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Recorded March 20th, 2025. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Nina Lamal (Huygens Instituut, KNAW, Netherlands) in conversation with Dr Ann-Marie Hansen (Fagel Collection Project Manager, Library, TCD). Bio: Dr Nina Lamal is an early modern historian based at the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on early modern political history, diplomacy, the transnational histories of the book, and digital humanities. She studied early modern history at the KU Leuven. In 2014, she received her PhD from the KU Leuven and St Andrews University for her thesis on Italian news reports, political debates and historical writing on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648). Her book Italian Communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries was published with Brill in 2023. From 2015-2017, Lamal worked as postdoctoral research assistant at the Universal Short Title Catalogue project (university of St Andrews). In 2017, she moved to the university of Antwerp, after she had obtained a three-year individual postdoctoral fellowship of the Flemish Research Council. From 2020-2024, she was postdoctoral researcher on project Inventing Public Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe and editor of the of the correspondence of Christofforo Suriano, the first Venetian envoy in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. (https://suriano.huygens.knaw.nl/). Apart from the digital scholarly edition of Suriano's letters, her most recent publications include a co-written article with Helmer Helmers on Dutch diplomacy in the seventeenth century, two journal articles: one on foreign powers influencing the first Italian newspapers, and one the role of cross-border printing privileges in the seventeenth-century Low Countries. As a Trinity Long Room Hub Fellow, she will examine how the Fagel library functioned as a tool of statecraft from the Fagel regent family in the eighteenth century. Drawing on recent digitization and cataloguing projects, the proposed research use book historical methods to bring the library into dialogue with the Fagel Archives in The Hague and to study how it was used for political education, referencing and networking. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Send us a textRobert Stone is the CEO of City of Hope ( https://www.cityofhope.org/robert-stone ), a premier cancer research and treatment center dedicated to innovation in biomedical science and the delivery of compassionate, world-class patient care. A seasoned health care executive, he has served in a number of strategic decision-making roles since he joined City of Hope in 1996, culminating with his appointment as president in 2012, CEO in 2014, and as the Helen and Morgan Chu Chief Executive Officer Distinguished Chair in 2021.Mr. Stone has J.D., University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL.Mr. Stone's strategic acumen, empathy and visionary leadership have driven City of Hope's rapid evolution. As an independent institution dedicated to advancing the fight against cancer and diabetes, City of Hope is accelerating opportunities for high-impact discovery and ensuring that patients around the world have access to the most advanced therapies. Recent examples include a groundbreaking alliance in precision medicine with the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), a leader in genomic analysis and bioinformatics; leadership in CAR T cell therapy research and therapy; and an innovative program to offer cancer support services to the employees of some of American's largest employers, regardless of geography.Dr. Marcel van den Brink, M.D., Ph.D.( https://www.cityofhope.org/marcel-van-den-brink ), is President of City of Hope Cancer Center, main campus in Los Angeles, and National Medical Center, chief physician executive and the Deana and Steve Campbell Chief Physician Executive Distinguished Chair, and is a globally recognized leader in the basic and translational science of bone marrow transplantation (BMT), the microbiome and cancer immunotherapy.  His specialties include immune reconstitution and graft-versus-host disease — side effects many BMT patients experience — as well as the impact of the microbiome on immunotherapy for cancer. A researcher who has opened new fields of investigation and improved patient outcomes, Dr. Van den Brink has pursued innovative ways to improve and optimize BMT, developing strategies to make the process less toxic and lower the rate of recurrence. Throughout his career, he has maintained an intense focus on converting scientific discoveries in his laboratory into better therapies for patients around the world.Dr. Van den Brink joined City of Hope in part because of their shared commitment to advancing the frontiers of cancer care and research. He is known for his inclusive approach to leadership and his devotion to providing junior faculty colleagues with mentorship and career development opportunities.A recipient of numerous national and international awards, Dr. Van den Brink is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among many leadership roles, he serves as vice chair of the board for Deutsche Knochenmark Stiftung, a global donor registration that facilitates 40% of all unrelated allogenic blood stem cell donations worldwide.Dr. Van den Brink has a Ph.D., Medicine (Immunology), and M.D., Cum Laude, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute in Pittsburgh, PA and residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. #Cancer #Oncology #CityOfHope #RobertStone #MarcelVanDenBrink #Microbiome #Immunotherapy #CarT #Thymus #ThymicInvolution #Regeneration #BoneMarrowTransplantation #TranslationalGenomicsResearchInstitute #PrecisionMedicine #GraftVersusHostDisease #ProgressPotentialAndPossibilities #IraPastor #Podcast #Podcaster #ViralPodcast #STEM #Innovation #Technology #Science #ResearchSupport the show

Until the early 2000s, the Netherlands stood out as an exception in the success of far-right challengers: while populist radical right contenders were gaining significant electoral traction in neighboring countries, they long struggled to achieve similar success in the Netherlands. However, according to Dr Léonie de Jonge, since the turn of the 21st century, the Netherlands appears to have turned into a hotbed for far-right populism, which has become normalised by competition within this political wing. Indeed, the country has witnessed the rise of several influential populist radical right parties, including the Lijst Pim Fortuyn (List Pim Fortuyn or LPF), Geert Wilders's Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom or PVV), and, more recently, the Forum voor Democratie (Forum for Democracy or FvD), led by Thierry Baudet. In the 2023 general election, PVV secured nearly a quarter of the vote, leading to its inclusion in a coalition government in 2024. With this move, it seems fair to say that the far right has become normalised. In her address to the IIEA, Dr Léonie de Jonge tries to make sense of the meteoric rise of the far right in the Netherlands, and what this might mean for that country, the wider Benelux region, and for Europe. Part of our #WhatsNext series, which sees experts debate, discuss and analyse what's next for public policy as political and social change sweeps the globe. About the Speaker: Léonie de Jonge is Assistant Professor in European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She also works as a researcher at the Documentation for Dutch Political Parties. Léonie obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2019 for her research on the success and failure factors of populist radical right. In her latest book (2021), she answers the question of why these parties have been more successful in the Netherlands and Flanders than in Luxembourg and Wallonia. In 2021, Léonie was elected Chair of the Steering Committee on Extremism and Democracy at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and in 2022, she was appointed member of the Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Léonie is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of political extremism and right-wing populism in Europe. Her work is also frequently featured in international news and media.

Jan-Benedict Steenkamp Jan-Benedict Steenkamp (doctor honoris causa; PhD, MSc, BSc [all summa cum laude]) is Knox Massey Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Leadership at the University of North Carolina, and a lifelong student of history. He teaches the the popular course Leadership Lessons from History to MBA students. Each time, this course is vastly oversubscribed. A link to the course syllabus can be found here. He is an honorary professor at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, a fellow of the American Marketing Association and the European Marketing Academy. He has been a member of the selection committee of the Spinoza Prize, nicknamed the Dutch Nobel Prize. He is co-founder and executive chairman of the Institute AiMark. Since his days as an undergraduate student at Wageningen University, the Netherlands (1977–1981), he has held a variety of leadership positions at four universities in three countries, at professional organizations, non-profits, research councils, and a political party. For twelve years, he was chairman of the Marketing Area at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, during which time the department's global ranking improved from #24 to #7. A prolific writer, he is the author of five previous books. Translations of his books have appeared in Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. His book Time to Lead: Lessons for Today's Leaders from Bold Decisions that Changed History was a finalist for the INDIES Book of the Year Award for the category History. His other books have also won critical acclaim. He has written over 100 articles in scholarly journals. His work has received c. 70,000 citations, his h-index is 92, and he is ranked in the top 0.1% of scientists across all disciplines in the world. He has given lectures on leadership from a historical perspective at West Point, the U.S. Air Force, the Naval Postgraduate Academy, and other organizations in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His work has been featured in His work has been featured in  The Economist, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and newspapers, radio, and television around the world. A naturalized Dutch-American, he has taught at universities in Austria, Belgium, China, India, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has been recognized as a “Teaching All-Star” by UNC's MBA program. In 2005, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences awarded him the Muller Lifetime Prize for “exceptional achievements in the area of the behavioral and social sciences.” His award was the first time the prize had been granted to an academic in any area of business administration. He has received an honorary doctorate from Aarhus University (Denmark). Show hosted by: Terrance Hutchinson Www.Yourbestlifestyles.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yourbestlifestyles/support

We see cultural artefacts, hear music composed centuries ago and, if we are lucky, get to handle pieces that were created by long-forgotten makers. But what about bringing to life the smell of a historic scene, or an object no longer made? This episode looks at the novel ways researchers are analysing the artefacts left to us by our ancestors, and the new light that shines on how they lived. Come and hear what our guests have been exploring. Inger Leemans, is a professor of Cultural History at VU Amsterdam and researcher at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is passionate about making her research on the smells of the past accessible to everyone. Matthew Collins is a fellow of the Danish and Swedish Royal Academies, and chair of the Archaeology section of the British Academy. Collins explores the ways in which archaeology can borrow tools from biology to explore ancient artefacts and tissues, from shells and bone to parchment and pots. Michela Rossi is a scientific project officer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. She is interested in structural safety assessments of historic buildings and digital fabrication.

Did you like the episode? Text us a message! This month Hans Clevers talks to us about his productive career and his pioneering work on organoid technologies.Hans admits that he initially found biology frustrating and disappointingBut then he learnt to enjoy the rare spark of excitement from discoveriesHe managed to get his PhD in just one year!You need to trust yourself and learn to share with othersHans warns new group leaders not to expect too much from younger colleaguesIt's important to give your students their own spaceHe paints a metaphoric image of research - Push against the dark wall until the window opens on a new valleyHis search for stem cells in the gut led his lab to develop organoid approaches and 3D culture technologiesHans describes his unexpected move to Roche and “large pharma”He describes his role bridging the gap between scientists and industry leadershipHans talks about the benefits of interacting with artistsHe warns about being too attached to your hypothesis and the importance of being wrongHe mentioned these labs, institutions and companiesRoche Pharma R&D (pRED):  https://www.roche.com/innovation/structure/predUtrecht University : https://www.uu.nl/enDana Farber Cancer Institute :  https://www.dana-farber.org/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences : https://www.knaw.nl/enCox Terhorst :  https://immunologyphd.hms.harvard.edu/people/cox-terhorstTo find out more about Hans visit these links   X-Twitter https://x.com/hansclevers?lang=enHubrecht Institute https://www.hubrecht.euhttps://www.hubrecht.eu/research-groups/clevers-group/Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_CleversUtrecht Universityhttps://www.uu.nl/staff/JCCleversGoogle Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jTAHhTQAAAAJ&hl=enYou want to support our work ? Buy us a coffee ! ==> https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lonelypipetteTo find out more about Renaud and Jonathan : Twitter : https://twitter.com/LePourpre LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/Epigenetique LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/%20 More about the soundtrack :Music by Amaria - Lovely Swindler https://soundcloud.com/amariamusique/

In the latest episode of The Bankers' BookShelf, host Paolo Sironi engages in an insightful discussion with renowned economist Arnoud Boot. Boot, a professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, delves into the European Central Bank's Working Paper, “Financial intermediation and technology: What's old, what's new?” The paper examines the impact of technological change on financial intermediation, highlighting the evolution from traditional in-person banking to digital interactions driven by data collection, AI, and digital platforms. Boot and Sironi explore how these technological advancements are reshaping the banking industry, leading to the disintegration of traditional business models as specialized providers and platforms challenge banks' roles. They also discuss the limitations and policy implications of these transformative trends.

Jan Karel Lenstra is CWI Fellow and former general director of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests are in combinatorial optimization, in particular scheduling, routing, complexity, and approximation. He was co-editor of fifteen books, including "The Traveling Salesman Problem", "History of Mathematical Programming", and "Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization". He has been chair of the Mathematical Optimization Society and of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society. He has also been chair of Committees on Mathematics in Primary Education and on Informatics in Secondary Education of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences, and of the Spinoza and Stevin Prize Committees of the Dutch Science Council. He served as editor-in-chief of Mathematics of OR and of OR Letters. Jan Karel became an INFORMS fellow in 2004 and he was awarded the EURO Gold Medal in 2011. In that same year, he was made a knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Marcel van den Brink, MD,  is the Head and Alan N. Houghton Chair of the Division of Hematologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is internationally renowned for his work in the field of bone marrow transplantation, the gut microbiome, and immunotherapy. He is also the Co-Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and Chairman of the Board of DKMS, an international nonprofit organization devoted to bone marrow donor registration. He is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards and is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and he has been elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for his contributions in the field of hematologic malignancies. “Finding solutions is often as simple as shutting up and listening to what people formulate as the problem and what they have thought of as the answer. Without fail, I'm surprised that they've got something better than I could have come up with.” Join us in this episode of The Medicine Mentors where Chairman of Heme Malignancies at MSKCC, Dr. Marcel van den Brink, shares tips of effective leadership. Tune in as we learn about the five-minute ‘no talking, only listening' rule at the start of meetings and why the best leaders find comfort in not knowing everything. Pearls of Wisdom:   1. We will be leaders before we know it, and the simple formula of leadership is listening. When we conduct meetings, all we have to do is be quiet for the first five minutes and listen. 2. To know when we are ready to move on to the next stage, the next level, we have to know what we don't know, that is, do we know how to prioritize what matters, and if not, are we ready to seek help for it? 3. Failure and success often follow a 9:1 ratio, and so, to increase our chances of success, we should try our hands in different endeavors to see where we can truly shine. 4. Just like listening is the pathway to leadership, respect is the pathway to teamwork, and we should be mindful of it in our day-to-day interactions.

Primatologist Frans de Waal inadvertently popularized the term ‘alpha male.' Now, he's debunking common stereotypes to explain what an ‘alpha male' really is – empathetic and protective. All social animals establish hierarchies, but being an “alpha male” is not merely about strength or intimidation, according to primatologist Frans de Waal. An alpha male can often be a figure admired for empathy and protectiveness. De Waal criticizes the misconception of the term as synonymous with a bully. He further explores the concept of gender, arguing its flexibility and highlighting the existence of significant individual variability in behavior among primates. De Waal emphasizes empathy as a key factor in social cohesion, suggesting it might hint at morality among primates. Despite our advancements, he believes humans are fundamentally similar to primates emotionally and socially. Chapters: 0:00 What is an alpha male? 1:25 ‘Chimpanzee Politics' and the 1980s cultural fervor 2:20 The alpha male is not a personality type 3:34 Sex & gender: Donna the chimp 5:38 We're apes with technology and college degrees About Frans de Waal: Dr. Frans B. M. de Waal is a Dutch/American behavioral biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. His first book, Chimpanzee Politics (1982), compared the schmoozing and scheming of chimpanzees involved in power struggles with that of human politicians. His scientific work has been published in hundreds of technical articles in journals such as Science, Nature, Scientific American, and outlets specialized in animal behavior. His popular books - translated into 20+ languages - have made him one of the world's most visible primatologists. His latest books are Mama's Last Hug (Norton, 2019) and Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Norton, 2022). De Waal is C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus at Emory University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Utrecht University. He has been elected to the (U.S.) National Academy of Sciences as well as the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007, Time declared him one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People Today." Get Smarter Faster, With Daily Episodes From The Worlds Biggest Thinkers. Follow Big Think Leave A 5 Star Review --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigthink/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dive into the rich tapestry of Dutch culture, identity, and historical resilience with Professor Lotte Jensen. Renowned for her expertise in Dutch literature and culture, Professor Jensen takes us on a captivating journey through her research projects, from unravelling the layers of Dutch national identity to examining the impact of historical disasters on society. Discover the intersection of literature, cultural narratives, and crisis management as Professor Jensen shares her insights and experiences, shedding light on the complexities that shape the Dutch spirit. [00:37] - About Prof. Lotte Jensen Professor Lotte is a professor in the History of Dutch literature and culture. She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science. She is currently working on a project called Heritage of Hunger. Professor Lotte is also a columnist with the Dutch national newspaper. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support

Global Ecosystem Restoration John D. Liu is my guest on Episode 171 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. In the 1980s and 1990s, John worked as a television producer and cameraman with CBS News, RAI, and ZDF covering geo-political events including the rise of China from poverty and isolation and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the mid-1990s the World Bank asked John to document the rehabilitation of the Loess Plateau. Since learning that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems John has devoted his life to understanding and communicating about the potential and responsibility to restore degraded landscapes on a planetary scale. Since 2009 John has worked with Willem Ferwerda the Founder and CEO of the Commonland Foundation, which is catalyzing privately invested large-scale restoration in many parts of the world. John is also the founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement that began in 2016 and has grown to over 50 camps in 6 continents and continues to grow. Studying ecology led John to receive a number of academic appointments. In 2014 John was named a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIOO/KNAW) and continues to study. https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/

Guido W. Imbens, along with David Card and Joshua Angrist, shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics for “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”. In 2017 he received the Horace Mann medal at Brown University. An honor shared by your host Professor Brian Keating. He is The Applied Econometrics Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2012, and has also taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. He holds an honorary degree from the University of St Gallen. He is also the Amman Mineral Faculty Fellow at the Stanford GSB.  Imbens specializes in econometrics, and in particular methods for drawing causal inferences from experimental and observational data. He has published extensively in the leading economics and statistics journals. Together with Donald Rubin he has published a book, "Causal Inference in Statistics, Social and Biomedical Sciences”. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Statistical Association. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen. In this episode, Professor Imbens give his lecture on his Nobel Prize-winning thesis. See the video with the slides here: https://youtu.be/X632K3n8PPI 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:23 Origin of the book Causal Inference in Statistics, Social and Biomedical Sciences 00:10:23 Define what you mean by the credibility revolution and what does it take to create a revolution in economics? 00:15:50 Are we in a “reproducibility crisis” in science and what can we do about it? 00:20:18 How should education and pedagogy be changed to meet the credibility challenge? 00:27:40 What is a day in your life like? 00:34:48 How has winning a Nobel Prize impacted you? 00:43:30 Guido's Nobel Prize Thesis Lecture Begins: The Critical Concepts in Causality 00:43:50 Guido's academic journey. 00:47:50 Correlation is not causality 00:53:00 Statistical traditions 00:55:30 Econometrics 01:05:00 Examples 01:38:22 End of lecture slides    01:38:00 Final four existential questions. 01:39:25 What would you put in your ethical will? 01:45:23 What is the greatest accomplishment in your field that should be preserved for posterity? 01:50:00 What have you changed your mind about? 01:54:25 What advice would you give your younger self to go into the impossible? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guido W. Imbens, along with David Card and Joshua Angrist, shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics for “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”. In 2017 he received the Horace Mann medal at Brown University. An honor shared by your host Professor Brian Keating. He is The Applied Econometrics Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2012, and has also taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. He holds an honorary degree from the University of St Gallen. He is also the Amman Mineral Faculty Fellow at the Stanford GSB.  Imbens specializes in econometrics, and in particular methods for drawing causal inferences from experimental and observational data. He has published extensively in the leading economics and statistics journals. Together with Donald Rubin he has published a book, "Causal Inference in Statistics, Social and Biomedical Sciences”. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Statistical Association. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen. In this episode, Professor Imbens give his lecture on his Nobel Prize-winning thesis. See the video with the slides here: https://youtu.be/X632K3n8PPI Connect with me:

Stuart Pimm is a world leader in the study of present-day extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. His research covers the reasons why species become extinct, how fast they do so, the global patterns of habitat loss and species extinction and, importantly, the management consequences of this research. Pimm received his BSc degree from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974. Pimm is the author of over 350 scientific papers and five books. He is one of the most highly cited environmental scientists. Pimm wrote the highly acclaimed assessment of the human impact to the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth in 2001. His commitment to the interface between science and policy has led to his testimony to both House and Senate Committees on the re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act. He was worked and taught in Africa for nearly 30 years on elephants, most recently lions — through National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative — but always on topics that relate to the conservation of wildlife and the ecosystems on which they depend. Other research areas include the Everglades of Florida and tropical forests in South America, especially the Atlantic Coast forest of Brazil and the northern Andes — two of the world's "hotspots" for threatened species. His international honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), the Society for Conservation Biology's Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award (2006), and the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology, from the Marsh Christian Trust (awarded by the Zoological Society of London in 2004). Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, awarded him the William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement in 2007. In 2019, he won the International Cosmos Prize, which recognised his founding and directing Saving Nature, www.savingnature.org, a non-profit that uses donations for carbon emissions offsets to fund local conservation groups in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity to restore their degraded lands. “It's a complicated issue. I think a lot of those bird disappearances come from the fact what are those disappearances come from the fact that we have massively intensified our agriculture. Large areas of North America and Europe are now under intense agriculture. They are sprayed with a whole variety of pesticides, which I think is also responsible for the fact that many insects have disappeared, so species that depend on farmland have clearly declined dramatically, but it isn't all birds and there is a piece of this complicated story that involves water birds. Herons and egrets and ducks. Those species both in North America and Europe, are now much more common than they were 30, or 40 years ago. That comes from active conservation of protecting wetlands, making sure we don't shoot our wetland birds. So it's not all doom and gloom. There are some success stories. There are many things we can do. I think 50 years ago, there were only something like 300 bald eagles in the lower 48 states. Bald eagles are now nesting in every state apart from Hawaii. Our conservation efforts have done a great job.”· https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/pimm· https://savingnature.com· www.inaturalist.org· https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/big-cats-initiative/· https://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Audits-Earth-Stuart-Pimm/dp/0813535409/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3A29YJYQ1JPOM&keywords=The+World+According+to+Pimm&qid=1652772158&sprefix=the+world+according+to+pimm%2Caps%2C130&sr=8-1 · www.oneplanetpodcast.org · www.creativeprocess.infoPhoto: Stuart Pimm In the Namib desert courtesy of SavingNature.com

Stuart Pimm is a world leader in the study of present-day extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. His research covers the reasons why species become extinct, how fast they do so, the global patterns of habitat loss and species extinction and, importantly, the management consequences of this research. Pimm received his BSc degree from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974. Pimm is the author of over 350 scientific papers and five books. He is one of the most highly cited environmental scientists. Pimm wrote the highly acclaimed assessment of the human impact to the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth in 2001. His commitment to the interface between science and policy has led to his testimony to both House and Senate Committees on the re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act. He was worked and taught in Africa for nearly 30 years on elephants, most recently lions — through National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative — but always on topics that relate to the conservation of wildlife and the ecosystems on which they depend. Other research areas include the Everglades of Florida and tropical forests in South America, especially the Atlantic Coast forest of Brazil and the northern Andes — two of the world's "hotspots" for threatened species. His international honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), the Society for Conservation Biology's Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award (2006), and the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology, from the Marsh Christian Trust (awarded by the Zoological Society of London in 2004). Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, awarded him the William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement in 2007. In 2019, he won the International Cosmos Prize, which recognised his founding and directing Saving Nature, www.savingnature.org, a non-profit that uses donations for carbon emissions offsets to fund local conservation groups in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity to restore their degraded lands. “It's a complicated issue. I think a lot of those bird disappearances come from the fact that we have massively intensified our agriculture. Large areas of North America and Europe are now under intense agriculture. They are sprayed with a whole variety of pesticides, which I think is also responsible for the fact that many insects have disappeared, so species that depend on farmland have clearly declined dramatically, but it isn't all birds and there is a piece of this complicated story that involves water birds. Herons and egrets and ducks. Those species both in North America and Europe, are now much more common than they were 30, or 40 years ago. That comes from active conservation of protecting wetlands, making sure we don't shoot our wetland birds. So it's not all doom and gloom. There are some success stories. There are many things we can do. I think 50 years ago, there were only something like 300 bald eagles in the lower 48 states. Bald eagles are now nesting in every state apart from Hawaii. Our conservation efforts have done a great job.”· https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/pimm· https://savingnature.com· www.inaturalist.org· https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/big-cats-initiative/· https://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Audits-Earth-Stuart-Pimm/dp/0813535409/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3A29YJYQ1JPOM&keywords=The+World+According+to+Pimm&qid=1652772158&sprefix=the+world+according+to+pimm%2Caps%2C130&sr=8-1 · www.oneplanetpodcast.org · www.creativeprocess.infoPhoto: Stuart Pimm In the Namib desert courtesy of SavingNature.com

Stuart Pimm is a world leader in the study of present-day extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. His research covers the reasons why species become extinct, how fast they do so, the global patterns of habitat loss and species extinction and, importantly, the management consequences of this research. Pimm received his BSc degree from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974. Pimm is the author of over 350 scientific papers and five books. He is one of the most highly cited environmental scientists. Pimm wrote the highly acclaimed assessment of the human impact to the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth in 2001. His commitment to the interface between science and policy has led to his testimony to both House and Senate Committees on the re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act. He was worked and taught in Africa for nearly 30 years on elephants, most recently lions — through National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative — but always on topics that relate to the conservation of wildlife and the ecosystems on which they depend. Other research areas include the Everglades of Florida and tropical forests in South America, especially the Atlantic Coast forest of Brazil and the northern Andes — two of the world's "hotspots" for threatened species. His international honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), the Society for Conservation Biology's Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award (2006), and the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology, from the Marsh Christian Trust (awarded by the Zoological Society of London in 2004). Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, awarded him the William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement in 2007. In 2019, he won the International Cosmos Prize, which recognised his founding and directing Saving Nature, www.savingnature.org, a non-profit that uses donations for carbon emissions offsets to fund local conservation groups in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity to restore their degraded lands. “It's a complicated issue. I think a lot of those bird disappearances come from the fact that we have massively intensified our agriculture. Large areas of North America and Europe are now under intense agriculture. They are sprayed with a whole variety of pesticides, which I think is also responsible for the fact that many insects have disappeared, so species that depend on farmland have clearly declined dramatically, but it isn't all birds and there is a piece of this complicated story that involves water birds. Herons and egrets and ducks. Those species both in North America and Europe, are now much more common than they were 30, or 40 years ago. That comes from active conservation of protecting wetlands, making sure we don't shoot our wetland birds. So it's not all doom and gloom. There are some success stories. There are many things we can do. I think 50 years ago, there were only something like 300 bald eagles in the lower 48 states. Bald eagles are now nesting in every state apart from Hawaii. Our conservation efforts have done a great job.”· https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/pimm· https://savingnature.com· www.inaturalist.org· https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/big-cats-initiative/· https://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Audits-Earth-Stuart-Pimm/dp/0813535409/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3A29YJYQ1JPOM&keywords=The+World+According+to+Pimm&qid=1652772158&sprefix=the+world+according+to+pimm%2Caps%2C130&sr=8-1 · www.oneplanetpodcast.org · www.creativeprocess.infoPhoto: Stuart Pimm In the Namib desert courtesy of SavingNature.com

Stuart Pimm is a world leader in the study of present-day extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. His research covers the reasons why species become extinct, how fast they do so, the global patterns of habitat loss and species extinction and, importantly, the management consequences of this research. Pimm received his BSc degree from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974. Pimm is the author of over 350 scientific papers and five books. He is one of the most highly cited environmental scientists. Pimm wrote the highly acclaimed assessment of the human impact to the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth in 2001. His commitment to the interface between science and policy has led to his testimony to both House and Senate Committees on the re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act. He was worked and taught in Africa for nearly 30 years on elephants, most recently lions — through National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative — but always on topics that relate to the conservation of wildlife and the ecosystems on which they depend. Other research areas include the Everglades of Florida and tropical forests in South America, especially the Atlantic Coast forest of Brazil and the northern Andes — two of the world's "hotspots" for threatened species. His international honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), the Society for Conservation Biology's Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award (2006), and the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology, from the Marsh Christian Trust (awarded by the Zoological Society of London in 2004). Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, awarded him the William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement in 2007. In 2019, he won the International Cosmos Prize, which recognised his founding and directing Saving Nature, www.savingnature.org, a non-profit that uses donations for carbon emissions offsets to fund local conservation groups in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity to restore their degraded lands. “It's a complicated issue. I think a lot of those bird disappearances come from the fact that we have massively intensified our agriculture. Large areas of North America and Europe are now under intense agriculture. They are sprayed with a whole variety of pesticides, which I think is also responsible for the fact that many insects have disappeared, so species that depend on farmland have clearly declined dramatically, but it isn't all birds and there is a piece of this complicated story that involves water birds. Herons and egrets and ducks. Those species both in North America and Europe, are now much more common than they were 30, or 40 years ago. That comes from active conservation of protecting wetlands, making sure we don't shoot our wetland birds. So it's not all doom and gloom. There are some success stories. There are many things we can do. I think 50 years ago, there were only something like 300 bald eagles in the lower 48 states. Bald eagles are now nesting in every state apart from Hawaii. Our conservation efforts have done a great job.”· https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/pimm· https://savingnature.com· www.inaturalist.org· https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/big-cats-initiative/· https://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Audits-Earth-Stuart-Pimm/dp/0813535409/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3A29YJYQ1JPOM&keywords=The+World+According+to+Pimm&qid=1652772158&sprefix=the+world+according+to+pimm%2Caps%2C130&sr=8-1 · www.oneplanetpodcast.org · www.creativeprocess.infoPhoto: Stuart Pimm In the Namib desert courtesy of SavingNature.com

Stuart Pimm is a world leader in the study of present-day extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. His research covers the reasons why species become extinct, how fast they do so, the global patterns of habitat loss and species extinction and, importantly, the management consequences of this research. Pimm received his BSc degree from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974. Pimm is the author of over 350 scientific papers and five books. He is one of the most highly cited environmental scientists. Pimm wrote the highly acclaimed assessment of the human impact to the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth in 2001. His commitment to the interface between science and policy has led to his testimony to both House and Senate Committees on the re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act. He was worked and taught in Africa for nearly 30 years on elephants, most recently lions — through National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative — but always on topics that relate to the conservation of wildlife and the ecosystems on which they depend. Other research areas include the Everglades of Florida and tropical forests in South America, especially the Atlantic Coast forest of Brazil and the northern Andes — two of the world's "hotspots" for threatened species. His international honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), the Society for Conservation Biology's Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award (2006), and the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology, from the Marsh Christian Trust (awarded by the Zoological Society of London in 2004). Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, awarded him the William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement in 2007. In 2019, he won the International Cosmos Prize, which recognised his founding and directing Saving Nature, www.savingnature.org, a non-profit that uses donations for carbon emissions offsets to fund local conservation groups in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity to restore their degraded lands. “It's a complicated issue. I think a lot of those bird disappearances come from the fact that we have massively intensified our agriculture. Large areas of North America and Europe are now under intense agriculture. They are sprayed with a whole variety of pesticides, which I think is also responsible for the fact that many insects have disappeared, so species that depend on farmland have clearly declined dramatically, but it isn't all birds and there is a piece of this complicated story that involves water birds. Herons and egrets and ducks. Those species both in North America and Europe, are now much more common than they were 30, or 40 years ago. That comes from active conservation of protecting wetlands, making sure we don't shoot our wetland birds. So it's not all doom and gloom. There are some success stories. There are many things we can do. I think 50 years ago, there were only something like 300 bald eagles in the lower 48 states. Bald eagles are now nesting in every state apart from Hawaii. Our conservation efforts have done a great job.”· https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/pimm· https://savingnature.com· www.inaturalist.org· https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/big-cats-initiative/· https://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Audits-Earth-Stuart-Pimm/dp/0813535409/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3A29YJYQ1JPOM&keywords=The+World+According+to+Pimm&qid=1652772158&sprefix=the+world+according+to+pimm%2Caps%2C130&sr=8-1 · www.oneplanetpodcast.org · www.creativeprocess.infoPhoto: Stuart Pimm In the Namib desert courtesy of SavingNature.com

Mikhail Katsnelson graduated from the Ural State University in 1977 and then worked (until 2002) at the Institute of Physics of Metals (Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg), last position - Head. laboratory of the quantum theory of metals. At the same time, he worked at the Ural University in the departments of theoretical physics, mathematical physics and in the SUNC ("Lyceum"). Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1988). Since 2002 he has been living and working in Sweden (Uppsala, 2002-2004) and in the Netherlands (since 2004, professor and head of the condensed matter theory group at Radboud University, Nijmegen). Elected member of a number of academies (European Academy, Royal Netherlands Academy, Royal Scientific Society in Uppsala). Laureate of the Spinoza Prize (2013) and the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics (2016), Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (2011). One of the most cited authors on condensed matter theory. Known mainly for his work on graphene and other two-dimensional materials, on the theory of magnetism and on the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems. He also deals with general issues of physics and natural science, including the foundations of quantum mechanics and statistical physics, the application of methods of statistical physics in biology, the nature of complexity. FIND MIKHAIL ON SOCIAL MEDIA LinkedIn | Facebook | LiveJournal ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Mikhail Katsnelson graduated from the Ural State University in 1977 and then worked (until 2002) at the Institute of Physics of Metals (Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg), last position - Head. laboratory of the quantum theory of metals. At the same time, he worked at the Ural University in the departments of theoretical physics, mathematical physics and in the SUNC ("Lyceum"). Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1988).Since 2002 he has been living and working in Sweden (Uppsala, 2002-2004) and in the Netherlands (since 2004, professor and head of the condensed matter theory group at Radboud University, Nijmegen). Elected member of a number of academies (European Academy, Royal Netherlands Academy, Royal Scientific Society in Uppsala). Laureate of the Spinoza Prize (2013) and the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics (2016), Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (2011). One of the most cited authors on condensed matter theory.Known mainly for his work on graphene and other two-dimensional materials, on the theory of magnetism and on the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems. He also deals with general issues of physics and natural science, including the foundations of quantum mechanics and statistical physics, the application of methods of statistical physics in biology, the nature of complexity.FIND MIKHAIL ON SOCIAL MEDIALinkedIn | Facebook | LiveJournal================================PODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://www.uhnwidata.com/podcastApple podcast: https://apple.co/3kqOA7QSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2UOtE1AGoogle podcast: https://bit.ly/3jmA7ulSUPPORT & CONNECT:Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrichTwitter: https://twitter.com/denofrichFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrichYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DenofRich

Arjen van Witteloostuijn is Professor of Business and Economics at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and Dean of the VU School of Business and Economics in the Netherlands, as well as Research Professor in Business, Economics and Governance at the University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School in Belgium. In the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, he was affiliated with the University of Groningen, University Maastricht, Tilburg University and Utrecht University (all four the Netherlands), and Cardiff University and Durham University (both in the United Kingdom), and he visited New York University (the US) and Warwick Business School (the UK). He holds degrees in Business, Economics and Psychology. He is (former) member of the editorial board of, e.g., the, Academy Management Journal, Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management, British Journal of Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies and Strategic Organization. He was/is member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Dutch Parliament and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), and Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB). He has published widely in such international journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Accounting, Organizations & Society, American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, British Journal of Political Science, Economica, Industrial Relations, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Management Science, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Personality and Individual Differences, Public Administration Review, and Strategic Management Journal. He strongly believes in work that crosses multiple disciplines. Visit https://www.aib.world/frontline-ib/arjen-van-witteloostuijn/ for the original video interview.

Physicist Frank Wilczek and Professor Janna Levin discuss Wilczek's book, “Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality.” Frank Wilczek jointly won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, for his graduate work at Princeton with David Gross. He was among the earliest MacArthur Fellows and has won many awards both for his scientific work and his writing, which includes hundreds of articles in leading scientific journals. His “Wilczek's Universe” column appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal. Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. A Guggenheim Fellow, Janna has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is the presenter of NOVA's Black Hole Apocalypse special, aired on PBS. Levin's Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space explains the discovery of the century: the sound of spacetime ringing from the collision of two black holes over a billion years ago. Physicist Frank Wilczek and Professor Janna Levin discuss Wilczek's book, “Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality.” Frank Wilczek jointly won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, for his graduate work at Princeton with David Gross. He was among the earliest MacArthur Fellows and has won many awards both for his scientific work and his writing, which includes hundreds of articles in leading scientific journals. His “Wilczek's Universe” column appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal. Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. A Guggenheim Fellow, Janna has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is the presenter of NOVA's Black Hole Apocalypse special, aired on PBS. Levin's Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space explains the discovery of the century: the sound of spacetime ringing from the collision of two black holes over a billion years ago.

In the third episode of the Diversity in Science podcast series - produced in partnership with Nature - we look at the role of allies in science workplaces and spaces of power for making science more inclusive of diverse perspectives. Ineke Sluiter talks about successful interventions to increase the number of women members at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she is President. ISC Patron and former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, shares how she worked with other women leaders to help give a voice to marginalized women on the frontlines of climate change.###This series will highlight all aspects of diversity in science – asking why diversity matters, why diversity makes for better science, how to integrate diverse voices and different perspectives in research, and how to promote inclusion of less well represented or marginalized groups in science settings, including women, people of colour, LGBTQI people, people with disabilities, and people who take a non-traditional route into science.​It will ask what practical steps can be put in place to improve diversity in science workplaces and ways of working, and how organizations such as the ISC can be ‘better allies for better science'.​Learn more: https://council.science/podcast/nature-working-scientists/

Frans (fransdewaal.com) is a primatologist & ethologist. He is Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University, director of the Living Links Center at Emory & the author of many books including "Chimpanzee Politics", "Our Inner Ape" & "The Bonobo & the Atheist". He has featured in TV/radio productions & TED talks viewed by tens of millions of people. His research centers on primate social behavior, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion, & food-sharing. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences & the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what's real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube​​​​​​. We discuss: 0:00 Welcome 1:19 Frans' Intro - Understanding animals - Ethology, primates, animal behaviour, intelligence & morality - Breaking out of behaviourism. "We have so much evidence for animal intelligence... these taboos are being broken" - The ripple effect. Finding remarkable capabilities in primates, then in many other species 4:05 What's Real? From Catholic to apathist - Growing up Catholic & dropping religion at 17 - "My parents were very unhappy but I was part of a generation where everyone was doing that" - Apathism... "I don't particularly care if god exists" - "In Catholicism & every religion there's a lot of hypocrisy... people who talk one way & act another" - Child abuse scandals & cover-ups - "Jesus was an inspiring figure... whether he's a real historical figure or not" - Half of people in the Netherlands call themselves atheists & we see that coming to the USA 8:48 What Matters Morally? - Religious & evolutionary & intuition as drivers of morality - Religions can provide narratives to support your moral intuitions (e.g. the good samaritan) - "You cannot go wrong with compassion, morally" - Studying empathy in non-human animals - You can't build a moral system without empathy - Reasoning & logic, without compassion, can lead to awful harm - "Empathy & compassion are not human inventions" - Very young human children & dogs both show compassion to a crying person (Carolyn Zahn-Waxler) - We find compassion in many non-human animals & that is the basis for human morality too - The ability to detect sentience in others & to feel affected by it. Roots in maternal care (hence empathy more developed in females)? Oxytocin - "If you have a co-operative animal society you need to worry about your fellows" ... And much more... full show notes at sentientism.info Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at sentientism.info​​​​​​​​​​​​​. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall using this simple form. ​Everyone interested, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is here on FaceBook​. Thanks @cgbessellieu for the post-production.

On today's podcast, you are going to have the opportunity to hear from John D. Liu, who is truly a legend in the regeneration ecosystem restoration community, and body of knowledge. He is just such a wise sage. Somebody who has lived their life in contemplation around how can ecosystems, how can people, how can communities live in harmony in symbiosis with nature? John D. Liu is a filmmaker and ecologist. He also is a researcher in several world institutions. He's a fellow from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also the ecosystem ambassador for the Commonland Foundation in Amsterdam. And John D. Liu is also the Ecosystem... He founded the Ecosystem Restorations worldwide movement, which aims to restore degraded ecosystems on a large scale. You are going to be blown away. You're going to be awakened. You're going to be inspired. Truly today's conversation is awakening the possibilities of regeneration. And I just trust that you're going to love it.

On today's podcast, you are going to have the opportunity to hear from John D. Liu, who is truly a legend in the regeneration ecosystem restoration community, and body of knowledge. He is just such a wise sage. Somebody who has lived their life in contemplation around how can ecosystems, how can people, how can communities live in harmony in symbiosis with nature? John D. Liu is a filmmaker and ecologist. He also is a researcher in several world institutions. He's a fellow from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also the ecosystem ambassador for the Commonland Foundation in Amsterdam. And John D. Liu is also the Ecosystem... He founded the Ecosystem Restorations worldwide movement, which aims to restore degraded ecosystems on a large scale. You are going to be blown away. You're going to be awakened. You're going to be inspired. Truly today's conversation is awakening the possibilities of regeneration. And I just trust that you're going to love it.

The reason I am seeking to keep Steady State Economics as a subject before you, as my audience, is that few other economic options subsume economics under the ecosystem. Rather other economic options subsume the ecosystem under the economy. In addition, most other economic options growth oriented economies and assume that the ecology can be saved while still growing the economy and this does not provide solution enough to address the stress every world economy is putting on our planet. If those monitoring the changes in our planet are correct, our time to make necessary and important changes is getting shorter. Awareness and implementation of a better economic option is vital! In every field of thought and research there are the visionaries, pioneers, and trailblazers. In Steady State Economics that visionary/pioneer/trailblazer is Herman Daly! Herman E. Daly is professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. From 1988 to 1994 he was senior economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank. Prior to 1988 he was alumni professor of economics at Louisiana State University, where he taught economics for twenty years. He holds a BA from Rice University and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He has served as Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of Ceará (Brazil), as a Research Associate at Yale University, as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, and as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil. He has served on the boards of directors of numerous environmental organizations, and was co-founder and associate editor of the journal Ecological Economics. His interest in economic development, population, resources, and environment has resulted in over a hundred articles in professional journals and anthologies, as well as numerous books, including Toward a Steady-State Economy (1973); Steady-State Economics (1977; 1991); Valuing the Earth(1993);  Beyond Growth (1996); Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics (1999); Ecological Economics: Theory and Applications (with J. Farley, 2003, 2011); Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development (2007); and From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy (2014). He is co-author with theologian John B. Cobb, Jr. of For the Common Good (1989 ;1994) which received the 1991 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order. In 1996 he received Sweden's Honorary Right Livelihood Award, and the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999 he was awarded the Sophie Prize (Norway) for contributions in the area of Environment and Development; in 2001 the Leontief Prize for contributions to economic thought, and in 2002 the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic for his work in steady-state economics. In 2010 the National Council for Science and the Environment (USA) gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014 he received the Blue Planet Prize awarded by the Asahi Glass Foundation of Japan.

John Dennis Liu is a film-maker and ecologist. He is also a researcher at several institutions. In January 2015 John was named Visiting Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2017 John Liu founded Ecosystem Restoration Camps, a worldwide movement that aims to restore damaged ecosystems on a large scale. His movies and films document large-scale ecosystem restoration projects around the world. Recently featured in KISS THE GROUND, streaming on Netflix and the Age of Nature on PBS millions about regenerative action and the state of the world. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/julian-guderley/support

John Dennis Liu is a film-maker and ecologist. He is also a researcher at several institutions. In January 2015 John was named Visiting Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2017 John Liu founded Ecosystem Restoration Camps, a worldwide movement that aims to restore damaged ecosystems on a large scale. Most recently, John was featured in Kiss The Ground, a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on an new, old approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world. For more information on John, please visit: Https://knaw.academia.edu/johndliu Help restore our planet! Sign up at: https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/foundation/john-d-liu/ Watch Kiss the Ground: https://kissthegroundmovie.com/about/

Dr. Stuart Pimm, Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University, is one of the world's most highly cited and influential environmental scientists. He's an internationally recognized global leader in the study of biodiversity, especially present-day extinctions and what the world can do to prevent them. The media turn to him when they want to know what's happening to our planet. He is adept at explaining a complex issue in a relatable way. His message that we can all make a difference in our planet's survival, inspires a wide audience. Pimm was awarded the 2019 International Cosmos Prize, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious honors presented in the environmental field. The honor recognizes Pimm's groundbreaking research on endangered species, as well as, his work through his non-profit organization Saving Nature, to promote practical approaches to help slow or reverse species' declines by protecting and restoring their shrinking habitats. Past recipients of the Cosmos Prize include Jane Goodall, E.O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins and Sir David Attenborough, among other luminaries in the fields of conservation science and natural history. His international honors also include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), and the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006). Pimm's commitment to the interface between science and policy has led to his regular testimony to both House and Senate Committees of the U.S. Congress. He frequently visits Washington D.C. to engage policy makers on environmental issues. He is also asked to advise international governments on biodiversity issues and the management of national parks. Pimm has served on National Geographic's Committee for Research and Exploration and currently works with their Big Cats Initiative, an effort to reduce human-wildlife conflict in Africa, Asia and elsewhere. He is a lecturer on National Geographic expeditions. In addition to his conservation efforts in Africa, Pimm has worked in the wet forests of Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil for decades, and is a long-term collaborator on the Forest Fragmentation Project in the Brazilian Amazon. In the last decade, he has been active in training Chinese conservation professionals and spends a month each year in China. Pimm directs Saving Nature www.savingnature.com, a 501c3 non-profit that uses donations for carbon emissions offsets to fund conservation groups in countries to restore their degraded lands in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity. Their Science Board is composed of some of the world's most eminent and accomplished conservation biologists. Pimm is the author of over 300 scientific papers and five books, including the highly acclaimed assessment of the human impact to the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth. His students have gone onto important positions, some into top universities worldwide, others directing science at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the World Bank, the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, U.S. governmental agencies and international NGOs. The Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University https://nicholas.duke.edu/ Saving Nature https://savingnature.com/

A webinar as part of the "Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research" series, organised by the SHAPE-ID project. Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research We are pleased to announce the second in our series of webinars on the integration of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in inter- and transdisciplinary research. Some of these events will stage broader conversations, with invited panellists from the SHAPE-ID community, consortium and Expert Panel. Others will focus on SHAPE-ID project results and on how to increase the uptake of recommendations from the project. This webinar will take up one of the recommendations made in our recently published SHAPE-ID Policy Brief: that to increase the participation of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) in interdisciplinary research (IDR) and transdisciplinary research (TDR), policy makers and funders must work to involve researchers more substantially in programme design and evaluation. However, similar recommendations have been made many times already with limited impact. What are the challenges of implementing this recommendation and how can policy makers, researchers and Universities make progress on this front? Is this challenge specific to improving pathways to IDR and TDR or is it a more general problem with the interface AHSS researchers have built with policy makers? Our invited panel of researchers, policy makers and science policy advisers, including SHAPE-ID's Dr Jack Spaapen (Senior Policy Advisor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Dr Jennifer Edmond (Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin and President of the Board of Directors of the pan-European research infrastructure for the arts and humanities, DARIAH-EU) and Mary Doyle (TLRH Public Policy Fellow), will discuss these issue with chair Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, followed by an interactive Q&A from the audience.

Non tutti i supereroi indossano una divisa, ma alcuni indossano indumenti molto coprenti: sono coloro che cercano di raggiungere temperature sempre più basse per scoprire proprietà della materia che in condizioni normali non vedremmo. Tra i pionieri della corsa al freddo va attribuita una menzione d’onore a Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, fisico olandese che per primo, nel 1908, riuscì a ottenere l’elio liquido, concludendo una gara che era cominciata un secolo prima e aveva reclamato la salute di molti. Per aver raggiunto questo obiettivo, e in generale per il suo lavoro sulla fisica del freddo, Onnes fu premiato col Nobel per la fisica nel 1913. Molti Nobel nella storia sono stati attribuiti grazie a una scoperta fortuita, o a un particolare colpo di genio; non è questo il caso. L’obiettivo di Kamerlingh Onnes fu raggiunto a Leida con un lavoro lungo, faticoso sistematico e tramite uno dei primi progetti di ricerca collaborativa su ampia scala, simile ai moderni progetti di ricerca, in cui un team di studiosi, assistenti e tecnici viene formato specificamente per operare su determinati macchinari. Il grande lavoro di progettazione, costruzione e comunicazione guidato da Kamerlingh Onnes conferì a Leida il monopolio delle basse temperature per decenni. Totalmente inaspettata fu invece la scoperta di un altro fenomeno legato alle basse temperature scoperto incidentalmente da Kamerlingh Onnes nel 1911: la resistività elettrica nel mercurio crollava istantaneamente al di sotto di una certa temperatura. A questo fenomeno, totalmente imprevisto per i fisici dell’epoca, fu dato il nome di superconduttività; nessuno dei contemporanei di Kamerlingh Onnes lo seppe inquadrare in una teoria coerente, e una spiegazione soddisfacente, basata sulla fisica quantistica, fu data soltanto molti decenni dopo. Oggi le applicazioni della superconduttività sono irrinunciabili dal punto di vista, tra le altre cose, della tecnologia medica e della ricerca in fisica, in quanto sono gli unici in grado di produrre e sostenere grandi correnti e grandi campi magnetici necessari per gli acceleratori di particelle e la risonanza magnetica. Sono stati anche scoperti superconduttori ad “alte temperature” (dove “alto” è un termine relativo, s’intende), che però pongono sfide tecnologiche non indifferenti. Forse Kamerlingh Onnes non sarà uno scienziato da magliette e citazioni, ma senz’altro la fisica studiata nel suo laboratorio ha tracciato alcune vie fondamentali della ricerca moderna.   Fonti Gino Segrè, A qualcuno piace freddo: Temperatura, vita, materia (2005), traduzione di Tullio Cannillo, ed. Bollati Boringhieri Stephen Blundell, Superconduttività (2012), traduzione di Roberto di Capua, edizioni Codice Jesus Navarro Faus, Landau: la superconduttività – la fisica che venne dal freddo (2016), traduzione di Roberta Polcan, edizioni RBA Italia Dirk Van Delft, Freezing Physics: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the quest for cold (2007), traduzione di Beverly Jackson, Edita – the Publishing House of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences R. de Bruyn Oubuter, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes’ Discovery of Superconductivity, Scientific America. vol. 276, p. 96 (1997)  Arno Laesecke, Through Measurement to Knowledge: The Inaugural Lecture of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1882), Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology vol. 107, N. 3, pp 261–277 (2002) Dizionario biografico dei Paesi Bassi: 1880-2000 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/kamerlingh) https://ethw.org/Milestones:Discovery_of_Superconductivity,_1911 F.A.F.C. Went, Levensbericht H. Kamerlingh Onnes, in: Verslagen Natuurkunde, 35, Amsterdam, 1926, pp. 206-210 Communications from the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory  

SUBSCRIBE: WWW.EARTHREPAIRRADIO.COM This episode explores the new movement to regenerate the planet with "Ecosystem Restoration Camps", where groups of people set up temporary camps on degraded lands for education and implementation of ecological rehabilitation and permaculture. The first camp is now up and running in Spain, with many more in the works. John D. Liu, one of the ideas inspirations, shares much about his vision of the camps and movement to restore the planet's degraded lands and stabilize climate change through a massive social and ecological movement. Show links: WWW.ECOSYSTEMRESTORATIONCAMPS.ORG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Liu John Dennis Liu full bio: John Dennis Liu (born 1953 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a Chinese American film-maker and ecologist. He is also a researcher at several institutions. In January 2015 John was named Visiting Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Early career Liu was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, as the son of a Chinese father and American mother. He spent most of his youth in Bloomington, Indiana.[1] Liu studied journalism.[2] In 1979 he went for the first time to China, after being pushed by his father to see his grandmother before her death. In China Liu helped set up the CBS News bureau in Beijing in 1981, at a time when tensions between the United States and China were lessening. He worked for CBS for more than ten years as a producer and cameraman. Liu has said that after the collapse of the Soviet Union he grew tired of journalism and wished to make films. He started working for European media as RAI, SRG SSR, ZDF[3] For RAI, ZDF, BBC World and National Geographic Channel he produced nature documentaries.[2] In 1995 he filmed the Loess Plateau in China, which was being transformed from a barren and eroded ground into an oasis by the government.[2][4] At this point Liu noticed the possibility of humans restoring ecosystems, rather than only destroying them. Ecological recovery and ideas Liu retired from journalism in 1997 and became the director of the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP). With the EEMP he uses television to provide information about ecology, sustainable development, public health in China and other countries.[3] Liu emphasizes that the harmful effect of humans on the world is not only caused by greenhouse gasses, but is to a great extent caused by the destruction of biomass, organic matter and biodiversity. Liu claims that the decline in these factors has led to higher temperatures and loss of arable soil, in the end leading to desertification.[3] Liu sees a solution for these problems in the way people look at money, as people currently value the products and services derived from ecosystems higher than the ecosystems themselves.[3] The episode, Regreening the desert / Green gold of the show Tegenlicht, was aired by Dutch public broadcaster VPRO and co-produced by Liu. The episodes sees Liu traveling the world to countries as Jordan, China and Ethiopia and shows the possibilities in re-greening areas turning into desert. At the 65th Prix Italia, in September 2013, the episode won the Special Prize Expo 2015.[5][6] Since 2009, Liu is working together with Willem Ferwerda, former director of the Dutch office of IUCN, executive fellow business and ecosystems at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and founder of the Commonland Foundation an organization that works on large scale landscape restoration projects with a business approach, based on the 4 returns from landscape restoration framework developed by Ferwerda.

John D. Liu is passionate about ecosystem restoration, and has been championing the solutions and associated philosophies for more than thirty years. Join us as we explore our inextricable connections to nature through John's eyes. Prepared to be inspired and challenged as John shares some of his journey. We go into the thinking behind the degenerative systems, how they came to be, and what he sees as the necessary evolution of human consciousness to move into regenerative systems.He is currently the Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation, and a visiting research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Links:Commonland FoundationEcosystem Restoration CampsERC Facebook PagePublished works - Academia page A few of John's documentaries:Green GoldHope In A Changing Climate   SHOW NOTES Background- background in journalism, camera work, television & radio- saw a lot of ego and hubris- realised that contributing to environmental healing was much more meaningful- changed to ecological research- began lecturing and speaking on his research- came to believe knowledge is a right, not a commodity- hopeful that future generations will carry this shift in thinking  John's Message- discussion of the Loess plateau, its ecological destruction and subsequent restoration- it is not inevitable that humans degrade their environment- we have looted the earth- by contrast, in nature there is no waste- nature accumulates each generation- a human collective consciousness is needed, not just experts- felt like a detective figuring out what had gone wrong in barren places- living separated from each other and our environment = the result is deserts, wars, etc- there is no need for us to destroy our natural systems  The Impact of Modern Agriculture- humans have spent a lot of time decreasing biodiversity- modern agriculture is only 10-12,000 years old- there are no exposed soils in natural systems (with a few exceptions)- monoculture: human ancestors spread certain kinds of plant while killing many others  Hope For The Future- Commonland is working on the principle of “4 returns”- return 1: inspiration- return 2: social capital - jobs, happiness, normal relationships- return 3: natural capital- return 4: return on investment, financial- many people are beginning to be aware- idea of ecological restoration live-in camps- holistic view of life experience & development  Making Changes- our descendants' quality of life will be determined by what we learn, and how much we understand- we have it in our power to restore paradise- if our intention is to restore the earth, we will do it- John believes this is our duty to do so- what is the result of consciousness and generosity- it's necessary to move to the next level of consciousness- not just a meme or a catchphrase, but a true understanding of our symbiotic relationship with the natural world  Final Thoughts- collaborative learning- not institutions that will accomplish it, but people- this work needs to be done from an ecological standpoint, but also with a view to living together in peace- these go hand in hand 

In this episode, we take a look at the reimplementation of NetBSD using a Microkernel, check out what makes DHCP faster, and see what high-process count support for DragonflyBSD has to offer, and we answer the questions you've always wanted to ask us. This episode was brought to you by Headlines A Reimplementation Of Netbsd Using a Microkernel (http://theembeddedboard.review/a-reimplementation-of-netbsd-using-a-microkernel-part-1-of-2/) Minix author Andy Tanenbaum writes in Part 1 of a-reimplementation-of-netbsd-using-a-microkernel (http://theembeddedboard.review/a-reimplementation-of-netbsd-using-a-microkernel-part-1-of-2/) Based on the MINIX 3 microkernel, we have constructed a system that to the user looks a great deal like NetBSD. It uses pkgsrc, NetBSD headers and libraries, and passes over 80% of the KYUA tests). However, inside, the system is completely different. At the bottom is a small (about 13,000 lines of code) microkernel that handles interrupts, message passing, low-level scheduling, and hardware related details. Nearly all of the actual operating system, including memory management, the file system(s), paging, and all the device drivers run as user-mode processes protected by the MMU. As a consequence, failures or security issues in one component cannot spread to other ones. In some cases a failed component can be replaced automatically and on the fly, while the system is running, and without user processes noticing it. The talk will discuss the history, goals, technology, and status of the project. Research at the Vrije Universiteit has resulted in a reimplementation of NetBSD using a microkernel instead of the traditional monolithic kernel. To the user, the system looks a great deal like NetBSD (it passes over 80% of the KYUA tests). However, inside, the system is completely different. At the bottom is a small (about 13,000 lines of code) microkernel that handles interrupts, message passing, low-level scheduling, and hardware related details. Nearly all of the actual operating system, including memory management, the file system(s), paging, and all the device drivers run as user-mode processes protected by the MMU. As a consequence, failures or security issues in one component cannot spread to other ones. In some cases a failed component can be replaced automatically and on the fly, while the system is running. The latest work has been adding live update, making it possible to upgrade to a new version of the operating system WITHOUT a reboot and without running processes even noticing. No other operating system can do this. The system is built on MINIX 3, a derivative of the original MINIX system, which was intended for education. However, after the original author, Andrew Tanenbaum, received a 2 million euro grant from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a 2.5 million euro grant from the European Research Council, the focus changed to building a highly reliable, secure, fault tolerant operating system, with an emphasis on embedded systems. The code is open source and can be downloaded from www.minix3.org. It runs on the x86 and ARM Cortex V8 (e.g., BeagleBones). Since 2007, the Website has been visited over 3 million times and the bootable image file has been downloaded over 600,000 times. The talk will discuss the history, goals, technology, and status of the project. Part 2 (http://theembeddedboard.review/a-reimplementation-of-netbsd-using-a-microkernel-part-2-of-2/) is also available. *** Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (https://cafbit.com/post/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do/) One of life's minor annoyances is having to wait on my devices to connect to the network after I wake them from sleep. All too often, I'll open the lid on my EeePC netbook, enter a web address, and get the dreaded "This webpage is not available" message because the machine is still working on connecting to my Wi-Fi network. On some occasions, I have to twiddle my thumbs for as long as 10-15 seconds before the network is ready to be used. The frustrating thing is that I know it doesn't have to be this way. I know this because I have a Mac. When I open the lid of my MacBook Pro, it connects to the network nearly instantaneously. In fact, no matter how fast I am, the network comes up before I can even try to load a web page. My curiosity got the better of me, and I set out to investigate how Macs are able to connect to the network so quickly, and how the network connect time in other operating systems could be improved. I figure there are three main categories of time-consuming activities that occur during network initialization: Link establishment. This is the activity of establishing communication with the network's link layer. In the case of Wi-Fi, the radio must be powered on, the access point detected, and the optional encryption layer (e.g. WPA) established. After link establishment, the device is able to send and receive Ethernet frames on the network. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). Through DHCP handshaking, the device negotiates an IP address for its use on the local IP network. A DHCP server is responsible for managing the IP addresses available for use on the network. Miscellaneous overhead. The operating system may perform any number of mundane tasks during the process of network initialization, including running scripts, looking up preconfigured network settings in a local database, launching programs, etc. My investigation thus far is primarily concerned with the DHCP phase, although the other two categories would be interesting to study in the future. I set up a packet capture environment with a spare wireless access point, and observed the network activity of a number of devices as they initialized their network connection. For a worst-case scenario, let's look at the network activity captured while an Android tablet is connecting: This tablet, presumably in the interest of "optimization", is initially skipping the DHCP discovery phase and immediately requesting its previous IP address. The only problem is this is a different network, so the DHCP server ignores these requests. After about 4.5 seconds, the tablet stubbornly tries again to request its old IP address. After another 4.5 seconds, it resigns itself to starting from scratch, and performs the DHCP discovery needed to obtain an IP address on the new network. In all fairness, this delay wouldn't be so bad if the device was connecting to the same network as it was previously using. However, notice that the tablet waits a full 1.13 seconds after link establishment to even think about starting the DHCP process. Engineering snappiness usually means finding lots of small opportunities to save a few milliseconds here and there, and someone definitely dropped the ball here. In contrast, let's look at the packet dump from the machine with the lightning-fast network initialization, and see if we can uncover the magic that is happening under the hood: The key to understanding the magic is the first three unicast ARP requests. It looks like Mac OS remembers certain information about not only the last connected network, but the last several networks. In particular, it must at least persist the following tuple for each of these networks: > 1. The Ethernet address of the DHCP server > 2. The IP address of the DHCP server > 3. Its own IP address, as assigned by the DHCP server During network initialization, the Mac transmits carefully crafted unicast ARP requests with this stored information. For each network in its memory, it attempts to send a request to the specific Ethernet address of the DHCP server for that network, in which it asks about the server's IP address, and requests that the server reply to the IP address which the Mac was formerly using on that network. Unless network hosts have been radically shuffled around, at most only one of these ARP requests will result in a response—the request corresponding to the current network, if the current network happens to be one of the remembered networks. This network recognition technique allows the Mac to very rapidly discover if it is connected to a known network. If the network is recognized (and presumably if the Mac knows that the DHCP lease is still active), it immediately and presumptuously configures its IP interface with the address it knows is good for this network. (Well, it does perform a self-ARP for good measure, but doesn't seem to wait more than 13ms for a response.) The DHCP handshaking process begins in the background by sending a DHCP request for its assumed IP address, but the network interface is available for use during the handshaking process. If the network was not recognized, I assume the Mac would know to begin the DHCP discovery phase, instead of sending blind requests for a former IP address as the Galaxy Tab does. The Mac's rapid network initialization can be credited to more than just the network recognition scheme. Judging by the use of ARP (which can be problematic to deal with in user-space) and the unusually regular transmission intervals (a reliable 1.0ms delay between each packet sent), I'm guessing that the Mac's DHCP client system is entirely implemented as tight kernel-mode code. The Mac began the IP interface initialization process a mere 10ms after link establishment, which is far faster than any other device I tested. Android devices such as the Galaxy Tab rely on the user-mode dhclient system (part of the dhcpcd package) dhcpcd program, which no doubt brings a lot of additional overhead such as loading the program, context switching, and perhaps even running scripts. The next step for some daring kernel hacker is to implement a similarly aggressive DHCP client system in the Linux kernel, so that I can enjoy fast sign-on speeds on my Android tablet, Android phone, and Ubuntu netbook. There already exists a minimal DHCP client implementation in the Linux kernel, but it lacks certain features such as configuring the DNS nameservers. Perhaps it wouldn't be too much work to extend this code to support network recognition and interface with a user-mode daemon to handle such auxillary configuration information received via DHCP. If I ever get a few spare cycles, maybe I'll even take a stab at it. You can also find other ways of optimizing the dhclient program and how it works in the dhclient tutorial on Calomel.org (https://calomel.org/dhclient.html). *** BSDCam Trip Report (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/bsdcam-2017-trip-report-michael-lucas/) Over the decades, FreeBSD development and coordination has shifted from being purely on-line to involving more and more in-person coordination and cooperation. The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors a devsummit right before BSDCan, EuroBSDCon, and AsiaBSDCon, so that developers traveling to the con can leverage their airfare and hammer out some problems. Yes, the Internet is great for coordination, but nothing beats a group of developers spending ten minutes together to sketch on a whiteboard and figuring out exactly how to make something bulletproof. In addition to the coordination efforts, though, conference devsummits are hierarchical. There's a rigid schedule, with topics decided in advance. Someone leads the session. Sessions can be highly informative, passionate arguments, or anything in between. BSDCam is… a little different. It's an invaluable part of the FreeBSD ecosystem. However, it's something that I wouldn't normally attend. But right now, is not normal. I'm writing a new edition of Absolute FreeBSD. To my astonishment, people have come to rely on this book when planning their deployments and operations. While I find this satisfying, it also increases the pressure on me to get things correct. When I wrote my first FreeBSD book back in 2000, a dozen mailing lists provided authoritative information on FreeBSD development. One person could read every one of those lists. Today, that's not possible—and the mailing lists are only one narrow aspect of the FreeBSD social system. Don't get me wrong—it's pretty easy to find out what people are doing and how the system works. But it's not that easy to find out what people will be doing and how the system will work. If this book is going to be future-proof, I needed to leave my cozy nest and venture into the wilds of Cambridge, England. Sadly, the BSDCam chair agreed with my logic, so I boarded an aluminum deathtrap—sorry, a “commercial airliner”—and found myself hurtled from Detroit to Heathrow. And one Wednesday morning, I made it to the William Gates building of Cambridge University, consciousness nailed to my body by a thankfully infinite stream of proper British tea. BSDCam attendance is invitation only, and the facilities can only handle fifty folks or so. You need to be actively working on FreeBSD to wrangle an invite. Developers attend from all over the world. Yet, there's no agenda. Robert Watson is the chair, but he doesn't decide on the conference topics. He goes around the room and asks everyone to introduce themselves, say what they're working on, and declare what they want to discuss during the conference. The topics of interest are tallied. The most popular topics get assigned time slots and one of the two big rooms. Folks interested in less popular topics are invited to claim one of the small breakout rooms. Then the real fun begins. I started by eavesdropping in the virtualization workshop. For two hours, people discussed FreeBSD's virtualization needs, strengths, and weaknesses. What needs help? What should this interface look like? What compatibility is important, and what isn't? By the end of the session, the couple dozen people had developed a reasonable consensus and, most importantly, some folks had added items to their to-do lists. Repeat for a dozen more topics. I got a good grip on what's really happening with security mitigation techniques, FreeBSD's cloud support, TCP/IP improvements, advances in teaching FreeBSD, and more. A BSDCan devsummit presentation on packaging the base system is informative, but eavesdropping on two dozen highly educated engineers arguing about how to nail down the final tidbits needed to make that a real thing is far more educational. To my surprise, I was able to provide useful feedback for some sessions. I speak at a lot of events outside of the FreeBSD world, and was able to share much of what I hear at Linux conferences. A tool that works well for an experienced developer doesn't necessarily work well for everyone. Every year, I leave BSDCan tired. I left BSDCam entirely exhausted. These intense, focused discussions stretched my brain. But, I have a really good idea where key parts of FreeBSD development are actually headed. This should help future-proof the new Absolute FreeBSD, as much as any computer book can be future-proof. Plus, BSDCam throws the most glorious conference dinner I've ever seen. I want to thank Robert Watson for his kind invitation, and the FreeBSD Foundation for helping defray the cost of this trip Interview - The BSDNow Crew As a kid, what did you dream of to become as an adult? JT: An Astronaut BR: I wanted to be a private detective, because of all the crime novels that I read back then. I didn't get far with it. However, I think the structured analysis skills (who did what, when, and such) help me in debugging and sysadmin work. AJ: Didn't think about it much How do you manage to stay organized day to day with so much things you're actively doing each day? (Day job, wife/girlfriend, conferences, hobbies, friends, etc.) JT: Who said I was organized? BR: A lot of stuff in my calendar as reminders, open browser tabs as “to read later” list. A few things like task switching when getting stuck helps. Also, focus on a single goal for the day, even though there will be distractions. Slowly, but steadily chip away at the things you're working on. Rather than to procrastinate and put things back to review later, get started early with easy things for a big task and then tackle the hard part. Often, things look totally chaotic and unmanageable, until you start working on them. AJ: I barely manage. Lots of Google Calendar reminders, and the entire wall of my office is covered in whiteboard sheet todo lists. I use pinboard.in to deal with finding and organizing bookmarks. Write things down, don't trust your memory. What hobbies outside of IT do you have? JT: I love photography, but I do that Professional part time, so I'm not sure if that counts as a hobby anymore. I guess it'd have to be working in the garage on my cars. BR: I do Tai Chi to relax once a week in a group, but can also do it alone, pretty much everywhere. Way too much Youtube watching and browsing the web. I did play some games before studying at the university and I'm still proud that I could control it to the bare minimum not to impact my studies. A few “lapses” from time to time, revisiting the old classics since the newer stuff won't run on my machines anyway. Holiday time is pretty much spent for BSD conferences and events, this is where I can relax and talk with like-minded people from around the world, which is fascinating. Plus, it gets me to various places and countries I never would have dared to visit on my own. AJ: I play a few video games, and I like to ski, although I don't go very often as most of my vacation time is spent hanging out with my BSD friends at various conferences How do you relax? JT: What is this word ‘relax' and what does it mean? BR: My Tai Chi plays a big part in it I guess. I really calms you and the constant stream of thoughts for a while. It also gives you better clarity of what's important in life. Watching movies, sleeping long. AJ: Usually watching TV or Movies. Although I have taken to doing most of my TV watching on my exercise bike now, but it is still mentally relaxing If FreeBSD didn't exist, which BSD flavour would you use? Why? JT: I use TrueOS, but if FreeBSD didn't exist, that project might not either… so… My other choice would be HardenedBSD, but since it's also based on FreeBSD I'm in the same dillema. BR: I once installed NetBSD to see what It can do. If FreeBSD wouldn't exist, I would probably try my luck with it. OpenBSD is also appealing, but I've never installed it. AJ: When I started using FreeBSD in 2000, the only other BSD I had heard of at the time was OpenBSD. If FreeBSD wasn't around, I don't think the world would look like it does, so it is hard to speculate. If any of the BSD's weren't around and you had to use Linux, which camp would belong to? (Redhat, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo?) JT: I learned Linux in the mid 90s using Slackware, which I used consistently up until the mid 2000s, when I joined the PuppyLinux community and eventually became a developer (FYI, Puppy was/is/can be based on Slackware -- its complicated). So I'd go back to using either Slackware or PuppyLinux. BR: I tried various Linux distributions until I landed at Debian. I used is pretty extensively as my desktop OS at home, building custom kernels and packages to install them until I discovered FreeBSD. I ran both side by side for a few months for learning until one day I figured out that I had not booted Debian in a while, so I switched completely. AJ: The first Linux I played with was Slackware, and it is the most BSD like, but the bits of Linux I learned in school were Redhat and so I can somewhat wrap my head around it, although now that they are changing everything to systemd, all of that old knowledge is more harmful than useful. Are you still finding yourself in need to use Windows/Mac OS? Why? JT: I work part time as a professional Photographer, so I do use Windows for my photography work. While I can do everything I need to do in Linux, it comes down to being pragmatic about my time. What takes me several hours to accomplish in Linux I can accomplish in 20 minutes on Windows. BR: I was a long time Windows-only user before my Unix days. But back when Vista was about to come out and I needed a new laptop, my choice was basically learning to cope with Vistas awful features or learn MacOS X. I did the latter, it increased my productivity since it's really a good Unix desktop experience (at least, back then). I only have to use Windows at work from time to time as I manage our Windows Terminal server, which keeps the exposure low enough and I only connect to it to use a certain app not available for the Mac or the BSDs. AJ: I still use Windows to play games, for a lot of video conferencing, and to produce BSD Now. Some of it could be done on BSD but not as easily. I have promised myself that I will switch to 100% BSD rather than upgrade to Windows 10, so we'll see how that goes. Please describe your home networking setup. Router type, router OS, router hardware, network segmentation, wifi apparatus(es), other devices connected, and anything else that might be interesting about your home network. BR: Very simple and boring: Apple Airport Express base station and an AVM FritzBox for DNS, DHCP, and the link to my provider. A long network cable to my desktop machine. That I use less and less often. I just bought an RPI 3 for some home use in the future to replace it. Mostly my brother's and my Macbook Pro's are connected, our phones and the iPad of my mother. AJ: I have a E3-1220 v3 (dual 3.1ghz + HT) with 8 GB of ram, and 4x Intel gigabit server NICs as my router, and it runs vanilla FreeBSD (usually some snapshot of -current). I have 4 different VLANs, Home, Office, DMZ, and Guest WiFi. WiFi is served via a tiny USB powered device I bought in Tokyo years ago, it serves 3 different SSIDs, one for each VLAN except the DMZ. There are ethernet jacks in every room wired for 10 gigabit, although the only machines with 10 gigabit are my main workstation, file server, and some machines in the server rack. There are 3 switches, one for the house (in the laundry room), one for the rack, and one for 10gig stuff. There is a rack in the basement spare bedroom, it has 7 servers in it, mostly storage for live replicas of customer data for my company. How do guys manage to get your work done on FreeBSD desktops? What do you do when you need to a Linux or Windows app that isn't ported, or working? I've made several attempts to switch to FreeBSD, but each attempt failed because of tools not being available (e.g. Zoom, Dropbox, TeamViewer, Crashplan) or broken (e.g. VirtualBox). BR: I use VIrtualBox for everything that is not natively available or Windows-only. Unfortunately, that means no modern games. I mostly do work in the shell when I'm on FreeBSD and when it has to be a graphical application, then I use Fluxbox as the DE. I want to get work done, not look at fancy eye-candy that get's boring after a while. Deactivated the same stuff on my mac due to the same reason. I look for alternative software online, but my needs are relatively easy to satisfy as I'm not doing video editing/rendering and such. AJ: I generally find that I don't need these apps. I use Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenSSH, Quassel, KomodoEdit, and a few other apps, so my needs are not very demanding. It is annoying when packages are broken, but I usually work around this with boot environments, and being able to just roll back to a version that worked for a few days until the problem is solved. I do still have access to a windows machine for the odd time I need specific VPN software or access to Dell/HP etc out-of-band management tools. Which desktop environments are your favorite, and why? For example, I like i3, Xfce, and I'm drawn to Lumina's ethos, but so far always seem to end up back on Xfc because of its ease of use, flexibility, and dashing good looks. JT: As a Lumina Desktop developer, I think my preference is obvious. ;) I am also a long timeOpenBox user, so I have a soft place in my heart for that as well. BR: I use Fluxbox when I need to work with a lot of windows or an application demands X11. KDE and others are too memory heavy for me and I rarely use even 20% of the features they provide. AJ: I was a long time KDE user, but I have adopted Lumina. I find it fast, and that it gets out of my way and lets me do what I want. It had some annoyances early on, but I've nagged the developers into making it work for me. Which command-line shells do you prefer, why, and how (if at all) have you customised the environment or prompt? BR: I use zsh, but without all the fancy stuff you can find online. It might make you more productive, yes. But again, I try to keep things simple. I'm slowly learning tmux and want to work more in it in the future. I sometimes look at other BSD people's laptops and am amazed at what they do with window-management in tmux. My prompt looks like this: bcr@Voyager:~> 20:20 17-08-17 Put this in your .zshrc to get the same result: PROMPT='%n@%m:%~>' RPROMPT='%T %D' AJ: I started using tcsh early on, because it was the shell on the first box I had access to, and because one of the first things I read in “BSD Hacks” was how to enable ‘typo correction”, which made my life a lot better especially on dial up in the early days. My shell prompt looks like this: allan@CA-TOR1-02:/usr/home/allan% What is one thing (or more) missing in FreeBSD you would import from another project or community? Could be tech, process, etc. JT: AUFS from Linux BR: Nohup from Illumos where you can detach an already running process and put it in the background. I often forget that and I'm not in tmux when that happens, so I can see myself use that feature a lot. AJ: Zones (more complete Jails) from IllumOS how do you manage your time to learn about and work on FreeBSD? Does your work/employment enable what you do, or are your contributions mainly done in private time? JT: These days I'm mostly learning things I need for work, so it just falls into something I'm doing while working on work projects. BR: We have a lot of time during the semester holidays to learn on our own, it's part of the idea of being in a university to keep yourself updated, at least for me. Especially in the fast moving world of IT. I also read a lot in my free time. My interests can shift sometimes, but then I devour everything I can find on the topic. Can be a bit excessive, but has gotten me where I am now and I still need a lot to learn (and want to). Since I work with FreeBSD at work (my owndoing), I can try out many things there. AJ: My work means a spend a lot of time working with FreeBSD, but not that much time working ON it. My contributions are mostly done outside of work, but as I own the company I do get more flexibility to take time off for conferences and other FreeBSD related stuff. we know we can bribe Michael W Lucas with gelato (good gelato that is), but what can we use to bribe you guys? Like when I want to have Allan to work on fixing a bug which prevents me from running ZFS on this fancy rock64 board? BR: Desserts of various kinds. AJ: I am probably not the right person to look at your rock64 board. Most people in the project have taken to bribing me with chocolate. In general, my todo list is so long, the best way is a trade, you take this task and I'll take that task. Is your daily mobile device iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, or other? Why? JT: These days I'm using Android on my Blackberry Priv, but until recently I was still a heavy user of Sailfish OS. I would use SailfishOS everyday, if I could find a phone with a keyboard that I could run it on. BR: iOS on the iPhone 7 currently. Never used an Android phone, saw it on other people's devices and what they can do with it (much more). But the infrequent security updates (if any at all) keep me away from it. AJ: I have a Google Nexus 6 (Android 7.1). I wanted the ‘pure' Android experience, and I had been happy with my previous Nexus S. I don't run a custom OS/ROM or anything because I use the phone to verify that video streams work on an ‘average users device'. I am displeased that support for my device will end soon. I am not sure what device I will get next, but it definitely won't be an iPhone. News Roundup Beta Update - Request for (more) Testing (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170808065718&mode=flat&count=30) https://beta.undeadly.org/ has received an update. The most significant changes include: The site has been given a less antiquated "look". (As the topic icons have been eliminated, we are no longer seeking help with those graphics.) The site now uses a moderate amount of semantic HTML5. Several bugs in the HTML fragment validator (used for submissions and comments) have been fixed. To avoid generating invalid HTML, submission content which fails validation is no longer displayed in submission/comment previews. Plain text submissions are converted to HTML in a more useful fashion. (Instead of just converting each EOL to , the converter now generates proper paragraphs and interprets two or more consecutive EOLs as indicating a paragraph break.) The redevelopment remains a work-in-progress. Many thanks to those who have contributed! As before, constructive feedback would be appreciated. Of particular interest are reports of bugs in behaviour (for example, in the HTML validator or in authentication) that would preclude the adoption of the current code for the main site. High-process-count support added to master (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-August/313552.html) We've fixed a number of bottlenecks that can develop when the number of user processes runs into the tens of thousands or higher. One thing led to another and I said to myself, "gee, we have a 6-digit PID, might as well make it work to a million!". With the commits made today, master can support at least 900,000 processes with just a kern.maxproc setting in /boot/loader.conf, assuming the machine has the memory to handle it. And, in fact, as today's machines start to ratchet up there in both memory capacity and core count, with fast storage (NVMe) and fast networking (10GigE and higher), even in consumer boxes, this is actually something that one might want to do. With AMD's threadripper and EPYC chips now out, the IntelAMD cpu wars are back on! Boasting up to 32 cores (64 threads) per socket and two sockets on EPYC, terabytes of ram, and motherboards with dual 10GigE built-in, the reality is that these numbers are already achievable in a useful manner. In anycase, I've tested these changes on a dual-socket xeon. I can in-fact start 900,000 processes. They don't get a whole lot of cpu and running 'ps' would be painful, but it works and the system is still responsive from the shell with all of that going on. xeon126# uptime 1:42PM up 9 mins, 3 users, load averages: 890407.00, 549381.40, 254199.55 In fact, judging from the memory use, these minimal test processes only eat around 60KB each. 900,000 of them ate only 55GB on a 128GB machine. So even a million processes is not out of the question, depending on the cpu requirements for those processes. Today's modern machines can be stuffed with enormous amounts of memory. Of course, our PIDs are currently limited to 6 digits, so a million is kinda the upper limit in terms of discrete user processes (verses pthreads which are less restricted). I'd rather not go to 7 digits (yet). CFT: Driver for generic MS Windows 7/8/10 - compatible USB HID multi-touch touchscreens (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2017-August/066783.html) Following patch [1] adds support for generic MS Windows 7/8/10 - compatible USB HID multi-touch touchscreens via evdev protocol. It is intended to be a native replacement of hid-multitouch.c driver found in Linux distributions and multimedia/webcamd port. Patch is made for 12-CURRENT and most probably can be applied to recent 11-STABLE and 11.1-RELEASE (not tested) How to test" 1. Apply patch [1] 2. To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines into your kernel configuration file: device wmt device usb device evdev Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): wmt_load="YES" 3. Install x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev or x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput port 4. Tell XOrg to use evdev or libinput driver for the device: ``` Section "ServerLayout" InputDevice "TouchScreen0" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "TouchScreen0" Driver "evdev" # Driver "libinput" Option "Device" "/dev/input/eventXXX" EndSection ``` Exact value of "/dev/input/eventXXX" can be obtained with evemu-record utility from devel/evemu. Note1: Currently, driver does not support pens or touchpads. Note2: wmt.ko should be kld-loaded before uhid driver to take precedence over it! Otherwise uhid can be kld-unloaded after loading of wmt. wmt review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12017 Raw diff: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12017.diff *** Beastie Bits BSDMag Programing Languages Infographic (https://bsdmag.org/programm_history/) t2k17 Hackathon Report: Bob Beck on buffer cache tweaks, libressl and pledge progress (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170815171854) New FreeBSD Journal (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/past-issues/resource-control/) NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2017 Kyoto (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2017/08/10/msg000744.html) *** Feedback/Questions Dan - HDD question (http://dpaste.com/3H6TDJV) Benjamin - scrub of death (http://dpaste.com/10F086V) Jason - Router Opinion (http://dpaste.com/2D9102K) Sohrab - Thanks (http://dpaste.com/1XYYTWF) ***

 This week, we interview Professor Jim van Os. Professor van Os is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands, and Visiting Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at King’s College, Institute of Psychiatry, London.  He trained in Psychiatry in Casablanca, Bordeaux and the Institute of Psychiatry and the Maudsley Royal Hospital in London. In 2011, he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW); he appears on the 2014 Thomson-Reuter Web of Science list of the world’s most influential scientific minds of our time. He is Director of Psychiatric Services at Maastricht University Medical Centre and runs a service for treatment-resistant depression and first episode psychosis. I was keen to ask professor van Os about his views on biological psychiatry, why we should sometimes challenge schizophrenia, psychosis and other diagnostic terminology and how he sees the future of mental healthcare. In this episode, we discuss: How Jim became interested in Psychology and Psychiatry, partly because of the experiences of family members That Jim felt that training in many parts of the world allowed him to see variations in psychiatric models and this led to him questioning the biological model That Jim also saw how dominant the prescribing of medication but noticed the wide variation in practices How Jim observed in France a willingness by the treating doctors to accept that they didn’t know what the root cause of a mental health difficulty That some of the diagnoses that psychiatrists rely on are actually cultural agreements between professionals and that if a patient accepts the idea that they have a diseased brain, it can be limiting for that patient That we should be able to admit that we don’t know causes but we can still help and support people who struggle with their mental health That there is a 25% yearly prevalence of mental disorders, but many nations have a capacity for only 4% to 6% of the general population That selection criteria to get help and support with their mental health just don’t work because we cannot precept outcomes for people That there are interesting developments in eCommunities where people can participate in online communities to share experiences, for example ‘Proud to be Me’ in the Netherlands. That diagnoses are starting to function as an economic measurement of mental illness and treatment and some cannot access treatment without a diagnosis, which perpetuate the diagnostic paradigm That there were attempts in the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM V) discussions to adopt ranges or dimensions of disorders, but the proposal was shot down That it would have been historic if dimensions were adopted in the DSM because then the discussion between the clinician and the patient would have had to change That there is some dimensionality in DSM V, represented as ‘spectrum disorders’ which are the first step towards acknowledging the variations inherent in human experiences That Jim saw in his own family that the initial ‘relief’ of receiving a diagnosis was undone when more and more diagnoses were added That a label of Schizophrenia can mean that other people do not know what to expect and find it difficult to relate psychologically to that person and their experiences That the Maastricht User Research Centre has been discussing the language used in psychiatry, in particular the terms psychosis and schizophrenia and trying to find more helpful terms, for example hyper-meaning That sometimes terms such as ‘susceptibility’ and ‘syndrome’ are far more helpful than giving someone the message that they have a brain disease   That biological psychiatry has been trying to reverse engineer and validate the concept of schizophrenia by investigating case control differences That there is more awareness developing about the critical appraisal of diagnostic terminology That the mental health sector should not be viewed as a separate entity, but should reinvent itself as an inclusive local community that is there to connect with people and their range of experiences That patients often indicate that what got them better was community and connection and meaning and empowerment That the User Research Centre, led by Dr. Peter Groot, have developed a solution to help patients withdraw slowly and gradually from their psychiatric medications That when prescribing medication, we should encourage people to monitor their experiences to allow a better discussion about treatment continuing or stopping based on evidence That if we suppress difficulties with medication, it can make it more difficult for the person to build up coping mechanisms To listen on Mad in America: https://goo.gl/tyyLmt Podcast show notes: https://goo.gl/h1CHc5 To get in touch with us email: podcasts@madinamerica.com © Mad in America 2017  

Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires and our characters. Taking us through every stage in our lives, from the womb to falling in love to old age, Dr. Swaab shows that we don’t just have brains: we are our brains. Then the big question, “Do we control our brains or do our brains control us?” Dick Swaab was Director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research from 1978 to 2005. Since 1979 he is Professor of Neurobiology at the Medical Faculty, University of Amsterdam. In 1985 he founded the Netherlands Brain Bank and was Director until 2005. He is Leader Research team Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Neth. Inst for Neuroscience, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and is appointed since 2011 Chao Kuang Piu Chair of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China. His major research interests focus on sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation, aging of the brain and Alzheimer’s disease and the neurobiological basis of depression and suicide. He has published over 560 papers in SCI journals, authored more than 200 chapters in books, and edited more than 60 books. Swaab mentored 84 PhD students from which 20 are now full professor. He is author of the 2 volume monograph The Human Hypothalamus that appeared in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, Elsevier and of the Dutch best seller We are our Brains, that sold more than 450.000 copies in the Netherlands that is translated in 15 languages. There is also a children’s version of the book (You are your brain) that is translated in Russian and Thai. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

Dr. Heino Falcke, a professor of astroparticle physics and radio astronomy at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, discusses “Black Hole Horizons.” Falcke is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2011, he was awarded the Spinoza Prize, the top science award in the Netherlands. In 2000, he received the Ludwig Biermann Award, the German Astronomical Society award for outstanding young astronomers. In 2013, the BlackHoleCam team he co-founded received a €14 million (approximately $19.3 million in 2013) grant from the European Research Council.

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