Month: February 2017

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The Gist - Andy Zaltzman Is Back at Exactly the Right Time

For years, Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver took on the powers that be in their influential podcast The Bugle. But the show went on hiatus in 2014 when Oliver became the host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. Now, Zaltzman is rebooting the show at a most opportune moment for satire. “It’s like throwing the javelin of truth into the swamp of corruption,” says Zaltzman. “But javelins in swamps don’t always work out.”

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Hidden Figures: The Real Story

Hidden Figures, the film, has been nominated for three awards at the Oscars and has been a box office hit in the US. It tells the little-known story of a group of African American women and their contribution to the space race in the 50s and 60s. We explore the history of how these women were recruited by Nasa and put to work on complex mathematical tasks ? at a time when African Americans and women were far less likely to be employed in such jobs.

(Photo: Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson,in a scene from Hidden Figures. Credit: Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox/AP)

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Motley Fool Money - Mergers & Surprising Acquisitions

Warren Buffett loads up on Apple. TripAdvisor stumbles. SodaStream sparkles. And potential mergers rock Wall Street. Plus, corporate governance expert and film critic Nell Minow talks Trump, Academy Awards, and the evolution of the movie business. Thanks to Thumbtack for supporting The Motley Fool. Hire local, skilled pros for just about anything at thumbtack.com today. 

 

 

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Song Exploder - Sara Watkins – Without a Word

Sara Watkins began her music career when she was only 8 years old, as one of the founding members of the Grammy-award winning band Nickel Creek. In 2016, she released her third solo album, Young in all the Wrong Ways. In this episode, Sara breaks down her song "Without a Word." This interview was recorded in front of a live audience at the Chicago Podcast Festival.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Does China Have Psychic Child Soldiers?

Nowadays many people are familiar with the US government's bizarre psychic experiments -- but what about China's? Join the guys as they explore the strange phenomenon of China's psychic children.

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Opening Arguments - OA44: All About Arbitration

In today's episode, we take a look at arbitration, an increasingly popular device being used to take disputes out of the courtroom.  What might arbitration mean for you?  Listen and find out! We begin, however, with a question from patron Faye Reppas, who asks about HR 2802, the so-called "First Amendment Defense Act." Next, in our main segment, we take a look at the implications of arbitration -- particularly in the employment context, where your employer may have inserted a mandatory arbitration clause in your employment agreement.  What does arbitration do?  Can you be compelled to do it?  We break it all down for you. After our main segment, we tackle another listener question; this one from Eric Walls about corporate personhood. Finally, we end with a brand new Thomas Takes the Bar Exam question #11 regarding the testimony of a plaintiff who's had surgical sponges accidentally left inside of her (a surprisingly common occurrence).  Remember that TTTBE issues a new question every Friday, followed by the answer on next Tuesday's show.  Don't forget to play along by following our Twitter feed (@Openargs) and/or our Facebook Page and quoting the Tweet or Facebook Post that announces this episode along with your guess and reason(s)! Show Notes & Links
  1. This is the text of the proposed HR 2802, the First Amendment Defense Act.
  2. Andrew wrote two articles on arbitration for his firm blog:  you can read Part 1 and Part 2 for more in-depth analysis.
  3. Here's a link to the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.
  4. Here is a link to Andrew's appearance on the David Pakman show.
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The Gist - Would a Narcissist Do This?

Jedediah Purdy understands President Trump’s supporters better than most champions of the left, having grown up in rural West Virginia (he has the greased-pig award to prove it). But he’s still befuddled by the prospect of peeling away voters from the president’s camp. Purdy’s recent piece in theNew Republic is titled “America’s New Opposition.”

For the Spiel, an annotated history of one of the Trump administration’s favorite lies.

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PHPUgly - 49: Who’s watching who

Show notes: https://phpugly.com/blog/49-whos-watching-who recorded February 11th, 2017 Topics The “pds/skeleton” Standard Is Now Stable! Matt Stauffer: Introducing Laravel Dusk PHPUnit 6.0.0 Is Released Laracon Online Announced Controller Construct Session Changes in Laravel 5.3 Keybase Chat XSS game House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill De-Anonymizing Browser History Using Social-Network Data The hosts Eric Van Johnson @shocm Twitter / Github / Blog / About.me Tom Rideout Twitter / Github / About.me John Congdon Twitter / Github Follow us on Twitter @PHPUgly Email us at Podcast@phpugly.com Sponsor of this show: The DiegoDev Group

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Bay Curious - Why is Marin County So White?

Marin County is the whitest county in the Bay Area -- but why? Reporter Ericka Cruz-Guevarra takes us through some pivotal moments in Marin history that contributed to its demographics today.


Reported by Ericka Cruz-Guevarra. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller.


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