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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.

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  

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.

¿Haces con tu tiempo todo lo que te gustaría y planeas hacer cada día? Esta semana la hemos dedicado a analizar la importancia que tiene el gestionar de manera eficiente nuestro tiempo y nuestra agenda semanal. Estuvimos compartiendo en redes sociales acerca del experimento de los gatos de Thorndike, la historia del pescador y el empresario, las 4 preguntas clave para incorporar nuevos hábitos y un ejemplo de cómo poner primero lo primero. Si tuviera que dejarte un solo mensaje esta semana con toda esta información, sería el siguiente: no tenemos un problema de gestión del tiempo sino de gestión de prioridades. En nuestro episodio 257 del podcast Marca Profesional te comparto 3 claves para identificar tus prioridades. Si quieres aprender más acerca de cómo crear, posicionar y monetizar tu marca personal apúntate a nuestra Escuela Expertos Emprendedores aquí: Membresía Premium: https://escuelaexpertosemprendedores.com/membresia-premium/ Membresía Lite: https://escuelaexpertosemprendedores.com/membresia-gratis/

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...

Link to original articleWelcome 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

The 14th episode of the Psychology Podcast with Daniel Karim features Dr. Anne Thorndike, Harvard's associate professor for medicine and a world-leading expert in the field of behavioral economics. Why I wanted to learn from Dr. Anne Thorndike I first stumbled over Dr. Thorndike's work when I was reading Atomic Habits by James Clear, in his book Clear uses a study that Dr. Thorndike and her colleagues conducted which is called "Choice architecture", an intervention where Dr. Thorndike and her colleagues succeeded in changing the habits of thousands of people without boosting their willpower or motivation at all. I reached out to Dr. Thorndike because I wanted to learn about her journey of becoming and discuss with her how we as a society can work together to design for positive behavioral change. What is this episode about Choice Architecture How we can promote healthy habits How to quit smoking How Dr. Anne Thorndike designs her environment for success What's it's like to teach at Harvard The price for excellence Her ideas on happiness and success

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.

Summary: Eileen Anderson is a writer and dog trainer. She is perhaps best known for her blog, Eileenanddogs, which has been featured on Freshly Pressed by Wordpress.com and won the award “The Academy Applauds” in 2014 from The Academy of Dog Trainers. Her articles and training videos have been incorporated into curricula worldwide and translated into several languages. Eileen also runs a website for canine cognitive dysfunction, which she started in 2013. That site is www.dogdementia.com, which has become a major resource for pet owners whose dogs have dementia. Then, in 2015, Eileen published Remember Me? Loving and Caring for a Dog With Canine Cognitive Dysfunction. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in music performance and a master's degree in engineering science. Links www.dogdementia.com www.Eileenanddogs.com Next Episode:  To be released 4/27/2018, featuring Kathy Sdao, author of Plenty in Life is Free: Reflections on Dogs, Training, and Finding Grace, to talk about crossing over, how training dogs and marine mammals compare, and the future of dog training. TRANSCRIPTION: Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high-quality instruction for competitive dog sports using only the most current and progressive training methods. Today we'll be talking to Eileen Anderson. Eileen is a writer and dog trainer. She is perhaps best known for her blog, Eileenanddogs, which has been featured on Freshly Pressed by Wordpress.com and won the award “The Academy Applauds” in 2014 from The Academy of Dog Trainers. Her articles and training videos have been incorporated into curricula worldwide and translated into several languages. Eileen also runs a website for canine cognitive dysfunction, which she started in 2013. That site is www.dogdementia.com, which has become a major resource for pet owners whose dogs have dementia. Then, in 2015, Eileen published Remember Me? Loving and Caring for a Dog With Canine Cognitive Dysfunction. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in music performance and a master's degree in engineering science. Hi Eileen, welcome to the podcast! Eileen Anderson: Hi Melissa, thank you so much for having me. I am stoked about this. Melissa Breau: I am too. To start us out, do you want to just share a little bit about each of your dogs, who they are, and anything you're working on with them? Eileen Anderson: Sure. That is the easiest thing in the world to talk about. I currently have two dogs. I have Zani, who is a hound mix. She looks kind of like a black-and-tan Beagle, and for those who have seen any of my pictures and videos, she's the one who tilts her head adorably. She was a rehome. I found her at age 1, and took her from someone who could not take care of her any longer. She has a fantastic temperament, and anybody would love to have Zani. What I'm working with her right now on is that she unfortunately had an accident in February and ran full-tilt into a fence, actually was driven into the fence, I suspect, by my other dog. I was there, I saw it happen, and she got a spinal cord concussion. She was knocked completely out and turned into a little noodle, and I thought I had lost her. But I took her to the vet, she got a CT scan, and they said they didn't see any permanent damage, that she had just gotten this jolt to her spinal cord. She was quadriplegic. I took her home, her not being able to walk or anything. But the vet was right — she did gradually recover, and she's still recovering. We're more than a month out now, but we're mostly practicing getting around safely, walking, going up and down the steps, and she's a little trooper. She hasn't had any mental problems at all. But it's been quite a challenge for me. I had to make her a safe space where she couldn't fall down because literally she couldn't walk at first. Melissa Breau: That's so scary. Eileen Anderson: It was really scary. It scared me to death. I thought she had died. I thought I had seen her pass away. But as those kind of accidents go, ours was pretty lucky. And my other dog is Clara. She's an All-American, she's bigger, she's about 44 pounds, and she is the one that I found as a feral puppy. I'll talk about her now and then through the podcast, but she has come so far. Right now we're working on just widening her world more. We have another friend's house that we get to go to now. She's met another dog, she's liking another person, and actually because of all the work I've done with her, she is a lot more stable in many new situations than lots of “normal dogs.” It's just such a gas to have a dog who's resilient. But that's what I'm doing with Clara right now. Melissa Breau: That's awesome. I mentioned the degrees in music and engineering science. How did you end up in dog training? Obviously you didn't start out there. Eileen Anderson: My career has kind of been all over the place. I was working first as an editor at a university, and then at my current job, which is a social services job helping women find health care for breast problems. I was all but dissertation in engineering science. I had passed my qualifying exams and was going on to be an engineer in acoustics, and I got a dog who was a challenge for me, and like everybody else, I got into dog training because I got the difficult dog. That dog was Summer. That was in 2006, and she was more than I was prepared to take care of. She chewed everything, she bullied my younger dog — my smaller dog, sorry — she jumped the fence, she was just basically a busy teenage dog. Right now I think back and it's like her problems were nothing, but at the time they were huge for me, so bad that I got depressed because it was changing my life so much to have this dog whom I loved, I loved her pretty much right away, but every time I turned around there was a new problem. And so I looked for help in the usual ways. I got on the Internet, I found a local obedience club and went through the usual things there, and somewhere along the line — of course I got a good teacher — but along the line I got hooked. And actually dog training made me quit graduate school because I was like, This is a lot more interesting than active noise control to me. Melissa Breau: You mentioned you started out finding a club. What got you started as a positive trainer? Eileen Anderson: I started at the very beginning as a positive That's what I want to do trainer, a wanna-be. I would read about it on the Internet and I thought, That's what I want to do. But when you're on your own and you don't have any coaching, and you're going by … and this was in the earlier days of the Internet and there weren't as many good instructions out there, so you try something and it's kind of in a vacuum, like “be a tree” when your dog pulls when they're walking on leash. You know, stand still and they'll stop doing that. I did that for months and it didn't work because I didn't have the other half of it, which was reinforce them for walking by your side. So I figured, Well, this positive reinforcement stuff sounds good, but it's not very practical, or maybe my dog's not very smart. I did go … those things we think, you know. I did go to a balanced obedience club. I'm still a member there, the people there adore their dogs, and we get along just fine. I've seen a lot of good changes there while I've gone there. But I knew that collar pops were not something that I wanted to do, but I could not find other ways to, for instance, get Summer to keep from wandering off into the wide blue yonder mentally whenever we were together and from physically wandering off whenever she had a chance. And so I did go that direction. I did the collar pops, I did a prong collar for a while, and then I found the agility part of the club, and that's a familiar story, I'm sure, to a lot of people as well. They were more positive — not completely, but more positive — and through them I found my current trainer, who is Lisa Mantle of Roland, Arkansas, who was trained by Bob and Marian Bailey — Bob Bailey lives here in Arkansas, by the way — and that's when I really started to get it. Lisa is a great teacher, and that's pretty much when I turned the corner. Melissa Breau: I think you mentioned some exciting news related to your experiences there. Do you want to share? Eileen Anderson: Yes. I am writing another book. I'm writing Summer's story. Summer, I sadly lost her last summer at only the age of 11. I thought she was going to live a much longer time. She was very healthy. But she got hemangiosarcoma, and after some misdiagnosis of back pain for about a month, we got the news, and by the time they did do exploratory surgery, but it was too far gone and I did have to euthanize her. I wasn't ready for that at all, nobody ever is, but I didn't have any lead time on it. But she was my crossover dog. She went through all of this with me patiently as I learned how to do things and how to treat her better, and she was a lovely soul, and I'm writing a book about that. It's the story of Summer and me, and also I'm threading into it how I came to change my training ways, and I'm trying to do it in a non-preachy way. I'm writing to pet owners in the book. Recently I saw an op-ed in … I think it was the New York Times, by somebody who just wrote a nice little piece about her old dog, and there were the hallmarks of someone who didn't know a lot about training. There were humorous moments about how they had to chase the dog down and force the pills down his throat and it took all this, and it wasn't mentioned as any kind of morality thing. It was just part of the story. I want our positive training stories to be part of the story too. Not as a preachy thing necessarily, although I can preach with the best of them, but as just part of the story, incidental, this is how we did things. I am feeling like that would be a very persuasive way to write the book. Also I just want to write the book because I loved my dog. But I'm hoping it will be another way just to get the message out in a very incidental way that there's nothing abnormal about this. This is how I trained my dog, and this is how we learned to get along. Melissa Breau: When are you thinking it's going to be available? Do you know yet, and is there anything more you want to share into how you're planning to talk about that crossing-over experience? Eileen Anderson: I'm aiming for 2019, which probably means 2020. I'm telling the story of our lives together, and that is my crossover story. Of course I can pull from blogs, which help me get a timeline there. It's hard to remember what happened when, but I will be incorporating some of the blogs. I've written many blogs about her over the years. But again, I want to tell the story. I don't want to have villains. I do want to have heroes, and I want to talk about how my mind changed as things went along, how my perspective changed, because it changed my whole life. Having an epiphany about positive reinforcement really does filter through your whole life, once you get it, and I hope I can tell that story in a very casual and again non-preachy way and make it interesting for people. Melissa Breau: Now, you mentioned that this is going to be another book. It's not your first book. I do want to talk about that first book a little bit. Can you share a little bit about Remember Me? Loving and Caring for a Dog With Canine Cognitive Dysfunction? What IS canine cognitive dysfunction, first, and how do you talk about it in the book? Eileen Anderson: Canine cognitive dysfunction is a term for mental and behavioral decline that's associated with changes in the brains of aging dogs. It's not just normal aging. We all lose some of our marbles as we age, but this is abnormal aging, it's a neurological condition, and it has behavioral symptoms. It's way under-diagnosed and it's undertreated. In the book I tell the story of my little dog, Cricket. She was a rat terrier and she lived to be probably 17, could have been even older, because she was a middle-aged dog when I got her from a rescue. She got canine cognitive dysfunction, and she had it for at least a year before I identified what was wrong. I didn't know what to tell my vet. Her first symptom was anxiety, and so I just thought she was getting nervous. I didn't realize that that could be a symptom of CCD. So the book is the story of Cricket, and how things went for her and for me. The message of the book is that there is help out there and that we need to know about this disease so dogs can get diagnosed sooner. There's no cure, but there are drugs that can ameliorate the symptoms, there are drugs that can help the dogs and the people have an easier life, and there are so many ways you can enrich the dog's life. They can still have a good life. Melissa Breau: If you could tell people just one thing about Canine Cognitive Dysfunction, what would it be? What do you wish people really knew about that? Eileen Anderson: I might cheat and I'm going to say two. One is talk to your vet. I am not a veterinarian. I can't diagnose your dog. There's lists all over the Internet now of symptoms, I certainly have one, but you can read all the symptoms but you cannot diagnose your dog. You need to talk to your vet many times about this and get educated, and if you're worried at all about your dog, talk about a diagnosis. The second thing is just from my heart. If your dog is diagnosed with Canine Cognitive Dysfunction, your dog's life is not over. Like I was saying, there are many ways to enrich your dog's life, and if we can get over our own preconceptions, see the dog standing in the corner and go, “Oh, poor thing,” well, sometimes, yes, some of their symptoms are pathetic and uncomfortable for them and need some intervention, but lots of the things they do, I think they're just in la-la land. They don't know what you know about what they used to be able to do. So that's my little lecture on that is don't give up on your dog, don't think they're miserable unless you have good evidence that they are, because some of this is just unfamiliar to us. They do odd things, and odd doesn't necessarily mean that the dog is unhappy. You need to learn about that, and again, talk to your vet about all of it. That was more than one thing. I'm sorry! Melissa Breau: That's OK! Sometimes the best things are the more than one thing, right? Eileen Anderson: Right. Melissa Breau: To move from your books to your site for a little bit – and for listeners I will make sure to include links to both of Eileen's sites in the show notes — for listeners who haven't been to your site or aren't familiar with it, can you share a little bit about the topics you usually write about? Eileen Anderson: I write about training dogs, I write about learning theory, and the thing that I'm able to do that lots of professional trainers are not is that I write about my mistakes a lot. I show things that I've tried that don't work and I show things that I've tried that do work. But on my site you get to see videos of dogs who have never learned a behavior before, and me trying to train them with the best intentions and with a lot of information, but with gaps in my understanding. You can see a typical person training their dog and making mistakes, and you can learn from my mistakes. I talk about dog body language a lot too. Having all the different dogs I've had, I have great footage of the interesting things they do with each other and with us. You know, body language is a whole other part we need to learn about when we're trying to train our dogs well. But I take a scientific approach to the training, but I show a human trying to do it. Melissa Breau: Fair enough. You mentioned the scientific piece there, and I think one of the things that I like best about your work is that you really do approach things pretty scientifically. A while ago you wrote a post asking the question, “When is citing a research study not enough?” and I'd love to talk about that a bit. When IS citing a research study not enough — at least if we want to be right about the facts and present ideas that are actually backed up by research? Eileen Anderson: OK. One research study is almost never enough. Usually when we want a research study, it's because we want to win an argument these days, or we want to know something for a fact, you know, “Let's get to the bottom of this. Let's figure it out.” The problem is that we need to look at the bulk of the literature. One brand new study, if it's the first on a certain topic, that's just the beginning of the research, and you can't flap that around and say, “Hey, I've proved it now.” You have to look at the bulk of the research, and one example I like to give is that some topics don't have studies because they are so basic that they are in textbooks. One good example of that is that people will come along and say, “I need a research study that proves that you can't reinforce fear.” OK, well, as far as I know, there isn't one, per se, and there's not one with dogs, and the reason is that that information is implicit and explicit in textbooks and review papers. To answer that question, all you need to know about — all you need to know about! — you need to know about the difference between operant behavior and respondent behavior, you need to know about how emotions work, and you need to know about the sympathetic nervous system response. And if you put all that together, which is in any psychology book, pretty much — you might have to crack a biology book for some of it — you can see why they didn't have to do a study to show that emotions are operant behaviors and you don't reinforce them. You can reinforce behaviors that come around them. But that's an example of it. You know, people want one study for something, and it's either something that's so basic that you could just open a book and find out, or it's something that's so new that we might have one study that shows it, but we need for five or ten more to come in. So I always tell people, “Look for the review study, look for the one that summarizes the research, because that's going to do the work of assessing whether the study is any good.” Because I don't know about you, but I don't have a psychology degree. I do have a graduate degree. I have two of them. So I'm familiar with research, but I don't have the basis, the basic knowledge, to really assess a study. So I have to go to the people who can help, and that's the people who write the review articles and the people who write the textbooks.   Melissa Breau: I think that's great advice and a good thing for people to remember, especially in this day and age, like you said, we tend to want to win an argument instead of thinking, Wait a minute, let's make sure we have our facts straight. The example you mentioned in the post was a post you wrote about errorless learning. I was hoping you'd be willing to maybe share that story with our listeners. Eileen Anderson: Sure, and this is an example of making a mistake. It was Susan Friedman who told me a couple of years back when I was cringing about making public mistakes and she said, “That's like science. Science gets it wrong, and then somebody comes along and gets a little better and you get a little closer. You're shaping the knowledge. So there's no shame in it, even though it really feels like there is.” I took exception to the term “errorless learning,” because I read the work of Herb Terrace, who did the famous work, I think it was in the '60s, with pigeons, where they did thousands and thousands of repetitions of pigeons pecking on a lit disc, and it had, I think, a green light on it. The errorless part was that they made it super-easy to peck on that disc, and then they were teaching them also not to peck on a red disc. At first the other disc was way far away. Then, when they did light it up, they lit it very dimly. In other words, they kept that green disc very attractive and just kind of snuck in the other one. And in thousands of repetitions, when this was done gradually, some of the pigeons had less than one percent error rate, which all of us should aspire to. Well, I just took exception to that, because they were in completely controlled, a lab environment, the pigeons were starving, you know, they always take them down to a low body weight so they're wanting to work, they controlled many, many more variables than we ever can, and it just didn't seem like something we could really emulate. And even the term to me — I nitpick words a lot — but it was not errorless. They had a one percent error rate, so you can't call that errorless. So I wrote a little … kind of a ranting article about that, and I snorted around about it. I had a friend — she could have done this through the public comments, but she didn't — I had a friend whose parents were Ph.D. students under Skinner, so she's one of the few people in the world who grew up as a human in a positive reinforcement environment, and she said, “Eileen, that's not quite right. Herb Terrace, his experiments, yes, they were famous, but he was not the first one to talk about errorless learning, and you kind of got it wrong.” She educated me, and it turns out that Skinner, back in the 1930s, was talking about errorless learning and errorless teaching, because of course to him, if the student made an error, it's really a mistake of the teacher. And it was — some of us have read about it since then — it was kind of the same principal, but of providing a path for the learner where the easiest path to go is to the behavior you want with the fewest number of errors possible. He had had an argument with Thorndike, who said, “You have to make errors to learn,” and Skinner said, “No, you don't.” And Skinner kind of won that one. We think of Skinner as just this dry, cold guy, but he was passionate about teaching and learning, and he was trying to be as humane as possible and make an easy path for the learner, and there's nothing bad about that, in my opinion. There's nothing bad. And so I wrote a Part 2, and I left Part 1 up. I was tempted to get rid of it, but I left Part 1 up and I just put a note at the top saying, “If you read this, there are mistakes in here, so please read Part 2, or just read Part 2 instead.” Melissa Breau: Fair enough. I think it's awesome that you were willing to leave that up. I think that that really says something about your willingness to be transparent about all of this. Like you said, you feel like you can show those errors and those mistakes, where a trainer may not feel comfortable with that. So I think that's fantastic. Eileen Anderson: Thank you. That's something I try to do for the community, even though even for me it's pretty hard sometimes. Melissa Breau: How do you try to keep up to date with the latest information, and how do you try to make sure that you're conducting good research on this stuff when you're writing? Eileen Anderson: One thing I learned in my science degree is you don't just read the paper. Your job is then to go through all the footnotes, to read all the footnotes, and then get on Google Scholar and look at who has cited the paper later. Because if you looked up a paper in 1975 for “Why do humans get ulcers?” that paper would say “From stress and acidic foods.” If you don't look later in the literature, you won't find out that, woops, actually it's from an infection, which they discovered in 1981 or '82. So you have to look before the research piece that you're reading and after it. What I do personally, I set up some Google Alerts, both from standard Google and Google Scholar, and there are a couple topics — one of them is dementia in dogs, and the other one is sound sensitivity and sound capabilities of dogs — and I get alerts whenever anything new is published. Most of it is crap, but I get the good stuff too. I get stuff from Google Scholar when there's a new paper, for instance, on dog dementia, which one did come out this year. That's pretty much how I try to keep up. I try to keep focus because there's way too much for anybody to learn these days. But I use the tools that are out there and I try to be thorough in terms of also looking at who is arguing against this. That's the hard part, especially when you get attached to something. You don't want to read about why it's wrong, but I try to do that too. Melissa Breau: That's awesome. To shift gears a little bit, you've also written quite a bit on your site about Clara, and you mentioned earlier that she was a feral dog and you've done a ton of socialization work with her. Do you mind just sharing a little bit about your approach there and how you've gone about that? Eileen Anderson: I would love to, and I have to credit my teacher, Lisa Mantle, with whom … I could not have done this without her. She's had a lot of experience with feral and other very challenged dogs. She actually says that Clara is one of the most challenging ones she has had. When Clara came to me, she was between eight and ten weeks old, and her socialization window was in the act of shutting, probably that very night. She was scared of me, and avoidant, and I didn't think I was going to be able to catch her. She was slinking away and acting like a wild animal. But when I opened my front door, little Cricket, the rat terrier, was barking inside, and Clara pricked up her ears and slunk by me like I wasn't there, and came into my house and sat down next to Cricket in her crate. And so it was the other dog that got Clara into the house. Within the evening she decided I was OK, and part of that was because of spray cheese, which she still thinks is manna from heaven. But I assumed, silly me, that since I had gotten in, everybody would get in, you know, Now she likes people, look, she thinks I'm great, she's sitting in my lap, she's flirting with me, she's jumping up and down. And so the next day I took her somewhere, and I had her in the crate in the car, and I said, “Look, I've got this puppy,” and opened the door and Clara went, “Grrrr,” this little tiny puppy growling in the crate. I thought, Oh dear, I've got more of a problem here than I thought. Back to getting to socialization, it was technically not socialization at some point because she was past that window — and there's a terminology dispute about this, and I try to placate the people who say, “It's not socialization after they're a certain age.” We were doing desensitization, counterconditioning, and habituation, but we started with people a hundred feet away. That's how fearful of people, and we had to start very far away. We did very, very careful exposures, and this was over the course of months and years. We did a lot of it at a shopping mall, which sounds crazy, but the layout of the place was such that we really could go a hundred feet away and there wouldn't be anybody to bother us. But it was extremely gradual, and every appearance of a person, whether they were fifty feet away or, later on, walking by on the sidewalk, was paired with something awesome, which, you know, spray cheese or something else she loved. McDonald's chicken sandwiches were also very popular. But it was just very gradual, and my teacher was very good at, when we'd hit a bump in the road or get to a plateau, sometimes we could work through it, sometimes we'd just take a different approach. She has good intuitions about that. And one day she said, “Let's just take her down the sidewalk in the mall,” and by golly, she was fine. She could walk among throngs of people, as long as … there's things she doesn't like. If someone walks up to her and says, “Oh, a puppy!” and stares at her, she's going to chuff at them. But people walking by, people brushing against her, sudden changes in the environment, wheelchairs, anything that might bother a lot of dogs, she is great with, and she has come such a very long way. But it was all very gradual, and it was done through desensitization, counterconditioning, and habituation. Melissa Breau: Just to give people a little bit of an idea, when you say “very gradual,” how old is she now? How long have you been working on this stuff? Eileen Anderson: She is 6. The point where we could walk her around in the mall was about two years after we started. But she was happy. It wasn't this, OK, she's all right walking around. She was great. Melissa Breau: Right, right. I think it's interesting to ask for the timeline a little bit there, because it helps people understand how much work goes into it sometimes. But also there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Eileen Anderson: That's right, that's right. And thinking back, a lot of people have had harder situations than we have, but we did have a pretty hard one. She basically was like a wild animal. I didn't see her as a fearful dog, she wasn't congenitally startling or fearful. She was just different, you know. She was like a wild animal and had that natural distrust of humans. Melissa Breau: I don't know about other people necessarily, but I really find that I personally struggle with what feels like two conflicting pieces of advice out there when it comes to socialization or even the stuff you're talking about. The idea that, Option 1, bring your puppy lots of places, but don't overface them, make sure it's all positive, but bring them all the places you go. And the second is never bring your puppy places unless you're absolutely sure you can just get up and leave if it's too much for them. I was curious how you handled determining what to expose Clara to, what she's ready for, and what is likely to still even today be too much for her. Eileen Anderson: That's a really great question. With her, of course we had to take mostly the second method. That was being careful that we had a way to get out. She was not a puppy that I could lug around everywhere and expose her to. I think there can be value in that, as long as you can protect the puppy from people who do the wrong stuff, which any reactive dog group will tell about those people who are going to do stuff to your dog if they get a chance. But today I feel like I need to just be careful and watch her. For instance, even without really working on veterinary visits, she's good at veterinary visits now, just because of the general work we've done. There's some times you have to take your dog to the vet, and she does really well. And I feel like I could take her to a new place with people and walk around and she would do fine. I would just watch for situations where people would be too assertive towards her. So it's not so much the environment, it's not environmental changes, it's not crowds. It's that person who zeroes in and says, “Oh, what a beautiful dog! Can I pet her?” while you're running away. Melissa Breau: Right. We're getting to the end here, and I have these three questions I typically ask everybody the first time they're on the show, so I'd love to work through those. The first one is: What is the dog-related accomplishment that you're proudest of? Eileen Anderson: It is that I used classical conditioning to prevent Clara from picking up on Summer's barking. Summer was a reactive dog and she barked regularly at things that went by the house, particularly delivery trucks and things that were hard for me to control. You can't control those, and I wasn't always home. So she had some untreated reactivity, and I did not want Clara, the baby puppy, to pick up on that. She had enough problems. And so, from the very beginning, very consistently, when Summer would bark, wherever she was, I would give Clara a magnificent treat, usually again spray cheese. It didn't matter what the dogs were doing, what was happening. So I did a classical pairing of Summer barks, wonderful treats fall from the sky. Lots of the things I think up on my own don't work out really well because I can't see down the line well enough to see the end ramifications, but that one worked out great. I have a dog who, when she hears another dog bark, looks at me eagerly instead of running to go bark with them. Just considering that she had so many other challenges, I didn't want her to have that challenge. I have a video of her literally drooling when she heard Summer bark, and so I can prove, yes, I have the Pavlovian association there — another dog barking means yummy stuff is coming my way. I am really proud of doing that. It has paid off in so many ways. Melissa Breau: That's awesome, and that's a fantastic idea. The other question, and usually this is one of my favorite questions of the podcast, is: What's the best piece of training advice that you've ever heard? Eileen Anderson: Watch the dog. And I can say that in two ways. One of them is learn about dog body language. I posted a blog just yesterday, I think it was, two days ago, about accidentally using punishing things because you're following a protocol and trying to do everything right, and you don't notice that you're snapping your hand in the dog's face or something like that they really don't like. So watch the dog. Make sure that what you're doing is OK, even when you're concentrating on your mechanics and following the directions that you've read from your teacher. So that's one way. And also I do agility, and so many times when I made an error, it's like my teacher would say: “You weren't watching your dog.” And of course there's times we have to take our eyes off them, but “Watch the dog.” That's my mantra. Melissa Breau: Excellent. It's nice and concise and easy to remember, too, which is a plus. Last question here: Who is somebody else in the dog world that you look up to? Eileen Anderson: My friend Marge Rogers. Marge and I kind of grew up together in the dog training online world and we started our journeys together. Marge became a professional trainer and I became a writer. But Marge, before there was ever a Fenzi Academy and people sharing these wonderful ideas of how to be humane to dogs in competition, before there was ever that, Marge trained her dogs way over fluency before she ever competed them. She's also fantastic at using multiple reinforcers just as a matter of course. Any dog that goes to her is going to end up being able to switch back and forth between a plate of food and a tug toy, and they can tug when the food's on the ground, and they can eat food even if they love to have a ball. They will get not only multiple reinforcers but the ability to respond to the trainer to transfer back and forth between those reinforcers. She's just fantastic at that. She helps me with all my problems. She can usually give a one-line response to whatever stupid thing I'm doing. And not only that, she's humble. She's always learning. She's one of the most humble people I know, and I just love her training. Melissa Breau: That's awesome. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast, Eileen. This has been fantastic. Eileen Anderson: You are welcome. It is my pleasure. I love to talk about this stuff, and I am very honored to be on the Fenzi podcast. Melissa Breau: Well, thank you, and thanks to all of our listeners for tuning in! We'll be back next week with Kathy Sdao to talk about everything from training dolphins to dog training — it should be a pretty deep dive on behavior! Don't miss it. If you haven't already, subscribe to our podcast in iTunes or the podcast app of your choice to have our next episode automatically downloaded to your phone as soon as it becomes available. Credits: Today's show is brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. Special thanks to Denise Fenzi for supporting this podcast. Music provided royalty-free by BenSound.com; the track featured here is called “Buddy.” Audio editing provided by Chris Lang.

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