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We're going to take a break from history to look at interesting rulers from fiction. This year, we're talking about the US President George Sears (aka Solidus), the main antagonist of the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. What does being the clone of the greatest soldier in US history mean for the upbringing of a child? What plans did the Illuminati-style organization behind his birth have for him? And, what lengths will he go to when he finally decides he wants to be free of their iron grip?Subscribe for more episodes as they come.Twitter: @Denim_CreekInstagram: denimcreekproMusic:Intro/Outro: “Life O' the Lavish” - Jules Gaia, “Mysterious Package” - Kikoru, “The Last Bar in Chicago” - Nicky Dowling, “Mystery Garden” - Brendon Moeller, “Smooth Passenger” - White BonesCopyright 2025, Denim Creek Productions
Today, we are joined by our friend Max Derrat to analyze the ending of Metal Gear Solid 2! If you haven't heard of him, check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@maxderrat/featured After escaping from Arsenal Gear, the fortress falls out of the sky and crashes into Manhattan Island. Raiden is contacted by a different AI impersonating the Colonel and Rose. It states that GW was the only AI destroyed and that the S3 Plan's real purpose is to stop society's regression in the digital era from trivial information drowning knowledge and truth. The AI believes that humanity is too immature to handle the flow of information responsibly, citing Raiden's lack of individuality and reliance on others for direction as an example when he protests the plan. The AI orders Raiden to eliminate Solidus—telling him that refusal will result in the deaths of Rose and Olga's child. After Raiden defeats Solidus, Snake appears after tracking Liquid. Snake and Otacon plan to rescue Olga's child and locate the Patriots, whose details were hidden in the GW virus disc. Raiden is then reunited with the real Rose. In the epilogue, Otacon and Snake decode Ocelot's disk, which contains data on all twelve members of the Patriots' highest council, the Wiseman's Committee. However, the members have allegedly been dead for 100 years.
Raiden awakens on Arsenal Gear, where Solidus reveals he had killed Raiden's parents and raised him as a child soldier during the Liberian Civil War. After this, Olga frees Raiden, explaining she is a Patriot double agent forced to help him in exchange for her child's safety. After the Colonel begins acting erratically, it is revealed that he is a construct of GW, damaged by the virus. Rose tells Raiden the Patriots had ordered her to become his lover and spy on him and that she is pregnant with his child. Raiden finds Snake, and together, they gain entry to Arsenal. Fortune then battles Snake, while Raiden is forced into combat with AI-controlled Metal Gear RAYs. The virus soon causes them to malfunction, and Olga sacrifices herself to save Raiden from Solidus. Snake and Raiden are captured and taken to the top of Arsenal Gear by Solidus, Fortune, and Ocelot. Ocelot reveals himself as a Patriot agent and that the entire affair was orchestrated by the Patriots to artificially replicate a soldier (Raiden) on par with Solid Snake, titled the S3 Plan. Ocelot kills Fortune before being possessed again by Liquid Snake. Liquid explains that Ocelot's severed right arm was replaced with his own and plans to hunt down the Patriots using his host's knowledge and the stolen RAY. Snake pursues Liquid as Arsenal loses control.
On his way to rescue President Johnson, Raiden is confronted by the terrorist commander, who claims to be Solid Snake. Enraged by this, Pliskin reveals himself as the true Solid Snake and fires on the imposter from a helicopter. Utilizing an advanced exoskeleton, the terrorist leader evades Snake's attack and boards a Harrier being piloted by Vamp. Snake then tells Raiden to shoot it down, throwing a Stinger missile launcher down to him. After Raiden takes it down, the Harrier plummets, only to be caught by Metal Gear RAY. RAY proceeds to launch missiles into the air, destroying sections of the Big Shell and damaging the Kasatka, forcing it to land. RAY then departs into the ocean, taking the Harrier with it. After recovering from RAY's attack, Solid Snake contacts Raiden, introducing him to Otacon. They reveal they are there to stop the terrorists from using the new Metal Gear prototype. They also tell Raiden that Otacon has another reason for being in the Big Shell: to rescue his sister, Emma Emmerich. Raiden then proceeds to rendezvous and rescue President Johnson. Once Raiden finally gets to the President, he is told about the Patriots, a mysterious organization that secretly rules over America. He also explains that the terrorist leader was his predecessor, the 43rd U.S. President George Sears, known by the codename Solidus Snake, a clone of the legendary soldier Big Boss, created in the "Les Enfants Terribles" project. Johnson adds that Solidus orchestrated the Shadow Moses Incident in 2005 but was removed from office by the Patriots. Solidus wanted to challenge the Patriots, unlike Johnson, who had simply wished to become one of them. Johnson also confirms that the Big Shell is merely a cover-up for the construction of Arsenal Gear, a gigantic mobile fortress that employs mass-produced unmanned Metal Gear RAYs to defend itself and can fire nuclear warheads from anywhere on the planet. It also has access to the Military's Tactical Network, granting it absolute control over the nation's armed forces and nuclear arsenal. However, Arsenal's true purpose is to filter information from the internet and other forms of digital communication using an AI called GW. By doing this, the Patriots hope to shape history as they see fit while maintaining the secret of their existence. Johnson's last request is that Raiden locate GW's main programmer, Emma Emmerich, and provide her with a computer worm to eradicate the AI. Afterward, feeling he has said everything he needed to, Johnson suddenly grabs Raiden's gun, asking Raiden to kill him. Raiden resists, but Revolver Ocelot soon intervenes, shooting Johnson before Raiden can stop him.
Underpants, posters in lockers, bands, a surprise Mei Ling, and an excessive number of Easter Eggs. That can mean only one thing: Alyxa is back (with a brand new invention?) to continue her chat about Metal Gear Solid 2.Remember that you can always get in touch with us on our Facebook page, on Twitter, or with our Contact page.Content WarningThis episode contains spoilers for Metal Gear Solid 2 and a few swears.Please listen responsibly.Show NotesAlyxa returned!Well, she'd have to because her and Squidge weren't finished with their conversation on Metal Gear Solid 2 in our last episode.Waffling Taylor's Lite: the pocket size podcast that packs a gaming punch.In this serving of byte sized banter with a side of gaming goodness. We catch up with Alyxa the Kitsune (codename: Glitter Fox) about Metal Gear Solid 2. We cover everything from Easter eggs streaming mishaps to codec hijackings.So without further ado, sit back, grab some snacks, and get ready for this episode entitled: "Metal Gear Solid 2 Part 2 - A What Vampire!?"Take it away, guys— SquidgeSock Puppets!Squidge wasted no time in getting to the good (read: "absurd") stuff by asking:If you could take three characters from the combined universe of Metal Gear Solid One and Two and re-enact a scene of metal Gear Solid Two using sock puppets, who would play who and how long before you start burst out laughing?— SquidgeIt's probably for the best that you listen to Alyxa's answer, because it's almost as absurd as Squidge's question and includes a very deep cut back to Alyxa's appearance in WT Lite - Metal Gear Solid with Alyxa the Kitsune - aka episode 173.Metal Gear - The Pop Group!?You are tasked to form a pop group of four people from a list of characters from Metal Gear Solid, two, who is in it, and what is their first breakout song called. And a band name, if you've got one— SquidgeAlyxa and Squidge kept talking about this question way after the recording ended, and Delilah had to get involved during the edit.Solid Snake, Solidus, Raiden. And their breakout song, or their debut song, would be "broken bonds"... It's broken bonds. Because what do these four characters have in common?It's because of the whole thing with Solidus being Raiden's adopted father, Ocelot supposedly having Liquids arm. Then you have Solid and Solidus. It's a broken part of a family.— AlyxaSquidge answered this one, too. And his choices are bonkers.Full Show NotesCheck out the full show notes for the full list of Squidge's questions, some extra stuff, and some links to related things.What are some of your favourite Easter Eggs in Metal Gear Solid 2? Who would be in your Metal Gear Solid band? Would you play a version of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on a VR headset with a Rock Band guitar? Dial in (our code is 141.12) with your own hilarious codec conversation. Let us know via our Discord, Twitter, Facebook, or try our brand-new contact page!And have you left us a rating or review? We love hearing back from listeners about our show, so check out https://wafflingtaylors.rocks/our-podcast/ for links to services where you can leave us some wonderful feedback.The Waffling Taylors is a proud member of Jay and Jay Media. If you like this episode, please consider supporting our Podcasting Network. One $3 donation provides a week of hosting for all of our shows. You can support this show, and the others like it, at https://ko-fi.com/jayandjaymedia ★ Support this podcast ★
SUB TO THE PPM PATREON TO ACCESS "NOID-MAXXING (#2)" IN ITS CRYPTO-BABYLON MAPPING ENTIRETY: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping In which we cont eulogizing Max A z z a r e l l o, the parapol Icarus who flew too close to the noided sun & self-immolated in front of the Trump trial—celebrating his life & constructively critiquing his blog, for which Casolaro, McGowan, Ghost Stories, TrueAnon, etc were points of reference We discuss: The capitalist class's collective buy-in on crypto; Larry David—Bankman-Fried fam friend—hawking FTX; SBF's indictment & arrest in the Bahamas; Max excelling when covering crypto (other times not so much); SBF's tax code scholar daddy; Dem Party mixers @ Bankman household; parapolitical truisms; SBF as sacrificial scapegoat for the true crypto profiteers; SBF funneling defrauded customer fiat currency into Dem & GOP campaign coffers darkly to consolidate support for the imminent Zio genocide; the litany of SBF Congressional beneficiaries (Gillibrand, Booker, Murkowski, etc), Protect Our Future superpac, & Pres B i d e n (who got a cool $5.2 mil) The anemic quality of Max's parapol oeuvre when it comes to contending w/ Zio infiltration of American politics by way of sex + financial blackmail & HUMINT; Epstein network's lineage of M o s s a d honeypot ops (conducted in concert w/ the C I A? ); Robert & Ghislaine Maxwell; Clinton Global Initiative pushing crypto (formed w/ Epstein's aid, per Dersh's testimony); Agent Mega; SBF hobnobbing w/ Mayor Adams (Diddy), Gov Hochul (Larry Silverstein & other Zio donors like Blavatnik), & Bill Clinton in the months prior to his arrest; May 25, '22: SBF makes a $250k donation to Dem Majority for Israel, which, w/ AIPAC & Reid Hoffman, injected a huge infusion of funds to candidates opposing the nascent mini-faction of lukewarmly pro-Palestine, DSA-adjacent aspiring & incumbent electeds; SBF $s cratering relatively outspoken Nina Turner's polling via contributions to her opponent Shontel Brown in OH; the massive war chest AIPAC's collected since Oct 7, including from Fully-Automated Kompromat Kingpin Leonid Radvinsky (OnlyFans) & Epstein mentor Les Wexner (who started a Wall St Zio social club called Mega Group w/ Charles Bronfman of the sus Seagram's fam); speaking of which, Sam Bronfman running guns on behalf of Haganah & the I O F & Bronfman heiress Clare's recruitment for sex cult NXIVM, merging the 2 concerns of sex blackmail & sus Zio dealings; following his arrest, the possibility SBF's comments referring to his effective altruism & "woke" politics as a cover & use of the phrase "shibboleth" were an argot (to use one of Max's fav phrases) akin to Kevin Spacey's "Let Me Be Frank" vid in which he threatens the Royal Fam & other Epstein clients; SBF's investment in Silicon Wadi crypto Co StarkWare & Solidus; Thiel, Epstein, & Ehud Barak funded geolocation emergency services startup Carbyne (PROMIS, any one?), which features an absurd litany of US & Israeli military & intel figures among its board or stakeholders: Erik Prince (ex Blackwater), Gen Petraeus, Trae Stephens (Palantir), Lital Leshem (ex Black Cube), Amir Elichai (I O F intel corps, etc)...and which Robert Kraft also invested in, solidifying interlocks b/w the pervy oldster / Diddler Freak-Off attendee and Epstein... Material, structural, & economic dynamics b/w the US & Israel—hegemon & satellite metropole... Jessica Seinfeld & Epstein client Bill A c k man funding Zio counterprotests, frat chud shock troops, & atrocity porn big screen; the Zio injected lab rat attack @ UCLA encampment... Finally, having given the noided self-immolator some cred, we take him to task for his wretched piece of unconscious hasbara entitled "The Fake Israel-Hamas War Outrage Sweeping College Campuses" & his mishandling of Epstein's Israeli connections. Songs (some culled from Max's farewell Spotify playlist): | Takeoff, Rich the Kid - "Crypto" | | REM - "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" |
A week and a half after the much-anticipated spot Bitcoin ETF was approved by the SEC and started trading, Solidus' Co-founder Chen Arad sits down with three of the industry leaders who helped make it happen, for a report from trenches on how it finally got approved, what it means for crypto market integrity, and what's next for the industry.
On this episode of Gathering The Kings, Carla James, CEO of Solidus, joins Chaz Wolfe on the queen's stage. As a woman-owned engineering firm operating in the Government Contracting space, Carla's company provides technical expertise to government organizations, playing a crucial role in securing national security.During the episode, Carla shares her experiences, including the challenges she faced when a prime contractor ghosted her company, leading to layoffs before the holidays. Chaz and Carla dive into the significance of being mission-driven, the art of spotting red flags in business partnerships, and the power of stepping out of one's comfort zone for personal and professional growth. Tune in to this episode and discover the insights from a true boss in the industry. During this episode, you will learn about;[00:00] Introduction[01:52] Intro to Carla and her business[03:20] What is the burning desire inside of Carla?[04:45] How did Carla's background in the Air Force shape who she is today?[10:22] The unplanned experience of starting a business with her business partner[13:27] The logic and courage that went into Carla's decision to start a business[17:37] A good business decision that Carla has made[19:55] A bad business decision that Carla has been able to learn from[23:31] What did Carla learn about people after making this bad decision?[28:04] What does active listening mean to Carla?[32:30] Carla's business resource recommendation[35:04] How does Carla obsess over family and business at the same time?[41:10] What advice would Carla give to the younger version of herself?[42:45] How to connect with Carla[43:50] Info on Gathering The KingsNotable Quotes"There's always the next mission. You know, it might not be serving in the Air Force, but there's always a mission behind everything you do." - Carla James"Getting out of your comfort zone is really the only way you're going to grow." - Carla James"We spend so much of our time at work, so you want to make it purposeful." - Carla James"I think for the most part, people are good, and I've had so many amazing employees and partners throughout the years. But every now and then, you have a bad apple, and I just have to be on the lookout for them and hopefully recognize it sooner rather than later." - Carla James"I'm a big fan of reading, so I encourage all my folks to just be curious and read." - Carla James"Being a CEO can be lonely." - Carla James"There is no king or queen talk here; this is just straight boss." - Chaz Wolfe (Host)"Get out of your comfort zone to find what's fulfilling." - Chaz Wolfe (Host)"You get to go home to your own Mastermind." - Chaz Wolfe (Host)Books and Resources Recommended:Sinek, Simon. Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Portfolio, 2009.Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action: Sinek, Simon: 8580001042060: Amazon.com: BooksCollins, Jim. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't. HarperBusiness, 2001.
In the latest episode of Solidus' DACOM Digital podcast, Andrew Jacobson, VP and Head of Legal at 21Shares parent company 21.co, joins the show to discuss his transition from his past role as a regulator and enforcement attorney with the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) to a leading crypto lawyer. Jacobson also speaks about 21Shares' role as one of the leading crypto-native exchange traded fund (ETF) and product (ETP) issuers, shedding light on its ongoing effort to enable safe and regulated crypto trading. 21Shares' rule change proposal to allow for the listing of a spot Bitcoin ETF is currently first in line for review by the U.S. SEC.
Rėmėjais galite tapti paspaudę čia: https://contribee.com/krepsinisnet 00:00 – rinktinės žaidimas 16:32 – 16-mečių pasirodymas 26:24 – pajėgus „Wolves“ papildymas 31:36 – „Lietkabelio“ komplektacijos įvertinimas 45:33 – V.Kariniauską užstojęs M.Kiltinavičius Rėmėjų dalyje kalbėta šiomis temomis: 52:17 – „Juventus“ darbai ir taikinys 57:08 – LKL sezono ilgumas 1:00:12 – ar didėja „Wolves“ biudžetas 1:01:33 – ar „Wolves“ pirko podkastą 1:06:48 – geriausias pavyzdys visiems žaidėjams 1:09:32 – nusišnekėjimai podkastuose 1:15:10 – rinktinės palaikymas 1:16:00 – kaip atnaujinta ASG arena 1:20:04 – „Rytą“ dominęs žaidėjas 1:22:54 – kodėl LKL klubai perka tik pigius lietuvius 1:27:56 – skirtumai tarp skelbiamų žaidėjų algų 1:33:05 – nepatogūs klausimai interviu metu
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We've made it to the end of Metal Gear Solid 2, and you know what that means: time for another fight between two men supposedly free of politics and ideology, but this time they both have high energy swords...and one of them also has cyber tentacles. It also turns out there actually is lot of politics and ideology to talk through as we close the book on MGS2. Episode 13: ASMR: Snake Affirms Your Gender Identity
Savaitinėje 15min laidoje apie futbolą šįkart lankosi Lietuvos futbolo rinktinės treneris Edgaras Jankauskas. Laidoje aptariamas sėkmingas Vilniaus „Žalgirio“ pasirodymas prieš Turkijos galiūną Stambulo „Galatasaray“ UEFA Čempionų lygoje, A lygos peripetijos ir Lietuvos rinktinės reikalai. Laidos vedėjai – 15min sporto žurnalistai Marius Bagdonas ir Mantas Krasnickas bei tinklaraščio „Vienuolika“ bendraautorius Karolis Dudėnas. 00:00 Intro 00:40 Solidus „Žalgiris“ prieš Turkijos futbolo milžiną 46:07 Lietuvos klubai Konferencijų lygoje 1:02:50 Laužas „Riteriuose“ 1:36:04 Klausytojų klausimai Edgarui Jankauskui
In this Flash TRM Talks, TRM's Ari Redbord sits down for a few minutes with Kathy Kraninger, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Solidus Labs and former Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Bloomberg News Technology Reporter Davey Alba discusses Twitter's Trust and Safety Head Ella Irwin, who is Elon Musk's most faithful supporter, even when his impulses buck convention. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Businessweek Features Writer Ashlee Vance provide the details of Ashlee's Businessweek story on How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2 Million a Year. Kathy Kraninger, VP of Regulatory Affairs at Solidus, shares her thoughts on crypto regulation following the FTX collapse. And we Drive to the Close with Tom Plumb, President and CIO at Plumb Funds.Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Paul Brennan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg News Technology Reporter Davey Alba discusses Twitter's Trust and Safety Head Ella Irwin, who is Elon Musk's most faithful supporter, even when his impulses buck convention. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Businessweek Features Writer Ashlee Vance provide the details of Ashlee's Businessweek story on How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2 Million a Year. Kathy Kraninger, VP of Regulatory Affairs at Solidus, shares her thoughts on crypto regulation following the FTX collapse. And we Drive to the Close with Tom Plumb, President and CIO at Plumb Funds.Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Paul Brennan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Lexman and John Clarke discuss wine, and the history behind it in a entertaining and fascinating way. They also share some interesting facts about Jerez, Cadiz, and Montpellier.
Solidus has built an eco-friendly 8,000 square foot high-performance computing (HPC) Data Centre in a highly secure location in Europe. You can join the Private sale of Solidus with this link: https://launchpad.truepnl.com/app There's a GIVEAWAY OF 500$ in TruePNL's telegram with super simple rules! Join TruePNL Telegram to find out: https://t.me/+ESf3ueWO-3swMzg6 This is the story of Sequoia capital, one of Silicon Valley's most notorious and enduring venture capital firms, investing in the likes of Apple, Cisco, WhatsApp, Airbnb, Zoom, LinkedIn, PayPal and Google among others hroughout its 50-year history. It's investments are now worth trillions of dollars in public market value. And graduates around the world would love to get a shot at working at Sequoia. Because having Sequoia Capital on your CV carries massive prestige.
Lukas Zajančauskas, Gustavas Klikna ir Vaidas Čeponis aptarė bedvasį „Rytą“, „Lietkabelio“ komplektacijos bėdas bei įspūdingą formą demonstruojantį Jonavos klubą. Temos: Įžanga – Čepo nuotykiai vairuojant (0:00); Antausis „Rytui“ (5:35); Susilpnėjęs „Lietkabelis“? (19:14); Solidus „Žalgirio“ pareiškimas (24:45); Pavargę „Wolves“ (32:30); „Gargždų” senelių iššūkiai (40:18); Stilių pakeitusi Šeškaus šaika (47:06); Pavojus dėl „Juventus“ legiono (53:57); Krachas „Neptūne“ (1:01:22); Reikalingi taškai „Šiauliams“ (1:08:09).
Spyridon Antonopoulos is Director of Solutions Architecture at Solidus Labs, providing trade surveillance, transaction monitoring, and threat intelligence to corporates. In this episode, Spiro discusses how the insurance life cycle can begin to cover crypto assets, for example using photo and video evidence as part of the risk assessment and claims process. Spiro has experience in the Life, Annuities, and Long Term Care insurance verticals, spending the first decade of his career advising senior leadership at many of the Top-100 North American carriers across new business, underwriting, and claims. Follow the Insurtech Leadership Podcast airing weekly hosted by Joshua R. Hollander. We give you up-close access and personal insights from the leaders of the fastest-growing #insurtechs and most innovative #insurance carriers and brokers.
Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz discusses the toy company's earnings and partnering with SpaceX tocreate toys and collectibles. Bloomberg News Supply Chain Reporter Augusta Saraiva shares the details of her Businessweek Magazine story The AI Platform Behind a Bezos-Backed Startup's Vegan Burgers. Kathy Kraninger, VP of Regulatory Affairs at Solidus, talks about regulation for the digital asset market. And we Drive to the Close with Michael Sheldon, Chief Investment Officer at Hightower RDM Financial Group. Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Paul Brennan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz discusses the toy company's earnings and partnering with SpaceX tocreate toys and collectibles. Bloomberg News Supply Chain Reporter Augusta Saraiva shares the details of her Businessweek Magazine story The AI Platform Behind a Bezos-Backed Startup's Vegan Burgers. Kathy Kraninger, VP of Regulatory Affairs at Solidus, talks about regulation for the digital asset market. And we Drive to the Close with Michael Sheldon, Chief Investment Officer at Hightower RDM Financial Group. Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Paul Brennan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
If you'd met a fourth century Roman and asked them what they thought of their emperor, Constantine, you might have expected them to talk about Christianity or Constantinople, but instead, they would probably have shown you a gold coin called the 'Solidus' which was to become the dollar of both the ancient and medieval worlds.
Wir springen in dieser Folge ins Jahr 378. Ort des Geschehens ist Adrianopel, damals eine Stadt in der römischen Provinz Thrakien, heute die Stadt Edirne in der Türkei. Kaiser Valens steht kurz davor, eine Schlacht gegen die terwingischen Goten zu schlagen. Eine Schlacht die sich als die wahrscheinlich folgenreichste Schlacht der Spätantike herausstellen wird. Wir sprechen darüber, wie es dazu kam, und was der Ausgang der Schlacht für das römische Reich bedeutete. Das Episodenbild zeigt Kaiser Valens auf einem Solidus. //Aus unserer Werbung Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/GeschichtenausderGeschichte NEU: Wer unsere Folgen lieber ohne Werbung anhören will, kann das über eine kleine Unterstützung auf Steady tun. Wir freuen uns, wenn ihr den Podcast bei Apple Podcasts rezensiert oder bewertet. Für alle jene, die kein iTunes verwenden, gibt's die Podcastplattform Panoptikum, auch dort könnt ihr uns empfehlen, bewerten aber auch euer ganz eigenes Podcasthörer:innenprofil erstellen. Wir freuen uns auch immer, wenn ihr euren Freundinnen und Freunden, Kolleginnen und Kollegen oder sogar Nachbarinnen und Nachbarn von uns erzählt!
High-performance computing (HPC) company Solidus AI Tech has raised over $6.3 million and is now entering its 3rd round of funding. Solidus AI Tech is working to solve the problem of the lack of European HPC facilities in the global top 10. Only producing 5% of computing power despite being the consumer of one-third of HPC resources. It is bridging the gap across several industries such as the automotive industry, face & voice recognition, medical industry, sales automation & lead generation, among others. It is an advocate of the “Crypto Climate Accord”, an initiative to decarbonize the crypto industry by 2024. Its data centres are 40% more energy-efficient due to their use of unique IP and evaporating cooling methods. Solidus Al Tech Solidus Al Tech is pleased to announce that they are now able to accept U.S Citizens. Bloomberg has stated that more than 15% of Americans hold Cryptocurrency in their portfolio as an investment and with funds now being able to be invested from American residents Solidus expect the fundraising in its public sale to be a huge success. Below are just some of the reason to invest: £4m Raised Privately In 2017 €3.5m EU Grant Accepted $6.3m Raised in Pre Sale Partnership with Microsoft Letters of interest from Mega Corps & Governmental Authorities & Organisations within the defense sector Experienced Management Staking & Lottery Air Drops Burn Program CertiK Smart Contract Audit
Using the world's first AI utility token AITECH, Government Authorities, Megacorps, SMEs, and Professionals will be able to acquire AI services through Solidus' Artificial Intelligence infrastructure. AITECH can be purchased, staked, or held as a long-term investment.Paul Farhi is the Founder and Head of UK Operations of Solidus AITECH. He recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the business.To learn more about the project visit www.ai-tech.io.Disclaimer: This is for informational purposes only. It is not a direct offer or solicitation of an offer to buy or sell, or a recommendation or endorsement of any products, services, or companies. Bitcoin.com does not provide investment, tax, legal, or accounting advice.
Chen Arad, Co-founder and COO at Solidus Labs talks to Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief at Cybercrime Magazine, about crypto and financial crimes, and the burgeoning cryptosecurity market. The Cryptocrime Quarterly is sponsored by Evolution Equity Partners, an international venture capital investor partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs to develop market leading cyber-security and enterprise software companies. Visit https://evolutionequity.com/
How To Create A Winning Crypto Compliance ResumeWelcome to the episode 29 of the 2nd season of “WE WERE ON A BREAK” - Ross Voice. The series where the host, Stephen Brent Sargeant (Compliance Consultant to Bitfinex) talks to industry professionals during the CoronaVirus (COVID-19) quarantine and gains industry insights and expertise. As a recruiter and industry professional, Stephen breaks down some of the myths around resumes and how to create a powerful resume that will impress recruiters. Watch it on Youtube: - https://lnkd.in/daURZRG8In this episode the host, Stephen Brent Sargeant discusses how some of the major misses with Resumes and how professional resume writers and career coaches can help formulate more dynamic and interesting resumes. If you are looking for a job or struggling to obtain interviews this is the podcast for you. **This interview was recorded on February 28, 2022**Disclaimer**The views and opinions expressed in this episode (and all episodes) are those of the host and the guests. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of their employers, contractors or any organization they may be affiliated with now or in the future. Discussion Topics•Disclaimer: Why I don't believe in resumes, but understand that they are still an essential part of the hiring process for 95% of organizations. I believe personal brand via various social media platforms are more significant in today's job market (especially in DeFi, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs•Recruiters aren't reading your full resume line by line, so its time to start focusing on the areas that they are reading and making them standout.•I don't see the need to have a resume longer than 2 pages. It seems like overkill and recruiters and hiring managers are probably not reading it•If you don't have crypto experience it is best to put a highlight of qualifications at the top of your resume, along with training / education and then place the non-crypto related work experience next •Take as many crypto compliance courses as you can to showcase on you resume (mentioned: Chainalysis, Ciphertrace, Confirm, Solidus labs, Elliptic/ ManchesterCF, Anchain.ai•Put a proper naming convention on your resume. (i.e. Stephen Sargeant_Resume) and something that is relevant to your name•If your resume is format heavy it is best to make sure its submitted as a .pdf versus in word format, that way the formatting is not lost when downloaded or opened•Highlight achievements that may differ than the average candidate. Have you contributed to working groups or with international organizations (mentioned: Interpol, Project Participate, Europol, UNODC)•Don't take my word for it, spend the time and money and invest in a career coach and / or professional resume writer, as it could change how much compensation you get (mentioned: Clementine Crooks, Lama Younes, Nelu Sund)•Find time to spend time gaining experience working on projects within the industry to add some life to you resume and to support your industry and community (mentioned: Malcolm Wright / ATII) •Use the same name on your resume, application submissions and on your LinkedIn. Also make sure that your LinkedIn and resume have the same work experience, etc. Stephen Brent Sargeant (Host)•LinkedIn (Best way to reach me) - linkedin.com/in/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams•Instagram (Everyday type stuff) https://www.instagram.com/stephen_b_sargeant/•Twitter (I communicate in GIFs) - https://twitter.com/lifesgt•Business Related Matters (Let's Collab): stephenbsargeant@gmail.comResources •How I Got Into Fincrime Compliance and Cryptocurrency) – Fintrail Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41075463•So You Want To Work In Crypto (Shelley Schachter-Cahm) - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams_so-you-want-to-work-in-crypto-compliance-activity-6872520607905456128-9NPK•FATF Updated Guidance On Virtual Assets – What You Need To Know: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams_fatf-updated-guidance-on-virtual-assets-activity-6862007690294558720-s0am•3 Tips To Prep For Crypto Compliance Interview - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams_aml-compliance-blockchain-activity-6876533429148676096-Rysr•How To Get A Job In Crypto – What Certifications To Take: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams_tweet-aml-compliance-activity-6868919921863118848-fAB1Background Music (beat name: Leslie)•Goose Goddi (Music Producer) - https://instagram.com/goosegoddi?igshid=1paia8lwy2x3o•Beats Can Be Found On Amazon Music - https://www.amazon.com/Music-Station-Goose-Goddi/dp/B08B4BLCH1
Here are the top cryptocurrency news headlines from India this week:New crypto tax rules helping exchanges onboard more users: https://www.livemint.com/market/cryptocurrency/indias-crypto-tax-turned-out-to-be-a-blessing-for-leading-exchanges-like-wazirx-11645090280257.html ;Indian crypto industry representatives meet Finance Ministry officials to make them reconsider aspects of the new tax framework: http://www.businessworld.in/article/Indian-Cryptocurrency-Sector-s-Collective-Effort-For-Regulation-/14-02-2022-420510/ ;Indian exchanges scramble to implement crypto tax rules by the April 1st deadline: https://forkast.news/indian-exchanges-implement-crypto-tax/ ;Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says the ministry and RBI are on the same page on crypto rules: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/14/indian-finance-minister-says-rbi-on-board-with-new-crypto-rules/ ;RBI Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar bats for a crypto ban: https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/15/india-central-bank-cryptocurrency-ponzi-banning/ ;ICAI to explore the use of blockchain tech in auditing: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/consultancy-/-audit/icai-to-explore-use-of-blockchain-tech-in-auditing/articleshow/89634722.cms ;CoinDCX partners with Solidus Labs to enhance anti-money laundering protection: https://www.livemint.com/technology/coindcx-partners-solidus-labs-to-protect-users-from-crypto-market-abuses-11645278995219.html ;WazirX lists Theta Fuel (TFUEL) in its INR market and JasmyCoin (JASMY) in its USDT market;Zebpay lists 24 tokens through its QuickTrade feature;
How To Get A Blockchain Investigations Job With No ExperienceWelcome to the episode 11 of the 2nd season of “WE WERE ON A BREAK” - Ross Voice. The series where the host, Stephen Brent Sargeant (Compliance Consultant to Bitfinex) talks to industry professionals during the CoronaVirus (COVID-19) quarantine and gains industry insights and expertise. I've decided to answer the most pressing question on future crypto compliance professionals minds. How Do I Get A Blockchain Investigations Job With No Experience?In this session, Stephen talks about some of the things he would do thinking outside of the box to create opportunities for you to display your technical and investigations knowledge in the blockchain space using blockchain analytics tools or simply creating investigations graph from start. If you were ever looking for a competitive edge in this crypto hiring frenzy, here it is. Ensure to watch the video and listen to podcast. Its too good to miss. Youtube: https://youtu.be/x5gn9dvpF54**This interview was recorded on Dec. 11, 2021**Disclaimer**The views and opinions expressed in this episode (and all episodes) are those of the host and the guests. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of their employers, contractors or any organization they may be affiliated with now or in the future. Time Stamps (Return back to your favorite point of the episode):•(0:20) – Do You Have Your Blockchain Certificates (mentioned: Chainalysis and Ciphertrace)•(1:00) – How Do You Ask The Best Blockchain Analytics Companies For Access To Their Tools (mentioned: Samantha Stutman, Chainalysis, •(2:28) – How To Use Open Source Data And Addresses To Recreate Investigations Using Chainalysis (mentioned •(4:19) – Focus Your Attention On The Newer Blockchain Analytics Companies (mentioned: Anchain.io, Breadcrumbs, Solidus labs)•(5:58) - How To Create Your Own Investigation Graph Using Canva And Showcase Your Investigations Knowledge (mentioned: Canva)•(8:25) How To Ask For Access Extensions For Blockchain Investigations Tools You Were Trained On (mentioned: Chainalysis, Ciphertrace, Pamela Clegg)•(9:09) – Simply Google Investigations Graphs And Add Your Insights (mentioned: TRM Labs, Elliptic, Chainalysis) •(10:31) – Record Yourself Going Through An Investigation And Spending A Little Money•(12:31) – Whatever The Result Is, You Will Stand Out •(14:07) – Spending The Money And How I Can Help You With The Video •(15:30) – The One Power Move In An Interview That Demands A Second InterviewStephen Brent Sargeant (Host)•LinkedIn (Best way to reach me) - linkedin.com/in/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams•Instagram (Everyday type stuff) https://www.instagram.com/stephen_b_sargeant/•Twitter (I communicate in GIFs) - https://twitter.com/lifesgt•Business Related Matters (Let's Collab): stephenbsargeant@gmail.comResources:If you are interested in Crypto Compliance, these will definitely help you in your career search:•TOP 5 NFT RESOURCES TO REVIEW IN DECEMBER: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams_top-5-nft-resources-to-review-in-december-activity-6873993545447997440-hA1t•SO YOU WANT TO WORK IN CRYPTO COMPLIANCE / AML: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams_so-you-want-to-work-in-crypto-compliance-activity-6872520607905456128-9NPK•10 NFT PROFESSIONALS YOU SHOULD FOLLOW ON LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams_10-nft-professionals-you-should-follow-activity-6866021575364268032-_Jbi•FATF UPDATED GUIDANCE ON VIRTUAL ASSETS: What You Need To Know: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams_fatf-updated-guidance-on-virtual-assets-activity-6862007690294558720-s0am•How To Get A Job In Crypto: Certification Edition: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephen-brent-sargeant-cams_tweet-aml-compliance-activity-6868919921863118848-fAB1Background Music (beat name: Leslie)•Goose Goddi (Music Producer) - https://instagram.com/goosegoddi?igshid=1paia8lwy2x3o•Beats Can Be Found On Amazon Music - https://www.amazon.com/Music-Station-Goose-Goddi/dp/B08B4BLCH1
Karolis Tiškevičius ir Kazimieras Labanauskas tęsia savaitinę laidą „Plepam apie BasketNews Fantasy”, kurioje apžvelgia žaidimo, kurį pristato CBet, naujienas, pasikeitimus, krentančius ir kylančius žaidėjus, bei varžosi tarpusavyje. Temos: Solidus Karolio ir Kazio turas bei lygi savaitė (2:40); Pasiūlymas įsigyti Andjušičių (11:25); Nepasiteisinęs Kazio kapitono sprendimas (15:40); Įspūdingas „Fantasy“ turo pasirodymas – 283 taškai (19:30); Kazio keitimai (20:30); Karolio komandos pasirodymas (27:10); Karolio keitimai (29:00); Pasiūlymas parduoti Jordaną Loydą (35:50); Labiausiai parduodami ir perkami savaitės žaidėjai (39:10). Žaisti BasketNews Fantasy, kurį pristato CBet, galite čia: https://fantasy.basketnews.com/
Добрый день уважаемые слушатели. Представляем новый выпуск подкаста RWpod. В этом выпуске: Ruby Ruby 3.1 accumulates Enumerable#tally results Rails 7 adds invert_where method to ActiveRecord Rails 6.1 new framework defaults: what they do and how to safely uncomment them Bundler 2.2.3+ and deployment of Ruby apps Common issues with CSV parsing and solutions to them Solidus v3.0 Pgvector - open-source vector similarity search for Postgres Git curate - peruse and delete git branches ergonomically Web Node.js 16 available now Lit - a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components Solving a Mystery Behavior of parseInt() in JavaScript TailwindCSS: Adds complexity, does nothing Aurora - Open Source Cookieless Analytics Platform WinBox - a professional HTML5 window manager for the web RWpod Cafe 21 (01.05.2021) Сбор и голосование за темы новостей
Chapter Two: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001) Part 3: Antagonists Manu (@ManuclearBomb) and Brian (@BrianJDraft) dive into the second act of the Big Shell incident, packed with new characters and revelations that start to bring the story into focus (or out of focus, depending on your point of view). And in the main event, we dive deep into the third Snake, this so-called "Solidus." Be remembered as an exon of history!
We discuss the future in a post COVID world, with special guest Solidus from our last Fully Charged tournament as we discuss the new normal! [Solidus' Socials] Twitter - https://twitter.com/is0lidus [MWG's Socials] Discord - https://discord.gg/XJ8ZC7b Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/mwg__gg Twitter - https://twitter.com/mwg__gg Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mwg__gg Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mwg.gg YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfxkfgR5wj_QUXKA0p8ZZtA [MWG Tears' Socials] Twitter - https://twitter.com/mwgTears [Westsidious' Socials] Twitter - https://twitter.com/westsidious [Mossta's Socials] Twitter - https://twitter.com/jmichealmoss
Rytis Vyšniauskas ir Karolis Kadikinas aptaria Eurolygos dvigubos savaitės pradžią ir žvelgia į NBA aktualijas. Temos: įžanginė rubrika (0:00); kaip paaiškinti „Chimki“ pergalę Madride (10:16); apie pagyvėjusį „Žalgirį“ ir nugesintą ASVEL (23:40); apie pergales gimdančią „Bayern“ ir Gabrielį Lundbergą CSKA klube (36:23); apie Mario Hezonjos debiutą „Panathinaikos“ ir nuviliantį etapą Atėnuose (46:14); apie pagreitį įgaunančią „Anadolu Efes“ ir NBA šanso vertą Vasilije Micičių (52:57); apie intriguojančias Eurolygos kovas (1:00:29); apie NBA „Visų žvaigždžių“ šventės dalyvius (1:05:42); apie solidžiai sulipdytą „76ers“ sudėtį ir „Pacers“ potencialą (1:12:00); apie nuostabą keliančią (ne)įdomią „Spurs“ (1:18:52).
In our thirtieth episode Chen Arad (COO at Solidus Labs) discusses shared-surveillance as a fundamental infrastructure necessity for regulated crypto growth.
What is a physiotherapist? When should you go to one? What are 3 exercises everyone should be doing? 3 most common dysfunctions and how to address them?
Have you ever snuck out of your house to do drugs? Solid Snake has. This episode’s stealth-chat is about the Metal Gear series and its lore. How Solid, Liquid, and the douche named Solidus are part of a ridiculous timeline where the Big Boss clones continue, over and over, to make the same mistakes and live their lives at slippery snakes. Da' SleepdGod loves this game series. It's, like, his son.
Editoriale del direttore Alberto Lupini del 17 Agosto 2020. Proprio nel momento in cui il mondo della ristorazione avrebbe bisogno di essere unito e contare di più (dopo settembre la crisi sarà inevitabile per tanti), registriamo purtroppo l’ennesimo fallimento di un progetto ambizioso che si proponeva di mettere insieme esperienze ed interessi diversi (dai cuochi ai pasticceri, dai pizzaioli ai ristoratori): #farerete ha infatti perso per strada alcuni dei suoi soci più importanti. Con la fuoriuscita di 3 delle associazioni aderenti (fra le più rilevanti a livello di iscritti) #farerete in nemmeno due giorni ha visto crollare di oltre il 70% la forza che diceva di rappresentare. Sono bastate poche polemiche interne sul mancato riconoscimento del ruolo svolto da qualcuno, per fare sciogliere il debole collante che teneva insieme tante sigle (diverse per obiettivi e strutture organizzative) che si erano alleate nei tempi del lockdown, quando tutti locali erano chiusi per legge. Le preoccupazioni sul futuro che avevano spinto tante associazioni a cercare un’unità, non sono bastate però a tenere insieme esigenze ed interessi che erano oggettivamente diversi. All’inizio della pandemia tutto il mondo dei pubblici esercizi era fermo e, fra proteste, proclami e richieste di soldi, era forse facile pensare di stare insieme. Ma è bastato che a macchia di leopardo il comparto riprendesse la sua attività, perché visioni e interessi diversi portassero alla rottura di equilibri precari. Non basta riaprire, ci sono i problemi della gestione, del personale e della mancanza di clienti. Se non ci sono visioni generali del comparto è difficile trovare intese, se non fittizie o di facciata. Le esigenze di un ristorante stellato non possono essere quelle del ristorante tradizionale o della pizzeria. Occorre qualcuno che le conosca e le possa mediare. Ad abbandonare per prima il cartello è stata Solidus turismo che con le sue 50mila aziende associate, pesava per oltre la metà della “forza” virtuale di #farerete. A distanza di poche ore se ne sono andate anche la Federazione italiana cuochi (l’unica associazione di rilievo a livello nazionale che rappresenta i cuochi di ogni tipologia) e subito dopo Eurotoques, l’associazione con più iscritti fra i cuochi di alta cucina. Altre defezioni potrebbero esserci nel giro delle prossime ore, ma già queste uscite hanno drasticamente ridotto la realtà del cartello di #farerete. Anche se restano prestigiose associazioni di cuochi o ristoranti, povere però di numeri effettivi, il grosso delle imprese rappresentante indirettamente in questo cartello è oggi dei pasticceri. Non siamo in grado di riportare i commenti dei dirigenti di #farerete, perché a nostre richieste di chiarimenti, riportate sulla loro chat interna, non è stata data risposta. Eppure sarebbe utile per tutti capire bene perché il progetto è naufragato. Una possibile spiegazione è che forse non tutti avevano le stesse motivazioni per stare insieme, oppure c’era un disequilibrio visti i “pesi” diversi fra le varie associazioni. Forse c’erano anche troppi generali che pensavano di fare le “loro” battaglie contando sulle truppe di altri. Secondo alcune indiscrezioni col passare delle settimane si sarebbe fatto sempre più evidente il tentativo di egemonia “politica” che voleva esercitare qualche sigla. È forse il caso di Ambasciatori del Gusto, la piccola associazione di cuochi per lo più stellati, strettamente legata ad Identità Golose, che aveva peraltro avuto il merito di lanciare il progetto di #farerete.
What's the deal with gunpowder in the food? In our tenth episode, we cover sympathetic villains, Kojima's penchant for including Metal Gear Solid demos with Zone of the Enders, and in a first for the show: audience Q&A! Recorded on July 26, 2020.
Alessandro Desantis is the director of Nebulab and is currently working on Solidus. After talking a little bit about how Nebulab got started, he describes what Solidus is. Solidus is a free, open source eCommerce platform built in Ruby on Rails that gives you complete control over your store. Three things that set it apart from other eCommerce platforms are that it is governed by a single company and that the focus is on quality and backwards compatibility. One of their biggest goals is to make Solidus streamlined, and Alessandro talks about how they handle it with the complex business logic involved in eCommerce. He talks more about the governance of Solidus and the different teams involved. Alessandro admits that Solidus has fewer features than some of its competitors, but this makes it very powerful and customizable. It can be tacked onto any Rails engine and you can pick and choose the things you want. Solidus was made with fewer features because of the unique nature of each eCommerce store. The creators noticed that when people create their stores, they had to adapt their business to suit the eCommerce software they used because the software was not as customizable. Solidus wanted to avoid that, so they provide the foundation and people can customize it. To customize Solidus, the documentation is available on the Solidus website, but the company encourages experimentation. Alessandro regrets that people think eCommerce companies are not technology companies, and so they tend to delegate it to someone else. He and Charles talk about some of the technical aspects of Solidus and what the future holds. In the future, the company plans to emphasize communication and the presentation of Solidus as a tool to help people make the right choice for their business, as well as streamlining the onboarding experience. To contribute to Solidus, you can contribute to the core itself or any of the extensions. There is also an active Slack community where you can ask for the best place to help. The show concludes with Alessandro talking about some of the other projects he’s working on. Panelists Charles Max Wood Guest Alessandro Desantis Sponsors Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $100 of free credits with promo code RubyRogues-19 RedisGreen Links Solidus Nebulab Shopify Backbone Solidus Slack community Follow Alessandro on Medium and Alessandro.codes Picks Charles Max Wood: A Christmas Story Alessandro Desantis: London, UK Elixir Phoenix
Alessandro Desantis is the director of Nebulab and is currently working on Solidus. After talking a little bit about how Nebulab got started, he describes what Solidus is. Solidus is a free, open source eCommerce platform built in Ruby on Rails that gives you complete control over your store. Three things that set it apart from other eCommerce platforms are that it is governed by a single company and that the focus is on quality and backwards compatibility. One of their biggest goals is to make Solidus streamlined, and Alessandro talks about how they handle it with the complex business logic involved in eCommerce. He talks more about the governance of Solidus and the different teams involved. Alessandro admits that Solidus has fewer features than some of its competitors, but this makes it very powerful and customizable. It can be tacked onto any Rails engine and you can pick and choose the things you want. Solidus was made with fewer features because of the unique nature of each eCommerce store. The creators noticed that when people create their stores, they had to adapt their business to suit the eCommerce software they used because the software was not as customizable. Solidus wanted to avoid that, so they provide the foundation and people can customize it. To customize Solidus, the documentation is available on the Solidus website, but the company encourages experimentation. Alessandro regrets that people think eCommerce companies are not technology companies, and so they tend to delegate it to someone else. He and Charles talk about some of the technical aspects of Solidus and what the future holds. In the future, the company plans to emphasize communication and the presentation of Solidus as a tool to help people make the right choice for their business, as well as streamlining the onboarding experience. To contribute to Solidus, you can contribute to the core itself or any of the extensions. There is also an active Slack community where you can ask for the best place to help. The show concludes with Alessandro talking about some of the other projects he’s working on. Panelists Charles Max Wood Guest Alessandro Desantis Sponsors Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $100 of free credits with promo code RubyRogues-19 RedisGreen Links Solidus Nebulab Shopify Backbone Solidus Slack community Follow Alessandro on Medium and Alessandro.codes Picks Charles Max Wood: A Christmas Story Alessandro Desantis: London, UK Elixir Phoenix
Alessandro Desantis is the director of Nebulab and is currently working on Solidus. After talking a little bit about how Nebulab got started, he describes what Solidus is. Solidus is a free, open source eCommerce platform built in Ruby on Rails that gives you complete control over your store. Three things that set it apart from other eCommerce platforms are that it is governed by a single company and that the focus is on quality and backwards compatibility. One of their biggest goals is to make Solidus streamlined, and Alessandro talks about how they handle it with the complex business logic involved in eCommerce. He talks more about the governance of Solidus and the different teams involved. Alessandro admits that Solidus has fewer features than some of its competitors, but this makes it very powerful and customizable. It can be tacked onto any Rails engine and you can pick and choose the things you want. Solidus was made with fewer features because of the unique nature of each eCommerce store. The creators noticed that when people create their stores, they had to adapt their business to suit the eCommerce software they used because the software was not as customizable. Solidus wanted to avoid that, so they provide the foundation and people can customize it. To customize Solidus, the documentation is available on the Solidus website, but the company encourages experimentation. Alessandro regrets that people think eCommerce companies are not technology companies, and so they tend to delegate it to someone else. He and Charles talk about some of the technical aspects of Solidus and what the future holds. In the future, the company plans to emphasize communication and the presentation of Solidus as a tool to help people make the right choice for their business, as well as streamlining the onboarding experience. To contribute to Solidus, you can contribute to the core itself or any of the extensions. There is also an active Slack community where you can ask for the best place to help. The show concludes with Alessandro talking about some of the other projects he’s working on. Panelists Charles Max Wood Guest Alessandro Desantis Sponsors Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit Cloud 66 - Pain Free Rails Deployments Try Cloud 66 Rails for FREE & get $100 of free credits with promo code RubyRogues-19 RedisGreen Links Solidus Nebulab Shopify Backbone Solidus Slack community Follow Alessandro on Medium and Alessandro.codes Picks Charles Max Wood: A Christmas Story Alessandro Desantis: London, UK Elixir Phoenix
In this episode, we chat with Jacob Herrington. Jacob is a Senior Developer at Engine, host of the devpath.fm podcast, and a maintainer of the Solidus platform. What didn't we talk about? We talk about Jacob's discovery of programming, how he got his first few jobs, how he found his way to the Solidus core team, the dreaded conversation of imposter syndrome, and podcasting.
Nell'episodio osserviamo diversi imperatori affannarsi a trovare una soluzione ad un nuovo, pressante problema: l'inflazione. Costantino sul letto di morte decide di farsi battezzare, da un eretico, e lascia il suo regno a tutta la sua stirpe, con tanti auguri.
Panel: Charles Max Wood David Richards Eric Berry Catherine Meyers Dave Kimura Special Guests: Jared Norman In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Jared Norman about understanding your production apps. Jared has been programming since he was about 10 years old and for the past 7 years, he has been doing Ruby. These days, he runs a consultancy company called Super Good Software doing Ruby on Rails stuff and mostly eCommerce. They talk about his article You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone, when capturing exceptions is the right way to go, developing with good visibility in mind, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Jared intro Founder of Super Good Software Article - You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone Solidus and Spree Rescue_from Exception Injecting special error reporting Don’t necessarily want to rescue all exceptions Injecting an error reporting tool Trying to think of a good reason to rescue_from exception Loss of visibility Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm Ruby Rogues Episode 19 When is capturing exceptions the right way to go? Using an exception when something is legitimately broken project-honeypot When exceptions are in a state that you don’t expect Having enough information to attack problems when they arise Dig method for hashes Elegance of Ruby that allows you to not work as hard Developing code for better exception handling Developing with visibility in mind And much, much more! Links: Ruby Super Good Software Ruby on Rails Solidus Spree You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm Ruby Rogues Episode 19 project-honeypot Jared’s GitHub @SuperGoodJared @SuperGoodSoft Sponsors Sentry Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Charles Home Depot tool rental Podcast Movement Framework Summit Chuck@devchat.tv Eric 'Resting bitch face' is real, scientists say – CNN article David Basin and Range by John McPhee Catherine Scott’s Cheap Flights Dave Configuring a Sentry Server on Ubuntu 16.04 by Dave Re-engage Jared Living Computers fzf fzy
Panel: Charles Max Wood David Richards Eric Berry Catherine Meyers Dave Kimura Special Guests: Jared Norman In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Jared Norman about understanding your production apps. Jared has been programming since he was about 10 years old and for the past 7 years, he has been doing Ruby. These days, he runs a consultancy company called Super Good Software doing Ruby on Rails stuff and mostly eCommerce. They talk about his article You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone, when capturing exceptions is the right way to go, developing with good visibility in mind, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Jared intro Founder of Super Good Software Article - You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone Solidus and Spree Rescue_from Exception Injecting special error reporting Don’t necessarily want to rescue all exceptions Injecting an error reporting tool Trying to think of a good reason to rescue_from exception Loss of visibility Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm Ruby Rogues Episode 19 When is capturing exceptions the right way to go? Using an exception when something is legitimately broken project-honeypot When exceptions are in a state that you don’t expect Having enough information to attack problems when they arise Dig method for hashes Elegance of Ruby that allows you to not work as hard Developing code for better exception handling Developing with visibility in mind And much, much more! Links: Ruby Super Good Software Ruby on Rails Solidus Spree You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm Ruby Rogues Episode 19 project-honeypot Jared’s GitHub @SuperGoodJared @SuperGoodSoft Sponsors Sentry Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Charles Home Depot tool rental Podcast Movement Framework Summit Chuck@devchat.tv Eric 'Resting bitch face' is real, scientists say – CNN article David Basin and Range by John McPhee Catherine Scott’s Cheap Flights Dave Configuring a Sentry Server on Ubuntu 16.04 by Dave Re-engage Jared Living Computers fzf fzy
Panel: Charles Max Wood David Richards Eric Berry Catherine Meyers Dave Kimura Special Guests: Jared Norman In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Jared Norman about understanding your production apps. Jared has been programming since he was about 10 years old and for the past 7 years, he has been doing Ruby. These days, he runs a consultancy company called Super Good Software doing Ruby on Rails stuff and mostly eCommerce. They talk about his article You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone, when capturing exceptions is the right way to go, developing with good visibility in mind, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Jared intro Founder of Super Good Software Article - You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone Solidus and Spree Rescue_from Exception Injecting special error reporting Don’t necessarily want to rescue all exceptions Injecting an error reporting tool Trying to think of a good reason to rescue_from exception Loss of visibility Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm Ruby Rogues Episode 19 When is capturing exceptions the right way to go? Using an exception when something is legitimately broken project-honeypot When exceptions are in a state that you don’t expect Having enough information to attack problems when they arise Dig method for hashes Elegance of Ruby that allows you to not work as hard Developing code for better exception handling Developing with visibility in mind And much, much more! Links: Ruby Super Good Software Ruby on Rails Solidus Spree You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm Ruby Rogues Episode 19 project-honeypot Jared’s GitHub @SuperGoodJared @SuperGoodSoft Sponsors Sentry Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Charles Home Depot tool rental Podcast Movement Framework Summit Chuck@devchat.tv Eric 'Resting bitch face' is real, scientists say – CNN article David Basin and Range by John McPhee Catherine Scott’s Cheap Flights Dave Configuring a Sentry Server on Ubuntu 16.04 by Dave Re-engage Jared Living Computers fzf fzy
Solidus builds software for mobile payments and social savings, based on the Ricardo Transaction Suite. Our flagship product is Chamapesa, the app for social savings groups. Chama is the Kenyan name for a Savings Club. Savings Clubs have existed around the world for centuries. There are over 1,200,000 Kenyan Chamas. They give people a means to save and access low-cost loans which are used to start or grow businesses, to improve community infrastructure (by saving to build or equip a health centre, for instance) or to support Members in temporary financial difficulty. Chamas' collective savings account for 46% of Kenya's GDP. For those unable to access bank accounts (due to costs or geography), Chamas are invaluable.
Welcome to the Twenty-Seventh Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! Nick and Luke frolic through Middle-Earth. They attempt some book Trivia on the Fellowship, talk about how badass Viggo is, and which race they would want to be! Come along for the journey and enjoy the fun times! Thank you all so much! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Welcome to the Twenty-Sixth Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast!! Nick and Luke talk about baseballs great mid-summer classic, and they talk about what Luke would do with millions and millions and millions of dollars! Come poke away with us and enjoy the fun times! Captain Daddy is #1! Thank you all so much! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Welcome to the Twenty-Fifth Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! THE BIGGEST EPISODE YET! Nick and Luke have their first guest on the episode and get deeper into the mind of their number one fan! Come sail away with us and enjoy the fun times! Captain Daddy is #1! Thank you all so much! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Welcome to the Twenty-Fourth Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! Nick and Luke talk about Useless World Record Skills, Who can shrug off a billions dollar fine, and the precious ears of animals! Come along for the ride and enjoy the fun times! Thank you all so much! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Welcome to the Twenty-Third Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! Nick and Luke talk about True Love, Diffusing a knife attack, and if you eat the toe, then you gotta provide a toe! Come along for the ride and enjoy the fun times! Thank you all so much! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Welcome to the Twenty-Second Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! Back on track! This week, Nick and Luke talk about time, old stuff, birthdays, and the cinema event that just may save the world! The world gets hyped up for the very possible beat down extravaganza! Also,don't cross Nick or hill crack your nuts. Come along for the ride and enjoy the fun times! Thank you all so much! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Welcome to the Twenty-First Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! Back at it again! This week, Nick and Luke talk about The future of business, More Chicken Nuggets, and Something that someone did that Luke knows nothing about. Come along for the ride and enjoy the fun times! Thank you all so much! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Welcome to the TWENTIETH Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! We did not know how far we'd make it, but we've at least made it this far. This week, Nick and Luke remember the fallen. They talk about fitness, sports, and the most recent tragic Gorilla Murder. Come along for the ride and enjoy the fun times! Thank you all so much! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Welcome to the Nineteenth Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! This week Nick and Luke talk about Elvis being an alien, if it's a lacrosse ball, and listen to a voicemail from Captain Daddy! Come along for the ride and enjoy the fun times! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Here's what Cpt Daddy has his eyes on: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LHBX8E6/ref=s9u_simh_gw_i1?ie=UTF8&fpl=fresh&pd_rd_i=B00LHBX8E6&pd_rd_r=SDYB8DEGJCRJP8ZS9MS0&pd_rd_w=NXIAV&pd_rd_wg=rGT45&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=P3M6HCMG0FG2MMJZ1Y7E&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=781f4767-b4d4-466b-8c26-2639359664eb&pf_rd_i=desktop McDonald's Dinner Box Challenge Attempt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7O7P1TuoqU Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Welcome to the Eighteenth Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! This week Nick and Luke talk about How Mario became Italian, What's going to be on their tombstones, and Luke gets challenged to eat many foods! Do you need to get laid, we know a place that can help you! Come along for the ride and enjoy the fun times! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Make sure to check out the Plucking Petals Podcast with James(Chainz) and Kyle! https://www.facebook.com/pluckingpetals/ McDonald's Dinner Box Challenge Attempt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7O7P1TuoqU Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Welcome to the Seventeenth Episode of the Velocity Chaos Podcast! This week Nick and Luke talk about Copious amounts of food, Getting Protected, and The Path of the Ninja! We give a listen to the voicemail line! Come along for the ride and enjoy the fun times! 15-15-41-CHAOS That's 1-515-412-4267 Get your computer protected with Solidus! GetSolid.US https://www.solidussecurity.com/ Make sure to check out the Plucking Petals Podcast with James(Chainz) and Kyle! https://www.facebook.com/pluckingpetals/ Competitive eaters! Matt Stonie https://www.youtube.com/user/MegatoadStonie Randy "Atlas" Santel https://www.youtube.com/user/RandySantel Songs are free YouTube songs: World Map, and the other is Soul and Mind Be sure to Like, Comment, and Subscribe on all the platforms! Share it with your friends! www.VelocityChaos.Libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/velocity-chaos-podcast/id1207974096 https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ikkgozuq5memczknijz2mj4sa34 https://www.facebook.com/VelocityChaosPodcast/ https://twitter.com/LuKorvette https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3u_yJYuR0k2qw5re6rMtQQ Call 15-15-41-CHAOS if you have any questions or comments! You can still send us Emails about anything If you have any open-ended lifestyle questions you would like to know the answers to, please email LuKorvette@gmail.com. We'll see if we can tackle your question in an upcoming episode!
Takei, Y (University of Tokyo) Wednesday 8th June 2016 - 11:30 to 12:30
In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair is joined by Seth Mason, the Founder and Executive Director of the Solidus Center, the first 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to limiting the influence of the Federal Reserve System on the U.S. economy. Seth explains how he first became a libertarian, and how the Federal Reserve drew his ire as he saw his attempts to enter the work force hampered by the booms and busts of the U.S. economy. Seth describes the ways in which the Solidus Center will help to shed some sunshine on the Federal Reserve, and help to further educate the public about the deleterious effects it has on just [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair is joined by Seth Mason, the Founder and Executive Director of the Solidus Center, the first 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to limiting the influence of the Federal Reserve System on the U.S. economy. Seth explains how he first became a libertarian, and how the Federal Reserve drew his ire as he saw his attempts to enter the work force hampered by the booms and busts of the U.S. economy. Seth describes the ways in which the Solidus Center will help to shed some sunshine on the Federal Reserve, and help to further educate the public about the deleterious effects it has on just [...]
Zu sehen und hören sind hier ein Keilschrift-Täfelchen, ein Krösus-Stater, eine Athener Tetradrachme, ein römischer Denar und ein Solidus, die von ihrem bewegten Leben erzählen und manchmal darüber in Streit geraten.
GreenChrono is joined by Stalydan and Syna as they discuss the Metal Gear Solid series and debate which is their favourite. Also introducing a new mini-segment called 'Favourites', where the cast discuss their favourite boss fight.
Nicholas McConnell, PhD candidate in Astrophysics at UCB summer 2012, and Jeff Silverman, PhD of Astrophysics from UCB in 2011, part one of three, talk about exoplanets and the search for water in the universe. To help analyze data www.galaxyzoo.org or www.planethunters.orgTranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next [inaudible]. Welcome to spectrum science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, [00:00:30] a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 2: Good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm joined today by spectrum contributors, Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Katovich. Our interview is with Jeff Silverman, a recent phd in astrophysics from UC Berkeley and Nicholas McConnell, a phd candidate unscheduled to be awarded his phd in astrophysics by UC Berkeley this summer. [00:01:00] Jeff and Nicholas have generously agreed to help spectrum present three shows on astronomy, explaining the big ideas, recent experiments, international collaborations and improvements and observations on technology that are transforming astronomy. In part one we discuss extra solar planets known as exoplanets and the search for liquid water in the universe. Nicholas McConnell and Jeff Silverman. Welcome to spectrum. Thanks for having us do. You're both astronomers. Yup. And today you're going to talk with us about [00:01:30] what's been happening in astronomy in say, the past five years that really stands out for you. That's very salient that you think's important. Nicholas, why don't you bring up the first topic that we're going to discuss here? Speaker 2: Sure. Well, there are many things to choose from, but for me, one of the most exciting things that I think has been happening is that over the last two or three years, thanks mostly to a NASA satellite called the Kepler mission. Astronomers have been discovering literally thousands of new planets orbiting other stars, uh, in our own galaxy every year. [00:02:00] And one particularly exciting discovery that happened in December, 2011 was we found a planet around another star that appeared to be in the so called habitable zone of that planet. The zone where the distance from the star was appropriate that the temperature on the planet could possibly be not too cold and not too hot to have liquid water. And how much of that exoplanet research is done here in the bay area? Quite a large amount. There's a large healthy exoplanet team in the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department, [00:02:30] and many scientists here are heavily involved in the Kepler mission besides this planet in the habitable zone. Speaker 2: Like Nicholas mentioned, thousands of planets have been discovered by this Kepler mission of all shapes and sizes from nearly earth size to Uranus and Neptune size. Did you put her in a little bit bigger orbiting their stars that are sun-like sometimes a little bit smaller, sometimes a little bit bigger than the sun at various distances. There's maybe a couple of examples where we've seen a system of a few planets that sort [00:03:00] of mimic the sizes of planets in our solar system at some of the distances, but most of these planets are found very close to their host star. Nothing like what we see in our own solar system, things that are the size of Jupiter and Saturn that are orbiting even closer than mercury. And so this is a huge weird question that's outstanding. People are trying to figure out how do you make these systems, how do you make these planetary systems and why are they so prevalent and so different from what we know in our own solar system. Speaker 2: And are there some sort of limitations to the [00:03:30] finding techniques to, to locate these planets that might sort of bias you towards finding these large close planets spoken like a true scientist? Yes, we are absolutely biased to find big planets that are very close to their stars. So the first handful of planets that were found were very big. These so-called hot Jupiters, very big Jupiter sized planets near their stars. We are definitely biased by the techniques to find these kinds of planets. Capillary is doing a bit of a better job finding smaller planets, finding them further out. And so we're getting into a point [00:04:00] in time where we're close to being able to find similar looking systems to the solar system, bigger planets further out earth planets around the distance of earth from the sun and we're not really finding them as often as you might expect. Speaker 2: And so it does seem still that even taking into account some of this bias that our solar system is a bit of an oddball now that's certainly may change in the next few years. This is a huge fast moving field, but right now we're still an odd ball. Yeah. I have to say that the, the Kepler mission was designed [00:04:30] so that over the course of the missions lifetime, which was roughly a three year time period, starting maybe 2010 and going through 2013 or so, it was designed so that over that period it could detect a planet, maybe twice the size of our earth but orbiting at star at the same distance that the earth orbits the sun. So capillary is definitely doing a better job than previous missions, finding planets that aren't quite as small as earth but are getting down in that region where we can say this plant is actually fairly similar to the planet earth. Speaker 2: And because we're now simply becoming [00:05:00] able to start to find planets like this, we can begin to say things about how common are earth like planets relative to these hot Jupiters that Jeff was talking about before when we had only detected the hot Jupiters, there was nothing we could say about their relative abundance in the universe compared to planets like the earth was their technology. And Kepler that made this possible. Was there a breakthrough somehow in the, the instrument? The thing Kepler does is it measures the brightness coming from a star [00:05:30] over and over and over again. Uh, and what happens is that if a planet passes in front of the star along the line of sight to Earth, it blocks a little bit of the disk of the star. And so the star gets very slightly fatter. But these differences in the stars brightness are smaller than a percent. Speaker 2: And so in order to pick out that signal that you need to have an instrument that can measure the brightness of a star very, very accurately, repeatedly over and over again and simply by having it outside ears, atmosphere, having it in space and all of the different instrumental [00:06:00] things they did inside that satellite enables Kepler to measure stellar brightnesses with more precision than any instrument that we'd done this for previously. Another interesting piece of technology that was something that they had to tackle. And it's still sort of one of the limitations actually of Kepler, is because you're measuring the brightness of thousands of stars many, many times over and over and over again. That's a huge amount of data, just pure raw pictures that you have floating on a spacecraft and you need to beam those down to earth, to big computers to hold those. Speaker 2: And so [00:06:30] one of the biggest limitations from my understanding is just the bandwidth. It is hard to move that ms send that many, you know, picture files basically from space down, you know, different satellites to big data centers on earth. And so they kind of do it in big bursts and in chunks and they only take certain subsets of the pictures of different stars. Very, very close, a little snapshot, postage stamps right around each of the stars that they're monitoring. And it's still huge amounts of data. Uh, and so this has been a big breakthrough for a number of different [00:07:00] astronomy discoveries, is the large amount of data being able to move it through the Internet, through fiber optics and storing it and going through it in a fast, efficient way. Do you know if there's any kind of preliminary data analysis actually on the coupler? Speaker 2: I'm not completely sure, but there is some, as far as I know, a basic calibrations and, and basic work that it does before it sends down some of the products. But looking, as Nicholas said, for these very slight amounts of dimming in the stars takes a lot of computing power [00:07:30] and fancy algorithms that are run on big machines back on earth. And one of the really interesting things that's actually been done with the Keppra or data is after this processing, after you have, um, sort of your reduced scientific measurements. Um, recently these data have been put on the Internet so that by crowdsourcing people can go, ah, I think the website is called Kepler Zoo. And look at the period, the, the patterns of brightness versus time for all of these different stars. Um, and humans can try to find patterns that the best computer algorithms have failed to find. Um, and [00:08:00] I think there is a space of patterns that computers don't do very well at, but humans are better at. Um, so we're using the public to try to get more planets, uh, than when we, we'd be able to do just the astronomy community by itself. Speaker 1: [inaudible] this is spectrum on k l x Berkeley. We are talking about exoplanets with Jeff Silverman and Nicholas McConnell [00:08:30] reflecting on coupler. How do you, Speaker 2: I think it's changed your worldview. The entire subfield and astronomy have of exoplanets. Planets around other stars effectively didn't exist until the mid to late nineties. So when I was in elementary school, it was nice to think about planets on around other stars and see it in the movies. But it was very scifi. Speaker 3: Fast forward to to mean in college, in the early two thousands [00:09:00] taking astronomy classes, astronomers had discovered a handful of these exoplanets. And I distinctly remember one of my professors saying, you know, we found a few, we're going to find some more in the future. One day you'll pick up the newspaper and the front page will be a picture of an exoplanet. And sure enough, a few years ago, Berkeley astronomers took a picture of an exoplanet and it made the front page newspaper. Uh, and I'll never forget seeing that picture on the front page of the newspaper, just like my professor in college predicted. This is a very fast moving field. We're going to find even more planets earth-like [00:09:30] around sunlight stars that could very well have liquid water. It'll possibly be not that rare to have an earth-like planet in the very near future. Personally, to me, I think it's great. It makes me hope that perhaps we can find an exact earth analog around a sun analog and perhaps there is intelligent life or some kind of life that we can find. And I think an amazing thing that astronomers can do for the world. Speaker 4: I think with the discovery of planets that are similar [00:10:00] to Earth or at least about the same sizes, or we're beginning to go from detecting one, then a couple to actually doing decent statistics where we can project how many have planets about the same size of earth exist, say in our galaxy. I tried to do a very, very rough calculation this morning. If you ask how many earth sized planets are there in the Milky Way, I think the answer is there's probably about a billion or a couple billion. And so I think that's just another interesting way of looking at how [00:10:30] earth is not necessarily unique environment in the universe, but just as we have so much diversity here on earth than in our galaxy. We have evidence now that there is space and room to have as much diversity possibly throughout our galaxy. So I think we really are getting a profound sense of just what kind of environment we have for possibly life and for different conditions, not only in our own solar system, but in this much larger piece of the universe that we're [00:11:00] only beginning to explore. Speaker 5: [inaudible]Speaker 6: you're listening to spectrum on k a l x, Berkeley. We are talking about astrophysics with Nicholas McConnell and Jeff Silverman. Speaker 5: [inaudible]Speaker 3: let's talk about water in the universe. So we've found quite a bit of water [00:11:30] in the universe, oddly enough, sort of starting on the biggest scales. There's, there's some nebulae, some clusters of gas and particles out in the universe that are huge reservoirs of water and sort of related huge reservoirs of alcohols, ethanol's, things like that. Coming a little bit closer to home and looking a little bit more recently. In the past maybe five or 10 years, there's been quite a few new detections, new possible detections, new lines of evidence of liquid water, ice water in our solar system in very interesting [00:12:00] places. One, the moon of Saturn known as, and Solidus is a very shiny, very bright object. It's very, very white, snowy, clean looking objects. A handful of craters have much less cratered than our own moon, a little smaller than our moon as well. Speaker 3: But it had some weird features to it. It looks kind of neat. And so the the Cassini spacecraft, which has been around exploring Saturn and its moon systems and its ring system for the past decade or so, did a few very close flybys of this very interesting moon in solidus [00:12:30] figured out that most of the surface is solid ice water, ice, ammonia, hydrocarbons, stuff as well. Also notice that there were geysers coming off of the surface, which we've seen geysers on a couple of other moons of Jupiter and Saturn, but these were kind of interesting and Cassini was there and we lucked out and Cassini actually flew through one of these geysers and got to detect the particles from the geyser itself, right? They're very direct institute measurements of what's in the guys there and it was mostly water and some ammonia, which was [00:13:00] interesting. And then there's evidence that there was actually more organic compounds in there and so possibly there, this could lead to life. Speaker 3: There could be some kind of bacteria down in the innards of in solidus. That's sort of pushing a a little bit, sort of the next step beyond what the evidence is actually telling us. But it's very, very tantalizing. Just about four or five years ago, a NASA panel on moons and moon explorations in the solar system said that in Solidus is probably the best possibility [00:13:30] for current life outside of earth in our own solar system. And the idea is that underneath this sort of very smooth, icy surface, there's probably a liquid ocean, mostly water, maybe a little bit of salt water, like I said, a little ammonia, some organic compounds, perhaps probably not gray whales and great white sharks. Probably not even little fish and shrimp, but it seems reasonable that there could be microscopic organisms, some kind of life, you know, to be determined. Speaker 3: But it's possible. [00:14:00] There's liquid water, there's reasonable conditions. It's not too salty, it's not too acidic, it's not too hot. And there does seem to be at least the building blocks, some of these organic compounds, perhaps one outstanding issue is how thick is this outer ice layer. So there's been some ideas of what we should send another mission that's just going to drill in there and it had the little submarine and go look around for fish and organisms, but we don't actually have a great handle on how thick that ice layer is. Uh, so Cassini is continuing to study this moon along with the [00:14:30] rest of the stuff in the Saturn system. Other moons, the planet itself, the Rings, uh, and we'll hopefully learn a little bit more about it, but they're already in the works, uh, both NASA, Japanese and European missions to go explore in salad. It's even more now if you want to go a little bit closer than Enceladus, one of the most promising planets areas in our solar system where Speaker 4: people have thought about the possibility of liquid water, where we certainly know that frozen water exists and where we have a headstart on [00:15:00] objects actually on the surface exploring is the planet Mars. And there've been some recent discoveries about both water in the past history of Mars and possibly salty liquid water, actually existing present day on Mars that are fueling a lot of excitement in the scientific community. Right now we have two different kinds of instruments that are doing fantastic observations of Mars. One of them is called the Mars or condescends orbiter. It is a satellite in orbit around Mars that can take fantastically detailed [00:15:30] photographs of the Martian surface. You can see features about a few feet across on the Martian surface with the satellite and then the other are the famous Mars Rovers. Spirit and opportunity spirit recently shut down, met its demise even though these two rovers outlasted their nominal mission timeline by a factor of 10 or so, Opportunity is still exploring the Martian surface and in both cases, instruments have found evidence for water on Mars. Speaker 4: In the case of opportunity. The rover fairly recently [00:16:00] discovered this mineral vein in a rock in a crater on Mars that scientists are pretty certain, could only have been created by liquid water flowing through a crack in the rocket, some ancient time and marches history and creating this particular mineral known as gypsum in certain variances what we use to make plaster of Paris here on Earth. So there is evidence that in particular Martian environments, there was almost certainly liquid water on Mars in the past. Combine that with theoretical models of how the planet and its atmosphere would have evolved over time. [00:16:30] And there are some pictures of ancient Mars being this sort of lush liquid water, much warmer environment than it is today. And so possibly Mars in its past was a hospitable environment for life. Although I'll emphasize we've, we have not yet detected any evidence of present day or fossilized life on Mars, but frankly, we haven't explored a very large fraction of that planet yet. Speaker 4: So I wouldn't be entirely surprised if some discovery came along in the future. Another very, very interesting observation on Mars coming [00:17:00] from the Mars reconnaissance orbiter is that looking over time at the edges of some of the craters on Mars in the warm seasons, they actually found stream like features that looked like dark streams were appearing on the edges of craters and over the course of the warm season as these craters were being more exposed to the sun and warming up a little bit, the streams lengthen as you might expect, little trickles of liquid water to flow downhill and based on mineral analysis which you can do using spectroscopy [00:17:30] from the orbiter and just generally the overall pattern of how these streams change with the seasons. We think that's good evidence that some sort of salty water was creating the streams. Unfortunately we were not able to directly detect water. What we see, it looks more to be like residue from a salt water stream where the water evaporated or where the water is just below the surface. But it seems that in certain seasons and certain places of the planet, there could actually be water and liquid form just at the surface or just below the surface [00:18:00] of Mars today. I mean if you have salt water on Mars, then I think there's at least some chance that you could have some kind of primitive life forum thriving in it. [inaudible] Speaker 3: it's been amazing in the last few years using the orbiter and the rovers on Mars, the different lines of evidence that we have for this ice, either on the surface or just below the surface centimeters below the surface, inches below the surface. And so NASA just recently launched a mission to head to Mars and even bigger rover, something like the size of a small car [00:18:30] that's going to go around and specifically look for water, look for organic molecules, building blocks of life in different parts than where we've already explored on Mars. Speaker 4: And that rover is called curiosity and it's supposed to land on the Martian surface this summer. Is there water on the moon? Our Moon, there is water on the moon in the form of hydrous molecules, so where water is directly incorporated into a solid rock, but I don't think there's any evidence for frozen or liquid water on the moon, [00:19:00] certainly not liquid water. Speaker 5: [inaudible]Speaker 4: can you reflect on the importance of water being discovered in our solar system or in some other solar system or galaxy? Speaker 2: Clearly on earth, water is essential [00:19:30] for all life forms and so whereas there are ideas about exotic kinds of life that could exist without our requirement of having water. It certainly seems like the most natural place to start looking for life outside of our own planet. So knowing that it exists in liquid form in different places in the universe and knowing Lisa in our own solar system where it exists is I think a really good start toward actually doing an Ernest search for life outside earth, maybe in our own solar system. [00:20:00] And I think just knowing how much water there actually is in our universe makes it seem like the universe is maybe a friendlier place than we thought it was. Okay. Speaker 3: One of the basic questions in astronomy of humanity, one of the things that got me interested in astronomy originally was are we alone in the universe? Is there life out there in the solar system, in our galaxy, and looking for water is probably the best way, the most direct way to find where that life could be. Being able to go visit Mars, the Moon, various [00:20:30] moons in our own solar system. Looking for that life in the water or around the water, I think is is something that's a fundamental question for all humankind, not just scientists and astronomers. Speaker 7: That ends one, Jeff Silverman and Nicholas McConnell. We'll be back with part two on our next show. We'll talk about Super Novi and black holes. Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Catholic joined me [00:21:00] for the calendar and the new black hole, Speaker 8: the harmonic oscillators of the 21st century presented by Andrew Strom and dear professor of physics, Harvard University, Monday, March 12th at four 15 to 5:30 PM La Conte Hall Room Number One in the 20th century. Many problems across all of physics were solved by perturb native methods which reduce them to harmonic oscillators. Black holes are poised to play a similar role for the problems of 21st century physics. They are at once [00:21:30] the simplest and most complex objects in the physical universe. Professors durometer will give an introduction to the subject intended for a general audience Speaker 9: daily and Nardo art science evening rendezvous or laser is a monthly series of lectures, presentations, and networking between artists and scientists. This month, laser is on Monday, March 12th at the [inaudible] room of the front building at the University of San Francisco to one 30 zero Fulton Street. It is free, but [00:22:00] please RSVP to p at [inaudible] dot com the event starts at seven with a talk by [inaudible] Viskontas on the art and neuroscience of effective music performance. What is it about this art form that draws people in? What distinguishes a performance that is technically accurate but unmusical from one that elicits the chills. We will explore how music engages the brain and why it continues to be a worldwide addiction. This will be followed by Rebecca Cayman's talk, making the invisible visible [00:22:30] discoveries between art and science, the history of artists as scientists and scientists as artists will be shared drying from the collections of the American philosophical society and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. The development of new art science collaborations will also be discussed. Shawmut caught true of the Stanford Physics Department. We'll speak on are there more dimensions of space which we'll discuss how the extra dimensions proposed by some models such as string theory may explain and unify puzzles [00:23:00] of modern physics. The night we'll conclude with Scott killed doll and Nathaniel stern who will discuss beaming Twitter messages to glaze five eight one D and exoplanet 20 light years away that can support extra terrestrial life using DIY technology. The website for laser is www.leonardo.info Speaker 8: the creative destruction of medicine Wednesday, March 14th at 6:00 PM at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on the second [00:23:30] floor of five 95 market street, Eric Topol, MD, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, Co founder and vice chairman of the West Wireless Health Institute and author of the creative destruction of medicine. Dr Topol says that is poised to go through its biggest shakeup in history and unprecedented convergence of technologies such as the ability to digitize human genomes and the invention of wireless tools is gaining momentum, thrusting the medical field into the digital era. Tickets are $20 [00:24:00] for general public, $8 for members and $7 for students. Speaker 9: Ask a scientist is hosting a puzzle party on Pi Day Wednesday, March 14th at 7:00 PM this is a math and logic puzzle competition for teams of up to six people. It is free, but you're encouraged to support the venue by purchasing foods and or drinks. The winning team will get a round of drinks and an overwhelming sense of pride. Bring a jacket in case there is overflow onto the sidewalk of the bizarre [00:24:30] cafe. Five nine two seven California at 21st in San Francisco visit. Ask a scientist sf.com for more info. Speaker 7: Yeah, Speaker 6: the March Science at cal lecture will be given at 11:00 AM on Saturday, March 17th in the genetics and plant biology building room 100 the talk will be given by Dr Hazel Bane and is entitled The Sun a star in our own backyard. Dr Bain is a post doc with the Ruben Rahmati high energy spectroscopic [00:25:00] solar imager solar physics group at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Her main area of research involves studying solar eruptive events such as flares, jets, and coronal mass ejections using both space and ground-based instruments. In describing her talk, Dr Bane said the stars in the night sky have always been a source of intrigue and wonder with our very own star at the center of our solar system, the sun offers us a unique [00:25:30] opportunity to study the inner workings of these giant balls of plasma. Starting at the core, I will discuss the processes occurring at the different layers of the sun onto news. Speaker 9: The four mile long t veteran particle accelerator at Chicago's Fermi lab was closed in September, 2011 after being one of the most powerful accelerators for 20 years, but in analyzing 500 trillion subatomic particles, Asians from the CDF and DCO, the team says that they may [00:26:00] have generated about a thousand Higgs Bosons the particle that is responsible for mass in the standard model of physics in a previous episode of spectrum that you can download from iTunes you, we interviewed Dr Simoni Pig Ingreso about the hunt for the Higgs. The probability of these measurements being due to a statistical fluke instead of the measurements of the Higgs is about one in 30 or about 2.2 sigma. This is well below the one chance in 3.5 million or five sigma that will be used to claim the actual discovery of the Higgs. [00:26:30] The energy of the detected events is between 115 billion and 135 billion electron volts, which is in good agreement with the range of 124 billion electron volts to 126 billion electron volts that turns large. Hadron collider established with 3.6 sigma certainty. The large Hadron collider is on winter break, but we'll be fixed up again in April to continue trying to find the Higgs with five sigma certainty. Speaker 8: The Cal Energy Corp is offering internships [00:27:00] around the world from Brazil to Germany to Ghana, to China, as well as in the bay area. During the summer of 2012 internships will offer UC Berkeley undergraduates the opportunity to pursue challenging hands on projects and energy and climate research. According to the office of the vice chancellor for research among the projects, cal energy core interns will be involved in our efforts to create green coal as industrial fuel, helping to produce biofuels, working on improving photovoltaics for integration into the [00:27:30] electricity grid, building models to better understand climate change and designing and testing. Cookstoves. The internship program provides a $600 weekly stipend for all interns as well as funding to cover transportation and housing. All placements are full time, more information and application forms are available at the cow energy core website. Speaker 9: Yeah, Speaker 6: explaining science to an 11 year old. The flame challenge sponsored by the Center for communicating science is an attempt to reach the very core of [00:28:00] science communication. The contest asks scientists and generally clever people to submit their own explanations of what a flame is, explanations that would captivate an 11 year old. The flame challenge contest is open for entries between March 2nd and April 2nd with the winners to be announced in June. Entries can be in writing, video or graphics and they can be playful or serious as long as they are accurate and connect with the young judges. For more information and entry [00:28:30] forms, visit the challenge website. Flame challenge.org Speaker 7: [inaudible] music curse during the show goes by on Donna David [inaudible] on for his album title folk and acoustic [00:29:00] just made available by creative Commons license 3.0 contribution. [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show [inaudible] [00:29:30] to our email address is [inaudible] means in two weeks. It's Speaker 6: the same Speaker 5: [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nicholas McConnell, PhD candidate in Astrophysics at UCB summer 2012, and Jeff Silverman, PhD of Astrophysics from UCB in 2011, part one of three, talk about exoplanets and the search for water in the universe. To help analyze data www.galaxyzoo.org or www.planethunters.orgTranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next [inaudible]. Welcome to spectrum science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, [00:00:30] a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 2: Good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift. I'm joined today by spectrum contributors, Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Katovich. Our interview is with Jeff Silverman, a recent phd in astrophysics from UC Berkeley and Nicholas McConnell, a phd candidate unscheduled to be awarded his phd in astrophysics by UC Berkeley this summer. [00:01:00] Jeff and Nicholas have generously agreed to help spectrum present three shows on astronomy, explaining the big ideas, recent experiments, international collaborations and improvements and observations on technology that are transforming astronomy. In part one we discuss extra solar planets known as exoplanets and the search for liquid water in the universe. Nicholas McConnell and Jeff Silverman. Welcome to spectrum. Thanks for having us do. You're both astronomers. Yup. And today you're going to talk with us about [00:01:30] what's been happening in astronomy in say, the past five years that really stands out for you. That's very salient that you think's important. Nicholas, why don't you bring up the first topic that we're going to discuss here? Speaker 2: Sure. Well, there are many things to choose from, but for me, one of the most exciting things that I think has been happening is that over the last two or three years, thanks mostly to a NASA satellite called the Kepler mission. Astronomers have been discovering literally thousands of new planets orbiting other stars, uh, in our own galaxy every year. [00:02:00] And one particularly exciting discovery that happened in December, 2011 was we found a planet around another star that appeared to be in the so called habitable zone of that planet. The zone where the distance from the star was appropriate that the temperature on the planet could possibly be not too cold and not too hot to have liquid water. And how much of that exoplanet research is done here in the bay area? Quite a large amount. There's a large healthy exoplanet team in the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department, [00:02:30] and many scientists here are heavily involved in the Kepler mission besides this planet in the habitable zone. Speaker 2: Like Nicholas mentioned, thousands of planets have been discovered by this Kepler mission of all shapes and sizes from nearly earth size to Uranus and Neptune size. Did you put her in a little bit bigger orbiting their stars that are sun-like sometimes a little bit smaller, sometimes a little bit bigger than the sun at various distances. There's maybe a couple of examples where we've seen a system of a few planets that sort [00:03:00] of mimic the sizes of planets in our solar system at some of the distances, but most of these planets are found very close to their host star. Nothing like what we see in our own solar system, things that are the size of Jupiter and Saturn that are orbiting even closer than mercury. And so this is a huge weird question that's outstanding. People are trying to figure out how do you make these systems, how do you make these planetary systems and why are they so prevalent and so different from what we know in our own solar system. Speaker 2: And are there some sort of limitations to the [00:03:30] finding techniques to, to locate these planets that might sort of bias you towards finding these large close planets spoken like a true scientist? Yes, we are absolutely biased to find big planets that are very close to their stars. So the first handful of planets that were found were very big. These so-called hot Jupiters, very big Jupiter sized planets near their stars. We are definitely biased by the techniques to find these kinds of planets. Capillary is doing a bit of a better job finding smaller planets, finding them further out. And so we're getting into a point [00:04:00] in time where we're close to being able to find similar looking systems to the solar system, bigger planets further out earth planets around the distance of earth from the sun and we're not really finding them as often as you might expect. Speaker 2: And so it does seem still that even taking into account some of this bias that our solar system is a bit of an oddball now that's certainly may change in the next few years. This is a huge fast moving field, but right now we're still an odd ball. Yeah. I have to say that the, the Kepler mission was designed [00:04:30] so that over the course of the missions lifetime, which was roughly a three year time period, starting maybe 2010 and going through 2013 or so, it was designed so that over that period it could detect a planet, maybe twice the size of our earth but orbiting at star at the same distance that the earth orbits the sun. So capillary is definitely doing a better job than previous missions, finding planets that aren't quite as small as earth but are getting down in that region where we can say this plant is actually fairly similar to the planet earth. Speaker 2: And because we're now simply becoming [00:05:00] able to start to find planets like this, we can begin to say things about how common are earth like planets relative to these hot Jupiters that Jeff was talking about before when we had only detected the hot Jupiters, there was nothing we could say about their relative abundance in the universe compared to planets like the earth was their technology. And Kepler that made this possible. Was there a breakthrough somehow in the, the instrument? The thing Kepler does is it measures the brightness coming from a star [00:05:30] over and over and over again. Uh, and what happens is that if a planet passes in front of the star along the line of sight to Earth, it blocks a little bit of the disk of the star. And so the star gets very slightly fatter. But these differences in the stars brightness are smaller than a percent. Speaker 2: And so in order to pick out that signal that you need to have an instrument that can measure the brightness of a star very, very accurately, repeatedly over and over again and simply by having it outside ears, atmosphere, having it in space and all of the different instrumental [00:06:00] things they did inside that satellite enables Kepler to measure stellar brightnesses with more precision than any instrument that we'd done this for previously. Another interesting piece of technology that was something that they had to tackle. And it's still sort of one of the limitations actually of Kepler, is because you're measuring the brightness of thousands of stars many, many times over and over and over again. That's a huge amount of data, just pure raw pictures that you have floating on a spacecraft and you need to beam those down to earth, to big computers to hold those. Speaker 2: And so [00:06:30] one of the biggest limitations from my understanding is just the bandwidth. It is hard to move that ms send that many, you know, picture files basically from space down, you know, different satellites to big data centers on earth. And so they kind of do it in big bursts and in chunks and they only take certain subsets of the pictures of different stars. Very, very close, a little snapshot, postage stamps right around each of the stars that they're monitoring. And it's still huge amounts of data. Uh, and so this has been a big breakthrough for a number of different [00:07:00] astronomy discoveries, is the large amount of data being able to move it through the Internet, through fiber optics and storing it and going through it in a fast, efficient way. Do you know if there's any kind of preliminary data analysis actually on the coupler? Speaker 2: I'm not completely sure, but there is some, as far as I know, a basic calibrations and, and basic work that it does before it sends down some of the products. But looking, as Nicholas said, for these very slight amounts of dimming in the stars takes a lot of computing power [00:07:30] and fancy algorithms that are run on big machines back on earth. And one of the really interesting things that's actually been done with the Keppra or data is after this processing, after you have, um, sort of your reduced scientific measurements. Um, recently these data have been put on the Internet so that by crowdsourcing people can go, ah, I think the website is called Kepler Zoo. And look at the period, the, the patterns of brightness versus time for all of these different stars. Um, and humans can try to find patterns that the best computer algorithms have failed to find. Um, and [00:08:00] I think there is a space of patterns that computers don't do very well at, but humans are better at. Um, so we're using the public to try to get more planets, uh, than when we, we'd be able to do just the astronomy community by itself. Speaker 1: [inaudible] this is spectrum on k l x Berkeley. We are talking about exoplanets with Jeff Silverman and Nicholas McConnell [00:08:30] reflecting on coupler. How do you, Speaker 2: I think it's changed your worldview. The entire subfield and astronomy have of exoplanets. Planets around other stars effectively didn't exist until the mid to late nineties. So when I was in elementary school, it was nice to think about planets on around other stars and see it in the movies. But it was very scifi. Speaker 3: Fast forward to to mean in college, in the early two thousands [00:09:00] taking astronomy classes, astronomers had discovered a handful of these exoplanets. And I distinctly remember one of my professors saying, you know, we found a few, we're going to find some more in the future. One day you'll pick up the newspaper and the front page will be a picture of an exoplanet. And sure enough, a few years ago, Berkeley astronomers took a picture of an exoplanet and it made the front page newspaper. Uh, and I'll never forget seeing that picture on the front page of the newspaper, just like my professor in college predicted. This is a very fast moving field. We're going to find even more planets earth-like [00:09:30] around sunlight stars that could very well have liquid water. It'll possibly be not that rare to have an earth-like planet in the very near future. Personally, to me, I think it's great. It makes me hope that perhaps we can find an exact earth analog around a sun analog and perhaps there is intelligent life or some kind of life that we can find. And I think an amazing thing that astronomers can do for the world. Speaker 4: I think with the discovery of planets that are similar [00:10:00] to Earth or at least about the same sizes, or we're beginning to go from detecting one, then a couple to actually doing decent statistics where we can project how many have planets about the same size of earth exist, say in our galaxy. I tried to do a very, very rough calculation this morning. If you ask how many earth sized planets are there in the Milky Way, I think the answer is there's probably about a billion or a couple billion. And so I think that's just another interesting way of looking at how [00:10:30] earth is not necessarily unique environment in the universe, but just as we have so much diversity here on earth than in our galaxy. We have evidence now that there is space and room to have as much diversity possibly throughout our galaxy. So I think we really are getting a profound sense of just what kind of environment we have for possibly life and for different conditions, not only in our own solar system, but in this much larger piece of the universe that we're [00:11:00] only beginning to explore. Speaker 5: [inaudible]Speaker 6: you're listening to spectrum on k a l x, Berkeley. We are talking about astrophysics with Nicholas McConnell and Jeff Silverman. Speaker 5: [inaudible]Speaker 3: let's talk about water in the universe. So we've found quite a bit of water [00:11:30] in the universe, oddly enough, sort of starting on the biggest scales. There's, there's some nebulae, some clusters of gas and particles out in the universe that are huge reservoirs of water and sort of related huge reservoirs of alcohols, ethanol's, things like that. Coming a little bit closer to home and looking a little bit more recently. In the past maybe five or 10 years, there's been quite a few new detections, new possible detections, new lines of evidence of liquid water, ice water in our solar system in very interesting [00:12:00] places. One, the moon of Saturn known as, and Solidus is a very shiny, very bright object. It's very, very white, snowy, clean looking objects. A handful of craters have much less cratered than our own moon, a little smaller than our moon as well. Speaker 3: But it had some weird features to it. It looks kind of neat. And so the the Cassini spacecraft, which has been around exploring Saturn and its moon systems and its ring system for the past decade or so, did a few very close flybys of this very interesting moon in solidus [00:12:30] figured out that most of the surface is solid ice water, ice, ammonia, hydrocarbons, stuff as well. Also notice that there were geysers coming off of the surface, which we've seen geysers on a couple of other moons of Jupiter and Saturn, but these were kind of interesting and Cassini was there and we lucked out and Cassini actually flew through one of these geysers and got to detect the particles from the geyser itself, right? They're very direct institute measurements of what's in the guys there and it was mostly water and some ammonia, which was [00:13:00] interesting. And then there's evidence that there was actually more organic compounds in there and so possibly there, this could lead to life. Speaker 3: There could be some kind of bacteria down in the innards of in solidus. That's sort of pushing a a little bit, sort of the next step beyond what the evidence is actually telling us. But it's very, very tantalizing. Just about four or five years ago, a NASA panel on moons and moon explorations in the solar system said that in Solidus is probably the best possibility [00:13:30] for current life outside of earth in our own solar system. And the idea is that underneath this sort of very smooth, icy surface, there's probably a liquid ocean, mostly water, maybe a little bit of salt water, like I said, a little ammonia, some organic compounds, perhaps probably not gray whales and great white sharks. Probably not even little fish and shrimp, but it seems reasonable that there could be microscopic organisms, some kind of life, you know, to be determined. Speaker 3: But it's possible. [00:14:00] There's liquid water, there's reasonable conditions. It's not too salty, it's not too acidic, it's not too hot. And there does seem to be at least the building blocks, some of these organic compounds, perhaps one outstanding issue is how thick is this outer ice layer. So there's been some ideas of what we should send another mission that's just going to drill in there and it had the little submarine and go look around for fish and organisms, but we don't actually have a great handle on how thick that ice layer is. Uh, so Cassini is continuing to study this moon along with the [00:14:30] rest of the stuff in the Saturn system. Other moons, the planet itself, the Rings, uh, and we'll hopefully learn a little bit more about it, but they're already in the works, uh, both NASA, Japanese and European missions to go explore in salad. It's even more now if you want to go a little bit closer than Enceladus, one of the most promising planets areas in our solar system where Speaker 4: people have thought about the possibility of liquid water, where we certainly know that frozen water exists and where we have a headstart on [00:15:00] objects actually on the surface exploring is the planet Mars. And there've been some recent discoveries about both water in the past history of Mars and possibly salty liquid water, actually existing present day on Mars that are fueling a lot of excitement in the scientific community. Right now we have two different kinds of instruments that are doing fantastic observations of Mars. One of them is called the Mars or condescends orbiter. It is a satellite in orbit around Mars that can take fantastically detailed [00:15:30] photographs of the Martian surface. You can see features about a few feet across on the Martian surface with the satellite and then the other are the famous Mars Rovers. Spirit and opportunity spirit recently shut down, met its demise even though these two rovers outlasted their nominal mission timeline by a factor of 10 or so, Opportunity is still exploring the Martian surface and in both cases, instruments have found evidence for water on Mars. Speaker 4: In the case of opportunity. The rover fairly recently [00:16:00] discovered this mineral vein in a rock in a crater on Mars that scientists are pretty certain, could only have been created by liquid water flowing through a crack in the rocket, some ancient time and marches history and creating this particular mineral known as gypsum in certain variances what we use to make plaster of Paris here on Earth. So there is evidence that in particular Martian environments, there was almost certainly liquid water on Mars in the past. Combine that with theoretical models of how the planet and its atmosphere would have evolved over time. [00:16:30] And there are some pictures of ancient Mars being this sort of lush liquid water, much warmer environment than it is today. And so possibly Mars in its past was a hospitable environment for life. Although I'll emphasize we've, we have not yet detected any evidence of present day or fossilized life on Mars, but frankly, we haven't explored a very large fraction of that planet yet. Speaker 4: So I wouldn't be entirely surprised if some discovery came along in the future. Another very, very interesting observation on Mars coming [00:17:00] from the Mars reconnaissance orbiter is that looking over time at the edges of some of the craters on Mars in the warm seasons, they actually found stream like features that looked like dark streams were appearing on the edges of craters and over the course of the warm season as these craters were being more exposed to the sun and warming up a little bit, the streams lengthen as you might expect, little trickles of liquid water to flow downhill and based on mineral analysis which you can do using spectroscopy [00:17:30] from the orbiter and just generally the overall pattern of how these streams change with the seasons. We think that's good evidence that some sort of salty water was creating the streams. Unfortunately we were not able to directly detect water. What we see, it looks more to be like residue from a salt water stream where the water evaporated or where the water is just below the surface. But it seems that in certain seasons and certain places of the planet, there could actually be water and liquid form just at the surface or just below the surface [00:18:00] of Mars today. I mean if you have salt water on Mars, then I think there's at least some chance that you could have some kind of primitive life forum thriving in it. [inaudible] Speaker 3: it's been amazing in the last few years using the orbiter and the rovers on Mars, the different lines of evidence that we have for this ice, either on the surface or just below the surface centimeters below the surface, inches below the surface. And so NASA just recently launched a mission to head to Mars and even bigger rover, something like the size of a small car [00:18:30] that's going to go around and specifically look for water, look for organic molecules, building blocks of life in different parts than where we've already explored on Mars. Speaker 4: And that rover is called curiosity and it's supposed to land on the Martian surface this summer. Is there water on the moon? Our Moon, there is water on the moon in the form of hydrous molecules, so where water is directly incorporated into a solid rock, but I don't think there's any evidence for frozen or liquid water on the moon, [00:19:00] certainly not liquid water. Speaker 5: [inaudible]Speaker 4: can you reflect on the importance of water being discovered in our solar system or in some other solar system or galaxy? Speaker 2: Clearly on earth, water is essential [00:19:30] for all life forms and so whereas there are ideas about exotic kinds of life that could exist without our requirement of having water. It certainly seems like the most natural place to start looking for life outside of our own planet. So knowing that it exists in liquid form in different places in the universe and knowing Lisa in our own solar system where it exists is I think a really good start toward actually doing an Ernest search for life outside earth, maybe in our own solar system. [00:20:00] And I think just knowing how much water there actually is in our universe makes it seem like the universe is maybe a friendlier place than we thought it was. Okay. Speaker 3: One of the basic questions in astronomy of humanity, one of the things that got me interested in astronomy originally was are we alone in the universe? Is there life out there in the solar system, in our galaxy, and looking for water is probably the best way, the most direct way to find where that life could be. Being able to go visit Mars, the Moon, various [00:20:30] moons in our own solar system. Looking for that life in the water or around the water, I think is is something that's a fundamental question for all humankind, not just scientists and astronomers. Speaker 7: That ends one, Jeff Silverman and Nicholas McConnell. We'll be back with part two on our next show. We'll talk about Super Novi and black holes. Rick Karnofsky and Lisa Catholic joined me [00:21:00] for the calendar and the new black hole, Speaker 8: the harmonic oscillators of the 21st century presented by Andrew Strom and dear professor of physics, Harvard University, Monday, March 12th at four 15 to 5:30 PM La Conte Hall Room Number One in the 20th century. Many problems across all of physics were solved by perturb native methods which reduce them to harmonic oscillators. Black holes are poised to play a similar role for the problems of 21st century physics. They are at once [00:21:30] the simplest and most complex objects in the physical universe. Professors durometer will give an introduction to the subject intended for a general audience Speaker 9: daily and Nardo art science evening rendezvous or laser is a monthly series of lectures, presentations, and networking between artists and scientists. This month, laser is on Monday, March 12th at the [inaudible] room of the front building at the University of San Francisco to one 30 zero Fulton Street. It is free, but [00:22:00] please RSVP to p at [inaudible] dot com the event starts at seven with a talk by [inaudible] Viskontas on the art and neuroscience of effective music performance. What is it about this art form that draws people in? What distinguishes a performance that is technically accurate but unmusical from one that elicits the chills. We will explore how music engages the brain and why it continues to be a worldwide addiction. This will be followed by Rebecca Cayman's talk, making the invisible visible [00:22:30] discoveries between art and science, the history of artists as scientists and scientists as artists will be shared drying from the collections of the American philosophical society and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. The development of new art science collaborations will also be discussed. Shawmut caught true of the Stanford Physics Department. We'll speak on are there more dimensions of space which we'll discuss how the extra dimensions proposed by some models such as string theory may explain and unify puzzles [00:23:00] of modern physics. The night we'll conclude with Scott killed doll and Nathaniel stern who will discuss beaming Twitter messages to glaze five eight one D and exoplanet 20 light years away that can support extra terrestrial life using DIY technology. The website for laser is www.leonardo.info Speaker 8: the creative destruction of medicine Wednesday, March 14th at 6:00 PM at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on the second [00:23:30] floor of five 95 market street, Eric Topol, MD, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, Co founder and vice chairman of the West Wireless Health Institute and author of the creative destruction of medicine. Dr Topol says that is poised to go through its biggest shakeup in history and unprecedented convergence of technologies such as the ability to digitize human genomes and the invention of wireless tools is gaining momentum, thrusting the medical field into the digital era. Tickets are $20 [00:24:00] for general public, $8 for members and $7 for students. Speaker 9: Ask a scientist is hosting a puzzle party on Pi Day Wednesday, March 14th at 7:00 PM this is a math and logic puzzle competition for teams of up to six people. It is free, but you're encouraged to support the venue by purchasing foods and or drinks. The winning team will get a round of drinks and an overwhelming sense of pride. Bring a jacket in case there is overflow onto the sidewalk of the bizarre [00:24:30] cafe. Five nine two seven California at 21st in San Francisco visit. Ask a scientist sf.com for more info. Speaker 7: Yeah, Speaker 6: the March Science at cal lecture will be given at 11:00 AM on Saturday, March 17th in the genetics and plant biology building room 100 the talk will be given by Dr Hazel Bane and is entitled The Sun a star in our own backyard. Dr Bain is a post doc with the Ruben Rahmati high energy spectroscopic [00:25:00] solar imager solar physics group at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Her main area of research involves studying solar eruptive events such as flares, jets, and coronal mass ejections using both space and ground-based instruments. In describing her talk, Dr Bane said the stars in the night sky have always been a source of intrigue and wonder with our very own star at the center of our solar system, the sun offers us a unique [00:25:30] opportunity to study the inner workings of these giant balls of plasma. Starting at the core, I will discuss the processes occurring at the different layers of the sun onto news. Speaker 9: The four mile long t veteran particle accelerator at Chicago's Fermi lab was closed in September, 2011 after being one of the most powerful accelerators for 20 years, but in analyzing 500 trillion subatomic particles, Asians from the CDF and DCO, the team says that they may [00:26:00] have generated about a thousand Higgs Bosons the particle that is responsible for mass in the standard model of physics in a previous episode of spectrum that you can download from iTunes you, we interviewed Dr Simoni Pig Ingreso about the hunt for the Higgs. The probability of these measurements being due to a statistical fluke instead of the measurements of the Higgs is about one in 30 or about 2.2 sigma. This is well below the one chance in 3.5 million or five sigma that will be used to claim the actual discovery of the Higgs. [00:26:30] The energy of the detected events is between 115 billion and 135 billion electron volts, which is in good agreement with the range of 124 billion electron volts to 126 billion electron volts that turns large. Hadron collider established with 3.6 sigma certainty. The large Hadron collider is on winter break, but we'll be fixed up again in April to continue trying to find the Higgs with five sigma certainty. Speaker 8: The Cal Energy Corp is offering internships [00:27:00] around the world from Brazil to Germany to Ghana, to China, as well as in the bay area. During the summer of 2012 internships will offer UC Berkeley undergraduates the opportunity to pursue challenging hands on projects and energy and climate research. According to the office of the vice chancellor for research among the projects, cal energy core interns will be involved in our efforts to create green coal as industrial fuel, helping to produce biofuels, working on improving photovoltaics for integration into the [00:27:30] electricity grid, building models to better understand climate change and designing and testing. Cookstoves. The internship program provides a $600 weekly stipend for all interns as well as funding to cover transportation and housing. All placements are full time, more information and application forms are available at the cow energy core website. Speaker 9: Yeah, Speaker 6: explaining science to an 11 year old. The flame challenge sponsored by the Center for communicating science is an attempt to reach the very core of [00:28:00] science communication. The contest asks scientists and generally clever people to submit their own explanations of what a flame is, explanations that would captivate an 11 year old. The flame challenge contest is open for entries between March 2nd and April 2nd with the winners to be announced in June. Entries can be in writing, video or graphics and they can be playful or serious as long as they are accurate and connect with the young judges. For more information and entry [00:28:30] forms, visit the challenge website. Flame challenge.org Speaker 7: [inaudible] music curse during the show goes by on Donna David [inaudible] on for his album title folk and acoustic [00:29:00] just made available by creative Commons license 3.0 contribution. [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show [inaudible] [00:29:30] to our email address is [inaudible] means in two weeks. It's Speaker 6: the same Speaker 5: [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Elia Schito works at Nebulab. He is a Ruby enthusiast and move to a more supporting role for Opal development, mainly reviewing and merging PRs, handling releases, and so on. He returns to the show to talk about Opal and its new features. It is a Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler. They also talk about the difference between Opal and ruby-wasm. Additionally, they discuss the e-commerce platform, "Solidus".Features recently added to Opalfreezingparallel compilationasync/await supportnative promisesio (gets/puts)bundle size reductionreadability of compiled JSruby 3.2 support (coming around Christmas 2022)binding.irbSponsorsChuck's Resume TemplateDeveloper Book ClubBecome a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs MembershipLinksOpal
Elia Schito works at Nebulab. He is a Ruby enthusiast and move to a more supporting role for Opal development, mainly reviewing and merging PRs, handling releases, and so on. He returns to the show to talk about Opal and its new features. It is a Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler. They also talk about the difference between Opal and ruby-wasm. Additionally, they discuss the e-commerce platform, "Solidus".Features recently added to Opalfreezingparallel compilationasync/await supportnative promisesio (gets/puts)bundle size reductionreadability of compiled JSruby 3.2 support (coming around Christmas 2022)binding.irbSponsorsChuck's Resume TemplateDeveloper Book ClubBecome a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs MembershipLinksOpal
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