Podcast appearances and mentions of jon agar

DAVID DANSAR PÅ HAL IS. Vår trio går nu, efter 230 avsnitt, tillbaka till grunden: så gör man whisky. Vi börjar med kornet och vattnet i vår otroligt nördiga väg från ax till fylla. Via en promenad ner till K2 en sväng. Vad var det i glaset? David hade en Bunnahabhain 1997, den här: https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/77451 Mathias njöt av en Michter's 10 YO Rye, en serie som verkar vara single barrel om man tittar på whiskybase: https://www.whiskybase.com/search/?q=michter%27s+10+rye&entity=bottles&sortorder=relevance&page=1&pagesize=100 Jeroen hade en handfilled Penderyn inköpt på destilleriet. Hur gör man whisky? Avsnitt 1 av hur många? Svensk sprit- och alkoholhistoria finns det mycket om, kolla bara här: https://libris.kb.se/hitlist?d=libris&q=alkohol+historia+sverige&f=simp&spell=true&hist=true&mf=&p=1 Davids doktorsavhandling från 2003 ligger i Open source, bara att ladda ned och njuta av: https://libris.kb.se/bib/8893380 Golden Promise: https://www.entreawhisky.se/149 Bruce-Gardyne, Tom, ”Is barley variety crucial to whisky flavour?”, 1/8 2017: https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/opinion-debate/the-debate/15340/is-barley-variety-crucial-to-whisky-flavour/ Bland forskningslitteraturen kan vi nämna de här: Bringhurst, Tom A., ”Barley research in relation to Scotch whisky production: a journey to new frontiers”, Journal of the Institute of Brewing 121 (2015) s. 1–18. Bringhurst, Tom A., & James Brosnan, ”Scotch whisky: raw material selection and processing”, i Russell, Inge & Graham Stewart, red., Whisky: Technology, production and marketing, 2 uppl. (Oxford: Academic Press, 2014), s. 49–122. Brookes, Peter, ”Barley breeding and development in the UK, an historical perspective”, Brewery History: The Journal of the Brewery History Society Online 121 (2005): http://www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/121/bh-121-025.htm Dolan, T. C. S., ”Malt whiskies: raw materials and processing”, i Inge Russel, red., Whisky: Technology, Production and Marketing (2003), s. 27–73. Dolan, T. C. S., ”Scotch malt whisky distillers' malted barley specifications: Twenty years of fermentable extract and predicted spirit yield”, Journal of the Institute of Brewing 106, nr. 4 (2000), s. 245–249. Dolan, T. C. S., ”Scotch malt whisky distillers' malted barley specifications: The concept of fermentable extract – ten years on”, Journal of the Institute of Brewing 97 (1991), s. 27–31. Duncan, Jean, ”The barley timeline: Barley selected for malting and distilling from the 1800s to the present day”, april 2019: http://www.livingfield.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/lfnm19-04brltmlnjd_A1c.pdf Holmes, Matthew, ”Crops in a machine: industrialising barley breeding in twentieth-century Britain”, i Jon Agar och Jacob Ward, red., Histories of technology, the environment and modern Britain (London: UCL Press, 2018), s. 142–160 Kornboken David lovar att inte läsa, i alla fall från pärm till pärm: Dennis E. Briggs bok Barley (London: Chapman & Hall, 1978). Det här med vatten och whisky finns det mycket att länka till men se till exempel: Bringhurst, Tom A., ”Water: An essential raw material for whisk(e)y production”, i Russell, Stewart & Kellershohn, red., Whisky and other spirits (2022), s. 205–211. Wilson, Craig Alexander, ”The role of water composition on malt spirit quality”, doktorsavhandling, september 2008, Heriot-Watt university, tillgänglig online bland annat här: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/29824677.pdf Här når du oss: En trea whisky på Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/entreawhisky) Maila till oss på hej@entreawhisky.se Davids blogg tjederswhisky.se (https://www.tjederswhisky.se) Följ oss på Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/entreawhisky Bli medlem! https://entreawhisky.memberful.com/checkout?plan=74960

RADIOAKTIVT KORN – LYSANDE! Till veckans destilleri hälsar vi på Glen Garioch – anrikt med massor av fräscht, nygammalt tänk. Fånga 15-åringen nu om du hinner! Veckans scoop är gammastrålat korn – genmodifierat från 1960-talet. En lysande idé – eller till och med självlysande? Vi lovar ett matigt avsnitt – golden promise. Trailern för Seinfeldfilmen Comedian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVDzuT0fXro Det var inget i glaset nio på morgonen en lördag! Skandal!!! Veckans destilleri med djuptitt, Glen Garioch: LoneWolf heter numera som moderbolaget som pysslar med att brygga öl, nämligen Brew Dog: https://www.brewdog.com/uk/distilling Hemsida: https://www.glengarioch.com/ Faktiskt beskris destilleriets historia ovanligt väl på hemsidan, med roliga fördjupningar: https://www.glengarioch.com/eventful-past Lite artiklar om nystarten och produktionen i nutid finns hos Words of Whisky: https://wordsofwhisky.com/glen-garioch-restoration-upgrade-kwanele-mdluli/ 2021 gick de ut med att de skulle spendera sex miljoner pund i restaurering och ombyggnationer: https://www.companynewshq.com/company-news/food-and-drink-company-news/beam-suntory-to-invest-in-6-million-restoration-and-upgrade-of-glen-gariochs-distillery-in-oldmeldrum/ Och de öppnade året därpå: https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2022/03/glen-garioch-reopens-after-6m-beam-suntory-investment/ Glen Garioch 46 YO: https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/22605/glen-garioch-1958 Davids smaknoter på Glen Garioch 15 YO, två olika buteljeringar: http://tjederswhisky.se/glen-garioch-15-yo/ http://tjederswhisky.se/glen-garioch-15-yo-2017/ 12-åringen finns på Bolaget: https://www.systembolaget.se/produkt/sprit/glen-garioch-8640501/ Humle och bub som vi pratade om förra avsnittet, om någon missade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vihwz4Xjcjs Det här med direkteldning: Ardmore slutade 2002, Glendronach 2005 och Macallan slutade helt med direkteldning (som då bara gällde vissa pannor) så sent som 2010. Veckans ord: Golden Promise Två artiklar av den härliga Ian Wisniewski av intresse: https://whiskymag.com/story/golden-promise https://whiskymag.com/story/promise-youre-a-miracle Det där med Golden Promise som skapat av gammastrålar: Holmes, Matthew, ”Crops in a machine: industrialising barley breeding in twentieth-century Britain”, i Jon Agar och Jacob Ward, red., Histories of technology, the environment and modern Britain (London: UCL Press, 2018), s. 142–160: https://www.ucldigitalpress.co.uk/Book/Article/53/78/3923/ Exempel på kornsorter som gällde före Golden Promise är Plumage Archer, Spratt och Zephyr. Här når du oss: En trea whisky på Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/entreawhisky) Maila till oss på hej@entreawhisky.se Davids blogg tjederswhisky.se (https://www.tjederswhisky.se) Följ oss på Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/entreawhisky Bli medlem! https://entreawhisky.memberful.com/checkout?plan=74960

Did former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher help invent Mr Whippy Ice Cream? And what can Mr Whippy tell us about the Conservative Party today?With guests:Zoe Philipson, award winning ice cream retailer from Tyne Valley IcesJon Agar, author of Science in the 20th Century and BeyondIan Lavery, Labour MP for WansbeckWill Davies, author of Nervous StatesCreated by Lewis Bassett. Additional editing and sound design from Forest DLG.Follow The Full English on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Get extra content and support the show on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Which scientific voices are heard in government? How one voice or many shapes information that is informing decision making? What structures and institutions have evolved over recent decades to try and make that process more open, more diverse and more robust? In the second episode in our series on science advice and government, host Dr Rob Doubleday is joined by Dr Claire Craig, Provost at The Queen's College, Oxford and Jon Agar, Professor of Science and Technology Studies at UCL. -- Season 5 is produced in partnership with the research project Expertise Under Pressure, Centre for the Humanities and Social Change at the University of Cambridge. CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast is hosted by CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday, and is edited and produced by CSaP Communications Coordinator Jessica Foster. Research for this series is supported by CSaP Policy Researcher Nick Cosstick. Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here. -- Resources mentioned in this episode: Foresight programme website: https://bit.ly/349MO6t Foresight programme's Future Flooding report: https://bit.ly/3umWhCH Foresight programme's Cognitive Systems report: https://bit.ly/3u7Cu9W Foresight programme's Exploiting the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Tales from the Future report: https://bit.ly/35xq3dp Books: Jon: 'Science Policy Under Thatcher'. Claire: 'How does Government Listen to Scientists?' and 'Storylistening: Narrative, Evidence and Public Reasoning'. Sign up to our CSaP newsletter by clicking here.

James Lighthill, UCL Provost (1979-1989), was the author of a highly influential report to the UK government about artificial intelligence (AI). It questioned what AI was and what it could achieve. Its impact was profound. It was the cause, say some, of the first “AI winter” of the 1970s. Lighthill was one of the leading mathematicians of the 20th century. His work nevertheless was highly engaging, asking questions such as “how do fish swim?” and “how do birds fly?”. His answers led him to firm convictions about what makes good science policy, not least concerning how science might pay close attention to the world's problems. The bonus episode excerpts from the audio of Professor Agar's “lunchtime lecture” at UCL in March 2021, with his permission. About the lecture, Professor Agar explains, “I will explore the resonances between Lighthill's approach and our recent return to grand challenges and a problem-oriented industrial strategy for science….I will present my discoveries made in the Lighthill papers held in UCL Special Collections and the National Archives at Kew that reveal the reasons for this intervention. Given the resurgent importance of AI, we can learn from the past fortunes of the subject.” The original title of Professor Agar's talk was, “Why Did a Former UCL Provost think Research in AI Should be Stopped?”   UCL Minds Lunch Hour Lectures UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture series has been running at UCL since 1942 and showcases the exceptional research work being undertaken across UCL. Lectures are free and open to all. The full version of this lecture, with formal introduction and moderated questions and answers, is available on the UCLLHL YouTube channel. #ucllhl​ Twitter: @UCLLHL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/UCLLHL​   About the Speaker Professor Jon Agar is Professor and Co-Head of UCL Department at Science and Technology Studies (STS). He is a historian of modern science and technology, and he is the author of many books, including: - Science Policy under Thatcher (2019) - Constant Touch: a Global History of the Mobile Phone (Icon, second edition, 2013) - Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Polity, 2012) - The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer (MIT Press, 2003) He is also co-editor of the volume: - Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (co-edited with Jacob Ward, 2018) In 2016 Professor Agar was the recipient of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture.   Featuring Speaker: Professor Jon Agar, UCL Professor in Science and Technology Studies https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/agar (@jon_agar) Host: Professor Joe Cain, UCL Professor in History and Philosophy of Biology https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/cain (@profjoecain)   Music credits “Rollin At 5,” by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5000-rollin-at-5 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0   Production information Editing and post-production by Professor Joe Cain. “WeAreSTS” producer is Professor Joe Cain.   Podcast information “WeAreSTS” is a production of the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at University College London (UCL). To find out more, and to leave feedback about the show, visit us online: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/podcast Students and staff in STS also can find on the website information about how to get involved with our programme. Twitter: @stsucl #WeAreSTS

ReferencesAckerman, John T. “Climate Change, National Security, and the Quadrennial Defense Review.” Strategic Studies Quarterly 2, no. 1 (2008): 56–96.Agar, Jon. “Technology, Environment and Modern Britain:” In Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain, edited by Jon Agar and Jacob Ward, 1–21. UCL Press, 2018. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqhsmr.5.Alston, Julian M., and Philip G. Pardey. “Agriculture in the Global Economy.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 1 (2014): 121–46.Biel, Robert. “Introduction.” In Sustainable Food Systems, 1–3. The Role of the City. UCL Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1j1vzc5.4.———. “Political Dimensions – Agriculture and Class Struggle.” In Sustainable Food Systems, 48–57. The Role of the City. UCL Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1j1vzc5.10.5. Drechsel, Pay, and Hanna Karg. “Food Flows and Waste:” In Integrating Food into Urban Planning, edited by Yves Cabannes and Cecilia Marocchino, 154–70. UCL Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv513dv1.14.6. Harari, Yuval Noah. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. (London: Penguin Random House, 2018),p.1-2707. JOHNSON, GREGORY, VIJAYA RAMACHANDRAN, and JULIE WALZ. “CERP in Afghanistan.” PRISM 3, no. 2 (2012): 81–98.8. Keulertz, Martin, and Eckart Woertz. “States as Actors in International Agro-Investments.” In Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, edited by Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, and Peter Messerli, 30–52. Focus on South-East Asia. Brill, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w76v19.10.9. Myers, Joe. “These are the world's most sustainable cities”, World Economic Forum, Sep. 20, 2016. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/these-are-the-world-s-most-sustainable-cities10. Oehen, Bernadette, Robert Home, Anneli Käsmayr, and Raphaela Reinmann. “Sustainable Food Systems.” In Culinary Turn, edited by Nicolaj van der Meulen and Jörg Wiesel, 87–90. Aesthetic Practice of Cookery. Transcript Verlag, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1wxt0c.15.11. Poon, Linda.  “Carbon Emissions Are Already Falling in 30 Cities”, CityLab. Oct. 9 2019. https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/10/c40-peak-carbon-co2-emissions-highest-cities-climate-summit/599644/12. Vira, Bhaskar, Christoph Wildburger, and Stephanie Mansourian, eds. “Understanding the Roles of Forests and Tree-Based Systems in Food Provision.” In Forests and Food, 1st ed., 29–72. Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes. Open Book Publishers, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt19b9jsg.7.13. Woertz, Eckart. “Agriculture and Development in the Wake of the Arab Spring.” In Combining Economic and Political Development, edited by Giacomo Luciani, 144–69. The Experience of MENA. Brill, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h356.15.

This episode was first broadcast in July 2013.This year, Nature celebrates its 150th birthday. To mark this anniversary we’re rebroadcasting episodes from our PastCast series, highlighting key moments in the history of science.During the Second World War, scientists worked on secret projects such as the development of radar. Their efforts were hinted at in the pages of Nature but the details, of course, couldn't be published. In this episode, historian Jon Agar explains how war work gave physicists a new outlook and led to new branches of science. We also hear from the late John Westcott, whose wartime job was to design radar systems.From the archiveNature Volume 150 Issue 3794, 18 July 1942Sound effects courtesy of daveincamas, piet.candeel@pandora.be, guitarguy1985 and acclivity at freesound.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Public Lecture Jon Agar and Jacob Ward (University College London) 'Communications, control and cybernetics in post-war British systems: rail, post and telecoms' Discussant: Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge) Convenors Andrew McKenzie-McHarg (University of Cambridge) Poornima Paidipaty (University of Cambridge) Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University) Summary As more and more of our collective activities (education, pension planning, health management, environmental protection) are mediated by rapidly moving markets and computerized technologies, uncertainties abound. Such visions of a technologically mediated — and seemingly limitless — future are not new. They echo the technological futurism popularized in the middle of the twentieth century by cybernetics. Beginning with the 1948 publication of Norbert Wiener’s book, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, cybernetics inaugurated path-breaking scientific explorations of feedback and self-regulation in biological and mechanical systems. It initiated an ambitious set of technoscientific discussions that provocatively transcended traditional disciplinary boundaries. Cyberneticians argued that patterns of feedback and self-regulation were key to understanding the operation of anti-aircraft guns, the erratic movements of victims of brain injury, the dynamics of group psychology, the relationship of human societies to their natural environment and much more. These insights furnished profound reassessments of notions of agency, of distinctions between the human and the non-human and of models of learning and memory. The scholarship on cybernetics has, however, only recently began to trace the legacies of this movement beyond the Cold War era. By providing insights into the enduring impact of mid-century techno-science on our contemporary information landscape, 'The Afterlives of Cybernetics' conference will contribute to a more thorough history of the present by helping us understand the antagonisms and synergies that animate the multiple offshoots of cybernetic thought, including operations research, AI, rational choice theory, predictive analysis, design thinking, behavioural economics and risk management. This in turn will lay the foundations for a better understanding of how these knowledge practices allow us to project, imagine and engage with uncertain and unbounded futures.

The lecture by Jon Agar and Jacob Ward (University College London) will be open to all free of charge. Further information, including an abstract, is available here. Convenors Andrew McKenzie-McHarg (University of Cambridge) Poornima Paidipaty (University of Cambridge) Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University) Summary As more and more of our collective activities (education, pension planning, health management, environmental protection) are mediated by rapidly moving markets and computerized technologies, uncertainties abound. Such visions of a technologically mediated — and seemingly limitless — future are not new. They echo the technological futurism popularized in the middle of the twentieth century by cybernetics. Beginning with the 1948 publication of Norbert Wiener’s book, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, cybernetics inaugurated path-breaking scientific explorations of feedback and self-regulation in biological and mechanical systems. It initiated an ambitious set of technoscientific discussions that provocatively transcended traditional disciplinary boundaries. Cyberneticians argued that patterns of feedback and self-regulation were key to understanding the operation of anti-aircraft guns, the erratic movements of victims of brain injury, the dynamics of group psychology, the relationship of human societies to their natural environment and much more. These insights furnished profound reassessments of notions of agency, of distinctions between the human and the non-human and of models of learning and memory. The scholarship on cybernetics has, however, only recently began to trace the legacies of this movement beyond the Cold War era. By providing insights into the enduring impact of mid-century techno-science on our contemporary information landscape, 'The Afterlives of Cybernetics' conference will contribute to a more thorough history of the present by helping us understand the antagonisms and synergies that animate the multiple offshoots of cybernetic thought, including operations research, AI, rational choice theory, predictive analysis, design thinking, behavioural economics and risk management. This in turn will lay the foundations for a better understanding of how these knowledge practices allow us to project, imagine and engage with uncertain and unbounded futures.

Jon Agar will introduce the concept of working worlds, illustrate how they can be used to think about past and present science, and identify some problems and issues. In a recent historical survey of science in the twentieth century, I devised a concept 'working worlds' which I think helps understand science's relationship with its broader context. Working worlds are arenas of human action that generate problems. The intuition was that science does not operate in a featureless, level environment; rather it responds to an uneven, given landscape of which working worlds are the major features. Our lives, but especially our sciences, have been organised by our orientation towards working worlds. In this seminar I will introduce the concept of working worlds, illustrate how they can be used to think about past and present science, and identify some problems and issues.

Jon Agar will introduce the concept of working worlds, illustrate how they can be used to think about past and present science, and identify some problems and issues. In a recent historical survey of science in the twentieth century, I devised a concept 'working worlds' which I think helps understand science's relationship with its broader context. Working worlds are arenas of human action that generate problems. The intuition was that science does not operate in a featureless, level environment; rather it responds to an uneven, given landscape of which working worlds are the major features. Our lives, but especially our sciences, have been organised by our orientation towards working worlds. In this seminar I will introduce the concept of working worlds, illustrate how they can be used to think about past and present science, and identify some problems and issues.

Claire Birch interviews Dr Jon Agar who has published a paper in Notes and Records which looks at Margaret Thatcher's early career as a scientist, an area of her life often overlooked by biographers. He then discusses how this training may have influenced her political career.

Das „Promigeflüster“ und „Martins Gastrotipps“ melden sich diesmal in einer Doppelfolge aus dem SI-Centum in Stuttgart. Die beiden Hauptdarsteller aus dem Musical WE WILL ROCK YOU - Kaatje Dierks und Jon Agar, verraten bei den Gastrotipps, wo man vor oder nach dem Musicalbesuch noch gut essen gehen und den Abend ausklingen lassen kann. Im Promigeflüster könnt ihr die beiden in der Maske erleben und sehen wie die beiden Figuren KILLER QUEEN und KHASHOGGI entstehen. Infos unter: www.jonathanagar.comund www.kaatjedierks.de

Das „Promigeflüster“ und „Martins Gastrotipps“ melden sich diesmal in einer Doppelfolge aus dem SI-Centum in Stuttgart. Die beiden Hauptdarsteller aus dem Musical WE WILL ROCK YOU - Kaatje Dierks und Jon Agar, verraten bei den Gastrotipps, wo man vor oder nach dem Musicalbesuch noch gut essen gehen und den Abend ausklingen lassen kann. Im Promigeflüster könnt ihr die beiden in der Maske erleben und sehen wie die beiden Figuren KILLER QUEEN und KHASHOGGI entstehen. Infos unter: www.jonathanagar.comund www.kaatjedierks.de