Who are we? Why do we act, think and feel the way we do? How can we become our best, most authentic selves? Welcome to Typology, a podcast that explores the mystery of the human personality and how we can use the Enneagram typing system as a tool to become our best, most authentic selves. Hosted by author, speaker and counselor, Ian Morgan Cron, Typology features interviews with thought leaders from every sphere of life, including renowned Enneagram authors and teachers, psychologists, theol ...
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A podcast for engineers building and operating modern infrastructure. Powered by Zesty. Hosted by Omer Hamerman and Mark Serdze, The Cron Job explores Kubernetes quirks, cost optimization strategies, scaling, reliability, and the art of keeping things from catching fire in production, all while unpacking the deeper DevOps questions around ownership, automation, and the tradeoffs behind every engineering decision. Tune in for real-world stories, sharp insights, and the occasional infrastructu ...
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The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast is a podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth. The goal? To help you lead like never before—in your church or in your business. Carey interviews top business and church leaders like Seth Godin, Adam Grant, Nancy Duarte, Simon Sinek, Cal Newport, Patrick Lencioni, Tim Keller, Annie F. Downs, Andy Stanley, Craig Groeschel, Rob Pelinka, Michael Hyatt, Christine Caine, John Mark Comer, Henry Cloud, Gordon MacDonald, Francis Chan, Lysa TerKeur ...
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The Road Back to You: Looking at Life Through the Lens of the Enneagram
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This podcast explores the enneagram, a newly revived yet ancient spiritual tool of personality discovery which helps you better understand yourself, others and God.
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Welcome to NOVEL MARATHON, a 26-episode podcast aimed at helping you write the first draft of an 80,000 word novel in about a year. We’re reading THE ONE YEAR NOVELIST by L. M. Lilly, STORY GENIUS by Lisa Cron and THIS YEAR YOU WRITE YOUR NOVEL by Walter Mosley. To join, simply listen, do the readings and complete the exercises in the assigned chapters listed in the show notes. You can expect a new episode about every two weeks. I hope you’ll join us. Good luck with your novel-in-progress!
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Being a veteran police officer over the years I have heard some amazing stories from some amazing people . Join me twice a month as I interview some of the amazing people I meet or hear about. If you want to be entertained, inspired and in some cases amazed at what you can achieve. Then this is the podcast for you.
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Helping people become whole by cultivating deeper connection with God, self, and others. Visit www.restoringthesoul.com.
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Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,600 AI-powered explorations across science, mathematics, philosophy, and personal growth. Each short-form episode is generated, refined, and published with the help of large language models—turning curiosity into an ongoing audio encyclopedia. Designed for anyone who loves learning, it offers quick dives into everything from combinatorics and cryptography to systems thinking and psychology. Inspiration for this podcast: "Mu ...
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A space to continue the healing, solidarity, and reimagination of Pastors, Priests and Guides.
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The Lowside Podcast mimics the Lowside Golfwear brand, a genuine and honest brand that is built on connecting individuals with common interests.
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Speculative Fiction Writing Made Simple: How to Write, Edit, and Publish Your Debut Fantasy, Science Fiction, or Dystopian Novel
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Welcome to the Speculative Fiction Writing Made Simple Podcast! The show that’s all about how to brainstorm, write, edit, publish, and sell a powerful speculative fiction novel… and maybe just change the world too. I'm your host, Heather Davis. I’m a seasoned book coach, developmental editor, and fellow storyteller. In my work with writers, I always see the same problems and roadblocks standing in their way and preventing them from achieving their dream of becoming a published author. So it’ ...
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A podcast about all things Western Force and the game we love.
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Welcome to the Meteor Strike podcast where we talk about interesting Meteor packages and other community contributions that make the Meteor JavaScript framework great.Hosted by shrop and tecto
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Best-selling author and speaker Shauna Niequist hosts this interview-style podcast featuring personal conversations with leading writers, thinkers and leaders about life, relationships, purpose, family and faith. Authoring popular books like Present Over Perfect, Savor, and Bread & Wine has given Shauna a passionate fanbase, especially among millennial and Gen X women. She frequently headlines national conferences with her insight about living a life of faith and purpose.
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Anne Marie Beggs is the author of ”A Bridge Between Two Me’s” which is now a global seller and tells her story of her journey over the last 17 years helping her clients with dyslexia.Anne Marie provides educational programs for both adults and children.I encourage creativity, discussion, critical thinking, understanding, and mastery. What is mastery? and what are students mastering They are mastering language: words, phrases, sentences paragraphs and ultimately books.Visit www.theparagraphch ...
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Welcome to The Invincible Teams Podcast, a podcast for team leaders and business owners who are tired of dealing with office drama and politics, high turnover, and teams not meeting their potential. We know that team leaders and business owners like you are pretty much always under pressure to get the most out of your teams. We also know that most teams only operate at about 58% of their actual potential, and we’ve got the tools and training to make that number keep going up. We believe that ...
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Are you a creator, founder, or storyteller looking to unlock the psychology behind truly impactful content? Welcome to Built // Tell, where I break down the strategies and storytelling techniques that drive high-performing podcasts and long-form media. With experience producing branded shows, video series, and commercials for Salesforce, Toyota, Huffington Post, T-Mobile, and more, and writing episodes voiced by Alec Baldwin and Jeffrey Wright, I’m here to share the frameworks that fuel audi ...
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Cron: From Polling to Precision—the Quiet Engine of Time-Based Automation
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A deep dive into Cron, the five-field scheduler that powers recurring tasks across multi-user systems. We trace its evolution from the brutal minute-by-minute polling of early Unix, through System V’s discrete-event scheduling, to modern standards like Vixie Cron and the OpenCron Patterns Specification—explaining how the leap from “is it time yet?”…
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The Hidden Cost of Performance: Steve Cuss on Anxiety, the Enneagram Three, and Becoming Your True Self
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What happens when the need to appear competent becomes the very thing that disconnects us from others—and from ourselves? In this deeply honest and surprisingly funny conversation, Ian welcomes author, speaker, and Enneagram Three, Steve Cuss for a wide-ranging dialogue on anxiety, performance, false self, and the quiet freedom that comes with beco…
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Hanging by a Curve: The Catenary, Parabolas, and the Shape of Structural Genius
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We explore the catenary—the true curve of a freely hanging chain and the mathematics it hides. Learn why it isn’t a parabola, how Galileo and Hooke unlocked its secrets, and why flipping the curve turns tension into compression for elegant, efficient arches. From the Gateway Arch to Gaudí’s mosaics, we’ll contrast true suspension curves with bridge…
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Shark Teeth: Biology, Evolution, and Cultural History
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We explore how sharks replace tens of thousands of teeth with a multi-row, multi-series conveyor system, how warmer waters speed turnover, and why fluorapatite enamel makes their teeth incredibly durable. From fossil megalodon teeth to modern biomaterials, we uncover the architecture of apex predation and how this self-renewing toolkit inspires dur…
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Hyaloclastite: Fire, Ice, and the Geological Time Capsule
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On a black-sand beach, lava collides with ice or seawater to forge hyaloclastite —glass fragments instantly shattered by thermal shock and cemented into palagonite. In this episode we unravel how non-explosive quench fragmentation creates jigsaw-fit textures that freeze the exact moment of contact, how palagonitization turns loose debris into solid…
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The 32-Bar Blueprint: How AABA Makes Great Songs Feel Effortless
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A rigorous yet intimate tour of the 32‑bar song form (AABA) that underpins countless classics. We break down the four eight‑bar sections—three A sections with the same hook, a contrasting B bridge, and a triumphant return—and show how this tight structure creates emotional payoff. From Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm to early rock ’n’ roll and even Doctor …
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Moist Sand, Mighty Structures: The Physics of Sandcastles
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Why does dry sand crumble while a splash of water lets it stand tall? We dive into the granular physics behind sandcastles, exploring capillary bridges, surface tension, and the surprising power of tiny water fractions. Learn about the pendular and funicular regimes, why about 1% water is often optimal, and how compaction strengthens the structure.…
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CNLP 777 | 2026 Disruptive Church Trends: Gen Z Leading Church Attendance Surge, Women Exiting Faith, + The Impact of Discipleship By Algorithm
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Carey Nieuwhof unveils 7 disruptive church trends to track in 2026. The trends include Gen Z leading a surge in young church attendance and a rise in women exiting the Christian faith. Plus, Carey discusses discipleship by algorithm and why that makes it impossible to lead people with harmony. 🔗 Show Notes 📩 On The Rise Newsletter 🗣️ Preaching Chea…
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NVIDIA Rubin: Extreme Co-Design and the Invisible AI Infrastructure
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Join us as we unpack the NVIDIA Rubin platform—the next-gen AI supercomputer built around extreme co-design. We map the six-chip system (Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6, Connect X9, BlueField 4 DPU) and its groundbreaking bandwidth and efficiency gains, from 3.6 TB/s per GPU to 10x lower inference costs and MOE training with 4x fewer GPUs. We explore…
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Hidden Markov Models Made Simple: From Trash Cans to Hidden States
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A friendly, intuitive tour of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Using the relatable 'full trash bin means he's home' metaphor, we explore how to infer unseen states from noisy observations, learn the model parameters with Baum–Welch, and decode the most likely state sequence with the Viterbi algorithm. You’ll see how forward–backward smoothing combines …
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Dew Point Demystified: The Quiet Meter Behind Comfort, Clouds, and Condensation
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We break down the dew point—what it is, why it matters for your comfort, aviation, and building design—and how engineers estimate it with the Magnus–Tetens and Buck equations. Learn why sensor errors often dominate accuracy, how the gap between air temperature and dew point sets cloud base, and a look at extreme dew-point values. Note: This podcast…
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Threads as Code: Weaving, Recursion, and the Dawn of Computation
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Take a journey into how ancient textiles function as living programs. We examine Andean backstrap weaving and Japanese ikat not just as art, but as sophisticated algorithmic systems: from on-the-fly debugging as a weaver adjusts a row, to pre-dyed patterns that compile into the fabric. We connect motifs as macro-operations, recursion in repeating m…
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Zermelo's Theorem: The First Formal Game Theory Result
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We explore Ernst Zermelo's 1913 theorem for two-player, perfect-information, deterministic games. It guarantees that such games are solvable: one side can force a win, or both can force at least a draw. We unpack the non-repetition argument, why it's finite, and how this foundational insight underpins modern game theory, AI, and formal verification…
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Goodput, Not Just Throughput: Prefill, Decode, and Rethinking AI Inference
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We unpack the core bottleneck in streaming AI: the split between heavy pre-fill computations and fast, memory-light decoding. From chunked prefill to physical separation (DissServe) and logical isolation (DuetServe), we explore how phase isolation eliminates interference, delivering 2x–4.5x better goodput and transforming cost efficiency. Join us a…
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Episode 380 - Michael & Julianne Cusick, "Deep Dive Into Intensive Counseling"
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Welcome back to Restoring the Soul! In this episode, Michael John Cusick and Julianne Cusick dive deep into the world of intensive counseling, unpacking what makes Restoring the Soul’s approach unique and transformative. You’ll hear about the practical structure of their intensives—meeting with individuals and couples in three-hour blocks over one …
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Cymatics: The Visible Geometry of Sound Waves
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A deep dive into cymatics—the study of visible patterns produced by vibration. We trace its history from Hooke's flour-drag experiments on a vibrating plate to Chladni's sand figures, then to Faraday's liquid waves and Hans Jenny's iconic imagery. We explore how a medium's geometry predetermines the possible patterns, how modern engineers use sound…
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Jacobi’s exact four-square formula makes r4(n) elegant, but five squares lead to deeper territory with half-integral weight forms and L-functions. In this episode we trace Emil Grosswald’s clever reduction of r5(n) to a sum of r4(n), bypassing the circle method to yield a sharp asymptotic, and we unpack the main term, the role of L-series, the cusp…
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Phantom Rivers: The Hidden Waterways that Built Our Cities
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We uncover phantom cities defined by riverine logic: buried systems (medieval rivers and culverted canals), drowned landscapes (post-glacial river basins now submerged), and canalized rivers forgotten in the city’s routine. From Perugia’s 13th-century aqueduct to London’s Lost Rivers and modern restoration efforts, archaeology, geophysics, and proa…
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Fusion's Midas Touch: Transmuting Mercury into Gold in the Nuclear Age
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We explore a provocative claim that next‑generation fusion plants could use 14.1 MeV neutrons to transmute mercury-198 into gold while breeding tritium and funding clean energy. This episode breaks down the physics of neutron-induced transmutation, the engineering hurdles of isotope separation and materials compatibility, and the economics of a mul…
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A deep dive into recursive language models (RLMs) that avoid the context bottleneck by keeping massive context in an external symbolic workspace. The root LLM acts as an active researcher and manager, writing and running code in a REPL to interrogate the context, delegating subtasks to sub-LLMs, and using tools like searches and regex to prune data…
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A deep dive into how an orb web’s radial spokes and logarithmic spiral create a resilient, damage-tolerant architecture. We explore the math of load distribution, the role of pre-stressing, and how this natural blueprint inspires biomimicry—from advanced fabrics and protective gear to nanoscale tubes and space-ready structures. Note: This podcast w…
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Bezier Curves: The Hidden Geometry Behind Smooth Digital Motion
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A deep dive into the math and history of Bézier curves, from Sergei Bernstein’s polynomials to De Casteljau’s algorithm. Learn how endpoint interpolation and control-point handles create the smooth curves that power fonts, graphics, robotics, and animation—and how this ancient geometry underpins modern efficiency and elegant motion. Note: This podc…
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Brusselstown Ring: Ireland’s Lost Proto-Urban City
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LiDAR and photogrammetry reveal Brusselstown Ring as a vast Bronze Age–Iron Age hill-fort spanning two hilltops with over 600 micro-topographical features—hundreds of roundhouse platforms—suggesting a densely planned settlement of 2,000–3,500 people. The discovery of a monumental cistern and extensive communal infrastructure challenges the view tha…
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Marble Berry: The Spiral of Blue Beauty in Pollia condensata
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A deep dive into Pollia condensata, the marble berry, whose electric blue hue arises not from pigment but from nanoscale architecture. We uncover how densely layered cellulose microfibrils form a twisted photonic crystal that reflects a narrow blue band through Bragg reflection, with cell-to-cell pitch variations creating a mosaic of blue, green, a…
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Jimmy Carter, the Enneagram, and the Life That Comes After Striving, with Andrew Greer
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What if your most meaningful work begins after you stop striving to prove yourself? In this warm, wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with old friend, songwriter, filmmaker, and Enneagram Two Andrew Greer for a heartful exploration of loneliness, love, boundaries, creativity, and what it really means to live a good life. Andrew opens up about the…
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Curds, Culture, and Caravan: A Global Cheese Odyssey
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We take a global tour of cheese—from ancient roots across Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East to today’s astonishing variety. We unpack six levers of cheese diversity: origin of the milk and what the animal eats, pasteurization, butterfat, microbes, processing, and aging—and show how tiny microbes do the heavy lifting of flavor. Along the way…
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Street Fighting Mathematics: Courageous Problem Solving with Rough Answers
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Join us as we unpack Sanjoy Mahajan's Street Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving. We spotlight the first tools—dimensions, easy cases, and lumping—and explain how rough, low-entropy answers can unlock real-world progress far faster than perfect rigor. Through concrete examples like GDP versus market …
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The Tondero Odyssey: Three Movements from Peru's Northern Coast
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A deep dive into the tondero's three-part structure—glosa, dulce, and fuga—tracing how Romani, African, and Amerindian roots fuse with Peruvian rhythm and instrumentation to create a wild, transformative courtship dance from Piura and Lambayeque. We explore the mournful cantos, the flirtatious middle, and the explosive finale, and what this musical…
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Agentic Commerce: AI Agents as Your Autonomous Economic Delegates
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We explore the shift from AI assistants to AI representation—where agents don’t just suggest options, they transact on your behalf. Learn how guardrails, feedback loops, and a digital audit trail keep budgets and quality in check, and how standards like the Agent Payments Protocol enable accountable, auditable machine-to-machine commerce. We discus…
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Dracula's Chivito: The Giant Edge-On Disk Where Planets Form
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Today we explore Dracula's Chivito, the monster protoplanetary disk around a luminous young Herbig A star about 300 parsecs away. Named for Transylvania fangs and a famous Uruguayan steak sandwich, it’s one of the largest disks known around a massive star, with a radius near 1650 AU and a butterfly-shaped silhouette in Hubble images. Submillimeter …
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Hoeffding's Inequality Explained: Exponential Confidence for Bounded Averages
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We unpack Hoeffding's inequality, the 1963 result that bounds how far the average of independent bounded trials can drift from its expected value. We compare it with Chebyshev and the central limit theorem, explain why the bound decays exponentially with more data, and show how to use it to plan sample sizes. From coin flips to reliable AI systems,…
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The Imperial Jade: Nephrite and the Global History of a Stone
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A global tour of nephrite jade, the “imperial gem” prized above gold. We explore its buttery mutton-fat luster and legendary toughness, why interlocking tremolite/actinolite fibers make it famously hard to break, and how this one mineral connected civilizations from ancient China and the Silk Road to the maritime jade routes of Southeast Asia and N…
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Walking the Tree: DFS, BFS, and the Rules that Shape Data
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A deep-dive into the spine of computing: tree traversal. We unpack depth-first search with preorder, inorder, and postorder, and breadth-first search’s level-by-level exploration. Learn what each visit order buys you—copying a tree, producing sorted keys, or generating postfix notation—and how memory models (stacks versus queues) drive real impleme…
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CNLP 776 | Small Church Dysfunction: David Ashcraft Talks about Growth at LCBC, Succession and Growing the Global Leadership Summit
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Former LCBC Senior Pastor David Ashcraft talks about the small church dysfunction he encountered when he arrived at LCBC when it was just a small church. Plus, he discusses how it scaled into a mega-church of 22,000, succession, and how he repositioned the Global Leadership Summit for the future. 🔗 Show Notes 📩 On The Rise Newsletter 🗣️ Preaching C…
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From Wild Tomato to Tuber: The Origin of the Potato
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A landmark genomic study across 128 genomes reveals the potato arose 8–9 million years ago through a hybrid between a wild tomato ancestor and Etuberosum. We unpack how two genes—SP6A and IT1—flipped the switch to tuber formation, creating a brand-new underground storage organ, fueling Andean adaptation and global diversification. We also explore h…
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From two teeth sold as dragon bones in a Hong Kong drugstore to the largest known primate, this episode reconstructs a giant’s life. We explore its colossal size, enamel armor, and a diet revealed by dental calculus and ancient proteins—tying it to orangutans—and uncover why porcupines may have gnawed away its bones as climates shifted and forests …
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Dark Fringes, Dark Photons: A Quantum-to-Cosmic Dive
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Could the double-slit interference be explained if photons can briefly inhabit dark quantum states invisible to detectors? In this episode we connect that quantum idea to the cosmic mystery of dark photons—the hypothetical portal to a vast dark sector—and explore what current experiments and data analyses could mean for physics beyond the Standard …
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The Hidden Driver of Big Networks: Perron–Frobenius and the Long-Run Shape of Complex Systems
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A deep dive into the Perron–Frobenius theorem, from its origins with Perron and Frobenius to its role in irreducible nonnegative matrices. We unpack the guaranteed real, positive dominant eigenvalue (the Perron root) and its positive eigenvector, and explain how this single driver predicts long-run behavior in sprawling networks—think web graphs, p…
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The Bayeux Tapestry: A Loom-Sized Chronicle of Conquest
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We untangle the 11th‑century embroidered narrative that preserves the Norman invasion. From Opus Anglicanum and Canterbury workmanship to border scenes of daily life, farming tools, and Halley’s Comet, we explore who stitched the story, who funded it, and what it reveals about power and perspective. Learn about its UNESCO Memory of the World status…
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The Diffusion Blueprint: How the Heat Equation Connects Toast, Geometry, and Finance
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A deep dive into Fourier's heat equation—the Laplacian, thermal diffusivity, and heat kernels—and how a simple smoothing principle unifies physics, geometry, image processing, and even financial markets. From a hot piece of toast cooling on the counter to Brownian motion in markets, this episode reveals the astonishing reach of one elegant PDE. Not…
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Dive into non-orientable surfaces with the Klein bottle. We explain what it means for a surface to have no inside or outside, why physical models require self-intersections (immersions) in 3D, and how a true Klein bottle must live in four dimensions (R4) to embed without self-crossings. We'll connect to the Mobius strip, discuss boundary vs no boun…
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The Cheese and Bacon Roll: Australia’s Ubiquitous Bakery Icon
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A deep dive into Australia’s beloved cheese and bacon roll (the CBR): fluffy, freshly baked dough topped with melted cheddar and crispy bacon that fuels mornings for tradies and bakery lovers alike. We trace its ubiquity, simple perfection, and regional twists—from tomato bits to cheese-filled riffs—while placing it in the wider Aussie bakery canon…
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From Peacock Feathers to Photonic Crystals: Slow Light and the Future of On-Chip Optics
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A journey from the peacock feather’s structural color to engineered photonic crystals, showing how geometry—not pigment—controls light. We explore photonic band gaps, slow light, and how ultra-compact, energy-efficient on-chip lasers and switches arise from nanostructures—redefining data communication and security in the next generation of optics. …
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Alicella gigantea: The 34-Centimeter Giant Amphipod of the Deep
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Join us as we explore Alicella gigantea, the 34 cm white amphipod that thrives in abyssal and hadal trenches. We unpack abyssal gigantism, a decade-long lifespan, and a genome around 34.8 Gb that hints at a past whole-genome duplication, shaping its gigantism. With a cosmopolitan distribution across roughly 59% of the world’s oceans and gut microbe…
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Entropic Gravity: Is Gravity Information, Not a Force?
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We explore Verlinde's entropic gravity, the bold claim that gravity is not a fundamental force but an emergent force arising from information and thermodynamics. We'll tour the core ingredients— the holographic principle, equipartition of energy, and the Unruh effect— and show how they can reproduce Newton's law. We discuss the dramatic implication…
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