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A hundred years ago this spring, a magazine called Amazing Stories hit the newsstands and — almost by accident — gave a name and a shape to the genre we now call science fiction. Its publisher, Hugo Gernsback, was an immigrant electrical engineer, visionary and relentless self-promoter. He wanted his magazine to delight and enthrall – but also to educate. In this opening episode of The Tech Imaginarium, John and Ezri go back to 1926 to ask why this peculiar pulp magazine matters — and why its mix of techno-optimism, prophetic vision and dystopic warnings still echoes through the way we talk about technology today. In this episode: Hugo Gernsback: Luxembourg-born inventor, publisher of Amazing Stories, and author of stories under at least seven anagrams of his own name The strange scientific weather of 1926 — electrification, mustard gas, Einstein, Schrödinger and Hubble — and why it primed the public for "scientifiction" The first issue's contributors: Wells, Verne and Poe in one corner; George Allan England, G. Peyton Wertenbaker and Austin Hall in the other Robert Goddard, H.G. Wells and the through-line from pulp magazines to the Apollo Moon launches Why Gernsback's reputation was contraversial — paying writers poorly, exaggerating circulation, etc. The tropes Amazing Stories planted that we're still living with Links and resources: Website: learninghackpodcast.com Instagram: @tech.imaginarium Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnHelmerConsulting Music by Nick Dwyer and Flintet. The Tech Imaginarium is a Learning Hack podcast, produced and hosted by John Helmer and written by John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach.

Episode Summary: This week we're talking about space launch. 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of liquid-fueled rockets, when Dr. Robert Goddard successfully pioneered the first launch from his aunt's farm in Auburn, MA. Like the Wright Brothers before him, Goddard's breakthrough opened the door to a new domain and the exploration, operations, and economic development that have evolved ever since. Mitchell Institute experts and John Reed, the Chief Rocket Scientist at United Launch Alliance, discuss this milestone event, launch advancements over the past 100 years, the future of this technology, and why it all matters. Note regarding ISP: Isp or “Specific Impulse”, as we talked about, is a measure of a rocket efficiency. It is calculated as the Thrust force divided by the product of the mass flowrate of propellants times the gravitational acceleration in a 1 g field - (F/(mdot * g0). If we think about force in Newtons second law, with F=ma, we can see that we have mass divided by flowrate (or mass/sec) and acceleration divided by acceleration. These units resolve to what we term seconds of impulse. As we discussed, the acceleration of the fuel is a function of the exhaust velocity of the combustion products. This efficiency is driven by the combustion chamber design and chemical process as well as the nozzle design. These elements were all developed for rockets by Robert Goddard in his laboratory and field demonstrations. Credits: Host: Heather "Lucky" Penney, Director of Research, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Producer: Shane Thin Executive Producer: Douglas Birkey Guest: Charles Galbreath, Director, Mitchell Institute Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence (MI-SPACE) Guest: John Reed, Chief Rocket Scientist, United Launch Alliance Links: Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3GbA5Of Website: https://mitchellaerospacepower.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MitchellStudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mitchell.Institute.Aerospace LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3nzBisb Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mitchellstudies/ #MitchellStudies #AerospaceAdvantage #space #launch #ula

Science correspondent Allan Blackman looks at the success of a new drug in helping to cure mild and severe cases of sleeping sickness, an illness prevalent in Africa caused by parasites spread through the bites of tsetse flies. He'll also look at the work of Robert Goddard in laying the groundwork for spaceflight over 100 years ago, and the new 'smart underpants' helping to record the number of farts wearers do - which can provide vital information for clinicians. Allan Blackman is a Professor of Chemistry, School of Science, Auckland University of Technology

Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning one hundred years ago. A professor, his wife and two colleagues were about to soar into the future.

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Geoff Clayton is an astronomer at the Maria Mitchell Association. This week Geoff talks about how Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket one hundred years ago.

Astronomy Daily S05E65 — 17 March 2026 Six stories from the frontiers of space and astronomy, hosted by Anna and Avery.   IN THIS EPISODE: •    

Snow blanketed the launch pad, and the rocketeers sipped hot malted milk to ward off the chill. But the launch they conducted a century ago today turned the idea of space travel from fantasy to possibility – and provided the first small step toward the Moon. The rocket was designed by Robert Goddard, a physics professor at Clark University in Massachusetts. Goddard was brilliant but secretive. He refused to collaborate with other scientists, and seldom even talked about his research. Instead, he spent his time building, testing, and flying rockets. At the time he started, all rockets were powered by solid fuels, such as gunpowder. But solid fuels are inefficient and hard to control. So Goddard built a rocket powered by liquid fuels – gasoline and liquid oxygen. It was a potent mixture that provided far more energy per pound than solids. Goddard and his wife and assistants launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in history on March 16th, 1926. It was airborne for just two and a half seconds, and climbed just 41 feet. But it proved that liquid fuels could propel a rocket skyward. Goddard spent two more decades experimenting with rockets. German engineers used many of his innovations in the V-2, which bombarded England during World War II. Transplanted to the United States after the war, many of these engineers developed the rockets that boosted satellites into space – and sent astronauts to the Moon. Script by Damond Benningfield

There's no moon landing without Robert Goddard. This month marks 100 years since Goddard launched the first liquid fuel rocket on a farm outside of Worcester. Clark University is celebrating the man known today as the “father of modern rocketry.”

Vor 100 Jahren startete der Physiker Robert Goddard auf der Farm seiner Tante Effie eine Rakete. Sie blieb keine drei Sekunden in der Luft und flog nur 14 Meter hoch. Es war der Beginn der modernen Raumfahrt. Lorenzen, Dirk www.deutschlandfunk.de, Sternzeit

Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor known as the godfather of modern rocketry. He is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.  By 1915, his pioneering work had dramatically improved the efficiency of the solid-fueled rocket, signaling the era of the modern rocket and innovation. Our guest is Charles Statkin from the Wonder Mission about the centennial celebrations of Robert Goddard's pioneering work. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. Share your feedback. What do you think about T-Minus Space Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show.  Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Segment 12 — The Master Spy: Guyk Avakyan Oversees the Theft of Chemical Warfare and Rocketry Secrets — Svetlana Lokhova — Guyk Avakyan, an Armenian chemist, was dispatched to America in 1933 to supervise the espionage network, specializing in chemical warfare secrets. Avakyan systematized and scaled the intelligence operation, institutionalizing the use of both legal and clandestine operational covers. Avakyan oversaw the theft of critical scientific papers, including revolutionary research by rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard. Segment 12 — The Master Spy: Guyk Avakyan Oversees the Theft of Chemical Warfare and Rocketry Secrets — Svetlana Lokhova — Guyk Avakyan, an Armenian chemist, was dispatched to America in 1933 to supervise the espionage network, specializing in chemical warfare secrets. Avakyan systematized and scaled the intelligence operation, institutionalizing the use of both legal and clandestine operational covers. Avakyan oversaw the theft of critical scientific papers, including revolutionary research by rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard. 1934

El 5 de octubre 1882 nació Robert Goddard, un físico, inventor y profesor estadounidense a quien se atribuye la creación del primer cohete de combustible líquido, lanzado con éxito el 16 de marzo de 1926.

NASA pierde liderazgo: Una directora científica se va. Una carta interna protesta. Y la NASA se tambalea mientras miles de empleados alistan su salidaPor Félix Riaño @LocutorCoMakenzie Lystrup, astrofísica y líder del mayor centro científico de NASA, anunció su renuncia justo cuando se proponen recortes que podrían cancelar misiones, cerrar laboratorios y dejar sin empleo a miles de personas.Makenzie Lystrup, doctora en astrofísica con una carrera destacada en astronomía planetaria y gestión de tecnología espacial, ha confirmado que va a dejar la dirección del Centro de Vuelo Espacial Goddard el 1 de agosto. Este centro, ubicado en Greenbelt, Maryland, es el corazón científico de NASA: desde allí se gestionan los telescopios Hubble y James Webb, se controlan satélites que vigilan el clima, y se construyen sondas que exploran el Sistema Solar.Lystrup llevaba apenas veintiséis meses en el cargo. Su salida coincide con un plan de la administración Trump que busca recortar el presupuesto de NASA en un 25 %. La cifra pasaría de casi veinticinco mil millones de dólares a dieciocho mil ochocientos millones, es decir, unos diecisiete mil trescientos millones de euros. En medio de ese panorama, más de dos mil empleados sénior están considerando salidas anticipadas. ¿Está entrando NASA en una era de retroceso científico?Una carta llamada “Declaración Voyager” reta el plan de recortes desde dentro de NASA.El Centro Goddard se extiende como un campus tecnológico: edificios bajos conectados por senderos, grandes paneles solares, antenas parabólicas gigantes y plataformas de control de misiones. Desde allí, miles de personas trabajan todos los días en observación terrestre, exploración espacial robótica y desarrollo de instrumentos científicos para entender el universo. Fue fundado en 1959 y lleva el nombre de Robert Goddard, pionero de los cohetes espaciales.Makenzie Lystrup asumió la dirección del centro en abril de 2023. Llegó con una visión clara: liderar una nueva “Edad Dorada” de descubrimiento. Durante su gestión, Goddard participó en el regreso exitoso de muestras del asteroide Bennu gracias a la misión OSIRIS-REx; mantuvo dentro de presupuesto el desarrollo del Telescopio Espacial Nancy Grace Roman —considerado el sucesor del Hubble—; y dio inicio al diseño del Observatorio de Mundos Habitables, pensado para buscar señales de vida en planetas similares a la Tierra.Además, el centro sostuvo el funcionamiento de satélites que permiten a científicos, meteorólogos y agricultores obtener datos sobre el comportamiento del clima, la humedad del suelo, el derretimiento de glaciares y las emisiones contaminantes. Todo eso, gestionado desde una red de instalaciones coordinadas por Goddard y repartidas en diferentes estados.Pero el guion dio un giro brusco. El nuevo presupuesto federal propuesto por la Casa Blanca plantea recortar veinticinco de cada cien dólares que hoy sostienen la ciencia de NASA. En números reales: más de seis mil millones de dólares menos. Eso forzaría la cancelación de decenas de misiones espaciales y pondría en riesgo miles de empleos en ingeniería, programación, matemáticas y análisis científico.Goddard depende en un 60 % del presupuesto asignado a áreas científicas como astrofísica, estudios del Sol y exploración planetaria. Esas áreas serían las más golpeadas por el recorte. Por eso, NASA ya está ofreciendo salidas voluntarias, planes de retiro anticipado y despidos diferidos. Para muchas personas, estas medidas suenan más a advertencia que a opción.El mismo día que Lystrup comunicó su renuncia, se hizo pública una carta abierta firmada por casi trescientas personas, incluyendo a cuatro astronautas. La llamaron “Declaración Voyager”, en honor a las sondas que desde los años 70 siguen enviando datos desde los confines del sistema solar. En la carta, acusan a la actual dirección política de “desperdiciar recursos, poner en peligro la seguridad humana y debilitar el núcleo de la misión de NASA”. En redes, muchos comparan esta crisis con “The Empire Strikes Back”: la comunidad científica reorganiza su resistencia ante el “imperio del recorte”.En su carta de despedida, Makenzie Lystrup compara el trabajo en NASA con una carrera de relevos: cada quien corre su tramo y luego entrega el testigo. Ahora ella se retira a las gradas, mientras Cynthia Simmons —actual subdirectora— asume como directora interina. Simmons lleva veinticinco años en el centro y empezó como ingeniera contratista. Su desafío inmediato será mantener el entusiasmo y la productividad de equipos que ven cómo se marchan colegas, jefes y mentores.Mientras tanto, en el Congreso de Estados Unidos, comités de ambas bancadas han aprobado proyectos de ley para restaurar casi por completo el presupuesto de NASA. Pero aún falta que esos textos se voten en pleno en la Cámara de Representantes y en el Senado. Y luego deben ser firmados por el presidente. Algunos legisladores temen que la Casa Blanca intente retener los fondos usando una maniobra legal llamada “impoundment”, que le permite al poder ejecutivo no ejecutar partidas asignadas por el Congreso. Si eso ocurre, habrá una batalla legal que puede durar meses.Para la audiencia geek: esto se parece a Avengers: Endgame. Dos líneas temporales posibles: una donde la ciencia florece gracias a acuerdos políticos, y otra donde se evapora talento humano, se apagan telescopios y se cierran centros de investigación. Todo depende de lo que ocurra en las próximas semanas.– Lystrup juró su cargo en 2023 colocando la mano sobre “Pale Blue Dot”, el libro de Carl Sagan, gesto simbólico que recordó la fragilidad de nuestro planeta.– Antes de llegar a NASA, dirigió proyectos civiles en Ball Aerospace (hoy parte de BAE Systems) y coordinó programas para la Administración Oceánica y Atmosférica.– El Centro Goddard también administra Wallops (Virginia), White Sands (Nuevo México) y la base de globos científicos de Texas. Todas esas instalaciones podrían ver recortes, lo que preocupa a universidades que dependen de sus datos para investigaciones sobre clima y seguridad espacial.– La salida de Lystrup ocurre ocho semanas después de que Laurie Leshin renunciara al Jet Propulsion Laboratory tras despidos que afectaron un diez por ciento del personal debido a la incertidumbre del programa Marte Sample Return.– Si se concreta el presupuesto de dieciocho mil ochocientos millones de dólares, el recorte de seis mil millones (unos cinco mil quinientos millones de euros) superaría el costo anual combinado de misiones como el observatorio de rayos X IXPE y la sonda Parker Solar Probe.La renuncia de Makenzie Lystrup destapa la tensión dentro de NASA por recortes del veinticinco por ciento que podrían frenar exploraciones futuras. Vamos a seguir la votación presupuestal y el efecto en Goddard. Cuéntame qué opinas y acompáñame cada día: Flash Diario.Lystrup deja Goddard; carta Voyager exige frenar recortes del 25 % que amenazan misiones, empleos y futuro de NASA.

Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor known as the godfather of modern rocketry. He is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.  By 1915, his pioneering work had dramatically improved the efficiency of the solid-fueled rocket, signaling the era of the modern rocket and innovation. Our guest is Charles Statkin from the Wonder Mission about the centennial celebrations of Robert Goddard's pioneering work. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Robert Goddard is known as the "Father of Rocketry," but his legacy has been largely overlooked--until now. Charles Slatkin grew up during the Space Age and has become a Goddard evangelist, going so far as to purchase the historic Goddard home to convert into a museum. But his efforts don't stop there. Slatkin has started a nonprofit to not only further Goddard's legacy, but also to inspire young people, who he calls "today's Goddards," to reach for the stars. Hear this inspiring story on this episode of This Week in Space! Headliines Soviet Venus Probe Re-entry: The Soviet Union's Cosmos 42 Venus probe, launched in 1972, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere after failing to reach Venus. Due to its design for landing on Venus, there's a possibility some or much of it may survive re-entry. NASA's Roman Space Telescope: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed thermal vacuum tests, but its future is uncertain due to potential budget cuts. Scott Kelly and Goodnites: Astronaut Scott Kelly has partnered with Goodnites Undergarments to destigmatize bedwetting, humorously drawing parallels to astronauts wearing diapers in space. Main Topic - The Robert Goddard Project Introducing Charles Slatkin: A space enthusiast and advocate, Charles Slatkin is dedicated to inspiring future generations through the wonders of space and preserving Robert Goddard's legacy in rocketry. Slatkin's Space Journey: Sputnik and Wernher von Braun's vision of lunar exploration ignited Slatkin's passion for space at a young age. Who Was Robert Goddard?: Robert Goddard, born in 1882, launched the world's first liquid-propellant rocket in 1926. Despite facing mockery and failures, his perseverance and ingenuity paved the way for modern space exploration. Slatkin's Connection to Goddard: Slatkin's journey with Goddard began at Clark University, where Goddard earned his PhD and later taught. His efforts to save Goddard's house from destruction and his involvement in the Goddard Centennial highlight his dedication to preserving Goddard's legacy. Goddard House Restoration: Slatkin bought Goddard's house and is restoring it into a museum, library, and resource center, with plans to house a student caretaker. Goddard's Rocketry Breakthrough: Goddard's shift to liquid-fueled rockets was revolutionary, overcoming the limitations of solid propellants and paving the way for modern rocketry. The Wonder Mission: Slatkin's Wonder Mission aims to inspire awe and wonder for space through immersive experiences and educational initiatives, including the Goddard Project and the National Space Trail. Goddard Centennial: The upcoming Goddard Centennial in 2026 is an opportunity to celebrate Goddard's legacy, honor today's scientists and engineers, and inspire future generations of space explorers. National Space Trail: The National Space Trail, an initiative inspired by the Boston Freedom Trail, will connect significant sites related to space exploration across the United States, beginning in Worcester, Massachusetts. Virtual Goddard Museum: Plans are underway for a virtual museum to expand access to Goddard's story and legacy, featuring multimedia resources and information connected to the National Space Trail. Goddard's Enduring These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space/episodes/160 Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Charles Slatkin

Dr. Robert Goddard is known as the "Father of Rocketry," but his legacy has been largely overlooked--until now. Charles Slatkin grew up during the Space Age and has become a Goddard evangelist, going so far as to purchase the historic Goddard home to convert into a museum. But his efforts don't stop there. Slatkin has started a nonprofit to not only further Goddard's legacy, but also to inspire young people, who he calls "today's Goddards," to reach for the stars. Hear this inspiring story on this episode of This Week in Space! Headliines Soviet Venus Probe Re-entry: The Soviet Union's Cosmos 42 Venus probe, launched in 1972, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere after failing to reach Venus. Due to its design for landing on Venus, there's a possibility some or much of it may survive re-entry. NASA's Roman Space Telescope: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed thermal vacuum tests, but its future is uncertain due to potential budget cuts. Scott Kelly and Goodnites: Astronaut Scott Kelly has partnered with Goodnites Undergarments to destigmatize bedwetting, humorously drawing parallels to astronauts wearing diapers in space. Main Topic - The Robert Goddard Project Introducing Charles Slatkin: A space enthusiast and advocate, Charles Slatkin is dedicated to inspiring future generations through the wonders of space and preserving Robert Goddard's legacy in rocketry. Slatkin's Space Journey: Sputnik and Wernher von Braun's vision of lunar exploration ignited Slatkin's passion for space at a young age. Who Was Robert Goddard?: Robert Goddard, born in 1882, launched the world's first liquid-propellant rocket in 1926. Despite facing mockery and failures, his perseverance and ingenuity paved the way for modern space exploration. Slatkin's Connection to Goddard: Slatkin's journey with Goddard began at Clark University, where Goddard earned his PhD and later taught. His efforts to save Goddard's house from destruction and his involvement in the Goddard Centennial highlight his dedication to preserving Goddard's legacy. Goddard House Restoration: Slatkin bought Goddard's house and is restoring it into a museum, library, and resource center, with plans to house a student caretaker. Goddard's Rocketry Breakthrough: Goddard's shift to liquid-fueled rockets was revolutionary, overcoming the limitations of solid propellants and paving the way for modern rocketry. The Wonder Mission: Slatkin's Wonder Mission aims to inspire awe and wonder for space through immersive experiences and educational initiatives, including the Goddard Project and the National Space Trail. Goddard Centennial: The upcoming Goddard Centennial in 2026 is an opportunity to celebrate Goddard's legacy, honor today's scientists and engineers, and inspire future generations of space explorers. National Space Trail: The National Space Trail, an initiative inspired by the Boston Freedom Trail, will connect significant sites related to space exploration across the United States, beginning in Worcester, Massachusetts. Virtual Goddard Museum: Plans are underway for a virtual museum to expand access to Goddard's story and legacy, featuring multimedia resources and information connected to the National Space Trail. Goddard's Enduring These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space/episodes/160 Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Charles Slatkin

Dr. Robert Goddard is known as the "Father of Rocketry," but his legacy has been largely overlooked--until now. Charles Slatkin grew up during the Space Age and has become a Goddard evangelist, going so far as to purchase the historic Goddard home to convert into a museum. But his efforts don't stop there. Slatkin has started a nonprofit to not only further Goddard's legacy, but also to inspire young people, who he calls "today's Goddards," to reach for the stars. Hear this inspiring story on this episode of This Week in Space! Headliines Soviet Venus Probe Re-entry: The Soviet Union's Cosmos 42 Venus probe, launched in 1972, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere after failing to reach Venus. Due to its design for landing on Venus, there's a possibility some or much of it may survive re-entry. NASA's Roman Space Telescope: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed thermal vacuum tests, but its future is uncertain due to potential budget cuts. Scott Kelly and Goodnites: Astronaut Scott Kelly has partnered with Goodnites Undergarments to destigmatize bedwetting, humorously drawing parallels to astronauts wearing diapers in space. Main Topic - The Robert Goddard Project Introducing Charles Slatkin: A space enthusiast and advocate, Charles Slatkin is dedicated to inspiring future generations through the wonders of space and preserving Robert Goddard's legacy in rocketry. Slatkin's Space Journey: Sputnik and Wernher von Braun's vision of lunar exploration ignited Slatkin's passion for space at a young age. Who Was Robert Goddard?: Robert Goddard, born in 1882, launched the world's first liquid-propellant rocket in 1926. Despite facing mockery and failures, his perseverance and ingenuity paved the way for modern space exploration. Slatkin's Connection to Goddard: Slatkin's journey with Goddard began at Clark University, where Goddard earned his PhD and later taught. His efforts to save Goddard's house from destruction and his involvement in the Goddard Centennial highlight his dedication to preserving Goddard's legacy. Goddard House Restoration: Slatkin bought Goddard's house and is restoring it into a museum, library, and resource center, with plans to house a student caretaker. Goddard's Rocketry Breakthrough: Goddard's shift to liquid-fueled rockets was revolutionary, overcoming the limitations of solid propellants and paving the way for modern rocketry. The Wonder Mission: Slatkin's Wonder Mission aims to inspire awe and wonder for space through immersive experiences and educational initiatives, including the Goddard Project and the National Space Trail. Goddard Centennial: The upcoming Goddard Centennial in 2026 is an opportunity to celebrate Goddard's legacy, honor today's scientists and engineers, and inspire future generations of space explorers. National Space Trail: The National Space Trail, an initiative inspired by the Boston Freedom Trail, will connect significant sites related to space exploration across the United States, beginning in Worcester, Massachusetts. Virtual Goddard Museum: Plans are underway for a virtual museum to expand access to Goddard's story and legacy, featuring multimedia resources and information connected to the National Space Trail. Goddard's Enduring These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space/episodes/160 Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Charles Slatkin

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Pablo Arias regresa con una nueva entrega de su sección de historia de la ciencia y hoy nos trae la figura del físico e inventor Robert Goddard, creador del primer cohete de combustible líquido lanzado en 1926

Pablo Arias regresa con una nueva entrega de su sección de historia de la ciencia y hoy nos trae la figura del físico e inventor Robert Goddard, creador del primer cohete de combustible líquido lanzado en 1926

Es uno de los personajes más fascinantes de la Edad Media y ya era hora que nos hiciéramos eco de ella. Leonor de Aquitania esposa, madre y abuela de reyes será la protagonista del cronovisor junto a Jesús Callejo. Luego Álvaro Romero, co-comisario de la exposición Cartas de Colón, América en la Casa de Alba en el palacio de Liria de Madrid nos habla de la relación entre la Casa de Alba, Cristóbal Colón y la historia de América. Pablo Arias en una nueva entrega de su sección de historia de la ciencia nos trae la figura del físico Robert Goddard. Y acabamos con Ana Barrera autora de la novela Cartas desde Hungría que nos lleva a este país en el momento de la II Guerra Mundial

Es uno de los personajes más fascinantes de la Edad Media y ya era hora que nos hiciéramos eco de ella. Leonor de Aquitania esposa, madre y abuela de reyes será la protagonista del cronovisor junto a Jesús Callejo. Luego Álvaro Romero, co-comisario de la exposición Cartas de Colón, América en la Casa de Alba en el palacio de Liria de Madrid nos habla de la relación entre la Casa de Alba, Cristóbal Colón y la historia de América. Pablo Arias en una nueva entrega de su sección de historia de la ciencia nos trae la figura del físico Robert Goddard. Y acabamos con Ana Barrera autora de la novela Cartas desde Hungría que nos lleva a este país en el momento de la II Guerra Mundial

Robert Goddard hat in den USA die erste Rakete mit flüssigem Treibstoff entwickelt. Der peruanische Ingenieur Pedro Paulet behauptete jedoch, er habe so eine Pioniertat schon viel früher vollbracht – Belege dafür gibt es nicht. Lorenzen, Dirk www.deutschlandfunk.de, Sternzeit

Ever wondered how a tech giant like Google handles your incognito mode data? Well, buckle up, because we're unraveling the truth behind those private browsing sessions and the shockwaves it's sending across the landscape of online privacy. This episode also shines a light on the quirky side of artificial intelligence – think of it as a mischievous kid concocting tales. We're not just raising eyebrows; we're probing deep into the ethical minefields and the big question of AI-generated misinformation.Join us for a conversation with Rick Voight, CEO of Vivid-Pix, who's on a mission to safeguard your memories in the digital age. We're talking cutting-edge tech that's transforming how we hold onto life's fleeting moments, making it a snap to preserve those cherished snapshots. Then, we'll soar into the realm of flying cars zooming around China, defying gravity and potentially redefining our urban skylines. It's not all jetpacks and daydreams – we're sizing up the real deal on what it takes to bring this futuristic vision down to earth.To cap things off, we'll touch on the legacy of Robert Goddard's rocket science marvels and the tumultuous tides faced by Truth Social in the social media seas. All this, plus a tip of the hat to Rossville Union Single Barrell Cask Strength Rye, as we toast to another episode where technology and life collide with a splash of good spirits. Don't forget to subscribe to us on YouTube for these tech tidbits and tantalizing talks, because you won't want to miss what's up our digital sleeves next.Episode 199: Starts at :30Episode 199:This week on TechTime with Nathan Mumm®, we bring you a whirlwind of headlines that'll leave your circuits buzzing. It seems Google has had a changed heart, or maybe it was the relentless class action lawsuit, but the search giant has finally bowed to pressure! Google has agreed to delete billions of Incognito mode data records. Yes, you heard it right. Your "PRIVATE" browsing history will vanish into the digital abyss. So, next time you're in Incognito mode, rest assured—your secrets are safe, or are they?Join us weekly on TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Humm" Technology news of the week for March 31st - April 6th 2024--- [Now on Today's Show]--- [Top Stories in Technology]Google agrees to delete billions of Incognito mode data recordsWhy does AI Make Stuff Up?AI photos of "What it Might Have Been Like in the Future"European flying car technology sold to China--- [Pick of the Day - Whiskey Tasting Reveal]Rossville Union Single Barrel Cask Strength Rye (Binny's Handpicked #159 2021 Selection) | 115 Proof | $65 / 750ml  --- [Technology Insider]Today's Guest: Chief Executive Officer of Vivid-Pix, Rick Voight --- [This Week in Technology]March 28, 1935 First Gyroscope Controlled Rocket LaunchRobert Goddard, considered the father of modern rocketry, successfully launches the first gyroscope controlled rocket.--- [Marc's Whiskey Mumble]Marc Gregoire's review of this week's whiskey--- [Technology Fail of the Week]This week's “Technology Fail” comes to us from AT&T has finally confirmed it has been impacted by a data breach affecting 73 million current and former customers.--- [Mike's Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by StoriCoffee®]Question: Do photos help us with our memory as we age?--- [Nathan Nugget]Truth Social: Trump's DJT stock plummets days after going public--- [Pick of the Day Whiskey Review]Rossville Union Single Barrel Cask Strength Rye (Binny's Handpicked #159 2021 Selection) | 115 Proof | $65 / 750ml Mike: Thumbs DownNathan: Thumbs Down

Welcome to series 11, Episode 1 of In Suspense - a podcast for fans and writers of crime fiction. Today, Lesley and Nikki are chatting to Robert Goddard about the latest in his Umiko Wada series, The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction.Book recommendations in this episode were:VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace ThackerayTHE GUEST by B.A. ParisTHE ORDINARY MAN by Christie J. Newport

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1043, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: They Own It 1: Everything from Charmin to Duracell:This company named for 2 guys. Procter and Gamble. 2: Uncle Ben's, MandM's and, fittingly, Orbit gum. Mars. 3: Cheerios and Wheaties:This "military" corporation. General Mills. 4: Dasani and Sprite:This soft drink concern. Coca-Cola. 5: Xanax and Lipitor (don't get them mixed up):This pharmaceutical giant. Pfizer. Round 2. Category: The World At War 1: The Chinese Communist First Front Army staged the 6,000-mile retreat known as the Long March under this leader. Mao Tse-tung. 2: St. Louis, Missouri was named for King Louis IX of France, who led the Seventh and Eighth of these military debacles. the Crusades. 3: In 1619 Rene Descartes went to join the army of the Duke of Bavaria during this decades-long war. the 30 Years War. 4: Unprepared for this man leading an army force over the Andes in 1817, the Spanish Empire lost Chile and Argentina. José de San Martín. 5: The first British recipient of the Victoria Cross, a sailor, received it for actions in the Baltic Sea during this war. the Crimean War. Round 3. Category: In Life 1: In regard to benefits, ssa.gov says this period of your life begins at age 62. retirement. 2: In common law, the age of this, signaling adulthood, is presumed to be 14 in boys and 12 in girls. puberty. 3: In the Holmes-Rahe life stress inventory, the death of a spouse is tops, while this similar outcome is second. divorce. 4: In Catholicism this sacrament, administered on baptized persons at least age 7, allows you to take communion. confirmation. 5: "When age chills the blood", waxed Byron, "our sweetest memorial" will be the "first" this "of love". kiss. Round 4. Category: Happy 50Th Nasa 1: NASA took up JFK's 1961 challenge to do this by decade's end and met it with 5 months to spare. put a man on the Moon. 2: NASA took up W's 2004 challenge to do this as the first of "the next steps of space exploration". put a man on Mars. 3: NASA radar checks out ECAs, Earth-orbit crossing these, in case one is about to wipe out civilization. an asteroid. 4: Named for this rocketry pioneer, NASA's first space flight center was set up when NASA was 1. (Robert) Goddard. 5: The 50th anniversary logo shows a grand design galaxy in which these anatomical features curl pleasingly inward. the arms of the galaxy. Round 5. Category: You'Re NutS!. With Nut in quotes 1: These handy items are named for their shape, not for being used on airplanes. wing nuts. 2: It evolved from "Li'l Folks", a 1940s feature in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Peanuts. 3: The "English" type of this tree makes fine furniture and gunstocks. walnut. 4: Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated the tale of this character. Squirrel Nutkin. 5: Tasty term for the weighted ring used by hitters to warm up. doughnut. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Bang, Zoom, to the Moon with a strange but true New England Legend!Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a swing at Pakachoag Golf Course in Auburn, Massachusetts, where near the 9th hole back on March 16, 1926, Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. If not for what happened here we may never have gone to space, reached the moon, and beyond. Sometimes it takes a dreamer to leap us forward. Bang Zoom to the Moon - A New England Legends Podcast Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends For more episodes join us here each Monday or visit their website to catch up on the hundreds of tales that legends are made of. https://ournewenglandlegends.com/category/podcasts/Follow Jeff Belanger here: https://jeffbelanger.com/Get Jeff's new book, The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts here: https://bit.ly/3M1ecXeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Season 5 Episode 7: ROBERT GODDARD (CWA DIAMOND DAGGER WINNER, THE FINE ART OF UNCANNY PREDICTION) & SUK PANNU (MRS SIDHU'S DEAD AND SCONE): Robert Goddard & Sak Pannu  join Victoria to discuss cosy crime and the 'Osman effect'. What do we mean by Cosy Crime? Why has it become so popular? And where does the future lie? VICTORIA SELMANSundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARSAmazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeSWebsite for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.comTwitter: @VictoriaSelmanWe love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoriaProduced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& ?? (December)

In Episode 321 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a swing at Pakachoag Golf Course in Auburn, Massachusetts, where near the 9th hole back on March 16, 1926, Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. If not for what happened here we may never have gone to space, reached the moon, and beyond. Sometimes it takes a dreamer to leap us forward.    See mnore here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-321-from-the-9th-hole-to-the-moon-in-auburn/   Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends

Did you know in the late 1800s, doctors didn't wash their hands between procedures? When Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis – an obstetrician in Vienna – realized women in his hospital were dying at staggering rates, he implemented staff-wide mandatory hand washing. Maternal death rates dropped by 90%. But doctors weren't happy. Semmelweis was called "crazy," told his idea was superstitious, not scientific.75 years later, Dr. Robert Goddard – an American professor of physics – published a report via the Smithsonian theorizing that, one day, a rocket could reach the moon. A New York Times editorial was published the very next morning slamming Dr. Goddard – writing that the professor lacked the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.Join us this week for an unusual one: Rejecting two pioneers in science – the fathers of hand washing and rocketry – Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis and Dr. Robert Goddard.Get to know Apostrophe:InstagramTwitterThreadsYouTube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who was Robert H. Goddard?  His theories on space exploration were so ahead of his time that they were mocked and ridiculed by colleagues and by the New York Times… but Robert Goddard persisted, and with very little resources, he overcame adversity and launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, ushering in the space age.  In 1903, the Wright brothers took their historic “First Flight” and got humanity off the ground. Just 23 years later, Dr. Robert Goddard's “First Launch” was the first step in taking humankind off the planet. 43 years later, in 1969, humans walked on the Moon!  Although admired by the scientific and aerospace communities, most people have no clue who Goddard is or the extent of his groundbreaking accomplishments and vision.  Charles Slatkin wants to change that.  Charles Slatkin is the founder of the Robert Goddard Project and the Wonder Mission. Part of this project includes the “First Launch'' centennial celebration – a unique opportunity to leverage the incredible legacy of Dr. Goddard, the Father of Modern Rocketry- and recognize the achievements of today's scientists, engineers, educators, researchers and “visioneers.” Charles is a multimedia and internationally recognized “wow factor” pioneer, space evangelist, and visioner. Charles has an extensive background in “wowing” people through his expertise in science, film, video, audio and photography-and today, he's taken his talents from his professional career and applied them into the Goddard Project, reimagining Goddard's legacy with advanced storytelling technologies to help inspire and motivate a new generation of dreamers and “visioneers.” Get involved, support or volunteer, or get in touch with Charles at: charles@thewondermission.org  More about the Wonder Mission  https://thewondermission.org/

Art and technology share a symbiotic grace in the glass spacecraft, rockets, and scientific apparatus of Rik Allen. Most of his work is made primarily of glass and metal, which expresses a paradoxical symbiosis. The relationship between the rigid strength of metal with the inherent fragility of glass creates an alluring tension. While many of his pieces reference his curiosity about science, they also convey humor, simple narratives, and a lightheartedness that is embodied in much of science fiction's antiquated vision of the future. The theme of “futuristic antiquity” reflects Allen's interest in the literary fictional worlds of Jules Vern, H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clark, and Isaac Asimov and their influence on the scientific community. His sculpture is also inspired by the accounts of early scientific pioneers of the 19 and 20th centuries, such as Nicola Tesla, Robert Goddard, Wernher von Braun, and other great scientific minds. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Allen earned a BA in Anthropology from Franklin Pierce University, New Hampshire. His earliest and formative glass studio experiences and education came as a studio assistant in Providence, working with a number of wonderful artists to include Daniel Clayman, James Watkins, and Michael Scheiner. Allen relocated to Washington in 1994, where he joined the William Morris team at the Pilchuck Glass School for 13 years, specializing in engraving, cutting, and finishing glass sculpture. Allen has had numerous solo exhibitions of his sculptures throughout the country, including at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, the Museum of Northwest Art, Traver Gallery, Blue Rain Gallery, Schantz Gallery, and Duncan McClellan Gallery. His sculptures have been acquired for a number of public and private collections, including Glass Museum in Tacoma, Imagine Museum, Toyoma Institute of Glass, Blue Origin, Boeing, Amazon and SpaceX. In 2016, his work appeared in a feature cover story published by American Craft magazine and in 2018, he was awarded “Grand Artist of the future” by Imagine Museum. In 2005, Allen established a glass and sculpture studio with his wife, artist Shelley Muzylowski Allen at their property in Skagit County, Washington. In addition to being artists, the couple has taught internationally at the Toyama Institute of Glass in Toyama, Japan, and the International Glass Festival in Stourbridge, England. They have also taught nationally, including the Penland School of Craft, Pittsburgh Glass Center, and at Pilchuck Glass School. A lifelong Star Trek devotee – whose earliest memories of creation involved making scotch tape and cardboard phasers and communicators – Allen was contacted by Eugene (Rod) Roddenberry, son of Star Trekcreator Gene Roddenberry and current spokesman for Trekkies everywhere. Intrigued by Allen's work after seeing a piece one of his friends owned, Roddenberry commissioned a sculpture of the original series' Starship Enterprise. The sculpture was to reflect the basic design of the original Enterprise, but also incorporate Allen's personality into a sculpture that was of his own original design and overall interpretation. Allen, in collaboration with wife Shelley, has created and will install two large public sculptures, Sticken (the Orchard Octopus) in September, and Heronious One in November in Bellevue, Washington. He will have an exhibition of new work in spring 2024 at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and will collaborate with Dave Walters this fall.   

On July 14, 1914, Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts physics professor, registered his first two patents describing a multi-stage rocket and a rocket fueled by liquid propellants.

 You've probably heard or read something about the “new space age” unfolding around us. While this new era of space exploration is raising important questions—like who sets the rules and who owns what—it's also inspiring grand visions of the future. I don't have a crystal ball or some super secret source of insider intelligence, but it's clear that two grand visions are strongly influencing a lot of the enterprises involved in the new space age: one of preserving humanity and the world, and one of escaping it all. In this episode, I explore two of the leading visions emerging at the dawn of the new space age. You'll hear about Jeff Bezos' purpose for Blue Origin and his plan to build space stations where people can live and work. I share Elon Musk's mission to colonize Mars and discuss what “lifeboat syndrome” is. You'll also learn how the work of philanthropists started aviation and spaceflight and gain insight into the role of ordinary people like you and me in the future of the new space age. “Where it all goes from here will be up to people like you and me and the kids and grandkids of our lives. They will inherit the lessons and building blocks from these initial lessons and have the opportunity to write an exciting new chapter in spaceflight and the future of humanity and our planet.” - Kathy Sullivan This week on Kathy Sullivan Explores: ●     The dawn of the new space age●     Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's vision for the future of outer space●     Elon Musk and his plans to colonize Mars●     The lifeboat syndrome●     How philanthropy drove the inception of aviation and spaceflight Resources Mentioned: ●     Book: The High Frontier: Human Colonies In Space by Gerard K. O'Neill Our Favorite Quotes: ●     “Stephen Hawking famously once said that humanity will not endure another thousand years unless it becomes a multi-planet species.” - Kathy Sullivan●     “It was the vision and private capital of philanthropists like Samuel Langley and Robert Goddard and the people they could draw to their cause that allowed everyone to envision what aviation and spaceflight could become.” - Kathy Sullivan Related Episode: ●     108 | The New Wild West Spaceship Not Required I'm Kathy Sullivan, the only person to have walked in space and gone to the deepest point in the ocean. I'm an explorer, and that doesn't always have to involve going to some remote or exotic place. It simply requires a commitment to put curiosity into action. In this podcast, you can explore, reflecting on lessons learned from life so far and from my brilliant and ever-inquisitive guests. We explore together in this very moment from right where you are--spaceship not required. Welcome to Kathy Sullivan Explores. Visit my website at kathysullivanexplores.com to sign up for seven astronaut tips to improving your life on earth and be the first to discover future episodes and learn about more exciting adventures ahead! Don't forget to leave a rating and review wherever you get your podcasts! Spotify I Stitcher I Apple Podcasts I iHeart Radio I TuneIn I Google I Amazon Music.

Places of honor are won by those who suffer for the kingdom; a cup of suffering is necessary for all who would be honored in the Kingdom of God. - SERMON TRANSCRIPT - Turn your Bibles to Mark chapter 10. We continue to make our way through Mark's gospel. We come to this vital passage today. Thirty-five years ago this week, I watched one of the most exciting basketball games I've ever seen in my life. Some of you are sports fans, some of you aren't. So I'm going to bore some of you for the next minute or so and others will be really excited, but that's okay. But I want to talk about this just because of something that was said. It was actually a Celtics NBA basketball game, a playoff game, game seven between the Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks. It was the last time that Larry Bird was really just amazing and dominant as he and the Atlanta Hawks star, Dominique Wilkins, went back and forth trading baskets, one shot after another. Each one seemed to be more spectacular than the last. It was really almost like a man to man duel between the two of them with the season hanging the balance for one or the other team. During the game, the announcer, Brent Musburger, said something that has been played again and again since then, and it stuck with me even if they hadn't played it. After Larry Bird made a particularly remarkable shot, he said, "You are watching what true greatness is all about." I thought, "Hmmm." I like basketball, but I'm a Christian and that is not what true greatness is all about. I mean, I'm glad the Celtics won that day, don't get me wrong, but you know what? I've seen pictures of Larry Bird and he's old now. The Boston Garden they played in doesn't even exist anymore. It's been torn down, it's gone. I think about what Isaiah 40 says when it says, "All flesh is grass and all their glory is like the flower of the field." Friends, that is not what true greatness is all about. No sports is. What is true greatness all about? The text brings us right to that topic. It's something that captivates our minds. People are interested in greatness. I was at a graduation yesterday for my son at UNC-Charlotte. As they have at graduations, they honor different students for academic achievement. They do it with this Latin phrase, cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude, which means with praise, with great praise, with the greatest or highest praise. So greatness. We're interested in that hierarchy of good, better, and best. We're always analyzing what is good, what is better, what is the greatest. Remember for me, as somebody who loves history, at the end of the 20th century, Time Magazine listed the top 100 greatest individuals from the century that had just been completed, the 20th century. They walked through different individuals that they felt should be on the list, 100 greatest people of the 20th century. They're inventors like the Wright Brothers who invented the airplane, and there was Robert Goddard who invented liquid fueled rockets that enabled eventually space travel and landing men on the moon. There was Tim Burners-Lee who invented the internet; William Shockley, who invented the transistor, ushering us into the digital age. Enrico Fermi was on the list who split the atom, and then of course, Albert Einstein who gave us the theory of relativity. All those scientists and inventors were on the list. Of course, they were influential political leaders from the 20th century like Winston Churchill and FDR and Nelson Mandela. Other leaders of movements like Martin Luther King Jr. were on the list. They're even entertainers and film stars and rock stars and authors, poets, actors, fashion icons, business leaders. So Coco Chanel, Lucille Ball, Bob Dylan, Charlie Chaplin, Sam Walton, all these folks are on the list. However, Time Magazine, the list there was not seeking to identify if any of these people were actually great people, just really that they'd had a great impact, so Adolf Hitler was on the list; Joseph Stalin was on the list; Mao Zedong was on the list. These are mass murderers, tens of millions killed because of their policies, but they're great on the list. They're mixed in together with people that most secular individuals felt were good people such as Billy Graham or Mahatma Gandhi, just all of them mixed together on the list. There was no filter for basic human goodness. In our passage today, we have two disciples, James and John, seeking positions of greatness in the kingdom of God. Jesus has therefore the opportunity to address the topic of greatness, both great power and also great character in one key moment. This lesson on the nature of true greatness stands over all human beings for all history as both the goal to strive for and the standard by which we are going to be judged on Judgment Day. Ultimately, it doesn't matter at all who the world thinks is great. The only thing that will matter on that day is, "What does God think?" What does God think? Who does God think is great? Here in the text today, we have the standard. Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all for, even the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. To Jesus Christ then, true greatness came down to this, humble suffering servanthood, the humble suffering servant. Whoever's willing to pay the most, lay down his or her life to benefit to bless others will be called greatest in the kingdom of God. Now, the standard is simple. We can understand it, yet it may be one of the most difficult lessons that any of us ever learn. I. The Perversion of Greatness: Self-Promotion So let's walk through the text and let's begin with the perversion of greatness. The perversion of greatness which is self-promotion. It's very common these days. Putting yourself forward, espousing all of your best attributes, in effect, selling yourself. It's been going on a long time. James and John are practicing it with Jesus to some degree in this text, twenty centuries ago. Secular kingdoms have been dominated by this self-promotion and politicking throughout history. In the Roman Empire, counselors to the Caesars would orchestrate political scandals for one another to knock off their rivals by shame. That failing, they might just have them poisoned. Cicero, the leading order of the Roman Republic, was an expert at dirty politics, smearing an opponent with rhetoric and with innuendo of immorality; he's very good at it, Cicero. In the European courts of the Middle Ages, lords and nobles would fight joust with each other to show their courage or loyalty or military prowess. They would jockey for position. Others would go on great quests, military quests to achieve some dramatic goal in order to secure the undying affection of the king and garner position of power in his kingdom. Now, in the modern era, in our era, people use social media often to position themselves for greatness and to cancel their rivals, so to speak, using smear tactics, finding some damning incident from that person's youth or earlier in their history to damage their career, to damage their reputation in the cyber community. As it said, the internet never forgets. There's no escaping those past moments. Now, the same thing happens in the secular, the corporate world as well. Young ladder climbers use power techniques. I came across a book some time ago entitled and I'm not commending this book, but this is the title, 21 Dirty Tricks at Work: How to Win At Office Politics. So you heard me say, I'm not commending this. I'm just telling you what's in the book. Techniques like stealing credit for someone else's success, trapping someone in a compromising situation and then blackmailing them, using flattery to gain someone's confidence and then at the right time backstabbing them at a key board meeting, et cetera, et cetera. These are the ugly tactics used for self-promotion to gain position in the corporate environment. I don't think James and John were at that level, but they're jockeying for position in the kingdom. It's been going on a long time, advancement by self-promotion. They come forward and make this selfish request. I want you to notice the context. Those of you here last week, you remember what I preached on as Jesus predicted again what was going to happen to him in Jerusalem. He was going to go up to Jerusalem and He was going to die on the cross. They were going to spit on him. They were going to beat him. They were going to crucify him. This is what's going to happen. Then James and John come and say, "Hey, let us sit at your right and left side." The timing's terrible, the selfishness. Do you see? It's just really shocking as they come angling for this position, but that's how they do. They come in and they ask effectively for a blank check from Jesus. Look at the text 35-37, “Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. ‘Teacher,’they said, ‘we want you to do for us whatever we ask.’" Interesting. I liked this answer, “What do you want me to do for you?” Notice that. That's a key moment right there like in the theology of prayer. It does matter what you ask. It needs to line up with my purposes. “What do you want me to do for you?” “They replied, ‘Let us sit one of us at your right hand and the other at your left in your kingdom.'" We want you to do whatever we ask. Jesus says, "You got to tell me what you want.” They want to be effectively the second and third most powerful men on earth. That's what they're asking for. They want to sit at Jesus's right and his left in his glory, in his kingdom glory, his place of access to power and of personal prestige and exaltation. In Matthew's account, this request comes through their mother, “Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons and kneeling down asked a favor of them.” One thing you learn with the synoptic gospels, whenever any one of them adds some information, that's true. If the other one doesn't have it, they're just simplifying the account and leaving things out. All of the gospels leave things out, but this is what happened. Ultimately, Jesus knows who put the mother up. It was coming from James and John, but they're going with mom, kneeling down to ask a favor of them. “'What is it you want?’, He asked. She said, ‘Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.'" Some of you moms will know exactly what's going on here. This is a big moment for her. Indications are from the studies and the New Testament that this woman, James and John's mother was named Salome and was a sister of Mary, the mother of Jesus, so is therefore Jesus' aunt and that would make James and John Jesus' cousins. Friends, this is nepotism. That's what this is. This is family ties. This is an old, old trick here. Napoleon places brothers on thrones all around Europe. This is what people do. Jesus wants to expose this perversion of greatness here, verse 42, “Jesus called them together and said, ‘You know that those who are rulers, regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lorded over them and their high officials exercise authority over them.’" This is the perversion of these positions of power having obtained them through self-promotion. The Gentiles use them for selfish purposes. They dominate others and they stoke their egos with their positions of power, with displays of grandeur. They're these outward displays of power and prestige, trumpet sounding at the approach of the Roman governor, regal purple banners fluttering in the air, a manner of superiority in their speech, haughty air like the famous statement made by Maria Antoinette about the poor in France, "Let them eat cake." There's that dismissive attitude toward the poor. These rulers and officials love the places of honor and the most important seats and the lofty greetings and the words of praise, the trappings of power. This is the way it always is with the rulers of the Gentiles. It's what they do. You think about the Sun King, Louis the 14th of France built the Palace of Versailles with the most elaborate displays of wealth, golden frameworks around mirrors, embedded jewels in fireplaces, crystal chandeliers, a whole hall of mirrors to give visiting dignitaries from other nations as well as his own people a sense of their own smallness and inferiority compared to him, the Sun King, Louis the 14th. Ultimately, worldly rulers use their positions to fatten themselves with luxurious living. Sadly, it seems some of this was on James and John's mind too. That's why Jesus mentions it. They're hiding behind their mother. They're using family connections. They’re angling for top positions in Jesus' kingdom. Now, keep in mind, the disciples' errant view of what was about to happen was effectively a secular kingdom of power and prestige, just like Jesus is talking about here. That's what they thought was about to happen. Jesus is going to use his supernatural power to defeat the Romans, defeat all Gentile enemies and establish a Jewish empire from sea to sea ruling over the entire earth with Jesus as the king, and them, second and third in power. That's what they thought was about to happen. Jesus has to expose how faulty that view of power really is. II. The Price of Greatness: Suffering Secondly, we see the price of greatness which is suffering. “'You do not understand what you're asking,’” verse 38, “Jesus said. ‘Can you drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I'm baptized with?’” Again, the context. As I said, the very last thing that happened is Jesus, in detail, predicted the sufferings He was about to go through. He's bringing their minds to this again and again. They did not expect the crucifixion. They weren't thinking it was going to happen. It did not factor in. You don't understand what you're asking, He says. He has to educate them. He has to strip their presumptions bear. Like all the other disciples, their understanding of the kingdom and its glory is woefully inadequate. Jesus has to educate them about the nature of the kingdom and the positions of power within it. Now, note something very important. Jesus does not deny that there are such positions of power, there are. There will be individuals sitting at his right and his left in his glory. It's actually going to happen. The Book of Revelation pictures 24 elders seated on 24 glorious thrones, encircling the throne of God. Jesus said the twelve would sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel [Matthew 19:28], but they definitely don't understand the price of all of that. They don't understand the cross. The blood of Jesus essential that must be shed for their sins to qualify them to be in heaven at all and the suffering needed to build his worldwide kingdom, they didn't understand any of that. So no, they don't understand what they're asking and neither do we really, but Jesus is ready in this text through the Holy Spirit to educate all of us. The price of glory is suffering. Verse 38, “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I'm baptized with?” What is the cup? What is the cup Jesus is going to drink? In Gethsemane, we're going to see him shrinking back from the cup. God reveals the cup to him, I believe at a far deeper level than even Jesus had ever seen before, and it literally will knock him to the ground and cause blood to come out of his pores as He contemplates the cup. He says in Mark 14:36, "Abba, Father, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will." What is a cup that could knock Jesus to the ground but the cup of God's infinite wrath against sin? Jesus will have to drink it to save us from that wrath. That's the cup. It's a cup of suffering that He's going to pay. As always, Jesus brings their naive and immature conceptions again to the cross because they just can't seem to understand it. The baptism, what is that? It's just a different way of saying the same thing, I believe. The cup is the baptism, which is different ways of talking about it. Baptism means “immersion”. That's what the word means, and Jesus is going to be plunged into a sea of sorrow, plunged into a sea of the wrath of God, plunged into a sea of sin as our sin bearer, as our substitute. Jesus says in Luke 12:50, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished?" Literally in the KJV of that verse, Luke 12:50, He says, "How straightened." I am straightened as if constrained in a straight jacket. I'm like in a straight jacket until I finally die on the cross. Jesus lived his whole life under the cloud of the cross, under the pressing crush of that weight. He's always thinking about it and they make a typically glib answer. “You don't know what you're asking. Can you drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I'm baptized with?” "We can," they answered. Jesus had already said, "You don't understand what you're asking." He could say it again, you don't understand what you're talking about. They had no real conception of this cup, no real conception of the baptism, and so they lightly said it. They overestimate just like Peter will do, “Even if all fall away, I never will," overestimating. We're going to spend eternity studying the infinite dimensions of that cup and that baptism. We'll spend eternity plumbing its infinite depths. They don't even have the first small inkling of what they're talking about. James and John thought they could handle anything that came their way or was required for the seeds of honor and the kingdom, but then Jesus made a prophecy about their future. In verse 39, He says, "You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I'm baptized with." They would share in Christ's sufferings. There would be bitter drops that would come from Jesus' cup. They would not drink the cup, but they would drink from the cup. They would drink an aspect of it. "Baptism means 'immersion'. That's what the word means, and Jesus is going to be plunged into a sea of sorrow, plunged into a sea of the wrath of God, plunged into a sea of sin as our sin bearer, as our substitute." James would be the first of the twelve apostles to be martyred as the account gives us in Acts chapter 12. King Herod had him beheaded, executed. John, his brother, would die in exile on the island of Patmos off the coast of Asia Minor, having suffered for the kingdom of God and the testimony of Jesus, he said. Now neither of them would truly drink the cup, the wrath of God for sins. That's something Jesus had to do alone. He had to do it alone. He's the only one that could do it, but they would drink some of this. So fundamentally, the lesson here is places of honor are won by suffering for the kingdom. They have a high price tag. There is a cup of suffering necessary for all who would be honored by the kingdom. III. The Plan of Greatness: Sovereignty Thirdly, the plan of greatness, and that is sovereignty. They were forgetting the plan of almighty God. Ultimately, all places of honor have already been earmarked. They've already been tabbed by almighty God. God's not wondering who's going to be sitting in those seats. He knows exactly who's sitting in those seats. Look at verse 40, “To sit at my right or my left is not for me to grant. Those places belong to those for whom they have been prepared.” Jesus is pointing to the sovereign plan of almighty God. Everything has been planned out down to the tiniest detail. Nothing has been left to chance. God the Father has planned all of human history, planned it before the world began. All the days ordained for all of us were written in God's book before one of them happened. It says in Ephesians 1:11, "In him, we're also chosen having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything after the council of his will." How much is everything? Everything, friends, is everything. So no, it's not an accident who's going to sit at the right or the left in Jesus' eternal kingdom. Those places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father. How does that work? The place of honor prepared by God's plan before the foundation of the world, the fullness of time and the right time, individuals are born into certain circumstances. God shapes them and crafts them for a role in the kingdom, and He prepares good works in advance that they should walk in them, [Ephesians 2:10], and then He prepares them to walk in those good works, gets them ready to do it, and then He empowers them to do those good works which they could never have done apart from Jesus. “I am the vine. You're the branches. Apart from me, you can do nothing.” So abiding in Jesus by the power of Jesus, they do amazing good works even to the point of martyrdom, even to the point of laying down their lies for the kingdom. They do those good works. Specific servants suffer specific miseries and pains and dangers for the kingdom, and they receive corresponding honors because of them. Paul mentions in Philippians 2, a man named Epaphroditus. He says in Philippians 2:29-30, "Honor men like him because he almost died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for the help you could not give me." Honor men like him because he risked his life for the gospel. Or again, we have the great hall of faith. Hebrews 11:36-38 says, "Some faced jeers and flogging. Still others were chained, put in prison. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were put to death with the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goat skins, destitute, persecuted, and mistreated. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground." The price of greatness is suffering and the honors and the thrones and all that are proportional to that. Can you drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I'm baptized with? Ultimately, even those great servants of God who do great things for Christ will understand in heaven how they don't deserve to be there. Their sins were paid for by the blood of Jesus. All of the good works they did, they did by the power of Christ. So like the twenty-four elders in Revelation 4, they're going to be continually getting down off their thrones of glory and casting their crowns before the throne of God forever, but there are their thrones and there are their crowns to cast because they belong to them. All positions of power and honor come from God's sovereign plan. John the Baptist himself said this, John 3:27, "A man can receive only what has given him from heaven." Again, Psalm 75:6 and 7, "No one from the East or the West or from the desert can exalt a man, but it is God who judges. He brings one down and he exalts another." It's the plan of God. IV. The Path of Greatness: Servanthood Fourth, the path of greatness is servanthood. The ten were indignant when they heard this. Look at verse 4. This is so human, isn't it? Aren't you glad? I'm not glad for sin, but I'm glad that the Bible's honest. Listen to this, “When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John.” They're pridefully angered. They're annoyed. They're irritated. Pride was corrupting their relationships already. The lust for power was in them. The precise thing that brought Satan down from his glory, a lust for power, was in their hearts too. Deep roots in human natures, deeply in these twelve. Jesus has to deal with this again and again and again with these men. He dealt with it in Mark 9. We already saw when they're arguing, remember, about which of them was the greatest. He has to take a little child and have the child stand among them. He's going to have to deal with it right to the end, the last supper. As they go in there, they're arguing about which of them is the greatest. If I can just stop the narrative right there and say “none of them.” In our text today, it says, "Whoever wants to become great..." He's showing a pathway to greatness. How can we become great because we're not great yet? What had these guys done? They went out on a mission trip and drove out some demons by the power of Jesus and then they came back. Other than that, what did they do? They did what we read about them doing in the gospels, which isn't much. So you want to become great? That's what we're talking about. How can I become a great man or woman of God? Here's the path. He highlights the contrast between his kingdom and the world’s, as we've seen. Jesus called them together and said, "You know that those who are guarded as rulers of the Gentiles lorded over them and their high officials exercised authority over them, not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant. Whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the son of man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom from many." So Jesus' kingdom, his whole approach is radically different than the world's. He's going to say to Pontius Pilate, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest. But as it is, my kingdom's of another place." He has a whole different way of doing kingdom here. It's a whole different approach. So they lord it over. They do all these places of honor. Jesus is going to go to a deeper level. Those kingdoms are built by prideful plunder, aren't they? Isn't that the history of the world? Bloodshed. People become powerful militarily, they see what their neighbors have. They figure they can take them in a fight, and they do. They sweep in into their walled villages and they take their stuff, their livestock, their gold and silver. They kill and plunder and they add them to their kingdom. That's how empires have always been built. Read about it in Habakkuk chapter 2, “Woe to him, who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by crime.” That's world history, friends. That's why Daniel 7 pictures these empires as beasts coming up out of an ocean. They're ravenous. That's how the kingdoms of this world are built, but Jesus' kingdom isn't built that way, not by those who are willing to go kill, but by those who are willing to go die. "Jesus' kingdom isn't built …by those who are willing to go kill, but by those who are willing to go die." It's a whole different approach as He cites his whole strategy in John 12:24, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.” That's how the kingdom is built. That's what we're talking about here. The pathway to greatness is fall to the ground and die. Serve, serve others, die to yourself. Again, ambition for kingdom and glory is not a bad thing. You want to be great? Good. I want you to be great. I want you to want to be great. Let me tell you how to become great. You should be ambitious to become great. Be great like this. Be a servant. Humble yourself now. Stop living for yourself. Stop living for your earthly advantages. Stop living for your earthly pleasures. Stop thinking, "What's the best way I want to spend my time? How should I spend my money on myself? How can I advance my interest?” Stop all that. Deny yourself daily. Make yourself nothing and find out how you can meet the temporal needs of others? How can you bless someone else today? When you have achieved a beginning level of servanthood, become an even more servant. Go even lower. Just keep going down. Now, what more can I do? Go even lower. You want to become great? Be a servant. But if you want to be greatest, first of all, be the lowest of all. The low person was a “diákonos” from which we get the word “deacon”, a house servant, almost like a paid employee who did certain levels of tasks, but could leave the estate if he wanted to, a table waiter kind of thing. That's a “diákonos”. You want to be great, be like that. But you want to be the first of all, be a “doulos”, a bond slave. The lowest of the low. Go from “diákonos” to a “doulos”. You see the dissent right here. You want to become great? Serve. First of all, be everybody's slave. That's a downward journey. The downward journey Jesus is describing is the very one He went on and is on himself. We see the paradigm of greatness, our savior. “For even the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Jesus left heaven's glory and went down and then down some more and then down to the lowest place. First of all, He left a throne of glory that we can scarcely imagine and took on a human form. He was born in a stable to a poverty-stricken, obscure Jewish couple. He lived a humble life as a carpenter's son. He learned the trade from his father, Joseph. He took orders from customers for how they wanted the tables and chairs made and then did them. Let me think about the humility of that. It's like, "Do you know who I am?" “I don't care who you are. I want my tables and chairs by next Wednesday.” But Jesus wouldn't have said, "Do you know who I am?" He would've taken the order. Having learned how to be a carpenter, He would've made the tables and chairs. When the time came when He was about 30 years old, He'd began his public ministry. All it was every day was a life of servanthood of people. Think what it's like, the healing ministry He did, which He seemed to do effectively one at a time with a touch, with a word, one person after another. No one was turned away, He never was too busy for anyone. He touched lepers. He drove demons out. He went with Jarius to heal his sick daughter. On route, He found out she was dead, and He went on and raised her from the dead. That's who He was. Being found in appearance as a man He humbled himself and became obedient to his father, serving others day after day. He never refused anyone, but the ultimate picture, of course, is the cross. His substitutionary death on the cross was the greatest act of humble servanthood in history. That was the consummation of his downward journey, to lay down his life willingly. He was despised and rejected, humiliated, beaten, mocked, spat upon, condemned, and crucified. Here Jesus asserts that He ended the world primarily to lay down his life as a substitutionary ransom for many. He came to serve to the uttermost, to lay down his life in the place of sinners. Now, here, we get to the theology. We get to the core of our Christian faith. This is the central core doctrine of Christianity. This is how sinners like you and I will be able to stand before God on judgment day, blameless and unafraid, because Jesus laid down his life in our place. The word “ransom" here means the “payment of a price”, money, let's say, to rescue a slave from bondage or a kidnapped victim from their captors. It's the payment of a price to rescue people from danger. That's what a ransom is. The Greek word “anti” is inserted here in the place of, so a substitute ransom. That's the theology of our atonement. Jesus laid down his life, He shed his blood as a substitute ransom for our sins. Some medieval theologians misunderstood this ransom idea and came up with a thought of the ransom to the devil theory. Have you ever heard something so stupid as that, as though God and the devil are equal bargaining partners? Not at all. Nothing could be further from the truth. In C.S. Lewis's classic work, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, we see Aslan the lion making the payment of his life for Edmund's liberation in response to the White Witch's demands. It's a powerful scene. But if we draw the line too directly, we could make a devastating theological mistake. Aslan clearly represents Christ in the story. The witch represents our accuser, Satan, all that's true, but Satan is not God's equal. Satan's not the one receiving the ransom. Satan is going to be cast into the lake of fire for his transgressions. The ransom is paid to God and to the justice of God. The clearest verse on this is First Timothy 2: 5-6, “For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all.” There's your ransom. Jesus is the mediator to go between, not between us and Satan or between God and Satan, but between us and God, Jesus the mediator. He pays his life as a ransom to God on our behalf. Why is that? Because the wages of sin is death. It was established in the Garden of Eden. The death penalty for sin is Ezekiel 18:4, “the soul who sins will die.” We deserve to die for our sins, not just the physical death, but eternal death in hell. Jesus came to pay that debt, to give his life as a ransom for many. As Isaiah 53 says, "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was upon him. By his wounds, we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us has turned to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him [our substitute ransom], the iniquity of us all.” The reward of Jesus' infinite servanthood is the highest position in the universe. “Therefore, God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that in the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth that every tongue confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” Jesus has the place of greatest honor and greatest glory in the kingdom because He went the furthest down, but this is the same path that's open for us, suffering service for the benefit of others, for the advancement of the kingdom. V. Lessons What lessons can we take from this? First of all, the most important lesson of all, trust in Christ for the payment of your sins. You cannot pay them yourself. It's either trust Jesus or suffer eternal death in hell. Those are the choices. Jesus is willing to drink the cup of God's wrath in your place. Trust in him for the forgiveness of your sins. Jesus came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life for you if you'll trust in him. Beyond that, be alert to your pride. Don't say anything like, "Well, I thank you, God, that I'm nothing like James and John.” That would be a mistake. Say, "Lord, show me how I'm just like James and John, how I want a comfortable life, a powerful life, a prosperous life, an easy life. Just show me how I'm like that because I know I must be," and then be willing to drink Jesus' cup. We are positioned here in Durham to share the gospel with lost people. Most of them have already heard the gospel and rejected it. They're not going to welcome you with open arms. If you are going to share the gospel in the workplace or in the neighborhood or as you meet, you're probably going to have to take some heat. You're going to have to take some fire. I don't think it's likely that you're going to have one of the highest positions in the kingdom, but I don't know who I'm talking to. Who knows? When I read church history and I always read what some of our brothers and sisters were willing to pay to spread the gospel, I know I'm way low on the list. All I know is their honors will be my honors and I'm going to be celebrating with them just far from the center, but whatever God has for you to do is going to require suffering on your part. Be willing to suffer for the kingdom. Be willing to pay the price to share the gospel with lost people. Be willing to suffer. Understand that there will be positions of honor in the kingdom. It's true. There will be people sitting at Jesus' right and left and on down, but just know this. When one part of the body of Christ is honored, the whole body will be honored with it. We won't be jealous at all in heaven. Not at all. So let's celebrate that. Let me say a word briefly to mothers. Today's Mother's Day. This morning, I was meditating on one verse that really captured me. It relates to this text, and it's in the NIV's translation of Psalm 18:35. There, David is celebrating God's activity in his life to make him a victorious warrior. God had worked in him so that he could bend a bow of bronze with his arms. Here's the verse in that translation, Psalm 18:35, “You stoop down to make me great.” Isn't that a great verse for a Christian mother? You lower yourself. You get down to the child's level, the infant's level, the toddler's level, the preschooler's level, all that to make them great. How do you make them great? Lead them to Christ. Teach them these themes. Teach them what God thinks is greatness. It's something that Christian mothers can do. So I praise God for your ministry, sisters in Christ. I praise God. Stoop down, lower yourself like Jesus calls on us to do, to make your children great in the kingdom. Finally, realize someday we're going to see Christ in his glory, and we're going to see the extent of his infinite greatness, what He was willing to do to get you to heaven. You're going to be like those twenty-four elders. You're going to be on your face. Whatever crowns you have to cast, you're going to be casting them. Close with me in prayer. Lord, thank you for the beauty of this text. Thank you for the greatness of Jesus. Thank you for the truth and what it teaches us about his kingdom. I pray, Lord, that you would enable each of us to be willing to suffer for the kingdom, to be willing to pay the price to see the Triangle area, Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, reached with the gospel. We thank you that you've enabled us, positioned us to be a light shining in a dark place. Lord, thank you for how the Bible teaches us the truth about our pride and about true humility and true greatness. By the Spirit, help us to drink in the truth of this word, to know that Jesus shed his blood, that we would not have to bear the price for our sins, and that we have a role to play in the kingdom. Help us to play it. In Jesus' name, amen.

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What you'll learn in this episode: How dyscalculia changed Michele's path in jewelry for the better Why Michele lets her hands guide her artistic process, and how she embraced her style of working Why jewelry artists don't need to make their work smaller or more palatable to find a customer base How the Little Rock, Arkansas art scene compares to the rest of the country How Michele uses her jewelry to connect with patients About Michele Cottler-Fox Michele Cottler-Fox is a physician jeweler, with a studio practice focusing on translating fiber techniques to metal, primarily crochet, knitting, and twining, and often incorporating found objects to tell a story. She was one of four metal artists chosen for the Heavy Metal exhibit by the Arkansas committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Additional Resources: Instagram Photos available on TheJeweleryJourney.com Transcript:   Physician-jeweler Michele Cottler-Fox struggled with dyscalculia—a math learning disability—as a child. When she began to study jewelry, she found math-heavy jewelry fabrication methods and measurements nearly impossible to understand. But instead of stopping her jewelry career in its tracks, this disadvantage pushed Michele to make her freeform crocheted metal designs. She joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about how she embraced her creative process; where her career as a physician and her career as a jewelry artist intersect; and why she loves crocheted designs.   Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the first part of a two-part episode. Please make sure you subscribe so you can hear part two as soon as it's released later this week.    I am pleased to welcome Michele Fox to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. I've gotten to know Michele through several of the trips we've taken as part of Art Jewelry Forum. In addition to making very unusual jewelry, Michele is a physician who now works part time at the University of Arkansas Medical Center. We'll learn all about her jewelry journey today. Michele, welcome to the program.   Michele: Thank you for having me, Sharon.   Sharon: I'm so glad. It's great to have a chance to talk to you uninterrupted. Tell us about your jewelry journey. Were you artistic as a child? Did you know you wanted to be a doctor?   Michele: I come from a family where women didn't sit with idle hands. My grandmother taught me to crochet and knit before I was six years old. I can remember very clearly her saying to me, “Don't ever crochet. You do not know how to count properly.” I put the crochet hook away at an early age, picked up the needles and never looked back. I taught myself to embroider and to do needlepoint, but my family, for the most part, never thought about me as being a creative type. I did have a great aunt, very much an Auntie Mame type of person, who was a dress designer. She thought I was creative and tried very hard to encourage me, but the rest of the family, being engineers and physicians, they won.   Sharon: So, your family was more science oriented.   Michele: Very much.   Sharon: Can you tell us about your jewelry education? Did you go to GIA? What did your jewelry education entail?   Michele: I was self-taught from the beginning almost to the end. I grew up in a family where jewelry was the gift of preference for all special events. My father had worked as a teenager in an import/export business, so he knew many of the people involved in stone cutting and stone selling in New York City. I would tag along with him as a kid when he went to say hi. One of my favorite experiences was meeting a man who sold opals and being allowed to choose my own gift from everything in the case. It was overwhelming. While being seven or eight years old, there was a little glass bubble filled with opal chips and liquid that hung from a pendant. I still have it.    Sharon: Wow! And you still have it. Do you wear it? I haven't seen it, I don't think.   Michele: I pretty much stopped wearing anything around my neck when I began working in the hospital full time. Necklaces have a tendency to go straight down into patient's faces which when you are trying to listen to their lungs or their heart.   Sharon: Were you attracted to glittery things besides this case?   Michele: I loved stones. I loved the color and the shape and the light when you move them. In fact, after graduate school, I took a class learning to cut stones and to polish them. I ran up against the fact that I'm both dyslexic and dyscalculic, which means measuring and numbers are very difficult for me. Although I could polish stones beautifully and evenly, I could never figure out the faceting machine. So, I gave that up.    Sharon: Did you want to be a maker after school?   Michele: I thought for many years that I wanted to be a maker of some sort, but there was really no time to go to school. So, I started designing jewelry and trying to find people to make it for me. There were a lot of gold and silversmiths in the Baltimore/ Washington area. I would look at what was available at the ACC Baltimore Craft Show and try to find a maker from my area who was showing there and talk them into making something for me. I rather rapidly learned that describing what you want to someone when you don't understand what's involved leads to some major disasters.   Sharon: That's a really interesting idea. I never thought of that. It seems like on this side of the country, there's not much going on.   I met you through Art Jewelry Forum, so I've only seen you be attracted to what I would call avant garde jewelry. What attracted you to that?   Michele: It was a very slow shift from classic jewelry onwards. I had exposure to good design from makers sold by Tiffany and Georg Jensen as a child and teenager. I didn't know at the time that I was seeing Georg's work and very famous Scandinavian gold and silversmiths. My husband and I lived in Sweden after I had a degree in research biology and before I went to medical school, and I discovered that all the things I liked best were Scandinavian. So, I started learning about classic Scandinavian jewelry while we lived there.    When I came back to the States after medical school, I started looking for galleries and more modern makers in the Baltimore/Washington area. I was very fortunate in meeting a gallerist who had a gallery at the time in Baltimore called Oxoxo, which no longer exists. The gallerist retired many years ago, but I would stop in on my way home after a Saturday on call at the hospital and she'd let me play. I would try everything on in the gallery. I would always find the one thing that wasn't properly made. I'd say, “How does this work?” and then it would break in my hands, to the point where I felt I was a disaster. But the gallerist had a different take on it. She said, “You need to come the night before I open a show and try everything because then I'll find the one thing that isn't going to work. I wouldn't have it in the show to scare people.” We got to be good friends, and she helped educate me about what I was looking at and the makers. One day she said, “You have such good ideas about what you're looking at. You really need to learn how to make something like this,” but there was no time. The Maryland Institute College of Art, MICA, was literally visible from my office window in the hospital, but there was no time to go, which was very frustrating.   Then I was offered a job in Little Rock and took it. I suddenly discovered I had three hours a day in my life that I never had before because I was no longer commuting. There was a night school attached to the art center, and I started to take classes. Again, I came head-to-head with the fact that I'm dyscalculic, which means I can't measure worth a darn and I can't count, so fabrication drove me crazy. I couldn't stand it. So, I stopped taking classes and I thought, “All right, I'm just going to figure this out on my own.”   I was home sick one weekend. I had a spool of wire I had bought for something that didn't work, and I had crochet hooks and knitting needles at the side of the bed because that's what I did when I was home alone. I thought, “I wonder,” and I picked up the spool of wire, which was silver. I threaded on some random beads and started to crochet, and the necklace self-assembled. I had no idea what I was doing, but my hands made something that was beautiful and wearable, and I thought, “O.K., I've got to do more of this.” I still have that necklace, which is amethyst beads on silver wire.   Sharon: You thought it was so beautiful. Did you consider selling it? What happened?   Michele: Absolutely. Selling started as an accident, as most good things in my life have been. I walked into a local gallery, and the gal behind the counter—who was the owner, it turned it out—looked at what I was wearing, my own work, and said, “Do you sell your work?” I said, “Well, I'd like to. Why?” She said, “I want to carry it.” So, I gave her some earrings and a couple of necklaces. Being very young at the business, I said to her, “Here's my beeper number. I'm a physician. I'm always on call. If somebody actually buys one of these, please let me know.” She laughed, and I'll be darned if two days later I didn't get a beep saying, “Your earrings sold.”   Sharon: Did you make more?   Michele: Of course. I was hooked. It was a novel experience, that I could suddenly make somebody happy. I'm trained as a hematologist/oncologist, and most of what I have to tell patients does not make them happy.    Sharon: I can believe that.    Michele: This sense of joy that people got from picking up and trying my stuff on was an overwhelmingly positive experience that I wanted to continue.   Sharon: Did you consider yourself a salesperson?   Michele: No. I'm bad at it. The gallerist is now one of my best friends. She grew up in a retail family, and she shakes her head every time we do a show together. She knows how to present her work. She knows how to sell her work. I just tell people what I made, why I made it and how I did it. It's good enough. They take my stuff home anyway.   Sharon: So, you don't have to sell it; it sells itself.   Michele: It's a very tactile form of jewelry, and it is very different from what most people are accustomed to seeing. I learned that there are some people who look at it and say, “Well, it looks like a Brillo pad. Why would I pay money for that?” and that's O.K. I have no ego about it, none. I want my pieces to go to someone who loves it. I prefer that people who are not enthusiastic about it not have it.   Sharon: I have to stop here and say even though we show images on the website, we're not showing what you're talking about. Everything you have is crocheted or knitted wire. It's all, like you said, the Brillo pad look. I never thought of a Brillo pad, but it's wire crochet. It's very interesting and freeform, much of it. What do you do?   Michele: My hands figure out what to make. For many years I thought that meant I wasn't really an artist, until I started reading what artists I admired said about their own manner of working. I read an essay by Becky Kessler, who is a Dutch artist I love, and she said exactly the same thing I've been saying. Her hands decide what to make and she just goes along with it. As her hands work, she has many different options, but the choice of what to make is her hands' choice.   Sharon: Do you have wire next to your chair or your bed and you just decide to do it?   Michele: That's exactly right. The spools of wire are in a basket at bedside. The crochet hooks are in a copper bowl at bedside.   Sharon: Are you knitting or crocheting? I know the difference, but looking at it, I can't tell.   Michele: Most of the time these days, I'm crocheting. Knitting is a little bit more difficult physically for me. I have to do it around the needle or it falls off continuously. The stitches don't slip off the way they would if they were yarn, so it's easy to recover, but it was more frustrating, I think. With the crocheted pieces, my hand can make round things or flat things. I noticed a long time ago that the hook is in my right hand, but my left hand actually forms what I'm making as I move. So, even when I teach someone to make exactly what I make, it never looks the same because their hand forms it differently.   Sharon: That's interesting. Michele, there are two things I remember about you. One is that you didn't speak any Swedish before you went to Sweden to medical school there, right?    Michele: That's absolutely correct.   Sharon: That is amazing to me. And now you say you don't know numbers or fractions. What you did is really amazing.    Michele: There are workarounds for everything if you're determined. I think “determined” ought to have been my first name rather than Michele.   Sharon: Were you determined to be a doctor, a physician, a scientist, a bio-researcher? What were you going to be?   Michele: At the age of 12, having read science fiction hidden in my physician uncle's library, I decided I wanted to go to space, but I knew even back then that, as a woman, I was going to have difficulty getting into an official program for space. I decided that if I were a physician and I had gone through a psychology major in college, I might have a better shot at it. I was thinking, “Be a surgeon. Have a backup plan as psychologist, and maybe there will be a position for me on a space station or a colony on the moon.”   Sharon: Where you can crochet.    Michele: I wasn't even thinking about that. My grandmother had said, “Put it away. You don't know how to count.” Once I decided that's what I was going to do, I just walked in a straight line. I applied to colleges that had strong psychology programs. I ended up going to Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, which was the only school that Sigmund Freud had visited. It was also a college where Robert Goddard, the father of rocketry in this country, had worked. I had exactly what I wanted all in one place. Of course, taking the introduction to psychology class disabused me completely of the notion of being a psychologist. I ended up a biology major with a minor in English.   Sharon: That's an interesting combination. I bet you're the only one who has a biology major and a minor in English. What would your grandmother say now that you crochet and that people want the things you make?   Michele: I think about that often. I see her shaking her head or rolling her eyes. The English major put me in very good stead because I've been a language editor for all my working life. I primarily help people who do not have English as a first language but need to write in English.   Sharon: Do you read what they've written and say, “This is what you really meant to say,” or “This is how you'd say it in English”?   Michele: I fix it for them.   Sharon: I know you still work part time, but when you decided to retire, was your plan that you would have more time to make jewelry?   Michele: That was exactly what I had planned. I thought it would be a very easy segue from full-time physician to full-time artist. My initial plan was that I'd take the first year after retirement and go to school to learn better techniques. Of course, I chose to retire in July 2019, which meant I found myself confronting the pandemic.    Sharon: So, you had a lot of time on your own.   Michele: I had two straight years at home. I focused on making things that were much bigger than I had the time to make beforehand. As I was thinking about all the changes the pandemic was inflicting on us, I started to work in series. My first series I called “Social Distancing is Awkward.” As the pandemic progressed, I made a series called “Controlled, Constrained and Confined.”   Sharon: Was that just the name you gave it, or did you form it around the name?   Michele: In that case, I actually had the name first and I was thinking about how I could represent it. My hands gave me a way. I've always worked in series to some extent because as I make one thing, I see a different way I could have done it, and I need to make that in order to see if it works. After “Controlled, Constrained and Confined,” I made one called “What Galaxy Do You Live In?”   Sharon: When you said you made them larger, did you mean you wanted to bring them to a gallery? Were they too large to wear?   Michele: Very few of my things are too large to wear, particularly since I have a good friend and fellow member of AJF in Little Rock who says it's not big enough. I have a couple of galleries in Little Rock that take my work. They've never shied away from any of the things I bring them, and I have brought several big things. People aren't nearly as frightened of them as I always thought they would be, which has been a pleasant surprise. This year I've been working on a series called “Broken People” because of what I see around me.   Sharon: That's a good name. I have to say I was very impressed with how creative Little Rock was. I never thought I'd ever be in Little Rock, but it was a very creative town.    We will have photos posted on the website. Please head to TheJewelryJourney.com to check them out.

In this episode I hike from Datil to Carlsbad, New Mexico. I meet amazing people, see some amazing sites, and learn a lot of history. My travels take me through Roswell, including the Bottomless Lakes, the Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, and the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Museum. Then finish up with Carlsbad Caverns and Sitting Bull Falls.     https://journeylong.com/ Some sound effects provided by https://quicksounds.com“

The Father of Modern Rocketry Join us today as we learn about Robert Goddard, The Father of Modern Rocketry. Sources: https://howthingsfly.si.edu/ask-an-explainer/whats-difference-between-liquid-fuel-and-solid-fuel-rockets https://www.nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/robert-h-goddard https://www.thoughtco.com/robert-goddard-biography-4172642 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Goddard Send us listener mail! Send an audio message: anchor.fm/inquisikids-daily/message Send an email: podcast@inquisikids.com

Pinkie & Mildred also discuss levitation and believing in the "impossible" .

On a stormy night 75 years ago, something crashed in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico. The military says it was a balloon carrying top-secret instruments for sniffing out atomic-bomb tests in the Soviet Union. But others say it was a flying saucer carrying visitors from another world — the most famous and persistent UFO story to date. Saucer mania gripped the country that summer. Thousands of sightings were reported. And Roswell was a perfect place for a close encounter. Robert Goddard had tested his rockets just outside town during the 1930s. The first atomic bomb was detonated not a hundred miles away, the army was testing V-2 missiles at White Sands, and the local air base housed the world's only atomic-bomb group. The story of the Roswell Incident broke on July 8th, 1947. Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release saying it had recovered a “flying disk” from a ranch near town. The army soon backtracked, saying the disk was nothing more than a weather balloon. The story died, but it didn't rest in peace. Decades later, the base intelligence officer said he really had discovered a flying saucer. He said it was fashioned of a thin, tough metal covered with odd markings. Later versions of the story said investigators had recovered alien bodies, too. It's a great story, but scientists will tell you it's only that — a story — and we'll tell you why tomorrow — on Star Date.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Lynn Hightower is a New York Times best-selling author whose latest thriller has been described by Lee Child as a spooky suspenseful masterpiece that's super recommended. Hi there, I'm your host Jenny Wheeler, and Lynn's long awaited new supernatural thriller, The Enlightenment Project, combines cutting-edge science with demonic possession. Noah Archer is a renowned neurosurgeon with an impressive success record and a dark secret. It's a not-to-be-missed read. As usual, we've got a free book to give away. One of Sylvia Price's cozy mysteries, set in Canada's picturesque Cape Breton Island, it's perfect for those who enjoy new beginnings and countryside landscapes. Details are in the show notes for this episode on www.thejoysofbingereading.com. DOWNLOAD BOOK Link at: Download here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/xrhpw7zcpq And don't forget, for the cost of less than a cup of coffee a month, you can get exclusive bonus content, like hearing Lynn's answers to the Five Quickfire Questions, by becoming a Binge Reading on Patreon supporter. We've got a new feature starting on Patreon in June. Encore is a once a month short chat with authors who've already been on the show, talking about their latest book. First up in June is popular historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, talking about The Leonard Girls a story of two sisters going off to the Vietnam War in the late 60s. One is a nurse, one a protestor....And the experiences they have there will change heir perspective forever. Details at patreon.com/thejoysofbingereading.   SUPPORT BINGE READING ON PATREON Links mentioned in this episode: Deborah Challinor: The Leonard Girls; https://www.harpercollins.co.nz/9781775541813/the-leonard-girls/ M Scott Peck: The Road Less Travelled: http://www.mscottpeck.com/https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3061.M_Scott_PeckThe Exorcist: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: https://psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsmStanford Medical Center: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/ Santeria: https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/santeria/beliefs/orishas.shtmlThe God Helmet: (Persinger Helmet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmetMichael Persinger Professor of Psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_PersingerTony Hillerman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_HillermanJonathan Kellerman: https://www.jonathankellerman.com/Wendell Berry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_BerryGeorgette Heyer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgette_HeyerRachel Ingalls, Binstead Safari: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1055079Robert Goddard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goddard_(novelist)PD James:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._JamesAnne Tyler:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_TylerDiane Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_JohnsonBrianne Moore:  https://www.briannemooreauthor.com/Reginald Hill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_HillMartin Cruz Smith:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cruz_SmithJohn Le Carre, Silverview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58133677-silverviewCarlos Ruiz Zafron:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ruiz_Zaf%C3%B3n#Novelshttps://www.carlosruizzafon.co.uk/Lena Padget series:  https://www.lynnhightower.com/lynn-hightower-books/lena-padget-series/Satan's Lamb's: Lena Padget Book OneSonora Blair series: https://www.lynnhightower.com/lynn-hightower-books/sonora-blair-series/Flashpoint: Sonora Blair Book One:  https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/268486 David Silver Elaki series: https://www.lynnhightower.com/lynn-hightower-books/david-silver-elaki-series/ Where to find Lynn Hightower: Website: https://www.lynnhightower.com/Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/156659.Lynn_Hightower What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to the show notes in The Joys of Binge Reading.

Louise and Virginia chat about two books that they've been eagerly looking forward to. Louise went down the Crime route with a gripping detective story that spans Tokyo and London. Virginia finally got her hands on Nina Stibbe's new novel and as also with Nina Stibbe, the book is a complete delight.BooksThe Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert GoddardOne Day I Shall Astonish the World by Nina StibbeNetflixThe Staircase (Docuseries and Dramatisation)PodcastThis American Life – My Lying Eyes

Seriah welcomes Super_Inframan and Adam Sayne to a wide-ranging discussion. Topics include Roswell (the actual city in New Mexico), Los Alamos, Carlsbad Caverns, Billy the Kid lore, a radio synchronicity, the Meow Wolf experience, International UFO Museum, rocket scientist Robert Goddard, alien kitsch, White Sands National Park and nuclear test range, James Shelby Downard mythos, the Trinity site, Jack Parsons, Penny Royal podcast, hoaxing and disinformation, Bigfoot pranking with deadly consequences, 80's Chinese Yeti confusion, ancient Australia, experiences in the Outback, Aboriginal Dreamtime, technology and consciousness, "the anti-life equation", brainwaves of the dying, NDEs, materialist reductionism in science, Rice University "Archives of the Impossible" conference, Jacques Vallee, astronomical anomalies, Havana Syndrome, cold war energy weapons, "targeted individuals" and extra-low-frequency technology, and much more! OMG, this is a wonderful free-form conversation!- Recap by Vincent Treewell

Seriah welcomes Super_Inframan and Adam Sayne to a wide-ranging discussion. Topics include Roswell (the actual city in New Mexico), Los Alamos, Carlsbad Caverns, Billy the Kid lore, a radio synchronicity, the Meow Wolf experience, International UFO Museum, rocket scientist Robert Goddard, alien kitsch, White Sands National Park and nuclear test range, James Shelby Downard mythos, the Trinity site, Jack Parsons, Penny Royal podcast, hoaxing and disinformation, Bigfoot pranking with deadly consequences, 80's Chinese Yeti confusion, ancient Australia, experiences in the Outback, Aboriginal Dreamtime, technology and consciousness, "the anti-life equation", brainwaves of the dying, NDEs, materialist reductionism in science, Rice University "Archives of the Impossible" conference, Jacques Vallee, astronomical anomalies, Havana Syndrome, cold war energy weapons, "targeted individuals" and extra-low-frequency technology, and much more! OMG, this is a wonderful free-form conversation! - Recap by Vincent Treewell Outro Music is Brothers from Chaos with Alone Download

Seriah welcomes Super_Inframan and Adam Sayne to a wide-ranging discussion. Topics include Roswell (the actual city in New Mexico), Los Alamos, Carlsbad Caverns, Billy the Kid lore, a radio synchronicity, the Meow Wolf experience, International UFO Museum, rocket scientist Robert Goddard, alien kitsch, White Sands National Park and nuclear test range, James Shelby Downard mythos, the Trinity site, Jack Parsons, Penny Royal podcast, hoaxing and disinformation, Bigfoot pranking with deadly consequences, 80's Chinese Yeti confusion, ancient Australia, experiences in the Outback, Aboriginal Dreamtime, technology and consciousness, "the anti-life equation", brainwaves of the dying, NDEs, materialist reductionism in science, Rice University "Archives of the Impossible" conference, Jacques Vallee, astronomical anomalies, Havana Syndrome, cold war energy weapons, "targeted individuals" and extra-low-frequency technology, and much more! OMG, this is a wonderful free-form conversation! - Recap by Vincent Treewell Outro Music is Brothers from Chaos with Alone Download