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By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Megan Garber who wrote the new essay collection On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politics from The Atlantic. Megan is a writer at The Atlantic, and the magazine has compiled a number of her essays into the new book. It's a great read, an exploration into the ways that American political actors have parlayed the techniques of entertainment to their own ends. Today, we talked about amusing ourselves to death, what happens to a country when politics becomes entertainment, and Dwight Schrute. Megan can be found at The Atlantic and the book, as well as several other new compilations of essays from the magazine, is available wherever books are sold. This interview has been condensed and edited. Megan Garber, thank you so much for joining us.Thanks for having me.You have a new book, it's a collection of a lot of your essays at The Atlantic, it's called On Misdirection. What prompted you to figure out this beat and tease out that you were covering misdirection over the past couple years?A lot of the things that have really interested me about politics and political discourse, let's say, over the past few years are the ways that we are trained to see each other and then also to not see each other. It seems like so many things, so many of the big political stories, particularly at the beginning of the presidency of Donald Trump, and then up till now, so much has come down to are we seeing what we should be seeing, or are we in fact looking away from what we should be seeing?Ideas about vision is actually one of the main drivers of all of these essays, which are very different other than that. I'm a political junkie, I love to follow politics and all of that, but I kept feeling for myself just as a news consumer, "Is this really the most important thing right now?" All these shiny distractions, daily outrages that come and go, and I know I myself, as a news consumer, often feel very addled, almost, and just in a constant state of distraction.So these essays really do try to figure out what happens to that form of distraction on a mass scale. If I'm not the only one feeling this, but if a lot of people are feeling this, what are the consequences of that?I loved how also you kept it in some of the more conventional forms of media as well, too. I know that a lot of our conversation about distraction has been related to social media and algorithms and kind of blamed on Silicon Valley ghosts that are destroying our brains.But a lot of what you talk about is just super day to day. It's the way people talk about other people, whether it's on television or radio or things like that. Do you want to expand on how it's not just necessarily what we're doing online?The first essay, actually, is a look-back at the scholar Neil Postman, who's one of my favorite thinkers, critics, et cetera. He wrote a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death in 1985 that was looking at the impact of television, essentially, on American culture. And as you might guess from the title, making an argument that the entertainment has slipped the bonds of mere fun and mere escapism and distraction and has actually come into our lives and come to infiltrate lives in a lot of ways.Looking at him in retrospect is the first essay in the collection. We chose that specifically because I think one of the other arguments underlining a lot that's in the book is that entertainment, as much as I love it, and I am an inveterate lover of entertainment of all kinds, but it can, I think, also become fairly pernicious when it becomes our standard of judging things in the political realm.One example that's in another essay in there is the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump. The talking points, it seemed to me, among Trump's allies had nothing to do with the facts at hand. This was a legal proceeding, conducted by lawyers, by Meta lawyers, in fact, in Congress. Yet the arguments were nothing to do with the facts, but "this is boring." That was essentially what it came down to. "Ugh, snooze, ugh, no one's watching this." All that kind of stuff.When again, this was an impeachment trial of a president, there were facts at play, and yet the talking points completely elided that. What struck me as well, though, was it was not just partisan talking points. One news organization had an entire op-ed about the impeachment trial, sort of complaining that it lacked pizazz. Pizazz was literally the word that was used.I think there's this way that if we're not careful, the sort of logic of entertainment itself, this idea that everything has to be fun, that boring is its own kind of factual argument, that's what can happen. That was what Neil Postman was talking about.That, I think, is what's happening right now, too, where just entertainment becomes the only thing that matters at the end of the day. That can become, I think, pretty quickly dangerous and bad for us as a culture.That was a really remarkable argument in the book. Again, I'm a huge fan of pop culture. I like being entertained, but it just felt weird how so much of the language and the desire of pop culture was being adapted and weaved into politics. You mentioned obviously Trump, and rallies, and the impeachment, but you had an example in there about Pete Buttigieg after the Iowa Caucus that I thought was really potent where it's just, the question isn't like, "Did we win?" It's like, "Aren't we having so much fun?"Exactly right, and the Iowa Caucus is as famous and infamous for not having an immediate result. Very quickly, things went awry in a quite extreme manner there. Exactly what you said, Pete Buttigieg put out a talk saying, "We have shocked the nation," claiming victory even though no such victory had been claimed. Just like you said, this idea that shock is even part of the conversation, that shock is a value on its own, I think just speaks to the way that fun and high emotional stakes of everything are infiltrating, I think, our rhetoric and logic as a culture.I think also just we talk a lot about overheated rhetoric. Just everything is heated, and everything is ratcheting up at all times, and I think one of the extensions of the ratcheting is that we as news consumers and as citizens just become accustomed to evermore levels of drama, of outrage, of everything. We're sort of losing the ability, I think, to have a moderate anything in our conversations. Everything is just bigger, dramatic jazz hands.So, we may as well get to some of the heart of this. There's obviously a guy who comes up a couple times in your book who is very good at this, bit of a controversial figure, but you just keep on coming back to him, I think, for reasons that are clear.What draws you to Dwight Schrute?I will say, during the early days of the pandemic, I've always been a fan of the show The Office, and I went back to it as a comfort watch, a soothing watch in these really awful days. I was newly familiar with The Office.For anyone who might not be familiar, The Office is a U.S. sitcom, but it focuses on a very small office in Scranton, Pennsylvania. There is a boss, Michael Scott, who is kind of an oaf in a lot of ways. And then one of the other characters in the show is, yes, Dwight Schrute, who I've always been fascinated by, because he's this amazing contradiction, this walking category error.He is a beet farmer, but he has these authoritarian tendencies. I'm trying to think of how to describe Dwight. He's just a lot of things at once. I think one of the things that's so interesting about him is that he is this person who very much thinks that he knows better than everyone else what the rules are, that he can decide the rules for himself and then, importantly, inflict them on other people.So, Dwight thinks he is basically the ultimate agent of law enforcement, literally and otherwise, in the office. In fact, again and again is a physical danger to his colleagues. Just that tension in Dwight felt very resonant to me, as you say, for other political figures and power players as well. I wanted to look at Dwight as almost a character and a trope who conveys so much about the people in political power, often, who make up their own rules and then enforce them and inflict them on everyone else.This idea of, "We're doing it because I said so," and that's the only explanation you're going to get, and these lies that just, everyone just lies without any real sense of backlash or anything. And a lot of that, to me, seemed to be conveyed in Dwight.There's an appeal to him. You can understand, in a democracy where appeal is a key component of accessing power, that despite the obvious flaws in his leadership capabilities for a large duration, you can see how a guy like that just might appeal to a large group of people. I guess we can now broaden it out a bit, how do you think that applies to American society as a whole?A lot of the supporters of the fellow we've been talking about, poll after poll suggests that they feel a sense of encroachment. They feel like they used to be de facto at the top of American society and feel like now they are being pushed down a bit. I think there's a lot of indignation there and a lot of wanting to feel a little bit reassured that, "No, you still do have power. You still do. You can still say for everyone else, as you have throughout history."I think there's something about Dwight definitely that sort of conveys that idea. Donald Trump, very famously and infamously, promised, "I alone can fix it," with 'it' being fill in the blank. There's something in that message, there's something very reassuring to people who feel very caught in a tumult and who feel very unsettled and everything. So much is in flux right now and I think to just have that sort of authoritarian presence who can just say, "Trust me, I've got this. I can make the world make sense again," I think there's something very appealing just about that message.Then, of course, there's a question of how true that is, how politically problematic that is, et cetera. But in terms of rhetoric, I think that's very powerful. There's the adjunct to that message, which is if Donald Trump can say what's what, if he can look at an orange and say it's an apple, and just by force of will have the orange in some sense become an apple, I think there's also a silent message to people that they might have that same agency. They can still be the ones who decide. There's a very powerful message in that.You had a line toward the end of that essay, I think, that was just resolving Dwight's arc. You wrote this I think in October 2020, which was a fascinating time for a lot of people. You basically wrote that "his arc as an agent of chaos is simply not sustainable." Toward the end of it, he domesticates a little bit just because that's what folks want. I guess, how do you see that potentially applying beyond strictly the American television program The Office?One of the things that's so interesting to me about The Office itself is that you could see, or at least when I was rewatching it, what really struck me as a writer — not a writer of sitcoms, but a writer in general — I could see the type of arc that they were trying to give different characters. Just like you said, Dwight, after a while, a character like that can't simply stay an agent of chaos. There has to be some kind of evolution and some kind of arc to the character, or else it just gets too repetitive.Something about the arcs, I think, is very revealing because I think to the Neil Postman point, in the very broad sense, Americans are being conditioned to understand the world in roughly the same way as a sitcom understands the world, which is a character like Dwight needs, the arc needs, the evolution needs a bit of catharsis at the end.A lot of us are now coming to see the world itself in those terms, where we expect our political stories, we expect our real stories of everyday life to also have some tidy conclusions, to also mimic the flow of a TV show and a sitcom.That's one thing I would say, there is this logic of sitcom built into things, and I think that's what can make so many of the problems we have, which are so big and intractable — climate change would be one I would point to — that really resists a Schrutean narrative arc.It makes it sometimes hard for us to talk about. I would also say that The Office's writers recognized how deeply viewers — and I would also then say citizens and people and news consumers — how desperately we crave a catharsis at the end, in whatever form that might look like. Catharsis is a very important idea, both in sitcom writing and in the broader world.I like that idea. I do want to talk to you a little bit about the arc of your book, which was really, really great. It's a collection of essays, and I imagine that the order in which you present them, there was a lot of thought that went into that. You kick it off very much talking about irony and satire and how they're having a good moment, you talk a little bit about the Science March. I'll let you take it from there a little bit.But in the end, you also finish on the idea that "if you brand yourself an entertainer and not a journalist, you can spread falsehoods in the name of fun." You start off in a place where people are having fun for, one might think, deliberate and somewhat positive-facing means. And then in the end, that can get co-opted in a manner. Do you want to maybe talk about some of that?Sure, and thank you, that's such a good observation, totally.The book begins in this essay about Neil Postman looking at the March for Science, which it was put on in the same general time that the Women's March was happening, that people were trying to find ways to protest against the new presidency. This was a march that was very self-consciously designed to support science, facts, et cetera. I did not attend myself, but I was looking through Instagram afterward and looking at all the photos, and that's the way of the modern march, is to have your march, which happens in person, translate to Instagram, translate to memes.One of the things that you're supposed to do, really, as a good attender of these marches is to come up with a costume that will go viral, perhaps. I mean, there were some really good jokes, they were great, they were great costumes, great signs, all that stuff. But I just kept thinking, what now? Speaking of catharsis, is this enough catharsis for people? Is this going to feel like, okay, well we did this, so what else can we do? That's enough. We've had our catharsis, we've made our point?I don't mean to suggest that everyone involved just stopped at the march, but I do think that sometimes when this becomes our mode of political expression, there is a little bit of a, "Okay, but how are we going to actually defend science in real life? How are we going to defend women's rights in real life?" I worry sometimes that just the fun itself and the act of togetherness and all of that can be its own catharsis, and then not actually translate to additional action in the real world.That's a real, good point. I do want to stay here, because I know that we're on a roll, but it is interesting because the Science March, it seemed a very fun vibe. Everybody picked their favorite XKCD, it was a good time.Then if you were to compare that, as you just did, to the Women's March, which was not distinctly as much of a good time, one of those movements had a little bit more staying power, one might say.That's totally right. I want to also be clear that I think the fun elements of things can be great. Throughout American history, fun has been an important means of political expression. People sometimes forget the book Common Sense, the Thomas Paine track that at some level really did help to foment the revolution, not only was it passionately argued and this very compelling piece of rhetoric, it was also just really funny. It was a work of entertainment. People would read it aloud to each other around the fire, and it had that level of making politics fun.That is a really important element of politics, to make people feel engaged. But then I think for me the question is: To what extent does the fun encourage us? To what extent does it activate us? To what extent does it bring us together in community, or to what extent does it sort of alienate us from the reality of politics and condition us to see, again, everything as entertainment? In which case the fun isn't the means, but the fun is the end, essentially.Do you want to talk a little bit about how you close the book? I know you talk a little bit about Tucker, but you also talk a little bit about basically how everybody's having fun now.It's not just a technique used by those out of power to somewhat mock and undermine those in power, it's also used to enforce it a little bit, too.Speaking of Tucker Carlson, he famously in a legal case, his lawyer argued on his behalf that he is not a journalist, he is an entertainer and therefore can say anything he wants to say, and that argument won, that argument held sway.I think again and again, rhetoric that I would see as propaganda that really is designed to make certain Americans think that other Americans are less American and in some sense less human, that's a big part of the rhetoric going on in that show. It comes across, it is presented as entertainment. It's presented as, "Ah, we're just asking questions." Like, "Oh, it's not that big of a deal."There's a real minimization of rhetoric that I find to be very dangerous and frankly scary. We see that idea again and again. One of the subsidiary ideas that I tried to consider in these essays is, "What does propaganda actually look like?" Because at least for me, when I hear that word, I think of Soviet billboards and I think of the mid-century and very sort of overt, direct, "You should believe this."And now propaganda has taken on this much more insidious form where it's the same types of messages, it's the same attempt to win hearts and minds over to a cause, whatever the cause may be. But the propaganda itself is not overt; instead it is very buried in just messages that look like fun, that look like just entertainment. That is a really scary development because it means the propaganda can have even more power than it might otherwise to affect the way people see the world.Again, I really enjoy your work. I'm so happy that it's been compiled into this, On Misdirection.I have recently, and then for a little bit of a while, I have had increasingly complicated feelings toward The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I was a teenager during the Bush administration, and that was very much, I think, something that was formative for me.But I think it's impossible to look at what came after and what that flowed into, even Tucker directly, somewhat, through that somewhat fateful Crossfire interview. I think it's impossible to look back at the past 15 years and not see the fingerprints of that on a lot of different political movements that are not necessarily what it was originally going for.Yeah, that's such a good point. I would say, too, I mean, I think The Daily Show in my mind is a little bit of a piece of a broader collapse, almost. The Daily Show is very much a response to the rise of just reality TV in general. I would argue that the whole point of that genre is to collapse the real and the fake into one thing and be entirely unclear about where the reality ends and the fiction begins.The Daily Show is very much an extension of that. Around the same time, you've had just so many other cultural works in that space where the whole point is just to poke fun at the idea that you can even distinguish between fact and fiction. That, to be clear, that is not propaganda on its own, but I would also say that this idea that fact and fiction on some level can't be extricated from each other, that is a very foundational argument of any propaganda.I think we're starting in the '90s with reality TV, to some extent with social media as well. Where are the people on social media, are they people at all or are they characters in a show? It can be very hard to tell. We've been on this path since at least the '90s, possibly before, where just everything blurs together, and the fact looks like fiction, the serious stuff looks like entertainment, the entertainment looks like serious stuff, and everything is just in this blurry, chaotic mess.Again, you mentioned the Science March, but I went to the Rally to Restore Sanity when I was 20. The fun vibes of that, "We're all in this together." But, like, that was also the thing in D.C. from January 5th to 7th, 2021. I love in your book just how you went through all the different ways that this is manifesting.Thank you so much. Speaking of the order, we were going for that arc, so I appreciate that that was really clear, because it really does feel like one of those sort of paths that you can see in retrospect. And at the time, it's hard to know what's exactly happening, but now even just 10 years later, five years later, things become much more clear.  And then, too, at the end of the book, the final essay is about how endings themselves, the sense of things will come to a satisfying conclusion, that that alone, that logic — which is so much a product, I think, of movies and TV shows and all of that — how that logic alone can be really pernicious for people, because most things will not have an ending.Most things are fluid, news stories are fluid. Yes, there are some beginnings and some endings, but usually they're going to defy that in some way. I think as Americans, we are so conditioned to expect the catharsis, expect either the happy ending or the dramatic one. I think the arc of the past few decades really shows how connected everything is and how hard it is to distinguish the beginning of one thing and the end of the other.I've got to say, I almost wonder if it's systemic in the States. The thing that I envy the most about parliamentary systems is that inevitably, the country's leader, "the protagonist," will leave in shame. They will lose eventually. And you will have a conclusion to the end of the Winston Churchill arc of the United Kingdom. We don't have that. Barack Obama's still around, Donald Trump's still around. I wonder how much that's systemic.No, that's such a good point. I will admit this is a little bit extreme of me, but I actually do think it's true; you look in pop culture right now and what do we have but sequel, after sequel, after sequel? The highest grossing movies of 2022 were all sequels. We have this idea of the end of endings, essentially. And it's not just in politics, it's sort of everywhere.On the one hand, we crave the endings and expect the endings, but on the other hand, we live in a culture where nothing necessarily ends. The sitcom, however many years later, will get its almost inevitable reboot. Thanos will clap his hands, and that will all be undone. I won't say anything else for anyone who hasn't seen, but there is this sense, I think, that even the ending is not necessarily an ending. There can be resurrections and all of that stuff. Like you said, the presidency never ends, it just sort of takes its final form.Do you think that maybe that's going to get people a little bit more comfortable living in that ambiguity of things never necessarily ending?It might. It very much might, but then I also think that that desire for the ending is just so baked into our culture that I think it will be more of a tension becoming more comfortable with the flux.Well, you have teed this up perfectly because I would like to end this podcast. Megan, thank you so much for coming on.Thank you.This was such a great conversation. Why don't you tell folks where they can find the book, a little bit about it and where folks can find you?The book is called On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politics. It's really just a look at ways of seeing in politics, and the ways that we have of not seeing in politics; how we look at each other, and then fail to look at each other; how our vision is often misdirected by the magicians in power in politics. You can buy the book, as far as I know, wherever books are sold. I know I have a big preference for IndieBound. I love that site, but everywhere books are sold.Great. I know some of your colleagues are coming out with other ones of these aggregations of essays.If I could share those, please, that would be great, too. We have Lenika Cruz, my colleague, writing on BTS. She is, I would say, one of the foremost experts on BTS and fandom and it's a lovely book, really. It actually made me very emotional reading it; it's wonderful.Past and future guest of this particular newsletter, Lenika Cruz.Oh, you're going to have so much fun. That's great. Then the other one is my friend and colleague, Sophie Gilbert, writing on womanhood and her experiences with womanhood, a feminist examination of pop culture and so much else, and that, too, is beautifully written. It's wonderful. So both of those books are excellent, excellent.Excellent. All right. Well, hey Megan, thanks so much for coming on. I really appreciate it.Oh, thank you. This is so nice to talk.Well, we'll see if we can reboot it next year.Yeah, inevitably, yes.If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news.  Get full access to Numlock News at www.numlock.com/subscribe

In this episode we get into conversation with artist, educator & creative strategist Kate Deciccio who shares how her practice is a space to unpack the ways whiteness, colonization and the prison industrial complex have harmed our collective imagination. Kate also presents tangible ways we may heal and be nourished collectively by collaborative processes of building through community led abolition and also in personal accountability to whiteness through practices such as somatics. Kate DeCiccio is an Oakland based artist, educator & creative strategist. Her work centers portraiture for counter narrative, community storytelling & cultural strategy on behalf of abolition and collective liberation. DeCiccio is from Central Massachusetts where she grew up on occupied Nipmuc territory on her family's 4th generation farm. She is the 3rd generation of her Polish and Italian ancestors and descends from 11 generations of English colonizers. Before working as an artist full time DeCiccio was a mental health and substance abuse counselor and taught art at San Quentin Prison, St Elizabeths Forensic Psychiatric hospital & Leadership High School. The intersections of creativity, mental illness, addiction and ancestral investigation have been driving themes in her art practice since she was a teenager. DeCiccio is committed to repairing the harm of her inherited legacy and working to heal our collective imagination by learning how to stand squarely in truth, accountability, renewed resilience and unknown possibility. She is currently working on a body of work called Anatomy of the Colonial Fetish & Cynical Pilgrim, stay tuned! DeCiccio is a Co-Director at Performing Statistics, a project that supports youth organizers to close youth prisons across the country. Her collaborations include work with The People's Paper Coop, The Painted Desert Project, 826 National, Critical Resistance, Survived and Punished, Planting Justice and Dear Frontline. She's been commissioned by Amplifier Foundation to create work on behalf of The Women's March, The Science March and March For Our Lives. Her work has been featured in news and media sources including The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, The Daily Show, LA Times and Navajo Times. She's exhibited at Galeria de La Raza, The Mission Cultural Center, The United States of Women, US Botanic Garden, Betti Ono Gallery, INTO ACTION, Interference Archive and Politicon. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Library of Congress and The Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Song featured: September Song by Agnes Obel Learn more about the work of Kate DeCiccio: www.katedeciccio.com IG: @k8deciccio What's happening at Performing Statistics: www.performingstatistics.org IG: @performingstatistics Additional resources: On Somatics: Book: My Body My Earth, Dr Ruby Gibson Book: My Grandmothers Hands, Resma Menakem https://generativesomatics.org On Abolition: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com https://criticalresistance.org/abolish-policing/ https://www.commonjustice.org

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‘ആധുനിക ക്രിസ്റ്റലോഗ്രാഫിയുടെ പിതാവ്' എന്ന് പരക്കെ വിളിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന ഒരു ഫ്രഞ്ച് പുരോഹിതനും ധാതു ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞനുമായിരുന്നു ഫാ. ഹോനെ ജ്യുസ്ത് ആവി (Fr. René Just Haüy). ഫ്രാന്‍സിലെ കര്‍ദിനാള്‍ ലെമോയിന്‍ കോളേജിലെ അധ്യാപകനായിരുന്ന ഫാ. ആവി, പിന്നീട് മിനറോളജിയിലെ തന്റെ വൈദഗ്ധ്യത്തിന്റെ പേരില്‍ 1783-ല്‍ പാരീസ് അക്കാദമി ഓഫ് സയന്‍സിലേക്ക് തെരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടു. Read online : https://mal.kairos.global/?p=14795 KAIROS MALAYALAM MAGAZINE Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ReadKairos Twitter http://twitter.com/kairosmalayalam Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kairosmalayalam/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/kairosmedia Audio platforms Anchor https://anchor.fm/kairos-audio-magazine Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kairos-malayalam-audio-magazine/id1503130466 Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8zZmJkNDFmOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3aE0RmGi2f3LkxbF0nHphJ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/kairosmedia For more details : circulations@jykairosmedia.org +91 6238 279 115(Whaszpp) Wesite: jykairosmedia.org

‘ആധുനിക ക്രിസ്റ്റലോഗ്രാഫിയുടെ പിതാവ്' എന്ന് പരക്കെ വിളിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന ഒരു ഫ്രഞ്ച് പുരോഹിതനും ധാതു ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞനുമായിരുന്നു ഫാ. ഹോനെ ജ്യുസ്ത് ആവി (Fr. René Just Haüy). ഫ്രാന്‍സിലെ കര്‍ദിനാള്‍ ലെമോയിന്‍ കോളേജിലെ അധ്യാപകനായിരുന്ന ഫാ. ആവി, പിന്നീട് മിനറോളജിയിലെ തന്റെ വൈദഗ്ധ്യത്തിന്റെ പേരില്‍ 1783-ല്‍ പാരീസ് അക്കാദമി ഓഫ് സയന്‍സിലേക്ക് തെരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടു. Read online : https://mal.kairos.global/?p=14795 KAIROS MALAYALAM MAGAZINE Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ReadKairos Twitter http://twitter.com/kairosmalayalam Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kairosmalayalam/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/kairosmedia Audio platforms Anchor https://anchor.fm/kairos-audio-magazine Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kairos-malayalam-audio-magazine/id1503130466 Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8zZmJkNDFmOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3aE0RmGi2f3LkxbF0nHphJ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/kairosmedia For more details : circulations@jykairosmedia.org +91 6238 279 115(Whaszpp) Wesite: jykairosmedia.org

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Is all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, ultimately based on faith? Join as professors Ken Weed and Dominic Halsmer share with us about how faith and science reveals Jesus as truth.

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In this episode, Jen Stern Granowitz and Erin Beser speak with Rabbi Geoff Mitelman, the Founding Director of Sinai and Synapses. The organization bridges the religious and scientific worlds, offering people a worldview that is scientifically grounded and spiritually uplifting. Rabbi Mitelman shares advice on how to talk with your learners about the Torah and God while also validating their understanding of science and history. Discussion and Reflection Questions How do you authentically connect with the Torah and God? To use Rabbi Mitelman’s words, how do you bridge the religious and scientific worlds? How have you or would you respond to a student who does not want to engage in learning about our Biblical stories because “this didn’t even really happen”? When teaching about Passover specifically, how have you or would you help your students connect to the holiday if they are struggling to connect with something that “didn’t even really happen”? A question from Rabbi Mitelman: Where do I find meaning even if something is not necessarily factually true?

We crown the top club soccer team in the history of Soccer and Tirtho quits the show. Futbol won today. Two different Manchester United squads gets slighted, and '13 Bayern Munich try their hardest to win it all. A sermon for Real Madrid is offered up to the futbol gods but is ultimately rejected. Reach out to us at unathletic.pod@gmail.com or https://forms.gle/hFdwQVbpehm2yQwQA  

a16z Journal Club (part of the a16z Podcast), curates and covers recent advances from the scientific literature -- what papers we’re reading, and why they matter from our perspective at the intersection of biology & technology (for bio journal club). This inaugural episode covers 2 different topics, in discussion with Lauren Richardson:0:26 #1 identifying new antibiotics through a novel machine-learning based approach -- a16z general partner Vijay Pande and bio deal partner Andy Tran discuss the business of pharma; the specific methods/  how it works; and other applications for deep learning in drug discovery and development based on this paper:"A Deep Learning Approach to Antibiotic Discovery" in Cell (February 2020), by Jonathan Stokes, Kevin Yang, Kyle Swanson, Wengong Jin, Andres Cubillos-Ruiz, Nina Donghia, Craig MacNair, Shawn French, Lindsey Carfrae, Zohar Bloom-Ackermann, Victoria Tran, Anush Chiappino-Pepe, Ahmed Badran, Ian Andrews, Emma Chory, George Church, Eric Brown, Tommi Jaakkola, Regina Barzilay, James Collins11:43 #2 characterizing the novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic -- a16z bio deal partner Judy Savitskaya shares what we can learn from the protein structures; the relationship to the 2002-2004 SARS epidemic; and more based on these two research articles: "Structure, Function, and Antigenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein" in Cell (April 2020), by Alexandra Walls, Young-Jun Park, M. Tortorici, Abigail Wall, Andrew McGuire, David Veesler"Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation" in Science (March 2020), by Daniel Wrapp, Nianshuang Wang, Kizzmekia Corbett, Jory Goldsmith, Ching-Lin Hsieh, Olubukola Abiona, Barney Graham, Jason McLellanYou can find these episodes at a16z.com/journalclub.

Much of the already small disability representation in the media focuses on white people, and often men. This includes Artie Abrams from the TV show Glee, Jack Hodgins from the TV show Bones, and Jake Sully from the film Avatar. Although we would never know it from TV and movies, the CDC reports that 19.67% of people of color have a disability compared with 20% of white people. In many spaces, people with disabilities aren't welcome regardless of race, often unintentionally. Even Ali Stroker, a white woman and the first person in a wheelchair to win a Tony Award in 2019, had to wait backstage because the venue for the ceremony wasn't built to accommodate someone in a wheelchair getting to the stage. Mia Ives-Rublee is a transracial adoptee and the founder and coordinator for the Women's March Disability Caucus, through which she helped coordinate services for over 40,000 people with disabilities. She has also worked with the Science March, Climate March, and March for Education to make them more accessible to all. This episode was produced by Julián Esteban Torres López, Aïcha Martine Thiam, and Nicole Zelniker. Please follow The Nasiona on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for regular updates: @TheNasiona https://thenasiona.com/

Diese Woche hört ihr hier im Podcast ein spannendes Interview mit Dr. Michael Berger, der auch schon bei der Nacht des Wissens 2019 und beim Science March unser Gast war. Er forscht am Deutschen Primatenzentrum in Göttingen in der Forschungsgruppe Sensomotorik. Konkret geht es dabei um die Frage, was sich eigentlich im Geherin abspielt, wenn Primaten (und damit auch Menschen) nach Dingen greifen. Dieser alltägliche Vorgang ist hoch komplex, erfordert er doch die korrekte visuelle Erfassung von Bewegungen und zusätzliche Umsetzung in koordinierte Bewegungen. Neben dem naturwissenschaftlichen Interesse sind auch spannende Anwendungen denkbar, ein Traum ist die Herstellung von Prothesen, die der/die Träger*in mit dem Gehirn steuern kann. Im Interview erzählt Michael von den verwendeten Methoden, um die Vorgänge im Gehirn besser zu verstehen, welche Schwierigkeiten aber auch in dieser Forschung noch existieren. Wir kommen aber auch auf die dafür notwendigen Tierversuche zu sprechen und Michael erklärt, welchen Rahmenbedingungen diese unterliegen. Abschließend kommen wir auch auf die Bedeutung von Wissenschaftskommunikation zu sprechen und erfahren Michaels Einsichten zu diesem Thema. Viel Spaß beim Hören!

Hear about what is in the night sky this month. And then listen to some more 'News on the Fly'.....stories about fossils with cancer, goosebumps & hair growth, DNA fingerprinting of Elephant tusks, the Trump administration enforcement of animal welfare laws, the effect of social media on children, a lost Galapagos Tortoise, Mayan archaeology, blood transfusions from young people, and how the spots on Masai Giraffes are inherited! This show is brought to you by Forward Radio, WFMP, 106.5 FM in Louisville, Kentucky. Go to forwardradio.org for more details! Music ('Blue Danube' by Richard Strauss) provided on public domain by the Philadelphia Orchestra - 1939 - Stowkovski conducting. Bench Talk: The Week in Science | March Astronomy & News on the Fly | March 11 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

In dieser Woche reden wir über den Science March, der am 14.04.2018 in Göttingen und vielen Städten weltweit stattgefunden hat. Ins Leben gerufen wurde er 2017 als Reaktion auf die Wahl von Donald Trump zum US-Präsidenten und die damit verbundene Bedrohung der Wissenschaft und der Unabhängigkeit von politischer Beeinflussung. Mittlerweile ist der Science-March ein Plädoyer für die Wissenschaft und deren Akzeptanz geworden in Zeiten, in denen selbst Bewegungen wie die "flat-earther" Anhänger gewinnen können.  Aber auch Aspekte wie der freie Zugang der Öffentlichkeit zu wissenschaftlichen Papern (Open Access) kommen zur Sprache.  Über das und mehr reden wir in dieser Folge, zunächst mit einem der Organisatoren des Science March Göttingen, Michael Berger. In der Mitte haben wir einige O-Töne vom Science March in Göttingen für euch gesammelt und besprechen sie anschließend. Zum Abschluss haben wir dann noch ein Interview mit Nicolas Wöhrl geführt, einem der beiden Macher des Podcast Methodisch inkorrekt. Ihn haben wir gefragt, wie er den Science March erlebt hat und was seine Sicht der Dinge ist. Dabei reden wir auch über die Bedeutung von Wissenschaftskommunikation allgemein. Viel Spaß bei dieser Folge, und kommentiert und abonniert uns gerne! 00:00:00 Intro 00:19:00 Einstieg ins Thema 00:02:06 Stand der Dinge 00:09:09 Interview mit Michael Berger vom Science March Goettingen 00:35:47 O-Toene vom Science March Goettingen 00:44:18 Interview Nicolas Woehrl 01:08:57 Verabschiedung und Ausblick

The TWiVanguardians take on Bodo saltans virus, a leviathan which infects an abundant flagellated eukaryote in Earth's waters. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASV 2018: asv.org, asv2018.umd.edu Support Microbe.tv Anti-dengue antibody and disease (J Inf Dis) Bodo saltans virus (biorXiv) Kinetoplast DNA (Euk Cell) Crossword puzzle for book contest (pdf) Letters read on TWiV 474 Weekly Science Picks Kathy - Every second Dickson - Top 10 Science Images 2017 Alan - Shortwave Radiogram Vincent - Science March on Instagram Listener Picks Islam - Class Crossword (Armored Penguin) Peter - The Last of the Iron Lungs Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees. Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

We weren’t sure what to expect when scientists planned a protest march on Washington, D.C. and other world capitals. Would this politicize the scientific process? Would enough scientists show up to make an impact? And what should happen after the march to continue the momentum? Ms. Frizzle Supports Science To answer these questions and others, Josh took […] The post 072: Voices from the Front Line of the Science March appeared first on Hello PhD.

Dan reflects on his time in Orlando at Star Wars Celebration. Kody went to the Science March in Los Angeles. Dan finally agrees that he is lactose intolerant after being sick. Kody recounts his trip to the doctor. Then we discuss movies that are important to shaping your childhood. We're having our Spam Challenge event Sunday April 30th at 2:00pm Pacific. To watch all you need to do is going to our Facebook page where we'll be streaming the event live! Throughout the episode our podcast buddies all sent us a few words of encouragement to get us through the event. Email - TheDanAndKodyPodcast@gmail.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DanKodyPodcast Dan & Kody Podcast Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/dankodypodcast Dan & Kody Podcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dankodypodcast/ Kody Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/kody_frederick Dan Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/danieljhill iTunes - http://apple.co/2pHBg1K Google Play Music - http://bit.ly/2nfhuYK Stitcher - http://bit.ly/2pNANxL Youtube - http://bit.ly/2o12zXD JC Room Blocks - http://www.jcroomblocks.com/

Tested's own Kishore Hari joins us this week for a special on-location recording of Still Untitled! Fresh off of the Science March on Saturday, Adam and Kishore talk about their participation and share some wonderful moments from the rally. Plus, we talk about some of our favorite things at Silicon Valley Comic Con!

So...remember when you were a kid and your favorite TV show would sometimes have, like, a super famous guest on with, like, their own super special plot line and maybe it was, like, set in Malibu or something?  Well, those episodes were typically known as Specials.  So, darlings, get ready for a KYD Special!  Fresh on the heels of Earth Day and the Science March on Washington, we are reviewing three episodes of one of Dan's favorite childhood TV shows, Science Court!  And here to discuss those episodes with us is show creator and our new personal hero, Tom Snyder!  Mr. Snyder (creator of Comedy Central's Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and producer of Home Movies) graciously joins us via Skype to discuss the three episodes we watched and gives us an in-depth interview about the show!  We also get the dish on his new audio musical podcast Is Anyone All Right? (The Musical), now streaming on iTunes and available on Podbean (https://isanyoneallright.podbean.com/)!  Seriously, you guys, Tom Snyder rocks (quite literally, he was in two bands with record contracts as a teenager!) and we were super-stoked to get to chat with him.  This is a very special Special not to be missed!

 The "Singing Scientist" Dr. Peter Weiss, an atmospheric chemist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, speaks about fog, mercury in the soil, and his role as a science educator. Also, Joe Jordan reports live from the Washington D.C. Science March. Dr. Weiss' research interests include sea-air transfer of methylated mercury and impacts on coastal marine fog, mercury bioaccumulation in coastal terrestrial food webs, the global biogeochemical cycle of mercury, sulfur, and nitrogen; and environmental toxicology and justice. More at his Fog Blog! Air Date: April 23, 2017 on KSCO radio station AM1080    

Jackie and Dunlap podtalk about: Alex Jones is fake and there IS NO ALEX JONES CUSTODY TRIAL-- Wake Up! Bill O'Reilly is fired in disgrace and paid handsomely! Ted Nugent, Kid Rock and Sarah Palin tour the White House and take some pix with Trump and Hillary's Portrait! The French Election! The Georgia Election!  The Bernie Sanders/Tom Perez Democratic unity tour! Trump congratulates Purple Heart recipient! 100 Days! Trump would make a bad Noah! Science March! North Korea! Aircraft Carrier! Jeff Sessions insults Hawaii, senses of humor! Sponsors: Finger Burgers and Mt. Naked & High Church. "The Magic Cowboy" courtesy Seth Timbs. Check out 20 Minutes by Quick and Dirty!  Red State Update theme "Tasty Sorghum Biscuit" by William Sherry Jr.  For more context on this incomprehensible nonsense, listen to the original episodes (listed below) or check out our Wikipedia page. Thanks, Guy Lancaster!   Podcasting from a bunker underneath Jockie's Market in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Jackie Broyles and Dunlap yell about President Ultimate Yankee Donald Trump and his baby tantrums and his alt-right Nazi cabinet henchmen, about Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, about Chuck Shumer and Mitch McConnell, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Priebus and Putin, Russia and Reagan, liberals and conservatives, cucks and con-men, Democrats and Republicans, Never-Trumps and Bernie bros, Deplorables and RINOs, fake news, fake sponsors, local businesses, national politics, populism, pop culture, old references, current events, the white working class, Trump's America and, let's be honest, the end of the world. If you like sophisticated satire, nuanced political humor, and redneck shitkicking hillbilly country comedy Hee-Haw moonshine outhouse Blue Collar donkey cartoon face, this is the podcast for you. I mean "y'all."

HOUR ONE of The Mo'Kelly Show Presents - Why Bill O'Reillys firing means absolutely nothing PLUS the folly of the Science March AND N. Koreas nuclear threats on KFI AM 640 More Stimulating Talk

Join us for another amazing What's going on in Buffalo Podcast as we Talk the Science March with Liz and Ally from S.T.E.M.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and medicine! We also tough Base With our own Kevin KUD! as he is in Washington DC for the Science March There and Jeff from our good friends at the 716sportspodcast join us to talk Sabres and Bills and give us the run down of what they've been up to as they hit their off season! Tune in and get informed!    Buffalo, science, march, protest, STEMM, Technology, Math, Mathematics, Engineering, WNY, Beer, Resurgence, Sports, Bills, Sabres, Pegula, News, Podcast. 

Recording later in the week, Adam, Will, and Norm catch up on Star Wars Celebration's reveal of The Last Jedi's teaser trailer, drop some Pete Seeger knowledge, and dive into a Spoilercast discussion of the recent film Passengers. Plus, we get excited for Silicon Valley Comic Con and the Science March this weekend!

WE’RE BACK! I mean, OMG, right?! And it’s our 5th podcast birthday! So, on the eve of the Science March, we’re kicking off the new season with an interview featuring Jonathan Foley, Museum Director of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. In this conversation, Foley explores the role of museums in educating the American public on science and sustainability. He shares his journey from university professor to Museum Director, and his strong views on why science is inseparable from politics – especially in a post-truth society. Season 9, Episode 1

Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola are joined by Michael Mann, who is a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University. He also directs the Penn State University Earth Science Center. And he's the co-author of the book, "The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Destroying The Planet, Ruining Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy." Mann recounts his experience testifying before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, which is chaired by Republican Representative Lamar Smith, a massive climate change denier. He addresses the chilly atmosphere for scientists currently in Washington, DC, and talks about the dire situation the world finds itself on as President Donald Trump rolls back initiatives intended to combat climate change. Later in the show, Mann talks about why he wrote a satirical book about climate change. He also highlights the Science March planned for April 22, when scientists will mobilize against the Trump administration for its agenda of climate change denial and attacks on science. If you would like to support the show and help keep us going strong, please become a subscriber on .

Welcome to yet another episode of Thought Cops. This week we cover topics such as diversity killing comic book sales, Elizabeth Warren paying women less than men, and the one thing Nazis just can't seem to get enough of: milk. Milk so white it's not even allowed to even look at a Science March, let alone walk in it. But the top story this week is what's on everyone's lips right now: a nice, cold, refreshing Pepsi. A Pepsi so cold and refreshing that the world rejoiced jubilantly and joined together singing angelic choruses, ending all wars, weaving the fabric of humanity together into an impenetrable shield against the very forces of evil. Or something like that. Anyway, here's the stupid fucking Pepsi ad. https://youtu.be/dA5Yq1DLSmQ I hate sticking up for illiterate pop culture icons, but in the show I try to make the point that it's not Kendall Jenner's fault this happened so much as it's corporate America's sanitized, watered down, focus-grouped pandering that says "we support your message as long as you keep buying our delicious canned corn syrup." Or maybe I'm wrong and Kendall Jenner is literally Hitler. Who isn't nowadays. There's an interesting phenomenon surrounding the wage gap in this country and female politicians that rally against it at the same time that it reflects their own payroll. Alls I can say is do your own research on it and come to your own conclusions. We're goddamn Thought Cops, not pundits. Finally, we end by talking about the sensitive and delicate topic of "punching down" in the comedy world, and what to do if your favorite comedian does it. Never fear though, because we're on the case. If ever there is a comedian that punches up or down, we'll be there to punch them back. If ever there's a racist Youtube video that's being monetized, we'll be there to take that ad money and buy beer with it. If ever someone tells you to on Facebook to #deleteuber, we'll be there to delete them from existence. If ever there's a media elite Nazi vampire psychic pedophile slimeball frogman cloud person sucking the life energy out of free and independent media, we'll be there with your medication. For we are: the Thot Thought Cops.

Diana S. Fleischman is an evolutionary psychologist, currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. Her interests include sex, disgust, veganism, utilitarianism, effective altruism, polyamory, and genetics, among other things. Show notes with timestamps: 0:00 - 00:30 How we met on Twitter, how to make friends online, dissecting our online impressions of each other. Our weird ideological histories and intersections. Academics and drug use and talking about it on the internet. A thesis about the new ideological fracturing; the alt-right, etc. 00:30 - 00:50 Diana’s experiences with the vegan movement; the milquetoast Science March. Is “intersectionality” predictive? Diana’s view of how the left is changing, on smart people leaving the left and people with nuanced views being ejected. My thesis that there is no mass media or mainstream anymore. Diana reviews the idea of personality, the Big Five traits. Most people are not very open to experience. Are apparent ideological differences really just due to a bunch of different lexicons and/or sociological differences? Lefties open to global warming science, not open to other science (GMOs, etc.). The problem of epistemic hygiene and disgust. Why are we so paranoid and afraid of each other when our society has never been more pacified? How evolutionary psychology explains the prevalence of signaling in politics. Very interesting exchange of hypotheses on this point, about what causes this to increase or decrease, and how it may or may not be changing. One has to be disagreeable to update; how Diana has lost a lot of friends many times but most people don’t want to do that. How I think this is changing on the left. 00:50 - 1:20 Debates about IQ and leftist denials of hierarchy. Partisan sorting. How ideology can be rational and at odds with the truth, at the same time. How social partners want to make each other really weird so there is less competition for their attention. Why it feels good when someone tells you a secret. Marriage; hierarchical polyamory vs. anarcho-polyamory. How polyamory makes healthy competition. Diana’s personal arrangements. Why I like monogamy and think pleasure is bad. It’s hard to think clearly and be honest when you’re trying to get laid. My interest in radical transparency, which Diana thinks is dumb. How sex could facilitate honesty. Social media as escape behavior, how to manage this. Kink and sociopathy. How to use social media dopamine as a propeller of disciplined work, which you then reinvest into social media, and so on. Diana becomes more fluent when arguing. How we both leverage social media exchanges for more purposeful writing. 1:20 - 1:54 Here is when things get a little bit dicey. I asked Diana if “human biodiversity” is a racist dog-whistle or a real thing? Diana laid out a lot of arguments and cited a lot of evidence, and we had a long back and forth about this and its implications. Diana recommended the article “On the Reality of Race and the Abhorrence of Racism,” an explicitly anti-racist case for "human biodiversity." I don’t know much about this stuff and I’m still processing the conversation to be honest. As if this wasn’t difficult enough, I also asked Diana about mental health and transgenderism. I’m just going to leave it at that. Definitely one of the more intense and politically challenging conversations I’ve had on this podcast so far.

GEN Sounds of Science March 16, 2017 A recent study suggest that children with sensitive genotypes who come from low-income homes will be less financially successful than their same sex sibling without those genotypes. But children with those same genotypes from a high-income home would actually fare better economically as young adults than their brother or sister.

View fullsize Moonlight (2017 Academy Award Best Picture) Cast, Director, and Playwright (JAY L. CLENDENIN/LOS ANGELES TIMES) Recorded March 7, 2017.

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GEN Sounds of Science March 9, 2017 Brad Loncar, CEO of Loncar Investments, weighs in on recent developments in the scramble to develop CAR T cancer immunotherapies. How significant a setback is Juno Therapeutics’ halting development of JCAR015? How could some second-tier companies yet come out on top in the “car race”?

GEN Sounds of Science March 2, 2017 A collaborative team of scientists demonstrates a novel method to deliver safer and more cost-effective therapeutic antibodies, utilizing mRNA. See Article: http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14630

Grace, Jon, and Jeff have their first (of probably many) conversation(s) on the Science March on Washington and how to better engage outside of the science bubble. The gang also talk about a recent article in Ecosphere, "Academic Productivity in the Field of Ecology," and what it really means. What does productivity look like? How should we compare departments, or should we? Also, how the hell do you say Oikos anyway?

Happy New Year! I know, I know, that was practically two months ago, and we’ve been dead quiet for a long time. Sorry! We’ve all gotten really involved in politics. I started a queer anti-fascist book club, attended by a bunch of people you hear us talk about every now and then, and I’ve been doing a lot more activism and protesting. Katja, Jordan, Chaim, and I all travelled to DC together for the Women’s March, and I’m going back in April for the Science March, possibly the Worker’s March, and definitely for Capital Pride in June, where Viktor and I will again dance the night away for equality. I don’t want to take a ton of your time before this episode, but I do want to point out that Declan is pretty amazing, and it was so fun having him as my guest cohost. Episode 20 is actually already in the can, and it returns to our very first format, in the same bar where we recorded our very first episodes. We’re still looking for something special to do to commemorate our first year as a podcast, though, so if you have ideas give us a shout! You can always find us on Twitter, after all: @talesovertails. It’s my sincerest hope that you’re not just surviving but thriving in 2017. I spent the holidays tremendously depressed about the incoming administration, and about the world in general. Now that Trump and his incompetent and corrupt and menacing circus is in full swing I find myself energized. Last time I said you hadn’t seen anything in terms of politics out of me, and so far that seems to be true. Chaim has to remind me on the regular that resisting Trump is a marathon, not a sprint, and he’s absolutely right. It just turns out I have more energy for marathons than I thought I did. Anyway, stay strong, stay true to yourself, and if you wish the world were different than it is, do something to make it that way. Not everyone can march in the street. Not everyone can wave a sign. Some of you may be in circumstances such that you’re taking a risk just downloading this podcast and having it on your phone. I don’t ask that you do what I’ve done, because what I’ve done is what’s right for me. I ask that you do what you can, when you can, how you can, no matter what that is, and that you also save a little of yourself so you’ll be able to do something again later. There’s no such thing as making a small difference in the world. Whether you march in the streets, fist in the air, or you simply show kindness to someone, or provide a friendly ear, or reach out to someone else and let them know they’re not alone in their anger or fear or concern or pride, all those things make a difference. Look to yourself to know what you can do, and do that, and in my book you’ll be a hero. And remember, as always, especially in times like these: be safe, but have fun. Pulse of the Party by Kara Square (c) copyright 2014 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/mindmapthat/48167 Ft: Vidian

We talk #45, the Science March, Vaccines and end on Neil deGrasse Tyson. http://www.vox.com/2017/2/15/14622632/robert-de-niro-rfk-jr-vaccine-press-conference, https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/a-scientist-argues-that-the-march-for-science-is-a-bad-idea/, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/26/conservatives-love-to-hate-political-correctness-but-the-left-should-rail-against-it-too, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3G9LOJZTmM Courtesy of Larry King

Preparations for the Science March on Washington are underway! Whose science is it anyway? Liz brings us a group interview with aspiring physicists from the 2017 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Harvard. We get insight into how these young women are inspired to study different aspects of physics: from Instagram selfies to engineering to parental guidance to the thrill of knowing the wonders of the universe. How do you transition from a childhood love to your professional path? Xine and Liz frame this interview with questions about politics and intersectionality as part of the plans of the upcoming Science March on Washington and around the US. CUWIP: http://www.aps.org/programs/women/workshops/cuwip.cfm SPIN UP: https://sites.google.com/site/harvardcuwip/application/spin-up-application

From BCB... wu-236-open-mic-science-march-7 2015 was the warmest year on record.  Are you worried about climate change yet?  If so, you might want to attend Dr. Gary Lagerloef's upcoming presentation “Climate Science in the Space Age – an Update” for Open Mic Science Night at the Treehouse Cafe, Monday March 7 at 8 PM. Listen here as Dr. Lagerloef, senior scientist at Earth and Space Research, talks with BCB host Sonia Scaer about his climate research. In Gary's presentation he will explain the many aspects of climate research based on satellite measurements and some new findings since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2013. IPCC reports cover "the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.” Dr. Lagerloef began his career in oceanography as an undergraduate, completed a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography at the University of Washington in 1984, and later worked in private sector marine science. From 1988-1990, he served as Physical Oceanography Program Manager at NASA in Washington DC in the ocean science remote sensing program. In 1995, he co-founded Earth and Space Research, a non-profit scientific research institute in Seattle where he has developed several research projects devoted to studies of the upper ocean dynamics and climate variability using satellites. For more details about Earth & Space Research visit the website at https://www.esr.org/aquarius_index.html. The pub at the Treehouse Café in Lynwood Center is the venue for monthly first Monday “Open Mic Science” conversations. The public is invited to grab a beverage and explore ideas in various aspects of science and technology in an informal, social setting. Inspired by Café Scientifique, the gatherings are committed to public understanding of science. For more details about the Science Café program on Bainbridge Island, Open Mic Science, please check out http://openmicscience.weebly.com Credits: BCB host: Sonia Scaer; BCB audio editor: Chris Walker; social media publishers: Chris and Diane Walker.