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You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. It’s the brainchild and passion project of Karina Longworth (founder of Cinematical.com, former film critic for LA Weekly), who writes, narrates, records and edits each episode. It is a heavily-researched work of creative nonfiction: navigating through conflicting reports, mythology, and institutionalized spin, Karina tries to sort out what really happened behind the ...
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AR is the New Content (with Mike Molnar, Managing Partner at GLOW)
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Our guest this week is Mike Molnar, Managing Partner of the digital and social agency GLOW. He draws on 20 years of experience leading award-winning digital creative efforts across display media, site development, trans-media experiences, games, and social and mobile content—working across teams to develop large scale high-profile campaigns, custom…
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What Would It Take to Run a City on 100 Percent Clean Energy?
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Most claims of running on “clean” electricity come with caveats, and many technologies required for round-the-clock renewable energy aren’t quite ready yet.
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The Mystery of the World’s Loneliest Penguins
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A small group of king penguins have appeared on Martillo Island in Argentina. How they got there, and whether they will stay, is unknown.
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How Long Would It Take for a 747 to Stop, Like in Tenet?
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The airplane in the movie is stripped down and doesn't have all of its brakes installed, making the calculations even more fun.
A new model estimates that by 2100, cities across the world could warm as much as 4.4 degrees Celsius. It’s a deadly consequence of the “heat island” effect.
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These Adorable Fish Robots Form Schools Like the Real Thing
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Meet Bluebot, a friendly swimming robot with big camera eyes. Put a few in a tank together and they’ll collaborate to complete surprisingly complex tasks.
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This Drone Sniffs Out Odors With a Real Moth Antenna
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Researchers slap a living antenna on a drone to give the machine an insanely keen sense of smell. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the “Smellicopter.”
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In a Pandemic, Medical Illustrators Made Science Accessible
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With lots of research, arrows, and an inviting color palette, artists helped transform complex research into useful information.
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A Bold Plan to Save the Last Whitebark Pines
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The high-altitude tree is vital to its ecosystem, but it’s being decimated by a fungus. Its admirers are fusing old and new methods to bring it back.
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A New Field Guide for Earth’s Wild Microbes
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The most massive database of microbial gene sequences so far shows that the tree of life is much larger than we knew.
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Gretta Cohn — CEO of Transmitter Media on $7,000 of Startup Capital, Touring with Bright Eyes, and Making Beautiful Things
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Gretta Cohn is the founder and CEO of Transmitter Media. Gretta's experience runs the gamut of all things audio, from public radio and ringtones, to producing chart-topping podcasts. We discuss her time touring with the band Bright Eyes, being hired as the first prodution executive at Midroll Media and Earwolf, and starting her own podcast company …
Between glimpses of a medical cure and winning science’s shiniest prize, this proved to the gene-editing technology’s biggest year yet.
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A Unique Alliance Could Help Warn Us of Toxic Algae
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In Washington state, scientists, coastal communities, and state agencies are banding together to manage the growing threat of harmful algal blooms.
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Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned Into Jet Fuel?
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A team at Oxford University has reverse engineered fuel from the greenhouse gas—but so far just in the lab.
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The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected
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Astronomers get their wish—new ultra-precise distance measurements between Earth and the stars—but that only intensifies a cosmic crisis.
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How Analytics Are More Powerful Than Ever (w/ Ariel Michaeli)
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Ariel Michaeli is the founder and CEO of appFigures. appFigures is the app analytics, optimization, and intelligence choice for top developers, publishers, marketers, and analysts. On this week’s episode we discuss: -How Analytics Are More Powerful Than Ever -Parlor -Quibi -Growth and Growth Hacking Discover appFigures: https://appfigures.com/ Arie…
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Wildfire Smoke Is Loaded With Microbes. Is That Dangerous?
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Researchers are putting out a call to study the potential effects of bacteria- and fungi-filled haze on human health.
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Super Slow Computer Programs Reveal Math's Fundamental Limits
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The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to profound questions in math.
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All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth’s Organisms
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Anthropogenic mass—concrete, metal, and other human creations—has grown to be heavier than plants, animals, and microbes combined. Planet Earth is not happy.
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Vaccines Are Here. We Have to Talk About Side Effects
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Disinformation could thwart distribution before government messages have a chance to push back. Debunking might turn out to be everyone’s job.
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A Rocket From 1966 Has Found Its Way Back to Earth’s Orbit
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More than 50 years after its course correction failure, Surveyor 2’s rocket booster seems to have reappeared.
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An Atlas Reveals Climate Change Is Pushing Birds Further North
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Data from 120,000 birdwatchers in 48 countries shows forest birds have expanded their range while area occupied by farmland birds has shrunk.
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Physicists Are Closer to Knowing the Size of a Proton … Sort of
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A new and potentially improved measurement of a proton’s charge radius brings scientists closer to an answer. But the issue is still unresolved.
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What is Digital Health and Why Does it Matter? (w/ Brandon Maenius)
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We're happy to be joined by Brandon Maenius on Liftoff this week. He is the Director of Digital Health and Marketing at Baylor Scott & White Health. Which begged the questions: What is digital health? How might we use digital solutions to help healthcare? ...and many other thought provoking questions you'll love to dig in to. Follow Brandon: Here. …
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Bees Paint Animal Poo on Their Homes to Repel Giant Hornets
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What at first seems like terrible housekeeping turns out to be a clever ploy to fend off huge predators, which can otherwise easily destroy a hive.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought incalculable suffering and trauma. But it also offers ways for people—and even societies—to change for the better.
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For the Second Time Ever, an Asteroid Sample Returns to Earth
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The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu marks a major milestone this weekend with the return of pristine space rock.
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Mike Gaston — President of Stage TEN Studios on Bankruptcy, Founding Cut.com, and the Future of Livestreaming
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Mike Gaston is the President of Stage TEN Studios, and a creative and social provocateur known for "programming between the lines". We discuss launching a profitable poetry press and soon after declaring personal banktuptcy, selling his first music video to MTV, founding viral digital studio Cut.com, and how he’ll shape the future of livestream med…
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Another Victim of Global Warming: The Great British Bake Off
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Increasing summer temperatures are proving a menace to butter, chocolates, and baked Alaska.
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Underground Brine Could Be a Source of Oxygen on Mars
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A new study tests a device that can efficiently split the resource’s water into pure oxygen and hydrogen in Martian conditions.
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The Incredible Journey of the Electronic Plastic Bottle
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Researchers loaded containers with trackers and released them in the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, giving new insight into how plastic pollution travels.
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Endangered Vancouver Island Marmots Are Making a Comeback
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Canada’s most endangered mammal is back from the brink of extinction—and offers hope as an “ambassador” for the conservation of less adorable species.
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What's a Semi-Log Plot and How Can You Use It for Covid Data?
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It is very useful for showing data that spans different orders of magnitude—like case numbers in South Korea compared to the numbers in the United States.
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Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction Just After the Big Bang
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The newly measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process that forged the first atomic nuclei matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.
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Meet the Microbes Living on Da Vinci’s Iconic Sketches
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Think you’ve got an interesting microbiome? Your body ain’t got nothing on what’s accumulated on Leonardo’s drawings over 500 years.
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Advertising is Not the Future (with Chris Maddern)
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On this episode, we’re joined by Chris Maddern, the co-founder and chief innovation officer at Button. Before Button, he was the Head of Mobile at Venmo, and Co-Founder of AppLaunch. We dive into themes around: -Advertising is not the future -Building better commerce -Without problems, there is no curiosity -Creating a grab bag of awesome people Fi…
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Design for Thought-Based Interfaces (w/ Afshin Mehin)
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Today’s guest is Afshin Mehin, the Founder Woke. Wokr supports companies developing new technologies by helping them to express the potential of their work in the most beautiful, meaningful ways possible. Some of their clients include: Neuralink, Amazon, Lulullemon, and Postmates, to name a few. We do some mind bending this episode as we dig into s…
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Christian Baesler — President of Complex Networks on German Village Life, Being a DJ, Hot Sauce, and ComplexLand
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Christian Baesler is the President of Complex Networks. Christian is a young media savant, who in his 20’s had more media experience than most executives have in a lifetime. We discuss his humble German childhood, how he launched Bauer Media's digital business at just 21 years old, being a touring DJ, and Complex's international growth plans for 20…
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What IS Business Strategy and WHY does it matter? (w/ Peter Bandy)
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Business Strategy is more than a buzz-phrase. It’s paramount to getting to where you need to be. But... What is business strategy? How do you build trust? What is radical transparency? Why is empathy so important? Are Business Strategists… sherpas? This week, Tony plays the audience and interviews (co-host) Peter Klayman and fellow Rocketeer, Peter…
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Chas Lacaillade — Founder of Bottle Rocket Management on $5,000 Startup Loans, Jerry Maguire Moments, and the Digital Video Revolution
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Chas Lacaillade is the founder and CEO of Bottle Rocket Management. Chas took a big bet on the digital video revolution, and now builds businesses for some of the most exciting creative talent from New Hollywood. We discuss why he left a prestigious talent agency to sell water pumps, Louisiana roadtrips, and how he converted a $5,000 bank loan into…
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Failure is Inevitable in Innovation (with Summer Collins)
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Summer Collins is the Associate Vice President of Design and Innovation at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. In this episode we’ll tap into questions like: How does health and wellbeing contribute to the way we think about design? How do you design for an array of communities? How failure is an intrins…
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"Competition is idiots." Sneak Preview of David Fincher's MANK
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You Must Remember This presents an exclusive first listen of the audio trailer for Mank, a David Fincher film about the screenwriter of Citizen Kane, coming to Netflix on December 4. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Karina Longworth
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The Limitless Evolution of Experience (w/ Christian Gani of Match Marketing Group)
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Our guest this episode is Christian Gani, the Managing Director of Match Marketing Group’s Boulder office, he plays a leading role in creating and shaping consumer experience platforms for brands including Lincoln Motor Company, Progressive Insurance and adidas, to name a few. Our guest is motivated to push the boundaries of the expected when it co…
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Adam Sachs — COO of Team Coco on Early Podcast M&A, Group Dating, and Being Foolishly Confident
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Adam Sachs is the COO of Team Coco and a veteran podcast and digital media executive. Adam works with some of the biggest names in Hollywood like Conan O'Brien, and even Barack and Michelle Obama. We discuss his time as CEO of Midroll Media and its sale to E.W. Scripps, founding a group dating website that he sold to IAC, and the power of being foo…
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Drive Results With Strategy Sprints (with Simon Severino)
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This week we’re joined by the Founder and CEO of strategysprints.com, and host of the Strategy Show Podcast—Mr. Simon Severino. What do swimming, lasagna, analytics, sprints, and freedom all have to do with each other? Only one way to find out... Tune in and discover why Peter and Tony love this dialog with Simon so much. Find out more about Strate…
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Nicole Staple — Founder and CEO of Brideside on Investor Bias, Cancer Battles, and Rap Lyrics
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Nicole Staple is the co-founder and CEO of Brideside. Nicole and her team reinvented the bridal shopping experience, and have raised more venture capital than any other female-led business out of Chicago. We discuss investor bias towards women, managing through rapid growth during her husband's cancer battle, and what rap lyrics have to do with end…