Podcasts about Upwelling

In this episode, we talk with Stephanie Wang; farmer, activist, and author. Stephanie specializes in growing Asian vegetables and creating transformed products such as kimchi on her farm Le Rizen in southern Quebec. Her passion for food sovereignty was sparked by her experiences with Via Campesina, a peasant rights organization, during her early 20s.  We take a deep dive into the perils of our current food and agriculture system, the challenges that both growers and consumers face, and we explore actionable solutions for achieving true food sovereignty for communities worldwide. Stephanie's book Asian Vegetables: https://www.lerizen.ca/asianvegetablesbook  PLEASE make sure to subscribe to the podcast, download our episodes, and rate them! Your support means the world to us. Thank you! Sponsors Bootstrap Farmer https://www.bootstrapfarmer.com/  Market Gardener Institute https://themarketgardener.com/courses   Use promo code podcast15 for 15% off these select courses: Mastering Greenhouse Production 8 Most Profitable Crops Season Extension Strategies Market Gardening & Organic Farming for Beginners Winter Farming Strategies Timestamps: [2:36] Intro [3:20] Travels and work in India with Via Campesina  [10:35] Starting her farm Le Rizen [15:41] Alternative land access models/farm business models [25:28] Land trusts [31:00] Hospital system v. agriculture system [36:38] Perennial Farms text and the struggles of farmers [36:49] Documentary Je me soulève (Upwelling) by Hugo Latulippe [41:20] Value-added products - Kimchi [47:10] Food Sovereignty [56:31] Quebec mass producing pork for China [1:00:44] Agroecology [1:12:11] State of the family farm [1:15:22] Asian Vegetables book - Culinary heritage [1:28:30] Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and the bond between sisters  [1:31:00] Burnout as a farmer and The Joy of Burnout by Dina Glouberman [1:40:42] The film Ru, based on the book by Kim Thúy Links/Resources Market Gardener Institute:  https://themarketgardener.com/  Masterclass:  https://themarketgardener.com/courses/the-market-gardener-masterclass/  Newsletter:  https://themarketgardener.com/newsletter Blog:  https://themarketgardener.com/blog  Books: https://themarketgardener.com/books Growers & Co: https://growers.co/ Heirloom: https://heirloom.ag/ The Old Mill: https://www.espaceoldmill.com/en/ Follow Us Website: http://themarketgardener.com  Facebook: http://facebook.com/marketgardenerinstitute  Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarketgardeners  Guest Social Media Links Stephanie: Book: https://www.lerizen.ca/asianvegetablesbook  Website: https://www.lerizen.ca/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/le.rizen/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/le.rizen/  Contact: info@lerizen.ca  JM: IG: https://www.instagram.com/jeanmartinfortierFB: https://www.facebook.com/jeanmartinfortier 

durée : 00:04:55 - Camille passe au vert - par : Camille Crosnier - Des requins bouledogues, raies manta, ou autres carangues... 260 individus de 81 espèces de poissons ont été retrouvés échoués en Afrique du sud, morts... de froid. Ces animaux marins qui ne peuvent réguler leur température ont été victimes d'un « upwelling », phénomène de remontée des eaux froides.

May 31, 2023--Host Michelle Blackwell speaks with Mario Dell'Olio about his latest book, Letters from Italy: A Transatlantic Love Story. After, she speaks with Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios about some of her poetry.

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March 29, 2023--Host Michelle Blackwell interviews Jody Gehrman about her new book, The Protege. Later she interviews Aron Lee Bowe about her graphic novel Journey to the Anthropocene.

La Niña is an oceanic phenomenon consisting of cooler than normal sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropic Pacific.  It is essentially the opposite of the better-known El Niño.   These sea-surface phenomena affect weather across the globe.  As one oceanographer put it:  when the Pacific speaks, the whole world listens. There is currently a […]

November 30, 2022--Host Michelle Blackwell interviews local journalist and historian Malcolm Macdonald about his 2022 book, Mendocino History Exposed, and local musicians Gwyneth Moreland and Morgan Daniel about songwriting and their upcoming release Foxglove.

Lystra Rose in conversation about her debut young adult novel, The Upwelling. This conversation took place as part of our Teen Advisory Board program.

August 31, 2022--Michelle Blackwell interviews local author Emily Lloyd-Jones about her 2022 novels, The Drowned Woods and Unseen Magic; and Lake County Poet Laureate Georgina Marie Guardado about poetry, healing and community.

June 29, 2022--Join Michelle Blackwell for the second episode of Upwelling. She interviews local author Norma Watkins about her new novel In Common and Mendocino County youth laureate Sidney Regelbrugge about her writing journey.

March 24, 2022--Join Michelle Blackwell for the first episode of Upwelling. She interviews award winning local author Ginny Rorby about her recent novel Like Dust I Rise. Rorby chronicles a family's struggle to capture the American Dream from the Chicago Stockyards to the ravages of the depression and the dust bowl. Upwelling brings the richness of local literature to the airwaves.

Water quality physical changes. Productivity. Traditional knowledge. Pathogens. Status. Currents. Density. Predictions. Enhancement and hatchery practice. Parallel wild declines. Salmon

Shalom Fam. Where it is absolutely important to share our gifts and resources given to us from Abba in Jesus name with those in need.  In the context of those poor in spirit, on earth as in heaven let us share our Bread (Jesus Christ) with the hungry (Isaiah 58:7); give them drink who thirsts after Him...those who thirst for love, rest, peace, healing, salvation, deliverance, compassion, righteousness, joy, freedom people of God.   Drink from the wellsprings of Salvation in and through Jesus Christ, the Holy & Righteous One! Glory to Jesus Christ! Jesus is WORTHY, He is our fountain of living waters!  Let the wisdom, peace, righteousness, joy, and salvation of Jesus Christ well up within us and become in us a bubbling brook as written! :D  Proverbs 18:4 The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. (biblehub.com) Amen! Praise and worship: Worthy | Live | Elevation Worship - YouTube  Scripture: Isaiah 58:6-7; Jeremiah 2:13, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 11:1-3, Psalm 84:11, Isaiah 66:12 Jeremiah 2:13 "For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns--broken cisterns that cannot hold water. (biblehub.com) Isaiah 66:12 For this is what the LORD says: "I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees. (biblehub.com) Isaiah 55:1 "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! (biblehub.com) John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. (biblehub.com) John 7:38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: 'Streams of living water will flow from within him.'" (biblehub.com) John 7:39 He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. (biblehub.com) John 4:14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life." (biblehub.com) Isaiah 11:2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him--the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD. (biblehub.com) Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity. (biblehub.com) Insight: Research these with Holy Spirit! :D  What is a current? (noaa.gov) "The Aquatic Environment" Water Currents - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics  Photosynthesis in the Marine Environment | Wiley 9.5 Currents, Upwelling and Downwelling – Introduction to Oceanography (pressbooks.pub) * Benefits & Process of Upwelling section6.pdf (noaa.gov) *Marine Primary Production defined  Blessings :D  

Dr. Rick Lumpkin is the Director of the Physical Oceanography Division of the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) research laboratory in Miami, FL: the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). Dr. Lumpkin's research focuses on upper ocean processes and ocean circulation. As Principal Investigator of AOML's component of NOAA's Global Drifter Program (GDP), he oversees a global array of ~1300 satellite-tracked drifting buoys. He also helped design ocean currents displays in the Sant Ocean Hall of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Listen to the episode to hear about: Introduction (3:44) What sargassum is to Dr. Rick Lumpkin (5:26) How the sargassum belt was established (8:12) Nutrients fueling sargassum blooms (12:32) Upwelling in the equatorial Atlantic (15:15) Explanation of methods and data used (16:56) Seasonality of sargassum influx (24:14) Permanence of the tropical Atlantic sargassum belt (26:55) Predictions of climate change (29:36) Possibility of a current that can remove sargassum (32:32) Debrief (36:54) Transcript Learn more about Dr. Rick Lumpkin: ֍ Graphics from Johns et al. (2020) ֍ NOAA's Global Drifter Program ֍ Rick Lumpkin, PhD, Acting Director, Physical Oceanography Division ֍ AOML's experimental Sargassum inundation reports ֍ LinkedIn ֍ Facebook ֍ Twitter We love to hear from you, feel free to drop us an email to SargassumPodcast@gmx.net, and connect with us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn. Can't get enough? Become one of our patrons for as little as $1 a month. Patrons get to submit questions to us prior to the interviews that we will then ask our guests. We are grateful for each supporter and look forward to connecting with you. Like our music? The song is called Them Ah Prey by Drizzle Roadranna. Follow him on YouTube and Spotify

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The day of Pentecost was the day that God sealed his covenant with his Church by empowering them with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit dwelled in them, but from this day on he flowed through them. And the greatest power they received was the fulfillment of God's promise of the New Covenant: that he would put the Holy Spirit in people to move them to obey his commands. When we understand the freedom that comes as we allow the Holy Spirit to move us to obey, it will truly revolutionize our lives. Sermon by Steve Fry.

The day of Pentecost was the day that God sealed his covenant with his Church by empowering them with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit dwelled in them, but from this day on he flowed through them. And the greatest power they received was the fulfillment of God's promise of the New Covenant: that he would put the Holy Spirit in people to move them to obey his commands. When we understand the freedom that comes as we allow the Holy Spirit to move us to obey, it will truly revolutionize our lives. 

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In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne’s annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign. In this episode we speak with Maria Valladares Anton, an oceanography technician and glider pilot at the AquaPacífico Aquaculture Innovation Center at the Universidad Catholica de Norte in Angtofagasta, Chile. Maria submitted photos taken while deploying a Slocum glider in La Herradura Bay in Coquimbo, a coastal city in Northern Chile. Maria and an integrated team of scientists from other universities have been using the Slocum glider to study coastal upwellings and other oceanographic processes in the waters around Chile.

Michael Ellis explains how the California coast creates a rich ecosystem through a process known as upwelling.

This week we spoke with Ilka White (artist), Dale Cox (artist) and Brodie Ellis (curator and artist).  They are all involved in an exhibition about the climate crisis at Lot 19 Castlemaine called Upwelling. Our conversation explores the concept of the show and how it was brought together by Brodie and the works make by Ilka and Dale, before moving on to look at what part art has to play in communicating about the Climate Crisis. "This exhibition brings ancient and new knowledge, ideas, and actions to the surface of the climate change struggle.  Science from a deeper understanding of the natural world will direct our survival plan for the future we are creating today." Zoe Amor, Alvin Briggs, Dale Cox, Punctum Inc, Cameron Robbins with Maison Lapalus, Gretel Taylor & Leonie Van Eyk, Ilka White, John Wolseley  Curated by Brodie Ellis & Mark Anstey.     The gorgeous song in this episode - suggested by Ilka - is from a project called The Lost Words Spell Songs - who kindly gave us permission to use the full song in this podcast.  "The Lost Words: Spell Songs is a musical companion piece to The Lost Words: A Spell Book, the acclaimed work by authors Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, responding to the removal of everyday nature words from a widely used children’s dictionary which grew to become a much broader protest at the loss of the natural world around us, as well as a celebration of the creatures and plants with which we share our lives, in all their characterful glory." www.thelostwords.org/album If people want to download The Blessing they can purchase as an individual track or entire album here: https://folkbytheoakrecords.com/the-lost-words-spell-songs

Ocean currents and how they keep the planet habitable. Joe and Rebecca discuss the evidence that ocean currents are stopping because of global warming and talk about the "Waterworld" Apocalypse Vs. "The Day After Tomorrow" Apocalypse. Drama on HB6, Russian nuclear powered rocket disaster, and the letter from the future.

Try Dashlane here: http://bit.ly/minutedash. Plus, here’s a 10% off promo code for Dashlane Premium: minuteearth When nutrients from the ocean depths reach the sunlit surface (like in the Galapagos), life is more productive. Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth and our YouTube members. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: Net Primary Production (NPP): the amount of primary production that organisms do, minus the amount of carbon they use up to do so (by respiring) Phytoplankton: microscopic green algae that live in water and get energy through photosynthesis. Learn more here: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/phyto.html Primary Production: the synthesis of organic chemicals from carbon dioxide (mostly happens through photosynthesis) Upwelling: the motion of cooler, usually nutrient-rich, water towards the ocean surface ___________________________________________ Subscribe to MinuteEarth on YouTube: http://goo.gl/EpIDGd Support us on Patreon: https://goo.gl/ZVgLQZ And visit our website: https://www.minuteearth.com/ Say hello on Facebook: http://goo.gl/FpAvo6 And Twitter: http://goo.gl/Y1aWVC And download our videos on itunes: https://goo.gl/sfwS6n ___________________________________________ Credits (and Twitter handles): Script Writer: Alex Reich (@alexhreich) Script Editor: Kate Yoshida (@KateYoshida) Video Illustrator: Arcadi Garcia Video Director: Alex Reich & Emily Elert Video Narrator: Emily Elert (@eelert) With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Ever Salazar, Peter Reich, David Goldenberg Music by: Nathaniel Schroeder: http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder   ___________________________________________ References: Ainley, David. Personal Communication, 2018. Baker, A. J., et al. 2006. Multiple gene evidence for expansion of extant penguins out of Antarctica due to global cooling. Proc of Royal Soc B: Biol Sci, 273 (1582), 11-17. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560011/ Behrenfeld, M. J., et al. 2006. Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity. Nature, 444(7120), 752. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05317 Boersma, Dee. Personal Communication, 2018. Boyd, P.W., et al. 2014. Cross-chapter box on net primary production in the ocean. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC [Field, C.B., et al (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, NY, USA, pp. 133-136. Dybdahl, Mark. Personal Communication, 2018. Falkowski, P. G., et al. 1998. Biogeochemical controls and feedbacks on ocean primary production. Science, 281(5374), 200-206. https://goo.gl/1P7b69 Field, C. B., et al. 1998. Primary production of the biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components. Science, 281(5374), 237-240. https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt9gm7074q/qt9gm7074q.pdf Karnauskas, K. B., et al. 2017. Paleoceanography of the eastern equatorial Pacific over the past 4 million years and the geologic origins of modern Galapagos upwelling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 460, 22-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.12.005 LaRue, Michelle. Personal Communication, 2018. Kallmeyer, Jens. Personal Communication, 2018. Pockalny, Robert. Personal Communication, 2018. Sigman, D. M. & Hain, M. P. 2012. The Biological Productivity of the Ocean. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):21. https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-biological-productivity-of-the-ocean-70631104 Stock, Charlie. Personal Communication, 2018. Galapagos penguin diet https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/galpen1/foodhabits Penguin diet https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/penguin/appendix Cromwell Current & Galapagos: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-study-may-reveal-how-galapagos-islands-became-so-biodiverse/ Penguin distribution: https://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/penguin/appendix , http://www.penguins.cl/penguins-region.htm Ocean productivity: https://ci.coastal.edu/~sgilman/770productivitynutrients.htm

Why do great inventors, business people, and a ton of smart people have in common? They have many traits, but one specific trait is the ability to crack a problem. When everyone else has given up, these people are able to figure out what no one has done before. How do they do it?   This article shows you how to increase your learning speed by using deconstruction. It shows you how to crack puzzles that seemed too difficult by others.' ---------- In this episode Sean talks about Part 1: Where to start your learning journey Part 2: How to find learning patterns when there's no one to help you Part 3: How to stack the layers and accelerate your learning To read it online: https://www.psychotactics.com/speed-learning/   ---------- How to deconstruct complex topics (and accelerate your learning) What can a single video on YouTube contain? If you were to look at just six minutes of a NASA video, it might put you off ocean currents forever. In exactly six minutes, the contents of the video contain some of the following: ◦ Atmospheric circulation ◦ Wave formation ◦ Thermohaline circulation ◦ Upwelling and nutrient distribution ◦ Dead zones ◦ Sea surface height ◦ Shifting rain patterns ◦ Population density That's only the partial list of what's included in the video, and it hits you with rapid succession If you're confused, you ought to be, because the video is approximately how we approach most topics. A topic, any topic, is incredibly complex. However, the complexity can be quickly deconstructed. That is to say; you can learn a skill or teach someone a skill reasonably rapidly if you're able to break apart the concepts into smaller bits? The question is: where do you begin? What does deconstruction involve? And how do you know you're going about deconstruction the right way? To understand deconstruction we need to look at three elements: – Where to start your journey – How to find patterns when there's no one to help you – How to stack the layers as you go forward So where do we start our journey? Deconstruction always starts with a choice. But what do you choose? Let's find out. Part 1: Where to start your journey of deconstruction A tonne of gold costs about $64.3 million in today's prices. Indians are reputed to own 22,000 tonnes of gold. That's a staggering $1 trillion dollars in gold in a single country. Gold bars and coins are almost alway bought at festivals when buying gold is said to bring luck to the buyers. But the real obsession for gold stems from wedding jewellery. Weddings alone account for 50% of the demand every year. And in South Mumbai, if you wanted to buy gold, you'd head to a particular area called Sonapur. “Sona” is the Hindi word for gold and in Sonapur, you'd see dozens of gold merchant stores crammed back to back in a specific area. Now bear in mind that Mumbai is a big city that spans 603.4 square kilometres. Yet, someone looking for jewellery, and particularly gold jewellery would know exactly where to go. We have no such specifics when we're dealing with a vast and complex topic Should we start with wave formation or thermohaline circulation? Upwelling, dead zones or nutrient distribution? Or should we wander right into sea surface height, instead? It's clear that we need to start somewhere and the best way to get started is to pick subject matter at random. Random? Surely that doesn't seem to be a systematic way to go about deconstruction Let's pick “dead zones” from our list above, shall we? It's a pretty random pick considering how much material the six-minute video covers. However, as we dig into the topic, one thing becomes very clear. It's easier to dig deeper into “dead zones” and see how they occur.  In under a minute, this video talks about how we get to mass extinction by focusing on a single topic. Deconstruction becomes clearer when we move into areas we're more familiar with Let's take a sales page or landing page, for instance. A landing page has headlines, subheads, first paragraphs, problems, solutions, objections, uniqueness, bullets—the list goes on and on. To be intimidated by such a vast amount of moderately unfamiliar information is difficult to cope with. So we go into “random mode”. We pick something—anything—so that we can get going. Let's ignore the vast majority of the page, and head for the bullets, instead. What do you notice when you look at the bullets below? – How to assemble all the elements a customer needs to see to buy – Why template based construction is key to pain-free landing pages – Why “How to, how, and why” are your best friends in bullet points – How to use sequence graphics to keep your reader on the page – Why Bonuses need graphics for maximum impact – How to write bullets that sell even if you can’t write – How to avoid ineffective graphics – How to construct power testimonials even for a new product – Why FAQs are the place for “fussy” objections – Why the target profile is central to growing your tribe paDidn't find a pattern? Well, let's look at it another way, shall we? – How to assemble all the elements a customer needs to see to buy – How to use sequence graphics to keep your reader on the page – How to write bullets that sell even if you can’t write – How to avoid ineffective graphics – How to construct power testimonials even for a new product – Why FAQs are the place for “fussy” objections – Why Bonuses need graphics for maximum impact – Why template based construction is key to pain-free landing pages – Why “How to, how, and why” are your best friends in bullet points- Why the target profile is central to growing your tribe You noticed the HOW and WHY this time around, didn't you? If you're looking at the entire landing page, you're unlikely to notice the pattern even if someone helpfully placed it in the HOW and WHY format. You'd be focusing on too large an area, and it's close to impossible to deconstruct your subject matter when the area is too vast. Instead, you need to look at all the components available and choose just a tiny area, just like Sonapur, where the gold jewellery is sold. If the entire map of Mumbai were your sales page, Sonapur would represent the “bullets”. When I was learning badminton many years ago, my coach taught me how to win points consistently My badminton days are a bit of history now, not so much because I'm getting older, but more so because I'm one of those crazy people you see on the court. You know the type, don't you? They lunge at everything. And all of that lunging and diving just to win the point ended up with a tonne of muscle pulls and strains. Being the super-competitive person I am, I hired a coach to help me win points without having to lunge about so much. But you see the problem looming, don't you? Where do you start? The coach started randomly, getting me to focus on the grip. You can try it yourself, even if you don't have a handy badminton racket around. Squeeze your fingers together as if gripping a racket, while moving your hand forward. Immediately there's a tension in the shot causing the shuttlecock to go back faster over the net. Avoid the squeeze and attempt to hit the same shot, and the shuttlecock goes a lot slower, thus dropping short of the opponent. By focusing on a subtle component of the entire game, the coach was able to get me to practice the grip, and that alone helped me win a few extra points in every match. Every topic has multiple layers that make up the whole The reason why we get confused and are unable to decipher, let alone master the topic is that we try and take on the entire 604 square kilometres of real estate instead of focusing on a single area. But what if you focus on a single area, but still can't see the pattern? What if there's no coach around to show you the grip? No one around to helpfully move the bullets around and demonstrate how HOW and WHY play a pretty significant role in bullet construction? How do you go about seeing the pattern yourself? Part 2: How to find patterns when there's no one to help you How do you pronounce S-A-K-E? If you said “Sah-kay” you're right. If on the other hand, you said “sah-key”, you've failed to see the pattern. In almost every phonetic language the letter “e” creates an “eh” sound. So when you read the word “karaoke”, you don't say, “carry-oh-key”, but “kara-oh-keh” instead. Once someone points out the pattern, it's easy to correctly pronounce words in phonetic languages such as Maori, Spanish or Japanese. But what if no one reveals the pattern? In such a scenario, you'd miss the sound of “eh” and instead use “e”, instead. How do you find patterns when there's no one else to help you? Let's try it now. How do you say K-A-R-A-T-E? And how about S-H-I-I-T-A-K-E? You have it down pat, don't you? Kara-teh and Shee-ta-keh. And no matter how many Japanese words you ran into from now on, you'd know that the “e” is all about “eh”. This tiny bit of information may make sense by itself, but it's when you see the profusion of the words that have “e”, that you realise how many words you're likely to pronounce incorrectly. What you might not have noticed is that you've worked out the pattern For deconstruction, the first phase involves taking a tiny piece of the pie, as it were and focus on that piece. However, unless someone points out the pattern, you may not see it right away. The moment you take many examples of that very same pattern, you start to get a clear understanding. If we go back to the landing page example, for instance, you might not see the HOW and WHY so clearly on one landing page. After all, there are many ways to write bullets and copywriters take care to see they intersperse different types of bullets in an entire set. Even so, if you were to go from one landing page to another, and keep at it, you'd see a pattern in an incredibly short period. Try it yourself. Go to about 5-7 landing pages on the Psychotactics site alone, and you'll start to see the pattern of HOW and WHY wherever bullets appear. But there's an additional bonus in going through many examples Once a pattern registers, you are likely to see other patterns as well. For instance, a bullet can be written in a very simple way, or it can be embellished to go a bit further. Let's take an example. How to prepare the room before the presentation How to prepare the room before the presentation (even if it's already been set up earlier). How to prepare the room before the presentation (and make sure nothing goes wrong). We added two other elements in the bullets and you'd notice if you went through a whole set of them We emboldened those bullets with “and” or “even”. As you go through an entire set of bullets, page after page of nothing but bullets, the secrets of bullets reveal themselves to you. It's approximately how you go about deconstructing just about anything, even when there's no precedence. For instance, during James Hutton's time, the world was thought to have a fixed creation date Apparently on Saturday, October 22, 4004 BC, the world was created, or so it was taught around the time of James Hutton. Hutton is called the “father of modern geology” because he came up with the fundamental understanding of geology as we know it today. Hutton was curious about how the earth was formed. The religious texts of the day were pretty clear. The earth was 6000 years old according to Archbishop James Ussher of Ireland. And that was that—no further discussion was allowed on the topic. Hutton wasn't exactly convinced and he set about his journey of deconstruction. Hutton's moment of discovery came indirectly because of his whisky and his women In 1747, Hutton was a young medical graduate, who got drunk and the ladies got too much of his attention. He managed to get his lover Miss Eddington pregnant. The scandal that erupted saw her being rushed off to London to give birth. Hutton's family too needed to limit the damage to their reputation and he was forced to leave Edinburgh and go off to a small family farm in Slighhouses, Southern Scotland. It was there that he saw the top soil run off and go downstream If the land were always going to be eroded, there would be no topsoil and crops couldn't be grown; which in turn would cause people to starve over time. Hutton couldn't buy that the earth would be stripped away to nothing. Working in isolation, he rejected the world view at the time and needed to figure out how new land was formed. And then on his form his great idea about “how new land could be created.” Hutton's examples were cliffs. Around his farm were dozens, hundreds of cliffs. In the exposed parts of the cliffs, he'd have noticed the bands of rocks, laid down like layers one on top of the other, and at different times. He'd figured out how rock was formed like no known person had done before his time. Sedimentary rock that's taught in school these days was revolutionary back in Hutton's time. How did he do it? He looked at example after example until the rock gave away its secrets. Surely you and I could look at rock all day and the only result would be a big headache at the end of the day But let's stop to think about deconstruction for a second. You could take apart quite a few things in your house or office today. Over time, and with a little bit of persistence, you'd work out how it was built. The more examples you deconstruct using the very same, or similar product, the more likely you'd be to recognise its structure. While it may seem that some people are incredibly intelligent at deconstructing and reconstructing concepts, they're probably just as bright as you. The brain works solely through pattern-recognition. If you find enough examples to work with them, and you get working on those examples, the ideas reveal themselves to you over time. There's no doubt a bit of luck involved Luck plays as big, if not a larger role than hard work, but to deconstruct just about anything you need time and persistence. And lots and lots of examples. It's hard to believe that you, me, anyone of us can deconstruct, but you can look through historical or even modern times and find not tens of thousands, even millions of examples of people who achieve many deconstruction goals every single year. Nothing is quite as good as a good teacher A teacher's job is to reduce the learning curve and make you smart, smarter than the teacher himself. Even so, you can be your own teacher if you start with Phase one and isolate a tiny part of the big puzzle. When you get to Phase two, you'd need lots of examples, possibly hundreds, before a pattern clearly starts to emerge. Sake, karate, karaoke. That's a pattern. Writing bullets. That too is a pattern. Figuring out how the Earth regenerates itself, yes that is a pattern as well. Which then takes us to our last phase: reconstruction. Or how to stack the layers as you go forward. Let's find out how it's done. Part 3: How to stack the layers going forward In late October 2016, I gave a presentation at the WeArePodcast conference. The presentation wasn't about how to grow your audience or monetise your podcast. Instead, the presentation was about the elements of telling a story. For weeks before the event, I struggled with the presentation, and the reason I was so conflicted was due to the length of the presentation. I had just 30 minutes or so to get the point across. How do you take a lifetime of storytelling and encapsulate it in a 30-minute module? You don't. When you deconstruct or reconstruct, the goal should be exactly the same. It's always meant to take a tiny piece of the information you have on hand and then go deep. I happened to talk about the elements of a story in that presentation, but if I were making a presentation on how a dead zone shows up in the ocean, I'd use the very same principle. And that's what you should do too as well. Instead of taking on the entire subject matter, take on a tiny slice If you were presenting about dead zones in the ocean floor, you'd probably cover three elements. 1: The ocean conveyor belt 2: The role of cold water currents and warm water currents 3: How dead zones occur Granted, this is a tiny part of what you're likely to know about thermohaline circulation and the ocean conveyor belt, but it's enough. And how do you know it's enough? There's a precise benchmark to know when you're overcooking your information. That benchmark is the ability of the audience or readers to recall the information. If you overdose them with information, they'll recall parts of it, but not all Information that's just re-constructed just right usually allows the client to remember the entire sequence without too much prodding. And covering just three points, even when you have a thousand to cover is usually a good way to go about things. Three points force you to constrain yourself and go deep into your content. For instance, many podcasts on the Three Month Vacation covers about 4000-5000 words, yet they only cover three points. This article might go well into 4000-5000 words, but it only covers three points. It's likely that the person reading this information may not be able to recall the three points instantly, but give them a summary and it all comes flooding back. And that's how you know your reconstruct is goody-yum-yum At Psychotactics, we do this reconstruct at our workshops. Take for instance the workshop we had on Landing Pages in Queenstown, New Zealand. It was a three-day workshop, and on the very last day, I got the group to summarise what they had learned. If you've done a solid job, you'll see their eyes, not the top of their heads. No one will be looking down at their notes scrambling to remember what was taught. Instead, they'll be looking right at you, reassembling the information just the way it was given to them. This technique is also easy to use when making a presentation to a live audience. You can have 200, 500 or a 1000 people in the audience going through the sequence of what you've just taught them. And that's the real feedback—when the audience can remember it all. So do you remember what you just learned? Let's see. What did we cover? Summary: – Where to start your journey of deconstruction – How to find patterns when there's no one to help you – How to stack the layers as you go forward The journey needs to start with a small slice. Instead of taking on a big topic, go down to one tiny part. Want to take apart the car? How about holding back a little and then taking apart just the wheel, instead? If you have someone to help you; a teacher; a guide, then that speeds up the learning process. But what if you have no one? What if you're like James Hutton and you're faced with the prospect of doing something no one has done before? In such a case, and in every case, really, you should be looking at a tonne of examples. Examples help you understand the same problem, see the same patterns from many angles. You may or may not hit the jackpot of how to write bullets on a landing page, but if you look at dozens of examples of bullets, you'll find the so-called secret will reveal itself to you. Finally, when it comes back to the reconstruct, it's just as important to realise that you have to be a bit stingy with your topics. Instead of covering half a dozen topics, just cover three main topics and go really deep. You know you're not overdoing the information because the audience can easily recall what you've told them without needing to look at their notes. Even 4000-5000 words later, the reader or listener should be able to remember the points you've covered and pass them on to someone else without too much of a problem. And that is the short and exciting journey of deconstruction. Now it's time for some sake, eh?   Do you know: Focus can cause a massive blindspot in our business.So what's the option? Surely it can't be distraction? Actually it's a mix of both that's required. Using the concept of “spinning plates”, you can avoid the blind spot of success and the mindlessness of distraction. How Success Causes A Blind Spot And Creates A Rip Van Winkle Effect https://www.psychotactics.com/how-success-causes-blind-spot/

La rubrica musicale “Risonanze” a cura di Maurizio Principato.- Tiziana Ricci sulla mostra per i 90 anni di Arnaldo Pomodoro a palazzo reale di Milano.- Barbara Sorrentini intervista Silvia Jop, sceneggiatrice del film “Upwelling” presente a FilmMaker 16.- Andrea Cegna intervista Sandrone Dazieri sul suo ultimo romanzo “L'angelo”.- Giuseppe Isgrò regista e cointerprete di “Baal” di B. Brecht, in scena al Teatro Franco Parenti di Milano.

La rubrica musicale “Risonanze” a cura di Maurizio Principato.- Tiziana Ricci sulla mostra per i 90 anni di Arnaldo Pomodoro a palazzo reale di Milano.- Barbara Sorrentini intervista Silvia Jop, sceneggiatrice del film “Upwelling” presente a FilmMaker 16.- Andrea Cegna intervista Sandrone Dazieri sul suo ultimo romanzo “L’angelo”.- Giuseppe Isgrò regista e cointerprete di “Baal” di B. Brecht, in scena al Teatro Franco Parenti di Milano.

La rubrica musicale “Risonanze” a cura di Maurizio Principato.- Tiziana Ricci sulla mostra per i 90 anni di Arnaldo Pomodoro a palazzo reale di Milano.- Barbara Sorrentini intervista Silvia Jop, sceneggiatrice del film “Upwelling” presente a FilmMaker 16.- Andrea Cegna intervista Sandrone Dazieri sul suo ultimo romanzo “L’angelo”.- Giuseppe Isgrò regista e cointerprete di “Baal” di B. Brecht, in scena al Teatro Franco Parenti di Milano.

Upwelling in the ocean, in which the deep, cold water rises to the surface, provides a very nutrient-rich environment for the marine ecosystem. But there are detrimental effects related to the upwelling system, too. As Tessa Hill of the University of California, Davis explains, when this water gets pulled back up to the surface, it’s also bringing up very carbon dioxide-rich water, which is increasing due to human activities and changing the chemistry of the water itself. "We call this ocean acidification because when you add that carbon dioxide into the sea water, it changes the acidity of the water. The ocean soaks up that carbon from the atmosphere, so about 30 percent of what we put into the atmosphere ends up in the ocean. And so on top of all the cycling of carbon that would normally happen in the ocean, including things related to that upwelling system, there’s now a human fingerprint on top of that." Acidic waters are affecting how oysters and mussels build their shell, so Hill is helping to monitor conditions off the Pacific coast, which helps hatcheries decide when to spawn.

Hindcasting weather over the ocean near the California coast for 600 years.

Hindcasting weather over the ocean near the California coast for 600 years.

The climate of Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems is largely driven by different processes in nearby coastal oceans. Atmospheric processes over the oceans influence seasonal rainfall patterns, while currents and ocean temperatures affect both local and regional climate conditions - understanding these are key to understanding Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Series: "UC Natural Reserve System" [Science] [Show ID: 24604]

The climate of Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems is largely driven by different processes in nearby coastal oceans. Atmospheric processes over the oceans influence seasonal rainfall patterns, while currents and ocean temperatures affect both local and regional climate conditions - understanding these are key to understanding Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Series: "UC Natural Reserve System" [Science] [Show ID: 24604]

Parallel Session V-A, Sunday Afternoon, 3 August 2008, Sustainable Agriculture and World Hunger