Podcast appearances and mentions of lewis thomas

Today's episode follows an interesting literary path. The first stop in that path is a book written in 1974 by Robert Caro, called The Power Broker. It's one of the most brilliant biographies of all time. If you're looking for a magnificently researched, and totally gripping book on the life of one of the most influential men of the 20th century, then this the one. It's the story of Robert Moses.  That name may not mean much to a lot of people but in short, he's basically the man who built New York City from the 1930s to the 1960s. Through a finely tuned network of money and power that he put together, he was able to decide, pretty much single-handedly, what was built in New York: roads, parks, bridges, buildings. Robert Moses' ideas started spinning out of control and he developed visions of massive highways ploughing through New York and to do that, he was going to tear down vast neighbourhoods of the city.  The person who ignited the opposition to Robert Moses was a journalist and urban activist called Jane Jacobs. In 1961, she wrote a book called “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” in which she outlined a very different path for urban planning, one that was more focused on organic human interaction, based on historic urban traditions, as opposed to abstract planning based on data. I was curious to know how she and her book were perceived today in the urban planning community and how this book had aged. I was very lucky to connect with today's guest, Chuck Marohn who is the founder of Strong Towns, a movement based in Minnesota, dedicated to helping cities and towns in the United States achieve financial resiliency through civic engagement, and seeks to improve communities through urban planning concepts such as walkability, mixed-use zoning, and infill development. Strong Towns manages a blog and a podcast of the same name, hosted by Chuck. In today's episode, we discuss the influence of Jane Jacobs' book, the context that surrounded its publication and how the urban planning debate has evolved over time and what's at stake for cities today. The most brilliant book: Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs (1969) His favorite book I've never heard of: The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas (1974) The best book he's read in the last 12 months: “The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics” by Henrich Päs (2023) The book he found disappointing in the last 12 months: “Doughnut Economics” by Kate Raworth (2017) The book that he would take to a desert island: The Bible The book that changed his mind: “What the Dog Saw”, by Malcolm Gladwell (2009) Links: Chuck's Book: https://amzn.eu/d/4tpGm1I Strong Towns Website: https://www.strongtowns.org/contributors-journal/charles-marohn Follow me ⁠⁠⁠@litwithcharles⁠⁠⁠ for more book reviews and recommendations!

This special, one-hour Engines episode explores the effect of music in our lives. Music for a While Let us explore the place of music in our lives.  Let us see how it creates calm in our hurried existence – how it opens windows into understanding.  Let us trace its action in our lives, both in the way it is made, and in the many ways it affects us so deeply.

Today, Debbie speaks with bestselling author Abigail Thomas whom Stephen King calls “the Emily Dickinson of memoirists."Her new memoir, titled "Still Life at Eighty," is a series of loosely connected essays on the topic of aging. But it's so much more than that. Abby, as she insisted that Debbie call her, is funny and frank and profane as she talks about the good and the bad of aging. Yes, there are aches and pains. No, she doesn't mind being old. In fact, she loves it. She no longer cares what people think of her and - just for the record - she is not afraid of death. As she puts it: "Please God, let there be no afterlife."In this conversation she and Debbie talk about her writing (Debbie finds it "transcendent"), her relationship to time and memories, her longterm friendship with literary agent Chuck Verrill (who died in early 2022), and why she loves working with clay.Abby is the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas, the mother of four children and a grandmother of 12. She is the bestselling author of several previous memoirs, including "A Three Dog Life" and "What Comes Next and How to Like It." She lives in Woodstock, NY with her dogs, where she writes and teaches writing. Mentioned in this episode or useful:Her website: Abigail ThomasStill Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing by Abigail Thomas (Golden Notebook Press (February 28, 2023)What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir by Abigail Thomas (Scribner; 2015)A Three Dog Life: A Memoir by Abigail Thomas (Mariner Books; 2006)The Next Interesting Thing from Abigail Thomas (Next Avenue, March 9, 2023)Hope? Ha Ha Ha Ha... - by Abigail Thomas (Oldster Magazine, May 3, 2023)Memoir is Exploration, So Keep Yourself Open: An Interview with Abigail Thomas (Brevity Blog, April 20, 2023)Chuck Verrill, Editor and Agent, RIP (Chuck Verrill (her literary agent) died in 2022)"STILL LIFE AT EIGHTY is a little jewel box of a book, full of epiphanies that are comforting and merciless in the gentlest possible way. Both a series of meditations and a user's manual about growing old, I was amazed by its clarity... Even the title, with its deliberate ambiguity, is a very cool thing." — Stephen KingPHOTO CREDIT: Jennifer Waddell Get the inside skinny on every episode of [B]OLDER:Subscribe to Debbie's newsletter for the inside story about every episode. You will also get her 34-page writing guide: https://bitly.com/debbie-free-guide. Request from Debbie:If you've been enjoying the podcast, please take a moment to leave a short review on Apple Podcasts. It really makes a difference in attracting new listeners.  Connect with Debbie:debbieweil.com[B]OLDER podcastEmail: thebolderpodcast@gmail.comBlog: Gap Year After SixtyFacebook: @debbieweilInstagram: @debbieweilLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/debbieweilTwitter: @debbieweil Our Media Partners:CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org)MEA and with thanks to Chip ConleyNext For Me (former media partner and in memory of Jeff Tidwell) How to Support this podcast:Leave a review on Apple PodcastsSubscribe via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or Spotify Credits:Host: Debbie WeilProducer: Far Out MediaMusic: Lakeside Path by Duck Lake

This episode of Behind the Lines: The Houston Lawyer Podcast features 3 panels about practicing while parenting in different stages and unique situations, a wellness break, & a spotlight on one of the Houston Bar Association's ancillary organizations. The episode has 2 titles because the content in the 3 main segments will be helpful in different ways to different people. The guests in these segments offer support and guidance to lawyer parents in various stages of their careers, provide context for colleagues who are not parents about the challenges they face, and give practical tips to legal employers about how to retain talented lawyer parents. The guests also discuss several legal topics associated with having children, including college savings plans and cyberbullying. I. Lawyers: Practicing While Parenting Young Children / Legal Employers: How to Support and Retain Talented Parents of Young ChildrenIn this segment, 3 lawyers who are also parents of young children---Maryann Zaki of Zaki Law, Sara M. Prasatik of Wilson Gibbs + Gorn, and Keri Brown of Baker Botts---discuss best practices for maternity/paternity leave, changing career paths, & how to make legal work environment more inviting to parent lawyers. Keri Brown also offers advice from a tax law perspective on college savings plans.II. Wellness Break: Eating Right While on the Go with Nutritionist Catherine KruppaIII. Lawyers: Practicing While Parenting in the Teen, Tweens, and Twenties / Legal Employers: Considering the Needs of More Seasoned Parent LawyersIn this segment, Rachael Thompson of Winston & Strawn and Lewis Thomas of Lewis Thomas P.C., who are parents of children in the tweens, teens, or twenties, talk about how they manage their law practice while parenting older children. Rachael also addresses how her firm supports parent lawyers, and Lewis addresses starting your own firm to increase flexibility. The panelists also provide tips relating to cyber-bullying and best practices for teen-aged drivers during a traffic stop. IV.  Lawyers: Practicing While Adopting  / Legal Employers: Best Practices for Supporting and Retaining Talented Adoptive ParentsHeather Potts of Nathan Sommer Jacobs adopted 2 older children internationally while she was a practicing lawyer. She provides tips for lawyer who are considering international adoption, encourages adoption of older children, & discusses how firms or legal employers can provide a healthy environment that goes beyond FMLA requirements so that adoptive parents feel supported in their decisions, which leads to the lawyer being more of an asset to the lawyer's employer. V. Ancillary Organization Spotlight: HVL's Guardianship Partnership with HYLAIn this segment, Behind the Lines Interviewer Mark Yablon interviews the Honorable Jerry Simoneaux about the partnership between Houston Volunteer Lawyers and Houston Young Lawyers' Association. The Judge encourages listeners to become HVL volunteers and consider taking these types of cases. CLE CreditListeners who are also members of the HBA can receive 1.5 hours of CLE credit for listening to this entire episode. Visit the HBA's CLE page for more details. For full speaker bios, visit The Houston Lawyer (hba.org). To read The Houston Lawyer magazine, visit The Houston Lawyer_home. For more information about the Houston Bar Association, visit Houston Bar Association (hba.org).*The views expressed in this episode do not necessarily reflect the views of The Houston Lawyer Editorial Board or the Houston Bar Association.

Paul talks with the NYT-bestselling memoirist and teacher, Abigail Thomas. Her memoir, Safekeeping (2000), is a marvel of technical innovation, enviable humor, and just plain old heart. She's clear-sighted about her own failings, as well as other people's, but she never seems to judge anyone. In this episode Abigail Thomas shares the backstory of how she came to write Safekeeping, how the memoir was initially turned down by all the editors the book was sent, except for one.  The interview is something of a masterclass on writing memoir as Thomas also talks about: How to shape an experimental or “mosaic” memoir like hers How to own what you don't remember Her favorite writing exercise (hint: it's 2 pages about…) How to stop getting hung up by chronology in memoir Writing memoir vs. "tattling" How to create distance in memoir Abigail Thomas, the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas, is the author of three works of fiction: Getting Over Tom, An Actual Life, and Herb's Pajamas. Her memoir, A Three Dog Life, was named one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. She is also author of Safekeeping and What Comes Next and How to Like it (memoirs), as well as Thinking About Memoir. Discussed in this episode:  “Getting Started” (essay): https://www.abigailthomas.net/getting-started/ Safekeeping (memoir) What Comes Next and How to Like it (memoir) Forthcoming Untitled Memoir published by the Golden Notebook bookstore, Woodstock, NY Credits: This episode was edited by Paul Zakrzewski and produced by Magpie Audio Productions. Theme music  is "The Stone Mansion" by BlueDot Productions. Get full access to The Book I Want to Write at bookiwanttowrite.substack.com/subscribe

Howard Burton has been talking to very wise people for decades--scientists, historians, political thinkers, philosophers, etc. When Covid "hit" he was, like many of us, puzzled. Where did it come from? How should we respond to it? What does it say about us? So he did what he does: Had conversations with 32 very wise people about Covid. From the filmed discussions, he created a terrific feature-length documentary film, Pandemic Perspectives, highlighting important societal issues illuminated by the pandemic through the prism of international experts in biology, education, history, law, philosophy, politics and more. You can watch the film here. Twenty-four related podcasts will be released as podcasts on the Ideas Roadshow Podcast, which you can find here. He also wrote a thought-provoking collection of essays that chart his personal attempt to figure out how we got ourselves into this mess, what we can learn from it, and what it says about us as a species with "biology watcher" Lewis Thomas as his inspiration: Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays (Open Agenda Publishing, 2022). You can buy it here. Today I talked to Howard about the book, and what he learned in his discussions with these people. Enjoy. Marshall Poe is the founder and editor of the New Books Network. He can be reached at marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Medley episode with three characters covered and we pick a new theme song at the end sorta. WE HAVE MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/its-been-awhile-podcast Hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/RJtBDjdBph Our Patreon is in the early steps of being rolled out: https://www.patreon.com/ItsBeenAwhilePodcast The master list of all our social medias and a link to this episode on over 25 major audio podcast platforms: https://linktr.ee/ItsBeenAwhile Check out our Anchor.fm so we get paid: https://anchor.fm/itsbeenawhilepodcast Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nttbdlKOY1060TIrBDDBF Our Instagram isn't popping, but it can be with your help: https://www.instagram.com/itsbeenawhilepodcast/ Logo by Manuel Pasmino: https://www.fiverr.com/manuelpasmino Logo Font by: Gabriel deVue Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsbeenawhilepodcast/support

Colossians 1:15-20 1. We see His relationship with God the Father Col. 1:15aHebrews 1:3John 14:92. We see His relationship with creation  Col. 1:15 - 17“You have a hundred trillion cells in your body. Each one of them, scientists will tell you, is like a complex city—like the city of New York on a cellular level. Every second of every day your cells are operating on a millions of parts and interactions. A scientist named Lewis Thomas (not a believer, by the way) once wrote eloquently about the beauty of a single human cell: "If I could explain what goes on in a human cell, I would for the rest of my life hire a plane and fly it back and forth across the earth just to proclaim the incredible wonder of how and why a cell works.” - Matt Woodley Psalm 19:1-23. We See His Relationship with the Church Col. 1:18Ephesians 5:25-27Acts 9:4-54. Lastly, We See His Relationship with the CrossColossians 1:19-23_________________Questions: Jesus is King of creation…how should that change the way you trust, pray, and worship? Have you ever taken time to marvel at the fact that the church is bride of Christ? What does that say about what God sees when He sees you?What role does Jesus play most often in your life: tool or treasure? Why?

● Molti si chiedono perché Dio abbia creato i batteri, definiti la più piccola forma di vita. Il dott. Lewis Thomas ne parlò nel libro The Medusa and the Snail. Spiegò quanto i batteri siano utili nel riciclaggio, anche se per la salute sono pericolosi. Anche se è una malattia pericolosa, secondo il dott. Thomas la meningite si manifesterebbe “come un incidente”. Scrisse anche: “È ancora un mistero come in alcuni pazienti si sviluppi la meningite, ma è improbabile che sia una speciale predilezione dei batteri; forse i meccanismi di difesa dei pazienti colpiti hanno qualche difetto”. I germi sono davvero i nemici naturali dell'uomo? Il dott. Thomas spiega: “È vero che i germi sono ovunque intorno a noi; si trovano in gran numero nel suolo e abbondano nell'aria. Ma non è vero che siano i nostri nemici naturali. Infatti, è sorprendente scoprire che solo una piccola parte delle popolazioni batteriche della Terra si interessi a noi. Il più frequente incontro fra i batteri e le forme di vita superiori avviene dopo la morte di queste ultime, durante il riciclaggio degli elementi della vita. Questa è la principale attività del mondo microbico in generale e non ha nulla a che fare con le malattie”. I batteri non sono stati creati per far ammalare gli esseri umani. Più l'uomo conosce la creazione, più si rende conto della grande sapienza che Dio ha manifestato nel creare anche le forme di vita più piccole e apparentemente insignificanti. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/corgiov/message

Forest Green Rovers goalkeeper Lewis Thomas is on the pod! Lewis talks about lessons on resilience, goalkeeping, & the transience of life.  Awesome chat with an amazing man.Kip, Toni, Lewis Shyamas (12:12)Lewis Thomas (18:41)

Originally from Swansea, South Wales, Annemarie graduated with a BA (Hons) in Performing Arts from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1989. The degree majored in music with voice & piano as joint first instruments and trumpet as her third instrument. On leaving college she co-founded the TIE Top Hat Theatre Company, writing original mini-musicals for schools on any subject the schools required. In 2009 Annemarie opened her own drama college – The MTA. In 2012 it was named as the School of the Year in The Stage 100 Awards. In 2017 it became the only college to win the award for a second time.

On this episode we have Forest Green Rovers goalkeeper Lewis Thomas! Also,- Newport Recap (5:41)- Lewis Thomas (15:02)- Statman (49:24)- Colchester + Stevenage (53:30)

It's the birthday of physician and essayist Lewis Thomas (1913-1993), who said, "The great secret of doctors...is that most things get better by themselves."

Tourism, Great American Smokeout and Beds for charity

Join your host Emma and her Clown Barbara talking all things Drama Schools.  What would make someone set up a drama school?  How is the theatre industry responding to COVID?  What did her drama school do to go online?  How can Barbara make her a onesie? How do drama schools handle mental health and so much more… Follow Annemarie Facebook: AnnemarieLewisThomas/theMTAonline Instagram: AnnemarieLewisThomas/theMTAonline LinkedIn: AnnemarieLewisThomas Twitter: ALThomasMT/theMTAonline About Annemarie Annemarie is a composer/lyricist and MD. In 2009 she rather foolishly decided to open The Musical Theatre Academy (The MTA) Some 11 years later The MTA is a multi-award winning drama college which is widely recognized to have changed drama training in the UK. Most notably it is a campaigning college around Mental Health in the Arts and in 2016 launched the industry wide #time4change Mental Health Charter. She is hoping to sleep any day now

HUZZAHS!AN ORIGINAL WORK MADE BY KIDS FOR KIDSI went on a day trip to a local park near to where I live, and my kids and the pals they are lucky enough to know wanted to make a horror movie. So. They did. I thought it was so good and mooted to them I would love to make it a BOGEYS AND GHOULIES episode, and here we are!THANK YOU TO THE MUMS N DADS FOR AGREEING TO AIR IT TOO!So, here are the stars of this demon summoning adventure in the woodsKeira TigheFalon TigheSwai TigheLewis Leinweber Thomas GoldingHolly GoldingENJOY!PS Burnham Beeches is - as far as I know - unscorched by demon summonings and a very nice place to go for a walk and a picnic! Huzzahs for the outdoors!We would love to know what you think happened to them - send us your drawings or script ideas to quirkyvoices@gmail.com - thank you! We look forward to your theories!All transcripts, cast bios and sound effects can be found on the Quirky Voices Website here.If you would like to hear more Quirky tales, feel free to support the hard work that goes in to making them by becoming a Patreon or...contributing to Sarah's Quirky Ko-fi. THANK YOU!Have a happy halloooweeennnnn from me and all The Summoning gang!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/QuirkyVoices)

Show Notes and Links here:  https://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/dr-christiane-northrup-dodging-energy-vampires/ Dr. Christiane Northrup is a board certified OBGYN, a New York Times bestselling author, and a visionary pioneer in women's health. She teaches women and men how to thrive at every stage of life and encourages them to create health on all levels by tuning into their inner wisdom. Her latest book is Dodging Energy Vampires - An Empath's Guide to Evading Relationships That Drain You and Restoring Your Health and Power. This is the second interview in a two-part series of sorts focused on dysfunctional relationships and toxic stress, which can be profoundly destructive to mental, emotional and physical health. Last week I talked with Stacey Martino about how to transform your relationships with others by changing yourself. Today Dr. Christiane Northrup will help you understand how to identify Energy Vampires in your life, sociopaths, psychopaths, and extreme narcissists – people that you need to get away from – before they suck the life (and health) out of you. You are going to glean so much wisdom and insight from Dr. Northrup. This interview is awesome. Enjoy! "I have come to see that cancer is the physical metaphor for the extreme need to grow." -Lewis Thomas, author of The Lives of a Cell

Park MacDougald joins Phil and Jake to discuss Virginia Woolf’s “The Modern Essay” and VS Naipaul’s “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West.” Works referenced: Virginia Woolf, “The Modern Essay” “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” https://www.thoughtco.com/the-modern-essay-by-virginia-woolf-1690207 http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/MrBennettAndMrsBrown.pdf Max Beerbohm, “A Relic,” “Laughter” http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1956/1956-h/1956-h.htm#link2H40001 Daniel Clowes http://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/daniel-clowes/#/category/967 Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/ Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20086/kafka-was-the-rage-by-anatole-broyard/9780679781264/ Hegel, The Phenomenology Of Spirit, Terry Pinkard translation https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel-the-phenomenology-of-spirit/6FEDB42FDEF2E5FF97FEAE0EEEDABE8E woketoddler Claas Relotius’ In Eigener Sache https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/13/150231550/index.html (For those interested in Relotius’ lies about Fergus Falls, this is from Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn, residents of the town he fictionalized https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7) Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374508043 Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West http://people.duke.edu/~aparks/Spengler.html Naipaul, The Writer and the World (essays mentioned: “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West,” “A Second Visit,” “Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad,” “Heavy Manners in Grenada,” “Our Universal Civilization”) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119643/the-writer-and-the-world-by-v-s-naipaul-edited-with-an-introduction-by-pankaj-mishra/9780375707308/ Mario Vargas Llosa, “El Odio y El Amor” https://elpais.com/diario/1991/12/30/opinion/694047611_850215.html Naipaul, A Bend in the River https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/a-bend-in-the-river/9780330522991 Naipaul, Guerrillas https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/guerrillas/9780330522915 Edward Said, “Intellectuals in the Post-Colonial World.” https://www.jstor.org/stable/40547786 Derek Walcott, Nobel Lecture: “The Antilles: Fragments Of Epic Memory” https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/ Pablo Mukherjee, “Doomed to Smallness: Violence, VS Naipaul, and the Global South” https://www.jstor.org/stable/20479287 Anatole Broyard, “What the Cystoscope Said” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20085/intoxicated-by-my-illness-by-anatole-broyard/9780449908341/ Lewis Thomas, “The Lives of a Cell” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535043/lives-of-a-cell-by-lewis-thomas/9780140047431/ Wesley Yang, “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho” https://nplusonemag.com/issue-6/essays/face-seung-hui-cho/ Audio clips: Excerpt from Kirsten Wever's Librivox recording of Max Beerbohm's "A Relic" https://librivox.org/and-even-now-by-max-beerbohm/ Snowpiercer https://youtu.be/3AIQdfW2Pds Edward Said - A Critique of Naipaul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcv3DbiIqQ

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler The TWiVsters explain how superspreader bacteriophages release intact DNA from infected cells, and the role of astrocytes in protecting the cerebellum from virus infection.   Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Nido2017 Meeting Superspreader bacteriophages (mBio) Astrocytes, interferon, and viral infection (JCI) Viral disruption of blood brain barrier (Trends Micro) On Warts by Lewis Thomas (pdf) Letters read on TWiV 428 This episode is brought to you by Blue Apron. Blue Apron is the #1 fresh ingredient and recipe delivery service in the country. See what’s on the menu this week and get your first 3 meals free – WITH FREE SHIPPING – by going to blueapron.com/twiv Weekly Science Picks Alan - Skulls Unlimited Rich - Bernard Moss Reflection Kathy - Why vaccines don't cause autism Dickson - Honomobo Vincent - Trump vs FDA Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

“The battlefield has gone more and more internally, more into our minds.” - Kingsley Dennis http://kingsleydennis.com/In this episode we hang out with Kingsley Dennis, prolific author and one of the most articulate voices in the emerging global movement of “new monasticism.” * Support Future Fossils Podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/michaelgarfield * Kingsley joined us from his gorgeous home in Spain to talk about…well, almost everything:– Reimagining the planet as a living cell with the help of biologist Lewis Thomas;– Flocking and schooling behavior in humans, and how outlier “weirdos” form the skin/edges/sensate drivers of culture (a shift from the periphery, not the center);– Gregory Bateson’s “difference that makes a difference” and information as inherently meaningful (a qualitative dimension to “data” that we largely ignore, but will be integrated into the wisdom of a mature society); – Violent revolutions in the aftermath of new information technologies, and the deconstruction of hierarchical control – trees falling and saplings springing up;– Time compression in a digital society and the increasingly inhospitable urban environment optimized for machines;– Time compression in psychology and increased rates of travel and communication;– New generations will be brought up in a fully digital society, and their epigenetic response will sprout new organs of perception, instinctively more adjusted and naturalized to time-space compression;– Evolutionary whiplash vs. cruising altitude comfort/complacency;– Soul work and evolution through difficulty:“Disruptive energy is actually needed in order to catalyze the shift to a different order [but] it’s hard to talk about this without sounding distant.” - Kingsley Dennis See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr Joe Smith is the Chief Medical & Science Officer at the West Health Institute and President of The West Health Policy Center. Originally trained in Medical Engineering and Physics he then pursued his MD training at Harvard. After 20 years as a practicing Electrophysiologist he became Chief Medical Officer for Guidant and Boston Scientific's Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. Named as one of the "Twenty People Who Make Healthcare Better' he also serves as faculty advisor to the University of Southern California, Johns Hopkins, Harvard & MIT and The Wellcome Trust. In this discussion we delve deep into the motivations to pursue a career in medicine, how the arc of your career can take many paths and the skills that physicians are valued most for in roles outside of traditional clinical care.  If you enjoyed this episode please ‘Subscribe‘ on iTunes or Stitcher.   Enjoy!   Selected Show Notes:   West Health Institute, La Jolla, California. West Health Policy Institute, Washington DC.  Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.  The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher by Lewis Thomas. Twitter:  @JoeSmithMD

Transcript: The history of life on Earth is not a simple linear progression from simple to more complex, from bacteria to us. There have been many twists and turns in this tale, many evolutionary dead ends. Chance effects are important on the history of life, for example, the role of giant impactors from space causing mass extinctions. The arrival rate of these huge impactors is utterly random and cannot be predicted. Chance also plays a role in the microscopic process of mutation which leaves the diversification of genetic material. As the physician Lewis Thomas has said, “The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute we would still be anaerobic bacteria, and there would be no music.”

In episode 39 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier discuss virus structure and answer listener questions. Links for this episode Diagrams of virus structures Boston Globe article on Genzyme FDA warning letter to Genzyme (thanks Peter!) Public Health Reports July - December 1918 (thanks Lenn!) Amateur scientists working with professionals (thanks Ennio!) Influenza H1N1 and computer analogies (thanks swiss compass!) Bone marrow transplant to cure AIDS not reported (thanks Andrew!) Paul Offitt interview on vaccines and autism Mark Crislip on vaccines and autism Weekly Science Picks Dick Visual Explanations by Edward R. TufteVincent The Youngest Science by Lewis Thomas

Vincent, Dick, and Saul talk about discoveries in virology that have had a major impact on the field. Sem•i•nal (adjective): strongly influencing later developments. Note: There are two HPV vaccines on the market: Gardasil (quadrivalent, types 6, 11, 16, 18) and Cervarix (bivalent, types 16 and 18). Links for this episode: Gates Foundation donates to polio eradication effort. Testing a bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine in India. We played a clip from net@night episode 83. I wrote about Jonathan Swift’s ‘Animalcules’ on virology blog. Science blog of the week: Research Blogging Science podcast pick of the week: Boston Museum of Science podcast Science book of the week: The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

Natalie Anger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist for the New York Times. Born in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, she studied physics and English at Barnard College, where she graduated with high honors in 1978. From 1980 to 1984, Angier wrote about biology for Discover Magazine. She also worked as a science writer for Time Magazine. She is the recipient of a number of honors for her writing on science, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) prize for excellence in science journalism and the Lewis Thomas award for distinguished writing in the life sciences. The author of a number of critically accliamed books, her most recent is The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, she explores the reasons why everyone should work to become scientifically literate. She also details specific reasons why chemistry, evolutionary biology, astronomy and other fields should interest the non-scientist public. Other topics discussed include atheism and science, and the future of science writing.