with your very own top 20 ballots i then tabulated the results using an abacus and the kid from the sixth sense wait a minute am i dead how will your favorite song fare in the rankings. You'll need to tune in to find out. So there's that. This week, I'm joined by pavement superfan Amir from Providence. Amir, how the fuck are you? Hello, I'm calling from Providence, Rhode Island, and I'm very fine. Life is good. Excellent. That is good news. It's great to have you here. Let's just not beat around the bush. Let's get right into this. What is your Or pavement origin story. So that's a long origin story. So I live in Providence, Rhode Island, as I mentioned. By the way, cheers. This is local. Cheers. Watery domestic beer from Rhode Island. Narragansett Atlantic-like lager. So...Track 3:[1:37] A little plug for Atlantic Light Lager. Yeah. But anyway, yeah, that's very watery. Anyway, so I was not born here. I was born in Moscow, not Moscow, Idaho. Moscow, Soviet Union, which is more or less the same thing as Russia. And I grew up there in the 80s. And I loved music since I was, I don't know, since I remember myself. I started playing piano when I was four. So I listened to a lot of music it was also the 1980s were an exciting time for rock music in Russia because Russia was like after many decades of like complete censorship it was starting to open up and, rock music suddenly became legal so it was possible to listen to that, if you if this makes you curious I recommend everybody listen to the Wind of Change podcast It's just an amazing story. Oh, it's amazing. I've listened to it. Yes, it's brilliant. So, but, yeah, so I started, like, loving rock music when I was, like, a child. But we are a Jewish family, so we moved to Israel in 1991.Track 3:[2:52] And even though Russia was opening up back then, Israel was, like, always a very open country, open to everything. So we had MTV, or more precisely, we had MTV Europe, which is not exactly the same thing. Uh mtv like in the united states and mtv europe it's not exactly the same thing mtv europe has a lot of uh uk uh bias and uh like because it broadcasted from the uk uh and uh it's it also tried to incorporate some other european music like italian or german but it was mostly like very uk biased so that's when i was growing up mtv was uh important it was like there was no youtube YouTube kind of replaced MTV now but MTV was important culturally like hugely important not just for myself but for a lot of other people, but initially when I started like watching it it was kind of boring at least during the day but then during the night it got much more exciting because they started like after midnight, they started playing much more interesting stuff and there was a show called Alternative Nation I think it was every Tuesday on MTV Europe and they played stuff like Sonic Youth and Pavement and European what you would say alternative bands, like whatever alternative even means.Track 3:[4:18] I tried to figure out what does it even mean that it's alternative? Is it a certain guitar sound? It actually doesn't mean much at all. It's just rock music that is cooler than Bon Jovi. Well, what's funny, it was alternative to the mainstream and then it became the mainstream. Exactly. Like, if you look back at this, like, it was totally the mainstream. Like, Nirvana was alternative, but it was already quite the mainstream back in 1992. And by now, it's completely mainstream. But, you know, whatever. Names of things are sometimes funny. So, yeah. And they mentioned pavement occasionally. Now, initially, they mentioned, I didn't really dig it. Like I remember, I definitely remember they showed Cut Your Hair, of course. They never showed it during the day. They showed it late at night.Track 3:[5:12] I didn't really understand it. I was like, it just looked weird. And these days, I look at the Cut Your Hair video, and now I'm a Dan and I have children, and they look at it and they just think it's funny with the gorilla and the lizard. Yes. And I was just overthinking it totally. Like I was 15 years old. why what does what does this mean i was totally overthinking it um but yeah they should cut your hair and they i remember they showed the gold sounds video um maybe also yeah rattled by the rush like the weird the weird version with the bathtub okay didn't really understand like what's the deal with that so i did love like i did love a lot of other alternative bands like i loved sonic youth i loved therapy if you if you heard that's a band from northern ireland uh i love the, alternative, rock band, whatever that means.Track 3:[6:03] Anyway, so then I graduated high school. And as pretty much everybody else in Israel, I got drafted to the military. Now, what you don't hear, you often hear about the Israeli military on the news. What you don't hear about the Israeli military is that most people there, they don't do combat and wars and stuff like that. It's just, I work with computers And that's like what most people do. They work with, you know, cars, equipment, computers, whatever. I worked with computers. And I had a friend there. And that friend was much cooler than I am. He's probably still to this day much cooler than I am. And he had many more CDs than I had. And he knew alternative music like way better than I had. I did know Sonic Youth. Sonic Youth, which is another Samuel band. I did know Sonic Youth much better than he did. But other than that, he was like the huge expert. He taught me about cool bands like Mogwai and Mercury Rev and a bunch of others. And he taught me about pavement.Track 3:[7:08] And he gave me the Wowie Zowie CD to listen. Interesting. And I was immediately hooked. That was just incredible. So like from the first seconds of We Dance, oh my God, how did I miss that? We Dance is such a brilliant song. I'm just thinking about this. I will make this really weird comparison, but it kind of makes sense to me. Because like I mentioned that I play piano. I played piano for many years, like almost 40 years now. Oh my God. I'm old. And I...Track 3:[7:43] There's another band called Guns N' Roses. There is. Which is nowhere near as cool as Pavement. Nowhere near. But that's like the not-alternative thing that they were showing a lot on MTV. And I couldn't feel like, why are so many people excited about this band? And then I saw November Rain, which, ooh, it has piano. Piano is classy. So it's classy. It doesn't... No, I'm not comparing. I'm not comparing Guns N' Roses to Pavement, but We Dance had the piano, piano is classy. And so I heard like, Ooh, that's a much like, that's such an interesting song. And I absolutely loved it. And I loved the rest of the album as hectic and eclectic as it is and extremely long. I saw it described somewhere as three six-song EPs or six three-song EPs. That's probably the... That's an interesting way to look at it. Yeah, I saw it described like that somewhere. It's a very weird album, but it's so great. It's absolutely like all of it. I love it. And then I heard the rest of it from that friend. And he gave me like Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and Brighten the Corners.Track 3:[9:10] And later I just bought them all myself. So slanted, of course. So I have them all twice because they released them with the usual version and then the Lux and Redux and all those. LA Desert, they expanded. So I have them all twice.Track 3:[9:27] Yeah. And yeah, so that's kind of my pavement origin story. And yeah, and I became a super fan, I guess, around 98 or 99. Wow. So you got to experience Terror Twilight when it came out. That one you got to experience, right? In real time? Yep. What did you think of that at the time? It was very different. I did love it. I loved all the songs. I listened to it a lot back then.Track 3:[9:57] It's very different it's very different from if I really have I don't want to but if I really have to pick a favorite album it would probably be Crooked Rain Crooked Rain I really love them all but Terror Twilight is very different, has its own style unlike Wawizawi which has like 20 different styles but yeah, Terror Twilight definitely has a certain and particular.Track 3:[10:25] Integrated feel to it. Yeah, I would agree. So did you ever get a chance to see them live? Yeah. So first time I saw something related to Pavement, it was not Pavement. And it was not Malcolm's solo. It was a show in Israel, in Tel Aviv, in 2004. It was a tribute show, like a bunch of local Israeli bands played a tribute show to Pavement and Malcolm's. Really? It was pretty brilliant. Yeah. Israel has like a very varied music scene. Okay. Rock of all kinds of styles and jazz. I know nothing about it. It's not that known around the world, but it has a very rich, vibrant music scene. Mostly sang in Hebrew, but occasionally in English. So that show had bands singing mostly in English. Like I remember a band that I really loved, they performed Gold Sounds.Track 3:[11:27] And here, I think, uh, that's like, that, that's how I, that's how I found out about that show that like, there was a band that I, that I love. They, they, that band used to be called blush and lure back then. And they sang in English later. They changed the name of the band and they started singing in Hebrew, but, but back then they were singing in English and, uh, yeah. So they performed two songs there. I think it's definitely gold sounds and probably here. Here and uh yeah there was a bunch of other bands and like some of them did like very similar versions to the original some of them completely reworked them as like punk songs some of them translated the lyrics to hebrew like there was a i think it was father to a sister of thought they completely translated it to hebrew that was that was fun so anyway uh yeah that was a cool show. The second time I saw something pavement related was in 2010.Track 3:[12:23] 2010, that was the first big reunion in New York, in Central Park. That was a brilliant show. It's actually possible that you and I went to the same show. Yes, I know. Yeah. And yeah, I absolutely loved it. I think, like you mentioned a couple of times on your podcast, that, how did you describe it? That they seemed tired or something like that?Track 3:[12:48] Yeah, they just didn't seem into it. You know, the same way they did on this newer tour. Maybe, um, maybe I, I was absolutely excited about this. Oh, me too. At least, at least the part, they also seemed like very excited. Uh, the Stanowich was like ecstatic, uh, eyeballed, uh, who is like, usually very like quiet and, uh, serious. He was actually quite chatty on the stage. I remember, like, I remember him speaking to New York and how cool, like he's, he's from New York and how cool New York is and how cool Queens is. He, he mentioned Queens. I don't remember what he's, what did he say exactly, but like, he's like, are there people from Queens or something like that? Like he looked. I don't remember that. Yeah. And he's, he mentioned something like that. So anyway, um, yeah, it was, it was a fantastic show. Such a fantastic show.Track 3:[13:43] Heckler Spray, Summer Babe. Oh, wow. In the Mountain Desert. Uh, just a fantastic, fantastic show. So is the record that you go back to now, like, is it Wowie Zowie when you have a hankering for Pavement, or is it your favorite, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain? I would probably say, it's so hard to say, I would probably say Crooked Rain and Slanted, but I love them all. I love them all. I listen to them all. There was a third Pavement-related thing I saw, and that was Malkmus.Track 3:[14:18] Malcolm's solo I think it was in 2012 or 13 it was the it was it was.Track 3:[14:26] Oh, I'm, I'm blacking out. Which, uh, which, uh, the album with, uh, uh, Senator, uh, which, which album is that? Mirror Traffic? Yes, that one. Uh, yeah. So that was, that was a brilliant show. Uh, that was a really brilliant show. Towards, towards the end, he did, uh, uh, something like, uh, funny, uh, Faith No More impersonation. Really? yeah like towards the end of the show he played he played a couple of famous so he played here and i think uh speaks he remember and uh at one of the songs towards the end they were like the jigs were getting all uh uh in a good mood and uh jamming and at some point they just started started playing um what's the famous faith no more song epic yeah yeah they just I started playing that. That's so cool. Yeah. Anyway, it was a brilliant rock and roll show. So yeah, so these are the three Pavement-related shows I attended. Nice. Well, what do you say we take a quick break and come back and talk about song number 28? Let's do that. Let's do that. Hey, this is Bob Mustanovich from Pavement.Track 1:[15:43] Thanks listening. And now on with a countdown. 28.Track 3:[20:18] Song number 28 on the countdown comes from Crooked Rain. Crooked Rain, amazingly, it's the first song from their sophomore effort to appear on this list. You can exhale now because track 28 is Stop Breathing. Amir. Yeah. What are your initial thoughts about this song? I love this song. It appears in my top 20 that I sent you. I think it's number 14 there. so it's, half of your number I know maybe I should have rated it even higher it's like it's a brilliant song it's kind of special I made a bit of homework so it has the, it has if I'm not mistaken I learned music for many years but maybe I'm mistaken about something but almost all Pavement songs have the quadruple rhythm 1, 2, 3, 4 okay this one is Because the correct term here is probably the six-eighths rhythm. Oh, okay. One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three.Track 3:[21:27] So there are not a lot of pavement songs in this rhythm. On the studio albums, it's just Our Singer and Stop Breathing. And half of Fight This Generation, the beginning of Fight This Generation. Oh, okay. The rest, and well, there's also 5-4 equals Unity, which begins in 5-4ths. And then I think actually the chorus is also in 3-4ths or 6-8ths. And the rest of the pavement, well, in all the kinds of B-sides and bonus tracks, tracks uh there are a bunch of uh um six eighths uh songs uh mercy snack kentucky cocktail so stark sagano stray fire um and yeah that's about it you did do your homework i did do my homework there's also kneeling bus uh also known as rugrat which is a very weird beat that i couldn't completely understand a very very cool one uh but it's like it's neither four neither three but yeah so that's so it's pretty.Track 3:[22:36] It's pretty unique relatively unique in that regard it's beautifully placed in the track list at the third third spot kind of a different mood between like the big rockers the, uh elevate me later and uh cut your hair yeah so that one has a different mood it has very beautiful uh guitar sound uh throughout the song and especially of course towards the end, um so yeah i absolutely love the song one of the best they the pavement has very, pretty much no songs that uh i would like say that they are bad but this this one is really one one of the best so what's your relationship with this song uh crooked rain crooked rain you said is your favorite record so what do you remember about the first time you heard this song or.Track 3:[23:33] Something like that so so this was the this was the second album i heard uh after wavy zowie and it's relatively much more uh much more of a straightforward rock straight absolutely relatively, compare it compared to wawi especially the first song like it gets a bit weirder towards the end but uh the beginning of it it's like it's a relatively very straightforward i agree.Track 3:[23:58] In a classic rock album i i i heard somewhere that uh malcolm called it like disparagingly classic rock like he said that silent kid is a is a classic rock song in like in a not very good way, but he's wrong well it's maybe he was just sarcastic i don't know it was Because Silent Kid is a brilliant song. And Stop Breathing is a brilliant song. It has this really, really beautiful guitar sound and this beat. And it may be, oh my God, this is such a cool rock band with cool melodies. And they do all these things so easily. And it sounds like they were just having fun. But the song, it's kind of somber, kind of solemn, kind of serious. Yeah, I agree. Relatively. It has this special atmosphere. Nevertheless, it feels like while they're playing it, they're having a lot of fun with these guitars. Like, that's a really special guitar sound, especially towards the end. And it gets stronger and stronger.Track 3:[25:08] And oh my God, it's just so beautiful. It's just so inspirational. Yeah. What do you think the song is about? I have no idea. I barely ever listen to lyrics, to be honest. In music, I mostly listen to the melodies and the playing and the arrangements.Track 3:[25:31] Volley. Like, volley has a... It's kind of a... Like, it probably refers to both things. Like, both to the volley in sports. ports and in the war. And that's kind of a menacing word. It's struck by the first volley. So that gets you in a kind of a tragic mood from the start. And then it says, stop breathing. And there's also this alternative version on LA Desert Origins where he says, start bleeding, like stop breathing and then start bleeding. Really? Yeah. I gotta re-listen to LA Desert Origins. My memory is so shit. Oh, well. Yeah. It's like the comment there is that it's from Louder Than You you think, 1993, and it's probably, I don't know, maybe it's a demo, maybe it's not a demo, maybe it was at some point intended to be released. But in the chorus there, he says, stop breathing and then start bleeding, which makes it even more menacing. Yeah.Track 3:[26:46] Yeah. So there's this menacing song, and right after it, there's Cut Your Hair, which is very fun. The exact opposite. The exact opposite.Track 3:[26:55] But menacing, you know, my attitude to music is embodied in a poem that I really love. It was written by a jazz musician who's very old, but he's still alive, I think. His name is Oliver Lake, a jazz saxophone player. And he wrote a poem. And in the poem, he mentions names of many musical artists that he loves. and they're very different artists.Track 3:[27:26] And he's like, and the poem is built like a conversation between himself and the waiter in the restaurant. And then he says, put all the meals in one, put all my meals in one plate. Don't ask me what kind of music I play. I play the good kind. So I like, I actually, I don't care very much about the genres of music and I don't care very much about the mood of a particular song. Like some songs are happy and some songs are sad and some songs are scary like these are all important things but uh eventually i i i judge all songs by like this is the good song or is it not a very good song and uh this song is is of the good kind uh yeah that's that's the really important thing like it like it definitely has a mood uh definitely has a very identifiable probably intentional mood and it's probably placed intentionally in that sequence uh on the album but it definitely has this character.Track 3:[28:25] So this is going to be I think I know the answer to this because.Track 3:[28:31] You've already told me what you rated it on your list but do you think this song is properly rated overrated underrated on the top 50 28 is lowish, I would be very unpleasantly surprised if it was not in the top 50 at all um i like i would probably rate it a bit higher uh maybe it's not my number one song but it's like it's pretty like it's pretty high it's pretty high on my list it's a great song it is absolutely there's nothing to shake a stick at unless it's a complimentary uh stick shaking your dick fun fun fact about uh the tennis part uh the so the song is like you mentioned it uh You mentioned that you read it from those notes that Malthus had in his own songs. And he mentioned tennis himself, so we have it from himself.Track 3:[29:28] I checked it. So I edit Wikipedia quite often in English and in Hebrew and occasionally in other languages. And I checked what is actually Malthus' relation to tennis.Track 3:[29:41] And the English Wikipedia mentions that he loves playing golf and tennis, but he doesn't, Here's where it gets funny. So Wikipedia editors, good, serious Wikipedia editors, try to fact-check everything. And the fact-check in Wikipedia is done by adding footnotes. You may have noticed that Wikipedia has lots of footnotes. So I checked the footnotes. So where it mentions that he plays golf and tennis, it had two footnotes. Both of them were not very good. One of them was a completely dead link. the other one didn't say anything about any sports so I found another source like it's actually a tennis website where he speaks about actually loving tennis so yeah so there's another confirmation that he loves tennis that other tennis website mentioned the song yeah so I improved the English Wikipedia article about Mr. Stephen Maltmes and now it has a better footnote for the tennis information, So, yeah, that's a kind of thing I do for fun. Cool.Track 3:[30:50] Well, it's been really great talking to you today. I'm curious if you have anything that you want to plug or mention for people to look at on the internet or anything that you've created, anything like that. Well not much I'm kind of I'm trying I'm trying to I moved I lived in Israel for many years and I moved to Providence a few months ago my wife is doing an academic project here so we all moved together with the kids.Track 3:[31:21] But I love as I mentioned I love Israeli music I'm, there's not much to plug I'm trying to start a band that would play covers of Israeli songs which is challenging in the united states i it's i'm slowly finding some people to do that but there's not much to say about this right now uh but uh you know you can you can find in the future there might be a band that we can look for hopefully and uh then i would maybe um i would i would probably i would probably mostly play uh covers of israeli music or maybe in the loop on that amir maybe an occasional pavement song what's that keep me in the loop on that shoot me an email when you get it going and I'll talk about it on the pod. I haven't tried that. Maybe an occasional pavement song. Yeah, that would be cool. Well, like I say, it's been a blast spending this time with you today. I really appreciate you doing this heavy lifting on a podcast that is ostensibly yours.Track 3:[32:21] So, thank you very much for that and make sure to wash your goddamn hands.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/meeting-malkmus-a-pavement-podcast/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you ever found yourself sipping on snake venom, you'd be in for a wild ride! See, snake venom isn't your average beverage—it's packed with toxins designed to incapacitate prey. Instead of giving you superpowers, downing snake venom would likely lead to a pretty rough day. Your body would have to work overtime to neutralize those toxins, potentially causing nausea, vomiting, and even organ damage. Bottom line? Leave the snake's venom where it belongs—in the serpent's fangs—and stick to safer drinks for your next adventure! Credit: Sea wasp jellyfish: Guido Gautsch, Toyota, Japan, Mithril, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Platypus spur: Elonnon at English Wikipedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Textile cone: Richard Ling, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Gila monster: Blueag9, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Nycticebus coucang: David Haring / Duke Lemur Center, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Ornithorhynchus anatinus: Fernando Losada Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Mythicalfigure / Reddit Animation is created by Bright Side. #brightside ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Listen to Bright Side on: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD... Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook -   / brightside   Instagram -   / brightside.official   Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.of... Snapchat -   / 1866144599336960   Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can college students who would like to work in the space industry and at NASA get their foot in the door? And what is the purpose of the Lucy mission to the Trojan Asteroids? To get the answers to both of these questions, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Freya Holloway, a NASA L'SPACE Lab Tech at ASU. As always, though, we start off with the day's joyfully cool cosmic thing: the latest, most accurate coloration of Neptune. It turns out, the rich, deep blue Neptune we've come to know and love was placed by scientists to increase contrast which are no longer necessary. And Neptune is now a much lighter tone of blue, more in line with the current, turquoise coloration of Uranus. And with that, we turn to the Lucy mission to investigate the “Trojan Asteroids” which share Jupiter's orbit around our sun. Lucy recently did a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon Selam, discovering that it actually not one asteroid but three distinct bodies. Freya Holloway is an ambassador for Lucy, and she explains the purpose of the flyby and brings us up to speed on where the mission is at. In December this year, Lucy will be making her second Earth gravity assist flyby to build up momentum to slingshot her towards Jupiter. And in April 2025, Lucy will encounter her second main belt asteroid, Donald Johanson. That asteroid is named for the paleontologist involved in the discovery of the Lucy fossil (the mission's namesake) in Ethiopia in the 1970s, and who has actually been involved in the current Lucy mission. Freya explains why the mission is aptly named. Trojan asteroids are fossils, astronomically speaking, and they may be able to teach us something about the birth and evolution of our solar system the same way that Lucy has taught us about early hominids and our own evolution. You'll learn all about this unique population of asteroids, which are far less familiar to most people than either the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter or the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune. One group precedes Jupiter in its orbit around the sun and the other orbits behind, and both groups are relatively pristine and date back to the origins of our solar system. In this episode, we have a special set of questions for Freya that all come from students who attend Notre Dame Academy on Staten Island. First up, Isabella wants to know who Freya's favorite scientist is, and also, does she have a favorite song to listen to while studying. Freya tells us about Dr. Eugene Parker, the heliophysicist who predicted the existence of the solar wind and after whom the Parker Solar Probe and the “The Parker Instability” is named. For the second part, Freya listens to David Bowie's “Let's Dance” as a pick me up for long study sessions. For the first time in the history of The LIUniverse, Charles then brings up a second joyfully cool cosmic thing: the recent meteor (a bolide) that broke up over Germany whose pieces have been collected, many by students! It turns out that Freya collects meteorites, although none which she found on her own. Her favorite is the lunar meteorite she keeps on display at home. The next question from Notre Dame Academy comes from Caitlin Sweeney, who asks Freya, “What's the coolest thing about labs in college?” Freya describes how, compared to high school, labs in college are her favorite part of college and are much more interactive. Another Notre Dame Academy students asks, “What was the biggest challenge you overcame and how did you learn from it?” For Freya, that was finding her place in the academic and professional world. She tells the story of how in 2015, she was a single mom with two young children, one of whom was 8 and just diagnosed with leukemia who lost her job she loved in finance at the Columbus Ohio Zoo. She made the decision to show her children that no matter what life throws at us, we can still be who we want to be, and she enrolled in college and embarked on an entirely new direction. As a student, Freya applied for and went through the NASA L'SPACE Program (Lucy Student Pipeline Accelerator and Competency Enabler), a workforce development program that consists of two academies. In one, the Mission Concept Academy, students work as a team to complete a mission task. In the other academy, students will work as a team to introduce new technology ideas to NASA. NASA chooses a winner each semester and gives them a $10,000 seed fund to develop the idea. After completing the Academies, Freya became an intern on the Lucy mission. She began as a Lucy ambassador, and then came back to serve as an outreach mentor and a student success advisor. If you're a student of at least 18 years of age and enrolled in a US college or university and you'd like to learn more about NASA's L'SPACE Program, visit their website at lspace.asu.edu. You can follow them on Instagram @l_spaceprogram, where Freya helps manage the account, or at NASA L'SPACE Program on LinkedIn and Facebook. We hope you enjoy this episode of The LIUniverse, and, if you do, please support us on Patreon. 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Ao sexto episódio, agarramos nos passaportes e viajamos à boleia de exploradoras, aventureiras e curiosas incorrigíveis. Da voadora Amelia Earhart à intrépida Annemarie Schwarzenbach, da incansável escavadora Gertrude Bell à ativista Harriet Tubman, sem esquecer a hieroglífica Lucy Duff-Gordon, fevereiro é para largar amarras. E amarrar ouvintes. Saber mais: Amelia Earhart: “The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.” Biografia, factos e citações de https://www.ameliaearhart.com/ Sobre a condecoração Distinguished Flying Cross: https://www.dfcsociety.org/pages/the-distinguished-flying-cross-medal Fotografia: Underwood & Underwood (active 1880 – c. 1950) [1] - http://amextbg2.wgbhdigital.org/wgbh/americanexperience/media/uploads/special_features/photo_gallery/amelia_gallery_07.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57938262 Annemarie Schwarzenbach “Morte na Pérsia”, edição Tinta da China, 2008 “Todos os caminhos estão abertos”, edição Relógio d'Água, 2016 Fotografia: Anita Forrer - Original photograph is in the Swiss Literary Archives (SLA). Online sources: Helvetica Archives; Strange Flowers (WordPress) & Self portraits of the world, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38557529 Gertrude Bell Dados biográficos, factos e citações: «The Letters of Gertrude Bell» Vol. I e II Fotografias: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gertrude-Bell#/media/1/59603/122325 + By Beaugosses at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34544901 (Conferência Cairo) Harriet Tubman National Women's History Museum, 2022-2024 Encyclopaedia Britannica, janeiro de 2024 Fotografia: Library of Congress https://www.nps.gov/people/harriet-tubman.htm Lucie Austin Duff Gordon Dados biográficos, factos e citações de Toby Wilkinson, A World Beneath the Sands, Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology, Picador, Londres, 2020 Fotografia: The National Portrait Gallery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucie,_Lady_Duff-Gordon#/media/File:Henry_Wyndham_Phillips_(1820-1868)_-_Lucie,_Lady_Duff_Gordon_-_NPG_5584_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg

Imagine your everyday critters, but supersized to the max in prehistoric times – we're talking animals that make today's versions look like pocket pets. Take the prehistoric armadillo, for example; back in the day, these armored dudes were practically the size of small cars. Ever heard of the giant ground sloth? Picture a sloth, but towering over you like a tree. And don't get me started on the colossal turtle the size of a hippo. Trust me, prehistoric wildlife was playing in a league of its own!

This paper presents the first few-shot LLM-based chatbot that almost never hallucinates and has high conversationality and low latency. WikiChat is grounded on the English Wikipedia, the largest curated free-text corpus. WikiChat generates a response from an LLM, retains only the grounded facts, and combines them with additional information it retrieves from the corpus to form factual and engaging responses. We distill WikiChat based on GPT-4 into a 7B-parameter LLaMA model with minimal loss of quality, to significantly improve its latency, cost and privacy, and facilitate research and deployment. Using a novel hybrid human-and-LLM evaluation methodology, we show that our best system achieves 97.3% factual accuracy in simulated conversations. It significantly outperforms all retrieval-based and LLM-based baselines, and by 3.9%, 38.6% and 51.0% on head, tail and recent knowledge compared to GPT-4. Compared to previous state-of-the-art retrieval-based chatbots, WikiChat is also significantly more informative and engaging, just like an LLM. WikiChat achieves 97.9% factual accuracy in conversations with human users about recent topics, 55.0% better than GPT-4, while receiving significantly higher user ratings and more favorable comments. 2023: Sina J. Semnani, Violet Z. Yao, He Zhang, M. Lam https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14292v2.pdf

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Dec. 6 at 6:30 a.m. CT: NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is declining to rule out abusing power if he again wins the presidency. Trump has talked about targeting his rivals and has referred to them as vermin. Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity asked Trump on Tuesday night to respond to growing Democratic criticism of his rhetoric, asking if he would promise that he “would never abuse power as retribution against anybody.” Trump responded, “Except for day one.” President Joe Biden has stepped up his warnings about Trump, contending Trump is “determined to destroy American democracy.” TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — The shrinking field of Republican presidential hopefuls are preparing to gather on a debate stage for the fourth time this year. The debate Wednesday at the University of Alabama will be their last meeting before the Iowa caucuses kick off the presidential nominating season next month. Four candidates will be on stage, but front-runner Donald Trump will not be among them. The former president has skipped all the debates to avoid giving his trailing rivals more attention. On Tuesday, Israel's military entered Gaza's second-largest city in its pursuit to wipe out the territory's Hamas rulers. The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry says the territory's death toll has surpassed 16,200. Around 1,200 people have died on the Israeli side, mainly civilians killed during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war. WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Special Operations Command has recovered the remains of six of the eight service members who were lost when their Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan last week. It says it is focused on recovering the two bodies still missing and the aircraft debris. The crew ranged from 24 to 36 years old and came from eight states: California, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Utah. Their commander says the sorrow among the small Air Force Special Operations community “is immeasurable.” President Joe Biden says he and first lady Jill Biden are heartbroken by the loss. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shared a condolence message with Biden. ROME (AP) — Pope Francis says he's “much better” after a two-week bout of bronchitis but says speaking still makes him tired. Francis asked an aide to read his remarks at his weekly general audience Wednesday. Francis turns 87 on Dec. 17 and had part of one lung removed as a young man. He came down with the flu on Nov. 25 and was forced to cancel a planned trip to Dubai to participate in the U.N. climate conference. He later revealed he had been diagnosed with an acute case of infectious bronchitis that made breathing difficult. Former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial has turned to one of the topics that has vexed him most — the disputed value of his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Palm Beach luxury real estate broker Lawrence Moens took the stand for Trump's defense Tuesday. Moens played a glimmering video of the historic waterfront estate and testified that he'd value it at over $1 billion as of 2021. State Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit claims that Trump and his company deceived lenders and others by giving them financial statements that greatly overstated the values of some of his prime assets, including by listing Mar-a-Lago at up to $612 million. Trump denies any wrongdoing. BOSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told campaign donors that he isn't sure he'd be running for reelection if Donald Trump wasn't also in the race. Biden warned Tuesday that democracy is “more at risk in 2024” and that the former president and his allies are out to “destroy” democratic institutions. Biden is using a trio of fundraisers to caution against what might happen should Trump again claim control of the White House. He noted that Trump has described himself as his supporters' “retribution” and has vowed to root out “vermin” in the country. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate in a single stroke has approved about 425 military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthslong blockade of nominations over a Pentagon abortion policy. Tuberville had been under pressure from members of both sides of the political aisle to end his holds as senators complained about the toll it was taking on service members and their families, and on military readiness. Tuberville said holds would continue, however, for about 11 of the highest-ranking military officers. President Joe Biden calls the Senate's action long overdue and says the military confirmations should never have been held up. WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has set the record for the most Senate tiebreaker votes, topping a nearly 200-year-old mark by casting her 32nd to help confirm a new federal judge in Washington, D.C. The previous recordholder was John C. Calhoun, who cast 31 tiebreaker votes during his eight years as vice president, from 1825 to 1832. Harris tied Calhoun's record in July and broke it Tuesday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calls the fellow Democrat's vote a “great milestone.” Casting tiebreaker votes is among the only constitutional duties for vice presidents. Harris has been repeatedly called on to break deadlocks because the Senate is so closely divided between Democrats and Republicans. The Bucks and Lakers advance, two top ten college basketball teams meet in New York, San Jose Sharks rally to beat the New York Islanders, the NCAA wants more benefits paid towards Division one athletes. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The New York Yankees have made a rare trade with the rival Boston Red Sox, acquiring outfielder Alex Verdugo for right-handers Greg Weissert, Richard Fitts and Nicholas Judice. It was just the eighth trade between the teams since Major League Baseball split into divisions in 1969. Verdugo, a 27-year-old left-handed hitter, batted .264 with 13 homers, 54 RBIs and a .745 OPS this year in his fourth season with the Red Sox. NEW YORK (AP) — Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year. That's according to numbers collected by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT (yes, the AI chatbot that's seemingly everywhere today). The second most-read article on Wikipedia in 2023 was the annual list of deaths, which sees high traffic year after year. Meanwhile, the highly anticipated 2023 Cricket World Cup took third place — and “Barbenheimer,” Taylor Swift and more also appeared to sway our 2023 internet-reading habits. —The Associated Press About this program Host Terry Lipshetz is a senior producer for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate. Lee Enterprises produces many national, regional and sports podcasts. Learn more here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Jesus is asked about paying taxes, he carefully turns the tables on his questioners. “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.” What do we make of this response? How does it apply to us today? How did Jesus fulfill even this command through his death and resurrection? Father Jeremiah examines Matthew 22:15-22 and helps us to see these things.Image: Denarius featuring emperor Marcus Aurelius, Rasiel at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons location: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcus_Aurelius_Denarius2.jpg

On today's episode, Max is going to tell us the most unhinged dog story since Kujo, and Janey is going to cry about two crazy kids in love. Enjoy!Janey's Sources - Savitri and Satyavan PDF in Sanskrit and English  Wikipedia for “Savitri and Satyavan”  “Handbook of Hindu Mythology” by George M Williams book excerpt  “Savitri – The Golden Bridge, the Wonderful Fire” by Mangesh V. Nadkahmi book excerpt  Vana Parva wikipedia  Max's Sources - The Tinderbox “The World Treasury of Fairy Tales & Folklore: A Family Heirloom of Stories to Inspire & Entertain” by Rose Williamson, Joanna Gilar, and William Gray  Full free text of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Tinderbox"  Check out our books (and support local bookstores!) on our Bookshop.org affiliate account!Starting your own podcast with your very cool best friend? Try hosting on Buzzsprout (and get a $20 Amazon gift card!)Want more??Visit our website!Join our Patreon!Shop the merch at TeePublic!If you liked these stories, let us know on our various socials!InstagramTiktokGoodreadsAnd email us at sortofthestory@gmail.com

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Stephanie shares that she's been taking an intro to basket weaving class at a local art studio, and it's an interesting connection to computer science. Joël eats honeycomb live on air and shares a video that former Bike Shed host Steph Viccari found from Ian Anderson. It's a parody to the tune of "All I Want For Christmas Is You," but it's all about the Ruby 3.2 release. In this episode, Stephanie and Joël shift away from literature and lean into art. Writing code is technical work, but in many ways, it's also aesthetic work. It's a work of art. How do you feel about expressing yourself creatively through your code? This episode is brought to you by Airbrake (https://airbrake.io/?utm_campaign=Q3_2022%3A%20Bike%20Shed%20Podcast%20Ad&utm_source=Bike%20Shed&utm_medium=website). Visit Frictionless error monitoring and performance insight for your app stack. 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We'll help you move forward with confidence in your team, your product vision, and a roadmap for getting you there. Learn more and apply at tbot.io/incubator. JOËL: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bike Shed, a weekly podcast from your friends at thoughtbot about developing great software. I'm Joël Quenneville. STEPHANIE: And I'm Stephanie Minn. And together, we're here to share a bit of what we've learned along the way. JOËL: So, Stephanie, what's new in your world? STEPHANIE: I'm really excited to share that I've been taking this intro to weaving class at a local art studio. I'm actually a few weeks in, and it's wrapping up soon. But one thing that I found really cool at the very first class was that the instructor mentioned that weaving was, in some ways, a predecessor or inspiration to modern computing. And he said that, and I got really excited because surely that meant that I would be good at this thing [laughs] and this craft, and then I promptly kind of forgot about it. But I was inspired the other night to look up this history to just learn more about weaving and its connection to computer science. And I learned that, in particular, the invention of something called the Jacquard loom really led to early computing machines because, basically, weaving involves threading horizontal and vertical fibers. And the way you do it if you thread the horizontal fiber, also called the weft, over or under the vertical fibers, called the warp, you get different patterns. And so with the Jacquard loom, this invention utilized punch cards as instructions for basically binary code, and that would tell the loom how to raise and lower those vertical threads, which would then lead to a beautiful pattern. And after that invention, this previously very laborious process became automated. And that also had a really big impact on the textile industry. And fabric became a lot more available at a much lower cost. So that was a really cool little history lesson for me. JOËL: That is really cool. So are you saying that punch cards, as we know them from early computing, were borrowed as a concept from the weaving industry? STEPHANIE: Yeah, that's at least what I've read. I can see now how complex weaving tapestries and patterns set the stage for more complex computations. And I don't know if I'm going to keep going down this weaving journey. I liked the intro class because it was very chill, and I got to use my hands. And I had a little bit of fun making, I don't know, like ten by 12-inch little tapestry. But yeah, I've definitely seen other more advanced weavers make really beautiful textiles and fiber arts. And it's really cool to see the application of that detail-oriented skill in different formats. JOËL: Are you going to try to make your own punch cards? STEPHANIE: That's an interesting evolution of this skill [laughs] for sure. I think what I really did like was the hands-on approach. And so the punch cards did make this process automated. But I personally enjoyed the switching of the threads and pulling them through and doing it with my hands instead of something that's kind of turned into automated machine work. Does that inspire you in some way? JOËL: I think sometimes it's interesting, right? As software people, we sort of have the two urges. We work in so much automation. When we see a process, we would love to try to automate it ourselves, even if it's been done before. So, oh, could I build a small, automatic mechanical loom using punch cards? That sounds like a fun automation challenge. At the same time, so much of my daily job is automation that sometimes it's nice to kind of remove automation entirely from the picture and, like you said, just work with your hands. STEPHANIE: That's a really interesting way to think about it. I do believe that people have different reactions to it, like you said, where they're like, "Wow, I can use my skills to do this really cool thing." On the other hand, you might also respond with, "Wow, I've done this automation code-writing work for eight hours. So now I really want to do something completely different." And I think that's the camp that I was in, at least when I first signed up for this class, just having space, like three hours a week, to sit and not look at a computer and deal with the physical realm. JOËL: So here's the other route that I think a lot of software people take, and that is, here's a fun mechanical process that can be automated. What if we simulated it virtually? So what if I create a program where you can sort of create your own punch card, like, decide where you want to punch the holes? And maybe these are just radio buttons or something or checkboxes in a grid on a webpage. And then, the program will output an SVG that is the thing that would have been woven if you'd used it in that pattern. And so now you can kind of play around with, like, huh, what if I punch here? What if I unpunch here? And you get all these patterns out, and you could just get to try it around. STEPHANIE: That's fascinating. I can't believe your brain went there. [laughter] But yeah, the idea that it's not actually about the pattern itself but the holes that you make, that part being the creative process and then what comes out of it then being a bit of a surprise or just something organic that's a really interesting take too. JOËL: Something that I find is really fun about software and things created from software is this sort of really short feedback loop in terms of trial and error. So if you were actually having a weaving machine and you made a physical punch card, and then you try something, and you realize it's not quite right, the machine weaved something you didn't quite like, now you've got to set it up again. You probably have to start from scratch with a new punch card because you can't really unpunch holes unless maybe you can put tape over it or something. That trial-and-error feedback loop is much shorter. Whereas with a program, you just pause the simulation, punch-unpunch some holes, restart, and then you just kind of keep trying. And there's something fun about that creative exploration when you've got that really tight feedback loop. STEPHANIE: That's fair. I think perhaps that actually might be why doing it manually, and by it, I mean weaving, gives you a little bit more room to [laughs] debug if you will, because you can see when something goes wrong. And this actually happened to me in class earlier this week where I didn't thread the fiber over instead of under. And I was like, oh, this doesn't look right. Like, that's not the look I'm going for. And then I could kind of quickly see, oh, I missed a thread over here and unravel and do it again. Whereas what you just described, if the punch card is wrong and then you create this big piece of fabric, at that point, I'm not really sure what happens then. If someone out there is a weaving expert and knows the answer; I would be very curious to know. JOËL: Now I kind of wish we'd had this conversation last month because, in early January, there was a game jam event that happened. It's a yearly or biyearly Historically Accurate Game Jam, and they select a theme, and then everybody has to submit a game, or a simulation, or something, an interactive program that fits with the theme. And this year's theme was the Industrial Revolution. And I feel like simulating an old automated loom with punch cards would be the perfect fit for something that's small enough that I could build it in a week without spending 10 hours a day working on it. It fits within the theme, and it's still kind of fun. STEPHANIE: Wow, that would have been a really great idea. If there was an award for best fitting the theme, I think that would have won because then you're also tackling the history of computing. I was talking about earlier the loom obviously being...or the automated loom also really playing a big role in the Industrial Revolution. And, I don't know, maybe this is our future club, Joël, and we're going to get into video game development. [laughs] What's new in your world, Joël? JOËL: There are two things. One is that today former Bike Shed host, Stephanie Viccari, shared a video with me from Ian Anderson. This was made last December to the tune of All I Want For Christmas Is You. But it's all about the, at that time, upcoming Ruby 3.2 release. It is amazing. The lyrics talk about the different features that are upcoming. It rhymes. It's set to meter. I am just blown away by this. And I'm just really hyped [laughs] about this video. STEPHANIE: You sent it to me and I gave it a watch before we sat down to record, and I also loved this video. It was so fun. And I think Ruby has a bit of a tradition of releasing new versions around Christmas time. So if this became a tradition, that would be very fun, and maybe instead of singing Christmas carols, we'll be singing new Ruby version carols around the holidays. JOËL: I feel like if Ian wants to do another one next Christmas, now that you have the precedent, it'd be a great space to try something to the tune of Last Christmas because now you can reference back last year's song. STEPHANIE: Yeah. I might as well just go all in and create a whole Christmas album of Ruby anticipation carols. [laughter] JOËL: Yeah, really excited about that. Kudos to Ian. And for all of our listeners, we'll link the video on the show notes of the podcast. Go and check it out; it is worth the two and a half-minutes of your life. STEPHANIE: Agreed. JOËL: The other cool thing, for the past few episodes, we've been talking a lot about hexagons and how they show up in nature, and bees, and how they build their honeycombs and whether that is sort of by design or sort of just happens by nature through sort of external forces. And so this week, I went out to the store, and I bought some real honeycomb. And I'm going to try it on air. STEPHANIE: [laughs] Oh my gosh, I didn't realize that's what was happening. [laughter] Okay, I'm ready. JOËL: All right, I'm going to take a slice. STEPHANIE: Wow. For research. JOËL: For science. STEPHANIE: Wow, that is a big bite. [laughs] JOËL: Hmmm, it's basically crunchy honey. STEPHANIE: So I've enjoyed honeycomb in that raw form on ice cream. I really like it on there and oatmeal and stuff like that. I think it's a little bit waxy. Like, once you get to chewing the bits at the end, that part is a bit of a less pleasant mouth-feel [laughs] in my opinion. What are you experiencing right now? JOËL: Yeah, so like you're saying, the honey kind of dissolves away in your mouth. You had this really fun mix of textures. But then, in the end, you do end up with a ball of [laughter] beeswax in your mouth. STEPHANIE: Oh no. JOËL: Which I understand is completely safe to eat, so... STEPHANIE: Yeah, that's true. JOËL: I'm just going to eat the whole thing. STEPHANIE: I think it's kind of like swallowing gum. [laughs] JOËL: Which apparently does not last for seven years in your digestive system; that's a myth. STEPHANIE: Wow, debunking myths, trying honeycomb. You're welcome, to all The Bike Shed listeners out there. Investigating the important things. JOËL: What is interesting is that we're talking about the structural power of hexagons. I can cut a pretty thin slice of the comb, and it doesn't fall apart. It still has a lot of strength to it, which is nice because it means that the honey doesn't just go splashing everywhere. I can cut up a fairly thin slice, pick it up, it still holds the honey, put it in my mouth, and it doesn't make a mess. STEPHANIE: The bees know what they're doing. [laughs] Cool. Would you eat raw honeycomb again? JOËL: Well, I got a whole block, and I had one tiny slice. So, yes, I will be eating the rest of this. STEPHANIE: [laughs] JOËL: I don't think this will be a regular thing in my weekly groceries. But I would bring this out again for a special occasion. Or I can see this fitting nicely, like you said, on maybe certain breakfasts, even on a charcuterie board or something. STEPHANIE: Oh yeah, that's a really good use for it. 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You literally have nothing to lose. Head on over to airbrake.io/try/bikeshed to create your FREE developer account today! JOËL: So, for the last couple of weeks, we've been joking that this is turning into the Stephanie and Joël book club because we've been talking about a lot of articles and books. Today, I'd like to shift a little bit away from literature and lean into art. Writing code is a technical work, but in many ways, it's also an aesthetic work. It's a work of art. How do you feel about the idea of expressing yourself creatively through your code? STEPHANIE: So this is interesting to me because it's actually quite different from what we've been talking about in recent episodes around the idea of writing sustainable code, code for other people to read. Because if you are writing code purely for creative expression and just for yourself, that will look very different than what I think folks have kind of called boring technology, which is choosing the patterns, the tools, the frameworks that are tried and true, and just kind of sticking to the things that people have solved before. And so, in some ways, I don't know if I really get to express myself creatively in the code that I write, which I think is okay for me because I don't really consider myself someone who needs a creative outlet in my work. What about you? What thoughts do you have about this? JOËL: I think it's interesting the way you described it. I'm almost wondering if I'm making maybe a comparison to physical architecture; maybe you almost have a sort of brutalist perspective on the things you construct. STEPHANIE: [laughs] JOËL: So they're functional. They're minimal. They are not always the prettiest to look at, but they're solid. Does that metaphor sound about right to you? STEPHANIE: I feel like I have to make a pun about SOLID, the design patterns, and code. JOËL: Ooh. STEPHANIE: [laughs] But I think I like brutalist, I mean, the term itself. I don't know if I necessarily identify with it in terms of my work and output. But the idea that the code that I do is functional is, I think, particularly important to me as a developer. And I don't just mean, like, oh, the code works, so it's done, but functional for whatever need I'm solving and also for the people who are working with this code again in the future. I mentioned boring technology. There's a talk that I'm kind of referencing by Dan McKinley, and you can check out his slides at boringtechnology.club. And he talks about this idea of decision-making and how that relates to writing boring or creative code. And he also references Maslow's hierarchy of needs. And so, ideally, if you're working in an existing codebase, all the low-level decisions have been made for you. And then you can kind of traverse the hierarchy and focus your creativity on the high-level problems that you're trying to solve. So maybe you're not necessarily expressing your creativity in the syntax or whatever pattern you're using, again, because a lot of those things have been solved. But where the creativity comes from is the particular domain or business problem you have and the real-world constraints that you're faced with. And how do you figure out what to do given those constraints? JOËL: I think that lines up a lot with my own experience as well. I think as a newer developer, syntax is sort of the thing that's top of mind. And so, maybe trying to get clever with syntax is something that I would focus on more. Sometimes that's trying to get code really short and terse. Sometimes it's because I want to try. Can I do this thing with a particular piece of syntax, or even just does it look pretty? I think now, in my code, I am actually kind of boring with my syntax. I, probably when I write Ruby, mostly use a kind of slimmed-down set of syntax and don't use the full expressive power of the language for most of my day-to-day needs. So basic things with objects, and methods, and blocks, sort of the basic building blocks that we get from Ruby regular conditionals, if...else, and a few other nice things that the language gives us. But, in many ways, it almost feels like...I don't know if you've ever seen the simplified English Wikipedia. STEPHANIE: No, I haven't. What is that? JOËL: They're treating it, I think, like a separate language, but it is a version of Wikipedia in English with a more restricted vocabulary to try to make the content more accessible to those that might struggle with more standard English. So it's a sort of smaller subset of English. And, in many ways, I feel like a lot of the day-to-day Ruby code that I write is simplified, Ruby. STEPHANIE: Wow, that's really interesting. I think this also goes back to the specialized vocabulary episode we talked about. And is there value in keeping things accessible, and straightforward, and boring but at the cost of being able to express yourself with everything you have available to you? This is a bit of a tangent, I guess, but I grew up speaking Chinese with my parents, but since then, I have really lost a lot of that vocabulary. And, in some ways, I really struggle with communicating in Chinese because I feel like I'm not able to express myself exactly the way I want to in the way that I can in English. And when I'm talking to my parents, yeah, that's been a bit of a challenge for me because I do really value being able to say things the way that I mean, and I'm not able to have that with my limited vocabulary. So I can also see how people might not enjoy working within these confines of boring syntax and boring frameworks. JOËL: Sometimes it's nice to give yourself a sort of syntactical restriction, but they're very low-level when it comes to most of what we do for programming. And I think that's sort of what I've learned as my career has evolved is that programming is so much more than just learning syntax. So kind of like with art, maybe it's nice to restrict yourself to say, oh, can I do something with only a particular brushstroke technique, or restricting myself to a particular palette or a particular medium? And that can foster a lot of creativity. So, similarly, I think you could do some things like playing Code Golf, not on production code; please don't. STEPHANIE: [laughs] JOËL: But as an experiment in a side project or just almost as a piece of art, that can be a really interesting problem to solve and give you a deeper understanding of the language. And I'm sure there are plenty of other syntactical limitations you could put on yourself or maybe fancy things you would like to explore and say, "Well, this is over the top. We don't need to structure it in this way or use this syntax. But I want to sort of push the boundaries of what can be done with it. Let's see where I can take it." STEPHANIE: That's really fair. And I think it relates back to what I was saying earlier about perhaps creativity when writing software products comes from the constraints of the business of, in some ways, physical aspects of development. In the Dan McKinley talk, I mentioned about choosing boring technology. He generally recommends against bringing in a new language or framework because of the costs, the carrying cost of doing that, and the long-term maintenance to consider. But he instead suggests turning the question on its head and being like, how can we solve this problem with the current technology that we do have? And I think that relates to what you were saying about being able to push the boundaries of a particular medium or tool and in a way that you might not have considered before. JOËL: Exactly. And I think going back to the analogy with art; sometimes it is nice to restrict yourself to a particular brushstroke or something like that to try to foster creativity. But oftentimes, you want to explore creativity in much higher-level ways. So maybe you're not restricting things like brushstrokes and color, and, instead, you want to explore lighting. You want to explore maybe certain ways of mixing colors. There are all sorts of, I think, higher-level ways that you can be creative in art that's not just the mechanics of how you apply pigment to canvas. And we see the same thing like you were saying, in code where there's a lot of higher level business problems. Generally, how do we want to structure large chunks of the code? How do we want to build abstractions? Although that can also be a dangerous place to get too creative in. STEPHANIE: Yeah, absolutely. Do you consider yourself a creative person or need a creative outlet? And how does writing code or software development play a role in that for you? JOËL: I would say, yes, I consider myself a creative person. And I would consider coding, in general, to be a creative endeavor. I sometimes describe to people that writing code is like building something out of infinite legos. You're constrained only by the power of your imagination and the amount of time you're willing to put into constructing the thing that you're building. Of course, then you have all sorts of business constraints. And there are things you want to do on a work project that are probably not the same as what you would want to do on a client project or on a personal project. But there's still creativity, I think, at every level and sometimes even outside of the code itself. Just understanding and breaking down the business problem can require a ton of creativity before you even write a single line of code in your editor. I was reading a Twitter thread the other day by @GeePawHill that sort of proposes that there are sort of four steps in evolution of kind of the mindset that programmers go through over their career. And I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on this evolution if you kind of agree with it or disagree with it if that maybe lines up with some of your experience. So this Twitter thread proposes four levels of thinking that we go through. I think we can kind of jump between these levels at various points in our work. So we might do all of these in a day, but to a certain extent, they also follow a little bit of a progression in our career. So the first level is thinking in terms of syntax; that's just knowing the characters to type in the editor. The second level is thinking in terms of code, that's, thinking a little bit more semantically. So now, instead of thinking, oh, do I need if then curly brace, then closed curly brace? Now we're thinking more in terms of, okay, I need a branch in the flow of control for my logic here. And at that level, maybe you don't even need to think about the syntax quite so much because you're so comfortable with. It kind of just fades away. Building beyond that, now you're thinking in terms of your paradigm. So Ruby is an object-oriented language, so you might be thinking in terms of what objects do I need to represent this problem and how do they need to talk to each other? And the sort of underlying semantics of, oh, do I need a conditional here or not? Those might start fading away because now you're thinking at a slightly higher level. And then, finally, thinking in terms of change sets. Now you're thinking less in terms of the language itself and more in terms of the business problems and how the current behavior of the software is different and needs to change to get to where we want the behavior to be. STEPHANIE: I think I disagree a little bit with the idea that it's a progression. And I'm thinking about how when you have a beginner's mind, anything is possible. And in some ways, if you are new to coding, before you have that understanding of what is and isn't possible, anything is possible. And so, in some ways, I've worked with people who are super new to coding, and the ideas that they come up with for how to make a change at that highest level that you were just describing, in some ways, make sense. You can be like, oh yeah, that actually is something we can do and an idea that you might eventually get to from someone more experienced, having followed those different levels of progression and reaching a place where you're like, I know exactly what tools or the details about how to do this. But when you have that beginner's mind, and you don't have the details of the how, I think you can still think about those problems at a higher level, and that is valuable, and maybe they'll need help implementing along the way. And I think that that could be a really interesting area of collaboration that perhaps we don't do enough in this industry because it's very mentorship-focused where it's like, okay, I have more experience, and so I'm going to teach you what I know. Whereas if you bring someone with a totally fresh perspective along, what ideas can you generate from there? JOËL: I think we definitely exist in all of these layers every day as developers. I think, looking back at myself as a newer developer, I tended to maybe work bottom-up when I tried to solve a problem. And I think that now I probably tend to work sort of in the reverse order, start by thinking in terms of changes and then work my way down. And so syntax, at that point, is the last thing that I'm thinking about. It's really an implementation detail. Whereas I think as a new coder, syntax was super important. Was your experience similar to that, or did you have a very different journey? STEPHANIE: It's funny that you mentioned it because I think when I was new to development, there were so many syntactic things that I didn't understand that I just kind of like blurted out of my brain when I was reading code and was then trying to latch on to the important pieces of information that I needed to know, which often meant class names or method names. Pieces that I could grab onto and be like, okay, I'm seeing that this method then calls this other method or whatever. And, yeah, what you were saying about implementation details falling away, I kind of did that at the beginning of my career a little bit, at least at that syntactic level. So, yeah, I think I'm with you where we all exist at different parts of this framework, I suppose. And that journey could look different for everyone. JOËL: So we're talking about ways to be creative at higher levels. And one way that I find has been really fun for me but also really useful has been bringing in dependency graphs as a tool for design. You knew I had to mention dependency graphs. STEPHANIE: We got there in the end. [laughter] Cool, go on. JOËL: I think it's been really good sometimes in terms of modeling change sets because dependency graphs can be a great tool for that, but also sometimes in terms of trying to understand what the underlying business problem is and how it might translate into code structures where things might be tightly coupled versus not. And so, drawing it out visually is a really powerful design tool. And because now I can look at it in two-dimensional space, I can realize, oh, I see something that feels like it's maybe an anti-pattern or might be a problem here. There's a cycle in my graph; maybe we should find a way to break that. Maybe we need to introduce some dependency inversion and break that cycle, and now our graph is acyclic. And so I think that's where there can be a lot of creativity that happens, even when you're not writing code at that point. You're just sort of talking about how different pieces of the project or even different subproblems...you're not even talking about if they're implemented in code, but just saying this subproblem is related to this subproblem, and maybe I would like to find a way for them to not have a connection to each other. STEPHANIE: I'm glad we got back to this dependency graph topic because I stumbled upon something that I'm curious to hear your opinion on. I have been following Julia Evans' work for a little bit now. And she recently released a new zine about debugging. And at the end of the zine, she includes a link to these choose-your-own adventure puzzles that she has created, specifically to teach you about debugging and how to do it. And so it's basically a little detective game, and you kind of follow along with this bug. And she gives you some different options about how would you like to find a little bit more information about this bug? And what approach would you take? And you make some different selections, and then as you go, you get more information about the bug. And that helps inform what next steps you might take. And, one, I think this is a great example of a creative project about software development, even though it's not necessarily your day-to-day work. But then she also uses a tool called Twine, which is for creating non-linear stories, or puzzles, or games. And it got me really thinking about the multi-step wizard we've been talking about and this idea of looking at a problem in different mediums. It also reminds me of if you have a designer on your team and they're doing prototyping, they usually have some kind of user interactivity that they have to codify. And they are making those decisions about okay, like, if you are at this step, then where do you go next? And those are all things that you've talked about doing as a developer, I think, at a later point in the future lifecycle. And I'm now just kind of thinking about how to integrate some of that into our workflow. Do you have any thoughts about that? JOËL: I had one of the coolest experiences in my career when I was doing a front-end project where we were building a typeahead component that was pulling data from a remote server and then populating a drop-down. And the designer and I sat down and just started to look through all the different states that you could be and how you could move from one to another. So it looked like maybe you start the typeahead is empty; it's just a text box. And then as you start typing, maybe there's a spinner that shows up. And then maybe you have some results, or maybe you don't have results. And those are two different entirely states that you could be in. And then, if you backspace, what happens? And what if something goes wrong on the server? Like, we just kept finding all these edge cases. And we built out a diagram of all the possible journeys that someone could take, starting from that empty text box, all the way to either some sort of error state or a final state where you've selected an item. But, of course, these are not necessarily terminal because in an error state, maybe you can just start typing again, and you sort of jump back into the beginning of the flow. So we did this whole diagram that ended up looking very much like a finite-state machine. We didn't use the term, but that's kind of what it ended up being. And I think we both learned a lot about the problem we were trying to solve and the user experience we were trying to create through that. There was just a lot of back and forth of, like, oh, did you think about what would happen if we get no results here? Have we thought about that state? Or it's like, okay, so now we're in an error state. What do we do? Is there a way to get out of it, or are we just kind of stuck? Oh, you can backspace. Okay, what happens then? STEPHANIE: Yeah, I mean, we've been talking about creativity as a solitary process. But I think that that goes to show that when collaborating with other people, too, that process can also be very fun and creative and fulfill that need outside of the way the code is written. JOËL: In many ways, I think working with somebody else, and that gets made at the intersection of two or more people's work, is probably the most creative way to build software. STEPHANIE: That actually reminds me of a book I read last year called "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow." And it's about these two friends and their journey creating video games together. And it kind of follows several decades of their life and their relationship, and their creative and collaborative process. And I really loved that book. It was very good, especially if you like video games. There are a lot of great references to that too. But I think what you were saying about that fulfillment that you can get with working with other people, and that book does a really good job examining that and getting into our need as humans for that type of collaboration. So that's my little book rec. It goes back to our conversation about designing a game. Again, maybe this is [laughs] what we'll do next. Who knows? The world's our oyster. On that note, shall we wrap up? JOËL: Let's wrap up. STEPHANIE: Show notes for this episode can be found at bikeshed.fm. JOËL: This show has been produced and edited by Mandy Moore. STEPHANIE: If you enjoyed listening, one really easy way to support the show is to leave us a quick rating or even a review in iTunes. It really helps other folks find the show. JOËL: If you have any feedback for this or any of our other episodes, you can reach us @_bikeshed, or you can reach me @joelquen on Twitter. STEPHANIE: Or reach both of us at hosts@bikeshed.fm via email. JOËL: Thank you so much for listening to The Bike Shed, and we'll see you next week. ALL: Byeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! ANNOUNCER: This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot, your expert strategy, design, development, and product management partner. We bring digital products from idea to success and teach you how because we care. Learn more at thoughtbot.com.

0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders 0:03:10 You Can Count on Adrienne. With Adrienne Hill WikiProject Cryptozoology With the help Richard Saunders, Adrienne takes a look at the top ten list of topics at "WikiProject Crypozoology", which is "a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to cryptozoology, a pseudoscience and subculture. The goal of this WikiProject is to improve coverage of cryptozoology on English Wikipedia. This project covers notable figures and topics related to the subculture, its history, geographical diffusion, and related places and people. We will specifically deal with all articles contained in the Category:Cryptozoology and its subcategories." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cryptozoology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cryptozoology/Popular_pages WikiProject Report, Special:FAQs https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/WikiProject_report 0:27:29 The Book of Tim. With Tim Mendham Tics and Tac-Tics #1 By Tim Mendham A look at some of the strange superstitions that sporting people from around the world use to put their minds at ease before the big game. A reading from The Skeptic, Vol. 42 No. 1 http://www.skeptics.com.au 0:36:30 A Dive into a Trove A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to "Iridology". http://www.trove.nla.gov.au Also   10 Years Ago The Skeptic Zone #224 - 3.Feb.2013 Maynard's Spooky Action.. An interview with Robert Llewellyn from TV's Red Dwarf - Report from the pages of 'The Skeptic', 'Do it Yourself' - Getting the skeptical message across through the mainstream media can be an uphill battle. So why not create your own? - A chat with Dr Meredith Doig, president of 'The Rationalist Society of Australia https://skepticzone.libsyn.com/-the-skeptic-zone-224-3-feb-2013

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted and they came to him. He appointed Twelve, whom he also named Apostles, that they might be with him and he might send them forth to preach and to have authority to drive out demons: He appointed the Twelve. In today's Gospel reading, Mark describes a mountaintop moment: as Jesus appoints the Twelve, he sends them to preach the Gospel and gives them authority to drive out demons. Later in each of the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus again goes up the mountain, this time taking Peter, James, and John with him as witnesses of the Transfiguration. As Mark describes Jesus' ascent to the mountain, the words “summoned those whom he wanted” brings to my mind being picked—or not picked—to be a teammate. If Jesus summoned me, would I do as the other Apostles did and go to him? Every day God presents a fresh opportunity to be summoned by God, to open my hands to what he entrusts me with. It might not be to high places like a mountaintop; nonetheless, God appoints me and sends me forth with his authority to do his will in word and deed. Help me understand, Lord, the core of today's Gospel presented in the Gospel acclamation: “God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.” Here you are, Jesus, inviting me to be with you as you invited the Twelve to accompany you. Humbled by this, I ask for the grace to understand the gift I have in freely choosing to accept your invitation. Lord, guide me today from on high to animate the mission and authority you give me. Too often I subject myself to my own limits and situational constraints; instead, let your presence transfigure me so that I can accomplish the tasks you appoint to me. Be with me, Lord! Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lectiodiv/videos Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/lectio-divina-daily-reflections/id1637258440 Web: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=85589341 Lyricmac at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons "The Apostles" flickr photo by Lawrence OP https://flickr.com/photos/paullew/48247330176 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license Sergey Serous, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lectio-divina-daily/support

In this week's all-new episode of THE IDEALISTS. podcast, host and entrepreneur Melissa Kiguwa speaks with the remarkable Dr. Jess Wade. The 33-year-old London-based physicist has become something of a phenomenon. Both an irresistible force and an immovable object, she was recently invited to Buckingham Palace to receive the prestigious British Empire Medal for her contributions to science. Ironically, she was being honored for her work honoring a whole host of other female scientists lost to history.  Since 2017, the Imperial College Fellow has written nearly 1,800 Wikipedia pages for long-ignored women,  minority scientists, and engineers. Just 19% of English Wikipedia biographies are of women. So, having one's work on the "go-to" site for an estimated 2 billion people per month seeking information about individuals, ideas, and topics large and small, translates to more opportunities and access to grants. Ultimately, what gives Jess the most joy is seeing a scientist, whose profile she created, go on to earn a fellowship or an award. It's truly her passion project as she professes, she's: "never not had someone to write about." There's always someone whose work or story has gone uncredited.Note: the podcast Melissa mentions on the show is “Underestimated” featuring the founder of IFundWomen, Karen Cahn.Highlights:Jess leads off the conversation with a story about a head teacher in the UK who'd claimed only 16% of her A-level physics students were female, but that this was okay because girls didn't like the “hard maths”—the suggestion being that girls are simply not as “able” in the subject. And then, what does it mean when society does such a terrible job—historically across generations—refusing to recognize women scientists in any sort of meaningful way?Next, she relates her passion for her own research as a scientist working on new nanoparticles that can impact climate change and how her side hustle of elevating women and other historically excluded groups has mushroomed into this movement of awareness with people reaching out with ideas, partnerships, conferences, and suggestions. At nearly 1800 pages, the profiles have evolved beyond a white UK scientific community to include the global south and more internationally diverse sources including, The Lancet, TED Fellows, and Next Einstein Africa.Building on this, the process of researching the profiles has revealed not only how many women are out there, but also how extremely closed and privileged the world of science is. In countering this, she relates several healing tales of women scientists from Dr. Gladys West whose work ultimately became the basis for the Global Positioning System (GPS) to Dr. Sumita Mitra whose work with nanoparticles for 3M Oral Care completely revolutionized dentistry.Join the conversation about THE IDEALISTS. and break*through. At our website: https://www.theidealistspodcast.co/On Instagram: @theidealistspodcast_On Twitter: @theidealistspodHelp us to grow! Leave a review of the show on Apple or SpotifyWe're sponsored by the London School of Economics @lsegenerate

We Have on Author #Brother #freemason John Meek Brother to talk about his #books what they are about and how to get them. As freemasons we like education and reading, well... some of on the show do. Enjoy this wonderfully edited episode!!! John Meeks Book can be found at these links:Three Distinct Knocks: The Masonic Renewal: Its Basis and Necessity https://a.co/d/bR2P5pLhttps://www.lulu.com/shop/john-meek-and-rossitza-meek/three-distinct-knocks/paperback/product-zz58v2.html?q=John+Meek+&page=1&pageSize=4The Divine Irony of the Son of Man https://a.co/d/9jeyqKPhttps://www.lulu.com/shop/john-meek-and-rossitza-meek/the-divine-irony-of-the-son-of-man/paperback/product-4eqgn2.html?q=John+Meek+&page=1&pageSize=4The Best Little Lodge Hall in Texas: Brahan Lodge #226 in Pictures https://a.co/d/inh0VmThttps://www.lulu.com/shop/john-thomas-terry-and-john-meek-and-rossitza-meek/the-best-little-lodge-hall-in-texas/paperback/product-nn8gw4.html?q=John+Meek+&page=1&pageSize=4Sound bites Downloaded from Myinstants.com & Final Cut ProJungle Rot band_ photo By Muahmagnifique at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64791627Dez Fafara,_ photo By Stuart Sevastos - Coal Chamber @ Claremont Showgrounds 5/3/2012, CC BY 2.0,https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23471292Dez Fafara_ Devil Driver Photo Wikimedie CommonsJames LaBrie By Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0,https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18568997Phil Collins Phot by WikipediaNephilim Statue Image by: Enrique Mesequer pixaba.comNephilim Water Flood image by: Wikipedia All Facebook, Amazon, LuLu.com found through Google Advanced Search; usage rights: free to use, share or modify, even commercially all others by Wesley R.MusicFirst Break MusicBlood, Sweat, No Tears by: Jeremy KorpasSecond Break Music Secret Delights: Yoshi VoiceAlone with the Darkness by: NaturesEye found on pixbay.com

A lot of people take science for granted. They assume that the process is set in stone and that people wearing lab coats who had gone to college for years will go into their laboratory or work on their computers and discover new truths and facts about the universe and that through trial and error and application, those new discoveries will eventually work their way down to the general public, changing our lives in subtle and occasionally, groundbreaking ways. But events over the last twenty years demonstrate that all is not as clear cut or set in stone in the world of science as many people think. Whether you consider the false discovery of the gay gene, climate change (the science formerly known as global warming) and its surrounding hysteria, the health policies of the coronavirus pandemic, or the rise and promotion of gender dysphoria, the cracks in the foundation of the kingdom of science are growing larger and more obvious by the day, and make it clear that all has not been well for a very long time. In this episode we talk about what science actually is compared to how it is commonly presented to the world. We talk about how modern science has become political and driven by narrative rather than fact and how this has been going on for a very long time (at least since Darwin, almost certainly longer) We also discuss how science depends upon the nature of God and how he made the world to be consistent thereby allowing us to understand him and to discover those things that can be known through labor, observation, and experience. Toward the end of the episode, we refer to a commencement address at Caltech in 1974 given by Dr. Richard Feynman where he discusses how science can become a sort of religion and how a stringent and unflinching integrity is needed to prevent that from happening. His obersvations are very useful as he cautions the graduates that he believes it will be very difficult to keep science from changing as he can already see it happening. And finally, we discuss the church and how we must labor to regain so much of what we have surrendered to the world. Please join us as we discuss these and other issues. Related/Referenced Episodes: Why Faith and Reason Cannot Be Separated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8nU4u59FsI Richard Feynman's 1974 Caltech Commencement Address “Cargo Cult Science”: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm Spurgeon Sermons where he talks about an old earth and death before Adam. Line begins with: "We know not how remote the period of the creation" https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-power-of-the-holy-ghost/ Line begins with: “Can any man tell me when the beginning was?” https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/election/#flipbook/ Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2022/08/the-war-on-science-how-the-church-surrendered-truth-and-why-we-need-to-take-it-back-ep-84-audio/ Timecodes 00:00:00 Intro 00:05:02 What Is Science? 00:18:57 Did Darwin Do Science? 00:25:05 Scopes Trial 00:34:29 Socialist Science 00:42:01 How Bad Science Happens 00:59:40 Replication Crisis 01:04:31 Richard Feynman 01:13:49 What the Church Should Do Thumbnail image by Amitchell125 at English Wikipedia under CC-SA 3.0 Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NC Hosts - Dan Horn, Jonathan Sides, Charles Churchill and Joshua Horn

On this episode EC uses the recent drama between Hurricane Chris and a Jersey artist involving Chris' hit song, A Bay Bay, to discuss the topic of giving credit for sampling. Do artists have an obligation to give credit and get samples cleared for their own records? Hip Hop Leaf: MCLike the pod? Subscribe and follow:Instagram: @hhcloverleafTwitter: @hhcloverleafFacebook: @hhcloverleafYouTube: Hip Hop Cloverleaf PodcastSoundcloud: Hip Hop Cloverleaf PodcastWebsite: hiphopcloverleaf.comEmail: hiphopcloverleafpodcast@gmail.comCreditsEpisode Artwork: By Lerikal at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5575222Article:https://www.yahoo.com/video/hurricane-chris-responds-artist-sampled-193753433.htmlProduction:ECMahfuzZahidEdgar P.Jay 717Adrian Stubb

Highlights from This Week in Rust - Issue 443. This week features a new section within the newsletter as well as the hosts Sean, Allen and Tim chatting about compilers, front-end development, extending databases with Rust and more. Contributing to Rustacean Station Rustacean Station is a community project; get in touch with us if you'd like to suggest an idea for an episode or offer your services as a host or audio editor! Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:00] Welcome [@00:10] - Introduction [@00:50] - Agenda [@01:20] - Quote of the week [@02:50] - Crate of the week [@03:30] Highlights [@03:45] - Things are Getting Rusty in Kernel Land Rust for Linux GitHub org Version 6 of the Rust patchset Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust LWN article discussing the Linux Plumbers 2020 session that kicked off the effort Prossimo funding the effort, sponsored by Google [@09:45] - The Rust Borrow Checker - A Deep Dive MIR (Mid-level representation) introduction From MIR to binaries discusses how binaries are generated MIR borrow check section of the rustc dev guide rustc_borrowck crate within the compiler [@14:40] - PixelBox Public Alpha PixelBox source code egui GUI framework for Rust PyTorch, a popular Python wrapper for the Torch machine learning framework ONNX machine learning format [@18:00] - Rust Ergonomics: Default and From std::default::Default trait documentation std::convert::From trait documentation std::convert::Into trait documentation Code Like a Pro in Rust book by Brendan Matthews, published by Manning [@23:30] - Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby [talk] MoreVMs'21: “YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler Inside CRuby” – Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert [@30:30] - Asteracea JSX introduction, from the ReactJS project [audio] Carl Lerche on macros (skip to 28:25) How does WebAssembly fit into the web platform?, an article discussing the interacting with the DOM from wasm. [@37:46] - Ferrite: A Judgmental Embedding of Session Types in Rust Haskell Session Types with (Almost) No Class [pdf] Session Types for Rust Session type Affine type, definition from Wikipedia. [Note from Tim: the definition provided by me in the podcast is incorrect. The term “affine type” is derived from affine logic, not affine transformation.] [@40:40] - New newsletter section: Call for testing RFC: Deduplicate cargo workspace information Scoped threads in the standard library crossbeam crate rustc dev guide [@45:45] - [video] Neon - Building a Postgres storage system in Rust pgx crate for extending PostgreSQL in Rust neon database source code [@50:55] - Extending SQLite with Rust Stored procedure English Wikipedia article Other items [@59:30] Final Comment Period for RFCs, PRs [@59:42] What is “yeet”? Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Brógan Molloy Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Tim McNamara Hosts: Tim McNamara, Sean Chen, and Allen Wyma.

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015.[1] From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States (and, until 1965, the largest U.S. retailer of any kind).[2] A&P was considered an American icon that, according to The Wall Street Journal, "was as well known as McDonald's or Google is today", and was "the Walmart before Walmart".[3][4] At its peak in the 1940s, A&P captured 10% of total US grocery spending.[5] Known for innovation, A&P and the supermarkets that followed its lead improved nutritional habits by making available a vast assortment of food products at much lower costs.[6] Until 1982, A&P also was a large food manufacturer.[7] In his 1952 book, American Capitalism, John Kenneth Galbraith cited A&P's manufacturing strategy as a classic example of countervailing power that was a welcome alternative to state price controls.[8] Founded in 1859 by George Gilman as "Gilman & Company", within a few years the firm opened a small chain of retail tea and coffee stores in New York City, and operated a national mail order business. The firm grew to 70 stores by 1878, when Gilman passed management to George Huntington Hartford, who turned A&P into the country's first grocery chain. In 1900, it operated almost 200 stores. After Hartford acquired ownership, A&P grew dramatically by introducing the economy store concept in 1912, growing to 1,600 stores in 1915. After World War I, it added stores that offered meat and produce, while expanding manufacturing. PICTURE BY: By The original uploader was Tkgd2007 at English Wikipedia. - Originally from http://www.freshobsessed.com/entIdeas/pricelist2004Revised.pdf, last archived 2007-11-06 21:58:56 (UTC)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10482021 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thequeensnewyorker/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thequeensnewyorker/support

Arizonan paahteessa petolliselle murhaajalle ihmishenki ei ole minkään arvoinen. Tämä häikäilemätön tappaja pyrkii päämääriinsä syanidin avulla. Kuvia instagramissa instagram.com/murhakertomuksia Musiikki: Gioele Fazzeri "Warriors from another time", https://pixabay.com/fi/music/paaotsikko-warriors-from-another-time-free-epic-soundtrack-2562/ Lähteet: Kuva: By Schwnj at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8265452 Ep. 7: You Know the One Where... Future Dwight Would Have Come in Handy? — You Know the One Where...? Life Sentence Imposed in Water-Cooler Poisoning (apnews.com) Man Convicted in Office-Cooler Cyanide Death of Wife's Co-Worker (apnews.com) Evil in the Desert examines case of Julie Williams poisoned by cyanide-laced water cooler (monstersandcritics.com) Julie Williams murder 3/20/1986 Tempe, AZ *Lewis Allen Harry Jr. convicted, sentenced to life in prison* | Bonnie's Blog of Crime (wordpress.com) Tv-sarja Forensic files kausi 11, jakso 24 Water hazard " Tv-sarja ”Nightmare next door”, kausi 3 jakso 6 ”Taste of murder”

Episode 117g Having a Think About Celtic ChristianityDescription: In today's episode Dr. Carly McNamara of the University of Glasgow will dive in the intellectual tradition of early Irish Christianity. We will talk about who some of the important Irish Christian intellectuals were, how they operated and how they spread their version of Christian scholarship not only in the Ireland and Britain, but throughout Continental Europe as well.About Today's Guest:Dr. Carolyn McNamaraOn Twitter: @MedievalCarlyEducation Evolved: @EducationEvolvd www.educationevolvedltd.com/You can learn more about the History of Papacy and subscribe at all these great places:http://atozhistorypage.com/https://www.historyofthepapacypodcast.comemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyparthenonpodcast.comhttps://www.gettr.com/user/atozhistoryBeyond the Big Screen:Beyondthebigscreen.comThe History of the Papacy on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DO2leym3kizBHW0ZWl-nAGet Your History of the Papacy Podcast Products Here: https://www.atozhistorypage.com/productsHelp out the show by ordering these books from Amazon!https://amzn.com/w/1MUPNYEU65NTFMusic Provided by:"Danse Macabre" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Virtutes Instrumenti" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Crusades" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Funeral March for Brass" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"String Impromptu Number 1" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Intended Force" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Agnus Dei X - Bitter Suite Kevin MacLeaod (incomptech.com)"Folk Round" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)"Celtic Impulse" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By Ariely - Own work, CC BY 3.0, ttps://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4533576By Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9124089By ACBahn - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33810833By Trebbia at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22444330Begin Transcript:Thank you for listening to the History of the Papacy. I am your host Steve and we are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network, including Scott Rank's History Unplugged, James Early's Key Battles of American History, Richard Lim's This American President. Go to parthenon podcast dot com to learn more.•Patreon Plug patreon.com/history of the papacy•4 Tiers – Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople and Rome•Inclusion on the History of the Papacy Diptychs, bonus audio and video content, Pope coin coming soon, monthly book drawings, early content, and add free, early content. Sign up early so that you have your name at the top of the lists!•Now, let us commemorate the Patreon Patrons on the History of the Papacy Diptychs. We have oRoberto, Goran, William, Brian, Jeffrey, Christina, John, and Sarah at the Alexandria level oDapo, Paul, Justin and Lana all of who are the Magnificent at the Constantinople Level. oReaching the ultimate power and prestige, that of the See of Rome: we have Peter the Great!•In today's episode Dr. Carly McNamara of the University of Glasgow will dive in the intellectual tradition of early Irish Christianity. We will talk about who some of the important Irish Christian intellectuals were, how they operated and how they spread their version of Christian scholarship not only in the Ireland and Britain, but throughout Continental Europe as well.•With that, here is the next piece of the mosaic of the history of the Popes of Rome and Christian Church.Steve: [00:00:00] If we move on to what were some of the big cities that were starting to, as we get into the later middle ages and we're, you know, we're getting some new things. We have the Vikings coming in. How does that continue to develop?Dr. Carly McNamara: Yeah. So I think that's a great point. So if we're looking at kind of pre Viking age Ireland, there aren't really any cities that we would think of today. They tend to be your smaller settlements. And again, that's going to be a little bit different to what we expect to see. You know, from places that were part of the Roman empire, where Rome, you know, founded these, you know, London kind of places, but then when the Vikings come in, they start to found what becomes cities and some of the big ones that I can think of just off the top of my head are, you know, Dublin is a big one.We've got Waterford Wexford, cork, lemme. You know, these are all places that are [00:01:00] going to have a, a close Viking age, Scandinavian connection, because that's where they decided to settle. When they decided that reading, wasn't just going to cut it anymore. They want to just start spending the winter over in Ireland and then settling permanently. Steve: How did those cities develop a Christian and an ecclesiastical, uh, support and a system?Dr. Carly McNamara: Yeah. So we see the Vikings kind of getting pulled into Irish politics fairly quickly. You know, being able to talk a bit more in depth about that would be, I think really interesting, but just to give a little blurb about it, if you like, you know, they're finding themselves in a context in which, you know, we're looking more and more at society itself being.Christian. And [00:02:00] so if they want to trade with people, it's likely they're trading with Christians. If they want to take wives from the local population, they're likely to be Christians. If they're wanting to know. Agreements with local Kings to serve as mercenaries in their wars against other Irish Kings.It's likely that those Kings are going to be Christian. So they're going to get a lot of exposure and as they start to get that, you know, we're gonna get. The the Ecclesiastics coming in, or maybe there's a monastery nearby anyway, you know, near cork, there's a Lismore and a number of other monasteries.So they're just, they're going to be around. And I think that's probably, I almost want to say by attrition kind of how they start to. Pulled into Christianity. You're talking about the Christianization of Scandinavians, I think is really fascinating stuff. Steve: [00:03:00] Yeah, because they, they come in and in different ways, different places where the Scandinavians, when some times they had their families with them. But if they're going into a place that's heavily acculturated in one area and you want to become a part of that culture, it's really a lot easier to just become a part of that culture then to really impose your culture.On top of that, it's just. Not how that would generally work. If you're a handful of Vikings going into England or, uh, Ireland, you're not going to NESA and you want to get married and you want to settle down, you're still probably going to care. You're still going to carry on some of your aspects of your culture just naturally, but it's sure a lot easier to learn their language, get into their religion so that you can get married, settle down, do that whole thing.Dr. Carly McNamara: Yeah. And we start to see, you know, once we've got the. kingdom of Dublin getting fairly large. We start [00:04:00] to see Vikings who themselves have Gaelic names. And so it's very obvious. So there's been intermarriages going on between Scandinavian and native Irish or Gaelic speaking peoples. And we might have a think about the degree to which a certain amount of inter religious.You know, experiences within a marriage word, going to be fairly normal, even though we are moving increasingly towards a very Christian society. Steve: Yeah, I think of like I'm in a. It seems so real to me that it plays out like you maybe have a Viking comes in, who's into, uh, Odin or whatever. He's marrying a Christian and, you know, maybe he adopts Christian Christianity in every way, but he's still going to, you know, just naturally carry on what some of the things that he had always celebrated.And it's going to get [00:05:00] folded in a little bit, at least into his Christianity. Or a lot of bed, probably depending on case by case.Dr. Carly McNamara: Yeah. One of my favorite stories that talks to the conversion of Scandinavians is, you know, more in the Santiam and they would do these big baptism events. And this one guy comes in and he gets his baptism and they give him a new piece of clothing and they're giving new clothing to all of the people getting baptized.And he, he we're told that he turns to the people who are doing the baptizing. He says, well, this shirt isn't as nice as the one I got last time. And so that's kind of evidence for us. You know, how sincere are some of these Vikings actually being when they go through some of these mass baptisms, you're there going, you know, I'm going to get maybe a nice [00:06:00] meal.Uh, I got to wash myself anyway. Maybe it's logger job. Maybe it's washing day. They're going to give me some stuff afterwards, you know, in their own religion. They're not beholden to just a single deity or they can, you know, Revere any deity they want basically. And so they're like, right. I'll share, I'll worship your guy too.And you're going to give me some nice stuff so we can throw that into the mix. And I think that goes back to when we talked last time about. The conversion of Ireland and what the thought process of some of these Kings or even just your, your everyday person might my bring to the process of conversion in, or the sincerity of their conversion.Steve: And it's so interesting. We're really looking at, in any cultural change. What's. Really zoomed out view, but all of these changes were really made granularly. [00:07:00] They're changed at, you know, the individual pixels come together to make the pig the big picture. Dr. Carly McNamara: Yeah.

Photo: Plaque on the Ukrainian Embassy in London. #LondonCalling:  #Ukraine in London politics.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-crisis-boris-johnson-belarus-b2009118.html .. Permissions: Embassy of Ukraine in London 3,  1 December 2013 Source | Own work /  Author | Sdrawkcab Sdrawkcab at English Wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses:  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.   | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. | Attribution: Sdrawkcab at English Wikipedia You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Title: A Big Screen Body Slam – The History of Professional WrestlingDescription: Steve is joined again by frequent contributor, Chris, to talk about the history, background and context of professional wrestling. Professional wrestling may not be a competitive sport in the traditional sense, but the punishment professional wrestlers put their bodies through is not fake at all. Let's take a look at the surprisingly long and rich history of professional wrestling!You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:https://www.atozhistorypage.com/www.beyondthebigscreen.comClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By GaryColemanFan at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4341457Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to our frequent guest, Chris. A great way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on Facebook and Twitter by searching for A to z history, you can also find us at atozhistorypage.com. You can contact me there or just send an email to steve at a to z history page dot com. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.[00:00:00] Today, we're joined again by Chris to talk about a topic of body slamming proportions. We're going to dive into the history and background of professional wrestling. Professional wrestling has been a staple of the big screen and small screen for decades. It is a theater, a type of ballet. If you will, you could almost say I'll be at a version with beer, swelling and trash talking this episode.Help us understand and more deeply enjoy. Our next step is sewed on the 2008 film. The wrestler, you can enjoy these episodes separately, but they're an excellent pair as a tag team. And I know you're really excited to talk about this topic. Yeah. Because. I don't think people really understand just how deep wrestling history is and like how far back it goes and how, we're only going to be scratching the surface on this episode, but use this as a template.If you, all of this sounds interesting, like there's, as [00:01:00] you know me and you've been talking about it for weeks, um, there's so many different roads to go down in terms of a wrestling history. So yeah, I'm pretty excited. Yeah. Uh, introduce your audience to a bit of a wrestling history.We're, we're gonna be focusing mainly just on north American wrestling. There's a whole history in Mexico and Japan and different parts of the world. But, uh, in terms of, uh, just as using this as like a primer for the movie, the Russia. Just focusing on north America makes the most sense. Yeah.That's a really interesting thing. You bring up the history of wrestling. It goes back much further than I expected it to, and you're breaking it down into four major areas. And so why don't we start off with this first, um, most ancient era of professional wrestling. Yeah. So yeah, so basically it PR professional wrestling started off as a.Like legitimate matches when it first started in, uh, [00:02:00] the United States. So it would happen on like circuses, carnivals, uh, your local shows or what have you, we're all familiar with a amateur wrestling. This is the stuff that you see at the Olympics where you have to pin your guy and there's there's Greco, Roman, and then there's freestyle.Greco-Roman wrestling as a, it's only, only upper body. We're freestyle. Uh, do AA take-downs or what have you, professional wrestling at the time, because they were talking about is basically no holds barred. So there's submission holds there's small joint manipulation. Um, there's, uh, like locks basically like a lot of the stuff that you kind of see and kind of modern MMA now, there was no striking per se, but everybody. It was a dirty sport, so people did it. Um, and this actually got really, really, really popular for really, for, for awhile. And it kind of started around I w I want to say I mean, you can [00:03:00] go back further, but I would say. Wrestling as a sport, uh, professional wrestling as a sport kind of started around like the civil war, Titan time era.And it kind of reached its peak, uh, uh, right before the great war, basically, uh, with the match between, uh, George hack and Trent and Frank, gosh now to put in kind of like perspective, just how insane these matches were their most famous duel. They had two of them, uh, Frank gosh, won the match, but it took two hours to, to beat George Hawkins Schmidt.Uh, and professional wrestling for the longest time was considered, was like the second sport in the United States. There was a. Just right behind baseball. I know that's I seen that, that seems crazy for modern people to really grasp, uh, and it was all I want, I want to, I don't want to say it was all legit.Um, the top [00:04:00] guys, it was legit matches the, um, but they ended up finding, and this is kind of how it slowly becomes uh, what they call a work, uh, or a work shoot. They found basically it's well, we can put on a better show for the audiences if we kind of just dry things out a little bit more, because the guys at the top were so much better than there was no like middle, it was either you're really good at it, or you're just terrible at it. So the guys at the top would beat the guys at the bottom, like super fast and there was just no. It just wasn't entertaining for the audiences. So, wrestling, promoters, or, carnival or carnies or what have you, would incur Wade bike. Hey, just, we'll give you a little bit extra. If you just drag this match out just a little bit, give the audience a chance of oh, maybe their local guy has a chance and that's slowly how it started becoming.Fake, it's kind of interesting that this time period. So we're talking about the early, early 19 [00:05:00] hundreds, it seems like there's a lot of parallels between professional boxing and professional wrestling. Yeah. Yeah. Because yeah, boxing was slow at that time period was also slowly making the change to like the Queensberry rules.So. You're starting to have gloves on the hands and it wasn't just bare knuckle and they started putting time limits on the rounds. And, um, yeah, because you would hear about boxing matches at that time too, where these guys are going, 30 rounds, 40 rounds, just insane. I don't understand how they were able to do, especially when you look at modern boxing, it's the only explanation I can think of is they weren't going as hard.I don't know with wrestling, it's a hard, it's harder to finish somebody, uh, in a sense like, cause it. This is like more of a dance, right? Uh, if you want like a modern comparison to Frank Ghosh and George Hakone Schmidt, there was a re there was an MMA match between, uh Sakharova who was a Japanese fighter.He [00:06:00] actually came from a professional wrestling background. He fought quakes, Gracie who's fighting. For Brazilian jujitsu, uh, in the UFC, he was like at USC one, two and three, they had an hour and a half long match. I mean, it was 100% legit. It's just, they just couldn't figure out a way to finish each other.And Sakharova kind of won because. Got tired. That was basically why the batch finished, but so as crazy as it might sound like that, it's not unbankable. I've watched it myself. I watched the entire match. Uh, not happened, not that long ago. So it's interesting at this, at this point. Yeah. In the history right around world war, one, professional boxing and professional wrestling are kind of veering off where professional boxing is becoming more professionalized than more.Rules-based where the wrestling is kind of going in this theater direction. What is the next phase of professional wrestling [00:07:00] after this? So they start. Yeah. So people start realizing things aren't on the up and up for eight. Uh, especially when people are betting on these matches, it's all fine and dandy.If you're like, oh, just put a show on for the guys who, for the lesser matches. But if you're putting harder and money down on these matches, you're not telling people that it starts becoming a problem. Uh, people start realizing and a lot of these matches are not. A hundred percent of real, right?

A Chat with Michael Butler. The host for this show is Mark Shklov. The guest is Michael Butler. We discuss contemporary life and the practice of law in Australia, how current events, including the Covid Pandemic, relations with the United States, France, and China, have affected Australia, its citizens, and its attorneys, and how they are dealing with these strange times. Australia map by Aliasd at English Wikipedia. No changes were made. License: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License,_version_1.2 The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6nbbMit_-n62DnNpcNhhXbI

 Juvenile blew up in the late 1990s with the release of "Ha," but purists like myself held their nose. Years later, I understand and appreciate the song. In this episode, I delve into the connection between the track, Juvenile's hip-hop and the soul of blues music.

Photo: The division of the Roman Empire after the death of Theodosius I, c. 395 AD, superimposed on modern borders  "In 286, the Emperor Diocletian decided to divide Rome into two sections to try and stabilize the empire. For 100 years Rome experienced more divisions and in 395 BC it finally became The Western Empire and The Eastern Empire. "The division changed Roman life and government forever. There were now two emperors in each half and they governed independently." @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus discuss the divide of the Fourth-Century Roman Empire into two as a model for the American Empire. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety .. Permissions:  Map of the boundaries of the western and eastern Roman empires after the death of Theodosius I, in 395 AD.    Western Roman Empire   Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire Date17 October 2006 (original upload date)SourceMade personally from Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png, using (2004). The Collins Atlas of World History. Wiltshire: HarperCollins, 46-47. 0-00-716640-0. and Image:Roman empire 395.jpg as a source.AuthorGeuiwogbil at English WikipediaOther versions This map has been uploaded by Electionworld from en.wikipedia.org to enable the Wikimedia Atlas of the World . Original uploader to en.wikipedia.org was Geuiwogbil, known as Geuiwogbil at en.wikipedia.org. Electionworld is not the creator of this map. Licensing information is below. Geuiwogbil at the English Wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. | Attribution: Geuiwogbil at the English Wikipedia You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Photo: Silver purity through time in early Roman imperial silver coins: To increase the number of silver coins in circulation while short on silver, the Roman imperial government repeatedly debased the coins. They melted relatively pure silver coins and then struck new silver coins of lower purity but of nominally equal value.  Silver coins were relatively pure before Nero (AD 54-68), but by the 270s had hardly any silver left.  The silver content of Roman silver coins rapidly declined during the Crisis of the Third Century. (Note that Wikipedia has written that this text came via a bot script, so parts of this information may not be entirely reliable.) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling:  Inflation is here.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-is-all-over-the-place-11631984968?st=3agulqmtf07hco3&reflink=article_gmail_share ..  ..  ..  Permissions: Uploaded by Rasiel Suarez ; Author | Rasiel Suarez Rasiel at English Wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses: | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unportedlicense. |  Attribution: Rasiel at English Wikipedia You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Photo:  Denarius featuring the emperor Marcus Aurelius   1/2  @RichardAEpstein  @HooverInst   Redistributing tax dollars: State funding for the public good? https://www.hoover.org/research/infrastructure-distortions   Pro:  Once those roads, rails, pipes, and wires are acquired by the state, they are often subject to traditional common carrier obligations of universal service at reasonable rates, whether the state retains operational control over these facilities or transfers them to private parties. The use of state power for infrastructure is thus tied to a credible theory of market failure. .. Permissions: Source | Tantalus Coins, uploaded by Rasiel Suarez Author | Rasiel Suarez Rasiel at English Wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses: w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.  Attribution: Rasiel at English Wikipedia You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.  

Photo:  A station on a natural gas pipeline used for the loading and unloading of pipeline inspection gauges, commonly known as "pigs". A.  In pipeline transportation, pigging is the practice of using pipeline inspection gauges, devices generally referred to as pigs or scrapers, to perform various maintenance operations. This is done without stopping the flow of the product in the pipeline B.  Additional annotations from the English Wikipedia by users Cadmium, Mannings, and BrutonD:   This is station for loading or unloading pigs, the pigs are used for cleaning out or inspecting pipelines. This station is designed to receive pigs from the upstream section and launch pigs into the downstream section, with a cross-over for the fluid to flow from one section to the next. The pre-installed thrust blocks (those empty concrete rectangles in front of the blank flanges) are to support a (temporary) pig-trap which is bolted on to the pipeline in place of the blind flange. The pig-trap normally includes a section of larger diameter pipe to allow the pig to come to a gentle stop with flow passing around the pig. After closing the valves for isolation, the pig can be removed via a quick opening closure (like a flange) on the end of the pig-trap. The fact the pig-traps are not present means that this pipeline is not pigged regularly. 1/2  Kiev and Warsaw doubt the US-Germany-Russia deal on Nordstream2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol   https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-germany-deal-nord-stream-2-pipeline-draws-ire-lawmakers-both-countries-2021-07-21/ Permissions: Own work — Author | Audriusa (Audrius Meskauskas) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Operation Overlord was launched on 6 June 1944 and is to date the largest amphibious assault in the history of warfare. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in France by the end of August. It led to the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. Links to our essentials: Find the affiliate links to the equipment and resources we use to make this podcast here. Find Writer & Geek's guide to podcasting here. Image MIckStephenson at English Wikipedia.

The Demo Scene gets government recognition, Activision's original team returns to the 2600, it's Marchintosh, and the retro world mourns a Rockstar legend.

Dr. Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist, learning scientist, entrepreneur, and an advocate for connected learning—learning that is equity-oriented, centered on youth interest, and socially connected. Her work decodes digital youth culture for parents and educators, offering ways to tap interests and digital media to fuel learning that is engaging, relevant, and socially connected. She is the director of the Connected Learning Lab and Professor in Residence and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at the University of California, Irvine. She is also co-founder of Connected Camps, a non-profit providing online learning experiences for kids in all walks of life. Her co-authored books include Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media and Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning and the reports, From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity by Design in Learning Technologies, and The Connected Learning Research Network: Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship.Links from this episode:Find links to all of Dr. Ito's publications on her Wikipedia page.Follow her on Twitter @mizukoAbout Research-Practice Partnership by Cynthia E. Coburn, Northwestern UniversityWilliam R. Penuel, University of Colorado, BoulderKimberly E. Geil, Independent ResearcherAbout Dr. Michael WeschPhoto by Joi Ito at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5 , via Wikimedia Commons See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What is WikipediaIn short, Wikipedia is a multilingual, openly collaborative online information platform. Like the "wikis" that came before it, the online encyclopedia's content is editable by volunteers from across the globe. Wikipedia has tens of thousands of editors, from issue experts to the casual fans, who can expand, delete, or change information at will. This allows for a wide array of information to be supplied and verified about a particular person, place, or thing. As a result, Wikipedia can function as a great starting point for research, providing users with general information that can be followed up with more legitimate and reliable sources outside of the site. Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined its name[5][6] as a portmanteau of "wiki" and "encyclopedia". It was initially an English-language encyclopedia, but versions in other languages were quickly developed. With 6.3 million articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the 317 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 55 million articles,[7] attracting 1.7 billion unique visitors per month.[8][9]Wikipedia has been criticized for its uneven accuracy and for exhibiting systemic bias, including gender bias, with the majority of editors being male.[4][undue weight? – discuss] Edit-a-thons have been held to encourage female editors and increase the coverage of women's topics.[10] In 2006, Time magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.[11] The project's reputation improved further in the 2010s as it increased efforts to improve its quality and reliability, based on its unique structure, curation and absence of commercial bias.[4] In 2018, Facebook and YouTube announced that they would help users detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia articles.[12]

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode is PACKED with colorful vocabulary! Most would define these as sexually explicit words, which does not make sense, because these words are referring to organs used for nursing (which are not used for sex!). However, we do use sexually explicit language when referring to the male body, because men have it coming! Oops In today's episode... Me, Myself and YVA toss around some wacky theories! Were the Ediacaran seas packed with floating boobs? Are these boobs remnants of our long-lost dolphin overlords? Have geologists been covering up the existence of prehistoric boobies for decades? And the most wacky, insane theory or all...should we stop sexualizing non-sexual body parts and allow a whole gender to freely inhabit the physical vessels they are born with? Oh, how shocking! They've been trying to cover 'em up for centuries. We're exposing them! :) ====================== The Haven of the Abyssal Cnidaria want YOU! Join us. Spread the word. May eternal be thy Flashy! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com YVA voiced with FreeTTS Image Credit: Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: A LOT of Wikipedia articles I cannot possibly list Urban Thesaurus - Slang words for Breasts The science of why human breasts are so big Evolution of Life - The Ediacaran: Cyclomedusa Wei-guo, Sun. “Precambrian medusoids: The Cyclomedusa plexus and Cyclomedusa-like pseudofossils.” Precambrian Research 31 (1986): 325-360. R. J. F. Jenkins, C. H. Ford & J. G. Gehling (1983) The Ediacara member of the Rawnsley quartzite: The context of the Ediacara assemblage (late precambrian, flinders ranges), Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 30:1-2, 101-119, DOI: 10.1080/00167618308729240 Narbonne, G. (1994). New Ediacaran fossils from the Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 68(3), 411-416. doi:10.1017/S0022336000025816 Crimes, T., A. Insole and B. J. Williams. “A rigid-bodied Ediacaran Biota from Upper Cambrian strata in Co. Wexford, Eire.” Geological Journal 30 (1995): 89-109. McMenamin, Mark. (1986). The Garden of Ediacara. Palaios. 1. 178. 10.2307/3514512. McMenamin, M.A.S. and McMenamin, D.L.S. (1990) The Emergence of Animals; the Cambrian Breakthrough, Columbia University Press McMenamin, M. (1998). The Garden of Ediacara. New York: Columbia University Press.

Should society regulate objectionable speech? On this episode of the egg timer we consider and critique John Stuart Mill's answer to this long standing and difficult question. Image Attribution: By BeenAroundAWhile at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45374438

How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Person will get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.   #mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus #Sonny Rollins   Photo credit: Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Person will get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.   #mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus #Sonny Rollins   Photo credit: Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Person will get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.   #mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus #Sonny Rollins     Photo credit: Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Person will get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.   #mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus #Sonny Rollins     Photo credit: Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Personwill get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.   #mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus #SonnyRollins    Photo credit: Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh oh, I'm naming names! Did I just start a Jazz fracas? If I did, I think saxophonist Eric Personwill get my back. Through the years of Deep Focus, Eric has been my most frequent guest. All this month, Eric Person is my guest on Deep Focus rebroadcasts; this one is from 2013.   #mitchgoldman #jazzpodcast #ericperson #deepfocus #SonnyRollins    Photo credit: Brianmcmillen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

In this episode, Joey reads the article for the Marfa Lights. Article can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights. Episode Image by The original uploader was Fibonacci at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by IngerAlHaosului using CommonsHelper., CC SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9015485

Wikipedia is an online, open-source encyclopaedia that attracts 1.5 billion unique visitors every month, and has 54 million articles written in more than 300 different languages. Not just a place to learn interesting facts (or cheat in a pub quiz), Wikipedia is an incredibly important resource used by journalists, teachers, media teams, companies, scientists, and those without access to physical textbooks. But Wikipedia is not perfect, and many of our societal biases are reflected in the makeup of articles added to the site - on English Wikipedia, only 1 in 5 biographies are of women. Ultimately, this comes down to who edits and creates articles, and the previous statistic may not come as a surprise given that between 80 and 90 percent of Wikipedia editors are men. So how do we resolve this problem? We create. In this episode, Helena speaks to Jess Wade, physicist and prominent member of the growing movement that aims to tackle the gender and racial biases on Wikipedia by creating articles that increase the visibility of women, people of colour, and other underrepresented groups. Finally, don't miss out on your very own chance to get involved with this movement by joining us at our EUSci Wikipedia edit-a-thon, hosted by our very own Helena Cornu! Follow the link for more information: https://fb.me/e/2R9bC83OJ. Not Another Science Podcast is edited by Helena Cornu, hosted by Tom Edwick and brought to you by Edinburgh University Science Magazine (EUSci). Our podcast logo was designed by Apple Chew. The podcast cover art was designed by Heather Jones. Visit our website at www.eusci.org.uk to check out the latest issue of the magazine, a ton of other cool science content by our student journalists, and to see how to get involved. We're also on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. All podcast episodes and transcripts can be found at www.eusci.org.uk/podcasts/. Music by Kevin Macleod: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama; https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3787-funk-game-loop http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

*Note: There is an audio version of today’s newsletter, if you’d rather get it that way!* Today, we're going to talk about Wikipedia and one of the most insane stories of the past several weeks. First, I need to be up front that I did not know that Scots is a language spoken in the lowlands of Scotland and parts of Ireland. I'm OK admitting to my dumb American ignorance here because my family tree runs deep in both countries. I was ignorant—but at least about my own history (no clue if we actually spoke Scots tbh).Scots has largely been absorbed by English, but it's still there. OK, now to Wikipedia. As with many languages and dialects, there is a version of Wikipedia written in Scots. And the Scots Wikipedia, has largely been written by a (now) 19-year-old who doesn't know Scots. Reddit user Ultach unearthed this bomb two weeks back. From their Reddit post:I’ll just say that if you click on the edit history of pretty much any article on the Scots version of Wikipedia, this person will probably have created it and have been the majority of the edits, and you’ll be able to view their user page from there. They are insanely prolific. They stopped updating their milestones in 2018 but at that time they had written 20,000 articles and made 200,000 edits. That is over a third of all the content currently on the Scots Wikipedia directly attributable to them, and I expect it’d be much more than that if they had updated their milestones, as they continued to make edits and create articles between 2018 and 2020.The problem is that this person cannot speak Scots. I don’t mean this in a mean spirited or gatekeeping way where they’re trying their best but are making a few mistakes, I mean they don’t seem to have any knowledge of the language at all.The Redditor then goes on to say that "this person has possibly done more damage to the Scots language than anyone else in history" with cultural vandalism, among other things. In the end, Scots is a dying language and this 19 year old, who STARTED MAKING UPDATES AT THE AGE OF 12, created a situation to reinforce the thinking that Scots is a bootleg version of English rather than a language or dialect of its own. There have been active proposals to close the Scots Wikipedia over the years, with users calling it a "Joke project. Funny for a few minutes, but inappropriate use of resources." And that was before the bombshell reveal.But it doesn't stop there. Languages like Scots often don't have robust digital archives, and so Wikipedia can sometimes end up as a defacto version of that for sometimes dying, sometimes relegated languages (not good). Technology that uses language like voice assistants, translation tools, search, etc. often train their AI models on Wikipedia articles.From Quartz's How a Scots Wikipedia scandal highlighted AI's data problem:“I don’t think people necessarily realize how important Wikipedia is for training all of our language technologies,” said David Yarowsky, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University. “When these problems crop up, it really is impacting our ability to do a high quality job on the technologies that these communities want.”If you have AI-based technology doing translations (or anything related to words) then, as with anything AI, you have to have clean data from the start, otherwise your systems learn and "optimize" in a self-reinforcing cycle of bad output.So: a 19-year old who started making up fake language at the age of 12 has basically fucked an entire language and the prospects of that language surviving in modern times.English Wikipedia, for better and for worse, has emerged as a place for a shared reality, amidst polarization, filter bubbles, and misinformation. It's become a utility that's trusted as much as the news, writes Michael Mandiberg in The Atlantic. I'm not going to opine on whether that's #good or #bad—that's for another time.But, it reinforces that who writes the articles on Wikipedia is a very important thing to know. Mandiberg's deep dive into just who these people are and where they come from is fascinating. He literally maps them to reveal that:There is very little editing done by U.S. citizens across the Plains, Dakotas, west Texas, and the south, excluding Florida and the Carolinas (and some larger metro areas).Counties with high religious adherence edit Wikipedia at a low rate.Native American communities, and rural, poor, black counties in the south, are often prevented from editing due to issues of access, education, poverty.Global editing patterns reflect the geography of the British Empire: editing activity is way higher in former colonies than in Africa.The whole deep dive is worth a read.OK! That's it for today. Love you. Get full access to Greg's Newsletter at greg.substack.com/subscribe

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 47 - "A Descent Into the Maelstrom" (宇宙の渦), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on what an Edgar Allen Poe short story has to do with Zeta. - - Japanese Wikipedia Pages for Edgar Allen Poe/エドガー・アラン・ポー and A Descent into the Maelstrom/メエルシュトレエムに呑まれて. - English Wikipedia pages for Edgar Allen Poe and A Descent into the Maelstrom. - Wikipedia pages for Wind from the Sun (the Arthur C. Clarke short story collection that includes Maelstrom II) and 2001 Nights. - You can read A Descent into the Maelstrom on Project Gutenberg. - Wikipedia page for whirlpools (with a section on the Moskstraumen). - Analysis of A Descent into the Maelstrom: Finholt, Richard D. “The Vision at the Brink of the Abyss: ‘A Descent into the Maelstrom’ in the Light of Poe's Cosmology.” The Georgia Review, vol. 27, no. 3, 1973, pp. 356–366. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41398237. Accessed 3 June 2020. Budick, E. Miller. “The Fall of the House: A Reappraisal of Poe's Attitudes toward Life and Death.” The Southern Literary Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, 1977, pp. 30–50. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20077560. Accessed 3 June 2020. Person, Leland S. “Trusting the Tellers: Paradoxes of Narrative Authority in Poe's ‘A Descent into the Maelström.’” The Journal of Narrative Technique, vol. 23, no. 1, 1993, pp. 46–56. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/30225375. Accessed 3 June 2020. Sweeney, Gerard M. “Beauty and Truth: Poe's ‘A Descent into the Maelstrom.’” Poe Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 1973, pp. 22–25., doi:10.1111/j.1754-6095.1973.tb00305.x. - The TNN this week includes the sound effect "Radio Noise" posted to Orange Sounds by Alexander. You can access the license here. - You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, follow us on twitter @gundampodcast, check us out at gundampodcast.com, email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com. Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photo and video, MSB gear, and much more! The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it. Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.com Find out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 44 - "The Gate of Zedan" (ゼダンの門), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the inspiration for Haman Karn's name. - Japanese Wikipedia pages for Haman Karn and Herman Kahn.- English Wikipedia page for Herman Kahn. - A profile of Herman Kahn in the New Yorker, written as part of a review of a biography of the man:Louis Menand, Fat Man, for New Yorker. June 20, 2005. Available at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/06/27/fat-man - New York Times article from Tokyo correspondent about the reaction in Japan to Herman Kahn's work:Takashi Oka, The Emerging Japanese Superstate, for the New York Times. December 13, 1970. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/13/archives/the-emerging-japanese-superstate.html- Article published by Kahn about Japan, around the same time as his first book about Japan:Kahn, Herman, and Max Singer. “Japan and Pacific Asia in the 1970s.” Asian Survey, vol. 11, no. 4, 1971, pp. 399–412. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2642697. Accessed 15 May 2020.- Audio of an interview with Herman Kahn from circa 1967 about his book The Year 2000. CONTENT WARNING: VERY 1960s ERA DISCUSSIONS OF RACE AND RACIAL TENSIONS. Interview by Patricia Marx for WNYC. - New York Times obituary of Herman Kahn:Joseph B. Treaster, HERMAN KAHN DIES; FUTURIST AND THINKER ON NUCLEAR STRATEGY, for the New York Times. July 8, 1983. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/08/obituaries/herman-kahn-dies-futurist-and-thinker-on-nuclear-strategy.html- New York Times book review comparing several recently-published books about the Japanese economy by Kahn and others:Frank B. Gibney, Success Story, for the New York Times. June 10, 1979. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/archives/success-story-japan.html- The TNN includes the following music:Ranz des Vaches by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4263-ranz-des-vaches License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Funky Chunk by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3789-funky-chunk License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, follow us on twitter @gundampodcast, check us out at gundampodcast.com, email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photo and video, MSB gear, and much more!The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it. Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.comFind out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Public radio has sometimes criticized as being "too white". Today's episode examines the idea that NPR is a racialized organization. Laura Garbes is a doctoral student at Brown University. She studies the racialization of voice in public radio. Laura recently posted “When the “Blank Slate” Is a White One: White Institutional Isomorphism in the Birth of National Public Radio” to SocArXiv. Victor Ray is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. Victor recently published “A Theory of Racialized Organizations” in the American Journal of Sociology. Photo Credit By AgnosticPreachersKid at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Public radio has sometimes criticized as being "too white". Today's episode examines the idea that NPR is a racialized organization. Laura Garbes is a doctoral student at Brown University. She studies the racialization of voice in public radio. Laura recently posted “When the “Blank Slate” Is a White One: White Institutional Isomorphism in the Birth of National Public Radio” to SocArXiv. Victor Ray is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. Victor recently published “A Theory of Racialized Organizations” in the American Journal of Sociology. Photo Credit By AgnosticPreachersKid at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Who serves who in the church? Despite the tremendous importance of personal growth in holiness, the Apostle Paul invites us to consider that we were primarily redeemed for one another. Image credit: IDuke on English Wikipedia

 “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” – Virginia Woolf In this episode, Gloria welcomes to the show reporter and founding editor of Global Nation, Angilee Shah, and journalist and entrepreneur, Emily Gertz. Angilee and Emily discuss the 50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism initiative, as well as the Women Do News campaign. Both are aimed at raising visibility of women journalists and shining light on the great work women do. Gloria provides three helpful tips that listeners can take away from this episode as well as ways for women (and men) to get involved in these initiatives. This Take The Lead Women podcast is brought to you by Michael Stars, my favorite go-to site for stylish casual wear. Once I put on one of their yummy soft t-shirts, I don’t want to take it off! I especially love to shop there because Michael Stars CEO Suzanne Lerner leads the company’s philanthropy to support social justice causes like the Ms. Foundation, A Call To Men, and, of course, Take The Lead! Go to https://www.michaelstars.com/ to see their irresistible clothing and use the promo code ‘LEAD10’ to receive 10% off just for Take The Lead listeners.Sign up here for the Take The Lead newsletter: https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/email-signupLearn more about Take The Lead’s Leadership Tools here: https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/leadership-toolsOther Resources and LinksPodcast: The Difference Between Ambition and Intentionhttps://www.taketheleadwomen.com/podcast/012Gloria Feldt’s Website – https://gloriafeldt.com/   Gloria Feldt’s Twitter – https://twitter.com/GloriaFeldt  Gloria Feldt’s Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/gloriafeldt/Take The Lead Website – https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/Take the Lead Twitter – https://twitter.com/takeleadwomenTake the Lead Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/TakeTheLeadWomen/Take the Lead LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/take-the-lead-women/Take The Lead Instagram – http://www.instagram.com/takeleadwomen50 Women Can Change The World in Journalism Website – https://www.50womencan.com/journalismSign Up for 50 Women Can Change The World in Journalism – https://mailchi.mp/24b49f874b0b/womendonewsEmily Gertz’s Website – https://www.emilygertz.com/Emily Gertz’s Twitter – @ejgertz https://twitter.com/ejgertzEmily Gertz’s LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilygertz/ Emily Gertz’s Instagram – @ejgertz https://www.instagram.com/ejgertz/ Angilee’s Website – http://www.angileeshah.com/Angilee’s Twitter – @angshah https://twitter.com/angshahAngilee’s Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/angshahAngilee’s Instagram – @angileeshah https://www.instagram.com/angileeshah/ Angilee’s LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/angileeshah/  Life Imitates Art: Geena Davis on how gender inequality on TV and in movies has a powerful impact on kidshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704013604576247133240163732 Wikimedia Foundation releases gender equity reporthttps://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2018/09/21/advancing-gender-equity-conversations-with-movement-leaders/ Update on the exact the percentage of women's biographies on English Wikipedia is 18.09% as of 4 Nov 2019https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red To learn more about Women Do News go to http://bit.ly/womendonewsIf you would like to participate in Women Do News, please sign up to the Women Do News Wikipedia Edit-a-thon mailing list to receive more information and instructions. No experience with editing directly on Wikipedia is necessary.  Blogpost: “For Attribution: Take The Lead Changing the Record on Women Journalist on Wikipedia”https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/blog/for-attribution-changing-the-record-on-women-journalists-in-wikipedia Women Do News has a Twitter list! If you want to be a part of it, please REPLY to this thread with your Twitter handle https://twitter.com/JareenAI/lists/womendonews

Life Group Lesson for Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019 - "Walking to Battle" Ephesians 6:10-20 Photo by Adam Carr at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90242

Life Group Lesson for Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019 - "Walking as Family" Ephesians 5:22-6:4 Photo by Adam Carr at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90242

Life Group Lesson for Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 - "Walking Wisely" Ephesians 5:15-21 Photo by Adam Carr at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90242

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 21 - A Sign of Zeta (ゼータの鼓動), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the possible inspiration for the Gabthlay and it's gun - the fedayeen, blood oaths in Japanese history, and Saint Miki. - Fedayeen on Wikipedia.- Painting of an Afghan warrior carrying a jezail ("juzzail" in the caption).- Article about the jezail, with more photos.- A Gadfly mech from Crusher Joe.- Wikipedia article for Horse-fly. - Instances of the gadfly in Greek myth. - An English translation of Plato's "Apology of Socrates."- About Ethel Voynich's novel, The Gadfly,, and the text on Project Gutenberg. - Japanese Wikipedia page for keppanjou / けっぱんじょう / 血判状 (a compact or covenant, sealed with blood).- Japanese and English Wikipedia pages on the Kumano shrines.- Tourist information for Kumano.- First-hand account of Tokugawa-era Japan, by German naturalist Engelbert Kaempfer (English translation):Kempfer, Engelbert, and Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey. Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed. University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.- Wikipedia page for Engelbert Kaempfer (sometimes rendered Kempfer). - Paper that discusses blood oaths in the master/disciple relationship (especially in martial arts):Ozawa, Hiroshi. “Essence of Training (Keiko) in Japanese Culture: Technique (Waza) Acquirement and Secret of Kendo.” Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, 25 Jan. 2005.- Japanese and English Wikipedia pages for the 血盟団事件 / “League of Blood Incident.”- Paper on the Buddhist concept of Samādhi and its use to justify violence in Imperial Japan (discusses the League of Blood Incident and the respected Zen Buddhist master Yamamoto Gempou who testified in support of the terrorists):Victoria, Brian Daizen. “Samādhi Power in Imperial Japan.” (2017).- Saint Miki in English and Japanese Wikipedia, and the Wikipedia page for the 26 Martyrs of Japan.- Saint Miki's saint-page on catholic.org, and a more detailed description of the torture and execution of the martyrs.- Recounting of the San Felipe Incident. - And a book that covers the period of missionary activity before the suppression of Christianity in Japan:Boxer, Charles Randolph. The Christian Century in Japan: 1549-1650. U. of California Press (1951). You can subscribe to the Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, follow us on twitter @gundampodcast, check us out at gundampodcast.com, email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photo and video, MSB gear, and much more!The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it. Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.comFind out more at http://gundampodcast.com

NCAA athletes recently won the rights to license their name and likeness. We visit the topic of whether these athletes are exploited under the current college athletics system. Frederick Wherry is a Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His new book (with Kristin Seefeldt and Anthony Alvarez) is Credit Where It's Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenshipwith the Russell Sage Foundation. Photo Credit By RichardLowther at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

NCAA athletes recently won the rights to license their name and likeness. We visit the topic of whether these athletes are exploited under the current college athletics system. Frederick Wherry is a Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His new book (with Kristin Seefeldt and Anthony Alvarez) is Credit Where It's Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenshipwith the Russell Sage Foundation. Photo Credit By RichardLowther at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

In this episode I enter the world of academic research, while taking to the streets of Vienna. And demolishing a wall. Image: By Joebloggsy at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7037257 Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W._A._Mozart_-_Requiem_-_8._Lacrimosa_(Herbert_von_Karajan,_Wiener_Philharmoniker,_Wiener_Singverein,_1960).ogg Ad music from https://www.zapsplat.com.

Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. We meet the Wikipedia editor who has made more edits on the English Wikipedia than any other editor.

Canon Selpy CP1300 Printer (no more dry ink), wireless HDMI (pros and cons), Ring doorbell security update, Profile in IT (Steven Pruitt, top English Wikipedia editor), FTC fines merchant for fake reviews (first conviction, $12.8M fine), Fakespot (website that identifies fake reviews), HackerOne Bounty Program (teen earns over $1M for reporting 1600 security flaws), NATO creates fake Facebook accounts to lure soldiers (ploy worked, classified info shared), and Periodic Table is 150 years old (invented by Antoine-Laurent de Levosier in 1789). This show originally aired on Saturday, March 2, 2019, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Canon Selpy CP1300 Printer (no more dry ink), wireless HDMI (pros and cons), Ring doorbell security update, Profile in IT (Steven Pruitt, top English Wikipedia editor), FTC fines merchant for fake reviews (first conviction, $12.8M fine), Fakespot (website that identifies fake reviews), HackerOne Bounty Program (teen earns over $1M for reporting 1600 security flaws), NATO creates fake Facebook accounts to lure soldiers (ploy worked, classified info shared), and Periodic Table is 150 years old (invented by Antoine-Laurent de Levosier in 1789). This show originally aired on Saturday, March 2, 2019, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort. In this podcast, DR MARTIN WILCOX, Lecturer in History, UNIVERSITY OF HULL, talks about shipping and overseas trade during the First World War. IMAGE | Postcard of HMHS Olympic in "dazzle" pattern camouflage. By The original uploader was Jbrian80 at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Britannic., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8419448 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Whether it is the Maaza ad with Katrina having her "moment" with mangoes, or it is frooti being the drink of choice for all kids, we as a country are obsessed with mangoes. Now a days, even though Indian stories abroad have started carrying the Indian variety of mangoes, there is really no experience like the mango season back home. This episode is an ode to my love for this king of fruits.  Check out more episodes from Culture Chaos where I share stories of my experiences trying to navigate life away from India. You can write to me at culture_chaos@yahoo.com or leave your feedback/review on iTunes. Thank you for listening! Picture courtesy of Gnt at English Wikipedia via Wikimedia commons

Joe Davies is one of the seminal figures in Biomedia. His work has shocked and polarised the artistic community while at the same time laying the foundations for a new artistic discipline. The artist is a research affiliate in the Department of Biology at MIT and his research and art include work in the fields of molecular biology, bioinformatics, and sculpture. With his practice, he was one of the first to blur the lines between art and modern biology, In the late 1980s, Davis collaborated with molecular biologist Dana Boyd to insert for the first time a non-biological DNA message into a coding sequence. The recipient was the bacterial strain E. coli, one of the basic tools in molecular biology labs. The work, named Microvenus, encoded a binary representation of the Germanic rune for the female goddess of earth and life. The piece was a response to the Pioneer plaques designed by astronomers Frank Drake and Carl Sagan that were sent aboard Pioneer spacecraft with the intention of being intercepted by extraterrestrial life. The plaques depict the location of the Earth in the solar system and galaxy, the trajectory of the Pioneer spacecraft, and anatomical depictions of the human form. Davis took issue with the relative lack of detail of the female figure compared to the male figure and used Microvenus as a counter-argument for how we, as a species, outwardly represent ourselves. More recently, Davis has been working on encoding the top 50,000 pages of the English Wikipedia page into bacteria to be transferred into apple trees. The project is titled Malus ecclesia and is both a biblical reference to the apple tree in the garden of Eden as well as George Church, the principal investigator for the lab at Harvard Medical School where Davis holds an appointment. Davis' interest in plants also extends to one of his current projects, Astrobiological Horticulture, where he is investigating the potential for biological gardens in space. Throughout his highly productive career, two projects stand out as being particularly ambitious; Call me Ishmel, a 110-foot lightning tower in memoriam for Hurricane Katrina, and Bacterial Radio, a crystal radio system that uses a protein derived from marine sponges to create an electrical circuit capable of receiving AM radio transmissions. Davis work on the bacterial radio, which was assisted by molecular biologists Tara Gianoulis and Ido Bachelet, garnered critical acclaim for its technical sophistication and sustainability and was awarded the 2012 Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art. To become familiar with Joe Davis’ work is to come into an understanding of the creative potential for Biomedia and its relationship to culture and semiotics This podcast was produced by CLOT Magazine editorial team and Stephen Mclaughlin

Now that Goblin is over, Judy and Linda had to make some important decisions about what K-drama to watch next for the podcast. This week, we watched the first episodes of 4 new dramas that started in January/February of 2017. To start off, we talk about "Saimdang: Light's Diary (Herstory)" (사임당, 빛의 일기), the new SBS drama starring Lee YoungAe and Song SeungHun. This was a huge disappointment, especially because of the high hopes we had for it. How can you take a subject like Saimdang, who was such an important and prominent female figure in Korean history, and make it so objectionably boring? Judy and Linda love Lee YoungAe and yet this drama was so hammy that they have a serious moment of doubt about her acting ability. That's like finding out that Cate Blanchett is bad at acting! How can that be? In "Tomorrow With You" (내일 그대와), the tvN drama, Lee JeHoon plays a time traveller who is trying to solve the mystery of his future death by befriending a sad sack former child actress played by Shin MinAh. Judy thinks that the main characters wholly uninteresting and unlikable. Linda finds the premise interesting, but the rules of time travel are too vague and loose (does that remind you of frustrations we've had about a certain teahouse?). "Missing Nine" is an MBC drama, starring Jung KyungHo and Baek JinHee. Despite the man bun, turtlenecks and bangs in the drama, Judy is intrigued by the mystery and relationships established by the first episode. Linda predicts which characters will die off first, especially since there are 11 passengers on the plane, not counting the pilots and the one flight attendant.   Finally, we watched "Rebel: Thief of the People" (역적: 백성을 훔친 도적), an MBC drama starring Yoon KyoonSang and Chae SooBin. This series is a straight forward historical drama about Hong GilDong (Yoon KyoonSang), a Korean Robin Hood, who leads a rebellion against YeonSanGun (Kim JiSuk). The first episode starts off so strong, but Judy and Linda are disappointed that the drama is going to be spending so much time examining the protagonist's childhood. Some Korean terms: 낙지: [nak-ji] octopus. 촌스러워: [chon-seu-ruh-wuh] old-fashioned. 해녀: [heh-nyuh] female diver. 도련님: [do-ryun-nim] old Korean address for "young master". 마님: [ma-nim] old Korean address for "madam".   If you would like to read more about Saimdang (신사임당), you can click here to see her English Wikipedia page. Judy thought that Hong GilDong (홍길동) was a fictional character, but apparently he was based on a real person in Joseon! There is an actual novel about his adventures, though. Click here to read about the novel, because the English Wiki page for the actual person has very little information. The King portrayed in "Rebel: Thief of the People" is Prince YeonSan (연산군). His title is "Prince" and not "King", because he was later deposed for being a tyrant and replaced by his half brother. Click here to read about a short history about him on English Wiki.    So our choices come down to "Missing Nine" or "Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo"! If you want to recommend one over the other, or if you have any other questions or comments, please contact us on Facebook and Twitter (@kdramamyeyesout) or e-mail us. Download this and other episodes and while you're there, write us a review: Apple Podcasts Google Play Music Stitcher Libsyn RSS The KDMEO theme music is 'Cute', by Bensound (www.bensound.com), and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives 4.0 International.

What are colours? What is colour? Just different wavelengths of light...mental (Wikipedia) Visible light (NASA) The visible spectrum (Wikipedia) What is electromagnetic radiation? (livescience) Spectral colours (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) What wavelength goes with a colour? (NASA) Rabbit & Spaghetti Shiraz (Naked Wines) This is your brain on nature (National Geographic) Your colour red could really be my blue (livescience) How my friends described colours to me when I couldn't see (li.st) How colours get their names (livescience) Colour vision in humans & other species (Wikipedia) A nice overview on rods & cones (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) How do we see colour? (livescience) Photoreceptor cells (Wikipedia) Bayer filter mosaics: How red, green & blue is arranged on our screens to complement our colour vision (Wikipedia) Theory of colours (Wikipedia) Newton & the colour spectrum (Web Exhibits) Newton's theory of light: His experiment split white light through a prism to make a rainbow, then recombined it through another prism to make white light again (The Star Garden) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Caravaggio Foundation) Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd (Ultimate Classic Rock) Red light is just a photon of a certain energy: The wavelength of red light is 650 nm, blue is 475 nm & green is 510 nm (Montgomery Blair High School) Can you hear colour? Some people with 'synesthesia' claim to be able to (livescience) What is synesthesia? (Scientific American) Human ears respond to frequencies of sound between about 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz (Wikipedia) Human eyes respond to wavelengths of light between about 390 nm to 700 nm (Wikipedia) What is infrared light? It's just below (longer than) the wavelength of visible red light, so humans can't see it (Wikipedia) Infrared waves (NASA) Night vision goggles 'extend' your vision into the infrared (Wikipedia) Humans give off infrared radiation (Science Questions With Surprising Answers) The longest waves are 'radio waves', further along than infrared - they're still photons of energy, we just can't see them (livescience) Radio waves (NASA) Shorter waves than blue are 'ultraviolet' (UV), they're at a shorter wavelength/higher energy than we can see (NASA) What is ultraviolet light? (livescience) Do rainbows have ultraviolet bands & infrared bands? (Physics StackExchange) Shorter waves than UV are X-rays, they're at a shorter wavelength/higher energy than we can see (NASA) The shortest waves are 'gamma waves', they're still photons of energy, we just can't see them (NASA) We need different types of telescopes to 'see' the different types of waves in the universe: radio, infrared, visible, X-ray, gamma (NASA) Mantis shrimps & bees can see UV light (Catalyst) The absorption spectrum of water: There's an interesting dip right at the wavelengths of visible light (Wikipedia) The absorption spectrum of water (London Southbank University) Transparency of water in the visible range (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) Some creatures are 'pentachromats', i.e. they have 5 different types of colour receptors in their eyes (Wikipedia) What is melanopsin? (Wikipedia) Melanopsin probably evolved ~1 billion years prior to cone cells: These receptors independently gauge the amount of blue or yellow incoming light & route this information to parts of the brain involved in emotions & the regulation of the circadian rhythm (livescience) Someone who is colour blind is missing 1 or more of the 3 sets of colour-sensing cones (Wikipedia) How we see colours: Light absorption, reflection & transmission (the Physics Classroom) Sunderland claims the first stained glass in England (BBC, Radio 4) Sunderland National Glass Centre Visible light & the eye's response (the Physics Classroom) You can't mix all the colours & get white paint (Reference) Why does mixing every paint colour produce grey not white? (Physics StackExchange) White light is all of the frequencies of light (Reference) The colours of light (Science Learning) Colour: Travels through the paintbox - the book Johnny mentioned (Victoria Finlay) Photodegradation, "the alteration of materials by photons of light", is why colours fade (Wikipedia) Photodegradation & photostabilisation of polymers: A proper sciencey paper (SpringerPlus) Some answers to the question 'Why does colour fade when left in sunlight?' (Reddit) What is ink? (Wikipedia) What are dyes? (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Why are plants green? Because they absorb red light & reflect green light from the sun! (UCSB ScienceLine) More detailed answers to why plants are green (ResearchGate) Blue sky & Rayleigh scattering (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) Goat moisturing lotion (The Goat Skincare) A history of inks, dyes & pigments (World of Chemicals) People have been dyeing fabric indigo blue for 6,000 years (The New York Times) Effect of light exposure on paintings (National Gallery of Art) What is oil painting? (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Pigments used by different artists, including Caravaggio (Pigments through the Ages) Printed photos fade, but so too can photos saved to disk! (Bloomberg) Cultures see & name colours differently (BBC, Future) Newton & the indigo controversy (Wikipedia) Italian, Russian & Hebrew has 12 basic colour terms (English has 11) & they distinguish blue & azure (Wikipedia) Colour naming: Azure is distinct from blue in Russian & Italian, but not English (Wikipedia) Eskimo words for snow...could be a myth (Wikipedia) How many words do the Inuits have for snow? (The Guardian) What's in a colour? The unique human health effects of blue light (Environmental Health Perspectives) This article suggests penguins can see violet, green & blue, but not red (National Wildlife Federation) This is what I was trying to explain to Johnny, quite poorly, "...even if you perceive the sky as the colour someone else would call 'red', your blue sky still makes you feel calm", because of the 'blue' frequency of the light (livescience) Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia Corrections The human retina contains ~120 million rod cells, not 15 million (Wikipedia) Cheeky review? (If we may be so bold) It'd be amazing if you gave us a short review...it'll make us easier to find in iTunes: Click here for instructions. You're the best! We owe you a free hug and/or a glass of wine from our cellar Click to subscribe in iTunes

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