Podcasts about Platypus

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Abhigya can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/charting-the-discourse-of-nature-restoration-the-eu-nature-restoration-law-in-the-public-sphere-in-czechia/. About the post: Looking closely at the public discourse pertaining to Nature Restoration Law in Czechia, one observes that the lines against which these interests cleave and coalesce remain fairly blurry. Even in the European Parliament, 21 members of the conservative European People's Party (EPP) voted in favour of the law, significantly tipping the outcome in its favour and reaffirming the volatile nature of interest-group allegiances.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Iván Flores can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/digital-porosity-and-value-in-suspension-informal-economies-and-video-games/. About the post: When a video game development company creates a skin, a character, or a bundle of digital items, it is not merely producing aesthetics or playable experiences—it is also building an entire economic system: it defines a virtual currency, sets an exchange rate, and organizes a circuit of value. Riot Games, the creator of League of Legends (LoL), does not sell items directly; instead, it offers Riot Points (RP) as an intermediary currency. This move—currency and rate—drives the formal economy. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

Arianna Irwin joins me to discuss her new Maverick graphic novel Penelope's Escape from the Platypusary. Arianna collaborated with artist Prenzy for a dramatic fictionalized retelling of Penelope the Platypus' escape from the Bronx Zoo in 1957. This is an incredible graphic novel that turns Penelope into the feminist icon she was always meant to be. It's filled with so many incredible characters and Prenzy's art is emotive and captivating. Arianna and I chat about the why she wanted to tell Penelope's story, working with Prenzy, what she hopes readers take away from it, and how she got her start in comics. Penelope's Escape from the Platypusary is out July 21st. Buy Penelope's Escape from the Platypusary Go to Arianna's website Follow Arianna on Instagram Buy The Comet, vol. 1 Follow Comic Book Yeti

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Adwaita Banerjee can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/the-monsters-we-buried-plastics-swamp-men-and-the-unquiet-ground-of-deonar/. About the post: Banerjee leads us into the heart of the Deonar Dumping Ground in eastern Mumbai, conjuring its monstrous presence through the lived experience of those who work there and its own as an ethnographer. Yet the monster, he reveals, is not a single beast. It is the relentless collision of old plastics, the scars of colonial land-making, faltering municipal systems, damaged ecologies, and the tireless labor of workers who live with the city's discarded past in the present.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Martin Oliver and Jade Vu Henry can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/is-edtechs-stuckness-a-kind-of-fixation/. About the post: In this third addition to our series on stuckness, Martin Oliver and Jade Vu Henry suggest that the question of what emerges in the wake of getting stuck can also be a generative opening for scholarly reflexivity. In this piece on recent controversies around the use of AI assistants in classrooms in the United Kingdom, the authors situate this recent debate within a longer history in which new technology has repeatedly promised to revolutionize education and failed to materialize that claim. The current moment is not the first time when claims of technologically driven progress got stuck. By dwelling on this muddy history rather than focusing solely on the latest technology and its limits, Oliver and Henry offer a novel reading of the contemporary controversy around AI. This case highlights how stuckness can be a resource for scholars hoping to understand the enduring appeals and pitfall

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Victor Secco can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/searching-for-microbes-with-no-name-the-labour-of-sampling-and-the-making-of-scientific-value/. About the post: Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with microbiome scientists on a sampling expedition along Europe's coastlines, this post follows the manual, embodied labour that turns soil, water, sand, and air into biological data. It argues that the value circulating in bioinformatics is created earlier, by hand, in the field—through the muddy, unglamorous work of collecting, labelling, and barcoding samples—even as that labour tends to disappear once samples are digitalized. It asks what counts as scientific work, where it happens, and who gets the credit for it.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Seon Shim can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/collaborating-with-precarity-anthropology-on-crip-time/. About the post: Anthropology is widely recognized as a fragmented, precarious discipline: short‑term contracts, insecure funding, and the pressure to publish threaten sustained, accountable work with communities. At the same time, anthropology is called upon to imagine more inclusive, equitable worlds in a polarized global order, raising a pressing question: how can we pursue meaningful collaboration, equity, and inclusion from within such a precarious, short‑term, and unequal academic landscape? This post explores disability anthropology and crip time as ways of inhabiting this contradiction differently, centering disabled temporalities, Indigenous frameworks, and collaborative, action‑oriented projects as methods for reassembling the discipline's colonial legacies toward more livable futures. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tania Cristina Pérez-Bustos and Ana María Ulloa-Garzón can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/why-study-smell-in-clothes/. About the post: The question that begins this text guides an investigation that brings together two fields that are marginal to the social studies of knowledge, materiality, and technology: olfactory studies and textile studies. At that intersection, we seek to ethnographically investigate a minor gesture: smelling the clothes of someone who is no longer there, within an everyday and domestic context. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Şafak Kılıçtepe and Emine Onculer Yayalar can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/between-cure-and-care-governing-bodies-in-turkiyes-hybrid-medical-landscape/. About the post: What do you call a practice that is neither traditional nor modern, neither fully inside medicine nor fully outside it? In Türkiye, the answer arrived in the form of an acronym: GETAT (Geleneksel ve Tamamlayıcı Tıp) or Traditional and Complementary Medicine. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Vageesh Vishnoi can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/delivering-in-delhi-ethnographic-reflections-on-working-with-the-food-delivery-platform/. About the post: This ethnographic reflection emerges from participant observation as a food-delivery rider in Delhi and examines how platform workers navigate the spatiotemporal realities of gig work. While existing scholarship has extensively analysed algorithmic management, this account foregrounds workers' lived experiences of mobility, rest, and ephemerality. Drawing on fieldwork at delivery hotspots, it shows how workers transform platform infrastructures into spaces of sociability, mutual aid, and occasional resistance. The paper further explores the ephemeral nature of platform labour, where constantly changing incentive structures erode workers' ability to stabilise expectations and contest deteriorating conditions. Together, these dynamics reveal the everyday politics of algorithmic capitalism and workers' efforts to negotiate its contradictions.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jennifer Foley, Dani Dilkes and Mandy Penney can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/becoming-with-mushrooms-multispecies-collective-autoethnography-for-reworlding-educational-environments/. About the post: Engaging with mushrooms as conceptual companions allowed us to explore the complex multiplicity of ways of knowing, living, being, and valuing that are entangled in world-building (van Dooren et. al., 2016). The mushroom, and more specifically, the entangled network of root structures below the visible fruiting body (known as the mycelial network), were “an embodied entry point” (Kapp, 2025) for reflection on how the structures, systems, and behaviors of mycelial networks could allow us to rethink and reshape knowledge sharing, perceptions of time, and constructions of self and knowledge in academia.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aaron Neiman and Erin Coleman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/noclipping-into-the-contemporary-anthropology-in-the-backrooms/. About the post: Other franchises may inspire or invite fan art, fan theories, and fan fiction. But for Backrooms, this kind of participation is not incidental to the product; it is constitutive of it. Even for anthros who normally have no truck with narrative film in general, or who assiduously avoid horror in particular, we argue that the Backrooms phenomenon's remarkable resonance with young audiences, its unique origin story, and its productive blurring of the online, fictional, and physical worlds merits consideration for scholars of media, communication, and the present moment in general. Rarely in recent memory has blockbuster US cinema felt so tapped in to what it feels like to be alive right now,  make it excellent fodder for what Paul Rabinow (2007) identified as the field's ability to develop an “anthropology of the contemporary."

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Prerna Gupta can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/a-progress-without-people-six-decades-of-living-next-to-indias-first-nuclear-power-plant/. About the post: When officials from the Department of Atomic Energy first arrived to survey this coastline, the villagers had welcomed them with open arms. Jitendra Raul's father, then the sarpanch (village head) of Delwadi, sheltered the visiting scientists when their tents blew away. In the atmosphere of India's movement for independence, the villagers had greeted the nuclear reactor with pride, willingly giving up their lands for the nation's progress. However, for the past six decades, they have struggled to make their claim on it.

The platypus is one of the most unusual animals on Earth. This episode explores the strange combination of traits that make the platypus so distinctive, from its duck-like bill and webbed feet to its ability to lay eggs despite being a mammal. Along the way, you'll hear about its discovery, unique biology, venomous spurs, electroreception, and the many ways this remarkable animal challenged scientists' understanding of the natural world. It's steady and consistent, with no whispering and no sudden changes, just enough to give your mind something to follow as you wind down. Happy sleeping! Read with permission from Platypus, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. — Ad-free episodes: ⁠icantsleep.supportingcast.fm⁠Have a topic in mind? ⁠Request a topic⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ⁠megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nga Shi Yeu and Nga Shi Yeu can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/viral-afterlives-toponymy-of-zoonotic-ruptures-in-west-malaysia/. About the post: This post examines the enduring social and material fallout of the 1999 Nipah virus outbreak in West Malaysia. Moving beyond bureaucratic public health frameworks, it looks at how a Chinese-majority pig-farming community navigates toponymic stigma and the debris of catastrophe. Through a lens of childhood retrospect, it traces the intimate violence of mass culls, marked by persistent sensory and acoustic hauntings within a severed human-porcine ecosystem. In response to recurring disruptions such as COVID-19 and African Swine Fever, villagers mobilize these historic ruins into an ordinary ethic of care and collective resilience. This heritagization, manifested through backyard husbandry and the creation of a grassroots viral museum, reclaims a marginalized history to negotiate state neglect and racialized biosecurity governance. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Leonardo Thibau can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/brazilian-manosphere/. About the post: This post maps the early formation of Brazilian masculinism through a multimodal critical cartography of “Canal do Búfalo,” a prominent online manosphere forum active in the early 2010s. Drawing on a scraped corpus of 20,189 posts by 2,900 authors, it examines how users geographically self-identified and mobilized toponymic aliases to frame belonging, resentment, and masculinist truth-making online. By combining digital methods, critical cartography, and debates on symbolic interactionism, the study discusses how this forum helped shape a masculinist worldview organized around adversity and opposition to feminism. The maps reveal a strong concentration of activity in Brazil's South and Southeast, while also highlighting regional variations in how users narratively framed their relation to territory. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aylar Abdolahzadeh can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/tracing-the-legacy-of-human-resilience-in-the-debris-of-ancient-campfires/. About the post: Have you ever made fire from scratch, without matches or charcoal? In the summer of 2015, I tried to recreate fire using flint, pyrite, and tinder. It quickly became clear that making fire is a learned skill that requires patience, observation, and practice but igniting fire was only the beginning because keeping that fire alive took even more effort. As an archaeologist, this experience led me to ask how our ancestors used, made, and maintained fire as a skill or catalyst. I began collecting, analyzing, and experimentally studying ancient fire traces, such as heat-altered stone tools, from sites across Europe and Southwest Asia. What I found was unexpected: despite the remarkable adaptability of our ancestors across time and space, fire use was far less consistent than I had assumed. Instead, it varied depending on where people lived and what their environments offered in terms of clima (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Alejandro Cerón can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/outbreak-mitigation-at-the-crossroads-technical-expertise-political-imperatives-and-the-myth-of-john-snow/. About the post: This essay analyzes the role of myth and narrative to analyze the tension between technical expertise and political imperatives in the work of mitigating outbreaks. The author draws upon ethnographic fieldwork with Guatemalan epidemiologists and their reflections on John Snow's intervention on cholera to show how this tension can be understood through the use of myth and narrative in society. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cristian Gustavo Gutiérrez Pinzón can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/is-this-the-end-of-disability-eugenics-and-the-technification-of-normalization/. About the post: New reproductive and bodily intervention biotechnologies not only promise to cure or prevent diseases, but are also shaping a new regime of bodily normalization that redefines which lives are desirable, correctable, or eliminable. For several years, countries such as Iceland have stood out for medical procedures that identify the conditions under which a fetus is developing and then ask parents whether they wish to continue or terminate the pregnancy. Between 80–85% of pregnant women in Iceland undergo prenatal screening and, when the result is positive for trisomy 21, termination rates approach 100%...Geneticist Kari Stefansson, founder of deCODE Genetics, stated: “My understanding is, basically, that we have almost eradicated Down syndrome from our society; there will hardly ever again be a child with Down syndrome in Iceland” (Quijano, 2017). (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Leonardo Vilaça Dupin, Ana Paula Perrota and Rosângela Pezza Cintrão can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/food-insecurity-under-the-microscope/. About the post: In November 2025, in Rio de Janeiro, the seminar Food (in)Security under the Microscope brought together researchers from different countries and professionals from various fields of knowledge to discuss inclusive sanitary norms for non-industrial food production. Biosafety requirements, which equate "food safety" with sterilization and the absence of microbiological contaminants, oversimplify the complex relationships between humans, non-humans, microbes, and their environments, and are generally at odds with the traditional knowledge and practices of family farmers, peasants, indigenous peoples, and traditional communities across Brazil. The seminar sought to bring interdisciplinary research and new evidence on the importance of microbiological diversity as constitutive of human and environmental health, contributing to a challenge of Pasteurian views that consider only its pathogenic (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

You asked, we answered! In this mailbag episode, we're tackling three big kid questions: why does the ground keep spinning after you stop? Do magnets work in space? And could a peacock and a platypus ever be BFFs? We get answers from real experts, as well as reading your reviews and comments! Also, the Joke-ha-thon is coming up on June 3rd! Go here to donate and pick your champion, and also win some amazing, amazing prizes for yourself and your school. If you want to have your comment or review read on our show, leave one! Write a review on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ or comment on ⁠Spotify⁠.  Join on Patreon to help us continue to make Tumble and be featured on future episodes, and help us decide on Season 12 topics: ⁠patreon.com/tumblepodcast⁠ Shop official Tumble merch: ⁠https://tumblepodcast.dashery.com/⁠ Submit a science question: ⁠https://www.sciencepodcastforkids.com/contact⁠

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Debjani Chakraborty can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/domesticating-affordances-from-surveillance-to-navigation-of-interfaces-how-affordances-are-reappropriated-across-contexts-by-rural-indian-women/. About the post: Affordances across social media platforms… are reappropriated as a tool of surveillance, and become grounds for moral judgement of the user. For women in collectivist settings, like in many rural Indian villages, being online is not neutral. It is evaluated through reappropriation. Time spent on the phone can invite scrutiny: why is she online so often? Who is she talking to? For how long?

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Clarissa Reche can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/why-do-we-weave-networks-mapping-the-common-territory-of-latin-american-feminist-anthropology-of-science-and-technology/. About the post: I watch time pass back and forth, back and forth. And I rest, thinking… why do we weave networks after all? (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sandrine Lambert can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/introducing-citizen-technology-ethnographic-insights-from-makerspaces/. About the post: Drawing on and challenging more familiar ideas such as citizen science and civic tech, the term citizen technology refers to technologies that are governable by and for citizens. For the author, the concept matters not only because it questions power in the production and application of technology, but also because of its practical relevance to education and other domains.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Kaitlyn Kathleen Rabach can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/becoming-experts-activists-working-against-science-based-on-misinformation/. About the post: In County Donegal, Ireland an estimated 30,000 buildings are crumbling due to defective concrete. Because of a grave misdiagnosis by the Irish government, homeowners cannot rely on politicians to be up to date on the scientific claims regarding their crumbling homes. As a result, homeowners have had to become experts themselves to question the scientific authority of the Irish government and fight for 100% redress.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nicole Ahoya can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/tech-ing-the-justice-gap-and-or-reimagining-access-to-justice-in-africa/. About the post: Access to justice has increasingly become a focus in international development, shaping new justice initiatives in countries in the so-called Global South. Often framed as a “justice gap” having caused a “justice crisis,” questions have not only arisen how to generate data on and measure this gap, but also about how to close it, e.g. by “teching” it through AI. Drawing on ongoing ethnographic research, this piece examines how such “justice crisis” narratives and approaches to deal with them both expose and shape understandings of justice. Taking Kenya as an example, data-driven justice systems and technologies, such as AI, illustrate both the promise and tensions of such developments. Rather than treating the justice gap as a purely technical problem, the post asks how “desirable futures” of justice are imagined, whose knowledge counts, and who gets to participate in shaping them.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jackie Ashkin, Alexander Foster and Madeline Augusta Turner can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/salt-a-provocation/. About the post: In this blogpost, we want to explore some of the ways that salt is emerging as a contested and existential matter of concern in the making of liveable environmental futures. By attending to the ways that salt reshapes environments and how we relate to them, we can foreground the material contingencies of continued economic, social, and political survival.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Thomson Chakramakkil can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/seeing-acting-believing-the-cyberknife-and-the-transformation-of-medical-imaging/. About the post: One cannot help but be convinced that this is what medical salvation looks like. In some respects, I am already a believer. In May 2025, a month after receiving a stage IV lung cancer diagnosis, I underwent image-guided radiation therapy under Dr. Sinha's supervision, becoming one of the very few patients  approved for this advanced form of stereotactic radiosurgery. After months of misdiagnosis from pulmonologists working through experience and statistical generalisation, it was computer-aided imaging that revealed the adenocarcinoma that was rapidly spreading through my body. By looking at the MRI image, any oncologist could tell that my cancer had metastasized into the brain, creating eight lesions that could not be targeted through traditional chemotherapy. At this stage, even radiation therapy was, to borrow Julie Livingston's words, “a necessary exercise in hope” (2012: 161).

It was love at first sight, when Jack Ashby first set eyes upon a platypus specimen as a young university student.The introduction set him on a lifelong mission to meet these quintessentially Australian creatures in the wild, and redefine their reputation as "weird" or "primitive".He's met many other animals along the way, coming face to face with an elusive snow leopard family in the Himalayas, with wombats and echidnas, and seeing only the eyes of a sloth bear, reflecting his torchlight in a pitch black forest.Further informationPlatypus Matters is published by Harper CollinsThis episode of Conversations was first broadcast in 2022, the producer was Meggie Morris and the Executive Producer was Carmel Rooney.It explores platypus, mammals, zoology, echidnas, Australian animals, Winston Churchill, animal behaviour, Indigenous Australians, baby platypus, the biology and anatomy of platypus, weird animal facts.To binge even more great episodes of the Conversations podcast with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you'll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

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“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat!Lets do it again, shall we?  Picking up where last week's show left off, Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland put a final cut on their spring pruning series for 2026.The show starts with a marijuana chat.  What? Bear cubs abound in Canada and Matt takes the time to make a joke about hibernating. Platypus...Matt gushes. TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER!A broken tree leader times three finishes off a talk from last week. Mark Banks cost a company bank.What does the tree leader do in regards to the operating system of the tree?   It's fascinating. Field tags on trees prompt a conversation with Matt.What happens if you don't remove your tree's winter sweater? Matt explains.Sun scald frost crack is discussed. Lets prune a clematis together.  There are some rules and the McFarlands go over the ins and outs.Don't prune when you're high!   DANGEROUS!Roses and their various family members are discussed.  There was a stigma surrounding roses that seems to have faded.  Why?Morden Manitoba is a hotbed for rose development.  Why again? The prunus family and their pruning requirements comes into focus. Jack tells a peach tree story.What is "open pruning?" MATT HATES BLUEBERRY PLANTS!!! HATTTTEESSSS. Currents and white pine.   UH-OH.  You'll find out why.The difference between raspberry plants cap the show off. Tune in. Looking to book a consult for your property?  We'd love to help.  CLICK HERE.What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE.

Come and see!Yet another discovery courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope, something over which astronomers are presently puzzling!A star? A quasar? A galaxy? It's not something that astronomers have ever seen before.  Like the Platypus, these objects are hard to categorize. How does this latest curious heavenly object remind us of the One who created them?Wayne and Dan have some ideas! Join us!Wayne's article on the PlatypusAccessible YouTube video on the Platypus Galaxies   Podbean enables our podcast to be on Apple Podcasts and other major podcast platforms.  To support Good Heavens! on Podbean as a patron, you can use the Podbean app, or go to https://patron.podbean.com/goodheavens.  This goes to Wayne Spencer. If you would like to give to the ministry of Watchman Fellowship or to Daniel Ray, you can donate at https://www.watchman.org/daniel. Donations to Watchman are tax deductible.

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This episode was recorded in the summer of 2025, before the current protests in Iran. Itsi sat down with Platypus members Stanley Sharpey and Ian Morrison to talk about the history of the Left in Iran and the significance of the Iranian Revolution for the Left. We touch on Ervand Abrahamian's book "Iran Between Two Revolutions," which was read in the early days of Platypus, along with other works on Iran by writers such as Fred Halliday, Janet Afari, and Kevin Anderson on Foucault and Iran. We also talk about Platypus panels and articles that address the Iranian Revolution and the Left's historical response to it, and the millennial Left's response to the Iranian Green Movement, specifically the panel “The Green Movement and the Left: Prospects for Democracy in Iran.” Ian also reflects on his involvement during this moment, as well as his interview with Homayoun Pourzad, a trade unionist. Finally, we talk about the changing landscape of the Left from the Obama presidency to our current moment. -------- "The Green Movement and the Left: Prospects for Democracy in Iran" (3/20/10 panel) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzK9cPxPdVA&t=60s Against the status quo: An Interview with Iranian trade unionist Homayoun Pourzad - Ian Morrison: https://platypus1917.org/2010/01/08/against-the-status-quo-an-interview-with-iranian-trade-unionist-homayoun-pourzad/ The Iranian Revolution and Its Implications - Interview with Fred Halliday: https://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/readings/hallidayfred_iranrev1987_NLR16202.pdf Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution- Janet Afary & Kevin B. Anderson: https://newpol.org/issue_post/revisiting-foucault-and-iranian-revolution/ Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism - Janet Afary & Kevin B. Anderson: https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/foucault-and-the-iranian-revolution-janet-afary.pdf ----- www.platypus1917.org

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# Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Webb's Latest Astronomical MysteriesJoin The Space Cowboy in this captivating podcast episode as he guides listeners through the James Webb Space Telescope's most perplexing recent discoveries. From "astronomy's platypus" to diamond rain planets, this episode delves into cosmic phenomena that challenge our understanding of the universe.## Episode Highlights:- **Mysterious "Platypus" Objects**: Discover nine tiny point-like entities from the early universe that defy classification—not stars, not quasars, not typical galaxies—possibly revealing how galaxy formation first began.- **The Lemon-Shaped Planet**: Explore the bizarre world PSR J2322-2650b, an elongated exoplanet orbiting a pulsar with an atmosphere of helium and unusual carbon molecules that shouldn't exist, potentially featuring diamond rain.- **Metal-Poor Galaxy Surprises**: Learn how the dwarf galaxy Sextans A is manufacturing metallic iron dust and complex carbon molecules despite its limited resources, challenging theories about early universe chemistry.- **Little Red Dots Explained**: Hear about new research suggesting some mysterious compact red objects in Webb's images may actually be supermassive stars—potential birthplaces of the first black holes.Perfect for astronomy enthusiasts, space exploration fans, and anyone fascinated by cosmic mysteries, this episode showcases how Webb continues to reveal a universe more creative and strange than our best scientific theories predicted.Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3QsFor more check out http://www.quietplease.aiThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

206: On this episode, HK gives us a timepiece and a model variant 5 years too late? The ATF is making some changes to FORM 1 & 4 Stealth Arms makes an XC Ruger resurrects the Red Label Jaki gets comfy with her new holster Tony has bitch hands And Zaffiri makes complete slide packages If you guys want to save some on your own set of sexy Italian wood furniture from Woox for your shotgun, AR, bolt or lever gun be sure to use code: laughnload10 For that Blackout Coffee link to support the show click https://www.blackoutcoffee.com?p=SJxs6gMea Be sure to use code LNL20 if it is your first order and get 20% off! Thanks for all of your guy's support! We love ya! Please help us out by rating and reviewing the podcast! Thank you! Got questions? Email us at pewtimepodcast@gmail.com If you want to book Tony for a class email him at performancegun@gmail.com Looking for some new range wear? Head over to https://www.laughnload.com to check out some of the shirts, hats, hoodies and more that are currently available. What to check out some more from us you can search Laugh n Load on IG, FB and YouTube. FB: https://www.facebook.com/252407111792056/ IG: https://instagram.com/laughnload?igshid=tm0tboj9syru YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvK8P5NQ_sCpz1Hwasmd62QB

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What do you get when the Creator decides to make evolutionists sweat? A creature so strange they thought it was a hoax. Join Eric Hovind and Dr. Brian Thomas as we dive into the world of one of God's most jaw-dropping creations: the Platypus. With a duck's bill, a beaver's tail, webbed feet, and the ability to lay eggs and produce milk, this “living contradiction” breaks every evolutionary rule with a smile. Every detail of its design shouting intelligence, purpose, and divine creativity. And the Platypus isn't alone; we'll also explore a few other creatures that leave evolution grasping for answers. This isn't just science; it's comedy and craftsmanship woven together. Because when God designs something, even the punchline has purpose. And this one will leave evolutionists speechless. Watch this Podcast on Video at: https://creationtoday.org/on-demand-classes/the-platypus-paradox-for-evolution-creation-today-show-454/  Join Eric LIVE each Wednesday at 12 Noon CT for conversations with Experts. You can support this podcast by becoming a Creation Today Partner at CreationToday.org/Partner

Send us a textHunger flips like a switch on GLP-1 meds—one minute you're fine, the next you need a burger now—and pretending that isn't real doesn't help anyone. We get candid about what mindful eating looks like when the cue hits late, how tracking with ruthless honesty (yes, the handful of cashews on the scale) can steady the week, and why consistency beats guilt every time. From a 15-day logging streak to building an at-home advent workout plan with baked-in rest days, we're choosing small, repeatable wins over perfect promises.The bariatric program looms large: orientation, forms, mental health timelines, and rules that stretch into forever. Knowing the steps isn't the same as living them, and that gap explains so much of the frustration. We talk about losing over 100 pounds and still seeing “class three” on a chart, the mismatch between progress and labels, and how a full-length seated mirror can shock you back into reality. There's the sensory piece too—excess sweat, fabric, and anxiety feeding each other—and the medical fog: old scans misread as new, long waits, and the creeping fear that everything will be blamed on weight.We also make room for curiosity and chaos. Bat nipples in armpits. Platypus milk through skin. Why “stale green” isn't obvious until someone teaches it. City bike lanes that work only if everyone follows the same rules, whether you ride or drive. And then the holidays: Tim Hortons smile cookies, peppermint snowballs, whipping shortbread, and a tiny guest singing Jingle Bells. Money's tight, trees are optional, but connection is non-negotiable. Our plan is simple: track what we eat, move in ways our bodies can handle, keep curiosity high, and choose compassion when “common sense” runs out.If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a nudge without judgment, and leave a review to help others find us. Got a small win for December? Tell us—we'll cheer you on.Support the showDo you have a story you would like to share? Send it to us at theweightingroompc@gmail.comDisclaimer: We are not Medical professionals and all views and opinions are our own.

On this episode of SPS, we talk about all things Mamdani -- the new DSA mayor of New York City. Your host Pamela N. sits down with former co-host Laurie R., Platypus president Erin H., and our New York member Benjamin K. -- one of the organizers of the recent Platypus Mamdani panel in NYC. We give our impressions of the Oval Office press conference, after the first Trump and Mamdani meeting, and we digest the discussion by the Left on Mamdani captured in our NYC Mamdani panel. We discuss the history of Sewer Socialism, the Second International, and the Millennial Left's journey towards a "new New Deal." The episode features clips from the panel recording to anchor the conversation for our listeners. The edited transcript of that panel has been published on the Platypus Review's most recent issue, linked below. We encourage our listeners to take a read! Links - Platypus Panel (NYU): "Whither socialism? Mamdani and the Left," with Mitchel Cohen, Melvyn Dubofsky, Daniel Lazare, and Sebastian LM (September 26, 2025, published Nov. 2025) Edited Transcript: https://platypus1917.org/2025/11/01/whither-socialism-mamdani-and-the-left/ Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRmIkNQB4ME - Mamdani Victory Speech (Nov. 2025) https://youtu.be/_650kn3RpmI?si=IfgevMLTzgJEpDSh - Michael Kinnucan, "How Zohran Mamdani Triumphed Over a Decrepit Establishment" (Nov. 2025) https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-dsa-democrats-cuomo-socialists - Derek Thompson, "'What Speaks to Me About Abundance': My Full Interview With Zohran Mamdani" (Jun. 2025) https://www.derekthompson.org/p/what-speaks-to-me-about-abundance - "Socialism in one City?" Independent Labor Club of New York event (Sept. 2025) https://x.com/ILCofNYC/status/1964339829446946907?s=20 - "Socialism in Our Time: A Jacobin Conference" (Sept. 2025) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/socialism-in-our-time-a-jacobin-conference-tickets-1485130077039 - Jacobin obituary for David Dinkins, “What David Dinkins Taught Us" (Nov. 2020) https://jacobin.com/2020/11/david-dinkins-mayor-new-york-city-obituary - Daniel Lazare, "Cheering on Trump" (Jan. 2025) http://forum.permanent-revolution.org/2025/01/cheering-on-trump.html - Mamdani Meet the Press Interview (Nov. 23, 2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YNwdXW64WA

If your sales team feels unpredictable, you're not wrong—they are. Sales coach Andy Gole argues that salespeople are professional "platypuses": a one-of-a-kind blend of entrepreneurial spirit and corporate loyalty. They're independent and coachable. This psychological hybrid nature is key to their success, but also the root of their unique challenges. Ignoring this distinction is costing you top performers.

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It turns out that College Football Week 4 delivered some interesting tests! In this episode, we break down what it all means, from the rise of Texas Tech's impressive defensive showing against Utah to Indiana's demolition of Illinois and Oklahoma's win over Auburn. Plus, a closer look at why TCU should be on your radar, how Michigan can get the most out of its offense, what we learned about Miami in their win over Florida, and what Clemson's 1-3 start means for Dabo Sweeney. We also talk through a crazy interesting day in the Big 12, Memphis's run at the CFP, looming questions about Chris Ash and Notre Dame's defense, and more. And, in addition, we answered live questions on YouTube, played your Week 4 Reverbs, and gave out Dude Alerts for the best individual performances from another great week of college football. Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 3:47 - Texas Tech hammers Utah 10:57 - TCU wins the Iron Skillet 13:10 - Arizona State outlasts Baylor 15:36 - Indiana demolishes Illinois 20:08 - Michigan runs past Nebraska 26:15 - Oklahoma beats Auburn 33:02 - Miami holds off Florida 38:26 - Syracuse upsets Clemson 44:35 - Memphis upsets Arkansas 47:30 - Other SEC Notes 50:59 - Other Big Ten Notes 56:12 - Other Big 12 Notes 56:53 - Other ACC Notes 59:06 - Platypus & Apple Cups 01:02:38 - Reverbs 01:07:18 - YouTube Q&A 01:17:02 - Dude AlertsSupport the show!: https://www.patreon.com/solidverbalSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.