Best Michelle Newman Podcasts (2024)

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Bonni Goldberg, "Doña Gracia Saved Worlds" (Kar-Ben Publishing, 2023) 56:58

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Bonni Goldberg, award-winning poet, writer, and educator, writes non-fiction for children and adults. In our animated discussion, we talk about how her recent picture book, Doña Gracia Saved Worlds (published December, 2023, by Kar-Ben and illustrated by Alida Massari) which came about, her life and writing career, Judaism, and advice for aspiring …

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72 Future Now Podcast - World UFO Day, Polaris Dawn Mission, RoboGrocery packer, New Alzheimer Treatments, Dark Matters, Turion wins Space Sweeper contract, Cheap Fakes, Body Language Analysis of the Presidents ...

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Listen Now to 72 Future Now Podcast Transcript Recognizing World UFO Day is a fun part of this week’s show, exploring some of the more interesting recent cases recently in the field..Did you know there were 138 UFO sightings in California alone in the last 6 months? And in our explorations of space, the Polaris Dawn Mission is about to take place, …

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71 Future Now Podcast - Mars Popcorn, Assange Freed, Augmented World Expo Report, Virtual Mother, War Politics and Tech, Birds-cows-poultry virus, Noise and Judgments, General World Modeling

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Listen Now to 71 Future Now Podcast Transcript of show Something for everybody this week, from Mars popcorn, Assange’s freedom, a great report on what was happening at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach with Nick Venden and Greg Panos, who blew away the conference by an introduction to his virutal immortality talk made by his deceased mother in…

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70 Future Now Podcast - Kidneys in Space, Harvard Advanced Reptilians Theory, Michele Newman and Singing your Soul with Whales, SETI approach for probing advanced AIs, which came first, Fun or Love?

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Listen to 70 Future Now Transcript of 70 Future Now It’s Summertime and living is fun, unless you are on a deep space mission. Turns out our kidneys are particularly sensitive to radiation in space, failing after only two years..oh no, what now? Any solutions? We think so! Harvard Cryptoterrestrial GradAnd finally, top academics are suggesting to t…

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The Business of Publishing Children's Books: A Discussion with Elizabeth Law 53:35

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Elizabeth Law has worked in the publishing field her whole life, first as an Editor at Viking Children’s Books and Puffin Books, as Associate Publisher at Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, then later as Publisher at Egmont USA, and most recently as the backlist and special projects editor at Holiday House Books for Young Readers. Elizabet…

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69 Future Now Podcast - Apple Intelligence and WWDC 2024 Announcements, AI Steve runs for Office, Newly Discovered Alter-Magnetism, Gravity without Mass, Starship 4 Kicks Ass!

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Listen to 69 Future Now Podcast Transcript Big announcements from Apple at this week’s World Wide Developer’s Conference, and we have our very own Apple analyst, Taylor Barcroft, to cover the latest and greatest, and Bobby Wilder to discuss just what is “Apple Intelligence.” We think it is particularly exciting that developers will be able to emplo…

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68 Future Now Show - Space News, Interview on Longevity with Stephen Sideroff, PhD., and Robert Lufkin, MD, discussion on their just published books, "The 9 Pillars of Resilience," and "Lies I Taught in ...

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Listen to 68 Future Now Show Transcript Long time friends and colleagues Drs. Sideroff and Lufkin recently organized an online summit on the topic of human longevity, featuring many of the leading researchers and thinkers in this cutting edge field. And this week they both published a new book on their latest professional work. In today’s show we i…

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Lesléa Newman, "Like Father, Like Son" (Abrams, 2024) 43:13

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In our animated interview with prolific, award-winning children's author and poet Lesléa Newman, we celebrate two of her picture books which have just launched, Like Father, Like Son: A Picture Book, published in April, 2024 by Abrams, and Joyful Song: A Naming Story, published in May, 2024 by Levine-Querido. We talk about Lesléa's journey on her w…

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67 Future Now Podcast - Ergothioneine, the 'longevity vitamin,' Adaptogenic Superblend MycoSpectrum, Tauonium-Beyond Hydrogen, The upcoming Starship Flight #4, Dreamchaser to take Flight, Dandelion Rubber ...

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Listen Now to 67 Future Now Podcast View Transcript Though we covered a fair number of topics in today’s podcast, we kept coming back to discussing the health benefits of fungi, from how they assist the ATP Kreb cycle in generating bodily energy to memory enhancement and longevity. We also had the priviledge of once again speaking with Gabrielle Ci…

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Robin Newman, "Who's Writing This Story?" (Creston Books, 2024) 49:45

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Robin Newman was a practicing attorney and legal editor but has more fun writing children's books about witches, mice, pigs, and peacocks. In our interview, we celebrate the launch of her new picture book, Who's Writing This Story?, illustrated by Deborah Zemke and published by Creston Books (2024), and talk about Robin's journey to literary succes…

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Episode 166 - Michelle Shapiro: Understanding the Role of the Functional Dietician 54:36

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In Episode 166, we have an in depth discussion on diet and health with Michelle Shapiro. Working as a Functional Dietician, Michelle tackles a wide range of issues related to personal health, wellness, fitness and nutrition. We cover a wide range of topics related to diet and nutrition including the growing incidence of disease, challenges around w…

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66 Future Now Podcast - Whiskey Hill Farm, Trimtab Times, M4 Solex Power, AI Music Demo and Experiment

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Listen to 66 Future Now Podcast Trimtab Times View Transcript ‘Twas a busy weekend for us, with back-to-back dinner parties, and a visit to Whiskey Hill Farms for a tour by David Blum, author of the best seller, “Alcohol Can Be a Gas.” Besides his innovative alcohol distillary, his experimental farm is growing a number of unusual crops that could s…

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Jennifer Berne, "A Tour of the Human Body: Amazing Numbers--Fantastic Facts" (Astra Publishing House, 2024) 45:50

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In this wonderful second interview with Jennifer Berne we celebrate the launch of her newest picture book, and the first in a series: A Tour of the Human Body: Amazing Numbers--Fantastic Facts (Number Tours for Curious Kids) published by Astra and just launched on May 7, 2024, illustrated by Dawn DeVries Sokol. Jennifer has written many award-winni…

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65 Future Now Podcast - Auroras and Special Report- Gabrielle challenges Meta.ai and ChatGPT 4o in understanding the true nature of Reality itself. Guess who is more aware?

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Listen Now to Gabrielle challenging the AIs View Transcript This show takes the cake when it comes to more unusual content for us. It started with our correspondent Gabrielle Cianfrani asking Meta.ai a ‘simple’ question before bed, “I’ve been thinking lately that we are just pure consciousness experiencing itself, what do you think about that?” And…

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Marie-Louise Gay, "Walking Trees" (Groundwood Books, 2024) 57:02

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Marie-Louise Gay is an internationally-acclaimed, multi-award winning Canadian author and illustrator of over 60 books. In our interview, we celebrate the recent launch of her newest book, Walking Trees (Groundwood Books, 2024), and discuss her youth, her studies and professional career, and several of her leading books, including the series featur…

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64 Future Now Podcast - M4 iPad Apple Update, Sperm Whale Alphabet, Generating New Teeth, H Engines Challenge Electric

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Listen Now to 64 Future Now Podcast View Transcript Our very own Taylor Barcroft gives us the update on the latest from Apple, with particular focus on the new M4 processor based iPads. These are Apple’s last offerings before their big World Wide Developer’s Conference next month, and loo quite tasty, if you find the pad format to be your fav form …

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64 Future Now Podcast - Interview - Therapist/Medicine Woman Avi Esther on Amanita Muscaria

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Listen Now to Avi Esther View Transcript We had the pleasure of meeting Avi Esther last month when she was in town from the UK for speaking at the Discovery Sessions, the Bay Area’s annual gathering of the psychedelic community. The topic - “DESTIGMATIZING AMANITA MUSCARIA.” Amanita Muscaria is that cute archetypal red mushroom with white dots. It’…

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Julie Carpenter, "Harry and the Highwire: Houdini's First Amazing Act" (Green Bean Books, 2024) 50:45

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In this interview, we celebrate Julie Carpenter's first picture book, Harry and the Highwire: Houdini's First Amazing Act (Laura Catalán, illustrator), published by Green Been Books, May, 2024). Before deciding to write for children, Julie was a journalist, writer and editor for over 20 years.In our conversation we talk about the magic of writing, …

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63 Future Now Podcast - Stellar Black Holes, First Nitrogen Breathing Lifeforms, Animal Consciousness and AI, Trans-Species Communications, Optical Solar System Internet, Wooly Resurrection Update, Martian ...

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Listen now to 63 Future Now Podcast View Transcript It appears we may have some new lifeforms on the planet, ones that can take Nitrogen from the air rather than the ground; makes sense considering that 78% of the atmosphere is Nitrogen. Scientists are fascinated, and see this as a big deal, up there with the creation of plants and animals! Also am…

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Episode 165 - Don & Derek: Health & Fitness Challenges Associated with Travel 48:01

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In Episode 165, Don and Derek share their stories about recent long-haul trips and the challenges they faced with everything from sleep to hydration to nutrition and workout facility accessibility. While even short-haul travel can take a toll on your energy and overall health, longer trips over numerous time zones can present even greater challenge…

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62 Future Now Podcast - Living Solar Panels, Llama 3 freely available, Messages from Voyager, Light Sail 3 Launched, Dune 2 & Antisocial Network reviews, Our view of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla's world ...

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Listen Now to 62 Future Now Podcast View Transcript A promising future lies in potential symbiotic relationships between our tech and nature. A example of theat lies with the use of algae in the generation of energy from solar panels. And…how might the climate change gas of methane be actually useful in making things better for us and our planet? T…

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61 Future Now Podcast - Bay Area Solar Geoengineering for Brighter Clouds, Udio AI Audio Demo, Space News and Sonifications, Nordic Dave pilots his Cessna 182 to the Totality Zone and Lives to tell us ...

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Listen to Future Now #61 View Transcript I couldn’t believe it when I read about a geoengineering project changing the reflectivity of clouds in our home, the SF Bay Area, in Scientific American, a mainstream science publication! Maybe there is something to all the airplane trails we see these days that will be discussed to major forums. No such lu…

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On Monsters, Goddesses and Myths: A Discussion with Author Katherine Marsh 44:54

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“We’re not monsters, Mom. We’re goddesses—smart, fearless, and beautiful.” That’s the voice of Ava, the superpowered protagonist of Katherine Marsh’s captivating novel for children, Medusa (Clarion Books, 2024). Our discussion focuses on Marsh’s feminist retelling of the Medusa myth—and on the wider topic of the direction of children’s literature a…

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Episode 164 - Dr. Mike Israetel: Making Educated Choices Around Your Health & Fitness 55:47

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In Episode 164, we talk to Dr. Mike Israetel about both the benefits and perils of the wealth information on health, fitness, nutrition and performance available on social media and other accessible sources. While it should not be difficult to find good, well-researched, common-sense information on these subjects, people still appear to be attracte…

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60 Future Now Show - Eclipse stories with ISS View, Lunar Time Zone! Biggest camera ever! Chilean Super Telescope, Hundreds of twin rogue planets discovered between star systems, the singing nuns at Abbey ...

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Listen to Future Now Podcast View Transcript Hope you all enjoyed your eclipse experience, be it partial, full, or virtual! Our fav visuals were from the ISS, where you could see the eclipse, appearing as a dark cloud-like 115 mile diameter shadow cast onto the planet’s surface, speeding across the continent, southwest to northeast. Moving at 2400 …

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KJ Speaks on (Serenity) “Michell Clark, Johnny Miller, Tupac, Fivio Foreign Soren Kierkegaard & more 11:36

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59 Future Now - Online Eclipse Awesomeness, True Mt. Shasta Magic with Mary Donnelly, R.N.

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59 Future Now Show Listen Here View Transcript We are still on the road this week, this time in magical Mt. Shasta, where we introduce you one of it’s residents, Mt. Shasta is rumored to house the Lemurian city of Telos within.Mary Donnelly. A New Englander trained as an RN in pediatric oncology, she learned of Mt. Shasta via an alternative healer,…

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Laura Bower, "The Imposter" (Gnome Road Publishing, 2024) 43:23

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In this heartwarming interview with Laura Bower, we celebrate the launch of her brand new, debut picture book, The Imposter, illustrated by Kerisa Greene, and published by Sandra Sutter, Gnome Road Publishing (2024). Laura talks about her life and writing career, the story behind The Imposter, and her advice for aspiring authors. Learn more about y…

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58 Future Now - Interview/Discussion - Making Democracy Wise - with Jim Rough and Casandra Firman

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Listen to 58 Future Now Wise Democracy Transcript This week we are on the road in beautiful Port Townsend, Washington, visiting Jim Rough, founder of www.wisedemocracy.org and Casandra Firman, Jim’s wife and partner in updating democracy as we know it. We all know about the importance of voting, and the necessities of jury duty and national defence…

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Episode 163 - Ben Newman: Peak Performance Coaching in Business, Sports & Life 51:07

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In Episode 163, we engage Ben Newman about his approach to coaching some of the top sports teams, business organizations and leaders over the last 20 years. Ben gives us a breakdown of what motivates him to help push the top performers to greater heights, as well as keeping them at the top of their game for the long term. Some of the most successfu…

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Michelle Knudsen, "Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten" (Candlewick Press, 2024) 43:05

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Michelle Knudsen is the New York Times best-selling author of fifty books for young readers of all ages, including the award-winning picture books (and personal favorites) Library Lion and Marilyn's Monster. In this, our second interview we celebrate the launch of her new picture book, Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten (Candlewick, 2024),…

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57 Future Now - Ashland Adventures, Starship trails, Nvidia keynote, Encryption Fears, Amazing Text-to-Music Blues, Distractions, Mindfullness and Hyperlearning, Sound Laser, Interspecies translator, Deepfakes ...

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Listen to 57 Future Now - Transcript We are on a roadtrip to Seattle and doing our podcast from AirB&B’s for the next couple of shows. This week is on the road in Ashlandfrom Ashland, a cultural hotspot known for great art galleries, theaters, restaurants, and the home of the world famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We saw the opening production o…

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Shoshanna Lockshin and Efrayim Unterman, "The Devash Megillat Esther" (Hadar Press, 2024) 38:06

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The Devash Megillat Esther (Hadar Press, 2024) includes the full Hebrew Megillah text, an original kid-friendly English translation, and carefully selected commentaries from 2,000 years of Jewish tradition brought to life in newly accessible ways. Devash unlocks sophisticated texts for learners of all ages and backgrounds, encouraging deep question…

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Sue Fliess, "Octopus Acrobatics" (Albert Whitman & Company, 2024) 55:45

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Sue Fliess ("fleece") is the award-winning, bestselling author of over 50 children's books including Sadie Sprocket Builds a Rocket, How to Trap a Leprechaun, Mary Had a Little Lab, Rumble and Roar, the Beatrice Bly's Rules for Spies series, the Kid Scientist series, the Magical Creatures and Crafts series, and many Little Golden Books. Her books h…

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Emily Barth Isler, "The Color of Sound" (Carolrhoda Books, 2024) 1:03:30

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Emily Barth Isler is the author of AfterMath, an award-winning middle grade novel, and of the forthcoming picture book Always Enough Love. In our interview, we celebrate the publication of her second middle grade novel, The Color of Sound (Carolrhoda Books, 2024), the story of Rosie, a musical prodigy with synesthesia. We talk about her transformat…

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56 Future Now - Latest Apple Tech and Taylor Swiftie Download, AI Hitler Goes Viral, How Stories fit Emotions, Boiling Oceans exo-planet, Europa Clipper Mission, Space Poetry, Danny Sheehan on UAP Coverup ...

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Listen to 56 Future Now Show Transcript Some cool stories this week, including our very own Taylor Barcroft’s admission he is a Swiftie, in the Taylor Swift sense of the word. Who knew? Besides sharing his Swiftie passion he updates us on the latest in Apple Tech, waveforms of the word ‘water’ in many languages onboard Europa Clipperincluding what’…

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Episode 162 - Dr. Sean Pastuch: Bridging the Gap Between Fitness & Healthcare 1:00:59

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In Episode 162, we discuss the close connection between physical training, personal fitness and overall health and fitness with Sean Pastuch. A key concept covered in this interview is the process of identifying key traits in clients – including mind-set, commitment and focus – that will ensure that they are successful in their efforts to improve t…

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A Chat with a Children's Book Illustrator: Erin Kraan 51:11

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Erin Kraan has illustrated over half a dozen children's books, with more on the way. In our interview we celebrate her latest illustrated picture book, Buffalo Fluffalo (Random House Studio, 2024) written by Bess Kalb. Erin talks about her life and career, and explains her unique process of carving her characters into wood and seeing how their quir…

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Suzanne Slade, "The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue" (Astra, 2021) 58:03

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Suzanne Slade is the Sibert Honor author of more than 170 books for children. A mechanical engineer by degree, Suzanne writes about STEM topics, fascinating figures in history, and occasionally lyrical fiction. Her newest books include Some Days are Yellow, Shining Star: Vera Rubin Discovers Dark Matter, Behold the Octopus!, and Dazzilin' Dolly: Th…

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55 Future Now - The Elon/OpenAI law suit and the rise of AGI, NASA sonifies entire Galaxy and The Cosmic Hand, Gaian Mind Sensors, Bird-sized Ornithocopter, real-time 3D map of Solar System, Blood test ...

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Listen to 55 Future Now View Transcript Lots happening in the AI universe this week, including Sun’s quite humorous report with examples of Google’s faux paus in the name of woke culture. EMO by AliBaba is scary-good at taking any source image plus audio and making the image look like they are saying/singing the audio. This can bring to life any de…

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Heather L. Montgomery, "Sick!: The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 41:43

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Heather L. Montgomery writes for kids who are wild about animals, masterfully employing yuck appeal to engage young minds. Her 17 nonfiction books include Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill, What's in your Pocket? Collecting Nature's Treasures, and Bugs Don't Hug: Six Legged Parents and their Kids. Here we celebrate Heather's brand new book…

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54 Future Now - Space News, Dr. Bruce Damer on the Fourth Path of Psychedelics, Greg Panos on wrangling your AIs

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Listen To 54 Future Now View Transcript Dr. Bruce Damer is a scientist and entrepreneur known for his groundbreaking work in origin of life research and virtual worlds. With expertise spanning astrobiology and computer science, he passionately explores the intersection of technology and the origins of life on Earth and beyond. Now he is focused on …

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Get Signed: A Chat with Literary Agent Lucinda Halperin 34:56

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Lucinda Halpern is a literary agent with over 15 years’ experience in both the publicity and agency sides of publishing. Before founding Lucinda Literary, she worked in the Publicity division of HarperCollins, where she assisted on the media campaign for Freakonomics among other New York Times bestsellers. She currently represents authors writing i…

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53 Future Now - Stormy weather stories, Our media experiments with AI, In Memoriam- Science Poetry by Len Anderson, Wooden Satellites, Nukes in Space, Lunar Landing!

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Listen to 53 Future Now Show Len Science Poetry View Transcript What’s great about stormy weather is that stirs up some great stories, and out here in California it means we have more indoor time. This translated into more creative time for us play with some of the new AI media tools coming our way. So in this week’s show you’ll have a preview of w…

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Laurie Wallmark and Raakhee Mirchandani, "Journey to the Stars: Kalpana Chawla, Astronaut" (Beaming Books, 2024) 47:56

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Laurie Wallmark is the award-winning author of picture book biographies of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) as well as fiction. In our second interview, we celebrate Laurie's new picture book, Journey to the Stars: Kalpana Chawla, Astronaut, co-written with Raakhee Mirchandani, illustrated by Maitreyi Ghosh (Illustrator) ,…

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52 Future Now - New Luna Landings, Evolutionary Chiral Current Tech, Interview - Randall Lee Hopper on Free Food, Vitamins, and Tech for those in need

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Listen to 52 Future Now Randall Lee Hopper View Transcript Some great space news this week, including a new US lunar lander touching down this month; if successful, the Nova-C Lunar Lander by Intuitive Machinesfirst US craft on the moon since 1972! We also explore what are known as ‘chiral currents,’ a new approach to tech which may be as significa…

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My Friends Maurice Sendak and Leonard Bernstein 48:51

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Christopher Swann is an award-winning producer and director of documentaries, a playwright, author and editor. In our lively interview we discuss his career, his thoughts on creativity, his friendship with two legendary geniuses: author-illustrator Maurice Sendak, and composer conductor Leonard Bernstein, and the monumental films which these friend…

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Rebecca Gardyn Levington, "Afikoman, Where'd You Go?: A Passover Hide-and-Seek Adventure" (Rocky Pond Books, 2024) 58:02

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In this wonderfully candid conversation with children's book author Rebecca Gardyn Levington, we celebrate her new book Afikoman, Where'd You Go?: A Passover Hide-and-Seek Adventure from Rocky Pond Books (2024) and illustrated by Noa Kelner. This is her third published picture book (her previous books are Brainstorm! and Whatever Comes Tomorrow), w…

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51 Future Now - Storming in CA, PACE Mission, Whale Tech, Master Now Georgia update, Glowing Plants, Bacterial Plastic to Silk transformers, STOL planes, IO Volcanism

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Listen to Future Now 2.6.2024 View Transcript We recorded this show in the aftermath of a large west coast storm, and if you listened in realtime, you would have heard the numerous tech glitches that happened, including dropping off the air multiple times. But for the podcast version you get to focus on what we found most fascinating this week, not…

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50 Future Now - Moon Lander falls over, Robots attacked, AI prevents potholes, Obelisks- a new life form, Russian Spirit Fest debuts

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Listen to 50 Future Now Show View Transcript Even though the Japanese moon lander kind of crashed, it is still sort of functional..better than nothing! Robots are making their way into society, but not without some issues from the street..Obelisks-a new kind of life smaller than viruses than live within microbes.. This week we covered the “Spirit F…

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