Podcasts about nature science

Can artificial intelligence transform how we navigate the most challenging dialogues on campus? Join us for a thought-provoking episode featuring philosopher and educator Simon Cullen, as he unveils his pioneering work at the intersection of education, technology, and constructive disagreement.In conversation with John Tomasi, Simon explores how open inquiry is both advanced and imperiled by disagreement, and describes his academic journey from Australia to Princeton and Carnegie Mellon. Central to the discussion is ‘Sway' an AI-powered platform developed by Simon and his team to foster rigorous, evidence-based dialogue among students on controversial topics. Sway intelligently pairs students with opposing views and acts as a “guide on the side,” scaffolding reasoning, encouraging intellectual humility, and ensuring that exchanges remain constructive and charitable. Simon shares the empirical findings from thousands of Sway-mediated dialogues, where measurable increases in students' openness, comfort, and analytical reasoning have been observed—even on divisive subjects like gender, immigration, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. In This Episode:

Science editor Ian Sample joins co-host Madeleine Finlay to discuss some of the most intriguing science stories of the week. From a concerning rise in hospital diagnoses of constipation in children, to research suggesting that the environment is far more important for ageing and longevity than our genes, and how squeaks from genetically engineered mice are providing insight into how human language may have emerged. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

In this episode, reporter Miryam Naddaf joins us to talk about the big science events to look out for in 2025. We'll hear about: the latest Moon missions, 30 years of the United Nations' COP climate summits, the return of Donald Trump, and more.Nature: Science in 2025: the events to watch for in the coming year Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Colwell is an anthropologist, editor, and author of over a dozen books. He received his doctorate from Indiana University and was the Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for over a decade. He is currently the editor-in-chief of SAPIENS, a digital magazine that makes anthropology accessible to everyone. Chip's latest book is entitled So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything. Chip joins the podcast to explain how we came to live in a society where no matter how much money we spend, it's never enough and why the average human has accumulated so many personal possessions. What if true happiness isn't tied to the latest trends? What if fulfillment is found somewhere else? Find out in our story “Your Hero's Journey: The Key to Unlocking Meaning in Your Life.”  Join our growing community of 45,000+ listeners and be notified of new episodes of Templeton Ideas. Subscribe today. Follow us on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

After overcoming personal health challenges, a passionate entrepreneur set out to revolutionise wellness by combining nature's wisdom with modern science. Today, his brand is renowned for its holistic approach, offering products that reflect the best of both worlds. How has this journey from personal adversity evolved into a science-backed wellness powerhouse? And what innovations are leading the charge as they continue to expand?  Here's our conversation with Eugene Sim, COO, Singapore eCommerce Centre - home of award-winning wellness brands, Nano Singapore.    Presented by Audrey Siek This podcast is produced and edited by Anthea Ng (nganthea@sph.com.sg) She produces Mind Your Business, Biz-How-To and Breakfast Special segments on the Breakfast Show. Do contact her for topics: C-Suite, SME, Startups, Health-tech, Sustainability, Property, Intergenerational Family Business, Industry Outlook, Fintech and trending businesses in town.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October 22nd,  2024 - This Week Denver has a weekly newsletter with literally hundreds of events going on around town! TWD Creator James is here to drop some of his favorites for this week!   As always, we're sharing our favorite upcoming cultural events, art openings, concerts, and all of the things that make Denver the city we're proud to call home.   Follow WDG: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8u8GmvBi6th6LOOMCuwJKw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whats_good_denver/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@whatsgooddenver   Do you have a Denver event, cause, opening, or recommendation that you want to share with us? We want to hear from you! Tell us what's good at tom@kitcaster.com.     The Goods:   Danceportation @ Meow Wolf   Trick or Drink: Denver Halloween Bar Crawl   Nuggets Vs. OKC @ Ball Arena   Red Rocks Schedule   Mayor Johnston AMA in the Denver subreddit   Beers & Ballots @ Western Sky Bar & Taproom   Indigenous Film Festival: Connecting to Tradition @ Denver Museum of Nature & Science ​​ Undivide Us Screening @ Denver Museum of Nature & Science   Voices From the Denvoid: Seance for Old Denver @ Revolte Goods   Princess & Archery Day @ Barr Lake State Park   Nature Journaling for Adults @ Mueller State Park       Our Sponsor:   Kitcaster Podcast Agency     Music produced by Troy Higgins  

Wildfire is here to stay, but on whose terms will it burn? Join us for United by Fire, a new series where we investigate the two biggest wildfires in Colorado's history and explore hard truths about our landscapes and ourselves. Season four of the award-winning podcast Laws of Notion starts Oct. 9.    Learn more about the podcast at institute.dmns.org/united-by-fire and lawsofnotion.org. Sign up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list.  Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.  If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.   The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions to society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  

George Sparks believes that cultural institutions have the power to bring people together. Not just literally in a collective space but by making a display of the inherent understanding that we are all a part of nature. George is the CEO of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and has been with the museum for 20 years. Before that, he spent 24 years in the electronics measurement business at Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies. His career included marketing, sales, and general management of global businesses and software systems and services.George joined the podcast to discuss his work connecting humans and nature, his path to his current role, and the importance of building relationships and staying curious throughout your career. Denver Museum of Nature and Science WebsiteReferenced in the episode: Laws of Notion Podcast with Kristan Uhlenbrock

For this follow-up episode, Gavin is joined by Sierra and Rudy from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, as well as Lora Bird, owner of Nest Art Collective tattoo shop in Denver, Colorado. YouTube lecture that Lora, Sierra and Rudy gave about the tattooing: https://youtu.be/dGg73w5wwOM?feature=shared Denver Museum of Nature & Science socials: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DMNSorg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denvermuseumns/?hl=en Twitter: https://x.com/DenverMuseumNS Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@denvermns?lang=en Nest Art Collective tattoo shop: http://instagram.com/nest.art.co Special shout out to Lora's assistant Sydney, without whom Lora would never get anything done. Socials for the artists involved in the project: instagram.com/honestbird instagram.com/satchel.ink instagram.com/ragtime_russ instagram.com/isabump instagram.com/mikriles instagram.com/hailstormtattoos instagram.com/call.me_d.addie instagram.com/farriercreative Madagascar Ankizy Fund website: www.ankizy.org Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new Pokemon Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIgFW91jPXc ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Topic form⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Guest Form⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Leave us an audio message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube Channel⁠

In this special bonus episode, we talk with Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, founder and director of The Ella Roberta Foundation based in South London, UK. We first met Rosamund in episode 4, The Road to Change. She and her legal team made history when a coroner found a direct link between her nine-year-old daughter Ella Roberta's death from a fatal asthma attack due to the air quality near her home along one of London's busiest roads. Ella then became the first person in the world to have air pollution appear on a death certificate as a cause of death.  Eleven years after this tragic life-changing event, Rosamund reflects on her journey to becoming a global clean air advocate in honor of her daughter's legacy. From her calls for greater government accountability to raising awareness of air pollution as a critical health issue, we discuss where she has seen progress and where there is still work to be done.  This episode also features the song "Air" from the Hope 4 Justice EP. The EP was created and produced by the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in collaboration with leading artists and local young people. Learn more about this project here. Learn more about the podcast at clearingtheair.org.  Sign up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list.  Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.  If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.   The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions to society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.   Episode Credits:  Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock  Producing, marketing: Tricia Waddell  Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long  Sound design: Seth Samuel with tracks from Epidemic Sounds 

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Show Notes and Transcript Professor Dalgleish has spoken out about his concerns of the mRNA jab for years. And for the last 2 he has written about the rise of cancers he believes are linked to the jab.  We start by looking back at Professor Dalgleish's career and ask why he chose to speak up and what was the response from his colleagues?  He then delves into this rise of turbo cancers and why he had to sound the alarm despite the struggle to get full transparency from the authorities and "Move on, nothing to see here" is the reply to most requests for data.  His fellow cancer specialists agree with his concerns, but the authorities simply will not listen. Angus Dalgleish is an expert in immunology and Professor of Oncology at St George's Hospital Medical School, London. Article in The Conservative Woman: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/massive-cancer-deaths-study-vindicates-my-warnings-over-covid-boosters/ Japan Data: https://www.cureus.com/articles/196275-increased-age-adjusted-cancer-mortality-after-the-third-mrna-lipid-nanoparticle-vaccine-dose-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-japan#!/ The Death of Science:      https://amzn.eu/d/2w1wxk4 Interview recorded 15.4.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ TRANSCRIPT (Hearts Of Oak) I'm delighted to have Professor Angus Dalgleish with us today. Professor, thank you so much for your time. (Prof Angus Dalgleish) You're welcome. Great to have you. And of course, people will have read, I'm sure, many of your articles, more recently in The Conservative Woman, back before that, I think in certainly The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. And since 1991, I know you've been the Professor of Oncology at St. George's University, London. And during this time, you focused on the immunology of cancer and conducted numerous clinical trials involving a variety of vaccines and immune therapy. I know you're well known for your contributions on HIV AIDS research. And of course, you stood for UKIP, which is another part of your story back in 2015. There's so many areas, Professor, I want to talk to you, but maybe you have got a background in understanding vaccines. We'll get on to, I think, the first article you wrote, certainly I read, was back two years ago, actually, on the madness of vaccinating children against COVID, and they started discussing cancer and what you were seeing back in December 2022. I certainly saw it in the Conservative Woman but maybe I can ask you just for a little bit of your background and then we can get on to what you have seen with your patients and the data. Okay well with regards to my background I mean it's, I've been reminded of something I'd forgotten and that is that I'm probably one of the only people in the country who's been an NHS consultant in virology, immunology, general medicine, and oncology. So when I had my chair in oncology, I had a great background in immunology and virology, which is what led me to go into tumour immunology. And I continued working on HIV pathogenesis for several years and worked with colleagues in Norway with designing a very good HIV vaccine, which is the only one that works. But I was staggered that nobody was interested or would support it. And yet the big medical industrial complex, such as the NIH and Big Pharma, kept plowing ahead with vaccines that had the whole envelope in different technologies, and none of them worked. In fact, it was worse than working. They had to stop all these worldwide trials costing billions because the vaccine was worse than the placebo, now so that's a very good entrée as to where I came from with the COVID virus. When that became a pandemic and the sequence became available. I was called up by my colleagues in Norway saying, would I be happy to do the same process? I help identify the major immunological components and avoid all the unnecessary ones, which is the most important thing. And I said yes, obviously. And we started to plan a MAPA plan when they came back and said, this is not an actual virus, this has been released from the lab in Wuhan or escaped then as we put it and the reasons for this was absolutely plain, is that there were charged inserts around the receptor binding site not one or two but six as well as the fusion site, fusion domain and I looked at that you know, and I had a background because I've done so much work on the HIV receptor, even as a clinician I was you know, had a scientific understanding of interactions and what is required etc and it occurred to me that these inserts some of them had been previously published and, you know, by the Wuhan group, they'd said, aren't we clever? We put this insert in and we made this virus more infectious to human cells. This is very good. They went on with two or three. But here we had one with six inserts. Now, my molecular biology, virology friends all told me, oh, don't get excited. All these things happen at random. And here I then realized what a problem was with science, people are only in their boxes, they don't get out of the boxes. Changes in sequence only matter when they translate into the amino acids which translate into proteins and that's what does the interaction, once the amino acids were translated by these inserts they broke all the rules of the game, they were far too too positively charged, which meant that the virus had been altered so it would act like a fridge magnet. So it would zap onto human cells over and above its natural ACE receptor. And when I realized this, it was 100% I was convinced it could not have come from anywhere else because it had broken the rules of biology. And the rules of biology would have edited out those changes because, put it in a simple way, the charge was around pH 8. The charge of any normal virus is around 6 or less. So it was just a supernatural leap. And that's what convinced me. But the big problem was that having written papers in Nature Science, Lancet on HIV and its receptor and how it causes disease and the epidemiology and got them all in the leading papers. When I pointed this out with my colleagues, Nature, Science, all these papers, Lancet, they all turned us down and said, this data is not in the public interest. Seriously, I've got the copies. It is unbelievable. So I realized then that a discussion about the science was being banned. This led to me, and I'm flagrantly admit that, you know, this ended up in us writing a book called The Death of Science, which is actually available, and I've probably got it somewhere. But this was unbelievable that we suddenly realized everything was being censored. I was told by my own university we were not allowed to discuss or research the origin of the virus. Well, I mean, that was really quite draconian. But then where do so many universities get their funding from these days? They're far too reliant on China. So it clearly comes from that source, the way China stopped the WHA doing their work. Now, I'm just going to mention, this is relevant to what you've asked me to talk about, because when we had that spike protein, we realized it was very fully charged. We also looked at it for a homology with now an epitopes. And 80% of it was similar to the human epitopes, some of them unbelievably identical, platelet factor IV myelin. So we said, do not use this as a vaccine, because it will cause all sorts of terrible side effects. This is how you do it. We've learned from HIV, a vaccine is not how much you can put in it, but how little you can put in it. So you go for the Achilles heels of the structure. So if those structures no longer exist, the virus doesn't exist in any variant. So we actually had a blueprint. And we told everybody about this. We had access to the cabinet, the SAGE, Chief Medical Officer of Science. Who basically deemed it all interesting but not relevant. Can you believe that? But they had a point that there was 150 groups reviewed by a Nature paper, all of them so stupid, I use the word advisedly, that they all said, this is our vaccine. They all used the whole spike protein. Well, it was obvious that you must not use the whole spike protein, in the same way we'd spent 30 years saying don't use the whole HIV envelope. And they still haven't got the process. I mean, it is unbelievable stupidity group thing. And anyhow, so we knew there was going to be a big problem if they use the spike protein with autoimmunity, etc. However, that had nothing to do with my interest with cancer at all. What got my interest in cancer in this was when they brought out the booster program. Now, I've done lots of model work on vaccines, you know, basic research funded by charity, done for industry too. And a basic adage is, if a vaccine needs a booster, it doesn't work. So here we are being forced by the government and all the authorities to have a booster when it was all based on the grounds that people who monitor the effects of people who've been vaccinated, their antibody titer falls off. Well, of course it does. I mean, that's what you want. And that was the basis for doing boosters, to stop it falling off. Well, I knew enough then about the booster is that by the time they were talking about rolling out the booster, we were already in Omicron territory. They were boosting a virus that didn't exist on the grounds that there was crossover. And there was all these species, the booster will give you extra protection from crossover. Well, apart from the fact that we'd widely published and it had been downloaded over a quarter of a million times, our objection to using the spike protein and what you should use for a vaccine, with another group of colleagues, I wrote a review of a virus. Coxsackie viruses and the attempts to vaccinate against them and why they had all failed. And actually, the need for them is greater in animal work than it is in humans. But they all fail because the vaccines against coronavirus lead to antigenic sin or immunological imprinting. Once you are vaccinated against a component of that and you challenge with a different variant, it will only see the first component. And it will not see the variants. But it will make antibodies that will bind to them. And then that enhances infection and this explains why people have just woken up scratched their heads and say why does everybody who gets a booster get infected again with COVID in fact three and a half times more likely according to the big Cleveland study and more than twice as likely according to one published after the second vaccine in BMJ, so this was not a surprise. I couldn't believe why nobody heeded and listened to these warnings. And the people that made the decision. It must have made them in ignorance because they certainly didn't read any of this stuff. Otherwise, they'd have been much more cautious. Now, instead, they were being pushed by Big Pharma, who selected the data. It's now obvious that Pfizer, if they had revealed the data, the VAERS data, nobody in their right mind would ever have approved it. And you've had Clare Craig and Norman Fenton on board. So all I can just point out was I was unaware of this carry on at the time, but they brilliantly pointed out that they did it all on relative risk as opposed to absolute risk and the number needed to vaccinate to prevent. If that data had been presented properly, nobody in their right mind would have approved a vaccine. It's just meaningless to have to vaccinate 120 people to prevent one infection. And when the VAERS data came out, it was clear that if you had a serious adverse event, you had a 3% chance of dying. Whereas if you got COVID, you had less than 1% chance of dying. In fact, a lot, lot less than 1% at the very most. So there was no way anybody should have done it. So I would argue that the Pfizer, and I'm not alone in having said that they went into shenanigans and all sorts of smoke and mirror to hide the truth and get everything approved. But, you know, others, such as the state of Texas, are actually suing them for fraud. So, I mean, it's not exactly, it's an open secret. So get back to the booster and the cap.... Could I just ask you just one little sidestep, I remember reading your numerous articles, I think it's probably in the Daily Mail and I remember thinking Professor Angus is saying, speaking his concerns in a great way to stay within certain restrictions and yet get the message out. And I was reading, thinking, this is exactly what I am hearing as a lay person. And you're explaining from your medical professional background. And those articles in the mainstream media, the newspapers, I think were vital in helping people understand what was happening. And you wrote them in such an intelligent, smart way. Well, thank you very much. With regards to the Daily Mail and the articles, I was staggered by the letter. Sometimes they would print a page of letters in the printed edition, and they were all from people saying, thank you so much for helping us understand just what the hell has been going on. You know that was the great thing, the big problem I had with the Daily Mail as soon as I pointed out that there was a problem with the vaccine, I would get to the draft I'd submit it, it'd be accepted and then it wouldn't appear and it had been censored by the chief editor, as soon as it was a vaccine, we now know why, it's because the mainstream media were paid a fortune to push the narrative by the government. A fortune so big that none of them were prepared to challenge it. The Mail did a fantastic job, and I helped as much as I could on the grounds that the lockdowns were madness, and there's no scientific justification for it. It was absolute madness, even to think of a second one. And many others, Carl Heneghan, et cetera, came up, and I was saying that natural immunity, and I was one of the few clinicians to sign the Great Barrington Declaration because that's what I said we should have done straight from day one. In fact, now in retrospect, my gut feeling we didn't need a vaccine program has been proven to be absolutely true because had we done the vitamin D properly and had one or two other drugs out there, we would not, and I include there, without beating around the bush ivermectin, I think Peter Curry's book is absolutely damning how Fauci and others went out of their way to damp that down. And the only reason they did was because you cannot introduce a vaccine if you've got an effective therapy. I mean, I really do believe it was that bad that they were doing this. And so many people suffered. I think it was criminal. I make no bones about that. But the media wouldn't touch my concerns about the vaccine, which is why I ended up publishing them in the Daily Skeptic and the Conservative Women, who, I must say, they challenge anything that they find they cannot collaborate. Corroborate they they check they do their own referencing and everything so they are very very hot and quite a lot of stuff I've had toned down because of challenges to the refereeing for instance etc, but the stuff that they do put out there they're all very happy about it, now what I did and why you were talking is that when the booster came in, I've said it's a complete waste of time. Not only will it induce antibodies to a virus that doesn't exist, but they will lead to more infection. What I wasn't prepared for was that my patients who I was monitoring carefully, who'd been stable melanoma for years, I had half a dozen of them go down within six to eight weeks of the booster program being wheeled out. And they had relapsed. And some of these had been stable for over 15 years. The average was five to seven. And I knew then something was going on because melanoma patients, once they're induced to be stable with immunotherapy like they all had, because I was using immunotherapy 20, 25 years ago, long before it became popular, I knew there had to be a tremendous immune suppression event going on, life event. It's usually bereavement, severe depression, divorce, bankruptcy. Something that goes over three months to cause this. Yet I was seeing it clear. I reported it. I was told by my own people to shut up and stop frightening the patients. There is no evidence. Get the evidence. So I said, you know, I am a canary in a mine and a man with a red flag. It's up to everybody else to react to this. Now, I was told no. I've subsequently seen a dozen and I've continued to shout. And I saw eight cases within my social and family circle of people who developed leukaemia lymphoma after the booster and so we started to say how is it doing that? When it became evident there was a very good, I mean my own group have done work on this, but to me what really convinced it when other people found that t-cell responses were suppressed after the booster not the first and second but after the booster and the t-cell suppression was so bad they called it exhaustion in cancer patients, well we know that the people who've got cancer under good control, it is t-cells nothing to do with antibodies. So the booster was doing more harm than good, it's suppressing the t-cell response, and then I found papers that was even worse on the grounds that the booster switched the IgG1, immunoglobulin class structure antibodies, from ones that would normally be intent on fighting viruses to one that were tolerizing them, tolerizing the IgG. The sort you induce in transplant patients. So not only had you switched the T cell response off, but you'd sent all the antibodies on to be tolerizing so they didn't reject the transplant. Of course the transplant in this case is the cancer so there's no doubt that it popped up, that was a major reason why it popped up, now why it's important to discuss this now is, having been told to shut up and be quiet, I did get by the way, people from all over the world saying thank you for pointing this out, we've seen exactly the same thing. I mean from America, Canada, South America, Europe, South Africa, Australia, all around the world people said we're seeing exactly the same thing. Well now we have this paper that's come from Japan, it's pure statistical analysis of events over COVID, including all causes of death and this is important, not incidents death, and they noticed there was no increase in death of any cause or cancer during the first one and two waves of COVID. But it started in late 21 and continued to rise, hardly doubling in 22. And so the all-cause in 21 went from a few percentage, three or four, to over 9% in 22. Death from cancer went from 1.1 to 2.2 + in 22 these are small figures but it's a very strong trend because it was in all the cancers, it wasn't just in any one and I got particularly interested because there was no great increase in colorectal cancer, which is what we've seen in the UK in fact the colorectal surgeons were the first to phone me and say we're seeing unbelievable colon cancer in young people, and they've all had the booster vaccine. You know, we think there is something related. So I reacted that there was no signal in Japan. And then remember, they have an incredibly different diet. It's a completely anti-inflammatory diet. So they haven't been primed for colon cancer to take off. But all the ones that were killing them were those that killed them before, but much quicker. But I mentioned mortality. I predicted there would be a massive increase in cancer problems just on lockdown alone because we weren't screening. People weren't coming to with their symptoms. We weren't doing the scanning. We weren't getting them on treatment early. So that alone, I predicted more people would die of that lockdown on cancer than would die from any benefit of lockdown on COVID deaths, which we now know there were zero. I mean I think most people will now agree with that, it was introduced far too late on both occasions, it was introduced just as the hot, the waves were dying out, completely utterly pointless, so I was very aware and actually preached a bit that you know, the problem with this issue is cancer incidence is massive, cancer deaths not nearly as much because we've got very good at treating it and the incidence to death can take several years, so here in Japan you've actually got the death rate clearly rising, it's all very statistical this, in one year two year now, That was finished in 2023, submitted in 2023. If we had the 23 data, I would bet that that would be a doubling again, probably, on the 22 data, because they have shown in the data they've got, it's worse with each booster, not just the first. If you have a fourth and a fifth, it gets worse. And what is great about this paper is it goes into explaining how it's actually induced the cancer early as opposed to just waiting for it to develop which is what I would have expected had it just been suppression of the immune system and one thing they have suggested, which I totally go along with and I hadn't thought of it first-hand myself but I'm fully aware and support it, is that the clotting tendency, these micro-clots that the spike protein causes. Actually would lead to enhancing the cancers to spread and metastasize. And we know that this clotting abnormality occurs in some cancers, prostate and pancreas, and all sorts of unusual things occur, like disseminated intravascular coagulation, etc. Now, this is the sort of thing, that it was being reported in people who died of cancer who'd been vaccinated. Really abnormal clots. If you look at the literature, there's a lot of people pointing out that the autopsy is highly unusual clotting going on. So the fact that that process was actually driving cancer is a very interesting suggestion. It's not proof, but it's yet another reason that might be driving it. In the literature are reports that the spike protein binds to p53 and msh3. These are suppressor genes. If you have mutations in these genes you're much more likely to develop cancer because they normally switch the cancer that has arisen by accident off. They're suppressor genes, they switch it off. So if you compromise your suppressor genes you're much more likely to develop cancer quickly. And I think that this is part of what the Japanese data is showing. I just point out that I don't think there is any ulterior motive in just pointing out what we've seen, whereas I am very concerned that the Office of National Statistics keep changing the rules with data. They stopped reporting the COVID deaths in May 22, and they've been doing adjustments and all sorts of things, which I think, what are they trying to hide? And Carl Heneghan has made a very, and Norman Fenton, made a very big issue of this. Why don't they just release all the data? And I'm convinced that data shows something very similar, just because of what I see. I look around my friends, the number who've gone down with cancer since they had the booster. Which they only had so they could travel in lockdown, and they wanted to have a decent holiday. And he said, you can't get on this plane or this boat unless you have the booster. And so they had the booster. And in two cases, they never, ever going to get on the boat and do the traveling. One of them died very quickly, and I was horrified by it because he'd had perfect treatment, absolute perfect treatment, but still progressed, suggesting there were other mechanisms going on. And another one had a lymphoma that he had years ago it resurfaced rapidly and killed him and his oncologist, I was quite surprised told him, I really can't ignore the fact that this has been stable for years but it's come back as soon as you had the booster and there's a chap in England who's pointing this out, I was a friend of this guy, he's in America. And then I've had other cases which have popped up completely unexpected. In my family, I've had cases of leukaemia uncovered after the boosters and brother-in-laws, etc. So it's really real. And friends who developed aggressive prostate, pancreatic, ovarian cancer since the booster program has been wheeled out. And my main reason for shouting about this is that I am still being told I can have a spring booster to protect myself. I spoke to a friend today and they were talking about their father who was told he had prostate cancer and I think he went for a psa testing, that's to look at how far the cancer is and it was very low it was six or eight, then after the boosters he went for another test and they'd gone up to 170 and was told it spread throughout out the body and that was it and I get those are similar stories you have heard and I'm looking at these studies which are coming out and obviously you, this has just come out, you've just published this in the conservative woman as of when we're recording actually on the 15th, but you need studies I guess to analyse the data and put it together it's one thing having the individual stories, but these studies seem to be telling you what you already had heard in your individual patients. Yes, indeed. I mean, we've been really waiting for proper studies like this, and there seemed to be a real hesitation. I mean, I told everybody who criticized me, well, go away and look at it. You're sitting on the data. You're head of trusts. You're head of of MRC, CRUK, all these things. That's your job. It's not my job. My job is to be the whistle-blower. But as we know, whistle-blowers in the health service are persecuted, and it would have seemed to be the same in science and everything as well. It's been going on a long time. I was reminded yesterday that Semmelweis, who was the first person to point out that the dreadful sepsis deaths in the maternity ward were due to the fact nobody washed their hands, and if you washed their hands, you didn't get it. All his colleagues turned around and said, you're a lunatic, and had him locked up. I mean, I don't think things have changed with this pandemic at all. That's exactly what's going on. It's the death of science. nobody wants to discuss the data whether it be the origin of the virus whether it be with a pandemic it's a good or bad thing whether it be that masks are a good or bad things or that whether we should have been able to early treat as you would any respiratory virus with a good boost of vitamin D, soluble aspirin, intranasal interferon, beclamide, if it goes to the chest all these things I believe, and ivermectin which having looked at all the data, I can understand now why nobody in the establishment wanted it anywhere near a COVID patient because it worked and it saved them and there would be no need for any vaccine whatsoever and Fauci demonized it as a horse de-wormer when it is probably one of the most effective drugs in humans ever in the history of medicine, because it It prevents all sorts of things, river blindness and the liver, all the flukes, et cetera, in Africa and Asia. And may well be a major reason why the incidence of COVID deaths in these places was so low, because they were all on ivermectin and getting good vitamin D, of course. I've just spoken out as these studies are coming out, and we'll put the link to the Japanese study in the description. Of course, it's in that article. As more and more people have spoken out, are you seeing more of your colleagues going public on it? Because surely when the studies are coming out, the data is released, then that's proving what has happened. And therefore, you will get more and more people from the medical community who actually are speaking up and saying, yeah, this is correct. Do you think that will happen? Well, I hope so. I hope so. So the ones that spoke up and said, you're correct, all said, by the way, we've been told to shut up too and not upset the patients. This is like it was a central script written somewhere because they told me the same in America, Canada, Australia, Europe and Britain, that to be quiet. I got carpeted for pointing all these things out and said I was breaking NHS guidelines. And this would go down on my thing as breaking rules. I said, I don't give a damn. All I'm doing is making sure I do no harm. I suggest you do the same. NHS is causing more harm. I think the NHS, one of the reasons it's crippling, it's spending so much time treating the side effects of the vaccine program. And they won't admit it, of course. And I've been doing some medical legal instances where people have clearly been damaged by the vaccine and none of the people concerned will admit it. They just say coincidence. It's just like a tape. And I've spoken to lots of people who had very bad vaccine and had just been really badly treated. They go out of the way to make sure it's not enough for compensation. And I hadn't realized how many people had lost their jobs in the UK because they refused to get vaccinated or they refused to get the booster because they had had such bad bad side effects from the first two. How can you possibly justify that? If you have a bad reaction to a drug, you don't take it again. You don't take another dose and hope it's not as bad this time, which seems to be the NHS and the government's attitude to it. Yeah. Another part is the cancer issue, and obviously seems to be speeding up cancer much faster. That's certainly the people I've talked to. But the other side, and a lot of the media reports have been a shocking cancer amongst younger people. And the journalists, right, they have no idea why…. Yes, they do. this has been happening recently but I mean tell because, it's that concern you think cancer is something you get maybe later on in life but this is happening younger, this changes the very nature of what that is the impact on society. Yes I mean we have seen and there there is a paper showing that there is a real increase in patients under 44. I think it's 19 to 44 a massive increase in cancers and particularly abdominal cancers. So colorectal. We were seeing this before, by the way, in young people in this country, obviously not in Japan. And so I've always said it must be something to do with the diet is driving this, and so do most people. But it seems to have accelerated since the vaccine program came on. But we're seeing all the others. I mean, I was really surprised. We're seeing oesophageal cancer, biliary, liver, pancreatic, upper and lower bowel, weird ones like appendix cancers. You know, incredibly rare. I was contacted by a fellow who said that he'd seen about one of these. He runs a colorectal surgery and he's seen about one in the last five years. And he said, I've seen 13 recently, and they'd all had the vaccine. They were all in young people. So, I mean, so when people get cancers, unusually unexpected. The first thing you should do is say, why? Do they have something in common? Well, they do. The vast majority, again, not all of them, because there's a background incidence, have all had the vaccine or a booster. And that to me is stop the bloody program now, you know instead I'm being told to go and get my spring booster what planet are these people on? This is, since you've spoken up nearly or 18 months or 21 months ago I've seen more and more people write about it, is this the end then of this worldwide experiment of this new type of technology, this mRNA which is massively backfired or is it just how Big Pharma work and then they come up with the mRNA now to fix cancer which is the the latest thing we've heard. Yeah, well, they were always working on that. And I actually, you know, when people tell me I'm a clinician and I don't know what I'm talking about and to shut up, I tell them I know a darn sight more than they do. And especially about the dangers of messenger RNA vaccine, because I was on a scientific advisory board for a company whose subtitle was the messenger RNA vaccine company for five years and I left about seven years ago and they were targeting cancer and they didn't get through, BioNTech had the same thing. Big Pharma and whatever's behind them at far more sinister, has used this pandemic and I mean, when it started I wouldn't even have thought along these lanes. I honestly think it was planned, it's like it was planned to get the messenger rna out, when you go back and you look at the Manhattan project for vaccines and world health, their big issue was why do we make all these vaccines? If we don't have a pandemic we won't make any money, we'll lose money so this really looks like it was all planned, why did Moderna have a patent on sars-2 in February 2019? Why did the German government go ahead and fund an an enormous big vaccine facility in Marburg to produce messenger RNA, long before they were anywhere near being approved. It sounds like the whole thing was part of some sinister plan. And that's what I find really, really concerning. And I've spoken up and on the record. I think the messenger RNA vaccines are an absolute disaster, should be banned. They should be completely, utterly banned. And they are what they say on the till in the early BN Biotech preparations for Pfizer, they have COVID vaccine-gene therapy. Well, that was honest. You don't use gene therapy on a pandemic that kills less than 1% of people. And then you go ahead with the plan, when you know that the people who did die had an average age in the UK of 82, whereas average age of anybody else dying of anything else was 81. So the logical thing for a statistician was to go around and prepare COVID and spray it all around the population and tell them they'll live an extra year longer, because you've got I mean, being very cynical about it. But why would you? You shouldn't do it. Chris Whitty occasionally said some sensible things, but then went on to being beheaded or whatever it is and go along with this madness. He said, you can't use a vaccine unless you've got a death rate of 30% in the main population. You can't justify it if you haven't got the safety data. Why did he not stand up when it was 1% and stop it? Could it be something to do with shut up and you'll get your rewards in the honours list which they all did these people all of them, Vallance, Whitty and all these, I was going to say goons from SAGE, I'll say that again I do, I disagreed with them totally and utterly and even the people working with the vaccines from Oxford, the Astra Zeneca, they all got knighthoods, damehoods everything long before there was any evidence it was of any any benefit. It's unbelievable. When these studies come out, a lay person like myself will think this then starts a catalyst of looking at other countries and wanting the data. But then the flip side is you realize the difficulty of data, and you touched on that. I think you had mentioned that whenever I saw you speak at Andrew Bridgen's event the end of last year in Parliament, the lack of data. It seems like there is British data. there is Israeli data and there does seem some Japanese data. Many other countries seem to have a complete void, but the UK government don't even want to release any of the data. Will this force them to release it? Will this mean there are possible financial penalties? I mean, these companies getting sued? Where does this go whenever one country brings out a study like this, which is so comprehensive? Well, I think you'll get other countries that will do it. I really do. I mean, Australia, who behaved appallingly during the pandemic, I mean, they were run by a bunch of, not just clowns, but really ghoulish clowns who seem to relish in power and locking down and God knows what else, have mandatory vaccines. Well, at least they have. They've had a lot of revolt over this, and they finally had a formal Australian Commission on Excess Deaths. And I've been asked to give evidence for it as have some other people who've raised their voice and we'll make it very very clear what's going on, some of the senators now in Australia know exactly what was going on and they're baying for blood as it were and the thing that I'm baying for, why were the people like me in Australia and I worked in Australia for seven years by the way, I did flying doctor for a year and I did internal medicine and oncology. I know it very very well, why did these doctors who thought like me, I'm going to look after the patients, this, that and the other, they got struck off if they they wouldn't go along with this madness. I mean, it's unbelievable. It was inhumane. And at least that commission is going to uncover it. I think our COVID inquiry is a whitewash to kick the can down the road for so long. By the time it comes to the conclusions, nothing to see here, nobody, no one person was guilty. There'll be lessons to learn. No, there won't be any lessons to learn unless they hold people to account, unless we withdraw from the WHO, this madness, this treaty they want us to sign up to, once they're all signed up, they release the next pandemic and they will have another round of vaccines for you. I mean, I thought this was absolute madness to even think like that. But George Orwell saw it all 70 years ago, 70 years plus. And I mean, it's just unbelievable. I re-read 1984 and Animal Farm when I went on holiday recently. They had a package, and I'd read them 40, 50 years ago, a long time. If I hadn't have read them, I'd have thought, oh, somebody's seen through the lockdown and written these in lockdown as to where it could lead once you give the power to the governments to bully the thing. Yeah, it's incredible. They could have been written in the lockdown, but he wrote them 50 years ago. He saw what was coming. Obviously, it was about the communist model coming out of Russia and the implications. But I never thought I would live long enough to see democracy being destroyed by the same tentacles of control that emerged due to the COVID. And it's given them a power to interfere in everything else. I mean, a power to block all kinds. I've lost my faith totally in justice in the UK, probably worldwide. The Postmaster scandal was unbelievable. when the guy was told you're the only one, I remember that's what I was told when I made a great fuss, you're the only one, it transpires there were dozens and dozens of us who made, said the same thing to the government, they ignored, there were hundreds and hundreds of postmasters who said the same thing that they ignored and now, you know we're going we're having the same absolute nonsense over climate control. I mean I went and researched climate control, I didn't have to do much research before I realized that the data is very clear out there that carbon dioxide rises when the world warms. And it is actually something that's trying to do something good about it. And it does. It's a heavy gas, falls to the ground, encourages plant growth, tree growth, which produces more oxygen. It is. It's like a controller. It's like a thermostat. It is not the cause. And you've got all these morons, and I use the word advisedly, and people like Ed Miliband should springs to mind this guy is a total moron, who thinks that if you stop the co2 from the cars, this, that and the other, you'll save the world from global warming, it won't make one iota difference and if you really succeeded in lowering co2 significant, you would actually start extinguishing life they don't seem to understand any basic biology at all and yet these morons are running our parliament, running our lives and they are impoverishing everybody on this planet. I saw my energy bill even though we tried very hard, it's absolutely ludicrous and it's even worse knowing it is five times higher than if I was in the United States where at least they've got some pragmatism with regards is, we can't do everything in the solar and wind we're going to need our oil and gas and by the way it's beneath us, ours is beneath us but we've basically said we're not going to use it and so we're dependent on China who's polluting the world to death, it's unbelievable. I think many people have had their eyes open to many of these issues over the last couple of years of COVID tyranny. Professor Dalgleish, I'm honoured really to have you on, it's wonderful to hear your thoughts and your writings, it's good to delve into them, people can get the Conservative Woman, but thank you so much for the stand you've taken and thank you for sharing your thoughts with us today. Right. Well, thank you very much for having me. But just remember, we've written an enormous amount of this up in The Death of Science, which is available on Kindle, Amazon, and is multi-author. And it's got contributions from Karol Sikora, Sir Richard Dearlove, Clare Craig, Ros Jones. I mean, I'm really proud that we've been able to really put the gauntlet down, that this government and the world's governments and the scientists and the institutions and the medical profession have killed science. We have to do everything we can to rectify that. Thank you. And the viewers and listeners can get that. The links will be in the description. So however you're watching, however you're listening, you can just click on that. So, Professor, once again, thank you for your time today. Cheers. Thank you.

In this transformative episode, Dr. Zach Bush [http://zachbushmd.com/] shares his insights on the intricate links between the health of our planet and the health of humanity. Learn about the light energy within us that has been dimming since the 1940s and its relation to the rise of chronic diseases. Delve into the ancient stories of human spirituality and their impact on our modern world with Host Carry Kim. This is a conversation that will change the way you see your place in nature. Ours is a time that requires fortitude, resiliency, introspection, observation, connection and action. We are aware of the multitude of things afflicting humanity and the world, much of which has been human-induced whether we speak of climate change, conflicts, injustice of all kinds, destruction of the ecosystem and our microbiomes, degradation of soil, loss of biodiversity or personal dis-ease and the deterioration of collective health. Dr. Zach Bush has devoted his life and research to the exploration of what harms and what heals ourselves, our food systems, waterways, the soil, and the often unseen world of microbiology. His journey has been a deep and collaborative dive into understanding and revealing root cause. How did we get here and how will we change to chart a better course not just for humanity, but for all inhabitants with whom we share this planet? This conversation is more inquiry than "answers." It is a pondering of our times and an asking of questions, without the resolution of "answers." It is an attempt to connect some of the dots between human and planetary health and to awaken our collective memories as intrinsic parts of Nature. For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio Zach Bush, MD [http://zachbushmd.com/]is a renowned, multi-disciplinary physician and internationally recognized educator on the microbiome as it relates to human health, soil health, food systems, and a regenerative future. He founded *Seraphic Group [http://seraphicgroup.com/] and the non-profit Farmer's Footprint [http://www.farmersfootprint.us/] to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health. His education has highlighted the need for a radical departure from chemical farming and pharmacy, and his ongoing efforts are providing a path for consumers, farmers, and mega-industries to work together for a healthy future for people and the planet. Carry Kim, Co-Host of EcoJustice Radio. An advocate for ecosystem restoration, Indigenous lifeways, and a new humanity born of connection and compassion, she is a long-time volunteer for SoCal350, member of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, and a co-founder of the Soil Sponge Collective, a grassroots community organization dedicated to big and small scale regeneration of Mother Earth. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer and Intro: Jack Eidt Hosted by Carry Kim Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Episode 214

The San Luis Valley has always had dust storms, for as long as humans have been there. The problem now is that as water dwindles, temperatures warm, a multi-decade drought rages on, and people continue altering the landscape, dust is increasing. Dust and sand storms impact farming economies by reducing valuable topsoil, and breathing in dust can have immediate and long-term respiratory and health impacts. We talk with farmer and rancher Kyler Brown and Dr. Lisa Cicutto about the impact of dust on public health and the state of farming in the Valley, along with the constant challenge of embracing change and uncertainty amid climate change.  Learn more about the podcast at clearingtheair.org.  Sign up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list.  Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.  If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.     The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions to society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.   Episode Credits:  Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock  Producing, marketing: Tricia Waddell  Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long  Sound design: Seth Samuel with tracks from Epidemic Sounds  Audio engineering: Jesse Boynton  

January 2, 2023 - New Year, same pod (just without Olivia). We're going through our New Year's goals, hopes, and dreams and reeling it back in after the break. Hop in and listen to what's going on in Denver!   As always, we're sharing our favorite upcoming cultural events, art openings, concerts, and all of the things that make Denver the city we're proud to call home.   Do you have a Denver event, cause, opening, or recommendation that you want to share with us? We want to hear from you! Tell us what's good at tom@kitcaster.com.   The Goods:   Bingo Night  - Waldshanke Ciders - Globeville   Wild Color Exhibition - Denver Museum of Nature & Science   DJ Diesel - Mission Ballroom   Learn to ice fish - Staunton State Park   Nuggets vs. Magic        The Highlights:   Curious Mike Podcast   Clozee   Killers of the Flower Moon       Our Sponsor:   Samana Float Center     Music produced by Troy Higgins

From supporting the wickedly smart and engaged next generation to learning how to work together in new and more meaningful ways, our last episode explores what it means to truly empower people to solve our air quality issues. Change has been slow and incremental, but change is happening. And while bad air affects us all, no matter where we live, the burden is not equal. Since our air is often invisible, it can be easy to ignore. But as we gain knowledge, it just might be harder to look away.  Learn more about the podcast at clearingtheair.org. Sign up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Producing, marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional writing: Meredith Sell Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Sound design: Seth Samuel with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Audio engineering: Jesse Boynton   

Often there is a cultural catalyst that sparks change. And that catalyst can come from people being empowered with data, knowledge, and opportunity. From Pueblo to Aurora to other parts of Colorado, communities are finding traditional and new ways to engage in the change they want for their future. This could be things like a closer collaboration with the government to install a community air monitoring network, training individuals on how to engage in policy, or pushing for large-scale change, such as the energy transition, which can have the co-benefits of helping with both climate change and local air pollution.  Learn more about the podcast at clearingtheair.org. Sign up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.   The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions to society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Producing, marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional writing: Meredith Sell Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Sound design: Seth Samuels with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Audio engineering: Jesse Boynton   

Colorado is the fifth largest oil-producing state in the country, and the state's economy benefits from keeping the industry running. But oil and gas are also a major source of emissions to local air quality and climate change. And we all have a vested interest in reducing emissions, which has economic and social costs to our health and environment. So how do we balance the demand for energy with the realities on the ground? What does the dance look like between the speed to clean up operations, the transition to new innovation, the limitations of business models, the standardization of data, and the need to protect the health of each other and our planet?   Learn more about the podcast at clearingtheair.org. Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Producing, marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional writing: Meredith Sell Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Sound design: Seth Samuels with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Audio engineering: Jesse Boynton  

Whether you've had a direct experience with bad air, followed the air quality index on your phone, or formally learned about the importance of clean air, awareness can be a key driver for change. But once we know how poor air quality can impact our health, what does it take to change our behaviors — either to reduce our exposure or how we contribute to it? Learn more about the podcast at clearingtheair.org. Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions to society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Producing, marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional writing: Meredith Sell Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Sound design: Seth Samuels with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Audio engineering: Jesse Boynton   

After a three-year hiatus, the Wine & Dinosaurs fest at the Delaware Museum of Nature & Science returned for 2023 and we were once again on-location doing the pod thing. Presented by M&T Bank, all proceeds from the event featuring wine, food, and of course great beer, go to supporting the museum and its mission. We catch up with a few old friends from some of the state's awesome breweries, and meet some new ones as well. This is one fest we've always enjoyed for its laid back feel, top-notch food, and – best of all – being surrounded by all the funducational wonders this incredible museum has to offer. Do you love Beer Busters? Of course you do!Why not leave us a rating and review on your podcast platform of choice and consider supporting us on Patreon.

An estimated 4.2 million premature deaths are associated with outdoor air pollution each year. And traffic emissions are one of the leading contributors, with those living within a quarter mile or so of a busy road at greatest risk. But statistics and facts will only get you so far.  To change perceptions and policy, the issue must be brought to a human level. And while our air quality has improved over the years, there is still work to be done, especially with communities most at risk. Learn more about the podcast at clearingtheair.org. Sign up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Producing, marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional writing: Meredith Sell Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Sound design: Seth Samuels with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Audio engineering: Jesse Boynton   

There is a long history of disproportionately impacted neighborhoods, which are predominately communities of color and low income, experiencing the unequal impact of pollution. This has been the case for many communities in Colorado when it comes to air quality. And while there are competing interests, values, and needs when it comes to deciding what to do, it's critical to consider who gets represented and heard. Do the policies truly address the issue? And who bears the cost? We all have the right to clean air, no matter where we live. But safeguarding our air is about making hard decisions. It's about changing our thinking and our behaviors. It's about looking at the issues from multiple angles. People often want there to be a single source or single industry to blame for air pollution, but unfortunately, the air doesn't work that way.    Learn more about the podcast at clearingtheair.org. Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.    The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.    Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Writing, marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional reporting and fact checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Sound design: Seth Samuels with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Audio engineering: Jesse Boynton   

For years Colorado's Front Range has repeatedly failed to meet the EPA's national air quality standards, putting local policymakers and regulators under pressure to fix the air pollution affecting us all. Now air monitoring and data gathering are slowly starting to catch up to the reality that many communities experience living in proximity to industries, highways, railroads, and other sources of pollutants.  But what made us care about air quality in the first place? From the Brown Cloud that hung over Denver in the '70s and '80s to the landmark Clean Air Act, we break down the science and policies that propelled us to start to clean up our air. Learn more about the podcast at clearingtheair.org. Sign up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions to society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Writing, marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Sound design: Seth Samuels with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Audio engineering: Jesse Boynton 

Our air is a complex soup of ingredients – which impacts the health of all of us, our economy, and our climate. But those health burdens are not shared equally. They disproportionately impact children, the elderly, and lower-income or historically marginalized communities. What does it mean to have equal and fair access to clean air? And when emotions are high, people's health is at risk, and tradeoffs need to be made, how do we solve this complex problem? This is episode one of Clearing the Air, a podcast about air pollution in Colorado and beyond, and how we are navigating this complex problem that knows no borders.  Learn more about this season of Laws of Notion at clearingtheair.org. Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Writing, marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional writing: Shel Evergreen Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Sound design: Seth Samuels with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Audio engineering: Jesse Boynton   

From our first breath to our last exhale, air is a vital shared resource. But what's really in the air we breathe? Stay tuned for Clearing the Air: The Hazy Future of Our Skies, a new eight-part series about air pollution in Colorado and how we are navigating this complex problem that knows no borders. Season 3 of the award-winning podcast, Laws of Notion, launches September 27, 2023. Learn more about the podcast at clearingtheair.org and lawsofnotion.org. Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.   

The closure of the coal plant and mine in Craig, Colorado will greatly impact the economy and result in the loss of jobs. However, there are conversations about the potential to repurpose the plant and existing infrastructure. From geothermal to hydrogen to nuclear, what could happen with the Craig station remains to be decided.  In this bonus episode of Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition, we'll talk about what's next. What could happen with all the infrastructure and workforce? And is nuclear energy a potential option?  Featuring Christine King, GAIN, Idaho National Lab, and Tim Osborn, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association. Learn more about our podcast at lawsofnotion.org.   Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.   Episode Credits: Writer, Reporter, Host: Kristan Uhlenbrock Producer and Marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional Production: Nicole Delaney Fact Checker: Kate Long Sound Design: Jesse Boynton with tracks from Epidemic Sounds   

  We’re celebrating Elachee’s 45th birthday! Sarah Bell, President and CEO of Elachee Nature Science Center, joins host Phil Bonelli on this North GA Business Radio X segment. Sarah and Phil are discussing the physical and mental health benefits of being outside in nature, preserving, sustaining, and growing a legacy, and some upcoming events that […]

It's been almost two years since we shared the story of Craig, Colorado, and the forthcoming closures of the coal power plant. In this epilogue to Coal at Sunset, you'll hear from some of our former guests reflecting on what's changed, what hasn't, and what the road ahead looks like. We're coming back to this story to provide a firsthand glimpse into how Colorado's energy transition will ultimately affect us all. Learn more about our podcast at lawsofnotion.org.  Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  Episode Credits: Writer, Reporter, Host: Kristan Uhlenbrock Producer and Marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional Production: Nicole Delaney Fact Checker: Kate Long Sound Design: Jesse Boynton with tracks from Epidemic Sounds   

Host Bill McBain speaks with Acting District Chief of Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services Mike McQuinn and about their Facility Dog Ajax.Animal and Nature Science Roundup.

On this episode of Tradeswork: The Rocky Mountain Mechanical Contractors Association Podcast, we welcome George Sparks who has been the president & CEO of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science since November 2004. Sparks' passion is public policy, particularly around science and education. He is a member of the Colorado Forum, Colorado Concern, and is on the boards of Colorado Education Initiative, Colorado Music Hall of Fame, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, and the Denver School of Science & Technology. Here are some of the questions you can expect to be answered on this episode: What was the journey that ultimately pointed George to the museum, which he has successfully led for 19 years? What role do the skilled trades play in preserving the massive collection of artifacts stored by the museum? Why does George have a profound passion for science and education? How can we continue to get people excited about careers in the skilled trades? What is the most surprising thing people could discover about the museum? (This answer is a doozy) How does George view DMNS's place in the overall tapestry of the City of Denver? Why is George so active in so many nonprofits and civic organizations throughout the city? This episode is available on podcatchers everywhere. Please rate, review and subscribe. For more information about the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, please visit their website.  For more information about Rocky Mountain Mechanical Contractors Association, please visit our website.

The history of soil degradation is not new. Humans have been altering the landscape for thousands of years. But what does it mean to have healthy and functional soils and how is this critical to a productive and sustainable agriculture system? In this bonus episode, we spend time with Gene Kelley, a professor of Pedology and the Deputy Director of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station at Colorado State University. We had a wide-ranging conversation talking about the innovation happening in agriculture, soil health and the impacts on water, and even the difficulties of behavior change.  Water, Under Pressure is a podcast about the increasing demands on water in Colorado. And how the choices we make now could tear us apart or help us to navigate our uncertain future. Learn more about the podcast and people featured at waterunderpressure.org.  Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list.  Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.  If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The podcast was produced in partnership with House of Pod.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Producing and marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Theme music: Alex Paul, Birds of Play Sound design: Jesse Boynton with tracks from Epidemic Sounds   

In January 2023, a new Colorado Water Plan was released. This document evokes hope and caution as the scarcity of water looms over our state. It's a guide for how to bring people together and prioritize water projects across Colorado that serve the most uses and benefits. In this bonus episode, we talk with Lauren Ris, Deputy Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, to learn more about how this plan came together and its significance to our state.  Water, Under Pressure is a podcast about the increasing demands on water in Colorado. And how the choices we make now could tear us apart or help us to navigate our uncertain future. Learn more about the podcast and people featured at waterunderpressure.org.  Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list.  Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.  If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The podcast was produced in partnership with House of Pod.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Producing and marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Theme music: Alex Paul, Birds of Play Sound design: Jesse Boynton with tracks from Epidemic Sounds   

Control of water. Who has it, who doesn't? How was water historically used? What is it being used for today? And what about future uses? In this first bonus episode, we are talking about power and decision-making, including the controversial topic of water speculation, with James Eklund, a prominent Colorado water lawyer. The conflict over water speculation goes deeper than just dollars. It's sometimes about values. Water, Under Pressure is a podcast about the increasing demands on water in Colorado. And how the choices we make now could tear us apart or help us to navigate our uncertain future. Learn more about the podcast and people featured at waterunderpressure.org.  Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list.  Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.  If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The podcast was produced in partnership with House of Pod.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Producing and marketing: Tricia Waddell Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Theme music: Alex Paul, Birds of Play Sound design: Jesse Boynton with tracks from Epidemic Sounds   

In this series, we've investigated the pressures around water in Colorado – from climate change to population growth to different values – and how they shape the management of this vital resource. But where do we go from here? And how do we change the relationship we've had with water historically, to better reflect the realities of our future? Because we should all care about where our water comes from, where it goes, what it's used for, and the true cost to use it. Water, Under Pressure is a podcast about the increasing demands on water in Colorado. And how the choices we make now could tear us apart or help us to navigate our uncertain future. Learn more about the podcast and people featured at waterunderpressure.org.  Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list.  Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.  If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.    The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The podcast was produced in partnership with House of Pod.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan UhlenbrockReporting, writing, production: Cat JaffeeProduction: Ann Marie Awad Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate LongSound design: Seth SamuelTheme music: Alex Paul, Birds of PlayEpisode composition: Jesse Boynton with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Marketing: Tricia WaddellA special thanks to Trent Knoss and George Sparks

When people learn that 91% of Colorado's water is used for agricultural purposes, farmers are the first to blame for its overuse. But there's a lot more baked into this figure than many realize. There are compromises that farmers are making, trying to ensure they are in the black financially while adapting to drought and a changing climate, in order to ensure we all eat. So as Colorado approaches 6 million people with most of us living in the Front Range are people aware of the sacrifices needed to keep up with the growing demand for water? This is episode three of Water, Under Pressure, a podcast about the increasing demands on water in Colorado. And how the choices we make now could tear us apart or help us to navigate our uncertain future.   Learn more about the podcast and people featured at waterunderpressure.org.  Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list.  Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.  If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.    The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The podcast was produced in partnership with House of Pod.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan Uhlenbrock Reporting, writing, production: Cat Jaffee Production: Ann Marie Awad  Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate Long Theme music: Alex Paul, Birds of Play Episode composition: Jesse Boynton with tracks from Epidemic Sounds  Sound design: Seth Samuel Marketing: Tricia Waddell A special thanks to Trent Knoss and George Sparks  

Heather Hope (Wyszynski) has a heart for serving others. She thinks there is nothing more rewarding than giving back and helping to build others up. She also understands the power of communication. We are always connecting with others through the ideas we convey and the way we present ourselves.   She is an 8-year resident of Central Park and Colorado native. She owns the House of Colour franchise in Denver. Based in the UK and established in 1985, House of Colour is the leading global color and personal style consultancy. Her aim: help clients cultivate confidence through color and style analysis.   She has 20+ years experience developing and executing public relations and marketing campaigns in the corporate and non-profit sectors at organizatons like Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Girls Inc, Junior Achievement, Up with People and the Denver Public Library. This includes extensive public speaking, training, and media relations experience.   Friends and colleagues describe Heather as positive, engaging, and energetic. She loves being outside and creating lasting memories with Brandon, her husband of 15 years, and two young children – ages 6 and 8.

One of the most controversial pieces of real estate in the San Luis Valley isn't because of anything it's got above ground, but because of the water below it. Water is needed for all living things to survive. It can also be controlled and has been by civilizations for millennia. So how is it decided where the water goes and what it can be used for?  In order to understand this, we must understand how water rights work. This is episode two of Water, Under Pressure, a podcast about the increasing demands on water in Colorado. And how the choices we make now could tear us apart or help us to navigate our uncertain future. Learn more about the podcast and people featured at waterunderpressure.org.Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube.If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.  The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The podcast was produced in partnership with House of Pod.  Episode Credits:Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan UhlenbrockReporting, writing, production: Cat JaffeeProduction: Ann Marie Awad Additional reporting and fact checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate LongTheme music: Alex Paul, Birds of PlayEpisode composition: Jesse Boynton with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Sound design: Ameeta Ganatra and Seth SamuelMarketing: Tricia Waddell A special thanks to Trent Knoss and George Sparks

A 40-year-old calculation on the back of an envelope fuels something of a gold rush in Colorado's San Luis Valley. But instead of gold, the attraction is water. And the plan is to move it and sell it to Colorado's growing – and thirsty – metro areas on the Front Range. But how much water is there really? And how do we decide who gets it and who doesn't? This is episode one of Water Under Pressure, a podcast about the increasing demands on water in Colorado. And how the choices we make now could tear us apart or help us to navigate our uncertain future.  Learn more about the podcast at waterunderpressure.org. Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.    The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The podcast was produced in partnership with House of Pod.  Episode Credits: Reporting, writing, hosting: Kristan UhlenbrockReporting, writing, production: Cat JaffeeProduction: Ann Marie Awad Additional reporting and fact-checking: Nicole Delaney and Kate LongTheme music: Alex Paul, Birds of PlayEpisode composition: Jesse Boynton with tracks from Epidemic Sounds Sound design: Ameeta GanatraMarketing: Tricia WaddellA special thanks to Trent Knoss and George Sparks

This year, we're taking you deep into the world of water. Where values, science, law, and our identity collide, as communities in Colorado face tough choices about this dwindling vital resource. Stay tuned for Water, Under Pressure, a five-part podcast about the increasing demands on water in Colorado. And how the choices we make now could tear us apart or help us to navigate our uncertain future.  Learn more about the podcast at waterunderpressure.org. Sign-up for the Institute for Science & Policy's mailing list. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. If you like our work, consider making a tax-deductible donation.    The Institute for Science & Policy is a catalyst for thoughtful dialogue, working toward solutions on society's greatest challenges with scientific thinking, empathy, and inclusivity. The Institute is a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The podcast was produced in partnership with House of Pod. 

Science was revolutionized by Newton's laws of motion. But how can we revolutionize our ideas? Laws of Notion is a podcast by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where we push against our preconceived beliefs and think critically about the world around us. Each season, we'll tell a story about an issue facing a community, where there are no easy answers. We'll explore the interconnections between science, policy, and our human nature. To learn more about the podcast check out lawsofnotion.org.

Jessica is the Programs Director for the Austin Nature and Science Center here in Austin Texas. She has worked for over 17 years in the world of environmental education and discusses what it's been like working for the ANSC during that time. Listen as she tells stories of major changes that have taken place, animal encounters, school offerings, the history of our Austin Nature and Science Center and so much more.

Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf joins us to discuss the development of computational ecology, the latest in the field of conservation AI, and the new field of study that she has established, known as Imageomics.About Dr. Berger-WolfDr. Tanya Berger-Wolf is a Professor of CS Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University, where she is also Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute. She was awarded a US National Science Foundation $15M grant to establish a new Harnessing Data Revolution Institute, founding a new field of study: Imageomics.As a computational ecologist, her research is at the unique intersection of computer science, wildlife biology, and social sciences. She creates computational solutions to address questions such as how environmental factors affect the behavior of social animals (humans included).She a director/co-founder of the conservation software non-profit Wild Me, home of the Wildbook project, which was recently chosen by UNSECO as one of the top AI 100 projects worldwide supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It's been featured in media including Forbes, The NYTimes, CNN, NatGeographic, and The Economist.Prior to coming to OSU in January 2020, Berger-Wolf was at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Berger-Wolf holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has received numerous awards for her research and mentoring, including University of Illinois Scholar, UIC Distinguished Researcher of the Year, US National Science Foundation CAREER, Association for Women in Science Chicago Innovator, and the UIC Mentor of the Year.Relevant Links- Biometric animal databases from field photographs: identification of individual zebra in the wild (Paper)- StripeSpotter (Google Code Archive)- HotSpotter-Patterned species instance recognition (Paper)- Some like it hot: Repeat migration and residency of whale sharks within an extreme natural environment (Paper)- International Union for the Conservation of Nature- Science and Method (Book by Henri Poincaré)- iNaturalist- Gregor Mendel (Wikipedia page)- Mendel's experiments (Article)- eBird- Imageomics‍Follow TanyaWebpageLinkedIn‍Follow LaurenWebsite

The immerse! project was initially sparked by astrophysicist-educator Ka Chun Yu's essay, "A Brief History of Immersive Experiences Before Computers." Yu is the Curator of Space Science at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has performed educational research on the utilization of digital planetariums for the teaching of astronomy & has created numerous planetarium shows as a universe maker & conceptualist. I met Yu in Denver around 2002 while he was working on immersive content for the Gates Planetarium. Since then, he has contributed to my sound & animation exhibit for the Canadian Joggins Fossil Cliffs Museum & my sonic journey called "Land Sea Air -  Sonic Journey from 400 million years to the present & beyond" that was exhibited in New York & London. 

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This episode of Big Blend Radio's "Toast to The Arts" Show features contemporary figurative artist Victoria Chick and Las Cruces Museums Curator Jennifer McClung. Victoria discusses her upcoming art exhibit "Symbols of New Mexico - A Personal Story" that will be on display at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico from July 29 - Sept. 25, 2022. Jennifer gives an overview of the historic Branigan Cultural Center as well as the adjoining Museum of Art, Museum of Nature & Science, and nearby Railroad Museum. More at: https://www.las-cruces.org/1523/Museums Victoria is based in the art community of Silver City, New Mexico. She appears on Big Blend Radio every 3rd Saturday. See her work here: https://victoriachick.com/ 

This episode of Big Blend Radio's "Toast to The Arts" Show features contemporary figurative artist Victoria Chick and Las Cruces Museums Curator Jennifer McClung.Victoria discusses her upcoming art exhibit "Symbols of New Mexico - A Personal Story" that will be on display at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico from July 29 - Sept. 25, 2022. Jennifer gives an overview of the historic Branigan Cultural Center as well as the adjoining Museum of Art, Museum of Nature & Science, and nearby Railroad Museum. More at: https://www.las-cruces.org/1523/MuseumsVictoria is based in the art community of Silver City, New Mexico. She appears on Big Blend Radio every 3rd Saturday. See her work here: https://victoriachick.com/

This episode of Big Blend Radio's "Toast to The Arts" Show features contemporary figurative artist Victoria Chick and Las Cruces Museums Curator Jennifer McClung. Victoria discusses her upcoming art exhibit "Symbols of New Mexico - A Personal Story" that will be on display at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico from July 29 - Sept. 25, 2022. Jennifer gives an overview of the historic Branigan Cultural Center as well as the adjoining Museum of Art, Museum of Nature & Science, and nearby Railroad Museum. More at: https://www.las-cruces.org/1523/Museums Victoria is based in the art community of Silver City, New Mexico. She appears on Big Blend Radio every 3rd Saturday. See her work here: https://victoriachick.com/ 

SHOW NOTES (Bonus Pre-Season Episode) Evidence indicates the Stegosaurus did not swish its spiked tail back and forth like a Medieval weapon, but rather used it for locomotion and communication, and when need be for defense. Morrison Natural History Museum Director Matthew Mossbrucker provides the non-gory details in his interview with Michelle Howell. Dinosaur Ridge volunteer Jim Watson surmises how the Stego may have sounded — his interpretation is unlike any Hollywood version you've heard. Finally Dr. Nicole Peavy of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) talks about the work of Mitigation Paleontology, and what happens with fossils found on road construction sites. The Stegosaurus used its tail like a third leg! It helped move the animal, and also could be used to communicate with other Stegosaurus, and defend the animal from predators. Matthew Mossbrucker discusses the anatomy of the tail, including the lump of bone called the fourth trochanter, that served as a muscle attachment knob for the caudofemoralis, a muscle found in nearly all animals with tails. In 2009, Mossbrucker and Dr. Robert Bakker studied the tail and published “The Symposium on Stegosauria” In our conversation, Mossbrucker mentions Quarry 13 in Como Bluff, Wyoming which is referenced in this thorough wikipedia post if you would like more context. Dr. Nicole Peavey mentioned paleobotany finds at Denver International Airport, more can be seen on the Denver Museum of Nature and Science website here. Peavy also referenced the Castle Rock Rainforest uncovered during a highway project. At the time the Dr. Kirk Johnson (Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Director) was with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which now holds 10,000 specimens from this site. He wrote an article about the finds that was published in 2003. Peavy also referenced Ian Miller, now National Geographic Society's Chief Science and Innovation Officer, who also worked at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Miller has led science research projects on major field expeditions across the western U.S. and Madagascar. If you've never heard how the term “Thagomizer” came about, you must first treat yourself to a popular newspaper comic strip from the 1980s called “The Far Side.” Author Gary Larson in a 1982 comic drew a group of cavemen attending a lecture in which the speaker points to the tail tip of a Stegosaurus. The caption explains the spikes are called Thagomizers "after the late Thag Simmons.” Denver Museum of Nature and Science paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter jokingly used the term at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting more than a decade later, and it caught on. Fossil Butte National Monument in Wyoming is the scene of world-renowned fossil finds including 27 types of fish. And as you will learn, in some cases the data is more important than the fossils themselves.   Our theme music was composed by Hansdale Hsu. Additional music titled “Call to Adventure” provided by Kevin MacLeod of icompetech.com via http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Thank you for listening!  Stay tuned for Season One coming this spring 2022!  

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, or NAGPRA, is supposed to curb the illegal possession of ancestral Native American remains and cultural items. But a year after it was passed by the U.S. federal government, a significant African burial ground in New York City was uncovered. And there was zero legislation in place for its protection. Dr. Rachel Watkins shares the story of the New York African Burial Ground—and what repatriation looks like for African American communities.   (00:00:44) Enter the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology and its NAGPRA controversy. (00:03:19) A discovery in Manhattan is not covered by NAGPRA. (00:05:19) Intro. (00:05:44) Dr. Rachel Watkins, the New York African Burial Ground Project and Michael Blakey.  (00:11:40) Dr. Rachel Watikins meets the Cobb Collection. (00:23:44) Exploring Repatriation for the New York African Burial Ground Project. (00:28:26) The issue of repatriation for the Cobb Collection. (00:34:02) Revisiting season 4. (00:40:49) Credits.   SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human, is produced by House of Pod and supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. SAPIENS is also part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. This season was created in collaboration with the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and Society of Black Archaeologists, with art by Carla Keaton, and music from Jobii, _91nova, and Justnormal. For more information and transcriptions, visit sapiens.org.     Thank you this time also to The Harvard Review and their podcast, A Legacy Revealed for permitting us to use a clip from Episode 4 I Could See Family in Their Eyes, hosted by Raquel Coronell Uribe and Sixiao Yu and produced by Lara Dada, Zing Gee, and Thomas Maisonneuve.   Additional Sponsors: This episode, and entire series, was made possible by the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, UC San Diego Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology at Brown University, UMASS Boston's Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, UC Berkeley's Archaeological Research Facility, and the Imago Mundi Fund at Foundation for the Carolinas.   Additional Resources:   From SAPIENS: Why the Whiteness of Archaeology Is a Problem Craft an African American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act  New York African Burial Ground  The Mismeasure of Man Guest: Rachel Watkins is a biocultural anthropologist with an emphasis on African American biohistory and social history, bioanthropological research practices, and histories of U.S. biological anthropology.

Who owns the past and the objects that connect us to history? We discuss this and so much more with Chip Colwell as we talk about his book, Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture. Our conversation revolves around NAPRA, repatriation of human remains, and ultimately human dignity and the importance of relationships. Chip Colwell is the founding Editor-in-Chief of SAPIENS, an online magazine about anthropological thinking and serves as co-host of the SAPIENS podcast. He served as the Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for 12 years and has published many academic articles, book chapters, and 12 books. Join us for this fascinating conversation, and a peek into the world of museums and repatriation.      

Hosts Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez and Yoli Ngandali share how they found their way to archaeology and what it means to be Black and Indigenous archaeologists. From defying the status quo in a classroom to diving through sunken ships, Ora and Yoli bring listeners on a journey of reclaiming stories and reimagining history. Time Stamps: (00:00:10) How hosts Dr. Ora Merek-Martinez and Yoli Ngandali met. (00:03:27) Why Indigenous archaeology is not the same as non-Indigenous archaeology. (00:09:11) What is Maritime archaeology? (00:12:18) Important vocabulary for Season 4. (00:18:10) What is the future of archaeology? (00:19:38) Credits. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human, is produced by House of Pod and supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. SAPIENS is also part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. This season was created in collaboration with the Indigenous Archaeology Collective and Society of Black Archaeologists, with music from Jobii, _91nova, and Justnormal.   Additional Sponsors: This episode was made possible by the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and the Imago Mundi Fund at Foundation for the Carolinas. For more information including episode transcripts, visit sapiens.org and check out the additional resources below: Webinar Series: From the Margins to the Mainstream: Black and Indigenous Futures in Archaeology Land Acknowledgments Are Not Enough About The Hosts: Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez (she/her/asdzaìaì) is a citizen of the Diné Nation, she's also Nez Perce. A Director at the Native American Cultural Center, her work includes supporting & ensuring the success of Northern Arizona University Native American & Indigenous students through Indigenized programming & services. An Assistant Professor in the Northern Arizona University Anthropology Department, her research interests include Indigenous archaeology & heritage management, research and approaches that utilize ancestral knowledge, decolonizing & Indigenizing methodologies and storytelling in the creation of archaeological knowledge to reaffirm Indigenous connections to land & place. Dr. Marek-Martinez is a founding member of the Indigenous Archaeology Coalition. Yoli Ngandali (she/he/hers) is a member of the Ngbaka Tribe from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Ronald E. McNair Fellow, and a Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology at the University of Washington. Her research interests span Archaeologies of colonialism, Indigenous archaeology, Archaeologies of Central Africa, Trans-Indigenous traditions of culture sharing, Black & Indigenous futurity, digital conservation science, remote sensing, and multi-spectral imaging. Her doctoral dissertation develops digital and community-based participatory research approaches to Indigenous art revitalization within museum settings and highlights Indigenous carving traditions in the Pacific Northwest.

In our latest bonus episode, Tri-State President & CEO Duane Highley shares insights about regional energy markets in the West, renewable integration, and more. Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition was created by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and produced in partnership with House of Pod. For more, visit https://coalatsunset.org/

Utilities will play a key role in the pace and implementation of Colorado's energy transition. In this special bonus episode, we wanted to share a few extended excerpts from an interview with Alice Jackson, President of Xcel Energy Colorado. In our wide-ranging conversation, recorded in late summer 2021, we talked with her about our state's changing electricity needs, implementing newer technologies like hydrogen and molten salt, the practicalities of getting to a completely zero carbon system, and much more. Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition was created by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and produced in partnership with House of Pod. For more, visit https://coalatsunset.org/

The most beautiful starfish in the sea dreams of stardom but finds herself in the belly of a Mako shark who is swallowed by a whale. Her valiant effort to escape lands her in the net of a marine biologist. Will Joanna find herself in the Museum of Nature Science or under the bright lights of Tinsel Town? Hear how this harrowing adventure ends on tonight's episode of Sleeping with Heather. Follow Sleeping with Heather on Twitter @ZzzWithHeather Bens Branches: https://bensbranches.org/ I want to thank the following people, without whom this story would not have been possible: Joanna LaForgia Javier Leiva, host of the Pretend and Criminal Conduct podcasts Dating and relating coach, Debra Besinger Sharon Eisner John Baxter Bobby Parker Jay Jay Kevin Watkins Ian Riutta Derek Kauffman Derek Woudstra Jenna Kogut And Julie Serra Special thanks to Stef Mates of HappiMess Media for lending her art and inspiring tonight's story, Stephen Roessner for audio engineering guidance, Tim Mollen for his feedback and kindly testing out each episode before publication, and to The Poetry Fox, Chris Vitello, for kindly allowing me to share his poetry in this episode. You're all stars in my book! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sleepingwithheather/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sleepingwithheather/support

By decade's end, coal-fired energy production in Craig, Colorado will be a thing of the past. What will the town look like by then? More importantly: What do residents want their home to become? How does Craig's story help us understand the energy transition as a whole? In our final episode, we look ahead to opportunities on the horizon as the town moves beyond what has defined it for so long. At the Trapper mine, for instance, land will be revegetated for deer, elk, and grouse. The Craig power station could become a testbed for hydrogen production. New businesses are already moving into downtown. All around, there are hopeful signs for a post-coal future. *Correction:* An earlier version of this episode misstated the future dates of the Craig station unit retirements. As of December 2021, Tri-State and its utility partners (where applicable) have announced that Unit 1 will retire by the end of 2025; Unit 2 will retire on September 30, 2028; and Unit 3 will retire by 2030. This timeline has not changed and remains consistent with Tri-State's originally announced schedule. Host: Kristan Uhlenbrock Guests: Ginny Brannon, Director, Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety; Wade Buchanan, director, Office of Just Transition; Duane Highley, CEO, Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association; Jennifer Holloway, director, Craig Chamber of Commerce; Kirstie McPherson; Tim Osborn, plant manager, Craig Station; Graham Roberts, environmental supervisor, Trapper Mine Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition was created by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and produced in partnership with House of Pod. To hear bonus clips and find additional resources, visit https://coalatsunset.org/

The Yampa River is the lifeblood of northwestern Colorado. It's one of the last wild, undammed rivers in the American West. Nobody appreciates the Yampa's transformative power more than Tom Kleinschnitz. Now the director of Moffat County Tourism, he's spent a lifetime on the river. He knows that outdoor recreation and tourism can be an important part of Craig's post-coal future by creating jobs and driving economic activity. But the river is also under threat. Climate change has contributed to severe drought in recent years, and the Yampa's flow has dropped significantly. What will it take to protect the region's critical lifeline and ensure that it's still thriving when Craig needs it most? Host: Kristan Uhlenbrock Guests: Tom Kleinschnitz, director, Moffat County Tourism; Josh Veenstra, owner, Good Vibes River Gear Coal at Sunset was created by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and produced in partnership with House of Pod. To hear bonus clips and find additional resources, visit https://coalatsunset.org/

Coal enabled a way of life in Craig that many cherish. A close-knit small town community is still a draw. But for those growing up here now, knowing big changes are ahead, will that feeling be enough for them to stay? In this episode, we look beyond coal and energy to examine some of the other opportunities that Craig will need to build out to retain and attract students and families. Education will be crucial. At Colorado Northwestern Community College, for example, new programs in aviation, cybersecurity, and paleontology might provide other career avenues. There's new creative energy coming in to Craig already. We see it in the public art sector, and the young business owners starting to make investments here. The next generation will find very different opportunities here than their parents did. Maybe that's what it takes to move beyond what's defined the town for so long. Host: Kristan Uhlenbrock Guests:  • Marie Bolton, student, Colorado Mesa University • Ariane Caldwell, Secretary, Northwest Colorado Arts Council• Lisa Jones, President, Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC) • Melanie Kilpatrick, Executive Director, Northwest Colorado Arts Council • Sue Mock, paleontology coordinator, CNCC • Sasha Nelson, Executive Director, Workforce Education and Economic Development, CNCC• Brittany Young, Assistant Director, Craig Chamber of Commerce Coal at Sunset was created by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and produced in partnership with House of Pod. To hear bonus clips and find additional resources, visit https://coalatsunset.org/

There are estimated to be more than a thousand ghost towns in Colorado. Each one represents a failed economic transition. So for Craig, Colorado, the stakes are clear. Transitions require resources and support. In 2019, Colorado created the first state-level Office of Just Transition in the nation. It was designed to help coal towns like Craig strategize for the future. But in the early going, the office didn't have any funding. It didn't have anyone to run it. And unbeknownst at the time, a global pandemic was about to begin. In this episode, we meet Wade Buchanan, who stepped in to run the Office of Just Transition. He wanted to show that the government could deliver for Craig and other rural communities. He wanted to help. Would it be enough? To hear bonus clips and find additional resources, visit https://coalatsunset.org/ Host: Kristan Uhlenbrock Guests: • Wade Buchanan, Executive Director, Office of Just Transition • Duane Highley, CEO, Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association • Jennifer Holloway, Executive Director, Craig Chamber of Commerce • Bob Rankin, State Senator, District 8 Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition was created by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and produced in partnership with House of Pod. 

In Craig, Colorado, one big question looms: What if the transition fails? Transitions are nothing new, and American history is full of cautionary tales. When big industries fail or move away, bad things can happen to the small towns that rely on them.  Think about timber mills closing in rural areas of the Pacific Northwest. Or fisheries collapsing in New England. Or Midwestern automotive factories moving offshore. Some of those communities managed to survive. Many didn't. Since the mid-2000s, coal closures have washed over the U.S. like a wave. As President, Donald Trump pledged he'd restore the livelihoods of coal workers. But by the end of his term, coal jobs were as endangered as ever. In Appalachia, closures hit small towns hard. Muhlenberg, Kentucky. Manchester, Ohio. McDowell County, West Virginia. The list goes on. Schools, hospitals, and other public services withered. People moved away. We wanted to get some national perspective on coal-impacted communities. We wanted to see what we've learned from other towns that are further ahead in their transitions. Most of all, we wanted to know if Craig could succeed where others failed. To explore more from this episode, visit https://coalatsunset.org/episodes/episode-4-the-other-craigs/ Host: Kristan Uhlenbrock Guests:  • Heidi Binko, Executive Director of the Just Transition Fund • Chris Markuson, Director of Colorado and State Economic Transition Policy at the BlueGreen Alliance • Kirstie McPherson, owner of 518 Wine Bar and The Find • Tim Wohlgenant, Executive Director, Yampa Valley Community Foundation Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition was created by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and produced in partnership with House of Pod.  To hear bonus clips and find additional resources, visit https://coalatsunset.org/  

Why is Colorado phasing out coal? Simply put: Planet Earth is warming up. Fast. For decades, scientific evidence has pointed to significant human influence on our climate, dating back to the Industrial Revolution. Burning fossil fuels like coal releases significant amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, accelerating global warming.  Climate change increases the volatility in our systems. And the catastrophic effects are already being felt. The U.S. has experienced a record-breaking number of weather disasters in recent years, including droughts, hurricanes, and wildfires.  In 2019, the Colorado legislature took its boldest step yet toward addressing climate change. House Bill 1261 committed Colorado to a 50% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and a 90% reduction by 2050. Almost every sector would be affected. Electrical utilities, like Tri-State would need to generate more of their power from renewables like wind and solar. The bill signaled the beginning of the end for coal plants in the state. For others, the bill was seen as an overreach and another example of the glaring rural-urban divide in America today. How do we balance the need to protect the planet with the need to protect livelihoods? To explore more from this episode, visit https://coalatsunset.org/episodes/episode-3-you-knew/ Host: Kristan Uhlenbrock Guests: • Waleed Abdalati, Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder • Ray Beck, retired Moffat County commissioner and former mayor of Craig • KC Becker, former Colorado Speaker of the House • Jennifer Holloway, Executive Director of the Craig Chamber of Commerce Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition was created by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and produced in partnership with House of Pod. To hear bonus clips and find additional resources, visit https://coalatsunset.org/

In our second episode, we travel inside the Craig coal-fired station to learn more about the science and economics of coal amidst a rapidly changing renewable energy landscape. For centuries, society has relied on coal because it's been dependable. Reserves can be stored indefinitely and burned as needed to meet electricity demand in any weather, any time of day. But coal has been losing ground to renewables like wind and solar for decades as the prices of cleaner, greener technologies have come way down. And now, Colorado has made greenhouse gas reductions a priority. Coal is no longer the market driver it once was. Energy is a global challenge. But the transition is well underway. What will the state reasonably be able to achieve over the next decade? And what will that mean for our electricity? To hear bonus clips and additional resources for this episode, visit https://coalatsunset.org/episodes/episode-2-the-cost/ Host: Kristan Uhlenbrock Guests: • Tim Osborn, plant manager, Craig station • Suzanne Tegen, Assistant Director, Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University • Bob Rankin, Colorado State Senator, District 8 Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition was created by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and produced in partnership with House of Pod.  For more, visit https://coalatsunset.org/

There's a popular saying in Craig, Colorado: "Coal keeps the lights on." But in 2020, the electrical utility Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association announced that it would close its coal-fired power plant and coal mines in Craig by 2030. The news was like an earthquake. Hundreds of jobs would be lost. The town now faces the prospect of massive economic disruption as its primary industry disappears. In our first episode, we travel to Craig and hear from the CEO at the center of that decision, a coal worker bracing for change, and one local business owner who's already looking for ways to reinvent the town's identity. What will Craig do now? To explore more from this episode, visit https://coalatsunset.org/episodes/episode-1-the-decision/ Host: Kristan Uhlenbrock Guests:  • Duane Highley, CEO, Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association • Jennifer Holloway, Executive Director, Craig Chamber of Commerce • Kirstie McPherson, owner, 518 Wine Bar & The Find • Graham Roberts, environmental supervisor, Trapper Mining Inc. Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition was created by the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and was produced in partnership with House of Pod. To hear bonus clips and find additional resources, visit https://coalatsunset.org/

In rural northwestern Colorado, the town of Craig is at a crossroads. Coal has long been the primary employer and economic driver in this small, tight-knit community, which takes pride in providing energy to the surrounding region. Here, coal is an identity. A duty. A way of life. But something is about to change. The nearby coal plant and mines will close by decade's end as Colorado moves on from fossil fuels. Now, Craig faces an uncertain future. Some business owners and local officials are seeking reinvention. Others still hold out hope of a coal revival.  This is a story about the energy we use every day. But it's also about resilience in the face of change. Craig is only the latest American coal town to face a transition. It won't be the last. Can it succeed where others have failed?   A new series from the Institute for Science & Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, produced in partnership with House of Pod. For more information, visit coalatsunset.org

I had a conversation with John Hattie because of my interest in using the teaching strategies and approaches that can support learners to gain knowledge and skills whilst promoting intrinsic motivation and habits for lifelong learning. In this talk, John and I discuss; what is Visible Learning, the use and misuse of effect size calculations, factors that accelerate learning, interpretation of research and the purpose of education. We finish the conversation with John's hopes for the future in his personal and professional life. I hope you enjoy the talk!Dr Nazam Hussain (Educational Psychologist)See below for links to references discussed in the talk.  Hattie, J. (2012). Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximise Impact on Learning. London: Routledge.Hattie, J., & Yates, G.C. (2013). Visible Learning and the science of how we learn. New York: Routledge.Hattie, J., & Donoghue, G. (2016). Learning strategies: A synthesis and conceptual model. Nature: Science of Learning, 1. Accessed from https://thinkplusjourney.info/images/Hattie_and_Donoghue_-_Learning_strategies._A_synthesis_and_conceptual_model.pdfHattie, J., & Zierer, K. (2018). 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning. Teaching for Success. London: Routledge. Nuthall, G.A.  (2007). The hidden lives of learners. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Website with all the data for Visible Learning. Accessed from https://www.visiblelearningmetax.com/Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/agentsofhope)

Should nature science be taught in the classroom? Listen in to hear Chels narrate ‘My Faith' by Victor Hess, followed by commentary on the classical approach to science.

At the 2021 Latitude Festival The Cosmic Shambles Network took over The Listening Post for a series of live Science Shambles events on the Sunday afternoon. The first of those events was a panel discussion around climate change and restoring nature and how it's not just as simple as using less plastic bags. Although you should still use less plastic bags. Dr Helen Czerski is joined by climate scientist Dr Tamsin Edwards and ecosystem scientist Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Support The Cosmic Shambles Network at patreon.com/cosmicshambles

Der Schädel von Männern ist im Verhältnis zu ihrem Körper kleiner als der von Frauen. Daher müssen Männer intelligenter sein als Frauen - diese und ähnliche Aussagen wurden in den vergangenen Jahrhunderten dazu genutzt, die Ungleichbehandlung von Männern und Frauen zu legitimieren. Mit dem relativ neuen Forschungsgebiet "Genderstudies" hat die Forschung rund um Gender und Geschlecht neuen Auftrieb erhalten. Wie groß sind die die Unterschiede zwischen den verschiedenen Geschlechtern wirklich? Und warum gibt es biologisch gesehen gar keine scharfe Trennung von Geschlechtern? Über diese Fragen sprechen Host Lucie Kluth und Wissenschaftsjournalistin Yasmin Appelhans in der aktuellen Folge von Synapsen. Und sie blicken auch auf den Wissenschaftsbetrieb selbst: Wie steht es dort um die Gleich- oder Ungleichbehandlung der Geschlechter? Dort, wo an Unterschieden zwischen Geschlechtern geforscht wird und wo die andauernde Diskriminierung von Personen aufgrund ihres Geschlechts kritisiert wird? Die Hintergrundinformationen • Anteil Frauen in der Wissenschaft | Statistisches Bundesamt: Personal an Hochschulen - Fachserie 11 Reihe 4.4 - 2019 https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bildung-Forschung-Kultur/Hochschulen/Publikationen/Downloads-Hochschulen/personal-hochschulen-2110440197004.html;jsessionid=C60568A35D53A45371DB2647A672F287.live712 • Studie zu Kompetenz von Forschenden bei identischem CV | Corinne A. Moss-Racusin, John F. Dovidio, Victoria L. Brescoll, Mark J. Graham, Jo Handelsman: "Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students", erschienen 2012 auf PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474 • Debatte über binäres biologisches Geschlecht | Claire Ainsworth: "Sex redefined", erschienen 2015 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943 • Dissertation Stephanie Michalczyk über Geschlecht und Gender im Wissenschaftsbetrieb | Stephanie Michalczyk: "The [M]OTHER. Geschlecht im Hochschulreformdiskurs", erschienen 2021 auf jpc https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/books/detail/-/art/stephanie-michalczyk-the-m-other-geschlecht-im-hochschulreformdiskurs/hnum/10479976 • Vornamen von Profesorinnen und Professoren | "Studie: Wie heißen Deutschlands Professorinnen und Professoren?", erschienen 2019 auf forschung-und-lehre.de https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/wie-heissen-deutschlands-professorinnen-und-professoren-1511/ • Kinder zeichnen Wissenschaftler | David I. Miller, Kyle M. Nolla, Alice H. Eagly, David H. Uttal: "The Development of Children's Gender-Science Stereotypes - A Meta-analysis of 5 Decades of U.S. Draw-A-Scientist Studies" https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13039 • Männer präsentieren ihre Forschung positiver | Marc J Lerchenmueller et al.: "Gender differences in how scientists present the importance of their research: observational study", erschienen 2019 auf The BMJ https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6573 • Gender-bias in Zitierungen von Veröffentlichungen | Jordan D. Dworkin, Kristin A. Linn, Erin G. Teich, Perry Zurn, Russell T. Shinohara, Danielle S. Bassett: "The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists", erschienen 2020 auf Nature Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0658-y • Frauen publizieren weniger während Corona-Pandemie | Carolin Lerchenmüller, Leo Schmallenbach, Anupam B Jena, Marc J Lerchenmueller: "Longitudinal analyses of gender differences in first authorship publications related to COVID-19", erschienen 2021 auf BMJ Journals https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/4/e045176 • Debatte um Caster Semenya | Quarks: "Urteil gegen Caster Semenya So fragwürdig ist die Testosteron-Regel", erschienen 2019 https://www.quarks.de/gesundheit/medizin/darum-ist-das-urteil-gegen-caster-semenya-so-umstritten/ • Buch Gender-Neurowissenschaften | Daphna Joel, Luba Vikhanski: "Das Gehirn hat kein Geschlecht - Wie die Neurowissenschaft die Genderdebatte revolutioniert", erschienen 2021 https://www.dtv.de/buch/daphna-joel-luba-vikhanski-das-gehirn-hat-kein-geschlecht-43780/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwk4yGBhDQARIsACGfAesgHBV5ESprqSX6p8Vd9JicqinWzmDo772ZnhjNegbpDIUA0iubVGQaArZTEALw_wcB • Publikation zu Theorie von Mosaikgehirn | Daphna Joel et al.: "Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic", erschienen 2015 https://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468?fbclid=IwAR3SluVjPC6mbqu0fU7km0E_QmSYe0r5-7axHEC4P4_4tbZnu2h-tiqmcok • Hochstaplersyndrom | Dena M. Bravata et al.: "Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review", erschienen 2019 im Journal of General Internal Medicine auf Springer Link https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-019-05364-1?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_source=ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AA_en_06082018&ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst_20191218 • Geschlechtswechsel Clownfische | Laura Casas, Fran Saborido-Rey, Taewoo Ryu, Craig Michell, Timothy Ravasi, Xabier Irigoien: "Sex Change in Clownfish: Molecular Insights from Transcriptome Analysis", erschienen 2016 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35461 • Testosteron-Spiegel in Abhängigkeit davon, wo Männer aufgewachsen sind | Kesson Magid, Robert T. Chatterton, Farid Uddin Ahamed, Gillian R. Bentley: "Childhood ecology influences salivary testosterone, pubertal age and stature of Bangladeshi UK migrant men", erschienen 2018 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0567-6.epdf?shared_access_token=42QCEb0ikI3LwIuBc6u-TtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PbKnmbIjl8rYFaKg5N_uaEq-vZMt4S1KZW0-E8fc2aHlKL1ck_GKRaWmEHOMIqVLl4z2oOVCyZcIePs9HjZLlarRQcixreViJFx6kkO817Ksdf7ReBnqTqNi0sl5QozkM%3D • Testosteron und Männer, die sich um Kinder kümmern | Lee T. Gettlera, Thomas W. McDadea, Alan B. Feranilc, Christopher W. Kuzawa: "Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males", erschienen 2011 bei PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108/39/16194.full.pdf • Film "Picture a scientist" bei NDR Kultur https://www.ndr.de/kultur/film/Doku-ueber-Frauen-in-der-Wissenschaft-Picture-a-Scientist,pictureascientist100.html • Beispiele für geschlechtssensible Forschung | Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering and Environment http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/ • Geruch von Männern stresst Ratten | Robert E Sorge, et al.: "Olfactory exposure to males, including men, causes stress and related analgesia in rodents", erschienen 2014 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.2935 • Forschung zu Seenadeln und Seepferdchen | Oliva Roth für Geomar Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel https://www.geomar.de/oroth

Der Schädel von Männern ist im Verhältnis zu ihrem Körper kleiner als der von Frauen. Daher müssen Männer intelligenter sein als Frauen - diese und ähnliche Aussagen wurden in den vergangenen Jahrhunderten dazu genutzt, die Ungleichbehandlung von Männern und Frauen zu legitimieren. Mit dem relativ neuen Forschungsgebiet "Genderstudies" hat die Forschung rund um Gender und Geschlecht neuen Auftrieb erhalten. Wie groß sind die die Unterschiede zwischen den verschiedenen Geschlechtern wirklich? Und warum gibt es biologisch gesehen gar keine scharfe Trennung von Geschlechtern? Über diese Fragen sprechen Host Lucie Kluth und Wissenschaftsjournalistin Yasmin Appelhans in der aktuellen Folge von Synapsen. Und sie blicken auch auf den Wissenschaftsbetrieb selbst: Wie steht es dort um die Gleich- oder Ungleichbehandlung der Geschlechter? Dort, wo an Unterschieden zwischen Geschlechtern geforscht wird und wo die andauernde Diskriminierung von Personen aufgrund ihres Geschlechts kritisiert wird? Die Hintergrundinformationen • Anteil Frauen in der Wissenschaft | Statistisches Bundesamt: Personal an Hochschulen - Fachserie 11 Reihe 4.4 - 2019 https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bildung-Forschung-Kultur/Hochschulen/Publikationen/Downloads-Hochschulen/personal-hochschulen-2110440197004.html;jsessionid=C60568A35D53A45371DB2647A672F287.live712 • Studie zu Kompetenz von Forschenden bei identischem CV | Corinne A. Moss-Racusin, John F. Dovidio, Victoria L. Brescoll, Mark J. Graham, Jo Handelsman: "Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students", erschienen 2012 auf PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474 • Debatte über binäres biologisches Geschlecht | Claire Ainsworth: "Sex redefined", erschienen 2015 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943 • Dissertation Stephanie Michalczyk über Geschlecht und Gender im Wissenschaftsbetrieb | Stephanie Michalczyk: "The [M]OTHER. Geschlecht im Hochschulreformdiskurs", erschienen 2021 auf jpc https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/books/detail/-/art/stephanie-michalczyk-the-m-other-geschlecht-im-hochschulreformdiskurs/hnum/10479976 • Vornamen von Profesorinnen und Professoren | "Studie: Wie heißen Deutschlands Professorinnen und Professoren?", erschienen 2019 auf forschung-und-lehre.de https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/wie-heissen-deutschlands-professorinnen-und-professoren-1511/ • Kinder zeichnen Wissenschaftler | David I. Miller, Kyle M. Nolla, Alice H. Eagly, David H. Uttal: "The Development of Children's Gender-Science Stereotypes - A Meta-analysis of 5 Decades of U.S. Draw-A-Scientist Studies" https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13039 • Männer präsentieren ihre Forschung positiver | Marc J Lerchenmueller et al.: "Gender differences in how scientists present the importance of their research: observational study", erschienen 2019 auf The BMJ https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6573 • Gender-bias in Zitierungen von Veröffentlichungen | Jordan D. Dworkin, Kristin A. Linn, Erin G. Teich, Perry Zurn, Russell T. Shinohara, Danielle S. Bassett: "The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists", erschienen 2020 auf Nature Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0658-y • Frauen publizieren weniger während Corona-Pandemie | Carolin Lerchenmüller, Leo Schmallenbach, Anupam B Jena, Marc J Lerchenmueller: "Longitudinal analyses of gender differences in first authorship publications related to COVID-19", erschienen 2021 auf BMJ Journals https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/4/e045176 • Debatte um Caster Semenya | Quarks: "Urteil gegen Caster Semenya So fragwürdig ist die Testosteron-Regel", erschienen 2019 https://www.quarks.de/gesundheit/medizin/darum-ist-das-urteil-gegen-caster-semenya-so-umstritten/ • Buch Gender-Neurowissenschaften | Daphna Joel, Luba Vikhanski: "Das Gehirn hat kein Geschlecht - Wie die Neurowissenschaft die Genderdebatte revolutioniert", erschienen 2021 https://www.dtv.de/buch/daphna-joel-luba-vikhanski-das-gehirn-hat-kein-geschlecht-43780/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwk4yGBhDQARIsACGfAesgHBV5ESprqSX6p8Vd9JicqinWzmDo772ZnhjNegbpDIUA0iubVGQaArZTEALw_wcB • Publikation zu Theorie von Mosaikgehirn | Daphna Joel et al.: "Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic", erschienen 2015 https://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468?fbclid=IwAR3SluVjPC6mbqu0fU7km0E_QmSYe0r5-7axHEC4P4_4tbZnu2h-tiqmcok • Hochstaplersyndrom | Dena M. Bravata et al.: "Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review", erschienen 2019 im Journal of General Internal Medicine auf Springer Link https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-019-05364-1?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_source=ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AA_en_06082018&ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst_20191218 • Geschlechtswechsel Clownfische | Laura Casas, Fran Saborido-Rey, Taewoo Ryu, Craig Michell, Timothy Ravasi, Xabier Irigoien: "Sex Change in Clownfish: Molecular Insights from Transcriptome Analysis", erschienen 2016 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35461 • Testosteron-Spiegel in Abhängigkeit davon, wo Männer aufgewachsen sind | Kesson Magid, Robert T. Chatterton, Farid Uddin Ahamed, Gillian R. Bentley: "Childhood ecology influences salivary testosterone, pubertal age and stature of Bangladeshi UK migrant men", erschienen 2018 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0567-6.epdf?shared_access_token=42QCEb0ikI3LwIuBc6u-TtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PbKnmbIjl8rYFaKg5N_uaEq-vZMt4S1KZW0-E8fc2aHlKL1ck_GKRaWmEHOMIqVLl4z2oOVCyZcIePs9HjZLlarRQcixreViJFx6kkO817Ksdf7ReBnqTqNi0sl5QozkM%3D • Testosteron und Männer, die sich um Kinder kümmern | Lee T. Gettlera, Thomas W. McDadea, Alan B. Feranilc, Christopher W. Kuzawa: "Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males", erschienen 2011 bei PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108/39/16194.full.pdf • Film "Picture a scientist" bei NDR Kultur https://www.ndr.de/kultur/film/Doku-ueber-Frauen-in-der-Wissenschaft-Picture-a-Scientist,pictureascientist100.html • Beispiele für geschlechtssensible Forschung | Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering and Environment http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/ • Geruch von Männern stresst Ratten | Robert E Sorge, et al.: "Olfactory exposure to males, including men, causes stress and related analgesia in rodents", erschienen 2014 auf Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.2935 • Forschung zu Seenadeln und Seepferdchen | Oliva Roth für Geomar Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel https://www.geomar.de/oroth

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张东菊，兰州大学资源环境学院教授。“这是令人振奋的发现，它证明在16万年前，青藏高原地区就有人类活动。”1980年代，在甘肃省夏河县的白石崖溶洞，一位僧人捡到了一块看起来像人类下颌骨的骨头，骨头上面还有两颗牙齿。僧人把这块骨头交给了六世贡唐活佛，后来活佛又将这块化石交给了兰州大学从事古人类研究的科学家。随着技术的发展，研究人员在2010年前后正式对这块化石和白石崖溶洞遗址展开研究。研究确定了在青藏高原白石崖溶洞发现的古人类下颌骨化石至少形成于16万年以前，与在西伯利亚发现的丹尼索瓦人化石具有最紧密的基因关系。以张东菊为共同通讯作者的这一系列研究成果发表在Nature和Science上，并入选Science杂志评选的 「2019年度十大科学突破」。

张东菊，兰州大学资源环境学院教授。“这是令人振奋的发现，它证明在16万年前，青藏高原地区就有人类活动。”1980年代，在甘肃省夏河县的白石崖溶洞，一位僧人捡到了一块看起来像人类下颌骨的骨头，骨头上面还有两颗牙齿。僧人把这块骨头交给了六世贡唐活佛，后来活佛又将这块化石交给了兰州大学从事古人类研究的科学家。随着技术的发展，研究人员在2010年前后正式对这块化石和白石崖溶洞遗址展开研究。研究确定了在青藏高原白石崖溶洞发现的古人类下颌骨化石至少形成于16万年以前，与在西伯利亚发现的丹尼索瓦人化石具有最紧密的基因关系。以张东菊为共同通讯作者的这一系列研究成果发表在Nature和Science上，并入选Science杂志评选的 「2019年度十大科学突破」。

张东菊，兰州大学资源环境学院教授。“这是令人振奋的发现，它证明在16万年前，青藏高原地区就有人类活动。”1980年代，在甘肃省夏河县的白石崖溶洞，一位僧人捡到了一块看起来像人类下颌骨的骨头，骨头上面还有两颗牙齿。僧人把这块骨头交给了六世贡唐活佛，后来活佛又将这块化石交给了兰州大学从事古人类研究的科学家。随着技术的发展，研究人员在2010年前后正式对这块化石和白石崖溶洞遗址展开研究。研究确定了在青藏高原白石崖溶洞发现的古人类下颌骨化石至少形成于16万年以前，与在西伯利亚发现的丹尼索瓦人化石具有最紧密的基因关系。以张东菊为共同通讯作者的这一系列研究成果发表在Nature和Science上，并入选Science杂志评选的 「2019年度十大科学突破」。

A Sixth Taste? With Dr. Nicole Garneau From an early age I loved both science and entertaining. I did stand up comedy in my 4th grade talent show, and played the lead Andrew Sister in a high school production about the 1940s. And yet, I also learned the fungi (fun-guy) joke in 6th grade, won my share of science fairs, and by my sophomore year, had declared to my folks that I was going to be a geneticist. See, dreams do come true! I’m now doing what I love most, talking science and inspiration, and making people laugh full time. Following high school, I loved my time on the banks of the old Raritan, completing my BA in Genetics at Rutgers College. I then took off a gap year to gain a sense of self, before going full force into my PhD in microbiology at Colorado State University. This led to a business internship with CSU Ventures, volunteering for the Colorado BioScience Association, and eventually a ten-year career as the curator and chair of the Health Sciences Department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. And now, I’m honored to be recognized as one of the top 5 most influential young professionals in Colorado, a 2020 CiviCO Governors Fellow, and a serial entrepreneur. I live with my husband and daughter in Denver, and delight in immersing myself in nature when I’m not immersed in designing and customizing presentations and trainings for my corporate and nonprofit clients www.drnicolegarneau.com nicole@drnolegarneau.com www.feednigfatty.com info@feedingfatty.com Full Transcript  Roy - Feeding Fatty (00:03): Hello, and welcome to another episode of feeding fatty I'm Roy and I'm Terry. And of course, this podcast just Chronicles our journey, my journey, Terry supporting, helping me through the weight loss, getting healthy, getting exercise, and, you know, we are up and down and all over the place. And so, uh, you know, we have guests on from time to time to come in, help us with different perspectives, their opinion, some are going through what we are going through as well today. Uh, actually you are our first repeat guests. So that is, uh, uh, an award, I guess, that we'll have to hand out first repeat. Yes, she is our scientists next door, Dr. Nicole Garn new. Now she is recognized as one of the top five influential young professionals in Colorado and a 20, 20 Civico governor's fellow and serial entrepreneur. So, Nicole, thanks again for taking time out of your day. Roy - Feeding Fatty (01:03): It's, uh, it's really a good story. We met a long time. I mean, a long time, few months ago, talk the original, uh, the original message we wanted to have you on was for this, but we, after talking, we decided to go with the mindset and mindfulness and the five, uh, tips to your mental health fitness. And so, um, wanted to have you back. So today we're going to talk about, there are, I guess, five identified taste and you think that you have uncovered the six one. And so we're going to talk a little bit about that, but I do know you were the curator of a museum, and so you can tell us a little bit about your history and your research on this topic. Dr. Nicole (01:50): That sounds great. Thank you for having me back. I will take the, a word that sounds great. Yeah, either that, or you're a glutton. Carrie will take me with her to Hawaii. I will do it. Come on. That's right. I would never come home if I let y'all go down there together. That's true. I spent the last 10 years I having left, well, I guess left the museum a year ago, but I was there for 10 years with Denver museum of nature and science. And I was the curator and chair of the health sciences department. And for folks who aren't quite as familiar with science museums, just like art museums, they have curators. And those curators in science museums are responsible for doing research and having these collections. They usually come from their research in order to hold for the public. Good. And so it's a little unusual for a natural history museum to have someone who studies modern human biology. Dr. Nicole (02:46): And that is what I did there. And I specifically studied, um, taste and how taste, how taste is really a function, just like all of our senses are of, and evolution of the human species. Okay. So it was a really great way for us to think about the humans are not separate from nature. We are part of nature and just like all the other animals and species we have evolved as well. And so I specifically studied human house humans experience taste. Okay. Okay. So, so the five, 10, five tastes are sweet, sweet sour, salty learn and new mama. So those are the, so I joke around, I joke around that. It's kind of like, um, for golf fans out there, it's kind of like getting the green jacket, but those are the ones that have like they're, they're the masters. Everyone accepts them. They're great. Dr. Nicole (03:41): And then there's a lot of other really cool, possible tastes out there that, um, is starting to gain a lot more scientific evidence that it actually exist. So I think it might be worth me talking about how it tastes for the most part gets defined as a taste. Okay. Okay. And, and part of this is because a lot of times people confuse, tastes and smell different senses, different sensory organs. So tongue and soft palate have these receptors, which are like locking keys. Um, for the most part that are for taste versus smell, which is in your olfactory cavity, basically in your olfactory bulbs. Again, you have those receptors, those locks and keys, but for there for molecules that are aerosolized and are going to go to different parts of the brain. So this is really important. So that's one of the things we need to understand in our senses. Dr. Nicole (04:31): And particularly when thinking about tastes one, when you have that in your mouth, do you perceive it? Is there something that you're proceeding? Okay. Okay, too. So that's like the first one that's like sour, everyone agrees sour has a green jacket. Sour is a taste it's been around forever. Everyone agrees. Yeah. You know, you're tasting something so perception. And then from there you have to start digging in deeper. Um, molecular biologists want to understand cell biologists want to understand, do we know this, the cells in the sensory organ that hosts and are the homes of those lock and key receptors? Okay. So now we're starting to get into process. Dr. Nicole (05:16): And those receptors are those locks and keys. The shape of them matters. And the shape of them comes from our genetics. So our genetics is just our, our human genome is just a cookbook for our body. Cookbook has recipes, the human genome cookbook has genes and they do the same thing. The recipe tells you how to make something. The gene tells you how to make something. And just like maybe Roy, your mom's recipe for maybe chocolate cake is a little bit different than someone else's. Same thing. Our genes are a little bit different. So we all have the same genes, all of a sudden the same genes about 25,000 genes or recipes in our cookbook. Wow. Okay. Okay. Let's say any changes and these little like 0.1% differences, percent differences that, um, make us unique in ways we can see in ways we can't see. Dr. Nicole (06:09): And one of the ways we can't see as taste, so it changes the shape of that receptor. Okay. So let's bring it back. You put something in your mouth, right? All right. Listeners, you're eating something. You're perceiving it. Why am I perceiving that? That's cool. I'm proceeding it down at the tiny, tiny level. Those little tiny food molecules are breaking up and are interacting with your tongue by kind of being like a LA key that's coming in and unlocking that lock. And when that happens, a signal goes to the brain and the brain is perceiving it. And the brain makes the decision. You want to eat more of it or do you not want to eat more of it? Okay. All right. So we're, so for sour, we know you have a perception and excuse me, and we don't really know the genes. Really. We have an idea about what this, this receptor looks like, but we don't really know, but guess what? Dr. Nicole (07:06): Sour gets a green jacket. Okay. Salty, same thing. We're like close, but we don't quite understand totally how salt is working in humans. It's got a green jacket who mommy, which is savory tastes a protein speed, which we're all familiar with is the taste of sugar. We can all agree on that. We know that one bitter bitter, which is a taste of a particular molecules that usually associate more with, um, historically poison. Although we know there's a lot of things that are bitter, that aren't poisonous, that are very good for us. Like cruciferous vegetables. We understand the genetics of that. So we understand the recipe or the gene. We understand what it makes and what it looks like. And we understand how that connects in those tastes cells and how the taste cells then connect to the brain. We know where it goes in the brain. Okay. So those ones are like the standards. So we're like, okay, those guys, they got it. So on incomes, new guys. So if we had to throw it out there and I wonder what your listeners would think right now, what are some things that people are like, well, why isn't that a taste? Is that a taste? What about this? Is that a taste? So what kind of things would you guys think about the could be tastes Tery - Feeding Fatty (08:18): Fat, fat? What else? I don't know. Sugar and salt are the tea for me. I have them all. They fall sugar salty or no goods. Dr. Nicole (08:35): Well, there's some preliminary evidence that's growing for a couple other ones, certain minerals like calcium, the pure taste of water, which would have helped us evolutionarily. For sure. Although you're alive, then you become as a devoid of something and therefore it's pure or is it your taste appear? So there's less evidence for, and then fat. And that's the one that I worked on for a few years as part of my tenure at the Denver museum of nature and science. And that was through a partnership with Purdue university. And I worked with, um, a scientist there, Rick Madis. And he has been working on fat tastes for 30 plus years. Wow. And there's a few other folks in the industry in terms of the field of tastes research, who have also been trying so hard to get forth enough evidence that the taste of fat be considered the six tastes. So that's what I thought we could dive into today or about that. Roy - Feeding Fatty (09:32): Okay. Before we get too far off, but just a couple of questions that I had thought about while you're talking, number one is, um, can your taste or your smell throw the other one off? If something smells like something and then you get into your mouth, not what you thought. But then the other thing is, um, our, our tastes genetically pre-programmed. Are they learned or is it some combination of those? Because some people like sweet. Some people like, you know, prefer sweet, prefer salty. Cause the other weird thing is we've had this conversation many times, like, uh, uh, the big pickles that are sour. Okay. And she loves them. She even puts, she puts some pickle juice in something we were drinking and it made me think like, okay, so back when we were kids, after you played a baseball game, you got a free snack. Well, the pattern I noticed even then is, you know, the boys would get the snow cone or a piece of bubble gum or something like that. Girls always got those sour pickles and I just never could stand the taste. So I know that's a whole lot of information, but yeah, it, it almost seemed like there were some genetic, uh, some genetic line that was drawn there. Roy - Feeding Fatty (10:52): Give me a deal, pickle, meet snow cone with a little bit a Lima. Oh my goodness. I am in heaven. Dr. Nicole (11:01): See Terry, we got to go Hawaii. Roy - Feeding Fatty (11:03): Oh, come on. Dr. Nicole (11:07): All right. So let's bring it back. Okay. Right out of the gate. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm like we would probably put the cart before the horse because we started diving directly into a deep dive of how tastes works. But I think we want to bring it back to how humans perceive flavor as a whole. Okay. Let's break it down from there because some of the questions you just asked for are going to be answered when we look at it from that perspective. Okay. So the first thing is flavor in the brain flavor is just a perception of reality and that perception leads to a behavior. So let's think about it from that point of view. So now where's the brain getting its clues to have this perception of reality right out of the gate. We know that it's going to be coming from the census. Dr. Nicole (11:55): So our five senses plays a huge role, of course, in figuring out how our brain is perceiving the flavor of something we're eating or drinking. Okay. And that's everything from before you even put something in your mouth, you're seeing it, you're smelling it. And it's called ortho nasal olfaction. So through the nostrils, you might be hearing something sizzle or hearing the pop of a can that plays in and you're touching it usually with your, with your fingers, you're touching something. And you're getting an idea of what the texture is. Your brain is already said in real time, integrating that information before it even goes into your mouth and saying, Hmm, have I, is this new? Have I seen this before? Did I have an adverse reaction to this before? Okay. Did you drink too much? And for up to now, you don't eat a certain food. Dr. Nicole (12:42): Right? Nobody loves it. Or do I have some sort of learned predilection? Like last time I ate this, um, you know, I got, I was able to do all this work. Okay. Caffeine, I think is one of the most bitter molecules known to man. Did you guys have caffeine this morning and wake, you brought up two and a half cups today. Okay. Right. So bitter, you should not like coffee. We love it because we've learned like, okay, yes, this is going to lead me to wake my butt up and get things done. I need to get done. Especially during the dark season when it's like, it doesn't wake us up. Right. So it's taking it all this tension. And then it's pulling in other things like, Hmm, what's my hunger level. What's my salt level right now. What's my so nest is where some of the cravings come in. Dr. Nicole (13:29): And boy, were you talking about? And then finally, you're going to start bringing in some of the things, the things that scientists really have a hard time studying, which is the human element. How does your cultural background bring it to this nostalgia memories? Things like the food hasn't even gone in your mouth yet. Right? So now what's in your mouth. You have the sense of taste, which is the sweet sour, salty, bitter, umami, possibly fatty acids. And possibly some of these other guys you're getting retro nasal olfaction, which retro means behind olfaction of course, is the nose. So retro nasal. So it's basically, as you chew food, you're warming it up. It's getting aerosolized and it goes up the back of your throat to your olfactory bulbs. Okay. So for someone who's like, I don't understand what you're saying. Dr. Nicole, did you ever laugh so hard that root beer or milk came out your notes? That's the pattern. Okay. Roy - Feeding Fatty (14:29): Well, I'll tell you the other one that I, then I always think about when you say that is, um, we've Sabi. Cause if you get so much, it will, it seemed like it will burn all the way. The back. You throw them back up into your nose. Dr. Nicole (14:42): Yes. Which it's almost like we've met each other before. Last thing that happens in your mouth, which is melts field, which is the sense touch, it's still part of your touch system. So part of the five senses, but it's going to be pain, which is what's going on with those Sabi. You're actually, nociceptors nociceptors are your pain receptors in your body, which is why your face gets red. Your nose starts running because your capillaries are starting to open. And so your everything just starts going haywire depending on how sensitive you are. Um, so it's pain, temperature and texture is, is, um, the sense of mouth feel in your mouth, the sense of touch. Okay? So then your brain is still integrating and it's like, cool. Now I have these new clues again, are they new? Are they old? Are they what's going on? And then your brain is going to your brain is going to decide, do you eat it? Do you spit it out? Do you eat more and so on and so forth? So the questions around is this genetically determined, taste preferences are inmate at birth babies. I always joke babies. Don't like IPA's Speaker 4 (15:53): Yeah. Dr. Nicole (15:53): Okay. Babies. Don't like bitter. So you were born, not liking bitter, not liking salt and sour. Some are in the middle. And we talked a little bit about this. When we, uh, in our, the last episode we did together on the mental health fitness steps, but then umami and sweet. Those guys, you have a predilection for right out of the gate. So in the womb, these are forming. So there's a genetic basis of these. That's very different than no smells are learned. There was no believe it or not, there is no one smell that everyone in the world says, that's we all agree. That's pleasant. And there's no one smell. There's some exceptions possibly. I won't get into them. That for the most part, humans, all agree is not pleasant. And so smell is learned. Now we're talking about not the ability to smell. We're talking about liking. So this is a big difference. There's your ability to detect something and that's genetic. And then if you like it, and at what level you like it for taste right out of the gate, you're born with it for smell. You learn it over the years and, and really you learn it in the wound first. And you also, it looks like there's some evidence that you learned to appreciate a good spicy food, or have a tolerance for spicy food in the world as well. Speaker 4 (17:19): Okay. The dogs are protesting. The dogs are saying they are so mad. They're, they're kind of shut up in a room. And, uh, they don't like that. Dr. Nicole (17:32): I feel like, you know, I know I had my, I had to take the kid and the dog looked professional. Speaker 4 (17:41): Um, Dr. Nicole (17:42): So Roy, there's not a connection in terms of the genetics. So, um, X, Y which versus X, X, X, Y makes the guy gal in terms of the genetic sex of a baby, it doesn't, there's not these genes aren't on those genes. So there's some, maybe some other connection that's going on that that could be explored about why ladies were choosing the salty sour product. And, um, there's a variety of things that could go into that. Going back to hunger level and macro micronutrients. Typically this stuff is going to be picked when you sweat a lot, or you need to do something to balance homeostasis. So that's why a lot of people drink athletes, drink pickle juice to replenish their electrolytes. Roy - Feeding Fatty (18:26): Oh, okay. Never heard of that order after their sports practice. Right. Exactly. Concentrate. Yeah. They were smarter. I can tell you that for sure. They still are. Dr. Nicole (18:38): Can we answered the pickle question? And we talked about it from the genetic perspective. There was one other one that I think you asked that I can't remember if he answered Roy - Feeding Fatty (18:45): The, uh, the one was just the confusion between, uh, you know, as you're bringing it up, the smell may signal one way or the other where your taste is actually something different. Dr. Nicole (18:58): Yeah. So we're beginning to really understand what's called, um, crossmodal sensory interactions, which is how does one sense either literally affect physically or cognitively in the brain affect the perception of something else? So let me give you an example of that. And this is, um, these are some of the things that when I work with food companies, they like to know which is, for example, in the U S we associate vanilla cinnamon and strawberry, and the color red, Mrs. Sweet. So I can give you a drink that has no sugar in it and make it smell like strawberry and make it red. And you're going to tell me, this is sweet. Wow. Interesting cultural it's learn. So that's cognitive. So that's happening in the brain. So other things that can happen is that that can happen. That's more physical is for example, spicy. When you have spicy food, there's evidence to show that when you activate mouthfeel and that pain reception in your mouth, it does something to increase. Dr. Nicole (20:09): I don't know if it's your awareness or is the actually the, the, the taste cells sending signals to the brain. We don't know where taste and smell perception goes up, which is why you can use spicy food, add more spices as you're decreasing salt and sugar and things, and still get that same reward. So yes, there's interactions between all of the sensory systems and there's even interactions within sensory systems. So chefs know this very well. You add a little bit of salt, it picks up the sweet, and it makes an, it decreases the bitter sweet and bitter D uh, our antagonist. They decrease each other. So not only are your senses interacting in some way, shape or form, and your brain is integrating it, which is wild. Even within one sense, like the sense of taste you're having these interactions that are occurring. That almost don't make sense because you're like, no, I know I have this much self, and I know I have this much sweet, but I'm getting actually this feeling of it. Right. Roy - Feeding Fatty (21:11): And that's a, it's a good one to talk about for just a minute too, because there's, um, a major fast food chain that along the way they figured that out is that if they would soak their French fries in sugar water, then it becomes addictive. And it does. I mean, it's hard if you know that and you taste it, you can kind of pick that up. But for years and years, you really, I never picked up that sweetness of them. Now, I understand why they are so addictive, not only the salt, but the sugar, that's it. Dr. Nicole (21:50): Because now you're having now, it's kind of like, you're being for lack of a better word, kind of tricked because it's high. It's not high enough that you're cognitively perceiving it only because there's a lot of other things going on. Usually if it's drive through or something like that, you're eating in the car. So your brain's paying attention to other things. You've got the salt. So you're not really being like, these are sweet French fries, and yet you're having a physiological reaction that says, Oh, that was energy. Yeah. And it used to be really hard to find. So he was like eating sugar, even when you don't even realize it. Roy - Feeding Fatty (22:23): Yeah. Oh yeah. And the other thing, I guess the converse of that is, uh, when we, when me personally, I will say, when I cut my sugar, when I'm watching my intake only, maybe eating more natural sugars, like, uh, you know, fruit and stuff, then all the sudden that the sweet, the natural sweetness of foods is very, very amplified. All of a sudden you'll eat something, one thing. And I think it's carrots that are very noticeable, but you eat them. You're like, wow, that was just like almost eating a candy bar. It was so sweet. Dr. Nicole (22:59): Yes. And I have many, a friends who study what's going on with dopamine in the brain and the reward system that is part of when you have intake of sugar. And, and it's true there, that reward system, you basically need to go higher and higher at that hit. So when you start decreasing, your perception is going to change with it. Especially if you're doing it mindfully, it's going to change your behavior, which is your perception and so on and so forth because it's beauty, it's either a beautiful cycle or a negative feedback loop of perception and mindfulness and what you're doing, changes behavior and behavior changes, perception, and so on and so forth. And I've noticed the same thing, um, with, with tracking, we talked about this quite a bit. Um, last time with tracking food, I'm like, Oh, wow, that has that in it. And it's making, when I do decide to do it, not out of habit, not reaching for things out of habit. When I decide to eat that peanut butter, I don't even know if it was peanut butter, chocolate, something from Coldstone. Speaker 4 (24:00): Well, that's good Dr. Nicole (24:03): Allergies. Oh my gosh. But when I decide to do that, because it's special because I was out with my five-year-old and we went to sushi together, and then we were going to go see a movie. The reward I got from that was out of control. Whereas before I used to just eat those all the time and be like, Oh, no big deal. So their behavior can change. Perception can change behavior in a very positive feedback loop when you're mindful of it. And those decreasing of taking in both salt and sugar, both of those things, your body then recognizes that and realizes that, um, you, you don't need the same concentration in order to get that same hit. And probably, I wonder, I wonder why two for salt for me, things too, if I go, if I get takeout food now is he's so salty to me. Right? Speaker 4 (24:47): Exactly. Yes. Anything pack all that package stuff. It's just, so it just tastes so different now that now that we know everything that's in it Roy - Feeding Fatty (24:56): And she bought some, uh, I don't know what they're called. They're like more they're blue, natural chips, I guess maybe it's yeah. Maybe a marketing gimmick, but supposedly they're a little better for you on carbs than regular. But, uh, when we had a bag of those, it was like, wow, that was like eating a block of salt is exactly what I thought, you know, because we had been watching our salt intake so closely that, and it really wasn't that much when we looked at the label, but just, just a little bit of elevation in the intake really wasn't. Speaker 4 (25:31): Yeah. And they were even, I think they were even, there were some that were cell-free I've gotten both, you know, that had just lightly salted, but the cell-free ones were good too. It was just the current we needed the crunch. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (25:42): I don't want to deteriorate too far off the subject. Just one more thing while we're talking about this is that, uh, you know, when I, a couple years ago, when I was diagnosed with, um, diabetes, I kind of goofed around with not really understanding the impacts of carbs and how much you ate when you ate them, all that. So, you know, after a couple months I went back to the doctor and he's like, what are you doing? He's like, yeah, if you haven't fixed or changed anything, I'm like, yeah. So anyway, he told me, that's when he told me, he's like, stay between this level of carbs, which was pretty low. So, um, he did that on like a Wednesday or Thursday. And then Saturday, I was out in the yard and I thought, I really thought I was done. I thought my blood pressure was so high. Roy - Feeding Fatty (26:27): And I felt like my head was fixing the top of my head was going to blow off and went up and got my blood pressure checked. I mean, I was scared. So I made an appointment, went in Monday and he was just laughing. He's like, you know, carbs are like drugs. He said, they are addictive and you just coming down off of them. Oh my God. But it was the worst feeling. But, you know, that's, that's, I guess that's what gets some of us like me in trouble, because you become addicted to, you know, that salt, that sugar, and then you need more and more and more until you just do too much. Oh yeah. Dr. Nicole (27:04): Yup. And then, like we talked about it's there there's starts with what's going on in the genetics and how you're even detecting it. And then from there, it's the things that you've taught your brain. Yeah. And sometimes we teach our brain is not the right things that we should be. Yep. Yeah. In fact, there's some really cool research I found fascinating, which was, and I can't remember the researcher's name now. I think it was at a Florida where they looked at how much somebody's anticipated the reward of a milkshake. And they were looking at it from lean, overweight and obese as a point of taking in carbohydrates and then how much reward they got from it. And it was this terrible cycle of that. The obesity was leading to a higher thought of reward, anticipation of reward, and then not hitting it when you ate it and then needing, and then wanting more. And it was, and it was a study that was done with, um, teenage girls, which was really fascinating. And I just thought, Oh my gosh. And then there was another study they did where you can call the same thing, healthy or treat same exact thing. And your is going to be like, and I don't want one that's healthy. That's the safe milkshake. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So some really easy neuroscience that, that I feel like the more you know about, you're like, Oh no, I'm going to retrain my brain. Roy - Feeding Fatty (28:40): Pay more attention, be more mindful. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Dr. Nicole (28:43): And that's what you're onto is the mindfulness, not only in what and why you want it and when, and making that as decision and not out of habit, but also then the mindfulness while you're eating and really letting your brain be like, wow. Yeah, this is really good for what it is and not, and not, um, not having it go down so quick that you're not even paying attention. Roy - Feeding Fatty (29:04): Yeah. That's another good thing to kind of hit on too, is as I am an extremely fast or was a fast eater, I've learned to slow down, but you know, I grew up with, you know, there's a bunch of guys that we, we rodeo together and went down the road. And so whenever, you know, there'd be eight or 10 guys. And if you, if there was a bite left on your plate, if they would, if they got through first, they would eat it. And so you're like, yeah, it was self preservation. You know, you just had to eat as fast as you possibly could to get it, get your meal down. And, uh, that stuck with me over the years. It's and sometimes I catch myself as how I'm eating, but I think that helps us to slow down and mindfully taste the food, the texture, you know, the what is it? Is it salty? Is it sweet and try to, um, uh, enjoy it, I guess, is that why I get the stink-eye sometimes when we're finished and have dinner? Dr. Nicole (30:04): Oh my goodness. One of the things that comes up too, is the slower, the slower, more mindful you eat. It's not just about what's in feeling it in the mouth and the taste, but you're actually having better air flow between your mouth and your nose. So you get a lot more perception of a Romo's, which makes things more complicated, which, you know, complex in your brain, right. Which leads to higher levels of safety. So Roy - Feeding Fatty (30:27): There's a little bit of delay too, from, from the, I guess the receptors that tell you you're full. So, you know, what else I've heard is if you eat the slower you eat, you give that time to catch up and sing the sin signal, where if you eat fast, you just kinda eat past it and you get the signal somewhere down the road that, Hey, I'm full. But that was about 15 minutes ago. Dr. Nicole (30:51): Yep. Yep. I think you're totally right with all of that. And that was the hardest thing that I had when I started working with a nutrition coach. The hardest thing that I have is understanding portion controls because I would eat so fast and I realized that exactly what you said, boy, when I slowed down, I don't have seconds cause I'm actually already fall. Right. Roy - Feeding Fatty (31:11): Yeah. And it's just, I've, I've learned to it's even if I can eat the right amount of food, if I eat it off the same time or eat it later in the evening, so we have to be mindful of the quantity and portion size as well. But so how can we take these, um, the taste and how can we, I guess, use that to our advantage to try to eat right? And, or maybe even look at how we could not fall into the trap of eating, eating wrong or too much, but none of the knowledge of what we know Dr. Nicole (31:45): Yeah. From the taste perspective, I think the biggest thing that helps us a starting point is just recognizing and not judging how many tablespoons of sugar do you take in a day? Like just really understanding. And I'm not talking like, you know, nobody eats a tablespoon of sure. Okay. Maybe we'll do, I don't know. Most people don't yet, but understanding the sugar that's in what you eat and just starting there. Same thing for salt. Although salt is so, so much harder. I've had a much easier time limiting sugar than I've been able to limit salt, but they both are just get a feel for it. Like, okay, what am I taking in? And from there recognizing what is the, the not only filling but fulfilling for you. And usually the way that can work is by, by doing it mindfully, which we've talked about, you're going to get more of the hits of the more fulfilling, like protein. Dr. Nicole (32:40): So making sure you're getting that protein, but doing it in a way where your, whatever, your protein sources, you're doing it a little in a dry Browning situation so that you get that Brown crust. Okay. Okay. That's called the mired reaction and that's an interaction with some of the sugars and that's going on with, with some of the fat and a love of water content that is going to give you a huge hit of umami. And that umami hit is you tells your brain, Oh, this is the good stuff. Like this is high density, high, high, good caloric protein. So you want to pay attention more to those things and create your meals more around that big thick, wonderful, juicy, savory umami flavor, maybe a little bit of sugar, maybe a little bit of salt, and then really play on the spices in order to, to bring in, um, aromatics. Dr. Nicole (33:38): You really want to get the complex and complexity of the smells and then the textures. So textures play a big role in you figuring out like, Oh, does this feel full or not? Which is part of the reason why, even though I'm trying to get a hundred grams of protein a day, sometimes I can't get it and I'll do a protein shake. The non chewing means I'm not sending those six to my brain and my stomach that these things are coming and it can have a feedback that means you're not going to feel it. Not only is it not filling, but not, it's not fulfilling. Right. Right. Well, so that's how we can think of it from a taste perspective is how can you kick up the mommies? This is going to be for savory dishes, kick up the umami for non savory dishes. Like thinking more breakfast, the creamier a non-fat dairy product is for example, your brain will think it's sweeter. Dr. Nicole (34:31): Hmm. Okay. So, um, really want to go for, if you get, if you get like the non-fat European style yogurts that are like, you can just pour them, your brain's like, what is that? Right. If you get the Greek one, it's 0% fat, your brain is like, wow, that tastes sweeter. That is more fulfilling that. Yeah. So it's, it's tricking your brain in a lot of ways kind of like food companies do, but you're going to do it for good reasons. Yeah. But you're doing it in order to have your brain and your body say this is filling and fulfilling. And there's ways that you could trigger by doing that. I do want to mention that we talked about the taste of fat and there's a lot of confusion about the taste of fat. So when you think of fat, what foods come to mind? Like what fatty foods, Speaker 4 (35:23): Steak, chocolate, steak, fat, steak, fat, and stock that I don't know. Well, I'm getting really hungry are talking about this big doozy. Dr. Nicole (35:32): So all of those things that were just that we just talked about, and this is what the Americans will think about fats. Those are saturated fats. There isn't a lot of evidence that there is a taste for saturated fats. The taste of fat that has been studied for 30 plus years is unsaturated fats. Okay. And it's really interesting because by themselves they don't taste great. And they have the ability to go rancid pretty quickly, which you might've noticed. Like if you open a bar like olive oil or some of these other better fats, you're like, Whoa, like they tell you, keep it in the fridge. Not the oil is hard, but so they go bad pretty quickly. So the taste of fat that we have evidence for is unsaturated, fatty acids. And when you can taste it, it's usually an indication that it's gone bad. Dr. Nicole (36:24): So originally we thought, of course, you would need to taste this. These are good fats. Your body needs them. You can't make them. And it turns out that they are so often incorporated with other things. The only time that you can taste them really is if they've gone bad and it's an indication to you to not to eat it cause it's rancid. So that's our, you agree about why we've evolved to taste that in a survival perspective. Um, and it's totally mind blowing because normally you would think, no, that's something we need. So we should like the taste of it. Right. But when you taste it in your food, the particular molecule is the actual fatty acid molecules. So I'm not talking about like the case of avocado when you have avocado oil or the taste of macadamia, not when you have macadamia nut oils. Like those, those are the main flavors that are incorporated there. I'm actually talking to the pure taste of the fatty acids, like linolenic acid or leic acid. For the most part, it looks like we evolved to only taste them when they're not good anymore. So don't eat something that's been hanging out for a long time and get sick and die. Roy - Feeding Fatty (37:33): Yeah. And I guess that's part of assume that ha why the taste evolved or we had some to begin with and why they've evolved is that survival. I mean, we needed the, I guess the meat had to be cured. So it was salty to let us know it was probably good to eat. And then the, Dr. Nicole (37:51): Well, it would be wave before that. Right. So our developers are developing taste. The salt would have been long before humans were curing things with salt. Oh, Oh it wasn't. Yeah. So it wasn't, um, an easel easy to get in in that time for that. Yeah. So it was really interesting to think about that. When you think about our teams from the perspective of survival and evolution, you can really think to yourself, it's doing one of two things. It's either driving me towards something that I need to survive in a harsh environment, which we do no longer live in, or it's protecting me from something that could potentially hurt me, which also doesn't serve us because there's so many vegetables that are better, for example, that aren't poisonous and yeah. And you know, thinking about unsaturated fats, it's a big mystery for us to understand why it's an adversive taste. And when we know we need it, but it's because it had to do more with a complex food potentially going bad. Yeah. Yeah. So, and then again, salt and sour, these weird things in the middle that it depends on the concentration about whether it depends on the concentration of if you detect it at what concentration and then at what concentration do you like it the best. Yeah. Well, interesting. Speaker 4 (39:11): Yeah. Now I'm on brain overload now. Sensory overload. Oh my goodness. Roy - Feeding Fatty (39:21): Yeah. And that's what I've got to figure out is how, you know, to turn these vegetables into something that I like, because it's just, I cannot make myself like them. I just, it's hard. And I have to give Terry credit, you know, she does a lot of, uh, seasoning and a lot of things to try to make them more. But you know, some of it, like you said, it's that texture, some of it is the knowing, you know, sometimes she won't tell me what we're fixing to have, but it's, you know, there's a lot of stuff that goes into this eating, besides just the, you know, the actual taste of the food that doesn't hurt it. But there's, you know, I think the psychological part about just vegetables and herbs, I agree. Yeah. Speaker 4 (40:05): And he's still, he still will eat it. You know, he still says, Oh, this is the best thing I've ever had before I take the first bite, you know? Dr. Nicole (40:13): Yeah. And that brings us back to what we talked about right. At the beginning, Roy, you are basically saying, I am in charge of my behaviors. I'm making these choices and it's a long slog. It feels like, but those choices that you make in your behaviors are gonna eventually start retraining your brain and that perception will change. And you'll get to the point where all of a sudden you realize, Oh my gosh, I guess, do we, I don't even put salt on that anymore. I don't add sugar down. Yup. Um, Roy - Feeding Fatty (40:42): Now I was the worst about that. You know, salt went on everything before we even tasted it salt, pepper, but now, um, uh, very rarely, you know, we do while we're cooking, but not at once. It's been plated, no more putting salt on it, but yeah, Speaker 4 (40:56): Not as much, I mean just a little bit now, but when we first started this, you know, so many months, I don't even know how many months it seems like forever. Um, but uh, when we first started, he w you know, we'd cut out all salt and just tried to flavor it with, but you have to have a little bit, huh? Dr. Nicole (41:18): Yup. And that's what I'm finding now, now that I've been really patient with myself and I've, and I've worked on understanding and being mindful of, you know, what it is, I'm putting my body and enjoying it at that moment. I'm realizing yes. I can add a little Brown sugar to my oatmeal. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. That's fine. I can add a little salt here. Yeah. Um, yeah, I think, you know, the real take home is that our brains are these amazing machines and flavors in the brain, and you have the ability to do this, to stop it being habit and, and start started being that you're making these active choices that will then retrain your brain. And I think that's good. I really do think that's the big take home of understanding the flavors in the brain and how all the senses play in and all the five plus tastes fit in. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (42:02): So like a regular habit, they will say 21 days to retrain your brain. Do you feel that the same goes with food, but you know, something that we do every day, you know, we may not eat, uh, broccoli cooked the same way three times a day, all day, every day for 21 days. So we suspect that it may take our, take us longer to retrain for taste. Dr. Nicole (42:28): I do for two reasons. One, because like you said, um, humans crave variety in what we eat. And so this isn't something where you can train yourself to drink a glass of water every morning, as soon as you wake up and you're going to be good. Right. Which is also a good habit. And also because you're fighting against hundreds of thousands of years of operation, so that doesn't turn off without you really being intentional about it and help you get there. Like that. It's just not going to happen. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (42:59): Well, Dr. Nicole, again, it's been such a pleasure visiting and uh, every time we talk, I feel that you and Terry must be Ken at some level. And just, we do need to go on a trip. I'm telling you, I, if I could suck you away, my suitcase, I certainly would, uh, Dr. Nicole (43:18): Well leave the dogs and the kids with Roy and stuff. Roy - Feeding Fatty (43:21): Oh my God. That's right. Yeah. I was asking her, who are you more worried about surviving this two weeks? Me, you know, me or the dogs. I'm not the one I hope we can all make it, but well, tell everybody how they can reach out and get a hold of you and what you can do. I know that you do a lot of speaking. I know you do a lot of working with a food company, so just let everybody know how they could reach out. Dr. Nicole (43:44): All right. Um, folks can find me on Instagram at dot Garneau, doc G a R N E U. And then from there is where I do lots of different postings and same hash, same handle on Facebook too. And my Facebook stuff, as Terry knows, is kind of the more personal vulnerable side of doc Garneau, where I do a lot more around, um, food and speaking and consulting on my Instagram. Roy - Feeding Fatty (44:08): Okay, great. So what is something we asked you this last time, but I it's been a couple of days, so I've kind of forgot, but what is a tool, habit ritual? What is something that you do every day, either in your business life or personal life that you don't feel that you could do without? Dr. Nicole (44:26): I can't believe I'm gonna say this because I was so scared to start working out again. I will never put working out second. I do it. I always say that the do the hardest thing first. And when I was, you know, more in my corporate land, that was very different, right? Like writing reports or doing something that you were dreading. Right. And now it's not that it makes it any easier, but I feel like I have somehow more mental confidence in myself and I'm showing up. And so I do my workout first thing, and don't get me wrong. The days that I rest days, I'm like, Oh, hallelujah. But I can't even let me say that because it just, that's not been my thing. And it still is the hardest thing I need to do. But when I do that, everything else is icing on the cake after the day. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (45:14): Yeah. And there's been a lot of talk about that, you know, between us and some of our other guests lately is just that taking the time for yourself to get out. Even if it's just a walk, clear your head. It's so good for not only ruined well, it's good for your health. It's good to reduce stress. And it's also good for your creativity. That's when, uh, that's I think that's when we take a brain break and just do something like that. That's a little mindless that's when we have some of our better ideas. Dr. Nicole (45:45): Absolutely. Yep. So I'm continuing to do the hard thing first, but that keeps evolving as my life changes and right now it's working out. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty (45:52): That's good. That's awesome. All right. Well, thanks again. We look forward to talking to you again soon. So hope you'll come back and join us again. But, uh, again, this is feeding fatty. You can find us at www dot feeding, fatty.com. We're on all the major platforms, iTunes, uh, Google, Google play Spotify, uh, Pandora. If we're not on your major platform that you listen to, please reach out. Let us know. Also, if you have a good story about weight loss, getting healthy, we'd love to hear from you. Or if you're a professional that works with people, helping them out, love to hear from you as well. Also, you can find us on the normal places, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and also YouTube we have now started. 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Dr. Nicole Garneau Five Mental Health Fitness Tips   From an early age I loved both science and entertaining. I did stand up comedy in my 4th grade talent show, and played the lead Andrew Sister in a high school production about the 1940s. And yet, I also learned the fungi (fun-guy) joke in 6th grade, won my share of science fairs, and by my sophomore year, had declared to my folks that I was going to be a geneticist. See, dreams do come true! I’m now doing what I love most, talking science and inspiration, and making people laugh full time. Following high school, I loved my time on the banks of the old Raritan, completing my BA in Genetics at Rutgers College. I then took off a gap year to gain a sense of self, before going full force into my PhD in microbiology at Colorado State University. This led to a business internship with CSU Ventures, volunteering for the Colorado BioScience Association, and eventually a ten-year career as the curator and chair of the Health Sciences Department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. And now, I’m honored to be recognized as one of the top 5 most influential young professionals in Colorado, a 2020 CiviCO Governors Fellow, and a serial entrepreneur. I live with my husband and daughter in Denver, and delight in immersing myself in nature when I’m not immersed in designing and customizing presentations and trainings for my corporate and nonprofit clients www.drnicolegarneau.com nicole@drnolegarneau.com www.feednigfatty.com info@feedingfatty.com Full Transcript  Roy (00:02): Hello, and welcome to the feeding fatty podcast. I'm Roy, I’m Terry. And, uh, you can find us at www.feeding fatty. Com. We do have, our podcasts uploaded. We just, uh, put a new one out there today. So please go check us out. Uh, as you know, most of the time we chronicle our journey about myself and Terry and her helping me, you know, get in shape and get healthier. But we do have guests along the way. And today we're very fortunate to have Nicole Nicole Garneau. She is our scientist next door. She provides consulting training and she's a keynote speaker. She likes to talk about how you can bring science to your table. She was, uh, recently, uh, acknowledged as one of the top five, top five, most influential young professionals in Colorado. And she is known for one of her keynote speaking, speak one of her keynote speeches, neuroscience of happiness. And I think that's what got our attention, uh, that, and she works a lot with tastes. But what we wanted to talk about is that you can make a lot of changes in your life and that still may not make you happy. You have to work on the mental aspect. And Nicole has been good enough to put together five tips for our mental fitness. And, uh, Nicole will go ahead and turn it over to you. Dr. Nicole (01:38): Wonderful. Thank you so much, Roy and Terry, I'm super psyched to be here, so to speak. I'm using my bunny ears on the podcast. Roy (01:47): Well, and you know, the, uh, we talked a little bit, you know, when we did our initial call, we talked a lot about that. You know, I've got to a point in life a few times that I've really thought that, you know, maybe about having the surgery, but what I always come around to is that if, if you don't get things fixed between your ears, then any kind of surgery surgery, or anything else that you can do to your body is not going to help you. Dr. Nicole (02:18): Yeah. And when we talked, I was really the thing that drew me to both of you all is that you're approaching this such an authentic way. And I think, um, health and fitness and nutrition, it has this kind of very intimidating persona. And a lot of it, doesn't always talk about the fact that you got to get right in the head. Like you said, you got to get in between the ears and that's really the foundation. If that is crumbling, all the rest of the stuff you're going to do is not gonna, it's not going to hold true. Right. So we started talking first about taste stuff, which is my equities, and then started getting into the neuroscience side. And it felt like a real good topic for us to bring to your list. Roy (02:54): Yeah. Because I, you know, I struggle with that and, you know, just, we try to be authentic. I think that's the main thing is we, we put it all out there, embarrassing or not embarrassing. And, uh, you know, we're going to have another me and Terry taught in, you know, at the end of this week probably. And that we struggle. I struggled last week. Uh, Terry's mother had gone into the hospital. And so she was taking care of her most of the time. And it, it blew my routine, which just totally, totally mess me up. And then that led to getting off a little bit on sleep. And that was one thing I've known that really shined a light on the last month or two is that if I have any disruption in my sleep patterns, I'm pretty much done. And so anyway, I just, I think that's one reason. And, uh, hopefully we're gonna be able to talk you back, talk you into coming back because we do want to touch on those. Uh, the five tastes, that was an enlightening thing again, that, you know, uh, have just really found out about him was interesting. But I think that this mental aspect probably needs to be the first thing that we talk about in order to set that up before even worry about anything else. Dr. Nicole (04:14): I like it. So should we get into it? Let's go. Let's do it. Okay. So my first tip, and this was one that I struggled with a lot, being someone who was raised first born and my parents divorced are young. So I would taking care of my siblings and, you know, not starting trouble, not getting in trouble, being the good kids blah-blah-blah is that you feel alone and you decide, well, I guess I am alone. And the first mental fitness kits for, um, for getting your body fitness, where it needs to be nutrition is you gotta own that. You're not alone. Um, and there's two things that I really want to point out for this one. You guys already mentioned, you have to inform, inform, inform the people around you, who can support you, and you just gotta put it all out there. Um, I know that you guys do that for each other. And the fact that when Terry was gone, where you were like, what am I gonna do? Dr. Nicole (05:10): Um, but like coming up, we have a, so there's a small group of couples who are going, all of us are going to Telluride together this weekend for a birthday. And we're all getting our Colby test ahead of time and rented a place. And, um, I wasn't barest to reach out to people planning cause they're planning all the food to friends of mine. And at first I was embarrassed to say, listen, I am putting my recipes in my fitness pal. I am looking at sodium and saturated fat and how much protein I get in the day. Should you share with me what you're cooking? So I can kind of pay attention to what I need to do, because I need to know that I can fill in the gaps with bringing oil bag or whatever I need to do to make it right. Um, and I was a little bit of a shame even though because of my best friend. Roy (05:53): Right? Right. Well, we had a recent encounter is maybe even I'll try to top you. One is that we, we went over to my mom's for breakfast. Then I had to actually correct her and say, Oh, watch out on putting that salt in those eggs that we don't need that. And I felt terrible. You know, it just kind of blurted out, but it's like, Hey, you know what? If we don't tell other people they're never going to know and no, you know, we have to, Dr. Nicole (06:21): You got to get comfortable with saying, you got to get comfortable with saying like, Hey, this is what I'm working. Here's my struggle, which also ties to the mental health. It's a really stigmatized thing as is, as is nutrition. Um, so that's, that was the first part of you're not alone. The second part is you're going to reach a part in your journey, no matter where you are, that you are going to need something besides your brain. And this was a very recent thing for me that I decided to bring coaches into my life. And I had been taught as that firstborn child to not ask for help and to not say no. And I carry that through almost all of my academic and professional career to museum when I was a curator there. And this is something I've had to overcome is to say, no, I am not equipped. Dr. Nicole (07:05): I am not a professional. I do not know how to do this anymore for my, what will be a 40 year old body, right? When I was 20, it was easy. You ate whatever you wanted. I maybe went for a run. I don't know when I was a size two. It just didn't matter. Nothing mattered what you did and you reach a point where you go, Holy heck, I can't do the things I used to rely on. So I had a brain injury and I have, uh, I hurt my knee and have a meniscus tear so I can just run and be like sweet. But in those jeans and I can't keep eating the way I was doing. And I didn't know how to change those things. I literally am not equipped. I do not have the expertise and it was life changing. When I bought in the coach. Dr. Nicole (07:46): Now I know not everyone can do that. It is expensive, but there are a lot of free online resources on Pinterest and a bunch of other places, YouTube. We can get free workouts for people with knee problems, cardio for people who can't, you know, can't run. Um, my coach, which is shift human performance. She, her Pinterest page has all these like one pan recipes that are the perfect balance of protein and micronutrients and so on. So there's free resources out there. So don't feel like you have to spend the money, but know that as soon as you make that decision, but universe is going to be like, okay, I got you. We're going to do this. Right. That's kind of where I feel right now. Roy (08:21): It's a big thing. And I'm being a firstborn too. I think you feel that, but also, you know, being a male. Um, and my generation, of course, you know, we were always kinda made to feel that, you know, that that's a sign of weakness. If you have to ask for help and can't handle it, but it's not. I mean, if you think about, we've got professional athletes that are very gifted from the moment they're born, but they work hard and they make millions of dollars. And guess what? They've got coaches all up and down the sideline that helped them with everything, from their calling, the plays to what the defense may be, to what, uh, and to their mental health and their mental aspect, you know, as well as weights and every, you know, they have coaches for everything. So why do we have such a stigma tied to that, that you know what we may need help and you need to reach out to somebody Dr. Nicole (09:17): That's right. And you need to have the bandwidth to keep this up, which ties to your sleep piece, which is why you need to learn to say no to things. If it's not speaking to you and it's not expansive, um, we have to look, we have to really be kind to ourselves, especially during a pandemic when our energy is being torn, a lot of directions with tension, you gotta preserve that energy for yourself as well. So that's, that's kind of the other tip of, of saying, you know, ask, asking for help and saying for no two things that we're really not taught to do, but tie to how mental health is, um, a big part of your physical health. Terry (09:51): Yeah. Saying no is a hard, it's such a hard thing. I mean, and I'm only, I'm a third born, but I still, but there were like five years in between myself and my oldest sister. So it was kind of like, we were two separate families, so it's kind of like, I'm a firstborn. Um, but it's hard. It I'm telling you, asking for help is not an easy thing to do. Roy (10:15): See. And I was debating this, I was debating this the other day is that, um, there was a book that somebody put out that, that said, say yes to everything for a year. And I'm like, ah, I just, while you want to be nice, I guess the, the, the mindset that I've taken as I've grown older, because I used to be much worse than I am now, but where I'm at now is like, time is the most precious resource or asset that I have. And if I don't protect it, nobody else will. And I mean, I'll give you a good example is, um, I'm bombarded on LinkedIn consistently every day. I probably get anywhere between 20 to 30 emails, some sometimes, or they're pushing, uh, you know, something that has nothing to do with me, but used to, I would take the time and try to answer and reach out to everybody and say, no, thank you, whatever. Roy (11:16): Then it turned into a conversation. Just let me, you know, just five minutes, let me get on a phone call with you. I can change your mind. And so anyway, if you take, if you take five minutes that it may take you to respond times 20 people, that that's a hundred minutes of your life in the day of totally unproductive time, because you've, you know, if you know, you don't need their service and there's really not a match for you to do networking, then it's totally wasted. So I I'm trying to practice that more, be better added. I still kinda have little soft spy every now and then, but I can't imagine that somebody that would take this mindset to say yes to everything anyway. Dr. Nicole (12:02): Yeah. I like to, I like to clarify it to say, so what I always teach my students and the people that I mentor say yes to the universe when the universe, when the universe puts something in front of you, that lights you up. Right. So that's where you can't let fear in saying yes to everything. I don't know. No, that would be so hard. Oh my gosh. It just wears you out. Maybe three children, maybe when I was like mid twenties and I had all the energy in the world. Um, that's right. So the next one is that, and this is a twist on a quote from Robert Holden that I sent you, which is a British, he's a British psychologist, um, is no I'm going to paraphrase it. No amount of self-improvement can replace self-acceptance. And this is where we have to really start digging into the root causes of why we have these triggers and habitual actions that are basically sabotaging our physical bodies. Um, and this is hard for people. Cause again, there's a lot of stigma around people don't want to talk about that. There's root issues to why they reach for that same Ben and Jerry's ice cream Sesame. Or why do you take the, you take the trip down to seven 11 at 10, 11 o'clock at night. [inaudible] Dr. Nicole (13:23): God you're killing me. So, so here's the deal. Sometimes you're not, you'll know when you're ready for therapy. And I, and I would say that that is the number one thing that has helped me through. Um, but there's other ways you can start working through this on your own if you're not comfortable with that stuff yet. And it's all there also free steps. You basically need to put it into the physical plane, which means the two ways that I did it and still do it in addition to therapy is I journal when I feel it, when you're getting that bluesy feeling or where you feel a trigger before you take action journal about what you're feeling, because you have to start getting aware and where you and I have talked about this, what are those triggers and why? Because if you don't know the triggers, you're, you know, you can lift weights and eat all the right things. But as soon as that trigger hits, you're down the spiral. Roy (14:07): Right? And that, that was me. That was me last week is, you know, with our routine being shaken up with having to, you know, think out of the box to prepare some food because, you know, I have to admit Terry takes very good care of me by making sure, you know, she cooks most evenings and even cooks a little extra for lunch the next day. And so, you know, now I'm out of my element over there, scrounging through the refrigerator, trying to find something and it's easier. And I didn't, but I thought about it, it's easier run up and have some Chick-fil-A and those nice fries that they have. And so that was always my first thought. And then I would have to say, you know what, I kind of take a step back and not do that. I just totally fall apart, you know, with this a little bit of adversity. Roy (14:56): And I think that's more what it is. It's just something that's different and a little bit tougher that you have to really think through. But I will tell you, you know, I had, I've got the midnight, you know, run into the cute, we, we have QuikTrips is kind of like our 7-11s around here. So, you know, running up to the QT at 9 or 10 o'clock at night, getting some cookies or this or that. So it doesn't do any good not to keep stuff in the house. If all you're going to do is just drive up to the grocery store and get it, get it when you want it. But the other, I think the big thing for me too, though, is there being time in between the trigger and the action to actually, um, to do the journaling or think about it and cause that's another thing I've noticed it's very impulsive and almost just like a natural reaction when you have that feeling just to do it and not think about it. Roy (15:53): And you know, I'm fortunate that I can talk to Terry. A lot of times I'm like, Hey, you know what, I'm feeling, uh, feeling some hunger coming on or wanting a candy bar or whatever, you know, and she can talk me down off the cliff, but if I'm here by myself, you know, good luck with that, I'm like heading out. So how, how do you, um, I guess you just have to be in touch with yourself, but I would like to know how do you kind of have that time in between the thought and the action to actually, you know, sit down and journal or how do you kind of make yourself slow down just a minute? Dr. Nicole (16:31): Yeah. So, so I want to come back to the resilience piece. I'm going to answer this question. I'm gonna tell you another tip around this. So I'm answering this piece is at first, I didn't even know I was doing it. So that's the first thing you just have to know you're doing it. So for me, my like dirty secret is like when it gets close at night and I'm just tired of all get out and I don't want to do with my kid and I don't want my husband judging me cause he's in super good shape and I'm not. And I go, when I sneak peanut butter and mini chocolate chips, literally with a spoon and it was so I've started tracking that I'm tracking my calories and my fitness pal. I put it in there cause you can't be lying in your coat. She's not going to be able to help you. Dr. Nicole (17:15): If you lie to your coach right therapist, it doesn't work. So I started putting it in there. So now I have less shame about it and I plan for it. So it comes down to if you're going to. So there's a pre-planning that helps me a lot. So I try to preplan usually a day or two in advance about where I'm going to put my calories, you know? And then you give yourself some flux room. Right? But the other thing, when it comes to the pods, the pods is super important because once I recognize I'm going to do it, my question is, am I really hungry? And surely the answer is no I'm frustrated. I'm tired. I feel I don't have any value. My self worth seems pretty low because I had a bad client call or somebody was mean on Facebook, which they always are. Dr. Nicole (17:58): People can be so mean. And so it's always something else. And once I realized that, I said, well, what do you really need right now? Do you need some protein? And so I'll eat hard, boiled egg whites. Do you, you know, is it really that you need protein? Probably because we do not get enough protein in the American diet, good protein that's lean and without saturated fat without sodium. So I just tried to take the pause and um, I also just try to plan it in advance. So I know where my calories are gonna be distributed. And you know, that type a little girl comes right back into play. I'm like, well, here's the plan. I'm going to stick to it. Oh my gosh. So that's the first thing. So then coming back to resilience, so something I want to task you with Roy, I want to give you homework. Dr. Nicole (18:41): And this is something that my husband and I recently went into last few weeks, did my friend and I, who was also going through some, some difficulty with her health because of breast cancer. She and I have the same coach and we decided that we were going to have operation, teach Amanda fish. I think Terry's really going to like this. Okay. And basically we, I first wanted to switch off weeks with my husband doing, not just cooking. Like don't just swoop in and cook. No, I want someone to plan. I want you to send me the rest of so I can log it and you need to go buy those damn groceries and you're going to cook and you're going to do the whole thing for me. And he basically said, it's really hard for his job. He's a financial planner and the markets are crazy and his clients are having, you know, things are crazy with money right now. Dr. Nicole (19:25): He said, how about if I do Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So I now do Monday through Thursday. He does Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And I Terry, here's the tip I am being so good about not all I say is just send me the recipes so I can log it. I don't give him advice. I don't tell him what to do. I don't tell him, Oh, we already have that in the closet to ask. He can look and see if we have garam masala okay. And operation teacher manifesto is about him building resilience in it as well in the household. And also gives me a much needed break because, um, I can't do it. I can't do a hundred percent of the cooking it with my business kicking up and me trying to keep my mental health. Right. It was too much of a burden. So Roy, you need to build resilience. Terry, you need to let him do that. Terry (20:10): Let him do that. You. Oh my gosh. And we do have garam masala by the way, Dr. Nicole (20:17): He had some doll the other night. That was four. Okay. And then the third tip, when you, if you're not ready for a therapist yet, I can't believe how much this helped me with, um, with understanding myself acceptance. And there's all kinds of prompts you can find online about asking yourself questions. I've recorded asking myself questions like a therapist would act. And then I listened to it and I took notes on myself. So I kind of play the role of my own therapist. And it was amazing what came out because you're not writing. If you write, sometimes you can edit when you're just talking into the ether and you're just recording it. You forget, it's kind of there. And you're just talking. And I kind of had the printed out the questions ahead of time. I wanted to ask myself. And, um, that was a big step for me, understanding some of the triggers, um, that was dealing with my physical health because my therapist has dealt a lot with my depression and abuse as a kid and some other things, right? Like there's a lot of root things there, but there was stuff that I still need to work on that I haven't quite got to her yet. And um, so I actually recommend that more than journaling because you'll be much more free flow, but then let's do it. Terry (21:22): Oh yeah. Because when I journal, when I journal, I edit myself as I'm journaling. So it's like, Oh my gosh, I can't even do this. I never thought about doing that. That sounds amazing. Dr. Nicole (21:33): So do that. So, so that kind of rounds out, the fact that you got to work on your self-acceptance and who you are and knowing who you are and when that gets stronger. So too, will your physical health, because you'll be building on such a strong foundation. Ooh, that's a big one. Wow. Three. So the third one is overcoming survival instincts. So there's a reason why we crave what we crave. Okay. There's a reason why I'm going for the peanut butter and chocolate chips. It hits all the major cravings. I got the salt, I got the fat, I've got the sweet, um, these are things that we don't really have an off switch for. It's super, super, super tough when you're eating. Um, so here's why, because it used, so I'm just gonna talk about the five teeth real quick. Okay. But when we think, when we think about it from a survival perspective, it used to be so hard to get salt and sugar. They weren't no cutesy. Right? Okay. They didn't exist. You were finding fruit on trees and thought was very difficult to find is a reason why salt was basically money for so long. Right. Um, and umami, can you repeat after me? Dr. Nicole (22:44): Umami, umami. Dr. Nicole (22:47): Umami has a savory face. The protein that is a Japanese term for protein. Um, and so as soon as you're born, you don't like bitter. You don't like sour because those it's usually indicates something that's poisonous or toxic. Uh, salt comes a little bit later in development in terms of liking it. And salt has to do when you do eventually get those cravings has to do with keeping your body in homeostasis. So keeping all of your little workings in balance, right? Like a machine and balance. And then mommy is going to tell you, you're getting your protein, your building blocks, right? I'm actually building the stuff you need and sugar is the energy. So you can imagine if we grew up, uh, you know, our ancestors and ancestors, ancestors had a very difficult time finding these things, selective pressure in terms of evolution meant that when you've got those things, they taste good. Dr. Nicole (23:36): We're all good. So good that we don't really have an off switch. So you're fighting against a millennium of survival instincts at nine o'clock at night when you're tired and frustrated and grumpy or whatever the case may be in your body. Yes. The body goes, I'm done. I'm going in survival mode. So this is something that I come back into the, the, the more that you know, that you're not alone and you have people to support you and hold you accountable. The more that you're working on your self-acceptance and worse, the less problems you will have with overcoming these survival instincts, um, that did us very well as humans for a long, long time. There's a reason why we've proliferated, but in the last 30 or so years, you know, basically since the industrial revolution and then coming into processes has not served us well. That's a little, Roy  (24:29): Yeah, because of what it, what it, what leads up to that. Like I was saying, you know, being tired is a trigger, but that's the survival. Like I've got to wake up to survive or, you know, being frustrated, being upset, whatever it is. So that, that makes perfect sense. I like that. Dr. Nicole (24:46): Good. I, I wanted to put a little bit of that neuroscience in there about evolution and survival because you can't turn it off, which leads me to number 4, which is whatever you are doing. Give it your undivided attention and role. I know you don't do this. I know what your work schedule looks like. Sometimes when you're working, when you're working, you're working, when you're eating, you're eating, when you're watching TV, go for it. I love me, my murder. She wrote, you are watching don't mix and match any of those. Okay. Like, so it really comes down to, what did you learn in kindergarten and kindergarten? My daughter who's five years old is super present in the moment, super immersed. And then when that thing's done, she moves on to the next. She does not multitask that doesn't serve her. Doesn't serve anybody and especially so when it comes to when you eat, so do not do any of those things at the same time and focus on it. Roy  (25:49): Well, and that's one thing our, uh, the dietician that we're working with, that was one of, well, two things that she told us, I guess, was number one, do not eat supper because we suffer in front of the TV watching the news. So she said, you cut that off. And the other thing with the sleep factor, she said, turn, you know, she said, I'd rather you not watch TV in bed at all. But number two, if you have to cut it off by nine, o'clock where you can read and kind of wind down. And so we've been better at that, you know, reading when we go to bed and not getting all excited with the TV turned on, but, um, we haven't been as good about not eating in front of the, you know, the evening news. No. Dr. Nicole (26:33): Okay. So I'm giving you guys a few tips. It's helped me a lot. We just said we're not doing it. And every once in a while, even my daughter, when she's five, you know, and people, every once in a while, I'll let her have like a mini picnic on the floor while she's watching whatever show, but we make sure she knows that special. That's not what we always do. We sit down for dinner, we sit down for breakfast, we sit down for lunch and we talk to each other and that's it. So, but it's the same thing for work. It's not fair for your work. You're not even paying attention, what you're eating, terrible. Yeah. Roy (27:04): Dude, that sometimes with breakfast, you know, I may, while I'm fixing it and I'm thinking I should be doing it. So I'll bring it over, sit down at the computer. And then I end up either eating really, really fast or just dragging it out so much that I don't even know that I'm eating so guilty, guilty on that one. Terry (27:24): Yeah. And IF I forget to eat, which is kind of crazy sounding. I know, but you know, I'll just, I'll try to just maybe take a bite of something and just go on. Next thing I know it's like five, six hours later and I'm like, Hey, wait a minute. Something's going on? And then I'm like, yeah, I know. I'm not bragging. I've never had that problem. I just get too busy. I just got so busy. Dr. Nicole (27:47): Terry. I love getting immersed in my work. I love my work. I love what I do. I love my clients when I'm working out. I love that. And all of a sudden I'll be like, Oh, you didn't, you didn't eat so well, here's what I'm going to say about that. It doesn't, I'm learning from, from my nutrition specialist that she's like that she's basically saying to me, I'm not going to tell you, you have to eat all the same time. Like, there's all these other tricks that you can get to. Eventually, you just need to develop the habit of taking your time and doing it and planning it ahead of time. That's it? Right. So I'm not great about eating breakfast. I have my coffee, I help my kids get to school. I then do my workout. I got to do it right away in the morning off. It does not happen. And at about 10, I'm like, okay, I'm ready to eat something. Now that doesn't work for everyone. So it really is trusting your body. And if you are like carrying you for Dicky, then you have to have those things ready to go and plan it ahead of time. It doesn't have to be at a specific time. You just can't let yourself get to running on empty because then it all falls apart. Roy (28:44): Right. Right. And I've gotten better about listening to my body in the morning, because used to, I was first thing in the morning, eat the breakfast and move on. But now there, there are days that I may not be hungry till, you know, nine 30 or 10, and I may eat a boiled egg or some oatmeal, something like that. But I don't feel like I've just got to get up and have that meal. So that's important just to listen, listen to your body and when you're hungry. But like you said, not go, cause I ha I do the opposite too. You know, sometimes you don't feel it coming on. And then all of a sudden it's all over you. And you're like, so starving. You could eat everything Terry (29:22): Or get past your starvation point. No, sorry. Dr. Nicole (29:28): Well, I got you. And the other thing too, to remember, and that I'm learning more and more as I research around aging, because there's something about hitting 40, that makes you go, Oh my God. And, um, that is that we have a, our, the way that our costs work and our circadian rhythms work, they do change, they evolve. And so, you know, I used to be the person who woke up hungry and would eat a farmer's breakfast. My dad was always thought he was like, you have a tape form. And, and uh, and now I don't, and it's just is what it is. So it's every single person is different. So that's kind of why when you get out there and you're trying to find advice, you, your number one thing to do is when you're mindful, trusting yourself, that's it like paying attention, doing undivided attention. What you're doing, your body cues are there. We've just learned to, we've just been conditioned to stop paying attention to them. Terry (30:21): Rehab. I mean, in all aspects, all aspects of everything. I mean, it's crazy. Dr. Nicole (30:27): Yep. Yep. Which brings us to our right. All right. This is the most important one because it brings them all together in a lot of ways. So again, just to recap, you're not alone. inform people what you're doing. Don't be ashamed of it. Say like, boom, I am watching my sodium intake or whatever the case may be, get some online resources. And if you can get a coach to no amount of self-improvement can replace self-acceptance, you've got to work on the root issues of why you have possibly unhealthy relationships and sabotaging yourself with food. Or as you said previously, in one of your episodes, medicating with food, um, three is overcoming those survival instincts is sure it's hard, but if you're mindful, you can do it. And understanding it is a big step for undivided attention to whatever you were doing in the moment, no mixing and matching, eating, and work and TV, and all the things do one thing at a time. And the last one is detaching from the outcome. So the most important thing is that you're doing what's right in front of you because you're enjoying what you're doing right now. And it's not because of achievement at the end. And this is the hardest thing that I've had to learn is that it's not about me fitting back into jeans, which I know I'm never going to, and finally gave him the Goodwill. Like that's just not going to, and if it does, I'm going to do here. Yeah. Terry (31:47): Wow. That's what I'm thinking. Exactly. That's my next thought I'm buying new jeans. Dr. Nicole (31:53): Like when I, he asked exactly the point is that's not the end goal. The end goal is not for me to fit into some idealized number or, you know, to look good on Instagram, which if you see my Facebook live stuff, you know, I don't care and it's a better life. Yeah. So you have to just whatever that process is right now, you got to love it, which means when you're working out, do something that you love and want to do when you're cooking, put on music, have fun, taste the spices before you put them in really start playing with your mind and be like, wow, this is an experiment. This is amazing when you're eating, savor it, enjoy it, enjoy the process for the process state, because there is only right now not to get all Eckrich totally on you, but there is really only right now. And so it's going to help out so much if you get away from this thing at the outset. Roy (32:46): Yeah. That's important because, uh, you know, one thing that I've tried to be a better helper in the kitchen, I'm not quite there yet. And, you know, kind of going back to what you said earlier that the, uh, you know, the planning for us is the hardest part. We've gotten good about putting everything in, but, but, um, you know, we need to work on planning, but the, uh, cooking together, cutting up stuff and just being in the kitchen, that's given us that quality time that we can talk. And then I think I've mentioned this many times before, but then it also gives us a, um, a perspective to sit down and talk about the food. What could we do thinking about new dishes that we could make with, if we did this and did that. So it really kind of plays into, um, you know, our quality time and experimenting because we've become much more, I would say risk takers. I think Terry's always been good at experimenting and coming up with stuff, but now we kind of work together to, Hey, you know, let's try that. The worst thing you can do is we won't do it again next time, but go ahead and take those chances. Terry (33:56): And he's so good about telling me, I mean, everything that I make is the best thing he's ever. He is very appreciative, but I know those. I tried to do some pork chops. They were horrible. And he was so happy that he had them. I mean, he's so good. Dr. Nicole (34:14): And this is the reason why I fell in love with you too, when we connected. And I listened to your stuff, because you're basically saying like, man, we're doing it. I think the thing that really hooks me right, is when you told me, or maybe it was on one of your podcasts, when you said, first time I had tofu and I was like, someone was saying like, like this, this is a weird product. And now you love it. And I think about how much inspiration you can bring to people who are like, ah, that whew, fruit, blue, whatever, natural health tofu, that's not me. Right. You were saying like my generation, I'm a man, blah, blah, blah. And you're saying, heck no, you gonna do a lot with tofu. Dr. Nicole (34:54): Oh. And he asked for it, Roy (34:57): You know, we got, we bought two big packages last time at the grocery store. And you know, we're trying to experiment more. And yeah, I hate to talk about the same old stuff over and over. But, uh, Terry made this tow food Chile the other night. That was fabulous. I mean, you wouldn't know it and you know, and that's part of it. I think we have to get over it. Dr. Nicole (35:19): We're all much better than like the fake meat products with the fake meat products, um, elbow, some of them I really liked, but for the most part, they have a lot of extra carbohydrates and extra weird fats and keep it as clean as possible. Keep it as clean as possible and you can't go wrong. So I just loved that. And I think that that's an inspiration people need to hear is there are real people on this journey who were trying TOEFL for the first time and they are here for you. I hope that I hope that your listeners, Roy (35:44): I think I'll say this to all the other dudes out there is that, you know, we need to get over ourselves that if I'm eating a piece of brisket or I meet some tofu, it doesn't change who I am. I mean, I mean, it kind of would Roy (35:58): Well, no, I mean, it's going say it kind of will be kind of will because it'll, it'll make me healthier in the end, but I'm just saying it doesn't, you know, I don't, uh, don't feel my manhood is threatened because I eat some tofu. It's just, yeah. Dr. Nicole (36:12): So all, all of this to say is make it fun and detach yourself from any, any aspect of achievement. This isn't about achievement, although you will have milestones, but this is a never ending journey for sure. And the quicker we can, the quicker we can get away from saying like, this is an end point. That's the only thing I care about. I mean, just that's too far away. It's just is, and you got to just say in the moment being like, I love this process. I think you would love it. You will change your habits. Roy (36:39): Yeah. And I think that gets to the slowing things down because that's, you know, I've always been very aggressive, like, okay, we're setting, you know, some crazy, you know, five pounds a week. That's what we're shooting for and we're going to do this and then you fall short and then it's like, yeah, I just give up. And, and this is the one time that I just said, look, this is just an ongoing process. We got to do the best we can do every day. And things will just work out in the end. That's that's all you can do. Dr. Nicole (37:08): And the more you surround yourself with people in a similar mission, which is what we are doing here today, I would say like, I'm going to rethink this conversation today. When I think I'm going to go get those many M and M's peanut butter, and we'd be like, Nope, I don't need to. Roy and Terry got my back. Yup. So those are my five, five mental fitness tips for physical fitness. Okay. You could pop some tofu instead. Tofu cubes are real quick. Roy (37:37): Well, she did. She made, um, they were, she cubed them and then put them in the oven to bake and they tasted like little potato bites. Anyway. It's, we'll have to do a whole tofu cooking show, right? Terry (37:51): Oh my gosh. Roy (37:56): Well, so what is one, um, you know, we talked a little bit about this, but what's one tool or one ritual or something. That's a part that you have made a part of your daily routine that you just, you can't do without Dr. Nicole (38:12): [inaudible], but okay. I gotta think about daily on the bigger end therapy I cannot do without continuing to work on my mental health. Um, it just, everything falls apart when, when, when my depression takes over. So, um, that's a, that's a big thing for me, um, on the daily, on the reg though, let's see. Um, Roy (38:36): Well, that's important to talk about, I guess that, you know, you know, it's kind of the same. I'm going to put it in the tofu class. It's one of these things that doesn't change who we are, because we tell somebody we're going to see a therapist. It's actually, it's kind of in line. It's empowering because I can't always unload all my burdens on Terry. She does a good job with carrying my own, but don’t use your friends and family. Terry (39:06): No, and I think I'm a therapist because I've actually had, you know, 25 years of therapy off and on here. And I feel like, you know, every time I read something or talk to somebody, somebody like you, I'm like, well, I don't know what I'm really putting into practice. All the things that I've learned or even some of the things that I've learned, you know? So, and then I go and read some books and I'm, Oh, I love Brene Brown. I mean, all these, you know, Dr. Nicole (39:33): Brene Brown, this is, I was researching hashtags to use as I build my Instagram. And this, this woman said research hashtags of people that you admire. So I went on to research Brown, guess what? Brene Brown doesn't even need to use hashtags because everybody knows who she is. Okay. Terry (39:48): That is so true. Oh my gosh, I cannot get enough of her. I really cannot. Dr. Nicole (39:55): So yes. So therapy has been a big deal. And, um, my dad put this really well. Uh, he said, when you, when, if you like crack your head open, are you going to ask your husband to fix you? And I said, Oh, hail. Now it's the same thing with your brain. Like your, your brain has things going on. And there are professionals who are there to help you. Don't burden your family. I mean, inform your family, but you can't expect friends and family to be your therapist. Right. And it also makes for terrible relationships. You've got to inform and talk, but do the real hard work and the inner work with someone who is equipped to deal with and doesn't have an in the fire to be perfectly honest. Exactly, exactly. Terry (40:35): And asking for, I mean, asking for help, you know, like we were talking about earlier, it's just such a hard thing to do, but you know, you're really strong if you do it because you know what your limitations are, you know, what, you know, what you need to work on and you do need the help because you're not the professional. Roy (40:52): And the other thing I would say on that is, uh, you know, for the audience, don't let cost stand in the way, because there are a lot of resources, even in every community. If you live in a rural environment, now we have telemedicine and things. So I just, you know, a note to anybody that is suspects that you needed is just reach out and ask for you. You really can't go wrong. Dr. Nicole (41:17): Yeah, exactly. And, and you can reach out to any professional therapist and say like, maybe I can't afford you. They have lists of resources. They can say, put you in touch with the County or put you in touch with the city and find out who's doing pro bono worker. Um, there's a lot of helplines now because of COVID right. You know that on one hand, but really good on the other hand for mental health. Roy (41:35): So that'll be our message for today. Yeah. Dr. Nicole (41:38): Oh, go ahead. I didn't answer on what I do daily on the reg. Terry (41:43): Okay. Avoiding, avoiding. Dr. Nicole (41:47): Yes. Um, I would just say music. I, I put on my music and I live in the city, so I'm sure my neighbors don't love it super loud. And I don't, I don't work out super early and that's when I, I just put it on, like, I pretend like I'm, you know, 19 again in college, I just black music and I get to work at that show. Good. And right now I can do it outside. So it feels great. I don't think I could live without music. Terry (42:12): Do you scream sing to it or do you just listen to it?   Dr. Nicole No, no, no, no, no. I just listened to it. No. Are you kidding? So out of shape that my workouts are like, I'm just barely breathing Terry (42:24): In your car. Oh. When I do it, when I listen to music in my car, I turn it up really loud and I scream sing so I can't hear myself, but it feels exhilerating, it is so, Oh my gosh. Dr. Nicole (42:37): Well, simple things, but there's a lot of neuroscience research that supports that what music can do to our brainwaves and bring down our stress. So if it can get drained down my stress and get me through my workout three, John. Yes. Roy (42:53): Well, Dr. Nicole, we certainly appreciate you taking time out of your day to talk with us. This has been awesome. And I'm gonna really keep after you to come back and talk to us about the, uh, the five tastes that we've, you know, hit a little bit on. I think that would be an, uh, it'd be awesome to have you back to talk about that. Dr. Nicole (43:13): It would be my pleasure. This has been amazing. Roy (43:16): So why don't you tell everybody, you know, I know that you do some consulting and training, but you may want to tell everybody, you know, kind of what your talk target client is, who that is. And then also, uh, all the ways in which they could get ahold of you to find out more. Dr. Nicole (43:33): Yeah, I appreciate that. Um, my current claim for consulting and training is typically small to medium size food companies and beverage companies, um, who are beginning on a growth stage. And so need some systems, someone who can come in and understand the sensory side of it, but also system side. So, um, I do that and then my keynotes fly all over the, all over the place, really, because it just depends. I mean, mental health is everywhere, so it, there's not really an audience for that, except for people who really want to step up and say being vulnerable is okay. And so I can kind of make depression funds in a little bit of ways and at least help people own it, like I've owned it. So those are the two places. And then on the interwebs, you can find me at doc G a R N E a U, which is at dot Garneau. So that's my handle on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, where I, I tried to go live every day with my docs daily downloads. Roy (44:28): Oh, okay. Awesome. Well, again, we want to thank you so much for being here and it's been a pleasure speaking with you. I've learned a lot. Uh, also want to just remind everybody, you can find us at www.feedingfatty.com on Twitter at feedingfattypod and Instagram at feedingfatty. If you're a professional in the space, or if you have an awesome success story, you'd like to share with us, please reach out@infoatfeedingfatty.com. We'd love to talk to you about being a potential guest for this time. I'm Roy, I’m Terry. Roy (45:08): Thank you.  

South American river systems, the native range for many aquarium fish species, are beautiful, biodiverse, and rich in complexity. My guest today, Ivan Mikolji is a world-renowned naturalist, explorer, researcher, audio/visual artist, and author. Ivan has been sharing his river adventures through breath-taking films and photographs of S. American species for the past 15 years. Join us, as Ivan explains how an early love of science and nature in his native Venezuela drove him to documentation of spectacular species and biotopes, education, and conservation efforts. EPISODE NOTES: How Ivan Mikolji Fuses Nature, Science, and Art to Foster Conservation of South American Waters

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Everyone seems to have a story about the moment when the novel coronavirus pandemic stopped being an abstract problem “somewhere out there” and started being a very real and personal threat. In this episode of the SAPIENS podcast, hosts Jen Shannon and Chip Colwell interrogate the problem with abstract threats with the help of anthropologists Hugh Gusterson and Kristin Hedges. In closing, Steve Nash returns to discuss a different abstract concept: time. Hugh Gusterson is a professor of anthropology and international affairs at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @GustersonP and read his recent piece at SAPIENS magazine: “The Problem of Imagining the Real.” Kristin Hedges is an applied medical anthropologist who studies how understanding cultural constructions of illness is essential for successful health intervention campaigns. She is an assistant professor at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Follow her on Twitter @kristinhedges6 and read her recent piece at SAPIENS magazine: “The Symbolic Power of Virus Testing.” Steve Nash is a historian of science, an archaeologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and a columnist for SAPIENS. Follow him on Twitter @nash_dr, check out his column Curiosities, and read the column post he mentions in this episode: “The Long Count.”  

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Gary Flake. Dr. Gary William Flake is an independent scientist, author, and inventor, that currently advises over a dozen startups, public companies, universities, and non-profits.Gary was previously the CTO of Search and Data Science at salesforce.comwhere he managed salesforce’s entire search business unit. Prior to that, Gary was CEO of Clipboard Inc., which was acquired by salesforce.com in May of 2013. Before founding Clipboard, Gary was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft (2005-2010), where he was responsible for bridging Microsoft Research and MSN, and for helping set the technology vision and future direction of the MSN portal, web search, desktop search and commercial search efforts. In this capacity, he founded and directed Live Labs, Microsoft’s greatest investment in applied research focused on the Internet, which was responsible for groundbreaking technologies such as Seadragon, Photosynth, Deepfish, Listas, Volta, and Pivot.Gary has filed over 150 patents and has numerous publications spanning over 20 years which have focused on machine learning, data mining, and complex systems. Gary has also appeared in leading national publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Nature Science, CNET News, Computer World, Fast Company, TechCrunch and Mashable, and has presented at leadership events such as the TED Conference.Gary earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland, has served on numerous academic committees and university advisory boards, and wrote the award-winning book, The Computational Beauty of Nature, which is used in college courses worldwide. Gary was also the 2010 winner of the World Technology Award in the category of individual achievement in software, and was named one of the “Creativity 50” in 2009.“The type of work I do is all over the map. I mentor a lot of CTOs. I work with other companies on their core strategies. I often serve as a sort of domain expert for certain things around machine learning and data science. So i get into the technical weeds for some of them. That’s a way of keeping me relevant and making sure I don’t lose track of whats going on in the rest of the world.”-Gary FlakeWatch Gary's keynote speech about his startup, Clipboard.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5dJVfipkhYWatch Gary's Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_flake_is_pivot_a_turning_point_for_web_explorationGary's Book: Computational Beauty of NatureYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Follow Gary FlakeTwitter: @flakensteinLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/garyflake/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linked

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Gary Flake. Dr. Gary William Flake is an independent scientist, author, and inventor, that currently advises over a dozen startups, public companies, universities, and non-profits.Gary was previously the CTO of Search and Data Science at salesforce.com where he managed salesforce’s entire search business unit. Prior to that, Gary was CEO of Clipboard Inc., which was acquired by salesforce.com in May of 2013. Before founding Clipboard, Gary was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft (2005-2010), where he was responsible for bridging Microsoft Research and MSN, and for helping set the technology vision and future direction of the MSN portal, web search, desktop search and commercial search efforts. In this capacity, he founded and directed Live Labs, Microsoft’s greatest investment in applied research focused on the Internet, which was responsible for groundbreaking technologies such as Seadragon, Photosynth, Deepfish, Listas, Volta, and Pivot.Prior to joining Microsoft, Gary founded Yahoo! Research Labs, ran Yahoo!s corporate R&D activities and company-wide innovation effort, and was Overture’s Chief Science Officer. Before joining Overture, Gary was a research scientist at NEC Research Institute and the leader of its Web data-mining program.Gary has filed over 150 patents and has numerous publications spanning over 20 years which have focused on machine learning, data mining, and complex systems. Gary has also appeared in leading national publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Nature Science, CNET News, Computer World, Fast Company, TechCrunch and Mashable, and has presented at leadership events such as the TED Conference.Gary earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland, has served on numerous academic committees and university advisory boards, and wrote the award-winning book, The Computational Beauty of Nature, which is used in college courses worldwide. Gary was also the 2010 winner of the World Technology Award in the category of individual achievement in software, and was named one of the “Creativity 50” in 2009."Your work can only go so far if you can’t communicate it. Your ability to communicate the importance of it can really make a difference between it having an impact that is tremendous versus nothing at all."-GaryWatch Gary's Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_flake_is_pivot_a_turning_point_for_web_explorationGary's Book: Computational Beauty of NatureLearn more about Gary Flakehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_William_FlakeYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Follow Gary FlakeTwitter: @flakensteinLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/garyflake/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linked

In this season 2 finale of the SAPIENS podcast, hosts Jen Shannon, Chip Colwell, and Esteban Gómez field questions from listeners on Twitter and at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science about what it means to be human. They address human origins and self-awareness, discrimination, social media, and more! You can follow all of our expert guests on Twitter: Augustin Fuentes at the University of Notre Dame (@Anthrofuentes); Daniel Miller at the University College London (@DannyAnth); and Barbara King, professor emerita at William and Mary (@bjkingape). Mark Shriver, professor at Pennsylvania State University, did a study on human nose shape and climate adaptation that also informed our conversation. Finally, here's a link to the nose-picking gorilla photos mentioned in this episode. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is a part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library.

In this brief under 10 minutes segment I'm giving the interviewees that I have lined up for my podcast those include at the moment Ian Jacklin, Dr Ruggero Santilli, Leon Ragsdale architect, and Professor Michael Benton of Bristol University in the UK.

This short segment give us a preview of my weekly podcast which will be titled Nature Science & Technology.

This week’s Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the brand new Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado. The resort celebrates its grand opening a week from today, and is part of the growing Marriott family in Colorado, including the Ritz Carlton and the iconic Brown Palace. Joining Peter, Brian Hostetler, from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, on the true definition of an interactive, hands-on museum. Captain Greg Pixley of the Denver Fire Department speaks about how new hotels, such as the Gaylord, stay up to code and the precautions it takes to ensure guest safety. Angelica Daneo, Chief Curator of the Denver Art Museum, details how the museum serves a large community and its responsibility of addressing the interests of a diverse audience.All  this and more as this week’s Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado.

This week’s Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the brand new Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado. The resort celebrates its grand opening a week from today, and is part of the growing Marriott family in Colorado, including the Ritz Carlton and the iconic Brown Palace. Joining Peter, Brian Hostetler, from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, on the true definition of an interactive, hands-on museum. Captain Greg Pixley of the Denver Fire Department speaks about how new hotels, such as the Gaylord, stay up to code and the precautions it takes to ensure guest safety. Angelica Daneo, Chief Curator of the Denver Art Museum, details how the museum serves a large community and its responsibility of addressing the interests of a diverse audience.All  this and more as this week’s Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado.

Surprise! As a special holiday treat, the SAPIENS team is presenting this unedited conversation between SAPIENS host Chip Colwell and acclaimed science journalist Carl Zimmer about DNA, identity, and heredity. This conversation was previously excerpted in our episode “Is Your DNA You?” It took place in front of a live audience at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on June 20, 2018. Carl Zimmer’s new book is She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. Learn more about Zimmer’s work at carlzimmer.com. This episode of SAPIENS was produced by Paul Karolyi, edited by Matthew Simonson, and hosted by Chip Colwell, with support from SAPIENS co-hosts Esteban Gómez and Jen Shannon. SAPIENS producer Arielle Milkman, executive producer Cat Jaffee, and House of Pod intern Lucy Soucek provided additional support. Fact-checking is by Christine Weeber, illustration is by David Williams, and all music is composed and produced by Matthew Simonson. SAPIENS is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. This is an editorially independent podcast funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and produced by House of Pod. Additional funding for this episode was provided by our friends at Imago Mundi Fund at Foundation for the Carolinas.

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has hosted a "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, presented by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). Chuck Carlson of We Hold These Truths visited the exhibit and discovered a subtle controversy that is analyzed in this 33 minute podcast with Craig Hanson and Palestinian Pastor Jamal Bishara. Craig Hanson takes a Biblical look into the idea that Jesus, not the modern state of Israel, is the Vine, as referred to in the New Testament. The Denver Post noted another controversy in an article, "'Dead Sea Scrolls' exhibit in Denver illuminates the mysterious origins of major world religions," - "In December, the IAA canceled a major Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at a museum in Frankfurt after German authorities refused to guarantee their return if the scrolls were claimed by Palestinians or Jordanians. Palestinian activists have argued that the scrolls do not belong to Israel because they were first found during the 1940s in caves in the West Bank." This is a very unique program, as Pastor Jamal joined our podcast while attending the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting held this year in Dallas. Pastor Jamal and other Southern Baptists are working to keep politics out of the SBC and focusing on winning souls to Christ. He reported that many Southern Baptists were questioning the appearance of Vice President Mike Pence, a "zionised" Christian, at the convention.

How do paleontologists know when they've found a new species of dinosaur, or any other extinct life? I have no idea but thankfully I've got a few scientists on speed-dial that comes in pretty handy for such questions. In today's episode we caught up with Gabriella Rossetto at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to hear her story about a particularly eventful field season, and Dr. Ken Angielczyk, Associate Curator at the Field Museum comes back to share his experience being one of only a handful of world experts uncovering and studying Dicynodonts; tusked mammal-like animals that lived around 290-251 million years ago.  Oh, and here's the xkcd comic about spider paleontology Ken and I talk about. These first few episodes have been planted pretty firmly in the fossil record but coming up we'll hear from a mammalogist working with ancient DNA, a museum attorney responsible for setting up a fully-functioning tattoo parlor in a public exhibition, and a marine biologist who spends her field season examining coral reef fishes around the world. Stay tuned!  --- Each episode includes a segment at the end where we want to hear from you. Actually, we want to hear from your environment. We wanna know: Your name Where you are in the world, and what you're doing 30-45 recorded seconds of your environment, preferably outside, anywhere (and everywhere). Whether you're in an urban area on your way to work or school, conducting fieldwork near home or abroad, or just enjoying a moment outside-- we want to hear it! You can record it using the voice memo app on your smartphone and email the file to us either by responding to this newsletter or sending it to exploreastory(at)fieldmuseum.org, with the subject line "OK to share- EAS." Please include your name & location in the recording! By sending us the file you're giving us permission to use it at the end of a future episode or another Brain Scoop-related project, so thank you in advance. --- ExploreAStory is written and hosted by Emily Graslie, produced by Sheheryar Ahsan and Brandon Brungard, with music by Jason Weidner, and made with support from the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.

Scott Sampson is a Canadian paleontologist and science communicator, best known as “Dr. Scott” on the PBS Kids show “Dinosaur Train.” He is currently Vice President of Research & Collections and Chief Curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. His new book is “How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature.” Dr. Scott Sampson was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by: Town Hall and University Book Store, as part of The Seattle Science Lectures and the Town Green series.

In episode 28 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier, and Eric F. Donaldson discuss a new test for influenza H5N1, poliovirus in Minnesota, Koala retrovirus, batteries made from viruses, and SARS. Links for this episode: New rapid test for influenza H5N1 based on PDZ binding. Definition of ELISA. Poliovirus isolated from Minnesotan (article 1 and 2) Koala retrovirus: Japan story and review article Batteries made from viruses (cathode and anode). Image of phage M13. iMoleBuilder (iTunes link and review at Sunset Lake Software) Discovery of Norwalk virus Regulatin’ Genes (YouTube link) Science blog of the week: The Great Beyond by Nature Science podcast pick of the week: Sorting Out Science Science book of the week: A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube by S.E. Luria (out of print - check your library)