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What if there were a single law that described the nature of life? It turns out, there is. In this episode of the High Vibrational Life podcast, I had the opportunity to interview Professor Adrian Bejan, a mechanical engineer from Duke University and father of the constructal law. In our conversation, we explore the physics of optimism, why setbacks only fuel the fire for growth, and nature’s grand design, which is flow.

Adrian Bejan is author of The Physics of Life and numerous other books and publications. His most recent book is Freedom and Evolution. Watch the video on YouTube.

Warren Kinghorn is a psychiatrist whose work centers on the role of religious communities in caring for persons with mental health problems and on ways in which Christians engage practices of modern health care. Jointly appointed within Duke Divinity School and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Duke University Medical Center, he is co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative and is a staff psychiatrist at the Durham VA Medical Center. He has written on the moral and theological dimensions of combat trauma and moral injury, on the moral and political context of psychiatric diagnosis, and on the way that St. Thomas Aquinas’ image of the human as wayfarer might inform contemporary practices of ministry and mental health care. 

WHOOP data continues to be used by doctors and researchers as they try and learn more about coronavirus. The Duke University COVID-19 Research Taskforce is putting WHOOP straps on coronavirus patients to track how they are recovering from the disease, both in the hospital and after they are discharged.  Lead Clinical Medical Physiologist Dr. Jeroen Molinger discusses his coronavirus research (3:27), the ICU experience (5:10), creating survivors and not victims (8:14), buying time with ventilators (8:56), what researchers are hoping to learn about BMI’s role in coronavirus outcomes (9:19), why heart rate variability could be a good predictor of post-COVID immune response (10:42), study goals (14:53), why we still don’t know enough about asymptomatic cases (19:57), the importance of tracking HRV (23:10), COVID’s effect on sleep (24:29), and what he’s learned from his WHOOP data while working during the pandemic (25:51).

The best way to learn what business school admissions officers are looking for is to ask them! So that's exactly what we did. In this episode of The Dominate Test Prep Podcast, we sat down with Lauren Sutherland, Associate Director of Admissions at the Duke Fuqua School of Business, and discussed a wide range of admissions-related questions including:

• What differentiates Duke Fuqua from some of the other top business schools
• How a school's ranking should factor in to your decision of which school(s) to apply to and other considerations you should weigh as well
• The value of Duke's "25 Random Things" essay for enabling you to showcase what makes you a unique and desirable candidate
• What makes someone stand out during the application process -- and dealbreakers to avoid!
• The benefits of the 2-year, full-time MBA as compared to online, part-time, or executive programs
• How to maximize your business school experience once you're on campus

And then one of the most enlightening parts of the interview is the "Myth vs. Reality" game we played starting around the 18:15 mark where Lauren debunks some common application myths and answers the following questions:

• Do you have the best chance of being admitted Round 1?
• Is there anything you can do to get off the waitlist?
• Do you need a minimum of 2 years work experience before applying?
• Do only the first and last paragraphs of your essays matter?
• Should you always write the optional essay?
• Is the GMAT preferable to the GRE?
• If you can’t score over 700 on the GMAT, is it even worth applying?
• If you have a family member who went to Fuqua, do you have a better chance at getting in?
• Is it easier to get in to Fuqua if you went to Duke undergrad?
• Is your GMAT/GRE score and undergrad GPA the most important part of the application?
• If you can’t get in to a Top 20 business school like Duke, is it still worth going to business school?

If you're thinking of applying to Duke Fuqua, this episode will give you an opportunity to peek behind the curtain and learn what Duke is all about. But even if you're not targeting Fuqua, most of what Lauren shares is relevant for whichever top-tier graduate or business school you may be applying to. Enjoy!


LINKS AND CONTACT INFO

1. Learn more about the Duke Fuqua School of Business: https://www.fuqua.duke.edu
2. Contact Duke Fuqua: https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/contact
3. Contact Dominate Test Prep: https://www.dominatetestprep.com/pages/contact-us

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Welcome to Season 4 of the WatchPitch Podcast where we continue with our particular focus on exits... for start-ups, entrepreneurs and business owners...an exit strategy that could be the result of a Merger, an Acquisition or the outright sale of your business. And our program today features an in-depth discussion with a Founder who did just that, she sold her company. Courtney Bell is passionate about Food and sustainability. Her story starts during her Junior year during an internship in Detroit but with an idea that was going to be launched back in Raleigh - Durham finishing up her Senior year at Duke University. We get into the specifics of her building a company, Ungraded Produce from the ground up with a tiny corner of a cold storage unit and the trunk of her car. The story is fresh from only a few months ago and in this conversation you will discover a roadmap that must always return to your well being and what is best for your customers. The arc of the exit just isn’t being talked about enough and that’s why we are here...so, let’s jump in and get started!

I especially love this story because Courtney’s heart never leaves the room. Never leaves the business and the people who she has partnered with whether it’s her customers, her employees or her supporters. And most certainly, if our hearts as Founders are not in our business, then as a leader, we will not get to that finish line, whether that is in 2-years, 5 or 50-ears. We are thrilled you watched and/or listened to this WatchPitch Episode as we continue to explore the world of exits, mergers and acquisitions for business Founders and Owners ! Thank you for listening and/or watching the WatchPitch channel and podcast.

Welcome to Bleav in Sparks! Television Announcer, Stacy Paetz and LA Sparks own #24, Sydney Wiese, bring you inside the arena to get to know the LA Sparks.

On this episode: Alana Beard, the WNBA’s two-time defensive player of the year, has officially finished her career with the Sparks, announcing her retirement after 15 seasons in the league. Sydney shares some of her fondest memories of Alana, and the lessons she will always carry from her former teammate.

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If we regulate to protect privacy, do we risk competition? If we regulate to strengthen competition, do we risk innovation? If we regulate to exclude harmful content, do we risk free speech?

Over-simplified perhaps, but these are in essence some of the hard questions in tech policy right now, and grappling with such questions from within a tech company must be one of the most challenging jobs there is.

In this episode we are joined by Matt Perault, former head of global policy development at Facebook. Matt has looked the challenges squarely in the eye and shares with us how the social network giant has been dealing with them, together with his thoughts on how interactions between stakeholders can affect policy outcomes, for better or worse. It’s a rich and wide ranging conversation that you won’t want to miss. 

Matt has now taken on the role as Director of a Center for Science and Technology Policy at Duke University. The Center will act as an interdisciplinary hub for science and technology policy research and bring together stakeholders from the tech industry, government and academia to exchange insights and perspectives on policy development.

Here are some of items on which we touched in the episode: Mark Zuckerberg’s recent speech at Georgetown University, Facebook’s Statement on a Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking and its White Paper on Data Portability.

You can read a recent Opinion piece by Matt in the New York Times here.  His Center is launching a podcast on tech policy, TechKnowledgey, so be sure to take a listen.

Featuring regular cut-through interviews with leading thinkers, movers and shakers, Competition Lore is a podcast series that engages us all in a debate about the transformative potential and risks of digitalised competition.

Join Caron Beaton-Wells, Professor in Competition Law at the University of Melbourne, to tackle what it means to participate as a competitor, consumer or citizen in a digital economy and society.

Competition Lore is produced by Written & Recorded.

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We're purging our final thoughts about the Kansas victory, both from a practical basketball angle and a conspiracy angle. Aaron wants to know what the men at the top are hiding with Joey Baker's phantom appearance and Alex O'Connell's phantom foul shot, while Ariana has some thoughts on Coach K's hair. Then Shane sits down with Justin Michael of thednvr.com to talk about what to expect from the Colorado State Rams on Friday, and we wrap up with a look at some results from our college basketball, including the debut of Cole Anthony, who brings terror to us all.

Shane, Ariana, and newcomer Aaron gathered to watch Duke's terrific 68-66 win over Kansas to kick off Year One After Zion, and discussed the super defense, Jack White's consummate performance, and what we learned about the character of this mysterious team that we can take forward. Then things got philosophical, with Aaron asking "what is the atomic unit of basketball?" An analytical, intellectual journey into the soul of Duke basketball and sports fandom.

If you’ve toured through any old world cities, you’ve probably marveled at ancient buildings that have stood the test of time. You might think to yourself, “They sure made things to last back in those days.” And while the Notre Dame Cathedral or the Parthenon or the Tower of London may seem like proof of the superior workmanship of a bygone era, what you don’t see are all the other buildings erected during the same period that have since crumbled or been torn down.

In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we look at a bias that often clouds the way we evaluate success and failure.

We begin with the scientific awakening of Joseph Banks Rhine in the 1920s, during the peak of the spiritualist movement. Rhine was trained in science and wanted to apply the scientific method to his research into paranormal phenomena. Science taught him to be skeptical, so when Rhine’s research results seemed to demonstrate the existence of extra-sensory perception, or ESP, he believed he had found proof of a new aspect of human nature. The findings led to academic accolades and substantial financial support, until others tried to replicate his results.

Next, we present a survey on musical acts and college drop-outs to demonstrate how easy it is to discount important information—when that information is not readily apparent.  

To look at the science behind this bias, Katy has enlisted two scholars to help explain it in different contexts. 

First, Sendhil Mullainathan provides useful examples of the bias in the world of investing and hiring. Sendhil is the Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He’s also the co-author of the book Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. 

Then, Emily Oster talks about the ways that doctors and parents sometimes unintentionally ignore important information when attempting to solve problems. Emily is a professor of economics at Brown University. Her most recent book is called Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting From Birth to Preschool. 

Choiceology is an original podcast from Charles Schwab. For more on the series, visit schwab.com/podcast.

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“Some people who need yoga probably don’t have access or information to it, and that was the moment (my second class) when I knew this was my path.”
~ Jodi Smith

Join The OHMazing® Way podcast creator, producer and host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, YACEP, and guest Jodi Smith, MBA, E-RYT in a conversation about how yoga had made a difference in her life—and how she impacts others through the practice. In the first half of the podcast they discuss how she started yoga to improve her health, changing her career path to teach yoga, especially to communities who traditionally have not had equal access to the information and practices. She also shares how she empowers diversity and inclusion in her classes and addresses implicit bias through her teachings.

“Implicit bias is a mind’s short cut. It’s taking all of your past experiences and awarenesses and making a kind of snap judgement. And in that perspective people can accept, ‘Oh yeah, I have some’.”
~ Jodi Smith

In the second half Jodi shares how she practices self-care so that she can be her best self to the hundreds of urban youth she teaches at KIPP, a public charter school system, as well as to adults at YogaWorks, and within her kids yoga business, Mosaic Kids Yoga.

“It’s important for me as an educator to remind myself that you do not take yesterday’s issues into your classroom tomorrow. You let it go.”
~ Jodi Smith

Jodi Smith was introduced to yoga practice after her doctor “prescribed” yoga to relieve high-level stress and anxiety. Through her practice with yoga and meditation, she recognized her privilege of having access to a medical professional who understood the benefits of yoga and the privilege of having the means to pay for and attend yoga classes. This awareness fueled her desire to teach and share yoga to all people who had limited access to yoga.

After completing her 200-hour yoga training, she embarked on the journey to impact communities of color. She became a full-time children’s yoga teacher in the KIPP Texas network. In this role, she has taught more than 1400 yoga and mindfulness classes to more than 800 elementary school children while impacting an estimated 4000 family members within the Houston, TX area. As a teacher in title one public schools, it was important for her to leverage the backgrounds and cultural experiences of students to make her yoga classes engaging and relevant. Drawing from her work in culturally and social economic-diverse school communities, Ms. Smith created Mosaic Kids Yoga to promote academic, social, and emotional learning while championing diversity and inclusion.

The work she does in the schools and with communities of color reflects her personal interest in how the intersection between social justice, inclusion, and yoga can foster change in underserved communities.

Addition to her yoga experience, Ms. Smith holds an MBA from Duke University/Fuqua School of Business and is a lover of art, reading and traveling.

Connect with Jodi
Email: Jodi@mosaickidsyoga.com
Web: www.mosaickidsyoga.com
Facebook: mosaic kids yoga : www.facebook.com/mosaickidsyogahtx
Instagram: mosaickidsyoga www.instagram.com/mosaickidsyoga
Best way to contact: Direct Message via Instagram
Pinterest @mosaickidsyoga www.pinterest.com/mosiackidsyoga

Connect with Beth:
Email: elizabeth@yoginos.com
Web: www.yoginos.com
Cell: +1 361 563 7448
Facebook: personal: www.facebook.com/elizreese
Facebook: Yogiños: Yoga for Youth®: www.facebook.com/yoginos/
Instagram: yoginosyogaforyouth: www.instagram.com/yoginosyogaforyouth
Twitter: @yoginos: twitter.com/Yoginos
LinkedIn: Beth Reese, PhD

How do we actually learn to communicate? How is it different from how other animals learn it? Michael Tomasello explores what may be at the very heart of relating and communicating: shared attention. Alan Alda first met Michael when he interviewed him a few years ago in Leipzig, Germany. Michael was already doing experiments that studied the differences between how human children and chimps learn to communicate. He’s tracked the fascinating path humans take in learning to connect with one another – and we can learn a lot from it. Michael Tomasello heads up the world renowned Tomasello Lab at Duke University. His latest book, “Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny” offers a radical reconsideration of how we develop the qualities that make us human, based on Michael’s decades of cutting-edge experimental work when he was the head of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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Summer Workshop 2018: Human Cognitive Development Across Cultures

A collaboration between Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Emory's Center for the Mind Brain and Culture (CMBC).
Workshop organizers: Lynne Nygaard, CMBC & Tanya Broesch, SFU

Research examining human cognitive development, particularly in psychology, has been almost exclusively based on studying what Henrich and colleagues refer to as "Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic" (WEIRD) populations. Although this is a narrow and unrepresentative slice of humanity, it continues to dominate research published in top developmental psychology journals. This workshop will provide an interdisciplinary forum to present and discuss current issues in understanding human development from a more global perspective. Together, we will address the key question: What have we learned about development across diverse societies that will help us better understand and explain variation in developmental pathways? Discussion and presentations will include an exploration of 1) what the current state of our knowledge is with respect to cognitive development, 2) how investigations of human development can expand to non-WEIRD samples, particularly small-scale societies, 3) what methodologies have been or should be developed to promote effective cross-cultural research, and 4) what are the primary theoretical and empirical obstacles to the study of cognitive development in diverse populations.

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