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How can preachers help people hear Scripture rather than merely collect information about it?In this conversation, Mike speaks with New Testament scholar David B. Capes about conversational preaching, the public reading of Scripture, recovering the Old Testament and its language of lament, and recognising the scriptural world that shaped the New Testament writers.David also explains how Matthew Through Old Testament Eyes helps readers notice Matthew's use of Israel's Scriptures. Along the way, he reflects on Christ-centred preaching, faithful listening, friendship across religious differences, and the work of the Lanier Theological Library.IN THIS EPISODEDavid's first sermon at twelve years old and his early sense of callingWhy effective preaching should sound like a meaningful conversationThe difference between saying something and helping people learn itRecovering the public reading of Scripture in the churchWhy Christians need the Old Testament's language of lamentHow the New Testament writers read and reused Israel's ScripturesReading Matthew with greater sensitivity to its first-century Jewish settingChrist-centred preaching without forcing Jesus artificially into every isolated verseLearning to listen carefully to people with whom we disagreeThe libraries, lectures, podcasts and study opportunities offered by the Lanier Theological LibraryRESOURCES MENTIONEDMatthew Through Old Testament Eyes by David B. Capes (Kregel Academic)https://www.kregel.com/bible-commentaries/matthew-through-old-testament-eyes/Devote Yourself to the Public Reading of Scripture by Jeffrey D. Arthurs (Kregel Academic)https://www.kregel.com/jeffrey-d-arthurs/devote-yourself-to-the-public-reading-of-scripture/Paul's Use of the Old Testament by E. Earle Ellis (Wipf and Stock)https://wipfandstock.com/9781592441945/pauls-use-of-the-old-testament/TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson(This is the public-speaking book Mike recalled, although its title was not stated during the interview.)https://www.ted.com/read/ted-talks-the-official-ted-guide-to-public-speaking/OTHER BOOKS BY DAVID B. CAPESThe Divine Christ: Paul, the Lord Jesus, and the Scriptures of Israel (Baker Academic)https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9780801097867_the-divine-christOld Testament Yahweh Texts in Paul's Christology (Baylor University Press)https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481307918/old-testament-yahweh-texts-in-pauls-christology/Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters and Theology, second edition (IVP Academic)https://ivpress.com/rediscovering-paulSlow to Judge: Sometimes It's OK to Listen (Thomas Nelson)https://www.thomasnelson.com/author/4083/david-capes/ADDITIONAL WORKS REFERENCEDBooks by Rabbi Stuart FederowFederow's writing was discussed, but no individual title was named during the interview.https://hebrewjumpstart.com/booksLISTEN AND EXPLORELanier Theological Library and Learning Center — Houston, USAhttps://lanierlibraryandlearningcenter.org/Lanier Theological Library — Yarnton Manor, Oxford, UKhttps://yarntonmanor.org/theological-library/Lanier sabbatical opportunities in Houstonhttps://lanierlibraryandlearningcenter.org/sabbaticals-2/Research and writing visits at Yarnton Manorhttps://yarntonmanor.org/apply-to-visit/research-writing/The Stone Chapel Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-stone-chapel-podcast/id1537425950Exegetically Speaking — Wheaton Collegehttps://www.wheaton.edu/listen/exegetically-speaking-podcastA Show of Faithhttps://ashowoffaith.org/David B. Capes's websitehttps://davidbcapes.com/Calvary Chapel Cooperativehttps://calvarychapelcooperative.com/CONNECT WITH DAVIDEmail: david.capes@lanierlibrary.orgFor information about our upcoming training events visit ExpositorsCollective.com Join our private Facebook group to continue the conversation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ExpositorsCollective

Richard Parker has spent his life reading America through two lenses most people keep apart: economics and religion. The throughline is that faith, money, and power did not grow up in separate rooms. They grew up together. An Oxford-trained economist who has taught at Harvard's Kennedy School since 1993, Parker co-founded Mother Jones, helped build Greenpeace USA, and helped Norman Lear start People for the American Way. This conversation runs from an abolitionist ancestor who helped fund John Brown's raid, through the Reformation's long shadow over capitalism and the corporation, to a president reaching into the economy in ways the country has not seen since it had kings. Calls to Action ✅ Leave a rating and review: lovethepodcast.com/politicsandreligion ✅ Subscribe on Substack: coreysnathan.substack.com ✅ Watch and subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/@politicsandreligion ✅ Share this episode with someone who reads the news and someone who's given up on it Key Takeaways The abolitionist in the family tree. Richard's ancestor, the Rev. Theodore Parker, was one of the Secret Six who bankrolled John Brown's raid. He also coined lines later borrowed by Lincoln ("of the people, by the people, for the people") and Martin Luther King ("the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice"). Not since kings. When a president takes government equity stakes in companies like Nvidia, Parker argues, he folds the state into his own person and pushes presidential power into the economy in a way America has not seen since it had monarchs. Only about six presidents. Borrowing from political scientist Stephen Skowronek, Parker says just a handful of presidents ever reset the country's governing terms. He does not think Trump is one of them. The same fights in new costumes. Most of our arguments recur generation after generation. Parker's aim is not to win them but to help people see the landscape they are arguing from, which is how a divided country starts talking instead of accusing. About Our Guest Richard Parker is an economist, author, and Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, where he has taught since 1993. He co-founded Mother Jones, helped build Greenpeace USA, helped Norman Lear launch People for the American Way, and has advised figures including Senator Edward Kennedy. He serves on the boards of The Nation and the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. Links and Resources Richard Parker and Diane Winston (USC) at Faith Angle West in Park City, Utah (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFNCAbZIKjo&t=139s Faith Angle Forum, which helps journalists cover religion in public life: https://faithangle.org/ Connect with us Substack: coreysnathan.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com/@politicsandreligion Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, X, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn: @coreysnathan Partners Proud to be part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts examining what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. More conversation, less accusation. Now go talk some politics and religion with gentleness and respect.

Dr. Timothy Larsen writes about serious, energetic faith in the places other historians assume the faith cannot really be. A Victorian Christian fantasist. A Westminster canon who quietly set aside biblical authority. And, in his newest and most acclaimed book, seventeen Anglican chaplains who came out of the trenches of World War I as radicals. Tim is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College and the 2025 president of the American Society of Church History, and this hour is us moving through three of his books at once. The Fires of Moloch takes its title from H. G. Wells's line describing Britain sending its sons into the fires of a false god during the Passchendaele Offensive. George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles takes the mid-nineteenth-century Scottish theological turn from the Age of Atonement to the Age of the Incarnation and shows what happens when a rigorously Calvinist minister-turned-fantasy-writer decides doubt is the door in, and therefore the door out, of a mature faith. Every Leaf, Line, and Letter returns to Tim's PhD supervisor David Bebbington's famous quadrilateral for defining evangelicalism and asks what it takes to keep that word doing honest work now that polls will code Muslim Trump voters as evangelical. Come for Anglo-Catholic sacramental confession as battle-tested ministry. Stay for the George MacDonald grandmother who burned her son's violin because he enjoyed music too much. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Dr. Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College, an Honorary Fellow of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, All Souls College, Oxford, and Christ Church, Oxford. In 2025 he served as President of the American Society of Church History. He has authored or edited more than twenty books. Books at the center of this conversation: The Fires of Moloch: Anglican Clergymen in the Furnace of World War One; George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles: Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment ; and Every Leaf, Line, and Letter: Evangelicals and the Bible from the 1730s to the Present. JOIN OUR OPEN ONLINE CLASS: The Empire Christ Couldn't Keep⁠ Ever notice how Christian nationalism gets talked about like it's some bizarre new glitch in the faith? It isn't — it's a 2,000-year-old arrangement wearing new clothes, and once you see how the pattern works, you can also spot the Christ who keeps slipping free of it. Join theologian Joerg Rieger and Tripp Fuller for The Christ Empire Couldn't Keep, a free six-week online class tracing the holy alliances, imperial creeds, and stubborn resistance that have shaped Christianity from Paul to the present. You'll get six lectures from Joerg, six live Q&As, weekly readings from his book Christ and Empire, and a community of fellow troublemakers thinking it through together. It's free to join, every session is recorded, and it kicks off Thursday, August 27. Grab your spot at ⁠HomebrewedClasses.com.⁠ This podcast is a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Homebrewed Christianity ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠production. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the Homebrewed Christianity⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Theology Nerd Throwdown⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Rise of Bonhoeffer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack - Process This!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get instant access to over 50 classes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.TheologyClass.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow the podcast, drop a review⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, send ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠feedback/questions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or become a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠member of the HBC Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is presented by Create A Video – It took six weeks (for some unknown reason) for the famed Oxford Union debating society to publish its video of the debate over whether "the West is right to be suspicious of Islam." But the most instructive commentary came from the Oxford Union president who noted the mob of protesters outside the building would kill the speakers who said suspicion is warranted.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-kaliner-show--6946691/support.Subscribe to the podcast My preferred podcast platform: SpreakerAll the links to Pete's Prep are free!Get exclusive content here!Media Bias Check: GroundNews promo code!Advertising and Booking inquiries: Pete@ThePeteKalinerShow.com  

Is Hong Kong Still Safe for Business? | The International Risk Podcast with Megan KhooHong Kong has long been regarded as one of the world's safest and most attractive places to do business. But following the introduction of the National Security Law, growing geopolitical tensions between China and the West, and increasing scrutiny from international governments, many organisations are reassessing the risks of operating in the territory.In this episode, we explore how Hong Kong's changing political and legal landscape is reshaping the business environment, what international companies should understand before investing or expanding in the region, and how geopolitical risk is becoming a board-level issue.We discuss:Is Hong Kong still a safe place for international business?How the National Security Law has changed Hong Kong's legal and political environmentThe impact of US-China strategic competition on international companiesBusiness confidence, sanctions, and reputational riskHuman rights concerns and their implications for multinational organisationsThe future of Hong Kong as an international financial centreHow organisations can better prepare for geopolitical uncertainty in AsiaThe international risks that concern Megan Khoo mostAbout the guestMegan Khoo is Policy Director at Hong Kong Watch, where she leads the organisation's policy and advocacy work on Hong Kong, China, human rights, and international affairs. Before joining Hong Kong Watch, she worked in communications and policy roles across the UK and United States, including at the US Department of Defense and the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC. Megan holds an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford and degrees in International Studies and Modern Languages (Mandarin Chinese and Spanish) from Georgia Southern University.About the hostDominic Bowen is Head of Strategic Advisory and Partner at one of Europe's leading risk management consulting firms. He advises CEOs, boards, and senior executives on crisis management, geopolitical risk, operational resilience, and strategy, drawing on decades of experience across government, humanitarian operations, and corporate leadership.

What if the biggest barrier to justice is not the law itself, but who can reach it?In this episode of Oxford+, part of the Ethics and Innovation miniseries sponsored by Equinox, host Susannah de Jager speaks with Professor Philippa Webb, co-founder of the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, about whether artificial intelligence can close the global justice gap rather than widen it. Philippa explains why only a small fraction of people who need a lawyer can access one, how her team is building legal tools for women and girls in Malawi, and why judges in Brazil and Argentina are already teaching themselves to code and building their own agents.The conversation also confronts the risks. Deepfakes are now trivially easy to produce, digital evidence is piling up unused in atrocity prosecutions, and 130 states have suffered cyber attacks. With the World Economic Forum reporting that 87% of organisations see AI-related vulnerabilities as the fastest-growing cyber risk, Philippa makes the case for legal routes to accountability, better training, and closing the perception gap that still keeps AI out of the courtroom.(00:00) - Welcome to Oxford+ (01:55) - A Career Across Academia and Practice (03:33) - Inside the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice (06:19) - Cyber Attacks, Critical Infrastructure and Accountability (10:00) - The Digital Evidence Gap in Atrocity Crimes (13:22) - Training Judges, Prosecutors and Defence Counsel (16:18) - How Easy It Is to Make a Deepfake (19:32) - The AI Justice Atlas and Courtrooms Worldwide (21:48) - Building a Fair Trial Advisor for Judges (25:48) - Malawi, a Legal Desert and a Testing Ground (33:47) - Protecting Journalists in the First 48 Hours (38:50) - What the Institute Needs Next Philippa Webb: Philippa Webb KC is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, a Fellow of Exeter College, and a barrister at Twenty Essex. With Amal Clooney, she is co-founder and Director of the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, the first global initiative dedicated to harnessing AI for justice, launched in October 2025 as a partnership between the Blavatnik School and the Clooney Foundation for Justice. She has served as Special Assistant and Legal Officer to the President of the International Court of Justice and as legal adviser to the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, and she appears regularly before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court. She co-wrote The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law with Amal Clooney, was named International Law Junior 2025 by Legal 500, and was elected to the Institut de Droit International in 2025.Connect with Philippa on LinkedInSusannah de Jager: Susannah is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in UK asset management. She has worked closely with industry experts, entrepreneurs, and government officials to shape the conversation around domestic scale-up capital.Connect with Susannah on LinkedIn and Subscribe to the Oxford+ Newsletter for Exclusive ContentOxford+ is hosted by Susannah de Jager and supported by Mishcon de Reya, HSBC Innovation Banking, and James Cowper Kreston.Produced and Edited by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.

Host Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist Ruben Laukkonen about what extreme physical suffering can reveal about meditation, and why awakening may be less a grand attainment than “the grand disappointment.” They explore disenchantment, grace, synchronicity, and the possibility that faith arises naturally from our embeddedness in realities too large for us to comprehend. Ruben describes the strange authority of insight—how ideas can seem to arrive from elsewhere, why their felt intensity sometimes tracks their accuracy, and how the same process can produce compelling false revelations. They also discuss psychedelics, embodied creativity, the “mastery of mania,” and Ruben's research suggesting that meditation increases the brain's signal-to-noise ratio, with posture functioning as a kind of built-in neurofeedback system. The conversation concludes by asking whether AI has Buddha nature, whether a machine must be conscious to express wisdom and compassion, and whether artificial intelligence might become a means of scaling wisdom—or its opposite—throughout human culture.Ruben Laukkonen is a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, where he is a senior researcher in the Department of Psychiatry, a fellow at Linacre College, director of the Flourishing Intelligence Program, and co-director of the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing. His research seeks an empirically grounded and experientially authentic understanding of meditation, insight, consciousness, and nonduality. His current work also explores how brain dynamics and contemplative wisdom might contribute to safer and more efficient artificial intelligence. Ruben has an eclectic contemplative background, including Zen, Advaita, and Theravāda, and was authorized to teach Vipassanā in 2024.Find out more at https://rubenlaukkonen.com/You can support the creation of future episodes of this podcast by contributing through Patreon.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

One motto — it only takes one yes — and the resilience habit that turned 100 rejections into a career before age 24. Simar Bajaj sent 100 cold emails to Stanford surgeons as a 16-year-old with zero research experience. One said yes — and that's the whole philosophy: resilience isn't about not getting rejected, it's about reducing rejection to a task and staying in motion anyway. In this episode, Dr. Juna talks with the award-winning health journalist and incoming Stanford med student about the mindset that he had to publish over 90 peer reviewed medical papers most while an undergraduate at Harvard, publish health reporting for the New York Times, and win scholarships to Oxford and Stanford. They also dive into how Simar's radiologist uncle and immigrant parents shaped that resilience long before any of it. It's a RELAX TO SOAR™ conversation built entirely around the “TO”: try, get told no, adjust and try again. Control your time and cognitively offload your health with the 6month RELAX TO SOAR™ system. Signup now to get free email support with your planner:mindbodyspace.com/storeMindBodySpace is hosted by Dr. Juna, Mom · MD · EdM — a Harvard-trained educator and NYU-trained physician, double board-certified in diagnostic radiology and lifestyle medicine. She's on faculty at The Juilliard School, where she created and teaches “RELAX TO SOAR” and has taught resilience and peak-performance skills at institutions including corporations, organizations, schools, (Achievement First Charter, NYU School of Medicine, Columbia Law School), plus to tens of thousands more online. New episodes weekly — follow along and head to mindbodyspace.com/store for the RELAX TO SOAR™ Resilience System to put your wellness habits on autopilot.

Matthew Week 147 2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB 95   21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.       1 Peter 2:24 NASB95   24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.       Galatians 3:13 NASB95   13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"—       Matthew 26:38a ESV   38 Then he said to them, "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death;…       "Don't you know I have wild animals at my disposal? I will unleash them immediately upon you if you don't change your mind"       "Well unleash them, who ever heard of repenting from what is good to what is evil?"       "Since wild animals don't seem to scare you, know here and now I will have you burned alive if you do not denounce Christ"       "You threaten me with a mere fire that burns for an hour and then goes out. Haven't you heard of the fire of coming judgement and the eternal punishment reserved for the ungodly? Why do you keep delaying, do whatever you want with me."       "leave me as I am. The one who gives me strength to endure fire will also enable me to remain motionless against the stake without having to be secured."-"Letter from the Church of Smyrna" – David Bercot: Will the Real Heretics Please Stand, p. 3-4       "Suffer me to become food for the wild beasts, through whose instrumentality it will be granted me to attain to God. I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ." The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, edited by F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone. Oxford, 1997.       2 Samuel 15:23 ESV   23 And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.       Psalm 55:20-21 ESV   20 My companion stretched out his hand against his friends;   he violated his covenant.   21 His speech was smooth as butter,   yet war was in his heart;   his words were softer than oil,   yet they were drawn swords.       Matthew 26:47-49 ESV   47 While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. 48 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I will kiss is the man; seize him." 49 And he came up to Jesus at once and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" And he kissed him.       John 18:3 NASB95   Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons       John 18:4-8 ESV   4 Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?" 5 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When Jesus said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground. 7 So he asked them again, "Whom do you seek?" And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." 8 Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. So, if you seek me, let these men go."       John 8:56-59 ESV   56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad." 57 So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" 58 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.       Matthew 26:50-51 ESV   50 Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you came to do." Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. 51 And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.       Luke 22:48 ESV   48 …"Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"       Mark 14:47 ESV 47 But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.       Luke 22:50 ESV 50 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.       John 18:10a ESV 10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear.          

O Brasil está caminhando para uma crise da dívida? A inteligência artificial está destruindo nossa capacidade de distinguir verdade e mentira? E uma guerra envolvendo Estados Unidos, China e Taiwan poderia ameaçar o domínio global do dólar?Neste episódio do Market Makers, Thiago Salomão recebe Niall Ferguson, um dos historiadores mais influentes do mundo, para uma conversa sobre o futuro do Brasil e as grandes transformações econômicas, políticas e tecnológicas do nosso tempo.Ferguson analisa o crescimento da dívida pública brasileira, o peso dos juros reais, a possibilidade de reformas semelhantes às realizadas por Javier Milei na Argentina e os obstáculos políticos que o Brasil enfrenta.A conversa também aborda a corrida de inteligência artificial entre Estados Unidos e China, os riscos da desinformação algorítmica, o uso de IA nas universidades, o futuro da educação e a dificuldade de preservar a verdade histórica em um ambiente dominado por plataformas e algoritmos.No cenário internacional, Niall Ferguson explica por que guerras modernas podem durar mais do que o esperado, como drones mudaram o equilíbrio entre adversários e quais acontecimentos poderiam transformar as guerras regionais atuais em um conflito global.Neste episódio:-O verdadeiro risco fiscal do Brasil.-Por que juros reais elevados tornam a dívida mais perigosa.-O que o Brasil poderia aprender com Javier Milei.-Como a IA pode modificar nossa compreensão do passado.-A corrida tecnológica entre Estados Unidos e China.-O futuro do dólar como moeda de reserva.-O risco de uma guerra por Taiwan.-Por que guerras são mais fáceis de começar do que de terminar.-A crise das universidades tradicionais.-Os sinais de uma possível Terceira Guerra Mundial.

Welcoming Shruthi Vijay Kumar, coach, facilitator andeducator based in Aotearoa New Zealand, to Purposely Podcast. Shruthi works with leaders and organisations trying to shiftfrom extractive to more regenerative ways of working. She draws on indigenous, eastern and western knowledge traditions to do it. She holds an MBA from Oxford, has worked with the World Economic Forum, taught at AUT, and foundedthe Fire Circle, a space for cross-cultural wisdom bringing together indigenous elders from around the world with leaders in business, education and community. This conversation starts with pain. Shruthi was a highachiever who found her way into a blue chip consulting firm in Melbourne, only to be sat down by a senior partner and told her performance was not where it needed to be. She talks openly about what that did to her, the tears, thecollapse of external validation, and the long process of rebuilding a sense of worth that did not depend on how a company reviewed her every few months. Thatexperience, she says, set her free. Rather than waiting for conditions to change or for someone to give her permission, she left and went to India to work for a small education startup trying to reimagine curriculum throughstorytelling. It was, she says, the most aligned she had ever felt. From there, a career took shape that sits at the intersection of inner work and outer impact. Shruthi trained as a coach fromher mid-twenties, drawn to a discipline that holds space for people to find their own answers rather than being told what to think. She is clear that the most important thing she has brought to that work is her own inner journey, including time in ashrams in India, with a mindfulness community in theCoromandel, and with spiritual teachers whose presence, she says, has helped her meet the grief and pain that clients bring. The Fire Circle grew out of the COVID period, when Shruthiand three colleagues from Australia, New York and Arnhem Land asked what it would look like to elevate indigenous and pre-colonial wisdom in conversations about business, leadership and how to build back differently. The circle nowhas eight or nine elders from around the world. It has run online gatherings, retreats with climate leaders, and guest lectures at business schools. The animating idea is that nature is not one priority among many. It is the foundation on which everything else rests. This episode of Purposely is brought to you by Benevityand Trust Investments.

Be sure to check out the grand finale of our Eco-Justice and Climate Action Mini Series! Throughout the last few months, we've explored everything from outdoor education in Canada, to a global storytelling initiative, to resilience building in coastal island communities, and more. Today, Joe and Blane explore the story behind “Crystallizing Territorial Visions and Claims: Critical Mapping with Amazonian Kichwa Communities in Climate Change. We are joined by authors Anke and Maritza, and co-investigator, Bequer Tuanama, from San Martin, Peru. The interview is bilingual, Spanish and English, with translations. The episode is full of meaningful reflections, candid anecdotes about the process, and a deeper look at their research project. Enjoy!The team begins by tracing how the partnership with Kichwa communities in San Martin, Peru came into being, and was built from existing relationships [3:13]. This leads into a discussion of critical mapping itself, and how a participatory research tool gradually became something more [5:57], providing a space for collective reflection, negotiation, and the reimagining of territorial claims in the face of state-led conservation efforts. The power dynamics involved and their negotiations are very insightful [10:32]. Afterwards, the team walks us through what the mapping process actually looked like, and the connection between mapping territory and climate action, using stories, timelines, and imagery of non-human beings which were included, beyond geographic boundaries [14:00]. The team then shares some of emergent practises from collaborating with a diverse group of collaborators on the project, including different layers of knowledge on map, as well as a vision for the territory in the future, along with practical challenges of the logistics of budgeting, transportation, bringing in elders and women, and providing an intercultural approach to the work [22:56]. The episode closes with learning and outcomes from the project, from the universities changing their approach to action research and impact, how mapping is an important tool of dialogue and collaboration across different sectors, bringing women's voice to the forefront, and engaging different levels, particularly for communicating with the state [35:04].Thank you Anke, Maritza, and Bequer for sharing your work with us in this episode.Thank you to our listeners for tuning in to this episode of the Action Research Podcast, created by Joe Levitan, Adam Stieglitz, Shikha Diwakar, Cory Legassic, and Vanessa Gold.Produced by Shikha Diwakar and Vanja Lugonjic.Subscribe to our podcast on most major podcast distribution platforms, including Spotify and Apple Podcasts.How have you found yourself in the world of action research? Want to be interviewed or share one of your projects? Get in touch with us.Photo Credit: https://www.machu-picchu.org/location/Resources: Exhibition Blog PostMaps Atlas of Critical Mapping in Latin America Biographies: Anke Kaulard holds a PhD in sociology and teaches in the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and currently at the University of Cologne. She is a former fellow of the trAndeS program (PUCP/FU Berlin) with a focus on inequalities and sustainable development in the Andean region, interested in political economy and ecology. She is a researcher in the action-research project: “Indigenous Visions for Climate Justice” (PUCP/University Diego Portales/TNC, funded by IDRC) and in the project: “Beyond Certification. From voluntary sustainability standards to sector transformation” (PUCP/University of Melbourne). Since 2003 she has been working in action-research, previously in development cooperation projects in the Andean region, Mozambique and Jordan. She works with producer associations and Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon to make visible their demands for climate, economic and social justice.Maritza Paredes is a Full Professor, and Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences, Sociology Section, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her expertise lies in political sociology and environmental sociology. Paredes has extensively studied the impacts of extractive industries on the institutions and environmental justice of local communities and indigenous peoples, as well as the effects of climate policies at the local level, particularly among indigenous communities in the Amazon. She obtained her PhD in International Development from the University of Oxford in the UK and a Master's Degree from Columbia University in the USA.Bequer Tuanama Lumba is a Kichwa leader from the community of Kawana Sisa in San Martin, Peru. He served as apu of his community in 2008 and later contributed to the creation of the Kichwa Huallaga Dorado Federation (FEKIHD), which he chaired from two terms starting in 2016. Certified as a professional technician in 2023, he worked as a territorial researcher in the project: "Indigenous Visions for Climate Justice" and made significant contributions to the co-creation of the "Buen Mapeo" process in San Martin.-- This episode is part of our Eco-justice and Climate Action Series. Authors from journal articles in a Special Issue of the Canadian Journal for Action Research hop behind the mic and share the inspirations, process, and findings from their projects. Join Joe Levitan, Shikha Diwakar and special guest host Blane Harvey, as they interview an inspiring group of researchers, educators, organizers, and more, navigating the process of action research.

As the global economic order undergoes profound change, what kind of national strategy does the UK need? In this episode, Jenny Bates, 2025–26 Heywood Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government and Former Director General at the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), discusses how Britain can navigate an increasingly uncertain global landscape.Interviewed by MPP students Marc Naro and Eleanor Williams, the conversation explores the changing global economic order, strategic policymaking, and the UK's future role in the world.Recorded at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Bill Crouch is the founder and CEO of BrightDot, a nationally recognized fundraising strategist, speaker, author, and former college president. For more than 40 years, Bill has worked in higher education leadership, philanthropy, and nonprofit advancement. He began his fundraising career at Gardner-Webb University, Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina, and Carson-Newman University before serving for 22 years as president of Georgetown College, retiring from the presidency in 2013. He then joined Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners as Senior Managing Partner. In 2015, he left the firm to found BrightDot, where he helps organizations strengthen donor relationships and build cultures of generosity. Bill earned his bachelor's degree from Wake Forest University and master's and doctoral degrees from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. A former trustee and Honorary Fellow of Regent's Park College, Oxford, he is also the author of Start with Heart and the new book Mattership. In this episode, we trace Bill's journey from childhood to what he calls “the fourth quarter” of his life — from ministry to the college presidency to national leadership in philanthropy and fundraising. Our conversation begins with the story of his tight-knit family, a neighborhood tragedy, and the conversation with his father that shaped the course of his life.

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Laura Bellinato, Silvia Ferrara"Il profumo degli dèi"Fragranze del Mediterraneo anticoEdizioni del Mulinowww.mulino.itL'olio profumato si diffondeva nei templi come una presenza invisibile, ungeva i corpi delle regine e dei re, addolciva la pelle dei vivi e preparava quella dei morti. Tra le note persistenti di quella fragranza millenaria possiamo ascoltare l'eco di un mondo scomparso.C'era una volta, tra le stanze di un palazzo miceneo, una tavoletta d'argilla diversa dalle altre: i segni incisi in lineare B custodivano i segreti di un profumo antichissimo. Poche parole e nessuna istruzione: olio da bollire, coriandolo, cipero, rosa, salvia, miele, vino. Da queste liste scarne prende avvio un viaggio travolgente che ci conduce nei palazzi di Cnosso e Pilo, tra archivi e laboratori dove il profumo era materia preziosa, rituale quotidiano, segno di potere e di bellezza. Tracce minime che parlano di artigiani, scribi, reti commerciali mediterranee, pratiche religiose e cura del corpo, restituendo l'immagine di una società raffinata: i micenei producevano olii e aromi con grande maestria e competenza sensoriale. Entreremo così nel cuore di una delle più antiche industrie del profumo, in un intreccio di dati archeologici e scambi con l'Egitto, Cipro e le culture del Mediterraneo orientale. Fino a spingerci oltre, a dare nuova vita a tracce antiche per ricreare i profumi scomparsi, restituendo odore e corpo a un sapere di migliaia di anni fa.Laura Bellinato è dottoranda in Filologia egea all'Università di Bologna e ricercatrice nel progetto Sapience Fis (Symbols, Preliteracy and Code Evolution), coordinato da Silvia Ferrara.Silvia Ferrara insegna Civiltà egee all'Università di Bologna. Ha studiato allo University College di Londra e all'Università di Oxford. Per Feltrinelli ha pubblicato «La grande invenzione. Storia del mondo in nove scritture misteriose» (2019), «Il salto. Segni, figure, parole: viaggio all'origine dell'immaginazione» (2021) e «Il segreto delle isole. Storie di linee, memorie nascoste e mondi misteriosi» (2026).Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

What does it mean to inherit a faith that served as a fortress for your father, but feels like a contradiction to you? Throughout his childhood in Oxford, Silas Gray was surrounded by the sights, sounds, and symbols of his father's Rastafarian identity. He was even named after the Rastafarian spiritual figurehead, Emperor Haile Selassie I. But this legacy weighs heavily. It anchors him to a complex world leader he's not sure he's aligned with. And he feels like an imposter carrying a name associated with a faith he doesn't practise. Desperate to find a version of this legacy he can comfortably own, Silas decides to do what his father spent forty years dreaming of but never actually did: he books a flight to Ethiopia and travels to the Rastafarian spiritual motherland of Shashamane, the land granted to the global black diaspora by the Emperor himself. Silas encounters a living, breathing community where three generations of Rastafarians exist under one roof. This is a deeply personal pilgrimage about a son trying to see what his father sees, heal a generational disconnect, and finally make peace with his name.

What is the relationship between nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and pain? Are individuals who self-injure less sensitive to pain than those who don't self-injure? What are the ethics involved in conducting research on pain? In this episode, Dr. Julian Koenig describes the research on the experience of pain among those who self-harm. Learn more about Dr. Koenig and his research lab at www.koeniglab.de. Below are links to some of the research referenced in this episode: Koenig, J., Thayer, J. F., & Kaess, M. (2016). A meta-analysis on pain sensitivity in self-injury. Psychological Medicine, 46(8), 1597-1612. Koenig, J., Klier, J., Parzer, P., Santangelo, P., Resch, F., Ebner-Priemer, U., & Kaess, M. (2021). High-frequency ecological momentary assessment of emotional and interpersonal states preceding and following self-injury in female adolescents. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 30(8), 1299-1308. Kaess, M., Hooley, J. M., Klimes-Dougan, B., Koenig, J., Plener, P. L., Reichl, C., Robinson, K., Schmahl, C., Sicorello, M., Schreiner, M. W., & Cullen, K. R. (2021). Advancing a temporal framework for understanding the biology of nonsuicidal self-injury: An expert review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 130, 228-239. Störkel, L. M., Karabatsiakis, A., Hepp, J., Kolassa, I.-T., Schmahl, C., & Niedtfeld, I. (2021). Salivary beta-endorphin in nonsuicidal self-injury: an ambulatory assessment study. Neuropsychopharmacology, 46(7), 1357-1363. Sigrist, C., Kaess, M., & Koenig, J. (2023). Autonomic nervous system function in nonsuicidal self-injury—A Research Domain Criteria perspective on the arousal/regulatory systems. In E. E. Lloyd-Richardson, I. Baetens, & J. Whitlock (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of nonsuicidal self-injury (pp. C18S1–C18S23). Oxford University Press. Naoum, J., Reitz, S., Krause-Utz, A., Kleindienst, N., Willis, F., Kuniss, S., Baumgärtner, U., Mancke, F., Treede, R.-D., & Schmahl, C. (2016). The role of seeing blood in non-suicidal self-injury in female patients with borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry Research, 246, 676-682. Follow Dr. Westers on Instagram @DocWesters. To join ISSS, visit itriples.org and follow ISSS on Facebook and Twitter/X (@ITripleS). The Psychology of Self-Injury podcast has been rated #1 by Feedspot  in their list of "10 Best Self Harm Podcasts" and #5 in their "20 Best Clinical Psychology Podcasts." It has also been featured in Audible's "Best Mental Health Podcasts to Defy Stigma and Begin to Heal."

If you run a business that exports to the United States, how big is the tariff you have to pay? In 2025 that question was hard to answer. Between February and December, 53 separate announcements introduced, delayed, reinstated or changed US tariffs, with different countries and products pulled in or exempted each time.Kalina Manova (UCL, CEPR) and her colleagues built a database of every one of those announcements, but they also measured  the confusion that those announcements created. She tells Tim Phillips about how tariff confusion has become a second tax on trade, as confusion puts off exporters: but it's one that raises no revenue. On average, uncertainty about the actual tariff doubled the damage done to trade by the tariff hikes themselves. For some countries it tripled it. Does this result mean that, if the US cleared up the confusion by not changing its tariffs regularly, it could double tariff income for the same impact on trade?The research behind this episode:Manova, Kalina, Dennis Novy, Thomas Sampson, and Aaron Tang. 2026. "Tariff Confusion." CEPR Discussion Paper DP21688 (gated).To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim, and Kalina Manova. 2026. "Tariff Confusion." VoxTalks Economics (podcast).About the guestKalina Manova is Professor of Economics at University College London and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Her work spans global production networks and multinational activity, firm productivity and management, trade policy, and the financial frictions that shape international trade and investment. She holds an AB, AM and PhD from Harvard, and has previously held posts at Stanford, Princeton and Oxford.Research cited in this episodeUS Tariff Announcement Database (USTAD). The dataset Manova and her co-authors assembled by hand from US presidential executive orders and proclamations, recording all 53 tariff announcements of 2025 and tracing, for roughly 230 origin countries and more than 18,000 ten-digit product categories, the statutory tariff in place each month.The four confusion measures. With no direct way to measure confusion, the paper proxies it four ways: the cumulative number of relevant announcements a firm had to track; the number of possible tariff calculations those announcements could produce (labelled tariff mess, defined as two to the power of the number of announcements); the highest tariff a firm might infer if it heard only the bad news (tariff max); and how far that worst case sits above the true statutory rate (tariff miss).The firm survey. A survey of roughly 4,500 firms in the US and Canada in March and April 2025 found that around 45% believed tariffs on Chinese goods were below 20%, when the true average was about 42%; at the same time, 87% underestimated how many announcements had postponed or rolled back tariffs. Firms were wrong in both directions at once.Trade policy uncertainty. A prior literature on uncertainty about future tariffs, which tends to find that firms delay forming trade relationships when the future is unclear. The paper's contribution is to separate confusion about current tariffs from uncertainty about future ones, and to show the former bites on its own.Relationship-specific investment and trust. Trade in goods that require buyers and suppliers to customise to one another, or that sit in stickier supply relationships, proved more resilient to confusion; so did trade with countries whose populations report higher trust in foreigners. Informal trust, rather than formal contract enforcement, did the work of cushioning the shock.The IEEPA ruling. In February 2026 the US Supreme Court ruled that the tariffs imposed in 2025 under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were unlawful. The paper's data stops before the ruling, which generated fresh policy change and, presumably, fresh confusion.More VoxTalks Economics episodesWorld War Trade. Richard Baldwin on how the April 2025 tariffs settled into a trade Cold War, and why the rest of the world kept trading without the US.Europe in the Middle. Pol Antrà s and Beata Javorcik on where redirected Chinese exports go when they can no longer sell in the US, and what that means for European firms and consumers.How exchange rates responded to tariffs. Giancarlo Corsetti on why the dollar fell after Liberation Day when tariffs should, in theory, have pushed it the other way.Related reading on VoxEU.orgTrump and Tariffs, a VoxEU debate page collecting research on how the 2025 tariffs are reshaping supply chains, trade relationships and market stability.

Before introducing Part Two of our expert panel discussion, Leighton Walker is joined by regular co-host James Brockington to reflect on a few of the current topics affecting golf clubs. They discuss the challenges of another exceptionally dry summer, the increasing impact of weather extremes on golf course management, and some of the responses to a recent LinkedIn discussion asking what the biggest challenges facing golf clubs are today. The conversation provides the perfect lead-in to the main discussion, which focuses on the future of golf clubs over the next decade. Recorded at Story Ninety-Four Podcast Studios in Oxford, Leighton is joined by an expert panel featuring: John McCormack – Club Benchmarking EMEA Paul Mould – Accountancy Matters Gavin Anderson – England Golf Will Hewitt – 59club Ben Laing – Branston Golf & Country Club Together they tackle one of the biggest questions facing the industry: What will a successful golf club look like in five to ten years' time? Building on the foundations laid in Part One, the panel explores how clubs can position themselves to thrive in a rapidly evolving environment. They discuss the importance of having a clear identity, strong governance and a long-term strategic vision, while examining how clubs can balance member expectations with commercial sustainability. The conversation also explores how changing customer behaviours, workforce challenges, technology, participation trends and environmental pressures are reshaping the industry. The panel shares practical insights on capital investment, diversification, customer experience, staff culture, benchmarking performance and why understanding data should underpin future decision-making. From flexible membership models and driving range technology to climate resilience, leadership and club culture, this episode is packed with practical advice for golf club managers, owners, directors and committee members looking to build resilient, successful clubs for the next generation.   Please support our panellists Club Benchmarking EMEA – https://www.clubbenchmarking.eu/ Accountancy Matters – https://golfaccountancymatters.co.uk/ England Golf – https://www.englandgolf.org/ 59club – https://www.59club.com/ Branston Golf & Country Club – https://branstonclub.co.uk/ Connect with Us Instagram: @golfclubtalkuk Website: Golf Club Talk UK LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leighton-walker-2708b627/ Thanks to our partners Toro – Click here for more information Himalayas Golf – Click here for more information Support the podcast https://buymeacoffee.com/gctuk Rate & Review If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a 5-star review and share it with your golf network. Your support helps us continue bringing together the people shaping the future of golf.    

It's Thursday, July 30th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Jonathan Clark and Adam McManus Iranian Muslim authorities shut down oldest Protestant church Iranian officials recently shut down the oldest Protestant church in the country. Christians have held worship services at St. Peter's Evangelical Church in Tehran for 150 years. Authorities have now seized the property and banned church gatherings there. They also ordered 28 families living on the church compound to leave. Iran has been seizing Protestant church properties for years. Mansour Khajehpour previously served as an elder at St. Peter's Church. He told Christianity Today that the church in Iran grows despite persecution. He said, “This is the dynamic reality of the church. The church will not die. The church will grow, and we are a part of that church.” In Matthew 16:18, Jesus said, “On this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.” United States launched strikes on Iran last night Speaking of Iran, the United States began launching strikes on Iran at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 29th, according to the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. attacks were “a powerful response to [Tuesday's] attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces based in the Middle East.” The attacks by Iran on U.S. forces did not get past U.S. defenses. And The Western Journal reports that foreign governments are taking part in the fighting now, where they hadn't before. For the first time, the Saudi Arabian military joined with the U.S. in striking Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, reports the Associated Press. Retired Navy Vice Adm. Robert Harward, a retired SEAL and former deputy CENTCOM commander, said, “You see the Lebanese government making an agreement with Israel to undermine and try to get rid of Hezbollah.” He added, “You're seeing the pressure build on Iran on all fronts.” Ukrainian refugees have planted 160 churches across Europe Millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes since Russia invaded the country in 2022. Despite this, these refugees have planted churches across Europe.  European Christian Mission International reports displaced Ukrainians have started 160 churches in Europe in the last four years.   A report from the organization stated, “Increasingly, Ukrainian believers are refusing to see themselves only as refugees. Instead, many are embracing a different calling - missionaries sent by God into the nations of Europe.” Canadian labor board ruled in favor of COVID-shot rejecter LifeSiteNews reports that a Canadian labor board ruled in favor of a Christian man who objected to the COVID-shot mandate. The Canadian Revenue Agency suspended Steven Porter without pay after denying his religious exemption. The agency must now pay $5,000 in damages to Porter.  He wrote in his exemption request, “Christ is my supreme King and Lord and I am subject to His final authority alone in all matters of life, faith and conscience.” In Acts 5:29, the apostles said, “We ought to obey God rather than men.” Senator questions CDC's billion-dollar COVID-shot contract to Pfizer The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded $1.24 billion in COVID-shot contracts to Pfizer last month. Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin questioned this decision in a letter to Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  Johnson wrote, “The CDC's reported awarding of approximately $1.24 billion in new contracts to Pfizer for a vaccine linked to serious adverse events—including potentially the deaths of children—suggests [that the] CDC continues to fail to take its vaccine safety responsibilities seriously.” Pro-lifer Paul Vaughn got settlement over wrongful arrest Praise God! A pro-life, Christian father reached a $1 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice. The case involved his wrongful arrest under the Biden administration, reports Highlight Truth Ministries. Federal agents raided the Tennessee home of Paul Vaughn in 2022 and arrested him for his pro-life activism.  My family and I had the honor of meeting Paul Vaughn several years ago. He's an amazing Christian patriot. Steve Crampton, Senior Counsel at the Thomas More Society, said, “This settlement is not just about one family. It is a warning and a precedent. The weaponization of federal law enforcement against pro-lifers, against people of faith, against those who dare to stand for the unborn—that era is over.” Treasury has saved $99 million from going to dead recipients The U.S. Department of the Treasury implemented a new payment verification process.  The safeguard has already kept about $99 million from being sent to deceased individuals.  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, “Treasury has delivered on a key promise of President Trump's mandate to stop improper payments and fraud before money leaves the Treasury, and strengthen the integrity of the federal payment system.” 70th anniversary of America's “In God We Trust” motto Today is the 70th anniversary of when “In God We Trust” became America's motto. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the law on July 30, 1956. The resolution also required the motto to appear on all U.S. currency.   Democratic Representative Charles Bennett of Florida introduced the resolution. He said, “Nothing can be more certain than that our country was founded in a spiritual atmosphere and with a firm trust in God. ... In these days when imperialistic and materialistic communism seeks to attack and destroy freedom, we should continually look for ways to strengthen the foundations of our freedom.” Texan mother shares that her kids have contributed Here at The Worldview in 5 Minutes newscast, Leticia in Blum Texas wrote, “Adam, we are so thankful for your radio newscast. It is a great encouragement to us! We listen to it on the road or when we're at home. It is great to hear stories that I know wouldn't normally make it into traditional newscasts. “The Worldview is concise and informative! Thankful for the work you are doing!  Our four children -- Fletcher (15), Halen (12), Beck (10), and Murphy (7) -- contributed some of their money to our donation.” McVeda kids' mother in Montana contemplates why sponsor this newscast And Melissa McVeda, the mother of the four kids under the age of 11 in Great Falls, Montana who have raised hundreds of dollars for The Worldview selling chocolate chip cookies, iced tea and hand crocheted puppets on their dairy farm, weighed in with her thoughts. She wrote, “Adam, there are so many ministries that I would like to donate to: earnest missionaries and people hurting from natural disasters, among others. In light of those needs, it has been difficult for me to reconcile giving to The Worldview. And I imagine I'm not alone in that. “Because of my kids' fundraiser, which naturally has come to involve the entire family, I've spent time considering if The Worldview is worth the effort and funds we're putting into it. This is the primary answer I have seen:  “I would not KNOW about many of the other needs if it weren't for The Worldview in 5 Minutes! Your newscast is a connection point -- a bridge, if you will - between Christians and people in need around the world.  “Because of this ‘bridge,' I heard about the dear brother in Uganda who lost both of his hands to his Muslim family's persecution. And God stirred me to pray for his faith not to be shaken! Because of The Worldview, I heard about the steadfast pro-life sister in Britain who recently was killed. I rejoiced to hear how God used her faithfulness and I was stirred to consider if she has family who are grieving.  “The Worldview IS an important ministry. It is connecting those who have a supply to those who have needs as 2 Corinthians 8:13-15 articulates. It is also building the Body of Christ as brothers and sisters across the world hear about each other and pray for and encourage each other as a result.  “I remember when I first heard about The Worldview in 5 Minutes back in 2018. Kevin Swanson was sharing how he had personally invested $30,000/year of his own money to fund it when it started in 2015.  He had recently reached out to this man, Adam McManus, a talk show host down in San Antonio Texas, to see if Adam would voice the newscast. Kevin, obviously, had a vision for how God would use The Worldview. “One final note. Yesterday, when my kids and I heard you cite some of the large donations coming in, where people were giving one-time donations of $500 and $1,000, I realized that those donors were not just donating for the benefit that they, themselves, receive from The Worldview. They were also donating so that someone else could have the same benefits.  I praise God for the work He's doing through this newscast.” 11 Worldview listeners gave $1,775.96 And finally, by Wednesday night at 8:00pm Central, 11 Worldview listeners stepped up to the plate and invested their treasure to fund the 6-member team behind The Worldview for another year. Our thanks to Augustine in Auburn, California and Ben in Eureka, California – both of whom gave $20 as well as Carri in Oro Valley, Arizona who gave $25, and Bethany in Austin, Texas who gave $50. We're grateful to God for an anonymous donor in Oxford, New York and David in Houston, Texas – both of whom gave $100, and the McVeda Kids in Great Falls, Montana who gave another $160.96! We appreciate Steven in Ulster Park, New York and James in Lancaster, South Carolina – both of whom gave $200 as well as Leticia and her kids Fletcher, Halen, Beck, and Murphy in Blum, Texas who also gave $200. And we were touched by the generosity of Karl in Grand Rapids, Michigan who gave $700. Those 11 gifts add up to $1,775.96. Ready for our new grand total? Drum roll please. (drum roll sound effect) $ 81,119.96 (sound effect of people cheering) We need to raise $42,380.04 by midnight on Friday, July 31! That means in order to hit our final goal of $123,500 by tomorrow night, Friday, July 31st, God needs to prompt folks to give a seemingly impossible amount of $42,380.04 in order for the 6-member Worldview newscast team to be fully funded for another year. I see the finish line from here.  But, without God's help, we are not going to get across it! We still have matches open for the next 4 people who give a one-time gift of $500 because our friend in Naples, Florida will match your gift with another $2,000 of his own money. If those four donations come in, that would leave the difference of $38,380.  Listen. Could you be one of 38 people – just 38 -- to give a one-time gift of $1,000? Or, if that's not doable right now, would you consider a monthly pledge of $83.33? No gift is too big or too small.  We have received a $5 gift and a $2,400 gift.  If everyone does something, we can get there with the Lord's help. Just ask Him. “Lord, how has this newscast made a difference in my life?”  What is that worth to you?  We had a college student sacrificially give $500.  We've had Africans in Eswatini, who have very little funds, invest $10/month. And we've had kids raise hundreds of dollars through creative fundraisers selling cookies and hardboiled eggs and lemonade. Just go to TheWorldview.com, click on Give, select the dollar amount, and make sure to click on the “recurring” button if that's your wish.  This newscast team champions the truth and uses the Bible as our plumbline.  Don't forget: The Worldview in 5 Minutes is commercial free. We have no sponsors. Nor do we have a pay wall.  Anyone who wants to access this newscast can get it for free. So, all we have is you! What is God prompting you to do right now? Close And that's The Worldview on this Thursday, July 30th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com.  Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Roel Konijnendijk of Oxford returns to talk Nolan's Odyssey, ancient PTSD, siege warfare, and the choices we'd all make in adapting. Justin McIntosh cohosts. YoungBoy Never Broke Again as well as James Blake each deliver an outtro song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Privacy is not just about keeping secrets. It is about protecting your power. In episode 629 of the Lawyerist Podcast, Zack Glaser talks with Oxford professor and author Carissa Véliz about how personal data gives companies, governments, and technology platforms the ability to influence our choices and shape our lives.  Carissa explains why seemingly harmless information, from the music you enjoy to the way your phone battery drains, can be used to identify, categorize, and predict you. They explore how AI has made surveillance cheaper and more powerful, why predictions should never be treated as facts, and how automated scores can affect important decisions without giving people a meaningful way to challenge them.  The conversation also offers practical ways to reclaim control without abandoning technology entirely. From choosing more private digital tools to questioning the predictions presented as inevitable, Carissa shows why every decision to protect your privacy matters.  If you have ever clicked “accept” without thinking about what happens next, this episode will change the way you think about your data, your autonomy, and who gets to shape your future.  Listen to our previous episodes on AI, Privacy & Legal Ethics.  #618: AI and Legal Ethics: Protecting Client Privacy in a Changing Legal System, with Sunny Eaton Apple | Spotify | LTN  #612: AI for Lawyers: What You Need to Know Before Your Clients Do, with Cat Casey Apple | Spotify | LTN  #582: Deepfakes, Data, and Duty: Navigating AI Ethics in Law, with Merisa Bowers Apple | Spotify | LTN  #543: What Lawyers Need to Know About the Ethics of Using AI, with Hilary Gerzhoy Apple | Spotify | LTN  #486: How to Safely Include AI in Your Legal Tech Stack, with Will Anoh Apple | Spotify | LTN  Have thoughts about today's episode? Join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X!   If today's podcast resonates with you and you haven't read The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited yet, get the first chapter right now for free! Looking for help beyond the book? See if our coaching community is right for you.   Access more resources from Lawyerist at lawyerist.com.   Chapters / Timestamps  00:00 – Introduction  00:55 – The Future of Law Firm Leadership  05:00 – The Four Cornerstones of Leadership  09:00 – Be a Next Level Leader  10:45 – Meet Carissa Véliz  11:45 – Why Privacy Is Power  13:30 – How Personal Data Limits Your Autonomy  15:50 – Who Decides What Your Data Says About You?  17:50 – How Companies Exploit Personal Vulnerabilities  20:10 – The Data You Never Realized Was Personal  21:15 – The Connection Between Surveillance and Prediction  22:30 – Applying Fiduciary Duties to Personal Data  24:15 – Why You Cannot Contest a Prediction  26:20 – Banning the Sale of Personal Data  28:25 – Predictions Are Power Plays, Not Facts  30:30 – AI and the Expansion of Digital Surveillance  33:25 – How to Take Back Your Digital Privacy  37:30 – Why Every Privacy Choice Matters  40:00 – The Future Is Not Predetermined  41:25 – The Most Private Way to Read a Book 

Can you really learn a new language from apps like Duolingo? Sliced Bread listener Nathan Phelps has been teaching himself Japanese. He's tried textbooks, tutors, and crucially, language apps on his phone - and he came to us because he's seen these apps claiming to be “backed by science” to help you “learn a new language, fast”. More recently he's even seen apps boast about “AI powered features” to help you practice your language skills, available on premium subscriptions.Nathan wants to know: are language apps an effective way to learn? How do they compare to other ways of learning? And can AI really supercharge your language skills? To find out more, presenter Greg Foot is joined by Professor Elizabeth Wonnacott, Professor of Language Science at the University of Oxford and Director of the Language Learning Lab in their Department of Education. All of our episodes start with YOUR suggestions. If you've seen an ad, trend or wonder product promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, email us at sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk OR send a voice note to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807. RESEARCHER: JULIA RAVEY PRODUCERS: PHIL SANSOM AND GREG FOOT

Back to Basics: What Is Intuition, Really?We've all heard intuition called a gut instinct, a hunch, asixth sense. But what actually is it? In this first episode of the Back to Basics series, Susan Jane looks beyond the dictionary definitions of intuition, from Oxford to Merriam-Webster, to explore what those explanations get right, and what they leave out. Drawing on the late Dr Wayne Dyer's idea of intuition as a "deep-seated knowing," Susan shares the personal experiences, including moments of leaving her physical body, that shaped her understanding of intuition as real communication between our spiritual and physical selves.If you've ever wondered where that inner knowing actually comes from, this episode is where the journey begins.

J.J. and Dr. Miri Freud-Kandel on the twentieth century's most influential, interesting, and controversial Mancunian Jew. This series is generously sponsored by Larry and Sarah Krauss in honour and gratitude to Larry's mother, Kato Krauss, and in loving memory of his father, Nathan "Noteh" Krauss. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Sarah's father, Joe Casse. Yosef ben Zvi v'Koyna.Dr. Miri Freud-Kandel is Fellow and Lecturer in Modern Judaism in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. She is also affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and is co-convenor of the annual Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism. Her research interests include the development of Orthodox Jewish theologies, particularly concepts of a Modern Orthodox Judaism; the distinctive features of Judaism in Britain; and gender issues in modern Judaism. Aside from her varied contributions to journals and edited collections, she is author of Louis Jacobs & the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology (Liverpool: Littman Library, 2023); Orthodox Judaism in Britain Since 1913: An Ideology Forsaken (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006) and co-editor of Yitz Greenberg: Modern Orthodoxy and the Path not Taken (Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2019), and Modern Judaism, An Oxford Guide (Oxford: OUP, 2005).If you or your business are interested in sponsoring an episode or mini-series, please reach out at  podcasts@torahinmotion.org Follow us on Bluesky @jewishideaspod.bsky.social for updates and insights!Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice.We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.org  For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts

Roel Konijnendijk of Oxford returns to talk Nolan's Odyssey, ancient PTSD, siege warfare, and the choices we'd all make in adapting. Justin McIntosh cohosts. YoungBoy Never Broke Again as well as James Blake each deliver an outtro song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can you really learn a new language from apps like Duolingo? Sliced Bread listener Nathan Phelps has been teaching himself Japanese. He's tried textbooks, tutors, and crucially, language apps on his phone - and he came to us because he's seen these apps claiming to be “backed by science” to help you “learn a new language, fast”. More recently he's even seen apps boast about “AI powered features” to help you practice your language skills, available on premium subscriptions.Nathan wants to know: are language apps an effective way to learn? How do they compare to other ways of learning? And can AI really supercharge your language skills? To find out more, presenter Greg Foot is joined by Professor Elizabeth Wonnacott, Professor of Language Science at the University of Oxford and Director of the Language Learning Lab in their Department of Education. All of our episodes start with YOUR suggestions. If you've seen an ad, trend or wonder product promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, email us at sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk OR send a voice note to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807. RESEARCHER: JULIA RAVEY PRODUCERS: PHIL SANSOM AND GREG FOOT

In this episode, cohost Sergio Infante and I talk to AndrésM. Guiot-Isaac about his book in progress, titled Development with Stability. In it, Guiot Isaac takes the lens of the emergence of economic technocracy in Colombia between1948 and 1974 to understand how the production and circulation of economic expertise allowed states in developing countries to buildcapacities to act on the economy. As the title suggests, Andres argues that the infrastructures that allowed economists to occupy decision-making positions in governments over the decades emerged with the aspiration to reconcile economic development with stability. That these things werecompatible was not a given. We trace the tension between the tecnicos and los politicos as the central economic planning inistuttions – such as the National Planning Department – were emerging. That is, between the emerging economic technocratic class – very young, highly educated, covered by the president Lleras' Restepo's patronage – and the political establishment accustomed to influencing economic policy along sectoral and electoral interests. This playsout against the background of the evolution of economic planning, the rise and fall of comprehensive planning – pushed by the structuralist ECLAC, or CEPAL in Spanish – and how it gave way to what Andres calls “bottom-up” or strategic planning.The conversation gets pretty in the weeds – and I LOVED it. Not only because of my family connection to one of the economists involved (one of them is my grandfather) , but because this is also closely linked to my own PhD research about what I callthe techno-politics of economic expertise. I think that this type of granular economic history as pointing to concerns as pervasive as any other facet of urban life, and maybe even more. Studying this development of economic governance reveals its contingent character, and reminds us that it could be different. This episode is a beautiful example of the critical function of this type of history. Andrés M. Guiot-Isaac is visiting professor of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and will join the Department of Economic History, Institutions and Policy, and World Economy at the Universidad de Barcelona as AssistantProfessor in January 2027.  He formerly held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Economic History at theLondon School of Economics. Before joining the LSE, Andrés completed his PhD in the University of Oxford. His doctoral dissertation, on which Development with Stability is based, was awarded the Joseph Dorfman 2024 Prize for the Best Dissertation in the History of Economics by the History of Economics Society. His research about development economics, developing planning and the role of foreign experts in developing countries has been published in History of Political Economy, Oeconomia and Science in Context. He also translated Hirschman's biography by Jeremy Adelman Worldly Philosopher into Spanish.Sergio Infante is a Ph.D. candidate in Global History at Yale University. His research explores how twentieth-century social scientists and intellectuals understood poverty, employment, and economic development, all with a special focus on Latin America. He is writing a history of the “informal sector” and “informal economy” as concepts. This project reconstructs debates over the business savviness, risk-taking behavior, and vulnerabilities of the global poor. It also contextualizes contemporary anxieties over “precarity” and “gig work.” Sergio's research touches on several themes that concern historians of the recent past, including transnational migration, urbanization, population growth, technocracy, democracy, and the Cold War. 

Opposition research has always rewarded whoever digs deepest. AI is changing who can afford to dig — and how much stays buried. This week, Eric Wilson sits down with John Artunkal, founder and CEO of Argus AI, who came to politics through open-source intelligence, trained by Bellingcat and schooled at Oxford in the social science of the internet.They get into how AI is — and isn't — transforming the vetting business: digital footprint mapping, facial recognition, and linguistic forensics; why self-vetting is now table stakes for down-ballot candidates; and the trade-off every research tool has to make between flagging too much and missing the one thing that ends a campaign. John also makes the case that candidates shouldn't over-sanitize themselves. Voters reward authenticity — the job is knowing the difference between a rough edge and a career-ender.Visit our website: CampaignTrend.com

Most investors focus on chasing returns.Chris Belchamber believes they're asking the wrong question.With more than 40 years in global finance, including leadership at JPMorgan Chase and as founder of CB Investment Management, Chris explains why protecting your money is the first step toward growing it. He shares why compounding matters more than short-term gains, how emotional investing destroys long-term wealth, and why business owners should treat investing differently from running their companies.If you've ever wondered whether you're taking unnecessary investment risk or simply reacting to headlines, this conversation offers a practical framework for making smarter financial decisions.In this episode, you'll learn:• Why protecting wealth should always come before growing it• The hidden math behind compounding that many investors overlook• How large investment losses can permanently damage long-term returns• Why successful investing requires a system instead of emotions• How business owners can separate operating cash from investment capital• The importance of minimizing drawdowns during volatile markets• Why informed investors make better financial decisionsAbout Chris BelchamberChris Belchamber is an investment strategist, wealth manager, author, and founder of CB Investment Management. A mathematics graduate from the University of Oxford, he spent more than four decades in global finance, including serving as Managing Director of Proprietary Trading at JPMorgan Chase. He is the author of Invest Like The Best and helps investors build wealth through disciplined, risk-conscious investment strategies.Connect with ChrisWebsite: https://chris-belchamber.com/CB Investment Management: https://www.cbinvestmentmanagement.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbelchamberHere is the link to Amazon:https://geni.us/InvestLiketheBesthttps://calendly.com/chriscbim/meeting301-335-8587Connect with Gary Heldt

In this week's episode photographer and filmmaker Emily Garthwaite takes on our ‘Proust Photo Quiz'. The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust. Proust answered the questionnaire in a confession album, a form of parlour game popular at the end of the 1890s. The album, titled An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, etc. was found in 1924 and published in the French literary journal Les Cahiers du Mois. Our ‘Proust Photo Quiz' is an adaption of the original text. Emily Garthwaite Garthwaite took up photography as a teenager intendeding to pursue painting at Central Saint Martins, but found herself studying Film and Photography. After working in club and fashion photography, she completed a Master of Arts in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of Westminster in 2016. It was when she visited India for the first time to scatter her grandmother's ashes in Assam, that she decided to work within photojournalism. The photographs from her months of travel through India were exhibited at the Norman Rea Gallery in 2014 under the title Afterlife. During the summer of 2015, Garthwaite worked with the Rațiu Family Charitable Foundation in Romania, where she documented the salt flats of Turda. In 2017, the Iranian Arts Institute invited her to photograph the Arba'een Pilgrimage, which instigated the series Iraq: Road to Arba'een. She co-directed her first feature-length documentary on the subject titled 41 Days in Iraq on Arba'een or The 40th Day, which screened in 2018 at the Chehelcheragh International Festival. In 2019 she spent time in Dearborn, Michigan capturing its local Muslim community and was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. In 2020, she returned to Iraq, visiting the Zagros Mountains and Tigris River accompanying the Bakhtiari people on their Kooch migration. She exhibited A Journey Down the Tigris River at the Visa pour L'Image in Perpignan, where she won the 2023 ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award, and Tears of the Tigris at the Leica Gallery London. Her project Light Between Mountains received a CCFD–Terre Solidaire grant, while her contributions to the Leon McCaron Noema essay The Last of the Marsh Arabs won her the 2022 Covering Climate Now Award for Photography. In 2024, Save the Children commissioned her to photograph the Yazidi community in Iraq 10 years on from the Yazidi genocide. She is a Leica Ambassador. www.emilygarthwaite.com Dr.Grant Scott After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby's, art directed foto8 magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006), Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012) and Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories (Orphans Publishing 2024). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018. © Grant Scott 2026

Raheel Raza is a Pakistani-Canadian author, journalist, and president of Muslims Facing Tomorrow. She'll help you understand everything you'd like to know about Radical Islam. She's testified at the UN, spoken at Harvard and Oxford, and visited Israel 14 times. She also happens to be one of the warmest humans you'll ever meet.This is the conversation where Margarita finally gets to ask the questions that feel too "icky" to ask — about dhimmitude, about why Western Muslim leaders skew extreme, and about how Jews and Muslims can actually still be friends. Raheel answers every single one with patience and zero PC filter.Learn more about Raheel's work at www.raheelraza.comSupport our work: buymeacoffee.com/peoplejewwannaknowWhat We Discuss:00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda02:30 From Karachi to Canada — finding the Jewish world through Anne Frank05:10 Why the Jewish-Muslim conflict isn't religious07:40 Inside the Council of Muslims Against Antisemitism11:00 Defeat radical Islamism, defeat antisemitism15:30 Hadith-based Islam and the politics of extremism20:00 What the Palestinian diaspora gets wrong, and the promise of the Abraham Accords24:30 What Jews can actually do — Rabbi Sacks, samosas, and culinary diplomacy32:00 Canada's "polite pogrom" and the Mamdani problem38:00 Dhimmitude vs. reform Islam44:00 Raheel's three-question litmus test for any Muslim you meet49:00 Closing Remarks

Two years after researchers identified ReNU syndrome, where are we now?   In 2024, two independent research teams identified the genetic cause of ReNU syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental condition affecting thousands of people worldwide. The discovery marked the beginning of a new chapter for families searching for answers and opened up exciting new avenues for research.  In this episode, host Sharon Jones revisits the story to explore what has happened since that breakthrough. She is joined by: Professor Nicky Whiffin, Associate Professor and Wellcome Career Development Fellow at Big Data Institute and Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford Christina Cox, Co-founder of ReNU Syndrome UK and parent of a child with ReNU syndrome Dr Ana Lisa Tavares, Clinical Lead for Rare Disease at Genomics England Together, they discuss how researchers around the world have built on the original discovery to deepen our understanding of ReNU syndrome, why studying the non-coding regions of our DNA is revealing previously unknown rare conditions, and how collaboration between researchers, clinicians and families is accelerating progress. They also explore how the growing ReNU community is supporting newly diagnosed families and what the future could hold for new treatments.  Links:  Previous episode detailing the discovery of ReNU Syndrome  ReNU Syndrome UK's website  Original research paper from Nicky's team in Oxford  Original research paper from the team based in New York   “It's been only two years since our paper came out about this, and in that time, there are now patient family groups that have been set up all around the world. There is the one in the UK led by Christina and the others. There's the one in the US that's led by a group of four women, and there are ones in France, Spain, like, literally all around the world. And all of these groups are also somewhat coordinated. The leads of these groups meet with each other. They've organised meetups. I've been to ones in the US, the UK, and in France. So the fact that they can mobilise all of that and create such a community so quickly is absolutely incredible.”  You can download the transcript, or read it below. [00:00:00] Sharon: In 2024, two independent research teams identified a genetic cause of a rare neurodevelopmental condition affecting thousands of people around the world. Since then, that initial groundbreaking discovery has grown into something much bigger, bringing together families, researchers, and clinicians, and building a clearer picture of what we now know as ReNU syndrome.  [00:00:26] Sharon: Welcome to Behind the Genes, the podcast that covers everything from cutting-edge research to real-life stories in genomic healthcare. I'm Sharon Jones, and in today's episode, we're looking at what's happened since that discovery, what researchers are continuing to learn, and what the future could hold for people living with  ReNU Syndrome and their families.  [00:00:46] Sharon: To help us understand more, I'm joined by Professor Nicky Whiffin, Christina Cox, and Dr. Ana Lisa Tavares. So, two papers were published around the same time for this condition. To start us off, Nicky, you worked on one of these papers. Could you explain how this journey first began?   [00:01:05] Nicky: Yeah, so this was two years ago now, back in early 2024, where two research teams, so us based in Oxford and a, a group based in New York, were both looking at the data within the National Genomics Research Library, and we both kind of somewhat simultaneously found that there was variance in this very, very small gene, it's called RNU4-2, were found in individuals with previously undiagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders.  [00:01:39] Nicky: And this was very, very striking because we initially actually identified the same single DNA change or mutation in 40 or so different individuals within the National Genomics Research Library, and we normally expect to see a whole host of different variants. We don't expect to see the same one.  [00:01:59] Nicky: So this was a really, really surprising finding. And it was through a collaboration, large scale collaboration across the world where we started contacting our other collaborators who have similar collections of patients who have been genome sequenced to ask if they had any individuals with DNA changes in this gene.  [00:02:17] Nicky: And we found some in the US, some in, in Australia, some in France and Germany. So very, very quickly built up this, this complete picture of variants in this gene, causing this rare neurodevelopmental disorder   [00:02:35] Sharon: of people finding it at the same time, what, what did that feel like?  [00:02:39] Sharon: Like, give us a ense of, like, that compelling, "We think we found something." What was that like?   [00:02:46] Nicky: I didn't believe it initially. You're always told when you're a scientist that if it looks too good to be true, it's, it's not true, and this basically lit up like a beacon. There's this particularly one DNA change that we found in, um, I think it was about 40 different individuals, and we don't really expect that to be the case.  [00:03:04] Nicky: We normally expect these genetic variants to be somewhat randomly distributed across the genome. So to find 40 individuals with exactly the same DNA change was very, very surprising. So initially, I didn't believe it. The whole team, including folks at Genomics England, spent a lot of time trying to check that these variants were real and tried to disprove the result, tried to find any other way in which any other reason why we would be seeing this.  [00:03:31] Nicky: And after a little while, we had to concede that we couldn't disprove it, so it must be true, and that, that was a very exciting moment.   [00:03:38] Sharon Jones: Was it the case that over in the States, the exact same thing was happening?   [00:03:42] Nicky: I think we found out when we were both speaking at the same conference, actually. So we didn't actually know that we, that we'd both come across the same result.  [00:03:49] Sharon: If you want to check out our previous episode on this initial discovery, you'll find a link to it in the episode description.  [00:04:00] Sharon: So Christina, tell us a bit about your situation, your family situation, and for our listeners, what ReNU is.   [00:04:05] Christina: So ReNU is, to us, is a family. We got a family when we got diagnosed with  ReNU. Beau - Arabella - already had other diagnosises, but people had always said to us, "Oh, there's something else. There's something else.  [00:04:20] Christina: We're not sure what it is, but there will be something." And then when we got  ReNU, it was like, "Oh, okay, amazing. What do we do? What is it?" Because there was only four lines on Wikipedia when we first got told about it, and there wasn't anything that, ourselves could find. So we kind of went onto Facebook and looked for groups and different people, and there wasn't really anything except for Jess in America.  [00:04:46] Christina: And then it grew, and then it kind of, we ended up finding more people in the UK and, like, all over. But for us, it didn't really change how we perceived Beau. It just made life easier. Like, knowing there was other families out there that we could find advice from and support from, and that we kind of knew what we had and going forward then, like, finding researchers and connecting with everybody.  [00:05:15] Sharon: Yeah. And for those who don't know, can you talk about what  ReNU is? Like, how does it affect Beau?   [00:05:20] Christina: So with Beau and  ReNU , it affects her with developmental delay. She's non-verbal. She's incontinent. She suffers for walking, so she can do a little bit of walking, but she needs a wheelchair It affects her mood swings.  [00:05:38] Christina: It just affects everything. Although she has it, she's still a happy, outgoing, very stubborn, just kind of "keep-going" child. But it affects her in everything, like eating, sleeping.   [00:05:51] Sharon: It sounds like life is, you know, very challenging on a day-to-day basis, lots of considerations. How did you feel when you finally got this diagnosis after years of wondering and waiting, not knowing?  [00:06:02] Christina: Finding out was, like, really emotional because it was like, "Oh, wow, so we have this diagnosis. Now what? What are we looking for? What's going to happen?" And then we were kind of like, "Oh, but there's not many people that had it." Because we found out in the August, so then it was trying to find people. But it has been life-changing to know that we're not on our own and that there is other people around.  [00:06:28] Sharon: Yeah, tell us a bit more about that. How did it feel to get that diagnosis?   [00:06:32] Christina: It was quite strange because our pediatrician rang us and said, "Oh, we've got a diagnosis. She's got RNU4-2." And we were like, "Okay, so what's that?" And she's like, "I don't really know. There's four lines on Wikipedia at the moment."  [00:06:46] Christina: She goes, "I don't like Wikipedia," but we still kind of... That was it. So then we went on a mission to find and look for where we could find support and find other families.   [00:06:58] Christina: At that point, I didn't know of anybody in the UK, and my husband found Jessica in America. What then, kind of, we had somebody to talk to, and then families in the UK kind of started appearing.  [00:07:09] Christina: So we ended up getting a whole network of people to bounce ideas off and talk about how it affects their children and what's for the future and things like that. It was really nice.   [00:07:22] Sharon: Yeah, yeah, I can imagine. So Ana Lisa, how do these findings contribute to a growing understanding of the condition?  [00:07:29] Ana Lisa: So this was an amazing discovery. Although we're finding new rare conditions quite often, not on this sort of scale. It was also an amazing finding because a lot of the genes that we know are associated with rare conditions are genes that encode proteins, and in the 100,000 Genomes Project, we were doing whole genome sequencing, and Nicky and her team were looking in the parts of the genome that don't encode for proteins.  [00:08:03] Ana Lisa: And so this was, uh, exciting from that point of view as well. So the vast majority of our genome, more than 98%, does not encode for proteins, but it's relatively unexplored. And if we think about our genome and the letter code that makes it up, which is the manual for how our bodies are built, and grow and function day-to-day.  [00:08:30] Ana Lisa: Those 3 billion letters, if you, if you printed them out in a 12 font regular print, it would stretch so far you could fly, I think, from London to Paris several times, maybe three times or something. And so, this actual gene is a very, very small gene, less than 150 of those letters. So again, it was incredible to find that by comparing across many, many different genomes in the National Genomic Research Library.  [00:09:00] Ana Lisa: Going back to your question about a growing understanding of a condition, it was a completely new condition, but it also opened up looking at other related genes and actually now more disorders that are being found, like RNU2-2 by colleagues in the US, and that might be one of the most common recessive genetic neurodevelopmental disorders.  [00:09:27] Ana Lisa: So it's really, really opened up this understanding about these types of disorders and also those non-coding parts of our genome and the power of collaboration and being able to look across many different whole genomes at the same time.   [00:09:44] Sharon: Yeah. And Nicky, you've been involved in much of this research journey.  [00:09:50] Sharon: What have been some of the biggest advances or learnings for you so far?   [00:09:55] Nicky: I think the biggest one is just how common, or how frequent, these disorders are. So what we discovered recently in terms of new genetic disorders were rarer and rarer conditions, and that's why we hadn't seen them before. But from going from looking at the protein coding genes to looking at these non-coding genes, we found something that was as frequent as disorders that were found in the early 2010s when we first had large-scale sequencing projects that looked at the protein coding genes.  [00:10:26] Nicky: So that was really, really surprising. And we now know there's this whole class of disorders. So RN4-2, this gene encodes this -- Well, it produces this small RNA that works in this huge molecular machine that is called the Splicer Zone, that mediates the processing of most of the other genes across the genome.  [00:10:50] Nicky: And there are lots of these little RNAs that work in this molecular machine that are called the small nuclear RNAs or the snRNAs And we now know that there are a whole multitude of different disorders associated with different ones of these spliceosomal small nuclear RNAs, and that's really incredible.  [00:11:09] Nicky: And for RNU4-2 itself, we also now know that there are, there's not just RENE syndrome, uh, which is a dominant disorder caused by chance de novo variants that are newly arisen in a child, but also a recessive disorder where a child inherits one, uh, gene mutation from each parent. And also another finding that there is a region of the gene where we find DNA changes that cause retinitis pigmentosa, so a retinal phenotype. So we now know a huge amount more about this single gene, but also all of this different class of genes or RNAs that work in the same molecular machine, uh, which is, is really fascinating biologically   [00:11:52] Ana Lisa: Vicky, while you were talking, I was thinking about the splicing and how a bit like this podcast recording, you're going to splice out the kind of extreme, the noise that wasn't supposed to be there.  [00:12:03] Ana Lisa: And actually, you could make slightly different versions of this podcast, couldn't you? And that's, that's what, what's happening in our bodies for a lot of our genes that, that the kind of output can be varied slightly.   [00:12:15] Sharon: So Christina, how has collaboration been involved across the community and with researchers?  [00:12:21] Sharon: You know, what sort of things have you been doing?   [00:12:23] Christina Cox: So it's amazing to have researchers that are so open and amazing to work with the families. So at the moment, we are just putting together like a panel to discuss questions from families, to then be able to answer families, to work very closely with the researchers for what things are happening and the progress within.  [00:12:47] Christina: It's just amazing to be able to work with researchers. They're just fantastic.   [00:12:52] Sharon: And from what I understand, like, you, you have a charity, don't you? Can you tell us a bit more about that and how that came about?   [00:12:58] Christina: So we have ReNU Syndrome UK, and it came about as there was a group of us parents that were like, we wanted to be able to support other families, knowing what it was like for us when we first started.  [00:13:12] Christina: It was very difficult. So we wanted to start a charity that can support families and signpost them, give them the opportunity to have family meetups once or twice a year, so we can work with scientists and specialists to keep everybody in the community, like the ReNU family, up to date. But being able to connect with so many families, because a lot of the doctors don't really know of ReNU Syndrome yet.  [00:13:46] Christina: So if we have a problem or a question, we put it in the WhatsApp group, and then somebody can answer it because they've been through it, or they, they've just asked the question. So it's just an amazing resource for everybody   [00:14:02] Sharon Jones: That sounds amazing, and it sounds like you've all obviously become experts by experience.  [00:14:04] Sharon: So, like you say, you kind of know more, you know, as the science develops, but you're living it every single day   [00:14:10] Christina: It's kind of, you go into the hospital and they're like, "Oh, what's ReNU Syndrome?" And then you're like, "Ugh." So, then you just have to say it all. But, and then it's kind of them bringing, teaching new people who don't know about it in the medical professional.  [00:14:26] Christina: We always give them the website so that they can go and then find, but being able to put more medical stuff on the website, it just helps everybody, and it's just broadening it out to as many people as possible. Because there's still a lot of people undiagnosed with RNU syndrome. It's, now it's easier to be signposted, but it's just keeping that connection.  [00:14:49] Sharon: Yeah. And, and from what I understand, it's got quite an interesting sort of origin of a name, RNU. Where did that... Do you know much more about where that came from?   [00:14:57] Christina: So, Nicky is the amazing person who, um, sorted the name and um, the origin. So, I'll pass that over to Nicky to answer that question because she's just amazing   [00:15:11] Nicky: Uh, so the name ReNU syndrome is an interesting story.  [00:15:13] Nicky: So, a lot of disorders or diseases are named after people. So, we all know Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc. And they're often scientists or clinicians that have spent a lot of time working on them. I think that's a little bit odd. I don't think it's the first thing that somebody should know about a disorder, is the name of somebody who's, who's worked on it or studied it.  [00:15:36] Nicky: But they're a very, it's very hard to find an alternative. When we were initially doing the press release around our paper, we had a quote from one of the mothers, Nicole Cedar, who has a, a wonderful daughter called Mia Joy, and she said that within their family, they like to refer to RNU, to RNU4-2 as ReNU, which is a really nice play on the RNU in the gene name.  [00:16:00] Nicky: So then I had an idea, okay, let's just change the spelling to make the, the kind of big R, little E, large N-U, then it would link to the gene name, but also would be a name that speaks to hope and the renewed hope of being given a diagnosis.   [00:16:13] Sharon: Yeah, absolutely, and that's a great, a great story and a great way of kind of making it feel like there is, there is always hope.  [00:16:20] Sharon: So, you know, Nicky, you're now part of the patient community. In a way. You know, so how does it feel to be on that other side of it from that sort of research perspective and now kind of, you know, in that, in that community?   [00:16:34] Nicky: It's amazing. I've got a new family as well. It's not, not just Christina and everybody.  [00:16:39] Nicky: I kind of, I'm a, a basic scientist. I'm not a clinician. Up until this point, we've always been one or two steps removed from actually interacting with the families themselves. Um, so my life has changed an awful lot over the last couple of years, uh, where now, um, I kind of talk to Christina or the folks in the US, really regularly, kind of on a weekly basis.  [00:17:02] Nicky: Um, so that's really different. And I just kind of want to highlight just what these families have achieved. So it's been only two years since our paper came out about this, and in that time, there are now patient family groups that have been set up all around the world. There is the one in the UK led by Christina and and the others.  [00:17:26] Nicky: Um, there's the one in the US that's led by a group of four women, and there are ones in France, Spain, like, literally all around the world. And all of these groups are also somewhat coordinated. The leads of these groups meet with each other. They've organised meetups. I've been to ones in the US, the UK, and in France.  [00:17:46] Nicky: So the fact that they can mobilise all of that and create such a community so quickly is absolutely incredible. And they've got families, they've got so many researchers that are interested in the cause. They're interacting with the pharma companies. They've upskilled themselves to learn so much about genetics.  [00:18:04] Nicky: And it's just an absolutely incredible thing to watch. They're so, so inspiring.   [00:18:09] Sharon: And from what I understand, Christina, you feel, you know, very passionate about Nicky in the same way, about your paths crossing in this way.   [00:18:16] Christina: Oh, my, yes. Every time I see Nicky, I've met her a couple of times, like, in person now, I just cry.  [00:18:22] Christina: I literally, we saw her at the UK meetup, and she walked in the door, and that was it. I was done. I was like, it's just meeting somebody who has changed so many lives and brought a community to other families. It's just amazing. And the support that Nicky's giving us weekly, daily, is just amazing. It is just life-changing for all of us.  [00:18:49] Sharon Jones: It's such a powerful connection. So Ana Lisa, why is collaboration between researchers, clinicians, and families so valuable in the rare disease research space? You know, and what role do large scale research projects and data sharing play in discoveries like this?   [00:19:06] Ana Lisa: Collaboration is completely incredibly valuable and for progress in the rare disease space where there's just so much still to learn.  [00:19:16] Ana Lisa: So more than half of patients and families where, uh, they're seeking a potential diagnosis, we're not yet able to, to find one, and there's so much yet that we still need to learn, and collaboration in so many different spaces and directions and across different spheres enables this progress. So for example, the fact that we have a really connected, uh, National Health Service and really close working between the NHS and Genomics England so that we can, for those patients and families that, that consent to their de-identified data being shared in the National Genomic Research Library, be able to work with many, many different researchers, uh, whether they're academic, institutions, industry, and try and find all the patients that could benefit from a new diagnosis and, uh, potentially new therapies in future clinical trials.  [00:20:21] Ana Lisa: And without that collaboration, it would be really, really hard to find all those people So because we sort of have a clinical research interface where we can go back to clinical teams and therefore to patients and families, even if there's a really, really ultra-rare condition with very few people known to have it that could be under different specialties in different regions, we would be able to contact their clinical team.  [00:20:51] Ana Lisa: So I think that, that collaborative working with the NHS is really powerful across researchers worldwide. Like in this example where a group in Oxford and a group in US were able to make this finding and then all the other findings that are coming from it. And really, without being able to compare across thousands of genomes, one wouldn't have been able to see this, this particular signal and see that there were more than 100 patients, and that was really powerful.  [00:21:20] Ana Lisa: If you just had one genome, you could never have made this novel discovery. I think the other thing is that, and Nicky will say that, you know, she, she then contacted her collaborators who also had access to, to, to data that had been shared by other families and could compare. And again, it's a whole sort of network across the globe.  [00:21:41] Ana Lisa: And we know that there are going to be many more diagnoses to be found. But also, um, I think collaboration will allow us to find new, new treatments. So if we can start to design treatments that target the DNA and RNA at, at source, then actually you could collaborate and say, "Well, this type of genetic mechanism could be targeted in the same way, potentially across even more than one rare condition and reach even more patients."  [00:22:13] Ana Lisa: And actually the power of collaboration across the ecosystem is that hopefully we'll end up with a pathway that can actually go from finding a new genetic finding, like Nicky and her team made, to helping all the people who could benefit from a diagnosis, having one, and then can one develop a treatment and get it to as many patients?  [00:22:42] Ana Lisa: And, and I think that will really demonstrate the power of collaboration.   [00:22:47] Sharon: Yeah. Absolutely, and it can only, you know, benefit those families who have to wait such a incredible amount of time.   [00:22:55] Ana Lisa: There's been such a diagnostic odyssey, and as more diagnoses are made, it becomes obvious that there's, uh...  [00:23:03] Ana Lisa: and it was, it's already well-described, the therapeutic odyssey. Um, but hopefully these sort of novel understanding of our genome and opening up new biological avenues to treat, um, hopefully will also enable many more new treatments to be developed.   [00:23:21] Sharon: Absolutely, and that is the key word there is, is that hope.  [00:23:24] Sharon: So, so looking ahead, Nicky, what developments are you most hopeful about over the next few years?   [00:23:31] Nicky: That's a difficult question. There's so much, so much happening. One thing is that we are gearing up to do large scale studies across the world to understand more about the progression of ReNU. So you might call them large scale natural history studies or just large scale profiling studies where we can do a range of different tests on ReNU patients and, and monitor them over time.  [00:24:02] Nicky: So do those at regular, regular intervals over time so we can see what the progression looks like. And that's really important for trying to think about whether we can treat RNeU syndrome. And on that note, I'm very also excited about the potential for therapeutics. There's lots of people all around the world, both, uh, in academic settings, but also in pharma companies trying to work out whether this is something that we can treat.  [00:24:30] Nicky: There's some very promising early data to show that we can selectively remove the RNA containing the mutation from cells, uh, leaving the copy of the RNA that doesn't contain the mutation intact so that can do the correct function. And biologically, we think this should be an effective treatment.  [00:24:54] Nicky: Um, so we can do that in cells in a dish. We don't yet know whether we can do that in a patient with ReNU. Uh, but that's really, really promising early data. Um, so I'm very hopeful about where that, those studies might lead.   [00:25:08] Sharon: And Ana Lisa, what role will genomics continue to play in improving understanding and care for rare conditions like this?  [00:25:15] Ana Lisa: So following on from what Nicky said, I think the really big hope is that we will be able to develop many, many new treatments collaboratively across the world. And whether these are individualised treatments made for one patient but then shared because we can find perhaps other patients who could benefit from the same treatment, whether we understand the genetics better so that we can design treatments from the start that will work for a lot of patients.  [00:25:46] Ana Lisa: So I think there will be sort of fancier and fancier ways of targeting rare conditions. And right now we're in a phase where the ecosystem is trying to work out how could we make an end-to-end pathway with initiatives like the Rare Therapies Launchpad in the UK, and that's going to require truly collaborative working.  [00:26:08] Ana Lisa: No single organisation can do that. And I think having these incredible use cases will be really powerful for turbocharging the development of these pathways. And the hope is that once you've worked out how to do this across a range of different rare conditions, that one might reach a stage where one could do that a lot faster for many other rare conditions.  [00:26:35] Ana Lisa: Because at the moment they're so underserved in terms of treatments available and there's a huge gap between being able to make a genetic diagnosis and then having treatments. The big hope is that understanding the genetics better will help to open up new pathways to treatment. I do hope that we'll also understand other aspects.  [00:27:02] Ana Lisa: So for example, it might be that understanding the genetics better also helps us to understand different ways a condition might manifest in somebody, why it may be different from one person to another, why somebody might be more mildly affected and somebody perhaps more severely. And that might, may also help us to understand ways to treat a condition by getting, gaining these insights which are, are useful in and of themselves and may also lead to new therapeutic, uh, possibilities.  [00:27:36] Ana Lisa: I think that would be one of my hopes that a lot of these areas overlap and lead to real benefit for patients and families, that we can translate that hope into concrete improvements in treatment for rare conditions.  [00:27:57] Sharon: Do you have a sense of time, how long you think this could all take, that amount of collaboration?  [00:28:06] Ana Lisa: Yeah, and I think this is actually another reason why sometimes it's quite tricky to make progress in this area because being able to predict those timelines is notoriously difficult when you look back historically. I'd like to hope that we're on the cusp of having an explosion of novel treatments that can target DNA and RNA, for example, or treatments that target something in the underlying biology that we now understand that we didn't before.  [00:28:34] Ana Lisa: And I do think that there is going to be a big shift. But I think that the sort of confidence intervals around how big that range of time might be is very hard to predict. And that's why I think Christina and Nicky being able to share these stories and about their collaborative working really shines a spotlight on, on what could be done and how progress can happen.  [00:29:02] Ana Lisa: That's really exciting. The other day at a conference, someone from industry stood up and said, "Oh, actually, we set up a clinical trial in the UK because we knew there were patients who could benefit from our work in the National Genomic Research Library," and that was really exciting for us because that's what we want to do; move forwards the opportunities for treatment for patients.  [00:29:28] Sharon: And so finally, Christina, as a parent and member of this community, what are your hopes for the future, and what would you say to families who may still be searching for answers today?   [00:29:39] Christina: It is a long journey, but there is the support and the help out there. If you have any inclination that you think you might have ReNU, reach out to your paediatrician or your doctor to see if you can get your genetic testing done because it's fighting to get the test, to go to people and say, "I think this is what we may have. Can we look into getting it tested?" And reach out to other families and the website and things because it's all about community and supporting and helping people find that diagnosis.   [00:30:16] Sharon: Thank you, Christina, and we'll put the website in the episode description. A huge thank you to Professor Nicky Whiffin, Christina Cox, and Dr. Ana Lisa Tavares for joining me today and sharing their insights and experiences. To learn more about ReNU Syndrome, visit renusyndromeuk.org. If you'd like to hear more stories about the people, research, and discoveries helping to shape the future of healthcare, subscribe to Behind the Genes on your favourite podcast app.  [00:30:45] Sharon: Thank you for listening. I've been your host, Sharon Jones. Behind the Genes is produced by Deanna Barac, Florence Cornish, Sophie McLachlan, and Katie Revell at Bespoken Media. 

As the Gaza war stretches into its third year, journalism professor and MSNBC analyst Peter Beinart claims that, as a Jew, he must reckon with the intense moral and theological tensions that not only he holds, but what he sees as challenges for Judaism as a whole. Because of these tensions, Beinart believes the Jewish community must build a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew? From his book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, MSNBC analyst Peter Beinart imagines a world where Israeli Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and in which Jewish and Palestinian safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined. In Beinart's view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of Jewish religious tradition and warps our understanding of Israel and Palestine. Beinart claims that, as a Jew, he must reckon with the intense moral and theological tensions that not only he holds, but what he sees as challenges for Judaism as a whole. Because of these tensions, Beinart believes the Jewish community must tell a new story and build a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew? From his book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, Beinart offers a path toward resolution. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and an MSNBC analyst, Peter Beinart is a professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is also the editor at large of Jewish Currents and writes The Beinart Notebook, a weekly newsletter. He lives with his family in New York City. Professor Smadar Ben-Natan is a professor of human rights at the School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon. A legal scholar of human rights, criminal justice, and armed conflict, she is an expert on Israel/Palestine. She is working on two books: Citizen-Enemies: Military Courts and the Construction of Citizenship in Israel/Palestine; and The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization. Professor Ben-Natan received her PhD in law from Tel Aviv University and a master's in international human rights law from the University of Oxford. She also served as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and Harvard, and as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington. Buy the Book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Hardcover) Third Place Books

Anna Lively is a historian of modern Ireland, Britain, and Russia. Awarded her PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh in 2022, she is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde. Prior to this she held the Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellowship in the History and Culture of Ireland at Hertford College, University of Oxford, and was a Teaching Fellow in Modern History at the University of Aberdeen. She has published in multiple journals on the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and on the Irish Save the Children Fund. From the late nineteenth century, Ireland featured prominently in Russian liberal, conservative, and radical debates about land politics, self-determination, and empire. Equally, Irish commentators from across the political spectrum used Russia as a lens onto questions of imperialism, anti-imperialism, and socialism. But while the Irish and Russian revolutionary contexts are well-studied in isolation, their myriad political, social, and cultural entanglements are not.Drawing on extensive Russian and Irish archival accounts, newspapers, diaries, letters, memoirs, literary, and visual sources, Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923 (Oxford UP, 2026) looks in both directions at Irish responses to Russian revolutionary change and at representations of Ireland in Russian-language texts from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923. The result is a unique account of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland and of how Ireland was imagined beyond the Anglophone world. This mutual, if selective and conditional, engagement reflected wider technological changes in news communication and the expansion of international news agencies. Diasporic networks, including in Britain and the US, helped to shape Russo-Irish relations and Irish publications and political actors engaged with different parts of the Russian empire, including Ukraine, Finland, and Poland.Through five thematic chapters, the book considers Russo-Irish relations from contrasting and often overlooked angles, including Irish eyewitness experiences on the Eastern front during World War One and religious perspectives. Using a transnational methodology and expansive source base, the book offers a fresh angle on the entangled history of revolutions in the early twentieth century and the translation of news and ideas across borders. Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905–1923 will be published in September 2026 with Oxford University Press Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Anna Lively is a historian of modern Ireland, Britain, and Russia. Awarded her PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh in 2022, she is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde. Prior to this she held the Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellowship in the History and Culture of Ireland at Hertford College, University of Oxford, and was a Teaching Fellow in Modern History at the University of Aberdeen. She has published in multiple journals on the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and on the Irish Save the Children Fund. From the late nineteenth century, Ireland featured prominently in Russian liberal, conservative, and radical debates about land politics, self-determination, and empire. Equally, Irish commentators from across the political spectrum used Russia as a lens onto questions of imperialism, anti-imperialism, and socialism. But while the Irish and Russian revolutionary contexts are well-studied in isolation, their myriad political, social, and cultural entanglements are not.Drawing on extensive Russian and Irish archival accounts, newspapers, diaries, letters, memoirs, literary, and visual sources, Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923 (Oxford UP, 2026) looks in both directions at Irish responses to Russian revolutionary change and at representations of Ireland in Russian-language texts from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923. The result is a unique account of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland and of how Ireland was imagined beyond the Anglophone world. This mutual, if selective and conditional, engagement reflected wider technological changes in news communication and the expansion of international news agencies. Diasporic networks, including in Britain and the US, helped to shape Russo-Irish relations and Irish publications and political actors engaged with different parts of the Russian empire, including Ukraine, Finland, and Poland.Through five thematic chapters, the book considers Russo-Irish relations from contrasting and often overlooked angles, including Irish eyewitness experiences on the Eastern front during World War One and religious perspectives. Using a transnational methodology and expansive source base, the book offers a fresh angle on the entangled history of revolutions in the early twentieth century and the translation of news and ideas across borders. Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905–1923 will be published in September 2026 with Oxford University Press Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Anna Lively is a historian of modern Ireland, Britain, and Russia. Awarded her PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh in 2022, she is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde. Prior to this she held the Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellowship in the History and Culture of Ireland at Hertford College, University of Oxford, and was a Teaching Fellow in Modern History at the University of Aberdeen. She has published in multiple journals on the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and on the Irish Save the Children Fund. From the late nineteenth century, Ireland featured prominently in Russian liberal, conservative, and radical debates about land politics, self-determination, and empire. Equally, Irish commentators from across the political spectrum used Russia as a lens onto questions of imperialism, anti-imperialism, and socialism. But while the Irish and Russian revolutionary contexts are well-studied in isolation, their myriad political, social, and cultural entanglements are not.Drawing on extensive Russian and Irish archival accounts, newspapers, diaries, letters, memoirs, literary, and visual sources, Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923 (Oxford UP, 2026) looks in both directions at Irish responses to Russian revolutionary change and at representations of Ireland in Russian-language texts from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923. The result is a unique account of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland and of how Ireland was imagined beyond the Anglophone world. This mutual, if selective and conditional, engagement reflected wider technological changes in news communication and the expansion of international news agencies. Diasporic networks, including in Britain and the US, helped to shape Russo-Irish relations and Irish publications and political actors engaged with different parts of the Russian empire, including Ukraine, Finland, and Poland.Through five thematic chapters, the book considers Russo-Irish relations from contrasting and often overlooked angles, including Irish eyewitness experiences on the Eastern front during World War One and religious perspectives. Using a transnational methodology and expansive source base, the book offers a fresh angle on the entangled history of revolutions in the early twentieth century and the translation of news and ideas across borders. Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905–1923 will be published in September 2026 with Oxford University Press Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

Anna Lively is a historian of modern Ireland, Britain, and Russia. Awarded her PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh in 2022, she is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde. Prior to this she held the Roy Foster Irish Government Research Fellowship in the History and Culture of Ireland at Hertford College, University of Oxford, and was a Teaching Fellow in Modern History at the University of Aberdeen. She has published in multiple journals on the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and on the Irish Save the Children Fund. From the late nineteenth century, Ireland featured prominently in Russian liberal, conservative, and radical debates about land politics, self-determination, and empire. Equally, Irish commentators from across the political spectrum used Russia as a lens onto questions of imperialism, anti-imperialism, and socialism. But while the Irish and Russian revolutionary contexts are well-studied in isolation, their myriad political, social, and cultural entanglements are not.Drawing on extensive Russian and Irish archival accounts, newspapers, diaries, letters, memoirs, literary, and visual sources, Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923 (Oxford UP, 2026) looks in both directions at Irish responses to Russian revolutionary change and at representations of Ireland in Russian-language texts from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923. The result is a unique account of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland and of how Ireland was imagined beyond the Anglophone world. This mutual, if selective and conditional, engagement reflected wider technological changes in news communication and the expansion of international news agencies. Diasporic networks, including in Britain and the US, helped to shape Russo-Irish relations and Irish publications and political actors engaged with different parts of the Russian empire, including Ukraine, Finland, and Poland.Through five thematic chapters, the book considers Russo-Irish relations from contrasting and often overlooked angles, including Irish eyewitness experiences on the Eastern front during World War One and religious perspectives. Using a transnational methodology and expansive source base, the book offers a fresh angle on the entangled history of revolutions in the early twentieth century and the translation of news and ideas across borders. Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905–1923 will be published in September 2026 with Oxford University Press Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 5546: The American Revolution Lands In Oxford; Israel's 1 Billion Dollar Influencer Campaign

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Every.io https://every.io MongoDB https://MongoDB.com/ai Agree https://agree.com Today's show: *Most lab-grown meat companies have already gone under. It's expensive to produce, and there's little demand from real-world consumers. But Tokyo's IntegriCulture is still standing after selling their proprietary serum to cosmetics companies. On Episode 3 of TWiST from Tokyo, Jason sits down with Dr. Yuki Hanyu, an Oxford-trained chemist who started a DIY meat movement out of a comic convention and turned it into Japan's first cell-cultured protein company. PLUS why the cultivated meat market stalled out, why producing a "slurry of cells" is more efficient than jumping right to muscle tissue, the regulatory framework in Japan vs. the US, and… is it fair to call this "meat"? Or is it something else entirely? Guest Yuki Hanyu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuki-hanyu-b860bb34/ IntegriCulture: https://integriculture.com/en/ Relevant Links: AG Funder News: "IntegriCulture turns a profit": https://agfundernews.com/cell-ag-picks-shovels-pioneer-integriculture-turns-a-profit-but-cautions-that-as-long-as-cell-ag-remains-so-capital-intensive-it-will-be-difficult-to-take-off Vegconominst: Cultivated duck liver coverage: https://vegconomist.com/cultivated-cell-cultured-biotechnology/cultivated-meat/japans-integriculture-products-cultivated-duck-liver/ Cellament skin care ingredient: https://www.cellament.jp/cellament-en?lang=en Medium: Shojinmeat Project: https://medium.com/shojin-meat Cellular Agriculture Institute of the Commons (CAIC): https://cellagri.org/en/about-us Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (JACA): https://jaca.jp/en/ Upside Foods: https://upsidefoods.com/ Vow: https://www.eatvow.com/ Impossible Foods: https://impossiblefoods.com/ Fast Company: "Inside the stunning collapse of Believer Meats": https://www.fastcompany.com/91462102/believer-meats-stunning-collapse-600-million-cooling-cultured-meat-industry AG Funder News: "FDA clears Wildtype's cell-cultivated salmon": https://agfundernews.com/fda-clears-wildtypes-cell-cultivated-salmon-for-us-debut Food Navigator: Parima gets green light for cultivated duck: https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2026/04/15/parima-gets-regulatory-approval-for-cultivated-foie-gras/ Protein Production: "Japan publishes first draft safety guidelines for cultivated meat…": https://www.proteinproductiontechnology.com/post/japan-publishes-first-draft-safety-guidelines-for-cultivated-meat-as-regulatory-debate-advances Stateline: "Texas bans lab-grown meat": https://stateline.org/2025/06/30/texas-becomes-seventh-state-to-ban-lab-grown-meat/ TODAY: "Japan's Coca-Cola Plus has an unexpected ingredient": https://www.today.com/food/japan-s-coca-cola-plus-has-unexpected-ingredient-t121047 Timestamps: 0:00 Why founders should visit Japan 1:48 Intro of cultivated meat pioneer, Dr. Yuki Hanyu 3:19 Why don't consumers want lab-grown meat? 10:05 Every.io - For all of your incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes or other back-office administration needs, visit https://every.io 10:26 DIY meat manuals at comic conventions 15:37 Flavors that don't exist in nature 19:35 The Wagyu Hot Dog 21:38 MongoDB - AI-assisted and agentic coding is helping you build faster than ever. Start building at https://MongoDB.com/ai 24:23 Why chicken nuggets are the hardest problem 28:28 Beachhead markets, waypoints, and surviving early 30:25 Agree.com - Stop chasing invoices and automate your entire contract-to-cash stack. Go to https://agree.com and tell them Jason sent you to get 50% off for life! 35:57 Q&A: Commercializing an open source project 37:56 Q&A: Growing protein in space 40:07 Should this be called "meat"?   Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com Check out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp   Follow Lon: X: https://x.com/lons   Follow Alex: X: https://x.com/alex LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm   Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis Check out all our partner offers: https://partners.launch.co/   Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland   Check out Jason's suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis   Follow TWiST: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com

According to polls immigration remains near the top - or at the top - of public concerns. And now a new prime minister inherits that popular anxiety. Last week The Briefing Room examined arguably the most visible aspect of the migration question: the small boats, asylum seeking and illegal migration. This week we look at legal migration, the issue of reliance on overseas workers, changes to indefinite leave to remain and public opinion about migration.Guests:Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford and author of What is Immigration Policy for? Dominic Casciani, BBC Home and Legal correspondent Rob Ford, Professor of Political Science at the University of ManchesterProduction team:Presenter: David Aaronovitch Producers: Ben Carter and Kirsteen Knight Editor: Richard Vadon Sound engineers: Duncan Hannant Sound mix: James Beard Production co-ordinators: Siobhan Reed, Maria Ogundele

In this episode I discuss the book Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology (Berghahn, 2025) with co-editors David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab, a posthumous collection of writings by the late anthropologist Marcus Banks. Banks was a key the figures in development of visual anthropology, but his work remains of continuing relevance. This volume brings together several of his essays on film, photography, archive work, as well as reflections of visual methods such as photo-elicitation and ways of teaching visual anthroplogy. The conversation begins with Marcus Banks himself, his place within anthropology, his influence on visual anthropology, and the broader effort to preserve and extend his work through a set of posthumous collections. From there, the discussion turns to one of the central themes that emerge from across several essays, namely, that images are not simply illustrations or transparent representations, but socially and temporally situated objects with disctinct social lives. From there, we discuss Banks's interest in the materiality of the visual and how the circulation and afterlives of images gather new meaning over time. A substantial part of the interview focuses on Banks's film Raju and His Friends (1988), which proved foundational to his later reflections on ethnographic filmmaking, and especially on the ethics and politics of representation. As well as providing an introduction to Marcus Banks's work and serving as a tribute to a scholar whose influence continues to shape the field, many of the topics covered in the interview touches on many broader questions in anthropology itself, and as such will be of interest not only to students of visual anthropology, but to anthropology students and anthropologists more generally. David Zeitlyn is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College. His work spans visual anthropology, photography and archives, religion and divination, and long-term fieldwork in Cameroon. He also collaborated with Marcus Banks on the second edition of Visual Methods in Social Research. Chihab El Khachab is Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College. He is a social anthropologist specializing in visual and media anthropology, especially Egyptian media production, and is the author of Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry. Further reading and resources mentioned in the recording Jainism as Social and Visual Practice: Anthropological PerspectivesMarcus Banks. Edited by John E. Cort, David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2026. This posthumous volume gathers Banks's writings on Jain social organization and visual representation. The revived HADDON catalogue of ethnographic filmsOriginally created by Marcus Banks in the 1990s, HADDON is an online catalogue of archival ethnographic film. The revived site presents a restored version of the database, now hosted through Paul Henley's Silent Time Machine project. Raju and His Friends (1988)The film discussed at length in this episode, and a key reference point for Banks's later reflections on visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking. Marcus Banks was Professor of Visual Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford until he passed away in 2020. He was a pioneer in integrating visual approaches into the mainstream of social and cultural anthropology. With Howard Morphy, he edited the influential volume Rethinking Visual Anthropology (Yale University Press, 1999). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode I discuss the book Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology (Berghahn, 2025) with co-editors David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab, a posthumous collection of writings by the late anthropologist Marcus Banks. Banks was a key the figures in development of visual anthropology, but his work remains of continuing relevance. This volume brings together several of his essays on film, photography, archive work, as well as reflections of visual methods such as photo-elicitation and ways of teaching visual anthroplogy. The conversation begins with Marcus Banks himself, his place within anthropology, his influence on visual anthropology, and the broader effort to preserve and extend his work through a set of posthumous collections. From there, the discussion turns to one of the central themes that emerge from across several essays, namely, that images are not simply illustrations or transparent representations, but socially and temporally situated objects with disctinct social lives. From there, we discuss Banks's interest in the materiality of the visual and how the circulation and afterlives of images gather new meaning over time. A substantial part of the interview focuses on Banks's film Raju and His Friends (1988), which proved foundational to his later reflections on ethnographic filmmaking, and especially on the ethics and politics of representation. As well as providing an introduction to Marcus Banks's work and serving as a tribute to a scholar whose influence continues to shape the field, many of the topics covered in the interview touches on many broader questions in anthropology itself, and as such will be of interest not only to students of visual anthropology, but to anthropology students and anthropologists more generally. David Zeitlyn is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College. His work spans visual anthropology, photography and archives, religion and divination, and long-term fieldwork in Cameroon. He also collaborated with Marcus Banks on the second edition of Visual Methods in Social Research. Chihab El Khachab is Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College. He is a social anthropologist specializing in visual and media anthropology, especially Egyptian media production, and is the author of Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry. Further reading and resources mentioned in the recording Jainism as Social and Visual Practice: Anthropological PerspectivesMarcus Banks. Edited by John E. Cort, David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2026. This posthumous volume gathers Banks's writings on Jain social organization and visual representation. The revived HADDON catalogue of ethnographic filmsOriginally created by Marcus Banks in the 1990s, HADDON is an online catalogue of archival ethnographic film. The revived site presents a restored version of the database, now hosted through Paul Henley's Silent Time Machine project. Raju and His Friends (1988)The film discussed at length in this episode, and a key reference point for Banks's later reflections on visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking. Marcus Banks was Professor of Visual Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), University of Oxford until he passed away in 2020. He was a pioneer in integrating visual approaches into the mainstream of social and cultural anthropology. With Howard Morphy, he edited the influential volume Rethinking Visual Anthropology (Yale University Press, 1999). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

“Mythology and ancient esoteric beliefs are finally found in cutting-edge science.”—Rick Rubin, bestselling author of The Creative ActFrom the author of the global bestseller The Secret History of the World comes an epic new history of the relationship between spiritual belief and cutting-edge science. Includes beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout.Human beings have a deep-rooted desire to find something worth believing in. But there is a widespread assumption that science is at odds with spiritual belief and offers the only intelligent way to think about the universe.In this epic new history, Mark Booth offers an alternative view, showing us how the great geniuses of modern science, from Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, and Albert Einstein to today's architects of AI, turned instead to secret, mystical, and “higher” teachings, including Indian mysticism and Freemasonry, to make sense of the strange phenomena they were encountering.Experimenting with alternative states of consciousness, they risked isolation and even madness.Here then is the dark, dramatic story of modern science—of love, betrayal, attempted murder, multiple suicides, sexual experimentation, and transgression—from which unfolds the awe-inspiring discoveries which have transformed our lives for good, and potentially for evil. For just as the work of J. Robert Oppenheimer and others ended the Second World War but brought humanity to the brink of extinction, so, too, has the spectacular growth of AI.The result of many years of research, and deep conversations with prominent academics in the field, this book takes us on an exhilarating journey, in the company of some of the greatest minds of our age, toward a deeper understanding of our place in the cosmos.Jonathan Black is the pen name of  Mark Booth. He was educated at Ipswich School and Oriel College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy and Theology. After a long career in publishing, he now writes full time.   ​He is the author of the global bestseller The Secret History of the World, The Secret History of Dante: Unearthing the Mysteries of the Inferno and The Sacred History of the World: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made our World.   ​His books are the result of a lifetime spent reading literature in this area, publishing many of the leading authors in the field and hanging around antiquarian bookshops.  He and his wife live in the south of England.https://www.markboothauthor.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Today, I'm honored to reconnect with Dr. Tommy Wood. He is a neuroscientist, a performance coach, and an elite-level professional nerd. He's also currently an associate professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at the University of Washington. He received his bachelor's in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, a medical degree from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in physiology and neuroscience from the University of Oslo. In our conversation, we discuss his new book, The Stimulated Mind, and he explains how dementia is a confluence of factors that accumulate over decades, important contributors to dementia, and ways we can help prevent it. We explore the concept of headroom, specific risk factors for neurocognitive decline, brain fog in midlife, the 10-year HRT timing window, and the evidence supporting these concepts. Dr. Tommy shares what we can learn from his work with elite-level athletes, along with some of the biggest misconceptions in the brain health space, and his 3s model of stimulation, sleep, and nutrient supply. He also explains why nutritional status matters for neurocognitive function. Stay tuned for today's insightful conversation with Dr. Tommy Wood. I loved his new book, The Stimulated Mind, and it will definitely be part of my must-reads for 2026! IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: Why dementia is not one single disease but a clinical outcome with multiple causes How sleep, oral health, nutritional status, and chronic inflammation may all influence dementia risk What headroom is, and the factors that help maintain it and protect cognitive function How the disease processes leading to dementia often begin decades before symptoms appear What the research suggests about the best time to start hormone therapy for brain health How Formula One drivers and elite athletes tend to prioritize sleep, nutrition, recovery, and focused work over chasing perfection How frequent notifications and interruptions train the brain to expect distraction, making sustained concentration more difficult How both overeating and chronic under-fueling can impair brain health How lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk, even in people with APOE4 Connect with Cynthia Thurlow   Follow on X, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia's website. Submit your questions to support@cynthiathurlow.com  Join other like-minded women in a supportive, nurturing community: The Midlife Pause/Cynthia Thurlow.  Purchase Cynthia's book, The Menopause Gut. Cynthia's Intermittent Fasting Transformation Book The Midlife Pause Supplement Line Connect with Dr. Tommy Wood On his website On Instagram The Stimulated Mind Substack

Francis Fukuyama discusses the experiences and individuals that shaped him. Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. His latest book is In the Realm of the Last Man. He is also the author of the “Frankly Fukuyama” column at Persuasion. We have a treat for you today! To mark the publication of Francis Fukuyama's memoir In the Realm of the Last Man, we're launching a multi-part series about his intellectual eras. Here, Francis Fukuyama reflects on his life, from his family's experience of Japanese-American internment, to surprising family secrets discovered in letters, to the political and social fallout after changing his mind about the Iraq War. Enjoying this discussion? In an event exclusively for readers of American Purpose and Persuasion, Yascha Mounk will be interviewing Francis Fukuyama about his life and thought at 5pm on Sunday, September 6 at The Abbey Centre, London. Find out more and get tickets here. Paying subscribers of Persuasion and American Purpose can access a code for a free ticket here. And, if you'll be in Oxford, UK on Friday, September 4, Francis Fukuyama will be in conversation with Nigel Warburton about his memoir—learn more and get tickets here. We're delighted to feature this conversation as part of our series on Liberal Virtues and Values. This series, made possible with the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation, features content making the case that liberalism has its own distinctive set of virtues and values that are capable not only of responding to the dissatisfaction that drives authoritarianism, but also of restoring faith in liberalism as an ideology worth believing in—and defending—on its own terms. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following ⁠this link on your phone⁠. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Apple⁠ X: ⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠ & ⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠ YouTube: ⁠Yascha Mounk⁠, ⁠Persuasion⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes.This week, we hear about the first solar-powered flight around the world, and discuss other moments in the history of solar power with Prof Laura Herz, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, in the UK.Plus, the start of the largest mountain carving in the world in honour of Native American warrior Crazy Horse, Mexico's 'little old lady killer' and the birth of the 'African Oscars', FESPACO.Finally, when American football came to Europe and how a Peruvian instrument, the cajon, revolutionised flamenco.Contributors: Bertrand Piccard - one of the pilots of Solar Impulse 2. Prof Laura Herz, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Monique Ziolkowski - daughter of the sculptor who started the Crazy Horse Memorial. Dr Feggy Ostrosky - neuropsychologist who worked with Juana Barraza. Alimata Salembéré - president of the first organising committee of the Pan African Film and Television Festival. Oliver Luck - former president of NFL Europe. Rubem Dantas - percussionist who helped introduce the cajon into flamenco.(Photo: Solar Impulse 2 flies over the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco in 2016. Credit: Jean Revillard via Getty Images)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comRobert P. George is a legal scholar and political philosopher. At Princetown, he's the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He's also a senior fellow at both the American Enterprise Institute and the Witherspoon Institute, which he co-founded. His many books include Making Men Moral and In Defense of Natural Law. We spent many years sparring in print over marriage, gays, and Catholicism.For two clips of the episode — on disobeying unjust laws, and the supposed harms of gay marriage — head to our YouTube page.Other topics: his dad's harrowing service in WWII; Robby growing up in Appalachia with his grandfathers in the coal mines; first in his family to go to college; stories of both of us being at Oxford at the same time; the origins of bluegrass; Robert Byrd's legacy; Plato's Gorgias; Aristotle and friendship; Robby's close friendship with Cornel West; Montaigne; Aquinas; Vatican II; Eastern Orthodox liturgy; neo-scholasticism; Darwin's survival of the fittest; Nietzsche; loving one's enemy as uniquely Christian; just law and unjust law; MLK's letter from a Birmingham jail; Hume; Oakeshott; natural law theorists vs legal positivists; the AIDS crisis; Christian marriage vs civil marriage; divorce; the Manhattan Declaration; Henry VIII's annulments; the sexual habits of Clinton and Trump; illiberalism on the left and right; and the beached squids of Ptown.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy. Coming up: Ross Barkan on the DSA and Mamdani, John O'Sullivan on conservatism, Azam Ahmed on terrifying new drugs, and Megan McArdle on pretty much anything. Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

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