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"panja" Discussed on The Lead
"Get a bag of Scott's triple action today. It's guaranteed. Are your money back? Feed your lawn, feed it. For many years, China was basically a non factor in the world of soccer. Even though it has more than a billion people and has racked up all kinds of metals at the Olympics, China didn't have a good professional soccer league and it had never produced a global soccer star. And then, about 8 years ago, it looked like all of that was about to change. President Xi Jinping has decided it's China's term to step up. He produced a 50 point plan to turn China into a soccer powerhouse. The Chinese government announced that it would spend billions of dollars developing the sport recruiting the world's top players and building thousands of soccer schools across the country. The view from above the evergrande football school is expansive. 50 pitches spread out across some 160 acres in southern China's Guangdong province, the biggest in the world. The ultimate goal is to win a World Cup. But now 8 years later, that ambitious program is all but dead. Today, tark panja of The New York Times takes us through the rise and fall of China's grand soccer experiment and explains why it ultimately didn't work. Building a soccer culture and heritage takes more than 6 years and takes more than just pouring a $1 billion or $10 billion in suddenly and expecting a miracle overnight. From wondery, I'm Anders kelto. It's Wednesday, April 12th, and this is the lead. Welcome back to the lead. Good to be with you. So Turk, we are here today to talk about China's ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful plan to become a global soccer superpower. But I was hoping we could actually start with a bit of background here. You are a global sports correspondent. You cover both soccer and other sports around the world. When you think of China and sports and specifically China and ambitious sports programs, what comes to mind? The Olympics and for me, particularly in sports like weightlifting. She young extending he's matched the world record. Gold for a second straight Olympics for China's Xi Jin. WC like this parade of Chinese athletes. Very Olympics. They seem to change, but there's one thing in common. They're going to win that gold medal. And he does it ma long takes it the heart. He gives his love to the world the captain, the dragon, the dictator, the greatest of all time, has done the from a western sensibility from a distance. It does feel quite brutal for me, you have young children being identified, not for their sporting prowess, but for the way their bodies have been formed their measure, their weight, and they are sent to become champions in the sport that the government has chosen for them a 14 year old has had two perfect dives out of four. She just blew it out of the water. Without splashing any water. A Chinese athlete has learned a sport probably by rote in a hothouse factory and it's going to carry the medal away the flag will be hoisted in the anthem will play in a stadium or an arena somewhere in the world. And is it fair to say that sports especially on the international stage are still a political priority in China? Is it still a way for the country to sort of flex and demonstrate its strength on the global stage? Yeah, absolutely. It is the crucible where countries get a chance to show off. And 91 thousand people inside Beijing's national stadium. When the lights darkened with fireworks illuminating the stadium and the Beijing sky, the China, the modern China, the China was project itself as a power as a winning nation. There's no better spotlight sometimes in these biggest sporting events. Using thousands of performers. 2008 drummers. Coincide with the 2008 Olympic year involved in that first segment. Hence the immense focus on not finishing in silver or bronze positions. I think in China, they don't really count. It's about winning medals, getting as high as they can on the medals table. And I think that ambition stands. All right, well, let's turn to soccer specifically. You know, despite all of this sporting success at the Olympics that we've talked about, China does not have the best track record when it comes to soccer. And it's always seemed strange to me that this country that for many years had the world's largest population, the second largest economy, has never really been much of a player in global soccer. So first, what is a backstory of soccer in China? Tell us a little about its popularity there. And its growth before the government went all in on this program. Yeah, if you ask some people in China and the Chinese football federation on the soccer federation. They would tell you the history is really deep and goes really far to the point they believe that they invented a form of soccer. They believe they are the cradle of the world's most popular sport. There was a game that has been tracked to 2000 years ago. I can't tell you what dynasty that would have been, but it was called cuju. And it involved kicking a spherical object between these two teams in the FIFA. The world governing body seemed to have acknowledged there is some connection with their game and have awarded China list. And then in terms of the popularity, soccer is quite popular in China. I wouldn't say to the extent of the mania you might see in places like Singapore or Thailand. But when it comes to practice, football and I'll keep alternating between the words here. Is seen and I'm going to use these air quotes as a violent sport. And a lot of parents who are very, very cautious in terms of going to school, getting the best education they have. And then getting a good job and helping the family. So soccer was seen as something that, yes, you might want to watch on TV, but if you are a good family or you aspire for your children to do well, you don't want them to do that. And to connect back to the Olympics a little bit. One thing that I found quite fascinating is if you look at China's sporting success, when you look at these gold medals, they were. They are very rarely in team sports. I think China has only one a team gold medal in women's volleyball. And I think that's quite interesting. What is it about team sports that China can't do? What is it connected to? The education system? Is it the fact that these sports require a degree of creativity, collaboration, playing off the cuff rather than that kind of rote exercise, repeat, rinse, repeat, rinse, pick up weight, lift, weight up above your head. This is a different category of sport, that China has never excelled at. And what about actual high level soccer being played in China? What's the backstory in terms of China having a professional league and in terms of its competing in the World
Everything Everywhere Daily
"panja" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Interesting guy. Born in eighteen eighty in germany got his degree in astronomy but became meteorologist which was still a rather new field at the time. His primary interest was in the northern polar regions. And how air circulated. He participated in four expeditions to greenland and was one of the first meteorologist to adopt the use of weather balloons. However meteorology and expeditions to greenland aren't what alfred wegener is best known for its for his contributions to geology and geophysics. The idea that he is remembered for began innocently enough on christmas day nineteen ten. He was at his friend's house when he began looking at his brand new world. Atlas he made the observation that south america and africa seemed like they fit together like pieces in a puzzle. I should that he was far from the first person to notice this once. Decent maps began being published. In the last part of the sixteenth century people. i observed the same thing. The first person we know of who made the observation was dutch. Cartographer abraham or telling us or telling us created the first modern atlas in fifteen seventy which means he was probably the first person to have the idea because no one before that really had a good grasp of the geography of the continent's william colby wrote in his book on geologic history. Quote abraham are telling us in his work to doris geographic suggested that the americas were torn away from europe and africa by earthquakes and floods and went on to say the vestiges of the rupture. Reveal themselves if someone brings forward a map of the world and considers carefully the coasts of the three continents and quote. Ortelius was far from alone after him. The idea that the continents fit together somehow kept popping up theater. Christoph lilienthal alexander von humboldt antonio snider pellegrini and alfred russel wallace all made the same observation one or two hundred years before moreover there were several other scientists just a decade before who came to a similar conclusion. In fact. there's a good chance that you probably made the same observation. One of the first times that you saw a world map they took the idea to another level however he began by cutting up maps and piecing the landmasses together like a puzzle. He was able to put the continents together into one giant continent that he named panja from the greek words for all and land. I should note. That wasn't just piecing together the land that we can see today but the continental shelves which actually fit together much better. This would be sea levels about two hundred meters lower than what they are today over. This wasn't just a physical puzzle. Shapes good fit together by coincidence. The fact that something is convex and something else is concave. Doesn't prove that they were once connected. Vigor then began looking for more lines of evidence. Any found lots of them. Animals would oftentimes be similar on different continents. Marsupials in australia looked like marsupials and south america moreover the tapeworms which infect the animals on both sides were similar likewise he noted similarities and plant species as well layer geological formations ended on one continent and then restarted again on another continent. The appalachian mountains in north america are similar to the mountains found in greenland ireland britain and norway. And perhaps most importantly the location of certain fossils could be found across different continents for example messa soroush fossils which is a small freshwater. Crocodile can only be found in brazil and south africa. It was inconceivable that a small reptile across the ocean. A land reptile called a licensor source was found in similar rocks in africa india and antarctica. What separated vagueness theory from those who came before him was how thorough he assembled as evidence. He presented his theory for the first time on january six nineteen twelve to the german geological association and he initially called his theory continental displacement the records from the meeting note that there was no discussion.
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"panja" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"It was a really interesting guy. Born in eighteen eighty in germany got his degree in astronomy but became meteorologist which was still a rather new field at the time. His primary interest was in the northern polar regions. And how air circulated. He participated in four expeditions to greenland and was one of the first meteorologist to adopt the use of weather balloons. However meteorology and expeditions to greenland aren't what alfred wegener is best known for its for his contributions to geology and geophysics. The idea that he is remembered for began innocently enough on christmas day nineteen ten. He was at his friend's house when he began looking at his brand new world. Atlas he made the observation that south america and africa seemed like they fit together like pieces in a puzzle. I should that he was far from the first person to notice this once. Decent maps began being published. In the last part of the sixteenth century people. i observed the same thing. The first person we know of who made the observation was dutch. Cartographer abraham or telling us or telling us created the first modern atlas in fifteen seventy which means he was probably the first person to have the idea because no one before that really had a good grasp of the geography of the continent's william colby wrote in his book on geologic history. Quote abraham are telling us in his work to doris geographic suggested that the americas were torn away from europe and africa by earthquakes and floods and went on to say the vestiges of the rupture. Reveal themselves if someone brings forward a map of the world and considers carefully the coasts of the three continents and quote. Ortelius was far from alone after him. The idea that the continents fit together somehow kept popping up theater. Christoph lilienthal alexander von humboldt antonio snider pellegrini and alfred russel wallace all made the same observation one or two hundred years before moreover there were several other scientists just a decade before who came to a similar conclusion. In fact. there's a good chance that you probably made the same observation. One of the first times that you saw a world map they took the idea to another level however he began by cutting up maps and piecing the landmasses together like a puzzle. He was able to put the continents together into one giant continent that he named panja from the greek words for all and land.
Everything Everywhere Daily
Alfred Wegner Takes Continental Drift to the Next Level
"It was a really interesting guy. Born in eighteen eighty in germany got his degree in astronomy but became meteorologist which was still a rather new field at the time. His primary interest was in the northern polar regions. And how air circulated. He participated in four expeditions to greenland and was one of the first meteorologist to adopt the use of weather balloons. However meteorology and expeditions to greenland aren't what alfred wegener is best known for its for his contributions to geology and geophysics. The idea that he is remembered for began innocently enough on christmas day nineteen ten. He was at his friend's house when he began looking at his brand new world. Atlas he made the observation that south america and africa seemed like they fit together like pieces in a puzzle. I should that he was far from the first person to notice this once. Decent maps began being published. In the last part of the sixteenth century people. i observed the same thing. The first person we know of who made the observation was dutch. Cartographer abraham or telling us or telling us created the first modern atlas in fifteen seventy which means he was probably the first person to have the idea because no one before that really had a good grasp of the geography of the continent's william colby wrote in his book on geologic history. Quote abraham are telling us in his work to doris geographic suggested that the americas were torn away from europe and africa by earthquakes and floods and went on to say the vestiges of the rupture. Reveal themselves if someone brings forward a map of the world and considers carefully the coasts of the three continents and quote. Ortelius was far from alone after him. The idea that the continents fit together somehow kept popping up theater. Christoph lilienthal alexander von humboldt antonio snider pellegrini and alfred russel wallace all made the same observation one or two hundred years before moreover there were several other scientists just a decade before who came to a similar conclusion. In fact. there's a good chance that you probably made the same observation. One of the first times that you saw a world map they took the idea to another level however he began by cutting up maps and piecing the landmasses together like a puzzle. He was able to put the continents together into one giant continent that he named panja from the greek words for all and land.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"panja" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Designated the so called Redlich. That means if you travel to those countries and return to the UK, whatever reason you must quarantine, uh, for 10 days before you will be allowed to resume your normal activities. Play soccer clubs that pay hundreds of thousands of pounds a week to these players. That means losing, um some of their top talent for up to two match days. So that is the fun now broadened this up just a little bit. FIFA has the power then to punish the teams for not releasing the players, so that speaks to a governance issues. FIFA is in control of arranging these matches for its World Cup. And punishing teams for not releasing them. So what we're saying here is speak to the event organizer of the World Cup people, which stands to make billions of dollars. Is also able to be a disciplinary body, the governing body of football as well and being able to punish clubs or leagues. That don't bend to its will. Now this speaks to is this the way that soccer should be run that this one organization has all of this power and these other elements? These other groups Have very little say over how the game is run. And an organization that I think people who read The New York Times now is not the most well run organization and has been accused of corruption. You recently wrote an article about The update the 2015 that massive corruption investigation what happened And why is it being resolved six years later? Yeah. I mean, in a way, it's still not resolved because to go back a bit. Some of the most senior figures in soccer were arrested. Um, uh, in May, 2000 and 15. Woken from their slumber, the luxury five star Borough Hotel on the shores of Lake Zurich, and that morning it was shocking. Shocking does huge story. Uh, linked to the corrupt sale of millions of dollars of television and sponsorship, right? Primary link to their other jobs as the head of a regional bodies in South and North America. Um, And this is taken years to unravel. The Department of Justice in the United States has has basically designated FIFA, uh, victim and also the their bodies for South and North America, saying You were the victims of the crime. Essentially, it can't have the case and then find the victim. So FIFA, the body is is the victim here, and it's basically come up with Um, $200 million dollars where it says it can recoup 200 million from from those criminals that people named in the indictment. It has to do something with the money. So it has said to FIFA that you have to, um And those two bodies in South North America that look, we've got this money and this must be used for soccer development purposes. But you could tell even in that agreement that it wasn't fully comfortable. They're kind of had Put it into this foundation and said it's going to closely monitored. It has to be used for these purposes hasn't just given them this money back. And what I found. Particularly interesting Is that really, you know, most of the money is linked to these crimes in South and North America. They didn't get those groups of money at all. It has to be done. Through the auspices of of of the FIFA Foundation, and it also said Look, it can only be you must open a new bank account of the United States. You can't be doing it through, Um, the Swiss banking system. And again, there's so many. It screams a lot of red flags for the usdoj, even when it cut this deal. My guess is Tariq Panja. He is the global sports reporter for The New York Times. We're getting updates on the state of soccer Selena Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Both let go from their teams and Messi's case against his wishes. So those are the big headlines. What's the subtext that's important to consider, as we read those kind of headlines. This up text here is the kind of financial crisis look, we've had a global pandemic. There isn't an industry in the world. I would say that hasn't been kind of negatively affected apartment. Maybe though, that's telling, you know, PPE or vaccine. But you know, the rest of the global economy has been badly damaged. The sports world in particular, and as far as as far as soccer is concerned, we've had Um, a year and a half of Games that were played without Spectators. Essentially empty stadiums That's at the bottom line has been, um, costly rebate north of hundreds of millions of euros per league. To the broadcasters, and that that is that is really hurt The bottom line of Socrates now if we look at fast alone Oh, you know this story team immensely successful, hugely popular. Has been run, however. As a basket case. If I'm being honest with you, they were spending To the limit or well beyond when, when, when the times were good. So it soon as the financial crisis of the pandemic hit fast, Alona Spiralled into catastrophic crisis financially. Um, it was spending 70% of everything every euro, uh, made on player salaries. And the financial crisis meant that in order to keep up, it just simply couldn't and that meant, you know the unthinkable, You know, messy. Um Perhaps the greatest players have played the game. That's an argument for another day. I'm sure our rooms across the world you're going to have different different views on this, but, you know, definitely one of A handful of players who could be in the conversation so tight to that club. Yes, he's from Argentina. But born in Argentina, but he moved to barter at 13 has been so pivotal in their success. You just couldn't imagine him wearing another jersey. Uh and he Has moved to Paris and that also is a part of the story is very few clubs. That could have Ford Hiring Lian l message. It is joined. It's bankrolled by the state of Qatar, You know, per capita, the richest nation on the planet, fueled by it. Natural gas export. This is a club that is kind of been immune to the financial crisis that has hurt the rest of the soccer economy. So not only is it signed message signed a clutch of other Players. Very high level players that their own teams could not afford to keeping, including the Real Madrid captain, Barcelona's arch rival Real Madrid..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"panja" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"How the infrastructure bill could help Climate resilience in Detroit. That's this afternoon on all things Considered from NPR News today at four on W. N. Y C W N. Y c independent journalism in the public interest, 93.9 FM and AM 20, NPR News and the New York conversation. This is all of it on W N Y C. I'm Alison Stewart. Lionel Messi didn't want to leave Barcelona but FC Barcelona, one of the world's most famous clubs, is currently in a state of financial crisis. And had no choice but to let him go. The story is just one recent example demonstrating how the world's most popular game, the one that makes people young and old criterias of joy as the ball hits the back of the neck. Is in trouble. As with so many things that covid pandemic accelerated what has long been considered a flawed system of competitions, ownership and, yes, corruption that squeezed every ounce of effort and profit. Out of its increasingly exhausted players. And even as late as last week, FIFA announced a proposal that would send global soccer further down a path of uncertainty with me now to catch up on the latest stories in controversy surrounding the present and future of this beautiful game. As Tariq Panja, Global sports reporter for The New York Times. Tariq Welcome to the show. Hey, listen that some intro for what a man what a mess and I am going to full disclosure. My knowledge of football is about an inch deep and a mile wide. So I may ask them really obvious follow up for people like me and asking all the true soccer and football fans to be patient. So let's start with FIFA. The latest controversy is last week, FIFA, the global governing body of soccer, announced a proposal that would make the men's World Cup every two years. What is the rationale for this idea? Button money. Crudely. Uh um FIFA, the world global governing body. Generate more than 90% of its income from this one tournament, the men's World Cup. Um Probably definitely the most watched sports event on the planet bigger than the Olympics in terms of eyeballs every four years. Generates around $6 billion. That money is then distributed to its 211 national associations equally so the United States will get the same as saying Guam. Um, Germany, the same as Syria, Leone. From from people and every four years people president is up for election. How did he get elected? He makes promises to his electorate, and this money is then doled out to these associations over time. Um people would say this isn't why this isn't the rationale. What they're saying is Why should this insanely popular event he limited to being a quadrennial tournament? Well, let's give the public more of what they want, Um, let it be every two years. And they said they've Can conducting a feasibility study the and and the results of that will be out in the course The weird thing is here is that we haven't seen any results from the feasibility study yet a lot of these associations Have already come out in favor of it and sleep. The last week has this group of so called people legends, former players, some that your listeners? Even I did say, maybe even you? Listen, who? Who said that? Your your knowledge Ronaldo, the original Brazilian Ronaldo very famous figure. He's one of these legends and they flew 80 of these legends over to Doha in Qatar, where the next World Cup it wined and dined them, and you know what All 80 of them said It was a good idea. Well, practically how would a proposal like this affect the game? Boy? Yeah, Immensely. Basically, in order to, um Play the World Cup at a World Cup is one of these fixtures that it's part of, um, the soccer of the football world International match calendar. So you need to re orientate the entire calendar in order to add something an enormous as this Because, in order to get to the World Cup itself, you have to arrange qualification matches or all across the globe. In order to do that you need to then, um, cut deals with leagues and another regional confederations in order to fit the scheduling. And so this is this in itself is not just one tournament what they're talking about. Is a change to the entire calendar, and that that is a big, big fight that is currently taking place with or without the World Cup every every two years instead of every four years, so FIFA at the moment is fighting with the European Regional body you A for which is The largest of those six global confederation, the league clubs over the next 10 years. So essentially, the the future of the world's most popular game is being caught over and it's being the kind of the venue for the fight is the calendar. Hmm. My guest. Terry, Punjab, Punjab. Excuse me, Global sports reporter for The New York Times you've written about another attention between domestic clubs and FIFA about releasing players for travel. For international games what cops are reluctant to let their players travel at this point. Well, this is again. This is a fight. That's a long time brewing. Let's just make it simple, in a way, So these clubs They're the employers of the players. They pay them that breeze. They pay multi millions in Transferring them trading them. You might see that an NBA as well in your basketball league. When you move from 11 team to another. Tens of millions of it's not now hundreds of millions of euros of transferred to trade players, so that's That's a big outlay. Um, and when these international national team games coming up to release them to play essentially free of charge for Argentina, Brazil, the United States America wherever from their clubs. So this fight right now, Um, again is one of those over control and power and the reason why it's reared its head in such a way it's because of the coronavirus pandemic. The biggest league in the world. It's the Premier League in the United Kingdom. Um, the U. K government. Has a lot of restrictions, like many other countries on who can and who cannot get into the country because of the coronavirus, and once those who can arrive what sort of quarantine conditions they are. Uh, they think So the moment Brazil, For example, In.
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"Book Club event, But don't worry. There's plenty of time to pick up this month's book. It is really hard to put down once you stop where reading the Great Miss Once you start. Excuse me. We're reading the Great mistake. By Jonathan Lee. The novel is centered on the life and murder of a man without whom our partners at the New York Public Library might not even exist, and the same for the Met and the Museum of Natural History and Central Park. When Andrew has well, green was shot in 19 Oh, three. His death was called the murder of a century. But now few people even remember his name or why he was murdered in the first place in his novel, Jonathan Lee takes us on a journey through 19th century New York City. And to tell the story of a self made man with power influence and a secret he takes to his grave. The novel is full of history and fun facts and hey, readers we want to hear from you head to our instagram stories at all of the W. N. Y. C to answer the question that's up there. Now. Our book club question today is What's the fact about New York? You learn from reading this book? The Great mistake If you still haven't gotten your copy yet, New Yorkers thanks to our partners, the New York Public Library, you can check out your copy of the great mistake. We have unlimited copies available Market calendars for next Tuesday, September 21st at seven P.m.. That's more hosts are get lit with all of it Virtual Book Club event with author Jonathan Lee and we have a musical guest. We will be announcing shortly. In the meantime, you should follow us on instagram at all of it. W N Y C to keep up with book club discussions and be the first one to know about any new get announcements. Make sure you grab your copy of the Great mistake by Jonathan Lee and happy reading. The world of soccer is battling corruption, bankruptcy and uncertainty over the future of the global soccer pyramid will get the details from New York Times Global Sports reporter Tariq Panja stay with US Support for W. N. Y. C.
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"It. After is a man and writer director Bassam Tariq joined us to talk about their new film mogul mogul told him to creative and unusual visual style. It's the story of a British Pakistani rapper whose career was derailed by a serious illness. And in the wake of Lionel Messi, leaving FC Barcelona will talk football as in soccer with New York Times Global sports reporter Tariq Panja. I'm Alison Stewart joined me for all of it weekdays at noon on W N. Y C. It's morning edition from NPR News. I mean, Martinez and I'm Noel King. Good morning, Colson. Whitehead's Last two books won Pulitzer Prizes. The Underground railroad was about slavery and escape. The nickel boys was about a reform school in Florida, where boys were brutalized, so it's possible to forget that Colson Whitehead can be very funny. His new book, Harlem Shuffle is the story of Ray Carney, a furniture salesman trying to walk the straight and narrow in early sixties New York. But Ray is drawn by family, friends, circumstance and his own ambition into some crooked scenarios, including a heist at the most glamorous hotel in Harlem, Colson Whitehead told me this departure from very heavy themes was kind of a relief. I'd like to be able to make my weird jokes. And sometimes the subject matter allows me to do that. Um, yeah, the only one girl road nickel boys. Do you have room for Some of my, uh Strange humor sometimes and so the crime genre, the highest novel allowed me to exercise that muscle once again. Is it different in some way better in some way, emotionally healthier in some way to write a book with less heavy themes, or does that not really play into it? It doesn't mean it ends up playing out. I am I usually do a lighter book and then a heavier book. And in the case of the last two novels, I was delving deep into institutional racism. Jim Crow. And so by the end of the nickel boys once I Was bringing my characters to go tragic end. I was very depleted and very weary and definitely ready to do something lighter. And I knew immediately that the story of Ray Carney was going to allow me to Live in different space psychologically when I wrote the book, and also that his world would be much different than the world of Cora and Underground railroad, and I wouldn't Turner and nickel boys. Let's talk about his world, which is the Harlem of the late 19 fifties and 19 sixties. You grew up in New York, but not in Harlem proper as I understand it. All over my first the first place I lived was 139th and Riverside. And so my earliest memories of our of a very sort of gritty, dirty 19 seventies Harlem on Broadway. You know, going back to The neighborhood now to write the book. I ended up going back to my old places. I dimly remembered and then rediscovering different parts of Harlem I hadn't been to in a long time. The writing is vivid. It's always moving. Something's always popping. Something's always snapping. Why did you get interested in this particular say 5 to 10 years at the book covers? I'm always making these random decisions and then I have to make them real in the story. So, uh, I have to put that work in. And in this case, I knew I wanted to write a heist book. I love heist movies, particularly, you know the ones in the fifties and sixties and seventies. And so I tried to think of a big moment in New York history that my high stirs could exploit for their purposes. So the race riots of the 1964 so 64 became the year and then everything came from that, and it isn't my Harlem, but strangely, it is my my parents Harlem because they were young, newly webs in Harlem at that time raising kids. About the same age as Carney, Carney and his wife. And so I would always research and go to library and find the hotel Theresa, this place that might club and then I would tell my mother Actually say, Oh, yeah, I went to that chock full of nuts in the hotel Theresa every day because I worked around the corner. You know, Two months later, I was like, Oh, Blumstein, blah, blah, blah. And she said, Oh, yeah, Your dad worked at bloom. Stine's like Carney does you know for two summers? And so I should have just been asking her the whole time. It didn't occur to me till I was halfway through the book that I could use her as a resource. How did you do your research? Did you wander around to use library archives? How does this work? Yeah, I mean, I'm Definitely, like do as much as I can from home. Uh, because I'm you know, sort of lazy but also I love walking around New York City, so I would do location scouting and say, Oh, is that carnies? Mark Horney grew up Is that where he works and just, you know, find different buildings and then double check with Google that they were actually there and 1959 etcetera. The main character. Ray Carney is a man of two faces. Like many of us, he's a businessman. He's proud that he has a college degree. And yet he dips in and out of the CD parts of New York in the course of his work life and the eternal question running through this book is sort of Israel crooked or is he straight and to what degree and that's something that he asks himself over time? Where do you come down on Ray Carney? Who is this man? Oh, I mean, he's definitely divided. You know, I think on the one hand he does want to be this upstanding member of the middle class have his own business. Have a nice family. But there is this crooked side of him. His his father was a petty thief in Harlem. And that's what he's seen growing up the crooked side of life. And while he's Pulled himself up by his bootstraps. There is this call of the street and, you know part of the book. Is describing his rejection and then embrace of his criminal side. Um, it started off as a heist book, but then became really a character study of Ray Carney over time as he Grapples accepts, rejects his private nature and to really interestingly one of the ways of the world opens up and becomes universal is this is a book about New York and you are writing about real estate. And that is an eternal struggle in New York, where you live where you want to live where, you know you'll never be able to live. Can you talk a little bit about how Real estate motivates the characters in this book. Yeah, I mean, I would not call this book autobiographical, but I'm definitely in there. And Carney's, uh, aspirational love for real estate. You know, he believes that If you can just get to the next better apartment. His luck will change. Here's a kid. Now you're two bedroom. Another kid in the way. A three bedroom overlooking the park on this nice block. Everything will change. And, of course, at least in my life. I've moved about 20 something times and whenever I get to that new apartment That first night. I'm like, Oh, there's no closets and the subway is the subway is it's really close. I'm not sure why I didn't hear it when I was going going on the walk through, Um, you know, and that's part of capitalism is part of living in a consumer society. If you just get the next thing, everything will will work. And of course, it doesn't because we're just human beings. And so I feel like in the last two books, Institutional racism was sort of like the big system that define people's lives. And this being in New York novel, it's real estate and wives to be on a better block with a little more light. And a little more room. Colson Whitehead. His new book is called Harlem Shuffle. Thank you so much for being with us. This was really fun. No, thank you. Fun for me, too..
Everything Everywhere Daily
"panja" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Two three hundred fifty nine million years ago. If you were to travel back in time to the devonian you'd probably at least recognize the land as being earth life on land had exploded in biodiversity you would see actual forests and seed bearing plants. This was also a heyday for fish. And there was a large increase in the number of fish species nights which are popular and common fossils with a spiral. Shell appeared here as well as the first tetrapods which were animals with four legs. If you ever envisioned a fish walking onto dry land well. It didn't quite work like that but it would have happened. In the devonian following the devonian came the carbon difference it lasted from three hundred fifty. Eight point nine million years ago to two hundred ninety eight point nine million years ago as the name would suggest the carbon period gets its name from carbon in particular many of the coal beds which are found around the world the most common land animal during this period. We're amphibians you also find the very first reptiles appearing at the very end of this period. Insects also saw a radical increase in diversification including species like a dragonfly with a seventy nine centimeter or twenty eight inch wingspan. The high oxygen levels allowed for such huge insects. There would literally be impossible today because sex. the kurban efforts period saw the highest oxygen levels in earth's history. In fact reaching thirty five percent it also saw the formation of the supercontinent panja at the end of the carbon difference. There occurred what was known as the carbon difference rainforest collapse this created most of the coal beds we know today and it also created islands of life prior to the collapse. Most land life was widespread all over panja. The last of the paleozoic periods is the permian it lasted from two hundred ninety eight point nine million years ago to two hundred and fifty two point one seven million years ago. The permian saw the rise of amniote. Or what's known as higher level vertebrates all mammals reptiles and birds belong to this class. The thing that really defines the permian is how it ended the permian. Triassic extinction was the largest mass extinction event. In the earth's history eighty-one percent of all aquatic species died and seventy percent of all land species. There is a very clear layer in the geologic record known as the t. layer where on one side you can find permian fossils and on the other side you can't and this is where all the trial bites ended. The premium traffic extinction was believed to be caused by a massive vulcan ism event known as the siberian traps over a two million year period. It covered most of what is today. Central siberia with assault rock and radically changed the earth's atmosphere with end of the paleozoic. We now start to get into periods that you might be a bit more familiar with the first of these. Three periods of the mesozoic is the triassic. The traffic went from two hundred and fifty. Two point one million years ago to two hundred one point three million years ago life recovered from the permian triassic extinction and the primary land life form that developed were called architectures they can roughly be considered reptiles..
Hard Factor
"panja" Discussed on Hard Factor
"University of afghan students and graduates applicants for the special immigrant visas and members of afghan special forces who fought closely with the us. I'll leave that there. But i also do want to add before we move on that the majority of those people that i just mentioned are certainly the talibans. Kill list that we gave to them. Keep that in mind. Come on man come on jack. Come on jack we gotta figure out so. Let's not forget as american citizens that there are people who help to fight our war that are still vulnerable over there. We got keep an eye out. We gotta keep talking about it. Okay now take something potentially positive. I don't know but we talked about the panjshir province The one promise province that was not overtake by the taliban history. It's always been like the last help like the strong. Keep help right so some interesting things coming out of that situation. So so the lion of panjshir. His son masud the dude's name. He is fighting with the vice president of afghanistan who didn't bitch out and fly out of the country in the panjshir province and they're trying to create a free state trying to create a free state so some stuff went down on sunday guys. This is from the The northern revolution front Their spokesperson saying at least a thousand terrorists were trapped. Do the cutting off their way out. This is on sunday. All the attackers were either killed. The referring to taliban surrendered or captured by locals with help from the resistance fighters as they fled and retreated. Many of these prisoners are foreigners. And most them are pakistanis. This is a dish dashti. Who is the spokesperson for the nrf. Said said we've allowed the taliban enter the valley intentionally and they are now trapped. Fighting is going on in the northernmost district of panda sheer and the southernmost district of anaba. So and then they went on to say that this tactic is one. We've used for our playbook in the nineteen eighties. When the soviets entered the valley talent cannot resist entering the valley to the valet. yes polders over the cliffs. Tha that was early in the day on sunday right. Essentially that they were they let a thousand taliban to the valley and slaughtered them now later on in the day on sunday the leader of the afghan opposition group risen the taliban forces in the panjshir valley said that he welcomed proposals from religious scholars and to talk to the taliban and fahim to sheedy. Who's talking who gave that statement is dead. He was killed in the fight unfortunately ahmad mussa massad the head of the national resistance front. That's what it is in our fda national resistance front of ghanistan main announcement on the groups. Facebook page the taliban forces had said i guess that they'd fought their way into the capital of panta sheer. They're secure in the surrounding district. So i don't know there's conflicting reports coming out of panja shearson so they're not trapped simione than sides are claiming victory exactly. Yeah so that's what's going on. Essentially the man that said that they were trapped in slaughtered was later killed in the day unfortunately She and then good sign. Yeah and then ahmad masud who the leader of the son of the blind panjshir. He's saying that he's open to taliban discussions and the taliban on the on page saying we're in. I don't know page of taliban. It's just so hilarious. I don't know we'll see. I really hope that they could hold. On inspirational quotes their memories beheading people..
Tipsy Tales
"panja" Discussed on Tipsy Tales
"In one thousand nine hundred seventy eight off bermuda. The strangest of all he's quoted as saying was something that happened a little after five pm. The cook and i were playing backgammon. Who plays backgammon. I love beckham. And i don't know how to play it. I can't remember how to play a little after five pm. The cook and i were playing back in the smoking room. Of course there's monkey room when suddenly we look back and saw to the left or the ship the northwest side just a few miles away a large white unidentified flying object in the sky then there appeared to smaller flying objects the west of the large one and indeed one of them was attached to it and he thought experiments of americans i assumed. Oh my gosh seriously. Yeah oh. I finally found it. Yes okay. I found it. I guess so. It looks like a road if you like. Watch some of those underwater specials when they're like diving and going down there you've got some looking at. Oh okay gotcha echinacea. Oh now view. That definitely looks like something was built there. Yeah that looks like something was built. One hundred percent which i mean was this underground ten thousand years ago. I mean i mean underwater ten thousand years you think about the fact that all of that landmass rate though goes to land landmasses were one big giant landmass like millions of years ago called panja like they call it panja. I mean who knows it. Could've it could have been above ground. S. i'm wondering because a lot of these formations that they find underwater that they're like. Oh you know like that one. When i did the story and they were like Shoot what were they calling it Inland in outlander. She knows through to this stones. Yeah anyway they were saying that was under but that was really just made sense because none of that was under. I mean it was dry land at one time right and so ten thousand years ago hunters would use bub-bubba pa now made sense i was like oh okay and then now it's the ocean right right that makes sense..
eCommerce Fastlane
"panja" Discussed on eCommerce Fastlane
"Automating and saving some time for brands today. Absolutely so i'm gonna use another example because i like to leave these nuggets whenever i'm on a podcast for more e e commerce examples of automation. So let's say that you had a lot of customer service increase that were coming in on your website and it was like you know hello at your store dot com or support a your store dot com a lot to be like. Oh just set up a supporting mill. And you're just having that come into an inbox. that's not even shared. that's a real opportunity for automation. as well. i tell people to remove that email and put in a form. So let's say that you had that form and the form goes through and get some of that basic information that you need from all support inquiries. Well that's cool because the form goes into some sort of database somewhere. But you really don't want it to sit in a database somewhere you want. Come into a place where you can actually manage it a Board or asana or you can pipe it into zendejas great and has a functionality where you can go in and do some of that if you just email it but if you can get people to fill out a form i found that that form actually speeds up the process because you can ask like hey are you asking about a return or are you asking about a refund or are you asking about a delayed shipment or you can really get it a lot of information ahead of time. Well i pass system. It's integration platform as a service. That's what you call an ipad platform. I pass is basically a tool that sits in the middle we call it middleware and the whole idea behind the i pass system so integral is another example of i pass and if you if you google around lake software to connect to xyz places or top ten. I pass systems. That are out there. You'll find that zappers got a bunch of competitors out there as app. Here's got the biggest library at this point But everything they do. Is they become the rosetta stone that sits between the different softwares. I call panja so imagine. You've got penn gio. Which is you in your shop store. And you've got all of these other places that you want to connect to panja. They're all little islands that are sitting around. The i pass system is essentially imagine like a floating genie who floats around and builds automated bridges to all of these other systems. So it's a way for you to connect everything so that form that people fill out they can automatically take that push it into a card inside a trela board and then going to go back and forth. We use a similar system we use it with click up so people fill out a form zap your pushes that into click up we use click up click up actually has an integration with our email software so we can actually converse with people inside the card to handle their bug or whatever customer service they need. I see i'm actually going to click up right now. See this is the great thing about having a podcast is because he just life of learning right and there's so many great pieces of software out there. I mean i've known of zippier for quite a while. I know they have a shop by integration through a lot of the different kinds of you know from slack to to you know going through g mail or g. suite and like there's so many connections that can do that are built into the tool but i think that's different to kind of what your brand has because you can still use a lot of these kind of out of the box tools that are available. Also think there's there's also the business side of trying to understand used your framework a bit and i think that's a good starting point to fifteen one one five. I think it's a good way of getting your head wrapped around wanting to automate. But then i also think that your business is allowing for and using other tools out there so you more look at it holistically and saying okay. You do have an automation problem. Let's sit down and talk about almost like you're giving somebody some business acumen or your existing them with some some help with their business in general. There's a problem. Can you offer the solution. Sometimes it's in house technology that you've developed and then not just how you execute to help the brand but it sounds like you also have access to other kind of off the shelf. Tools that out there that your expert at using able to kind of talk about the nuances of your business from wholly-owned technology and then some external piece of technology that you use overall scope of your business absolutely. Our focus is to continue to build out our automation software to make that more effective and we augment or continue. Zappers already doing. So i wouldn't call us like zap to our or anything like that. We work alongside zap here right so we actually we call ourselves a sas enablement framework which is a fancy way of saying we partner with sas companies to make sure that all of the integration problems. Go away so we work with with chop off. I with skew bond with ship station with lynn works. All of these different systems to help these ecommerce sellers solve the needs. That are in there. And we've developed several different technologies that include chrome extensions. So when when it's not in an api will actually connect those dots via chrome extension. We've got a little browser robot who can go around in the background and get data. That's behind a logging wall that doesn't have api and we've got our own technology and then we've got the other pieces like zappia that we're experts and we will build in whatever. Technology makes the most sense. Because it doesn't make sense for me to go rebuild so that's already out there right right. Well that's awesome so let's pivot bit over to a story. I think we all love stories. And i'm excited to hear this particular story of we kinda talk to the green room for recording able to share one kind of notable story that you believe you know data automation has made a big impact. And just maybe talk about the journey like who the customer is and then any specific details that you can share after getting involved with eight automation. Yeah absolutely so the story. I want to share his from a very good friend of mine. His name is rwanda. Rosa's of global tech and rolando is a longtime ecommerce seller. Got into it back in the day. He got handed a box of headsets when the company that he was at liquidate it and they laughed and there. Was this big box a headset. So he's like you're going to do anything with these and they're like no you know he's like oh cool so we took them home and put them online and they sold like wait a minute. This could be like a whole business and fast forward. He's a multimillion dollar seller. His problem was that he was using a lot of three p. Els and a lot of drop shippers and manufacturers that he'd built relationships with to do a lot of this and he was having a real problem. Connecting those dots hit used several different systems integrators to connect different things. He had tried using some of the out of the box. I solutions that are out there. And they just weren't handling the level of volume and complexity and he jumped in with us to. Hey can you do this. And we dove in picked apart everything that was going on inside his different connections and said absolutely and so we were able to connect all of those dots and he experienced so much joy from seeing this process where he was having to copy and paste tracking number and manually upload inventory data it just was painful for what was going on and so we were able to go in and pick apart each one of those different processes and help him basically build a massive spider web of integrations to completely automate away inventory tracking number and manual inventory process. He's wow so and so that time freedom of having to do all that not to mention just the potential human errors. They can happen by a human actually doing that work. That must have an impact on the business. Also the level of impact so you gotta think cove nineteen hit and everybody in their dog was like i need better audio. He was poised. He found us two or three years before the pandemic and he was poised and ready to be able to handle more volume than all of his competitors because he was ready for it he had all of the systems in place to sink and show the different tools that are out there so his orders were coming in. I mean for him. Speed is paramount and errors creates huge problems. I mean think about it if you copy and paste that tracking number from an email and you missed the last digit. Guess what nobody knows where that packages the human error that was reduced the board. It was a big deal for him. And i'm just like she over global dash cacti k. Dot com and. He's got lots of for those looking for headsets and phones. He looks like he has it all from all the big brands from jabra plan. Chronics sennheiser rolando is such an approachable guy. He takes questions all the time. He does podcasts. Every week where in his social media channels. If you've got any like how do i use this heads or how to increase the bluetooth range or how. I mean really really sharp individual. And he's out there to educate people about it and automation's been a key part of.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"panja" Discussed on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
"Or it guys. Let's get back to the show evidence this. Your news item reminds me of one that we talked about before. We talked about zeelandia. Yeah a continent new-zealand. You're going to tell us about land area iceland. All hail icelandic. This is an interesting one because an international team of geologists led by jillian soldier. Who is an emeritus professor of geophysics in the department of earth. Sciences at durham university in the united kingdom. She and her team believe they have identified a sunken continent hidden under iceland and the surrounding ocean. And as you said. Steve dubbed it iceland icelander. We know when i first heard sunken continent. I my mind obviously. Goes to atlantis thinking okay. Here we go. Here comes a news story about. Oh they found atlantis the latest version of this. But no no no no no. This one's actually rooted in some science here. This news item came about from the geological society of america's forthcoming book that they're publishing entitled in the footsteps of warren b hamilton new ideas in earth science. And here's the abstract basically explaining from one of the chapters in that book that we propose a new sunken continent beneath the north atlantic ocean that we name iceland lia it may compromise blocks of full thickness continental lithosphere or or extended magma inflated continental layers that form hybrid continental oceanic lithosphere. I got the word hybrid in there for jay. But he's not here. Damien underlies the greenland iceland for row ridge and then the yawn or jan mayen micro plate complex. But basically what they're saying is it covers an area of six hundred thousand square kilometers. Well it's contiguous with the pharaoh plateau and known parts of the submarine continental lifted margin offshore britain. And if you include those in what they said could be considered greater iceland. The entire area is over a million square kilometers in size. That's big larger than australia. So use that for your kind of frame of reference so there you go evidence official an official. No no. it's not it's not official yet but but here here's basically what they're saying. Is that well. I mean the professor professor folger's she puts it in her own words and she said that until now. Iceland has puzzled geologists as existing theories that is built of and surrounded by ozanich crust. But it's not supported by multiple geological data for example the crust under iceland has over forty kilometers thick which is seven times thicker than normal oceanic crust than that simply could not be explained and that does make sense. Continental crust is significantly thicker than the oceanic crust so. They said that when they consider the possibility that this thick crust is continental our data suddenly all made sense that led us to immediately realized that the continental region was much bigger than iceland itself that there's a hidden continent right there under the. Yeah obviously more testing more analysis has to be done. This is a new proposition. And it's really into an interesting one but the idea that iceland or the much. Larger icelandic is continental crust. Instead of oceanic crust is significant it would mean a reexamination of a lot of things especially in this area of the planet so it brings up the question of panja. You know once-mighty mega continent that ruled the earth. Two hundred fifty million years ago. We've talked about that before. So essentially if icelandic is continental crossed you know and it says vast and expansive as the researchers are describing. Then how does that fit into the larger panja puzzle. Panja did not fully break up along the mid atlantic but instead they're saying it stretched out they one description had it akin to a string of cheese hanging between two party pizza slices. I like that vision. That image which Left iceland continental crust crossing the divide. So there's questions about that. Also the understanding of volcanic formation on of a place like iceland needs to be looked at in this new context. So if i slanty does exist as professor folder explain. It would remove the need to imagine this hot spot of upwelling. Magma beneath iceland to explain its formation and geology of the iceland plateau. So that needs that winds up getting reexamined in this context as well but there's also more immediate and practical concerns. Perhaps because if this is continental crust well there you have a new source of minerals and hydrocarbons that were not known before and then geopolitical questions arise as to where do countries mining rights begin and end. And there's always the ever-present environmental concerns that. Go hand in hand with those sorts of things so there is something called the united nations convention on the law of sea grant which grants coastal states exclusive rights to the non-living resources of their adjacent seabed. If scientists can prove that the seabeds a submerged extension of the continental landmass. So you're going to have. I don't know to what extent territorial disputes that could arise. As as part of this. Yes and this is not an abstract scientific question is no implications for international law and iceland. Obviously they they would benefit if they showed this this a because now they have rights to all the con to ice. Lancia everything there. Yeah but my gosh. It stretches from greenland greenland britain. You know in a nice big swath of land underneath that that's enormous. I mean it's just it's it really is huge so but they need more information about it so more testing these done more research needs to be done. And that's the next phase that this team is now working on. They're going to collaborate with scientists from around the world to help test this theory and they're going to begin in earnest. Once kobe nineteenth restrictions allow them to do that kind of work but it would involve electrical conductivity surveys. The collection zircon crystals in iceland and other areas and tests for seismic profiling and some drilling tests as well. So we're going to see we're going to hear a lot more about this. You know it's not like you said. Steve is not going to be some abstract scientific argument or philosophical argument. going on. there's gonna be some real players involved here and probably a lot of money going into the research as well so a whole new continent to explore in a in a way. Let's hope we don't muck it up too badly. That's what that's always my concern. Yeah we'll definitely have to keep an eye on this and if there's any follow up which may be years but the will report on it or care. This is an interesting one evidence regarding a shorter workweek. Yeah and we're headed back to iceland. Yeah so centric yes. There was a four year experiment that was recently published by the association for sustainable democracy out of iceland that's the alda and the uk based think tank autonomy. I was just published on july fourth and it was based on multiple trials within iceland and there were two major trials that were done. One of them was at the national level. And the other one. The icelandic government trial and the other one was the wreck city. Trial recog- city trial was between two thousand fourteen and twenty nine thousand nine. The iceland government trial was twenty..
WCBM 680 AM
"panja" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM
"Representative Mike McCaul of Texas, also on with Martha MacCallum Fox, who shuttle and he says, well as far as Chinese transparency goes He thinks were not likely to find them to be very transparent at all. Three of the researchers at that lab came down with flu like symptoms hospitalized with Covid. Like symptoms in November, 2019. And then we had the state Department cables questioning the safety protocols. I think all all roads lead to the lab here, all roads Lead to the lab. The chances of having the Chinese cooperate with us and giving us access to the lab. Pretty slim. I don't think President she will allow anybody on the outside, including the W H O Access to this lab. He has too much at stake too much at stake, as does the Chinese military who, coincidentally happen to be in charge of the lab. 410 wcbm 6 80 camera goes to the borders every Tuesday. By the way, this is Mike. Because Tuesday is Taco Bell Tuesday. Take it easy on our Bruce. She didn't know she'd be attending a trump rally. Guatemala. Er, that was choice. That was great. Steve. Steve is in Baltimore. Steve. Good morning. How are you? Good morning. How are you doing? I'm well, thanks. Listen, I got a way to solve this whole border thing, along with Washington in Puerto Rico. Let's make them all statehood. All the states below. Just make Mexico Mexico is a number of states and all of itself, so and then you'll have no border. No border. Well, how far can the extent we make all the Canadians US citizens as well? Why not? Yeah. Okay, well mall in there It will be the United States. North America, United States. You know what I mean? Well, why stop there? I mean, if if I might mention you know, once upon a time We apparently had one continent on this earth. There's little Pan JIA. And if you go back, you know you always kind of look at the map. I think. Wow, Isn't it curious how South America and Africa. We kind of look like they almost fit together because they were once upon a time, part of a single lane. Massive scientists have called Panja So with the Pan Jian argument behind us, Steve, what do we simply declared the whole thing? The United States of America or better yet, the United States of Pan JIA. I think they're heading for that. Yo, that's what they're looking for, anyway. Yeah, and a matter of fact, they're buying rope so they can have one end of the rope in Africa and one end in South America to begin to pull us back together. And people in the West Coast and do the same thing worth Australia. They can only just yank us all back together. We'll be fine. Thanks, Steve for the call. Appreciate it. 410 wcbm 6 80. Tokyo long distances. 1 800 Wcbm succeeded coming up. Immediately after the news that have passed I want you to Right? I heard me back this up for a second. Here's the deal. Um I have been sensitizes. Over a number of years to the ravages of cancer. 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Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"panja" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"Criticism at the border. I'm joe chiro. Fox news. The fallout continues after visit to the southern border by some gop lawmakers last week. Fox's steve harrigan is in mcallen texas much. That criticism focused on the conditions in donna texas facility there. No media were allowed to accompany those republican senators inside the facility and some of them said that by the administration officials actually tried to prevent them from filming on their own more than nineteen thousand unaccompanied ucs currently in. Us custody white house communications director. Kate vetting filled says the administration is working on solutions and the border president is working as quickly as possible to address the situation. He's using every possible avenue to ensure that we're getting these kids out of border patrol custody and into hhs facilities quickly as possible. You've seen him just. This week announced that fort bliss for example and lackland air force base are going to open up beds filled on. 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Open Loops: Conversations That Bend
"panja" Discussed on Open Loops: Conversations That Bend
"Word for giving the nobel peace prize go. No no no. Yes gotta do though the that talking about turning turning a hundred years of gravitational theory you know on his ear inn in my papers that i have You know going going back as panja so it's not going to you know you just not going to It's not going to happen overnight. And you gotta get you gotta get all your ducks in a row. And and that's why hide a lot of physicists. A lot of papers. And i've been i've been rejected Know try to publish a few times but you know but that's the process. It's the process of y'all through. Now are you one of these people that when you propose your theories physicists. Do actually know what's going on and they're rejecting it because it goes against the mainstream narrative exactly exactly. Because that's why i stephen strong say like the alien people always say. Oh yeah. They know he's academics. Just don't say they know. And if you try to propose an bring evidence you're gonna shine you because they don't want people to know this Yeah i mean what what is going on why this banning of free thought in science Well it's it's a you know. Everything's built on the as far as i'm looking at is Will not everything. Is you know some broad state but some some areas a lot of things a built on the best knowledge and size of that day. And you you're going up to a physicist that guidance got ten years hundreds of guys get ten years at the university level publishing books teaching kids year in year out. And you're going to go up to say. Hey everything you've been teaching since you got here crap. It's all wrong. This is the right way. You know they're not gonna. Let's let's lessons a a significant benefit and then then dog back to You know making things lighter and and Manipulating gravity you. you've really got an uphill about. He could publish papers. You can put you got equations. The physical evidence. And it's really you know it's not that Einstein says explained that theory to a two year old. You've got a good theory. You know maybe it was a three year old. What what is the theory of john. Shaughnessy if i'm gonna. Se squared for einstein. And what are the letters. I could put on the board of say. Yeah that's the shaughnessy equation. That's amc's squared Let me see times. L. divided by dvd eagles s own and. You actually have one way you actually. I got a few actually. I went in. I went to Let's day there is ignat. I took a couple of his laws emotions. And i squared him in and made them into energy and pick came up the few. I got a lot of words. Grabbing such graphical oss the nature where you know spending objects actually arrive manipulating the gravitational field. Only you don't say i've done a few i got i got three or four. Maybe five equations. So they're pretty pretty annette and they've been tested and have had mathematicians get outta my own pocket. This this is right. does this work. is this balanced. Yep bound but it's only good if you're right right you know you have to be right. Well you know that's but as far as the equations are concerned it's balanced you know it's a balanced equation. But everything i say has to be asked to be proven in some way or accepted. Not so. Much proven already proven. I have the physical evidence of backup mostly stuff. Now wait a minute. Let's talk about some of this physical evidence what what's a good example of something that you have that easily. Yeah yeah daily. Daily physical evidence. you'll see You know a boon high tide and the opposite side of the plans. You have a moon lewis high tide right so that essentially. That's kind of like okay. You got the pyramid on one side. You have a volcano on the other. How does the volcano Produce allow magnetic. Come out of it. Because you know what you're doing is you're lowering the gravitational field on the opposite side of the planets. The moon does the moon pulls a high tide one side of the plant and by doing low lowers the gravitational field on the other side of the plant allows moonlit high tide and you can get of businesses in rome today right nine hundred thousand over exaggerate but he will be by maybe baby might be right but just say hundred and none of them can agree on what causes that the all of them will have a different explanation of why that happens. So that's one physical thing that you see every day and other physical things everyday well not everyday by.
The RIFT Radio Podcast Network
"panja" Discussed on The RIFT Radio Podcast Network
"Increments of that had turned up and i said well eighty three centimeters is thirty to sixty four to same unit. You know so. We think it's at the site And we're gonna use the lighter. The handheld lighter it it puts out one hundred puts out three hundred thousand points per second each square meter coverage with one hundred fifty thousand points. You can actually go down to about one centimeter down to about one centimeter. So we can use just to kind of look and see what unit of measure may have used to build the structures and the walls and everything so it kind of looking at that right now. I think it's a little preliminary but it might be something might be very good date or you know that if the patty family built the site you think you'd find something like english measurements. You know imperial measurements. But it's not. And i just think we found the with the lighter structures. Because he he actually. He actually went with a lighter side. The chambers to because it's handheld and Mort yod and the area the shape of the groove on the table. They're all trapezoid shape. They're not ninety degree corners. A trapezoid so This about two structures courtyard. There's the table with the groove on it. Which is trapezoid. And then there's a we call the animal panja structure right next to the sacrificial table just to the north of it and you can kind of see it with your eye doesn't look like it's you know square or rectangular or nine ricardo's i should say when the light. Are you know when you look at it us. Like oh yeah. It's it's you know white are you. It doesn't lie. You know in their trapezoid shape. It's so we found a trapezoid shape throughout the site to you know for whatever that whatever that means a retired shoemaker that was built as how if you built a whole site i think he would have probably use ninety degree unless somebody can correct us on that you know..
Kush Conversations
"panja" Discussed on Kush Conversations
"Dude was on drugs. You know he was an alcoholic super hardcore like he was spiraling downhill. He wasn't as hungry as he was saying like. He was less of an athlete. I got his question was a do. You think mcgregor should find jake. Paul oh god he kick his ass. I don't think i don't think he should entertain that. I i think you should just let jake continue to talk. Talk talk about. What if jake slaps likes to hold on. Hold on hold on. So let's talk. Let's forget about the whole talk and shit aspect jake paul. And let's talk about just his boxing skills. Where do you put them. At in cure. Boxing per amateur though for amateur. He's not bad. I think he's got a lot of potential the he barely has fucking any bucks. I'm gonna tell you i've been sucking sightings for fifteen years. I had my fucking c class for license. For six years he is complete garbage he throws wildest haymakers the juicy that all nominations his leaving no not the fight he's leaving. He sold his mansion to move to florida to focus on box. Full-time see cbo with jake. Paul doesn't fight in his weight class. Yeah that's true. He knocked out nate robbie. Anyone that's in jake. Paul ways to twenty-five neat robson probably plays like one ninety. That'd be like him fighting. Who deontay wilder fight dyson fearing yeah tyson fury. He's in his weight class right. They'd be like him fighting. Tyson fury paul's while to twenty five. Let's get jake paul to actually fight. Someone who boxes fought. He's only kfi. He's only fought his brother but the thing is he knows. He's not boxers. He knows he's not good enough to fight someone that actually box on the regular. That's why he's trying to get an anime size money for money. The money fight. Do i mean look at logan. Mas- taller logan. Paul scored a least a fifty million dollar payday. Fighting floyd mayweather money talks and if he loses he's got a question real quick. Can we talk about that in commission fight. Of course its next. Ambition fly in and also. Let's not forget. Jake paul's supposed to be a expedition fight. With mike. tyson was an exhibition fight. There were not supposed to be any knockouts. Like what do you think about. Exhibition fights being a review events. Type shit like no should be a paper view. So real quick. What's what's your definition of an exhibition fight. Exhibition fighters wear two fighters. It's basically just a page basically just for show there's no real record at the knows no title it'd be like me and so if you paid me in. So cal defy. It'd be an thing it so it's an exhibition. But still if floyd mayweather loses that tarnishes perfect record right. That's why he's doing it because it's an exhibition. So even if he loses his regular doesn't matter all right well then my opinion on it is completely changed because i thought that he get handed. This i l by youtuber youtuber but now completely lost interest if he can't even take an l. from it and it's literally just publicity and that's fucking stupid money. These fighters are my mind is changed. I don't even wanna watch the fight anymore. Fuck no dude. I'll still watch vice. still fighting. used to watching soda can take a punch in the face man. Like there's still the off chance somebody it's fucking dropped. I mean for me whether gets knocked out by youtuber for his first ever knockout. He's going to be a mean for the rest. If if logan paul myself fifty one if logan knocks out void i could see floyd mayweather like suing him or something assault. Yeah so speaking so now. Did you see that data wide crack down on the legal streaming about that. Funny bring it up so disdain ally like you know how people like illegally stream. You have to fight all the time fucking so if you didn't if you didn't pay attention in the bill that just passed one of the in the bill that said Illegal streaming is a federal crime now so dana. Wise cracking down just cast senator. North carolina snuck in legislation. That stated that if you streamed Copy written material your Federal sense what the gaddi. So you know now that they have that anyone that's basically caused stream is going to be tracked down via fbi data. Why so in. Mcgregor interview. Dana white just said fuck it. He said. I'm gonna call all the strategies that i dare you to stream see what happens. Dunker stream the fight. We'll see it won't happen to you because you're not feeding it. It's the guys that are feeding it. That are gonna get fucked. Not the guys are watching it. You know at the same time. There's those black. Mike market guys ever cracking their knuckles. Like ri man. Let's see what the fuck you got straight up like not for nothing. It's i'd like him. It's the war on terror. Like you cut off one head another one girls back a hydrogen. Why do why do they need us to pay sixty dollars to watch a fight. When they're like dana wants money so you can pay his fighters because you also got to to. He's basically flying as fighters to fuck in the middle east one of them so funny story. There's a charging them in england. Twenty dollars the fight in their charging seventy or eighty dollars. Here the fight. I'm sorry what so funny story about. Ufc though too since we're talking there's a guy that was supposed to find the card tomorrow that got caught sneaking something into his hotel room on find islands so dana white just cut him. He's not a part of ufc and all he just come. He's not fighting tomorrow so that fight might be cancelled back. That's that's what you get. Dana white doesn't take shift tunnel. Rose around is a businessman is a personal opinion. I mean he. He doesn't wanna pay his fighters. I think he wanted to pay spiders. He absolutely already makes well enough to pay us. Fighters facility bill rather quickly and a believe across like almost like like two hundred million dollars talking to highland right. Yeah you think that's a lot of fires are going to delatour naked. Hey it's a it's a better. It's better deal for them. I had an idea actually Boy because we were talking about this very thing. It's like man. I would actually like to see somebody like maybe either bella tower or a fighter. Leaves goes makes their own org and essentially like these fights. They become packaged with sponsorship. Deals for these fighters who may be lesser known and it is increases the amount of that they make because a lot of people don't know that these fighters they live on a very small salary like they're living a lifestyle is not sustainable financially daily attempts like a big player yes like let's say like harm mcgregor pike an dozen for your. Let's say they were lesser known. I would approach them. Hey look i want you guys to fight i'm gonna offer you eight hundred thousand dollars. Just show up and fight. But i'll give you two point. Three million four win as a bonus. And then i'll give you another million on top of that if it's fight of the night school nominate incentives. Now i'm saying okay and also for the next two months while we do. Promos is sponsored by nike were required to wear nike material. This is going to increase you. Your your payout. Another ten million twenty million dollars. That's as panja at your ali. Package tip that company for two months. Yeah that would be super smart. A lot of people hop on that because fights make a lot of money. I mean it's literally modern day. Gladiators people wanna see. You know who's got the best buy question is. Did you guys prefer nineties. Our current you have seen. I was gonna ninety nine.
Beyond The Baseline
Sameer Pandya on "Members Only" Book
"Everyone John Wartime here. Sports illustrated tennis podcast. Everyone is doing well our guest. This week is severe Panja. Who is a professor at the University of California Santa Barbara teaches creative writing Asian American literature, and also more importantly for our purposes has just written a terrific tennis book members only which tennis figures prominently both as a plot device in a metaphor I. I absolutely devour this book. We will link it link the Amazon page on our show page, but this is a fun conversation talking about tennis talking about writing talking about tennis as a storytelling device full disclosure Samir I share a publisher and publicist, so I want to dispense with that, but this was a really fun conversation a fun book timely book. I think people will love book members. Only it's called, and here is a on enjoyable half hour conversation here we go. I start off by congratulating him. I really you know people. Binge Watch TV shows I. binged dread members only and. Plowed through edited, it did not disappoint. Grad seriously congrats I. Mean it's it's great. It's it's really. SMART, and funny, and I thought we'll talk about this later. I thought very topical, and it's also does. Does tennis right so you succeeded on many dimensions as far as I'm concerned. CONGRATS I. I will say that you saying it did tennis right? Is means particularly lot because you know. I think. In terms of different kinds of readers, right, there's there's. Specific details if I'm reading something in if somebody gets a core detail wrong, which is not that big of a deal? It can be. It can break it for me. You know I'm Mike. Okay I can't do this anymore. Right I can't go down this road trusting this person and so I'm really happy to hear that I mean. Tennis is a big. I love the sport and we can also talk about that as well, but so that's great. Thank you I I. I wrote it with a certain kind of. Kind of propulsion in mind, right and I kinda wanted to be read that way, and then hopefully there other things. You know that you can go back to, or you can think about in ways in terms of how Raj operates in this in this book that can take a little bit more consideration, but you know in these in. These days. I want to read a book quickly. And I think in some ways I wanted to write a book that people could read quickly as well. The I say it's your talk. Not I feel like you're talking about a nonfiction book and everything's on the table. Right everything the next serve I feel I. Don't know what lessons You'd like me to take I don't know how much we can reveal here. Well, let's start you. To your character, so let's let's start there To to tennis fans, it is not spelled R. A. J. as your character is, but you know Raj is a name of relevance. Tennis fans You, you mentioned the details. You Got Right now. I think you're absolutely right. I think the second somebody writes about tennis of calls. A rally volley! We've got issues right? You did not do that this either was a studious research or else. You really have some grounding in tennis. What's what's your background sport? Yeah, you know so I so we came. We moved to America when I was eight years old. I lived in Bombay until I was eight owes a huge cricket fan. I played a ton of cricket. And we moved into A. Kind of an apartment complex when we arrived here and and. There was a tennis court. Right next to it where we're well. This was in the East Bay. This was east of. Glee in in in a in a city called San Pablo. and. You know. I think when I was like nine or ten years old, there was a man who would always come there in hidden serves like ten down the t ten out. Why ten down the T ten out wide, and I just started going down there and Collecting balls for him. And this! I think a you know him and his wife. They didn't have kids, and you know in a lovely gesture. At some point. He showed up with a tennis racket. And kinda showed me how to shift the grip for forehand and backhand, which was my first official lesson in the game and so. I so I started playing there. I played through high school and you know. and. Then I stopped playing the game for years. I stopped playing college. I didn't play it in Graduate School You know I moved my wife and I moved to new. York For five years where I had my first academic job. Getting Court New York as you know, is not an easy task, and so I have always kind of played the game, and then also I just love the game the pro game as well right, which is that I wasn't quite. Aware of the Borg McEnroe Connors era, but I think I really started watching you it with lendl real under at Burgh those are the I think in Michael Chang, so that was kind of mid might time said mid eighties moment. And so I've been kind of a fan of the sport in that way throughout the time and then. You know it's a great middle aged sport like I, love. I love the sociology of it. The player talking yeah. Yeah Yeah. Yeah, so in both of those things, so that's why I'm just. It is as a kind of as a spectator as a player It's a one sport that I kind of gravitate towards the much.
Science Talk
How To Make a Mass Extinction
"This episode. Not so scary but exciting citing that we're kind of in the most consequential few decades in the past few hundred million years. That's Peter Brennan. On his website. He describes himself as a placental mammal camel but he's also an award winning journalist and the author of the book the ends of the world volcanic apocalypse lethal oceans and our quest to understand understand. Earth's past mass extinctions a book that the journal Science called a surprisingly lyrical investigation of Earth's mass extinctions in New York City recently and we sat down together to talk about the book midway through our discussion. We'll take a break for a short segment sponsored by the Cavalry Prize with Stanford neuroscientists scientists Carlos shots which perhaps surprisingly has some connections with the discussion of mass extinctions. And now Peter Brandon. Let's talk about mass extinction all right. The book is really kind of a survey of the great mass extinctions in the history of our our planet. Yeah there's a reason though that you go through all that and that's related to what's happening today right. Yeah I really wrote it because I think in the popular imagination mass extinctions or what happens when big rocks from space at the planet. And I'd noticed that there was this really interesting thing. Conversation going on in the geology community over the last thirty years or so where yes and asteroids seems to have something to do with why the dinosaurs went extinct. But they're all these Older mass extinctions some of which were much more severe and almost all of them had to do with severe rapid climate change driven by changes in carbon dioxide basically atmosphere. And so I thought there was both this sort of sci-fi story about these sort of lost worlds that you might not be familiar with 'cause unfamiliar with the dinosaurs but The planet really has been a bunch of different plants over its lifetime and so if I thought that was really interesting to write about but there's also this news hook about. Hey we're starting starting to pull some of the same lovers that have been pulled in the worst things that have ever happened this time. We're pulling the levers in the past natural Rossi's of the levers rate. Yeah so in the past this has happened. It's been for the most part sort of tectonic cataclysms So when one of the mass extinctions there's some weird stuff going on with mountain building that might draw down. Co Two and plunged into an ice age but for a bunch of the mass extinctions actually are seem to be associated with these huge apocalyptic volcanic events called large provinces were just an unimaginable amount of lava comes out of the earth covering Thousands of are actually in one case three million square miles But law alone. If it comes out part of the world can't kill everything on the planet has to be you know because things on the other side of the planet seemed to be going extinct. In these mass extinctions scientists are trying to figure out what that must have something to do with the gases that are coming out at the same time. And what you see in some of the mass extinctions but if you know how to read the rocks if you're a really clever geochemists you can see that there are. These huge injections of carbon dioxide is the air from these volcanoes. And you can tell that it gets really warm. The Ocean starts to lose its oxygen and this thing called Ocean acidification. which we're doing now? which is what happens when too much co two reacts with seawater is is happening in these mass extinctions too? So it's sort of unnerving to see that you know we're not there yet but Were trending direction. Where if you go too far down that road that it can really be all breaks loose right? A lot of people have said we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction but the scientists who talked to are a little more conservative conservative than that. Well I think paleontologists are certainly you know if you're a conservation biologist or any area and ecologist you can just see this tragedy unfolding all around to you and I'm not trying to minimize the the catastrophic damage. Humans have done to the planet. But I think it's actually. It's both worrying that we could even be in the same conversation as these mass extinctions because these are just you're turning everything up to eleven and trying as hard as you kill everything on the planet. I mean this is the the end the boundary boundary sort of condition for how hard the planet can be pushed. And we're not there yet. which the good news? We still have time to save the planet and that's really the point of that Sort of discussed in the book that you know. We're driving species extinct at a crazy rate today. But they're still time before we get to the level love you know when the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs when these giant volcanos were happening. So there's time to save the the turn the ship around and it's sort of scary but exciting we're kind of the most consequential few decades in in the past few hundred million years. It's really up to us to to avert to avert this Scott in a mind boggling and I didn't mean to minimize what's going on right now. By saying that the scientists he spoke to her a little more conservative about whether we're in the sixth mass extinction. It's more more like you don't have lung cancer yet. You only have emphysema right so everything's cool. Everything's bad right exactly If we keep up the current rates then we'll get there for certain In the next few decades centuries to Millennia depending on how you count but we will. We'll get there for certain if we don't change their behavior and we're making the sound like a very depressing book but there's some there's some lighter moments to it. I'd say I was it has to do with your felicity as a writer actually happening out there. Scientists the funny people funny people for example. Just to since. We're trying to have a good time here. let's talk about the first time you went out the Cincinnati Rock count people and the guy. The had a name for something that you picked up. Yeah right so if you know how to read the rocks and you know what you're looking looking at. There is no matter where you are in the country. There's not a boring spot for geology And there's some great. There's a APP called rocked which you condemn on my phone and it will tell you what you're standing on basically and so no matter where you are. If you're in New England you can look up. Oh my goodness I'm on this volcanic archipelago that crashed into tropical North America. Four hundred fifty nine years ago or if you're in boulder where I am you know there's red rocks from the middle of Panja and the dinosaurs and you know there really isn't a boring or right here in New York. We're on top of UH either Cambrian stuff from the dawn of animal. Life Ocean rock or in Brooklyn. There's glacial stuff from these crazy ice ages. That happened. Not that long Ongo and there's some cretaceous stuff in Staten Island's from the dinosaurs from these big river delta. So there's an amazing story underneath your feet. No matter where you are and geology is just is sort of amazing endlessly fascinating field. That sort of tells you about these alien worlds at the planet spend before a sort of crisscrossed the country and joined up with professional geologists amend was sort of introduced these groups of amateur theologists. Who are really inspiring people because they take their own time out of their own weekends to You know just pull over to the side of the road. These unloved highway road cuts. 'cause they know that there's amazing fossils there and they're incredibly dedicated to it and I was sort of a Newbie and I joined up with him. One day to look for fossils on the side of the highway in Cincinnati because it turns out that in Cincinnati four hundred fifty six four hundred fifty million years ago It was a shallow sea and it was filled. With sort of weird things. Look like horseshoe crabs in these giant squid like things. And so it's just it's totally alien. SCIFI world infects the lends its name to a particular time because of that right. There's this thing called the Cincinnati and in the late or division period because Cincinnati is the best place in the world to find fossils fossils from this period right before this big mass extinction but I went there and I went with all these Sort of really interesting quirky people. Who Do this spare time? Just pull over the side of the road looking for fossils and we're finding lots of these things called grab delights which are these weird sea creatures that swam in these colonial homes and stuff like that not colonial homes like from I'm from New England But yes I was finding a lot of those and so I would ask people what's this and say. Oh it's a trial by. Oh it's too late and then I thought I found something and I showed it to this guy and that's what it was and he said that's a leave right I said is that good. And he said Yeah Lever Right there and he took it out of my hand and he threw it on the ground so good. Yep Ah so you you went out. With a whole bunch of different people are amateurs and professional researchers and Saul a lot of I just got back from England and I saw the white cliffs of Dover Right So the white cliffs of Dover like a really good example of a lot of stuff. You're talking talking about it's all fossils. Yeah right yeah. I think people don't appreciate that limestone for the most part is Stuff it was. It's calcium carbonate. That was sort of precipitated by sea creatures. And if you go to Indiana and you see limestone if you put under Mexico begin see it's just all a lot of it's like little Z.. Creatures and things like that and the white cliffs of Dover Our caucus fours which are the you know you see today from space in these giant swirling blue green sort of hurricanes in the ocean. And it's just plankton. And you give plankton enough time and it can build up something like the white cliffs of Dover this giant Edifice Livingston. I wants to living
BrainStuff
How Did the Ancient Land Blob Called Gondwana Become Today's Southern Continents?
"Lauren Bogle bomb here sometimes. Good Science Science can happen just by looking at a map of the world and letting your mind wander for instance observe how Africa and South America seemed to have been very recently cuddled together even though there are currently a couple of thousand miles of ocean between them similarly Madagascar fits perfectly into a little nick in the eastern edge of Africa and the Middle East seems seems to be pulling away from the top of Africa like a corner being pulled off of a hot cookie with a reasonably good representation of the shape and arrangement of the world's continents in front of them. Anyone could easily assess the earth's land masses have definitely been speaking around the name for the southern landmass that once was is Gondwanaland and also known as Gondwana but it wasn't just the shape of the continents that clued researchers into its former existence. They've also looked at similarities. Among plants and animals that live across the modern separate continents from those clues. Gondwana was an idea long before anybody figured out how or why. It worked the secret of course being plate. tectonics and idea that didn't really start gaining steam. Until the mid twentieth century but a nineteenth century Austrian geologist named Edward Seuss put a name to the concept of the supercontinent in his book. The face of the earth the first volume of which was published in eighteen eighty. Three SEUSS didn't come up with many completely novel ideas ideas. But he did a great job of synthesizing. A bunch of the research of the day to conclude that the southern continents and landmasses we now know as South America Africa Arabia India via Sri Lanka and Madagascar had at one point in time been connected because one well just look at them and two. They contained the same rocks and the same fossil's from an extinct feathery leafed tree called gloss of terrace Austria and in Arctic. Oh would be added theory. Thirty years later Gondwana on what was named for a densely forested region of central India where the first fossil evidence of the supercontinent was found in the nineteenth century. WanNa is a word for forest in Sanskrit and the guns are tribe that European explorers. I found living in the region. Even though we now know a lot about the mechanism by which Gondwana China was formed. It's extremely complicated and still being investigated. There's at least one. Peer Reviewed Scientific Journal devoted entirely to the study of the supercontinent. It's it's called appropriately Gondwana research however. There are a few things that we're pretty certain of I got Wada wasn't built in a day. The the making of Gondwana was a long process. Most likely through three major mountain building events driven by the movement of Earth's tectonic plates we spoke spoke via email with Joseph Merit professor in the Department of Geological Sciences. At the University of Florida he explained during the interval from about six hundred fifty to five hundred in fifty million years ago. Various pieces of Africa and South America collided along an ancient mountain chain called the Brazilian belt slightly older but overlapping with the Brazilian. Oh seven seven hundred and fifty to six hundred and fifty million years. AGO is the east African Oregon or Mozambique Belt that resulted from the collision between East Africa and Madagascar India Tree Lanka and parts of East Antarctica. The final collision was along the Kouanga Oregon between all those assembled pieces and the rest of Antarctica and Australia between five five hundred eighty and five hundred and thirty million years ago so it was a couple hundred million years of extremely slow continental car wrecks the created this Beta Ada version of Gondwana. But it wasn't done yet later about three hundred million years ago other landmasses join forces with it to form the giant ball of land. We now no no as Panja. But one continent rule them all couldn't last and sometime between two hundred eighty and two hundred million years ago. Hingis started started disintegrating as magma began pushing up from beneath the mega supercontinent creating rifts in the land that would later become seafloor as Penn.. Jia cracked the top part was pushed to the north creating the continent Laura Asia and Gondwana headed south back when Gondwana was just a baby supercontinent between five hundred and fifty and four hundred eighty five million years ago it hosted some of the very first complex life forms like trial abides bracket pods but since it continued to exist I didn't the drastic period lots of plant and animal. Evolution went down there merit said Gondwana contains evidence for evolutionary changes in the very first complex complex animals. The very first fish amphibians and reptiles the most famous fossils are the gun doina flora such as the loss of terrace fern a freshwater reptile called. Messo Soroush Soroush in a land. Reptile called Lyster Soroush Gondwana existed as a single landmass for more than three hundred million years because of its humongous assize by covered an area of one hundred billion square kilometers or about thirty nine billion square miles and because the continents moved a lot during that time Gondwana experienced many different climates said during the Cambridge. When Gondwana I formed the earth and Gondwana were in a greenhouse state in the late order vision? Four four hundred fifty million years ago gun was moving over. The South Pole and the climate was very cold. Gondwana continued to move through variety of latitudes and depending on where you are located hated. The climate might have been quite warm or more temperate. The continent was so large. That one part of Gondwana might be located at the quarter while another might be located at the poll. It's true it would have been cool to see Gondwana in its prime and although you won't personally get to see its victorious return. That doesn't mean that it's not possible. Possible the continents are always moving and scientists have a lot of ideas about what our next supercontinent is going to look like.
The Design of Business - The Business of Design
The Role of Design in Business
"I'm Jackie FRY senior director of design operations at mail chimp. We essentially run the business of design and based on the theory that design China's great for business I often think that design or are separated in their silos. I'm a product designer. I'm a brand designer and at Milton we wanted to bring these people together so that they could get to know each other more see each other's work influence each other's work these people being together getting to know each other it. It offers a lot of great benefits to our customer experience in sort of that harmony of touch points. Saint how all of that design comes together male chimps all in one marketing platform allows you to manage more of your marketing activities. All in one place so you can market smarter and Dan grow faster now. What male chip? That's what learn more at Nelson Dot Com. I'm curious about what you think of the Solo Universe and its possibilities around inclusion. Are you finding people who are solo practitioners or vision vision. Who are finding ways to work? In this way that they wouldn't in an less welcoming corporate environment the event the PAT just described Solo event took place at District Hall all here in Boston and the Innovation district and At one point I went out to. I forget whether I had go to the bathroom or get some water or something and are there were three young guys. They're tech is still had like Chino's ill-fitting she knows and stuff and that was what the districts designed to be at work co working space base for young tech people and They They said to me. What are you guys doing? And I explained to them what we were doing and they said this is the first time we have ever seen anybody buddy. WHO's not white in district hall NatWest true? I mean they attracted a lily white audience which is representative of the business community in Boston. Unfortunately the mainstream business community. What we had done was 'cause early marketing efforts actually did not reach a broad enough audience in terms sued versity. We went to Roxbury and got a couple of local business activists and said we'll give you a table invite local soloists and so they they did and immediately they came in and they felt as if they were part of this community. If we had not done that that would have been an all white audience. We live in a capitalist a society that benefits getting big and getting big fast. Do you see any benefits in the idea of scale at all I think about when we launch fast company right we. We were a lot about changing the way big companies work. It was. It was a magazine for people in big companies not entrepreneurs and not soloist. Louis and we didn't know where that was ultimately with the long path was for that but ultimately big business took over the learned their lesson. About what talent wants and a lot of them have changed the way they do business pretty dramatically but I do wonder if Biz will come along again as the Solo. The world grows to kind of say. Okay we understand now what people want. And we're GONNA adjust again and maybe maybe it is the end of large organizations physically physically but you know. I just wonder if they're going to sort of see an adapt through our normal economic and societal benefits to organizations that scale. Well absolutely and were not arguing. that the solar independ- dependent life is for everybody. I have a bunch of brothers who are extremely successful all of the big company guys and when we sit around and talk I think they'll look at me and think why would you not want to work on a global scale. You know they were. At and T. and pricewaterhouse coopers and they loved working at that scale. I understand that So we're not talking about everybody but I do think that Scales the enemy of creativity period. End of story. I couldn't agree more but let me. Just add a footnote to that the so the four of us are sitting around talking and we would all argue that by virtue of our profession where creatives. Yes but you down to Washington. DC and there's a law firm down there call the Potomac group and it's one hundred lawyers. None of them are employees. They're all indies and there is a firm and what the firm does is it makes a market between clients that have specific needs that can be satisfied legal needs on a project basis and these lawyers who have left often the most prestigious law firms in Washington and New York to work with Potomac because they want flexibility. They want to work on projects. They don't want to work full time. And so and their creative there are creative attorneys their creative consultants and I think there are people who who WANNA WANNA be able to do Exercise the creativity and the way in which they approach the law or they approach accounting or finance. And I believe me. I'm not ignoring the fact that there are lots of people primarily women but not only women who are attracted to this life for purely practical reasons schedule reasons scheduling scheduling companies. Say they can offer more of that in God knows they're trying but you can't. There's really woman entrepreneur now runs you know. I don't know it. Forty Billion Alien Dollar Company. Who said to me and my last days and ink in two thousand twenty set to Maitland simple truth matters? Large companies require and demand obedience. They you just do. I mean these companies often have employee manuals that are as long as the Russian novel for God's Sakes and they have an entire department that's really frankly designed to protect the company from employees. They call it. Hr but that's really what they're doing there and so I'm not. I'm not being cynical about them. I think that's required. That's required when scale and there are companies that do that really well and there are people who flourish in that environment. I was wondering if we could generate a list of things things that we as a society could care more about advocate for. That would make possible this kind of work with some sort of legal protections something about student loans loans. I'm thinking about the kinds of structural barriers that prevent people from being liberated in this way portable health insurance. Yeah the one thing I came out of that event with in what I don't even know if it came up specifically but it was I remember telling you solo has to launch a lobbying arm. We gotta get to Washington and we gotTA start. There's no protection for soloists whatsoever but just isn't and insurance is unbelievably cost prohibitive. So the world doesn't really help you pursue this line of work. Do you have a sense of the psychological profile of the solo worker. ill-fitting Chino's you were talking. They don't they don't here's here's a here's the statistic where well aware of the fact that A significant minority of people who are now in these started out not voluntarily but they were they were laid off and so they did it often thinking it was temporary and out of desperation and after bring some income in so I'll do some projects while I look look for another job and there's a company down in. DC called embryo. Descend some research that says if a typical person like that lasts as an Indie for between eight and twelve months. The chances are eighty percent. They'll never go back and get a job again. So it tells you something about On the one hand the incredible fear that people feel about making the transition out of the world of regular Panja Film. And on the other end and the fulfillment on the other rant for people who are looking to build us an economically sustainable life around interesting work. The future is brilliant Ryan and possible and possible really practically possible. It's challenging it's difficult is especially challenging for people who have inflict Ed Glass. We grew up in as as participants in a traditional workforce not easily. Leave that behind. But once you get involved in this world it is exhilaration. What is your best advice to a big organization who are more likely to hire even on a temporary basis these wonderful solo workers there's To become more comfortable with them and to be able to hire them in places where it would have a big economic impact. I'm thinking all all kinds of places including the rural worker who with high speed Internet is now living the dream of being creative to all kinds of places that are still emerging economies across Africa and Latin America and Asia. It's it's I don't have the answer to that but the question is so funny because as you're asking it I'm thinking unless they're one hundred percent committed to supporting the solo world their inclination is going to be identified talent and want to hire them right so that I think the question is. How do we find someone so committed that? They won't try to hire right that they're going to respect that you've chosen this way of living your life trying to invent an AI. Around work around I can give you an example company really very traditional mainstream company pricewaterhouse coopers. They built a platform for indies. And it all you go on the platform. So let's say you're a consultant assault. You go on the platform and you can search anywhere in the world any project. That is Available right now for contract work and you can search it by industry specialization The economic value the project and I think the logic behind this was that they felt that increasingly. They're relying line too much on indie consultants who were in heavily socially networked communities their global firm and he wanted to figure out how do we make consulting work for P. WC MUC- accessible to population of indies globally. And kind of take down the barriers. If you will.
BrainStuff
What If the Meteor that Helped Wipe out the Dinosaurs Had Missed Earth?
"Today's episode is brought to you by smart water twenty years ago. Smart water, reimagined, what water could be from thoughtful bottle designed to supporting smart people who are changing our world through fresh thinking. Like, you smart water has added electrolytes for taste and great tasting water helps you stay hydrated, feeling refreshed and ready to take on your day. Refresh yourself with smart water. Welcome to brain stuff from how stuff works. Hey, brain stuff, Lauren Vogel bomb here on the northern coast of the Yucatan peninsula near the town of chick. Love. Mexico is a crater about one hundred twenty miles in diameter. That's about one hundred ninety kilometers the asteroid that created this crater was about six miles. That's ten kilometers wide and hit the earth sixty five million years ago in spite of these immense, measurements, the craters hard to see even if you're standing right on its rim to get a good map. Nasa. Researchers examined it from space. Ten years before the nineteen ninety discovery of the chick fil crater, physicists, Louise, Alvarez and geologist. Walter Alvarez, a father son team proposed a theory about the impact that we know today created it. They noted increased concentrations of the element iridium in sixty five million year old clay radium is rare on earth, but it's more common in some objects from space like meteors and asteroids, according to the Alvarez theory, a massive asteroid had hit the earth blanketing the world iridium, but shower of particles wasn't the only affect of the collision the impact caused fires climate change and widespread extinctions at the same time dime stores, which until then had managed to survive for a one hundred eighty million years died out, geophysicist Doug Robertson of the university of Colorado at boulder theorizes, the impact heated earth's atmosphere dramatically causing most big dinosaurs to die with an hours this mass extinction. Definitely happened fossil evidence shows that about seventy percent of species living on earth at that time. Became extinct. The massive die off marks the border between the Cretaceous and tertiary periods of earth's history. Which are also known as the age of reptiles and the age of mammals respectively today, scientists call the extinction decay t- event after the German spellings of Cretaceous and tertiary the t- event had an enormous effect on life on earth. But what would have happened if the asteroid hadn't missed would it have led to a world where people in dinosaurs would coexist or one in which neither could live. In a world where an asteroid whizzed past earth instead of crashing down with a force of a hundred million tons of TNT life could have progressed much differently. Sixty five million years ago, some of the animals and plants that are common today. We're just getting started these include placental mammals, which are mammals that develop inside a placenta in the womb and angiosperms, which are flowering plants insects that rely on flowers, such as bees were also relatively new many of these life forms thrived after the t- event, and without that mass reptilian extinction to clear the way they may not have found ecological niches to fill in this scenario. Today's world might be full of reptiles and short on mammals, including people. But even if the asteroid hadn't hit done stores and other Cretaceous life forms might have become extinct. Anyway, some dinosaur species had started to dwindle long before the asteroid's impact. This has led many researchers to conclude that the asteroid was just one aspect of a complex story. Other global catastrophes. Massive volcanic eruptions in what is now. India most likely played a role also the earth's changing landscape as the supercontinent Panja broke up into today's continents. Probably had something to do with it too. Then there's another argument that the chip to love asteroid hit the earth too early to have caused the extinction. Researchers Gerda Keller and Marcus Harding, both conclude that the impact took place three hundred thousand years before the end of the Cretaceous period. Keller theorizes chick fil impact was one of at least three massive collisions Harding argues at the iridium layer didn't come from the web asteroid but from another event such as series of meteors burning up in the atmosphere. He bases. This theory on ROY particles objected during the impact a most of these are in an older layer of the earth than the Katie iridium layer, according to both of these points of view the absence of the club. Asteroid strike may not have had a big affect on the k t extinction earth was a warm planet for most of the time that dinosaurs lived after the end of the Cretaceous period, the world got a lot colder and experienced several ice ages. Whether dinosaurs could have survived such change in climate is debatable. It's hard to come to a definitive conclusion about what the world would look like today without the chicks love impact. But the question of whether people in dinosaurs could have coexisted is a captivating won the ideas, president in everything from the Congo legend of mock lame Obembe to King Kong to the pervading kitsch of the Flintstones. Then of course, there's the prevailing scientific theory about the origin of birds that they are in essence dinosaurs that we are coexisting with today. Today's episode was written by Tracy the Wilson and produced by Tyler claim brain stuff is a production. Iheartradio's how stuff works to hear more from Tracy. Check out the podcast stuff, you missed in history class and for more on this and lots of other historic topics is that our home planet. How stuff works dot com. 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