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"I don't have optimism, I have hope – which is a theological virtue. They can't touch my hope but my optimism is in short supply," says Deacon Dennis Dolan in this episode of Deacons Pod. Deacon Dennis and Deacon Drew Dickson, two of the Paulist Deacon Affiliates, host this episode that looks at both a memorable Gospel reading of Lent and troubling issues raised by recent actions of the U.S. federal government. This episode also includes Deacons Pod's first podcast crossover: The inclusion of a powerful interview from a recent episode of "The Francis Effect" podcast between Heidi Schlumpf and Meghan Clark, a professor of moral theology at St John's University in New York City. In the interview, Professor Clark outlines the devastating impact of the recent federal funding cuts for USAID and Catholic Relief Services.

Stuart Bird interviews Professor Kim Clark to explore the soul, heart and mind of leadership. As former dean of the Harvard Business School and former president of BYU - Idaho, Professor Clark has valuable insights for becoming a disciple leader. Join this discussion to learn from Professor Clark's wisdom and experiences - including his experience of leading the creation of BYU Pathways.

Originally Recorded September 25th, 2024 About Professor Henry Clark: https://sociology.dartmouth.edu/people/henry-c-clark Check out Professor Clark's new book, The Moral Economy We Have Lost: ​Life Before Mass Abundance: http://www.eerpublishing.com/clark-the-moral-economy.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit musicallyspeaking.substack.com

SEASON 1 FINALE In the season finale, "Milo, The Wizard," the guardians face the aftermath of Milo's mysterious collapse. With his eyes glowing a radiant gold, Milo's newfound power stirs even more uncertainty among the group, leaving them to wonder about the true extent of their abilities and what lies ahead. With doubts growing and the lines between friend and foe blurring, the group's trust in Professor Clark begins to waver. What will they uncover in Jericho? And can they trust the man leading them on this dangerous quest? But before the night is over, the guardians experience a shared vision unlike any before. The chilling sight is followed by a booming voice declaring, “Embrace your destiny, for the battle has finally begun.” Tune in, follow the show and leave a review as Season 1 reaches its thrilling conclusion, and prepare for what's to come in Season 2. Fate's Guardians is a work of fiction. Created, written, produced, and audio by Dena Gebelius

In Episode 14, "Golden Eyes," the guardians return to Professor Clark's home, driven by the need to uncover the truth behind their intensifying nightmares. As they delve deeper into their mysterious connection to the ancient prophecy, the tension escalates when Milo suddenly collapses, his eyes glowing a fierce gold. This shocking event leaves the group shaken, raising even more questions about their true identities and the power they might possess. With the discovery of the second half of the scroll and an impending journey to Jericho, the guardians must confront the unsettling realization that their fates are intertwined with forces beyond their comprehension. But as they navigate these revelations, shadows of doubt creep in, making them question who they can truly trust. Join us as the guardians grapple with their uncertain destiny and the dark secrets that continue to unfold. Tune in, follow the show, and leave a review as the mysteries deepen and the stakes rise in their quest for the truth. Fate's Guardians is a work of fiction. Created, written, produced, and audio by Dena Gebelius

In Episode 13, "The Calm Before," the guardians find themselves desperate for answers as their nightmares intensify. Unable to wait any longer, they take matters into their own hands and head to Professor Clark's home. But as they arrive, Freya spots a mysterious figure cloaked in black outside, only for it to vanish before anyone else can see. Inside Clark's home, the weight of their revelations grows heavier as they dig deeper into their connection with the ancient prophecy, pushing the boundaries of what they thought was possible. Who was the person cloaked in black watching them? What will they learn inside Clarks home. Join us as the guardians navigate this haunting new reality, questioning the very fabric of their destinies. Tune in, follow the show, and leave a review as the guardians confront the growing shadows of their fate. Fate's Guardians is a work of fiction. Created, written, produced, and audio by Dena Gebelius

In Episode 12, "From Students to Saviors," the guardians grapple with the shocking truths revealed by Professor Clark. As they digest the ominous prophecy linking them to the Divine Five, their meeting takes a terrifying turn. The shadows within the library, emboldened by dark forces, begin to stretch and morph, pushing the guardians to the edge of fear. The library, once a sanctuary of knowledge, now teems with an eerie presence that chases them out into the night. Outside, the world seems unchanged, casting doubt on the surreal horrors they just faced. Were the shadows real, or a trick of the mind? Join us as the guardians navigate this haunting new reality, questioning the very fabric of their destinies. Tune in, follow the series, and leave a review if the shadows haven't reached you yet. Fate's Guardians is a work of fiction. Created, written, produced, and audio by Dena Gebelius

In Episode 11, "Library Revelations," we continue to uncover layers of profound mysteries. The guardians engage in a deep and revealing conversation with Professor Clark, exploring the origins and secrets of the ancient Scroll of Destiny. Their meeting in the dimly lit library becomes even more intense as an unexplained dark presence looms around Professor Clark, leaving the guardians uneasy. As they press for answers, Clark finally confirms their connection to a prophecy that might just change the course of history. Join us as the guardians confront their possible fates and grapple with the reality of being part of an ancient prophecy. Follow their journey, support the show by leaving a review, and stay tuned for more thrilling revelations! Fate's Guardians is a work of fiction. Created, written, produced, and audio by Dena Gebelius

In Episode 10, "Mysteries of the Protectors," we dive into a day full of big reveals and intense confrontations. The guardians learn shocking things about a mysterious group called The Protectors, connecting ancient secrets directly to them. Armed with new clues, they're more determined than ever to find out what's really going on. Simultaneously, the guardians prepare for a crucial meeting with Professor Clark, driven by a compelling need for answers about the mysterious Scroll of Destiny and their roles within it. The tension builds as they step closer to the truth, ready to face whatever comes next. Join us for a journey into the unknown as the guardians tackle hidden truths and challenge those who keep them. Tune in, follow along, and if you like what you hear, leave us a review! Fate's Guardians is a work of fiction. Created, written, produced, and audio by Dena Gebelius

In Episode 9, "Prayer Changes Things," we delve into Elijah's day marked by deep spiritual challenges. After a seemingly mundane encounter with a "Divine Burger," he faces a malevolent presence in his dorm, drawing on his family's spiritual teachings for protection. This intense experience tests his faith and forces him to seek divine intervention against the darkness that threatens him. Simultaneously, Professor Clark's secretive communications hint at a larger plot, as he discusses initiating a crucial phase involving the guardians. These revelations suggest the guardians are central to an unfolding mysterious agenda. Join us as Elijah's faith and Clark's hidden plans progress, unveiling more about the mystical forces surrounding them. Follow 'Fate's Guardians' to explore these mysteries further and support the show by leaving a review. Fate's Guardians is a work of fiction. Created, written, produced, and audio by Dena Gebelius

In Episode 8, "Purple Tree Buds," we dive into Nathan's morning marked by a surreal encounter with a tree that splits between life and death—a metaphor for the dual nature of their fates. Nathan stumbles upon this enigmatic tree, whose vibrant purple buds abruptly wither into darkness, a sign of deeper, darker truths waiting to be uncovered. As Nathan grapples with this haunting vision, the guardians converge, eager to piece together their shared nightmares and seek guidance from Professor Clark regarding the ominous scroll. Amidst their quest for answers, Adrienne reveals her own harrowing nightmare, where she witnesses her mother's tragic fate in a hospital overwhelmed by darkness, followed by a chilling prophecy from a mysterious figure. This vision leaves the group more intertwined and troubled than ever. Fate's Guardians is a work of fiction. Created, written, produced, and audio by Dena Gebelius Visit www.FatesGuardians.com for more.

Join Natalie Grueninger on this episode of Talking Tudors as she delves into the fascinating world of Henry VIII. This week, Natalie welcomes Professor James Clark from the University of Exeter and Ilona Harris, Director of West Horsley Place, to discuss the historic visit of Henry VIII to West Horsley Place in July 1533. Discover the significance of this royal visit that took place during a critical moment in Henry VIII's reign, shortly after his marriage to Anne Boleyn and her subsequent coronation. Learn about the history of the manor house, the lavish banquet that greeted the king, and the hunting expedition that took place. Explore the political and social implications of Henry's visit, and how it served as a strategic move to secure his new era. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the extensive research conducted by historians and the immersive events planned at West Horsley Place to celebrate and mark the king's visit. From jousting and falconry displays to interactive family activities and intimate talks, there's something for everyone to enjoy. Don't miss this captivating journey back to the Tudor court. For more information and to book tickets for the upcoming events, visit the West Horsley Place website. https://www.westhorsleyplace.org/ As always, Natalie encourages listeners to share their thoughts and join the Talking Tudors community on social media.  Find out more about your host at https://www.nataliegrueninger.com Buy Talking Tudors merchandise at https://talkingtudors.threadless.com/ Support Talking Tudors on Patreon Learn more about Professor Clark here: https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?web_id=clark Check out his latest book! https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269956/the-dissolution-of-the-monasteries/ Follow West Horsley Place on X https://x.com/WHorsleyPlace    

Join our Guardians as they are shaken by a supernatural vision and an eerie encounter with a cloaked figure. As they grapple with these mysteries, an ancient scroll in their classroom whispers ominously, hinting at the profound destinies awaiting them. Meanwhile, a secretive conversation by Professor Clark hints at larger forces at play. Fate's Guardians is a work of fiction. Created, written, produced, and audio by Dena Gebelius Thank you so much for listening and supporting.

In the halls of Rose Academy, five students stumble upon a divine artifact that will change their lives forever. Join Nathan, Elijah, Freya, Adrienne, and Milo as they encounter an ancient scroll in Professor Clark's history class. A scroll that contains a prophecy and hints at their future and hidden pasts. As they gather around to read what it says, the lights unexpectedly go out, shrouding them in darkness and suspense. Join them as they stand on the brink of uncovering secrets that could change not only their lives but the world forever. Fate's Guardians is a work of fiction. Created, written, produced, and audio by Dena Gebelius Thank you so much for listening and supporting.

As promised, today Clark shares his crazy (like a fox!) idea on how to fix the housing crisis.  Also - a warning about buying a code-share airline ticket. Know how code-share tickets work, and often, don't work.  Clark's Housing Market Fix: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Code-Share Airline Tickets: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: Why many homeowners feel trapped by low-rate mortgages [The Washington Post] Inflation keeps coming in hot, likely delaying interest rate cuts Biden's manufacturing industry is expanding. That could be bad for inflation 3 Facts That Help Explain a Confusing Economic Moment 10 Best New Products at Costco in April 10 Secrets All Shoppers Need To Know About Costco Avoid the #1 Mistake That Car Buyers Make Simple vs. Compound Interest: Definition and Formulas Clark.com - How To Buy a Used Car How To Open a Roth IRA Help! Air Canada Ruined Our Trip to Ireland but Won't Take the Blame. Codeshare Flights Explained - NerdWallet Follow Clark Howard's #1 Rule To Travel Cheap Hopper: Book Travel on Mobile Thank you for listening today, Clarkies! If you want to be part of our “Clarkie” segment, call 404-981-2071 to leave a comment or story. We may play it during a future episode! Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Community.Clark.com Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This show will bless you if you have ever supported CrossExamined.org (and even if you haven't). Just two weeks ago at the Unshaken conference in Nashville, TN, Frank was both shocked and honored to learn that a group of graduates from the CrossExamined Instructor Academy (CIA) began a book project back in 2019 called, 'Faith Examined: New Arguments for Persistent Questions, Essays in Honor of Dr. Frank Turek'. The first copy of that book was given to Frank that night! In this week's podcast episode, Frank interviews the book's editor, Professor and New Testament scholar, Clark Bates, who spearheaded the project. During their conversation, Frank and Clark answer questions like: How did a festschrift in honor of CrossExamined come about? Which apologists have contributed to the book and what are some of the key points they make? Who is Richard Rohr and what is the so-called "Jesus Hermeneutic" that is popular amoung progressive Christians? How do we know that way of interpreting the Bible is wrong? How does Clark approach the reliability of Scripture? How is this book actually an honor for all supporters of CrossExamined?   In addition to Clark Bates, contributors to the book include, Alisa Childers, Natasha Crain, Jorge Gil, Sean McDowell, Alex McElroy, Tim Stratton, Eric Chabot, Phil Fernandes, Melissa Dougherty, William Soo Hoo, and Eric Hernandez. A labor of love that was four years in the making, 'Faith Examined' will help you respond to the most current objections to Christianity as it celebrates the contributions of CIA students and the dedicated supporters of CrossExamined.  Please click the link below to get this great book and support the work of Clark and the contributors! To view the entire VIDEO PODCAST be sure to join our CrossExamined private community. It's the perfect place to jump into some great discussions with like-minded Christians while simultaneously providing financial support for our ministry. You can also SUPPORT THE PODCAST HERE. Purchase ‘Faith Examined': https://a.co/d/1tmjbuz Learn more about Clark here: https://bit.ly/40Hs6UA Connect with Clark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crbates1

September 26   Professor Clark: Credit Scores 101  /  Smart Borrowing For Small Business Clark provides a 101 refresher on credit scores. Even if you don't need to borrow, there are valid reasons to pay attention to your score. Hear about the variety of score models and how to keep your overall score healthy. Also, changes in the banking sector have made it hard for small businesses & entrepreneurs to obtain working capital. Clark shares the best approaches, from local banks and credit unions, to credit cards - plus a warning about fintech instant loans.  Credit Score Reset: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Small Business Cash Flow Needs: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show Why You Don't Need an 800 Credit Score  /  How To Monitor Your Credit Credit Karma Review: Free Credit Score and More at Your Fingertips Credit Score Guide  /  4 Ways To Get Your Free Credit Score Credit Score Tips: Expert Helps Take Your Score From Good to Great Is Apple Card Worth It? 5 Things To Know in 2023 Small-business owners say it's hard to get a loan and fear more challenges ahead The Basics of Forming a Limited Liability Company (LLC) Best Secured Credit Cards for 2023: Top Picks for Building or Repairing Credit Petal Card Review: A Good Option for First Credit Card? Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Community.Clark.com Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By Davy Crockett You can read, listen, or watch Read the full story of Frank Hart in my new book: Frank Hart: The First Black Ultrarunning Star By late 1892, many of the original six-day professional pedestrians had left the sport, using their winnings to establish other careers, some of them pursuing illegal activities. Frank Hart had another terrible health scare during a six-day race in Wisconsin. News had spread across the country that his running days were finally over, that "he will never be seen on the track again." But running professionally had been part of his life for fourteen years. At the age of 36, now referred to as an "old pedestrian," Hart was determined to continue to compete and prove his doubters wrong. Get Davy Crockett's new book, Running 100 Miles: A History (1729-1960) This definitive history of the 100-mile races presents the rich history of many, both men and women, who achieved 100 miles on foot. Part one of this history includes tales of the trail-blazing British, the amazing Tarahumara of Mexico, and the brash Americans. Many of the early legendary, but forgotten, 100-miler runners are highlighted. St. Louis Six-Day Race Hart recovered and showed up in St. Louis for Professor Clark's Six-day Tournament held on December 19-24, 1892, at the Natatorium (swimming and gymnasium hall). People were astonished to see him a week before the race. "Frank Hart, the famous colored ped arrived in the city yesterday, a living contradiction to the rumors that had been circulated about his ill health. He denies that he coughed up a lung and part of his liver.” He trained with other competitors at the Natatorium and was seen reeling off mile after mile.  He indeed started the race and looked good in the field of fifteen runners. “A new lease of life appears to have been meted out to the old-time colored pedestrian." Hart reached 100 miles on the first day but then another alarming health scare took place. “He acted like a maniac while covering the last mile but returned to sensibility and resumed the race.” He had picked up a stool-bottom chair which was at the edge of the track, walked in front of the music stand, and threw it at the pianist with all his might. The musician dodged it, and the police came quickly. “They knew Hart had no reason in the world for acting as he did and thought he had gone daft. Hart emphasized this feeling himself by yelling more than a dozen times in a perfect frenzy, ‘You want to run a man crazy!' He was finally pacified and resumed his journey around the ring.” Hart reached 128 miles during the first day, soon took the lead, and had a great battle with Gus Guerrero, of California, on day three. “Frank Hart is as graceful as of old and came in for his proportion of the liberal applause.” He soon looked haggard. “Frank Hart is virtually out of the race although he occasionally appears upon the track. As he laid prostrate upon his couch last evening, he presented a sad spectacle. His limbs were swollen to nearly twice their natural size, his eyeballs were sunken deeply within their sockets, and the pedal extremities, which had traveled so many miles, were ornamented by large blood blisters. The colored champion will probably never again be seen in a race of this description, as he realizes that the time is at hand when he must acknowledge his younger superiors.” On day five, he was rolling again, but far behind. In the past, he would always quit in these circumstances, but he pressed on. He finished with 425 miles, in sixth place, enough to have a share of the prizes. But because of poor attendance, he did not win much. At least he proved to America that he was not dead yet, and his running career was continuing. At the end of January 1894, he competed in a 27-hour race in Buffalo, New York, where he finished third with 121 miles but received very little money for his effort. “The dividend for the contestants was hardly perceptible und...

Henry C. Clark, professor at Dartmouth College and director of the Political Economy Project, talks to us today about Montesquieu. Listen in to learn about his life and the political environment in Europe in the early 18th century, especially in following the death of Louis XIV after a 72-year rule. Learn about Montesquieu's contributions, such as the idea of separation of powers, and stay a while as Professor Clark talks to us about Montesquieu's influence on Europe's political discourse and America's founding. We also explore the similarities and differences between Montesquieu and Adam Smith! Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Henry C. Clark, professor at Dartmouth College and director of the Political Economy Project, talks to us today about Montesquieu. Listen in to learn about his life and the political environment in Europe in the early 18th century, especially in following the death of Louis XIV after a 72-year rule. Learn about Montesquieu's contributions, such as the idea of separation of powers, and stay a while as Professor Clark talks to us about Montesquieu's influence on Europe's political discourse and America's founding. We also explore the similarities and differences between Montesquieu and Adam Smith! Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update.Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Brettanomyces, also known as Brett, is a yeast that imparts plastic or animal aromas, such as sticking plasters, smoke, leather, or sweaty horses, to wine. To put it differently, Brettanomyces could cause spoilage in wines via the production of volatile phenol compounds. At first glance, these characters may seem unpleasant. However, many wine enthusiasts enjoy them and do not consider low levels of Brett in wine a fault. Brettanomyces belongs to a family of nine different naturally occurring yeast species (B. lambicus, D. bruxulensis, B. bruxellensis, B. intermidious, among others). Like its cousin, Saccharomyces, the principal agent of alcoholic fermentation, Brett feeds on sugars and converts them into alcohol, carbon dioxide, and diverse compounds that influence the wine aroma, taste, and texture. Unlike the compounds created by Saccharomyces, however, the ones produced by Brettanomyces are not so much appreciated. Some common descriptions could be barnyard, animal sweat, sewage, vomit, Band-Aid, and wet dog. Different Growth Apart from bestowing different aromas to the wine, the two yeasts differentiate in how they grow, too. For example, Saccharomyces multiplies in a must, feasting on all available fructose and glucose. It only dies when the food runs out, the alcohol content gets high, or the winemaker freezes the wine. On the other hand, Brett has steady but slow growth, and for this reason, it appears only months after the fermentation is over. Additionally, it feeds on a range of substrates. Fructose and glucose are favorites, sure, but Brett eats unfermentable sugars, as also oak sugars. Consequently, second-hand oak barrels can be a source of Brettanomyces infection. Here is the link for Clark Smith Chemistry course extremely fascinating!! https://fundamentalsofmodernwinechemistryandbeyond.voomly.com/Some other useful links on the topic https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/sZ3rBkmAXZ/ https://www.internationalwinechallenge.com/Canopy-Articles/brettanomyces-the-most-interesting-of-all-wine-faults.html https://www.awri.com.au/industry_support/winemaking_resources/frequently_asked_questions/brettanomyces-faq/ Reach us on:Instagram lookingintowine Twitter Mattia Scarpazza Mail Info@mattiascarpazza.com

And I'm never going back To my old schoolDonald Jay Fagen / Walter Carl BeckerMy old school was tiny. Classes could be just ten people sitting around a table, and I will forever be grateful to my parents, federal financial aid, the student loan system (at 9% interest!), and a steady stretch of year-round employment for the opportunity to attend such a college.I was an English major and had to take a course my first semester in reading poetry. The instructor, Professor Clark, was a crotchety cuss right out of central casting. Hell, he was bearded and even smoked a pipe! He was probably only about forty, but acted like a world-weary codger with little patience for the ignorant teenagers who disrupted his pipe-puffing ruminations by showing up to his seminar room for regularly scheduled classes.Professor Clark lorded it over his, maybe, dozen students in the room. A few pretended to be inspired and challenged by his diatribes about how we were so incapable, and they found his favor and some success. The rest of us were just intimidated. He could be a mean son-of-a-b***h both in and out of the classroom. I remember receiving my first graded paper, unhelpfully marked up with baffling red marks and rude notations. The final comment all-but declared me a hopeless idiot. The fact was, although I had taken Honors and AP English in high school, those classes rarely covered poetry, which did not help much with the AP exam. Like so many others I found poetry confounding and mystifying and had little sense of how to even approach it let alone interpret it.Professor Clark was to be my first guide on my journey through what I perceived as the foreboding and treacherous terrain of poesy. I remember bungling through Donne and Keats and Shakespeare, unable to touch the invisible and impossibly high bar set by Professor Clark. Yet I worked hard and applied myself, took his advice, and plowed on. For. Three. Semesters.My college had and still has a requirement called “Moderation” in which a committee of professors reviews students' work during sophomore year to see if they have what it takes to continue in their majors. During my Moderation, one of my reviewers remarked with wonder that I had taken Professor Clark three times in a row and had earned only a B-minus for each of those semesters. “Why,” she asked, “did you keep taking him if your grade was not improving?”I responded without any forethought and with all sincerity, “because I am not in college for grades. I am here to learn.” (Insert knowing laughter here.)They were impressed by my answer, which was chock full of all the idealistic naïveté a nineteen year old could exude and, sad to say, absolutely no guile. They quickly approved my continuation as an English major. What choice did they have at that point, disarmed by my callow candor as they were?By then, I had moved on from Professor Clark's toxic salon and was thriving in other classes with other professors but for one thing. I still could not read poetry. All that work, all that abuse, all that humiliation, and all those B-minuses, and poems still perplexed me.It was then I realized. Professor Clark was tough. Professor Clark had high and exacting standards. Professor Clark knew his stuff. But Professor Clark was a truly shitty teacher. In my fourth semester as an English major I had to start from scratch learning to read poetry. Years later, when it was my time to lord it over a classroom, I thought about Professor Clark, how he had terrified the students in his thrall, convincing them that he must be a brilliant teacher because he was so demanding and mean. I thought, maybe that is the way. After all, he was probably replicating the behavior of his professors. Then, I thought about how I had learned so little in his classes. I thought about how I largely taught myself to read poetry. I also thought about how horrible Professor Clark made me and everyone feel. I finally thought, nah. I then chose to be a very different teacher.I recount this tale of woe not to elicit your sympathy for my adolescent travails but to make a point about bosses. Yup, bosses.BossesLike many professors — particularly back in the day — many bosses are elevated to their positions with little or no knowledge or perspective on their new role. Worse still, they barely understand the significant difference between managing and leading let alone the fact that they have to master both. These shortcomings are only amplified by many, many so-called leadership trainings that focus primarily on management matters (budgets, HR, scheduling, etc). Even when such trainings do teach actual leadership, they frequently fail to convey how critical the ongoing development of leadership skills is to a boss's success as well as that of their people and their organizations.So, what is a new boss to do? Well, most often, like Professor Clark, new bosses simply fall back on the only models they have seen, which is what their own bosses had always done. Therefore the prevalence of jerks in the Kingdom of Bosses only begets more jerk bosses, full of self-importance, self-service, and gratuitous cruelty. They fail to accommodate the very individuals they are charged with guiding, leaving many good people and much productivity by the wayside while championing sycophants and fellow blowhards. They preach high standards and perpetuate mediocrity.If most bosses view their predecessors' behavior as the best or only model, as I believe was the case with Professor Clark, then no wonder they then mimic it. Worse still, as with any copy of a copy, the outcome deteriorates over time, so most bosses are just bad imitations of their forebears.The trick is to break the cycle, to find a different way. What way, perhaps you are wondering? Well, to start with, not that way. In other words, you must first choose not to be like your bad bosses of yore. Don't be like Professor Clark. If you start with that realization and commit to it, you are way ahead of the game although far from the finish.In short, bad predecessors can still be a model, a model of how not to behave. I call this learning from the negative paradigm and wrote about it here. You have to build the boss role for yourself. That does not mean just doing the opposite of your bad bosses, which I wrote about here. Instead, be true to your values and to the mission of your organization. Remember that the primary purpose of any boss is to make people successful. Bosses exist to help their people deliver on the mission, whatever that be. For too many bosses, intimidation is their go-to motivator, but, as with Professor Clark, it will turn out to be a bust in the end.The key is to focus on elevating your people, leaning into your values, and fulfilling the mission. View whatever bossing you saw before or see around you with a jaundiced eye. Maybe you had a good boss or two. If so, ask yourself what made that boss so effective. Was it just because this person made you feel good, or was there actual evidence of quality and improvement all around, not just with yourself? Importantly, how can you be even better than that good boss? Good bossing, like anything of value, is a genuine challenge. It requires constant awareness and assessment and reassessment of yourself, of your experience, and of others. Great leadership requires much the same, but it also demands a fundamental commitment to your personal and professional values plus the wherewithal to put them into action.I am almost certain you have had a Professor Clark in your life, perhaps several — an authority figure who attempted to cow you, probably as a cover for their own perceived and evident deficiencies. Learn from that negative paradigm. Choose to be different. Choose to be better. Don't be like Professor Clark. Even graded on the curve and with all the extra credit points thrown in, as a teacher and as a human being, he still earned his F.What assumptions about leadership do you make because of your bosses, past and present? What can you do to break the cycle of bad bosses?You deserve the best from your bosses just as others deserve the best leadership from you, and I can help. 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Carol Sutton Lewis, host of the podcast Ground Control Parenting, has long been interested in Black history. This season, she's joining Lost Women of Science as a cohost to help tell the story of the mechanical engineer, Yvonne Young Clark. Known as Professor Clark to her students and YY to her engineering colleagues, YY's career spanned academia and industry. She was a dedicated STEM educator and a champion of historically Black colleges and universities. Alongside cohost Katie Hafner, Carol will trace YY's life and work through fascinating chapters of Black history, from the promises of Reconstruction to integration efforts at NASA.

California Correctional Health Care Services is emerging from a decade of federal oversight. We talk with the Federal Receiver about the healthcare needs of inmates and the goals set by the federal courts for serving incarcerated individuals. 

From 1536-1540 king Henry VIII closed 850 monasteries in England and Wales. The consequences of this decision have reverberated from his day until now. Join me in a fascinating  conversation  with James Clark, author of The Dissolution of the Monasteries published by Yale University press.  You can find Professor Clark's book https://yalebooks.yale.edu/author/clark-jamesYou find Michele on Twitter @MichelemcAloon1 

Micro-oxygenation, or Mox to its mates, is a controlled, periodically continuous addition of tiny amounts of oxygen to the wine, usually red.Forget the new world being leaders in technical winemaking innovation. Mox was devised in 1991 by Patrick Ducournau, of Domaine Mouréou in Madiran, as a way of softening the tannins of his home grape variety Tannant which has legendary tannins.Benefits include the stabilisation of colour, the building up and softening of structure and the lessening of stinky, reductive notes. It's now widely used across the winemaking globe, on tannic grape varieties. Mox and pinot noir are unlikely ever to be best buddies.Since Micro-Oxygenation increases the wine's reductive capacity, it does not reduce ageing time and is not useful for promoting the early release. After the structure is built, if the wine is sent immediately to barrels, frequent racking's may be necessary to prevent the wine from becoming closed and hard. My guest Clark Smith, has been working, researching, and studying the use of Micro-Oxygenation in wines since 1997.We go through some of the myths about Micro-oxygenation and we discuss how most winemakers only use it to stabilise colour and speed up the bottling times but in truth Micro-oxygenation applied at a specific stage can help with the structure of wines tannins.Remember to hit the subscribe button, and if you find this Podcast gives you valuable information's give us a review and tell your friends!If you are enjoying the podcast you can donate on Mattia Scarpazza.comYou can find Looking into wines on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and every major listening app We would love you hear from you! Reach us on: Instagram Lookingintowine Twitter Mattia Scarpazza Mail Info@mattiascarpazza.com

Professor Moira Clark is a Professor of Strategic Marketing at Henley Business School in the UK. She is also the founder and director of the Henley Centre for Customer Management.  In this episode Professor Clark explores the need to build back better post-pandemic CX and also the total lifetime value of customers. https://www.henley.ac.uk/people/professor-moira-clark https://www.henley.ac.uk/

Greg Clark is the doyen of international urbanists. He has over 30 years built up a reputation as a go-to thought-leader and analyst on cities, having by now worked in and for more than 300 of them world-wide. Professor Clark is Group Advisor, Future Cities & New Industries at HSBC, one of the world's leading banks, with his advice sought by governments at all levels and leaders of industry and commerce across 67 countries and 400 cities. He is Chair of the Connected Places Catapult, the UK's innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership and he is on the Board of Transport for London and chairs its Investment Committee. In this deeply insightful talk on cities and Covid, Greg sets out the evidence – his reasoned optimism – that though some cities have been deeply challenged by Covid, they will, as they always have done, reinvent themselves. The future is still urban and indeed as Greg points out, some parts of the world have not seen any slowdown in their urbanisation, with China firmly on a path to 65% of its population being urban by 2025 and with Africa now having many of the fastest-growing cities on the planet. Cities remain central to our human future and the core drivers of creativity and innovation. But they are changing and COVID has accelerated that evolution. Join Greg Clark and Tim Williams for a fascinating discussion on what this means for us all. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

First book-writer on the pod! Professor Clark was nice enough to join me to talk about his new smash success children's book: "Stonks On The Moon" It's a heart-warming allegory for the GME short-squeeze of 2021, and also happens to be about an adorable little ape named Stonks, who just wants to get to the moon with his dad. There's plenty there for the kids to chew on, but also is a fun read for adults who are into the world of investing, the stock market, finances, reddit trends, and all of those ultra-popular topics surging around the internet these days. We talked about not only the creation of the book, from ideas, to writing, to publishing, to distribution; but we also talked about Dr. Suess, our favorite children's books/movies, and even pivoted to full-blown investment talk toward the end for a few minutes to please all the suits in the room. Odd combo for a pod? Maybe, but I like both. Odd combo for a children's book? Not at all. It grabs the attention of both the kids and the adults who inevitably will be reading it together, and for my money, that's genius. There's a reason this book hit the top 100 books on ALL of Amazon on its FIRST DAY OF RELEASE! The book is available on Amazon HERE, and you can follow @StonksOnTheMoon on Twitter for new updates, availability, Easter Eggs, AND some potential info about upcoming sequels, which we talked plenty about on the episode. Now, without further ado, follow @thelink_podcast on both Twitter & Instagram, or send me an email: emailthelinkpodcast@gmail.com telling me how fantastic this (and all the other episodes are), or really say whatever you want, it's a free country, and a free email, AND a free podcast! What a deal. Okay, we're good now, promo done, I swear. Enjoy the episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Dillon Clark, aka Professor Clark, joins Carol Roth to talk about his runaway hit children’s book (also for adults), Stonks on the Moon, based on the retail investor community know as “the Ape Army” or “Apes”. We talk about the David vs. Goliath focus of retail investors vs. Wall Street and how community is a critical foundation for these investors. Plus, a “Now You Know” on Dr. Seuss. Important... Source

Dillon Clark, aka Professor Clark, joins Carol Roth to talk about his runaway hit children's book (also for adults), Stonks on the Moon, based on the retail investor community know as “the Ape Army” or “Apes”. We talk about the David vs. Goliath focus of retail investors vs. Wall Street and how community is a […]

Internationally renowned expert on global issues including nuclear disarmament, human rights, international criminal law, and U.S. foreign relations law, Roger S. Clark shares some of his career highlights with Co-Dean Kim Mutcherson. Professor Clark has worked for the New Zealand Justice Department and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, served on the U.N. Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, and represented Samoa and the Marshall Islands before the International Court of Justice. Learn more about Professor Clark! Interested in supporting the Roger S. Clark for International Law Fund? CLICK HERE to make your gift today! The Power of Attorney is produced by Rutgers Law School. With two locations minutes from Philadelphia and New York City, Rutgers Law offers the prestige and reputation of a large, nationally-known university combined with a personal, small campus experience. Learn more by visiting law.rutgers.edu. Series Producer and Editor: Kate Bianco --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rutgerslaw/message

As a young boy, Professor Graeme Clark's school teacher asked "What do you want to do when you grow up?" He replied "I want to fix ears." So began his lifelong pursuit to break down the barriers of profound deafness with the invention of the multiple-channel cochlear implant. Professor Clark, now 85 years-old, reflects on achieving his childhood dream to give sound and speech recognition to hundreds of thousands of people across the globe. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we are joined by Professor Greg Clark, Senior Advisor and Global Head of Future Cities and New Industries at HSBC. Professor Clark discusses how Covid-19, the impacts of climate change and the rapid acceleration of tech and the Internet of Things have been a catalyst for change for cities in Asia-Pacific whether it be mobility, technology or human interactions. Interviewer: Andrea De Vincentiis, Regional Head of B2B Marketing, Asia-Pacific, HSBC Speaker: Professor Greg Clark, Senior Advisor and Global Head of Future Cities and New Industries, HSBC See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark, emeritus professor of history at the University of Kansas, whose sequence of ground-breaking books have contested prevailing assumptions about religion, politics and early modernity even as they have worked to construct a chastened but compelling account of British and American society from the Restoration to the Great Reform Act. In his new book, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018), Professor Clark works to deconstruct grand narratives of the “rise of modernity” and the political hagiography that so often surrounds his subject. Paine emerges from this account as an individual whose contribution was made in terms of the traditional language of English reformism as well as the recently established arguments of deism, and whose contribution to the American and French revolutions was accidental – and perhaps even incidental. In this exciting new book, Clark emphasizes Paine's importance – but not in the ways that we might expect. Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests focus on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, and he is the author most recently of John Owen and English Puritanism (Oxford University Press, 2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark, emeritus professor of history at the University of Kansas, whose sequence of ground-breaking books have contested prevailing assumptions about religion, politics and early modernity even as they have worked to construct a chastened but compelling account of British and American society from the Restoration to the Great Reform Act. In his new book, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018), Professor Clark works to deconstruct grand narratives of the “rise of modernity” and the political hagiography that so often surrounds his subject. Paine emerges from this account as an individual whose contribution was made in terms of the traditional language of English reformism as well as the recently established arguments of deism, and whose contribution to the American and French revolutions was accidental – and perhaps even incidental. In this exciting new book, Clark emphasizes Paine’s importance – but not in the ways that we might expect. Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests focus on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, and he is the author most recently of John Owen and English Puritanism (Oxford University Press, 2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark, emeritus professor of history at the University of Kansas, whose sequence of ground-breaking books have contested prevailing assumptions about religion, politics and early modernity even as they have worked to construct a chastened but compelling account of British and American society from the Restoration to the Great Reform Act. In his new book, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018), Professor Clark works to deconstruct grand narratives of the “rise of modernity” and the political hagiography that so often surrounds his subject. Paine emerges from this account as an individual whose contribution was made in terms of the traditional language of English reformism as well as the recently established arguments of deism, and whose contribution to the American and French revolutions was accidental – and perhaps even incidental. In this exciting new book, Clark emphasizes Paine's importance – but not in the ways that we might expect. Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests focus on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, and he is the author most recently of John Owen and English Puritanism (Oxford University Press, 2016).

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark, emeritus professor of history at the University of Kansas, whose sequence of ground-breaking books have contested prevailing assumptions about religion, politics and early modernity even as they have worked to construct a chastened but compelling account of British and American society from the Restoration to the Great Reform Act. In his new book, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018), Professor Clark works to deconstruct grand narratives of the “rise of modernity” and the political hagiography that so often surrounds his subject. Paine emerges from this account as an individual whose contribution was made in terms of the traditional language of English reformism as well as the recently established arguments of deism, and whose contribution to the American and French revolutions was accidental – and perhaps even incidental. In this exciting new book, Clark emphasizes Paine’s importance – but not in the ways that we might expect. Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests focus on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, and he is the author most recently of John Owen and English Puritanism (Oxford University Press, 2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark, emeritus professor of history at the University of Kansas, whose sequence of ground-breaking books have contested prevailing assumptions about religion, politics and early modernity even as they have worked to construct a chastened but compelling account of British and American society from the Restoration to the Great Reform Act. In his new book, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018), Professor Clark works to deconstruct grand narratives of the “rise of modernity” and the political hagiography that so often surrounds his subject. Paine emerges from this account as an individual whose contribution was made in terms of the traditional language of English reformism as well as the recently established arguments of deism, and whose contribution to the American and French revolutions was accidental – and perhaps even incidental. In this exciting new book, Clark emphasizes Paine’s importance – but not in the ways that we might expect. Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests focus on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, and he is the author most recently of John Owen and English Puritanism (Oxford University Press, 2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark, emeritus professor of history at the University of Kansas, whose sequence of ground-breaking books have contested prevailing assumptions about religion, politics and early modernity even as they have worked to construct a chastened but compelling account of British and American society from the Restoration to the Great Reform Act. In his new book, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018), Professor Clark works to deconstruct grand narratives of the “rise of modernity” and the political hagiography that so often surrounds his subject. Paine emerges from this account as an individual whose contribution was made in terms of the traditional language of English reformism as well as the recently established arguments of deism, and whose contribution to the American and French revolutions was accidental – and perhaps even incidental. In this exciting new book, Clark emphasizes Paine’s importance – but not in the ways that we might expect. Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests focus on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, and he is the author most recently of John Owen and English Puritanism (Oxford University Press, 2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark, emeritus professor of history at the University of Kansas, whose sequence of ground-breaking books have contested prevailing assumptions about religion, politics and early modernity even as they have worked to construct a chastened but compelling account of British and American society from the Restoration to the Great Reform Act. In his new book, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018), Professor Clark works to deconstruct grand narratives of the “rise of modernity” and the political hagiography that so often surrounds his subject. Paine emerges from this account as an individual whose contribution was made in terms of the traditional language of English reformism as well as the recently established arguments of deism, and whose contribution to the American and French revolutions was accidental – and perhaps even incidental. In this exciting new book, Clark emphasizes Paine’s importance – but not in the ways that we might expect. Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests focus on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, and he is the author most recently of John Owen and English Puritanism (Oxford University Press, 2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark, emeritus professor of history at the University of Kansas, whose sequence of ground-breaking books have contested prevailing assumptions about religion, politics and early modernity even as they have worked to construct a chastened but compelling account of British and American society from the Restoration to the Great Reform Act. In his new book, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018), Professor Clark works to deconstruct grand narratives of the “rise of modernity” and the political hagiography that so often surrounds his subject. Paine emerges from this account as an individual whose contribution was made in terms of the traditional language of English reformism as well as the recently established arguments of deism, and whose contribution to the American and French revolutions was accidental – and perhaps even incidental. In this exciting new book, Clark emphasizes Paine’s importance – but not in the ways that we might expect. Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests focus on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, and he is the author most recently of John Owen and English Puritanism (Oxford University Press, 2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark, emeritus professor of history at the University of Kansas, whose sequence of ground-breaking books have contested prevailing assumptions about religion, politics and early modernity even as they have worked to construct a chastened but compelling account of British and American society from the Restoration to the Great Reform Act. In his new book, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018), Professor Clark works to deconstruct grand narratives of the “rise of modernity” and the political hagiography that so often surrounds his subject. Paine emerges from this account as an individual whose contribution was made in terms of the traditional language of English reformism as well as the recently established arguments of deism, and whose contribution to the American and French revolutions was accidental – and perhaps even incidental. In this exciting new book, Clark emphasizes Paine’s importance – but not in the ways that we might expect. Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests focus on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, and he is the author most recently of John Owen and English Puritanism (Oxford University Press, 2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is it about the particularities of painting that has allowed artists to explore, in a variety of ways and with a sometimes surprising degree of freedom, the vexed relations between the mundane and the celestial? In his latest book Heaven on Earth (Thames and Hudson) art historian T.J. Clark draws on examples from Giotto to Picasso to provide an exciting new history of the depiction of the divine. Professor Clark will be in conversation with LRB contributing editor Jeremy Harding. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Professor Clark discusses his work with the International Experiential Learning Program.

Professor Roger Clark is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and of Columbia Law School in New York. He began his teaching career at Victoria in 1964 and has taught at Rutgers Law School in New Jersey since 1972. He represented Samoa at the International Court of Justice in the Advisory Proceedings on the Legality of the Use or Threat of use of Nuclear Weapons in 1995 and is currently a member of the team representing the Marshall Islands in its ICJ cases on nuclear weapons. The team has been nominated by the International Peace Bureau for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. In this conversation with Professor Kevin Clements (NCPACS), Professor Clark will discuss the influences that have determined the course of his life and career.

Professor Roger Clark is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and of Columbia Law School in New York. He began his teaching career at Victoria in 1964 and has taught at Rutgers Law School in New Jersey since 1972. He represented Samoa at the International Court of Justice in the Advisory Proceedings on the Legality of the Use or Threat of use of Nuclear Weapons in 1995 and is currently a member of the team representing the Marshall Islands in its ICJ cases on nuclear weapons. The team has been nominated by the International Peace Bureau for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. In this conversation with Professor Kevin Clements (NCPACS), Professor Clark will discuss the influences that have determined the course of his life and career.

Professor Roger Clark is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and of Columbia Law School in New York. He began his teaching career at Victoria in 1964 and has taught at Rutgers Law School in New Jersey since 1972. He represented Samoa at the International Court of Justice in the Advisory Proceedings on the Legality of the Use or Threat of use of Nuclear Weapons in 1995 and is currently a member of the team representing the Marshall Islands in its ICJ cases on nuclear weapons. The team has been nominated by the International Peace Bureau for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. In this conversation with Professor Kevin Clements (NCPACS), Professor Clark will discuss the influences that have determined the course of his life and career.

Sean Clark was just a young man when he realized that, being from a middle class home, no one was beating down his parents store to financially educate them or help them develop a game plan for success. With that reality in mind, and his college degree completed, Sean and his wife Annette set out to build a business that would “democratize” success… a “financial planning company for everybody”, regardless of means. From that idea came York Independents, the company Sean calls “the most unique shopping service you’ll ever find” because York Independents “not only does the analytical planning but then shops the marketplace to find clients better deals… then helps clients implement those plans”. According to Professor Clark, York Independent’s mission is to be the “hand-holding financial planners for the middle class “and the best part? YI’s planning services are done at the firm’s cost so they are absolutely free for clients. Here’s a little bit about Sean Clark.  Sean is currently CEO of York Independents Incorporated, and is a former Professor of Business and Finance at Yorktown Business Institute. Sean holds the following certifications: Brainbench Certified in Consumer Finance, Certified in Investment Strategy, Certified in Financial Industry Knowledge, and Certified in Real Estate Finance.  Sean is a member of the American Society for Quality, earning his Certified Quality Improvement Associate designation with them.  For over a decade, Sean has been licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Banking, the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance, and the National Mortgage Licensing System, and is FINRA Registered Representative (both federal and PA), and is a FINRA Registered Supervisor. Regarding his education, Sean likes to say he is a graduate of the “School of Hard Knocks”, but actually, Sean has earned an Associate of Arts, an Associate of Science, an Associate of Engineering, a Bachelor of Science (all from Penn State), and he is currently an Masters Candidate at American Public University. Sean is a member of many clubs, including Mensa International, Intertel, Rotary International (where he serves as a District Committee Chair), the York Chamber of Commerce (where he serves as an Ambassador), and the York Jaycees. A sought-after lecturer, Sean has guest lectured for the York County Congressional Delegation, the York County Library System, York College of Pennsylvania (YCP), Penn State University (PSU), the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, York Women’s Show, Eastern York High School, Christian School of York, Southeastern School District, and Fourth United Methodist Church in York. Sean can be reached by email at sclark@yifinancial.com or by phone at 717-324-6147.   Steven has established TheTradersPlan.com as a distinctively unique ETF & Growth stock newsletter that focuses on trends in the market indices. Being a former Financial Advisor at a large broker dealer (and watching portfolios crash in 2008) forced Steven to create a Simple, Powerful Market Timing Strategy That Consistently Outperforms the Market Indicies that anyone can follow. To watch a free training webinar where Steven shares with you the secrets to his easy to follow ETF trading system simply go to TheTradersPlan.com On the Podcast Steven brings together trading systems experts, Professional Traders, and financial authorities to share with you how they help their clients make profitable trades and you can too.  

Professor John T. Clarke discusses the goals of the Mars Maven Mission.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:You're listening to KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM, university of California listener supported radio. And this is method to the madness coming at you from the Public Affairs Department here at Calex, celebrating the innovative spirit of the bay area and beyond. I'm your host. Eileen is r and today we're lucky enough to have with us professor John Clark from Boston University. Hello professor. How are you? Speaker 2:Hello. Good, thanks for having me on. Speaker 1:And Professor Clark, uh, happened to be here in Berkeley and so we got him on the show to talk about, um, [00:00:30] and innovation of his that is now, um, orbiting the planet Mars. The is shell spectrograph. So we want to talk about this and learn a little bit more about it. But first, um, I always start the show talking to someone who's invented something with the same question. What was the problem statement that you trying to solve? Speaker 2:Uh, okay, so this goes back quite a ways. Um, I trained as an astrophysicist and I built experiments to fly in space and try to analyze the data to answer particular [00:01:00] questions. Uh, the system that is flying now at Mars addresses one question, but it started about 25 years ago. Um, I was using another telescope to look at the atmosphere of Jupiter and there was something that we didn't understand and we used that instrument in an unusual way that it wasn't designed really to do. And we were able to figure out what was going on there. So I got the idea and then I built a prototype for this, a shell [00:01:30] spectrograph, um, to fly basically on a test bed on a rocket that just goes up in the space and comes right back down. You only get about five minutes of data. That's called a sounding rocket. Speaker 2:So let me back up a step. A spectrograph is a device that disperses light into the different wavelengths, the spectrum of colors and a usual, a normal spectrograph would have a certain resolution that refers to how much the light is spread out in wavelength. And a shell was a particular [00:02:00] kind of system that uses a different kinds of dispersing optic called an a shell grading. And it spreads the light out a lot more than a usual system. And to do that, you only get a look at a small part of the color spectrum, but you'd get a very good resolution on the different colors or wavelengths. Speaker 1:Now are there different, um, can you see all parts of the spectrum, just basically what it's trained on or is it only a certain part of the spectrum that it can see? Is there a specific thing you're looking for with the magnification [00:02:30] it gives you, Speaker 2:yeah, I mean, I can do an analogy here. If you are up on grizzly peak looking to her mouth, Tablo Pius low resolution system would see from Mount Tam to San Francisco and Michelle was zoomed in on the peak of Mount Tamela pious and get good resolution on that, but not be able to see anything else. Speaker 1:Ah, okay. So the problem statement of the shell spectrograph is to get deeper into the analysis of certain parts of the atmosphere by magnifying it. Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly. It actually magnifies spectrum, [00:03:00] the color spectrum rather than the atmosphere itself. Speaker 1:So as a, as a scientist, um, when you, you recognize the need for this, um, how do you go about, you know, starting to build something like this and now you started this 25 years ago. So I want to kind of go through the story and understand how we've gotten from there to here. But when you first understood, wow, there's a need for this, how do you go about, do you have to go get grant funding or how does that work? Speaker 2:Well, yeah, you start out writing a proposal and maybe calling the person at NASA who would be able to find you, have [00:03:30] a conversation about whether they would be a light to see this kind of a, of a proposal. And I did that when I was assistant professor back in the late eighties and they agreed and then it took several years to develop the system and fly it. And it flew several times on these sounding rockets before we had the opportunity to propose it for this mission to Mars. Speaker 1:Hmm. So, uh, taking a step back real quick. So let's talk a little bit about your background. So your astrophysicists, where did you do your studies? Speaker 2:[00:04:00] Well, I went undergraduate at Denison University in Ohio. I went Grad School in Physics at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. And from Hopkins I came out to Berkeley to the space sciences lab up on the hill for my first job after Grad school. What were you doing up there? I was doing the same general kind of thing I'm doing now, but I was doing it from ground-based telescopes. I spent a lot of time at Lick Observatory and Mount Hamilton in the South Bay. Speaker 1:Okay. And so, uh, from that point you got, did you became an assistant [00:04:30] professor and you saw you were working with a, uh, a telescope that was looking at Jupiter, is that right? Speaker 2:Yeah, so this was a NASA facility. There was an, a very high orbit around the earth. It's called the international ultraviolet explorer. And that's where I got the idea from Jupiter and then I realized I could apply the same kind of instrument to other planets and other problems. Speaker 1:And so, um, you started to build it, you did some space flights or I'm sorry, some, um, some tax space test space flights [00:05:00] to test the feasibility of it. And um, and this seems like it was a, it's like all kind of a lifetime project, right? You're, you're going to balance it, you know, teaching and doing your regular stuff. And this is a long term project. So take us from the time that you start doing the sample flights to now it's on the, this latest, um, mission to Mars who, tell us about that process. How do you get from kind of the samples to actually getting it onto, I'm sure lots of scientists are trying to bolt things onto something that's going to get orbit Mars. Speaker 2:Yeah, [00:05:30] it's very competitive. Um, and this is not the only thing I was doing research wise, but it was one thing kind of on the back burner for awhile. Um, in 2005, I joined the small group of people from University of Colorado and from Berkeley who were planning to propose for a small, relatively small mission to Mars. Um, so we started meeting in 2005. Uh, it was accepted in 2008 and it was launched in 2013 and it arrived at Maurice this past September and [00:06:00] we're now getting data back. So it's a long process. There's no guarantee it's going to go and there's no guarantee it's going to work even if it's funded. And, and they agreed to launch it. Speaker 1:So what is this? It's called the Maven, right? The via in it. Exactly. What is the a, the Mars Maven Maven Speaker 2:as a mission that stands, it's an acronym. Stands for Mars atmosphere. Volatile evolution experiment. So this is basically a global climate change mission for Mars to try to learn about how Mars has evolved [00:06:30] over its lifetime. In what ways have may be similar to the earth or have been similar to the earth when it was young. And in a nutshell, we think that Mars started out like the earth oceans of water. There is a lot of evidence on the surface of Mars today. You can see what looks just like river channels in flowing patterns, but it's dry. It's very dry today. Any water that's there is locked up in the polar ice caps or maybe into the surface itself like a permafrost. So the purpose of Navan [00:07:00] is to not land. There's no, um, rover a maven. It's orbiting around and through the atmosphere of Mars and trying to figure out the detailed physical principles by which the atmosphere of Mars is changing today. And then we could extrapolate back in time and understand what Mars was like in the past. Speaker 1:So is the hypothesis that, um, we can, um, try to understand better how to head off our own potential losing our oceans [00:07:30] by studying Mars or what, what's the, is it, is there that much of a analog that we can draw between that planet and our planet? Speaker 2:Well, you're painting a very particular picture there and worth looking more at a big picture. If we went to understand how planets in general work, we'd like to understand Mars that could teach us something about the earth. We're not really trying to save the Earth by sending a mission to Mars. Uh, we'd like to understand more of these principles to understand these exoplanets that are being found today around other stars. Speaker 1:[00:08:00] Yeah. And tell us about those exoplanets. What are, what are those that are being found today? These new discoveries, right. Speaker 2:There are new discoveries. The, um, technique by which these are found is the reflex motion of the star response to the gravity of the planet. So the first ones that were found were giant planets that were very close to the star. And now as the method improves, we're finding smaller planets farther away. We're not yet at the point of finding an earth, but it's getting close. Speaker 1:So we're, we're speaking with Professor John Clark, uh, [00:08:30] um, from, uh, Boston University who's, uh, luckily here in Berkeley to talk to us about, uh, the shell spectrograph that he has developed that is on the Mars Maven, um, and is, uh, helping to analyze the atmosphere of Mars. So I have one, you know, as a layman who knows nothing about this stuff, there's one thing I don't understand at all is the time lag between information gathered by Maven, right. And coming back to Earth, like how long does that take? Speaker 2:[00:09:00] Uh, well, it's minutes. It's not hours. Um, it's, uh, on the order of maybe 10 minutes. It varies a lot depending on where nick, the, uh, Mars and the earth are in their orbits around the sun. The distance can change dramatically, um, from one time of the year to another. Speaker 1:What's the mechanism through which the information is sent? Speaker 2:It's just a radio transmitter, just like Cadillacs, a little more, well, not probably not more powerful, but it's beamed back toward the earth and their large dishes on the earth, they pick up the signal. [00:09:30] So we send commands to the spacecraft and we get the data down. Speaker 1:Same Way. Wow. So it's, it's, it's, I'm much faster than I would've thought I would have. Like you hear about like these telescopes that go into deep space and, and you know, they're sending images back, but you don't even know if that telescope still exists. But I guess this is totally different because some closer away. So, um, what are the, it's, it's been orbiting Mars for the last six months or so, right? Correct. So what, what are, what are, what are you guys finding? Speaker 2:[00:10:00] Um, we're just, uh, still in the early phases of, of learning about Mars. When you first get a mission to another planet, like this one, the first thing you do is turn everything on and test it out. And you test your ability to command it, to have the onboard computer, do things in the right order and at the right time. And there's always a process of a few months where you understand how it works and, and, and fix things basically. Um, fortunately Neva is working very well. There've been some little hiccups, but basically everything's working. [00:10:30] Uh, we then get getting data back and we're now getting into more of a routine mode where we do the same thing every orbit around Mars. And then we can build up measurements over the course of a Mars year, a Mars orbit around the sun, and start to understand some of these physicals, Speaker 1:the principles. So, um, the, uh, and how long has a Mars year? Last year was about two or three years to earth years. So, and is there a, an expected lifespan of the Maven? Um, uh, is, [00:11:00] is it just called? It's, it's a satellite spacecraft. Yeah. Speaker 2:Yeah. It is a satellite. Um, it's expected to last for five to 10 years. It's built to last a long time. The prime mission for Maven is one earth year around Mars, but we expect that it would be continued for a second earth year to get one full Mars orbit around the sun. And the science team would like to go longer than that. Speaker 1:And so how did, like your involvement, cause you have one part portion of it. Yeah. Um, how, um, how does it work? Is [00:11:30] Do you have like a, I don't, I suppose you have like an iPhone app that's giving you data. I mean, where do you guys collect the information and is it, can you be constantly harvesting the information from your computer or is there different feeds coming from my phone? It's on air book. Nice. Speaker 2:Um, I mean the data come down, they go to the Lockheed's plant south of Denver and then they come to the science centers. And I would like to point out that the lab at Berkeley, the space sciences lab built several of the instruments that are on maven and several of the instruments were built, the University of Colorado. [00:12:00] And I have one channel of one instrument building Colorado. Speaker 1:Okay. And so your, your channel is, the shell spend should respect it is which is a sending back data. And what exactly in the atmosphere as the shell spectrograph looking at in Mars? Speaker 2:That's a good question. The shell spectrograph was designed to measure the ratio of deterioration to hydrogen in the upper atmosphere of Mars. So deterioration is like heavy water. It's a proton with a neutron in it and it has twice the mass of [00:12:30] a hydrogen atom. Um, the, the quick picture here is that when Mars was young, we think it had a lot of water. We think a lot of that water boiled off in the space. The gravity of Mars is only about one quarter of the gravity of the earth. So we think it lost a lot of its atmosphere. They just floated away. Well, it didn't float. Some of the atoms have enough velocity in their head pointing up. They can escape the gravity. It's a small fraction. But if that happened and water was lost water, we break up into hydrogen and oxygen [00:13:00] and about one and a 10 or a hundred thousand of those hydrogens would be deterioration. Now the hydrogen would boil off faster than the deterioration because it's half the mass. So if you lost a lot of water over time, there'd be more deterioration. And the ratio of those two gives you an idea of how much water was lost over the history of the planet. How long do you Speaker 1:thank you? It'll take to, to um, collect enough data for you to have enough to do your extrapolation that you want to make? Speaker 2:Well, we have [00:13:30] a quick look. Now we know that it's working. We're measuring deterioration and hydrogen. Now we get down into the gritty details of exactly how you analyze that and how accurately you can pin down, um, the numbers. But we don't want to just measure it to turn into hydrogen at one time. We want to look at Mars at different latitudes over the course of its seasons and find out if there are variations in the amount of deterioration in the atmosphere. Speaker 1:Now as an astro physicist, um, what is your, um, opinion of, you know, it seems like [00:14:00] the NASA has shifted years under the Obama, one of his big access to stop the space shuttle program and focus on, uh, more of these types of scientific endeavors. Is this the right move for, for us to be doing right now is going further out and looking at Mars and potentially further exploration? Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean if you ask a scientist, they'll say that robotic exploration is the way to go. It's much less expensive. You don't put anybody's life at risk and we can build very [00:14:30] good instruments to send to the other planets. But a lot of people also believe in and support, um, human space flight and getting away from low earth orbit. And that's another thrust of the current, uh, NASA space program. Speaker 1:So, uh, and so the robots like those rovers on Mars and, and Maven is communicating with those rovers. Right? Speaker 2:Uh, it's not, it's just with the earth. Speaker 1:Oh, okay. I thought that there was a relay is there's an ability for it to really, Speaker 2:ah, right. So you're ahead of me here. So maven was built by NASA [00:15:00] with a relay, so that in the future, after the maven science is more or less complete, they will change the orbit and then use the maven spacecraft to relay data from landers on the ground back to the earth in both Speaker 1:after it's kind of primary or first mission is complete. Right. So tell them, tell me a little bit, you know, and we're talking to professor John Clark from Boston University who is a part of the, uh, Mars maven team about the mission to Mars and the Michele spectrograph, [00:15:30] which he invented to help, uh, understand the atmosphere of Mars and climate change on Mars. So tell us a little bit about, um, just the, the scale of building something like a satellite that goes to Mars to figure out this problem. Like, we talked a little bit about it, but how long does it take? How many people are involved? Seems like a really big endeavor. Speaker 2:It is a big endeavor. We started out in 2005 with maybe a dozen, 15 people around the table thinking about how [00:16:00] we'd write the proposal. Um, it ended up with probably at one point a a hundred, 200 people. I'm working on developing the spacecraft and the instruments and testing them. Uh, the instruments were built at different labs around the country. Um, and then they were put together at Lucky's plant, south of Denver. The whole thing was tested. Um, and there's a lot of testing that goes on, um, with these missions cause it's, uh, you know, you launch these things, you can't go back if anything goes wrong. It's like building a car to [00:16:30] last for 10 years without ever changing the oil or filling the gas tank and you know, things can go wrong. Um, so there's very thorough testing on these things. Speaker 1:What's the failure rate of these types of, I mean, I'm sure that the level of testing is beyond what anybody could really imagine, but is what's the failure rate of these types of missions? Speaker 2:Well, if you run it long enough, something will fail 100%. What you want to do is make sure that it's built to last longer than what you need it to do. And this [00:17:00] has gotten very good at this. Um, Lockheed builds very good spacecraft. NASA builds very good instruments. The, um, so you think about a timeline for these things and how long they're going to go. And, um, I'm thinking of a, of an anecdote. I worked for NASA when I was younger and I was at the space flight center in Huntsville, Alabama where Wernher von Brown worked and they still told stories about him and they asked him, how do you make these, these rockets, you know, how do you make them work? It's very risky. Hard [00:17:30] to do. He said, well, we design it and we build it and then we tested until it breaks and then we figure out what went wrong and we tested again and we do that until it doesn't break and then it's ready to fly. So it's the testing program that's more important than trying to figure out everything that can go wrong. Speaker 1:Yeah. And so I'm, I'm a software, so I understand testing software and coming up with, you know, unit tests and system tests and really, really running through that rigor. But I would think that the level of rigor on something like this [00:18:00] must be much, much, um, greater than, than I could imagine. Is there a certain protocol that, you know, NASA puts everything that's going to go into space through that, you know, it has to pass, you know, 50 million checklists or whatever it is, or how does that work? Speaker 2:Right. There is a protocol. You will test it by vibrating the instrument, simulating the vibration of launch. You'll put it through a temperature cycle, hot and cold, more than the range you think we'll experience in space. You have to put it in a vacuum [00:18:30] to simulate the vacuum of space. There are all kinds of things like that. But the other trick that the aerospace industry and NASA use is to try to use things that have flown before that worked and not try something that's brand new, you know, improve the technology gradually and not just start from scratch. Speaker 1:So there's this, there's learnings from the 1960s missions that are kind of baked into, we just continually improve, improve, improve. Speaker 2:Yeah. But there's probably not much left from the 60s, I hope. [00:19:00] But it is Speaker 1:gradual process. Yeah. Interesting. Okay. Well, um, you know what, one question that I wanted to ask you about is, uh, the, there's a certain, um, it seems like the, you know, our, um, humanities race into spaces evolved quite a bit. You know, if I Harken back to the 60s, you had a big competition, but now it seems like there's a lot more collaboration. Is that, is that from an, from a layman's perspective, that's the way it looks. Is that accurate or, we have this, you have just one [00:19:30] international space station and everybody kind of shares. And, um, so is there other other countries involved on the Maven or is it this is a NASA, Speaker 2:we have several European co-investigators. Scientific co-investigators. That's correct. Yeah. And A, we have a couple of people from Japan who are participating in the science, uh, but there's still somewhat of a competition between nations. Okay. The, uh, the Chinese who are trying to do things on their own without getting help from other countries. And, uh, I think that if China landed [00:20:00] on the moon, that might help us in terms of getting this country behind, going back and doing more things in space. Speaker 1:So do you think that there's still much to explore on the moon? We've, we've kind of given up that, uh, before we, we've given up that mission before you really figured out everything and we should've, Speaker 2:well, to me, we've learned a lot about the moon and we should be moving on and doing other things. Um, but I support, um, human space flight. Um, I personally suspect that the future of human space [00:20:30] flight is more in private companies. It might be space x, Elon Musk going to Mars, um, before the government does. And partly I say that just because companies are willing to take on more risk and do things less expensively than the government is. Speaker 1:Yeah. And, and uh, and be more disruptive but potentially be, um, more dangerous. You know, that, that's the scary part of that too. Is that what kind of, there's probably no regulation of space level or maybe there is, I don't know. Speaker 2:Well, the more risk [00:21:00] you take, the more accidents there will be. I think that's true and I expect that things will go wrong. Um, but we know a lot already in terms of building rockets and flying things, launching things into space. And private companies today can take advantage of that history of knowledge and hopefully things will go well. But in the early days of aviation, there were accidents and people got hurt, but they kept going. And that's, I think, the kind of spirit that you need to have. Speaker 1:Yeah, sure. I mean, all great explorers. [00:21:30] They're all gonna eat to cat or yeah. Serious risks with a life and limb. Yeah. I'm the worst. We're speaking with Professor John Clark from Boston University here. Kayla likes Berkeley 90.7 FM. He's a part of the Mars maven team. Uh, it's a satellite that's now orbiting Mars that is, um, uh, sending back information about the atmosphere and climate change on that planet. Um, and Professor Clark also teaches, uh, actively teaches at Boston University. What, what are you teaching there? Right now? Speaker 2:I'm in the department of astronomy. [00:22:00] I teach planetary science, uh, intro astronomy all the way from non-science major undergraduates to advanced Grad students. Speaker 1:Okay. Well I wanted to ask you about, um, you know, as someone who's studied this as a career, what is the, um, you know, in our lifetime we were to say like the next 50 years, what would you say are the big milestones in terms of space exploration that are attainable for us as a race? Speaker 2:Wow. 50 years is kind of a long horizon. Um, [00:22:30] and it's hard to predict. I th I expect that robotic missions will continue to fly over that time period. Um, I think that human space flight will develop, there are a lot of people who have decided that Mars is the place for human beings to go next. It's, um, it's very risky. There's a lot of questions about radiation, about keeping people healthy. Um, it's not going to be an easy thing to do, but I can see that happening in less than 50 years. Yeah. Now, another thing that I find [00:23:00] more interesting in the shorter term, like 10, 10 ish years, is these, um, these things like virgin galactic where they're building ways to take people up into space and come right back down. And I think that, um, a lot of people alive today will have the choice of the cost will come down as they do it more and more. I think they'll have the choice of buying a car or flying in space. It'll be at that cost level. Speaker 1:But flying is patients on a Lark just to experience zero gravity or to actually [00:23:30] go from one part of the planet to the other. Speaker 2:So when I go into a room with a bunch of students, I ask them if you could spend 20 k and flying the space, how many of you would do it? And I wait about three seconds. And then I say, if your hand isn't up, you're not going to do it. If you're thinking about whether it's a idea, yeah, you're not the ones who will be on these first slides. Speaker 1:So it's going to be some kind of a, a something for the Uber rich kind of like to say, Oh yeah, I've been in space. That kind of thing. Speaker 2:A lot of people can afford to buy a car and they might prefer to ride the bus and have the experience [00:24:00] of flying in space. Speaker 1:Yeah. Interesting. Okay. Um, what about, um, as we find these more exoplanets, um, what is your, what is your feeling on what's out there? Is there, is there life out there that we're going to be, um, able to, I know it's the million dollar question by you, someone who's studied this your whole career probably. So what's your feeling? Speaker 2:Um, well I don't, I won't give you any feelings, but I thought about it. We see so many other stars, so many other galaxies and now we're finding so many planets [00:24:30] around nearby stars. It's become clear that most stars have planets around them. They're very common. They're just, if you look at the numbers that are going to be so many of them out there, that there have to be a lot of them that are similar to the earth. And there may be forms of life that we have not dreamt of that could be on other kinds of planets. So if you just look at the numbers, the Azar, there's life all over the universe. So that's the good news. Now the other news is that as far as we know, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light [00:25:00] and at that speed there may be life all over the universe and we'll never find it just because of the distance. It's going to be hard. It may be close by. Okay. I'm not saying it's impossible, but most of it we will probably never be in contact with. Speaker 1:Do you think we'll ever be able to really know? You know, explain it. I mean this is the big question. You know, you have like religion versus science and there's this big leap of faith. You kind of have to take it either way. Like you're saying there, it's probably out there, but how are we ever going to know [00:25:30] unless they come? Someone does can travel faster than the speed of light and show up in our doorstep. Speaker 2:Well, what I described is what we understand today. Now I'm willing to change my mind that the drop Speaker 3:you're a scientist, Speaker 2:it's been, you know, very dangerous to assume that you know too much, uh, throughout history. Speaker 1:Yeah. You know, I always think about 'em, um, as again, someone who is not an astrophysicist about star trek, which is a lot of my understanding of this. And they have the, um, the premise that there's [00:26:00] higher, um, forms that are watching us waiting for us to be able to unlock some secrets of interstellar travel. And once we do, then they show up and say, okay, you know, now you have to learn how to responsibly travel. And you know, perhaps that's uh, that's out there cause there's potential to have so many different kinds of life forms up there. So Speaker 2:it's fun to think about and there's a lot we don't know. But another thing that scientists talk about is a thing called the Thermi paradox. And Rico fare made decades ago said, if there's other life in the [00:26:30] universe, where is it? How come we don't know about it? Why haven't they come here and contacted us? And that's a different way of looking at the same question. Speaker 1:Yeah. So, um, uh, in closing the professor John Clark here from Boston University and on KLX Berkeley in 90.7 FM, if you were to kind of wave your magic wand and get your wildest dreams from this maven exploration and the shell spectrograph that you put on it, what would you, what would you find out? What would be the big, you know, victory for you? Speaker 2:We would learn everything we need [00:27:00] to know about the escape of water into space from Mars to be able to go back 3 billion years and know what Mars was like when it was young. Was Mars earth-like and for how long was that earth-like? Long enough for life to begin on Mars, a questions like that. Speaker 1:All right, well hopefully we'll find that out and it's not, it's going to be pretty quick like in the next couple of years. Right. This is the great, well, best of luck. Thanks so much for the exploration you're doing for all of us. Hopefully we'll all get to learn about it. And you can follow, um, [00:27:30] the Mars may even, there's a page on NASA I believe, that you can find. You can just Google a maven and you will see that. And thanks so much for joining us, professor. Speaker 2:It's a pleasure. Thank you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I first came across insulin and its role in making you ill in the book by professor Clark. It read something like this ".. it is insulin which is the culprit and not the sugar". The details of the book follow below:- Health Revolution for men -- Kick-start your weight loss and reduce your risk of serious disease in weeks. That one sentence took me to Professor Clark and in 16 weeks I was off all my diabetes medication. As for insulin, it does two nasty things amongst many other; 1. It helps you gain weight 2. and, it stops you from losing weight. Finally, when my insulin was measured, it was 55 which was 11 times the normal insulin in a normal person. PS. My short kindle book is a good read for your continued education. The book is entitled "Insulin & Diabetes Connection: How They Cause Havoc in Your Body and What You Can Do about It." I recommend it highly and it is available via this link .. http://tracker.hightrafficacademy.com/track.php?id=33379

Surnames and social mobility - How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? Laurie Taylor talks to Gregory Clark, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, about movement up the social ladder over 8 centuries, from medieval England to modern Sweden. Using a unique methodology, Professor Clark tracked family names to assess social mobility across diverse eras and societies. His conclusion is that mobility rates are less than are often estimated and are resistant to social policies. It may take hundreds of years for descendants to move beyond inherited advantages, as well as disadvantages. He's joined by Andrew Miles, Reader in Sociology at the CRESC, University of Manchester and author of the only systematic study of historical social mobility in the UK. Also, elite graduates and global ambition. Sally Power, Professorial Fellow at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, talks about a comparative study which finds that British students from top universities seek worldwide opportunities, whereas their French counterparts wish to 'serve' France. In theory, globalization has dissolved national borders and loyalties, so why do elite students from France and England have such strikingly different visions of their future? Producer: Torquil Macleod.

Professor Robin Clark has used pigment analysis to reveal the secrets of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Gutenberg Bibles, Greek icons, forged papyri and the '36th Vermeer painting'. In this lecture Professor Clark will explain and explore how the technique of Raman spectroscopy has helped in the restoration, conservation and dating of artwork along with the detection of forgeries. This lecture marks 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry.

Professor of philosophy at Calvin and program director of the “Values & Virtues in Contemporary China” global initiative 2010-2013. Author of numerous books including Philosophers Who Believe and The Story of Ethics. With the number of Christians in China possibly outnumbering the members of the Communist Party, the Party senses an increasing political threat posed by religion, yet China's constitution guarantees freedom of religion. Professor Clark will help us understand China's religious contradictions.

Professor Clark argues cultural change is an important element in explaining modern high growth societies (chapter 9).

Professor Clark shows that pre-industrial England had very high rates of social mobility. This was not a society where talent was trapped at the bottom of society.

Professor Clark shows that a crucial difference between fertility before 1800 and now is that prior to 1800 the rich had a great advantage in producing surviving children (chapter 6).

Professor Clark gives evidence that there was no decline in fertility between the Stone Age and 1800 (chapter 4).

Professor Clark offers various ways we can measure the failure of the human condition to improve before 1800 (chapter 3).

Professor Clark addresses "Virtue and Vice in the Malthusian World" (chapter 2).

In his final lecture, Professor Clark describes the unfolding possibilities of the new discipline of medical bionics. The hope of bionic nerve and spinal repair, a bionic eye, bionic epilepsy control, bionic drug delivery, bionic tissue repair, bionic muscles, organs and implantable sensors are only some of the magnificent achievements which this field may deliver for the benefit of humanity.

Professor Clark describes the realisation of his passionate desire to use the bionic ear to develop spoken language in children and the confrontation that this provoked with sections of the deaf community. He comments, 'It was ironical that I was now confronted by the very people whom I wanted to help hear. The criticisms affected all members of the team, and weighed heavily on us.'

'It is no exaggeration to say I was gambling my whole professional career on this day.' After twelve years of research Professor Clark describes the unbearable suspense of waiting to discover if the bionic ear would not only work but be commercially viable. Included are remarkable and moving recordings from the first test sessions of the bionic ear.

Professor Clark expresses his wonder, and inspires ours, at the complexity and continuing mystery of the operation of our senses.