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Associate Professor of Psychology Charles Negy was canceled by an online mob for “offensive” speech on Twitter in June 2020. Within weeks, the University of Central Florida (UCF) launched an investigation, firing him six months later. In 2022, an arbitrator ruled that UCF did not have just cause for the termination and Negy was reinstated.In this interview with Peter Boghossian, Negy details his experience with university officials throughout the 2-year ordeal and considers how universities can be saved from illiberal ideology. Peter also introduces Negy to Hanna, a UCF student who was part of the mob that canceled him. Hanna explains her experience of indoctrination in the Social Justice movement and how she became a free speech advocate.Negy has filed a lawsuit against UCF's board of trustees for violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments, negligence, abuse of process, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.You can watch this interview on YouTube.Follow Peter Boghossian Substack YouTube Twitter Instagram FacebookDonate to National Progress Alliance

If you're wondering what an NFT, aka Non-Fungible Token, is, well, you're not alone. CryptoPunks and CyberCats are selling for six and seven figures and even Christie's is getting in on the digital art action. So we've got questions...what are these digital items, why are people investing a fortune in them (and should you?), and what does that mean for the financial sector and the art world?   Featured Guests Buvaneshwaran "Eshwar" Venugopal, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Finance at UCF Carla Poindexter, M.F.A. - UCF Professor of Art Lory Kehoe - Director, Digital Assets & Blockchain, BNY Mellon Episode Highlights 0:26 - Introduction 2:04 - What the heck is an NFT? 04:01 - What do I actually own? 05:58 - What's actually in the blockchain? 11:33 - Why did the bank become interested in an NFT? 15:10 - When the world gets back to normal, will this all go away? 21:40 - What keeps you up the most at night about NFTs? 24:45 - 10 years from now are NFTs going to be around and what are they mainly going to be used for? 28:15 - Dean Jarley's final thoughts   Episode Transcription Paul Jarley: Eshwar, I'm going to start with you. What the heck is an NFT? Eshwar Venugopal: I think the world is trying to figure it out. Paul Jarley: This here was all about separating hype from fundamental change. I'm Paul Jarley, dean of the college of business here at UCF. I've got lots of questions. To get answers, I'm talking to people with interesting insights into the future of business. Have you ever wondered, is this really a thing? Onto our show. (singing). On March 11th, CryptoPunk 3,100, a piece of digital art, sold for $7.6 million with an NFT. That broke the record set the day before by CryptoPunk 7804, which had sold for $7.5 million. Then on March 21st, Beeple's the First 5,000 days sold for $69.3 million. Needless to say, people took notice. I took notice. Well, honestly, Josh told me to take notice. I was hesitant. This all seemed pretty esoteric. Techno geeks with stupid money doing techno geeky things, I thought.But then Forbes did an article. I noticed Christie's auction house was involved. And so I started to send some emails and make some phone calls. My resident blockchain guy had an interest in this. The dean of arts and humanities, Jeff Moore, put me in contact with an artist interested in NFTs. The kicker was Jeff Stokes. Jeff is a member of my dean's advisory board, with BNY Mellon, who put me in contact with their digital asset guy. If Alexander Hamilton's bank was interested in NFTs, I figured I should be too. So to shed some light on this new phenomenon, we have with us today, Eshwar Venugopal, who is an assistant professor here in the finance department at UCF, Carla Poindexter, who is the professor of art at UCF, and Lory Kehoe, who is the director of digital assets and blockchain at BYN Mellon. Listen in. Paul Jarley: Eshwar, I'm going to start with you. What the heck is an NFT? Eshwar Venugopal: An NFT is basically a certificate of ownership of a digital group. Basically giving artists an ability to offer limited additions of their artwork. I'm going to use artists as an example over here, since we have Carla over here. But I have a problem with that, but I'll come to it later on. But the idea is that you have a certificate of ownership and it is a limited edition product and it is more of a digital collection rather than a physical good. That's how it has been envisioned. But things have been changing rapidly. These days, if you take some of the latest NFTs that are being minted, there is a physical aspect of it. One guy actually sold his house on NFT. So, things are a little bit blurry now, but if you take a look at it from a property perspective, it is just an ownership as a consumption good. That's it. Paul Jarley: Yeah. Let me be old school for a minute so I can understand this a little better. I can purchase an original Monet.

Matt Austin and Ginger Gadsden talk to UCF Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Humberto Campins, about what mining asteroids is all about and why it is important for us to be doing so.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cassini spacecraft has been exploring Saturn since launching in 1997. Cassini gave planetary scientists incredible insight into the planet’s rings, it’s surface, and moons. As it enters it's final year, UCF Professor and Planetary Scientist Josh Colwell reflects on what insight the spacecraft provided to planetary scientists.

A UCF Professor who created a documentary about Jazz great Sam Rivers remembers what it was like to film the artist at work, in this episode of ArtBeat. Also, Jazz Harpist Park Stickney talks about his upcoming concert in Orlando. ArtBeat is hosted by Ann Kenda with production assistance from Matt Immerman.

During the summer, the UCF Music Department reaches out to middle and high school students with a series of workshops and clinics. In August, a pair of All-State Clinics helped students prepare for their All-State audition. The orchestra clinic was led by UCF Professor Ayako Yonetani.Related Links - Florida Music Education