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Wisdom From The Edge is a 501c3 non-profit who believes that your physical, mental, and emotional health should not take a back seat to other priorities in your life. We understand through experience how it feels to be stressed, overwhelmed and unbalanced, which is why we designed powerful programs and resources to help you. This is why we also created the podcast, to stimulate new ideas, shift perspectives and to offer practical tools and techniques that enhance your everyday life.

In the wake of a global pandemic and enduring stresses on the health care environment, nursing professionals need a different leadership capacity – one that challenges the historical industrial underpinnings of nursing leadership. Three of the nation’s leading thought leaders in nursing have joined together to address this topic during a new webinar series, “Conversations from the Edge: Ending Blue Collar Nurse Leadership.” Linda McCauley, PhD, RN, FAAN, FRCN, dean of the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Sharon Pappas, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, chief nurse ...

A Journey Through the Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos. There's a whole universe out there.... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way? The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, mind-blowingly empty.

One cannot turn on the news today without a report on an extreme-weather event or the latest update on Antarctica. But while our politicians argue, the truth is that climate change is already here. Nobody knows this better than Indigenous peoples, who, having developed an intimate relationship with ecosystems over generations, have observed these changes for decades. For them, climate change is not an abstract concept or policy issue, but the reality of daily life.

Welcome to the Cryptid Women’s Society - Walking in the shadows Podcast, a captivating show where women lead the way in exploring the mysteries of the supernatural, cryptozoology, UFO phenomena, and the paranormal.Hosted by Lisa, Juliet, and other trailblazing women researchers, we dive deep into the unknown, sharing compelling stories, groundbreaking investigations, and interviews with experts from around the world.Whether it’s uncovering elusive cryptids, unraveling eerie hauntings, or exploring the vast reaches of the cosmos, this podcast connects curious minds to the interesting.Join ...

An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author). During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an...

Kelly Johnson designed the Blackbird, a plane that flew non-stop from London to Los Angeles in less than four hours, outracing the sun and landing four hours before it had taken off, a remarkable feat - and this was more than 35 years ago. Johnson was the innovative genius behind Lockheed's "Skunk Works", and played a leading role in the development of more than forty aircraft, including some of America's most sophisticated planes such as the Constellation, Shooting Star, F-104, U-2, and the SR-71 Blackbird.

Over the course of 14 billion years, humanity has gained the ability not only to imagine the future, but to design and engineer it. Entertaining and profound, Future Rising by Dr Andrew Maynard, provides a highly original perspective on our relationship with the future. Written to be easy to pick up and hard to stop listening to, Future Rising starts at the big bang and traces a pathway along the emergence of intelligent life, through what makes humans uniquely capable of creating different futures, to the profound responsibilities that this comes with.