Podcast appearances and mentions of John H Daniels

The Scott Thompson Show Podcast Jeff Bezos has launched into space aboard the Blue Origins New Shepard rocket, along with his brother, and 18-year-old from the Netherlands and 82-year-old Wally Funk, who was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same testing as NASA's Mercury astronauts back in the early 1960s. Guest: Paul Delaney, Professor of Astronomy, York University. - Canada will be opening its border to U.S. citizens in the coming months. This news comes along with word that we have surpassed the U.S. in vaccine rollout, leading to some concerns about opening up. Meanwhile, we are seeing rising tensions between those who have received their two doses and those who have as of yet refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, in some cases ending friendships and business relationships. Guest: Dr. Rodney Rohde, Professor and Chair of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the College of Health Professions with Texas State University - Wildfires in B.C. continue, and now Ontario is experiencing the effects of our own fires in the northwest. Professor David Martell returns to the show to discuss the management practices of wildfires in Ontario. Guest: David Martell, Professor Emeritus, Forest fire management systems, Institute of Forestry and Conservation, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto - The official start of the Tokyo Olympics is only days away but positive tests for COVID-19 are raising concerns of those who are already on edge about the idea of the event taking place during the pandemic. Guest: Sean Fitz Gerald, Senior National Writer with The Athletic See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Lemon, LittD, MA, BA Hons (Melb), FRHSV Historian With the 2008 completion of his trilogy The History of Australian Thoroughbred Racing, Andrew Lemon is acknowledged as the foremost expert on the history of racing in this country. Andrew has enjoyed a long career as a professional historian, has published books on topics ranging from schools, sport and shipwrecks to biography and local history, and has won national literary awards. He is consultant historian to the Victoria Racing Club. For his body of published work, the University of Melbourne awarded him the degree of Doctor of Letters in 2005. He has served on Victoria's Heritage Council and the State Library of Victoria Board, and is immediate past-president of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. He edited the Victorian Historical Journal throughout the 1990s. Andrew in television consulted for and appeared on the 2000 ABC series, The Track and more recently on episodes of Who Do You Think You Are for SBS. Andrew was a major contributor to such works as The Story of the Melbourne Cup, They're Racing, The Australian Dictionary of Biography, The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Encyclopedia of Melbourne and Sport in Victoria. Andrew was awarded a John H. Daniels Fellowship to the National Sporting Library and Museum in Virginia USA in 2012. His latest book, The Master Gardener, (Hardie Grant Books 2018) is a major biography of T.R. Garnett, headmaster, Age nature writer, creator of the renowned Garden of St Erth. The book was recently longlisted for the 2018 Waverley (NSW) Nib Literary Award.

Jimenez Lai is the director of Bureau Spectacular, based in Los Angeles where he is also an Assistant Professor in the school of architecture at UCLA. Before founding Bureau Spectacular, Lai worked for various international offices, including OMA, as well as living and working in a desert shelter at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and residing in a shipping container on the piers of Rotterdam at the enclave of Atelier Van Lieshout. In the past years, Lai began building structures at an architectural scale, including the Taiwan Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architectural Biennale for the exhibition which he curated, and a 52' tall object (pictured above) for the 2016 Coachella Valley Music Festival. Lai is widely exhibited and published around the world, including the MoMA-collected White Elephant. His first manifesto, Citizens of No Place, was published by Princeton Architectural Press with a grant from the Graham Foundation. Draft II of this book has been archived at the New Museum as a part of the show Younger Than Jesus. Amongst his other efforts, Lai organized the 14-volume Treatise publication series. Jimenez Lai’s work has been recognized with various awards, including the New York Architectural League Prize for Young Architects (2012) and the Debut Award at the Lisbon Triennale 2013. Lai is a graduate of the John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, and formerly an academic at University of Illinois.