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Birds of prey, also known as raptors, are species of birds that feed almost entirely on meat that they hunt. A new report shows that these birds are dropping in number worldwide. 猛禽，也称为猛禽，是几乎完全以它们狩猎的肉类为食的鸟类。 一份新报告表明，这些鸟在全球范围内下降。 Researchers from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and BirdLife International studied 557 raptor species. They found that 167 of the bird species are considered near threatened, vulnerable or endangered or critically endangered. Their study also reported that 18 species are critically endangered, including the Philippine eagle, the hooded vulture and the Annobon scops owl. 国际自然和鸟类国际保护联盟的研究人员研究了557种猛禽。 他们发现，有167种鸟类被认为是受到威胁，脆弱或濒危或严重濒临灭绝的。 他们的研究还报道说，有18种受到严重威胁，包括菲律宾鹰，带帽的秃鹰和Annobon Scops Owl。 Gerardo Ceballos is a bird scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was one of the writers of the study, which appeared earlier this month in the publication Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He noted that other species are in danger of becoming locally extinct in some areas of the world. That means they may no longer play important parts as top hunters in those environments. Gerardo Ceballos是墨西哥国家自治大学的鸟类科学家。 他是该研究的作家之一，该研究本月早些时候在美国国家科学院的出版论文集中发表。 他指出，其他物种在世界某些地区处于局部灭绝的危险。 这意味着他们可能不再在这些环境中作为顶级猎人发挥重要作用。 “The golden eagle is the national bird of Mexico, but we have very few golden eagles left in Mexico,” he said. A 2016 study estimated only about 200 remain in the country. 说：“金鹰是墨西哥的国家鸟，但我们在墨西哥留下的金鹰很少。” 2016年的一项研究估计在该国仅剩下200个。 Harpy eagles were once widespread throughout southern Mexico and Central and South America. But tree cutting and burning has greatly decreased their range.哈比鹰队曾经在整个墨西哥南部以及中美洲和南美洲都广泛。 但是，砍伐和燃烧大大减少了它们的范围。The study found that 54 percent of threatened birds of prey that are active mostly during the day — including most hawks, eagles and vultures —were falling in population. The same was true for 47 percent of threatened raptors active mostly at night, such as owls. 该研究发现，人口下降的人口中有54％的人在白天大多活跃的受威胁猛禽（包括大多数鹰，老鹰和秃鹰）都在下降。 对于47％的受威胁猛禽的活动中，大多在晚上（例如猫头鹰）也是如此。Evan Buechley is a researcher at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and a scientist at nonprofit HawkWatch International. He was not involved in the study. He said the biggest threats to birds of prey are habitat loss, climate change and poisonous substances. 埃文·布希利（Evan Buechley）是史密森尼移民鸟中心的研究员，也是非营利性霍卡奇国际（Nonprofit Hawkwatch International）的科学家。 他没有参与研究。 他说，对猛禽的最大威胁是栖息地丧失，气候变化和有毒物质。 The insect-killing substance DDT thinned eggshells and destroyed bald eagle populations in North America, leading to its ban in the U.S. in 1972. But Buechley said other threats remain, including rodent-killing substances and the lead in hunters' ammunition. 杀死昆虫的物质滴滴涕稀释了蛋壳，并摧毁了北美的秃鹰种群，导致1972年在美国禁止其禁令。但是Buechley说，其他威胁仍然存在，包括杀死啮齿动物的物质和猎人弹药的负责人。Many raptors feed on rodents and dead animals. 许多猛禽以啮齿动物和死动物为食。 Widespread use of a drug used in farm animals led to the fast decline of vultures in South Asia. The birds died after eating animal remains, which decreased the population of some species by 95 percent in recent decades. 在农场动物中使用的药物的广泛使用导致南亚秃鹰的快速下降。 鸟类在吃动物遗体后死亡，近几十年来，一些物种的种群减少了95％。 In East Asia, many raptor species reproduce in northern China, Mongolia or Russia. They then travel down the eastern coast of China to spend summers in Southeast Asia or India. 在东亚，许多猛禽物种在中国北部，蒙古或俄罗斯繁殖。 然后，他们沿着中国东海岸旅行，在东南亚或印度度过夏天。 “Certain areas of the coast will see 30 to 40 species during peak migration,” said Yang Liu. He is an ecologist at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou and was not involved in the study. 杨刘说：“沿海岸的某些地区将在高峰迁移期间看到30至40种物种。” 他是广州Sun Yat-Sen University的生态学家，没有参与这项研究。 He said that areas with thousands of birds passing through them “are important to protect.” 他说，成千上万的鸟类经过它们的地区“对于保护很重要”。 Stuart Butchart is chief scientist at BirdLife International in Britain. He said that most of the 4,200 areas identified by conservation groups as critical for raptor species worldwide “are unprotected or only partly covered by protected areas.” Stuart Butchart是英国Birdlife International的首席科学家。 他说，保护群体确定为全世界猛禽物种至关重要的4200个地区中，大多数是“受保护区的无保护或部分覆盖”。 A 2018 study in the publication Biological Conservation found that 52 percent of all raptor species worldwide are decreasing in population. 2018年在出版物生物保护中进行的一项研究发现，全球所有猛禽中有52％的人口正在减少。

In this episode of Honey Bee Obscura, Jim Tew welcomes special guests Rosario Candelero, a veterinary student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Jason Ferrell, a beekeeper and IT specialist. Together, they explore how beekeeping in Mexico differs from practices in the United States. Rosario shares insights from her veterinary training, where bee health is treated as part of veterinary medicine, not entomology. She describes common honey bee diseases in Mexico, including Varroa, American foulbrood, chalkbrood, and the rarer stonebrood. Jim and Rosario discuss how Mexican beekeepers adapt to managing defensive bees descended from Africanized honey bees, balancing challenges with the country's strong honey production industry. The conversation also touches on the traditional Melipona stingless bees, their cultural importance, and their distinct honey properties. With Rosario preparing for advanced bee health courses, Jim looks forward to following her journey toward becoming a veterinary advocate for honey bees. It's a fascinating look at beekeeping across borders and the critical role veterinarians play in supporting healthy colonies. ______________________ Thanks to Betterbee for sponsoring today's episode. Betterbee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, Betterbee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com ______________________ Honey Bee Obscura is brought to you by Growing Planet Media, LLC, the home of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Music: Heart & Soul by Gyom, All We Know by Midway Music; Christmas Avenue by Immersive Music; original guitar music by Jeffrey Ott Cartoons by: John Martin (Beezwax Comics) Copyright © 2025 by Growing Planet Media, LLC

Bonus Episode: Author, Researcher, and investigative reporter Timothy A. Wise interviews Dr. Elena R. Álvarez-Buylla about her concerning findings on GM Corn risks during her time heading up Mexico's National Science Agency. With the US challenging Mexico's documented results and claiming unfair trade practices, the world awaits s decision from a 3-member panel of arbitrators. You can register for a March 4, 2025 webinar, titled "GMO Corn & Glyphosate: New evidence for precaution from Mexican scientists" here:https://www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars/96960Tim Wise is a writer, researcher and speaker, and the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food. He is a Senior Advisor with the Small Planet Institute and a Senior Research Fellow at Tufts University's Global Development and Environment Institute.  He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://www.timothyawise.com/Dr. María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces is a Mexican professor of molecular genetics at National Autonomous University of Mexico and the director of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. A graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she studied biology and ethnobotany, and was awarded the Gabino Barreda medal for her educational performance. Dr. Álvarez-Buylla earned her PhD at UC Berkeley. https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/22585/bioTo watch a video version of this podcast with access to the full transcript and links relevant to our conversation, please visit:https://realorganicproject.org/timothy-wise-elena-alvarez-buylla-gm-corn-mexicoThe Real Organic Podcast is hosted by Dave Chapman and Linley Dixon, engineered by Brandon StCyr, and edited and produced by Jenny Prince.The Real Organic Project is a farmer-led movement working towards certifying 1,000 farms across the United States this year. Our add-on food label distinguishes soil-grown fruits and vegetables from hydroponically-raised produce, and pasture-raised meat, milk, and eggs from products harvested from animals in horrific confinement (CAFOs - confined animal feeding operations).To find a Real Organic farm near you, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/directoryWe believe that the organic standards, with their focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare were written as they should be, but that the current lack of enforcement of those standards is jeopardizing the ability for small farms who adhere to the law to stay in business. The lack of enforcement is also jeopardizing the overall health of the customers who support the organic movement; customers who are not getting what they pay for at market but still paying a premium price. And the lack of enforcement is jeopardizing the very cycles (water, air, nutrients) that Earth relies upon to provide us all with a place to live, by pushing extractive, chemical agriculture to the forefront.If you like what you hear and are feeling inspired, we would love for you to join our movement by becoming one of our 1,000  Real Friends:https://www.realorganicproject.org/real-organic-friends/To read our weekly newsletter (which might just be the most forwarded newsletter on the internet!) and get firsthand news about what's happening with organic food, farming and policy, please subscribe here:https://www.realorganicproject.org/email/

Dr. Adrian Soto-Mota brings a unique blend of expertise as a practicing clinician, data specialist, researcher, and educator at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the largest university in Latin America. The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) (https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/fastlab/yale-food-addiction-scale/) is the most widely used food addiction screening tool worldwide. Dr. Soto-Mota utilized another food addiction screening technique, CRAVED (https://the-chc.org/assets/uploads/CRAVED%20Introduction%20and%20Notes%20for%20the%20User_Update_240506.pdf), a shorter yet effective screening method, in his research. His study distinguishes between binge-eating disorder and food addiction, highlighting key differences. While binge-eating disorder is recognized in the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual, food addiction as a substance use disorder is not—an important distinction.  Having experienced childhood obesity himself, Dr. Soto-Mota understands the personal impact of food addiction and is deeply committed to addressing the ongoing childhood obesity crisis in Mexico. In May 2024, he participated in the IFACC conference in London, where he signed a groundbreaking Consensus Statement (https://heyzine.com/flip-book/a00ee3aa6c.html). This agreement, developed by 40 experts over many months, recognizes ultra-processed food addiction as a substance use disorder. The next IFACC London Conference is set for 2025: IFACC London Conference 2025 (https://the-chc.org/fas/conference), Dr. Soto-Mota emphasizes that while food addiction is not our fault, we have a personal responsibility to acknowledge it and take steps toward recovery to live healthier, fuller lives. Tune in to this insightful episode.

For this episode of the Global Exchange podcast, Colin Robertson talks with Solange Marquez and Andres Rozental about the Mexican reaction to the return of President Donald Trump and the continuing threat of tariffs. // Participants' bios - CGAI Fellow Solange Marquez is a professor at the Law School of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).  A former VP of the Mexican Council on International Affairs (Comexi) she is its representative in Canada. - Andres Rozental served as Mexico's ambassador to Sweden and the United Kingdom and as deputy foreign minister. He is the Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. He holds the lifetime rank of eminent ambassador of Mexico. // Host bio: Colin Robertson is a former diplomat and Senior Advisor to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson // // Reading Recommendations: - "Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy", by Paul Preston: https://www.amazon.ca/Juan-Carlos-Steering-Dictatorship-Democracy-ebook/dp/B009UL1WO8 - "Ir a La Habana", by Leonardo Padura: https://www.amazon.ca/Habana-Cr%C3%B3nica-viajes-Havana-Chronicle/dp/6073918933 - "Prime Target": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31186958/ - "White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America", by Joan C. Williams: https://www.amazon.ca/White-Working-Class-Overcoming-Cluelessness/dp/1633693783 - "Atlas of AI", by Kate Crawford: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264630/atlas-of-ai/ // Recording Date: February 9, 2025.

Three researchers with personal experience of anxiety and depression triggered by studying the environmental destruction caused by a changing climate describe the steps they take to protect their mental health.Ruth Cerezo-Mota, a climate scientist based at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, found herself grieving for the state of the planet through her work for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.Experiencing a panic attack at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by a fear of checking emails and a sense of disengagement from work, led to her seeking professional help. “I was in a really dark place,” she tells Adam Levy. Retreating to a “happy place” that combines home, books, yoga, running, cats and wine is a key copying strategy when things get tough, she says.Similar experiences are recounted by Dave Reay, a climate scientist at the University of Edinburgh UK, and Daniel Gilford, a meteorologist who works at Climate Central, a science-led non-profit based in Princeton, New Jersey, that researches and reports the facts about climate change and its effects on peoples lives.Talking to other climate researchers and focusing on positive developments around climate change also helps, says Reay. Gilford, who is based in Orlando, Florida, likens climate change to being in the path of an approaching train: “I can see it coming with all of its weight and heaviness, and I'm screaming ‘Stop. Stop the train. Stop the train.'“By screaming, by saying what is happening, by naming the problem and telling people about it, I think that that can become a solution as well,” he says. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we dive into what goes into operating that great local coffee shop that often features prominently in many visions of local redevelopment. Antonio Gomez and Peter West both operate coffee shops in Edmonton, but also have backgrounds in design and planning respectively. We chat about how community connects within coffee shops and how design and planning intersects with successful local commercial spaces across Edmonton.Antonio Gomez, born and raised in Mexico, is a seasoned designer and entrepreneur. He completed his university studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) branch in Michoacan, living and working in his home country until 2011. In that year, Antonio immigrated to Canada where he a few years later established Space Squared, a design studio specializing in residential design, where he currently serves as the head designer. In addition to his work at Space Squared, Antonio is a proud co-creator, designer, and co-owner of Boxcar, a coffee shop located in the Calder community in northern Edmonton. The coffee shop occupies a small residential building, which was also designed by Antonio, reflecting his integrated approach to design and community.Peter West is a former urban planner turned entrepreneur and is the owner of Coffee Bureau with his wife Cristiane. After years spent serving coffee in Edmonton and Toronto, Peter felt compelled to create a small but impactful cafe in an effort to marry a desire for better urbanism and a better coffee shop experience downtown. Today Peter and Cris operate a location on Jasper Avenue as well as a new shop on 123 Street and 102 Avenue.

Exploring the Mind and Beyond: Consciousness, Philosophy, and ScienceWelcome to the first episode of 2025 on the Spirituality Now Podcast!In this captivating episode, we had the privilege of sitting down with the brilliant Manuel Delaflor, an epistemologist and philosopher of science whose work bridges the worlds of consciousness, philosophy, and human nature.Manuel's journey began at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he collaborated on groundbreaking research, including the renowned “Transferred Potential” study with Jacobo Grinberg. His expertise expanded into cognitive science and neuroscience at the Philosophical Investigations Institute, and later into innovative financial algorithms during his tenure with Liv Capital.Currently, Manuel leads transformative research at the National Institute for the Study of Consciousness (INPEC) and the Metacognition Institute, where biofeedback and cognitive analysis empower individuals to manage stress and enhance decision-making. He also collaborates with Clemson University's Human-AI Empowerment Lab, exploring the role of AI in advancing human cognition.In this episode, we delve into:The power of consciousness and cognition.The “Transferred Potential” study and its implications.Practical tools for achieving mental clarity.The groundbreaking research at the Metacognition Institute.The intersection of art, science, and well-being.How AI can empower, not replace, human intelligence.Manuel also shares insights from his forthcoming book, Model Dependent Ontology, which aims to deepen our understanding of existence and the interplay between mind and reality.This episode is a treasure trove for those seeking to expand their understanding of consciousness and explore the intersection of science, philosophy, and spirituality.Listen now & subscribe

Interview recorded - 7th of November, 2024On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming on Former Ambassador Chas Freeman. Chas is a well know diplomat with an array of experience. Examples include being the main interpreter for Richard Nixon during his 1972 China visit and the US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989 to 1992, during the Gulf war.During our conversation we spoke about the US driving together China and Russia, Biden escalating tensions, US fighting Russia, sustainment of global hegemony, 0:00 - Introduction2:06 - Driving China and Russia together?5:28 - Biden escalating tensions11:22 - Should NATO have been ended when Soviet Union collapsed?15:32 - US fighting Russia?17:50 - Sustainment of global hegemony20:56 - How has the Middle East evolved?24:20 - Anyway to get back to two state solution?31:39 - Axis of evil36:09 - Further escalation?39:19 - Madman theory40:29 - Normalise relations with adversaries?49:49 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?Ambassador Freeman has recently retired from Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm). He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the historic U.S. mediation of Namibian independence from South Africa and Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola.Chas Freeman served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'Affaires in the American embassies at both Bangkok (1984-1986) and Beijing (1981-1984). He was Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1979-1981. He was the principal American interpreter during the late President Nixon's path-breaking visit to China in 1972. In addition to his Middle Eastern, African, East Asian and European diplomatic experience, he served in India.Ambassador Freeman earned a certificate in Latin American studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, certificates in both the national and Taiwan dialects of Chinese from the former Foreign Service Institute field school in Taiwan, a BA magna cum laude from Yale University and a JD from the Harvard Law School. He is the recipient of numerous high honors and awards. He is the author of three books on U.S. foreign policy and two on statecraft. He was the editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on “diplomacy.”  He is a sought-after speaker on a wide variety of foreign policy issues.Ambassador Freeman is Chairman of the Board of Projects International, Inc., a Washington-based business development firm that specializes in arranging international joint ventures, acquisitions, and other business operations for its American and foreign clients. After his retirement from government, he served concurrently as co-chair of the United States China Policy Foundation, president of the Middle East Policy Council, and vice chair of the Atlantic Council of the United States.Chas Freeman is married to the Hon. Margaret Van Wagenen Carpenter.  He has three children by a previous marriage, eight grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.Chas Freeman:Website - https://chasfreeman.net/WTFinance: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century. The British colonisation of East Africa required the development of diverse political, social and economic institutions to advance and exercise control over the territories and their populations. Multinational commercial banks were among the first institutions, with the National Bank of India, Standard Bank of South Africa and Barclays Bank DCO all setting up business in Kenya, whilst continuing to maintain close relationships with the UK and other colonial actors. This book assesses the impact of commercial banks during the last years of colonial domination and the tools they used to adapt in the first decades of independence. The book concludes by considering how the colonial banking system has influenced the development of modern financial institutions in Kenya in the twenty-first century. This book argues that commercial banks are fundamental to understanding African colonies, and the foundations over which the financial system of contemporary Africa was constructed. It will be of interest to researchers of banking, economic history, the colonial period, and African studies. Christian Velasco was born in Mexico City and studied History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he specialized in economic history. In 2013, he was awarded a master's degree at the London School of Economics, with a comparative study of banking in Ghana and Botswana. The University of Warwick awarded him a PhD in 2019, working under the supervision of David Anderson and Daniel Branch, with a dissertation titled The Kenyan Banking System: From Colonial Expansion to Independence Uncertainty, 1950–1970. He is currently full-time academic staff at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City. Other publications discussed during the interview are: Rouse, M. , Bátiz-Lazo, B., and Carbo-Valverde, S. (2023) ‘M-Pesa and the role of the entrepreneurial state in a cashless technology to deliver an inclusive financial sector', Essays in Economic and Business History, 41, pp. 109-133. Velasco, C. (2022), "The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910–1954)," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2021.2020426 Willis, J. & Velasco, C. (2024), "Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya," Past & Present, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century. The British colonisation of East Africa required the development of diverse political, social and economic institutions to advance and exercise control over the territories and their populations. Multinational commercial banks were among the first institutions, with the National Bank of India, Standard Bank of South Africa and Barclays Bank DCO all setting up business in Kenya, whilst continuing to maintain close relationships with the UK and other colonial actors. This book assesses the impact of commercial banks during the last years of colonial domination and the tools they used to adapt in the first decades of independence. The book concludes by considering how the colonial banking system has influenced the development of modern financial institutions in Kenya in the twenty-first century. This book argues that commercial banks are fundamental to understanding African colonies, and the foundations over which the financial system of contemporary Africa was constructed. It will be of interest to researchers of banking, economic history, the colonial period, and African studies. Christian Velasco was born in Mexico City and studied History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he specialized in economic history. In 2013, he was awarded a master's degree at the London School of Economics, with a comparative study of banking in Ghana and Botswana. The University of Warwick awarded him a PhD in 2019, working under the supervision of David Anderson and Daniel Branch, with a dissertation titled The Kenyan Banking System: From Colonial Expansion to Independence Uncertainty, 1950–1970. He is currently full-time academic staff at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City. Other publications discussed during the interview are: Rouse, M. , Bátiz-Lazo, B., and Carbo-Valverde, S. (2023) ‘M-Pesa and the role of the entrepreneurial state in a cashless technology to deliver an inclusive financial sector', Essays in Economic and Business History, 41, pp. 109-133. Velasco, C. (2022), "The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910–1954)," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2021.2020426 Willis, J. & Velasco, C. (2024), "Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya," Past & Present, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century. The British colonisation of East Africa required the development of diverse political, social and economic institutions to advance and exercise control over the territories and their populations. Multinational commercial banks were among the first institutions, with the National Bank of India, Standard Bank of South Africa and Barclays Bank DCO all setting up business in Kenya, whilst continuing to maintain close relationships with the UK and other colonial actors. This book assesses the impact of commercial banks during the last years of colonial domination and the tools they used to adapt in the first decades of independence. The book concludes by considering how the colonial banking system has influenced the development of modern financial institutions in Kenya in the twenty-first century. This book argues that commercial banks are fundamental to understanding African colonies, and the foundations over which the financial system of contemporary Africa was constructed. It will be of interest to researchers of banking, economic history, the colonial period, and African studies. Christian Velasco was born in Mexico City and studied History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he specialized in economic history. In 2013, he was awarded a master's degree at the London School of Economics, with a comparative study of banking in Ghana and Botswana. The University of Warwick awarded him a PhD in 2019, working under the supervision of David Anderson and Daniel Branch, with a dissertation titled The Kenyan Banking System: From Colonial Expansion to Independence Uncertainty, 1950–1970. He is currently full-time academic staff at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City. Other publications discussed during the interview are: Rouse, M. , Bátiz-Lazo, B., and Carbo-Valverde, S. (2023) ‘M-Pesa and the role of the entrepreneurial state in a cashless technology to deliver an inclusive financial sector', Essays in Economic and Business History, 41, pp. 109-133. Velasco, C. (2022), "The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910–1954)," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2021.2020426 Willis, J. & Velasco, C. (2024), "Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya," Past & Present, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century. The British colonisation of East Africa required the development of diverse political, social and economic institutions to advance and exercise control over the territories and their populations. Multinational commercial banks were among the first institutions, with the National Bank of India, Standard Bank of South Africa and Barclays Bank DCO all setting up business in Kenya, whilst continuing to maintain close relationships with the UK and other colonial actors. This book assesses the impact of commercial banks during the last years of colonial domination and the tools they used to adapt in the first decades of independence. The book concludes by considering how the colonial banking system has influenced the development of modern financial institutions in Kenya in the twenty-first century. This book argues that commercial banks are fundamental to understanding African colonies, and the foundations over which the financial system of contemporary Africa was constructed. It will be of interest to researchers of banking, economic history, the colonial period, and African studies. Christian Velasco was born in Mexico City and studied History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he specialized in economic history. In 2013, he was awarded a master's degree at the London School of Economics, with a comparative study of banking in Ghana and Botswana. The University of Warwick awarded him a PhD in 2019, working under the supervision of David Anderson and Daniel Branch, with a dissertation titled The Kenyan Banking System: From Colonial Expansion to Independence Uncertainty, 1950–1970. He is currently full-time academic staff at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City. Other publications discussed during the interview are: Rouse, M. , Bátiz-Lazo, B., and Carbo-Valverde, S. (2023) ‘M-Pesa and the role of the entrepreneurial state in a cashless technology to deliver an inclusive financial sector', Essays in Economic and Business History, 41, pp. 109-133. Velasco, C. (2022), "The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910–1954)," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2021.2020426 Willis, J. & Velasco, C. (2024), "Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya," Past & Present, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/finance

Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century. The British colonisation of East Africa required the development of diverse political, social and economic institutions to advance and exercise control over the territories and their populations. Multinational commercial banks were among the first institutions, with the National Bank of India, Standard Bank of South Africa and Barclays Bank DCO all setting up business in Kenya, whilst continuing to maintain close relationships with the UK and other colonial actors. This book assesses the impact of commercial banks during the last years of colonial domination and the tools they used to adapt in the first decades of independence. The book concludes by considering how the colonial banking system has influenced the development of modern financial institutions in Kenya in the twenty-first century. This book argues that commercial banks are fundamental to understanding African colonies, and the foundations over which the financial system of contemporary Africa was constructed. It will be of interest to researchers of banking, economic history, the colonial period, and African studies. Christian Velasco was born in Mexico City and studied History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he specialized in economic history. In 2013, he was awarded a master's degree at the London School of Economics, with a comparative study of banking in Ghana and Botswana. The University of Warwick awarded him a PhD in 2019, working under the supervision of David Anderson and Daniel Branch, with a dissertation titled The Kenyan Banking System: From Colonial Expansion to Independence Uncertainty, 1950–1970. He is currently full-time academic staff at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City. Other publications discussed during the interview are: Rouse, M. , Bátiz-Lazo, B., and Carbo-Valverde, S. (2023) ‘M-Pesa and the role of the entrepreneurial state in a cashless technology to deliver an inclusive financial sector', Essays in Economic and Business History, 41, pp. 109-133. Velasco, C. (2022), "The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910–1954)," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2021.2020426 Willis, J. & Velasco, C. (2024), "Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya," Past & Present, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century. The British colonisation of East Africa required the development of diverse political, social and economic institutions to advance and exercise control over the territories and their populations. Multinational commercial banks were among the first institutions, with the National Bank of India, Standard Bank of South Africa and Barclays Bank DCO all setting up business in Kenya, whilst continuing to maintain close relationships with the UK and other colonial actors. This book assesses the impact of commercial banks during the last years of colonial domination and the tools they used to adapt in the first decades of independence. The book concludes by considering how the colonial banking system has influenced the development of modern financial institutions in Kenya in the twenty-first century. This book argues that commercial banks are fundamental to understanding African colonies, and the foundations over which the financial system of contemporary Africa was constructed. It will be of interest to researchers of banking, economic history, the colonial period, and African studies. Christian Velasco was born in Mexico City and studied History at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he specialized in economic history. In 2013, he was awarded a master's degree at the London School of Economics, with a comparative study of banking in Ghana and Botswana. The University of Warwick awarded him a PhD in 2019, working under the supervision of David Anderson and Daniel Branch, with a dissertation titled The Kenyan Banking System: From Colonial Expansion to Independence Uncertainty, 1950–1970. He is currently full-time academic staff at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City. Other publications discussed during the interview are: Rouse, M. , Bátiz-Lazo, B., and Carbo-Valverde, S. (2023) ‘M-Pesa and the role of the entrepreneurial state in a cashless technology to deliver an inclusive financial sector', Essays in Economic and Business History, 41, pp. 109-133. Velasco, C. (2022), "The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910–1954)," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2021.2020426 Willis, J. & Velasco, C. (2024), "Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya," Past & Present, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

The Care & Feeding team is off for Labor Day — but we won't let that stop you from hearing something great from elsewhere in the Slateiverse. So: we're handing the mic over to our friends at Decoder Ring! Axolotls. Narwhals. Llamas. Sloths. Every few years, it seems like American kids and parents collectively decide they cannot get enough of a creature that makes teddy bears seem impossibly quaint. In today's episode we're going to swim after the axolotl, as it takes us to some far-flung and unexpected places, to understand how it came to rule the stuffed animal kingdom. Though the answer absolutely has to do with parents eager to please their children at the gift shop, it's bigger than that. The insatiable hunger for novelty that is bound up with the axolotl — well, that has to do with all of us. This episode was written by Willa Paskin. It was produced by Katie Shepherd. It was edited by Evan Chung. We produce Decoder Ring with Max Freedman. Derek John is Executive Producer. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director. In this episode you'll hear from Elaine Kollias who works with Folkmanis Puppets, Diana Laura Vasquez Mendoza who is a biologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Dr. Jessica Whited who is a professor at Harvard, Gerhard Runken who is the executive vice president of global brand and marketing for Jazwares, and Laura Wattenberg who is a baby name expert. Thank you to our translator Ezequiel Andino, as well as Luis Zambrano, Kelley Garnier, and Alejandra Escobar. And if you'd like to help the wild Axolotl, here is the conservation project where Diana works and they accept donations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, IGD contributor Scott Campbell speaks with Flor, a compa in so-called Mexico actively involved in supporting anarchist political prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel. They speak about Okupa Che, an autonomous, self-managed space on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a project where Yorch... Read Full Article

Psychedelics may be the way out of depression. Argel Aguilar Valles, assistant professor in the department of neuroscience at Carleton University, explores why. Dr. Argel Aguilar Valles received his B.Sc. (Biology) and M.Sc. (Biochemistry) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Then, he obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at McGill University in 2011. Following […]

PREVIEW: AMERICAS: BORDERS: Conversation with colleague Joseph Humire, who is writing in the distinguished peer-reviewed journal of UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, re: the Trump foreign policy with regard to the Americas -- and the contrast with the Biden Administration. More next week. 1911 Mexico City

Axolotls. Narwhals. Llamas. Sloths. Every few years, it seems like American kids and parents collectively decide they cannot get enough of a creature that makes teddy bears seem impossibly quaint. In today's episode we're going to swim after the axolotl, as it takes us to some far-flung and unexpected places, to understand how it came to rule the stuffed animal kingdom. Though the answer absolutely has to do with parents eager to please their children at the gift shop, it's bigger than that. The insatiable hunger for novelty that is bound up with the axolotl — well, that has to do with all of us.  This episode was written by Willa Paskin. It was produced by Katie Shepherd. It was edited by Evan Chung. We produce Decoder Ring with Max Freedman. Derek John is Executive Producer. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director. In this episode you'll hear from Elaine Kollias who works with Folkmanis Puppets, Diana Laura Vasquez Mendoza who is a biologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Dr. Jessica Whited who is a professor at Harvard, Gerhard Runken who is the executive vice president of global brand and marketing for Jazwares, and Laura Wattenberg who is a baby name expert. Thank you to our translator Ezequiel Andino, as well as Luis Zambrano, Kelley Garnier, and Alejandra Escobar. And if you'd like to help the wild Axolotl, here is the conservation project where Diana works and they accept donations.  If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, please sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring and all other Slate podcasts without any ads and have total access to Slate's website. Your support is also crucial to our work. Go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Axolotls. Narwhals. Llamas. Sloths. Every few years, it seems like American kids and parents collectively decide they cannot get enough of a creature that makes teddy bears seem impossibly quaint. In today's episode we're going to swim after the axolotl, as it takes us to some far-flung and unexpected places, to understand how it came to rule the stuffed animal kingdom. Though the answer absolutely has to do with parents eager to please their children at the gift shop, it's bigger than that. The insatiable hunger for novelty that is bound up with the axolotl — well, that has to do with all of us.  This episode was written by Willa Paskin. It was produced by Katie Shepherd. It was edited by Evan Chung. We produce Decoder Ring with Max Freedman. Derek John is Executive Producer. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director. In this episode you'll hear from Elaine Kollias who works with Folkmanis Puppets, Diana Laura Vasquez Mendoza who is a biologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Dr. Jessica Whited who is a professor at Harvard, Gerhard Runken who is the executive vice president of global brand and marketing for Jazwares, and Laura Wattenberg who is a baby name expert. Thank you to our translator Ezequiel Andino, as well as Luis Zambrano, Kelley Garnier, and Alejandra Escobar. And if you'd like to help the wild Axolotl, here is the conservation project where Diana works and they accept donations.  If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, please sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring and all other Slate podcasts without any ads and have total access to Slate's website. Your support is also crucial to our work. Go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Axolotls. Narwhals. Llamas. Sloths. Every few years, it seems like American kids and parents collectively decide they cannot get enough of a creature that makes teddy bears seem impossibly quaint. In today's episode we're going to swim after the axolotl, as it takes us to some far-flung and unexpected places, to understand how it came to rule the stuffed animal kingdom. Though the answer absolutely has to do with parents eager to please their children at the gift shop, it's bigger than that. The insatiable hunger for novelty that is bound up with the axolotl — well, that has to do with all of us.  This episode was written by Willa Paskin. It was produced by Katie Shepherd. It was edited by Evan Chung. We produce Decoder Ring with Max Freedman. Derek John is Executive Producer. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director. In this episode you'll hear from Elaine Kollias who works with Folkmanis Puppets, Diana Laura Vasquez Mendoza who is a biologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Dr. Jessica Whited who is a professor at Harvard, Gerhard Runken who is the executive vice president of global brand and marketing for Jazwares, and Laura Wattenberg who is a baby name expert. Thank you to our translator Ezequiel Andino, as well as Luis Zambrano, Kelley Garnier, and Alejandra Escobar. And if you'd like to help the wild Axolotl, here is the conservation project where Diana works and they accept donations.  If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, please sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring and all other Slate podcasts without any ads and have total access to Slate's website. Your support is also crucial to our work. Go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Axolotls. Narwhals. Llamas. Sloths. Every few years, it seems like American kids and parents collectively decide they cannot get enough of a creature that makes teddy bears seem impossibly quaint. In today's episode we're going to swim after the axolotl, as it takes us to some far-flung and unexpected places, to understand how it came to rule the stuffed animal kingdom. Though the answer absolutely has to do with parents eager to please their children at the gift shop, it's bigger than that. The insatiable hunger for novelty that is bound up with the axolotl — well, that has to do with all of us.  This episode was written by Willa Paskin. It was produced by Katie Shepherd. It was edited by Evan Chung. We produce Decoder Ring with Max Freedman. Derek John is Executive Producer. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director. In this episode you'll hear from Elaine Kollias who works with Folkmanis Puppets, Diana Laura Vasquez Mendoza who is a biologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Dr. Jessica Whited who is a professor at Harvard, Gerhard Runken who is the executive vice president of global brand and marketing for Jazwares, and Laura Wattenberg who is a baby name expert. Thank you to our translator Ezequiel Andino, as well as Luis Zambrano, Kelley Garnier, and Alejandra Escobar. And if you'd like to help the wild Axolotl, here is the conservation project where Diana works and they accept donations.  If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, please sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring and all other Slate podcasts without any ads and have total access to Slate's website. Your support is also crucial to our work. Go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this episode of the Global Exchange podcast, Colin Robertson talks with Solange Marquez and Andres Rozental about the recent Mexican election and how the new administration might impact North American relations. // Participants' bios - Solange Marquez is a professor at the Law School of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). A former VP of the Mexican Council on International Affairs (Comexi) she is its representative in Canada. Solange is also a CGAI Fellow. - Andres Rozental served as Mexico's ambassador to Sweden and the United Kingdom and as deputy foreign minister. He is the Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations. He holds the lifetime rank of eminent ambassador of Mexico. // Host bio: Colin Robertson is a former diplomat and Senior Advisor to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson // Read & Watch: - "Grands Diplomates: Les maîtres des relations internationales de Mazarin à nos jours, by Hubert Védrine: https://www.lisez.com/livre-grand-format/grands-diplomates/9782262101398 - "Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence", by Kate Crawford: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264630/atlas-of-ai/ // Recording Date: June 19, 2024.

pWotD Episode 2589: Claudia Sheinbaum Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a popular Wikipedia page every day.With 997,390 views on Monday, 3 June 2024 our article of the day is Claudia Sheinbaum.Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, scientist, and academic who is the president-elect of Mexico, the first female and person of predominantly Jewish ancestryNote to be elected to the position. A member of the left-wing political party Morena, she previously served as Head of Government of Mexico City – a position equivalent to that of a state governor – from 2018 to 2023. From 2000 to 2006, Sheinbaum served as Secretary of the Environment under future president Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his tenure as Head of Government. Sheinbaum served as Delegational Chief of the Tlalpan borough from 2015 to 2017 and was elected Head of Government in the 2018 election, where she ran a campaign that emphasized curbing crime and enforcing zoning laws. A scientist by profession, Sheinbaum received her Ph. D. in energy engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). As an academic, she has authored over 100 articles and two books on energy, the environment, and sustainable development. Sheinbaum contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and in 2018 she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. On 12 June 2023, Sheinbaum resigned from her position as Head of Government of Mexico City to seek Morena's presidential nomination in the 2024 election. On 6 September, Sheinbaum secured the party's nomination over her nearest rival, former foreign secretary Marcelo Ebrard. On 2 June 2024, Sheinbaum won the general election in a landslide.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:35 UTC on Tuesday, 4 June 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Claudia Sheinbaum on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Geraint Standard.

In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Jorge Castañeda discuss the future of Mexico and Mexican-US relations, on Friday, May 31, 2024. Former foreign minister of Mexico and renowned public intellectual, political scientist, and prolific writer Jorge Castañeda Gutman joins Hoover senior fellow H.R. McMaster to share his insights on current Mexican security concerns and the future of Mexico and Mexican-US relations. Reflecting on Mexico's 2024 presidential election, Castañeda discusses the significance of the election as a milestone in Mexico's history, including the implications on Mexico's economy, efforts to address climate change, and how Mexico will navigate geopolitical tensions between the world's major powers. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Jorge Castañeda Gutman was foreign minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003. He is a renowned public intellectual, political scientist, and prolific writer, with an interest in Mexican and Latin American politics, comparative politics, and US-Mexican and US–Latin American relations. He is the global distinguished professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, where he has taught since 1997, and previously taught at Mexico's National Autonomous University, Princeton University, and the University of California–Berkeley. Dr. Castañeda is the author of more than more than 15 books, most recently America through Foreign Eyes (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is a regular columnist for Revista Nexos, the Spanish daily El País, and the New York Times. Dr. Castañeda received BAs from Princeton University and the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), an M.A from the École Pratique de Hautes Études, and a PhD in economic history from the Université Paris 1. H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He was the 25th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018.

Student protests are resonating with Palestinians, who face the destruction of nearly all universities in Gaza. Palestinian university presidents signed an open letter saying the protests serve as a “beacon of hope.” We look at what has been lost and what remains. In this episode:  Jehad Abusalim (@JehadAbusalim), Executive Director, The Jerusalem Fund Heigo Parsa, University of Toronto Student  Jasmine Al-Rawi, (@studentsforpalestinesydneyuni), University of Sydney Student Sesek Duran, National Autonomous University of Mexico Student  Sundos Hammad, Right to Education Coordinator, Birzeit University  Episode credits: This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li and Ashish Malhotra with our host Malika Bilal. Catherine Nouhan fact-checked this episode. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take's executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio. Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and YouTube

Race and racism are based in history, and how humans thought about the physical differences. Early conceptions of these differences were focused on physical adaptations across geographies around the world. This thinking evolved over time: explanations for these differences changed as human history and science evolved. The associations between disease and race grew closer over time, however the extent to which this can be explained by science is limited. Listen to learn more about this evolution, and the impact that this has on today's medical practices.Guests include Erica Charters, Professor of the Global History of Medicine at the University of Oxford, Carlos López Beltrán, Senior Researcher at Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Alexandre White, Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Sociology and in the Department of the History of Medicine.Continue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://twitter.com/thelancethttps://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv

All you need to know in order to traverse AI implementation, including who is responsible for the implementation of AI technology within an organization, how to determine which AI technologies to implement and where, how to "sell" AI within an organization and as a B2B solution and the importance of tracking KPIs and iteration for future road mapping. David Chestler - President, ProVision Partners International [Linkedin Link] David Chestler is recognized as an icon of the global hospitality and travel industry, having forged a successful career in hotel technology that spans over three decades. He currently serves as President of ProVision Partners International, Inc, a hotel and travel consultancy and marketing firm that he co-founded in 2019. Since beginning his career in hospitality in 1989 with Utell International, Chestler has held leadership roles with some of the industry's most prominent organizations, where he consistently delivered global scale and growth by developing high performance teams focused on complex technology solutions. Sally Kelly - SVP Advisory Services, ProVision Partners International [Linkedin Link] Sally has 15 years of experience and expertise in the development and execution of strategic communications, consulting, product development and deployment for the hospitality and travel industry. Prior to joining ProVision Partners, she held a leadership role at KPMG, and spent six years working with the Amadeus IT Group. She also served in a strategy and consulting role for Accenture, a global professional services company, before opening her own consulting firm in 2020. Martin Chevalley - CEO & Co-founder, InnSpire [Linkedin Link] Martin Chevalley serves as CEO of InnSpire – the Digital Guest Journey, a global hotel technology company he co-founded in 2012 that is dedicated to developing and delivering hospitality-specific technology systems and integrated solutions for streamlining the guest journey and creating maximum efficiency for hotel operations. With a comprehensive suite of intelligent solutions, InnSpire helps hotels around the world to sell more, entertain better, analyze data and optimize results, with a prestigious clientele that includes such brands as Hilton Grand Vacations, Virgin Hotels, LVMH Cheval Blanc, LUX Hotels and many others. In addition to his role at InnSpire, Chevalley is a global business catalyst with over 10 years of experience in successfully conceptualizing, launching and commercializing electronics and software-oriented brands, products and companies in multiple business sectors worldwide. He holds a Master's in Business Administration from Stockholm University‘s School of Business, as well as Harvard University. Jorge Hernandez - Principal ML Research Engineer @ Encora [Linkedin Link] Jorge Hernandez is a Principal ML Research Engineer at Encora with over 23 years of experience in software. He has led cross functional, distributed teams as both Tech Lead and CTO to deliver solutions in projects for millions of users across local and federal governments, academia and industry. As an ML Research Engineer, he led clients' machine learning teams in delivering SOTA results in data and text extraction from scanned documents, using a novel machine learning algorithm developed in-house, which allows Low Shot and Zero Shot training without sacrificing accuracy or recall, as well as facilitating transparency in the trained models. Jorge's research interests include Deep Learning, Quantum Computing, Quantum Machine Learning and Fair, Safe and Transparent AI, as well as the applications of both standard and Quantum Machine Learning to Genomics, Proteomics, Synthetic Biology and Materials Science. His other interests include classical music, neuroscience, philosophy of science, physics and role-playing games. Jorge majored in Computer Science at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

In today's episode, we are joined once again by Dr. María de la Salud, who holds the position of Full-time Professor C at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with whom we will discuss the revolution of alternative proteins, exploring regulation and current challenges.  We're excited to have Dr. María de la Salud join us again in today's episode. Our discussion will revolve around the recent revolution in alternative proteins, where we'll explore the current regulatory landscape and the challenges being faced by the industry. Additionally, we will delve into the technological developments that are shaping the future of the industry, including plant-based meat printing technology.

What strategies can you employ for post-implementation, including gaining valuable customer feedback and making informed decisions on road mapping and potential pivots in the AI strategy? President, ProVision Partners International [Linkedin Link] David Chestler is recognized as an icon of the global hospitality and travel industry, having forged a successful career in hotel technology that spans over three decades. He currently serves as President of ProVision Partners International, Inc, a hotel and travel consultancy and marketing firm that he co-founded in 2019. Since beginning his career in hospitality in 1989 with Utell International, Chestler has held leadership roles with some of the industry's most prominent organizations, where he consistently delivered global scale and growth by developing high performance teams focused on complex technology solutions. Principal ML Research Engineer @ Encora [Linkedin Link] Jorge Hernandez is a Principal ML Research Engineer with over 23 years of experience in software. He has led cross functional, distributed teams as both Tech Lead and CTO to deliver solutions in projects for millions of users across local and federal governments, academia and industry. As an ML Research Engineer, he led clients' machine learning teams in delivering SOTA results in data and text extraction from scanned documents, using a novel machine learning algorithm developed in-house, which allows Low Shot and Zero Shot training without sacrificing accuracy or recall, as well as facilitating transparency in the trained models. Jorge's research interests include Deep Learning, Quantum Computing, Quantum Machine Learning and Fair, Safe and Transparent AI, as well as the applications of both standard and Quantum Machine Learning to Genomics, Proteomics, Synthetic Biology and Materials Science. His other interests include classical music, neuroscience, philosophy of science, physics and role-playing games. Jorge majored in Computer Science at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. David ChestlerJorge Hernandez

Cintia Martínez Velasco is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. Her research and teaching interests include feminist philosophy, gender theory, decolonial philosophy, and critical theory in Latin America. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2019, where she taught Philosophy from 2018 to 2022. Professor Martínez Velasco joined the UO faculty in fall 2022.

VYS0035 | The Weird Review of the Year 2023 Pt.2 - Show Notes Concluding their post-mortem of the bloated carcass of 2023 looking for any residual traces of weirdness Hine and Buckley witness it hurtling from June to December like a reckless driver, drunk on curiosity, swerving to avoid a shadowy figure that was never there, crashing through the windshield of wanton deception to land face down and muttering incoherently on the cold, hard tarmac of truth. As they accompany this moribund year through the bardo they encounter David Grusch and Ryan Graves giving dubious, testimony about their UAP encounters, an unexplained encounter at the bottom of a well, a Russian man drilling into his own skull to try to control his dreams, a couple of dry little guys being dragged out before the Mexican Congress and the threat of desecration to a 30-year-old Vayse sacred text... (recorded 15 January 2024) Thanks as always to Keith for the show notes - give him a follow on bluesky: @peakflow.bsky.social Again, most of the news stories in this episode were sourced from the strange and unusal website: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/ - bookmark it and check it for your daily does of weird. Walken's Intro Christopher Walken - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Walken) June 2023 Grusch blows his whistle Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin - The Debrief (https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/) US conducted ‘multi-decade' secret UFO program, ex-intelligence official says - The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/26/ufo-hearing-congress-evidence-david-grusch) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency) National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office) All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-domain_Anomaly_Resolution_Office) David Grusch UFO whistle-blower claims - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grusch_UFO_whistleblower_claims) Stanford professor says aliens are ‘100 per cent' on earth, US is ‘reverse-engineering downed UFOs' -News.com (https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/stanford-professor-says-aliens-are-100-per-cent-on-earth-us-is-reverseengineering-downed-ufos/news-story/041694ef5df4791fbdfa303a08f34a9c) Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Walsh_Pasulka) To the Stars (company) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Stars_(company)) Extra-terrestrial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_UFO_hypothesis) Interdimensional UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdimensional_UFO_hypothesis) Psychosocial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosocial_UFO_hypothesis) UFO "Whistleblower" Has Suspiciously Close Ties to the Usual Suspects - Jason Colavito (https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/ufo-whistleblower-has-suspiciously-close-ties-to-the-usual-suspects) Weird Reads with Emily Louise - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/WeirdReadswithEmilyLouise) Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pilkington - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9045589-mirage-men) Jeremy Corbell - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbell) George Knapp (television journalist) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Knapp_(television_journalist)) Harold E. ‘Hal' Puthoff - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_E._Puthoff) Remote viewing - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing) Scientists create synthetic human embryos Synthetic human embryos created in ground-breaking advance - The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/14/synthetic-human-embryos-created-in-groundbreaking-advance) Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) What are ‘non-human biologics'? - HITC (https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/07/27/what-are-non-human-biologics-david-grusch-claims-they-were-recovered/) Jeremy Corbell on Twitter (https://twitter.com/JeremyCorbell) Trail cam catches half-naked ‘witches' in deer carcass ‘eating ritual' Woman's horror as wildlife cam catches "naked witches hosting carcass-eating ritual" - The Mirror (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/womans-horror-wildlife-cam-catches-30139676) The viral deer-eating “witches” that aren't - The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/2023/06/the-viral-deer-eating-witches-that-arent.html) Wendigo - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo) Skin walker - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker) Powell River, British Columbia - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_River%2C_British_Columbia) Scantily clad "witches" caught munching on deer carcass in bizarre security cam footage - Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/world/scantily-clad-witches-caught-munching-deer-carcass-bizarre-security-cam-footage) Satanic panic - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic) Vayse episodes in June VYS0022 | This Phenomena Draws You In - Vayse to Face with Steve Mera (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0022) VYS0023 | Mercurial, Mutable, Mysterious Something - Vayse to Face with Paul Weston (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0023) July 2023 Grusch and Graves give testimony at Congressional Hearing on UFOs UFO hearings: whistle-blower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics' found at alleged crash sites - The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jul/26/ufo-hearing-congress-david-grusch-whistleblower-live-updates) US government "hiding crucial information" about UFOs, says ex-Navy pilot who claims he saw them - Sky News (https://news.sky.com/story/us-government-hiding-crucial-information-about-ufos-says-ex-navy-pilot-who-claims-he-saw-them-12927800) Who is Ryan Graves? - Yahoo News (https://news.yahoo.com/ryan-graves-former-navy-pilot-182125964.html) Transcript of Ryan Graves' testimony - House Oversight Committee (https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Ryan-HOC-Testimony.pdf) Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA) website (https://www.safeaerospace.org/) Big, Red UFO Hovered over Vandenberg in 2003, Congressional Witness Testifies - The Independent (https://www.independent.com/2023/08/01/big-red-ufo-hovered-over-vandenberg-in-2003-congressional-witness-testifies/) The Simulation Hypothesis by Rizwan Virk - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44141381-the-simulation-hypothesis) Are we living in a computer simulation? I don't know. Probably. (interview with Rizwan Virk) - Vox (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/10/18275618/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-rizwan-virk) Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security by Robert Guffey - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23365123-chameleo) Text-based game - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_game) Military simulation - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_simulation) Uses of VR in Military Training - Future Visual (https://www.futurevisual.com/blog/uses-vr-military-training/) Serge Monast's Project Blue Beam Makes Today's Conspiracy Theories Look Sane - All That's Interesting (https://allthatsinteresting.com/project-blue-beam-serge-monast) Explaining Watchmen's Giant Squid - Nerdist (https://nerdist.com/article/watchmen-comic-ending-giant-squid/) Rapture - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture) Baby Looks Away From Me: A Sign of Overstimulation or Just Normal? - Mommy Cooz (https://mommycooz.com/baby-looks-away-from-me/) Man claims to have performed brain surgery on himself Researcher claims to have implanted chip into his brain which he hopes can control his dreams - Lad Bible (https://www.ladbible.com/news/world-news/man-implants-electrode-into-brain-lucid-dreams-051730-20230716?&source=zaptwln) Lucid dream - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream) The Sopranos, Pine Barrens episode: Valery Escapes - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt4vUJHFNQ0) Happiness In Slavery, Music video - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_in_Slavery#Music_video) Nine Inch Nails - Happiness In Slavery (Uncensored Music Video) - Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/happiness-in-slavery) This is a link to the first minute and a half, which doesn't contain any gruesome stuff: Nine Inch Nails: Happiness is Slavery Music Video - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWyG9TU3ltw) Neuralink - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink) Black+Decker - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%2BDecker) Trepanning - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning) Ghostbusters - The hole Egon tried to drill in his head (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97TwZgnKqA4) Our bears are not humans in suits, says Chinese zoo Chinese zoo denies its bears are humans in costume - Sky News (https://news.sky.com/story/zoo-denies-its-bears-are-humans-in-costume-12931267) Sun Bear - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_bear) China zoo "tries to pass dog off as wolf"- BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-56299849) Chinese zoo angers visitors by passing off hairy Tibetan mastiff dog as lion - CNN (https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/16/world/asia/china-zoo-dog-lion/index.html) Egyptian zoo denies their 'zebra' is a donkey after photo goes viral - Sky News (https://news.sky.com/story/egyptian-zoo-denies-their-zebra-is-a-donkey-after-photo-goes-viral-11450957) Vayse episodes in July VYS0024 | Between Being Real and Not Real - Vayse to Face with Nathan Paul Isaac (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0024) VYS0025 | Truth with a Capital "T" - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0025) August 2023 Loch Ness Monster mega-hunt takes place Record-breaking hunt for the Loch Ness Monster is now underway - Unexplained Mysteries (https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/369803/record-breaking-hunt-for-the-loch-ness-monster-is-now-underway) Hundreds join huge search for Loch Ness Monster - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-66614935) Loch Ness Monster - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster) Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster - Spooky Isles (https://www.spookyisles.com/two-great-beasts/) St. Columba and the Loch Ness Monster - National Catholic Register (https://www.ncregister.com/blog/st-columba-and-the-loch-ness-monster) Snakes in mythology - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_in_mythology) Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting) Robert Kenneth Wilson (The Loch Ness surgeon's photograph) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kenneth_Wilson) Lake monster - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_monster) Toward a Unifying Theory of Lake Monsters - Atlas Obscura (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/column-lake-monsters) Egregore - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore) What Are Ultra-terrestrials? - Curiosmos (https://curiosmos.com/what-are-ultraterrestrials/) Kelpie - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelpie) Is Bigfoot a Forest Spirit? - Exemplore (https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Bigfoot-Forest-Spirit) The Sacred Magic of Boleskine: The Rite that Brought Aleister Crowley to Boleskine House - Journal of the Boleskine House Foundation (https://www.boleskinehouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Readdy-Keith-The-Sacred-Magic-of-Boleskine-Parts-I-II.pdf) Nibiru fails to destroy Earth Conspiracy Theorist Has An "Explanation" After Nibiru Failed To Destroy Earth Last Week - IFL Science (https://www.iflscience.com/conspiracy-theorist-has-an-explanation-after-nibiru-failed-to-destroy-earth-last-week-70328) Nibiru cataclysm (doomsday scenario) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm) Planets beyond Neptune: Planet X (the 1906 search for a trans-Neptunian planet) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune#Planet_X) Planet Nine (hypothetical planet first suggested in 2014) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine) Pluto: Classification - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#Classification) Another Earth - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Earth) Another Earth Official HD Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8hEwMMDtFY) Melancholia (2011 film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholia_(2011_film)) Melancholia Official Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IZGwvxhXvw) A Winged Star, The Nibiru Conspiracy, And Lazy Pseudoscience - Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2017/06/16/a-winged-star-the-nibiru-conspiracy-and-lazy-pseudoscience/) Tourists…in space! Virgin Galactic takes first tourists to edge of space - Sky News (https://news.sky.com/story/virgin-galactic-takes-first-tourists-to-edge-of-space-12937379) Virgin Galactic - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Galactic) Blue Origin - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin) The World's Billionaires - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires) Titan submersible implosion - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion) Every SpaceX Starship explosion (up to April 2023) and what Elon Musk and his team learned from them (incl. videos) - Space.com (https://www.space.com/every-spacex-starship-explosion-lessons-learned) SpaceX's second Starship flight test ends in an explosion minutes after launch (Nov 2023) - The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23965728/spacex-starship-flight-test-explosion-super-heavy-booster) SpaceX buys parachute manufacturer Pioneer Aerospace - Space.com (https://www.space.com/spacex-buys-parachute-manufacturer-pioneer-aerospace) Space: the final frontier for the planet's wealthiest? - Open Democracy (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/space-the-final-frontier-for-the-planets-wealthiest/) Uri Geller shares image of ‘probably real' naked pregnant female alien Uri Geller unveils photo of naked alien - Jerusalem Post (https://www.jpost.com/science/article-757623) Geller's naked alien tweet, Aug 23, 2023 (https://twitter.com/theurigeller/status/1694279078050672834) Whitley Strieber's ‘could be a puppet' tweet, Aug 23, 2023 (https://twitter.com/whitleystrieber/status/1696280307383877973?s=46&t=q2-c9hjD5sIXynDdaJB8PQ) Here's a thing about Richard Doty that not many know… - Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/zvg6s2/heres_a_thing_about_richard_doty_that_not_many/) Uri Geller shares ‘proof' Aliens exist, fans quickly point out it's photo from X-Files - Gaming Bible (https://www.gamingbible.com/news/uri-geller-shares-proof-aliens-exist-fans-debunk-905157-20230815) Geller's Twitter response to X-Files fans' claims, Aug 16, 2023 (https://twitter.com/theurigeller/status/1691784051005252051) Whitley Strieber on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WhitleyStrieberBooks/) Vayse episodes in August On hiatus (allegedly). September 2023 Maussan unveils ‘alien mummies' in Mexico "Alien corpses" unveiled in Mexico linked to 5-year-old "hoax" - Indy100 (https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/alien-corpses-mexico-conspiracy-2665384991) LIVE / Public Assembly for the Regulation of Unidentified Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (Spanish with English subtitles) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu7Y0e_9HWU) Palpa, Peru - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palpa%2C_Peru) Nazca - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca) Jaime Maussan - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Maussan) National Autonomous University of Mexico - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Autonomous_University_of_Mexico) Papier-mâché - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papier-m%C3%A2ch%C3%A9) Fortean Times - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortean_Times) NASA releases 33-page UAP report after year-long study NASA says more science and less stigma are needed to understand UFOs - AP News (https://apnews.com/article/nasa-ufos-inidentified-flying-objects-8b477a5ed6a42f99bb13a4518368ce9a) Mark McInerney - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_McInerney) Simons Foundation - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simons_Foundation) Hacker McKinnon criticises NASA's stance on aliens Scot who hacked top US agencies looking for evidence of UFOs slams NASA's claim that they don't exist - The Scottish Sun (https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/11274624/scot-hacked-us-agencies-evidence-ufos-slams-nasa/) Gary McKinnon - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon) AI could detect alien life Scientists created AI that could detect alien life — and they're not entirely sure how it works - Live Science (https://www.livescience.com/space/extraterrestrial-life/scientists-created-ai-that-could-detect-alien-life-and-theyre-not-entirely-sure-how-it-works) Did life exist on Mars? Other planets? With AI's help, we may know soon - Eureka Alert (https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1002043) Mystery of ‘Juanita' trapped in a well Fire crew attempts to rescue vanishing "ghost" woman from bottom of well - Unexplained Mysteries (https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/370653/fire-crew-attempts-to-rescue-vanishing-ghost-woman-from-bottom-of-well) Ghost in Saltillo? They hear a woman asking for help in a well, they go down to rescue her and find no-one - Zocalo (https://www-zocalo-com-mx.translate.goog/fantasma-en-saltillo-escuchan-a-mujer-pidiendo-ayuda-en-pozo-bajan-a-rescatarla-y-no-encuentran-a-nadie/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en) Vayse episodes in September VYSTS2 - Vayse Season 2 Trailer (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vysts2) VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0026) VYS0027 | Batchelor of Dark Arts - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 2 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0027) October 2023 Simulated universe hypothesis proven? Could a new law of physics support the idea we're living in a computer simulation? - Phys.org (https://phys.org/news/2023-10-law-physics-idea-simulation.html) The second law of infodynamics and its implications for the simulated universe hypothesis - AIP Publishing (https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/13/10/105308/2915332/The-second-law-of-infodynamics-and-its) University of Central Lancashire - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Central_Lancashire) Second law of thermodynamics - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics) Technological singularity - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity) The Importance of Symmetry: Does symmetry lie at the route of all modern theories? - Naked Scientists (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/science-features/importance-symmetry) Fundamentals of Game Design: Game Worlds - Peachpit (https://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1398008) Piaget's theory of cognitive development - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget's_theory_of_cognitive_development) Melody Burning by Whitley Strieber (published 2011) - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10792677-melody-burning) Results of British paranormal survey revealed One in Twenty Brits Believe their Office is Haunted - Spooky Mrs Gree (https://spookymrsgreen.com/2023/10/30/one-in-twenty-brits-believe-their-office-is-haunted/)n Paramount+ - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%2B) Robo-dogs now capable of speech Boston Dynamics teaches robo-dog to recognise speech, respond using ChatGPT - The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/boston_dynamics_chatgpt_robot_dog/) Making Chat (ro)Bots - Boston Dynamics, YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djzOBZUFzTw) ChatGPT - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT) Vayse episodes in October VYS0028 | Psychic Jizz - Vayse to Face with Stephanie Quick (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0028) VYS0029 | If There's Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood - Vayse to Face to Face with Field Lines Cartographer and Bob Freeman: Halloween 2023 (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0029) November 2023 Virgin Mary statue weeps in Mexico church ‘Miracle' Virgin Mary statue is ‘weeping' at Mexico church -The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/virgin-mary-statue-crying-mexico-b2447833.html) Mexico: Weeping Virgin: Pilgrims and Skeptics Flock to See Virgin Mary Statue's Mysterious Tears - HIYP, YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZYNnexQGn4) Colima (city) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colima_(city)) Karl Pilkington - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pilkington) Lucid dreams on demand Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams On Demand - Slashdot (https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/11/08/008219/scientists-are-researching-a-device-that-can-induce-lucid-dreams-on-demand) It Uses A.I. It Goes on Your Head. Can It Induce Lucid Dreams? - Slate.com (https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/prophetic-lucid-dreams-startup-artificial-intelligence.html) Lucid dream - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream) Head of Pentagon UFO office resigns Head of Pentagon's UFO office is stepping down after just 18 months - Unexplained Mysteries (https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/372047/head-of-pentagons-ufo-office-is-stepping-down-after-just-18-months) Sean M. Kirkpatrick - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_M._Kirkpatrick) Return of the ‘alien mummies' Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies - Yahoo News (https://news.yahoo.com/mexican-congress-holds-second-ufo-033422525.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=seanjkernan%2Fmagazine%2FWorld+and+Breaking+News) Patrolman confirms ‘red square' UFO sighting Air Force officer goes public with terrifying UFO encounter – ‘It's coming right for us' - Metro (https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/10/us-air-force-officer-goes-public-terrifying-ufo-encounter-19803474/) David Grusch is interviewed by Joe Rogan Ex-US Intelligence Officer Claims US Is Hiding 'Variety' Of Alien Bodies From The World - Mashable India (https://in.mashable.com/science/64518/ex-us-intelligence-officer-claims-us-is-hiding-variety-of-alien-bodies-from-the-world) Vayse episodes in November VYS0030 | To Believe or Not to Believe - Vayse to Face with Emily Louise (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0030) VYS0031 | The Truman Show? - Vayse to Face with Willow Truman (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0031) December 2023 Tesla unveils egg-handling humanoid robot Tesla unveils its latest humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2, in demo video - Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/teslas-latest-humanoid-robot-optimus-gen-2-can-handle-eggs-without-cracking-them/) Scientists create AI death predictor New AI can predict people's time of death with high degree of accuracy, study finds - The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/deathbot-ai-predict-life-death-b2466988.html) ChatGPT - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT) Emmett Brown - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown) Desmond Hume - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Hume) X-Files reboot confirmed Disney's New X-Files Series Confirmed to Be in Development, Ryan Coogler Will Produce - MSN (https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/disney-s-new-x-files-series-confirmed-to-be-in-development-ryan-coogler-will-produce/ar-AA1lHoLY) The X-Files - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files) Film milestone anniversaries in 2023 Jurassic Park (film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(film)) Jurassic Park (1993) Official Trailer #1 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWBKEmWWL38) Beetlejuice - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice) Beetlejuice (1988) Trailer #1 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ickbVzajrk0) Die Hard - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard) Die Hard (1988) Trailer #1 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaJuwKCmJbY) Halloween (1978 film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(1978_film)) Halloween (1978) Trailer #1 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVgtguYmNBg) The Exorcist - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist) The Exorcist | 4K Ultra HD Official Trailer; Warner Bros., YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU2eYAO31Cc) 2001: A Space Odyssey - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%3A_A_Space_Odyssey) 2001: A Space Odyssey | 4K Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR2r-A9H3Kg) TV and film milestone anniversaries in 2024 The Sopranos - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sopranos) The Sopranos - Trailer (1999) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMx4iFcozK0) True Detective (season 1) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Detective_(season_1)) True Detective - Season 1: Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVQUcaO4AvE) Ghostbusters - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters) Ghostbusters (1984) Trailer #1 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hDkhw5Wkas) Shaun of the Dead - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_of_the_Dead) Shaun of the Dead Official Trailer #1 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIfcaZ4pC-4) The Matrix - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix) The Matrix (1999) Official Trailer #1 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQi3bBA1y8) Fight Club - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club) Fight Club (1999) Trailer #1 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtRKdVHc-cE) American Beauty (1999 film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Beauty_(1999_film)) American Beauty (1999) Trailer #1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly7rq5EsTC8) The Crow (1994 film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_(1994_film)) The Crow (1994) Official Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5uPZ7ocsqA) This Is Spinal Tap - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Spinal_Tap) This is Spinal Tap (1984) Trailer #1 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsFm6Yk_HkE) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Temple_of_Doom) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Official Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGsWgHNxK9c) Gremlins - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlins) Gremlins (1984) Official Trailer #1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBEVwaJEgaA) The Terminator - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator) The Terminator (1984) Official Trailer - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64P4l2Wmeg) Vayse episodes in December VYS0032 | O Buddha, Where Art Thou? - Vayse to Face with Roger Jayamanne (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0032) VYS0033 | Battle-Owl vs Sci-fi Centipede - Vayse to Face with Loren Fetterman (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0033) Vayse online Vayse website (https://www.vayse.co.uk/) Vayse on X/Twitter (https://twitter.com/vayseesyav) Vayse on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vayseesyav/) Music From Vayse: Volume 1 by Polypores - Bandcamp (https://vayse.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-vayse-volume-1) Vayse on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/vayse) Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com Buckley's Closing Question “Modern Men Like Brevity Above All Things” - Facsimile Finder (https://www.facsimilefinder.com/articles/ramon-llull-breviculum/)

In April of this year, the Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable brought nearly two dozen museum directors from around the world together in Silicon Valley to discuss the evolving role of technology in museums. As dialogs between museum directors and technology leaders in Silicon Valley evolved, it became apparent that planning for the use of artificial intelligence had become a critical need.On today's episode, I'm honored to be joined by four museum executives who are an active part of these conversations about the future of museums:Thomas P CampbellDirector and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Franciscohttps://www.famsf.org/Seb ChanDirector & CEO at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, Australiahttps://www.acmi.net.au/Amanda de la GarzaDirector General of Visual Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City and head of its University Museum of Contemporary Arthttps://muac.unam.mx/acerca-de-nosotros?lang=enSuhanya Raffel Executive Director, M+ Museum in Hong Konghttps://www.mplus.org.hk/en/

Animals strongly rely on their microbiome, which mainly consists of bacteria, for digestion. Therefore, it plays a significant role in the regulation of their physiology and in the behavior of their gastrointestinal tract – in other words, in their overall health. That makes it essential for us to take good care of gut microbiota if we are to maintain the well-being of our animals. In this episode, Dr. Tellez-Isaias discusses the importance of the gastrointestinal tract, going into the symbiotic relationship between animals and the bacteria that reside within them.Meet the guest: Dr. Guillermo Tellez-IsaiasExperienceCurrent: Research Professor at the University of ArkansasPast: Full Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico; Head of the Avian Medicine Department of the College of Veterinary Medicine.BackgroundPh.D. (Texas A&M University)M.Sc., Veterinary Sciences (the National Autonomous University of Mexico)D.V.M. (the National Autonomous University of Mexico)Connect with the guest!Visit us at poultrypodcastshow.com/nutritionblackbelt

Visual artist, filmmaker social researcher. Carol Montealegre studied Anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes with an emphasis on Art. In her degree practice she inserted tools from Augusto Boal's “Theater of the Oppressed” in two rural schools of the Colombian Caribbean where she worked with children ranging in age from 6 to 15 years old for a period of year. She received a Master's degree in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. While there, she wrote her thesis “The Permanency of the Ephemeral” an investigation into the experience of time / space from a philosophical and aesthetic approach, embodied in the human body as a support for the experience in performance art. Recently her research and practice intersect cinema and performance art with human rights advocacy. She works in the creation of experiences that allow the spectator and the performer to immerse themselves in other possible realities, for the sake of decolonization of the body, mind and soul. She is currently working on the project Howls in the Mountains with a women's union in Colombia on alternative healing practices for post war trauma, creating video installations in Super 8 mm film and mixed media. The Center for Human Rights & the Arts (CHRA) at Bard College is where she just produced her thesis exhibition and completed her Master's degree as part of the inaugural cohort at Bard.

Dr. Anja Loizaga-Velder, Co-Founder of Nierika, joins Paul F. Austin to explore the therapeutic nature of Ayahuasca & other plant medicines. Find episode links, summary, and transcript here. This intimate in-person interview was recorded at Dr. Anja's plant medicine retreat center in Mexico, just after Paul concluded his own 6-day Ayahuasca experience. Topics covered include: mental health from an indigenous perspective, Dr. Anja's journey bridging Western medicine with traditional healing practices, and the current environmental and political struggles of indigenous healers in Mexico. Dr. Anja Loizaga-Velder received her master's degree in psychology (Dipl.-Psych.) from Koblenz-Landau University, Germany, and her doctorate in medical psychology (Dr.sc.hum.) from Heidelberg University, Germany. She is a psychotherapist specializing in humanistic and transpersonal psychology, the study of consciousness, music therapy, and ethnopsychotherapy. Anja wrote both her master's thesis and her doctoral thesis on the use of Ayahuasca for the treatment of addictions. She has published several articles in international academic journals and contributed book chapters on the topics of traditional medicine and mental health. She has been invited to exhibit her work in multiple international conferences. She is the Co-Founder of Nierika A.C. and director of psychotherapy and research at the Institute of Intercultural Medicine Nierika A.C. In addition, she is a professor and researcher in the postgraduate course in Medical and Health Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Highlights: The story of Nierika. The indigenous paradigm of healing and mental health. Dr. Anja's work with and research into therapeutic effects of plant medicine. The political and environmental struggles of the Yaqui tribe and other indigenous healers in Mexico. Dr. Anja's advice to professionals seeking psychedelic therapy training. Guiding principles for ethically working with plant medicine. The therapeutic effects of Ayahuasca. Key Links: Nierika Episode 172: Paul Stamets & Pamela Kryskow, M.D. Third Wave's Ultimate Guide to Ayahuasca. Episode Sponsors: Numinus Third Wave's Mushroom Grow Kit  

Our guest this week is Natalia Pardo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the Universidad de los Andes. Natalia is a geologist at the National University of Colombia (Bogotá), with a Master's of Science degree with an emphasis in volcanology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a doctorate in physical volcanology from Massey University, New Zealand. Pardo's research focuses on the study of volcano geology, the physicochemical processes that trigger explosive volcanic eruptions. Her aim is to study, investigate and bridge the gap between academia and the local communities to be able to explain the reality of volcanic activity in their regions. Tune in for a fascinating conversation on the topic, the history of volcanic eruptions in Colombia, the story of the Dona Juana Volcano and more. The Colombia News Brief is reported by journalist Emily Hart. Please consider supporting the Colombia Calling podcast: www.patreon.com/colombiacalling

Each body is a system within a system—an ecology within the larger context of social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors. This is one of the lessons of epigenetics, whereby structural inequalities are literally encoded in our genes. But our ecological embeddedness extends beyond DNA, for each body also teems with trillions of bacteria, yeast, and fungi, all of them imprints of our individual milieus. Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine (U Texas Press, 2023) asks what it would mean to take seriously our microbial being, given that our internal ecologies are shaped by inequalities embedded in our physical and social environments. Further, Rosalynn Vega argues that health practices focused on patients' unique biology inadvertently reiterate systemic inequities. In particular, functional medicine—which attempts to heal chronic disease by leveraging epigenetic science and treating individual microbiomes—reduces illness to problems of “lifestyle,” principally diet, while neglecting the inability of poor people to access nutrition. Functional medicine thus undermines its own critique of the economics of health care. Drawing on novel digital ethnographies and reflecting on her own experience of chronic illness, Vega challenges us to rethink not only the determinants of well-being but also what it is to be human. Joan Francisco Matamoros Sanin is an anthropologist dedicated to Medical Anthropology and Anthropology of Masculinities as well as public education and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. He has a MsC and a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Mexico's National Autonomous University. Matamoros has ample ethnographic experience in urban and rural areas in Mexico and Ecuador. You can find him on his Spotify and YouTube Platform (AnthropoMX) and in New Books Network. Currently he is a tutor in the Center for Regional Cooperation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as a postdoctoral fellow in CIESAS-Unidad Pacífico Sur (acronym in spanish for the South Pacific Center of Research in Advance Studies in Social Anthropology). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this behind-the-scenes interview we talk with Dr. Maria T Rivera-Garcia about her research investigating the effects of CBD-rich whole plant extract vapor on pain and opioid reward seeking behavior in female rats in a study titled, "High-CBD Cannabis Vapor Attenuates Opioid Reward and Partially Modulates Nociception in Female Rats". While on the surface this may seem like a simple study about how CBD influences opioid use - there is actually a lot more going on here. First of all this study utilized female rodents, which is very uncommon. The vast majority of preclinical rodent research uses male rodents almost exclusively due to reasons we unpack during the episode. This has led to a gross under-representation of sex differences in biomedical research. Second, Maria and colleagues decided to utilize the vapor of whole plant CBD-rich Cannabis extract rather than using CBD isolate that is often diluted and injected, ultimately leading to results that do not accurately reflect real-world situations. Together, these two decisions point to a common theme that is woven into this research study - scientists need to focus on doing research that better represents the real world. The results from this study are fascinating, so get your notebook ready and let's dive in! Link to the study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772392522000451 About Maria: Maria Teresa Rivera-Garcia has a major in psychology and a minor in neuroscience from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she started defining her academic interests towards the study of neurobiological mechanisms of addiction. After undergrad, Maria did a Master and a PhD in Neuropharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, her research focused on the neurochemical effects of solvent inhalation and its relation with the development of psychosis. Maria moved to the US in 2016 to pursue her postdoctoral training in the Oregon and Health and Science University, studying sex and age differences in dopaminergic function and how this is related to psychiatric illnesses, including addiction. In 2020, Maria joined Legacy Research Institute to complete her second postdoctoral stay under the guidance of Dr. Adie R. Wilson-Poe, where she studied the pharmacological interaction between opioids and cannabinoids in pain-oriented models. Recently, Maria got accredited as Qualified Mental Health Provider and became a member of the Cascadia Health clinicians team, currently providing services within the Child and Family Program. #CannabisEducation #CBD #CBDOil #WholePlantExtract #WholePlant #FullSpectrum #BroadSpectrum #Hemp #HempExtract #MedicalCannabis #Addiction #MentalHealth #Opioids #CuriousAboutCannabis

Each body is a system within a system—an ecology within the larger context of social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors. This is one of the lessons of epigenetics, whereby structural inequalities are literally encoded in our genes. But our ecological embeddedness extends beyond DNA, for each body also teems with trillions of bacteria, yeast, and fungi, all of them imprints of our individual milieus. Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine (U Texas Press, 2023) asks what it would mean to take seriously our microbial being, given that our internal ecologies are shaped by inequalities embedded in our physical and social environments. Further, Rosalynn Vega argues that health practices focused on patients' unique biology inadvertently reiterate systemic inequities. In particular, functional medicine—which attempts to heal chronic disease by leveraging epigenetic science and treating individual microbiomes—reduces illness to problems of “lifestyle,” principally diet, while neglecting the inability of poor people to access nutrition. Functional medicine thus undermines its own critique of the economics of health care. Drawing on novel digital ethnographies and reflecting on her own experience of chronic illness, Vega challenges us to rethink not only the determinants of well-being but also what it is to be human. Joan Francisco Matamoros Sanin is an anthropologist dedicated to Medical Anthropology and Anthropology of Masculinities as well as public education and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. He has a MsC and a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Mexico's National Autonomous University. Matamoros has ample ethnographic experience in urban and rural areas in Mexico and Ecuador. You can find him on his Spotify and YouTube Platform (AnthropoMX) and in New Books Network. Currently he is a tutor in the Center for Regional Cooperation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as a postdoctoral fellow in CIESAS-Unidad Pacífico Sur (acronym in spanish for the South Pacific Center of Research in Advance Studies in Social Anthropology). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

Each body is a system within a system—an ecology within the larger context of social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors. This is one of the lessons of epigenetics, whereby structural inequalities are literally encoded in our genes. But our ecological embeddedness extends beyond DNA, for each body also teems with trillions of bacteria, yeast, and fungi, all of them imprints of our individual milieus. Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine (U Texas Press, 2023) asks what it would mean to take seriously our microbial being, given that our internal ecologies are shaped by inequalities embedded in our physical and social environments. Further, Rosalynn Vega argues that health practices focused on patients' unique biology inadvertently reiterate systemic inequities. In particular, functional medicine—which attempts to heal chronic disease by leveraging epigenetic science and treating individual microbiomes—reduces illness to problems of “lifestyle,” principally diet, while neglecting the inability of poor people to access nutrition. Functional medicine thus undermines its own critique of the economics of health care. Drawing on novel digital ethnographies and reflecting on her own experience of chronic illness, Vega challenges us to rethink not only the determinants of well-being but also what it is to be human. Joan Francisco Matamoros Sanin is an anthropologist dedicated to Medical Anthropology and Anthropology of Masculinities as well as public education and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. He has a MsC and a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Mexico's National Autonomous University. Matamoros has ample ethnographic experience in urban and rural areas in Mexico and Ecuador. You can find him on his Spotify and YouTube Platform (AnthropoMX) and in New Books Network. Currently he is a tutor in the Center for Regional Cooperation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as a postdoctoral fellow in CIESAS-Unidad Pacífico Sur (acronym in spanish for the South Pacific Center of Research in Advance Studies in Social Anthropology). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Each body is a system within a system—an ecology within the larger context of social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors. This is one of the lessons of epigenetics, whereby structural inequalities are literally encoded in our genes. But our ecological embeddedness extends beyond DNA, for each body also teems with trillions of bacteria, yeast, and fungi, all of them imprints of our individual milieus. Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine (U Texas Press, 2023) asks what it would mean to take seriously our microbial being, given that our internal ecologies are shaped by inequalities embedded in our physical and social environments. Further, Rosalynn Vega argues that health practices focused on patients' unique biology inadvertently reiterate systemic inequities. In particular, functional medicine—which attempts to heal chronic disease by leveraging epigenetic science and treating individual microbiomes—reduces illness to problems of “lifestyle,” principally diet, while neglecting the inability of poor people to access nutrition. Functional medicine thus undermines its own critique of the economics of health care. Drawing on novel digital ethnographies and reflecting on her own experience of chronic illness, Vega challenges us to rethink not only the determinants of well-being but also what it is to be human. Joan Francisco Matamoros Sanin is an anthropologist dedicated to Medical Anthropology and Anthropology of Masculinities as well as public education and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. He has a MsC and a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Mexico's National Autonomous University. Matamoros has ample ethnographic experience in urban and rural areas in Mexico and Ecuador. You can find him on his Spotify and YouTube Platform (AnthropoMX) and in New Books Network. Currently he is a tutor in the Center for Regional Cooperation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as a postdoctoral fellow in CIESAS-Unidad Pacífico Sur (acronym in spanish for the South Pacific Center of Research in Advance Studies in Social Anthropology). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Each body is a system within a system—an ecology within the larger context of social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental factors. This is one of the lessons of epigenetics, whereby structural inequalities are literally encoded in our genes. But our ecological embeddedness extends beyond DNA, for each body also teems with trillions of bacteria, yeast, and fungi, all of them imprints of our individual milieus. Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine (U Texas Press, 2023) asks what it would mean to take seriously our microbial being, given that our internal ecologies are shaped by inequalities embedded in our physical and social environments. Further, Rosalynn Vega argues that health practices focused on patients' unique biology inadvertently reiterate systemic inequities. In particular, functional medicine—which attempts to heal chronic disease by leveraging epigenetic science and treating individual microbiomes—reduces illness to problems of “lifestyle,” principally diet, while neglecting the inability of poor people to access nutrition. Functional medicine thus undermines its own critique of the economics of health care. Drawing on novel digital ethnographies and reflecting on her own experience of chronic illness, Vega challenges us to rethink not only the determinants of well-being but also what it is to be human. Joan Francisco Matamoros Sanin is an anthropologist dedicated to Medical Anthropology and Anthropology of Masculinities as well as public education and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. He has a MsC and a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Mexico's National Autonomous University. Matamoros has ample ethnographic experience in urban and rural areas in Mexico and Ecuador. You can find him on his Spotify and YouTube Platform (AnthropoMX) and in New Books Network. Currently he is a tutor in the Center for Regional Cooperation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as a postdoctoral fellow in CIESAS-Unidad Pacífico Sur (acronym in spanish for the South Pacific Center of Research in Advance Studies in Social Anthropology). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

Global Warming is the biggest reckoning the human race has yet to encounter.As the United States is still caught in the throes of denial of climate change and “doom & gloom” reigns, there are groups that are trying to solve this problem. One of those groups is the Club of Rome. Building on their groundbreaking report “The Limits to Growth”, released in 1972, the Club has convened a new group to help humanity grow out of our fossil fuel addiction. Their new report “Earth4All” started as a vibrant collective of leading economic thinkers, scientists, and advocates, convened by The Club of Rome, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Norwegian Business School.With more and more people and organisations joining, Earth4All has become a platform to connect and amplify the chorus of voices that want to upgrade our economies. We are not starting from scratch. The momentum is growing. Communities and policy makers across the world are already changing the way we think about economics. Earth4All builds on the legacies of The Limits to Growth and the Planetary Boundaries frameworks. Science is at the heart of their work. They rethink capitalism and move beyond GDP for a safe, secure and prosperous future in the Anthropocene.To help us work our way through Earth4All, we are joined by the Club of Rome's Till Kellerhoff. Till is the Program Director of the Club of Rome and Coordinator & National Engagement Lead of the Earth4All initiative as well as contributing author of Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity. Before joining The Club of Rome, he studied Politics, Economics and International Relations at the University of Erfurt (Germany), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico) and the London School of Economics (UK). He is mostly working on themes around "Rethinking Economics" and concepts around societal wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries. You can follow Till on his Twitter @TKellerhoff and the Club of Rome on their twitter @ClubOfRome. About the Club of Rome: Most influential organizations begin with the meeting of a few like minds. In 1965, Aurelio Peccei, an Italian industrialist, made a speech that proved inspirational to Alexander King, the Scottish Head of Science at the OECD. The two found that they shared a profound concern for the long-term future of humanity and the planet, what they termed the modern ‘predicament of mankind'.Three years later, King and Peccei convened a meeting of European scientists in Rome. Although this first attempt failed to achieve unity, a core group of like-minded thinkers emerged. Their goal: to advance three core ideas that still define the Club of Rome today: a global and a long-term perspective, and the concept of “problematique”, a cluster of intertwined global problems, be they economic, environmental, political or social.At the group's first major gathering in 1970, Jay Forrester, a systems professor at MIT, offered to use computer models he had developed to study the complex problems which concerned the group more rigorously. An international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a study of the implications of unbridled exponential growth. They examined the five basic factors that determine and, in their interactions, ultimately limit growth on this planet – population, agricultural production, non-renewable resource depletion, industrial output and pollution.In 1972, the Club's first major Report, The Limits to Growth was published. It sold millions of copies worldwide, creating media controversy and also impetus for the global sustainability movement. This call for objective, scientific assessment of the impact of humanity's behavior and use of resources, still defines the Club of Rome today. While Limits had many messages, it fundamentally confronted the unchallenged paradigm of continuous material growth and the pursuit of endless economic expansion. Fifty years later, there is no doubt that the ecological footprint of humanity substantially exceeds its natural limits every year. The concerns of the Club of Rome have not lost their relevance. Today, the Club continues to be at the forefront of challenging and controversial global issues. Propelled by a new mission and organisational structure, which today includes 35 National Associations, the Club of Rome has now published over 45 Reports. They continue to challenge established paradigms and advocate for policies that can practically address the many emergencies facing society and the planet today. The Club remains true to its historical intent, while it attempts to lay the foundations for long-term systemic shifts in global social, environmental and economic systems. In short, it is an established, respected, international think-tank positioned to face the core challenges of the 21st Century.The organization includes around 100 active full members with a full-time secretariat in Winterthur, Switzerland with a satellite office in Brussels, Belgium.Like and subscribe to us on Youtube for more fun and exclusive content!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuM080VqVCe0gAns9V9WK9wSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/00gCjGhq8qrAEkraZnMwGR?go=1&sp_cid=ce203d55369588581151ec13011b84ac&utm_source=embed_player_pGoogle Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/u/1/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmlrc21pbmQuY29tL2xpc3Rlbj9mb3JtYXQ9cnNz?Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/riks-mind-podcast/id1460215365Show Notes:The Club of Rome | Official Website Earth4All | Official WebsiteThe Club of Rome | TwitterThe Club of Rome | YoutubeTill Kellerhoff | TwitterTill Kellerhoff's Articles | The Club of RomeThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Official WebsiteThe Limits to Growth | The Club of RomeWhat the controversial 1972 ‘Limits to Growth' report got right: Our choices today shape future conditions for life on Earth by Matthew E. Kahn | The ConversationThe human race at 8 billion | AxiosDabi, Khalfan, Lawson Et al. (2022) Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world's richest people, Oxfam International DOI 10.21201/2022.9684 | Oxfam InternationalHow the rich are driving climate change | BBCMark Z. Jacobson, Anna-Katharina von Krauland, Stephen J. Coughlin Et. al (2022) Low-cost solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity for 145 countries, Energy & Environmental Science | Royal Society of ChemistryCrabs Could Be the Unlikely Hero the Battery Industry Needs | Popular MechanicsThe Lithium Race Takes Shape in the Salton Sea | Dot.LAThe Entrepreneurial State: Debunking public vs. private sector myths by Mariana MazzucatoFukuyama, F. (1989). The End of History? The National Interest, 16, 3–18 | JSTORWhy Biden's Block on Chips to China Is a Big Deal by Michael Shuman | The AtlanticOECD (2018), "The Belt and Road Initiative in the global trade, investment and finance landscape", in OECD Business and Finance Outlook 2018, OECD Publishing, Paris | OECDThe Kardashev Scale - Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization | Futurism

In this episode, we are joined by friends in Oaxaca, Maria Itaka and Sergio "Yeyo" Beltran. Born and raised in Oaxaca, María has a major in English Language and Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with a specialization in translation. After many years of working for tourism-based projects, she now works independently, providing specialized content production services that create authentic, soulful material that aims to benefit the places where the work is being done. Sergio Beltrán Arruti -better known as Yeyo- was born and raised in Mexico City. He moved to Oaxaca in 1997 to support and learn from indigenous communities. Sergio is the co-founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca (Unitierra) and of Herramientas Para Buen Vivir, AC. In 2010, he was part of the pioneering team of the Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversations in Spanish, and has organized multiple intercultural meetings around the world using these tools for dialogue. Together, we discuss about the invasion of post-pandemic tourists/expatriates in Mexico, the consequences of gentrification in Oaxaca, the drought here, the idea of travelers versus tourists, the eco-washing of the tourism industry, and the McDonaldization of tourism. We then continued with themes of "cultivating versus consuming culture," worker solidarity in the tourism industry, the notion that charity is not solidarity, and bringing a foundation of philosophy to the tourism industry. Season 2 is dedicated to our late friend and mentor Gustavo Esteva, grandfather, sage, and co-founder of Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Mexico. These episodes have been planned and organized in collaboration with our colleagues from Unitierra Oaxaca. They are dispatches of the resistance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maria Itaka: Instagram Sergio Beltran: Instagram El Proyecto de Sergio: Herramientas Para Buen Vivir AC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support the podcast and the movement through our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theendoftourism Discover more episodes and join the conversation: http://www.theendoftourism.com Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter @theendoftourism‍

In Moldova, the number of dual citizens has risen exponentially in the last decades. Before annexation, many saw Russia as granting citizenship to-or passportizing-large numbers in Crimea. Both are regions with kin majorities: local majorities claimed as co-ethnic by external states offering citizenship, among other benefits. As functioning citizens of the states in which they reside, kin majorities do not need to acquire citizenship from an external state. Yet many do so in high numbers. Eleanor Knott's book Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022) explores why these communities engage with dual citizenship and how this intersects, or not, with identity. Analyzing data collected from ordinary people in Crimea and Moldova in 2012 and 2013, just before Russia's annexation of Crimea, Eleanor Knott provides a crucial window into Russian identification in a time of calm. Perhaps surprisingly, the discourse and practice of Russian citizenship was largely absent in Crimea before annexation. Comparing the situation in Crimea with the strong presence of Romanian citizenship in Moldova, Knott explores two rarely researched cases from the ground up, shedding light on why Romanian citizenship was more prevalent and popular in Moldova than Russian citizenship in Crimea, and to what extent identity helps explain the difference. Kin Majorities offers a fresh and nuanced perspective on how citizenship interacts with cross-border and local identities, with crucial implications for the politics of geography, nation, and kin-states, as well as broader understandings of post-Soviet politics. Joan Francisco Matamoros Sanin is an anthropologist dedicated to Medical Anthropology as well as public education and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. He has a MsC and a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Mexico's National Autonomous University. Matamoros has ample ethnographic experience in urban and rural areas in Mexico and Ecuador. You can find him on his Spotify and YouTube Platform (AnthropoMX) and in New Books Network. Currently he is a tutor in the Center for Regional Cooperation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as a postdoctoral fellow in CIESAS-Unidad Pacífico Sur (acronym in spanish for the South Pacific Center of Research in Advance Studies in Social Anthropology). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

This weeks Ask Dr Jessica episode is all about coughs! Coughs are often so difficult for families; they can be so uncomfortable and persistent, and many families don't know how to best help their children.  In this episode, with pediatric pulmonologist, Dr Cesar Chavarria, we discuss what is a normal length of time for coughs to last, what medications can be offered, and also when to see a doctor.  We also talk about asthma (starting @18:55). We discuss common signs of asthma, how to know the difference between asthma and a regular cold virus cough, how to treat asthma and what demographic it typically affects. Dr. Chavarria is a pediatric pulmonologist with more than 30 years of experience in treating pediatric respiratory conditions. He attended undergraduate school at Madrid College and medical school at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, both in Mexico City. He completed his pediatric internship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, and his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric pulmonology and critical care at the Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.  Dr. Chavarria is board certified in Pediatrics and in Pediatric Critical Care.Cesar Chavarria, M.D., is a third-generation physician. Outside of his work, Dr  Chavarria likes to spend his time with his wife and daughter. His wife is a psychiatrist, and his daughter is completing her psychiatry residency. To schedule an appointment, call 818-342-0793. He can also be found on his website: https://www.brthez.com/Dr Jessica Hochman is a board certified pediatrician, mom to three children, and she is very passionate about the health and well being of children.  Most of her educational videos are targeted towards general pediatric topics and presented in an easy to understand manner. Do you have a future topic you'd like Dr Jessica Hochman to discuss?  Email your suggestion to: askdrjessicamd@gmail.com. Dr Jessica Hochman is also on social media:Follow her on Instagram: @AskDrJessicaFollow her on TikTok: @AskDrJessicaSubscribe to her YouTube channel! Ask Dr JessicaSubscribe to this podcast: Ask Dr JessicaSubscribe to her mailing list: www.askdrjessicamd.comThe information presented in Ask Dr Jessica is for general educational purposes only.  She does not diagnose medical conditions or formulate treatment plans for specific individuals.  If you have a concern about your child's health, be sure to call your child's health care provider.

Carlos Calderón-Macías discusses his 2022 Latin America Honorary Lecture, "Near-surface scattering in seismic data: from signal to noise and noise to signal." Carlos holistically explores the near-surface scattering problem in this conversation with host Andrew Geary. He highlights ways to understand the problem better and why using the noise as signal approach should be further developed. He also explores the differences in the scattered waves for land, ocean-bottom, and near-surface data. Carlos shares what inspired this lecture, the three groups perfect for this talk, and the questions he hopes attendees will ask themselves. Not only does this conversation highlight the near-surface scattering problem, but it showcases general approaches for solving any geophysical problem. Visit https://seg.org/podcast to read the full show notes and find the complete archive for Seismic Soundoff. RELATED LINKS * Listen to Carlos's course for free (https://www.knowledgette.com/p/near-surface-scattering-in-seismic-data-from-signal-to-noise-and-noise-to-signal) * Discover SEG on Demand (https://seg.org/Education/SEG-on-Demand#sort:path~type~order=Title~text~asc%7Cpaging:number=10%7Cpaging:currentPage=0) BIOGRAPHY Carlos Calderón-Macías joined ION Geophysical in 2006, advising seismic multicomponent, imaging, and model building. He is currently chief geophysicist in research and development. Carlos graduated with a Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997 and earned a bachelor's degree in geophysical engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1992. Upon graduating from UT Austin, Carlos joined Mobil Technology as a visiting scientist researching multiple elimination and imaging technology. He joined the Mexican Institute of Petroleum (2000) to research multicomponent seismic for hydrocarbon exploration. Within ION Geophysical, Carlos has helped develop imaging and model-building technology for 3D seismic marine exploration, advised imaging/model building projects in the GOM and offshore Brazil, and has taught education courses and workshops. Carlos is currently an associate editor for Geophysical Prospecting and has been an SEG member for the past 25 years. SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by Geophysical Insights. Change your tools, change your world. Machine learning technology is accelerating interpretation workflows and yielding new insights in seismic and well data. Check out the guided workflows on the Paradise® AI workbench, including Stratigraphic Analysis, automatic Fault Detection, Attribute Generation and Selection, and Seismic Facies Classification, to name a few. Paradise is available on-premises or in the cloud. Visit https://geoinsights.com/products to get better tools. CREDITS SEG produces Seismic Soundoff to benefit its members and the scientific community and to inform the public on the value of geophysics. Please leave a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to show your support for the show. It takes less than five seconds to leave a 5-star rating and is the number one action you can take to show your appreciation for this free resource. And follow the podcast while you are on the app to be notified when each new episode releases. Original music created by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary at 51 features, LLC. Thank you to the SEG podcast team: Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis.

Join Haymarket Books, and NACLA for a discussion of how to resist the conservative attacks on higher education From Brazil to Puerto Rico to the United States, conservative politicians have set their sights on schools as key ideological battlegrounds. And when vulnerable students and scholars are targeted for their identities and/or politics, universities often fail to protect them for fear of alienating donors or powerful political allies. What can we do to fight back and protect one another? As right-wing forces work to dismantle accessible education and limit academic freedom in countries across the Americas, join us for a virtual roundtable inspired by Lorgia García Peña's recent book, Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color. In conversation with García Peña, scholar-activists Luciana Brito and Geo Maher, with moderation by Marisol LeBrón, will discuss the recent wave of attacks on education across the Americas and envision how to build liberatory spaces of learning and transformation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Luciana Brito is a historian and professor at the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia-Brasil, specializing in the history of slavery and abolition in Brazil and the United States. She is member of the Executive committee of ASWAD (Association for the Worldwide Diaspora), is columnist of Nexo Jornal and has been publishing a lot of academic and non-academic articles about race, gender, class and inequality in the Americas. She is the author of the book Fears of Africa: Security, Legislation and African Population in 19th Century Bahia. Instagram: @lucianabritohistoria Marisol LeBrón is associate professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua/Contra Muerto Rico: Lecciones del Verano Boricua (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021) and Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019) and co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Haymarket Books, 2019). Geo Maher is a Philadelphia-based writer and organizer, and Visiting Associate Professor of Global Political Thought at Vassar College. He has taught previously at Drexel University, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas, and has held visiting positions at the College of William and Mary's Decolonizing Humanities Project, NYU's Hemispheric Institute, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He his co-editor of the Duke University Press series Radical Américas and author of five books: We Created Chávez (Duke, 2013), Building the Commune (Verso, 2016), Decolonizing Dialectics (Duke, 2017), A World Without Police (Verso, 2021), and Anticolonial Eruptions (University of California, 2022). Lorgia García Peña is the author of Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color and is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar. Dr. García Peña is the Mellon Associate Professor of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University and a Casey Foundation 2021 Freedom Scholar. She studies global Blackness, colonialism, migration and diaspora with a special focus on Black Latinidad. Dr. García Peña is the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia and of Archives of Justice (Milan-Boston). Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/gJ2EnOVFAxk Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks