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IN THE NEWS Bill Gates to Sink Billions for Nuclear Power as a Sustainable Energy Solution Assange Agrees to Plead Guilty in Exchange for Release Spectrum Announces 2nd Price Hike This Year Paramount Global Shuts Down Network Websites What is a Leap Second? Amazon To Challenge Temu and Shein With New Bargain Site ITPro Series with Benjamin Rockwell Journey of an IT Professional From the Tech Corner Intel's Lunar Lake CPU Gets Rid of Replaceable Memory Alternatives for End of Support for Windows 10 in 2025 Technology Chatter with Benjamin Rockwell and Marty Winston SaaS and Some of How it Works
As graduation approached this year, students around the country began protests after calls for divestment from Israel were initially ignored by university leadership. The campus encampments were met with physical violence and the mainstream press dismissed the students' demands as naive and immature. But, it turns out that there's a lot we should be asking about college endowments. We take a look at what an endowment is and how they're invested. Then we learn why transparency around the endowment (and divestment!) might actually benefit the entire college community. We talk to Kelly Grotke, a financial researcher from Pattern Recognition, a research collective focused on financialized higher education. And, with Andrea Pritchett, we look at the links between the encampments today, and those from the 80s, when students protested South African Apartheid. Learn more about the story and find the transcript on radioproject.org. Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world. EPISODE FEATURES: This episode features Kelly Grotke, co-founder of Pattern Recognition, a research collective and Andrea Pritchett, former student organizer against South African Apartheid. Currently a middle school teacher and co-founder of Berkeley Cop Watch. MAKING CONTACT: This episode is hosted by Salima Hamirani. It is produced by Anita Johnson, Lucy Kang, Salima Hamirani, and Amy Gastelum. Our executive director is Jina Chung. MUSIC: This episode features “Slinky” by Robert John, “Take Off and Shoot a Zero” by Chris Zabinske, “Leap Second” by Doctor Turtle, and “Blue” by Komiku. Learn More: https://patternrecognitionresearch.substack.com/ https://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/
At the beginning of the pandemic, we reported on the extreme inequality of the vaccine rollout to low income countries. Their access was hindered because of a western patent system imposed globally through the World Trade Organization. At the time, activists tried to pass some activists tried to pass something called the TRIPS waiver, which would have suspended all patents related to COVID-19, not just for vaccines, but for all therapeutics and protective equipment. But as the world moved on from COVID-19, so did the efforts for equity. The TRIPS Waiver failed to provide access to medicines, and poor countries never received the vaccines they were promised. But the global south is fighting back. On today's show we look back at the failures of the early pandemic and we look forward, at new initiatives led by scientists and activists to circumvent patents and create broader access to medicines. Learn more about the story and find the transcript on radioproject.org. Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world. EPISODE FEATURES: Fatima Hassan, Human rights lawyer and founder of Health Justice Initiative; Piotr Kolczynski, EU Health Policy & Advocacy Advisor for The People's Vaccine Alliance; Achal Prabhala, Researcher and coordinator of the AccessIBSA project; Petro Terblanche, Managing Director of Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines MAKING CONTACT: This episode is hosted by Salima Hamirani. It is produced by Anita Johnson, Lucy Kang, Salima Hamirani, and Amy Gastelum. Our executive director is Jina Chung. MUSIC: This episode includes music from Blue Dot Sessions, “Sweetly;” Deef, “Nostalgia of an Ex Gangsta Rapper;” Doctor Turtle, “Leap Second;” frankum, “Reward MusicTrack - Ambiance guitar;” Monplaisir, “Juan Garcia Madero,” “Ridiculous,” and “Stay Quiet;” Robert John, “Slinky.” LEARN MORE: Access IBSA The People's Vaccine Alliance Afrigen Biologics Vaccines – An Avacare IDC Health Company The Health Justice Initiative Pandemic Lessons Compendium Difference Between Biologics and Small Molecules
For the last 6 months, the world has been witness to a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Outsized, and unprecedented attacks on the people of Gaza, and support from western countries for these Israeli attacks have led to a situation where Gaza is being referred to as the world's largest open-air prison. In this episode with Gaza-based reporter Rami Almeghari, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" in order to learn more about the very early history of the zionist movement in Palestine and his argument that it was, from the start, a settler-colonial endeavor. Learn more about the story and find the transcript on radioproject.org. Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world. EPISODE FEATURES: Rami Almeghari, a Palestinian reporter from Gaza, and Rashid Khalidi, an historian and Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. MAKING CONTACT: This episode is hosted by Salima Hamirani with reporting by Rami Almeghari. It is produced by Anita Johnson, Lucy Kang, Salima Hamirani, and Amy Gastelum. Our executive director is Jina Chung. MUSIC: This episode includes music from Komiku, “Blue;” Doctor Turtle, “Leap Second;” Chris Zabriskie, “Take Off and Shoot a Zero;” DAM, “Resale in Zenzana;” رسالة من زنزانة - دام, “A Letter From a Prison Cell;” and Montplaisir, “Ridiculous.” Learn More: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Geoengineering is defined as some emerging technologies that could manipulate the environment and partially offset some of the impacts of climate change. Seems like the perfect solution for a consumerist society that lives on instant gratification and can't stop polluting even at the risk of our futures, right? Well, let's slow down. Today we'll discuss the dangers of geoengineering and the ethics of the fact that these new technologies are being tested on Indigenous lands. Learn more about the story and find the transcript on radioproject.org. Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world. EPISODE FEATURES: Basav Sen, Climate Justice Project Director at the Institute for Policy Studies; Dr. Steven Zornetzer; Vice-Chair, Governing Board of Arctic Ice Project; and Panganga Pungowiyi, organizer for the nonprofit Indigenous Environmental Network in Alaska. MAKING CONTACT: This episode is hosted by Salima Hamirani and Jessica Partnow. It is produced by Anita Johnson, Lucy Kang, Salima Hamirani, and Amy Gastelum. Our executive director is Jina Chung. MUSIC: “Air Hockey Salon” and “Take Off and Shoot a Zero” by Chris Zabriskie; “Industrial Zone” by Bio Unit; “Leap Second” by Doctor Turtle; and “Ridiculous” and “Juan Garcia Madero” by Monplaisir. Learn More: Indigenous Environmental Network Arctic Ice Project Institute for Policy Studies
The Oregon Thaw has happened and Eric and Jon can leave their houses. There was much rejoicing. Are or will AI Sleeper Agents be a thing, a President Biden Deepfake encouraging New Hampshire voters to stay home, and an extremely large data breach posted to Have I Been Pwned. For fun, the soon to be demise of the Leap Second, and a hidden city discovered in the Amazon thanks to lidar. 0:00 - Intro 10:20 - AI Sleeper Agents 16:44 - Don't Vote Deepfake 22:20 - Naz.API List 27:23 - Leap Seconds No More 30:59 - Ancient Amazon City
The last few years have seen a wave of labor organizing as it becomes more and more clear to workers that their work is not expendable, but actually the heart of every business. From walkouts to unionization, workers at every workplace from Starbucks to Amazon to your local coffee shop have come together to build and exercise their power. In this episode we explore the issues that led organizers to take the initiative to organize their workplaces and the ins and outs and ups and downs of the process, and the backlash. On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union. Then we talk to Robert Chala from the UCLA Labor Center about the rise in unionization efforts among service workers and the social and cultural ethos in a post lockdown country that have led to this new wave of the labor movement. Learn more about the story and find the transcript on radioproject.org. Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world. EPISODE FEATURES: Robert Chlala a postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA Labor Center & Institute for Research on Labor & Employment (IRLE) and Jessica Czarnecki, Sydney, Sophie, and Kira, all workers at Little Dog Cafe. MAKING CONTACT: This episode is hosted by Salima Hamirani with reporting by Jules Bradley. It is produced by Anita Johnson, Lucy Kang, Salima Hamirani, and Amy Gastelum. Our executive director is Jina Chung. MUSIC: This episode includes “Industrial Zone” by Bio Unit, “Stay Quiet” by Monplaisir, “Bleu” by Komiku, “Leap Second” by Doctor Turtle, and “Which Side Are You On” by Pete Seeger. Learn More: UCLA Labor Center Little Dog Employees Lawsuit Brunswick coffee shop strike ends with potential change in ownership
This podcast was taken from the Full Moon Meetup on Friday, January 6, 2023. To begin the year, we had a roundtable discussion with several members of the Vatican Observatory staff. We covered everything from Befana, the Italian Epiphany witch, to the 30th anniversary of the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), and the year ahead.Hosts:Br. Guy Consolmagno SJ: Director of Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation.Bob Trembley: Factotum for the Vatican Observatory Foundation.Guests:Fr. Paul Gabor: Vice Director of the Vatican Observatory and Vice Director for the Vatican Observatory Research Group (Tucson)Dr. Larry Lebofsky: Senior Education and Communication Specialist - Planetary Science Institute (retired); Asteroid hunter.Chris Kennedy: Executive Director of Development for the Vatican Observatory Foundation Katie Steinke: Development Committee Chair for the Vatican Observatory Foundation Vatican Observatory website: https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/Intro music: Irreducible by ComaStudio
Episode: 2038 Putting a leap second in an elastic year. Today, we add a second to our lives.
This hour: why timekeepers are getting rid of the leap second, how animism is misinterpreted, and whether we should have a spectrum of verdicts beyond “guilty” and “not guilty.” GUESTS: Judah Levine: Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado and a Physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Justine Buck Quijada: Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Wesleyan University Barry Lam: Philosophy Professor at the University of California, Riverside, and Executive Producer of Hi-Phi Nation, a philosophy podcast Join the conversation onFacebook and Twitter.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Old Dogs ramble about all that junk mail we've been getting about Medicare Advantage. We offer the exciting news that bystander pigs can reduce conflict in the pig pen. We present another Old Doggerel. We celebrate America's gift to the world, the Slinky. And we say farewell to the Leap Second. If you were as fascinated as we were by our conversation last time with Deborah Whisnand, you'll be glad to know we have more information about end of life plans.
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List of best-selling Electric Vehicles for 2022. Tap-to-Pay is so yesterday – say hello to proximity payments! Using electric pulses to save the shark population. Brainless Robots to help around the office. The Leap Second is being scrapped: let future generations worry about it! The latest in thin speakers with high-quality sound. Lab-grown chicken meat officially declared safe. Floating solar farms coming to a body of water near you. When looking for you next holiday, have you considered a floating resort with 60,000 of your closest friends?
This week's full broadcast of Computer Talk Radio includes: - 00:00 - News of nerd fascination - Amazon, leap second, Mercedes, Bitcoin, Twitter, more - 11:00 - Planned obsolescence theory - Benjamin tackles idea that early demise of tech is planned - 22:00 - Moving from iTunes to streams - Keith and Benjamin discuss Apple's conversion to streaming - 31:00 - Marty Winston's Wisdom - Marty gives insight into coming reviews of tech related items - 39:00 - Scam Series - multiple scams - Benjamin details multiple scams to watch for during Christmas - 44:00 - Keske on police usage of tech - Benjamin and Steve discuss the finer aspects of police tech use - 56:00 - Tech you need in job market - Benjamin prepares you for tech needed when job searching - 1:07:00 - Listener Q&A - (un)coolest past - Alan asks Benjamin what was cool that's mundane now - 1:16:00 - IT Pro Series 201 - Work from… - Jeffery asks Benjamin solution for work from home or work - 1:24:00 - Listener Q&A - Storing key info - Jay asks Benjamin about storing credit card info on smartphone
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs. Warner: Parents should be 'very concerned' about TikTok. Elon Musk and Twitter: a masterclass in moving fast and breaking things... Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative. Post.news Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year. How to Send Your Own Message to the iPad on Artemis 1 As It Orbits the Moon. Watch Howard Stern's Special Interview with Bruce Springsteen on HBO and HBO Max. The leap second's time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks. Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in. Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year sentence explained by tech bubble. Lessons from a decade of 'Candy Crush'. FTX Founder Deepfake Offers Refund to Victims in Verified Twitter Account Scam. Movie theater stocks pop after report says Amazon plans to spend $1 billion on releases. Google Fi discounts Pixel 7 to $399 and offers $300 off 7 Pro for Black Friday. The best Black Friday Google deals you can get. Google launches new search, shopping and maps features. YouTube releases in-depth podcasting guide with best practices. You can now ask Google Assistant to search and play podcasts by guest, episode. Picks: Mathew - A plaque that shows you are verified on Twitter. Mathew - Bizarre study finds common parasite can make you more attractive. Mathew - Christie's Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for 'Further Study'. Jeff - Pew teens and social media. Ant - Boris FX Black Friday Discount. Ant - Prep football: Campolindo edges Rancho Cotate in NCS semifinals. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mathew Ingram Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit eightsleep.com/twit CDW.com/HPE
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs. Warner: Parents should be 'very concerned' about TikTok. Elon Musk and Twitter: a masterclass in moving fast and breaking things... Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative. Post.news Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year. How to Send Your Own Message to the iPad on Artemis 1 As It Orbits the Moon. Watch Howard Stern's Special Interview with Bruce Springsteen on HBO and HBO Max. The leap second's time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks. Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in. Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year sentence explained by tech bubble. Lessons from a decade of 'Candy Crush'. FTX Founder Deepfake Offers Refund to Victims in Verified Twitter Account Scam. Movie theater stocks pop after report says Amazon plans to spend $1 billion on releases. Google Fi discounts Pixel 7 to $399 and offers $300 off 7 Pro for Black Friday. The best Black Friday Google deals you can get. Google launches new search, shopping and maps features. YouTube releases in-depth podcasting guide with best practices. You can now ask Google Assistant to search and play podcasts by guest, episode. Picks: Mathew - A plaque that shows you are verified on Twitter. Mathew - Bizarre study finds common parasite can make you more attractive. Mathew - Christie's Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for 'Further Study'. Jeff - Pew teens and social media. Ant - Boris FX Black Friday Discount. Ant - Prep football: Campolindo edges Rancho Cotate in NCS semifinals. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mathew Ingram Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit eightsleep.com/twit CDW.com/HPE
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs. Warner: Parents should be 'very concerned' about TikTok. Elon Musk and Twitter: a masterclass in moving fast and breaking things... Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative. Post.news Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year. How to Send Your Own Message to the iPad on Artemis 1 As It Orbits the Moon. Watch Howard Stern's Special Interview with Bruce Springsteen on HBO and HBO Max. The leap second's time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks. Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in. Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year sentence explained by tech bubble. Lessons from a decade of 'Candy Crush'. FTX Founder Deepfake Offers Refund to Victims in Verified Twitter Account Scam. Movie theater stocks pop after report says Amazon plans to spend $1 billion on releases. Google Fi discounts Pixel 7 to $399 and offers $300 off 7 Pro for Black Friday. The best Black Friday Google deals you can get. Google launches new search, shopping and maps features. YouTube releases in-depth podcasting guide with best practices. You can now ask Google Assistant to search and play podcasts by guest, episode. Picks: Mathew - A plaque that shows you are verified on Twitter. Mathew - Bizarre study finds common parasite can make you more attractive. Mathew - Christie's Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for 'Further Study'. Jeff - Pew teens and social media. Ant - Boris FX Black Friday Discount. Ant - Prep football: Campolindo edges Rancho Cotate in NCS semifinals. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mathew Ingram Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit eightsleep.com/twit CDW.com/HPE
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs. Warner: Parents should be 'very concerned' about TikTok. Elon Musk and Twitter: a masterclass in moving fast and breaking things... Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative. Post.news Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year. How to Send Your Own Message to the iPad on Artemis 1 As It Orbits the Moon. Watch Howard Stern's Special Interview with Bruce Springsteen on HBO and HBO Max. The leap second's time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks. Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in. Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year sentence explained by tech bubble. Lessons from a decade of 'Candy Crush'. FTX Founder Deepfake Offers Refund to Victims in Verified Twitter Account Scam. Movie theater stocks pop after report says Amazon plans to spend $1 billion on releases. Google Fi discounts Pixel 7 to $399 and offers $300 off 7 Pro for Black Friday. The best Black Friday Google deals you can get. Google launches new search, shopping and maps features. YouTube releases in-depth podcasting guide with best practices. You can now ask Google Assistant to search and play podcasts by guest, episode. Picks: Mathew - A plaque that shows you are verified on Twitter. Mathew - Bizarre study finds common parasite can make you more attractive. Mathew - Christie's Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for 'Further Study'. Jeff - Pew teens and social media. Ant - Boris FX Black Friday Discount. Ant - Prep football: Campolindo edges Rancho Cotate in NCS semifinals. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mathew Ingram Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit eightsleep.com/twit CDW.com/HPE
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs. Warner: Parents should be 'very concerned' about TikTok. Elon Musk and Twitter: a masterclass in moving fast and breaking things... Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative. Post.news Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year. How to Send Your Own Message to the iPad on Artemis 1 As It Orbits the Moon. Watch Howard Stern's Special Interview with Bruce Springsteen on HBO and HBO Max. The leap second's time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks. Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in. Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year sentence explained by tech bubble. Lessons from a decade of 'Candy Crush'. FTX Founder Deepfake Offers Refund to Victims in Verified Twitter Account Scam. Movie theater stocks pop after report says Amazon plans to spend $1 billion on releases. Google Fi discounts Pixel 7 to $399 and offers $300 off 7 Pro for Black Friday. The best Black Friday Google deals you can get. Google launches new search, shopping and maps features. YouTube releases in-depth podcasting guide with best practices. You can now ask Google Assistant to search and play podcasts by guest, episode. Picks: Mathew - A plaque that shows you are verified on Twitter. Mathew - Bizarre study finds common parasite can make you more attractive. Mathew - Christie's Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for 'Further Study'. Jeff - Pew teens and social media. Ant - Boris FX Black Friday Discount. Ant - Prep football: Campolindo edges Rancho Cotate in NCS semifinals. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mathew Ingram Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit eightsleep.com/twit CDW.com/HPE
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs. Warner: Parents should be 'very concerned' about TikTok. Elon Musk and Twitter: a masterclass in moving fast and breaking things... Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative. Post.news Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year. How to Send Your Own Message to the iPad on Artemis 1 As It Orbits the Moon. Watch Howard Stern's Special Interview with Bruce Springsteen on HBO and HBO Max. The leap second's time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks. Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in. Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year sentence explained by tech bubble. Lessons from a decade of 'Candy Crush'. FTX Founder Deepfake Offers Refund to Victims in Verified Twitter Account Scam. Movie theater stocks pop after report says Amazon plans to spend $1 billion on releases. Google Fi discounts Pixel 7 to $399 and offers $300 off 7 Pro for Black Friday. The best Black Friday Google deals you can get. Google launches new search, shopping and maps features. YouTube releases in-depth podcasting guide with best practices. You can now ask Google Assistant to search and play podcasts by guest, episode. Picks: Mathew - A plaque that shows you are verified on Twitter. Mathew - Bizarre study finds common parasite can make you more attractive. Mathew - Christie's Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for 'Further Study'. Jeff - Pew teens and social media. Ant - Boris FX Black Friday Discount. Ant - Prep football: Campolindo edges Rancho Cotate in NCS semifinals. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mathew Ingram Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit eightsleep.com/twit CDW.com/HPE
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs. Warner: Parents should be 'very concerned' about TikTok. Elon Musk and Twitter: a masterclass in moving fast and breaking things... Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative. Post.news Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year. How to Send Your Own Message to the iPad on Artemis 1 As It Orbits the Moon. Watch Howard Stern's Special Interview with Bruce Springsteen on HBO and HBO Max. The leap second's time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks. Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in. Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year sentence explained by tech bubble. Lessons from a decade of 'Candy Crush'. FTX Founder Deepfake Offers Refund to Victims in Verified Twitter Account Scam. Movie theater stocks pop after report says Amazon plans to spend $1 billion on releases. Google Fi discounts Pixel 7 to $399 and offers $300 off 7 Pro for Black Friday. The best Black Friday Google deals you can get. Google launches new search, shopping and maps features. YouTube releases in-depth podcasting guide with best practices. You can now ask Google Assistant to search and play podcasts by guest, episode. Picks: Mathew - A plaque that shows you are verified on Twitter. Mathew - Bizarre study finds common parasite can make you more attractive. Mathew - Christie's Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for 'Further Study'. Jeff - Pew teens and social media. Ant - Boris FX Black Friday Discount. Ant - Prep football: Campolindo edges Rancho Cotate in NCS semifinals. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mathew Ingram Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit eightsleep.com/twit CDW.com/HPE
I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs. Warner: Parents should be 'very concerned' about TikTok. Elon Musk and Twitter: a masterclass in moving fast and breaking things... Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative. Post.news Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure," on pace to lose $10 billion this year. How to Send Your Own Message to the iPad on Artemis 1 As It Orbits the Moon. Watch Howard Stern's Special Interview with Bruce Springsteen on HBO and HBO Max. The leap second's time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks. Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in. Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year sentence explained by tech bubble. Lessons from a decade of 'Candy Crush'. FTX Founder Deepfake Offers Refund to Victims in Verified Twitter Account Scam. Movie theater stocks pop after report says Amazon plans to spend $1 billion on releases. Google Fi discounts Pixel 7 to $399 and offers $300 off 7 Pro for Black Friday. The best Black Friday Google deals you can get. Google launches new search, shopping and maps features. YouTube releases in-depth podcasting guide with best practices. You can now ask Google Assistant to search and play podcasts by guest, episode. Picks: Mathew - A plaque that shows you are verified on Twitter. Mathew - Bizarre study finds common parasite can make you more attractive. Mathew - Christie's Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for 'Further Study'. Jeff - Pew teens and social media. Ant - Boris FX Black Friday Discount. Ant - Prep football: Campolindo edges Rancho Cotate in NCS semifinals. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mathew Ingram Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit eightsleep.com/twit CDW.com/HPE
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)-the group that quite literally decides what time it is-voted to [abolish the leap second](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/science/time-leap-second-bipm.html#:~:text=It was devised as a,allow Earth to catch up.). On December 1, a new law comes into effect guaranteeing ten paid sick days a year for employees in federally-regulated industries like banking, telecoms, and air transport. Several major biotech players are moving fast to develop obesity drugs to snag their share of a market that analysts say could be worth US$50B annually by 2030. Celebrating something? Let us know here: https://thepeak.typeform.com/to/MNdYA3TO The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.
Scientists are meeting in Versailles this week to make a decision that could change the very nature of time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the leaders of the two most powerful countries in the world met face to face, on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit today. We'll talk about why this IRL meeting matters and what the future of U.S.-China relations could mean for the global economy. Plus, there are signs the Federal Reserve is getting ready to slow its roll on interest rate hikes. And, Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams talk missions to the moon, past and present! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Biden and Xi clash over Taiwan in Bali but Cold War fears cool” from Reuters “Lael Brainard Says Fed Probably Will ‘Soon' Slow Pace of Interest-Rate Hikes” from Bloomberg “Time Is Running Out for the Leap Second” from The New York Times “NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission still ‘go’ for Nov. 16 launch” from Space.com Kai recommends the book “Apollo Remastered” by photographer Andy Saunders If you've got a question for the hosts or your own answer to the Make Me Smart question, call 508-U-B-SMART and leave us a voicemail. Or email us at makemesmart@marketplace.org.
For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the leaders of the two most powerful countries in the world met face to face, on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit today. We'll talk about why this IRL meeting matters and what the future of U.S.-China relations could mean for the global economy. Plus, there are signs the Federal Reserve is getting ready to slow its roll on interest rate hikes. And, Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams talk missions to the moon, past and present! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Biden and Xi clash over Taiwan in Bali but Cold War fears cool” from Reuters “Lael Brainard Says Fed Probably Will ‘Soon' Slow Pace of Interest-Rate Hikes” from Bloomberg “Time Is Running Out for the Leap Second” from The New York Times “NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission still ‘go’ for Nov. 16 launch” from Space.com Kai recommends the book “Apollo Remastered” by photographer Andy Saunders If you've got a question for the hosts or your own answer to the Make Me Smart question, call 508-U-B-SMART and leave us a voicemail. Or email us at makemesmart@marketplace.org.
Tom Cruise is showing up everywhere: landing his helicopter in an English family's garden; interrupting hikers and leaping off a cliff; and even in deepfake videos. We also look at crypto apps on Apple's App Store, and we discuss the leap second, and how taking away one second in time could wreak havoc on computers. Show Notes: 'Tom Cruise is in my Warwickshire garden' Tom Cruise apologizes for interrupting couple's hike before jumping off cliff How to spot a deepfake video - featuring Tom Cruise as Iron Man Apple's App Store Comes Under the Spotlight for How It Handles Fake Crypto Apps Investigation report about the abuse of the Mac App Store Apple blasts Android malware in fierce pushback against iOS sideloading Nokia Threat Intelligence Report 2021 Google pushes back deadline for killing off third-party cookies in Chrome (again) to H2 2024 Over 3,200 apps leak Twitter API keys, some allowing account hijacks Earth is spinning faster than usual and had its shortest day ever Leap Seconds List - IETF Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet It's time to leave the leap second in the past The Inside Story of the Extra Second That Crashed the Web Year 2038 problem Intego Mac Premium Bundle X9 is the ultimate protection and utility suite for your Mac. Download a free trial now at intego.com, and use this link for a special discount when you're ready to buy.
Josh and Kurt talk about leap seconds. Every time there's a leap second, things break. Facebook wants to get rid of them because they break computers, but Google found a clever way to keep leap seconds without breaking anything. Corner cases are hard, security is often just one huge corner case. There are lessons we can learn here. Show Notes How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS Facebook wants to get rid of leap seconds Leap Smear Falsehoods programmers believe about time
Nesse episódio trouxemos as notícias e novidades do mundo da programação que nos chamaram atenção dos dias 23/07 a 29/07! Breakpoint: Nessa semana o tema foi: "A estratégia por trás da 1ª versão do site do Código Fonte em 2006 ". Conheça a história completa do Código Fonte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-uiTbflSB0 Hosts: Somos Gabriel Fróes e Vanessa Weber, um casal de programadores que dá as caras desde 2016 no canal Código Fonte TV no YouTube. Links: Receba as Notícias do Compilado no Email: compilado.codigofonte.com.br Assista o Compilado no YouTube: codft.me/canalcompilado Esse é o momento ideal de pegar um café e se atualizar com notícias sobre programação que nos chamaram a atenção essa semana.
Nesse episódio trouxemos as notícias e novidades do mundo da programação que nos chamaram atenção dos dias 23/07 a 29/07! Breakpoint: Nessa semana o tema foi: "A estratégia por trás da 1ª versão do site do Código Fonte em 2006 ". Conheça a história completa do Código Fonte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-uiTbflSB0 Hosts: Somos Gabriel Fróes e Vanessa Weber, um casal de programadores que dá as caras desde 2016 no canal Código Fonte TV no YouTube. Links: Receba as Notícias do Compilado no Email: compilado.codigofonte.com.br Assista o Compilado no YouTube: codft.me/canalcompilado Esse é o momento ideal de pegar um café e se atualizar com notícias sobre programação que nos chamaram a atenção essa semana.
Alphabet misses on earnings and revenue for second quarter. Google earnings signal company weathering slowdown better than expected. Mark Zuckerberg braces Meta employees for 'intense period'. Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok. Introducing Home and Feeds on Facebook. Zuck Turns Up the Heat. Sunset of the social network. @elonmusk: The media is a click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine. Inside TikTok's Attempts to 'Downplay the China Association'. Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient. Google, like Amazon, will let police see your video without a warrant. TikTok's Pink Sauce chef defends her viral condiment. Today's TikTok culinary horror: pizza sacrilege. Why Does the Prison-Life Content on TikTok Feel So Familiar? A Fond Farewell to the Chaotic Italian Sandwich Man of TikTok. Google is adding Flyover-like aerial views to Maps. Google Photos website starts showing the backup quality of every image. Google Play gets a new logo for its 10-year anniversary. Hangouts on Air is back as Google Meet brings YouTube livestreaming to free Gmail. Pixel's At a Glance widget starts showing Air Quality (AQI) alerts. Google Drive, Docs, and other Workspace apps getting optimized for Android tablets. Chromecast with Google TV finally supports streaming live video from new Nest Cams, Doorbell. Chromebooks are getting a new, more advanced Google Photos movie editor. Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us. Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing. The drive to save Choco Taco. Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of a seven-year-old opponent. Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024. Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet. How to Use BeReal, the 'Unfiltered' Social Media App. Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports. Why Amazon is buying a little-known medical provider for $3.9 billion. Frankfurt airport boss blames travel chaos on black suitcases. Picks: Stacey - @secengineer on TikTok. Jeff - @jeffjarvis: Well, damn, now I'm crying all over again. Newport put up two high-quality and complete videos from @jonimitchell's set. Ant - Mac Arnold's 80th birthday celebrated with blues jam. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: ClickUp.com use code TWIG
Alphabet misses on earnings and revenue for second quarter. Google earnings signal company weathering slowdown better than expected. Mark Zuckerberg braces Meta employees for 'intense period'. Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok. Introducing Home and Feeds on Facebook. Zuck Turns Up the Heat. Sunset of the social network. @elonmusk: The media is a click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine. Inside TikTok's Attempts to 'Downplay the China Association'. Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient. Google, like Amazon, will let police see your video without a warrant. TikTok's Pink Sauce chef defends her viral condiment. Today's TikTok culinary horror: pizza sacrilege. Why Does the Prison-Life Content on TikTok Feel So Familiar? A Fond Farewell to the Chaotic Italian Sandwich Man of TikTok. Google is adding Flyover-like aerial views to Maps. Google Photos website starts showing the backup quality of every image. Google Play gets a new logo for its 10-year anniversary. Hangouts on Air is back as Google Meet brings YouTube livestreaming to free Gmail. Pixel's At a Glance widget starts showing Air Quality (AQI) alerts. Google Drive, Docs, and other Workspace apps getting optimized for Android tablets. Chromecast with Google TV finally supports streaming live video from new Nest Cams, Doorbell. Chromebooks are getting a new, more advanced Google Photos movie editor. Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us. Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing. The drive to save Choco Taco. Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of a seven-year-old opponent. Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024. Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet. How to Use BeReal, the 'Unfiltered' Social Media App. Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports. Why Amazon is buying a little-known medical provider for $3.9 billion. Frankfurt airport boss blames travel chaos on black suitcases. Picks: Stacey - @secengineer on TikTok. Jeff - @jeffjarvis: Well, damn, now I'm crying all over again. Newport put up two high-quality and complete videos from @jonimitchell's set. Ant - Mac Arnold's 80th birthday celebrated with blues jam. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: ClickUp.com use code TWIG
Tech commentator Paul Matthew looks at Big Tech's attempt to tackle a new foe: the humble leap second. Why are they trying to dump it, why does it frequently cause chaos and really, does a second here or there really matter? And Apple recently announced a new Lockdown Mode, a super secure mode for those who might be subject to state or other attack or surveillance. Who needs to turn it on?
From the Chariot Blog We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more. We’re celebrating our 20th anniversary here at Chariot. Check out this post written by our fearless leader and CEO, Mike Rappaport, on how Chariot’s unique approach has ... Read More The post TechChat Tuesdays #53: Boycotting Wayland, and banishing the leap second appeared first on Chariot Solutions.
Is the SEC about to crack down on Coinbase? Why is Kylie Jenner mad at Instagram? Why are all the big tech companies mad at the leap second, of all things? And a deep dive look at what Amazon probably wants to do with its big healthcare acquisition.Sponsors:Storyblok.com/ridehomeCybersecurityinside.com/RIDELinks:Coinbase Faces SEC Probe on Crypto Listings; Shares Tumble (Bloomberg)Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian tell Instagram to 'stop trying to be TikTok,' which could spell major trouble for the platform (Insider)Creators on Facebook can now earn money through videos that use licensed music (TechCrunch)Shopify to Lay Off 10% of Workers in Broad Shake-Up (WSJ)Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet (CNET)The Amazon + One Medical Post (Out Of Pocket)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
How much damage could a little discontinuity in the timing continuum really do? We cover the history, present, and future, good, bad, and the ugly of the leap second. Resources referenced: Leap Second Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web: https://www.wired.com/2012/07/leap-second-bug-wreaks-havoc-with-java-linux/ Leap Second Implementation Confuses Some Receivers: https://www.gpsworld.com/leap-second-implementation-confuses-some-receivers/ Oct 2003 proceedings of the General Conference of Weights and Measures: https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/35777985/CGPM22-EN.pdf/fd67556f-5824-9b38-b1e2-c273cd9d1843 NIST Leap Seconds FAQ: https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/leap-seconds-faqs 2022 Draft Resolutions for the Conference of Weights and Measures: https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/64811571/Draft-Resolutions-2022.pdf Bill's leap second script: https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AK0KBzMDc%5FYidBs&cid=9607B16F82CD821C&id=9607B16F82CD821C%2142780&parId=9607B16F82CD821C%2130186&o=OneUp
Welcome to Season 2 of "Music on Music"!This cast I'll be looking at the ten albums that I would have nominated for album of the year for 2021 if I were the Grammys, including “Introducing Aaron Frazer,” by Aaron Frazer, “Seven Foot Tall Post Suicidal Feel Good Blues” by Nancy and “Leap Second” by M. Caye Castagnetto. I'll also look at some of the early frontrunners for album of the year for 2022 if I were the Grammys. Plus, the return of Coachella EMT and HeroSong (TM)! ENJOY!!!I love you all! Thanks for Listening!!!
Live recording of time signal station CHU, Canada, on 30 June 2015 beginning at exactly 23:55:00 UTC on a frequency of 7850 kHz. The recording last exactly 10 minutes and 1 second, ending at 0:10:00 UTC. A leap second occurs at 23:59:60 UTC. This can be noted by the 1 second of silence between the 5m:00s mark in the recording (23:59:60 UTC) and the 5m:01s mark (0:00:00 UTC) denoted by the start of the one-second-long tone. This is followed by 9 seconds of silence. Before the leap second, the forecast difference between UT1 and UTC (DUT1 = UT1 minus UTC) to a precision of one tenth of a second was -0.7 seconds. This is indicated by CHU by using a sequence of double tones at 9 seconds through 15 seconds after the start of each minute except for the minute beginning an hour. Following the leap second, DUT1 is +0.3 seconds, marked by double tones at 2 seconds through 4 seconds after the start of the minute, again, except for the minute beginning an hour. Recorded by Richard Langley, courtesy of the Shortwave Radio Archive. Part of the Shortwave Transmissions project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of shortwave radio - find out more and see the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/shortwave
Episode: 2038 Putting a leap second in an elastic year. Today, we add a second to our lives.
A recent decision will keep the leap second around until at least 2023. Understand the leap second vulnerability and plan ahead for the next leap second so that your applications will continue to operate smoothly.
On this day in 1908, an explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Russia that was likely caused by a meteorite or comet bursting. / At 11:59 p.m. and 60 seconds, a leap second was added to Coordinated Universal Time to synchronize clocks with Earth's decelerating rotation. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
"Nigrum Mortem" by DJ Muggs The Black Goat from Dies Occidendum; "La Perla" by Sofia Kourtesis from Fresia Magdalena; "I-O" by Innode from Syn; "Ice on Water" by Urdog from Long Shadows 2003-2006; "I Invented Disco" by M. Caye Castagnetto from Leap Second; "Precinct" by Vibracathedral Orchestra from Rec Blast Motorbike; "St. Stefano" by Land of Kush from The Big Mango; "View of Death" by V. Kristoff from Sydra; "Modern Ruins" by Plankton Wat from Future Times. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey; "Outer Bongolia" by Stereolab from Electrically Possessed (Switched On Vol. 4)
Guest: https://twitter.com/JayBoisseau Topic Summary: Social Media Artificial Intelligence Elon Musk Tiny Device Unlocks Cars & Opens Garages Negative Leap Second CES Ray Tracing
Join Eric, @BillCrane, @TimAndrewsHere, @autopritts, @JaredYamamoto, @EnglishNick, and Greg as they chat about runoff fallout, radical facts, Mr. Bean, and much more! “Brought to you by Reliable Heating and Air."
Episode: 2038 Putting a leap second in an elastic year. Today, we add a second to our lives.
Host Hany Fahim tells a roller-coaster tale of an emergency situation that occurred one beautiful summer evening in 2012. When multiple client websites his company supported mysteriously went down without warning, Hany raced against the clock—quite literally, it turned out—to get everything back up and running.Although his alerts indicated that high load was at the heart of the issue, when Hany checked things out, he was in for a surprise. Nothing seemed to indicate anything should be wrong. So, what could have possibly all these different systems to go down all at once?After finding an oddly simple solution, Hany traced the root of the problem back to an unlikely place: time keeping. This discovery took Hany down a research rabbit hole—one that changed his understanding of space and time, and the meaning of interconnectedness. Hany reflects on the unpredictability of the universe itself in this episode, and his tenacious spirit that summer night shows how important it is to rise to the occasion in Ops when things go awry. Earthquakes and The Moon is an intriguing deep-dive into science, time, and the physics of the universe. Hany’s story twists and turns to show how a single second, the Moon, and an earthquake half a world away can change the course of history.Hany is founder and CEO of stack.io and you can connect with him there, or on LinkedIn.If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with anyone you think will enjoy it. And if you can give us a review on Apple Podcasts, we’ll be grateful!
Hosni Mubarak's Legacy in Modern Egypt (0:30)Guest: Quinn Mecham, PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young UniversityModern Egypt's longest-serving leader Hosni Mubarak died last week at age 91. For 30 years he ran Egypt, growing the economy, establishing strong ties with the US and keeping peace with Israel. But his people came to see him as a dictator and ousted him during the Arab Uprising in 2011. Mubarak's complicated legacy is important in understanding Egypt's role in the Middle East and US foreign policy. Archaeologists and Native Americans Collaborate to Understand and Protect Historic Sites (19:09)Guest: Matthew Liebmann, Professor of Archaeology, Harvard UniversityArchaeologists have developed a reputation over the centuries of being pretty disrespectful of indigenous cultures, doing things like excavating sacred Native American burial grounds and taking bones and artifacts away to be studied and displayed in museums without any input from the tribe. Harvard University archaeologist Matthew Liebmann has spent his career trying to not do that. Epic Solitude (33:50)Guest: Katherine Keith, Author, “Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North”Katherine Keith had the dream life – she lived in a log cabin in the Alaskan backcountry, miles from any road, with her husband and infant daughter. That may not sound idyllic for most people, but it was to her. But then her husband died suddenly, and she was left alone with her infant daughter. That's when Keith turned to the Iditarod trail for solace and healing – that's dog sled race that travels across 1,000 miles of Alaskan wilderness. Desperate for More International Help, Colombia Struggles to Meet Needs of Venezuelan Refugees (50:38)Guest: Patrick Ammerman, Master's Student in Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, Grant Recipient, Pulitzer Center for Crisis ReportingVenezuela is on the verge of outpacing Syria as the largest refugee crisis in the world. More than four million Venezuelans fled their collapsed economy in search of food, medicine and other basic needs. Neighboring Colombia has received the largest group of Venezuelan refugees and continues to keep its borders open, while other countries in the region have not. Colombia's president is pleading for more support from the international community to provide for the displaced Venezuelans. So far international aid amounts to $125 per Venezuelan refugee, while countries have sent $1,500 per refugee from Syria, according to the Brookings Institution. That disparity is contributing to a worsening humanitarian crisis at the Venezuela/Colombia border. Leap Second (1:09:13)Guest: Ken Seidelmann, Research Professor of Astronomy, University of VirginiaWell leap day has come and gone, but we're not done leaping in leap year yet. We're most likely going to have another one later this year, but this time, it will be a leap second instead of a whole day. Puerto Rico Chafes Against New Cockfighting Ban Imposed by Congress (1:23:24)Guest: Yolanda Álvarez, Founder of Álvarez Legal, Former Director of the Humane Society of Puerto RicoCockfighting has been illegal in the US for a while, but was only banned in US territories, including Puerto Rico, at the start of this year. Puerto Rican government officials and people involved in the cockfighting industry on the island are challenging the ban in court. They say cockfighting is an important part of their culture and employs some 20,000 people on the island – jobs the struggling Puerto Rican economy can't afford to lose.
Quinn Mecham of Brigham Young Univ on Egypt and Hosni Mubarak. Matthew Liebmann, Harvard Univ, on collaborative archaeology. Katherine Keith, author of “Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North,” on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race . Patrick Ammerman of Univ of Pennsylvania on Venezuelans in Colombia. Ken Seidelmann of Univ of Virginia on the leap second. Yolanda Álvarez of Álvarez Legal on cockfighting in Puerto Rico
Happy New Year! It's horrible... the Fake Incident... and what we've all become in its wake. But, take heart, we've got a show all about New Years for you. Topics include the Possum Drop, Peacock Vow, Leap Seconds, New Years Rockin' Eve, Janus... plus GAMES. Will you FMK the New Years Baby, Old Man Last Year, or 20-something Mr. April? Our guests Jason Legler, Jeremy Mast, Lindsay Morehouse, and Eric Wedum crank out hit after hit on this one. Though, we're sadly, Shan-less. Resolve to listen to this and every previous episode! I mean, at least it's something we could all definitely passively succeed at! Right!?
Why would anyone join a cult? Maybe they're unhappy with their current religion, or they want to change the world, or they're disappointed with their lives and want to find something bigger or holier that makes sense of this confusing, chaotic and dangerous world. Or maybe they just want to give themselves the best possible chance of having sex with aliens? Either way, this is the topic of a fascinating new book by author Jo Thornley, who also has a popular podcast called . We started this Token Skeptic interview by chatting about how Zealot came to be. ************** This show and website wouldn't exist if not for the help of patreons at . Thanks to them for sticking around, supporting the podcast and helping it continue! If you'd like to join them, head to and check out the rewards available - including the rewards of behind the scenes bonus content and the knowledge that you're helping keep Token Skeptic going. Theme songs for Token Skeptic podcast are “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – you can create your own at . As always, send in your to your chosen download platform - you can get this show on Spotify, iTunes, iHeartRadio, RadioPublic and even at tokenskeptic.org. Send in feedback to tokenskeptic at gmail - and remember if you'd like to hear more!
The idea that animals have the potential to talk is an alluring one; from the mathematical stunts of , to research on parrots, dolphins and chimps - . It's interesting, exciting and even cute - but is it really true that animals have language? After the recent passing of , I spoke to about the hopes we have about being the next Dr Dolittle, and just how realistic those hopes are. Daniel is a lecturer in applied linguistics at Edith Cowan University, and at the University of Western Australia, as well as a presenter on the popular language podcast . ****************************** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Theme songs “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . Tremendous thanks to my Patreon supporters – they are: Stephen, Steven, Andrew, Troy, Jacqueline, Brooke, Gerry, Dr*T, Josh, Linley, Gold and Iggy. Make sure you check out the bonus content on Patreon and as always, you can join them by heading to (and check out the too!). Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Hundreds of such as "tonifies kidney essence" and "opens body orifices" could appear on complementary medicine labels under Their campaign points out that "Proposed laws could see dangerous and potentially misleading claims on therapeutic goods, especially complementary and alternative medicines like herbal and homeopathic treatments. It means that products can claim to decrease the time it takes to fall asleep or help maintain healthy heart function without having scientific evidence to back their claims." I spoke to Katinka Day, the Campaigns Policy Team Leader at Choice Australia. ****************************** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . Tremendous thanks to my Patreon supporters – they are: Stephen, Steven, Andrew, Troy, Jacqueline, Brooke, Gerry, Dr*T, Josh, Linley, Gold and Iggy. Make sure you check out the bonus content on Patreon and as always, you can join them by heading to (and check out the too!). Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via .
is a science book with a difference, written by Alom Shaha, illustrated by Emily Robertson and published by Scribble Kids Books. Alom was born in Bangladesh but grew up in London; as a parent, teacher, science writer, and filmmaker, he has spent most of his professional life trying to share his passion for science and education with the public. Alom has produced, directed, and appeared in a number of television programmes for broadcasters such as the BBC, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (NESTA) and the Nuffield Foundation. His new book gives clear, step-by-step instructions for over fifteen experiments. Whether you’re a science star or just starting out, it will help you inspire young people to learn. ************************ A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . Tremendous thanks to my Patreon supporters – they are: Stephen, Steven, Andrew, Troy, Jacqueline, Brooke, Gerry, Dr*T, Josh, Linley, Gold and Iggy. Make sure you check out the bonus content on Patreon and as always, you can join them by heading to (and check out the too!). Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself from terminal brain cancer with a healthy diet. She built a global business based upon her claims. There was just one problem: she'd never had cancer. In 2015, journalists uncovered the truth: this hero of the wellness world, with over 200,000 followers, international book deals, and a best-selling smartphone app, was a fraud tracks the 23-year-old's rise to fame and fall from grace. Told through interviews with the people who know her best, it unravels the mystery and motivation behind this deception and follows the public reaction to a scandal that made headlines around the world. I spoke to one of the co-authors of the book, Nick Toscano. ***************** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . Tremendous thanks to my Patreon supporters – they are: Stephen, Steven, Andrew, Troy, Jacqueline, Brooke, Gerry, Dr*T, Josh, Linley, Gold and Iggy. Make sure you check out the bonus content on Patreon and as always, you can join them by heading to (and check out the too!). Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
How To Be Reasonable (By Someone Who Tried Everything Else) is a primer on critical thinking and an introduction to scientific skepticism that will empower you to see the world a little bit more clearly. The world is a strange, scary and beautiful place. and author and artist Rebecca Fox suggests that being reasonable helps you to wonder at the strange, avoid the scary and celebrate the beauty. I interviewed Rebecca about How To Be Reasonable – you can find the book on Amazon and check out her website at *********** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . Tremendous thanks to my Patreon supporters – they are: Stephen, Steven, Andrew, Troy, Jacqueline, Brooke, Gerry, Dr*T, Josh, Linley, Gold and Iggy. Make sure you check out the bonus content on Patreon and as always, you can join them by heading to (and check out the too!). Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
The Network Time Protocol isn’t that complicated but there are a lot of moving parts involved. This New Year, enlighten yourself with how the internet Read More
In our nineteenth episode, Julia updates us on everyone’s favorite construct: TIME. Learn about the International Date Line, time zones, GMT, UTC, TLC [okay, maybe not that last one], and leap years. Later, enjoy a quiz called “T.V. Timeout”! . . . [Music: 1) Scott Gratton, “The Hours,” 2017. Courtesy of Scott Gratton, CC BY-NC 4.0 license; 2) Frau Holle, “Ascending Souls,” 2017. Courtesy of Frau Holle, CC BY-NC 3.0 license.]
Free WIFI - two words that many people love to hear. But how many people read the terms and conditions before they connect to it? Accessing wireless points that you don’t know where it originates from can be risky and harmful to your confidential information. … and Dr Krishnun Sansurooah joined me to tell us how it went. *********** About a month ago, the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre closed down. More than a thousand displaced refugees are now left in a vulnerable state after being moved to an alternative location. As the tensions surround the island's Regional Processing Centre grow, many of Australia's senior doctors, psychiatrists and surgeons have written an open letter to the Federal Government, offering to treat the remaining asylum seekers and refugees for free. To tell us more about what's happening is the *********** - investigating trends in radio, which is a broad landscape these days! Recently he's Tweeted about radio intimacy, links to resilience of radio despite the trends, and getting lost in Brisbane on the way to the studio. I subscribe to his PodNews emails and it's always interesting to see what's happening - I talked to him about what caught his ear recently. *********** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . Tremendous thanks to my Patreon supporters - they are: Stephen, Steven, Andrew, Troy, Jacqueline, Daniel, Gerry, Dr*T, Josh, Linley, Gold and Iggy. Make sure you check out the bonus content on Patreon and as always, you can join them by heading to (and check out the too!). Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
The recent news that Australia is getting its own Space Agency is one sure to affect the entire nation - but should we be so eager so fast? The Federal Government has announced its plans to cash in on a $420 billion aeronautical industry and create thousands of new jobs, which coincided with the 69th International Astronautical Congress which is being held in Adelaide this week. Science Communicator spoke to me about the developments on The Mag for RTRFM. ******** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . Tremendous thanks to my Patreon supporters - they are: Stephen, Andrew, Jaqueline, Daniel, Kathy, Gerry, Dr T, Josh, Linley, Gold and Iggy. Make sure you check out the bonus content on Patreon and as always, you can join them by heading to (and check out the too!). Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Cold-pressed juices, quitting sugar, Paleo, hot yoga, mindfulness … if you embrace these things you will be happy, you will be well – just ask Instagram. Wellness has become a global mega-industry. But does any of this stuff actually work? Feeling exhausted, anxious and out of shape, journalist Brigid Delaney decides to find out – using herself as the guinea pig. Starting with a brutal 101-day fast, Brigid tests things that are meant to make us clean, lean and serene. Travelling the world, she tries colonics, meditation, silent retreats, group psychotherapy and oodles of yoga, working out what is helpful and what is just expensive hype. And she's documented it all in her new book, . Brigid Delaney is a senior writer for Guardian Australia. She has previously worked as a lawyer and journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald, the Telegraph (London), ninemsn and CNN. She is the author of two books: This Restless Life and Wild Things. ********** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . Tremendous thanks to my Patreon supporters - they are: Stephen, Andrew, Jaqueline, Daniel, Kathy, Gerry, Dr T, Josh, Linley, Gold and Iggy. Make sure you check out the bonus content on Patreon and as always, you can join them by heading to (and check out the too!). Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
It started around a kitchen table, three friends reading out the erotic work of a retired dad – and now it’s a podcasting sensation. Jamie Morton of "" podcast never expected that “Belinda Blinked” (written by his dad, known only as "Rocky Flintstone") - would eventually lead to a live touring show, that is touring Australia (and ). With over 50 million downloads, there’s bound to be a few fans of the pots and pans industry in the audience. RTRFM reporter Kylie Sturgess asked Jamie about what was it like when the show first started getting downloads... ************** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . Tremendous thanks to my Patreon supporters - they are: Steven, Andrew, Jacqueline, Daniel, Kathy, Gerry , Dr*T, Josh, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Andrew and Stephen. Make sure you check out the bonus content on Patreon and as always, you can join them by heading to (and check out the too!). Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
The March For Science is an international phenomenon - a stand for solidarity, for education, for inclusivity and for diversity in the field and for the importance of science to be understood and promoted by not just scientists, but policy makers and the public. Here are some vox pops and speeches from the rally that was held at the Many thanks to all the organisers and the participants. MC for the day - Callum Ormonde - UWA Chemistry and Biochemistry - winner of Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry for partially unboiling an egg March for Science organiser Kristin Barry Trent Burton of Professor Lindy Fitzgerald - neurotrauma specialist Professor Phil Bland - planetary scientist Toby Brown - Astrophysicist Suzy Urbaniak - educator and 2016 Prime Minister’s Prize winner for Excellence in Science Peter Derbyshire - zoology Professor Lyn Beazley AO ************** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
How safe are herbal medicines? In 2011, just over a billion dollars was spent on alternative medicines in Australia, many of which come with unproven efficacy claims. , cancer 'cures' and the like, there's a call for increased scrutiny about what's being offered to the public in the name of 'health supplements'. Murdoch University Biochemistry Lecturer Dr Garth Maker is seeking to shed some light on the subject of herbal medicines. If you're in Perth, To download the campus map click , or to us the interactive map please click . *************************** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
comes to town and it was a great chance to interview a range of talented authors taking part in the festivities. My interviews are with: Ben Rawlence - his book City of Thorns is about Northern Kenya - the home of the world’s largest refugee camp, with half a million people. Opening Night speaker at the Perth International Arts Festival. Candice Fox - her first novel, Hades, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association; she has since gone onto numerous books on crime and punishment. Hannah Kent - is the best-selling author of Burial Rites and the newly released The Good People - stories of culture, crime and history. Garth Nix - is an award-winning sci-fi fantasy author with several series of fantasy and fiction; I asked him about his new book "Frogkisser" ahead of his appearances at the festival. Amy Stewart - an author of nonfiction books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world, including New York Times bestsellers with The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Bugs and Wicked Plants. However, her range has extended to the tales of a trio of turn-of-the-century sisters turned detectives, with the latest being Lady Cop Makes Trouble - the second book in an ongoing series. Chinelo Okparanta - this Nigerian-American author writes stories of women and children, family life, migration, war and love; she first started with short stories, with the collection Happiness, Like Water and then her most recent novel Under the Udula Trees. Inua Ellams - London-based playwright and poet Inua Ellams' work explores the themes of identity, displacement and destiny – areas of life he’s intimately familiar with. Dan Box - the National Crime Reporter for The Australian and creator of crime podcast Bowraville. Marwa Al-Sabouni - Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni is battling to heal her home city of Homs, having remained there as bombs destroyed much of what she knew and loved. Her ideas to mend the city are now laid out in a visionary memoir, The Battle For Home. She is presenting the closing night address. Clementine Ford - Australian feminist columnist and author of the best selling book Fight Like A Girl. Lindy West - is a Seattle-based writer, editor and performer who’s work has appeared in a number of well-known publications - and the author of Shrill: Notes From A Loud Woman. Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa - a Perth performance poet, she’s a workshop facilitator, actor, artist and humanitarian. Her questions about notions of Australian national identity, got her to the finals of the national Australia poetry slam. Nathan Hill - short story author and author of The Nix; a tale of estrangement and displacement in both families and national politics. Adrian Todd Zuniga - creator of Literary Death Match - touted as Def Poetry Jam meets American Idol, this competition sees four authors perform a short excerpt of their most electric work before a panel of judges. Omar Musa - a Malaysian-Australian rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He is the winner of the Australian Poetry Slam and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam and has released three hip-hop albums, two poetry books, and received a standing ovation at TEDx. ************ A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
As New Year's Eve ticked over to 2017, scientists added an extra second to atomic clocks to compensate for the Earth's variable rotation. But there are pros and cons to doing this, as Dr Karl Kruszelnicki explains.
Can you really rewire an adult brain? In theory the answer is 'yes', but there's a problem: no one seems to know exactly how to do it! In her new book " went off on a world-wide mission to find the answer. Visiting top neuroscientists in their labs, she volunteers herself as a guinea pig in studies, challenging researchers to make real changes to her — functioning, but imperfect — brain. ************** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Welcome back / goals for 2017 Alexa corner 9 times as many echos sold this holiday 7k alexa skills, 7X increase in 7 months Alexa @ CES Alexa v. Google Home Alexa: Amazon's Operating System (stratechery) exponent podcast episode 099 Gone in 60 milliseconds zappa Mackenzie: AWS Lambda Infection Toolkit Leap Second outage at CloudFlare Falsehoods programmers believe about time golang #12914 Google leap second smearing AWS pricing API / updates React corner / react native
- Felicitaciones a @impronunciable, ganador del quiz del ep01. - CloudFare, problemas con leap second (gracias @PabloVerano). https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/ - Ticket de golang para dar acceso al reloj monotónico. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914 - Grumpy: runtime de go para python. https://github.com/google/grumpy - Hack: lenguaje de Facebook basado en PHP. http://hacklang.org/ - Polémica en el /var de sysarmy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dQ1ygNkw_M - Nuevas medidas del BCRA para exportadores de software http://www.iprofesional.com/notas/243721-El-BCRA-suma-varias-medidas-para-apuntalar-el-precio-del-dlar
Bears Ears Monument and Native American approaches to conservation with anthropologist Chip Colwell. Former police officer Greg Crane teaches kids to fight back during school shootings. Carol Neel, of Colorado College, on learning from medieval monks to treat mental illness. Patrick Wiggins, of NASA, and why we need to add leap seconds to our clocks. "Popular Science" magazine's new make-over. Kristopher Smith, University of Pennsylvania, claims that "power poses" don't work.
Merry Christmas! One of the great things about the holiday break is the opportunity to get some reading done – and has a new book out this year. This book traces the genesis, principles and practice of homeopathy, and discusses the reasons for its enduring popularity. Ironically, while modern medicine has changed beyond recognition, homeopathy, with its roots in alchemy and metaphysics, continues to be practiced precisely as it was in Hahnemann’s day. is the story of homeopathy and its almost magical attraction, with a rational and scientific discussion of the biological, chemical and psychological questions that this treatment raises. ******** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Essentially, the fact that every show is different (apart from host and the following guests you can see pictured above) means that you're not entirely sure what you're going to get. Maybe Sydney will have flying. Melbourne could involve cake-throwing. I'm seriously planning for Perth to involve a fiesta on the high street. They had The Cure turn up at one of their London gigs, so you never know what local talent they may be able to find. At any rate, I got the chance to speak to most of the performers in the show for this little special episode and if you'd like to get in touch for more details (especially if you're a Patreon!), the link is . Here's the interview with Robin Ince, Trent Burton, Josie Long and Matt Parker about the forthcoming Cosmic Shambles Tour of Australia and NZ . ***************** The Atheist Foundation of Australia and Cerebral Events Ltd (NZ), in association with Trunkman Productions (UK), proudly presents , in Australia and New Zealand. Cosmic Shambles LIVE is a variety show that celebrates curiosity and reason, an explosion of science, comedy, music and general wonder, with a great sense of fun. Hosted by comedian and writer Robin Ince, best known for co-hosting The Infinite Monkey Cage, and joined by a cast of world leading scientists, comedians and performers - this is a show that will make you laugh and make you think. As the show travels across Australia and New Zealand, many local acts and scientists will be incorporated into the show, making for a unique and different experience with every performance. Each show will be packed with surprises and secret guests. Make sure you're are on board for what is bound to be a series of nights like no other. Funky sounds! Nerdy wonders! Dazzling spreadsheets! Confused earthworms! And everything else besides. Part proceeds from the show will be going to great charities like Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). ***************** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Every year, thousands of Australians are suffering and dying prematurely because of alternative cancer treatments, according to a special investigation by The video (part of a series) is called The report details the distressingly high number of cancer sufferers who choose to forego conventional treatment altogether in search of an alternative cure. Kylie Sturgess spoke to Dr Paul Willis of RiAus. ********* A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
As astonishing as it is compelling - is investigative journalism at its very best. From Rugby League players trying to improve their game, to Hollywood superstars and the depressed sons of media moguls, Scientology has recruited its share of famous Australians. Less known is that Australia was the first place to ban Scientology, or that Scientology spies helped expose the Chelmsford Deep Sleep Scandal. Numerous Australians have held senior posts in the organisation only to fall foul of the top brass and lose their families as a result. Based on years of interviews and research, Walkley Award-winning journalist Steve Cannane tells for the first time the fascinating story of Australia's vital involvement with this powerful, secretive and punitive cult. This interview with journalist Steve Cannane was conducted on RTRFM's The Mag and aired on the 22nd August 2016. The book is available through and is available electronically and worldwide (check twitter.com/SteveCannane for updates). ***** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
in association with the Science Museum are proud to announce a brand new six-part episode mini series, The Quest For Wonder, starring Professor Brian Cox, Robin Ince and their puppet counterparts. The show will be a fun-filled caper through the world of science that is sure to delight both children and adults alike. The series made its World Premiere at a very special event on March 30th at the IMAX Cinema at the Science Museum in London and will be free online in April on YouTube, with special exclusive elements available to Cosmic Genome subscribers. I spoke to both the directors of Quest For Wonder, Trent and Melinda Burton about the creation of the series. This aired on on March 29th on The Mag program. ***** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Welcome to Episode #217 of the Token Skeptic podcast! Dr Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist working as a tutor and lecturer based at Cardiff University's Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences. His Guardian Science blog, 'Brain Flapping', has been viewed over 13 million times in the last three years - and now he has a new book out, called Unpredictable and entertaining, Burnett's account gives us up-to-date research and the principles of neuroscience along the way. Looking at memory, intelligence, observation, social interaction and personality, Burnett explains why: memory is like a doting mother; tall people are more intelligent; criticism is more powerful than praise and much more. ******* This has been a great month for science communication in Australia. is professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University. He's written one of the great popular science books of the 20th century – The Elegant Universe, which is about String Theory. He followed it up with a look at the nature of reality – from Newton to Einstein and beyond in The Fabric of the Cosmos. As if all that wasn’t enough, he and co-founder Tracy Day established the World Science Festival (the first Brisbane offshoot of the festival just concluded this month). It’s an event that celebrates science on a world stage, with over a million visitors since 2008. I began my interview with him, just before the Perth show of his tour, by asking how he got started in space. ******* A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at . – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Welcome to episode #216 of the Token Skeptic podcast! New data from national organ donation registries has revealed at least 6 people needed organ transplants after becoming sick from health supplements. Questions about the regulation of such supplements have led Health Minister Sussan Ley to promise she’ll act on concerns about the number of people needing medical aid after taking herbal supplements. Just how skeptical – and how careful – should we be about dietary supplements and health pills? I spoke to research fellow at Clinical Trials Development and Assessment at Sydney University, Dr Nick Fuller. ***** It’s good news to hear that amount of financial loss from online fraud suffered by people in Western Australia has almost halved over one year - dropping from $16.8 million in 2014, to $9.8 million in 2015. Yet while those numbers and the news that losses from relationship and dating fraud are decreasing is great to hear – is it just the beginning of fraudsters trying a few new tactics to get at our money and possibly even risk our lives in the process? I spoke to Senior Lecturer with the School of Justice at Queensland’s University of Technology, Cassandra Cross - to fill us in on the realities about online scams. ***** WA is not giving up on bandicoots – after an initial effort to boost numbers hit a snag in 2012, there’s now a second attempt to reintroduce golden bandicoots to WA bushland. The Martu Operation Rangelands Restoration project, jointly managed by the Department of Parks and Wildlife and the Martu people, aims to reverse the trend of native animal decline. The little creatures are just one of 11 native mammal species being reintroduced to a property about a thousand kilometers northeast of Perth, after numbers declined due to feral cats, foxes and bushfires. Department of Parks and Wildlife’s fauna translocations scientist Colleen Sims joined me to discuss how bandicoots are staying gold. A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
It's all happening in town at the moment - It's a yearly celebration of writing, literature, non-fiction and the authors and ideas behind the covers of a massive range of genres. Here's a round-up of some of the interviews that I've conducted; they've been aired on as a part of ArtBeat and The Mag. ***** Sadly, more than a few of us have probably felt like we’ve lost a loved one before they’ve actually passed away and it’s a difficult thing to talk about. Not many people want to talk about topics like Alzheimer’s or Huntington’s disease, as they can be very scary topics.But that’s where good books can help. has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and has a series of books on what life is like for people and families facing challenges such as autism or the possibility of Huntingtons – you might have seen the film based on one of her books, Still Alice. ***** is a prolific author, most known for a series starring detective Thursday Next, whose adventures in “BookWorld” reflect Fforde’s interest in literary allusion and the intricate craft of fiction.He’s the first Perth Writer’s Festival author in the studio this morning, here to tell us about his new book, panels at the Perth Writers Festival and how he’s managed to create much loved works - and how he's even got his very own Fforde Ffestival! ***** Evidence is a strange substance in modern Australian society and it's a challenge to get difficult scientific concepts across to a diverse audience.In 1996 pioneering research into how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells earned him the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. He became the fourth Australian to win the honour and has since written a number of books the importance of living in an evidence-based reality - his newest one is The Knowledge Wars. He's presenting at the Perth Writers Festival on science, climate change and more. ***** has published eight books, including Trace and Exhumed, and judged numerous poetry awards.She’s also held lectureships at The University of Melbourne, The University of Western Sydney and Deakin University, and interviewed a number of American intellectuals including Harold Bloom, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Greenblatt, and Howard Zinn. She's presenting poetry at the Perth Writer's Festival as a part of the celebrations of language and literature. ***** is a popular science fiction author who addresses pressing issues of today by showing readers what not dealing with them might mean for tomorrow.Dystopias where climate change, economic inequality and genetic engineering run rampant are the hallmarks of his work such as The Windup Girl - and The Water Knife - his latest - continues in the same vein. ***** is one of Australia's best known bloggers, launching her writing at "meet me at mikes" and wrote the bestselling book of the same name. She teaches craft and blogging and is the craft contributor for Frankie magazine. Craft for the Soul – How to Make the Most of Your Creative Life is her latest book.She's doing a number of panels at this year's Perth Writers Festival, on the art of crafting - and there's even some tips on making your own "recipe for happiness" ***** For local author, , romantic stories are a best-seller - she's written 23 contemporary romance novels, specialising in nature-based romantic suspense.She was the President of the Romance Writers of Australia and has presented to groups across Australia and in the UK - and now will be appearing at the Perth Writers Festival. ***** A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Episode #215 of the Token Skeptic goes out to sea - and back again! It’s an experience that may not appeal to everyone – a seven-day cruise at sea, aiming to “take back power from corrupt and greedy institutions, attain true self-authority, and realise our genuine Self behind the masks… discovering the truth, taking command of our lives, and attaining genuine inner realisation” – with every odd belief you can think of listed as entertainment: GMOs, Monsanto, bee colony collapse, ecology, global warming, climate change, fracking, HIV, autism, big pharma, medical suppression, vaccinations, flouridation,… electoral fraud, identity chips, 2nd amendment, and so much more. But Colin McRoberts didn’t let that deter him – in fact, and was soon on The ConspiraSea Cruise, blogging his experiences and delving into lectures and talks to find out for himself: why do people believe weird things? His blogposts series feature at and he spoke to me for the Token Skeptic podcast, not long after the event concluded. A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Welcome to episode #214 of the Token Skeptic podcast! ***** Leading scientists protested during a national conference this week to appeal against job cuts at the government’s agency for scientific research in Australia, the CSIRO. The cuts, that will remove about 110 positions from the CSIRO's 140-odd strong Ocean and Atmosphere staff and a similar number from its Land and Water division, were announced in an email from chief executive Larry Marshall on Thursday. I spoke to Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick from the Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW about her response to the cuts. ***** The Perth chapter of Christian group 40 Days for Life plans daily “prayer vigils” outside a Midland clinic during Lent as part of a global anti-abortion campaign. However, these kinds of peaceful protest aren’t without opposition – with Australian Medical Association WA president Michael Gannon saying a woman should not be “further punished” for exercising her right to an abortion. I spoke to the president for the national group Closer to home, Sarah Nielsen-Harvey has begun a counter protest online with a number of other concerned locals, called "" - I spoke to her about what is involved. ***** - and she's performing two shows at the 2016 FringeWorld. She's a transgender woman who has performed nationally and internationally as a renown illusionist and mentalist - and has won WA Magician of the Year a number of times. Sylvia's shows "Zatanna, Magic from Z… to… A’ and ‘Zatanna’s Theatre of the Mind’ are playing in Perth as a part of the FringeWorld celebrations - I spoke to her to learn a little more about the mystery behind the magic. ****** where interviews aired previously, especially producer Peter Barr. A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Token Skeptic podcast's episode #213! Check out the Patreon at and from only $1, get behind the scenes news and more. ***** Inside a cryonics facility, seven people are woken from their icy slumber to find themselves alone in a locked room, unsure of what day, month or year it is. These strangers from different places and times must work out when they are - and where everyone else has gone! is showing at the Nexus Theatre at Murdoch University until Saturday,as a part of FringeWorld. I spoke to ***** Recreational arts – it’s something that sounds good for us – but just how good? Whether it’s great for your mental health, general well-being or good for society in general – these are questions that a group of UWA researchers have taken on board with a new study. ***** where the first interview aired previously, especially producer Peter Barr. A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out - and consider Theme songs "Cosgrove" by Pogo, from and "Leap Second" by Milton Mermikides, of Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at - they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting - and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Propelled by a massive fandom community online, podcast exploded into popularity almost overnight, launching to the top of the iTunes charts in 2013. It’s about a community radio station for a friendly desert town, where conspiracy theories and the paranormal are real – including ghosts, aliens and angels… and the woman with no face who lives in your house. Creators Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor have kept Night Vale independent, expanding to a touring live show and spinoff novel. The live show is touring Australia in February – and I spoke to Joseph Fink about the origins of the show and more. ***** A collaborative study led by Curtin University has found high rates of adulteration, substitution and mislabelling of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM), with the undeclared ingredients rendering many of the tested samples either illegal or potentially hazardous to consumers. 92% of the TCM had some form of adulteration or substitution – including in 26 products tested, element such as arsenic, cadmium and lead; medications such as paracetamol, antihistamines, anti-inflammatories and antibiotics, and stimulants such as pseudo ephedrine. Of particular concern were heavily regulated drugs such as warfarin and sildenafil (Viagra). Researchers from Curtin, Murdoch University and the University of Adelaide employed a three-pronged method involving highly sensitive DNA sequencing, toxicology and heavy metal testing which, when combined, allowed them to assess the true composition of the TCMs. The findings have just been published in the journal I spoke to Dr Murdoch University biochemist Dr Garth Maker – about what really may be hiding in your alt med. ****** where the first interview aired previously, especially producer Peter Barr. A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out – and consider Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of – they include: Steven, Finch, Josh, Linley, Gold, Paul, Dr T, Iggy, Lukas and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
Coming up this week, we'll be talking with Jun Ebihara about some lesser-known CPU architectures in NetBSD. He'll tell us what makes these old (and often forgotten) machines so interesting. As usual, we've also got answers to your emails and all this week's news on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Out with the old, in with the less (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-less) Our friend Ted Unangst has a new article up, talking about "various OpenBSD replacements and reductions" "Instead of trying to fix known bugs, we're trying to fix unknown bugs. It's not based on the current buggy state of the code, but the anticipated future buggy state of the code. Past bugs are a bigger factor than current bugs." In the post, he goes through some of the bigger (and smaller) examples of OpenBSD rewriting tools to be simpler and more secure It starts off with a lesser-known SCSI driver that "tried to do too much" being replaced with three separate drivers "Each driver can now be modified in isolation without unintentional side effects on other hardware, or the need to consider if and where further special cases need to be added. Despite the fact that these three drivers duplicate all the common boilerplate code, combined they only amount to about half as much code as the old driver." In contrast to that example, he goes on to cite mandoc as taking a very non "unixy" direction, but at the same time being smaller and simpler than all the tools it replaced The next case is the new http daemon, and he talks a bit about the recently-added rewrite support being done in a simple and secure way (as opposed to regex and its craziness) He also talks about the rewritten "file" utility: "Almost by definition, its sole input will be untrusted input. Perversely, people will then trust what file tells them and then go about using that input, as if file somehow sanitized it." Finally, sudo in OpenBSD's base system is moving to ports soon, and the article briefly describes a new tool that may or may not replace it (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=143481227122523&w=2), called "doas" There's also a nice wrap-up of all the examples at the end, and the "Pruning and Polishing (http://www.openbsd.org/papers/pruning.html)" talk is good complementary reading material *** More OpenZFS and BSDCan videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0IK6Y4Go2KtRueHDiQcxow/videos) We mentioned last week (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_06_24-bitrot_group_therapy) that some of the videos from the second OpenZFS conference in Europe were being uploaded - here's some more Matt Ahrens did a Q&A session (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6fXZ_6OT5c) and talked about ZFS send and receive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY44jPMvxog), as well as giving an overview of OpenZFS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQlMDmnty80) George Wilson talked about a performance retrospective (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBI6rRGUv4E) Toshiba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSi47-k78IM), Syneto (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhje5KEF5cE) and HGST (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKgxXipss8k) also gave some talks about their companies and how they're using ZFS As for BSDCan, more of their BSD presentations have been uploaded too... Ryan Stone, PCI SR-IOV on FreeBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INeMd-i5jzM) George Neville-Neil, Measure Twice, Code Once (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE4wMsP7zeA) Kris Moore, Unifying jail and package management for PC-BSD, FreeNAS and FreeBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNYXqpJiFN0) Warner Losh, I/O Scheduling in CAM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WqOLolj5EU) Kirk McKusick, An Introduction to the Implementation of ZFS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-RCLgLxuSc) Midori Kato, Extensions to FreeBSD Datacenter TCP for Incremental Deployment Support (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZXvjhWcg_4) Baptiste Daroussin, Packaging FreeBSD's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br6izhH5P1I) base system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7px6ktoDAI) Matt Ahrens, New OpenZFS features supporting remote replication (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOX7WDAjqso) Ed Schouten, CloudABI Cloud computing meets fine-grained capabilities (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVdF84x1EdA) The audio of Ingo Schwarze's talk "mandoc: becoming the main BSD manual toolbox" got messed up, but there's an alternate recording here (http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/audio/mandoc.mp3), and the slides are here (http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan15-mandoc.pdf) *** SMP steroids for PF (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143526329006942&w=2) An Oracle employee that's been porting OpenBSD's PF to an upcoming Solaris release has sent in an interesting patch for review Attached to the mail was what may be the beginnings of making native PF SMP-aware Before you start partying, the road to SMP (specifically, giant lock removal) is a long and very complicated one, requiring every relevant bit of the stack to be written with it in mind - this is just one piece of the puzzle The initial response (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143532243322281&w=2) has been quite positive though, with some back and forth (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143532963824548&w=2) between developers and the submitter For now, let's be patient and see what happens *** DragonFly 4.2.0 released (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release42/) DragonFlyBSD has released the next big update of their 4.x branch, complete with a decent amount of new features and fixes i915 and Radeon graphics have been updated, and DragonFly can claim the title of first BSD with Broadwell support in a release Sendmail in the base system has been replaced with their homegrown DragonFly Mail Agent, and there's a wiki page (http://www.dragonflybsd.com/docs/docs/newhandbook/mta/) about configuring it They've also switched the default compiler to GCC 5, though why they've gone in that direction instead of embracing Clang is a mystery The announcement page also contains a list of kernel changes, details on the audio and graphics updates, removal of the SCTP protocol, improvements to the temperature sensors, various userland utility fixes and a list of updates to third party tools Work is continuing on the second generation HAMMER filesystem, and Matt Dillon provides a status update in the release announcement There was also some hacker news discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797932) you can check out, as well as upgrade instructions (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2015-June/207801.html) *** OpenSMTPD 5.7.1 released (https://opensmtpd.org/announces/release-5.7.1.txt) The OpenSMTPD guys have just released version 5.7.1, a major milestone version that we mentioned recently Crypto-related bits have been vastly improved: the RSA engine is now privilege-separated, TLS errors are handled more gracefully, ciphers and curve preferences can now be specified, the PKI interface has been reworked to allow custom CAs, SNI and certificate verification have been simplified and the DH parameters are now 2048 bit by default The long-awaited filter API is now enabled by default, though still considered slightly experimental Documentation has been improved quite a bit, with more examples and common use cases (as well as exotic ones) Many more small additions and bugfixes were made, so check the changelog for the full list Starting with 5.7.1, releases are now cryptographically (https://twitter.com/OpenSMTPD/status/613257722574839808) signed (https://www.opensmtpd.org/archives/opensmtpd-5.7.1.sum.sig) to ensure integrity This release has gone through some major stress testing to ensure stability - Gilles regularly asks their Twitter followers to flood a test server (https://twitter.com/OpenSMTPD/status/608399272447471616) with thousands of emails per second, even offering prizes (https://twitter.com/OpenSMTPD/status/608235180839567360) to whoever can DDoS them the hardest OpenSMTPD runs on all the BSDs of course, and seems to be getting pretty popular lately Let's all encourage (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Kris to stop procrastinating on switching from Postfix *** Interview - Jun Ebihara (蛯原純) - jun@netbsd.org (mailto:jun@netbsd.org) / @ebijun (https://twitter.com/ebijun) Lesser-known CPU architectures, embedded NetBSD devices News Roundup FreeBSD foundation at BSDCan (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015/06/bsdcan-2015-trip-report-steven-douglas.html) The FreeBSD foundation has posted a few BSDCan summaries on their blog The first, from Steven Douglas, begins with a sentiment a lot of us can probably identify with: "Where I live, there are only a handful of people that even know what BSD is, let alone can talk at a high level about it. That was one of my favorite things, being around like minded people." He got to meet a lot of the people working on big-name projects, and enjoyed being able to ask them questions so easily Their second (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015/06/bsdcan-2015-trip-report-ahmed-kamal.html) trip report is from Ahmed Kamal, who flew in all the way from Egypt A bit starstruck, he seems to have enjoyed all the talks, particularly Andrew Tanenbaum's about MINIX and NetBSD There are also two more wrap-ups from Zbigniew Bodek (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015/06/bsdcan-2015-trip-report-zbigniew-bodek.html) and Vsevolod Stakhov (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015/06/bsdcan-2015-trip-report-vsevolod-stakhov.html), so you've got plenty to read *** OpenBSD from a veteran Linux user perspective (http://cfenollosa.com/blog/openbsd-from-a-veteran-linux-user-perspective.html) In a new series of blog posts, a self-proclaimed veteran Linux user is giving OpenBSD a try for the first time "For the first time I installed a BSD box on a machine I control. The experience has been eye-opening, especially since I consider myself an 'old-school' Linux admin, and I've felt out of place with the latest changes on the system administration." The post is a collection of his thoughts about what's different between Linux and BSD, what surprised him as a beginner - admittedly, a lot of his knowledge carried over, and there were just minor differences in command flags One of the things that surprised him (in a positive way) was the documentation: "OpenBSD's man pages are so nice that RTFMing somebody on the internet is not condescending but selfless." He also goes through some of the basics, installing and updating software, following different branches It concludes with "If you like UNIX, it will open your eyes to the fact that there is more than one way to do things, and that system administration can still be simple while modern." *** FreeBSD on the desktop, am I crazy (http://sysconfig.org.uk/freebsd-on-the-desktop-am-i-crazy.html) Similar to the previous article, the guy that wrote the SSH two factor authentication post we covered last week has another new article up - this time about FreeBSD on the desktop He begins with a bit of forewarning for potential Linux switchers: "It certainly wasn't an easy journey, and I'm tempted to say do not try this at home to anybody who isn't going to leverage any of FreeBSD's strong points. Definitely don't try FreeBSD on the desktop if you haven't used it on servers or virtual machines before. It's got less in common with Linux than you might think." With that out of the way, the list of positives is pretty large: a tidy base system, separation between base and ports, having the option to choose binary packages or ports, ZFS, jails, licensing and of course the lack of systemd The rest of the post talks about some of the hurdles he had to overcome, namely with graphics and the infamous Adobe Flash Also worth noting is that he found jails to be not only good for isolating daemons on a server, but pretty useful for desktop applications as well In the end, he says it was worth all the trouble, and is even planning on converting his laptop to FreeBSD soon too *** OpenIKED and Cisco CSR 1000v IPSEC (https://www.netflask.net/ipsec-ikev2-cisco-csr1000v-openiked/) This article covers setting up a site-to-site IPSEC tunnel between a Cisco CSR 1000v router and an OpenBSD gateway running OpenIKED What kind of networking blog post would be complete without a diagram where the internet is represented by a big cloud There are lots of details (and example configuration files) for using IKEv2 and OpenBSD's built-in IKE daemon It also goes to show that the BSDs generally play well with existing network infrastructure, so if you were a business that's afraid to try them… don't be *** HardenedBSD improves stack randomization (https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD/commit/bd5cecb4dc7947a5e214fc100834399b4bffdee8) The HardenedBSD guys have improved their FreeBSD ASLR patchset, specifically in the stack randomization area In their initial implementation, the stack randomization was a random gap - this update makes the base address randomized as well They're now stacking the new on top of the old as well, with the goal being even more entropy This change triggered an ABI and API incompatibility, so their major version has been bumped *** OpenSSH 6.9 released (https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2015-July/000121.html) The OpenSSH team has announced the release of a new version which, following their tick/tock major/minor release cycle, is focused mainly on bug fixes There are a couple new things though - the "AuthorizedKeysCommand" config option now takes custom arguments One very notable change is that the default cipher has changed as of this release The traditional pairing of AES128 in counter mode with MD5 HMAC has been replaced by the ever-trendy ChaCha20-Poly1305 combo Their next release, 7.0, is set to get rid a number of legacy items: PermitRootLogin will be switched to "no" by default, SSHv1 support will be totally disabled, the 1024bit diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 KEX will be disabled, old ssh-dss and v00 certs will be removed, a number of weak ciphers will be disabled by default (including all CBC ones) and RSA keys will be refused if they're under 1024 bits Many small bugs fixes and improvements were also made, so check the announcement for everything else The native version is in OpenBSD -current, and an update to the portable version should be hitting a ports or pkgsrc tree near you soon *** Feedback/Questions Brad writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2Ws6Y2rZy) Mason writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21GvZ5xbs) Jochen writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s209TrPK4e) Simon writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21TQjUjxv) ***
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Wherein those damn Ross kids talk about bee stings, empathy, and adventure. Suggested Talking Points: Talking Jive. Summer Rental. 50 Cent: The Goose. Grift of the Magi. Bee stings. Mini golf water hazard (fatal electrocution). Smart phone work addiction. You won’t save these people I killed. Leap Second. Looks can be deceiving, I’m just shaving my pubes on the highway. Two holes in one. Kris shares another story about horrible murder. A multimillionaire adventurer arsonist suicide.
Sam and Ivan talk about: * Leap Second / Baby Stuff / SCOTUS on Obamacare * SCOTUS Directions / SCOTUS on Immigration / Stolen Valor / Health Care Politics * Concentrations of Power
What's Good? Podcast - Episode 13 - Leap Second, Google, Witness The Fitness, K-Pop Banned, Home Remedies
ILLEGAL REPEATERS. - 2012 Leap Second. - IARU HF World Championship. - SOTA activity in VK. - THESE STORIES AND MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING JULY 01 2012.
This podcast originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 73 on March 26th 2012 This is an interview with Dr. Peter Whibberley from the National Physics Laboratory, and went out on March 26th 2012. Earlier on in the year the International Telecommunication Union’sThe post Leap second appeared first on Julie Gould » Julie Gould.
This month the International Telecommunication Union will consider a proposal to abolish leap seconds. John Matson reports
On a personal level, it has been a very busy couple of weeks. So I'm posting just a brief podcast this time around. It's a quick follow-up to the last episode. Now that we've all experienced a Leap Second together, I'll add just a few more thoughts about it. Also, I'll play the audio of what happened on WWV when the Leap Second was added at the end of 2008.Download the episode here...AtomicPodcast10.mp3(Running time 11:29)Subscribe to the Podcast in iTunes
It's time to talk about the Leap Second. Yes, there's a Leap Second in just a few hours from now (as I post this podcast). What's a Leap Second? Why do we have them? Do we really need them?Download Episode 09 right here...AtomicPodcast09.mp3(Running time 21:15 with STEREO sound!)Also, check out these links for a more nitty-gritty discussion of these issues.Markus Kuhn's essay on the Leap SecondThe NIST entry on Leap Years and Leap SecondsAnother summary of these issues from TimeandDate.comThe home page of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service... the folks in charge of determining when Leap Seconds happen.Subscribe to the Podcast in iTunes
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