Podcasts about other planets

The Truth Is Here – Life on Other Planets, UFOs, & AI Panel

Chris and Nikki return with guest and friend, Tom, to discuss the final three Supergrass albums: Life on Other Planets, Road To Rouen and Diamond Hoo Ha.

Space Nuts Episode 496: Life on Other Planets, Centrifugal Forces, and Bone Density in SpaceJoin Andrew Dunkley and Professor Jonti Horner in this thought-provoking Q&A edition of Space Nuts, where they tackle some of the most intriguing questions from our listeners. From the possibility of detecting life on distant planets to the fascinating dynamics of centrifugal force, and the effects of zero gravity on bone density, this episode is brimming with scientific insights that will spark your curiosity about the universe.Episode Highlights:- Detecting Life on Distant Planets: Ron's compelling question leads the discussion on whether scientists in other solar systems could identify life on Earth using current technology, and vice versa. Jonti elaborates on the challenges and potential methods for detecting life beyond our planet.- Spheres vs. Disks: Dean asks why celestial objects form as spheres while others appear as disks. Jonti explains the physical processes at play, including hydrostatic equilibrium and angular momentum, shedding light on the fascinating shapes of stars, planets, and galaxies.- Bone Density in Space: Ann's insightful question about calcium loss in astronauts prompts a deep dive into the effects of microgravity on bone health. Jonti shares findings from recent studies and discusses the implications for long-term space missions.- Centrifugal Force Explained: Aussie Dean's inquiry about the nature of centrifugal force and its measurement leads to a discussion on reference frames and how they relate to our understanding of gravity and motion on Earth.For more Space Nuts, including our continually updating newsfeed and to listen to all our episodes, visit our website. Follow us on social media at SpaceNutsPod on Facebook, X, YouTube Music Music, Tumblr, Instagram, and TikTok. We love engaging with our community, so be sure to drop us a message or comment on your favorite platform.If you'd like to help support Space Nuts and join our growing family of insiders for commercial-free episodes and more, visit spacenutspodcast.com/aboutStay curious, keep looking up, and join us next time for more stellar insights and cosmic wonders. Until then, clear skies and happy stargazing.00:00 - Introduction to the episode and topics02:15 - Discussion on detecting life on other planets10:30 - Exploring the shapes of celestial objects18:00 - Insights into bone density loss in space26:45 - Understanding centrifugal force and reference frames30:00 - Closing thoughts and listener engagement✍️ Episode ReferencesNASA's Studies on Bone Densityhttps://www.nasa.gov/spaceflightHydrostatic Equilibrium in Celestial Bodieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_equilibriumCentrifugal Force and Gravityhttps://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/circles/Lesson-2/Centrifugal-ForceBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/space-nuts-exploring-the-cosmos--2631155/support.

Julie Ryan, psychic medium, joins the podcast for an interview about all things afterlife, seeing angels & spirit guides, and a detailed tour of heaven. Julie Ryan discusses her psychic abilities and the concept of energy healing. She explains that everyone has psychic abilities and can tap into their intuition. She also discusses the role of guardian angels and their assignment to individuals. Julie Ryan discusses transitioning from life to death (end of life) including the 12 phases of death and the role of angels and spirits. She explains how the spirit exits the body through a vortex formed by angel wings and is escorted to heaven. As a Psychic and Medical Intuitive Julie Ryan can sense what medical conditions and illnesses a person has and facilitate energetic healings. She can communicate with spirits, both alive and dead. Julie can scan animals, access people's past lives, and she can tell how close to death someone is. Julie's work aims to help people understand the beauty and purpose of life and death. Her book Angelic Attendants: What Really Happens As We Transition From This Life Into The Next describes a series of events that involves angels, multitudes of deceased family and friends, the spirits of deceased pets, and countless serendipitous and miraculous moments. Julie's Angel Messages® books are picture books that have angels answering kids' tough questions. Each week, Julie scans callers on her 'Ask Julie Ryan' nationally syndicated radio show and international podcast. Julie is a businesswoman, an inventor, an author, a radio show host, a podcaster, and a serial entrepreneur. ___________________ PODCAST CHAPTERS 00:00 - Julie Ryan Intro 01:54 - Current Excitement and Curiosity 04:15 - The Shifting Energy & Vibrational Level on the Planet 05:15 - Intuitive Children 06:45 - Best Children's Questions About the Beyond 09:53 - Choosing to Be Here and the Joy of Creation 10:21 - The Perspective of Spirits in Heaven 13:02 - The Intervention of Angels in Our Lives 14:47 - The Process of Assigning Guardian Angels 16:00 - Healing Technologies of the Future 30:52 - Training Your Psychic Abilities 34:06 - Healing with Stem Cell Energy and Vortices 37:47 - The Journey from Life to Death 47:45 - Communicating with Deceased Beings 53:59 - Living without Fear 01:10:12 - Past Lives on Other Planets 01:16:36 - Embracing the Beauty and Purpose of End of Life 01:17:36 - Overcoming Irrational Fears ___________________ Guests: Julie Ryan, Psychic & Medical Intuitive Website | https://askjulieryan.com/ Angelic Attendant Training | https://askjulieryan.com/aat/ Book Julie For A Session | https://askjulieryan.com/services/ YouTube |  @askjulieryan  12 Phases of Transition | https://askjulieryan.com/12-phases-of-transition/ Julie Ryan Books | https://askjulieryan.com/books/ Host: Emilio Ortiz Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/iamemilioortiz/ Subscribe to YouTube Channel |  @EmilioOrtiz  Watch Emilio's latest series on 4biddenknowledge TV l https://bit.ly/AwakenThe6thSense Shop Our Clothing Collection l https://www.unlockedmovement.com/collections/justtapin ___________________ Special Offerings to Support the Show: ✦ Make a One-Time or Recurring Donation on PayPal

On this month's episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by Dean Fee and Emily Cooper to discuss their work as writers and editors of The Pig's Back. Read and discussed on the podcast are Danielle McLaughlin's short story, 'Night of the Silver Fox' originally published in Issue 23, Volume 2 of The Stinging Fly, and Mathew Sweeney's poem, 'Donegal', originally published in Issue 37, Volume 2 of The Stinging Fly. Dean Fee is a writer from Cavan. His short fiction and non-fiction has been published in The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Banshee and The Tangerine. He has received two Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland. He was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Foundation Award in 2021 and was editor-in-residence at the Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny, in 2022. He is represented by Zoë Waldie at RCW and is the managing editor of The Pig's Back literary journal. Emily Cooper is a poet and writer based in Donegal. Her work has been published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Winter Papers, London Magazine and others. She was a 2019 recipient of the Next Generation Award and has been awarded three Literature Bursaries by the Arts Council of Ireland. Her poetry collection Glass was published by Makina Books in 2021 and The Conversation, a collaborative collection written with Jo Burns will be published this year by Doire Press. She is represented by Harriet Moore at David Higham Associates and an editor for The Pig's Back literary journal. Danielle McLaughlin is the author of the short-story collection, Dinosaurs on Other Planets, and the novel, The Art of Falling, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award. She has been Writer in Residence at University College Cork and Visiting Writer Fellow at the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College, Dublin. She has also designed and delivered workshops in Creative Writing for various organisations and festivals and currently mentors a number of emerging writers. Matthew Sweeney (1952-2018) was born in Lifford, County Donegal. His poetry collections include A Dream of Maps (1981), A Round House (1983), The Lame Waltzer (1985), Blue Shoes (1989), Cacti (1992), The Bridal Suite (1997), A Smell of Fish (2000), Selected Poems (2002), Sanctuary (2004), Black Moon (2007), The Night Post: A Selection (Salt, 2010), Horse Music (2013), Inquisition Lane (2015), My Life as a Painter (2018), King of a Rainy Country (2018), and Shadow of the Owl (2020). His work has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and won the inaugural Pigott Poetry Prize. He was a member of Aosdána. Nicole Flattery is a writer and critic. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time, was published by The Stinging Fly and Bloomsbury in 2019. Her first novel, Nothing Special, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. The Stinging Fly Podcast invites writers to choose a story from the Stinging Fly archive to read and discuss. Previous episodes of the podcast can be found here. The podcast's theme music is ‘Sale of Lakes', by Divan. All of the Stinging Fly archive is available to subscribers.

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Jeff Zweerink as they discuss ground-breaking scientific discoveries that have theological and philosophical implications, including for the evidence of God's existence.   Pig Organs in Humans Recently, research teams from NYU Langone Health, the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the University of Maryland independently achieved milestones by transplanting kidneys and hearts from genetically engineered pigs into brain-dead patients and terminally ill patients otherwise ineligible for transplants.  Xenotransplantation holds the promise to ease the demand for organ transplants but raises a host of ethical questions.  In this episode, biochemist Fuz Rana discusses the technical challenges that xenotransplantation must overcome before it can move into the clinical setting. He also describes some of the ethical challenges associated with xenotransplants.  Once these challenges are overcome, the questions remain: What should the Christian perspective be on xenotransplantation? Should we “play God”?   References: Results of Two Cases of Pig-to-Human Kidney Xenotransplantation First Clinical-Grade Porcine Kidney Xenotransplant Using a Human Decedent Model Developing Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants Additional Resources: Pig Organs May One Day Save Human Lives by Fazale Rana (article) Advance Holds Potential to Resolve Cloning's Ethical Challenges by Fazale Rana (article) A Theology for Synthetic Biology, Part 1 by Fazale Rana (article) A Theology for Synthetic Biology, Part 2 by Fazale Rana (article)   Will AI Do Science? Researchers currently utilize AI (artificial intelligence) to diagnose early-stage Alzheimer's, analyze vast databases to discover protein-folding classes (and new protein folds), and determine whether a sample is biotic or abiotic in origin. The AI in the last example also differentiated between recent biotic and fossilized biotic samples. As AI development progresses, one wonders whether it will be able to do science rather than just assist scientists. Fuz and Jeff explore this question in light of recent advances.     References: Can the AI Driving ChatGPT Help to Detect Early Signs of Alzheimer's Disease? Artificial Intelligence Tools Shed Light on Millions of Proteins Did Life Exist on Mars? Other Planets? With AI's Help, We May Know Soon

Daniel talks to Prof. Aomawa Shields, auther of "Life on Other Planets" about the the climate of exoplanets and her unusual path to astronomy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wow, over 70,000 listens to Star Stuff! This podcast is still in the top 20 of astronomy podcasts and climbing. Thank you all for your support as we wrap up […] The post How Common is Life on Other Planets? appeared first on Lowell Observatory.

Does that seem like an impossible question to answer? It sure does. Because you'd have to go back in time to answer it. Or you'd need 30 hours on the planet's most powerful telescope (James Webb).

Join astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink and special guest Christian apologist and lawyer Abdu Murray (president and founder of Embrace the Truth Ministry) as they discuss new discoveries taking place at the frontiers of science that have theological and philosophical implications, including the reality of God's existence.   Musings on AI Artificial intelligence (AI) has already penetrated many areas of our daily life. While AI can bring some benefits, we often don't understand the long-term effects of AI use. In this episode, Jeff Zweerink and Abdu Murray explore some of the consequences that might ensue as we utilize AI in the legal profession. Of particular interest is the way AI will impact our relationships, not just in legal matters, but in everyday life as well.   References: Can the AI Driving ChatGPT Help to Detect Early Signs of Alzheimer's Disease? Did Life Exist on Mars? Other Planets? With AI's Help, We May Know Soon

In the vast expanse of the universe, a mysterious cosmic symphony plays out, captivating our senses and challenging our understanding. But what if I told you that this symphony has a twist, an unexpected turn that leaves even the most seasoned astronomers in awe? Imagine, just when we thought we had it all figured out, we discovered that these enigmatic fast radio bursts are not just coming from one place, but from all corners of the cosmos. Brace yourselves, my fellow astrophysics enthusiasts, for the dispersion phenomenon in FRB radiation holds secrets that will unravel the very fabric of our understanding. And as we delve deeper into this cosmic riddle, prepare for a revelation that will leave your mind racing, wondering what lies beyond the reach of our current technology.In this episode of the Space Nuts podcast, you'll join host Andrew Dunkley and astronomer Professor Fred Watson as they dive into an intriguing topic in the field of extragalactic astronomy. They discuss the fascinating dispersion phenomenon in fast radio burst (FRB) radiation and its implications for our understanding of the universe. You'll learn about the discovery of a distant FRB, FRB 202-2610 A, which turned out to be the most distant ever detected. The researchers also observed a dispersion phenomenon in the burst, where higher frequency waves arrived slightly before lower frequency waves. This discovery sheds light on the interaction between FRB radiation and electrons in the universe, providing valuable insights into the matter distribution in the cosmos. The conversation delves into the missing matter in the universe and the potential hiding places for this elusive substance. So, if you're an astrophysics student or researcher interested in extragalactic phenomena, this episode of Space Nuts is a must-listen. Get ready to expand your knowledge and explore the mysteries of the universe with Andrew and Fred.In this episode, you will be able to: · Discover the fascinating world of distant fast radio bursts (FRBs) and unravel their mysterious origins. · Gain a deeper understanding of the dispersion phenomenon in FRB radiation, shedding light on how these signals travel through space. · Explore the mystery of missing matter in the universe and uncover the hidden secrets of our cosmic neighborhood. · Uncover the potential artifacts and errors that can occur in astronomical observations, ensuring the accuracy of your research and data. · Join the Space Nuts podcast as they delve into episode 376, where they unravel the wonders of the cosmos and share their contagious enthusiasm for astrophysics. The discovery of the dispersion phenomenon in fast radio bursts opens up a whole new world of possibilities for studying the structure of the universe. - Andrew Dunkley Understanding FRB Dispersion One crucial aspect of FRB research is comprehending the dispersion phenomenon, where high-frequency radio waves arrive slightly ahead of their lower-frequency counterparts. This compelling property, initially demonstrated by Jean-Pierre Macquart, shows that the dispersion of FRB radiation correlates with the distance covered. This novel insight not only deepens our grasp of FRBs but also elucidates the interaction between FRB radiation and electrons across the universe. The resources mentioned in this episode are: · Visit the ESO website (eso.org) and search for the article titled Astronomers Detect Most Distant Fast Radio Burst to Date to read more about the discovery. · Check out the Palomar Observatory website to learn more about the telescope and its history. · Follow Avi LERB, director of the Harvard Smithsonian Institute for Astronomy, for updates on his research and speculations about signals of artificial origin. · Keep an eye out for future studies and breakthroughs in the field of fast radio bursts to stay informed about the latest developments. · Explore the concept of the wow signal and its mysterious origins to satisfy your curiosity about unexplained astronomical phenomena. · Stay tuned to Space Nuts for more fascinating discussions and updates on the world of astronomy. · · Discover the fascinating world of distant fast radio bursts (FRBs) and unravel their mysterious origins. · Gain a deeper understanding of the dispersion phenomenon in FRB radiation, shedding light on how these signals travel through space. · Explore the mystery of missing matter in the universe and uncover the hidden secrets of our cosmic neighborhood. · Uncover the potential artifacts and errors that can occur in astronomical observations, ensuring the accuracy of your research and data. · Join the Space Nuts podcast as they delve into episode 376, where they unravel the wonders of the cosmos and share their contagious enthusiasm for astrophysics. The key moments in this episode are:00:01:28 - "Discovery of a Distant Fast Radio Burst" 00:06:54 - "The Dispersion Phenomenon of Fast Radio Bursts" 00:09:38 - "Missing Matter in the Universe" 00:10:21 - "Remembering Jean Pierre Macart" 00:18:13 - The Importance of Color in Studying Stars 00:19:22 - Possible Explanations for the Disappearing Stars 00:20:41 - The Possibility of Faulty Photographic Plates 00:24:08 - Evaluation of the Possible Explanations 00:25:15 - Artifacts and Misinterpretations in Astronomy 00:35:35 - The Challenges of Achieving Science Fiction Concepts 00:36:02 - Altitude Measurement on Other Planets 00:38:09 - Apogee and Perigee Heights 00:40:44 - X Spy Satellite Honeycomb Mirror 00:41:36 - Night Sky ComparisonsThis 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/2631155/advertisement

Learn how to heal a past life in this episode on past life regression for beginners! We discuss what are the benefits of past life regression and inner child healing therapy.Are you curious about your past lives and how they may be affecting your present? Join me in an enlightening conversation with Christine Maudy, a renowned past life regression therapist, as they delve into the fascinating world of past life regression therapy.Christine shares real-life examples of how past life regression therapy has helped individuals overcome insomnia, nightmares, relationship challenges, and more. Explore the interconnectedness of different healing modalities and how they can work together to guide you on your holistic health journey.In this episode, you will be able to:Discover the transformative benefits of past life regression therapy and unlock your true potential.Explore the profound healing and self-understanding that comes from delving into your past lives.Find inspiration and insight in the pages of Brian Weiss' bestselling book, Many Lives, Many Masters.How you can become a certified past life regression therapist through our comprehensive training course.Learn how to heal unresolved issues from past lives and find a renewed sense of peace and wholeness in the present.Christine Maudy is a highly skilled Reiki and shamanic practitioner, as well as a past life regression teacher and therapist. With over 27 years of experience in the field, Christine has helped countless individuals on their journey of self-discovery and healing. Her passion for past life regression was ignited when she witnessed the profound impact it had on one of her Reiki clients. Since then, Christine has delved deeper into the world of past lives, exploring the connections between past experiences and their influence on our present lives. Through her sessions, she helps her clients gain a higher level of consciousness, heal relationships, and even alleviate physical pain. Christine's expertise and compassionate approach make her a trusted guide for those seeking profound healing and self-understanding through past life regression therapy.The key moments in this episode are:00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:10 - Past Life Regression 00:04:50 - Transformation and Healing 00:07:59 - What to Expect in a Session 00:10:45 - Personal Experience 00:18:43 - The Potential Benefits of Past Life Regression 00:19:45 - Solving Past Life Problems 00:20:28 - Brian Weiss's Journey into Past Life Regression 00:23:37 - Beings from Other Planets and Dimensions 00:26:24 - Learning Past Life Regression Explore past life regression books and resources recommended by Christine Maudy:- Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss- Journey of Souls by Michael Newton- Through Time Into Healing by Brian WeissConnect with Christine:Reiki and Chakra Case Study: Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey? Discover all the details, including the comprehensive schedule by clicking here. Spaces are limited to ensure personalized attention and guidance. In-Person and Distant clients are welcome, so regardless of your location, you can participate in this enriching opportunity.Support the showThanks for listening! SUBSCRIBE to The Holistic Health Show today and embark on a transformative journey towards a more harmonious and balanced life.Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube!

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The exploration of unknown realms often brings together the most unexpected subjects. Living Waters' latest podcast episode is an excellent example of this, combining discussions about aliens, faith in God, and a fervent love for chili cheese dogs. This hilarious yet insightful journey traverses a universe filled with UFO sightings, sci-fi movie analysis, shared faith, and unabashed cravings for fast food.Aliens have always captivated our collective imaginations. Many profound sci-fi movies draw us in because they grapple with the mystery of the unknown and make us consider our place in the universe and the potential for life beyond Earth. In addition to discussions on their favorite alien films, Ray and the guys examine real-life mysteries, like the testimonies of three ex-Navy personnel about UFO sightings. They explore the hysteria around the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast in 1938 and discuss the lack of clarity surrounding such phenomena. The potential existence of extraterrestrial life raises fascinating questions about our understanding of the universe.To further explore these questions, E.Z. introduces the Fermi Paradox, which contrasts the assumed abundance of life in the universe with the lack of observable intelligent life. This paradox challenges everyone to contemplate the vastness of God's creation and our limited understanding of our home planet, let alone others. The possibility of life on other planets is intriguing and forces us to consider our assumptions about life and intelligence.In discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life, the guys reflect on its potential implications for one's faith. Skepticism often accompanies beliefs about extraterrestrial life, and government conspiracies further complicate the issue. Despite these complex topics, it's important to always circle back to our shared faith and mission: to preach the gospel and share the good news about Christ.Finally, amid all the laughter and deep discussions, the guys never lose sight of the lighter side of life. Whether it's sneaking chili cheese dogs despite family disapproval or planning lunch outings around favorite fast foods, we are reminded of the joy and absurdity that life offers. This episode is an invitation to join in a conversation that's equal parts enlightening and amusing, reflecting on faith, contemplating the unknown, and sharing a hearty laugh over a chili cheese dog.Thanks for listening! If you've been helped by this podcast, we'd be grateful if you'd consider subscribing, sharing, and leaving us a comment and 5-star rating! Visit the Living Waters website to learn more and to access helpful resources!You can find helpful counseling resources at biblicalcounseling.com.Check out The Evidence Study Bible and the Basic Training Course.You can connect with us at podcast@livingwaters.com. We're thankful for your input!Learn more about the hosts of this podcast.Ray ComfortEmeal (“E.Z.”) ZwayneMark SpenceOscar Navarro

We've learned so much about the planets outside our solar system in the past ten years, and we're poised to learn even more. What kind of life could live on eyeball Earths, and other types of tidally locked worlds? To find out, we asked Aomawa Shields, astrophysicist and author of the science memoir Life on Other Planets. Plus Aomawa talked to us about why burnout is such a huge problem for Black women in STEM. Show notes: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes

The boys take a break from the norm and deal with a conspiratorial or some might say weird issue. John, Terrance and special guest John Yates tackle the UFO, UAP, Life on Other Planets issue head on.....FROM THE BIBLE!! There are insights from the Christian Holy Book that give evidence of life on other worlds which John Yates will unfold along with many other hidden mysteries. Listen to the end there is a curse that needs to be broken....the revelation of the source of alien abductions may be shocking to you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generationalcursepodcast/message

The boys take a break from the norm and deal with a conspiratorial or some might say weird issue. John, Terrance and special guest John Yates tackle the UFO, UAP, Life on Other Planets issue head on.....FROM THE BIBLE!! There are insights from the Christian Holy Book that give evidence of life on other worlds which John Yates will unfold along with many other hidden mysteries. Listen to the end there is a curse that needs to be broken....the revelation of the source of alien abductions may be shocking to you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/generationalcursepodcast/message

This week, our panelists are the host of the NHPR podcast ‘The 13th Step,' Lauren Chooljian, and Jonquilyn Hill, who hosts the Vox podcast ‘The Weeds.' We talk about whether we indulged in Barbenheimer, then recommend some stuff to read, do, and listen to this summer. You can find a list of their recommendations here, at our website. Then, Aomawa Shields tells us about her circuitous trajectory from acting to astrophysics! Her new book is called ‘Life on Other Planets.']]>

In this episode, meet bestselling author and host of the Visionary Souls podcast Sydney Campos, astronomer and astrobiologist Aomawa Shields, PhD, and physician Anupam B. Jena, MD. Tune in to hear about the power of writing for your younger self, the magic of vocal cord lubricating tea, and what it feels like to become deeply immersed in the audiobook recording process. I'm Ascending, Now What? by Sydney Campos: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/734052/im-ascending-now-what/ Life on Other Planets by Aomawa Shields, PhD: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/673665/life-on-other-planets/ Random Acts of Medicine by Anupam B. Jena & Christopher Worsham: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/708150/random-acts-of-medicine/

Astrophysics and acting may seem like very different fields of endeavor, but ones which can mutually inform one another. On this episode, Dr. Aowama Shields discussed her book, Life on Other Planets.

Episode: 2873 The Search for Extraterrestrial Life; Drake Equation Explained; Aliens from Other Planets.  Today, an encounter of the third kind.

Full Q: Is There a Possibility That God Created Life on Other Planets? And if so, would salvation look the same or would the life on that planet even receive salvation? Read the full blog post here. Call or text us your question at 615-281-9694 or email at question@michaelincontext.com.

Jeff Peckman is Director of the EXTRA Campaign ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, Colorado. His initiative was certified Nov. 30 for the August 2010 election in Denver. Jeff's innovative ballot initiatives have attracted national and international media attention. He also writes a top-ranked column for Examiner.com as the Denver UFO Examiner. [http://www.examiner.com/x-2024-Denver-UFO-Examiner] Jeff is currently on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Galactic Civilizations. He was moderator of the Institute's Galactic Gathering Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations last September in Denver. Jeff also talks at to civic organizations with a presentation titled "Are You Ready to Meet and Greet People from Other Planets? http://www.extracampaign.orgTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

The multi-instrumentalist behind the Night Janitor and the Other Planets has also played with Rotary Downs, the Iguanas, and Glyn Styler Presents the Clergy. Having survived his own season in hell, he now counsels other troubled souls as a mental health professional by day, while producing new music on the night shift. Anthony’s been there and back again, and he’s here to tell the story. Topics include an Iguanas tour recap, a secret show, Fitzgerald’s, Camille Boudin, Michael Tisserand, John Magnie, the Continental Club, Hunt Sales, Mike Buck, Bridge House, a marathon gig, a laptop break-in, Linda Gail Lewis, name confusion, playing bongos, studying with Hector Gallardo, Lafayette music peers, Tim McFadden, CC Adcock, the Other Planets, Rob Wagner’s New Thing, Playtex Living Gloves, Rotary Downs, Zack Smith, modular synths, Scott Campbell, Mr. Show, Sinking City Records, psychic shows, Tim Robertson, kamikaze practice, one bad decision, clinical mental health, relapse, vivid memories, buoyancy, Uganda Roberts, profound change, obsessions, tone, tension, ego, monkey mind, and much more. Intro music: "The Trucker Takes A Wife" by Styler/Coman Break music: "Flooker" from "Everything" by the Night Janitor Outro music: "Coconut Cake Bake" from "Round Circle" by the Night Janitor Support the podcast: Paypal or Venmo Join the Patreon page here. Shop for Troubled Men’s Wear here. Subscribe, review, and rate (5 stars) on Apple Podcasts or any podcast source. Follow on social media, share with friends, and spread the Troubled Word. Troubled Men Podcast Facebook Troubled Men Podcast Instagram Iguanas Tour Dates René Coman Facebook The Night Janitor Bandcamp The Night Janitor Instagram

Our Native American Seer is Back!Unleash the power of Your Dreams, Rick James & Mary Jane, Rising Sea Levels , Life on Other Planets.

Jeff Peckman is Director of the EXTRA Campaign ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, Colorado. His initiative was certified Nov. 30 for the August 2010 election in Denver. Jeff's innovative ballot initiatives have attracted national and international media attention. He also writes a top-ranked column for Examiner.com as the Denver UFO Examiner. [http://www.examiner.com/x-2024-Denver-UFO-Examiner] Jeff is currently on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Galactic Civilizations. He was moderator of the Institute's Galactic Gathering Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations last September in Denver. Jeff also talks at to civic organizations with a presentation titled "Are You Ready to Meet and Greet People from Other Planets? http://www.extracampaign.org To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Jeff Peckman is Director of the EXTRA Campaign ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, Colorado. His initiative was certified Nov. 30 for the August 2010 election in Denver. Jeff's innovative ballot initiatives have attracted national and international media attention. He also writes a top-ranked column for Examiner.com as the Denver UFO Examiner. [http://www.examiner.com/x-2024-Denver-UFO-Examiner] Jeff is currently on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Galactic Civilizations. He was moderator of the Institute's Galactic Gathering Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations last September in Denver. Jeff also talks at to civic organizations with a presentation titled "Are You Ready to Meet and Greet People from Other Planets? http://www.extracampaign.orgTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Robert asks: Most sci-fi brush over the issue of different day lengths on different planets. What might change with the structure of days if we became an interstellar species? Babylon 5: Day of the DeadBabylon 5 : By Any Means Necessary Swords In Space! The post Question 997: Day Lengths on Other Planets appeared first on The Every Day Novelist.

Theoretical Astrophysicist Ryuki Hyodo on the Formation of Planets, the Many Ongoing Missions in Space (Hayabusa2, MMX, BepiColombo...), the Journey to JAXA from Japan and Abroad, Life on Other Planets, and much more.Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Homepage: https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/Hayabusa2 Asteroid Exploration Mission: https://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/MMX (Martian Moons eXploration Mission): https://www.mmx.jaxa.jp/BepiColombo Mercurity Mission: https://mio.isas.jaxa.jp/en/

Jeff Peckman is Director of the EXTRA Campaign ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, Colorado. His initiative was certified Nov. 30 for the August 2010 election in Denver. Jeff's innovative ballot initiatives have attracted national and international media attention. He also writes a top-ranked column for Examiner.com as the Denver UFO Examiner. [http://www.examiner.com/x-2024-Denver-UFO-Examiner] Jeff is currently on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Galactic Civilizations. He was moderator of the Institute's Galactic Gathering Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations last September in Denver. Jeff also talks at to civic organizations with a presentation titled "Are You Ready to Meet and Greet People from Other Planets? http://www.extracampaign.orgTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Dorian's academic profile: https://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/dorian-abbot/ Follow Dorian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DorianAbbot References Dorian's article ‘MIT Abandons Its Mission. And Me.', in Bari Weiss's ‘Common Sense' Substack: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me Dorian's ‘Wall Street Journal' article, ‘The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata at MIT': https://www.wsj.com/articles/cancel-culture-college-mit-dorian-abbot-university-chicago-representation-equity-equality-11635516316? Watch Dorian's cancelled lecture, ‘Climate and the Potential for Life on Other Planets': https://jmp.princeton.edu/events/climate-and-potential-life-other-planets ‘Life on Mars: The Ethical Implications of Colonizing the Red Planet' by Thomas Cortellesi in ‘Areo Magazine': https://areomagazine.com/2018/07/02/life-on-mars-the-ethical-implications-of-colonizing-the-red-planet/ ‘Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe' by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe/dp/0387952896 Timestamps 2:24 What makes a planet habitable and how we find exoplanets. 8:18 Dorian's research on the cloud effects on tidally locked planets - and how these effects suggest these planets might be more habitable/Earth-like than previously thought. 14:10 How some exoplanets and their clouds provide a model for the possible future of climate change on Earth. 15:31 Dorian's views on the Fermi paradox - where are the aliens? Why Dorian believes extraterrestrial life is more likely than not. 20:23 Why we should hope to find no life at all on exoplanets rather than finding lots of extinct civilisations. 21:10 Twitter question: what does Dorian think a realistic time scale and strategy for colonising exoplanets would be? 22:39 Twitter question: how useful is the Drake equation? 24:08 Twitter question: what are Dorian's views on von Neumann self-replicating probes? (And a digression on ‘decolonisation' and the possible impacts of us colonising other planets.) 27:50 Dorian's views on the ‘Rare Earth' thesis, which posits that complex life is very unlikely to be found elsewhere in the universe. 29:32 What does Dorian's exoplanet work tell us about climate change? What does Dorian think are the main misconceptions about anthropogenic climate change? What we don't know: the future of climate change 32:21 Dorian's work on rogue planets - could these harbour life? 35:20 Has the atmosphere in physics departments changed recently? Is there pressure from the woke left and climate denialist right? Academia, cancel culture, and chilling. 39:52 Why science should be based on merit, not politics. 40:22 Who does Dorian think Iona should interview?

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Marilynn Hughes founded 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' in 2003 (Mission: Reduce Spiritual and Physical Hunger Worldwide). Marilynn has written 104 books, 40 magazines, and 18 CDs on Out of Body Travel and Comparative Religious Mysticism. These Out of Body Travel books, along with accompanying music and art, are all available for free download. Marilynn has experienced, researched, written, and taught about Out of Body Travel, Experiences and Mysticism since 1987 and has appeared on innumerable radio and television programs to discuss her thousands of out of body experiences.   Marilynn Hughes is the author of the first and only  English Language Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts,  'The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of   the  Ages.' She was featured in the documentary film,  'The  Road to Armageddon: A Spiritual Documentary' which featured her out of body experiences in relation to spiritual warfare and has been viewed by well over half a million people. Her out of body travel work was also featured in  'The Grand Phases of the Soul' which outlined the purification journey as discussed in her book  'The Mysteries of the Redemption: A Treatise on Out of Body Travel and Mysticism'.and premiered at  'The Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution, London, Online'.  Marilynn's work continues to be featured in many new documentaries including  'The Stairway from Earth to Heaven: Ancient Sacred Texts,' and a variety of classes with  Mysteries Productions and Producer,  Brian Mahlum. Marilynn's out of body travel work has been in  'The Encyclopedia of the Unseen World,' by Constance Victoria Briggs. Her Out-of-Body Experiences to Other Planets were featured in  'Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness,' by Dr. Thomas Streicher. Marilynn has been the subject of several  Out of Body Travel Research Studies ..  KC Armstrong, Former Producer of the Howard Stern Show, named Marilynn as one of thirteen  'Simply Amazing Women' in his July 2020 book because of her Out of Body Travel Experiences and the work of 'The Out of Body Travel Foundation'.Marilynn Hughes spent two years as a 'Mystical and Out of Body Travel Consultant' on the original board of  'The Dr. Edgar Mitchell  Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Experiences.' Marilynn Hughes and Dr. Rudy Schild, Professor Emeritus Astrophysics Harvard, co-authored a chapter ('The Science for Moral Law' - Out of Body Travel and Astrophysics in Unison) which is included in Volume III of  'The Change.'  Marilynn joins  James Van Praagh on the board for  'The Afterlife Uncovered', a Television Project under Producer,  Edward White.   Out of Body Travel Author, Marilynn came across her vocation unexpectedly. When she was nine years old, she had her first profound out-of-body experience wherein she saw the heavens open and a beautiful marble staircase surrounded by angels which led to the throne of God. In this out-of-body experience, she was told many things, among them that He would return to her later in her life and give her a mission to fulfill in relation to out of body travel. When she was 22 years old, she had her first out-of-body experience in adulthood completely unexpectedly which began a process of journaling which would unleash thousands of out of body travel and mystical experiences over the next decades and began the process which led towards the founding of 'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation' in 2003.   Out of Body Travel Author, Marilynn Hughes has studied the  Ancient Sacred Texts of all  Major and  Minor World Religions extensively, as well as,  Catholic Mystical, Ascetical, Biblical, Doctrinal, Dogmatic, Systematic, Liturgical, Catechetical, Moral Theology and  Individual Schools of Theology, i.e.  Franciscan, Carmelite, Ignatian, Dominican, Benedictine, etc.   'The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation's' Marilynn Hughes has received certifications and education in interfaith fields. ( Honorary Doctorate in  Divinity and  Metaphysics, Certification as  Chaplain, Spiritual Counselor and  Christian/ Interfaith Ministry).    Marilynn was trained  by an Operational  Remote Viewer in  Transdimensional,  Controlled, and  Associative Remote Viewing and received certifications in  Naturopathic Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, and  Reiki. She's earned through the  Academy of Modern Applied Psychology, the  Global Continuing Professional Development Accreditation Body, the  International Institute of Complementary Therapists Accreditation Association,  The Priority Academy, The Brain Academy, iSapientia Therapeutic Technologies, Solutions in Mind, Humanist Learnin g Systems;  certifications in  Hypnotherapy (Braid/Ericksonian - Including Past Life Regression Therapy (PLRT), Life Between Lives Therapy (LBLT), Future Life Progression (FLP), Rapid Induction Hypnosis) , Psychological Counseling, P ychodynamic Psychotherapy, Counseling Practitioner Diploma, Specialized Psychology (Children, Adolescents, Male Friendly, Middle Aged, Gerontology, Relationship, Marital, Group - Career, Grief, Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Personality Disorders, Post Traumatic Stress, Substance Abuse, Criminal, Conflict Resolution, Anger Management, Bullying/Harassment Elimination, Behavioral Extinction, Ho'oponopono Huna Forgiveness Therapy.); and as a  Spiritual L ife Coach Practitioner,  Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) , Rational Emotive Based Therapy (REBT) , Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) ,  Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) , Dialetical Behavior Therapy (DBT) , Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT),   Thought Field Therapy (TFT) ,  Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) , Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT ),  Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT),  Neurocognitive Behavioral Approach,  NeuroPlasticity (NBA and Brain Training),  Jungian and  Gestalt Psychotherapy.    Marilynn Hughes offers Out of Body Travel  Spiritual Counseling for those who have an interest in one on one guidance. 

Jeff Peckman is Director of the EXTRA Campaign ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, Colorado. His initiative was certified Nov. 30 for the August 2010 election in Denver. Jeff's innovative ballot initiatives have attracted national and international media attention. He also writes a top-ranked column for Examiner.com as the Denver UFO Examiner. [http://www.examiner.com/x-2024-Denver-UFO-Examiner] Jeff is currently on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Galactic Civilizations. He was moderator of the Institute's Galactic Gathering Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations last September in Denver. Jeff also talks at to civic organizations with a presentation titled "Are You Ready to Meet and Greet People from Other Planets? http://www.extracampaign.orgTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Jeff Peckman is Director of the EXTRA Campaign ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, Colorado. His initiative was certified Nov. 30 for the August 2010 election in Denver. Jeff's innovative ballot initiatives have attracted national and international media attention. He also writes a top-ranked column for Examiner.com as the Denver UFO Examiner. [http://www.examiner.com/x-2024-Denver-UFO-Examiner] Jeff is currently on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Galactic Civilizations. He was moderator of the Institute's Galactic Gathering Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations last September in Denver. Jeff also talks at to civic organizations with a presentation titled "Are You Ready to Meet and Greet People from Other Planets? http://www.extracampaign.org To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Jeff Peckman is Director of the EXTRA Campaign ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, Colorado. His initiative was certified Nov. 30 for the August 2010 election in Denver. Jeff's innovative ballot initiatives have attracted national and international media attention. He also writes a top-ranked column for Examiner.com as the Denver UFO Examiner. [http://www.examiner.com/x-2024-Denver-UFO-Examiner] Jeff is currently on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Galactic Civilizations. He was moderator of the Institute's Galactic Gathering Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations last September in Denver. Jeff also talks at to civic organizations with a presentation titled "Are You Ready to Meet and Greet People from Other Planets? http://www.extracampaign.org To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

In this episode we begin discussing several recent questions from our viewers. We cover three viewer-submitted questions in this episode: "Why don't we recite "The Lord's Prayer" in church?" "Does the Bible Allow for Life on Other Planets?" “Who are the church fathers and what relevance do they have for us?”

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A lot of fun reading and discussing our amazing listener's emails. end show song "Sex on Other Planets" WTF???

Episode: 2873 The Search for Extraterrestrial Life; Drake Equation Explained; Aliens from Other Planets.  Today, an encounter of the third kind.

With spring springing soon, this episode is all about nature . The forecast is in, and it’s looking like… rain and tulips. Research LinksRainNASA — Anatomy of a RaindropSmithsonian Magazine — What Makes Rain Smell So Good?How Stuff Works — Does It Rain on Other Planets?TulipsHistory — The Real Story Behind the 17th-Century ‘Tulip Mania’ Financial CrashAmsterdam Tulip Museum - Broken Tulips: The Beautiful CurseYouTube — The History of the Tulip | Short Animation

What's up all, today we take a look through outer space and talk a bit about a few interesting topics such as the end goal for space exploration, why are we taking to space, alien life forms and the possibility of life, stellar simulations and much much more. Jeremy Karam is a Theoretical Physics Master's student at York University who studies star clusters and the way they interact with other objects in the universe. He talks a bit about his research and his thoughts on space travel etc. @ 0:00​ Introduction @ 0:18​ Computational Astrophysics: Star Cluster Simulations, Smashing Celestial Objects Together @ 6:37​ Future Plans with Physics & Astrophysics: Goals, Ambition and Motivations @ 9:04​ How it All Started with Physics: The Interest & Motivations for Pursuing Career in Astrophysics @ 12:28​ Space Travel, Colonization and The Future of Space Exploration: Are We Moving in The Right Direction? @ 21:16​ Life on Other Planets, Are We Alone in The Universe? @ 25:13​ The Origins of Life on Earth: Replicating Life on Other Planets Possible? @ 30:20​ Colonization & What is Next: Asteroid Mining & Taking Over The Universe @ 41:40​ Music & Jazz: Enjoying The Melodies @ 48:30​ Conclusion

In general, everybody probably believes that life exists somewhere else on another planet. Our telescopes keep getting better and better at finding exoplanets orbiting other star systems. And a few fall within the range of orbit as Earth does around our sun. But what kinds of life will there be on those other planets, if […] The post Life on Earth and Other Planets appeared first on WORT 89.9 FM.

“As someone prone to get lost in the darker currents of my own head I’ve found it healthier to get lost in a book,” says Danielle McLaughlin. She speaks candidly about feelings of anxiety and how immersing herself in reading and writing is a positive way to deal with them. Danielle switched from law – where she had her own successful legal practice – to fiction after falling ill. As she recovered, she started writing. It led to the acclaimed short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets, and now her debut novel The Art of Falling, published by John Murray, which deals with art and infidelity. https://www.johnmurraypress.co.uk/titles/danielle-mclaughlin/the-art-of-falling/9781473613683/

Featured Coffee: Sight Glass Coffee - Colombia, Finca Las FlorestalesAfter covering two of the most pressing issues facing the food industry—food waste and factory farming—Ben and Aaron turn their attention toward the future. As the maxim of the show goes, “Our present reality is not definitive,” and that could not be more true of the food we eat today. Humans have been tampering with and altering the natural processes that produce the food we put on our plates for millennia. Well before the advent of genetic modification, processes like selective breeding, large-scale agriculture, and industrialization have dramatically changed the composition of the food ecosystem. Despite advances in technology, modern food production must contend with two major issues: obesity and malnutrition. Although a reflection of the rampant inequality plaguing humanity, the fact that half the world is fat while the other half is starving indicates that the future of food must not only be healthy and sustainable, but inclusive as well. Current developments in technology once again are poising the food industry for a sea change not only in the food we are eating, but how we are eating it. From food scanners to 3D food printing to nutrigenomics, these recent innovations are going to fundamentally change our relationship with food over the next few decades. In the near future, we may be looking back on our current eating habits and think of them as outmoded and rudimentary. Either way, it is an exciting time to be alive and we will see rapid advancements both in food production and consumption that will hopefully lead us to a more sustainable and inclusive world. Resources for ListenersHuelSoylentNima (Food Scanner)Foodini (3D Food Printer)SourcesNever Out of Season: Book by Rob DunnNational Geographic: The Evolution of DietFDA: Science and History of GMOs and Other Food Modification ProcessesMashed: Foods You Had No Idea Were Not NaturalWired: Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be GoneSociety for Science: Explainer - How CRISPR WorksThe Medical Futurist: The Future of Food and EatingThe New Yorker: The End of FoodDiscover Magazine: How Scientists Are Planning to Grow Food on Other Planets

“Both the material and spiritual worlds belong to Krishna. We are not proprietors of anything. It is all the property of the Supreme Lord, just as everything in the state belongs to the government, either in the prison house or outside the prison house. Conditioned life is just like life in a prison house in this material world. A prisoner cannot freely change from one cell to another. In free life one can go from one home to another home, but in prison life one cannot do that but must stay in his cell.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Easy Journey to Other Planets, Ch 2)

Find links to get this book over here: biglink.to/easyjourneytootherplanets About the Book: Space travel may be considered a relatively new human achievement, but the world's oldest writings say no. Space travel has always been possible, and people have been traveling the universe long before the invention of rockets and shuttles. Vedic evidence suggests that yogis and other more evolved beings can travel freely throughout the cosmos via technologies that are practically unknown to us today. Srila Prabhupada wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets—with its frequent mention of "antimatter" and "antimaterial particles"—in 1960, in response to the "space race" going on at the time between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the obsession with exploration of the moon, etc. by means of rocket-powered spacecraft. Prabhupada questions the ultimate significance of such endeavors, while pointing out that the exploration of material space is neither a new idea nor the most intelligent one, from the spiritual point of view. In Easy Journey To Other Planets, Prabhupada shows through reason and reference to ancient Vedic texts that travel to other planets within this universe is ultimately an insignificant project. Our desire for cosmic exploration, he says, can be fully satisfied by traveling beyond this limited universe to the unlimited, antimaterial, spiritual world

Find links to get this book over here: biglink.to/easyjourneytootherplanets About the Book: Space travel may be considered a relatively new human achievement, but the world's oldest writings say no. Space travel has always been possible, and people have been traveling the universe long before the invention of rockets and shuttles. Vedic evidence suggests that yogis and other more evolved beings can travel freely throughout the cosmos via technologies that are practically unknown to us today. Srila Prabhupada wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets—with its frequent mention of "antimatter" and "antimaterial particles"—in 1960, in response to the "space race" going on at the time between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the obsession with exploration of the moon, etc. by means of rocket-powered spacecraft. Prabhupada questions the ultimate significance of such endeavors, while pointing out that the exploration of material space is neither a new idea nor the most intelligent one, from the spiritual point of view. In Easy Journey To Other Planets, Prabhupada shows through reason and reference to ancient Vedic texts that travel to other planets within this universe is ultimately an insignificant project. Our desire for cosmic exploration, he says, can be fully satisfied by traveling beyond this limited universe to the unlimited, antimaterial, spiritual world

Find links to get this book over here: biglink.to/easyjourneytootherplanets About the Book: Space travel may be considered a relatively new human achievement, but the world's oldest writings say no. Space travel has always been possible, and people have been traveling the universe long before the invention of rockets and shuttles. Vedic evidence suggests that yogis and other more evolved beings can travel freely throughout the cosmos via technologies that are practically unknown to us today. Srila Prabhupada wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets—with its frequent mention of "antimatter" and "antimaterial particles"—in 1960, in response to the "space race" going on at the time between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the obsession with exploration of the moon, etc. by means of rocket-powered spacecraft. Prabhupada questions the ultimate significance of such endeavors, while pointing out that the exploration of material space is neither a new idea nor the most intelligent one, from the spiritual point of view. In Easy Journey To Other Planets, Prabhupada shows through reason and reference to ancient Vedic texts that travel to other planets within this universe is ultimately an insignificant project. Our desire for cosmic exploration, he says, can be fully satisfied by traveling beyond this limited universe to the unlimited, antimaterial, spiritual world.

Find links to get this book over here: biglink.to/easyjourneytootherplanets About the Book: Space travel may be considered a relatively new human achievement, but the world's oldest writings say no. Space travel has always been possible, and people have been traveling the universe long before the invention of rockets and shuttles. Vedic evidence suggests that yogis and other more evolved beings can travel freely throughout the cosmos via technologies that are practically unknown to us today. Srila Prabhupada wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets—with its frequent mention of "antimatter" and "antimaterial particles"—in 1960, in response to the "space race" going on at the time between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the obsession with exploration of the moon, etc. by means of rocket-powered spacecraft. Prabhupada questions the ultimate significance of such endeavors, while pointing out that the exploration of material space is neither a new idea nor the most intelligent one, from the spiritual point of view. In Easy Journey To Other Planets, Prabhupada shows through reason and reference to ancient Vedic texts that travel to other planets within this universe is ultimately an insignificant project. Our desire for cosmic exploration, he says, can be fully satisfied by traveling beyond this limited universe to the unlimited, antimaterial, spiritual world.

Find links to get this book over here: biglink.to/easyjourneytootherplanets About the Book: Space travel may be considered a relatively new human achievement, but the world's oldest writings say no. Space travel has always been possible, and people have been traveling the universe long before the invention of rockets and shuttles. Vedic evidence suggests that yogis and other more evolved beings can travel freely throughout the cosmos via technologies that are practically unknown to us today. Srila Prabhupada wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets—with its frequent mention of "antimatter" and "antimaterial particles"—in 1960, in response to the "space race" going on at the time between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the obsession with exploration of the moon, etc. by means of rocket-powered spacecraft. Prabhupada questions the ultimate significance of such endeavors, while pointing out that the exploration of material space is neither a new idea nor the most intelligent one, from the spiritual point of view. In Easy Journey To Other Planets, Prabhupada shows through reason and reference to ancient Vedic texts that travel to other planets within this universe is ultimately an insignificant project. Our desire for cosmic exploration, he says, can be fully satisfied by traveling beyond this limited universe to the unlimited, antimaterial, spiritual world.

Find links to get this book over here: biglink.to/easyjourneytootherplanets About the Book: Space travel may be considered a relatively new human achievement, but the world's oldest writings say no. Space travel has always been possible, and people have been traveling the universe long before the invention of rockets and shuttles. Vedic evidence suggests that yogis and other more evolved beings can travel freely throughout the cosmos via technologies that are practically unknown to us today. Srila Prabhupada wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets—with its frequent mention of "antimatter" and "antimaterial particles"—in 1960, in response to the "space race" going on at the time between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the obsession with exploration of the moon, etc. by means of rocket-powered spacecraft. Prabhupada questions the ultimate significance of such endeavors, while pointing out that the exploration of material space is neither a new idea nor the most intelligent one, from the spiritual point of view. In Easy Journey To Other Planets, Prabhupada shows through reason and reference to ancient Vedic texts that travel to other planets within this universe is ultimately an insignificant project. Our desire for cosmic exploration, he says, can be fully satisfied by traveling beyond this limited universe to the unlimited, antimaterial, spiritual world.

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Find links to get this book over here: biglink.to/easyjourneytootherplanets About the Book: Space travel may be considered a relatively new human achievement, but the world's oldest writings say no. Space travel has always been possible, and people have been traveling the universe long before the invention of rockets and shuttles. Vedic evidence suggests that yogis and other more evolved beings can travel freely throughout the cosmos via technologies that are practically unknown to us today. Srila Prabhupada wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets—with its frequent mention of "antimatter" and "antimaterial particles"—in 1960, in response to the "space race" going on at the time between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the obsession with exploration of the moon, etc. by means of rocket-powered spacecraft. Prabhupada questions the ultimate significance of such endeavors, while pointing out that the exploration of material space is neither a new idea nor the most intelligent one, from the spiritual point of view. In Easy Journey To Other Planets, Prabhupada shows through reason and reference to ancient Vedic texts that travel to other planets within this universe is ultimately an insignificant project. Our desire for cosmic exploration, he says, can be fully satisfied by traveling beyond this limited universe to the unlimited, antimaterial, spiritual world.

Find links to get this book over here: biglink.to/easyjourneytootherplanets About the Book: Space travel may be considered a relatively new human achievement, but the world's oldest writings say no. Space travel has always been possible, and people have been traveling the universe long before the invention of rockets and shuttles. Vedic evidence suggests that yogis and other more evolved beings can travel freely throughout the cosmos via technologies that are practically unknown to us today. Srila Prabhupada wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets—with its frequent mention of "antimatter" and "antimaterial particles"—in 1960, in response to the "space race" going on at the time between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the obsession with exploration of the moon, etc. by means of rocket-powered spacecraft. Prabhupada questions the ultimate significance of such endeavors, while pointing out that the exploration of material space is neither a new idea nor the most intelligent one, from the spiritual point of view. In Easy Journey To Other Planets, Prabhupada shows through reason and reference to ancient Vedic texts that travel to other planets within this universe is ultimately an insignificant project. Our desire for cosmic exploration, he says, can be fully satisfied by traveling beyond this limited universe to the unlimited, antimaterial, spiritual world.

Find links to get this book over here: biglink.to/easyjourneytootherplanets About the Book: Space travel may be considered a relatively new human achievement, but the world's oldest writings say no. Space travel has always been possible, and people have been traveling the universe long before the invention of rockets and shuttles. Vedic evidence suggests that yogis and other more evolved beings can travel freely throughout the cosmos via technologies that are practically unknown to us today. Srila Prabhupada wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets—with its frequent mention of "antimatter" and "antimaterial particles"—in 1960, in response to the "space race" going on at the time between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the obsession with exploration of the moon, etc. by means of rocket-powered spacecraft. Prabhupada questions the ultimate significance of such endeavors, while pointing out that the exploration of material space is neither a new idea nor the most intelligent one, from the spiritual point of view. In Easy Journey To Other Planets, Prabhupada shows through reason and reference to ancient Vedic texts that travel to other planets within this universe is ultimately an insignificant project. Our desire for cosmic exploration, he says, can be fully satisfied by traveling beyond this limited universe to the unlimited, antimaterial, spiritual world.

Find links to get this book over here: biglink.to/easyjourneytootherplanets About the Book: Space travel may be considered a relatively new human achievement, but the world's oldest writings say no. Space travel has always been possible, and people have been traveling the universe long before the invention of rockets and shuttles. Vedic evidence suggests that yogis and other more evolved beings can travel freely throughout the cosmos via technologies that are practically unknown to us today. Srila Prabhupada wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets—with its frequent mention of "antimatter" and "antimaterial particles"—in 1960, in response to the "space race" going on at the time between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the obsession with exploration of the moon, etc. by means of rocket-powered spacecraft. Prabhupada questions the ultimate significance of such endeavors, while pointing out that the exploration of material space is neither a new idea nor the most intelligent one, from the spiritual point of view. In Easy Journey To Other Planets, Prabhupada shows through reason and reference to ancient Vedic texts that travel to other planets within this universe is ultimately an insignificant project. Our desire for cosmic exploration, he says, can be fully satisfied by traveling beyond this limited universe to the unlimited, antimaterial, spiritual world.

Researchers have found a possible sign of life on Venus. What does the Catholic Church teach about extraterrestrial life? Article of interview with Vatican astronomer by Vox: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/7/19/20698391/vatican-astronomer-guy-consolmagno-meteorites-intelligent-life-galileo-religion     All show notes at Intelligent Life on Other Planets? A Catholic Take - This podcast produced by Relevant Radio

Past Lives on Other Planets and How Life Without God is Empty is an interview Allen Feldman about past lives on other worlds.

John Wyver's company Illuminations produces films of live performances: theater, dance, opera, and music. He joins us to discuss the future of live performances in what he calls The After, that period when Covid-19 is just a memory. Will live performances be able to start again even if there isn't a vaccine? How can social distancing allow live performances to return? Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track (https://www.patreon.com/thenexttrack). Guest: John Wyver - Illuminations (https://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk) Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History (https://amzn.to/3gBWDuU) Show notes: Shakespeare, from Theater to Cinema: Interview with John Wyver - Part 1 (https://kirkville.com/shakespeare-from-theater-to-cinema-interview-with-john-wyver-producer-of-the-rscs-live-from-stratford-upon-avon-productions/), Part 2 (https://kirkville.com/filming-shakespeare-interview-with-john-wyver-part-2/) The BBC Shakespeare Collection (https://amzn.to/31VJOrb) Wigmore Hall live streams (https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/wigmore-hall-live/past-live-streams) Royal Opera House streams (https://stream.roh.org.uk/products) Episode #183 - Composer and Pianist Timo Andres on Concertizing at Home (https://www.thenexttrack.com/186) Bolero Julliard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqzkn-jX-JU) Magdalen College: Virtual May Morning 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEBsmxAfGiY) As ‘Hamilton' becomes a movie, suddenly we're all in the room where it happens (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/as-hamilton-becomes-a-movie-suddenly-were-all-in-the-room-where-it-happens/2020/06/24/a327c0e6-b3e8-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html) Berlin Philharmonker Digital Concert Hall (https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home) Our next tracks: Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways (https://amzn.to/3iH37KS) Supergrass: Life on Other Planets (https://amzn.to/2VSUL9d) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast. Special Guest: John Wyver.

Strap on your football helmet and buckle your denim, this week we're on a collision course with boredom as Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda take to the road in Easy Rider. How can a drug-fueled adventure yield such little entertainment value? Zoe and Margie are on the case! Far more entertaining than watching the actual movie, this episode is sponsored by Mardi Gras and red spandex tights.Is There Life on Other Planets? - https://youtu.be/EkvffcxQzMYChick Biker Flicks - https://www.papermag.com/10-badass-biker-babes-movies-1427650946.html

In this episode of "The Age Of Culture" Podcast we discuss whether or not Weed/Marijuana is actually bad for you, the All Star Dunk Contest, Living on Other Planets, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

William Norton is a New York based artist whose autobiographical work connects his roots of growing up in Japan with his complex history of dealing with the disappearance of his 4-year-old son in 1990. Norton was an instructor of Welded Steel Sculpture at Columbia University from 1984-1994 and a Guest Lecturer of Sculpture at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA from 1988-1990. Recent exhibitions include: “Size Matters” at 100 Bogart Street Gallery in Brooklyn, “Pop Goes the Weasel” at WIlliasburg Art Center, “Out on a Limb” at Brooklyn CiderHouse, and “Life on Other Planets” at the Re Institute in New York, among others. He currently is an art handler for the Whitney Museum of American Art. Ghosts In The Machine 2 (Spring), 2015-2016 84" x 240" x 1.5" Hand Carved Plexiglass with Shadows Ghosts in the Machine (Winter), 2014 84" x 240" 11/2" Hand Carved Plexiglass with Shadows Ghosts in the Machine (Winter) [panel 1], 2014 84" x 60" x 1.5" Hand Carved Plexiglass with Shadows The Myth of Natural Selection 112” x 180” x 22” 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - William “Norton” 01:52 - Streetlight Blues 05:24 - Chapter One 09:41 - Disclaimer - Squirrel Flowers 10:11 - Chapter Two 22:14 - Chapter Three 43:09 - My Friend - Dan Deacon 47:33 - Outro 47:54 - Finish

While we've had Moon Hooch on the show before, their new album "Life on Other Planets" created an opportunity to once again explore this trio of musicians, who are making incredibly impressive music that is certainly undefinable. There are odes to Jazz, R&B, rock and EDM, but when you put that all in a blender, the sound is more robust than those genres. Then when you think about the instrumentation of the band, which includes two horn players and a drummer, not to mention a whole bunch of synths and midi sequences being fired, well, there is a lot to discuss. So we got in touch with Mike Wilbur, a third of the trio and half of the writing team, to discuss Moon Hooch, where they are at and where they are headed. Show Notes:   First Song: 01:01 - Nonphysical Interview Begins: 05:23 Extro Song: 38:49 - Candlelight See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It has been some year for Danielle McLaughlin. On Thursday, she won the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, whose £30,000 (€33,500) prize money makes it the world's richest for a short story. Last March, she was awarded the $165,000 (€150,000) Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. The former solicitor from Co Cork, who only took up writing seriously 10 years ago at the age of 40 when illness forced her to stop practicing law, spoke to me for The Irish Times Books podcast from London the morning after her latest success. We talked about her winning story, A Partial List of the Saved, her debut collection, Dinosaurs on Other Planets, and the remarkable strength of the Irish short story tradition. Two of the other five writers on the shortlist were also Irish – Kevin Barry, a previous winner and like her a protégé of Declan Meade, publisher of the Stinging Fly, and Louise Kennedy – while Caoilinn Hughes, Wendy Erskine and Gerard McKeague made it six out of 18 on the longlist. She also discusses her forthcoming debut novel, Retrospective, which will be published by John Murray in 2021. “It began back in 2012 in a writing workshop given by Nuala O'Connor at Waterford Writers Weekend. I can still remember the chalky feel of the prompt – a piece of broken crockery – in my hand. It's set between Cork city and west Cork and the main character is a fortysomething woman whose past intrudes on her personal and professional life at the worst possible time in the guise of her dead friend's son and his father.”

Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen is an associate professor of linguistics at BGSU. She discusses her research project “Imagining Life on Other Planets,”which she worked on during her time as an ICS Faculty Fellow in Spring 2018. Dr. Wells-Jensen's research on xenolinguistics (the study of alien languages) aims to have people question commonly held beliefs about able-bodied and disabled people in our society.   Transcript:     Jolie Sheffer:                          Welcome to the BG Ideas Podcast, a collaboration between the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. I'm Jolie Sheffer, an associate professor of English and American Culture Studies and the director of ICS. Jolie Sheffer:                          This is the first of several episodes featuring the ICS' Spring 2018 faculty fellows. ICS is proud to sponsor fellowships to promote the research and creative work of faculty here at BGSU. Those who receive awards are freed from one semester of teaching and service to devote unimpeded time to the projects they have proposed. These projects must be of both intellectual significance and social relevance in hopes that their work will generate conversations across disciplines and engage both academic and broader community audiences. Jolie Sheffer:                          Today we are joined by Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen, associate professor of English. Dr. Wells-Jensen holds a PhD in linguistics from the State University of New York, University of Buffalo, and her academic interests include phonetics, psycholinguistics, speech production language preservation, Braille, and xenolinguistics. She's also a member of the Advisory Board of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence International and has given papers on the relationship between intelligence, perception, and language at the SETI Institute and the International Space Development Conference. Jolie Sheffer:                          We intend to focus today on Dr. Wells-Jensen's current project entitled Imagining Life on Other Planets, Reimagining Life on Earth. In this research, Dr. Wells-Jensen explores how an intelligent blind alien race would survive and function, as well as the implications of blindness on their civilization and our ability to find and communicate with them. Her work interrogates our socially-constructed assumptions about ability and disability and questions the limits we place on one another. I'm very please to welcome Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen to the program as one of ICS' spring 2018 faculty fellows. Thanks for joining me, Sheri. Dr. Wells-Jensen: Thanks. I'm happy to be here. Jolie Sheffer:                          We're very excited to have you as one of our fellows. Can you start by telling us a bit more about the project you're working on right now? Dr. Wells-Jensen: I came to this project through a weaving path. It wasn't a natural outgrowth of anything, I don't think. I was invited in fabulous tribute to my 12-year-old nerdy self as sort of a fantasy come true. I was invited to give a paper about language and thought at the SETI Institute. In a desperate attempt to seem like I knew what I was talking about before that talk, I read everything I could get my hands on about SETI and what their research ... what they were doing lately. One of the assumptions that I came upon in a lot of their work is that any extraterrestrial civilization capable of building a telescope so that we could contact them would necessarily have some analog of human vision. I thought, "Wow, really? Really? Really?" It seemed like that was a box that we didn't need to be in. So I put together a paper doing exactly what you might expect, so explaining how an alien race with more or less the abilities that we have as humans except that they can't see would put together a technological civilization. I gave the paper and we had a fun time. We talked about it. We debated a few of the points and we went back and forth. When I got done, I stepped away from the podium and it's important to mention here that I'm blind also, along with my aliens. I stepped away from the podium and some fellow rushed up to me to grab my arm to help me down the stairs. I thought, "Doggone it. What have we just done here? We spent the last 20 minutes and change talking about how the blind aliens are capable of all these ordinary things and some slightly extraordinary things and you have not been able to transfer that knowledge to the person standing right in front of you. You're willing to grant that my blind aliens can smelt metals and build a radio telescope, but I cannot walk down the stairs." I thought, "Isn't this odd, demoralizing, fascinating, and odd that the person could not make the jump between this intellectual fun time we were having to the person standing right in front of them?" That's how I ended up in this weird little area where disability studies and astrobiology and linguistics all come joyfully together. Jolie Sheffer:                          Well, you raise so many interesting issues. I've got lots of different questions. But maybe immediately to follow up on the last thing you said which is the way you're bringing together these fields that maybe normally don't have much to do with each other. Part of what ICS is interested in is fostering collaboration and interdisciplinary conversation. What's interesting, you're talking directly to scientific audiences with some of these conversations, but your background is linguistics and English education. Can you talk a bit about the experiences of translating your work for two different audiences and what are the ways in which that has expanded your thinking about your home subject areas, as well as maybe challenge those disciplines? Dr. Wells-Jensen: Interesting. I think in the hard sciences if they talk to disability studies people at all, it's, "How am I going to make my classroom accessible?" That is done on a continuum of joyfully willing to super-reluctant to, "I'm not doing it," or, "It's impossible." So I think it's a bit of a startlement to hard sciences to have somebody come in from a linguistics background or from a disability studies background and start asking them basic questions about things that they've assumed for a really long time. Largely, they're very willing and we have great conversations. And then from the other end, talking to disability studies people about the hard sciences, again, most of our interface has been, "Well, how do I get into these classes? How do we get more disabled folk into the hard sciences, into the STEM areas?" So talking to them about, "Well, how would you smelt metal? Wouldn't that be fun? You want to smelt some metal?" I think is kind of a glorious startlement to them too. My work in disability studies has been now focused on how do we increase people's sense of agency and their willingness and eagerness to do things that maybe they would not ordinarily have assumed that they had the right to do? So affirming people's rights to explore the world around them and what would that mean. What would it mean if all of a sudden a whole bunch of disabled people came storming into the STEM fields? Wouldn't that be great? It'd be great. I think it'd be wonderful. We think of science as a very objective thing, but we also have to realize that the way you do science is a reflection of who you are. In the hard sciences still, we tend to find what we're looking for. That's one of the things that Niels Bohr and Heisenberg talked about a lot. It isn't just a straightforward, we seek knowledge thing. It's about who we are. Science is a lot about who we are and what we decide to look for. I'm not sure if I answered your question at all. Jolie Sheffer:                          No, I think you did. I think it's so interesting though, what you're doing is really asking us to rethink the categories of ability and disability and how we read them and the ways in which we find it incredibly difficult to get out of those familiar ways of thinking. What's particularly interesting to me is I think we tend to think about disability studies as it's the larger social ways that are limiting, but if you get to know someone one-on-one, then your mind will be expanded. But the example you gave at the SETI Conference is that intellectually in the abstract everyone was on board, but then in the immediate present they defaulted to feeling like you needed help as opposed to directly translating. So I don't know if you have any thoughts about how do we get from those abstractions to making them more manifest in the material world? Dr. Wells-Jensen: If I had the answer to that, but I mean it takes a lot of curiosity and humility and courage to bust down ways that you've always thought about things, especially people, because we like people in their little boxes so we can try to understand them, so that we feel safe. This isn't just an abled person, disabled person thing. This goes across race and gender. Certainly it goes all the disabled people I know grew up in an abled culture, so we have it in our heads too that, "Oh well, we can't really do that," or, "This is how we have to live," or, "These are the things that we have agreed to. If I wanted to go get something right now, would I get up and go get it or would I ask someone to help me? Well, I'm perfectly capable of going to get it, but am I willing to do that? Both am I willing to expend the energy and am I willing to deal with able-bodied people around me going, "Oh wait, no. Wait, no." I think it just takes a lot of courage on both sides to bust out of those constraints. We don't know what the world would look like. What would it look like? I don't think we know that, if all of a sudden everyone was treated with the same ... had the same rights and had the same sense of agency. Jolie Sheffer:                          I'm wondering if you see analogs with or expressions of this in language, because what you're talking about is categories we put people in, is the human ... We're built for pattern recognition. So we sort things that we see all the time. Does our language work that way? Are there different, in your work in studying so many different languages and kinds of languages, are there different ways of thinking about categories that we might learn from other languages? Dr. Wells-Jensen: Yeah. It's an interesting question. I think that categorization thing is underneath all of the languages. I mean it's a survival advantage. You recognize a snake and it might bite you, so you need to be able to recognize all the snakes, all the categories of snake. You don't want to have to, "That's a snake. Doggone it. It bit me. Oh wait. That's a snake too. Oh rats." You need to be able to form categories and group things together to survive. So that's really hardwired in. Those things, I think, are underneath all languages. Although different languages might tinker a little bit with the details of those things, I think that they're all kind of wired in there the same. I think it's decoration. The little differences between languages are more decoration than strongly prescriptive limits on how we perceive things. I don't know. If I knew the answer to that also, again. Jolie Sheffer:                          Your work challenges assumptions about ability and disability in part by considering what life might look like on other planets. What are some of these particular assumptions and how can thinking about aliens help to deconstruct them? Dr. Wells-Jensen: That's an interesting question. I think we have rules. We have social rules about who's in charge and who does things and who is not in charge and who has things done for them. This is a continuum. Again, it's not just about ability and disability. It's about how men and women behave, how people with different gender identities are expected to behave. This idea of who gets to do stuff and who should wait and have stuff done for them and what service are you providing to community as a person that has stuff done for them. Am I supposed to be people's good deed for the day? What am I supposed to be? Am I supposed to be people's inspiration? All of those roles that people play interact and intersect with one another and fit together in various ways. If we don't like that, if we want to disrupt that, it's going to ... You can't just step quietly out. It's going to be a disruption. It's going to upset people. It's going to make people angry or sad or make them feel afraid. So if I lay out a world where sightedness isn't even a thing, then I get to redesign all the roles. So there isn't anybody looking and anybody not looking. We're all equal in that respect. If we can make the jump, if we can make the intellectual jump from that to our context, then I think maybe we've done a thing that would be useful. At least I hope so, that's why I'm doing this. Jolie Sheffer:                          Absolutely. Dr. Wells-Jensen: I hope that we can use the power of imagination or the power of, call it whatever you want, whatever you need to call it when you construct a whole world. If we could use that, insights from that situation to question what it is we do and why we do it, that would be a start. It would be a start to the revolution. If we're going to have a revolution, which we might as well, it's a Thursday. We might as well have a revolution. It's all about imagination. It's about willingness to risk imagining something audacious and the willingness to bring that audacious thing home with you and not just treat it like a casual plaything, but have the courage to take this casual plaything and bring it alive in your life and think the audacious thoughts while having supper. Think the audacious thoughts while walking to work, while brushing your teeth. Give yourself permission to think about how things could really be different. Jolie Sheffer:                          It's so interesting to think about you having that conversation at SETI, which I think of as being completely audacious and doing things began as something deemed impossible or ridiculous or audacious, and yet they can do that in some ways. Yet you confronted them with the ways in which they had such narrow-minded thinking about other aspects. Dr. Wells-Jensen: The thing that gets me about ... Well, there's many things. I was furious. I had just the storm of emotions. Here I am preaching audaciousness, telling people, "Step outside. Believe. Grow. Think. Play." And you know what I did when he took my arm and helped me down off the stage? I put my head down. I walked with him. I let him find my chair for me. I couldn't do it. I don't know what it was. I was afraid that I might burst into tears. I was afraid I might shout at him. I was afraid ... I was afraid. I was afraid in that moment after being the person who said, "Let's do this wondrous thing together, shall we?" When they all said no afterward, when they all said, "Yeah, but you're still the little blind chick and we're going to help you back to your chair," I did not have a throw-down. I said, "Okay." All of this political stuff is also personal. I'm still seeking that way of digging in my heels and saying, "No. No, darlings. This is not what we're doing. We're not playing this game any more." I think that's such a ... That move, that social move is really personal and it's really scary, not just abstractly, but personally. Jolie Sheffer:                          Yeah. I mean I think I imagine if you were brought back to give a talk again in that role as the expert, you feel totally confident. And then you've got into that moment, they switched your hats from being the expert to being someone they were responsible for in some way. How do you reassert your expertise when you're being treated as someone to be taken care of? It's hard to have the presence of mind to figure out how to make that move back. Dr. Wells-Jensen: And the willingness to disrupt. I mean I think that's a lot of it. Well, again, I talk about this from the viewpoint of disability because that's the hat that I wear. But I mean every day you have be make those calls. I'm walking across campus and someone says something ridiculous to me or grabs my arm when I'm crossing the street. I have the whole set of choices. Do I go along quietly and everybody has a normal day and I just suck it up emotionally? Do I stop and force the person to go through a little educational moment with me, which I don't think helps, to be honest? Do I totally disrupt? My fantasy is that when I'm crossing the street and someone grabs my arm that I'll just throw myself on the ground and scream my head off because maybe that's the only way. I don't know. Because if you're walking across the street and somebody grabs you, your first thought is, "I'm being assaulted." It's not allowed. You don't touch me. My body. No touching. Don't touch me. But people touch me all the time constantly. They're always grabbing me when I walk across the street. The reaction that I deserve to give as an adult woman in this society is to call it an assault, to scream, "Don't you touch me. You have no right to touch me." That reaction from disable people is really rare because it's such a disruption, and then we become the bitchy disabled people. They go, "I just tried to help." That range of responses is always there and which choice do we make? Which indignity do we call out and confront and which do we let go? So it's not just about what the world is and what they're imagining, it's what we're imagining as disabled people. What do we imagine that our rights are? What do we think we're supposed to be allowed to do? How much energy do we have to make that happen? Jolie Sheffer:                          At your talk, imagination was one of the key words. Now you're talking about disruption, so I feel like imagination and disruption, we could do a lot worse than urging folks to have more of each of those. I'm going to shift gears. Pop culture portrayals of contact with aliens range from ridiculous to sentimental to darkly serious. Recently in the film, Arrival, that addressed xenolinguistics as a field of knowledge. I know you have talked about that film. What do you think portrayals such as these get right, and what do you think they're still missing or retreading in older models? Dr. Wells-Jensen: Okay. First off, they're probably not coming because there is this whole speed of light thing. So sorry, but they're probably not coming. They're not going to show up in orbit around Jupiter. That's what we all want. Well, we say we want that. I'm not sure that we actually do. So we're probably just going to get a message, which could come. It could be showing up now. I don't really know. It could happen any moment or maybe it will never happen. I don't know. But if we get a message, honestly, I think probably if we get a message from ET we will be transformed for about a week and a half and then somebody in, I don't know, the president of the United States will tweet something and we'll be like, "We'll pay attention to that now." I don't think that the message will transform us as much as we hope/fear that it will. But you can't make a movie about that. "We got a message and then we forgot about it and then we went back to eating cheeseburgers and everything was the same." Pretend like the speed of light isn't a thing for a minute. Jolie Sheffer:                          Bracket that. Dr. Wells-Jensen: Yeah, yeah. Okay. The Arrival was actually a really good depiction of what that would be like. I think Ted Chang is the guy who wrote the story on which the movie was based, is I think pretty savvy. The thing that Arrival got wrong was, well, two things. First off, she got successful way faster than she would. Even just among Earth languages when you try to do that monolingual field methods thing that she was doing, learning a language with no translation, there's a whole heck of a lot more misunderstanding. We do this in my interlinguistics class a lot. We bring in a speaker of a language that I don't speak and we bring in some props, kind of like she did. We point and gesture and carry on. About 20 minutes, we get to sentences like, "I throw the rock. I drop the rock. I throw two rocks." We can get that far. But the reason we can get that far is that we share an awful lot of assumptions about what's going on and what the goal of that is. We share a lot of cultural stuff, like if I hold up a rock and make an inquiring face at you, first off, you know that my inquiring face means inquiring. Second off, you understand that because we are who we are and we're doing what we're doing, this isn't a threat. This isn't a marriage proposal. This isn't a challenge to wrestle. This is me asking you the word and you assume that there's a word and I assume that there's a word for rock and you give it to me. So there's so much. There's so much cultural stuff layered into learning one another's languages and even the idea that that's what we're doing. So they got that. I suppose they just sped that up for effect, right? We don't want to watch her be- Jolie Sheffer:                          Time lapse. Dr. Wells-Jensen: Yeah. If it'd gone on for a year, I don't know. And then the idea that a language can change your perception of time is, as far as I know, crazy. Give us 20, 30 years and we'll know if life exists on other planets in our solar system and maybe we'll be able to detect oxygen in atmospheres of planets, extra solar planets, and that might give us some idea if there's life there. 20, 30 years we'll know if there's microbes out there, which I feel very confident of that. But whether we'll know that there's intelligent life, I don't know. How that life will have organized itself or if it has organized itself culturally, socially between planets, I just don't ... I mean there's so much that we don't have any idea about. That's kind of the great thing and that's kind of the struggle. For me, that's part of the struggle is getting people to drop what they think. Stop thinking that you know what life on other planets culturally, physiologically is going to be like because we don't. Jolie Sheffer:                          Simultaneously to relieve, get rid of some expectations while also unharnessing the imagination to imagine beyond the Star Trek versions of alien life that we've seen. Dr. Wells-Jensen: Right. So unthink yourself. Get out of your box. I try to do that with the blind aliens. That's one of the ways that I'm trying to systematically step outside of our assumptions while still remaining grounded in physics and chemistry because there still are going to be physics and chemistry. In our universe, we're going to all obey the laws of physics and we're all going to be made of chemicals. That's all going to still be happening. So there are limits, but within those limits all kinds of marvelous things can happen. We are one way that intelligence has manifested. So we get to thinking that that's the way it's going to be. But that's just one way. There's all kinds of ways it could happen. Jolie Sheffer:                          What are you working on next in xenolinguistics? Dr. Wells-Jensen: Okay. Taking a step back, we don't really know where language came from on Earth. It pains me to say it. You think you'd know that, right? But no, we don't know that. Whether somewhere roughly maybe 50,000, maybe 150,000 years ago was there some kind of abrupt mutation that made both complex thought and language possible or just language possible? Or is language emergent from culture, the combination of culture and the bodies we have and the needs we have? We don't know really where language came from. So given that minor problem that we don't know where our thing even came from, if we ... My next playground is xenolinguistics in the area of would we be able to learn a language from another planet? If they are, I don't know, three-headed lizards, just to pick a thing, would the fact that they're three-headed lizards make the structure of their language different enough that we really couldn't learn it? So we've got quite a bit of linguistic diversity on Earth, but you can learn any language you want to, I mean if you want to put in the time. We could learn. The average human brain can learn about eight languages fluently, which makes me think I've been wasting a lot of time because I don't speak any languages. Jolie Sheffer:                          Yeah. Boy, me too. Dr. Wells-Jensen: Okay. So anyway, some of them are more difficult than others but that just has to do with your starting place. I could learn Danish faster than I can learn Japanese because I'm an English speaker. But would the three-headed lizard, would their language and the way that they constructed their culture and the exigencies of living on whatever planet they live on, would that make their language so different from ours that we couldn't learn it? Or is there something about hierarchically structured complex thought that would mean that our languages would be similar-ish to each other so we could learn them? I want to write the chapter and I want to call it something like Could the Walrus Really Talk to the carpenter because the walrus and the carpenter have very different body shapes, and theoretically walrus culture is really different than carpenter language. So could they talk to one another? Jolie Sheffer:                          Fascinating. So once again, this is a kind of thought experiment. Are you going to try and figure out what those stages of development would be similar to how you thought through how a blind race would learn to make a radio telescope? Dr. Wells-Jensen: I don't know. I'll probably just lay out the possibilities because it's really in some ways this is all completely silly because we don't have any alien languages, so what am I even doing? But on the moment when the radio signal comes, then everything is going to get real really fast. If we haven't thought about these things, if we haven't tried to think through how languages could be different, and I don't know how capable my brain is of thinking up walrus ... I mean I could make up what walrus language would be like, but it would be me starting from my understanding and my intelligence and probably the languages that I speak and all that. But I think it's really important to spread out some of the possibilities in front of us so that if we ever need them, we've done some of that work already. We're not suddenly trying to invent all these ideas when the message from the stars is in our hands and we're already too excited and maybe a little panicked, so that we've got some groundwork laid. Jolie Sheffer:                          You were talking on the way over that you're also doing some work or talking about the history of Braille as a language. So could you tell us a little bit about some of those other projects you're working on. Dr. Wells-Jensen: It's nice to have the ... Thank you, thank you, thank you ICS. It's nice to have the time to spread out a little bit. I've always been interested in Braille because I read it. The history is so interesting. Braille's a writing system and any language in the world can be written in Braille. It's not phonetic. It's just a representation of letters. So English Braille is a representation of the Roman alphabet. Japanese Braille is a representation of the Japanese syllabary system. I've been lucky to attend an international Braille research symposium put on by some folks at Rice University and they do a marvelous job. We had researchers from all around the world. There's been a lot of work done on print reading and writing, just tons. There's journals and journals and books and books. You could read your whole life and never get done with the research on reading and writing print. But Braille was only finalized and adopted in the US in 1932. It was only invented a century before that and not much science has gone into the process of reading, how people move their two hands. When they're moving two hands on the page, what are the patterns that they make? Do they read with one hand then the other? What's the best recommended way of teaching reading? How reading is processed, so there's really interesting research doing brain scans of people while they're reading Braille. So if you are a native reader of Braille, meaning that that was your first orthographic experience, your first writing system, we know that blind people who read Braille use visual cortex because that's not doing anything else. We use visual cortex both to read Braille and to process some aspects of syntax, of complex syntax. When I read this research in I guess it was the late '90s when this stuff came out, a bunch of my friends offered to whack me on the back of the head to see if I felt dots instead of seeing stars. But I have friends like that. They're lovely. But what does that mean about how we should teach Braille, and what are the limits of what you can do with Braille? What does that say about brain plasticity and what's possible for human beings? If this whole chunk of your brain that is normally used for processing vision, what does that mean now that is used for processing Braille? It's not used for processing other ... It's not like it just becomes the tactile center because your tactile stuff is still processed in the ordinary places. It's just reading. Why? Why does that happen? And what does it mean? Jolie Sheffer:                          That's really interesting. I mean it strikes me in talking to you about this that linguistics as a field is already at the intersection of many different disciplines because you're talking about neuroscience as well as thinking about language and imagination and expression. The creative expression is, in some ways, contingent on what are the language structures in that particular language. You're really well-placed to be thinking interdisciplinarily since your home discipline touches on so many different things. Dr. Wells-Jensen: Linguistics is really big. We always say that whatever you're doing, if there's language in it, it's actually linguistics. So y'all are just subdisciplines of ... Astrobiology, subdiscipline of linguistics. Culture, anthropology, subdiscipline of linguistics. Jolie Sheffer:                          Well, and you're also talking about culture too because you were saying that part of ... One of the things you're going to be talking about on NPR has to do with the history of resistance to Braille. So you've talked about the language and how that is learned in the brain and what that might mean. But what about for how culturally we have understood new languages or new written forms and what that might say about us as a culture or a society? Dr. Wells-Jensen: It's all tied up. Blind people didn't generally even go to school until ... Maybe some of us got to go to school in the 19th century, a few, not many. It was all residential, special schools. That's a whole nother rabbit hole we could go down, but let's try not to. Before there was Braille in these schools, blind people were taught to read by feeling raised representations of Roman letters, so a nice sign that has stand-up letters or door numbers sometimes are embossed. You can trace those with your fingers and read them. You can read that. I can read that, but it's not super fast and you can't write it. I think it's meaningful in a way that sort of makes my skin crawl and makes me angry. It's meaningful that the primary reading system for blind people was something they could read but had no control over writing. Who's got the power there? Let's stop and think about that for a second. A variety of other kinds of writing systems came, arose roughly at the same time so that a literate blind person who wanted to read everything there was to read at, say, the early part of the 20th century had to know at least three different kinds of raised-dot systems, which was a pain in the neck. I'll tell you what, you had to be ... It's like you had to be able to read in the Roman alphabet and the Cyrillic alphabet and Japanese Kana all at once. But when these raised-dot systems, in particular Braille, was introduced, the people at the schools didn't like it because the sighted teachers, and they were all sighted teachers, the sighted teachers couldn't read it. So they didn't like the idea at all of these blind people doing this thing that they couldn't read and understand. They could have learned to read it, let's just be clear. They just didn't want to. They didn't want to put the energy into it. It was much easier to make the blind people learn this awkward, difficult, raised-line script. But with Braille, the blind people could not only read faster, but they could write because the mechanisms for writing Braille, you just need something to punch holes through paper. So there was a great deal of resistance and the head of the school where Louis Braille went to school and where he invented the system, actually at one point had a book burning. They went through the school. They searched the students' rooms. They pulled out anything that the students had written in Braille. They actually had transliterated books into Braille, pulled it out into the courtyard and had a book burning just to show them that we weren't going to have that. The beginning of the invention of Braille was in the early 19th century and it took 100 years before it began to be widely used. The resistance started melting in the late 1900s, but it took a long time. Jolie Sheffer:                          What you're really talking about that reaction is how disruptive it is to not just develop new tools, but to develop tools that shift that power balance and shift people out of those roles. If all of a sudden the sighted teachers are the ones who have to learn this new thing and if the students are able to write and read themselves, that disrupts things. Dr. Wells-Jensen: You've got the real power of literacy there. Not only can you read back loyally what a sighted person has written for you, but now you can write your own stuff. You can pass notes. You can make lists. You can write your thoughts down. You get that freedom that comes from literacy, that power that comes from literacy. Did they want blind people to have that? Uh-uh (negative). No, they should didn't. Jolie Sheffer:                          I have one last question for you. As you know, I see us as deeply interested in fostering conversations outside of academia as well as across departments in BGSU. What are the larger questions you're hoping to raise with your work? What is the relevance to the broader community? Dr. Wells-Jensen: Let me do the broader community one first. You can remind me about the other one in a second. Jolie Sheffer:                          Okay. Dr. Wells-Jensen: Lots of people are disabled and nobody signs up for that willingly. Everyone would go to a certain amount of energy to avoid it. I think that one of the things that I want to say to people is that this can be a way of living that is still joyful and powerful. If you can pause the fear for a moment and think about how you are still you no matter what your body shape is, that can be very freeing. As you get older, you know that your body will change. There are accidents that can happen. There's illnesses that can happen. But everyone, as we get older, our bodies change, our abilities change. Sometimes so unfortunately, tragically, our sense of who we are we allow to change with that. We allow to begin to think of ourselves as less valuable, less powerful. Our happiness fades. It can anyway. We begin to live with a lot of regret because in the change in the way that our bodies are functioning. It doesn't have to be that way. We can continue to live full and joyful and meaningful lives no matter what our sensory inputs or what our body is capable of doing. I think that's one of the things that I wish that I would like to be able to communicate to people. With that understanding would come all kinds of social change, which would be marvelous. So that's kind of the outside picture. Let's see, within the disciplines- Jolie Sheffer:                          Oh yeah. What are some of the maybe more intellectual questions you'd like your work to help raise? Dr. Wells-Jensen: Let's see. I'm kind of on the path with these. What else can you imagine? How else could a civilization form itself and how does that inform what we are doing now? What choices would we like to make? What changes would we like to make if we could make some changes? Also from the accessibility side, if we believe this and we say we do. We say we believe that everyone is equal. Well, if we take that seriously, then how does that inform accessibility for disabled students into all kinds of different classes? We have the advocacy part for students. I think in general just questions about what is the relationship between language and thought and culture? That's the big question. That's always the big question. How does our culture construct and inform language? We know that you can say anything you want to say in any of the languages on Earth. But what pieces of that are from our culture? If we manipulate it, in thinking from xenolinguistics perspective, if we had some other language on some other planet how would it be different? Those are some of the big questions. Jolie Sheffer:                          Again, imagination and disruption. Let us all be more disruptive and more imaginative in the ways we go about the world. Thank you so much, Sheri. Dr. Wells-Jensen: Thank you. This was fun. Jolie Sheffer:                          Great to hear about your work and I'm glad that you could be here with us today to talk a little bit more about it. Jolie Sheffer:                          Our producer today is Chris Cavera. Special thanks to the College of Arts and Sciences and the BGSU Planetarium where Sheri was able to give her talk. Thank you very much.

This special episode of The Nerve sees writer Danielle McLaughlin join Dr. Jenny O'Connor in the studio, alongside Creative Writing lecturer Margaret O'Brien and English students Brandon Collins and Dylan Phelan. Danielle McLaughlin is the current UCC Writer-in-Residence and her stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Southword, The New Yorker and have been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4. Her debut collection of short storiesDinosaurs on Other Planets was published in Ireland, the UK, the US and Slovakia. Last year, she edited Counterparts, an anthology of work by writers with legal backgrounds, and on the day of the podcast, she also gave a seminar and writing workshop to our lucky English students.

Co-hosts Rev. Cory Bradford-Watts and Colin Amato talk with Dr. Devin Zuber, a professor at the Center for Swedenborgian Studies, about how combining science and spirituality has helped and can continue to help us conserve and preserve our earthly environment. Book recommendations and more resources below ↓↓↓↓ In this episode of the Transcendiots webcast we talk with Swedenborgian professor Dr. Devin Zuber about Swedenborg's influence on Transcendentalism and Romanticism as seen in the work of famous philosophers, conservationists, and artists like Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, George Inness, Johnny Appleseed, and more. Watch and listen as Dr. Zuber describes experiencing the Divine in nature and the role it's played in environmental and ecological work throughout history. ★RELATED SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION BOOKS★ "The Core of Johnny Appleseed: The Unknown Story of a Spiritual Trailblazer" - https://swedenborg.com/product/core-johnny-appleseed/ "Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbets and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry" - https://swedenborg.com/product/creating-an-orange-utopia/ "Other Planets" by Emanuel Swedenborg - https://swedenborg.com/product/other-planets-nce/ ★ABOUT★ The Transcendiots webcast is brought to you by the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and interfaith. Every other week, we'll bring you a new conversation with a guest or guests who have interesting insights to share about self-awareness and spiritual growth! Learn more about the Swedenborg Foundation -- http://www.swedenborg.com ★THE HOST★ Rev. Cory Bradford-Watts is an ordained minister with the Swedenborgian Church of North America and a member of the Swedenborg Foundation board of directors. His current ministry includes leading and officiating the Swedenborgian Online Community—an affirming interfaith group that meets weekly to grow in love and wisdom online. Cory was exposed to many different religious traditions growing up, but had little personal belief in Divinity. Then, after experiencing a mystical near-death experience as a young adult, he started to sense the spiritual qualities of life and developed a belief in the Creator. He eventually found himself drawn to the pluralistic, Christian nature of Swedenborgianism, and answered the call to uplift others wherever they're at, no matter their creed or culture. ★SUPPORT US★ DONATE to the Swedenborg Foundation: https://swedenborg.com/donate/ BECOME A MEMBER of the Swedenborg Foundation: http://www.swedenborg.com/membership SHOP OUR MERCH - 15% of proceeds from our Redbubble store help us continue to offer free spiritual resources just like the videos seen here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/swedenborgfound/shop. ★FOLLOW US★ Hit the SUBSCRIBE button to be notified every time we upload new videos to our channel! E-MAIL SIGN-UP - http://www.swedenborg.com/email-signup/ SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/SwedenborgFoundation TWITTER - https://twitter.com/swedenborgfound ★REACH OUT★ Want to be a featured guest on our show or have Rev. Cory Bradford-Watts appear on your show? Contact us through the About tab/section of this channel.

On this episode Veronica answers questions from the listeners in the 9th episode of Inner Whispers such as: Getting past regrets, Do we go to the Causal Plane When We Die?, What VERONICA enjoys about the physical Plane, One of VERONICA’s favorite physical lives, The most asked question, Other Dimensions and Parallel Lives, Other Planets, Why […]

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In this episode we discuss Space Opera and all the endless tangents. This is a LONG conversation (we almost split it in two, but we’re trying to catch up episodes to our current reading topic). We talk about losing our solid footing on genre definitions, defining the term “worldbuilding”, when re-reading books from your youth goes horribly wrong, wondering just what is up with those TV and movie tie-ins, misogyny infecting Sci-Fi classics (Oh, hello there Sad Puppies), the delight of scientists reading Sci-Fi, and so much more. Your Hosts This Episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner Space Opera We Read (or kinda): Recommended Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding (lukewarm recommendation by a reader who is deeply ambivalent about anything speculative, Sci-Fi, or Fantasy in nature) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (not spectacular but a slow-burn, exploratory read) Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (difficult to like narrator warning) Ancillary Mercy (and the entire Ancillary Justice series) (HIGHLY recommended series) Accessing the Future: A Disability-Themed Anthology of Speculative Fiction edited by Kathryn Allan Lightless by C.A. Higgins Read Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon Knights of Sidonia, Vol. 1 by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian Space Opera edited by Brian W. Aldiss (Features stories from 1900 (!) - 1972. Most are from the 1950s) More Adventures on Other Planets edited by Donald A. Wollheim Stitching Snow by R. C. Lewis (Not so much Space Opera and not enough girl mechanic) The Year’s Best Military SF & Space Opera 2015 edited by David Afsharirad Did Not Finish Armada by Ernest Cline (read this Wikipedia article about a video game urban legend instead) Red Rising by Pierce Brown Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (would try another one by this author) The Star Dancers by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson The Sheriff of Yrnameer by Michael Rubens  A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (so long - for 900+ pages, would prefer to try the better known A Fire Upon the Deep, which was recommended by another group member) The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold (recommended to us - ran out of time this month; try it as an audiobook?) Koko the Mighty by Kieran Shea (really enjoyed Koko Takes a Holiday) Other titles and media mentioned Mass Effect video games are totally Space Opera, especially if you read all the internal game encyclopedia entries like Matthew. The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (not exactly Space Opera but totally recommended) Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein - Military Sci-Fi or Space Opera?? Space Opera by Jack Vance - An opera troupe in Space Red Spider White Web by Misha Nogha The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Have you not read this yet? It’s short - go read it!) District 9 movie Firefly TV series & Serenity movie & the Firefly comics (pretty much all recommended highly) Please skip Sassinak and read Elizabeth Moon’s excellent connected series set in the world of Paksenarrion (Fantasy not Sci-Fi), or at least read the three books of The Deed of Paksenarrion. All those zillion Pern books (Science Fantasy series) by Anne McCaffrey Dune by Frank Herbert (hefty but worth a read - recommended) The Martian by Andy Weir (about space but not Space Opera and definitely recommended) Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, Vol. 1 (comic book series) (recommended even if you don't care about Transformers. Really! ) Ascension (Tangled Axon, #1) by Jacqueline Koyanagi (Meghan mis-spoke and called this book “Ascendent”) After Man by Dougal Dixon (so cool!) Octavia’s Brood edited by Walidah Imarisha, and Adrienne Maree Brown Samuel Delaney  - We discuss Dhalgren which is not space focused, but Delaney has a few space books to try. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, and Jay Kristoff (YA Space Opera - read before the month, recommended) A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix (read after the episode, recommended) Links etc. OK Go Upside Down & Inside Out (music video shot in zero gravity) The review of Ancillary Justice Anna tried to read without being spoiled for the book The Wikipedia article on Space Opera bring up many aspects of the definition we discussed and is worth a skim, at least. Scientists read sci-fi and have opinions about it Read some stuff (here, here, and here are a few to start with) about Sad Puppies if you care about issues of diversity in publishing, book awards, and media more generally. Check it out: Afro futurism Book Riot sympathises with Sci-Fi fans Xenoanthropology Questions What (the heck) is space opera? (We thought we knew! We were so naive.) What is Worldbuilding? Any suggestions of your favourite instances of worldbuilding? Is bug punk real? Who else wants a “Ten Rules to Break When Dating a Space Pirate” from Sarah MacLean? Are Star Trek tie-in novels Space Opera? What’s the relationship between Space Opera/space-based Sci-Fi and the history of Colonialism? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Space Opera people in our club read (or tried to read), and follow us on Twitter!

In Episode 7 of Bookish, Shane and Bob belatedly usher in the New Year with a first podcast of 2016. On the show, Philip Pullman and his decision to step down as patron of the Oxford Literary Festival over its payment policy; gender labelling; Dinosaurs on Other Planets by Danielle McLaughlin in the book club; […] La entrada Bookish – Episode 7 se publicó primero en Headstuff.

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Spiritual Questions Answered 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdCvn_FpCoc Spiritual Questions Answered 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdQHFQpfhCc Our philosophically-minded panel is here to answer your questions about God, existence, the afterlife, religion, spirituality, and more! In this episode, host Curtis Childs from the Swedenborg Foundation and featured guests take questions from viewers and provide answers with the help of 18th-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s spiritual insights. This is an audio-only version of video-based show, and the podcast may contain references to visuals from the original episode. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hE70Ad1ku4 Discussion points: [Are there] senses on the other side—feeling, touching, smelling, intimacy? 1:47 Has the universe existed from all eternity, like God? 7:22 Does Swedenborg make any statements about a rapture type of event? I don’t think it is very plausible. 11:54 Why doesn’t God correct the heart in a way that doesn’t involve a chaotic type world as earth/humans? 17:03 Can people who go to hell repent and do angels try to get them to change their minds and turn to good? 26:08 What does Swedenborg have to say about the sleep paralysis phenomena? I’ve suffered it all my life…in every sense (hearing, seeing, feeling, out of body)…most terrifying. Is there a point in allowing spirits to hold us under sleep paralysis while tormenting? 31:15 Does he speak about God having a partner for everyone? Does God know who we are supposed to partner up with or is it completely up to us and a part of free will? 39:22 Do we eat food on the other side? 48:02 Could you please address Life on Other Planets. 51:16 It seems often evil spirits are prevented from causing harm, but in others they are clearly influencing behavior. Can you comment on their ability to hurt and harm us? 57:54 References and Downloads: Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg: http://www.swedenborg.com/product/divine-providence-nce/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=DP&utm_content=jun22&utm_campaign=SAL This work contains Swedenborg’s answer to the question of how one is to reconcile the notion of a loving God with the existence of evil, hardship, and suffering. Secrets of Heaven by Emanuel Swedenborg: http://www.swedenborg.com/product/secrets-heaven-1-nce/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=SH&utm_content=jun22&utm_campaign=SAL Here Swedenborg uses correspondences (connections through symbol between the material and spiritual world) to explain the inner meaning of the Bible. Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg: http://www.swedenborg.com/product/heaven-hell-nce/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=HH&utm_content=jun22&utm_campaign=SAL Heaven and Hell is Swedenborg’s most popular book and his fullest report of his experiences in the other world. True Christianity by Emanuel Swedenborg: http://www.swedenborg.com/product/true-christianity-1-nce/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=TC&utm_content=jun22&utm_campaign=SAL A systematic description of Swedenborg’s view on the church in this world and the next. Like our show? Help it grow… Become a member of the Swedenborg Foundation and help us continue to produce original video content each week. In addition to supporting us at offTheLeftEye, you’ll also help fund other Foundation projects that aim to spread Swedenborg’s spiritual message of hope to all. Plus, you’ll get lots of cool members-only benefits. Check out a full list of benefits or get your year-long membership now for only $20. Go to http://swedenborg.com/membership Or choose to make a donation instead through our secure PayPal checkout and have your donation matched 5 to 1: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZADSY8EZ62QLU Swedenborg and Life is brought to you by The Swedenborg Foundation--a 501(c)(3) public charitable organization. Visit our website http://www.swedenborg.com Follow us Hit the YouTube Subscribe button above to be notified when we upload new videos here! Sign up for news from the Swedenborg Foundation - http://www.swedenborg.com/email-signup/ Heaven and Hell Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HeavenAndHellSwedenborg Swedenborg Foundation Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SwedenborgFoundation Swedenborg Foundation on Twitter - https://twitter.com/swedenborgfound

Part 2- How Dan ended up in the Naked Orchestra; militant attitude towards certain music for growth; growing out of the results of mistaken assumptions; limited paradigms in jazz education; freedoms and an agenda unveiled in New York; Tony Dagradi and further doors opening with James Singleton's band; discussion of ideas for another approach to music education; The Other Planets and the "confluence of the downwardly mobile"; what is going on with "trad" in New Orleans in in the current scene; Anthony Braxton's 3 types of people that have to exist in music; "trad" musicians as an insular, isolated community; why is trad being chosen as the form of expression?; local economics of "trad"; the "trad" scene dissolution and what is coming in to replace it; the look of the Frenchmen scene; how Dan markets himself; how Dan became interested in traditional jazz at all

Dan Oestreicher first hit the radar for this writer when he presented himself at a Naked Orchestra show at the Mermaid lounge and made clear that he should be playing with the group. He did that for the rest of that evening and for a long time afterward. He played with many of the most forward thinking New Orleans musicians and frequently he is there right when they are looking the most forward. This includes the The Other Planets, The Magnetic Ear, 3 now 4, James Singleton, Irvin Mayfield's New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Roger Lewis's Baritone quintet (where Dan is playing Bass sax instead of his more heard, Bari sax,) The Naked Orchestra, The Jonathan Freilich group, his own group- The Diesel Combustion Orchestra, and more. He is seen playing some tuba and really tends to go very deep when he is exploring anything, but especially music. He also knows a good deal about saxophone lore and trade as well as the other end of the spectrum, analog synthesis. As he is in Trombone Shorty's band, touring constantly, he is in a unique position to discuss the current meanings and associations in the idea of New Orleans music (if there is really such a thing at all) and improvisation. His perspectives are well informed and if nothing at all show a blazing mind for inquiry and a fearless and healthy statement of opinion. He could go anywhere from here. If you were into horse racing you might see him listed in the racing form as one to watch. ​ ...Look to the end for heated debate. ​ Part 1- What Dan is up to now; the Roger Lewis baritone sax quartet+ bass sax; Roger, Tony, tim green, calvin johnson, shannon powell; jazzfest as a showcase for acts that aren’t playing around very much; “the guardians of the vault”; playing with Trombone Shorty and the perception of New Orleans in the world; ponderings about why Trombone Shorty is the current poster child for New Orleans music; the limitations of the idea of New Orleans music; bandleader, Trombone Shorty; Dan’s other musical lives in the past; New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and peoples’ perception of that in relation to the New Orleans music categorization; more on the liberations and restraints of being identified as a New Orleans musician; jazz in academia; musical priorities; the position of precise execution in the New Orleans instrument player’s aesthetic; brass bands and depth of rehearsal- Hot 8 Brass Band; Soul Rebels Brass Band.

Anthony Cuccia- Percussionist, keyboardist, composer, idea man for The Other Planets. Anthony uses music both for social consciousness and for exploration of its own various technologies. He is always striving for a new way to assemble his ideas. If you haven't, go check out his evolving band. If you are real lucky you might catch him doing a solo show. This interview took some interesting turns partially due to Anthony's willingness to discuss parts of his "process." Part 1- Background and growing up in Lafayette; coming to the Bongos; interest in eclectic characters in music; seeking authenticity and individualised statement; studies with Hector Gallardo; big ideas; the influence of video games; what happened to Paul?; more on Hector and playing out on Frenchmen St; meeting Jimbo Walsh, getting turned on to Captain Beefheart, and putting the band together; transformation from "jazzy" band to rock band and the forces that caused the transformation; the impact of Zack Smith and Dan Oestreicher on The Other Planets; the rebirth of Dan Oestreicher; the departure of Oestreicher; influences on the lyrical content- politics and humor; insulting the audience; is the audience listening?

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Once upon a time there was a swift little giant named Gulliver who like to travel to faraway lands. Sometimes he was bigger then a giraffe -- but other times, this giant was smaller then a mouse. Once, Gulliver was even a horse's pet. Want to learn more about Gulliver and his travels? Then make sure you listen to this G-episode of the World's Greatest children's storytelling -- wild animal -- alphabet podcast. It's a retelling of Jonathan Swift's classic children's book, Gulliver's Travels... mashed-up with the world's greatest Lilliputian storytelling giraffe games and music. WATCH Kids' Podcast with children's art (m4a) HEAR audio version (mp3) Children's stories and music featured in this podcast: You are a Giraffe? [storytelling game for animals] In Gulliver's travels, he meets Baby Monster Mom with a plug in her hands [classic children's storytelling game] The World's Greatest Gorillas dance to the jungle beat of this children's song The World's Greatest Garbage Truck makes a stinky children's song The World's Greatest Green Beans make magical stories Who is the World's Greatest Goldfish [a non-Seuss-ical story] The World's Greatest Gingerbread Man got no rhythm The World's Greatest Great Great Dane loves to play with words Who is the World's Greatest Grandfather? Will the World's Greatest Grizzly Bear please stand up See the world in a new way with the World's Greatest Glasses The magic of great, Great Britain [Harry Potter and the Mythical Lorné-bear] The World's Greatest Glue Ghoul makes a short and not-sweet story In Gulliver's travels, he meets Lying King in a swimming pool [Daddy's classic children's story] Am I Awake? [great song by special guest artists, They Might Be Giants] Life on Other Planets [classic children's story with new additions from kids around the world] Children's art featured in this podcast: G is for GIRAFFES, as in... Good Morning giraffe, you're grande latte tall. You drink there above us, we drink up below. G is for Giraffes (and Good Morning Sunshine): CHILDREN'S BOOK PREVIEW [from Wild Alphabet Stories (fun tails for kids and other wild animals)... kids' song is a coffee parody of the song, Good Morning Starshine, from the 1960s musical and movie Hair. ALL CHILDREN'S ART from children's book, Wild Alphabet Stories (fun tails for kids and other wild animals) is available at the Children's Art Mon-STORE. Learn more about this new children's book. Be sure to get your FREE G is for GIRAFFES (and Good Morning) COLORING PAGE Educational resources for parents and educators! Help KIDS' LEARN MORE about the classic children's book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, as well as all about Giraffes and the guest artists in this episode. Have fun, -- Josie (and dad) Like our show and have your own podcast? Help others discover it by sharing the My Baby Monsters Children's Storytelling Podcast (promo)