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Um tubérculo rico em amido. Separe trinta minutinhos do seu dia e descubra, com Mila Massuda, como a batata mudou o mundo. Apresentação: Mila Massuda (@milamassuda) Roteiro: Mila Massuda (@milamassuda) e Emilio Garcia (@emilioblablalogia) Revisão de Roteiro: Vee Almeida Técnico de Gravação: Caio de Santis (@caiodesantis) Editor: Lilian Correa (@_lilianleme) Mixagem e Masterização: Lívia Mello (@adiscolizard) Produção: Prof. Vítor Soares (@profvitorsoares), Matheus Herédia (@Matheus_Heredia), BláBláLogia (@blablalogia) e Biologia em Meia Hora (@biologiaemmeiahora) Gravado e editado nos estúdios TocaCast, do grupo Tocalivros (@tocalivros) REFERÊNCIAS ABEL, W. Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe. [s.l.] Routledge, 2013. HARRIS, P. M. The Potato Crop. [s.l.] Springer Science & Business Media, 2012. HILLS, T. The People's Potato and the Great Irish Famine. [s.l.] New Generation Publishing, 2008. NUNN, N.; QIAN, N. The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence From A Historical Experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, v. 126, n. 2, p. 593–650, 2011. ORTIZ, Oscar; MARES, Victor. The historical, social, and economic importance of the potato crop. The potato genome, p. 1-10, 2017. READER, J. Potato : a history of the propitious esculent. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. SPOONER, D. M. et al. Systematics, Diversity, Genetics, and Evolution of Wild and Cultivated Potatoes. The Botanical Review, v. 80, n. 4, p. 283–383, dez. 2014.

In today's summer special, Betty takes Nick and the listeners through 12,000 years of the cannabis plant. Starting in the ancient world, through the age of sail and into the modern era, we follow the cannabis plant on its global journey and its role in human politics and development. We finish with a discussion on cannabis pharmacology, drug prohibition and challenges facing the revival of the hemp industry in modern times.Music has been removed from the podcast version of the show due to copyright. Please check out the music featured on the live show through these links or on our Spotify playlist.Music featured:Hemp – Yellow Blue Bus: https://youtu.be/FGIfNF5qO8w?si=8DRAG01hWmqRixhxGanja Farmer – J Boog: https://soundcloud.com/jboogmusic/ganja-farmerHashish – Ibrahim Maalouf: https://soundcloud.com/ibrahim-maalouf/hashishFreedom of Species Spotify playlist:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3TJQujKYjGFoFP6LhBbaTS?si=6ghUWmzkQpyvsPJM9PNB-w&pi=rl23HPZQS1ins&fbclid=IwY2xjawHoEuJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHRsgsJ5WkFD9Dx9vuiubNXtF1GMaFOFYw8cXDD3UdwkuYHBSswptwIw8wA_aem_AiO4AOLyNFOoqz5PRlkU5Q&nd=1&dlsi=0efe6436f2fe4f8bReferences and links:Abel, E. L. (2013). Marihuana: the first twelve thousand years. Springer Science & Business Media.Ayonrinde O. A. (2020). Cannabis and psychosis: revisiting a nineteenth century study of 'Indian Hemp and Insanity' in Colonial British India. Psychological medicine, 50(7), 1164–1172.Bania G. (2022). Shifts in therapeutic practices and decline of medicinal cannabis in Indian North-Eastern Frontier (1826-1925).  Journal of cannabis research, 4(1), 52.Borougerdi, B. J. (2014). Cord of empire, exotic intoxicant: Hemp and culture in the Atlantic world, 1600-1900 (Order No. 3626432). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; ProQuest One Academic. (1558183077).Clarke, R. C., & Merlin, M. D. (2016). Cannabis Domestication, Breeding History, Present-day Genetic Diversity, and Future Prospects. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 35(5-6), 293-327.Fike, J. (2016). Industrial Hemp: Renewed Opportunities for an Ancient Crop. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 35(5-6), 406-424. Gülck, T., & Møller, B. L. (2020). Phytocannabinoids: Origins and Biosynthesis. Trends in Plant Science, 25(10), 985-1004. Hart, C. L. (2022). Drug use for grown-ups: Chasing liberty in the land of fear. Penguin.Jiggens, J. (2012). Sir Joseph Banks and the question of hemp : hemp, seapower and empire, 1776-1815Mead, A. (2019). Legal and Regulatory Issues Governing Cannabis and Cannabis-Derived Products in the United States. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10.Nutt, D. (2022) Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health. Yellow Kite BooksRen, G., Zhang, X., Li, Y., Ridout, K., Serrano-Serrano, M. L., Yang, Y., Liu, A., Ravikanth, G., Nawaz, M. A., Mumtaz, A. S., Salamin, N., & Fumagalli, L. (2021). Large-scale whole-genome resequencing unravels the domestication history of Cannabis sativa. Science Advances, 7(29), eabg2286.Schluttenhofer, C., & Yuan, L. (2017). Challenges towards Revitalizing Hemp: A Multifaceted Crop. Trends in Plant Science, 22(11), 917-929.Talk from Dr. Carl Hart: Drug Use for Grownups, A Human Rights Perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6PHC4p1Ohw&t=1226sDr Carl Hart Democracy Now interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKXWelf-ZvA

This episode explores the nakshatras, the fundamental concept of the Vedic astrological system. Nakshatras refer to the division of the sky into 27 equal segments, each named after a prominent star. Aligning with the 12 zodiac signs, nakshatras are considered a cosmic clock, with one day passing as the moon moves through each nakshatra, repeating every 27 days.  Bibliography: Padmanabham, T. (2017). History of Indian Astronomy. Springer. Dixit, B., & Sewell, R. (2013). Indian Calendar. Subbarayappa, B. V. (2004). The history of Indian astronomy. Springer. Harness, D. M. (1999). The nakshatras: The lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Lotus Press. Agrawal, D. P. (2004). India's scientific heritage. Pearson Education India. Kelley, D. H., & Milone, E. F. (2005). Exploring ancient skies: An encyclopedic survey of archaeoastronomy. Springer Science & Business Media. Rao, S. B. (2000). Astronomy in India: A historical perspective. Universities Press. Topic: History of India | Astronomy | Astrology | Indian mythology | Hindu mythology | Hinduism Ko-fi: ⁠⁠http://ko-fi.com/namaskarindia⁠⁠ UPI ID: 9893547492@paytm Paypal: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/aduppala⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/namaskarindialive/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/namaskarindialive⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/AradhanaDuppala⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/NamaskarIndia⁠⁠⁠ WhatsApp Discussions: ⁠⁠https://chat.whatsapp.com/H8IUJPlB32cA2soTjrTghV⁠⁠ WhatsApp Announcements: ⁠⁠https://chat.whatsapp.com/KVd5UHxumW90TxLHjkB89k⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/namaskar-india/support

Vous avez du mal à vous lever le matin ? Vous avez envie de lancer un projet, mais vous sentez que toutes les forces de la nature sont contre vous ? Vous avez envie d'avoir la force et l'énergie pour faire ce que vous voudriez ? Alors la clé c'est la motivation. Mais concrètement, derrière ce mot, que ce cache t'il ? Dans cet épiosde de l'art du mentaliste, nous explorons les dernières recherches en neuroscience et psychologie faites sur la motivation, et nous discutons des méthodes concrètes pour créer de la motivation dans sa vie à tout moment, afin de ne plus jamais resté bloqué sur une tache. Un épisode entrainant ! Références : - Deci, Edward L., and Richard M. Ryan. Intrinsic motivation and self-determination in human behavior. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. - Burns, David D. Feeling good. Signet Book, 1981. - Kotler, Steven. The art of impossible: a peak performance primer. HarperCollins, 2021. - Clear, James. Atomic habits: An easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones. Penguin, 2018 L'art du mentaliste, un podcast animé par Taha Mansour et Alexis Dieux, musique par Antoine Piolé. Retrouvez Taha Mansour : - Ses spectacles : L'effet Papillon : https://www.billetreduc.com/326581/evt.htm La mystérieuse histoire de Thomas Polgarast : https://www.billetreduc.com/275400/evt.htm - Son site : www.tahamansour.com - Instagram / Facebook : @TahaMentalisme Retrouvez Alexis Dieux : - Son site : https://www.alexisdieux.com/ - Instagram : @alexisdieuxhypnose

exploration of approaches to distribution systems from microcontrollers and software to MOAR HARDWAREDistribution infrastructure, microcontrollers in everything, hardware vs software solutions, and prices-to-devices get covered in a distribution systems episode with Ahlmahz Negash, Conleigh Byers, Farhad Billimoria, and Paul Dockery featuring an interview with the enthusiastic Francis Sammy! A discussion that manages to navigate the nuances of MOAR HARDWARE as an actionable energy transition strategy while articulating the benefit of deploying smart, controllable, and price-responsive devices.You can find the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Share with friends that are energy enthusiasts, like us!01:18 - 30 second theorySchweppe, Fred C., et al. Spot pricing of electricity. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.Schweppe, Fred C. "Power systems2000': hierarchical control strategies." IEEE spectrum 15.7 (1978): 42-47.08:59 - Short-to-Ground; a segment where we blow a fuse covering the newsThe Major Drivers of Long-term Distribution Transformer DemandCybersecurity baselines for both electric distribution systems and distributed energy resources (DER)Portland-based GridStor announced its acquisition of a planned 450-MW/900-MWh lithium-ion battery storage installationThe National Renewable Energy Lab recently released a report studying the economics of building long-distance, high-voltage transmission linesSpot market power in the U.S.Wholesale spot prices for the National Electricity Market (NEM)Energy Information Administration's Natural Gas Weekly Update23:21 - Francis Sammy provides a practitioner perspective on distribution systems and the energy transitionFrancis Sammy is a licensed professional engineer that works as the supervisor of the Systems Distribution Engineering workgroup for Seattle City Light. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, studied electrical engineering at Howard University, and works on distribution systems for Seattle. Francis lives in Beacon Hill with his family of 3 and says you can find him riding around town on his bike, vibing out at a concert, laboring up the basketball court, or sliding down a mountain face first.54:06 - Francis Sammy's analogy; the grid is like an old, reliable car56:38 - Updating our priors1:17:55 - ESA (Energy System Analogies) World Cup StandingsPublic Power Underground, for electric utility enthusiasts! Public Power Underground, it's work to watch!

Comment créer une expérience mémorable ? Qu'est-ce qui explique que dans certains lieux on vit un moment 'magique', tandis que dans d'autres on ne fait que penser au moment où l'on va partir ? Dans cet épisode de L'art du mentaliste, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir le conférencier et magicien-mentaliste Laurent Beretta pour parler de neuromarketing, et comment faire pour capter l'attention et rendre un évènement mémorable. Que ce soit en entreprise ou dans le cadre personnel, si vous voulez apprendre à rendre des évènements magiques, ne loupez pas cet épisode ! Sources : - Izard, Carroll E. The psychology of emotions. Springer Science & Business Media, 1991. - Daniel, Kahneman. Thinking, fast and slow. 2017. - Kotler, Steven. The art of impossible: a peak performance primer. HarperCollins, 2021. - Tobin, Vera. Elements of surprise: Our mental limits and the satisfactions of plot. Harvard University Press, 2018. L'art du mentaliste, un podcast animé par Taha Mansour et Alexis Dieux, musique par Antoine Piolé. Retrouvez Laurent Beretta : - https://laurentberetta.com/ - instagram : @laurentberetta Retrouvez Taha Mansour : - Ses spectacles : L'effet Papillon : https://www.billetreduc.com/326581/evt.htm La mystérieuse histoire de Thomas Polgarast : https://www.billetreduc.com/275400/evt.htm - Son site : www.tahamansour.com - Instagram / Facebook : @TahaMentalisme Retrouvez Alexis Dieux : - Son site : https://www.alexisdieux.com/ - Instagram : @alexisdieuxhypnose

This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Maria Smilios, a New York City native who has a Master of Arts in religion and literature from Boston University, where she was a Luce Scholar and a Presidential Scholar. Smilios spent five years at Springer Science & Business Media as development editor in the biomedical sciences, and has written for The Guardian, American Nurse, The Forward, Narratively, The Rumpus, and DAME Magazine. Her book, The Black Angels — the focus of this episode — tells the untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis. Nearly a century before the COVID-19 pandemic upended life as we know it, a devastating tuberculosis epidemic was ravaging hospitals across the country. In those dark, pre-antibiotic days, the disease claimed the lives of 1 in 7 Americans. In the United States alone, it killed over 5.6 million people in the first half of the twentieth century. Nowhere was TB more rampant than in New York City, where it spread like wildfire through the tenements, decimating the city's poorest residents and communities of color. The city's hospital system was already overwhelmed when, in 1929, the white nurses at Staten Island's Sea View Hospital began quitting en masse. Pushed to the brink of a major labor crisis and fearing a public health catastrophe, city health officials made a call for Black female nurses seeking to work on the frontlines, promising them good pay, education, housing, and employment free from the constraints of Jim Crow. Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, The Black Angels puts these women back at the center of this riveting story by spotlighting the twenty-plus years they spent battling the disease at Sea View. Using first-hand interviews and never-before-accessed archives, Smilios details how they labored under inconceivable conditions, putting in 14-hour days caring for people who lay waiting to die or, worse, become “guinea pigs” to test experimental (and often deadly) drugs at a facility that was understaffed, unregulated, and marred by rampant racism. Their narrative is interspersed with the parallel story of the tuberculosis cure, a miracle of public health policy that couldn't have happened without the work of the nurses at Sea View. In this episode host Michael Shields and Maria Smilios explore just how terribly tuberculous was riddling the United States (and particularly New York City) and the birth of the Sea View treatment center in Staten Island where a cure was eventually brought into being. They celebrate the Black Angels, Black nurses who worked at the hospital who answered a call to help, and eventually changed the world. They discuss how racial discrimination affected the nurses, both in the deep South also upon their landing in New York. They also discuss the drug trials that led to the cure, the patent wars that followed, and so much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In deze eerste aflevering van Normale Mensen Bestaan Niet hebben we het, naast een intro over wie wij, Lennard Toma en Thijs Launspach zijn en waarom we deze podcast maken, over wat normaal is en wat daar eigenlijk niet normaal aan is. Want is wat wij normaal vinden eigenlijk wel echt normaal? En als we iets normaal of abnormaal vinden, helpt dat ons als mens en als maatschappij? Voor meer info en geinige feitjes en tips, check Instagram Meer toffe info over dit onderwerp: - Boek van Gabor Maté: Myth of Normal die aangeeft hoe onze maatschappij en wat wij normaal vinden ons ziek maakt. - Boek van Am I Normal van Sarah Chaney over de geschiedenis van de dingen die we nu normaal vinden. - Boek van Thijs zelf: Je bent al genoeg, waarin hij schrijft over dat je al genoeg bent in een gekke wereld. - Check ook filmpjes van Gabor Maté over wat normaal is en niet, zoals deze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eTiP3ota_c&pp=ygUObXl0aCBvZiBub3JtYWw%3D - Wil je nog de berekening zien over hoe wat de kans is dat jij bestaat? Check hier het artikel: https://happinessengineering.com/miraculous-you-on-the-probability-of-being-born/ - Check ook nog het Rosenhan experiment over 'sane in insane places' in dit filmpje: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDmZl544iI8&ab_channel=Histographics Wetenschappelijke nerdy bronnen: - Rosenhan, D. L. (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science, 179(4070), 250-258. - Lyon, A. (2014). Why are normal distributions normal?. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. - Rachman, S., & de Silva, P. (1978). Abnormal and normal obsessions. Behaviour research and therapy, 16(4), 233-248. - Canguilhem, G. (2012). On the Normal and the Pathological (Vol. 3). Springer Science & Business Media. - Frances, A. (2013). Saving normal: An insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, big pharma and the medicalization of ordinary life. Psychotherapy in Australia, 19(3), 14-18. Adverteren in deze podcast? Mail naar podcasts@astrolads.com

In this episode, we hosted Professor George Athanasopoulos, President of the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) and Head of the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University. George gave an overview of the IIF's current plans and new initiatives, including the Practitioners chapter, publishing papers in the International Journal of Applied Forecasting, the forecasting distinguished lecture series, and plans for the International Symposium on Forecasting, among others. He also shared his career experience in forecasting and how he has grown in the field to his current position. George also mentioned to his research experience in hierarchical forecasting, his teaching success, and the recent stories on co-authoring and translating the famous book "Forecasting: Principles and Practice." into Greek.George recommends the following books and papers as influential in his career:Forecasting: Principles and Practice, RJ Hyndman, G Athanasopoulos,  Otext.Tsay, R. S. (1991) "Two canonical forms for vector ARMA processes." Statistica Sinica 1, 247–69.Hyndman, R., Koehler, A. B., Ord, J. K., & Snyder, R. D. (2008). "Forecasting with exponential smoothing: the state space approach." Springer Science & Business Media.Panagiotelis, A., Athanasopoulos, G., Gamakumara, P., & Hyndman, R. J. (2021). "Forecast reconciliation: A geometric view with new insights on bias correction." International Journal of Forecasting, 37(1), 343-359

Ruby Payne-Scott is often called a pioneer in radio astronomy, but she was also a pioneer in advocating for women's rights. She was clearly brilliant, but her work was cut short by her desire to have a spouse and a family.  Erickson, Dorothy. “Payne-Scott, Ruby Violet (1912 - 1981).” THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OFWOMEN & LEADERSHIP IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA. https://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0692b.htm M. Goss and Claire Hooker. “Payne-Scott, Ruby Violet (1912–1981).” Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/payne-scott-ruby-violet-15036/text26233 Halleck, Rebecca. “Overlooked No More: Ruby Payne-Scott, Who Explored Space With Radio Waves.” New York Times. August 29, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/obituaries/ruby-payne-scott-overlooked.html “What is an Interferometer?” LIGO Caltech. https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-is-interferometer#:~:text=Interferometers%20are%20investigative%20tools%20used,%2Dmeter'%2C%20or%20interferometer. Marr, Jonathan M. et al. “Demonstrating the Principles of Aperture Synthesis with the Very Small Radio Telescope.” Bridgewater State University, Virtual Commons. Physics Faculty Publications. 2011. https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=physics_fac#:~:text=In%20aperture%20synthesis%20a%20number,signals%20can%20also%20be%20added Robertson, Peter. “Pawsey, Joseph Lade (Joe) (1908–1962).” Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pawsey-joseph-lade-joe-11353/text2027 “Our History.” AWA Technology Services. http://www.awa.com.au/about-us/our-history/ “Hall (nee Payne Scott), Ruby Violet.” The Sydney Morning Herald. Obituaries. May 30, 1981. https://www.newspapers.com/image/122698551/?terms=Ruby%20Payne-Scott&match=1 Ward, Colin. “Ruby Payne-Scott [1912-1981].” CSIROpedia. March 23, 2011. https://csiropedia.csiro.au/payne-scott-ruby/ “Magnetism and Life.” For Worth Start Telegraph. March 29, 1936. https://www.newspapers.com/image/635960090/?terms=Ruby%20Payne%20Scott&match=1 Freeman, Joan. “A Passion for Physics: The Story of a Woman Physicist.” CRC Press. 1991. “Our History.” CSIRO. https://www.csiro.au/en/about/achievements/our-history Goss, W. M. and Richard McGee. “Under the Radar: The First The First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott.” Springer Science & Business Media. 2009. Goss, W. M. “Making Waves: The Story of Ruby Payne-Scott: Australian Pioneer Radio Astronomer.” Springer. 2013.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bright on Buddhism Episode 40 - What is Buddhist psychology? What are its doctrinal foundations? What is its influence in the West? Resources: Caroline Brazier: A Buddhist Perspective On Mental Health. Paper for Nurturing Heart and Spirit: A National Multi-Faith Symposium; Held under the auspices of the Nimhe Spirituality Project, Staffordshire University and The Spirituality and Mental Health Forum, Wednesday November 1st 2006; Davidson, Richard J. & Anne Harrington (eds.) (2002). Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature. NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513043-X.; Dockett, K. H., Dudley-Grant, G. R., & Bankart, C. P. (2003). Psychology and Buddhism: From individual to global community: Springer Science & Business Media.; Epstein, Mark (2004), Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective, Basic Books, Kindle Edition; Fromm, Erich, D. T. Suzuki & Richard De Martino (1960). Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. NY: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-090175-6.; Fromm, Erich (1989, 2002). The Art of Being. NY: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-0673-4.; Goleman, Daniel (ed.) (1997). Healing Emotions: Conversations With the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health. Boston: Shambhala Publications. ISBN 1-57062-212-4.; Goleman, Daniel (2004). Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama. NY: Bantam Dell. ISBN 0-553-38105-9.; Virtbauer, Gerald (March 2012). "The Western reception of Buddhism as a psychological and ethical system: developments, dialogues, and perspectives". Mental Health, Religion & Culture. 15 (3): 251–263. doi:10.1080/13674676.2011.569928. S2CID 145760146.; Virtbauer, Gerald (1 April 2014). "Characteristics of Buddhist Psychology". SFU Forschungsbulletin: 1–9. doi:10.15135/2014.2.1.1-9.; Wallace, B. A., & Shapiro, S. L. (2006). Mental balance and well-being: building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology. American psychologist, 61(7), 690.; Watts, Alan W. (1959). The Way of Zen. NY: New American Library. Cited in Ellis (1991).; Watts, Alan W. (1960). Nature, Man and Sex. NY: New American Library. Cited in Ellis (1991).; Watts, Alan W. (1961, 1975). Psychotherapy East and West. NY: Random House. ISBN 0-394-71610-8.; Bodhi, Bhikkhu (ed.) (2000). A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma: The Abhidhammattha Sangaha of Ācariya Anuruddha. Seattle, WA: BPS Pariyatti Editions. ISBN 1-928706-02-9. - also online: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/abhiman.html; Brazier, David (2001), The Feeling Buddha, Robinson Publishing; Curtis, C. (2016). The Experience of Self/No-Self in Aikido. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23(1-2), 58–68.; Flanagan, Owen (2011-08-12). The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized. MIT Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-262-29723-3.; Rick Hanson: Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom. New Harbinger Publications (2009); Stephen Batchelor: After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age. Yale University Press (2017) Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by finding us on email or social media! https://linktr.ee/brightonbuddhism Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host

In this podcast, your language guide Emily (teacher, PhD) will talk about the power of formative assessments. You'll learn what formative assessments are, why they matter, and 3 easy ways you can incorporate more of them into your language class! Looking to download our White Paper or Setting Good Goals PDF we mentioned in this episode? Click here to access: https://info.mangolanguages.com/glc-signupWatch our video on the Fluency Illusion here: https://youtu.be/sJA6ML7tivs or learn more about Active Learning Strategies here: https://youtu.be/caGsJO-5SmQIf you'd like the blog article that accompanies this podcast, click here: https://blog.mangolanguages.com/why-formative-assessments-are-a-teachers-biggest-secret-power-3-simple-tips-for-using-them-in-your-language-classroomWe also invite you to check out our website at https://mangolanguages.com/ and follow us on social media @MangoLanguages. Wondering what languages were used in today's episode? Serbian | Zdravo! Kako si? is ‘Hello! How are you?'' and Važi. Ćao! is ‘Ok. Bye!' Japanese | 前置きはさておき (maeoki-wa sate oki) means 'without further ado' (literally translates as ‘setting aside introductory remarks') Interested in learning English, Serbian, Japanese, or one of the other 70+ languages that the Mango app offers? Click here to learn more! https://mangolanguages.com/appWant to explore more of the research underlying this episode? Check out this case study article: Lantolf, J. P., & Poehner, M. E. (2011). Dynamic assessment in the classroom: Vygotskian praxis for second language development. Language Teaching Research, 15(1), 11–33. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168810383328Check out this overview article: Carpenter, S. K. (2012). Testing enhances the transfer of learning. Current directions in psychological science, 21(5), 279-283.Check out this foundational book: Poehner, M. E. (2008). Dynamic assessment: A Vygotskian approach to understanding and promoting L2 development (Vol. 9). Springer Science & Business Media.Meet your guide Emily! Emily Sabo (PhD, University of Michigan) is a linguist at Mango Languages. A Pittsburgh native, her areas of specialization are the social and cognitive factors that impact bilingual language processing and production. Having studied 7 languages and lived in various countries abroad, she sees multilingualism -- and the cultural diversity that accompanies it -- as the coolest of superpowers. Complementary to her work at Mango, Emily is a Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Tennessee, a Producer of the “We Are What We Speak' docuseries, and get this...a storytelling standup comedian!#teachingtips #assessments #gradeanxiety

Ante la majestuosidad del arcoíris los exploradores Marga y Santi se dan a la tarea de comprender qué lo causa. Nos cuentan que fue Isaac Newton el que descubrió que cuando la luz blanca pasa a través de prismas experimenta el fenómeno de la refracción y se descompone en los haces de luces de los colores que componen la luz. En el caso de la atmósfera la refracción de la luz en las gotas de agua produce una separación de la luz blanca en los colores que forman el arcoíris. Nuestros ojos y nuestro cerebro codifican la energía de la luz por medio del color porque las luces o los fotones de la luz tienen diferentes energías. Literatura y videos consultados: Buick, T. (2010). The rainbow sky: an exploration of colors in the solar system and beyond. Springer Science & Business Media. Gunther, L. (2012). The physics of music and color (p. 222). New York: Springer. El Arco Iris - The Rainbow ¿Cómo se forma?, Profesor Sergio Llanos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crLHRhPaFs0) Créditos: Dirección: Ana Cecilia Agudelo Henao Producción sonora: Gecko Gómez Cubides Diagramación: Sebastián Narváez Díaz Investigación y Presentación: Efraín Solarte Rodríguez, Beatriz Londoño Flórez, Juan Carlos Granada Echeverri y Ana Cecilia Agudelo Henao. Locución: Margarita Granada Agudelo y Santiago Patiño Abadía. Traducción al inglés: Margarita Granada Agudelo. * El guion de este episodio fue el producto del grupo de estudio sobre luz y color conformado por los doctores en física: Efraín Solarte Rodríguez, Beatriz Londoño Flórez, Juan Carlos Granada Echeverri y Ana Cecilia Agudelo Henao. Efraín Solarte Rodríguez y Juan Carlos Granada Echeverri son profesores del Depto. de Física de la Universidad del Valle.

Today T & K discuss how their definition of success has changed over the years and answer the question: would your 12 year old self think you are successful now? T examines the ever-changing ways to measure success and K offers a comparison of how women vs men view success. In case you need to hear it today, you are a successful person already! Remember, you can't experience success if you're always chasing it.  T's article: Jayson Demers, “Define Success: A Professional's Guide to Finding Purpose and Motivation”, Inc.com, (21 Jan 2015) online: www.inc.com/jayson-demers/define-success-a-professional-s-guide-to-finding-purpose-and-motivation.html K's article: Lorraine S. Dyke & Steven A. Murphy, “How We Define Success: A Qualitative Study of What Matters Most to Women and Men”, Springer Science, (2006).  Allan Watts, “What if money was no object?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khOaAHK7efc

“Every individual reaction was specific and idiosyncratic – it was absolutely related to the previous experience. Even the symptoms that were formed could be understood as the reaction to adult trauma but shaped according to a childhood experience.”   Description: Dr. Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Vladimir Jovic to today’s episode. Dr. Jovic is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Belgrade, Serbia, and since the early 90’s he has been working with refugees, war veterans, and victims of torture in former Yugoslavia. In 1997, together with other colleagues, he established the Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (CRTV) in Belgrade, where they employed a variety of psychosocial programs that were developed in a framework of rehabilitation of torture victims. Dr. Jovic was active in the development of independent mechanisms for the prevention of torture in places of detention such as prisons and psychiatric hospitals for the National Preventive Mechanism. Today he works as a consultant for the CRTV and has been newly appointed member of the board of trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture.   In today’s conversation, Drs. Schwartz and Jovic discuss how an analyst can engage with those who have been involved in torture, the importance of psychosocial outreach and the importance of making sure the basic needs of these individuals are met. Dr. Jovic describes visiting the countryside, making contact with people who have been traumatized all of which embodies the work of psychoanalysts off the couch.   Today you will also hear about the role of political cultures facilitating the acting out of individual aggression, the usefulness and limitations of the label of PTSD, and the subject of current trauma and how it relates to childhood vulnerabilities.   Key takeaways: [7:12] What it takes for someone to make it to a psychoanalyst’s office? [8:27] How did Dr. Jovic learn to work with those involved in torture? [12:10] Dr. Jovic shares the interventions he uses to engage with these traumatized patients. [15:04] Dr. Jovic affirms that the reaction to war trauma is directly shaped by childhood experiences. [17:30] Dr. Jovic shares an example to describe the importance of paying attention to the current trauma. [18:55] The clinical value of PTSD. [21:49] The event has to become traumatic in our psyche in order to notice PTSD symptoms. [23:05] Dr. Jovic talks about how certain political cultures allow for the acting out of impulses. [28:45] Dr. Jovic talks about the consequences of torture. [33:45] Dr. Jovics dives deep into the need to rehumanize the lives of the victims of torture and war survivors. [35:27] What the narratives of the victims unveil. [37:05] The question that can help an analyst engage with veterans: “What did you do in war that you wished you hadn’t?” [39:59] Dr. Jovic talks about the thin line between victims and perpetrators. [40:35] Dr. Jovic shares how at the beginning veterans use to resist treatment since the analyst was not in war and did not have what takes to understand. [41:35] Dr. Jovic talks about the circumstances that led him to his field of expertise.   Mentioned in this episode: IPA Off the Couch www.ipaoffthecouch.org   Recommended Readings: Špirić, Ž., Knežević, G., Jović, V., & Opačić, G. (2004). Torture in War, Consequences and Rehabilitation of Victims: Yugoslav experience. Belgrade: IAN-International Aid Network.   Opačić, G., Jović, V., Radović, B., & Knežević, G. (2006). Redress in action: Consequences of forcible mobilization of refugees in 1995. Belgrade: International Aid Network.   Jović, V. (2017). Kriegstrauma, Migration und ihre Konsequenzen. In M. Leuzinger-Bohleber, U. Bahrke, S. Hau, T. Fischmann, & S. Arnold (Eds.), Flucht, Migration und Trauma: Die Folgen für die nächste Generation (pp. 175–198). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.   Jovic, V., Varvin, S., Rosenbaum, B., Fischmann, T., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M., & Hau, S. (2018). Sleep Studies in Serbian Victims of Torture: analysis of traumatic dreams. In E. Vermetten, T. C. Neylan, M. Kramer, & S. R. Pandi-Perumal (Eds.), Sleep and Combat-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders. Springer Science.   Jović, V. (2018). Working with Traumatized Refugees on the Balkan Route. Int J Appl Psychoanal Studies, 187 – 201.   Varvin, S., Fischmann, T., Jovic, V., Rosenbaum, B., & Hau, S. (2012). Traumatic dreams: symbolization gone astray. In P. Fonagy, H. Kächele, M. Leuzinger-Bohleber, & D. Taylor (Eds.), The significance of dreams. Bridging Clinical and Extraclinical Research in Psychoanalysis (pp. 182–211). London: Karnac Books.   Jović, V. (in press). Refugees, Torture, and Dehumanization. In D. Bughra (Ed.), Oxford Textbook of Migrant Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Nach unserer Folge über den weiblichen Orgasmus war es an der Zeit etwas über den männlichen Orgasmus zu machen. Was fiel mir auf, als ich fleissig für dieses Thema recherchierte? Nun es gibt gar nicht so viel Forschung dazu. Auf den ersten Blick hat man das Gefühl, wenn Orgasmus untersucht wird, dann ist es der weibliche. Dabei sind die beiden gar nicht so unterschiedlich. Es gibt genauso Phasen, wie Miriam erklärt. Physiologisch ist der Vorgang bei den Geschlechtern ähnlich wie ihr hören werdet. Oxytocin (auch «Bindungshormon» genannt) wird ausgeschüttet und Areale im Gehirn aktiviert. Mit anderen Worten, «same same, but different». Der Unterschied ist die mit dem Orgasmus fast immer auftretende Ejakulation. Warum fast immer? Tja, Miriam erklärt im Podcast, dass diese zwei Vorgänge auch entkoppelt passieren können. Sie fühlen sich übrigens auch anders an. Der Unterschied wird vor allem dadurch versteckt, dass diese beiden Prozesse fast immer zeitlich überlappend sind. Für diejenigen, die es nicht wussten, auch Männer täuschen Orgasmen vor. Die Gründe sind auch wiederum ähnlich wie bei den Frauen. Den Rest könnt ihr gerne bei Interesse selber nachlesen, denn Miriam empfahl noch ein gutes (nicht gerade dünnes) Buch von Bernie Ziebergeld «Die neue Sexualität der Männer». Hosts: Miriam and Michal, Website, Instagram Literatur: Waterman, C. K., & Chiauzzi, E. J. (1982). The role of orgasm in male and female sexual enjoyment. Journal of Sex Research, 18(2), 146-159. Masters, W. H., & Johnson, V. E. (1966). Human sexual response. Holstege, G., Georgiadis, J. R., Paans, A. M., Meiners, L. C., van der Graaf, F. H., & Reinders, A. S. (2003). Brain activation during human male ejaculation. Journal of Neuroscience, 23(27), 9185-9193. Physiology of orgasm.in: Mulhall J.P. Incocci L. Goldstein I. Rosen R. Cancer and sexual health. Springer Science, New York2011: 35-48 Huynh, H. K., Willemsen, A. T., & Holstege, G. (2013). Female orgasm but not male ejaculation activates the pituitary. A PET-neuro-imaging study. Neuroimage, 76, 178-182. Salisbury, C. M., & Fisher, W. A. (2014). “Did you come?” A qualitative exploration of gender differences in beliefs, experiences, and concerns regarding female orgasm occurrence during heterosexual sexual interactions. The Journal of Sex Research, 51(6), 616-631. Hite, S. (1981). The Hite report on male sexuality. Proctor, E. B., Wagner, N. N., & Butler, J. C. (1973). The differentiation of male and female orgasm: An experimental study. Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, 413–414. Muehlenhard, C. L., & Shippee, S. K. (2010). Men's and women's reports of pretending orgasm. Journal of Sex Research, 47(6), 552-567. Beutel, M., Weidner, W., Daig, I., & Brähler, E. (2007). Epidemiologie sexueller Dysfunktion in der männlichen Bevölkerung. Journal für Reproduktionsmedizin und Endokrinologie-Journal of Reproductive Medicine and Endocrinology, 4(5), 244-249. Kursbuch Anti-Aging, Hans Konrad Biesalski, 2004, S. 416, Kapitel Psychosomatik der männlichen Sexualstörungen, ISBN: 9783131566218

When I first heard the theoretical construct a sanctuary it conjured peace, heaven, tranquil, ther·a·peu·tic at one..however, after I had researched the word I discovered a sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine. By the use of such places as a haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. This secondary use can be categorized into human sanctuary, a safe place for humans, such as a political sanctuary; and non-human sanctuary, such as an animal or plant sanctuary. Sanctuary is a word derived from the Latin sanctuarium, which is, like most words ending in -arium, a container for keeping something in—in this case holy things or perhaps cherished people (sanctae/sancti). The meaning was extended to places of holiness or safety, in particular the whole demarcated area, often many acres, surrounding a Greek or Roman temple; the original terms for these are temenos in Greek and fanum in Latin, but both may be translated as "sanctuary". Similar usage may be sometimes found describing sacred areas in other religions. In Christian churches sanctuary has a specific meaning, covering part of the interior. In many Western Christian traditions including Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, and Anglican churches, the area around the altar is called the sanctuary.ISBN978-1-64970-922-6 A SANCTUARY ©2020iMovie and Devgro Media Arts ServicesPresent A Devgro Media Arts Services Production In Association With iMovieA William Anderson Gittens PodcastA Sanctuary Podcast ©2020Directed,Edited,Produced, Shoot on Location, Scripted, By William Anderson GittensAuthor, Dip. Com. Art,Media Arts Specialist Publisher, License Cultural Practitioner CEO Devgro Media Arts ServicesSome of the digital flowers Filmed on Location Thorsby Barbados-Magnola's GardenReference"Feathers have always been used by humans as decoration and status symbols". BirdLife International. 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2016.Chamberlain, Susan (2013). "Parrot History: Yesterday and Today". BirdChannel. Retrieved 9 August 2016.Ducarme, Frédéric; Couvet, Denis (2020). "What does 'nature' mean?". Palgrave Communications. Springer Nature. 6 (14). doi:10.1057/s41599-020-0390-y.Gittens William Anderson.Author, Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Cultural Practitioner, Publisher ISBN 978-976-96220-3-6ISBN 978-976-96220-6-7Shapiro, Ilya L.; de Berredo-Peixoto, Guilherme (2013). Lecture Notes on Newtonian Mechanics: Lessons from Modern Concepts. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 116. ISBN 978-1461478256. Retrieved 28 September 2016.This translation of the third law and the commentary following it can be found in the "Principia" on page 20 of volume 1 of the 1729 translation.This translation of the third law and the commentary following it can be found in the "Principia" on page 20 of volume 1 of the 1729 translation.http://plainviewpure.com/12-incredible-orchid-facts-no-one-ever-told/https://cactusway.com/20-amazing-facts-you-didnt-know-about-cacti/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados_anolehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadfruithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature–culture_dividehttps://foleylionsroar.com/2016/12/five-interesting-facts-about-sunsets/https://identify.whatbird.com/obj/837/overview/Gray_Kingbird.aspx#:~:text=INTERESTING%20FACTS,a%20sort%20of%20David%20vs.https://renewablesourcesenergy.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/windmills-why-they-are-useful/https://renewablesourcesenergy.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/windmills-why-they-are-useful/https://Support the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)

Hypothesizing Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. Andrea Borghini has espoused the view that Nature and culture are often seen as opposite ideas—what belongs to nature cannot be the result of human intervention and, on the other hand, cultural development is achieved against nature. However, this is by far not the only take on the relationship between nature and culture. Studies in the evolutionary development of humans suggest that culture is part and parcel of the ecological niche within which our species thrived, thus rendering culture a chapter in the biological development of a species.Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena.Nature and culture should evoke the responsiveness of global citizens cognitive appetite is the underpinning of this discourse. William Anderson GittensAuthor, Dip.,Com., Arts. Cnematographer, B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher,CEO Devgro Media Arts ServicesCulture And Nature Podcast ©2020iMovie and Devgro Media Arts ServicesPresentA Devgro Media Arts Services Production In Association With iMovieA William Anderson Gittens PodcastCulture And Nature Podcast ©2020Directed,Edited,Produced, Shoot on Location, Scripted, By William Anderson Gittens Author, Dip. Com. Cinematographer Art,Media Arts Specialist Publisher, License Cultural Practitioner CEO Devgro Media Arts ServicesSome of the digital flowers Filmed on Location Barbados-Andromeda Botanic Gardens Hunte's GardensMagnola's Garden Sunsets EuropeReference"Feathers have always been used by humans as decoration and status symbols". BirdLife International. 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2016.Chamberlain, Susan (2013). "Parrot History: Yesterday and Today". BirdChannel. Retrieved 9 August 2016.Ducarme, Frédéric; Couvet, Denis (2020). "What does 'nature' mean?". Palgrave Communications. Springer Nature. 6 (14). doi:10.1057/s41599-020-0390-y.Gittens William Anderson.Author, Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Cultural Practitioner, Publisher ISBN 978-976-96220-3-6ISBN 978-976-96220-6-7Shapiro, Ilya L.; de Berredo-Peixoto, Guilherme (2013). Lecture Notes on Newtonian Mechanics: Lessons from Modern Concepts. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 116. ISBN 978-1461478256. Retrieved 28 September 2016.This translation of the third law and the commentary following it can be found in the "Principia" on page 20 of volume 1 of the 1729 translation.This translation of the third law and the commentary following it can be found in the "Principia" on page 20 of volume 1 of the 1729 translation.http://plainviewpure.com/12-incredible-orchid-facts-no-one-ever-told/https://cactusway.com/20-amazing-facts-you-didnt-know-about-cacti/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados_anolehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadfruithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature–culture_dividehttps://foleylionsroar.com/2016/12/five-interesting-facts-about-sunsets/https://identify.whatbird.com/obj/837/overview/Gray_Kingbird.aspx#:~:text=INTERESTING%20FACTS,a%20sort%20of%20David%20vs.https://renewablesourcesenergy.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/windmills-why-they-are-useful/https://renewablesourcesenergy.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/windmills-why-they-are-useful/https://science.sciencemag.org/https://theplanets.org/https://www.backyardnatSupport the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)

Welcome to episode 4 of my new podcast 'Agents of Hope'. My name is Tim Cox. I am a trainee Educational Psychologist and I am passionate about psychology, hope and society.  This podcast aims to promote hopeful thinking and conversation about positive change in the field of applied educational psychology, education and wider society. If you are interested in the podcast you can subscribe on your podcast streaming platform, follow the Agents of Hope Facebook page or follow me on twitter @timceducation.Episode #4In this episode, I speak to my colleague and deskmate, Dr Amelia Taylor. Amelia talks about her journey from her upbringing in rural Somerset, chancing upon Educational Psychology and a bike ride that changed everything. Amelia sees her role as Educational Psychology through the lens of Polyvagal theory and has recently become a trainer in Theraplay.  If you are interested in Amelia's ideas you can follow her on twitter @lifecyclespsych.During our discussion, Amelia helps me to understand the principles and theory of Polyvagal theory and how that relates to resilience, Theraplay, Amelia's love of mountain biking and my love of music. Our discussion helps me to understand how the nervous system can be integrated into an ecological understanding of resilience and how the idea maps to other neuroscientific ideas.  Amelia also talks about her new intervention for teenagers combining mountain biking and we discuss how the theory that underpins Theraplay could be applied to other outdoor pursuits and sports. We conclude by trying to tackle a tough question from the TEP Facebook community about therapeutic approaches, evidence-based practice and ecological psychology. This discussion was a real learning experience for me, so many ping moments. I hope that you enjoy the episode as much I enjoyed recording it. Suggested ReadingDana, D. A. (2018). The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology). WW Norton & Company.Kranowitz, C. (2006). The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Revised Edition: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder. Penguin.Lloyd, S. (2016). Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatized Children: Practical Ideas to Help Your Child's Movement, Coordination and Body Awareness. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.Norris, V., & Lender, D. (2020). Theraplay®–The Practitioner's Guide. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.Rodwell, H., & Norris, V. (2017). Parenting with Theraplay®: Understanding Attachment and How to Nurture a Closer Relationship with Your Child. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.Ungar, M. (Ed.). (2011). The social ecology of resilience: A handbook of theory and practice. Springer Science & Business Media.Van der Kolk, B. (2014). The body keeps the score: Mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma. Penguin UK.Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/agentsofhope)

Disclaimer: This podcast was made by high school students Ronik G. and Drew R. in the RTHS APES class, therefore the studies and facts are all secondary and made by experts. Sources: Effect on Animals Source 1: APA citation- Kunc, H. P., Mclaughlin, K. E., & Schmidt, R. (2016). Aquatic noise pollution: Implications for individuals, populations, and ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1836), 20160839. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0839 Source 2: APA citation- Slabbekoorn, H., Bouton, N., Opzeeland, I. V., Coers, A., Cate, C. T., & Popper, A. N. (2010). A noisy spring: The impact of globally rising underwater sound levels on fish. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25(7), 419-427. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2010.04.005 Simpson, S. D., Radford, A. N., Nedelec, S. L., Ferrari, M. C., Chivers, D. P., McCormick, M. I., & Meekan, M. G. (2016). Anthropogenic noise increases fish mortality by predation. Nature communications, 7, 10544. Sources of Pollution Source 1: APA citation-Merchant, N. D., Pirotta, E., Barton, T. R., & Thompson, P. M. (2014). Monitoring ship noise to assess the impact of coastal developments on marine mammals. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 78(1-2), 85-95. Source 2: APA citation- Ross, D. (2005). Ship sources of ambient noise. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 30(2), 257-261. Solution to Pollution Source 1: APA citation- McCarthy, E. (2007). International regulation of underwater sound: establishing rules and standards to address ocean noise pollution. Springer Science & Business Media. Source 2: APA citation- Iduk, U., & Samson, N. (2015). Effects and solutions of marine pollution from ships in Nigerian waterways. International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research,(IJSER) India, 6(9), 782-792. Simmonds, M. P., Dolman, S. J., Jasny, M., Parsons, E. C. M., Weilgart, L., Wright, A. J., & Leaper, R. (2014). Marine noise pollution-increasing recognition but need for more practical action.

In March 2018 Gudrun visited University College London and recorded three conversations with mathematicians working there. Her first partner was Karen Page. She works in Mathematical Biology and is interested in mathematical models for pattern formation. An example would be the question why (and how) a human embryo develops five fingers on each hand. The basic information for that is coded into the DNA but how the pattern develops over time is a very complicated process which we understand only partly. Another example is the patterning of neurons within the vertebrate nervous system. The neurons are specified by levels of proteins. Binding of other proteins at the enhancer region of DNA decides whether a gene produces protein or not. This type of work needs a strong collaboration with biologists who observe certain behaviours and do experiments. Ideally they are interested in the mathematical tools as well. One focus of Karen's work is the development of the nervous system in its embryonic form as the neural tube. She models it with the help of dynamical systems. At the moment they contain three ordinary differential equations for the temporal changes in levels of three proteins. Since they influence each other the system is coupled. Moreover a fourth protein enters the system as an external parameter. It is called sonic hedgehog (Shh). It plays a key role in regulating the growth of digits on limbs and organization of the brain. It has different effects on the cells of the developing embryo depending on its concentration. Concerning the mathematical theory the Poincaré Bendixson theorem completely characterizes the long-time behaviour of two-dimensional dynamical systems. Working with three equations there is room for more interesting long-term scenarios. For example it is possible to observe chaotic behaviour. Karen was introduced to questions of Mathematical Biology when starting to work on her DPhil. Her topic was Turing patterns. These are possible solutions to systems of Partial differential equations that are thermodynamically non-equilibrium. They develop from random perturbations about a homogeneous state, with the help of an input of energy. Prof. Page studied mathematics and physics in Cambridge and did her DPhil in Oxford in 1999. After that she spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and has been working at UCL since 2001. References A. Turing: The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B. 237 (641): 37–72.1952 J.D. Murray: Mathematical Biology. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. ISBN 978-3-662-08539-4 M. Cohen, K.M. Page e.a: A theoretical framework for the regulation of Shh morphogen-controlled gene expression. Development, 141(20), 3868-3878, 2014. N. Balaskas e.a.: Gene regulatory logic for reading the Sonic Hedgehog signaling gradient in the vertebrate neural tube. Cell. 148, 273-284, 2012. J. Panovska-Griffiths e.a.: A gene regulatory motif that generates oscillatory or multiway switch outputs. J. Roy. Soc. Interface. 10.79, 2013. Podcasts L. Adlung: Systembiologie, Gespräch mit G. Thäter und S. Ritterbusch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 39, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2016. Omega Tau-Podcast 069: Grundlagen der Zellbiologie Omega Tau-Podcast 072: Forschung in der Zellbiologie Konscience-Podcast 024, Kapitel 5: Das Hochlandgen aus "Wie kam das bloß durch die Ethikkommission?"

In March 2018 Gudrun visited University College London and recorded three conversations with mathematicians working there. Her first partner was Karen Page. She works in Mathematical Biology and is interested in mathematical models for pattern formation. An example would be the question why (and how) a human embryo develops five fingers on each hand. The basic information for that is coded into the DNA but how the pattern develops over time is a very complicated process which we understand only partly. Another example is the patterning of neurons within the vertebrate nervous system. The neurons are specified by levels of proteins. Binding of other proteins at the enhancer region of DNA decides whether a gene produces protein or not. This type of work needs a strong collaboration with biologists who observe certain behaviours and do experiments. Ideally they are interested in the mathematical tools as well. One focus of Karen's work is the development of the nervous system in its embryonic form as the neural tube. She models it with the help of dynamical systems. At the moment they contain three ordinary differential equations for the temporal changes in levels of three proteins. Since they influence each other the system is coupled. Moreover a fourth protein enters the system as an external parameter. It is called sonic hedgehog (Shh). It plays a key role in regulating the growth of digits on limbs and organization of the brain. It has different effects on the cells of the developing embryo depending on its concentration. Concerning the mathematical theory the Poincaré Bendixson theorem completely characterizes the long-time behaviour of two-dimensional dynamical systems. Working with three equations there is room for more interesting long-term scenarios. For example it is possible to observe chaotic behaviour. Karen was introduced to questions of Mathematical Biology when starting to work on her DPhil. Her topic was Turing patterns. These are possible solutions to systems of Partial differential equations that are thermodynamically non-equilibrium. They develop from random perturbations about a homogeneous state, with the help of an input of energy. Prof. Page studied mathematics and physics in Cambridge and did her DPhil in Oxford in 1999. After that she spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and has been working at UCL since 2001. References A. Turing: The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B. 237 (641): 37–72.1952 J.D. Murray: Mathematical Biology. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. ISBN 978-3-662-08539-4 M. Cohen, K.M. Page e.a: A theoretical framework for the regulation of Shh morphogen-controlled gene expression. Development, 141(20), 3868-3878, 2014. N. Balaskas e.a.: Gene regulatory logic for reading the Sonic Hedgehog signaling gradient in the vertebrate neural tube. Cell. 148, 273-284, 2012. J. Panovska-Griffiths e.a.: A gene regulatory motif that generates oscillatory or multiway switch outputs. J. Roy. Soc. Interface. 10.79, 2013. Podcasts L. Adlung: Systembiologie, Gespräch mit G. Thäter und S. Ritterbusch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 39, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2016. Omega Tau-Podcast 069: Grundlagen der Zellbiologie Omega Tau-Podcast 072: Forschung in der Zellbiologie Konscience-Podcast 024, Kapitel 5: Das Hochlandgen aus "Wie kam das bloß durch die Ethikkommission?"

Aired Thursday, 3 August 2017, 4:00 PM ET The Reality of Porn with Dr. Jakob Pastoetter Few topics are more controversial than Porn. This is because Porn stands so much in the intersection not only of so many different points of view what sexuality should be about but also of what constitutes a visual medium and a piece of art in general, what are their messages, and how do they exert influence on our real world experiences and interactions. As with many other things, you can only try to approach from different angles to get an idea of what constitutes the “Reality of Porn” for different people, rather than to decide once and for all what it “really” is. In this show German Sexologist Dr. Jakob Pastoetter will answer these five questions to get a clearer picture: 1) what makes porn porn; 2) tell us about ethical porn; 3) is porn addictive; 4) what are the harmful effects of porn; 5) what are porn perception differences between men and women – preferences/ views/ attitudes; 6) my partner watches a lot of porn. Is this cheating? About the Guest: Dr. Jakob Pastoetter Dr. Jakob Pastoetter started as a very spiritually interested teenager, delved then into cultural anthropology, developed a taste for sexology while doing research at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, wrote his doctoral thesis on Hardcore Pornography and the Constrain to Self-constrain Mechanisms of the Civilizing Process it is entangled in – Question: Why were Sexually Explicit Pictures only developed as an Entertainment Medium in the Postindustrialized Western societies. He got his Ph.D. in Education at Humboldt University, and finally became an ABS certified Clinical Sexologist at the American Academy of Clinical Sexology in 2003, teaching and tutoring there since 15 years while doing research, media work, and sex, couple, and life counseling as President of the German Society for Social Scientific Sexuality Research. He started organizing the prestigious biannual conferences of DGSS. Since 2014 he also provided sexual counseling for bi-national couples in English and German via Skype. His websites are www.sexologie.org, www.sexualitaetleben.de, https://www.facebook.com/erosarising/, https://twitter.com/jpastoetter, and soon www.liveyoursexuality.com. Right now he is the Editor of a German-English book series “Sexuality Crosswise” with Springer Science and is writing a book on “The Development of German Sex Education”.

Stephanie Wollherr hat ihr Mathestudium am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) absolviert und in unserer Arbeitsgruppe die Abschlussarbeit im Kontext von numerischen Methoden für Wellengleichungen geschrieben. Damals hat Gudrun Thäter sie aus dem Podcastgespräch verabschiedet mit dem Wunsch, in einigen Jahren zu hören, was sie in der Zwischenzeit mathematisches tut. Was wie eine Floskel klingen mag, hat nun zum ersten Mal tatsächlich stattgefunden - ein Gespräch zur Arbeit von Stephanie in der Seismologie an der Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität (LMU) in München. In der Geophysik an der LMU wurde in den letzten 10 Jahren eine Software zur Wellenausbreitung entwickelt und benutzt, die immer weiter um simulierbare Phänomene ergänzt wird. Stephanie arbeitet an Dynamic Rupture Problemen - also der Simulation der Bruchdynamik als Quelle von Erdbeben. Hier geht es vor allem darum, weitere physikalische Eigenschaften wie z.B. Plastizität (bisher wurde meist vorausgesetzt, dass sich das Gestein elastisch verformt) und neue Reibungsgesetze zu implementieren und in Simulationen auf ihre Wirkung zu testen. Als Basis der Simulationen stehen zum einen Beobachtungen von Erdbeben aus der Vergangenheit zur Verfügung, zum anderen versucht man auch durch Laborexperimente, die aber leider ganz andere Größenskalen als die Realität haben, mögliche Eigenschaften der Bruchdynamik miteinzubeziehen. Die Daten der Seimsologischen Netzwerke sind zum Teil sogar öffentlich zugänglich. Im Bereich Dynamic Rupture Simulationen kann man eine gewisse Konzentration an Forschungskompetenz in Kalifornien feststellen, weil dort die möglicherweise katastrophalen Auswirkungen von zu erwartenden Erdbeben recht gegenwärtig sind. Das South California Earthquake Center unterstützt zum Beispiel unter anderem Softwares, die diese Art von Problemen simulieren, indem sie synthetische Testprobleme zur Verfügung stellen, die man benutzen kann, um die Ergebnisse seiner Software mit anderen zu vergleichen. Prinzipiell sind der Simulation von Bruchzonen bei Erdbeben gewissen Grenzen mit traditionellen Methoden gesetzt, da die Stetigkeit verloren geht. Der momentan gewählte Ausweg ist, im vornherein festzulegen, wo die Bruchzone verläuft, zutreffende Reibungsgesetze als Randbedingung zu setzen und mit Discontinuous Galerkin Methoden numerisch zu lösen. Diese unstetig angesetzten Verfahren eignen sich hervorragend, weil sie zwischen den Elementen Sprünge zulassen. Im Moment liegt der Fokus darauf, schon stattgefundene Erbeben zu simulieren. Leider sind auch hier die Informationen stets unvollständig: zum Beispiel können schon vorhandenen Bruchzonen unterhalb der Oberfläche unentdeckt bleiben und auch das regionale Spannungsfeld ist generell nicht sehr gut bestimmt. Eine weitere Herausforderung ist, dass die Prozesse an der Verwerfungszone mit sehr hoher Auflösung (bis auf ein paar 100m) gerechnet werden müssen, während der Vergleich mit Werten von Messstationen, die vielleicht einige 100 km entfernt sind einen sehr großen Simulationsbereich erfordert, was schnell zu einer hohen Anzahl an Elementen führt. Die Rechnungen laufen auf dem SuperMUC Supercomputer am LRZ in Garching und wurden durch eine Kooperation mit der Informatik an der TUM deutlich verbessert. Discontinuous Galerkin Verfahren haben den großen Vorteil, dass keine großen, globalen Matrizen entstehen, was eine Parallelisierung relativ einfach macht. Auf der anderen Seite kommen durch die element-lokale Kommunikation viele kleinere Matrix-Vektor Produkte vor, die grundlegend optimiert wurden. Ein weiterer Aspekt der Zusammenarbeit mit der TUM beschäftigte sich zum Beispiel mit der zu verteilenden Last, wenn für einige Elemente nur die Wellengleichung und für andere Elemente zusätzlich noch die Bruchdynamik gelöst werden muss. Auch bei der Input/Output Optimierung konnten die Informatiker willkommene Beiträge leisten. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Notwendigkeit von interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit zwischen Mathematiker, Geophysikern und Informatikern, um Erdbeben und die Dynamik ihrer Quelle besser zu verstehen. Literatur und weiterführende Informationen A. Heinecke, A. Breuer, S. Rettenberger, M. Bader, A. Gabriel, C. Pelties, X.-K. Liao: Petascale High Order Dynamic Rupture Earthquake Simulations on Heterogeneous Supercomputers, proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis SC14, 3–15, 2014. A.-A. Gabriel, E. H. Madden, T. Ulrich, S. Wollherr: Earthquake scenarios from Sumatra to Iceland - High-resolution simulations of source physics on natural fault systems, Poster, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, LMU Munich, Germany. S. Wollherr, A.-A. Gabriel, H. Igel: Realistic Physics for Dynamic Rupture Scenarios: The Example of the 1992 Landers Earthquake, Poster, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, LMU Munich. J. S. Hesthaven, T. Warburton: Nodal discontinuous Galerkin methods: algorithms, analysis, and applications, Springer Science & Business Media, 2007. M. Dumbser, M. Käser: An arbitrary high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for elastic waves on unstructured meshes—II. The three-dimensional isotropic case, Geophysical Journal International, 167(1), 319-336, 2006. C. Pelties, J. de la Puente, J.-P. Ampuero, G. B. Brietzke, M. Käser, M: Three-dimensional dynamic rupture simulation with a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method on unstructured tetrahedral meshes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117(B2), B02309, 2012. A.-A. Gabriel: Physics of dynamic rupture pulses and macroscopic earthquake source properties in elastic and plastic media. Diss. ETH No. 20567, 2013. K. C. Duru, A.-A. Gabriel, H. Igel: A new discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method for elastic waves with physically motivated numerical fluxes, in WAVES17 International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, 2016. Weingärtner, Mirjam, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, and P. Martin Mai: Dynamic Rupture Earthquake Simulations on complex Fault Zones with SeisSol at the Example of the Husavik-Flatey Fault in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Earthquakes in North Iceland, Husavik, North Iceland, 31 May - 3 June 2016. Gabriel, Alice-Agnes, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Luis A. Dalguer, and P. Martin Mai: Source Properties of Dynamic Rupture Pulses with Off-Fault Plasticity, J. Geophys. Res., 118(8), 4117–4126, 2013. Miloslav Feistauer and Vit Dolejsi: Discontinuous Galerkin Method: Analysis and Applications to compressible flow Springer, 2015. Podcasts S. Wollherr: Erdbeben und Optimale Versuchsplanung, Gespräch mit G. Thäter im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 012, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2013.

Aired Thursday, 1 June 2017, 4:00 PM ETAnimated Sex: The Spirituality of Eros with Dr. Jakob PastoetterAlthough there was never in the history of mankind more visual sex and general information about sex readily available, many people suffer from low libido and general disinterest in sex. Sexologists usually try to cure this with even more information and concentration on sex, and for many people that might be helpful because they have no words of their own to articulate their sexual needs and desires. But there are those others for whom this doesn’t work because they suffer from a kind of sex poisoning. This can only be cured by going back to the roots which aren’t anatomical, technical, or visual but primordial, archaic, and spiritual. Sex as “just sex” quickly becomes empty and shallow if the connection to Eros gets cut. Eros is not just the chubby little angel with bow and arrow but is the primordial god of procreation who emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation. Eros was the driving force behind the generation of new life in the cosmos. With Martha Lee Jakob Pastoetter will discuss his importance for cultivating polarity, nourishing creativity, and developing spiritual connectivity with life to discover our full sexual potential. Excursions will lead to Astrology, Sex Magick, Qigong, Tantra and the Jungian concepts of Animus and Anima.About the Guest: Dr. Jakob PastoetterDr. Jakob Pastoetter started as a very spiritually interested teenager, delved then into cultural anthropology, developed a taste for sexology while doing research at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, wrote his doctoral thesis on Hardcore Pornography and the Constrain to Self-constrain Mechanisms of the Civilizing Process it is entangled in – Question: Why were Sexually Explicit Pictures only developed as an Entertainment Medium in the Postindustrialized Western societies. He got his Ph.D. in Education at Humboldt University, and finally became an ABS certified Clinical Sexologist at the American Academy of Clinical Sexology in 2003, teaching and tutoring there since 15 years while doing research, media work, and sex, couple, and life counseling as President of the German Society for Social Scientific Sexuality Research. He started organizing the prestigious biannual conferences of DGSS. Since 2014 he also provided sexual counseling for bi-national couples in English and German via Skype.His websites are www.sexologie.org, www.sexualitaetleben.de, https://www.facebook.com/erosarising/, https://twitter.com/jpastoetter, and soon www.liveyoursexuality.com.Right now he is the Editor of a German-English book series “Sexuality Crosswise” with Springer Science and is writing a book on “The Development of German Sex Education”.

Aired Thursday, 1 June 2017, 4:00 PM ETAnimated Sex: The Spirituality of Eros with Dr. Jakob PastoetterAlthough there was never in the history of mankind more visual sex and general information about sex readily available, many people suffer from low libido and general disinterest in sex. Sexologists usually try to cure this with even more information and concentration on sex, and for many people that might be helpful because they have no words of their own to articulate their sexual needs and desires. But there are those others for whom this doesn’t work because they suffer from a kind of sex poisoning. This can only be cured by going back to the roots which aren’t anatomical, technical, or visual but primordial, archaic, and spiritual. Sex as “just sex” quickly becomes empty and shallow if the connection to Eros gets cut. Eros is not just the chubby little angel with bow and arrow but is the primordial god of procreation who emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation. Eros was the driving force behind the generation of new life in the cosmos. With Martha Lee Jakob Pastoetter will discuss his importance for cultivating polarity, nourishing creativity, and developing spiritual connectivity with life to discover our full sexual potential. Excursions will lead to Astrology, Sex Magick, Qigong, Tantra and the Jungian concepts of Animus and Anima.About the Guest: Dr. Jakob PastoetterDr. Jakob Pastoetter started as a very spiritually interested teenager, delved then into cultural anthropology, developed a taste for sexology while doing research at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, wrote his doctoral thesis on Hardcore Pornography and the Constrain to Self-constrain Mechanisms of the Civilizing Process it is entangled in – Question: Why were Sexually Explicit Pictures only developed as an Entertainment Medium in the Postindustrialized Western societies. He got his Ph.D. in Education at Humboldt University, and finally became an ABS certified Clinical Sexologist at the American Academy of Clinical Sexology in 2003, teaching and tutoring there since 15 years while doing research, media work, and sex, couple, and life counseling as President of the German Society for Social Scientific Sexuality Research. He started organizing the prestigious biannual conferences of DGSS. Since 2014 he also provided sexual counseling for bi-national couples in English and German via Skype.His websites are www.sexologie.org, www.sexualitaetleben.de, https://www.facebook.com/erosarising/, https://twitter.com/jpastoetter, and soon www.liveyoursexuality.com.Right now he is the Editor of a German-English book series “Sexuality Crosswise” with Springer Science and is writing a book on “The Development of German Sex Education”.

In vielen Spielen steckt Mathematik, seien es Minecraft, Wasserraketen oder Tiptoi. Lisa Mirlina und Felix Dehnen haben sich Qwirkle (ein Spiel der Schmidt Spiele von Susan McKinley Ross) einmal ganz genau angesehen. Die beiden konnten als Teilnehmer des Hector-Seminar an einem Kooperationsprojekt mit der Fakultät für Mathematik am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) teilnehmen. Hier betreute sie Prof. Dr. Frank Herrlich in dem Projekt auf der Suche nach der perfekten Qwirkle-Lösung- wofür die beiden ihm ganz herzlich danken. Das Legespiel war 2011 Spiel des Jahres und besteht aus 108 Spielsteinen aus sechs verschiedenen Farben und sechs verschiedenen Formen- jede Kombination kommt dabei dreimal vor. Jeder Spielteilnehmer versucht aus seinen eigenen sechs nachzuziehenden Spielsteinen gleiche Formen oder gleiche Farben auf dem Tisch in Reihen zusammenzulegen. Wie bei Scrabble gibt es für jedes Anlegen Punkte- es müssen aber alle entstehende Reihen korrekt sein- von Farbe oder Form, wie bei Mau-Mau oder Domino. Das Spielziel ist eine möglichst hohe Anzahl von Punkten zu erreichen. Den mathematischen Hintergrund zum Spiel fanden die beiden in der Topologie: Auf einem Tisch kann man höchstens 36 Steine perfekt anordnen- auf einer anderen topologischen Struktur eventuell mehr. Mit Hilfe von Verklebungen kann man zu Flächen wie beispielsweise auf einem Torus gelangen- wenn man die jeweils die gegenüberliegenden Seiten miteinander verklebt: Auf einem Torus haben wirklich alle Steine vier Nachbarn- und nicht nur die Steine im Inneren. Die Frage ist nun, ob es möglich ist, eine Fläche zu finden, wo jeder der 108 Steine in genau zwei perfekten Qwirkle-Reihen- also jeder Form oder Farbe- liegen kann. Neben einem Torus kann man durch Verkleben aus einem Quadrat oder Rechteck auch die Sphäre, das Möbiusband, die Projektive Ebene oder die Kleinsche Flasche erzeugen. Dabei sind das Möbiusband, die projektive Ebene und die Kleinsche Flasche nicht mehr orientierbar, da man keinen Normalenvektor angeben kann. Die projektive Fläche hat in ihrer Darstellung durch homogene Koordinaten eine wichtige Anwendung in der Computergrafik, da Verschiebungen auch als lineare Abbildungen umgesetzt werden können und die gesamte Berechnung deutlich erleichtert. Auch frühere Folgen zu Teichmüllerkurven (Modell042) und wilden Singularitäten (Modell060) haben im Modellansatz Podcast Topologie und Verklebungen behandelt. Die Topologie ist dabei überhaupt nicht so theoretisch, wie sie zunächst erscheint- denn da wir nicht auf einer Ebene oder flachen Erde leben, können wir einmal um die Erde herumgehen, und nach langem Weg wieder an dem gleichen Ort wieder ankommen. Wir können auch andere Winkelsummen von Dreiecken bestimmen. Diese Experimente können wir beim Universum leider nicht leicht durchführen, und so ist die Forschung nach der Topologie des Universums sehr aktuell. In der Topologie können Flächen bzw. zwei topologische Räume als äquivalent angesehen werden, wenn sie durch eine Homöomorphie, also durch eine stetige und stetig umkehrbare Abbildung in einander überführt werden können. So ist eine Tasse (mit einem Henkel) zu einem Torus homöomorph- nicht jedoch zu einem Becher ohne Henkel. Dies führt auf das interessante Gebiet der topologischen Klassifikation der Flächen, denn man kann durch eine genügend feine Unterteilung der Fläche in beispielsweise Dreiecke, einer Triangulierung, zusammen mit einigen Regeln die Art der Fläche bestimmen. Dies führt auf den verallgemeinerten Satz von Euler für orientierbare Flächen, wo die Zahl der Ecken, die Zahl der Flächen, die Zahl der Kanten und das Geschlecht bezeichnet: Das Drei Häuser-Problem ist ein Knobelrätsel zu diesem Satz, da das Problem auf einer Ebene oder eine Sphäre nicht lösbar ist, jedoch auf dem Torus eine Lösung besitzt. Für das Qwirkle-Spiel liefert der Dreifach-Torus (oder eine Brezel) eine Lösung für 8 Steine, wo jeweils zwei Steine doppelt sind und daher auf einem Tisch nicht so anzuordnen wären: Für 18 Steine haben sie eine unsymmetrische Lösung gefunden, die sich nicht so leicht auf mehr Steine erweitern ließ: Mit der Treppenstruktur wie bei 8 Steinen mit einer 9er Struktur kann man aber eine Lösung aus 108 Steinen konstruieren: Nach dem Satz von Euler ist diese Lösung auf einer Fläche, die einem Fünf-Torus entspricht- oder einer Brezel mit zwei Löchern zu viel. Dies ist aber nicht die einzige Lösung für 108 Steine- mit Gruppentheorie kann man nach weiteren Lösungen suchen: Denn so, wie die Steine sich nach Verklebung in einer Richtung wiederholen, so können auch Gruppen genau diese Wiederholungen darstellen. Ein sehr einfaches Beispiel ist die zyklische Gruppe aus drei Elementen 0, 1, 2, die man mit der Addition verknüpft, und bei Ergebnissen über 2 wieder drei abzieht, wie man in dieser Verknüpfungstafel ablesen kann: +012001211202201Auf drei Elementen kann man aber auch die Symmetrische oder Permutations-Gruppe definieren: In dieser sind alle möglichen sechs Vertauschungen bzw. Permutationen von den drei Elementen enthalten. Ein anderer Ansatz ist es, die drei Elemente als Ecken eines gleichseitigen Dreiecks zu sehen und alle Rotationen oder Spiegelungen zur Dieder- oder Symmetriegruppe definieren. Im speziellen Fall von drei Elementen stimmen die beiden Gruppen mit je sechs Abbildungen überein, d.h. : Durch das direkte Produkt von drei Symmetriegruppen erhält man eine Gruppe mit 216 Elementen, unter Festhalten des Signums (bzw. Vorzeichen), kann man durch Faktorisierung eine Untergruppe mit 108 Elementen bestimmen- die Qwirkle-Gruppe. Aus dieser Gruppe kann man nun wieder eine Fläche erzeugen, die das perfekte Qwirkle-Spiel mit 108 Steinen mit vollkommen symmetrischen Aufbau ermöglicht: Die Fläche dieser Lösung hat das Geschlecht 37, ist also äquivalent zu einer Tasse mit 37 Henkeln. Mit diesem Projekt starteten Lisa Mirlina und Felix Dehnen bei Jugend forscht- zunächst beim Regionalentscheid, dann beim Landesentscheid und schließlich dem Bundeswettbewerb. Sie gewannen den Preis der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) für besonders kreativen Einsatz der Mathematik. Und dann ging es als Delegation nach Japan. Literatur und Zusatzinformationen L. Mirlina, F. Dehnen: Qwirkle, Abschlussbericht im Hector-Seminar, 2014. J. Stillwell: Classical topology and combinatorial group theory, Vol. 72. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012. W. Lück: Topologie, Gespräch mit G. Thäter im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 40, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2014.

Bei Blue Yonder, einem führenden Lösungsanbieter im Bereich Prognosen und Mustererkennung in Europa, arbeitet Florian Wilhelm an verschiedenen Kundenprojekten und spricht darüber mit Gudrun Thäter. Ein konkretes Beispiel sind Absatzprognosen für einen Kunden im Einzelhandel. Mit diesen Prognosen kann der Disponent eine optimale Entscheidung treffen wie viele Produkte er von einem Großhändler kauft, um bei hoher Warenverfügbarkeit möglichst geringe Abschreibungen durch verdorbene Ware zu haben. Zur Generierung dieser Prognosen werden sowohl Methoden aus dem Bereich des Maschinellen Lernens wie auch der Statistik angewendet. Manche Methoden haben ihren Ursprung in der Teilchenphysik, wo sie verwendet werden um Teilchen in den Experimenten am CERN nachzuweisen. Literatur und Zusatzinformationen V. Mayer-Schönberger, K. Cukier: Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, HMH Books, 2013. A. Beck, M. Feindt: Einführung in die Blue Yonder Basistechnologie, Research Paper, 2013. M. Feindt: Why cutting edge technology matters for Blue Yonder solutions, Research Paper, 2014. C. Bishop: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics), Springer Science, 2006. T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, J. Friedman: The Elements of Statistical Learning, Springer Series in Statistics, 2009. Predictive Analytics (19MB,mp3)