In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Kaitlin Raimi about public perceptions of solar geoengineering. Raimi, a social psychologist and associate professor at the University of Michigan, describes how only around 15 or 25 percent of people know what solar geoengineering is, and those who are aware tend to be wary of the concept. She discusses techniques to inform the public about the benefits and pitfalls of solar engineering, avoid political polarization, and prevent solar geoengineering from being seen as the only solution needed to tackle climate change.

References and recommendations:

“Public perceptions of geoengineering” by Kaitlin T. Raimi; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X21000385

Solar geoengineering research at Resources for the Future; https://www.rff.org/topics/comprehensive-climate-strategies/solar-geoengineering/

“Cane Toads: An Unnatural History” documentary; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_Toads:_An_Unnatural_History

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Nature vs. Unnature: Public Perception of Solar Geoengineering, with Kaitlin Raimi

Velkommen til Sæson 10 af podcasten Bæredygtig Business, hvor jeg fejrer, at podcasten har rundet 500.000 downloads med ny musik og to sponsorer på de næste 10 episoder. Tak fordi du lytter med!

I dag skal det handle om klimadata, som kan hjælpe os alle med at forstå, hvor vi skal, kan og bør sætte ind for at nedbringe risikoen for oversvømmelser i en ikke så fjern fremtid. Det kan lyde tørt, selvom det er meget vådt, men for Lars Groth, Klimadatakonsulent i e-nettet, er klimadata guld, og han er rigtig god til at omsætte data til håndgribelige eksempler fra et vådere og mere udsat Danmark. Samtidig tør han sammen med mig sætte fingeren på, hvordan vi bør prioritere fremover.

Vi drøfter forsikringsselskaber, pengeinstitutter og politikere, og hvordan de kan tænkes at skulle agere i et Danmark, der er truet af vand fra mange sider. Og så kommer vi ind på konkrete handlemuligheder for både privatpersoner og virksomheder.

Vi taler om:
• At vi alle kan blive klogere af at kigge på klimadata, som kan fortælle en del om klimarisiko 
• At Danmark er heldig med dygtige forskere og mange offentlige instanser, der stiller data gratis til rådighed
• Hvorvidt datakvaliteten er dårlig og hvor meget vi kan forudse
• Hvorfor f.eks. Vejle og Jyllinge Nordmark har været hårdt ramt af vand fra alle sider
• Hvordan oversvømmelser påvirker boligpriserne 
• At stormfloden i 2023 blev kaldt en ”100-års hændelse”, men at man forudsiger at det vil ske en gang hvert tredje år, når vi kommer til år 2170
• Hvad du som kommende boligejer med fordel kan tjekke, før du køber bolig
• Klimasikring - hvis ansvar er det og hvem har den store plan?
 
Nævnt i episoden:
• At vand udvider sig. Læs mere her: https://byggeblik.dk/hvor-meget-udvider-vand-sig/
• Kamp Klimatilpasning (KAMP - et Klimatilpasning- og Arealanvendelsesværktøj til Miljø- og Planmedarbejdere) https://kamp.klimatilpasning.dk/
• Thomas Vinterbergs serie ”Familier som vores” https://omtv2.tv2.dk/presse/pressekit/familier-som-vores-2024/
• DMI’s Klimaatlas bl.a. om frekvensen af 100-års hændelser: https://www.dmi.dk/klima-atlas/data-i-klimaatlas?paramtype=sea&maptype=kyst
• Lars Groth på LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-groth-50b9471/

Denne episode er sponsoreret af e-nettet https://www.e-nettet.dk/ og Finanssektorens Uddannelsescenter https://www.finansudd.dk/nyt-og-inspiration/fokus-i-finans/viden-om-baeredygtighed/laering-om-baeredygtighed/

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Klimadata er det nye guld

This episode of the Pure Report features a conversation with Eugene McGrath, a nine-year veteran of Pure Storage and a Field Solution Architect. Our discussion delves into Gene’s diverse background, starting from his early days in IT racking and stacking servers at companies like Microsoft and Pixar, and how that hands-on experience shaped his career. We compare the evolution of his role and the industry, emphasizing the importance of a versatile skill set in the ever-changing tech landscape, particularly with his focus now on converged infrastructure solutions like FlashStack.

We then dive into the partnership between Pure Storage and Cisco, specifically around the FlashStack converged infrastructure solution. Gene explains why this decade-long collaboration works, attributing it to a shared philosophy of simplifying infrastructure and improving the customer lifecycle. Our conversation also touches on the recent shift in Cisco's mindset, with Pure Storage taking a more prominent role, including the recent Nutanix partnership announcement. We further explore the concepts of "Day Zero" and "Day One" challenges in infrastructure deployment, emphasizing how Cisco Validated Design and automation mitigate risks and accelerate implementation for customers.

Our discussion concludes with the "Hot Takes" segment, where Gene discusses the growing trends of "hypervisor fatigue" and the repatriation of workloads from the cloud due to cost and performance issues. He predicts a significant shift towards containerization as companies seek more agnostic and flexible approaches to their IT infrastructure. Gene also shares a memorable "oops" moment from his career, involving 3,000 servers racked upside down, and offers advice to his younger self about the explosion of data and the increasing importance of data management.

For more information, visit: https://www.purestorage.com/products/integrated-platforms/flashstack.html

Check out the new Pure Storage digital customer community to join the conversation with peers and Pure experts: 
https://purecommunity.purestorage.com/

00:00 Intro and Welcome
04:55 Cisco and Pure Relationship
06:48 Stat of the Episode on Cloud Repatriation
12:35 Solving Day 0 and Day 1 Challenges
17:25 Using Cisco UCS in FlashStack
24:37 Cisco Validated Designs
26:54 Nutanix and Pure Partnership
32:35 Hot Takes Segment

FlashStack: A Decade of Converged Infrastructure Innovation

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Un son brut, nerveux, ancré entre l’âge d’or du rap West Coast et la révolution numérique.
Pas de triche, pas de filtre — juste un flow authentique, un micro, et une machine.

Chaque couplet démonte les clichés : ghostwriting, peur du futur, industrie formatée…
Ici, l’IA devient un instrument, pas une menace.
SLMK le dit sans détour : “J’fais mon son comme j’veux, j’dois rien à personne.”

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SLMK envoie un missile lyrical contre les majors et les puristes qui flippent de l’IA.
Un son brut, nerveux, ancré entre l’âge d’or du rap West Coast et la révolution numérique.
Pas de triche, pas de filtre — juste un flow authentique, un micro, et une machine.

Chaque couplet démonte les clichés : ghostwriting, peur du futur, industrie formatée…
Ici, l’IA devient un instrument, pas une menace.
SLMK le dit sans détour : “J’fais mon son comme j’veux, j’dois rien à personne.”

Une claque sonore et consciente.
Un hymne à la liberté créative.
Un doigt levé à la vieille école qui refuse d’évoluer.

SLMK - DATA GUEULE (Instrumental)

Senate Democrats are ratcheting up pressure on the White House over artificial intelligence data centers and the surging utility costs that have accompanied their nationwide buildout. In a letter sent Monday to Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, five senators blasted the Trump administration for the “sweetheart deals” it has made with Big Tech companies on data centers, and its “reckless abandonment” of consumers as their electricity bills soar. The letter, which was led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., states: “​​Since his second inauguration, President Trump has cozied up to Meta, Google, Oracle, OpenAI, and other Big Tech companies, fast-tracking and pushing for the buildout of power-hungry data centers across the country.” According to the letter — which was also signed by Democratic Sens. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Ed Markey of Massachusetts and independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont — national power consumption from data centers could jump from 5% to 12% within three years, and even the White House noted in its AI Action Plan that “technological advancements of AI are increasing pressures on the grid.” At the same time, the second Trump administration has seemingly traded in the all-of-the-above approach to energy sources pursued during the president’s first term for a decidedly anti-renewables bent that the senators said has “supercharged this cost-of-living crisis by making it harder to increase and diversify sources of household electricity sources.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ push to modernize decades-old systems faced a technical issue earlier this year, delaying education benefits payments for tens of thousands of students at the start of the school year. A group of veterans’ service organizations, including the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), highlighted the issue this week, telling reporters that the technical glitch occurred in August, when the VA began converting benefits claims from its legacy system to a new processing system for Chapter 35 Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance. The VA launched its initiative to modernize the GI Bill process in 2022, and the Digital GI Bill platform was set to be fully operational by April 2024 but faced its own delays last year. A part of the multi-billion-dollar initiative involves overhauling multiple legacy systems, including those related to the education benefits process. Ashlynne Haycock-Lohmann, the director of government and legislative affairs at TAPS, told FedScoop in an interview that the veterans’ service community welcomes the changes to decades-old systems, but the timing around the school year could present risks.

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Senate Democrats blast White House over ‘sweetheart’ AI data center deals

This week's episode of the Business Brief podcast examines the impact of a dearth of economic data caused by the government shutdown. Then, it looks at how gaps in federal crop insurance leave some farmers vulnerable.

Turning the data tap back on

There’s no single scale that fits the entire field — each dental specialty produces different effect sizes. That’s why new guidelines are needed to show which effects truly appear in research and how large the study samples must be to confirm them with proper statistical power.

The latest study delivers the first wide-ranging dataset for dentistry.
It reconstructs the real “landscape of effects” — the values reported in the literature, how often they occur, and within what ranges.

This episode breaks down what that means for research planning, clinical decision-making and the future of evidence-based dentistry.

In Search of the Right Measure. A new definition of effect sizes in dentistry

In this episode, we welcome Lead Principal Technologist Hari Kannan to cut through the noise and tackle some of the biggest myths surrounding AI data management and the revolutionary FlashBlade//EXA platform. With GPU shipments now outstripping CPUs, the foundation of modern AI is shifting, and legacy storage architectures are struggling to keep up. Hari dives into the implications of this massive GPU consumption, setting the stage for why a new approach is desperately needed for companies driving serious AI initiatives.

Hari dismantles three critical myths that hold IT leaders back. First, he discusses how traditional storage is ill-equipped for modern AI's millions of small, concurrent files, where metadata performance is the true bottleneck—a problem FlashBlade//EXA solves with its metadata-data separation and single namespace. Second, he addresses the outdated notion that high-performance AI is file-only, highlighting FlashBlade//EXA's unified, uncompromising delivery of both file and object storage at exabyte scale and peak efficiency. Finally, Hari explains that GPUs are only as good as the data they consume, countering the belief that only raw horsepower matters. FlashBlade//EXA addresses this by delivering reliable, scalable throughput, efficient DirectFlash Modules up to 300 TB, and the metadata performance required to keep expensive GPUs fully utilized and models training faster.

Join us as we explore the blind spots in current AI data strategies during our "Hot Takes" segment and recount a favorite FlashBlade success story. Hari closes with a compelling summary of how Pure Storage's complete portfolio is perfectly suited to provide the complementary data management essential for scaling AI. Tune in to discover why FlashBlade//EXA is the non-compromise, exabyte-scale solution built to keep your AI infrastructure running at its full potential.

For more information, visit: https://www.pure.ai/flashblade-exa.html

Check out the new Pure Storage digital customer community to join the conversation with peers and Pure experts: 
https://purecommunity.purestorage.com/

00:00 Intro and Welcome
04:30 Primer on FlashBlade
11:32 Stat of the Episode on GPU Shipments
13:25 What is FlashBlade//EXA
18:58 Myth #1: Traditional Storage Challenges for AI Data
22:01 Myth #2: AI Workloads are not just File-based
26:42: Myth #3: AI Needs more than just GPUs
31:35 Hot Takes Segment

Tackling Myths Around AI Data and FlashBlade//EXA

This week’s guest is Jan Rohof, Asia-Pacific director of quantitative strategies and solutions at Northern Trust Asset Management

https://www.waterstechnology.com/emerging-technologies/7952654/northern-trust-asset-management-enlists-network-theory-to-construct-alpha-signals?ref=header-search

0:00 – Tony and Shen delve into two documentaries he recently watched

11:00 – Jan joins and talks about how he built a multi-factor model in high school

17:30 – The four Vs of data

20:30 – Efforts and resources required for good data infrastructure

26:30 – Focus on the economic fundamentals and reasoning

30:00 – NTAM’s research to implementation process

40:30 – Alternative data should be a misnomer

Episode 339: Northern Trust Asset Management’s Jan Rohof

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Leading in medical research and education, Wrocław Medical University drives innovation in health sciences and clinical advancements. Based in Wrocław, Poland.

Wei-Shen Wong and Anthony Malakian discuss the hottest financial technology topics in the capital markets every week.

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I Bæredygtig Business dykker direktør, bæredygtighedsnørd og forfatter Steffen Max Høgh ned i sammenhængen mellem ansvarlighed og bundlinje. 

Gennem interviews med en række af landets førende eksperter og erhvervsledere går han i dybden med CSR, bæredygtig forretning og cirkulær økonomi for at finde svar på det helt store spørgsmål - kan virksomheder tjene penge på at tage socialt og miljømæssigt ansvar? 

Vært og tilrettelægger: Steffen Max Høgh
Podcastproducer: Anette Hallstrøm, Hallkom
Musik: Per Bloch, Stimuli

Bringing you direct access to Pure Storage thought leaders, technology experts, alliance partners, customer insights, and our latest product news.

Resources Radio is a weekly podcast by Resources for the Future. Each week we talk to leading experts about climate change, electricity, ecosystems, and more, making the latest research accessible to everyone.

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Tech House, Electro Swing, Dirty Bass, Experimental.

Fusion of machines and instinct. Raw sound. No filter. Every drop hits hard.
Part of INSANE IDENTITY. Studio or stage — same rule: shake the walls.

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