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Join Jeanie Coomber and her band of seasoned warriors as they gain insight, tell stories and share wisdom. Every week Jeanie interviews special guests who've had a powerful impact through their careers and lives. Get ready to be enlightened and inspired with every episode.
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Does A Vaccine Help You If You’ve Already Had COVID-19?
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Recent studies showing that a single dose of vaccine could boost immunity for former COVID-19 patients.By Daniel Peterschmidt
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Keeping An Eye On The Climate, From Space
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As the government focuses more attention on climate issues, NASA has appointed a ‘senior climate advisor.’By Daniel Peterschmidt
The Perseverance rover recently sent back audio of Martian wind. We investigated what Earth sounds would sound like on the Red Planet.By Daniel Peterschmidt
What role does sleep play in memory? Researchers look to lucid dreams for clues.By Daniel Peterschmidt
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Progress In Considering Sex As A Biological Variable
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Five years ago, NIH asked researchers to include how the sex of mice affects the outcome of pre-clinical research. One team member discusses what’s changed—and what lies ahead.By Daniel Peterschmidt
In Indonesia, close to half of published studies on coral reefs included no local scientists, causing researchers to reexamine practices.By Daniel Peterschmidt
An unfair vaccine rollout is threatening global health—and could prolong the pandemic for everyone.By Daniel Peterschmidt
While power has been mostly restored, journalists report Texans are now facing water shortages, housing damage, and crop losses.By Daniel Peterschmidt
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Texas Storm, NASA Climate Advisor, Mars Sounds. Feb 26, 2021, Part 1
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Does A Vaccine Help You If You’ve Already Had COVID-19? Vaccines doses have started to rollout and are getting into the arms of people. We know that if you already had COVID-19, you build up antibodies against the virus. So do the vaccines affect you if you’ve already had COVID-19? Science writer Roxanne Khamsi talks about recent studies showing th…
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Lucid Dreaming, Sex As A Biological Variable, Parachute Science, Global Vaccine Access. Feb 26, 2021, Part 2
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Memory And The Dreaming Mind If you’ve ever stayed up too late studying for a test, you know that sleep impacts memory—you need that precious shut-eye in order to encode and recall all that information. But what is it about sleep that aids memory? Researchers have pinpointed a specific stage of sleep, REM sleep, as an area of interest for studying …
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Leading and Living with Heart with Marissa Fernandez
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Marissa Fernandez embodies what it means to lead and live with heart. As a successful senior leader, consultant and coach, Marissa ignites purpose and power in others through her rooted belief in heart centered leadership. In this conversation, Marissa discusses what heart centered leadership means and how it has been the cornerstone to her success…
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Tech Unions, Color Perception, Fish Vs Birds. Feb 19, 2021, Part 2
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Reprogramming Labor In Tech More than 6,000 warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are midway through voting on whether they should unionize. If the ‘yes’ votes win, it would be unprecedented for the company: The last time a unionization vote was held by Amazon’s United States employees, back in 2014, a group of 30 technicians ultimately voted not …
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Fauci On Vaccines and Variants, Mummy Mystery, Texas Power Grid Failure. Feb 19, 2021, Part 1
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Fauci Says Majority Of U.S. Adults Likely To Be Vaccinated By Late Summer We’re about a month shy of a big anniversary: one year since the World Health Organization officially labeled COVID-19 a pandemic. Since then, a lot has changed—and a lot has not. We have more information than ever about COVID-19, but there are still a lot of unknowns about t…
What happens when you don’t winterize your infrastructure. Plus, NASA lands another rover on the Red Planet.By Daniel Peterschmidt
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Warrior Conversations. CEO, Philanthropist and Mrs. New Jersey, Kristina Henderson
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Balancing life as a CEO and a philanthropist is demanding. What if you were also Mrs. New Jersey? Kristina Henderson, CEO of Henderson Promo's in Red Bank is the powerhouse leader and community activist living this life. In our conversation, Kristina shares with me the story behind her drive, determination and know how as a leader. She also educate…
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Fish Eye Secrets, Human Genome Project, Science Diction 'Mesmerize.' Feb 12, 2021, Part 2
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Seeing The World Through Salmon Eyes The saying goes, “The eyes are the window to the soul.” But for fish, the eyes are the window to the stomach. As one California biologist recently learned, the eyes of Chinook salmon are like a tiny diet journal of everything it ate. But to read that journal, you have to peel back the layers of the eye, like it’…
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The Effectiveness Of Double-Masking, Mars Landing Preview. Feb 12, 2021, Part 1
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Two Masks Are Better Than One Masks have been a big issue throughout the pandemic, from supply shortages to debates about when they should be required to be used. This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put out research and guidance on the effectiveness of double masking—wearing one mask over another. Engineer and aerosol scientis…
A computer programmer and artist discovers inspiration in biological growth processes.By Luke Groskin
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The Warrior Journey. Activating What is Within with Allyson Hernandez
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In this podcast, actress, recording artist, composer, coach and "essence reflector," Allyson Hernandez shares her shifts and successes over her 20 year career. We talk about what it truly means to bring forth that which is within you and why you just can't force flow! Allyson is a big, beautiful, soulful light in the world who offers us her her gui…
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Four Lost Cities, Sourdough Microbiome, Queen Bees, Bison. Feb 5, 2021, Part 2
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National Bison Range Returns To Indigenous Management Hundreds of years ago, tens of millions of bison roamed North America. They were an essential resource and cultural foundation for many Native American tribes. And by 1890, European colonists had hunted them nearly to extinction. When President Theodore Roosevelt moved to conserve the remaining …
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COVID Variants And Vaccines, U.S. Energy Justice. Feb 5, 2021, Part 1
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Will Vaccines Work Against New Variants Of The Coronavirus? The rollout of COVID-19 vaccination programs around the world has been anything but smooth. Complicating the effort is the virus itself. The original coronavirus genome that the current vaccines were based on has mutated. Now, there are three virus variants, and experts are somewhat concer…
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The Warrior Journey. Experiences that Inform and Expand with Maryanne Spatola
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As a seeker in life, I look at the world through the lens of learning and mastery. I am drawn to other seekers who share the desire to access, activate and elevate others. Maryanne Spatola is a key part of my Warrior network because of the importance she places on seeing greatness in others and doing everything she can to help bring their best to t…
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Medieval Bones, Vaccine Rollout, Florida Panthers. Jan 29, 2021, Part 2
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A Skeletal Record Of Medieval England Society If you’ve ever fractured a bone, that skeletal trauma stays with you forever, even after it heals. So researchers across the pond are using bones from medieval times to put together a picture of what life was like. The bones in the study came from ordinary people in medieval Cambridge in the United King…
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Your Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines Answered, Placenta Science. Jan 29, 2021, Part 1
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Everything You Want To Know About COVID-19 Vaccines The U.S. has been vaccinating people against COVID-19 for a little over a month. While there have been plenty of hiccups, over 20 million people in the country have received at least one dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna shots. For the past few weeks, Science Friday has been collec…
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Orange Bat, Greenland Bacteria, COVID Anniversary, Alien Argument. Jan 22, 2021, Part 2
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Orange Is The New Black—For Bats For a newly-described bat from West Africa, dubbed Myotis nimbaensis (mouse-eared bat from the Nimba Mountains), scientists are reaching for a different part of the color wheel. While Myotis does have some black on its body, the overwhelming majority of the bat’s fur is bright orange. A team of scientists from the A…
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Finding Lead Pipes Through Algorithm, How Soil Could Save The Planet. Jan 22, 2021, Part 1
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After Flint’s Crisis, An Algorithm Helps Citizens Find Lead Pipes It’s been nearly seven years since the beginning of Flint, Michigan’s water crisis, when high levels of lead from corroded lead pipes led to water shortages and health issues for city residents. Since then, many other cities around the country have had their own problems with lead. R…
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The Warrior Journey. Using Inquiry and Intuition to Drive Innovation with Nicole DeFeo
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Did you know that skills like inquiry, self-study, intuition and divine downloads can help you to live your life more fully while it's helping you drive innovation? I am joined by another amazing Warrior from our community, Nicole DeFeo, the International Executive Director of Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority for a conversation about using a different se…
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Valley Fever And COVID-19, Structure of Conspiracy Theories, New Climate Wars. Jan 15, 2021, Part 2
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How The West Is Battling COVID-19 And Valley Fever For the past year, the COVID-19 crisis has taken up much of our attention. But the pandemic can come with complications: Some states face an onslaught of pre-existing diseases. In the American West, doctors, scientists, and patients continue to battle valley fever, a respiratory illness caused by b…
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How The COVID-19 Vaccine Was Developed And Is Being Distributed. Jan 15, 2021, Part 1
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How Did A Vaccine Get Developed In Less Than A Year? From the first discovery of a strange new respiratory virus in Wuhan, China, in January of 2020, it took less than a year to get a vaccine into the arms of frontline healthcare workers. More than two dozen vaccine candidates have made it from basic safety trials to Phase 3, where efficacy against…
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Warriors In Training. Curating Talent for the Future with Maryanne Spatola
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We have all been affected by the wild ride of 2020. Whether it's a personal impact in our own businesses or it's with the clients we support, we all have a story. There is also a story that needs our attention right now in the business community and that is the impact that COVID is having on a crucial ingredient in securing our future, GENERATION Z…
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COVID Fact Check, Aging Cells, News Roundup. Jan 8, 2021, Part 1
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Fact Check My Feed: What’s Up With These COVID-19 Mutations? It’s a new year, and that means there’s a whole slew of new COVID-19 news to dive into, including an overwhelming amount of new information about vaccines and mutations. The U.S. has now administered roughly five million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, far behind the nation’s goal of vaccinat…
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Fundamentals of Physics, Giant Ancient Birds, 2021 Space Outlook. Jan 8, 2021, Part 2
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Finding New Particles On The Frontier of Physics As a theoretical physicist, Frank Wilczek has made a career out of dreaming up new ways to understand our physical universe—and he’s usually right. In the early 1980’s, he predicted the existence of a new quasiparticle, called the anyon—which was confirmed in experiments last summer. In 2004, Wilczek…
Securing our future and helping Generation Z find their pathway into the workplace has been a focus of mine the last few months. I continue to follow the research on how COVID and the economy is impacting this very powerful generation of thinkers, change agents and success seekers. Thankfully there are Warriors At Work like Carol Agranat who is up …
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Christmas Bird Count, Black Birders Week, Science Diction: Vaccine. Jan 1, 2021, Part 1
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Where Did The Word ‘Vaccine’ Come From? As we head into 2021, there’s one word on all of our minds: Vaccine. It may be in headlines right and left these days, but the word was actually coined more than a century ago. In the 1700s, smallpox seemed unbeatable. People tried all sorts of things to protect themselves, from taking herbal remedies to toss…
