Patrick Miner's Web

Patrick Miner's Web

Topic concentration includes: 1. Natural Science 2. Health and Wellness 3. Community Service 4. Art and Litery 5. Religion

Episodes

February 6, 2025 48 mins

Donald Starzinski, MD, discusses the endless continuum of a life. At both ends of "life" hangs two intimate concepts. Life is but  part of the relationship of birth and death.

Is it necessary, or even possible, to look at  clock and announce the time of birth, time of death? 

Our lives are, they simply are. Is the same with time? Or, is "time" an unreliable concept, a concept which isn't worthy of marking the...

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Current Work

· President, ReasonIO – public speaking, philosophical counseling, tutorials, online classes, consulting

· Editor, Stoicism Today 2016-2022, and team member of the Modern Stoicism organization

· Adjunct Professor in Philosophy and Humanities, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design

· Content producer in my main YouTube channel – 3,000+ videos on thinkers, texts, and topics in philosophy – supported by crowdfunding through Pa...

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April 29, 2024 16 mins


Jim Johnson is a 28 year veteran in the live event and facility management field having run theatres, convention centers, arenas, and stadiums across the United States.  He is currently the Assistant General Manager at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center complex in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

 



www.dennysanfordpremiercenter.com
www.asmglobal.com
http://enue.technology.com/

Email: save.these.stories@gmail...

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Tierra Curry is a scientist who has worked for each of us in the past 20 years. She is working in the field, and at a desk in an effort to protect animals from extinction. Yes, from extinction! Her important work ultimately protects our own place on the planet.

In this episode the Monarch Butterfly serves as the gateway to the mix of threats facing thousands of animals. Tierra carefully shares the story of an insect which ...

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February 16, 2024 43 mins

Dr. Gene Kritsky is much more than a most qualified entomologist! In this episode he will take us for a walk in a city park and carefully introduce the three cicada species that comprise the two broods due to emerge from the soil this May and June. The periodical cicada is not to be confused the the annual cicada which emerges in late summer.

It is possible, it is easy and it is recommended that you download the App SICADA...

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There is a definite thread connecting the 44 episodes on he podcast. That thread is sometimes described as competence, or it has  been properly described as a Lifetime of Adventure.

Thi...

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About Neil

https://neildahlstrom.com/

Neil Dahlstrom is an archivist, writer, and speaker. He grew up and lives in the Quad Cities, once known as the farm implement capital of the world. Today the Quad Cities is a vibrant community of cities on the Illinois and Iowa sides of the Mississippi River with an exciting history of innovation in the farm equipment and automobile industries.

Neil works at Fortune 100 compan...

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https://www.livinglandsandwaters.org/

Our Mission

To aid in the protection, preservation and restoration of the natural environment of the nations’ major rivers and their watersheds


ABOUT US:

Headquartered in East Moline, Illinois, Living Lands & Waters is a 501 (c)(3) environmental organization that was established by Chad Pregracke in 1998. Since the organization was founded, Living Lan...

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In three successive years this small town produced more than a billion buttons annually.

This episode is a remarkable story told by an equally remarkable Guest.  Dustin Joy has the  great responsibility to reveal the circumstances along the Mississippi River which was the  Gold Rush of the Midwest!

Muscatine Iowa was the PEARL BUTTON CAPITAL OF THE WOLD.

https://muscatinehistory.org/about/

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May 27, 2022 22 mins

M. Brunsdale, Special Collections Librarian at Illinois State University in Normal Illinoishares a story which describes a thrilling feature of life under the circus tent.  She  co-authored a book with Mark Schmitt, The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy, the Golden Age of Aerialists (History Press, 2013)      mbrunsdale@ilstu.edu

She co-authored  a book with Mark Schmitt, The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy, the Golden Ag...

April 28, 2022 30 mins

Donald Starzinski,  M.D., Ph.D. has had the privilege of  education in both  Western and Eastern Medicine. Initial undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota  was in Engineering and Social Sciences.  
 Doctoral Studies resulted in a Ph.D. in Psychopharmacology with his thesis involving and aggression.
 Subsequent medical (M.D.) training led to a Neurology Residency and related Board Certification. 
 Eastern Medic...

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KATHY MAHER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE BARNUM MUSEUM. 

The Barnum Museum in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut is the last surviving building attributed to the American visionary entrepreneur and entertainer Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891).

With more than 30 years in the museum world, Kathleen Maher is a gifted speaker and noted authority on all things related to Phineas Taylor Barnum. Kathy joined the Barnum Museum...

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ERIE CANAL MUSEUM
318 Erie Boulevard East
Syracuse, New York 3202
315-471-0593
Guest:    ERIC PRATT      Museum Educator
There's no Place Like Home:  Syracuse's Weighlock Building



Built between 1817 and 1825, the original Erie Canal traversed 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo. It was the longest artificial waterway and the greatest public works project in North America. The canal put...

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December 16, 2021 28 mins

The Great Lakes hold over 80 percent of the United States’ freshwater.

The Guest is qualified in every way to discuss Lake Michigan ship wrecks.
Her enthusiasm makes Cathy Green a dedicated steward of maritime history. A nautical archeologist she is, but in this episode you will meet a professional diver and executive the Maritime Museum, Manitowoc,  Wisconsin.

Now, 962 square miles of Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan have bec...

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November 19, 2021 21 mins

https:/https://youtu.be/CJHgPlRKW-

Home to the World’s Largest Collection
of Mustards and Mustard Memorabilia


A mustard museum? ABSOLUTELY! According to Barry Levenson, founder & curator of the National Mustard Museum, you can blame it all on the Boston Red Sox. In the wee hours of October 28, 1986, after his favorite baseball team had just lost the World Series, Barry was wandering an all-night supermarke...

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Kristy Erickson is Deputy Executive Director at The History Museum. In addition to her responsibilities as Executive Director, Kristie oversees the Curatorial, Exhibits, and education departments, which includes exhibit design and construction at The History Museum. She has been with the museum since 2008.

The History Museum in South Bend, Indiana is the second largest and second oldest historical society in the state.  Si...

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October 27, 2021 36 mins

Neil Dahlstrom is the corporate archivist at John Deere, and the author of three books, including The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere, and the upcoming Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture (available January 2022). He is a Quad Cities native, studied history and classics at Monmouth College, and received his masters in Historical Admini...

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October 12, 2021 27 mins

Donald Starzinski,  M.D., Ph.D. has had the privilege of  education in both  Western and Eastern Medicine. Initial undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota  was in Engineering and Social Sciences.  
Doctoral Studies resulted in a Ph.D. in Psychopharmacology with his thesis involving and aggression.
Subsequent medical (M.D.) training led to a Neurology Residency and related Board Certification. 
Eastern Medical ...

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P R U D E N C E    C R A N D A L L

Prudence did not fear condemnation of neighbors, prison, or threats of bodily harm. Her school was eventually open for African American women only.  Only for that reason was her school vandalized, and burned did she, for the sake of her students, close the school. Skillfully she  leveraged this and more for the sake of promoting her goals. 

Prudence lived a life which made for r...

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August 6, 2021 23 mins

I'm a reporter/film critic at WHBF Local 4 News and www.ourquadcities.com. I write court- and crime-related stories and movie reviews.

My reviews appear on rottentomatoes.com and www.ourquadcities.com

I'm a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and the Critics Choice Association. Its membership votes in the annual Critics Choice Awards. 

I earned a master's degree in criminal justice from St. Ambrose Universi...

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