Podcasts about Thorndike

Start the new year by finally making peace with MCAT CARS. In this CARS Reading Skills Workshop episode of the Jack Westin MCAT Podcast, we walk through a full Jack Westin Daily CARS passage called “Standardized Tests” (posted on December 31) and show you exactly how to think while you read.We treat this like a live CARS tutoring session: reading sentence by sentence, talking through confusion, and mapping the author's argument so main idea questions feel way less mysterious.In this MCAT CARS episode, you'll learn how to:

I always say the most valuable people to interview are capital allocators, because they have to answer to their clients for their market calls.They are judged not by their opinions, but by their results.Today, we're fortunate to hear from one of the most-respected capital management firms in the world: Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo -- which was co-founded by the great investor Jeremey Grantham and currently manages over $65 billion of client assets.Specifically, we're sitting down with John Thorndike Co-Head of Asset Allocation, who co-manages GMO's Dynamic Allocation & International Value ETFs.We'll discuss GMO's outlook for 2026 and where the firm sees the biggest risks & opportunities for investors.John sees that International Value stocks are set to outperform US Growth stocks in coming years.To find out why, watch this video.WORRIED ABOUT THE MARKET? SCHEDULE YOUR FREE PORTFOLIO REVIEW with Thoughtful Money's endorsed financial advisors at https://www.thoughtfulmoney.comHere are the ETFs John mentions in this video:- GMOD: https://www.gmo.com/americas/product-index-page/multi-asset-class/dynamic-allocation-strategy/dynamic-allocation-etf/- DRES: https://www.gmo.com/americas/product-index-page/equities/domestic-resilience-strategy/domestic-resilience-etf/?accept=Funds- GMOI: https://www.gmo.com/americas/product-index-page/equities/international-opportunistic-value-strategy/international-value-etf/- GMOV: https://www.gmo.com/americas/product-index-page/equities/u.s.-opportunistic-value-strategy/u.s.-value-etf#valueinvesting #internationalinvesting #jeremeygrantham_____________________________________________ Thoughtful Money LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor Promoter.We produce educational content geared for the individual investor. It's important to note that this content is NOT investment advice, individual or otherwise, nor should be construed as such.We recommend that most investors, especially if inexperienced, should consider benefiting from the direction and guidance of a qualified financial advisor registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or state securities regulators who can develop & implement a personalized financial plan based on a customer's unique goals, needs & risk tolerance.IMPORTANT NOTE: There are risks associated with investing in securities.Investing in stocks, bonds, exchange traded funds, mutual funds, money market funds, and other types of securities involve risk of loss. Loss of principal is possible. Some high risk investments may use leverage, which will accentuate gains & losses. Foreign investing involves special risks, including a greater volatility and political, economic and currency risks and differences in accounting methods.A security's or a firm's past investment performance is not a guarantee or predictor of future investment performance.Thoughtful Money and the Thoughtful Money logo are trademarks of Thoughtful Money LLC.Copyright © 2025 Thoughtful Money LLC. All rights reserved.

Desde una perspectiva conductista (de hecho cita a Thorndike), para construir hábitos, el autor propone cuatro pasos: señal, anhelo, respuesta, recompensa. Entender estos cuatro pasos (o ciclo de los hábitos) permite mejorar la adquisición de hábitos.1 Señal: Desencadena el proceso en el cerebro qué inicia determinada conducta. Es una pequeña porción de información que anticipa la recompensa.2 Anhelo: Son la fuerza motivacional detrás de cada hábito. No se anhela el hábito, se anhela el cambio de estado que trae consigo. Los anhelos difieren de una persona a otra, por lo que pensamientos, sentimientos y emociones del observador son las que transforman una señal en un anhelo.3 Respuesta: Es justamente el hábito que realizamos. Depende de la motivación y la competencia.4 Recompensa: Son las metas finales de cada hábito. Las recompensas nos satisfacen y nos enseñan. Proporcionan beneficios por sí mismas a la vez que nos enseñan qué acciones vale la pena recordar en el futuro.A partir de esta presentación del ciclo de los hábitos, desarrollamos en un nivel más específico lo siguiente:Para crear un hábito: ¿Cómo hacerlo obvio? (señal), ¿Cómo hacerlo atractivo? (anhelo), ¿Cómo hacerlo sencillo? (Respuesta) y ¿Cómo hacerlo satisfactorio? (recompensa) Y, para eliminar un mal hábito: ¿Cómo hacerlo invisible? (señal), ¿Cómo hacerlo poco atractivo? (anhelo), ¿Cómo hacerlo difícil? (respuesta) y ¿Cómo hacerlo insatisfactorio? (recompensa).Y lo explicamos desde la perspectiva de la PNL 

Skura odpowiada na pytanie, czym jest tytułowy las, oraz czy jest to dobra lektura na wakacje/wyjazdy/wycieczki. Ponadto odpowiada na pytania kto mógłby zekranizować tę powieść, dlaczego Stephen King chwali tę książkę oraz czy warto czytać ją przechodząc covid. Jak podaje sam wydawca: „2017 rok, Nowa Zelandia. Wskutek katastrofalnego osunięcia ziemi na przełęczy Korowai miasteczko Thorndike oraz leżąca nieopodal spora farma zostają odcięte od świata. Okazję chce wykorzystać Las Birnamski – nieformalny, na poły przestępczy, na poły filantropijny, tajny kolektyw ogrodniczy, który sadzi rośliny tam, gdzie nikt tego nie zauważy.” To bardzo ciekawa lektura, która wymagała długiego podcastu, dlatego zapraszamy na spacer po lesie, z audycją w tle!

Crime on a SundayFirst a look at the events of the dayThen, The Line Up starring William Johnstone, originally broadcast July 27, 1950, 75 years ago, The Paradise Murder Case.  A drunk named Jeffrey Carver is suspected of assault and kidnapping. Followed by Somebody Knows, originally broadcast July 27, 1950, 75 years ago, The Unsolved Murder Of Frank J. Christenson.  On December 12, 1949, an honest politician was "mowed down" in Cicero, Illinois. He was fighting the return of gambling. Was this a mob killing? It's worth $10,000 to CBS (and Christenson's widow) to find out if "the syndicate" was involved. Then, Crime and Peter Chambers starring Dane Clark, originally broadcast July 27, 1954, 71 years ago.  Byron Thorndike hires Peter Chambers to guard the $50,000 prize money of the "Miss Universe" contest. When Thorndike is stabbed to death, one of the three beauty contest finalists must have killed him. Followed by Crime Classics, originally broadcast July 27, 1953, 72 years ago, The Final Day Of General Ketchum and How He Died.  How did the General die? Damned if we know!Finally, Lum and Abner, originally broadcast July 27, 1942, 83 years ago, Coat-of-arms in Newspaper. Does the baby belong to a Lodge? Grandpappy Spears has seen the coat of arms in the newspaper. What does it mean?Thanks to Laurel for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamIf you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old time radio shows 24 hours a day

 Our teacher today is Will Thorndike, co-founder of Compounding Labs and author of the acclaimed book, “The Outsiders.” In our opinion, Will has emerged as one of the most influential and innovative investor minds of the past few decades. And if you care about long-term value creation and the art of capital allocation, chances are you've also benefited from some of his ideas.  In 1994, he founded Housatonic Partners, a pioneering private equity firm known for its unusually long holding periods and its leadership in the search fund space alongside his mentor and Stanford professor Irv Grousbeck. Will helped to originate the modern search fund model, backing early career CEOs to buy and grow businesses with long-term horizons and radically aligned incentives. Since then, he has invested in the majority of the top 20 search fund outcomes to date, including Asurion, which he recently profiled on his podcast 50X.  We explore Will's full arc from the research that led to “The Outsiders” to his decades as an investor to the new frontier he's now helping to shape. We talk about what makes a business truly enduring, why great leadership and resource allocation remain so misunderstood, and how the right people, structure, and alignment enable companies to compound over time. Please enjoy this class with Will Thorndike. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here. —-- Joys of Compounding is a property of Pine Grove Studios in collaboration with Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Joys of Compounding, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.  Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Follow us on Twitter: @Buhrman_Rick  | @PaulBuser | @JoinColossus Show Notes (00:00:00) Welcome to The Joys of Compounding (00:00:57) Introducing Will Thorndike (00:03:35) The Rise of Long Duration Serial Acquisition Holding Companies (00:07:25) The 50X Podcast Journey (00:16:29) The Origins of Will's Investing Career (00:18:11) Stanford's Influence and Key Mentors (00:23:48) The Search Fund Model Explained (00:39:18) The Outsiders: From Concept to Acclaim (00:46:33) The Influence of Leverage and Share Buybacks (00:47:30) Personal Reflections on the Book's Impact (00:52:54) Experiments in Public Markets: CNX and Perimeter (00:58:35) The Evolution of Inorganic Growth Models (01:02:52) The Power of Long-Term Ownership (01:14:52) The Importance of Relationships and Learning

Hey CEO- Can I call you sis cuz we're sisters in Christ? There's something about coming together with other like-hearted women in Biz that scales your growth like nothing else. Cuz we need each other, especially when it feels lonely in the moment. That's why we're coming together as a sisterhood at the IT'S TIME CONFERENCE this September.And that's why I'm excited to introduce one of our VIP day speakers Elizabeth ThorndikeElizabeth is a speaker, writer, and wellness advocate with a deep passion for helping others live fully in God's love as you navigating life's challenges.With a heart rooted in women's ministry, Elizabeth inspires women to embrace their unique callings and face life's trials with unshakable faith and resilience.On this episode we talk about:How to combat isolation in business with sisterhoodWhy God created us to be a body that needs each otherHow deep relationships help accelerate our growthCuz sis, we're meant to collab, not compare. Can't wait for you to get this sneak peek of the IT'S TIME CONFERENCE and get to know Elizabeth today…Better yet, we can't wait to hang out with you in Nashville, sis!Click the link below to learn more + grab a spot with code GETINTHEROOMWe pray this blesses, challenges and moves you to action!YOU. HAVE. TIME. Lissa + ElizabethCheck out Elizabeth's Business-tries...Moment2Moment Ministrieswww.moment2momentministries.org ----- Non-Profitwww.moment2momentmasterpiece.com - BlogP.S. Come hang with us in the REDEEM Her Time Community https://redeemhertime.com/communityP.P.S. Check out the IT'S TIME CONFERENCE Experience to get in the room with 100 Christian Women Business Owners who wanna be FAITH-ful + FRUITful with their TIME. https://redeemhertime.com/conference use code GETINTHEROOM to save $500 for a limited time

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Rob does a mountainside chat with Will Thorndike, private equity investor and author of "The Outsiders", at RV Capital's Annual Gathering in Engelberg on 12 January 2025.

Born in the 13th century, Pietro d'Abano was referred to variously as “the Great Lombard,” “the Conciliator,” and, in at least one case, a “great necromancer.” This scholar and physician faced various troubles relating to heresy or sorcery, and stories swirl around him of calling on demons or magically making spent coins return to his purse. If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here. I'm on BlueSky @a-devon.bsky.social, Twitter @circus_human, Instagram @humancircuspod, and I have some things on Redbubble. Sources: Browning, Robert. The Complete Works of Robert Browning. Ohio University Press, 2007. Garin, Eugenio. History of Italian Philosophy, Volume 1. Translated by Giorgio Pinton. Rodopi, 2008. Hasse, Dag Nikolaus. "Pietro d'Abano's 'Conciliator' and the Theory of the Soul in Paris," After the Condemnation of 1277: Philosophy and Theology at the University of Paris in the Last Quarter of the Thirteenth Century. Edited by Jan A. Aertsen, Kent Emery, and Andreas Speer. Walter de Gruyter, 2013. Prioreschi, Plinio. A History of Medicine: Medieval Medicine. Horatius Press, 1996. Tafu, Pedro. Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures (1435-1439). Translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. Harper & brothers, 1926. Thorndike, Lynn. A History of Magic and Experimental Science Volume 2. Columbia University Press, 1923. Touwaide, Alain. "Pietro d'Abano, De venenis: Reintroducing Greek Toxicology in Late Medieval Medicine." Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Edited by Philip Wexler. Academic Press, 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We take an in depth look at Camila Thorndike, the woman hired by Kamala Harris to be the nation's climate advisor. We became terrified at the changes Thorndike would attempt to bring about. Would you live to be 107 if it meant you had to have a horn sticking out of your head. Johnny Heidt with guitar news.Heard On The Show:St. Paul officers shoot, injure man who refused to put down gun, officials say19-year-old charged in shooting that injured 3 teens near State Fair, charter schoolFires set at ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington state are 'connected' as hundreds of ballots are lost Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We take an in depth look at Camila Thorndike, the woman hired by Kamala Harris to be the nation's climate advisor. We became terrified at the changes Thorndike would attempt to bring about. Would you live to be 107 if it meant you had to have a horn sticking out of your head. Johnny Heidt with guitar news. Heard On The Show: St. Paul officers shoot, injure man who refused to put down gun, officials say 19-year-old charged in shooting that injured 3 teens near State Fair, charter school Fires set at ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington state are 'connected' as hundreds of ballots are lost Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- While speaking with Politico, Camila Thorndike—Harris Campaign's Climate Engagement Director—revealed that Kamala Harris does not support the expansion of land leases for fracking, and the subsequent expansion of domestic energy production. Earlier in the campaign, Harris had emphasized the expansion of fracking leases via the Inflation Reduction Act, alluding to the idea that it would be a policy she supported moving forward. Notably, while running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2019, Harris had called for an outright ban on fracking. Thorndike's revelation now marks the third alteration of Harris's position on fracking. Can Pennsylvanians believe anything she is saying on this subject? 3:25pm- While speaking at a Latino Roundtable in Miami, Florida, Donald Trump couldn't believe that his political rival Kamala Harris was taking the day off from the campaign trail despite the presidential election being just two-weeks away. He hilariously stated: “I can't get over it…She's lazy as hell.” 3:40pm- Democrats in Swing States Are Now Running Away From Harris. In a new report from Alexander Bolton of The Hill writes: “Democrats running for the Senate in ‘blue wall' states that will be critical to determining the outcome of the 2024 election are running away from Vice President Harris, signaling that they are hoping to win over some of former President Trump's voters to keep their seats. And Democratic candidates in those states have been careful about criticizing Trump during the high-stakes debates. They have focused on policy and their own records without taking many—or any—shots against the Republican nominee.” Bolton notes that Democrats Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Senate Candidate Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) are distancing themselves from Harris. He writes that Slotkin “has sounded like a Republican at times, talking about her home on a ‘dirt road' where no electric vehicle would dare go. She has flashed Trumpian rhetoric about how Japan and South Korea ‘ate our lunch' in the 1980s by being a step ahead of U.S. automakers in promoting fuel-efficient vehicles.” You can read the full article here: https://thehill.com/homenews/4945815-democratic-candidates-avoid-harris-blue-wall/ 3:55pm- Rich reads hate mail from listeners—and Matt wonders why he was attacked too! He didn't even do anything.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (10/22/2024): 3:05pm- While speaking with Politico, Camila Thorndike—Harris Campaign's Climate Engagement Director—revealed that Kamala Harris does not support the expansion of land leases for fracking, and the subsequent expansion of domestic energy production. Earlier in the campaign, Harris had emphasized the expansion of fracking leases via the Inflation Reduction Act, alluding to the idea that it would be a policy she supported moving forward. Notably, while running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2019, Harris had called for an outright ban on fracking. Thorndike's revelation now marks the third alteration of Harris's position on fracking. Can Pennsylvanians believe anything she is saying on this subject? 3:25pm- While speaking at a Latino Roundtable in Miami, Florida, Donald Trump couldn't believe that his political rival Kamala Harris was taking the day off from the campaign trail despite the presidential election being just two-weeks away. He hilariously stated: “I can't get over it…She's lazy as hell.” 3:40pm- Democrats in Swing States Are Now Running Away From Harris. In a new report from Alexander Bolton of The Hill writes: “Democrats running for the Senate in ‘blue wall' states that will be critical to determining the outcome of the 2024 election are running away from Vice President Harris, signaling that they are hoping to win over some of former President Trump's voters to keep their seats. And Democratic candidates in those states have been careful about criticizing Trump during the high-stakes debates. They have focused on policy and their own records without taking many—or any—shots against the Republican nominee.” Bolton notes that Democrats Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Senate Candidate Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) are distancing themselves from Harris. He writes that Slotkin “has sounded like a Republican at times, talking about her home on a ‘dirt road' where no electric vehicle would dare go. She has flashed Trumpian rhetoric about how Japan and South Korea ‘ate our lunch' in the 1980s by being a step ahead of U.S. automakers in promoting fuel-efficient vehicles.” You can read the full article here: https://thehill.com/homenews/4945815-democratic-candidates-avoid-harris-blue-wall/ 3:55pm- Rich reads hate mail from listeners—and Matt wonders why he was attacked too! He didn't even do anything. 4:05pm- Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance delivers remarks from Peoria, Arizona. He implores voters to cast their ballots and to bring nine friends with them to the polls on Election Day—noting that it is the only legal way to vote 10x and hilariously predicts that The New York Times will simply take his comments out of context and claim the Trump-Vance ticket encourages voter fraud. 4:30pm- While speaking at a Latino Roundtable in Miami, Florida, Donald Trump couldn't believe that his political rival Kamala Harris was taking the day off from the campaign trail despite the presidential election being just two-weeks away. He hilariously stated: “I can't get over it…She's lazy as hell.” Aside from the roundtable in Miami, Trump will also hold a campaign event in Greensboro, North Carolina later tonight. Meanwhile, JD Vance is hosting two campaign events in Arizona. 4:40pm- Elon Musk's Companies Have Faced At Least 20 Federal Probes. Mairead Elordi of The Daily Wire writes: “Elon Musk's many successful companies have reportedly faced at least 20 federal investigations and reviews in recent years. Tesla and SpaceX especially have faced heavy scrutiny, red tape, and fines over the course of their operations, The New York Times reported. These two companies also contract heavily with the federal government—last year, Musk's companies secured nearly $3 billion across 100 contracts with 17 federal agencies. The Times declared that Musk's ‘influence over the federal government is extraordinary, and extraordinarily lucrative' although it ...

Camila Thorndike joined Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign last month as its climate engagement director. Today, POLITICO's Josh Siegel discusses his recent conversation with Thorndike, her new role and background, and how Harris is mobilizing voters with only a couple weeks left before the election. Plus, the Energy Department is opening up $900 million in funding to deploy small modular reactors across the U.S. Josh Siegel is an energy reporter for POLITICO.  Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer.  Annie Rees is the managing producer for audio at POLITICO. Alex Keeney is a senior audio producer at POLITICO. Gloria Gonzalez is the deputy energy editor for POLITICO.  Matt Daily is the energy editor for POLITICO. For more news on energy and the environment, subscribe to Power Switch, our free evening newsletter: https://www.politico.com/power-switch And for even deeper coverage and analysis, read our Morning Energy newsletter by subscribing to POLITICO Pro: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter-archive/morning-energy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have we lost our everyday creativity? In the latest episode of the "Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast," hosts Cyndi Burnett and Matthew Worwood engage in a thought-provoking conversation with esteemed guest Dr. Ruth Richards, an expert on everyday creativity. The trio delves into the concept of emergence, highlighting its unpredictable nature and its parallels to learning, growth, and societal development. Dr. Richards challenges the traditional reliance on IQ testing as the sole measure of creativity, referencing the historical context provided by psychologist Abraham Maslow and his collaboration with Thorndike on the idea of self-actualization. This conversation emphasizes the importance of nurturing individual strengths and interests to foster a more inclusive and creative educational environment. The episode also touches on practical ways to integrate creativity into the classroom. Dr. Richards suggests three actionable tips for educators: ask questions to provoke thought, explore the creativity inherent in nature, and cultivate a mindful state of creativity. These methods aim to encourage a new normal in education—one that embraces diversity, individuality, and dynamic change. Learn more about Ruth Richards here! Book: Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind Check out our Fueling Creativity in Education website! Eager to bring more creativity into your school district? Check out our sponsor Curiosity2Create.org and CreativeThinkingNetwork.com What to learn more about Design Thinking in Education?  Do you want to build a sustained culture of innovation and creativity at your school? Visit WorwoodClassroom.com to understand how Design Thinking can promote teacher creativity and support professional growth in the classroom.  Subscribe to our monthly newsletter!

Welcome back to THE IAS COMPANION. Follow us on YouTube: ⁠www.youtube.com/@IASCompanion⁠. In today's lecture, we will explore problem solving in psychology, a vital cognitive process used to overcome obstacles and achieve goals. Whether it's solving everyday issues or complex puzzles, problem solving involves transitioning from a current state to a desired goal using various strategies. We'll examine two key approaches: the behaviorist view, exemplified by Thorndike's trial-and-error experiments, and the Gestalt approach, which emphasizes insight, as seen in Köhler's work with chimpanzees. We'll also discuss different types of problems, such as well-defined and ill-defined problems, and factors influencing problem-solving, including mental sets, priming, and motivation. Classic experiments, such as Maier's Two-String and Adamson's Candle-Mounting, will demonstrate how insight and cognitive flexibility play essential roles in finding creative solutions. By understanding these processes, we can enhance our problem-solving skills and effectively tackle challenges. #UPSC #IASprep #civilserviceexam #IASexamination #IASaspirants #UPSCjourney #IASexam #civilservice #IASgoals #UPSC2024 #IAS2024 #civilservant #IAScoaching #aUPSCmotivation #IASmotivation #UPSCpreparation #IASpreparation #UPSCguide #IASguide #UPSCtips #IAS #UPSCbooks #IASbooks #UPSCexamstrategy #IASexamstrategy #UPSCmentorship #IASmentorship #UPSCcommunity #IAScommunity #UPSCpreparation #IASpreparation #UPSCguide #IASguide #UPSCtips #IAStips #UPSCbooks #IASbooks #UPSCexamstrategy #IASexamstrategy #UPSCmentorship #IASmentorship #UPSCcommunity #IAScommunity

Welcome back to THE IAS COMPANION. Follow us on YouTube: ⁠www.youtube.com/@IASCompanion⁠. Today's lecture will explore the concepts of Social Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence, two crucial aspects of navigating human relationships effectively. Social Intelligence, introduced by Edward Thorndike in 1920, refers to the capacity to understand and manage human interactions, involving skills like verbal fluency, effective listening, and social self-efficacy. Thorndike's early work laid the foundation for understanding how individuals differ in their ability to navigate social relationships. On the other hand, Emotional Intelligence, as defined by Salovey and Mayer (1990), involves the ability to recognize, understand, and manage one's own emotions as well as the emotions of others. It is essential for effective emotion regulation and interpersonal relationships. Together, these forms of intelligence play a significant role in both personal and professional success, helping individuals build stronger connections and make informed, empathetic decisions. #UPSC #IASprep #civilserviceexam #IASexamination #IASaspirants #UPSCjourney #IASexam #civilservice #IASgoals #UPSC2024 #IAS2024 #civilservant #IAScoaching #aUPSCmotivation #IASmotivation #UPSCpreparation #IASpreparation #UPSCguide #IASguide #UPSCtips #IAS #UPSCbooks #IASbooks #UPSCexamstrategy #IASexamstrategy #UPSCmentorship #IASmentorship #UPSCcommunity #IAScommunity #UPSCpreparation #IASpreparation #UPSCguide #IASguide #UPSCtips #IAStips #UPSCbooks #IASbooks #UPSCexamstrategy #IASexamstrategy #UPSCmentorship #IASmentorship #UPSCcommunity #IAScommunity

Returning to the idea of discussing biological thought in other cultures and/or times, today's topic is the Four Humours. This is an ancient idea of how the body worked coming from the thinkers of Ancient Greece and Rome. Sources for this episode: Jouanna, J. (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selected Papers. Leiden: BRILL. Stelmack, R. M. and Stalikas, A. (1991), Galen and the Humour Theory of Temperament. Personality and Individual Differences 12(3): 255-263. Thorndike, L. (1922), Galen: The Man and His Times. The Scientific Monthly 14(1): 83-93.

Think of CEOs who have made strong rates of return for investors and built durable businesses. What strategies do you associate with their success? Investor and author William Thorndike studied eight CEOs who outperformed the market and their peers. The group included big names, like Warren Buffet and Katharine Graham, but also other leaders who are virtually unknown today. One example is Henry Singleton, an MIT-educated electrical engineer who led Teledyne Technologies from 1960 to 1986. Thorndike noticed that these eight iconoclastic leaders all took a similar approach to capital allocation. They focused on investing their companies' profits to repurchase their own stock when prices were optimal. But they generally avoided very large acquisitions, accruing debt, and paying dividends. In this episode, you'll learn how effective capital allocation strategies, like the ones used by these leaders, can generate wealth for shareholders. Thorndike is the author of The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success. Key episode topics include: strategy, strategic planning, entrepreneurship, operations and supply chain management, leadership, capital allocation, debt, dividends, stock buybacks, acquisitions. HBR On Strategy curates the best case studies and conversations with the world's top business and management experts, to help you unlock new ways of doing business. New episodes every week. · Listen to the full HBR IdeaCast episode: How Unusual CEOs Drive Value (2014)· Find more episodes of HBR IdeaCast· Discover 100 years of Harvard Business Review articles, case studies, podcasts, and more at HBR.org]]>

As a full-ride scholarship recipient and Division 1 college athlete, Elizabeth was used to being self-reliant. If things didn't happen fast enough, she would make them happen. That was, until she and Dan had their first special needs child, then felt God guiding them to adopt two more medically fragile children. She reached a point one day, through tears, when she told Dan, “I can't do this by myself anymore.” Two days later, Dan gave notice that he was quitting his job to help Elizabeth at home with the kids. What's happened since has been a faith journey that's profoundly changed their lives. Special Guest: Dan & Elizabeth Thorndike.

Eleanor Catton est une écrivaine néo-zélandaise née en 1985 au Canada et a grandi ensuite près de Christchurch en Nouvelle-Zélande. Son premier roman, « La Répétition », a figuré sur de nombreuses listes de prix et a reçu le prix du meilleur livre étranger en 2011. Son deuxième roman, « Les Luminaires », publié chez Buchet-Chastel en 2015, a reçu le Governor General Award et le Booker Prize, faisant de l'autrice la plus jeune récipiendaire de la prestigieuse distinction internationale. En Nouvelle-Zélande, Mina Bunting est une activiste à la tête de Birnam Wood, un collectif de guérilla verte qui cherche à cultiver des terrains non utilisés. Lorsqu'un milliardaire retire de la vente sa propriété de Thorndike suite à un glissement de terrain, Mina investit les lieux en même temps que Robert Lemoine qui prétend vouloir construire un bunker sur le terrain.Un grand naïf, une militante écologiste, un milliardaire aux ambitions démesurées. De quels compromis, de quels renoncements seront-ils capables à l'heure où leurs idéaux sont mis à l'épreuve ?Traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Marguerite Capelle aux éditions Buchet-Chastel.

Adéntrate en la mente estratégica de los CEOs más influyentes del planeta con nuestro podcast. En este episodio, exploramos a fondo el libro "The Outsiders" de William Thorndike, desentrañando las tácticas innovadoras de líderes empresariales que han dejado una marca indeleble en la historia corporativa.  Desde decisiones audaces en la asignación de capital hasta enfoques no convencionales para la gestión, analizamos cómo estos líderes excepcionales cambiaron el juego y redefinieron el éxito empresarial. Únete a la conversación mientras discutimos y debatimos las estrategias detrás de los CEOs más destacados del planeta. ¡A seguir aprendiendo!

PUBLIC VERSION. Filmmaker Stewart Thorndike (BAD THINGS, LYLE) joins Adam, Joe, and Arwen to discuss the making of her new feature BAD THINGS (available on Shudder). From discovering her passion for the cinematic arts while traveling the country as a child… to the David Cronenberg film that changed the way she saw genre movies… to performing in front of the camera in the late Stanley Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT… to the trials and tribulations of writing and bringing her new film BAD THINGS to life… to directing the indie ensemble in an abandoned hotel in snowy Ithaca, NY… to how her production survived the craziest and most frustrating COVID-19 setback that we've heard about filming during the pandemic yet… to BAD THINGS' world premiere at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival (where Joe's new film SUITABLE FLESH also premiered this year) and the process that it took to finally be able to think of herself as an “artist”… Stewart's journey over the last 3 years has been a tumultuous one that many will be able to relate to and draw inspiration from! Also, the group reflects on the stress of film festival premieres, Joe's kitchen sink vomits up a demon, and the boys prepare for their appearance together at Silver Scream Con in Danvers, MA this coming weekend (9/8 - 9/10)!

This week we're joined by filmmaker Stewart Thorndike. Stewart was the writer/director behind Lyle and her latest film Bad Things is currently streaming on Shudder. We chat about her film, her relationship to horror and then dive into the bottomless pit of bleakness that is Threads. Nuclear war, deformed babies, the hopelessness surrounding a nuclear holocaust, why it seems to be so easy for people to be in denial about certain things...we cover a good amount of stuff.Follow Stewart on Instagram.Follow Mary Beth, Terry and the Podcast on Twitter. We also have a Letterboxd HQ account, so follow us there, too!Support us on Patreon!If you want to support our podcast, please please take a moment to go rate us on Spotify and give us a rating and review on iTunes. It really helps us out with the algorithms. We also have a YouTube channel! If you want to join our community on Twitter, go here. Ask us for our Discord server! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We start this episode with a spoiler-free review of Stewart Thorndike's new film Bad Things! This episode's Classic Corner is Daniel Haller's 1970 adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror. Also, Kevin Smith's Tusk, Jennifer Lynch's Chained, Ulli Lommel's The Boogey Man. Plus - A lot more!!!

On this episode of More Deadly: The Director's Cut, we have a truly fascinating conversation with Stewart Thorndike, director of Bad Things. We talk about the divinity and violence of motherhood, creating antiheroes, the catharsis of female rage, and the enduring allure of forever icon Molly Ringwald.  Listen to The More Deadly Director's Cut with Stewart Thorndike to... Read More The post More Deadly: The Director's Cut with Stewart Thorndike of ‘Bad Things' appeared first on The Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast.

On this episode of More Deadly: The Director's Cut, we have a truly fascinating conversation with Stewart Thorndike, director of Bad Things. We talk about the divinity and violence of motherhood, creating antiheroes, the catharsis of female rage, and the enduring allure of forever icon Molly Ringwald.  Listen to The More Deadly Director's Cut with Stewart Thorndike to... Read More The post More Deadly: The Director's Cut with Stewart Thorndike of ‘Bad Things’ appeared first on The Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast.

Stewart Thorndike made a splash with LYLE in 2014, establishing her as an exciting new voice in horror. Her latest film. BAD THINGS, further solidifies this, with its focus squarely on (queer) female characters who aren't afraid to be messy. In Mike Leigh's play ABIGAIL'S PARTY, filmed for television in 1977, Beverly Moss is the life of the party...whether the party wants her to be or not!Then, Jordan has one quick thing about THEATER CAMP.BAD THINGS is out on Shudder and MGM+ on August  18, 2023.***With Jordan Crucchiola and Stewart Thorndike

Chapter 1 What is The Outsiders Book "The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success" is a business book published in 2012. It explores the strategies and management principles employed by eight exceptional CEOs who have achieved remarkable long-term success. In "The Outsiders," Thorndike challenges the conventional wisdom of traditional management practices and focuses on CEOs who took a different approach to running their companies. He selects a diverse group of CEOs from various industries, including capital allocation experts like General Cinema's Richard Smith and growth-focused leaders such as Tom Murphy of Capital Cities Broadcasting. The book highlights the common traits and unconventional strategies these CEOs employed that set them apart. These executives prioritized capital allocation, making rational decisions about how to allocate resources, whether it was through acquisitions, share repurchases, or investments. They were also adept at managing their boards and fostering a culture of accountability and decentralization within their organizations. Thorndike provides a detailed analysis of each CEO's tenure, examining their track records, strategic moves, and overall performance. Through extensive research and interviews, he presents valuable insights and lessons for readers interested in understanding successful long-term management practices. "The Outsiders" has received positive reviews for its thought-provoking content, unique perspective, and practical takeaways. It offers a fresh outlook on business leadership and serves as an inspiration for executives and managers looking to challenge conventional wisdom and learn from unconventional CEOs who defied industry norms to achieve outstanding results.Chapter 2 Is The Outsiders Worth ReadWilliam N. Thorndike Jr.'s book "The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success" is definitely worth reading. The book provides valuable insights into the strategies and management styles of eight exceptional CEOs who achieved remarkable success in their respective companies. Thorndike explores the unconventional approaches these leaders took to drive long-term performance and create shareholder value. By studying the practices of executives such as Warren Buffett, John Malone, and Tom Murphy, readers gain a deeper understanding of the principles that guided their decision-making and helped them outperform their competitors. "The Outsiders" offers a refreshing perspective on corporate leadership and challenges conventional wisdom regarding managerial practices. It emphasizes the importance of capital allocation, a disciplined focus on generating cash flow, and prioritizing the long-term interests of shareholders. This book is highly recommended for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone interested in learning from the experiences of successful business leaders. By examining the unconventional strategies employed by these CEOs, readers can gain valuable insights that they can apply to their own professional endeavors.Chapter 3 Summary of The Outsiders In this article, we delve into William N. Thorndike Jr.'s groundbreaking book, "The Outsiders." Offering a comprehensive summary, we explore the key insights and strategies employed by some of the most successful CEOs in history. Discover how these unconventional leaders defied industry norms, focused on capital allocation, and achieved outstanding long-term results for their companies. Join us as we unveil the secrets behind their extraordinary achievements and learn valuable lessons...

Today is red letter day — the 10th anniversary of the Slow Flowers Podcast! I launched the first-ever podcast about flowers on July 23, 2013 with Episode 100! Little did I know that this audio storytelling project — it was called internet radio back then — would take off and resonate with so many listeners! […] The post Episode 620:  Celebrating our 10th Anniversary! From the Slow Flowers Podcast Archives – an Encore with sustainable brands expert Kierstin DeWest and organic flower farmer Joan Thorndike of LeMera Gardens appeared first on Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing.

"The Outsiders" nos lleva a través de la vida y los éxitos de ocho CEOs poco convencionales que desafiaron las normas establecidas y cambiaron el panorama corporativo para siempre. Con una narrativa cautivadora, Thorndike profundiza en las estrategias y mentalidades que llevaron a estos líderes a alcanzar un éxito sobresaliente. A lo largo del episodio, desentrañaremos las tácticas innovadoras y visionarias que estas figuras legendarias implementaron para transformar empresas en dificultades en auténticas potencias económicas. Analizaremos cómo sus enfoques únicos, a menudo opuestos a la corriente principal, los convirtieron en pioneros y forjaron una nueva perspectiva sobre el liderazgo y la gestión. Además, exploraremos las lecciones aplicables que podemos extraer de las experiencias de estos líderes empresariales, que van desde la toma de decisiones audaces y la gestión de riesgos, hasta la importancia de la disciplina financiera y la creación de valor sostenible www.instagram.com/gardieles www.twitter.com/LInversores --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luis-pizarro/support

JAMA Health Forum Editor John Ayanian, MD, MPP, and Deputy Editor Melinda Buntin, PhD, talk with Anne N. Thorndike, MD, MPH, about the challenge of connecting Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO) members with flexible benefits to address food and housing insecurity issues. Dr Thorndike and colleagues used a mixed-methods approach to conduct this evaluation of the implementation of a novel program in an ACO in Massachusetts. Related Content: Assessment of the Massachusetts Flexible Services Program to Address Food and Housing Insecurity in a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization

On this episode of ADI Book Club we review The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike.Thorndike studied Warren Buffett, John Malone, and other outsider CEOs that compounded capital at high rates over the long-term. The book covers stock buybacks, acquisitions, hurdle rates, management styles, and other strategies that these outsider CEOs implemented into their businesses. It's a great book and there's a lot to learn from it.The Outsiders - https://www.amazon.com/Outsiders-Unconventional-Radically-Rational-Blueprint/dp/1422162672/Follow Karan - https://twitter.com/KaranMGurnaniFollow Jason - https://twitter.com/afterinvestor

Impact of Educational Leadership Podcast Episode 163 Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III Panelist: CEO Classcraft Shawn Young | Buddy Thornton | Asking the Right Questions at the Right Time Throughout the history of the teaching pedagogy, have always been required to check for understanding with their students. In addition to classroom checks, district and statewide testing can be used to monitor progress. Informal strategies such as exit tickets and journal checks are presently utilized today, and more formal ones, such as quizzes or conferences. Benchmark tests can assist with monitoring progress and ensure that the student knows their accommodations and how to use them. This periodic check allows for intervention if a student needs to make adequate progress toward their goals. Parental involvement is also a crucial element to help keep young scholars involved in the classroom as well. Connectionism (Edward Thorndike) The learning theory of Thorndike represents the behavioral psychology of connections: Learning results from associations between stimuli and responses. Such associations or "habits" become strengthened or weakened by the nature and repetition of a particular pattern. When a student's patterns or trends are noticed, it becomes more attainable to discover their strengths and weaknesses. Identifying the student's challenges and goal setting becomes more intentional for growth. Buddy Thornton: How do we bridge the parental involvement gap between families in high-poverty schools to accommodate and modify how we get them more responsibly involved with their scholars' education results? Shawn Young: How are you and your team continuing to assist schools and districts Post COVID-19? And why do many educational institutions want to listen to what you say about classroom management? Panel Question: What questions are teachers not asking their students during classroom instruction? Isaiah Drone III Closing Remarks --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/isaiah-drone-iii/support

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI researchers announce NeuroAI agenda, published by Cameron Berg on October 24, 2022 on LessWrong. Last week, 27 highly prominent AI researchers and neuroscientists released a preprint entitled Toward Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence: Catalyzing the NeuroAI Revolution. I think this report is definitely worth reading, especially for people interested in understanding and predicting the long-term trajectory of AI research. Below, I'll briefly highlight four passages from the paper that seemed particularly relevant to me. Doubts about the 'prosaic' approach yielding AGI The authors write: The seeds of the current AI revolution were planted decades ago, largely by researchers attempting to understand how brains compute (McCulloch and Pitts 1943). Indeed, the earliest efforts to build an “artificial brain” led to the invention of the modern “von Neumann computer architecture,” for which John von Neumann explicitly drew upon the very limited knowledge of the brain available to him in the 1940s (Von Neumann 2012). The deep convolutional networks that catalyzed the recent revolution in modern AI are built upon artificial neural networks (ANNs) directly inspired by the Nobel-prize winning work of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel on visual processing circuits in the cat (Hubel and Wiesel 1962; LeCun and Bengio 1995). Similarly, the development of reinforcement learning (RL) drew a direct line of inspiration from insights into animal behavior and neural activity during learning (Thorndike and Bruce 2017; Rescorla 1972; Schultz, Dayan, and Montague 1997). Now, decades later, applications of ANNs and RL are coming so quickly that many observers assume that the long-elusive goal of human-level intelligence—sometimes referred to as “artificial general intelligence”—is within our grasp. However, in contrast to the optimism of those outside the field, many front-line AI researchers believe that major new breakthroughs are needed before we can build artificial systems capable of doing all that a human, or even a much simpler animal like a mouse, can do [emphasis added]. To the degree we take this final comment seriously—that many within the field think that major breakthroughs (plural) are needed before we get AGI—we should probably update in the direction of being relatively more skeptical of prosaic AGI safety. If it appears increasingly likely that AGI won't look like a clean extrapolation from current systems, it would therefore make increasingly less sense to bake the prosaic assumption into AGI safety research. Researchers eyeing brain-based approaches While many key AI advances, such as convolutional ANNs and RL were inspired by neuroscience, much of the current research in machine learning is following its own path by building on previously-developed approaches that were inspired by decades old findings in neuroscience, such as attention-based neural networks which were loosely inspired by attention mechanisms in the brain (Itti, Koch, and Niebur 1998; Larochelle and Hinton 2010; Xu et al. 2015). New influences from modern neuroscience exist, but they are spearheaded by a minority of researchers. This represents a missed opportunity. Over the last decades, through efforts such as the NIH BRAIN initiative and others, we have amassed an enormous amount of knowledge about the brain. This has allowed us to learn a great deal about the anatomical and functional structures that underpin natural intelligence. The emerging field of NeuroAI, at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, is based on the premise that a better understanding of neural computation will reveal basic ingredients of intelligence and catalyze the next revolution in AI, eventually leading to artificial agents with capabilities that match and perhaps even surpass those of humans [emphasis in the original]. We...

Today's guest is Camila Thorndike. Most recently, Camila managed Senator Bernie Sanders' portfolio on climate, energy, environment, territories, and tribes. The focus of her tenure was the Build Back Better Act passed in 2021 out of the Senate budget committee and House of Representatives. The majority of the bill's climate policies were retained in the subsequent Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed by the Senate in 2022. Camila is also co-founder of Our Climate, a youth advocacy nonprofit. Camila and Jason cover the IRA, what she's celebrating, where it missed the mark, and where we should go from here. They also talk about climate justice, energy poverty, the policy and regulatory landscape, and tons more. The conversation is a great follow-up to a previous episode with Benji Backer, who is very active in the conservative climate circle. Camila will be participating in an AMA in the MCJ Slack community and answering questions asynchronously for 24 hours starting Wednesday 21st September 21 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm BST. Set your reminders, and get your questions ready!In today's episode, we cover: [8:18] Camila's background and how she got started in climate activism and policy[11:23] Her work with Senator Bernie Sanders [16:04] How Camila thinks about the problem of climate change and how it's evolved over time[22:17] Her views on the urgency of the problem [28:19] Greed and the fossil fuel industry [39:47] Financing access to clean energy and energy efficiency in developing countries [41:46] Ensuring a just transition away from fossil fuels[47:10] Potential phases of a rapid transition [49:58] Camila's thoughts on the Inflation Reduction Act[53:45] The lack of Republican support and level of polarization today [56:37] Her views on the two-party system [1:00:06] The role of individuals and actions we can take [1:04:27] Speed round including nuclear energy, billionaires, carbon offsets, carbon removal, and moreCorrection: Original green new deal plan was $16 trillion, not $10 trillion.Get connected: Cody's TwitterCamila's TwitterMCJ Podcast TwitterMCJ Collective Twitter*You can also reach us via email at info@mcjcollective.com, where we encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Episode recorded on August 15, 2022.

My guest today is Will Thorndike. I first spoke to Will in 2017 about his excellent book The Outsiders and his career in private equity. I titled that conversation: How Skilled Capital Allocators Compound Capital. In many ways this conversation continues where that one left off. Through the lens of his new project, a podcast called 50X, we explore the power of multi-decade holding periods and the shared characteristics of businesses that are able to compound returns at high rates for abnormally long periods of time. Please enjoy this discussion with my friend, Will Thorndike, and if you haven't subscribed to 50X, I highly recommend doing so.   For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here.   -----   This episode is brought to you by Tegus. Tegus streamlines the investment research process so you can get up to speed and find answers to critical questions on companies faster and more efficiently. The Tegus platform surfaces the hard-to-get qualitative insights, gives instant access to critical public financial data through BamSEC, and helps you set up customized expert calls. It's all done on a single, modern SaaS platform that offers 360-degree insight into any public or private company. As a listener, you can take Tegus for a free test drive by visiting tegus.co/patrick. And until 2023 every Tegus license comes with complimentary access to BamSec by Tegus.   -----   Today's episode is brought to you by Brex. Brex is the integrated financial platform trusted by the world's most innovative entrepreneurs and fastest-growing companies. With Brex, you can move money fast for instant impact with high-limit corporate cards, payments, venture debt, and spend management software all in one place. Ready to accelerate your business? Learn more at brex.com/best.   -----   Invest Like the Best is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Invest Like the Best, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.  Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus   Show Notes [00:02:45] - [First question] - How working on The Outsiders project shaped his thinking [00:06:29] - His interest in long-term holding periods and dealing with multi-decade time horizons [00:09:42] - Shared characteristics among compounding machines [00:11:23] - Defining capital efficiency and the return on tangible capital metric  [00:13:02] - An example of an attractive business that requires a lot maintenance CapEx [00:14:22] - Thoughts on the measurement of intangibles and whether or not he'd avoid great businesses that are intangible heavy  [00:15:25] - Tangible ways capital efficiency rolls into compounding capacity  [00:17:45] - Being patient early on and things that reveal themselves after doing thorough year long research in a company like TransDigm [00:20:32] - Lessons learned about good game selection for companies  [00:22:47] - Common features of customers that tend to be served by the businesses he invests in  [00:23:43] - Evaluating culture and its ability to propagate forward in the public equity markets  [00:25:09] - An example of a decentralized structure and why it works so well [00:27:53] - Successful decentralized companies regularly assemble general managers and compare their results and share ideas [00:28:46] - Thoughts about software as a business model and lessons learned about this industry across his career [00:30:00] - What the best serial acquirers do for long-term holders [00:31:46] - Advantages of using debt for financing and acquisitions   [00:33:39] - How different the future might be for young CEOs with capital allocator mindsets [00:35:40] - Other forms of recurring revenue he's seen and things that are one the line between recurring and non-recurring revenue [00:37:42] - The biggest changes for him moving from outside client capital to just managing his own [00:39:09] - 3 companies that Housatonic Partners has owned for more than 25 years [00:40:29] - What made Karen Moriarty so good for so long  [00:42:36] - The crossover between public and private investing and the virtues of each sector [00:45:35] - How he thinks about the function of Compounding Labs and what he wants it to become  [00:47:10] - What is at the top of his wish list of the companies he wants to explore  [00:49:15] - Which companies he'd still be fascinated to learn about that don't fit the criteria he's laid out today  [00:50:25] - The development of investor conviction over time and what he's learned about it [00:52:19] - Lessons learned about producing great media [00:53:43] - What he can teach us about deep research on companies with analysts [00:55:10] - Adjusting his thinking and investing in a high variance world

What if you could streamline your gym business to only the most important parts? What if you could intentionally downsize your gym in a way that allowed you to pay yourself more than you ever have, while restoring the work/life balance that excited you about owning a gym in the first place? If you've owned your gym for any length of time, you understand that it's extremely common to reach member or revenue milestones with your business, only to realize that there's little to no profit at the end of the month. For years, the common vanity metrics have been total revenue and total number of members. Anything we could do to get more members or increase revenue was promoted as a great thing, even if it didn't equate to growing the bottom line. But there are other less-known vanity metrics like average client value, number of revenue streams, or even personal training revenue that can become distractions to a business if not approached with the right intentions. In today's episode, my good friend Chris Thorndike is back on the podcast to talk about how to streamline your gym around group fitness classes and nothing else. He breaks down in detail how he downsized his gym, staff, and programs by over 50% post-pandemic, while freeing up his time and growing his bottom line.

Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 147 Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III Panelist: Erik Cork | Tanjarae Porter | Charles Big C Caldwell | Parental Involvement Beyond Extracurricular Activities Sports are the most popular extracurricular activity for kids in this age group. About seven in ten parents (73%) with at least one child ages 6 to 17 say their children participated in sports or athletic activities in the 12 months before the survey. Parents seem to have a stronger bond with their children regarding extracurricular activities, which in most cases are just as important as formal education. Many children thrive on those activities and can gain the needed confidence to succeed in the classroom. Parents must also connect with teachers to ensure that, as a parent, they help keep their young scholars involved in the school. Connectionism (Edward Thorndike) The learning theory of Thorndike represents the behavioral psychology of connections: Learning results from associations between stimuli and responses. Such associations or "habits" become strengthened or weakened by the nature and repetition of a particular pattern. When a student's patterns or trends are noticed, it becomes more attainable to discover their strengths and weaknesses. High involvement, in turn, identifies the student's challenges and goal setting becomes more intentional for growth. Charles Big C Caldwell: How do we bridge the parental involvement gap between families in high-poverty schools? Tanjarae Porter: How are you and your team continuing to cultivate connections with high expectations while demonstrating various levels of community and offering parents and students a wide variety of opportunities for engagement? Erik Cork: What practical ways can school administrators to motivate parents to become or stay involved in the school system? Isaiah Drone III Closing Remarks --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/isaiah-drone-iii/support

Sign up for bonus episodes at www.themidnighttrainpodcast.com    Well since last week's episode left Logan up at night with nightmares and I still can't get the stains out of my shorts; we have decided to make this week's episode a little more on the lighter side. So we are diving deep into the wonderful world of politics! You got it, today we are going to discuss The Biden Administrations wonderful and brilliant plans and maybe even get an interview with Brandon himself! HA like that would ever happen. Fuck those guys. We are actually talking about the Antikythera Mechanism, and the mysteries surrounding it.   The Antikythera mechanism is a hand-powered orrery( a mechanical model of our solar system) from Ancient Greece that has been dubbed the world's first analog computer since it was used to forecast celestial locations and eclipses decades in advance. The ancient Olympic Games' four-year cycle, which was akin to an Olympiad, could also be followed using this method.   In 1901, wreckage from a shipwreck off the shore of the Greek island of Antikythera included this artifact. Archaeologist Valerios Stais recognized it as bearing a gear on May 17, 1902. The gadget, which was found as a single lump and then fragmented into three primary components that are now divided into 82 individual shards following conservation efforts, was contained in the remnants of a wooden box that measured 34 cm 18 cm 9 cm (13.4 in 7.1 in 3.5 in). While several of these shards have inscriptions, four of them have gears. The biggest gear has 223 teeth and is around 13 centimeters (5.1 in) in diameter.   Using contemporary computer x-ray tomography and high resolution surface scanning, a team at Cardiff University led by Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth was able to image inside fragments of the crust-encased mechanism in 2008 and decipher the faintest writing that had once been inscribed on the machine's outer casing. This shows that it contained 37 bronze meshing gears that allowed it to mimic the Moon's erratic orbit, where the Moon's velocity is higher in its perigee than in its apogee, follow the motions of the Moon and Sun across the zodiac, and anticipate eclipses. Astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes researched this motion in the second century BC, and it is possible that he was consulted when building the device. It is believed that a piece of the system, which also determined the locations of the five classical planets, is missing.   The device has been variously dated to between 150 and 100 BC, or to 205 BC, and it is thought to have been devised and built by Greek scientists. In any event, it had to have been built prior to the shipwreck, which has been dated to around 70–60 BC by many lines of evidence. Researchers suggested in 2022 that the machine's initial calibration date, rather than the actual date of manufacture, would have been December 23, 178 BC. Some academics disagree, arguing that the calibration date should be 204 BC. Up to the astronomical clocks of Richard of Wallingford and Giovanni de' Dondi in the fourteenth century, comparable complicated machines had not been seen.   The National Archaeological Museum in Athens currently has all of the Antikythera mechanism's fragments as well as a variety of reproductions and artistic reconstructions that show how it would have appeared and operated.   During the first voyage with the Hellenic Royal Navy, in 1900–1901, Captain Dimitrios Kontos and a crew of sponge divers from Symi island found the Antikythera shipwreck. Off Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera, at a depth of 45 meters (148 feet), a Roman cargo ship wreck was discovered. The crew found various huge items, including the mechanism, ceramics, special glassware, jewelry, bronze and marble statues, and more. In 1901, most likely that July, the mechanism was pulled from the rubble. The mechanism's origin remains unknown, however it has been speculated that it was transported from Rhodes to Rome along with other seized goods to assist a triumphant procession that Julius Caesar was staging.   The National Museum of Archaeology in Athens received all the salvaged debris pieces for storage and examination. The museum personnel spent two years assembling more visible artifacts, like the sculptures, but the mechanism, which looked like a mass of tarnished brass and wood, remained unseen. The mechanism underwent deformational modifications as a result of not treating it after removal from saltwater.   Archaeologist Valerios Stais discovered a gear wheel lodged in one of the rocks on May 17, 1902. Although most experts judged the object to be prochronistic and too complicated to have been created during the same era as the other components that had been unearthed, he originally thought it was an astronomical clock. Before British science historian and Yale University professor Derek J. de Solla Price developed an interest in the object in 1951, investigations into the object were abandoned. The 82 pieces were photographed using X-ray and gamma-ray technology in 1971 by Price and Greek nuclear researcher Charalampos Karakalos. In 1974, Price issued a 70-page report summarizing their findings.   In 2012 and 2015, two more searches at the Antikythera wreck site turned up artifacts and another ship that may or may not be related to the treasure ship on which the mechanism was discovered. A bronze disc decorated with a bull's head was also discovered. Some speculated that the disc, which has four "ears" with holes in them, may have served as a "cog wheel" in the Antikythera mechanism. There doesn't seem to be any proof that it was a component of the mechanism; it's more probable that the disc was a bronze ornament on some furniture.   The earliest analog computer is typically referred to as the Antikythera mechanism. The production of the device must have had undiscovered ancestors throughout the Hellenistic era based on its quality and intricacy. It is believed to have been erected either in the late second century BC or the early first century BC, and its construction was based on mathematical and astronomical ideas created by Greek scientists during the second century BC.   Since they recognized the calendar on the Metonic Spiral as originating from Corinth or one of its colonies in northwest Greece or Sicily, further investigation by the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project in 2008 showed that the idea for the mechanism may have originated in the colonies of Corinth. The Antikythera Mechanism Research Initiative contended in 2008 that Syracuse could suggest a relationship with the school of Archimedes because it was a Corinthian colony and the home of Archimedes. In 2017, it was shown that the Metonic Spiral's calendar is of the Corinthian type and cannot be a Syracuse calendar. Another idea postulates that the device's origin may have come from the ancient Greek city of Pergamon, site of the Library of Pergamum, and claims that coins discovered by Jacques Cousteau at the wreck site in the 1970s correspond to the time of the device's creation. It was second in significance to the Library of Alexandria during the Hellenistic era due to its extensive collection of art and scientific scrolls.   A theory that the gadget was built in an academy established by Stoic philosopher Posidonius on that Greek island is supported by the discovery of Rhodian-style vases aboard the ship that carried the object. Hipparchus, an astronomer active from around 140 BC to 120 BC, lived at Rhodes, which was a bustling commercial port and a center for astronomy and mechanical engineering. Hipparchus' hypothesis of the motion of the Moon is used by the mechanism, raising the likelihood that he may have developed it or at the very least worked on it. The island of Rhodes is situated between the latitudes of 35.85 and 36.50 degrees north; it has lately been proposed that the astronomical events on the Parapegma of the Antikythera mechanism operate best for latitudes in the range of 33.3-37.0 degrees north.   According to a research published in 2014 by Carman and Evans, the Saros Dial's start-up date corresponds to the astronomical lunar month that started soon after the new moon on April 28, 205 BC. This suggests a revised dating of about 200 BC. Carman and Evans claim that the Babylonian arithmetic style of prediction suits the device's predictive models considerably better than the conventional Greek trigonometric approach does. According to a 2017 study by Paul Iversen, the device's prototype originated in Rhodes, but this particular model was modified for a customer from Epirus in northwest Greece. Iversen contends that the device was likely built no earlier than a generation before the shipwreck, a date that is also supported by Jones.   In an effort to learn more about the mechanism, further dives were made in 2014 and 2015. A five-year investigative program that started in 2014 and finished in October 2019 was followed by a second five-year session that began in May 2020.   The original mechanism probably came in one encrusted piece from the Mediterranean. It broke into three main parts shortly after that. In the meanwhile, more little fragments have come loose from handling and cleaning, and the Cousteau expedition discovered other fragments on the ocean floor. Fragment F was found in this fashion in 2005, suggesting that other fragments may still remain in storage, undetected since their first retrieval. The majority of the mechanism and inscriptions are found on seven of the 82 known fragments, which are also mechanically noteworthy. Additionally, 16 smaller components include inscriptions that are illegible and fragmentary.    The twelve zodiacal signs are divided into equal 30-degree sectors on a fixed ring dial that represents the ecliptic on the mechanism's front face. Even though the borders of the constellations were arbitrary, this was consistent with the Babylonian practice of allocating an equal portion of the ecliptic to each zodiac sign. The Sothic Egyptian calendar, which has twelve months of 30 days plus five intercalary days, is marked off with a rotating ring that is located outside that dial. The Greek alphabetized versions of the Egyptian names for the months are used to identify them. To align the Egyptian calendar ring with the current zodiac points, the first procedure is to spin it. Due to the Egyptian calendar's disregard for leap days, a whole zodiac sign would cycle through every 120 years.   Now we cannot show you pictures because well you couldn't see them. So we will try to describe them as best we can and we can also post them online.    The mechanism was turned by a now-lost little hand crank that was connected to the biggest gear, the four-spoked gear shown on the front of fragment A, gear b1, via a crown gear. As a result, the date indicator on the front dial was shifted to the appropriate day of the Egyptian calendar. Since the year cannot be changed, it is necessary to know the year that is currently in use. Alternatively, since most calendar cycles are not synchronized with the year, the cycles indicated by the various calendar cycle indicators on the back can be found in the Babylonian ephemeris tables for the day of the year that is currently in use. If the mechanism were in good operating order, the crank would easily be able to strike a certain day on the dial because it moves the date marker around 78 days each full rotation. The mechanism's interlocking gears would all revolve as the hand crank was turned, allowing for the simultaneous determination of the Sun's and Moon's positions, the moon's phase, the timing of an eclipse, the calendar cycle, and maybe the positions of planets.   The position of the spiral dial pointers on the two huge dials on the rear had to be observed by the operator as well. As the dials included four and five complete rotations of the pointers, the pointer had a "follower" that followed the spiral incisions in the metal. Before continuing, a pointer's follower had to be manually shifted to the opposite end of the spiral after reaching the terminal month place at either end of the spiral.   Two circular concentric scales may be seen on the front dial. The Greek zodiac signs are denoted on the inner scale, which is divided into degrees. A series of similar holes underneath the movable ring that rests flush with the surface and runs in a channel that makes up the outer scale are marked off with what appear to be days.   This outer ring has been thought to symbolize the 365-day Egyptian calendar ever since the mechanism was discovered, but new study contradicts this assumption and suggests it is really divided into 354 intervals. The Sothic and Callippic cycles had previously pointed to a 365 14-day solar year, as evidenced in Ptolemy III's proposed calendar reform of 238 BC. If one accepts the 365-day presupposition, it is acknowledged that the mechanism predates the Julian calendar reform. The dials aren't thought to represent his intended leap day, but by rotating the scale back one day every four years, the outer calendar dial may be adjusted against the inner dial to account for the effect of the extra quarter-day in the solar year.   The ring is most likely seen as a manifestation of a 354-day lunar calendar if one accepts the 354-day evidence. It is perhaps the first instance of the Egyptian civil-based lunar calendar postulated by Richard Anthony Parker in 1950, given the age of the mechanism's putative manufacture and the existence of Egyptian month names. The lunar calendar was intended to act as a daily indicator of succeeding lunations and to aid in the understanding of the Metonic(The moon phases return at the same time of year every almost precisely 19 years during the Metonic cycle. Although the recurrence is imperfect, careful examination shows that the Metonic cycle, which is defined as 235 synodic months, is only 2 hours, 4 minutes, and 58 seconds longer than 19 tropical years. In the fifth century BC, Meton of Athens determined that the cycle was exactly 6,940 days long. The creation of a lunisolar calendar is made easier by using these full integers.) and Saros(The saros, which may be used to forecast solar and lunar eclipses, is a period of exactly 223 synodic months, or around 6585.3211 days, or 18 years, 10, 11, or 12 days (depending on how many leap years there are). In what is known as an eclipse cycle, the Sun, Earth, and Moon return to about the same relative geometry, a nearly straight line, one saros time after an eclipse, and a nearly similar eclipse will take place. A sar is a saros's lower half.) dials as well as the Lunar phase pointer. Unknown gearing is assumed to move a pointer across this scale in synchrony with the rest of the mechanism's Metonic gearing. A one-in-76-year Callippic cycle correction and practical lunisolar intercalation were made possible by the movement and registration of the ring with respect to the underlying holes.   The dial also shows the Sun's location on the ecliptic in relation to the current year's date. The ecliptic serves as a useful reference for determining the locations of the Moon, the five planets known to the Greeks, and other celestial bodies whose orbits are similarly near to it.   The locations of bodies on the ecliptic were marked by at least two points. The position of the Moon was displayed by a lunar pointer, while the location of the mean Sun and the current date were also provided. The Moon position was the oldest known application of epicyclic gearing(Two gears positioned so that one gear's center spins around the other's center make up an epicyclic gear train, sometimes referred to as a planetary gearset.), and it mimicked the acceleration and deceleration of the Moon's elliptical orbit rather than being a simple mean Moon indicator that would signal movement uniformly across a circular orbit.   The system followed the Metonic calendar, anticipated solar eclipses, and computed the time of various panhellenic athletic competitions, including the Ancient Olympic Games, according to recent research published in the journal Nature in July 2008. The names of the months on the instrument closely resemble those found on calendars from Epirus in northwest Greece and with Corfu, which was formerly known as Corcyra.   Five dials are located on the rear of the mechanism: the Metonic, Saros, and two smaller ones, the so-called Olympiad Dial (recently renamed the Games dial since it did not track Olympiad years; the four-year cycle it closely matches is the Halieiad), the Callippic(a certain approximate common multiple of the synodic month and the tropical year that was put out by Callippus around 330 BC. It is a 76-year span that is an improvement over the Metonic cycle's 19 years.), and the Exeligmos(a time frame of 54 years, 33 days over which further eclipses with the same characteristics and position may be predicted.)   Both the front and rear doors of the wooden casing that houses the mechanism have inscriptions on them. The "instruction manual" looks to be behind the rear door. "76 years, 19 years" is inscribed on one of its parts, denoting the Callippic and Metonic cycles. "223" for the Saros cycle is also written. Another piece of it has the phrase "on the spiral subdivisions 235," which alludes to the Metonic dial.   The mechanism is exceptional due to the degree of miniaturization and the intricacy of its components, which is equivalent to that of astronomical clocks from the fourteenth century. Although mechanism specialist Michael Wright has argued that the Greeks of this era were capable of designing a system with many more gears, it includes at least 30 gears. Whether the device contained signs for each of the five planets known to the ancient Greeks is a subject of significant controversy. With the exception of one 63-toothed gear that is otherwise unaccounted for, no gearing for such a planetary display is still in existence.   It is quite likely that the mechanism featured additional gearing that was either removed before being placed onboard the ship or lost in or after the shipwreck due to the enormous gap between the mean Sun gear and the front of the box as well as the size and mechanical characteristics on the mean Sun gear. Numerous attempts to mimic what the Greeks of the time would have done have been made as a result of the absence of evidence and the nature of the front section of the mechanism, and of course various solutions have been proposed as a result of the lack of evidence.   Michael Wright was the first to create a model that included a simulation of a future planetarium system in addition to the existing mechanism. He said that corrections for the deeper, more fundamental solar anomaly would have been undertaken in addition to the lunar anomaly (known as the "first anomaly"). Along with the well-known "mean sun" (present time) and lunar pointers, he also provided pointers for this "real sun," Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.   A solution that differs significantly from Wright's was published by Evans, Carman, and Thorndike. Their suggestion focused on the uneven spacing of the letters on the front clock face, which seemed to them to imply an off-center sun indication arrangement. By eliminating the requirement to imitate the solar anomaly, this would simplify the mechanism. Additionally, they proposed that simple dials for each individual planet would display data such as significant planetary cycle events, initial and final appearances in the night sky, and apparent direction changes rather than accurate planetary indication, which is rendered impossible by the offset inscriptions. Compared to Wright's concept, this system would result in a far more straightforward gear system with significantly lower forces and complexity.   After much investigation and labor, Freeth and Jones released their idea in 2012. They developed a concise and workable answer to the planetary indicator puzzle. They also suggest that the date pointer, which displays the mean position of the Sun and the date on the month dial, be separated to display the solar anomaly (i.e., the sun's apparent location in the zodiac dial). If the two dials are properly synced, Wright's front panel display may be shown on the other dials as well. However, unlike Wright's model, this one is simply a 3-D computer simulation and has not been physically constructed.   Similar devices A first-century BC philosophical debate by Cicero, De re publica (54-51 BC), discusses two devices that some contemporary authors believe to be some sort of planetarium or orrery, forecasting the motions of the Sun, Moon, and the five planets known at the time. After Archimedes' demise at the siege of Syracuse in 212 BC, the Roman commander Marcus Claudius Marcellus took both of them to Rome. One of these devices was the sole thing Marcellus preserved during the siege because of his admiration for Archimedes (the second was placed in the Temple of Virtue). The instrument was kept as a family heirloom, and according to Philus, who was present during a conversation Cicero imagined had taken place in Scipio Aemilianus's villa in the year 129 BC, Gaius Sulpicius Gallus, who served as consul with Marcellus's nephew in 166 BC and is credited by Pliny the Elder with being the first Roman to have written a book explaining solar and lunar eclipses, gave both a "learned explanation" and working demonstrations of the device.   According to Pappus of Alexandria (290–c. 350 AD), Archimedes had penned a now-lost treatise titled On Sphere-Making that described how to build these contraptions. Many of his innovations are described in the ancient documents that have survived, some of which even have crude illustrations. His odometer is one such instrument; the Romans later used a similar device to set their mile marks (described by Vitruvius, Heron of Alexandria and in the time of Emperor Commodus). Although the pictures in the literature looked to be practical, attempts to build them as shown had been unsuccessful. The system worked properly when the square-toothed gears in the illustration were swapped out for the angled gears found in the Antikythera mechanism.   This technique existed as early as the third century BC, if Cicero's story is accurate. Later Roman authors including Lactantius (Divinarum Institutionum Libri VII), Claudian (In sphaeram Archimedes), and Proclus (Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements of Geometry) in the fourth and fifth century also make reference to Archimedes' invention.   Cicero also said that another such device was built "recently" by his friend Posidonius, "... each one of the revolutions of which brings about the same movement in the Sun and Moon and five wandering stars [planets] as is brought about each day and night in the heavens"   Given that the third device was almost certainly in Posidonius's possession by that time and that both the Archimedes-made and Cicero-mentioned machines were found in Rome at least 30 years after the shipwreck's estimated date, it is unlikely that any one of these machines was the Antikythera mechanism discovered in the wreck. The researchers who rebuilt the Antikythera mechanism concur that it was too complex to have been a singular invention.   This proof that the Antikythera mechanism was not unique strengthens the argument that there was a tradition of complex mechanical technology in ancient Greece that was later, at least in part, transmitted to the Byzantine and Islamic worlds. During the Middle Ages, complex mechanical devices that were still simpler than the Antikythera mechanism were built in these cultures.A fifth- or sixth-century Byzantine Empire geared calendar fragment that was mounted to a sundial and maybe used to help tell time has been discovered. The Caliph of Baghdad commissioned Bani Ms's Kitab al-Hiyal, also known as the Book of Ingenious Devices, in the early ninth century AD. Over a hundred mechanical devices were detailed in this document, some of which may have been found in monastic manuscripts from antiquity. Around 1000, the scholar al-Biruni described a geared calendar that was comparable to the Byzantine mechanism, and a 13th-century astrolabe also had a clockwork system that is similar to it. It's probable that this medieval technology was brought to Europe and had a part in the region's development of mechanical clocks.   Su Song, a Chinese polymath, built a mechanical clock tower in the 11th century that, among other things, measured the positions of several stars and planets that were shown on an armillary sphere that spun mechanically.   Conspiracy Corner The Antikythera Mechanism was thought to have been created between 150 and 100 BCE at first, but recent research dates its development to approximately 205 BCE. It's interesting that this technology seems to have just vanished because comparable items didn't start turning up until the 14th century. But why did the ancient Greeks permit such a significant development to be forgotten over time? Posidonius carried on the work of the Greek astronomer Hipparchus by instructing students at an astronomy academy. Posidonius invented a contraption that "in each rotation reproduces the identical motions of the Sun, the Moon and the five planets that take place in the skies every day and night," according to Cicero, one of Posidonius' students. Which remarkably resembles the Antikythera Mechanism. However, when the Mechanism was created in the second century BCE, Posidonius was not yet alive. Hipparchus was, though. Posidonius could have built an instrument based on Hipparchus' Antikythera Mechanism, which he made many years before. What about Posidonius' instrument, though? A time traveler from the future may have developed the Mechanism, or it may genuinely be a futuristic gadget that was taken back to ancient Greece and put there on purpose if it dates to the second century BCE and equivalent technology didn't start emerging until decades later. Some people think the entire thing is a hoax despite overwhelming scientific proof to the contrary. After all, it is challenging to reconcile the Antikythera mechanism's antiquity with its growth in technology. The Turk, a fictional chess-playing robot constructed in the 18th century, has been likened to the mechanism by some. But scientists easily acknowledge that The Turk is a fraud. Why would they fabricate evidence of the mechanism's reliability? What would they be attempting to conceal? Even though it is quite old, the Antikythera mechanism represented an enormous advance in technology. So how did the Greeks of antiquity come up with the concept, much alone construct it? They didn't, according to The Ancient Aliens: “Beings with advanced knowledge of astronomical bodies, mathematics and precision engineering tools created the device or gave the knowledge for its creation to someone during the first century BC. But the knowledge was not recorded or wasn't passed down to anyone else.” Therefore, aliens either provided humanity the ability to make this gadget or the knowledge to do so, but they didn't do anything to assure that we built on it or learnt from it. It seems like the aliens weren't planning ahead very well. This theory, like the extraterrestrial one, is based simply on the observation that the Antikythera mechanism seems to be too technologically sophisticated for its period. The mythical Atlantis was a highly developed metropolis that vanished into the ocean. Many people think the city genuinely exists, despite the fact that Plato only described it in a sequence of allegories. And some of those individuals believe the Antikythera mechanism proves Atlantis existed since it was too sophisticated for any known culture at the time; they believe Atlantis, not Greece, is where the mechanism originated. According to the notion of intelligent design, a higher power purposefully created many things on Earth because they are too sophisticated to have arisen by simple evolution. Because the Antikythera mechanism is so much more sophisticated than any other artifact from that age, some people think it is proof of intelligent design. If this is the case, you have to question what divine, omnipotent creature would spend time creating such a minute object for such a trivial goal. Greece's coast is home to the island of Rhodes. Greek artifacts were placed into the ship transporting the Mechanism, which was sailing for Rome. One explanation for this might be that the Antikythera mechanism was taken together with the spoils from the island of Rhodes. How come Rhodes was pillaged? following a victorious war against the Greeks, as part of Julius Caesar's triumphal procession. Could the loss of one of history's most significant and cutting-edge technical advancements be accidentally attributed to Julius Caesar? The Antikythera mechanism may have predicted the color of eclipses, which is thought to be impossible by scientists, according to new translations of texts on the device. Therefore, were the forecasts the mechanism provided only educated guesses, or did the ancient Greeks have knowledge that we do not? According to legend, an extraterrestrial species called the Annunaki (possible episode?) invaded and inhabited Earth (they were revered as gods in ancient Mesopotamia), leaving behind evidence of their presence. The Antikythera mechanism could be one of these hints. The Mechanism uses what appears to be distinct technology that was, as far as we are aware, extremely different from anything else that was built about 200 BCE. It estimates when lunar eclipses would occur, which advanced space invaders would undoubtedly know something about. An intriguing view on the process is held by Mike Edmunds from Cardiff University. The uniqueness and technological innovation of the item are frequently highlighted in reports about it. However, Edmunds speculates that the mechanism may have been in transit to a client when the ship carrying it went down. If one device was being delivered, might there possibly be others — if not on this ship, then potentially on others from Rhodes? — he asks in his essay. There may have been more of these amazing machines that have been lost to the passage of time or are still out there waiting to be found. MOVIES - films from the future - https://filmsfromthefuture.com/movies/

Literary Gardener host Rhonda Nowak talks with Rogue Valley flower farmer Joan Thorndike. For the past 30 years, Joan has provided the community with locally and organically grown flowers for homes, businesses, weddings, and events.

This interview with Kieran delves into fascinating neuroscience about learning that can help transform what we do in our classrooms through understanding things like the Reticular Activating System, working memory, and neurotransmitters.  Kieran offers concrete things every educator can immediately adapt in order to improve their learning outcomes and their students' enjoyment of education.  At the same time, the interview delves into the remarkable ways our educational system, including practices still in place today, dis-formed itself around misunderstandings of scientific findings by the likes of B.F. Skinner, E.L. Thorndike, and Marion Diamond (to name a few).  

More than 40 years ago, in 1981, 23-year-old Olivia Thorndike was found dead inside her own home. Straight away, the police had two suspects, and it seemed like the brutal murder was going to be an open-and-shut case. For the extensive list of source material used in this episode visit www.whysocoldpodcast.com

Dr. Sara Thorndike is the Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Treasurer at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania. In this episode, Thorndike joins our host Donna Schiele to talk about keeping the pulse on the needs of your team, finding ways to create work/life balance, and why people skills may outweigh the technical skills in this role.   “Understanding that you have to know how to collaborate and partner and feel comfortable building trust & negotiating. Building that team. Those are the skills that are important for a CBO to cultivate because it's about partnerships,” she says.   Join us for a conversation with Dr. Sara Thorndike as she talks about the importance of diversity, equity, & inclusion; the importance of trust in relationship building; and the power of mentorship.

The third installment of the Cold War Secrets Revealed seminar features Nancy Thorndike Greenspan as the Al & Marge Brown Lecturer. She discusses her book Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs. The Robert H. Jackson Center envisions a world where the universal principles of equality, fairness, and justice prevail. All Jackson Center programming is free and open to the public. To learn more about the Jackson Center, our mission, and our work, please visit us at www.roberthjackson.org. To support our mission and work, please click here: https://bit.ly/2YABefz

Dr. Anne Thorndike explains to us what is behavioral economics and choice architecture, how we're surrounded by it, and how we should make our day-to-day decisions at the workplace as well as at the grocery store. We learn what we can do differently in utilizing choice architecture to be applied on a more micro level in our homes. Dr. Thorndike is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the director of the metabolic syndrome clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research focuses on individual and population behavioral interventions to prevent cardiometabolic disease. Through implementation research, her team has demonstrated the effectiveness of traffic light labels, choice architecture, social norms, and financial incentives to promote healthy food choices in real-life settings, such as worksite, cafeterias, and supermarkets. "Behavioral economics... doesn't make that assumption that we always make rational choices, it assumes that sometimes we don't make rational choices and that the interventions based on behavioral economics are to nudge us towards those choices that would be good for us that we probably want to make anyway. But we don't always make it at the moment. And so choice architecture is one intervention that has been brought to the forefront by behavioral economics... The choice architecture is really about product placement, putting something in a place that's easy to see or easy to reach." In this episode you will learn about: What is behavioral and choice architecture How can these concepts improve healthier food choices Dr. Thorndike's variables in her research, and how people react to traffic light labels on food How much time goes into working with stores to use these concepts How we can use choice architecture in our own homes Keynotes: [0:40] Shireen introduces Dr. Thorndike [2:02] Dr. Thorndike explains how she got into her field of study [4:22] What are behavioral economics and choice architecture? [6:17] How Dr. Thorndike conducted her research using different colored labels on food [8:33] How people react to traffic light labels and where they are located in the supermarket [11:06] Why isn't this system standard in grocery stores? [15:33] Who makes and enforces choice architecture policies? [16:38] Dr. Thorndike's ideas on how we can use choice architecture on a micro level [18:58] Stay away from places that may trigger temptations Find Dr. Thorndike's work! Obesity Prevention in the Supermarket-Choice Architecture and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28902555/ A 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention to improve healthy food and beverage choices https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22390518/ Choice architecture to promote fruit and vegetable purchases by families participating in the Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): randomized corner store pilot study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27890020/ Connect with Yumlish! Website https://yumlish.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/yumlish_/ Twitter https://twitter.com/yumlish_ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/yumlish/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/yumlish/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yumlish/message

John Talks to Charles Jennings, who is Partner, Strategy and Performance of Tulser / 70:20:10 Institute. Recognised as one of the world's leading experts on building and implementing learning and organisational performance strategies, Charles has led projects for multinational corporations, government agencies, not-for-profits, and other organisations for more than 40 years. He has also held several academic posts.   They discuss the influence of knowledge management, the conspiracy of convenience that hampers learning evaluation – and the 6-digit number that has played a significant role in his career, 70:20:10.   02:45 What was his reaction to the success of 70:20:10? 11:17 How has 70:20:10 changed workplace learning? 15:41 How did he come to be in learning technologies? 23:29 Influence of knowledge management on his career 24:45 Aims and thinking behind Tulser 28:31 The Conspiracy of Convenience 36:56 Learning in the post-pandemic future   Mentioned in the discussion: The Conspiracy of Convenience: http://charles-jennings.blogspot.com/2010/04/five-barriers-to-effective-learning-in.html The Principle of Identical Elements, Thorndike and Woodworth (1901): https://research-methodology.net/the-principle-of-identical-elements/   [Book] Transforming Performance Measurement by Dean R Spitzer: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Transforming_Performance_Measurement.html?id=fyX7Frm5DeEC&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y   Contact Charles Twitter: @charlesjennings LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/charlesjennings Blog: charles-jennings.blogspot.com/ Website: http://www.duntroon.com/   Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/   Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – 'Data & learning: A new common-sense approach' https://learningpool.com/data-learning-a-new-common-sense-approach/

Episode 25: Season 2.1 of our book read/podcast covering every chapter in an open source textbook to act as a free supplement to INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY. In this episode we are covering Edward Thorndike and some psychological history with Dr. Tracy Henley. We talk Thorndike's history, fame, and controversy since being removed from Columbia's good graces as well as behaviorism and some other things. Textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology-2e?Book%20details Thomas' Webpage: https://sexography.org/ Thomas' Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBrooks_SexPsy Daniel's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceInChaos Music by: Jordan Jones Article on Thorndike's name being removed at Columbia: https://abc7ny.com/education/columbia-university-building-to-undergo-name-change/6319893/ Bias of the Week: Omission Bias https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h3r_CNg_MuRKbi_oJYVRth7dAMW2nNiS/view?usp=sharing

CEO and Head of Research Ross Glotzbach and Vice-Chairman Staley Cates interview Will Thorndike, author of The Outsiders – Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success and Chairman of CNX Resources. They discuss progress at CNX, whether energy companies can be considered “good businesses”, the importance of a capital allocation mindset in commodity businesses, frothiness in the private equity world and the characteristics and long-lasting benefits of “Outsiders” in the US and overseas.