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Big Brain Channel
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"Big Brain" A term to describe the most intellectual of individuals.This channel is dedicated to our podcasts where you'll learn something!
Episodes
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Episode 40: Dr Selena Fisk - Building a Data-Informed School Culture - Around the School Table by Xuno Suite
In this episode of Around the School Table (xuno.com.au/podcasts), host Steve Davis is joined by Dr Selena Fisk, a Data Storyteller and Founder of SelenaFisk.com, to explore how schools can move beyond simply collecting data and instead build a culture where evidence supports better teaching,...
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Episode 38: Paul Matthews - Wise AI and the Future of Human Intelligence - Around the School Table by Xuno Suite
In this episode of Around the School Table (xuno.com.au/podcasts), host Steve Davis is joined by Paul Matthews, Author and Education Consultant at Paul Matthews.ai (paulmatthews.ai), to explore how educators can embrace artificial intelligence without losing the human qualities that make teaching...
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Episode 36: David Loader OAM - Rethinking Student Engagement in Australian Schools - Around the School Table by Xuno Suite
In this episode of Around the School Table (xuno.com.au/podcasts), host Steve Davis is joined by David Loader OAM, Chair of the Institute of Education Reform (IER) (educationalreform.org.au), to explore one of the most urgent challenges facing Australian education: Student Disengagement. With...
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Hyper Realist Bombs 5 - A Russian Thunder Run to Kyiv? Battle of Bakhmut and Future Economic Trends
Strategikon is back in 2023 and we are kicking off the year with Round 5 of the Hyper Realist Bombs series. Our good friend Rhoderick Miller returns to the podcast to discuss the latest developments from the Russia / Ukraine conflict, from his hyper realist perspective. John, David and Rhoderick...
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Do psychological, cognitive, and contextual factors influence rehab outcomes in Achilles tendinopathy?
This week I talk about a feasibility cohort study which sought to determine whether a larger cohort study addressing this question would be feasible. Listen to hear some interesting preliminary findings. Merza, E.Y., Pearson, S.J., Mallows, A.J. and Malliaras, P., 2023. The relationship between...
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Does high load and high strain exercise have any benefit for Achilles tendinopathy?
We have known for a while that type of exercise intervention (e.g. intensity, frequency, etc) does not seem to influence self-reported outcomes such as pain. Maybe all the benefits from exercise are explained by non-specific effects, or maybe exercise has benefits that do not depend on the type…
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Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy - the forgotten tendinopathy
This week, I had an engaging conversation with Anthony Nasser, an up-and-coming researcher on tendinopathy who recently completed his PhD on proximal hamstring tendinopathy. Our discussion covered the reasons for the lack of research attention towards this condition, the current state of…
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How useful is palpation for diagnosis and assessment?
Palpation can be useful for the diagnosis and assessment of tendinopathy, but there are limits. This is because non-painful tendons can be tender, and tenderness in painful tendons seems to be very slow to get better. Link to Evidence for Improvement in Local but not Diffuse Pressure Pain...
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Muscle and tendon tuning and implications for tendon rehabilitation
Interesting perspective paper from Arampatzis et al talking about how we should consider tuning of muscle tendon unit in terms of muscle strength and tendon stiffness when considering training for specific groups. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Blind Insights - How a Philosopher Makes a Great Marketer
Watching David's career change over the course of this podcast can be a little perplexing. It might seem that a philosophy-trained academic wouldn't be that interested in marketing and communications, but these areas aren't as disjointed as they may seem. Tim and David discuss their love for...
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Achilles forces during common rehab exercises and habitual activities.
This talking tendons episode will discuss a study by Igor Sancho, PhD, assessing Achilles forces during common rehab exercises and habitual activities and how this relates to reported pain among runners. Some interesting implications for practice. Achilles tendon forces and pain during common...
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Blind Insights - What is Inbound? David's Master Thesis in a Nutshell
At the end of 2022, David Finished his master's thesis with a High Distinction. David wrote a relatively comprehensive analysis of Inbound Marketing for his Master of Strategic Communications and pitched his writing for a professional audience while still achieving academic success. Tim and David...
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Blind Insights - Consciousness
Ever wonder what makes a mind? Philosophers have asked this question for millennia and don't have much concrete evidence to show for it. Tim asks David for his current thoughts and it turns out we now know a lot more about our brains. David can paint an interesting picture of what our conscious...
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PSA - The Adelaide University Merger
David has been getting asked a lot about the plans to merge the University of Adelaide with the University of South Australia. This podcast discusses the possible negatives and the likely positives of the merger, giving a perspective the staff and university management will never admit or fail to...
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Hyper Realist Bombs 4 - 2023 Predictions: Ukraine / Russia, China / Taiwan and Resource Insecurity Across The EU and Africa
Friend of the podcast Rhoderick Miller is back on Strategikon and we find out what Rhoderick’s Hyper – Realist perspective has to say about the Russia / Ukraine conflict, 10 months after it began. John and David also offer their predictions on whether Putin or Zelenskyy will come out of the war…
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Graded exposure in tendinopathy rehabilitation.
In this episode, I am discussing kinesiophobia in the context of tendon rehab and how rehab can be conceptualised as graded exposure for some people. References 1) Physiotherapy management of Achilles tendinopathy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Load test pain and kinesiophobia and how they interact in tendinopathy assessment
In this episode, I talk about load test pain assessment and how this can also be used to assess kinesiophobia and movement apprehension. References 1) Physiotherapy management of Achilles tendinopathy: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36274038/ 2) Kinesiophobia Severity Categories and Clinically...
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Blind Insights - Humankind is Kind (Special Guest Luke)
Rutger Bregman says you are a decent kind human being. We agree. Humankind deserves more credit, and in this episode Luke helps us reflect on the many reasons why and what that looks like in practice. If you want to harness more positivity and more connection to others, things that are essential…
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Two PMs and Two Monarchs Within a Week - A Shock To The System?
In this episode of Strategikon, John speaks with intelligence analyst and former British Royal Navy Officer CDRE Patrick J. Tyrrell OBE RN (RET’D), about the recent political and monarchical changes occurring within the UK. Patrick discusses how King Charles III has been settling in and whether…
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Blind Insights - Mitigating Risk (Special Guest Luke)
While individuals and organisations are paralysed by the fear of things going wrong, what can be done to reduce collateral when problems inevitably arise? As Tim and David recommend books from time to time, when a new Stan McChrystal book comes out, we have to review it, and returning guest Luke...
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Blind Insights - Choosing your Life Path; It isn't all or nothing
Following a deeply chaotic and introspective year, Tim comes to David with some revelations about his direction in life. David provides insights from his own metamorphosis and explains why we get hung up on incompatible representations of self. This concludes a mini-series on finding your way…
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Hitting Reset - Australia’s Foreign Policy Challenges Under Albanese
John is joined by the editor of Australian Foreign Affairs Magazine, Jonathan Pearlman, for a discussion about how Australia’s new Albanese government will approach foreign policy. They discuss the current status of The Quad, with a focus on India’s curious position within the group. How does the...
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Blind Insights - Changing Life Direction and the Power of a Skills Audit
Following a frank conversation about quarter-life crises, Tim draws inspiration from the serendipity of unwelcome life changes. David gives insightful anecdotes to assist Tim in coming to terms with his new career trajectory, noting that there are actionable reflections to change perspectives and...
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Blind Insights - David Makes a Commitment...
If you're a keen follower of the podcast, you may have read David's blogs available on his website; https://davidolney.com.au/. David is an excellent writer, and you even be left wanting more of his writing than is currently available. Well, David has good news for you in this announcement, and…
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Blind Insights - Thinking Better (Special guest Marcus du Sautoy)
When you think of shortcuts, what comes to mind? Cheating? Or the premise of working smarter, not harder? Tim and David stumbled on a fascinating book by Oxford Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy called "Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut" which provides insight into the practice of...
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Bonus Insights - A Parcel from Ireland!
We have some fantastic fans who email us or on this special occasion, send us a gift! Scott Murphy who reached out to us via email and then spoke to us on this podcast later sent us a rather unique and special present that has earned its rightful place in the studio! If you have any thoughts,...
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Looking Through Peter Zeihan’s Glass, Darkly - A Vision of Deep Global Change
In this episode of Strategikon, John and David break down a recent book from geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan, called The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the end of globalization. Zeihan predicts the unraveling of globalization as we currently know it, to a world where states /...
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Blind Insights - The Millennial Quarter-life Crisis
In a frank conversation between Tim and David, Tim explains his struggles in 2022, while David offers firm advice and explanations that broadly apply to all people experiencing the diminishing returns of hard work in the 21st century. The decline of what Australians call "the fair go" is a...
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Blind Insights - From Infantry Platoon Sergeant to Artist and Advocate; Jon Duncan’s Story (Episode II)
When veterans return to civilian life, the adjustment is immense, and the journey that people take from a life in the military to forging their own path in the civilian world is fascinating. Jon Duncan is a fantastic example of someone who has chosen positive growth, as well as being a wonderful...
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Functional impairments persist in Achilles tendinopathy when people are returning to running
This is an interesting study from the Delaware tendinopathy group among others investigating a host of structural, tissue property, functional and pain factors that may persist among people with Achilles tendinopathy making a return to running. Provides guidance to clinicians about potential...
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Blind Insights - Returning to your Passions (Special guest Matt Cahill of The Violets)
To celebrate the release of their newest album, Tim and David speak to the frontman of Adelaide based, The Violets, to uncover what it is like to come back to a passion project after years of hibernation. Matt discusses the changes in the music industry today, the story of how the band reformed…
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Understanding the patient perspective in Achilles tendinopathy
In this episode I talk about three qualitative studies that aim to understand the patient perspective and patient motivations in Achilles tendinopathy. I find this work really helps clinicians to understand what patients are gong through so we are able to be empathic and help them. Hope you…
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Blind Insights - Being Tired and Stressed
We're back listeners, and with a small insight into our absence we bring you a meditation on being tired, or in Tim's case, stressed. David offers sound methods and micro-actions to assist in the battles against overwhelm. Rather ironically, Tim hasn't adhered to this advice and thus there's been…
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Humans are lazy (or efficient!) hoppers: the importance of instructions in submaximal human hopping
This paper is more than 30 years old but it is a beauty. Farley et al talk about human preferred hopping frequency and how it relates to metabolic cost and how fast muscles are contracting, and also how our instructions can influence how well people hop (and the mechanisms that drive this)....
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Steroid injection for Achilles tendinopathy?
There is so much debate about the use of steroids for tendinopathy. Opinions vary between 'you should never use steroid as will lead to recurrence, worse pain or rupture' to 'it's fine, do as much steroid as you like'. Opinions dominate as we have limited data. Until now. This is the first trial...
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Hyper-Realist Bombs 3 – The Trajectory of The Russia/Ukraine Conflict and the Emerging Fair World Order
*This podcast was recorded prior to Ukraine vacating from Luhansk* John and David are joined once again by friend of the podcast Rhoderick Miller, who offers an update on the Russia/Ukraine war through the lens of his contrarian, hyper-realist perspective. They discuss why the Western European...
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Does pain science education improve outcomes for Achilles tendinopathy?
This is a new and lovely to read randomised trial comparing pain science education (including lots of good biopsychosocial info) versus placebo education for Achilles tendinopathy. Some interesting findings and potential avenues for further study. Definitely worth a listen and read. Here is a…
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Strength and other impairments in runners with Achilles tendinopathy
This is a new study from my PhD student, Igor Sancho. He looks at strength, psychological and other factors that may be different between health runners and runners with Achilles tendinopathy. Seated calf raise 6RM seems to be the strongest predictor of having Achilles tendinopathy. Some...
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Walking the line - India, Russia & the Quad
In light of the recent meeting of 'The Quad' nations India, Japan, US and Australia, we are joined by Emeritus Professor Purnendra Jain, from the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, who offers a timely analysis regarding India's delicate tightrope walk in keeping ongoing...
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Exciting new insights into tendon adaptation with load
On this episode I focus on a new study from my PhD student Eman Merza. It is a cross-over randomised trial testing the effect of high and low contraction time and high and low intensity isometric contractions on acute changes to tendon volume and stiffness. Some very interesting potential…
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Achilles tendinopathy clinical and patient subgroups
Had a lovely chat with Shawn Hanlon who is a PhD candidate about his relatively new paper exploring patient features and clinical characteristics and how they may define certain subgroups of Achilles tendinopathy . Lots more to learn in this field and this is early work, but we discuss some of…
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Blind Insights - Nanobots in Therapy and in Human Augmentation (Special Guests Arthur Saniotis & Maciej Henneberg)
Arthur Saniotis and Maciej Henneberg are David's colleagues from his days at the University of Adelaide and are Biological Anthropologists who have published extremely interesting research on what they term "endomyccorhizae ligand interface", or ‘ELI’ for short. David and Tim got to replicate the...
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Central pain processing and Achilles tendinopathy
There is lots of debate about the pain mechanisms, particularly if there are central changes, in Achilles and other tendinopathies. Most studies in the literature use proxy measures of central sensitisation like pressure pain threshold away from the painful site, Other measures like conditioned...
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The amazing benefits of biologic springs like the Achilles tendon
This is one of my favourite narrative expert reviews that discusses the benefits of human biologic springs like the Achilles tendon. These benefits can be summarised as follows: Metabolic energy conservation Amplification of muscle power output Attenuation of muscle power input Some really...
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Gluteal tendinopathy chat with Chris Clifford
I had a great time talking Gluteal tendinopathy with Chris Clifford. Chris is an experienced clinician from Glasgow who is in the throws of completing his PhD on this condition. We chatted about rehab, the use of isometrics, difficult patient groups and how to navigate them, and much more. I hope...
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Do dietary supplements improve outcomes in tendinopathy?
Patients often ask about dietary supplements and if they may be helpful in recovering from a tendinopathy problem. There is a new systematic review out which has attempted to answer this question and it is the subject of this episode of talking tendons. I hope you enjoy. Here is the reference…
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Is wait and see a viable option for Achilles tendinopathy?
Will midportion Achilles pain improve if you wait and see? This is often a really important question to discuss with patients. Luckily we have some evidence to answer it which I explore in this short podcast (9 minutes). Hope you enjoy. Here are the related studies 1/ Horstmann, T., Jud, H.M.,...
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Hyper-Realist Bombs 2 - The Chinese Opportunity? China's Response to the Russia/Ukraine Conflict
Rhoderick Miller is back. This time, Rhoderick offers his Hyper-Realist perspective on how China has responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and whether the conflict could inspire a People’s Liberation Army invasion of Taiwan. Is it the right time for China to realize their decades-long...
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Blind Insights - How to Make your Message Human (Special guest Dan Tyre)
Dan Tyre from HubSpot joins David and Tim to discuss effective communication and the rise of Inbound Marketing. Want to work with David? Get in contact on his website. Need help with your podcast project? Ask Tim of Whimsy Productions. If you have any thoughts, questions, or want to how to best...
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PSA - The South Australia Election, What Happened?
David reflects on what has been described as a landslide election in ousting the existing Liberal government led by Steven Marshall, in favour of a new Labor government led by Peter Malinauskas. If you have any thoughts, questions, or want to how to best manifest destiny and contribute to your...
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