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This week, WTFolklore reads the Mexican tale Lord Oppossum Brings Fire to Humanity. Took us 297 episodes, but we've finally met a king who gives a damn about his subjects. Obviously it's not human.Suggested talking points: Obligated to Perform, Fairytale Estate Sale, Take it to Icky Times, The Piss-end of an Opossum, The Original Tyler, The Big Three: Water, Fire, and BoozeIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.
Suggested to us by Jay Key, author of The Adventures of Duke LaGrange. Ben and Nate check out a new shared-universe short-story anthology. Beyond the Galaxy imagines a world where, in the year 2020, aliens came to Earth and harvested most of humanity to use as spaceship fuel. You know what? For all I know, that may have actually happened. I haven't left my house in 16 months. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/WABPod)
This week, after a little opening Cruella de Scourse, WTFolklore reads The Three Lemons, from Italy. On the happy-ending scale, is it an Immortal Moon Wife or a Breakfast of Stones? You'll have to tune in to find out!Suggested talking points: Mouth Mutiny, A Thousand-Year Campaign to Ruin Dogs, Horniness Begets Hope, Blood Sausage Poptart, Wife TreeIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.
Stop everything, we’ve found this year’s one true summer anthem, from one Charles Entertainment Cheese. It bops. It slaps. It rips. It trips. It has us questioning our very existence.Suggested talking points: Catch Old, Wisdom of the Crowd, Ruminating about Revenants, Munch Squad Trap Edition, Chex Mix CircleSupport AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate For resources on anti-racism and fighting police violence: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: In celebration of Asian heritage month (which takes place in May), Talking Taiwan participated in United We Stand, the 42nd Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, and on May 17th, organized a Panel Discussion and Q&A on the topic: What To Do If You Are The Target Of Asian Hate. The event was recorded and this is Part 2, which features the Q&A portion with panelists- Chris Kwok, Steve Lee, Suelain Moy, and Peter Yang Zhao. If you don't want miss out on any of the useful information shared be sure to go back and listen to Part 1, which was the opening discussion with our panelists and shared in the previous episode, Episode 132. Panelist bios: Christopher M. Kwok, is a mediator and arbitrator with JAMS, Board Director and Issues Committee Chair for the Asian American Bar Association of New York, and an Adjunct Professor at Hunter College/CUNY and New York City College of Technology/CUNY. Sergeant Steven Lee, is a 16-year veteran of the NYPD, a whistleblower fighting to reform police corruption, and Anti-Asian Hate Crime Activist. Suelain Moy, is a New York City mother, writer, journalist, author, and editor who wrote “The 16 Safety Guidelines for the Parents of Asian Children.” Peter Yang Zhao, is an Anti-Asian Hate Crime and Tourette Activist. Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode: How we have to fight the legacy of law that perceived nonwhites as legal nonpersons What should/can bystanders or upstanders do if they witness a hate crime Hollaback organization Why panelist Steve Lee does not recommend carrying mace or pepper spray Why panelist Steve Lee recommends carrying around a tactical flashlight What constitutes self-defense The Flushing Bakery case Suggestions of what items are acceptable or not to carry for self-defense What constitutes a hate crime What was done to get Patrick Mateo of the Flushing Bakery case charged with a hate crime and what you can do get an Asian hate crime prosecuted Adopt a case that you want to rally behind or support No matter what your immigration status is you are protected under the law if you are the target of Asian hate Police officers are not allowed to ask about your immigration status It should take 24-48 hours for a police report to be in the system The difference between harassment, assault, and reckless endangerment The stabbing of an Asian man in the Seattle area The importance of connecting with non-Asian communities Suggested action items for event participants from the panelists The importance of self-care and mental health Related Links: United We Stand- 42nd Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival: Https://beacons.ai/aapifest An example of now nonwhites were not considered human or to have the same rights: The 1854 Supreme Court of California case of People v. Hall, which reversed the murder conviction of George W. Hall, “a free white citizen of this State,” because three prosecution witnesses were Chinese: https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1513147 Hollaback: https://www.ihollaback.org/ Flushing Bakery incident: [INSERT the 2 jpgs] The stabbing in Seattle that Jolene referred to: Asian American groups push for Bothell murder to be investigated as hate crime: https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/john-huynh-asian-american-advocates-hate-crime-investigation/281-fd824596-7856-4dc4-ab96-dfc3956764ff Reaction to the murder of an Asian Man being stabbed in Bothell. WA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=794MprgRsRA CeFaan Kim: https://abc7ny.com/about/newsteam/cefaan-kim/ https://twitter.com/CeFaanKim Dion Lim: https://abc7news.acom/about/newsteam/dion-lim/ https://twitter.com/DionLimTV Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA): http://capaonline.org/ Korean American Story: https://koreanamericanstory.org/ Project by Project: https://www.projectbyproject.org/ Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA): https://www.apalanet.org/ OCA-NY Asian Pacific American Advocates: http://www.oca-ny.org/contact.html Asian Women Giving Circle: http://asianwomengivingcircle.org/ Free yoga class that panelist Suelain Moy mentioned that she took with Joyce Wu, "Gentle Yoga for Terrible Times": https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gentle-yoga-for-terrible-times-tickets-107646048228 More about the class: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/gentle-yoga-for-terrible-times-offers-hour-long-wellness-session/ar-BB17kInE Joyce's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oneandonlyjoyce/ Asian Mental Health Collective: https://www.asianmhc.org/
To many mathematicians and math enthusiasts, the word "innumeracy" brings to mind popular writing like that of John Allen Paulos. But inequities in our quantitative reasoning skills have received considerable interest and attention from researchers lately, including in psychology, development, education, and public health. Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a unified treatment of these broad-ranging studies, from the ways more and less numerate people differ in our perceptions of risk and our number-based decisions to the roots of our numeric faculties and how we can make the best of them. Dr. Ellen Peters has made significant contributions to the subject and brings her expertise and an exceptional clarity to its presentation. Precious little of the research surveyed in her book could fit into this interview! We discussed the three components of numeric ability—objective numeracy, subjective numeracy, and the innate number sense—and how they vary within and across populations. We talked through some key lessons from this literature, such as the importance of calibrating our self-efficacy to our real ability and an awareness of how our cultural allegiances can drive even our mathematical reasoning. And we identified some of the essential personal habits and policy levers (early childhood education!!) available to us in our efforts to improve our individual numeracy and our collective numeric decision-making. For a firm grounding in the state of knowledge and urgent open questions, there may be no better resource for many years to come. Suggested companion works: Contributions from the labs of Isaac Lipkus, Angela Fagerlin, John Opfer, Edward Cokely, Rocio Garcia-Retamero, Jakub Traczyk, Agata Sobków, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Keith Stanovich, and Valerie Reyna. Ellen Peters, Ph.D., is the Philip H. Knight Chair, and Director of the Center for Science Communication Research, in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. As a decision psychologist, she studies the basic building blocks of human judgment and decision making and their links with effective communication techniques and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. She is former President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She also works with federal agencies to advance decision and communication sciences in health and health policy, including having been Chair of FDA’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee and member of the NAS’s Science of Science Communication committee. She has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award and an NIH Group Merit Award. Finally, she has received extensive funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Cory Brunson is a Research Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. His research focuses on geometric and topological approaches to the analysis of medical and healthcare data. He welcomes book suggestions, listener feedback, and transparent supply chains. 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
To many mathematicians and math enthusiasts, the word "innumeracy" brings to mind popular writing like that of John Allen Paulos. But inequities in our quantitative reasoning skills have received considerable interest and attention from researchers lately, including in psychology, development, education, and public health. Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a unified treatment of these broad-ranging studies, from the ways more and less numerate people differ in our perceptions of risk and our number-based decisions to the roots of our numeric faculties and how we can make the best of them. Dr. Ellen Peters has made significant contributions to the subject and brings her expertise and an exceptional clarity to its presentation. Precious little of the research surveyed in her book could fit into this interview! We discussed the three components of numeric ability—objective numeracy, subjective numeracy, and the innate number sense—and how they vary within and across populations. We talked through some key lessons from this literature, such as the importance of calibrating our self-efficacy to our real ability and an awareness of how our cultural allegiances can drive even our mathematical reasoning. And we identified some of the essential personal habits and policy levers (early childhood education!!) available to us in our efforts to improve our individual numeracy and our collective numeric decision-making. For a firm grounding in the state of knowledge and urgent open questions, there may be no better resource for many years to come. Suggested companion works: Contributions from the labs of Isaac Lipkus, Angela Fagerlin, John Opfer, Edward Cokely, Rocio Garcia-Retamero, Jakub Traczyk, Agata Sobków, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Keith Stanovich, and Valerie Reyna. Ellen Peters, Ph.D., is the Philip H. Knight Chair, and Director of the Center for Science Communication Research, in the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. As a decision psychologist, she studies the basic building blocks of human judgment and decision making and their links with effective communication techniques and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. She is former President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She also works with federal agencies to advance decision and communication sciences in health and health policy, including having been Chair of FDA's Risk Communication Advisory Committee and member of the NAS's Science of Science Communication committee. She has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award and an NIH Group Merit Award. Finally, she has received extensive funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Cory Brunson is a Research Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. His research focuses on geometric and topological approaches to the analysis of medical and healthcare data. He welcomes book suggestions, listener feedback, and transparent supply chains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine
To many mathematicians and math enthusiasts, the word "innumeracy" brings to mind popular writing like that of John Allen Paulos. But inequities in our quantitative reasoning skills have received considerable interest and attention from researchers lately, including in psychology, development, education, and public health. Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a unified treatment of these broad-ranging studies, from the ways more and less numerate people differ in our perceptions of risk and our number-based decisions to the roots of our numeric faculties and how we can make the best of them. Dr. Ellen Peters has made significant contributions to the subject and brings her expertise and an exceptional clarity to its presentation. Precious little of the research surveyed in her book could fit into this interview! We discussed the three components of numeric ability—objective numeracy, subjective numeracy, and the innate number sense—and how they vary within and across populations. We talked through some key lessons from this literature, such as the importance of calibrating our self-efficacy to our real ability and an awareness of how our cultural allegiances can drive even our mathematical reasoning. And we identified some of the essential personal habits and policy levers (early childhood education!!) available to us in our efforts to improve our individual numeracy and our collective numeric decision-making. For a firm grounding in the state of knowledge and urgent open questions, there may be no better resource for many years to come. Suggested companion works: Contributions from the labs of Isaac Lipkus, Angela Fagerlin, John Opfer, Edward Cokely, Rocio Garcia-Retamero, Jakub Traczyk, Agata Sobków, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Keith Stanovich, and Valerie Reyna. Ellen Peters, Ph.D., is the Philip H. Knight Chair, and Director of the Center for Science Communication Research, in the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. As a decision psychologist, she studies the basic building blocks of human judgment and decision making and their links with effective communication techniques and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. She is former President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She also works with federal agencies to advance decision and communication sciences in health and health policy, including having been Chair of FDA's Risk Communication Advisory Committee and member of the NAS's Science of Science Communication committee. She has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award and an NIH Group Merit Award. Finally, she has received extensive funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Cory Brunson is a Research Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. His research focuses on geometric and topological approaches to the analysis of medical and healthcare data. He welcomes book suggestions, listener feedback, and transparent supply chains. 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
To many mathematicians and math enthusiasts, the word "innumeracy" brings to mind popular writing like that of John Allen Paulos. But inequities in our quantitative reasoning skills have received considerable interest and attention from researchers lately, including in psychology, development, education, and public health. Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a unified treatment of these broad-ranging studies, from the ways more and less numerate people differ in our perceptions of risk and our number-based decisions to the roots of our numeric faculties and how we can make the best of them. Dr. Ellen Peters has made significant contributions to the subject and brings her expertise and an exceptional clarity to its presentation. Precious little of the research surveyed in her book could fit into this interview! We discussed the three components of numeric ability—objective numeracy, subjective numeracy, and the innate number sense—and how they vary within and across populations. We talked through some key lessons from this literature, such as the importance of calibrating our self-efficacy to our real ability and an awareness of how our cultural allegiances can drive even our mathematical reasoning. And we identified some of the essential personal habits and policy levers (early childhood education!!) available to us in our efforts to improve our individual numeracy and our collective numeric decision-making. For a firm grounding in the state of knowledge and urgent open questions, there may be no better resource for many years to come. Suggested companion works: Contributions from the labs of Isaac Lipkus, Angela Fagerlin, John Opfer, Edward Cokely, Rocio Garcia-Retamero, Jakub Traczyk, Agata Sobków, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Keith Stanovich, and Valerie Reyna. Ellen Peters, Ph.D., is the Philip H. Knight Chair, and Director of the Center for Science Communication Research, in the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. As a decision psychologist, she studies the basic building blocks of human judgment and decision making and their links with effective communication techniques and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. She is former President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She also works with federal agencies to advance decision and communication sciences in health and health policy, including having been Chair of FDA's Risk Communication Advisory Committee and member of the NAS's Science of Science Communication committee. She has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award and an NIH Group Merit Award. Finally, she has received extensive funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Cory Brunson is a Research Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. His research focuses on geometric and topological approaches to the analysis of medical and healthcare data. He welcomes book suggestions, listener feedback, and transparent supply chains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology
To many mathematicians and math enthusiasts, the word "innumeracy" brings to mind popular writing like that of John Allen Paulos. But inequities in our quantitative reasoning skills have received considerable interest and attention from researchers lately, including in psychology, development, education, and public health. Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a unified treatment of these broad-ranging studies, from the ways more and less numerate people differ in our perceptions of risk and our number-based decisions to the roots of our numeric faculties and how we can make the best of them. Dr. Ellen Peters has made significant contributions to the subject and brings her expertise and an exceptional clarity to its presentation. Precious little of the research surveyed in her book could fit into this interview! We discussed the three components of numeric ability—objective numeracy, subjective numeracy, and the innate number sense—and how they vary within and across populations. We talked through some key lessons from this literature, such as the importance of calibrating our self-efficacy to our real ability and an awareness of how our cultural allegiances can drive even our mathematical reasoning. And we identified some of the essential personal habits and policy levers (early childhood education!!) available to us in our efforts to improve our individual numeracy and our collective numeric decision-making. For a firm grounding in the state of knowledge and urgent open questions, there may be no better resource for many years to come. Suggested companion works: Contributions from the labs of Isaac Lipkus, Angela Fagerlin, John Opfer, Edward Cokely, Rocio Garcia-Retamero, Jakub Traczyk, Agata Sobków, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Keith Stanovich, and Valerie Reyna. Ellen Peters, Ph.D., is the Philip H. Knight Chair, and Director of the Center for Science Communication Research, in the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. As a decision psychologist, she studies the basic building blocks of human judgment and decision making and their links with effective communication techniques and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. She is former President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She also works with federal agencies to advance decision and communication sciences in health and health policy, including having been Chair of FDA's Risk Communication Advisory Committee and member of the NAS's Science of Science Communication committee. She has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award and an NIH Group Merit Award. Finally, she has received extensive funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Cory Brunson is a Research Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. His research focuses on geometric and topological approaches to the analysis of medical and healthcare data. He welcomes book suggestions, listener feedback, and transparent supply chains.
As an independent salon owner, the return to “business as usual” can result in some critical decision-making to maintain health and safety while avoiding conflict and discomfort. In this time of shifting mask regulations, we want to make sure you are equipped as a small business owner with options for communicating new salon rules to clients amongst varying comfort levels and circumstances. Time Stamps [0:28] – How to respond to changing mask guidelines as an independent salon owner, from the Sola blog. [1:08] – CDC has loosened the mandate for vaccinated Americans. [1:50] – What the new rules mean for salon owners. [2:39] – Several routes you can take to manage updated mask policies for your salon. The first is following state and local guidance. [3:58] – Some sample messaging for clients aligning with local guidance. [4:42] – The second route is continuing the same mask policy. [5:36] – Sample messaging for clients continuing mask policy. [6:20] – Route #3 – survey your clientele. [7:02] – Survey example for clients [9:09] – Fourth possible route is to address masks on a case-by-case basis. [9:43] – Suggested question to ask clients [10:54] – Place health, comfort, and safety above all else. Links and Resources Sola Salon Studios' Instagram Page Sola Salons Studios – Website The Sola Blog SolaGenius The Sola Sessions Reconnected – Buy On-Demand Ticket
This week on WTFolklore, we're reading the Chinese tale, The Waiting Maid's Parrot, and we make a startling number of bird-based revelations in record time. Oh yeah, we've still got it, baby.Suggested talking points: Snaxedo, The Power of Small Appetizer Shrimps and a Friendly Smile, Old-Timey for "Horny", Shaking Your Leg to an Unnamed Dread, Lynyrd FeathyrdIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.
We all knew it was coming. Criss Angel, tired of escaping from boxes and chains, has broken free of the confines of Munch Squad with his new Nevada restaurant. One hundred years of crafting couldn't have come up with a better name. So, that’s it. We’ve got to concede naming restaurants for the foreseeable future.Suggested talking points: Ja New Answers, Dr Harold Styley, Gently Used Wings, Tummy Freak, Where’s the WeckSupport AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate Support the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/
A vanishing baby, an ode to Facebook stalking, and a dead dog named Mecal Fatter: Sight Gag returns in a big way with this sketch comedy show, recorded live at TheatreSouth on September 25, 2010. Suggested for mature listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A vanishing baby, an ode to Facebook stalking, and a dead dog named Mecal Fatter: Sight Gag returns in a big way with this sketch comedy show, recorded live at TheatreSouth on September 25, 2010. Suggested for mature listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on WTFolklore, after checking in on the Great Gas Shortage of 2021, we read Kae's Theft of the Whale, a Polynesian tale where everyone just ends up having a ton of fun by the end. Everyone who doesn't die, anyway.Suggested talking points: The Third Entity, The Genealogical Difference Between Monsters and Muppets, Living BBQ, Bestowing Stronk to Babies, Wizard RAMIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.
We’re gonna hit you with the shrink ray, put you in our pocket, and take you on a journey with us. It’s not going to be a very exciting journey, since you’ll be in a pocket and everything. And we’re not sure where we’re going exactly. But it’s a journey.Suggested talking points: ROI On Oranges, My name is Dr Cheese, Pep’eps Place Conspiracy, Tell Me All Your Fruit Thoughts, Yahoo That’s not a Yahoo, Parakeet Parrot PeteSupport AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate Support the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/
More audio-based hilarity from Chatterbox’s own original sketch comedy troupe! Recorded live at Germantown Community Theatre on March 21, 2008. Suggested for mature listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More audio-based hilarity from Chatterbox's own original sketch comedy troupe! Recorded live at Germantown Community Theatre on March 21, 2008. Suggested for mature listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
Who are the Roma -- also colloquially called "Gypsies"? Where did they come from, and how did they end up all over Europe? How have they endured through persecution, expulsions, and political upheaval, without a state or country of their own? We trace the path of this remarkable and resilient people from their mysterious origins in India to their arrival in Constantinople and medieval Europe and through the wave of persecution and ethnic cleansing in the 1600s. Image: Gypsies telling fortunes, in Cosmographie Universelle, Munster, 1552. Suggested further reading: Angus Fraser, "The Gypsies"; Isabel Fonseca, "Bury Me Standing." Please support this podcast and hear the recent lecture on the Founding Fathers! -- www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632
The list of the most epic songs of each year since 1980 continues here over some friendly banter and a few beers... Like, Share, Listen, Repeat! Email us with some feedback... we love that sh*t!! Cheers! Main Event Reference: https://loudwire.com/best-metal-song-each-year-since-1970/ Todays Beers: Harpoons - Mikes Pastry Cannoli Stout https://www.harpoonbrewery.com Visit our Patreon account and contribute to the cause! https://www.patreon.com/hmoa6pack ARMPHIS YouTube Channel - Royalty Free Music Background https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQZ4eWuXjiHw0aurWGPFOUA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtgf00GvfFQVsYBA7V7RwUw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMZ8uDWrYwi62AASCNhMHcg Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8cxz_txDoAKjz47BWTRlhw?view_as=subscriber All submissions to “Heavy Metal Over A Six Pack” are under the understanding that they are royalty free, and usage will be decided by editors and directors of “Heavy Metal Over A Six Pack”. Submissions are voluntary, we do not claim ownership of submissions but any submissions we deem free to use at our discretion. See our About section on our website for full legal disclaimer at http://hmoa6pack.podomatic.net/about.html Please respect our material, share with your friends and colleagues, please do not replicate or copy. We give credit to all sources who contribute to our show and all research we use. Like, Share, Listen, Repeat respectively! Check out the material and research the topics on your own, send us your feedback at hmoa6pack@gmail.com and go to our directories and give us a rating! Cheers!
Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training pytest book Patreon Supporters Special guest: Marlene Mhangami Brian #1: readme.so Recommended by Johnny Metz This is not only useful, it’s fun Interactively create a README.md file Suggested sections great There are lots of sections though, so really only pick the ones you are willing to fill in. I think this is nicer than the old stand by of “copying the README.md of another project” because that other project might not have some of these great sections, like: Acknowledgements API Reference Authors FAQ Features Logo Roadmap Usage/Examples Running Tests Note, these sections are listed in alphabetical order, not necessarily the right order for how they should go in your README.md Produces a markdown file you can copy or download Also an editor so you can edit right there. (But I’d probably throw together the skeleton with dummy text and edit it in something with vim emulation. Michael #2: Wafer-scale Python via Galen Swint Many new processors with the sole purpose of accelerating artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. Cerebras, a chip company, built an AI-oriented chip that is 12”x12” (30cm^2) with 850,000 AI cores on board. Another way to look at it is that’s 2.6T transistors vs. my M1’s 0.0016T. Built through TSMC, as so many things seem to be these days. What’s the Python angle here? A key to the design is the custom graph compiler, that takes PyTorch or TensorFlow and maps each layer to a physical part of the chip, allowing for asynchronous compute as the data flows through. Shipping soon for just $3M+. Marlene #3: RAPIDS This is the library I’m currently working on at NVIDIA. I work specifically on CuDF which is a Python GPU DataFrame library for loading, joining, aggregating, filtering, and manipulating tabular data using a DataFrame style API. It mirrors the Pandas API but operations are done on the GPU I gave a talk at PyCon Sweden a few months ago called ‘A Beginners Guide to GPU’s for Pythonista’s’. Here’s an example of how long it takes for pandas vs. cudf to calculate the mean of a group of numbers in a column in a DataFrame: #we'll be calculating the mean of the data in a dataframe (table) import cudf import pandas as pd import numpy as np import time #lets create a data frame using pandas, that has two columns, a and b #we're generating a dataframe where each column contains one hundred million rows #each row is filled with a random integer that can be between 0 to one hundred million pandas_df = pd.DataFrame({"a": np.random.randint(0, 100000000, size=100000000), "b": np.random.randint(0, 100000000, size=100000000)}) #next we want to create a cudf version of this dataframe cudf_df = cudf.DataFrame.from_pandas(pandas_df) #now we'll use timeit to compare the time it takes to calculate the mean #of the numbers in the column "a" of the dataframe. #Lets time Pandas %timeit pandas_df.a.mean() #Lets time CuDF %timeit cudf_df.a.mean() #These were the results I got (might be a little slower if you're using the notebook on Colab) # pandas: 105 ms ± 298 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each) #cudf: 1.83 ms ± 4.51 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000 loops each) You can test this out for right now using the RAPIDS, GPU powered notebook for free on Google Colab. Brian #4: datefinder and dateutil Recommended by Ira Horecka Great calmcode.io video on datefinder Neat use of comprehensions to explore sending a bunch of data into a tool: import datefinder date_strings = [ "March 12 2010", "2010-03-12", "03/12/2010 12:42:12" ] [list(datefinder.find_dates(d)) for d in date_strings] # [[datetime.datetime(2010, 3, 12, 0, 0)], # [datetime.datetime(2010, 3, 12, 0, 0)], # [datetime.datetime(2010, 3, 12, 12, 42, 12)]] Nice focused library, used by 662 projects, according to GitHub datefinder finds dates in strings, then uses dateutil to parse them into datetime objects. dateutil is actually kind of amazing also, great for parsing date strings computing relative delas (next month, last week of the month, etc) relative deltas between date and/or datetimes amazing timezone support comprehensive test suite nice mix of both pytest and unittest. I’ll have to ask Paul Ganssle about that sometime. Michael #5: Cinder - Instagram's performance oriented fork of CPython via Anthony Shaw Instagram's performance oriented fork of CPython. They use a multi-process webserver architecture; the parent process starts, performs initialization work (e.g. loading code), and forks tens of worker processes to handle client requests. The overhead due to copy-on-write from reference counting long-lived objects turned out to be significant. They developed a solution called "immortal instances" to provide a way to opt-out objects from reference counting. "Shadowcode" or “shadow bytecode" is their inline caching implementation. It observes particular optimizable cases in the execution of generic Python opcodes and (for hot functions) dynamically replaces those opcodes with specialized versions. Eager coroutine evaluation: If a call to an async function is immediately awaited, we immediately execute the called function up to its first await. The Cinder JIT is a method-at-a-time custom JIT implemented in C++. And can achieve 1.5-4x speed improvements on many Python performance benchmarks. Strict modules is a few things rolled into one Static Python is an experimental bytecode compiler that makes use of type annotations to emit type-specialized and type-checked Python bytecode. Static Python plus Cinder JIT achieves 7x the performance of stock CPython on a typed version of the Richards benchmark. Marlene #6: PyCon US 2021 PyCon US starts today. Its the largest gathering of the Python community on earth! I’ll be hosting the Diversity and Inclusion Work Group Meet and Greet. I recently became the chair of this WG, which focuses on helping increase global diversity and inclusion in the python community. We’ll be going live on the main stage at PyCon on Saturday 15 May at 12pm EST. There will be lots of time for discussion, so I hope to see some of you there! I’ll also be hosting the PSF EMEA members meeting, which will be on Saturday at 10am CAT. You can register on the Meet up page or watch the livestream on the PSF Youtube channel. You can also find me in the PSF booth on Friday and Saturday morning, if you’d like to meet there! Some other talks I’m looking forward to attending are: Python Performance at Scale - Making Python Faster at Instagram More Fun With Hardware and CircuitPython - IoT, Wearables, and more! Large Scale Data Validation (with Spark and Dask) Registration will be open all through the conference, so if you haven’t yet you can register here And of course all the keynotes this year! Extras Michael Keep your fork in sync at GitHub Flask 2.0 is out! (Just interviewed David and Phil for Talk Python) (thanks Adam Parkin) New Major Versions Released! Flask 2.0, Werkzeug 2.0, Jinja 3.0, Click 8.0, ItsDangerous 2.0, and MarkupSafe 2.0 Brian Lots of great feedback about last weeks Test & Code interview with Brett Cannon about packaging. I’m glad it was helpful to people. This week I’m talking with Ryan Howard about Playwright for automated browser testing. Did you know we have 71 patrons on patreon? So cool. You too can support the show at patreon.com/pythonbytes Marlene If you’d like to connect you can find me on twitter @marlene_zw You can also check out my site marlenemhangami.com Joke
Weezie’s 12 is a short form podcast by Cheers Charlotte host Jay Weezie. Jay asks the same 12 questions to Industry, Influencers and Amateurs in the food and beverage world. Some questions are simple and some are little more thought provoking. They all are in good fun to give you another side of the people that serve you beer, cook your food, or you follow on Instagram. In between full length episodes of Cheers Charlotte you’ll get these 10-20 minute episodes of Weezie’s 12. Each week is a different person sometimes suggested by a previous guest of the show, but always someone interesting and creative. This week we go back to the Influencer with Ashley of @FloridaHopMama. Suggested by season one guest Amanda of the Art of Beers on Instagram Ashley gets the 12 question treatment with some interesting answers. The post Ep – 15 – Weezie’s 12 with Florida Hop Mama appeared first on Cheers Charlotte Radio | Craft Beer and Homebrew Podcast.
Details about Coronavirus production; Why it is so hard to develop a vaccine for Malaria -- The complex Malaria parasite life cycle; Dr. Dawn debunks a suspect scientific report claiming Coronavirus RNA vaccines can cause Prion disease; Tropical diseases are infiltrating the US because of Climate Change -- First GMO mosquitoes released in US to reduce spread of these diseases; Can we engineer CRISPR Gene Drive genetic modification to safer versions that decay over age? Suggested treatments and supplements to combat COVID-19 have evolved during the pandemic -- Science in action!
Nosy neighbors be damned, we’re about to fire up the grill and make some delicious gipino. Gapino? Cioppino. Shrimp.Suggested talking points: Bone Fleas, Riddle Prison, Joey Bloobs, Rugged Spicy Boys, the Peters Parker, a case of Pepsi Lungs, What Do Babies Care About?Consider becoming a supporter of our show: www.maximumfun.org/join/ Support AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate For resources on anti-racism and fighting police violence: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
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In this episode we talk to Zoé Samudzi. Dr. Samudzi has a PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. Her dissertation was about German colonialism, the Herero/Nama genocide, and the afterlife of that genocidal structure in the present. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, The New Republic, The New Inquiry, Jewish Currents, and other outlets. She is co-author of As Black as Resistance, which we spoke with her and co-author William C. Anderson back in 2018. In this conversation we talk about a range of topics related to settler colonialism and colonization in Africa, specifically in modern day Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Zoé shares with us some of the historical fights between European nation states, and European settlers in Southern Africa. She also shares a little bit of history on the Nama/Herero genocide and how it was utilized by the British to undermine the German Empire. Josh and Zoé explore the relationship between colonialism and fascism. And Zoé also shares some thoughts on the film Exterminate All The Brutes and challenges US exceptionalism in relationship to our analysis of settler colonialism and genocide. Finally, Zoé talks about museums as ongoing sites of colonial violence and we discuss this in relationship to the recent revelations about the U Penn museum and U Penn and Princeton’s use of the remains of Delisha and Tree Africa, two MOVE children killed in the 1985 bombing, whose remains were taken from their families without consent or notice. MOVE has an event scheduled for May 15th in recognition of the 36th Anniversary of the MOVE bombing. You can also see their press conference addressing U Penn. And there’s a petition for the repatriation of the remains of Tree and Delisha, and financial reparations to the affected families. Suggested readings from Zoé Samudzi: - Mobilizing Black Germany by Tiffany Florvil - The Problems of Genocide by Dirk Moses - Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay - The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks - Multidirectional Memory by Michael Rothberg - Exterminate all the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist - Alabama in Africa by Andrew Zimmerman May is a really busy month for us, beyond this great conversation we have a number of other exciting new episodes planned. If you are able to become a patron of the show, you can do so for as little as $1 a month.
Containing a Portion which Constitutes the First in partickular Duality of a Series of two Bipartites that Relate a Comparison of wonderful Voyages to vars. distant Worlds, the Spiritual (which in This Case it should derive more from the Gnosis than the Protestant) constitution, and its far Influence (though it may be Suggested that the Financial Shareholders of the Publisher were not altogether Pleased). Timestamps: introduction, biography of David Lindsay, background on "A Voyage to Arcturus" (1920) (0:00) David Lindsay - "A Voyage To Arcturus" (1920) - plot summary (14:48) David Lindsay - "A Voyage To Arcturus" (1920) - general discussion (1:43:13) Bibliography: Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic. "Celebrating the Centenary of 'A Voyage to Arcturus'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HpKWSLuBM Hume, Kathryn "Visionary Allegory in David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus", The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 77, No. 1, Jan., 1978 Rabkin, Eric S. "Conflation of Genres and Myths in David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus", The Journal of Narrative Technique, Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring, 1977 Wolfe, Gary K. "David Lindsay", 1982
This post is full of gifts mom wants for Mother’s Day, but doesn’t even know she does! Did you know 40% of moms fake reactions to gifts they don’t like? Makes me wonder about all those poems I wrote when I was younger. She never used, “Interesting.” That’s code for, not my taste, but whatever you like. LOL! It’s no joke, mom doesn’t even know what she wants. This is a lot closer to the truth than not! In an appointment yesterday the aesthetician said, “I don’t even know what to do when I don’t have my kids or my boyfriend is doing something else.” Truth. Women often crave time for themselves but don’t know what to do when they have it. Gifts Mom Wants So when you ask her, she may not have an answer. While massages and facials are always a win, or a gift card for sushi (thanks, Dustin), these are also some of my favorites that she often won’t get for herself. She won’t necessarily splurge on the good stuff. You can spoil her. My Favorite Matcha Piquetea Give her (or yourself) something that is not only good for your health, burning fat, and immunity but feels like a treat. Listen, every day all year I promote matcha for health. But not any matcha, Piquetea, matcha. Let me explain the why behind matcha first. Consumed before workouts it boosts fat burning after interval training by 29%. No workout? Still a good idea as it boosts your resting metabolism by 24%. It offers the “alert” support of caffeine without the jitters and cortisol-tipping negative effects no midlife woman needs (thanks to L-theonine). It’s powerful antioxidant support (hello, radiant skin – that she may be missing in midlife) Why I'm Picky Why Piquetea specifically? Well, like happens with anything that product developers determine has become popular and has staying power, there’s a lot of competition out there. Unfortunately, it’s not screened and tested, definitely not quadruple-screened. So, you potentially drink toxins, mold, and pesticides with that daily habit you think is healthy. If you’re like me and you have two mugs daily, that’s just a hormone disruptor waiting to happen. And I know, when you choose the best you pay more. I do. But you’re either deciding to knowingly have something toxic or to use a safe (and in my opinion better tasting and performing) product. Until Mother’s Day 2021 (or until supplies last) for every $100 you spend you’ll get 5% off, free shipping, and a special 53-page “Bouquet of Teas” recipe book and card ($25 value) + Pique will donate $5 to “Every Mother Counts” with my LINK. Don’t forget to use my code at checkout! Of course, their other teas are great too. I sent my mom an assortment of herbal teas (she needs better hydration, and the woman does not need more caffeine)! She loved them. Yours will too. Even I, non-herbal tea drinker, enjoyed them. Gifts Mom Wants: RelaxUltima Seriously, ladies, this is for you. Get it, don’t wait. If you have real issues buying it for yourself, buy it for your husband for Father’s Day and use it yourself. Women tend to store their tension in their upper back and neck. There are so many causes of tension there: Purses Pregnancy weight shifts Carrying babies Carrying backpacks Keyboards Cold Breasts Poor posture Contemporary life Sure, not all of those are unique to women, but women also tend to have less strength in a certain muscle group called rhomboids. If they’re weak and not doing their job, the upper trapezius over fires when it shouldn’t. That sets off a cascade of things that can result in chronic tension, upper back pain or discomfort, and headaches. This tool is a-mazing. It’s light weight. It’s reasonably priced for a tens unit feature and it’s non-obtrusive: meaning for me at least I put it on while I’m at the keyboard in the morning and it helps me prevent the tension during the day. Using again later for another 15 minutes reduces built up tension from that same posture. Right now, for a very short time, I scored 15% off for you with my code: Flipping15 That’s only good through May 8, so you’ll be able to get the RelaxUltima any time (and it’s worth it) but the code is short term. https://www.flippingfifty.com/Relax USE: Flipping15 For 15% off your purchase May 1-8 You can watch this video to see how light and how easy to use! Their delivery is fast (I got mine in 2 days!) but to make sure she (or you) get it, order soon. What I’d do if it hasn’t arrived is take a screen shot and wrap it up! Moms carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. Whether you’re the black sheep or the favorite (or both… and that’s for my brother, you know who you are), give her the gift she’ll love! 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You know we’ve gotten into the big league when we get questions from Huntington’s own legend Tim Irr, who has famously been gifted so many handkerchiefs he’s running out of places to keep them.Suggested talking points: Big Fruit, Billy Murray money, BLT Lobbyists, Gut Chunnel, Crank GreenConsider becoming a supporter of our show: www.maximumfun.org/join/Support AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hateFor resources on anti-racism and fighting police violence: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/SFX in this episode: "Music Elevator" by Jay_You: https://soundcloud.com/stonefree
We begin another multi-part episode this week, reading The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonald, and get to relive experiencing the moon for the first time in extraordinary detail.Suggested talking points: Folklore Island, Wolf-Shaped Cranium, Real Embassy Wives of Country, Haunted with Smiles, Deepfake Fairytales, The Majesty of StairsIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.
We thought it was high time to invite someone who’s actually smart to help us give advice; luckily Jean Grae agreed to be the newest McElroy brother. Jean is so smart that she had the foresight in high school to realize that the SATs are an outdated measurement built on a societal structure that values expedience, instead of like, a test that lets you drink wine and cry.Suggested talking points: Poison Factory, Complimentary Tony, Racist Vestibule, Anti-Hero Noid, Just Go With It, Life Hack RequestsSupport AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate Support the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/
Math circles defy simple narratives. The model was introduced a century ago, and is taking off in the present day thanks in part to its congruence with cutting-edge research in mathematics education. It is a modern approach to teaching—or facilitation—that resonates and finds mutual reinforcement with traditional practices and cultural preservation efforts. A wide range of math circle resources have become available for interested instructors, including the MSRI Math Circles Library, now in its 14th year of publication by the AMS. I was excited to talk with three editors and contributors to a recent volume in the series, Inspiring Mathematics: Lessons from the Navajo Nation Math Circles (American Mathematical, 2019). Drs. Dave Auckly, Amanda Serenevy, and Henry Fowler have been instrumental to the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project, along with co-editors Tatiana Shubin and Bob Klein and a broader contact and support network. Their book showcases scripts developed and facilitated in Navajo Nation, including an introduction to modular arithmetic through bean bag tossing, prefix sorting in the guise of pancake flipping, and a tactile use of limiting behavior to folding a necktie. We discussed the origin and expansion of math circles, their potential to indigenous mathematics educators and students, and the content of and stories behind a selection of the scripts. Dr. Fowler's foreword and the editors' introduction situate the math circles movement and the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project in history, geography, and culture. Each script begins with a (minimal!) list of the necessary materials and a student handout that invites explorations with them. A short survey of connections to deeper mathematics precedes each handout, and each is followed by an extensive teacher's guide with (illustrative) solutions and presentation suggestions. The scripts vary in complexity and are suitable for student- and teacher-focused math circles. I hope the text becomes widely adopted for science-based and culturally conscious mathematics education and helps introduce others like myself to the greater math circles project. Suggested companion works: -James Tanton -The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival -Gordon Hamilton and Lora Saarnio, MathPickle -Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free -Rachel and Rodi Steinig, Math Renaissance Dave Auckly is a research mathematician at Kansas State University and Co-founder and Director of the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project. Amanda Serenevy is Co-founder and Director of the Riverbend Community Math Center. Henry Fowler is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Navajo Technical University and Co-director of the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project. Cory Brunson is a Research Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. 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
Math circles defy simple narratives. The model was introduced a century ago, and is taking off in the present day thanks in part to its congruence with cutting-edge research in mathematics education. It is a modern approach to teaching—or facilitation—that resonates and finds mutual reinforcement with traditional practices and cultural preservation efforts. A wide range of math circle resources have become available for interested instructors, including the MSRI Math Circles Library, now in its 14th year of publication by the AMS. I was excited to talk with three editors and contributors to a recent volume in the series, Inspiring Mathematics: Lessons from the Navajo Nation Math Circles (American Mathematical, 2019). Drs. Dave Auckly, Amanda Serenevy, and Henry Fowler have been instrumental to the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project, along with co-editors Tatiana Shubin and Bob Klein and a broader contact and support network. Their book showcases scripts developed and facilitated in Navajo Nation, including an introduction to modular arithmetic through bean bag tossing, prefix sorting in the guise of pancake flipping, and a tactile use of limiting behavior to folding a necktie. We discussed the origin and expansion of math circles, their potential to indigenous mathematics educators and students, and the content of and stories behind a selection of the scripts. Dr. Fowler's foreword and the editors' introduction situate the math circles movement and the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project in history, geography, and culture. Each script begins with a (minimal!) list of the necessary materials and a student handout that invites explorations with them. A short survey of connections to deeper mathematics precedes each handout, and each is followed by an extensive teacher's guide with (illustrative) solutions and presentation suggestions. The scripts vary in complexity and are suitable for student- and teacher-focused math circles. I hope the text becomes widely adopted for science-based and culturally conscious mathematics education and helps introduce others like myself to the greater math circles project. Suggested companion works: -James Tanton -The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival -Gordon Hamilton and Lora Saarnio, MathPickle -Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free -Rachel and Rodi Steinig, Math Renaissance Dave Auckly is a research mathematician at Kansas State University and Co-founder and Director of the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project. Amanda Serenevy is Co-founder and Director of the Riverbend Community Math Center. Henry Fowler is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Navajo Technical University and Co-director of the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project. Cory Brunson is a Research Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/native-american-studies
Math circles defy simple narratives. The model was introduced a century ago, and is taking off in the present day thanks in part to its congruence with cutting-edge research in mathematics education. It is a modern approach to teaching—or facilitation—that resonates and finds mutual reinforcement with traditional practices and cultural preservation efforts. A wide range of math circle resources have become available for interested instructors, including the MSRI Math Circles Library, now in its 14th year of publication by the AMS. I was excited to talk with three editors and contributors to a recent volume in the series, Inspiring Mathematics: Lessons from the Navajo Nation Math Circles (American Mathematical, 2019). Drs. Dave Auckly, Amanda Serenevy, and Henry Fowler have been instrumental to the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project, along with co-editors Tatiana Shubin and Bob Klein and a broader contact and support network. Their book showcases scripts developed and facilitated in Navajo Nation, including an introduction to modular arithmetic through bean bag tossing, prefix sorting in the guise of pancake flipping, and a tactile use of limiting behavior to folding a necktie. We discussed the origin and expansion of math circles, their potential to indigenous mathematics educators and students, and the content of and stories behind a selection of the scripts. Dr. Fowler's foreword and the editors' introduction situate the math circles movement and the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project in history, geography, and culture. Each script begins with a (minimal!) list of the necessary materials and a student handout that invites explorations with them. A short survey of connections to deeper mathematics precedes each handout, and each is followed by an extensive teacher's guide with (illustrative) solutions and presentation suggestions. The scripts vary in complexity and are suitable for student- and teacher-focused math circles. I hope the text becomes widely adopted for science-based and culturally conscious mathematics education and helps introduce others like myself to the greater math circles project. Suggested companion works: -James Tanton -The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival -Gordon Hamilton and Lora Saarnio, MathPickle -Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free -Rachel and Rodi Steinig, Math Renaissance Dave Auckly is a research mathematician at Kansas State University and Co-founder and Director of the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project. Amanda Serenevy is Co-founder and Director of the Riverbend Community Math Center. Henry Fowler is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Navajo Technical University and Co-director of the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project. Cory Brunson is a Research Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education
Math circles defy simple narratives. The model was introduced a century ago, and is taking off in the present day thanks in part to its congruence with cutting-edge research in mathematics education. It is a modern approach to teaching—or facilitation—that resonates and finds mutual reinforcement with traditional practices and cultural preservation efforts. A wide range of math circle resources have become available for interested instructors, including the MSRI Math Circles Library, now in its 14th year of publication by the AMS. I was excited to talk with three editors and contributors to a recent volume in the series, Inspiring Mathematics: Lessons from the Navajo Nation Math Circles (American Mathematical, 2019). Drs. Dave Auckly, Amanda Serenevy, and Henry Fowler have been instrumental to the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project, along with co-editors Tatiana Shubin and Bob Klein and a broader contact and support network. Their book showcases scripts developed and facilitated in Navajo Nation, including an introduction to modular arithmetic through bean bag tossing, prefix sorting in the guise of pancake flipping, and a tactile use of limiting behavior to folding a necktie. We discussed the origin and expansion of math circles, their potential to indigenous mathematics educators and students, and the content of and stories behind a selection of the scripts. Dr. Fowler's foreword and the editors' introduction situate the math circles movement and the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project in history, geography, and culture. Each script begins with a (minimal!) list of the necessary materials and a student handout that invites explorations with them. A short survey of connections to deeper mathematics precedes each handout, and each is followed by an extensive teacher's guide with (illustrative) solutions and presentation suggestions. The scripts vary in complexity and are suitable for student- and teacher-focused math circles. I hope the text becomes widely adopted for science-based and culturally conscious mathematics education and helps introduce others like myself to the greater math circles project. Suggested companion works: -James Tanton -The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival -Gordon Hamilton and Lora Saarnio, MathPickle -Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free -Rachel and Rodi Steinig, Math Renaissance Dave Auckly is a research mathematician at Kansas State University and Co-founder and Director of the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project. Amanda Serenevy is Co-founder and Director of the Riverbend Community Math Center. Henry Fowler is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Navajo Technical University and Co-director of the Navajo Nation Math Circles Project. Cory Brunson is a Research Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/mathematics
Time for some Favorites - this week it's Punk, Rockabilly, Garage and Ska!Here's the Playlist:Sunny Afternoon The Kinks Face To FaceGarageland The Clash The Clash Suggested by BoydDon't Push Me... Real Punk Radio podcast Network brings you the best in Punk, Rock, Underground Music around! From Classic Oi!, Psychobilly and Hardcore to some Classic Rock n Roll and 90's indie Alt Rock greatness!! With Tons of Live DJ's that like to Talk Music From Garage Rock, to Ska.. We are True MUSIC GEEKS!
Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training pytest book Patreon Supporters Special guests: Peter Kazarinoff Brian #1: calmcode.io by Vincent D. Warmerdam Suggested by Rens Dimmendaal Great short intro tutorials & videos. Not deep dives, but not too shallow either. Suggestions: pytest rich datasette I watched the whole series on datasette this morning and learned how to turn a csv data file into a sqlite database use datasette to open a server to explore the data filter the data visualize the data with datasette-vega plugin and charting options learn how I can run random SQL, but it’s safe because it’s read only use it as an API that serves either CSV or json deploy it to a cloud provider by wrapping it in a docker container and deploying that add user authentication to protect the service explore tons of available data sets that have been turned into live services with datasette Michael #2: Natural sort (aka natsort) via Brian Skinn Simple yet flexible natural sorting in Python. Python sort algorithm sorts lexicographically >>> a = ['2 ft 7 in', '1 ft 5 in', '10 ft 2 in', '2 ft 11 in', '7 ft 6 in'] >>> sorted(a) ['1 ft 5 in', '10 ft 2 in', '2 ft 11 in', '2 ft 7 in', '7 ft 6 in'] natsort provides a function natsorted that helps sort lists "naturally” >>> natsorted(a) ['1 ft 5 in', '2 ft 7 in', '2 ft 11 in', '7 ft 6 in', '10 ft 2 in'] Other things that can be sorted: versions file paths (via os_sorted) signed floats (via realsorted) Can go faster using fastnumbers Peter #3: Python controlling a helicopter on Mars. First Flight of the Mars Drone/Helicopter was April 19: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Overview. The Drone/Helicopter is called Ingenuity. The helicopter rode to Mars attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover. Community powers NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter: DEVELOPERS AROUND THE WORLD CONTRIBUTE TO HISTORIC FLIGHT: https://github.com/readme/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter The Drone/Helicopter flight control software is called F’ (pronounced f-prime, sounds like Python f’strings :). You can clone and install the flight control software from GitHub. Make sure you have Python and pip installed. https://github.com/nasa/fprime Brian #4: Pydantic, FastAPI, Typer will all run on 3.10, 3.11, and into the future suggested by an Angry Dwarf It’s a bit of an emotional roller coaster this last week even for those of us on the sidelines watching. I’m sure it was even more so for those involved. Short version: Pydantic, FastAPI, Typer, etc will continue to run as is in 3.10 Minor changes might be necessary in 3.11, but most likely all of us bystanders and users of these packages won’t even see the change, or we will be given specific instructions on what we need to change well ahead of time. If things change in 3.11, your code might still work fine, and you can test that today if you are worried about it. All project leads are involved and talking with the Steering Council. The Steering Council has all of our interests and Pythons in mind and wants to make improvements to Python in a sane way. So don’t freak out. Smart and kind people are involved and know what they are doing. Slightly more detail that I don’t really want to read, and summarized to my perspective: Something about an existing PEP 563, titled Postponed Evaluation of Annotations It was part of 3.7 and it included: “In Python 3.10, function and variable annotations will no longer be evaluated at definition time. Instead, …” This would have implications on Pydantic and projects using it and similar methods, like FastAPI, Typer, … Panic ensues, people wringing their hands, bystanders confused. BTW, the Python steering council knows what they are doing and is aware of all of this already. But lots of people jumped on the bandwagon anyway and freaked out. Even I was thinking “Ugh. I use Typer and FastAPI, can I still use them in 3.10?” Luckily, Sebastian Ramirez posted: I've seen some incorrect conclusions that FastAPI and pydantic "can't be used with Python 3.10". Let's clear that up. In the worst-case scenario (which hasn't been decided), some corner cases would not work and require small refactors. And also if you are worried about the future and your own use as is, you can use from __future__ import annotations to try the new system out. Also thanks Sebastian Then there is this message by Thomas Wouters about PEP 563 and 3.10 “The Steering Council has considered the issue carefully, along with many of the proposed alternatives and solutions, and we’ve decided that at this point, we simply can’t risk the compatibility breakage of PEP 563. We need to roll back the change that made stringified annotations the default, at least for 3.10. (Pablo is already working on this.) “To be clear, we are not reverting PEP 563 itself. The future import will keep working like it did since Python 3.7. We’re delaying making PEP 563 string-based annotations the default until Python 3.11. This will give us time to find a solution that works for everyone (or to find a feasible upgrade path for users who currently rely on evaluated annotations). Some considerations that led us to this decision: …” Michael #5: Extra, Extra, Extra, Extra hear all about it No social trackers on Python Bytes or Talk Python. Python packages on Mars More Mars NordVPN and “going dark” Nobody wants anything to do with Google's new tracking mechanism FLoC (Android Police, Ars Technica). From EFF: Google’s pitch to privacy advocates is that a world with FLoC will be better than the world we have today, where data brokers and ad-tech giants track and profile with impunity. But that framing is based on a false premise that we have to choose between “old tracking” and “new tracking.” It’s not either-or. Instead of re-inventing the tracking wheel, we should imagine a better world without the myriad problems of targeted ads. Peter #6: Build Python books with Jupyter-Book There are many static site generators for Python: Sphinx, Pelican, MkDocs… Jupyter-Book is a static site generator that makes online books from Jupyter notebooks and markdown files. See the Jupyter-book docs. Books can be published on GitHub pages and there is a GitHub action to automatically re-publish your book with each git push. A gallery of Jupyter-books includes: Geographic Data Science with Python, Quantitative Economics with Python, the UW Data Visualization Curriculum, and a book on Algorithms for Automated Driving. All the books are free an online. Extras Brian 2021 South African Pycon, PyConZA - https://za.pycon.org/. The conference will be on 7 and 8 October entirely online deadpendency update . Within a day of us talking about deadpendency last week, the project maintainer added support for pyproject.toml. So projects using poetry, flit should work now. I imagine setuptools with pyproject.toml should also work. Peter Peter’s Book: Problem Solving with Python (dead trees) or free online Joke More code comments // Dear future me. Please forgive me. // I can't even begin to express how sorry I am. try { ... } catch (SQLException ex) { // Basically, without saying too much, you're screwed. Royally and totally. } catch(Exception ex){ //If you thought you were screwed before, boy have I news for you!!! } // This is crap code but it's 3 a.m. and I need to get this working. One more: From TwoHardThings by Martin Fowler: Original saying: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton Then there’s This tweet.
Introducing the new sweet baby brother, Ron Funches! With this huge upgrade in talent we can finally tackle the BIG subjects like Chopped 420, mysterious chewy candy, celebrity hot dog eating competitions, and cat food for people.Suggested talking points: Trail Mix Jug, Hat Floozy, Ten-One, Anti-Kyle, Cat Clooney, 12 Cats But One PersonSupport AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate Support the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/
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Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training pytest book Patreon Supporters Special guests: Gwendolyn Faraday Gwendolyn’s YouTube Brian #1: Coverage.py (5.6b1) and third-party code Problems If you put your virtual environment in the same directory as your code, and try to run coverage, it’s tricky to get coverage to not attempt to cover everything in your venv also. Or even just running coverage run -m pytest with no --source specified, it just kinda reports on everything, even stuff in site-packages, not just your code. Solution pip install coverage==5.6b1 As of 5.6b1, coverage knows where third party code is and doesn’t measure it. Super awesome Also, it’s still beta. Net wants help testing it out and making sure it works right. I’m curious if it still works right with pytest plugins and such, so I’ll be testing a bunch of stuff to make sure it still makes sense. Michael #2: So you want your own PaaS? Piku! via Ian Mauer The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers. Allows you do git push deployments to your own servers. Motivation: I kept finding myself wanting an Heroku/CloudFoundry-like way to deploy stuff on a few remote ARM boards and my Raspberry Pi cluster Core values Runs on low end devices. Accessible to hobbyists and K-12 schools. ~1,000 lines readable code. Functional code style. Few (single?) dependencies 12 factor app. Simplify user experience. Cover 80% of common use cases. Sensible defaults. Leverage distro packages in Raspbian/Debian/Ubuntu (Alpine and RHEL support is WIP) Leverage standard tooling (git, ssh, uwsgi, nginx). Preserve backwards compatibility where possible Gwen #3: Web3.py Web3.py - Library for building Dapps in Python with Ethereum Need to connect to a blockchain service (e.g. BlockCypher) or run your own locally Can create contracts and interact with them or get general blockchain information in Python Vyper is a pythonic language for the blockchain that can be used for smart contracts Brian #4: Deadpendency Suggested by Johannes Lippmann In episode 277 we talked about the Snyk (Python) Package Advisor which tells us how healthy a python package is. Deadpendency is a similar thing, but tells you about the health of the packages you depend on. It’s a GitHub app that runs on PRs and commits. Let’s say someone has a PR that adds a dependency. The PR checks will include a health check of the new dependency. What’s more, on each commit or PR, all of your dependencies will be checked. Checks for: no recent releases (warn at 18 months, fail at 24 months) no recent commits (warn at 12 months, fail at 18 months) few yearly commits (warn at 2) archived repository (fail) repository is a fork (warn) package deprecated (fail) single recent author (warn) Everything is configurable Temporary problems: only supports requirements.txt and Pipfile, for Python Kinda need it to support pyproject.toml, maybe setup.py I’d like to be able to just run this on a project without having to have a commit or push trigger it, to try it out. I’ve got some CI tools that allow that. Maybe it’s common for them to not. not sure. Also be neat if: it did the snyk checks for at least security and maintenance on the dependency. Not just release and commit frequency. Bottom line: Neat idea. Waiting for support for pyproject.toml Michael #5: All The Important Features and Changes in Python 3.10 Python 3.10 beta is coming soon. What will be in it? or install here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3100a6/ Under Installing Alpha/Beta Version it has the steps to build from source. I strongly recommend replacing make install with make altinstall. Lots of comments and examples of pattern matching (aka switch). Type Checking Improvements - # Function that accepts either `int` or `float` # Old: def func(value: Union[int, float]) -> Union[int, float]: return value # New: def func(value: int | float) -> int | float: return value Type Aliases Syntax Change: FileName = str → FileName: TypeAlias = str distutils Are Being Deprecated (deprecated in 3.10 and will be removed in 3.12). This package has been replaced by setuptools and packaging for a while now. Parenthesized context managers to span multiple lines with ( open("somefile.txt") as some_file, open("otherfile.txt") as other_file, ): ... Gwen #6: freeCodeCamp’s Python Curriculum Thousands of hours of Curriculum Python basics Data Science Machine Learning Algorithms Projects Certifications YouTube supplementary material with 100s of hours of Python Quincy Larsen and the team worked on this for years and launched last year. New Data Science and ML curriculum coming soon… Extras Michael Microsoft unveils its own Java distribution: Microsoft Build of OpenJDK could set up the vendor to compete with Oracle in the Java distribution space, for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. PyCharm 2021.1 Beanie ODM now has migrations! Gwen Mem.dev: For developers to use spaced-repetition learning to learn concepts and syntax. Graphene Django: Testing it out to replace DRF for future development projects.
We’ve heard the news that Yahoo answers will soon be no more, and Griffin has returned from paternity leave to workshop things to fill the void. Things like mandatory joking at the office, forklift operator vigilantes, and cake-on-a-stick dessert. It’s a work in progress.Suggested talking points:Rad Face Tats, To Kill a Mocking Turd, Vent Coworker, Margin for Cowboy Murder, The Key to EducationSupport AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate Support the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/
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With Griffin away on paternity leave, Travis and Justin saw the perfect opportunity to share one of their old projects that never saw the light of day . . . until now. Enjoy the raw audio of their abandoned TV pilot for a show where all your woodworking questions are answered.Suggested talking points: Miracle Steps, Grain is the Muscle, Saw Safety, Which Wood Would You Work With if You Could Woodwork WoodSupport AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate Support the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/Music in this episode is "Vivacity" by Kevin MacLeod. https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4593-vivacity
On WTFolklore this week, we read The Battle of the Birds, a title that promises us juicy lore, and instead delivers a mishmash of plot points we're all too familiar with already.Suggested talking points: A Singular Dook, Married to Science, The Whole "Bone Ladder" Business, Ears of Holding, The Key to the MoonIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.
We’re here to answer all your most pressing questions about Krispy Kreme’s clever secret coffee ingredient and sexy typefaces. We also get into the wet: dolphins, and the dry: accidental arson.Suggested talking points: Stucco Rules, Suck it Drywall, Spokesman Shaq, Fire Stop Weekly, Ed Sheeran Ketchup, Pumpkin Mistake Surcharge.Support AAPI communities and those affected by anti-Asian violence: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hateSupport the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://aapifund.org/
This week on WTFolklore, we read "The Raspberry Worm", and encounter a whole new breed of fruit authority. We do get bored and start talking about chicken sandwiches, but you really should've seen that coming by now.Suggested talking points: an NFT on Hopes and Dreams, Worm Census of Finland, Kid Cocaine, The Lesserberries, Richard HorrifyingIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.
On this episode of What the Folklore, after the traditional Kingdom Hearts Cold Open, we read King Bean, a story of dubious Italian royalty, but that is mostly meant to scare witches.Suggested talking points: Southern-Fried Backhanded Niceness, Noble Bean, The Fetish Checklist, Ableist Witch Bookclub, Expressing Hatitude If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.
Because of storms and power outages we weren’t able to record last week, so it’s time to once again turn to the past for a Best Of episode. If you’re in the market for a crash course in Farm Wisdom, your time has come.Suggested talking points: Farm Wisdom, Sheryl Psy, Dad’s All That, Small Mysteries, Jawbreaker, Racehorse Witchcraft, Kissing Experiments, Stealing Sunsets, Plosives, Horse Emotions, Toilet Paper Wallet , High School 2, Larry's Fiesta Party on the House, Swords MythsWays to support Black Lives Matter and find anti-racism resources: https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter
Oh my god what a week. But we're here to sooth your spirits by finding out what national pizza chains have been tweeting about, and also to figure out for ourselves what mood we're going for.Suggested talking points: Ted Cruz Christmas Carol, Viking Slumber, Cactus Bread, Rent-A-Child.To call your representatives and get stuff done: 5calls.orgWays to support Black Lives Matter and find anti-racism resources: https://linktr.ee/blacklivesmatter