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Mario Livio- Why? What Makes Us Curious Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series The ability to ask "why?" makes us uniquely human. Curiosity drives basic scientific research, is the engine behind creativity in all disciplines from the arts to technology, and a necessary ingredient in every form of storytelling (literature, film, TV, or even a simple conversation) that delights rather than bores. In a fascinating and entertaining evening, renowned astrophysicist and author Mario Livio surveys and interprets cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience that aims at exploring and understanding the origin and mechanisms of human curiosity. Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. As part of our Smithsonian Associates, Art Of Living series, my guest today, Dr Mario Livio. Dr. Mario Livio is an internationally known astrophysicist, a best-selling author, and a popular speaker. Dr Livio will be presenting at Smithsonian Associates, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at the Ripley Center, in Washington, DC. Enjoy! Click HERE (https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/Tickets/Reserve.aspx?id=239206&utm_source=RAad&utm_content=FEauto&utm_campaign=featevent) for tickets. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Dance, Comics, Film & Social Justice How To Start and Succeed With This Conversation The 120 Project – a social justice arts activism platform, which we would like to share with your community. Using dance, comics, and facilitated dialogue, we can offer creative and robust conversation and art-making sessions around issues important to you and your community. It is a proven fact that dialog binds us together. This show teaches us how, and why, but with a novel approach, using research to add corroboration and value. For my audience of 55+ age community, this is a must listen program. And, please consider contributing to the Kickstarter campaign: HERE https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/819405516/120-project/ Enjoy! Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Adding Acoustic Ceiling Tiles to my Home Video Production... So important, and So Easy...1, 2, 3, DONE One of the biggest issues when recording audio at a home studio is extraneous noise, and when we begin our recording careers, we often grossly underestimate the importance of room acoustics… And we assume, at least I did, that just because we have a nice condenser mic and expensive studio monitors, great sound comes automatically. But the truth is…the acoustics of your room have more-to-do with sound quality… Than perhaps anything else your studio….anything. So rather than face months of frustration trying to figure out what you're doing wrong…you might as well get this stuff handled right now. Which is why in this post, I will walk you step by step through the entire process of designing an effective acoustic tile design, drop creation, and sound dampening, in my DIY "sound and noise destroys!" Enjoy! Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Here's How To Get Your Smithsonian Discount! $20 Off Ticket Price, Through 8/31/17 The entire discount is passed along to you by generosity of Smithsonian Associates. Smithsonian Associates is offering a special discount to Not Old Better listeners. To save $20 on a ticket, call 202-633-3030 and use promo code 232100. The offer is valid on ticket orders (including Smithsonian Sleepovers!) through August 31. Talk About Better® The Not Old Better Show. Thanks to all. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Spend a night at the National Museum of American History, Air & Space, and Natural History Here's How, and Why... Watch and enjoy...ALSO...news flash! Smithsonian Associates is offering a special discount to Not Old Better listeners. To save $20 on a ticket, call 202-633-3030 and use promo code 232100. The offer is valid on ticket orders (including Smithsonian Sleepovers!) through August 31. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Taylor Vogelzang Piano Recital GWDC 2017 Recital Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Smithsonian Sleepovers, Since 2008, Night At The Museum FLASH NEWS: I've received so many emails from you all about the Smithsonian content and how much you enjoy it. Smithsonian is thrilled, too, and is giving you an exclusive offer. "Please know that I'm not doing this for payment. The entire discount is passed along to you by generosity of Smithsonian Associates. Smithsonian Associates is offering a special discount to Not Old Better listeners. To save $20 on a ticket, call 202-633-3030 and use promo code 232100. The offer is valid on ticket orders (including Smithsonian Sleepovers!) through August 31." Smithsonian Sleepovers, yes, that's right! Sleepovers at the Smithsonian Museums. Kids and their grown-up companions can attend a Smithsonian Sleepover. The American History Museum, Natural History Museum, or the Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center. Smithsonian Associates presents customized nighttime experiences for groups and families with children ages 8–14 in sleepover events at the National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of American History and the National Portrait Gallery. Kids and their chaperones can choose their adventure, whether it is sleeping beneath a 50-foot whale, spending the night at the home of the Star-Spangled Banner or among portraits of people who have shaped the nation. They will experience the museums in a whole new way during a night of fun that features tours, games, crafts and more. Enjoy! Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Marshall Tucker Band Interview, Doug Gray, Lead Singer The Not Old Better Show, Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. My guest today, Doug Gray, frontman, lead singer for the Marshall Tucker Band, is part of Rock & Roll legend, aristocracy, and good man, US Army vet all rolled into one. Now, at age 68, nearly 45 years since first taking the highway, Doug Gray is loving life, the music, and the fans, as the guiding force, leader, mastermind, master-of ceremonies and lead-singer for the Marshall Tucker Band. The Marshall Tucker Band, formed in the early 1970s and, in the early-to-mid-1970s, they played a string of show as opening act for The Allman Brothers Band, another rock and roll legend. Both groups, incidentally, became famous for their jazzy solos, blues-rock and extended jams. "Heard It In a Love Song," which, of course, you're listening to now, is one of the Marshall Tucker Band's most recognizable hits, and a song that took Gray, as lead singer, is a Southern Rock classic, and reached #14 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart." Doug Gray, a U.S. Army, loves the settings of small intimate theaters, like Tally Ho, where the Marshall Tucker Band will be performing Thursday, June 15, 2017. In recent years, the Marshall Tucker Band has been paid "a whole lot of respect" by younger generations of musicians, despite not having had a hit in years. Many country bands have begun to cover the band's tunes. And that has put this band back in demand, even as Gray now stands as the only original member remaining with the group. The Marshall Tucker Band will be performing live at the Tally Ho Theater, June 15, 2017, but we've got Doug Gray today on The Not Old Better Show. Click HERE for tickets and more information: TallyHo Theater. Enjoy. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Women In Science, 250 Years, Interview with Grace Costantino Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series Grace Costantino began her career at the Smithsonian Libraries in 2008 as a Digital Services Intern, working to help develop the Smithsonian Research Online Repository. From August 2008-January 2012, she served as a BHL Librarian at the Smithsonian Library. As part of our Smithsonian Associates partnership program, our guest today, Grace Costantino is one of the new breed of federal government employee: young, digitally savvy, and excited about her work. Grace Costantino is also an award winning leader among her peers, teaching, tutoring, and communicating in support of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Grace Costantino is truly talented, and it's a pleasure to hear from her. Ms Costantino will be speaking at the Smithsonian Associates program, titled The Rise of Women In Science: 250 Years of Trailblazers, along with Wayne State University science historian, Marsha Richmond, July 10, at the Ripley Center, Washington DC, and we'll have links up to Grace Costantino's impressive bio, her web sites, her books and articles, etc., but she's here with us today. As all Not Old Better audience are trailblazers, on our path's to reinvention, we're interested in and committed to learning and other's who have blazed trails. Certainly, Grace Costantino is a trailblazer, and you'll love this interview. Join me in welcoming today via SKYPE to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Art Of Living series, Grace Costantino. For more information, tickets and other details, please click HERE: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/Tickets/Reserve.aspx?id=239202 Enjoy! Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Mike German, FBI Undercover, Thinking Like a Terrorist Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series Mike German served sixteen years as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he specialized in domestic terrorism and covert operations. His undercover work against white supremacist skinhead groups, and right-wing militias, disrupted planned acts of terrorism and led to multiple criminal convictions. He served as a counterterrorism instructor at the FBI National Academy before leaving the FBI in June of 2004. German lectures frequently on counterterrorism and intelligence matters, and his commentary has appeared in the National Law Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Miami Herald. German is a contributor to the conference report "Law vs. War: Competing Approaches to Fighting Terrorism," published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. Now living in the Mid-Atlantic region, he is a private consultant, an adjunct professor at the National Defense University, and a Senior Fellow with Globalsecurity.org. To survive undercover as an FBI agent, it is not enough to simply dress like a terrorist or act like a white supremacist, you have to think like them. Mike German, a former FBI agent, did just that by figuring out what makes terrorists tick, infiltrating their ranks, learning what they want and how they plan to achieve it, and winning their trust. It was a harrowing ride, but in the end he exposed their criminal activity without losing his life. In fact, he was able to write a book about his experience, Thinking Like a Terrorist, and his story inspired the recent movie, Imperium. Mike German is our guest today on The Not Old Better Show, and German shares the hard lessons he learned as an undercover agent with a clear-eyed assessment of the threats we may or may not face, how to fight them, and how to preserve our core values in the process. German is a fellow with the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School. My thanks to the ADL and their excellent report on "Music and the Sounds of Hate," including the song, "Rock Against Communism." Tickets and more information, are available HERE: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/Tickets/Reserve.aspx?id=238969 Enjoy. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.