Month: December 2022

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NBN Book of the Day - Tom McLeish, “The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art” (Oxford UP, 2021)

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. Tom McLeish's The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art (Oxford UP, 2021) challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative than art, music or fictional writing and poetry, and treads a historical and contemporary path through common territories of the creative process. The methodological process called the 'scientific method' tells us how to test ideas when we have had them, but not how to arrive at hypotheses in the first place. Hearing the stories that scientists and artists tell about their projects reveals commonalities: the desire for a goal, the experience of frustration and failure, the incubation of the problem, moments of sudden insight, and the experience of the beautiful or sublime.

Selected themes weave the practice of science and art together: visual thinking and metaphor, the transcendence of music and mathematics, the contemporary rise of the English novel and experimental science, and the role of aesthetics and desire in the creative process. Artists and scientists make salient comparisons: Defoe and Boyle; Emmerson and Humboldt, Monet and Einstein, Schumann and Hadamard. The book draws on medieval philosophy at many points as the product of the last age that spent time in inner contemplation of the mystery of how something is mentally brought out from nothing. Taking the phenomenon of the rainbow as an example, the principles of creativity within constraint point to the scientific imagination as a parallel of poetry.

Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube Channel. Twitter.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - NASA’s Human Computers

Today computers are ubiquitous. You are listening to this podcast right now on some sort of computing device. 

However, before computers were machines, the name computer was given to people. Computers were people who computed. 

In fact, the early days of NASA and the space program relied upon these human computers, most of whom were women. 

Learn more about NASA’s human computers and the role they played in the development of spaceflight on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Trump Referred to DOJ, Kids’ Medicine Shortage & ‘Avatar’ Sequel Boycott?- Tuesday, December 20, 2022

The news to know for Tuesday, December 20, 2022!

We're talking about one of the most extensive Congressional investigations in recent history coming to an end: what serious action the January 6th panel is now recommending and why former President Trump says he's not worried about it.

Also, what could be the most significant effort yet to protect nature?

Plus, how major pharmacy chains are trying to deal with a nationwide shortage of common medicines, what's in a record-breaking settlement over kids' privacy in video games, and why some activists are asking people to boycott the new 'Avatar' movie.

Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #358 – “Holiday Spectacular 2022” with Ed Greer & Ron Swallow

In this episode, Rivers is transported via magic sleigh from Alabama back to Disgraceland in Los Angeles for a HILARIOUS holiday chat with the hosts of "The Greatest Pod", Ed Greer and Ron Swallow! In the spirit of the holidays, the boys are reading some of the numerous Reddit posts of restaurant and retail workers sharing their nightmarish holiday experiences. We also run Sir Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" through a gauntlet of other bad Christmas songs to determine whether or not it's actually the worst Christmas song ever (spoiler: it's not). We had such a good time recording this one and we can't wait for you to hear it! Happy Holidays from all of us at The Goods from the Woods Podcast. Follow Ed Greer on all forms of social media @EdGreerDestroys. Follow Ron Swallow on Twitter @DorkySwallow and on Instagram @RonSwallow.  Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod.  Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock  Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content!http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | Rep. Kevin Hern Slams ‘Monstrous’ Spending Bill as Deadline Approaches

As the clock ticks toward the new year, Congress is racing to pass funding for the government for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 

"Well, I was a no vote last week. I think we need to be doing our work. It's amazing to me that the Democrats have been in control of the White House, the House, and the Senate," Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., says about the "omnibus" spending package. 

The Senate and the House last week advanced a "stopgap bill" last week that continues to fund existing programs and would give Congress until Friday at midnight to finalize a spending bill. The measure passed 71-19 in the Senate; it passed 224-201 in the House.

"Since January of last year, they've not passed a budget," Hern says. "They've not done appropriations in regular order. They have no one to blame but themselves for the almost $5 trillion in spending added to our debt in the last 23 months.:

"Here we are at the very end of the funding, which was supposed to be done by Sept. 30, [and we] keep kicking the can down the road," says Hern, who was unanimously elected last month as chairman of the Republican Study Committee. 

Hern joins this episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the gigantic omnibus spending bill, some of the Republican Party's top priorities for 2023, and how conservatives can navigate with slim control of only one chamber of Congress. 


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Slate Books - How To!: Forgiveness: An Exploration

TJ has spent years trying to heal herself and put her childhood behind her. Both of her parents struggled with addiction, which made for a very complicated, unstable upbringing. After sacrificing her own childhood to raise her siblings—TJ feels deeply wounded by her mother in particular. She really wants to let it go. The only question is how. On this episode of How To!, we bring on journalist Marina Cantacuzino. Marina is the founder of The Forgiveness Project, a charity that shares stories of victims, survivors, and perpetrators of “crime and conflict who have rebuilt their lives following hurt and trauma.” She’s also the author of a new book called Forgiveness: An Exploration. Marina shares some powerful stories about others who have opened their hearts to forgiveness—even if it took awhile—and began to free themselves from resentment. 


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - 2022 Retrospective | Amazon Gets Its First Union

This week we look back on some of our favorite stories from a year that had us asking—sometimes with excitement and sometimes with exasperation—"What Next”? This episode originally aired March 21.

 

Few were betting that a group of workers on Staten Island could win union recognition at their Amazon warehouse. Now that they’ve done it, can they replicate this win at other shops across the country? And what will the nation’s largest unions do to help Amazon workers join the labor movement?

 

Guest: Steven Greenhouse, senior fellow at the Century Foundation and author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.

 

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