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Our intercalation series is back with another episode! Join Hannah as she talks to Cam McIntosh about what it's like to intercalate in Medical Education at Nottingham! This episode delves deep into Cam's very own experience with transitioning from Medicine at Bristol to Medical Education at Nottingham. Learn more about the course, the application process and top tips to make the most out of an intercalation. Whether you are thinking about intercalating as part of a medicine degree, already on your intercalation journey or just interested in what this pathway into a medical career holds. This episode is definitely worth a listen!

Welcome back to our intercalation series! Join Afrida as she talks to Cathy Dominic, a finalist at Barts & the London and an incoming AFP doctor about what it's like to externally intercalate at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Learn more about the application process for an intercalated masters degree in Infectious Diseases here! Find out about dissertation topics, publishing research and lab work as well as top tips from any aspiring applicants.

Join Afrida as she talks to Sid about his experience intercalating at Barts in laparoscopic surgery. This is a great episode if you're interested in any kind of surgical intercalation as Sid talks about his experience with the course as Barts including managing theory and practical work including training in some surgical skills. He also talks about his experience applying for similar courses at different universities and how he found learning to work independently with some dissertation tips.

Our very first intercalated masters episode! Tune in to hear Wahaj, a fourth-year medical student at Barts talk all about his iMSc (distinction) in Critical Care and share some great tips on how to make the most of a year away from medical school. Wahaj is interested in cardiothoracic surgery, and has published a book chapter as well as over 10 peer-reviewed articles in various cardiovascular journals. He has also presented his work at multiple national conferences. Wahaj is the regional lead for London, for the British Undergraduate Cardiovascular Association.

In this episode, we take a deep dive with Major Chip Litchfield about the policy update with MICAP Prime and how YOU can dent the universe. For over three years, our MICAP Prime pathfinder has been tested, championed, and supported by many change agents throughout the logistics enterprise. Major Chip Litchfield, a Logistics Readiness Officer and the thought leader who first conceptualized MICAP Prime, hypothesized “What if we could guarantee next-day delivery on EVERY in-stock, aircraft-grounding MICAP in the continental united states by borrowing a page from the #Amazon Prime playbook?” With Tesseract's partnership, Major Litchfield had an opportunity to collaborate with mission partners at the Supply Chain Operations Wing, IMSC, and DLA, ultimately earning the chance to brief the Logistics Board and gain approval to start Tesseract's first pathfinder named MICAP Prime. During the initial testing at only a handful of bases, we fulfilled over 500 lateral 1A MICAPs with a 20% faster response time on C-5, KC-135, and F-16 weapon systems. Tesseract partnered with Headquarters Air Force/A4LR Cargo Distribution Policy Owners, AFIMSC, and Supply Chain Operations Wing Airmen to implement a policy change to AFI 24-602 Volume II and to inbound cargo procedures. Notably, “to the maximum extent possible N1A MICAPs should be moved by next day air or the fastest most reliable method” and “N1A MICAPS will be processed before all other shipments”. In other words, Airmen are empowered to make decisions by evaluating the effectiveness – rather than just efficiency in cost – when shipping aircraft grounding MICAPs.

Iran seized a South Korean-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz hours before announcing it would increase its nuclear activities, as tensions in the region mount in the final days of Donald Trump’s U.S. presidency. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it detained the Hankuk Chemi vessel at 10 a.m. local time on Monday “due to repeated violations of marine environmental laws.” It’s the latest in a series of shipping incidents in the Persian Gulf, where several vessels have been attacked or seized in recent years. The events have unfolded against a broader backdrop of rising anxiety in the Middle East as the Trump administration extended its offensive to weaken Iran and force it into deeper nuclear and military concessions. Concerns of more conflict have mounted in the final weeks before Joe Biden takes over in Washington, especially around the recent assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist and this week’s first anniversary of the killing of the country’s leading general. Iran’s army also announced large-scale drone exercises starting Tuesday following a weekend of defiant speeches accusing the U.S. of aggression. “By creating conditions of insecurity, Iran seeks to destabilize existing rules of law and order, challenging the Saudi and American coalitions which militarily control much of the Middle East,” Dryad Global, a maritime security firm, wrote. Iran’s announcement Monday that it would start processing uranium to 20% purity marks a further breach of a nuclear deal that Trump, who leaves office on Jan. 20, abandoned in 2018. That announcement came shortly after Washington decided to keep the USS Nimitz in the Persian Gulf because of “recent threats” from Iran’s leaders against Trump. The aircraft carrier had been set to leave the region. South Korea has sent an anti-piracy unit to the strait, the Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency reported, citing the country’s defense ministry. The Hankuk Chemi’s operator denied it had broken any environmental rules. The vessel was carrying 7,200 tons of petrochemicals from Jubail in Saudi Arabia when it was intercepted, the IRGC said. The guard corps took it to Bandar Abbas port in Iran, the semi-official Fars News Agency said. Crew members from Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar were arrested, according to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency. Iran’s Foreign Ministry later appeared to play down the incident, saying the seizure was related to a “technical issue.” Relations between Tehran and Seoul have been strained since the U.S. reimposed tough sanctions on Iran and banned countries, including major Asian customers, from buying its petroleum. Iran says it has at least $7 billion from oil sales trapped in South Korea and the funds are needed to purchase humanitarian goods, including coronavirus vaccines. South Korea is not a member of the International Maritime Security Construct, a maritime force created in 2019 in response to Iranian attacks and to protect sea lanes in the Middle East. Seoul has previously indicated a willingness to work with IMSC, though it has not requested assistance from the alliance so far, said an IMSC spokesman. The Hankuk Chemi was sailing to the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah after loading at Jubail on Jan. 2, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. It veered off course in the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow stretch of water between the tip of Oman and Iran, and headed toward Bandar Abbas. U.K. Maritime Trade Operations, which serves as a link between the Royal Navy and commercial vessels operating in high-risk areas, said there had been “an interaction” between a merchant vessel and the Iranian authorities in the Strait of Hormuz between 6:15 a.m. and 7:33 a.m. London time. The U.S. Fifth Fleet, which is based in the region, is “monitoring the situation,” spokeswoman Commander Rebecca Rebarich said. On Dec. 31, a mine was discovered attached to the hull of an oil tanker off Iraq, near the Iranian border. A ship at the Saudi Red Sea port of Jeddah was hit by an explosion earlier in the month, which Riyadh labeled an act of terror.

Do ‘birds that fly instinctively swim’? Are self-evident truths easy to prove? When is ‘want to’ not ‘wanna’? Is verification easier than proof? Are proofs explanations? Is that why proofs are supposed to be elegant? Is reasoning algorithmic? Is there one Method to all reasoning? Are all ungrammatical sentences also unacceptable? When do sentences have ambiguous meanings? Can statements with long proofs be obvious? Does economy play a significant role in language constructions? Can human beings extract insights from verbose arguments? Are young kids born with some innate inductive principles? Is obviousness purely syntax dependent? Is the measure of (theory) simplicity language-dependent? What constitutes a valid proof system? Are all mathematical proof systems automatable? Why are certain mistakes never made? ‘Can’ we hit upon scientific Truth by chance? Has Language evolved? Can ‘explanation’ be given without ‘understanding’, but not vice versa? Why is proving absence (=falseness) often harder than proving presence (=truth)? &, how might intuition, syntax, and proof systems change in the future? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from linguistics (Dr. Tanmoy Bhattacharya, University of Delhi, New Delhi), theoretical computer science (Prof. Meena Mahajan, IMSc, HBNI, Chennai), & philosophy (Dr. Kit Patrick, Azim Premji University, Bangalore). Listen in...

Hosted by Will, Eiddwen and Rob || 3CR is proud to acknowledge the Kulin Nations as true owners and custodians of the lands from which we broadcast. We pay respect to their elders past and present and acknowledge that their sovereignty was never ceded and a treaty has yet to be signed ||[15:58] Dr Mat Hardy, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Studies at Deakin University joins us in discussion and analysis on the Morrison Government’s decision to send a war ship to join the U.S led International Maritime Security Construct (IMSC) in support of freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. [29:45] Bevan from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) also comes on to talk to us about the reasons behind the Morrison Government joining the U.S led IMSC mission, as well as to find out more about the context around why exactly Morrison wants Australia to get involved.[50:40] We listen to Tim Kennedy from the National Union of Workers talk about the importance of unions taking action to deal with climate action to work in favour of giving jobs to workers.  [60:00] Dr Kate Dooley who’s a research fellow at the Australian German Climate and Energy College at the University of Melbourne talks to us about her research between science and policy in order to address climate change. We also speak to Dr Dooley about pro-forestation and the importance of boosting the resilience of existing forests, rather than planning new forests. [74:40] Tania Brugeura comes onto the show to talk about public art’s role in our communities. On the 30thand 31stAugust, Monash University Museum of Art and Monash Art Projects will be presenting a two day event called ‘Let’s Go Outside Making Art Public – The good The Bad and The Transformational of Public Art’. On today’s show the event is discussed with Tania, who is one of the key note speakers of the event. Head to http://www.monash.edu/muma/events/2019/Lets-Go-Outside-Making-Art-Public to find out more.  Music:Lianne La Havas – GhostBrendan Maclean – Ghost  Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The sky  

Howdy all! And welcome to Year 4 of this website and podcast! It was 3 years ago on Jan 4, 2015, when the first post and podcast went up.s Oh, how things have changed! This website was originally just a place to put the podcast. But since then, I've add playlists from Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and BandCamp, and soon ReverbNation, to our repertoire! And also, on the occasional post about Other Sources, you can hear and find Iowa music, like compilation albums, other podcasts, other websites, among other places. And now, starting since last month, we have added a new interview podcast, Your Own Private Iowa, featuring one- to two-hour interviews from Richard Sutton with Iowa musicians. And once a week, we present a video of a live performance from an Iowa jazz or classical act on Jazzman Joe Videos. And once a month, we present a video of an alternative act on our Fester Rage Videos. And soon, we will be reprinting Culture Myth articles from former Cityview music writer, Chad Taylor! So overall, a pretty good year here at IMSC! But as for this podcast, we present the songs that were YOUR favorites, plus one of mine. This was determined by what posts and podcasts got the most views and/or listens. Then the song to represent that podcast was picked by which song's post on the Iowa Music Showcase Songs websites got the most views. TRACK LISTING: For more information, click on the link below the track. Opening - Iowa Music Showcase Theme by Dylan Boyle (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2015/01/intro-and-closing-dylan-boyle.html) Song 1 - "Nets" by Clay Carnivore (the most viewed post this year on the Iowa Music Showcase Songs website) (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/07/ep-49-song-1-nets-by-clay-carnivore.html) Song 2 - "Weihnachten (Frohlocket, Ihf Volker, No. 1 of Sechs Spruche, Op. 79)" by The Wartburg Choir (from the most viewed post on this website, "EPISODE 48: Iowa Classical Music") (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/06/ep-48-song-2-weihnachten-frohlocket-ihr.html) Song 3 - "Say It with Me" by JC//jp (from the most viewed podcast episode on our Archive.org page, "EPISODE 42: The Acts of Iowa Music Showcase Live") (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/01/ep-42-song-9-say-it-with-me-by-jcjp.html) Song 4 - ""Happy" by Far From Innocent (from our most listened to podcast episode on our SoundCloud page, "EPISODE 45 - Iowa Blues and Blues Rock") (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/02/ep-43-song-5-happy-by-far-from-innocent.html) Song 5 - "Amidala" by Lame (from our most viewed video on our Facebook page, "EPISODE 46 - Iowa Star Wars Music, Part 4 of 9: May the Fortieth Be With You") (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/04/ep-46-song-5-amidala-by-lame.html) Song 6 - "30 Days" by Men of Science and Faith (from the most viewed podcast episode on our YouTube channel, "EPISODE 44: Iowa Indie and Alternative Music") (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/03/ep-44-song-7-30-days-by-men-of-science.html) Song 7 - "One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor" by Philbo King (from the most listened to podcast episode on our BandCamp page, "EPISODE 45 - Iowa Blues and Blues Rock") (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/02/ep-43-song-5-happy-by-far-from-innocent.html) Song 8 - "Set to Stun" by Echo 3 (MY favorite of the past year) (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/05/ep-47-song-7-and-theme-set-for-stun-by.html) Closing - Iowa Music Showcase Christmas Theme by Dylan Boyle and Dan OlderMusicGeek (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2015/12/iowa-music-showcase-theme-christmas.html) All songs, artwork, and photography are copyrighted by the performers, composers, artists, and photographers, and used by their kind permission.

Ho ho ho! We bring the last of this year's Holidays episodes. And as in previous years, this episode features some situations and language that some of you may not want to hear. So you have been warned. The rest of you I hope enjoy this last collection of festive musical frivolities. And be back next week as we present a whole bunch of playlists featuring Iowa's own songs of the season! IMSC posts featuring the holidays: http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/search/label/holidays Art by John Leech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leech_(caricaturist) TRACK LISTING: For more information, click on the link below the track. Opening - Iowa Music Showcase Christmas Theme by Dylan Boyle and Dan OlderMusicGeek (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2015/12/iowa-music-showcase-theme-christmas.html) Song 1 - "A Collage of Impressions" by The Poison Control Center s (https://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/12/ep-58-song-1-collage-of-impressions-by.html) Song 2 - "Eggnog and Beer" by Less Poetry and Pizza Babe (https://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/12/ep-58-song-2-eggnog-and-beer-by-less.html) Song 3 - "High on Christmas" by Dan Bee (https://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/12/ep-58-song-3-high-on-christmas-by-dan.html) Song 4 - "Distracted When You Kiss" by Gloom Balloon (https://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/12/ep-58-song-4-distracted-when-you-kiss.html) Song 5 - "Happy Holidays" by Bryan Baker (https://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/12/ep-58-song-5-happy-holidays-by-bryan.html) Song 6 - "Christmas Makes Pants Happy" by Keepers of the Carpet (https://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/12/ep-58-song-6-christmas-makes-pants.html) Song 7 - "When No One Calls on Christmas" by Tuff Jerks (https://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/12/ep-58-song-7-when-no-one-calls-on.html) Song 8 - "Party of the Party" by Karen Meat (https://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/12/ep-58-song-8-party-of-party-by-karen.html) Song 9 - "Merry Christmas, Bats" by Personal Vendetta (https://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2017/12/ep-58-song-9-merry-christmas-bats-by.html) Closing - Iowa Music Showcase Christmas Theme by Dylan Boyle and Dan OlderMusicGeek (http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2015/12/iowa-music-showcase-theme-christmas.html) All songs, artwork, and photography are copyrighted by the performers, composers, artists, and photographers, and used by their kind permission. Next week: We present with playlists from various websites featuring holiday music from our own state's musicians! Next episode: The favorites of 2017! PREVIOUSLY ON IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE: Three weeks ago... PLAYLISTS: Thanksgiving - Iowa Style - http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2017/11/playlists-thanksgiving-iowa-style.html One month ago... Just what the heck is on this website! - http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2017/11/just-what-heck-is-on-this-website.html Three months ago... OTHER SOURCES: An Iowa Noise Music Compilation - http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2017/09/other-sources-iowa-noise-music.html Six months ago... PLAYLISTS: Random Iowa Music BandCamp Playlist 1 - http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2017/06/other-sources-random-iowa-music.html One year ago... Episode 39: Happy Hawkeye Holidays 2016, Part 2 of 2 - The Cola Edition - http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2016/12/episode-39-happy-hawkeye-holidays-2016_11.html Two years ago... Episode 21: Happy Hawkeye Holidays 2015, the Flurries Edition - http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2015/12/episode-21-happy-hawkeye-holidays-2015.html Iowa Music Showcase can be listened to and/or downloaded on the following sites: Home page: http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Iowa-Music-Showcase/364796883703114

Welcome to Episode 14!!! This episode is brought to you by generous donations from listeners like you. Maybe… maybe not. In this episode we are looking forward to bringing you some technical information in as short a time frame as possible. There is no way to cover all the technical information that comprises your motorcycle in one hour. We’re going to start out with some simple things that are overlooked more often than they are checked. In an effort to progress down a logical path (for once!) we’ll start with your chain and end up with your death. WHOA! What the!? Yeah… you’ll see Beginning with your chain, we explain what those numbers on the package are saying about your chain. When you are looking to buy a replacement chain there is a series of numbers that appear that describe the qualities of the chain. The number sequence is usually two triplets like this : 520-130 The first number is the pitch. We’ll explain what that means. The second number is the number of links in the chain. I don’t think we tell you that. For more info and a visual reference we looked up some online stuff for you: Chain pitch/size video Metric chain sizes too We also talk about how your chain can be incorrectly aligned or symptomatic of poor tire alignment. If you rely on your adjusters to do the job, you may be selling yourself short. Adjusters can be way off, especially on a used or aging bike. If you’ve never heard of “stringing” to get proper alignment, here is a visual guide: http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/how-to/how-to-check-front-and-rear-motorcycle-wheel-alignment-mc-garage-tech-tips Tire alignment segues right into tire wear, because if not properly aligned, your tires will wear all weird and shit. It could also lead to scalloping and/or cupping, flat-spotting or tracking problems. Learn how to check your tires and find out your tires birthday, and where the tread wear indicator is. Poor chain and tire maintenance can cause you to crash. Learn all you need to know about that misfortune below: Visit this page for the following reports: http://www.smarter-usa.org/research/crash-studies/ Hurt Report and IMSC’90 Summary California Lane Splitting Study NHTSA Crash Causation Pilot Study Lane Splitting 2015 MAIDS report British IDS Thanks for hanging out with us! Please send us your recorded story about what part motorcycling plays in your life to: creativeridingpodcast@gmail.com with “SSS” is the subject line. also find us on: www.Facebook.com/CreativeRidingPodcast Twitter @Creative_Rider www.creative-riding.tumblr.com www.creative-riding.com leave us a review on iTunes, send a smoke signal, or scream, “Creative-Riding” at everyone you pass.

Traffic congestion impedes our mobility, pollutes the air, wastes fuel, and hampers economic growth. While physical bottlenecks, overpopulation, weather, and construction can all lead to congestion, a key contributor to traffic congestion is road accidents - events that disrupt the normal flow of traffic. Reducing the impact of traffic accidents has been one of the primary objectives for transportation policy makers. In this talk, we present a novel machine learning framework to forecast how travel-time delays - caused by accidents - occur and progress in the transportation network. This research is conducted by correlating 4 years of historical traffic sensor and accident data archived under ADMS project developed - by METRANS and IMSC centers of USC - for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). Speakers: Ugur Demiyurek Associate Director, Integrated Media Systems Center USC Viterbi Dingxiong Deng Ph. D student, Computer Science Department University of Southern California Ugur Demiryurek is Associate Director of Research at IMSC, and has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from USC. His research is focused on fundamental and applied data management with special interest in Geospatial Databases, Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning. He has been supported by grants from both government agencies (NSF, Caltrans, Metro) and industry partners (Microsoft Research, Oracle Labs, Intel, HP Labs). Demiryurek authored two book chapters and more than forty research articles since 2010 and holds three US patents. Prior to IMSC, Demiryurek worked for fortune 500 companies in database technology development and data scientist positions. He regularly serves on the program committee of various major database conferences including ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGSPATIAL, IEEE ICDM, DASFAA, SSTD, and MDM, and is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Pinterest0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 LinkedIn WhatsApp 0Shares “The Money is in the List” is something that you hear the moment you jump into internet marketing and it follows you whenever and wherever you go. And the fact that every experienced internet marketer tells you that the money is indeed in the list, goes to establish the fact that your list is your biggest asset and that it is the most important thing in your business. When I started my business, I never really cared about a list. Traffic generation was simple and Google Adwords and other ads networks were also very cheap. I built a lot of micro niche websites and I was able to generate huge amounts of traffic to these sites. I made and these sites did extremely well. But the biggest mistake that I did was – not build and email list. I never really cared about the “Money is in the list” thing because I was making money and that was all I cared. The next couple of years saw a lot of things change on the internet. The traffic to my sites dropped because they were not optimized and some of them did not even follow the guidelines from Google. Some got penalized and yet others dropped of the rankings. As traffic dropped, the money went down. And finally one day, by the time I could realize what was happening, pretty much all my sites were down. I am sure you don’t want to be in that situation. With the changing internet marketing world and the difficulty in generating traffic and visitors to your content and offers, the efforts that you are putting into generating every single visitor is huge. At the same time, the value of every single visitor coming to your website has increased. If you are not able to capture this visitor in the form of an email address, then you are losing a lot of money. If you haven’t yet started building your list, then start right away. Don’t waste time on planning and designing. Just launch it. Keep in mind that you will need some good and reliable tools in your list building efforts. I recommend using Aweber for your auto-responder. If you are looking for a self-hosted solution, you can use IMSC rapid mailer and use Amazon SES services to send your email. For building beautiful and high converting optin pages and landing pages, I recommend, Thrive Content Builder and Thrive leads. They are cost-effective and has a lot of features as well. Now, you have built your list. What next? Email Marketing Best Practices Building your list is important. It is equally important to manage it as well. One of the biggest mistakes that most people do is to ignore the list after you have built it. You don’t want a dead list where your subscribers don’t respond at all. Neither do you want to be building a list where your subscribers are unsubscribing faster than the rate at which they are subscribing. These 4 email marketing best practices that we are going to discuss today will help you build and manage an email list that is responsive and at the same time profitable. The Confirmation pages – I see a lot of people using the default subscription confirmation pages, which we also call the “thank-you” page, for the optin forms. These pages are hosted by the auto-responder services and have nothing but a message to the subscribers to confirm their email. This is sheer waste of a chance to better interact with you new subscribers. Build a custom thank-you page and give it your branding. You might want to personalize it while telling them who you are are. You might want to add a photograph of yours so that they know who you are. I prefer using this same photograph in almost all of my emails. People digest things better if presented visually. Rather than remembering my name, it will be easier for them to relate to my photograph. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dkspeaks/message

SynTalk thinks about information, while constantly wondering about its physical nature and computability. Is there information in the universe irrespective of human beings or life? Does all the meaning come from a protocol, and what if there is no shared language? Does a protocol or a context need to pre exist? The concepts are derived off / from Laplace, Carnot, Boltzmann, Shannon, Ronald Fisher, Kolmogorov, T S Eliot, Warren Weaver, & Nørretranders, among others. We retrace the journey of the notion of information within (say) thermodynamics, electrical engineering, neurolinguistics, mathematics, and computational systems, & notice how the core departure was to think of it as measurable? Does the universe speak in one language? Does ignorance go down when information is received, and is ignorance analogous to disorder? Is entropy an anthropomorphic principle, as it assumes an underlying notion of order? How, in language, the norm (order) can be identified directly from a close study of the deviation from the norm (disorder). How the brain or any system may learn how to learn and negotiate meaning via ‘bootstrapping’? Is the nature of ‘input’ processing different from information processing as the neural networks are formed in a child’s brain? What makes data information for the receiver? Why does an internal combustion engine ‘have’ to dump out the disorder via the exhaust to direct order to the wheels? Can one think of information content as an objective ‘event cone’ with past and future imprinted in it? Is all time eternally present? Is there a fundamental unit (say, bit or qubit) of information, & is it discrete or continuous or both? How & why are the first and second language signals stored differently in the brain? What is the role played by shared context (exformation) and commonality in communication? Are there different mathematical theories of communication, information content and complexity? The links between wax, steam engines, Voyager, heads or tails, ‘motive power of fire’, critical period hypothesis, It from Bit, falling stones, the case of Chelsea’s misdiagnosis, Four Quartets, ‘I do’, heat death, & Schrodinger’s cat. Can we forget something if we explicitly want to? Does nature forget (information)? Will we drown in the crazy amount of information in the future, or will we develop new tools to handle complexity? Do we need to understand human mind & cognition better? Can we communicate with animals and (may be) aliens in the future? ‘If a lion could speak, we could not understand him’. The SynTalkrs are: Prof. Vaishna Narang (biolinguistics, JNU, New Delhi), Prof. Rajaram Nityananda (astrophysics, Azim Premji University, ex NCRA-TIFR, Bangalore), & Prof. R. Ramanujam (computer science, IMSc, Chennai).

SynTalk thinks about the interrelationships between wholes and parts in natural and conceptual systems, and wonders whether the part is inferred from the whole. Does a part (somehow) imply or expect the whole? The concepts are derived off / from Abhinavagupta, Newton, Kepler, Boltzmann, Boyle, Saussure, Turing, Manfred Eigen, P. W. Anderson, Chomsky, & Morris Halle, among others. In interactions between words, fundamental particles, molecules, cells, & phonemes, why are most combinations void? How do a finite number of parts create a dizzying array of wholes, and links with concepts such as historical contingency, surplus, entropy, sequencing, emergentism, & auto-catalysis? Why are transitions in biological, physical, ecological, social, and linguistic systems so tentative and statistical? Has the physics of the material world achieved a special kind of climax in the biological unit of life, & how the cell is not simply a bagful of chemicals. How the cell is both a part and a whole, & the context of cell division. Which is the most fundamental living part? How entropy comes about ‘only’ in systems of ‘many’ interacting particles. At what point can we start defining concepts such as pressure, volume, & temperature? Why certain molecular complexes self-emerge into functioning self sustaining evolving systems? Why literature does not simply describe the world, and how the non-existent also often make sense? In our daily linguistic behaviour, do we (fundamentally) use phonemes or words or sentences? How a word is a meaningful sequence of phonemes, and the similarities with gene sequencing; the difference between: ‘John killed the tiger’, & ‘the tiger killed John’. The sound patterns of language, & how any sound cannot come after one sound. Can one syllable be a whole in itself (bijakshara)? How a large chunk of the genome performs mundane functions, & discrimination results only from a handful of genes. Are carbon atoms in graphite and diamond identical in every single way, or do the atoms become something different? The links between rabbit’s horn, bureaucracy, multiverses, Lego toys, universal physical constants, Mesopotamian civilization, zebra, sky flower, existence, and time. The implications of an animal (whole) repeatedly developing into an animal (whole). How non linearity (in both deterministic and stochastic systems) is crucial for any emergent phenomena. Is the long term future of existence non local (a la ‘the ant colony as an organism’) and (potentially) altruistic? The intriguing prospect of new emergence as a result of the unprecedented ongoing meta-interactions, where parts (human beings) increasingly understand the emergent design of the whole? The SynTalkrs are: Dr. Rajnish K. Mishra (linguistics, philosophy, JNU, Delhi), Prof. B.J. Rao (biology, TIFR, Mumbai), & Prof. Sitabhra Sinha (physics, IMSc, Chennai).