Podcasts about Realism

Can we trust our minds to know reality?This clip is taken from Nathan Jacobs' most recent interview with Thomas Thorogood and features a reaction to a discussion between Destiny and T.K. Coleman on The Minimalists podcast. Their exchange raises a profound philosophical question: what makes our reasoning faculties trustworthy in the first place?Nathan explores properly functioning faculties, Descartes' skepticism, moderate foundationalism, and the crucial distinction between realism and nominalism. Along the way, he argues that every act of perception, reasoning, language, and scientific inquiry already presupposes realism, making it impossible to consistently live or argue as a nominalist.If you've ever wondered whether we can genuinely know reality—or what our ability to reason tells us about the nature of the world—this discussion offers a compelling introduction to some of philosophy's deepest questions.======================================Timestamps00:00 — A Debate About Objective Morality06:24 — Why Our Faculties Matter09:21 — Properly Functioning Faculties09:48 — Hard vs Moderate Foundationalism10:19 — Descartes and Radical Doubt13:09 — Why Skepticism Cannot Be Lived14:24 — Trusting Our Faculties16:26 — The Most Important Question in Philosophy17:26 — Realism vs Nominalism19:14 — Why Perception Depends on Realism20:34 — Why Logic Depends on Realism22:17 — Why Everyone Lives Like a Realist23:14 — Realism and Providence24:07 — Morality, the Numinous, and Human Experience25:52 — Every Argument Presupposes Realism26:56 — Living Consistently With Your Worldview======================================Do you like this content? Join Jacobs Premium to get exclusive access to essays, lecture series, monthly Q&A Zoom calls, and ourbook club. Use code: LEWIS to get a discount: https://www.thenathanjacobspodcast.com/Support the East West Series: http://theeastwestseries.com/======================================Relevant Links:Thomas Thorogood Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNu3mGq6HhUThe Most Important Question: https://youtu.be/nVmPIMg4St4All links:The Theological Letters (Substack): https://nathanajacobs.substack.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenathanjacobspodcastX: https://x.com/NathanJacobsPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nathanandrewjacobsAcademia: https://vanderbilt.academia.edu/NathanAJacobsListen and please review the podcast elsewhere:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0hSskUtCwDT40uFbqTk3QSApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nathan-jacobs-podcast

Infinity Ward just had its biggest Modern Warfare 4 reveal week yet — and the community immediately found the flaws. We break down everything shown at the MW4 creator event and Fanatics Fest: the Kill Block modular map with 500+ configurations, the gunplay reveal and the instant visual recoil backlash, VFX masking, no-bloom hipfire, doors, takedowns, proximity chat, and the Aston Martin Dreadnought that quietly confirmed Warzone isn't dead yet. Then the real question: MW4 looks like MW19 2.0 — but is a well-executed return to form enough in 2026? We get into why the arcade shooter can't hold anyone's attention all year anymore, why the "third game mode" is the entire Call of Duty paradigm now, and why everything — the game, the year, maybe the franchise's momentum — is riding on DMZ2. Plus: why you should treat beta weekend two as the final verdict, because beta tests aren't beta tests anymore. Also announced: monthly Patreon hangouts are BACK starting in August — hot take open mics, trivia, and more. patreon.com/thedropshot One of us is buying in. One of us has seen this movie before. You know how this goes. 0:00 - Intro 1:18 - MW4 reveal week: how we got here 3:30 - Patreon hangouts are BACK (August) 8:31 - Topic of the week: the MW4 reveal 9:07 - Kill Block: the shapeshifting map 15:01 - Was Kill Block worth the dev time? 20:00 - Kill Block in a BR? The bigger idea 25:15 - The gunplay reveal & firing range video 27:56 - Realism vs. fun: the two camps 30:06 - The visual recoil backlash 34:08 - Jake: I'll take Infinity Ward's flaws 35:48 - Raz: "Wouldn't it be nice?" 42:22 - VFX masking & visual noise 43:51 - The feedback honeypot pattern 48:43 - Bullets punch holes through smoke 51:09 - Underhand grenade throws 53:15 - "MW2 with improvements?" debate 57:27 - Raz: it's just more CoD slop 1:01:10 - Is a return to form enough in 2026? 1:07:49 - The third-game-mode paradigm 1:15:23 - Did Aston Martin just confirm Warzone? 1:16:31 - The Warzone fan's dilemma 1:19:10 - Doors, takedowns & prox chat 1:21:39 - No-bloom hipfire & the Tarkov skill gap 1:27:44 - The Aston Martin Dreadnought 1:31:51 - Combined-arms big maps 1:34:25 - Raz's beta advice 1:36:17 - Where is CoD Next? 1:39:21 - Wrap-up & what we're playing _Note: timestamps may be slightly misaligned on podcast apps (but not on YouTube) due to dynamic ads._ The podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and ad-free & early access versions - as well as bonus episodes - are available to all of our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot) supporters. We stream the podcast live on our YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/thedropshotpodcast) every Saturday morning at ~9 o'clock Pacific Time. We typically start the stream 30 minutes early to answer viewer questions, banter, and chat. Links for everything are below. Thanks for checking us out!

How many Bond villain schemes can climate alarmists come up with? Apparently one every month or so. The latest scheme to “save the planet” and help make solar installations viable at night is to put giant mirrors in space to reflect sunlight down on earth during the night. And the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, amazingly, just gave that idea the go-ahead.On Episode 207 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute's Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Sterling Burnett, and Jim Lakely will talk about that Crazy Climate News of the Week. We will also cover the huge conflict of interest Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has for an important upcoming climate case, the “climate score scam” that harms the value of your home, and will the political success of socialists in the United States put the Green New Deal back on the table?Join us Friday at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat.Visit our sponsor, Advisor Metals: https://climaterealismshow.com/metals In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The hall pass begins as a simple deal. One night. Clear boundaries. As spiritual awareness grows, trauma patterns in partners stand out sharply. The evolved person shifts to observer mode and stops participating in the cycles. This creates distance. The work remains unfinished on both sides. Pressure builds. Triangulation through the hall pass offers relief without demanding full integration. It diffuses intensity while the deeper alignment catches up. Realism shows the ego and fear underneath. Spiritual clarity sees the energy scatter. Most passes do not close the gap. They manage symptoms until the real repair happens or the container breaks. Revised Radical Questions (fresh set reflecting this insight): 1. How does your spiritual growth make ordinary relationship patterns feel heavier?

This episode deconstructs the common phrase "I'll tell you like it is" through the lens of psychodynamic personality patterns. We explore how bluntness is often used as a defense mechanism to bypass empathy and project a singular, subjective reality onto others. Using contemporary clinical frameworks, we'll discuss why the most "honest" people are often the ones most trapped in their own perception gap.

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For many years, the U.S. Global Change Research Program has been a font of climate alarmist propaganda instead of a federal department focused on science. That is now changing. The Trump administration, which shut down the office, is reopening it under new management with a real scientist who is not a climate doomer: friend of the show Matt Wielicki.On Episode 207 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute's Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Sterling Burnett, and Jim Lakely welcome guest Isaac Orr one of the “Energy Bad Boys.” We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including: how opponents of AI data centers are using climate alarmist arguments, the EU ending its fatwa on livestock, and a crazy idea to try to steer hurricanes.Join us Friday at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat.Visit our sponsor, Advisor Metals: climaterealismshow.com/metalsGUEST: Isaac Orr. Check out his links:https://www.aoenergy.org/https://energybadboys.substack.com/SHOW NOTES1. CHANGE AT CLIMATE CHANGE OFFICEPOLITICO: The administration has a new climate change office. It's headed by a climate critic.https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07...2. CAN WE STEER HURRICANES?USA TODAY: Scientists mull controversial plan to steer hurricaneshttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...3. DATA CENTERS AND CLIMATETHE GUARDIAN: Datacentres are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report findshttps://www.theguardian.com/environme...4. EU LIKES LIVESTOCK AGAIN POLITICO: The EU's paradigm shift on cows: Europe's plan to support livestock farmers recasts a climate problem as a strategic asset.https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-li... In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Stop relying on a survival loop and shift into a growth mindset. Your guide to ventral pivoting and nervous system sovereignty is one click away.Check out The Accessible Guide to Your Sovereign Blueprint: Nervous System Sovereignty & Conscious Self-Leadership - < a href="https://payhip.com/b/NJXhO" target="_blank">https://payhip.com/b/NJXhONot ready for the guide, check out the FREE Executive Summary here: < a href="https://payhip.com/b/VtK7k" target="_blank">https://payhip.com/b/VtK7kGet Your Sovereign Blueprint: Claim your intellectual and emotional sovereignty with this comprehensive, self-directed guide. https://payhip.com/b/jOSFYNot ready for the guide, check out the FREE Executive Summary here: https://payhip.com/b/RBz2XThe Regulated Leader - Expand Your Inner Growth Journey: Master emotional resilience and steady your nervous system fluency with the complete digital guide. https://payhip.com/b/rOUPzDownload the Free 10-Minute Mindset Practice: Shift your state and anchor your body into clarity and ventral safety under pressure. https://payhip.com/b/7PdoGYou are not your activated state: When emotions feel true self-leaders move from reactivity to steadiness. Check out the new daily steady living bundle (1 day mindset practice + 15 journal prompts)

Stop relying on a survival loop and shift into a growth mindset. Your guide to ventral pivoting and nervous system sovereignty is one click away.Check out The Accessible Guide to Your Sovereign Blueprint: Nervous System Sovereignty & Conscious Self-Leadership - < a href="https://payhip.com/b/NJXhO" target="_blank">https://payhip.com/b/NJXhONot ready for the guide, check out the FREE Executive Summary here: < a href="https://payhip.com/b/VtK7k" target="_blank">https://payhip.com/b/VtK7kGet Your Sovereign Blueprint: Claim your intellectual and emotional sovereignty with this comprehensive, self-directed guide. https://payhip.com/b/jOSFYNot ready for the guide, check out the FREE Executive Summary here: https://payhip.com/b/RBz2XThe Regulated Leader - Expand Your Inner Growth Journey: Master emotional resilience and steady your nervous system fluency with the complete digital guide. https://payhip.com/b/rOUPzDownload the Free 10-Minute Mindset Practice: Shift your state and anchor your body into clarity and ventral safety under pressure. https://payhip.com/b/7PdoGYou are not your activated state: When emotions feel true self-leaders move from reactivity to steadiness. Check out the new daily steady living bundle (1 day mindset practice + 15 journal prompts)

In this episode, Breht goes on The Left Page podcast as a guest to explore the role that science fiction plays as part of the cultural superstructure of empire: a genre born in the shadow of British and American imperial power, shaped by colonial assumptions, and increasingly haunted by attempts to critique the very structures it once blindly reproduced. From early invasion fiction and dreams of space conquest to modern works like Dune, Blade Runner, The Expanse, and The Three-Body Problem, Leon, Frank and Breht examine how sci-fi imagines the future through the unresolved contradictions of the present: capitalism, colonialism, racial hierarchy, technological domination, corporate sovereignty, and imperial war. Along the way, they discuss the role of Rome in the Western political imaginary, especially for reactionaries and fascists; extend Mark Fisher's concept of capitalist realism into colonial and imperialist realism; and ask why science fiction can so easily imagine interstellar travel, artificial life, alien civilizations, and cosmic catastrophe, yet so often struggles to imagine a future beyond empire and capital.   Check out The Left Page podcast HERE 

Christopher Norris discusses his contribution to the 2007 collection "Adventures in Realism" entitled "Realism and Anti-Realism in Contemporary Philosophy: What's Truth Got to Do With It?" Rather than rehearse the philosophical arguments in the paper, Doug discusses the political import of analytic philosophy and realism. Support Sublation Mediahttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

I'm really happy about today's podcast and that's because today's guest is a shining example of a new, very well-prepared generation of leaders that is coming through the ranks in the international insurance sector. With senior roles in the company market and inside Lloyd's itself Stephanie Ogden was already well-rounded before she took on her current role as the CEO of the Munich Re Syndicate at Lloyd's. Steph is a breath of fresh air – actually I'd say more like a blast. Listening back to this conversation, I have rarely spoken to someone who carries themselves as naturally as she does. I spoke to the same person before, during and after our recording. What you hear is what you get and what you get is a very clear sense of how one of the Lloyd's market's most consistently successful businesses sees the market today, where it sees it heading and how it intends to engage. This is a very well-rounded conversation. As one might expect, it's technical and financial but it's also technological, commercial, professional, passionate, personal and laced with humour. Steph is highly engaging and is well across the core challenges facing the London and global specialty markets, from the opportunities arising from the internationalisation of the market to the impact of technological transformation and AI. Talking to Steph made me feel a little old – but in a good way. Growing old isn't easy, but when people really don't enjoy getting old it's because they think that things are getting worse than they used to be, not better. Forty-five minutes with Steph and the only conclusion is that many things are definitely getting better and the market's best days are ahead of, and not behind it. LINKS: We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo, now part of Sapiens: https://www.advantagego.com

David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, director of the Philosophical Foundations of Physics program at Columbia, and a faculty member of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Jacob Barandes is Senior Preceptor in Physics at Harvard University, where he works widely across the philosophy of physics, with focuses on the foundations of quantum mechanics, the philosophy of spacetime, and the metaphysics of laws. In this episode, Robinson, Jacob, and David discuss Jacob's novel Indivisibility Approach to quantum mechanics. After beginning with an introduction from David, the conversation touches on the measurement problem, completeness, scientific realism, the purpose of physics, and more. If you're interested in the foundations of physics, then please check out the JBI, which is devoted to providing a home for research and education in this important area. Any donations are immensely helpful at this early stage in the institute's life.Jacob's Website: https://www.jacobbarandes.comA Guess at the Riddle: https://a.co/d/6qcsidlThe John Bell Institute: https://www.johnbellinstitute.orgOUTLINE00:00 The Problem with the Wave Function05:30 The Indivisibility Approach17:28 What Is Indivisibility?25:13 The Measurement Problem32:18 The Incompleteness of Jacob's Theory42:20 Completing the Theory47:12 Realism in Quantum Mechanics01:03:13 The Fundamental Task of Physics01:10:57 The Structure of the Indivisibility Theory01;22:26 Summarizing and Calculating01:40:01 The Game of Fundamental Physics01:46:31 Can Bohmian Mechanics Work?01:56:26 A Version Including David's Theory02:04:49 What Is the Wave Function?02:15:33 Where We've Ended UpRobinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a JD candidate in the Law School.

Today on Uncommon Sense, we're taking a deeper look at the Israel-Iran conflict, the continuing questions surrounding the Epstein files, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We'll discuss why these stories continue to dominate public conversation, explore the political and geopolitical questions people are asking, and examine why these events should be viewed together rather than in isolation.--https://www.youversion.com/bible-app

In ‘A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf writes about how radical it feels to read the sentences: ‘Chloe liked Olivia. They shared a laboratory together…'. Woolf probably didn't know the work of her contemporary Jean Rhys, but if she had read ‘A Voyage in the Dark' (1934), she might well have marvelled at, and even envied, its radical realism. Rhys' story of a young woman who moves from the Caribbean to England and enters a world of financial and sexual exploitation was drawn from experiences unavailable to Woolf. In this episode, James is joined by the biographer Miranda Seymour to discuss Rhys's virtuosity of technique and detachment, her extraordinary ear for dialogue and the places where her mastery of realist method gave way to modernism. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from the episode. To listen in full, and to all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrwaor Other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingswaor Read more in the LRB: Mary-Kay Wilmers on Jean Rhys: https://lrb.me/waorep701 Carole Angier on Rhys's letters: https://lrb.me/waorep702 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ATLP Rewind - Originally Released July 30, 2024Matthew Freix has a passion for car routing, and that might be an understatement! Matt shares the lengths he has gone to research the Gateway Western and how it helped him build a highly accurate simulation of the railroad in 1995. Matt shares how going way down the rabbit hole has made his model railroad more enjoyable and appear like he remembers it. Later, we hear answers to the Question of the Month submitted by our listeners.Learn more about this episode on our website:aroundthelayout.com/rewindThank you to our episode sponsor, Oak Hill Model Railroad Track Supply:https://ohrtracksupply.com/Thank you to our episode sponsor, ScaleSigns.com:https://scalesigns.com/Visit our website at aroundthelayout.comBecome a member of our Operating Crew for chances to win and much more!aroundthelayout.com/crewAround The Layout Podcast is a production of Thirty Five Productions LLC©2026 Thirty Five Productions LLC. All rights reserved.The views and opinions expressed by hosts and guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Thirty Five Productions LLC or our sponsors.Use of any trademarks or trade names is for identification purposes only and does not imply endorsement.No portion of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of Thirty Five Productions LLC, except for brief quotations used for purposes of review, commentary, or promotion.

Screenwriter and coach Aleia Kristene survived grueling hustle, but she walked away questioning whether the narrative of the suffering artist is actually a badge of honor or just unexamined trauma. In our conversation, she reveals how she transformed twenty years of family tragedy into a limited series. She also shares the exact pacing mistakes that instantly tank amateur scripts.    If you feel stuck behind a wall of perfectionism or lost in a quiet season of your own creative journey, this episode delivers:  an insider guide to reclaim your voice, how to master the production realities of Hollywood, and how to get your biggest ideas onto the page.  Chapters 00:00 - Redefining the Artist's Struggle  01:23 - Reclaiming Creativity with iCode  02:08 - Writing a Male Cinderella at Nine Years Old  04:17 - Realism over Cartoons: The Influence of Black Cinema  06:35 - Turning Family Tragedy into a Sellable Script  11:15 - Demystifying the Hollywood Table Read  12:47 - Brutal Production Realities from Major Film Sets  17:43 - The Biggest Mistakes Amateurs Make in Action Lines  20:06 - Balancing Mentorship with Personal Creative Output  23:15 - Overcoming the Perfectionism Trap of First Drafts  27:55 - Aleia's Ultimate Dream Project   Listen to the show on your favorite streaming platform! Apple Podcast: http://bit.ly/4fcopgQSpotify: http://bit.ly/4fdkiBsYouTube: https://youtu.be/4ekuzVLC8_M   Connect with Aleia: Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aleiakristene/ Website: https://aleiakristene.com/ Support the show Website: Martine SeverinFollow on Instagram: Martine | This Is How We CreateSubscribe to the Newsletter: Martine's Substack This is How We Create is produced by Martine Severin. This episode was edited by Daniel Espinosa. Podcast show art is designed by Violetta Encarnación. Music by Timothy Infinite. show   Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Leave a review Follow us on social media Share with fellow creatives  

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The action in The Terminal List: Dark Wolf feels different—and that's by design. Emmy-nominated stunt coordinator Thom Khoury Williams and veteran stunt performer Chris Romrell join Filmmaker Mixer to discuss creating realistic military action, tactical combat, and large-scale stunt sequences for the hit series.Filmmakers will learn about stunt coordination, rehearsal strategies, safety, second-unit directing, and the creative process behind modern action storytelling.

Ocean temps are rising in the tropical Pacific Ocean, a natural and regular phenomenon called El Niño. Climate modelers say this year's could be one of the biggest ever, and some have nicknamed it "Godzilla El Niño!" That's a fun name, but what can we expect in this El Niño cycle? The Climate Realism Show's Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Lois Perry will talk about that.  We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including: global airlines giving up on their always absurd NetZero by 2050 goal, giant fire tornadoes to clean up oil spills, Democrats backing off their pledges to stop oil and gas in the face of higher fuel costs, and will Trump's Endangerment Finding repeal soon also apply to power plants? Join us Friday at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat. Visit our sponsor, Advisor Metals: https://climaterealismshow.com/metals In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Ocean temps are rising in the tropical Pacific Ocean, a natural and regular phenomenon called El Niño. Climate modelers say this year's could be one of the biggest ever, and some have nicknamed it "Godzilla El Niño!" That's a fun name, but what can we expect in this El Niño cycle? The Climate Realism Show's Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Lois Perry will talk about that.  We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including: global airlines giving up on their always absurd NetZero by 2050 goal, giant fire tornadoes to clean up oil spills, Democrats backing off their pledges to stop oil and gas in the face of higher fuel costs, and will Trump's Endangerment Finding repeal soon also apply to power plants? Join us Friday at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat. Visit our sponsor, Advisor Metals: https://climaterealismshow.com/metals In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Dr. Meek on the mother's smile as a form of philosophical formation and a form of epistemic access to reality, why it's important to see oneself being seen (as beloved), and how modernity operates as a barrier to such interpersoned philosophy.  BIO: Esther Lightcap Meek is Professor of Philosophy emerita at Geneva College. Meek's books include Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People (2003); Loving to Know: Introducing Covenant Epistemology (2011); A Little Manual for Knowing (2014); and Contact With Reality: Michael Polanyi's Realism and Why It Matters (2017). Recent books are Doorway to Artistry: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity (2023), and with Lisa Cadora, Knowing as Loving: Philosophical Grounding for Charlotte Mason's Expert Educational Insights (2023). Her newest book is The Mother's Smile: Philosophical Formation in the Welcome of Mothers and Friends (2025). PODCAST LINKS:- The Mother's Smile (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9798385236473/the-mothers-smile/ NEWSLETTER:Subscribe to our podcast newsletter and get ***40% OFF*** any Wipf and Stock book: ⁠http://eepurl.com/cMB8ML⁠. (Be sure to check the box next to “Podcast Updates: The Theology Mill” before hitting Subscribe.) CONNECT:Website: ⁠https://wipfandstock.com/blog/category/podcast/⁠YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@Wipfandstockpublishers⁠ *The Theology Mill and Wipf and Stock Publishers would like to thank Luca Di Alessandro for making their song “A Celestial Keyboard” available for use as the podcast's transition music. Link to license: ⁠https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/⁠.

Hello and welcome to season nine of Retrograde Amnesia, featuring Skies of Arcadia. In the first (of three) background/information episodes, we'll be talking about the game as it relates to shipping on two GD-ROMs, refusing to appear on modern digital storefronts, becoming crushed by reality, combining World War I & II military ships with the Age of Discovery, communicating with wind, citing influence from Laputa: Castle in the Sky and Dragon Quest III, building the world around six colors, refusing a travel budget, blatantly referencing Moby Dick and Robinson Crusoe, forming the Hottie Production Committee, dynamically adjusting the music, eliminating baby talk, "throwing away the Japanese text," and un-mysterying the misdirection. Realism may not be acceptable for an RPG just yet. 00:00:00 Lost Time  00:01:55 Intro 00:02:54 What Is This  00:04:47 Release Information 00:09:31 How to acquire and play Skies of Arcadia in 2026 00:12:13 Atsushi Seimiya 00:18:15 Shuntaro Tanaka 00:27:20 Reiko Kodama 00:49:31 Soundtrack 00:53:37 Localization 01:03:28 Unsubstantiated Claims 01:09:04 Real Net 01:14:09 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com  

Summer has arrived in Europe a little early this year and alarmists in the media say it's unprecedented, dangerous, all because of climate change. But what if it is not our fault? What if it's not all that unusual? We will sweat the details.On Episode #203 of The Climate Realism Show, we will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including a comeback for coal power, bringing science back to court decisions, and wondering what Mr. Wizard would say about climate change today.Join Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Chris Martz LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat.Visit our sponsor, Advisor Metals: https://climaterealismshow.com/metals In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

Summer has arrived in Europe a little early this year and alarmists in the media say it's unprecedented, dangerous, all because of climate change. But what if it is not our fault? What if it's not all that unusual? We will sweat the details.On Episode #203 of The Climate Realism Show, we will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including a comeback for coal power, bringing science back to court decisions, and wondering what Mr. Wizard would say about climate change today.Join Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Chris Martz LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat.Visit our sponsor, Advisor Metals: https://climaterealismshow.com/metals In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

ID The Future listeners now get to enjoy two episodes each month from our sister podcast Mind Matters News, a production of the Discovery Institute's Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. The Mind Matters News podcast brings you insight from computer scientists, engineers, inventors, neurosurgeons, and other experts who bring sanity to the conversation about natural and artificial intelligence, going beyond the hype to explore the undercurrents of these important ideas. And although the Mind Matters News podcast will not often explicitly discuss intelligent design, it regularly explores the nature of intelligence, the origin of information, and the things that make us uniquely human, all concepts that are central to the theory of intelligent design. Enjoy today's offering of Mind Matters News! The hype around AI is reaching fever pitch these days. But never mind predictions of future AI potential. What can it actually do and not do today? On this episode of the Mind Matters News podcast, host Robert J. Marks welcomes Dr. Donald C. Wunsch II to the show for a long-form, wide-ranging conversation about what AI can actually do today—and the very real risks and responsibilities that come with it. Source

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.Part I (00:13 – 10:09)About One-Third of the U.S. Population Now Lives Where Euthanasia is Legal: This is a Dark DevelopmentPart II (10:09 – 17:45)A Case of Deadly Empathy: Two Parents Support 19-Year-Old Daughter's Desire for Euthanasia, Even Unto Her DeathThe Parents Who Let Their Daughter Die by The Free Press (Rupa Subramanya)Part III (17:45 – 26:12)The Parable of Maine's Senatorial Election: The Moral Conundrum and Realism of Elections Raised by the Case of Graham PlatnerSign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.Follow Dr. Mohler:X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu.For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com.To write Dr. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.

Dakota Weik, a tattoo ethnographer, has embarked on a remarkable journey that transitions him from showcasing tattoo artists around the world through his popular show "Inked Abroad" to becoming a tattoo apprentice in Germany. This shift not only reflects his deep passion for tattooing but also underscores the importance of mastering traditional techniques before advancing to more complex styles. In this episode of "Chats and Tatts," host Aaron Della Vedova takes us on a journey to the Mondial du Tatouage in Paris, a renowned tattoo convention filled with some of the best tattoo artists in the world. Aaron sits down with Dakota as he shares insights into his mission of discovering and showcasing exceptional tattoo artists globally, highlighting the artistry and significance behind their work. With Dakota's show gaining viral popularity, boasting half a million followers and millions of views, the conversation dives into the evolving landscape of tattoo culture and the challenges of keeping up with emerging talents.  Tune in to learn about the intersection of art and culture in the world of tattooing! Chat Highlights: 00:00:00 - Apprenticeship B00:01:00 - Inked Abroad 00:02:14 - The Origin of Inked Abroad 00:03:56 - Transition to Tattoo Apprenticeship 00:05:28 - the 3 day Tattoo Sessions 00:07:07 - The Mental Battle of Enduring Large Scale Tattoos 00:08:23 - Documenting the Apprenticeship Journey 00:10:08 - Discovering Artistic Talent Later in Life 00:12:22 - The Support and Pressure from the Tattoo Community 00:14:19 - The Importance of Realism in Tattooing 00:16:11 - The Global Tattoo Community and Travel Restrictions 00:17:28 - Passion for Preserving Tattoo Craft 00:18:53 - The Impact of tattooing on Personal Relationships 00:19:00 - Continuing Inked Abroad and Future Plans Quotes: "What if I make documentaries on the world's greatest tattoo artists?" "You're probably going to usher in another 10,000 tattooers because of it." "That shows you've got something deep in you. You've got a warrior spirit." "That's a cool new concept, like learning how to draw realism and using it as a backbone for almost anything else you do." "I just became so passionate about what I do, learning about it, and then just trying to protect and make sure this craft lives forever." "Keep bringing me the sickest tattoos in the world." Stay Connected   Chats & Tatts: Website: http://www.chatsandtatts.com⁠ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chatsandtatts  IG: http://www.instagram.com/chatsandtatts Chats & Tatts YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/chatsandtatts   Connect with Aaron:⁠   Aaron IG:⁠ http://www.instagram.com/aarondellavedova⁠ Guru Tattoo: http://www.Gurutattoo.com   Connect with Dakota: IG: https://www.instagram.com/inkedabroad  

Episode 122 A lively and humorous podcast episode covering family life, parenting teenagers, weekend activities, and a playful job interview segment. The hosts share personal stories, parenting challenges, and lighthearted banter, offering relatable insights into everyday life. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Holiday Reflections 02:50 Family Dynamics and Parenting Challenges 06:10 Teenage Curfews and Consequences 08:59 Driving Lessons and Responsibilities 11:45 Job Interview Role Play 24:02 Rapid Fire Questions and Fun Moments 27:38 Legal vs. Illegal: A Comedic Exploration 30:58 Interview Insights: Humor and Realism 32:34 Reflections on Past Jobs and Experiences 36:06 Listener Engagement: Messages from Fans 40:23 Family Dynamics: Kids, Money, and Responsibilities 43:12 Movie Reviews: Michael Jackson and More 46:02 Documentary Discussions: Crime and Society 51:19 Closing Thoughts and Future Plans

What does it take to make a modern espionage thriller feel real? In this episode of State Secrets, Suzanne Kelly sits down with acclaimed director Andrew Bernstein to discuss Jack Ryan: Ghost War — the new feature-length installment of the iconic franchise that brings shadow conflict, intelligence operations, and geopolitical tension into sharp focus. Bernstein — whose work includes The Americans and Ozark — reveals how the production worked directly with the Central Intelligence Agency and MI6 to better understand the realities of intelligence work, the emotional toll of covert operations, and the evolving threats facing the West today. The conversation explores the balance between realism and entertainment, why intelligence professionals connected deeply with the film, and how today's gray zone conflicts — from cyber warfare to disinformation campaigns — are shaping modern storytelling. Bernstein also shares behind-the-scenes insight into filming unprecedented action sequences in central London and what it was like screening the movie at CIA headquarters.

In August 1923, halfway through writing ‘Mrs Dalloway', Virginia Woolf recorded a new idea in her diary: she would ‘dig out beautiful caves' behind her characters, and ‘the caves shall connect, and each comes to daylight at the present moment'. This was Woolf's ‘tunnelling process', a transformative approach that led to the novel's celebrated modernist innovations, with its depiction a group of circulating consciousnesses in London over the course of one day. But underlying these innovations are the techniques of 19th-century realism, and in this episode James Wood explores what Woolf owes to Dickens and Flaubert, and the ways she breaks down these certainties to arrive at the ultimate unknowability of character. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from the episode. To listen in full, and to all our other Close Readings series, sign up: Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrwaor Other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingswaor Read more the LRB: Jacqueline Rose on Woolf: https://lrb.me/realismep601 Gillian Beer on Woolf‘s essays: https://lrb.me/realismep602 David Trotter on ‘Mrs Dalloway': https://lrb.me/realismep603 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world seems to not lack for climate alarmist Bond villains with wild schemes to “save the earth” by way of geo-engineering that ranges from the silly to the dangerous. A company is now poised to “cool the earth” by spraying the skies of the world with “sunlight-reflecting aerosols.” What could possibly go wrong?On Episode #203 of The Climate Realism Show, we will also cover other Crazy Climate News of the Week, including how crappy it is to be a “climate migrant,” a push by alarmists to regain their policy momentum by declaring climate change a global public health crisis, and how Heartland's push to spread climate realism in Europe has the alarmists in a bit of a panic.Join Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest James Taylor LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat. In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

The world seems to not lack for climate alarmist Bond villains with wild schemes to “save the earth” by way of geo-engineering that ranges from the silly to the dangerous. A company is now poised to “cool the earth” by spraying the skies of the world with “sunlight-reflecting aerosols.” What could possibly go wrong?On Episode #203 of The Climate Realism Show, we will also cover other Crazy Climate News of the Week, including how crappy it is to be a “climate migrant,” a push by alarmists to regain their policy momentum by declaring climate change a global public health crisis, and how Heartland's push to spread climate realism in Europe has the alarmists in a bit of a panic.Join Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest James Taylor LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat. In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

On this episode of The 3DO Experience we return to the Army Men series once again, this time to discuss the first entry in the World War sub series!Check Out Call of Duty: Thrak Ops: https://superpodnetwork.com/podcast/call-of-duty-thrak-opsProud member of ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://superpodnetwork.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us at: https://linktr.ee/ThebarberwhogamesFollow Thrak at: https://bsky.app/profile/thrak.bsky.social

Daniel McCarthy (Heritage Foundation & Modern Age) joins Jon Harris to discuss the evolution of Republican foreign policy from Reagan to Trump, the defeat of Thomas Massie, and the tension between restraint, realism, and neoconservatism. A must-watch for conservatives wrestling with America's role in the world today.Topics include: Reagan's peace through strength, Bush-era nation-building, Trump's transactional approach, historical conservative thought (Washington, Calhoun, Taft), current challenges with Iran/Israel, and why Massie's loss reveals deeper party realities.0:00:12 - Welcome & Introduction to Daniel McCarthy00:01:02 - Massie Defeat & Republican Foreign Policy Vacuum Post-Reagan00:02:17 - Pre-Reagan Conservative Foreign Policy & Cold War Mindset00:03:32 - Ronald Reagan's "Peace Through Strength"00:06:24 - Post-Cold War Shift: Bush Sr. to George W. Bush Neoconservatism00:09:27 - Trump's Break with Forever Wars & America First Realism00:10:52 - Historical Conservative Restraint: Washington, Calhoun, Taft, Rand Paul00:17:23 - Realism vs. Idealism: Iran, Israel, Nuclear Threats & Modern Dilemmas00:28:57 - The Limits of "Fortress America" in a Global Economy00:32:08 - Trump's Transactional Approach vs. Neocon Romanticism00:35:07 - Thomas Massie's Defeat: Israel Lobby, Party Loyalty & Future of Anti-Zionism00:42:44 - Where Does Anti-Zionism Fit — GOP or Democrats?00:51:11 - Closing Thoughts & Where to Find Daniel McCarthyOur Sponsors:* Check out Mars Men and use my code Mengotomars.com for a great deal: https://mengotomars.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/conversations-that-matter8971/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

“If you write something you think is really fanciful today, tomorrow's news headlines might be telling the exact same story. That's the challenge of writing realism today — when everything feels so sci-fi and so dystopic.” — Fred Lunzer Boy meets girl meets AI therapist. That is the premise of Sike, the debut novel by Fred Lunzer. Adrian is a rap ghostwriter who has never met any of the rappers he writes for. After a relationship collapse, he signs up for Sike — a Facebook-style AI psychotherapy app that tracks your every move and emotion via smart glasses and guides you toward mental contentment. He meets Maquie, a venture capitalist and Sike refusnik. You can imagine the rest. Sike is a self-consciously “realist” love story set in a world where AI therapy is ubiquitous. Lunzer wanted to write AI fiction that is realistic rather than dystopian or utopian. He started it speculatively. By the time he'd finished, ChatGPT had launched and what he'd once fancifully imagined had become reality. It's the futuristic writer's permanent predicament. Make the future believable before it becomes so familiar that we barely notice it. Turn science fiction into social realism. Five Takeaways •       AI Fiction Without Dystopia: The Gap Lunzer Is Filling: Almost all AI fiction is either utopian or dystopian. James Bond loves gadgets. Most literary fiction treats technology as vaguely grubby and pushes it into genre. Lunzer's ambition: find the realism. Write about a world where AI is already everywhere, the initial fears are already past, and we've reached the same ambivalent relationship with it that we have with our smartphones. We don't know what model we have. We barely think about it. That's where the interesting questions live. •       Reality Caught Up Before He Finished: Lunzer wrote Sike speculatively. By the time he finished, ChatGPT had launched. William Gibson's observation: the future is already here, just unevenly distributed. His corollary: if you write something fanciful today, it's tomorrow's news story. Lunzer's solution to this perpetual problem is to stop writing near-future speculation and instead set the story in a world where the technology is already past its introduction — where the hype is over and the real reckoning begins. •       Realism Is the Hardest Genre Right Now: Andrew's observation: the best AI fiction is realist. Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun treats unimaginable things as taken for granted. That's the technique. Lunzer agrees — and notes that realism is particularly hard to write now because everything already feels surreal. Trump, AI, the state of the world: if you'd described any of it thirty years ago, people would have called it fiction. The challenge of the realist novelist in 2026 is to find the quiet normality inside the chaos. •       Non-Polarising AI Fiction: Lunzer deliberately avoided writing a book that slams Meta, or that is obviously pro- or anti-AI. He calls it non-polarised. In Sike, some characters love the AI therapy app, some refuse to use it. No one is obviously right. The book's thesis — insofar as it has one — is that the interesting questions about AI are not the ones about whether it's good or bad, but the ones that arise once you've stopped arguing about that and started living with it. •       The Economics of Writing: Trenches, Not Glamour: Lunzer has a day job — AI researcher at Sony. Sike was his first published novel, not his first written. Before it: a travel narrative about the Japanese restaurant industry that went nowhere, and a novel about a global pandemic finished in early 2020 and overtaken by COVID before any publisher would touch it. His verdict on the publishing world: not glamorous. A lot of books. A lot of writers. Not much money except for a few. He got an advance. Most debut novelists don't earn it back. The lesson he draws from Norman Mailer: writing a good novel is like learning to play the piano well. It just takes time. About the Guest Fred Lunzer is an AI researcher at Sony and the author of Sike: A Novel (Celadon Books, 2024; paperback 2026). He was born in London and lives in West Sussex, England. References: •       Sike: A Novel by Fred Lunzer (Celadon Books, 2024; paperback 2026). •       Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun — the key comparison text referenced in the interview. •       William Gibson — two quotes referenced: “The future is already here, just unevenly distributed”; and the observation about reality catching up with fiction. About Keen On America Nobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,900 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting. WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotify Chapters: 

[Contemporary Realism] Co-publisher Wendie Martin speaks with managing editor Sarah Gianelli about the June 2026 issue of American Art Collector, which includes features about Katie O'Hagan, Marissa Oosterlee and Rene Pozas. Also in the issue is coverage of International Guild of Realism's Annual Juried Exhibition and Oil Painters of America's National Exhibition, as well as our art lover's guide to the Great Lakes Region and a genre focus on marine art and seascapes. This episode is sponsored by American Art Collector. Learn more at americanartcollector.com.

ARP pastor Ben Glaser and PCA pastor DeMyron Haynes join us to talk about the draft report on kinism and race realism prepared for the upcoming Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church synod. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwx1FU9HZg Report: https://app.box.com/s/8xttgbn6z2cli57bn58g4w7ukebl4g01

What happens when a crime drama refuses to rely on Hollywood clichés, opting instead for a gritty, uncompromising look at the revolving door of the American penal system?In this episode of The Dana Buckler Show, host Dana Buckler is joined by special guest David Klein to dive deep into the 1978 neo-noir crime masterpiece, Straight Time.Directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Dustin Hoffman in one of the most fiercely underrated performances of his career, Straight Time follows Max Dembo, a thief newly released on parole who finds himself trapped between the suffocating grip of a sadistic parole officer (played brilliantly by M. Emmet Walsh) and the inevitable pull of the criminal underworld.Dana and David break down: Dustin Hoffman's Transformative Performance: How Hoffman went all-in on capturing the raw, erratic psychological state of a career criminal. The Incredible Supporting Cast: Shining a spotlight on the phenomenal talents of Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, Theresa Russell, and the legendary M. Emmet Walsh. Realism vs. Hollywood Glamour: Why Edward Bunker's source novel (No Beast So Fierce) provided the film with an unmatched level of authentic criminal grit. The Film's Legacy: Why this 70s hidden gem still holds up today as a masterclass in tension, character study, and neo-noir storytelling. Whether you're a die-hard fan of 1970s cinema or discovering this gritty crime drama for the very first time, this conversation offers deep insights, behind-the-scenes trivia, and plenty of cinematic appreciation.Grab your headphones, hit play, and let's talk Straight Time!Listen to David's podcast "I am The Fly" by going to https://www.iamthefly.org/Listen to David's first appearance on this podcast by going to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-plus-one-with-author-david-klein/id737566691?i=1000697503492You can order "The Plus One" by going to https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKKZCHHM?ref_=ast_author_mpb   or https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-plus-one-getting-by-on-good-connections-in-the-analog-age/2d554789f316ab0dJoin our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/danabucklershowJoin my Patreon for early access to all episodes, plus a new exclusive podcast, go to Patreon.com/howisthismovieHelp Support our work : Cash App $DanaBuckler or Venmo @DanaABuckler Subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast platform by going to https://linktr.ee/DanaBucklerShow #TheDanaBucklerShow #StraightTime #DustinHoffman #DavidKlein #70sCinema #CrimeMovies #NeoNoir #MoviePodcast #FilmTwitter #ClassicMovies #HarryDeanStanton #MEmmetWalsh #Cinemaphile 

Philosophy of Physics Meets Quantum Engineering with Elise CrullWhy This Episode MattersElise Crull is Associate Professor of Philosophy at CCNY and the CUNY Graduate Center, co-author with Guido Bacciagaluppi of The Einstein Paradox (Cambridge, 2024), and was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2025 for her archival work recovering voices like Grete Hermann from the foundations of quantum mechanics. She was also one of the speakers on Helgoland in June 2025 for the centenary of quantum mechanics — opening, as Sebastian notes, by thanking the organizers for the courage to invite a philosopher.This conversation matters because the truce between physicists and philosophers of physics is over. Quantum computing has turned interpretive questions — what counts as entanglement, what decoherence really is, whether causal order can be put in superposition — into engineering questions with budget consequences. If you build, fund, or write about quantum hardware, this episode will sharpen how you hear the words being used around you.SponsorThis episode is brought to you by Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine. The need for computational power is rapidly increasing in every sector. From drug discovery to material innovation to complex financial modeling, classical systems are reaching their absolute limits. It's time for a paradigm shift. The answer is a scalable quantum network, built on open standards and vendor-agnostic architecture. By uniting distributed quantum devices, you unlock limitless computational power. Learn more about the Cisco Universal Quantum Switch at Outshift.com.Go deeper with the blog post.What We Get IntoWhy "decoherence" and "noise" are not interchangeable, and why error correction strategy depends on telling them apartThe six-plus working definitions of entanglement currently circulating in physics — and why "classical entanglement" makes a philosopher's eye twitchWhat Einstein actually objected to in EPR (hint: it wasn't really determinism), drawn from Schrödinger's "Einstein-Paradoxon" correspondence folderIndefinite causal ordering: whether the experimental speedups reflect genuinely acausal physics or our stubbornly classical definitions of "cause" and "signal"How monogamy of entanglement is only monogamous with respect to a single degree of freedom — and why that nuance is already being exploited in entanglement harvestingWhy "it's just a tool" is the most insidious thing an engineer can say about quantum or AI technologyHow the standard heroic-origin story of quantum mechanics structurally erased experimentalists — many of them women like Hertha Sponer — and what that pattern predicts about quantum computing's own emerging origin storyWhat Grete Hermann did to von Neumann's impossibility proof forty years before anyone listenedWhy Crull thinks the next physical theory, whatever succeeds quantum field theory, is likely to be stranger, not tamerResources & LinksGuest LinksElise Crull — CCNY Faculty Profile — Her institutional home, with current research interests and talks.Elise Crull — CUNY Graduate Center Profile — Full publications list including forthcoming work.Elise Crull — Academia.edu — Preprint archive, including her 2024 Leggett–Garg/Feyerabend paper and earlier decoherence work.Books & PapersThe Einstein Paradox (Bacciagaluppi & Crull, Cambridge UP, 2024) — The archival reconstruction of the debate EPR unleashed; the centerpiece of the conversation.Ryckman's BJPS review of The Einstein Paradox (2025) — A scholarly assessment of what the book changes about how we read 1935."Realism with Quantum Faces: The Leggett–Garg Inequalities as a Case Study for Feyerabend's Views" (Crull, 2024) — Her most recent standalone article on macroscopic realism."Physics Scratches a Philosopher's Itch" — APS Physics (2022) — A feature on her work on indefinite causal ordering and causation.Helgoland & HistoryPhysics World: Helgoland 2025 — the Inside Story — Post-event report on the centenary where Sebastian and Elise first met.AIP: "What Happened on Helgoland" — Historiographical pushback on the Heisenberg origin myth.AIP: Crull on Hertha Sponer and the path to wave/particle duality (2026) — Her most recent piece on how standard histories minimize experimentalists.For General AudiencesStarTalk: "The Philosophy of Physics with Elise Crull" (June 2025) — Crull with Neil deGrasse Tyson, kicking off the Einstein Paradox promotion cycle.StarTalk: "How Quantum Physics Complicates Objective Truth" (April 2026) — A complementary, more recent treatment of the same themes.Key Quotes & InsightsOn what philosophy is for: "Every aspect of science we do requires interpretation, because the world isn't just out there. We make choices about how to encounter it."On decoherence vs. noise: Crull notes the question physicists at Duke recently raised with her — how do you tell the difference between decoherence and noise? — and stresses that one is something you shield against, the other is something else entirely. Error correction strategy depends on the distinction.On what really bothered Einstein: Despite the popular story, "He wasn't as concerned about determinism as you would think." What Einstein wanted was a theory whose mathematics had a one-to-one mapping to individual systems with their own states — and entanglement broke that.On indefinite causal order: Experimentalists often equate causation with signaling constraints, but "those are very different things." The superposition-of-causal-orders results may reveal less about causation than about the fact that temporal ordering itself remains defined in irreducibly classical ways.

Most of us today would assume that morality and ethics, being value propositions, are questions for inspired leaders, religious creeds, poets—in other words, for the humanities. But what if I told you that we can construct a system of ethics and morality by studying math—more specifically: the laws of thermodynamics? That's what Professor Drew M Dalton argues in his latest book. Dalton traces a line of metaphysical inquiry from Kant through Spinoza, Nietzsche, and others up to today to show how we get from E=mc2 to a full-throated call to resist evil and alleviate suffering to our very last breath. By overturning our assumptions about the nature and value of reality, The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism (Northwestern UP, 2024) presents a provocative new model of ethical responsibility that is both logically justifiable and scientifically sound. Dalton argues for “ethical pessimism,” a position previously marginalized in the West, as a means to cultivate an account of ethical responsibility and political activism that takes seriously the unbecoming of being and the moral horror of existence. Drew M. Dalton is a professor of English at Indiana University, having received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Leuven in Belgium. His research focuses on the normative implications of different metaphysical systems and, specifically, he's interested in how questions of right and wrong, good and evil, beauty and pleasure are framed within aesthetics, literary theory, ethics, and political philosophy. He is the author of Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire (Duquesne University Press, 2009), The Ethics of Resistance: Tyranny of the Absolute (Bloomsbury, 2018), and The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism (Northwestern University Press, 2023). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

 Voters in this month's elections in Great Britain delivered a shocking win for Reform UK, and was a clear rebuke of the “green” Net Zero agenda of the political elites. Politicians and parties that put the environmental movement over the real-world concerns of Britons, especially energy costs, have no future. On Episode #202 of The Climate Realism Show, we will talk with special guest Lois Perry, director of Heartland UK/Europe, to break down what happened, why it happened, and what it means for the climate agenda on both sides of the Atlantic. We will also cover the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including how masculinity is supposedly bad for the Earth, Danish nursing home residents are restricted to just 2.8 ounces of meat per day as punishment being “the biggest climate sinners throughout their lives,” and an big Hollywood producer says oil companies (or climate change) were responsible for the devastating Palisades fire in LA. If you believe it was an arsonist, you've been “misinformed.”  In The Tank broadcasts LIVE every Thursday at 12pm CT on on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Tune in to have your comments addressed live by the In The Tank Crew. Be sure to subscribe and never miss an episode. See you there!Climate Change Roundtable is LIVE every Friday at 12pm CT on The Heartland Institute YouTube channel. Have a topic you want addressed? Join the live show and leave a comment for our panelists and we'll cover it during the live show!

What does Trump's summit with China's Xi Jinping mean for rivalry, the permanent war economy, strategic stability, and US imperial decline? The deep sexual anxieties underneath the White House's anti-democratic counter-terrorism strategy. Graham Platner takes the lead in defining the working class and left populism. Why military spending is out of control, and who benefits. Matt Duss, Julia Gledhill, and Van Jackson are back to make sense of it all.  Subscribe to the Un-Diplomatic Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.com/  Watch Un-Diplomatic Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@un-diplomaticpodcast  Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the individuals and not of any institutions

Today The Book Case has another two for one. Laurie Frankel's newest, ENORMOUS WINGS is funny, thought provoking and will have you questioning the vitality of choosing everything in your life from those first steps towards independence to dying with dignity. An incredible read you won't want to put down. Caroline Bicks talks to us about her newest, MONSTERS IN THE ARCHIVES. In it, she explores the archives of Stephen King's early works and tells us why he is enormously popular and worthy of academic study. Join us! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: ⁠https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel One, Two, Three by Laurie Frankel Family Family by Laurie Frankel This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel The Atlas of Love by Laurie Frankel Goodbye For Now by Laurie Frankel Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Caroline Bicks Shakespeare, Not Stirred by Caroline Bicks and Michelle Ephraim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I thought that before turning to the present-day literature, it would be helpful to take a look at the state of monetary thought at the outset of World War I, in order to appreciate the progress that had been achieved since then. I opened the book at Christmas of 1992 and was in for a great surprise. This old master excelled in clarity of expression, and he had dealt with a subject of immense importance—the nature, causes, and consequences of the subjective value of money. From my previous studies I knew that this topic had not made it into the standard texts in money and banking. Mises demonstrated that this omission had been a grave error.

Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – The world has already entered a form of World War III—not necessarily through formal declarations or great-power armies marching across borders, but through sanctions regimes, proxy wars, energy chokepoints, currency battles, trade restrictions, drone warfare, and the accelerated fragmentation of the U.S.-led global order...

This 2022 episode covers how Courbet was iconic even in his own lifetime. He flew in the face of artistic convention, ushered in a new movement of Realism in France, and became embroiled in the country’s political turmoil. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alyson and Breht apply dialectical and historical materialist analysis to the current war of aggression in Iran. Together they break down the Marxist methodology into its three main parts - dialectics, materialism, and history - and showcase how they apply to the US and Israeli war on Iran, before bringing them back together into a coherent whole. Then they compare and contrast dialectical and historical materialism as a mode of analysis to other forms of analysis: from academic modes like liberal internationalism and Realism to common popular modes like conspiracy theories and moralism. Throughout the process, they aim to show the superior clarity and demystification offered by Marxism in understanding our world, as it unfolds in real time.    ---------------------------------------------------- Check out our NEW REV LEFT MERCH with Goods For The People HERE Support Rev Left and get access to bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/revleftradio Make a one-time donation to Rev Left at BuyMeACoffee.com/revleftradio Follow, Subscribe, & Learn more about Rev Left Radio https://revleftradio.com/

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 200 At the end of the day, the magic that makes the American Experiment work is that it is grounded in an astute understanding of human nature and political realism. Almost nowhere is this fact more evident than in Federalist 51 (https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-04-02-0199), written by either James Madison or Alexander Hamilton in early 1788. In this Federalist Paper, addressed to the people of the State of New York, Madison (or Hamilton) makes the case for the need for a federal government but also one with divided powers. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads through Federalist 51 and explains its relevance to our "anti-Woke" approach. Join him to see how solid America's founding really was. Latest from New Discourses Press! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2026 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #America