Podcasts about Haldane

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2026 7:34

Useful for plans and lessons, local educators say When Ryan McConville wanted a fun project for his ninth grade Global History class at Haldane High School, he turned to Gemini, Google's artificial intelligence tool. "I used it as a thought partner," said McConville, a 2003 Haldane graduate who has taught in the district since 2012. "I needed some fresh ideas." He said he asked Gemini for five ideas for how his students could explore Diocletian's decision in 286 C.E. to divide the Roman Empire. One idea was to have students write a newspaper-style investigation of the emperor. "I had them pretend to expose the crisis of the third century and choose whether Diocletian was a hero or a traitor for splitting up ancient Rome," he said. McConville is one of many teachers in the Highlands using artificial intelligence, or AI, for a wide range of tasks, including generating lesson ideas, reducing busywork, creating student worksheets and customizing teaching materials. That reflects a national trend: Last year, 60 percent of 2,232 public school teachers surveyed for a Gallup Poll reported using AI, with a third using it at least once a week. The most frequent AI users estimated that the technology saved them nearly six hours a week. At the Garrison School, math teacher Michael Roman uses the tools in an online service called Goblins, which markets itself as a "math teacher cloning device." His middle school students log into the software on their school-issued Chromebooks, and a virtual teacher provides problems like: "Zoe ran 28 miles this week. Next week, she plans to run 15 percent more miles. If she does, how many miles will she run in total over the two weeks?" When a reporter tried to answer, the virtual teacher said, "I see a 5 on the board. Where did that come from?" The virtual teacher then taught a brief lesson on percentages. Roman, whose said his class sizes range from nine to 17 students, said he likes Goblins because it provides "real-time adaptive feedback" to each student. He reserves the tool for the end of class, after he's explained the lesson, demonstrated practice problems and done small-group work. "It's like an exit ticket: They open up their laptops and try a few problems before they go," said Roman, who has been using the program for two years and will often use it to assign extra study. He said the students like the AI teacher that speaks in Gen Z lingo. "They either think it's fun or cringy," he said. "Either way, they're engaged." At Haldane, Ashley Linda uses AI with students who want additional academic support. She said that she can feed a reading assignment into an AI assistant such as Brisk, a tool designed for teachers, and ask it to modify the text to match a student's reading level. She said that when she is helping a student with a subject outside her expertise, she sometimes relies on AI to get up to speed. But Linda is wary about using AI for her 10th- and 12th-grade English students. "I'm not going to use it to generate a lesson plan or to grade student work," she said. "I don't think AI can make a better lesson than I can." She said she is also wary of relying on a tool she wants her students to avoid. "If I want my students to answer questions, think critically and learn how to write an essay without using AI, I'm also not going to use it," said Linda, who worries about allowing young people to become even more hooked on technology. "A generation of young people has been negatively impacted by screens," she said. Those concerns prompted at least one state lawmaker to propose regulations. Assembly Member Robert Carroll, a Democrat from Brooklyn who chairs the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology, introduced legislation in November to ban the use of AI in elementary and middle schools except for diagnostic purposes, instructional interventions for students with disabilities and administrative and planning purposes. In Rockland County, the Suffern school district requires teachers ...

State: Haldane Can Boost Levy by 5.5%

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2026 2:46

Amount is nearly twice 2025-26 cap The Haldane school district can increase its property tax levy by as much as 5.53 percent for 2026-27 while staying within the state's tax cap formula. If the five-member board approves an increase at that level, it would be nearly twice the 2025-26 increase, which was 2.8 percent, well below the state cap for that year of 3.38 percent. The state calculates the cap for each district annually. The primary cause of the jump in the cap is borrowing costs for Haldane's $28.4 million capital plan, according to administrators, who shared the calculation at the Tuesday (Feb. 3) school board meeting. In November 2024, voters approved a plan for the district to borrow money for a series of campus upgrades, including a 17,300-square-foot addition to the high school. The plan also includes changes to the campus traffic flow, new student support offices and security upgrades. The cap formula allows districts to collect higher taxes for debt payments on voter-approved capital improvements. How is Cap Calculated? To calculate how much they can raise taxes, most districts in the state, including Haldane, Garrison and Beacon, each year must use a state-mandated formula with as many as a dozen factors… Read more. The district plans to recommend a budget on March 3. The board will adopt a budget on April 21, and district residents will vote on the spending plan on May 19, along with the board seat held by Peggy Clements. Under state law, if the proposed levy is at or below the cap, the district needs only a majority of voters to approve the budget. If the district proposes a levy that exceeds the cap, the budget must be approved by 60 percent of voters. Under the current proposed state budget, the district said it expects to receive a 1 percent increase in foundation aid, or about $30,000 more than last year, when it received $3 million. Administrators said that most districts are expected to receive the minimum increase, which is designed to ensure equitable education funding regardless of local property wealth. It also will receive $10,000 per student for its pre-K program, or $4,600 more than in 2025-26. The program has a maximum of 18 students, so the district will receive $82,800. New York hopes to have pre-K in every district in the state by 2028-29.

Notes from the Cold Spring Village Board

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2026 5:03

New traffic routes coming to Haldane campus Buses and cars will be required to use separate routes for entering and leaving the Haldane campus as part of a pilot program being implemented in April. Superintendent Gail Duffy and School Board President Peggy Clements explained the changes to the Cold Spring Village Board at its Wednesday (Jan. 28) meeting. The traffic changes will coincide with a voter-approved, $28 million capital project set to begin this year. A multi-purpose student center, science lab and classrooms will be added to the high school, while improvements at the elementary and middle school will include a student support center and science lab. "While the architects were developing the plans, they noted that Haldane has an unhealthy mix of car, bus and pedestrian traffic," especially during peak drop-off and pickup times, Duffy said. In addition, a transportation audit conducted by the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) and recommendations from two consultants pointed to the need to address traffic congestion, she said. Beginning April 13, only buses will be allowed to enter and exit campus via Route 9D, while cars will be required to enter on Cedar Street and exit on upper Craigside Drive, Mountain Avenue and its feeder streets. "We all know that traffic movement at Haldane is tough," said Mayor Kathleen Foley. "Folks have been thinking for a long time about how to try to make that better and safer." As part of the pilot, Haldane officials have asked the village to increase police patrols during drop-off and dismissal and shift the crossing guard stationed on Route 301 to Orchard Street. During the discussion, the Cold Spring Police Department officer-in-charge, Matt Jackson, raised concerns over how the traffic patterns will affect the movement of emergency vehicles, including ambulances stationed on Cedar Street. Village and school officials plan to meet to fine-tune the proposal. In other business … Foley praised Robert Downey Jr., the Highway Department crew chief, for his planning and coordination with Putnam County and local contractors before the Jan. 25 snowstorm. She also thanked village workers for the many hours they spent clearing streets. The board reviewed a proposed letter addressed to the state parks department requesting a public hearing on the the Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement for the Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail, which was released Jan. 7. Trustee Andrew Hall suggested language be added and objected to sending the letter as presented because he said he had only seen the draft the day before. Hahn Engineering, which serves as the village engineer, was authorized to request proposals for stormwater drainage repairs at the corner of Fishkill and Mountain avenues, necessitated by damage caused by extreme amounts of rainfall during the July 2023 storm. Foley said the intersection is a key area in dealing with stormwater that comes off Bull Hill and flows through the village to the Hudson River. The work, which will be funded in large part by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, could begin this spring and is expected to take four to six weeks. Hahn Engineering will call for proposals to inspect the village dock. The first phase will assess the size boats the dock can handle while phase two will determine if any short- or long-term repairs are needed. The dock was last inspected 15 years ago. The mayor has asked trustee Tony Bardes to document for budget purposes docking fees charged by other Hudson River municipalities. Seastreak has yet to submit a proposal for its fall cruise schedule, but a request to dock at Cold Spring has been received from a company interested in providing ferry service between Peekskill, Bear Mountain, West Point and the village. Foley said the proposal will be discussed after the dock has been inspected and docking fees considered. The proposed 64-foot ferry is about half the length of Seastreak. The board unanimously approved a reso...

Winning Team, Lousy Courts

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2026 4:11

Haldane tennis lobbies for better facilities For the Haldane girls' tennis team, which won a league title this past fall, the biggest challenge may not be its competition but its home courts. The Blue Devils are spending the winter lobbying the district to rebuild its two courts and add a third. The hope is that they will no longer have to play most matches away, and players won't have to practice on the soccer field. The courts have cracks and sagging nets. On one, a dip near a baseline pools water and collects muck. While the courts have been resurfaced, they may have to be rebuilt. The Haldane district's master plan, adopted in October 2023, included four courts along Route 9D. But a $28.4 million capital project approved by voters in November 2024 didn't include any money for them. In Beacon, voters in May 2024 approved a $50 million capital improvement project that includes funds to resurface the high school tennis courts this summer. (Unlike Haldane, Beacon has both girls' and boys' tennis teams.) Tom Cunningham, the Haldane athletic director, said the courts are a priority for the upcoming budget; the project could cost $100,000 or more. He said the district is exploring other funding, such as grants from the U.S. Tennis Association. "The courts are unsafe," said Alex Dubroff, whose daughter, Ellie, was the team's co-captain. Dubroff, who played tennis at Stony Brook University, was speaking at the Jan. 6 school board meeting. Ellie and co-captain Ella Sizemore also attended, as did other team parents. While Coach Simon Dudar said he doesn't think the courts are dangerous, he noted that, about 15 years ago, when the surface was even worse, "I did have a girl trip on a crack and break her ankle." The more immediate problem, he said, is that "a lot of schools don't want to come to us" since, with only two courts, there is a chance they won't finish the five matches before dark, and there is no opportunity for exhibition matches for less experienced players. Haldane's home matches don't comply with match-play rules of two out of three sets. To save time, they play abbreviated, eight-game "pro sets," Dudar said. Most matches start at 4:30 p.m., so they can be completed before the sun sets about two hours later. Dudar said he often contacts opposing coaches, offering to play Haldane's home matches at their facilities "because we can get more girls playing." Last fall, the Blue Devils played only three of 13 matches at home. He said three courts would help with practice, so that none of the 17 players are standing around. Nomie Karetny, a freshman, said that she once practiced hitting balls with a teammate on the soccer field while the girls' soccer team practiced nearby. Dudar said that a third court would also allow for better practice for experienced players such as Dubroff, who hopes to play in college. "Ellie is a strong player, and she's not getting a ton of reps in practice," he said. He noted that Dubroff's recruitment efforts helped salvage the team. "We didn't know if we were going to have a team," he said. "She recruited a lot of her friends." Ellie said her longtime tennis buddy, Scout Thakur De Beer, also deserves credit. "I love this team," Dubroff said. "It's helped me in so many ways." Last year, the team raised over $10,000 through bake sales, a pickleball fundraiser and a Snap Raise campaign to help pay for lights installed last summer over one court. Local players can use a QR code on the court's front gate to donate to the Booster Club. In addition, several parents have launched the Philipstown Community Tennis Association (philipstowntennis.org). "This community plays tennis, and there are two courts that are in really dire condition," said Katie MacInnes, a team mom.

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Beacon Schools Begin E-Transition

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2026 6:12

District adds two zero-emission buses to fleet Students in the Beacon City School District have gotten their first taste of battery-powered transportation this month. Two International electric school buses, their purchase approved by voters in 2024, were added to the district's fleet on Jan. 5. Beacon is the first of the Highlands' three public school districts to purchase zero-emissions vehicles. "We're excited just to get started and get them into action," said Superintendent Matt Landahl. "We're probably ahead of a lot of districts in that regard." A state law adopted in 2022 requires that all school buses purchased after 2027 run on electricity and that all 45,000 gas-powered school buses in New York be replaced by 2035. Lawmakers pledged $500 million to support the transition through the Environmental Bond Act of 2022, then added $100 million more in last year's budget, but it may not be enough. Statewide, only about 180 of 45,000 buses are electric, although more than 450 districts are working on electrification plans, according to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. At the same time, residents in a handful of districts, including Hyde Park, have voted against purchasing EV buses, despite state grants that would reduce costs. Electric buses, which seat 45 adults or 66 children, aren't cheap. Together, Beacon's 2025 models cost $430,547, or about $215,000 each, including chargers. Voter approval was contingent on the district receiving at least $200,000 in state grants for each, but in the end, the district received $257,000 per bus, bringing the final cost much closer to the $190,000 price of a 72-passenger diesel bus. Infrastructure is also an issue. Located in a far corner lot of Heritage Financial Park, Beacon's bus garage can accommodate the two 208-volt chargers, but "anything more and we'd have to do a pretty major upgrade on electric," said Anthony Vacirca, the district's head mechanic. That type of upgrade would be part of a larger capital project. After voters approved a three-year, $50 million project in 2024 — in addition to the purchase of the electric and new diesel buses — the next proposal is at least two or three years away, Landahl said. As far as performance, "I'm pleasantly surprised," with the EV buses, Vacirca said. "Pickup is fantastic. These have far more power than our other buses, and they handle and drive just like the other ones." Beacon's vehicles are equipped with lithium-iron-phosphate batteries. Older electric models used lithium-ion batteries, but those could overheat. Batteries made with lithium iron phosphate don't have the range of lithium ion, "and that is an issue, especially in the wintertime," Vacirca said. Beacon's buses are expected to get 120 miles on a full charge in warm weather and 80 miles in the winter. On Day 1, in 24-degree weather, one electric bus was driven 40 miles, bringing its battery down to 60 percent. Both are in use most days, and they're plugged in after morning runs and again in the afternoon. It takes 18 hours to get from zero to 100 percent, so even with the overnight charge, the batteries aren't always full in the morning. EV Buses at Haldane and Garrison In Cold Spring, Haldane Superintendent Gail Duffy said the district is pursuing grants to fund electric buses. Considering recent studies showing that the district's buses are underutilized, Haldane's first zero-emissions vehicle will likely be one of its smaller buses, she said. Haldane applied for federal grants last year to offset the cost of four buses before the Environmental Protection Agency ended the program. As of July, the Clean School Bus Program had funded 8,500 buses in 1,200 districts nationally, according to the World Resources Institute's Electric School Bus Initiative. The Garrison School recently approved a contract with INF Associates to conduct a feasibility study on electric buses. The study is being undertaken in case the district seeks a waiver from the ...

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Philipstown, Beacon Dig Out

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2026 2:55

East Coast could get hit again this weekend Many people in the U.S. faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow Monday (Jan. 26) on the Northeast and kept parts of the South coated in ice. At least 29 deaths were reported in states afflicted with severe cold. In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office said at least 10 people were found dead outside as temperatures plunged between Saturday and Monday morning, though the cause of their deaths remained under investigation. Deep snow — over a foot extending in a 1,300-mile swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, canceled flights and triggered school closures. According to spotters for the National Weather Service, 13 inches fell in Nelsonville as of 7 a.m. on Monday and 15.5 to 17 inches in Beacon as of 11 a.m. Beacon lifted its parking restrictions as of noon on Monday, while Cold Spring extended theirs to 7 a.m. Wednesday as plows work to clear streets. Vehicles must be removed from Beacon municipal parking lots by 9 a.m. Thursday. Nelsonville said crews would remove snow from Division and Pearl streets on Tuesday. The National Weather Service said Monday that a fresh influx of arctic air is expected to sustain freezing temperatures in places already covered in snow and ice. And forecasters said it's possible another winter storm could hit parts of the East Coast this weekend, according to AccuWeather. New York City saw its snowiest day in years, with neighborhoods recording 8 to 15 inches. Though public schools shut down, roughly 500,000 students were told to log in for online lessons on Monday. (Haldane will be remote on Tuesday, with after-school activities canceled; Beacon will have a two-hour delay.) Snow days off from school melted away in New York, the nation's largest public school system, after remote learning gained traction during the pandemic. Elsewhere in the country, the death toll included two people run over by snowplows in Massachusetts and Ohio, fatal sledding accidents in Arkansas and Texas, and a woman whose body was found covered in snow by police with bloodhounds after she was last seen leaving a Kansas bar. Most power outages were in the South, where weekend blasts of freezing rain caused tree limbs and power lines to snap, especially in northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee. It was Mississippi's worst ice storm since 1994. The U.S. had more than 11,000 flight delays and cancellations nationwide Monday, according to flightaware.com. On Sunday, 45 percent of U.S. flights were canceled, the worst day since the pandemic, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.

Cold Spring, Nelsonville Batten Down

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2026 2:58

Restrict parking ahead of weekend storm Cold Spring and Nelsonville have issued parking restrictions due to pending snowfall, and Cold Spring on Jan. 23 declared a storm emergency from Sunday to Tuesday. Putnam County Executive Kevin Byrne declared a state of emergency effective 12:01 a.m. Sunday and asked people to "stay off the roads during the duration of the storm, allowing county, town and village highway crews, police and fire personnel and other essential service providers to do their jobs." Huge Storm Approaches Highlands In Cold Spring, no parking will be allowed on village streets between 5 a.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Tuesday to enable plow access. For updates, call 845-747-7669. Update (Jan. 27) Parking restrictions were extended to 7 a.m. Wednesday. The following daylight hours restrictions apply during clean-up: Major paths for first responders, areas around the school, and Main Street, continue to be prioritized for snow removal. Cleared for daytime parking: South side of Main Street; north side of Main Street from Route 9D to Fair Street; Church Street; Garden Street; west side of Cedar Street. Clean-up will continue on Wednesday prioritizing Locust, Fair, Market between New Street and Lower Main Street, Furnace, Kemble between Main Street and Wall/Rock streets), Orchard and Stone. In addition, the village said no parking will be permitted on either side of the following narrow streets from 5 a.m. Sunday until village crews can complete snow removal: Furnace Street, Garden Street, Kemble Avenue (from Rock Street/Wall Street to Main Street), Locust Ridge, Market Street (from New Street to Lower Main Street) and Stone Street. The village said the following streets will be marked with temporary no parking signs: Academy Street, Church Street, Main Street (from Route 9D/Chestnut Street/Morris Avenue to Lunn Terrace) and Orchard Street. It said crews will remove snow on one side, then move the signs to the opposite side of the street. Alternative parking is available at the American Legion lot on Cedar Street (south end only; do not use the Ambulance Corps spaces); the Haldane ballfields lot on Route 9D (no permit is required during snow emergencies); the village lots on Kemble Avenue, The Boulevard and New Street; and the Fair Street municipal lot. Nelsonville has restricted parking all day on Sunday and Monday, with emergency parking available on Adams Avenue and on the west side of the Secor Street lot. On Monday, the village said that crews would remove snow from Division Street and Pearl Street on Tuesday. For updates, bookmark our Storm Resources Page.

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How Many Buses Does Haldane Need?

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2026 3:44

District assesses its transportation system Haldane's school buses are usually less than a third full. And when they're dropping off or picking up students at the school, they're part of an "alarming" traffic pattern, "where you have a lot of students intermingling with buses and buses intermingling with cars." So said Paul Overbaugh, a consultant hired by the district to review its student transportation. Overbaugh works for On the Bus Transportation Planning Service, created in 2023 by the Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES in Malone. He presented his findings at the Tuesday (Jan. 6) board meeting. Overbaugh said he found that Haldane buses were never more than 38 percent full and often had far fewer students. He cited one elementary route that averaged only 13 passengers on a 65-passenger bus. The district should aim to fill 70 percent of the seats by consolidating routes or using smaller buses, he said. Eliminating a large-bus route could save $47,000 a year on fuel and maintenance, he said. The district owns 18 buses, ranging in capacity from five to 65 passengers. Superintendent Gail Duffy said that Haldane hopes to increase ridership, which is "lower than we'd like." She said the district plans to evaluate its routes and encourage families to use the buses. Overbaugh recommended that the district formalize its policy around which students live within "walking distance" and are ineligible for bus service. He said the district has 217 students in the "walk zone," which is a half mile for kindergarten through fifth grade and a mile for grades six to 12. Formalizing the policy would require voter approval. He also discussed traffic patterns on campus. "If you have parent drop-offs in the morning, they should be separated from the bus traffic," he said, noting some 200 vehicles drop students off every morning. Overbaugh recommended a pattern that is already included in a $28.4 million capital project approved by voters in 2024. Under that plan, buses would enter campus from Route 9D on Craigside Drive, while parent and student vehicles would enter on Cedar Street from Route 301/Main Street. District officials experimented with the same pattern in the fall of 2018 after discussions with the Cold Spring police and fire departments about cars parked in the circle at the center of campus, which has a fire lane. School officials said at the time that in two cases when the fire department was called to the school during the morning rush, first responders were slowed by vehicle and bus traffic. Duffy said that the district plans to test the pattern beginning in April. She said traffic "gets congested" during pickup and drop-off, and "parents are in a rush and so sometimes they are maybe not following the speed limit." Students are good about using crosswalks, she said. "It's not a free-for-all, but we could absolutely tighten it up." Julia Sniffen, the high school principal, said one issue is the presence of vehicles near the Mabel Merritt building, where some classes are held. "You hold your breath when you see the high school kids pull in [to reach parking behind the building], the buses come down and the high school kids trying to cross, all at the same time," she said. The capital project is expected to reduce pedestrian traffic by eliminating classes at Mabel Merritt and upgrading sidewalks and crosswalks. Construction, which includes a major addition to the high school, is expected to begin later this year.

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Jim Endersby, "The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2026 68:30

The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935 by Jim Endersby In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in the process.In the early twentieth century communities made creative use of the new theories of heredity in circulation at the time, including the now largely forgotten mutation theory of Hugo de Vries. Science fiction writers, socialists, feminists, and utopians are among those who seized on the amazing possibilities of rapid and potentially controllable evolution. De Vries's highly respected scientific theory only briefly captured the attention of the scientific community, but its many fans appropriated it for their own wildly imaginative ends. Writers from H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, J.B.S. Haldane, and Aldous Huxley created a new kind of imaginary future, which Jim Endersby calls the biotopia. It took the ambiguous possibilities of biology—utopian and dystopian—and reimagined them in ways that still influence the public's understanding of the life sciences. The Arrival of the Fittest recovers the fascinating, long-forgotten origins of ideas that have informed works of fiction from Brave New World to the X-Men movies, all while reflecting on the lessons—positive and negative—that this period might offer us. Jim Endersby is professor of the history of science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Orchid: A Cultural History, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science, and A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Jim Endersby, "The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2026 68:30

The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935 by Jim Endersby In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in the process.In the early twentieth century communities made creative use of the new theories of heredity in circulation at the time, including the now largely forgotten mutation theory of Hugo de Vries. Science fiction writers, socialists, feminists, and utopians are among those who seized on the amazing possibilities of rapid and potentially controllable evolution. De Vries's highly respected scientific theory only briefly captured the attention of the scientific community, but its many fans appropriated it for their own wildly imaginative ends. Writers from H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, J.B.S. Haldane, and Aldous Huxley created a new kind of imaginary future, which Jim Endersby calls the biotopia. It took the ambiguous possibilities of biology—utopian and dystopian—and reimagined them in ways that still influence the public's understanding of the life sciences. The Arrival of the Fittest recovers the fascinating, long-forgotten origins of ideas that have informed works of fiction from Brave New World to the X-Men movies, all while reflecting on the lessons—positive and negative—that this period might offer us. Jim Endersby is professor of the history of science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Orchid: A Cultural History, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science, and A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Jim Endersby, "The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

New Books in the History of Science

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2026 68:30

The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935 by Jim Endersby In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in the process.In the early twentieth century communities made creative use of the new theories of heredity in circulation at the time, including the now largely forgotten mutation theory of Hugo de Vries. Science fiction writers, socialists, feminists, and utopians are among those who seized on the amazing possibilities of rapid and potentially controllable evolution. De Vries's highly respected scientific theory only briefly captured the attention of the scientific community, but its many fans appropriated it for their own wildly imaginative ends. Writers from H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, J.B.S. Haldane, and Aldous Huxley created a new kind of imaginary future, which Jim Endersby calls the biotopia. It took the ambiguous possibilities of biology—utopian and dystopian—and reimagined them in ways that still influence the public's understanding of the life sciences. The Arrival of the Fittest recovers the fascinating, long-forgotten origins of ideas that have informed works of fiction from Brave New World to the X-Men movies, all while reflecting on the lessons—positive and negative—that this period might offer us. Jim Endersby is professor of the history of science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Orchid: A Cultural History, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science, and A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Endersby, "The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

New Books in Biology and Evolution

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2026 68:30

The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935 by Jim Endersby In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in the process.In the early twentieth century communities made creative use of the new theories of heredity in circulation at the time, including the now largely forgotten mutation theory of Hugo de Vries. Science fiction writers, socialists, feminists, and utopians are among those who seized on the amazing possibilities of rapid and potentially controllable evolution. De Vries's highly respected scientific theory only briefly captured the attention of the scientific community, but its many fans appropriated it for their own wildly imaginative ends. Writers from H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, J.B.S. Haldane, and Aldous Huxley created a new kind of imaginary future, which Jim Endersby calls the biotopia. It took the ambiguous possibilities of biology—utopian and dystopian—and reimagined them in ways that still influence the public's understanding of the life sciences. The Arrival of the Fittest recovers the fascinating, long-forgotten origins of ideas that have informed works of fiction from Brave New World to the X-Men movies, all while reflecting on the lessons—positive and negative—that this period might offer us. Jim Endersby is professor of the history of science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Orchid: A Cultural History, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science, and A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

343) Mackenzie Haldane - The Truth about Making Money Online

CamBro Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2026 58:48

Today's conversation is with Mackenzie Haldane.This is Mackenzie's second appearance on the podcast after episode 251 in May 2024, and this conversation picks up well beyond tactics and surface-level wins.We talk honestly about what success actually feels like after making money young, how that reality differs from the imagined version, and whether early financial wins accelerate maturity or quietly delay it.Mackenzie shares what he's learned from building and scaling e-commerce businesses, working closely with others launching dropshipping stores, and spending years refining systems, ads, pricing, and sales psychology. Expect to learn:What success actually feels like now versus what Mackenzie imagined early onWhether making money young accelerates growth or delays emotional maturityThe biggest mistakes people are making in e-commerce right nowThe unseen sacrifices required to build a serious online businessTraits Mackenzie sees repeatedly in people who succeed with dropshippingHow to think about opportunity cost beyond just money - time, energy, and missed leverageThe highest-ROI daily actions most business owners overlookCore sales fundamentals that consistently drive results in e-commerceHow effective ads frame problems rather than productsWhy paid ads should be viewed as an investment, not a costWhat most people get wrong about investing in themselvesHow Mackenzie handles negativity now that he's more visible onlineWhy so many people still assume making money online is a scamThis episode is about separating illusion from reality, replacing luck with systems, and building businesses that actually compound both financially and personally.Today's episode is optimised by Puresport. You can save 10% using code CAMBRO10 – https://bit.ly/3RmVT0V Invest with Fink using CAMBRO - https://fink.money/academy/ Get my Sales Support - ⁠https://colcambro.kit.com/d0dceeb5ffShop Notox Skincare using COL15 - https://www.notoxskincare.co/ Connect with Mackenzie:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mackenziehaldaneConnect with Col:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/col.cambro Email List: https://colcambro.kit.com/30bde23b0c Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ColCampbell

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No Police Officer For Beacon Schools

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 4:31

District had considered police presence The Beacon City School District is not adding a police officer to its security detail, at least for now. Six of seven board members (two seats are vacant) said in a straw poll on Monday (Dec. 15) that they are satisfied with the district's security staffing. The board had discussed hiring a school resource officer, who is typically armed, after Board Member Eric Schetter suggested the position for Beacon High School and possibly Rombout Middle School. On Monday, Schetter, a former 25-year administrator in the Arlington district, was the only voice in favor. "I feel the SRO makes the high school and/or the middle school that much safer," he said. "That's where I've been from the start." The board mulled the idea for several months while hearing reports from Superintendent Matt Landahl on existing security and what a resource officer might do. There are unarmed security monitors at each of the district's six elementary schools, as well as four at Rombout and nine at the high school, including two who work at night. They are supervised by Mark Thomas, a retired Beacon officer hired in 2018 as the district's first director of security. The hire came the year after then-Police Chief Doug Solomon asked the board to let him assign an officer to the district. Thomas works with Altaris, a consulting firm that conducted security audits at each school and assists with emergency planning. Through Thomas, the district works closely with Beacon and Town of Fishkill police (Glenham Elementary is in Fishkill), who do security walkthroughs and provide support during lockdown drills. In 2014 and 2016, the Obama administration issued guidance emphasizing hiring school resource officers for safety and mentoring, rather than for discipline. It urged schools to create agreements that ban SROs from enforcing school rules, but ensure they are trained in child development and de-escalation techniques. In Cold Spring, the Haldane campus has had a Putnam County sheriff's deputy as a resource officer since 2015. Garrison discussed the issue in 2020 and, earlier this year, hired a special patrol officer (SPO), a retired police officer whose role is limited to security and who does not carry a weapon. Elsewhere in Dutchess County, Landahl said on Monday, each of five comparable high schools - Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, Spackenkill, Arlington and Wappingers - has an SRO. The Poughkeepsie City School District is the only other district with a director of security. And Beacon has the highest security guard-to-student ratio in the county, "by a lot," Landahl said. If Beacon were to hire an SRO, the district would pay the officer's salary and benefits for 10 months out of the year - roughly $100,000, "so we would need to reduce somewhere to do it," Landahl said, noting "there's not a ton of enthusiasm" among building administrators to cut existing security staff. That led Board President Flora Stadler to call for the straw poll: Table the discussion or move ahead? "I would not want to lose that [security-to-student] ratio that we have," Stadler said. Others agreed. "I'm not convinced yet that it's effective, that it does make anything safer," said Catherine Buscemi. "I'm not convinced that there would be an acceptable comfort level for students having a police officer in the school." When the board began its discussion in September, Stadler cited a 2023 University at Albany study that showed SROs are associated with a decline in some forms of violence. At the same time, they were associated with an increase in firearm offenses, which researchers said might be attributed to increased detection. The study also concluded that having a police officer in school leads to an increase in "harsh" disciplinary actions, such as suspensions and arrests, particularly among Black students, male students and students with disabilities. Meredith Heuer, the board vice president, said the district will probably have to revisit the convers...

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S06E35 | ¿Sentiste eso?

La Ciencia Pop

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2025 31:51

Send us a textHoy les contaré la historia de un intrépido científico que hizo de la auto-experimentación su principal arma. Preocupado por las condiciones de trabajo en las minas de carbón, propuso una solución muy curiosa para prevenir las muertes por asfixia. Esta idea fue el punto de partida para usar organismos vivos como alarmas biológicas y el inicio de una revolución tecnológica de sensores basados en la vida. Support the show

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Lane Kiffin coaching decision coming down to the wire - Brian Haldane

LSU Sports Zone

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2025 12:58

Radio and podcast host Brian Haldane gives us the latest on the Lane Kiffin situation. He talks on other head coaches potentially on the move in Louisiana college football, and the implications that has on LSU's back up plan should Kiffin stay at Ole Miss.

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High Anxiety

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2025 16:28

Everyone's brains seem to be on high alert in the digital age, although society has become more accepting of mental health struggles and treatment. In this, the first part of a series, we examine the challenges facing high school students. Subsequent stories will look at first responders and seniors. Kaitlyn Holder is a fitting choice to help anxious and depressed students at Beacon High School. Just a few years ago, she got so anxious attending her college classes that she would vomit on her way to the bus. Holder started this year as academic coordinator for Beacon High School's new Bridge for Resilient Youth in Transition (BRYT) program, which helps students transition back to school after extended absences due to mental health. Holder's job is to help those returning catch up on missed work. "I see myself in these students," said Holder, 25, who is often mistaken for a teenager. "In high school, I had a lot of anxiety around my performance. So much of my self-worth was tied to my grades." She graduated from Newburgh Free Academy in 2018 with all A's. But her anxiety worsened when she went to the University of Albany, moving away for the first time from her parents and her beloved pet kitty Shy. "Gradually, it just became harder to wake up on time and to get myself ready. I started missing classes because I was so anxious," she said. During the pandemic, Holder found it hard to leave her college apartment and wouldn't turn on her camera during online classes. "I actually lost credit in a lot of classes for not showing my face or speaking during the Zoom calls," she said. As a teen with autism and depression, social media made it worse. "A lot of my day was just spent sleeping. When I was awake, I was reading terrible news articles. The TikTok algorithm knows a lot. And if you are sad, and you're getting sad content on your page, and you're interacting with it, that's all going to bring you down. I only engaged in negativity online." Eventually some professors helped her find campus mental health resources, let her do more work at home and generally offered encouragement. "If I didn't have those teachers supporting me. I don't know if I would have graduated," said Holder, who finished on time with a 2.8 GPA in linguistics. While she still struggles with anxiety and depression, Holder has deleted TikTok from her phone and rarely goes on social media or watches the news. In January, she hopes to complete an online master's degree in special education from the University of Mount St. Vincent in the Bronx. She's telling her story because she wants her students to know they're not alone. "It's important for kids to know that teachers are human and we struggle," she said. Holder's is a challenge facing many young people in the Highlands and across the country: anxiety and depression worsened or created by social media. According to the National Survey of Children's Health, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the prevalence of teen anxiety has increased 61 percent - from 10 to 16 percent - since 2016. Depression increased 45 percent - from 5.8 to 8.4 percent. To help, Highlands schools are increasing staffing and programs. At Haldane, the district in 2024 added a third school counselor and went from 1.5 school psychologists to two full-time. The district also has two social workers. Last year, a group of Haldane teachers and administrators read The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt. At the Garrison School, which goes through eighth grade, the district in recent years has begun teaching students about social and emotional intelligence in several ways, including the Yale RULER program, where students learn to Regulate, Understand, Label, Express and Regulate their emotions. Greg Stowell, the superintendent, said that issues of depression and anxiety are increasingly prevalent, even at the younger grade levels, and the district, now offers therapy t...

Haldane Foundation Creates Experiences

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2025 5:36

Group celebrating 25 years of grantmaking Seamus Carroll is convinced his daughter's journey from Haldane student to Apple iPhone designer began with Destination Imagination, the global problem-solving competition for K-12 students. Haldane's program introduced her to skills such as soldering and wiring, he said, setting her on a path that led to studying electrical engineering as an undergraduate and computer science as a graduate student. In 2014, Haldane middle schoolers involved in Destination Imagination won a state championship before traveling to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville to compete in the global finals. The students' success is owed in part to the Haldane School Foundation, a group of can-do parents who, since the organization's founding in 2000, have raised and donated over $1.5 million to support Destination Imagination and other enrichment programs spearheaded by the district's teachers. With a new logo and branding, the group will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Nov. 8 during its annual fall fundraiser at the Glynwood Center in Philipstown. Carroll and other early board members say the nonprofit's founding occurred during a time of frugal school boards and tax-weary property owners. However, with families moving into Philipstown who sought extracurricular experiences for their children, a group of residents decided to raise private donations to supplement Haldane's budgeted programming. Their efforts enabled 57 Haldane seniors to travel to New Orleans to help Habitat for Humanity rebuild in the area following Hurricane Katrina, brought in educators from a Colorado wolf sanctuary and underwrote a weeklong program for teachers who learn about the Hudson River and apply their knowledge to classroom activities. "There's a bunch of people who had the means to go to a private school, and probably would have, if some of these things didn't materialize," said Joe Curto, an early board member. When the foundation began, according to Curto, the Haldane board was "black and white" about the curriculum - "If it was good enough for me, it's good enough for you" - and the budget battles were brutal. In June 2000, the month the foundation incorporated, district voters rejected, by a 916-666 vote, a proposal to spend $24.4 million on a dedicated high school building. (Voters approved the facility in 2002.) Claudio Marzollo, already "involved in too many things," remembers declining his wife's invitation to attend one of the first organizational meetings for the foundation. "I said, 'If I go, I'm going to get roped into doing something.' " His wife returned home as the vice president, and Marzollo eventually joined the board. The group began holding fundraisers, such as a wine tasting at The Chalet and a Snow Ball. A Harvest Ball at Incredible Caterers on Route 9D was the first big event, said Curto, with live music and an open bar. "We raised a ton of money, and then it became an institution," he said. Becoming legitimate in the eyes of Haldane's administration and faculty took some time, said Carroll, but they eventually welcomed the foundation "as a source of funds to do good stuff that they couldn't get in the budget." Grants, which are awarded in the spring and fall, focus on experiences rather than computers and software, which are less durable than a memory. "It was trying to get the kids to do things that they wouldn't get to do without the funding," said Carroll. "There were a lot of field trips that wouldn't have happened if the foundation didn't pay for them." Grants usually total around $60,000 annually, said Kristen Sherman, the current president. Along with field trips to destinations like Washington, D.C., and Frost Valley, recent awards include $3,500 to cover printing costs for The Haldane Outlook, a student-run newspaper, and $4,900 for a middle school robotics club. (Editor's note: The Highlands Current received five grants from the foundation between 2018 and 2024 to support its Student Jou...

Bird Bath

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2025 2:53

Aspiring Eagle Scout spruces up namesake Daniel O'Sullivan, an aspiring Eagle Scout, is sprucing up a decaying granite eagle. The monument, which sits on a hillside near the entrance to the Haldane campus, was erected in 1899 by Daniel and Julia Butterfield when the property was their estate, known as Cragside. Daniel Butterfield, a Civil War general credited with writing "Taps," commissioned the statue to memorialize Gen. George Washington and his 3rd Regiment, which was posted during the Revolutionary War at Constitution Island. Over the decades, the eagle had become grimy, with moss, mildew and dirt filling every crevice. Parts of the beak and the feathers have broken off. O'Sullivan, a senior at Haldane High School who is a member of Troop 437, based at the Garrison Fish and Game Club, said the idea for the project came from Principal Julia Sniffen. "There have been people in town who wanted to get the eagle restored for quite some time," he said. An Eagle Scout project restoring an eagle sounded "perfect," and he liked the project better than his initial idea to build a Little Free Library box. O'Sullivan's plan is to clean the eagle, build a flower bed around the base and install an informational sign. He considered trying to restore the eagle's broken beak and wings but decided the monument was too fragile. "I don't want to mess it up," he said. To pay for materials, O'Sullivan recruited his mother, Tara, to organize a GoFundMe campaign, which quickly raised $700. On Oct. 11, O'Sullivan led a team of volunteers bearing scrub brushes that included other Scouts, his younger siblings James and Margaret, his parents and his grandparents. They used a cleaner called D/2 Biological Solution that's typically used to clean headstones. O'Sullivan said he expected to finish the project by this week. After his bird work, O'Sullivan will have two merit badges remaining - cooking and communication. Scoutmaster Gary Gunther said Troop 437 has had several Eagle Scouts in recent years, including twins Louis and Patrick Ferreira, who graduated from Haldane in 2024. Louis built standing desks for the high school, while Patrick constructed a gaga ball pit at Tots Park in Cold Spring. O'Sullivan's classmate, Daniel Campanile, who has received his Eagle Scout rank, made improvements at Village Green Park in Nelsonville. O'Sullivan hasn't settled on what he wants to do after graduation next year. He enjoys fixing cars and is studying auto mechanics through Putnam-Northern Westchester BOCES. As the drummer for a rock-punk band called Michigan, he is also interested in music production.

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Episode 432 - Oxygen 8 Rachel Lance Interview

The Great Dive Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2025 96:50

Join your buddies, James and Brando as they sit down and talk with Rachel Lance. She is the author of Chamber Divers, the story about J.B.S. Haldane and other scientists who changed special operations warfare during WWII. The story is fascinating and everything you think you know about nitrox and oxygen with diving might change after this episode. You can get her book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671553/chamber-divers-by-rachel-lance/

Life Without Phones

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2025 3:57

Students adjust to ban with board games, CD players A month into the statewide school cellphone ban, students in Beacon and Philipstown are playing cards during lunch, reading during study hall and showing up on time to class because they can no longer make TikTok videos on campus. Some Beacon High School students recently spent a free period playing tag. "They're being kids again," said Rachel Faiella, a Beacon High School social worker. "It's such a difference." Beginning in September, state law banned students from using their own internet-enabled devices during the school day. Students, teachers and administrators seem to agree that the ban has transformed the culture, particularly at Beacon High School, Rombout Middle School in Beacon and Haldane High School in Cold Spring. Cellphones were already banned in the Beacon and Haldane elementary schools, as well as in Haldane Middle School and the Garrison School, which serves students from pre-K to eighth grade. All local public schools had previously banned the use of cellphones during class. Beacon and Haldane students have mostly been complying, keeping their phones in their backpacks or leaving them at home, according to school officials. On Wednesday (Sept. 24), Julia Sniffen, the principal at Haldane High School, said a handful of students were starting to test the ban. She said she had three confiscated phones in her office. Walking down a hallway during lunch, Sniffen saw several students walking together and said, "I hope I don't see any cellphones." The students smiled and raised their hands to show they were empty. In interviews, students said they like the ban. "It's a lot easier to stay focused and on track, not only academically but also mentally," said Melby Scher, a Beacon senior. She said that, in previous years, the text message "We need to talk" could turn into a daylong distraction. "Before this year, I was on TikTok and Instagram trying to watch everything," said Samiria Ferrer, another Beacon senior. "Now the phone's away, so I can just focus on schoolwork." "In study halls, I'm seeing more actual studying," said Rebecca Masback, a Haldane High School teacher. Students have been innovative in battling boredom, relying on old-school music players that don't violate the ban on internet-enabled devices, said Corey Dwyer, the principal of Beacon High School. "We've seen CD players, Walkmans, MP3 players. We've been joking that the '90s are back." Haldane and Beacon are providing board games like Scrabble, UNO, Connect 4, Twister and Cornhole. "I'm great at Jenga," said Khiana Nicholson, a Beacon senior, who was playing with friends during lunch. Some students noted loopholes. For instance, they have discovered they can still stream shows and movies on Hulu and BritBox through their school-issued Chromebooks. Prince Jones, a Beacon senior, said he thought the ban shouldn't apply to study halls, especially early in the year, when there isn't much homework. During a study hall during the first week of school, "I would just stare at the walls for a little bit and sleep," he said. "It's a hard adjustment for a lot of us, because, you know, we're all addicted to our cellphones," said Nadine Alayon, a Haldane junior, who was playing an oversized game of Connect 4 in front of the school. "It's been hard not going on TikTok during lunch. But it's fun to see everybody talk and socialize in the hallways." "I like it a lot," said David Powlis, another junior at Haldane, who was playing Twister in the hall during lunch on Wednesday. He said in previous years, before the ban, "I would be sitting with my nose in my phone, wasting my lunch period."

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Garrison School Launches Lunch

History Unplugged Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2025 2:58

For first time, students don't need to bring their own It's hard to say who likes the Garrison School's new lunch program more: the children who dine daily on entrees such as hot dogs, tacos and chicken Caesar salads, or the parents who no longer have to pack sandwiches. The public school, which has about 200 students from pre-K to eighth grade, had never had a daily lunch program. Students brought their meals from home, although parents sold pizza on Fridays for years as fundraisers. The new program "has been a game-changer," said Principal Allison Emig. "It's a big help to families getting their kids out the door. But also, it's a game-changer in the school culture. The kids are happy." The meals are offered free to every student through a Universal Free Meals program included in this year's state budget. Funded by state and federal grants, it also covers breakfasts if a school offers them. Garrison provides its lunches in partnership with the Putnam Valley Central School District, said Greg Stowell, the superintendent. He said that the meals are prepared, in part, at Putnam Valley High School and delivered to Garrison. The daily menu is posted on the school website, and the students tell their teachers each morning if they want a cafeteria meal. The school provides about 180 lunches each day; some students still bring their own. The district expects to spend about $50,000 to upgrade its kitchen and hopes to add a la carte offerings for purchase. On Monday (Sept. 15), the menu included cinnamon French toast, ham and cheese sandwiches, chef salads, oranges and fruit salads. On Tuesday, Beshea Toribio, a seventh grader, selected chicken tenders, tater tots, green beans and strawberries. "The salads are also good," she said, speaking over the din of the raucous lunchroom. A classmate, Julia Murphy, also chose the chicken tenders and tater tots but added what appeared to be at least four packets of ketchup. She drank chocolate milk. "I love chocolate milk," said Murphy, 12. "Now I get to have it every day for free." Lunch has been "the highlight of her day since she started school," said Julia's mom, Sandi Murphy, who has spent many years packing meals for her three children. "I'm just hoping her excitement about it continues, because it certainly gives me one less thing to do." In Cold Spring, the Haldane district also began offering all students free meals this year and says it has seen a 15 percent increase in lunches served and a much larger jump in breakfasts, from 58 during the first two weeks of school in 2024 to 500 this year. Beacon public schools have offered free meals since January 2024.

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How British Scientists' Self-Experiments on Underwater Rebreathing Created D-Day Submarine Tech (And Nearly Killed Them in the Process)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 53:29

In August 1942, over 7,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, in a largely forgotten landing, with only a small fraction surviving unscathed. The raid failed due to poor planning and lack of underwater reconnaissance, which left the Allies unaware of strong German coastal defenses and underwater obstacles. Inadequate submersible technology prevented effective pre-landing surveys, leading to heavy casualties and the inability to secure a foothold. Scientists had a rudimentary grasp of mixing air for prolonged underwater survival, with limited rebreather technology, poor understanding of oxygen toxicity, and inadequate gas supply systems. Two summers before D-Day, the Allies realized they desperately needed underwater intelligence to succeed in another beach invasion and win the war. Led by controversial biologists J.B.S. Haldane and Dr. Helen Spurway, an ingenious team of ragtag scientists worked in makeshift labs throughout the London Blitz. Amid a rain of bombs, they pioneered groundbreaking advances in underwater reconnaissance through painful and potentially fatal self-experiments. Their discoveries enabled the safe use of miniature submarines and breathing apparatuses, ultimately allowing the Allies to take the beaches of Normandy. Blast-injury specialist Dr. Rachel Lance, author of Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever, joined us a few years ago to discuss the CSS Hunley, a Confederate submersible used during the American Civil War, the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in combat. We explore these experiments while bringing to life the men and women whose brilliance and self-sacrifice shaped the war’s outcome, including the danger they faced in their quest to enable Allied troops to breathe underwater.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Space Precinct - Protect and Survive

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2025 44:02

Brogan's informant Slik Ostrasky is murdered by Tylan Gershom, a smuggler of illegal Xyronite immigrants, and the only witness is slimy Melazoid business executive Armand Loyster. Brogan and Haldane are assigned to offer Loyster protection until he can testify at Gershom's trial. But Gershom plans to ensure that Loyster never reaches the courtroom.Intro special guest: Georgina MoonRandomiser special guest: Richard James

Notes from the Cold Spring Village Board

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2025 3:52

The Wednesday (Sept. 10) meeting of the Cold Spring Village Board opened on a somber note. "Today we had a political assassination [of Charlie Kirk] and another school shooting [in Colorado]," said Mayor Kathleen Foley. "I'd like a moment of silence for everyone we've lost to gun violence." The mayor also asked that everyone remember those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. Trustee Laura Bozzi introduced the Flood Resilience Reconnaissance Study submitted to the village in June by Fuss and O'Neill, an engineering firm. The study focuses on the Back Brook watershed, the 160-acre drainage area that sends stormwater from as far upstream as Bull Hill to culverts beneath Fair Street before it empties into the Hudson River. The Fair Street drain collapsed during a severe storm in July 2023. The study recommends improvements to the upstream drainage system, which dates to the late 19th century. Bozzi said that once feedback is received from Nelsonville, Haldane, state parks and other partners, a strategy and timeline will be developed. The board accepted the low bid of $60,098 from PCC Contracting of Schenectady to repair damage to the pedestrian tunnel from the 2023 flooding. Six bids were received; the highest was $177,180. The contractor will inject material into the tunnel walls to make them watertight, and doors will be added later so it can be closed off during flooding. Superintendent of Water and Sewer Matt Krug is investigating why the fecal coliform count in treated wastewater entering the Hudson River from the sewage treatment plant exceeded limits set by the state. Kroog also said that, with less than two inches of rain in August, the reservoirs have fallen to 80 percent capacity. The village will establish its fourth public electric-vehicle charging station at McConville Park. Central Hudson will pay 90 percent of the cost, and the village the remainder, about $3,000. The units will be paid for with a state grant. The Highway Department began installing sidewalk ramps at key intersections that will be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The board voted to increase the hourly wage for school crossing guards from $15.50 to $20 an hour. The village is short one guard but had no response to its advertisements. The Planning Board has scheduled a public hearing for Sept. 25 regarding an application for a change of use from retail to bakery at 37 Main St., adjacent to the pedestrian tunnel. As it did last year, the board authorized the Police Department to suspend on-street parking all day on Fair Street and Northern Avenue on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and to divert traffic as needed through November. CSPD handled 123 calls in August, including 18 traffic stops that resulted in 10 tickets. There were also 27 assists to other first responders, nine alarms, six vehicle crashes, five suspicious incidents, three noise complaints, two domestic incidents, and incidents of burglary, harassment, person in crisis and a dispute. Cold Spring Fire Co. volunteers answered 17 calls in August, including six activated alarms, four medical assists, two brush fires and calls for a mountain rescue, mutual aid to Garrison Fire Co., Metro-North elevator rescue, outdoor smoke investigation and propane odor. CSFC was one of four Putnam County fire departments to take part in the first training session at the county's new $1.6 million Fire & EMS Training Center in Kent.

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Money Matters | Stewardship: It's About Thriving | Katie Haldane

C3 Church Oxford Falls

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2025 25:11

We are one church with many locations across Sydney, united with a heart that people would know Jesus, find community and discover purpose. You can find more resources to this message on the Youversion Bible App, follow us on Instagram @c3.syd or reach out on our website c3syd.church/contact. We pray this message blesses you today!

Jorge Fontevecchia entrevista a John Joseph Haldane - Julio 2025

Periodismo Puro, con Jorge Fontevecchia

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2025 48:35

Jorge Fontevecchia en entrevista con el filósofo británico John Joseph Haldane.

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Unlocking UK Growth: From Wages to Productivity with Simon Oates, Barret Kupelian & Andy Haldane

Economics in business

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 38:50

Hosted by Simon Oates, Leader of Economics at PwC UK, this episode of Economics in Business brings you a data-driven exploration of the UK economy's brightest levers and its toughest hurdles. Join Simon as he challenges:Barret Kupelian, PwC's Chief Economist UK, on why real wages are rising faster than wallets feel—and what it means for consumer demand.Andy Haldane, PwC Special Advisor and former Bank of England Chief Economist, on the sharp contrast between sluggish goods exports and booming services—and the policy choices ahead.Together, they dissect:Rising pay packets vs. muted spendingThe goods vs. services export boomBritain's decade long productivity puzzle

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Equip Session: Anchor Your Life - The Power Of God's Word (with Katie Haldane & Ps Phil Pringle)

Phil Pringle Audio Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 33:07

In this week's podcast you will be inspired to increase your devotion to the word of God. Ps Phil is joined by the founder and creator of Trash Your Bible, Katie Haldane, to talk all things Bible. Katie is also the Preaching & Teaching Director at C3 SYD. In our spiritual journey, we often find ourselves searching for an anchor in a world of shifting perspectives. This conversation illuminates the transformative power of God's Word as that unwavering anchor. We're reminded that immersing ourselves in Scripture isn't just about information, but about revelation - allowing God's truth to permeate every aspect of our lives. Be equipped with tips and wisdom for deepening your devotion to, passion for, and ability to, study the Bible. "The Bible is not just a book - it's an anchor for your soul, a weapon against darkness, and a transformative force in your life. Immersed today, equipped for tomorrow." - Katie Haldane, Trash Your Bible. ---------------------------------------------------------- About Trash Your Bible At TYB, we believe that the Bible is not just a book but a transformative journey. If you are looking for tools and resources to help you study the Bible, looking for a community of like-minded people who love the Word of God or looking for a safe place to have your Bible questions answered by someone who has spent years studying the Bible then 'Trash Your Bible' is for you. Katie Haldane is the founder and creator of the Trash Your Bible website and Director of TYB Collective Pty Ltd that produces Bible products to help activate the Word of God in people's lives. Katie works at C3SYD as the Teaching and Preaching Director, training and coaching the preaching team across four locations and co-ordinating campaign notes for each series. Katie has taught at C3 College in the Bible and Theology Course, teaching New Testament Survey and Advanced Biblical Studies. Katie has a passion for the Word of God and for people to experience its power and impact in their lives. She is currently a Doctoral candidate studying at the University of Divinity, Catholic Theological College on the culture of the Greco-Roman world and the book of Revelation. ---------------------------------------------------------- Follow Katie Haldane @katiehaldane Trash Your Bible @trashyourbible www.trashyourbible.com | tyb-youth.com | tybcollective.com TYB Youtube @trashyourbible2294 Ps Phil Pringle @Philpringle https://www.philpringle.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- For more information on C3 Church Global: www.c3churchglobal.com | @c3churchglobal Find you closest C3 Church: https://c3churchglobal.com/find-a-church #wearec3 #bible #biblestudy #wordofGod #churchplanting #jesus #discipleship #spiritualgrowth

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Natural Ange w/ Angela Haldane: March 20, 2025

95bFM

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025

This month's remedies and tips.

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Hall of Faith | We Live by Faith | Katie Haldane

C3 Church Oxford Falls

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 25:57

We are one church with many locations across Sydney, united with a heart that people would know Jesus, find community and discover purpose. You can find more resources to this message on the Youversion Bible App, follow us on Instagram @c3.syd or reach out on our website c3syd.church/contact. We pray this message blesses you today!

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Space Precinct - Predator and Prey

Relatos de Misterio y Suspense

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 43:02

Following the death of an officer from the 79th Precinct in Demeter's most fashionable nightclub, Brogan and Haldane are teamed with Lt. Verro Walker in a search for a serial killer. Walker is a loose cannon, but may hold the key to the killings when Jane discovers similarities with a string of mysterious homicides that took place nearly a hundred years before.Intro special guest: Nigel Planer.Randomiser special guest: Richard James

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Refuting Beneficial Mutations with Dr. Jerry Bergman

Bob Enyart Live

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2025

* Take Me To the Top: Hear Speakers like James Tour, Jerry Bergman, Rob Stadler, Sal Cordova, Joel Brown and our very own Fred Williams Fri & Sat Feb 21 & 22 online at Creation Summit's "No PhD Required" virtual creation conference. *Dr. Jerry Bergman: Fred Williams and Doug McBurney welcome Dr. Jerry Bergman who has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology, and microbiology at several Universities for over 40 years. Dr. Bergman is a graduate of Medical College of Ohio, Wayne State University in Detroit, The University of Toledo, and Bowling Green State University. *Spanking David James: a reference to Real Science Radio was added to professor David James Farina's rationalwiki page because Doug called Professor Dave a communist, (but without reference to our debunking, or even a link)! *A Heavy Load: And we don't mean Professor Dave's "debunking" of Special Creation! We mean the genetic load of mutations that are overwhelmingly deleterious, and never add information beneficial for the survival of an organism. *Encode & Haldane's Dilemma: tell us that Professor Dave and his lovely wife would need to bear at least 1048 more children to even have a chance of evolving the species. *Another Hunk of Junk: turns out to be functioning DNA, and not what Professor Dave and the disciples of Darwin call "Junk DNA". *All Apologies: Doug apologizes to Professor Dave for making light of his past career difficulties, and extends the gospel to him, knowing that behind the bravado of every atheist is a sad story and a broken heart. *Mutations, Cancer & Evolution's True Path: Hear the truth about genetic mutations based on Dr. Bergman's decades of research where the evidence proves mutations kill cells, and kill organisms, (and radiation is used to CAUSE mutations to kill cancer cells)!

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Refuting Beneficial Mutations with Dr. Jerry Bergman

Real Science Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2025

* Take Me To the Top: Hear Speakers like James Tour, Jerry Bergman, Rob Stadler, Sal Cordova, Joel Brown and our very own Fred Williams Fri & Sat Feb 21 & 22 online at Creation Summit's "No PhD Required" virtual creation conference. *Dr. Jerry Bergman: Fred Williams and Doug McBurney welcome Dr. Jerry Bergman who has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology, and microbiology at several Universities for over 40 years. Dr. Bergman is a graduate of Medical College of Ohio, Wayne State University in Detroit, The University of Toledo, and Bowling Green State University. *Spanking David James: a reference to Real Science Radio was added to professor David James Farina's rationalwiki page because Doug called Professor Dave a communist, (but without reference to our debunking, or even a link)! *A Heavy Load: And we don't mean Professor Dave's "debunking" of Special Creation! We mean the genetic load of mutations that are overwhelmingly deleterious, and never add information beneficial for the survival of an organism. *Encode & Haldane's Dilemma: tell us that Professor Dave and his lovely wife would need to bear at least 1048 more children to even have a chance of evolving the species. *Another Hunk of Junk: turns out to be functioning DNA, and not what Professor Dave and the disciples of Darwin call "Junk DNA". *All Apologies: Doug apologizes to Professor Dave for making light of his past career difficulties, and extends the gospel to him, knowing that behind the bravado of every atheist is a sad story and a broken heart. *Mutations, Cancer & Evolution's True Path: Hear the truth about genetic mutations based on Dr. Bergman's decades of research where the evidence proves mutations kill cells, and kill organisms, (and radiation is used to CAUSE mutations to kill cancer cells)!

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Auckland Arts Festival 2025 programme w/ artistic director, Bernie Haldane: 14th February, 2025

95bFM

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025

Alice Canton spoke to artistic director of Auckland Arts Festival, Bernie Haldane, about the programme this year. The festival is running from 6-23 March. More info here!

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Natural Ange w/ Angela Haldane: February 13, 2025

95bFM

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2025

The first Natural Ange of 2025!

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#310 En la oscuridad de Edith Nestbi

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025 39:03

«Dijo que no podría deshacerme del cuerpo. Y no puedo. No puedo.» En la oscuridad (In the Dark) es un relato de terror de la escritora inglesa Edith Nesbit (1858-1924), publicado originalmente en la antología de 1910: Miedo (Fear). Más adelante reaparecería en El libro de Oxford de cuentos góticos (The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales). En la oscuridad, uno de los cuentos de Edith Nesbit menos conocidos, relata la historia de dos viejos amigos [Haldane y Winston] que se reencuentran y conversan sobre un tercer camarada, llamado Visger, un sujeto que posee la inusual habilidad de saberlo todo. SPOILERS «Cuando estudiábamos en la escuela con mi amigo había un chico. Era un tramposo. Siempre les decía a los profesores cosas malas que hacían otros niños. Pero no veía estas malas acciones con sus propios ojos. Simplemente lo sabía todo y los profesores le creían. No sé qué era. ¿Un tercer ojo o un sexto sentido?» Es casi sobrenatural cómo Visiger conoce los secretos más oscuros de cada persona. Esta capacidad de anticipación lo hace notablemente difícil de asesinar. Sin embargo, Haldane estrangula a Visger luego de que este «mojigato» insufrible le costó la relación con su prometida. La última burla de Visger es una predicción justo antes de morir: Haldane nunca podrá deshacerse de su cuerpo, y así se demuestra en el curso de la historia. «Siempre supo cosas que no podía saber», lamenta el asesino. Desde entonces, Haldane es atormentado por extrañas presencias durante la noche, a tal punto que ha decidido terminar con su vida antes de morir de puro terror en la oscuridad. En la oscuridad cuenta con un reducido elenco de personajes, y en el poco tiempo que pasamos con ellos adquieren agencia propia. Por un lado está Haldane, un hombre al borde del colapso nervioso después de haber sucumbido a la ira y el rencor, y haber asesinado a un tipo desagradable. Por el otro tenemos a Winston [el narrador], un sujeto de buen corazón que hace todo lo que está a su alcance para que su amigo logre recuperar la cordura. Y después está Visger. No pasamos tiempo con él, pero aun así entendemos a la perfección la clase de idiota que era: «Visger creció siendo un mojigato. Era vegetariano y abstemio, un fanático de la ciencia cristiana y todas esas cosas.» En este contexto, Winston convence a Haldane de realizar un viaje juntos. Durante un tiempo, las cosas marchan bastante bien. Las visiones dejan de atormentar a Haldane, sin embargo, este todavía conserva un comportamiento infantiloide cuando se encuentra en un sitio oscuro. A pesar de los mejores esfuerzos del narrador por liberar a su amigo de la desesperación, el ciclo que pronosticó Visiger se completa, aunque no de manera sobrenatural. Pensándolo bien, el final que plantea Edith Nesbit es tan absurdo, tan inverosímil, que el elemento sobrenatural bien podría estar presente de forma subrepticia. Como mínimo, estamos ante un hombre [Haldane] que es una especie de imán para cadáveres. Análisis de: El Espejo Gótico https://elespejogotico.blogspot.com/2024/12/en-la-oscuridad-edith-nesbit-relato-y.html Texto del relato extraído de: https://elespejogotico.blogspot.com/2024/12/en-la-oscuridad-edith-nesbit-relato-y.html Musicas: - 01. Mind Tricks - Experia (Epidemic) - 02. Dark Music - The Sealed Kingdom (Epidemic) Nota: Este audio no se realiza con fines comerciales ni lucrativos. Es de difusión enteramente gratuita e intenta dar a conocer tanto a los escritores de los relatos y cuentos como a los autores de las músicas. ¿Quieres anunciarte en este podcast? Hazlo con advoices.com/podcast/ivoox/352537 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

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The Great Dive Podcast - Episode 398 - Dive Tables 5 Diving Deeper Into Decompression Science

The Great Dive Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2025 59:18

This week the boys get back to work after a little Christmas break. Picking up where Haldane left off we get into more changes of the traditional dive tables. Hempleman and the Royal Navy start to look more at diffusion than perfusion, bubbles are discovered by doppler and new thinking emerges from Hawaii, new names like Hills, Yont, Spencer begin to evolve the game of decompression even more.

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XXXIII - Pastor James Haldane

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2025 67:13

On this episode of the WSNS Podcast, Pastor James Haldane is back with me to wrap up 2024 and reflect on the nature and person of Jesus Christ. Along with this, we also discuss some pastoral challenges. In particular, how can we become better pastors for the sake of the Kingdom?

XXXII - Pastor James Haldane

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 80:44

Tonight, I am joined once again by my good friend Pastor James Haldane. Together, on election night here in the U.S., we discuss the philosophy behind Church & State. What is the role of Christians in the voting process? What should we keep in the forefront of our minds in light of eternity? Let's discuss this together. Pastor James Podcast Link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2377349?client Connect with Pastor James pastor@eatonrapids.church Eaton Rapids Church of the Nazarene Socials: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1766998266858524 https://www.eatonrapids.church/

#342: Winston Mourns the Death of Aylmer Haldan

Just the Best Literature

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 28:13

Host Dennis Leap continues discussing Part Two: “Into Africa” of Candice Millard's bestselling book, Hero of the Empire. Winston Churchill argues with Redvers Buller, British commander in chief in South Africa, to get the number and names of the British soldiers who died during the first weeks of the Boer War. Winston discovered that a close friend of his, Aylmer Haldane, was slain. Haldane was an aide-de-camp to Sir William Lockhart and was able to get Winston a position in India that put him in the dangerous battles. Winston needed a man like Haldane in South Africa, and he began his search for one.

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Upside Down Kingdom | Kingdom Character | Katie Haldane

C3 Church Oxford Falls

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2024 28:32

We are one church with many locations across Sydney, united with a heart that people would know Jesus, find community and discover purpose. You can find more resources to this message on the Youversion Bible App, follow us on Instagram @c3.syd or reach out on our website c3syd.church/contact. We pray this message blesses you today!

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XXX (30) - Pastor James Haldane

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2024 90:55

Pastor James has returned for a second time this month! From conversations about Halloween to ecclesiology, Pastor James and Michael discuss not just the current state of the church but also offer some solutions. We hope you enjoy their conversation as much as they did!

XXIX - Pastor James Haldane

xxix pastor james haldane

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2024 108:05

On this special episode of the WSNS Podcast, our friend & brother James Haldane is back with us! Together, we cover topics such as eschatology, pastoral leadership, evangelism, and much more. So, wherever you may find yourself and whichever matter you may be listening, it is my prayer that you consider some of the topics discussed. I know it will be worth your time.

JBS Haldane and the X-Craft

Citation Needed

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2024 38:26

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS (/ˈhɔːldeɪn/; 5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964[1][2]), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS",[3] was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism. Despite his lack of an academic degree in the field,[1] he taught biology at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Institution, and University College London.[4] Renouncing his British citizenship, he became an Indian citizen in 1961 and worked at the Indian Statistical Institute for the rest of his life.

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Space Precinct - The Fire Within (2 of 2)

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2024 40:39

Samina disappears, Haldane resigns from the force to join the Pyrists and a power struggle amongst the priests leads to a third death at the Temple. Then a witness comes forward who claims that Haldane has murdered Samina, and Podly is forced to issue a warrant for Haldane's arrest as the Pyrists prepare for the Day of Immolation – the end of the world!

Space Precinct - The Fire Within (1 of 2)