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The Rational Reminder PodcastJames Choi - Portfolio Theory in a SpreadsheetIn this episode, we welcome back James Choi, Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management, to unpack one of the most important—and misunderstood—questions in personal finance: How much of your portfolio should be in stocks? Drawing on his new paper, Practical Finance: An Approximate Solution to Lifecycle Portfolio Choice, James walks us through the classic portfolio choice problem first solved by Robert C. Merton, later extended by Francisco Gomes and co-authors, and now made dramatically more usable through a spreadsheet-based approximation. We explore how risk aversion, wealth, labor income risk, and expected returns shape optimal asse...
2026-03-051h 14
RMZ Science WorksVeit Braun: Memories Are Made of This: Materielle Erinnerung in BiobankenBiobanken werden mehr und mehr zu einer allgegenwärtigen Infrastruktur in der Zoologie und anderen Biowissenschaften. Sie versprechen, materielle Forschungsdaten auf unbestimmte Zeit für künftige, noch offene, aber dennoch zu erwartende Zwecke aufzubewahren. Am Beispiel der Einrichtung einer physischen und digitalen Infrastruktur für gefrorene Proben tierischen Materials geht dieser Vortrag der Frage nach, wie die Zukunft die Vergangenheit vorwegnimmt und wie gefrorene Objekte entsprechend gestaltet werden. Indem ich die Biobank zwischen den alltäglichen Routinen der Konservierung in einem Forschungslabor und den "trockenen" und "nassen" Sammlungen von Naturkundemuseen verorte, argumentiere ich, dass eingefrorene Forschungsobjekte auf zwei versc...
2026-03-0433 minRMZ Science WorksPaula Muhr: Limits to the Circulation of Epistemic Critique in the Recent Reanalyses of the EHT Images of the M87* Black HoleIn April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration that gathered over two hundred international scientists famously revealed the first empirical images of a black hole—a mysterious cosmic object thus far regarded ‘unseeable’. To create these revolutionary images that visualise the immediate surrounding of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87, the EHT team used a constellation of seven radio telescopes that spanned the Earth and then spent two years algorithmically reconstructing empirically reliable images from the thus collected non-visual data. To obtain valid imaging results, the EHT team deployed multiple methodologies during the image reconstruction proces...
2026-02-1834 minRMZ Science WorksWillem Halffman/Serge Horbach: The library and the database: two imaginaries for the research literatureTwo competing imaginaries inform the current wave of innovations in research publishing: one that perceives ‘the literature’ as a library of research accounts, and one that sees it as a gigantic database. While the library portrays acquiring knowledge as an act of reading texts informed by an understanding of their inter-textual setting, the database sees the literature as a collection of verified facts that can be extracted, or ‘mined’. Both imaginaries present different understandings of what the research literature is, of which knowledge is valued in that literature, how it should be curated and what it should be usable for. Usi...
2026-02-0441 minRMZ Science WorksSebastian Büttner: In der Wissenskrise? Politisierung von Wissen und Expertise als Herausforderung für die SoziologieIn aktuellen politischen Debatten etwa zur Klimapolitik oder zu Corona ist einmal mehr deutlich geworden, dass es sehr unterschiedliche Vorstellungen zur Rolle, zum Status und zur Geltung von Wissen und Expertise bei gesellschaftlichen Grundsatzfragen gibt. Zwei Extrempositionen markieren dabei den Korridor der aktuellen Debattenlandschaft: Es gibt einerseits die Verfechter:innen einer konsequent wissensbasierten Politik, verkörpert im Slogan “follow the sciences”, andererseits betont antiintellektuelle und wissenschaftsskeptische Positionen, verkörpert im Topos “alternativer Fakten” bei Trump und Co. Dieser Beitrag nimmt diese aktuellen Tendenzen einer wachsenden Politisierung von Wissen und Expertise wissenssoziologisch in den Blick. Diskutiert werden Grundlagen der Expertise-Forschung in der Soz...
2026-01-2150 minRMZ Science WorksSheena F. Bartscherer/Sven Ulpts/Bart Penders/Sarahanne Field: The (anti)social replication of replication: exploring how replication moves across epistemic communitiesSince claims about a ‘replication crisis’ started to circulate, the concept and practice of replication have gained new momentum. Some communities have started to promote replication indiscriminately as a practice and criterion for research quality irrespective of the diverse research communities’ various conditions and ways of knowledge production. Others have identified a replication drive, which involves moving replication into various research communities. This drive is enacted by incentivizing or demanding replication and related Open Science practices, and forms part of a culture change strategy towards increased replicability. Here, we propose the two-dimensional social replication of replication framework. It describes the pr...
2026-01-0747 minRMZ Science WorksMarco Seeber: The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implicationsThe seminar describes the dramatic transformation of the scientific publishing market in the last 30 years. It discusses the forces underpinning this process, its implications for science and scientists, and proposes individual and policy actions to counter some of its problematic aspects.
2025-12-1038 minRMZ Science WorksChérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri & Jie Xu: The big transformation? Early Career Researchers as they race in the open scholarly world. Perspectives from France and ChinaIn the ever-changing world of Academia, rules and values are at stake. These form the basis of new regulations, including openness. The Harbinger research project was a six-year international research project investigating the extent to which early career researchers (ECRs) are contributing uniquely to this change, allowing to identify continuums or cracks. This presentation focuses on the results from France and China, shedding light on the shared values of ECRs, their compliance with open science policies, and the differences in their publication, collaboration and socialisation strategies. The presentation will also discuss how these differences in approaching new values and...
2025-11-2647 minRMZ Science WorksJesper W. Schneider: Questionable Research Practices, what are they and so should we worry?Prof. Jesper W. Schneider (Aarhus University, Denmark) will introduce and discuss the concepts of questionable research practices and misconduct. We will discuss their alleged widespread use, the suggested reasons why, and the presumed effects they have on the science system, not least their role in the so-called replication crisis. Examples will be given, and we will end by discussing suggested remedies to the challenges. The talk is based on the preprint "Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? Cross-national evidence for widespread involvement but not systematic use of questionable research practices across all fields of research." (https://osf...
2025-11-1242 minRMZ Science WorksChristian Greiffenhagen: Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer reviewPeer review has never been a uniform practice, but is now more diverse than ever. Despite a vast literature, little is known of how different disciplines organise peer review. This paper draws on 95 qualitative interviews with editors and publishers and several hundred written reports to analyse the organisation of peer review in pure mathematics. This article focuses on the practice of ‘quick opinions’ at top journals in mathematics: asking (senior) experts about a paper’s importance, and only after positive evaluation sending the paper for a full review (which most importantly means checking the paper’s correctness). Quick opinions constitu...
2025-10-2948 minRMZ Science WorksMonika Krause: The model systems of global scienceThe talk explores the role of models and model systems in the production of scientific knowledge in the context of the institutions and inequalities of internationalised science. It discusses formal models and model systems as vehicles for findings that circulate as of relevance across geographic and cultural contexts and asks: How do researchers access these in different geographical contexts and different disciplines? What are the consequences of access and non-access for researchers and the knowledge produced?
2025-10-1558 minRMZ Science WorksJulian Hamann: Orientierung und Überlastung: Postdocs im multiplen WettbewerbDer Postdoc-Phase wurde als zentraler Qualifizierungsphase zuletzt auch wissenschaftspolitisch viel Aufmerksamkeit zuteil. Doch die Rolle von Postdocs ist offen und unterbestimmt. Die Aufgaben, mit denen Postdocs betraut werden, sind vielfältiger und komplexer als in der Promotionsphase, gleichzeitig erfahren sie weniger Orientierung und Anleitung. Der Vortrag befasst sich mit der Frage, wie Postdocs lernen was es heißt, "ein Postdoc" zu sein. Dabei wird auf eine bisher vernachlässigte Funktion wissenschaftlicher Wettbewerbe verwiesen: Verschiedene Wettbewerbe um Stellen, Drittmittel und Publikationen sind nicht nur Mechanismen zur Verteilung knapper Ressourcen. Sie haben auch eine bislang wenig berücksichtigte sozialisierende Funktion, weil sie...
2025-10-0138 min
Sanctuary Stirrings#41 Trusting the Spirit’s Call: Andy Rebollar’s Journey with Thomas Merton & Henri NouwenThis week on Journey with a Giant, host Lori G. Melton and co-host Robert Prince welcome Andy Rebollar—a spiritual director, at-home dad, and facilitator at the Dominican Center in Grand Rapids—for a deeply thoughtful conversation about his transformative experiences walking with Henri Nouwen and Thomas Merton.Andy shares how these spiritual giants invited him to a deeper trust in God’s guidance, to explore vulnerability and shadow with courage, and to live out his faith in a way that embraces both solitude and community. From Merton’s contemplative depth to Nouwen’s radical honesty and eventual h...
2025-09-0936 minRMZ Science WorksTanja Bogusz: Meereswissen explorieren. Heterogene Kollaborationen an der Station Marine ConcarneauBiologische Stationen wurden in den STS bislang maßgeblich als „Grenzobjekte“ (Star & Griesemer) zwischen Feld und Labor (Kohler) untersucht. Im Gegensatz zu zeitlich begrenzten Expeditionen, oder zur „reinen“ Laborforschung praktizieren Meeres-Stationen folglich „Wissenschaft mit den Füßen im Wasser" und sind zugleich in konkreten lokalen Gesellschaften verortet. Durch ihren spezifischen Standort befinden sie sich somit am Kreuzpunkt zwischen zwei Gebieten, die in der modernen Wissenschaftsorganisation als voneinander getrennt verstanden wurden – Meer und Gesellschaft. Meeresstationen verbinden diese nicht nur epistemisch, sondern auch physisch und temporal. Entsprechend ermöglichen Meeres-Stationen multiple Formen der Organisation von Meer-Gesellschafts-Beziehungen und marinen Wissens. Nach einer Schätzung der Wo...
2025-08-2046 min
Sanctuary Stirrings#38 From Curiosity to Communion—Robert Prince’s Journey with John O’Donohue & Thomas MertonThis week on Journey with a Giant, Lori turns the microphone towards her co-host, Pastor Robert Prince—and what a conversation it is! Robert opens up about his own season of spiritual apathy and the surprising ways God reawakened his heart through journeying with two remarkable spiritual giants.His first giant, John O’Donohue, ushered him into the beauty and depth of Celtic Christianity, sparking a faith renewal that led to a life-changing pilgrimage to Ireland. His second, Thomas Merton, invited him into the gifts of solitude, silence, and experiencing God’s presence in creati...
2025-08-1940 min
Les aventuriers de la pensée (découvrir les sciences sociales)Robert K. Merton : La prophétie autoréalisatrice"Si les hommes définissent des situations comme réelles, alors elles sont réelles dans leurs conséquences."Cette phrase puissante, découverte dans notre aventure avec Thomas et Znaniecki, est le point de départ de l'exploration d'aujourd'hui. Mais que se passe-t-il si la "définition" de départ est un mensonge ? Une rumeur ? Une pure invention ?Dans cet épisode des "Aventuriers de la Pensée", nous suivons le génial sociologue Robert K. Merton qui a poussé cette idée à sa conclusion la plus vertigineuse : la prophétie auto-réalisatrice. Après avoir vu avec Howard Becker comment la sociét...
2025-08-1005 minRMZ Science WorksBerna Devezer: Claims about scientific rigour require rigourProtzko et al. describe a project in which internal tests of pilot-tested hypotheses and independent replications embraced “rigour-enhancing practices” such as confirmatory tests, large sample sizes, preregistration and methodological transparency. The authors report a high estimate of replicability, which, in their appraisal, “justifies confidence in rigour-enhancing methods to increase the replicability of new discoveries”. However, replicability was not the original outcome of interest in the project, and analyses associated with replicability were not preregistered as claimed. Instead of replicability, the originally planned study set out to examine whether the mere act of scientifically investigating a phenomenon (data collection or analysis...
2025-07-1653 minRMZ Science WorksAmelia Acker: Platform Power and Data Integration Services in Scientific InfrastructureThis talk examines how commercial cloud services and data integration platforms are shaping scientific knowledge infrastructure and institutional approaches to digital preservation and archival access. Drawing on findings from two collaborative research projects—a decadal analysis of data management plans from NSF funded scientists and the Palantir Files, a public interest archive documenting the firm's data integration services—I explore how platforms are transforming traditional roles of information institutions in providing access to data. The presentation investigates three key developments: the increasing adoption of commercial cloud services (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) for storage in scientific data...
2025-07-0239 minRMZ Science WorksMartin Reinhart & Felicitas Hesselmann: From scandal to reform: approaches to research integrity at a turning pointThis talk explores the historical evolution of scandals related to academic integrity and their implications for the relationship between science and politics. We argue that there are three distinctive waves of scandalization since the postwar era: The first wave, starting in the 1970s, led to governance measures addressing public trust issues in science funding. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed a second wave centered on research misconduct, prompting the establishment of boundary organizations such as the Office of Research Integrity. Since the 2010s, the third wave shifted focus to concerns such as Open Science and reproducibility, giving rise to a...
2025-06-181h 01
There's Sometimes a BuggyActeurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 3: SONG OF THE THIN MAN (1947) and MERTON OF THE MOVIES (1947) In this Gloria Grahame Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode we get to see more of what MGM was (not) doing with our acteur's career. Underused in Song of the Thin Man (1947), in which she brings the only real noir energy to the final Thin Man film, she gets a similarly brief but memorable role in the Red Skelton vehicle Merton of the Movies (1947), playing the most innocent nymphomaniac in cinematic history. We uncover the legacy of Harry Leon Wilson's 1922 Merton of the Movies novel and surprise ourselves with our appreciation of Red Skelton's acting. Time Codes: 0h 00m 25...
2025-06-1342 minRMZ Science WorksBjörn Hammarfelt & Gustaf Nelhans: Styles of valuation: Disciplinary differences in assessing researchAcademic disciplines have distinctive ways of valuing research. These differences exist not only across fields but also between collegial and organisational evaluations. This presentation draws on recent empirical studies of assessment processes in Swedish academia. By analysing guidelines and peer review reports across four domains: humanities, social sciences, medicine, and natural sciences, we identify five key dimensions of publication assessment: (1) Work attribution, (2) Content quality, (3) Publication channel, (4) Impact, and (5) Volume. Our findings reveal contrasting evaluation styles at different organisational levels, which we call ‘disharmonic styles of valuation.’ Rather than focusing on the origins of these quality standards, we emphasise how they...
2025-06-0437 minRMZ Science WorksCatalina Quiroz-Niño, Ana María Villafuerte & Margaret Meredith: Hermeneutical Justice in International ProjectsInternational research collaborations can base their research focus, questions and interpretations of the issue on Western assumptions of knowledge. This can delegitimise the potential contributions of some project partners, such as those located in the global South, and silence their interpretations of the issue. International projects can therefore be spaces of what Fricker calls "hermeneutical injustice". This presentation is based on Quijano´s work on Coloniality to identify enduring patterns of power that inform and shape frames of reference, culture and knowledge production in the colonised regions of the world. The presenters argue that research collaborations should be based u...
2025-05-2132 minRMZ Science WorksJusto Serrano Zamora: Liberal Epistemologies, Participatory Initiatives, and the Current Existential Crisis of DemocracyIn my talk, I explore two main responses to democracy’s current existential crisis and their mutual relation. On the one hand, many argue that we should address the phenomenon of post-truth and its negative effects on democratic politics by cultivating citizens’ capacity to build their own, autonomous, judgements. On the other hand, many defend the need of participatory initiatives as a way of bringing citizens to identify with their political institutions. I argue that participatory initiatives are often jeopardized by the epistemological assumptions that draw from the current liberal struggle against post-truth. Instead of promoting liberal epistemological orientations amon...
2025-05-0741 minRMZ Science WorksSarah Schönbauer: Meeresforschung zwischen Wissenschaft und AktivismusDer Klimawandel führt zu vielschichtigen und komplexen Veränderungen. Diese Veränderungen bringen unter anderem soziale, epistemische, ökonomische und politische Auswirkungen mit sich. In diesem Vortrag konzentriere ich mich insbesondere auf die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Wissenschaftswelt und die Positionierungsarbeit von Wissenschaftler*innen. Ich frage: wie nehmen Wissenschaftler*innen Umweltveränderungen wahr und was sind die sozialen und erkenntnistheoretischen Dimensionen dieser Wahrnehmung? In meiner Fallstudie, finanziert durch ein Erwin-Schrödinger Postdoc Stipendium (FWF Austria), beschäftige ich mich mit Meeresforscher*innen und ihren Umgang mit auf den Klimawandel zurückzuführenden Umweltveränderungen in Meeres- und Polarregionen.Das M...
2025-04-3033 minRMZ Science WorksStefan Skupien: Defining science for and in ‘Eastern Germany’ in right-wing populismDefining Science for and in ‘Eastern Germany’ in right-wing populism “Eastern Germany”, as a socio-political and geographical region, hosts significant scientific infrastructure and innovation funding, yet it has also seen a marked rise in populist voting patterns. Parties such as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and emerging movements like Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht (BSW) position themselves as challengers to established societal frameworks. Within populist rhetoric, a recurring theme is the critique of scientific fields, framed within a broader opposition between “the virtuous people” and “the experts.” (u.a. Bellilo 2022, Mede et.al. 2020, Eslen-Ziya and Giorgi, Ed. 2022).This study undertakes an...
2025-04-2327 minRMZ Science WorksMalte Jansen/ Aishvarya Aravindan Rajagopal: The Reproducibility and Robustness of Secondary Analyses in Educational Research: The Role of Publication Bias and Researcher Degrees of FreedomMany educational researchers conduct secondary data analysis using large-scale school assessment studies that usually include various variables based on representative samples. To access such data, researchers must often apply by submitting a research proposal. Our project aims to examine the reproducibility and robustness of secondary data analyses from a research data center that offers over 70 educational studies for secondary analyses. This approach provides us with a unique database of data usage applications. In these applications, researchers describe their central questions, hypotheses, and planned analytic approach. Between 2008 and 2020, around 600 data applications from over 900 researchers resulted in around 180 publications. Based on...
2025-04-0951 minRMZ Science WorksStefanie Haustein: Challenges of closed vs opportunities of open: A data feminist reflection on the bibliometrics community’s shift to open infrastructureFor decades, research assessment infrastructure has been shaped by closed, centralized systems that prioritize selectivity, reinforce hierarchies, and define what counts as scholarly impact. This talk traces the historical evolution of bibliometrics, from the first citation analysis in the early 20th century via the revolutionary development of the Science Citation Index to the dominance of commercial data analytics companies like Clarivate and Elsevier today. The talk will highlight how these infrastructures have perpetuated power imbalances—determining who gets to define impact, what types of knowledge are valued, and whose labor is made visible.Currently research assessment and the...
2025-03-2649 min
Chris's AI Deep DiveLifetime Portfolio Selection Under UncertaintyThe provided text is an excerpt from a discussion analyzing Robert C. Merton's seminal 1969 paper, "Lifetime Portfolio Selection Under Uncertainty: The Continuous Time Case." The conversation explores Merton's foundational research on long-term financial planning, particularly how individuals should make investment and consumption decisions when facing uncertain future market returns. It simplifies complex mathematical concepts like continuous time models, stochastic differential equations, and utility functions to explain core principles such as the separation of investment and consumption under constant relative risk aversion. The speakers discuss the factors influencing optimal asset allocation and spending habits over a lifetime, highlighting the enduring...
2025-03-1929 minRMZ Science WorksCornelia Schendzielorz/Martin Reinhart: The role of research collaborations in the governance of science (Vortrag auf Deutsch)Our contribution is dedicated to the topic of large research collaborations. We frame the issue of large research collaborations in the context of their long history in the study of science, which is closely related to the notion of Big Science (De Solla Price 1963). Beyond the quantitative growth of science in various aspects such as publications, journals, personnel, funding, etc., we focus our attention on the fact that considering the big picture of science implies taking into account the social order of science (Merton 1938, Barber 1953). From the beginnings of the sociology of science (Bernal 1939, Merton 1942, Polanyi, 1962, Pielke 2014, Wray 2023) to...
2025-03-1941 minRMZ Science WorksHolger Straßheim: Politische EpistemologieDer Beitrag setzt sich mit Perspektiven der politischen Epistemologie auseinander, die sich mittlerweile zu einem soziologischen, politikwissenschaftlichen, philosophischen und historischen Brückenkonzept entwickelt hat. Trotz unterschiedlicher disziplinärer Zugänge lassen sich gemeinsame Kernelemente und ähnliche Theoriestrategien ausmachen: Immer geht es dabei um die Identifikation jener Mechanismen, die Erkenntnis und Ordnung, Expertise und Entscheiden miteinander vermitteln. Politische Epistemologien fragen nach den Praktiken bzw. Diskursen der Ko-Konstruktion von politischer und epistemischer Autorität. Sie vergleichen jene kulturellen und institutionellen Arrangements, in denen Expertise an Legitimität und Geltungsmacht gewinnt (oder verliert). Während ‚objektivistische Epistemologien' auf eine Rationalisierung der Politik durch die...
2025-03-0539 minRMZ Science WorksJulia Baumann: Cultures of no-feeling? Ethnografische Gefühlswelten im deutschen akademischen ArbeitsalltagDie akademische Kultur ist eine Kultur, in der Gefühle abwesend sind - eine Kultur des 'Nicht-Gefühls'. [...], aber Gefühle sind in der Wissenschaft reichlich vorhanden" (Bloch, 2012: 140, übersetzt aus dem Englischen von JB), schließt Charlotte Bloch ihre ethnografische Studie Passion and Paranoia zu akademischen Emotionskulturen in Dänemark.Auf der Grundlage meiner ethnographischen Feldforschung (2019-2022) werde ich darlegen, wie eben diese „academic cultures of no-feeling“ den Alltag von Forscher*innen beeinflussen und die Wissensproduktion auch hier in Deutschland prägen. Historisch gewachsen zu einem emotionsgebundenen Wertesystem, das Gefühle als das Gegenteil von Rationalität und Wissensch...
2025-02-2636 minRMZ Science WorksMarianne Noel & Lucile Ottolini: Opening up science as a work: An international comparison of openness to society and openness of publicationThe last twenty years of open science advocacy and the more recent proliferation of programs and funding have shown that open science has become a veritable mantra. In this communication we deliberately adopt a perspective of the sociology of work and of professions: rather than examining discourses on openness, we focus on the missions, experiences and profiles, as well as the practices, of professionals whose daily work is devoted to ‘opening up’ science. We propose to analyse the opening up of science as a vector of contemporary scientific credibility, implemented by professional communities which are invisible in their daily envi...
2025-02-1929 minRMZ Science WorksHenning Laux: Dummheit – eine soziologische KartographieDer Vortrag stellt erste Überlegungen zu einer Soziologie der Dummheit vor. Dummheit wird dabei als systematisch vernachlässigte, aber konstitutive Außenseite der Wissensgesellschaft interpretiert. Im Vortrag sollen daher die Akteure, Arenen, Mechanismen und Funktionen bei der sozialen Zuschreibung von Dummheit genauer beleuchtet werden.
2025-02-1235 minRMZ Science WorksAnna Ahlers: China als neue Wissenschaftsmacht - soziologische AnnäherungenZu den interessantesten Entwicklungen im gegenwärtigen globalen Wissenschaftsystem gehört der rasante Aufstieg der Volksrepublik China. Als kollektiver Akteur hat es das Land innerhalb von drei Jahrzehnten geschafft, in allen gängigen wissenschaftlichen Leistungs- und Reputations-Rankings Spitzenplätze einzunehmen. Internationale Reaktionen auf diese Entwicklung sind geprägt von Faszination und - zunehmend - Sorge und Ablehnung. Nicht zuletzt fordert das autoritäre Wissenschaftsmodel der VR China offensichtlich viele landläufige Annahmen und Normen in der OECD-Welt heraus. Auch aus wissenschaftlich-analytischer Perspektive ist der chinesische Fall deshalb äußerst spannend, aber dies hat sich bisher weder in der Sinologie noch in d...
2025-02-0547 minRMZ Science WorksOlof Hallonsten: Stop evaluating science – a historical-sociological argumentAlthough science has been a formidably successful force of social and technological development in the modern era, and a main reason for the wealth and well-being of current societies compared to previous times, a fundamental distrust characterizes its current status in society. According to prevalent discourse, science is insufficiently productive and in need of stricter governance and bureaucratic management, with performance evaluation by the means of quantitative metrics as a key tool to increase efficiency. The basis of this notion appears to be a belief that the key or only purpose of science is to drive economic growth, or...
2025-01-2245 min
FOQN FunnyMerton vs. Kilroy: Comedy Showdown! 🎭🔥😂 Buckle up, comedy lovers! In this epic clash, Paul Merton and Robert Kilroy-Silk take the stage for a hilariously chaotic debate that’ll have you rolling on the floor!From Gaddafi's bizarre Brussels visit to the absurdity of political blunders, this episode is a treasure trove of outrageous moments. Witness the comedic genius as Merton and Kilroy-Silk tackle everything from explosive belts to the art of blaming secretaries—trust us, you don’t want to miss the punchlines!Feeling left out? This is the episode that everyone will be talking about, and you’ll want to be in on the joke. Tune...
2025-01-2208 minRMZ Science WorksDimity Stephen & Meta Cramer: Predatory publishing practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems?The recent shift in evaluation systems to more diverse quality criteria has increased the visibility of lower quality research, incurring a moral panic about the effects of predatory publishing practices (PPP) on the science system. However, this concern currently lacks empirical substantiation and ignores the complex geopolitical relations, researchers’ motivations, and centre-periphery narrative inherent in the predatory publishing debate. Thus, we propose a mixed-methods approach to answering three questions: i) how have (P)PP in different national settings emerged, ii) how do academic communities define and react to PPPs, and iii) how do evaluation systems influence (P)PPs? Our ai...
2025-01-1547 minRMZ Science WorksMarta Wróblewska: From centre to (semi)periphery: policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in UK, Poland and NorwayThe talk will offer a comparative review of policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in UK (REF), Poland (EJDD) and Norway (Humeval and Sameval). Poland and Norway have used an ex-post, expert-review system modeled on the British REF. There are several analogies between the studied impact evaluation systems, including similar definitions of impact, the use of case studies as the basis for evaluation, the structuring of the impact template and English as the language of evaluation. There are also several differences: the mode of introduction of the exercise (gradual vs. shift), whether the exercise is tied to...
2025-01-0837 minRMZ Science WorksGeorgia Samaras: What’s it got to do with the brain? Challenges in doing clinical relevance in epigenetic research on mental healthThe talk explores the epistemic dynamics catalysed by researchers advocating for the clinical relevance of environmental epigenetics in psychiatry. I do so based on an in-depth literature analysis of peer-reviewed research articles and interviews with researchers who conduct epigenetic research in psychiatry. In demonstrating how relevance builds a crucial yet ambivalent bridge between basic research and clinical application, I explore tensions arising in relation to the acceptable level of uncertainty for epigenetic knowledge to be considered relevant. I further trace how epigeneticists aim to counteract emerging problems to their claims about the clinical relevance of epigenetics through performing interdisciplinary...
2024-12-1837 min
Tuesdays with Merton PodcastFr. William Hart McNichols & Christopher Pramuk - Offering Christ to a Broken World: Merton’s Advent Tidings of Great Joy
In this presentation on the anniversary of Thomas Merton’s death, iconographer Fr. Bill McNichols and theologian Christopher Pramuk reflect on the power of sacred art to quicken the hope of Advent in our hearts, and to bring the creativity and courage of love into “this demented inn,” where Christ “has come uninvited.” Their book together, All My Eyes See: The Artistic Vocation of Fr. William Hart McNichols, has been described as “incandescent,” an “intimate conversation between two soul friends,” which “not only preserves the legacy of a hidden master, but also contributes to the awakening of the world.”
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2024-12-111h 12RMZ Science WorksNicole Nelson: Reproducibility reforms in American biomedicine and the diffusion of the “regulatory ethos”Recent scholarship has described the “reproducibility crisis” and its associated reform movement as a social movement or a scientific-intellectual movement. This talk will argue for an alternative framing of these events which de-emphasizes high-status intellectual actors and their agendas for change, and emphasizes instead structural aspects and how they shape which reforms come to be seen as possible and desirable.
Taking this alternative lens, we could see the reproducibility movement not as a successful network of methodologists stitched together by Twitter and investment from private foundations, but as one instantiation of a broader diffusion of a “regulatory ethos”...
2024-12-1147 minRMZ Science WorksSven Arend Ulpts: From the Researcher to the Integrity of Knowledge ProductionResearch guidelines and the scientific literature in general are full of ideas and recommendations of how proper science should look like. However, it remains an open question how the actual reality of research in the sciences relates to notions of proper or responsible science in, for instance, European research integrity guidelines? To answer this question, I conducted an ethnography of cognitive sciences in five cognitive science labs in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. The aim is to understand how and under what conditions knowledge is produced and whether ideas of proper conduct that can be found in guidelines...
2024-12-0428 minRMZ Science WorksThomas Wahl: Re-imagining humanness. Popular science narratives of AI futuresIn the case of artificial intelligence, hyperbolic predictions of the emergence of intelligent machines, even ‘super intelligences’, consist of both dystopian fears of human suppression and extinction, and utopian hopes of human flourishing through freedom from labor and illness as well as unparalleled economic growth and prosperity. At the heart of the controversies between these two, we argue, are emergent and conflicting assumptions about what it means to be human, or rather, what defines humanness.
To address this topic, of how the understanding of humaness is constructed in relation to AI and how the (future) agency of AI an...
2024-11-2627 min
Mi Yo FuturoMi Yo Futuro con Robert Merton - Arreglando las pensionesEn este episodio del podcast Mi Yo Futuro, Diego Valero entrevista al laureado con el Premio Nobel de Economía, Robert Merton. Durante la conversación, Merton aborda varios aspectos clave de los sistemas de pensiones y la jubilación.
Merton comienza explicando los desafíos principales que enfrentan los sistemas de jubilación, como la necesidad de garantizar un flujo de ingresos adecuado durante los años de retiro en un contexto de longevidad creciente. Señala que el problema radica en que las personas viven más tiempo, lo cual es positivo, pero genera incertidumbre sobre cómo sosten...
2024-09-1844 min
Talking About Organizations Podcast115: Problems of Field Work -- Robert K. Merton (Part 2)We conclude our episode on Robert K. Merton by examining contemporary challenges of conducting field work and the implications for the continued pursuit of rigorous science. How has field work changed or what new barriers have emerged? How must the academic community adapt to the present challenges of being able to conduct quality research?
2024-07-3040 min
Talking About Organizations Podcast115: Problems of Field Work -- Robert K. Merton (Part 1)Robert K. Merton was a sociologist who founded the study of the sociology of science, how acts of research influence and are influenced by the contexts being studied. Two of his early essays exemplify this body of work whereby he and his research teams reflect on the challenges and difficulties of performing field work. In
this episode, we examine two speeches delivered in 1947 – “The Machine, the Worker, and the Engineer” and “Selected Problems of Field Work in the Planned
Community” – that exemplifies the effort to better understand how to study social change in organizations due to technology change.
2024-07-2351 min
Talking About Organizations Podcast115: Problems of Field Work -- Robert K. Merton (Summary of Episode)We will explore two of the early works of renowned sociologist Robert K. Merton whose interests included studying the processes of field work in order to improve the quality and rigor of field studies. What are the challenges and difficulties of doing research in environments rife with conflict and tension?
2024-07-2303 min
La teoria de la menteGente Con Buena o Mala Suerte. Cap 401En este fascinante episodio de "La Teoría de la Mente", exploramos una intrigante historia desde una ciudad en América Latina que ilustra el poder de nuestras expectativas y creencias. En esta ciudad, que disfrutaba de condiciones de vida excepcionales, los medios de comunicación comenzaron a advertir sobre una posible hambruna devastadora. Impulsados por el miedo, miles de campesinos abandonaron sus campos y actividades agrícolas, creyendo que así podrían escapar o prepararse mejor para la crisis anunciada. Irónicamente, esta reacción masiva terminó provocando la misma hambruna que los medios habían predicho.
Este fenómeno se con...
2024-07-0135 minThe Rational Reminder PodcastWei Dai: Fighting for Every Basis PointDesigning a robust portfolio requires considerable expertise, data, and experience. And while there are plenty of published articles that can guide how you build your portfolio, they are not investment solutions by themselves. Wei Dai is the Head of Investment Research and Vice President at Dimensional Fund Advisors, and she joins us today for a comprehensive and informative conversation on portfolio design for higher returns. Her background includes a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Statistics, Operations research, and Financial Engineering from Princeton. She has also earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and applied mathematics from Zhejiang University. Her work...
2024-05-231h 12Tuesdays with Merton PodcastRobert Ellsberg - 'It's the Direction that Matters': How Sister Wendy Beckett Changed Her Mind about Merton
During the last three years of her life, Sr. Wendy Becket, an English hermit and art historian, shared an intimate, daily correspondence, largely about holiness and the life of faith. Throughout, the figure of Thomas Merton loomed large. Sr. Wendy held ambivalent feelings on the subject of Merton. Yet in the course of our correspondence she came to a startling reassessment, comparable in some ways to Merton’s own “awakening from a dream of separateness.”
Robert Ellsberg is the long-time publisher of Orbis books. He is the author of many books on saints and holiness, includin...
2024-04-111h 13
The Long ViewVictor Haghani: Lessons From the Missing BillionairesOur guest on the podcast today is Victor Haghani. He is the co-author of a new book called The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions. In 2011, Victor founded Elm Wealth, an investment advisory firm for high-net-worth individuals. He started his career at Salomon Brothers in 1984, where he became a managing director in the bond arbitrage group. And in 1993, he was a co-founding partner of Long-Term Capital Management. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a bachelor’s degree in economics.BackgroundBioElm WealthThe Missing Billionaires: A...
2024-04-0252 min
Zukunft Denken – Podcast083 — Robert Merton — Was ist Wissenschaft?Diesmal gibt es eine kurze Episode, in der ich Ihnen am Ende zwei konkrete Fragen stellen möchte. Es gibt ein Online-Formular, wo ich Sie ersuche, Ihre Gedanken stichwortartig einzutragen, natürlich anonym. Wenn ich antworten soll, nennen Sie mir bitte optional eine E-Mail Adresse.
Es um zwei eng verwandte Fragen:
Was ist Wissenschaft — was sind wesentliche Merkmale und Kriterien wissenschaftlicher Aussagen und Praktiken und
Folgende der Gedanken, die ich in Episode 80 entwickelt habe: haben Sie für sich selbst Faustregeln oder Heuristiken entwickelt, die Ihnen helfen, zu entscheiden, ob Sie einem Experten vertrauen? Sind Aussagen glaubw...
2023-11-0211 min
Fatti di Mente - La Psicologia e le Neuroscienze nella vita di tutti i giorniEP5 | Anomia e devianza tra Durkheim e Merton. Siamo ancora una società anomica?La teoria dell'anomia è una teoria sociologica che spiega la devianza come il risultato di una mancanza di coesione sociale e di un conflitto tra le aspettative culturali e le opportunità sociali. La teoria è stata sviluppata da due sociologi, Émile Durkheim e Robert K. Merton. **Durkheim** ha utilizzato il termine "anomia" per descrivere una condizione di disordine sociale e morale in cui le persone non sono più vincolate da norme e valori condivisi. Secondo Durkheim, l'anomia può essere causata da fattori quali la crisi economica, la guerra o la rapida industrializzazione. In queste situazioni, le persone possono perdere la fiducia nel sistem...
2023-08-2809 min
Maldita Politicagem#68 - Os efeitos perversos ou o anti-coach sociológico (discutindo Robert Merton)Comenta aí! Existe um paradoxo famoso da vida em sociedade: aquilo que as pessoas fazem não levam aos resultados desejados e não raro levam a resultados opostos aos desejados. Estamos falando dos 'efeitos perversos' da ação social. O episódio desta semana explora essa ideia nas obras dos sociólogos Raymond Boudon e Robert Merton e debate as dificuldades da ação política para alcançar os objetivos que uma sociedade almeja.O Maldita Politicagem é um projeto independente. Se você gosta do conteúdo, contribua com a nossa campanha de financiamento coletivo para...
2023-06-1339 min
Coup CritiqueLe développement de personnage avec Robert K. MertonDans cette vidéo, Kim continue d'appliquer la théorie de l'adaptation sociale de Robert K. Merton au jeu de rôle, et comment cette théorie influence sa vision du développement des personnages.
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2023-03-2315 minCoup CritiqueLa création de personnage avec Robert K. MertonDans cette vidéo, Kim vous amène dans sa salle de classe pour vous expliquer la théorie de l'adaptation sociale de Robert K. Merton, et comment cette dernière l'aide dans la création de personnage (et est tellement mieux que le système d'alignement classique :P ).
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2023-03-2028 min
Maldita Politicagem#52 - Robert Merton e a profecia autorrealizávelComenta aí! A profecia que se autorrealiza não está na história de Harry Potter ou em livros de ficção cheios de magia. Ela faz parte do saber sociológico e tem consequências bem reais e perversas. No ep de hoje explicamos como ela funciona e exploramos a obra do seu formulador, o sociológo Robert Merton.O Maldita Politicagem é um projeto independente. Se você gosta do conteúdo, contribua com a nossa campanha de financiamento coletivo para que possamos aprimorá-lo e ampliá-lo:https://apoia.se/malditapoliticagem...
2023-02-2437 min
Risk Parity RadioEpisode 242: Lemmy Joins Some Of The Regulars For Q&A And Portfolio Reviews As Of February 10, 2023In this episode we answer emails from Alexi (a/k/a "the Dude"), the effervescent MyContactInfo, and Mike. We discuss a Portfolio Visualizer fund selection tool for factor investing, Merton and other academics, and an uncannily familiar diversified portfolio recently featured in a Marketwatch article. And we play some Motorhead and rant about financial media a bit.And THEN we our go through our weekly portfolio reviews of the seven sample portfolios you can find at Portfolios | Risk Parity Radio.Additional links:Portfolio Visualizer Fund Factor Attribution Tool: Mutual Fund and ETF Factor Perf...
2023-02-1227 min
The Mystical PositivistThe Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #408 - 21JAN23
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This week on the show we feature a pre-recorded conversation with William D. Glenn about his latest book, I Came Here Seeking a Person: A Vital Story of Grace; One Gay Man's Spiritual Journey, published by Paulist Press. William D. Glenn, a psychotherapist and spiritual director, is a longtime leader in the LGBTQ+ community. Influenced by Thomas Merton, Carl Jung, the Society of Jesus and Queer Culture, Bill elucidates moments in his life from his childhood in an Irish Catholic family mid-20th century through his nearly decade as a Jesuit, to his subsequent life as a sober...
2023-01-2200 minThe Rational Reminder PodcastProf. Robert C. Merton: ICAPM, Retirement, and Models in FinanceFew people have impacted the way the world works, and today, we have the privilege of speaking to one of them. Professor Robert C. Merton is the Distinguished Professor of Finance at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management and Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and is currently the Resident Scientist at Dimensional Fund Advisors. Professor Merton was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997 for his work establishing a new method to determine the value of derivatives. He also created the Intertemporal Capital...
2023-01-052h 00
ForecastAdvice to Writers: Thomas Merton and the Vocation of Writing (Part 5 of 5; Ep 34)Josh shares highlights of 'Chapter 5: Advice to Writers' from Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing edited by Robert Inchausti. Here, Merton describes the necessity of personal integration for contemplation (and, it is suggested, writing); the presence of play and delight in writing; how writers can reach and help others; the importance of contentment; and some tips on publishing. This episode also includes a poem read and written by Foreshadow contributor Matthew J. Andrews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-08-1552 min
story RHQuand Robert éclaire la question de l’engagementDans cet épisode au titre racoleur nous allons convier Robert K. Merton et sa typologie de la déviance pour éclairer le sujet Ô combien essentiel de l’engagement en entreprise.
2022-05-2907 min
ForecastEpisode 27: Because God First Loved Us: Thomas Merton and the Vocation of Writing (Part 4)In Chapter 4 of Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing edited by Robert Inchausti, Thomas Merton reflects on the work of contemporary writers. For him, a mark of good writing is having something worth saying, which comes from writing for God. One aspect of this approach is being inwardly transformed so that we write out of our experience of the life God gives us. At the heart, the Christian who writes must first know that they are loved by God. This episode includes a poem written and read by Foreshadow contributor Matthew J. Andrews. Hosted on A...
2022-05-0939 min
ForecastEpisode 19: Thomas Merton and the Vocation of Writing (Part 1)Thomas Merton was a writer and a Trappist monk. In today's Forecast, Josh goes through the first chapter of Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing, edited by Robert Inchausti, identifying and commenting on Merton's writing about vocation and the ministry of writing. Ultimately, Merton says we are all called to become new creations in Christ and participate in Christ's work of making all things new, and writing is one of the ways we can do that. Merton also points out limits of language and tensions between seeking union with God and writing about that experience. Hosted on Acast...
2021-11-151h 47
Krimotoplum3 Dakikada Suç Sosyolojisi: 1- Robert K. MertonHerkese merhaba! Krimotoplum bu bölümde suç sosyolojisi teorilerinden Robert K. Merton' ın (4 Temmuz 1910-23 Şubat 2003) Gerilim Teorisine değiniyor. Durkheim' ın öğrencisinin bu yeni tip anomisine kulak verin. Haydi başlayalım!
2021-09-0103 min
La última bancaEpisodio 7 | El Peligro de politizar la CienciaEn este episodio, Daniel y Hans comentan el artículo “The peril of politicizing science” publicado este año en "The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters". La autora, Anna I. Krylov, nacida en la extinta Unión Soviética, nos comparte su experiencia de vivir en una sociedad en donde la ideología permeaba todos los aspectos de la vida. Desde su perspectiva, la censura política y la cultura de la cancelación, cada vez más común hoy en día, irá en desmedro del avance científico y social. Tomando como base este artículo se analiza la cont...
2021-08-0549 min
Grandes Nomes da EconomiaPrêmio Nobel de 1997: Robert C. Merton & Myron S. ScholesAno: 1997
Laureado: Robert C. Merton & Myron S. Scholes
Área: Economia Financeira
Motivação: Por desenvolverem um novo método para determinar o valor dos derivativos
Autores: Caio Zompero Paladini, Eduardo Mendes Rodrigues, Lucas Olivieri Barbosa, Matheus Rossini de Souza
Fonte: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/table-listing-the-prize-in-economics-sciences-1969-2006/
2021-06-1809 min
The Omega BeamInvincible - Season 1Amazon video is streaming the first season of Invincible, a new animated series based on Robert Kirkman's excellent, long-running superhero comic. We start out spoiler-free, and give you ample warning before we get spoilerific.
2021-05-0323 minTuesdays with Merton PodcastBONUS episode: Robert Ellsberg — "The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere"This is a Tuesdays with Merton bonus episode from the archives of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. It was recorded at the 16th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society at Santa Clara University in California, June 28, 2019.
Robert Ellsberg is the Publisher of Orbis Books and the author, most recently, of Blessed Among All Women: Women Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time. His other award-winning books include: A Living Gospel: Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives; Blessed Among Us: Saintly Lives for Every Day; All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Wi...
2021-04-0756 min
The Good Grow Great Podcast91. Obstacles v. Goals: Which is more critical? Find out how Henry Ford & Viktor Frankl, & Robert Merton’s approach can change your lifeEver wonder why when you focus on trying NOT to make a mistake, you end up making that same EXACT mistake? I certainly have. And then you see success stories like how inventor Henry Ford created one of the most successful auto-businesses in the world, AND coined the important saying: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.” Does our perception precede our reality? Or vice versa? Do we become what we THINK we are? Today, we’re deconstructing the work and approaches of best-selling author and Holocau...
2021-04-0640 min
The Science Slot MachineScientific MisconductIn this episode, the Science Slot Machine team discusses the interview with professor Ulrike Felt further and explores pathways to think about science, different practices, and scientific misconduct 👀
But first, we are happy to announce that we are bringing on a new team member! In this episode, fellow STS master’s student Nora joins Robbie, Costa, and Harry for the first time 👯👯 Get to know more about her in the episode 👋
Here, the four of us discuss various aspects of scientific misconduct including plagiarism, false data fabrication, and issues of (co)authorship ☝
While we also touch up...
2021-03-0747 min
Little Spark ShortsEps 193: A Seeker Mentored by Thomas Merton; Guest, Sophfronia ScottEnjoy my conversation with Sophfronia Scott today as we converse about her book "The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton". This is a enriching and down-to-earth interaction with the private journals of the famous author monk of the mid-20th Century in conversation with Sophfronia's own life and spiritual growth. We also talk about the Lenten online retreat Pilgrimage of Renewal she and writer Lisa Deam are offering and the resources available for anyone interested.🚩This book is our selected reading for MARCH.Sophfronia will join us LIVE for a discussion of her...
2021-03-0340 min
Spark My MuseEps 193: A Seeker Mentored by Thomas Merton; Guest, Sophfronia ScottEnjoy my conversation with Sophfronia Scott today as we converse about her book "The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton". This is a enriching and down-to-earth interaction with the private journals of the famous author monk of the mid-20th Century in conversation with Sophfronia's own life and spiritual growth. We also talk about the Lenten online retreat Pilgrimage of Renewal she and writer Lisa Deam are offering and the resources available for anyone interested.This book is our selected reading for MARCH.Sophfronia will join us LIVE for a discussion of h...
2021-03-0340 min
Retire TodayDesigning Your Best Retirement Solution | Podcast#35 – Should you take your Social Security early or late? Should you opt for a monthly pension payment or a lump sum? Should you invest for growth or for income?
If you are struggling with even one of these questions, this episode is for you!
In this episode, Jeremy Keil explores the ideas of Nobel laureate Dr. Robert Merton on the ideal retirement solution. In addition to discussing Dr. Merton’s key principles for achieving a good retirement, Jeremy shares his own expert insight on the most significant things to consider to make better decisions with your...
2021-02-2427 minThe Long ViewGerard O’Reilly: Control for the Unexpected, Focus on the ExpectedOur guest this week is Gerard O'Reilly. Gerard is co-CEO and chief investment officer of Dimensional Fund Advisors, an asset manager headquartered in Austin, Texas, that manages more than $600 billion using a systematic investing approach. In his role, Gerard works with his co-CEO, Dave Butler, to set the firm's vision and strategy while also overseeing its investment processes. Prior to assuming his current post, Gerard was Dimensional's head of research. In addition to serving as a Dimensional director, Gerard co-chairs the firm's Investment Research Committee and is a member of its Investment Committee. Gerard obtained his doctorate in aeronautics...
2021-01-2756 min
The Journal of Criminology Indonesia PodcastTeori Anomie by Robert K. Merton - The JCI Podcast #23Dalam konteks bahasan penyebab remaja melakukan delinkuensi, salah satu teori yang bisa dirujuk adalah Teori Anomie yang dikemukakan oleh Robert K. Merton.
Merton menjelaskan bahwa perilaku delinkuen muncul sebagai respons individu atas nilai dan norma yang hidup di dalam masyarakat. Respons ini dimunculkan dalam lima bentuk adaptasi yang berbeda, yakni: conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, dan rebellion.
Seperti apa penjelasan masing-masing adaptasi tersebut? Yuk dengerin penjelasan lebih lanjutnya.
2020-08-2645 min
CAM podcastEpisode 30: Antiwar Thomas Merton, The Early YearsA look through the spiritual classic "The Seven Storey Mountain" to find out what shaped Thomas Merton's views on war and how those views developed in the first half of his life. (Note: spoilers!)0:00 Intro3:13 Early life8:12 Leaving England/Cambridge (1934)15:48 Communism at Columbia---The Peace Strike and The Oxford Pledge22:23 Merton discovers the need for a spiritual life25:25 The "one truth people need to learn"29:09 Rumors of war---Signing up for the draft40:41 Merton's draft number gets called--discerning whether the war is just48:52 Goodbye to...
2020-02-2553 min
Night WhispersVol 01 | Q4 | NW00305 | October 31 | The Toilet Baptism at Bellarmine Dream Word – CHANGERomans 1:21,23 … because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, NKJVI am sat in Detroit Airport as I write this 'NightWhisper.' It is 2007, and already I have been the recipient of free candy distributed by personnel dressed as thieves and one-eyed pirates. 'Cutsie' little Japanese girls dressed as witches holding onto daddy’s hand hav...
2019-10-3108 minThe Mystical PositivistThe Mystical Positivist - Radio Show #325 - 04MAY19
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This week on the show we converse by telephone with Roger Lipsey, a biographer, art historian, editor, and translator. Roger Lipsey earned both his MA (1966) and Ph.D. (1974) from New York University. His Ph.D. was in the history of art at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. Dr. Lipsey has served as the director of the Society for Myth and Tradition, the publisher of Parabola magazine. He is also the author of Coomaraswamy: His Life and Work; An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art; Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton; Make...
2019-05-0400 min
Harbourfront TechnologiesMerton Model for Credit Risk Management and a Case StudyRobert Merton published a seminal paper that laid the foundation for the development of structural credit risk models. We’re going to provide an example of how it can be used for managing credit risks. We are going to present a case study based on the Merton credit risk model.
http://tech.harbourfronts.com/risk-management/merton-credit-risk-model-case-study/
2019-04-1302 min
THE Q FACTORRobert Merton: A Data Visionary Senses A Coming CrisisA bona fide living legend, Dr. Robert C. Merton was one of the first true scientists to enter - and revolutionize - the world of finance. A distinguished professor at both MIT and Harvard, Merton was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton breaks down what he sees as a looming potential financial crisis, just over the horizon: the underfunding of the baby boom generation's retirement savings.
2019-01-3151 min
Das Neue BerlinRegentanz – Funktionale Theorie mit Robert K. Merton
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Gesellschaft ist mehr als eine Summe von Individuen. Wer nur Absichten, Ziele, Bedürfnisse kennt, der muss die Menschen stets beim Wort nehmen und bleibt am Nullpunkt der Soziologie. Deshalb entstauben wir einen alten Begriff aus dem Werkzeugkasten der Gesellschaftstheorie und begleichen damit eine unabgetragene Ehrenschuld.
Funktion heißt das Zauberwort, das mehrere Generationen von Soziologen umtrieb. Wir lesen noch einmal Mertons Social Theory and Social Structure – die geneigte Hörerin erinnert sich an Episo...
2018-09-071h 46
The Boldin Your Money PodcastNobel Prize Winner Robert Merton on Fixing RetirementThe eleventh NewRetirement podcast. This time, Steve Chen is joined by guest professor Bob Merton — Nobel laureate and professor at MIT — and discusses Professor Merton's thoughts on what's wrong with retirement today. They address how the focus of the entire retirement industry is askew, how target day funds are allegedly detrimental to an investment portfolio, Professor Merton's half-century with FinTech, and much more.
Recording, editing done by Davorin Robison.
© 2018 NewRetirement Inc.
2018-06-291h 27
Jesús ZamoraLa sociología de la ciencia de Robert MertonLa sociología de la ciencia de Robert Merton. En "A hombros de gigantes", de RNE.
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2018-06-1606 minDas Neue BerlinSmarte Deals – Trump erklären mit Robert K. Merton
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Die Wahl des Orangenmannes zum Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten ist halbwegs verdaut. Die Erklärungen dafür kennt man. Auf der einen Seite scheint es immer noch zu reichen, ihn als irre abzutun. Auf der anderen Seite hat man „die Abgehängten“ entdeckt, die ihn aus Wut und Verzweiflung – und entgegen ihrer Interessen – gewählt hätten. Wir versuchen demgegenüber, eine soziologische Erklärung nachzuvollziehen, die Trump als Figur ernst nimmt und eine Antwort darauf hat...
2018-05-182h 24
Acton LineRobert Whaples on Pope Francis’ views on Economics; Upstream on Bob Dylan and Thomas MertonOn this episode of Radio Free Acton, Dan Hugger, librarian and research associate at Acton, speaks with Robert Whaples, research fellow at the Independent Institute and professor of economics at Wake Forest University on Pope Francis’ views on capitalism in a preview of Prof. Whaples' upcoming Acton Lecture Series talk. Then, on the Upstream segment, Bruce Edward Walker talks to author, musician, and poet Robert Hudson, on the connections between the singer Bob Dylan and writer Thomas Merton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2018-05-0933 min
Things Not Seen PodcastRemembering Thomas Merton: Robert HudsonHost David Dault talks with Merton scholar Robert Hudson about the tumultuous final years of Catholic monk Thomas Merton.
The story involves two love affairs - one with a young nurse, and the other with the music of Bob Dylan. Both deeply affected the course of Merton's life and writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-05-0648 min
Marsh Chapel Sunday ServicesMerton and Vocation, March 18, 2018The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean preaches a sermon entitled "Merton and Vocation". The Marsh Chapel Choir sings "Jesus, the very thought of thee" arranged by Edward C. Bairstow and "Beati quorum via" by C. V. Stanford along with service music and hymns.
2018-03-181h 08Marsh Chapel Sunday ServicesMerton and Sacrament, March 4, 2018The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean preaches a sermon entitled "Merton and Sacrament". The Marsh Chapel Choir sings "Adoramus te, Christe" by Orlando di Lasso, "Ave verum corpus" by Flor Peeters and "O mortal man" arranged by John Scott along with service music and hymns.
2018-03-041h 15Marsh Chapel Sunday ServicesA Word in the Wilderness: A Lenten Series in Conversation with Thomas Merton, February 18, 2018The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill, Dean preaches a sermon entitled "A Word in the Wilderness". The Marsh Chapel Choir sings "Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake" by Richard Farrant and "Peccantem me quotidie" by Cristobal Morales along with service music and hymns.
2018-02-181h 15
The New Dimensions CaféRobert Lax-In Pursuit Of A Life Of Meaning - Michael N. McGregor - C0361Michael N. McGregor is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Portland State University. He has lectured at universities, conferences, and community events on both Robert Lax and Thomas Merton and is a member of Biographers International Organization and the International Thomas Merton Society.Tags: MichaeMcGregor, Robert Lax, Thomas Merton, History, Philosophy, Spirituality
2016-11-1600 min
QuantFM004期-从CAPM到期权定价公式本期由Yixue主持，Alfred同学分享了期权定价公式研究的背景以及历史过程，主要介绍了Paul Samuelson先生和Robert Merton先生在权证定价方面开创性的研究，以及Fischer Black先生与Myron Scholes先生关于期权定价公式的研究过程。CORE TOPICS:期权定价、费谢尔·布莱克、CAPM、无风险套利SHOW NOTE：CAPMPaul SamuelsonRobert C. MertonRobert K. MertonBlack–Scholes modelMyron Scholes期权权证The History of Options TradingPut–call parity期权平价公式场外交易无风险套利证券交易所芝加哥期权交易所GARCH做市商制度现金流折现定价未来费希尔·布莱克与革命性金融思想注释：节目中将期权归为一类或近似，但是期权和权证其实是有区别的，见权证与其他金融衍生品的对比更多内容请访问:www.quant.fm
2016-08-3125 min
QuantFM004期-从CAPM到期权定价公式本期由Yixue主持，Alfred同学分享了期权定价公式研究的背景以及历史过程，主要介绍了Paul Samuelson先生和Robert Merton先生在权证定价方面开创性的研究，以及Fischer Black先生与Myron Scholes先生关于期权定价公式的研究过程。
CORE TOPICS:
期权定价、费谢尔·布莱克、CAPM、无风险套利
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CAPM
Paul Samuelson
Robert C. Merton
Robert K. Merton
Black–Scholes model
Myron Scholes
期权
权证
The History of Options Trading
Put–call parity
期权平价公式
场外交易
无风险套利
证券交易所
芝加哥期权交易所
GARCH
做市商制度
现金流折现
定价未来
费希尔·布莱克与革命性金融思想
注释：
节目中将期权归为一类或近似，但是期权和权证其实是有区别的，见权证与其他金融衍生品的对比
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