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Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union.  To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.” Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography of a writer — particularly one with Grossman's output — can be tricky to pull off, but Popoff's extensive research is elegantly arranged into a very readable narrative, in which we follow Grossman through the harrowing experiences of witnessing first hand, famine in the 1920s, the Terror of the 1930s, the carnage of World War II, and the dull ache of censorship in the post-war Soviet Union. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Richard Eisenberg is back. And this time, we're diving into what his unretirement looks like now.    If you don't know Richard's story, he's an “unretired” journalist who writes a column for MarketWatch and freelances for Next Avenue, Fortune, AARP, and Fodor's. Richard calls this chapter “unretirement” — living it with purpose and intention.   Before all that, he was an editor at Next Avenue and Money magazine, and held senior roles at Yahoo! and Good Housekeeping. He's also the author of two personal finance books and a proud Northwestern grad.   In our conversation, Richard shares his latest stories on medical debt, telehealth access, and the renewed value of travel advisors. He also opens up about caring for his mom during her dementia journey and what it taught him about starting financial conversations early.   Listen in to hear what Richard's been up to since the last time we spoke.   We discussed:   What “unretirement” really looks like in practice The importance of having early financial conversations with aging parents Why telehealth access matters—and what could happen if it's rolled back A fresh look at travel advisors and how they're evolving Richard's book recommendations and resources for deeper learning The challenge of caregiving for aging parents with dementia Resources The View From Unretirement Next Avenue Fortune | Richard Eisenberg Fodor's Travel    Friends Talk Money   The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne The Purpose Code by Jordan Grumet Retirement Intelligence by Robert Laura  

Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union.  To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.” Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography of a writer — particularly one with Grossman's output — can be tricky to pull off, but Popoff's extensive research is elegantly arranged into a very readable narrative, in which we follow Grossman through the harrowing experiences of witnessing first hand, famine in the 1920s, the Terror of the 1930s, the carnage of World War II, and the dull ache of censorship in the post-war Soviet Union. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union.  To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.” Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography of a writer — particularly one with Grossman's output — can be tricky to pull off, but Popoff's extensive research is elegantly arranged into a very readable narrative, in which we follow Grossman through the harrowing experiences of witnessing first hand, famine in the 1920s, the Terror of the 1930s, the carnage of World War II, and the dull ache of censorship in the post-war Soviet Union. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union.  To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.” Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography of a writer — particularly one with Grossman's output — can be tricky to pull off, but Popoff's extensive research is elegantly arranged into a very readable narrative, in which we follow Grossman through the harrowing experiences of witnessing first hand, famine in the 1920s, the Terror of the 1930s, the carnage of World War II, and the dull ache of censorship in the post-war Soviet Union. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union.  To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.” Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography of a writer — particularly one with Grossman's output — can be tricky to pull off, but Popoff's extensive research is elegantly arranged into a very readable narrative, in which we follow Grossman through the harrowing experiences of witnessing first hand, famine in the 1920s, the Terror of the 1930s, the carnage of World War II, and the dull ache of censorship in the post-war Soviet Union. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union.  To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.” Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography of a writer — particularly one with Grossman's output — can be tricky to pull off, but Popoff's extensive research is elegantly arranged into a very readable narrative, in which we follow Grossman through the harrowing experiences of witnessing first hand, famine in the 1920s, the Terror of the 1930s, the carnage of World War II, and the dull ache of censorship in the post-war Soviet Union. Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who divides her time between Riga, Latvia, and New England.  Jennifer writes about travel, food, lifestyle, and Russian history and culture with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.  She is the in-house travel blogger for Alexander & Roberts, and the award-winning author of  Lenin Lives Next Door:  Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow.  Follow Jennifer on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook or visit jennifereremeeva.com for more information.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beth Santos is an author, storyteller, and keynote speaker on a mission to better connect and support women travelers and share the stories of diverse women worldwide. With a background in international development, thoughtful community building, and social enterprise, Beth Santos is out to change the landscape of travel for women worldwide. In 2009, while cruising her blue motorcycle through the streets of São Tomé and Príncipe, Beth created the first iteration of Wanderful as a travel blog aimed to explore the diverse and shared experiences of women traveling the world. Today, Wanderful has exploded to an international community and social network with the active participation of over 40,000 women and gender-diverse people of all ages and backgrounds. This is manifested through an active membership community, chapter events in over 50 global cities worldwide, and annual community events and trips. Beth is the author of Wander Woman: How to Reclaim Your Space, Find Your Voice, and Travel the World, Solo, published in March 2024. The book helps women to uncover the confidence they need to see the world for themselves, by themselves. In 2022, she launched the 85 Percent Podcast, which interviews accomplished women in travel and tourism and tells their stories of success — and their advice for a more inclusive travel industry. Beth is in the process of filming episodes of World Herstory, a travel docuseries highlighting food, culture, and history through the eyes of women around the world. In 2014, Beth created the WITS Travel Creator Summit, the leading event for women and gender diverse travel creators, entrepreneurs, and industry to use their voices to champion change in the travel industry, now hosted annually on two continents. In 2022, Wanderful launched Wanderfest, the first major outdoor travel festival by and for women, hailed by Fodor's Travel as the new festival to add to your radar. Beth's commitment to community building also reaches her local neighborhood of Jamaica Plain in Boston, where she and her husband are the owners of Ula Cafe, a social-justice-minded cafe, bakery, and lunchtime meeting spot. Beth has been recognized in Business Insider as one of 17 changemakers transforming the hospitality industry, in Conde Nast Traveller as one of 12 inspiring people to follow for International Women's Day, She was a finalist for Travel Unity's Applied DEI Award and a finalist for Women in Travel CIC's IWTTF award in the female leader-entrepreneur category in 2024. In 2023, Beth was recognized by the International Hospitality Institute as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Global Hospitality and Travel, alongside leaders like Airbnb's Brian Cheskey, Skift's Rafat Ali, and PBS's Samantha Brown. She has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA from Wellesley College. When she's not traveling the world, she's relishing in home renovation projects and exploring her home city of Boston with her family. To learn more about Beth Santos: Website: https://bethsantos.com/ https://sheswanderful.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/maximumbeth/?hl=en IG: https://www.instagram.com/sheswanderful/?hl=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/santosbeth/

This is the first episode of the MCC Learning Institute podcast series dedicated to education. Dr. Joanna Williams, Visiting Fellow at MCC, and Dr. János Setényi, Director of the MCC Learning Institute, join Dr. Richárd Fodor to explore the big questions around education. Together, they discuss the purpose of schools, the balance between teaching knowledge and developing skills, and the debate between classical and progressive education. The conversation reflects on historical perspectives, modern challenges, and the role of schools in shaping future generations, drawing from international experiences and MCC's own initiatives promoting classical education.Dr. Joanna Williams – former university lecturer, academic, and Visiting Fellow at MCCDr. János Setényi – Director of the MCC Learning InstituteDr. Richárd Fodor – Head of Research at the MCC Learning InstituteAz MCC Podcast adásaiban érdekes emberekkel izgalmas témákról beszélgetünk. Feldolgozzuk a közélet, a gazdaság, a társadalom fontosabb aktuális történéseit, de olyan kérdéseket is napirendre veszünk, mint például a művészet, a család vagy a vallás. Vendégeink között oktatóink, kutatóink, vendégelőadóink kapnak helyet. Mindenkinek kellemes időtöltést és szellemi feltöltődést kívánunk.

A mongoose is a mongoose of course, of course. And no one can talk to a mongoose of course, of course. That is, unless, of course you're a thirteen-year-old girl in the Isle of Man. On this episode, Charlie tells the Legends about the strange case of Gef the Talking Mongoose!Late Night Legends is a paranormal podcast and stream which believes Spooky Season should be all year long. Listen every week to learn what paratopic the Legends are getting into.Join our Discord!https://discord.gg/jcEGgpZHqELate Night Legends is for a mature audience and can discuss topics which may not be suitable for all audiences. Please take care of yourself!Sources: Primary Sources:Price, Harry, and R.S. Lambert. The Haunting of Cashen's Gap: A Modern "Miracle" Investigated. London: Methuen & Co., 1936.Irving, James. Unpublished letters and notes regarding Gef (1931-1945). Manx National Heritage Library, Douglas, Isle of Man.Fodor, Nandor. Case files on Gef the Mongoose (1935-1937). Collection of the American Society for Psychical Research, New York.Secondary Sources:Books:Josiffe, Christopher. Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose. London: Strange Attractor Press, 2017.Price, Harry. Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter. London: Putnam, 1936. (Chapter 12: "The Talking Mongoose")Wilson, Colin. Poltergeists: A History of Violent Ghostly Phenomena. London: Llewellyn Publications, 1981.Journal Articles:"Proceedings of the Talking Mongoose Case." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 34, no. 642 (December 1937): 121-135.Bartholomew, Robert E. "Mass Delusions and Hysterias: Highlights from the Past Millennium." Skeptical Inquirer 25, no. 3 (2001): 20-25.Newspaper Archives:Isle of Man Times (1931-1945) - Extensive coverage of Gef phenomenonThe Times (London) - Reports on Lambert v. Levita libel case (1936)Daily Express (1935-1937) - Sensationalized accounts of GefAudio/Visual Materials:The Manx Talking Mongoose. BBC Radio 4 Documentary. First broadcast 15 March 2017.Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose. Directed by Adam Sigal. 2023. Feature film dramatization.Unpublished Materials:Dennis, Captain William. Private investigation notes on Gef case (1935-1936). Held in Harry Price Collection, University of London.Irving, Voirrey. Unpublished diary references to Gef (ca. 1931-1945). Current whereabouts unknown.Theses/Dissertations:McKay, Georgina. "Folklore and Forteana in Interwar Britain: The Case of Gef the Talking Mongoose." PhD diss., University of Edinburgh, 2019.Archival Collections:Harry Price Papers. Senate House Library, University of London.Manx Folklore Archive. Manx National Heritage, Douglas.Black Magic by The Amazons, https://lickd.lnk.to/JNcr0sID License ID: P3Vvw8GgqaYBlack Magic by The Amazons, https://lickd.lnk.to/JNcr0sID License ID: P3Vvw8GgqaY

Note to listeners: we're currently on hiatus, returning with new episodes in April 2025. Until then, we're sharing some of our favorite episodes from the archive each week. Today, we're speaking with Nikki Vargas, a senior editor at Fodor's Travel, founder of Unearth Women, and author of "Call You When I Land." In this travel memoir, Nikki shares her experiences navigating cultures and finding love.Reminder: I'm running a 10-day group trip to Jordan this May. The trip runs from May 18th to 27th and you can get all the information by visiting here. The last day to join our trip is Friday, April 18th.Original Air Date: Feb 21, 2024.What you'll learn in this episode:How the memoir writing process differs from other non-fictionAre books easier to write than articles?How Nikki overcame self-doubt and fear in the writing processNikki shares practical strategies for tackling a writing projectRecognizing the privilege of travel How Nikki's work supports women in travel, amplifying their voices through conscious consumerismHighlighting women making a difference, like Manal Kahi's Eat Offbeat.Nikki's upcoming book project inspired by a trip to NorwayFeatured on the show:Check out Nikki's travel memoir, CALL YOU WHEN I LANDNikki's book Instagram: @callyouwhenilandNikki Vargas website: nikkivargas.comNikki's Instagram: @niknakvargasEat OffBeat: eatoffbeat.comPitch your story idea to FodorsReview Fodor's pitch guidelinesListen to Episode 87: The Driving Force Behind Unearth Women with Nikki VargasLearn more about our upcoming trip to Jordan in May hereGet more information at: Going Places website Join our Going Places newsletter to get updates on new episodes and Yulia's travel storytelling work. Subscribe at goingplacesmedia.com/newsletter!For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don't forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a...

Patricia Phillips is CEO and Chair of The PBA Group of Companies, a diversified real estate company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2025. Since her appointment in 2005 - at a time when fewer than 1 in 50 Canadian CEOs were women - Patricia has led PBA's transformation from one of the city's leading landowners and property managers into one of the most innovative developers in Western Canada. Drawing on her international experience in finance and energy, Patricia has spearheaded PBA's creation of a distinctive ‘managed development' model attracting global hospitality and capital partners while transforming Calgary's hospitality market. As CEO she has presided over a period of robust growth in the face of a challenging market, a transformative expansion of the team, and the adoption of a new strategic direction that promises to take the company well beyond its roots. During her tenure with PBA Group, the team has been awarded several prestigious awards such as Fodor's - Best Hotel Travel Award, Autograph Collection Opening of the Year and a Michelin Key – one of the first awarded in Canada for The Dorian Hotel development, while leading over $2 Billion accretive transactions. In addition to chairing PBA, PBA Hotels and The Phillips Foundation (which she co-founded), Patricia currently sits on several private and non-profit boards, including Jostle, Headversity (which she chairs), WITHORG (Women In Tourism And Hospitality) and The Glenbow Museum. Before PBA, Patricia established a stellar 28-year track record in business that began on Wall Street. After competing at a national level in alpine racing and achieving an economics degree, Magnum Cum Laude, from Mount Holyoke College (one of the Ivy League's ‘Seven Sisters'), and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. She began her career as a trade policy advisor for the Tokyo Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva. This led to a coveted offer from Credit Suisse First Boston, where she became one of the first female Financial Analysts on Wall Street. Join Our Community of Canadian Entrepreneurs! Entrepreneurs are the driving force behind Canada's economy, and we're here to support them every step of the way. For exclusive insights, tips, and success stories from Canada's top business leaders, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Want to stay ahead with the latest #entrepreneur podcasts, business strategies, and news? Don't miss out—subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter for updates delivered straight to your inbox! Join thousands of Canadian entrepreneurs who rely on us for the resources they need to succeed.

Iman Mirzadeh from Apple, who recently published the GSM-Symbolic paper discusses the crucial distinction between intelligence and achievement in AI systems. He critiques current AI research methodologies, highlighting the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) in reasoning and knowledge representation. SPONSOR MESSAGES:***Tufa AI Labs is a brand new research lab in Zurich started by Benjamin Crouzier focussed on o-series style reasoning and AGI. They are hiring a Chief Engineer and ML engineers. Events in Zurich. Goto https://tufalabs.ai/***TRANSCRIPT + RESEARCH:https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mlcjl9cd5p1kem4l0vqd3/IMAN.pdf?rlkey=dqfqb74zr81a5gqr8r6c8isg3&dl=0TOC:1. Intelligence vs Achievement in AI Systems [00:00:00] 1.1 Intelligence vs Achievement Metrics in AI Systems [00:03:27] 1.2 AlphaZero and Abstract Understanding in Chess [00:10:10] 1.3 Language Models and Distribution Learning Limitations [00:14:47] 1.4 Research Methodology and Theoretical Frameworks2. Intelligence Measurement and Learning [00:24:24] 2.1 LLM Capabilities: Interpolation vs True Reasoning [00:29:00] 2.2 Intelligence Definition and Measurement Approaches [00:34:35] 2.3 Learning Capabilities and Agency in AI Systems [00:39:26] 2.4 Abstract Reasoning and Symbol Understanding3. LLM Performance and Evaluation [00:47:15] 3.1 Scaling Laws and Fundamental Limitations [00:54:33] 3.2 Connectionism vs Symbolism Debate in Neural Networks [00:58:09] 3.3 GSM-Symbolic: Testing Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs [01:08:38] 3.4 Benchmark Evaluation and Model Performance AssessmentREFS:[00:01:00] AlphaZero chess AI system, Silver et al.https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815[00:07:10] Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies, Sadler & Reganhttps://www.amazon.com/Game-Changer-AlphaZeros-Groundbreaking-Strategies/dp/9056918184[00:11:35] Cross-entropy loss in language modeling, Voitahttp://lena-voita.github.io/nlp_course/language_modeling.html[00:17:20] GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs, Mirzadeh et al.https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05229[00:21:25] Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis, Fodor & Pylyshynhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/001002779090014B[00:28:55] Brain-to-body mass ratio scaling laws, Sutskeverhttps://www.theverge.com/2024/12/13/24320811/what-ilya-sutskever-sees-openai-model-data-training[00:29:40] On the Measure of Intelligence, Chollethttps://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547[00:33:30] On definition of intelligence, Gignac et al.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289624000266[00:35:30] Defining intelligence, Wanghttps://cis.temple.edu/~wangp/papers.html[00:37:40] How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine... for Now, Dehaenehttps://www.amazon.com/How-We-Learn-Brains-Machine/dp/0525559884[00:39:35] Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Hofstadter and Sanderhttps://www.amazon.com/Surfaces-Essences-Analogy-Fuel-Thinking/dp/0465018475[00:43:15] Chain-of-thought prompting, Wei et al.https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903[00:47:20] Test-time scaling laws in machine learning, Brownhttps://podcasts.apple.com/mv/podcast/openais-noam-brown-ilge-akkaya-and-hunter-lightman-on/id1750736528?i=1000671532058[00:47:50] Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models, Kaplan et al.https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361[00:55:15] Tensor product variable binding, Smolenskyhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000437029090007M[01:08:45] GSM-8K dataset, OpenAIhttps://huggingface.co/datasets/openai/gsm8k

This week's Eye on Travel Podcast with Peter Greenberg - from The Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Join Peter for an in-depth look at this rarified center of luxury in the wake of fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. While Beverly Hills was spared, the city quickly stepped into help those in need. Legendary Chef Wolfgang Puck, Managing Director of The Peninsula Beverly Hills Offer Nissenbaum, and Editorial Director of Fodor's Jeremy Tarr all weigh in on Beverly Hills and what travelers need to know. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week's Eye on Travel Podcast with Peter Greenberg - from The Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Join Peter for an in-depth look at this rarified center of luxury in the wake of fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. While Beverly Hills was spared, the city quickly stepped into help those in need. Legendary Chef Wolfgang Puck, Managing Director of The Peninsula Beverly Hills Offer Nissenbaum, and Editorial Director of Fodor's Jeremy Tarr all weigh in on Beverly Hills and what travelers need to know. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Laura Ruis, a PhD student at University College London and researcher at Cohere, explains her groundbreaking research into how large language models (LLMs) perform reasoning tasks, the fundamental mechanisms underlying LLM reasoning capabilities, and whether these models primarily rely on retrieval or develop procedural knowledge. SPONSOR MESSAGES: *** CentML offers competitive pricing for GenAI model deployment, with flexible options to suit a wide range of models, from small to large-scale deployments. https://centml.ai/pricing/ Tufa AI Labs is a brand new research lab in Zurich started by Benjamin Crouzier focussed on o-series style reasoning and AGI. Are you interested in working on reasoning, or getting involved in their events? Goto https://tufalabs.ai/ *** TOC 1. LLM Foundations and Learning 1.1 Scale and Learning in Language Models [00:00:00] 1.2 Procedural Knowledge vs Fact Retrieval [00:03:40] 1.3 Influence Functions and Model Analysis [00:07:40] 1.4 Role of Code in LLM Reasoning [00:11:10] 1.5 Semantic Understanding and Physical Grounding [00:19:30] 2. Reasoning Architectures and Measurement 2.1 Measuring Understanding and Reasoning in Language Models [00:23:10] 2.2 Formal vs Approximate Reasoning and Model Creativity [00:26:40] 2.3 Symbolic vs Subsymbolic Computation Debate [00:34:10] 2.4 Neural Network Architectures and Tensor Product Representations [00:40:50] 3. AI Agency and Risk Assessment 3.1 Agency and Goal-Directed Behavior in Language Models [00:45:10] 3.2 Defining and Measuring Agency in AI Systems [00:49:50] 3.3 Core Knowledge Systems and Agency Detection [00:54:40] 3.4 Language Models as Agent Models and Simulator Theory [01:03:20] 3.5 AI Safety and Societal Control Mechanisms [01:07:10] 3.6 Evolution of AI Capabilities and Emergent Risks [01:14:20] REFS: [00:01:10] Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining & LLM Reasoning Ruis et al., 2024 https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12580 [00:03:50] EK-FAC Influence Functions in Large LMs Grosse et al., 2023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03296 [00:13:05] Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Core of Cognition Hofstadter & Sander https://www.amazon.com/Surfaces-Essences-Analogy-Fuel-Thinking/dp/0465018475 [00:13:45] Wittgenstein on Language Games https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/ [00:14:30] Montague Semantics for Natural Language https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montague-semantics/ [00:19:35] The Chinese Room Argument David Cole https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/ [00:19:55] ARC: Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus François Chollet https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547 [00:24:20] Systematic Generalization in Neural Nets Lake & Baroni, 2023 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06668-3 [00:27:40] Open-Endedness & Creativity in AI Tim Rocktäschel https://arxiv.org/html/2406.04268v1 [00:30:50] Fodor & Pylyshyn on Connectionism https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0010027788900315 [00:31:30] Tensor Product Representations Smolensky, 1990 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000437029090007M [00:35:50] DreamCoder: Wake-Sleep Program Synthesis Kevin Ellis et al. https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse599j1/22sp/papers/dreamcoder.pdf [00:36:30] Compositional Generalization Benchmarks Ruis, Lake et al., 2022 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.10745 [00:40:30] RNNs & Tensor Products McCoy et al., 2018 https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08718 [00:46:10] Formal Causal Definition of Agency Kenton et al. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.08345v2 [00:48:40] Agency in Language Models Sumers et al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02427 [00:55:20] Heider & Simmel's Moving Shapes Experiment https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-65532-0 [01:00:40] Language Models as Agent Models Jacob Andreas, 2022 https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01681 [01:13:35] Pragmatic Understanding in LLMs Ruis et al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14986

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The history of antisemitism in Europe stretches back as far as Ancient Rome, but persecutions of Jews became widespread during the Crusades, beginning in the early 11th century when the wholesale massacre of entire communities became commonplace. From the 12th century, the justification for this state-sanctioned violence became the blood libel accusation: the idea that Jews ritually murdered Christian children and used their blood in the celebration of Passover. Nowhere in Europe was the blood libel more tenacious, credible, and long lived than in the Russian Empire, particularly during the late Imperial period, which saw large scale pogroms and harsh restrictions visited upon the empire's Jewish population. The Russian Revolution of 1917 attracted many Jews to its cause, thanks in large measure to Bolshevik condemnations of antisemitism and persecution of the Jewish minority. These numbers grew in the wake of the brutal Civil War that followed from 1918 - 1922 when the White Army revived the pogrom with particular vigor. What happened after the Bolshevik victory is the subject of Elissa Bemporad's new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (Oxford UP, 2019), which won the National Jewish Book Award (Modern Jewish Thought and Experience). Bemporad probes the underbelly of the "Soviet myth"— that the USSR had eradicated the pogroms, banished the notion of a blood libel to the scrapheap of other opiates for the people, and vanquished antisemitism as part of the regime's broad anti-religious campaign — and discovers that both pogroms and the blood libel had a robust afterlife in the USSR. As she traces changing attitudes towards Jews in the USSR, Bemporad also examines the uneasy and often ambivalent but mutually dependent, and ever-shifting relationship between the regime and the Jewish population as the Soviet century unfolds. Legacy of Blood looks at the re-emergence of overt antisemitism in the occupied territories of the USSR during World War II and the troubled return of the Jews to mainstream society after the war. The result is a meticulously researched, thought-provoking, and eminently readable book that adds much to both Jewish and Russian historical scholarship. Elissa Bemporad is an Associate Professor of History at CUNY Graduate Center and the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History, Queens College of CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013) and the forthcoming A Comprehensive History of the Jews in the Soviet Union, vol I (NYU Press). Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who writes about travel, culture, cuisine and culinary history, Russian history, and Royal History, with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, USTOA, LitHub, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life. She is the award-winning author of Lenin Lives Next Door: Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow and Have Personality Disorder, Will Rule Russia: A Pocket Guide to Russian History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The history of antisemitism in Europe stretches back as far as Ancient Rome, but persecutions of Jews became widespread during the Crusades, beginning in the early 11th century when the wholesale massacre of entire communities became commonplace. From the 12th century, the justification for this state-sanctioned violence became the blood libel accusation: the idea that Jews ritually murdered Christian children and used their blood in the celebration of Passover. Nowhere in Europe was the blood libel more tenacious, credible, and long lived than in the Russian Empire, particularly during the late Imperial period, which saw large scale pogroms and harsh restrictions visited upon the empire's Jewish population. The Russian Revolution of 1917 attracted many Jews to its cause, thanks in large measure to Bolshevik condemnations of antisemitism and persecution of the Jewish minority. These numbers grew in the wake of the brutal Civil War that followed from 1918 - 1922 when the White Army revived the pogrom with particular vigor. What happened after the Bolshevik victory is the subject of Elissa Bemporad's new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (Oxford UP, 2019), which won the National Jewish Book Award (Modern Jewish Thought and Experience). Bemporad probes the underbelly of the "Soviet myth"— that the USSR had eradicated the pogroms, banished the notion of a blood libel to the scrapheap of other opiates for the people, and vanquished antisemitism as part of the regime's broad anti-religious campaign — and discovers that both pogroms and the blood libel had a robust afterlife in the USSR. As she traces changing attitudes towards Jews in the USSR, Bemporad also examines the uneasy and often ambivalent but mutually dependent, and ever-shifting relationship between the regime and the Jewish population as the Soviet century unfolds. Legacy of Blood looks at the re-emergence of overt antisemitism in the occupied territories of the USSR during World War II and the troubled return of the Jews to mainstream society after the war. The result is a meticulously researched, thought-provoking, and eminently readable book that adds much to both Jewish and Russian historical scholarship. Elissa Bemporad is an Associate Professor of History at CUNY Graduate Center and the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History, Queens College of CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013) and the forthcoming A Comprehensive History of the Jews in the Soviet Union, vol I (NYU Press). Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who writes about travel, culture, cuisine and culinary history, Russian history, and Royal History, with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, USTOA, LitHub, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life. She is the award-winning author of Lenin Lives Next Door: Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow and Have Personality Disorder, Will Rule Russia: A Pocket Guide to Russian History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The history of antisemitism in Europe stretches back as far as Ancient Rome, but persecutions of Jews became widespread during the Crusades, beginning in the early 11th century when the wholesale massacre of entire communities became commonplace. From the 12th century, the justification for this state-sanctioned violence became the blood libel accusation: the idea that Jews ritually murdered Christian children and used their blood in the celebration of Passover. Nowhere in Europe was the blood libel more tenacious, credible, and long lived than in the Russian Empire, particularly during the late Imperial period, which saw large scale pogroms and harsh restrictions visited upon the empire's Jewish population. The Russian Revolution of 1917 attracted many Jews to its cause, thanks in large measure to Bolshevik condemnations of antisemitism and persecution of the Jewish minority. These numbers grew in the wake of the brutal Civil War that followed from 1918 - 1922 when the White Army revived the pogrom with particular vigor. What happened after the Bolshevik victory is the subject of Elissa Bemporad's new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (Oxford UP, 2019), which won the National Jewish Book Award (Modern Jewish Thought and Experience). Bemporad probes the underbelly of the "Soviet myth"— that the USSR had eradicated the pogroms, banished the notion of a blood libel to the scrapheap of other opiates for the people, and vanquished antisemitism as part of the regime's broad anti-religious campaign — and discovers that both pogroms and the blood libel had a robust afterlife in the USSR. As she traces changing attitudes towards Jews in the USSR, Bemporad also examines the uneasy and often ambivalent but mutually dependent, and ever-shifting relationship between the regime and the Jewish population as the Soviet century unfolds. Legacy of Blood looks at the re-emergence of overt antisemitism in the occupied territories of the USSR during World War II and the troubled return of the Jews to mainstream society after the war. The result is a meticulously researched, thought-provoking, and eminently readable book that adds much to both Jewish and Russian historical scholarship. Elissa Bemporad is an Associate Professor of History at CUNY Graduate Center and the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History, Queens College of CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013) and the forthcoming A Comprehensive History of the Jews in the Soviet Union, vol I (NYU Press). Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who writes about travel, culture, cuisine and culinary history, Russian history, and Royal History, with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, USTOA, LitHub, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life. She is the award-winning author of Lenin Lives Next Door: Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow and Have Personality Disorder, Will Rule Russia: A Pocket Guide to Russian History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

The history of antisemitism in Europe stretches back as far as Ancient Rome, but persecutions of Jews became widespread during the Crusades, beginning in the early 11th century when the wholesale massacre of entire communities became commonplace. From the 12th century, the justification for this state-sanctioned violence became the blood libel accusation: the idea that Jews ritually murdered Christian children and used their blood in the celebration of Passover. Nowhere in Europe was the blood libel more tenacious, credible, and long lived than in the Russian Empire, particularly during the late Imperial period, which saw large scale pogroms and harsh restrictions visited upon the empire's Jewish population. The Russian Revolution of 1917 attracted many Jews to its cause, thanks in large measure to Bolshevik condemnations of antisemitism and persecution of the Jewish minority. These numbers grew in the wake of the brutal Civil War that followed from 1918 - 1922 when the White Army revived the pogrom with particular vigor. What happened after the Bolshevik victory is the subject of Elissa Bemporad's new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (Oxford UP, 2019), which won the National Jewish Book Award (Modern Jewish Thought and Experience). Bemporad probes the underbelly of the "Soviet myth"— that the USSR had eradicated the pogroms, banished the notion of a blood libel to the scrapheap of other opiates for the people, and vanquished antisemitism as part of the regime's broad anti-religious campaign — and discovers that both pogroms and the blood libel had a robust afterlife in the USSR. As she traces changing attitudes towards Jews in the USSR, Bemporad also examines the uneasy and often ambivalent but mutually dependent, and ever-shifting relationship between the regime and the Jewish population as the Soviet century unfolds. Legacy of Blood looks at the re-emergence of overt antisemitism in the occupied territories of the USSR during World War II and the troubled return of the Jews to mainstream society after the war. The result is a meticulously researched, thought-provoking, and eminently readable book that adds much to both Jewish and Russian historical scholarship. Elissa Bemporad is an Associate Professor of History at CUNY Graduate Center and the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History, Queens College of CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013) and the forthcoming A Comprehensive History of the Jews in the Soviet Union, vol I (NYU Press). Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who writes about travel, culture, cuisine and culinary history, Russian history, and Royal History, with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, USTOA, LitHub, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life. She is the award-winning author of Lenin Lives Next Door: Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow and Have Personality Disorder, Will Rule Russia: A Pocket Guide to Russian History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies

The history of antisemitism in Europe stretches back as far as Ancient Rome, but persecutions of Jews became widespread during the Crusades, beginning in the early 11th century when the wholesale massacre of entire communities became commonplace. From the 12th century, the justification for this state-sanctioned violence became the blood libel accusation: the idea that Jews ritually murdered Christian children and used their blood in the celebration of Passover. Nowhere in Europe was the blood libel more tenacious, credible, and long lived than in the Russian Empire, particularly during the late Imperial period, which saw large scale pogroms and harsh restrictions visited upon the empire's Jewish population. The Russian Revolution of 1917 attracted many Jews to its cause, thanks in large measure to Bolshevik condemnations of antisemitism and persecution of the Jewish minority. These numbers grew in the wake of the brutal Civil War that followed from 1918 - 1922 when the White Army revived the pogrom with particular vigor. What happened after the Bolshevik victory is the subject of Elissa Bemporad's new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (Oxford UP, 2019), which won the National Jewish Book Award (Modern Jewish Thought and Experience). Bemporad probes the underbelly of the "Soviet myth"— that the USSR had eradicated the pogroms, banished the notion of a blood libel to the scrapheap of other opiates for the people, and vanquished antisemitism as part of the regime's broad anti-religious campaign — and discovers that both pogroms and the blood libel had a robust afterlife in the USSR. As she traces changing attitudes towards Jews in the USSR, Bemporad also examines the uneasy and often ambivalent but mutually dependent, and ever-shifting relationship between the regime and the Jewish population as the Soviet century unfolds. Legacy of Blood looks at the re-emergence of overt antisemitism in the occupied territories of the USSR during World War II and the troubled return of the Jews to mainstream society after the war. The result is a meticulously researched, thought-provoking, and eminently readable book that adds much to both Jewish and Russian historical scholarship. Elissa Bemporad is an Associate Professor of History at CUNY Graduate Center and the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History, Queens College of CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013) and the forthcoming A Comprehensive History of the Jews in the Soviet Union, vol I (NYU Press). Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who writes about travel, culture, cuisine and culinary history, Russian history, and Royal History, with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, USTOA, LitHub, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life. She is the award-winning author of Lenin Lives Next Door: Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow and Have Personality Disorder, Will Rule Russia: A Pocket Guide to Russian History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

The history of antisemitism in Europe stretches back as far as Ancient Rome, but persecutions of Jews became widespread during the Crusades, beginning in the early 11th century when the wholesale massacre of entire communities became commonplace. From the 12th century, the justification for this state-sanctioned violence became the blood libel accusation: the idea that Jews ritually murdered Christian children and used their blood in the celebration of Passover. Nowhere in Europe was the blood libel more tenacious, credible, and long lived than in the Russian Empire, particularly during the late Imperial period, which saw large scale pogroms and harsh restrictions visited upon the empire's Jewish population. The Russian Revolution of 1917 attracted many Jews to its cause, thanks in large measure to Bolshevik condemnations of antisemitism and persecution of the Jewish minority. These numbers grew in the wake of the brutal Civil War that followed from 1918 - 1922 when the White Army revived the pogrom with particular vigor. What happened after the Bolshevik victory is the subject of Elissa Bemporad's new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (Oxford UP, 2019), which won the National Jewish Book Award (Modern Jewish Thought and Experience). Bemporad probes the underbelly of the "Soviet myth"— that the USSR had eradicated the pogroms, banished the notion of a blood libel to the scrapheap of other opiates for the people, and vanquished antisemitism as part of the regime's broad anti-religious campaign — and discovers that both pogroms and the blood libel had a robust afterlife in the USSR. As she traces changing attitudes towards Jews in the USSR, Bemporad also examines the uneasy and often ambivalent but mutually dependent, and ever-shifting relationship between the regime and the Jewish population as the Soviet century unfolds. Legacy of Blood looks at the re-emergence of overt antisemitism in the occupied territories of the USSR during World War II and the troubled return of the Jews to mainstream society after the war. The result is a meticulously researched, thought-provoking, and eminently readable book that adds much to both Jewish and Russian historical scholarship. Elissa Bemporad is an Associate Professor of History at CUNY Graduate Center and the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History, Queens College of CUNY. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013) and the forthcoming A Comprehensive History of the Jews in the Soviet Union, vol I (NYU Press). Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who writes about travel, culture, cuisine and culinary history, Russian history, and Royal History, with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, USTOA, LitHub, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life. She is the award-winning author of Lenin Lives Next Door: Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow and Have Personality Disorder, Will Rule Russia: A Pocket Guide to Russian History. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a textDiscover the captivating world of travel journalism with our esteemed guest, Robin Catalano, whose impressive portfolio includes features in The New York Times and National Geographic. Journey with us as Robin recounts her serendipitous path into journalism, from a childhood love for writing, sparked by her high school English teacher, to her unexpected pivot from archaeology to journalism after a transformative internship. Robin unveils her diverse career adventures, from corporate communications to magazine editing and her passionate return to journalism for the love of in-depth, long-form storytelling. Her dedication to travel, conservation, and food and beverage narratives underscores her commitment to high-quality content and the pressing need to protect our natural world.In this episode, Robin takes us behind the scenes of her storytelling process for Hidden Compass. She shares the intricate, two-year journey of crafting a narrative on Salem's Merchant Trade and an adventurous fossil hunt in New Brunswick with a paleontologist. Experience the resilience and revival of historic Chinatowns in Vancouver and Victoria through her eyes as she balances personal bucket lists with storytelling opportunities. Robin, embracing the role of an "uninfluencer," challenges the glossy veneer of social media to present authentic travel experiences. Tune in for her insights on working with PR professionals and her award-winning approach to bringing strong characters and honest narratives to life.Learn more about Robin at robinwriter.com. Read her work in the New York Times, National Geographic, Travel + Leisure, TIME, Smithsonian, Conde Nast Traveler, BBC, Robb Report, AFAR, Hemispheres, US News & World Report, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Fodor's, Roadtrippers, Thrillist, AAA, ROVA, Seattle Times, Albany Times Union, and more!Connect with her on:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oncemoretotheshore/   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robincatalano/  Thank you for listening!  Please take a moment to rate, review and subscribe to the Media in Minutes podcast here or anywhere you get your podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/media-in-minutes/id1555710662  

Today on the show, we're traveling to Scandinavia because it's almost Christmas time.The holiday season is probably my favorite time to be in this region. I grew up in Estonia, a small country just south of Finland that, while not technically part of Scandinavia, has strong cultural ties with the Nordic countries. In my childhood, these Nordic ways to celebrate Christmas were common and today, I'm sharing these traditions with you from a story I did for Fodor's Travel called 12 Strange Things You Didn't Know About Nordic Christmas.Plus: as a special bonus, my very own AI clone, which I created just for this story, makes an appearance.What you'll learn in this episode:Growing up with Nordic Christmas traditionsThe pagan roots of ChristmasMeet Nordic Christmas characters: Grýla, Bjúgnakrækir, and JoulupukkiWhat Christmas feasts look like across ScandinaviaThe Finnish tradition of Christmas Sauna Featured on the show:Read my Fodor's article, 12 Strange Things You Didn't Know About Nordic ChristmasCheck out the Descript app Get more information at: Going Places website Join our Going Places newsletter to get updates on new episodes and Yulia's travel storytelling work. Subscribe at goingplacesmedia.com/newsletter!For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don't forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You'll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.

Indonesia's popular holiday island of Bali has been overrun by holidaymakers since the pandemic. This excessive tourism has now earned the island an unwanted place on the “no list” of the US travel publisher Fodor's. The Balinese are extremely angry about this. - Indonesiens beliebte Urlaubsinsel Bali wird seit der Pandemie überrannt von Urlaubern. Dieser exzessive Tourismus hat der Insel nun den unerwünschten Platz auf der „No List“ des US-Reiseverlags Fodor's eingebracht. Die Balinesen zeigen sich darüber äußerst verärgert.

San Francisco is known for a lot of things - the Golden Gate Bridge, Karl the Fog, the Giants - but it's also known as a haven for the foodie, from a square slice of pizza from Golden Boy Pizza to a mission style burrito from La Taqueria and about a million other delights in between. The food scene in the city by the bay is definitely elite, but has it always been that way? And in these post-pandemic times, has that scene changed for the better - or for the worse? We'll dive into those questions and more with Trevor Felch, food, travel, and drinks writer. You might recognize his name from food and wine reviews in the Nob Hill Gazette or from several Fodor's Guidebooks to San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area. He's also the author of ‘San Francisco Cocktails' and of ‘City Eats San Francisco' which came out earlier this year.

Blake and Karen are joined by Matt Baxter to discuss the 2023 film Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose, based on the story of Gef, the talking mongoose at the heart of the story.Visit our original coverage of Gef in episode #67Watch the film (Amazon affiliate link) A list of the clever things a mongoose might say...The Haunting of Alma Fielding - a recent book about Nandor Fodor's investigation of an alleged psychic (Affiliate Link)  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.

Mesiac po historickom turnaji vo Frankfurte bude Oktagon baviť Zimný štadión Ondreja Nepelu v Bratislave. Na 63. číslovanom galavečere česko-slovenskej MMA organizácie sa v sobotu 9. novembra od 18.00 predstavia domáce hviezdy Ivan Buchinger, Róbert Pukač, Karol Ryšavý či František Fodor. Promotér Pavol Neruda v podcaste ŠPORT.sk Staredown hovoril aj o ďalších aktuálnych témach.Čo sa dozviete v rozhovore?Ako turnaj vo Frankfurte dramaticky zmenil postavenie Oktagonu vo svete?Považuje Oktagon za svetovú dvojku po UFC?Čo vraví na obvinenia od šéfa KSW?Hazarduje Ivan Buchinger so svojím odkazom legendy a mal by skončiť?Je ešte v hre odveta Karlos Vémola – Samuel „Pirát“ Krištofič?Ako je to s očakávanou trilógiou Attila Végh – Karlos Vémola?Nebojí sa o budúcnosť bez Vémolu, Végha a ďalších veteránov?Kto z mladších bojovníkov môže byť hviezdou ich formátu?Pomáha ešte Oktagon Gáborovi Borárosovi a čo zásadné mu poradil?

Louisville native Lia Garcia is the co-founder and CEO of Practical Wanderlust, one of the most-read travel blogs in the world, as well as Let's Go Louisville, a Kentucky travel blog, and Louisville Food Tours. Through her blog and podcast, as well as her best-selling book How to Quit Your Job & Travel, she uses travel as a tool for education, connection, personal growth, and positive social impact. Lia also serves on the board of the Wander Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to transforming lives through travel and education. Lia has been featured in Forbes, Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet, The Washington Post, Vice, Fodor's, CNN, the Courier Journal, Louisville Magazine, and more. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dylanconroy/support

If a rich dose of cultural heritage tempts your travel appetite, then visiting a destination where Día de Los Muertos is celebrated might add a new dimension to your worldview. From intricate ofrendas to colorful papel picado, the holiday's traditions are both beautiful and impactful.  Today, Angie Orth welcomes Lauren Cocking and Mathew Sandoval. Cocking is a Mexico City–based freelance travel writer who has written extensively about traveling in Mexico and Day of the Dead for publications such as The Independent, Fodor's, and Culture Trip. Sandoval is an Arizona State University professor who has extensively researched Day of the Dead and its influence on pop culture and tourism. You'll hear how Día de los Muertos is celebrated in the United States and Mexico. We'll take a deep dive into the cultural and historical traditions that have influenced the holiday as well as the important role of honoring ancestors while also celebrating life. You'll discover the roots of popular traditions like sugar skulls, face painting, and pan de muerto.What You'll Learn:(2:05) The cultural origins of the holiday(5:39) Traditional elements you'll see, hear, and smell (10:51) Respecting the culture as a visitor(13:29) Where to experience Día de Los Muertos  (20:51) How Disney's Coco measures up to realityConnect with:Mathew Sandoval: https://mathewsandoval.comLauren Cocking:https://www.laurensarahcocking.comConnect with AAA:Book travel: https://aaa-text.co/travelingwithaaa LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aaa-auto-club-enterprisesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/AAAAutoClubEnterprisesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AAAAutoClubEnterprises

San Francisco is known for a lot of things - the Golden Gate Bridge, Karl the Fog, the Giants - but it's also known as a haven for the foodie. From a square slice of pizza from Golden Boy Pizza to a mission style burrito from La Taqueria and about a million other delights in between - the food scene in the city by the bay is definitely elite. But has it always been that way? And in these post-pandemic times, has that scene changed for the better or the worse? We'll dive into those questions and more with Trevor Felch - food, travel, and drinks writer. You might recognize his name from food and wine reviews in the Nob Hill Gazette or from several Fodor's Guidebooks to San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area. He's also the author of ‘San Francisco Cocktails' and of ‘City Eats San Francisco' which came out earlier this year.

Episode 58: Gentle Parenting like a Teacher with Arielle Fodor aka @mrs.frazzled In this episode, Rachael Shepard-Ohta interviews Ariel Voder, also known as Mrs. Frazzled, about her experience as a teacher and a parent. They discuss why many teachers are leaving the profession, the misconceptions about gentle parenting, and the importance of representation and social justice issues. Ariel also shares her journey with mental health challenges and how she navigates them as a mom. The conversation highlights the interconnectedness of parents and the need for support and understanding. Inside this episode: Why so many teachers are leaving the profession How teaching creates burnout and feelings of unfulfillment  What does “gentle parenting” mean, anyway? How to set boundaries with children while maintaining open communication and using natural consequences The importance of Representation and exposure to diverse experiences for children How to raise socially conscious children. The importance of prioritizing mental health and seeking support when needed as a parent How to find supportive parenting communities And so much more! Mentioned in this episode: Arielle's Instagram: @mrs.frazzled Arielle's Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mrs.frazzled?lang=en  Teacher Quit Talk Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/teacher-quit-talk/id1644396447  If you enjoyed this episode, please rate 5⭐️ and write us a review! ⬇️ ✨For sleep support and resources, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow @heysleepybaby on Instagram!

When you travel, you're experiencing a new place as a visitor. You're exploring villages, towns, and cities that others call home. Following the Golden Rule is one way to ensure you're being a respectful traveler. But there are even more ways to boost your savvy-traveler ranking so you can navigate the unfamiliar like a pro. Today, Angie Orth is back with Molly O'Brien, an experienced travel writer who knows a thing or two about traveling courteously. She's written for Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Fodor's, and Business Insider about etiquette, overtourism, and being respectful when you're on the road.You'll learn how to think like a local when you're visiting a new destination so that you're contributing to the experience of the people who live there. You'll hear trip-planning tips that open the door to destinations and accommodation options you might not have previously considered. You'll also learn the best way to navigate dietary needs and a hot tip for keeping calm if things get heated during your travel experience. What You'll Learn:(0:44) Being considerate of locals where you're traveling (1:36) Planning when and where to visit, and going off the beaten path(3:40) Choosing accommodation when you travel(5:03) Navigating dietary restrictions(8:41) The best tip for keeping your cool when you travelConnect with Molly O'Brien:Website: https://metropolitanmolly.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/metropolitanmollyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetropolitanMollyX: https://twitter.com/Molly_A_OBrienConnect with AAA:Book travel: https://aaa-text.co/travelingwithaaa https://clubadventures.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aaa-auto-club-enterprisesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/AAAAutoClubEnterprisesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AAAAutoClubEnterprises

MG - invitați Flavius Buzilă și Razvan Fodor

Travel isn't what it used to be. Flights, hotels, and experiences have become more accessible, and there are a growing number of people exploring the world, choosing to make travel a priority in their lives. As travel has become more affordable around the globe, people are packing their bags and joining that security line at the airport, which can lead to longer wait times, more crowded flights, and busier destinations.Not only does that put stress on the most sought-after places in the travel circuit, but it can make travel a stressful experience. It's time to talk about R-E-S-P-E-C-T.Today, Angie Orth welcomes Molly O'Brien, an experienced travel writer who has covered travel topics like etiquette, overtourism, and other important travel trends. Her work has been featured in Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Fodor's, and Business Insider.You'll hear what it means to be a respectful traveler, from the moment you start planning to the journey home. You'll learn about airport etiquette and best practices for flying, so you can avoid being the subject of a viral online video. You'll also understand the role of sustainability when it comes to preserving the best parts of the places we love.What You'll Learn:(3:38) A checklist of respectful tips(6:08) Navigating local tipping customs(9:50) Being a good airline traveler(17:21) Keeping your cool when travel stress is high(23:13) Being mindful of sustainability when you travelConnect with Molly O'Brien:Website: https://metropolitanmolly.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/metropolitanmollyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetropolitanMollyX: https://twitter.com/Molly_A_OBrienConnect with AAA:Book travel: https://aaa-text.co/travelingwithaaa https://clubadventures.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aaa-auto-club-enterprisesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/AAAAutoClubEnterprisesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AAAAutoClubEnterprises

Today on our show, we bring you a story by Jennifer Sizeland, who lives in Manchester, England. Her story, I found connection through a tattoo of a bee is a great example of situation and story. It's important to know the difference and we will discuss why.Jennifer Sizeland is a freelance writer and assistant producer with 14 years of experience in the media industry. She has written for many publications including the BBC, the Independent, Metro, Manchester Mill, Fodor's Travel, Gastro Obscura, Reader's Digest, and Stylist. For more Jennifer Sizeland, go to her website Jennifersizeland.com. She lives in Manchester, England and you can follow her on Instagram at @lifeofsize.If you're looking for a writing coach to help your student with college application essays, contact Allison Langer.Writing Class Radio is hosted by Allison Langer and Andrea Askowitz. Audio production by Matt Cundill, Evan Surminski, and Aiden Glassey at the Sound Off Media Company. Theme music is by Justina Shandler.There's more writing class on our website including stories we study, editing resources, video classes, writing retreats, and live online classes. Join our writing community by following us on Patreon. If you want to write with us every week, you can join our First Draft weekly writers groups. You have the option to join Allison on Tuesdays 12-1 ET and/or Mondays with Eduardo Winck 8-9 pm ET. You'll write to a prompt and share what you wrote. If you're a business owner, community activist, group that needs healing, entrepreneur, or scientist and you want to help your team write better, check out all the classes we offer on our website, writingclassradio.com.Join the community that comes together for instruction, an excuse to write, and the support from other writers. To learn more, go to www.Patreon.com/writingclassradio. Or sign up HERE for First Draft for a FREE Zoom link.A new episode will drop every other WEDNESDAY. There's no better way to understand ourselves and each other, than by writing and sharing our stories. Everyone has a story. What's yours?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of While She's Away, I chat Sojourner White about her journey from career confusion to traveling the world as a remote social worker! Sojourner shares how she switched to a remote social work role during the pandemic and the importance of always learning and being willing to fail.   Sojourner White is a remote social worker, award-winning travel journalist, and train travel queen. Hailing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin she has been a digital nomad, called Spain home as a study abroad student turned English teacher with the Fulbright Program, and spent a summer in Germany as an International Social Work graduate student intern. But now, through her platform Sojournies, she helps 9-5ers fulfill their career goals and bucket list dreams to bask in freedom and flexibility outside the office. Sojourner has been featured in Buzzfeed, PopSugar, The Matador Network, HuffPost, and Thrillist and written for Travel + Leisure, USA Today, Fodor's, Insider, Lonely Planet, Viator, and more.   We chat about juggling a 9-to-5 job with being a travel influencer, making the most of remote work, and dealing with cultural challenges abroad, especially as a black woman. Sojourner also honestly shares about her Fulbright experience in Northern Spain, the value of routines, and the peace she finds in train travel. Tune in to hear how Sojourner's curiosity has shaped her career and inspired others to go after their travel dreams!   Feeling overwhelmed by all the options for creating a digital nomad lifestyle and want the easiest path? My workshop, "Make Money While Traveling: How to Become a Freelance Podcast Manager," is for you, girly! In just 90 minutes, you'll learn everything from building your portfolio to landing your first client. Don't miss out—click here to be the first to know when the pre-sale goes live on September 2nd!   Connect with me and Sojourner on social media: Sojournies Website Sojournies Instagram Sojournies Tiktok Sojournies Youtube While She's Away Instagram While She's Away Tiktok      Travel Resources: Get 25% OFF Your TrustedHouseSitters Membership! Get $10 OFF Your Worldpackers Membership  Looking for affordable travel insurance specifically made for digital nomads? Sign up for Nomad Insurance which is the first insurance product built specifically for nomads, by nomads!     Resources to support Aseel and Palestine: Help Aseel Evacuate Gaza Donate to Provide Clean water and food to families in Gaza Contact Your Reps, Find a Protest & Take Action  

In this episode of While She's Away, I chat Sojourner White about her journey from career confusion to traveling the world as a remote social worker! Sojourner shares how she switched to a remote social work role during the pandemic and the importance of always learning and being willing to fail. Sojourner White is a remote social worker, award-winning travel journalist, and train travel queen. Hailing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin she has been a digital nomad, called Spain home as a study abroad student turned English teacher with the Fulbright Program, and spent a summer in Germany as an International Social Work graduate student intern. But now, through her platform Sojournies, she helps 9-5ers fulfill their career goals and bucket list dreams to bask in freedom and flexibility outside the office. Sojourner has been featured in Buzzfeed, PopSugar, The Matador Network, HuffPost, and Thrillist and written for Travel + Leisure, USA Today, Fodor's, Insider, Lonely Planet, Viator, and more. We chat about juggling a 9-to-5 job with being a travel influencer, making the most of remote work, and dealing with cultural challenges abroad, especially as a black woman. Sojourner also honestly shares about her Fulbright experience in Northern Spain, the value of routines, and the peace she finds in train travel. Tune in to hear how Sojourner's curiosity has shaped her career and inspired others to go after their travel dreams! Connect with me and Sojourner on social media: Sojournies Website Sojournies Instagram Sojournies Tiktok Sojournies Youtube While She's Away Instagram While She's Away Tiktok    Travel Resources: Get 25% OFF Your TrustedHouseSitters Membership! Get $10 OFF Your Worldpackers Membership  Looking for affordable travel insurance specifically made for digital nomads? Sign up for Nomad Insurance which is the first insurance product built specifically for nomads, by nomads! Resources to support Aseel and Palestine: Help Aseel Evacuate Gaza Donate to Provide Clean water and food to families in Gaza Contact Your Reps, Find a Protest & Take Action  

Let's explore the best summer road trips in the USA and Canada. Whether you're planning an epic solo adventure or a memorable family getaway, this episode is packed with incredible destinations, practical tips, and inspiring stories. Road Trip Resources USA Road Trips The book that Amanda references for her road trips is Fodor's Best Road Trips in the USA.  Here is Roadtripper's guide to the top things to do on a Blue Ridge Parkway road trip. Visit the Adirondacks in upstate New York. Enjoy this Road Trip Classics playlist on Spotify. Canada Road Trips Follow the Golden Circle Route in the Yukon and Alaska. Explore the Icefields Parkway in Alberta. Check out where to go in Prince Edward Island on the North Cape Coastal Drive, the Central Coastal Drive, and the Points East Coastal Drive. Connect with Amanda Is there a topic you'd like us to discuss? Email Amanda at amanda@meandthemagic.com.   Are you on Instagram? Follow Me and the Magic to see the latest posts, stories, and IGTV.  Subscribe to the Me and the Magic weekly newsletter for exclusive content, including solo travel tips! Me and the Magic has voicemail! Leave a voicemail or text to 1-347-74MAGIC (1-347-746-2442). Share your thoughts about this episode, a future episode topic idea, or just say hi! Podcast Subscribe to this podcast so you will be the first to hear new episodes!  If you are enjoying the podcast, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could rate and review it on Apple Podcasts. The reviews help other people find this podcast. 

Gene and Vlasta attempt to escape Havana and stop the Cuban Missile Crisis before it results in nuclear war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kami Fodor, a representative of Mieli Without Borders, discusses her journey and the organisation's mission to make mental health support accessible to foreigners in Finland. The episode underscores the importance of mental health support in the integration process for internationals and provides practical tips for maintaining mental well-being in Finland.

Gene and Vlasta travel to Cuba to help the CIA expose the Cuban Missile Crisis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gene and Vlasta seek to rescue Gene's father while exposing the KGB's largest Cold War operation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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