Best U.S. Army Engineer Research Podcasts (2025)

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The Truth About White Farmers Being Killed in South Africa: Rob Hersov 49:34

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President Donald Trump has recently criticized the ANC-led government of South Africa for what he says are state-sanctioned, racist policies that have been endangering white farmers. In this episode, I sit down with South African businessman and entrepreneur Robert Hersov to get a read on what’s happening in the country. What is the real story surr…

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[DE] Ein Code Klub beim Max Planck Institut - mit Jonas Hagenberg, Vera Karlbauer 34:39

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Vera Karlsbauer und Jonas Hagenberg arbeiten am Max-Planck Institut für Psychiatrie in München. Aber Software und Datenverarbeitung spielt auch dort eine große Rolle. Vera und Jonas erzählen uns etwas über ihre Arbeit und über den Code Klub den sie gegründet haben um anderen Forschenden und Studierenden den Zugang und Umgang mit S…

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New Florida Law Bans the Engineering of Weather: Sayer Ji Explains 33:36

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On June 20, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 56 into law, criminalizing geoengineering and certain weather modification activities in the state, with violations classified as a third-degree felony. “They were intending to alter the trajectory of hurricanes using things like silver as a way to change the precipitation and intensity o…

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EJ Antoni Decodes the Trump Economy and the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Controversy 1:15:43

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Five months into the Trump administration, I sit down with Heritage Foundation chief economist EJ Antoni to get his insights into how the American economy is doing, where the US-China trade war is headed, and how he assesses the “big, beautiful bill,” which has engendered significant debate among conservatives. How are Americans faring financially …

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What America Can Learn From Ohio’s Amish Country: John Miller 59:22

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John Miller is the CEO of Superb Industries. He resisted mounting pressure to move his production overseas to China, and instead innovated and grew a thriving made-in-America component manufacturing business. “Do you make decisions based on the long-term benefit that are principle-based, or do you make decisions for financial gain in the short term…

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[EN] Open Research - at FOSDEM 2025 37:26

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FOSDEM is the annual event for all things free and open source software in Europe happening over the 1st weekend in February in Brussels. In this episode I want to talk about one "dev room" (developer room) in particular: the one on Open Research, that has been running since 2020. Over the course of a day, we heard from a variety of speakers on top…

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Alan Dershowitz on Unrest in LA, Trump-Harvard Clash, and New Book ‘The Preventive State’ 1:09:14

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Say we had credible intelligence about an impending terrorist attack or major acts of violence, what actions are justifiable to prevent these crimes from occurring? How do we balance the urgency of preventing harm, with the importance of safeguarding civil liberties? “We have to make trade-offs all the time, and there’s no jurisprudence to that tra…

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From Agroterrorism to Bioweapons Research: How the CCP Infiltrates the West | Sam Cooper 1:03:15

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A 33-year-old researcher and her 34-year-old boyfriend, both Chinese nationals, were recently charged with allegedly smuggling into America a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, a potential bioterrorism weapon. This recent case is just the tip of the iceberg, says investigative reporter Sam Cooper. He played a key part in uncovering a similar case …

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The Rise in Cardiovascular Conditions, Myocarditis in Children: Dr. Kirk Milhoan 46:04

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Dr. Kirk Milhoan is a pediatric cardiologist and senior fellow at the Independent Medical Alliance. He has been treating children with myocarditis and other cardiovascular issues associated with COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccines. “Four years later, five years later, I’m seeing this constant and dramatic change in who I’m seeing coming to see me. T…

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Here’s How Trump Is Changing the Game in the Middle East: Josh Hammer 45:08

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“You can essentially divide the region between two sets of players. You have the, broadly speaking, Western-aligned players, which essentially consist of Israel and the non-Islamist Arab countries—countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE—and then, on the other hand, you have the axis of Islamism—of support for Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and jihad…

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The Wisdom of Athens and Jerusalem and Lessons for Today: Jacob Howland 55:36

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“When we are dispersed and we interact with other human beings only online, and the algorithms feed back our preferences and desires to us, what it effectively does is kind-of isolate us in these multiple sub caves.” Jacob Howland is the provost of the University of Austin, a new, private liberal arts university that is pushing back against censors…

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Max Tegmark on AI Superintelligence: We’re Creating an ‘Alien Species’ That Would Replace Us 59:51

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Few people understand artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as MIT physics professor Max Tegmark. Founder of the Future of Life Institute, he is the author of “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” “The painful truth that’s really beginning to sink in is that we’re much closer to figuring out how to build this…

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[EN] Parsl: a Python library for parallel programming - with Dan Katz and Ben Clifford 40:11

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Parallel programming is hard. Say Hi to Parsl a Python library and tool that aims to make the task a bit easier. I spoke with two of the key people on the project, Dan Katz and Ben Clifford. https://github.com/parsl/parsl the GitHub repo of Parsl https://funcx.org FuncX http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu Montage programme mentioned in the discussion h…

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Michael Shellenberger: How China Gained Control of Solar—And Why It Matters 1:16:13

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“It’s now been revealed that the Chinese—who manufacture virtually all of our solar panels, both in the United States and Europe—have been installing cellular radios inside the inverters, which can act as kill switches,” says Michael Shellenberger, an investigative journalist, author, founder of Public, and CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Fr…

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How Numbers Can Lie in Scientific Research: Dr. Lynn Fynn 43:36

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Dr. Lynn Fynn is a clinical research scientist and a retired infectious disease specialist. We sat down together to discuss issues she sees plaguing medical research, including the misallocation of funds, a broken peer review process, and major conflicts of interest. ”Any time you incentivize something, you’re creating a bias. And when you create a…

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Jonah Platt: The Incredible Story of Muslims and Jews Visiting Auschwitz Together 40:58

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“Hollywood is about as left and progressive a community as there is in this country. And unfortunately, part of the box you have to check in that very left, super progressive space is being anti-Israel and being pro-Palestine in an anti-Israel way,” says Jonah Platt. Platt is a jack of all trades in the entertainment industry—an actor, director, pr…

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[DE] Software entwickeln mit KI? Ein Gespräch mit Carina Haupt und Chris Stenkamp 35:19

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Meine Gäste Carina Haupt und Christoph Steinkamp vom DLR beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, inwieweit der Einsatz von Large Language Models (wie z.B. ChatGPT) bei Forschungsprojekten und deren Softwareentwicklung helfen? Große Versprechungen - aber kleine Brötchen? Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören…

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Beyond Lt. Dan: Gary Sinise Reflects on Grief, Gratitude, and a Life Devoted to Honoring America’s Heroes 1:04:30

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“Service … it’s a great healer for a broken heart. It helped me a lot through our fight for our son, and the difficulties and the challenges of fighting for him and then losing him,” says Gary Sinise. An Emmy Award-winning actor, producer, director, and musician, Sinise has dedicated his life to supporting America’s active-duty military, veterans, …

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The Monument That Almost Wasn’t: The Remarkable Story Behind Canada’s Anti-Communist Memorial | Ludwik Klimkowski 50:20

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A few months ago, Canada unveiled its national memorial to the millions of victims of communism. In this episode, Ludwik Klimkowski, chair of the Tribute of Liberty, gives us a tour of the memorial and reveals the 17-year battle to realize it as the group navigated changing political winds. “This is a memorial to those who still struggle. This is t…

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Victor Davis Hanson: How Trump Is Upending the Status Quo, From Beijing to Gaza to Kyiv 1:22:03

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In this episode, we sit down again with Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist, military historian, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and author of two dozen books, including most recently “The End of Everything.” In this interview, we dive into the multifaceted dimensions of what he describes as Trump’s “counterrevolution” in the foreign policy …

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[EN] Pandoc: a swiss-army knife for documents - with J MacFarlane, A Krewinkel 39:16

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John MacFarlane and Albert Krewinkel from Pandoc take us through the history and development of this very popular Swiss-army knife for digital documents and document publishing. Pandoc is, of course, open source. And if you want to contribute, don't be shy! https://github.com/jgm/pandoc GitHub repo https://www.lua.org Lua language https://pandoc.or…

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‘Criminal State’: Unmasking the CCP’s Whole-of-Society Espionage Playbook | Nicholas Eftimiades 55:32

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There are few people who understand the workings of Chinese espionage as well as Nicholas Eftimiades. After a 34-year government career—including time at the CIA, Department of State, and Defense Intelligence Agency—he’s now a professor at Penn State University’s Homeland Security Program and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. “China uses wha…

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How One Journalist Is Shattering Echo Chambers: Isaac Saul 53:36

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“One of the major driving factors of the extreme polarization that we’re living through right now is that most news consumers can very easily … tune in somewhere where they are just being force fed worldviews and perspectives that confirm all their priors,” says journalist Isaac Saul. “Think about what media outlets are really making their audience…

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What the Mental Health Industry Doesn’t Tell You: Laura Delano 56:39

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“This system I had been turning to for help through all of these years, through the most formative years of life, that I had been assuming existed to take care of me ... was actually a system of control. And I just hadn’t seen it for what it was, because I had never said no to it before,” says Laura Delano, author of “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatr…

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How Did Trump Impact the Canadian Election? | Brian Lee Crowley 59:42

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“Donald Trump is looming so large in the Canadian consciousness right now,” says Brian Lee Crowley. “And I have seen a lot of my compatriots running around like chickens with their heads cut off, saying, ‘Oh my God, Donald Trump is a mad man. You can’t understand what he’s doing. There’s no rhyme or reason to it.’ And I looked at what Donald Trump …

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How Intermittent Fasting and Dietary Changes Can Reduce Cancer Risk: Dr. Paul Marik 52:43

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Dr. Paul Marik is a pulmonary and critical care specialist and a founding member of the Independent Medical Alliance, formerly known as the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance. “Our healthcare system is completely and utterly broken. From the top to the bottom, it’s a broken, dysfunctional system,” says Marik. “If you do an experiment, it sh…

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Harmeet Dhillon: Inside Trump Admin’s Shake-Up of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division 1:05:21

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How is the Trump administration transforming the Department of Justice’s civil rights priorities? Joining us today for a deep dive is DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the civil rights division. Their jurisdiction includes a wide range of constitutional issues, from religious freedom to Title IX protections, race-based discriminatio…

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[EN] Let's Go Atomic (with Design) - Brad Frost 41:41

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Brad Frost is the author of a book called Atomic Design, in which he tries to help UI/UX designers improve their workflow and approach and create digital apps. We also talk about the changing roles of designers and design in a world where we get new gadgets all the time. As Brad says in his book: let's go atomic Links: https://bradfrost.com Brad's …

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Steve Bannon: Trump Is Waging ‘Economic Warfare’ on the Chinese Communist Party 1:01:29

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“Never before in history have two great trading entities ever engaged in outright economic warfare, like is being engaged today. And that’s why I say we’re living in historic times,” says Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist during President Donald Trump’s first administration and host of the “War Room” show. “It’s not just tariffs. Th…

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The Dangers of DeepSeek and Chinese Drones: Army Captain Florent Groberg (Ret.) 37:41

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“They picked me up, and I’m hopping on one leg. And I saw Commander Griffin, Major Gray, Major Kennedy, and then USAID [officer] at the time, Ragaei Abdelfattah, were all killed by the same bomber that didn’t kill me,” said Florent Groberg. Groberg is a retired U.S. Army Captain who fought in Afghanistan and was severely injured attempting to thwar…

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The First Legislation in America Banning Medical Mandates: Leslie Manookian 30:32

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“What happened during COVID is exactly a perfect illustration of the harms of sacrificing some for the many,” says Leslie Manookian, founder and president of the Health Freedom Defense Fund. She played a pivotal role in getting her state of Idaho to pass the first legislation in the United States banning most medical mandates, including vaccines an…

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[DE] Rechnen mit Quantencomputern - mit Elisabeth Lobe und Peter Schuhmacher 52:22

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Dr Elisabeth Lobe und Dr Peter Schuhmacher vom DLR geben uns einen (nicht ganz so) kleinen Einblick in die Welt von Quantencomputern und an welchen Themen sie daran arbeiten. Ein spannendes Gebiet auf dem viel passiert! Hier eine Reihe von Links https://qci.dlr.de/en/alqu/ Die Quanteninitiative und die daran beteiligten Projekte https://qci.dlr.de/…

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Leaked Directive Reveals the CCP’s Desperate Strategy to Survive the Trade War: Heng He 59:53

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A recently leaked directive details the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy to respond to Trump’s tariffs. How is the CCP trying to leverage this moment? Will this be the end of China as the “factory of the world?” And what’s behind the purges in the military, the apparent removal of two Xi Jinping loyalists, and recent changes in top CCP leadership…

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How America Betrayed Its Children During the Pandemic: David Zweig 58:12

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David Zweig is a journalist and author of “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.” His book is a searing criticism of the policy to close schools across America during the COVID-19 pandemic. The result: Major lags in education achievement, a mental health disaster, and so much more that simply cannot be …

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How Therapists Are Failing Our Children: Pamela Garfield-Jaeger 52:30

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“I felt like I was a Rip Van Winkle therapist. I left my profession due to a health condition in 2017 ... In 2021, I came back, and it was radically different,” says licensed clinical social worker Pamela Garfield-Jaeger. “All the teens that I had worked with before had never talked about being trans, and then the new program I was working at, half…

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[EN] From Volcanos to Open Source - John Stevenson 47:22

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My guest is John Stevenson from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and there is a lot to cover in this episode: John's switch from science to engineering; how to move from proprietary to open source software - and the hot stuff: volcanos. And what John did in volcanology. Here are a few links: https://www.bgs.ac.uk/people/stevenson-john/ John's pr…

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Mikki Willis: How Our Modern Age Is Severing the Human Connection to the Divine 46:03

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In this episode, I sit down with Mikki Willis, an award-winning filmmaker and producer of the Plandemic Series. His new film, “Follow the Silenced,” tells the stories, over the course of three years, of individuals injured by the COVID-19 genetic vaccine. “We followed the science, we got harmed, and now Facebook won’t even let us have a group where…

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How Bad Scientific Research Gets Through Peer Review: Dr. Joseph Varon 34:45

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Dr. Joseph Varon is a critical care physician, medical professor, and president of the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), formerly the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). Their mission is to provide and advocate for patient rights, informed consent, and medical transparency, and they’ve played a major role supporting Health and Hum…

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Gordon Chang on Trump’s Tariffs: Is China in Trouble? 30:06

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As the U.S.-China trade war continues to escalate, I’m sitting down with China analyst Gordon Chang. “Jamie Dimon said this: ‘Why don’t you just pick up the phone?’ Well, the reason is we’ve had that attitude for five decades … and look where it’s gotten us. So, if the Chinese want to do something about our tariffs, it’s up to them to pick up the p…

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The Cost of a Nuclear Iran and How Decades of American Diplomacy Backfired: Yoram Ettinger 1:13:52

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“More and more Iranian-supported, anti-American, Islamic terrorist cells are established on U.S. soil with the aim of eliminating key American personnel, and eliminating key American institutions and installations. This has been the ayatollah’s vision from day one,” says former Ambassador Yoram Ettinger. In the 1980s and 1990s, Ettinger held a numb…

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[EN] From Research to Production? With Duncan McGregor 32:28

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How can you transition from photo-type or exploratory research software to production code? Can you? I've been discussing this with my guest Duncan McGregor. In the first part of our discussion we touch on how you can effectively analyse large data sets that are distributed over different locations with tools like Dask. Links: https://www.youtube.c…

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Inside RFK Jr.’s Unprecedented Reset of HHS: David Mansdoerfer 58:19

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David Mansdoerfer served as deputy assistant secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the first Trump administration. Now, he’s chief strategist at the Independent Medical Alliance and describes himself as the MAGA-MAHA Connector. “We have seen a complete reset of a federal agency within 60 days of Secretary Kennedy ge…

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Inside China’s Stranglehold on the Global Medicine Supply Chain: Rosemary Gibson 57:00

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Find showtimes for Shen Yun at https://www.shenyun.com/tickets Use the code JAN25 to get ticketing fees waived. “The United States depends on China for 95 percent of the key components that are necessary to make our generic drugs, and if China shut the door on exports, within months, our health care system would begin to collapse.” Rosemary Gibson …

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How Trump’s 125 Percent Tariffs Are Dismantling China’s Unfair Trade Regime: Christopher Balding 1:07:54

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After Beijing retaliated to U.S. tariffs, President Donald Trump has now announced a tariff hike to 125 percent on Chinese products—and a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs on other countries. To understand what’s really going on, we’re speaking with one of the world’s leading experts on the Chinese economy. Christopher Balding was a professor at P…

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No Chemicals, No Vaccines, No Subsidies: Inside Joel Salatin’s Farming Revolution 1:10:45

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Find showtimes for Shen Yun at https://www.shenyun.com/tickets Use the code JAN25 to get ticketing fees waived. Joel Salatin is one of America’s most revered regenerative farmers. At Polyface Farms, he avoids synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and vaccines. He doesn’t take any government subsidies. And he’s been a major source of inspir…

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#32: Muddy: A mapping robot for extreme environments 38:50

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A low-cost unmanned ground vehicle capable of producing 3D maps, the Muddy robot has solved a variety of mapping challenges since 2017. Developed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Muddy is often used to test more expansive robotic platforms and to enable other projects. Its combination of autonomous navigation, affor…

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How I Almost Ended Up in Jail for Exposing a Secret Gender Transition Program: Eithan Haim 37:30

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Find showtimes for Shen Yun at https://www.shenyun.com/tickets Use the code JAN25 to get ticketing fees waived. Dr. Eithan Haim said he was working as a resident surgeon at the Texas Children’s Hospital when he discovered that doctors were secretly continuing and expanding their program of transgender medical procedures for minors—after publicly sh…

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The Biggest Financial Scandal in History—And You May Be Part of It: Roger Robinson 1:28:01

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Find showtimes for Shen Yun at https://www.shenyun.com/tickets Use the code JAN25 to get ticketing fees waived. Tens of millions of Americans are unwittingly investing in Chinese companies involved in military weapon production, surveillance technologies, and egregious human rights abuses, says former Reagan adviser Roger Robinson. Through a comple…

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Whistleblower Reveals Shocking UN Corruption: Emma Reilly 45:16

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Emma Reilly worked as a human rights lawyer at the United Nations. She discovered that for years, the Human Rights Council had been handing over the names of Chinese dissidents slated to attend the U.N. to the Chinese regime. Included were the names of U.S., Canadian, and European citizens. “The CCP demands get listened to because the U.N. takes th…

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[EN] ByteSized RSE: AI assisted coding - with Liam (Jianliang) Gao 34:24

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English Edition: In this last episode for the ByteSized RSE "miniseries" we talk about AI assisted coding - and the (long) history how engineers tried to come up with assisting tools to make our code better and more robust. My guest is Liam Gao from Imperial College, London, UK. Links: https://github.com/features/copilot GitHub Co-Pilot https://hug…