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In today's episode, Jeff and Susan get to talk about science and religion with Bill Jones, who is a professor of physics at Princeton University. Bill earned his PhD at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and was a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena before coming to work at Princeton in 2008. The focus of his research is cosmology, meaning that he attempts to understand the contents and evolution of the Universe. Enjoy the episode!

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Selon une étude fascinante menée par Jieyu Zheng et Markus Meister du California Institute of Technology (Caltech) et publiée dans la revue Neuron, il semblerait que la pensée humaine ait une "vitesse", bien que ce concept soit complexe et varie selon le contexte. Les chercheurs ont exploré les processus cognitifs à travers une combinaison de mesures physiologiques et de modélisations mathématiques, offrant des éclairages nouveaux sur le fonctionnement du cerveau. Une question de délais neuronaux La vitesse de la pensée humaine dépend en grande partie de la manière dont les neurones communiquent entre eux. Ces échanges, appelés signaux synaptiques, se déroulent en quelques millisecondes. Zheng et Meister ont montré que les circuits neuronaux s'organisent de manière à maximiser l'efficacité du traitement des informations. Selon leurs conclusions, il faut en moyenne 200 à 300 millisecondes pour qu'un stimulus externe, tel qu'un son ou une image, soit reconnu et traité par le cerveau. Un mécanisme adaptatif Les chercheurs ont également mis en évidence la plasticité de cette "vitesse". Par exemple, dans des situations nécessitant une réaction rapide, comme un danger imminent, certaines régions du cerveau, notamment l'amygdale, peuvent traiter les informations en un temps record, parfois inférieur à 150 millisecondes. En revanche, les tâches complexes impliquant des processus cognitifs plus élevés, comme la résolution de problèmes ou la prise de décision, peuvent prendre plusieurs secondes, voire davantage, en raison de la nécessité de coordonner de multiples zones cérébrales. La limite de la vitesse Une découverte clé de l'étude est la contrainte imposée par la biologie des neurones. Les axones, qui transmettent les signaux électriques, ont une vitesse limitée en fonction de leur diamètre et de leur gaine de myéline. Cette vitesse peut aller de 1 à 120 mètres par seconde, selon le type de neurone. Cela détermine indirectement la rapidité avec laquelle une pensée ou une réaction peut se produire. Applications et implications Ces travaux permettent de mieux comprendre les bases de la cognition humaine, mais ils ont aussi des applications pratiques. Par exemple, en neurosciences cliniques, ces découvertes pourraient guider des traitements pour des troubles impliquant des délais de traitement anormaux, comme l'autisme ou la schizophrénie. En conclusion, si la pensée humaine n'a pas une "vitesse" unique, cette étude met en lumière les mécanismes complexes et adaptatifs qui sous-tendent notre capacité à traiter les informations et à réagir au monde. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Send us a textIn this episode we continue our conversation with Arianne Hunter, a Senior Scientist at Abbvie, on how her journey led her to a love of organic chemistry and a career in industry. Growing up Arianne, describes herself as a really nerdy kid, who adored PBS kids, and enjoyed exploring the world through her toy microscope. As she grew up and learned more about different career opportunities, her interests bounced from orthodontia to food chemistry. Once she attended Dartmouth College, Arianne was presented head on with the rigor of organic chemistry and gladly accepted the challenge of the course as a chemistry major. The experience opened her eyes and solidified her goal of becoming a chemist. Following her undergraduate studies she received a SMART Scholarship from the Department of Defense, which supported her graduate studies at University of Oklahoma, and allowed her to work as a civilian scientist in the forensics field. Things were going very well for Arianne, but she always had this vision in the back of her mind of going back to academia; this led her to complete the two post-doctoral fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and California Institute of Technology (CalTech). As she neared the end of her fellowships, Arianna found herself at a crossroads–should she continue on the route of becoming a professor in academia, or should she try something new and jump into industry. Of course, she chose the latter and initially felt torn by the decision because it was at odds with her passion of giving back to the community and supporting first-generation students and minority women in STEM. “I had to come to the conclusion that not every decision is a permanent decision,” Arianne explains. She now sees that with her role in industry as a female scientist she can still inspire and influence the next generation of women in science. To hear more about Arianne's career journey, check out the latest episode.      Tune into this episode to hear Arianne discuss:The winding road and experiences that led her to a career in chemistryWhat it means to “not be the hero”Influential mentors who guided her career choices, including mentors from her days as an athlete How she envisions her successful self, with a smileReach out to Arianne:LinkedIN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariannehunter/ Instragram - @dr.arihunterIf you enjoyed this episode, also listen to:Ep 46: Connecting the Dots between Theory, Physics, and Mathematics - The JourneyEp 27: From Post doc to Assistant Professor - The JourneyEp 16: Storm Chasing and Forensics - The Journey  Support the Show: WeLoveSciencePodcast.com Reach out to Fatu:www.linkedin.com/in/fatubmTwitter: @thee_fatu_band LoveSciencePodcast@gmail.com Reach out to Shekerah:www.linkedin.com/in/shekerah-primus and LoveSciencePodcast@gmail.com Music from Pixabay: Future Artificial Intelligence Technology 130 by TimMoorMusic from https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes: Hotshot by ScottHolmesMusic

Richard Feynman: Educating the Masses | Teaching Master! How to be a teacher everyone remembers? You teach like Richard Feynman! Richard Feynman was an American physicist, known for his work in the field of quantum mechanics and his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. Feynman was a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and received numerous awards for his work, including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. Feynman was known for his unique and unorthodox approach to physics, often using simple and intuitive explanations to understand complex phenomena. He was also known for his ability to convey complex scientific concepts in a clear and accessible way, both in his research and in his teaching. Feynman's work in quantum mechanics, particularly in the development of Feynman diagrams, is considered to be one of the most important contributions to the field. Feynman was also known for his curiosity and his love for science, which led him to explore a wide range of topics, from the nature of time to the behaviour of subatomic particles, and from the principles of quantum mechanics to the possibilities of nanotechnology. He was also a skilled and entertaining public speaker, and his lectures and books, such as "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" and "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" are still widely read and admired today.We award Richard Feynman with the best teacher prize of being a 'Master Teacher' for the inspiration and motivation he brought to educating. #RichardFeynman #Feynman Technique #Feynman In the ELT (Education* Learning*Teaching): Under The Covers - teaching masters series, we take a look at notable educators who have influenced us and education in general. We use clips from their materials or depictions of their materials in other media and we as education experts give our insights into what makes them masterful teachers. __________________________________________________________________________________ Video Chapters: Introduction: 0:00 Richard Feynman Introduction: 3:27 __________________________________________________________________________________ More from Richard Feynman: https://amzn.to/3ccTx40 __________________________________________________________________________________ Check out more: ✔ Teacher Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsBOoTKZz76OWuCuYZnCQRJfjWtrTrKC ✔ Explanation, Analysis & Example of Teaching Methods here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsBOoTKZz75i6auCa17LUt2k_JAOQLkr ✔ Break downs of teaching clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsBOoTKZz76j2wD3P4mhM0gv5axBtzE2 ✔ Influential teachers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsBOoTKZz763iqyfVUEV3qG4ktuVkepc __________________________________________________________________________________ Stay connected with us on other mediums: LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/in/elt-under-the-covers-b72928229/ Instagram ►https://www.instagram.com/eltunderthecovers/ Facebook ► https://m.facebook.com/ELTunderthecovers/ Spotify ► https://open.spotify.com/show/05KdfLjVuDyrDpytIX5yrS Amazon Music ► https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/69201c0b-5381-4b06-9168-afb957608494/english-language-teachers-elt-under-the-covers---interview-series Apple Podcasts ► https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/english-language-teachers-elt-under-the-covers-interview-series/id1599657312 Google Podcasts ► https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80MjdmN2M4MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== __________________________________________________________________________________ More from ProfesorRich: • https://www.youtube.com/user/ProfesorRich • ProfRichGaming = https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6I_bfShcpI3Af3a79vORDw More from NeilTEAcher: • www.teamteacherchina.com • TeamTeacherChina = https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY0VJKjaIamETXCm_alT_tg • TeamTeacherBaby = https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChdVmSne_UvHFdd7uA-SMAQ • TeamTeacherEnglish = https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_7K_Ml4XfdNdY9uQ9LPPqw *This video contains affiliate links. If you click on one of them, we'll receive a commission.*

In this episode we have a first for The Treasury Career Corner podcast as we are delighted to be joined by twin brothers Arturo Aguayo and Fidel Aguayo as they share their journey in the field of treasury and their experiences in higher education finance.Arturo Aguayo:Arturo is the Assistant Treasurer at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a renowned research and education institution where he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Treasury including debt administration, cash management, short-term investments, and merchant services/PCI compliance Prior to joining Caltech, he was a Director of Treasury for the University of Southern California (USC). During his tenure at USC, Arturo developed financing and operational strategies that supported cost containment and revenue generating initiatives for both the University and the Healthcare Enterprise. Before joining USC, Arturo worked as an Investment Banker and Consultant serving municipal clients throughout the State of California.Fidel Aguayo:Fidel is the Vice President of Treasury and Investment/University Treasurer at Loyola Marymount University, a prominent academic institution, where he oversees cash management, debt administration, and the University's endowment.Prior to joining Loyola Marymount University, Fidel served as City Treasurer for the City of Long Beach, California. As Treasurer, he managed all treasury functions. He also established city-wide financial policies and procedures and was responsible for the City's long-term capital financial plan which incorporated enterprise departments.Prior to joining the City, Fidel spent nearly ten years working for a top ten investment bank. During this time, he executed approximately $40 billion of debt for some of the largest agencies in the State of California including airports, seaports, school districts, utilities, and non-profit organizations.Both guests have 20+ years' experience in treasury and public finance and this episode explores the brothers' paths into treasury and their work in higher education finance. They discuss their early experiences in treasury, their passion for public finance, and their transition into higher education. They also touch on the challenges and changes in the treasury field, such as technology and economic conditions.What to expect:Insight into the treasury operations of academic institutions.Discussion on the challenges and changes in the treasury field.Advice on attracting talent and developing a career in treasury.Exploration of the role of treasury in higher education finance.Personal anecdotes and experiences from the twin brothers' treasury careers.You can connect with Arturo Aguayo on LinkedIn. You can connect with Fidel Aguayo on LinkedIn. Are you interested in pursuing a career within Treasury?Whether you've recently graduated, or you want to search for new job opportunities to help develop your treasury career, The Treasury Recruitment Company can help you in your search for the perfect job.

If you're out in space, you would be able to navigate the galaxy with one simple navigational tool we've been using for centuries - a compass. By definition, a compass is a device that responds to magnetic fields providing cardinal directions used for geographic orientation . Since the core of the earth is made of molten, and compasses are made of metal, we're easily able to identify north, south, east, and west because of Earth's natural magnetic field. But did you know Saturn, Jupiter, stars, and even our galaxy have their own magnetic fields? If you are traveling through space, a simple compass can point you to the closest magnetic field, helping a space traveler navigate the galaxy. ------------------------------------------------------------- About Michelle Thaller: Dr. Michelle Thaller is an astronomer who studies binary stars and the life cycles of stars. She is Assistant Director of Science Communication at NASA. She went to college at Harvard University, completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif. then started working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Spitzer Space Telescope. After a hugely successful mission, she moved on to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in the Washington D.C. area. In her off-hours often puts on about 30lbs of Elizabethan garb and performs intricate Renaissance dances. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2012 was supposed to be an apocalyptic year according to the Mayans. Although the world never came to an end, in 2012, something else happened that had astrophysicists worried - the earth barely avoided catastrophe as a massive sun storm erupted. Sun storms happen more often than we think, with protons and electrons traveling past the earth at a speed of one million miles per hour. If these particles and solar storms are responsible for the unliveable climate on Venus and Mars, why has Earth not been impacted yet? Earth is rarely impacted by the sun's solar storms because of the strong magnetic field that surrounds the planet, protecting us from solar wind. Although this magnetic field does a great job at protecting the earth and everyone on it, all around us experts are monitoring space weather, in the event of a big storm that could head our way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About Michelle Thaller: Dr. Michelle Thaller is an astronomer who studies binary stars and the life cycles of stars. She is Assistant Director of Science Communication at NASA. She went to college at Harvard University, completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif. then started working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Spitzer Space Telescope. After a hugely successful mission, she moved on to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in the Washington D.C. area. In her off-hours often puts on about 30lbs of Elizabethan garb and performs intricate Renaissance dances. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Big Bang explained in under 4 minutes with Michelle Thaller One of the biggest misconceptions in science is that the Big Bang came out of nothing - according to astrophysicist Michelle Thaller, this is not correct. 13.8 billion years ago right before the Big Bang, our universe existed within one tiny, compressed atom. But what we know now is that this one atom was not our entire universe. According to Thaller, there were trillions of atoms, all with their own universe inside. Today, we can only know of our observable universe, but there is far more out there than what meets the eye. --------------------------------------------------------- About Michelle Thaller: Dr. Michelle Thaller is an astronomer who studies binary stars and the life cycles of stars. She is Assistant Director of Science Communication at NASA. She went to college at Harvard University, completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif. then started working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Spitzer Space Telescope. After a hugely successful mission, she moved on to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in the Washington D.C. area. In her off-hours often puts on about 30lbs of Elizabethan garb and performs intricate Renaissance dances. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 26 June 2024: Space Show News: Chang'e 6 returns samples from the lunar far side. Remembering Ed Stone and Voyager - Part Two: The former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and for 50 years the Project Scientist for the Voyager spacecraft, passed away on 9 June 2024. (Insert courtesy Caltech) A great friend of The Space Show, Ed has been on the program no fewer than 30 times in the past 27 years. To listen to these past interviews and items featuring Ed Stone visit The Space Show website: http://space.southernfm.com.au/NamesList.html#s Sir Peter Beck and Rocket Lab: The announcement that Rocket Lab's founder and CEO, Peter Beck, has been awarded a knighthood in the King's Birthday Honours; and the Archimedes engine for the Neutron rocket has begun testing. (Inserts courtesy TV3, RocketLab) ACRUX 2: Marking the fifth anniversary of the launch of Melbourne University's ACRUX 1, James Condos and Marshall Poon (Co-leads, Attitude Determination and Control, Melbourne Space Program), describe attitude pointing using magnetic torquing and reaction wheels on the ACRUX 2 satellite being built at the University. (Recorded at Melbourne University) Starliner CST-100 Crew Flight Test: The crew of the ISS had spacesuit problems as the test pilot crew of the CST-100 Starliner trouble-shoot thruster and helium leak issues that plagued the spacecraft and delayed their return from space. (Inserts courtesy JSC)

In this episode, Lisa and Liz discuss:How your teen can showcase their character and curiosity to stand out to colleges and universities.How to evaluate your teen's comfort zone bandwidth. Steps for expanding your teen's comfort zone.Practical strategies for identifying problems that matter to your teen and turning them into a passion project.Key Takeaways: The two values colleges most seek in students are character and curiosity. These encompass traits such as resilience, personal growth, integrity, and responsibility.Colleges will tell your student what they're looking for on their website. It may not be as clear as a GPA or test score number, but the questions they ask on the application give you insight into what they're seeking. Learning from failure is a good thing in the eyes of college admissions officers. It demonstrates character growth and the pursuit of open-ended endeavors. When your teen embarks on an open-ended project, that can be the catalyst for your student's character growth.“My advice to students in trying to think about evidence of their character and curiosity is to really practice uncertainty.” – Liz KriderAbout Liz Krider: Known affectionately as “Dr. Liz,” she is founder of Passion Progress, a boutique consulting firm that helps high school and college students find purpose through projects. She is nationally recognized for her work on projects, which have become the “differentiator” for college admissions for high school students and for internship placements for undergraduates. She is the creator of the Impact Symposium, an in-person, live event where high school students present their community impact and research projects through TED-style talks. Dr. Liz has mentored hundreds of high school and college students over the past 20 years both inside and outside of the classroom. Her students have matriculated to the following universities:  Stanford, Yale, Cornell, Brown, Georgetown, Duke, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Johns Hopkins University, Rice, Tufts, University of Notre Dame, NYU, Purdue, and many other top 75 colleges. She holds a PhD in Chemistry from Caltech and has extensive experience in academic research for pre-college/college students, science policy, mentorship, and STEM education. Her career began in academic research and science policy at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where she distinguished herself as an asset to research institutions wanting to translate their value to elected officials, policymakers, and donors. Author of scientific publications, teacher, and community volunteer, Dr. Liz is the recipient of numerous awards for her scientific, teaching, and advocacy work.Get Lisa's Free on-demand video: How-to guide for your teen to choose the right major, college, & career...(without painting themselves into a corner, missing crucial deadlines, or risking choices you both regret). flourishcoachingco.com/videoConnect with Liz Krider:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-krider-ph-d Website: passionprojects.net Connect with Lisa:Website: https://www.flourishcoachingco.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flourishcoachingcoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/flourishcoachingco/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flourish-coaching-co

In this episode I have the pleasure of interviewing Dr Gil Carvalho about the nuisances of nutrition  as shared by the media and influencers on social media, Dr Carvalho breaks down what the science says about some of the most commonly asked health questions online. For more details , follow Dr Carvalho on You Tube where he shares easy to follow and comprehensive videos breaching the gap between what is shared online and science This episode is brought to you by Namawell, the Best cold press juicers on the planet with the revolutionary J2 being the most amazing Bulk juicing champion. To get your Nama juicer at a discount, use code CHANTAL10 for 10% off! www.namawell.com Also by Dr Morse's Healing herbs, which I am an affiliate of , please feel free to order from my link to support my Podcast https://drmorsesherbalhealthclub.com/liveleanhealth USE CODE GREENLIFE FOR 5% OFF (only valid for your first purchase) Want to add some extra nutrients to your smoothies?Check out Nuzest https://www.nuzest.co.uk/LIVELEANHEALTH Get 15% off with my code LIVELEANHEALTH Wunder Workshop DISCOUNT LIVELEANHEALTH (15% OFF FIRST PURCHASE) UK www.wunderworkshop.com/LIVELEANHEALTH EU www.wunderworkshop.eu/LIVELEANHEALTHCheck out our Farm in Northern Portugal www.ecodharmavillage.com Work with me! www.liveleanhealth.com About Dr Carvalho  Dr Gil Carvalho is a respected physician and research scientist with a profound depth of knowledge in nutrition and genetics. Educated as a medical doctor at the University of Lisbon and holding a PhD in Biology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Dr. Carvalho has made significant research contributions in fields spanning molecular biology, aging, and neuroscience. He's also the creator of Nutrition Made Simple, a platform aimed at distilling complex nutrition concepts for the public. Renowned for his expertise and his dedication to clear, factual science communication, Dr Carvalho brings an insightful, evidence-based perspective on the health impacts of canola oil, unswayed by any conflicts of interest or affiliations. Connect with Gil Carvalho, MD PhD:  YouTube:    / @nutritionmadesimple  https://www.truehealthinitiative.org/... Twitter/X:  / nutritionmades3   Facebook:  / drgilcarvalho   Research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...   

Dr. Carlos Portela is the Brit and Alex d'Arbeloff Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Carlos's research involves designing, making, and testing new types of materials that have unconventional properties. To do this, they rearrange the components of existing materials in three dimensions at the micro or nano scale to create new architected materials. The new materials may absorb a lot of energy upon impact, or be extremely lightweight, but also very stiff. When he's not working, Carlos likes to stay active by running, playing golf, and playing a variety of team sports. He also enjoys exploring new restaurants in Boston, particularly places that serve Asian-Spanish fusion food. He received his bachelor's degrees in aerospace engineering and physics from the University of Southern California, his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Carlos remained at Caltech to conduct postdoctoral research before joining the faculty at MIT. He was the recipient of an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, and he has also been named among MIT Tech Review's 35 Innovators Under 35. In this interview, he shares more about his life and research.

This Day in Legal History: Jack Ruby Convicted of Murder of Lee OswaldOn this day in legal history, March 14, 1964, marks a pivotal moment when nightclub owner Jack Ruby was convicted for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy. The event unfolded in Dallas, Texas, where Ruby, in a shocking act caught on live television, fatally shot Oswald just two days after Kennedy's assassination. This act catapulted Ruby from obscurity to infamy, intertwining his fate with one of the most significant and tragic events in American history.Ruby's conviction led to a death sentence, a verdict that ignited a storm of controversy and conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. However, the legal saga did not conclude with this conviction. In October 1966, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Ruby's conviction, citing errors in the admission of testimony and the selection of Dallas as the venue for the trial. The court's decision for a retrial aimed to address these procedural missteps, yet Ruby would never face his second day in court; he died in January 1967 from a pulmonary embolism while awaiting the new trial.This case also shone a spotlight on the workings of the American legal system and its challenges in high-profile cases. Notably, Ruby's 1964 testimony before the Warren Commission, which investigated President Kennedy's assassination, added layers to the public's understanding of the events leading to Kennedy's death. Arlen Specter, then Assistant Counsel for the Commission and later a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, played a significant role in questioning Ruby. Specter's involvement in the commission and his subsequent political career kept the Ruby case and the broader Kennedy assassination narrative in the public discourse for decades.Jack Ruby's conviction and the ensuing legal battles highlight the complexities of justice and the enduring quest for truth in the aftermath of national tragedy. The events of March 14, 1964, remain a critical chapter in the legal and historical examination of the Kennedy assassination, reflecting on the broader themes of law, politics, and society in America.Donald Trump's legal team is poised to request a federal judge in Fort Pierce, Florida, to dismiss a case accusing the former president of unlawfully retaining classified documents after his presidency. Scheduled for Thursday, this hearing is part of Trump's broader strategy to confront four criminal cases amidst his campaign against Joe Biden for the upcoming U.S. election. Trump, pleading not guilty, faces a 40-count indictment for keeping sensitive national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and obstructing efforts to reclaim them. His defense is expected to argue that he had the right to classify these documents as "personal," challenging the prosecution's stance that materials concerning nuclear capabilities and national defense cannot be deemed personal.Prosecutors, led by U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith, contest Trump's claim, emphasizing the illegality of his actions. The defense also plans to criticize the vagueness of the charges, especially regarding the illegal retention of national defense information, as it pertains to a former president. Additionally, Trump's team will present arguments on presidential immunity and the alleged selective prosecution compared to other officials who have retained classified records.Significant attention will focus on Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, and her response to these arguments, especially given her previous rulings in Trump's favor and subsequent criticism from a federal appeals court. The trial's timing is in flux, with discussions on postponing the scheduled May start, while Trump proposes a delay until after the November election, hinting at the potential to dismiss federal cases if re-elected.The outcome of this hearing could have substantial implications for Trump's legal battles, including other cases regarding election interference and the New York state charges involving payments to Stormy Daniels, further complicating his political and legal landscape.Trump to tell judge that keeping classified records was legal | ReutersDraftWise, a legal technology startup specializing in AI-powered contract tools for lawyers, announced a significant milestone in securing a $20 million Series A funding round led by Index Ventures. This latest financial infusion, with contributions from existing investors Y Combinator and Earlybird Digital East Ventures, underscores the burgeoning investor interest in AI applications within the legal sector. The New York-based company, founded by ex-Palantir engineers and a former Clifford Chance lawyer, has carved a niche in the legal tech market by enhancing contract drafting and negotiation processes with AI.Since its inception in the summer of 2020 as part of the Y Combinator startup incubator, DraftWise has distinguished itself by leveraging law firms' historical data and unique insights to refine contract customization. The company emphasizes a data-first approach over solely focusing on AI, which has allowed them to incorporate generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to further aid lawyers in their work. This strategy has enabled DraftWise to cater to notable law firm clients, including Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Mishcon de Reya, among others, reflecting its growing influence in the legal tech space.The cost of DraftWise's services varies depending on the size and needs of the law firm, offering a flexible solution to improve legal operations. As legal technology continues to evolve, DraftWise's successful funding round represents a key development in the industry's efforts to harness AI for enhancing legal expertise and efficiency. This trend is further evidenced by other legal tech companies, such as Spellbook and Robin AI, securing funding, highlighting the sector's rapid growth and the increasing value placed on AI-driven legal tools.Legal contracts company DraftWise raises $20 mln amid AI investment boom | ReutersMicrosoft has reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit initiated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) concerning Wi-Fi technology, a dispute that echoes a prior case where Caltech secured a billion-dollar jury verdict against Apple and Broadcom for infringing similar patents. The resolution was communicated to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, with both parties requesting a pause in the proceedings to finalize their agreement. Specific details of the settlement are yet undisclosed, with Caltech and Microsoft maintaining silence on the matter.The lawsuit accused Microsoft of violating Caltech's patents through its Surface tablets and laptops, as well as Xbox video game systems, a claim Microsoft contested by denying the allegations, challenging the patent validity, and asserting existing licenses for the disputed technologies. This legal battle follows a notable 2020 verdict where Caltech was awarded $1.1 billion in damages from Apple and Broadcom for similar patent infringements, a decision later overturned by an appeals court mandating a new trial for damages assessment. Subsequently, Caltech settled its dispute with Apple and Broadcom last year.Moreover, Caltech has initiated lawsuits against other tech giants, including HP Inc and Dell, for infringing the same Wi-Fi patents, indicating a broader legal strategy to protect its intellectual property rights. These ongoing cases underscore the complexity and high stakes of patent litigation within the tech industry, particularly concerning foundational technologies like Wi-Fi. The Microsoft settlement marks the latest chapter in Caltech's assertive enforcement of its patent portfolio, reflecting both the value and contentious nature of intellectual property in the tech sector.Microsoft settles Caltech lawsuit over Wi-Fi technology | Reuters Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

Astronomer Michelle Thaller explains the healing power of physics after losing her husband. Grief is a haunting and powerful psychological force. It struck astronomer Dr. Michelle Thaller in 2020 when her husband died of cancer. She was left feeling utterly disconnected from the people and places around her, as if the fundamental nature of reality had shifted and Earth was no longer her home. She still lives with the pain. But as she told Big Think, she has found that the pursuits that make us feel connected to the Universe — science, poetry, art, literature — can serve as tools that help us continue pushing forward and living enriching lives. The pain from losing our loved ones may never disappear completely. But finding ways to connect to something larger than ourselves just might give us a path out of grief. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Member Get exclusive access to full interviews, early access to new releases, Big Think merch and more ►Get Big Think+ for Business Guide, inspire and accelerate leaders at all levels of your company with the biggest minds in business ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Michelle Thaller: Dr. Michelle Thaller is an astronomer who studies binary stars and the life cycles of stars. She is Assistant Director of Science Communication at NASA. She went to college at Harvard University, completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif. then started working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Spitzer Space Telescope. After a hugely successful mission, she moved on to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in the Washington D.C. area. In her off-hours often puts on about 30lbs of Elizabethan garb and performs intricate Renaissance dances. For more information, visit NASA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Big Think | Smarter Faster™ ► Big Think The leading source of expert-driven, educational content. With thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, Big Think helps you get smarter, faster by exploring the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century. Get Smarter, Faster. With Episodes From The Worlds Biggest Thinkers. Follow The Podcast And Turn On The Notifications!! Share This Episode If You Found It Valuable Leave A 5 Star Review... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

View the Show Notes For This EpisodeGet Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. HymanSign Up for Dr. Hyman's Weekly Longevity JournalGet Ad-free Episodes & Dr. Hyman+ Audio ExclusivesRaja Dhir is co-founder and co-CEO of Seed Health, a microbiome science company pioneering innovations in probiotics and living medicines to impact human and planetary health. With unique expertise in translating scientific research for product innovation, Raja guides the development of Seed Health's platform to enable rapid, efficient advancement of microbial research from discovery to market. He also leads the company's academic collaborations, working with institutions like MIT, Harvard University, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the National Institute of Health (NIH) to drive innovation across the fields of microbiology, genetics, immunology, and ecology. He co-chairs Seed's Scientific Board –an interdisciplinary group of leading scientists, researchers, and clinicians–with Dr. Jacques Ravel.Raja also oversees Seed's environmental endeavors under SeedLabs and directs LUCA Biologics, a venture targeting the vaginal microbiome for unmet needs in urogenital and reproductive health.This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Fatty 15, ARMRA, and Sweetgreen.Streamline your lab orders with Rupa Health. Access more than 3,000 specialty lab tests and register for a FREE live demo at RupaHealth.com.Fatty15 contains pure, award-winning C15:0 in a bioavailable form. Get an exclusive 10% off a 90-day starter kit subscription. Just visit Fatty15.com and use code DRHYMAN10 to get started.Save 15% on your first order of ARMRA Colostrum and unlock the power of 400+ functional nutrients. Just visit TryARMRA.com/Mark or use code MARK.We could use more Sweetgreens in the world. So check out your nearest Sweetgreen or go to Sweetgreen.com to learn more.In this episode we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):The central role the gut plays in our overall health (4:50 / 3:04)How the makeup of our gut microbiome comes to be (11:25 / 9:40)Why fiber is critical to reaping the benefits of akkermansia (12:59 / 11:13)The explosion of research on the gut microbiome (20:22 / 18:44)Microbiome testing (29:09 / 25:15)What are probiotics and should you take them? (33:41 / 29:47)Selecting a probiotic (42:45 / 38:49)Prebiotics, synbiotics and postbiotics (53:19 / 49:25)How antibiotics affect the gut microbiome (58:38 / 54:44)The future of microbiome data (1:14:34 / 1:10:40)Learn more about Raja's work at Seed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Rory Cox about the multiple origins of the just war concept. They give an overview of the Egyptian empire, nile river and its importance for the Egyptian kingdom, and the three major kingdom periods with a central monarchy. They also talk about the Hittites, boundaries of their kingdom, and why they were so short lived. They discuss the Israelites, problems with the Hebrew Bible as a primary source, and the legacy of the Israelites. They also define just war, ius ad bellum, ius ad bello, ius post bellum, and describe what war looked like in the ancient Near East. They talk about authority and divine appointment for going to war with these three kingdoms, self-defense, military ethics, culture and identity, treatment of combatants and non-combatants, importance of Deuteronomy 20 for the Israelites, violence and genocide, just war theory up to the modern era, and many more topics. Rory Cox is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St. Andrews. He has held two international research fellowships: a Wallenberg Research Fellowship at the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace (University of Stockholm) in 2016; and a Humanities Collaboration Research Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Huntington Library, Los Angeles, in 2017-18. He has his Bachelors in Ancient History and a Masters in Medieval Studies from University College London. He has a DPhil in history from the University of Oxford. His main focus areas are on the ethics of war, history of violence, and intellectual history. He is the author of the book, Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East. Twitter: @drrorycox Get full access to Converging Dialogues at convergingdialogues.substack.com/subscribe

In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin's Sophia Chen interviews Widi Moestopo, a former graduate student in Julia Greer's laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and now a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory about their work incorporating microknots in architected materials. Using two-photon lithography, Moestopo scans a resin with a laser to create and shape a three-dimensional (3D) object within foam. Moestopo then used a solvent to wash away the remaining, unconverted resin. In this way, he sculpted the knots out of the resin, rather than tying the knots like shoelaces. This 3D structure is formed from a lattice of 3D rhombuses, where each side of the rhombus consists of three strands of fiber. These fibers are woven around each other to form knots. The result is a materials with high deformability and tensile toughness. This work was published in a recent issue of Science Advances. 

Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu continue our exploration into the poetry of the stars with Part 2 of our episode featuring poet/astronomer/cosmologist Dr. Yun Wang and poet/author Midge Goldberg, editor of “Outer Space: 100 Poems.” We pick up right where we left off in Part 1, with a discussion of standard candles and how Edwin Hubble used Cepheid Variable Stars to determine the distance to Andromeda – incorrectly, as Chuck explains. We then find out that Yun is working on not one, but two upcoming space telescopes: The Euclid Space Telescope launching in July 2023 and the Roman Space Telescope, a Hubble-class space telescope named after Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, launching in 2027. As with Part 1, The LIUniverse couldn't possibly have two poets as guests on the show without a little poetry reading and analysis. Allen kicks it off by reading a Walt Whitman poem, “A Noiseless, Patient Spider.” Midge follows up with a reading excerpted from “My God, It's Full of Stars” by Tracy K. Smith, one of the first poems she chose to put into “Outer Space: 100 Poems.” Yun reads both the original Chinese version and then the translation of a poem by Su Dongpo, the Song Dynasty poet who is the third of the greatest poets in Chinese history, followed by an English translation. (The group discussed the other two, Du Fu and Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty era in China, in Part 1 – just another reason to go and listen if you haven't already, poetry fans!) Chuck reads from a poem by Salvatore Quasimodo, the Nobel prize-winning Italian poet, after which he reminds us all about Commander Data's unfortunate attempt at poetry about his cat Spot on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Allen begrudgingly reads the first couplet, and Midge describes what happens when AI writes a sonnet. Finally, Charles ends the episode with a reading and discussion of “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer” from Walt Whitman's “Leaves of Grass,” which Yun explains she doesn't hate anymore, but still doesn't love. If you'd like to know more about Dr. Yun Wang and her many scientific and poetic publications, see her bio page at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech): https://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/wang/. To learn more about Midge Goldberg, visit her website: https://www.midgegoldberg.com/ or follow her on Twitter at @MidgeGoldberg. “Outer Space: 100 Poems” is published by Cambridge University Press: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/outer-space-100-poems/7D8D674BE0C7215CCC9FD0284044B819 We hope you enjoy this episode of The LIUniverse, and, if you do, please support us on Patreon. Credits for Images Used in this Episode: – Edwin Hubble in 1931 – John Hagemeyer, Public Domain – Euclid Space Telescope (rendering) – European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 – Roman Space Telescope (rendering) – NASA (WFIRST Project and Dominic Benford), Public Domain – Painting of Su Dongpo (posthumous) – Zhao Mengfu, 1301, Public Domain

We often hear about the music of the spheres, but why not the poetry of the stars? In this episode Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome poet/astronomer/cosmologist Dr. Yun Wang and poet/author Midge Goldberg, editor of “Outer Space: 100 Poems” that includes Yun's poem, “Space Journal: Serendipity.” As always, though, we start off with the day's joyfully cool cosmic thing, a possible candidate relativistic tidal disruption event. Put another way, in a galaxy far, far away, a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy is possibly shredding a star, creating a brightening flare of radio emission. Naturally, given our guests, Chuck and company reflect on the idea of a black hole as a metaphor. Moving on, Dr. Wang discusses her exploration of our universe and her eventual goal of modeling a billion galaxies in 3-D. She and Chuck briefly address whether universal expansion will continue forever, as some posit, and whether dark energy is truly a cosmological constant or not. Then it's poetry time! Midge recounts her journey to create “Outer Space: 100 Poems” and how she eventually connected with Yun, who not only contributed her own poem to the book but also translated a poem by Du Fu, who Chuck explains is one of the two greatest poets of the Tang Dynasty in China. The other is Li Bai, composer of “Night Thoughts,” the only poem Dr. Liu can recite by heart in Chinese, which he proceeds to do before also reciting the English translation he wrote. Midge talks about choosing poems from around the world, drawn from ancient cultures up to modern day poetry about landing on the moon, and describes some of their age-old, shared themes. For our student question, William asks, “How can poetry be used to communicate astronomy research?” Midge points to an eponymous poem about “Olber's Paradox” she included in the book which taught her about the paradox. You'll learn about the first scientifically reasonable answer to the paradox, which Midge points out, was written by none other than Edgar Allen Poe! Yun explains how she almost unintentionally mingles her science and her poetry in her writing, after which she reads her poem, “Space Journal: Serendipity.” To answer William's query, she dives into the actual science and astronomy research that is embodied in every word of her poem. Does Chuck find an opportunity to talk about the holodecks in Star Trek, Schrodinger's Cat, and other equally geeky subjects? You'll have to listen to find out. Come back in two weeks for the rest of Chuck's interview with Dr. Yun Wang and poet/author Midge Goldberg. If you'd like to know more about Dr. Yun Wang and her many scientific and poetic publications, see her bio page at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech): https://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/wang/. To learn more about Midge Goldberg, visit her website: https://www.midgegoldberg.com/ or follow her on Twitter at @MidgeGoldberg. “Outer Space: 100 Poems” is published by Cambridge University Press: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/outer-space-100-poems/7D8D674BE0C7215CCC9FD0284044B819 We hope you enjoy this episode of The LIUniverse, and, if you do, please support us on Patreon.

WATCH: https://youtu.be/GeO5zr1e5lc Professor Christof Koch is the Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program. He received his baccalaureate from the Lycée Descartes in Rabat, Morocco, his B.S. and M.S. in physics from the University of Tübingen in Germany and his Ph.D. from the Max-Planck Institute for biological Cybernetics in 1982. Subsequently, he spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1987 until 2013, Koch was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, from his initial appointment as Assistant Professor, Division of Biology and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1986, to his final position as Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive & Behavioral Biology. Christof joined the Allen Institute for Brain Science as Chief Scientific Officer in 2011 and became President in 2015. EPISODE LINKS: - Christof's Website: https://christofkoch.com/ - Christof's Books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Christof-Koch/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AChristof+Koch - Christof's Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JYt9T_sAAAAJ&hl=en - Christof's Work: https://alleninstitute.org/person/christof-koch/ CONNECT: - Website: https://tevinnaidu.com - Instagram: https://instagram.com/drtevinnaidu - Facebook: https://facebook.com/drtevinnaidu - Twitter: https://twitter.com/drtevinnaidu - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/drtevinnaidu TIMESTAMPS: (0:00) - Introduction (1:29) - Romantic Reductionism & Consciousness (2:49) - Integrated Information Theory (IIT) & Philosophy (7:10) - Explaining "Phi" (14:13) - IIT & Falsifiability (16:46) - What is considered fundamental in a theory consciousness (19:26) - IIT's relation to other theories of consciousness (24:15) - Multidisciplinary approach to consciousness (28:47) - Can AI be truly conscious? (33:53) - From Illusionism to Phenomenology (38:06) - Descartes' Pineal Gland vs Christof's Claustrum (40:29) - IIT & Neuropsychiatry (44:22) - Free Will & Neural Correlates (50:20) - Religion, Spirituality, Purpose & Meaning (53:33) - Mortality (loss of consciousness) (59:35) - Conclusion Website · YouTube

What should lawmakers know about Artificial intelligence? And should legislation regulating AI be passed? Newt's guest is Congressman Jay Obernolte, representing California's 23rd Congressional District. He holds a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Doctorate in Public Administration from California Baptist University. Congressman Obernolte is one of the leading voices in the House on proposed legislation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 740 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more 20 mins Arielle Samuelson has joined HEATED, a newsletter on the climate crisis as a climate reporter. Recently, Samuelson was a senior editor at Atlantic Media, where she wrote and edited articles, videos, and newsletters for The Atlantic's Re:think studio and Long Dash. Previously, she worked at ederally funded research and development center NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The center is managed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech.) Samuelson has a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a M.S. from the University of Southern California. Be sure to follow Arielle on Twitter and read / subscribe to Heated.World 40 mins Eric J. Segall graduated from Emory University, Phi Beta Kappa 27  and summa cum laude, and from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was the research editor for the Law Review and member of Order of the Coif. He clerked for the Chief Judge Charles Moye Jr. for the Northern District of Georgia, and Albert J. Henderson of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. After his clerkships, Segall worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the U.S. Department of Justice, before joining the Georgia State faculty in 1991. Segall teaches federal courts and constitutional law I and II. He is the author of the books Originalism as Faith and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges. His articles on constitutional law have appeared in, among others, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Stanford Law Review On Line, the UCLA Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, and Constitutional Commentary among many others. Segall's op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, The Atlantic, SLATE, Vox, Salon, and the Daily Beast, among others. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and France 24 and all four of Atlanta's local television stations. He has also appeared on numerous local and national radio shows. Listen and Subscribe to Eric's Podcast Supreme Myths and follow him on Tik Tok! Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page

 In an article published on Saturday, Feb. 13, the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) unveiled its groundbreaking new analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's (also famous for the Mona Lisa) sketches from the early 1500s. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nearly none of the plastic we use gets recycled. Even the plastic we throw into the recycling bin often ends up in landfills since it's just not economical to recycle the plastic, especially now that China has banned imports of American plastic waste. So what are we going to do with the vast oceans of plastic we love to use? Shelly Zhang has an idea. As you'll hear in this episode, the death of Shelly's father led to the birth of her company, Molten Materials. Armed with her PhD in engineering, Shelly has pioneered a method of taking plastic waste and upcycling it into pavement sealers, asphalt rejuvenators, and more. In other words, she's betting that she can take our trash and turn it into her treasure, all while solving the pressing problem of what to do with all our plastic waste.  Already, Shelly's earned seed investment, hired a dozen team members, filed for various patents, and is now readying her first-ever product, an upcycled-plastic DIY pavement sealer you can use on your own driveway or other cracked surfaces.  Her story is an inspirational one, moving to the US from China, earning her PhD, and now founding her own company. I think you'll be impressed, so let me allow Shelly to tell you her story herself. Discussed in this episode Shelly recommends Shoe Dog by Phil Knight Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, by Richard Feynman Our past episode on nuclear waste with Deep Isolation CEO Elizabeth Muller More about Shelly Zhang Shelly Zhang earned her PhD from California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2020 Shelly founded Molten Materials, her vision is to create a clean and sustainable world for future generations by replacing big oil. She believes that through technological innovation, it is achievable to solve the toughest problems our world faces."

#111 - On this episode, we provide helpful information for all of you who are interested in applying to highly-selective colleges and universities. Rather than sharing information out of our knowledge and experience, we decided to let Caltech do all the talking. Caltech has a wealth of advice to give high school students on how to best prepare to present yourselves as competitive applicants. Although this advice is being presented by Caltech, they make it available to you so you could prepare for other schools that also have small admission rates. This information is also very helpful in helping you prepare for schools that have selective admission criteria that may not be as strict as that of highly-selective schools. Jankel and I present Caltech's advice on what students should do in their high school summers. That is to say, not just what to do during the summer immediately before applying to college, but during all summers. Additionally, this episode will give you a deeper understanding of what admission officers at schools of the caliber of Caltech will expect to see in each application. You can access the show notes for this episode at https://www.collegemetropolis.com. Please help our efforts by giving us a 5-star rating, and leaving us a positive review. That kind gesture will go a long way in helping us other parents and students who will also find this information useful. Thank you!

This is Episode 30 and we are speaking with Cassandra Volpe Horii and Martin Springborg about their new free, open-access book: “What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through Photographs.” Click on the title to go to access the book through the Elon University's Series on Engaged Learning website. Cassandra Volpe Horii (@cvhorii) is the associate vice provost for education and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University. A former president of the POD Network (2018-19) and founder of educational development centers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Curry College, Cassandra brings her background in STEM and college writing instruction to life in her current work on educational and systemic change at her institution and in higher education more broadly, as well as through projects such as the collaboration we discuss in today's episode. Martin Springborg has worked in the field of educational development since 2007. His writing and photographs on the topic of teaching and learning in higher education have appeared in Thought and Action and To Improve the Academy Stemming from his work as arts faculty and in educational development, Martin also co-authored the books “Meaningful Grading: A Guide for Faculty in the Arts” and of course, the book we will be talking about today: “What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through Photographs” Transcript of the Episode

Burak Cendek and Joe Lynch discuss the VC perspective - in other words, how venture capitalists view opportunities in the transportation and logistics industry. Burak Cendek is a Partner at Autotech Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $400M under management. About Burak Cendek Burak Cendek is a Partner at Autotech Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm on a mission to solve the world's ground transport challenges with technology, realizing the next frontier in mobility. Burak has worked with more than 200 entrepreneurs over the course of his career. His broad business and technical experience position him as an expert on growth strategies, financial/business modeling, and fundraising. As a partner at Autotech Venture, Burak oversees investments relating to fintech, SaaS, and supply chain/logistics. Most recently, prior to joining Autotech Ventures, Burak was a junior partner at Revo Capital, investing in B2B SaaS businesses in Europe. Burak earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a Master of Business Administration at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. About Autotech Ventures Autotech Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $400M under management to date and a mission to solve the world's ground transport challenges with technology, realizing the next frontier in mobility. Autotech is a team of experienced entrepreneurs, operators and technologists; investors with a world-class transport community and decades of ground transport experience. With its our founder-first philosophy, Autotech invests globally in seed through series C startups solving ground transport challenges related to connectivity, autonomy, shared-use, electrification, and digitization of enterprise. The team is excited about deep-tech, Autonomous, AI, and semiconductors, and business model innovations in marketplaces, fintech and SaaS, among other things. When Autotech finds the right opportunity, they're willing to make an initial investment of $1M-$8M as a lead or follow-on investor. Key Takeaways: The VC Perspective Burak Cendek is a Partner at Autotech Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $400M under management. In the podcast interview, Joe and Burak discuss the VC perspective – in other words, how venture capitalists view investment opportunities in the transportation and logistics industry. Burak discussed some of the areas that interest Autotech Ventures and some of their recent investments which include: Newtrul has created a digitally connected experience for shippers, brokers, and carriers. BasicBlock's industry-leading software and financial services allow independent truck drivers to spend less time worrying about cashflow and more time focused on the road. KlearNow has simplified global customs clearance and drayage functions. High Definition Vehicle Insurance (HDVI) created Shift, the first dynamically priced insurance product that enables fleets to reduce the cost of their monthly premiums within their policy term. Learn More About The VC Perspective Burak's LinkedIn Burak's Twitter Autotech LinkedIn Autotech website The Logistics of Logistics Podcast If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a positive review, subscribe, and share it with your friends and colleagues. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast: Google, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Tunein, Podbean, Owltail, Libsyn, Overcast Check out The Logistics of Logistics on Youtube

Huberman Lab Podcast Notes The areas of the brain that control feeding, fleeing, fighting, and mating are in close proximity in the brain possibly to help the animal decide what behavior to prioritize and what to shut down at any given moment“Aggression refers more to a description of behavior than the internal state. Aggression could reflect fear, anger, hungry (in animals).” – Dr. David AndersonEstrogen and the aromatase of testosterone into estrogen is really what generates aggression, not testosterone aloneArousal is tethered to the mating and reproductive process: without a seesaw between sympathetic and parasympathetic, there is no matingThe same behavior can reflect different states and different states can converge on multiple behaviorsIn social animals and humans, the body secretes higher levels of tachykinin when we are not socially connected enough – symptoms: increased irritability, paranoia, fear, lonelinessEmotion involves bidirectional communication between the brain and body, mediated by the peripheral nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and Vagus nerveRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgMy guest is David Anderson, PhD, a world expert in the science of sexual behavior, violent aggression, fear and other motivated states. Dr. Anderson is a Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). We discuss how states of mind (and body) arise and persist and how they probably better explain human behavior than emotions per se. We also discuss the many kinds of arousal that create varying levels of pressure for certain behaviors to emerge. We discuss different types of violent aggression and how they are impacted by biological sex, gender, context, prior experience, and hormones, and the neural interconnectedness of fear, aggression and sexual behavior. We also discuss peptides and their role in social isolation-induced anxiety and aggression. Dr. Anderson also describes novel, potentially powerful therapeutics for mental health. This episode should interest anyone wanting to learn more about mental health, human emotions, sexual and/or violent behavior.   Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman Levels: https://levels.link/huberman Helix Sleep: https://helixsleep.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Dr. David Anderson Dr. David Anderson The Nature of the Beast Dr. David Anderson's Lab Dr. Anderson's publications Articles Two Different Forms of Arousal in Drosophila Are Oppositely Regulated by the Dopamine D1 Receptor Ortholog DopR via Distinct Neural Circuits Resources Mouse switching from mating behavior to aggressive behaviors upon stimulation of VMH VMH stimulation causes mouse to display aggressive behaviors toward an inanimate object (e.g., glove) Picture of Periaqueductal Gray (PAG) Timestamps (00:00:00) Dr. David Anderson, Emotions & Aggression  (00:03:33) Momentous Supplements  (00:04:27) Levels, Helix Sleep, LMNT  (00:08:10) Emotions vs. States (00:10:36) Dimensions of States: Persistence, Intensity & Generalization (00:14:38) Arousal & Valence  (00:18:11) Aggression, Optogenetics & Stimulating Aggression in Mice, VMH (00:24:42) Aggression Types: Offensive, Defensive & Predatory  (00:29:20) Evolution & Development of Defensive vs. Offensive Behaviors, Fear (00:35:38) Hydraulic Pressures for States & Homeostasis (00:38:33) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:39:46) Hydraulic Pressure & Aggression (00:44:50) Balancing Fear & Aggression (00:48:31) Aggression & Hormones: Estrogen, Progesterone & Testosterone (00:52:33) Female Aggression, Motherhood (00:59:48) Mating & Aggressive Behaviors  (01:05:10) Neurobiology of Sexual Fetishes  (01:10:06) Temperature, Mating Behavior & Aggression (01:15:25) Mounting: Sexual Behavior or Dominance? (01:20:59) Females & Male-Type Mounting Behavior (01:24:40) PAG (Periaqueductal Gray) Brain Region: Pain Modulation & Fear  (01:30:38) Tachykinins & Social Isolation: Anxiety, Fear & Aggression  (01:43:49) Brain, Body & Emotions; Somatic Marker Hypothesis & Vagus Nerve  (01:52:52) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous Supplements, AG1 (Athletic Greens), Instagram, Twitter, Neural Network Newsletter, Huberman Lab Clips Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

Huberman Lab: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- My guest is David Anderson, PhD, a world expert in the science of sexual behavior, violent aggression, fear and other motivated states. Dr. Anderson is a Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). We discuss how states of mind (and body) arise and persist and how they probably better explain human behavior than emotions per se. We also discuss the many kinds of arousal that create varying levels of pressure for certain behaviors to emerge. We discuss different types of violent aggression and how they are impacted by biological sex, gender, context, prior experience, and hormones, and the neural interconnectedness of fear, aggression and sexual behavior. We also discuss peptides and their role in social isolation-induced anxiety and aggression. Dr. Anderson also describes novel, potentially powerful therapeutics for mental health. This episode should interest anyone wanting to learn more about mental health, human emotions, sexual and/or violent behavior.   Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman Levels: https://levels.link/huberman Helix Sleep: https://helixsleep.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Dr. David Anderson Dr. David Anderson The Nature of the Beast Dr. David Anderson's Lab Dr. Anderson's publications Articles Two Different Forms of Arousal in Drosophila Are Oppositely Regulated by the Dopamine D1 Receptor Ortholog DopR via Distinct Neural Circuits Resources Mouse switching from mating behavior to aggressive behaviors upon stimulation of VMH VMH stimulation causes mouse to display aggressive behaviors toward an inanimate object (e.g., glove) Picture of Periaqueductal Gray (PAG) Timestamps (00:00:00) Dr. David Anderson, Emotions & Aggression  (00:03:33) Momentous Supplements  (00:04:27) Levels, Helix Sleep, LMNT  (00:08:10) Emotions vs. States (00:10:36) Dimensions of States: Persistence, Intensity & Generalization (00:14:38) Arousal & Valence  (00:18:11) Aggression, Optogenetics & Stimulating Aggression in Mice, VMH (00:24:42) Aggression Types: Offensive, Defensive & Predatory  (00:29:20) Evolution & Development of Defensive vs. Offensive Behaviors, Fear (00:35:38) Hydraulic Pressures for States & Homeostasis (00:38:33) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:39:46) Hydraulic Pressure & Aggression (00:44:50) Balancing Fear & Aggression (00:48:31) Aggression & Hormones: Estrogen, Progesterone & Testosterone (00:52:33) Female Aggression, Motherhood (00:59:48) Mating & Aggressive Behaviors  (01:05:10) Neurobiology of Sexual Fetishes  (01:10:06) Temperature, Mating Behavior & Aggression (01:15:25) Mounting: Sexual Behavior or Dominance? (01:20:59) Females & Male-Type Mounting Behavior (01:24:40) PAG (Periaqueductal Gray) Brain Region: Pain Modulation & Fear  (01:30:38) Tachykinins & Social Isolation: Anxiety, Fear & Aggression  (01:43:49) Brain, Body & Emotions; Somatic Marker Hypothesis & Vagus Nerve  (01:52:52) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous Supplements, AG1 (Athletic Greens), Instagram, Twitter, Neural Network Newsletter, Huberman Lab Clips Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

My guest is David Anderson, PhD, a world expert in the science of sexual behavior, violent aggression, fear and other motivated states. Dr. Anderson is a Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). We discuss how states of mind (and body) arise and persist and how they probably better explain human behavior than emotions per se. We also discuss the many kinds of arousal that create varying levels of pressure for certain behaviors to emerge. We discuss different types of violent aggression and how they are impacted by biological sex, gender, context, prior experience, and hormones, and the neural interconnectedness of fear, aggression and sexual behavior. We also discuss peptides and their role in social isolation-induced anxiety and aggression. Dr. Anderson also describes novel, potentially powerful therapeutics for mental health. This episode should interest anyone wanting to learn more about mental health, human emotions, sexual and/or violent behavior.   Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman Levels: https://levels.link/huberman Helix Sleep: https://helixsleep.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Dr. David Anderson Dr. David Anderson The Nature of the Beast Dr. David Anderson's Lab Dr. Anderson's publications Articles Two Different Forms of Arousal in Drosophila Are Oppositely Regulated by the Dopamine D1 Receptor Ortholog DopR via Distinct Neural Circuits Resources Mouse switching from mating behavior to aggressive behaviors upon stimulation of VMH VMH stimulation causes mouse to display aggressive behaviors toward an inanimate object (e.g., glove) Picture of Periaqueductal Gray (PAG) Timestamps (00:00:00) Dr. David Anderson, Emotions & Aggression  (00:03:33) Momentous Supplements  (00:04:27) Levels, Helix Sleep, LMNT  (00:08:10) Emotions vs. States (00:10:36) Dimensions of States: Persistence, Intensity & Generalization (00:14:38) Arousal & Valence  (00:18:11) Aggression, Optogenetics & Stimulating Aggression in Mice, VMH (00:24:42) Aggression Types: Offensive, Defensive & Predatory  (00:29:20) Evolution & Development of Defensive vs. Offensive Behaviors, Fear (00:35:38) Hydraulic Pressures for States & Homeostasis (00:38:33) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:39:46) Hydraulic Pressure & Aggression (00:44:50) Balancing Fear & Aggression (00:48:31) Aggression & Hormones: Estrogen, Progesterone & Testosterone (00:52:33) Female Aggression, Motherhood (00:59:48) Mating & Aggressive Behaviors  (01:05:10) Neurobiology of Sexual Fetishes  (01:10:06) Temperature, Mating Behavior & Aggression (01:15:25) Mounting: Sexual Behavior or Dominance? (01:20:59) Females & Male-Type Mounting Behavior (01:24:40) PAG (Periaqueductal Gray) Brain Region: Pain Modulation & Fear  (01:30:38) Tachykinins & Social Isolation: Anxiety, Fear & Aggression  (01:43:49) Brain, Body & Emotions; Somatic Marker Hypothesis & Vagus Nerve  (01:52:52) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous Supplements, AG1 (Athletic Greens), Instagram, Twitter, Neural Network Newsletter, Huberman Lab Clips Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

Adriana Valio é graduada em Física pela UNICAMP, com mestrado em Astronomia pela Universidade de São Paulo e PhD em Astronomia pela University of California at Berkeley (EUA). É livre-docente pela Universidade de São Paulo. Pós-doutorados no California Institute of Technology (Caltech) e na UNICAMP. Foi presidente da Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira (SAB) no biênio 2012-2014, e tesoureira da SAB (2015-2017). Professora pesquisadora do Centro de Rádio Astronomia e Astrofísica Mackenzie (CRAAM) e coordenadora do curso de pós-graduação em Ciências e Aplicações Geoespaciais da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Foi coordenadora da área de Astronomia da FAPESP (2016-2022) e membro do Comitê Assessor do CNPq na área de Física e Astronomia (2018-2021). Realiza pesquisa em astronomia, principalmente em atividade solar e estelar, com ênfase no impacto sobre a habitabilidade dos exoplanetas. Vagas na Accenture: https://accntu.re/3ZhpV8P

Dr. Prineha Narang is an Assistant Professor at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She leads an interdisciplinary group at Harvard SEAS at the intersection of computational science, phenomena away from equilibrium, and quantum dynamics in matter. She has won numerous awards, fellowships, and grants including Forbes "30 Under 30". She has a PhD and Master's Degree in Applied Physics from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and did her post-doctoral work at MIT. Episode NotesDr. Pri Narang shares her experiences as an Assistant Professor at Harvard University, a researcher, and a CTO in the field of Quantum Physics and Quantum Theory. She also shares what that is...and how she got interested in it and her journey from having an interest in Physics - she says she's always been a physicist, even at a young age - to how she started the Narang Lab. She shares what a day in her life is like, how she manages to juggle the many demands of her professional career and run marathons and Ironman Triathlons - she's an absolute rockstar. She also talks about having imposter syndrome and how finding a place that was welcoming led her down her career path.Dr. Narang will join UCLA's faculty in the College of Physical Sciences as the Howard Reiss Chair on July 1st. This information came out after our podcast recording. Information on her transition can be found here. https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/news/faculty-news-4Music used in the podcast: Higher Up, Silverman Sound StudioAcronyms, Definitions, and Fact CheckQuantum theory describes the behavior of things — particles or energy — on the smallest scale. In addition to wavicles, it predicts that a particle may be found in many places at the same time. (https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/quantum-world-mind-bogglingly-weird)Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science. Classical physics, the collection of theories that existed before the advent of quantum mechanics, describes many aspects of nature at an ordinary (macroscopic) scale, but is not sufficient for describing them at small (atomic and subatomic) scales. (Wikipedia)Quantum entanglement is the physical phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance. The topic of quantum entanglement is at the heart of the disparity between classical and quantum physics: entanglement is a primary feature of quantum mechanics lacking in classical mechanics. (Wikipedia)A dilution refrigerator is a cryogenic device first proposed by Heinz London. Its refrigeration process uses amixture of two isotopes of helium: helium-3 and helium-4. When cooled below approximately 870 millikelvin, themixture undergoes spontaneous phase separation to form a 3He-rich phase and a 3He-poor phase. As with evaporative cooling, energy is required to transport 3He atoms from the 3He-rich phase into the 3He-poorphase. If the atoms can be made to continuously cross this boundary, they effectively cool the mixture. Becausethe 3He-poor phase cannot have less than 6% helium-3 at equilibrium, even at absolute zero, dilution refrigerationcan be effective at very low temperatures. The volume in which this takes place is known as the mixing chamber.  (https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/249751)

This week, Rory joins Dr. Kristin Briney, who serves as Biology and Biological Engineering Librarian at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Kristin is especially passionate and exceptionally placed to share insights from her career and current work. Aside from being an author and Open Science advocate, Kristin is involved in the effort to optimise research data management from an institutional perspective. In this conversation Kristin comments on her thoughts on RDM, and how it has evolved over time. Kristin brings up the interesting notion of the 'selfish data scientist', an individual with a motivation to make their data FAIR compliant in an effort to make it easier for themselves to find, access and use it effectively. Rory and Kristin go on to discuss some of the challenges, issues and opportunities associated with institutional data management and the role that domain specific repositories play. Kristin has a lot to share from her essential role in helping researchers to meet their data needs, head over to the episode to find out more!

My new book, Harder than I Thought, Easier Than I Feared - SPORTS, ANXIETY, AND THE POWER OF MEDITATION is available!Coach Doc Eslinger is the head basketball coach at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). I speak with Coach Doc about his own basketball journey, helping to turn around the Caltech program, finding flow in sports and music, and other topics.It was a pleasure speaking with Coach Doc, and I hope you enjoy the conversation!Coach Doc full bio.Coach Doc on Twitter.Coach Doc Website.If you like the podcast, please consider subscribing to my newsletter, where you'll receive podcast updates and other exclusive content. Other ways to support the show include giving it a review on Apple Podcasts, or sharing it with those who you think might enjoy it. Thank you for your interest and support!

Sci-fi movies tend to capture children's imaginations and have long been part of students' excited chats in the schoolyard. But now a scientific journal has urged at least one sci-fi movie to be shown in class by science teachers.Scientific papers published in the American Journal of Physics (AJP) and in Classical and Quantum Gravity have seen merit in the way the movie Interstellar portrays wormholes.Dr David Jackson from AJP said publishing this paper "was a no-brainer". He added: "The physics has been very carefully reviewed by experts and found to be accurate. The publication will encourage physics teachers to show the film in their classes to get across ideas about general relativity".In fact, one of the executive producers of Interstellar was Kip Thorne, a professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). For him, films such as Interstellar, Contact and 2001: A Space Odyssey can inspire young people.Blockbusters are improving when it comes to portraying scientific theories. An initiative by the US National Academy of Sciences has been putting proper scientists in touch with movie people to achieve a better result - which is vital in the internet age. Interstellar's director Christopher Nolan says: "Consumers have a lot more immediate access to information. If you go and see a film about a particular subject, particularly a true life story, you can go home and look it up on Wikipedia and see if the basic things portrayed in the film are true or not. The same is true of science in the films".Professional scientists may no longer cringe in their seats when they watch sci-fi movies. Today, getting the science wrong is no longer an option.词汇表sci-fi 科幻to capture (someone's) imagination 激发某人的想象力a scientific paper 科学文献physics 物理学interstellar 星际的a wormhole (space) 时空虫洞a no-brainer 显而易见的事accurate 准确的general relativity 广义相对论technology 技术a blockbuster 畅销的书、电影或电视a theory 一种理论proper 专业的，科班出身的the consumer 消费者to cringe 感到难堪

(QuantumTechPod) Host Chris Bishop, today interviews Pri Narang, CTO and co-founder, Aliro Quantum, a Boston-based VC-backed startup working towards commercialization of quantum technologies. Aliro recently launched a series of products critical to the development of future quantum networks and scalable quantum information processing. Prineha Narang is also an Assistant Professor at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty, Prineha came to Harvard as a Ziff Fellow and worked as a Research Scholar in Condensed Matter Theory at the MIT Department of Physics. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). IQT hopes that our conversation with Pri Narang, CTO and co-founder, Aliro Quantum will make this an interesting, informative and worthwhile talk for you.

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we welcome Dr. Miriam Feldblum, Executive Director of The Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. In this important episode of EdUp, we talk with Miriam about the state of international student relations today as we've recently transitioned from one administration to another. Find out why every single college president and administrator needs to understand what is happening around immigration policy, even if they think they didn't need to know. How can we be better higher education leaders on our campuses? Find out in this episode! Miriam Feldblum is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. Previously, she served as Vice President for Student Affairs, Dean of Students, and Professor of Politics at Pomona College, and as Special Assistant to the President and Faculty Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She is also a Nonresident Fellow at MPI. Her teaching and research areas are the politics and policies of immigration and citizenship, and immigration and higher education. Dr. Feldblum is the author of Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France (SUNY Press, 1999). Another episode sponsored by our great friends at MDT Marketing! Get your free marketing consultation today! mdtmarketing.com/edup Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode! Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us on Apple Podcasts! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

I speak with Dr Oliver Eslinger in this episode. Doc is Head Men's Basketball Coach for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Since his initial campaign, Doc's Caltech squads have set more than 145 team and individual records, including most conference wins in a season, the best start in history, and most victories in a season since 1954. Prior to his role at Caltech, Doc was an associate head coach at MIT. He is an NABC Guardian of the Game and the all-time programme leader in NCAA wins. Doc completed his EdD at Boston University in Counselling and Sport Psychology under Dr Leonard Zaichkowsky.

Andy Tzadinakis talks about astrophysics, supernovae research, data science, life in the universe, and much more. He is a post-baccalaureate research scholar at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) working as an astrophysicist researcher. His current research focuses on the physical process of stars going supernovae using telescopes around the world. Andy is particularly very passionate about using data science, software development, and innovative data visualization techniques to further understand the universe. CONNECT WITH ANDY: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andytzaastro/​ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndyTzan --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spaceexplr/support

John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons;[nb 1] October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Associated with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation. He invented the first rocket engine to use a castable, composite rocket propellant, and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets.

How do you get from fundamental research to developing technologies for industrial applications? From invention in the lab to innovation in the market? On this episode of Market Hunt, we interview Sébastien Blais Ouellette, CEO of Photon etc.Check out the Photon etc. case study on the International Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub.Guest Bio: Sébastien Blais-Ouellette, Founder and CEO, Photon etc.Sébastien Blais-Ouellette is the founder and CEO of Photon etc. He is the cornerstone of Photon etc's business development and strategic planning. Sébastien also serves as the ambassador for the company, upholding its vision and advancing its mission. Furthermore, his long-term commitment to work-life balance has created a physically and mentally healthy corporate culture. Sébastien's vision of a better world, and determination to make it happen, motivates his team to pursue ever more ambitious projects.Sébastien completed a master degree in high energy physics at the University of Montreal and a Ph.D. in astrophysics in co-direction at the University of Montreal and the University of Aix-Marseille. Then, it is as a researcher in the astronomy department of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that he developed a technology using volume Bragg gratings to combine images and optical spectra of an object or sample in order to understand its nature. This is how Photon etc. is born from the desire to reveal features of the universe still invisible. Suspecting the potential of this filter for microscopy, medicine, and the environment, Sébastien Blais-Ouellette decides to push the exploration by turning its instrument towards terrestrial applications, and clear the way for the birth of an outstanding company.Episode Links:Photon etcUniversity of MontrealUniversity of Aix-MarseilleCalifornia Institute of TechnologyVolume BraggIR VIVO Hyperspectral CameraNational Research Council CanadaIndustrial Research Assistance ProgramScientific Research and Experimental Development Tax IncentiveCompeting Against Luck. Clayton M. Christensen, 2016.Optina DiagnosticsFood and Drug AdministrationMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterSmall Business Innovation Research ProgramMont Mégantic AstrolabQuestions or feedback on our episode? Get in touch with show host Thierry Harris: thierry.harris@cartouchemedia.comMarket Hunt is produced by Cartouche Media in collaboration with Seratone Studios in Montreal and Popup Podcasting in Ottawa. Market Hunt is part of the International Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub network.  Funding for this program comes from the Social Sciences and Humanities Resource Council of Canada.Executive Producers: Hamid Etemad, McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management and Hamed Motaghi, Université du Québec en Outaouais. Associate Producer, Jose Orlando Montes, Université du Québec à Montréal.Technical Producers Simon Petraki, Seratone Studio and Lisa Querido, Pop up Podcasting. Show consultant, JP Davidson. Artwork by Melissa Gendron. You can check out the ie-Knowledge Hub Case studies on Photon etc. as well as other cases at ie-knowledgehub.ca.

Hondo Handy's Podcast has a conversation with Dr. Charles Wight, President of Salisbury University. Dr. Wight shares his journey from high school to the University of Virginia. He tells the story about earning his doctorate from California Institute of Technology (Caltech). After completing his postdoctoral he worked for the University of Colorado. He started his academic career in 1984 at the University of Utah, where he spent nearly three decades. In 2013 he became president of Weber State University. Dr. Wight is married to Victoria Rasmussen and is the father of three grown daughters. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Dr. Katie Mack is Assistant Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University and member of the Leadership in Public Science Cluster there. In addition, Katie is an avid science communicator and author of the recently released book The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking). Her writing has also been published in popular publications including Scientific American, Slate, Sky & Telescope, Time.com, and Cosmos Magazine. As a cosmologist, Katie studies the universe as a whole over the full scale of time, including how the universe evolved, what it is made out of, and how it works. When Katie isn’t doing research or science communication, she enjoys traveling and exploring new places, playing basketball, rock climbing, trail running, reading science fiction books, and watching science fiction shows and films. Katie received her undergraduate degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and her PhD in astrophysics from Princeton University. Afterwards, she accepted a Science and Technology Facilities Council postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Cambridge and Kavli Institute for Cosmology. Next, Katie was awarded a Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellowship to conduct research at the University of Melbourne. Katie accepted her current position at North Carolina State University in 2018. In our interview, Katie shares more about her life and work.

Your online reputation is accumulative, most likely permanent, and a reflection on you as a trusted healthcare provider. Todd Eury, founder of the Pharmacy Podcast Network, talks with Sarah Mojarad from USC Viterbi School of Engineering to discuss the sensitivity surrounding a healthcare professional's online reputation.  Sarah Mojarad is a lecturer at the University of Southern California (USC) with joint faculty appointments in Viterbi School of Engineering and Keck School of Medicine. She received her BA in Psychology from Boston University and MS in Corporate and Organization Communication from Northeastern University. Her areas of expertise are in social media, misinformation, science communication, and online professionalism. Prior to joining USC, Prof. Mojarad was at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where she co-created and taught the course Social Media for Scientists with Dr. Mark E. Davis. The class is believed to be the first full-length course that educates STEM students on the issues and opportunities of using social media for professional communication. She continues to teach an updated version of the class, Social Media for Scientists and Engineers (engr410), in Viterbi School of Engineering. At Keck School of Medicine, Prof. Mojarad teaches specialized communication and social media workshops to medical and physician-scientist students. Prof. Mojarad has given keynote lectures, seminars, and panel presentations at scientific meetings and universities around the world. She has presented her work to the National Science Foundation’s National Science Board, National Institutes of Health, and US Department of State. Her communication workshops have been funded by the Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health. Preface audio, #MedBikini Trending! Should Doctors Do This?? from GetYourLifeTogether Podcast https://youtu.be/9xY78DX3fQ0  @NuggetInTheAM @AndrewKozakTV NuggetPodcast@gmail.com 

Vijaya Ramachandran is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. She works on the impact of the business environment on the productivity of firms in developing countries, and is the coauthor of an essay titled "Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Africa's Missing Middle,” published in the Oxford Handbook on Economics and Africa. Vijaya is also studying the unintended consequences of rich countries’ anti-money laundering policies on financial inclusion in poor countries. She has published her research in journals such as World Development, Development Policy Review, Governance, Prism, and AIDS and is the author of a CGD book, Africa’s Private Sector: What’s Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It. Prior to joining CGD, Vijaya worked at the World Bank and in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. She also served on the faculties of Georgetown University and Duke University. Her work has appeared in several media outlets including the Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Washington Post, New York Times, National Public Radio, and Vox. Alvaro González is the Principal Economist for the Jobs Group at the World Bank. He has worked in Africa, East and Central Europe, South Asia and Latin America.  Most recently, he was based in Istanbul, Turkey and led one of the largest Bank engagements with the Government of Turkey.  Alvaro is a Ph.D. microeconomist specializing in competition and regulatory issues. His research is focused on identifying business environment factors that affect the performance and productivity growth of firms in developing economies. Alvaro did graduate work in economics at MIT and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).  He focused on industrial organization, game theory, and development economics.  

Bellhops, Kyle Miller, Director of Brand and Communications.There's a moment during each move when Bellhops customers realize everything is going to go well. They relax, smile more, start thinking about dinner. We exist to get people to that moment of relief and satisfaction, that moment when they know they're home.This is a sincere expression of how we view our role in customers' lives: as guides and partners during a period of change. And to deliver this experience, we find movers and drivers who elevate their service through care and hospitality.At the core of all our values is the desire to continually transform the experience of moving into something that people can rely on to be simple and enjoyable, and every facet of our company—our team, our process, and our services—has been designed to accomplish that mission.Topics:Grubhub is faking which restaurants it actually partners with – The Verge…Grubhub has a new “growth hacking” strategy that includes creating a restaurant listing on its platform for places it doesn't even partner with. According to a new report by the San Francisco Chronicleand tweets by restaurant owner Pim Techamuanvivit, Grubhub has been allowing customers to order food from its websites from restaurants that haven't technically signed up to be on Grubhub or its subsidiaries' platforms. (Disclosure: my parents own a restaurant that partners with Grubhub.)…Apple and its wifi chip company Broadcom ordered to pay $1.1bn to university over iPhone patents | Science & Tech News | Sky News… Apple and the wifi chip company it uses for iPhones have been ordered to pay $1.1bn (£840.5m) to a university for infringing patents. A jury handed down the verdict in favour of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) which claims the Broadcom wifi chips used in hundreds of millions of Apple iPhones infringed four of its data transmission patents…For full show notes, check out ComputerAmerica.com!

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews David Mittelstein, MD/PhD Student at California Institute of Technology and Keck School of Medicine of USC. Ira Pastor Comments: Today we are going to head back towards a major set of pathologies responsible in 2020 for what is a still a big portion of the $7 trillion global healthcare figure, and that’s cancer. Despite the major progress that has been made over the last century on improving patient outcomes and the period of so called “disease-free survival,” we still have an ugly set of numbers in front of us – World Health Organization (WHO) data is as follows for 2018: 18.1 million new cases of cancer and 9.6 million deaths. Today however, we are going to move away from some of the more traditional biological themes such as chemotherapy, immunotherapies, and "smart" check-point inhibitor drugs, and we are going to journey into the fascinating and unique bio-physical world of cancer, and specifically talk about an emerging discipline called Oncotripsy, which is defined as a method of selectively targeting cancer cells by means of ultrasound harmonic excitation of their resonance frequency (similar to how a trained singer can shatter a wine glass by singing a specific note). Now, as some may remember, we actually talked a little bit about this general domain a few months ago on the show where Professor Dr. Irena Cosic at RMIT Australia came on and discussed her Resonant Recognition Model (RRM) of macro-molecular interactions which proposes that protein (and other macro-molecule interactions) are based on highly specific resonant electromagnetic energies. David Mittelstein Today, we are joined by David Mittelstein, MD/PhD Student, at California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Keck School of Medicine of USC, and lead author on a recent paper, in Applied Physics Letters, entitled “Selective Ablation of Cancer Cells with Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound,” which gave a fascinating proof of concept for this new approach, which unlike other forms of therapy, doesn't require cancer to have unique molecular markers or to be located separately from healthy cells to be targeted. This work was done in collaboration between California Institute of Technology and City of Hope Beckman Research Institute. David attended the University of Southern California (USC) where he received his Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering (Biochemical), and Caltech, where he received his Masters of Science in Medical Engineering. He is also the Founder and President of Vision for Vision, a non-profit student-run organization dedicated to raising awareness about eye care examinations for the early diagnosis of diseases like glaucoma. On this show we will hear from David: About his background, how he developed an interest in science, biomedical engineering, and how he finds himself in this fascinating domain of oncology research. An overview of Oncotripsy and the importance of studying the Bio-Physical world of cancer. His proof of concept Oncotripsy work and his future research visions. Finally, we’ll learn about the Vision for Vision project. Credits: Ira Pastor interview video, text, and audio. Follow Ira Pastor on Twitter:@IraSamuelPastor If you liked this interview, be sure to check out our interview with Dr. Irena Cosic! Follow ideaXme on Twitter:@ideaxm On Instagram:@ideaxme Find ideaXme across the internet including oniTunes,SoundCloud,Radio Public,TuneIn Radio,I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.

Dr. Paul Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Professor in the Department of Physics, Professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Sciences. In addition, Paul is author of the popular science book Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang and the recently released book The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter. Paul is a theoretical physicist whose areas of study range from the nature of particles to the origins of the universe. He uses the known laws of nature to unravel some of the many secrets of nature that remain. His goal is to understand why things are the way they are and to discover connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena. In his free time, Paul enjoys hanging out with his four kids and his grandchild. Lately, he has also become fond of attending opera performances and hiking. Paul received his B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Harvard University. Afterwards, Paul was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He served on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania for about 17 years before joining the faculty at Princeton University. Paul has been recognized for his exceptional research as one of the recipients of the 2002 Dirac Medal from the International Centre for theoretical Physics, a recipient of the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society, a recipient of the John Scott Award, and one of the recipients of the 2018 Aspen Italia Prize. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Paul was also named a Sloan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, the Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics, a Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University, a Moore Fellow at Caltech, and a Caltech Distinguished Alumnus. In our interview Paul shared more about his life and science.

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and is one of the world's leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research and scientific consulting, most notably for the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar.

Dr. Fei-Fei Li, the Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google joins Melanie and Mark this week to talk about how Google enables businesses to solve critical problems through AI solutions. We talk about the work she is doing at Google to help reduce AI barriers to entry for enterprise, her research with Stanford combining AI and health care, where AI research is going, and her efforts to overcome one of the key challenges in AI by driving for more diversity in the field. Dr. Fei-Fei Li Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. She is also an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford, and the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. Dr. Fei-Fei Li's main research areas are in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and cognitive and computational neuroscience. She has published more than 150 scientific articles in top-tier journals and conferences, including Nature, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, CVPR, ICCV, NIPS, ECCV, IJCV, IEEE-PAMI, etc. Dr. Fei-Fei Li obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with High Honors, and her PhD degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. She joined Stanford in 2009 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012. Prior to that, she was on faculty at Princeton University (2007-2009) and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2005-2006). Dr. Li is the inventor of ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a critical large-scale dataset and benchmarking effort that has contributed to the latest developments in deep learning and AI. In addition to her technical contributions, she is a national leading voice for advocating diversity in STEM and AI. She is co-founder of Stanford's renowned SAILORS outreach program for high school girls and the national non-profit AI4ALL. For her work in AI, Dr. Li is a speaker at the TED2015 main conference, a recipient of the IAPR 2016 J.K. Aggarwal Prize, the 2016 nVidia Pioneer in AI Award, 2014 IBM Faculty Fellow Award, 2011 Alfred Sloan Faculty Award, 2012 Yahoo Labs FREP award, 2009 NSF CAREER award, the 2006 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship and a number of Google Research awards. Work from Dr. Li's lab have been featured in a variety of popular press magazines and newspapers including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Science, Wired Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Financial Times, and more. She was selected as a 2017 Women in Tech by the ELLE Magazine, a 2017 Awesome Women Award by Good Housekeeping, a Global Thinker of 2015 by Foreign Policy, and one of the “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” in 2016 by the Carnegie Foundation, past winners include Albert Einstein, Yoyo Ma, Sergey Brin, et al. Cool things of the week Terah Lyons appointed founding executive director of Partnership on AI article & site Fully managed export and import with Cloud Datastore now generally available blog How Color uses the new Variant Transforms tool for breakthrough clinical data science with BigQuery blog & repo Google Cloud and NCAA team up for a unique March Madness copmetition hosted on Kaggle blog Interview AI4All site, they are hiring and how to become a mentor Cloud AI site Cloud AutoML site Cloud Vision API site and docs Cloud Speech API site and docs Cloud Natural Language API site and docs Cloud Translation API site and docs Cloud Machine Learning Engine docs TensorFlow site, github and Dev Summit waitlist ImageNet site & Kaggle ImageNet Competition site Stanford Medicine site & Stanford Children's Hospital site Additional sample resources on Dr. Fei-Fei Li: Citations site Stanford Vision Lab site Fei-Fei Li | 2018 MAKERS Conference video Google Cloud's Li Sees Transformative Time for Enterprise video Past, Present and Future of AI / Machine Learning Google I/O video Research Symposium 2017 - Morning Keynote Address at Harker School video How we're teaching computers to understand pictures video Melinda Gates and Fei-Fei Li Want to Liberate AI from “Guy with Hoodies” article Dr. Fei-Fei Li Question of the week Where can I learn more about machine learning? Listing of some of the many resources out there in no particular order: How Google does Machine Learning coursera Machine Learning with Andrew Ng coursera and Deep Learning Specialization coursera fast.ai site Machine Learning with John W. Paisley edx Machine Learning Columbia University edx International Women's Day March 8th International Women's Day site covers information on events in your area, and additional resources. Sample of recent women in tech events to keep on radar for next year: Women Techmakers site Lesbians Who Tech site Women in Data Science Conference site Where can you find us next? Mark will be at the Game Developer's Conference | GDC in March.

This week, Leah Hinds hosts another installment in our series of Charleston Conference preconference previews! You can find registration for these sessions on the main conference registration page, and session details are available on the conference website. Charleston Library Conference Website Metadata Preconference Preview A big welcome to Clare Dean and Jennifer Kemp today! They’re presenting a preconference session titled, “Sharing and Discovery ‘Without Good Metadata, What is the Cost to Society? What Discoveries Are We Missing?” It’s scheduled for Tuesday, November 7, from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. Clare Dean is a Marketing and Communications Publishing Consultant and the Community Outreach Manager for Metadata 2020. With over 12 years of experience in the publishing industry, she has worked for a variety of publishers including John Wiley & Sons, Emerald Group Publishing, and most recently as the Director of Marketing and Communications for the open access journal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Jennifer Kemp is Crossref’s Outreach Manager for Metadata Delivery Services, working with a variety of organizations and publishers that use Crossref metadata.  Jennifer previously worked for Springer Nature and HighWire Press and remains influenced by her years as a librarian at IBM Research. ------------------------------------------ Next up, we’re talking with Colleen Campbell about the preconference session titled, “Evaluating a Growing Body of Evidence, on the Road to Strategic Decision Making for Collection Development and Open Access.” Motivated by a strong personal commitment to the principle of Open Access, Colleen Campbell recently joined the Max Planck Digital Library, based in Munich, Germany, to lead Partner Development in the global Open Access 2020 Initiative. In this role she facilitates collaboration among stakeholders in the transition from subscription-based dissemination of scholarly outputs to open access. Before coming to the MPDL, she held the position at the non-profit organization, ITHAKA, as European Director of Institutional Participation and Strategic Partnerships for JSTOR and the Portico digital preservation service. She is an active member of the scholarly communications community, as an elected member of the UKSG Main Committee and serving on the Open Scholarship Initiative Summit Group. She travels extensively, speaking frequently at industry events; the Charleston Conference community will remember her for her long-time collaboration with Casalini Libri. Also participating in this session are Kristin Antelman, University Librarian at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Ralf Schimmer, Head of Scientific Information Provision at the Max Planck Digital Library, and Éric Archambault, President and CEO of 1science and Science-Metrix.  

Today’s episode of our Colleges in the Spotlight series takes what our regular listeners will recognize as a surprising turn. You all may recall the many times we have championed the liberal arts as a great way for undergraduates to spend at least two--if not four--years. We have quoted many dignitaries from college presidents to elected Congressional leaders about the merits of liberal arts study. Let me be the first to say that I am not backing down on that. On the other hand, let me also offer a somewhat alternative view and to let you know what some colleges are doing about it. And, of course, remember to go to amazon.com and get a copy of our new book, How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students. It’s a book for your teenager to use this summer. You can go back and listen to Episodes 119 and 120 to find out what the book is all about. 1. The Problem We would like to thank John Hanc for his June 7 New York Times article, which profiled a number of colleges doing interesting work on the problem of college graduates who do not have the job skills that employers need, perhaps because their colleges did not have programs that focused sufficiently on those skills. The article quotes Gary Burtless, an economist with the Brookings Institution, as saying, on the other hand, that some higher education institutions “have their ear to the ground, they’re listening to local employers and paying attention to what they need.” Mr. Hanc’s article puts the spotlight on seven institutions and their innovative programs for closing the “skill gap,” and you should take a look at all seven. By the way, some programs are part of four-year undergraduate programs, some are part of two-year community college programs, and some are certificate programs that are not part of a two-year or four-year degree--something for everyone. But, for now, let’s put our spotlight on a handful of those institutions and programs. 2. The Innovative Programs Case Western Reserve University. Let’s start with Case Western Reserve University, a well-respected private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western enrolls almost 12,000 students, with slightly more graduate and professional students than undergraduate students. According to the article, Case Western offers 15-credit and 18-credit minors that are “responsive to changing industries and emerging technologies” and that could be “one of the more effective strategies for preparing students to enter high-demand fields” (quoted from the article). One of these minors is in applied data science. For those of you who don’t know what that is, applied data science includes skills in data management, distributed computing, informatics, and statistical analytics. (I hope that helped!) But here is some more information about the applied data science minor:  [This] Case minor has attracted students from majors like arts and sciences, engineering, business and health care. Graduates enter the market with an important and salable credential. A 2016 poll conducted by Gallup for the Business-Higher Education Forum found that 69 percent of employers expected that, by 2021, candidates with data science skills would get preference for jobs in their organizations. While that 69 percent figure might be frightening to some of us, it wasn’t frightening to Case Western, which appears to have responded effectively in order to close that skill gap for at least some of its graduates. My guess is that other minors Case Western offers close other skill gaps with equal success. You might want to go find out if your teenager is interested in a good private university in the Midwest. California Institute of Technology. Let’s turn to a program operated by the highly respected California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in cooperation with Base 11, a nonprofit that describes itself this way on its own website: “We connect employers, academic institutions, and entrepreneurial opportunities with high-potential, low-resource students who have shown interest and talent but lack the access and resources needed to realize their greatest potential.” (quoted from the website) In this joint program, community college students from across California “are mentored by Caltech graduate students through on-campus summer internships and semester-long programs.” (quoted from the article) As you might guess from the fact that the program is at Caltech, the focus of the program is on STEM fields and especially on aerospace engineering, which is a major field of employment in California. The results have been good. Interestingly, Base 11 runs similar programs in cooperation with the University of Southern California’s School of Engineering and with the University of California, Irvine (loyal listeners will remember that we spoke at length about UC Irvine and its Hispanic Serving Institution designation back in Episode 124). So kudos to you, Base 11, and to you again, UC Irvine. Lake Area Technical Institute. Awarded the Aspen Institute’s 2017 Prize for Community College Excellence, Lake Area Technical Institute (Watertown, SD) has gotten some pretty impressive results: a graduation rate that is twice the community college national average and a 99 percent job placement rate. How did that happen? Michael Cartney, president of Lake Area Technical Institute, is quoted as saying this in testimony to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee: “Tightly knit student cohorts in clearly defined graduation paths with close connections to their industry-trained instructors has been a formula for success.” (quoted in the article)  The article goes on to say that the Lake Area Technical Institute “holds its 2,400 students accountable, as if they were in a job setting” (quoted from the article). I would actually like to know more specifics about how that is done. It strikes me as a great idea, but I would be interested in the details. And finally, there are “close ties with local and regional industry (every major, for example, has an advisory board of industry professionals).” (quoted from the article) Having industry-based advisory boards is a proud tradition typical of many high school career and technical programs as well as community college technical programs. When it works well, it makes a lot of sense. It evidently is working well at Lake Area Technical Institute. If you believe that the purpose of college is to get a job--as many people do believe these days--then this college profile has to be judged as impressive. Miami Dade College. Now let me say a word about Miami Dade College (MDC), which is an enormous public community college with seven campuses in and near Miami, Florida. MDC enrolls more than 92,000 credit students, who study for certificates, for associate’s degrees in more than 150 majors, and even for bachelor’s degrees in more than 20 majors. About 70 percent of its students are Hispanic. According to the article, MDC has an innovative new degree in data analytics, which is described this way: The program begins with a certificate in business intelligence, progresses to an associate in science in business intelligence, and culminates in a bachelor of science in data analytics. The Labor Department defines this “stackable” approach as a sequence of credentials that can be accumulated to build up students’ qualifications and help them move along a career path. “This provides flexibility for those students who might need to be in the work force while in school,” said Karen Elzey, vice president of the Business-Higher Education Forum, which was a partner in starting the program. (quoted from the article) In my own experience working with community colleges, this is the kind of program that community colleges do really well. It is also the kind of program that understands that the average age of MDC credit students is 25, with about one-third of MDC credit students 26 or older. Adult students might understandably “need to be in the work force while in school,” just as Ms. Elzey said. Nevertheless, about one-third of MDC credit students are traditional-aged college students from 18 to 20. So, students do go directly from high school. And so could your teenager, especially if you live in southern Florida. Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology. Though I am a big fan of Ben Franklin, here is an institution that I had never heard of. Its beginnings are actually in Franklin’s 1790 will, in which he left Boston an endowment for the training of apprentices (that is, in those times, young men under 25). “I believe good apprentices are likely to make good citizens,” Franklin is quoted as writing in his will. Located in Boston’s South End, Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology “offers two- and four-year degrees in high-demand fields like health information technology, computer technology and automotive technology (in the planning stages: a program in driverless-car technology).” (quoted from the article) Its graduates seem to be getting jobs. I guess Franklin would say today that college graduates who can get good jobs quickly are likely to make good citizens. Maybe this is one more good idea that Ben Franklin had more than 225 years ago. 3. What Does This Mean for You? What does all this mean for you? It means that the degree to which a college can claim to bridge the career-related skills gap that employers are finding in college graduates is one more thing to consider when looking at colleges for your teenager. This is especially true if you are looking at community colleges and associate’s degrees as the best choice for your teenager immediately after high school. If you are a regular listener, you know that we have long been concerned about the low graduation rates and low transfer rates that many community colleges post. That worry doesn’t end here. But, a community college that can show you programs that lead to good careers--along with a high percentage of students who graduate and get jobs in those fields--could be worth a serious look. 4. Happy Fourth of July! So, in honor of the Fourth of July holiday, we are going to take a break next Thursday. We hope you have a wonderful celebration over the next five or so days. And we hope that you and your high schooler at home come back ready to work because senior year is fast approaching.   Find our books on Amazon! How To Find the Right College: A Workbook for Parents of High School Students (available as a Kindle ebook and in paperback) How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students (available in paperback) Ask your questions or share your feedback by... Leaving a comment on the show notes for this episode at http://usacollegechat.org/episode126 Calling us at (516) 900-6922 to record a question on our USACollegeChat voicemail if you want us to answer your question live on our podcast Connect with us through... 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Sajid Ahmed is the Chief Information and Innovation Officer of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles. He is leading the new hospital's $70 million health information technology initiative and launching an innovation hub on the 42-acre MLK Medical Center Campus. Mr. Ahmed is a true innovator and pioneer in healthcare information systems. He has unparalleled experience in all aspects of using computer technology and web-based applications to deliver the best quality of medical care to patients, facilitate collaboration among multiple and diverse medical care providers and systems, and increase the efficiency of healthcare environments. He is also a highly respected consultant on innovation, and frequently lectures about entrepreneurism and information technology for healthcare environments. Mr. Ahmed was formerly the director of health information technology and innovation for L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation's largest public plan serving more than one million Los Angeles County residents through free or low-cost health insurance programs. He was responsible for coordinating, managing and integrating healthcare information technology and eHealth initiatives among multiple users and partners. This includes all medical care providers, community organizations, government agencies, vendors and other health information technologies. He served as vice chair of the organization's Technical Advisory Committee. One of his most significant contributions to L.A. Care is the creation of HITEC-LA (Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center for Los Angeles County) for electronic health record adoption and implementation for providers throughout L.A. County. Before leaving L.A. Care, Mr. Ahmed created and launched eConsult in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. eConsult is an innovative telehealth system that allows for virtual consultations and collaboration with specialists. As eConsult expands throughout California and accumulates thousands of end users, it is becoming a national model for the standard for care coordination and access to specialty care in the U.S. Prior to eConsult, Mr. Ahmed was the visionary behind SelfMD™; developed the ELICIT™ concept (emulating logical inferences of cognition and intuition theory), and was instrumental in getting the U.S. Military Medical Command to adopt advanced diagnostic technologies and electronic health records systems. He also served as co-chair on health IT committees for California's Health and Human Services Agency, helping to draft the state's $38.8 million Health Information Technology strategic plan. Mr. Ahmed has lectured at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health, and as a guest lecturer at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), University of Southern California (USC) and CalState LA. He was honored for his teaching at the USC Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and also was a finalist for the Advanced Business League (ABL) Innovative Leadership Award on Healthcare. Currently he is an advisory board member of the California Health eQuality Initiative based at the University of California, Davis. Earlier this year he was lauded as CIO of the Year by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Chief Information & Innovations Officer, Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital, Healthcare Corporation Former Senior Director, Health Information Technology & Innovation for L.A. Care Health Plan Former Executive Director & Founder of HITEC-LA, LA County's Regional Extension Center for EHR Adoption Director, Safety Net eConsult Program for Los Angeles Former Interim Chief Information Officer, Healthcare First South LA - ACO 00:00 Artificial Intelligence as a Disruptor in Healthcare. 03:20 The definition of AI. 04:10 AI in 2017. 05:20 Deep Learning as a component of AI. 05:30 Backpropagation Learning. 07:05 What Artificial Intelligence adds to coding. 13:00 “If you have AI looking at Health Plan Data & EMRs, they'll be able to do predictive analytics.” 14:00 “Some systems that find themselves late to the game may find themselves behind the curve.” 15:15 Where AI fits into Healthcare. 17:20 ‘Augmented Intelligence' vs. Artificial Intelligence. 18:50 “How we introduce AI tools is really important.” 21:30 IBM and AI. 23:20 Other innovative companies using and implementing AI. 26:00 “You can disrupt.”

Last week in our Colleges in the Spotlight series, we took you to the U.K. to consider what it might be like to attend college full time outside the U.S. We looked specifically at Richmond, the American International University in London, a unique university dually accredited in the U.S. and the U.K. We hoped that taking a close look at Richmond--and, more generally, at the value of full-time study at universities abroad--might persuade some of you to leave your geographic comfort zone.  But, in case a trip across the Atlantic (or the Pacific) seems too big a geographic leap for you, today’s episode lets you stay a little closer to home. We are going to look at colleges in Canada, our close ally and important trading partner to the north. Let me say that I have known about colleges in Canada for decades, first because of a childhood Canadian friend and later because McGill University in Montreal has been an increasingly popular college choice for students in the Northeast for many years now. Then, six years ago, my nephew, who was raised in Seattle, decided to attend the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and had a great four years there. So, it has been with some interest that I have read a variety of articles in the news in the past six months about the new appeal of Canadian colleges for U.S. students. And, let us remind you, that you should go to amazon.com and get a copy of our new book, How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students. The workbook will help your teenager know what questions to ask about colleges of interest to him or her and will help your teenager research the answers. Let me say, by the way, that one of our favorite sources of college information, the National Center for Education Statistics’ College Navigator, does not provide data about colleges outside the U.S. So, if your teenager likes our notion of studying full time outside the U.S., he or she will have to dig a little harder to answer all of the questions we pose in our book. 1. The New Statistics So, what’s all this about Canada? Well, in an article about two months ago in The Washington Post, Susan Svrluga wrote about the increased interest of U.S. students in Canadian universities and the possible reasons for it. Here are some of the statistics she provides in the article:  Applications to Canadian universities from students outside of Canada are on the upswing, and the number of international students studying at Canadian universities has doubled in the past 10 years. Twice as many students as usual have been looking for information on the Universities Canada website since last November. The website “offers profiles of Canadian universities, a large study programs database and helps you plan your university education. The information on [the] site is provided by Universities Canada and its 97 member universities.” (quoted from the website) Some of the best Canadian universities have seen dramatic increases in U.S. applications: a 25 percent increase at McGill; a 35 percent increase at McMaster University, a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario; and an 80 percent increase at the University of Toronto. And the price is attractive, too. According to The Washington Post article, “At the current exchange rate, tuition and fees are about $13,000 less for an international student’s first year at the University of Toronto than they would be at Harvard, and $11,000 less than out-of-state rates at the University of Virginia.” So, as we said about Richmond last week, the cost of attending some excellent universities outside the U.S. is surprisingly reasonable, though not necessarily cheap. The Universities Canada website offers eight reasons for attending college in Canada. All of them are good, but I can see how the following four might resonate with some U.S. students and with other foreign students who are looking for a safe college environment and secure future: Affordability: While Canada’s quality of education and standard of living are among the highest in the world, the cost of living and tuition fees are generally lower than in other countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. Support services: International students benefit from services to help them transition to living and studying in Canada: orientation activities, student advisors, language support, academic associations, social clubs and other programs at their educational institutions. Cultural diversity: Canada ranks among the most multicultural nations in the world. Regardless of ethnic origin, international students feel at home in our diverse and welcoming communities and campuses. Opportunity to stay in Canada after graduation: International students have the opportunity to work during their studies and after they graduate. University graduates may also be eligible to transition to permanent residence in Canada. Visit the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website for more information. (quoted from the Universities Canada website) The Washington Post article quoted Ted Sargent, a vice president at the University of Toronto, which recruits outside Canada, including in the U.S. Sargent said, “Canada is having a moment. It is a time of opportunity. . . . A lot of people know that half of the people in Toronto were not born in Canada. Canada is a place that is focused on attracting talent from around the world. . . . That messaging about diversity and inclusivity is very resonant today.” One can see how Canada’s open arms are appealing to the students and their families who are concerned about the ramifications of the Brexit vote in the U.K. and who are concerned about some of the new proposed immigration policies in the U.S. The Washington Post article offers several insightful anecdotes about individual students, including a long story about one Syrian graduate student’s difficulties in getting back into the U.S. after a trip to check on the humanitarian medical work he had been doing in Turkey. Interestingly, Universities Canada published a statement after our president’s first executive order about immigration. Here it is: “Universities Canada does not typically comment on executive action being taken by another country, but we do so today because of the real impediment this new executive order poses to the free flow of people and ideas and to the values of diversity, inclusion and openness that are hallmarks of a strong and healthy society.” (quoted from the article) 2. Check Out Universities Canada! I think it is worth it for you and your teenager to check out the Universities Canada website and read some of the profiles of the universities that you will find there. As Americans unfortunately are with many things about Canada (including its history and government), I think we are quite ignorant of its higher education system. That seems ridiculous when many top Canadian universities are a lot closer to where some of us live than universities in a distant part of our own country. We likely know more about Canada’s ice hockey and baseball teams, its actors and singers who have big careers in our country, and our television industry’s use of Vancouver to film some of our favorite shows than we know about its universities. I think once you see some of its universities’ reasonable tuition rates, you will be sorry you didn’t think of Canada sooner (this is also true for graduate programs, by the way). So, what are the best universities in Canada? I thought a decent source might be the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2016–2017, which lists the top 980 universities in the world. If you don’t know it, Times Higher Education is a weekly publication based in London. Its website explains its rankings this way: [Ours] is the only global university performance table to judge world class universities across all of their core missions--teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings use 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments. For the [World University Rankings], [our] in-house data team now ranks 2,150 institutions worldwide, with 1 million data points analysed across 2,600 institutions in 93 countries. In 2016, the global media reach of the rankings was almost 700 million. (quoted from the website) That’s a lot of institutions and a lot of data. Just so you know, the five top-ranked institutions worldwide, according to this list, are the University of Oxford, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Stanford University, the University of Cambridge, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Here are the top six Canadian universities, along with their world ranking, according to this list. So, if you have a smart teenager, you might want to start with the profiles of these, available on the Times Higher Education website: University of Toronto--22 University of British Columbia (with a student body that is 25 percent international)--36 McGill University--42 University of Montreal (the only French-speaking one in the top five)--103 University of Alberta (in Edmonton)--107 McMaster University--113 Of course, just as there are in the U.S., there are many other great universities in Canada. Your teenager doesn’t have to go to one of the top six anymore than he or she has to go to one of the top six in the U.S. or one of the top six in the world. The Universities Canada website can give you all the information you need about many universities to start your search. 3. A Personal Reflection Maybe if we had written our new book this week instead of a couple of months ago, we would have added another requirement for building your teenager’s long list of college options (or LLCO, as we called it). If you don’t already have the book, we ask that your teenager put together an LLCO that includes two four-year colleges in each of the nine geographic regions of the U.S., at least two public flagship universities, and one college outside of the U.S. All of this is, of course, designed to get you all outside your geographic comfort zone--where, undoubtedly, some of the best higher education is happening. So, if we had written the book today, we might have said that your teenager’s LLCO should also include one Canadian university. Given everything we have just read, it wouldn’t have been a bad idea. Find our books on Amazon! 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Michael has put together a compilation of past appearances aggregated into a four hour episode. Guests today include: Daniel Kahneman, Laurie Santos, Steven Kotler, Anders Ericsson, Philip Tetlock, and Colin Camerer. Daniel Kahneman has been called the most important psychologist alive today. He is the 2002 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and is the guy behind the theories of behavioral economics and behavioral finance. Laurie Santos is a professor of psychology and cognitive sciences at Yale University. Her research explores the evolutionary origins of the human mind by comparing the cognitive abilities of human and non-human primates. Santos is able to look at monkeys and their behavior in markets and money, and see the similarities with humans. Kotler is an American bestselling author, journalist, and entrepreneur. His articles have appeared in over 70 publications, including The New York Times Magazine, LA Times, etc. Anders Ericsson is a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He is internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. His new book is “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise.” Philip Tetlock is a Canadian American political science writer currently at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is right at the intersection of psychology, political science and organizational behavior. His book, “Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction,” is about probabilistic thinking defined. Colin Camerer is an American behavioral economist and a Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Camerer’s research is the interface between cognitive psychology and economics. In this episode of Trend Following Radio: Remembering self vs. Experiencing self How the measures of happiness are being implemented into public policy How failure to accept one’s losses can lead to risk-taking in trading Crowd behavior relating economic bubbles Why capitalism is largely driven by optimism Behavioral economics affecting the trading world Monkeys and humans The monkey economy The endowment effect G.I. Joe fallacy Discipline and practice Solo and group practice Flow state Social motivation The late birthday rule 10,000 hours of practice Nature vs. nurture Brain plasticity What are superforecasters? Probabilistic thinking Looking at data The basis of decision making

My guest today is Colin Camerer, an American behavioral economist and a Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Camerer's research is on the interface between cognitive psychology and economics. This work seeks a better understanding of the psychological and neurobiological basis of decision-making in order to determine the validity of models of human economic behavior. His research uses mostly economics experiments—and occasionally field studies—to understand how people behave when making decisions (e.g., risky gambles for money), in games, and in markets (e.g., speculative price bubbles). The topics are cognitive psychology and economics. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Why Camerer was called a child prodigy, and how he looks at that term in the context of nurture vs. nature Synthesizing behavioral economics and neuroscience; understanding Camerer's studies when traders aren't looking at the market on a day-to-day basis; how we can stimulate the brain to create a bubble The ethical issues surrounding Camerer's work Machine learning and data mining Neuroscience and game theory Comparing humans and chimps in the study of neuroscience How trust correlates with economic growth How emotion functions in the modern world Jump in! --- I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/ You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/ Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Michael Covel speaks with Colin Camerer on today’s podcast. Camerer is an American behavioral economist and a Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Camerer's research is on the interface between cognitive psychology and economics. This work seeks a better understanding of the psychological and neurobiological basis of decision-making in order to determine the validity of models of human economic behavior. His research uses mostly economics experiments—and occasionally field studies—to understand how people behave when making decisions (e.g., risky gambles for money), in games, and in markets (e.g., speculative price bubbles). Covel and Camerer discuss why Camerer was called a child prodigy, and how he looks at that term in the context of nurture vs. nature; synthesizing behavioral economics and neuroscience; understanding Camerer’s studies when traders aren’t looking at the market on a day-to-day basis; how we can stimulate the brain to create a bubble; the ethical issues surrounding Camerer’s work; machine learning and data mining; neuroscience and game theory; comparing humans and chimps in the study of neuroscience; how trust correlates with economic growth; and how emotion functions in the modern world. Want a free trend following DVD? Go to trendfollowing.com/win.  

Departments Organizational Chart Fiscal Information Computer Services Annual Report 2009 Publications Staff & Contact Info Contact Form Research Calendar Vice Chancellor for Research * MU Home * » Provost * » MU Research * » Vice Chancellor for Research Robert Duncan.Robert Duncan Robert Duncan received his bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982 and his doctorate in physics from the University of California-Santa Barbara in 1988. He has served as a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of New Mexico (UNM), as a visiting associate on the physics faculty of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), as a joint associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UNM, and as the associate dean for research in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNM. An expert in low temperature physics, Dr. Duncan has served as principal investigator on a fundamental physics research program for NASA. As director of the New Mexico Consortium’s Institute for Advanced Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he has worked to fund major conferences and summer schools in quantitative biology, information science and technology, energy and environment, and astrophysics and cosmology. To date Dr. Duncan has received more than $8 million in funding for research efforts he has led as principle investigator. He joined the University of Missouri faculty as Vice Chancellor for Research in August 2008. As vice chancellor, Dr. Duncan heads the University’s research enterprise and its more than $250 million per year in contracts and grants. His responsibilities include management of MU's major research facilities (among them the nation’s largest university-based research reactor), its multiple interdisciplinary research centers, and its economic development and technology incubation efforts. Dr. Duncan is a fellow and life member of the American Physical Society (APS). He was named the Gordon and Betty Moore Distinguished Scholar in the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at Caltech in 2004, and has recently served as chair for both the APS's Topical Group on Instrumentation and Measurement and the International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids. He has consulted extensively to industry, co-inventing and assisting in the formation of three companies working in alternative energy and in minimally invasive cancer surgery and diagnostics.

Departments Organizational Chart Fiscal Information Computer Services Annual Report 2009 Publications Staff & Contact Info Contact Form Research Calendar Vice Chancellor for Research * MU Home * » Provost * » MU Research * » Vice Chancellor for Research Robert Duncan.Robert Duncan Robert Duncan received his bachelor's degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982 and his doctorate in physics from the University of California-Santa Barbara in 1988. He has served as a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of New Mexico (UNM), as a visiting associate on the physics faculty of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), as a joint associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UNM, and as the associate dean for research in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNM. An expert in low temperature physics, Dr. Duncan has served as principal investigator on a fundamental physics research program for NASA. As director of the New Mexico Consortium’s Institute for Advanced Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he has worked to fund major conferences and summer schools in quantitative biology, information science and technology, energy and environment, and astrophysics and cosmology. To date Dr. Duncan has received more than $8 million in funding for research efforts he has led as principle investigator. He joined the University of Missouri faculty as Vice Chancellor for Research in August 2008. As vice chancellor, Dr. Duncan heads the University’s research enterprise and its more than $250 million per year in contracts and grants. His responsibilities include management of MU's major research facilities (among them the nation’s largest university-based research reactor), its multiple interdisciplinary research centers, and its economic development and technology incubation efforts. Dr. Duncan is a fellow and life member of the American Physical Society (APS). He was named the Gordon and Betty Moore Distinguished Scholar in the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at Caltech in 2004, and has recently served as chair for both the APS's Topical Group on Instrumentation and Measurement and the International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids. He has consulted extensively to industry, co-inventing and assisting in the formation of three companies working in alternative energy and in minimally invasive cancer surgery and diagnostics.