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The Accent Podcast
Hosted by Aznaur Midov · EN
The Accent Podcast is a series of interviews with entrepreneurs, investors, business and thought leaders.
In addition to learning about the guests' fields of expertise, the listeners would have an opportunity to get to know them on a personal level.
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Explorer #24: Ramesses II "The Great" and 19th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt w/ Peter Brand
Aug 11, 202401:35:04Tap to summarizeDr. Peter Brand is an ancient historian and Egyptologist specializing in history and culture of ancient Egypt during its imperial age (ca. 1550–1100 BCE). He is author of The Monuments of Seti I and their Historical Significance: Epigraphic, Historical and Art-Historical Analysis (Brill, 2000), and has written numerous articles on Egyptian kingship, monumental art and construction, history, popular religion, warfare, and diplomacy during the late Eighteenth Dynasty and Ramesside period. Since 2001, Dr. Brand has served as director of the Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project, which is recording, conserving, and interpreting hundreds of scenes and hieroglyphic texts carved on the walls and columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall. Dr. Brand has appeared in over twenty documentaries for the History Channel, Discovery, and National Geographic. GET THE BOOK - Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh: https://amzn.to/3RufmMS SUPPORT THE ACCENT ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast TIMESTAMPS 01:35 Teaching Egyptology 08:20 How pyramids were built 12:50 Ancient Egypt through 18th Dynasty: Akhenaten, Tutankhamun 26:30 Beginning of 19th Dynasty 31:15 Seti I 35:50 Ancient Egypt's source of wealth 38:25 Egyptian army 40:25 Ramesses II – Childhood 45:05 Prince Ramesses II 49:45 "Female Household" and wives of Ramesses II 01:04:05 Ramesses II takes the throne 01:09:55 Highlights of Ramesses II reign 01:15:05 The Battle of Kadesh 01:21:10 Interpreting Hieroglyphs 01:27:40 Pharaohs or Kings? 01:30:40 Decline of Ancient Egypt
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Explorer #23: The Civil War Never Fully Ended w/Jeremi Siri
Jul 21, 202401:07:44Tap to summarizeJeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the University's Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Professor Suri is the author and editor of eleven books on politics and foreign policy, most recently: Civil War By Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy (which we discuss in the interview). SELECT BOOKS BY JEREMI SURI: - Civil War by Other Means: https://amzn.to/3F5DXSC - The Impossible Presidency: https://amzn.to/3RQTRI1 - Liberty's Surest Guardian: https://amzn.to/3toGe8R SUPPORT THE ACCENT ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast TIMESTAMPS 01:20 The Civil War never ended 03:05 Formation of the Republican Party 07:50 Causes of the Civil War and the reasons for North winning 14:15 South after the Civil War 19:00 Why Abraham Lincoln is the best president in the US history 20:10 John Wilkes Booth 22:55 Andrew Johnson is the worst president 26:20 Alexander Watkins Terrell 29:45 Moving on after wars 31:00 Ulysses S. Grant Presidency 34:45 Disputed 1876 Elections 38:10 Electoral College must go 45:55 Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur 50:45 Grover Cleveland – first President from the Democrat Party 53:50 Republicans and Democrats switching agendas 55:40 Cancers in American institutions 01:00:55 Rating the recent Presidents 01:04:45 Most Overrated and Underrated Presidents 01:07:00 How you should read Jeremi Suri's books
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Explorer #22: Searching for Planet Nine with Dr. Konstantin Batygin
Jun 17, 202401:04:53Tap to summarizeDr. Konstantin Batygin is a Professor of Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Batygin and his colleague, Michael Brown, have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which they have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). In fact, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the Sun. Support the Accent on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast TIMESTAMPS 01:45 Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg 03:35 Encounter with conspiracists 06:40 Rumors of Alien space crafts 10:15 Where to look for life in the Universe 12:50 Planet Formation 17:20 Discovering planets 25:20 Pluto is no longer a planet 27:40 Planet Nine 34:30 Hypothesis of other cosmic bodies 35:15 Primordial Black Holes 43:15 Music Career 52:25 Scientific awards 57:40 Immigration to Japan and USA 01:01:30 Lex Fridman 01:02:30 Parents influence
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Explorer #21: Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness with Dr. Allen Frances
May 6, 202400:39:42Tap to summarizeDr. Allen Frances is a Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. He is best known for serving as chair of the American Psychiatric Association task force overseeing the development and revision of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Dr. Frances is the founding editor of two well-known psychiatric journals: the Journal of Personality Disorders and the Journal of Psychiatric Practice. During the development of the current diagnostic manual, DSM-5, Dr. Frances became critical of the expanding boundaries of psychiatry and the medicalization of normal human behavior, problems he contends are leading to the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of the "worried well" and the gross undertreatment of the severely ill. Dr. Frances is the author or co-author of multiple books within the fields of psychiatry and psychology. Dr. FRANCES's BOOKs: Saving Normal: https://amzn.to/497dxxq Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis: https://amzn.to/494eRBe FOLLOW Dr. FRANCES ON TWITTER: / allenfrancesmd SUPPORT THE ACCENT ON PATREON: / theaccentpodcast TIMESTAMPS 01:25 Changes since Saving Normal 02:30 What is DSM? 06:20 Inflation of diagnosis in children's mental illnesses 14:10 Pharma advertises mental illnesses directly to people 17:00 Nature or Nurture – the root cause of mental illnesses 21:35 Psychotherapy 25:35 Depressions should not be confused with normal mammalian phenomena 29:35 Addiction to medication and drugs 37:45 Selecting psychiatrist
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Explorer #20: Early Humans, First Civilizations, and Fall of Civilizations with Dr. Brian Fagan
Apr 13, 202400:54:52Tap to summarizeBrian Fagan is an Archeologist, Author, and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara. He has written a number of books on archeology, humans, and, most recently, climate change. We discussed Early Humans, the history of hunting, the most influential civilizations, and the effects of localized climate change, which by the way, has nothing to do with politics but rather the history of the phenomena. TIMESTAMPS 01:10 Did humans evolve from apes 04:25 Hunting of early humans 12:45 Neanderthals 14:40 Humans walked out from Africa 20:50 Most important human tool 22:50 Complexities of archeological discovery 27:25 First Civilizations 32:55 Most influential Civilizations 34:45 Inca Civilization 37:55 Were there lost Civilizations (Atlantis)? 40:50 Why Civilizations Fall 44:35 Localized climate change 50:25 The Future of the human race
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AccentWealth: Invest like a Family Office with James Pan
Mar 2, 202401:05:28Tap to summarizeJames Pan is a former Hedge Fund manager who, a decade ago, returned funds to outside investors and converted his firm into a family office. If you search for CP&E Partners' letters, you will see the phenomenal performance that James has achieved, and he did it as a one-man-shop. In this interview, we discussed James' investment philosophy, investment process, current holdings, and many other things. Books James is Ayn Rand's fan, so don't forget to read Atlas Shrugged: https://amzn.to/3sqGEel Support the Accent on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast TIMESTAMPS 02:05 Absorbing information 03:45 Path to a Family Office 09:15 Defining Value Investing 13:30 Looking for investment ideas 15:30 First thing to see in a stock 19:30 Valuing companies 25:10 Concentrated vs Diversified portfolio 31:10 Meta 34:30 Latest investment – U-Haul 43:35 Management assessment 44:50 NOL as part of the valuation 46:20 Rolls-Royce 49:05 Writing Call Options 55:35 Investing with Dyslexia 59:15 Definition of Happiness
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Explorer #19: Quantum Computers and Artificial Intelligence w/ Scott Aaronson
Feb 11, 202401:02:31Tap to summarizeDr. Scott Aaronson is Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, and director of its Quantum Information Center. His research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers and computational complexity theory more generally. For the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years, he is on leave to work at OpenAI on the theoretical foundations of AI safety. In this interview, Dr. Aaronson discussed a quantum computer, its comparison to classical computers, and its use cases. He also shared his take on the potential role of quantum computers in Artificial Intelligence. Get Scott Aaronson's Book Quantum Computing since Democritus: https://amzn.to/3E290yb Read Scott Aaronson's blog: https://scottaaronson.blog Support The Accent on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast TIMESTAMPS 01:45 Misconceptions about Quantum computing 03:00 Quantum Computer vs Classical Computer 08:30 The Schrodinger equation 18:00 What is Quantum Computer good for? 28:45 The look of Quantum computers 43:40 Quantum Error Correction 46:50 Quantum computing in AI 55:25 Would you choose Machin Learning or Quantum Computer for a major 57:50 Take on Michio Kaku's book Quantum Supremacy….(oh, well)
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Explorer #18: The Rise and Fall of ISIS, with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joby Warrick
Jan 15, 202400:51:44Tap to summarizeJoby Warrick is a best-selling author and a national security correspondent for The Washington Post. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he served for 24 years with the Post's national and investigative staffs, reporting from Washington and scores of cities around the world. He is the author of three two nonfiction books, including "The Triple Agent", a New York Times best-seller about a CIA operation in Afghanistan; "Red Line", and "Black Flags", a narrative account of the personalities and events that gave rise to the Islamic State. "Black Flags" was listed as one of the best books of 2015 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other publications, and it was the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. BOOKs: Black Flags: https://amzn.to/3QE46NK The Triple Agent: https://amzn.to/49zq5On Red Line: https://amzn.to/3FYaLxo SUPPORT THE ACCENT ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast TIMESTAMPS 01:35 The most surprising thing about ISIS 03:30 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 06:45 Afghanistan after the Soviet Union 08:00 Zarqawi in al-Jafr prison 10:05 Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi 13:00 Al-Qaida of Iraq, and Zarqawi's weaponization of religion 17:30 Black Flags 20:00 The US invasion of Iraq 28:00 Big pause after Zarqawi 31:50 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the Rise of ISIS 38:00 A typical ISIS Fighter 40:30 New ISIS 43:10 Roots of Islamic Radicalization 47:00 Joby's books
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Explorer #17: Climate Change, Repercussions, and Solutions - W/ Dr. Tapio Schneider
Dec 31, 202300:41:22Tap to summarizeTapio Schneider is a climate scientist and a professor of environmental science and engineering at the California Institute of Technology. His research is focused on understanding how the turbulent dynamics of the atmosphere, from clouds to large-scale weather systems, shape Earth's climate. Ultimately, his goal is to develop a set of physical laws that govern climate. SUPPORT THE ACCENT ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast TIMESTAMPS 01:20 Climate Change or Global Warming? 04:25 Greenhouses and their effects 07:25 The worst-case scenario 12:30 Genesis of Thoughts on Climate Change 17:35 Melting of Ice Sheets 23:20 Disagreements on the Climate Change 27:50 Main emitters of greenhouses 30:35 Solutions to Climate Change 33:50 Do EVs make a difference 39:00 Why not switch to renewables
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AccentWealth: Tim Staermose, Founder of African Lions Fund, on Investing in African Markets
Dec 15, 202300:57:52Tap to summarizeTim Staermose is the founder of the African Lions Fund, which invests in sub-Saharan African "Frontier" economies, excluding South Africa. Tim is also an investment writer, and his website - www.GlobalValueHunter.com - is full of global value investing ideas. SUPPORT THE ACCENT ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast TIMESTAMPS 01:10 Perception of Africa (Factfulness book) 08:25 Long or Short-term opportunity: Main Thesis 13:25 Asian model will not work in Africa 16:10 Leading Industries 18:35 Valuations in Africa 21:55 Investment process 29:25 Banking Industry in Africa 32:10 Position sizing 35:10 Hedging 38:50 Taxation of the fund 40:15 Largest position (NMB Bank - Tanzania) 48:45 Recent investments (KCB Bank, Equity Bank, Safaricom – Kenya) 52:40 Selling stocks
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