Podcasts about Grand Unified Theory

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On this episode, Marc talks with Mark Doyle, author of "John Cale's Paris 1919," published in February of 2025 as part of the 33.3 series of short books on individual albums. It's a fascinating examination of John Cale's 1973 album, which Doyle approaches along the theme of "ghosts," with chapters on "The Ghosts of New York," "The Ghost of Dylan Thomas," "The Ghosts of HIstory," and "The Ghosts of Christmas."As Doyle writes, "If you are looking for some systematic explanation of the songs' mysteries, some Grand Unified Theory that will tie together all the historical, literary, and autobiographical references in the lyrics, I am afraid this is not that book. Instead, I will undertake the more delicate task of identifying, one at a time, and with the utmost care, just a few of the ghosts haunting the album, taking their measure for a few moments before they float off into the night."You can buy Mark's book here, and we hope you enjoy our conversation with him!

What if the emotions we've been taught to suppress are actually the keys to our deepest wisdom? Today, we delve into this provocative idea with Karla McLaren, M.Ed., an award-winning author and researcher whose empathic approach to emotions revalues even the most "negative" emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. Karen's acclaimed book, The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You, challenges us to embrace our full emotional spectrum. Karla is also the developer of the EmpathyAcademy.org learning site, where you can learn robust emotional skills and healthy empathy in a welcoming online community. In this conversation Karla shares how honoring our emotions can lead to profound personal transformation.Episode highlights:01:38 Karla's Grand Unified Theory of Emotions04:16 Understanding and Engaging with Anger08:10 Decoding Jealousy and Its Messages14:46 Exploring Envy: Cultural Perspectives and Social Justice21:09 Anxiety: A Valuable and Necessary Emotion26:57 Valuing the Unsheltered and Elderly28:08 The Nuclear Family and Community Care29:55 Understanding Anxiety and Panic31:27 Task-Oriented vs. Deadline-Oriented34:23 Procrastination and Creativity38:56 Empathy as a Skill45:33 The Impact of Digital Communication on Empathy49:36 Dynamic Emotional Integration Framework52:40 Upcoming Courses and ResourcesResources mentioned:Karla McLaren, M.Ed.EmpathyAcademy.orgThe Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell YouGuest's social handles:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarlaMcLarenAuthorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/karlamclaren.m.ed/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/KarlaMcLarenP.S. If you enjoy this episode and feel it helps to elevate your life, please give us a rating or review. And if you feel others may benefit from this podcast as well, spread the word, share and help grow our tribe of Superhumans. When we help heal One, we help heal All. Much gratitude and love.Yours,Ariane

It's All Light : Gloria Prema is an author, educator and therapist. Her publication of 'It's All Light - the Morphic Resonance of Light: a Unified Theory' in 2009 and recently the condensed Kindle version 'How to be spiritual - and understand quantum physics at the same time' have simplified and unified, not only the laws of physics, but have also unified these with spirituality. She has truly come up with the Grand Unified Theory. She has been a therapist for over 20 years in natural healing and, in recent years, in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). She began her formal scientific studies while raising her children, going on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree from the UK's Open University. The continuous study of science, particularly quantum theory, since 1991, and the continuous study and practice of spiritual experiences, which began occurring around the same time, eventually led to the unified theory, presented in 'It's All Light', being born. For the 17 years it took to write the book she had one foot in both camps, as it were. She is an avid student of esoteric philosophy, and believes that the split between science and spirituality is false and that by the use of simple physics, presented in layman's terms, so-called spiritual phenomena, such as healing effects, including distant healing, telepathy, near-death experiences, clairvoyance and many others can be explained She believes it is time now for these two diverse fields (science and spirituality) to come together for the betterment of all. It would not mean going back to pre-enlightenment days, which some scientists fear. We have evolved way beyond that and can now bring together the best of both fields. Both 'It's All Light' and 'How to be spiritual (and understand quantum physics at the same time) are written for the lay reader, in an easy to read format. www.ItsAllLight.co.ukBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-x-zone-radio-tv-show--1078348/support.

“The Matchmaker” (October 4, 1994) Whelp, it's our 250th episode (sort of), and we're celebrating by going back and reexamining our first-ever episode and, really, the reason this podcast exists in the first place: “The Matchmaker” from Frasier's second season, which the show used to tell viewers definitively that no, despite all appearances otherwise, Frasier Crane is not gay. We're joined again by Anthony Oliveira, who also helps us recount Frasier's entire history of seeming kinda gay, from being metaphorically born from Diane Chambers all the way until the reboot. Buy Anthony's new book, Dayspring. Read the New York Times article Drew mentions, “The Boys in the Writers' Room.” Read GEE's write-up in Emmy magazine, which is basically the same thing as actually winning an Emmy.

Shintaro recently participated in special training sessions with the Olympic Wrestling Gold Medalist Rei Higuchi as the translator, and shares this incredible experience with Peter. They dive deep into the technical side of wrestling, highlighting the unique challenges and nuances of grappling terminology across languages. Shintaro recounts how the session was not just about technique, but also about understanding the mindset and methods of a champion. The conversation covers Higuchi's systematic approach to training, the benefits of small group training pods, and how these lessons can be applied to judo, BJJ, and beyond. For fans of grappling sports, this episode provides rare insights into the mechanics of elite wrestling and the cross-disciplinary connections within grappling arts. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:00) How Shintaro Met Rei Higuchi (00:02:22) The Role of Wrestling Terminology (00:06:00) Training Session Structure (00:07:32) Cross-Pollination Between Wrestling and Judo (00:09:03) High-Level Insights from Rei Higuchi (00:13:41) What Are Training Pods? (00:26:46) The Grand Unified Theory of Grappling: Push, Pull, Angle, Kuzushi (00:34:56) How Rei Higuchi Uses The Grand Unified Theory of Grappling (00:43:28) How Can Hobbyists Use The Grand Unified Theory of Grappling?

www.StimPack.org https://www.instagram.com/stimpack_haiti/ https://www.youtube.com/@stimpack_haiti Summary Season three of the podcast is finally here after a long break. The host expresses gratitude for the patience of the listeners and their eagerness to contribute to making progress in Haiti. The podcast aims to educate and equip listeners to address the issues in Haiti, particularly child exploitation and critical poverty. The host shares stories of abandoned children and the challenges of development work in Haiti. He discusses the need for scalable solutions and the importance of influencing policy and foreign aid. The political situation in Haiti, including the power vacuum and the role of gangs, is also highlighted. The host reflects on the lack of a special envoy from the US and considers his own qualifications for the role. Jeff Frazier recounts his journey to secure the special envoy appointment for Haiti. He describes how he started calling around and gathered a small team to open doors for him. Jeff believed that if there was a dearth of qualified and willing candidates for the position, he could make a push in DC to get the appointment. He attended a gala where he had the opportunity to meet Brian Nichols, the Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere. Jeff approached Brian and asked for his support in obtaining the special envoy appointment, but they were not aligned in their views. Keywords season three, podcast, gratitude, patience, progress, Haiti, child exploitation, critical poverty, abandoned children, development work, scalable solutions, policy, foreign aid, political situation, power vacuum, gangs, special envoy, US, special envoy appointment, DC, support, gala, Brian Nichols, congressional support, Haiti caucus, politicians, leadership, constituents, State Department, Haiti policy, gangs, poverty Takeaways Season three of the podcast focuses on addressing the issues of child exploitation and critical poverty in Haiti. Development work in Haiti requires scalable solutions and a focus on influencing policy and foreign aid. The political situation in Haiti, including the power vacuum and the role of gangs, has contributed to the challenges faced by the country. The lack of a special envoy from the US has hindered progress in Haiti, and the host reflects on his own qualifications for the role. Jeff Frazier embarked on a campaign to secure the special envoy appointment for Haiti, gathering support and opening doors in DC. He attended a gala where he had the opportunity to meet Brian Nichols, the Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, but they were not aligned in their views. Jeff realized that in order to obtain the appointment, he would need congressional support and began identifying legislators who cared about Haiti. He observed the two-faced nature of politicians and the importance of constituents in influencing their actions. Jeff's pursuit of the special envoy appointment led him to become involved in Haiti policy issues and contribute in less formal ways. Through his research, Jeff and his team uncovered a grand unified theory of Haiti policy that they will explore in Season 3 of the podcast. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Season Three Kickoff 02:43 Child Exploitation and Critical Poverty in Haiti 07:02 Challenges Faced by NGOs and the Impact of Foreign Aid 13:39 The Assassination and Power Vacuum in Haiti 18:19 The Role of the International Community in Haiti 21:43 The Search for a Qualified and Willing Special Envoy 27:55 Making a Push in D.C. for the Special Envoy Appointment 32:09 A Conversation with Brian Nichols at the Gala 34:41 The Importance of Congressional Support 40:17 Observations on Two-Faced Politicians 44:23 The Power of Constituent Influence 47:33 Discovering a Grand Unified Theory of Haiti Policy 51:16 New Chapter 2

Dr. Pat Davidson joins us to discuss the fine details of exercise science and how to effectively implement these concepts into training routine. Dr. Davidson offers a masterclass in classifying exercises and using that information to optimize workouts, providing listeners with actionable strategies to improve fitness outcomes. This episode is packed with valuable information that can help you train smarter and more effectively. We cover: Dr. Pat's “7 Pillar” system for categorizing all possible exercises How exercise selection can be as precise as a physician prescribing medication, and the ways Dr. Pat's system allows us to choose the right “medicine” every single time How breathing is a microcosm of whole body movement and the ways we can use breathing to affect movement everywhere else Reducing subjectivity in evaluating movement by using objective standards How to approach working with general populations, athletic populations, and special populations   If you want to understand movement at a deeper level, this episode is for you!   You can learn more about Dr. Pat Davidson on Instagram @dr.patdavidson. And you can view the “Grand Unified Theory” paper he mentions at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26725372/  

In today's episode, Dr. Stephanie discusses the vagus nerve, immunity, nervous system and so much more with JP Errico, a highly accomplished scientist, executive, entrepreneur, and inventor. JP Errico discusses how a pivotal conversation with an esteemed functional neurosurgeon ignited a passion that has shaped his career. From treating conditions like asthma and headaches to tackling complex autoimmune diseases, his journey is a testament to the profound impact of a single inspiring dialogue. As the author of "Vagus Immune Connection," JP delves into groundbreaking insights, illustrating how stimulating the vagus nerve can yield significant health benefits without adverse effects, emphasizing the necessity of finding a balance in this stimulation.A significant portion of the conversation focuses on the autonomic nervous system and its critical role in maintaining overall health. Understanding and being attuned to this system can lead to better management of various health conditions. The connection between inflammation and the immune system is explored, highlighting the intricate interplay that can lead to chronic health issues if not properly managed. JP elaborates on several dysregulations within the body that warrant attention, shedding light on how these can affect overall well-being. fascinating segment of the discussion centers around macrophages, described by JP as the most important cells in our bodies, functioning as both the construction crew and designers during fetal development. The concept of "inflammaging," or the chronic inflammation that accelerates aging from the inside out, is examined, offering listeners a deeper understanding of its implications.  JP also addresses the unique connection between women's health and the autonomic nervous system, providing valuable insights into how these systems interact. Finally, the conversation touches on the power of social interaction and its declining presence in modern society. JP underscores the importance of maintaining social connections for overall health and well-being, reminding us of the innate human need for community and interaction. This episode is packed with valuable information and insights, making it a must-listen for anyone interested in optimizing their health through a deeper understanding of the body's complex systems.More about JP here: P is the inventor of over 250 issued US patents, and has founded and successfully sold or taken public multiple medical device and pharmaceutical companies. He is the Founder of electroCore, a publicly traded company in the field of neuromodulation that has developed a pioneering non-invasive vagus nerve stimulators, gammaCore and Truvaga. In addition to his work in industry, JP and his co-host, Dr. Navaz Habib, can be heard regularly on The Health Upgrade podcast.  He is the author of The Vagus-Immune Connection that explains the critical connections across the autonomic nervous, immune, and metabolic systems in our bodies.  He is currently working on his next book covering the process of aging and the quest for life-extending therapies in The Grand Unified Theory of Aging, expected out in 2025. Check out his website, book and podcast hereFollow Dr. Stephanie on Instagram here.Follow Dr. Stephanie's Functional Medicine Clinic - Vagus Clinic here.Watch Vagus Clinic on YoutubeFor more resources and how to work with Vagus Clinic - check out the website here.Let us know your thoughts on this episode here

Is it just too hot?  Then come along for this talk about Frostbite by Nicola Twilley on the history & future of refrigeration. You can read up on some outtakes and extra stuff at the blog: https://www.ediblegeography.com/And order your own copy of the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551601/frostbite-by-nicola-twilley/Of course, if you have your favorite local bookshop - buy one there. If you'd like more Nicola Twilley, you can see her on her book tour - details here: https://www.nicolatwilley.com/events/or catch more interviews with her here: https://www.nicolatwilley.com/frostbite/Some come along, and listen to thoughts on ThermoKing, and learn about my emerging Grand Unified Theory of American Food.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood& some other socials... @THoAFood

Episode #35 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Dr. Santona Tuli started her career as a physics researcher at CERN where she analyzed what happens when you slam large ions into one another. Working with the vast amounts of data generated by those experiments inspired her to want to work in the data analysis space, so she became a Staff Data Scientist at Astronomer (a commercially managed Apache AirFlow vendor) and now she is the Head of Data at Upsolver where she helps build solutions for processing large amounts of streaming data in real time. Dr. Tuli was also featured in the IMAX documentary "Secrets of the Universe" In this episode we discuss her time as a research scientist and how they use similar ways of tracking research goals that corporations do, like milestones and OKRs. She tells us about her experience with using custom built scientific software versus existing open source solutions like MongoDB and Apache AirFlow. Then we talk about her Grand Unified Theory of Batch and Streaming Data Processing, and how Upsolver is helping customers do both of those in one platform. Finally we discuss a bit about her experience being featured in the IMAX documentary "Secrets of the Universe". Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Links mentioned in the episode: Dr. Tuli's character profile in "Secrets of the Universe": https://secretsoftheuniversefilm.com/character-profile-dr-santona-tuli/

In this episode of ScreenTone Club Elliot and Andy talk about a whole heap of things that would sound daft out of context - human-chimp hybrids, Evil Obama, Maid Leg Jets, and the spreading influence of 2B's derriere!Series Discussed: Heart Gear Vol. 1, The Darwin Incident Vol. 1Assignments for next Episode: Showa: A History of Japan Vol. 1 (1926 - 1939), Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Vol. 1+2 (Omnibus)TIMECODES:0:02:00 - Elliot's Pick: Heart Gear0:05:00 - “Out Pops a Killy!”0:08:15 - 2B or not 2B? 0:19:00 - Quest: Do The Shopping0:22:00 - PS2 B-Game 0:27:45 - Andy's Pick: The Darwin Incident0:31:00 - This is the comic in question, a perrenial banger by Matt Bors 0:34:15 - “What are you doing here???”0:37:30 - “Naoki Urasawa Nose Poison” 0:40:30 - “Evil Obama” 0:41:30 - BRAIN POISONED BY NINE ELEVEN0:47:00 - Grand Unified Theory of “What is up with this Series?”0:53:00 - “Turbo-America”1:00:00 - Elliot talking himself into something questionable once again1:07:45 - “Charlie Don't Care!”1:11:30 - Would YOU eat the super-cow-pig-hippo?1:12:45 - Our Picks for Next Episode! 1:14:15 - Closedown If you enjoy this episode, please consider backing us on Patreon - from only US$3 a month you get bonus episodes and other perks as well, including the ability to vote on topics for us to cover!We have a Discord! Join us!We are affiliates on BookWalker - using this link when shopping there will give us a small kickback, helping cover the cost of manga for the podcast!The intro music is Track 8 on Resting State by HOME, used here under the CC-BY 3.0 license.

Ogi Ogas is a Mathematical Neuroscientist and Author. He attained his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Boston University. He was a United States Department of Homeland Security Fellow during his graduate studies, and is the director of the Dark Horse Project in the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His the author of several books including “A Billion Wicked Thoughts” (2011), “This is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You” (2022), “Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos” (2022), and "Consciousness: How It's Made: A Super-Simple Explanation for Everyone" (2024), among several others. His work focuses on a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, the Self, and civilization emerged incrementally out of chaos. A Grand Unified Theory of Consciousness. TIMESTAMPS: (0:00 - Introduction (0:43) - "The Hard Problem"10:50 - Subjectivity vs Objectivity (17:00) - IIT & Panpsychism (21:13) - Stephen Grossberg's Adaptive Resonance Theory (28:55) - Ogi's take on Autism (50:55) - Different States of Consciousness (1:08:05) - UAPs/UFOs (1:13:43) - Intex (1:28:40) - Steve Grossberg's Incredible Work (1:36:35) - Final thoughts on Reality & the Universe (1:42:20) - What's on Ogi's mind right now?1:48:40 - Conclusion EPISODE LINKS: - Ogi's Round 1: https://youtu.be/TmNqg1vssoo - Ogi's Website: https://www.ogiogas.com/ - Ogi's Books: https://tinyurl.com/5csz8y2m - Journey of the Mind: https://thejourneyofthemind.com/ CONNECT: - Website: https://tevinnaidu.com/ - Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drtevinnaidu - Twitter: https://twitter.com/drtevinnaidu/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drtevinnaidu - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtevinnaidu/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtevinnaidu/ ============================= Disclaimer: The information provided on this channel is for educational purposes only. The content is shared in the spirit of open discourse and does not constitute, nor does it substitute, professional or medical advice. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred from you acting or not acting as a result of listening/watching any of our contents. You acknowledge that you use the information provided at your own risk. Listeners/viewers are advised to conduct their own research and consult with their own experts in the respective fields.

What is a "theory of everyone"? Do the social sciences currently have enough firm knowledge to synthesize such a theory? Have we been getting smarter as a species over the last few hundred years? Were great historical thinkers smarter than today's greatest minds? Why are governments so prone to corruption? What is the COMPASS framework? What is the "no hyphen" immigration model? What is the "umbrella" immigration model? How can governments change how they think and talk about immigration so that racism is less likely to find its way into immigration policy?Michael Muthukrishna is an award-winning professor of economic psychology and affiliate in developmental economics and data science at the London School of Economics. His research has been featured in CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Economist, Scientific American, Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and many other news outlets. He is the author of A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going. Learn more about him at his website, follow him on Twitter at @mmuthukrishna; or read his writings on his Substack. Staff Spencer Greenberg — Host / Director Josh Castle — Producer Ryan Kessler — Audio Engineer Uri Bram — Factotum WeAmplify — Transcriptionists Miles Kestran — Marketing Music Lee Rosevere Josh Woodward Broke for Free zapsplat.com wowamusic Quiet Music for Tiny Robots Affiliates Clearer Thinking GuidedTrack Mind Ease Positly UpLift [Read more]

Welcome to episode 23 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where it's time for the end of the Ruins of Ambrai. We take one last pass at a Grand Unified Theory of Collan, discuss the nature of taking artistic risks, and accidentally stare mortality in the face.Bree's weird nighttime audio: https://www.tiktok.com/@mostlybree/video/6980534846661594374 https://www.tiktok.com/@mostlybree/video/7254372035407793454 Melanie Rawn book reccshttps://www.bookseriesinorder.com/melanie-rawn/ Pre-order Queen of Dreams by Kit Rocha https://a.co/d/60e4Vqm Wheel Takes live-reaction to Percy Jackson and the Olympians https://youtu.be/bTqzuT-uR0Y?si=v9MY1HADN4RQ5G8Q A t-shirt is available! https://www.zazzle.com/the_roast_of_gorynel_desse_t_shirt-256326532836089172Once you're caught up, come hang with us on our Discord server and tell us all of your thoughts! Discord: https://discord.gg/fdcaA75UkMCheck out other FARM podcastsWheel of Time Spoilers: https://www.spreaker.com/show/wot-spoilers-podcast That B*tch Is Always Late: https://www.spreaker.com/show/tbial Black Girl From Eugene: https://www.spreaker.com/show/black-girl-from-eugene Check out Ali's other podcastWheel Takes: https://www.spreaker.com/show/wheel-takes Transcripts by AnnaArt by BreeProduced by Aradia | Fox And Raven Media== Follow Us ==Twitter: https://twitter.com/hotnuancepodWebsite: https://www.hotnuancebookclub.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheHotNuanceBookClub

William_Hartston is a polymath and author. From winning the British Chess Championship to writing opera reviews, his curiosity knows no bounds. In this interview, Etan Ilfeld and him discuss the history of comedy and what makes us laugh white reviewing his latest book, Knock Knock! In Pursuit of a Grand Unified Theory of Humour. Here's a recent review of Hartston's book.

It's All Light : Gloria Prema is an author, educator and therapist. Her publication of 'It's All Light - the Morphic Resonance of Light: a Unified Theory' in 2009 and recently the condensed Kindle version 'How to be spiritual - and understand quantum physics at the same time' have simplified and unified, not only the laws of physics, but have also unified these with spirituality. She has truly come up with the Grand Unified Theory. She has been a therapist for over 20 years in natural healing and, in recent years, in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). She began her formal scientific studies while raising her children, going on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree from the UK's Open University. The continuous study of science, particularly quantum theory, since 1991, and the continuous study and practice of spiritual experiences, which began occurring around the same time, eventually led to the unified theory, presented in 'It's All Light', being born. For the 17 years it took to write the book she had one foot in both camps, as it were. She is an avid student of esoteric philosophy, and believes that the split between science and spirituality is false and that by the use of simple physics, presented in layman's terms, so-called spiritual phenomena, such as healing effects, including distant healing, telepathy, near-death experiences, clairvoyance and many others can be explained She believes it is time now for these two diverse fields (science and spirituality) to come together for the betterment of all. It would not mean going back to pre-enlightenment days, which some scientists fear. We have evolved way beyond that and can now bring together the best of both fields. Both 'It's All Light' and 'How to be spiritual (and understand quantum physics at the same time) are written for the lay reader, in an easy to read format. www.ItsAllLight.co.uk

Ready for an intellectual journey into the heart of physics and consciousness? In this captivating episode, we dive deep into the hunt for a Grand Unified Theory that could reshape our understanding of the universe. Discover the mysteries behind fundamental constants and their elusive origins. Explore how this conversation weaves together science, consciousness, and even ancient symbolism, offering a unique perspective on the quantum world. Prepare to have your mind expanded and join us for an enlightening exploration of the interconnected cosmos. Don't miss this thought-provoking episode that may forever change the way you see the world. Sign up with your email address to receive access to the entire conversations as soon as they release! To register, go to http://quantummindstv.com/. Nassim Haramein Bio: Nassim Haramein has spent more than 30 years researching and discovering connections in physics, mathematics, geometry, cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology and chemistry as well as anthropology and archeology. These studies led Haramein to groundbreaking theories, published papers and patented inventions in unified physics, which are now gaining worldwide recognition and acceptance. To learn more head to his website - https://www.resonancescience.org/ Dr. Theresa Bullard-Whyke Bio: Dr. Theresa Bullard is a Ph.D. physicist, author, speaker, international teacher with the Modern Mystery School, change agent, and the world-renowned host of Mystery Teachings on Gaia TV. Throughout her life-long journey, she has discovered innovative ways to weave together her education as a Ph.D. Physicist, with her life-long pursuit of understanding spirituality. Dr. Theresa uses modern day quantum physics with powerful, time-tested techniques to harness consciousness, bringing a truly fresh, mind-expanding, and powerfully altering approach. Learn More: https://www.TheresaBullard.com

Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Shikma— Does it matter that the first-among-equals leader of Israel's biggest-ever protest movement is a woman (and a renowned particle physicist and a mother of five)? —Gal, or, Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Gal Gadot— Why is Gal Gadot, among Israelis, the most beloved Israeli since maybe Moshe Dayan? It needs to be explained, once and for all. —Thoughts on Disrupting Politicians' Vacations— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Protesters disrupt politicians' vacations, scaring their kids and vowing there'll be no R&R for the people behind the judicial reform. Is that cricket? All that and a slam poetry tribute to all things parve, and some great new music by Oren Lotenberg!

Ogi Ogas is a Mathematical Neuroscientist and Author. He attained his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Boston University. He was a United States Department of Homeland Security Fellow during his graduate studies, and is the director of the Dark Horse Project in the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His the author of several books including "A Billion Wicked Thoughts" (2011), "This is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You" (2022), "Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos" (2022) among several others. His work focuses on a unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, the Self, and civilization emerged incrementally out of chaos. A Grand Unified Theory of Consciousness. EPISODE LINKS: - Ogi's Website: https://www.ogiogas.com/ - Ogi's Books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Ogi-Ogas/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AOgi+Ogas - Journey of the Mind: https://thejourneyofthemind.com/ CONNECT: - Website: https://tevinnaidu.com - Instagram: https://instagram.com/drtevinnaidu - Facebook: https://facebook.com/drtevinnaidu - Twitter: https://twitter.com/drtevinnaidu - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/drtevinnaidu TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Introduction 0:38 - The Dynamic Mind ("Mistaking Things for Activity") 4:36 - Stephen Grossberg's Mathematical Model of the Mind ("The Greatest Living Scientist") 10:58 - How to know when a Theory is on the right track (Integrations & Unifying) 14:03 - An Unexpected Twist (Communicating with Intelligent Extraterrestrials?!) 16:04 - "Cosmic Cycle"/"Ladder of Purpose" (Mathematics shared with Ogi by "Intex") 19:57 - The Attention Dilemma & Resonance Theory 24:22 - "Super Minds" 27:15 - "Hyper Minds" & "Axiomized Minds" 30:11 - There is a Cosmic Purpose: Love 33:37 - Ogi's first ET experience & how it guided him towards a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness 38:16 - Skepticism vs Curiosity 41:46 - Predictions the Dynamic/Resonance Theory can make 46:20 - The "Failsafe Supreme" & Ogi's description of his ET experiences 56:48 - Why Ogi is opening up about this now 1:00:36 - Similarities with Srinivasa Ramanujan ("The Man Who Knew Infinity") 1:03:22 - How Ogi now perceives Psychosis (Suggestible States of Consciousness) from an Autistic perspective 1:12:18 - Countries are Conscious (Why America is Conscious & Russia is not) 1:19:20 - Consciousness is not the pinnacle (evolutionary arch) 1:23:32 - Why we should fear Analog Artificial Intelligence 1:30:43 - Ogi's view on Philosophy of Mind & Different Theories of Consciousness 1:40:32 - Against Essentialism and for Holism 1:46:47 - Evolutionary Psychology is a dead-end 1:53:41 - Facilitating Hyper Minds with respect & diversity 1:57:00 - Where are these "Intex"/"Axiomized Minds"? 2:01:57 - Important takeaways: The Universe is Designed by Minds, for Love 2:14:27 - Ogi's Forthcoming Book: "Large Gods for Small Children" 2:16:38 - Conclusion

This episode Bill Hartman returns! On this episode Bill and I discuss: The refinement of Bill's teaching of his model  What concept from the model has Bill found hardest to teach others How would Bill present his model to a class of undergraduate physical therapists, if requested? The genesis of Bill's model We discuss the RECONstruct program that Bill and Chris Wicus have released together What Bill suggests to his patients when they want to return to training after a rehabilitation from an injury I ask Bill about his passion for singing  What is Bill's current training like? We discuss load management, relative motion and orientation  We discuss fear-mongering around human movement  This was a great discussion with Bill and I hope you guys really enjoy it. Stay Strong, RB   Show Notes: Website - billhartmanpt.com Facebook - BillHartman Instagram - bill_hartman_pt YouTube - Bill Hartman RECONstruct application email: RECONyourself@gmail.com   Books Mentioned: The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit All Gain, No Pain   Videos Mentioned: Bill Hartman Model - Origins and Coherence - BillHartmanPT.com Q&A for The 16% Principles in Applying My Model - BillHartmanPT.com Q&A for The 16% Physics of the early Embryo   Podcasts Mentioned: The Reconsider Podcast   People and Resources mentioned: PRI Paul Corona Manuel Buitrago Marghanita Laski Laski's Revelation (Eureka!)  Joseph Chilton Pearce Chris Wicus IFAST  Mike Robertson Towards a Grand Unified Theory of sports performance Paul Glazier  Anatolij Bondarčuk Thomas Sowell Mike Boyle Tiger Woods Dan Pfaff Greg Robins ALTIS Stu McMillan Mike Roussell

Rich Mogull, SVP of Cloud Security at FireMon, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss his career in cybersecurity going back to the early days of cloud. Rich describes how he identified that cloud security would become a huge opportunity in the early days of cloud, as well as how cybersecurity parallels his other jobs in aviation and emergency medicine. Rich and Corey also delve into the history of Rich's involvement in the TidBITS newsletter, and Rich unveils some of his insights into the world of cloud security as a Gartner analyst. About RichRich is the SVP of Cloud Security at FireMon where he focuses on leading-edge cloud security research and implementation. Rich joined FireMon through the acquisition of DisruptOps, a cloud security automation platform based on his research while as CEO of Securosis. He has over 25 years of security experience and currently specializes in cloud security and DevSecOps, having starting working hands-on in cloud over 12 years ago. He is also the principle course designer of the Cloud Security Alliance training class, primary author of the latest version of the CSA Security Guidance, and actively works on developing hands-on cloud security techniques. Prior to founding Securosis and DisruptOps, Rich was a Research Vice President at Gartner on the security team. Prior to his seven years at Gartner, Rich worked as an independent consultant, web application developer, software development manager at the University of Colorado, and systems and network administrator.Rich is the Security Editor of TidBITS and a frequent contributor to industry publications. He is a frequent industry speaker at events including the RSA Security Conference, Black Hat, and DefCon, and has spoken on every continent except Antarctica (where he's happy to speak for free -- assuming travel is covered).Links Referenced: FireMon: https://www.firemon.com/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/rmogull Mastodon: [https://defcon.social/@rmogull](https://defcon.social/@rmogull) FireMon Blogs: https://www.firemon.com/blogs/ Securosis Blogs: https://securosis.com/blog TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. My guest today is Rich Mogull, SVP of Cloud Security over at FireMon now that I'm a bit too old to be super into Pokémon, so I forget which one that is. Rich, thanks for joining me. I appreciate it.Rich: Thank you. Although I think we need to be talking more Digimon than Pokémon. Not that I want to start a flame war on the internet in the first two minutes of the conversation.Corey: I don't even have the level of insight into that. But I will say one of the first areas where you came to my notice, which I'm sure you'll blame yourself for later, is that you are the security editor behind TidBITS, which is, more or less, an ongoing newsletter longer than I've been in the space, to my understanding. What is that, exactly?Rich: So, TidBITS is possibly the longest-running—one of the longest-running newsletters on the internet these days and it's focused on all things Apple. So, TidBITS started back in the very early days as kind of more of an email, I think like, 30 years ago or something close to that. And we just write a lot about Apple and I've been reading about Apple security there.Corey: That's got to be a bit of an interesting experience compared to my writing about AWS because people have opinions about AWS, particularly, you know, folks who work there, but let's be clear, there is nothing approaching the zealotry, I think I want to call it, of certain elements of the Apple ecosystem whenever there is the perception of criticism about the company that they favor. And I want to be clear here to make sure I don't get letters myself for saying this: if there's an Apple logo on a product, I will probably buy it. I have more or less surrounded myself with these things throughout the course of the last ten years. So, I say this from a place of love, but I also don't wind up with people threatening me whenever I say unkind things about AWS unless they're on the executive team.Rich: So, it's been a fascinating experience. So, I would say that I'm on the tail end of being involved with kind of the Mac journalist community. But I've been doing this for over 15 years is kind of what I first started to get involved over there. And for a time, I wrote most of the security articles for Macworld, or a big chunk of those, I obviously was writing over a TidBITS. I've been very lucky that I've never been on the end of the death threats and the vitriol in my coverage, even though it was balanced, but I've also had to work a lot—or have a lot of conversations with Apple over the years.And what will fascinate you is at what point in time, there were two companies in the world where I had an assigned handler on the PR team, and one was Apple and then the other was AWS. I will say Apple is much better at PR than [laugh] AWS, especially their keynotes, but we can talk about re:Invent later.Corey: Absolutely. I have similar handlers at a number of companies, myself, including of course, AWS. Someone has an impossible job over there. But it's been a fun and exciting world. You're dealing with the security side of things a lot more than I am, so there's that additional sensitivity that's tied to it.And I want to deviate for a second here, just because I'm curious to get your take on this given that you are not directly representing one of the companies that I tend to, more or less, spend my time needling. It seems like there's a lot of expectation on companies when people report security issues to them, that you're somehow going to dance to their tune and play their games the entire time. It's like, for a company that doesn't even have a public bug bounties process, that feels like it's a fairly impressively high bar. On some level, I could just report this via Twitter, so what's going on over there? That feels like it's very much an enterprise world expectation that probably means I'm out of step with it. But I'm curious to get your take.Rich: Out of step with which part of it? Having the bug bounty programs or the nature of—Corey: Oh, no. That's beside the point. But having to deal with the idea of oh, an independent security researcher shows up. Well, now they have to follow our policies and procedures. It's in my world if you want me to follow your policies and procedures, we need a contract in place or I need to work for you.Rich: Yeah, there is a long history about this and it is so far beyond what we likely have time to get into that goes into my history before I even got involved with dealing with any of the cloud pieces of it. But a lot about responsible disclosure, coordinated disclosure, no more free bugs, there's, like, this huge history around, kind of, how to handle these pieces. I would say that the core of it comes from, particularly in some of the earlier days, there were researchers who wanted to make their products better, often as you criticize various things, to speak on behalf of the customer. And with security, that is going to trigger emotional responses, even among vendors who are a little bit more mature. Give you an example, let's talk about Apple.When I first started covering them, they were horrific. I actually, some of the first writing I did that was public about Apple was all around security and their failures on security disclosures and their inability to work with security researchers. And they may struggle still, but they've improved dramatically with researcher programs, and—but it was iterative; it really did take a cultural change. But if you really want to know the bad stories, we have to go back to when I was writing about Oracle when I was a Gartner analyst.Corey: Oh, dear. I can only imagine how that played out. They have been very aggressive when it comes to smacking down what they perceive to be negative coverage of anything that they decide they like.Rich: Yeah, you know, if I would look at how culturally some of these companies deal with these things when I was first writing about some of the Oracle stuff—and remember, I was a Gartner analyst, not a vulnerability researcher—but I'm a hacker; I go to Blackhat and DEF CON. I'm friends with the people who are smarter than me at that or have become friends with them over the years. And I wrote a Gartner research note saying, “You probably shouldn't buy any more Oracle until they fix their vulnerability management process.” That got published under the Gartner name, which that may have gotten some attention and created some headaches and borderline legal threats and shade and all those kinds of things. That's an organization that looks at security as a PR problem. Even though they say they're more secure, they look at security as a PR problem. There are people in there who are good at security, but that's different. Apple used to be like that but has switched. And then Amazon is… learning.Corey: There is a lot of challenge around basically every aspect of communication because again, to me, a big company is one that has 200 people. I think that as soon as you wind up getting into the trillion-dollar company scale, everything you say gets you in trouble with someone, somehow, somewhere, so the easiest thing to do is to say nothing. The counterpoint is that on some point of scale, you hit a level where you need a fair bit of scrutiny; it's deserved at this point because you are systemically important, and them's the breaks.Rich: Yeah, and they have improved. A lot of the some of the larger companies have definitely improved. Microsoft learned a bunch of those lessons early on. [unintelligible 00:07:33] the product in Azure, maybe we'll get there at some point. But you have to—I look at it both sides a little bit.On the vendor side, there are researchers who are unreasonable because now that I'm on the vendor side for the first time in my career, if something gets reported, like, it can really screw up plans and timing and you got to move developer resources. So, you have outside influences controlling you, so I get that piece of it. But the reality is if some researcher discovered it, some China, Russia, random criminals are going to discover it. So, you need to deal with those issues. So, it's a bit of control. You lose control of your messaging and everything; if marketing gets their hands in this, then it becomes ugly.On the other hand, you have to, as a vendor, always realize that these are people frequently trying to make your products better. Some may be out just to extort you a little bit, whatever. That's life. Get used to it. And in the end, it's about putting the customers first, not necessarily putting your ego first and your marketing first.Corey: Changing gears slightly because believe it or not, neither you nor I have our primary day jobs focused on, you know, journalism or analyst work or anything like that these days, we focus on these—basically cloud, for lack of a better term—through slightly different lenses. I look at it through cost—which is of course architecture—and you look at it through the lens of security. And I will point out that only one of us gets called at three in the morning when things get horrible because of the bill is a strictly business-hours problem. Don't think that's an accident as far as what I decided to focus on. What do you do these days?Rich: You mean, what do I do in my day-to-day job?Corey: Well, it feels like a fair question to ask. Like, what do you do as far as day job, personal life et cetera. Who is Rich Mogull? You've been a name on the internet for a long time; I figured we'd add some color and context to it.Rich: Well, let's see. I just got back from a flying lesson. I'm honing in on my getting ready for my first solo. My side gig is as a disaster response paramedic. I dressed up as a stormtrooper for the 501st Legion. I've got a few kids and then I have a job. I technically have two jobs. So—Corey: I'm envious of some of those things. I was looking into getting into flying but that path's not open to me, given that I have ADHD. And there are ways around it in different ways. It's like no, no, you don't understand. With my given expression of it, I am exactly the kind of person that should not be flying a plane, let's be very clear here. This is not a regulatory thing so much as it is a, “I'm choosing life.”Rich: Yeah. It's a really fascinating thing because it's this combination of a physical and a mental challenge. And I'm still very early in the process. But you know, I cracked 50, it had always been a life goal to do this, and I said, “You know what? I'm going to go do it.”So, first thing, I get my medical to make sure I can actually pass that because I'm over 50, and then from there, I can kind of jump into lessons. Protip though: don't start taking lessons right as summer is kicking in in Phoenix, Arizona, with winds and heat that messes up your density altitude, and all sorts of fun things like that because it's making it a little more challenging. But I'm glad I'm doing it.Corey: I have to imagine. That's got to be an interesting skill set that probably doesn't have a huge amount of overlap with the ins and outs of the cloud business. But maybe I'm wrong.Rich: Oh God, Corey. The correlations between information security—my specialty, and cloud security as a subset of that—aviation, and emergency medicine are incredible. These are three areas with very similar skill sets required in terms of thought processes. And in the case of both the paramedic and aviation, there's physical skills and mental skills at the same time. But how you look at incidents, how you process things algorithmically, how you—your response times, checklists, the correlations.And I've been talking about two of those three things for years. I did a talk a couple years ago, during Covid, my Blackhat talk on the “Paramedics Guide to Surviving Cybersecurity,” where I talked a lot about these kinds of pieces. And now aviation is becoming another part of that. Amazing parallels between all three. Very similar mindsets are required.Corey: When you take a look at the overall sweep of the industry, you've been involved in cloud for a fairly long time. I have, too, but I start off as a cynic. I started originally when I got into the space, 2006, 2007, thinking virtualization was a flash in the pan because of the security potential impact of this. Then cloud was really starting to be a thing and pfff, that's not likely to take off. I mean, who's going to trust someone else to run all of their computing stuff?And at this point, I've learned to stop trying to predict the future because I generally get it 180 degrees wrong, which you know, I can own that. But I'm curious what you saw back when you got into this that made you decide, yeah, cloud has legs. What was that?Rich: I was giving a presentation with this guy, Chris Hoff, a good friend of mine. And Chris and I joined together are individual kind of research threads and were talking about, kind of, “Disruptive Innovation and the Future of Security.” I think that was the title. And we get that at RSA, we gave that at SOURCE Boston, start kind of doing a few sessions on this, and we talked about grid computing.And we were looking at, kind of, the economics of where things were going. And very early, we also realized that on the SaaS side, everybody was already using cloud; they just didn't necessarily know it and they called them Application Service Providers. And then the concepts of cloud in the very early days were becoming compelling. It really hit me the first time I used it.And to give you perspective, I'd spent years, you know, seven years as a Gartner analyst getting hammered with vendors all the time. You can't really test those technologies out because you can never test them in a way that an enterprise would use them. Even if I had a lab, the lab would be garbage; and we know this. I don't trust things coming out of labs because that does not reflect operational realities at enterprise scale. Coming out of Gartner, they train me to be an enterprise guy. You talk about a large company being 200? Large companies start at 3000 to 5000 employees.Corey: Does that map to cloud services the way that AWS expresses? Because EKS, you're going to manage that differently in an enterprise environment—or any other random AWS service; I'm just picking EKS as an example on this. But I can spin up a cluster and see what it's like in 15 minutes, you know, assuming the cluster gets with the program. And it's the same type of thing I would use in an enterprise, but I'm also not experiencing it in the enterprise-like way with the processes and the gating and the large team et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Do you think it's still a fair comparison at that point?Rich: Yeah, I think it absolutely is. And this is what really blew my mind. 11 or 12 years ago, when I got my first cloud account setup. I realized, oh, my God. And that was, there was no VPC, there was no IAM. It was ephemeral—and—no, we just had EBS was relatively new, and IAM was API only, it wasn't in the console yet.Corey: And the network latency was, we'll charitably call it non-deterministic.Rich: That was the advantage of not running anything at scale, wasn't an issue at the time. But getting the hands-on and being able to build what I could build so quickly and easily and with so little friction, that was mind-blowing. And then for me, the first time I've used security groups I'm like, “Oh, my God, I have the granularity of a host firewall with the manageability of a network firewall?” And then years later, getting much deeper into how AWS networking and all the other pieces were—Corey: And doesn't let it hit the host, which I always thought a firewall that lets—Rich: Yes.Corey: —traffic touch the host is like a seatbelt that lets your face touch the dashboard.Rich: Yeah. The first thing they do, they go in, they're going to change the rules. But you can't do that. It's those layers of defense. And then I'm finding companies in the early days who wanted to put virtual appliances in front of everything. And still do. I had calls last week about that.But those are the things that really changed my mind because all of a sudden, this was what the key was, that I didn't fully realize—and it's kind of something that's evolved into something I call the ‘Grand Unified Theory of Cloud Governance,' these days—but what I realized was those barriers are gone. And there is no way to stop this as people want to build and test and deploy applications because the benefits are going to be too strong. So, grab onto the reins, hold on to the back of the horse, you're going to get dragged away, and it's your choice if your arm gets ripped off in the process or if you're going to be able to ride that thing and at least steer it in the general direction that you need it to go in.Corey: One of the things that really struck me when I started playing around with cloud for more than ten minutes was everything you say is true, but I can also get started today to test out an idea. And most of them don't work, but if something hits, suddenly I don't have the data center constraints, whereas today, I guess you'd call it, I built my experiment MVP on top of a Raspberry Pi and now I have to wait six weeks for Dell to send me something that isn't a piece of crap that I can actually take production traffic on. There's no okay, and I'll throw out the junky hardware and get the good stuff in once you start hitting a point of scale because you're already building on that stuff without the corresponding massive investment of capital to get there.Rich: Yeah well, I mean, look, I lived this, I did a startup that was based on demos at a Blackhat—sorry, at a Blackhat. Blackhat. Did some demos on stage, people were like, “We want your code.” It was about cloud security automation. That led to doing your startup, the thing called DisruptOps, which got acquired, and that's how I ended up at FireMon. So, that's the day job route where I ended up.And what was amazing for that is, to add on to what you said, first of all, the friction was low; once we get the architecture right, scalability is not something we are hugely concerned with, especially because we're CI/CD. Oh, no, we hit limits. Boom, let's just stand up a new version and redirect people over there. Problem solved. And then the ability to, say, run multiple versions of our platform simultaneously? We're doing that right now. We just had to release an entirely free version of it.To do that. It required back-end architectural changes for cost, not for scalability so much, but for a lot around cost and scheduling because our thing was event-driven, we're able to run that and run our other platform fully in parallel, all shared data structures, shared messaging structures. I can't even imagine how hard that would have not been to do in a traditional data center. So, we have a lot of freedom, still have those cost constraints because that's [laugh] your thing, but the experimentation, the ability to integrate things, it's just oh, my God, it's just exciting.Corey: And let's be clear, I, having spent a lot of time as a rat myself in these data centers, I don't regret handing a lot of that responsibility off, just because, let's not kid ourselves, they are better at replacing failed or failing hardware than I will ever be. That's part of the benefit you get from the law of large numbers.Rich: Yeah. I don't want to do all of that stuff, but we're hovering around something that is kind of—all right, so former Gartner analyst means I have a massive ego, and because of that, I like to come up with my own terms for things, so roll with me here. And it's something I'm calling the ‘Grand Unified Theory of Cloud Governance' because you cannot possibly get more egotistical than referring to something as your solution to the biggest problem in all of physics. The idea is, is that cloud, as we have just been discussing, it drops friction and it decentralizes because you don't have to go ask somebody for the network, you don't have to ask somebody for the server. So, all of a sudden, you can build a full application stack without having to call somebody for help. We've just never had that in IT before.And all of our governance structures—and this includes your own costs, as well as security—are built around scarcity. Scarcity of resources, natural choke points that evolved from the data center. Not because it was bad. It wasn't bad. We built these things because that's what we needed for that environment at the data center.Now, we've got cloud and it's this whole new alien technology and it decentralizes. That said, particularly for us on security, you can build your whole application stack, of course, we have completely unified the management interfaces in one place and then we stuck them on the internet, protected with nothing more than a username and password. And if you can put those three things together in your head, you can realize why these are such dramatic changes and so challenging for enterprises, why my kids get to go to Disney a fair bit because we're in demand as security professionals.Corey: What does FireMon do exactly? That's something that I'm not entirely up to speed on, just because please don't take this the wrong way, but I was at RSA this year, and it feels like all the companies sort of blend together as you walk between the different booths. Like, “This is what you should be terrified of today.” And it always turns into a weird sales pitch. Not that that's what you do, but it at some point just blinds me and overloads me as far as dealing with any of the cloud security space.Rich: Oh, I've been going to RSA for 20 years. One of our SEs, I was briefly at our booth—I'm usually in outside meetings—and he goes, “Do you see any fun and interesting?” I go—I just looked at him like I was depressed and I'm like, “I've been to RSA for 20 years. I will never see anything interesting here again. Those days are over.” There's just too much noise and cacophony on that show floor.What do we do? So—Corey: It makes re:Invent's Expo Hall look small.Rich: Yeah. I mean, it's, it's the show over at RSA. And it wasn't always. I mean, it was—it's always been big as long as I've been there, but yeah, it's huge, everyone is there, and they're all saying exactly the same thing. This year, I think the only reason it wasn't all about AI is because they couldn't get the printers to reprint the banners fast enough. Not that anybody has any products that would do anything there. So—you look like you want to say something there.Corey: No, no. I like the approach quite a bit. It's the, everything was about AI this year. It was a hard pivot from trying to sell me a firewall, which it seems like everyone was doing in the previous year. It's kind of wild. I keep saying that there's about a dozen companies that exhibit at RSA. A guess, there are hundreds and hundreds of booths, but it all distills down to the same 12 things. They have different logos and different marketing stories, but it does seem like a lot of stuff is very much just like the booth next to it on both sides.Rich: Yeah. I mean, that's—it's just the nature. And part of—there's a lot of reasons for this. We used to, when I was—so prior to doing the startup thing and then ending up at FireMon, I did Securosis, which was an analyst firm, and we used to do the Securosis guide to RSA every year where we would try and pick the big themes. And the reality is, there's a reason for that.I wrote something once the vendors lied to you because you want them to. It's the most dysfunctional relationship because as customers, you're always asking, “Well, what are you doing for [unintelligible 00:22:16]? What are you doing for zero trust? What are you doing for AI?” When those same customers are still just working on fundamental patch management and firewall management. But it doesn't stop them from asking the questions and the vendors have to have answers because that's just the nature of that part of the world.Corey: I will ask you, over are past 12 years—I have my own thoughts on this, but I want to hear your take on it—what's changed in the world of cloud security?Rich: Everything. I mean, I was one of the first to be doing this.Corey: Oh, is that all?Rich: Yeah. So, there's more people. When I first started, very few people doing it, nobody knew much about it outside AWS, we all knew each other. Now, we've got a community that's developed and there's people that know what they're doing. There's still a shortage of skills, absolutely still a shortage of skills, but we're getting a handle on that, you know? We're getting a bit of a pipeline.And I'd say that's still probably the biggest challenge faced. But what's improved? Well, it's a give-and-take. On one hand, we now have strategies, we have tools that are more helpful, unfortunately—I'll tell you the biggest mistake I made and it ties to the FireMon stuff in my career, in a minute; relates directly to this question, but we're kind of getting there on some of the tool pieces.On the other hand, that complexity is increasing faster. And that's what's made it hard. So, as much as we're getting more skilled people, better at tooling, for example, we kind of know—and we didn't have CloudTrail when I started. We didn't have the fundamental things you need to actually implement security at the start of cloud. Most of those are there; they may not be working the way we wish they always worked, but we've got the pieces to assemble it, depending on which platform you're on. That's probably the biggest change. Now, we need to get into the maturity phase of cloud, and that's going to be much more difficult and time-consuming to kind of get over that hump.Corey: It's easy to wind up saying, “Oh, I saw the future so clearly back then,” but I have to ask, going back 12 years, the path the world would take was far from certain. Did you have doubts?Rich: Like, I had presented with Chris Hoff. We—we're still friends—presented stuff together, and he got a job that was kind of clouding ancillary. And I remember calling him up once and going, “Chris, I don't know what to do.” I was running my little analyst firm—little. We were doing very, very well—I could not get paid to do any work around cloud.People wanted me to write shitty papers on DLP and take customer inquiries on DLP because I had covered that at the Gartner days, and data encryption and those pieces. That was hard. And fortunately, a few things started trickling in. And then it was a flood. It completely changed our business and led to me, you know, eventually going down into the vendor path. But that was a tough day when I hit that point. So, absolutely I knew it was the future. I didn't know if I was going to be able to make a living at it.Corey: It would seem that you did.Rich: Yeah. Worked out pretty well [laugh].Corey: You seem sprightly to me. Good work. You're not on death's door.Rich: No. You know, in fact, the analyst side of it exploded over the years because it turns out, there weren't people who had this experience. So, I could write code to the APIs, but they'll still talk with CEOs and boards of directors around these cloud security issues and frame them in ways that made sense to them. So, that was wonderful. We partnered up with the Cloud Security Alliance, I actually built a bunch of the CSA training, I wrote the current version of the CSA guidance, we're writing the next version of that, did a lot of research with them. They've been a wonderful partner.So, all that went well. Then I got diverted down onto the vendor path. I had this research idea and then it came out, we ended up founding that as a startup and then it got, as I mentioned, acquired by FireMon, which is interesting because FireMon, you asked what we did, it's firewall policy management is the core of the company. Yet the investors realize the company was not going in the right direction necessarily, to deal with the future of cloud. They went to their former CEO and said, “Hey, can you come back”—the founder of the company—“And take this over and start moving us in the right direction?”Well, he happened to be my co-founder at the startup. And so, we kind of came in and took over there. And so, now it's a very interesting position because we have this one cloud-native thing we built for all these years. We made one mistake with that, which I'll talk about which ties back to your predicting the future piece if you want to go into it, but then we have the network firewall piece now extending into hybrid, and we have an asset management moving into the attack surface management space as well. And both of those products have been around for, like, 15-plus years.Corey: No, I'm curious to your thoughts on it because it's been one of those weird areas where there's been so much change and so much evolution, but you also look at today's “OWASP Top 10” list of vulnerabilities, and yeah, they updated a year or so ago, but it still looks basically like things that—from 2008—would have made sense to me when I'm looking at this. Well, insomuch as they do now. I didn't know then, nor do I now what a cross-site scripting attack might be, but other than that, I find that there's, “Oh, you misconfigured something and it winds up causing a problem.” Well, no kidding. Imagine that.Rich: Yeah. Look, the fundamentals don't change, but it's still really easy to screw up.Corey: Oh, having done so a lot, I believe you.Rich: There's a couple of principles, and I'll break it into two sides. One is, a lot of security sounds simple. There's nothing simple at scale. Nothing simple scales. The moment you get up to even 200 employees, everything just becomes ridiculously harder. That's the nature of reality. Simplicity doesn't scale.The other part is even though it's always the same, it's still easy to think you're going to be different this time and you're not going to screw it up, and then you do. For example, so cloud, we were talking about the maturity. I assumed CSPM just wasn't going to be a thing. For real. The Cloud Security Posture Management. Because why would the cloud providers not just make that problem go away and then all the vulnerability assessment vendors and everybody else? It seemed like it was an uninteresting problem.And yet, we were building a cloud security automation thing and we missed the boat because we had everything we needed to be one of the very first CSPM vendors on the market and we're like, “No, no. That problem is going to go away. We'll go there.” And it ties back to what you said, which is it's the same stuff and we just outsmarted ourselves. We thought that people would go further faster. And they don't and they aren't.And that's kind of where we are today. We are dramatically maturing. At the same time, the complexity is increasing dramatically. It's just a huge challenge for skills and staffing to adjust governance programs. Like I think we've got another 10 to 20 years to go on this cloud security thing before we even get close. And then maybe we'll get down to the being bored by the problems. But probably not because AI will ruin us.Corey: I'd like to imagine, on some level, that AI could be that good. I mean, don't get me wrong. It has value and it is transformative for a bunch of things, but I also think a lot of the fear-mongering is more than a little overblown.Rich: No, I agree with you. I'm trying to keep a very close eye on it because—I can't remember if you and I talked about this when we met face-to-face, or… it was somebody at that event—AI is just not just AI. There's different. There's the LLMs, there's the different kinds of technologies that are involved. I mean, we use AI all over the place already.I mean my phone's got it built in to take better pictures. It's a matter of figuring out what the use cases and the, honestly, some of the regulatory structure around it in terms of copyright and everything else. I'm not worried about Clippy turning into Skynet, even though I might make jokes about that on Mastodon, maybe someday there will be some challenges, but no, it's just going to be another tech that we're going to figure out over time. It is disruptive, so we can't ignore that part of it.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to speak with me. If people want to learn more, where's the best place to find you that isn't one of the Disney parks?Rich: That really is kind of the best place to find—no. So, these days, I do technically still have a Twitter presence at @rmogull. I'm not on there much, but I will get DMs if people send those over. I'm more on Mastodon. It's at @rmogull defcon.social. I write over at FireMon these days, as well as occasionally still over Securosis, on those blogs. And I'm in the [Cloud Security Slack community 00:30:49] that is now under the banner for CloudSec. That's probably the best place if you want to hit me up and get quick answers on anything.Corey: And I will, of course, include links to all of that in the show notes. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today. I really appreciate it.Rich: Thanks, Corey. I was so happy to be here.Corey: Rich Mogull, SVP of Cloud Security at FireMon. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with an angry comment talking about how at Dell these days, it does not take six weeks to ship a server. And then I will get back to you in six to eight weeks.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.

Dr. Ogi Ogas is a theorist, author, and visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he serves as Project Head for the Individual Mastery Project. Ogas boasts to be in possession of the end theory of consciousness, and he makes a rock solid case for it. You be the judge. Our conversation begins with an introduction to the problems of consciousness and walks through a topological framework for the emergence of increased complexity in biological awareness, culminating in rare cases of self-consciousness, perhaps best exemplified by our own species. We then consider the future evolution of consciousness as humans reach outward for the stars. Tell us what you think! Support both the podcast and Ogi when you buy his books here: https://amzn.to/438xf88 Ogi Ogas: https://www.ogiogas.com/ Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub (00:00:00) Go! (00:04:17) An exploration of consciousness (00:10:06) Who is Ogi Ogas? (00:16:07) Two Kinds of Dynamics (00:19:25) The Theory (00:23:10) Collective Activity (00:25:01) Three Laws of Consciousness (00:36:13) Types of Consciousness (00:42:03) Four Stages of Thinking (00:55:40) The Road to Hyperminds (01:03:08) Point Minds to Superminds (01:10:19) The Birth of Civilization (01:15:45) Representation of External Concepts (01:24:44) Consciousness is not the end game (01:34:27) The Metropolis Principle (01:42:04) Tyranny of the Hypermind (01:54:14) A question bigger than why (01:57:46) Death is the end of Dynamics (02:03:04) Extraterriestrials (02:13:47) A Mind for Time (02:20:04) Tragedy of the Schism #consciousness #science #mind Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

On this episode Matt sits down with Martin Ball. Martin W. Ball, Ph.D., is a writer, independent publisher, nondual guide and consultant, visionary artist, and musician currently living in Ashland Oregon. In the spring of 2009 Martin underwent a profound energetic opening and transformation - the product of intensive work with entheogenic medicines and a year of profound self-exploration. The result is Martin's articulation of what he calls the "Entheological Paradigm," a Grand Unified Theory of all of reality from God to the direct experience of each human being, which he characterizes as an articulation of his view on “radical nonduality.” His approach is unique in that he sees the tension between duality and nonduality not as a spiritual or religious issue, but as an energetic issue that can best be addressed through the intentional use of powerful entheogens, such as 5-MeO-DMT. As such, his approach is thoroughly practical, straight-forward, and free of metaphysics, speculation, and attachment to spiritual or religious ideologies and mythologies. The result is a view of the nature of reality and the self that is challenging, liberating, and powerfully transformative, pointing to the true nature of being and personal responsibility as an energetic being. During the podcast Matt and Martin discuss coming to the psychedelic path, Martin's life-changing experience with 5-MeO-DMT, God Consciousness, 5-MeO's purpose in nature, whether or not 5-MeO can be made inside the body (endogenously), ancient cultures using 5-MeO + much more. Thank you for listening. Find Martin: www.instagram.com/martinwball   Sponsored by Feel Free: https://botanictonics.com/   Use code 'Xian40' at checkout to save $40   --- Sponsored by SHEATH: https://sheathunderwear.com   Use code 'TIMEWHEEL' at checkout to save 20%.

We conclude our look at inspirational songs with "I Know Where I've Been" from Hairspray, the 2002 Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman musical based on the John Waters film of the same name. It's been a few years since we talked about the show's propulsive and endlessly optimistic closing number, so how does this song -- coming just before the final sequence and featuring a darker, if still optimistic tone -- sit within the show? And what's Erik's Grand Unified Theory of songs of inspiration?  All clips are from the 2002 Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hairspray featuring Mary Bond Davis and are used in accordance with the Fair Use Exemption for criticism and commentary. Buy/stream the album on Amazon! Listen to the SMSTS playlist on Spotify. Follow the show on Twitter: @somuchstuffpod Follow SMSTS on Instagram: @somuchstufftosing Email the show: somuchstufftosing@gmail.com

This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast features an interview with prolific author and renowned scientist and thinker Howard Bloom, who was also a music publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for performers such as Prince, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, and Styx (to name a just few). He has published a book on Islam, The Muhammad Code, an autobiography, How I Accidentally Started The Sixties — which is the focus of this episode — and three books on human evolution and group behavior: The Genius of the Beast, Global Brain, and The Lucifer Principle. Howard has been called the Einstein, Newton, and Freud of the 21st century (by Britain's Channel 4 TV). One of his seven books — Global Brain — was the subject of a symposium thrown by the Office of the Secretary of Defense which included representatives from the State Department, the Energy Department, IBM, and MIT. His work has been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Psychology Today, and Scientific American. He has been in Science since the age of ten, starting in microbiology and theoretical physics. Currently, he is working on a project entitled “The Grand Unified Theory of Everything in the Universe Including the Human Soul,” and he can be heard at 1:06 am EST every Wednesday night on 545 radio stations on Coast to Coast AM. Even amid his enormous contributions to Science, Howard found the time to birth the largest PR firm in the music industry which led him to work with the aforementioned artists as well as with Paul Simon, Bette Midler, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Kiss, Queen, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, and Run DMC. In that role he helped found Farm Aid and Amnesty International. More recently he's collaborated with Buzz Aldrin and the 11th president of India, Dr. APJ Kalam, on harvesting solar power in space and transmitting it to earth, a path to net zero and the Green New Deal (For more, see http://howardbloom.institute or howardbloom.net.) In a career and life spanning interview, host Michael Shields and Howard Bloom dig deep into Howard's roots, inspirations, and adventures that helped forge one of the most fascinating and innovative minds of the modern era. They discuss the teachings of poets and scientists that have forever shaped Howard's worldview and the dynamic way in which he lives his life. They explore the idea of “ecstatic” emotions, having an interdisciplinary approach to both work and life, the benefits of being a perpetual outsider, his current work with the Howard Bloom Institute, a project entitled “The Glorified Theory of Everything in the Universe Including the Human Soul,” and so much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After cancelling due to illness, Tom & Cecil return to talk about their book The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit. What prompted two podcasters to write about such a complex topic? Find out what our hilarious friends had to say about ithttps://www.dissonancepod.com

We're diving into the depths of pseudoarchaeology this week with Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). Ross is away but we're joined by Fredrik Trusohamn, host of Digging Up Ancient Aliens, who helps us navigate the history of the mythological city. Fredrik came prepared with sources, so if you haven't had enough of Atlantis by the end of the episode, check the links below for further reading! Listen to Fredrik's podcast, Digging Up Ancient Aliens: https://diggingupancientaliens.com/ Check out his website: https://www.ancientapocalypse.net/ Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Edgar Cayce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce Pseudoarchaeology and Racism: https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens/ Hyperdiffusionism: https://www.andytheargumentativearchaeologist.com/hyperdiffusionism.html Stefan Milo on Ancient Apocalypse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=341Lv8JLLV4 The Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI Banana: the atheist's worst nightmare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A Annelise Baer on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@annelisethearchaeologist The Coelacanth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jl_txxYQEA Fredrik's Sources: Blavatsky, H. (1888). The secret doctrine: the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy: https://universaltheosophy.com/hpb/secretdoctrine.html Card, J. (2019a). America Before as a Paranormal Charter: http://onlinedigeditions.com/article/America+Before+as+a+Paranormal+Charter/3531896/634462/article.html Card, J. (2019b). Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past: https://www.unmpress.com/9780826359148/spooky-archaeology/ Card, J. and Anderson, D.S. eds., (2016). Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/46406 Cicirello, C. and Curry, T. (2022). The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit: https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Unified-Theory-Bullshit/dp/B09TDW7RSR de Camp, L.S. (1975). Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature: https://store.doverpublications.com/0486147924.html Donnelly, I. (1882) Atlantis: The Antediluvian World: https://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/ Donnelly, I. (1887) Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel: https://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/rag/index.htm Feder, K.L. (2010). Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology from Atlantis to the Walam Olum: https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofdu0000fede Feder, K.L. (2020). Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/frauds-myths-and-mysteries-9780190096410 Jordan, P. (2001). The Atlantis Syndrome: https://archive.org/details/atlantissyndrome00jord/page/n1/mode/2up López de Gómara, F. (1922). Historia general de las indias: https://archive.org/details/historigeneralde02lprich/page/248/mode/2up Roding, C.B. ed., (2019). Editor's Corner: The SAA Archaeological Record: http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=634462 Sarmiento de Gamboa, P. (1907). History of the Incas: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20218/pg20218.html Staudenmaier, P. (2010) Between Occultism and Fascism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race and Nation in Germany and Italy, 1900-1945: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/17662/Staudenmaier%2C%20Peter.pdf Steiner, R. (2021). Cosmic Memory (1959): https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA011/English/RSPI1959/GA011_index.html Stevenson, D.C. ed., (2009a). Critias by Plato: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/critias.html Stevenson, D.C. ed., (2009b). Timaeus by Plato: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html

We're diving into the depths of pseudoarchaeology this week with Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). Ross is away but we're joined by Fredrik Trusohamn, host of Digging Up Ancient Aliens, who helps us navigate the history of the mythological city. Fredrik came prepared with sources, so if you haven't had enough of Atlantis by the end of the episode, check the links below for further reading!Listen to Fredrik's podcast, Digging Up Ancient Aliens: https://diggingupancientaliens.com/Check out his website: https://www.ancientapocalypse.net/Get in touch with us!Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: screensofthestoneage@gmail.com In this episode: Edgar Cayce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce Pseudoarchaeology and Racism: https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens/ Hyperdiffusionism: https://www.andytheargumentativearchaeologist.com/hyperdiffusionism.htmlStefan Milo on Ancient Apocalypse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=341Lv8JLLV4 The Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI Banana: the atheist's worst nightmare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2AAnnelise Baer on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@annelisethearchaeologistThe Coelacanth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jl_txxYQEA Fredrik's Sources:Blavatsky, H. (1888). The secret doctrine: the synthesis of science, religion, and philosophy: https://universaltheosophy.com/hpb/secretdoctrine.html Card, J. (2019a). America Before as a Paranormal Charter: http://onlinedigeditions.com/article/America+Before+as+a+Paranormal+Charter/3531896/634462/article.html Card, J. (2019b). Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past: https://www.unmpress.com/9780826359148/spooky-archaeology/ Card, J. and Anderson, D.S. eds., (2016). Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/46406Cicirello, C. and Curry, T. (2022). The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit: https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Unified-Theory-Bullshit/dp/B09TDW7RSR de Camp, L.S. (1975). Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature: https://store.doverpublications.com/0486147924.html Donnelly, I. (1882) Atlantis: The Antediluvian World: https://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/ Donnelly, I. (1887) Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel: https://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/rag/index.htm Feder, K.L. (2010). Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology from Atlantis to the Walam Olum: https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofdu0000fede Feder, K.L. (2020). Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/frauds-myths-and-mysteries-9780190096410 Jordan, P. (2001). The Atlantis Syndrome: https://archive.org/details/atlantissyndrome00jord/page/n1/mode/2up López de Gómara, F. (1922). Historia general de las indias: https://archive.org/details/historigeneralde02lprich/page/248/mode/2up Roding, C.B. ed., (2019). Editor's Corner: The SAA Archaeological Record: http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=634462 Sarmiento de Gamboa, P. (1907). History of the Incas: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20218/pg20218.html Staudenmaier, P. (2010) Between Occultism and Fascism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race and Nation in Germany and Italy, 1900-1945: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/17662/Staudenmaier%2C%20Peter.pdf Steiner, R. (2021). Cosmic Memory (1959): https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA011/English/RSPI1959/GA011_index.htmlStevenson, D.C. ed., (2009a). Critias by Plato: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/critias.html Stevenson, D.C. ed., (2009b). Timaeus by Plato: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html

Daniel talks with Dr. Katie Robertson about whether there even is a single unified theory of physics for us to discover.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Edward Frenkel's latest book Love and Math, a New York Times bestseller, was named one of the Best Books of the year by both Amazon and iBooks, and won the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America. The book reveals a side of math seldom seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. Mathematics, he writes, directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars. Love and Math is also about accessing a new way of thinking, which empowers us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the hidden magic universe of mathematics. Edward Frenkel is Russian born and overcame a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1997 after being on the faculty at Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and the winner of the Hermann Weyl Prize in mathematical physics. Frenkel has authored 3 books and over 90 scholarly articles in academic journals and is an electronic music aficionado. Frenkel's research is on the interface of mathematics and quantum physics, with an emphasis on the Langlands Program, which he describes as a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics. twitter.com/edfrenkel www.edwardfrenkel.com www.youtube.com/@edfrenkel Connect with Professor Keating:

Professor Cowsik is considered by many to be the 'Father of Astroparticle Physics' for his invention of the leaky box model for the observation of cosmic rays and his discoveries characterizing neutrinos and dark matter as having a role in the Big Bang. The James S. McDonnell Professor of Space Sciences here at WashU, he has been compared to Enrico Fermi for his immensely productive career in theoretical and experimental physics. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Cowsik about the origin of the universe, dark matter, neutrinos, Grand Unified Theory, and more.

How do you determine what level of truth is behind a conspiracy theory?In Episode #352 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: a looooong article Juan found from Twitter, how we decide if a conspiracy theory has some validity, personality traits that influence our views of them, why I think you really only need to believe one for the good benefits, some faves of MK ULTRA & Area 51, why I am not only a sheep but a willing sheeple, warning signs that something is BS and whether the FTX shitshow had some deep state level manipulation going on.A huge thanks to Dave Jones, Liam F and Petar for supporting the show! We really do appreciate it.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Sub-par prep, must have been the illuminati!(0:51) - A Grand Unified Theory of the FTX Disaster(8:37) - How do I filter info?(12:12) - Changing your mind in the moment(19:25) - Chat Comments(21:20) - Ancient Apocalypse from Graham Hancock(23:44) - Conspiracy theory definition(26:19) - Juan likes going against the grain(30:22) - I believe too readily(32:49) - Boostagram Lounge(37:47) - Tells of a conspiracy theory(48:45) - A Mere Mortals spin; I like all the bad goals(52:22) - Is FTX a psy-op?(58:15) - Summary(1:01:56) - Final comments & V4VIntro Music by 'Signs Of New Growth':https://podcastindex.social/@SignsOfNewGrowthConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/

Polybius' theory of anacyclosis is the most sophisticated theory of political (r)evolution to have emerged from ancient Greek and Roman political thought. ------------------ To watch the highlight real from the last AGD tour in Greece, click here. ------------------ To read the passage in Polybius where he discusses anacyclosis click here. ------------------ If you'd like to read more about the theory of anacyclosis, I've written a few blogs on the subject: Anacyclosis, Act 1: From Monarchy to Tyranny Anacyclosis, Act 2: The Rise of Republics Anacyclosis, Act 3: The Rise and Fall of Democracy

Gloria Prema is an author, educator and therapist. She has truly come up with the Grand Unified Theory, unifying science with spirituality in an easy to understand way. Her publication of ‘It's All Light – the Morphic Resonance of Light' in 2009 earned the testimony of former Canadian Minister of Defence, the Hon. In 2013 she published a condensed Kindle version of It's All Light, called ‘How To Be Spiritual (and understand quantum physics at the same time)' and followed in 2016 by ‘How to Attract (using the law of resonance)'. The law of resonance, she asserts, is what people are calling ‘the law of attraction'. However, as she says, the law of attraction is really something else – it's the attraction of opposites, like positive and negative poles of a magnet. The law of resonance on the other hand, requires no attracting. It's about being in the right frequency in order to have what you want, and there are tools that can be used to help achieve this, one of which is EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). Gloria has been a therapist for over 20 years in natural healing and, since 2008, in EFT and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Her drive and passion is to create understanding of natural laws which naturally unites spirit and matter and thereby, allows for healthy living. https://www.itsalllight.co.uk   My name is Jasna Burza & I am a Life and Business Strategist and Motivational Speaker based in Minneapolis. Having lived through war in native Bosnia, I teach and inspire others to learn resilience, create purpose and connect to deeper meaning of life, aligning their skills and passions with their work. I run multiple businesses & talk about many different topics around starting and growing a business, life & business mindset, purpose and spirituality. I hope my positivity and passion for dreams is not only infectious, but is guaranteed to energize and empower those around. 

EPISODE 52 - Author E.A. Jackson, pen name of Ely Jackson, is a Greek-Australian actress best known for her work in The Grand Unified Theory, The Switch, Alone on Christmas, and The Dragon Prince on Netflix. Jackson is also trained in mounted combat, archery, firearms, and swordplay, studied musical theatre in university, dance for eight years, and singing for five in addition to her work in film and television.E.A. Jackson's first book entitled Snake of the Nile was released on May 31, 2022. In this first book of the Aegean Series, many pieces are set in motion, deadly secrets are revealed, empires are shaken, and lustful, power-hungry men nurture the viper sleeping in Cleopatra's heart, a secret known only to herself and Akela, with history-shaking consequences still to come.I have three books planned for The Aegean Series but there is also a fourth book planned as sort of a spin-off you could say, about a certain Amazon character in The Aegean Series, who I felt warranted her own story that we don't get to witness in the series. I've always wanted to play an Amazon, my family has always believed that the tribes of warrior women existed and were in fact wiped out by larger, male-led armies like Julius Caesar's. To play a character that has been so much a part of my culture would be truly a dream. I've been weapons training for years now and learned to shoot an arrow at a target while on a moving horse, so getting to go through the physical training that one does when preparing for a role like that is a career dream of mine. Author Website:    https://www.eajacksonauthor.com/___Affiliate book link: Snake of the Nilehttps://livingthenextchapter.com/podcast presented by True Media Solutionshttps://truemediasolutions.ca/Join us and connect with guests and with listeners!See you there!The Next Chapter Community: A Place for our Guests and Listeners

Ezra and Hunter are away for the week so Alex and Anthony sat down to discuss a movie they just watched in a new segment we're calling "Still Processing". They puzzled through several theories about Nope and what it means, gave awards to the best part of the movie, and talked more about Jordan Peele's filmography including the unveiling of Anthony's Grand Unified Theory of Us. Listen now, you will leave changed. Next up: We're going to (ugh) watch Avengers End Game. You can watch us watch it live Tuesday 8/2 at 4pm PST and then listen to our episode at the normal time.

Bring yourself back online. Your “hosts” Don and Kelly are back to discuss the third episode of Westworld. NOTE: If you want to avoid discussion of the preview for next week’s show, skip from 29:22 to 32:38. Otherwise, tune in for Don’s Grand Unified Theory of Season Four, and Kelly’s new word which delighted Don so much it became the title. Find the show’s new handle @UncannyGreeting on Twitter and send in your theories for Don’s Wall of Cards and String or Kelly’s House of Theories. Kelly Guimont and Don Melton.

Bring yourself back online. Your “hosts” Don and Kelly are back to discuss the third episode of Westworld. NOTE: If you want to avoid discussion of the preview for next week’s show, skip from 29:22 to 32:38. Otherwise, tune in for Don’s Grand Unified Theory of Season Four, and Kelly’s new word which delighted Don so much it became the title. Find the show’s new handle @UncannyGreeting on Twitter and send in your theories for Don’s Wall of Cards and String or Kelly’s House of Theories. Kelly Guimont and Don Melton.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: To what extent have ideas and scientific discoveries gotten harder to find?, published by lsusr on June 18, 2022 on LessWrong. This post was funded by a grant from Ben Pace. Ben Pace asks: To what extent have ideas and scientific discoveries gotten harder to find? Related: Why are there no gentlemen scientists any more — i.e. rich people who make novel scientific discoveries? Like Fermat and Pascal. Some theories have been put forward by Scott Alexander and Holden Karnofsky. Maybe they're right, maybe not. Scott Alexander treats scientific ideas as nonrenewable. Imagine scientists venturing off in some research direction. At the dawn of history, they don't need to venture very far before discovering a new truth. As time goes on, they need to go further and further. Holden Karnofsky believes the pattern applies to both art and science. The broad theme is that across a variety of areas in both art and science, we see a form of "innovation stagnation": the best-regarded figures are disproportionately from long ago, and our era seems to "punch below its weight" when considering the rise in population, education, etc. Since the patterns look fairly similar for art and science, and both are forms of innovation, I think it's worth thinking about potential common factors. I have a different perspective. Science Physics The most important scientific discoveries are those which are the most general and the most useful. Physics is the most general of sciences. Physics is basically solved. There are unsolved problems in physics. Dark matter remains a mystery. Quantum mechanics has yet to be unified with general relativity. But the holes in physics don't matter. You don't need a Grand Unified Theory of quantum relativity to build a Mars base or a fusion reactor. All you need is today's physics plus a whole lot of engineering. The recent discoveries in physics like quantum computing and the photograph of a black hole aren't really discoveries about the fundamental Laws of Physics. They're technological achievements. All of the rest of science is just applied physics too. One could argue that biology, chemistry and so on are just footnotes to Einstein. The fundamental laws of the universe are (for all practical purposes) known. The remaining questions are: Astrophysics i.e. the study of places that don't matter because we lack the technology to go there. What has biology built out of matter? What can we build out of matter? No physicist will ever again make a discovery (in physics) as impactful as the great 20th century physicists. All the important fruit has been picked. But that doesn't mean science has been exhausted. It just means physics has been exhausted. Biology is advancing fast. I'll never get tired of this graph about how, since 2007, biotechnology has advanced faster than computer technology ever did. As recently as 2015, Nick Lane published a book that might have solved the origin of life. And biology isn't even the most exciting frontier. Machine Learning In Contra Hoel, I talked about machine learning as feeling different from some other scientific fields: there are frequent exciting new discoveries. This shouldn't be surprising. Physics is stagnant because Newton and Einstein already got all the cool results. But Newton and Einstein didn't have TPUs so they couldn't discover things about machine learning. The Low-Hanging Fruit Argument: Models And Predictions by Scott Alexander Do discoveries in machine learning count as science or technology? If we use the strictest definition of "science" then machine learning counts as "technology". But machine learning is also informing our understanding of the human mind. Psychology definitely counts as "science". "Untangling how intelligence works" is the most important scientific problem of our age. Ambitious people go to whe...

You knew something was up when the leaks about the House Democrats' Jan. 6 committee began to change. A month ago, committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin said the committee's hearings would "blow the roof off the House." The weeks that followed were filled with hype about the first hearing, which would be held in prime time for maximum television exposure and would be produced with showbiz expertise by a former president of ABC News.

You knew something was up when the leaks about the House Democrats’ Jan. 6 committee began to change. A month ago, committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin said the committee’s hearings would “blow the roof off the House.” The weeks that followed were filled with hype about the first hearing, which would be held in prime […]

In this week's episode, Christian leaders will tell their members to take pride … from somebody else, Marjorie Taylor Greene Republicans into a camera again, and Tom and Cecil will be here to discuss the stupidity Voltron of modern American culture. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click there: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show's hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show's sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ To hear more from our intrepid audio engineer Morgan Clarke, click here: https://www.morganclarkemusic.com/ --- Guest Links: Pick up your copy of The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit here: https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Unified-Theory-Bullshit/dp/B09TDW7RSR Or find info about the audio book here: https://www.dissonancepod.com/ Get tickets to see Noah at the Gulf Coast Secular Assembly here: https://www.humaniststlh.com/assembly Check out the Left at the Valley podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/left-at-the-valley/id953374347 --- Headlines: Pride month Christian freakout round up: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/christian-hate-preacher-calls-for-the-execution-of-every-single-homosexual/ and https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1533958329134895107 and https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/news/2022/06/05/westboro-protesters-outnumbered-and-jeered-in-joliet/  GOP Lawmaker MTG says critics of Christian nationalism are "domestic terrorists": https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/gop-lawmaker-critics-of-christian-nationalism-are-domestic-terrorists/ Kirk Cameron rails against public education: https://www.salon.com/2022/05/31/kirk-cameron-public-school-grooming-far-left-agenda-crt/ Ex-pastor embroiled in legal battle with Florida megachurch after 'The Encounter' with Jesus: https://www.rawstory.com/celebration-church/ School Board candidate checks all the gay books out so kids can't read them: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/a-school-board-candidate-checked-out-lgbtq-library-books-so-kids-cant-read-them/ Georgia superintendent tells graduating seniors to convert to Christianity: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/georgia-superintendent-tells-graduating-seniors-to-convert-to-christianity/ Graduation speaker tells students to honor the Bible by avoiding gay marriage: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/graduation-speaker-tells-students-to-honor-the-bible-by-avoiding-gay-marriage/

Tom Curry and Cecil Cicirello talk about their irreverent new book, "The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit." VIDEO of this conversation: https://youtu.be/20_ajQYaZMQBOOK LINK: https://amzn.to/3vdqcM9COGDIS PODCAST: https://www.dissonancepod.com

A wall is broken down during a renovation, revealing what could be another world.  Is a priest in Ecuador in possession of metal plates that could hold the answer to if aliens visited us. A flying ace is breaking a world record reaching the north pole, but did he maybe go even further than that? Our host Fredrik continues the mission to discover what is genuine, fake, and somewhere in between on the TV-show Ancient Aliens. In this episode we will explore the underground and look for aliens in places rarely touched by the sun. We are going to break down episode 4 from season 2 titled “Underground Aliens” (S02E04). To help us out we have a very special guest, Dr. Bill Farley assistant professor by day and host of Video Game Archaeology at night. Dr. Farley are specialized in Native New England in the colonial period but have many other interests such as archaeobotany, archaeological method and theory and colonialism and its interactions with indiginous people.  He is also using his knowledge to analyze and use the archeological toolkit on games giving a new and fresh look on the medium. You can find Dr. https://twitter.com/ArchaeologyGame (Farleys twitter right here), his https://www.youtube.com/c/VideoGameArchaeology (Video Game Archeology youtube channel) and his research at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William-Farley-2 (researchgate here).  In this episode we will cover these ancient and not so ancient sites and topics: Derinkuyu, Native American creation stories, Dulce, the new Area 51, Cueva de los Tayos, The Metal library, Tahtzibichen Underground labyrinth temple, Hollow Earth. Sources, resources and further reading suggestionshttps://shop.dissonancepod.com/product/the-grand-unified-theory-of-bullshit/ (Cicirello, C. and Curry, T. (2022). The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit. 1st ed. Chicago: Gloryhole Studios.) De Anda, Guillermo. (2007). Sacrifice and Ritual Body Mutilation in Postclassical Maya Society: Taphonomy of the Human Remains from Chichén Itzá's Cenote Sagrado. 10.1007/978-0-387-48871-4_8.  Portal to mythical Mayan underworld found in Mexico. (2008). Reuters. [online] 15 Aug. Available at: https://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1442474520080815 (https://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1442474520080815) JASON COLAVITO. (2012). Playboy's 1974 von Däniken Interview (Part 4): Admitting Fraud. [online] Available at: https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/playboys-1974-von-dniken-interview-part-5-admitting-fraud (https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/playboys-1974-von-dniken-interview-part-5-admitting-fraud) JASON COLAVITO. (2012). Remembering Neil Armstrong's Brush with Ancient Astronauts. [online] Available at: https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/remembering-neil-armstrongs-brush-with-ancient-astronauts (https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/remembering-neil-armstrongs-brush-with-ancient-astronauts) Dunning, Brian. (2018). Cueva de los Tayos and the Lost Metal Library: Part 2. [online] Available at: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4638 (https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4638) Dunning, Brian. (2018). Cueva de los Tayos and the Lost Metal Library: Part 1. [online] Available at: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4637 (https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4637) Music used in this episode:“Now we ride” by Alexander Nakarada (https://serpentsoundstudios.com (serpentsoundstudios.com))  Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All sounds and music used with permission, support your creators! https://www.facebook.com/Digging-up-Ancient-Aliens-108173641647111/ (Remember to like our Facebook page)!

My guest this week are Tom and Cecil of the Cognitive Dissonance podcast (@dissonance_pod). We discuss their new book, The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit, and how to apply their GUT check approach to reduce our risk of absorbing misinformation.The Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit: https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Unified-Theory-Bullshit/dp/B09TDW7RSRCogDis podcast: https://dissonancepod.com/Convocation: FrankfurtMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pods:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.htmlSupport us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!Recent Appearances: I was on the Ultraviolet podcast talking about moral luck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ31sIBgWKEUpcoming Appearances: Come hang out and discuss nonbeliever community organizing and resisting the immoral nonbeliever stereotype at the American Atheist convention in Atlanta https://convention.atheists.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw3IqSBhCoARIsAMBkTb3oEaLKLMj2gj2JSlFJVfZajGeS1yFbXB2LdTWIB7yYFcTJs1RQDJoaAj1BEALw_wcBNext week: Reengaging LGBTQ nonbelievers with Callie Wright

My guest this week is Corinna Cohn (@heterodorx), a gender critical activist, self identifying transsexual and cohost of the Heterodorx podcast. We discuss her views on gender and policies regarding bathrooms, sports, and gender affirming care.Heterdorx pod: https://www.heterodorx.com/Convocation: George TakeiMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Filmed Live Musicals Pod: https://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/thepodcast.htmlSupport us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!Recent Appearances: I was on the Ultraviolet podcast talking about moral luck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ31sIBgWKENext week: A Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit with Tom and Cecil

Wear is the Love Podcast #6This week, we take on Thomas B. Edsall's article, “America Has Split, and It's Now in ‘Very Dangerous Territory.'” The articles, which is listed in the Top 5 below, covers “pernicious polarization” and some really fascinating studies about the level of polarization in the US. At the end, we also discuss the provocative question of the day: “Will there be a civil war in the US?”Episode NotesIn the podcast, we mentioned this study out of Stanford on political sectarianism.The Top 5 articles for your week:“America Has Split, and It's Now in ‘Very Dangerous Territory.'” (NYT)Because “Polarization has become a force that feeds on itself, gaining strength from the hostility it generates, finding sustenance on both the left and the right. A series of recent analyses reveals the destructive power of polarization across the American political system.”“What fast fashion costs the world” (Experience Magazine)Because “Since 2000, the global production of clothing has doubled. Today, the average American buys about 68 new items of clothing a year.”“The school shooting generation grows up” (Vox)Because school shootings began in the 80s, and those young kids that experienced them are now fully grown adults who are dealing with the consequences of the events themselves and the lack of language and healthcare and dialogue afterwards.“The Dream of Virtual Reality” (Substack - Convivial Society)Because recent writing from David Chalmers argues for the actual “reality” of “virtual reality” and L.M. Sacasas dives into Chalmers' points and asks some thought-provoking questions: For example, I wonder for how many of us the experience of the world is already so attenuated or impoverished that we might be tempted to believe that a virtual simulation could prove richer and more enticing? And how many of us already live as if this were in fact the case?…The claim that, even now, virtual realities can outstrip my experience of the world is increasingly plausible when I have lost the capacity to wonder at and delight in the gratuity and beauty of the world. And there may be many reasons why such capacities may have diminished, ranging from the ever-more complete enclosure of our experience within a frame of human artifice to the loss of the arts of perception and the power of social structures that eliminate the gift of leisure in principle and in practice for so many. In other words, I mean for us to consider how we might have already begun to sever our relation to our common world long before the virtual worlds Chalmers envisioned are, if ever, realized.“A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff” (Wired Magazine)Because one writer discovered that much of the time, the stuff we buy needs even more stuff. And during a supply chain crisis, that's a critical realization. I am learning about the supply chain, procurement, product life cycle, and overall greenhouse gas emissions of the goods we buy. When I opened a spreadsheet to calculate the emissions of my drum machine excursion, listing all the stuff I'd bought and --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wear-we-are/support

In this week's live QA, I explain why a black hole can have infinite density but not infinite gravity. Does your perception of time change due to your mass, and am I ever intimidated by the people I get to interview? 03:00 How can a singularity have infinite density and not infinite gravity? 06:02 Does your perception of time change due to your mass? 08:10 How do I feel about String Theory? 10:20 Am I intimidated by people I interview? 12:47 Is intelligent design a scientific theory? 15:21 Why don't we see practical applications on quantum mechanics? 16:34 Anyone on my wishlist of guests? 19:00 Are there alien bodies at Area-51? 20:25 Would you feel it falling into a supermassive black hole 22:00 Will we get a Grand Unified Theory in our lifetimes? 27:21 Is Blue Origin for real? 30:35 Should the US have built the super collider? 34:17 Does time go backwards if you exceed the speed of light? 35:20 What's happening with Perseverance? 37:03 Could we jumpstart a rocket planet to get a magnetosphere? 40:35 How far are we from a nuclear rocket? 42:50 Could they make a bigger particle accelerator? 45:00 Would I get neurolink? 46:42 Humans on the Moon or a 30M telescope? 48:02 Have I watched Upload yet? 48:25 Why don't we explore the deep ocean first? 51:45 Wouldn't a solar sail be stopped by photons from another star? 53:49 Could we use Ceres or Vesta to warm up Mars? 54:52 Why is the Hubble Constant increasing? Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio What Fraser's Watching Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmkjd428BcHcCEVWOjv7cJ1G Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - weber.chad@gmail.comSupport Universe Today Podcast