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NMCWatch seeks to support nurses and midwives, and other healthcare professionals, going through Fitness to Practice investigations by their regulator. Our podcast offers some of those who have been through FtP a space to tell their side of the story; to honestly and openly tell us about the impact of this process and how they have come out of it.Host Cathryn Watters, NMCWatch founder, went through her own investigation and brings her experience of that process along with those of all the nurses and midwives she has supported since, to create an expert, informed, friendly listen. https://...

New Suns, Midwest Futures is a bi-weekly podcast series centering Midwestern performing artists (born or relocated) working loosely around themes of place, identity, and social justice. Launching from Octavia Butler's quote "There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns," this project aligns with sci-fi methodologies to collectively imagine new systems and spaces outside of cis-patriarchal white supremacist models and to build beautiful futures beyond "the end of the world." We'll meet with artists from various locations to brainstorm what it means to be an artist in the Midwest, ...

It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago.

After decades of poising on the brink, the United States and China finally go to war when China invades the island of Taiwan. Deploying their most futuristic technologies in this grand strategic competition of the twenty-first century, the stakes could not be higher. Not only the future of the Taiwanese people but the fate of the world lies in the balance. In an era when humans no longer just use machines, but partner with them in all aspects of military operations, this fictional account views this future war through the eyes of the American, Chinese, and Taiwanese caught up in the maelstrom.