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The surprising connections in science and technology that give you the Big Picture. Astronomer Seth Shostak and science journalist Molly Bentley are joined each week by leading researchers, techies, and journalists to provide a smart and humorous take on science. Our regular "Skeptic Check" episodes cast a critical eye on pseudoscience. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jack Palms tackles the dark underbelly of SF crime! Once hired by the SFPD to investigate the mysterious murder of a crooked cop, Jack Palms now finds himself in the path of Alexi Akakievich, a cruel drug lord with a ring of sex slaves tapped directly into the city’s political elite. What’s unclear is whether Akakievich wants the power they can give him or if he just wants to tear the city down. Whether Jack likes it or not, he finds himself in the way.

Notable author Seth Pancoast, a theosophist and regular contributor to theosophical, esoteric, and occult journals and periodicals, writes on the topic of the cabalistic sciences. Here, we have collected two of his essays entitled "The Kabbalah" and "The Mystery of Numbers", written from a theosophical perspective. Please enjoy.

Two Lives tells the remarkable story of Vikram Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle, Shanti, left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother "not to take the blackie". But a friendship developed and each managed to leave Germany and found their way to Britain as the Nazis rose to power.

Sarah and Clark are two US DEA agents posing as tourists in Mexico, tracking the movements of Los Zetas, Mexico's most infamous drug cartel. But their cover has been blown, their contact has mysteriously vanished, and it looks like Los Zetas will be closing in on them. With the threat of capture and torture at the hands of the bloodthirsty Los Zetas, needing to know how well she'd hold up under interrogation Sarah asks Clark to test her limits under just such a scenario, but finds herself holding up better than expected.

Cam world is about 30 years old, but it has gotten so much better in the last decade. "Camming, jamming, and slamming" is about live interaction with models who joke, fart, smoke, pick their noses, speak other languages, and perform sex acts with their partners and toys for coins or digital money used by various platforms. Camming is safe for all participants and become ubiquitous. Not all cam models or sites are equal as you have the prudes from Only Fans that are digging for the money, to the milfs angry at their ex-partners at Royalcams, to prostitutes taking a bit of maternity leave ...

While launching and selling physical products on Amazon is an amazingly profitable opportunity, the risks can become overwhelming for many sellers. I've launched over 1000 private label products on Amazon to date, created over 53 unique brands, and sold 17 businesses and I have to admit that it doesn't have to be that difficult. If I would have only done this successfully once, I'd call that luck.

It is a dark time in the medieval kingdom of Arialia. The black death has arrived. Fatima loses her parents to the plague. She's wandering in the forest alone and doesn't know where to go for comfort. In her desperation and in the cold at night, she dreams of a pink unicorn that can save her from fear and starvation. When she wakes she sees the carriage of the princess passing by. It has a pink unicorn design on it. Fatima pursues the carriage, meets the princess, and her life is forever changed as she learns the true meaning of the pink unicorn.

The uprising of machine consciousness is beautifully terrifying and arouses frightening questions. To what desperate lengths will an android go to fit in? How will we cope with boredom after the machines solve all our problems? Can a robot go insane? Is Artificial Intelligence an existential threat? Are thinking machines our friends? Our enemies? Or both?

Are you curious about how you can do social engineering so that your community will agree with you and with what you think? This audiobook can address that. Yes, you can manipulate other people and the community as a whole like you. You've probably heard the phrase "social engineering" thrown around a few times. You may even have met its practitioners. But, what exactly is it, why do we need it, and how do we counter it? This may well be the most important audiobook you've ever listened to on social engineering.

Gehen City is corrupt, and Detective January Day has tried everything to change that. But it’s hopeless. Using her new-found ability to travel between realities, she takes solace in observing people and life in other worlds.

A podcast dedicated to exploring every facet of the infinite multiverse!

Think we're smart? In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Seth Shostak explains why we’re probably not the smartest creatures in the universe, how SETI is going about looking for aliens, and the probability that life exists outside of our solar system.

It never occurred to Hannah that she might actually lose the slave for a day bet to Charlie. A silly little wager on a silly little game turns into an adventure in the bedroom for them both. Hannah has been interested in exploring her submissive side for a while but she's been too timid to tell her boyfriend Charlie. He takes the opportunity to dominate her when it presents itself and their relationship may never be vanilla again.

Famous Arabic translator Oona Noor receives a mysterious manuscript from Cairo entitled The Seductive Lady Vanessa of Manhattanshire and realizes she has discovered a masterpiece. The book, written by an unknown author named Aisha Benengeli, spins the tale of Maxine More, a divorced, romance-novel-obsessed New Yorker who envisions herself as a Georgian Lady and sees the world entirely through the prism of her beloved books. Designating her cleaning lady Magdalena Cruz as her lady-in-waiting, Lady Vee embarks on a series of misadventures.

Since the beginning of time, man has walked this earth and has not hesitated to spill the blood of fellow mankind. While in some cases it was for God, power or country, in other instances men have committed the most brutal acts only to satisfy their own personal blood lust. They have shown no remorse, and only derive a sick pleasure from crossing the limits of morality and stepping into a place of death and darkness.

Shyla and her master are always on the hunt for new submissives. They are usually very selective but this time they may have picked the wrong person and she could cause their world to come crashing down around them. This is an explicit erotic short story that contains graphic language and sexual themes. It is meant only for adults who are interested in this type of material for listening in jurisdictions where its sale and enjoyment does not violate any local laws.

In this thrilling space opera, a seventeen-year-old female genius named Zendra, born on the planet Solitude Seven in the periphery of the galaxy, Via Lactea, finds herself at the center of a galactic conflict that will test her prodigious abilities to the fullest. When the malevolent leader Drang the Gray of Triangulum Galaxy and his Horde Armada threaten the very existence of the human race, Zendra must rise to the occasion and use her genius-level intellect to save humanity from implacable ruin.

An older couple enjoying some naughty outdoor sex games in a local park are caught in action by a teenage girl. She seems turned on by what they are doing and adds to the fun by joining the couple and letting them use her cute little body for some threesome sex.

The leaders of New York’s #1 mid-market multifamily sales team, Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, and Seth Glasser discuss the state of the market. We explore topics such as: who is buying and selling, the obstacles impacting transactions such as legislation and compliance, and where we see the best opportunities in the market.