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Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar discusses how the use of tiny metallic flakes suspended in a binding medium can give artworks a shining finish.

Metals in metallic paint

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains that the rich kermes red pigment was created by grinding up the dried bodies of insects that lived on the kermes oak tree.

Kermes is for crimson

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar discusses the use of cadmium yellow by the Impressionists.

Cadmium yellow

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains how artists often took risks to create their works, using poisonous pigments like emerald green to get the color just right.

Green poison

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains how the creation of a synthetic substance, which was chemically identical to the pigment produced from the semiprecious stone lapis lazuli, opened up a new world of blue hues to artists.

Synthetic blue

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains the aquatic origins of Tyrian purple.

A priceless purple

November 23, 1936 was a good day for recorded music. Two men – an ocean apart – sat before a microphone and began to play. One was a cello prodigy who had performed for the Queen of Spain; the other played guitar and was a regular in the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta. But on this day, Pablo Casals and Robert Johnson both made recordings that would change music history.

#9: A Guitar, A Cello, and The Day That Changed Music History

Be guided in a  meditation series on Self Acceptance. You'll be guided in a visualization meditation to help you appreciate the parts of yourself you are proud of. As always, you don't have to do the meditation techniques. They are simply an option to help you focus your mind. This week I offer you a challenge to create your own Confidence Quest. Every day this week you'll focus on what is great about yourself. This is part 1 of a 7-Part Meditation Series on Self-Acceptance, Episodes 646-652. As always, you don't have to do the meditation techniques -- they are simply there to help you transition from your busy day to a state of stillness. The techniques also help to calm "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation. 

For free meditation tools to help you start meditating please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find a multitude of free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey. Sample from a selection of resources including: 

*a Free 100-Day Meditation Quest you can join
*a Free Meditation Bundle to get started meditating
*a Free Sleep Technique to Sleep Better
*a Free Instant Calm Breathing Technique
*a Free Guide to Get Started Meditating.

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646 Self Acceptance Meditation

E232 | Starting in the fifteenth century, medical doctors from the Italian peninsula began accompanying Venetian consular missions to cities in the Mamluk and Ottoman empires. These doctors treated not only Venetian consular officials, but also local artisans and rulers. In this podcast, Valentina Pugliano discusses the experiences of these travelling doctors both in the Italian peninsula and in the Middle East. We explore their interactions with the local population and their effect on the medical ecology of the Middle East as well as the sources we use to write such histories. Together, the experiences of these doctors point to the connected histories of medicine and science in the early modern Mediterranean.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/venetian-doctors-in-ottoman-empire.html

Valentina Pugliano is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and JRF at Cambridge University. Her research explores the participation of artisans in fashioning natural history in early modern Italy and histories of Venetian medicine and science in the eastern Mediterranean. 

Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.

CREDITS

Episode No. 232
Release Date: 18 March 2016
Recording Location: San Francisco, CA
Editing by Onur Engin (funded by a paid assistantship at Koç University under the supervision of Nina Ergin)
Production by Chris Gratien
Sound excerpts via imingigong on archive.org: Scarlatti Domenico-(Keyboard)Piano Sonata K.116 (L.452) in C minor (Allegro), Andras Schiff (Piano); Scarlatti Domenico-(Keyboard)Piano Sonata K.105 (L.204) in G major (Allego), John Browning (Piano).
Image "Jan van Grevenbroeck (1731-1807), Venetian doctor during the time of the plague" via Wikipedia

Venetian Physicians in the Ottoman Empire | Valentina Pugliano

We will all get old one day. Mike Sager’s astonishingly intimate portrait of Glenn Sandberg, age ninety-two, is about what it actually feels like to be close to the end. It’s a story about mortality and love and companionship and the things in life that are most important—and how those things we once held as so important fall away. Longtime Esquire writer at large Mike Sager joins host David Brancaccio to discuss how and why he wrote “Old,” which was published in 1998, and how the story continues to ripple and shape his own views on work, death, and what matters most.

Old, By Mike Sager

"Everything you do to be a better athlete makes you a better entrepreneur." - Mark Sisson

If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, video, and more at http://lewishowes.com/314

On iTunes

EP 314 Train Your Body To Burn Fat and Enjoy Life with Mark Sisson

Bernard Roth, co-founder and academic director of Stanford University's d.school, shares design-thinking tools for reframing life's stubborn problems and unlocking solutions. Professor Roth, author of the book "The Achievement Habit," also engages audience members in exercises meant to cut through the excuses we tell ourselves that hold us back from accomplishing our goals.

Bernard Roth - Reframing Problems and Getting Honest

In this special Mother's Day episode, Michelle talks with her mom about what it was like raising a space-obsessed daughter in Wisconsin and watching her grow into a scientist.

Orbital Path is produced for PRX by Lauren Ober. Subscribe iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. 

Image: Michelle's sister (top L), Michelle (top R), and their mom in the '80s.

Episode 5: Michelle & Her Mom

Bonus Snap Special, “Twilight.” It's an elusive moment in the magic hour featuring compelling performances by Shane Koyczan, Ise Lyfe, Sean Hayes and the legendary Moreese Bickham.

Listen to the Snap Special - Twilight

"Business is about serving people and you want to make sure you give them the best experience possible." - Lewis Howes

If you enjoyed this podcast, check out show notes and more at http://lewishowes.com/333

EP 333 Top 5 Ways to Succeed as an Online Entrepreneur

If Hillary Clinton wins in November, she will become the first female President in American history. But she is not the first woman to seek this office. Today, we look back at three of the most groundbreaking female presidential candidates -- who never won the White House. This is the first in our 3-part series: Contenders.


#50: Contenders: Women Who Fought for the White House

You've heard of the San Francisco gold rush. But that rush spurred another, lesser-known event: the egg rush. The legions of miners who swept into the region in the 1850s hoping to strike gold all had to be fed. And they needed protein to stay strong. But when food shortages hit, wily entrepreneurs looked for eggs in an unlikely source: the Farallon Islands.

The Egg Wars

Love this one because it speaks to the heart of me, Mom &amp; Pop businesses. As most of you know I come from a small family business out in Jersey. I understand the dynamics between needing to make every dollar stretch and the complications that come from working in a family business. In this talk we discuss meritocracy, proving yourself to others, coming up in a family business, and the power of social when it comes to selling local. For those out in Atlanta in early March, come out and see me:&nbsp;http://cbtconferenceandexpo.com/

An Interview for the CBT Automotive Conference

Stories from The Hidden World of Girls with host Tina Fey: Nigerian writer Chris Abani tells about his English-born mother enlisting him at age 8 to be her translator in Nigeria as she travels door to door through the villages teaching women the Billings Ovulation Method of birth control. Plus stories from singer/actress Janelle Monae, science fiction writer Pat Cadigan, Estonian activist Tiina Urm and her "Let's Do It Campaign" and more stories about girls and the women they become.

The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey

Remember when you thought you'd be together forever?  This week, tales of teenagers who embark on their first awkward relationships.  The Mortified Podcast is part of Radiotopia from PRX.  Listen @ getmortified.com/podcast

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