Maybe Erie's greatest challenge is to continue to do the work that it's doing and keep the money coming in so that they're able to do the fine work that we've done. The world has changed so much right now. It's changing so much that we don't have any idea really what is going to happen. There's obviously not just a food crisis. There's a food crisis that's been building up for a long time. Then all at once, all of these different factors hit all at once. There's a decrease in funding for research. Then at the same time, all at once, a demand for food, for fuel, with 30% of the U.S. corn crop going into ethanol. And at the same time, India and China, the developing countries, they have higher incomes and they want to drive cars too. And not only that though, but as an income rise demand, actually they eat less rice than other things and they want more meat. And it takes eight kilograms of grain to make one kilogram of beef, five kilos to make one kilo of pork and about two to make poultry. And so this is also then calling for the grain crunch. You pull off all that corn, it affects everything. And of course the fertilizer is essential to all of it. You're not going to get that kind of nutrient production to make the ethanol or to feed the livestock to increase the changing food habits of China and India without nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. And so all of these things are coming together. Jeez, we were talking yesterday about where to have the next meeting of the rice foundation and everything like that. Should we meet here or there at some hub? I don't know that we're going to be able to just hop on an airplane and go somewhere in a couple of years. And that's certainly going to affect. With all this effect right now, I mean on us, even before all of this, a farmer in Togo or Mali in West Africa who grows rice or any other crop a couple of years ago had to pay twice for a kilogram of urea of what a farmer in Iowa would pay for it. And the guy in Togo needs it a lot more than the guy in Iowa. Now with the price of fertilizers just double tripled in the United States. And I don't see it's going to be almost impossible in Africa. And also that's going to be one of the greatest challenges in Africa. If indeed there's another African green revolution and IFDC have been a part of that whole planning of this and everything like that. But the green revolution ran on fertilizer. There's just no way around that. It ran on plant nutrients and the way to get plant nutrients into a consolidated form that you can apply is through fertilizers. There is not enough organic matter to be used to switch to organic fertilizers. That sounds like a really neat idea, but it isn't going to work. It's not going to feed the world. And I think the biggest challenge that Iri is going to have in Africa is how are you going to get the plant nutrients in there to fuel the African green revolution. And I truly hope that I'll be working with Iri in the future as a collaborator with IFDC. I really can't see not doing that to tell the truth. We have that.


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Can I ask how old you are? You are like well into adulthood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Hi guys. Welcome back to another vlog. Oh. Whoa. Guys. Good morning, big Richard from Starbucks. We're gonna get started for you. Hi, how are you? The Grande Brown sugar local sweet and egg white rice. So it's gonna come to 10.30, 10.93. Perfect, thank you. Okay guys, a few things have happened. One, hi, happy Friday. Welcome back to another vlog. I'm actually headed to Ikea with my mom. We are going to plan out and hopefully I'll buy, depending on like how much it is and I'm pretty set on it. Here's the thing, I'm just afraid that I'm gonna like go really overboard and it's gonna be very expensive. So we'll see. We're going to plan out my custom closet because I'm going to make my office into a closet. It's gonna be good. Second, the radio is wild. I have the radio on this morning. Don't ask. And these people are calling in about their dates that they've had with each other and like how they don't answer. Like this is just wild to me. There's something else I'm gonna say about. Oh my God. Okay, we need to talk about this. Guys, their screen was smashed in. Do you think everyone is okay? That is just not good. It's not good at all. Anyways, today's gonna be a really good day. I have a recording later this afternoon. I think I'll probably be at Ikea for most of today. Hey guys, hi, if you guys are new here. My name is Kimzie. Welcome back to my channel. I make little lifestyle vlogs, product favorites, hauls, clothing, style, home decor, cooking, fitness, you name it. Hi, how are you? Good, yourself? Good. Did you get a barista seat? No thanks. See, this is another reason. Okay, ooh, whoa, it is bright. Guys, that is another reason why I just love living in Texas. It's had a full conversation with my barista at Starbucks. What a guy. Anyways, we're off to Ikea. I'm excited. It's gonna be a really, really good time. I don't know about that one actually. I'm just like trying to put myself up for Ikea. Like you're either an Ikea sort of gal or you're just not. So at Ikea, they have this thing called the pack system. Pack system, pack system. Essentially, I'm not turning where I'm supposed to be. Essentially, it creates like custom closets for you and they can look really nice. Like they don't always look like my like first apartment Ikea furniture. You know what I mean? Everyone's first few apartments, I think. It looks, it can look like a little bit more upscale. Like the vibe I'm going for in this closet is that when you're in the closet, you think that you're in a multi-million dollar home and then you just realize that you're in my two-bedroom townhouse. So that's the goal. Justin Bieber's new album's out. I have not stopped listening to country music in like two weeks. You know, I'm happy when I listen to country music. I've made this correlation. Here we are, everyone. Guys, this is the mirror. I have so many of them. Why does it look smaller in here than in my house? No, I swear, this is, no, it's the right size. Yeah. But anyways, I have two. I've bought probably five between all the places I've lived. This is probably with a full frame or like a wood frame. Yeah. I mean, you're never gonna get that price for a mirror that size though. That's a really good price. That's what we should do in our gym. Oh, mom, also, I was gonna do that actually. Also, mom, I need lights in the closet. Gotta get a lot of lights, you know? I like this. I mean, this is not exactly what I want, but the drawers, like this is, look, I can do something like this. Like we're really getting somewhere with this, you know? Yeah. Space for bags. I need a space for all my cowboy boots. I have three pairs and it's only growing. I need a lot. Okay, here's, see, there's so many options. I don't know what's happening here. There is like dark gray and brown that I really liked. I definitely don't want white, but, Ikea has a room like, I know, see? Oh, the lights. Oh my God, this is what I need. That's so cool, how it goes on when you open this. I know. See, I like packs the best, but what I saw online is, they're all packs, right? I don't know. No, no, no, there's a couple different packs. You know what? Do you think I could find lighting here? And it has a lot more doors, but there was only a few pieces that came in like brown or the brown black. Yeah, and I like those pieces. Oh, wow. There's a lot. Yeah, see, this is good. Good space. This is cool, this is a little... Yeah. Yeah, this is good, this is good.   I was hoping we would just cover it for now. Not necessarily, it depends on how high and stuff. I want to get it all the way up to the ceiling. I don't want to paint for now.  Yeah, or I'll just have. Yeah, chill, okay. Okay, so this I think is packed. See, like the gray looks so much nicer to me. Yeah, but I don't think that the gray comes in like, I don't think you get all those options in gray. I think you have very limited... This is not good news. This is not what I want to hear. This is really not good news. No, there's like doors, because I liked the doors better. Well, I think they're all, I guess not. That's cool. Like this is better. I like this. I just like a more masculine vibe. Like I don't want this because that's like blue. But in my June, I mean, I'm gonna need a mirror as we know. Floral and mirrors, really my thing. That's packed. Look at that, that looks nice. Yeah, I really like the inside of this. This has like the gray thing. No, I feel like that's better. Yeah, the jewelry thing is definitely something I need. I like the... Oh wait, let's put these out. Wait, 420, does that mean all of this inside or just the outside? No, I think that's probably... Well, I don't know, so this is confidential. Like I don't like that, whatever these paintings are. No, this is like at it, so it's basically just a drawer. But it does have the glass front. Yeah, I don't mind the glass front. This is something like different. You don't have to have that in there. Yeah, see that looks nice to me. I wanted to, I just like more masculine, browns, blacks, grays. But I'm gonna have to get good, I'm gonna have to get good lighting in there because if not, it's gonna be so dark. I need to, you know what? We should look at light fixtures here too and see if I can just replace the light while we're at it. What light? In my, in the closet room. I definitely want the jewelry thing at some point though. Like wherever that is. But I'm gonna need stuff for like, these sports bras, things like that. Like workout clothes, t-shirts, pajamas. I'm gonna use your dresser. I'll probably still use my dresser for like pajamas, but I wanna keep my like fitness stuff in here. I have a lot of outerwear too. Cause I think you figure out the price first and then you figure out what you want. I wanna look at the different, there was more door options, I think they're right there. Yeah, we can figure that out later. Let's start with the shoes. The shoes going all the way up and it can be, you know, like one like this, but these things all the way up. I have a lot of shoes, and I have a lot of boots. I think that's enough. I don't like the knees, like to me. I don't like the actual metal part of that. I think it's convenient that there's two, but I don't love that. And honestly, I need to get rid of shoes. I have a lot of like, I don't know. Well, I like that. This is kind of a waste for shoes because I'm looking at that over there. Where they like, I like where they pull out. And you pull me. That's what I think I should do. Yeah, that just makes more sense, size-wise. Now, the other thing. Even if I did it in an outline. Choose what you have on that. Now this shelving unit comes, not any of these are gonna be adjustable too, but the thing is, they're so deep. Can we want our knees? And honestly, that works really well because the top can be boots. Right. But I definitely want that for shoes. I need drawers for sure. So, because I'll do workout clothes. Is this enough drawers? Just one unit like this? Maybe two. I mean, I don't know what you put under there. If I did two racks, that would be good for outerwear. Just have it like, done. Well actually, I have coats too. Lighting here, just see if I happen to like stuff. By the grace of God, if something is good here. Okay, we're gonna have to get an appointment for Tuesday because you have to book appointments here, which we didn't know. So we are having an appointment for Tuesday at 6 p.m. So I will vlog that again, but we made a lot of progress as you guys could see. This is not the look of what I'm getting, but we just wanted to know kind of like the units and certain stuff. By the way, my mom is an interior designer. If you guys live in Dallas, hire her, but that's why she's here helping. I don't even know where she went. I want to go look at lighting because like what if they have good lighting? You know what I mean? That's like inexpensive, amazing. My mom's staying whole 30, so we're getting solids instead of passados. It's fine. Oh, we're fine too. So I got the prickly pear tea. We're going home good. Hi, we're gonna get started for you. Hi, how are you? I'm doing all right, how are you? Good. Can I just get a tall cold brew with a splash of oatmeal, please? Thank you. I haven't even been drinking coffee really lately. I've been such a matcha gal, but I didn't sleep last night. It's 2 p.m. I've been recording up for, I slept last night, but like not that much. So here we are. I'm back at the exact same Starbucks for the second time today. I'm not proud. I would not allow this to happen if I didn't have a recording, you know? I'm recording with comments by celebs though. If you guys have seen the Instagram, it's really funny. I do girls, I'm recording with one of them. So that's exciting, because it just feels like summer. I'm just in the best mood 24 seven. Life is just good, you know? By the way, the Dior lip oil that Molly had me get, so good, absolutely so good. I like the color raspberry butter because it gives you like a little bit more color than the pink one, but I'm a big fan. The amount of times I put lip product on just to put a mask on over it immediately. Thank you. Have a good day. So I got a little bit more oat milk than I normally would. How do we feel about Starbucks finally having oat milk? I mean, it's about three years' sleep, but I feel good about it, I really do. I'm home now, as you can see. Drinking my coffee, I have another recording in about an hour. Next week is such a busy week. So realistically, I should have a night in.  Will I be productive? Will that have an, I don't know. I'm not really quite sure. Also, I think I'm just gonna work on Sunday. I think I have like six recordings in two days or something like absurd. Not sponsored, but I got another bark box. I get more excited for these and then actually no, I don't. The dogs love these. Oh my gosh. Look, the great Barkin's Magnificent Magic Box. I think it's not, not the cutest thing you've ever seen. Oh wow. Oh my God, no, that's so cute. With cards. By the way, this isn't sponsored. This is just, oh my God, look. These are so cute. They're themed boxes. Pumpkin and honey recipe. A chew stick. Would you like this, girl? I am like so ready. I love this weather. Who knew, guys? All of a sudden I love warm weather and I love the sun. It's very weird. I'm changing a lot these days. I'm just like really living my best life. I should take my laundry down like right now. I don't want to though. I've got to do my least hair thing in the entire world. I do it to myself every time. I know it's my fault. I haven't had to get it myself in a week. But here I am, all of getting this laundry basket out of my closet that is way overflowing. And I have no one to blame. I mean like, oh, why do I do this to myself? Like why? Okay. I'm gonna hamper my custom closet because it's not gonna go in there. I'm just gonna bring all the clothes in here and keep it. I've also thought about like, what should I do with my actual master closet? I did consider, consider, consider making vanity in there even though there's no natural lighting really. So like, that doesn't really make sense. Honestly, I need a storage closet so I'll probably use it for like my extra like bedding and things like that because I need space for that. But we'll see everyone. We'll see.  And by 15, I mean two. So it's fine everyone. I'm okay. It is 5.15. I just finished recording with Comments by Celeb. I recorded all my ads for next week and I recorded solo. I still have to record with Margot this weekend, the last part of the episode. But I got so much done. I also scheduled podcast interviews. I did emails, I sent in edits. Like, I don't know what happened but all of a sudden I'm like so focused and zoned in. I'm gonna go work out. I have therapy in like 45 minutes. I was gonna do 12, 3, 30. But if I'm still in this mood, like maybe I'll use it to my advantage and really just, you know, get my life together tonight. I don't know guys. I'm gonna probably cook. I don't know. The world is really my oyster, okay? Also, the New Justin Bieber album is really good. Comment below your favorite songs. I can tell you what mine are as of right now. I should be going downstairs to work out. But instead, I'm procrastinating by telling you guys my favorite songs. No one even cares. Guys, I'm just like really losing my mind these days. Okay, Die For You and As I Am. I think As I Am is my fave. Really just been loving that. It's a good life everyone. It really is. Okay guys, I'm rushing. Trying to get my shoe on. My outfit questionable. Not something I would normally wear, but I'm in a rush and I'm actually set on working out now that I've made better life decisions. I haven't talked 12 through 30 in a second because I've been doing Pilates, but Pilates, I don't have Pilates time right now, realistically speaking. So we're gonna go do 12 through 30. Still love. Comment below if you guys do 12 through 30. Actually, I'm sure there's some of you guys who are watching this as you're doing it. I watch YouTube videos as well. I always, in honor of not getting those comments because what you watch during 12 through 30 has to be something you really like, you know? Or else it just, it's awful, it really is. All right guys, I just finished my workout. I'm dead. I have FaceTime Therapy in like six minutes. Um, no, I think it's actually less than that. Yes. Honestly guys, I think I almost like prefer, I can't believe this is what I'm wearing. I think I almost prefer FaceTime Therapy over like normal. Because it's just like so nice and I have to drive. It is nice and I have to drive. It's kind of how I feel about like working from home. But then it's kind of nice to just like, I don't know. There's something about like being in your own house too that I think makes it nice. I really like going to the like office as well. But I don't know everyone. I don't really know how about Friday's at 6 p.m. This is my crazy Friday night guys. I just think I'm gonna stay home tonight. I don't think I've shared this in a vlog, but I made this recipe from Melissa would help the other day and it was so good. Like literally my new favorite go-to dinner. So I'm gonna make that tonight and share with you guys. It's from Melissa with health. None of my recipes are actually ever in my recipes. I always just take them from other people. Nine times out of 10, as you know, it's a lot improper. Also, I like never work out with makeup on. So that's interesting. That was probably not a good idea. Gonna get on FaceTime in a sec. After that, I'm gonna take a nice relaxing shower. I need to finish my book club book tonight. I need to cook. I need to catch up on some vlogs. I haven't even been watching YouTube. I just think it's gonna get a nice night in. Guys, I just showered. I feel so good. I self-tan. I did the whole shebang. I oiled my hair. I just threw on clothes. I actually, I don't know why I did this because I've been using Luxe Unfiltered, which is my favorite self-tanner, and it doesn't stain your clothes at all. Like I could literally be wearing all white right now and it wouldn't stain your clothes. It's actually crazy. I'll link up a little. I've talked about it so many times. It's a gradual self-tanner. So I was going to say I threw on clothes I didn't care about. And then I realized that it doesn't actually matter. So anyways. Okay, first off, aren't these so cute? They're from CB2. I'll link them below. Great buy. But I'm actually making some dinner right now, which is very exciting because this is my new favorite meal. We have eggplant. Pasta, of course. My favorite pasta sauce. What else? I'm like forgetting. Okay, that's right. So good. So basically, I just preheated the oven to 400. I'm going to cut the eggplant up and then put it in for five minutes, flip it, five more minutes. Pasta, kale, you guys will see. All right, so I have this. I'm going to put it in the oven for five minutes then I'll flip them. Pasta, kale, eggplant, marinara sauce and then some cheese. Really, really freaking good. I've never really made eggplant with anything honestly. It's never sounded appealing. But trust me on this. You guys need to make this. It's so bomb. All right guys, I'm back in my room. I'm going to read for the rest of the night, but I hope you guys enjoyed today's vlog. I'm really excited for next week. There's a lot going on. I love you guys so much and I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye. Well, let's talk about that because here's the thing about over-delivering.  Like, can get things done.  Because I want you to think about your VIP section as the people who, there's mutuality, right? They go the extra mile for you too. So there should be an expectation that there's mutuality in your friendships and in your love relationships and in some family relationships and maybe not family. It depends on your family and how close you are and whatever because there's nothing wrong, right? With being, giving things 110%.


Hello lovely people have an unboxing today and it's from Savers. Let's see what we got. Britney Spears private show, private show, prerogative, curious. I have another unboxing so I'm gonna start off with covered Pure Bloom from Sarah Jessica Parker because I had a hard time getting this out of the gift set so I actually ordered this because it was only £9.99 for the gift set including that it's a bit of a knocky looking clutch but I don't use clutches anyway I'm more of like a saddle bag kind of person but yeah I bought this because I've had such great experiences with Sarah Jessica Parker perfumes they seem to work really well with my skin chemistry and so when I saw this on that bargain price of £9.99 for a hundred mil I was like yeah get seen I already have covered the sister fragrance so I think covered came first and then covered Pure Bloom came next so it's got the beautiful squat bottle I love love this bottle it's so incredibly beautiful and it's got the dahlia at the top it's the sort of bottle that I enjoy to look at and I like to have it sitting on my bathroom vanity but yeah covered so in terms of the notes profile for this I think its base is tuberose and musk and it's supposed to have a jasmine plum vanilla and coconut milk so I should be interested this is a complete blind buy by the way because I'm a bit of a sucker for a bug in so the thing about the covered bottles is the top is kind of like this dahlia type thing guess if you wanted to this could be costume jewelry darling darling come off now and this kind of like slots through over there like that interesting design I think but yeah I'm not getting anything on the bottle let's try you out okay good atomizer I think so for all of the Sarah Jessica perfumes Sarah Jessica Parker gotta say that right Sarah Jessica Parker perfumes oh oh gosh I forgot what I was saying that I love this I mean right off the bat it's got a really nice alluring scent definitely getting the jasmine and the tuberose those are definitely coming through it's quite floral but it's not very sweet I'm not getting the sweetness off of the original off of the initial blast mmm very nice very nice the white floral the iris is kind of coming out as well so it's giving it like a lovely freshness a lightness to it I like this I actually think that I like this a lot better than the covered it's original sister but it's definitely a floral but not sweet or fruity it's not too sweet or too fruity I can see myself wearing this in spring I can definitely see myself wearing this see I'm picturing a nice sleeveless shirt dress with a collar and you know like a gathered skirt so like quite voluminous like a fit and fled dress I can see myself wearing it with this I like it this very much Sarah Jessica Parker hasn't been disappointed I mean yeah I really really like this I'm excited to try this on my skin and report back on the longevity although if it's anything like the other SJP Parker I can never say that right good night SJP Parker that's like rubbish okay let's try that again the Sarah Jessica Parker perfumes that they have performed outstandingly on my skin and yeah I'm so happy with this for £9.99 so here we go so putting it back can be a little bit tricky though because you can only put it in on the one side so if you try and do it upside down it doesn't slot in and you may end up accidentally pressing it that's what happened with my son when he was testing it testing out the covet but yeah so guys I've been on a hunting expedition whereby I am collecting the Britney Spears fragrances it started off with fantasy which I really liked I thought the bottle was super cute then I got midnight fantasy which when I first sniffed it it wasn't as pizzazz full as the pink one as fantasy but then I tried it on my skin and all my days I loved it I loved it so much I was like I need more Britney Spears fantasy I need more Britney Spears perfumes in my life so I got prerogative which is outside the fantasy line because I just thought you know just explore a bit more of the Britney Spears range and all my days you guys I had no idea that the bottle would be this nice I love the bottle it's I'm such a I'm such a visual person honestly like you design a fancy perfume bottle for me I'm just gonna be like gaga gaga gaga gaga I do love the beautiful looking bottle and I like this because of the dark colors of the bottle design I'm expecting this to be a little bit of a darkly fragrance so in terms of the notes profile for this let's have a look we've got apricot goji berry and pink pepper I've had great experience of pink pepper as a top note most of the SJP stash line they've used pink pepper and that's amazing the middle notes are what attracted me to it it's got coffee suffering and red lily so mostly the coffee and the suffering I love a coffee note in a perfume it's just something about coffee I just I love it and then the base notes is sandalwood and amber wood so we've got the warmth the creaminess coming through this so this is a blind buy by the way so here we go hmm there's some sweetness on here right let's go let's go it's like oops I did it again separate you what's your favorite Britney Spears song I just I love Britney Spears I think she's just such an OG oh wow all my days that's like a laser atomizer shoots like a straight like a hose pipe and oh this is nice this is really sweet the coffee is coming through straight away apricot you definitely are getting the apricot can't miss the apricot you know like those dried apricots that you get from Holland and Barris I'm getting those like when you first open the packet and they had all of the fragrance stuffed in them and then you open it and it just goes that's what I got here definitely but apricot coffee note is coming through apricot is more dominant I'm not really getting the pink pepper that much okay I'm not I'm getting some orange blossom I know it hasn't been listed as a note but I'm definitely getting some orange blossom like vanilla vanilla orange coffee latte do you know what this smells like so the other week I got a sample of black opium neon which strangely enough also has the same pink and black colors and I'm absolutely reminded of that perfume I'm reminded of that perfume it's got the similar coffee orange vanilla vibe but I liked it I actually really liked the black opium neon no it's use Saint Laurent yeah yeah black opium is leave Saint Laurent isn't it yeah it's YSL but yeah this this reminds me of that smell it's not quite as pecan't as the other one like it doesn't have as much of the sharp tartness it's a bit of a softer version of it oh my gosh guys this is a I feel like I no longer have to buy the YSL black opium neon because I quite liked it but it's YSL so it's actually a little bit pricier and in terms of longevity on me it didn't last as long as say other perfumes so I think it did about five four six hours when I wore it on my skin but so far all of my Britney Spears perfumes they've just been legendary in their performance all day I get to the end of the day 12 13 hours later and it's still there and the next day when I pick up the clothes and I smell them it's still there this is a winner and that's my prerogative yeah that wasn't one of the best songs I never liked that one everybody's talking all this stuff about love it that's a nice edition come to mama come to mom next is private show and I'm so excited to be trying this so I have VIP private show which I like it's a fruity floral it's very feminine it's very young and I love it but I wanted I just couldn't get this be out of my head I had to be my bonnet about trying the original one because normally from what I've read the flankers they don't tend to be anywhere near as good as the original so I was like I need I want to try the original one I want to try the original one and so I ordered it also because it has a coffee note because that is one note that I have discovered I really enjoy in perfumes whenever perfumes I've had the coffee note it's just added a little bit of a something I like drinking coffee and I'll have my morning cup of coffee I won't have any coffee after 12 o'clock though because it does keep me up but I love the smell of coffee it's just so invigorating and energizing combine that with flowers because I love gardening I'm just like oh yeah so I'm quite excited about this so in terms of the notes actually let's have a look we have whipped cream we have coffee with nectarine and clementine so really I'm kind of expecting a vanilla orange latte vibe to it and then the middle notes is dulce de leche dulce de leche guys that is like the best dessert ever I love dulce de leche love making it I don't make it as often because I do have tendency to just gobble it all down when I make it but wherever we go out to a restaurant oh pre-covid days if they had a dessert that was dulce de leche I would order my main course to make sure that I had space for dulce de leche and then it's also got orange blossom so again we're doubling down on those orange notes because we've already had the clementine and now we've got orange blossom in the middle note and then the base notes we've got the winning combination of umber and musk you know so yeah I got good vibes about this plus I also like the bottle I really like the bottles oh geez I need to stop shaking so I don't know if this is true but I read somewhere that it's not a good idea to shake your perfumes and it said something like the molecules are so delicate that when you shake them you may damage them I'm not sure that makes any logical sense but why don't you let me know in the comments box down below is it um is it a really bad idea to shake them because I just realized I'm moving my hands around and shaking them a lot but anyway let's try Britney Spears private show not a girl not yet a woman okay oh no shaking oh my gosh it's always so hard all right okay let's try oh okay and she just hated when you're atomizer you don't realize that you've made it aim the wrong way and then you sprayed and just goes and it's like you've just wasted the spritz of perfume yeah I get like that sometimes right let's turn this face it and let's try again oh this is a powerful atomizer but that's it okay just got a blast of alcohol to start with all right let's just give it a bit of time the orange is definitely there maybe not as strong as I expected given that we have the orange blossom as well as the nectarine but nectarine is a very light kind of orange isn't it it's it's got a little bit more aqua to it than it has the citrusy acidiness it's very light but again the coffee not is beginning to come through but again it's also got the orange coffee vanilla thingy kind of going a little bit disappointed because I'm not yet picking out the Dolce de Leche I'm not really getting that sweetness the creamy sweetness that I that I would like out of a Dolce de Leche but it's there a little bit but I have to really bring my nose close up to the paper do you know what I bet you this will perform a lot better on my skin because some of the perfumes on paper they're okay they're okay you kind of get the you know that the the technical notes they're coming through but once my hormones and my skin chemistry begin to interact with it you know some magic happens there sometimes so yeah but you know it's not unpleasant I quite like it it's got the light coffee note it's not the coffee note in it is not as strong as say in the prerogative but it is there to me this so far I can see myself wearing this more in early summer in early summer because it's been quite yeah it's quite it's it's a lighter version of the prerogative whereas with the prerogative I can see myself wearing this now it's like I'm not wearing that tomorrow yeah I'm gonna be wearing that one tomorrow but yeah yeah so to me this could be summer this could be early spring yeah a nice billowy top bohemian style you know fluttery sleeves big glasses big hat to protect myself from the sun I could see myself wearing that then so this is private show up from Britney Spears okay so the next one is this gorgeous looking bottle is that to pick something up look at this how beautiful is this bottle I love this bottle I don't know about you but I think that the Britney Spears bottles they're so pretty maybe it's because they were designed for her fan base which was like teenagers at the time I guess my inner teenager is still wanting to experience the world because I love these I just I love how this looks look at that this is just the sort of thing that you know as a teenage girl I would have just loved to have and just to gaze at it and just to be like I got this but yeah okay so curious apparently this is the very first-ever Britney Spears fragrance that came out I think it was 2004 maybe wrong but yeah I just thought since I'm getting into Britney Spears fragrances I need to go right back to the beginning and I looked at the notes and I thought that the notes profile looked good it's a blind buy but I had looked at the notes and we have Magnolia pear and lotus I don't really like the scent of a Magnolia tree personally I don't like it I find it thick and cloying but the good news about the perfumery is that very rarely have I found that the perfuminous coincide with the natural notes except for some rose based fragrances there are some rose based fragrances that have been very much smelling like what a real rose smells like and yeah and then we've got pear and lotus for the middle no seeds a jasmine tuberous and cyclamen and then the base notes is musk vanilla a white woose and sandalwood so so far all of the Britney Spears perfumes that I've tried they kind of have a similar base in that they've got the musk the vanilla and the sandalwood in varying degrees so they kind of have a very similar DNA which is quite comforting and it also gives me the confidence that I'm probably gonna like them you know which is good when you're spending a lot of money on perfumes and here in England you can't return the perfume once you open it you know once you open that cellophane that's it you got to keep it if you don't want it you have to sell it when eBay I'm just okay it's a beautiful bottle but the lid didn't come off easily okay all right okay so beautiful bottle but it doesn't handle very well it's a bit like yeah I could see myself dropping this very easy so I wouldn't be using this in my bathroom because my bathroom has got tiles and once or twice things that are glass have slipped from my hands fallen on to the towel and just broken and shattered I do have some bath mats now around where I'm standing so that that doesn't happen again but I've now become a little bit paranoid about handing in anything that's glass on there so in the mornings when I have to put on my perfume I will get my perfume from the cup that's in the bathroom because that's where they live and I'll come out to the cupeted area of my bedroom and then I'll spray it and then I'll put it back yeah I was traumatized but here we go let's try you out okay oh I like this atomizer let's get another spritz hmm clean clean is what I'm getting from this so not an immediate fruity floral compared to the other ones not super sweet either I'm not getting much sweetness from this but it's got a very clean matches the blue bottles like a you know clean laundry I want to say I'd definitely be wearing this in spring summer I think this is more for spring summer fragrance for me anyway to my nose so for me when I smell a fragrance and it makes me happy to be in winter it's a weird winter fragrance if I smell a fragrance and I just think oh I could be a butterfly I could be a butterfly floating around the tulips and the you know the dahlias or whatever then it's like a spring summer fragrance that that's my very non scientific way of saying but it's not thick either it's quite light the Magnolia is definitely big does have a Magnolia feel to it which gives it quite a strong white floral scent hmm I gotta say I'm not wild you know I'm not singing in the rain or anything like that but it's a very and I think that it's also quite inoffensive I just feel like it's a it's a scent that is there and it's not unpleasant there isn't anything that makes me think I think this would also work well for an office situation hmm very light a little bit of the Jasmine beginning to come through I have to say to say that it's got tuberose the tuberose is very very mild to my mind it kind of reminds me a little bit a little bit of laundry day with a very posh laundry detergent and the very posh fabric softener so very very clean with just a little bit of some white florals are swimming underneath the surface which I think that there would be days and summer that you would want to just have that sense so that is a prerogative beautiful bottle though I mean just for the bottle alone this gets you know great points for the bottle I will be back at some point to report back on how this gets on with my skin chemistry the longevity the sea arch and things like that my perfume whole of mostly of celebrity perfumes but mostly Britney Spears ones and out of the four that I have I think that definitely my favorite has been prerogative I like sweet fragrances and this was by far the sweetest and it has the strongest coffee note that I absolutely love so it's quite dark and I imagine that I will be wearing this with like really deep rich colors basically the outfit that I'm wearing today I think would go really well with this one my least favorite my list favorite was this one so far it wasn't quite as strong performing as the others but that's not to say it's going to be discounted I never judge a perfume based on the first sniff I'm gonna try it on my skin and see how we get on with it the first sniff just means that if I had tried this in a shop I wouldn't have bought it but because we are in times of the rona and we're at home we don't it's very hard to try fragrances I'm doing a lot of blind buying but we haven't been discounted yet and then these other two they were really quite lovely great additions to my collection and fantastic looking bottles thank you so much for watching I appreciate you staying until the end listening to my rambling perfume madness and if you do like perfumes and everything to do with perfumes and you want to follow along with the perfume madness then please do hit that subscribe button also like the video really really does help the channel and I appreciate it very much until I see you next time guys take care bye


This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Mike Aikens, Norm Fasikas and Chris Allen. Coming up on DTNS, Meta seems to be growing and it seems to be because of AI. A way to watermark text from chat GPT and real-life tractor beams. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, January 27th, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redbud, I'm Sarah Lane. Also from Los Angeles, I'm Lamar Wilson. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. But there's so much Los Angeles that Lamar and I are able to comfortably share it. We do well with it.  That's right. We never cross. You are the majority of the show today. Congrats. We win. All right, let's start with the quick hits. Where's that button? There it is. Google agreed to make changes to its services to come into compliance with the EU consumer protection laws. Google flights and hotels will clearly show when it's displaying services from Google directly and when it's acting as a third party intermediary, as well as make it clear that Google hotels does not verify its reviews. The Google Play Store and Google Store will provide upfront information on delivery costs and availability of repair options, as well as provide additional company details in the Play Store such as business names, addresses, and contact info. Google will also clearly clarify how to browse other countries' versions of the Play Store in the EU, letting them change a country of residence once per year. Intel reported it earned $0.10 a share on revenue down 32% on the year in Q4. That revenue was $14.04 billion if you keep in track. And what's really more important than the numbers themselves is they missed analyst estimates. The analysts say you got to hit these numbers and if you do, they're great. And if you don't, everybody's mad. This marked the fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales. That's not good. Intel's client computing group, which includes the PC chips, that's kind of what they're famous for, fell 36% on the year to $7.68 billion. Demand fell mostly in consumer and education markets, so that part isn't too surprising. Its data center business saw revenue down 33% to $4.17 billion. That's a little more concerning. And its network and edge segment fell just 1% to $2.06 billion. Google began rolling out the ability to require a user's fingerprint or a pin to view incognito tabs in Chrome for Android. Force quitting Chrome will still move all incognito pages. The feature came to Chrome for iOS in 2021. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has sources who say Apple directed most of its engineering resources toward developing three nanometer, three nanometer sized Apple silicon chips for the foreseeable future. The company hopes these will enter mass production by the end of this year. As a result though, Kuo says looks like Apple may have stopped developing its own custom Wi-Fi chip. There have been a lot of reports about that. And therefore will likely continue using Broadcom chips for the iPhone 15. Therefore Broadcom stock I think went up. Good news for Broadcom. A little more Apple news or potential Apple news. The information sources say that Apple plans to let users build their own augmented reality apps for its upcoming headset by using Siri. For example, asking the assistant to help build something based on scanning and importing real-life objects, like a pet, without having to do all the design from scratch or no code. See, I always go to pets, but you know, it could be a lot of real-world objects. This would be similar to what Meta is already doing, the Quest headsets let users build 3D environments within Horizon Worlds and even iPhone users already have some of this functionality as part of Apple's other augmented reality and virtual reality efforts. Now you know why I'll be chasing Sawyer the dog around later with my iPhone to scan him. Just taking a nap. Alright, let's talk a little more about Meta. Wall Street Journal reviewed internal documents from Meta and conducted interviews and wrote a big story about the future of Meta that was actually fairly positive. Meta is bouncing back from its bad year. It is dealing with the fact that it's getting less personal data from Apple users and in fact, using less personal data in general to target its ads thanks to some machine learning. So instead of gathering your data and using that, they're using machine learning to predict based on what it does know what kind of ads might be useful for you and productive for the advertiser. In November, VP and de facto head of Facebook, Tom Allison, wrote in a memo to his staff about another piece of AI that's helping. Our internal data indicates that Meta has grown to a meaningful share of short form video. A lot of that is due to algorithms figuring out what reels to show to users, both in Facebook and on Instagram. In October, execs reported a 20% gain in time spent watching reels. Now Lamar, I know you make content for TikTok reels, etc. Are you noticing that? Yeah, absolutely. It's funny this came up because I'm noticing a larger gain in views. I'm noticing more people are in regular conversation are talking about Instagram reels. It used to just be the de facto name TikTok, like Kleenex, right? But I'm hearing people say, no, I'm on Instagram reels and one creator recently said he finds the content is better. And they may be a part of the algorithm working better on that. So, yeah, I've been uploading more on there. I'm seeing more views and I'm seeing just hearing more people saying that they love it, you know, in everyday life. I'm hearing more people talk about shorts, too. I don't know if either one of you have heard that, too. I have, too. Yeah, definitely. Shorts? No, reels, yes. In fact, I know content creators who were like, yeah, TikTok, it was fun for a minute. But Instagram is where all the people really are and have been for a while and will probably continue to stay. And I think that's a really interesting thought is, okay, well, TikTok has been on the upswing for the last couple of years. I mean, who can stop TikTok as far as, you know, good content that I may want to see based on the algorithm. But Instagram is kind of where I hang out more often. So there you go. Yeah, I'll say this, too, that Instagram reels particularly used to be like whatever, you know, whatever got hot on TikTok. It was just like a dump. We just get cross-posted. Yeah, just to see what would happen. And they're still cross-posted. I cross-post, but I'm starting to see some native things that, you know, are happening or occurring on reels themselves. So they're starting to get their own people, you know, their own creators. I love what you said. I forgot your name. Rich. Tom or Sarah. I would completely play it for a second. No, Sarah, hi. Hi. I love what you said on that point because Instagram, I've always felt as my home. I can write stories there and I feel like that's like my video Twitter. Yeah, the audience is already built in. The audience is already there. You know, speaking of stories, I need to make more because I noticed the story mentioned that stories creation ran 10% below. And I definitely feel that I've seen more people that I follow are not making as many stories. And I wonder why that is. Are we focusing on time somewhere else? Maybe on Twitter? Or on reels. Is all the controversy? Maybe more. People are seeing that reels get more views and they're like, well, I guess I'll make a real instead of a story. Well, stories also, and I don't, I don't make stories ever, but I occasionally look at my friend's stories. And there is a little bit of anxiety built into that because it's like, well, okay, so this is time sensitive. If I look at it, you know, within the 24 hour period before it goes away, you will know that I did not that I'm trying to creep on anybody, but there's a little bit more that I feel is asked of the audience member in order to consume stories. If you're looking at reels or just post in general, then it's a little bit more like Instagram's email where you get to it when you get to it, but it's not so much real time. Oh, I like that. That's a good, yeah, I like that. I wonder if there's a generation breakdown here too, where the oldest users are watching Facebook and they're seeing Facebook reels. And then the millennials and us Gen Xers are using Instagram and we're seeing reels. And then the younger set are more likely to be looking at TikTok because you're right. You mentioned that earlier Lamar. TikTok's not falling down. It's not declining. It's still groaning. I think this is interesting. I also want to circle back to the idea that using machine learning has helped meta bounce back on the ad targeting because it's probably going to be better than using the personal data. It's better for us who want to guard our personal data. And I wonder, given their success in using AI type stuff for both reels and for advertising and for other things that Wall Street Journal article said met his capital expenditures more than doubled most of it on AI over the past two years. Maybe meta doesn't become a metaverse company. Maybe its future is as a machine learning AI company where we're, you know, 10 years from now, we're talking about, oh, meta. Yeah, they used to be into social networks, but they're an enterprise level AI provider. Now that's where they get, that's where they get all their money from the way we talk about Microsoft getting all its money from Azure now. That's a really good point. If they can figure out news to it, you know, and get, you know, people are, you know, these companies back on board with that AI is great for selling their ability to do that to other other platforms as well. I think that would be smart. Yeah. Well, speaking of AI, chat GPT, you may have heard about it on this show has caused schools and teachers to, in some cases, ban its use on tests. And people are in general worried about it being fooled by generative text. A lot of folks have been touting different ways to detect if text is indeed written by a chatbot or a human. But let's be honest here, as soon as the detection method gets good, the language models will get better and so on and so on. So we should all give up kidding. MIT technology review has an article out called a watermark for chatbots can expose tech written by an AI. Scientists at University of Maryland made a watermarking algorithm and tried to including it in a sex generated by Metas open source language model. OPT six dot seven B. They said they were able to detect watermark texting, watermark text really well. The paper has yet to be peer reviewed, but the method is an interesting one. And you can play with it. And they'll release the code February 15. But Tom, let's explain how that works. Yeah, so language models, a large language model, which is what chat GPT is using generate one word at a time. So they we like to think they're they're composing it the way we do, but they don't they pick a word. And then they look at their their internals and say, what do we think the best word to come next would be based on the prompt we've got. So they you can use that the watermarking algorithm divides a language models vocabulary into what it calls red lists and green lists. Each time a model is choosing that next word, the algorithm encourages it to choose one from the green list if it can. Now it's not always going to choose from the green list, but it will do it often enough that more than half the words will be from the green list. And the text will still read very well. Here's a here's an example of why that can differentiate machine generated text from human text. Here's the example after it chooses the word country. Let's say the words we're going to oversimplify here the words that could choose our pond pool swimming hole and water hole. They would all make sense given the context of whatever prompted God. And let's say they all have equivalent scores. So it's not like one is much more appropriate. If pond is on the green list, then the way this watermarking algorithm would work, it would choose pond. Whereas a human, which tends to write more randomly, might be liable to choose water hole or swimming hole or pool. If you repeat that process hundreds of thousands of times depending on the length of the text you're writing, you'll see the machine language thing use green list words so much that it would make it unlikely that a human wrote the thing. Does that make sense? It makes sense to me. And it's funny because, especially because, you know, we write a lot of things for a DTSS five days a week that I am constantly being like, what's a synonym for pond? You know, let's make it spicier because I'm a human. The algorithm doesn't necessarily think that way.  Maybe it sounds like the algorithm just wants to go a certain way. But that is, that is a really interesting differentiator between humans who are trying to be creative while saying the same thing all the time, because that's what we do. And a machine that doesn't necessarily understand that. Yeah, you mentioned synonyms. It would be interesting to see how this works in other languages, right? Because our languages quite complex, but so are other languages and wouldn't be able to catch those variants. It's a great point Lamar. English particularly has a lot more alternate words and synonyms than a lot of other languages. So your mileage may vary depending on what language you're doing this in. But I do think it's clever because we can already analyze word choice and figure out if somebody actually wrote something. There was an author who pretended to be dead and then was writing things on Facebook and they discovered her. Oh, the romance novel. Text analysis and going, wait a minute, she always uses this word and she always, you know, interpolates these two phrases and that sort of thing. So I love this idea, which is to say, let's create a style in which chat GPT writes or anything like it. That'll be detectable. And the amount of work you'd have to do to change it not to remove the watermark would mean that you've actually done the work to make it original, right? To edit it to be your own copy. So it would be self defeating to try to remove the watermark. I guess the biggest hurdle here is you would have to get every usable chat GPT like tool to add such a watermark to its system. Open AI says they're working on something like this, but they're very secretive about stuff. So we have no idea what they're doing. And who's to say that that some open source thing comes along that decides there or that makes it so you wouldn't have to have that element because you could compile it yourself. Yeah, I listen, I am all for this and I know we get a whole discussion about about, you know, chat GPT as you already have but I just want to wonder just ponder. Where does this go because as we as Sarah mentioned beginning, as one detection method gets put out there, somebody else is going to counter it. And do we do we just say at some point, hey, let's just give up and focus on, okay, students are going to use this. So let's teach students in a different way. Yeah. Oh, let's just let's have expectations in a different way. I think if you're just trying to catch student cheating, then yes, you probably it's probably beneficial to figure out how to create curriculum that accounts for the fact that they can use these tools and incorporate those tools the way we have with calculators. It's going to be different the calculators but but there's a there's a way to do that. I think there might be some other beneficial aspects of watermarking this way to just be able to tell if something was machine generated or not in a lot of other ways. In fact, if you have ideas about ways that that would be beneficial, email them to us feedback at daily tech news show dot com. Also, if you see stories about stuff like this and you want to let us know in case maybe we'd like to talk about on the show, we'd love to get your ideas submit them and vote on them at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com. A paper published in the journal Optics Express is grabbing some headlines because it describes a laser beam capable of pulling objects like a tractor beam, for example, you might say, in what way can it do that? Universe today is Evan Goff, perhaps Evan Go, reported on the article last week and gave a good breakdown of the finding basically scientists have used optical tweezers, which can move things the size of an atom. Very small things around, but haven't been able to move larger things, aka macroscopic things. So Tom, what did they do exactly? Yeah, this is not the first tractor beam, like you said, but it's the biggest one we've made. It's still very tiny. You're not going to be pulling the Millennium Falcon in with this one. What they did is a laser can push an object by heating up one side of the object. The difference between the temperature on the two sides of the objects is something called the Knudsen forts. I think it's just Knudsen, but it's spelled with a K in low pressure atmosphere. So you'd have to have it lower than Earth. They had to have a really low pressure gaseous atmosphere to test this. You can do that and it will move an object. The laser will push the object. Think solar sales. In fact, they said they were able to do three times the magnitude of a solar sale. The scientists were using a graphene composite, so this wouldn't necessarily work on just anything. That's one lab limitation. But they could push that with a laser in low pressure and then figured out how to pull it as well. They coated one side with silicon dioxide, which reduced heat conduction, hit that with the laser. That meant the opposite side without the coating was heating faster. That caused gas molecules to be released from the side that was hotter. It kind of propelled it forward. They were hitting the laser on one side, but it was heating the other side and then you were able to pull it with the laser. I hate that this can only be done in lab conditions. You've got to start somewhere. I know. It sounds exciting when we hear laser beam, but lab conditions only and then very specific conditions, but it still sounds cool. It sounds really cool. I'm with you, Lamar. I'm like, okay, lab conditions, but how is this going to help my life when we get better at this? How will laser beams control objects that make it easier for me to do my household chores, I guess? We're decades away from that probably, if not hundreds of years from that. But is that the only thing that makes scientific endeavors like that worthwhile? No, of course not. Just to do it is like, okay, this is a thing. Let's figure out how everyday tasks could be eventually tackled by technology. It may not be good for everyday tasks, but optical tweezers have allowed science to be able to manipulate atomic scale stuff in a way that they couldn't before, which allows them to do other work, which then ends up making advancements that do lead to iPhones and things that we use everyday. So even if the connection isn't direct, this could do a lot of stuff. One of the things they think it would be useful for is space. So the concentration of the atmosphere that they were using to do the lasers in was similar to the concentration on Mars. So immediately everyone said, well, wait a minute, back in 2011 NASA was investigating the use of possible tractor beams in its Martian rovers to be able to bring in samples in a way that was not capable, you know, with mechanical things that could break down or get grit in them or whatever. Would that be something they could do? Could you use that when you're flying something through a comet tail to be able to grab a little stuff? Would it work on an asteroid? So there's all kinds of things we could learn by using this possibly as well.  It's like it absolutely can have practical uses down the line. So let's not stop exploring. Let's not stop trying new things because it can and will have application at some point to benefit us. And also tractor beam like they really really does work, right? That's the coolest. Yeah, we need some sharks. Put the lasers. Okay, anyway. Yeah, don't give the sharks. Let's break and tractor beam. Yeah, that just makes it worse. All right, we got another we got another scientific advancement to talk about as well. Oh, we really did. So scientists at Sun Yatsen University, that's in China and Carnegie Mellon University in the US published a research paper. Well, they wrote a research paper that matter published demonstrating how they created a shape shifting robot that can switch between liquid and metal states to navigate a variety of environments. Now you might say this sounds like Terminator two. We're not totally at that level yet that these robots are they're small. They're actually modeled after see you see cucumbers in shape, but they can navigate obstacle courses. They can remove or deliver objects to a model of, let's say the human stomach, not a real human stomach yet but a model of one. They can also liquefy to escape a cage before reforming back into their original humanoid shape. I love this. Let's use the material gallium gallium. If you're not familiar can easily ship between soft and rigid states in ambient temperature. It's a soft metal, meaning that it has a melting point that's really low 29.76 degrees Celsius. That's about 85.57 degrees Fahrenheit at standard pressure. So that's less than, you know, a healthy human has in its body. So it could melt easily in your hand, for example. A scientist then added magnetic particles to the gallium to create a magneto active solid liquid phase transitional machine. If you're like, what does that mean? Essentially, it gives the robots mobility. I think the best part of these scientists is not only that they were able to do this, but then once they did it, they said, well, one way we should definitely demonstrate this and take video and put it on YouTube, not just in our article, is to create a little Lego looking figurine and have it melt through bars as if it's Terminator. Getting out of jail. Yeah. Yeah. The robot's like, I can't fool me, man. I'm just going to liquefy and I'm going to go where I want. This is how you do science. Yeah. They say it's not Terminator, but... No. I mean, we're on the path. I feel like they're saying, look, we know you're all going to say this is Terminator. So why don't we just go ahead and demonstrate it as if it was Terminator? That was pretty cute. Let's not pretend that we're not all thinking it. Let's just do it. Yeah. I love that. All right. Let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. This one comes in from Chris in Nova Scotia. Hello, Chris. Chris says, I just wanted to share my experience with chat GPT as a high school visual arts teacher. Chat GPT is excellent at generating drawing prompts. After experimenting with it for a few weeks, I figured out how to get it to create prompts that tie directly into the outcomes for my courses. And it even does well as creating prompts for beginner and intermediate and advanced techniques. I'm so impressed that I'll be recommending it to my students as a tool this upcoming semester. And I'm looking at building an entire project around a prompt that it generated. Chris says, I know many teachers are worried about the impact of AI and education. These are also conversations happening at my school. But I hope that my experience can help inspire some out of the box thinking. Oh, Chris, this is great. And this goes right to what you were talking about earlier, Lamar. Absolutely. Yeah. No, I think it's great. Like you can, instead of making it a bad, you know, making it a bad evil thing, how can we make it a positive thing? It's out there. So how can we use it positively in high school? And I think that's awesome. I think that's always true of any big new advance. We're still having the debate about screens, right? Oh, are screens good? Are they bad? Not just for kids, but for us and screen time and all of that. But I don't think anyone would argue that a smartphone is entirely evil. And we should all just, well, take that back. Somebody's going to argue this. Not many people. Many people think that, yeah, there are good things about it. I think the majority of us understand that there are positives here that if we can figure out the negatives are worth pursuing. So I think we're just beginning to deal with chat GPT. And yes, there are misuses it could be put to. Absolutely. And we, and I'm not saying we shouldn't pay attention to those and figure out how to limit those. But there are great examples of why it's not something you should just kill in the basket right now, right? You should look at like, okay, but it can also come up with these great prompts that Chris would never have come up with otherwise. And that's actually making his class better. It's going to make them better artists because they've got more varied prompts. They're going to start thinking about art in a different way. Yeah. I think we need to pay attention to all of the aspects of it. And this is a great example. So I appreciate Chris sharing it with us. Indeed. Thanks, Chris. And thanks to everybody who writes in feedback at daily tech new show.com is where to send that email. If you say, I have a thought as well, we would like to hear those thoughts. Keep them coming. Also keep Lamar Wilson coming to the show because it's so much fun when we have you let folks know where they can keep up with your latest. Yeah. 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What's the best way to stay healthy in the face of so much conflicting nutrition information? Well, ideally you would go to the source, the gold standard, the peer-reviewed medical literature, and read through the stacks of the latest medical journals. But who's got time for that? I do! Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. Today we'll run the gamut of topics from whether or not those with genetic markers for breast cancer should eat soy, the importance of getting enough vitamin D, and why some of us are overly sensitive to garlic and onion. Let's see what questions you have for me today. Here's one from Nanabuga. Says, is there any benefits aspirin has to offer if you must take other medications that might cause blood clots? Well, I mean ideally you would treat the cause of whatever disease condition that made you have to take drugs that cause blood clots, and so then you wouldn't have to be on those drugs. But taking aspirin for primary prevention, trying to, for example, prevent a heart attack in the first place, is not according to the USPSDF, the United States Permanent Service Task Force, not recommended as the risks, which include major bleeding, outweigh the benefits. That however changes in certain circumstances for secondary prevention. So for example, you already had a heart attack, and you're at such high risk of having a second heart attack. In that case, the pros and cons may shift in the other direction. Let's see who's next. Cheryl says, help! Breast cancer my family. Should I not eat tofu? Any soy? Like yogurt or milk? Fantastic question. So first of all, only about 2% of breast cancers actually fallen families, you know those so-called broccatines. 98% of breast cancer is what we're exposed to. And so just because it appears to come down in the family, it may just be because they're similar lifestyles, diets and lifestyles run in families as well. And so that's fantastic news. And of course, even if you do have those broccatine mutations or have mutations, I put you at high risk. Well, I mean, that's just, you know, the genetics loads the gun lifestyle, pulls to trigger, regardless of what kind of genetic cards we've been dealt, we can reshuffle that deck with diet. And one of the ways we can do that is by going out of our way to eat soy foods. So there's now been a half a dozen studies now that have followed thousands of breast cancer survivors and those who ate soy have significantly put them all those studies together, have significantly lower risk of breast cancer recurrence, meaning significantly lower risk of breast cancer coming back and significantly improve survival.  Even better would be to eat soy foods, particularly in the adolescent years, to decrease the risk of breast cancer later in life. Between 30 and 50 percent lower risk associated, breast cancer risk associated with eating soy, particularly at a younger age. And so would encourage people to include soy foods, some healthier than others. So a whole soy food would be ideal, something like edamame, the immature green soybeans in a pod, fun, tasty snack. In fact, one of my favorite snacks, as opposed to something like the soy yogurt, which typically has a lot of sugar added, or soy milk, which has those isoflavones, those those phytoestrogens, that are so beneficial. But you know, you're missing the fiber. You're missing a lot of the other goodies that are in whole soybeans. So that would be the preferable route. Okay, next one is angelic astringes. Is black human have to be ground to get the best absorption? I think most of the studies were using ground on black human seeds. And so we know from experiments with like flax seeds, for example, that you really do need to grind them to get the beneficial effects. Otherwise, they just pass through you unless you chew really, really well.  So yes, ground black human is the way to go for all its associated benefits. Okay, next up Laura says going on a lung transplant, let's do the hypersensitivity pneumonitis. I'm so sorry to hear that. In the years of the diet, I should focus on currently losing weight. So I mean, if you're overweight, and certainly that could help prep you for surgery. So my advice in this circumstance is really just, you know, all the typical healthy advice, but just to the nth degree, right?  And something like a lung transplant is certainly major surgery. Now, after surgery, increasing protein intake can help with healing. But before surgery, it was just a matter of eating, you know, the recommended point of grants for health care around body weight. Okay, next up. Oh, no, no, no is back. And can I 20 sheets of Nori see me today? I'm so glad that you love healthy foods. So two sheets has about 150 micrograms. So 10 would have 1500. What's the maximum upper daily limit? Let me look that quick. upper daily limit high oh nine, let's check it out. Oh, is 1100 microgram today. Okay, so that's too much. So let's stick, let's let's let's take a few sheets away. Let's go. What 16 was that going to be? Anyway, yeah, so I know they're delicious. I snack on them myself. But two sheets a day should get you the recommended 150 micrograms you need. So let's not do 20. The risk of excess iodide intake cause something called hyperthyroidism and overactive thyroid glands which you want to avoid. Okay, next up, Emily says hello. Anything recommend for oh, long COVID fatigue and one kidney since donating. Oh, you are so sweet. I hope your mom is doing okay. So so anyone with one kidney needs to eat a very extraordinarily kidney healthy diet. What is that? There's a low sodium hopeful plant-based diet, plant protein and not excess protein. And I've got a bunch of videos on both preventing and treating kidney failure. And so that's that's for that piece. And then what do we have for long COVID? So we know, you know, from this massive Harvard study 600,000 people that those who eat more whole plan foods and last meat, eggs, dairy and junk are not only significantly less likely to get COVID in the first place, but if they do get COVID significantly less likelihood of suffering a severe course, not to mention all the comorbidities, right? What increases one's risk of a serious COVID case, you know, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, et cetera, all of which can be prevented, arrested and reversed with a health enough plant-based diet. But what about long COVID? We simply don't know. The studies haven't been done to find out what kind of lifestyle approaches can be used to deal with long COVID symptoms. Yeah, you know, if it is an inflammatory component, one would presume an anti-inflammatory diet on which is synonymous with a hopeful plant-based diet would help, but it hasn't been put to the test. I myself suffered a long COVID symptom of this sciatic mononuropathy for about a month and thankfully it went away, but definitely was like that couldn't be on my treadmill. I remember I was giving my Q&A one month though treadmill. Again, I can recommend just taking good care of yourself. Unfortunately, we don't have data either way for any diet, any lifestyle intervention, or really any drug intervention at this point.  Now on his back, all right, can you be sensitive? Can you be sensitive to garlic and onion? I feel bloated every day. Well, there are, you know, FODMAPs. There are these prebiotics found in alien family vegetables like garlic, onion, chives, shallots, et cetera, that are super healthy for your gut bugs, but if you have dysbiosis, if you have the wrong gut bugs, then you can foster the growth of the wrong kind. And so if you're really sensitive, then you can try cutting down and see if that helps, but I would start slowly adding them back to your diet based on your tolerance, so you can build up the good bugs because you want to get to the point where you include the super healthy foods into your diet. Okay, Heather says, can I touch more on supplements beyond the daily dose? And I drink a protein shake. Should I be wary of these or are there certain ones I'd recommend, the one I use all pump based from a company in Vega, I'm 53, take a multivitam. Okay, you do not need to eat a protein shake.  And so it's not like we don't get our carbs in the form of sugar, we don't get our fat in the forms of oil, and we don't get our protein in the form of powder, which is what these protein shakes are. And so it's so simple to get the recommended intake, .8 grams per health to go around body weight of protein, eating whole healthy foods and some of the healthiest foods like legumes, beans, spippies, chickpeas, lentils, that's what I would recommend you eat instead. So I've got videos about multivitamins, and there's some people like, you know, alcoholics during pregnancy, there's some situations in which taking multivitamin is a good idea. And I talk about circumstances in my videos, but for most people it is unnecessary. Of course, what you should be the supplement I would do recommend is vitamin B12, critically important for anyone eating a healthy diet, getting a regular reliable source of vitamin B12. And if you're not getting enough sun, and so during the winter months, if you're getting inadequate sunshine, you may want to supplement with 2,000 international units of vitamin D3. Okay, what does science show? Oh, mushrooms, like ashwagandha. Ashwagandha is not a mushroom, it's a root. And other types of mushrooms that claim to be supportive for good mood relaxation. Actually, I just, I talk about ashwagandha in my sex chapter in how not to age. Let's look it up.  That's my, that's the chapter. I remember I talked about all the various roots, maka, ashwagandha, what's the other one? Jinseng, I think. Yeah. All right, let's see what we got. Ashwagandha, a revered herb of the Ayurvedic system of medicine, which is the Indian tradition of medicine. Its name comes from ashwame meaning horse and gandha meaning smell, because the roots evidently possess the distinctive smell of a wet horse. I did not know that before writing this book. Ashwagandha is used as household remedy in India where it's considered a rasayana. I don't know, probably mispronouncing that, a rejuvenator or tonic for thousands of years, earning it the nickname Indian Jinseng. Okay, so does it actually help? Let's find out. Rodents, front of the deep end. The swim twice as long before sinking, 12 hours versus six hours after being fed ashwagandha. And so what about people? Benefits for physical performance, including increases in aerobic fitness have been found in people too. That's exciting. One study demonstrates evidence of cognitive benefit as well. Its Latin name, Wothonia somnifera, points to another use. Somnifera means sleep inducer. A men analysis of five randomized controlled trials of ashwagandha extracts found a small but significant effect on overall sleep. What about, which is what this chapter is about, what about ashwagandha in female sexual function? Women ages 21 through 50 were randomized to two months of the estimated equivalent of three grams of ashwagandha root powder, so it would be about a teaspoon a day, did not have an increase in sexual desire, but did show improvements over placebo in arousal, lubrication, orgasm, and satisfaction, translating into an additional successful sexual encounter by the end of the study. And so how many, two months? One per two months. All right. Okay. What are the downsides? Ashwagandha belongs to the nightshade family, which includes some shady characters like tobacco and well, deadly nightshade. There have been rare cases of ashwagandha linked liver toxicity, though commercial herbal supplements are often mislabeled. So it's hard to definitively attribute certain cases, right? So just because someone has liver toxicity and they're taking something that says ashwagandha, who knows what's actually in the bottle. However, there have been several liver injury cases in which supplements have been tested and found to be contaminant free. So was actually ashwagandha suggesting that ashwagandha induced liver toxicity is a real phenomenon, even though it's rare. But what should we expect from a plant known by another nickname, poison gooseberry? So I don't recommend you take it. Sorry for the long explanation, but what a nice little sneak preview from a little blurb from how not to age. Okay. Anyway, often read that cancer feeds off sugar, asks Karola. Some people say whole fruit is like sugar for cancer cells. Do you recommend cutting down on fruit for healthy people? There's too many fruit a day. That's fantastic questions. So I actually did a video talking on this very question.  In fact, there's the, you know, there's, I talk about these ketone eating cancer cells. They're just fast growing cells. So they eat whatever we're eating. Fruit is pacified in nutrients, actually cancer preventive. The American Institute for Cancer Research was kind of like the kind of main body that talks about diet and cancer recommends the same diet for cancer prevention as for cancer treatment, the same diet that prevents cancer can be used to treat it, to help treat it. And what's that cancer preventive diet? It is a diet centered around whole plant foods, specifically lying out of the way to include, to increase fruit and vegetable intake, whole grains, legumes, et cetera, cut down on meat and added sugars, et cetera. So yes, I would cut down that sugars, added salt, added fat, and stick to whole plant foods. Ramon, 70 year old trying to avoid BPH and cancer by eating pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seeds, and oysters once a month. What do I think about that? All right, let's look at BPH. Want to go back to the, that's not in the sex chapter. That's in the bowel and bladder chapter, preserving your bowel and bladder function. Do not talk about oysters in the BPH chapter. So presumably there's no research either way. But let's look about pumpkin seeds, shall we? Flax seeds can be used to treat BPH. Men given the equivalent of three tablespoons of flax seeds a day experience relief comparable to that, to that provided by a commonly prescribed drug such as Fulmax or ProScar without the drug side effects. That's exciting. What about other seeds? So I think I talked about flax seeds and how not to die. And so I just do the quick little, all right, it works, works as well as the drug. Let's move on to see what other seeds, pumpkin seeds, evidently known as a folk medicine treatment for prostate disorder for centuries. Petri dish can cut down the growth of BPH, prostate cells in half. That's good. And we can reduce the size of rat, prostates, but who cares unless you have a pet rat or something? What about people? Here we go. So pumpkin seed oil and oil free pumpkin seed extracts, both the fat soluble and non-fat soluble supplements have appeared to help. One with comparable efficacy in the drug pterizocin. Others didn't do as prezocin or tamilocin, but also didn't cause drug side effects with names like retrograde ejaculation. Unfortunately, none of the drug trials had placebo on. So it'd be nice to see how well the placebo, the supplement does against placebo. And in an ideal world, we'd like to see a third group who's just given whole pumpkin seeds, not like some extract and boom. A group of German researchers took up the mantle, more than a thousand men were randomized either pumpkin seed extract, a matching placebo, or just a tablespoon a day of plain pumpkin seeds. Let's see what happens. The study was funded by the drug company that made the supplement, but the supplement totally flopped, reducing symptoms no better than the placebo. But guess what? Pumpkin seeds themselves worked. Supplement appeared to reduce symptoms, but not better than placebo, but the seeds did. The placebo was actually quite effective, offering clinical significant relief in 68% of men. Wow, but the pumpkin seeds did the same for 83%. So that's exciting. Bottom line, the researchers suggest, quote, pumpkin seed could be recommended for BPH patients with mild to moderate symptoms, and the conclusion was echoed by the European equivalent of the FDA. Pumpkin seeds can be used for, quote, the relief of lower urinary tract symptoms related to enlarged prostate after more serious conditions have been excluded by a medical doctor, unquote. So yeah, I encourage you to take pumpkin seeds, and I got a whole bunch of other things you can do. I hope you enjoy that chapter. What do I think about avoiding sun exposure? Do you think if we avoid sun exposure and take vitamin D3 supplements, will you lose any other positive essential benefits that the sun may offer? Well, it's certainly true that if you avoid sun exposure, you would avoid the benefits, but you also avoid the downsides like skin cancer, as well as skin aging. I talk a lot about percent avoidance for skin aging. But the critical benefit that we know of is vitamin D, so we can offset that through supplementation. And the other benefits, like potentially the infrared and stuff, even though it does cause skin aging, might it have some other benefits? I talk about some really funky thing with CoQ10, I have a video about that, but they're really more theoretical. So we just have theoretical benefits versus actual very real risks. And so that's why I would encourage people to use some protective behaviors. We would love it if you could share with us your stories about reinventing your health through evidence-based nutrition. Go to nutritionfacts.org slash testimonials. We may be able to share it on our social media to help inspire others. 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robably you know it's they're pricey but I think on something like this you want to cast as wide as possible you know they may have advertised when I took the job they may have advertised in the Boston Globe I don't know what's that it indeed seems to be a very something like that but I'd be interested to hear what Ted has to say in terms of do you think about it today so many people are working from either home or other places they can be searching across the world for positions it would probably make sense as I started to talk with Ted another board member and I think you have been able to do it maybe the two of you but get out and I step back or whatever just my involvement with the board and I'll be able to hear your decision I'll try to send out to you the Vermont Statue which describes the duties and responsibilities because I really, you know, I don't have there was no written job description when I took the job I haven't written one but the state statute is really a pretty good description of what responsibilities and priorities are just so you are aware of that is that going to be a huge swing from what you've actually done over the years? No. That's where I think legal situations would be helpful. They would probably have a kind of pro forma for the town manager type because they've probably done it for a number of years. The challenge is it's not that all of the things that are written in the state statute are legal authority and the manager is responsible for these things It does not necessarily describe everything that I do in terms of the best portfolio it's all right. Well, that's what I meant I guess I wondered how much different what you do is different from what they suggest Well, not only that, but if through maybe discussions with Bill what should this new person really be responsible for and what duties are you doing now that we shouldn't pass on and try to get this person to do we're not going to do that how are we going to do it because I think there was a point where you said hiring a financial manager under discussion surrounding that so that all needs to be discussed as you go out to hire because if that's not a talent that you need you could be also going to add a financial manager to your employment position so that really should be figured out sooner than later so you can figure out what but of course there's someone that has that talent we're of that like size talent I don't know is that a unique thing you think to your current role or do you think that that can be continued to be absorbed into the talent manager position I think You know I more and more communities on our side in greater have a talent manager and a finance director um back in the day when I first started almost nobody had a finance director as you know Burlington did Monterio did but the rest of the communities pretty much the manager did it but there's been lots of you know I told you a couple of times when I came here the time didn't have any money so there was real need to help a beer to do that you know so anyway but these are things you can talk about with Ted and other meetings I'll be happy but it's getting late night Can we have a conversation about the town charter in the parking lot for us I think you should take that up but first you have to if it's the arrow watcher remember right motion to adjourn so hold second any further discussion all of them in favor please say aye aye