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Kiera is joined by Mark Rasmussen, CEO of Moolah, to talk about the landscape of credit card fees and how to reduce them, membership discount plans, and other bonus features offered by the dental payment tech company. (Pssst, Mark was last on episode 866, It's Time to Modernize Payment Processing!) Episode resources: Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Schedule a Practice Assessment Leave us a review Transcript Kiera Dent (00:00) Hello, Dental A Team listeners. This is Kiera. And today I am super jazzed because I have a guest here who's going to help us with cashflow leaks, modernizing your practice, figuring out those membership plans, all the things that you need and want. We're going to talk about some case studies. This is one of my absolute favorite guests, Mark Rasmussen, CEO, owner, founder, Moolah. How are you today, Mark? Welcome to the show.   Mark Rasmussen (00:22) Hey, Kara, I'm doing fantastic. I'm doing awesome. So, so, so it's connected with you and your listeners and excited to get into all this juicy good stuff about revenue and payments and modernizing things. Let's do it. I love it.   Kiera Dent (00:31) Yeah.   Let's   do it. So I have a slight crush on Moolah. Like truly you guys like just make credit card processing easy. And so what I want to start off, if you guys don't listen, Mark and I have done other podcasts in the past together. ⁓ But I don't know, Mark, what you guys say on your email subject lines, like on your little, what is it your signature, but I feel like it should be like your new favorite credit card processing company. Like that's what I feel like Moolah's tagline should be because I wanted to do a couple case studies with you since we last chatted.   Mark Rasmussen (00:40) Hahaha   Kiera Dent (01:05) ⁓ Mark knows, like, I do have a crush on Moolah. I try to get them to come and be our processor too.   Mark Rasmussen (01:10) I need to like soundbite clip that,   like I have a crush on Moolah just like everywhere in social. I love that.   Kiera Dent (01:15) I   do. do because I like companies that make things easy, but also are like the cheapest on the market and credit card fees are one of my biggest beefs. Like really truly I get annoyed when I look to see how much credit card fees are charging. And when you guys, ⁓ deadly team listeners, just so you know, I'm going to throw it out there. Like anybody who goes through our link literally saves 10 basis points. ⁓   on it, which is huge to get anywhere in the credit card industry. So you're getting below that 2.99. So you're getting 2.89 on cards not present and 2.39. And I hope that Mark, I'm allowed to say that because I'm just going to be bold and brazen. And if not, we'll cut that out. So don't stress about that.   Mark Rasmussen (01:52) No, no, no, for sure. And   not only that, it's like, that's not just a like teaser rate, like they look, your practices will get that preferred rate forever, right, which is awesome. And, and it's like you and I were talking a little bit earlier, too, of like, a bit of shock and awe of like, I and myself as well, I've been seeing like some statements from potential practices. And I'm like, ⁓ my God, I'm like, I'm seeing like,   Kiera Dent (02:03) which is so big and you don't add extra heat.   Mark Rasmussen (02:19) six, seven, eight percent, like net effective rates. I know you were saying you have been seeing even higher. It's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. It's almost criminal.   Kiera Dent (02:25) Mm-hmm. Yeah, so it   does feel criminal because like here's the thing like you might get a cheaper rate somewhere else but when you look and dig into the details and this is where it feels annoying and obnoxious to me and doesn't happen right away it happens like when you've stopped looking at it you're like I've checked my credit card company for years they don't do anything and then all of a sudden it starts creeping up and being eerie and that's where I just get annoyed and that's why like I have a crush on Moolah because you guys don't do it and you guys stay consistent for it so   I felt Mark and I, you didn't listen to our last podcast, we'll definitely link it in the show notes for you. But Mark, I felt we should kick today off with some case studies because I have some clients that I've recommended over to Moolah. And I think my favorite one is we were looking and I had a practice and our overhead was high. So like this practice, they don't love to like look at numbers. They have an amazing CPA. Like I will say we do look at numbers, but they're kind of like, yeah, carry it. We'll just like out produce our problems a little bit. And that's fine. Like anybody can have that. But I said, Hey,   Mark Rasmussen (03:17) Alright.   Kiera Dent (03:21) Your credit card fees are really high. think that they were honestly like 10%. And I'm like, is that really true? Like that just seems outlandish. And they said, well, Kiera, we're in a contract. Mark, do you want to throw up with contracts? Tell me about credit card contracts.   Mark Rasmussen (03:33) Oh, I hate contracts. I hate contracts   like really in anything in my life. I don't know. So yeah, but that's, it's just crazy. The industry for the longest time has like felt the need to like lock these business owners and not just Dennis, but business owners in like these typically it's like three year contracts. And then, you know, they'll have like termination fees. And so they take advantage of that. And like you were saying, I talked to so many practices are like, Oh, I'm paying X and you know, they were paying X the first month that they signed up.   And then they didn't look at it, like you said, and then six months later, eight months later, the processor started like nudging it up, nudging it up, nudging it up. And to the point where when you look at what their rates are, you know, two years from when they signed up, it's like almost 180 degrees difference. So yeah, please you guys out there, please make sure you stay on your credit card processing. Look at those month end statements. Look at, you know, what is being nudged up because   Kiera Dent (04:19) Yeah.   Mark Rasmussen (04:28) You know, they'll just slip it in a little statement message. They're not forthcoming about it. I promise you they're not like, shooting you multiple emails or calling you and be like, hey, we're going to increase your rate. No, no, no, no, no. They're going to slip it under the table and hope that you never pay attention to it, which is really what happens because you guys are all busy. You guys are all doing amazing care on patients and you're not paying attention to that. That's the reality.   Kiera Dent (04:49) And it's creepy to me because it's also done on things that don't make sense. Like I feel like reading a credit card statement with what they're charging is like reading very highly processed foods. And I'm like, I have no clue what 90 % of these words are. And I feel like it's the same thing when you come to a credit card statement. And so back to this practice, what we did, there's two case studies I wanted to bring to the table today that are my own personal clients that I've referred over to Moolah that I signed up with Moolah. So this practice, again, overhead, let's out produce our problems.   Mark Rasmussen (05:00) That's a good comparison, I like that.   Kiera Dent (05:18) And it was wild because the first month they switched to Moolah, their CPA sent a letter to all of us and said like, hey, what'd you do? Did you switch credit card companies? Your fees are so much lower. Like that fast first month drop down. So we went from about a 10 % fee on what they're producing and collecting to then dropping it down to this 2.89 to 2.39, depending upon if card was present or not, which is super awesome also because then you can get cards.   Mark Rasmussen (05:28) guys.   Kiera Dent (05:44) on auto renew, like on just processing internally and you don't have to, like you can have cards present or not present within the practice, which is so awesome. ⁓ But I was shocked like that fast. And then another practice that we brought to Moolah, they were locked in with another credit card company. And so I didn't know you couldn't do this, Mark. So this was like rookie mistake on me. Like I was, I'm scrappy and I thought, well, okay, fine. You guys are in a contract. So.   just stop processing through that processor, switch everything over to Moolah. Well, you know this Mark and I was rookie so you know what happens. Do you know what happens with those companies?   Mark Rasmussen (06:21) No,   listen, I said that a lot too because technically, really, if the practice is in a contract, and I've said that before, you probably have these miscellaneous junk fees, these monthly minimums that are gonna hit maybe 20, $30 a month. But even if you're paying that minimum and you saved thousands over here, who cares? Pay that minimum, just write that contract out. What happened here in this scenario? Okay.   Kiera Dent (06:44) That was exactly what I said too. So   that's what, cause I was like, why not? I thought the exact same thing. I'm like, okay, if we're looking at, you're able to save 3%, 4 % like higher amounts and we're processing, even if you're processing a hundred thousand or 200,000, like that extra two, 3 % do the math. Like that's surely going to offset the cost. Well, what happened is we actually did that. So a client signed up with you guys. They did that. And we got a letter from the other processor saying,   Mark Rasmussen (06:54) Yeah.   Kiera Dent (07:11) that, we have a minimum and if we don't hit it, it was going to be substantial and to get out of contract, it was going to cost us a thousand dollars. So we literally said, fine, take the thousand dollars because we'd already saved that much through Moolah's savings to be able to like, we're just like, like it's a done deal. Like they were trying to threaten them with this thousand dollar fee, but we were like, that's so minimal to get us out of this contract based on how much we were saving. Now this practice was processing a decent chunk.   Mark Rasmussen (07:32) Right. Right.   Kiera Dent (07:38) But I think even if you're processing like 70,000, 80,000, that one, 2 % stacks up. Like it's insane how much we pay in credit card fees. So those are like the two that I wanted to bring to the, like I said, this is why I have a crush because I hate credit card fees so much. And that's going to lead into our next topic. But Mark, anything you want to add? Cause these were two cases that I've watched since we last met.   Mark Rasmussen (07:45) yeah.   I love that.   Kiera Dent (08:00) ⁓ I'm constantly on the prowl for cheaper people. I love that you guys don't charge for the terminals. You have it set up the next day. There's no contracts. Like that's where I said, like it's your new favorite, like credit card processing. You don't increase the fees. You give our clients reduced rates. If you have multi locations, you guys also take care of those practices. Like it's amazing what you guys do. So that's my like pitch for Moolah, but if you want to add anything else.   Mark Rasmussen (08:22) I love that. wanted to, because you just   like rang a memory. So what you were referring to in that practice, right, where like, okay, you can't just skate by and just pay the minimum, right? Or they were gonna hit him with his fee. Well, another thing I'm gonna tell your listeners out there is, listen, if you don't go with Moolah, great, do your homework. But one thing to look out that I've seen in contracts, which is crazy, is that sometimes you'll see a contract, all right, if you cancel early, it's like a 350 termination fee. Okay, fine.   but I've seen others out there where the processor says they try to enforce liquidated damages. So the processor will say, oh, we've been making, you're in a three year contract, on average we're making like, whatever, $500 a month on your processing. If you leave us now, it's not early termination fee, we're gonna calculate that $500 for the remaining 16, 17 months and they hit you with this liquidated damages thing, crazy. So just be on the lookout for that. If you're doing anywhere that's a contract,   Kiera Dent (08:57) No.   Mark Rasmussen (09:20) Look out for liquidated damages, that's no bueno, but better yet, find somebody that's just not gonna put you in a contract. Much easier.   Kiera Dent (09:26) Yeah. And   also like, okay, Mark, help me understand. And maybe you don't know because you guys don't do this and that's okay. But to me, it feels really funny that I signed a contract with them and there's got to be something in the fine print because I'm like, how did they go from what they told me to being able to add all these extra surcharges later on and increase it when we're in a contract?   Mark Rasmussen (09:43) for sure it's in the fine print.   yeah. It says that any, it basically says that any time at our discretion with 30 days notice, we can make an adjustment to any of your pre-schedule. And so they'll just do that. And then they'll just put a little message, you know, really small font in whatever kind of notification. And you know, in their minds, right? All right, well, we checked off the box. It's super shady. It sucks, but it's, you know, it's out there. Yeah.   Kiera Dent (10:05) Yeah, it is what it is. And I would say   they'll like look at it because two clients that were in contract, we were able to send over every person that I've sent to you guys have just loved who you are, that it's easy, that it's fast, that it's the cheapest processing. And there's a few other features that I think we should talk about. I feel like I'm on like a Moolah sales pitch right now. Like I'm truly not. I just get giddy. Like if you guys hear me talk about Swell,   Mark Rasmussen (10:27) Ha   Kiera Dent (10:30) was Zeke and Google reviews. I have a crush on Swell. They just do Google reviews better than anyone else. And right now, Moolah for sure, you guys are taking the cake on being able to do credit card processing better than any other company that I've come across, which I think is amazing. And so something else that I think is ratcheting fees on practices when we're looking for some of these cashflow leaks is on membership plans. Now, I'm a huge proponent of membership plans. I also think with the economy, with where insurance is reimbursing, ⁓ people are starting to look at like   should we be going out of network? And my big proposal is, hey, yeah, of course, if you want to do that rock on, membership plans really can help with that. But ⁓ there are some membership companies that actually charge pretty outlandish fees. I never wanted to pay for that. I was scrappy in a practice. So what I did is I just charged the patient an annual fee. Well, that was like eight years ago that I was charging an annual fee. And I think you look at today's world, no one wants an annual fee anymore. They just want like a monthly fee and they want it to be low.   Mark Rasmussen (11:02) for   Right. Right.   Kiera Dent (11:28) But managing that is nonsense on my own paying for it. And Moolah, like I've heard through the grapevine, you guys are doing something with membership fees. Can we talk about the membership plans? Talk about how you guys do this. Is it easier? Is it something we can do? Because I think membership plans have to come into play with the insurance situation that offices are in. And also possibly a cash leak if you're paying for heavy management fees on your membership plans.   Mark Rasmussen (11:37) Yeah, yeah, absolutely.   Yeah. So listen, membership discount plans. I've since I've been, I've only been in the industry, you know, dental industry for about four years now. And every year I feel like it's getting traction. More practices are asking about us. I have practices that are doing demos with us and they're like, Hey, I'm doing this demo is driving it because I heard you guys do, you know, membership, discount plan management. And so yes, the answer is we do. ⁓   And as you were looking to, there's a lot of great vendors in this space that just do that, right? And I'm not going to name any names, but there's a lot of great vendors, but they're not inexpensive. Like, you know, there's some decent SAS fees and then you pay per patient enrollment. ⁓ And so when it's, you know, when you look at the net net and you're like, okay, is this really making sense? So what's nice is that we have complete membership discount plan management built into the platform. You can create all your plans. ⁓ You can easily onboard the patient into the system.   Kiera Dent (12:21) Mm-hmm.   Yeah.   Mark Rasmussen (12:48) whether the patient wants to go monthly or annual, like you said, you were doing annual and a lot of the practices that I run into have historically been doing it annually, right? Because to think about billing it on a monthly basis has you like pulling your hair out. But the reality is that the patients and the consumers in the world that we live in, ⁓ everybody looks at whatever they're gonna bring into their life, whether it's a Netflix subscription or it's a car payment or it's anything else, everybody kind of looks at at a monthly basis.   Kiera Dent (13:02) Too hard.   Mark Rasmussen (13:17) And so that is what you want to be delivering. And so with the Moolah platform, you can absolutely manage an in-house membership discount plan and offer both annual and monthly options and truly set it and forget it. Not have to think about it. The system's going to run. The system's going to automatically post that payment into the ledger. In open dental, we even go a step further where when you enroll the patient into the membership, not only are we handling the billing element of it,   But we're also going into the PMS and we're associating that patient to that membership discount plan and keeping track. You know, that's what's really doing all the heavy lifting of keeping track of whatever the one free cleaning of the 10 % off services. And we keep that in lockstep. So if there was like a billing issue, we automatically disassociate the patient from the plan to really just kind of make it pain free. you know, membership discount plans are phenomenal. It's a win win for patients and practice. First of all, it brings some really great reoccurring   Kiera Dent (13:51) Mm-hmm.   Mm-hmm.   Mark Rasmussen (14:14) like trackable revenue into the practice, right? Number two, it's bringing patients like butts in seats ⁓ as well. ⁓ Because the patient looks like, I'm paying $40 a month. I should use it. I should be in there. ⁓ And it's bringing value to the patient. So it's literally just a win-win all around. I really love that for, you know, when you're looking at out of network patients ⁓ and the absolutely, you know, the platform has it built in. So you guys, please, if you're looking at discount plans, memberships,   I encourage you to look at some of the other great vendors out there and then come take a look at us last and see like the value that you get that's included.   Kiera Dent (14:49) That's awesome. Yeah. And again, like there are so many great people out there that are doing it. I just feel, ⁓ when I heard that you guys were doing membership plans, I was like, well, it kind of makes sense because you're already processing credit cards. Like you're already doing the processing. So now something else that is doing a processing is in my processor, into my software, which I just, that was so incredibly clever. And, ⁓ like again, I had another client who, who scoped you against other companies and they were like, gosh, like there's no fees.   Mark Rasmussen (15:03) Great.   Kiera Dent (15:17) compared to other companies with moolah. So that was something I was really excited about. I'm big on just, it's like my insurance. I've been with State Farm forever. And Jason and I giggled, we're like, we need to go and actually like assess and make sure that we're truly getting the best plans. And so I just think like it's good to periodically go and assess and make sure our credit card fees, what they were when we set up.   our membership plans making sense? Is it time to look to possibly renegotiate some certain things? And again, I'm not here to propose one company over another. Like Mark said, do your homework, figure out what's best because there's so many great companies out there. I just really love when it's simple and easy. And that's something I love about you guys, Mark, you guys have the fact that we can send patient statements and like have payments online and they can pay it all times of the day. Like just that alone boosts offices, collections with Moulin. So Mark, I want to go into a dicey topic with you though.   because this one's hot. We had it in our in-person ⁓ doctor and leadership mastermind when we were in Arizona and I loved it. It was like a hot, hot topic and heads up like this might be awkward for you. I don't think it will because of who you are, but there's the question of, and it was hot, like the room was split of people who were pro and con. So the question is with credit card fees being as much as they were, we talked about at the beginning, like ways that we can reduce it.   Mark Rasmussen (16:10) Let's do it.   I know, I wanna hear what the feedback was, because I know where you're going.   Kiera Dent (16:40) Then we talked about reducing membership plans. Now there's a question of, should we actually charge patients the credit card fees? Like this is becoming really popular and I don't blame businesses because inflation's high, labor is higher. So now we're trying to figure out like where could we cut? And so people are like, well, sweet, we're just gonna pass on the credit card fees to our patients. And the room was spicy. There was like people that were so pro and people that like literally people were bristly and it was a...   Mark Rasmussen (17:05) Yeah.   Kiera Dent (17:06) It was quite interesting. So your credit card company, which is where I feel like it's a little awkward to ask you this question, but I want to know, we pro, are we con? Should we charge the patients from your perspective? We're in 2025. So many companies do this. Should people be charging patients the credit card fee? Should they just raise their fees and bake it in? Like, what are your thoughts on this? Because my room was 50 50 split. And I will tell you some of the feedback if you want to hear it, cause it was quite interesting.   Mark Rasmussen (17:13) Yeah.   Okay, okay.   I do. Okay, so the first   thing I want to point out is I expect you to say that the room is split, right? Like half of them are like, yeah, absolutely. You know, I'm not paying for my patients' reward points. And I think the other half of the room was like, yeah, but I'm worried about the optics. Does it look like we're trying to be cheesy or nickel and diming our patients, right? Those are the two ends that are battling each other. The interesting thing is that this hot topic, ⁓ if you would have asked that just three years ago,   Kiera Dent (17:38) Mm-hmm.   Mm-hmm. No.   Mark Rasmussen (18:01) it wouldn't have been 50 50. It   would have been like 80 90 % saying no way and 10 % made me do it. So the trend is is like it is going right and two or three years from now I have a feeling it's going to be like 80 % are doing it and 20 % are not doing it. So the cat is out of the bag. Let's just get that you know right out there in the open. What do I think about it? I'm to be super Switzerland about this and I'm going to say that I think   Kiera Dent (18:06) Agreed. 100 % agree.   I would agree with you.   Remember he's   a credit card processing company.   Mark Rasmussen (18:31) Well,   no, I'm going to say that I think that as a vendor who delivers credit card processing service, I think that I should enable our practices to make that choice for themselves. I think whatever you think you should do for your practice, I want to support it. So if you don't want to do surcharging, great, we love that. If you do want to do surcharging, great, I love that. I just want to give the tools to the practice so they can make that decision. Now, aside what I think about it,   It's a very interesting topic to talk about. Well, what is the net result? I like, all right, how does it work? What does it save? Let's get into it if I may. Okay, so there's a couple ways. There is absolutely there. There is, and there's a couple flavors to this. There's a couple flavors to this. ⁓ there, the, the, what that we do, let me talk about that first. So what we do is what's referred to as compliance surcharging and with compliance surcharging, what is, what you're doing is that   Kiera Dent (19:06) I agree. Cause like, are there rules around it? Like, you actually have to do anything? Okay. I have no idea. Okay.   Mark Rasmussen (19:28) When a customer's paying you with a credit card, the system, system, I'll just speak to our system, most others are similar, but when a patient is paying you, whether it's in practice on the device or whether you sent a text to pay or it's an online payment, our system automatically, real time, looks at the number that the patient put in or used on the terminal. And within a half a second, we're looking back at the credit card network before we even charge it, and we say, is this a credit or is this a debit? If the patient is paying with a credit card,   We then pop on the screen, either on their mobile device or on the terminal, we say, hey, we see you're using a credit card. We're going to add 2.99 % as a fee to you for using a credit card. If you want to use a debit card, you will avoid that fee. So in Compliance Surcharging, what I really like about that is that you're not charging us fee across debit and credit, right? You're still giving your patient the convenience of being able to pay with plastic.   Kiera Dent (20:19) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.   Mark Rasmussen (20:25) and still use a debit card because the reality is if you have a credit card in your wallet, there's probably 99 % chance you've got a Visa debit card in your wallet as well. And so you're not pulling away that convenience of them being able to pay plastic and just saying, hey, if you want to avoid that fee, pay cash or check. That's kind of archaic. So with compliance surcharging, you are going to offload your credit card fees to the patient, only the credit card fees. When they pay with a debit card, you will still pay for that, okay?   Kiera Dent (20:43) I agree.   Mark Rasmussen (20:55) With doing that with Moolah, if you're going to pay the debit fee and not pay the credit card fee, we see that the overall net effective rate for the practice ends up being below 1%. It ends up being like, I'm going to throw out a weird term that people are going, what the heck is that? It's usually going to be around 75 or 80 basis points. About three quarters of 1 % is going to be your net overall cost, which is huge savings, right? Huge savings.   Kiera Dent (21:07) No.   Crazy, like insane. Just do   some math. If you did a million dollars and you were able to basically save, gosh, so much.   Mark Rasmussen (21:28) No, let's just say,   the reality is you're probably saving one and a half percent. So on a million dollar practice, that practice is gonna put about $15,000 back to their bottom line. Like, and that's it, and it was painless. And you're still not really, yeah, exactly.   Kiera Dent (21:37) Exactly.   And that's also for payments you're already collecting. Like this is already   money we're collecting, we just get to keep more of it rather than having the credit card processing fee.   Mark Rasmussen (21:47) Yes.   And it doesn't need to like, you know, break brain cells for you to try and figure it out. Like the system is going to automatically calculate it. We're going to organize it. ⁓ It's just, it's painless. We're handling it in the PMS correctly. listen, the savings cannot be ignored. Like we talked about the cats out of the bag. You're going to see more businesses across more different verticals. ⁓ And the reality is   We've all been around it for a long, long time, right? Who's been doing it forever? Gas stations, right? We've seen it on there. Cash credit, right? That's been there forever. And we're all used to it. And you also typically see a lot when you're dealing with like state or federal agencies, you ever gone on and make an online tax payment, they usually charge a fee there. So it's just now getting more, you know, ⁓ rolling out. Yeah.   Kiera Dent (22:40) Nail salons for the girls out there. We all know the   nail salons. They'll say like, it's a 3 % charge if you use credit card. I'm like, here's your cash. Like it's clever. They push us to what they want.   Mark Rasmussen (22:49) Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.   So it is listen. So I, I believe in delivering the technology to our clients, I don't have an opinion one way or the other, whatever you feel is good. I will tell you though that I think a lot of practices, especially on the on the one half of the room that are like against it. I think what we're finding is that people are not pushing back as much as   you think they are because consumers are just getting used to it. And again, the fact that at least with our practices, you're still giving your patient the ability to have that convenience and pay with a debit card and not have the fee. If they were doing like the model where they call it, know, cash discount, where you're going to hit the debit card and you're going to hit the credit card, I think you get more pushback on that, but you're still giving that convenience. So yeah, I'm a fan of it. We get, like I said, more and more requests of it. ⁓   It's not going anywhere. yeah, we're here to support your practice. If you guys want to try it out, try it out and listen, here's the thing.   Kiera Dent (23:50) Yeah.   How does it work in practice   though? Like, so someone's standing in front of me at a terminal, I'm collecting money in person. How does this work? Because it's not gonna pop up on my like treatment plan that I just gave them or on my ledger. So how do I do that?   Mark Rasmussen (24:00) Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.   It'll pop up on the terminal.   so first thing we do, we give the practices, ⁓ you know, some template messaging and they'll just want to put up something by the front desk. And it says something to the effect of that, you know, this office adds a surcharge when using a credit card, ⁓ not beyond, you know, what our costs are, right? This is not a money, additional money revenue is trying to like, you know, make arbitrage between costs and no, I'm only going to pass off. And so.   Kiera Dent (24:32) Great.   Mark Rasmussen (24:35) the patient is aware of it, they've seen it, and then when they go to use it on the terminal, if they're in practice, when they go to run the credit card, it will pop up on the screen and your team can just show it to the patient, they'll see it, that it's adding it because they're using the credit card. And it'll give them an option if they want to accept it or if they want to back out of it and try again with a debit card and avoid the fee, really easy.   Kiera Dent (24:58) Okay, that's actually really helpful. And now I have a question because I don't know this. How does this work? Because technically the practice is collecting more money, right? Like we are taking the fee plus the credit card fee. ⁓   Mark Rasmussen (25:10) Let's say it's $100 and let's just say we're   adding that surcharge so now it's $103. Okay? Yeah. Yeah.   Kiera Dent (25:14) Right, so that's $3 more per $100 transaction. But   does that impact them in tax? I would think no, because credit card companies still charging us the 3%. Like, how does this work? Are you following what I'm saying? how does this impact you?   Mark Rasmussen (25:26) Yeah, I do. So you   don't have anything else to like, you know, break your brain on that. Our system, first of all, will break out the surcharge in the reporting. Okay. So it's really clean. Furthermore, the addition, the $103, right, like the customer got charged, the patient got charged $103. But our system automatically calculates it, that you have a fee of 3 % and that you surcharge the patient 3%. So the practice is still just going to get the full $100.   Kiera Dent (25:36) Mm-hmm.   Mm-hmm.   Mark Rasmussen (25:56) It's as if they took a cash payment. So it's easy for them. They're not getting 10.99 at the $103, so to speak. It's just still truly only taking $100, which is great.   Kiera Dent (25:57) Gotcha. Okay.   Mm-hmm. ⁓   Yeah, because that's what   I was curious like, and like some things have sales tax. So didn't know like surcharges, do they get taxed differently or is it just like accepting cash, same thing for a practice? Okay. Now, so that's really helpful. And that helps me see on the ledger. So are you guys synced into the PMS for it to say, because like if my ledger says a hundred dollars, but I'm now doing 3 % surcharge on it.   Mark Rasmussen (26:18) Exactly, total amount, total amount, yeah.   Yes.   Kiera Dent (26:35) I'm going to be posting $103. How do I make sure that all of my ledgers match up?   Mark Rasmussen (26:40) So   we'll post $100 in the ledger, okay? And then we'll have a procedure code for the surcharge. And then we'll also have an offsetting so that it doesn't mess up your balance. So you can easily run reports based on the procedure code. I can see what my surcharge is, but it's not messing up and showing that, I took in $103 on this $100 transaction. So your ledger is gonna stay nice and clean.   and not be a nightmare, 100%.   Kiera Dent (27:10) Okay,   because that's I was like, Oh, great. Because there was another office that I heard about. And Mark, I'm just curious about your opinion on this. And then we're gonna get back to this like spicy and thanks for walking through this. There was another practice, I've literally never heard of this before. So I'm curious if you have or if you recommend or don't this practice. So let's say a patient, the total is $100, they pay the $100, the practice literally posted on the ledger.   Mark Rasmussen (27:28) Mm-hmm.   Kiera Dent (27:38) instead of being $100 because now they lost $3, they posted $97 on the ledger and they were taking out the surcharge. Have you ever heard of that? Because I had never heard it. I was, do you recommend that? Because I've never recommended that, right? And I think as a patient, I'd feel really angry though. no, I gave you 100 bucks, but you gave me 97. Like I would just.   Mark Rasmussen (27:48) I haven't.   That seems wonky. Yeah.   Right. Or   continue that on. How about now all of a sudden a week later you go to refund it and we're we're refunding you 97. You're like, no, no, no, I paid you 100. It's gonna be messed up in so many levels.   Kiera Dent (28:09) Right. I was just curious.   I was like, I mean, maybe I'm archaic on how I do this. I used to just do it that way and then accept that that would just be a cost on my PNL. But now there's a way for you to actually offset it with the process. So my question is going back to that, that's actually helpful. Thank you. So if you're doing that, definitely recommend not doing that anymore. ⁓ But I was like, Hey, I've never heard of this. Maybe that is the right way to do the accounting on it. But it felt very messy to me. Now,   Do we as the practice need to put in the surcharge as that procedure code when we're charging that out or does Moolah automatically sync it in and put the surcharge of the procedure code?   Mark Rasmussen (28:48) We have, yeah,   automatically done. There's nothing for you to do. Yeah. So during onboarding, we will set up, we will work with the practice, obviously. We'll make sure that we have a procedure code set up for them. And so during the onboarding, we'll have that so that when you do run a surcharge transaction like that, there's nothing you need to do. It'll all be handled in the ledger correctly.   Kiera Dent (28:51) Amazing. I love it. This is why I said I have a preference on you.   and you're in all softwares. What softwares does Moolah sink into?   Mark Rasmussen (29:10) Yes, so ⁓ Open Dental, ⁓ Dentrix, G7, and ⁓ newer server-based, not Ascend. And we're actually going to be ⁓ releasing, finally, this has been a long time coming, we're finally going live with Eagle Soft ⁓ Beta at end of next week. So Open Dental, Dentrix, and Eagle Soft. Yeah.   Kiera Dent (29:28) Awesome.   That's awesome. Okay, very cool. And   then if you're not in one of those and you can just obviously add this in, it wouldn't be automatically synced. And I think like of those ones though, huge win this way. Okay, now we'll go back to the spicy. I will tell you guys how the room was divided. The room was divided, I'll be right. The do it, don't do it. And then the like, there's a middle ground, which I thought the middle ground was kind of convenient. ⁓ There wasn't, but I did see people like it. I did feel like it was like,   Mark Rasmussen (29:45) Yes.   Was there any physical fighting going on? Okay.   Kiera Dent (30:00) like politics and religion status. Like it was like very cut through the room. I do agree with you. And that's what I said. I was like, you guys, this 2025, this is going to take place in the future and it will be very common. just, think our early adopters going to stay or not. It's your choice. Um, I've always been of the opinion like, no, just bake it into your fee. And now I'm like, well, everybody's starting to charge for it. Like, why not? Um, so it was don't charge for it now. Another was like, no, put it in. People are doing it anyway. And the middle ground, which I thought was   Mark Rasmussen (30:02) Right. Right, right, right.   Kiera Dent (30:30) of a good way to do it is in person. They didn't charge a fee, but any of their online statements, they did charge a fee because they said most people who pay online know there's usually a service fee associated with it. So I thought that was kind of a, an easy way. If you guys are looking for a navigation through it. ⁓ but I think like, honestly, it's just like anything else, train your patients if you want to, but don't feel like you have to, I think it'd just be something to consider. So, but again,   Like get the reduction, like if nothing else, like switch to a processor that's going to be reduced fees anyway. So even if you want to continue offering it, you're still saving on that. Mark, I have one last thing that I wanted to dive into. I'm hearing from a lot of like integrated softwares. So like dental Intel and Flex and some of these other ones that literally make practice lives easier. They're having processors in there that are just integrated right into that. They're using it all the time.   Mark Rasmussen (31:20) Yeah.   Kiera Dent (31:25) How does Moolah play in those worlds? Like, do you get the same pricing? Do we not get the same pricing? Are some of those better because they're already bundled in? Again, I'm putting you on like really awkward topics, but I just want to know. I want to know how does this work.   Mark Rasmussen (31:35) No, no, not at all. So listen, you mentioned Flex. We   love Flex, okay? I love Flex, not just because, yes, they're a partner of ours, right? And yes, your Mool account works beautifully and integrated with Flex. But I love Flex just because I think they're like cut from the same cloth that we are. Like we just, at the end of the day, we want to over-deliver, right? We want to over-deliver, whether it's technology, whether it's value, and they have that mindset. And so I love the Flex team. Full disclosure.   ⁓ And so we've been an integrated partner with Flex for, gosh now, I think three years. So yeah, I think they deliver a ton of value to any open dental practice. So anybody out there for sure should check out Flex. They are amazing. Dental Intel. So we used to be, ⁓ not to bore the audience, but like we used to have an integration with Modento and then Dental Intel acquired Modento.   Kiera Dent (32:33) Yep.   Mark Rasmussen (32:33) and   then Dental Intel wanted to roll up their own integrated credit card processing. And so they have now. so, listen, ⁓ we wish Dental Intel the best, wish them well, but yeah, we're no longer integrated with Dental Intel, but yeah, Flex, we love Flex.   Kiera Dent (32:49) Okay, because I was just curious. Now, I feel if it's bundled, is this a time where offices should just be strategic? I'm not saying anyone's doing it. I haven't looked at it. So I'm not here to like cast judge or I just want to make sure offices are being smart. I would think when they're bundled or they're integrated, offices should still check even using MULA. They should still be watching their credit card statements every single month, right? Like no matter what, just to always make sure things are staying clean and also before we sign up with anybody.   Mark Rasmussen (33:08) Mm-hmm.   100%.   Kiera Dent (33:19) Like literally read the fine print and look for it. Yes. No. I from like, let's just go all the way back.   Mark Rasmussen (33:23) Yeah.   And I would always say that, you know, let's just take the Flex example. Flex has, you and I won't name anything, I'll let you guys out there, you go check it out to yourself, but there are three options. I encourage you, especially when we're talking about a vendor that you're looking at, and especially when this vendor that you're looking at revolves around your cashflow, right? Like it's a pretty integral part of a vendor that you're bringing into your ecosystem. call them, talk to them.   Kiera Dent (33:46) Mm-hmm.   Mark Rasmussen (33:54) Call in the middle of the day. Do they pick up the phone? Do they answer? Can you talk to somebody very easily? Like really pop the hood and take a look at who you're going to get in and do business with, especially when it's, you know, that vendor is like controlling your cash flow on a daily basis. So yes, please you guys out there, do your homework, look at the agreements, ask questions, and see what's right for you. Yeah.   Kiera Dent (34:10) Yeah.   That's awesome. just, again,   I wanted to like go into it because these are things I'm hearing. I'm hearing people say like, this seamlessly integrates. I know you seamlessly integrate. I know you guys are constantly working to refine, to get into more and more practice management softwares to make it easier. Just Mark, as we wrap up, like this has been fun. I love the like, thanks for going into some of the spices with me. ⁓ But just as a quick rundown, like what are some of the features that Moola does? We talked about the membership plans. We did talk about that Dental A Team clients get 10 % basis points less for card present or card not present.   Mark Rasmussen (34:33) Always is.   Yep.   Kiera Dent (34:47) Which to me that alone, I would just look into it and see, like I said, two clients literally saved money by like dumping their contracts and moving over, which I think to me, like before I can have a crush on a company, I test them pretty heavily. So to see the proof in the pudding, I was so just elated and it made me even like you guys more. But what else does Moola do? Because I know you guys do a lot of other things that just make life easy.   Mark Rasmussen (35:05) I love that. yeah, yeah. So   at the end of the day, we do a lot, but it's all payment related and will always be payment related, right? So we're focused on being like, we try to be like the end all be all payment solution for dentists. And so when you look at like, what does a dental office need from a payment perspective, ⁓ it's in practice payments, right? So we provide you guys the physical devices. So   No more having to buy rent or lease those terminals. We're going to include them. you know, not only, yeah, they're wireless. Yeah, they're really cool. Aesthetically, they look really good. Yeah. And, and here's the other great part too, that I think it's kind of underrated ⁓ is of course, not only did we include them. the practice didn't need to buy them, but like normally, you know, with our peers, you have to buy these devices and then you buy them and then it's like one year warranty, right? And then like Murphy's law always kicks in.   Kiera Dent (35:37) They're awesome too. They're portable. They can go back to the hygiene operatories. It's amazing. So your hygienist can take it. Like they're awesome. It's so great.   Mark Rasmussen (36:01) like it loves to do. like, okay, month 14, the device just, you know, went out on you. And then you're gonna sorry, you got to buy another five $600 device with mula you guys will literally never have hardware expense ever because we give them to you on the front end. And we will warranty them forever. As long as you're with us. I don't care four or five, six years. If there's new devices that come out and your guys age out, we're going to replace them. Even if you drop it off the counter and crack the screen.   We don't care, we're gonna replace it for you. There's no fear or premium. So, in practice payments, we have you covered there from a technology standpoint as well as a hardware standpoint. Moving on, there's also, have the ability to, like you were talking about earlier, store patient cards securely tokenized. Nothing's ever touching the practices servers. It's all on our servers, but it's giving you the convenience of having those stored cards for the patient. You can have as many stored cards as you want. You can even send a request to the patient.   before their appointment and the patient from easily from home from their mobile device could add their credit card. And so when they come in, it's already stored and it's available to use. So stored cards, yeah, yeah, yeah.   Kiera Dent (37:07) With that, can I ask, do you guys have   the compliance paperwork? Is there anything you have to do to get a patient to have a stored credit card that we can run for future payments? once insurance pays, because I know that's a big thing of storing cards on file, do you have anything with that? Because I know that this is a zone.   Mark Rasmussen (37:23) Yep. What I...   Yeah, no. So it's very obvious as far as the process of the patient adding the card. Like when you send the message, it says, hey, would you like to securely store your card on file? Right? Beyond that, what I've seen some practices do is just they'll just include it in their overall like new patient intake forms and kind of include it in their terms of service of that. Hey, listen, if you want to store a card on file with us, you can. And you allow, once you store a card, you're giving us the authorization to utilize that card.   Kiera Dent (37:35) Mm-hmm.   Mark Rasmussen (37:51) for other future balances. As simple as that, that's all you need to do.   Kiera Dent (37:54) which is so smart you   guys think about it. This is where so many other industries do this. They have a card on file. I mean, I go to the spa, my cards on file, they run that card when I'm gone, like I authorize it to happen. So they never out of money. They're never chasing money down. Like it just to me makes so much more sense of a way to process.   Mark Rasmussen (38:12) Can you imagine if   Netflix or all the other subscriptions, if they had to wait for a payment every month and wait, come on, no. Subscription is the way, 100%. So, okay, so store card on file they get. The other thing they get is the ability to create and manage in-house payment plans. And of course, automatically post those payments to the ledger. We have some great things where if the payment fails, right? They're into the plan for three months and all of sudden the July payment fails.   Kiera Dent (38:18) No. No.   Yeah.   Mark Rasmussen (38:41) our system will automatically notify the practice, notify the patient, and what's cool is that the software will allow the patient to self-administer and fix it. So the software is not telling the patient, your card failed, call the front desk. No, we're gonna save a phone call there. The software will allow the patient to tell the software, okay, either A, try to charge that card again, or B, they can actually upload a new card on file.   So the cool stat on that is that in failed transactions in our payment plans, we see patients solving it between themselves and software within the first 24 hours at a rate of over 80%, which is huge. So payment plans, and then we talked about earlier, you also get the ability to manage any of your in-house membership or discount plans. ⁓ We have the collecting on a balance when the patient is out of practice, ⁓ sending a payment request either   Kiera Dent (39:20) Holy cow, it's amazing.   Mark Rasmussen (39:37) allocated or unallocated payment request can attach a statement. ⁓ We also have the ability to host a payment page on their website. So if you want to put a little navigation, click here to make an online after hours payment, we'll host that page for the practice. ⁓ So yeah, we really kind of just looked at it a full circle of like, where are all the payment touch points that our practice is dealing with, and just trying to deliver these really amazing tools. And again, as you know, our model.   ⁓ There's never any monthly fees. There's never any set up fees. There's never any annual fees ⁓ All there are these two simple flat rates and again, you can cancel it anytime you want never locked in anything   Kiera Dent (40:18) That's awesome. Mark, I appreciate this so much. How do people, like know they just connect with you, schedule a demo. You guys will look at their credit card processing, see how you guys can fix it. How do they connect with you specifically if they're interested? And specifically The Dental A Team, The Dental A Team, perks.   Mark Rasmussen (40:33) I would recommend and maybe we can list this in the podcast, but there will be a specific Moolah URL. It's like forward slash The Dental A Team They should go there and then they can schedule a demo. And then if they go there, then we're going to know it came from you guys. That way we can get them that 10 basis point savings forever. So just schedule a demo with us and no pressure. We're like the most like   the least salesy organization I think that you guys will ever run into. All we wanna do is inform you. We wanna show you what we have. We're not for everybody. ⁓ But assuming that you guys love what you see, we encourage you to try us out and check us out and see if we're gonna be a great fit for your practice.   Kiera Dent (41:13) Yeah, for sure. You guys, honestly, I love Moolah They're incredible. So on our website, we will link it. So the way you get to Moolah, it's on our website, TheDentalATeam.com. And then you can click on the About Partnerships Mulas right there. ⁓ And the actual, like if you guys want our direct link here, it would be TheDentalATeam.com slash partnerships slash Moolah. And that should take you right to Moolah's page. It's also mula.cc slash partners.   So that helps you guys will also link that in the show notes mark. I appreciate you guys so much Things are being on the podcast things are going through the spicy with me. I appreciate you so much   Mark Rasmussen (41:52) Any time, love you guys, you guys are the best and ⁓ have a great rest of day.   Kiera Dent (41:58) Hey, you too, for all of you listening. Thanks for listening and we'll catch you next time on The Dental A Team Podcast.  

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La Tasmania è una delle mete turistiche preferite dagli australiani, ma le sue bellissime montagne non devono essere prese sottogamba. Sono tanti infatti gli escursionisti che sono partiti ma non hanno fatto ritorno.

Sono, exercício, alimentação e pensamento.Parece básico, mas pouca gente realmente leva a sério esses quatro pilares.Hoje você vai entender por que dormir mal, conviver com gente negativa ou ignorar sua saúde tem um custo altíssimo, e o que fazer para recuperar sua energia, foco e longevidade.

Mario Soldaini"Il loro grido è la mia voce"Poesie da GazaFazi Editorewww.fazieditore.itA cura di Antonio Bocchinfuso, Mario Soldaini, Leonardo TostiPrefazione di Ilan PappéCon interventi di Susan Abulhawa e Chris HedgesTraduzione dall'arabo di Nabil Bey SalamehTraduzione dall'inglese di Ginevra Bompiani ed Enrico TerrinoniLa poesia come atto di resistenza. La forza delle parole come tentativo di salvezza. È questo il senso più profondo delle trentadue poesie di autori palestinesi raccolte in questo volume, in gran parte scritte a Gaza dopo il 7 ottobre 2023, nella tragedia della guerra in Palestina, in condizioni di estrema precarietà: poco prima di essere uccisi dai bombardamenti, come ultima preghiera o testamento poetico (Abu Nada, Alareer), mentre si è costretti ad abbandonare la propria casa per fuggire (al-Ghazali), oppure da una tenda, in un campo profughi dove si muore di freddo e di bombe (Elqedra). Come evidenzia lo storico israeliano Ilan Pappé nella prefazione, «scrivere poesia durante un genocidio dimostra ancora una volta il ruolo cruciale che la poesia svolge nella resistenza e nella resilienza palestinesi. La consapevolezza con cui questi giovani poeti affrontano la possibilità di morire ogni ora eguaglia la loro umanità, che rimane intatta anche se circondati da una carneficina e da una distruzione di inimmaginabile portata». Queste poesie, osserva Pappé, «sono a volte dirette, altre volte metaforiche, estremamente concise o leggermente tortuose, ma è impossibile non cogliere il grido di protesta per la vita e la rassegnazione alla morte, inscritte in una cartografia disastrosa che Israele ha tracciato sul terreno». «Ma questa raccolta non è solo un lamento», nota il traduttore Nabil Bey Salameh. «È un invito a vedere, a sentire, a vivere. Le poesie qui tradotte portano con sé il suono delle strade di Gaza, il fruscio delle foglie che resistono al vento, il pianto dei bambini e il canto degli ulivi. Sono una testimonianza di vita, un atto di amore verso una terra che non smette di sognare la libertà. In un mondo che spesso preferisce voltare lo sguardo, queste poesie si ergono come fari, illuminando ciò che rimane nascosto». Perché la scrittura, come ricordava Edward Said, è «l'ultima resistenza che abbiamo contro le pratiche disumane e le ingiustizie che sfigurano la storia dell'umanità».Il libro è anche un'iniziativa concreta di solidarietà verso la popolazione palestinese. Per ogni copia venduta Fazi Editore donerà 5 euro a EMERGENCY per le sue attività di assistenza sanitaria nella Striscia di Gaza.https://youtu.be/nwaL8jXE2uwCurata da Antonio Bocchinfuso, Mario Soldaini e Leonardo Tosti, questa raccolta propone una selezione di poesie di dieci autori palestinesi: Hend Joudah, Ni'ma Hassan, Yousef Elqedra, Ali Abukhattab, Dareen Tatour, Marwan Makhoul, Yahya Ashour, Heba Abu Nada (uccisa nell'ottobre 2023), Haidar al-Ghazali e Refaat Alareer (ucciso nel dicembre 2023). Il volume è arricchito da una prefazione dello storico israeliano Ilan Pappé e da due interventi firmati dalla scrittrice Susan Abulhawa, autrice del romanzo bestseller Ogni mattina a Jenin, e dal giornalista premio Pulitzer Chris Hedges, ex corrispondente di «The New York Times» da Gaza.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Non oggi ma nel 1954, quando a vincere il GP di Francia (disertato per protesta da alcune case) era stato il francese Monneret. Johann Zarco ha fatto suonare la marsigliese nella top class dopo ben 71 anni trionfando in MotoGP. Con il record di spettatori

Listen to a sermon by Bishop Mosa Sono, preached at our Mother's Day Service on the 11th of May, 2025, titled: The Honour Of Motherhood. Connect with us on the following platforms: FaceBook: Grace Bible Church International, X handle: @BishopMosaSono, Website: www.gracebiblechurch.org.za

Per ricevere queste riflessioni direttamente nella tua casella di posta, iscriviti alla mia newsletter qui :-)Intro (00:00:00) Tornato dal mio viaggio in Giappone, voglio raccontarti il metodo più potente in assoluto per riuscire a trasmettere i propri valori agli altri partendo dalla nostra esperienza in un ryokan.

N340 - Importância do sono no tratamento do DM2 - Yuri Galeno by SBD

This week on the Kids Sleep Show, I welcomed Ellen Murphy, the founder of Sona, formerly Belly Baloo, to discuss her new product that enables you to get photos from your ultrasound right to your phone during your appointment. It's amazing to see how far technology has come and what amazing things Sona is bringing to the space. If you are expecting your first or next, you don't want to miss this episode.  Episode Highlights: How did Sona come to be? What did you notice during your time in the Ultrasound Tech space? How do you hope Sona will change the landscape of the pregnancy and postpartum period in relation to the availability of images? What exciting things do you have in store for the business as you scale? Resources: Learn More at Sonagram.com Follow on Instagram

Anche gli australiani scelgono l'Italia per rallentare, ricominciare o ritrovare se stessi. Ma il sogno richiede pazienza, documenti e un nuovo sguardo sul quotidiano.

Ale Guzzetti"Sguardi diversi"Quando i robot incontrarono gli antichi DeiFino al 06 Giugno 2025Milano, Fondazione Mudima, Via Tadino 26http://www.mudima.netQuando i robot incontrarono gli antichi Dei, è il titolo della mostra personale di Ale Guzzetti organizzata da Fondazione Mudima a Milano, dal 6 maggio al 6 giugno 2025. Curata da Gino Di Maggio, l'esposizione ripercorre la lunga parabola creativa dell'artista, tra i primi in Italia a sondare il binomio arte e tecnologia.A partire dai primi anni Ottanta Guzzetti ha intrapreso una proficua ricerca creativa volta a esplorare i territori dell'arte elettronica e interattiva, fino a indagare le potenzialità della robotica, della stampa 3D e delle scansioni digitali. La mostra presenta un nucleo di opere emblematiche del suo percorso pionieristico, sculture e installazioni in cui figure plastiche e circuiti elettronici istituiscono un rapporto attivo con lo spettatore, costantemente stimolato a diventare co-produttore delle opere stesse.«Il lavoro di Ale Guzzetti si propone di far convivere arte e scienza aprendo - tra i primi artisti al mondo - un nuovo percorso artistico in cui i materiali utilizzati diventano essi stessi linguaggio specifico. Sono opere interattive, ma a differenza di quanto già accaduto nella storia dell'arte, le sue creazioni sono autonome. È il caso dei suoi lavori più recenti dedicati alla robotica, in cui le sculture non sono solo osservabili, ma a loro volta ci osservano, o osservano altre sculture. Per gli esseri umani è una situazione nuova, forse inquietante, perché non siamo ancora preparati a dialogare, per lo meno con lo sguardo, con una presenza artificiale. Ma la presenza c'è e come, e fin da subito dobbiamo, noi umani, decidere se prestarci a un gioco a cui ancora non siamo pronti» commenta il curatore Gino Di Maggio.Accogliendo la sfida della complessità, teorizzata dall'epistemologo Edgar Morin, e collaborando con filosofi come Mauro Ceruti e Gianluca Bocchi - principali cultori in Italia della scienza della complessità - Guzzetti concepisce l'opera d'arte come un vero e proprio ecosistema, frutto delle interrelazioni con l'ambiente e delle connessioni che stabilisce con i fruitori.  Sin dalle prime sperimentazioni, le sue opere si configurano come oggetti “senzienti”: è il caso delle Sculture sonore, a cui l'artista inizia a lavorare nel 1983, aggregazioni di oggetti in plastica (bottiglie, boe, tubi) che ospitano circuiti elettronici o dispositivi luminosi in grado di emettere rumori, voci e luci, a seconda del contatto, diretto o indiretto, con i visitatori.Le creature di Guzzetti sono “organismi tecnologici” in grado di dissolvere confini e limiti consolidati: quelli tra il mondo naturale e artificiale, tra spiritualità e tecnologia, classicità e modernità, passato e presente. Nelle sue opere sfuma la contrapposizione fra la sacralità dell'arte, che intimorisce e allontana, e l'ironia, che invita al coinvolgimento, al gioco e alla partecipazione. È il caso della serie Robot Portraits, caricature robotiche di personaggi famosi, reali o immaginari, inseriti all'interno di grandi cornici baroccheggianti. Profili di visi in resina e circuiti di Dante, Cleopatra, Cyrano, Federico da Montefeltro, Pinocchio, caratterizzati da grandi occhi tecnologici, grazie alla presenza di sensori, scrutano con curiosità ogni movimento. Tra le sculture e gli spettatori si instaura così un originale gioco di sguardi che sovverte continuamente le dinamiche tradizionali tra osservatore e oggetto osservato.I robot di Guzzetti ci sfidano e ci ri-guardano, desiderosi di stabilire un rapporto empatico con lo spettatore, e talvolta tra di loro. Nella serie Affective Robots, ad esempio, busti robotici o scultorei anelano a interagire l'uno con l'altro e a scambiarsi gesti affettuosi come in Impossible Kiss (2012) dove due volti umanoidi trasparenti tentano di entrare in contatto come due amanti colti nell'atto di scambiarsi un bacio. Un tipo di connessione che genera in chi osserva un senso di straniamento, ma anche di tenerezza, perché in un futuro prossimo i nostri sentimenti potrebbero assumere sfumature sempre meno umane. Ancora una volta sono gli occhi l'elemento che permette al pubblico di immedesimarsi nei due dispositivi artificiali. I loro occhi sono simili ai nostri ma diversi per la linea dello sguardo: nell'uomo orizzontale nei robot verticale. Quello dei due robot mima lo scrolling che ormai, in maniera del tutto automatica e “naturale”, caratterizza il nostro modo di vedere il mondo attraverso i device digitali.Fanno parte della stessa serie anche Affective Robot VS Naukides Discobolus (2013) e Robot VS Michelangelo (Daniele da Volterra) (2012), due conversazioni tête-à-tête tra una riproduzione in gesso di un'opera classica e un umanoide. Un simbolico passaggio di testimone tra i canoni di rappresentazione dell'essere umano nel corso della storia. Tra i due busti ci sono differenze epocali, eppure un filo rosso le accomuna: la volontà dell'umanità di avvicinarsi alla perfezione divina. Se nel mondo classico la perfezione era incarnata dalla figura dell'atleta e scolpita in blocchi di marmo, oggi l'uomo perfetto è il risultato di ciò che ha saputo costruire intorno a sé: relazioni, progresso intelligente, innovazione.I lavori più recenti di Ale Guzzetti, Quando i robot incontrarono gli antichi Dei, approfondiscono ulteriormente il tema dell'ibridazione tra antichità e contemporaneità, forme classiche e tecnologie avanzate. Dalla Medusa del Rondanini al Torso Gaddi, da una testa di Polifemo, risalente al II secolo a.C., a quella del dio Hypnos, conservata al British Museum: le riproduzioni stampate in 3D di busti e volti classici sono potenziate da visori, schermi e device di ultima generazione, come se i personaggi del passato cercassero di mimetizzarsi con l'uomo del nuovo millennio, ormai incapace di percepirsi senza ausilio tecnico. Alcuni dei dispositivi che innervano queste sculture sembrano provenire da un futuro lontano, quasi apocalittico: in realtà la tecnologia è già diventata un prolungamento dei nostri stessi corpi, una protesi necessaria alla nostra esistenza. Non ci appaiono dunque così aliene le figure che l'artista ci consegna da un passato lontano, contaminandole con gli esiti più avanzati del progresso. Incalzate dal nostro sguardo si animano, reagiscono alla nostra presenza, ci sussurrano quello che sanno e che apprendono.Dall'antichità, passando per gli automi rinascimentali, fino ai robot e all'intelligenza artificiale, il sogno della scultura, sin dai tempi più remoti, è stato quello di replicare la vita. Il tentativo di creare opere d'arte autonome, infatti, è un tema che affonda le proprie radici nel mito greco di Dedalo, fautore di invenzioni antropomorfe straordinarie, in grado di muoversi e persino di parlare. Con Dedalo l'artista diviene mago, ha il potere non solo di imitare l'esistenza, ma di plasmarla, creando opere che hanno libertà di azione e si rapportano con i viventi. Le creature di Guzzetti si inseriscono in questo millennario filone di sperimentazione, e traggono da esso il potere di sollecitare la nostra curiosità, prima che l'inquietudine abbia il sopravvento.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

"Sono per i diritti umani e condanno i crimini di guerra e contro l'umanità perpetrati a Gaza. Per questo quando la turista ha negato l'esistenza del genocidio, urlandomi contro accuse diffamatorie, l'ho invitata a lasciare il ristorante. Please, le ho detto, you can go. In dialetto le avrei detto, vattenne". Così la ristoratrice di Napoli al centro delle polemiche per la lite con alcuni avventori israeliani. Ne parliamo con l'ex sindaco del capoluogo campano Luigi De Magistris.Ci spostiamo poi a Sirmione, in provincia di Brescia, dove la sindaco sta pensando di introdurre un ticket d'ingresso dopo le esperienze di overtourism registrate nei recenti ponti vacanzieri.

Rocco Esposito, anima e cuore di Bar Rosella a Melbourne, ci ha spiegato i segreti di questa ricetta "sbagliata tecnicamente, ma deliziosa".

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A BUON POME con Maxi B oggi diamo voce ad uno studio della Michigan University, che rivela quanto gli smemorati in realtà dimentichino le cose per via della loro maggiore creatività. Ma sarà vero?Buon ascolto.

Davide Bregola"Lezioni dalle rovine"Leggere, scrivere, vivereAvagliano EditoreLezioni dalle rovine è una preghiera rivolta alla scrittura, alla poesia, alla letteratura e al lavoro sia manuale sia intellettuale. Sullo sfondo ci sono i margini sabbiosi del Po, c'è la provincia, con la sua campagna da attraversare in bicicletta se i soldi in tasca non bastano per la benzina, c'è un mondo editoriale e letterario che oggi non esiste più, ci sono trent'anni che passano in un battito di ciglia. Sono gli anni cruciali della crescita e della formazione del protagonista, un vero outsider che lavora a tempo determinato per le ferrovie ma vuole scrivere. Che lavora poi come venditore porta a porta, come operaio stagionale, come organizzatore di eventi, ma vuole sempre scrivere. Ci sono stati alcuni incontri, in diversi periodi della sua vita, con poeti e scrittori poco illuminati dalle fioche luci della ribalta. Loro stessi si sono tenuti nascosti e con questo pianeta nervoso sembra che c'entrino poco o nulla. Ma hanno scavato un solco dentro di lui. Sono autori di riferimento per il giovane scrittore, fuori dalle mode, lontani dal mercato, ma saranno fondamentali per la sua esistenza e la sua maturità. Dal disordine della memoria, le storie di questi incontri fuoriescono sparpagliate -  mescolate con il resto della vita che intanto è andata avanti -  eppure fulgide, pregne anche quando toccano la disperazione e la rovina. Il libro è un omaggio agli scrittori appartati, quelli che all'apparenza non muovono foglia e invece finiscono per cambiare la vita dei lettori. È il tentativo di connessione anche da adulti con il proprio sogno. È, in ultimo, un invito a trovare ognuno di noi la nostra strada e le guide più adatte al nostro carattere e alle nostre ambizioni. Attraverso una scrittura ora lieve ora dolorosa, Davide Bregola ci consegna un magnifico memoir, scritto con la grazia dell'ispirazione.Conversazioni con Vitaliano Trevisan, Umberto Bellintani, Ivano Ferrari, Marosia CastaldiDavide Bregola è nato a Bondeno, in provincia di Ferrara, vive a Mantova. Ha vinto il Premio Tondelli per la narrativa (1999) con la raccolta di racconti Viaggi e corrispondenze. Nel 2002 si è occupato di letteratura migrante in lingua italiana con il libro Da qui verso casa e nel 2005 con Catalogo delle voci dà la parola alla poesia migrante. Ha scritto, inoltre, libri per l'infanzia. Collabora con le pagine culturali di alcuni quotidiani, tiene incontri e seminari di scrittura creativa. Con Avagliano ha pubblicato La vita segreta dei mammut in Pianura Padana (Premio Chiara, 2017), Fossili e storioni. Notizie dalla casa galleggiante (2019), e Nei luoghi ideali per la camporella (2022) con cui si chiude la sua “Trilogia della Pianura”.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

L'UNESCO lo ha definito uno tra i dieci Festival più importanti al mondo, anche e soprattutto per la sua capacità di promuovere la pace. Dal 1994 infatti, in un pianeta costellato da muri, frontiere e barriere, il Festival di Musica Sacra dal Mondo di Fès, in Marocco, resta un luogo magico dove l'incrocio di culture fluisce naturalmente. L'edizione di quest'anno, la 28esima, che si terrà dal 16 al 24 maggio, è ispirata al tema del “Rinascimento”. Sono attesi più di 200 artisti provenienti da 15 Paesi. “Da oriente a occidente, alla ricerca dello spirito andaluso” era invece il tema del Festival del 2024. Sul palco e ai nostri microfoni si sono esibiti maestri e allievi della Schola Cantorum di Basilea e i musicisti della musica tradizionale galiziana. Ma anche i corni delle Alpi del gruppo svizzero tedesco Treibhorn insieme alla virtuosa dello yodel, Franziska Wigger. Un paesaggio musicale sorprendente a cui si sono aggiunti i suoni del maestro del flamenco, Vicente Amigo, insieme alla diva della musica amazigh, Cherifa Kersit. Ad ogni primavera, Fès si rinnova e diventa una caleidoscopica città-mondo, dove la musica apre nuove suggestive strade. 

Camminare è il miglior rimedio per l'uomo, ha detto Ippocrate nel 400 a.C., ma vi siete mai soffermati a pensare al valore che racchiude ogni singolo passo? A Obiettivo Salute Risveglio ci prendiamo un momento per rallentare, per ascoltarci davvero e poi ripartire, con passo nuovo. Perché camminare non è solo un modo per muoversi: è un gesto di attenzione verso di sé, è prevenzione, è un modo per ritrovare equilibrio tra corpo, mente e ciò che ci circonda. Ci insegna il passo giusto il prof. Matteo Vandoni, Associato all’Università di Pavia e responsabile del laboratorio di attività motoria adattata.

Errico Buonanno, Joshua Held"I bambini sono matti"Gallucci Editorewww.galluccieditore.comI mostri sotto al letto ma solo se la luce è spenta, la pasta che porta fortuna quando nel piatto i rigatoni sono pari, la sfida per diventare il più grande nascondinista del mondo, le buche nella sabbia che, se scavi abbastanza, arrivano dall'altra parte del pianeta… la vita dei bambini è piena di faccende importantissime che agli adulti sembrano strane, assurde o addirittura matte!Le storie stravaganti, comiche e all'occorrenza anche un po' pungenti di Errico Buonanno spiegano agli adulti la logica dei più piccoli, raccontando come ogni realtà possa diventare un luogo fantastico.Pagine divertenti che si possono leggere da soli per godersi un po' di tenera nostalgia o insieme con i piccoli per condividere momenti di spensieratezzaErrico Buonanno è autore di saggi, romanzi e programmi radio e tv. Ha realizzato podcast e serie web. Questo è il suo secondo libro dedicato ai bambini.Joshua Held è nato nel 1967 a Firenze. Malgrado il cognome straniero parla in toscano, non pronuncia la "c" e dice "bischero" proprio come un vero artista del Chianti. Da bambino leggeva fumetti e giocava tra i capolavori rinascimentali. Così prima si è diplomato in pianoforte e poi si è messo a disegnare cartoon. I suoi personaggi si muovono a ritmo di musica. Come il cinghialino del suo primo libro, illustrato per Gallucci, Vengo anch'io! No, tu no. E il cucciolo della serie, pubblicata con Gallucci, aperta da Dig e l'osso di Digòn. Un cagnolino che, proprio come Josh, si diverte a suonare, disegnare e stare in compagnia degli amici.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Sempre più il dibattito intorno all'intelligenza artificiale si polarizza tra entusiasti e pessimisti, adepti e catastrofisti; un dibattito in cui intervengono fisici, matematici, informatici, ma anche sociologi e filosofi. La rivoluzione innescata dalle nuove tecnologie ha un impatto sull'organizzazione del lavoro e sulla democrazia ma investe anche una facoltà propriamente umana: il pensiero. L'ideologia dei BigData sta riducendo la vita collettiva e individuale a un flusso continuo di numeri e dati che dovrebbero dare conto del reale. Ma affidarsi alle megamacchine che cosa implica per la nostra libertà cognitiva? Quello che viene definito il capitalismo di piattaforma e della sorveglianza è una prospettiva inevitabile, o si può modificare il corso del progresso tecnologico? A che cosa stiamo rinunciando quando ci affidiamo all'efficienza dell'intelligenza artificiale? Sono interrogativi che abbiamo posto a un sociologo che da anni si occupa di tecnologia e di capitalismo e dei loro impatti su società e individuo, a una giurista esperta di tecnologia, diritti umani e democrazia, a un ricercatore di filosofia che riflette sul potere degli algoritmi nell'attuale società del controllo partendo dal pensiero di Michel Foucault.

I superalcolici nelle aree di servizio sono generalmente out, ma gli alcolici no: puoi ordinarli al banco e li trovi sugli scaffali in grandi quantità. Sono un problema per la nostra sicurezza? Nella Francia del sud li hanno banditi, in Svizzera li hanno riammessi pochi anni fa. La discussione è aperta

Listen to a sermon by Bishop Mosa Sono, preached on the 04th of May, 2025, titled: Unlocking The 21st Century Harvest. Connect with us on the following platforms: FaceBook: Grace Bible Church International, X handle: @BishopMosaSono, Website: www.gracebiblechurch.org.za

Fernando Gentilini"Atlante delle città eterne"Itinerari e voci nell'Europa delle ideeBaldini + Castoldiwww.baldinicastoldi.itViaggiare in verticale significa calarsi nel tempo profondo, abbandonare gli itinerari di superficie per dirigere il proprio sguardo oltre la forma delle cose finite. Partire dall'invisibile, allora, per vedere meglio: è questo che si propone Fernando Gentilini quando decide di farsi guidare, nel com- porre questo suo Atlante delle città eterne, dalle voci degli scrittori, degli artisti, dei santi e dei filosofi che le hanno abitate prima di noi. Come a Roma, dove sono Nerone e San Benedetto a riportarci al mito olimpico e alle origini del monachesimo; oppure a Milano, di cui Leonardo e la principessa Belgiojoso custodiscono lo spirito ingegnoso ed eternamente rinascimentale. O nella Parigi romantica di Edith Piaf e in quella nazionalista di Charles de Gaulle, ciascuna con la propria idea di grandeur. O ancora nella Londra vittoriana di Bram Stoker, nella Sarajevo suicida di Predrag Matvejević o nella Pietroburgo di Iosif Brodskij che ciclicamente risorge dall'acqua… Sono fatte di niente le città di questo libro insolito e conturbante. Hanno la consistenza dei sogni e delle idee. Senza più monumenti né palazzi, senza la gente in strada, senza rumori in sottofondo: città irreali, svuotate di tutto, attraversate solo dalle voci dei loro antichi abitanti; che a seguirle ci si ritrova di colpo in un altro mondo, dove passato e futuro non si oppongono più, e dove nulla di quel che è essenziale potrà mai andare perduto.Fernando Gentilini ha vissuto in molti paesi di diverse regioni del mondo, lavorando come diplomatico per il Ministero degli Esteri, l'Unione europea e l'Alleanza atlantica. Oggi vive tra Roma e Bruxelles, dove scrive e collabora con vari istituti e università, continuando a inseguire le sue passioni che sono da sempre i libri, l'Europa e la politica internazionale. Ha pubblicato In Etiopia (1999), Infiniti Balcani (2007, premi Cesare Pavese e Capalbio), Libero a Kabul (2011), Tre volte a Gerusalemme (2020, premio Gambrinus), I demoni, storie di letteratura e geopolitica (2023). Ha collaborato con le pagine culturali di «La Stampa». Sulle pagine culturali di «la Repubblica» ha raccontato con la serie Finis Terrae i paesi e le crisi internazionali degli ultimi anni attraverso la storia e i classici della letteratura.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Cosa si nasconde dietro i sogni? Sono solo immagini casuali o portano con sé significati profondi? Ogni notte, la nostra mente elabora ricordi, emozioni e paure, trasformandoli in scenari onirici che spesso ci affascinano o ci turbano. Ma come funzionano davvero i sogni? In questa puntata esploriamo il legame tra sogni, memoria ed esperienze personali, scoprendo il ruolo che il nostro cervello gioca mentre dormiamo. Parleremo anche della Smorfia napoletana, l'antica tradizione che collega i sogni ai numeri, usata da secoli per interpretare il mondo onirico e tentare la fortuna. Tratteremo anche altri sogni premonitori storici che ci sono giunti fino a noi. Sognare un animale, un viaggio o una caduta ha davvero un significato?  Nostra ospite, Milena Adelfi, copriamo insieme a lei alcuni elementi educativi e cambiamenti in campo pseudopedagogico che potrebbero aiutare a capire le influenze del attività reali nei nostri sogni. Buon ascolto! Dani & Lia ~~ What Lies Behind Dreams? Are they just random images, or do they carry deeper meanings? Every night, our minds process memories, emotions, and fears, transforming them into dreamlike scenarios that often fascinate or unsettle us. But how do dreams work? This episode explores the connection between dreams, memory, and personal experiences, uncovering our brain's role while we sleep. We will also talk about the Smorfia Napoletana, the ancient tradition that links dreams to numbers, which has been used for centuries to interpret the dream world and try one's luck. Additionally, we'll discuss historical premonitory dreams passed down through time. Does dreaming of an animal, a journey, or falling genuinely have a meaning? Let's find out together!      

Spesso ci chiediamo come si calcolano i secoli in storia, ma in realtà è semplice! Basta sapere da dove partire. Con questa guida non avrai più dubbi!

Il Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella, visitando a Latina l'azienda BSP Pharmaceuticals S.p.a. in occasione della celebrazione della Festa del lavoro, ha sottolineato come tante famiglie siano in difficoltà a causa dell’aumento del costo della vita e dei salari insufficienti. “Non sono tollerabili né indifferenze né rassegnazione” ha poi aggiunto riferendosi alle troppe morti sul lavoro. Per parlarne sentiamo Lina Palmerini, quirinalista e commentatrice politica de Il Sole 24 Ore. È stato condannato a 18 anni e 8 mesi il diciassettenne colpevole dell’omicidio di Santo Romano, e la famiglia della vittima ha espresso dolore e rabbia per una sentenza che non darebbe giustizia. Con noi Daniele Bocciolini, Avvocato specializzato in diritto penale minorile e Scienze Forensi, Consigliere Pari Opportunità e Commissione Famiglia e Minori dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma.I 100 giorni della seconda amministrazione Trump. Li commentiamo insieme a Marco Valsania, corrispondente de Il Sole 24 Ore da New York.Champions League: questa sera in campo la prima semifinale fra Arsenal e Paris Saint Germain. Ci aggiorna il nostro Dario Ricci.

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Sono quelli che quando cammini negli hutong li senti arrivare perché suonano il clacson. Hanno motorini elettrici, silenziosi. E sono quelli che vanno più veloci, perché più vanno veloci più consegne fanno, più guadagnano. Sono i rider, milioni di persone che si sono messi sul motorino la digitalizzazione e la modernizzazione della Cina. E la cui vita, è tornata a fare capolino nel dibattito pubblico nazionale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ciao Italiani Veri,Come state?Dalle nostre parti si sente già la primavera… e lo sente anche Max! Si capisce dall’euforia che ci mette nel canto

Listen to a sermon by Bishop Mosa Sono, preached on the 27th of April, 2025, titled: When God Comes Through For You. Connect with us on the following platforms: FaceBook: Grace Bible Church International, X handle: @BishopMosaSono, Website: www.gracebiblechurch.org.za

Francia XII secolo. Sono l'ultimo retaggio di una stagione iniziata quasi 500 anni prima quando prefetto di Roma era quel Gregorio che avrebbe lasciato il servizio allo Stato per farsi monaco. Quel Gregorio che la storia ci ha consegnato come Gregorio Magno dopo essere divenuto papa. Uno dei più straordinari Pontefici del primo millennio della cristianità per la sua autorevolezza, che si riscontra in tutti i campi al punto da lasciare ovunque la sua impronta. Per noi che ci occupiamo di musica il riferimento al suo nome è fondamentale, anche se non del tutto realistico, ma certo è che si deve a lui la conquista dell'aver assegnato un ruolo didattico all'arte e, quindi, anche alla musica. Così come la pittura, per Gregorio, la musica consente una migliore comprensione dei testi biblici e lo fa soprattutto a beneficio degli illetterati.

Niente! O meglio, noi! Il podcast di Easy Italian e Matteo e Raffaele che chiacchierano in italiano. Oggi puntata dedicata per la maggior parte alla triste notize che ha preso il suo spazio nella storia. Ma non solo, con Matteo e Raffaele passeremo anche in tribunale... Tranquilli, tutto bene, e' solo l'intelligenza artificiale che ha avuto qualche allucinazione. Trascrizione interattiva e Vocab Helper Support Easy Italian and get interactive transcripts, live vocabulary and bonus content: easyitalian.fm/membership Note dell'episodio Order Aperitivo Like an Italian

Le criptovalute, nate con il Bitcoin nel 2009, sono valute digitali che funzionano senza il controllo di banche o governi. Basate spesso sulla tecnologia blockchain, queste valute si comportano più come strumenti finanziari che come moneta tradizionale, e la loro volatilità le rende protagoniste del mercato globale. Un Bitcoin oggi può valere 80.000 euro, mentre un anno fa ne valeva 60.000! In questo video vi spieghiamo con Meribì cosa sono le criptovalute, come funzionano e quali sono i rischi e le opportunità. Prendi parte alla nostra Membership per supportare il nostro progetto Missione Cultura e diventare mecenate di Geopop: https://geopop.it/Muh6X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dopo le esequie di Bergoglio, che saranno celebrate sabato 26 aprile, i cardinali si riuniranno per eleggere il nuovo Papa.

Sono stati rinviati i colloqui ministeriali per la pace in Ucraina previsti per oggi nel Regno Unito. Ce ne parla da Londra Giorgia Scaturro, giornalista, producer, nostra collaboratrice a Londra.Le faide interne all'Amministrazione Trump: dal caso Signal al passo indietro di Musk dal DOGE. Ce ne parla da New York Marco Valsania, corrispondente de Il Sole 24Ore. La nuova proposta di cessate il fuoco a Gaza e il viaggio del Cardinale Pizzaballa a San Pietro in vista del Conclave. Ce ne parla da Gerusalemme, Nello del Gatto, nostro collaboratore.

- Premi il tasto PLAY per ascoltare la catechesi del giorno e condividi con altri se vuoi -+ Dal Vangelo secondo Luca +In quel tempo, [i due discepoli che erano ritornati da Èmmaus] narravano ciò che era accaduto lungo la via e come l'avevano riconosciuto nello spezzare il pane.Mentre essi parlavano di queste cose, Gesù in persona stette in mezzo a loro e disse: «Pace a voi!». Sconvolti e pieni di paura, credevano di vedere un fantasma. Ma egli disse loro: «Perché siete turbati, e perché sorgono dubbi nel vostro cuore? Guardate le mie mani e i miei piedi: sono proprio io! Toccatemi e guardate; un fantasma non ha carne e ossa, come vedete che io ho». Dicendo questo, mostrò loro le mani e i piedi.Ma poiché per la gioia non credevano ancora ed erano pieni di stupore, disse: «Avete qui qualche cosa da mangiare?». Gli offrirono una porzione di pesce arrostito; egli lo prese e lo mangiò davanti a loro.Poi disse: «Sono queste le parole che io vi dissi quando ero ancora con voi: bisogna che si compiano tutte le cose scritte su di me nella legge di Mosè, nei Profeti e nei Salmi». Allora aprì loro la mente per comprendere le Scritture e disse loro: «Così sta scritto: il Cristo patirà e risorgerà dai morti il terzo giorno, e nel suo nome saranno predicati a tutti i popoli la conversione e il perdono dei peccati, cominciando da Gerusalemme. Di questo voi siete testimoni».Parola del Signore.

Tem gente que dorme de lado. Outras pessoas preferem a barriga pra cima. Outras gostam da barriga pra baixo. Braço esticado. Perna dobrada. Com ou sem coberta... Afinal, a posição e o jeito como dormimos tem alguma relação com nossa personalidade ou nosso estado, segundo a ciência?Confira o papo entre o leigo curioso, Ken Fujioka, e o cientista PhD, Altay de Souza.>> OUÇA (52min 35s)*Naruhodo! é o podcast pra quem tem fome de aprender. Ciência, senso comum, curiosidades, desafios e muito mais. Com o leigo curioso, Ken Fujioka, e o cientista PhD, Altay de Souza.Edição: Reginaldo Cursino.http://naruhodo.b9.com.br*APOIO: INSIDERIlustríssima ouvinte, ilustríssimo ouvinte do Naruhodo, chegou abril, o mês de aniversário da INSIDER!E adivinha quem sai ganhando? Quem entende que menos é mais! Ou seja: você e eu!Você já sabe que eu uso INSIDER há anos, tanto para o trabalho quanto para o lazer. Porque eu quero menos consumo por impulso, mais peças que duram e uma moda que valorize o meu estilo pessoal.E eu sei que você tava só esperando uma desculpa pra comprar aquela camiseta da INSIDER que eu vivo usando e sobre a qual vivo falando bem... Então, vem experimentar INSIDER você também!Em abril, o cupom NARUHODO mais os descontos do site podem chegar a até 30% de desconto. É isso mesmo: 30% de desconto!Para aproveitar, o jeito mais fácil é usar o endereço https://bit.ly/naruhodo-abril-2025 ou clicar no link da descrição deste episódio: o cupom será aplicado automaticamente no carrinho.INSIDER: inteligência em cada escolha.#InsiderStore*APOIO: HOMO ACADEMICUSAqui no Naruhodo, a gente vive falando sobre as dificuldades da vida acadêmica. Ao mesmo tempo, a gente acredita que ela pode ser mais legal e menos solitária.Por isso temos a felicidade de divulgar um projeto admirável: o HOMO ACADEMICUS.O HOMO ACADEMICUS surge como um esforço comunitário que ambiciona inspirar as pessoas a buscar outras formas de viver a universidade. Que une pessoas de vários países da América Latina, como Brasil, Peru, Chile, Equador, Argentina e México. E também diferentes áreas do conhecimento e habilidades, como de escrita, edição, tradução, design e pesquisa.Ele é um podcast? É. Traz temas como as regras não ditas da universidade, gestão do tempo, violência na universidade, comunidades de pesquisas, escrita acadêmica, entre outros.Mas HOMO ACADEMICUS é também muito mais que um podcast, e será cada vez mais. É capacitação, é reflexão, é diálogo.E traz ainda uma ideia muito bacana: os Clubes de Escuta, que são redes de apoio que vocês - estudantes, pesquisadores e professores - podem criar para discutirem os desafios de seus contextos, usando como suporte os recursos que são preparados para cada episódio.Então conheça hoje mesmo essa belíssima iniciativa:homoacademicus.org*REFERÊNCIASDormir de lado ativa sistema glinfático e é melhor para o cérebrohttps://search.app/qpGVbN6cmZTwP4sr8Coupled electrophysiological, hemodynamic, and cerebrospinal fluid oscillations in human sleephttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax5440The Effect of Body Posture on Brain Glymphatic Transporthttps://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/31/11034Sleep positions and nocturnal body movements based on free-living accelerometer recordings: association with demographics, lifestyle, and insomnia symptomshttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29138608/The Glymphatic System: A Novel Component of Fundamental Neurobiologyhttps://www.jneurosci.org/content/41/37/7698.abstractA Novel Sleep Positioning Device Reduces Gastroesophageal Reflux: A Randomized Controlled Trialhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26053170/Infant sleeping position and the sudden infant death syndrome: systematic review of observational studies and historical review of recommendations from 1940 to 2002https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15843394/Influence of the right- versus left-sided sleeping position on the apnea-hypopnea index in patients with sleep apneahttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21678115/High Negative Predictive Value of Normal Body Mass Index for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in the Lateral Sleeping Positionhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29852898/Sleep positions and personality: Zuckerman-Kuhlman's big five, creativity, creativity styles, and hypnotizabilityhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/287884030_Sleep_positions_and_personality_Zuckerman-Kuhlman's_big_five_creativity_creativity_styles_and_hypnotizabilityUpper airway obstruction during sleep in infants with laryngomalacia is frequently sleep-position-dependenthttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-025-03919-zFactors Related to the Sleep Duration of 3-Month-Old Infantshttps://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/html/10.1055/s-0044-1782168Sleep positions : the night language of the bodyhttps://archive.org/details/sleeppositionsni00dunk/page/n5/mode/2upThe contribution of prone sleeping position to the racial disparity in sudden infant death syndrome: the Chicago Infant Mortality Studyhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12359794/Naruhodo #129 - Sono polifásico funciona segundo a ciência?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6AfuI46VhQNaruhodo #188 - Contar carneirinhos faz a gente dormir mais rápido?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txu8-QTZB7INaruhodo #191 - É possível aprender idiomas dormindo?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz1FoXN8XqANaruhodo #256 - Por que roncamos?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfJH_F2GsI4Naruhodo #153 - Sonambulismo tem cura?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghcxHlIK5RINaruhodo #156 - O que é paralisia do sono?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9om8soj_uANaruhodo #138 - O que é bruxismo do sono?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFVyaXRNs0QNaruhodo #123 - O que é e como funciona o sonho lúcido?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThUlmkFFr1UNaruhodo #83 - O que são sonhos?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKvDGxCg7XENaruhodo #297 - Balançar de um lado para o outro ajuda a dormir melhor?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvuqqtayK60Naruhodo #318 - Por que algumas pessoas acordam de mau humor?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKvR_lr5ZIw*APOIE O NARUHODO!O Altay e eu temos duas mensagens pra você.A primeira é: muito, muito obrigado pela sua audiência. Sem ela, o Naruhodo sequer teria sentido de existir. Você nos ajuda demais não só quando ouve, mas também quando espalha episódios para familiares, amigos - e, por que não?, inimigos.A segunda mensagem é: existe uma outra forma de apoiar o Naruhodo, a ciência e o pensamento científico - apoiando financeiramente o nosso projeto de podcast semanal independente, que só descansa no recesso do fim de ano.Manter o Naruhodo tem custos e despesas: servidores, domínio, pesquisa, produção, edição, atendimento, tempo... Enfim, muitas coisas para cobrir - e, algumas delas, em dólar.A gente sabe que nem todo mundo pode apoiar financeiramente. E tá tudo bem. Tente mandar um episódio para alguém que você conhece e acha que vai gostar.A gente sabe que alguns podem, mas não mensalmente. E tá tudo bem também. Você pode apoiar quando puder e cancelar quando quiser. O apoio mínimo é de 15 reais e pode ser feito pela plataforma ORELO ou pela plataforma APOIA-SE. Para quem está fora do Brasil, temos até a plataforma PATREON.É isso, gente. Estamos enfrentando um momento importante e você pode ajudar a combater o negacionismo e manter a chama da ciência acesa. Então, fica aqui o nosso convite: apóie o Naruhodo como puder.bit.ly/naruhodo-no-orelo