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Global investigations from the BBC. Uncovering stories around the world and telling them, episode by episode, with gripping storytelling. Delve into a World of Secrets. Latest season: Death in Dubai. A woman falls from a tower block. It's caught on camera and the clip goes viral. Within hours, Mona Kizz’s name is trending worldwide. In death, the beautiful 23-year-old Ugandan is accused of being a #DubaiPortaPotty. With over 450 million views on TikTok, the hashtag leads to parodies and spec ...
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence are dramatically changing the way businesses operate and people live. The TWIML AI Podcast brings the top minds and ideas from the world of ML and AI to a broad and influential community of ML/AI researchers, data scientists, engineers and tech-savvy business and IT leaders. Hosted by Sam Charrington, a sought after industry analyst, speaker, commentator and thought leader. Technologies covered include machine learning, artificial intelligence, de ...
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The Sci-Fi Christian

Ben De Bono and Matt Anderson

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We see The Sci-Fi Christian, in all its iterations, as being about the collision between faith and nerdom. We believe that good genre fiction is about more than just entertainment. We seek to engage with the themes and philosophies behind our favorite stories, wrestling with the big ideas within speculative fiction. We’re unabashedly nerdy and unabashedly Christian. Even if your faith background differs from ours, we look forward to interacting with you at The Sci-Fi Christian!
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The Weekly Planet

Planet Broadcasting

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The Weekly Planet covers all things movies, TV shows and comics. Often considered the first and worst podcast on the Planet Broadcasting Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Dark Razor Chronicles A fantasy–science fiction podcast series The Dark Razor Chronicles is a genre-defying saga of magic, ancient technology, gods, monsters, oaths, and war—a sweeping fantasy–science fiction podcast adapted from a twelve-novel series over forty years in the making. This is a world where nothing stays buried. Not memory. Not power. Not the past. Forged before history, the Costa Novacula—the Dark Razor—is a soul-reactive weapon with hidden potential. It is not cursed. It ...
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Idea Machines

Benjamin Reinhardt

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Idea Machines is a deep dive into the systems and people that bring innovations from glimmers in someone's eye all the way to tools, processes, and ideas that can shift paradigms. We see the outputs of innovation systems everywhere but rarely dig into how they work. Idea Machines digs below the surface into crucial but often unspoken questions to explore themes of how we enable innovations today and how we could do it better tomorrow. Idea Machines is hosted by Benjamin Reinhardt.
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More episodes to come soon! Join me, as we will explore beyond our perceived reality, into the short stories of some of the best authors of classic science fiction and dark fantasy. Email: [email protected] Want to keep up to date with Beyond the Center and know when new episodes have gone live? Follow on the Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551316624099
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Artists and Hackers

artistsandhackers

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A podcast dedicated to the community that is building and using new digital tools for creation. We’re looking at the current palette of artmaking tools online, and taking a critical eye to the history of technology and the internet. We’re interested in where we’ve been and speculative ideas on the future.
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Lunch Hour Legal Marketing

Legal Talk Network

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Are you hungry for more clients? Tired of wasting time (and money) on marketing that doesn’t work? This podcast serves up real-world tips and proven digital marketing strategies that actually drive results for law firms. Hosted by Gyi Tsakalakis and Conrad Saam—two legal marketing pros who’ve been in the trenches. You’ll get practical advice on client acquisition, website teardowns, and what’s actually working for lawyers today—all with a touch of mirth. Congratulations, you found it—THE pod ...
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Prompt Commander AI

Tim Roper/Allan Dubon/John Weidow

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Welcome to the Prompt Commander AI Podcast — your go-to source for real-world insights on how artificial intelligence is transforming business, marketing, and leadership. Hosted by Tim Roper, Allan Dubon, and John Weidow—the powerhouse trio behind Prompt Commander—each episode features practical tools, inspiring interviews, and powerful prompts to help entrepreneurs, creators, and professionals unlock the full potential of AI. Whether you're an AI novice or a tech-savvy trailblazer, we break ...
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The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations showcase ideas and research across the arts and humanities. We are drawing on expertise from the University of Oxford and Berlin University of the Arts, to combine established methodologies from the Humanities with new and exciting forms of artistic expression. Our encounters between researchers and artists from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and the University of Oxford open up new fields of engagement between the arts, humanities an ...
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Synchronicity machines. Difference engines melded with the iChing. Geomancy: the art of making stone float with sound. The hacker collective 'Anonymous'. Secret societies … This is the world of ARMAND PTOLEMY, a new action-adventure hero. Facing an enemy armed with the Golden Aleph -- a mystical device that allows its wielder to see holographically into every point in time and space, Ptolemy must use every trick of his Oxford-educated mind and circus-trained body to succeed. But how do you f ...
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Extempo Songbook

Extempo Songbook

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Extempo Songbook is a music creation podcast/project, featuring extemporaneous song recordings and exploratory, tangential monologues about various topics. ///////////////////////// Nigel from Nap Eyes shares first-draft compositions of new songs. He also talks for a while about some things he’s enthusiastic about (including songwriting and beyond), with an introspective and interoceptive focus. /////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////////////////////////////////// #CreativeA ...
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In The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century, economist and bestselling author Richard Duncan lays out a farsighted strategy to maximize the United States' unmatched financial and technological potential. In compelling fashion, the author shows that the United States can and should invest in the industries and technologies of t…
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A key insider agrees to talk. He says he worked at the centre of this illegal prostitution ring. Why is he speaking out now? And what can he tell us about the world Monic was caught up in, and the man she was working for? We follow in Monic’s footsteps to the glitzy clubs and bars where we are told she was sent.This episode includes discussion of s…
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This week we discuss The Smashing Machine where The Rock takes a straight shot at doing a series role with a big time Hollywood transformation and all! Plus we get into all the news of the week including The Simpsons 2 official release date, how much money Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny really lost, a trailer for Frankenstein, the return of Br…
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The Architecture of the Wire explores the development of telecommunications infrastructure and its impact on the architectural and urban culture of the modern age—from poles, wires, and cables, to “micro-architectures,” such as the théâtrophone and the telephone booth. Starting with the intrepid worldwide infrastructures of the late nineteenth cent…
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Like The Mummy 2017, everything we've been covering up to this point has lead us here. The Dark Universe has had its fair share of failures but none quite as spectacular as the 2017 reboot/sequel/franchise launching Tom Cruise vehicle The Mummy. With Universal pumping nearly 200 million dollars into the budget including a brand new logo and the rev…
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In this episode, Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and co-founder of Near AI, joins us to discuss his vision for building private, decentralized, and user-owned AI. Illia shares his unique journey from developing the Transformer architecture at Google to building the NEAR Protocol blockchain to solve glo…
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Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, we review “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler, and then we discuss which books we will be reading next from The Book Poster. VOTE FOR AN UPCOMING EPISODE TOPIC HERE: www.patreon.com/thescifichristian?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss To send in your Listener Feedback, write us at feedback@thescif…
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Fantastic news! There's a new movie and it's good. We review One Battle After Another, the latest from director Paul Thomas Anderson. Plus we discuss the Superman sequel man of steel (lowercase) and its connection to Peacemaker Season 2 and the wider DCU, Stan Lee's return in AI form, trailers for Avatar: Fire & Ash, Wolverine PS5 and The Mandalori…
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Kiera and Mia remember Monic as charismatic and kind-hearted. They were living with her in Dubai and can reveal the shocking reality of her life there, saying they were all trapped in a prostitution ring run by a man they believe is “the most powerful pimp in Dubai”. They say they’re scared of him but are determined to speak out, to get justice for…
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We've all been having the best time revisiting different failures within the Dark Universe. This week it's Dracula Untold, a thinly veiled attempt to turn Dracula into a comic book action hero. Which is weird because Dracula already exists in both the Marvel and DC Universes. Anyhoo Luke Evans stars as Vlad The Impaler, a kind and gentle family man…
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Reddit has major SEO power, and you should definitely be using it for your firm! But, dear lawyers, for good karma, avoid megaspammer agencies who attach your name to every annoying post. It’s a bad look. ----- The industry is moving heavily toward Reddit because of AIOs, boosts in search, etc., but how do you use it effectively? Conrad and Gyi tal…
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Today, we’re joined by Oliver Wang, principal scientist at Google DeepMind and tech lead for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image—better known by its code name, “Nano Banana.” We dive into the development and capabilities of this newly released frontier vision-language model, beginning with the broader shift from specialized image generators to general-purpose m…
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Monic’s relative heads to the UAE, like her, in pursuit of a dream. But soon after, news of her death shatters everything. Devastated and distrusting of the police’s account, Michael takes the search for truth into his own hands leading to a dramatic confrontation. This episode contains strong language. Presented by investigative journalist Runako …
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Welcome back to podcasting, The Weekly Planet podcasting. This week we’re talking the return of Gen V with a look at the first three episodes of Season 2. Plus we talk the passing of Robert Redford, potential villains for The Batman Part II, Tron: Ares opening weekend, a Rambo prequel update, the first look at Liam Hemsworth in The Witcher Season 4…
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Dr. J Calvin Schermerhorn is a professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His books include The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860, and Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery. He lives in Tempe, AZ. The long history of the racial we…
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Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance (MIT Press, 2025) by Dr. Susan Erikson presents a critical and sobering look at how international bankers and investors turn pandemics into investment opportunities, and what we stand to lose when we rely on “innovative finance.” In a world increasingly defined by crisis, bankers and investor…
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Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance (MIT Press, 2025) by Dr. Susan Erikson presents a critical and sobering look at how international bankers and investors turn pandemics into investment opportunities, and what we stand to lose when we rely on “innovative finance.” In a world increasingly defined by crisis, bankers and investor…
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How many female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries, merchants, and industrialists can you name? You would be forgiven for thinking that, until very recently, there were none at all. But what about Phryne, the richest woman in ancient Athens, who offered to pay to rebuild the walls of Thebes after the city was razed by Alexander the Great? Or w…
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EPISODE S02E12 - The First Inferno — Cullen and Sharael stumble into Sansa, a realm of legend where sky and stars collide and wolves haunt the dark. As Sharael reveals the truth of the Cataclysm, a hypnotic stranger confronts them—her touch promising more than pain. The Infernos are real, and escape may cost everything.…
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In 2010 Universal took another step towards rebooting the Dark Universe with a straight shot at a remake of the 1941 classic The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney Jr. This time starring Benecio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving and with the late addition direction of Joe Johnston it does manage to capture some of the magic of a cla…
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EPISODE S02E11 - Threads of the Novi Mundi - The journey presses onward, but not without weight. Questions hang heavy, choices test resolve, and the road ahead is never as simple as it seems. In this chapter of The Dark Razor Chronicles, threads tighten and the silence itself demands a cost.By Mike Carmel
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Today, we're joined by Aditi Raghunathan, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss the limitations of LLMs and how we can build more adaptable and creative models. We dig into her ICML 2025 Outstanding Paper Award winner, “Roll the dice & look before you leap: Going beyond the creative limits of next-token prediction,” which ex…
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Julien Mailland, Associate Professor of Media Management, Law, and Policy at The Media School of Indiana University Bloomington, about his book, The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry. The book examines key moments, beginning in the 1970s, in which legal decisions influenced …
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Stephen King adaptations are back and bigger than ever with The Long Walk, a movie about a long walk but if you don’t walk good enough Mark Hamill will kill you. We also talk the most current and best news including our first look at Doctor Doom from Avengers: Let’s Pay Robert Downey Jr Fifty Million Dollars, kudos for David Zslav (normal man), a p…
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Monic dreams of leaving her home in rural Uganda for a different life. So when a “friend” promises her a job in Dubai, it feels like the chance she’s been waiting for. Monic is elated, she is the first of her 11 siblings to travel abroad. But just a few months later she is dead. Her family is left searching for answers. What happened in Dubai? A wa…
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Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono This time for The Criterion Challenge, we discuss the films “Throne of Blood,” “M,” “Safety Last,” “F For Fake,” and “Summertime.” VOTE FOR AN UPCOMING EPISODE TOPIC HERE: www.patreon.com/thescifichristian?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss To send in your Listener Feedback, write us at feedback@thescifichristian.…
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In 2004 Universal attempted the impossible, recreate the success of The Mummy reboot from 1999 using the classic monsters of old. At it turns out that was impossible and would continue to be so until The Invisible Man in 2020. Over the next four weeks we're going to take a look at a series of movies that each tried to start their own Dark Universe …
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The Dark Razor Chronicles – S02E10: Edges and Lines - In the stillness after bloodshed, Cullen and Sharael wrestle with the spoils of survival—gold that feels like poison, and choices that cut deeper than steel. Elsewhere, Dan and Krista face the consequences of the company they’ve chosen to keep, their path no less tangled with peril.…
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THE DARK RAZOR CHRONICLES: STREAMCAST - S02E09 - Blood and Lines - Steel meets shadow as Cullen and Sharael face their harshest trial yet, while Krista and Dan learn what it means to stand their ground when lines are drawn. In a world where instinct says run, some lessons demand you hold fast.By Mike Carmel
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We’ve got more delectable nibbles of knowledge to whet your appetite for the LHLM Summit! And, Conrad’s got a Clio/Scorpion conspiracy theory you definitely don’t want to miss. ----- This is pure speculation on Conrad’s part… but what’s the real play behind the Scorpion and Clio union? Could there be more to this “sole preferred partnership” than t…
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Today, we're joined by Animesh Koratana, founder and CEO of PlayerZero to discuss his team’s approach to making agentic and AI-assisted coding tools production-ready at scale. Animesh explains how rapid advances in AI-assisted coding have created an “asymmetry” where the speed of code output outpaces the maturity of processes for maintenance and su…
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A woman falls from a tower block. It's caught on camera and the clip goes viral. Within hours, Mona Kizz’s name is trending worldwide. In death, the beautiful 23-year-old Ugandan is accused of being a #DubaiPortaPotty. With over 450 million views on TikTok, the hashtag leads to parodies and speculative exposés of women suspected of being paid by me…
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Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popular image of the international student in the American imagination, an image of affluence, access, and privilege. In this provocative book, higher education scholar Stephanie Kim argues that universitie…
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The important thing in the world has happened. The Rock doesn't have as many muscles and now he's serious and has glasses. And in celebration of that we talk the greatest pivots in Hollywood history. Plus we talk an annoucement of the next DCU Superman movie, the Lara Croft TV show movies forward, a Call of Duty movie, 007 First Light James Bond ga…
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Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing (MIT Press, 2025) is a book about artificial eyes—about the artisans and artists who make them, and about the life-changing and sometimes life-saving experience of wearing them, as author Dan Roche has done for 15 years. Eye making is done by hand, for one person at a time, by a very small number of ocul…
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To the surprise of most, Percy Jackson 2010 actually got a sequel in 2013's in Sea of Monsters. Sure the originally director didn't come back or a bunch of the original actors including horse Pierce Brosnan but the core trio of Percy, Percy's friend and Percy's another friend. This time they're on a quest for the Golden Fleece which they're going t…
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The Dark Razor Chronicles — Season Two, Episode Eight: Distant Thunder - A morning fire turns to chaos as Cullen and Sharael face their first true battle. Krista Smithy and Dan walk the harder path of silence and discipline, where even the knock at a door can sound like distant thunder.By Mike Carmel
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