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Unite is looking at whether Government and other employers in Gibraltar could help find jobs for the 32 NatWest International staff facing redundancy.The Fair kicks off on Friday, with preparations well underway at the former Rooke site. Jodie Ferrar of Cultural Services will be here to tell us more.The Kusuma Trust is once again inviting applications for its Excellence Award, offering £3,000 to students who are about to begin their university studies. We'll find out more about the award and who can apply.The Gibraltar Fashion Collective is preparing to take local fashion onto the international stage. Local designers are getting ready for their first international show at Malaga Fashion Week's Pasarela Larios next month.And, the Gibraltar Association of Tax Advisers attracted more participants than ever in this year's Tax Essay Competition. Grahame Jackson and John Azzopardi were on the judging panel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does a punk rock concert full of sneering nihilists have to do with the oldest question about how to live? In this lecture, the final numbers of a long tour, Jordan Peterson begins somewhere unexpected: a Ramones show decades ago, where a room full of people who claimed life was meaningless could not stop moving to the music. That contradiction becomes a thread he pulls until something enormous comes loose, a case that the meaning you insist isn't there is woven into the way you perceive, the way you listen, and the aim you set without realizing you have set it. Along the way he takes apart the fantasy of a life without struggle, asks why a seventy-year-old man asleep in comfort is the least enviable figure in the Bible, and arrives, in the quietest moment of the night, at a piece of advice about love so simple and so practical that you will wonder why no one ever told you. What begins with a joke about slam dancing ends with a question you answer every time you decide what to look for. This lecture was recorded on February 5th, 2024 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Use code JBPESSAY for 40% off Essay or click here: https://essay.app/?promo=JBPESSAY Unlock the ad-free experience of The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast and dive into exclusive bonus content on DailyWire+. Start watching now: http://dwpluspeterson.com/yt ALL LINKS: https://feedlink.io/jordanbpeterson // LINKS // Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com Books - https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/books/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I believe that creativity has no expiration date. But there is another side to the story. Sometimes we watch an artist who we have loved for decades slowly fade before our eyes. Recently I saw a ‘60s era superstar in concert. He will remain nameless for these purposes. In my opinion, he was one of the greatest artists of the rock era. His songwriting, his guitar playing, his singing - all masterful. Which is why seeing him recently was such a complicated experience for me. He's now in his eighties. Like all of us, he has aged. His voice has changed. His physical presence has changed. The effortless brilliance of youth has inevitably given way to something quieter and more fragile. And perhaps what I found myself mourning was not so much him, but the realization that time eventually catches up to all of us. The concert raised two questions for me. The first concerns the relationship between artists and audiences. When audiences attend a concert by an artist whose career spans 60+ years, what are they hoping to hear? It's pretty clear to me that the fans come to reconnect with the hits - the songs that became part of their lives. The songs attached to first loves, first apartments, marriages, children, friendships, and memories. Those songs belong not only to the artist but, in a real sense, to the audience as well. So when an older artist loads new material and deep cuts into their set list, the audience is disappointed. In fact, Timothy B. Schmit, a member of the Eagles, said to me when I interviewed him on this show that the Eagles will never record a new album. Why? Because all that the fans want to hear are the hits. That doesn't mean that artists should stop creating new work. Far from it. I admire older artists who continue to write and record new music well into their eighties. But there is a balance. Both Paul McCartney and James Taylor, for example, understand that in concert they must play the 25 or so songs that their fans want to hear. Then they can sprinkle in a few new ones. The second question is even harder. How does an artist know when it is time to stop? Athletes face this question. Actors face this question. Musicians face it too. There comes a point when talent remains but some of the tools that once expressed that talent begin to diminish. Voices change. Range disappears. Energy fades. The audience notices. The artist notices. And everyone involved understands what is happening, even if no one says it aloud. This is not criticism. It is simply life.  Perhaps that is why performances by older artists affect us so deeply. We are not simply watching our heroes age. We are confronting our own aging as well. The fading star becomes a mirror. And maybe that is why audiences continue to give them standing ovations. Partly out of admiration. Partly out of gratitude. And partly because we understand that we are not merely applauding a performance. We are applauding a lifetime of artistry, creativity, and the memories these artists gave us along the way. In the end, perhaps that is enough. Perhaps that is more than enough. This is Robert Miller with Follow Your Dream.

Wie hilft Erzählen in autoritären Zeiten, in Gewaltszenarien und Multikrisen? Von Scheherazade bis heute erweisen sich Fiktionen als Überlebensstrategie: Sie verwandelt Ohnmacht in Handlung und Chaos in Sinn. Von Samira El Ouassil www.deutschlandfunk.de, Essay und Diskurs

Schrijver Christiaan Weijts vergelijkt het in zijn nieuwe essaybundel met flaneren: essayeren is als dralen, als slenteren, als drentelen. Onderzoekend, onzeker, onvast, in een tijdperk dat barst van stelligheden en vraagt om productiviteit. Deze avond duiken we in het essaygenre en flaneren we ons een aarzelende weg naar voorzichtige antwoorden over de staat en de toekomst van het essay.Het genre lijkt aan populariteit te winnen. Is het de aandachtsspanne van de lezer – die iets langers wil dan een column, maar iets korters dan een boek? Is het het onderzoekende karakter? Is het de aanbidding van de schrijver, van de intellectueel – lezen we graag over diens leven en denkwijzen? Of imiteren we vooral gretig de Amerikaanse voorhoede? Wat zegt het essay over onze behoeften, onze verlangens?En wat maakt het essay eigenlijk een essay? Waarin verschilt het van, bijvoorbeeld, een pamflet, of memoires, of andere non-fictie? Is het essay elitair? Noemen we een essay dat niet door een veronderstelde intellectueel geschreven is ook een essay, of heet het dan een reportage, een longread, een verhaal?Deze avond duiken we in het essaygenre van Montaigne tot The New Yorker en flaneren we ons een aarzelende weg naar voorzichtige antwoorden over de staat en de toekomst van het essay.Over de sprekersChristiaan Weijts is naast schrijver ook essayist, columnist en criticus. Hij publiceert op regelmatige basis in NRC en De Groene Amsterdammer. In 2006 verscheen zijn veelgeprezen debuut Art. 285b., waarmee hij in 2006 de Anton Wachterprijs en in 2008 het Gouden Ezelsoor won. Daarna schreef hij succesvolle en meervoudig bekroonde romans als Via Cappello 23, Euforie en Het valse seizoen. Deze maand verschijnt de essaybundel Flaneren kun je leren.Joost de Vries is de chef van het katern Zondag van de Volkskrant. De Vries schreef onder andere de romans Clausewitz en De republiek (bekroond met de Gouden Boekenuil). Ook maakt hij de literatuurpodcast Boeken FM. Voor zijn gehele oeuvre ontving hij in 2023 de Frans Kellendonkprijs. In 2024 kwam zijn meeste recente boek Hogere Machten uit.Marian Donner is filosoof en schrijver. In 2019 publiceerde ze het Zelfverwoestingsboek: een oproep om de teugels te laten vieren. Het pamflet werd lovend ontvangen en is inmiddels in verschillende talen uitgebracht. In 2024 verscheen haar non-fictieboek Rooksignalen, een hoofdkussenboek dat genomineerd werd voor de Jan Hanlo Essayprijs. Ze heeft een column over media in de Groene en schrijft essays voor De Volkskrant en het NRC.Arjen van Veelen is schrijver van onder meer de bekroonde roman Aantekeningen over het verplaatsen van obelisken en van de non-fictiebestsellers Amerikanen lopen niet en Rotterdam. Hij publiceert regelmatig essays in o.a. NRC. Arjen studeerde klassieke talen en journalistiek in Leiden. Hij werkte als docent Grieks en Latijn in Rotterdam en als Amerika-correspondent.Programmamaker: Anne Grietje FranssenIn samenwerking met: De ArbeiderspersZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sende uns Deine NachrichtZwei KI-Agenten diskutieren in dieser Episode das Essay von Norman Müller, warum KI Produktteams nicht automatisch besser macht, sondern schwache Hypothesen oft nur schneller und schöner verpackt. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, ob generative Modelle echte Kundennähe erzwingen oder ob sie Gründer und Unternehmen in eine neue Form der Selbsttäuschung führen. Die Folge verbindet Startup-Praxis, Konzernrealität, Venture Clienting und die Frage, welche Rolle Urteilskraft in einer Welt spielt, in der technische Umsetzung immer billiger wird.00:00 KI, Produktverliebtheit und der Albtraum perfekter Software02:18 Das Multitouch-Betriebssystem und der ignorierte Markt03:27 Warum KI die natürlichen Bremsen im Produktbau entfernt04:37 Urteilskraft als neuer Engpass der Wertschöpfung05:44 Kundennah oder kurzsichtig: Das Faster-Horses-Dilemma06:55 Vision, Markt und die Grenze technischer Spielerei08:09 Warum Konzerne KI-Dashboards bauen, ohne Prozesse zu verändern09:15 Die Illusion von Fortschritt durch KI-Oberflächen10:24 Der harte Test für Innovationsbudgets in Unternehmen11:38 Warum KPIs allein KI-Projekte nicht retten12:48 Venture Clienting als Brücke zwischen Startups und Konzernen13:59 Der Bundesverband als Matchmaker oder Realitätsfilter16:14 Robustheit, Haftung und kritische Systeme17:23 Warum weniger bauen zum Wettbewerbsvorteil werden kann18:38 Die entscheidende Frage gegen KI-SelbsttäuschungHier geht's zum Essay von Norman Müller:https://ventureaibriefing.substack.com Support the show________________Wenn du uns dabei unterstützen möchtest, diesen Podcast zu einer Allianz von Zukunftsarchitekten der KI-Transformation zu machen, in der wir offen über Chancen, Risiken und reale Erfahrungen mit Künstlicher Intelligenz sprechen, dann abonniere uns auf Substack, YouTube, Spotify oder Apple Podcasts. Dein Abonnement kostet dich nichts, hilft uns aber sehr, noch mehr herausragende Persönlichkeiten für tiefgehende und inspirierende Podcast Gespräche zu gewinnen. Vielen Dank für deinen Support.Vernetze dich mit Norman auf LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/muellernorman

Over the past several weeks, we've been delighted toshare the beginning of She Leads the Way—a series of short essays inspired by Dr. Melissa Morriss-Olson's conversations with more than thirty women presidents and senior leaders featured on the IngenioUs Podcast.Each essay explores a leadership lesson that surfacedrepeatedly across these remarkable conversations.Today, we're pleased to share the second essay in theseries. Leadership journeys rarely unfold according to plan.In this essay, Melissa reflects on the stories of Isabelle Cherney,Krista Newkirk, Barbara Mistick, and Barbara Farley—fourwomen whose careers remind us that meaningful leadership is seldom the result of following a perfectly mapped path. Instead, their journeys were shaped by unexpected turns, personal challenges, courageous decisions, and a willingnessto grow through experiences they never could have anticipated.Rather than climbing a predetermined ladder, theycomposed their lives one experience at a time.The companion video brings their voices together, highlighting the wisdom behind these extraordinary journeys and inviting each of us to think differently about our own leadership path.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE BRAND STANDARD ON SUBSTACKBOOK YOUR 1:1 ALIGNMENT CALLFINAL SPACES FOR 1:1 COACHINGRepurpose Ai: Streamline your content creation and repurpose effortlessly with ⁠Repurpose Ai⁠.Later Content Scheduling: Simplify your social media strategy with ⁠Later⁠.Flodesk: Elevate your email marketing with Flodesk – get 50% off your first year using ⁠this link⁠.Other Resources:Submit a question to be featured on the podcast and receive live coaching! Send a voice note or fill out the⁠ question form⁠.Where To Find Us:Instagram:⁠ @sigma.wmn⁠TikTok:⁠ @sigma.wmn⁠Newsletter:⁠ Subscribe here⁠Threads:⁠ @sigma.wmn⁠Most women business owners are not stuck because they need more information. They are stuck because the decision they already know they need to make feels uncomfortable. In this episode, we explore how confusion can become a form of procrastination, and why overthinking often keeps you in business limbo long after the answer has become clear.This episode is a reading of Clara's Substack article on clarity, avoidance and the mental loops that stop women business owners from moving forward. We unpack the difference between genuinely needing more information and using research, reflection or indecision to delay an action that feels emotionally difficult.If you have been circling the same business decision, waiting for certainty or hoping the answer will feel easier, this conversation will help you see what may really be happening. Clarity is often not something you find before you act. It is something you create by making the decision, taking the next step and allowing the path to become clearer through movement.Tune in to hear:Why confusion can become a form of procrastination.The business decisions you may already know you need to make.How overthinking keeps you stuck in business limbo.Why clarity often comes through action rather than more information.Find the Complete Show Notes Here → ⁠https://sigmawmn.com/podcast⁠In This Episode, You'll Learn:How to recognise when confusion is masking avoidance.Why uncomfortable decisions can feel harder than they actually are.The difference between needing clarity and resisting action.How mental loops keep women business owners from moving forward.Why making a decision can create the momentum and clarity you have been waiting for.Themes & Time Stamps:0:00 — Intro & about The Brand Standard on Substack0:35 — What's inside the Substack (astrology for marketing, human design content, business systems)1:25 — Deep dives vs. newsletter, and the "livable philosophy" angle2:30 — Introducing today's essay2:37 — Essay begins: "You're not confused; you're avoiding the decision"4:12 — Clarity isn't found through thinking, it's created through action4:32 — Why decisive women move differently5:52 — Clarity as something you create through your decisions6:03 — Closing thoughts & call to action

Whitney Lynn went viral for preaching to a captive airplane full of passengers — then claiming she was persecuted for it. But she's not some random street preacher. She's a MAGA "evangelist". In this clip from Tuesday's live stream with Ken Napzok, I walk through her own words — on camera, in her own post — and then break down why calling a bad flight "persecution" isn't just embarrassing, it's theologically hollow. This is what happens when evangelical Trump support curdles into a full-blown persecution complex: it cheapens the Gospel and it cheapens real suffering.

So artifiziell das klassische und zeitgenössische Ballett auch wirkt, so unmittelbar ist sein Bezug zur Natur. Seit dem Barock zeigt sich hier das Verhältnis von Mensch, Natur und Macht. Und im Tanz selbst ist die Natur als reale Gegenwart präsent. Von Wiebke Hüster www.deutschlandfunk.de, Essay und Diskurs

Republican senators keep telling us they have "concerns" about Trump's picks — and then confirming them anyway. Todd Blanche, Trump's own former personal lawyer, is now on track to become Attorney General of the United States. In this video, I break down why senators like Bill Cassidy know exactly what they're doing when they cave, what Blanche's history — including his role in controversial legal settlements — reveals about his fitness for the job, and why "institutional integrity" keeps losing to political self-preservation and future lobbying paydays. This isn't just a Beltway story. It's a case study in what happens when the people meant to check power decide loyalty to Trump is worth more than the oath they took.

In this episode I discuss a recent Tucker Carlson monologue in which he breaks down 10 points to save America. He also hints at a potential Presidential campaign and/or a new political party. Tucker's Monologue: https://tuckercarlson.com/live-show-august-5-2026 Essay by Dr. Dale Ahlquist on Localism: https://www.theparadoxpress.com/keep-it-local/ Chesterton's Essay on Cheese: https://amishcatholic.com/2017/06/14/chesterton-on-cheese/ Go subscribe to The Paradox Press now!Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99

John Maytham speaks to Boris Nikitin, theatre director and creator of Essay on Dying, about transforming personal loss into art, and why the production also intertwines his father's final journey with his own experience of coming out as a gay man two decades earlier. The result is a powerful meditation on identity, love, memory and the courage required to reveal oneself honestly to others. Following each performance, audiences are invited to stay for a post-show conversation with Nikitin, creating a rare opportunity to engage directly with the artist and the questions his work leaves lingering long after the lights come up. Presenter John Maytham is an actor and author-turned-talk radio veteran and seasoned journalist. His show serves a round-up of local and international news coupled with the latest in business, sport, traffic and weather. The host’s eclectic interests mean the program often surprises the audience with intriguing book reviews and inspiring interviews profiling artists. A daily highlight is Rapid Fire, just after 5:30pm. CapeTalk fans call in, to stump the presenter with their general knowledge questions. Another firm favourite is the humorous Thursday crossing with award-winning journalist Rebecca Davis, called “Plan B”. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 15:00 and 18:00 (SA Time) to Afternoon Drive with John Maytham broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/BSFy4Cn or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/n8nWt4x Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

D/Annie Liontas joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about suffering 3 brain injuries in one year and how that changed their relationship to their body and to the world, post-concussive syndrome, how science is delayed around all things female body, gender and selfhood, being a reluctant nonfiction writer and how memoir was the last thing on their mind, understanding the external and internal forces that we have to reckon with to live, the narratives around women and queer people, interrogating our own patterns, knowing when we're sidestepping a thing, the cascading problem of vulnerability, considering how you protect the people you love in a memoir, what stories need to be told, and doing so on our own terms, the lonely condition of being inside the human body, how memoir has its own timeline, getting to the story beneath the story and their new memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery.   Ronit's upcoming workshop: Writing Dynamic Memoir: From Lived Experience to Gripping Story https://www.lmcmurtrylitcenter.org/workshops/writing-dynamic-memoir-from-lived-experience-to-gripping-story   Also in this episode: - redacting text - knowing when we're hiding - finding comfort in the telling   Books mentioned in this episode - Fit Into Me by Molly Gaudry - Decade of the Brain by Janine Joseph - The Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken - The Writing Life by Annie Dillard - Bone Black by bell hooks - Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life by bell hooks - Mad Eden by Morgan Thomas - Clam Down by Anelise Chen   Essay: “Against Catharsis: Writing is Not Therapy” by Essay by T Kira Madden https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/litfriends-podcast/id1717357361   D/ANNIE LIONTAS is the trans-genderqueer author of the crip-queer memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, which won the ALA's 2025 Stonewall Award for Nonfiction and was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia's Literary Award. They are a recipient of the 2025 Lambda Literary Córdova prize, and their debut novel, Let Me Explain You, was selected as New York Times Editors Choice. They co-edited the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, and their work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, BOMB, McSweeney's, The New Review, Oprah Daily, and elsewhere. An Associate Professor at George Washington University, LIONTAS helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. They write the Most Anticipated Queer Books list at Electric Literature and live in Philadelphia with their wife, dog, and Email the rabbit.    Connect With D/Annie Liontas:  https://www.instagram.com/aliontas/ https://www.annieliontas.com/ (currently being updated)   Purchase Book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sex-with-a-Brain-Injury/Annie-Liontas/9781668085561 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/annie-liontas Lit Friends Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/litfriends-podcast/id1717357361

For the memorial of St. John Vianney, Joe Grabowski reads a rarely reprinted G.K. Chesterton essay—The Challenge of the Curé d'Ars—written as an afterword to F.J. Sheed's 1929 translation of Henri Ghéon's The Secret of the Curé d'Ars. Chesterton's portrait is not the gentle village priest most readers expect but a militant one, a walking contradiction who denied everything his century most confidently affirmed. You'll hear why Chesterton thought the critics who file the Church under the medieval past have misread her entirely, and why the Curé's holiness shone brightest in the full daylight of the age of reason. In This Episode: Where to find G.K. Chesterton's rarely reprinted essay on St. John Vianney—and why it sits at the back of Ghéon's book rather than the front Chesterton's argument that the Church predates every nation, and why that makes "international" the wrong word for her The sharp line Chesterton drew between an apologia and an apology, and what Catholic argument lost when the two words collapsed into one Chesterton's reading of the Curé d'Ars as provocative rather than merely pious—a priest whose entire life functioned as a denial of his age How Chesterton used Lourdes and Ars to answer critics who treat the Church as a relic of a particular past Resources Mentioned: Main biographies of the Curé d'Ars, including Abbé Francis Trochu's The Secret of the Curé d'Ars by Henri Ghéon, translated by F.J. Sheed The Challenge of the Curé d'Ars by G.K. Chesterton (1929 edition, full text) Act of Love of the Holy Curé d'Ars Chapters: 00:00: Cold Open 00:26: Welcome and the Memorial of the Curé d'Ars 02:50: Making Reparation in the Aftermath of the Revolution 05:08: Introducing G.K. Chesterton's Essay on the Curé d'Ars 07:26: The Church, the Nations, and the Word Apologetics 09:43: A Militant Faith and the French Religious Quarrel 12:06: A Denial at the Height of the Revolution 14:26: Neither Medieval Nor Modern 16:44: St. John Vianney's Act of Love FOLLOW US Instagram Facebook X SUPPORT Consider making a donation Visit our Shop Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios

The college essay that asks, "Why this major?" is about far more than getting into college.In this solo episode, Lisa Marker-Robbins explains why this common admissions prompt reflects a question students will continue answering throughout internships, scholarship applications, graduate school, networking conversations, and future careers.Drawing from years of coaching students and families, Lisa explores what colleges are hoping to learn through this common application question. She also explains why the answer can shape far more than a college application, offering perspective for parents and students preparing for the decisions ahead. In this episode, Lisa and Julia discuss:Why the "Why This Major?" essay extends far beyond college admissionsHow colleges evaluate the evidence behind a student's decisionsThe role career exploration plays in choosing a major with confidenceHow parents can help students clarify their direction through better conversationsKey Takeaways: Strong applications come from students who can point to classes, volunteer work, hobbies, job shadows, informational interviews, internships, or other experiences that demonstrate they explored their interests before choosing a major.Students don't need to know exactly what they'll do for the next 40 years, but they should be able to explain why their chosen major is the best next step based on what they've learned so far.Organizing a student's story around past exploration, present reasoning, and future direction creates stronger college essays while also preparing them for internships, scholarship applications, networking conversations, and future job interviews.Parents can reduce pressure by replacing quizzes and debates with conversations that help students explain why a major fits them, especially when considering common default choices like business, nursing, or engineering. “No job's a good job if it doesn't align with who they are as a person.” – Lisa Marker-RobbinsEpisode References:Get your questions answered live: https://flourishcoachingco.com/qaLearn more about Launch Career Clarity at https://flourishcoachingco.com/course#057 College Admission by Major with Andy Borst: https://flourishcoachingco.com/057 Sign up for my free webinar August 5, 2026, at 7:30 PM EST. Click the link to reserve your spot: https://flourishcoachingco.com/qa Connect with Lisa:Website: https://www.flourishcoachingco.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flourishcoachingcoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/flourishcoachingco/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flourishcoachingco/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flourish-coaching-co

Jeanine Pirro prosecuted an innocent man — an Olympic athlete — for felony vandalism. Not because the evidence supported it. Because it served Donald Trump's narrative. Federal prosecutors eventually dropped the charges. And then Trump publicly humiliated her anyway. Isaiah 5 called this 2,700 years ago — those who "call evil good and good evil." Pirro's story is the illustration. The systemic problem is the sermon. This is what happens when loyalty to a man replaces fidelity to truth. It always ends this way. It will always end this way.

Sende uns Deine NachrichtZwei KI-Agenten diskutieren in dieser Folge die zentrale These des Essays von Norman Müller: KI-Startups müssen früh verkaufen, auch wenn ihr Produkt noch unfertig ist. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Konflikt zwischen technologischer Geschwindigkeit und der langsamen Realität von Beschaffung, Compliance und Unternehmens-IT. Die Folge arbeitet heraus, warum früher Vertrieb Erkenntnisarbeit sein kann, aber auch Produktvision, Reputation und Skalierbarkeit gefährden kann. Entscheidend wird die Frage, welche Marktsignale ein Gründerteam ernst nehmen muss und welche es bewusst nicht übernehmen darf.00:00 Warum KI-Startups früher verkaufen müssen01:05 Der Clash zwischen Innovation und Beschaffung02:21 Warum gute Demos noch kein Geschäftsmodell beweisen03:30 Kaufen heißt politisches Kapital einsetzen04:38 Enterprise-Realität als Produktspezifikation05:46 Die Gefahr der Dienstleistungsfalle07:01 Mustererkennung statt Feature-Wunschliste08:09 Buying Center, Nutzer und falsche Anreize09:19 Reputationsrisiken bei halluzinierender KI10:28 Der richtige Pilotkunde und echter Schmerz11:37 Politisches Budget gegen echten Product Market Fit13:51 Vertrauensbrücken für autonome KI-Agenten16:12 Marktnähe, Vision und die harte RealitätHier geht's zum Essay von Norman Müller:https://ventureaibriefing.substack.com Support the show________________Wenn du uns dabei unterstützen möchtest, diesen Podcast zu einer Allianz von Zukunftsarchitekten der KI-Transformation zu machen, in der wir offen über Chancen, Risiken und reale Erfahrungen mit Künstlicher Intelligenz sprechen, dann abonniere uns auf Substack, YouTube, Spotify oder Apple Podcasts. Dein Abonnement kostet dich nichts, hilft uns aber sehr, noch mehr herausragende Persönlichkeiten für tiefgehende und inspirierende Podcast Gespräche zu gewinnen. Vielen Dank für deinen Support.Vernetze dich mit Norman auf LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/muellernorman

While studying criminal justice at DeSales University in 2020, Bryan Kohberger wrote a 12-page paper titled “Crime-Scene Scenario Final” describing how investigators should process the fictional stabbing death of a 35-year-old woman. The paper laid out procedures for securing the scene, obtaining a search warrant, contacting supervisors, forensic personnel and the coroner, photographing evidence and protecting the chain of custody. Kohberger also discussed collecting biological material, examining surveillance footage and questioning neighbors or anyone who regularly passed through the area in order to establish and verify alibis.The most striking portion concerned contamination and trace evidence. Kohberger wrote about investigators using gloves, boot coverings and fiber-free protective clothing that covered the mouth, hair and body to avoid introducing material into a crime scene. Prosecutors later sought to use the essay to demonstrate his detailed knowledge of crime-scene procedures, including how evidence can be preserved, transferred or potentially avoided. The paper was not a confession or proof that he was planning the Idaho murders, and much of it reflected ordinary forensic coursework, but its discussion of a knife killing and methods for limiting contamination took on a far more disturbing significance after Kohberger was charged and ultimately pleaded guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

John Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV" delves into the intricate nature of knowledge and probability, exploring the limits of human understanding. Locke poses critical questions about the existence of universal propositions and examines the interplay between judgment, faith, reason, and enthusiasm. This exploration of how we acquire knowledge and the uncertainties that accompany it remains profoundly relevant today, as individuals navigate complex information landscapes and grapple with the nature of belief and reason in an age of skepticism. Locke's insights encourage listeners to reflect on the foundations of their own understanding and the principles that guide their judgments in a world filled with ambiguity.

​In 2020, while pursuing a master's degree in criminal justice at DeSales University, Bryan Kohberger authored a 12-page essay titled "Crime-Scene Scenario Final." This academic paper detailed procedures for processing a crime scene, emphasizing methods to prevent contamination, such as the use of fiber-free overalls, gloves, and booties. Kohberger also discussed the importance of collecting DNA evidence and analyzing surveillance footage to identify suspects. The essay centered around a case involving a 35-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in a trailer park, though it remains unclear if this scenario was hypothetical or based on real events.Prosecutors in Kohberger's ongoing trial for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students have introduced this essay as evidence, arguing that it demonstrates his extensive knowledge of crime scene investigation techniques. They contend that the detailed understanding reflected in his writing suggests a capability to commit the alleged crimes with precision and an awareness of how to avoid leaving incriminating evidence. The trial is scheduled to begin in August 2025, with jury selection commencing on July 30.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

​In 2020, while pursuing a master's degree in criminal justice at DeSales University, Bryan Kohberger authored a 12-page essay titled "Crime-Scene Scenario Final." This academic paper detailed procedures for processing a crime scene, emphasizing methods to prevent contamination, such as the use of fiber-free overalls, gloves, and booties. Kohberger also discussed the importance of collecting DNA evidence and analyzing surveillance footage to identify suspects. The essay centered around a case involving a 35-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in a trailer park, though it remains unclear if this scenario was hypothetical or based on real events.Prosecutors in Kohberger's ongoing trial for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students have introduced this essay as evidence, arguing that it demonstrates his extensive knowledge of crime scene investigation techniques. They contend that the detailed understanding reflected in his writing suggests a capability to commit the alleged crimes with precision and an awareness of how to avoid leaving incriminating evidence. The trial is scheduled to begin in August 2025, with jury selection commencing on July 30.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

TL;DR We're hosting an essay competition to elicit responses to Anthony DiGiovanni's sequence, ‘The challenge of unawareness for impartial altruist action guidance'—submit your entries by August 14th. There will be cash prizes for the best essays and the best comments: 7 thousand dollars in total. Additionally, we're offering an outlier prize of up to 50 thousand dollars for a truly exceptional entry: an original solution to cluelessness, or a critique decisive enough to move the debate. We're also offering a referral prize of $250 if a winner says you're responsible for telling them about the competition. Motivation When I announced April's Better Futures Highlight Week,[1] I confidently wrote: “To make the future go better, we can either work to avoid near-term catastrophes like human extinction or improve the futures where we survive.” But what if I was wrong? What if both options are bankrupt, and we have no justified answer as to whether any particular work would make the future better? In his Challenge of Unawareness sequence, Anthony DiGiovanni argues that we are in just this position. Specifically, he argues that our evidence about the future is so poor that our assessments of impact (explicit expected-value estimates [...] ---Outline:(00:12) TL;DR(00:54) Motivation(02:12) How the competition works(02:55) What your entry should look like(03:49) Option 1: Challenge a premise(05:19) Option 2: Challenge the inference(05:33) Option 3: Offer a constructive response(05:54) Prizes(05:58) Essay competition(07:43) Comment competition(08:09) How will the essays and comments be judged?(08:40) What comes after the competition?(09:00) Judges(09:13) Essay competition(09:33) Comment competition(09:50) Disclaimer(10:44) FAQs(10:48) Can I use AI?(11:21) Can I co-author a piece?(11:31) Can I submit a piece I've already published elsewhere?(12:03) Will I get feedback on my entry?(12:31) Does style matter? --- First published: June 19th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2aooibAEDSdreCqrJ/announcing-cluelessness-critiques-competition --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

In Homegrown - Guidance and Inspiration for Navigating Your Homeschooling Journey, readers will peruse the perspectives of 30 different homeschooling parents who have been on an incredible journey of home education with their kids. Edited and compiled by homeschooling mom of four Amber O'Neal Johnston, the wisdom and heartfelt experiences shared within Homegrown will encourage, challenge, and bless readers as they explore homeschooling. Amber discusses the unexpected joys and creative opportunities available when parents choose to homeschool. She has challenged stigma, stereotypes, and criticism amid her inspiring homeschooling journey and emerged with soulful wisdom that will guide other parents who seek to do the same. TAKEAWAYS Homeschooling and parenting bring people together, no matter their background or current circumstances Homeschooling is the most elite Christian education available to our children There is so much beauty to be found in home education and Biblically-based truths to learn and implement We're all working within our contexts to pave a new path for our families

​In 2020, while pursuing a master's degree in criminal justice at DeSales University, Bryan Kohberger authored a 12-page essay titled "Crime-Scene Scenario Final." This academic paper detailed procedures for processing a crime scene, emphasizing methods to prevent contamination, such as the use of fiber-free overalls, gloves, and booties. Kohberger also discussed the importance of collecting DNA evidence and analyzing surveillance footage to identify suspects. The essay centered around a case involving a 35-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in a trailer park, though it remains unclear if this scenario was hypothetical or based on real events.Prosecutors in Kohberger's ongoing trial for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students have introduced this essay as evidence, arguing that it demonstrates his extensive knowledge of crime scene investigation techniques. They contend that the detailed understanding reflected in his writing suggests a capability to commit the alleged crimes with precision and an awareness of how to avoid leaving incriminating evidence. The trial is scheduled to begin in August 2025, with jury selection commencing on July 30.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

​In 2020, while pursuing a master's degree in criminal justice at DeSales University, Bryan Kohberger authored a 12-page essay titled "Crime-Scene Scenario Final." This academic paper detailed procedures for processing a crime scene, emphasizing methods to prevent contamination, such as the use of fiber-free overalls, gloves, and booties. Kohberger also discussed the importance of collecting DNA evidence and analyzing surveillance footage to identify suspects. The essay centered around a case involving a 35-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in a trailer park, though it remains unclear if this scenario was hypothetical or based on real events.Prosecutors in Kohberger's ongoing trial for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students have introduced this essay as evidence, arguing that it demonstrates his extensive knowledge of crime scene investigation techniques. They contend that the detailed understanding reflected in his writing suggests a capability to commit the alleged crimes with precision and an awareness of how to avoid leaving incriminating evidence. The trial is scheduled to begin in August 2025, with jury selection commencing on July 30.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

A new Atlantic cover story argues that America is sliding into a postliterate age—but G.K. Chesterton diagnosed the same collapse in 1928, years before Marshall McLuhan or Neil Postman raised the alarm. Joe Grabowski goes solo to walk through Rose Horowitch's statistics on the death of reading, then turns to two Illustrated London News essays in which Chesterton describes a public that has stopped reading connected prose and now only kisses books it has never opened. What emerges is a practical challenge for anyone who wants to recover the habit Chesterton simply assumed his own readers still had. In This Episode: Why G.K. Chesterton said so little about illiteracy—and what that silence reveals about how genuinely new this problem is Chesterton's 1928 warning that making reading "easier" signals a slump in reading rather than a boom What Chesterton meant by a public relapsing into the horn book and the cat on the mat—and why Joe Grabowski thinks he would have said much the same of reels, Shorts, and TikTok The 1921 essay in which Chesterton argued that the books shaping the world are the ones nobody has actually opened: Darwin, Marx, and the rumor that replaces the text Why Chesterton's critique lands on podcast listeners too—the risk of becoming the very type of person Chesterton described, taking opinions secondhand from influencers and favorite podcasters Resources Mentioned: "The End of Reading Is Here" by Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic "On Reading, and Not Being Able To," The Illustrated London News, December 8, 1928 What Mr. Belloc's Servile State Means by G. K. Chesterton FOLLOW US Instagram Facebook X SUPPORT Consider making a donation Visit our Shop   Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios Chapters: 00:00: Introduction—A Crisis Worth Paying Attention To 04:20: The Atlantic Article: Rose Horowitch on the End of Reading 06:42: The Numbers—Who Still Reads, and How Little 09:06: Schools, Screens, and the Warnings of McLuhan and Postman 11:29: Why It Matters: Media Literacy in an Age of AI 13:56: If No One Reads, Who Wants to Write? 16:19: Writers Come from Readers 18:31: Turning to G.K. Chesterton and His 1928 Essay on Reading 23:20: Newsprint Headlines, Reels, and the Attention Economy 25:38: The 1921 Essay—The Books the World Has Not Read 30:07: An Examination of Conscience 32:33: The Challenge: Take the Book Down off the Shelf

Senator Jon Ossoff's speech at Berean Christian Church uses the biblical story of King Ahab, Jezebel, Naboth's vineyard, and the prophet Micaiah to confront corruption, political power, and the danger of surrounding a ruler with people willing to lie for him. I examine why Ossoff's argument about the rule of law, false prophets, voting rights, and reckless war carries such theological weight. The episode considers how Scripture can challenge authoritarianism rather than excuse it—and why the story of Ahab remains a warning about corruption, political sycophants, leaders who silence dissent, and the abuse of religious authority.

Can you be a Christian and reject the Rapture? In this second episode of our Rapture series, I explain what I personally believe about Jesus, the resurrection, the return of Christ, and the detailed end-times systems often called Rapture theology. We will also consider how dispensational theology and Christian nationalism have been used to support MAGA politics, why certainty can be politically powerful, and how teachers such as John Hagee have connected prophetic theology to contemporary political movements.

In Robert Frost's famous poem, called “The Road Not Taken”, a traveler comes to a fork in the road and must choose between two paths. The poem is really about life's crossroads—those moments when we must choose between the expected path and one that is uncertain, unconventional, and uniquely our own. My life has been about pursuing that second path. Like most people, I spent much of my adult life raising a family, building a career, and meeting the responsibilities that come with adulthood. My youthful dream of becoming a rock star musician remained just that—a dream. But as I approached age 60, when most of my contemporaries were approaching retirement, a light went off in my head. I realized that if I did not pursue that dream now, I would never do it. And I didn't want to look back later in life and regret that I had not even given my dream a chance. So figuratively, I jumped into the deep end of the pool. I gave up my other pursuits and committed myself fully to music. And you know what? It turned out to be the best decision I ever made. As of today I've released 15 albums (including a Billboard #1), numerous singles, written an Amazon #1 bestselling book, and created Follow Your Dream, a global arts platform featuring more than 750 conversations and more with world-class artists from around the globe. In this Essay I delve into the pros and cons of finding your path when you reach that crossroads. Like my other essays, this essay has been published on the Medium app. And it's available on the Essays page of Follow Your Dream. I hope you will take a look. And stay tuned for future essays periodically. CLICK HERE —----------------------------------------------------------- The Follow Your Dream Podcast:Top 1% of all podcasts with Listeners in 200 countries! Click here for Start Here Click here for All Episodes  Click here for Guest List  Click here for Guest Testimonials Click here for Pillars Click here for Robert's Project Grand Slam Click here to Subscribe  Click here to receive our Email Updates Click here to Rate and Review the podcast —---------------------------------------- ROBERT'S NEWEST RELEASE:“THE BUZZ” - Ft. Darius de Haas (vocals) and Dave Eggar (Celo). Short, Sweet and Totally Different CLICK HERE FOR OFFICIAL VIDEO CLICK HERE FOR ALL LINKS —-------------------------------------- Audio production: Jimmy RavenscroftKymera FilmsConnect with the Follow Your Dream Podcast:Website - www.followyourdreampodcast.comFollow Robert's band, Project Grand Slam, and his music:Website - www.projectgrandslam.com    

Applying to medical school this cycle? Your secondary essays could be the deciding factor between receiving an interview invitation and getting lost in the applicant pool. In this episode, I break down everything I learned throughout the medical school application process and share the exact strategies that helped me approach my medical school secondary essays with confidence, authenticity, and purpose.If you've been staring at a blank screen wondering how to answer prompts like “Why Our School?”, “Tell us about a challenge you've overcome,” or “How will you contribute to our community?”, this episode is for you. Secondary applications often arrive quickly, come with tight deadlines, and require you to tell your story in different ways without sounding repetitive. That's why having a strategy matters.Throughout this episode, I walk you through how to approach every secondary essay with intention instead of panic. We discuss how admissions committees actually evaluate applications, what they're looking for beyond GPA and MCAT scores, and how you can write essays that genuinely reflect who you are while remaining memorable. Whether you're applying through AMCAS, AACOMAS, or TMDSAS, these principles can help you create stronger applications.You'll learn why authenticity is your greatest advantage, how to brainstorm meaningful experiences that demonstrate resilience, leadership, compassion, service, curiosity, and growth, and how to avoid common mistakes that weaken otherwise competitive applications. I also share practical systems for organizing your secondary essays, creating reusable themes without copying yourself, managing deadlines, and editing your essays efficiently.In this episode, we cover:• Why secondary essays matter so much in the medical school admissions process• What admissions committees are actually evaluating• The biggest mistakes applicants make when writing secondaries• How to answer the “Why This Medical School?” essay• How to write compelling diversity, adversity, and challenge essays• Creating a cohesive application narrative• Writing about leadership, clinical experiences, volunteering, and research• Demonstrating reflection instead of simply listing accomplishments• Avoiding clichés and generic responses• Managing dozens of secondary essays without burning out• How to pre-write secondary essays before applications arrive• Editing tips that make your essays stronger• Standing out without trying to sound “perfect”Whether you're a first-time applicant, taking a gap year, or reapplying, this episode will help you approach your secondary applications with a clearer strategy and greater confidence. My hope is that after listening, you'll stop overthinking every prompt and start writing essays that genuinely represent the future physician you're becoming.If this episode helps you, be sure to follow the podcast, leave a review, and share it with another premed student preparing for the medical school application cycle. Your support helps this podcast reach more aspiring physicians navigating the same journey.I'd also love to hear from you! Connect with me on social media Thank you for listening, and remember: your application is more than a collection of grades and test scores. It's your story. Make it one only you can tell.Keywords: medical school secondary essays, secondary essays, medical school application, medical school admissions, AMCAS, AACOMAS, TMDSAS, premed, premed podcast, premed advice, how to write secondary essays, medical school essay tips, medical school application tips, accepted medical student, future doctor, physician journey, medical school interviews, diversity essay, adversity essay, why our school essay, personal statement, medical school admissions committee, pre-writing secondaries, gap year applicant, reapplicant, medical student, pre-health, healthcare careers, becoming a doctor, medical school success.

Senator Jon Ossoff confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with the facts he did not want to answer. During a Senate hearing, Ossoff questioned Hegseth about the cost and results of the Iran conflict—and about Hegseth's earlier claims that Iran's military had been “destroyed,” rendered “combat ineffective,” and defeated in a “historic and overwhelming victory.” But when Ossoff asked Hegseth to answer those claims with a simple yes or no, Hegseth deflected. In this episode, I examine Ossoff's questioning, Hegseth's shifting explanations, and the danger of cheerleading an irresponsible war

The Pentagon first reported that 18 American service members had been killed in the Iran war. One day later, the official casualty count dropped to 14—after four soldiers killed in Jordan and Iraq were removed from the public list. This episode examines what happened to Lt. Tyler James Feehan, Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, Sgt. Angel Rampersad, and Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, and asks why the Trump administration and the Department of Defense changed the public accounting of American war dead. It also places the controversy in the larger history of Donald Trump's comments and conduct involving military service members, including Trump's “suckers and losers” remarks about fallen soldiers.

If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects.  In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge.  So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below.  Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsCore Sleep Paralysis ScienceSharpless, Brian A., and Jacques P. Barber. “Lifetime Prevalence Rates of Sleep Paralysis: A Systematic Review.” Sleep Medicine Reviews 15, no. 5 (2011): 311–315.Sharpless, Brian A. “A Clinician's Guide to Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis.” Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 12 (2016): 1761–1767.Cheyne, J. Allan, Steve D. Rueffer, and Ian R. Newby-Clark. “Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis: Neurological and Cultural Construction of the Night-Mare.” Consciousness and Cognition 8, no. 3 (1999): 319–337.Cheyne, J. Allan. “Sleep Paralysis and the Structure of Waking-Nightmare Hallucinations.” Dreaming 13, no. 3 (2003): 163–179.Cheyne, J. Allan. “Situational Factors Affecting Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hallucinations: Position and Timing Effects.” Journal of Sleep Research 11, no. 2 (2002): 169–177.Solomonova, Elizaveta. “Sleep Paralysis: Phenomenology, Neurophysiology and Treatment.” In The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought: Mind-Wandering, Creativity, and Dreaming, edited by Kieran C. R. Fox and Kalina Christoff. Oxford University Press, 2018.Baland Jalal / Panic-Hallucination / TreatmentJalal, Baland. “How to Make the Ghosts in My Bedroom Disappear? Focused-Attention Meditation Combined with Muscle Relaxation (MR Therapy): A Direct Treatment Intervention for Sleep Paralysis.” Frontiers in Psychology 7 (2016): 28. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00028.Jalal, Baland, and V. S. Ramachandran. “Sleep Paralysis and ‘The Bedroom Intruder': The Role of the Right Superior Parietal, Phantom Pain and Body Image Projection.” Medical Hypotheses 83, no. 6 (2014): 755–757.Jalal, Baland. “The Neuropharmacology of Sleep Paralysis Hallucinations: Serotonin 2A Activation and a Novel Therapeutic Drug.” Psychopharmacology 235, no. 11 (2018): 3083–3091.Jalal, Baland, Lucia Moruzzi, Andrea Zangrandi, Matteo Filardi, Claudio Franceschini, Fabio Pizza, et al. “Meditation-Relaxation (MR Therapy) for Sleep Paralysis: A Pilot Study in Patients with Narcolepsy.” Frontiers in Neurology 11 (2020): 922. doi:10.3389/fneur.2020.00922.Folklore, Myth, and the Old HagHufford, David J. The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.Hufford, David J. “Sleep Paralysis as Spiritual Experience.” Transcultural Psychiatry 42, no. 1 (2005): 11–45.Adler, Shelley R. Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011.Davies, Owen. “The Nightmare Experience, Sleep Paralysis, and Witchcraft Accusations.” Folklore 114, no. 2 (2003): 181–203.Bond, John. An Essay on the Incubus, or Nightmare. London: Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham, 1753.Golzari, Samad E. J., et al. “Sleep Paralysis in Medieval Persia — The Hidayat of Akhawayni (?–983 AD).” Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 8 (2012): 229–234.Cross-Cultural Sleep ParalysisHinton, Devon E., Vuth Pich, Dara Chhean, and Mark H. Pollack. “‘The Ghost Pushes You Down': Sleep Paralysis-Type Panic Attacks in a Khmer Refugee Population.” Transcultural Psychiatry 42, no. 1 (2005): 46–77.Hinton, Devon E., Vuth Pich, Dara Chhean, Mark H. Pollack, and Richard J. McNally. “Sleep Paralysis among Cambodian Refugees: Association with PTSD Diagnosis and Severity.” Depression and Anxiety 22, no. 2 (2005): 47–51.Jalal, Baland, and Devon E. Hinton. “Rates and Characteristics of Sleep Paralysis in the General Population of Denmark and Egypt.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 37, no. 3 (2013): 534–548.Jalal, Baland, Joseph Simons-Rudolph, Bamo Jalal, and Devon E. Hinton. “Explanations of Sleep Paralysis among Egyptian College Students and the General Population in Egypt and Denmark.” Transcultural Psychiatry 51, no. 2 (2014): 158–175.Jalal, Baland, Andrea Romanelli, and Devon E. Hinton. “Cultural Explanations of Sleep Paralysis in Italy: The Pandafeche Attack and Associated Supernatural Beliefs.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 39, no. 4 (2015): 651–664.Olunu, Esther, Ruth Kimo, Esther Olufunmbi Onigbinde, Mary-Amadeus Uduak Akpanobong, and Inyene Ezekiel Enang. “Sleep Paralysis, a Medical Condition with a Diverse Cultural Interpretation.” International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research 8, no. 3 (2018): 137–142.Sensed Presence / Body Map / Shadow Person NeuroscienceArzy, Shahar, Margitta Seeck, Stephanie Ortigue, Laurent Spinelli, and Olaf Blanke. “Induction of an Illusory Shadow Person.” Nature 443 (2006): 287.Blanke, Olaf, Stephanie Ortigue, Theodor Landis, and Margitta Seeck. “Stimulating Illusory Own-Body Perceptions.” Nature 419 (2002): 269–270.Blanke, Olaf, Theodor Landis, Laurent Spinelli, and Margitta Seeck. “Out-of-Body Experience and Autoscopy of Neurological Origin.” Brain 127, no. 2 (2004): 243–258.Ionta, Silvio, Lukas Heydrich, Bigna Lenggenhager, Michael Mouthon, Eleonora Fornari, Dominique Chapuis, Roger Gassert, and Olaf Blanke. “Multisensory Mechanisms in Temporo-Parietal Cortex Support Self-Location and First-Person Perspective.” Neuron 70, no. 2 (2011): 363–374.Blanke, Olaf, Polona Pozeg, Masayuki Hara, Lukas Heydrich, Andrea Serino, Akio Yamamoto, Toshiro Higuchi, et al. “Neurological and Robot-Controlled Induction of an Apparition.” Current Biology 24, no. 22 (2014): 2681–2686.Alien Abduction / Modern Mythic MaskMcNally, Richard J., and Susan A. Clancy. “Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction.” Transcultural Psychiatry 42, no. 1 (2005): 113–122.Clancy, Susan A. Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.Blackmore, Susan. “Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?” Skeptical Inquirer 22, no. 3 (1998): 23–28.Clinical Sleep / Narcolepsy / REM BackgroundAmerican Academy of Sleep Medicine. International Classification of Sleep Disorders. 3rd ed., text revision. Darien, IL: American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2023.Scammell, Thomas E. “Narcolepsy.” New England Journal of Medicine 373, no. 27 (2015): 2654–2662.Saper, Clifford B., Patrick M. Fuller, Nigel P. Pedersen, Jun Lu, and Thomas E. Scammell. “Sleep State Switching.” Neuron 68, no. 6 (2010): 1023–1042.Brooks, Patricia L., and John H. Peever. “Identification of the Transmitter and Receptor Mechanisms Responsible for REM Sleep Paralysis.” Journal of Neuroscience 32, no. 29 (2012): 9785–9795.Avidan, Alon Y., and Phyllis C. Zee, eds. Handbook of Sleep Medicine. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011.Visual / Art HistoryFuseli, Henry. The Nightmare. 1781. Oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts.Myrone, Martin. Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination. London: Tate Publishing, 2006.Powell, Nicolas. Fuseli: The Nightmare. London: Allen Lane, 1973.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball. 

ICE agents have shot and killed two men during immigration enforcement encounters—Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. This video examines the conflicting accounts, witness statements, and unanswered questions surrounding both ICE shootings. Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda depends on thousands of ICE agents carrying out increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement operations. But what happens when the people being targeted are not “the worst of the worst”—and when the agents involved are not wearing body cameras? For Christians, this is also a test of whether our stated beliefs about human dignity, justice, and the image of God can survive contact with political power.

Money is never neutral. Jeffrey Degner works line by line through the passage of Cantillon's Essay that made the case nearly three centuries ago—showing how new money enters the economy unevenly, enriching those who receive it first and squeezing everyone who receives it last. Cantillon named the losers precisely: those on fixed wages, and property owners locked into leases as their costs rise. Degner then brings the analysis forward, connecting it to the several distinct patterns now described as the "K-shaped economy"—divergence between sectors, between the consumption of high- and low-income households, and between a soaring stock market and consumer sentiment that has fallen below its COVID lows.Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 23, 2026.Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics, and is the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream.

Send us Fan MailIn Episode 261 of Book Talk Etc., Tina and Hannah celebrate the power of short books–from  short stories and novellas to essay collections and anthologies! Join us as we explore why these bite-sized reads can leave just as lasting an impact as a full-length novel.In this episode, we also spin the wheel to randomly select our next topic for our August episode of Tackling the TBR Shelf! These TBR tackle prompts are chosen by our patrons as a way for them to take part in our reading lives.If you enjoy this commercial-free podcast, consider supporting us on Patreon! Your membership includes access to bonus episodes like What's in the Mailbag, Bookstore Browse: The Handsell, and Book Talk After Dark, invites to monthly community events like Mood Reader Happy Hour, and entry into our private Facebook group and Discord server- all for just $5 a month.Loving LatelySummer Reading Campaign - Melanated Reader (T)Soola Bag (H)Soola Pouch (H)Latest ReadKeep Them Close | David Ellis (T)Look Closer | David EllisThe Best Lies | David EllisEverything to the Sea | Alicia Upano (H)Novellas and Short StoriesAt Home With the Horrors | Sammy ScottHuman Sacrifices | María Fernanda AmpueroI Know A Place | Nat Cassidy (T)Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka (H)Obstetrix | Naomi Kritzer (T)Automatic Noodle | Annalee Newitz (H)Shelf AdditionSeekers of Deer Creek | Thao Thai (T)People in Love | Claire Daverley (H)If you prefer other shopping options, you can find today's books on Bookshop.org or Blackwell's. Purchasing through these links supports us with a small commission, at no extra cost to you.Support the showLet's Connect... Email us at booktalketc@gmailBTE on YoutubeTina's TikTok , IG @tbretc YT @tbretcHannah's TikTok , IG @hanpickedbooksJonathan IG @infiltrate_jayPodcast IG @booktalketcRenee's Substack Newsletter , IG@Itsbooktalk

Hi friends, and welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is a special behind-the-scenes look at a live application review I did with Anna, a high school senior I met last year. We recorded this about ten days before her early deadlines, and she was kind enough to let me walk through her entire application in real time: her personal statement, her activities list, and all of her supplemental essays for Yale. Fun fact: Anna emailed me a couple months later to let me know she actually got into Yale (congrats again, Anna!). In this episode, we get into: What it was like for Anna to pivot away from a topic that wasn't serving her (ten drafts about her favorite socks, which started to sound like a list) Her pivot to a new topic: Trivial Pursuit, a board game that's close to my heart A live read-through of her final personal statement, which touches on family, curiosity, and community How applying test-optional led her to sprinkle a few more high-level academic moments into her writing Her supplemental essays for Yale, including her "why us" essay and an academic prompt essay Anna is a recent high school graduate who loves cooking, sustainable agriculture, and spending time in nature. When she's not cross-country skiing with her school team, she's mentoring friends in the library or volunteering at her local synagogue. Whether you're a student navigating this process right now, or a parent or counselor supporting students from the sidelines, I hope you find this useful. Hope you enjoy our conversation.   Play-by-Play: 1:58 – Ten days from her early deadlines, how is Anna feeling? 2:33 – When did Anna start working on her essays, and how much time has she put in? 3:35 – What has Anna learned about herself through this process?  4:26 – Anna walks through her journey to finding a personal statement topic 8:10 – Anna reads her personal statement 12:35 – What values are coming through in Anna's personal statement? 14:26 – What questions does Anna have about her essay? 19:23 – Ethan reviews Anna's activities list and additional information section 21:33 – Anna reads her "Why Yale" essay 23:14 – What academic opportunities and programs excite Anna about Yale? 29:06 – Anna reads her "Why Major" essay 31:25 – How can Anna weave more specific, "geeky" language into her soil health essay? 38:48 – The short takes: four 200-character response 38:48 – What inspires you? 42:28 – A course, book, or piece of art you'd create 47:14 – A significant influence outside your family 48:56 – Something not included elsewhere in your application 56:44 – Anna reads her community essay  1:02:35 – How Anna might sharpen the essay with a couple more specific details? 1:04:41 – Closing thoughts    Resources: How to Write the Yale Supplemental Essays: Guide + Examples  College Essay Guy's Personal Statement Resources College Essay Guy's College Application Hub  

Registration will close this month for The Tender Harvest, a harvest yoga, meditation, and culinary retreat at world-class Ballymaloe House in County Cork, Ireland. Join this Sept 20-26, 2026, for a time of deep nourishment, learning, and inspiration. Just 2 rooms still available!A dog's retching yanks me from sleep. I've been floating between worlds all night, and suddenly I'm across the room before a thought can take shape. The dense atmosphere of a dream lingers as I kneel to wipe the floor, then thins as my mind reaches for it. I was in a foreign place, though the landscape felt familiar. I was with friends, though they were not themselves. There was a house. The house was a river. Its rooms were water.With a sigh, the dog returns to bed. The house settles back into stillness. I move mutely to my meditation cushion. Incense lit, tea steeping, for a time, I watch tendrils of smoke and steam mingle in the dawning air.Practice teaches us to notice what's here. Gradually, our attention steadies and we begin to perceive what is real—the interplay of spirit and matter, psyche and body—through the tuning fork of our awareness. We grow quieter, more supple, more receptive—less beholden to neurosis and fixed assumptions. What we lose in certainty, we gain in texture and attunement.As humans, especially now, our well-being depends on how honestly we inhabit the faculties of our aliveness. What do we know to be true, and by what inner or outer measure? How much doubt do we allow in the margins of confirmation? What may appear real, yet on closer examination, carries the subtle signature of an illusion? And, inversely: where have we developed trust in modes of knowing that defy rational explanation?In classical yoga philosophy, pramana offers a basic epistemic map. It names three valid sources of knowledge: direct perception (pratyaksha), inference (anumana), and trusted testimony (sabda). I know the river is cold because I have placed my hand in it. I know the river is cold because it flows from glacial melt. I know the river is cold because someone I trust has told me so.Of these, direct perception carries the weight of fact. Yet fact alone does not confer context. The elephant's tail may still seem a pestle to a blind man, as the Buddhist parable goes. Here, the animal's trumpet or a friend's account can augment our own perception. Thus, these three sources of knowledge uphold one another.But in Paris last month, standing beneath Hilma af Klint's paintings at the Grand Palais, I sensed how this era of dissolving certainties is inviting us to loosen and refine our frameworks for human intelligence. Knowing is not the intellect's final stamp of approval. It is a function of our embodied, psychic, and spiritual capacities—and it keeps calling us to widen what we recognize as real.Born in 1862, af Klint painted vast, abstract diagrams of a reality folded within this one: swirls of color, spirals, botanical forms, and galaxies. Her pioneering abstract works, begun as early as 1906, were long kept hidden and revealed only, at her direction, decades after her death. Working with a circle of women known as The Five, she participated in séances where language and image moved through them. One presence, whom she called Ananda, instructed her to create a series of paintings “for the temple.” These “pictures for the future” were meant for the future, for an audience who could see beyond the pastoral and parlor depictions of her time.Standing before af Klint's paintings a century later, I considered what it takes to be faithful to what arrives through intuition—to stake our knowing on image, or symbol, or an inner insistence just beyond explanation.Carl Jung described intuition as that which “mediates perceptions in an unconscious way… and has the character of being given.” Distinguishing it from the more rational functions of thinking, sensing, and feeling, Jung characterized intuition as irrational, bypassing conscious logic to immediately grasp hidden patterns, meanings, and future possibilities.In the years surrounding the First World War, Jung recorded dreams, visions, and dialogues with figures arising from his psyche. He came to understand that aspects of the psyche “produce themselves and have their own life.” The Red Book was later compiled as a document of these encounters and his willingness to be reshaped by them during an epoch of social collapse. His family kept the manuscript hidden for decades, wary of how the public would judge Jung for its contents.Certain ways of knowing do not sit neatly within pramana. They are not quite direct perception, not quite inference, not quite testimony, unless we expand the aperture of perception to include dreams, images, symbols, and phrases that arrive unbidden. These belong to another register, one involving a relationship with what we do not fully understand. A mingling with mystery. A participation.An increasing number of my therapy clients report consulting AI about the emotional content of their lives. I feel ambivalent. On one hand, it seems to help people articulate their inner life with greater clarity and identify practical therapeutic tools. On the other hand, if deferred to prematurely, AI's logic can displace the authority of these clients' own process, pulling them away from their attunement to the questions themselves.As artificial intelligence becomes an ever more seamless extension of cognition, my concern is what happens to the musculature of our knowing. Will we still value entering the river to feel for ourselves? Or standing beneath a painting whose frequency has waited a century to be transmitted? Or cultivating the integration of direct experience, the rigor of inference, and the discernment of who and what we trust?The meaningful questions of our lives ask something of us in return. Some questions are not meant to be resolved or even unveiled too directly. Some things must be distilled in time—granted permission, respect, faithful return, and a tolerance for not yet knowing.Together, we are making sense of being human in an era of radical change. Your presence here matters. Thank you for reading, sharing, ‘heart'ing, commenting, and subscribing to The Guest House.+ Join next month's yoga & meditation class on Thursday, August 20. Only on Substack - a thank you to paid subscribers.+ Find me at YogaSource in Santa Fe every Wednesday morning, 9-10:15 am MT / 11 am-12:15 pm ET for Dynamic Practice. This class is fully analog—live and in person. Register through the studio here.+ I'll be returning to world-class Ballymaloe House in County Cork, Ireland, Sept 20-26, 2026, with Erin Doerwald. This retreat will feature yoga, meditation, farm-to-table meals, and curated outings—plus rest, nurturance, and imagination. Just a few spots left. Check out all the details here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shawnparell.substack.com/subscribe

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Corinna Cook is an essayist whose writing follows the stories embedded in the borderlands of Southeast Alaska, northern British Columbia, and the southern Yukon. Drawing from history, natural science, and personal experience, she asks what the landscape can teach us—how it preserves memory, how climate reshapes our understanding of place, and how the painful histories of colonialism continue to shape life in the present. Her essays remind us that history and the natural world are inseparable, that the past lingers in rivers, forests, permafrost, and the traces left behind by those who came before us. And rather than searching for tidy conclusions, she approaches each essay as an open question, using it to better understand the North, the stories preserved in its landscapes, and what it means to live within the long arc of geologic time. Her recent book, Permafrost Is an Archive, is a collection of essays about turning toward the land. Moving through the boreal forest, thawing permafrost, and the invisible lines that divide nations, she asks what the land remembers and what it can teach us about the painful histories we carry, the ones that continue to shape how we see each other and the world around us. She doesn't offer easy answers. Instead, her essays become meditations on home and displacement, deep time and human history, and the difficult work of building more honest relationships with each other. As climate change reshapes the North, she argues that our ability to adapt may depend as much on how we confront our shared histories as on how we respond to environmental change. At the heart of the book is a question that echoes throughout her work: Now that we know, what do we do with that knowledge?

Corinna Cook is an essayist whose writing follows the stories embedded in the borderlands of Southeast Alaska, northern British Columbia, and the southern Yukon. Drawing from history, natural science, and personal experience, she asks what the landscape can teach us—how it preserves memory, how climate reshapes our understanding of place, and how the painful histories of colonialism continue to shape life in the present. Her essays remind us that history and the natural world are inseparable, that the past lingers in rivers, forests, permafrost, and the traces left behind by those who came before us. And rather than searching for tidy conclusions, she approaches each essay as an open question, using it to better understand the North, the stories preserved in its landscapes, and what it means to live within the long arc of geologic time. Her recent book, Permafrost Is an Archive, is a collection of essays about turning toward the land. Moving through the boreal forest, thawing permafrost, and the invisible lines that divide nations, she asks what the land remembers and what it can teach us about the painful histories we carry, the ones that continue to shape how we see each other and the world around us. She doesn't offer easy answers. Instead, her essays become meditations on home and displacement, deep time and human history, and the difficult work of building more honest relationships with each other. As climate change reshapes the North, she argues that our ability to adapt may depend as much on how we confront our shared histories as on how we respond to environmental change. At the heart of the book is a question that echoes throughout her work: Now that we know, what do we do with that knowledge?

This weeks show starts off with classics from Don Carlos, Wayne Smith, Edi Fitzroy, Half Pint, Barrington Levy, Ini Kamoze, Wayne Wade, The Twinkle Brothers, Cornell Campbell, Johnny Clarke,  Sugar Minott, Hugh Mundell, Culture, Peter Tosh, Max Romeo, Althea & Donna, Al Brown, Hopeton Junior, Johnny Osbourne, and Luciano. New music this week comes from Sista Jahia and Slimmah Sound, I-Taweh, Xana Romeo, Freddie McGregor, Lone Ark & The 18th Parallel, Swashii & Guru Nile, Essay & Goldbarz, Mosiah, Ziggi Recado, J Boog & Busy Signal, Medisun and Tippy I Grade, Protoje & Jesse Royal, Capleton with Stephen & Damian Marley, Rik Jam, Lutan Fyah, Marcus Gad, The Reggae Powerhouse Band with Pinchers, Dona V, Aza Lineage, Christopher Ellis, and Red Fox. Also this week we feature dubs from Mad Professor, Gussie P, Scientist, Aston Barrett, King Tubby & The Skatalites, and Nat Birchall with The 18th Parallel. Enjoy! Don Carlos - Late Night Blues - Plantation - Charly Records Wayne Smith - Time Is A Moment In Space - Jammys From The Roots - 1977-1985 - Greensleeves Edi Fitzroy - First Class Citizen/First Class Citizen Dub -  Youthman Penitentiary - Alligator Records Half Pint - Freedom Fighter - Classics - Hightone Records Barrington Levy - Hypocrites/A Rotten Dub - Time Capsule - Ras Records The Breadwinners - The Great Stalwart - Hi Dynamic Instrumental & Dub - Breadwinners Records Ini Kamoze - Them Thing Deh - Sly & Robbie Presents: Ini Kamoze - Taxi Wayne Wade - Poor & Humble - Greensleeves 12” The Twinkle Brothers - Since I Throw The Comb Away (live) - Since I Throw The Comb Away: Live At Reggae Sunslpash - Sunsplash Records The Twinkle Brothers - Jah Jah Gonna Get You - Rasta Pon Top - Burning Sounds Cornell Campbell - Righteous Rastaman - I Shall Not Remove 1975-1980 - Blood & Fire Johnny Clarke - Fire & Brimstone A Go Burn The Wicked - Creation Rebel - VP Records Sugar Minott - Slice Of The Cak - Nura 7” Hugh Mundell  & Pablo Rockers All Stars - Lets All Unite/Unity Dub - Rockers 7” Culture - Natty Never Get Weary (12” Mix) - Children  Of Zion: The High Note Singles Collection - Doctor Bird  Peter Tosh - Wanted Dread & Alive - Wanted Dread & Alive - EMI/Rolling Stones Records Max Romeo - Tan And See - War Ina Babylon - 4 Men With Beards Oba Simba - I've Found Rastafari - The Arrival - Sunvibes Music Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking - Reggae Bloodlines - Reggae Bloodlines Al Brown - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City - Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown - Blood & Fire Hopeton Junior - Living In The Ghetto/Living In The Ghetto Dub Mix - Milestone 7” Johnny Osbourne - Kiss Somebody - Nightfall - VP Records Sista Jahia & Slimmah Sound - Protect Di Youths/Dub Version - Blackboard Jungle 12” Luciano - Love Jah And Live - Rough Inna Town: The Xtermiantor Sound - Maximum Pressure Luciano - Love Jah & Live Dub - Xterminator Presents: Mlk Dub - Ras Records I-Taweh - Falla Fashion - Rasta Inna Middle - Evidence Music Xana Romeo feat. Micah Shemaiah - Will The Sun Come Out Today - The Divine Blueprint - Charmax Music/Xana Romeo Freddie McGregor - Calling Mr. Speaker - Rick Records Lone Ark Meets The 18th Parallel - Man A Kill Man/Peace Version - Fruits Records The 18th Parallel feat. Hezron - Keep On Keeping On - All Fruits Ripe - Fruits Records Swashii w/Guru Nile & Travis D'Mario - The Israelites - WaspNest Entertainment  Eesah & Goldbarz - Time To Liberate - Evidence Music Mosiah - Never Lose Your Way - Unconquerable - House Of Riddim Ziggi Recado - Don't Stay Far - Elevation - Oneness Records J Boog & Busy Signal - Juggling Sweet - Double Trouble Riddim - Silly Walks Discotheque Medisun - Freedom/Freedom In Dub (Tippy I Grade Dub Mix) - Stay Nice Music/DubShot Records Mad Professor - Middle Passage - Dubbing With Anansi - Ariwa  Sip A Cup Meets Negus Roots - Conductor Of Dub - Fire House Dub Vol. 1 - Gussie P Records Scientist - Yallas Dub - The Dub Album They Didn't Want You To Hear - Jah Life/DKR Aston “Family Man” Barrett  & The Wailers Band - Cobra Style (disco mix) - Soul Constitution: Instrumentals & Dubs 1971-1982 - Dub Store Records King Tubby & The Skatalites - Fugitive Dub - The Legendary Skatalites In Dub - Motion Records Nat Birchall & The 18th Parallel - Let Peace Reign/Let Dub Reign - Fruits Records Ronnie Davis - Power Of Love - Roots From The Record Smith: Lloydie Slim Productions 1973-1976 - DKR King Tubby - King Tubby's In Fine Style - Roots From The Record Smith In Dub: Lloydie Slim Productions - DKR Hugh Mundell w/ The Roots Radics & Scientist - Jacqueline/Dangerous Match Three - Junjo Presents: Wins The World Cup - Greensleeves Al Campbell - Collie Herb/Collie Herb Dub - Jah Life 12” Capital Letters - Smoking My Ganja (Oldwah Mix)/Ganja Dub (Oldwah Mix) - Reality - Reggae Archive Records Protoje feat. Jesse Royal - Something I Said - Art Of Acceptance - Indiggnation Collective/Ineffable Records Capleton feat. Stephen & Damian Marley - Babylon So Evil - Heights Of Fire - Evidence Music Rik Jam & Irie Yute - Nah Sleep - Irie Yute Tapes Lutan Fyah & Irie Yute - No ID - Irie Yute Tapes Marcus Gad - Honor Dem - For All - Easy Star Records Reggae Powerhouse Band feat. Pinchers - Rawtid - Reggae Powerhouse Band & Friends Series 2 - Tuff Gong International Dona V - President Nebuchadnezzar - When Laast - Dona V Music Aza Lineage - Sound System - Rebel Daawta - VP Records/Jammys Colin Roach - Champion Sound - Jammys 7” Christopher Ellis - My Sound - Ghetto Youths International Red Fox - Shell It Down - Bent Backs Records Tenor Saw & The Gorgan Players - Golden Hen/Golden Dub - Up Tempo 12”

The Odyssey Isn't About Monsters. It's About Trust.   Before Christopher Nolan brings The Odyssey to the big screen, Curtis Chang and Jessica Hooten Wilson revisit Homer's ancient epic to ask what the story is really about: monsters, homecoming, and the search for truth among intentional lies. They explore why reading The Odyssey still matters in the age of film and AI, how Odysseus forces us to ask who we can trust, and what Christians can learn from Greek myths and pagan gods about the one true God revealed in Scripture.   03:53 - Reading the Homer vs. Watching Matt Damon 05:38 - When to Read the Book First? 11:06 - How "The Odyssey" Changes with the Reader 13:32 - Did A Woman Really Write The Odyssey? 16:50 - What Is The Unreliable Narrator? 23:23 - The Psychological Impact of an Unreliable Narrator 31:27 - A Christian Approach to Greek Mythology 34:37 - Understanding The Greco-Roman Culture of Jesus 41:36 - The Irreplaceable Human Elements of Teaching Literature in the Age of AI   Sign up for The After Party Sign up for our newsletter and The Good List   Mentioned in This Episode: Homer's The Odyssey (Stanley Lombardo's translation) Homer's The Iliad Nadya Williams's Christians Reading the Classics Yann Martel's Son of Nobody Yann Martel's Life of Pi Edith Hamilton's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes  Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology Natalie Haynes's Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths  Christopher Nolan's Memento (trailer) David Fincher's Fight Club (trailer) An Introduction to 1 and 2 Samuel (The story of King David)   More From Jessica Hooten Wilson: Jessica Hooten Wilson's website Explore Jessica's books HERE Read articles and Essay by Jessica HERE Follow Us: Good Faith on Instagram Good Faith on X (formerly Twitter) Good Faith on Facebook   The Good Faith Podcast is a production of a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan organization that does not engage in any political campaign activity to support or oppose any candidate for public office. Any views and opinions expressed by any guests on this program are solely those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Good Faith.

Kelly shares a Marine Corps wife's essay (titled "Cincinnatus") honoring her husband's quiet retirement after 20 years of service. Instead of ceremonies, his legacy lives in small, meaningful actions like giving away his expensive uniform to help a young officer and driving a beat-up Corolla with a trunk full of first aid supplies - so he can help anyone, on a moment's notice. It's a moving reminder that true service isn't captured in plaques or uniforms but in "small private acts of dedication" and the humble wisdom to know that our real legacy is "to give it all away. (Previously aired)

Hanif Abdurraqib and Javier Zamora both float between poetry, memoir, essay, spoken word and more -- finding the right form to explore their personal experience within American history. They join Jody Avirgan to discuss their work and its impact.For the past 250 years of America's existence, books have been fundamental instruments through which we preserve, interpret, and engage in history as an ongoing practice of free expression.  At “This Day”, we're partnering with Random House, the legendary book publisher, to bring you a special, month-long series called “A Nation of Readers.” In this series, we'll be talking to an all-star cast of authors -- all published by Random House --- about how books and the act of distributing ideas through publishing shape and reshape American history.We'll have new episodes every Sunday in the This Day feed, and a special two-part episode in the final week of June.Find out more about A Nation Of Readers here.Join our America250 newsletter community! Subscribe for free to get the latest news and analysis of how America250 is playing out. Paying subscribers get access to early, ad-free versions of the show. Plus bonus features throughout the year. To support our work and get access to everything, subscribe now.This Day is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.comGet in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Follow us on social @thisdaypodOur team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jennifer Ledwith.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jennifer Ledwith.