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The Journalism Salute
Lizzy Lawrence, FDA Reporter, STAT News

The Journalism Salute

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 30:24


On this episode we're joined by Lizzy Lawrence. Lizzy covers the Food and Drug Administration for STAT News, a subscription-based part of Boston Globe's media newsroom owned by the Boston Globe that covers the frontiers of health and medicine. As they say- "We take you inside the science labs and hospitals, biotech boardrooms, and political backrooms. We dissect crucial discoveries. We examine controversies and puncture hype. We hold individuals and institutions accountable. We introduce you to the power brokers and personalities who are driving a revolution in human health." Lizzy has been with them for 2 1/2 years and she's been part of stories that have won prominent awards. She's previously covered technology and was editor-in-chief of the University of Michigan's student newspaper. And she's a graduate of my alma mater, Stuyvesant High School in New York City.Lizzy talked about what it's like to cover both breaking news, like the mass firing of thousands of people at the FDA and bigger enterprise stories, like the team coverage on United Healthcare that won a Polk Award for investigative journalism. She shared the biggest lessons she learned and what she feels she's taken from being a journalist.Lizzy's salute: The Association of Health Care JournalistsA detailed interview explaining STAT's coverage of United Healthcarehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0VJGEv5IGwThank you as always for listening. Please send us feedback to journalismsalute@gmail.com Visit our website: thejournalismsalute.org Mark's website (MarkSimonmedia.com)Tweet us at @journalismpod and Bluesky at @marksimon.bsky.socialSubscribe to our newsletter– journalismsalute.substack.com

Here & Now
How the toxic air from 9/11 is still making former NYC students sick

Here & Now

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 29:53


We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. Take the survey at wbur.org/survey. Voters say that the economy is one of the most important issues ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The Washington Post's Jeff Stein joins us to break down what former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris said about the economy in Tuesday's debate. And, Millennials are America's largest and most diverse generation. How are they thinking about the upcoming election? Author Stella Rouse joins us to talk about what's driving Millennial voters. Then, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attack, students, teachers and other school staffers were sent back to buildings just blocks from the smoldering rubble of the Twin Towers before the area was considered safe. In the years since, exposure to the toxic air has sickened and killed thousands of people. Environmental epidemiologist Maayan Yitshak-Sade and former Stuyvesant High School student Lila Nordstrom join us.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast
The Needs of Gifted Students: Misdiagnosed & Misunderstood Exceptional Learners with Pessy Sloan, PhD

JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2024 31:39


Pessy J. Sloan is an Associate Professor in the College of Arts, Sciences and Education of Daemen University. Dr. Sloan earned her Ph.D. in Clinical and School Psychology from Hofstra University in 2000. She teaches graduate courses in both early childhood and childhood special education. Prior to joining Daemen University, Dr. Sloan held various teaching positions in the undergraduate and graduate education field. She has many years of experience as a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist (CBT), school psychologist, psychoeducational evaluator, and researcher. Her primary research areas are gifted students and STEM education (with particular focus on women in STEM fields) and she is a passionate advocate for gifted education. Dr. Sloan published a number of journal articles and presented her research at international, national and state conferences. You can reach her at DrPJSloan@hotmail.com and/or 516-652-9583. References Colangelo, N., Assouline, S. G., & Gross, M. U. (2004). A nation deceived: How schools hold back America's brightest students. The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. Volume 1. Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development (NJ1). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED535137 Colangelo, N., Assouline, S. G., & Gross, M. U. (2004). A nation deceived: How schools hold back America's brightest students. The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. Volume 2. Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development (NJ1). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED535138 Sloan, P.J. (2020). Increasing gifted women's pursuit of STEM: Possible role of NYC selective specialized public high schools. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 43(2), 167-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162353220912026  Sloan, P.J. (2018). NYC selective specialized public high schools and honors college STEM degrees: A previously unexplored relationship. Journal of Advanced Academics, 29(4), 304- 320. https://doi.org/10.1177/1932202X18778816  Book Jolly, J. L., Treffinger, D. J., & Inman, T. F. (2021). Parenting gifted children: The authoritative guide from the National Association for Gifted Children. Routledge Parents and Teachers Support Organization National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC): https://nagc.org Enrichment Opportunities While Attending Yeshivas Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY): Grades 2-12: Online programs: Real-time, self-paced, session-based, and individually paced courses that fit individual learning styles and schedule. https://cty.jhu.edu Hollingworth Science camp: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/hollingworth/sciencecamp/ Gifted NYC Schools The Hollingworth center, Teachers College, Columbia University (Preschool) Hunter College Elementary School  The specialized high schools in New York City, original three: Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, and Brooklyn Technical High School. _________________________________________________ This week's episode is sponsored by Toveedo! The Jewish videos your kids love, all in one happy place. Use code JOWMA10 for $10 off at ⁠⁠https://toveedo.com/⁠⁠! _________________________________________________ • Sponsor the JOWMA Podcast! Email digitalcontent@jowma.org • Become a JOWMA Member! www.jowma.org  • Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/JOWMA_org  • Follow us on Twitter!www.twitter.com/JOWMA_med  • Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/JOWMAorg • Stay up-to-date with JOWMA news! Sign up for the JOWMA newsletter! https://jowma.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9b4e9beb287874f9dc7f80289&id=ea3ef44644&mc_cid=dfb442d2a7&mc_eid=e9eee6e41e

Redefining Medicine
Redefining Medicine with special guest Dr Robert Lustig

Redefining Medicine

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 23:58


Robert Lustig, MD, MSL is a Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig has become a leading public health authority on the impact sugar has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases.   In his New York Times best selling book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processes Food, Obesity, and Disease, Robert documents both the science and the politics that have led to the current pandemic of obesity and chronic disease. In the Fat Chance Cookbook, Robert provides practical examples for applying healthy eating principles with recipes by Cindy Gershen.   Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with basic and clinical training relative to hypothalamic development, anatomy, and function. Prior to coming to San Francisco in 2001, he worked at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. There, he was charged with the endocrine care of many children whose hypothalami had been damaged by brain tumors, or subsequent surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. Many patients who survived became massively obese. Dr. Lustig theorized that hypothalamic damage led to the inability to sense the hormone leptin, which in turn, led to the starvation response. Since repairing the hypothalamus was not an option, he looked downstream, and noted that these patients had increased activity of the vagus nerve (a manifestation of starvation) which increased insulin secretion. By administering the insulin suppressive agent octreotide, he was able to get them to lose weight; but more remarkably, they started to exercise spontaneously. He then demonstrated the same phenomenon in obese adults without CNS lesions.   The universality of these findings has enabled Dr. Lustig to weave these threads together into a novel unifying hypothesis regarding the etiology, prevention, and treatment of the current obesity epidemic, and the role of our environment in the biochemical changes that promote weight gain. This has led him to explore the specific role of fructose (half of sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup) as a specific mediator of both chronic disease, and continued caloric consumption. His acclaimed YouTube video, “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” continues its popularity with the lay public.   A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Lustig went to Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He completed his pediatric residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital in 1983, and his clinical fellowship at UCSF in 1984. From there, he spent six years as a post-doctoral fellow and research associate in neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Tennessee, Memphis. In 2013, Dr. Lustig received his Masters in the study of Law from University of California, Hastings to enable him to impact the food industry through policy change.   Dr. Lustig has authored 125 peer-reviewed articles and 73 reviews. He has mentored 20 pediatric endocrine fellows, and trained numerous other allied health professionals. He provides endocrinologic support to several protocols of the Children's Oncology Group. He is the former Chairman of the Ad hoc Obesity Task Force of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, a member of the Pediatric Obesity Practice Guidelines Subcommittee of The Endocrine Society, a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society, a member of the Pediatric Obesity Devices Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a member of the Bay Area Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, and a member of the Steering Committee of Health Foods, Healthy Kids of the Culinary Institute of America. He also consults for several childhood obesity advocacy groups.   Dr. Lustig lives in San Francisco with his wife Julie and two daughters. Spare time (what little there is) is spent cooking, theater-going, and traveling.

The Derek Duvall Show
Episode 265: Vilan Trub - Filmmaker

The Derek Duvall Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 53:19


On this episode, Derek sits with Vilan Trub.  Vilan is an accomplished filmmaker.  I asked Vilan to come on the show as part of the “Derek Duvall Show 9/11 Outreach Program” as at the age of 14, he narrowly avoided injury from the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 175 crashing into the South Tower of the World Trade Center while he was walking to Stuyvesant High School.  After the events of 9/11, Vilan returned to class next to Ground Zero after being told by the CDC that the air was safe to breathe, which has led to health complications to himself and his classmates over the years.  Vilan will also be discussing his incredible film career and some highlights in his filmography such as "Susie Q", "Suburban Pimp" & "The Dirty Kind".  Vilan is a firecracker of a New Yorker who speaks his mind and might go down as one of my all time favorite guests. Website: https://www.trubfilmco.com/IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2826538/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vilantrub/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VilanTrub/Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/TrubFilmCoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/trubfilmcoSPONSOR - Go to https://betterhelp.com/derekduvallshow for 10% off your first month of therapy with @betterhelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help #sponsored

rEvolutionary Woman
Yelba Zoe McCourt – Solo Performer, Actor, Writer, Psychiatric Nurse

rEvolutionary Woman

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2024 58:17


Yelba Zoe McCourt was born in La Ceiba, Honduras and arrived in the US as a toddler. She grew up in New York City. She attributes her diverse upbringing with her ability to portray different characters and her facility with accents. She is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City. She studied acting and graduated from the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Early on in her career she performed sketch comedy and improv in the West Village. Her television credits includes:Sesame Street, House of Buggin', Law & Order, First Time Out, Riot, Walker Texas Ranger, Local Heroes, Fired Up, Tracey Takes On, Diagnosis Murder, Moesha, On Common Ground, No Mother's Crying, No Babies Dying, Strong Medicine, The Mind of a Married Man, Hollywood 7, ER, For the People, and Kingpin. Her film credits include:Carlito's Way, No Exit, Slings & Arrows, The Pest, Ghetto Rhapsody, Road Dogz, King Rikki, Hustlas, Frozen Stars, Shut Up and Kiss Me! Valentina's Tango, and Griot's Lament. In 2015 she graduated from UCLA with a Masters of Science degree in Nursing. She most recently wrote and performed in “Where Y'All From?” a solo play directed and developed by Jessica Lynn Johnson at Solofest 2024. Her solo show will preview at the Hollywood Fringe Festival on June 6 at 8:15 pm at the Zephyr Theatre. To learn more about Yelba Zoe McCourt and her show “Where Y'All From: https://yelbazoe.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/YelbaZoeMcCourt https://www.instagram.com/yzmccourt/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/yelbazoemccourt/?trk=opento_sprofile_details https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0652205/

On Our Minds with Matt and Faiza
Season 4: How music boosts our mood

On Our Minds with Matt and Faiza

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2024 16:27


You asked, we delivered--an episode all about music! Students share what songs they love right now, and how music makes them feel and connects them to their culture. Plus James gives an impromptu musical performance. Click here for this episode's transcript. Have a question or message for On Our Minds? Fill out this form. Segments were produced by SRL Digital Producer Rawan Elbaba and our winter academy fellows, plus Samantha from Stuyvesant High School in New York. Lead Podcast Producer Briget Ganske produced this episode with help from Associate Producer Jaylah Moore-Ross. Antonio Nevarez from KUOW's RadioActive edited and mixed this episode.

AAAIM High ELI
Soo Kim, Managing Partner and CIO, Standard General, “What it takes to be an Independent Thinker…”

AAAIM High ELI

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2024 67:49


Our guest for today's podcast is Soo Kim, Managing Partner and CIO of Standard General, an investment firm he started in 2007.  Soo also serves as Chairman of Bally's Corporation. Soo has been investing in special situations strategies since 1997, including as co-founder of Cyrus Capital Partners from 2005 to 2007 and at Och-Ziff Capital Management from 1999 to 2005, where he was a Principal and co-founder of its fixed income business. Before joining Och-Ziff, he was an analyst for the Capital Management Group at Bankers Trust Company from 1997 to 1999. Soo holds an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School, one of the top public high schools in New York City.  I always learn a lot whenever I interact with Soo so I know the audience will get a lot from this conversation.  Joining me on the podcast as co-host is Mike Kim, CIO of Lalia Capital, a single family office focused on private investments.  Without further ado, here is our conversation with Soo Kim.

Out Of The Blank
#1522 - Richard Amerling

Out Of The Blank

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2023 50:42


Dr. Amerling is a native New Yorker. He graduated Stuyvesant High School, City College of New York, then earned his medical degree at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium in 1981. Dr. Amerling's work has been published as chapters in textbooks and in peer-reviewed medical journals. He has published numerous op-Eds and letters on health care economics and politics. Dr. Amerling joins me to discuss his book '"The Next Wave is Brave: Standing Up for Medical Freedom" about how millions of people have awakened over the past few years from a nightmare in healthcare - a corrupt ecosystem designed to keep patients dependent and physicians beholden to corporations instead of patient care. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

Composers Datebook
School of Monk

Composers Datebook

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2023 2:00


SynopsisAmerican jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Sphere Monk was born on today's date in 1917. Largely self-taught, he began playing piano at 6. At 17, he dropped out of New York's esteemed Stuyvesant High School for gifted students to serve as organist for a touring evangelist. In his 20s, he became the house pianist at Minton's, a Manhattan jazz nightclub.Monk's original compositions, marked by dissonances and angular twists of melody, became jazz standards. They also had great titles: ‘Round Midnight; Straight, No Chaser; Ruby, My Dear; and Well, You Needn't.Monk made the cover of Time magazine and is credited with being the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington.Monk's biographer Robin D.G. Kelly, who spent 14 years researching Monk's life and music, said, “He was Janus-faced [looking backward and forward]. … Monk pulled as much from his roots, the old-style [stride] piano traditions he never left, as from the really futuristic musical territory he was the first to visit. He's always going to be associated with the founding of Bebop, with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. I don't place him on the Bebop school, though — I place him in his own school. “Music Played in Today's ProgramThelonious Monk (1917 – 1982) Ruby, My Dear - Thelonious Monk, piano Columbia Legacy CK-63533

劉軒的How to人生學
EP247|美國升學或許與你所想的大不相同 ft. 紐約知名學區Jericho高校輔導老師 吳迪 Mike Wu

劉軒的How to人生學

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 46:51


這一集節目,一樣是主持人劉軒在美國紐約老家所錄製的系列。而今天的來賓,是他從高中畢業時就認識的多年好友:吳迪 Mike Wu。 吳迪是一位非常資深的school counselor(類似台灣教育系統裡的輔導老師,但更著重於提供學生在升學規劃上的諮詢和協助),目前在紐約排名第一學區Jericho的公立高校就職。過去他也曾在紐約市的明星高中,也是劉軒的母校:史岱文森高中(Stuyvesant High School)擔任school counselor。 吳迪輔導過無數優秀的學生,也包括了很多新移民學生,為這些青少年們排解迷惘、找到方向,因此,他可說是最了解美國升學競爭壓力的第一線人員。 在台灣的很多人,或許會以為在美國唸書相對自由輕鬆,升學壓力也亞洲小,但其實不然。 從學區的好壞、公私立學校的抉擇,每個環節都可能從此決定孩子的升學之路。也因為這樣,「孟母三遷」的故事在美國也是不少見。此外,如果夢想成為一位常春藤名校的學生,可不是只有考試成績好就可以。 那麼,像哈佛這些頂尖學府所看重的,除了成績之外還有什麼呢?就讓今天的來賓吳迪為你一一揭露!

Losing your mind with Chris Cosentino

Don't hose me baby!!!!! Drew Nieporent, one of America's most respected and celebrated restaurateurs, is the founder and inspiration behind the Myriad Restaurant Group, which operates Tribeca Grill, Nobu New York City, Nobu Fifty Seven, Nobu London, Nobu Next Door, Bâtard, Porsche Grille at Citi Field, and Crush Wine & Spirits. Over the last 30 years, Myriad has opened and operated over 39 restaurants around the world, including Seattle, Louisville, Providence, Boca Raton, London, San Francisco, Moscow, Citi Field, home of the New York Mets in Flushing, New York.Nieporent's first restaurant, the groundbreaking Montrachet (1985), earned three stars from The New York Times and kept that rating for 21 years. In 2008, the restaurant reopened as Corton, maintaining its three New York Times stars and receiving two Michelin stars with chef-partner Paul Liebrandt at the helm. In May of 2014, Nieporent reopened the space as Bâtard with the help of chef- partner Markus Glocker and partner John Winterman. Earning three stars from The New York Times, New York Magazine, and a coveted Michelin star, the restaurant opened to critical acclaim. As 2014 came to an end, Bâtard landed at the top of several end-of-year lists, including the number one spot on The New York Times' list of "The 10 Best New Restaurants of 2014". In May of 2015, the restaurant won the James Beard award for “Best New Restaurant”.Tribeca Grill (1990), with partner Robert De Niro and an all-star roster of investors including Bill Murray, Sean Penn, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, opened to national acclaim and continues to be one of New York's landmark restaurants.In 1994, again with partner Robert De Niro and sushi master Nobu Matsuhisa, Drew launched Nobu New York City to worldwide acclaim. Nobu NYC, Next Door Nobu, and Nobu Fifty Seven have all earned the coveted three-star rating from The New York Times. Nobu NYC was voted Best Restaurant in America by The James Beard Foundation. Nobu has gone on to open restaurants in all parts of the world.Also in 1994, Nieporent was one of the few American restaurateurs to go bi-coastal. In collaboration with Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, and Francis Ford Coppola, he opened Rubicon in San Francisco.Myriad's excellence in wine service is widely acknowledged. It is the only restaurant group to earn three coveted Grand Awards from Wine Spectator Magazine - for Rubicon, Montrachet, and Tribeca Grill. In 2005, Myriad opened Crush Wine & Spirits, which was named the best new wine shop by Food & Wine Magazine.Nieporent graduated in 1973 from Stuyvesant High School and in 1977 from Cornell University with a degree from the School of Hotel Management. While at Cornell, he worked on the world class cruise ships Vistafjord and Sagafjord. In 1978, he began his management career with Warner Le Roy at New York City's Maxwell's Plum and Tavern On The Green. He then worked at the prestigious French restaurants Le Perigord, La Grenouille and Plaza Athenee's Le Regence.Drew donates his time to dozens of charities. He is on the board of Madison Square Garden's Garden of Dreams Foundation, Citymeals-on-Wheels, and DIFFA, an Honorary Chair of the City Harvest Food Council and Culinary Director of the Jackson Hole Wine Auction. He has co-chaired SOS's Taste of the Nation event in New York City since 1997. He has been honored by Careers Through Culinary Arts Program (2009), American Heart Association (1999), the Tourette Syndrome Association (2000), Food Allergy Initiative (2001), American Liver Foundation (2003), Cancer Research & Treatment Fund (2005), and Kristen Ann Carr Fund (2006). Drew is in great demand as a spirited, highly effective auctioneer at charity events.

New Books Network
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 53:07


For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers, as parents well know, have a tremendous impact on who their kids are and what they will become. And even while they insist otherwise, parents know that they're largely powerless to change this. But the effect of peers is not just a story about kids; peers can also affect adult behavior—they affect what we do and who we are well into old age. Noted sociologists Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin call this “the peer effect.”  In their book, The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become (NYU Press, 2023), they take readers on a tour of how our peers, and the peer cultures they create, shape our behavior in schools and the workplace. Ali and Chin begin their look at the peer effect at the high school from which they both graduated: New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School, arguably the best public high school in the nation. Through a fascinating and often humorous narrative, they show how peers can influence each other—in this case, how highly motivated students can create a culture of influence to achieve success in learning and in admission to elite colleges. They also show the many other ways that peers can influence one another beyond school performance, from hookup culture to school bullying and youth suicide. Ali and Chin are also interested in the extent to which the peer effect can last. Through interviews with adult graduates of Stuyvesant, they investigate the long-lasting effects of high school peer culture. They also examine the peer effect in post–high school settings, notably around workplace misconduct, including the steroid culture in baseball and the use of excessive force by the police. The Peer Effect ultimately offers ways to understand the power of peer influence and apply this understanding to resolving issues regarding schools, college graduation rates, workplace culture, and police violence. In the tradition of big idea books like The Tipping Point, The Peer Effect will forever change the way we look at the world of human behavior. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is about the construction of place in tourist cities and about the people who reside there. He is currently conducting research for his next project on the social construction of tourist cities. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Anthropology
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)

New Books in Anthropology

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 53:07


For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers, as parents well know, have a tremendous impact on who their kids are and what they will become. And even while they insist otherwise, parents know that they're largely powerless to change this. But the effect of peers is not just a story about kids; peers can also affect adult behavior—they affect what we do and who we are well into old age. Noted sociologists Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin call this “the peer effect.”  In their book, The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become (NYU Press, 2023), they take readers on a tour of how our peers, and the peer cultures they create, shape our behavior in schools and the workplace. Ali and Chin begin their look at the peer effect at the high school from which they both graduated: New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School, arguably the best public high school in the nation. Through a fascinating and often humorous narrative, they show how peers can influence each other—in this case, how highly motivated students can create a culture of influence to achieve success in learning and in admission to elite colleges. They also show the many other ways that peers can influence one another beyond school performance, from hookup culture to school bullying and youth suicide. Ali and Chin are also interested in the extent to which the peer effect can last. Through interviews with adult graduates of Stuyvesant, they investigate the long-lasting effects of high school peer culture. They also examine the peer effect in post–high school settings, notably around workplace misconduct, including the steroid culture in baseball and the use of excessive force by the police. The Peer Effect ultimately offers ways to understand the power of peer influence and apply this understanding to resolving issues regarding schools, college graduation rates, workplace culture, and police violence. In the tradition of big idea books like The Tipping Point, The Peer Effect will forever change the way we look at the world of human behavior. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is about the construction of place in tourist cities and about the people who reside there. He is currently conducting research for his next project on the social construction of tourist cities. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

New Books in Sociology
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)

New Books in Sociology

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 53:07


For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers, as parents well know, have a tremendous impact on who their kids are and what they will become. And even while they insist otherwise, parents know that they're largely powerless to change this. But the effect of peers is not just a story about kids; peers can also affect adult behavior—they affect what we do and who we are well into old age. Noted sociologists Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin call this “the peer effect.”  In their book, The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become (NYU Press, 2023), they take readers on a tour of how our peers, and the peer cultures they create, shape our behavior in schools and the workplace. Ali and Chin begin their look at the peer effect at the high school from which they both graduated: New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School, arguably the best public high school in the nation. Through a fascinating and often humorous narrative, they show how peers can influence each other—in this case, how highly motivated students can create a culture of influence to achieve success in learning and in admission to elite colleges. They also show the many other ways that peers can influence one another beyond school performance, from hookup culture to school bullying and youth suicide. Ali and Chin are also interested in the extent to which the peer effect can last. Through interviews with adult graduates of Stuyvesant, they investigate the long-lasting effects of high school peer culture. They also examine the peer effect in post–high school settings, notably around workplace misconduct, including the steroid culture in baseball and the use of excessive force by the police. The Peer Effect ultimately offers ways to understand the power of peer influence and apply this understanding to resolving issues regarding schools, college graduation rates, workplace culture, and police violence. In the tradition of big idea books like The Tipping Point, The Peer Effect will forever change the way we look at the world of human behavior. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is about the construction of place in tourist cities and about the people who reside there. He is currently conducting research for his next project on the social construction of tourist cities. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

New Books in American Studies
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 53:07


For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers, as parents well know, have a tremendous impact on who their kids are and what they will become. And even while they insist otherwise, parents know that they're largely powerless to change this. But the effect of peers is not just a story about kids; peers can also affect adult behavior—they affect what we do and who we are well into old age. Noted sociologists Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin call this “the peer effect.”  In their book, The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become (NYU Press, 2023), they take readers on a tour of how our peers, and the peer cultures they create, shape our behavior in schools and the workplace. Ali and Chin begin their look at the peer effect at the high school from which they both graduated: New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School, arguably the best public high school in the nation. Through a fascinating and often humorous narrative, they show how peers can influence each other—in this case, how highly motivated students can create a culture of influence to achieve success in learning and in admission to elite colleges. They also show the many other ways that peers can influence one another beyond school performance, from hookup culture to school bullying and youth suicide. Ali and Chin are also interested in the extent to which the peer effect can last. Through interviews with adult graduates of Stuyvesant, they investigate the long-lasting effects of high school peer culture. They also examine the peer effect in post–high school settings, notably around workplace misconduct, including the steroid culture in baseball and the use of excessive force by the police. The Peer Effect ultimately offers ways to understand the power of peer influence and apply this understanding to resolving issues regarding schools, college graduation rates, workplace culture, and police violence. In the tradition of big idea books like The Tipping Point, The Peer Effect will forever change the way we look at the world of human behavior. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is about the construction of place in tourist cities and about the people who reside there. He is currently conducting research for his next project on the social construction of tourist cities. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

New Books in Education
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)

New Books in Education

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 53:07


For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers, as parents well know, have a tremendous impact on who their kids are and what they will become. And even while they insist otherwise, parents know that they're largely powerless to change this. But the effect of peers is not just a story about kids; peers can also affect adult behavior—they affect what we do and who we are well into old age. Noted sociologists Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin call this “the peer effect.”  In their book, The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become (NYU Press, 2023), they take readers on a tour of how our peers, and the peer cultures they create, shape our behavior in schools and the workplace. Ali and Chin begin their look at the peer effect at the high school from which they both graduated: New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School, arguably the best public high school in the nation. Through a fascinating and often humorous narrative, they show how peers can influence each other—in this case, how highly motivated students can create a culture of influence to achieve success in learning and in admission to elite colleges. They also show the many other ways that peers can influence one another beyond school performance, from hookup culture to school bullying and youth suicide. Ali and Chin are also interested in the extent to which the peer effect can last. Through interviews with adult graduates of Stuyvesant, they investigate the long-lasting effects of high school peer culture. They also examine the peer effect in post–high school settings, notably around workplace misconduct, including the steroid culture in baseball and the use of excessive force by the police. The Peer Effect ultimately offers ways to understand the power of peer influence and apply this understanding to resolving issues regarding schools, college graduation rates, workplace culture, and police violence. In the tradition of big idea books like The Tipping Point, The Peer Effect will forever change the way we look at the world of human behavior. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is about the construction of place in tourist cities and about the people who reside there. He is currently conducting research for his next project on the social construction of tourist cities. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

NBN Book of the Day
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)

NBN Book of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 53:07


For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers, as parents well know, have a tremendous impact on who their kids are and what they will become. And even while they insist otherwise, parents know that they're largely powerless to change this. But the effect of peers is not just a story about kids; peers can also affect adult behavior—they affect what we do and who we are well into old age. Noted sociologists Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin call this “the peer effect.”  In their book, The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become (NYU Press, 2023), they take readers on a tour of how our peers, and the peer cultures they create, shape our behavior in schools and the workplace. Ali and Chin begin their look at the peer effect at the high school from which they both graduated: New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School, arguably the best public high school in the nation. Through a fascinating and often humorous narrative, they show how peers can influence each other—in this case, how highly motivated students can create a culture of influence to achieve success in learning and in admission to elite colleges. They also show the many other ways that peers can influence one another beyond school performance, from hookup culture to school bullying and youth suicide. Ali and Chin are also interested in the extent to which the peer effect can last. Through interviews with adult graduates of Stuyvesant, they investigate the long-lasting effects of high school peer culture. They also examine the peer effect in post–high school settings, notably around workplace misconduct, including the steroid culture in baseball and the use of excessive force by the police. The Peer Effect ultimately offers ways to understand the power of peer influence and apply this understanding to resolving issues regarding schools, college graduation rates, workplace culture, and police violence. In the tradition of big idea books like The Tipping Point, The Peer Effect will forever change the way we look at the world of human behavior. Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at William Penn University. He is the author of The Social Construction of a Cultural Spectacle: Floatzilla (Lexington Books, 2023) and Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest: Reconstructing the Mississippi River (Lexington, 2022). His general area of study is about the construction of place in tourist cities and about the people who reside there. He is currently conducting research for his next project on the social construction of tourist cities. To learn more about Michael O. Johnston you can go to his website, Google Scholar, Twitter @ProfessorJohnst, or by email at johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

The Rubin Report
'The View' Hosts Get Annoyed as Republican Corrects Them with Facts | Direct Message | Rubin Report

The Rubin Report

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2023 53:26


Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about Tim Scott's confrontation with “The View's” Sunny Hostin over racial inequality and systemic racism; the New York Times twisting the data about Stuyvesant High School to make their readers think that school segregation is still a problem in America; Jemele Hill's $100 million demands of Spotify backfiring; MSNBC's Elie Mystal accusing John Roberts of hindering black voting rights; Dylan Mulvaney getting Joe Biden to support gender affirming care for minors; Karine Jean-Pierre turning Nikki Haley's concerns about trans girls in girls locker rooms into an attack on LGBTQ youth; Democrat Scott Weiner honoring Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Sacramento; Bill Maher schooling Jimmy Kimmel on Democrats fueling COVID paranoia; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attacking Joe Biden and Donald Trump for COVID lockdowns; BlackRock CEO Larry Fink telling Andrew Ross Sorkin why ESG scores are needed to force behaviors and create diversity; and much more. WATCH the MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE segment of the show here: https://rubinreport.locals.com/ ---------- Today's Sponsors: Ramp- Ramp's accounting software automatically collects receipts and categorizes your expenses in real-time, so you don't have to. You'll never have to chase down a receipt again and your employees will no longer spend hours submitting expense reports. Get two hundred fifty dollars when you join Ramp now. Go to: https://ramp.com/RUBIN Home Title Lock - Ensure that your home title is safe from thieves. Go to https://www.hometitlelock.com/DAVE and register your address to see if you're already a victim. That's a $100 value -- FREE. Be sure to use promo code DAVE for your FREE TITLE scan at www.hometitlelock.com/DAVE promo code DAVE

Milo Time
Dr. Blozy

Milo Time

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2023 21:36


Park Slope Brooklyn, Stone Park Cafe, Berkshire Pork Chop, Brooklyn Tech High School, Golden Corral, Brooklyn Huskies, New York City High School Process, Mathematics Department, Eighth Grade, Max Kessler, Beacon High School, Henry Hillman, Bronx Science High School, Isabel Hillman, LaGuardia High School, Specialized High School, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Tech Majors, Physics at Brooklyn Tech, Northeastern University, Chemotherapy Treatment, Remote Education, International Students, Multivariable Calculus, Final Assignment, Ping Pong Team, Alana Fishberg, Backyard Ping Pong Table, Brooklyn Tech Ping Pong Team, Ping Pong Rankings, Ping Pong Paddle Cases, Ping Pong Tournament, Milo's Own Paddle, Basketball Shoes, Rec Basketball, Basketball Tryouts, Brooklyn Tech Basketball, 11th Grade Me, Fund in Milo's Name at Brooklyn Tech, Matt Mandary, Milo Kessler Fellowship Fund, Fund for the Benefit of Rising Seniors in Mathematics Majors, Free Lunch, Tutoring, Studying, Selflessness, Pay it Forward, Plaque with Milo's Picture, Milo Fellows 

Mamas Know Best, We Got Something to Say!
Bringing Joy Back to Learning - for Children and Their Parents with Caitlin Meister

Mamas Know Best, We Got Something to Say!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2023 33:41


The Motherhood Village podcast is powered by Eaton Financial Group: where their motto is to live well, work hard and give generously. Under the leadership of Doug Eaton - Eaton provides counsel to its family of clients on complex financial issues, delivering a high level of proactive care and customized financial plans that meet each client's individual needs. The firm specializes in assisting women who handle household financial planning, by acting in a fiduciary capacity – meaning your best interests are their first priority.  For a relaxed and no obligation cup of coffee and second opinion – live or virtually – visit eatonfinancialgroup.com to set an appointment. This week's episode features Caitlin Meister, the Founding Director of The Greer Meister Group, a New York City-based private tutoring and educational consulting practice. Her interest in how children learn began when she was young, and she began teaching children and teens while pursuing her own education. Inspired by her own educational experiences at the Little Red School House, Stuyvesant High School, and Wesleyan University, she went on to receive additional training through the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Orton-Gillingham approach for teaching students with language-based learning differences. Meister has extensive experience working with gifted learners and supporting neurodiverse students, and she is dedicated to a strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming approach. Becoming a mom of two had a profound impact on her work. She, like all parents, wanted to provide the best educational opportunities for her children. She began offering educational consulting, connecting with other parents, and supporting them throughout their children's academic careers. Today, Meister's team of passionate tutors works with students around the world. She has been recognized by New York Magazine as providing “The Best Online Classes for Kids,” and as well as the American Library Association for her work with young adults and has appeared in national media including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Parents. In addition to consulting with private clients, Meister speaks and writes on a variety of education topics for consumers, parents, and faculty. Joyfully Learning, at the Greer Meister Group, believes that education is supposed to help your child shine – not dim your child's light. Their mission is to make sure that every child they work with feels seen, heard, and respected in school and that parents are empowered to advocate for their children's learning needs. Resources mentioned: The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler In this episode, Caitlin and I discuss: The #1 thing parents can do to make sure they're advocating for their child when it comes to academics and school. The importance of a "Strengths-Based" approach learning in and out of the classroom. Tips to help your children with homework, how to make it stress-free and how to choose a good school.  How she helps high school kids thrive in their transition to college and what should be the main focus.  Her passion for bringing joy back to learning - for children and their parents.  What the terms gifted and neuro-diverse mean. Connect with Caitlin on Instagram, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.motherhood.village1/ YouTube: The Motherhood Village - YouTube LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolegcumberbatch/  Website: https://www.themotherhoodvillage.com/ Loved this episode? Leave a review and rating here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-motherhood-village-podcast/id1487274178

SCFB 385: Louis Jordan "King of the Jukebox" with Guest Marv Goldberg. On SOMETHING came from Baltimore, Subscribe, Listen, Share, Enjoy.

"SOMETHING...came from Baltimore"

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2023 29:59


Who is Marv Goldberg? Marv Goldberg (born 1944) is an American writer and historian of music in the field of rhythm & blues . Goldberg grew up in the Bronx, New York and was a graduate of Stuyvesant High School (1960), City College of New York (Biology; 1964), and Pace College (now Pace University; Accounting; 1967). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv_Goldberg Save this Website...you will need it! https://www.uncamarvy.com/ Louis Jordan - The King of the Jukebox The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame states that two of the most important originators of Rhythm and blues were Joe Turner and Louis Jordan, with his Tympany Five. The two artists helped to lay "the foundation for R&B in the 1940s, cutting one swinging rhythm & blues masterpiece after another".[22] The Hall also describes Jordan as "the Father of Rhythm & Blues," "the Grandfather of Rock 'n' Roll" and "King of the Juke Boxes".[43][16] Another source states that with Caldonia (1945), Jordan was "already crafting the classic rock ‘n' roll sound".[44] The Hall of Fame considers "his classic “Saturday Night Fish Fry” (1949) as an early example of rap and possibly the first rock and roll recording".[17] The Blues Foundation hints that Jordan was a precursor to R&B: "Louis Jordan was the biggest African-American star of his era and that his "Caldonia" reached "the top of the Race Records chart, as it was known prior to the introduction of term Rhythm & Blues in 1949".[45] Some have suggested that Chuck Berry modeled his musical approach on Jordan's.[46] Berry changed the lyric content from black life to teenage life, and substituted cars and girls for Jordan's primary motifs of food, drink, money and girls. Berry's iconic opening riff on "Johnny B. Goode"[47] bears a striking similarity to the intro played by the guitarist Carl Hogan on the 1946 hit "Ain't That Just Like a Woman"; Berry has acknowledged the debt in interviews.[48][49][50] Other sources also indicate that Little Richard was influenced by Jordan. In fact, the artist said Caldonia was the first non-gospel song he learned; and the shriek (or "whoop")[47] on the Jordan record "sounds eerily like the vocal tone Little Richard would adopt", in addition to the "Jordan-style pencil-thin moustache".[51][52] James Brown and Ray Charles also said that Jordan's style had an influence on their work.[52] B.B. King recorded an album called Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan. The band included Earl Palmer, drums, Dr. John, piano, Hank Crawford, alto sax, David "Fathead" Newman, tenor sax, and Marcus Belgrave, trumpet.[53] Jordan was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame;[6] and in 2018 he posthumously received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.[54] The Academy believes that he "led the way for rock and roll in the 50's. His recordings in the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame include: 'Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens', 'Caldonia Boogie', 'Choo Choo Ch'Boogie', and 'Let The Good Times Roll'".[55] According to Cleveland.com, "Louis Jordan had a profound impact on several African-American music genres that evolved during the first half of the 20th century ... He helped make jump blues, jazz and boogie-woogie mainstream forces. Jordan's legendary work would serve as a precursor to modern blues, rock and roll and R&B music".[56] In 1990, Five Guys Named Moe, a musical built around the songs of Louis Jordan, opened in London's West End and ran for over four years, winning a Laurence Olivier Award. It opened on Broadway in 1992 and received 2 Tony Award nominations. Tours and revivals have continued into the 2020s. Tom Gouker's Links Please Subscribe to SOMETHING came from Baltimore Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj7HKmMrFB4vAQm3SKzvftA Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/tomfunproductions Itunes: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/.../scfb-186.../id1400504427...⁠ Anchor: https://anchor.fm/somethingcame-from-baltim⁠  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/somethingcame-from-baltim/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/somethingcame-from-baltim/support

Sarah Westall - Business Game Changers
Transgender Psyop: Manufactured Industry, Big Money & Failed Ethics w/ Dr. Richard Amerling

Sarah Westall - Business Game Changers

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2023 49:42


Dr. Richard Amerling, past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and Chief Academic Officer for the Wellness Company, joins the program to discuss the transition of the American medical system from a patient first paradigm to Big Pharma lap dog/patient last paradigm. We discuss the horrific consequences to patients this change has brought. We also discuss the transgender psyop that has been unleashed on the American people to destabilize communities; harming children and young adults while bringing massive money to the medical establishment and big Pharma. He believes that basic medical ethics are no longer being followed. You can learn more about Dr. Richard Amerling and his company at www.twc.health Follow on my Substack at SarahWestall.Substack.com See Important Proven Solutions to Keep Your from getting sick even if you had the mRNA Shot - Dr. Nieusma Protect your IRA and other assets, contact info@MilesFranklin.com - Tell them "Sarah Sent Me" and get the best service and prices in the country. MUSIC CREDITS: "Do You Trust Me" by Michael Vignola, licensed for broad internet media use, including video and audio     See on Bastyon | Bitchute | Odysee | Rumble | Freedom.Social | SarahWestall.TV     Biography of Dr. Richard Amerling Dr. Amerling is a native New Yorker. He graduated Stuyvesant High School, City College of New York, then earned his medical degree at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium in 1981. He completed his Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital, Queens in 1986. He is Past-President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and serves currently on their Board of Directors. Dr. Amerling's work has been published as chapters in textbooks and in peer-reviewed medical journals. He has published numerous op-Eds and letters on health care economics and politics. From 1990-2016 Dr. Amerling was on staff at the Beth Israel Medical Center (now Mount Sinai Beth Israel). In October 2016, Dr. Amerling accepted a position as Professor at St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada. From April-August 2020, after SGU went to online teaching, he volunteered as a nephrologist at NYU/Bellevue to help with their acute dialysis program. In July 2021, Dr. Amerling was placed on administrative leave by SGU for non-compliance with their vaccine mandate, and ultimately terminated in January 2022. Dr. Richard Amerling is a founding member and Principal Academic Officer of The Wellness Company.    

Wilson County News
Muslims turning the tide in the school culture wars

Wilson County News

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2023 4:48


In a slap to Muslim girls at Stuyvesant High School, the school is canceling single-sex swim lessons, even though swim instruction is required to graduate. That forces the girls to choose between preserving their modesty and getting a diploma. Count on Muslim families to fight back and likely prevail. Nationwide, Muslims are taking up the battle in schools to protect traditional religious values, including modesty. Move over, Roman Catholics, evangelical Christians, and conservative Jews. Reinforcements have arrived, and they're turning the tide. Even in the Ivy League. After weeks of protests by female Muslim students, Yale University is switching its...Article Link

Monday Moms
Obituary - Louis George Doukas

Monday Moms

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2023 3:28


DOUKAS, “Lousy” Lou – A Legend in His Own Mind – Lou Reached the Exit and passed through the turnstile on February 18, 2023. Born at a very early age in the unspellable Schenectady, New York, he moved to The Bronx to perfect his Cheer and spent his Wonder Years in Hollis, Queens. He acquired the nickname “Lousy” from his friends; “Sneaky” Steve, “Big” Bruce, “Bashful” Bob, and “Fast” Frank. The New York City Department of Education presented him with tantalizing opportunities; Sixth through Eighth grades condensed to two years; Stuyvesant High School; and a tuition-paid Undergraduate Degree in Theater...Article LinkSupport the show

All Of It
A Coming of Age Queer Love Story in Queens

All Of It

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2023 20:11


Local author Bushra Rehman's latest book, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, follows Razia, a Pakistani-American girl from Corona, Queens, who's rebellious nature with her friends leads to a growing rift between her and her family. When she is accepted to Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, she meets a girl named Angela, and she begins to feel an attraction that was once unfamiliar, potentially making her relationship with her family and community more complicated. Rehman joins us to discuss the novel.  

Hear us Roar
162: Kathy Strobos- Author of Partner Pursuit

Hear us Roar

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2022 29:06


Listen to our podcast guest Kathy Strobos (Partner Pursuit, Indie published, October 2021) as we discuss how she quit her job as a corporate attorney to have better work-life balance which was not coincidentally the theme of her first novel. She loves the control that comes with publishing your own work, even while she admits it's a lot of work and you'll love her hands-on marketing approach which includes emailing everyone she ever met from ex-classmates to corporate clients to the check-out person at Trader Joe's. Kathy Strobos is a writer living in New York City with her husband and two children, amid a growing collection of books, toys and dollhouses. She grew up in New York City and graduated from Stuyvesant High School, Harvard-Radcliffe University magna cum laude, and Columbia Law School. She spent two semesters abroad at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She previously worked as a lawyer. She left law to pursue her dream of writing fiction full-time and getting in shape. She is the author of Partner Pursuit, Is This for Real?, A Scavenger Hunt for Hearts, and Caper Crush. She is still working on getting in shape. To learn more about Kathy, click here.

Corralling the Chaos
Handling More Shows With Less Crew feat. Susan Conner & Aaron Merkin

Corralling the Chaos

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2022 44:18


It's no secret the events industry is changing. Trying to supply enough people for the increase in events is a very real challenge for our industry right now.  What we're talking about: 1. The importance of industry relationships now more than ever. 2. A pattern of crews not showing up to the job.3. Why too much lead time can actually be a bad thing.4. Companies giving little to no lead time in a high demand low supply market. 5. Crew personnel being treated poorly at the show site due to high levels of stress.For more information on Susan Conner: Susan Conner is a Labor Coordinator at Fuse Technical Group. She spent 9 years doing the same at VER.She was married to a freelance tech for 11 years and understands life from that side. She also loves puzzles and mysteries, which is really what we solve every day! For more information on Aaron Merkin: Aaron is a founding partner and Director of Operations. He devises and directs our internal processes, working to create and implement business solutions that keep us on the cutting edge of the industry. Clients, vendors and partners rely on Aaron for strategic consultation on logistics, information management and team communication. His pre-event planning helps save valuable human, financial and temporal resources. With 20 years of experience in Event Production, Aaron has a big-picture vision and an eye for detail. He holds a regents diploma from Stuyvesant High School, a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Oberlin College, is a multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, and self-proclaimed logicist. Born and raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Aaron currently resides with his wife Sharyn, their son Max, and their dog, Taco, in Fairmount, Philadelphia. 

Badass BABES of Entertainment
Badass Babes Interview with Michelle Simone Miller | E17

Badass BABES of Entertainment

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2022 24:08


Welcome to the Badass Babes of Entertainment! On our seventeenth episode of season 2, we chat with Michelle Simone Miller. Michelle is an Actress born and raised in New York City. She has been performing since she was 5 years old before her first TV appearance on 2 episodes of The Rosie O'Donnell Show in the second grade. At age 11, she appeared on the Off-Broadway production of "I Never Saw Another Butterfly." She studied and performed at Stagedoor Manor, Neighborhood Playhouse Jrs, The New York Film Academy, Stuyvesant High School, and Brandeis University.Shortly after her college graduation, Michelle returned to NYC to pursue her professional career. Her Television stints include the title character an an episode of MTV's 'One Bad Choice: Dona Huertas,' a co-star role on the CBS drama 'Blue Bloods,' and a co-star role on the SHOWTIME drama 'Homeland.' Film credits include a principal role in "Winter's Tale" starring Russell Crowe, Will Smith, Jennifer Connelly, and Colin Farrell, as well as a lead in the Sci-fi auteur Brett Piper directed "Queen Crab," to name a few. She has also played supporting roles in the award nominated film "Bomber Jackets" (Golden Door International Film Festival) and the Web Series "Youstar: Road to Fame" (The Geekie Awards). Michelle has also been in various Commercials, Industrials, and Training Videos.ABOUT THE PODCAST: Brenda Fisher and Meghan Ketz of Badass Babes of Entertainment bring you all the guest interviews, casting tips, and industry news in one captivating podcast. Brought to you this week by Roasted Luxury and Rogue Matter - Download the app  ►Join the Movement.Sponsored by: https://roastedluxury.com/  Promo Code BABES15 for a discount on your entire order!▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Listen to the podcast in audio form on every major podcasting app.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Spotify ► https://open.spotify.com/show/2VRABRKopxehGDfiymXFwOApple ► https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/badass-babes-of-entertainment/id1547723790Google Podcasts ► https://tinyurl.com/4s3v9zksiHeart ► https://iheart.com/podcast/98566932⇩ Follow the Rogue Matter network ⇩Website ► https://www.roguematter.com/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/rogue_matterFacebook ► https://www.facebook.com/weareroguematterSoundcloud ► https://soundcloud.com/roguematterYouTube ► https://youtube.com/roguematter Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/weareroguematter

Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition
Murder at The Met + Punk Teen Scene

Desperately Seeking the '80s: NY Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2022 38:28 Transcription Available


Meg searches The Metropolitan Opera House for missing violinist Helen Hagnes. Jessica discovers the ultra-cool kids' extracurricular activity.

The Perkins Platform
What's Changed in School Leadership

The Perkins Platform

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2022 44:00


Join us on Thursday, August 11 @ 6pm EST for an informative discussion with a panel of current school leaders from all over the United States on What's Changed in School Leadership. They will share their experiences and thoughts on what aspiring leaders need to know about the principalship in a "post" COVID world. Our panel of educators includes Kilsys Batista, Keisha McCoy-Dailey and Seung Yu. Dr. Keisha McCoy-Dailey is a District 75 (K-8) principal at P396K- The Sid Miller Academy located in Brownsville, Brooklyn. She has been a principal for 6 years and believes all students are capable of learning, just not at the same pace. Once educators understand students' learning style, success is possible! Seung Yu has served as the principal at Stuyvesant High School, the largest specialized high school in Manhattan, since August 2020. Throughout his career in the New York City Department of Education, he has held both school and district leadership roles. Seung has participated in several leadership and mentor programs, including the NYC Chancellor's Fellowship, the Advanced Leadership Institute (ALI), Wallace Leadership Fellows Mentor Principal, and Model Principal.

Friend to Friend: Hope for your Heart and Help from His Word
One Gospel, Different Stories: An Interview with Lou and JoJo Guarneri

Friend to Friend: Hope for your Heart and Help from His Word

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2022 41:18


In today's episode I've asked our Media Director, Jennifer Beil, to interview her parents Lou and JoJo Guarneri. Mr. and Mrs. Guarneri are both native New Yorkers who grew up in NYC and in the Roman Catholic Church. They met while attending the prestigious Stuyvesant High School, with visions of affluent career paths. Pastor Lou went on to attend Columbia University where he played rugby, football and received a degree in chemical engineering. Friends, I can't wait for you to hear how God met this young couple on their path to success and how He has directed their paths to where they serve today as Pastor and pastor's wife.  This couple can boldly proclaim, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36) Happy listening! Connect with us! Instagram Facebook Website Media Director: Jennifer Beil Social Media Coordinator: Mindy Tingson Logo Design: Jamie Hurst

Figure of Speech
Episode 45: C. Ryan Joyce

Figure of Speech

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 127:48


The 2017 National Speech & Debate Association Middle School Coach of the Year, Ryan had been part of speech and debate for nearly 30 years as a middle school, high school and college competitor and coach, an instructor at camps such as Interprod, FFI, GMIF, and UTNIF, a coach with various nationally recognized programs across the country (Logan High School, CA, Stuyvesant High School, NY and Holy Ghost Prep, PA), and as the Director of Forensics at Phoenix Country Day School, AZ from 2012-2019. A former 3-time high school national finalist and 1-time college finalist himself (Duo/OO/Poetry), Ryan has had the privilege of working with and learning from some of the most interesting middle and high school students from a variety of backgrounds - culminating in over 40 national finalists and 4 NSDA High School National Champions and over 20 NSDA Middle School National Champions.  From 2012-2019, Phoenix Country Day School was awarded several Schools of Excellence in Speech at NSDA High School Nationals and the Overall School of Excellence for Speech & Debate at the NSDA Middle School National Tournament four times in 5 years. In 2020, during the pandemic, Ryan created, alongside several of the most recognizable coaches in the country, a performance piece that ran during online nationals called, "You Are Not Alone."  Ryan is currently ‘retired' from speech and debate and is the Director of Advancement at Leysin American School in Switzerland. • In this episode, Robert and Ryan discuss what the changes in middle school forensics, the disappointment of not breaking when you're expecting it, and the significance of the word “DING!” Listen for free through Apple Podcasts, GooglePlay, Overcast, Podbean, Spotify, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Free Range Humans
The Power of the Podcast - A Conversation with Members of Next Generation Politics

Free Range Humans

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 60:06


Clara Medina is a senior at NEST+m High School in New York City. Madeline Mayes, is a junior at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, New York, and Kenisha Mahajan is a junior from Queens, New York who attends Stuyvesant High School. All three are involved in Next Generation Politics, a youth-led organization built to inspire and equip today's youth to drive a more productive, inclusive, and informed political culture in the U.S. Highlights from this episode include: an opening dialogue between Rod and Jal on the "decolonization" of education; what it was like "going to school" during COVID; the pros and cons of remote learning and what it may mean for the future of education; the importance of focusing on student mental health in schools; the various meanings of academic rigor; why Next Generation Politics decided to start a podcast; what each student has gotten out of the production experience; the value of building intergenerational relationships; and a discussion on what this current generation hopes to do differently than their predecessors. Check out the NGP Podcast SeriesQuestions? Thoughts? Feedback? Email us at  freerangehumanspod@gmail.com or Tweet us at @jal_mehta and @Rodroad219

Reinvent Yourself
#168: How to Reinvent Your Relationship to Your Children's Education (Caitlin Meister)

Reinvent Yourself

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2022 33:02


New York City native Caitlin Meister began teaching even while she was still learning herself. A lifelong learner, she developed a passion for igniting the curiosity in young minds. Her first reinvention came when her son was born, giving her a new understanding of working with children – but as a mom. She went on to create The Greer Meister Group, a NYC-based private educational consulting and tutoring practice. And, like many of us, when Covid hit in March 2020, Meister was forced into another reinvention. She saw the loss of community that kids were experiencing and witnessed the need for connectedness in her own son. In her conversation with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour, Meister explains how she reinvented her approach to teaching, bringing a sense of connection to children in the time of Zoom calls and quarantine. Most importantly, she shares her insights on how parents can reinvent their approach to educating their children, how you can find the “teachable moments”, and most importantly how you can foster a lifelong love of learning in your child. FREE GIFT! Don't start your reinvention without downloading CoveyClub's starter guide called “31 Badass Tips for Launching Your Reinvention Without Fear!”   Bio: Caitlin Meister is the Founding Director of The Greer Meister Group, a New York City-based private tutoring and educational consulting practice. Her interest in education began when she was young, and she began teaching children and teens while pursuing her own education. Inspired by her own educational experiences at the Little Red School House, Stuyvesant High School, and Wesleyan University, she went on to receive additional training through the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Orton-Gillingham approach for teaching students with language-based learning differences. Meister has extensive experience working with gifted learners and supporting neurodiverse students, and she is dedicated to a strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming approach.   Key Links: Website Facebook Join CoveyClub: If you like what you hear, you can support the CoveyCast podcast with a five-star rating, and subscribe to CoveyClub for more inspiring conversations.    Time Stamps 01:04 - How giving birth to her first son changed her relationship to teaching 03:10 - Reinventing her personal identity as a mom 6:03 - Launching her consulting practice and pivoting after Covid 9:01  How children are born with a lifelong passion for learning 11:16 - Reinventing a teaching platform during COVID 19:52 - Understanding the diversity in kids today 22:21 - Best ways for you to get involved in your child's academics Social & Website CoveyClub website Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn  

The Faux Pod
Episode 91: Brandon Rim: What Did The Cow Say To The Chicken?

The Faux Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2022 69:11


This week on The Faux Pod, my good friend Brandon sits down with me to discuss his time studying abroad in London, his interest in photography and the importance of finding a balance between taking pictures and living in the moment, growing up in Queens (NYC) and how it helped shape him into who he is today, studying at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan as well as playing on the school baseball team, his love of baseball as a whole (specifically the New York Yankees), life at Babson College, his interest in the world of finance, recent news about aliens, and so much more!! Be sure to listen to this and every episode in its entirety, and enjoy! DISCLAIMER: the views expressed in this recording are not intended to be insulting or negative in any way, shape, or form, so please sit back and enjoy two friends having fun. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Mindful Experiment Podcast
EP#349 - Diving Deep on the Truth on COVID

The Mindful Experiment Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2022 65:08


In this week's special interview, I had the pleasure to discuss and dive deep into COVID with American Frontline doctor, Dr. Richard Amerling.   Dr. Amerling brings a wealth of knowledge on this topic and we discuss all aspects of COVID, treatments for COVID, the vaccine, the risks vs the benefit, standard of care for those who end up being hospitalized for COVID and so much more. This information is not what you normally hear on mainstream media and based upon popular demand from our Mindful Experiment community, this was a topic that came up strongly to be discussed and I am very glad and honored to have Dr. Amerling on the show.   Share with your loved ones...  There is a lot of truth in this episode...   Who is Dr. Richard Amerling? Dr. Amerling is a native New Yorker. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York, and a medical degree at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium.   Dr. Amerling completed his Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital, Queens in Flushing, N.Y., and a Nephrology Fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  From1990-2016, Dr. Amerling was on staff at the Beth Israel Medical Center (now Mount Sinai Beth Israel). There he developed the peritoneal dialysis program and a program for continuous renal replacement therapy in the ICU setting.    He served as Director of Outpatient Dialysis from 1995-2012.   In October 2016, Dr. Amerling accepted a position as Professor at St. George's   University School of Medicine and taught there until July 2021.   Dr. Amerling is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine for Internal Medicine and Nephrology. He is Past-President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.    He is on the editorial board of Blood Purification.   Dr. Amerling has presented at numerous medical conferences, both nationally and internationally. Dr. Amerling's work has been published as chapters in textbooks and in peer-reviewed medical journals.   He is currently Associate Medical Director of America's Frontline Doctors.   How to Help and Connect… American Frontline Doctors - www.AFLDS.org Frontline Critical Care Contortion - www.Covid19CriticalCare.com Association of American Physicians and Surgeons - www.aapsonline.org/ Truth for Health Foundation - www.truthforhealth.org/   Contact Local Rep: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative   --------------------------------------------------------   Connect with Dr. Vic... Website: www.EmpowerYourReality.com Facebook: www.Facebook.com/drvicmanzo Instagram: www.Instagram.com/drvicmanzo LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/drmanzo   Check out my books: https://amzn.to/3gzr9XT   About Dr. Vic... I'm Dr. Vic Manzo Jr., a Business Mindset Coach, Self-Mastery Expert, Influential Author, Inspirational Speaker, and the host and creator of The Mindful Experiment Podcast and The Mindful Chiropractor Podcast.   I teach entrepreneurs and Chiropractors how to DOUBLE their profits while working less and leading a SOUL-FILLED Life...   If you want to create this in your life for 2022, CLICK HERE or visit: TinyUrl.com/LevelUpWithDrVic

Guy Benson Show
Scandal: CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Resigns In Disgrace After Relationship With Colleague Surfaces

Guy Benson Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2022 121:42


3:05pm: NY Gov Gov. Kathy Hochul extends NY's mask-or-vax mandate through Feb. 10  3:20pm: Johns Hopkins Analysis: ‘Lockdowns Should be Rejected Out of Hand'  3:35pm: New Poll Shows DeSantis Rolling in Florida  3:50pm: Remote learning led to rampant cheating at NYC's Stuyvesant High School  4:05pm: Guest: Nate Hochman,  ISI Fellow at National Review 4:20pm: U.S. National Debt Exceeds $30 Trillion for First Time  4:35pm: Guest: Howard Kurtz- host of Fox News Channel's (FNC) "MediaBuzz"  4:50pm: Pelosi may cap State of Union crowd due to covid  5:05pm: Guest: Ari Fleischer, Former WH Press Secretary, Fox News Contributor 5:20pm: Washington Football Team reveals Commanders as new name  5:35pm: (Replay: Howard Kurtz) 5:50pm: Homestretch: Groundhog Day!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No More Tokens
Actor Johnny M. Wu!

No More Tokens

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2021 18:38


Johnny is in the new movie A Journal for Jordan directed by Denzel Washington! Johnny grew up in New York City where he attended Stuyvesant High School. After forgoing a study of finance in undergrad for a theatre major instead at Binghamton University, he was accepted into Yale, NYU, and UCSD on full scholarships for his Master's.

A World of Difference
Change Makers EPS 61: Allan "Alonzo" Wind on Andean Adventures, USAID, the Peace Corps, and his work with CARE and Plan International in Peru, Nicaragua, Angola, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Africa, Ecuador, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic

A World of Difference

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2021 49:43


Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), having worked off and on with the Agency primarily overseas on diplomatic assignments from 1990 to 2019 in the Peru, Nicaragua, Angola, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and South Africa and the Southern Africa Regional Missions. In these roles he provided oversight to U.S. government foreign aid development and humanitarian assistance and supported U.S. Ambassadors as their senior development officer on multiple U.S. Embassy Country Teams. In South Africa he helped establish the Southern Africa Regional Leadership Center as part of President Obama's Young African Leadership Initiative, and contributed to other youth development efforts and business incubators.He previously worked as the Global Programme Coordinator for the International Save the Children Alliance Secretariat and as a Country Director and Health Sector Coordinator for different nonprofit private voluntary organizations including CARE and PLAN International in a range of countries including Ecuador, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom.Mr. Wind began his career as a Rural Public Health U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador from 1980-1982, where he was widely known as “Doctor Alonzo.” The Alonzo nickname stuck throughout life in many countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.He graduated from the University of Chicago. He is originally a New Yorker, and as a high schooler he was a “subway rat” attending the famous Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. There he studied creative writing for two years with his teacher, the famous Irish American writer Frank McCourt. He has always been an avid science fiction fan and sometime writer, and notes that writing science fiction and creative writing under Frank was invaluable for future U.S. government work.He and his wife currently reside in Fairfax County Virginia, while their adult daughter is in Africa on her own adventures. Mr. Wind serves on the Boards of Directors of different non-governmental organizations, including Hunger Relief International, supporting the efforts to help the neediest in Guatemala and Haiti, any way he can.His memoir is Andean AdventuresWebsite: https://enableennoble.netANDEAN ADVENTURES:  https://tinyurl.com/AndeanAdvAVENTURAS ANDINAS: https://tinyurl.com/AventurasAndinasThe A World of Difference Podcast is brought to you in partnership with Missio Alliance.Stay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. Rate, review and share this podcast with anyone that would love to listen.  On Clubhouse @loriadbr. Find Us Online: @aworldof.difference on Instagram and A World of Difference on Facebook on Twitter at @loriadbr https://linktr.ee/aworldofdifference or loriadamsbrown.comInterested in one-on-one or group coaching on how to live a life that makes a difference? Check out: https://www.loriadamsbrown.com/coachingIf you are facing some big decisions, here is advice that helps. Mentioned in this episode:Do you want to go deeper?Join us in Difference Makers, a community where we watch and discuss exclusive content that truly makes a difference. Give us $5 a month (the price of a latte), and join in on the conversation with our host Lori and others who want to make a difference. We'd love to have you join us!PatreonJoin Difference MakersJoin us in our membership community for exclusive content for only $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/aworldofdifference. We go deeper with each guest, and it makes such a difference.PatreonThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp

A World of Difference
Change Makers EPS 61: Allan "Alonzo" Wind on Andean Adventures, USAID, the Peace Corps, and his work with CARE and Plan International in Peru, Nicaragua, Angola, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Africa, Ecuador, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic

A World of Difference

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2021 48:29


Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer from the U.S. Agency for International Development (https://www.usaid.gov/ (USAID)), having worked off and on with the Agency primarily overseas on diplomatic assignments from 1990 to 2019 in the Peru, Nicaragua, Angola, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and South Africa and the Southern Africa Regional Missions. In these roles he provided oversight to U.S. government foreign aid development and humanitarian assistance and supported U.S. Ambassadors as their senior development officer on multiple U.S. Embassy Country Teams. In South Africa he helped establish the Southern Africa Regional Leadership Center as part of President Obama's https://yali.state.gov/ (Young African Leadership Initiative), and contributed to other youth development efforts and business incubators. He previously worked as the Global Programme Coordinator for the https://www.savethechildren.net/ (International Save the Children Alliance) Secretariat and as a Country Director and Health Sector Coordinator for different nonprofit private voluntary organizations including https://www.care.org/ (CARE) and https://plan-international.org/ (PLAN) International in a range of countries including Ecuador, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom. Mr. Wind began his career as a Rural Public Health U.S. https://www.peacecorps.gov/ (Peace Corps) Volunteer in Ecuador from 1980-1982, where he was widely known as “Doctor Alonzo.” The Alonzo nickname stuck throughout life in many countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He graduated from the University of Chicago. He is originally a New Yorker, and as a high schooler he was a “subway rat” attending the famous https://stuy.enschool.org/ (Stuyvesant High School) in Manhattan. There he studied creative writing for two years with his teacher, the famous Irish American writer Frank McCourt. He has always been an avid science fiction fan and sometime writer, and notes that writing science fiction and creative writing under Frank was invaluable for future U.S. government work. He and his wife currently reside in Fairfax County Virginia, while their adult daughter is in Africa on her own adventures. Mr. Wind serves on the Boards of Directors of different non-governmental organizations, including https://www.hungerreliefinternational.org/ (Hunger Relief International), supporting the efforts to help the neediest in Guatemala and Haiti, any way he can. His memoir is https://amzn.to/3nK6Uvi (Andean Adventures) Website: https://enableennoble.net (https://enableennoble.net) ANDEAN ADVENTURES:  https://tinyurl.com/AndeanAdv (https://tinyurl.com/AndeanAdv) AVENTURAS ANDINAS: https://tinyurl.com/AventurasAndinas (https://tinyurl.com/AventurasAndinas) The A World of Difference Podcast is brought to you in partnership with https://www.missioalliance.org/ (Missio Alliance). Stay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. Rate, review and share this podcast with anyone that would love to listen.  On Clubhouse https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@loriadbr (@loriadbr). Find Us Online: https://www.instagram.com/aworldof.difference/ (@aworldof.difference) on Instagram and https://www.facebook.com/A-World-of-Difference-613933132591673/ (A World of Difference) on Facebook on Twitter at https://twitter.com/loriadbr (@loriadbr) https://linktr.ee/aworldofdifference (https://linktr.ee/aworldofdifference) or http://loriadamsbrown.com/ (loriadamsbrown.com)Interested in one-on-one or group coaching on how to live a life that makes a difference? Check out: https://www.loriadamsbrown.com/coaching (https://www.loriadamsbrown.com/coaching) If you are facing some big decisions, here is advicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9eRJXjZrsM ( that helps). Mentioned in this episode: Coaching Sept 22 Want to get unstuck and make a difference? Go to loriadamsbrown.com/coachnig for a free exploratory session. Patreon

Kaleidoscope
Children & Health & 9/11

Kaleidoscope

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2021 24:21


In this week's Kaleidoscope, a discussion about the trauma and illness suffered by those in Lower Manhattan on September 11th. Lila Nordstrom was a senior at Stuyvesant High School, just blocks away from the World Trade Center. She founded the advocacy group StuyHealth, after seeing how her fellow classmates returned to school less than a month after the attacks, and became ill. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How She Leads
Jie Zhang, Former Principal of Stuyvesant High School on EQ, Serendipity, and Growing up during the Cultural Revolution

How She Leads

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2021 82:04


Jie served in the New York Public School System for 28 years. She started teaching math in a prison school and has been in numerous positions including former Principal at Stuyvesant High School, one of the top high schools in the United States. She was also the Superintendent of the New York Military Academy. Currently she is the principal for two international schools in China and serves as the consultant for Sino-American Educational Research Association (S-AERA). Born and raised in China, Mrs. Zhang majored in Electrical Engineering at Tongji University in China. She received a Master's degree in applied mathematics from Stony Brook University. In our interview, Jie shares a whole lot. She talks about how her early experiences during the Cultural Revolution and her down to earth nature influenced and informed some of her success, how playing the accordion helped her first gain superb people skills, and how EQ, empathy, and communication skills, and constantly maintaining high expectations for herself has driven her successfully through her career.

Teacher Think Tank
Ep. 3 - Kill the SHSAT Exam for Specialized Schools?

Teacher Think Tank

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2021 17:08


There are nine New York City 'Specialized High Schools'. Eight of them require the SHSAT exam as the sole admission factor. In 2019, when just 7 of 900 seats were offered to Black students at Stuyvesant High School, the #1 public school in the state, the issue over diversity claimed national headlines. Now, a year later, the issue persists and calls to remove the SHSAT exam as a the only admission factor are mounting. So what's the solution? We want to hear from YOU too. Email us at TeacherThinkTankPodcast@gmail.com!

CBS This Morning - News on the Go
19 Years After 9/11 Attacks, Health Impact Is Still Being Felt

CBS This Morning - News on the Go

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2020 23:22


Nineteen years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, first responders and community members who were in Lower Manhattan in the weeks and months after the attack are still diagnosed with 9/11 related illnesses. Lila Nordstrom, founder and executive director of Stuyhealth, discusses with CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz what resources and assistance are available for these illness. A senior at Stuyvesant High School, blocks away from the World Trade Center, at the time of the attacks - Nordstrom shares how students turned to class three weeks after the attacks when the air quality was not safe. Nordstrom says there are lessons to be learned from the aftermath that can help us with our decision making during the coronavirus pandemic.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Radio Cade
Inventive Ways to Use Lasers

Radio Cade

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2019


Lasers aren’t just for sci-fi movies, it turns out they can be used for the treatment of tumors and ultra-fast communications networks. Michael Bass, a professor at the University of Central Florida, is the holder of 34 patents and a 2019 inductee in the Florida Inventors’ Hall of Fame. Bass invented ways to use lasers to treat bleeding in the gastrointestinal system, detect nanoparticles associated with tumors, and amplify light in fiberoptic cables. TRANSCRIPT: Intro: 0:01 Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We’ll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we’ll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Richard Miles: 0:38 Lasers. No scifi movie can do without them, but it turns out they’re good for lots of other things, including the treatment of tumors and advanced communications networks. Welcome to Radio Cade . I’m your host Richard Miles recording at the University of South Florida in partnership with our Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, as well as USF today. My guest is Michael Bass, professor Ameritas at the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He is also the holder of 34 U.S. patents as well as a 2019 inductee into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Welcome to show Michael and congratulations. Michael Bass: 1:11 Oh, thank you very much. It’s a pleasure to be here. Richard Miles: 1:14 So we usually start out the show explaining the inventors technology, but you’ve got 34 patents. So I’m sort of at a loss where to begin here, but why don’t we start with a very basic definition of lasers and the types of things they can be use for, and then we’ll move from there and to specific applications that are contained in some of your patents. Michael Bass: 1:32 Sure. First, a laser is a device that produces a lot of light. It also produces it with very special properties so that you can focus it very carefully and you can select from a variety of lasers to be able to look at different kinds of effects, some effects depend on frequency or wavelength of the laser. Some activities you want to do require shorter pulses. We now have lasers that run continuously and yet other lasers that make pulses as short as 10 to the minus 15 seconds. Richard Miles: 2:05 Wow. Okay. So there’s a lot of power there and a lot of utility and you have managed to figure out a number of different ways in which is sort of harness the power of lasers to do different things that I think people wouldn’t ordinarily think of. And I think one of the cool things about talking about inventions is not just the inventions themselves, but how did the inventor think of them? So let’s start out with one that I’ve heard you talk about, and that is using lasers to treat bleeding in the gastrointestinal system. How did you come up with that idea? What led you to that particular use? Michael Bass: 2:37 All inventions begin with a question in this case, the question was raised to me by two people who are gastroenterologists at the university of Southern California Medical School. They had been using fiber optic endoscopes and could see pathologies bleeding and ulcers in the gastrointestinal system. And the comment both made was it’s very frustrating. We can’t do anything about it. Richard Miles: 3:03 They can see it, but they couldn’t do anything. Michael Bass: 3:04 They could see it and they couldn’t do anything. And they were very frustrated. So the question was, what could they do to treat these problems inside the gastrointestinal system? So my suggestion was, as it turned out, invention was to use a separate fiber optic to transmit laser light into the GI system with endoscopic control so that you could aim it at the bleeding site, turn on the laser and cauterize the bleeding lasers had been used to cauterize bleeding prior to this, but not with the fiber optic and internally into the body. When this patent was written, the patent attorney included the expression, introduced into the patient through openings, natural or manmade. Now that was brilliant because the last three words or manmade made our patent a predecessor or a precursor to all of laparoscopic surgery. Richard Miles: 4:00 Wow, okay. I hope you’d kept that patent attorney on the payroll. Michael Bass: 4:03 I should hope so. Richard Miles: 4:05 Just out of curiosity, you said this started with a question from these two doctors, how did they come to you or you to them? Was this a professional meeting or was this just by luck? Michael Bass: 4:14 Actually, they came to see me. I had not yet been at USC for more than two months. It was about the last part of the second month I was there. I had no equipment. I had no lab. I just got there and they were at the USC medical school and there must have been an announcement of the new faculty or the new people. And they came by, they literally knocked on my door and came in and sat down and we started to talk and their frustration was very clear. They didn’t know what to do once they saw these bleeding sites, once the idea was put out and we tested it and tried it out and we actually got permission to try it with human subjects. And it was phenomenal that we could stop the bleeding, the patients would get healthy again. And it was just great. It was a very exciting time. Richard Miles: 5:00 Is this now widely used procedure? Is fairly common or is it still unusual? Michael Bass: 5:04 Well, as far as I know, it’s pretty wide use several companies, manufacturer, laser devices with fiber optic connections to be used by gastroenterologists one company that made it was in Germany, Messerschmitt which of course was a strange name to associate with medical equipment but there it was. Richard Miles: 5:24 So I imagine this procedure has saved a lot of money and probably a lot of literal pain. Right? What was the standard of care before that they would see the bleeding and then they’d have to go back later and operate or would they just not stop the bleeding? Michael Bass: 5:37 Well, they had to eventually stop the bleeding or you would bleed out cause with serious bleeds the treatment prior to this. And prior to the later knowledge of bacterial cause for stomach ulcers, that was not clear prior to what I did with the fiber optic. And the laser was treatment with antacids, treatment with reducing different kinds of foods, staying away from alcohol, reduce smoking a lot of things, Richard Miles: 6:03 None of which turns out to be terribly effective. Michael Bass: 6:05 And if they were, it took a long time for them to take effect with the laser quarter he treatment, it took the time it took to have an endoscopy, which is maybe a half hour. Richard Miles: 6:14 Wow . So a tremendous leap forward and the ability to treat those conditions. Michael Bass: 6:17 Right. You could begin to heal almost immediately. Richard Miles: 6:20 Okay . Let’s move on to one of the second applications that you have discovered, and that is using nanoparticles that emit visible light for the treatment of tumors. If I understand basically illuminates the tumor, is that sort of the concept involved or do I have that wrong? Michael Bass: 6:34 You have it a little bit confused. Quite literally, I met Sudipta Seal on the crosswalk, going to the student union at UCF and knew that he was looking for help with a problem that he had. And I asked him what was the problem? And he said, sirium oxide nanoparticles have an effect on the radiation treatment of various tumors. The problem that everyone had was they didn’t know what was going on because the nanoparticles were too small to be seen to be located. You didn’t know where they were. So I suggested standing there on the crosswalk, going to the student union and get my lunch. I said, well, you add certain rare earth elements and you can then put a little bit of light on these nanoparticles and they will light up and emit visible light. So you can see them. Well, three days later, his associate showed up in my office with little vials of Sirium oxide, nanoparticles that had been doped and sure enough, they lit up just like I said, they would. And one thing led to another. We learned that these particles in some kinds of tumors go around the cells and in other kinds of tumors, they go into the cell. This again, proves that cancer is more than one disease. And the power of these doped nanoparticles is that you can find them and you can start to understand what they do. Richard Miles: 7:55 So does this aid then in the early detection, can you pick these up faster than other conventional means of detecting tumors? Michael Bass: 8:01 I can’t say that’s not something I’m familiar with. I just know that this kind of nanoparticle serves a special purpose in the radiation treatment. These particles may help the radiation destroy the cancer cells , or they may protect the normal cells that was not known which way it was until we had nanoparticles you could see. Richard Miles: 8:19 It’s made the treatment, I guess, more effective. Michael Bass: 8:21 You can locate them. And so you now know what to do, Richard Miles: 8:24 Right. So I’m guessing Michael, you must be an easy person to talk to because in both these stories, people have sought you out and asked you questions and you’ve given them pretty good responses. Michael Bass: 8:34 Well, as I say, all invention and all creativity starts with asking a question and I’ve been very fortunate to be around people who had the kinds of questions that I could answer. And usually together we would find the solutions. Richard Miles: 8:48 Hey , let’s talk about a third application that I heard you explained . And then after you explain , you said , well, none of you probably understood my explanation, but it has to do with fiber amplifier and its role in communications. Tell us what that means. Michael Bass: 9:01 Okay Currently, all the communications that you do, whether it’s by cell phone or by landline is carried at one point or another on a fiber optic system. Those fiber optics have almost reached their capacity to carry information between telephone calls, which are minimal, but computer to computer image downloads, graphic downloads, video downloads, are burdening the system to where it’s almost completely saturated. You can’t do much more. So in the future, what people are considering is sending different information streams on different patterns of light inside the fiber. Now, the problem is that every now and again, you have to amplify the light so it can continue traveling down the next fiber. And the problem was how do you make an amplifier that exactly reproduces that pattern of light from one fiber to the next? And it was answering that question that led to the invention of these kinds of amplifiers. There are fiber amplifiers that can precisely reproduce the pattern. Richard Miles: 10:05 And so what is this going to do for communications networks? Is this gonna make them faster, more powerful, all of the above? Michael Bass: 10:11 All of the above. When it’s introduced, then it hasn’t happened yet, but it will. It will add to the capacity of existing systems, very substantial amounts of ability to carry more information. Now, the issues that I just described of carrying more information is a rather remarkable thing. It’s not long ago before there were fiber optic communications. You didn’t bother. You didn’t even think about doing such a thing. Can I tell a little story? Richard Miles: 10:38 Yeah sure, absolutely. Michael Bass: 10:38 In 1980, two miracles took place. Now they say, what the heck is he talking about? Well, one miracle was that the United States hockey team beat the Soviet union in hockey. The second miracle was that those Olympics were transmitted on the first fiber optic communication system. Richard Miles: 10:56 Wow, I didn’t know that. Michael Bass: 10:58 Since then, there are now over 2 billion kilometers of fibers in the ground or under the oceans. And it’s insufficient. The demands that humanity has put on communicating has made those fibers, as I said before, almost completely in use. So more capacity as to come either by putting in more fibers, which is very expensive or finding out how to use the existing fibers more effectively, which is where our amplifier comes in. Richard Miles: 11:26 I see. Okay . We talk a lot on this show about unfortunately, good ideas don’t sell themselves. There is a process after which brilliant people like you think of a good idea before it gets into the hands of either individuals or companies or institutions to make use of it. And that generally known as commercialization and a lot of inventors try to set up their own companies, find investors. In other words, do that extra mile to get their idea out there. And others work hand in hand, particularly at universities with technology transfer offices to take care a lot of that heavy lifting you’ve I think I had experienced in sort of both models to some degree or another. Tell us what that’s like in terms of, okay, you’ve got an idea. You’ve tested it. You’ve proved it. It clearly has some sort of commercial application. What happens after that? Michael Bass: 12:12 In most cases, university, people like myself, work through the technology transfer office and that’s where much of my inventions have become commercial. One story though, that tells you how sometimes it happens in ways you can’t expect. We meaning myself and professor Chow. We had organized a group of students and ourselves to study how to most efficiently cool bars of diode lasers. Now, why are we interested in bars of diode lasers? Because they can produce a lot of power. The problem is you have to get the light from the diode laser bar out in some form that you can then use. So while looking at how you would cool them, they had the life flat on a surface, but the light was coming out parallel to the surface. So you couldn’t get at it. And what I came up with together with Louis Chow in this group, we invented a little prism that could be used to turn the light perpendicular to the surface, and then you have all of it and you can focus. It collimated do whatever you want. In the group of people. There was a young man named Dan Rini . Dan realized he was mostly interested in the cooling process, but as he finished his PhD, he had started his own company called Rini Technologies. It was growing in the UCF incubator and he took license to this invention of this little prison. He then licensed that licensed sub-licensed it to a much larger company that makes high power lasers. And apparently they are making these little prisms, including them in their devices, whatever the actual system is. And it’s been a very successful connection. The connection was that Dan knew about what we did. He was in the room when we described these prisms and he realized that it had potential. So he worked with the incubator, which is run in large part by the University Technology Transfer Office. And one thing led to another and they connected. Richard Miles: 14:13 When you’re working on solving a particular problem or coming up with a solution, how much, if at all, do you think about the potential market applications downstream? Are you just trying to solve that one problem? Like the colleague on the bridge on your way to lunch, or are you already starting to feel like, you know, I think this would be really good for this or that application Michael Bass: 14:32 It doesn’t work like that. The question that comes along is how do you solve a particular problem? Usually a technological or a scientific problem. And from it might come a device or an item or a technique that might be called invention. That could be patented. I’ve got 34 patents, but I have almost 200 refereed papers. And more than that in the way of invited talks and so on. So the patents grow out of things that you do, that you don’t plan to invent something at first, as one of the speakers yesterday said he loved to create and invent things. That’s great, but you don’t begin your work thinking of inventing something. You start to answer a question in the process of answering the question. You may come up with something that’s invented . Richard Miles: 15:18 Have there been any surprises in the technologies that you’ve developed in terms of it looks like it’s going to one market application and then ends up in a totally different place. Michael Bass: 15:27 I wish I could answer that one. It’s a tough question, but let me give you one example, okay. Let’s go back to the laser fiber optic treatment from gastrointestinal bleeding. One day, I got a call from the gastroenterologist who was using the stuff that I’d put together for him. He said , you got to come down here and witness this. Well, later that afternoon, a six or seven year old hemophiliac boy came in with his parents. He had lost one of his teeth and the bleeding hadn’t stopped no matter what anyone else did, conventionally, the bleeding didn’t stop. Well when we turned on the laser, it smelled terrible and the boy he didn’t want to do anymore. So we proceeded to give him a quarter. For each time we turned on the laser and $2 and 50 cents later, the bleeding was stopped and he went home and whatever life haemophiliacs would have, he could have, but at least he wasn’t going to die because he was bleeding when his tooth came out. So there are always other things that happen . Something invented for gastrointestinal bleeding was used for that. Other people have now used that same material, the same laser fiber optic system to treat hemorrhoids, to treat other, such things and using a fiber optic with laser light coming through. It is a nice way of putting a laser scalpel in the hands of a surgeon. So it has its expansion in ways that we didn’t think about, we didn’t plan those. Richard Miles: 16:50 Michael. Now we’re going to talk about you and you grew up in the Bronx, right ? Right. What was it like to live in New York city as a kid? Michael Bass: 16:56 It was actually wonderful. The ability to get on a subway and half an hour later, be at the Museum of Natural History or the Hayden Planetarium and do that from when I was maybe eight or nine years old with no thought about anything. It was a different time. In fact, when I tell my daughter in law about making such trips as a kid, she thinks my parents were abusing me by letting me do it on my own at that young age. But everyone did in New York City was a place with tremendous excitement in it about if you will, science, I went to Stuyvesant High School, which is an extraordinarily selective school. You must pass a certain exam with a grade higher than a certain amount. And then they might take you in or they might not, but you have to achieve that. And while at Stuyvesant, which was in Manhattan still is I went to an exhibit at the, a United Nations of atoms for peace, and I saw a cloud chamber in operation. And that was fascinating. And it made me think that I wanted to study physics living somewhere else. I might not have seen that cloud chamber. Okay. To give you an idea of what I enjoyed most about living in New York. Richard Miles: 18:03 So when you got into this high school, the high performing selective high school, right? You were saying that among the people, most surprised for your parents, because when you were younger, were you not a standout student? Or why were they surprised? Michael Bass: 18:15 Yeah, actually it was a little earlier when I was in elementary school through sixth grade, I was a very average, maybe even a little below average student because I was bored witless. I had no idea that it made any difference to my future. If my handwriting was perfect, man , I’m lefthanded . So that makes it even more strange. But when I was selected for what in New York is called or was called the rapid advance, where you went in to seventh and ninth grade, you skipped eighth grade, you took three years in two, and then you are a year younger than everyone, but you could do this. When I was selected for that, my parents were the most surprised people that I can imagine. They didn’t think that I had that kind of capability. And so that was kind of a kickstart to my future of using my mind and doing things like this, studying physics. Richard Miles: 19:01 Were either of your parents, scientists or researchers? Michael Bass: 19:04 No, neither was, I had an uncle who was a civil engineer and that’s about as close as we got, but no, my father and mother probably never went beyond high school. He was a realtor and she eventually, when I was going to high school, she started to work as a legal secretary. Richard Miles: 19:19 Any siblings that went into scientific fields? Michael Bass: 19:21 No, my sister finished high school and was glad to be done with education. She was nine years older than me and had different ideas in mind. Richard Miles: 19:30 So I’m sure Michael, at this point in your career, you are probably routinely asked to mentor, or you’re asked for advice from everyone from college students to grad students, to PhD candidates. I’m curious, what sort of questions do you get? Are they all highly specific? Do I go to this college or that college? Or do you get more life advice type of questions? What do I do with my life? What should I study? And then what are your, Michael Bass: 19:53 There are several, I’ll give you a story again. A couple of years back, a friend of mine was invited to speak at boys state in Tallahassee. And he asked me to come along because it was a long drive. He wanted someone with him and I would be able to speak a little bit. So when I given my little talk about the laser fiber optic GI bleeding treatment, because that’s something he could relate to easily, I finished and perhaps 200 of these boys came over and stood around. They asking questions about where they should go to school. What should they study? And reason I tell this story is that there’s a real need out there amongst the young people for guidance as to why would you want to go into technology? Well, the future is greater than the past. A small statistic. That makes a big difference of all the engineers and scientists in the world that ever existed more than 90% of them are alive today, which is why the squeal of technology’s speeding up today. Today we have telephones that we carry around in our pockets that have more computing capability than the whole world had in the 1960s. Now that’s a remarkable change in things and that kind of technological change is coming more and more quickly in all fields of endeavor. So when I do talk to students about that, I talk to them about the vast opportunities that exist. And I don’t try to aim them at a particular subject, whether it’s biology or physics or chemistry, or what have you, that’s their choice to make. But to realize that technology is a major, major player in the human experience is something I try to communicate. While at UCF, I created a course called the culture of science, which dealt with all the subjects of how science came about, how it affected the society around it and how society affected it. And it’s something that most students never hear about. And I did this course and I taught it for undergraduates. I taught it for honors classes. I taught it for graduate students, the responses. I wish I’d known that before I started. So it’s a very happy thing to have been able to do that for all those students, Richard Miles: 22:06 The Culture Science sounds like a great program for the Cade Museum. So we would love to have you maybe come up and give a talk about that, because that’s one of the things we try to do at the museum is trying to get people to think creatively about the tools of science, because to us , that is the predicate of invention, right? I mean, if data by itself, isn’t going to get you in invention. It has to be a way of thinking about the data that gets you to do something useful. Michael Bass: 22:30 Thank you. Yeah, that is effectively what the Culture of Science is. It’s the way of going from fundamental, basic subject to actually something, a thing that works and helps people and does something. And sometimes the thing that is developed gets used improperly, as we can all imagine things happening, but if you’re not aware of these issues, you’re not going to function well in our future society. Richard Miles: 22:55 Mike, I want to thank you very much for being on Radio Cade today. I feel bad. We only got through at most three of your 34 patents. So we’re going to have to do another six or seven installments of this show, but fascinating background, fascinating way of looking at your own profession. And thank you very much for joining us. Michael Bass: 23:10 It’s been my pleasure. I enjoyed it.

New Books in Women's History
Lisa Greenwald, "Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

New Books in Women's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2019 53:04


May '68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life. The feminist movement was no exception. Women took to the streets and meeting halls around the country, challenging outdated sexual standards, fighting for reproductive freedom, and articulating women's oppression in radically new ways. In Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Dr. Lisa Greenwald offers a refreshingly new perspective on the history of French feminism, beginning with the liberation of France in 1944--when women were granted the right to vote--to 1981 and the election of a Socialist president who promised to transform women's status in French society. Greenwald examines the endless challenges of collective organizing, along with the fractious ideological divisions and strategic differences among the various feminist groups that emerged after the events of May. In this interview, she discusses influential figures in the movement such as Gisèle Halimi and Simone Veil and the fight to legalize abortion, Simone de Beauvoir and the influence of The Second Sex on feminists after May '68, and Antoinette Fouque and the tensions surrounding the Psych-et-Po group. She concludes the interview with an insightful analysis of current debates surrounding the #MeToo movement in France. Lisa Greenwald, Ph.D. spent almost a decade working in and researching the women's movement in France, supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and grants from the French government. She has worked as a consultant and in-house historian for a variety of nonprofits and foundations in France, Chicago, and New York. She teaches history at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Beth Mauldin is an Associate Professor of French at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Her research interests include French cultural studies, film, and the social and cultural history of Paris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Drive at Five with Curtis Sliwa
11-13-17: New Accuser Comes Forward Against Roy Moore, Cancer Cases At Stuyvesant High School, and Happy Birth Aleta St. James

The Drive at Five with Curtis Sliwa

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2017 31:45


Tonight Curtis is joined by Birmingham Radio Host Matt Murphy, Author Michelle Lent Hirsch, and his sister Aleta St. James.

USA Classic Radio Theater
When The Past Comes Back To Haunt You

USA Classic Radio Theater

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2017 50:40


"Suspense" - originally broadcast April 7, 1952, 65 years ago. Episode titled "Remember Me," starring Dan Duryea. A robber shoots an old Jewish shopkeeper and then is forced to deal with a girl who witnessed the crime. The girl seems to have attended Stuyvesant High School with him.

Note to Self
Judging Your Originality in a Cut and Paste World

Note to Self

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2015 22:57


Welcome to the only site on the whole World Wide Web with the words: “They were friends forever and lived happily ever after." At least, the only one as far as a giant database of student papers, online texts, and a Google search can tell.  Full credit for originality goes to author Note to Self Producer Alex Goldmark, who spent the past few weeks on a quest to outsmart anti-plagiarism software Turnitin. Turnitin and programs like it are used in a third of high schools and half of colleges nationwide. A student submits their paper through the software, and then it's compared against an ever-growing database of writing (400 million submitted essays to date!), and evaluated with an "originality report." Teachers can see which sections set off warning bells, and a flashing red light goes off if big ideas clearly came from someone else. It's a pretty air-tight defense against copying and pasting culture, but young adults and their grade-wielding teachers have also learned a lesson of another sort in the process: Phrasing an idea in a completely new way? It's pretty rare, especially when the assignments haven't changed. Basically, plagiarism detection software confirms that sneaking suspicion in the back of your favorite English lit student's mind: You're working through ideas that have been thoroughly worked through, many times before. It has become just about impossible to have a truly new idea.  So, on this week's show, we'll admit, we're not the first to ask it: How important is originality, anyway?  In this episode: Sophie Oberfield, teacher at Stuyvesant High School Jason Chu, Education Director at Turnitin* Jack Howard, writing tutor and student at the University of Missouri There's a line of thought called "infinite monkey theorem," which says "Given an infinite length of time, a chimp punching at random on a typewriter would almost surely type out all of Shakespeare." (Wikimedia Commons) *An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed Jason Chu's first name. The text has been corrected.  Subscribe to Note to Self on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, I Heart Radio, or anywhere else using our RSS feed. And sign up for our delightful newsletter here.