Podcasts about Gravity

Gravity is a force that holds everything on the surface of our planet Earth. Do you remember Newton's law of gravity? According to it, there always exists some force of attraction. However, there are crazy places around the world where this gravitational force fails to work. It might sound impossible, but you will need to see it to believe it. In this video you'll see these amazing places with your eyes. Here's a list of places where gravity has no role to play. It might sound crazy, but check them out for yourself! From a magnetic hill in India where car goes up the slop even if you stop it - to a crazy waterfall in Faroe Islands where water is lifted upwards defying all laws of gravity! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If you looked deeper into the major differences between the wealthy and the poor, it's less about knowledge and talent, and more about the beliefs they hold about money and the stories running through their minds. The same can be said about the healthy and unhealthy, the successful and unsuccessful, and the happily married and serial divorcees. The beliefs we hold and the stories we tell ourselves determine the quality of our life and circumstances. You can change your beliefs and stories if you want. There's always a belief and story available to you that will create a higher quality of life. It's up to you if you want choose to believe higher to achieve higher. The difference between truth and a belief can be found in the absoluteness of the concept. Gravity is truth. It applies to all humans. Beliefs are not truths if there is even one exception to the rule. If there's one person who believes making money is easy and does so, then the concept that making money is hard is a belief/story, not a truth.The beliefs you hold and the stories you tell yourself can be changed at anytime. If someone offers you a higher level belief/story which creates higher level circumstances and you choose not to adopt it, then you are fighting for your current circumstances. Same beliefs = same circumstances. New beliefs = new circumstances. Going through life clinging to your beliefs and stories will keep you stuck. When you are open to a higher way of believing and thinking, you open up pathways to greater levels of everything in your life. Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & FriendsLinks & Resources:Website: https://www.innerwealthglobal.comMy Social Media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikekitkoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_kitkoTiktok: @mikekitkoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekitko/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@mike_kitkoSubscribe to my YouTube: / @mikekitkoMike Kitko is an executive self-mastery coach, speaker and author. He found external success through powerful titles, incomes, and material possessions. He ultimately fell into depression, toxic abuse of alcohol, and the near collapse of his family before he began a journey of internal happiness and success.Through private coaching, mastermind groups and training, Mike helps business owners achieve higher levels of wealth, success, and happiness in all areas of life.

On this edition of the Bonus Mailbag, topics include Formula One, Juventud & The Mexicools, Conrad Thompson vs. Dave Meltzer, Punk vs. Perry, Dom or MJF, Dexter Lumis, an emailer attempts to condemn Konnan & Disco for their college football picks, wrestlers court, Rotten Tomatoes & paid for reviews, Punk & a WWE return?, Gravity, Edge's future, Bryan Danielson & Mexico, Malakai Black's lack of singles matches, WWE & India, Austin Theory, the top Rock albums (Joe cares, Disco doesn't,) Konnan's history as AAA booker and more!Check out our Patreon site at Konnan.me and Patreon.com/Konnan for extra audio, FULL AD FREE episodes, exclusive video, listener roundtable discussion shows, weekly watch-a-longs, call in shows with Konnan and DI, plus so much more!Get Interactive on Twitter @Konnan5150 @TheRealDisco @MaskedRepublic @JFFeeney3rd @TheCCNetwork1 @K100Konnan @TheHughezy @LarryDallasAAADownload DraftKings SportsBook NOW, and use code K100 to sign up! New customers can take home TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS IN BONUS BETS INSTANTLY just for betting five bucks. Check out "Retail Space" by Raul Garcia, a mix between Sci Fi, aliens, and the drudgery and comedy of working for a big box retailer! https://www.amazon.com/Retail-Space-Raul-Garcia/dp/B0CFZBYH99New Sponsor FACTOR Meals! factormeals.com/k10050 and use code k10050 for 50% OFF your purchase! That's half off their delicious, easily prepared, and diet friendly meals!Go to Manscaped.com and use our new code K100 for 20% off all your below the belt male grooming needs, including a trimmer, razor, cologne, wash and deodorant and more! PLUS, the NEW Lawnmower 4.0!This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/k100 and get on your way to being your best self, along with 10% off your first month!Check out LegacySupps.com and use the code K100 for 10% off of their fat burner, pre workout, testosterone supplement, and sleep aid! Brought to you by friend of the show, Nick Aldis! Plus they now carry Women's supplements, brought to you by Mickie James!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4672635/advertisement

Daniel Mason's North Woods follows one house in the woods of New England as it passes through families (with inhabitants both human and not) and endures natural and human history. Mason joins us to talk about how he connected with his setting, writing a novel covering a large timespan, playing with form and more.  The Bee Sting by Paul Murray chronicles the saga of a family in a post-economic-collapse Ireland. Murray joins us to talk about the cultural background of his novel, writing a dysfunctional family, the influences of Joyce and Faulkner and more.  Listen in as these authors speak separately with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.    This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.            Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).            Featured Books (Episode):  North Woods by Daniel Mason  The Bee Sting by Paul Murray  The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason  The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason  Walden by Henry David Thoreau   Skippy Dies by Paul Murray  Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett  Ulysses by James Joyce  Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon  The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen  Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore  As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 

Subscribe, Like and Comment! Highlights:1) Deeper truths on our soul, DNA, and genes2) Specific information from the Summerian Tablets3) Accelerating our deeper self-realization as creators?4) the difference between Transcendence and Ascension? 5) The importance of learning to alter your frequencyMy guest Krys Ra El is a renowned Spiritual Specialist and a trusted Guide of Ether Physics, known for his ability to demystify complex subjects like Gravity, The Ether, Teleportation, and the intricate nature of Time. In the role of a Cosmic Guide and Spiritual Specialist, Krys serves as a beacon of enlightenment, helping individuals reconnect with their true spiritual essence and offering profound insights into the vast realm of Cosmology, including interstellar communication and methods to transcend the confines of 3D Earth existence. Krys provides guidance for those on the path to becoming interstellar citizens and assists in the harmonious alignment of businesses as spiritual entities, all while emphasizing the significance of living in accordance with the divine principles of God's Law. Beyond his expertise, Krys also officiates ordainment and wedding ceremonies, offers spiritual mentorship, and empowers individuals to take charge of their lives in synchronization with their inner source. To learn more: https://www.RepublicOfEternalNations.org/"Dare to Dream" podcast, with host, Debbi Dachinger, offers cutting-edge conversation on metaphysics, quantum creating, channeling, healing, UFO's, paranormal and extraterrestrials.Join Debbi on Instagram: @daretodreampodcast and @debbidachingerDebbi is a Book Writing coach, so you pen and publish an engaging book. Her company launches your book to a guaranteed international bestselling status & it's fully-done-for-the-author, plus she is the best coach for how to be Interviewed on podcast shows for big results. Learn how now - get your free how-to media videos: https://debbidachinger.com/gift For 16 years Debbi hosts the award-winning "Dare to Dream" podcast. (YouTube http://www.youtube.com/c/DebbiDachinger OR Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dare-to-dream-with-debbi-dachinger/id1091040454).#DebbiDachinger #DareToDream #podcast #workshop #5d #cosmos #frequency #frequency_healing #krysrael #love #truth #wisdom #harmony #aliens #god #transform #consciousness #spirit #cosmic #frequency #sound #energy #vibration #stars #mentor #ether #physics #heart #responsibility #humanity #soul #cosmic #speaker #conscious #advice #guidance

The extraterrestrial comedy podcast where we probe 260's-ish Before Common Era Ruler, Ashoka's formation of a secret society to protect the secrets of the world. Until the world is ready, that is. Yes, today we cover the Nine Unknown Men. Or should that be Nine Unknown People? We whizz over the background of the third Indian Subcontinent Mauryan leader named Ashoka who, after conquering the lands, had a change of heart (which had nothing to do with there being nothing left to conquer). Ashoka would turn to peace and to maintain that peace, Ashoka formed a secret group. This group of Nine Unknown Men would hold the worlds most deadly secrets. Those secrets involved, Propaganda, Communication, Physiology, Microbiology, Gravity, Cosmology, Alchemy, Light and Sociology. Can you guess who got their hands on the secrets of propaganda? Which of the nine is the deadliest power? Was an actual Pope once one of the Nine? All that and more on this week's file.     Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/butitwasaliens   Store: https://butitwasaliens.co.uk/shop/     Probe us: Email: butitwasaliens@gmail.com Instagram/Threads @ ButItWasAliens Twitter @ ButItWasAliens Facebook: @ ButItWasAliens - join Extraterrestrial Towers     Music:  Music created via Garageband. Additional music via: https://freepd.com - thank you most kindly good people. We ended things as is usually the case on a Kev episode with the 'Staff Roll' aka credits theme from Nintendo's 1990-1992 Super Mario World from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, composed by Hero of Sound Kōji Kondō. It's a me…     Main sources: https://voices.shortpedia.com/tejaswi_sood/the-mystery-behind-the-nine-unknown-men/?amp   https://www.unrevealedfiles.com/the-nine-unknown-great-ashokas-secret-society/?amp    https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-nine-unknown-men-the-power-of-conspiracy

Step into the enigmatic world of dark energy, black holes, and dark matter, where the universe's secrets lay hidden. Unraveling the mysteries, we stumbled upon a captivating theory: could black holes be the elusive source of dark energy? It was a revelation that sent our imaginations soaring, envisioning a cosmic web expanding at an accelerated pace. But as we dug deeper, the puzzle only grew more intricate, leaving us wondering: what lies within the spaces between these celestial threads? Brace yourself for an awe-inspiring journey, as we delve into the unknown and embrace the boundless fascination of our ever-evolving universe. In this episode, you will be able to: · Explore the puzzling sphere of dark energy, black holes, and dark matter, pushing the boundaries of your learning about space exploration. · Acknowledge the pervasive influence of gravity, developing a nuanced appreciation of its distant gravitational pull. · Ascertain the journey of elements within our solar system, refining your knowledge about the cosmic processes that shape them. · Discover the essence of the Boates Void and corresponding cosmic voids, expanding your perception of these endless expanses abundant in space. · Identify propitious places for potential human colonization, prompting a contemplation Gravity, something that we sort of understand in pockets. - Andrew Dunkley Trace the origin of elements. Questions about where the elements of our solar system originated from are addressed, revealing to us how these elements have undergone cycles of creation and destruction in various astronomical processes. Tracing the origins of these elements not only paints a vibrant picture of our cosmic history, but also imparts a deeper understanding of the unique chemical makeup of our solar system and the universe beyond. The resources mentioned in this episode are: · Visit our website to access the gravity map from the GOCE mission and explore the variations in gravity across the globe. · Check out the NASA Grace mission website for more information and animations on gravitational anomalies and how they relate to climate and Earth's internal structure. · Learn about the recent experiment where scientists were able to stop a photon and explore the possibilities of light standing still. · Stay updated on the latest research and discoveries about black holes and their connection to the expansion of the universe. · If you're interested in the concept of dark energy and its potential sources, keep an eye out for more information on the role of black holes and their contribution to the phenomenon. · Dive into the fascinating topic of the cosmic web and its filaments by exploring research and theories on the expansion of space between galaxies and how it relates to the overall structure of the universe. · Subscribe to our channel or podcast to stay up to date on the latest episodes and discussions about space and astronomy. · Join our online community to connect with fellow space enthusiasts, ask questions, and engage in discussions about the mysteries of the universe. · Follow us on social media for daily updates, stunning visuals, and interesting articles about space exploration, astronomyThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/2631155/advertisement

Topics by TimecodeUPDATE F-35: Even Mainstream Thinks It Was Hacked …perhaps the most easily hacked of all US weapons systems, which are ALL vulnerable EPA Wants to Prohibit Water Filters Unconcerned about actual pollution in places like Palestine, OH, they come after a filter that removes PFAS to level that can't be measured. We MUST stop REGULATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION (as well as Taxation w/o Representation) (37:07)Government Won't Stop Bugging You to Eat BugsAs with Covid & Climate they've got "science" on their science — BEHAVIORAL science. Here's how they wargaming it and what they've found to be the most effective propaganda (56:37)As Jim Jordan grandstands about government directed censorship — which we've all known and proven for a LONG time —Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford epidemiologist targeted by Francis Collins' NIH has been vindicated and sees a new rebirth of free speech coming (1:10:09)Another example of someone we met personally who stood up to the jab on Christian principles, lost his job, couldn't find employment in his industry, but came out MUCH better (1:13:29)Media whines that teacher was fired for discussing the Diary of Anne Frank — they're LYING about a crucial detail (1:35:00)Andy Stanley, son of Charles Stanley, leads his mega-church to embrace LGBT and homosexual mirage. An Austin, TX United Methodist Church turns to AI to discover "real truth" from their man-made "god of the machine" (1:40:07) Bill introduced by Republicans to repeal the FACE Act being weaponized by Biden, selectively, against pro-life people and organizations (1:58:02)INTERVIEW TWA 800: The FBI/CIA Conspiracy of Lies Jack Cashill, author of "TWA 800: Behind the Coverup and Conspiracy", on stolen evidence, fabricated testimony, and ongoing efforts to get justice after the US military negligently shot down a passenger airliner in 1996. (2:01:51) Ray Epps: A Red Herring Swallowed Hook, Line, & Sinker Desc: Is Ray Epps being used to protect the people who are REALLY responsible for Jan6? (2:49:25)Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

Topics by TimecodeUPDATE F-35: Even Mainstream Thinks It Was Hacked …perhaps the most easily hacked of all US weapons systems, which are ALL vulnerable EPA Wants to Prohibit Water Filters Unconcerned about actual pollution in places like Palestine, OH, they come after a filter that removes PFAS to level that can't be measured. We MUST stop REGULATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION (as well as Taxation w/o Representation) (37:07)Government Won't Stop Bugging You to Eat BugsAs with Covid & Climate they've got "science" on their science — BEHAVIORAL science. Here's how they wargaming it and what they've found to be the most effective propaganda (56:37)As Jim Jordan grandstands about government directed censorship — which we've all known and proven for a LONG time —Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford epidemiologist targeted by Francis Collins' NIH has been vindicated and sees a new rebirth of free speech coming (1:10:09)Another example of someone we met personally who stood up to the jab on Christian principles, lost his job, couldn't find employment in his industry, but came out MUCH better (1:13:29)Media whines that teacher was fired for discussing the Diary of Anne Frank — they're LYING about a crucial detail (1:35:00)Andy Stanley, son of Charles Stanley, leads his mega-church to embrace LGBT and homosexual mirage. An Austin, TX United Methodist Church turns to AI to discover "real truth" from their man-made "god of the machine" (1:40:07) Bill introduced by Republicans to repeal the FACE Act being weaponized by Biden, selectively, against pro-life people and organizations (1:58:02)INTERVIEW TWA 800: The FBI/CIA Conspiracy of Lies Jack Cashill, author of "TWA 800: Behind the Coverup and Conspiracy", on stolen evidence, fabricated testimony, and ongoing efforts to get justice after the US military negligently shot down a passenger airliner in 1996. (2:01:51) Ray Epps: A Red Herring Swallowed Hook, Line, & Sinker Desc: Is Ray Epps being used to protect the people who are REALLY responsible for Jan6? (2:49:25)Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

As wind and solar energy play a growing part in our energy system, the need for grid-scale energy storage is growing as well.  An historic form of energy storage and still the largest in installed capacity is pumped hydro storage, which makes use of the potential energy contained in having water sitting at a higher […]

Andrea Belfi discusses his latest album, Eternally Frozen, a canon-based composition for percussion, electronics, and brass ensemble. Inspired by a visit to LA's Museum of Jurassic Technology, Belfi draws upon the story of Deprong Mori, a mythological bat that could use its powers of echolocation to phase through solid matter, before being captured by an American researcher, “eternally frozen” in lead. Movement, circularity, and stasis are all terms that also describe Belfi's interests as a composer. We discuss his origins in Italy's punk scene, his time as drummer of the noisy instrumental rock band Rosolina Mar, opening for Thom Yorke, and the development of his unique approach to solo performance as a drummer. TRACKLIST Andrea Belfi - “Golden” [edit 1] (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023) SP INTRO Andrea Belfi - “Golden” [edit 2] (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023) Andrea Belfi - “Cera Persa 1” (Cera Persa, Latency, 2016) Andrea Belfi - “Wege B” (Wege, Room40, 2012) Andrea Belfi - “Ton”  (Ore, Float, 2017) Thom Yorke - “Atoms for Peace” (The Eraser, XL, 2006) Four Tet - “Pyramid (Atoms For Peace remix)” (Pink Remixes, Bandcamp, 2014) Andrea Belfi - “Pulsing” (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023) Carla Bozulich - “Pissing” (Evangelista, Constellation, 2006) Andrea Belfi & Ignaz Schick - “Myth 5” (The Myth Of Persistence Of Vision Revisited, Zarek, 2011) Steve Reich / Ulrich Krieger (performer) - “Pendulum Music” (An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005, Sub Rosa, 2006) Andrea Belfi - “Shale” (Strata, Float, 2019) Steve Reich - “Drumming, Part I” (Works 1965-1995 (Disc 02 - Drumming), Nonesuch, 1997)  John Zorn / Ennio Morricone - “The Battle of Algiers” (The Big Gundown, Nonesuch, 1986) Ennio Morricone - “L'Attentato” (C'era una volta il west, RCA, 1969) Egisto Macchi - “Gare Spatiale” (I Futuribili, Gemelli, 1971) Egisto Macchi - “Jungla I”(Africa Minima, Anya, 1972) Vladislav Delay - “Nesso” (Multila, Chain Reaction, 2000) Vladislav Delay - “Mustelmia” (Tummaa, Leaf, 2009) Medves [Andrea Belfi, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Riccardo Wanke, Stefano Pilia] - “Untitled” [Figures Side] (Medves, Fringes Recordings, 2004) Rosolina Mar - “Malpensa Social Club” (Rosolina Mar, Wallace, 2004) Swell Maps - “Harmony In Your Bathroom” (A Trip To Marineville, Rough Trade, 1979) Antioch Arrow - “David” (Gems Of Masochism, Amalgamated, 1995) Clikatat Ikatowi- “Science Fiction Reality” (Orchestrated And Conducted By…, Gravity, 1996) Antioch Arrow - “Date With Destiny”  (Gems Of Masochism, Amalgamated, 1995) Drive Like Jehu - “If it kills you” (Drive Like Jehu, Headhunter, 1992) Clikatat Ikatowi - “Rise and Shine” (River of Souls, Gravity, 1998) Heroin - “Indecision” [rework] (All About Heroin, Vinyl Communications, 1991) Hiroshima Rocks - “Walking Like US Maple” (Around Isolation Bus Blues, NO=FI, 2001) Stereolab - “Metronomic Underground” (Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Elektra, 1996) Gastr del Sol - “Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye” (Crookt, Crackt, Or Fly, Drag City, 1995) Gastr del Sol - “The Japanese Room At La Pagode” (The Japanese Room At La Pagode / May [Split with Tony Conrad], Table of the Elements, 1995) Rosolina Mar -  “La Bottega Del Krapftwerk” (Rosolina Mar, Wallace, 2004) Rosolina Mar - “Before And After Dinner” (Before And After Dinner, Wallace, 2005) Rosolina Mar - “L'ora Di Religione” (Before And After Dinner, Wallace, 2005) Rosolina Mar - “Mingozo di Mongozo (Claudio Rocchetti Remix)” (Rosolina Mar Meet Trumans Water, Robot Radio, 2007) Rhythm & Sound - “Trace” (Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, 2001) Andrea Belfi - “Picture Burning” (...a gift for (°!°)..., Afe/Grey Sparkle/et. al, 2004) 3/4hadbeeneliminated - “Loop Recorder in the Patient with Heart Disease” (a year of the aural gauge operation, häpna, 2005) Andrea Belfi - “Iso” (Ore, Float, 2017) Andrea Belfi - “Pastorale” (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023) -—- Sound Propositions produced by Joseph Sannicandro. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/soundpropositions/support

Love is like gravity. You barely notice it when it's there, but when it's gone, the world completely changes. I can't imagine what my world would be like without Mrs. Lion. Her love supports me and keeps me grounded. Every corner of my life includes her. I'm pretty sure it's The post I'm Grateful For Gravity appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

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In this episode, Corey Maass and Corey Miller discuss preparing for WordCamp US and the upcoming launch of their product, OMG IMG. They delve into the latest developments and features of OMG IMG, including the creation of OG images and watermarking, making the product more appealing to users. They explore the potential impact of their product, discussing creative use cases and showcasing its value in enhancing visual content on WordPress websites. They share their excitement about using WordCamp US as a platform to introduce OMG IMG to a broader audience. As they plan their approach, they touch on strategies for marketing, user feedback, introductory pricing, and usability testing. The episode provides valuable insights into their journey of refining OMG IMG, from design templates to product launch strategies.Top Takeaways:Product Development and Integration: Ongoing development of the OMG IMG plugin. Cory and Corey discuss the importance of integrating with popular WordPress plugins like Rank Math and Yoast SEO, emphasizing the need for seamless compatibility to enhance the user experience.Design and User Experience: They stress the significance of creating visually appealing templates for OMG IMG. They talk about the importance of providing users with pre-designed templates that require minimal effort, ensuring that the plugin offers value by simplifying the process of generating images.Marketing and Promotion: They discuss their marketing strategy for WordCamp US. They plan to distribute business cards, create a product demo video, and engage with the WordPress community. They also talk about the importance of building anticipation and buzz around their product.Feedback and User Engagement: They plan to provide users with easy ways to provide feedback, report bugs, or make feature requests directly within the plugin's interface. This proactive approach to gathering user input demonstrates their commitment to improving the product based on user needs.

The acclaimed podcast returns for Season 2 – launching October 5th, 2023, and releasing weekly. This season, Jules and Teo meet unexpectedly at one of the biggest moments of their lives – each on the cusp of stardom, exposed to the world and in the process of becoming, they fight to find what they need to be for themselves, for each other, for their families, and for their fans.  Love in Gravity, presented by ViiV Healthcare, is an original series starring Marcel Ruiz & Froy Gutierrez, with Cecilia Suárez, and Gina Torres. The series also stars, in order of appearance: Hamish Linklater, Taylor Misiak, Kris D. Lofton, Jake Borelli, Jessica Marie Garcia, Lux Pascal, Tony Plana, Lisa Vidal, and more. Love in Gravity is presented by ViiV Healthcare. The show is produced by Harley & Co. and directed by Ranada Shepard. Casting by X Casting/ Victor Vazquez, CSA. Music supervision by Javier Nuño and Joe Rodríguez.  Season 2's episodes were written by R.K. Russell, Lilliam Rivera, Joél Pérez, Daniel F. Perez, and translated by Tonatiuh. Subscribe now and be the first to listen to #LoveInGravity.

This is an episode about moving past clinging to the past. Eitan and Carl delve into the latest news regarding potential farewells in the near future. They discuss what the fight between Charter and Disney could signify for the future of the cable TV industry, and speculate about a possible goodbye to the DinoLand U.S.A section of Animal Kingdom. Join us! PS - There have already been updates to some of the topics of this episode since we recorded it, Eitan and Carl will catch everyone up in the next one! PSS - Eitan said Anne Hathaway was the lead actress of Gravity instead of Sandra Bullock, please forgive him

Amy interviews world renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new book “To Infinity and Beyond.”

Today, we're revisiting a truly extraordinary conversation—one that left a profound mark on me. I'm replaying this special two-part episode to delve once more into the wisdom shared by a guest who epitomizes living with meaning and purpose.   Having Parker Palmer guest on my show was a dream come true, an opportunity I never imagined would come to fruition. Words like activist, author, and speaker only begin to scratch the surface of who Parker is. He is, without a doubt, a unique and inspiring individual.   His tenth book, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old, is a thought-provoking reflection on the gift of aging and what gives us purpose in life. In part one of our interview, Parker explores the enlightening concept of embracing our life experiences by looking at them from different angles.    Whether you're hearing this for the first time or revisiting it with us, there's always something new to discover in Parker's words. We discussed:   How we redeem hard times in life by finding the meaning and purpose in it Why making ourselves useful matters more than ever in our later years The reason why Parker embraced short-form writing in the last 20 years What attending Berkeley in the 60s taught him about social change How a sabbatical year living in a Quaker community changed Parker's life Links Parker J. Palmer on FacebookCenter for Courage & Renewal

Grand Slam at the Arthur Ashe stadium on September 20 is quickly approaching and everyone is battling for a spot in the tournament. On Rampage Penta El Zero Miedo goes up against Jay Lethal, a trios match of Dr. Britt Baker, DMD, former AEW, Women's world champ, Hikaru Shida, and Skye Blue go up against the team of Taya Valkyrie, Anna Jay, and The Bunny. Jeff Hardy, and Samoa Joe, go head to head in the main event. Chaos continues to reign on a Saturday night. On this weeks Collision, we hear from the remaining members of The Outcasts Saraya and Ruby Soho, who are not pleased with Toni Storm's behavior as late. We get some words from Bryan Danielson, Ricky Starks, The Dark Order, and FTR. We get a little sit down with Claudio Castagnoli and Eddie Kingston. TBS Women's Champ Kris Statlander takes on Robin Renegade and we get a little special surprise in the return of Jade Cargill. Bullet Club Gold (along with CardBlade) takes on the team of Gravity, Aerostar, and Dios del Inframundo. There's so much more to unpack, so join your Collision Crew, because we have thoughts. With a little over one week until Grand Slam at Arthur Ashe Stadium, who do you think will be a part of the tournament? https://twitter.com/al__yeah https://twitter.com/MeekthaMage https://twitter.com/AishaWatches HELPFUL LINKS: Website - [https://wwtalkpod.com] DONATE: [https://cash.app/$WWTalkPod/] [https://ko-fi.com/wwtalk] LISTEN: Apple Podcasts: [https://apple.co/3hIUnlx] Spotify: [https://spoti.fi/32CGbGL] LIKE AND FOLLOW: Follow us on Twitter - [https://twitter.com/wwtalkpod] Like us on Facebook - [https://www.facebook.com/wwtalkpod] Follow us on Instagram - [http://instagram.com/wwtalkpod] Check Out Our Merch! : https://forurwear.com/womens-wrestling-talk/ ABOUT WOMEN'S WRESTLING TALK : The #1 Women's Wrestling Show on the Planet, showcases news and interviews with top female wrestlers and professionals throughout the industry. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for use & for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womens-wrestling-talk/message

This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/k100 and get on your way to being your best self, along with 10% off your first month!This edition of the BONUS mailbag features questions, answers, and discussions on topics like Komander, listener suspensions, All In attendance, Disco & K-Pop?, the debut of Bob Booby, what is the history behind the term "mark," Hugo Savinovich pitched a Martian Invasion angle?, Gravity vs. QT Marshall, a new COVID lockdown and masks?, DDP's tan, Dave Penzer vs. Hannibal, terms you can't say anymore, FTR vs. The Bucks, Vikingo, and more!Get Interactive on Twitter @Konnan5150 @TheRealDisco @MaskedRepublic @JFFeeney3rd @TheCCNetwork1 @K100Konnan @TheHughezy @LarryDallasAAADownload DraftKings SportsBook NOW, and use code K100 to sign up! New customers can take home TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS IN BONUS BETS INSTANTLY just for betting five bucks. Check out "Retail Space" by Raul Garcia, a mix between Sci Fi, aliens, and the drudgery and comedy of working for a big box retailer! https://www.amazon.com/Retail-Space-Raul-Garcia/dp/B0CFZBYH99Check out our Patreon site at Konnan.me and Patreon.com/Konnan for extra audio, FULL AD FREE episodes, exclusive video, listener roundtable discussion shows, weekly watch-a-longs, call in shows with Konnan and DI, plus so much more!New Sponsor FACTOR Meals! factormeals.com/k10050 and use code k10050 for 50% OFF your purchase! That's half off their delicious, easily prepared, and diet friendly meals!Go to Manscaped.com and use our new code K100 for 20% off all your below the belt male grooming needs, including a trimmer, razor, cologne, wash and deodorant and more! PLUS, the NEW Lawnmower 4.0!Check out LegacySupps.com and use the code K100 for 10% off of their fat burner, pre workout, testosterone supplement, and sleep aid! Brought to you by friend of the show, Nick Aldis! Plus they now carry Women's supplements, brought to you by Mickie James!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4672635/advertisement

As broadcast September 9, 2023 with plenty of dub for your comet ride.  This weekend, with Nishimura making its only showing near earth for the next 400 years, we thought it was high time to head to space once again and turn on the anti-gravity machine this Friday night.  Big bops and lay low go slow swerve here from classic names like Lee "Scratch" Perry and Peter Tosh (not to mention Bob Marley), along with some more modern names in the dubby game like Luke Vibert, Submerse, and Khruangbin.  Let's head to the cosmos for the light show!#feelthegravityTracklist (st:rt)Part 1 (00:00)Peter Tosh – Out of SpacePrince Jammy – Martian EncounterLee Scratch Perry – Alien In Out a SpaceThe Black Seeds – Way The World Bob Marley & The Wailers – Sun Is Shining (Lee Scratch Perry Dub Version)Scientist – Intergalactic GreetingSly & Robbie – Daphne  Part 2 (32:27)Khruangbin – Rules (Scientist Dub)Roots Radics – Dance of the VampiresPanda Dub – Milky WayLeftfield feat Cheshire Cat – Chant of a Poor ManThe Black Seeds – Heavy Mono ERhythm & Sound – King In My Empire Part 3 (62:53)Luke Vibert – Space RaceJamie Liddell – A Little Bit More (Luke Vibert Mix)Om Unit – UlyssesSubmerse – Spending TimeLandhouse & Raddatze – Robots  Part 4 (93:18)Common Saints – Summer SunKosmo Sound – FerociousButch Cassidy Sound System – Brothers & Sisters10 Ft Ganja Plant – Blood MaryKhruangbin & Leon Bridges – MidnightKerrier District – Disclix (Original mix)

The Joker said that “madness is like gravity; all it takes is a little push.” All throughout the world, and especially in the United States, we are witnessing a growing divide between civility and barbarous behavior. From flash mobs robbing stores and mobs attacking people on the street, to social media challenges, and even the lack of basic ‘concert etiquette'. It seems as if it is not only our culture or social institutions but our very minds and bodies too that have been contaminated with something perverse and putrid. From the Fukushima water dump into the ocean this month to Maui and Burning Man. We are watching the pink turn black, i.e., nature, love, etc., being inverted and burned away. The paradise of Maui was scorched with fire and then officials planned to spray it with a pink plastic coating. The pink salty desert of Black Rock, where Burning Man takes place, was scorched with brown and black mud from flooding. These are microcosm of contamination; of alchemical mutation rather than transformation. It's the same theme we saw in Barbie with the Saturn Sigil and in Oppenheimer with the Jupiter Sigil. In fact, Deborah De Luca, a DJ at Burning Man, also wore the Jupiter Sigil while she played over the weekend. This barbarous behavior is a de-evolved mankind, birthed from the blackness of the womb and pinkness of the birth canal. That birth is of a new man, less evolved, more angry, and driven by radical and dangerous ideologies, as well as a general lack of values. It is no coincidence then that Burning Man's theme this year was ANIMALIA, the animal, or that the Electric Zoo festival was turned into chaos when attendees stormed the gates like feral or caged animals. Even all the roads into Burning Man were named after cryptids like the Kraken - which is also a disease variant. This behavior is also exemplified by the concept of ‘crazy barbie' who is played with too hard by Lovecraftian beings, i.e., humans, in another dimension beyond the torn membrane separating universes.Something is making us crazy, be that ideology, lack of education, or pop-culture. Something is turning us into beasts, dragons, and monsters. All the drugs, sex, bizarre art, and energy transfer at Burning Man, not to mention the giant burned effigy, is equivalent to an Aleister Crowley magic ritual, or something akin to a black mass offering. The fact that this occurs in a desert, like the Trinity bomb test, is further indicative of its ritual and magical nature. The same debauchery is encouraged at every level of our society. And it opens the body and mind to the same forms of possession. Then when you step outside of these popular culture themes and topics you find people like Taylor Swift who has a phantom piano, fans chanting 'summon the demons', UFO sightings over her concert, and people leaving with ‘post-concert amnesia'. In fact, many swifties are having out-of-body experiences or entering into dream-like states - the name of Burning Man in 2022 was ‘Waking Dreams', which featured pink smoke, DNA, and an eyeball Saturn Sigil. Taylor Swift's current tour is also called Eras, like the goddess of discord and also another variant like Kraken. Taking a look at other ultra-famous artists like Dojo Cat make the picture a lot clearer. Her songs ‘Paint the Town Red' and ‘Demons' are not metaphors and they are not for shock value - a shirt that reads ‘feral', armbands of reversed pentagrams, blood sacrifice; the pulling back of the white veil and demonic possession in a bathtub of black goo.Doja Cat also announced her new album 'Scarlet' with a red spider in August, just a few weeks after AHS announced the new season 'Delicate' which features birth and spiders. These lyrics, songs, and images are sincere rituals intended to steal through vampiric means people's currency in the form of attention and money. This is also not the Satanic Panic 2.0, but instead a result of our collective loss of culture, values, morals, ethics, responsibly, etc. Therefore, people are losing their minds, becoming animals, and BEASTS, and the elite priestly class, that uses these celebrities as dolls, is openly and proudly showing what they believe in and have faith in.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5328407/advertisement

Episode 283 | Throwback September starts with Theo M.E Taylor's FIRST ever appearance on the podcast. It's an instant classic. Original episode: #62. Follow @toughchoicepod on Instagram. Follow Kazeem Rahman - @KazeemComedy Follow Theodore M.E. Taylor - @theodorecomedy If you have any questions you want us to consider, email ToughChoice@outlook.com

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The fellas head to space in this episode to discuss the 1986 challenger explosion and some of the conspiracy theory's that come with it. 

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This week's episode honors a recently released biopic on Wayne Shorter entitled Zero Gravity. The three part series is perhaps the best of it's kind I have ever seen. Also are some discoveries from jazztodon.com (a jazz-centric social media platform) from guitarist John Pizzarelli and drummer Johnathan Blake. The show ends with classic tunes from Nelson and Hubbard. Playlist Artist ~ Name ~ Album Wayne Shorter ~ Black Nile ~ Night Dreamer Wayne Shorter ~ Infant Eyes ~ Speak No Evil Wayne Shorter ~ Footprints (Live) ~ Footprints Live! John Pizzarelli ~ James ~ Better Days Ahead Johnathan Blake ~ Tears I Cannot Hide ~ Passage Oliver Nelson ~ Stolen Moments ~ The Blues And The Abstract Truth Freddie Hubbard ~ Red Clay ~ Red Clay

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A central duality appears in the work of Henri Cole: the revelation of emotional truths in concert with a “symphony of language” — often accompanied by arresting similes. We are excited to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Henri, recorded during the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey. Together, they discuss the role of animals in Henri's work, the pleasure of aesthetics in poetry, and writing as a form of revenge against forgetting.Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan and raised in Virginia. He has published many collections of poetry and received numerous awards for his work, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent books are a memoir, Orphic Paris (New York Review Books, 2018), Blizzard (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), and Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023). From 2010 to 2014, he was poetry editor of The New Republic. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

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Miguel is a fascinating athlete. His background was initially in gymnastics, where he was dominating. Eventually he grew tired of the rigid nature of the sport. Growing up in Brooklyn, Miquel found himself exposed to the world of Break-Dancing. With his foundation of gymnastics, he took to it and excelled immediately, earning him the nickname "Gravity" for his explosive moves on the dance floor. Now, as the Olympics are set to introduce Break-Dancing as one of the newest sports in the 2024 Paris Games, Miguel "Gravity" Rosario is posed to not only be one of the first Breakers ever to compete in the Olympics, but he could be one of only two athletes competing who hail from NYC, the birth place of Break-Dancing. Gravity is an incredible man, with a champion mindset, who we simply can not wait to watch next summer in Paris! Gravity's IG: @gravity____official https://www.catchwrek.com/bboygravity ••••• EPISODE SPONSORED BY: M2 Performance Nutrition Led by founder Dr. Mike Molloy, M2 Performance Nutrition and their stable of nutrition coaches have been helping Elite Athletes, everyday people, and everyone in between perform in the gym and in life. If you have worked with them before, then you know, not only how knowledgable the staff is, but also how happy they are to make sure that YOU understand what works and what doesn't. This is why Mike and M2 Performance Nutrition are launching "The Inside Scoop". The Inside Scoop is a monthly newsletter where Mike breaks down the latest nutrition trends, nutritional studies and research, and packages it into clear and concise videos, articles, and highlights delivered straight to your inbox. Join The Inside Scoop community today and unlock a world of trustworthy, relevant insights. Plus access to exclusive Athlete Interviews and Downloadable Guides to help you on your nutrition coaching journey. Head to www.m2performancenutrition.com and click on “The Inside Scoop” Use code: “PMC” for a 30 day FREE TRIAL.

Clayton Vila is an X Games medalist skier, award-winning director, and innovator in the realm of street-skiing. It's wild shit. While working the pro-skier circuit, he began directing his own ski movies, then quickly transitioned to documentaries and branded content for the ski audience and beyond. His unparalleled understanding of professional athletes and their unique struggles has allowed him to highlight the most emotional elements of any story he finds. Vila is only beginning his filmmaking career and has already directed long-form documentaries for ABC and Amazon Prime. Follow Clayton on InstagramIf you dig this podcast, will you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds and makes a difference when I drop to my knees and beg hard-to-get guests on the show. You can join my newsletter and book club on Substack. It's glorious.Send voice memos to thiermann@substack.com Writing by Kyle Thiermann is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Big dragons. Bale. Mcconegh… McConeghaue… the “alright alright alright” guy. So why didn't anybody see it? It's REIGN OF FIRE REIGN OF FIRE DIRECTED BY: Rob Bowman  RELEASED: July 12, 2002BUDGET: $60MBOX OFFICE: $82.2MESTIMATED LOSS: $25MCAST: Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Gerard Butler, Izabella Scorupco 0:00 Intro2:24 Show & tell7:45 This week's movieNEXT EPISODE: Aliens are here and they don't seem friendly. It's 2019's massive bomb CAPTIVE STATE.Show Notes:Mad at Gravity: butt rock or dragon rock?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cFZyAy88vgo

So Frank and Marc came up with what they originally called weaponized math and used it in their courses, talked about it on Snipers Hide, and renamed it Gravity Ballistics. I have been using it for a few years now and wanted to make an episode about it after a shit ton of testing, truing, and using it myself at a match.Here is the worksheet to download.If you like this and want to support the podcast you can do it a number of ways.Share with your friends, its free, it grows the community, and its awesome to do so. Share it, post about it, and help grow the tribe.Go to RifleKraft and get a supporter subscription.Visit our Sponsors and let them know youre psyched they are supporting the podcast: mile high, UtahAirgunsIf you want some of the equipment I use myself and dont think twice about:Accuracy InternationalNightforceThunderBeast BipodAnvil30Pelican CasesHornady KestrelAI KestrelBajio SunglassesSig Pistols

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Remember, we welcome comments, questions, and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com.   S4E27 TRANSCRIPT:   ----more----   Mark: Welcome back to The Wonder, Science Based Paganism. I'm your host, Mark, Yucca: And I'm Yucca. Mark: and today we're talking about truth and reality. Yucca: Yes. So, there's a lot to talk about here. Mark: There is, there is, and that's, that's why we chose this topic, right? Because a lot of the places where we come into friction with other parts of the pagan community, and certainly friction with other religious perspectives other than atheism, is in the question of what is real and what is true, right? Yucca: hmm. Mm Mark: And I think what I want to start out with... The problem is that we have terrible language for this stuff. Yucca: hmm. Mark: Very imprecise language that uses one word to describe a lot of different things. Yucca: Right. I want to start also with with a little story from something my father used to say when I was little. And I don't know where he got it from, but when he would tell a story, and I would ask him, I'd say, Dad, is this a true story? He would say, Yes. The events didn't happen. But this is a true story. Mark: Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah, like fables, Yucca: The Mark: Fables that illustrate moral principles. The moral principles may be something that we want to subscribe to, but that doesn't mean that the story about the chicken that was afraid that guy Yucca: sky was falling, or that nobody would help her make bread, or... Oh, there's a lot of chicken ones. Mark: are there? Yucca: Yeah, right? Mark: You would know more than me.  Yucca: But, so, when we say that word true, It can mean so many different things, right? Sometimes we mean it as, is it correct as in, you know, a mathematical problem, right? Is 2 plus 2 equals 5? Is that true or not, right? But we can also mean, is it true in that more, does it have importance, does it have meaning? So, Mark: or even in very broad philosophical senses, like, is it true that supply side trickle down economics benefits everyone in the society? And some people will say yes, that's true. I think the evidence is that it does not, but ultimately it comes down to what you believe and what your, what the underpinnings of that belief are, what your philosophies are, right? So when I see Truth. I used to just mean the objectively factual, the verifiable, right? Yucca: right, so sort of like a positivist approach to truth, right? So what is real can be verified empirically, and the best approach to find it is the scientific method. Right? That would be our positivism, yeah. Mark: that is true of phenomena in the objective universe outside of our skins. The earth is round ish, it's not flat. Doesn't matter what you believe about it, it's still round ish and not flat, right? We have overwhelming evidence that this is the case. And so, it's not 100% sure, because nothing in science is ever 100% sure, but there's so much evidence that it's not considered an open question at this point. It's considered settled science. It's a fact, right? But when you get to truths like... Justice and morality and good. There are truths in there too, but they're much more rooted in the philosophy and belief system of the person that's expressing them in the culture that they grew up in Yucca: Mhm. Mark: than it is about something that can be measured and factually checked. against other alternatives, right? Yucca: Right. And while we're giving things labels that would be more of a constructivist philosophical approach, right? That those beliefs are constructed from the society that you're part of and your experience and your species and that all of those things are building on each other to create reality or to create truth. Mark: Right, right. Your, your familial ideological context, all of those, all of those things accrete to form something that more or less hangs together as a, as a philosophical belief system, right? So, that I think is a part of the reason why it becomes very difficult to talk about what is true. Because as you say, the story, the events, May not have happened, but the story can still be true, and that's why myth is so important to us. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: You know, we are the storytelling apes, as we've said before, and telling stories, even science tells stories, science, you Yucca: Oh, absolutely. That's what it's about. There's very strict rules about how you tell that story, but that's what we're doing. Yeah. Mark: it tells, you know, chronological procedural steps, events that take place, where, you know, something becomes something else, or something comes into being and, and so it's important for us to recognize, I think, The value that storytelling has for us in the abstract, Yucca: hmm. Mark: because just because something is not objectively factual doesn't mean that it can't be emotionally moving morally instructive eye opening in perspective, Yucca: hmm. Mark: You know, broadening your, your understanding of the human condition and the life that we live. So, all of those things are, are true, right? And none of them is, you know, can be subjected to a grass, a gas chromatograph. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: You can't, you, you can't measure those kinds of things. Yucca: Right. Mark: So, I actually made a little Venn diagram using the wrong tool for making Venn diagrams. I used Microsoft Word earlier today. And I've got four circles. I've got objectively verifiable facts. I've got believed truth, cultural truth, and then what overlaps all three of those is personal reality. Yucca: How are you distinguishing between the believed and cultural? Mark: Well, here's a good example. The cultural truth of the United States is Christian. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: It is, you know, that, that is, You know, the cultural truth is what I would call the over culture, Yucca: Mm Mark: whereas the individual's personal reality might vary from that, the believed truth. You know, so we don't subscribe to many of the values or or even cosmological beliefs of the cultural truth. But we do. And so we have our own believed truth. Yucca: Okay, Mark: That make sense? Yucca: does, yeah. So just getting a sense of how you're using those words. Mark: Yeah. And this, once again is where language is just really not very useful. I mean, having to use all these qualifiers for words, words like truth and real and fact and things like that is, it's frustrating. And because I have spoken a couple of other languages, I know that it's not entirely capturing what I'm trying to say. Yucca: right. Mark: We don't have quite the right words in our language to capture what I want to say. Yucca: So I don't know if any language, some might have words that are, that are better fit, but, but language is just something that we're trying to to, to communicate these ideas, but the ideas are, language isn't enough. Right? And so I think that it's helpful for us to try to articulate it anyways, because that forces us to clarify our thinking around it, right? We can't just throw a word on it and say that's, that's what it is, right? We have to really think about what are we trying to actually say. And that's tricky, because we're trying to think about, we're trying to think about our own process of thinking. Mark: Yes. Yucca: more challenging than it sounds like on the surface and then put down, and think about other people's approach to it, and of course we are just these limited, limited beings, right? We don't experience everything, we only get to be around for, exist for a very short period of time, and most of the time that we're existing for, we're not even conscious for. Mark: Right. And our brains constantly edit, massage, invent fill in the blanks. of our perceptual array filter our perceptions in order to create an inner model of the universe that we can interact with, right? And so we can determine that things are true when there's very little evidence that relates to them. Even, even people conclude that things are objectively true, like ghosts and... Spirits and gods and stuff like that with very little evidence, but they will conclude that it's true because they have experiences that are filtered through their own filtration process that will make what appears to be evidence for them. Yucca: Right. Mark: And while I tend to be very, very skeptical about those kinds of processes and skeptical, you know, when I have an experience that strikes me as violating the laws of physics, and I have had a few, Yucca: Mm Mark: um, My immediate question is, okay, you know, what went wrong with my sensorium? You know, how am I, how did I misperceive this and misinterpret what it meant? Others may not do that. Yucca: Mm Mark: And one thing that I also wanted to talk about today is the way that we relativistically value certain kinds of truth relative to other kinds of truth, which is a cultural thing, and I think that, particularly in the West, with with our domination of of science and technology and, you know, the, the kind of linear thinking. What's the word I'm looking for? When you take things apart. Reductionist. That's what I'm looking for. The, we, we tend to, Yucca: reductionism. Mark: yes, Yucca: Yeah. Mark: We tend to place that which can be verified up on kind of a pedestal. As being somehow more important than the other flavors of truth, the other varieties of, of truth Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: that we experience in our lives. And what's weird about that is that in an actual human life, that's not how it works at all. I mean, yes, when you're young, it's useful to be able to determine, you know, what a fire is so you don't burn yourself with it. But as we get older, the questions that we ask ourselves are, what does this feel like? Yucca: Mm Mark: You know, does this feel like the right thing to do? Is this, is this moral? Is this just? Is this kind? Those kinds of questions, and those are things that there is no meter to measure. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mm. Mm Mark: So I think, for example, about, like, take the Lord of the Rings, right? This is a semi sacred text to many people you know, there, there are lots of folks out there who read it every year and are, you know, deeply steeped in the whole lore of, Yucca: My family read it every single year. Mark: Huh. Huh, you know, just immersed in the beauty of and the drama of Tolkien's imaginary world. Now, Middle earth doesn't really, I hate to break this to you, but Middle earth really doesn't exist to our knowledge in any material sense. Yucca: Right. It was, you know, loosely based off of Europe, but not in the sense that of an actual book. You can't go and say, oh, you know, Mount Doom is Vesuvius or something, like it doesn't actually line up. Mark: Right. Yucca: It was meant more to be spirit, right, than in physical body. Mark: Right. Right. Right. But it can be profoundly impactful on us emotionally and even in terms of our thinking about Ethical questions, moral questions, you know, what would Galadriel do? So I think that the discounting of the mythological, the, you know, the fictional, but still containing kernels of, of meaningful human knowledge, narratives that we have, And certainly the the the culturally developed principles like fairness and justice and so forth. I mean, these are very important. And what, even though you can't measure them, they're, it's still very important. And I think that we, especially as atheists, we can get accused of over, overemphasizing the, the material positivist verifiably, Extant stuff Yucca: Right. Mark: relative to the rest. Yucca: I think there has to be a balance, too, though. Because so many times we have seen people's that reality that approach being valued over some of what's objectively happening, right? We think in ecology, right, there was a cultural belief about predators being bad. And we went and got rid of the predators. That did not help the ecosystem, though. Objectively, the predators had to be there. Same thing with the grazers, right? We take the grazers out, we take the predators out, the system falls apart. No matter how much you believe about, oh, the poor little deer, Right? Like, the system still falls apart if you take the predators out. Mark: Absolutely. Yucca: so I think that it's a tricky balance when looking at and trying to, to figure out how to make choices how to balance what knowledge we're looking at, what, how are we approaching the, the cultural versus some of the objective, and not saying that one is better than the other, but that there are places for each of those. Mark: Yeah, that, that's exactly where I'm going with this, because what I'm, what I'm expressing is that I think that we need to elevate the value of the mythic, but that's not an excuse for scientific illiteracy. Yucca: Right. Mark: You know, we having a good story about the nature of reality is not the same thing as having good knowledge about the nature of reality. And, unfortunately, there are an awful lot of people out there who simply choose, okay, I'm gonna go with this story, I'm gonna go with this story about, you know, this resurrection and original sin and virgin births and all that kind of stuff, or I'm gonna go with a story about Odin, or I'm gonna go with a story about, you know, anyway, name, name your divinity of choice, right? Yucca: Well, and I and I would like to say that I don't think it's just within believing in deities or things like that. But people will also do things, stories that don't really line up with current scientific understanding, but is they like their version of, and I see this with a lot of like the really a great aggressive atheists who like they get this idea of like, this is what science says. And it's like, yeah, that's That's like an 18th century understanding, like, science has progressed, you know, significantly since then, but you're going with this one story and you're deciding that that's what it is and not deviating. Like, that's not, that's not how science works. Mark: And similarly, many critics of science will point back to scientific thought and statements from a hundred, a hundred and fifty years ago and say, well, science is just racist. It's a colonialist, racist ideology, and that's all that it is, so you can discount it. Yucca: Yeah. Which is, no, it, the people who were doing science Existed within a cultural context and sometimes abused the tools to their own end yeah. And that's happening today too, right? But our responsibility as informed citizens and as scientists is to not let that happen Mark: Mm hmm. Yucca: we see it, hmm. Mark: Absolutely. And so, as I am so fond of saying, the solution to bad science is more and better science. It's, it's not to throw that whole system out and say, okay, let's just go with the story we made up. That being said, and understanding that You know, deliberately choosing to believe in a world that is populated by invisible beings and has, you know, invisible forces that you can manipulate in order to affect the course of events and stuff like that. I mean, I can understand why that's attractive in some ways. It's very um, romantic. That's exactly the word. But it doesn't really reflect what we understand. And. My paganism, my spirituality, is deeply rooted in the idea that I want to be here. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: I love the stories, I love the movies, I love the, you know, all that stuff, but I want to be connected with the reality of what this life experience is as best I can and to celebrate and be wowed by that. Mm Yucca: Right. And that's something that we've talked about a lot on the podcast, and we should do another Wow and Wonder episode, right, where we share some of that stuff, but that, that our reality is unbelievable. It is amazing. It's whatever scale you look at, it, I mean, just wow. Mark: Mm hmm. Yucca: Right? And you can just go down and down into the single drop of water, and all of the complex, incredible interactions and creatures that exist in that single drop of water, all the way up to the scale of the observable universe. It's just, there's so much, and we could spend every moment of our waking life discovering more and more, and still not even begin to scratch the surface. And it's just... It's incredible. Everything that, every day when I learn a new thing, it's just amazing. It's just, wow, wow, wow. This is, so personally, I don't feel like I need the invisible beings. Like, and if they're, if they're there, that's cool. Like, could, I'd love to discover them. But in the meantime, like, I'm, I'm pretty happy with tardigrades. It's pretty amazing, right? Mark: they sure are. Yeah, I feel, unsurprisingly, I feel the same way. The... If there are, if there is a supernatural dimension to reality, Yucca: Mm Mark: or a dimension in which the kinds of things that theists and believers in magic subscribe to, whether or not it's natural, you know, maybe there are other physical laws that apply in that context or something. There's little enough evidence for it that I can ignore it. I, I will cheerfully pay attention to the stuff for which there is abundant evidence. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: You know, I don't, I don't have time in this life to go sifting through all of that, much less deal with stuff that may or may not be there. So, I mean, it's, it's a, it's a very sort of pragmatic decision to make as well as a, as a philosophical one, right? It's just like, well, you know, I wouldn't want to spend a whole lot of time on something that turned out not to be there. So I'm, I'm. I'm just going to look at this gigantic pile of amazing Yucca: hmm. So, pragmatic critical realism? Is that where we're getting into? Mark: something like... Yeah, something like. But I do want to say that I think, I mean, part of the problem that we have, I think, with religiosity at least certainly in the United States, is that people are subscribing to religion and then, and then turning off any curiosity and, and deliberately resisting any curiosity from a scientific standpoint. You know, how does this work? What makes this that, that way? And they just, they've got this. There's a magical wand that they wave at it that said the gods did it, or God did it, and what that enables them to do then is to fill their, their world perspective with stuff that clashes vehemently with the evidence that we have, like people that are climate change deniers and, you know, flat earth folks and, you know, those kinds of things. Yucca: The second one is the one that always just makes, like, I can understand the first one about the climate change one, right? But the flat earth one, like, like, you, you can see it, Mark: Only if you believe that we've ever launched anything from earth. Yucca: but, like, you can see the horizon. Mark: Yeah. Yucca: Like, that's the, that's the one that I'm like, well, but you can literally see it with your own, like, the climate stuff, you've got to like, you've got to trust that the data that's being collected is, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? But, but you can use your own eyes to verify that the Earth is not flat, that it's not spherical, right? And that's the one that I've just... It gets me. I'm just like, it's just, y'all, this is not, Mark: I, Yucca: that you're saying that you don't want to trust all of these, like, crazy, that we're all in on some huge conspiracy to, like, trick you and make Photoshop documents and stuff, but, like, you can do the trick with a laser and, like, shine it over distance, you can see through the horizon when you're at the sea, like, you can go up in an airplane, like, you know, it's, you can see it. Mark: yeah. I think that what Flat Earthism is about fundamentally is just a rejection of science as a whole. Yucca: Yeah, and getting attention. Mark: yes. Yes. The whole idea of expertise, right? Like, I'm not going to believe those people. I'm going to do my own research, and my own research involves, you know, digging two pages deep on Google as opposed to spending years studying meticulously the, the, the data and the analysis that's been applied by people who are very knowledgeable in these subjects Yucca: For thousands of years, by the way, Mark: For thousands of years, yes. I mean, not, not just in the context of Western laboratories and stuff, but I mean, indigenous people know how all the plants work because they did trial and error and experimented and figured it out, Yucca: yeah, Mark: you know, it's, the, the idea that the scientific method is something that doesn't belong to all people just doesn't hold up very well in my, Yucca: no, the scientific method is a, is based on human, the way that humans instinctually, all humans think, right? It is, it is grown out of that and there are, there's a specific Western tradition, right? But that is one tradition. Out of the thousands, right, that led to, that just gave names, right, like, okay, we've got some Greek names that we're using, but it's not like, you know, here in the Americas, we weren't using those same methods, right? Mark: right, right. And, mm hmm. Now, now we get into the trouble about, well, what do we mean by science? Do we mean the scientific method? Do we mean the accumulated body of knowledge that has, that has been accreted by the scientific method? Or do we mean institutions that that are scientific? And the institutions certainly have been, they, they've had their problems. Yucca: absolutely, Mark: they, they've been informed by cultural biases and, Yucca: And they still are, Mark: And they still are. And in some cases, they've been influenced by where their funding comes from Yucca: yes, Mark: which is another problem. And, you know, I think it's important for all of us to acknowledge that and to apply critical thinking and skepticism to what we see. But critical thinking and skepticism doesn't mean I reject the opinion of all experts, Yucca: yeah, yeah, Mark: or I'm going to find experts who confirm what I already wanted to believe. What it means is Having knowledge about how methodology works, understanding what actually, being able to parse out whether a conclusion that's drawn in a paper or a statement actually has any meaning. Coherence with the, The findings? Yucca: you would be really surprised at how often they don't. Mark: I wouldn't. Yucca: Well you get, Mark: But, but I think many would. Yeah, Yucca: many, and there's certain fields that it's more of an issue in than others, but you read the conclusion, then you look at the data and you go, that's not no If you were my student, I'd fail you. How did you get published? Mark: you didn't, you didn't prove that. And then usually there's a sort of clickbaity headline in the title of the paper or certainly the press release that is sent out about the paper that then further distorts the conclusion that was drawn by the paper. Yucca: So yeah, , the science journalism is an area with some real challenges. Right now and there's so much that goes out there. It's just like, that's just not, it's, they're just falsehoods. This is not what was said in that paper, first of all and, you know, just, so I, I, I understand where some of the frustration with the science as the institution is coming from. But then it just gets, and I think that the way that social media is structured right now doesn't help it because it will, people kind of get wrapped up in this, these groups that are forming identities around objecting to science or othering some particular group or some, you know, kind of extreme position or You know, things that are just not supported by the science or are being represented as science, which really aren't scientific, get incorporated into the mainstream. And people go along with these beliefs about, oh, this is what the science says, and it's not. Mark: Right. Yucca: me a single paper. Nope, you Mark: Well, and, and you, you, you complicate and extrapolate that when you have leaders who are hucksters, who, who articulate these falsehoods, like from the pulpit, Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: and encourage everybody to disbelieve in anthropogenic climate change, encourage people to, you know, not to believe science, not to believe in evolution, these kinds of things. Yucca: And then you have got folks using a lot of that for whatever their particular platform is. When it's not, you know, where they're making certain claims or exaggerations that isn't really supported by the science.  Mark: Well, one thing that, one thing that I have thought about recently is that we really need to make a distinction between skepticism, which is a process of inquiry, and cynicism, which is just the desire to tear everything down that isn't consistent with what you wanted to believe in the first place. Yucca: Hmm. Mark: And there's an awful lot of people out there including in the atheist community, many of them, who call themselves skeptics, and what they really are is just cynics. You know, they're, they're not even trying to have an open minded inquiry into what's likely to be true, so much as they are just trying to tear down everything that, that they don't like. In our lives. In our, you know, in our entertainments, in our in our politics, in our in our religious rituals, we, we do something that we often call suspension of disbelief. But I think what it is more is suspension of skepticism. We choose to turn off that analytical lens that says, like, have you ever sat next to somebody in a movie and they're like, no, the, that light angle isn't right, this was done with CGI. You know, they're, they're constantly, like, breaking the, the spell. Of the movie? Very frustrating.  Yucca: My partner won't watch sci fi with me for that reason. Mark: oh, Yucca: I have to keep my mouth shut. I'm like, nope! Gravity doesn't work like that! Stop it! Mark: I, I mean, Yucca: not to do it in a movie theater, though. Mark: okay, well, good, good. Then we can still be friends.  Yucca: My lip, but... Mark: all right. So, suspen suspension of skepticism. I do that when I do my, my atheopagan rituals. I certainly do that, you know. In that moment, I, Who am I? You know, I'm a wizard. I'm a, I'm a manipulator of grand forces in the world, you know, who's making, you know, who's expressing wonder and awe and gratitude for this amazing life and putting out that I hope that these things will happen in the world. And that doesn't have to be undercut by all the little niggling voices that might try to cynically suck all the juice out of that moment, right? You know, I don't go to the Grand Canyon and think, well, it's only a hole in the ground. Yucca: Huh. Mm Mark: That doesn't, it doesn't feed me in any substantive way. And so I think that the, the excessive elevation of the technological and the scientific in certain circles anyway I mean, it may not be quite as bad as the elevation of uninformed religiosity, but it's still. Generally, you know, reason, rationality science are, generally in our society, they're viewed by important people, by the, the people that are, that are in the newspaper and are telling us the news and all that kind of stuff as being important. the mythic, and the mythic is not given that as much. Yucca: Right. I think there's irony in that, though, that I think that there's overall very poor scientific literacy within our culture, Mark: Yes, Yucca: right, and so we do elevate that, you know, the science and the rationality, but that I think that we do so in a way that puts it more in that, like, Mark: mythic? Yucca: in the mythic box, right, Mark: Yeah, because we don't understand how it works. Yucca: Yeah, so we just like, you know, switched what the particular thing is that we're being told to believe. And said, oh, it's because it's science, right? But without really understanding, without understanding science in any of the three ways that we just used the term, right? Mark: yes. And certainly there is little effort to foster scientific literacy in the United States, certainly. I think that's less true in some other places. And so we're kind of forced to treat science as this magical black box that answers questions for us and that technologies fall out of that we then get to use and buy and enjoy. Yucca: fonts and colors associated with it, and yes, and you know, beep boops and sounds like that, right? Mark: Huh. Yeah, absolutely. And we insist on that, right? We, there's a particular kind of look and feel to a computer that will sell a computer, and there's a look and feel that will not sell a computer, and the people that make computers know very well what the difference is. Yucca: Right? And if you are... If you're a college kid going into one of those fields, you are expected to look and behave a certain way and, Mark: Right, Yucca: Not another way, right? And that gets taught to us from when we're itty bitty. Mark: Yeah. Yep. Well, and, and this is part of the challenge, because we have accumulated enough knowledge now that no one can Encompass all of it. Yucca: Mm Mark: It's just not possible within a lifetime in one human brain. So you kind of have to specialize, especially if you're really going to go into a subject, you have to specialize. But for a general scientific literacy, it's... It's a work of many years. It's a work of a lifetime, honestly. I mean, you, because there's always new stuff being discovered. So, you know, I'm always reading sciencedailyandnature. com and scientificamerican. com just to kind of keep up with the very tiny crust on the surface of all the stuff that's being done out there. Yucca: Hmm. This is actually the subject that, assuming that they approve it, that I'm doing my dissertation in for my doctorate in STEM education is... Scientific literacy, public literacy, yeah. Mark: cool. Yucca: So there's not as much research in the area as you would think there would be. Mark: Huh. Yucca: When I started looking into it, I was like, oh, this is, this is gonna be a saturated field. But it's not. There's very little. Mark: Well, new paths to scientific literacy would certainly be welcome. I mean, I know that you're a very strong critic of the traditional American education system. I am too. But the question is, how then do people absorb Yucca: Right. And I'm definitely looking at it from the... Mark: Ah. Yucca: So, because we do most of our learning as adults, Mark: Mm hmm. Yucca: right? Certainly, most kids in this country go through a school system, and there's a lot of people working on that, and, you know, we could do a whole episode on that. critiques that I have of the system of school itself and how we've confused that with education and, you know, what the purpose of it is, but as a, as a scientist, I learned a few things in school, right? I learned some, how to do some processes and things like that, but the vast majority of what I know happened just because I was interested in the topic and just continued to learn it. And I think that most people learn. That way as well. Mark: Yes. Yeah, that's certainly true for me. I mean, you know, it's all been about deep dives into stuff that I, that I'm curious about. I mean, one of the atheopagan principles is curiosity, understanding that there's always more to be learned, right? And learning is a wonderful process. It's a pleasurable process. It's not only that it informs you more, but yeah. It's, it's joyful. Yucca: yeah. Mark: And joyful things are things we're in favor of. So, Yucca: Right. Mark: go out and learn something today. Yucca: Well, learning is something that we continue to do no matter what. We are humans and that's part of what we do, but we can be intentional about it or unintentional about it, right? So Mark: Yeah. So, talking about truth and reality Yucca: you did, before we started recording, you did, we were talking a little bit about quantum mechanics and you said you wanted to touch on the idea that measurement Mark: oh yes, yes, this is, Yucca: how we, I don't know how to tie this in Mark: You can hear the exasperation in my voice as, you know, when this comes up because there are so many people. There are people in the pagan community, people in the New Age community, people in in, you know, various other kind of religious communities for whom quantum mechanics, which they usually call quantum physics, is a Yucca: in for magic? Mark: Yes, yes, it's a, you know, you, you wave your hands vaguely in a gesture at this, and what you mean is we don't understand it and therefore it is the cause of the thing I want to believe in. And one of the, one of the experiments and findings in quantum mechanics that is most misinterpreted is the idea that an observation affects The, the, the decoherence of a superposition particle, particle, wavicle phenomenon, Yucca: Mm Mark: um, and that's not what observation means in physics. What an observation means in physics is a measurement, and a measurement necessarily requires an interaction, and that's what causes decoherence. That's what causes A quantum body to be affected is interaction with its environment. So it's not that your consciousness is changing anything in the quantum world. We have no evidence ever that that is true. It's that in the act of trying to figure out what one of those particles is doing, you have to interact with it. Soon as you interact with it, it decoheres. Yucca: right. Mark: then, you can take a measurement, but You're not measuring the thing that you originally were reaching towards with your measuring stick, you're measuring what it became after the interaction. Yucca: So let me give a kind of an analogy on a larger scale. So I want to know, I want to see where something is, right? Well, in order for me to see it, Light has to bounce off of it, and that has to go into my eye. So it had to interact, that photon had to interact with it in order for me to be able to see it, right? So that's on a bigger scale, but that's going to apply on our small scale as well. Mark: Exactly, exactly. And unfortunately, there was quite a lot of gobbledygook published about quantum mechanics early in its history, which has sort of, Mucked up the waters and created a lot more of this sense of, wow, quantum mechanics is very weird and mysterious. Well, it is weird and mysterious, but it's not nearly as weird and mysterious as a lot of people seem to think it is. We've, you know, we've learned a good bit about it. The big mystery, of course, is where's the theory of everything? How do you get classical physics, you know, relativistic physics, to, to work with quantum mechanics because they clash? Yucca: right. Mark: So, that's the big mystery. There's a lot of very smart people working on it, and maybe someday we'll know the answer to that. Yucca: It's delightful because each of those different approaches are very very good at explaining specific Phenomena, but completely fall apart when trying to explain other ones, so we know they're both wrong, Mark: Yeah, Yucca: right? And that's delightful, that's really fun to think Mark: We know that both of those systems are flawed, and to the degree that we understand them at all, we understand that they don't mesh. Very well, they contradict one another. Yucca: But they are still useful, Mark: Oh yeah, Yucca: right? And this happens in physics all over the place, you know, we're going to calculate the path of the baseball that I throw, and I'm not, like, I'm not including all of the different Little pieces of information. I'm not going to get it exactly, but I'm going to get it close enough to what I need for it to be useful, and I'm just going to use, do what I need for it to be useful, right? Mark: So Yucca: I was going to say, Mark: oh go ahead, Yucca: what you were saying with the, you know, a lot of the gobbledygook that's been published about it, there's also a lot of things That, that I come across, especially when teaching, where there's a lot of confusion between what are some really cool ideas, like when people talk about like multiverses or things like that, that, like those are very interesting ideas, but they're not science. Right? And there's a, you know, and do we know whether string theory is correct, or things like, you know, or a few months ago, you know, the, speaking about the bad reporting, saying that, you know, oh, scientists created a black hole, and it could, like, no, they didn't. There was a computer program that they ran with, conditions that were slightly different than our universe, in which they were able to simulate and show that a black hole would... form under these conditions. Right, like, so, there's a lot of stuff out there that is science fiction that may one day become science, right? But it's not science until it's falsifiable, right? Can't falsify, but it's not science right now, and it gets treated like it is, right? And it's and it, it can be so, so confusing. Mark: yeah, exactly, and when you have a population of people who, to begin with, aren't very scientifically literate, but are looking for an answer. Kind of mysterious forces that might serve as an explanation for things that they choose to believe in. Well, quantum mechanics is a pretty good candidate because it has a little weirdness about it. And it's, it's at a scale that's invisible to us with the naked eye, so we don't actually have to deal with it at all. We can just sort of use it as this placeholder for the magic thing that I wish existed. Yucca: And there are a few things that, when you hear about, they kind of do sound a little... Magick y, you know, quantum tunneling sounds pretty magick y to me, right, when you think about it, or you're like, okay, yeah entanglement, that sounds pretty Mark: yeah, Bell's theorem you know, the, the simultaneous snapping into identical spin of particles that are separated by parsecs, right? So, yes, I mean, there are things that are, that are mysterious and weird, and they, they point in the direction of new learning that we need to do, Yucca: yeah. Mark: If the data's good, because it's possible that our instruments are not perfect, too, Yucca: Or that we're, that we're missing something, that we're really, we're interpreting something in the wrong way, Mark: Ah  Yucca: is always possible. So, something that I think a lot about is are you familiar with the idea of the ether? It's luminiferous aether. Okay, so we used to think, it was quite common to think that there had to be some sort of substance that light was traveling through, because all the other waves that we knew of went through something, right? Sound goes through the air, ocean waves go through the water, so what's light going through? So there was this assumption that there was this something permeating. And I'm trying to remember the names of the two gentlemen who set this up, I'm going to look this up real quick so that I get the name of it right. So, okay. The Michelson Morley experiment. Right? So, it was trying to measure the relative motion of the Earth in the aether. And they did it over and over again, and they kept not finding the aether, because we don't think it exists today. Right? And they said, okay, maybe we need to make it bigger and bigger and bigger, maybe, you know, it's just too small. That experiment is... The setup for it is almost identical to how LIGO works, which is the gravitational wave observatory. So, if we had somehow been able to make it large enough, that it would have been able to pick up gravitational waves, we would have interpreted the gravitational waves at the time as being evidence for the Mark: Or the ether. Yucca: So, who knows, today, what we've found that we're interpreting as being evidence for one thing, which is, is something completely different. And we're just, we're going off in some direction, and we're totally wrong about it. You know, science is a self correcting process, so at some point, hopefully, we'll circle back around and correct it, but I personally suspect that most of what we think we know we're wrong about, but we don't really have a way of knowing that yet, so. But that particular example just delights me that, you know, if we had been able to make it four kilometers long, we would have detected gravitational waves instead of ether, Mark: Huh. Yucca: so. Mark: On a completely unrelated note ether is a very useful trope in steampunk Yucca: It Mark: design and fiction and all that kind of stuff. My partner and I did a an etheric explorer's ball party, Yucca: Ooh, Mark: party that was so much fun. This must be 10, 12 years ago now, but oh, God, what a good time. Yucca: I think I've seen some photos of you in your outfit Mark: Oh yes, Commander Basterton, Yucca: Yes, oh, that's a great name. Mark: conquered Mars for the Empire. Yucca: Mmm, Mark: Yeah, Raleigh Houghton Basterton whose men call him Really Rotten Basterton. Yucca: that's great. Mark: Yeah, pretty fun. I have, I still have some of the business cards. You know, Commander of Her Majesty's Imperial Ship Improbable. Yucca: Mmm, that's a good one. Yeah, well there's a lot of, there's a lot of good material for sci fi out of all this stuff. Mark: Yeah, yeah. And once again, that's the mythic. I mean, one of the things that's great about speculative fiction generally, science fiction and fantasy, is that it, it speculates, right? It it reaches out into the future or into alternate realities that. Put human or human like figures into different contexts and and then conjectures about well, what would it be like? What, what would happen? What, you know, what, where would we go? And those are wonderful rides to take and they're often very illuminating. When you, when you take those rides and you learn something more about humanity itself by seeing it reflected in that kind of a mirror. Yucca: mm hmm, mm hmm. Mark: So I guess, you know, because we've been talking for a while now I guess to sum up, I both feel that we need a lot more emphasis on the verifiably, factually, objectively true in the way of increasing scientific literacy and curiosity, but we also need to elevate the mythic and the emotional and the passionate, you know, there's so much discounting of, I mean, you know, arguably the rudest thing you can say to someone is you're just being emotional, right? Yeah, I'm being emotional, I'm angry! Yucca: yes, which is so interesting when we, because it's one of the things that And of course, other animals, turning out, seem to share most of the, the closer they are to us, the more things they seem to share with us but that's one of the things that we pride ourselves about, oh, that's being so human, right? And then, oh, look at you, shame on you for being so human Mark: yeah, Yucca: but I, I think that we, that it would really benefit us to focus more on thinking about thinking. Mark: yes. Yucca: Whether that, whichever type of thinking or the purpose, but just being more conscious of, what our beliefs are, why we have those, and, you know, learning to reflect upon those. Mark: Well, yes I mean, Socrates, right? Know thyself. Self inquiry is, for one thing, it's an amazing journey. Because each of us really is unique and you will discover unique and amazing things about yourself, right? And since we don't come with an operating manual, it can be very helpful to know what your predilections are, what your prejudices are, what your confirmation biases are and to work Yucca: that you want to change them, You've got to know what they are to be able to make those, to direct the change of them. They may change over time, they probably will, but if you want to influence where they go, you need to be aware of them. Mark: need to know what they are. Yeah, it's, it's the full denial of inquiry that I think is the... Really the pernicious problem that we contend with, and it's not just among, say, fundamentalist, you know, evangelical Christians. It's, it's among some in the pagan community as well, you know, who know what they know and are not asking questions anymore. Yucca: Mm hmm. Mark: I'm, I don't know, I can't stop asking questions. I'm just too curious. Yucca: Yep. Well, this is fun. I think this is a topic we should circle back around to in the future. And I think it'll, it, it's related to so many things we talk about, but it's important to think about, you know, what is, what do we mean when we say real and true and reality and, and what's all that stuff? Mark: Yeah. Because it's, it's at the core of everything, right? I mean, we act based on what we believe is real. You know, what we believe is likely to be the, the truth of the outcome that we project. We, we get ourselves scrambled and confused most when we do something and we get a completely random response that we can't provide. Doesn't fit our projection of what we thought was going to happen, Yucca: Right, Mark: So knowing what we believe and knowing why we came to believe it becomes very important. Yucca: right. And if we want to change it, Mark: Yes. Yucca: how do we, knowing that it's there so that we can, we can choose and have that, that agency in our own lives, and not just be, you know, being blown along. The path. All Mark: It's a, it's a choose your own adventure, either that or you can just be washed around. Yucca: Just trademarked, by Mark: Is it? Yucca: the way. They yeah, the company goes after people for using that. So it has to be choose your own story, or write your own adventure. So. Mark: Oh, man. Let's not get started Yucca: All right. Well, Mark, this was fun. Mark: that's a whole other topic. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Alright, well, it's great spending time with you as always, folks. It's great spending time with you, Yucca. And we'll see you next week. Yeah.    

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