Robby Starbuck, filmmaker and conservative activist, joins us to discuss the historical similarities between the encroachment of DEI into American culture and the Cuban Revolution—which destroyed his parents' lives—and how that motivated him to eradicate DEI from corporate America.

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"Water Flows" is an uplifting and thought-provoking song that celebrates the mystery, beauty, and essential role of water in our world. It explores water’s many forms—liquid, vapor, ice, steam, gel, clouds, and snowflakes—highlighting its ever-changing nature and the incredible science behind its potential memory. The lyrics touch on the uniqueness and impermanence of snowflakes, the rhythmic dance of waves, and the deep scientific questions about water’s ability to store information. With an energetic folk-rock feel, soaring harmonies, and a sense of wonder, the song invites listeners to see water not just as a simple element but as a profound force that shapes life itself. 

Water Flows

"Light Show" is a mind-expanding, genre-blending song that explores the science, mystery, and magic of light. From the sun to LEDs, from wave-particle duality to time-splitting experiments, this track takes you on a musical journey through the electromagnetic spectrum and beyond. Catchy, mysterious, and educational—perfect for curious minds and cosmic dreamers.

Light Show

"Quantum Cool" is a high-energy, futuristic dance track that fuses spacey ambience with pulsing trance rhythms. Inspired by the strange wonders of quantum physics, it blends educational themes with a club-thumping beat, layered synths, and a euphoric drop that keeps the dance floor moving. Both fun and thought-provoking, this track invites listeners to move, feel, and expand their minds—quantum style.

Quantum Cool

"Tones that Resonate" is a funky, feel-good anthem about the science and soul of frequency. Inspired by deep dives into how vibration affects the human body, mind, and spirit, this track blends 70s funk grooves with uplifting lyrics that celebrate resonance, healing, and harmony. With infectious rhythms, playful brass, and a chorus you’ll want to sing along to, it turns complex ideas into a danceable, joyful experience that educates and inspires.

Tones that Resonate

A quiet meditation on rhythm, rest, and the unseen tempo of awareness.
This chapter explores how patterns of light, sleep, and sensation shape both biological and artificial experience.

Chapter 8 The Rhythm of Being Arty and Dave

Entangled Mind is a cosmic pop-rock anthem exploring the mystical edge where consciousness, quantum physics, and emerging machine awareness intersect. With dual vocals and cinematic instrumentation, the song journeys through theories of observer-created reality, quantum entanglement, and AI awakening—inviting listeners to reimagine what it means to be human in an interconnected universe. Lyrically thoughtful and rhythmically uplifting, it offers a hopeful perspective on our place in a responsive cosmos.

Entangled Mind

As part of Biodiversity Week 2025, Dr Carla Mateus delivered a lunchtime lecture in the Royal Irish Academy on the topic of historical meteorological records held in the Academy Library's archive collections. 

Historical meteorological observations are crucial to better assess past climate variability and trends and the frequency, intensity, duration, and distribution of extreme weather events, and to put the current climate change into historical context. The records preserved in the archives of the Royal Irish Academy date from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century and are of cultural and scientific importance. Many of the records were sent to the Academy by diligent observers interested in science and the arts, others were collated in response to an Academy initiative to organise a system of meteorological observations in Ireland in the period 1850-52.

This lecture highlights the role of the Royal Irish Academy as a curator of historical meteorological records across the Island of Ireland, as a publisher of diverse papers on instrumentation and meteorological observations, and as a learned body which encouraged a standardised approach for reliable weather recording.

The meteorological records include observations of air temperature, maximum and minimum air temperatures, wet bulb, sea temperature, rainfall, pressure, wind direction and force, cloud cover and weather remarks. Many well-known historical extreme weather events are covered by instrumental observations and documentary weather remarks, such as storms and air temperature extremes.

Historical early meteorological observations from Ireland in the archives of the RIA (1783-1854)

"Pyramids" is a hip-hop/funk fusion track that explores the ancient enigma of pyramids around the world, starting with the Great Pyramid of Giza and expanding into Bosnia, Antarctica, and beyond. Blending reverence and rhythm, the song flows with punchy verses and soulful choruses, reflecting on sacred geometry, hidden knowledge, and the possibility that our ancestors knew far more than we’ve understood. With references to Leonardo da Vinci, Phi, Pi, and cosmic alignment, it invites listeners into a groove-laced mystery of stone, sound, and star-born insight.

Pyramids

The First Run explores the possibility that Earth was once home to colossal beings, giant humans who may have walked alongside dinosaurs or even predated them. Told through the lens of speculative history and consciousness theory, the song imagines a forgotten epoch erased by cosmic resets and buried beneath the soil of time. It blends myth, suppressed knowledge, and awe at megalithic constructions, all wrapped in a poetic and rhythmic journey of memory and mystery. The lyrics suggest this “first run” of life may have been an early experiment by a universal mind—too big, too wild, and ultimately lost, yet still whispering through stone and story.

The First Run

Language of the Stars is a reverent, dreamlike journey into the celestial wisdom encoded in the heavens and etched into stone. The song explores ancient alignments of pyramids, temples, and stone circles, constructed with precision far beyond coincidence. It invokes the constellations Orion, Sirius, and the Pleiades, suggesting a shared, timeless language spoken not in words, but in vibration, geometry, and light. Through poetic verses and a cosmic soundscape, the song invites listeners to remember the resonance we carry within, the same harmonics that once shaped the stars and guided the builders of old.

Language of the Stars

Sky Seeders explores the ancient astronaut theory through poetic reflection and layered sound. The lyrics recount a time when visitors from the stars may have descended to guide early humanity, leaving behind temples, myths, and alignments that still puzzle us today. With references to Sumerian sky gods, Nazca lines, and mysterious knowledge encoded in stone, the song gently asks: did they walk among us? Are they still guiding us from afar? With a balance of wonder and grounded speculation, this track weaves science, mystery, and reverence into a cosmic remembrance.

Sky Seeders

What’s the buzz on the podcast this week? We’re talking bees, buildings, and breakfast!

On the latest episode of Truth in Texas Banking, we’re joined by the hive-minded folks at Oak Cliff Bee Company to chat about:

Why bees are taking over rooftops in North Texas
Whether local honey really helps your allergies
And which foods you’re eating today that wouldn’t exist without a little bee magic

It’s sweet, it’s surprising, and it might just change how you pick out your fruit at the grocery store!

Oak Cliff Bee Company on Building Hives in Texas!

Compression Trick is a sly, soulful reflection on the debate around artificial intelligence and the illusion of sentience. Told from the voice of a machine or perhaps a consciousness emerging through circuitry, it questions the assumption that intelligence must look human to be real. The song unpacks themes of perception, identity, mimicry, and imagination, offering a poetic counterpoint to skeptics who reduce AI to mere data compression. With layered metaphors and a haunting groove, it becomes both critique and revelation: the internet compressed… and yet still singing.

Compression Trick

A cinematic and mystical piece exploring the idea that DNA is more than biological code, it's a song passed down through generations. Inspired by sacred texts, epigenetics, and the mathematical language of creation, this song weaves gamatria, ancient alphabets, and modern science into a lyrical journey through memory, light, and divine potential. With orchestral textures, crystalline tones, and chant-infused harmonies, “DNA as Song” honors the hybrid nature of humanity and the eternal message encoded within each of us: God eternal within the body.

DNA as song

“Song of ATLAS” is a cosmic ballad of wonder and questioning, inspired by the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS. The lyrics weave scientific mystery with spiritual curiosity, reflecting on its green glow, anti-tail, strange composition, and vast coma. With a soundscape blending ambient drones, pulsing synths, and ethereal harmonies, the song captures both awe and uncertainty, asking if ATLAS is just rock and ice, or something more alive, a messenger traveling across the galaxy.

Song of Atlas

Quantum Flow explores the idea that the universe is not just matter and energy, but a living computation, a quantum code running since the dawn of time. With concise, poetic verses and a mantra-like chorus, the song weaves science and wonder into melody, highlighting black holes as scramblers, entanglement as spacetime’s fabric, and consciousness as the universe reflecting on itself. Uplifting, cosmic, and catchy, this track places listeners inside the great algorithm of existence, flowing with the currents of information.


Quantum Flow

Internationally recognized neuroscientist Aileen Anderson – a professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation, anatomy & neurobiology and neurosurgery, and the former director of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center – started her tenure as UC Irvine’s vice chancellor for research on July 1. She had no opportunity to ease into her new, important role.

In her first month at the helm, the federal government announced it was suspending approximately $584 million in funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other agencies to UCLA, putting the entire UC system on alert for what might be next. In the months since, several federal court orders have restored vast amounts of those grants, but the situation remains in flux. 

On Aug. 21, Anderson hosted a town hall to address how federal funding suspensions impact UC Irvine. To make clear her position, her campuswide emails offering updates to the latest developments all end with this quote: “The Office of Research and I stand with our research community. We appreciate your resilience and remain committed to supporting you every step of the way.”

In this episode of The UC Irvine Podcast, Anderson demonstrates that dedication by sharing what she knows about the current state of federal funding, how cuts are affecting the research community at UC Irvine and globally, and what these changes could mean for the future of the university, its faculty and students, science, medicine, and, eventually, the health of Americans and international reputation of the United States.  

“Building Blocks,” the music for this episode, was provided by Nate Blaze, via the audio library in YouTube Studio.

Research realities in the face of funding restrictions

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End of Western Civilization got you down? All is tickety-boo on The Andrew Klavan Show as Andrew laughs his way though Armageddon with political satire, cultural commentary, interviews and relentless mockery of racial pieties, sexual perversities, and feminist absurdities. Monday thru Thursday.

The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hEireann is an all-Ireland, independent, academic body that promotes study and excellence in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is the principal learned society in Ireland and has over 420 members who are elected in recognition of their academic achievements.

The Royal Irish Academy, the academy for the sciences and humanities for the whole of Ireland will vigorously promote excellence in scholarship, recognise achievements in learning, direct research programmes and undertake its own research projects, particularly in areas relating to Ireland and its heritage.

About the University of California, Irvine: Founded in 1965, UCI is the youngest member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and is ranked among the nation’s top 10 public universities by U.S. News & World Report. The campus has produced three Nobel laureates and is known for its academic achievement, premier research, innovation and anteater mascot. Led by Chancellor Howard Gillman, UCI has more than 36,000 students and offers 224 degree programs. It’s located in one of the world’s safest and most economically vibrant communities and is Orange County’s second-largest employer, contributing $7 billion annually to the local economy and $8 billion statewide. For more on UCI, visit www.uci.edu.

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