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An exclusive look into the latest developments and opportunities on TikTok, Twitch, and Snapchat with this  panel discussion from the TellyCast Digital Content Forum, recorded live at BFI Southbank on 7 November 2024. Moderated by Deadline's Stewart Clarke and featuring Ed Lindeman from TikTok, Josh Bloom from Twitch, and Lucy Luke from Snapchat, this session dives into how these platforms are evolving and the strategies media publishers and creators can use to succeed in the digital landscape.From monetisation strategies to integrating legacy content and navigating cultural moments, this panel is a must-watch for creators, brands, and media professionals looking to thrive on these platforms.Sign up for The Drop newsletterSupport the showSubscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videosFollow us on LinkedInConnect with Justin on LinkedINTellyCast videos on YouTubeTellyCast websiteTellyCast instaTellyCast TwitterTellyCast TikTok

Send us a Text Message.This episode features Josh Blum, Chris Stewart, and John Vance.We want your helmet (for the AVB CTC)! Check this out to find out more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5_ZwoCZo0Sign up for the B Shifter Buckslip, our free weekly newsletter here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/fmgs92N/BuckslipShop B Shifter here: https://bshifter.myshopify.comRegister for the 2024 Hazard Zone Conference here: http://hazardzonebc.com/All of our links here: https://linktr.ee/BShifterPlease subscribe and share. Thank you for listening!This episode was recorded August 14, 2024 at Fire-Rescue International in Dallas, TX. Join us live from the Fire Rescue International (FRI) conference in Dallas, Texas, as we sit down with Josh Bloom, and Chris Stewart. We kick things off with an exciting offer exclusive to FRI attendees, including free T-shirts and a discount on 2024 Blue Card Hazard-Zone Conference registration. We also dive into the highly anticipated two-day May Day Management Workshop, where we explore Mayday prevention and management through expert-led sessions and real-life case studies.To round things off, we underscore the importance of ownership and responsibility at all levels of fireground operations. From task-level actions to strategic command decisions, every role is vital to the success of an operation. Using sports analogies, we illustrate the necessity of a coordinated incident action plan and a cohesive team. Don't miss our special promotions and event highlights for the FRI conference – stop by booth 1822 and join the conversation! 

Are the Canucks going to re-sign Nikita Zadorov and/or Elias Lindholm? With all the rumblings out there in the market, Quads and Harm discuss what the team SHOULD do, and COULD do come free agency if both these guys want term and top dollar. Plus, we are joined by Canucks prospect Josh Bloom, who scored the Memorial Cup game-winning goal for the Saginaw Spirit!Thank you to all of our sponsors:Wendy's: Find the nearest Wendy's location hereVancouver Canadians: Get your tickets now at www.canadiansbaseball.com!GRETA BAR YVR: The home of all our watch parties, check out Greta Bar YVR!Four Winds Brewing: @fourwindsbrewco. Try the new Four Winds Light Lager today!bet365: Powered by @bet365. Whatever the moment, it's Never Ordinary at bet365. Download the App today and use promo code: VANBONUSFollow us on Instagram: @canucksarmydotcomFollow us on Twitter: @CanucksArmyFollow us on Facebook: @CanucksArmyFollow us on YouTube: @CanucksArmyVisit CanucksArmy.com for the latest news, analysis, editorials & prospect reports on the CanucksWatch Rink Wide: Vancouver LIVE ON YOUTUBE Listen to Sekeres & Price on podcast or WATCH on YouTubePowered by The Nation Network. Reach out to sales@nationnetwork.com to connect with our Sales Team and discuss opportunities to partner with us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reports are swirling about the possible return of some Canucks free agents, so Matt and Blake take it all on, from Lindholm to Zadorov. Can they fit them under the cap, and even so, does it cost them their ability to bolster the defence and winger corps? Not to mention, they get into the issue of committing long term to older players and guys that are “core” to the team. Frank Corrado joins the guys as well, with another breakdown on the performance of Canucks prospect Josh Bloom at the Memorial Cup, he gives his 2 cents on the idea of a Lindholm return, and on what successful coaching looks like for a good PP unit. All that, plus all your feedback with another edition of “To the People We Go”, and a preview of the weekend for the Lions, C's and the Canadian Men's Soccer team.All that, plus some ticket news from the BC Lions and a lot more! Follow us on social. Thank you to our sponsors:bet365 | Whatever the moment, it's Never Ordinary at bet365. Download the App today & use Promo Code VANBONUSGreat Clips | It's Gonna Be GreatGRETA Bar Vancouver | Our Home For Food, Drinks & Watching The GameHelp Stars Here | https://helpstartshere.gov.bc.ca/Northlands Golf Course | 6-90 Day Reservations - Jump The Queue & Lock In Your Dates For $10 Per Player Booking FeeSleep Douglas | Named Canada's Best MattressVancouver Canadians | Get your tickets HEREWhistler Golf Club | Book Your Tee Times At The Arnold Palmer-Designed Course!Yellow Dog Brewing | Located in Port Moody (2817 Murray Street)Watch Sekeres & Price LIVE on YouTubeVisit CanucksArmy.com for the latest on the Canucks!Follow host Matt SekeresFollow host Blake PriceFollow producer Grady SasPowered by The Nation Network. Reach out to sales@nationnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reports are swirling about the possible return of some Canucks free agents, so Matt and Blake take it all on, from Lindholm to Zadorov. Can they fit them under the cap, and even so, does it cost them their ability to bolster the defence and winger corps? Not to mention, they get into the issue of committing long term to older players and guys that are “core” to the team. Frank Corrado joins the guys as well, with another breakdown on the performance of Canucks prospect Josh Bloom at the Memorial Cup, he gives his 2 cents on the idea of a Lindholm return, and on what successful coaching looks like for a good PP unit. All that, plus all your feedback with another edition of “To the People We Go”, and a preview of the weekend for the Lions, C's and the Canadian Men's Soccer team.All that, plus some ticket news from the BC Lions and a lot more! Follow us on social. Thank you to our sponsors:bet365 | Whatever the moment, it's Never Ordinary at bet365. Download the App today & use Promo Code VANBONUSGreat Clips | It's Gonna Be GreatGRETA Bar Vancouver | Our Home For Food, Drinks & Watching The GameHelp Stars Here | https://helpstartshere.gov.bc.ca/Northlands Golf Course | 6-90 Day Reservations - Jump The Queue & Lock In Your Dates For $10 Per Player Booking FeeSleep Douglas | Named Canada's Best MattressVancouver Canadians | Get your tickets HEREWhistler Golf Club | Book Your Tee Times At The Arnold Palmer-Designed Course!Yellow Dog Brewing | Located in Port Moody (2817 Murray Street)Watch Sekeres & Price LIVE on YouTubeVisit CanucksArmy.com for the latest on the Canucks!Follow host Matt SekeresFollow host Blake PriceFollow producer Grady SasPowered by The Nation Network. Reach out to sales@nationnetwork.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today the guys talked about Ian Cole's future after Rick shared a contract update and they react to the announcement of their Assistant Coaches.Joining the show is Ed Jovanovski (17:54) and Josh Bloom (54:58). 

Sportsnet's Jason Bukala joins Jamie and Thomas to talk about a couple of Canucks prospects in Josh Bloom and Jonathan Lekkerimaki. He admits that signing Chandler Stephenson would be a good fit with Lekkerimai and Elias Pettersson. Afterwards, they talk about the Canucks unwillingness to take a step back next season and compare the current Cup finalists with what the Canucks have to do to get there. This podcast is produced by Dominic Sramaty & Lina SetaghianThe views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.

The North Bay Mitsubishi After Action Report starts live immediately following the final whistle of each Battalion home game.Brad Brooks and Ben Long break down all the action and react to player and coaches comments fresh off the ice.The Battalion welcome in Josh Bloom and the Spirit to town following a big 3-2 victory Friday night vs the 67's. The two teams square off for the first time this year as the Spirit, who are hosting the memorial cup, try to make a run at some silverware

Dr. Jonathan (Josh) Bloom, ACSH's Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Virginia, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. His first career was in drug discovery research, mostly at Wyeth. During this time he participated in research in a number of therapeutic areas, including diabetes and obesity, new antibiotics, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis C. His group discovered the novel antibiotic Tygacil®, which was approved by the FDA for use against resistant bacterial infections in 2005. He is the author of 25 patents, and 35 academic papers, including a chapter on new therapies for hepatitis C in Burger's Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery, and Development, 7th Edition (Wiley, 2010). Dr. Bloom joined the American Council on Science and Health in 2010 as Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The articles featured are: DEA Chasing Its Tail Again: This Time, It's 'Synthetic Cannabinoids' https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/12/20/dea-chasing-its-tail-again-time-its-synthetic-cannabinoids-17523 Tylenol Plus Advil Combo: Innovation Or Exploitation? https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/12/28/tylenol-plus-advil-combo-innovation-or-exploitation-17549   #ACSH #Josh #Bloom #DEA #pharmaceutical #industry #American #Council #Science #Health

This is part 2 of our interview with Dr. Josh Bloom. Here is part 1, in case you missed it. In this podcast, we discuss Tylenol for post-op pain. Is it actually as good as opioids? We interview a pain patient who was offered Tylenol only for breast cancer surgery. We also discuss suicide due to pain. Links discussed in this episode Debate with Dr. Singer and Dr. Fugh-Berman Article about this debate by Josh Bloom - A Surgeon And A Non-Practicing Anti-Opioid Zealot Walk Into A Bar: The Singer Fugh-Berman Debate You Take The Lavender, I'll Take The Morphine. More Anti-Opioid Nonsense. Dr. Kertesz's video with Dr. Fugh-Berman In this podcast, Dr. Josh Bloom suggested patients send two articles to legislators about Tylenol instead of opioids. Op-ed article in USA Today by Dr. Singer and Dr. Bloom - Bureaucrats are telling your doctor how to treat pain. And patients suffer needlessly. Article by Dr. Josh Bloom - Tylenol Isn't So Safe, But At Least It Works, Right? Other article by Dr. Josh Bloom about Tylenol Is Tylenol 'By Far The Most Dangerous Drug Ever Made? IV Tylenol As Good As Moose Urine For Post-Op Pain Control Oral And IV Tylenol Work *Equally* Well For Hip Replacement Pain - But Do They Work At All? Tylenol After Surgery? Why The Feds Make Patients Suffer Needless Pain (USA Today) Oral Vs. IV Tylenol In The Elderly: The 'Let's Kick Granny Down The Stairs' Study IV Tylenol Bombs For Post-Op Pain Control, In Randomized Controlled Trial Dr. Aric Hausknecht Responds To SG Jerome Adams' Tylenol Recommendation Head on over to our DPF Patreon page⁠. patreon.com/thedoctorpatientforum Suicide hotline: 988 or 911 Disclaimer: The information that has been provided to you in this podcast is not to be considered legal or medical advice. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-doctor-patient-forum/message

Another day, another podcast.Arturs Silovs has been the biggest on-ice story for the Vancouver Canucks of late with his great play at the World Championships. Quads tells us what he's liked from Silovs and what it means for next season's NHL goalie situation. Then, Canucks prospect Josh Bloom joins the show to talk about his OHL career and what his expectations are for next year. Faber talks about how the Canucks can clean up with their abundance of mid-round picks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cutting the dose of Tylenol in opioids makes the drugs safer. Why? Pharma company J&J is developing a drug that could reduce liver damage caused by Tylenol—which J&J also sells. Join host Cameron English as he sits down with Dr. Josh Bloom to break down these stories on Episode 42 of the Science Dispatch podcast: Making Vicodin and Percocet Safer, By Reducing the Dose of Tylenol Lost in the discussion of the alleged danger of opioid medications is that most of them also contain acetaminophen (Tylenol). Although acetaminophen is generally seen as benign, it is not. Here is what happened when the FDA cut the maximum acetaminophen dose to 325 mg. You may be surprised. A Bit of Irony: J&J Developing Drug to Undo Liver Damage ... From Its Own Tylenol Johnson & Johnson is working on a drug to repair liver damage caused by Tylenol, which has made the company billions since it was launched in 1955. Isn't this a bit like having a dentist's office in the back of a candy store?

Listen to part 1 of DPF's interview with Dr. Josh Bloom. Why are so many pain patients put on Gabapentin? Does it work? Why are so many being prescribed Gabapentin all of a sudden? What are some of the possible side effects? Listen to some patient stories about Gabapentin. Stay tuned for Part 2 with Josh Bloom. Josh Bloom's bio: "Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Dr. Josh Bloom earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Virginia, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania.He worked for more than two decades as a research chemist for Lederle Laboratories, which was acquired by Wyeth in 1994, which itself was acquired by Pfizer in 2009. During this time he worked in a number of therapeutic areas, including diabetes and obesity, antimicrobial agents, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and oncology. His group discovered the novel antibiotic Tygacil®, which was approved by the FDA for use against resistant bacterial infections in 2005. He is the author of 25 patents, and 35 academic papers, including a chapter on new therapies for hepatitis C in Burger s Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery and Development, 7th Edition (Wiley, 2010), and has given numerous public lectures on how the pharmaceutical industry really works. Dr. Bloom joined the American Council on Science and Health in 2010 as ACSH s Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and has written more than 20 op-eds, which have appeared in major publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Post, National Review Online and Medical Progress Today. Dr. Bloom is a regular contributor to Science 2.0, where he writes on topics related to the pharmaceutical industry, medicine and junk science. In this episode, we included quotes from two ACSH podcasts. They are: Podcast: Neurontin — The Lousy Opioid Alternative; Twitter Censors ACSH Podcast: Tylenol After Surgery is Useless Dr. Josh Bloom's articles about Gabapentin: The Devil You Know - Neurontin's Massive Flop As An Opioid Alternative Neurontin: The Darling Of The Anti-Opioid Crowd. But Does It Work? Neurontin: Over-Hyped And Underwhelming Source of graph showing opioid prescribing is down to 1992 level Other patient comments about Gabapentin experiences. Please join this FB group in order to view this post, since it is a closed group. DPF's Patreon page announcement! Disclaimer: The information that has been provided to you in this podcast is not to be considered legal or medical advice. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-doctor-patient-forum/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-doctor-patient-forum/support

This week we check in with the top-ranked team and the 10th ranked team in the Kia CHL Top-10 rankings, the Gatineau Olympiques and the North Bay Battalion.Up first is Vancouver Canucks prospect Josh Bloom. We talk about why the Battalion have been so successful at shutting down the opposition lately, 11 goals against on current 9-game wins streak, the vibe around the city of North Bay right now and what it's like being traded twice in one season.Then, the QMJHL's leading scorer amongst defencemen, Tristan Luneau joins me after the Olympiques' 21-game win streak was halted. He tells us why the Olympiques play the way they do, the impact of their new captain Olivier Nadeau, the lessons the team learned from last year's playoffs and why Ducks fans should be excited.

Dan and Sat discuss the Canucks prospect system and who there is to come down the pipeline. New Canucks prospect Josh Bloom joins the show to discuss his game and what he thinks he can bring to the Canucks organization. This podcast was produced by Ben Basran. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate. 

Drug store conglomerate CVS displays real pain relievers next to useless homeopathic "remedies." A lawsuit could put an end to that marketing practice. Will Tylenol alleviate severe pain? It will not, yet patients are routinely given the drug after major surgery. Thank your congressman for such insanity. Join host Cameron English as he sits down Dr. Josh Bloom to break down these stories on episode 36 of the Science Dispatch podcast: No, Homeopathic 'Remedies' and OTC Drugs Don't Belong on the Same Shelf The Center For Inquiry, a non-profit group with a similar mindset to ACSH, has filed lawsuits against Walmart and CVS for putting homeopathic "remedies" on shelves next to actual over-the-counter drugs – as if to suggest that they are of equal effectiveness. They are not. Such a placement is unethical at best and maybe even fraudulent. Here's why. Tylenol After Surgery? Why the Feds Make Patients Suffer Needless Pain (USA Today) When government, politicians, and law enforcement take control of the practice of medicine this is what we get: Cruelty and incompetence. The next time you're given Tylenol for a broken leg or post-surgical pain you'll understand.

Josh Bloom and Brayden Hislop rejoin the show for their second tours of duties!The roomies discuss returning to Saginaw, the ups and downs of an OHL season, rebounding, Bloom's trade to Vancouver, Hislop's first goal with the Troops and much more!Later, Kortney reviews the past weekend and looks ahead to this week.

A trade! Kevyn Adams and the Sabres have acquired Vancouver defenseman Riley Stillman in exchange for Sabres prospect Josh Bloom. What are the Sabres losing in their system sending Bloom away? What role are is Adams looking for out of Stillman? How good is he?Plus, Sneaky Joe's Top-5 Mock Deadline Trades for the Sabres. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A trade! Kevyn Adams and the Sabres have acquired Vancouver defenseman Riley Stillman in exchange for Sabres prospect Josh Bloom. What are the Sabres losing in their system sending Bloom away? What role are is Adams looking for out of Stillman? How good is he? Plus, Sneaky Joe's Top-5 Mock Deadline Trades for the Sabres. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another day, another podcast.The Vancouver Canucks made another trade, as they moved out Riley Stillman in exchange for prospect Josh Bloom. There are also more J.T. Miller rumours to discuss and Thatcher Demko made his return to the crease with the Canucks on Monday night.- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jamie and Thomas get into a heated debate about whether you can trust Canucks management to right the ship as speculation surfaces that JT Miller could be on the move. Sportsnet's Jason Bukala joins the show to discuss the Josh Bloom acquisition.  This podcast is produced by Lina Setaghian and Dominic Sramaty.  The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.

"Jeffrey A. Singer is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and works in the Department of Health Policy Studies. He is President Emeritus and founder of Valley Surgical Clinics Ltd., the largest and oldest group private surgical practice in Arizona and has been in private practice as a general surgeon for more than 35 years. He is also a visiting fellow at the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix. Singer is a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the American Council on Science and Health. From 1994 to 2016, he was a regular contributor to Arizona Medicine, the journal of the Arizona Medical Association. He served on the Advisory Board Council of the Center for Political Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University from 2014 to 2018 and is an adjunct instructor in the Program on Political History and Leadership at ASU. He writes and speaks extensively on regional and national public policy, with a specific focus on the areas of health care policy and the harmful effects of drug prohibition. He received his BA from Brooklyn College (City University of New York) and his MD from New York Medical College. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons." Links to articles discussed in this podcast episode: Nitazenes Cops Practicing Medicine Dr. Singer's Twitter Dr. Josh Bloom's article about the Dr. Singer vs. Dr. Fugh-Berman debate Dr. Singer vs. Dr. Fugh-Berman debate Dr. Singer and Dr. Bloom's article discussing pain and tylenol Disclaimer: The information that has been provided to you in this podcast is not to be considered legal or medical advice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-doctor-patient-forum/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-doctor-patient-forum/support

A ferocious debate ensued over Emily Oster's recent call in the Atlantic for COVID "amnesty." Everybody in the dispute is wrong. Should you drink Smart Water? Only if you're "dumb," says our resident chemist. Join host Cameron English as he sits down Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Josh Bloom to break down these stories on episode 28 of the Science Dispatch podcast: Thinking Aloud: COVID Amnesty Emily Oster, an economist and popular author on the real facts of parenting, suggested that it was time for a COVID amnesty. There was a quick, demonstrative, and at times, angry response from many sources. I have studied acknowledging, correcting, and atoning for medical mistakes, including my own, for decades. Here is what I am thinking. Smart Water for Dumb Consumers If you watch TV, ads for Coca-Cola's Smart Water are inescapable. Also inescapable is that the ads suggest that the stuff will make you smart or perhaps offer some other health benefit. But the only thing smart about Smart Water is Coca-Cola's ability to make you shell out money to buy something you could pretty much get from a fire hydrant in Newark.

Brayden Hislop makes his Frontline debut!The defender takes a deep dive on his trade from the Saginaw Spirit, living with Josh Bloom, road trips, playing in the West, loving North Bay and so much more!Later, Tommy Wong returns for Tommy's Troops Trivia, will a new winner be crowned? Ben and Kortney then take a look at the Battalion, Voodoos and U18 Trappers over the last week, and tee up the upcoming week!

It's episode 6 of The Hockey News On The 'O' Podcast. Hosts Brock Otten and Tony Ferrari discuss the Ontario Hockey League every week, bringing you the best coverage of the OHL from two of the baldest and brightest in the game. This week, Tony and Brock go through some of the week's news, including which OHL cities have been named finalists to host the 2024 Memorial Cup. They also name the three stars of the week highlighted by Michael Simpson's huge week in net for Peterborough. They are joined by newly acquired North Bay Battalion forward Josh Bloom to talk about the trade, his start in North Bay, and more. The guys are also taking a look at the Ottawa Senators' prospect pool before capping off the show with a mailbag question.

The North Bay Battalion have made a trade! The Troops brought in Saginaw Spirit captain Josh Bloom and Brayden Hislop, and Bloom makes his Frontline debut!Bloom breaks down the trade, talks Saginaw, Michael Misa, getting settled in to North Bay, Hislop, Buffalo Sabres and more!Secondly, Matt Sookram talks to Powassan Voodoos captain Alex Little about his season with the 'Doos, the NOJHL, playing in the area and more!Later, Kortney & Matt break down everything in local hockey!

This week, Tony and Brock go through a big news week in the OHL including the Brennan Othmann trade to Peterborough and Josh Bloom heading to North Bay. The guys also welcome Carol Schram from the THN On The 'Dub' Podcast to discuss the OHLers at the U-17s last week. Tony and Brock also go through the Montreal Canadiens prospect pool in the OHL, featuring Owen Beck and Filip Mesar. They cap off the week with a look at their three stars of the week highlighted by Deni Goure and Pavel Mintyukov.

Some cancers can be detected based on the fungi that grow within tumors, researchers say. Could this discovery lead to a life-saving screening technique? ACSH debated a pair of "fat acceptance" advocates on Dr. Phil. Let's break down the discussion. Join our directors of bio-sciences and chemistry, Cameron English and Dr. Josh Bloom, as they break down these stories on episode 24 of the Science Dispatch podcast. Tumors Have a 'Fungal Biome' - Implications for Powerful New Cancer Screens An Israeli group has discovered that some cancers can be identified by blood tests that identify the DNA of different fungi that grow within different tumors. Could this be a breakthrough in cancer screening? Or maybe more? A strange but fascinating theory. ACSH Debates 'Fat Acceptance' Advocates on Dr. Phil Cameron English recently appeared on "Dr. Phil" to discuss the fat-acceptance movement—a dangerous, misnamed "social justice" cause that needs to die an abrupt death. Let's break down the debate that ensued.

Yet another study shows that Neurontin is a poor substitute for prescription opioids, so why do physicians continue to prescribe it? Twitter recently put a warning on an ACSH obesity story. Is social-media censorship here to stay? Join our directors of bio-sciences, chemistry, and medicine Cameron English, Dr. Josh Bloom, and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein as they break down these stories on episode 23 of the Science Dispatch podcast. The Devil You Know - Neurontin's Massive Flop as an Opioid Alternative Wanna hear something sickening? Neurontin, a drug developed for epilepsy and used off-label for neuropathic pain, had its sales grow 250% between 2004 and 2019. Why? We don't have 250% more epileptics. No, it's because the drug is being forced down the throats of people who can no longer get sufficient pain relief. The result? Abuse and also more overdose deaths. Just another chapter in our psychotic war against legitimate opioid drugs and the people who need them. Censorship? Twitter Puts A 'Warning' on ACSH Obesity Article Continuing its trend of unjustified censorship, Twitter put a "warning" on one of our recent tweets "so people who don't want to see sensitive content can avoid it." This protects nobody, but it denies the public access to credible health information.

In this short feature, Brandon Caputo speaks with 3rd Round Pick in the 2021 NHL Draft Josh Bloom about being drafted by the Buffalo Sabres, excelling at NHL Training Camp, time in the OHL, being named Captain of the Saginaw Spirit, and more!+ Guest Analysis from Saginaw Spirit Play-by-Play Announcer Joey Battaino and Niagara IceDogs Captain Landon Cato who grew up playing with Josh Bloom during their Minor Hockey days in Southern Ontario.Interview TimestampsJoey Battaino: 0:15Landon Cato: 5:44Josh Bloom: 09:51== Follow along with our IceDogs Content ==- https://twitter.com/DogPoundPodcast== FOLLOW THE NETWORK ==Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArmchairGMPod​Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArmchairGMsNetworkInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/armchairgmsportsWebsite: https://www.armchairgmsports.com/== ALSO AVAILABLE TO LISTEN TO ON ==Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/thearmchairgms​iTunes: http://bit.ly/ACGMitunes​Spotify: http://bit.ly/ArmchairGM​== FOLLOW THE HOSTS ON TWITTER == Brandon: https://twitter.com/Caputz13​_AGMKyle: https://twitter.com/JustKyle51

China is 'seeding' clouds to increase rainfall and fight a severe drought. Will it work? A large body of research shows that soda taxes are ineffective, so why do public health experts continue to endorse them? Finally, has climate change increased the number of heart attacks we suffer? No. Join the ACSH directors of bio-sciences, chemistry, and medicine Cameron English, Dr. Josh Bloom, and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein as they break down these stories on episode 20 of the Science Dispatch podcast. Why Are Clouds Seeded with 'Silver'? Does it Work? Much of the planet is now in the grips of a severe drought. This has prompted China to try cloud seeding to try to squeeze some water from the clouds. Is this real? Does it work? The Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell is included at no extra charge. Sugar Tax Benefits Governmental Revenue, Not Necessarily Our Health Sugar-sweetened beverages, SSBs, contain added sugar, or in some cases, noncaloric sweeteners, and are nonalcoholic. As global waistlines have increased, so have taxes on these “bad boy” products – now implemented in “45 countries, including numerous subnational local jurisdictions.” A systematic review considers the impact of these taxes on raising revenue and improving health. Heart-Stopping Stupidity: Climate Change Isn't Increasing Heart Attacks Climate change is real; we contribute to it. But warmer temperatures aren't driving unprecedented increases in the number of heart attacks we suffer.

Recent news reports have spurred concern that just touching fentanyl can be dangerous. Let's take a look at the chemistry behind this claim. Comedian Bill Maher recently attacked the fat-acceptance movement as a danger to public health, sparking ferocious criticism on social media. Sadly, few people recognized the most important point about Maher's commentary: he was right. Show notes Join ACSH directors of bio-sciences and chemistry Cameron English and Dr. Josh Bloom as they break down these stories on episode 18 of the Science Dispatch podcast: Does Fentanyl Penetrate Skin? A Long Overdue Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell A recent story about the bizarre symptoms of policemen, who were exposed to street fentanyl, turned out to be anxiety attacks – not fentanyl poisoning. What happened? Yes, it's time for another Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell! Bill Maher is Right About the Fat-Acceptance Movement Comedian Bill Maher is in trouble after attacking the fat-acceptance movement on his show recently. Not only was the segment hilarious, but it highlighted an important fact many people would rather not discuss: social-justice activists are rewriting science to protect their ideological commitments.

The FDA has tried to fight opioid addiction by asking patients to mail their excess prescription pain meds to the agency for disposal. It's an absurd proposal. There's lots of anti-pesticide 'facts' floating around the internet; let's debunk the most popular of these claims. Join ACSH directors of bio-sciences and chemistry Cameron English and Dr. Josh Bloom as they break down these stories on episode 17 of the Science Dispatch podcast: FDA Opioid Giveback Program: Who Knew They Had a Sense of Humor? Two thousand people a week are dying from (almost entirely) illegal street drugs. While at the same time prescriptions for legal pain medications have been cut by half in the past decade. The FDA's solution? Postage-paid envelopes for people to return the extra pills they don't have. It's almost funny. Just don't laugh until it hurts. Slow Food's 10 Anti-Pesticide 'Facts' Debunked The activist group Slow Food recently published a listicle warning consumers about the dangers of pesticides. Let's see if their top-10 list stands up to scrutiny.

Everybody wants to protect our planet, but environmentalism long ago morphed into a radical progressive movement. Where did it go wrong? As the COVID pandemic gradually recedes, what do we know about ivermectin? Join ACSH directors of bio-sciences and chemistry Cameron English and Dr. Josh Bloom as they break down these stories on episode 15 of the Science Dispatch podcast: Earth Day 2022: Doomsday Isn't Around the Corner Another earth day has come and gone with activist groups making fresh predictions of an impending eco-disaster. A brief survey of the evidence shows that the situation isn't nearly as dire as they claim. The Clinical Trial That Should (But Probably Won't) Close the Book on Ivermectin The controversy surrounding ivermectin as a therapy for COVID has been longstanding and fierce. A recent paper in NEJM may or may not settle the ongoing debate. But the paper is full of data. Here is a condensed look at the key numbers.

Dr. Josh Bloom is an organic chemist who debunks Junk Science in his work with the American Council on Science. Hear what he has to say about opioids and pain, fentanyl, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, and cannabis. Do Dr. Lev and Dr. Bloom agree or disagree on issues of addiction? You judge. Dr. Josh Bloom, ACSH's Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Virginia, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. His career 20+ year first career was drug discovery research at Wyeth. During this time he participated in research in a number of therapeutic areas, including diabetes and obesity, new antibiotics, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis C. His group discovered the novel antibiotic Tygacil®, which was approved by the FDA for use against resistant bacterial infections in 2005. He is the author of 25 patents, and 35 academic papers, including a chapter on new therapies for hepatitis C in Burger's Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery, and Development, 7th Edition (Wiley, 2010). Dr. Bloom, who joined the American Council on Science and Health in 2010 as Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has published more than 75 op-eds in numerous periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New Scientist, The New York Post, National Review Online, The Boston Herald, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Daily News. He has also done numerous radio and television shows and podcasts on topics related to drugs, chemicals, and most importantly, the plight of pain patients – the innocent victims of the misguided war on opioid drugs. He is now recognized as an expert in government opioid policy and was the first journalist to write a nationally published opinion piece about the unintended consequences of a governmental crackdown on prescription pain medications (New York Post, 2013). Since that time he has published more than 20 op-eds in regional and national newspapers on different aspects of the crisis. He was also the first writer (2016) to study, dissect and ultimately debunk the manipulated statistics used by the CDC to justify its recommendations for opioid prescribing, which have resulted in Draconian requirements for prescribing pain medications as well as government-mandated, involuntary tapering of patients receiving opioid treatment, both of which have caused great harm and needless suffering to chronic pain patients. His 2016 article, "Six Charts Designed to Confuse You," is considered to be the seminal work on CDC deception and has been adopted by patient advocacy groups. It has been sent to governors, senators, and state legislatures.

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Join ACSH directors of bio-sciences and chemistry, Cameron English and Dr. Josh Bloom, as they break down these stories: The 'Obesogen' Myth: Chemicals Don't Cause Weight Gain Environmental Working Group has again claimed that chemicals in food and consumer products are contributing to obesity. They are mistaken, embarrassingly so. Does An Omicron ‘Booster' Make Sense? The FDA just voted to approve a different Covid vaccine; this one based on one of the Omicron subvariants. But the decision was anything but simple. A look at the science.

Walt (@Sabremetrix) and Bill (@BillTCB) discuss a wide range Sabres topics across the organization. -Amerks pushing for a playoff spot -Owen Power is impressive -Josh Bloom signs -Olofsson's and Asplund's role next season -Portillo probably gone, Levi probably staying? -Milestones for Thompson, Skinner, Okposo and Dahlin.

As the Sabres season starts to wind down, another exciting moment is in the books: 2021 1st overall draft pick Owen Power made his Sabres debut, and he lived up to the hype. We break down OP's play and the Sabres dominance of the Leafs in their 5-2 victory in Toronto, Tage Thompson hits goal # 36 on the year, and Olofsson staying hot in the point column too. Sam hypes up Sabres prospect Josh Bloom, as he signs his entry level deal with the Sabres organization and we also chat a little bit about Josh Allen and Sean McDermott making appearances at the Keybank Center this past week. Speaking of Josh Allen, we also discuss his big announcement of playing in the next iteration of "The Match", a 2v2 golf match where he will be playing alongside and against Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, and Aaron Rodgers.

Walt (@Sabremetrix) and Bill (@BillTCB) talk about the latest Sabres topics including: -First NHL games for Peterka and Prow -First games with Sabres for Tuch and Krebs -What to do with UPL -Cards find their way on the ice in Buffalo -IIHF falling down a case of stairs -Josh Bloom plays defense for Saginaw

Walt (@Sabremetrix) and Bill (@BillTCB) discuss a plethora of Sabres topics across the organization. -Sabres acquire Malcom Subban -Reinhart revenge game -Dahlin's path forward -Lots of prospects talk (Power, Levi, Nadeau, Bloom, + more) -Jack Hughes signs 8 years $64 million, what about a long term commitment to Dylan Cozens? Interview with Josh Bloom mentioned in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/73miFoKiqwNdCXeTKAe2zy?si=VQw6xUbpTfeTIdwSxiAXdw

This week, Cardsy and Rask catch up on what has been going on in the OHL and their lives. Then, Buffalo Sabres prospect Josh Bloom joins the show to talk about his hockey career so far and shares some funny stories. The boys wrap it up at the end with some quick NFL talk.

Dr Josh Bloom, known for his witty and acerbic commentary on what's wrong with and even downright stupid about a lot of "science-based" policy, is the Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science at the American Council on Science and Health in New York. Josh has a PhD in organic chemistry, and no patience at all for the ongoing, supposedly evidence-based crackdown on prescribed opioids. He talks to us about how the facts of pharmaceutical pain relievers are distorted at the get-go by the very words policymakers and the media use to discuss them.

Special interview with Buffalo prospect Josh Bloom, check out Lukas's article: https://oakvillenews.org/oakville-sports-news/josh-bloom-oakville-resident-drafted-nhl-buffalo-sabres/

Josh explains how astronomy and machine learning have informed each other, their current limitations, and where their intersection goes from here. --- Josh is a Professor of Astronomy and Chair of the Astronomy Department at UC Berkeley. His research interests include the intersection of machine learning and physics, time-domain transients events, artificial intelligence, and optical/infared instrumentation. --- ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro, sneak peek 1:15 How astronomy has informed ML 4:20 The big questions in astronomy today 10:15 On dark matter and dark energy 16:37 Finding life on other planets 19:55 Driving advancements in astronomy 27:05 Putting telescopes in space 31:05 Why Josh started using ML in his research 33:54 Crowdsourcing in astronomy 36:20 How ML has (and hasn't) informed astronomy 47:22 The next generation of cross-functional grad students 50:50 How Josh started coding 56:11 Incentives and maintaining research codebases 1:00:01 ML4Science's tech stack 1:02:11 Uncertainty quantification in a sensor-based world 1:04:28 Why it's not good to always get an answer 1:07:47 Outro

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Joshua Bloom had very interesting childhood experiences that signaled he is an empath. After frustrations of sensing what only a few can, Joshua completely shut it off, ultimately realizing that he has the power to control energies. Seeing the benefits of having empathic abilities and having success in helping people with his energetic intuition, Joshua dedicated himself to teaching empaths and intuitives on how to harness their innate Quantum powers and become their best self. In this episode, Joshua Bloom talks with Kristen Elliot about what it is to have empathic powers and how to achieve healing and transformation through the Quantum Field. Links: Learn more about Joshua Bloom and Quantum Energy on his website. Look out for Joshua's book "The Ultimate Answer ...Is Inside!" and grab his FREE Healing Audio to easily and effectively release overwhelm and quickly transform stagnant energies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Young Professionals Podcast (TYPP), proudly brought to you by ADAPT Careers (https://adaptcareers.com.au) and co-hosted by Luke Marriott and Nicholas Sargeant (Sarge). Today we chat with Josh Bloom, Product Manager at Oneflare (https://www.oneflare.com.au): an online marketplace focused on connecting quality businesses with the right customers. Josh joined the Israeli Defence Forces in 2013 after completing his HSC, spending 2 years overseas before returning to Australia, completing a Bachelor of Accounting (https://www.unsw.edu.au/business/accounting) and Finance (https://www.unsw.edu.au/business/our-schools/banking-finance) at UNSW. Josh started working at Productify (https://www.productify.com) during his first year at uni, a young company that gave him his first taste of the startup world. Josh founded StartUp Link in his first year of uni, interned at Microsoft and landed a graduate role at Macquarie Bank. After 2 years at Macquarie, Josh moved back to his startup roots in January 2020, where he joined Oneflare as a Product Manager. If you have a career story you would like to share, a role you would like to learn more about or any questions you would like us to ask young professionals, you can reach us through any of our social media that can be found at TYPP.com.au. We would love to hear from you!

This week on the Zephr Podcast Session, Scott Howland interviews Josh Bloom, previous Head of Video at Mumsnet. They talk about leveraging video and strategies around this.Why brands leverage videoIs it as easy as using an iPhone?Key benefits of video in your strategyExamples of it working well at MumsnetTop tips to starting your video strategy

This is Episode 66 六六: Opioid Crisis & Chronic Pain, Interview W/ Dr Josh Bloom of the American Council on Science & Health In this episode of the Happy Warrior Podcast, we interview Dr. Josh Bloom the Executive Vice President of the American Council on Science & Health. In this interview, we go into the current situation for treating chronic pain in the united states & what the future for chronic pain patients looks like. We also chat about PROP, the CDC, Kolodny, treatments, & what people can do in their personal lives if they've lost treatment. Dr. Bloom is the first person to report on the 2016 CDC Guidelines & the story that would become the opioid prohibition. He is also a trained Bio-Chemist & the Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science at ACSH. Dr. Bloom is also a chronic pain patient. You can find Dr. Bloom's writings & blog at: https://www.acsh.org/profile/josh-bloom Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshBloomACSH Our social media: Journalism: https://thepostmillennial.com/author/peter Parler: https://parler.com/profile/happywarriorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/happywarrior... Twitter: https://twitter.com/HappyWarriorP Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnsSjx-ECzH-ijyVKwb-ZpA/ This Podcast is 100% Commercial-Free! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happywarrior/message

From 580 Live on April 20, 2020: Dale Cooper interviews Dr. Josh Bloom of ACSH on Remdesivir as potential COVID19 treatment as well as warnings about fraudulent medicines.

Coop welcomes Dr. Josh Bloom from www.ACSH.org to the program to discuss COVID related medical woo and promising upcoming treatments. Also, Jeff Jenkins with a local news update and listener calls...

For the final episode of Season 6, Kyle caught up with Simon-Kucher Partner, Josh Bloom. He explains the inspiration behind the firm's book, 'Monetizing Innovation,' the concept of developing a product around the price and the most important question founders should be asking customers. He also breaks down the trends he expects to see in the next year.

Josh Bloom is researcher, journalist, scientist and President of the American Council on Science and Health, which describes itself as a pro-science consumer advocacy group that goes after what they think is bad science. Josh and I don’t agree on many issues but we do agree that the government’s response to the so-called opioid crisis has left millions of people in chronic pain suffering unnecessarily. Josh has done a lot of great work debunking the CDC’s numbers relating to the opioid crisis and exposing how as more draconian measures are instituted to restrict access to pain medicines - more people in pain are suffering and more people are dying of overdose. We talk about the real cause of the opioid crisis and how those in power and those who seek to benefit from that power have manipulated the data to present a false narrative to the American people. This is very emotional issue for me since I’ve been in chronic pain for over thirty years and have seen first hand how people in pain are treated in the current environment of opioid hysteria. I exercise my health freedom by taking Kratom for my chronic pain. Kratom isn’t for everyone and I recommend everyone do their own research to see if its right them. Thats exactly what I did and I found it extremely helpful for helping improve my over well being and help with the pain. The only Kratom I trust is from Urban Ice Organics which you can find at: https://naturalorganix.com Use the promo code “ChronciallyHuman20 with no spaces - to get 20% off your next order. Urban Ice Organics now offers a great Full Spectrum CBD oil as well. In May we will be offering a giveaway of one free bottle of CBD oil plus two blisters packs of the three strains of Urban Ice Organics. We’ll be announcing more information on our: Instagram: ChronciallyHumanPodcst in the coming days. Youtube: Chronically Human Podcast If you'd like to hear more about my experience using Kratom send me an email: brad@chronicallyhuman.co Follow Josh on Twitter: @joshbloomACHS and check out his blog posts on https://www.acsh.org Some of Josh's articles on The Opioid Crisis: https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/10/12/opioid-epidemic-6-charts-designed-deceive-you-11935 https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/02/20/heroin-pills-are-now-reality-andrew-kolodny-finally-happy-13825 https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/08/16/heads-sand-—-real-cause-todays-opioid-deaths-11681 https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/11/05/who-telling-truth-about-prescription-opioid-deaths-dea-cdc-neither-13569 Iron law of Prohibition - During Alcohol Prohibition producers produced high strength liquor which was easier to smuggle and people switched from beer, which wasn’t available and instead drank high proof liquor. This is the analogy that I wanted to make when Josh was talking about Fentanyl being a unique event in American history. In reality Prohibition creates predictable and negative results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition I don’t agree with Josh on many topics but we do agree on how it's truly terrible how those in pain are being treated today and its our own government wh

We’ve all heard the statistics that 64,000 people lost their lives to drug addiction in 2016. It is extremely startling considering that this is more than guns, HIV infection and automobile accidents. These same statistics have been used to shape a narrative in America that over prescribing opioids is the primary cause of the opioid epidemic. But what if these statistics are wrong and the laws restricting opioid prescribing practices are making matters worse rather than helping to solve the problem. Greg’s guest today is a scientist who picks data apart that concluded the evidence does not support the conclusions and policies driven to address the opioid epidemic. Dr. Josh Bloom joins him to discuss the concerns of the data being skewed. Dr. Bloom is the Director of Chemical & Pharmaceutical Sciences at the American Council on Science & Health. Bloom believes the 64,000 statistic is flawed and there are other factors at play in the opioid crisis.

Recently I had a chance to catch up with a friend and friend of the show, Josh Bloom, vice president of data & analytics at GE Digital. If you’ve been listening for a while, you already know that Josh was on the show around this time last year, just prior to the acquisition of his company Wise.io by GE Digital. It was great to catch up with Josh on his journey within GE, and the work his team is doing around Industrial AI, now that they’re part of the one of the world’s biggest industrial companies. We talk about some really interesting things in this show, including how his team is using autoencoders to create training datasets, and how they incorporate knowledge of physics and physical systems into their machine learning models. The notes for this show can be found at twimlai.com/talk/42.

Red Wanting Blue met us for “Linner” at a small restaurant in Akron Ohio, to promote their album “Little America.” In the early 2000’s we visited the House of Blues in Cleveland Ohio and watched this dynamic rock band just own the stage and the crowd. We were late to the RWB table finding out later about songs like “Playlist,” and although we hadn’t heard any of Red Wanting Blue’s music, their commanding performance, emotive baritone vocals, and stage charisma impressed us none the less. You won’t meet a nicer bunch of well-adjusted rock n rollers which allows them musically to showcase their lyrics and vocals, which they say is a feature their fans like most about their music; however, there are no slouches or inflatable auto-players in this band. My high school band director said something that has stuck with me: “The most musical moments sometimes happen during a rest in the music.” You would know instantly if some of the nearly subliminal guitar melodies and embellishments were removed from the Red Wanting Blue sound-profile, and just the same, while Mark and Dean are not out front; you want solid players like those guys driving the rhythm chassis of your music. Scott Terry has one of those giant voices that has it’s own gravity, and while as a person he shows no sign of megalomania or rock-star ego; it’s impossible to ignore how much of their music revolves around his rich gritty vocals and relate-able lyrics. They’re a great band to see live. Make sure you check them out on facebook or their website to see when they’re playing near you. Special thanks to RWB drummer Dean Anshutz, Josh Bloom, and Sam Buonavolonta from SAM GOODWILL for pulling the strings to make this interview happen. Thank you to all of the guys from Red Wanting Blue for being easy-going and down to earth. In light of Waterloo Restaurant being unaware of the audio aspect of podcast interviews, I would still like to thank the staff for being so accommodating. The recording came out pretty good all things considered. We did ask for a quiet spot in the back but I think they thought we wanted the table closest to the silverware utensil dump-bin. Family restaurant diners are just not the ideal podcast studios they once were. ;) Listen to the entire WTF with Marc Maron / Billy Gibbons interview at WTFpod.com Scott Terry – vocals, tenor guitar, ukulele Mark McCullough – bass, chapman stick, vocals Greg Rahm – guitar, keyboards, vocals Eric Hall – guitar, lap steel, vocals Dean Anshutz – drums & percussion

Food Talk with Mike Colameco is brought to you by the following generous underwriters: This week on Food Talk with Michael Colameco, host Mike Colameco kicks off the show catching up his last week before welcoming Brian Freedman via phone. Brian Freedman is a food, wine, spirits, travel writer, restaurant/beverage consultant, drinks educator, event host and speaker. While on the line with Mike, he shares great information and highlights concerning various Italian varietal wines. Next, Mike chats with Noah Karesh, who is the founder of Feastly. Feastly is a marketplace where passionate cooks connect with adventurous eaters seeking more authentic and social dining options by offering home cooked meals in a cook’s home. In lowering the barriers to entry for cooks to share their skills and stories with the world, Feastly lets cooks monetize their passions and provide exciting new food opportunities for eaters. Noah tells Mike of his background and how he came up with such an interesting foodie idea. In the last segment of the show, Josh Bloom, founder of Purely Simple Syrup, joins Mike in the studio. Purely Syrup is a new line of certified organic simple syrups, crafted in small batches using only organic ingredients, with no coloring or artificial additives. The company is debuting with 5 versatile flavors: Ginger Root, Grapefruit, Vanilla Bean, Habanero, and Classic (unflavored). Purely Syrups offer a product that is consistent every time and is easy to use. Today, Josh gives Mike an on-air tasting and talks ingredients, recipes, and plans for the future. “What Airbnb has done for bedrooms we’re doing for kitchens.” [24:00] —Noah Karesh on Food Talk

Cathryn Carson is an Assoc Prof of History, and the Ops Lead of the Social Sciences D- Lab at UC Berkeley. Fernando Perez is a research scientist at the Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center at U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley Institute for Data Science.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next. Speaker 2: Mm MM. Speaker 3: Uh Huh [inaudible]. Speaker 4: [00:00:30] We'll come to spectrum the science and technology show on Katie l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events. Speaker 3: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Hello and good afternoon. My name is Renee Rao and I'll be hosting today's show this week [00:01:00] on spectrum present part two of our two part series on big data at cal. The Berkeley Institute for data science bids is only four months old. Two people involved with shaping the institute are Catherine Carson and Fernando Perez. They are today's guest Catherine Carson is an associate professor of history and associate dean of social sciences and the operational lead of the social sciences data lab at UC Berkeley for Nana Perez is a research scientist at the Henry H. Wheeler [00:01:30] Jr Brain imaging center at UC Berkeley. He created the iPod iPhone project while he was a graduate student in 2001 and continues to lead the project today. In part two they talk about teaching data science. Brad Swift conducts the interview Speaker 5: on the teaching side of things. Does data science just fold into the domains in the fields and some faculty embrace it, others don't. How does the teaching of data science move [00:02:00] forward at an undergraduate level? Yeah, there there've been some really interesting institutional experiments in the last year or two here at Berkeley. Thinking about last semester, fall of 2013 stat one 57 which was reproducible collaborative data science pitched at statistics majors simply because you have to start with the size that can fit in a classroom [00:02:30] and training students in the practices of scientific collaboration around open source production of software tools or to look at what was Josh Bloom's course, so that's astro four 50 it's listed as special topics in astrophysics just because Josh happens to be a professor in the astronomy department and so you have to list it somewhere. The course is actually called Python for science Speaker 6: [00:03:00] and it's a course that Josh has run for the last, I think this is, this was its fourth iteration and that course is a completely interdisciplinary course that it's open to students in any field. The examples really do not privilege and the homework sets do not privilege astronomy in any way and we see students. I liked her a fair bit in that course as a guest lecture and we see students from all departments participating. This last semester it was packed to the gills. We actually had problems because we couldn't find a room large enough to accommodate. So word of mouth is working. In terms of students finding these [00:03:30] courses, Speaker 5: it's happening. I wouldn't say it's working in part because it's very difficult to get visibility across this campus landscape. I am sure there are innovations going on that even the pis and bids aren't aware of and one of the things we want to do is stimulate more innovation in places like the the professional schools. We'll be training students who need to be able to use these tools as well. What do they have in mind or there [00:04:00] are other formats of instruction beyond traditional semester courses. What would intensive training stretched out over a much shorter time look like? What gaps are there in the undergraduate or graduate curriculum that can effectively be filled in that way? The Python bootcamp is another example of this that's been going on for Speaker 6: for about four years. Josh and I teach a a bootcamp on also python for data science that is immediately before the beginning of the fall semester. Literally the weekend before [00:04:30] and it's kind of, it's a prerequisite for the semester long course, but it's three days of intensive hands-on scientific bite on basically programming and data analysis and computing for three days. We typically try to get a large auditorium and we got 150 to 200 people. A combination of undergrads, Grad Students, postdocs, folks from LVL campus faculty and also a few folks from industry. We always leave, leave a few slots available for people from outside the university to come and that one a has been very popular at [00:05:00] tends to, it's intense to have very good attendance be, it serves as an on ramp for the course because we advertise the in the semester course during the bootcamp and that one has been fairly successful so far and I think it has worked well. Speaker 6: We see issues with it too. That would be that we would like to address three days is probably not enough. Um, it means because it's a single environment, it means that we have to have examples that are a little bit above that can accommodate everyone, but it means they're not particularly interesting for any one group. It would be, I think it would be great to have [00:05:30] things of this nature that might be a little bit better focused at the life sciences and the social sciences that the physical sciences, so that the examples are more relevant for a given community that may be better targeted at the undergraduate and the graduate level so that you can kind of select a little bit in tune the requirements or the methodological base a little bit better to the audience. But so far we've had to kind of bootstrapping with what we have. Speaker 6: There's another interesting course on campus offered by the ice school by Raymond Lecture at the high school called working with open data [00:06:00] that is very much aimed at folks who are the constituency of the high school that have an intersection of technical background with a broader interdisciplinary kind of skills that are the hallmark of the high school and they work with openly available data sets that are existing on the Internet to create basically interesting analysis projects out of them and that's of course that that I've seen come up with some very, very successful and compelling projects at the end of the semester Speaker 7: about the teaching and preparation in universities. In [00:06:30] the course of doing interviews on spectrum, a number of people have said that really the only way to tackle sciences interdisciplinary, the big issues of science is with an interdisciplinary approach, but that that's not being taught in universities as the way to do science. Sarah way to break that down using data science as a vehicle. Speaker 5: I can speak about that as a science and technology studies scholar. The practice of interdisciplinarity, what makes it actually work is one of the [00:07:00] the most challenging social questions that can be asked of contemporary science and adding into that the fact that scientists get trained inside this existing institution that we've inherited from let's roughly say the Middle Ages with a set of disciplines that have been in their current form since roughly the late 19th century. That is the interface where I expect in the next oh two to five decades major transformations in research universities. [00:07:30] We don't yet know what an institution or research institution will look like that does not take disciplines as it sort of zero order ground level approximation to the way to encapsulate truth. But we do see, and I think bids is like data science in general and an example of this. We do see continual pressure to open up the existing disciplines and figure out how to do connections across them. It's [00:08:00] not been particularly easy for Berkeley to do that in part because of the structure of academic planning at our institution and in part because we have such disciplinary strengths here, but I think the invitation for the future that that word keeps coming back invitation. The invitation for the future for us is to understand what we mean by practicing interdisciplinarity and then figure out how to hack the institution so that it learns how to do it better. [inaudible] Speaker 8: [inaudible] [00:08:30] you're listening to structure fun. K A, l ex Berkeley Fasten Kirsten and Fernando Perez are our guests. They're part of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science for Bids [inaudible] Oh, Speaker 6: it seems that data science has an almost unlimited [00:09:00] application. Are there, are you feeling limits? I don't know about limits specifically because I think in principle almost any discipline can have some of its information and whatever the concepts and constructs of that discipline can probably be represented in a way that is amicable to quantitative analysis of some sort. In that regard, probably almost any discipline can have a data science aspect to it. I think it's important not to sort of [00:09:30] over fetishize it so that we don't lose sight of the fact that there's other aspects of intellectual work in all disciplines that are still important. That theory still has a role. That model building still has a role that, uh, knowing what questions to ask, it's still important that hypotheses still matter. I'm not so sure that it's so much an issue of drawing arbitrary limits around it, but rather of being knowledgeable and critical users of the tools and the approaches that are offered. Speaker 6: Because in terms of domain [00:10:00] applications, I actually recently saw at the strata conference, which is one of these more industry oriented big data conferences that took place a few weeks ago in Silicon Valley. It's in Santa Clara. One of the best talks that I saw at the conference was an analysis half the poem, if I told him that Gertrude Stein wrote about Picasso After Picasso painted this very famous portrait of her. And that poem has a very, very repetitive rhythmic structure. It has very few words and it's a long poem with a very peculiar linguistic structure. And [00:10:30] this hardest, I, I'm blanking on his name right now, but he's an artist who works kind of at the intersection of digital arts in, in linguistics wrote basically a custom one off visual analysis and visualization tool to work on the structure of this poem to visualize it, to turn it into music. Speaker 6: And it was a beautiful talk. It was a beautiful and very interesting talk and this was kind of the exact opposite of this was tiny data. This was one poem and in fact during the Q and a they asked him and he said, well I've tried to use the tool [00:11:00] on a few other things and there's a few songs in hip hop that it works well with, but it's almost, it's almost custom made for this one poem, right? So this was sort of tiny data, completely non generalizable and yet I thought it was fascinating and beautiful talk. So that's kind of an example that I would have never have thought of as as data science. Any examples of misapplication? Speaker 5: I think we can admit that data science is a buzzword that is [00:11:30] exactly through, it's almost indefinable nature creates space for people to do methodologically problematic and in many cases also uninteresting work. Just throwing data into an analysis without asking is this the right analysis will get you stupid or misleading answers. It's the garbage in out principle. So yeah, like any intellectual tool in the toolkit, [00:12:00] there are misleading conclusions that can be drawn and one of the powers that Berkeley brings to this effort in data science is a focus on the methodology, the intelligent development of methodology along with just building things that look like tools on their own. I think that's going to be the place with the sweet spot for universities because of the emphasis on rigor and stringency and reasoning [00:12:30] along with just getting out results that look good and are attractive Speaker 7: with data science. Are there infrastructure challenges that are worth talking about either in industry or at an academic institution? Because I know that computing power now through Amazon, Google organizations like that are enormous and so industry is sort of giving up the idea of having their own [00:13:00] computational capacity and they're using cloud virtual universities I would think are following suit. Speaker 6: Yes, there is work being done already on campus in that regard. We've had some intersection with those teams. The university right now, uh, we've had since last year a new CIO on campus, Larry Conrad, who's been spearheading an effort to sort of reimagine what the research computing infrastructure for campus should look like. [00:13:30] Considering these questions precisely of what is happening in industry, what are the models that are successfully being used at other institutions to provide larger scales off competitional resources across all disciplines and beyond the disciplines that have been traditionally the ones that have super computers. Well, there's a long history of departments, again, like physics, like competition, fluid dynamics, teams like quantum chemistry teams that have had either their own clusters or that have large budgets who have access to the supercomputing centers at [00:14:00] the doe labs and things of that nature. But as we've been saying today, all of a sudden those needs are exploding across all disciplines and the usage patterns are changing and that often what is the bottleneck is maybe not the amount of raw compute power, but the ability to operate over a very large data sets, so maybe storage is the issue or maybe throughput biologists often end up buying computers that look really weird. Speaker 6: Too many supercomputing centers because they, the actual things that they need are skewed in a different way and so there are certainly [00:14:30] challenges in that regard when we do know that Berkeley is right now at least in the midst of making a very concerted and serious attempt at at least taking a step forward on this problem. Speaker 7: A lot of data is derived from personal information. Are there privacy concerns that you have [inaudible] Speaker 5: they're all quite definitely in so many different ways that the input of experts who have thought about questions of consent, of privacy, [00:15:00] of the challenges around keeping de identified data d identified when it is possible through analytics to understand what patterns are emerging from them that is going to be so key. Especially to working with social data. And so one of the still open questions for all of us working with data that is about people is how to develop the practices that will do the protections necessary [00:15:30] in order to avoid the kinds of catastrophic misuses and violations of privacy that many of us do. Fear will be coming our way as so much data becomes available so fast with so many invitations to just make use of it and worry about the consequences later. That's not the responsible way forward. And I would like to see bids and Berkeley take on that challenge as part of its very deliberate agenda. Speaker 8: [00:16:00] Okay. Spectrum is a public affairs show on k a l ex Berkeley. Our guests are Cathryn Carson and Fernando Perez. In the next segment they talk about institutional reactions to bids. Oh, Speaker 7: are there any impediments that you've run into within the bids process [00:16:30] of getting up and running? Cause it's been going since, uh, Speaker 5: it's not been going on that long as it, it's only December of 2013. Pretty recent, but I'm sure there's gotta be some institutional pushback or no, it's, it's been incredible actually how much support the institution has given. What bids is though, is a laboratory for the kind of collaboration that we're trying to instantiate. And so you have 13 brilliant Co-pi eyes each with their own vision and figuring out where [00:17:00] the intersection is and how to get the different sets of expertise and investments where they, where those intersections lie and how to get them aligned. I mean, that's, that's one of the fascinating challenges in front of beds as a laboratory in the small, for the process at large that we're trying to do Speaker 7: on the tools and programming side. How would you break up what languages are providing, what kind of capability, [00:17:30] and are there new languages that are ascendent and other languages that are languages that are losing their grip? I'm sort of curious. It's a, it's another trivia questions that I think might have some interest for people. No, I think there's, there's clearly an ascendance. I think naturally the expansion of the surface of people interested in these problems Speaker 6: is naturally driving the growth and importance of high level languages that are immediately usable by domain scientists. We're not full time programmers [00:18:00] and professional programmers. Traditionally a lot of the high end computing had been done in languages like c, c plus plus for trend and some Java that are languages that tend to be more the purview of, of people who do lots of software development. And a lot of that did happen in departments like physics and chemistry and computer science, but not so much in other disciplines. And so we're seeing the rise of open source languages like Python and r that are immediately applicable and easy to use for data analysis where a few commands [00:18:30] can load a file, compute some statistics on it, produce a few visualizations, and you can do that in five lines of code, not having to write a hundred or 500 lines of c plus plus. Speaker 6: Right. And so the languages like that are, they're not new. Both I think are came out in the late eighties early nineties python came out in 1991 but they're seeing a huge amount of growth in recent years for this reason. There's also a growth of either new tools to extend these languages [00:19:00] or new languages as well. Tools for example, that connect these languages to databases or extensions to these languages to couple them to databases in better ways so that people don't have to only write raw sequel, which SQL is not the classic language for interacting with databases, so extensions to couple existing languages to database back ends. A lot of work is being done in that direction and there are some novel languages. For example, there's a team at MIT that about two years ago started [00:19:30] a project for a new language called Julia that is aimed at numerical computing, but it's sort of re-imagining. Speaker 6: What would you do if you wanted to create a language like python with the strengths of language like python or Ruby or r, but if you were doing that today with the lessons of the last 20 years, that would be good for numerical computing, but it would be easy to use for domain scientists. That would be high level, that would be interactive, that would feel like a scripting tool, but that would also give you very high performance. [00:20:00] If you had the the last 20 years of lessons and the advances in some of the underlying technology and improved compiler machinery that we have today, how would you go about that problem? And I think the Giulia team at MIT is making rapid progress and it has caught the intention of people in the statistics community of people in the numerical analysis and algorithms community. Some prominent people have become very interested in how to become active participants in its development. Speaker 6: So we're seeing both mature tools like python and are growing in their strength and and their importance. At the latest Strada Conference, [00:20:30] for example, there was a an analysis of kind of the the abstracts submitted that had r and python in their names versus things like excel or sequel or Java and Python and are clearly dominating that space, but also these, these kinds of more novels, sort of research level languages that whose futures still not clear because they're very, very young, but at least they're exploring sort of the frontier of what will we do in the next five or 10 years. And is this an area that's ripe for a commercial software creators who develop [00:21:00] a tool that would be specific to data science and sort of the same way that Mat lab is kind of specific now it's kind of a generic tool for mathematics. Obviously my answer here is extremely biased, but I'm, I sort of think that the space for a, the window to create a proprietary data science language is closed already. Speaker 6: I think the community simply would not adopt a new one. There are some existing successful ones such as mat lab, IDL, which is smaller than Madlib. It is widely used in the astronomy and astrophysics. [00:21:30] And Physics Communities Mathematica, which is a project that came out of the mathematics and physics world and that is very, very sophisticated and interesting. Maple, which is also a mathematics language. Those are successful existing proprietary languages. I think the mood has changed to these are products that came out in the eighties and the nineties. I think the, the window for that, uh, as a purely proprietary offer has closed. I think what we're going to see is the continued growth and the rise potential. You have new entrants that are fundamentally [00:22:00] open source, but yet that maintain, as I said earlier, a healthy dialogue with industry because it doesn't mean, for example, in the art world there are companies that build very successful commercial products around are there is a product called r studio that is a development environment for analysis in our, and that's a company, there's a company called I think revolution analytics. Speaker 6: I think they built some sort of sort of large scale backend high-performance version of our, I don't know the details, I don't use it, but I've seen their website. I think they're a large company that builds kind of our for the enterprise. So I think [00:22:30] that's what we're going to see moving forward at the base. People want the base technology, the base language to be open source. And I think for us as universities and for me as a scientist, I think that's a Tenet I'm not willing to compromise on because I do not want a result that I obtain or result that I published or a tool that I educate my students with to have a black box that I'm legally prevented from opening and to tell my student, well, this is a result about nature, but you can't understand how it was achieved because you are legally prevented from opening the box. [00:23:00] I think that is fundamentally unacceptable. But what is, I think a perfectly sensible way forward, is to have these base layers that are open on top of which domain specific tools can be created by industry that add value for specific problems, for specific domains that may be add performance, whatever. Catherine Carson and Fernando Perez. Thanks very much for coming on spectrum. Thanks for having us here. Thanks much. Speaker 8: [inaudible]Speaker 9: [00:23:30] all spectrums. Past shows are archived on iTunes university. We've created a simple link for you. The link is tiny url.com/k Speaker 1: a l x Speaker 8: spectrum Speaker 1: Rick Curtis Skin. I will present a few of the science and technology events [00:24:00] happening locally over the next two weeks. Speaker 10: Counter culture, labs and pseudo room present gravitational waves, results and implications with Bicep to collaborator Jamie Tolan at the pseudo room, hackerspace to one 41 Broadway in Oakland on Sunday, April 27th at 7:00 PM recently, scientists from the Bicep to experiment recorded their data findings demonstrating [00:24:30] evidence of gravitational waves that may imply cosmic inflation. The bicep to experiment is an international collaboration of research and technology from many institutions including a team at Stanford University work. Jamie Tolan works. Jamie will discuss the results of the bicep two experiment and its scientific contribution to current theories that attempt to explain the why, what and how of our universe. 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Joined Berkeley lab scientists at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond, California on May 1st at 7:00 PM they'll discuss how discovery [00:26:00] happens. Help you show what science means to you and reveal why science can be as personal as you want it to be. Light refreshments will be served, but bring your imagination and participate at this free event. Speaker 1: A feature spectrum is to present new stories about science that we find particularly interesting. Rick Carnesi joins me in presenting the news. Speaker 10: Nature News reported on April 13th that a team of scientists from [00:26:30] Caltech have estimated that Mars's atmosphere was probably never thick enough to keep temperatures on the planet surface above freezing for very long. Edwin kite now at Princeton used from the Mars reconnaissance orbiter to catalog more than 300 craters and an 84,000 square kilometer area near the planets equator. The sizes of the creators were compared to computer models with varying atmospheres. Dance [00:27:00] or atmospheres would have broken up small objects as they do on earth, but the high frequency of smaller craters on Mars suggest the upper limit of atmospheric pressure on Mars was only one or two bar. This most likely means a temperatures on Mars have typically been below freezing. Did the team notes that their findings do allow the possibility of scenarios of Mars having a slightly thicker atmosphere at times. Do you perhaps to volcanic activity or gas is released by the large impact events and these could have [00:27:30] made Mars warmer for decades or centuries at a time, allowing water to flow. Then Speaker 1: science daily reports one of the first social science experiments to rest on. Big Data has been published in plus one. A chair of investigators from Simon Fraser University analyzed when humans start to experience and age-related decline in cognitive motor skills. The researchers analyze the digital performances of over 3000 starcraft two players, age 16 to 44 starcraft two is a ruthless intergalactic computer [00:28:00] game that players often undertake to win serious money. Their performance records, which can be easily accessed, represent thousands of hours worth of strategic real time. Cognitive based moves performed at various skill levels using complex statistical modeling. Researchers distilled meaning from this colossal compilation of information about how players responded to their opponents and more importantly, how long they took to react after around 24 years of age, players show slowing and a measure of cognitive speed that is known to be important for performance. [00:28:30] Explains Joe Thompson lead author of the study. This cognitive performance decline is present even at higher levels of skill, but there's a silver lining in this earlier than expected slippery slope into old age. Thompson says older players, those slower seem to compensate by employing simpler strategies and using the games interface more efficiently. The younger players enabling them to retain their skill despite cognitive motor speed losses. These findings says Thompson suggests that our cognitive motor capabilities are not stable across our adulthood, but are constantly [00:29:00] in flux and that our day to day performance is a result of the constant interplay between change and adaptation. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 11: and music heard during this show was written and produced by Alex Simon. Today's interview was edited by Rene Rau. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email or email [00:29:30] address is spectrum dot kalx@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same tone. [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cathryn Carson is an Assoc Prof of History, and the Ops Lead of the Social Sciences D- Lab at UC Berkeley. Fernando Perez is a research scientist at the Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center at U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley Institute for Data Science.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next. Speaker 2: Mm MM. Speaker 3: Uh Huh [inaudible]. Speaker 4: [00:00:30] We'll come to spectrum the science and technology show on Katie l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events. Speaker 3: [inaudible].Speaker 1: Hello and good afternoon. My name is Renee Rao and I'll be hosting today's show this week [00:01:00] on spectrum present part two of our two part series on big data at cal. The Berkeley Institute for data science bids is only four months old. Two people involved with shaping the institute are Catherine Carson and Fernando Perez. They are today's guest Catherine Carson is an associate professor of history and associate dean of social sciences and the operational lead of the social sciences data lab at UC Berkeley for Nana Perez is a research scientist at the Henry H. Wheeler [00:01:30] Jr Brain imaging center at UC Berkeley. He created the iPod iPhone project while he was a graduate student in 2001 and continues to lead the project today. In part two they talk about teaching data science. Brad Swift conducts the interview Speaker 5: on the teaching side of things. Does data science just fold into the domains in the fields and some faculty embrace it, others don't. How does the teaching of data science move [00:02:00] forward at an undergraduate level? Yeah, there there've been some really interesting institutional experiments in the last year or two here at Berkeley. Thinking about last semester, fall of 2013 stat one 57 which was reproducible collaborative data science pitched at statistics majors simply because you have to start with the size that can fit in a classroom [00:02:30] and training students in the practices of scientific collaboration around open source production of software tools or to look at what was Josh Bloom's course, so that's astro four 50 it's listed as special topics in astrophysics just because Josh happens to be a professor in the astronomy department and so you have to list it somewhere. The course is actually called Python for science Speaker 6: [00:03:00] and it's a course that Josh has run for the last, I think this is, this was its fourth iteration and that course is a completely interdisciplinary course that it's open to students in any field. The examples really do not privilege and the homework sets do not privilege astronomy in any way and we see students. I liked her a fair bit in that course as a guest lecture and we see students from all departments participating. This last semester it was packed to the gills. We actually had problems because we couldn't find a room large enough to accommodate. So word of mouth is working. In terms of students finding these [00:03:30] courses, Speaker 5: it's happening. I wouldn't say it's working in part because it's very difficult to get visibility across this campus landscape. I am sure there are innovations going on that even the pis and bids aren't aware of and one of the things we want to do is stimulate more innovation in places like the the professional schools. We'll be training students who need to be able to use these tools as well. What do they have in mind or there [00:04:00] are other formats of instruction beyond traditional semester courses. What would intensive training stretched out over a much shorter time look like? What gaps are there in the undergraduate or graduate curriculum that can effectively be filled in that way? The Python bootcamp is another example of this that's been going on for Speaker 6: for about four years. Josh and I teach a a bootcamp on also python for data science that is immediately before the beginning of the fall semester. Literally the weekend before [00:04:30] and it's kind of, it's a prerequisite for the semester long course, but it's three days of intensive hands-on scientific bite on basically programming and data analysis and computing for three days. We typically try to get a large auditorium and we got 150 to 200 people. A combination of undergrads, Grad Students, postdocs, folks from LVL campus faculty and also a few folks from industry. We always leave, leave a few slots available for people from outside the university to come and that one a has been very popular at [00:05:00] tends to, it's intense to have very good attendance be, it serves as an on ramp for the course because we advertise the in the semester course during the bootcamp and that one has been fairly successful so far and I think it has worked well. Speaker 6: We see issues with it too. That would be that we would like to address three days is probably not enough. Um, it means because it's a single environment, it means that we have to have examples that are a little bit above that can accommodate everyone, but it means they're not particularly interesting for any one group. It would be, I think it would be great to have [00:05:30] things of this nature that might be a little bit better focused at the life sciences and the social sciences that the physical sciences, so that the examples are more relevant for a given community that may be better targeted at the undergraduate and the graduate level so that you can kind of select a little bit in tune the requirements or the methodological base a little bit better to the audience. But so far we've had to kind of bootstrapping with what we have. Speaker 6: There's another interesting course on campus offered by the ice school by Raymond Lecture at the high school called working with open data [00:06:00] that is very much aimed at folks who are the constituency of the high school that have an intersection of technical background with a broader interdisciplinary kind of skills that are the hallmark of the high school and they work with openly available data sets that are existing on the Internet to create basically interesting analysis projects out of them and that's of course that that I've seen come up with some very, very successful and compelling projects at the end of the semester Speaker 7: about the teaching and preparation in universities. In [00:06:30] the course of doing interviews on spectrum, a number of people have said that really the only way to tackle sciences interdisciplinary, the big issues of science is with an interdisciplinary approach, but that that's not being taught in universities as the way to do science. Sarah way to break that down using data science as a vehicle. Speaker 5: I can speak about that as a science and technology studies scholar. The practice of interdisciplinarity, what makes it actually work is one of the [00:07:00] the most challenging social questions that can be asked of contemporary science and adding into that the fact that scientists get trained inside this existing institution that we've inherited from let's roughly say the Middle Ages with a set of disciplines that have been in their current form since roughly the late 19th century. That is the interface where I expect in the next oh two to five decades major transformations in research universities. [00:07:30] We don't yet know what an institution or research institution will look like that does not take disciplines as it sort of zero order ground level approximation to the way to encapsulate truth. But we do see, and I think bids is like data science in general and an example of this. We do see continual pressure to open up the existing disciplines and figure out how to do connections across them. It's [00:08:00] not been particularly easy for Berkeley to do that in part because of the structure of academic planning at our institution and in part because we have such disciplinary strengths here, but I think the invitation for the future that that word keeps coming back invitation. The invitation for the future for us is to understand what we mean by practicing interdisciplinarity and then figure out how to hack the institution so that it learns how to do it better. [inaudible] Speaker 8: [inaudible] [00:08:30] you're listening to structure fun. K A, l ex Berkeley Fasten Kirsten and Fernando Perez are our guests. They're part of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science for Bids [inaudible] Oh, Speaker 6: it seems that data science has an almost unlimited [00:09:00] application. Are there, are you feeling limits? I don't know about limits specifically because I think in principle almost any discipline can have some of its information and whatever the concepts and constructs of that discipline can probably be represented in a way that is amicable to quantitative analysis of some sort. In that regard, probably almost any discipline can have a data science aspect to it. I think it's important not to sort of [00:09:30] over fetishize it so that we don't lose sight of the fact that there's other aspects of intellectual work in all disciplines that are still important. That theory still has a role. That model building still has a role that, uh, knowing what questions to ask, it's still important that hypotheses still matter. I'm not so sure that it's so much an issue of drawing arbitrary limits around it, but rather of being knowledgeable and critical users of the tools and the approaches that are offered. Speaker 6: Because in terms of domain [00:10:00] applications, I actually recently saw at the strata conference, which is one of these more industry oriented big data conferences that took place a few weeks ago in Silicon Valley. It's in Santa Clara. One of the best talks that I saw at the conference was an analysis half the poem, if I told him that Gertrude Stein wrote about Picasso After Picasso painted this very famous portrait of her. And that poem has a very, very repetitive rhythmic structure. It has very few words and it's a long poem with a very peculiar linguistic structure. And [00:10:30] this hardest, I, I'm blanking on his name right now, but he's an artist who works kind of at the intersection of digital arts in, in linguistics wrote basically a custom one off visual analysis and visualization tool to work on the structure of this poem to visualize it, to turn it into music. Speaker 6: And it was a beautiful talk. It was a beautiful and very interesting talk and this was kind of the exact opposite of this was tiny data. This was one poem and in fact during the Q and a they asked him and he said, well I've tried to use the tool [00:11:00] on a few other things and there's a few songs in hip hop that it works well with, but it's almost, it's almost custom made for this one poem, right? So this was sort of tiny data, completely non generalizable and yet I thought it was fascinating and beautiful talk. So that's kind of an example that I would have never have thought of as as data science. Any examples of misapplication? Speaker 5: I think we can admit that data science is a buzzword that is [00:11:30] exactly through, it's almost indefinable nature creates space for people to do methodologically problematic and in many cases also uninteresting work. Just throwing data into an analysis without asking is this the right analysis will get you stupid or misleading answers. It's the garbage in out principle. So yeah, like any intellectual tool in the toolkit, [00:12:00] there are misleading conclusions that can be drawn and one of the powers that Berkeley brings to this effort in data science is a focus on the methodology, the intelligent development of methodology along with just building things that look like tools on their own. I think that's going to be the place with the sweet spot for universities because of the emphasis on rigor and stringency and reasoning [00:12:30] along with just getting out results that look good and are attractive Speaker 7: with data science. Are there infrastructure challenges that are worth talking about either in industry or at an academic institution? Because I know that computing power now through Amazon, Google organizations like that are enormous and so industry is sort of giving up the idea of having their own [00:13:00] computational capacity and they're using cloud virtual universities I would think are following suit. Speaker 6: Yes, there is work being done already on campus in that regard. We've had some intersection with those teams. The university right now, uh, we've had since last year a new CIO on campus, Larry Conrad, who's been spearheading an effort to sort of reimagine what the research computing infrastructure for campus should look like. [00:13:30] Considering these questions precisely of what is happening in industry, what are the models that are successfully being used at other institutions to provide larger scales off competitional resources across all disciplines and beyond the disciplines that have been traditionally the ones that have super computers. Well, there's a long history of departments, again, like physics, like competition, fluid dynamics, teams like quantum chemistry teams that have had either their own clusters or that have large budgets who have access to the supercomputing centers at [00:14:00] the doe labs and things of that nature. But as we've been saying today, all of a sudden those needs are exploding across all disciplines and the usage patterns are changing and that often what is the bottleneck is maybe not the amount of raw compute power, but the ability to operate over a very large data sets, so maybe storage is the issue or maybe throughput biologists often end up buying computers that look really weird. Speaker 6: Too many supercomputing centers because they, the actual things that they need are skewed in a different way and so there are certainly [00:14:30] challenges in that regard when we do know that Berkeley is right now at least in the midst of making a very concerted and serious attempt at at least taking a step forward on this problem. Speaker 7: A lot of data is derived from personal information. Are there privacy concerns that you have [inaudible] Speaker 5: they're all quite definitely in so many different ways that the input of experts who have thought about questions of consent, of privacy, [00:15:00] of the challenges around keeping de identified data d identified when it is possible through analytics to understand what patterns are emerging from them that is going to be so key. Especially to working with social data. And so one of the still open questions for all of us working with data that is about people is how to develop the practices that will do the protections necessary [00:15:30] in order to avoid the kinds of catastrophic misuses and violations of privacy that many of us do. Fear will be coming our way as so much data becomes available so fast with so many invitations to just make use of it and worry about the consequences later. That's not the responsible way forward. And I would like to see bids and Berkeley take on that challenge as part of its very deliberate agenda. Speaker 8: [00:16:00] Okay. Spectrum is a public affairs show on k a l ex Berkeley. Our guests are Cathryn Carson and Fernando Perez. In the next segment they talk about institutional reactions to bids. Oh, Speaker 7: are there any impediments that you've run into within the bids process [00:16:30] of getting up and running? Cause it's been going since, uh, Speaker 5: it's not been going on that long as it, it's only December of 2013. Pretty recent, but I'm sure there's gotta be some institutional pushback or no, it's, it's been incredible actually how much support the institution has given. What bids is though, is a laboratory for the kind of collaboration that we're trying to instantiate. And so you have 13 brilliant Co-pi eyes each with their own vision and figuring out where [00:17:00] the intersection is and how to get the different sets of expertise and investments where they, where those intersections lie and how to get them aligned. I mean, that's, that's one of the fascinating challenges in front of beds as a laboratory in the small, for the process at large that we're trying to do Speaker 7: on the tools and programming side. How would you break up what languages are providing, what kind of capability, [00:17:30] and are there new languages that are ascendent and other languages that are languages that are losing their grip? I'm sort of curious. It's a, it's another trivia questions that I think might have some interest for people. No, I think there's, there's clearly an ascendance. I think naturally the expansion of the surface of people interested in these problems Speaker 6: is naturally driving the growth and importance of high level languages that are immediately usable by domain scientists. We're not full time programmers [00:18:00] and professional programmers. Traditionally a lot of the high end computing had been done in languages like c, c plus plus for trend and some Java that are languages that tend to be more the purview of, of people who do lots of software development. And a lot of that did happen in departments like physics and chemistry and computer science, but not so much in other disciplines. And so we're seeing the rise of open source languages like Python and r that are immediately applicable and easy to use for data analysis where a few commands [00:18:30] can load a file, compute some statistics on it, produce a few visualizations, and you can do that in five lines of code, not having to write a hundred or 500 lines of c plus plus. Speaker 6: Right. And so the languages like that are, they're not new. Both I think are came out in the late eighties early nineties python came out in 1991 but they're seeing a huge amount of growth in recent years for this reason. There's also a growth of either new tools to extend these languages [00:19:00] or new languages as well. Tools for example, that connect these languages to databases or extensions to these languages to couple them to databases in better ways so that people don't have to only write raw sequel, which SQL is not the classic language for interacting with databases, so extensions to couple existing languages to database back ends. A lot of work is being done in that direction and there are some novel languages. For example, there's a team at MIT that about two years ago started [00:19:30] a project for a new language called Julia that is aimed at numerical computing, but it's sort of re-imagining. Speaker 6: What would you do if you wanted to create a language like python with the strengths of language like python or Ruby or r, but if you were doing that today with the lessons of the last 20 years, that would be good for numerical computing, but it would be easy to use for domain scientists. That would be high level, that would be interactive, that would feel like a scripting tool, but that would also give you very high performance. [00:20:00] If you had the the last 20 years of lessons and the advances in some of the underlying technology and improved compiler machinery that we have today, how would you go about that problem? And I think the Giulia team at MIT is making rapid progress and it has caught the intention of people in the statistics community of people in the numerical analysis and algorithms community. Some prominent people have become very interested in how to become active participants in its development. Speaker 6: So we're seeing both mature tools like python and are growing in their strength and and their importance. At the latest Strada Conference, [00:20:30] for example, there was a an analysis of kind of the the abstracts submitted that had r and python in their names versus things like excel or sequel or Java and Python and are clearly dominating that space, but also these, these kinds of more novels, sort of research level languages that whose futures still not clear because they're very, very young, but at least they're exploring sort of the frontier of what will we do in the next five or 10 years. And is this an area that's ripe for a commercial software creators who develop [00:21:00] a tool that would be specific to data science and sort of the same way that Mat lab is kind of specific now it's kind of a generic tool for mathematics. Obviously my answer here is extremely biased, but I'm, I sort of think that the space for a, the window to create a proprietary data science language is closed already. Speaker 6: I think the community simply would not adopt a new one. There are some existing successful ones such as mat lab, IDL, which is smaller than Madlib. It is widely used in the astronomy and astrophysics. [00:21:30] And Physics Communities Mathematica, which is a project that came out of the mathematics and physics world and that is very, very sophisticated and interesting. Maple, which is also a mathematics language. Those are successful existing proprietary languages. I think the mood has changed to these are products that came out in the eighties and the nineties. I think the, the window for that, uh, as a purely proprietary offer has closed. I think what we're going to see is the continued growth and the rise potential. You have new entrants that are fundamentally [00:22:00] open source, but yet that maintain, as I said earlier, a healthy dialogue with industry because it doesn't mean, for example, in the art world there are companies that build very successful commercial products around are there is a product called r studio that is a development environment for analysis in our, and that's a company, there's a company called I think revolution analytics. Speaker 6: I think they built some sort of sort of large scale backend high-performance version of our, I don't know the details, I don't use it, but I've seen their website. I think they're a large company that builds kind of our for the enterprise. So I think [00:22:30] that's what we're going to see moving forward at the base. People want the base technology, the base language to be open source. And I think for us as universities and for me as a scientist, I think that's a Tenet I'm not willing to compromise on because I do not want a result that I obtain or result that I published or a tool that I educate my students with to have a black box that I'm legally prevented from opening and to tell my student, well, this is a result about nature, but you can't understand how it was achieved because you are legally prevented from opening the box. [00:23:00] I think that is fundamentally unacceptable. But what is, I think a perfectly sensible way forward, is to have these base layers that are open on top of which domain specific tools can be created by industry that add value for specific problems, for specific domains that may be add performance, whatever. Catherine Carson and Fernando Perez. Thanks very much for coming on spectrum. Thanks for having us here. Thanks much. Speaker 8: [inaudible]Speaker 9: [00:23:30] all spectrums. Past shows are archived on iTunes university. We've created a simple link for you. The link is tiny url.com/k Speaker 1: a l x Speaker 8: spectrum Speaker 1: Rick Curtis Skin. I will present a few of the science and technology events [00:24:00] happening locally over the next two weeks. Speaker 10: Counter culture, labs and pseudo room present gravitational waves, results and implications with Bicep to collaborator Jamie Tolan at the pseudo room, hackerspace to one 41 Broadway in Oakland on Sunday, April 27th at 7:00 PM recently, scientists from the Bicep to experiment recorded their data findings demonstrating [00:24:30] evidence of gravitational waves that may imply cosmic inflation. The bicep to experiment is an international collaboration of research and technology from many institutions including a team at Stanford University work. Jamie Tolan works. Jamie will discuss the results of the bicep two experiment and its scientific contribution to current theories that attempt to explain the why, what and how of our universe. The event will be free. Speaker 1: On April 30th UCLA professor [00:25:00] of geography, Jared diamond will give this year's Horace m Albright Lecture in conversation. Diamond is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning book, guns, germs and steel and this lecture he will discuss his newest book, the world until yesterday, what we can learn from traditional societies. The book is about how traditional peoples differ from members of modern industrial societies and their reactions to danger. He will then produce B in a question answer session with the audience doors open at 6:00 PM [00:25:30] the event is free and open to the public on a first come first served basis will be held Wednesday, April 30th from seven to 8:30 PM in the International House Auditorium at two two nine nine Piedmont Avenue Berkeley. Speaker 10: The theme of Mays science at the theater is science remix. Joined Berkeley lab scientists at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond, California on May 1st at 7:00 PM they'll discuss how discovery [00:26:00] happens. Help you show what science means to you and reveal why science can be as personal as you want it to be. Light refreshments will be served, but bring your imagination and participate at this free event. Speaker 1: A feature spectrum is to present new stories about science that we find particularly interesting. Rick Carnesi joins me in presenting the news. Speaker 10: Nature News reported on April 13th that a team of scientists from [00:26:30] Caltech have estimated that Mars's atmosphere was probably never thick enough to keep temperatures on the planet surface above freezing for very long. Edwin kite now at Princeton used from the Mars reconnaissance orbiter to catalog more than 300 craters and an 84,000 square kilometer area near the planets equator. The sizes of the creators were compared to computer models with varying atmospheres. Dance [00:27:00] or atmospheres would have broken up small objects as they do on earth, but the high frequency of smaller craters on Mars suggest the upper limit of atmospheric pressure on Mars was only one or two bar. This most likely means a temperatures on Mars have typically been below freezing. Did the team notes that their findings do allow the possibility of scenarios of Mars having a slightly thicker atmosphere at times. Do you perhaps to volcanic activity or gas is released by the large impact events and these could have [00:27:30] made Mars warmer for decades or centuries at a time, allowing water to flow. Then Speaker 1: science daily reports one of the first social science experiments to rest on. Big Data has been published in plus one. A chair of investigators from Simon Fraser University analyzed when humans start to experience and age-related decline in cognitive motor skills. The researchers analyze the digital performances of over 3000 starcraft two players, age 16 to 44 starcraft two is a ruthless intergalactic computer [00:28:00] game that players often undertake to win serious money. Their performance records, which can be easily accessed, represent thousands of hours worth of strategic real time. Cognitive based moves performed at various skill levels using complex statistical modeling. Researchers distilled meaning from this colossal compilation of information about how players responded to their opponents and more importantly, how long they took to react after around 24 years of age, players show slowing and a measure of cognitive speed that is known to be important for performance. [00:28:30] Explains Joe Thompson lead author of the study. This cognitive performance decline is present even at higher levels of skill, but there's a silver lining in this earlier than expected slippery slope into old age. Thompson says older players, those slower seem to compensate by employing simpler strategies and using the games interface more efficiently. The younger players enabling them to retain their skill despite cognitive motor speed losses. These findings says Thompson suggests that our cognitive motor capabilities are not stable across our adulthood, but are constantly [00:29:00] in flux and that our day to day performance is a result of the constant interplay between change and adaptation. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 11: and music heard during this show was written and produced by Alex Simon. Today's interview was edited by Rene Rau. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email or email [00:29:30] address is spectrum dot kalx@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same tone. [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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