Shows
The Garvey Classroom PodcastBreaking the Habit of SurrenderThis video speaks to the sense of passivity that Garvey warned us about. He called it “laziness.” A trained habit of surrender. Of waiting and letting others think and decide for us. That creeping belief that our effort will not matter until resignation starts to feel normal. When Garvey said, “You have been so darned lazy, that you’ve allowed the other fellow to run away with the whole world,” he was naming a danger, not insulting our spirit. The psychologist Martin Seligman later referred to it as “learned helplessness.” I wrote about this in my first novel, “Benjamin, My Son” (2003...
2025-11-0400 min
What the Health? From KFF Health NewsAu Revoir, Public Health EmergencyThe Biden administration this week announced it would let the covid-19 public health emergency lapse on May 11, even as the Republican-led House was voting to immediately eliminate the special authorities of the so-called PHE. Meanwhile, anti-abortion forces are pressuring legislators to both tighten abortion restrictions and pay for every birth in the nation. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post, and Victoria Knight of Axios join KHN’s chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Hannah Wesolowski of the National Alliance on Mental Illness ab...
2023-02-0243 min
Cryptography FMEpisode 21: Proving Fundamental Equivalencies in Isogeny Mathematics!Benjamin Wesolowski talks about his latest paper in which he mathematically proved that the two fundamental problems underlying isogeny-based cryptography are equivalent.
Links and papers discussed in the show:
The supersingular isogeny path and endomorphism ring problems are equivalent
Episode 5: Isogeny-based Cryptography for Dummies!
Music composed by Toby Fox and performed by Sean Schafianski.Special Guest: Benjamin Wesolowski.Sponsored By:Capsule Social: At Capsule Social, Inc. we are building a platform for decentralized discourse. A place where content creators, writers, and thinkers have full ownership and control over their speech...
2021-08-2446 min