In Norse Mythology, Asgard is the home to the Mighty Thor. In the MCU and Marvel Comics, Asgard holds many secret places, lands and hints to the future of Thor's story post Thor Love and Thunder. Get ready for a deep dive into Norse mythology as we explain how Marvel's Asgard works!     &nbsp;  Join #MarvelClub for the full THOR experience & more:&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;      GHL RECOMMENDED READING from this episode:&nbsp; Follow the show on TWITTER -&nbsp; Visit our Facebook fan page:&nbsp; You can find Ashley at&nbsp;&nbsp;and Jason at&nbsp;. Thanks for showing up to class today. Class is dismissed!

420: Marvel's Asgard Explained

Valkyrie, also known by her Asgardian name Brunnhilde, was selected by Odin to lead his personal unit of shield-maidens, the Valkyrior. Renowned for her prowess in battle, this outstanding heroine has appeared in multiple Marvel movies including Thor: Love and Thunder. For Asgard, let's learn her comic bok history.&nbsp;         &nbsp;  Join #MarvelClub for the full THOR experience & more:&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;      GHL RECOMMENDED READING from this episode:&nbsp; Follow the show on TWITTER -&nbsp; Visit our Facebook fan page:&nbsp; You can find Ashley at&nbsp;&nbsp;and Jason at&nbsp;. Thanks for showing up to class today. Class is dismissed!

421: Valkyrie (Thor)

Debuting in 1989, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman was a groundbreaking success&nbsp;for DC Comics & Vertigo Comics. It follows the long, strange life of Dream, the manifestation of dreams, storytelling, and all that dwells in the imagination. A successful Sandman adaptation is finally becoming a reality on Netflix so we're going to drop into The Dreaming and explain why you should read one of the greatest comic books of all time.&nbsp; &nbsp; Join #MarvelClub for the full THOR experience & more:&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;      GHL RECOMMENDED READING from this episode:&nbsp; Follow the show on TWITTER -&nbsp; Visit our Facebook fan page:&nbsp; You can find Ashley at&nbsp;&nbsp;and Jason at&nbsp;. Thanks for showing up to class today. Class is dismissed!

423: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman

Game of Thrones returns! This time it's about the Dance of the Dragons, a Targaryen civil war that pitted sister against brother, uncle-husband against brother-husband, and dragon against dragon! Let us guide you back into the world of Westeros as we prepare to watch Game of Thrones House of the Dragon!

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426: Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon

In a city filled with dangerous yet heavily regulated alchemical magic, a man from the slums discovers he may be its only hope to survive certain destruction in this wickedly entertaining fantasy. 

Welcome to Bezim, where sword-slinging bravi race through the night and rich and idle alchemists make magic out of mixing and measuring the four planes of reality.

Siyon Velo, Dockside brat turned petty alchemist, scrapes a living hopping between the planes to harvest ingredients for the city’s alchemists. But when Siyon accidentally commits an act of impossible magic, he’s catapulted into the limelight—which is a bad place to be when the planes start lurching out of alignment, threatening to send Bezim into the sea.

It will take a miracle to save the city. Good thing Siyon has pulled off the impossible before. Now he just has to master it.

A dazzling fantasy bursting with wild magic, chaotic sword-fighting street gangs, brazen flirting, malevolent harpies, and one defiant alchemist.

"From the razor-sharp social climbing to the glimmering alchemist's library to the hidden realms beneath it all, I loved getting lost in this dazzling debut." —Shannon Chakraborty

Available September 13, 2022 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Orbit. 

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Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans Read by Kirsten Foster - Audiobook Excerpt

If you're someone who's a decade or two out from your high school graduation, do you ever find yourself thinking that you're just not as happy as you were back then? Of course all the positive-thinking self-talk then kicks in and you think, "Well, maybe I actually wasn't that happy before. I do like my life better now. I like the independence I have. Yeah, yeah, I really like being an adult." Yet, no matter the glass-half-full glow you try to put on things, you can't shake the feeling that your happiness has declined over the years, that at 30, you weren't as happy as you were at 20, and that at 40, you weren't as happy as you were when you were 30.

Well, that feeling is more than a nostalgic hunch, and it's not unique to you. It's actually been born out by hundreds of research papers and studies and shown to be a near-universal experience. My guest today has authored many of those papers. His name is Dr. David Branchflower and he's a labor economist who not only studies the data around money and jobs, but also around human happiness. Today on the show David explains how happiness follows a U-shaped curve, and starts declining around age 18, and continues to fall into midlife, before picking back up again, and David shares the average age at which happiness hits its very lowest point. While it's not entirely clear why the U-shape of happiness occurs, we talk about some possible reasons behind it. And while the U-shape is consistent across the world, it can be lower or higher, and so we discuss how factors like gender, socio-economic and martial status, and having children affect happiness, and whether it's possible to mitigate the dip.

While the fact that it won't be until your mid-60s that you feel as happy as you were at age 18 might seem depressing, David argues that it's comforting to know that the feelings of declining happiness you experience at you approach midlife are normal, and will not only pass one day, but start moving in the other direction.

#795: The U-Shaped Curve of Happiness

Set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power takes viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin and the unlikely heroes of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth were tested. We're here to dive into the libraries of Numenor to break it down for all of you. 

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427: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Avery Pennarun was previously on FLOSS Weekly discussing his startup Tailscale as it aims to make creating secure network connections super easy. Since Pennarun's last appearance, Tailscale has received $100 million in funding to push the service into the mainstream further, all while honoring open source values. Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb have a great conversation with Pennarun about Tailscale's journey. 
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FLOSS Weekly 696: Tailscale Gets Hot

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<li>Checking in on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.</li> 
<li>Checking in on House of the Dragon.</li> 
<li>Sweeping Children's Online Safety Bill Is Passed in California.</li> 
<li>'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online'.</li> 
<li>Kiwi Farms removed by Cloudflare.</li> 
<li>He used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating?</li> 
<li>@negar_rz: Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out there for public use and that's considered as "ok"!!!</li> 
<li>Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator.</li> 
<li>Illustrating Books from the Gutenberg Project.</li> 
<li>Trint AI transcription.</li> 
<li>Trint vs Otter.</li> 
<li>DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting.</li> 
<li>Yachts and Watches? The Real CEO Flex Is Washboard Abs.</li> 
<li>Apple's 'Pro' Products Will Steal Show at iPhone 14 Launch Event.</li> 
<li>Fitness bike usage down 23%.</li> 
<li>Take Control of Find My and AirTags by Glenn Fleishman.</li> 
<li>Proof Collective raises $50 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.</li> 
<li>Hacker steals $185,000 in ethereum from Bill Murray after NFT charity auction.</li> 
<li>Crypto.com mistakenly paid a woman millions. She bought a mansion.</li> 
<li>Jessamyn West - @jessamyn</li> 
<li>USB 4 Version 2.0 Announced With 80 Gbps of Bandwidth.</li> 
<li>Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman.</li> 
<li>T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable.</li> 
<li>Doctor Uses His Rivian R1T To Perform Vasectomy During Power Outage.</li> 
<li>The Animal Translators.</li></ul> 
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This Week in Tech 891: Use a Rivian? That's Nuts

Dans le cimetière d'un petit village d'Ariège se trouve la tombe de mes parents. Heureusement, ils ne sont pas encore dedans.

1er prix du concours de podcasts 2022 "Un été en liberté"  :
Le jury a été touché par cette histoire de famille cocasse et tendre, tournée en mode documentaire. Comme quoi le podcast, parfois, se passe très bien de voix off et de narration... 

Le concours de podcasts des Audioblogs d'ARTE Radio a lieu chaque été. Le concours 2022 était animé par Thomas Guillaud-Bataille, coordoinateur des Audioblogs. Il était proposé par ARTE Radio en partenariat avec Télérama et Sennheiser. La gagnante Anne Defraiteur-Nicoleau pour "Rien ne presse" gagne un mix par Samuel Hirsch + une diffusion rémunérée sur ARTE Radio + une diffusion sur le site de Télérama + un abonnement papier d'un an à Télérama + un micro de reportage Sennheiser + un casque audio Sennheiser. Les 2ème et 3ème prix ainsi que l'ensemble des envois au concours sont là : https://audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/188050/concours-arte-radio-2022

Enregistrements : été 22 - Réalisation : Anne Defraiteur-Nicoleau - Mix : Samuel Hirsch - Production : ARTE Radio

Rien ne presse

Regional leaders recognise the abject failure of the war on drugs. We speak with Colombia’s president about some <a href="https://www.economist.com/international/2022/10/13/booming-cocaine-production-suggests-the-war-on-drugs-has-failed?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bold new ideas</a> to tackle the problem. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is a big gamble on the metaverse—but the <a href="https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/16/how-much-trouble-is-mark-zuckerberg-in?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">real risk</a> is that the company still known as Facebook is waning. And a zippy ride through England’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/10/11/a-trial-of-e-scooters-in-britain-has-encouraging-results?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">electric-scooter trial</a>. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Redrawing the lines: cocaine policy in Latin America

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