Podcasts about Apollo

More than half a century after humans last walked on the Moon, the next era of space exploration is taking shape. Getting there is cheaper, private companies are playing a much bigger role, and discoveries like vast reserves of lunar water have made the prospect of establishing a permanent presence on the Moon far more realistic. Ian Bremmer sits down with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to talk about what this new space age could look like. They discuss the growing competition between the US and China, whether rivals can cooperate on the lunar surface, and who gets to write the rules as governments and companies begin looking beyond simply planting a flag. Hadfield also breaks down the practical challenges of living on the Moon – from powering a settlement through long lunar nights to the unanswered question of whether humans can develop normally in low gravity. He explains how private companies are turning space into a commercial marketplace, why regulation will inevitably struggle to keep pace, and why robots alone can never satisfy humanity's drive to explore Mars. And drawing on nearly six months aboard the International Space Station, Hadfield reflects on the surprisingly wonderful experience of sleeping in zero gravity, circling Earth 2,600 times, and how seeing the planet from above fundamentally changed his perspective on humanity and our place in the universe. Subscribe to the GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred podcast platform, to receive new episodes as soon as they're published. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Space Nuts: Moon impact, Roman Observatory launch, and Neptune's odd moonsAndrew Dunkley is joined by Professor Jonti Horner, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Southern Queensland, for a wide-ranging astronomy update. They cover SpaceX's out-of-control rocket body hitting the Moon, the imminent launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Observatory, and a new result that may explain the strange origin of some of Neptune's moons.We discuss why lunar impacts matter far beyond the Moon itself, how Roman will study exoplanets and dark energy, and why clay minerals on Neptune's small moons are such a big clue about a violent early solar system.Key topicsSpaceX's rocket body impacted the Moon after being left in a long, uncontrolled orbitWhy lunar impacts are a real concern for future habitats, infrastructure, and Apollo heritage sitesThe sheer scale of human-made objects that have already hit or landed on the MoonElon Musk's vision for lunar factories, rail-gun launches, and large-scale off-Earth manufacturingWhy the same company could end up both creating the risk and needing to solve itThe Nancy Grace Roman Observatory launching around 9 months ahead of scheduleRoman's 2.4 metre mirror, 300 megapixel wide-field camera, and hydrazine-fueled journey to L2How Roman will study dark energy, gravitational lensing, exoplanets, and free-floating planetsNew James Webb observations of Neptune's moons showing clay-type minerals on Larissa and GalateaWhy those clays suggest a much older, more violent system shaped by Triton's capture and moon-to-moon collisionsTimestamps:00:00 - Studio prep, muting phones, and getting ready to record01:53 - Episode intro: SpaceX lunar impact, Roman Observatory, and Neptune moons03:00 - Jonti Horner joins the show04:26 - SpaceX rocket body crashes into the Moon07:03 - Predicted impact plume and expected crater size08:54 - Korean spacecraft Danuri captures post-impact images10:19 - Why Moon impacts matter for future lunar bases11:47 - Protecting Apollo landing sites and lunar archaeology12:15 - More than 3,000 human-made objects have hit the Moon14:32 - Law, responsibility, and the problem of cleanup beyond Earth16:07 - Musk's plans for Moon factories and Starlink-style expansion18:12 - Rail guns, Optimus robots, and scaling lunar industry19:34 - SpaceX's own industry could be threatened by its own debris21:24 - Balancing commercial benefits and environmental costs23:46 - The Nancy Grace Roman Observatory launch approaches26:03 - Roman's orbit, hydrazine fuel, and five-year mission plan27:57 - From WFIRST to Roman: how the telescope evolved29:23 - Roman's mirror, 300 megapixel camera, and survey power30:14 - Exoplanets, microlensing, and the coronagraph33:29 - Roman's launch status and the excitement ahead34:17 - Neptune's moons and the role of TritonBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/space-nuts-astronomy-insights-cosmic-discoveries--2631155/support.

Today, we dive into the declassified files that NASA didn't want you to see. From mysterious sightings during the Gemini and Apollo missions to testimony from those who were there, we explore the evidence of anomalous activity and what might be hidden on the moon. Welcome to Camp!

It's back to school season, which has us thinking about our favorite teachers. The ones who really saw us, changed our points of view, or set us on new paths. But of all the teachers we've seen in TV and movies, which of them do we wish we'd had to educate us in real life? Today we're talking about fictional on-screen teachers – from My Girl, My So-Called Life, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit and Dune: Part One. If you like want more episodes like this one, check out:The reality TV show I'd like to judgeThe TV show I'd like to live inThe American dream according to ‘The Wire,' ‘Apollo 13' and moreConnect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:Letterboxd / FacebookOur weekly newsletterSupport public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show's perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

This week, the strange and unexplained are coming from above, below, and just about everywhere in between. A mysterious object investigated by the Soviets, a surge in Nessie sightings, and a secret experiment conducted aboard Apollo 14 raise some fascinating questions. Plus, ominous predictions, new clues in an enduring biblical mystery, and one very famous haunted object has a temporary new home. "People are saying" that it's a packed Paranormal Report with plenty to discuss! Thanks for watching/listening! --- VIRTUAL CAMPFIRE GROUPJoin our FREE online community at ⁠https://virtualcampfiregroup.com⁠ EVENTSHope to see you soon at one of Jim's live events: https://jimharold.com/events YOUTUBE CHANNELBe sure to subscribe to Jim's YouTube channel at: ⁠https://youtube.com/jimharold⁠  JOIN JIM'S SPOOKY STUDIO PLUS CLUBYou can get access to Jim's entire back catalog of Campfire and a TON of exclusive content with the Spooky Studio Plus Club. Go to https://⁠jimharold.com/plus⁠ and signup to support the show and get access to our MASSIVE library of content! MERCHGo to ⁠https://jimharold.com/merch⁠ to get your Jim Harold T's, sweatshirts, mugs, hats and more!  LINKS https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/donald-trump-says-aliens-living-37578195 https://lamag.com/crimeinla/melissa-casias-autopsy-reveals-gunshot-wound-but-mystery-deepens-as-death-ruled-undetermined/ https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16058367/melissa-casias-taos-handgun-death.html https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/metals-recovered-russia-alleged-ufo-ross-coulthart/ https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/fresh-loch-ness-monster-sighting-shatters-total-made-last-ye-442114/ https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16076527/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-us.html https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2239998/nostradamus-5-country-war-2026/amp https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16037205/blind-psychic-baba-vanga-predictions.html https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16050533/edgar-mitchell-moon-esp-experiment.html https://people.com/kaia-gerber-says-she-underwent-exorcism-as-a-child-never-talked-about-it-before-12061805?hid=e625342da28cb0344dad623f5a8028b80fa850a0&did=25438320-20260817&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ppl-news-alert_newsletter&utm_content=081726&lctg=e625342da28cb0344dad623f5a8028b80fa850a0&lr_input=6ce3ca21ff82a668d70361948ec50e7252e77f02f737b4545107c602bcb3b8db&campaign=19447444 https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16070205/noahs-ark-durupinar-mount-ararat-scans.html https://apple.news/AmSkg1p5UTOeLqWaMrrJCig Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If they could get a washing machine to fly, Bill, Amanda, and Rob could record a pod about it. We head to Houston to rewatch Ron Howard's ‘Apollo 13,' starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocamp, and Matt Pevic LIONSGATE'S MUTINY, STARRING JASON STATHAM, ONLY IN THEATERS AUGUST 21 Put ChatGPT to work on your most ambitious ideas and projects. Get started at https://ChatGPT.com by selecting Work mode. Available on Plus and Pro plans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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SUMMARY: Brian, Brandon, and Aaron discuss news about Nvidia's reported $105B backing of OpenAI's Ohio data center and what it implies for GPUs as an “asset class” and enterprise AI. Brian argues Jensen Huang is shifting Nvidia's narrative from needing the newest chips immediately to portraying GPUs as long-lived, cash-flowing assets that can be financed like bonds, pushing risk onto banks and private equity. Brandon agrees scarcity has extended older GPU usefulness but warns the market could be flooded with newer, cheaper, more efficient hardware, leaving debt tied to obsolete equipment. Aaron likens GPUs to airplanes, expensive assets requiring constant utilization, while noting new AI builds demand entirely new data centers for power and cooling. The group questions widespread lack of profitability, compares the financing trend to past bubbles, and debates the optimistic case that breakthroughs could ultimately justify the investment.SHOW: 1056SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1056 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/vTLTdIZueJMSHOW SPONSORS:Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoShow topic: Nvidia's Pivot from Chipmaker to FinancierNvidia just backed $105B for OpenAI's Ohio data center and helped mobilize $500B+ in Wall Street financing (Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Goldman, KKR) to fund GPU purchases, while AMD, Google, and Cerebras chip away at its tech lead. The moat is moving from silicon to balance sheet.Core question: Is a GPU actually securitizable like real estate or aircraft, or is this circular financing dressed up as infrastructure?The bull case: GPUs as productive, cash-flow-generating assets (compute-as-a-service) → financeable like data centers or planes, unlocking capital hyperscalers alone couldn't raise.The bear case: Depreciation risk; GPUs age fast, unlike buildings. What's the residual value of an H100-class chip in 2030? Securitizing a depreciating, obsolescence-prone asset is a very different bet than securitizing land.Circularity concern: Nvidia financing the customers who buy Nvidia chips, who generate the revenue that justifies Nvidia's valuation, echoes vendor financing bubbles (Cisco/telecom, 2000).Precedent: Compare to aircraft leasing/securitization models: what made those work (long asset life, resale markets, standardized valuation), and whether GPUs have any of that yet.Who bears the risk if utilization or model economics don't pan out: Nvidia, the banks, or the credit markets buying the paper?FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

Ben, Rob and Amber blast off with ‘Destination Moon', the 1950 science fiction landmark that helped launch an entire decade of space age cinema. Directed by Irving Pichel, produced by George Pal and developed with legendary sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein, Destination Moon stars John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers and Dick Wesson as the crew of the first privately funded mission to the Moon. Released nearly twenty years before Apollo 11, the film treated space travel with a seriousness that helped reshape what science fiction could look like on screen.Did Destination Moon really start the 1950s sci-fi boom, and how scientifically serious was its vision of travelling to the Moon? What did the film predict correctly, what did it get spectacularly wrong, and how did its ideas eventually cross paths with the real world of NASA? How were its groundbreaking special effects achieved; why does its politics now seem astonishingly naive; and if Destination Moon had such an enormous impact on science fiction and popular culture, why has almost everyone forgotten it? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below!Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcastGET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

What happens when AI stops being impressive in demos—and starts helping us fight cancer, transform how companies operate, and attract hundreds of billions of dollars in investment?That shift may already be underway. This week brought some of the strongest signals yet that AI's impact is moving beyond better chatbots. From personalized cancer treatments and dramatically earlier detection to autonomous business workflows and AI-powered scientific research, the conversation is increasingly about measurable outcomes.For business leaders, there's an equally important takeaway: the competitive advantage may no longer come from choosing the “best” AI model. It may come from giving AI the right context about your business.Anthropic's own sales team provides a striking example. By connecting Claude to systems including Salesforce, Apollo, Common Room, and Gong, the company reports cutting manual work by 70%. The lesson is simple: smarter models help, but AI becomes dramatically more useful when it understands your data, workflows, processes, and preferences.And that's only the beginning.In this session, you'll discover:Why new developments in personalized mRNA cancer treatment could represent an important milestone for AI-assisted healthcare.How AI is helping researchers detect and understand cancer earlier and with greater precision.How Anthropic is using AI workflows to reduce manual sales work by 70%.How AI systems are beginning to learn the way people work and turn repetitive activities into automations.How increasingly capable open models could dramatically change the cybersecurity threat landscape.How AI is accelerating drug discovery and complex scientific analysis.How AI-assisted coding and agentic development continue to change software creation.Why an extraordinary amount of capital is flowing into AI infrastructure and applications—including a proposed $500B financing platform around NVIDIA infrastructure, Databricks' $5B raise, and major funding rounds across the ecosystem.About Leveraging AIMulti-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/ Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/eventsIf you've enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

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On this week's show: the Open Home Foundation puts Community Day 2026 on the calendar, Apollo makes ESPHome a little less breadboard-y, Petlibro reminds everyone why cloud-dependent pet gear is a terrible way to miss dinner, and Whisker proves AI still can't always tell one cat from another. We also hit Brilliant's new managed-service subscription, Comcast turning routers into motion sensors with a privacy asterisk, Aqara pushing Matter camera controls forward, Sonos news, plus CEDIA-bound gear from DreamWall and DoorBird, a pick of the week, project updates, and so much more!Community Day 2026: Save the date! – Open Home FoundationESPHome Starter Kit is shipping!Universal Paperclips (Game)HomeTech HeadlinesCats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went downWhisker's AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodiesBrilliant Launches Subscription Service for Managed Smart Home AutomationDreamWall to Debut New Generation of Outdoor CooLED MicroLED Video Wall Solutions at CEDIA Expo 2026DoorBird Launches the New D22x Series - Residential SystemsComcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch | TechCrunchSonos gets ready to launch new Ace Ultra headphonesSonos Adds Live Activities Support on iPhoneAqara enables PTZ camera control through Matter on the G350SEED - SEED Early Access | A brand new world, ready to be populatedWhats Up, Reynoldsburg?

We're traveling way back in time to 1971 -- when Richard Nixon was president, the Beatles were newly broken up, and Fiddler on the Roof was one of the biggest movies at the box office. Today in this encore episode, we're revisiting a special edition of What's Making Us Happy, recommending pop culture from the 1970s – including Isaac Hayes' Shaft soundtrack, Carol King's Tapestry, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, and The Monster at the End of This Book.Looking for more pop culture from the past? Check out these episodes:The American dream according to ‘The Wire,' ‘Apollo 13' and more‘Jaws' is still stuck in our teeth, 50 years later'Shrek' – a weird, flatulent and beloved franchise – turns 25Connect with Pop Culture Happy Hour:Letterboxd / FacebookOur weekly newsletterSupport public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show's perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Collective Mining Executive Chairman Ari Sussman joins Trevor Hall to discuss the company's move to the Nasdaq and why Colombia's new pro-growth government could open an important window for mine development. Ari outlines the path toward a maiden resource estimate for the Apollo system in September, followed by accelerated permitting and a potential construction decision later this decade. The conversation also covers development of the exploration adit toward Apollo, the significant discovery potential at Trap and Plutus, and how that underground infrastructure could eventually become part of a future mining operation. Finally, Ari discusses Collective's relationship with local communities and the company's response following the recent earthquake in western Colombia.

Oil Reserves taking a hit. Finally getting to the recent high profile earnings. Market Top Calls (again). ALL TIME HIGHS – Then some consolidation (then highs again). Situational Awareness Update. SpaceX Bounces… PLUS we are now on Spotify and Amazon Music/Podcasts! Click HERE for Show Notes and Links DHUnplugged is now streaming live - with listener chat. Click on link on the right sidebar. Love the Show? Then how about a Donation? PayPal.Donation.Button({ env:'production', hosted_button_id:'JJJHP2GDEJC7J', image: { src:'https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif', alt:'Donate with PayPal button', title:'PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!', } }).render('#donate-button'); Follow John S. Dvorak on Twitter Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter Warm-Up - Oil Reserves taking a hit - Getting to the recent high profile earnings - Market Top Calls (again) Markets - ALL TIME HIGHS - Then some consolidation - Lets round out earnings - Situational Awareness Update - SpaceX Bounces... Etsy - Layoffs With Better Numbers - Etsy is cutting about 220 jobs, or 12% of its workforce. - Management said the cuts were not primarily about cost savings or AI. ----- CEO Kruti Patel Goyal stated the restructuring aims to simplify the organization, remove management layers, and speed up decision-making to better compete against massive rivals like Amazon, Temu, and TikTok Shop - Q2 revenue was about $668 million and core marketplace sales improved. - Etsy also authorized another $2 billion share buyback. - Comes after selling Depop to eBay for about $1.4 billion. Polysilicon - Tariffs Plus Price Floors - U.S. policy adds a 15% tariff and minimum import prices on polysilicon and solar products. - Goal is to protect domestic production from low-cost foreign competition. - U.S. share of global polysilicon capacity fell from about 50% in 2005 to under 2% in 2024. - First Solar and T1 Energy jumped on the announcement. ---- The same playbook - rinse and repeat Chipotle - Salmonella Returns - Minnesota officials linked a salmonella outbreak to jalapenos served at Chipotle. - Chipotle removed the affected pepper supply and switched growers. - Shares fell roughly 8%-10% as investors remembered the company's earlier food-safety problems. - This is on top of the lettuce situation with Sweetgreen- look at  STOCK CHART FOR SG Michael Burry - Calling a Major Top - Michael Burry says the market may be near a "major top." - Warned of the possibility of a 1987-style market drop. - He is short names including Nvidia, Palantir, Tesla and semiconductor stocks. - Main concern is stretched valuations and crowded trades unwinding quickly. - This may be the 100th top he has called since the GFC ---- NVIDIA TURNS GPUs INTO AN ASSET CLASS - Nvidia signed preliminary agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. - The Wall Street firms would create dedicated pools of capital to finance Nvidia-based data centers and compute infrastructure at what Nvidia calls attractive rates for customers. - Jensen Huang: “This is really the first time that technology chips have become an investable asset class.” Nvidia says the compute assets now generate revenue and can increasingly be financed like infrastructure. - Nvidia could backstop as much as 25% of individual investments on a case-by-case basis - potentially up to about $125 billion if applied across the full program. STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE BREAKS 300 MILLION - The Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell by 6.1 million barrels to 298.7 million barrels for the week ended Aug. 7 - below 300 million for the first time since January 1983. - The SPR started 2026 around 415 million barrels, meaning more than 100 million barrels have already come out this year as releases were used to offset disruptions from the Iran conflict. - The reserve's authorized storage capacity is roughly 714 million barrels, leaving current inventories at about 42% of capacity. - Oil on the rise last week Earnings and such Toyota - Big Buyback, Better Outlook - Toyota raised its annual operating-profit forecast 13%, helped by the weaker yen. - Announced a share buyback worth up to $6.3 billion. - Quarterly operating profit still fell 9%, hurt by China weakness and higher Middle East-related costs. McDonald's - Value Problem - U.S. same-store sales rose just 0.8%, below expectations and well below last year's 2.5% growth. - Management blamed weak execution of value promotions and fewer digital deals. (and probably because everyone is taking weight loss drugs - see above) - Lower-income customer traffic remains a major pressure point. - McDonald's is bringing back more digital offers and loyalty promotions to drive traffic. Eli Lilly - Weight-Loss Machine - Lilly crushed Q2 expectations as Mounjaro and Zepbound drove most of the growth. - Mounjaro sales hit $9.94 billion; Zepbound brought in $4.93 billion. - Raised 2026 revenue guidance to $85-$87 billion. - Verzenio, its major breast-cancer drug, remains one of Lilly's biggest non-obesity products. - Lilly continues widening its lead over Novo Nordisk in the obesity-drug market. Disney - Parks Keep Printing Money - Quarterly adjusted EPS rose 28% to $2.06, beating the $1.86 estimate. - Parks and experiences revenue increased 10% to nearly $10 billion. - Global park attendance grew 4%. - Disney is selling its 50% stake in A+E Networks to Hearst for an estimated $1.2 billion. Oil - OPEC Adds Barrels, Maybe - OPEC+ agreed to raise September production targets by another 188,000 barrels per day. - The increase completes the rollback of a 1.65 million-barrel-per-day supply cut dating back to 2023. (In other words - planned so not a surprise) - Actual supply remains constrained because several producers are already pumping below quota. - Any normalization around the Strait of Hormuz could suddenly make OPEC+'s additional barrels much more important. Berkshire Hathaway - Greg Abel Starts Spending - Q2 operating earnings rose 16% to about $13 billion. - Berkshire bought $23.5 billion of stocks and sold just $3.7 billion - its first quarter as a net stock buyer in 14 quarters. - Bought back $4.5 billion of Berkshire shares, versus only $235 million in Q1. - Cash dropped from roughly $380 billion to $365 billion as Abel starts putting the massive cash pile to work. - Important shift: Buffett is still chairman, but this is one of the clearest signs yet of how Greg Abel may allocate capital differently as CEO. Situational Awareness - Nearly Blows Up, Investors Want Back In - The fund lost 67% in July after leveraged AI bets collapsed and forced a major stock sale to Citadel. - Despite the blowup, Situational Awareness was still up about 80% for 2026 because of huge earlier gains. - Bloomberg says Silicon Valley investors are already asking to put more money into the fund. - Situational Awareness is currently telling prospective investors it is not accepting new capital. - The fund has also continued making large private investments even after the near-collapse. --- Most recent was a $400B ---- There is some talk that Citadel made out like a bandit on the rescue Mercedes AMG - The Car Literally Brands You - Two Mercedes AMG owners filed a class-action lawsuit claiming the metal AMG logo embedded in the seat becomes dangerously hot in the sun. - One driver says he suffered first- and second-degree burns, with a dermatologist describing the injury as "AMG inscribed." - The lawsuit wants Mercedes to cover damages and remove the metal logos from affected vehicles. - Hard to beat this one: pay AMG money and get the logo branded into your back. Europe's Drought - History Starts Popping Out - Extreme drought and low river levels are exposing things that have been underwater or hidden for decades or centuries. - In Serbia, sunken German World War II warships have reappeared in the Danube. - In Britain, dry ground revealed outlines of medieval buildings; mammoth remains and ancient structures have also surfaced elsewhere. - Serious drought story, but visually one of the strangest side effects of the summer. Golden Toilet - $6 Million Flush - The 18-carat gold toilet was ripped out of Blenheim Palace in a five-minute raid and has never been recovered - but there is a conviction. - Prosecutors used phone data, forensic evidence and planning activity to link the gang to the theft. - One defendant had cased the palace beforehand and photographed entry points; another man had already pleaded guilty and admitted helping move the stolen gold. - Prosecutors believe the 98-kilo toilet was quickly cut up or melted down and sold as gold. - So the conviction was based on evidence of the robbery and disposal - not on recovering the actual toilet. Final Follow Up SpaceX - Space Junk Smashes Into the Moon - A dead SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage crashed into the moon at about 5,400 mph after drifting through space since January 2025. - The roughly 4-ton, school-bus-size object kicked up a lunar dust plume that astronomers detected from Chile. - The impact was accidental - solar activity and gravity gradually pushed the abandoned rocket stage onto a collision course. - NASA and SpaceX are now discussing ways to prevent future lunar crashes as more hardware heads toward the moon. - NEED Space garbage Trucks - something we have discussed on show for years (see next) Space Garbage Trucks - This Is Becoming a Business - Astroscale is building spacecraft designed to inspect, capture and remove dead satellites and other orbital debris. - Its ADRAS-J mission demonstrated close approach and inspection of a large piece of existing space junk - a key step before actually grabbing and removing debris. - ClearSpace is developing similar debris-removal spacecraft, including missions designed to rendezvous with and capture abandoned rocket hardware. - The business model is basically orbital towing: governments and satellite operators pay to remove dangerous junk or service aging spacecraft. - With tens of thousands of tracked objects already in orbit, "space sanitation" could become a real infrastructure business.   Love the Show? 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Leon Black's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein exposed just how deeply the worlds of high finance, elite philanthropy, and blue-chip art could overlap without much meaningful scrutiny. Black, the billionaire cofounder of Apollo Global Management and one of the most powerful private collectors in the world, paid Epstein roughly $170 million over six years for financial and tax-related services, even though Epstein had already pleaded guilty in 2008 to offenses involving a minor and was a registered sex offender throughout much of their professional relationship. The newly released material showed that Epstein's role went well beyond giving Black occasional financial advice. Epstein became deeply involved in the machinery surrounding Black's enormous art collection, meticulously cataloguing works that were ultimately used as collateral for hundreds of millions of dollars in borrowing. Black's collection, once appraised by Christie's at roughly $2.7 billion, included extraordinary trophies such as Edvard Munch's The Scream, multiple works by Raphael, and a Picasso sculpture purchased for $125 million. Yet Black continued to portray his relationship with Epstein largely as a matter of financial expertise, insisting he had not understood the true extent of Epstein's criminality and describing himself as someone who had been misled. That explanation became much harder to swallow alongside Black's own acknowledgment that he knew about Epstein's 2008 conviction but did not regard it as sufficiently serious to stop doing business with him.The story was also an indictment of an art world that has repeatedly demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to overlook almost anything when enormous wealth, prestigious collections, and major donations are involved. Black did not merely purchase paintings; his money bought him extraordinary institutional standing, culminating in his chairmanship of the Museum of Modern Art, while his masterpieces circulated through museums that benefited from his patronage and prestige. Even after the Epstein relationship became impossible to ignore, Black remained on MoMA's board and continued appearing at major art fairs, museum dinners, galleries, sporting events, and elite cultural gatherings. That resilience illustrated one of the uglier realities of the contemporary art ecosystem: museums and cultural institutions frequently present themselves as moral authorities while remaining financially dependent upon billionaires whose money grants them astonishing insulation from ordinary reputational consequences. Black eventually surrendered leadership positions at Apollo and MoMA, but he was hardly exiled from the cultural establishment. The art world absorbed the scandal, issued the requisite expressions of concern, and largely moved forward with one of its most valuable collectors still inside the tent. In that sense, the Black-Epstein story was about much more than one billionaire's extraordinarily questionable judgment. It demonstrated how an industry built around opaque ownership, private transactions, tax strategy, asset-backed borrowing, billionaire philanthropy, and social exclusivity could provide the perfect environment for uncomfortable questions to remain unanswered as long as the person writing the checks remained important enough.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:The Strange Tale of Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein | Vanity Fair

Leon Black's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein exposed just how deeply the worlds of high finance, elite philanthropy, and blue-chip art could overlap without much meaningful scrutiny. Black, the billionaire cofounder of Apollo Global Management and one of the most powerful private collectors in the world, paid Epstein roughly $170 million over six years for financial and tax-related services, even though Epstein had already pleaded guilty in 2008 to offenses involving a minor and was a registered sex offender throughout much of their professional relationship. The newly released material showed that Epstein's role went well beyond giving Black occasional financial advice. Epstein became deeply involved in the machinery surrounding Black's enormous art collection, meticulously cataloguing works that were ultimately used as collateral for hundreds of millions of dollars in borrowing. Black's collection, once appraised by Christie's at roughly $2.7 billion, included extraordinary trophies such as Edvard Munch's The Scream, multiple works by Raphael, and a Picasso sculpture purchased for $125 million. Yet Black continued to portray his relationship with Epstein largely as a matter of financial expertise, insisting he had not understood the true extent of Epstein's criminality and describing himself as someone who had been misled. That explanation became much harder to swallow alongside Black's own acknowledgment that he knew about Epstein's 2008 conviction but did not regard it as sufficiently serious to stop doing business with him.The story was also an indictment of an art world that has repeatedly demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to overlook almost anything when enormous wealth, prestigious collections, and major donations are involved. Black did not merely purchase paintings; his money bought him extraordinary institutional standing, culminating in his chairmanship of the Museum of Modern Art, while his masterpieces circulated through museums that benefited from his patronage and prestige. Even after the Epstein relationship became impossible to ignore, Black remained on MoMA's board and continued appearing at major art fairs, museum dinners, galleries, sporting events, and elite cultural gatherings. That resilience illustrated one of the uglier realities of the contemporary art ecosystem: museums and cultural institutions frequently present themselves as moral authorities while remaining financially dependent upon billionaires whose money grants them astonishing insulation from ordinary reputational consequences. Black eventually surrendered leadership positions at Apollo and MoMA, but he was hardly exiled from the cultural establishment. The art world absorbed the scandal, issued the requisite expressions of concern, and largely moved forward with one of its most valuable collectors still inside the tent. In that sense, the Black-Epstein story was about much more than one billionaire's extraordinarily questionable judgment. It demonstrated how an industry built around opaque ownership, private transactions, tax strategy, asset-backed borrowing, billionaire philanthropy, and social exclusivity could provide the perfect environment for uncomfortable questions to remain unanswered as long as the person writing the checks remained important enough.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:The Strange Tale of Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein | Vanity Fair

Send us Fan MailRob Kaiser is a road-worn veteran of executive selection and development in the C-suite and the author of five books, including The Versatile Leader and Fear Your Strengths (both with Bob Kaplan), along with Executive Selection, Filling the Leadership Pipeline, and The Perils of Accentuating the Positive. His work has also appeared in hundreds of peer-reviewed articles in behavioral science and business press, as well as in professional presentations. In the late 1990s, Rob's research identified versatility, the capacity to balance seemingly opposing leadership behaviors such as forceful and enabling, or strategic and operational, as the single most important capability for leading in a fast-paced world of disruptive change. That insight was ahead of its time and still shapes how he thinks about leadership today.Based on that research, Rob created a suite of tools that place versatility at the core of leadership assessment and development, including the patented Leadership Versatility Index 360, the Integrated Personality Summary, and the Progress Report. He and his firm, Kaiser Leadership Solutions, put these ideas into practice every day, helping companies assess, identify, select, and develop executives who build strong teams and great cultures that deliver outstanding business results.A Few Quotes From This Episode“A strength can become a weakness through overuse.""There's only one person in the world you can't see."(Temple of Apollo) - "Know thyself. Nothing in excess. Surety brings ruin."ResourcesThe Versatile Leader: Make the Most of Your Strengths Without Overdoing It Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best At Could Be Your Biggest Problem Kaiser Leadership SolutionsLeadership Versatility Index (LVI) 360 About The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Attend The Global Conference in Toronto, October 28-31.About  Scott J. AllenWebsiteWeekly Newsletter: Practical Wisdom for LeadersMy Approach to HostingThe views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.

Mike spends National Roller Coaster Day right where he wants to be: at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, riding walk-on after walk-on during the park's Brews & BBQ festival. Between food samples and short lines, he gets reacquainted with old favorites like Apollo's Chariot and Escape from Pompeii, takes the family on Roman Rapids for the first whitewater ride he's been on in years, and gives a full breakdown of Verbolten's surprising overnight refresh — new queue storytelling from an animatronic witch, reworked lighting and scrims inside the show building, and a genuinely creepy new glowing tree effect that makes the whole ride feel reborn without changing the layout at all. Then it's the segment you've been waiting for: the full, exclusive 30-minute interview with Erica Rutledge, Herschend's Senior Director of Guest Experience Development and Creative Director behind NightFlight Expedition, along with longtime Dollywood PR Vice President Pete Owens. They go deep on how the ride's Mack Rocking Boat vehicle came directly out of lessons learned building Big Bear Mountain, the full legend of Secret Lake and characters Cora and Jasper, how a chance conversation turned the ride into four completely different adventures in one — plus hidden Easter eggs connecting it to Big Bear Mountain's shared universe, and just how much work goes into an attraction that's still being "plussed" even after it opens.

Diane and Sean discuss most successful failure of space movies, Apollo 13. Episode music is, "Re-entry and Splashdown", by James Horner from the OST.-  Our theme song is by Brushy One String-  Artwork by Marlaine LePage-  Why Do We Own This DVD?  Merch available at Teepublic-  Follow the show on social media:-  BlueSky: WhyDoWeOwnThisDVD-  IG: @whydoweownthisdvd- Tumblr: WhyDoWeOwnThisDVD-  Follow Sean's Plants on IG: @lookitmahplants- Watch Sean be bad at video games on TwitchSupport the show

Glenn Beck, Michael Knowles. EVERYTHING Is About to Change If Glenn Is Right About Trump's Plan, Peter Schiff- Fifty-Five Years of Fiat Failure   Trump Has A Plan To FIX The System, And Its GENIUS. Some feel that Trump is focusing too much on international affairs and not enough on fixing the economy. This could be Trump's plan.   If Glenn Is Right About Trump's Plan, EVERYTHING Is About to Change...  Glenn Beck sits down with political commentator Michael Knowles to discuss what they think of President Trump's current agenda.   Peter Schiff-  Fifty-Five Years of Fiat Failure   Trump Has A Plan To FIX The System, And Its GENIUS. Some feel that Trump is focusing too much on international affairs and not enough on fixing the economy. This could be Trump's plan. https://youtu.be/YaDYMKe6Rak?si=S_a7NkJYK8hiHVlU Glenn Beck 1.77M subscribers 493,465 views Aug 10, 2026 The Glenn Beck Program Join the Torch community at https://glennbeck.com/torch ► Click HERE to subscribe to Glenn Beck on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2UVLqhL ► Click HERE to sign up to Glenn's newsletter: https://glennbeck.com/newsletter-subs... Connect with Glenn on Social Media:   / glennbeck     / glennbeck     / glennbeck       If Glenn Is Right About Trump's Plan, EVERYTHING Is About to Change... Glenn Beck sits down with political commentator Michael Knowles to discuss what they think of President Trump's current agenda. Watch this video at- https://youtu.be/BdAJi2Jg-A4?si=BJtuzvKT5YDcXW4M Glenn Beck 1.77M subscribers 349,364 views Aug 15, 2026 The Glenn Beck Program Join the Torch community at https://glennbeck.com/torch ► Click HERE to subscribe to Glenn Beck on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2UVLqhL ► Click HERE to sign up to Glenn's newsletter: https://glennbeck.com/newsletter-subs... Connect with Glenn on Social Media:   / glennbeck     / glennbeck     / glennbeck      Fifty-Five Years of Fiat Failure Peter Schiff marks 55 years since Nixon closed the gold window and warns the coming inflation will dwarf the stagflation of the 1970s. Peter Schiff marks the 55th anniversary of August 15, 1971, the day Nixon closed the gold window and defaulted on the Federal Reserve's promise to redeem dollars in gold. He explains how deficit spending in the 1960s on the Great Society, Vietnam, and Apollo forced the choice between painful fiscal discipline and default, and how Nixon chose default disguised as reform. Schiff traces the fallout: the collapse of the dollar's purchasing power, gold soaring from $35 to $850 by 1980, stagflation that confounded Keynesians, and the erosion of single-income American households. Freed from gold's discipline, the government ran up massive debts, hollowed out the industrial base, and turned the world's largest creditor into its biggest debtor, with the national debt exploding from under $400 billion to over $28 trillion. He argues gold is as underpriced today as it was in 1971, that the Fed under Warsh is stoking the very inflation it claims to fight, and that just as the world went off the gold standard, it will soon go off the dollar standard with far more devastating consequences. His advice: follow Charles de Gaulle's example and exchange fiat money for real money before it's too late.   Watch this video at- https://youtu.be/dLwyxz19FH8?si=60kwSyxfFbuUztqY Peter Schiff 633K subscribers Aug 15, 2026 Chapters: 00:00 Nixon Shuts Gold Window 00:48 How Dollars Became Paper 03:08 1960s Spending Hits Limits 04:35 Nixon Chooses Default 06:51 Stagflation Fallout 09:05 Reserve Currency Abuse 10:23 Debt and Dollar Reckoning 11:12 2026 Inflation Warning 12:09 Protect Yourself With Gold 12:42 Final Call to Action Follow @peterschiff X:   / peterschiff   Instagram:   / peterschiff   TikTok:   / peterschiffofficial   Facebook:   / peterschiff    

SpaceX shares have surged nearly 40% from their recent lows, despite fears that its unusual staggered lock-up structure would unleash a wave of selling. So what actually happened?Anthony Cheung and Stephen Barnett break down how IPO lock-ups work, why SpaceX's tiny public float matters and how retail buying, index funds and a potential short squeeze helped drive the rebound.We also return to EasyJet following Apollo's £5.7 billion takeover, unpacking the private equity financing behind the deal, before looking at Cambridge Aerospace — the two-year-old UK defence technology company now valued at more than $3 billion.A packed episode covering IPOs, private equity, debt financing, defence technology and some of the biggest stories moving markets.(00:00) What's Coming Up(04:21) Why SpaceX Stock Surged(05:27) Staggered Lock-Ups Explained(12:36) Why Investors Bought the Dip(15:45) The SpaceX Short Squeeze(17:24) The Elon factor(21:10) The Success of Staggered Lock-Ups(23:12) Can SpaceX Justify Its Valuation?(24:55) Apollo's £5.7bn EasyJet Deal(29:21) How Private Equity Funds a Takeover(36:37) Apollo's Plan for EasyJet(40:00) The UK's $3bn Defence Startup(44:53) Coming Next: Boeing Deep Dive

The third edition of our summer series HerStories from the Capital: Remarkable Women of Bratislava shines a light on three extraordinary women whose lives were shaped by courage, creativity and a deep connection to Bratislava. Together with Bratislava tour guides Ľubomíra Černáková and Katarína Blšták Čatlošová, we meet Hana Gregorová, one of Slovakia's earliest and most outspoken advocates of women's rights and education; Alžbeta Güntherová-Mayerová, a pioneering art historian who helped preserve Slovakia's cultural heritage; and Beatrix “Trixi” Čelková, an anti-fascist resistance fighter whose courageous work in Bratislava contributed to the Allied bombing of the Apollo refinery during the Second World War. In the latest colourful episode of Slovak Sound Check, we explore the names of common colours and learn how to describe different shades.

“Anthropic will be a $3 trillion company, SpaceX $2 trillion, and OpenAI $1 to $1.5 trillion by Q2 of next year.” — Dave McClure Yesterday, Keith Teare and I debated the circularity of the AI economy. Today, two of Silicon Valley's most experienced investors, Dave McClure and Aman Verjee, not only straighten out this supposed “circularity” but also burst the pessimism bubble that envelops so many conversations about AI. Verjee is not only McClure's partner at Practical Venture Capital, but also the author of the newly published A Brief History of Financial Bubbles. According to him, today's AI-stoked economy is not an unusually large bubble. It may not even be a bubble, given that AI revenue — from Anthropic's $70 billion to OpenAI's $50 billion — is real. The irrational exuberance lives elsewhere — in companies “draping themselves in AI magic sauce” and in the “SaaSpocalypse” that is decimating software-as-a-service companies. They are both bullish about our AI future. McClure predicts that by the first half of next year, Anthropic and OpenAI will have joined SpaceX as public companies. Together, these three AI darlings will be worth $7 trillion. That's seven thousand billion reasons to be optimistic about 2027. Five Takeaways •       Not a Bubble — a Repricing. Both partners reject the bubble call, on the numbers: Anthropic at roughly $70 billion in revenue on under two gigawatts of compute, OpenAI at $40–50 billion, SpaceX guiding to $100 billion with more than half from AI — real revenue, increasingly real profits. The froth is specific: companies “draping themselves in AI magic sauce” without the substance, and the SaaSpocalypse — cloud-software companies whose cash flows are suddenly perceived as far less durable as AI encroaches on design, legal, and medical verticals. Michael Burry's warning gets Aman's definitive treatment (“he's called nine of the last two bubbles”), and the Aschenbrenner blowup was leverage — running four-x in volatile chip stocks — not AI: he kept his Anthropic position, is married to Dario's chief of staff, and “will be just fine.”•       The $2 Trillion Filing. The week's news, baked into the episode: Anthropic has filed to go public, with a very intentionally leaked $2 trillion valuation hinging on a $190–200 billion 2028 revenue forecast — which Dave suspects is conservative. Eight months ago, when these two last visited, the show was about Elon and Sam and Dario was the bit player; then came the weeks when decades happen: Anthropic's bet on coding agents — reportedly inspired by watching Cursor — captured the revenue engine of the entire application layer. Aman's sequencing: SpaceX is absorbing $75–85 billion of IPO capital, Anthropic goes next, and if both trade well, 2026 breaks every record for money raised — leaving 2027 for OpenAI at a $100 billion revenue guide. Google, he reminds us, went fourth after Yahoo, Lycos, and Excite: better to do it right than to do it first.•       The Fastest Pivot in Corporate History. Dave's account of SpaceX's transformation: the $250 billion xAI merger (a largely private transaction Elon approved with himself), the acquisition of Cursor that closed Friday, Colossus data centers scaling from two gigawatts toward ten, and compute deals renting capacity to Anthropic and Google — former competitors — all executed in roughly six months. The S-1, with unprecedented forward projections of $300 billion in annual revenue, mentions artificial intelligence over 1,100 times (“I used AI to count it,” Aman admits). The result is an economy Andrew calls incestuous: SpaceX's valuation now rests on Anthropic's progress. On Elon himself, Dave separates the art from the artist — terrific products, dubious politics — and on OpenAI: more board changes than Spinal Tap had drummers, a team still storming and norming, but Sam is savvy and the IPO lands by Q2 next year at $1–1.5 trillion.•       Circularity as Asset Class. The New York Times sees a vulnerability in tech giants funding their own customers; Aman, a former CFO at eBay and Sonos, sees asset-backed finance. His analogy: buying a Corvette with GMAC financing isn't a conspiracy as long as the terms are commercially reasonable — and NVIDIA's $500 billion backstop, syndicated with Goldman Sachs, Apollo, Brookfield, and KKR, brings third-party money that validates the asset. GPUs, he argues, are cars rather than smartphones: financeable over eight to ten years, not obsolete in three. The red flags to watch are rebates and self-dealing on non-commercial terms; the current evidence looks more like aircraft leasing than Enron. Dave's deeper worry isn't the AI economy at all — it's the national deficit, whose interest payments are now the largest single line item in the federal budget.•       The Luddite Summer Meets the Long Boom. Aman's sharpest historical observation: this may be the first technological revolution whose leaders are the doomers — Sam prophesying idleness, Dario predicting half of entry-level white-collar jobs destroyed within five years (already wrong at eighteen months, with no 10–20 percent unemployment in sight). Against the WSJ's jobless-boom and nation-of-Luddites anxieties, the book offers the long view: of ten historical bubbles, the two positive ones — Britain's 1845 railway mania and America's 1997–2000 internet boom — overbuilt, crashed, and left the world a valuable technology. Buy every stock founded in the boom and hold, and you'd have owned NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, and PayPal. The 1970s wiped out four to six million secretarial jobs in a decade; women's participation rose from 52 to 77 percent. And on China, the free-trader's answer: partners in progress — there's more to gain than lose if we do this right. About the Guests Dave McClure and Aman Verjee are the co-founders and managing partners of Practical Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley firm specializing in venture secondaries. Dave founded 500 Startups, invested at Founders Fund, and ran marketing at PayPal; Aman was COO of 500 Startups, led strategy at PayPal and eBay, served as CFO of Sonos and of eBay's North American marketplace — and wrote the first draft of PayPal's S-1. Aman's new book, A Brief History of Financial Bubbles (out this week), is available at bigbubbletrouble.com. References: •       A Brief History of Financial Bubbles by Aman Verjee — ten manias from the tulips to the subprime crash, out this week at bigbubbletrouble.com.•       Reuters on Anthropic's IPO filing — the $2 trillion valuation and the $190–200 billion 2028 revenue forecast it hinges on.•       “The Summer That America Became a Nation of Luddites” and the “jobless boom” — the Wall Street Journal pieces threading this week's episodes.•       The New York Times on tech giants' circular AI economy — the piece that framed yesterday's TWTW debate and today's rebuttal.•       The SpaceX S-1 — forward projections of $300 billion in ann...

In this episode of The White Witch Podcast we step into the woods of August to explore two powerful allies of witchcraft, mythology and folklore - Bay and the Wild Boar. We begin with Bay a plant long associated with prophecy, protection, purification and victory. We explore the many ways Bay can be incorporated into your craft, from cleansing and divination to protection and banishing before following its mythological threads through Circe, Apollo and Daphne and into the sacred world of the Priestesses of Delphi. We also work with Bay practically finishing this section with a simple banishing spell using its leaves - ritual can be found here - https://witchesofthecraft.com/tag/bay-leaf/ Then we travel deeper into the ancient forest to meet the Wild Boar, a creature whose image appears again and again across European mythology as a symbol of ferocity, courage, sovereignty, abundance, protection and the mysteries of the Otherworld. We follow the boar through the story of Odysseus before travelling north into Norse cosmology and its connections with Freyr and Freyja including the golden boar Gullinbursti and Freyja's companion Hildisvíni. We visit the great hall of Valhalla where the fallen warriors feast upon the endlessly renewed cosmic boar and explore the animal's possible connections with the earth and mother goddess Nerthus. From there we wander through continental and British folklore, meeting the boar god Moccus, seasonal customs such as the Jouluporsas and the animal's importance within Celtic and Druidic traditions. We explore its links with warriors, death, the afterlife and the Otherworld alongside stories involving Merlin, the Devil, Cerridwen, Manannán mac Lir and the great boar hunt found within the Welsh tale of Culhwch and Olwen. We also venture into Greek mythology with Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar before looking at what the Wild Boar may represent spiritually when it appears within our own lives, dreams or practice. Our book review this month is Circe by Madeline Miller. We finish the episode with a collection of journal prompts inspired by The Odyssey inviting you to consider your own journeys, trials, transformations and homecomings. The journal prompts came from the Instagram page - @the_edit_experience_ What song do your sirens sing? What bow can only you string? What is your Troy? What is your Calypso? What is your Ithaca? Why can't you go back there? Can you forgive yourself for the last seven years? Can you accept yourself? So light a candle, gather your Bay leaves, and come with me into the old woods — where gods, witches, warriors and wild creatures are never quite as far away as they seem. Join Me for Our Mabon Coven Gathering If you've ever wanted to experience witchcraft in person, I'd love to invite you to our very first Coven Gathering in Lincoln. Together we will celebrate Mabon, the Autumn Equinox through seasonal folklore, magical teachings, practical witchcraft and a guided journey inspired by Baba Yaga's ancient forest. You will create your own Mabon Harvest Charm to take home, receive beautifully illustrated grimoire pages and spend the afternoon connecting with a wonderful community of like-minded witches over homemade herbal teas. Whether you are completely new to witchcraft or have been walking the path for many years, this gathering has been created as a welcoming space to learn, practise and celebrate the turning of the Wheel of the Year together. You can find the booking link below if you would like to join us. I would absolutely love to see you there. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1995695286324?aff=oddtdtcreator Join us in The Hedge & Hollow for a Circe Summer with our August theme - This month we journey to the mythical island of Aeaea to meet one of the most fascinating witches in mythology – Circe. Often remembered as the enchantress who transformed men into pigs however there is far more to her story. Circe is a woman of solitude, exile, herbal wisdom, magick, transformation and self sovereignty. Her island becomes a place of initiation where those who arrive are forever changed. Throughout the month we will explore Circe through mythology, folklore and practical witchcraft discovering what her story can teach us about reclaiming our own power and embracing the transformations life asks of us. Across this month we will look at - A deeper exploration of Circe's mythology - looking beyond the familiar tales to uncover the symbolism and wisdom hidden within her story. A guided meditation transporting you to Circe's island where you will meet Circe herself and discover the messages she has waiting for you. Two Hedge Witch studies exploring the magical folklore, history and correspondences of Hellebore and Cypress. Two plants deeply connected with liminality, death, rebirth and the ancient witch's path. Practical witchcraft including a beautiful Transformation Oil inspired by Circe's magick alongside banishing practices, reflection and spellcraft to support your own personal transformation. This month will lean into embracing our own transformations and moving towards them with courage, wisdom and compassion. I'll see you on Circe's island. 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Dans la série des missions lunaires lancées par la NASA, Apollo 13, en 1970, aura été, de très loin, la plus dramatique.Plongez dans l'histoire des grands personnages et des évènements marquants qui ont façonné notre monde ! Avec enthousiasme et talent, Franck Ferrand vous révèle les coulisses de l'histoire avec un grand H, entre mystères, secrets et épisodes méconnus : un cadeau pour les amoureux du passé, de la préhistoire à l'histoire contemporaine.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

What was it like to see James Brown tear up the Apollo? Or a nine-year-old Michael Jackson take to its legendary stage? 

The Moon is lumpy. In fact, its gravity is the lumpiest of any body in the solar system. That makes it tricky for spacecraft to maintain the right speed and altitude as they orbit the Moon. The lumps are known as mass concentrations – “mascons.” They were discovered by Lunar Orbiter 1, which arrived at the Moon 60 years ago. You can’t see them – only feel their gravitational pull. Lunar Orbiter was designed to survey possible landing sites for Apollo astronauts. But as it circled the Moon, its orbit changed in unexpected ways. As it flew over some parts of the Moon, it sped up a little and dropped closer to the surface. The same effect was seen in the orbits of later missions as well. The effect could be dramatic. Apollo 16 left a small satellite in orbit in April of 1972. It was supposed to stay in orbit for several months. Instead, it crashed after just one month. Many of the mascons are associated with giant impact basins. They formed when asteroids slammed into the Moon long ago. Dense molten rock bubbled up below the scars, then cooled and hardened. This rock is denser than the surrounding rock. That makes its gravitational pull a little stronger. Today, we have good maps of the mascons – allowing satellites to escape their fatal attraction. The crescent Moon is quite low in the sky as twilight fades the next couple of nights. Venus, the “evening star,” stands close by. Script by Damond Benningfield

Checkout the WAWD Substack: https://whatarewedoingonthedesk.substack.com/ Dan Nathan welcomes Vincent Daniel, partner at Seawolf Capital and one of the investors who called the 2008 housing crash, for a deep dive into where markets stand heading into year-end. They break down new Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh's "immaculate economy" problem, why passive fund flows are quietly the most powerful force in the market, and the hedge-fund blowup that briefly rattled the S&P. From there, Dan and Vincent get into the real meat of the episode: the new wave of GPU-backed financing deals from Nvidia, Apollo, and Blackstone, why Vincent thinks the AI trade is less a Ponzi scheme and more a "debt-infield CapEx initiative," and where the credit risk is really hiding. They also debate capital availability, return on invested capital, which software names survive the AI shakeout, and whether this all ends up looking more like the dot-com bust or the GFC. Plus: an unprompted case for why Vincent should be the next GM of the Mets. —FOLLOW USYouTube: @RiskReversalMediaInstagram: @riskreversalmediaTwitter: @RiskReversalLinkedIn: RiskReversal Media The financial opinions expressed in Risk Reversal content are for information purposes only. The opinions expressed by the hosts and participants are not an attempt to influence specific trading behavior, investments, or strategies. Past performance does not necessarily predict future outcomes. No specific results or profits are assured when relying on Risk Reversal. Before making any investment or trade, evaluate its suitability for your circumstances and consider consulting your own financial or investment advisor. The financial products discussed in Risk Reversal carry a high level of risk and may not be appropriate for many investors. If you have uncertainties, it's advisable to seek professional advice. Remember that trading involves a risk to your capital, so only invest money that you can afford to lose. Derivatives are not suitable for all investors and involve the risk of losing more than the amount originally deposited and any profit you might have made. This communication is not a recommendation or offer to buy, sell or retain any specific investment or service.

Hosted by: Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) From July 22, 2026. On July 20, the world celebrates International Moon Day. This UN designated holiday marks the anniversary of humanity's first landing on the Moon. The Apollo 11 landing in 1969 is now only a distant memory or a date from history for most people, but it is worth thinking about as the world prepares to return humans to the Moon in the coming decade. Joining us to discuss International Moon Day is Dr. Jekan Thanga, the head of the Space TREx Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Come learn how his interdiciplinary team is taking a page from the past as we plan for a Lunar future.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

The first of a series of lunar “spy” satellites entered orbit around the Moon 60 years ago today. There wasn’t any secret about it – it was conducted in full public view. But its camera system was adapted from one built for an Air Force spy satellite. Lunar Orbiter 1 was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon – a half-dozen earlier attempts had all failed. Its main goal was to snap high-resolution pictures of possible landing sites for Apollo astronauts. But it would also map a good portion of the lunar surface, and take a close-up look at a few spots on the far side. And it would measure the Moon’s gravitational and magnetic fields. Its camera system used two lenses – one for close-ups, the other for wider views. The images were recorded on 65-millimeter film, then processed in an on-board lab. Finally, they were scanned and transmitted to Earth. Eastman Kodak had created the camera system for a spy satellite called SAMOS. But for that craft, the film was dropped back to Earth, where it was grabbed by an airplane as it parachuted toward the surface – something they couldn’t do from a quarter of a million miles away. Lunar Orbiter 1 took more than 200 pictures. They were combined with the images from four successor missions to produce the most comprehensive atlas of the lunar surface to that time. And scientists continue to study the images today. Script by Damond Benningfield

On today's new episode, we dive into Rocky II and ask the big question: is this actually better than the original?   We also break down Stallone taking over the director's chair, Apollo's wounded pride and hate mail, Adrian's polarizing storyline, and that absolutely legendary training montage through Philly. •0:00:00 - Introductions •0:02:30 - Memories of first viewing •0:06:00  - Pertinent movie details  •0:09:30  -  Critical and fan reviews •0:15:00 - Scene by scene breakdown  •1:29:00 - Modern day ratings —————————————————————— SPONSORS-  **ASPCA-  To learn more about Pet Health Insurance, visit http://aspcapetinsurance.com/breakfast  **Cedar Ridge Distillery-  Go check out our sponsor and order some whiskey.  http://cedarridgedistillery.com⁠ **K12-  See how K12 Powered Schools can help unlock your child's full potential.  Enroll online today at http://K12.com/confused  **. Download the DraftKings Casino app and sign up with code CONFUSED to claim your Flex Spins and experience Cashingo—the feature you can't play anywhere else! **TruDiagnostics- Our listeners can get 20% off at http://TruDiagnostic.com using code CONFUSED at checkout. **NordVPN-  Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to http://nordvpn.com/breakfast to get a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 additional months on top! It's completely risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee! **PROGRESSIVE- Visit http://progressive.com  **FABLETICS-  Get 80% off everything when you sign up as a VIP! Just head to http://Fabletics.com/confused  **LITTLE SLEEPIES-  If you're expecting or dressing little ones, check out Little Sleeps.  You can visit http://littlesleepies.com and use promo code GOODNIGHT for 10% off of your first order.  **WAYFAIR- Find furniture, decor, and essentials that fit your unique style and budget. http://Wayfair.com   —————————————————————— **Support us at http://patreon.com/confusedbreakfast for bonus weekly episodes, voting on upcoming movies, giving your modern-day ratings on our movies and much more. **Mail us something   The Confused Breakfast PO Box 10016 Cedar Rapids, IA 52402-9802 Special thanks to our executive producers- Josh Miller, Starling, Dylan Mick and NicMad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our conversation about the moon landing with a play-by-play of how Apollo 11 made its way to the surface; a conspiracy-by-conspiracy debunking of the popular "it was fake" myths; and a look at the role that space exploration plays in our modern politics.Join our America250 newsletter community! Subscribe for free to get the latest news and analysis of how America250 is playing out. Paying subscribers get access to early, ad-free versions of the show. Plus bonus features throughout the year. To support our work and get access to everything, subscribe now.This Day is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.comGet in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Follow us on social @thisdaypodOur team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Award-winning aerospace speaker and communicator Ken Ruffin joins Better Call Daddy host Reena Friedman Watts for a conversation about the moon landing, rocket propulsion, and the future of space exploration. Ken Ruffin, founder and CEO of Didymos Consulting LLC (dba Ruff-in-Space) and a longtime leader within the National Space Society, shares how being woken up as a child to watch Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk sparked a lifelong passion for space, and how Star Trek shaped his transition from aerospace engineering into a career as a space communicator. This episode covers rocket propulsion technology, nuclear electric propulsion, the future of NASA, commercial space travel, and commercial space stations. Ken and Reena also explore the cultural impact of space exploration and why curiosity and education matter for inspiring the next generation of scientists, engineers, and dreamers. If you're interested in space exploration, aerospace engineering, NASA's future missions, commercial spaceflight, rocket science, space industry careers, or the story behind the Apollo 11 moon landing, this conversation is for you.

Apollo free floating in space, Starbuck on the assassination path, and Adama and Roslin's relationship makes Katee Sackhoff cry...hard. Tricia Helfer is back on the couch with us to complete the BSG Pegasus Trilogy of episodes, and we get to see her evolve her character(s) into territory we haven't seen from her before on the show.Please help Michael Hogan get his well deserved place on the Canadian Walk of Fame! Click the link below to nominate him: https://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/who-we-are/nominate/I have never watched my performance in Battlestar Galactica.. until now. Listen along for my real, unfiltered first reactions. It's like a DVD commentary, remember those? There will definitely be some behind the scenes stories ;) and if you're a visual person, check out the reaction videos over on YouTube.BSG Reaction Videos - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiHvVvKZ9lt4-IZiosUjdxqB7IEQJJ6RUSeason 2 Episode 12 Resurrection Ship Pt. 2Directed by Michael RymerWritten by Michael Rymer and Ronald D. MooreFull UNEDITED WATCH-ALONG available on Patreon with 2% Tier subscription.Join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheSackhoffShowShop Merch - https://shopstands.com/collections/the-katee-sackhoff-collectionFollow me and subscribe to keep updated on The Sackhoff Show, my film and television work, and my many other adventures!INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/therealkateesackhoff/FACEBOOK - facebook.com/officialkateesackhoff/TWITTER - x.com/kateesackhoffYOUTUBE - youtube.com/kateesackhoffofficialTIKTOK - tiktok.com/@sackhoffshowTo advertise on our show - please contact - podcastads@global.com

In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down NVIDIA’s case for world action models, the shift that swaps a robot’s picture-describing backbone for one trained to predict what happens next. He also covers Perseverance closing in on the off-world driving record, a derelict SpaceX rocket stage hitting the Moon, and Anthropic’s rework of Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards. Finally, he digs into Gemini Omni, Google’s undisclosed trip-planning rankings, the Danube’s record low, and iFixit’s call for Apple to unlock the iPad bootloader. – Want to start a podcast? It’s easy to get started! Sign up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Ray if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Cochrane opens with a personal update. Wildfires in Eastern Oregon made for a rough week of heavy smoke, and a local building burned down, which he calls a real tragedy. Meanwhile, his work at Blubrry has centered on PowerPress fixes, where reproducing customer-reported bugs remains the biggest headache. Support tickets rarely carry enough detail, and the errors themselves are often too vague to diagnose. Consequently, he is leaning toward a stronger logging and error layer, and he asks experienced developers to share what actually works for them. Beyond VLAs: NVIDIA’s Case for World Action Models The featured story comes from NVIDIA’s developer blog, and it answers a question sitting underneath this year’s robot news. Why do robot arms fall apart the moment anything changes? Move a cup six inches, swap its shape, or change the lighting, and a policy that worked perfectly in training fails. The answer, according to NVIDIA, is not the robot but the model underneath it. For the last few years, the dominant approach has been the vision-language-action model, or VLA, built on an AI that originally learned to describe pictures. Consequently, it recognizes a banana it has never seen, in a kitchen it has never seen, yet it has no idea what that banana will do next. As the article puts it, such a model “does not learn what happens to a mug when the gripper closes, how a towel folds, where an object lands when released.” Because the physics never arrives with the model, every scrap of it has to come out of hand-recorded demonstrations. The proposed fix swaps the foundation entirely. Instead of building on a model that learned to caption images, a world action model builds on one trained to predict how video continues, so the physics is already paid for. Notably, these models output an action and a prediction of what the robot’s cameras will see, in the same pass. Cochrane likens it to forethought, imagining your own motion as you make it. NVIDIA’s implementation is Cosmos 3, pretrained on roughly 767 million images and 348 million videos of real-world dynamics. It ships in 4, 16, and 64 billion parameter sizes named Edge, Nano, and Super, and it runs in real time on a Jetson Thor board bolted to the robot itself. Cochrane recalls his dad owning one of those Jetson boards, and he asks anyone working in robotics to explain how the throughput figures fit together. However, he closes on an open question: where did 348 million videos actually come from? For deeper detail, he points listeners to the source article and to NVIDIA researcher Jim Fan. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show. Perseverance Closes In on the Off-World Driving Record Ars Technica reports that NASA’s Perseverance rover is about to take the record for most distance driven on another world. The mark sits at roughly 28 miles, set by NASA’s own Opportunity rover across more than fourteen years before it went quiet in 2018. As Cochrane works out on air, that averages about two miles a year. Perseverance will pass it in roughly five years instead. The difference is a navigation system called AutoNav. Since a radio signal takes several minutes to reach Mars, earlier rovers crept along pre-plotted routes and stopped every half meter to think. Perseverance carries a second computer dedicated to processing what its cameras see, so it plans while the wheels keep turning. Consequently, about ninety percent of its driving is autonomous, against roughly ten percent for Curiosity, and it averages around 110 meters an hour rather than 15 to 18. Cochrane notes researchers finding the rover at planned sites days ahead of schedule, and he wonders aloud whether world action models might drive the next one. A SpaceX Rocket Stage Slammed Into the Moon Next, Smithsonian Magazine covered the Falcon 9 upper stage that struck the Moon on August 5. That stage flew back in January 2025, carrying Firefly’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience landers, and it was never meant to end up there. SpaceX’s Julianna Scheiman says a mixture of solar activity and gravity nudged the derelict onto a lunar path after nineteen months adrift. Four tonnes of dead hardware arrived at about 5,400 miles per hour. Nobody watched it happen, and the reason is a nice bit of physics. It struck sunlit ground near a crater called Einstein, and no impact flash has ever been detected on the lit part of the Moon. However, the instruments caught the aftermath. South Korea’s Danuri orbiter imaged a dark new mark, while the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope picked up sodium and lithium in the plume, the lithium possibly shed by the rocket itself. Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell quipped that he has “Sir Isaac Newton’s personal assurance that it did indeed hit the moon,” while planetary scientist Hannah Sargeant warns against making a habit of it. Cochrane points out the Apollo landing sites are still sitting up there. Anthropic Reworks Claude Fable 5’s Biology Safeguards Anthropic published a post on how Claude Fable 5 handles biology questions, and the bind is genuine. Biology is the textbook dual-use problem, since the knowledge behind reading your own lab results also helps someone build a weapon. Rather than refusing outright, a classifier watches for risky requests and quietly reroutes them to Claude Opus 5, a capable model without Fable 5’s biological depth. Anthropic calls that mechanism a fallback. The trouble was how often it fired on people doing nothing wrong. This update cut biology-related fallbacks by roughly 85 percent in Anthropic’s own testing, with expected overall drops of 67 percent on Claude.ai and 55 percent on Cowork. Genuinely dual-use territory still trips it, and Anthropic names virology, toxicology, and molecular design. Cochrane hit the old behavior himself and found it irritating, so he welcomes the refinement. Even so, he would rather see a false positive than a model helping someone produce a virus. Five Builders Put Gemini Omni Through Its Paces Google highlighted five builders working with Gemini Omni. Omni is a model rather than an app, and it generates video from text, images, other video, or audio, while also editing footage you already have. Google claims it “combines an intuitive understanding of physics with Gemini’s real-world knowledge,” citing gravity, kinetic energy, and fluid dynamics. As Cochrane observes, that is the same bet NVIDIA is making with robots, only pointed at video generation instead. He also flags a naming collision worth knowing about. NVIDIA calls its architecture an omni-model while Google’s product is simply Omni, two different things landing in the same week. Additionally, he encourages listeners to watch the demos, though he still senses a disconnect in AI-generated video and concedes that knowing its origin may color the impression. Gemini Wants to Plan Your Vacation Another Gemini piece, a how-to on trip planning, drew Cochrane’s sharpest take of the night. Gemini plugs straight into Google Maps, Flights, and Hotels, pulling live locations, reviews, and prices to build an itinerary. Switch on a feature called Personal Intelligence, and it reads across your Google apps, turning a messy trip-planning email chain into a clean master plan. Clever, but he calls it extremely concerning. Once these become services, he expects partnerships to quietly push particular hotels, restaurants, resorts, and destinations onto users. Notably, Google’s post never explains how any of it gets ranked, and the words sponsored, ad, affiliate, commission, and paid never appear once. There is no disclosure of a commercial arrangement, and no denial of one either. Meanwhile the post hands readers off to Viator to book tours without describing that relationship at all. Cochrane suspects the real effect shows up slowly, in the shape of small businesses continuing to disappear. The Senate Blocks a Rule on Who Controls Research Money Science reports that the Senate passed a temporary spending bill in the early hours of Saturday the 8th. The Senate’s version carries a one-paragraph rider the House version lacks, and that rider stops the White House Office of Management and Budget from finalizing a set of proposed rules. OMB builds the president’s budget, clears agency regulations, and controls how approved money actually reaches agencies. The bill itself is a stopgap, which prevents a shutdown without settling anything. The rules reach every organization that takes federal money, a pot of roughly $1.1 trillion across 41 agencies, about $150 billion of it research grants. They would let political appointees second-guess which grants get funded, allow awarded grants to be pulled when the work does not match presidential priorities, and put several countries off limits for research partnerships, China first among them. Senator Susan Collins pushed the block through after telling OMB director Russell Vought the proposal was deeply flawed, noting nearly 500,000 public comments, the vast majority opposed. However, the 90-6 vote is not law. Both chambers are on recess. Vought reportedly said the rule would not have been finalized before December anyway, and the block only lasts as long as the stopgap, which expires December 11. The Danube Falls to a Record Low ESA published a pair of Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite images showing the same bend of the Danube, 45 kilometers upstream of Budapest, photographed a year apart. Cochrane calls the before-and-after shocking, going from green to brown completely. Wire reports put the Budapest gauge near 10 centimeters at the start of the month, about four inches of water, against a previous record of 33 centimeters set in 2018. The knock-on effects arrived fast. Budapest ran short on both power and drinking water, while the shrinking flow concentrated pollution in what remained. Romania hit record lows on its own stretch as well. Cochrane hopes the recovery is already underway. What a Heatwave Actually Does to the Power Grid That river story runs directly into a Carbon Brief factcheck. Nuclear plants cool themselves with river water, so when the Danube dropped, plants in Hungary and Romania throttled back and pulled roughly 2.5 gigawatts off the grid. Romania declared a state of alert in its energy sector, and its navy reportedly used explosives to steer more water toward a plant intake. Carbon Brief then walked through what heatwaves do to each way of making electricity. Nuclear loses efficiency when the cooling water is already warm, though its shutdowns are mostly regulatory rather than mechanical. Gas turbines pull in less air because hot air is thinner, costing capacity. Wind falls off hardest, since a heatwave is a big stalled dome of high pressure and nearly still air. Solar is the surprise: cells genuinely do get less efficient as they heat up, yet total output climbs anyway, with UK solar up 46 percent during a four-day June heatwave against the week before. Butterflies Are on the Move Everywhere A new study in Nature Ecology and Evolution covered 1,758 butterfly species, roughly one in ten of every species we have named. The team pulled 6,182 records from 105 countries, reading non-English research alongside 68 expert write-ups. Four out of five species pushed into new territory, and about 79 percent of the logged shifts traced back to climate change and extreme weather. Separately, 27 percent saw their range shrink somewhere, and 22 percent moved up or down a mountain slope chasing cooler air. That sounds like good news, and it really is not. Expansion means a boundary moved, not that butterflies are thriving, since a species can push its northern edge forward while its southern edge quietly collapses. Lead author Shawan Chowdhury says the shifts turn up on every continent where butterflies occur. Additionally, monitoring gaps leave Central Africa, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and the Amazon Basin barely counted at all. Cochrane recalls hearing years ago that butterflies were disappearing in Hawaii, and he invites listeners spotting unfamiliar species locally to contribute what they see. Primates Make Friends Across Species Cochrane called this one a fun find. A study in the journal Primates, led by Cyril Grueter at Oxford, gathered 427 documented cases going back to the 1970s across 88 primate species and 127 partner species. Play and grooming dominated at 139 and 136 cases, alongside carrying, huddling, food sharing, and even adoption. Primates usually started the interactions themselves, with juveniles playing most, adult females handling grooming and caregiving, and adult males least likely to join in. The examples are remarkable. Japanese macaques on the island of Yakushima groom sika deer and climb on their backs, a silverback gorilla cradled a tiny wild bushbaby, and wild capuchins in Brazil adopted an infant marmoset in a bond that held for weeks. However, Grueter rejects the pet-keeping headline and prefers the hedged term proto-pet keeping. The actual claim is smaller and more interesting: curiosity, tolerance, caregiving, and play have roots running far deeper than humans do. iFixit Tells Apple to Unlock the iPad Finally, an opinion piece from Charlie Sorrel at iFixit struck a chord. This fall, iPadOS 27 drops support for a batch of older iPads, including the 8th-generation iPad, the third-generation Air, the fifth-generation mini, and the first-generation iPad Pros. Cochrane owns one of those Pros and reports it still works fine. Those devices will not break, but they stop getting OS and security updates until apps abandon them and the battery gives out. The obvious second life is Linux, except the bootloader stays locked. Apple’s iBoot will not load anything else, unlike a Mac, a PC, or most Android phones. Sorrel argues it “should be a user choice, not a vendor choice,” and Cochrane agrees flatly. You own the device, so why does Apple decide what runs on it? He compares the situation to jailbreaking, and he suspects most consumers have never pushed back simply because it never occurs to them. Nevertheless, he hopes an unlock eventually breathes new life into hardware that still works perfectly well. Cochrane wraps with housekeeping: become a GNC Insider at geeknewscentral.com/insider, email geeknews@gmail.com, subscribe to the newsletter, and grab a modern podcast app at podcastapps.com. He thanks GoDaddy for over twenty years of keeping the show on the air, and he signs off wishing listeners a wonderful evening. The post The Robot That Imagines First #1872 appeared first on Geek News Central.

Nvidia, CoreWeave and Wall Street are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure. But how does the financial machine behind the AI boom actually work and where are the risks?In this episode of the Market Maker Podcast, Anthony Cheung and Piers Curran unpack CoreWeave's extraordinary growth and $100bn+ revenue backlog, Nvidia's role at the centre of the AI ecosystem, and the huge amounts of debt and private capital being used to finance data centres and GPUs.We explain what neoclouds are, why GPUs are increasingly being treated as infrastructure assets, and how firms including BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo, Goldman Sachs and KKR are helping finance the AI buildout.But there's another side to the story. We explore the “circular financing” concerns surrounding Nvidia and its customers, the growing concentration risk across the AI industry, and what could happen if hyperscalers such as Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta begin to slow their enormous AI spending.Finally, we look at the wider macro picture, including the latest US CPI inflation data, Federal Reserve interest rate expectations and why the AI boom itself is beginning to show up in inflation.Is this the financial infrastructure needed to power the next technological revolution or is too much money becoming dependent on the AI boom continuing?(00:00) The $1 Trillion AI Spending Boom(03:51) CoreWeave's Incredible Growth(04:58) The $104BN AI Order Book(08:35) What Is a Neocloud?(11:18) The Huge Cost of AI Infrastructure(16:13) Nvidia's $500BN Wall Street Deal(17:53) How GPUs Became an Asset Class(21:14) Was Michael Burry Wrong on AI?(24:50) How Wall Street Finances AI(27:12) The AI Circular Financing Risk(33:34) Nvidia's Biggest Concentration Risk(37:18) Can the AI Spending Boom Continue?(38:50) How to Invest Beyond Big Tech(40:12) The Next Trillion-Dollar AI Company?(44:30) AI Boom or House of Cards?(45:06) US Inflation Falls Again(47:05) Will the Fed Hike in September?(49:27) What to Expect From Jackson Hole

Find out why APOLLO 13 is bros bro-ing down in space, including a never-before-heard real life encounter with none other than Buzz Aldrin (AKA the second dude), and a space history quiz. Contains spoilers. Thanks for listening!  818-835-0473 orwhatevermovies@gmail.com orwhatevermovies.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An unedited version of Ep. 82 with Tim Vine. Now 10 minutes longer!Tim Vine is one of Britain's best-loved comedians, renowned for his lightning-fast one-liners, inventive wordplay and gloriously silly humour. A regular on television for decades, he starred as Tim Smallwood in the BBC sitcom Not Going Out and has appeared on countless shows including Live at the Apollo, QI, Have I Got News for You and The Royal Variety Performance. A multiple-time winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Joke, Tim continues to delight audiences with his sell-out live tours and Edinburgh Fringe shows, cementing his place as one of the UK's greatest joke writers .For tickets for Tim Vine and much more, visit - https://www.timvine.com .Visit our website! - https://mytimecapsulepodcast.com .Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter/X & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter/X: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people .To support this podcast and get all episodes ad-free, please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com. All money goes straight into the making of the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Paul Frambot, co-founder and CEO of Morpho, has spent years making the case that crypto was never supposed to be a product, it was always supposed to be the pipes. In this episode of Spotlight, he breaks down how Morpho's open credit network connects borrowers with tens of thousands of lenders globally to deliver better terms, deeper liquidity, and access to credit for people the traditional system has long ignored. - Timecodes: 0:00 - "The infrastructure is the blockchain" 1:20 - What is Morpho's "open credit network"? 2:41 - How Morpho differs from Aave and Compound 4:24 - Building infrastructure vs. speculation 7:23 - Morpho Blue vs. Morpho Midnight explained 10:03 - Tokenization and expanding borrowing assets 13:26 - Apollo's 9% stake in Morpho's governance token 15:29 - What's still keeping banks off-chain 17:02 - Vision for success 18 months from now - From our sponsors: This episode is brought to you by RealFi, a smarter stablecoin, backed by real-world assets. RealFi is launching August 2026. Join the Testnet now at realfi.co. - Check out CoinDesk Research's report on Anvil's on-chain collateral layer and what it means for the future of secured credit at: https://www.coindesk.com/research/anvil-the-missing-collateral-layer

Steve Serby joins Mike to break down all things Jets and what fans should expect from them this season. They discuss Aaron Glenn's future, the defense, Geno Smith, and more. Plus, Mike discusses expectations for the Giants and updates around the Yankees. 00:00 Jets Discussion 05:38 Defense Analysis 12:00 Quarterback Talk 18:00 Coaching Challenges 25:32 Jets Future Prospects 35:02 Giants Predictions 43:07 Yankees Management Deal with Apollo 48:38 Yankees Playoff Chances

In hour 1, the 94WIP Morning Show analyze the Phillies' recent struggles and the growing fear that the team might miss the postseason. Ritchie details his reunion with Eagles icons Terrell Owens and DeSean Jackson at a recent panel event. They also celebrate Ross Tucker's career milestone at CBS and take listener picks for the best movie side characters. 01:50 - Space Photos and Apollo 13 04:36 - Phillies Playoff Panic 09:46 - Mattingly's Pitcher Management 15:54 - Ross Tucker's Career News 26:42 - Best Movie Side Characters 33:34 - Jon Ritchie & T.O. Reconnect 41:50 - Arraez and the Phillies Slump

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer, and David Faber broke down the impact of Nvidia's massive $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership with six Wall Street giants, including Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, and Apollo. Also in tech, the desk discussed Intel upsizing its stock offering to $20 billion at $95 per share to keep up with AI demand. After the opening bells, they also broke down energy prices and the fate of the Strait of Hormuz, as deal talks showed no signs of progress. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Ben and Tom discuss the $500 billion private-capital AI infrastructure fund unveiled on CNBC by Jensen Huang, David Solomon, Larry Fink, Jonathan Gray, and the heads of Apollo, KKR, and Brookfield, Fink's comparison of financing GPU purchases to the early days of 1970s mortgage-backed securities and the underlying assumption that Nvidia chips won't depreciate, a breakdown of how asset-backed lending structures like aircraft bonds could apply to GPU financing, Tom's "Through the Looking Glass" thesis arguing markets remain captive to Bernanke-era assumptions that no longer hold in a supply-side, fiscal-dominance framework, tomorrow's CPI report and whether a firm print could test Warsh's rate stance, and NFIB Small Business Optimism hitting its highest level since last August with hiring plans at a four-year high even as actual employment remains soft.Join our live YouTube stream Monday through Friday at 8:30 AM EST:http://www.youtube.com/@TheMorningMarketBriefingPlease see disclosures:https://www.narwhal.com/disclosure

In today's episode, we sit down with Dr. Daniel Britt to discuss NASA's Artemis II mission and what it means for the future of lunar exploration. As the Pegasus Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at the University of Central Florida, Dr. Britt has spent decades studying the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and comets, helping shape some of NASA's most ambitious planetary missions. His research is advancing our understanding of the Moon's resources and the technologies needed to support humanity's return to deep space. Jump in now to discover: How Artemis II paves the way for future lunar landings. Why the Moon is critical to the future of space exploration. The science behind lunar resources and sustainable exploration. What researchers are learning from asteroids, Mars, and the lunar surface. The long-term vision for humanity's return to the Moon. Dr. Britt earned his Ph.D. from Brown University and has served on the science teams for several landmark NASA missions, including Mars Pathfinder, Deep Space 1, New Horizons, and the Lucy asteroid mission. He currently directs the Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS), part of NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), where his work focuses on the geology, mineralogy, and resource potential of the Moon and asteroids. Throughout his career, he has received numerous honors, including six NASA Achievement Awards, the NASA-SSERVI Shoemaker Award, and recognition as a Pegasus Professor at the University of Central Florida. Connect with Dr. Britt: University of Central Florida Profile CLASS Research Center NASA SSERVI LinkedIn

This week's Summer Series is a highly atypical episode, where I appear as the guest.  Matt Breitfelder from Apollo asked to interview me about interviewing, something I learned far more from hosting the show the last nine years than I ever did while interviewing managers for 20. The conversation has been sufficiently popular that it made the Summer Series on investment process. Any leader should see for themselves the benefits of elite coaching. Try ALEX: tryalex.admiredleadership.com. Learn More Follow Ted on Twitter at @tseides or LinkedIn Subscribe to the mailing list Access Transcript with Premium Membership Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (⁠https://thepodcastconsultant.com⁠)

AI and Wall Street titans combine forces: NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, Goldman Sachs' David Solomon, BlackRock's Larry Fink, Blackstone's Jon Gray, Apollo's Jim Zelter, Brookfield's Bruce Flatt and KKR's Waldemar Szlezak discuss with our Becky Quick their new agreement $500B between the companies to fund AI infrastructure projects. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this major new episode, I do a deep dive into the historical evidence for when the Declaration of Independence was finalized on July 4, 1776. There has been a mystery surrounding the birth chart of the United States for more than two centuries, but I recently discovered some new evidence that allows us to triangulate the approximate birth time much more closely than I previously thought possible. This was a massive research project that I suddenly stumbled into last month shortly after the Mars-Uranus conjunction went exact on July 4. I found new historical evidence showing that Thomas Jefferson regularly recorded the times he took temperature readings outside. This detail led me to re-examine all of the surviving primary sources, including the Journals of the Continental Congress and letters from John Adams. Through this, I conclude that it is possible to achieve much greater certainty about the probable time for the Declaration. In this four-hour video essay, I present a series of compelling arguments that the birth chart for the US should be set for the late morning of July 4, 1776, giving the country a Libra Ascendant. Key topics I covered in this episode: The Astrological Signatures of 1776: A look at how the Mars-Uranus conjunction in Gemini represented the severance and armed rebellion against Great Britain, while the highly auspicious Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer symbolized the union of the thirteen colonies. Jefferson's Weather Log: How Thomas Jefferson's daily temperature readings help establish a clear timeline of when Congress was in session and taking breaks. Debunking the Sibley Chart: An explanation of the critical misunderstanding behind the popular Sagittarius rising chart. I show how Ebenezer Sibley actually cast a mundane ingress chart for London rather than a timed natal chart for Philadelphia. The Gemini Rising Myth: Why a 2:00 AM or 3:00 AM chart is historically implausible and makes for a poor electional chart. Historical Transits: A preliminary look at how major events in US history, such as the Civil War, the Apollo 11 moon landing, and the stock market crash of 1929, and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech align remarkably well with a Libra rising chart. This episode outlines all of my research findings in one place to help advance the long-standing debate over the true astrological chart of the United States. This is episode 543 of The Astrology Podcast. Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction00:05:53 Why July 4, 1776?00:49:31 Historical Evidence for the Time on July 2 & 4, 177601:10:18 The Vote for Independence on July 2, 177601:28:10 Finalizing the Declaration of Independence on July 401:57:05 The Proclamation on July 8 as Supporting Evidence02:03:34 Analyzing the Libra Rising Chart as an Inception Chart02:22:54 Preliminary Analysis of Some Major Events in US History02:50:23 What About the Gemini and Sagittarius Rising Charts?03:26:46 The Timeline and Transits of 177603:57:08 Concluding Remarks04:12:48 Credits Watch the Video Version of the Episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP1yoSz32Ck - Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode Listen to the audio version of this episode or download it as an MP3: