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Bad Comedy! Podcast"Don't Tread on Me! I'll Do it Again! - Trump 45 | Normal Ep 152SUM 41 Has Taken a Turn to the Right Folks! They changed their name to Trump 45!"Don't Tread on me! I'll let you know when! Don't Tread on Me! I'll do it Again!"What are they gonna do again?For the Good Episodes with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/BadcomedyFor the EXCLUSIVE Weekly GOOD Episodes, with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/BadcomedyHosts: Mack Nepper @badboyofcomedyJason Melton @cooljasonmeltonDylan Mahler @comedybaddie2024-08-051h 27
SHIFT HAPPENSEmbracing Her Second Spring: Claudia is in Conversation with Tapp Francke Ingolia about Menopause"Menopause is a transition in life that the Japanese call the second Spring. It's an opportunity. It's another chapter. It's another era beyond our reproductive era." Clinical nutritionist and integrative health practitioner Tapp Francke Ingolia, shares her journey through peri-menopause and into menopause, and the shock her own body brought to her through this shift. Tapp says, that the changes within her body and mind - alarming at times - were also an amazing route to rediscover and understand her body and self acceptance, that she had never experienced like this before.Tapp opened her h...2024-04-1734 min
Bad Comedy! PodcastThe Moon is Bigger than the Sun. PROVE US WRONG! | Bad Comedy! Podcast - Normal Episode 127Hey Science! You think the Sun is bigger than the Moon? Riddle me this. How about you explain a Lunar Eclipse to us?? Exactly. For the Good Episodes with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/BadcomedyFor Video Eps Check out our Youtube Channel: youtube.com/@badcomedypodcastFor the EXCLUSIVE Weekly GOOD Episodes, with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/BadcomedyHosts: Mack Nepper @badboyofcomedyJason Melton @jasonmeltoncomedyvidsDylan Mahler @comedybaddieRecorded at BAD COMEDY! Studios Chicago...2024-02-271h 07
Bad Comedy! PodcastHammered & A Pickle - Normal Ep #126I thought I was a Communist because every time I would get Hammered I would eat a Pickle. Turns out the whole time it's a Hammer and Sickle...I was like what the...For the Good Episodes with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/BadcomedyFor Video Eps Check out our Youtube Channel: youtube.com/@badcomedypodcastFor the EXCLUSIVE Weekly GOOD Episodes, with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/BadcomedyHosts: Mack Nepper @badboyofcomedyJason Melton @jasonmeltoncomedyvidsDylan Mahler...2024-02-201h 02
Bad Comedy! PodcastRiCARdoCast - A CarCast ft Ricardo Angulo - FREE GUEST EPISODE! - Guest Ep CXXIIIThis is another car podcast. If aren't familiar with Carcasts they're the best ones. It's with Jason and the very funny RiCARdo Angulo as guest! Two guest eps this week folks! No Mack or Dylan on this ep, so if you hate one or the other or both, this is the ep for u For Audio Only. Check out Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Everywhere Else For the Good Episodes with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/BadcomedyFor Video Eps Check out our Youtube Channel: youtube.com/@badcomedypodcast2024-02-132h 32
Bad Comedy! PodcastWe Are Female Comedians! - Normal Ep #125We are Female Comedians! HEAR US ROAR!For Audio Only. Check out Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Everywhere ElseFor the Weekly GOOD Episodes, with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/BadcomedyHosts: Mack Nepper @badboyofcomedyJason Melton @jasonmeltoncomedyvidsDylan Mahler @comedybaddieRecorded at BAD COMEDY! Studios Chicago, IL PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! _________________________________________________Follow Bad Comedy! Podcast on: IG/FB/Tik Tok- @badcomedypodcast Twitter: @bad_comedypod LinkTree: linktr.ee/badcomedypodcastHosts SocialsMACK NEPPER IG/FB/TikTok/Twitter...2024-02-061h 02SHIFT HAPPENSA Journey Fueled by Positivity: Claudia is in Conversation with Waridi Wardah"Growing up as a Muslim girl, with a Muslim background in Nairobi… I grew up with my aunt and she was super strict, so I was really traditional in the way I wore clothes, the way I appeared, and went to school. I went to Muslim girl’s school, so we wore long trousers and covered our legs and always covered everything up. it was a special time, as a young girl or young woman, I didn’t have boyfriends. But I still had feelings as a young girl. And just watching my girlfriends enjoying that, I actually could never...2024-01-3137 min
Bad Comedy! PodcastWe DID Start the Fire! - Normal Ep #124This episode was FIRE! Literally! We were inhaling lighter fluid the whole time and got black lung!For Audio Only. Check out Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Everywhere Else For the Weekly GOOD Episodes, with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/BadcomedyHosts: Mack Nepper @badboyofcomedyJason Melton @jasonmeltoncomedyvidsDylan Mahler @comedybaddieRecorded at BAD COMEDY! Studios Chicago, IL PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! _________________________________________________Follow Bad Comedy! Podcast on: IG/FB/Tik Tok- @badcomedypodcast Twitter: @bad_comedypod LinkTree: linktr.ee/badcomedypodcastHosts Socials2024-01-301h 04
Bad Comedy! PodcastThe BADDIES! - Normal Ep 123Were the Baddies. We're the Beatles of comedy but BAD!For Audio Only. Check out Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Everywhere Else For the Good Episodes with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/BadcomedyHosts: Mack Nepper @badboyofcomedyJason Melton @jasonmeltoncomedyvidsDylan Mahler @comedybaddieRecorded at BAD COMEDY! Studios Chicago, IL PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! _________________________________________________Follow Bad Comedy! Podcast on: IG/FB/Tik Tok- @badcomedypodcast Twitter: @bad_comedypod LinkTree: linktr.ee/badcomedypodcastHosts SocialsMACK NEPPER IG/FB/TikTok/Twitter: @badboyofcomedy LinkTree...2024-01-231h 01SHIFT HAPPENSFinding Strength And Power Amidst Fear and Despair: Claudia in Conversation with Maria TibblinThis week’s guest, Maria Tibblin, is an interior designer and founder of Maria Tibblin Ltd, a Medical Health promoting Interior Design Firm, based in London.Maria shares how she persevered when her 3-year-old daughter was kidnapped by her father and went missing for nearly a year. This unfathomable time shaped Maria as a woman, as a mother, and as a person. In reflection, she shares how she acquired strength and wisdom through a period marked by deep despair and fear.After this deep trauma, Maria went on with her little family (two daughters) and bu...2024-01-1736 min
Bad Comedy! PodcastBad Shottas! ft. Mike Robinson - Normal Episode 122Tree Batty Bois de razzclat with de Michael Robinsonson doing de funny comed. Dey not gay dey funny and coolFor Audio Only. Check out Spotify/Apple Podcasts/Everywhere Else For the Good Episodes with High Profile Guests, find them ONLY on Patreon.com/Badcomedy Hosts: Mack Nepper @badboyofcomedy Jason Melton @jasonmeltoncomedyvids Dylan Mahler @comedybaddie Recorded at BAD COMEDY! Studios Chicago, IL PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! _________________________________________________ Follow Bad Comedy! Podcast on: IG/FB/Tik Tok- @badcomedypodcast Twitter: @bad_comedypod LinkTree: linktr.ee/badcomedypodcast Hosts Socials 2024-01-161h 10SHIFT HAPPENSIntercultural Competence and Rockstar Creativity: Claudia is in conversation with Angela WeinbergerIn this episode, Angie Weinberger shares her wisdom on inclusive leadership and intercultural competence. Her book, The Global Rockstar Album – 21 Verses to Find Your Tact as an Inclusive Leader, was published in October 2023, and is geared towards leaders that are going through challenging times in their personal and professional lives, addressing vulnerability, privilege, and imperfection. Tune in to hear how a shift in Angie’s personal life led her to slow down and experience a burst of creativity — and write a book that helps others discover that “rockstar feeling.”At home at heart in India, Angie Weinberger, who is ori...2024-01-0332 minSHIFT HAPPENSAll that can happen when you listen to your inner voice: Claudia is in conversation with Dr. Barbara MutedziIn the 5th episode of SHIFT HAPPENS - A PODCAST WITH CLAUDIA MAHLER, Claudia is in conversation with Dr. Barbara Mutedzi, a Conscious Leadership Coach for, originally from Zimbabwe and now living and teaching in Bali. Barbara is trained in neuroscience, with a background in health & community psychology, and socio-cultural and medical anthropology. Her purpose is to help leaders running businesses in low to middle income countries.The inner voice - a gut feeling - a spiritual notion - intuition ... there are many ways people try to name and pin point this notion one so often senses...2023-12-2038 minSHIFT HAPPENSHow To Repair Your Own Body: Claudia is in conversation with Vili HickeyIn this fourth episode of SHIFT HAPPENS A Podcast with Claudia Mahler, Claudia spends time with actress turned celebrity trainer turned womb healer, Vili Hickey. Vili, originally from Austria and now at home in Austin, Texas with her young family, shares a significant experience of the shocking misconception of the female body by a medical practitioner, and how she went from being left alone with her pain to flourishing into a journey of self compassion, of starting her own business, of facing the taboo of the raging mother, all the way to embracing, learning and practicing the art of w...2023-12-0633 min
Bad Comedy! PodcastCrayon Guy from the Upper Penincila- Normal Episode #111Dylan's a Crayon guy Made by Mr. Floop Hosts: Mack Nepper @badboyofcomedy Jason Melton @jasonmeltoncomedyvids Dylan Mahler @comedybaddie Recorded at BAD COMEDY! Studios Chicago, IL PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! _________________________________________________ Also, follow Bad Comedy! Podcast on: IG/FB/Tik Tok- @badcomedypodcast Twitter: @bad_comedypod LinkTree: linktr.ee/badcomedypodcast Hosts Socials MACK NEPPER IG/FB/TikTok/Twitter: @badboyofcomedy LinkTree: linktr.ee/badboyofcomedy DYLAN MAHLER IG/Tik Tok/Twitter: @comedybaddie FB: Dylan Mahler JASON MELTON IG/FB/TikTok/Twitter: @cooljasonmelton Twitch: @jasonmeltontwitch -Comedy Special “Vanity Project” on Youtube: @jasonmeltoncomedyvids -Haha to Hell | Reggies, Chicago | IG: @hahatohell - End of the Line | Nighthawk, Chicago | IG...2023-10-3153 minSHIFT HAPPENSArriving in the present moment: Claudia is in conversation with Deborah CopakenIn the premiere episode of SHIFT HAPPENS with Claudia Mahler, Claudia spends time with New York Times bestselling author, journalist, awarded war photographer and substacker, Deborah Copaken. Deb tells a gripping story of a moment at sea, adrift and alone, and how she was renewed in the Aegean Sea. She shares the most reliable breathing exercise to de-stress and how a horrible car crash made her smile.SHIFT HAPPENS is a bi-monthly podcast and creates a space for women to pause for a moment and to share, to listen and to feel heard. A space where we...2023-10-2540 min
SHIFT HAPPENSSHIFT HAPPENS - A New Podcast With Claudia Mahler (Official Trailer)SHIFT HAPPENS creates a space for women to pause for a moment and to share, to listen and to feel heard. A space where we connect and talk about life and its pivotal moments. About the highs and lows, the challenges and the joys. About what has been gained, and about how enriching change can be. Some things we hear are heavy, some are funny; they all put me in awe, as they are honest and raw testimonies of life.Too often, women just get on with it — the everyday, the duties, the expectations. Too often, life-altering ev...2023-10-1801 min
Making Shift Happen PodcastEpisode 5: Introduction to Intentional LeadershipWe are back with the Making Shift Happen Podcast, the podcast all about making work more human! In this brand-new season, we focus on intentional leadership, and in our first episode, Jay Chopra and Anne Mahler give an introduction to the concept of intentional leadership, explain why it has become a focus for us now, and Jay shares his own background journey to realising the importance of intentional leadership.
The Making Shift Happen podcast is written and produced by Jay Chopra, PhD (Managing Director) and Anne Mahler, PhD (Academy Lead and Consultant).
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Mahler FoundationMahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – IntroLieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (‘Songs of a Wayfarer’) is a song cycle by Gustav Mahler on his own texts. The cycle of four Lieder for low voice (often performed by women as well as men) was written around 1884-1885 in the wake of Mahler’s unhappy love for soprano Johanna Richter (1858-1943), whom he met while conductor of the opera house in Kassel, Germany, and orchestrated and revised in the 1890s.---A listening guide of Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen – Intro with Lew Smoley.2021-03-2204 minMahler FoundationMahler Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Zu Strassburg Auf Der Schanz (At Strasbourg On The Battlement)The tenth song in this collection, “Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz” (At Strasbourg on the battlement), starts with a very colorful piano entrance marked “as a folk tune” and “imitating the shawm.” As Donald Mitchell points out, this is of a type very characteristic of Mahler in his vocal as well as symphonic output: the slow farewell song or funeral march…We have a relatively simple example of the kind, remarkable chiefly for the piano’s imitation of the “Schalmei,” the chalumeau or herdsman’s pipe, which lures the homesick soldier into swimming the Rhine by night. There is also the imita...2021-03-2208 minMahler FoundationMahler Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Ablösung Im Sommer (Relief In Summer)Misprints are rare, but this song contains one incorrect note in the piano part. In measure 3 of the IMC edition, the first left hand note should be A instead of F. Few instances exist where Mahler uses a hemiola effect in the piano. Measures 10 and 11 are a wonderful example of this effect, where the pianist can bring out the left hand duple feel by playing stronger.“The changing of the summer guard”. ---A listening guide of Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Ablösung Im Sommer with Lew Smoley.2021-03-2202 minMahler FoundationMahler Lieder Und Gesänge Aus Dem Jugendzeit – Nicht Wiedersehen! (Never To Meet Again)Balancing the soft low texture with piano remains one of the main challenges for tubists in the penultimate song in this collection, “Nicht wiedersehen!” (Never to meet again). It is scored very low on the piano and would be easy to lose the melody inside of the harmony of the accompaniment. Mahler instructs the pianist to use the pedals freely, however perhaps the dampening pedal should be the most important. The effect of the sustain pedal will be too much for this song, especially when the pitches between the piano and tuba overlap.The first three notes of t...2021-03-2207 minMahler FoundationMahler Das Lied von der Erde – Das Trinklied vom Jammer der ErdeThe first movement continually returns to the refrain, Dunkel ist das Leben, ist der Tod (literally, 'Dark is life, is death'), which is pitched a semitone higher on each successive appearance. Like many drinking poems by Li Bai, the original poem 'Bei Ge Xing' (a pathetic song) mixes drunken exaltation with a deep sadness.The singer's part is notoriously demanding, since the tenor has to struggle at the top of his range against the power of the full orchestra. This gives the voice its shrill, piercing quality, and is consistent with Mahler's practice of pushing instruments, including...2021-03-2244 minMahler FoundationMahler Das Lied von der Erde – Der Trunkene im FrühlingThe second scherzo of the work is provided by the fifth movement. Like the first, it opens with a horn theme. In this movement Mahler uses an extensive variety of key signatures, which can change as often as every few measures. The middle section features a solo violin and solo flute, which represent the bird the singer describes.---A listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Der Trunkene im Frühling with Lew Smoley.2021-03-2231 minMahler FoundationMahler Das Lied von der Erde – Der AbschiedThe final movement is nearly as long as the previous five movements combined. Its text is drawn from two different poems, both involving the theme of leave-taking. Mahler himself added the last lines. This final song is also notable for its text-painting, using a mandolin to represent the singer’s lute, imitating bird calls with woodwinds, and repeatedly switching between the major and minor modes to articulate sharp contrasts in the text.---A listening guide of Das Lied von der Erde – Der Abschied with Lew Smoley.2021-03-221h 43Mahler FoundationMahler Das Lied von der Erde – IntroDas Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) is a composition for two voices and orchestra by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Composed between Year 1908 and Year 1909 following the most painful period in Mahler’s life (Year 1907). The songs address themes such as Living, Parting and Salvation.Mahler had already included movements for voice and orchestra in his Symphony No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 8. Das Lied von der Erde is the first work giving a complete integration of song cycle and symphony. The form was afterwards imitated by other composers, notably by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Alexander vo...2021-03-2225 minMahler FoundationMahler Kindertotenlieder – IntroKindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Ruckert (1788-1866).The original Kindertotenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in 1833-1834 in an outpouring of grief following the illness (scarlet fever) and death of two of his children. Karen Painter describes the poems thus: “Rückert’s 428 poems on the death of children became singular, almost manic documents of the psychological endeavor to cope with such loss. In ever new variations Rückert’s poems attempt a...2021-03-2209 minMahler FoundationMahler Das Klagende Lied – IntroDas klagende Lied is a work in which Mahler comes closest to the opera. This is because the composition is pervaded by drama and its elaboration in a text that regularly gets the character of a theatrically very effective dialogue.Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was fourteen years old when his younger brother Ernst Mahler (1862-1875) died. The loss touched him deeply and gave him a gnawing guilt. A few years later he started Das klagende Lied, his first major work. Mahler himself wrote the text. He relied on a folk tale about two brothers, in which the elder...2021-03-2207 minMahler FoundationMahler Rückert-Lieder – Um Mitternacht (At Midnight)Um Mitternacht moves from the most brilliant day to deepest night, and the change is once more immediately apparent in its coloration. Mahler calls for an orchestra without strings. In addition to pairs of woodwinds (with a single oboe d’amore replacing the usual oboes), three horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a single tuba, and timpani, both harp and piano are prescribed.The length, weight and scale of the song match its theme. Five six-line stanzas (each of which begins and ends with “Um Mitternacht”) are set in a rich and complex contrapuntal idiom, more symphonic than lyric...2021-03-2219 minMahler FoundationMahler Rückert-Lieder – Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen (I Have Lost My Way In The World)The poetic theme of “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen,” one of Mahler’s most beautiful and moving songs, is again unusual. It evokes the peace achieved through the poet’s withdrawal from the everyday turmoil of the world and his absorption in the most meaningful and central aspects of his life: his heaven, his life, and his song. (By implication the last is the product of the preceding two).---A listening guide of Rückert-Lieder – Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen with Lew Smoley.2021-03-2219 minMahler FoundationMahler Rückert-Lieder – IntroRückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Ruckert (1788-1866). Lied Ruckert 1: Blicke mir nicht in die LiederLied Ruckert 2: Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft!Lied Ruckert 3: Um MitternachtLied Ruckert 4: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommenLied Ruckert 5: Liebst du um Schoenheit---A listening guide of Rückert-Lieder – Intro with Lew Smoley.2021-03-2206 minMahler FoundationMahler Rückert-Lieder – Blicke Mir Nicht In Die Lieder (Do Not Peek At My Songs)Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder explores a more unusual theme. It warns the listener not to be too inquisitive about the process of creation, and suggests that the poet does not trust himself to inquire too much: only the finished work counts, not how it was achieved. The analogy made with the work of bees in the second stanza provides Mahler with the basis for his musical imagery. A brief introduction establishes a kind of perpetuum mobile with a subtle buzzing produced by an orchestra of muted strings, without double bass, single woodwinds and a horn, together w...2021-03-1901 minMahler FoundationMahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Der Tambourg’sell (The Drummer Boy)Tamboursg’sell is the last composed of Mahler’s Wunderhorn settings. Like Revelge, it is sung by a doomed drummer. Rather than lying in the field, however, this drummer lies in prison. Where Revelge was manic, this song is more heavy and mournful. The drum rolls here are slower and more deliberate, and are balanced by lamenting woodwind trills. The song itself is most effective at a slow tempo.---A listening guide of Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Der Tambourgsell with Lew Smoley.2021-03-1909 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 1 - Intro - Listening GuideThe Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was mainly composed between late 1887 and 03-1888, though it incorporates music Mahler had composed for previous works. It was composed while Mahler was the second conductor at the Leipzig Opera, Germany.Although in his letters Mahler almost always referred to the work as a symphony, the first two performances described it as a ‘Symphonic poem’ or ‘Tone poem’.---A listening guide of Symphony No. 1 - Intro with Lew Smoley.2021-03-1820 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 1 - 1st Movement - Listening GuideVery restrained throughout, D major. The first movement is in modified sonata form, with a substantially slow introduction. The introduction begins eerily with a seven-octave drone in the strings on A, with the upper octaves being played on harmonics in the violins. A descending two-note motif is then presented by the woodwinds, and eventually establishes itself into the following repeated pattern:This opening, in its minimalist nature and repeated descending motif, alludes to the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 in D minor. This theme is then interrupted by a fanfare-like material first presented in...2021-03-1829 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 1 - Blumine Movement - Listening GuideBlumine translates to ‘floral’, or ‘flower’, and some believe this movement was written for Johanna Richter (1858-1943), with whom Mahler was infatuated at the time. The style of this movement has much in common with Mahler’s earlier works but also shows the techniques and distinct style of his later compositions.---A listening guide of Symphony No. 1 - Blumine Movement with Lew Smoley.2021-03-1806 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 1 - 2nd Movement - Listening GuideMoving strongly, but not too quickly, restrained, a trio Ländler. The second movement is a modified minuet and trio. Mahler replaces the minuet with a Ländler, a 3/4 dance-form that was a precursor to the Austrian waltz. This is a popular structure in Mahler’s other symphonies, as well as Franz Schubert’s. One main theme repeats throughout the Ländler, and it gathers energy towards a hectic finish. The main melody outlines an A major chord.The trio contains contrasting lyrical material; however, as it comes to a close, Mahler alludes again to the Ländler by...2021-03-1817 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 1 - 4th Movement - Listening GuideEnergisch, Stormily agitated – Energetic. The fourth movement is by far the most involved, and expansive. It brings back several elements from the first movement, unifying the symphony as a whole. The movement begins with an abrupt cymbal crash, a loud chord in the upper woodwinds, string and brass, and a bass drum hit, all in succession. This contrasts greatly with the end of the third movement. As the strings continue in a frenzy of notes, fragments of a theme in F minor appear, presented forcefully in the brass, before being played in entirety by the majority of winds:...2021-03-1835 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 2 - Intro - Listening GuideThe ink was barely dry on the score of his First Symphony in 1888 when Mahler began to toy with the idea of a new large symphonic work in c. The opening movement was soon completed and named Todtenfeier (Funeral Ceremony), but it then languished among his papers until 1891, the year in which he left the Budapest Opera to become conductor in Hamburg. There he attracted the attention of the great conductor Hans von Bulow (1830-1894), well known as a champion of new music. When Mahler played him Todtenfeier on the piano, however, Bulow covered his ears and groaned: “If wh...2021-03-1811 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 5 - 4th Movement - Listening GuideThe third part of the symphony starts with the fourth movement, a tender Adagietto, one of the most intimate compositions of Mahler and certainly therefore one of the most famous, but also because Visconti used it in his film Death in Venice. After the rather trivial Scherzo, we encounter emotion and sensuality, it is pure poetry transformed into music.One feels that after the Scherzo, there was a rupture out of which a new start arises and thus the Adagietto becomes the prelude of the last movement. The orchestration is in no way inferior to the tenderness...2021-03-1826 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 3 - 5th Movement - Listening GuideThe cheerful fifth movement, “Es sungen drei Engel”, is one of Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn songs, (whose text itself is loosely based on a 17th-century church hymn, which Paul Hindemithlater used in its original form in his Symphony “Mathis der Maler”) about the redemption of sins and comfort in belief. Here, a children’s choir imitating bells and a female chorus join the alto solo.---A listening guide of Symphony No. 3 - 5th Movement with Lew Smoley.2021-03-1851 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 4 - Intro - Listening GuideThe Symphony No. 4 in G major by Gustav Mahler was written in 1899 and 1900, though it incorporates a song originally written in 1892. The song, “Das himmlische Leben”, presents a child’s vision of Heaven. It is sung by a soprano in the work’s fourth and last movement. Although typically described as being in the key of G major, the symphony employs a progressive tonal scheme (‘(b)/G–E’).Mahler’s first four symphonies are often referred to as the “Wunderhorn” symphonies because many of their themes originate in earlier songs by Mahler on texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Yout...2021-03-1816 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 4 - 1st Movement - Listening GuideModerately, not rushed, Sonata form. Flutes and sleigh bells open the unusually restrained first movement (and used later with a melodic theme known commonly as the ‘bell theme’, which helps define sections throughout the movement) often described as possessing classical poise. As would be expected for the first movement of a symphony, the first movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 is in sonata form.A listening guide of Symphony No. 4 - 1st Movement with Lew Smoley.2021-03-1828 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 4 - 2nd Movement - Listening GuideLeisurely moving, without haste. Scherzo and Trio. The second movement is a scherzo that features a part for a solo violin whose strings are tuned a tone higher than usual. The violin depicts Freund Hein, (lit. “Friend Henry”) a figure from medieval German art; Hain (or Hein) is a traditional German personification of death, invented by poet Matthias Claudius.Freund Hein is a skeleton who plays the fiddle and leads a Totentanz or “danse macabre”. According to Mahler’s widow, Alma, Mahler took inspiration for this movement from an 1872 painting by the Swiss artist Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901) entitled S...2021-03-1828 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 4 - 3rd Movement - Listening GuidePeacefully, somewhat slowly. Theme and variations. The third movement is a solemn processional march cast as a set of variations. Mahler uses the theme and variation structure in a more unconventional way.This movement can be divided into five main sections: A1 – B1 – A2 – B2 – A3 – CODA. The theme is presented in the first 16 bars of A1, but the true variations don’t appear until section A3, although the theme is developed slightly within the preceding sections; sections A1, A2, B1, and B2 are in bar form. This movement remains mostly in G major, but does modulate to D minor...2021-03-1845 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 4 - 4th Movement - Listening GuideVery comfortably. Strophic. The fourth movement opens with a relaxed, bucolic scene in G major. A child, voiced by a soprano, presents a sunny, naive vision of Heaven and describes the feast being prepared for all the saints. The scene has its darker elements: the child makes it clear that the heavenly feast takes place at the expense of animals, including a sacrificed lamb. The child’s narrative is punctuated by faster passages recapitulating the first movement.Unlike the final movement of traditional symphonies, the fourth movement of Mahler’s No. 4 is essentially a song, containing verses, with...2021-03-1845 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 5 - Intro - Listening GuideThe Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was composed in 1901 and 1902, mostly during the summer months at Mahler’s cottage at Maiernigg. Among its most distinctive features are the trumpet solo that opens the work with the same rhythmic motive as used in the opening of Beethoven’s 5th symphony and the frequently performed Adagietto.The musical canvas and emotional scope of the work, which lasts over an hour, are huge. The symphony is sometimes described as being in the key of C? minor since the first movement is in this key (the finale, however, is in D majo...2021-03-1820 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 5 - 3rd Movement - Listening GuideAs the second part of the symphony follows the above-mentioned third movement, the Scherzo. Totally unexpected, the character of the symphony seems to change: A joyful and exuberant, nearly burlesque atmosphere, caused by the typical Mahlerian rural valses, seems to spread, but it does not seem to be serious, rather forced, nearly exaggerated, as if one tries to chase away a depression by artificial cheerfulness, to turn towards a life full of force and energy in order not having to listen to the inner tragic.The irony which often can be found in Mahler’s other Scherzi is...2021-03-1847 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 3 - 3rd Movement - Listening GuideThe third movement, a scherzo, with alternating sections in 2/4 and 6/8 metre, quotes extensively from Mahler’s early song “Ablösung im Sommer” (Relief in Summer). In the trio section, a complete mood changes from playful to contemplative occurs with an offstage posthorn Bb (or flugelhorn Bb) solo. The reprise of the scherzo music is unusual, as it is interrupted several times by the posthorn melody. See The Post restaurant.---A listening guide of Symphony No. 3 - 3rd Movement with Lew Smoley.2021-03-1851 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 6 - Intro - Listening GuideThe Symphony No. 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler, sometimes referred to as the Tragische (“Tragic”), was composed between 1903 and 1904 (rev. 1906; scoring repeatedly revised). The work’s first performance was in Essen on 27-05-1906 and was conducted by Gustav Mahler. The tragic, even nihilistic, ending of No. 6 has been seen as unexpected, given that the symphony was composed at what was apparently an exceptionally happy time in Mahler’s life: he had married Alma Schindler in 1902, and during the course of the work’s composition his second daughter was born.The symphony is far from the most popul...2021-03-1812 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 6 - 1st Movement - Listening GuideThe first movement, which for the most part has the character of a march, features a motif consisting of an A major triad turning to A minor over a distinctive timpani rhythm. The chords are played by trumpets and oboes when first heard, with the trumpets sounding most loudly in the first chord and the oboes in the second. This motif, which some commentators have linked with fate, reappears in subsequent movements. The first movement also features a soaring melody which the composer’s wife, Alma Mahler, claimed represented her. This melody is often called the “Alma theme”. A rest...2021-03-1859 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 6 - 3rd Movement - Listening GuideThe scherzo marks a return to the unrelenting march rhythms of the first movement, though in a ‘triple-time’ metrical context. Its trio (the middle section), marked Altväterisch (‘old-fashioned’), is rhythmically irregular (4/8 switching to 3/8 and 3/4) and of a somewhat gentler character. According to Alma Mahler, in this movement Mahler “represented the unrhythmic games of the two little children, tottering in zigzags over the sand”. The chronology of its composition suggests otherwise. The movement was composed in the summer of 1903, when Maria Anna (born November 1902) was less than a year old. Anna Justine was born a year later in July 1904. Con...2021-03-1845 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 6 - 4th Movement - Listening GuideThe last movement is an extended sonata form, characterized by drastic changes in mood and tempo, the sudden change of glorious soaring melody to deep agony. The movement is punctuated by three hammer blows. Alma quoted her husband as saying that these were three mighty blows of fate befallen by the hero, “the third of which fells him like a tree”.She identified these blows with three later events in Gustav Mahler’s own life: the death of his eldest daughter Maria Anna Mahler, the diagnosis of an eventually fatal heart condition, and his forced resignation from the Vi...2021-03-181h 12Mahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 7 - Intro - Listening GuideGustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 was written in Year 1904 and Year 1905, with repeated revisions to the scoring. Although the symphony is often described as being in the key of E minor, its tonal scheme is more complicated. The symphony’s Movement 1: Langsam (Adagio) – Allegro risoluto, ma non troppo moves from B minor (introduction) to E minor. The work ends with Movement 5: Rondo-Finale in C Major.This symphony concludes the trio of Mahlers ‘middle’ instrumental symphonies (No. 5, No. 6 and No. 7).---A listening guide of Symphony No. 7 - Intro with Lew Smoley.2021-03-1816 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 7 - 1st Movement - Listening GuideThe movement is in sonata form. It begins with a slow introduction in B minor, launched by a dark melody played by a baritone horn. The accompanimental rhythm was said to have come to Mahler whilst rowing on the lake at Maiernigg after a period of compositional drought. The principal theme, presented by horns in unison in E minor, is accompanied similarly, though much faster and in a higher register.The second theme is then presented by violins, accompanied by sweeping cello arpeggios. This theme is infected with chromatic sequences. At one point the violins reach an...2021-03-1859 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 7 - 2nd Movement - Listening GuideThe movement opens with horns calling to each other. The second horn is muted, however, to create the illusion of distance. Scampering woodwinds imitating somewhat grotesque bird calls pass off into the distance, as the trumpets sound the major-minor seal from the sixth symphony. The horns introduce a rich, somewhat bucolic (A) theme, surrounded by dancing strings and a march rhythm from his song “Revelge”.This theme leads to some confusion about the key, as it switches between C major and C minor every few beats. The rural mood is heightened by a gentle, rustic dance for the...2021-03-1838 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 3 - 2nd Movement - Listening GuideIn the tempo of a minuet. A major.Mahler dedicated the second movement to “the flowers on the meadow”. In contrast to the violent forces of the first movement, it starts as a graceful Menuet but also features stormier episodes.---A listening guide of Symphony No. 3 - 2nd Movement with Lew Smoley.2021-03-1819 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 3 - Intro - Listening GuideSymphony No. 3 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1893 and 1896. It is his longest piece and is the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, with a typical performance lasting around ninety to one hundred minutes.In its final form, the work has six movements, grouped into two Parts. The first movement alone, with a normal duration of a little more than thirty minutes, sometimes forty, forms Part One of the symphony. Part Two consists of the other five movements and has a duration of about sixty to seventy minutes.---A listening guide of...2021-03-1815 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 2 - 2nd Movement - Listening GuideVery leisurely. Never hurry. Two sections alternate in this idyllic movement, so different in style, atmosphere and scale from the first that Mahler specified their separation by a few minutes’ pause. The first section is a graceful ländler in the major, the second a triplet theme in the minor. Mahler was particularly proud of the cello countermelody that accompanies the principal theme’s second exposition.---A listening guide of Symphony No. 2 - 2nd Movement with Lew Smoley.2021-03-1811 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 2 - 1st Movement - Listening GuideBased on the poem Todtenfeier by Adam Mickiewicz.With deeply serious and solemn expression. With this funeral march and the eloquence of its thematic material, the power of its architectural structures, the emotional thrust of its inspiration and its concision of thought, Mahler assumes for the first time the full stature of a symphonist in the great German tradition. The shadow of Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) hovers over the opening bars with a long tremolando and a first subject on the lower strings that is 43 bars long. Yet the composer’s distinctive voice asserts itself in such features as...2021-03-1830 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 8 - Intro - Listening Guide“Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. There are no longer human voices, but planets and suns revolving” (Gustav Mahler).Part I is based on the (sacred) Latin text of a 9th-century Christian hymn for Pentecost, Veni creator spiritus (“Come, Creator Spirit”).Part II is a setting of the words from the (secular) closing scene of Goethe’s Faust. The depiction of an ideal of redemption through eternal womanhood (das Ewige-Weibliche).The two parts are unified by a common idea, that of redemption through the power of love, a unity conveyed through shared musical th...2021-03-1823 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 9 - Intro - Listening GuideSymphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1908 and 1909, and was the last symphony he completed. Though the work is often described as being in the key of D major, the tonal scheme of the symphony as a whole is progressive. While the opening movement is in D major, the finale is in D-flat major.---A listening guide of Symphony No. 9 - Intro with Lew Smoley.2021-03-1815 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 10 - Intro - Listening GuideSymphony No. 10 was written in the summer of 1910, and was his final composition. At the time of Mahler’s death the composition was substantially complete in the form of a continuous draft; but not being fully elaborated at every point, and mostly not orchestrated, it was not performable in that state. Only the first movement is regarded as reasonably complete and performable as Mahler intended. Perhaps as a reflection of the inner turmoil he was dealing with at the time (Mahler knew he had a failing heart and his wife had committed infidelity), the 10th Symphony is arguably his mo...2021-03-1813 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 10 - 2nd Movement - Listening GuideThe second movement, the first of two brilliant Scherzo movements, consists of two main ideas, the first of which is notated in consistently changing metres, which would have proved a challenge to Mahler’s conducting technique had he lived to perform the symphony. This alternates with a joyful and typically Mahlerian Ländler.It is almost certainly this movement Paul Stefan (1879-1943) had in mind when he described the symphony as containing “gaiety, even exuberance” (Cooke’s translation).Movement 2: Scherzo. Schnelle Viertel---A listening guide of Symphony No. 10 - 2nd Moveme...2021-03-1832 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 10 - 3rd Movement - Listening GuideThe Purgatorio movement (originally entitled Purgatorio oder Inferno (Purgatory or Hell)) but the word “Inferno” was struck out, is a brief vignette presenting a struggle between alternately bleak and carefree melodies with a perpetuum mobile accompaniment, that are soon subverted by a diabolical undercurrent of more cynical music.The short movement fails to end in limbo though, as after a brief recapitulation a sudden harp arpeggio and gong stroke pull the rug out from under it; it is consigned to perdition by a final grim utterance from the double basses.“Purgatorio oder Inferno“. On the ti...2021-03-1820 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 10 - 4th Movement - Listening GuideThe scene is now set for the peculiarities of the second scherzo, which has a somewhat driven and harried character, and this also has significant connections to Mahler’s recent work: the sorrowful first movement of Das Lied von der Erde, Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde. There is an annotation on the cover of the draft to the effect that in this movement “The Devil dances with me”, and at the very end Mahler wrote “Ah! God! Farewell my lyre!”.Cooke’s version finishes with a percussion coda employing both timpanists, bass drum, and a large military dru...2021-03-1841 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 9 - 1st Movement - Listening GuideThe first movement embraces a loose sonata form. The key areas provide a continuation of the tonal juxtaposition displayed in earlier works (notably the Symphonies No. 6 and No. 7). The work opens with a hesitant, syncopated rhythmic motif (which Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) suggested is a depiction of Mahler’s irregular heartbeat, which is heard throughout the movement).The brief introduction also presents two other ideas: a three-note motif announced by the harp that provides much of the musical basis for the rest of the movement, and a muted horn fanfare that is also heard later. The main theme qu...2021-03-181h 14Mahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 9 - 2nd Movement - Listening GuideThe second movement is a series of dances, and opens with a rustic Ländler, which becomes distorted to the point that it no longer resembles a dance. It contains shades Mahler’s Symphony no.4, Movement 2: In gemächlicher Bewegung, in the distortion of a traditional dance into a bitter and sarcastic one.Traditional chord sequences are altered into near-unrecognizable variations, turning the rustic yet gradually decaying C major introductory Ländler into a vicious whole-tone waltz, saturated with chromaticism and frenetic rhythms. Strewn amidst these sarcastic dances is a slower and calmer Ländler which reintroduces the “s...2021-03-1835 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 9 - 3rd Movement - Listening GuideThe third movement, in the form of a rondo, displays the final maturation of Mahler’s contrapuntal skills. It opens with a dissonant theme in the trumpet which is treated in the form of a double fugue. The following five-note motif introduced by strings in unison recalls of Symphony No. 5, Movement 2: Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz.There are two similar fugues in the movement, of which the final is unique in that it presents the subject in subsequent fifths instead of the fifth and the octave as most fugues do. The violent contrapuntal music is leads...2021-03-1844 minMahler FoundationMahler Symphony No. 10 - 5th Movement - Listening GuideThe emotional weight of the symphony is resolved by the long final movement, which incorporates and ties together music from the earlier movements, whereby the opening passage of the symphony, now transferred to the horns, is found to be the answer to tame the savage dissonance that had racked the end of the first movement.The music of the flute solo that was heard after the introductory funeral scene can now return to close the symphony peacefully, and unexpectedly, in the principal key of F-sharp major. The draft for this movement reveals that Mahler had originally written...2021-03-1754 min
PhD Pending3.01 Pivoting to Online TeachingIn our first episode of season 3, we discuss how we moved all our teaching online amidst the pandemic. We talk about how to adjust lesson plans and assignments to student groups that are at different stages in their undergrad, and how students how experienced campus life before the first lockdown differ to the new generation that only knows online teaching. We also share our favourite apps and practices to make online teaching easier for ourselves, and for our students.
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...2021-03-1037 minPhD Pending2.08 The Second Year SlumpIn the Season 2 series finale we address the second year slump. As this is a period often only discussed in hindsight, we talk about the importance of communicating with supervisors, peers, friends, and family during the this time. We reflect on what to expect, ways to overcome it, and how to avoid a third year slump! Share your own second year slump experiences and tips for how to deal with it on our social media and, as always, thanks for listening! The crowd-noise app mentioned by Anne in this episode can be found at: https://coffitivity.com/
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If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.bu...2021-02-0536 minPhD Pending2.06 Writing Up A ChapterIn this episode, we talk about how we go about finding chapter arguments for our PhD projects, writing up our chapters, and what our editing processes look like. We also discuss problems we encountered along the way, and how we tackled them.
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This episode of P...2021-01-2229 minPhD Pending2.05 Our First Teaching ExperiencesIn what was intended to be the last episode of 2020 (but due to a bonus episode is the first of 2021) , the PhD Pending team reflect on our first experiences with teaching in a university setting. We share our insights into expectations vs reality, over or under preparing for lessons, tried and tested methods of engagement and balancing it all. Finally, we highlight our best experiences as tutors. Share your own teaching tips and experiences with us on our social media and, as always, thanks for listening!
If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to o...2021-01-0842 minPhD PendingBONUS Passing a Virtual VivaOne of the three PhDs is no longer Pending! Join Anne Mahler and Éadaoin Regan as they discuss Anne's virtual viva. Together, they discuss Anne's preparation process, the ups and downs of having a Viva virtually, and what it feels like to finally be PhinisheD in this episode of PhD Pending.
If you like our content and want to share the holiday spirit, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. Your contribution will help us to buy much needed audio equipment to bri...2020-12-2835 minPhD Pending2.04 Taking A (Christmas) BreakIn our special holiday episode, we discuss the importance of taking a break from work over Christmas, and how to handle questions from relatives about how our projects are going. We also talk about guilt surrounding taking breaks, and how we ensure a healthy work-life-balance over the holidays, and in general.
If you like our content and want to share the holiday spirit, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. Your contribution will help us to buy much needed audio equipment to br...2020-12-1128 minPhD Pending2.03 A Typical PhD WorkdayIn the third episode of season two, Anne, Éadaoin, and Jenni talk about their typical workdays. We share tips for productivity, the background noise they prefer, and the ways they structure themselves through various apps, assorted calendars and planners, and the importance of remembering to step away from the work daily. Share your own workday tips with us on our social media and, as always, thanks for listening!
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If you like our content, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee pa...2020-11-2735 minPhD Pending2.02 The PhD CohortIn the second episode of season 2, we discuss the importance of support from your PhD peers and the ways which you can collaborate, both formally and informally, to make the most of your time in research. Though all of us here on the podcast have had a positive experience with our fellow PhDs, we know that not everyone will be as fortunate as us. With this in mind, we asked Tiffany Soga to send us a soundbite explaining her negative experience during her time of research and we discuss potential ways to help if you are having a similar...2020-11-1344 minPhD Pending1.08 Unfunded: PhD Money HacksIf you liked season 1, support PhD Pending by heading to our Buy Me A Coffee page and donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. Your contribution will help us to buy much needed audio equipment to bring you new seasons in better quality!
In our season 1 finale, we want to break some of the stigmas surrounding finances during a PhD. We talk about our funding situations, the mental struggles that come with the precarious PhD time, and share our PhD money hacks to help you get more bang for your buck. Some of the tips...2020-10-0935 min
Earth IdeasHow Does An Ant Colony Live? | with Prof Deborah Gordon | PODCAST #16Prof Deborah Gordon is a biologist at Stanford University and a world expert in the function and survival of ant colonies. Her research uses ant colonies to investigate and design other systems that also operate without central control such as the internet, the immune system, and the brain.
She is also concerned with how ants are adapting their behaviour in the Anthropocene and our changing climate.
This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and...2020-10-0800 minEarth IdeasHow The Potato Changed The World | with Prof Rebecca Earle | PODCAST #15Professor Rebecca Earle is an historian of food & culture and is interested in all things of the everyday life of ordinary people - how their choices & activities have shaped and affected the global experience. She has written 2 whole books on the POTATO and how its glorious palatability in all kinds of dishes, and its brilliant caloric offering for a low land & water usage, changed the lives of people from Peru to China.
We talk about her determination to shine the light of history away from the usual characters and tell those other stories, and...2020-10-0100 minPhD Pending1.07 The First Six MonthsIn this penultimate episode of Season 1, we discuss the expectations and reality of the first six months of our PhD. From registration, the first supervisor meeting, the writing, the research, funding, friends, and conferences we get into both the disappointments but also the surprises we found along the way. Finally, we discuss the three things we each wish we knew and what we might have done differently. This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Éadaoin Regan, Jennifer deBie, and Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter @phdpendingpod or via email under phdpendingpod@gmail.c...2020-09-2549 minEarth IdeasThe Friendliness Of Dogs - And Humans! | with Dr Brian Hare | PODCAST #14Dr Brian Hare is an evolutionary anthropologist, founder of the Duke University Canine Cognition Center and NYT bestselling author of The Genius Of Dogs. His new book, Survival Of The Friendliest, challenges the famous notion of 'survival of fittest' and proposes that it is in fact our (and our domesticated companions') friendliness & cooperation that lead to our massive success as a species.
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This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could be still to come.
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This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could be...2020-09-1500 minEarth IdeasChanging The Way We Think About Change | with Dr Leyla Acaroglu | PODCAST #11Dr Leyla Acaroglu is an award-winning designer, 2016 UNEP Champion of the Earth, and founder of Disruptive Design Agency & the UnSchool. She is a powerhouse of innovation - a self-styled 'sustainability provocateur', who works to use design- and systems-thinking to activate social change.
This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could be still to come.
You can also WATCH this episode on YOUTUBE https://youtu.be...2020-09-1500 minEarth IdeasHow To Feed The Planet PART 2: Profits | with Sue Pritchard | PODCAST #10 PART 2Sue Pritchard sits on one side of a challenge that has divided all who are aware of it - How to feed everyone fairly on a planet with finite resources? As CEO of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, and a farmer herself, she works for a regenerative, smaller-scale agricultural future, and seeks to make radical changes in the way we & all the different industries involved think about our food.
In PART 1, we discussed agri-tech & the work of the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology - https://youtu.be/hgKVKizDFGE
This is...2020-09-1400 minEarth IdeasHow To Feed The Planet PART 1: Agri-Tech | with Prof. Simon Pearson | PODCAST #10 PART 1Welcome to the EARTH IDEAS Podcast
Professor Simon Pearson sits on one side of a challenge that has divided all who are aware of it - How to feed everyone fairly on a planet with finite resources? As Director of the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, he is embedded in emerging research into agri AI, robotics, gene-editing & circular agricultural economics, among many other exciting new ideas at the cusp of science.
This is PART 1 of talking about this debate.
This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to...2020-09-1400 minPhD Pending1.06 Representation and Diversity in Academia: An Interview With Tiffany SogaIn the final episode of our miniseries, Anne chats to her friend Tiff about her experiences as an Asian American woman in the US and UK educational systems. We take a little deep dive into the marginalisation of Asian Americans in the States, talk about cultural activism, and who to reach out to when you want to educate yourself on BIPOC issues.
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Dr Mary Menton is a Research Fellow in Environmental Justice at University of Sussex and part of team behind Not1More, a campaign group which supports frontline environmental defenders and investigates the root causes of environmental conflict. Individuals & groups facing up against powerful corporations invading & obliterating their homes for profit are being killed at an increasing rate around the world, and Mary is one of the key people bringing the guilty to justice.
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This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could...2020-09-0900 minEarth IdeasHow To Predict The Loss Of Coral Reefs | with Dr Les Kaufman | PODCAST #7Welcome to the EARTH IDEAS Podcast
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This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could be still...2020-09-0900 minEarth IdeasElephant Intelligence & Behaviour | with Dr Lisa Yon | PODCAST #6Welcome to the EARTH IDEAS Podcast
Dr Lisa Yon is an expert in captive animal welfare and works to improve the lives of and our understanding of wildlife living in captive & semi-captive homes around the world. She specialises in elephant intelligence & behaviour, and clearly loves them dearly. She serves on the board of many incredible organisations in the conservation world, including Frozen Ark - a global mission to cryogenically preserve endangered and ecosystem-critical species.
This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current...2020-09-0900 minEarth IdeasDo We Need Geoengineers To Save Us? | with Thomas Kostigen | PODCAST #5Welcome to the EARTH IDEAS Podcast
Will we be living underground, spraying chemicals into the clouds and building a forest of robotic carbon-sucking trees? Thomas Kostigen is an environmental journalist and author of over 10 books on environmental issues. His latest, the informant of this episode, is a global tour of geoengineering research & technologies (big & small, futuristic & already happening) that might be our only means of survival on this planet as humans continue to destroy ecosystems and warm it over 1.5C.
This is a series...2020-09-0900 minEarth IdeasBees - experiencing their world | with Dr Jeri Wright | PODCAST #4Welcome to the EARTH IDEAS Podcast
Dr Jeri Wright is an insect neuroethologist whose lab investigates the interrelationship of plants and bees, and how bees sense and learn about the world around them. She works to understand how bees detect food, and how they know what nutrients they need and seek those out, and how other (sometimes unwanted) compounds affect them.
This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could be...2020-09-0900 minPhD Pending1.04 Representation and Diversity in Academia: An Interview With Josie JohnsonIn this special episode, Anne talks with her friend Josie about her experiences as a black woman in the UK academic system. We also touch on what it was like growing up in the UK with English, Jamaican and Cuban heritages, institutional racism in the English school system and work environments, and black hair culture and its appropriation.
Find our usual podcast donation page here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod. This week, all donations will go to Josie’s charity pick Maternity Action. Maternity Action is the UK’s leading charity committed to ending inequ...2020-08-141h 03PhD Pending1.03 Moving for Your StudiesIn this episode, we discuss the highs and lows of moving for a degree. Drawing upon mistakes made and insights garnered, we discuss hard-won lessons in culture shock, making friends, accommodation, finances, a new academic environment, and more.
This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Éadaoin Regan, Jennifer deBie, and Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter @phdpendingpod or via email under phdpendingpod@gmail.com. You can also find us on Instagram @phdpendingpod. Artwork by Niamh Dee. Support PhD Pending: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/phdpendingpod2020-07-3138 minPhD Pending1.02 PhD Routines During Covid-19In this episode, we discuss our experience of learning that our university research space would be closing, how we adapted, and tips and tricks for productivity. We also delve into how we give ourselves a break on the days when mental health - rightfully- takes precedence over research, and the learnings we hope to take into our everyday routine in a post-lockdown world.
This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Éadaoin Regan, Jennifer deBie, and Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on Twitter @phdpendingpod or via email under phdpendingpod@gm...2020-07-1736 minPhD Pending1.01 How We Started Our PhD JourneyIn this episode, we talk about how we came to be in the same PhD programme in Ireland. Join us when we discuss our experiences with finding advisors, to choosing our topics, and navigating the application process.
This episode of PhD Pending was written and produced by Éadaoin Regan, Jennifer deBie, and Anne Mahler. Get in contact with PhD Pending on twitter @phdpendingpod or via email under phdpendingpod@gmail.com. Artwork by Niamh Dee. Production advice by Max Stottrop. Check out his podcast Heaps of Unreal Images now on your podcast platform. Sound editing advice by Jerome Kelleher.
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