Podcast appearances and mentions of Jon D Miller

Jon D. Miller joins D.C. Lundberg, who's recording the show from the Locked On Mariners Mobile Unit, to talk wrap up the "what if" scenario D.C. laid out over the previous two shows about the 1995 Mariners. The two then discuss some other, smaller "what if" situations involving Mariners' trades and individual player performances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon D. Miller joins D.C. Lundberg, who's recording the show from the Locked On Mariners Mobile Unit, to talk wrap up the "what if" scenario D.C. laid out over the previous two shows about the 1995 Mariners. The two then discuss some other, smaller "what if" situations involving Mariners' trades and individual player performances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From a very early age Jon Miller had goals in life. He wrote them down. His family, like most, tried to temper his expectations because they didn't want him to be let down. Jon started stacking chips on his shoulder. Fats forward a few years later and Jon had started up one of the nations largest sports websites, Hawkeyenation.com, was the sports director at 1040 WHO, and had a hit show on the B1G network called The Pulse. However, it didn't last. The show was cancelled, he was battling alcoholism, marriage was on the brink, and he found himself and his family with 6 figures of debt living in a little 500 square foot apartment with no idea what tomorrow held for them. Many people would not have been able to continue. But what did Jon do? Jon Miller kept stacking those chips on his shoulders. He went from less than nothing and started a company that in the first year reached 7 figures! Listen to the ongoing struggles and success story of my childhood friend, the Godfather of Hawkeyenation.com, a former host of the B1G network show The Pulse, former Sports Director at 1040 WHO, co-host of the highly rated ‘Miller & Deace in the Morning’ program, and co owner of the company Flashpoint Energy Partners. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/biz-with-beard/message

Where were you on August 21, 2017? If you're like me—and a couple hundred million other Americans—you were watching the total eclipse of the sun. It was breathtaking. Mind-blowing. Awesomely spectacular. And potentially educational. Because a new study shows that folks who saw the celestial event sought information on solar eclipses about 16 times both before and after the big day.In the U.S., some 216 million adults viewed the eclipse. That's 88 percent of the adult population. This viewership dwarfs that of the Superbowl and ranks among the most watched events in American history. That's according to the Michigan Scientific Literacy Survey of 2017.Jon Miller of the University of Michigan conducts a national study of Americans' scientific know-how twice a year. But last year, he added another survey over the week or two after the eclipse, while the experience was still fresh.He discovered that in the months prior to the eclipse, there was a flurry of interest in the phenomenon. People searched online for eclipse-related information and talked about it with family and friends.And the nearly 20 million who traveled to see the eclipse were even more hungry for heavenly knowledge, averaging nearly 25 episodes of eclipse-related information seeking. In comparison, those who for whatever reason missed the event only reported reading or chatting about it six times.But the interest didn't end with the sun's reappearance. After the event, people kept on reporting online-learning and continued conversations. [Jon D. Miller, Americans and the 2017 Eclipse A final report on public viewing of the August total solar eclipse]Miller's survey also indicates that by the end of 2017, 70 percent of those questioned were able to explain the meaning of a total solar eclipse. That's a considerable step up from the 50 percent who understood what an eclipse was at the beginning of the year. Even people who didn't see the eclipse were more likely to correctly define it by year's end, suggesting that the media coverage and general hubbub rubbed off.However, the eclipse mania did not appear to boost our overall understanding of the relationship of the Earth and the sun. The percentage of respondents who knew that the Earth circles the sun once each year remained essentially unchanged, at around 64 percent. These findings should give science communicators added incentive to get the word out before the next big North American eclipse: April 8, 2024.—Karen Hopkin[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.] 

Where were you on August 21, 2017? If you're like me—and a couple hundred million other Americans—you were watching the total eclipse of the sun. It was breathtaking. Mind-blowing. Awesomely spectacular. And potentially educational. Because a new study shows that folks who saw the celestial event sought information on solar eclipses about 16 times both before and after the big day.In the U.S., some 216 million adults viewed the eclipse. That's 88 percent of the adult population. This viewership dwarfs that of the Superbowl and ranks among the most watched events in American history. That's according to the Michigan Scientific Literacy Survey of 2017.Jon Miller of the University of Michigan conducts a national study of Americans' scientific know-how twice a year. But last year, he added another survey over the week or two after the eclipse, while the experience was still fresh.He discovered that in the months prior to the eclipse, there was a flurry of interest in the phenomenon. People searched online for eclipse-related information and talked about it with family and friends.And the nearly 20 million who traveled to see the eclipse were even more hungry for heavenly knowledge, averaging nearly 25 episodes of eclipse-related information seeking. In comparison, those who for whatever reason missed the event only reported reading or chatting about it six times.But the interest didn't end with the sun's reappearance. After the event, people kept on reporting online-learning and continued conversations. [Jon D. Miller, Americans and the 2017 Eclipse A final report on public viewing of the August total solar eclipse]Miller's survey also indicates that by the end of 2017, 70 percent of those questioned were able to explain the meaning of a total solar eclipse. That's a considerable step up from the 50 percent who understood what an eclipse was at the beginning of the year. Even people who didn't see the eclipse were more likely to correctly define it by year's end, suggesting that the media coverage and general hubbub rubbed off.However, the eclipse mania did not appear to boost our overall understanding of the relationship of the Earth and the sun. The percentage of respondents who knew that the Earth circles the sun once each year remained essentially unchanged, at around 64 percent. These findings should give science communicators added incentive to get the word out before the next big North American eclipse: April 8, 2024.—Karen Hopkin[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.]