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Day 1,182.Today, as Vladimir Putin makes his first visit to Kursk after the Kremlin erroneously claimed all Ukrainian soldiers had been completely pushed out of the territory, we look at the latest deep strikes on Russian infrastructure, hear from an ambulance convoy in Ukraine, and speak to a central advisor of the European Union on Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations.Contributors:Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor for Defence). @DomNicholls on X.With thanks to Brock Bierman (Founder of the non-profit Ukraine Focus).And Bob Dean (Head of the Security Unit of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations)SIGN UP TO THE NEW ‘UKRAINE: THE LATEST' WEEKLY NEWSLETTER:https://secure.telegraph.co.uk/customer/secure/newsletter/ukraine/ Each week, Dom Nicholls and Francis Dearnley answer your questions, provide recommended reading, and give exclusive analysis and behind-the-scenes insights – plus maps of the frontlines and diagrams of weapons to complement our daily reporting. It's free for everyone, including non-subscribers.Content Referenced:Learn more about ‘Ukraine Focus', delivering ambulances to Ukraine:https://ukrainefocus.org/ https://ukrainefocus.org/programs/zelensky-truck/ Ukraine has shown you can now buy an intelligence agency off the shelf (Ben Wallace in The Telegraph):https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/20/intelligence-agencies-no-longer-just-for-governments/Trump's New Position on the War in Ukraine: Not My Problem (New York Times):https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/trump-ukraine-russia.html Russian Troops Are War-Weary, but Want to Conquer More of Ukraine (New York Times):https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/world/europe/russian-troops-peace-putin.html Losing friends, fast (POLITICO):https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/losing-friends-fast/ NOW AVAILABLE IN NEW LANGUAGES:The Telegraph has launched translated versions of Ukraine: The Latest in Ukrainian and Russian, making its reporting accessible to audiences on both sides of the battle lines and across the wider region, including Central Asia and the Caucasus. Just search Україна: Останні Новини (Ukr) and Украина: Последние Новости (Ru) on your on your preferred podcast app to find them.Listen here: https://linktr.ee/ukrainethelatestSubscribe: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatestEmail: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In several democratic elections last year, radical right-wing populist movements have gained momentum, capturing the votes of working-class and minority communities. What has attracted voters to these political parties? In cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW), the Van Leer Institute and the Max-Weber-Institute-for-Sociology, De Balie organizes an event on the appeal of the populist right-wing movement.In the months after Donald Trump's second presidential win, Democrats are asking themselves the uncomfortable question: how did we lose the working class vote? Republicans gained strong support from white workers in labor unions without a college degree, and also made significant gains among non-white Americans with similar education levels. Many left-leaning progressive political movements elsewhere, including in the Netherlands, are now engaged in a similar process of soul-searching as the radical right gains ground internationally. With cultural sociologists Michèle Lamont (Harvard University), Nissim Mizrachi (Tel Aviv University, Van Leer Institute), and Elisabeth Jane Topkara (Heidelberg University), we explore how marginalization, stigma, and neoliberal society can turn people toward populist right-wing political parties. What role does the need for belonging play in this electoral shift to the radical right? And what strategies can minority groups use to counter stigmatization in a polarized society?Check out the privacy notice on https://art19.com/privacy and the privacy statement of California on https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us a textIn this episode, Simon speaks with Dr Katharine Fortin about non-international armed conflicts, focussing on the intersections between IHL, international human rights law and armed non-State actors. Dr Katharine Fortin is a senior lecturer of public international law and human rights at Utrecht University's Netherlands Institute of Human Rights. She is the Editor in Chief of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights and founder of the Armed Groups and International Law blog. Her book The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (OUP, 2017) won the Lieber Prize in 2018. She is Co-Investigator on the Beyond Compliance Consortium: Building Evidence on Promoting Restraint by Armed Actors. Katharine has a LLM and PhD from the Utrecht University. She is a qualified solicitor in the UK and previously worked at Norton Rose Fulbright, the Council of Churches of Sierra Leone, the ICC and the ICTY.Additional resources:Fortin, Katharine ‘Mapping Calamities: Capturing the Competing Legalities of Spaces under the Control of armed non State Actors without erasing everyday civilian life' (2023) 8(1) Social Science and Humanities OpenMatthew Bamber-Zryd, 'ICRC engagement with armed groups in 2024' Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog (31 October 2024)Katharine Fortin and Ezequiel Heffes (eds), Armed Groups and International Law: In the Shadowland of Legality and Illegality (Edward Elgar, 2023)Naz Modirzadeh, 'Cut These Words: Passion and International Law of War Scholarship' (2020) 61(1) Harvard International Law Journal 1.Zoe Pearson, 'Spaces of International Law' (2008) 17 Griffith Law Review 489.Helen Kinsella, The Image Before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian (Cornell University Press, 2015)Kieran McIvoy, 'Beyond Legalism: Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice' (2007) 34(4) Journal of Law and Society 411.Sally Engle Merry, The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence and Sex Trafficking (University of Chicago Press, 2016)Ana Arjona, Rebelocracy: Social Order in the Colombian Civil War (CUP, 2016)Zachariah Cherian Mampilly, Rebel Rulers: Insurgent

On Sunday, December 15th, a crowd of 50 people gathered at Zibby's Bookshop to listen to an intimate conversation between Elisa Albert and Zibby Owens. They discussed Elisa's book HUMAN BLUES, her writing process, Zibby's anthology ON BEING JEWISH NOW, and the controversy at the Albany Book Festival about which Elisa wrote a powerful essay entitled, "An Invitation to the Anti-Zionists: You refused to sit on a literary panel with me. I invite you to my Shabbes table instead, so we can actually talk to each other and face her fears." Spoiler: no one accepted her invitation. Bio:Elisa Albert is the author of the novels Human Blues, After Birth, The Book of Dahlia, the story collection How This Night is Different, and the essay collection The Snarling Girl. Her work has been published in n+1, Tin House, Bennington Review, The New York Times, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, Philip Roth Studies, Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Longreads, The Cut, Time Magazine, Post Road, Gulf Coast, Commentary, Salon, Tablet, Washington Square, The Rumpus, The Believer and in many anthologies. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts, The College of Saint Rose, Bennington College, Texas State University, University of Maine, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. A Pushcart Prize nominee, finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize and Paterson Fiction Prize, winner of the Moment Magazine debut fiction prize, and Literary Death Match champion, Albert has served as Writer-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Holland and at the Hanse-Wissenschaftkolleg in Germany. Now there's more! Subscribe to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books on Acast+ and get ad-free episodes. https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/EyU7TCE1QJQWith Brexit, the US presidential election and the Covid pandemic, conspiracy theories now seem to be everywhere. It's commonly argued that the internet has fuelled their popularity, leading to a loss of faith in mainstream media, science, democracy and even truth itself. But what if the rise of conspiracy theories is a symptom rather than the cause of a collapse of trust in civic institutions?This lecture was recorded by Peter Knight  on 14th November 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.Peter Knight is a Professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester, and has held visiting fellowships at New York University, Harvard, Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Amsterdam.The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/conspiracy-theoriesGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/get-involved/support-us/make-donation/donate-todayWebsite:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport Us: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/get-involved/support-us/make-donation/donate-todaySupport the show

For our first Policy & Practice seminar of academic year 2024-2025 we were joined by ex-Ambassador Simona Leskovar. The ex-Ambassador talked about her own experience both in trying to get Slovenia elected to the UN Security Council, but also more broadly about her experience in the UK and within the UN. The talk included a discussion as to why small states matter in international security. We are delighted that Sir Mark Lyall Grant  GCMG  joined us to give a response. Meet the speakersex-Ambassador Simona Leskovar Simona Leskovar is Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the Court of St James's until August 2024. Prior to this appointment, she was State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia. Ambassador Leskovar is a career diplomat for 28 years of service in Slovenian diplomacy. She served as Slovenian Ambassador to Japan and Republic of Korea, was Deputy Permanent Representative of Slovenia at Permanent Mission of Slovenia to the United Nations in New York and member or head of several Slovenian delegations and missions to various conferences and events within the UN. Her first post as a diplomat was Washington DC.   Ambassador Leskovar holds a position of the EU adviser to Slovenian Foreign Minister during the first Slovenian EU presidency in 2008. She was later Director of Young Bled Strategic Forum and the national Focal Point for Responsibility-to-Protect. Simona Leskovar studied international relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, and at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael in The Hague. Ambassador Leskovar initiated the MFA programme 'Young Ambassadors', a mentoring project that was organized together with foreign female Ambassadors in Slovenia, and aimed at encouraging young women to consider a career in diplomacy and international relations. Ambassador Leskovar was appointed Program Director of Bled Strategic Forum at the end of August 2024. Sir Mark Lyall Grant  GCMG Sir Mark Lyall Grant served as the United Kingdom's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN from 2009 to 2015. During this tenure, he served as President of the Security Council four times. He subsequently served as a National Security Adviser during David Cameron and Theresa May's premierships. Following his retirement from the civil service, he is now a Visiting Professor at King's College London and a strategic advisor. Chair: Prof. Veronika Fikfakis Professor of Human Rights and International Law in the UCL Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy. 

Worldwide, the indices for democracy, human rights and security are under pressure. Upholding democratic values seems more urgent than ever. But ‘promoting democracy' in developing countries has been stained by associations with wars or neocolonial globalization. Moreover, what legitimacy do Western countries have, promoting values that are eroding within its own borders? Can we learn from democracy promotion methodologies in FCAS to strengthen democracy at home?  Thijs Berman is Executive Director at the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), so he struggles with these challenges every day. Their recent tracer study on democracy education offers an interesting entry point to discuss both the bigger questions, as well as the concrete practice of democracy promotion. He discusses this with our KPSRL's very own Head of Secretariat Sever Džigurski, who can also share some of his personal experiences in promoting democratic values and peace in the Balkans. ⁠Thijs Berman⁠ has been Executive Director of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) ⁠since January 2019. He has more than 30 years of experience in media, politics, and international development. Berman began his career as a journalist, and then became a Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Labour Party. As an MEP he was a member of several committees, including the Committee on Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, and the Budget Committee. In addition, he has headed several European election observation missions. In the two years before joining NIMD, Berman worked as the Principal Advisor to the OSCE Representative of Freedom of the Media. ⁠Sever Džigurski⁠ is an activist and professional in the international development programs, institutional reform projects and civil society initiatives since the mid-1990s. Especially strong in qualitative and participatory research; knowledge management and learning, monitoring and evaluation; design and facilitation of learning and change processes. Passionate about meaningful participation, creative learning, critical analysis, peacebuilding and social change processes. He currently serves as the Head of Secretariat for the ⁠Knowledge Platform Security and Rule of Law⁠. Links as mentioned in the episode: Democracy Education (DE) page: https://nimd.org/what-we-do/democracy-education/ Mali publication: https://nimd.org/theme-brochures/lelue-a-graphic-novel-from-mali/ Click ⁠⁠here ⁠⁠for more information about the Fragile Truths podcast. Are you on Twitter? ⁠⁠Follow us⁠⁠ and tag ⁠⁠#FragileTruthsPodcast⁠⁠ to let us know what you think! You can also reach the ⁠⁠KPSRL Secretariat⁠⁠ at ⁠⁠info@kpsrl.org⁠⁠.

Today, you'll learn about what goes on in our brains when we sleepwalk, how playing video games might actually help us navigate the world IRL, and the endurance hunting of traditional societies. Sleepwalker Brain “Scientists Discover What's Happening Inside a Sleepwalker's Brain.” by Rhianna-lily Smith. 2024. “Shared EEG correlates between non-REM parasomnia experiences and dreams.” by Jacinthe Cataldi, et al. 2024. “Consciousness and cortical responsiveness: a within-state study during non-rapid eye movement.” by Jaakko O. Nieminen, et al. 2016. “Parasomnia: what happens inside a sleepwalker's brain?” Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. 2024. Games & Navigation “Playing video games linked to enhanced wayfinding abilities.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024. “Sea Hero Quest.” Spiers Lab. n.d. “5 facts about Americans and video games.” by Andrew Perrin. 2018. “Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance.” by Emre Yavuz, et al. 2024 Endurance Hunting “Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey.” by Kermit Pattison. 2024. “Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans.” by Eugene Morin & Bruce Winterhalder. 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us a Text Message.What a fun day that was: the National Research Software Day in Hilversum on 23 April 2024. It was organised by the eScience Center in the Netherlands and in the course of this episode you will hear from one of the organisers, Lieke, a keynote speaker - Jenny Bryan, members of a panel discussions on research infrastructure.But also from 4 artists - because the organisers added an art exhibition to the one day conference. The sound samples you can hear in the episode are from one of the artists Christian Schwarz.https://www.esciencecenter.nl/national-research-software-day-2024/ The conference home pagehttps://www.beeldengeluid.nl The home page of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Visionhttps://jennybryan.org Jenny Bryan's home page - keynote speakerhttps://www.ru.nl/en/people/kievit-r-a Rogier Kievit - keynote speakerhttps://ilar.xyz Christian Schwarz - artist https://soundcloud.com/ilarxyz Christian on Soundcloudhttps://xingkuangyi.com Kuangyi Xing - artisthttps://www.eusebijucgla.com/collaborations/hyperview-barcelona Eusebio Jucgla - artisthttps://guidovanderkooij.nl Guido van der Kooij - artistSupport the Show.Thank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Get in touch: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastadon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

A group of researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, University of Freiburg and the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have created an exceptionally small implant, with electrodes the size of a single neuron that can also remain intact in the body over time - a unique combination that holds promise for future vision implants for the blind. Often when a person is blind, some or part of the eye is damaged, but the visual cortex in the brain is still functioning and waiting for input. When considering brain stimulation for sight restoration, there needs to be thousands of electrodes going into an implant to build up enough information for an image. By sending electrical impulses via an implant to the visual cortex of the brain, an image can be created, and each electrode would represent one pixel. New generation of vision implants "This image would not be the world as someone with full vision would be able to see it. The image created by electrical impulses would be like the matrix board on a highway, a dark space and some spots that would light up depending on the information you are given. The more electrodes that 'feed' into it, the better the image would be," says Maria Asplund, who led the technology development part of the project and is Professor of Bioelectronics at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. The vision implant created in this study can be described as a 'thread' with many electrodes placed in a row, one after the other. In the long term you would need several threads with thousands of electrodes connected to each one, and the results of this study are a key step towards such an implant. The future of vision implants An electrical implant to improve vision in people with blindness is not a new concept. However, the implant technology currently being explored in human patients is from the 1990s and there are several factors that need to be improved, for example the bulky size, scarring in the brain due to their large size, materials corroding over time and materials being too rigid. By creating a really small electrode the size of a single neuron, researchers have the potential to fit lots of electrodes onto a single implant and build up a more detailed image for the user. The unique mix of flexible, non-corrosive materials make this a long-term solution for vision implants. "Miniaturisation of vision implant components is essential. Especially the electrodes, as they need to be small enough to be able to resolve stimulation to large numbers of spots in the 'brain visual areas'. The main research question for the team was, 'can we fit that many electrodes on an implant with the materials we have and make it small enough and also effective?' and the answer from this study was - yes," says Professor Asplund. The smaller the size, the worse the corrosion To create an electrical implant on such a small scale comes with its challenges, especially in a tough environment, such as the human body. The major obstacle is not to make the electrodes small, but to make such small electrodes last a long time in a moist, humid environment. Corrosion of metals in surgical implants is a huge problem, and because the metal is the functional part, as well as the corroding part, the amount of metal is key. The electrical implant that Asplund and her team have created measures in at a miniscule 40 micrometers wide and 10 micrometers thick, like a split hair, with the metal parts being only a few hundred nanometers in thickness. And since there is so little metal in the super tiny vision electrode, it cannot 'afford' to corrode at all, otherwise it would stop working. In the past, this problem has not been possible to solve. But now, the research team have created a unique mix of materials layered up together that do not corrode. This includes a conducting polymer to transduce the electrical stimulation required for the implant to work, to electrical responses in the neurons. The polymer forms a prote...

### Open AI  GPT-4o / Google Updates**GPT-4o**: The latest version is faster and more efficient, with significant improvements in ease of use. It's an upgraded version of ChatGPT, capable of handling various mediums such as voice, text, and images, similar to a superpowered Siri. Demonstrations of GPT-4o showcased its ability to:- Act as a real-time translator between Italian and English speakers.- Guide a presenter through solving a math equation written on paper.- Analyze a webpage full of code and describe weather patterns from a temperature chart.- Communicate in various styles, from hyper-expressive to robotic.Additionally, GPT-4o will now be free to use.**Google's Gemini**: Google has unveiled new features for its chatbot Gemini, aiming to keep pace with OpenAI. Speculations suggest a competitive atmosphere between the two tech giants.---### Future of Dating is AI**AI in Dating**: Bumble's founder, Whitney Wolfe Herd, has sparked discussion with her vision of the future where AI agents date on behalf of humans. According to her, our AI will date hundreds of other AIs to find the best match for us, raising questions about whether this is an exciting innovation or a dystopian scenario.**Social Media Buzz**: The idea has been widely shared on social media, generating mixed reactions about the role of AI in our personal lives.---### Chip to Heal Blindness**Revolutionary Eye Implant**: European scientists have developed a tiny eye implant aimed at curing blindness by converting electrical signals into visual images in the brain. Key points about this breakthrough include:- **Functionality**: Designed to bypass damaged parts of the eye and directly stimulate the visual cortex.- **Previous Challenges**: Earlier implants were bulky and required thousands of electrodes, causing potential brain scarring.- **New Design**:   - The implant is as small as a single brain cell.  - Incorporates thousands of electrode "threads" for detailed imaging.  - Uses non-corroding materials and a protective conducting polymer layer.  - Measures 40 micrometers wide and 10 micrometers thick, with minimal metal to prevent corrosion.- **Research Collaboration**: Involves Chalmers University of Technology, University of Freiburg, and the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.- **Future Developments**: Plans to insert thousands of electrodes in a project called Neuraviper.- **Testing and Durability**: Successful tests in mice showed stable performance throughout their natural lifespans.Get intouch with Myles at mylesdhillon@gmail.com

Dr. Anselm van der Peet of the Netherlands Institute for Military History discusses the history of the Royal Netherlands Navy from the end of World War II to the present with John Sherwood. 

W kwietniu rozliczamy PIT-y. Podliczamy zarobki i… nierzadko narzekamy na podatki. Te narzekania miewają jednak różne trajektorie – zdaniem jednych podatki w Polsce są zbyt niskie, zdaniem innych zbyt wysokie, a zdaniem większości zbyt skomplikowane. Czy jednak system podatkowy jest wyłączną odpowiedzią na problem nierówności ekonomicznych w naszym kraju? W jakim zakresie ma szansę wesprzeć lub pogorszyć sytuację różnych grup społecznych? I czy wszyscy zgadzamy się co do tego, że to w ogóle problem? Podczas kwietniowej Premiery Pisma pochyliliśmy się nad tematem leżących obecnie na stole pomysłów na poprawę polskiej gospodarki. Co ta poprawa oznacza dla różnych środowisk?  I jaką rolę w tych planach odgrywają nierówności ekonomiczne? Posłuchaj podcastu z kwietniowej Premiery Pisma. W rozmowie wzięli udział: prof. dr hab. Joanna Tyrowicz – ekonomistka, profesor nauk społecznych, a także profesor Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. W latach 2007-2017 pracowała w Instytucie Ekonomicznym Narodowego Banku Polskiego, specjalizując się w zagadnieniach dotyczących rynku pracy i gospodarstw domowych. Od 2022 roku członkini Rady Polityki Pieniężnej. Współpracowała m.in. z Bankiem Światowym i Komisją Europejską, Fulbright Scholar (Columbia University) oraz Mellon Fellow (w Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies), gościła również w IAAEU w Trewirze oraz w IOS w Regensburgu. Hubert Walczyński – nauczyciel ekonomii w 2 Społecznym Liceum Ogólnokształcącym, redaktor Magazynu „Kontakt”, działacz OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza. Absolwent ekonomii w Szkole Głównej Handlowej oraz filozofii nauk społecznych w London School of Economics. Paweł Musiałek – prezes Klubu Jagiellońskiego, gdzie działa aktywnie od 2009 r. Od 2017 r. pełnił funkcję dyrektora think tanku Centrum Analiz Klubu Jagiellońskiego, gdzie koordynował projekty badawcze, zarządzał zespołem ekspertów CAKJ, a także komentował w mediach wydarzenia w Polsce i na świecie. Regularnie publikuje swoje analizy na portalu klubjagiellonski.pl. Absolwent politologii i stosunków międzynarodowych na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim, gdzie ukończył także Interdyscyplinarne Studia Doktoranckie „Społeczeństwo-Technologie-Środowisko” oraz przygotowuje rozprawę doktorską na temat sporu o polską politykę zagraniczną po 2004 r.  Autor publikacji naukowych i analitycznych z zakresu przede wszystkim polityki energetycznej i zagranicznej. Debatę poprowadziła Zuzanna Kowalczyk, redaktorka prowadząca w „Piśmie”, dziennikarka, kulturoznawczyni, autorka esejów i podcastów.

W kwietniu rozliczamy PIT-y. Podliczamy zarobki i… nierzadko narzekamy na podatki. Te narzekania miewają jednak różne trajektorie – zdaniem jednych podatki w Polsce są zbyt niskie, zdaniem innych zbyt wysokie, a zdaniem większości zbyt skomplikowane. Czy jednak system podatkowy jest wyłączną odpowiedzią na problem nierówności ekonomicznych w naszym kraju? W jakim zakresie ma szansę wesprzeć lub pogorszyć sytuację różnych grup społecznych? I czy wszyscy zgadzamy się co do tego, że to w ogóle problem? Podczas kwietniowej Premiery Pisma pochyliliśmy się nad tematem leżących obecnie na stole pomysłów na poprawę polskiej gospodarki. Co ta poprawa oznacza dla różnych środowisk?  I jaką rolę w tych planach odgrywają nierówności ekonomiczne?Posłuchaj podcastu z kwietniowej Premiery Pisma.W rozmowie wzięli udział:prof. dr hab. Joanna Tyrowicz – ekonomistka, profesor nauk społecznych, a także profesor Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. W latach 2007-2017 pracowała w Instytucie Ekonomicznym Narodowego Banku Polskiego, specjalizując się w zagadnieniach dotyczących rynku pracy i gospodarstw domowych. Od 2022 roku członkini Rady Polityki Pieniężnej. Współpracowała m.in. z Bankiem Światowym i Komisją Europejską, Fulbright Scholar (Columbia University) oraz Mellon Fellow (w Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies), gościła również w IAAEU w Trewirze oraz w IOS w Regensburgu.Hubert Walczyński – nauczyciel ekonomii w 2 Społecznym Liceum Ogólnokształcącym, redaktor Magazynu „Kontakt”, działacz OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza. Absolwent ekonomii w Szkole Głównej Handlowej oraz filozofii nauk społecznych w London School of Economics.Paweł Musiałek – prezes Klubu Jagiellońskiego, gdzie działa aktywnie od 2009 r. Od 2017 r. pełnił funkcję dyrektora think tanku Centrum Analiz Klubu Jagiellońskiego, gdzie koordynował projekty badawcze, zarządzał zespołem ekspertów CAKJ, a także komentował w mediach wydarzenia w Polsce i na świecie. Regularnie publikuje swoje analizy na portalu klubjagiellonski.pl. Absolwent politologii i stosunków międzynarodowych na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim, gdzie ukończył także Interdyscyplinarne Studia Doktoranckie „Społeczeństwo-Technologie-Środowisko” oraz przygotowuje rozprawę doktorską na temat sporu o polską politykę zagraniczną po 2004 r.  Autor publikacji naukowych i analitycznych z zakresu przede wszystkim polityki energetycznej i zagranicznej.Debatę poprowadziła Zuzanna Kowalczyk, redaktorka prowadząca w „Piśmie”, dziennikarka, kulturoznawczyni, autorka esejów i podcastów.

On today's episode: Good news for huggers! And non-huggers! Should we build new particle accelerators? And if so, what kind? All that and more today on All Around Science... RESOURCES New study highlights the benefit of touch on mental and physical health - Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience - Master the Mind US particle physicists want to build a muon collider — Europe should pitch in CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady  THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

This episode is about dirt or, phrased more scientifically, soil. It's about soil health, soil biodiversity and ecology. It's a conversation with Dr. Ciska Veen, soil and ecosystems researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and Dr. Wim van der Putten, who heads terrestrial ecology at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology. (Art: J. Jackson; Music: Jungle Jam by Evert Z, licensed from Artlist.io.)

In this episode, hosted by Susannah Lyon-Whaley, we have a roundtable highlighting recent research on royal mistresses and the important part they played in the French and English monarchies. Guest Biographies:Tracy Adams is a professor in European Languages and Literatures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has also taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Miami, and the University of Lyon III. She was a Eurias Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies 2011-2012, an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions Distinguished International Visiting Fellow in 2014 and a fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek fellowship in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, in 2016. She is the author of Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance (2005), The Life and Afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria (2010), Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France (2014), Agnès Sorel and the French Monarchy (2022), and Reflections on Extracting Elite Women's Stories from Medieval and Early Modern French Narrative Sources (2023). With Christine Adams, she co-authored The Creation of the French Royal Mistress from Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry (2020). With Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier, she is co-editor of the volume The Waxing of the Middle Ages (2023).  Christine Adams is professor of European history at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She publishes primarily in French gender and family history (17th–19th centuries). Author of A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000) and Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Society in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Illinois Press, 2010), her most recent book, with Tracy Adams, is The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020). Adams was a 2020–2021 fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies and a spring 2021 Andrew W. Mellon long-term fellow at the Newberry Library, where she worked on her current book project on The Merveilleuses and their Impact on the French Social Imaginary, 1794–1799 and Beyond. She also writes frequently on current events, including politics, education, gender, and reproductive rights.Mirabelle is a PhD student in Art History at the University of Auckland. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the visual representation of Maria Fitzherbert (1756-1837), through the lenses of celebrity culture, erotic capital, and female reputation. Maria was the mistress, and illegal wife, of King George IV of England (1762-1830). Mirabelle completed her Master of Arts with First Class Honours in Art History in 2021. Her thesis examined the relationship between portraiture, gender, and sexuality at the Restoration Court, focusing on two of the royal mistresses of Charles II (1630-1685), Louise de Kéroualle (1649-1734) and Barbara Villiers (1640-1709). In 2019 she received her BA(Hons) with First Class Honours in Art History. Upon completion of her Bachelor of Arts degree, double majoring in Art History and Classical Studies, she was awarded the Louise Perkins Prize as the top graduating student in Art History. Further reading: Tracy Adams. Agnès Sorel and the French Monarchy: History, Gallantry, and National Identity. ARC Humanities Press, 2022. https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781641893527/agnes-sorel-and-the-french-monarchy/  Tracy Adams and Christine Adams. The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry. Penn State University Press, 2020.

Is it true that if an earthworm gets cut in half, you get two earthworms? Why do we see so many earthworms when it rains? How big is the biggest earthworm in the world? Anika and Esther find out all the wriggly facts with Dr Helen Phillips from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology. Enjoy a new episode every fortnight, and if YOU have a big Fact Detective question, send it to factdetectives@kinderling.com.au    Guests: Dr Helen Phillips who researches soil biodiversity and earthworms at the Netherlands Institute of EcologyHosts: Anika and Esther   Production: Cinnamon Nippard   Sound design: Josh Newth   Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson    Hear it first on LiSTNR.   Listen ad-free on Kinderling. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over 40 ministers met today in Dubai in support of subnational climate action, joining the COP28 Presidency to announce a series of partnerships to accelerate the net-zero transition and climate resilience in cities.The announcements span sectors including buildings, waste and resource management systems, urban water resilience, and urban nature restoration. They build on the 1 December launch of the Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships for Climate Action (CHAMP) to include cities and regions in the design of federal climate commitments and strategies.“Meeting the aims of the Paris Agreement and keeping 1.5°C within reach depends on the leadership and support of the world's mayors and governors,” said Dr. Al Jaber, “That is why at COP28 we have empowered leaders and communities by launching CHAMP and working with organizations like UN-Habitat and Bloomberg Philanthropies to recognize and support the important roles cities and their leaders can play in addressing climate change."Multilevel Action, Urbanization, Built Environment and Transport Day hosted the second Urban Climate Ministerial, co-organized with United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28,and concludes a week of unprecedented mayoral and gubernatorial participation in the COP process. Brazil's Minister of Cities, HE Jader Barbalho Filho, closed the meeting by announcing Brazil's plans to widen participation and mobilization for the Ministerial at COP30.The COP28 Presidency and Bloomberg Philanthropies partnered to deliver the Local Climate Action Summit (LCAS) (1-2 December), which saw over 500 subnational leaders join the summit portion of a COP for the first time. Nearly USD $500 million of new city-focused climate investment was also announced.6 December outcomes include:The Buildings BreakthroughThe Buildings Breakthrough, launched with the support of 27 countries, is led by France and Morocco. The partnership aims to make ‘near-zero and resilient buildings' the new normal by 2030, addressing the fact that the building sector alone accounts for nearly 40 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions, 50 percent of extracted materials, and one-third of global waste.The Cement BreakthroughThe Cement and Concrete Breakthrough was launched by Canada and the UAE, along with an inaugural cohort of endorsing countries that include the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan and Germany. The initiative strives to make clean cement the preferred choice in global markets, with near-zero emission cement production established and growing in every region of the world by 2030.The Waste to Zero initiativeWaste to Zero[1] is a voluntary coalition made up of governments of all levels, NGOs, and the private sector to decarbonize the waste management sector and transform waste into resources[2]. Waste to Zero is an official initiative under the UAE's ‘Year of Sustainability' and spearheaded by the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE), Abu Dhabi Waste Management Company (Tadweer), and Roland Berger.The Waste MAPThe Waste MAP is the first-ever global platform to use satellite monitoring to track and measure methane emissions from waste, developed by the Global Methane Hub[3], Google Foundation, Rocky Mountain Institute, Clean Air Taskforce (CATF), the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)/GHGSat, and Carbon Mapper. Local governments and NGOs can use the platform to identify and mitigate methane emissions before they become hazardous. The platform is set to go live in 20 global megacities that are collectively home to over 100 million people.Two new programmes to accelerate the adoption of 15-minute city (15MC)/proximity planning policies and measure their impactC40, a network of nearly 100 mayors of the world's leading cities, is increasing actions to accelerate the adoption of the 15-minute City (15MC) - highly liveable, walkable, and people-oriented cities. The Green and Thriving Neighborhoods programme created in collaboration with Urban Partners provides deep support to more than 40 cities to help them turn the 15MC into reality through the implementation of concrete pilot projects. C40 also launched a tool to measure the impacts of 15MC with Novo Nordisk. The Healthy Neighborhoods Explorer, created with Novo Nordisk's Cities will enable policymakers to measure how 15MCs significantly reduce emissions and offer residents better health.The Generation Restoration projectGuided by the Paris Agreement and the Global Biodiversity Framework, the Generation Restoration[4] project (2023-2025) is currently supporting pilot projects to catalyze urban ecosystem restoration and emissions mitigation in eight world cities[5]. These cities include Douala (Cameroon); Dakar-Plateau & Thies (Senegal); Quezon City (the Philippines); Kochi (India); Sirajganj (Bangladesh); Samborondon (Ecuador); Mexico City (Mexico); and Manaus (Brazil).Commitments to fossil fuel-free land transportWorld transport systems are vital for people's lives and livelihoods, with transport representing around 22 percent of global carbon emissions.The COP28 Presidency, the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, the International Transport Forum, and the International Energy Agency have come together to organize the first ever transport-energy ministerial at a COP. Working closely with key delivery partners, including the SLOCAT Partnership, the Air Transport Action Group and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions team, the COP28 Presidency spotlighted key solutions to decarbonize the transport sector.The sustainable land transport community, led primarily by the SLOCAT Partnership, agreed to mark the first ever World Sustainable Transport Day on 26 November 2023, and issued a call to action to double the share of energy efficient and fossil-free forms of land transport by 2030. Initiated by SLOCAT and REN21 jointly with IDDRI, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), International Association of Railways (UIC), International Union of Railways (UITP) and World Resources Institute (WRI), and endorsed by Chile and Columbia and 60 multi stakeholder organizations.‘A Playbook foThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/6022096/advertisement

Notes:- Rutger Leukfeldt discusses his background and how he became involved in cybersecurity research. - The importance of cybersecurity education and the new cybersecurity bachelor program at Leiden University. - The need for a multidisciplinary approach to cybersecurity, which includes not only technical skills but also social and legal aspects. - Hack_Right is a program designed for juvenile offenders in the Netherlands who have committed cyber-dependent crimes. The program aims to provide education and support to help young offenders turn away from cybercrime and develop positive skills and behaviors. Dr Leukfeldt  emphasizes that the program is not about Russian hackers or fraudsters who make millions, but rather about those kids who are experimenting and need help. He also mentions that the program was evaluated through a research study conducted by the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), which found that the program was effective in reducing recidivism among young offenders who participated in the program. - Regarding interdisciplinary research, Dr Leukfeldt explains that it can be difficult because different disciplines have different traditions and expectations when it comes to research. For example, one discipline may prioritize publishing in academic journals, while another may prioritize presenting at conferences. This can create practical issues for a team that is trying to work together, as different members may have different timelines and goals. Additionally, traditional reviewers may not be familiar with other fields, which can make it challenging to defend interdisciplinary research against criticism. Rutger notes that these challenges can be overcome through effective communication and collaboration, but they do require effort and a willingness to work across disciplines.- Rutger emphasizes the importance of being constructive and thoughtful in providing feedback. He suggests that reviewers should not only point out flaws in a paper but also offer suggestions for improvement. Additionally, he notes that good reviewers should try to approach a paper with an open mind and be willing to learn from it, even if they are not experts in the field. By doing so, reviewers can help to ensure that research is rigorous, relevant, and impactful. Rutger encourages everyone to strive to be that kind of reviewer who provides constructive feedback and helps to improve the quality of research.About our Guest:https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/rutger-leukfeldt#tab-1https://nscr.nl/en/medewerker/dr-rutger-leukfeldt/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rutgerleukfeldt Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:J. A. M. Schiks, Susanne van 't Hoff-de Goede & Rutger E. Leukfeldt (2023) An alternative intervention for juvenile hackers? A qualitative evaluation of the Hack_Right intervention, Journal of Crime and Justice, DOI: 10.1080/0735648X.2023.2252394Loggen, J., Moneva, A., & Leukfeldt, R. (2024). A systematic narrative review of pathways into, desistance from, and risk factors of financial-economic cyber-enabled crime. Computer Law & Security Review, 52, 105858.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2023.105858Other:Dutch police send young hackers to intern at IT companieshttps://nltimes.nl/2018/12/18/dutch-police-send-young-hackers-intern-companies20 Companies Pledge Support for the Hack_Right Programhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/20-companies-pledge-support-for-the-hack-right-program/

The new season of the Justice Visions podcast focuses on the issue of victim participation, mobilization and resistance. This dedicated focus aligns with the overarching theme of the Justice Visions conference, taking place in March 2024. Our first episode centers on institutional innovation and its symbiotic relationship with victim participation. This is a dynamic interplay where, on one hand, formal transitional justice mechanisms shape various transitional justice processes with significant implications for victims. On the other, formal mechanisms increasingly engage with victim participation, which is seen as an essential requirement for achieving the goals of transitional justice. We talk about this interplay between formal and informal avenues and the topic of institutional change with Dr. Brianne McGonigle Leyh, who is affiliated with the Netherlands Institute of Human and Utrecht's University's School of Law. Brianne has been working extensively on international criminal law, transitional justice and victims' rights. Recently, her work zooms in on aparadigmatic cases, examining transitional justice initiatives in the United States. In Brianne's words, “there are new ways of using the language of transitional justice, using the language of human rights to advance a cause that meets the needs and concerns of community actors and community members. So, when we see even traditional processes being used to advance justice for historical harms, I think that's brilliant.” Reflecting on her extensive research journey, Brianne talks about the evolution of participatory rights across the pillars of transitional justice. She emphasizes: “I definitely think we've seen major changes in the past 20, 15, even 10 and 5 years. Participation has become so integral, not just in transitional justice. Actually, even in the broader field of human rights law, participation has become absolutely integral. There's an expression, I believe it was first used in disability rights: “Nothing about us without us”. And we've seen that phrase really spread to so many different groups and communities that have long fought for these participatory rights.” This “participatory turn” has left an indelible mark on institutional structures and processes established during times of transition.

Our guest today is First World War gas mask aficionado Susan R. Grayzel. Sue is Professor of History at Utah State University. Before joining the faculty at USU, Sue was Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, where she also served as the Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. Sue received her BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and earned an MA and PhD in History at the University of California at Berkeley. She has spent time Across the Pond as the UK Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Leeds, the Ireland Fulbright Inter-Country Lecturer at Maynooth University, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Sue's first book, Women's Identities At War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (Unversity of North Carolina Press), won the British Council Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies. Sue is also the author of Women and the First World War (Longman), The First World War: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford St. Martin's), and At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge). She has co-edited two volumes: Gender, Labour, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain, with Philippa Levine (Palgrave), and Gender and the Great War, with Tammy Proctor (Oxford). Sue's most recent monograph is The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War (Cambridge). In addition to her monographs and edited volumes, Sue's articles have appeared in the Journal of British Studies, the Journal of Modern History, and the Journal of Women's History, to name a few, and she has written or co-written more than 20 book chapters. Sue's research has been funded by the American Historical Association, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is equally active in service, serving as General Editor for Women, War, and Society: The Women's Work Collection of the Imperial War Museum and as an Advisory Editor for The Encyclopedia of War. She is a former member of the Editorial Board for the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Amsterdam University Press's NIOD Series. Sue is truly a force in our profession and is one of the most generous and approachable scholars you'll ever meet. Join us for a fascinating chat about attending Harvard at age 17, Joni Mitchell's Blue album, gas masks, a prize-winning first book, "Hotty Totty," and other seemingly random subjects! Check it out! Rec.: 08/08/2023

In de laatste aflevering van Baan door het Brein bespreekt Iris Sommer de zeven zintuigen. Zeven zintuigen die ons helpen de wereld om ons heen waar te nemen, en te begrijpen. Reuk, smaak, zicht, tast, gehoor, evenwicht en intuïtie. Onze zintuigen zijn de enige bron van informatie over de buitenwereld die we hebben, maar ze zijn verre van betrouwbaar. Waarneming is altidj subjectief. Om te beginnen omdat ze selectief zijn. Ze nemen vooral waar wat beweeg, nieuw is, uitzonderlijk of vgevaarlijk. Aololes wat stabiel, rustig en veilig is, wordt voor het gemak genegeerd.   Alle zintuigelijke informatie wordt eerst gefilterd door de thalamus. Die grote kern, midden in het hoofd. Slechts een heel klein deel van de zintuiglijke informatie mag door naar de bewuste waarneming in de cortex. Dat is maar goed ook, want anders werden we knetter gek van alle sensory overload. Alle zintuigelijke informatie…behalve geur. Die komt niet langs de thalamus. Die gutst rechtstreeks door naar de amandelkern, waar de emoties verwerkt worden. En naar de hippocampus, het zeepaardje in je brein, voor het geheugen. Geur gaat ook door naar de hypothalamus. Vandaar worden lichamelijke reacties aangestuurd. Je maag gaat knorren als er iemand met een bakje friet in je trein coupe komt zitten. Je geslachtsorganen worden wakker als het iemand is, die de juiste feromonen uitscheidt. Die lichamelijke reacties treden zelfs op, als je je niet bewust bent van een geur.   De hippocampus, aan de binnenkant van de slaapkwab, is voortdurend bezig de informatie van de zeven zintuigen te integreren met eerder opgedane kennis. Zo maakt het een zo goed mogelijke afspiegeling van de wereld om ons heen. Niet alleen op dit moment, maar ook in de toekomst. Daardoor ontstaat bewustzijn. Je beseft dat je een persoon, op een bepaalde plaats, en op een bepaald tijdstip. We realiseren ons dat we over een uur op een heel andere plaats kunnen zijn, onder heel andere condities. We blikken vooruit. Ons super brein, dat zo goed verbanden kan leggen, stelt ons daartoe in staat.   Over BNR In De Diepte   Na het succes van Terug naar de Oerknal met Govert Schilling is BNR In de Diepte terug met een nieuw seizoen, en een nieuwe wetenschapper. In vijf afleveringen neemt Iris Sommer, psychiater, neurowetenschapper aan het UMCG en auteur, je mee op een baan door het brein. Je leert alles over onze zintuigen, de linker, en de rechterhersenhelft, of mannen een ander brein hebben dan vrouwen, en welke invloed je darmen hebben op je persoonlijkheid.   Over Iris Sommer   Iris studeerde geneeskunde aan de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam en werd in 2004 psychiater aan het UMC Utrecht. In 2010 werd ze hoogleraar psychiatrie aan de UU. Daar richtte ze de stemmenpoli op, waar mensen terecht kunnen die last hebben van hallucinaties. Haar eerste popular wetenschappelijke boek was dan ook “Stemmen horen”. Daarna volgde “Haperende Hersenen” in 2016, wat een best-seller werd, evenals “Het Vrouwenbrein” in 2020.   Sinds 2017 werkt Iris aan het UMC Groningen, waar ze directeur van het onderzoeksinstituut Brain and Cognition is. Daar combineert ze onderzoek met patientenzorg en onderwijs. In 2021 werd ze genomineerd als Nias-Lorentz Distinguished fellow en werkte ze als fellow op het Netherlands Institute of Advanced Science (NIAS) te Amsterdam. In 2022 ontving zij de Huibregtsenprijs voor Wetenschap en Maatschappij. Samen met de Hersenstichting schreef ze het kookboek “Voed je brein”, over de invloed van gezond eten op hersenen en gedrag. In augustus staat ze met haar team op Lowlands Science onder de title “Shitty Science”.  In november dit jaar verschijnt haar nieuwe boek “de Bacterie en het Brein”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In aflevering 4 van Baan door het Brein verkent Iris Sommer de relatie tussen darmbacteriën en de hersenen. Bacteriën zijn de oudste levensvorm op aarde en hebben zich overal verspreid, inclusief ons lichaam. In onze darmen bevinden zich naar schatting zo'n 1 biljoen bacteriën, wat cruciaal is voor een goede spijsvertering, een goed getraind immuunsysteem en een gezonde ontwikkeling van de hersenen.   Bij de geboorte komen baby's in aanraking met bacteriën uit de vagina van de moeder, die de basis vormen voor hun darmflora. Deze bacteriën zijn van vitaal belang voor het verteren van moedermelk en het bevorderen van een gezonde darmflora. De ontwikkeling van de hersenen is bij de geboorte nog niet voltooid, en de interactie met bacteriën speelt een rol bij het aanleggen van miljoenen verbindingen in de eerste drie levensjaren. Baby's die via een keizersnede worden geboren of geen moedermelk krijgen, kunnen een achterstand hebben in hun darmflora en hersenontwikkeling.   Darmbacteriën hebben invloed op de productie van boodschapperstoffen in de hersenen, zoals serotonine en dopamine. Deze boodschapperstoffen hebben invloed op ons gedrag en emoties. Bij een verstoorde darmflora kunnen problemen zoals depressie en ADHD ontstaan. Ook het immuunsysteem wordt getraind door de bacteriën in de darmen, waardoor een onvolledige darmflora kan leiden tot allergieën en voedselintoleranties.   Darmbacteriën spelen een cruciale rol in de spijsvertering en kunnen bepalen of we meer calorieën uit voedsel halen, wat in tijden van schaarste een voordeel kan zijn maar in onze overvloedige samenleving juist kan leiden tot overgewicht. Voedingsvezels zijn onverteerbaar voor ons, maar gunstig voor bacteriën. Ze produceren boterzuur, wat zowel goed is voor de darmen als de hersenen.   Meer weten over de relatie tussen je brein en je darmen? Lees dan het nieuwe boek van Iris Sommer: De bacterie en het brein.  Over BNR In De Diepte   Na het succes van Terug naar de Oerknal met Govert Schilling is BNR In de Diepte terug met een nieuw seizoen, en een nieuwe wetenschapper. In vijf afleveringen neemt Iris Sommer, psychiater, neurowetenschapper aan het UMCG en auteur, je mee op een baan door het brein. Je leert alles over onze zintuigen, de linker, en de rechterhersenhelft, of mannen een ander brein hebben dan vrouwen, en welke invloed je darmen hebben op je persoonlijkheid.   Over Iris Sommer   Iris studeerde geneeskunde aan de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam en werd in 2004 psychiater aan het UMC Utrecht. In 2010 werd ze hoogleraar psychiatrie aan de UU. Daar richtte ze de stemmenpoli op, waar mensen terecht kunnen die last hebben van hallucinaties. Haar eerste popular wetenschappelijke boek was dan ook “Stemmen horen”. Daarna volgde “Haperende Hersenen” in 2016, wat een best-seller werd, evenals “Het Vrouwenbrein” in 2020.   Sinds 2017 werkt Iris aan het UMC Groningen, waar ze directeur van het onderzoeksinstituut Brain and Cognition is. Daar combineert ze onderzoek met patientenzorg en onderwijs. In 2021 werd ze genomineerd als Nias-Lorentz Distinguished fellow en werkte ze als fellow op het Netherlands Institute of Advanced Science (NIAS) te Amsterdam. In 2022 ontving zij de Huibregtsenprijs voor Wetenschap en Maatschappij. Samen met de Hersenstichting schreef ze het kookboek “Voed je brein”, over de invloed van gezond eten op hersenen en gedrag. In augustus staat ze met haar team op Lowlands Science onder de title “Shitty Science”.  In november dit jaar verschijnt haar nieuwe boek “de Bacterie en het Brein”.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bestaat er zoiets als het vrouwenbrein? Klopt het bijvoorbeeld dat vrouwen beter kunnen multi-tasken? En is dat dan nature of nurture? Als die verschillen er zijn, is dat wel belangrijk om te weten, want dat heeft consequenties voor de geneeskunde, misschien ook wel voor inkomen en loopbanen.    Mannen en vrouwen zijn eindelijk voor de wet gelijk. Vrouwen blijken, nu ze even goed onderwijs krijgen, ook even slim als mannen. Ze zijn niet wiskunde-dom, zoals lang werd verondersteld. Je zou denken dat vrouwen dan ook hetzelfde brein hebben als mannen. Voor sommige eigenschappen is dat ook zo. In een eerdere aflevering zagen we al dat taal voornamelijk vanuit de linker hersenhelft wordt aangestuurd. Dat is voor vrouwen niet anders is dan voor mannen. En nee, er zit geen shopping centrum in ons vrouwelijk brein.   Toch zijn er wel verschillen, en soms zijn ze zelfs tamelijk uitgesproken. Die verschillen hebben consequenties voor het gedrag en zijn daarom relevant om te kennen.   Over BNR In De Diepte   Na het succes van Terug naar de Oerknal met Govert Schilling is BNR In de Diepte terug met een nieuw seizoen, en een nieuwe wetenschapper. In vijf afleveringen neemt Iris Sommer, psychiater, neurowetenschapper aan het UMCG en auteur, je mee op een baan door het brein. Je leert alles over onze zintuigen, de linker, en de rechterhersenhelft, of mannen een ander brein hebben dan vrouwen, en welke invloed je darmen hebben op je persoonlijkheid.   Over Iris Sommer   Iris studeerde geneeskunde aan de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam en werd in 2004 psychiater aan het UMC Utrecht. In 2010 werd ze hoogleraar psychiatrie aan de UU. Daar richtte ze de stemmenpoli op, waar mensen terecht kunnen die last hebben van hallucinaties. Haar eerste popular wetenschappelijke boek was dan ook “Stemmen horen”. Daarna volgde “Haperende Hersenen” in 2016, wat een best-seller werd, evenals “Het Vrouwenbrein” in 2020.   Sinds 2017 werkt Iris aan het UMC Groningen, waar ze directeur van het onderzoeksinstituut Brain and Cognition is. Daar combineert ze onderzoek met patientenzorg en onderwijs. In 2021 werd ze genomineerd als Nias-Lorentz Distinguished fellow en werkte ze als fellow op het Netherlands Institute of Advanced Science (NIAS) te Amsterdam. In 2022 ontving zij de Huibregtsenprijs voor Wetenschap en Maatschappij. Samen met de Hersenstichting schreef ze het kookboek “Voed je brein”, over de invloed van gezond eten op hersenen en gedrag. In augustus staat ze met haar team op Lowlands Science onder de title “Shitty Science”.  In november dit jaar verschijnt haar nieuwe boek “de Bacterie en het Brein”.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Het menselijk brein is het resultaat van miljoenen jaren evolutie, waarbij de hersenen zich hebben ontwikkeld van een eenvoudig touwladder zenuwstelsel tot de complexe structuur die we nu hebben. Het touwladder zenuwstelsel lijkt op dat van een reuzeslak, bestaande uit twee lange slierten met tussenschotten. Dit model helpt hersenonderzoekers omdat het overeenkomsten vertoont met ons eigen brein.  Bij de evolutie is de bovenste helft van het touwladder zenuwstelsel opgevouwen tot de huidige complexe hersenen, terwijl de onderste helft is veranderd in het ruggenmerg. Tijdens de ontwikkeling van een embryo ondergaat het zenuwstelsel een vergelijkbare reis van touwladder model naar hersenen en ruggenmerg. Tijdens deze ontwikkeling vindt een draai van 180 graden plaats, waardoor de linkerkant van de hersenen verbonden is met de rechterlichaamshelft. Dit verklaart waarom een beroerte in de linkerhersenhelft kan leiden tot problemen met het aansturen van de rechterarm en het rechterbeen, evenals problemen met spreken.  De hersenen bestaan uit grote en kleine hersenen, verbonden door de hersenbalk, en de hersenstam die overgaat in het ruggenmerg.   De hersenbalk zorgt ervoor dat de twee hersenhelften constant met elkaar communiceren. Experimenten waarbij de hersenbalk wordt doorgesneden bij mensen met ernstige epilepsie hebben aangetoond dat beide hersenhelften zelfstandig kunnen functioneren. Er zijn echter weinig split-brain patiënten op aarde, waardoor de meeste mensen beide hersenhelften gebruiken voor de meeste taken.    In deze aflevering rekent Iris Sommer af met misvattingen over de linker- en de rechterhersenhelft, die vooral in de coaching-industrie de ronde doen. Wat is het verschil tussen het brein van mannen, en dat van vrouwen? En waarom hebben sommige tweelingen tegengestelde hersendominantie?   Over BNR In De Diepte   Na het succes van Terug naar de Oerknal met Govert Schilling is BNR In de Diepte terug met een nieuw seizoen, en een nieuwe wetenschapper. In vijf afleveringen neemt Iris Sommer, psychiater, neurowetenschapper aan het UMCG en auteur, je mee op een baan door het brein. Je leert alles over onze zintuigen, de linker, en de rechterhersenhelft, of mannen een ander brein hebben dan vrouwen, en welke invloed je darmen hebben op je persoonlijkheid.   Over Iris Sommer   Iris studeerde geneeskunde aan de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam en werd in 2004 psychiater aan het UMC Utrecht. In 2010 werd ze hoogleraar psychiatrie aan de UU. Daar richtte ze de stemmenpoli op, waar mensen terecht kunnen die last hebben van hallucinaties. Haar eerste popular wetenschappelijke boek was dan ook “Stemmen horen”. Daarna volgde “Haperende Hersenen” in 2016, wat een best-seller werd, evenals “Het Vrouwenbrein” in 2020.   Sinds 2017 werkt Iris aan het UMC Groningen, waar ze directeur van het onderzoeksinstituut Brain and Cognition is. Daar combineert ze onderzoek met patientenzorg en onderwijs. In 2021 werd ze genomineerd als Nias-Lorentz Distinguished fellow en werkte ze als fellow op het Netherlands Institute of Advanced Science (NIAS) te Amsterdam. In 2022 ontving zij de Huibregtsenprijs voor Wetenschap en Maatschappij. Samen met de Hersenstichting schreef ze het kookboek “Voed je brein”, over de invloed van gezond eten op hersenen en gedrag. In augustus staat ze met haar team op Lowlands Science onder de title “Shitty Science”.  In november dit jaar verschijnt haar nieuwe boek “de Bacterie en het Brein”.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Baan door het Brein, de nieuwste serie van BNR In De Diepte neemt psychiater en neurowetenschapper Iris Sommer ons mee op een fascinerende reis door het brein. In deze eerste aflevering verkent ze de schoonheid en complexiteit van onze hersenen. Niet alleen het epicentrum van ons lichaam, maar ook bepalend voor onze persoonlijkheid, emoties en humor.  De hersenen zijn verantwoordelijk voor het opwekken van elektrische activiteit, gemeten als hersengolven, en communiceren via elektrische stroompjes tussen zenuwcellen en synapsen. Het brein bestaat uit grijze stof, voornamelijk gevormd door cellichamen en korte uitlopers van zenuwcellen, en witte stof, bestaande uit lange uitlopers die ver weg in de hersenen contact maken. Daarnaast bevindt zich ook hersenvocht, dat dient als schokdemper en vuilnisophaaldienst, en afvalstoffen uit de hersenen verwijdert tijdens de slaap.  De hersenen zijn opgedeeld in drie delen: de grote hersenen, de kleine hersenen en de hersenstam. De grote hersenen bestaan uit de linker en rechter hemisferen, terwijl de kleine hersenen een overvloed aan zenuwcellen bevatten en voornamelijk verantwoordelijk zijn voor motorische functies. Hersenonderzoek richt zich voornamelijk op de grote hersenen, waarvan wordt verondersteld dat daar de meeste typisch menselijke eigenschappen liggen, maar de functies van de kleine hersenen zijn nog grotendeels onbekend.    Het menselijk brein bevat zo'n 83 miljard zenuwcellen, en het aantal verbindingen tussen deze cellen bepaalt onze intelligentie en vaardigheden. Hersenen zijn plastisch en kunnen nieuwe verbindingen vormen en onnodige verbindingen afbreken. Dit proces kan worden gestimuleerd door uitdagende activiteiten en leren. Hoewel de hersenen vanaf ongeveer het 25e levensjaar elk jaar ongeveer 1% van hun massa verliezen, kunnen ze zich aanpassen aan veranderingen en functies overnemen van beschadigde gebieden.  Over BNR In De Diepte   Na het succes van Terug naar de Oerknal met Govert Schilling is BNR In de Diepte terug met een nieuw seizoen, en een nieuwe wetenschapper. In vijf afleveringen neemt Iris Sommer, psychiater, neurowetenschapper aan het UMCG en auteur, je mee op een baan door het brein. Je leert alles over onze zintuigen, de linker, en de rechterhersenhelft, of mannen een ander brein hebben dan vrouwen, en welke invloed je darmen hebben op je persoonlijkheid.   Over Iris Sommer   Iris studeerde geneeskunde aan de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam en werd in 2004 psychiater aan het UMC Utrecht. In 2010 werd ze hoogleraar psychiatrie aan de UU. Daar richtte ze de stemmenpoli op, waar mensen terecht kunnen die last hebben van hallucinaties. Haar eerste popular wetenschappelijke boek was dan ook “Stemmen horen”. Daarna volgde “Haperende Hersenen” in 2016, wat een best-seller werd, evenals “Het Vrouwenbrein” in 2020.   Sinds 2017 werkt Iris aan het UMC Groningen, waar ze directeur van het onderzoeksinstituut Brain and Cognition is. Daar combineert ze onderzoek met patientenzorg en onderwijs. In 2021 werd ze genomineerd als Nias-Lorentz Distinguished fellow en werkte ze als fellow op het Netherlands Institute of Advanced Science (NIAS) te Amsterdam. In 2022 ontving zij de Huibregtsenprijs voor Wetenschap en Maatschappij. Samen met de Hersenstichting schreef ze het kookboek “Voed je brein”, over de invloed van gezond eten op hersenen en gedrag. In augustus staat ze met haar team op Lowlands Science onder de title “Shitty Science”.  In november dit jaar verschijnt haar nieuwe boek “de Bacterie en het Brein”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we're replaying a classic episode where Steve and Yvonne interview Bill Stone of Stone Law Group (https://www.stonelaw.com/).   Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here to Rate and Review   View/Download Trial Documents   Case Details: Former Georgia Plaintiff's Lawyer of the Year Bill Stone of Stone Law Group in Atlanta explains how he secured justice for Shannon Trabue, an expectant mother with pre-eclampsia who suffered irreversible brain damage due to medical malpractice. Two Atlanta Women's Specialists' doctors failed to regulate Shannon's blood pressure, despite knowledge that pre-eclampsia patients pose a high risk of blood pressure-induced seizures, and failed to manage her fluid levels. As a result, Shannon suffered cardiopulmonary arrest, resulting in permanent brain damage and physical disabilities due to an extended period of time without oxygen. A Fulton County, Georgia jury delivered a $45.8 million verdict, including $9.8 million in economic loss and $18 million in compensatory damages for Shannon. Guest Bio: William 'Bill' Sims Stone Bill is a trial lawyer from Blakely, Georgia, who specializes in personal injury, wrongful death, professional malpractice, product liability, commercial and consumer fraud cases. The firm's predecessor was founded in 1915 by Bill's grandfather, the late Wm. Lowrey Stone. Past members of the firm include Bill's father, Lowrey S. Stone, who formerly served as Chief Judge of Superior Courts, Pataula Judicial Circuit. Bill was born in Dothan, Alabama, on August 19, 1953. He attended the public schools in Early County, Georgia and graduated from Early County High School in 1971. He attended the University of Georgia College of Business Administration and received a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a major in accounting on graduation in 1975. Bill also attended the Netherlands Institute of Industrial Economics near Amsterdam in The Netherlands in 1973. Bill received his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1977. He was admitted to practice law in the state of Georgia in 1977 and in the state of Alabama in 1985. He is also member of the bars of the United States District Courts for the Middle and Northern Districts of Georgia, the Middle District of Alabama, and the Central District of Illinois, as well as the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits. The publishers of the Martindale Hubble Law Directory have awarded Bill its highest rating (AV) for legal ability and integrity. Bill is a Life Member and past president of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and is also a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Alabama State Bar, the American Association for Justice, and the Southwest Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. Bill has served on the Georgia Judicial Nominating Commission that recommends candidates to the Governor for appointment to vacant judgeships in Georgia. He has authored a number of published articles and is a frequent lecturer at legal seminars on the subject of trial practice and tort law. Bill is a past president of the Blakely Rotary Club, and a member of the First United Methodist Church of Blakely. Bill has five children, Ryals, also a member of Boone & Stone, Katie, James, John and Andrew. Read Full Bio   Show Sponsors: Legal Technology Services - LegalTechService.com Digital Law Marketing - DigitalLawMarketing.com Harris Lowry Manton LLP - hlmlawfirm.com   Free Resources: Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 1 Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 2

Florian Matusek talks to Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, a professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and research leader of the group ‘crime in context' at the Netherlands Institute for Crime and Law Enforcement. Her research focuses on situational aspects of violence and conflict with particular focus on real-life interactions as they unfold in time and space. In this conversation, Marie talks about how combining video analytics with sociology helped the Dutch police during the Covid pandemic and how this combination of fields has the potential to solve the replication crisis.

Today's guest is Martin Thomas. Martin is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict at the University of Exeter in the UK. He was also the first director of Exeter's Centre for the Study of War, State, and Society. Before joining the faculty at Exeter, Martin taught at the University of the West of England in Bristol for eleven years. He has held visiting professorships and fellowships at Sciences Po. Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies. Martin received his BA and PhD from Oxford University. Martin is the author of ten books and dozens of articles and book chapters. His many publications include The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire with co-author Andrew Thompson, Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956 (Oxford) with co-author Richard Toye in 2017, and The Civilianization of War: The Changing Civil–Military Divide, 1914–2014, with Andrew Barros (Cambridge). Martin's solo publications include Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire (Oxford), Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers, and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-40 (Cambridge), and The French Empire at War, 1940-45 (Manchester). Martin was awarded the Philip Leverhulme prize for outstanding research in 2002 and currently holds a three-year Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. He has also been a fellow of the Independent Social Research Foundation. Martin has been a member of the editorial boards of the International History Review, Intelligence and National Security, Diplomacy & Statecraft, War & Society, French Historical Studies, and Cambridge's Studies in the Social & Cultural History of Modern Warfare. Join us for a really interesting chat with Martin Thomas. We'll talk teaching global history, the nature of colonial violence, old French ladies with baskets of hand grenades, League One football, and Little Feat! Be sure to check out the MHPTPodcast Swag Store on Zazzle! Rec.: 03/13/2023

An applied goal of Pieter Roelfsema's lab at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam is to create a visual brain prosthesis aimed at people who have lost their sight.To help achieve this goal, the lab partners with both neurosurgeons and artificial intelligence researchers.“We are knowledgeable about how to put electrodes in the brain,” says Roelfsema, “but we collaborate with experts who know about how to make these electrodes so that they don't damage the brain tissue too much, also with people in artificial intelligence who can take camera images and translate them into brain stimulation patterns.“We also collaborate with neurosurgeons who can inform us how to really make this device and make it something that is going to be feasible for a neurosurgeon to really implant in the brain. That is definitely a very important goal for me, to bring this to a patient.”In episode five of Tales from the Synapse, a podcast series with a focus on brain science, Roelfsema describes how he handles requests from people who are pinning their hopes on being able to see again. “I have to explain this is not a clinically approved device,” he says.“Our ambition will be to go to humans in the next say, two years, or maybe a little bit later, but it's still going to be research. There are all kinds of regulations, which are there for a good reason. And we have to show that we comply with all these regulations.”Tales from the Synapse is produced in partnership with Nature Neuroscience and introduced by Jean Mary Zarate, a senior editor at the journal. The series features brain scientists from all over the world who talk about their career journeys, collaborations and the societal impact of their research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Global Ecosystem Restoration John D. Liu is my guest on Episode 171 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. In the 1980s and 1990s, John worked as a television producer and cameraman with CBS News, RAI, and ZDF covering geo-political events including the rise of China from poverty and isolation and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the mid-1990s the World Bank asked John to document the rehabilitation of the Loess Plateau. Since learning that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems John has devoted his life to understanding and communicating about the potential and responsibility to restore degraded landscapes on a planetary scale. Since 2009 John has worked with Willem Ferwerda the Founder and CEO of the Commonland Foundation, which is catalyzing privately invested large-scale restoration in many parts of the world. John is also the founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement that began in 2016 and has grown to over 50 camps in 6 continents and continues to grow. Studying ecology led John to receive a number of academic appointments. In 2014 John was named a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIOO/KNAW) and continues to study. https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/

Today's guest is the prolific, experienced, fan of the Rolling Stones and recently announced 2023 Society for Military History Samuel Eliot Morrison awardee Brian McAllister Linn! Brian is Professor of History and Ralph R. Thomas Class of 1921 Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. Brian has been at Texas A&M since 1989, but he had visiting positions at Old Dominion and Nebraska before landing in College Station. He attended the University of Hawaii for his BA and earned his MA and PhD at The Ohio State University. Brian has held far too many fellowships to mention them all, but here are some of his recent accomplishments: He was a Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellow in 2019, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in 2018-2019, and a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK in 2016. Brian also held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship, and a Bosch Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. To say that Brian is a prolific scholar is an understatement. In 2016 he published Elvis's Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield (Harvard), which won the US Army Historical Foundation's Best Book Award and US Military History Group's Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book Award. The Society for Military History has recognized Brian's work with its prestigious Distinguished Book Prize twice: for The Philippine War, 1899-1902 and Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940 (which also won the US Army Historical Foundation's Best Book Award). His most recent book, Real Soldiering: The U.S. Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1940, will be published by the University Press of Kansas in 2023. Brian has also published more than 40 essays, chapters, and articles, including the just-published “Forty Years On: Master Narratives and US Military History (War & Society, 2022), which includes a shout-out to Military Historians are People, Too! Brian's service to the profession has been immense. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History, War and Society, and the Journal of Strategic Studies. Brian is a past president and trustee of the Society for Military History, which recognized his service with its Edwin M. Simmons Memorial Service Award in 2012. We'll talk Hawaii, the state of military history today, Gaylord Perry, Stones versus Beatles, and Fulbright-ing. Join us for a much-anticipated chat with Brian Linn! And a big shout-out to Carney's Pub in Bryan, Texas! Rec.: 12/02/2022

‘For the nineteenth century, Dutch artists had to try to emulate artists from the seventeenth century. It was the standard that they had to try and find. And if they exhibited in Paris, that's also what the critic said: "this is like a Ruisdael; that's like a Rembrandt; he's doing a very good imitation of that artist." And that's something they had to fight against, or overcome. And that only happened, with the advent of The Hague school, and its artists. There's also a French-Dutch part of the French School of Barbizon, whose own artists actually looked back to the Dutch seventeenth century. But it's that moment, in which the Dutch nineteenth-century artists come into their own. And they in-turn, become an export product, and become internationally known. Especially in America and Great Britain, these artists were very much sought after.' —Mayken Jonkman For the seventh episode of ‘Dutch Art & Design Today', I sat down with Mayken Jonkman, who is a Senior Curator of Nineteenth-Century Art, at The Netherlands Institute for Art History, in The Hague. Mayken is an art historian and researcher who takes an approach to her work that is kaleidoscopic in its nature. Since 2007, she has been a curator at the RKD, focused entirely on the nineteenth century, and specifically, interactions and artistic exchanges between France and the Netherlands. She has also been a lecturer in art history at numerous universities in the Netherlands; sits on the board of the European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art; and has authored a seemingly endless list of publications on artists, the use of photography by artists, and much more besides. In this episode, we trace these events in her life, all through the prism of the fabulously multi-faceted nineteenth century; with its many interlocking innovations, as related to society at large, from its cities, to its new modes of travel and transportation, to photography; and how all this affected its art. We then discuss her PhD, which she is completing at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and is entitled ‘Retour de Paris. Artistic Exchanges Between the Netherlands and France 1789-1914', as well as the exhibition she guest-curated titled 'The Dutch in Paris 1789-1914', held at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and in Paris at the Petit Paleis. Lastly, Mayken explains what it is about the art of the nineteenth century that most fascinates her; and what it is that this period in history can teach us, today. Here you can listen to the podcast we reference in the episode, 'Dutch Artists in Paris', in which Mayken discusses her research. You can find out more about the RKD over on their website. You can find John on X @johnbezold and at his website johnbezold.com. 'Dutch Art & Design Today' is published by Semicolon-Press.

Justin Dolan Stover is Associate Professor of transnational European history at Idaho State University, where he teaches courses on war and violence, modern Irish history, and the world wars. He holds a doctorate in history from Trinity College Dublin and has held several research fellowships throughout Ireland. He is currently a research fellow with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. In this interview, he discusses his new book, Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction During the Irish (U College Dublin Press, 2022), which uncovers the environmental and spatial history of the Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence. The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after independence, presenting an Ireland politically transformed yet physically disfigured. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution examines how and to what degree revolutionary activity degraded, damaged and destroyed Ireland's landscapes. This book represents the first environmental history of the revolutionary period and in doing so incorporates the roles animals, earth, water, trees, weather, and man-made infrastructure played in directing and absorbing revolutionary violence. It traces the militarisation of private and public spaces, and how the destruction of monuments renegotiated Ireland's civic spaces and colonial legacy. It considers Crown force reprisals, agrarian disputes, and sectarian division as amplifying Ireland's contested spaces, where environmental damage occurred in the vacuum of public order. The decade of commemoration presents the opportunity to challenge traditional narratives and examine Ireland's revolutionary experience afresh. As such, this book re-evaluates conventional interpretations and introduces new arguments; in doing so, it pioneers a new phase in the study of the Irish Revolution. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution is published with UCD Press. Aidan Beatty is a historian at the Frederick Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Justin Dolan Stover is Associate Professor of transnational European history at Idaho State University, where he teaches courses on war and violence, modern Irish history, and the world wars. He holds a doctorate in history from Trinity College Dublin and has held several research fellowships throughout Ireland. He is currently a research fellow with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. In this interview, he discusses his new book, Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction During the Irish (U College Dublin Press, 2022), which uncovers the environmental and spatial history of the Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence. The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after independence, presenting an Ireland politically transformed yet physically disfigured. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution examines how and to what degree revolutionary activity degraded, damaged and destroyed Ireland's landscapes. This book represents the first environmental history of the revolutionary period and in doing so incorporates the roles animals, earth, water, trees, weather, and man-made infrastructure played in directing and absorbing revolutionary violence. It traces the militarisation of private and public spaces, and how the destruction of monuments renegotiated Ireland's civic spaces and colonial legacy. It considers Crown force reprisals, agrarian disputes, and sectarian division as amplifying Ireland's contested spaces, where environmental damage occurred in the vacuum of public order. The decade of commemoration presents the opportunity to challenge traditional narratives and examine Ireland's revolutionary experience afresh. As such, this book re-evaluates conventional interpretations and introduces new arguments; in doing so, it pioneers a new phase in the study of the Irish Revolution. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution is published with UCD Press. Aidan Beatty is a historian at the Frederick Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Justin Dolan Stover is Associate Professor of transnational European history at Idaho State University, where he teaches courses on war and violence, modern Irish history, and the world wars. He holds a doctorate in history from Trinity College Dublin and has held several research fellowships throughout Ireland. He is currently a research fellow with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. In this interview, he discusses his new book, Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction During the Irish (U College Dublin Press, 2022), which uncovers the environmental and spatial history of the Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence. The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after independence, presenting an Ireland politically transformed yet physically disfigured. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution examines how and to what degree revolutionary activity degraded, damaged and destroyed Ireland's landscapes. This book represents the first environmental history of the revolutionary period and in doing so incorporates the roles animals, earth, water, trees, weather, and man-made infrastructure played in directing and absorbing revolutionary violence. It traces the militarisation of private and public spaces, and how the destruction of monuments renegotiated Ireland's civic spaces and colonial legacy. It considers Crown force reprisals, agrarian disputes, and sectarian division as amplifying Ireland's contested spaces, where environmental damage occurred in the vacuum of public order. The decade of commemoration presents the opportunity to challenge traditional narratives and examine Ireland's revolutionary experience afresh. As such, this book re-evaluates conventional interpretations and introduces new arguments; in doing so, it pioneers a new phase in the study of the Irish Revolution. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution is published with UCD Press. Aidan Beatty is a historian at the Frederick Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

Justin Dolan Stover is Associate Professor of transnational European history at Idaho State University, where he teaches courses on war and violence, modern Irish history, and the world wars. He holds a doctorate in history from Trinity College Dublin and has held several research fellowships throughout Ireland. He is currently a research fellow with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. In this interview, he discusses his new book, Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction During the Irish (U College Dublin Press, 2022), which uncovers the environmental and spatial history of the Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence. The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after independence, presenting an Ireland politically transformed yet physically disfigured. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution examines how and to what degree revolutionary activity degraded, damaged and destroyed Ireland's landscapes. This book represents the first environmental history of the revolutionary period and in doing so incorporates the roles animals, earth, water, trees, weather, and man-made infrastructure played in directing and absorbing revolutionary violence. It traces the militarisation of private and public spaces, and how the destruction of monuments renegotiated Ireland's civic spaces and colonial legacy. It considers Crown force reprisals, agrarian disputes, and sectarian division as amplifying Ireland's contested spaces, where environmental damage occurred in the vacuum of public order. The decade of commemoration presents the opportunity to challenge traditional narratives and examine Ireland's revolutionary experience afresh. As such, this book re-evaluates conventional interpretations and introduces new arguments; in doing so, it pioneers a new phase in the study of the Irish Revolution. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution is published with UCD Press. Aidan Beatty is a historian at the Frederick Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Dolan Stover is Associate Professor of transnational European history at Idaho State University, where he teaches courses on war and violence, modern Irish history, and the world wars. He holds a doctorate in history from Trinity College Dublin and has held several research fellowships throughout Ireland. He is currently a research fellow with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. In this interview, he discusses his new book, Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction During the Irish (U College Dublin Press, 2022), which uncovers the environmental and spatial history of the Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence. The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after independence, presenting an Ireland politically transformed yet physically disfigured. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution examines how and to what degree revolutionary activity degraded, damaged and destroyed Ireland's landscapes. This book represents the first environmental history of the revolutionary period and in doing so incorporates the roles animals, earth, water, trees, weather, and man-made infrastructure played in directing and absorbing revolutionary violence. It traces the militarisation of private and public spaces, and how the destruction of monuments renegotiated Ireland's civic spaces and colonial legacy. It considers Crown force reprisals, agrarian disputes, and sectarian division as amplifying Ireland's contested spaces, where environmental damage occurred in the vacuum of public order. The decade of commemoration presents the opportunity to challenge traditional narratives and examine Ireland's revolutionary experience afresh. As such, this book re-evaluates conventional interpretations and introduces new arguments; in doing so, it pioneers a new phase in the study of the Irish Revolution. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution is published with UCD Press. Aidan Beatty is a historian at the Frederick Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

Justin Dolan Stover is Associate Professor of transnational European history at Idaho State University, where he teaches courses on war and violence, modern Irish history, and the world wars. He holds a doctorate in history from Trinity College Dublin and has held several research fellowships throughout Ireland. He is currently a research fellow with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. In this interview, he discusses his new book, Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction During the Irish (U College Dublin Press, 2022), which uncovers the environmental and spatial history of the Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence. The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after independence, presenting an Ireland politically transformed yet physically disfigured. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution examines how and to what degree revolutionary activity degraded, damaged and destroyed Ireland's landscapes. This book represents the first environmental history of the revolutionary period and in doing so incorporates the roles animals, earth, water, trees, weather, and man-made infrastructure played in directing and absorbing revolutionary violence. It traces the militarisation of private and public spaces, and how the destruction of monuments renegotiated Ireland's civic spaces and colonial legacy. It considers Crown force reprisals, agrarian disputes, and sectarian division as amplifying Ireland's contested spaces, where environmental damage occurred in the vacuum of public order. The decade of commemoration presents the opportunity to challenge traditional narratives and examine Ireland's revolutionary experience afresh. As such, this book re-evaluates conventional interpretations and introduces new arguments; in doing so, it pioneers a new phase in the study of the Irish Revolution. Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution is published with UCD Press. Aidan Beatty is a historian at the Frederick Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

There is no impulse more natural than the desire to protect ourselves and our loved ones from pain. When we experience social-emotional pain, we activate the same instincts as a mama bear who jumps to protect her cub as an effort to dial down emotions of distress. An unhealthy emotional pain management can lead to actively taking steps to inflict pain on others through the acts of withholding affection, interactions, or reciprocity. The “silent treatment” or social exclusion is one such powerful tool that delivers insurmountable distress to others providing individuals with only temporary relief.On this podcast, a pioneer and world-leading expert on social and psychological dynamics of ostracism, author, and a distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, Kipling Williams, discusses how the silent treatment can damage relationships, sometimes irreparably and provides effective and meaningful ways we can manage our own disappointments, let-downs, or hurt by engaging personal growth and emotional agility.About Kipling WilliamsKipling Williams is Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He earned his B.S. from the University of Washington—Seattle (1975) and his PhD at The Ohio State University (1981). Prior to coming to Purdue, Williams was on faculties at Macquarie University and University of New South Wales (both in Sydney, Australia), University of Toledo (Ohio), and Drake University (Iowa). He is a pioneer and world-leading expert on social and psychological dynamics of ostracism. As well as his authored book, Ostracism: The Power of Silence, he has edited ten books, including The Social Outcast, and the soon-to-be published Frontier Handbook on Ostracism, Social Exclusion, and Rejection. He has been an associate editor of Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, & Practice, as well as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. He was the editor of Social Influence from 2010-2019.His research interests include ostracism, social influence, and motivation in groups. He has published over 180 articles and chapters, with articles in Science, Scientific American-MIND, Psychological Science, and other top journals in the field of social psychology. In 2012, he was a Lorentz Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He was a co-winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Socio-Psychological (AAAS), and Purdue University's College of Health and Human Sciences Research Achievement Award. He is past president of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists and the Midwestern Psychological Association.Website: http://williams.socialpsychology.orgBook:Ostracism: The Power of SilenceAbout Host, Sucheta KamathSucheta Kamath, is an award-winning speech-language pathologist, a TEDx speaker, a celebrated community leader, and the founder and CEO of ExQ®. As an EdTech entrepreneur, Sucheta has designed ExQ's personalized digital learning curriculum/tool that empowers middle and high school students to develop self-awareness and strategic thinking skills through the mastery of Executive Function and social-emotional competence.Support the show

Stijn Ruiter is a Dutch sociologist who specializes in environmental criminology and why crime happens where it does. Since 2009, he has worked at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. We chat about translating policing research across national boundaries, and in particular his role as research program leader for a new initiative – what works in policing – towards evidence-based policing in the Netherlands.

A €9 million project aiming to transform the news media and arts sectors through the creation of social extended reality experiences is to get underway at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) in Athlone this October. TRANSMIXR, which is funded by Horizon Europe and led by TUS, brings together researchers, design partners and media companies from 19 countries with the goal of creating human-centric tools for remote content production and consumption. €9M EU Project TRANSMIXR to build ‘Metaverse' Tools at TUS With the maturity of extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, a unique window of opportunity for the European creative and cultural sector (CCS) exists to reimagine digital co-creation, interaction and engagement possibilities. The TRANSMIXR platform aims to provide (i) a distributed XR creation environment that supports remote collaboration practices, and (ii) an XR media experience environment for the delivery and consumption of evocative and immersive media experiences. Project coordinator Dr Niall Murray, who is based in TUS's Athlone campus and is an investigator in the SFI Adapt Centre, says TRANSMIXR will “ignite the immersive media sector by enabling new narrative visions”. “TRANSMIXR is a very exciting project that will create a suite of user-centric technologies to support the creation, consumption and understanding of new media experiences in distributed, collaborative and immersive ways. Underpinned by the convergence of AI and XR, the design of these new systems will be informed by and be evaluated with real end users,” Dr Murray explained. He continued, “A key strength of the TRANSMIXR consortium is its interdisciplinary nature, bringing complementary technical, methodological and domain expertise together to create impactful solutions for the creative and culture sectors.” Ground-breaking AI techniques for the understanding and processing of complex media content will enable the reuse of heterogeneous assets across immersive content delivery platforms. Using the Living Labs methodology, TRANSMIXR will develop and evaluate four pilots that bring the vision of future media experiences to life in four important CCS domains: news media, broadcasting, performing arts, and cultural heritage. Explaining further, Dr Conor Keighrey, an immersive technology researcher at TUS's Athlone campus, said, “In addition to our role as coordinator, TUS will further develop our research on extended reality (XR) for the TRANSMIXR distributed creation environments as well as working on the creation of human centric AI for XR audience understanding“. The TRANSMIXR project, which is expected to run for three years, will hold its kick-off meeting October 25 and 26 in Athlone, Ireland. The consortium brings together leading universities and research centres: Technological University of the Shannon (Ireland), Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI, Netherlands), Modul Technology GmbH (Austria), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis (CERTH, Greece), and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland) blend theoretical and applied AI and XR R&D expertise. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) are leading the efforts with respect to user centred design. Furthermore, industry partners Intel Germany GmbH (Germany), VRAI (Ireland), Khora APS (Denmark), Immersion (France) and webLyzard technology (Austria) bring technical expertise and reflect the interests of commercial organisations. Finally, media practitioners from the different TRANSMIX CCS domains will ensure the developed technologies are grounded on real industry needs. The partners include Agence France-Presse (AFP, France), RTV Slovenia (Slovenia), Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (Netherlands), Baltic Film & Creative Tech Cluster (Lithuania), European Broadcasting Union (AISBL EBU-UER, Belgium), Sparknews (France) and Satore Studio (Portugal). The participating partners are c...

University of Arizona astronomers have identified five examples of a new class of star system. They're not quite galaxies and only exist in isolation. The new stellar systems contain only young, blue stars, which are distributed in an irregular pattern and seem to exist in surprising isolation from any potential parent galaxy. Mysterious ‘Blue Blobs' Reveal New Star System The stellar systems – which astronomers say appear through a telescope as “blue blobs” and are about the size of tiny dwarf galaxies – are located within the relatively nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. The five systems are separated from any potential parent galaxies by over 300,000 lightyears in some cases, making it challenging to identify their origins. The astronomers found the new systems after another research group, led by the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy's Elizabeth Adams, compiled a catalogue of nearby gas clouds, providing a list of potential sites of new galaxies. Once that catalogue was published, several research groups, including one led by UArizona associate astronomy professor David Sand, started looking for stars that could be associated with those gas clouds. The gas clouds were thought to be associated with our own galaxy, and most of them probably are, but when the first collection of stars, called SECCO1, was discovered, astronomers realized that it was not near the Milky Way at all, but rather in the Virgo cluster, which is much farther away but still very nearby in the scale of the universe. SECCO1 was one of the very unusual “blue blobs,” said Michael Jones, a postdoctoral fellow in the UArizona Steward Observatory and lead author of a study that describes the new stellar systems. Jones presented the findings, which Sand co-authored, during the 240th American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, California, Wednesday. “It's a lesson in the unexpected,” Jones said. “When you're looking for things, you're not necessarily going to find the thing you're looking for, but you might find something else very interesting.” The team obtained their observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Array Telescope in New Mexico and the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Study co-author Michele Bellazzini, with the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy, led the analysis of the data from the Very Large Telescope and has submitted a companion paper focusing on that data. Together, the team learned that most of the stars in each system are very blue and very young and that they contain very little atomic hydrogen gas. This is significant because star formation begins with atomic hydrogen gas, which eventually evolves into dense clouds of molecular hydrogen gas before forming into stars. “We observed that most of the systems lack atomic gas, but that doesn't mean there isn't molecular gas,” Jones said. “In fact, there must be some molecular gas because they are still forming stars. The existence of mostly young stars and little gas signals that these systems must have lost their gas recently.” The combination of blue stars and lack of gas was unexpected, as was a lack of older stars in the systems. Most galaxies have older stars, which astronomers refer to as being “red and dead.” “Stars that are born red are lower mass and therefore live longer than blue stars, which burn fast and die young, so old red stars are usually the last ones left living,” Jones said. “And they're dead because they don't have any more gas with which to form new stars. These blue stars are like an oasis in the desert, basically.” The fact that the new stellar systems are abundant in metals hints at how they might have formed. “To astronomers, metals are any element heavier than helium,” Jones said. “This tells us that these stellar systems formed from gas that was stripped from a big galaxy, because how metals are built up is by many repeated episodes of star formation, and you only really get that in a big galaxy.” Gas stripped from galaxy forming...

Ana Pineda is a scientist and a certified yoga instructor.  Those two passions are combined in her mindful approach to academic life; developed with more than 15 years of research experience at top European Institutions, such as Wageningen University and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology.    In today's episode, Ana shares how she started applying her learning around calming the mind that she gained in her yoga training to the challenges of writing research papers.   She has continued to explore a mindful approach to academic life with an emphasis on bringing awareness to the moment.   Ana talks about becoming aware of the fear that may be holding you back and suggests some strategies to help you manage that fear.   We discuss bringing mindfulness to academic writing and Ana offers advice on how to make writing feel more pleasurable and less like a punishment!   You can find out more about Ana's work here: https://www.ifocusandwrite.com/     If you would like a useful weekly email to support you on your PhD journey you can sign up for ‘Notes from the Life Raft' here:  https://mailchi.mp/f2dce91955c6/notes-from-the-life-raft

Eighty years ago this month, in May 1942, the Nazis forced all Jewish people in the Netherlands to wear a yellow star on their clothes to publicly identify themselves. This would lead to mass deportations and deaths, eliminating about 75 per cent of the Dutch Jewish population. Now, Dutch researchers are trying to identify those persecuted Jews—and find out what happened to them. This year, the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies launched a project called "Behind the Star". They've published hundreds of black and white wartime photos of Jews wearing yellow stars, and are hoping to crowdsource the subjects' identities. Because Canada has such a large population of Dutch Jewish survivors and their descendents, the researchers are hoping Canadians can help look through the photos and put names to the faces, creating a fuller picture what happened to the Netherlands' Jewish community. What we talked about: Learn about the project, "Behind the Star" Credits The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Victoria Redden is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To learn how to support the show by subscribing to this podcast, please watch this video.

In this episode, Kamau Wairuri talks to Tom Mboya, a governance consultant, on the cost of politics in Kenya. Our discussion is based on the findings of a study that Tom conducted with Prof Karuti Kanyinga on the topic. The study is a part of a global study. The findings can be found on https://www.costofpolitics.net/  Tom and I discussed how much candidates spend in their election campaigns and why this cost varies by party, region and gender of the candidate. We also talked about the impact that the rising costs of election campaigns is having on Kenyan politics, including how it influences the kind of people who can offer themselves as candidates for election.  References:  Karuti Kanyinga & Tom Mboya. The cost of politics in Kenya Implications for political participation and development. (Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), London and Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), The Hague, July 2021).

On today's podcast, you are going to have the opportunity to hear from John D. Liu, who is truly a legend in the regeneration ecosystem restoration community, and body of knowledge. He is just such a wise sage. Somebody who has lived their life in contemplation around how can ecosystems, how can people, how can communities live in harmony in symbiosis with nature? John D. Liu is a filmmaker and ecologist. He also is a researcher in several world institutions. He's a fellow from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also the ecosystem ambassador for the Commonland Foundation in Amsterdam. And John D. Liu is also the Ecosystem... He founded the Ecosystem Restorations worldwide movement, which aims to restore degraded ecosystems on a large scale. You are going to be blown away. You're going to be awakened. You're going to be inspired. Truly today's conversation is awakening the possibilities of regeneration. And I just trust that you're going to love it.

Staff Writer Meredith Wadman and host Sarah Crespi discuss what to expect from the two messenger RNA–based vaccines against COVID-19 that have recently released encouraging results from their phase III trials and the short-term side effects some recipients might see on the day of injection. Sarah also talks with researcher Xing Chen, a project co-leader and postdoctoral scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, about using brain stimulation to restore vision. Researchers have known for about 70 years that electrical stimulation at certain points in the brain can lead to the appearance of a phosphene—a spot of light that appears not because there's light there, but because of some other stimulation, like pressing on the eyeball. If electrical stimulation can make a little light appear, how about many lights? Can we think about phosphenes as pixels and draw a picture for the brain? How about a moving picture? This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John D. Liu is passionate about ecosystem restoration, and has been championing the solutions and associated philosophies for more than thirty years. Join us as we explore our inextricable connections to nature through John's eyes. Prepared to be inspired and challenged as John shares some of his journey. We go into the thinking behind the degenerative systems, how they came to be, and what he sees as the necessary evolution of human consciousness to move into regenerative systems.He is currently the Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation, and a visiting research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Links:Commonland FoundationEcosystem Restoration CampsERC Facebook PagePublished works - Academia page A few of John's documentaries:Green GoldHope In A Changing Climate   SHOW NOTES Background- background in journalism, camera work, television & radio- saw a lot of ego and hubris- realised that contributing to environmental healing was much more meaningful- changed to ecological research- began lecturing and speaking on his research- came to believe knowledge is a right, not a commodity- hopeful that future generations will carry this shift in thinking  John's Message- discussion of the Loess plateau, its ecological destruction and subsequent restoration- it is not inevitable that humans degrade their environment- we have looted the earth- by contrast, in nature there is no waste- nature accumulates each generation- a human collective consciousness is needed, not just experts- felt like a detective figuring out what had gone wrong in barren places- living separated from each other and our environment = the result is deserts, wars, etc- there is no need for us to destroy our natural systems  The Impact of Modern Agriculture- humans have spent a lot of time decreasing biodiversity- modern agriculture is only 10-12,000 years old- there are no exposed soils in natural systems (with a few exceptions)- monoculture: human ancestors spread certain kinds of plant while killing many others  Hope For The Future- Commonland is working on the principle of “4 returns”- return 1: inspiration- return 2: social capital - jobs, happiness, normal relationships- return 3: natural capital- return 4: return on investment, financial- many people are beginning to be aware- idea of ecological restoration live-in camps- holistic view of life experience & development  Making Changes- our descendants' quality of life will be determined by what we learn, and how much we understand- we have it in our power to restore paradise- if our intention is to restore the earth, we will do it- John believes this is our duty to do so- what is the result of consciousness and generosity- it's necessary to move to the next level of consciousness- not just a meme or a catchphrase, but a true understanding of our symbiotic relationship with the natural world  Final Thoughts- collaborative learning- not institutions that will accomplish it, but people- this work needs to be done from an ecological standpoint, but also with a view to living together in peace- these go hand in hand