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Science QuicklyMove Over Fireworks—Drone Shows Are Taking to the SkiesDrone shows are replacing fireworks for summer celebrations. They’re safer and more environmentally friendly but complicated to program and run. A recent preprint paper proposes an algorithmic solution that can take some technical challenges out of drone operators’ hands and give engineers more creative control. Host Rachel Feltman speaks with researchers Mac Schwager, an associate professor at the aeronautics and astronautics department at Stanford University, and Eduardo Montijano, an associate professor at the department of computer science and systems engineering at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, about their work and what it would take to move the algo...2025-07-0216 minScientific American Podcast: Science TalkMove Over Fireworks—Drone Shows Are Taking to the SkiesDrone shows are replacing fireworks for summer celebrations. They’re safer and more environmentally friendly but complicated to program and run. A recent preprint paper proposes an algorithmic solution that can take some technical challenges out of drone operators’ hands and give engineers more creative control. Host Rachel Feltman speaks with researchers Mac Schwager, an associate professor at the aeronautics and astronautics department at Stanford University, and Eduardo Montijano, an associate professor at the department of computer science and systems engineering at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, about their work and what it would take to move the algo...2025-07-0216 minScience QuicklyMove Over Fireworks—Drone Shows Are Taking to the SkiesDrone shows are replacing fireworks for summer celebrations. They’re safer and more environmentally friendly but complicated to program and run. A recent preprint paper proposes an algorithmic solution that can take some technical challenges out of drone operators’ hands and give engineers more creative control. Host Rachel Feltman speaks with researchers Mac Schwager, an associate professor at the aeronautics and astronautics department at Stanford University, and Eduardo Montijano, an associate professor at the department of computer science and systems engineering at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, about their work and what it would take to move the algo...2025-07-0216 min
The DerivativeUnpacking the Sell-Off! Awesome Insights from discretionary macro trader Asim GhaffarToday's episode features an in-depth discussion with discretionary global macro trader Asim Ghaffar, founder and CIO of AG Capital. Ghaffar shares his insights on the recent market volatility, including his views on the potential triggers behind the sell-off and the chances we have for a recession. Was it just a blip on the radar, algos deleveraging? He explains his discretionary macro trading approach, highlighting the importance of risk management, position sizing, and the psychological challenges of the business. Ghaffar also discusses the differences between his strategy and systematic trend following, as well as the unique opportunities smaller managers can...2024-08-081h 14
Tapping Into CryptoRaoul Pal - Predictions for the impact of inflation and how its playing out now 👏🏼 and what you really need to focus on to grow wealth 💰This week with everything happening in the world and a few interest rate rises we thought there is no better episode to have than a throw back to our chat with Raoul Pal. Most people in the crypto world will know exactly who Raoul Pal is but if you haven’t yet found him he is the Co-Founder and CEO of the incredible company Real Vision a financial media company offering in-depth video interviews and research publications from the world’s best investors.Raoul is a Former hedge fund manager who retired at 36. He has run a...2022-05-0840 minTapping Into CryptoRaoul Pal - Inflation & Interest Rates predictions for 2022📈 , Applying a Macro Investing Lens 🧐 and NFTS - Hype or Here to Stay 🖼Most people in the crypto world will know exactly who Raoul Pal is but if you haven’t yet found him he is the Co-Founder and CEO of the incredible company Real Vision a financial media company offering in-depth video interviews and research publications from the world’s best investors.Raoul is a Former hedge fund manager who retired at 36. He has run a successful global macro hedge fund, co-managed Goldman Sachs’ hedge fund sales business in Equities and Equity Derivatives in Europe, and helped design the BBC TV program Million Dollar Traders, training participants in investment and ri...2022-01-3041 min
Micheaux MissionIntroducing Book DreamsIn each episode of Book Dreams, hosts Julie Sternberg and Eve Yohalem seek answers to the book-related questions that they can’t stop dreaming about, like how to open a bookstore, what it’s like to edit iconic authors, and what exactly bibliotherapy is. Previous and upcoming episodes feature guests like Adrienne Maree Brown, Edith Eger, Simon Winchester, David Levithan, Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager, and Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg, plus experts in topics ranging from illuminated manuscripts to book design to using AI to write a bestseller.In this episode, Julie and Eve talk to Bryan...2021-04-3036 min
Dive Into An Vivid Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Rough and Plenty: A Memorial by Raymond A. RogersPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518142to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Rough and Plenty: A Memorial
Author: Raymond A. Rogers
Narrator: Jeff Schwager
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Release date: April 15, 2021
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada's East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland...2021-04-159h 55
Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceRough and Plenty: A Memorial by Raymond A. RogersPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rough and Plenty: A Memorial Author: Raymond A. Rogers Narrator: Jeff Schwager Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: April 15, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada's East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in...2021-04-1502 minStream Popular Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceRough and Plenty: A Memorial by Raymond A. RogersPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518142to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Rough and Plenty: A Memorial
Author: Raymond A. Rogers
Narrator: Jeff Schwager
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Release date: April 15, 2021
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada's East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland...2021-04-159h 55
Book DreamsEp. 27 - Great Recs for Great Reads from Great Writers, with Nancy Pearl and Jeff SchwagerWhat are the books that have shaped some of the most famous authors writing today? Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager, co-authors of the newly released The Writer’s Library, share with Eve and Julie recommendations they’ve collected from writers such as Luis Alberto Urrea, Laila Lalami, Jonathan Lethem, Louise Erdrich, and Maaza Mengiste; surprising details about which famous novels consistently didn’t show up on those authors’ lists of formative books; and insights into the changing roles of books during the pandemic. Best of all, we add many, many (many!) more books to our Book Dreams reading list!Fin...2020-10-2638 min
Book Club of OneEpisode 16: Explosions. Phantom and OtherwiseBooklist & Resources:
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson with a Foreword by Senator Dick Durbin. Worldcat
The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami Worldcat
The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager with an Introduction by Susan Orlean. Worldcat
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories Edited by J. A. Cuddon. Worldcat
Cold Storage by David Koepp Worldcat
Cumulative List of Featured Books2020-10-2024 min
For RealAfter the Final RoseThis week, Kim and Alice dive into books by and about folks in The Bachelor universe. Plus, thoughts on Obama’s upcoming memoir and all sorts of new books!
This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life. and The Mason House, available now from Lanternfish Press, and Henry Holt and Company.
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Nonfiction in the News...2020-09-2947 min
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesSKYLIT: Nancy Pearl & Jeff Schwager, "THE WRITER'S LIBRARY"In their ebullient new book, The Writer’s Library, America’s favorite librarian Nancy Pearl and noted playwright Jeff Schwager interview a diverse range of America's most notable and influential writers about the books that shaped them and inspired them to leave their own literary mark. The Writer’s Library is a revelatory exploration of the studies, libraries, and bookstores of today’s favorite authors (including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon) — the creative artists whose imagination and sublime talent make America's literary scene the wonderful, dynamic world it is.
2020-09-0945 min
Listen To The Most Critically-Acclaimed Full Audiobook Today!The Writer's Library: he Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Jeff Schwager, Nancy PearlPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414925to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Writer's Library: he Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
Author: Jeff Schwager, Nancy Pearl
Narrator: Luis A. Urrea, Ryan Do, Jeff Schwager, Jd Jackson, Piper Goodeve, Lameece Issaq, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Nancy Pearl, Laurie Frankel, Andrew Eiden, Xe Sands, Vendela Vida, Emily Woo Zeller, Siri Hustvedt, Dominic Hoffman, Richard Ford, Eileen Stevens, Rick Adamson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Release date: September 8, 2020
Genres: Essays & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Performed by Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager and a multi-cast that includes book contributors Luis Alberto U...2020-09-0811h 21Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Literature, Essays & AnthologiesThe Writer's Library: he Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Jeff Schwager, Nancy PearlPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/414925to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Writer's Library: he Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
Author: Jeff Schwager, Nancy Pearl
Narrator: Luis A. Urrea, Ryan Do, Jeff Schwager, Jd Jackson, Piper Goodeve, Lameece Issaq, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Nancy Pearl, Laurie Frankel, Andrew Eiden, Xe Sands, Vendela Vida, Emily Woo Zeller, Siri Hustvedt, Dominic Hoffman, Richard Ford, Eileen Stevens, Rick Adamson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Release date: September 8, 2020
Genres: Essays & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Performed by Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager and a multi-cast that includes book contributors Luis Alberto U...2020-09-0811h 21
The Library Love Fest PodcastAnnouncing the September 2020 LibraryReads PicksAnnouncing the HarperCollins titles that were selected for the September 2020 LibraryReads list! Congratulations to WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING by Alyssa Cole (the #1 pick!!), MONOGAMY by Sue Miller, and THE WRITER'S LIBRARY by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager. We also congratulate Tessa Bailey, author of TOOLS OF ENGAGEMENT, for being inducted into the Hall of Fame!
For more information on these titles, go to librarylovefest.com
We also have a phone number! Call 212-207-7773 and leave us a message—it might end up on the show!
You can find us on Facebook (@librarylovefest), Twitter (@librarylovefest), and Instagram (@harperlibrary).2020-08-1718 min
Coin World PodcastEP012: Fly Like an Eagle: Eagles, Sacagawea, and David SchwagerChris covers the news solo, Jeff and Chris consider the numismatic role of Cheerios, and we learn the name of the eagle that lived in the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. They also interviewed David Schwager, an expert on sample slabs, special third-party grading holders used to advertise for the certification organizations and demonstrate the services they offer.Related Links:Reddit: https://i.redd.it/nfjv9hsylm331.jpgThis episode of the Coin World Podcast was sponsored by the Coin World Marketplace:https://www.coinworld.market/Contact info:Chris Bulfinch: c...2019-06-1742 min
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 113January 2018 solicitations, Batman: The Drowned, Green Lanterns 33, Mighty Thor 700, Incredible Hulk 709, Invincible Iron Man, Cable 150, Spider-Gwen 25, Luke Cage, Champions 13, Deadpool vs Old Man Logan, Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil 1, Maestros 1, Kid Lobotomy 1, Infernoct 1, Animosity: Evolution 1, Kong: Gods of Skull Island 1, Planet Hulk, Glenn makes an observation, Detective Comics Vol 3 TP, Here’s Negan HC, Justice League movie run time, Kingsman: Golden Circle and Blade Runner 2049 reviews Details: Batman the Drowned by Dan Abnett, Tyler Kirkham, Philip Tan, Arif Prianto, Dean White; Green Lanterns 33 by Tim Seeley, Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferrera; Mighty Thor 700 by Jas...2017-10-292h 30
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 052Top 300 July comic sales, Supergirl Rebirth, Suicide Squad 1, Batgirl and the Birds of Prey 1, The Fallen, Backstagers, Demonic, Spawn Kills Everyone, DC Exclusives (Sean Murphy, Tim Seeley), End of Invincible, All-Star Batman: Snyder vs Robin, Zendaya as MJ, Collector's Corps Unboxing, American Horror Story, Wild's End Details: Supergirl Rebirth by Steve Orlando, Emanuela Lupacchino, Ray McCarthy, Michael Atiyeh; Suicide Squad 1 by Rob Williams, Jim Lee, Jason Fabok, Scott Williams, Alex Sinclair, Brad Anderson; Batgirl and the Birds of Prey 1 by Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Claire Roe, Allen Passalaqua; The Fallen by Greg Pak, Mark Bagley, Marc Deering...2016-08-231h 37