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Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.
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The Last Theory is an easy-to-follow exploration of what might be the last theory of physics. In 2020, Stephen Wolfram launched the Wolfram Physics Project to find the elusive fundamental theory that explains everything. On The Last Theory podcast, I investigate the implications of Wolfram's ideas and dig into the details of how his universe works. Join me for fresh insights into Wolfram Physics every other week.
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A daily update on the latest AI Research Papers. We provide a high level overview of a handful of papers each day and will link all papers in the description for further reading. This podcast is created entirely with AI by PocketPod. Head over to https://pocketpod.app to learn more.
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A podcast on the science of circus training and performing. Each episode hones in on different areas of practically applied research to use in your own circus training. If you're curious about a subject or question related to circus training, email your questions (which WILL be answered) to: koz.circ@gmail.com. If you've got comments or feedback, see the email above! Check out aaronkoz.com/thoughts for long-form posts looking at the research and how it applies to circus and aerial training.
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A podcast about all things human performance. Listen in as Andrew May explores the latest in human performance with an all-star cast of subject matter experts covering physical and psychological wellbeing, performance psychology, sport, business, entertainment, the performing arts, leadership, and science. Learn valuable lessons that can be applied to optimising performance in your personal and professional life. Performance Intelligence applies to the way we turn up in relationships and the ...
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Beauty At Work

Brandon Vaidyanathan

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Beauty at Work expands our understanding of beauty: what it is, how it works, and why it matters. Sociologist Brandon Vaidyanathan interviews scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, and leaders across diverse fields to reveal new insights into how beauty shapes our brains, behaviors, organizations, and societies--for good and for ill. Learn how to harness the power of beauty in your life and work, while avoiding its pitfalls.
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Welcome to Resonance Rising, where you’ll learn from leading scientists, doctors, and experts on cutting-edge ways to heal chronic disease and biohack for longevity using sound, light, energy, and alternative medicine. Most of us go around thinking that our world is physical. But quantum physics tells us that it’s actually all energy that just appears to us as physical. Through this podcast, you’ll learn how these fundamental principles can be harnessed to help you recover from chronic pain, ...
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Roentgen's Radio - A PEM podcast

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A new podcast on Physics and Engineering in Medicine from University College London. From the biggest Medical Physics department in the UK, for anyone with an interest in applied science. We hope to be accessible to all, so give us a try! Find us online at www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-physics-biomedical-engineering/
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Conversations between David Deutsch and Lulie Tanett about topics ranging from emotions, AGI, reason and fun. Epistemology applied to everything. ”Reason Is Fun” is the idea that what is rational is the same as what is fun – that the fields of epistemology, morality and enjoyment are all deeply interconnected and compatible.
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Nodycast is a lively podcast discussing the theory, techniques and latest innovations in nonlinear dynamics, and its applications to systems of all kinds. This includes almost everything under the sun such as mechanical, structural, electrical, chemical, thermo-fluid, ecological, economic, epidemiological, biological and chemical systems. It is hosted by Dr. 'Nat' C. Nataraj, Moritz Professor at Villanova University and Senior Editor for Nonlinear Dynamics, a Springer-Nature journal.
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Mathematical Philosophy - the application of logical and mathematical methods in philosophy - is about to experience a tremendous boom in various areas of philosophy. At the new Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, which is funded mostly by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, philosophical research will be carried out mathematically, that is, by means of methods that are very close to those used by the scientists. The purpose of doing philosophy in this way is not to reduce p ...
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Welcome to the Lab! Talkin' Force presented by Hawkin Dynamics is more that a podcast about force. It's a podcast about innovation in training, technology, health, & lifestyle from the World's most influential coaches, researchers, & entrepreneurs. www.HawkinDynamics.com
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Many misconceptions and myths surround stone medicine and crystal healing. And yet, "tapped in" seers, builders, and healers have applied the power of stones since the dawn of humanity. Their ability to treat spiritual and physical disease and elevate human consciousness has been proven for thousands of years across the world. If you work in alternative healing and seek guidance about ancient methods for the application of stones and crystals, you are in the right place. Welcome to Crystal C ...
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I love talking to people with PhDs. To me someone with a PhD is not that far removed from say an artist, musician or writer. They have chosen to explore a topic in-depth and become the leading authority in the world on that subject. So join me as we Pile it high and Deep with doctorates from around around the world as we explore their journey's their research and what they have done with all that knowledge they shoved into their brains.
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Beth and I discussed pain science and how it comes into play for professional and recreational circus artists and aerialists answering these questions below: Pain perception - how do you describe and define pain? What is the bare minimum you think a circus artist, coach, and physio should know about pain (and how to assess it) as it relates to circ…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/26/2024 How Far Are We to GPT-4V? Closing the Gap to Commercial Multimodal Models with Open-Source SuitesInteractive3D: Create What You Want by Interactive 3D GenerationLayer Skip: Enabling Early Exit Inference and Self-Speculative DecodingTele-FLM Technical ReportSEED-Bench-2-Plus: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Mo…
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Is beauty a reliable guide to truth in science? No, says physicist, author, and science communicator Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder. In this clip, she discusses how the concept of “naturalness” is related to beauty and why it’s misleading For the full interview see: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043099/12833522 For the broader project, visit: https://www.be…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/25/2024 Hyper-SD: Trajectory Segmented Consistency Model for Efficient Image SynthesisA Multimodal Automated Interpretability AgentSEED-X: Multimodal Models with Unified Multi-granularity Comprehension and GenerationMultiBooth: Towards Generating All Your Concepts in an Image from TextLearning H-Infinity Locomotion Control…
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In this Bite Size from episode #88 mental skills coach for Collingwood and Melbourne Storm, Jacqui Louder, explains what she thinks makes for a winning team. Jacqui talks about how she doesn’t come in to “fix” a team but merely to add to their culture and why it can take up to 3 years to really get a handle on an organisation to make meaningful cha…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/24/2024 OpenELM: An Efficient Language Model Family with Open-source Training and Inference FrameworkMulti-Head Mixture-of-ExpertsPegasus-v1 Technical ReportAlign Your Steps: Optimizing Sampling Schedules in Diffusion ModelsSnapKV: LLM Knows What You are Looking for Before Generation…
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Iconographer David Clayton, who was trained in materials science at Oxford, discusses why it seems that there is a gulf between art and science, and shares ideas for how to bring the two closer together. For the full interview see: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043099/12739891 For the broader project, visit: https://www.beautyatwork.net Support us on…
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In this episode, Joe Barnard of BPS.Space becomes our first-ever recurring guest on the podcast. We dive into his history with rocketry and how it all got started, some of his failures and go-to launch preparedness items, and even where he plans to go after he gets a rocket past the Karman Line. Want to support the show? Use the link below to send …
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Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/23/2024 PhysDreamer: Physics-Based Interaction with 3D Objects via Video Generation TextSquare: Scaling up Text-Centric Visual Instruction Tuning Does Gaussian Splatting need SFM Initialization? How Far Can We Go with Practical Function-Level Program Repair? AutoCrawler: A Progressive Understanding Web Agent for Web Crawler…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/21/2024Ctrl-Adapter: An Efficient and Versatile Framework for Adapting Diverse Controls to Any Diffusion ModelHQ-Edit: A High-Quality Dataset for Instruction-based Image EditingTango 2: Aligning Diffusion-based Text-to-Audio Generations through Direct Preference OptimizationTextHawk: Exploring Efficient Fine-Grained Percept…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/20/2024 Dynamic Typography: Bringing Words to Life Toward Self-Improvement of LLMs via Imagination, Searching, and Criticizing MeshLRM: Large Reconstruction Model for High-Quality Mesh MoA: Mixture-of-Attention for Subject-Context Disentanglement in Personalized Image Generation EdgeFusion: On-Device Text-to-Image Generatio…
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In this Bite Size from episode #84 Tour De Cure founder, Geoff Coombes, talks about how after working in numerous jobs he found himself being drawn towards fundraising and charity events and how that eventually morphed into his purpose that he now lives by. Geoff and Andrew also talk about some of their earlier experiences in leadership roles where…
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What does math teach us about beauty? In this clip, mathematician Dr. Carlo Lancellotti discusses how the search for an elegant, simple equation is similar to the quest to build a beautiful cathedral. He also discusses the link between math and spirituality. For the full interview see: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043099/12648186 For the broader pro…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/19/2024 BLINK: Multimodal Large Language Models Can See but Not Perceive Reka Core, Flash, and Edge: A Series of Powerful Multimodal Language Models AniClipart: Clipart Animation with Text-to-Video Priors TriForce: Lossless Acceleration of Long Sequence Generation with Hierarchical Speculative Decoding OpenBezoar: Small, Co…
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In this Bite Size from episode #87 the Wizard traveled down to Melbourne to interview the Moonee Valley Bowls Club and find out what was the x factor that got them over the line when the pressure of finals time came in. The Moonee Valley boys talk about the mental skills that Andrew taught them and how they were able to apply them in games both ind…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/17/2024Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good AlignmentMegalodon: Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context LengthTransformerFAM: Feedback attention is working memoryCompression Represents Intelligence LinearlyVideo2Game: Real-time, Interactive, Realistic and Browser-Compatible Environment from a Sing…
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Where do scientists find beauty in their work and why does it matter to them? Immunologist Dr. Mark Painter argues that what’s central here is not simply the visual or sensory beauty he encounters in the phenomena he studies, but the beauty of understanding that science affords. For the full interview see: ttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2043099/12547248…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/16/2024Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agentAdvancing LLM Reasoning Generalists with Preference TreesLong-context LLMs Struggle with Long In-context LearningLLaVA-Gemma: Accelerating Multimodal Foundation Models with a Compact Language ModelBigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion M…
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We've all heard a rule of thumb or two in the world of high-power, mid-power, or even low-power rocketry. In this episode, Braden, Postart, and Taylor go through some commonly heard rules of thumb and decide whether or not we agree they should be adhered to with some form of strictness. Support the show…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/15/2024 COCONut: Modernizing COCO Segmentation Scaling (Down) CLIP: A Comprehensive Analysis of Data, Architecture, and Training Strategies On the Robustness of Language Guidance for Low-Level Vision Tasks: Findings from Depth Estimation Pre-training Small Base LMs with Fewer Tokens Probing the 3D Awareness of Visual Founda…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/14/2024 Direct Nash Optimization: Teaching Language Models to Self-Improve with General Preferences: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03715 No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data: Pretraining Concept Frequency Determines Multimodal Model Performance: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125 AutoWebGLM: Bootstrap And Reinforce A Large La…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/13/2024 OmniFusion Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06212 LLM2Vec: Large Language Models Are Secretly Powerful Text Encoders: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05961 InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HD: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06512 Eagle a…
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AI Papers Podcast 04/12/2024 RecurrentGemma: Moving Past Transformers for Efficient Open Language Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07839 WILBUR: Adaptive In-Context Learning for Robust and Accurate Web Agents: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05902 Ferret-v2: An Improved Baseline for Referring and Grounding with Large Language Models: https://arxiv.org…
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In this Bite Size from episode #85 Andrew talks to the NSW Primary Principal’s Association about optimism and why it is a bit deeper than just trying to force a smile when things aren’t going your way. Andrew acknowledges that while bad times do happen and our brains are wired to focus on that it is about seeing that there is something better on th…
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AI Papers Podcast for 04/12/2024 ControlNet++: Improving Conditional Controls with Efficient Consistency Feedback: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07987 OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07972 Rho-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07965 Jet…
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In this Bite Size from episode #83 Dr Tom and Andrew swap a few tips on how to use your body’s own circadian clock to stay energised naturally this winter, no coffee or supplements required. Dr Tom and Andrew emphasise the importance of getting plenty of natural sunlight in the mornings to help wake you up and kick your body into gear, as well as a…
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You like Stephen Wolfram, right? I mean, if he’s to be believed, he has reinvented physics, not to mention philosophy. How could you not like such a thinker? Well... it turns out that there are plenty of people who don’t like Stephen Wolfram... or his physics... or his philosophy. Here are four criticisms of Stephen Wolfram I regularly hear... ...a…
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Why does wonder matter? In this clip, Yale psychologist Dr. Frank Keil discusses the importance of facilitating wonder in education, why we shouldn’t underestimate kids, and why cultivating wonder matters especially for science. For the full interview see: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043099/12434669 For the broader project, visit: https://www.beaut…
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In this episode, Braden, Shane (Postart), and Taylor discuss some of their favorite upscale projects throughout history and projects we'd like to build. Then, we move on to ranking every motor for the Aerotech 54/1706 motor case. Join the conversation by joining Patreon or send us an email to contact@aggpodcast.com Support the show…
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How a small fish makes big sounds Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), plus a broad range of…
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To get the most benefit from this episode, listen at 1X playback speed. You’ve probably experienced how music can change your mood and overall state with just one song. Have you wondered how you can enhance those benefits of music listening ? By applying the principles of Active Listening, you can completely transform the way you experience music a…
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In This Bite Size from episode #62 Dr Ben Hamer explains what a futurist is and how you go about becoming one. Dr Ben dispels the myth that futurists are just making up their titles and jobs by explaining that there is a very scientific approach taken when looking into the future and what it could hold. Dr Ben talks about some of the ways that he i…
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When we think of the applied sciences, we usually think they’re important because they are useful. But can they also be beautiful? In this clip, public health expert Dr. Marcia Otto shares what inspired her career path from theoretical physics to epidemiology, and discusses where she finds beauty in her work. For the full interview see: https://www…
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Keegan Hipgrave is a former NRL player who played a total of 49 games for 2 clubs, the Gold Coast Titans and the Paramatta Eels. His NRL debut at just 20 years of age marked the beginning of a promising sporting career. But sometimes things in life don’t go to plan, and Keegan’s football career came to an early end due to a series of concussions, f…
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Is a “theory of everything” worth pursuing? According to award-winning physicist and author Dr. Marcelo Gleiser the answer is no. In this clip, he explains why the pursuit of unity in science can be misleading. For the full interview see: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2043099/12246525 For the broader project, visit: https://www.beautyatwork.net Suppor…
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In this episode, we talk about The Anti-Gravity Group's very own Macho Matt and his plans to build a Space Shot rocket. We also discuss our trip to Argonia, Kansas, for Kloudburst and The Argonia Cup rocket launch, where both Taylor and Matt flew some rockets. Braden made a big and slightly questionable purchase, and Postart took some photos. Want …
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In this Bite Size from episode #82 world renowned keynote speaker Michael Mcqueen talks about how he prepares for his keynotes and gives an example of a 15 minute presentation that took him over 200 hours to prepare, including a significant amount of time talking to a wall! Andrew and Michael also discuss how they both deal with nervousness and get…
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When it comes to science education, why should teachers care about beauty? Award-winning educator and public speaker Dr. Punya Mishra says its because it can help nurture the sense of wonder that’s vital for science. In this clip, he discusses ways to cultivate curiosity through a more aesthetic approach to science education. For the full interview…
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Jacqui Louder is an accomplished Sport Psychologist known for her work with the reigning AFL premiers, the Collingwood Football Club, and she has also worked with the Melbourne Storm when they won NRL premierships. With a wealth of experience including roles at the National Institute of Circus Arts and active involvement with Motorcycling Australia…
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Awe is a universal human emotion. But we often think of it as ineffable. So can it be scientifically studied? Berkeley psychologist and author Dacher Keltner does just this. In this clip, he discusses his research on the nature of awe, how it varies (or doesn’t) between cultures, and how it’s related to both beauty and science. For the full intervi…
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Have you ever considered that your body's pain response might actually be a misunderstood ally in your quest for wellness? On this episode, we uncover the secrets to conquering chronic pain with Dr. Zulia Frost as we embark on a journey through the world of energy-based therapies. Say goodbye to the misconceptions surrounding painkillers and welcom…
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Dinosaur feathers hint at flight history Science Sessions are brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, National Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), plus a broad r…
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