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Daily Paper CastDiffuman4D: 4D Consistent Human View Synthesis from Sparse-View Videos with Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Models
🤗 Upvotes: 29 | cs.CV
Authors:
Yudong Jin, Sida Peng, Xuan Wang, Tao Xie, Zhen Xu, Yifan Yang, Yujun Shen, Hujun Bao, Xiaowei Zhou
Title:
Diffuman4D: 4D Consistent Human View Synthesis from Sparse-View Videos with Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Models
Arxiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13344v1
Abstract:
This paper addresses the challenge of high-fidelity view synthesis of humans with sparse-view videos as input. Previous methods solve the issue of insufficient observation by leveraging 4D diffusion models to generate videos at novel viewpoints. However, the generated videos from these models often lac...2025-07-1923 minDaily Paper CastA Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models: An Action Tokenization Perspective
🤗 Upvotes: 24 | cs.RO
Authors:
Yifan Zhong, Fengshuo Bai, Shaofei Cai, Xuchuan Huang, Zhang Chen, Xiaowei Zhang, Yuanfei Wang, Shaoyang Guo, Tianrui Guan, Ka Nam Lui, Zhiquan Qi, Yitao Liang, Yuanpei Chen, Yaodong Yang
Title:
A Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models: An Action Tokenization Perspective
Arxiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01925v1
Abstract:
The remarkable advancements of vision and language foundation models in multimodal understanding, reasoning, and generation has sparked growing efforts to extend such intelligence to the physical world, fueling the flourishing of vision-language-action (VLA) models. Despite seemingly diverse app...2025-07-0423 minDaily Paper CastAstra: Toward General-Purpose Mobile Robots via Hierarchical Multimodal Learning
🤗 Upvotes: 25 | cs.RO, cs.AI
Authors:
Sheng Chen, Peiyu He, Jiaxin Hu, Ziyang Liu, Yansheng Wang, Tao Xu, Chi Zhang, Chongchong Zhang, Chao An, Shiyu Cai, Duo Cao, Kangping Chen, Shuai Chu, Tianwei Chu, Mingdi Dan, Min Du, Weiwei Fang, Pengyou Fu, Junkai Hu, Xiaowei Jiang, Zhaodi Jiang, Fuxuan Li, Jun Li, Minghui Li, Mingyao Li, Yanchang Li, Zhibin Li, Guangming Liu, Kairui Liu, Lihao Liu, Weizhi Liu, Xiaoshun Liu, Yufei Liu, Yunfei Liu, Qiang Lu, Yuanfei Luo, Xiang Lv, Hongying Ma, Sai Ma, Lingxian Mi, Sha Sa, Hongxiang Shu, Lei Tian, Chengzhi Wang, Jiayu Wang, Kai...2025-06-1121 min
Data & Society[Live] The Cloud is Dead: Living with Legacies of Resource ExtractionBooksDeath Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Tamara Kneese)The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City (Alexis Madrigal)Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (Xiaowei Wang)
2025-05-0559 min
StarXiv: a podcast discussing the latest astronomy papersEpisode 8 – Cosmology, pulsars and dark matter in disk galaxiesIn this episode, Payel and Michelle discuss the longest period pulsar, the formation of nuclear star clusters, the recent data releases from ACT and DESI, dark spiral arms and the problem with rotation curves.Papers in this episode:The discovery of a 41-second radio pulsar PSR J0311+1402 with ASKAP – Yuanming Wang et al.Seeding Cores: A Pathway for Nuclear Star Clusters from Bound Star Clusters in the First Billion Years – Fred Angelo Batan GarciaDark matter spiral arms in Milky Way-like halos – Marcel Benet et al.Data Release 1 of the Da...2025-03-3137 min
Computer Says MaybeAI Safety’s Spiral of Urgency w/ Shazeda AhmedAre you tired of hearing the phrase ‘AI Safety’ and rolling your eyes? Do you also sometimes think… okay but what is technically wrong with advocating for ‘safer’ AI systems? Do you also wish we could have more nuanced conversations about China and AI?In this episode Shazeda Ahmed goes deep on the field of AI Safety, explaining that it is a community that is propped up by its own spiral of reproduced urgency; and that so much of it is rooted in American anti-China sentiment. Read: the fear that the big scary authoritarian country will build AGI before...2025-02-1455 min
Seat At My Table PodcastCreating Change by Writing Cheques with Dama SathianathanMoney, the root of all evil or a powerful force for good? Join me in this insightful conversation with Dama Sathianathan who is setting an incredible example of the positive change that can be achieved by writing cheques in the world of venture capital.
Dama is a Senior Partner at Bethnal Green Ventures, Europe’s leading early-stage tech for good Venture Capital Firm that backs ambitious founders using tech to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges. She is also a committee member for Venture ESG, a community-based non-profit organisation focused on the meaningful integration of ESG and re...2025-02-091h 13Daily Paper CastCosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI
🤗 Upvotes: 31 | cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.RO
Authors:
NVIDIA, :, Niket Agarwal, Arslan Ali, Maciej Bala, Yogesh Balaji, Erik Barker, Tiffany Cai, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Yongxin Chen, Yin Cui, Yifan Ding, Daniel Dworakowski, Jiaojiao Fan, Michele Fenzi, Francesco Ferroni, Sanja Fidler, Dieter Fox, Songwei Ge, Yunhao Ge, Jinwei Gu, Siddharth Gururani, Ethan He, Jiahui Huang, Jacob Huffman, Pooya Jannaty, Jingyi Jin, Seung Wook Kim, Gergely Klár, Grace Lam, Shiyi Lan, Laura Leal-Taixe, Anqi Li, Zhaoshuo Li, Chen-Hsuan Lin, Tsung-Yi Lin, Huan Ling, Ming-Yu Liu, Xian Liu, Alice Luo, Qianli Ma, Hanzi Mao, Kaichun Mo, Arsalan Mous...2025-01-0925 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 Retro: Magic in the Everyday, with Helen Shewolfe Tseng (2.02)This is Five and Nine, a podcast and newsletter at the crossroads of magic, work and economic justice. We’re in the midst of Season 5, on the theme of Generation, but we wanted to take a brief look back at Season 2 with a “retro” episode originally published September 2022.SummaryHow can everyday magic helps us navigate change?Five and Nine talks with artist, designer, and witch Helen Shewolfe Tseng. They share their work on growth spells, drawings made over an extended period of time for personal healing and transformation, and their Coyote Portals series...2025-01-0429 minDaily Paper CastLarge Motion Video Autoencoding with Cross-modal Video VAE
🤗 Upvotes: 15 | cs.CV
Authors:
Yazhou Xing, Yang Fei, Yingqing He, Jingye Chen, Jiaxin Xie, Xiaowei Chi, Qifeng Chen
Title:
Large Motion Video Autoencoding with Cross-modal Video VAE
Arxiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17805v1
Abstract:
Learning a robust video Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is essential for reducing video redundancy and facilitating efficient video generation. Directly applying image VAEs to individual frames in isolation can result in temporal inconsistencies and suboptimal compression rates due to a lack of temporal compression. Existing Video VAEs have begun to address temporal compression; however, the...2024-12-2525 minDaily Paper CastPrompting Depth Anything for 4K Resolution Accurate Metric Depth Estimation
🤗 Upvotes: 10 | cs.CV
Authors:
Haotong Lin, Sida Peng, Jingxiao Chen, Songyou Peng, Jiaming Sun, Minghuan Liu, Hujun Bao, Jiashi Feng, Xiaowei Zhou, Bingyi Kang
Title:
Prompting Depth Anything for 4K Resolution Accurate Metric Depth Estimation
Arxiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14015v1
Abstract:
Prompts play a critical role in unleashing the power of language and vision foundation models for specific tasks. For the first time, we introduce prompting into depth foundation models, creating a new paradigm for metric depth estimation termed Prompt Depth Anything. Specifically, we use a low...2024-12-2020 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 5.02. Haunting through the GlitchSeason 5 returns with a conversation between the Five and Nine co-founders, long-time collaborators, and friends, Xiaowei, AX, and Dorothy. While AX was in Jordan for Season 4, Xiaowei and Dorothy were in their metaphorical caves completing their dissertations and transitioning out of one academic realm into another while balancing commitments and obligations, but we survived and have become Dr. Xiaowei Wang and Dr. Dorothy R. Santos!This season, we ask our guests about generation(s) and not only in terms of silos (e.g., Gen X, Gen Z, Millenials, etc.), but about what it means to view generation...2024-12-0932 minDaily Paper CastGMAI-VL & GMAI-VL-5.5M: A Large Vision-Language Model and A Comprehensive Multimodal Dataset Towards General Medical AI
🤗 Paper Upvotes: 15 | cs.CV
Authors:
Tianbin Li, Yanzhou Su, Wei Li, Bin Fu, Zhe Chen, Ziyan Huang, Guoan Wang, Chenglong Ma, Ying Chen, Ming Hu, Yanjun Li, Pengcheng Chen, Xiaowei Hu, Zhongying Deng, Yuanfeng Ji, Jin Ye, Yu Qiao, Junjun He
Title:
GMAI-VL & GMAI-VL-5.5M: A Large Vision-Language Model and A Comprehensive Multimodal Dataset Towards General Medical AI
Arxiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14522v1
Abstract:
Despite significant advancements in general artificial intelligence, such as GPT-4, their effectiveness in the medical domain (general medical AI, GMAI) remains constrained due...2024-11-2721 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 5.01. Generation (Season Premiere)Season 5 returns with a conversation between the Five and Nine co-founders, long-time collaborators, and friends, Xiaowei, AX, and Dorothy. While AX was in Jordan for Season 4, Xiaowei and Dorothy were in their metaphorical caves completing their dissertations and transitioning out of one academic realm into another while balancing commitments and obligations, but we survived and have become Dr. Xiaowei Wang and Dr. Dorothy R. Santos!This season, we ask our guests about generation(s) and not only in terms of silos (e.g., Gen X, Gen Z, Millenials, etc.), but about what it means to view generation...2024-10-3138 min
Data & SocietyData & Society at 10: Foreseeable FuturesWhen Data & Society was founded ten years ago, it was rooted in the insight that data-centric technologies have broad and often unseen impacts on society — and that to better understand those impacts and realize technologies that reflect our highest values, we need interdisciplinary, empirical research.Today, the urgency of that vision is palpable: How societies choose to design and govern technology will determine our collective future. On September 26, we celebrated our first decade with our incredible network of alumni, friends, and supporters. Along with reflections from Data & Society Executive Director Janet Haven, Board President Charlton McIlwain, and Fo...2024-10-161h 28
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 4.10. Desert Residency Discs: Bearing Witness to Crisis (Season Finale)For the Season 4 finale, we break out a new format: Desert Residency Discs, inspired by the popular BBC show Desert Island Discs. We listen to music recorded on location in the Wadi Rum Desert, and we talk about some of the major themes from the residency, including crisis, bearing witness, why sound and music hold us through difficult moments, and how to be present, whatever the circumstances. We close with a tarot reading that builds on our reflections around the elements of air, water and fire. Also: tune in as we learn to sing like camels.2024-05-1341 min
20 Minute BooksBlockchain Chicken Farm - Book Summary"And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Xiaowei Wang Category: Society & Culture2024-04-2526 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 Live Episode: Centering Our Healing GiftsIntroducing Five and Nine Live!Following up on Episode 4.07. Awakening the Healer, we present our very first live podcast recording — a special episode for Season 4 recorded live at the Center for the Enlightenment Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn, at Gathering Future Ancestors: a meditative experience of immersive storytelling, participatory art, and sound — exploring water as an entryway to our shared humanity.In this discussion, host AX Mina and guest Helen Banach talk about multihyphenate life, the practice of healing and the difference between holding space and holding pain. They close with a tarot reading for the collec...2024-02-2433 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 4.09. Learning to Trust the Gut“I was always the busy one,” says our guest Hana of her life before COVID lockdowns. In this final interview of Season 4, we talk about the power of being by oneself, how it feels to jump back into a familiar line of work, and the importance of intuition. We look at present-day Petra, the famous city of stone nestled in southern Jordan, and we close with a tarot reading that captures the essence of acceptance in the face of change. Also: remembering to look up.Five and Nine Season 4 is about crisis. It’s our first season record...2024-01-2927 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌛 4.08. Adelle's Scroll: The Poetry of Water and Written LanguageSymbolic language is at the heart of magic and also at the heart of human expression. In this minisode, Five and Nine joins Adelle Lin, an artist and technologist who explores the poetry of water and the Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew languages in the desert. We talk about time, displacement, and what it feels like to roll a 160 foot scroll down the side of a hill. Also: Ana offers a reflection on deep time and where water comes from.Five and Nine Season 4 is about crisis. It’s our first season recorded on location, with the majority of...2024-01-1715 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 Retro: Transformation in Slowing Down, with Nour Batyne (3.04)This is Five and Nine, a podcast and newsletter at the crossroads of magic, work and economic justice. We’re in the midst of Season 4, recorded online and on location in the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan, but we wanted to take a brief look back at Season 3 with a “retro” episode with One of Many co-founder Nour Batyne.Futures thinker, artist and creative producer Nour Batyne reminds us to slow down to the speed of presence. The future is not just space travel and new technology but the legacy we leave as future ancestors. We'll hear from N...2024-01-1234 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌌 Bonus Episode: Embodied Water Practice, with One of Many StudioIt’s the still of winter here in the northern hemisphere as the solstice arrives, and we just have a few more episodes of Season 4 left.In this bonus minisode, Season 4 co-hosts Britt Pham and Nour Batyne of One of Many Studio offer a meditation that helps us face the climate crisis by honoring our interconnectedness.“We are gathering among unceded waters,” they offer. “These waters hold the legacy and the souls of ancestors who stewarded them with humanity in the face of violence and inhumanity. We honor them.”Related episodes:* 🌚 3.04. Transformatio...2023-12-2104 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌜 4.07. Awakening the HealerWhat does it feel like to awaken to a new calling? Artist, art producer, and art historian Helen Banach sits down with us to talk about embodying these multiple labels alongside her newest one — healer. We travel to March 2020, when she became a full-time caregiver just as lockdowns began, and we discuss the multihyphenate life, making mistakes and embodiment. A tarot reading takes us back generations, with a message from Helen’s ancestors. Also: we get a visit from camels, birds and even a few buzzing flies.Five and Nine Season 4 is about crisis. It’s our first...2023-12-0428 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 Bonus Episode: AX Mina on the Magic of Pluralistic Futures at re:publica BerlinFollowing up on Episode 4.06. The Turtles and the Stars: An Interview with AX Mina ✨🐢✨🐢, we present a talk from Five and Nine’s AX Mina about magic and pluralistic futures, given earlier this year at re:publica in Berlin. Mina examines the use of the word “magic” in technology and rise of the technological sublime during the Industrial Revolution, and she explores a more expansive, pluralistic view of our future, grounded in ancient wisdom traditions and not a small amount of the magical and mystical.When we think of the future, we think of magical technologies like flying cars, tal...2023-11-2730 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 4.06. The Turtles and the Stars: An Interview with AX Mina ✨🐢✨🐢In this minisode, One of Many Studio’s Britt Pham and Nour Batyne interview a familiar voice — AX Mina (Ana), your host for Season 4 and a co-founder at Five and Nine. They discuss the meaning of stars, the many jackets we wear in our professional lives, definitions of magic, and the Buddhist concept of precious birth. As night descends on the desert, we look back on the Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction of 2020 and what we learned in the quiet of lockdown. Also: Aja Monet’s newest album.Five and Nine Season 4 is about crisis. It’s our first season recorded...2023-11-1416 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 4.05. Azad's Kite: Art in a Time of CrisisIn this minisode, Five and Nine joins Azad, an artist, healer and “forever cheerleader,” who’s working on a kite to fly in the desert winds of Wadi Rum. We tune in to the element of air in particular, an important one in tarot, which shows up in both the cards we draw and in the environment around us. We travel back in time to the quiet, haunting streets of New York City early in the pandemic, discuss the value of rest, and the explore the role of the arts in times of crisis.Five and Nine Season...2023-11-0315 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 Retro: Leadership and Prayer in Difficult Times, with Angela Mictlanxochitl (2.03)When it feels like everything is lost, how do we find guidance? In this incredibly difficult and painful week, we’ve been seeking wisdom, prayer and spiritual guidance. As we get ready to return to Season 4, we wanted to take a step back with a “retro” episode, pulling from our archives from Season 2.In this episode, Five and Nine talks with Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson Guerrero, who runs Lideramos, a Latino leadership organization in the US, and who is a practicing abuela, or grandmother, in the Danza de la Luna lineage, a transterritorial Mexica ceremonial practice.Angela...2023-10-1435 min
MIT Technology Review BrasilTrabalhadores tecnológicos: como usar habilidades coletivas para construir um mundo melhorQuantos aplicativos você já instalou buscando solucionar um problema?
Nos últimos anos, tem-se cultivado a ideia de que para cada situação existe um programa ou tecnologia específica para solucioná-la. Até mesmo para aqueles que enfrentam a perda de um ente querido, há um aplicativo.
No episódio do podcast MIT Technology Review Brasil desta semana, André Miceli, Carlos Aros e Rafael Coimbra conversam sobre como é possível repensar o papel da tecnologia para a sociedade, o que a cultura da startup tem a ver com esse movimento e quem é Xiaowei Wang, cr...2023-08-2226 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 Bonus Episode: A Meditation for Aliveness, by Britt PhamWe’re going on vacation here at Five and Nine, and before we do, we wanted to share an offering in the form of a bonus episode.“Just notice what’s alive in your body today.” These wise words will guide you in this beautiful meditation from Britt Pham, co-founder at One of Many Studio. It’s the opening to a conversation that we’ll be publishing in September, when we continue Season 4.We hope you have a restful and restorative summer in the northern hemisphere.Five and Nine Season 4 is about crisis. It’s our fir...2023-08-1604 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 4.04. Coffee: The Hard Work of Magic BeansIn this minisode, Five and Nine joins One of Many Studio’s Nour Batyne and Britt Pham to sit in on a Bedouin coffee ceremony. Sipping from their cups around the virtual campfire, we talk about the magic, work and economic justice of the little bean we call coffee, whose roots extend to the Rift Valley and whose impact goes as far afield as Vietnam and Brazil. And with every gulp comes a long story of capital, colonialism and ceremony — and maybe a little space for future telling too. Also: stay till the end for a special announcement about a ne...2023-08-0414 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 4.03. It's More Clear at the BottomWhat does it mean to live through a crisis? Season 4 continues in the heat of day, when the desert falls to silence.Writer and artist Cher-Wen DeWitt talks about her many careers, the allure of other people’s problems, and the changing nature of philanthropy. Along the way, we travel back to the early days of 2020 and discuss burnout and finding the fire again with the tools of creative practice. Also: why hell is other people’s cooking knives.Five and Nine Season 4 is about crisis. It’s our first season on location, with the majority of our ep...2023-07-1734 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌜 4.02. Building a Movement of Future AncestorsWhat waters do you come from? Why is Season 4 set in Wadi Rum? And what does it mean to be a future ancestor? In this minisode, we sit down with One of Many Studio (OoM) co-founders Nour Batyne and Britt Pham to learn more about their ambitious vision: to create the greatest cultural shift of our generation by transforming the way people relate to themselves, each other, and our legacies through the elevation of critical conversations.Five and Nine Season 4 is about crisis. It’s our first season recorded on location, with the majority of our episodes pr...2023-07-1108 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 4.01. Jeep, Pray, Lovers Cave (Season Premiere)Season 4 starts off with a desert quest: find the Lovers Cave, a special cave in Wadi Rum fabled to heal relationship ills. We join photographer Farah Foudeh, whose photo illustrates this podcast, in her yellow Jeep for an off-road drive around the desert to find the perfect spot for a tarot reading. Our discussion looks at global tourism, how images shape and define our understanding of different regions of the world, and what it means to travel today. Also: two little birds come to visit.Five and Nine Season 4 is about crisis. It’s our first season on...2023-07-0532 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice☀️ 4.00. Season 4 Trailer: Live from the Wadi Rum DesertHappy Solstice, everyone.Five and Nine Season 4 is about crisis. It’s our first field studio season, with the majority of our episodes recorded from the beautiful Wadi Rum desert in Jordan, thanks to a special artist residency hosted by One of Many Studio (OoM).We ask our guests what’s changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 emergency, and how to think about our relationship to the world, the earth and the people around us. We talk global tourism, the quiet of the pandemic, the art of healing, and the world of international development.2023-06-2203 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 3.06. A Diary of Being Laid Off, with M Eifler (Season Finale)A month ago, artist and creative technologist M Eifler was laid off from their job, one of nearly 200,000 layoffs this year alone. M discusses the uncertainty and anxiety they’ve experienced since the layoff and shares how they have been using art and LinkedIn to document their journey. From ritual to song to visualizing the experience of stress, they share wisdom on navigating the ups and downs—while also finding a new path forward.M is the creator of Art School From Bed, an online series that explores how technology can be used to solve problems around disa...2023-04-1937 min
Tech Won't Save UsHow Amazon Reshapes Small Business to Serve Itself w/ Moira WeigelParis Marx is joined by Moira Weigel to discuss the third-party sellers who supply many of the goods sold through Amazon, how the company’s policy decisions reshape small businesses to act like mini-Amazons, and what that means for regulatory responses.Moira Weigel is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School, and a founding editor of Logic Magazine. Her most recent book is Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do--And How They Do It, co-edited with Ben Tarnoff. Follow Moira on Twitter at...2023-04-061h 08
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 3.05. Lovers, Devils and Beautiful Feet, with Danielle BluntPlease note: This episode contains slightly more adult content than usual. Listeners should also be advised of an inordinate amount of puns, giggles, and wisdom about human relationships.As a sex worker, community organizer, and public health researcher, Danielle Blunt thinks a lot about community, consent and comfort. She discusses the ways she brings ritual into her work as a professional dominatrix and as someone who practices tarot, and what it means to work outside of capitalist structures while making time for rest. We close with a discussion of the power dynamics in a few tarot cards...2023-04-0538 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 3.04. Transformation in Slowing Down, with Nour BatyneFutures thinker, artist and creative producer Nour Batyne reminds us to slow down to the speed of presence. The future is not just space travel and new technology but the legacy we leave as future ancestors. We'll hear from Nour how she decided to make the leap from the nine to five life into starting her own studio, and we'll learn about the influence of her teita, or grandmother, on her life and practice, and why land acknowledgements are so important.Nour offers a meditation that helps us face the climate crisis by honoring our interconnectedness, and...2023-03-2234 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 3.03. What Dreams Are Made Of, with Amira-Sade MoodieWhat lessons does the dream world hold for each of us in our waking lives? Artist and dream explorer Amira-Sade Moodie takes host Xiaowei R. Wang on a live dream exploration, teaching us along the way how to build dream circles of our own. We learn about Amira’s early career explorations, taking them from the streets of New York to an organic farm in Hawai’i, and the wisdom of listening to spirit as we build our livelihoods. Also: why drama is part of the human condition.Season 3 is all about rest. In a time of exte...2023-03-0733 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 3.02. Nourishing the Creative Spirit After Burnout, with Victoria KuFive years ago, technologist, artist and financial analyst Victoria Ku suffered a period of burnout that left her medicated and emotionless. By finding rest and setting new boundaries, she started building a life for herself that’s both nourished her creative spirit and enabled her financial security—summoning magic through the combination of both logic and emotion. Victoria shares her perspectives on how to prepare for the inevitable ups and downs of the economy, and we conduct a tarot reading to help her determine how to foster the artist within. Also: why Star Trek’s Spock is such a dream...2023-02-2035 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 3.01. Everyone, Everywhere, Get Some Rest (Season Premiere)This is Five and Nine, a podcast and newsletter at the crossroads of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Season 3, Episode 1. You can find us on Apple, Spotify, Google and Instagram.Enjoying the show? Consider buying us a virtual cup of coffee. Subscribe now for just $6 per month, to get access to our paid programming.SummaryWe talk about this season’s theme, which is about rest, and why it’s so hard to make time for it. We also share our favorite yoga poses and our love for Everything Ever...2023-02-0529 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 2.06. The Five and Nine Confession Session (Season Finale)Creative Director and Co-Director of Magic Xiaowei Wang returns for our season finale!We talk union solidarity, life in a time of crisis, and our upcoming class on tarot and writing with The Shipman Agency. Dorothy breaks out the Modus Operandi Deck for a confessional tell-all with the three hosts that touches on what we can’t let go of, the value of money, the role models and safety we wish we had when we were younger, and why we have a grudge on Timothée Chalamet.Five and Nine Season 2 is about transitions. As fal...2022-11-2833 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 2.05. Life After a Great Resignation, with Ruben Briseño RevelesOver a year ago, Chicanx futurist artist Ruben Briseño Reveles grappled with a choice: either his job or his mental health and well-being. He decided to make a leap into a new life when he left his restaurant job of 20 years. His is one of many stories of great resignations in the face of the events of 2020 and 2021, and we talk with Ruben about what he’s learned during this time — about his art, his spirituality, and his relationship to his family.In this episode, we conduct a live tarot reading with Ruben during the portal of Di...2022-11-0831 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 2.04. Equity, Diversity and Ancestral Inclusion, with Kim Acebo ArtecheWhen we talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion work, where do ancestral lineages fit in? What does wellness look like in a culture that celebrates overworking ourselves at the expense of our bodies? Five and Nine talks with Kim Acebo Ateche, who supports BIPOC organizational leaders to get in touch with their ancestry as a form of healing.In this episode, Kim shares about her own personal experiences with healing and being disconnected from her body, a framework she called intuitive leadership, and why carrying for one’s full mind, body and spirit is an anti-racist act. Sh...2022-10-2632 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 2.03. Leadership and Prayer in Difficult Times, with Angela MictlanxochitlWhen it feels like everything is lost, how do we find guidance? Five and Nine talks with Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson Guerrero, who runs Lideramos, a Latino leadership organization in the US, and who is a practicing abuela, or grandmother, in the Danza de la Luna lineage, a transterritorial Mexica ceremonial practice.Angela Mictlanxochitl talks about the four components of her thoughtful engagement framework—intention, responsibility, reciprocity and care—, the role of prayer and spirituality in leadership, being authentic in the workplace and how we care for our physical, psychological and emotional health. She closes with a sound and...2022-10-1335 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 2.02. Magic in the Everyday, with Helen Shewolfe TsengThis is Five and Nine, a podcast and newsletter at the crossroads of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2. We are now on Instagram! You can also find us on Apple, Spotify and Google. Enjoying the show? Consider buying us a virtual cup of coffee. Subscribe now for just $6 per month. This podcast is always free, but paid subscribers will get access to special content, including how-to's, journaling exercises, tarot suggestions and more.SummaryHow can everyday magic helps us navigate change? Five and Nine talks with artist...2022-09-2229 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 2.01. Your Network is Your Net Worth, with Sydney Baloue (Season Premiere)Five and Nine opens Season 2 with author and ballroom expert Sydney Baloue. Season 2 is about transitions. As falls sets in in the northern hemisphere and spring int he south, Five and Nine looks at change in all its forms — leaving jobs, changing industries, starting new paths, and the wisdom and that tarot and magic have to offer in a world that seems to be ever in flux.Sydney is a former academic, a writer and producer for HBOMax’s Legendary and proud member of the House of Xtravaganza. He talks to us about his many caree...2022-09-1337 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 1.07 Part 2. Body Scan Meditation, by Kai StowersThis is Five and Nine, a podcast newsletter at the intersection of magic, work and economic justice. This is an excerpt from Season 1, Episode 7.This is a standalone episode that features a guided meditation by Kai Stowers, an integral coach and mindfulness practitioner and our special guest for Season 1, Episode 7. For the full episode and more context on the role of mindfulness in the workplace, be sure to visit thisisfiveandnine.com.If you’ve been tuning in this season, we’d love to hear from you! You can fill out a 2 minute survey here and help...2022-07-1305 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 1.07. Burnout, Biases and Body Mindfulness, with Kai Stowers (Season Finale)This is Five and Nine, a podcast newsletter at the intersection of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Season 1, Episode 7.This episode closes out our pilot season, and we’re regrouping while we prepare for Season 2 (in the autumn/vernal cycle). If you’ve been tuning in this season, we’d love to hear from you! You can fill out 2 minute survey here and help us grow:ResourcesMusic* International Rag, composed by Irving Berlin and performed by Pietro Deiro in 1913.Our Guest’s Work* On kaistowe...2022-07-1335 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌛 1.06 Part 2. Writing Under the Influence (of Distraction)This is Five and Nine, a podcast newsletter at the intersection of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Season 1, Episode 6, Part 2. We have one more episode to go this season, and we are pleased to share we are now available on Apple Podcasts.Listen to the podcast now, or read the transcript below, or both!ResourcesMusic and Words* Rum tum tiddle, composed by Jean Schwartz, lyrics by Edward Madden and sung by Al Jolson in 1911Tarot Cards* Eight of Cups* Five of Swords2022-07-0624 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 1.06 Part 1. Speaking Up at Work as a Quiet PersonThis is Five and Nine, a podcast newsletter at the intersection of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Season 1, Episode 6, Part 1. We are pleased to share we are now available on Apple Podcasts.Listen to the podcast now, or read the transcript below, or both!ResourcesMusic and Words* All by myself, composed by Irving Berlin and sung by Aileen Stanley in 1921* The gate, the key, the passage, by Little Red Tarot* Gorgon’s Tarot, by Dolores FitchieTarot Cards* Eight of Cu...2022-06-2926 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌚 1.05. Meditation: Loving-Kindness with TarotThis is Five and Nine, a podcast newsletter at the intersection of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Season 1, Episode 5. We are pleased to share we are now available on Apple Podcasts.Listen to the podcast now, or read the transcript below, or both!Resources* Dream of the Mountains, composed by August Labitzky and performed by the Victor Orchestra in 1906.* Daring Compassion Movement Chaplaincy Training, by the Faith Matters Network and hosted on the School of Global CitizenryTranscriptThe meditation that we offer today on...2022-05-3014 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 1.04. Finding a New Constellation in Our Grief, with Indira AllegraThis is Five and Nine, a podcast newsletter at the intersection of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Season 1, Episode 4. We are pleased to share we are now available on Apple Podcasts!Listen to the podcast now, or read the transcript below, or both!ResourcesMusic* Dance of the Songbirds, composed by Benjamin Richmond and performed by Joseph Belmont (the whistler) and the Victor Orchestra in 1913.Our Guest’s Work* indiraallegra.com* Unspooling Die Gramgewinde: Writing with Gunta Stölzl on Grief-Threads and Grief-Portals, by...2022-05-1534 min
TED TechThe real hotbed of innovation (hint: it's not big cities) | Xiaowei R. Wang"To see and understand the countryside is a crucial part of moving towards a more livable future for everyone," says coder, artist and organizer Xiaowei R. Wang. They've observed that some of the most careful, thoughtful innovation is happening in the world's rural communities, like Chinese chicken farmers using biometrics tracking and blockchain to improve supply chain transparency. In this talk, they advocate for a new perspective on the countryside: not as places lacking in tech or digital media literacy but as centers of humble innovation that emphasize community and sustainability.For a chance to give your...2022-05-0608 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 1.03. Setting Career Goals When the World is BurningThis is Five and Nine, a podcast newsletter at the intersection of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Episode 003.Listen to the podcast now, or read the transcript below, or both!ResourcesMusic* The Gondoliers, composed by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin and performed by Georges Barrère and the Barrère Ensemble of Wind Instruments in 1915. Lyrics available here.Books* Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk * Work Won't Love You Ba...2022-04-1629 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 1.02. A Meditation for the Suit of CupsThis is Five and Nine, a podcast newsletter at the intersection of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Episode 002.This episode’s music is The Gondoliers, composed by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin and performed by Georges Barrère and the Barrère Ensemble of Wind Instruments in 1915. It's part of 400,000 sound recordings made available in the public domain this year.Listen to the podcast now, or read the transcript below, or both!This guided meditation lasts just a few minutes and can be done at home, at work, or even on the...2022-03-1807 min
TuneIn | TechnologyThe real hotbed of innovation (hint: it’s not big cities) | Xiaowei R. Wang“To see and understand the countryside is a crucial part of moving towards a more livable future for everyone,” says coder, artist and organizer Xiaowei R. Wang. They’ve observed that some of the most careful, thoughtful innovation is happening in the world’s rural communities, like Chinese chicken farmers using biometrics tracking and blockchain to improve supply chain transparency. In this talk, they advocate for a new perspective on the countryside: not as places lacking in tech or digital media literacy but as centers of humble innovation that emphasize community and sustainability.2022-03-1808 minTEDTalks 科技为什么农村地区有很多企业家？ | 晓薇·王（Xiaowei R. Wang）程序员、艺术家、组织者晓薇·王（Xiaowei R. Wang）说：“看到和了解农村是每个人走向更宜居的未来的一个关键部分"。她发现了有些最深思熟虑的精巧创新会发生在全球的农村地区，比如中国的养鸡场农民利用生物追踪和区块链增加供应链透明度。在这个演讲中，晓薇宣传了对农村的一个新看法：农村不该被认为是缺乏科技和数字媒体素养的地方，而是重视社群和可持续性的谦逊创新中心。2022-03-1808 minTEDTalks TechnologiePourquoi l'entrepreneuriat est-il florissant dans les campagnes ? | Xiaowei R. Wang« Voir et comprendre la campagne est un élément crucial pour avancer vers un avenir plus vivable pour tous », nous déclare la développeuse, artiste et organisatrice Xiaowei R. Wang. Elle a observé que certaines des innovations les plus judicieuses et les mieux pensées se développent dans les campagnes, comme les éleveurs de poulets chinois qui utilisent le suivi biométrique et la blockchain pour améliorer la transparence de la chaîne d'approvisionnement. Dans cette présentation, Xiaowei R. Wang plaide en faveur d'un changement de perspective sur les campagnes : ce ne sont pas des lieux dépourvus de c...2022-03-1808 minTEDTalks TecnologíaEl verdadero semillero de la innovación (pista: no son las grandes ciudades) | Xiaowei R. Wang"Ver y entender el campo es una parte crucial para movernos a un futuro más habitable para todos", dice la programadora, artista y organizadora Xiaowei R. Wang. Se ha observado que algunas de las innovaciones más consideradas y cuidadosas están ocurriendo en comunidades rurales del mundo, como los avicultores de pollos chinos que usan seguimiento biométrico y blockchain para mejorar la transparencia de la cadena de suministro. En esta charla, se aboga por una nueva perspectiva en el campo: no como un lugar con falta de tecnología o alfabetización en medios digitales sino como un cen...2022-03-1808 min
Five and Nine: Tarot, Work and Economic Justice🌝 1.01. Seeds and Towers and Tigers, Oh MyThis is Five and Nine, a podcast newsletter at the intersection of magic, work and economic justice. Welcome to Episode 001. This episode features a live reading and a reference to the Seed Root and Garden spread in action. As a very visual medium, the tarot benefits from being able to engage with the imagery of the cards, and we include the images from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck for reference. See our previous newsletter to learn more about the Seed Root and Garden spread.Listen to the podcast now, or read the transcript below, or both! 2022-02-1637 min
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Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside is the most recent book from artist and technologist Xiaowei Wang. We sat down with Xiaowei to discuss innovations in China’s countryside, agency in the tech community and how reading tarot gave them a sense of connection during a disconnected pandemic.
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Xiaowei Wang is a technologist, a filmmaker, an artist and a writer. As creative director at Logic magazine their work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, tech...2022-02-1331 min
How To Citizen with BaratundeBlockchain Chickens and Empathetic Tech Workers (with Xiaowei Wang)Baratunde is reminded that “tech companies” are really just people and asks what it would mean for tech employees to think critically about their work and its impact and use that power to remake the industry from the ground up? He talks with Xiaowei Wang, whose work at Logic School helps workers answer those questions. They also discuss blockchain, rice farming in rural China, and tarot. It’s all connected. Guest: Xiaowei WangBio: Lead steward of Logic School, author of Blockchain Chicken Farm Online: Logic School website; Xiaowei on Twitter...2021-12-2348 min
Team Humanxiaowei r. wang - Live from Unfinished LiveAuthor of Blockchain Chicken Farm and creative director at Logic Magazine Xiaowei Wang helps us contend with the fact that social trust simply may not be something that can scale.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff asks why we should create solutions “at scale” if operating at scale, itself, is the problem.📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Exponential Tech Doesn’t Serve Social Good, on Medium.📖 Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang is now available at your favorite indie bookstore.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to t...2021-10-2758 min
The Anti-DystopiansFinancial imperialism on the blockchain: Bitcoin in El SalvadorThis week, Alina Utrata is joined by Mallika Balakrishnan to talk about the protests over the adoption of bitcoin in El Salvador. What exactly is bitcoin (and what's the difference between Bitcoin and other digital currencies)? Why has President Nayib Bukele implemented it as legal tender in El Salvador? And, most importantly, how will this impact the people in El Salvador? All your questions on the blockchain answered by the Anti-Dystopians! All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata, and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the s...2021-09-2638 min
Influence with Damian BradfieldXiaowei Wang on What Rural China Teaches Us About TechnologyIn this episode, Damian talks with the artist, writer, and coder Xiaowei Wang about their surprising findings about modern technology from their travels in rural China. Expanding on their book, Blockchain Chicken Farm, Wang shares models for decolonizing tech, challenges our ideas about rural vs urban innovation, and calls for a more expansive vision for global advancement (instead of a tech silver bullet).Influence is a production of WeTransfer, produced in association with Reasonable Volume. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-09-2239 min
Sinica PodcastU.S.-China climate cooperation in a competitive ageThis week on Sinica, after an eventful week of climate-change-focused meetings, including U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry’s trip to China, the U.S.-hosted Leaders Summit on Climate convened on April 22 and 23. Kaiser chats with China climate policy specialist Angel Hsu, an assistant professor in the Public Policy Department and the Energy, Environment, and Ecology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Alex Wang, a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, and a leading expert on environmental law and the law and politics of China. Th...2021-04-301h 06
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceBlockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei WangPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493481to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
Author: Xiaowei Wang
Narrator: Greta Jung
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Release date: March 16, 2021
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and...2021-03-167h 55
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceBlockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei WangPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside Author: Xiaowei Wang Narrator: Greta Jung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative...2021-03-1610 min
Enjoy The Spellbinding Full Audiobook Now, Book-Lovers!Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei WangPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/17687to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Blockchain Chicken Farm
Author: Xiaowei Wang
Narrator: Greta Jung
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
Release date: 03-16-21
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 24 ratings
Genres: History & Culture
Publisher's Summary:
In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we...2021-03-167h 55
ChinaTalkBlockchain Chicken Farm: How Tech Changed Rural ChinaXiaowei Wang discusses her new book. She explores Taobao villages where Snow White Halloween costumes get made, how one police station is sputtering towards digitization, parallels between Silicon Valley and Chinese tech culture, and pearl farming #distrupt. Please consider supporting ChinaTalk at https://glow.fm/chinatalk Pick up a Smart Air Filter for the holidays (https://smartairfilters.com/) and be sure to use the promo code 'ChinaTalk' for a 5% discount. Music by Collage and Mondo Grosso Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2020-12-0854 minChinaTalkBlockchain Chicken Farm: How Tech Changed Rural ChinaXiaowei Wang discusses her new book. She explores Taobao villages where Snow White Halloween costumes get made, how one police station is sputtering towards digitization, parallels between Silicon Valley and Chinese tech culture, and pearl farming #distrupt. Please consider supporting ChinaTalk at https://glow.fm/chinatalk Pick up a Smart Air Filter for the holidays (https://smartairfilters.com/) and be sure to use the promo code 'ChinaTalk' for a 5% discount. Music by Collage and Mondo Grosso Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2020-12-0854 min
New Books in Chinese StudiesXiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it. In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why Ch...2020-11-2536 min
Asian Review of BooksXiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it. In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why Ch...2020-11-2536 min
New Books in East Asian StudiesXiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it. In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why Ch...2020-11-2536 min
New Books in TechnologyXiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it. In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why Ch...2020-11-2536 minTech Won't Save UsWhat Rural China Teaches Us About the Future of Tech w/ Xiaowei WangParis Marx is joined by Xiaowei Wang to discuss how technology is being used to connect rural China to global supply chains, what that means for life and work in those communities, and how China also holds inspiration for a different way of organizing production and technological development.Xiaowei Wang is a technologist, artist, and writer. They are the creative director at Logic Magazine and author of “Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside.” Follow Xiaowei on Twitter as @xrw.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, it...2020-10-2243 min
The Mould ShowPollution increases the risk for mould allergy and COVID-19 infectionsHave you ever wondered how the air we breathe can cause respiratory irritation? What is in that haze or smog that sometimes blankets urban cities? Sure, it probably contains chemicals and maybe even smoke - but there's a lot more to it than just a chemical soup. In today's Livestream we're going to deep dive into particulate matter, or PM and review what's known about the fungal contribution. Then we're going to look at the inflammatory potential of mould fragments in the PM2.5 and PM10 and ultra small size ranges (yes, even down to the nanoscale). Then we'll look at h...2020-04-2337 min
Podcast proConf#48 The Conference 2019 - Трансгуманизм | Нейронки в дизайне | Паспорт царя | Обычное невозможноеТаймкоды:
05:00 - Jonas Hedman – The Future Is Smart Money ( https://youtu.be/DAB7MY-Aq0o )
10:50 - Meghan O'Gieblyn – God in the machine ( https://youtu.be/hTXleWp5fUA )
20:40 - Nicole He – Say my name, say my name ( https://youtu.be/JqjKNKp17n8 )
26:26 - Daniel Padgett – Say my name, say my name ( https://youtu.be/H6kz0CATPak )
33:00 - Che-Wei Wang – When Design Gets Swallowed by Engineering ( https://youtu.be/8_nTMX6d1IY )
39:45 - Anna Åhnberg – Under measure – measuring what matters ( https://youtu.be/JYTeDnl9dBY )
49:10 - Dr. James Beacham – What's outside the universe? ( https://youtu.be/GxghuChsQPo )
56:40 - Kris De Decker - Look back, move forward...2020-02-071h 26
Otevřené hlavy„Ze západního strachu z Číny je cítit xenofobie,“ říká designérka WangPráce Xiaowei Wang překračuje hranice oborů. Šéfredaktorka magazínu Logic a doktorandka na Univerzitě v Berkeley propojuje design a umění s akademickými metodami. Ve svém výzkumu se věnuje dopadům technologií na čínský venkov a popisuje, jak digitální svět ovlivňuje život chudých lidí: „Farmáři pomáhají trénovat neuronové sítě nebo třídit data.“Všechny díly podcastu Otevřené hlavy můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.2019-05-2014 min
Building TomorrowIs China Beating the U.S. at Innovation?China’s old reputation when it came to tech was that of being the premier global manufacturer of knockoffs, not a site for innovative development. But China today is adopting new tech at truly incredible rates that surpasses most other countries. Rather than just talking about drone delivery, companies like JD are actually doing it. More people in China use mobile payments and participate in one-stop-shop digital ecosystems than almost the entire population of the US and Europe combined.On the other hand, while the technology economy in China is thriving, the political economy remains re...2018-08-2347 min
NEWSPlus Radio代客扫墓……这也能代？Traditionally, tomb sweeping is considered to be a ceremony only for the family members of the dead.
But the distance as well as congestion of people and vehicles at cemeteries has made it a painful experience for some during the brief period. As a result, tomb sweeping by proxy has emerged.
On Taobao.com, China's biggest online shopping portal, there are more than 20 online stores offering Tomb-Sweeping service ranging from 100 to 3000 yuan.
Mr. Wang is one of the tomb sweeping service agents. He explains the service on offer.
"When we get there...2014-04-0602 min