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Nick DeJohn never knew when he had enough. He’d slipped out of Chicago in the nick of time, so to speak, with a stolen $250K skim in his pocket and a lot of enemies at his back. Safe in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife and children, he could have stayed quiet and counted his…

  1,936,529 views From her dissertation: “Knot traces are elementary 4-manifolds built by attaching a single 2-handle to the 4-ball; these are the canonical examples 4-manifolds with nontrivial middle dimensional homology. In this thesis, we give a flexible technique for constructing pairs of distinct knots with diffeomorphic traces. Using this construction, we show that there…

From “The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets,” by Rudolf Steiner We turn now to Saturn. In earlier times Saturn was regarded as the outermost planet of our system, Uranus and Neptune having been added much later. We will leave them out of consideration now and think of Saturn as a kind of antithesis to the…

In this episode, I interview drummer and jazz historian Hal Smith. We discuss the music scene in San Francisco in the 30s and 40s and how one man, Lu Watters and his band The Yerba Buena Jazz Band, saved traditional jazz after the emergence of swing music. The musicians, the clubs, and how an girlfriend’s…

The Beatles—A Day In The Life

of what we are facing.