Good evening, this is Ronald Coleman, inviting you to join us again on the campus of Ivy College as the guest of our sponsors, the Brewers of Schlitz Beer. Tonight's program is dedicated to Dr. E. Wilson Lyon, President of Pomona College, Claremont, California. The taste of Schlitz, the taste so many people prefer, has made Schlitz Beer first in sales in the USA. If you like good beer, do as millions of people are doing all over the nation. Ask for Schlitz, the most popular beer in history, the USA. One of the most important qualifications of an executive is the ability to make decisions. This is not always easy as Dr. William Todd Hunter Hall, President of Ivy, has just been reminded. So it was with a good deal of thought and consideration that he finally picked out a new hat at Ivy's leading haberdashery.  Well, Vicki. Hello, darling. I found the greenest spring breast today. It's all wonderful flouncy sleeves and fresh as an apple blossom. Pale green shantung with, I can't wait to see it. If I need a good eye, never having seen a shantung apple blossom. It sounds like something out of Hattie Carnegie by Luther Burbank. No. But what did you do while I was shopping, darling? Well, in a spirit of bravado, this being a working day for college presidents, I toyed with the idea of seeing a movie. And did you? No, dear. It was a horse opera for which as a rule I have a great affection. But from the posters outside, well, I would judge that this one was written on a horseback cast with studio creditors and shot from the hip. So what did you do? Haven't you noticed? Hair cut? No. Ventus? No. Library? No. A give-up? I bought a new hat. Oh, how wonderful. Are they delivering it today? Vicki, I am wearing it. Wow, unobserved. Now, it's simply magnificent. But you always look so handsome in your hat. You never wear a new hat as though it was a new hat, even if you know what I mean. You mean I always wear the same kind of hat, so how could you possibly know this was a new one? Well, not everybody can wear a Homburg without looking like a Swiss waiter out of work. Thank you, darling, but it's not a Homburg. It's a fedora. Well, you look fedorable in it. Thank you. I'm glad now I didn't buy a bowler.  Try and cap that, my love. Yeah. Did I tell you while you were out this morning the Phi Beta Kappa started called? Oh. They want you to address their meeting next Thursday. Thursday, good. It's always a pleasure to meet with our more exemplary students. Tati, since Phi Beta Kappa is a social fraternity, why the Greek letters? Why don't they just call themselves the cream of the crop or the straight A kids or something? Well, because of the, because of its classic origin, my dear. What classic origin? Well, it's quite interesting in a way. Very few people know about it. Really? It started at the Lady's Seminary in Massachusetts in the 1860s. The Abigail Trueblood Academy for young ladies, I think it was. Go on. Well, it seems there was a high-spirited girl of good family named Elizabeth Kappa. Elizabeth Kappa, huh? It's a revolutionary spirit, an iconoclast, a rebel.  Well, well, it seems that her conduct was such that her fellow students would lay aside their embroidery. Oops. Inhale deeply of their aromatic spirits of ammonia. Raise their unplugged eyebrows and say, Hi, Betty Kappa. Her scholastic brilliance more than balanced her unorthodox conduct. So thereafter, the most outstanding students became known as, Hi, Betty Kappa's. Tade. Yes, my love? Who do you think writes the best fiction, Ernest Hemingway or William T. Hall? I didn't think I was going away enough. No, no, you think you might not. Oh, I'll say, here comes that nice French girl. Well, what's her name? Oh, yes, our little mademoiselle from the Sorbonne. I'm afraid we've rather neglected our prettiest exchange student. Ah, mademoiselle, je n'ai. Je suis enchantée de vous revoir. Hello, Dr. Hall. Mrs. Hall. Hello, Eloise. Go on. Very much okay, Mrs. Hall. I'm having what you call a ball. You seem to be completely at ease with our campus' colloquialisms. Well, I'm trying to think in not French, but this is sometimes a difficulty. I thought before I left Paris that I knew English, but American is not English. As Mr. Dooley said, when the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy. Eloise, I've been meaning to call you. Dr. Hall and I would like you to come to dinner soon. Oh, thank you, Mrs. Hall. I should like to. Everybody has been so generous since I'm here. But then the hospitality of you Americans is even greater than you Americans say it is. Almost too much. With so much of social living, when is the education? Oh, I don't mean to protest, but I am curious. More naturally. But don't discount social living, as you call it, as a part of education. Education is understanding people as well as books. But I am amazed. Everything is much fun and no attention to the class.  He said with the coming yet. Eloise, the word is cramming. Scramming is what they do the minute the examination is over. Exactly, Mrs. Hall. Too sweet. Everybody gets educated. And after the examination, too sweet, everybody goes back to having relaxation again. Very interesting.  But since your impressions are so astute, why don't you put them on paper? I'm sure the Ivy Bowl would be delighted to print it. And everybody here should be interested to know how Ivy looks through the lovely eyes of a visitor from Paris. That is very kind, Dr. Hall. But I am nobody. But you write the article, Eloise, and you'll be somebody. And it'll give you good practice in thinking, and not French. Well, if you'd like me to do this, I shall be most happy to try. That's splendid. If, as Oliver Wendell Holmes said, good Americans when they die go to Paris, let's hear what Paris says on coming here to live. Guess who, Toddy? Well, the only one who makes our doorbell sound like a four alarm fire is Mr. Wellman. Ring it hard is his rule of thumb. He has an unfair advantage over us. He has two thumbs and we only have one doorbell. Oh, it's you, Mr. Wellman. Of course it is. And I believe as much an international goodwill as a next man. Good neighbor policy. Hands across the street. Good morning, Dr. Hall. Well, come in. Come in, Mr. Wellman. But when somebody takes advantage of, puts it down in black and white, I mean... Good morning, Mr. Wellman. After all our hospitality, after we've taken every means, so good morning, Mrs. Hallman. I'll come right to the point. Of what? Of what I'm talking about. Oh. You may condone it, Dr. Hall, because you're always leaning backwards, diplomacy, soft words, cagey tactics. Turn the other cheek. But there comes a time when you run out of cheeks. Only true to a customer. When you can't just fly in the teeth, you'll have to face it. Face it, Dr. Hall. Well, I'm willing that it would help me if I knew what I had to face. I just told you. Oh. It's a simple question of international etiquette, manners. When a girl can insult those, who? Well, all I can say is if she doesn't like it where she come from, why doesn't she come back here? Dr. Hall, did you read the article of the Ivy Bowl this morning? What article? By that French girl. He'd done nothing but criticize us. And criticism is fine in this place. That is, when we criticize ourselves. But when we invite a guest into our house and she tries to tear it down and destroy what we have built up, well, what are you going to do about this, Miss Jeanette? Well, Jeanette, don't you mean Jeanette, Mr. Willis? I do not. I said Jeanette and I mean Jeanette. Oh. Oh, no, no, that's right. French. Don't pronounce the T unless it's feminine as it may be. Yes. You don't have to tell me, Mrs. Hall. I know about French. Been to Paris. Likely, too. Champs-Élysées. Verses le concours. Dr. Triomphe. Volley-Berger. Oh, boy, I remember one particular. What was I... Well, now, what else did you take in, Mr. Willman? The Eiffel Tower? No, no, no, no. Can't stand heights, Mrs. Hall. But I didn't insult them. If those Frenchmen like towers, who am I? Live or let live? I was their guest. No, no, bless or bleed. Well, Mr. Willman, before you go any further in all fairness to Miss Jeanette, I must share responsibility for this article. After all, I suggested that she write it to you. Miss Jeanette is a perceptive young lady, and I felt that her impressions of Ivy would be interesting to all of us. Interesting. Thinks our regulations are dictatorial. Always heard that women had more freedom in America. But we treat them like children, she said. She doesn't like anything. Thinks our curfew is an indignity. The honor system is hypocritical if we... I, you... Well, well, I won't go on. It's a birth of Dr. Hall, shocking. Oh, no, I don't know. I think on his criticism is healthy and constructive. Well, Mr. Willman, there is a certain school of thought which regards any and all criticism of American life as subversive. I never attended that school. As far as I am concerned, the birth of a doubt is the beginning of an education. If we, as a nation, born in protest and dissent, are not strong and healthy enough to withstand a few nonconformist views, then we had better close up shop and build a fleet of maitlairs for a return boy. It depends on whether you want a candid opinion or a sugar-candid one, Mr. Willman. Well, candid or not, next she'll be telling us how to run the college. Well, Dr. Hall, all I can say is don't forget your ecclesiastics. Uh-oh. Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own. If it's good enough for ecclesiastics, this is good enough for me. Good day, Dr. Hall. Ecclesiastics? I would have liked an opportunity to remind him of another passage from the good book. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unaware. Yes, darling, but if Mr. Willman has his devilish way, this little angel is going to get her wings clipped. You've talked to me in a high school geometry test, but I knew her in an instant what I met her downtown the other day. Well, well, Miss Bessie, what's certainly good to see after all these years. Uh, you remember me, don't you? Goodness me, but of course, you're the carpenter boy. That's right, Miss Bessie. Ken Carpenter, and thanks for the boy. Oh, I remember you very well indeed. Second seat, third row from the left in my 10-30 section. Oh, Mr. Willman, such grubby papers you used to hand in. Grubby? Oh, please now, Miss Bessie, that was a long time ago. You're retired now, aren't you? Yes, I am. I don't suppose anybody's ever told you what I'm doing now, have they? Told me. Well, how could I help knowing? Don't forget I have a radio. Since I've retired, I listen to it a lot. Of course, I know what you're doing. You're the man who tells people about Schlitz's beer. That's right. And I must say, Kenneth, you sound very convincing and much more accurate, I'm sure, than you were in geometry. Well, thank you, Miss Bessie. You see, I am convinced about Schlitz being the best-liked beer in America, and so are millions of other people who like the taste of it so much, they've made it their regular beer. Sales prove it, you know. Schlitz is America's best-liked beer. I must say, Kenneth, Schlitz is a lovely beer, just lovely. I often have a glass of it. Evening, you know, when I'm taking my ease and such. I'm so glad you like it, Miss Bessie. And you know, in a way, Schlitz is a lot like one of your... one of your just simply never varies. It's always the same, always good. Kenneth, I run there. Yes, Miss Bessie? I was just going to suggest that you might drop in and share a glass of Schlitz with an old lady. I always have them in my refrigerator with such nice beer. Miss Bessie, nothing would give me more pleasure. You know, Kenneth, it's the first time in years you and I have had some so congruent opinions. I certainly think we should drink a toast to them. It's coming up. Fine. Today, a Dr. and Mrs. Hall have a visitor. Miss Eloise Genet, the young French exchange student whose article in the college paper has caused so much comment. Dr. Hall is speaking. The new world has always been a subject of curiosity to the old Eloise, and we have often learned much about ourselves in the observations of travelers. They've all helped Americans to see themselves more clearly. You are very gentle, Dr. Hall, but it is clear you asked me here today to spank me about my article. Oh, Eloise, Dr. Hall never does anything behind anybody's back. There is nothing... there is nothing to chide you about in your article, Eloise. On the whole, you've been very fair. However, I should warn you that there are certain people on the campus who might misinterpret your honest expression of opinion. But, of course, I've already heard some discussion, but this is America where everyone can speak freely. And it is a tradition which must be exercised to be Captainess Genet. You see, Eloise, it's Mr. Clarence Wellman, the chairman of our Board of Governors, who has taken exception to some of the things you've written. It's Mr. Wellman, but he is only a governor. Dr. Hall is the president. Yeah, she makes it sound so simple, doesn't she? In any event, Eloise, I certainly don't want you to discontinue your series. There must be many more aspects of Ivy Life that have impressed you. Some good things. Oh, yeah. So many magnificent things I've seen and so many novelties. It is so dumbfounding the energy, the spirit and imagination about everything. Even the clothes. Yes, yes, it takes a lot of imagination to be as spectacularly casual as some of our undergraduates. I'm amazed that they're enterprise. When I see the uses to which the T-shirt is put, I understand why the late St. Thomas Lipton went to see it. Perhaps it is because American girls are so pretty. They do not have to try to look prettier than they are. But clothes, fashion, they are so exciting. And with just a little of their wonderful imagination, why, why they could look terrific? Well, Eloise, bless you. Now your next article has simply got to be about campus clothes. You've dressed so well on your small allowance, everybody wonders how you do it. You're the envy and the despair of the campus. And I think you're the answer to a problem. Yes, yes, yes, all right, all right, right away. Goodbye. What a ridiculous, of all of all the... I'm on the phone, darling. Fantastic. Oh, Mr. Wellman. He's in a rage about Eloise's new article on campus clothes. And he's coming right over naturally. Good, Eloise is coming over too. Well, it's just about time they met each other. You know, your plans have progressed far enough so that, why, Vicky, that dress... Do you like it, darling? I've always liked it. It's the other day you've never seen it before. Oh, no, no, no, no. It's the same one, the Apple Blossom Dress. You wore it on our first drive into the English countryside together. Oh, Toddy, Vicky, you remember that? Why, that was only the second time we'd ever met. Yes, I'd introduced myself to your backstage the night before. And then the next morning, in the middle of London, in a whirlpool of people, suddenly, lovely violets, violets... Miss Cromwell! Oh, Miss Cromwell! Mr. Hall! I saw you from my car. I couldn't believe my eyes. Oh, goodness, fancy seeing you here. I was just... How are you? I did enjoy last night. I wondered if I'd ever see you again. I... Hello. Oh, Miss Cromwell. Dear Miss Cromwell, do you always go about wearing your wedding dress? Oh, for heaven's sake. This is a pale-breed suit. I'm not wearing a wedding dress. Aren't you? Do you mean to say it is only your face which makes you look so resplendent? No, no, really. You must have got up awfully early to be honest on and be back so soon. Miss Cromwell. I'll never... She laughs. You're all the other girls. They're married in St. George's. They're just getting married to flatter you. What? Just to add bitter to this extraordinary occasion, this wonderful historic day, this shining, glorious birthday. But whose birthday is it to call such a commotion? Yours? Oh, no, no. It's the brand-new birthday of a matchless idea that Miss Cromwell shall drive into the country and have lunch with Mr. Hall. Can you cure? You must. There is no alternative I passed along. And you can't lunch all alone in your wedding dress. Oh, and you and your shining arm. Oh, well, I... Barnet, Barnet, Barnet, Billy to the belly. Barnet, here. I've got a bunch for you, Governor. Of course, here. How about, um... How about 15 shillings for the lot? 15, Bob? Cool, lummy. All right, how are you, your Governor? Mr. Hall, are you... Oh, yes, OK, yes, yes. Here you are, my friend. 15, Bob. Oh, thank you, Governor.  Here. He's a tip for you. Put your shirt on happy day. The 3.30. You can't lose. Good boy, Governor.  You see, Miss Grumble, a prince. Shining armor and all. So, so what about lunch? Well, I... I suppose I can't let a prince sit down all by himself there. So, I... Oh, look. Look to the game, like coming across the square. It's the King and Queen. Well, of course. Do you think for a second that the King and Queen would fail to appear on this historic occasion? Oh. Your majesty. I wave my loyal hat to you. Godspeed. Mr. Hallermann, you're not supposed to really... Oh, look, look. Let me smile that you're naughty. Aren't they wonderful? We have the Royal Seal of Approval. So, it's whole for the open road. Here. Here's my coach. Looking more like a pumpkin, I must admit, but it's mine until midnight. Come on. Let's drive until we find an orchard of apple blossoms. An orchard of apple blossoms. Here's my coach. Looking more like a pumpkin, I must admit, but it's mine until midnight. Come on. Let's drive until we find an orchard of apple blossoms. And a country fair. The sun is the shining so welcome the day with a hae.  Oh, come to the fair.  Oh, come to the fair the fit little... Mayor, what fair are you talking about, Dr. Hallermann? Oh, was I old, Mr. Hallermann? How can you sing on... What nonsense is this? What is nonsense, Mr. Wellman? It was apple blossoms and bells and the king and queen riding by. And don't forget, Vicki, a lovely dress. A dress? Well, that's... that's what I came here for. It's outrageous. The... the sloppy dressing are suit... No, no, no. I mean, that's what that Janae girl said. Well... Well, what? Say something. Well, I... The whole campus is up in arms. This girl hasn't got a friend left. They'll throw her out. Oh, I'm afraid you're a very bad judge of campus opinion, but you will throw her out. My wife? Mm-hmm. My wife? Mm-hmm. Oh, you mean Mrs. Wellman? I haven't even seen her in the last couple of days, out all the time, getting around. But what has she got to do with all this? Well, Mr. Wellman, your wife is the head of the committee for an important Ivy Projects, the spring fashion show. Oh, that. Nobody's interested in that. Big bust every year. Fluff. Not this year. Mrs. Wellman has come up with a tremendous surprise and everybody's delighted. It's going to be one of the biggest events of the season. But where have you been, Mr. Wellman? Well, by being tending to Ivy business, of course, and it's Ivy's business to put this French foreigner in place. But, Mr. Wellman, your wife has already done the... What? Yes. Mrs. Wellman realized that in Miss Jenny, we had a rare opportunity. She is Paris in person, come to Ivy. So, your wife managed to persuade her to act well. Bertha did all this? Uh-huh. My wife? Uh-huh. Why, she never had a... It's a brilliant idea, regardless of who thought of it, but I doubt it's my... Well, imagine. Bertha. I've been on the rest of me. Oh, I see. That must be... I'll get it for you. I'm afraid we've digressed somewhat, Mr. Wellman. Now, to get back to your objection to free speech in the Ivy book, it's about free... Mr. Wellman, have you met Miss Louise Genet? Hello, Mr. Wellman. Hello, Dr. Hall. Oh, good afternoon, Louise. Oh. Oh. Oh. Bonjour, mademoiselle. So, now, I finally meet the wonderful Mr. Wellman. Wonderful? You mean that... Well... I... I... I... I knew that the husband must be equally charming. We were just telling Mr. Wellman how splendidly you and Mrs. Wellman are working together on the fashion show.  Was I?  I wanted to ask you to help me with my problem. Oh, well, if you didn't really mean what you... Naturally, I'll be glad. What is it? We already have two judges for our fashion show, Mr. Wellman, the dean of women and the student. But we need someone from the outside, someone typically much a man. And so, would you be that judge for us, Mr. Wellman? Who? Me? Judge?  Wait, Victoria, feeling as he does about the sartorial freedom of either students, perhaps Mr. Wellman would not want to... I most certainly do want to, Dr. Hall. I claim we did something about the disgraceful, even if you don't, Dr. Hall, I mean, new blood, new ideas, change. What it means, change. Isn't that right, Miss Shanae? May we, Mr. Wellman, I'm overwhelmed by your understanding, and may I tell Mrs. Wellman that you agree? Well, Bertha, well, what is she? 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Coming up on D T N S Windows 11 is coming. Should you be excited selling NFTs with featured journalism and a programming language that puts accessibility first? This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, June 24th, Windows Day 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane. I lost the deck except for Justin Robert Young. And I'm Roger Cheng. The show is pretty, sir. We were just talking about company culture and how you get the kitchen you deserve on Good Day Internet. If you want to know what that means, become a member. Patreon.com slash D T N S. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Google delayed its plan to block third-party cookies in Chrome until late 2023, saying that the delay will give sufficient time for public discussion on the right solutions and for publishers and the advertising industry to migrate their services. The company had originally announced it would phase out third-party cookies by 2022 as part of its privacy sandbox initiative. Indian Telco, Geo and Google announced the Geophone Next, what they call an ultra affordable Android smartphone. It's aimed at getting 300 million users in India that still use 2G networks to upgrade, start using 4G. The phone will launch on September 10th, run a highly optimized version of Android and, of course, include an LTE modem. Although price and exact hardware specs were not announced, it's expected to come in well under $100 US. TCL showed off a wearable display called Next Wear G a few months ago at this year's CES and now plans to release it in July. Initially in Australia for $899 AUD, it's about 680 US and eventually coming to other markets as well. It's not an AR headset, it's not a VR headset, rather it includes two 1080p micro OLED panels to provide the effect of viewing a 140 inch screen. So just an R headset? Snap reached a deal with Universal Music Group which will let Snapchat users use Universal's tracks in messages and posts as well as share links to full songs from streaming services. Snap first launched this feature in October with Warner Music and previously had access to songwrites from Universal and Sony but not the music performed by Universal artists. Back in 2018, President Trump signed the FOSTA-SESTA Act which set financial penalties for hosting illegal sex work related content. It's an exemption to Section 230 which otherwise does not hold platforms liable for content posted by their users. The US Government Accountability Office issued a report on how often the law was invoked since its passage three years ago. It was invoked once on June 2020 in a criminal case that's still in court and once in a civil case that was dismissed with no damages awarded. It did have the effect for causing many commercial sex platforms to move overseas or shift to conventional social media making prosecution more difficult. Alright folks, let's talk about it. Microsoft introduced Windows 11 and they packed in some surprises even though we had a leak of it ahead of time. The Microsoft Store will accept pretty much any kind of app a developer makes. Good old fashioned Win32, universal Windows platform of course, or even a progressive web app. And any developer can bring its own commerce engine keeping 100% of its revenue. Microsoft won't make you use its payment platform.  Adobe Creative Cloud will show it off as an example. Also the Amazon App Store, yes you heard me right, the Amazon App Store will be available in the Microsoft Store meaning you'll be able to get Android apps and run them in Windows thanks to Intel Bridge, a runtime post compiler. This looks like it'll work like it does in Chrome OS. And Windows updates will be 40% smaller and can happen in the background so you don't have to reboot. On the interface side, the start menu moves to the center, loses live tiles, sorry folks, and has an integrated search bar. You can now snap two to six apps into something they're calling a snap layout that adapts to the screen size even when you unplug your laptop. So let's say you have five things tiled in various sizes, you unplug, you go from your big display to your laptop, it'll still be there, it'll just adjust all the sizes of the tiles. You can save these layouts and snap groups and pin them to the taskbar for quicker access so you can have multiple groups of different kinds of apps, kind of like virtual desktops, but different since Windows actually does have virtual desktops as a separate thing. If you detach your keyboard in a convertible, Windows 11's tablet mode is gone. It will not be changing the layout. It'll just note that the keyboard's gone and make touch targets like icons bigger. And if you turn it vertical, side by side apps will just switch to a vertical stack. The on-screen keyboard will still show up. It'll add swipe typing, emojis, and voice commands, and haptic feedback will be available for your stylus. A widgets screen will be able to slide in from the left. That'll include a personalized feed of things like news, weather, calendar, to-do list, recent photos, and even have a built-in ability to tip creators. I'm interested to hear more about that. Oh, and Teams is now integrated into Windows instead of Skype. A Teams icon will show up on the taskbar, pop-up chat list, all of that, so Skype, not going to do that anymore. Teams is the new future. The Xbox Games app supports Xbox's Auto HDR for automatically showing a game in HDR and the DirectStory JPI that can load a game faster by sending it straight from an NVMe drive to the GPU. And of course, Xbox Game Pass. You probably expected that. It's in this Xbox app and includes cloud gaming. Windows 11-ready PCs are available right now, so you don't have to wait. If you're buying a PC, you can get one that will work with Windows 11, but you can't get Windows 11 itself yet. A Windows 11 test build is going to roll out early next week. With any new OS, of course, there are new minimum requirements. To run Windows 11, your machine is going to need at least the following. 4GB of RAM, 64-bit processor with at least two cores running a gigahertz, 64GB of storage, a 720p display, a DirectX 12 compatible GPU, and a TPM 2.0 module. We didn't get a date for a consumer release, just a promise that it will arrive by the holiday season, so probably November it should be my guess. When it does arrive, Windows 11 will be free to existing Windows 10 users, arriving through Windows Update, just like any update to Windows 10 did. However, if you're going to do a fresh install of Windows 11 Home, you'll have to have an internet connection and a Microsoft account to set it up. Pro and Enterprise versions won't need that, but Microsoft Windows 11 Home will. So there you go folks, Windows 11? I haven't been using Windows 10 on any daily basis for some time. My single Windows 10 system can be upgraded to Windows 11, so I'll do that for fun. I gotta say, snap layouts, just because this particular laptop I'm talking about, I did used to use it with this monitor that I'm using with another machine now. And the layout was always an issue going from one to another, so little thing, but that's nice. The biggest thing that I'm intrigued by is the idea that Windows 11 is going all out with apps, especially in what I think kind of returning to an elemental DNA of what Windows is. This is not necessarily while it's going to look prettier, while it will indeed continue the design progression that I think has made the interface a lot more pleasing to the eye. I love the idea that it is a total free-for-all when it comes to apps.  It draws a stark line in the sand with the Mac ecosystem, and I think it's cool. I'm glad that it exists. Yeah, what's not traditionally Microsoft about this announcement is that instead of introducing 17 versions of Windows, they're simplifying things. They haven't simplified everything. There's still little Windows complexity under the hood. You can still find some of the old interface elements under there. We'll see how it works in practice. But instead of Windows 10x, they put Windows 10x into Windows 11, and now Windows 11 will be adaptable. And so you don't have to have the burden of which Windows do I need. Theoretically, it's just going to run on whatever you install it on. Now, I'm very curious how that's going to work on ARM and AMD, especially with running Android apps with an Intel technology. There's a lot of questions to be answered there. What is traditionally Microsoft about this is how Sachin Adela and Panos Panay really pushed personal agency.  We're not telling you what to do. We're making a beautiful, simple operating system, but we're not going to stop you from doing something. You want to put that start menu back on the left, go for it. Personal agency, they hammered over and over, and they talked a lot about being for the creator. So they were positioning themselves against Apple. It's the old-fashioned debate. I kind of love that. It's back, baby! We also must say goodbye to a few things. Windows 11 Cortana, no longer part of the boot experience. Skype, OneNote, Paint 3D, and 3D Viewer, no longer part of clean installs. You can still get them in the Microsoft Store, though. And the ribbon interface is going away from File Explorer. You're not getting tabs, but you're losing the ribbon interface in favor of a more touch-friendly control system built into the top section. Well, artist Mike Winkelman, you might know him better as Beeple, became one of the faces of the rise of NFTs selling his, every day, the first 5,000 days with an NFT that sold for a cool $69.3 million. Now, he's co-founding an NFT platform called Winoo, spelled like Renew, but with a W, designed to sell limited edition NFTs representing iconic moments in the careers of athletes and also artists. Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber serves as the editor-of-chief of Winoo to curate the moments sold on the platform and then build stories around them. The idea is that each NFT sale will be a series of items that tell a story, accompanied by feature-length stories, of why these events mattered. The first series of NFTs will commemorate Andy Murray's journey to winning Wimbledon back in 2013, ranging in price from $49 to $4,999 each. Some of the more expensive NFTs come with physical items. You see that sometimes these days, like signed posters, trophy replicas. The buyer of Murray's game winning points gets 30 minutes of tennis time with Murray himself, so that's a pretty cool IRL perk if you're a Murray fan. Wee news, first sale begins on July 2nd. I think this is smart. I have long said that NFTs are not quite the gold rush that people thought they were a few months ago, but rather just a proof of concept on whether or not people were ready to buy digital collectibles. This is taking that idea and stretching it out a little bit further by making it more exciting and informative for the consumer before they buy digital collectibles. I think the idea of partnering with the athletes themselves to make a big event out of this is a good idea, and now you're going to curate some long-form journalism along with it. But ultimately, I think this is what we've always understood NFTs to be a buying of a file, and that might be something that's foreign to some people, but to others, it's just another collectible that they can own. Yeah, it's way too early to say what NFTs will become if they become anything. But what I take out of this is that the direction they're going in now is an NFT alone, not enough, packaging it with a physical item. Interesting. Packaging it with an experience because we know that millennials particularly love buying experiences. Okay, now you're talking about something. You get 30 minutes to play tennis with Andy Murray, and you get to read this amazing story from the Shriver-led editorial team. I think that's interesting. I'm not saying it'll work, but I think it's an interesting approach to say let's bring people in with featured journalism. This could be a way to pay for journalism and then sell them memories. It'll be worth it because people buy experiences now for charity, right? The fact that it'll come with an NFT will be its own thing. If anything, that's like the least of their worries. You're always going to be able to have somebody spend a lot of money to play tennis with Andy Murray for 30 minutes. It's them moving the $49 stuff, and I think what they hope is that you do this great feature story and somebody gets the end of it and they're really excited, and then it's like, would you like an NFT for 50 bucks? Man, that moment in 2012 when he apologized for losing. I could own that. I could own that moment. That's what they're going to try to sell you. Alphabet's DeepMind announced a new partnership with the Geneva-based Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, and it uses AlphaFold AI to discover new treatments for chongus disease. Oh, geez. Leishmaniasis. Both deadly diseases that impact millions of people, AlphaFold was used on January 2020 to map out a number of the SARS-CoV-2 virus proteins that were later confirmed to be accurate, and in November 2020, it topped the protein predicting challenge called CASP, or Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction. So it is unprecedented at figuring out how proteins fold. For chongus disease, researchers already had identified a molecule that can bind to a protein on the parasite that causes chongus disease and kill it, but they used AlphaFold to generate a prediction of the protein structure, something that would have taken years otherwise. That prediction will hopefully let them design drugs that can bind to the protein in different ways, making sure they kill all of the parasites in a patient's bloodstream, which is required to cure the disease. A similar approach will be taken to other diseases in the coming years. AlphaFold hopes to expand structure prediction, making it faster and more accurate. If it proves to work, it can help doctors who lack resources to study infections work on new treatments, no matter where in the world they are. Although some researchers caution that algorithms are never perfect, and there will still be some instances where it doesn't work. Yeah, so accessibility is an interesting part of this.  So the accessibility, I think, is incredibly important here. Obviously, it's early days and it's important to caution like, hey, it may not work that often. We've only tried it a couple of times. So one or two hits doesn't mean that we'll keep getting more, but obviously worth pursuing. It's helped with COVID. It seems to have helped with chongus disease, and it'll be interesting to see what else it might be able to help with. Also, I mean, just taking into account that there is an initiative called drugs for neglected diseases. Meaning, okay, this is a disease that affects a lot of people, often is a fatal disease. It's extremely complex. There's folding of proteins that it's just a huge amount of resource and time suck, even for people who dedicate their careers to this. Anything that helps the process along is a great idea. It's a great use of AI. Yeah, that's a really good point because it's a neglected disease because we only have so much resource, right? And if you can make it less resource intensive to investigate, then you can devote more resources to it because you don't have to devote as many. And it also takes out a layer of specialization. I've said it here before that AI is a very, very, very good guessing machine. That's a better way to think of AI than to think of it as some kind of magical oracle or a way that technology can create reality, right? It is good at guessing, so it will never be perfect. But also when you think about it, so is research. The best researchers in the world are taking their best, most educated guesses and trying to prove whether or not it is real or not. It is all trial and error at the end of the day, and this can take a huge element of specialization and just give you some good guesses. And whether or not this is going to be better or worse, I think is the wrong way to think about it. The best way to think about it is it's a replacement on some level that you can just move forward in areas that probably wouldn't have the same kind of ability. And it replaces tedium. The guessing we're talking about is we think the protein folds like this. Let's see if we assume that it does, whether stuff we do works. That takes years to figure out, like, okay, we're pretty sure it folds like this. This takes the tedium out of that, where it's not like being smart in guessing.  And that's what machine learning can short circuit really well in this particular case. Hey, folks, if you're listening to this and you're like, gosh, I bet Jerry had the best face just now when he was reading that. Well, you could see that in our video podcast. If you want DTNS as a video podcast, get the video RSS feed at dailytechnewshow.com slash subscribe. Often we talk about accessibility. And a lot of times we discuss the way applications work for people who are maybe vision impaired, deaf, limited dexterity. But what about the tools that create those applications like programming languages? Andreas Stefik has developed Quorum, a programming language that takes blind users into account. At least it started that way. He's a PhD and associate professor of computer science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Andreas, thanks for joining us. Thank you, Tom. Well, thanks for having me. How did Quorum get its start? So Quorum started out when I was in graduate school. I was scouring for a PhD project and I was reading a number of mailing lists of problems people had. And I came across these mailing lists of blind computer programmers. And the problems that they were discussing were really fascinating. So as you can imagine, like how do you get access to someone tactically through Braille? Or how do you listen to something through audio to try to represent? And the interesting, the thing I found really compelling about it was is that if you have a disability and you want to invent some kind of technology to make your life better. Well, how to use the programming environments is exactly what you would need to use. So if those aren't accessible, it's like a chicken and egg problem. So we started by looking at that and then we got some support from the National Science Foundation to start working with schools for the blind and visually impaired. And we just sat around basically talking to children and watching them and seeing what problems they had and trying to get a better sense of the situation. That's where it sort of started, I guess you would say. What did you reevaluate in developing a programming language for vision impaired programmers? Yeah, that's a good question. So there's a couple of things that we noticed sort of pretty quickly. One of them is when we had children use them. You see all sorts of neat things because kids, unlike professional programmers where they've been using technology for a long time, they're used to it. You might even say they're biased toward whatever they're used to. They're a little set in their ways, sure. Yeah, there's actually some strong evidence of this. You can actually calculate, there's an equation. I swear this is true. There's an equation to calculate how much bias someone has gotten toward their programming environments. Anyway, it's not important, but for blind children, we basically sat and we'd watch them and we'd let them use their screen reading, their sort of talking devices as they programmed. And we basically like, hey, how hard was that? Or did you understand what that meant? And when we did that, we observed that a lot of the things that we take for granted in programming were actually really hard for kids. So for example, if you want to tell the computer to do something over and over again, that's traditionally a loop. And in computer programming, you would often use a phrase visually and it would say something. It would look like for left, right, and into I equals zero, semi-colon, I less than 10, semi-colon, I plus plus right, right, left, right. Which is not easy to understand in audio. If you're talking, if you're making a tool for people that are blind, you want the most important content first, and that must be short. Right? So like, if you have an error, it might say name missing as the very first thing. And then it will give you some other information on top of that, that sort of idea. So when you say it's evidence-based, I think we kind of get a sense of what that means. But explain that a little more. What do you look for? How do you change a programming language based on evidence? Oh, that's a really good question. So other communities outside of computer science have really strict standards about what they mean for evidence. So the one that I'm probably the most familiar with is the medical community. So here's an example. If you want to sell a drug, you have to go through a series of phases of evidence-gathering. And those are imperfect. They're flawed. They have their issues and stuff like that. But the idea is you first test with animals. It doesn't apply directly to programming, but you'll get the idea. And then you sort of scale those up, testing certain other things along the way. And we do the same thing with programming languages. For example, in quorum, if you have a loop, this is one of the simplest things we've gathered evidence on years ago. Instead of saying for left, for and blah, blah, blah, we say repeat 10 times. And why is that? Because we've done surveys on the word choices. We've done formal randomized controlled trials on comparing them each together. You know, like one group gets this, the other group gets that, and we see who wins. And we do that across hundreds and hundreds of studies and other academics do it too. And we see if we get the same answer. I feel like even if someone's very excited about this, even if they understand the ability to make it more accessible, makes it more widely applicable, there's probably people wondering like, yeah, but I can't get a job programming in quorum. Can I? How does quorum fit into the practical level of like, I need to get out there and do some work? Yeah, that's true. I think that like today, one of the downsides of focusing on the evidence base and the K through 12 space first is that you aren't going to be able to get jobs in quorum right now because we haven't even tried to like push it up to professional practice. But there's two questions that I think are interesting. One is, which language do you use when you want to get to professional practice? It turns out universities don't really have standards, right? And we also know that these languages change. Like 20 years ago, people weren't programming in Python. And that's the truth. But today that's very common. So we actually just got funded by the National Science Foundation like a month or so ago, our first attempt to try to push up to communities. So we started gathering evidence across different professional groups. We found one that was the most amenable to change was actually data scientists. And it makes sense, right? Because they have to learn not only is it for a left brand type junk, but they name everything after the mathematician's name or by single letter names. And they don't like that, right? Like t-test, f-test, pairwise t-test with a Bonferroni correction. Those words won't even mean anything to people unless they're already deeply embedded in the community. So what we thought to do was to run a lot of the same types of studies to make data science easier. And that is for professional practice as our first attempt. We have about four years to solve that problem. So we'll see if we start to make inroads on the professional practice over the next couple of years. If people want to learn more about quorum, get involved, where should they go? We have a website, quorumlanguage.com. And you're welcome to tweet at me at Andres, if that's your wish. Andres, thank you so much for chatting with us. This was fascinating. No problem, Tom. Thank you very much. I really appreciate the invitation. We also want to give special thanks to listener Daniel Hurtwig for putting us in touch with Andres. And if you want to catch the full 18-minute interview, and I think you probably do, we'll be posting it up this weekend for our patrons. All right. So Rembrandt von Rhein, a pretty famous artist, may have heard of Rembrandt, also has a very famous painting called The Night Watch. It was originally completed in 1642. And then it was trimmed down in the early 1700s. Yeah, the sides were just trimmed off because it was supposed to fit on a new wall where it was being hung and the wall couldn't fit the original painting. Now, although the trimmed portion hasn't ever been found, the Associated Press reports that researchers have been able to reconstruct the missing pieces. It's very interesting how they did it. Using a smaller copy of their original that was painted at the time by Garrett Lundens, then they created scans. They used scans, X-rays, and 528 digital exposures taken of Rembrandt's original painting to train an AI model to imitate Rembrandt's style and fill in the blanks based on Lundens' copies. So, yeah, you want how the original artist would have painted the missing pieces, but we kind of know what the missing pieces look like because we already had a copy. The work was conducted as part of the Operation Night Watch project. It is being exhibited at the Honor Gallery in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. There are two new faces that you can now see present on the left side.  The whole human is. So, if you're a fan of this kind of artwork, it is a pretty cool project.  That's crazy. I mean, it's a look. You got to fit it on the wall, man. It brings the whole right. That's incredible. It's good stuff. Yeah, check it out, folks. And the Verge has a link to the version that exists where you can like zoom in and see that the kid who looks like they're running out of frame. And then you can compare it to a smaller version of the restored version where you see like, oh, right, they weren't running at all. It's pretty good. Let's check out the mailbag. So we had a conversation yesterday with our guests about how we all back up our photos. You know, Google Photos is not going to let you do unlimited anymore. So we just sort of went around the horn and talked about how we all do it. Chris says he uses Google Drive to store photos. After the photos are uploaded to Google Drive, Chris says he can organize them into folders, rename them, have folders within folders, download those folders to his MacBook and copy them to USB for off-site storage. Or Chris says give to my daughter or another relative. Also, once the folder is established on Google Drive, you can directly upload new pictures of the same ilk to that folder. The upload process can be both push and pull. Chris says in many cases I've shared folders on Google Drive with family and friends so they can see our events, Easter, Christmas, et cetera. And in some cases, share technical pieces with other folks who share the same interest. Oh, that's so cool. I like that we're getting these. Daniel also sent us what Daniel does for organizing photos. I love getting these different perspectives on this. Chris's is kind of like half DIY, but also taking advantage of cloud. It's really cool. Totally. I also realize how many photos I clearly do not share with family and friends. These are all really good solutions that everybody on the show except me yesterday was like, yeah, you know, albums to share with family and friends. So yeah, this is a great one. A lot of people use Google Drive. Maybe you could use it for photos if you're not already doing so. If you have some photo tips, life hacks, tricks, all the things, send those to feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. 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Thank you to all the DTNS listeners that downloaded it last week when it first debuted. We became the number three podcast in all of the history category of Apple podcasts that is gigantic and huge. You guys are amazing. And now episode three is out and live. If you've ever wanted to know how you get a corpse from London to the shores of Spain, while making it seem like a fallen war hero, every grimy, dirty detail is explained in this episode called In the Flash of World's Greatest Con. That is quite a teaser. We're live Monday through Friday on this show. Here's your teaser for 30 p.m. Eastern 2030 UTC. Be there. Be square. Find out more at dailytechnyshow.com. We'll be back tomorrow with Kristoff, Zajik, Denik and his personal experience with accessibility. Also, you'll be able to find some stuff. Talk to you then.


I didn't feel like starting this video, and I actually don't feel like recording most of my videos. The only time I feel like it is when I'm actually meeting with another person or a group of people, then that interaction is natural. But looking into the camera lens, that's not natural. Most of us didn't grow up with the camera in our face and practicing recording and speaking to the camera. So, but I know I do this because I have heard from some of you that it has been helpful. And so I keep showing up. And that's what I want to encourage you to do as well. To be strict about showing up and yet be lenient about the results. So let me explain. And this is the opposite of, well, most of us did not grow up with the training that we can be lenient about the results. We said we got to be strict about showing up and then strict about the results. But what if we are strict about showing up knowing that as long as we show up and exercise every act in my business, every act of creativity is a practice. It's like exercise. You show up, you build the muscles by doing whatever task or whatever creative thing or whatever administrative thing. You're building the muscles.  And if you do that, then naturally over time your results will also improve. It might be imperceptible, but it will certainly improve over time and be quite dramatic when you look back at a longer time frame. So that is really how I have been operating in my business for years. And it's made a profound change in my life and in my work to be strict about showing up, especially when I don't feel like it because I never feel like making these videos or I never feel like writing. Some of you actually enjoy writing and you are very blessed and lucky, but I don't enjoy writing. I still don't. But I know that it can help people. So I show up and write anyway. I show up and wrestle with the words. And whenever I feel self-doubt, whenever I catch myself feeling self-doubt and wanting to stop, I do my energy reboot practice. If you don't know what my energy reboot is, I have a video and article about it. You can just Google energy reboot practice and you'll find my article and video about it. So you can watch that and find out how I do it. It's only 20 to 30 seconds. I do it many times a day. In any given hour, I do it at least three times. Sometimes I have to do it every five to 10 minutes because I catch myself doubt yet again. And then I do my energy reboot practice, which allows me to relax a bit and continue to play. I said wrestle before. I wrestle with the words. I continue to wrestle, yes, but also play and just to express knowing that it's all going to be okay. And I'm doing this as an exercise knowing that I'm building my skills and over time the results will get better. So I am strict about showing up. I am lenient about the results of this hour knowing that over time the results naturally get better. But I'm lenient about the results right now. And then there's a third part of the formula, which is to gently refocus again and again. So let me say that again. I am strict about showing up. I am lenient about the results in any given hour. And I gently refocus again and again and again. And by refocusing what I mean is why do I get distracted? I get distracted because there's some resistance. There's some internal resistance or self-doubt about whatever work I'm doing so that naturally I feel resistant. And because of any creative endeavor means that we're doing something we haven't done before exactly in that way. So that's why there's resistance and self-doubt. And the self-doubt and resistance makes us want to distract ourselves and do something else. And that's where the gentle refocusing comes in. I notice, oh, I want to do something else. That means I need to do my energy reboot again 20 seconds and then come back and just continue to wrestle and ideally play with whatever it is I'm doing. Knowing I'm building my skills and muscles. So sadly many people don't do this and so they allow themselves to be distracted whenever they have some resistance. And so they just aren't able to continue making progress on their life's work. But if you practice this formula strict about showing up, lenient about the results and gently refocusing again and again and again. You will find that you can accomplish anything in life. It's really amazing. It's so empowering.  You realize, wow, I can accomplish anything and I can accomplish it in the timeline that is much shorter than if I keep resisting and putting things off strict about showing up lenient about the results gently refocusing again and again and again. Now, how do you get strict about showing up? Well, one tool that I use multiple times a day is FocusMate. F-O-C-U-S-M-A-T-E dot com. FocusMate dot com. I use this multiple today is a Friday. I'm recording this and it's one of my shorter day workdays. And still today I am doing four hours of FocusMate on a shorter workday. On my longer workdays I do six hours of FocusMate, sometimes seven hours. It is so essential for me to help me show up on time. So I hope you'll give FocusMate at least three tries. I ask you try it three times. The first time sometimes doesn't work out. Some second time might not work out, but try it three times. And the third time it really doesn't work out and that's okay. It wasn't meant for you, but try it three times. And people who have often tell me it's been life changing. So anyway, I hope this has been helpful. My name is George Cao, authentic business coach. I love to talk about joyful productivity, authentic marketing, these kinds of things. So if this is helpful, let me know any questions or comments and I will look forward to seeing you in the next video.


Hey what's up everyone welcome to another video my name is Dylan and I'm a cycling coach at CTS and today's video is going to be a little bit different. This channel just crossed 10,000 subscribers and as a thank you to you the viewer I'm going to answer some of the questions that you've left me in the comments section over the past couple of months. We're going to be covering topics like block periodization, what cycling workouts are best for weight loss, whether or not you should be lifting on your rest days and more so be sure to stay tuned. If you're new to this channel I make weekly training, racing and gear related videos going over tips and tricks that I've learned in my 12 years of racing experience that have gotten me to the top of the ultra endurance mountain bike game in the US and as a cycling coach at CTS. If you want to learn how to get faster or just more about the science of training in general be sure to subscribe and if you have a training question or a topic you'd like to see me cover in a future video be sure to leave it in the comments section down below. I do my best to get to all the questions in the comments and if I do another Q&A video like this one your question could be in my video. Alright let's get into the questions. Our first question comes to us from Tom Koonsman and he asks what is your opinion on block periodization? For those of you who are unfamiliar with block periodization here's a quick overview. With linear periodization you steadily progress your training so that your training load is increasing each week but with block periodization you preload the block so that your training load is much higher in the first week of the block. For example if you're focusing on your power at VO2 max then with linear periodization you might do two VO2 max interval sessions per week for four weeks. However with block periodization you would preload this and you might do as many as five of these interval sessions in the first week and then with the remaining three weeks you would just do one of these sessions. Wait five interval sessions in a week? Now for those of you who do your high-intensity interval sessions properly this may sound absolutely insane. Surely you're going to be overtrained and not be able to hit your numbers in a week like this? Well there's actually a lot of science to show that this kind of training may be superior to linear periodization. A study on block periodization of high-intensity intervals took 21 trained cyclists. These subjects were split into two groups. One did block periodization and had five high-intensity sessions in one week followed by three weeks of only one high-intensity session per week. The other group did two high intensity sessions per week during each of the four weeks. The study used a three-zone model and if we look at the time in zones we can see that during the first week the block periodization group spent almost half their time in zone three. This would be efforts above FTP so this is a really hard week. What were the results? The block periodization group saw their power increase during each successive high-intensity session while the other group did not. Block periodization also produced a bigger increase in power at two millimolar lactate peak power and maximal oxygen consumption. The study concluded that block periodization provides superior effects on endurance performance and this is just one of many studies supporting block periodization. Overall the evidence for block periodization looks pretty good and I do recommend block periodization but only for advanced level athletes. Wait so you're saying that if I just started riding six months ago that I shouldn't try to do five VO2 max workouts in one week? No definitely not. This is an advanced level training technique and doing it wrong or when you aren't prepared could leave you in a whole of fatigue that's hard to get out of. I'll be making a video in the near future going over all the science on block periodization and the experimentation I've done with myself with block periodization so just think of this as the preview. Alright our next question comes to us from M. Hagan and he asks how important do you think a power meter is for mountain biking? I'll start off by saying that if you can only afford one power meter you should probably have it on your road bike because you really want power when you're doing intervals and the best place to do intervals is on the road because you can keep the most consistent power. That being said you could just ride your mountain bike on the road when you're doing intervals. However if you're a mountain bike racer and you can afford it I highly recommend having a power meter on your mountain bike as well. As you get closer to race season you're going to want to do some of your intervals on your mountain bike either on the trail or on the road and having a power meter is critical for letting you know whether or not you're improving and for pacing. A power meter on your mountain bike is also a valuable tool for racing because you can analyze the data afterwards and I actually use the power meter for pacing during the race especially for marathon or ultra endurance events. I often tell my ultra endurance athletes to try to hold zone two power on the flats and zone three power on the climbs during a long race and doing this based off of heart rate can be problematic because your heart rate is going to be elevated on race day. Next we have a question from Bill Coffey and he asks is it permissible to do strength training on rest days or should strength training be on the same days as ride days? This is a great question and one I get a lot. A lot of riders and active people in general have a hard time taking a day off. They see that open day and have to fill it up with something. People often see working out every day as a sign of dedication.  He runs 10 miles every single day. Never takes a day off. This is not good. Even most people who do recovery rides are doing them too hard. Man I'm really trying to get to 500 TSS a week but it's just hard for me to find that kind of time in my schedule. I have found though that if I go a little bit harder and a little bit longer on my recovery days that I can usually hit it. Rest days are unbelievably important because it's during rest that we rebuild and get stronger from the work that we've done and not taking them seriously can lead to overtraining. Rest days include a rest from the gym especially when we're talking about lower body work. There is an argument to be made that you can do upper body work on your rest day and I can certainly see the reasoning here. However exercise stresses your nervous system not just your muscles so I would suggest that you have at least one day a week where you don't do any activity. And when it comes to lower body work the absolute worst time to do this is during a rest day. Lower body weight lifting is extremely stressful on your body and in particular your legs obviously and is about the furthest thing from recovery that I could think of. Remember that you can do a recovery ride that's at a low enough intensity that you're not acquiring any significant amount of training stress but you can't do a recovery gym session. If you're going to the gym then you're adding to your training stress. I've got a whole video about recovery days and how to properly do a recovery ride and I'll link that in the description below. Our next question was asked on my weight loss video and says so okay for the food part of the weight loss journey but what about cycling? Is it more efficient to do long rides at low power or do quick rides with power intervals? This is an excellent question and the answer is both. Longer lower intensity rides will burn more calories simply because you're exercising for a longer period of time so these are great to include in your training plan but shorter more high intensity rides will have a higher excess post exercise oxygen consumption or epoch. One review on exercise intensity and duration on epoch stated that evidence has accumulated to suggest an exponential relationship between exercise intensity and the magnitude of the epoch for specific exercise durations. So who cares right? Well along with epoch comes a higher energy expenditure so basically once you're finished exercising you're still burning more calories than if you hadn't exercised at all. Beyond weight loss you want to do rides on both ends of the intensity spectrum anyways to improve your overall performance. A review on high intensity versus high volume training stated that both high intensity and low intensity training are important components of the training program. They went on to say that short term periods of high intensity interval training can elicit improvements but also that important adaptations appear to occur with low intensity continuous training that are not observed with mixed or high intensity training. So for both weight loss and performance it's a good idea to vary the intensity of your rides. For our last question Blazdrager asks has there been any research made about whether or not eating healthier or as unprocessed food as possible improves regeneration or performance? The answer to this is yes and I have two videos related to this topic one about weight loss and one about antioxidants and I'll link both of those in the description below if you're interested. Basically unprocessed foods that haven't been stripped of their nutritional value like whole fruits and vegetables improve your recovery without undermining adaptation to exercise. Let's get into some quick examples in the scientific literature. A study looking at the effect of tomato juice on oxidative stress took 50 male track athletes and divided them into two groups a control group and an experimental group that drank tomato juice after their workouts. They tested both groups in a 12-minute time trial before and after and found that those drinking tomato juice ran significantly farther than they previously had while the control group saw no improvement. The tomato juice drinkers also showed a reduction in markers of oxidative stress leading to the conclusion that the antioxidant lycopene in the tomato reduced oxidative stress and improved performance and it's not just tomatoes many studies have shown this for various whole foods cherry juice has been shown to increase antioxidant capacity after a marathon leading to aided recovery and in another study reduced symptoms of exercise-induced muscle damage that study showed that strength loss after eccentric exercise was 22% with a placebo but only 4% when subjects consume cherry juice blueberries are another rich source of antioxidants and have been shown to reduce inflammation after two and a half hours of running and the same has been found with lemon juice. Okay so if the nutrients and fruits and vegetables have been shown to improve your recovery then obviously all I got to do is take a vitamin pill and I'm good to go right?  No. Certain vitamin supplements are not only not effective for improving your recovery but may actually undermine your performance by reducing the adaptation to exercise. In a review on vitamin C supplements effects on performance the authors found that vitamin C supplements actually impaired performance in three human studies. The authors went on to say that large doses of vitamin C appear to reduce training-induced adaptations. They also stated that vitamin C from five servings daily of fruit and vegetables would be sufficient to supply vitamin C needs without undermining training adaptations. And another review on vitamin supplementation and athletic performance stated that deficiency will impair performance and correcting the deficiency will show benefits but in athletes that are already meeting their antioxidant needs there doesn't seem to be any improvements with supplementation. On top of improved recovery eating healthier or unprocessed foods will help you lose weight because these foods have a much lower caloric density. That's it for today's video and lastly I just want to say thank you to everybody who's been watching, liking, commenting, and subscribe to this channel. As I said at the beginning of the video I just passed 10,000 subscribers this week and I'm honestly blown away by the response. I've only been making videos for a little over four months now and I definitely didn't expect it to grow this fast. Also I've just started a new partnership with hand-up gloves. 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