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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2897: Privacy and Technology

Engines of Our Ingenuity - May 01, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 2897 A (Very) Short History of Privacy and Technology.  Today, privacy and technology.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2779: Smart Phones / Wise Phones

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 30, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 2779 Smartphones/Wise Phones, our changing relationship with phones over the last century.  Today, smartphones vs. wise phones.

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237. Celebrating yet another Unhappy Earth Day, every day.

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis - April 29, 2024 07:18 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 206 ratings
Waylon encourages us to honor Earth Day every day, not just one day a year. Giving a care for our one and only planet is not about being perfect, or being a goody-two-shoes, but about living a mindful life and ensuring future generations can as well. "Ultimately, like any kind of love, any kin...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1165: Count Rumford

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 29, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1165 Benjamin Thompson/Count Rumford and the conservation of energy.  Today, we meet a Bavarian count who was born in colonial Massachusetts.

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Live Your Best Life

Jesus Fix It - April 29, 2024 04:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
As I've navigated the turbulent waters of life's trials, from witnessing friends confront cancer to feeling the sting of financial pressures and mourning the loss of loved ones like the incredible Mandisa, I've been on a quest for gratitude amid the grief. In this heart-bearing discussion, I sha...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1164: Things Bite Back

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 28, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1164 Why Things Bite Back: The Revenge Effect.  Today, nature takes revenge.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1163: A Better Mousetrap

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 27, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1163 To build a better mousetrap -- that people will use.  Today, let's build a better mousetrap.

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236. Sue Van Raes teaches Waylon how to Eat (Nachos).

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis - April 26, 2024 17:17 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 206 ratings
Waylon talks with long-time friend Sue Van Raes about mindful eating, staying in the present moment, traveling, our personal food stories, and just eating the nachos.  Her new book, “Food and Freedom,” is out now! "We can look back at our lives, look back at our stories...and we all have our f...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1162: Systems

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 26, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1162 Systems: Much more than the sum of their parts.  Today, let's see how machines transcend themselves.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1979: Airplane Reservations

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 25, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1979 How to process five thousand airline reservation requests in one second.  Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd buys plane tickets.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3001: Archimedes To the Rescue

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 24, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 3001 Archimedes to the Rescue.  Today, Archimedes to the rescue.

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Inside Accenture’s AI Journey with CEO Julie Sweet

WorkLab - April 24, 2024 01:45 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratings
How is Accenture, the professional services company with more than 730,000 employees across the world, transforming its enterprise using AI? And how is it recommending its clients do the same? In this episode, we go behind the scenes with CEO Julie Sweet to learn how. She also shares why the fir...

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Capitalizing on Environmental, Social, Governmental (ESG) Opportunities in the Construction Industry

Build Me Up - April 23, 2024 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Environmental, Social, and Government (ESG) requirements are popping up everywhere. Do you know the expectations of all the various stakeholders that impact your business? These include project owners, general contractors, investors, lenders, insurance companies, employees, and governmental agen...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2739: Hall

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 23, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 2739 Evolution of the Hall from Anglo-Saxon times to the present.  Today, a room without a view.

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235. How to go into a difficult situation.

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis - April 22, 2024 08:07 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 206 ratings
Waylon discusses how to approach a difficult situation and gives examples from his own life, hoping that they'll connect with you and your life and that this here little podcast can be of some small benefit to your dear heart. Subscribe to get our full conversations weekly.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1161: Roman Water Wheel

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 22, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1161 An old Roman mill tells about the acceptance of technology.  Today, we try to make sense of an old Roman power plant.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1159: Nevil Shute’s Ordeal

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 21, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1159 In which Nevil Shute looks at the ordeal of aerial bombing.  Today, Nevil Shute predicts the chilling anonymity of war.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1158: The Crystal Palace

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 20, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1158 The Crystal Palace, the 1851 exhibition, and Victorian art.  Today, we look for art to equal the building that holds it.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1157: Marketing Model A

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 19, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1157 Merchandising Windows 95 and the Ford Model A.  Today, we sell Model A's and Windows 95.

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234. Dain Heer on "What Masculinity *Is.*"

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis - April 18, 2024 18:53 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 206 ratings
In the latest episode of Elephant's long-running, award-winning podcast and video series Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis, Waylon meets Dain Heer. They speak about (toxic, unhealthy, unkind and genuine, grounded, grownup) masculinity, unrealistic expectations, parenting—about what it means t...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1971: Lame, Cauchy, and Kummer

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 18, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1971 In which Lame, Cauchy, and Kummer race to prove Fermat's last theorem.  Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd relives a race.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3029: Model Citizen

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 17, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 3029 Model Citizen.  Today, lets talk about models.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3241: Hooker’s Green

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 16, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 3241 Green with Immortality.  Today, we go green with immortality.

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233. Waylon reads Chapter 10 of “It’s Never too Late to Fall in Love with your Life.”

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis - April 15, 2024 07:01 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 206 ratings
In this week’s Mindful Monday video & podcast, Waylon asks our Elephant Journal community to pick a page in his book “It’s Never too Late to Fall in Love with your Life.” A reader picked Chapter 10, and Waylon does an impromptu reading. “If you fill every moment of your day, your brain will bu...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1156: The Machine as Mirror

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 15, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1156 We mirror machine mirrors we mirror machine mirrors we ... Today, an analogy game.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1154: Adam’s Belly Button

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 14, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1154 In which Adam's navel poses the question of pre-creation history.  Today, a silly question about Adam's navel paves the way for evolution.

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232. "95% of my own dear friends still waste single-use & fast fashion plastic every single day." ~ Waylon Lewis

Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis - April 13, 2024 14:52 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 206 ratings
“This is the first generation where we actually know we’re destroying the future for all future generations.” ~ Waylon Lewis  Waylon talks about what, environmentally, he wishes he had understood more clearly 10 – 20 years ago. Plastic sucks: “Yet 95% of my own dear friends still waste singl...

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1153: Grosseteste and Bacon

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 13, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1153 Grosseteste, Bacon, and the rise of realism.  Today, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, and cyberspace.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1152: Macbeth

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 12, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1152 Macbeth, populism, and insanity.  Today, Shakespeare tells us how to stay sane.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1961: The Four-Color Problem

Engines of Our Ingenuity - April 11, 2024 05:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 165 ratings
Episode: 1961 The Four-Color Problem -- an strange old puzzle, almost resolved.  Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd colors maps.