Month: July 2022

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Gota goes: Sri Lanka’s president resigns

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, announced he will step down on Wednesday after protestors occupied Colombo, the country’s capital, over the weekend. Whoever succeeds him will inherit a host of thorny economic problems. Why Europe’s big tech firms are well placed to weather a downturn. And remembering Peter Brook, an extraordinary theatre director who died at the age of 93. To sign up for tomorrow’s webinar about Britain’s future after Boris Johnson’s resignation, sign up at www.economist.com/boris-resigns.
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Take This Pod and Shove It - 28: “Neon Cross” by Jaime Wyatt

This week Danny and Tyler discuss Jaime Wyatt's groovy combo of outlaw and cosmic country styles, and they add her song "Neon Cross" to the Ultimate Country Playlist. The boys discuss the true stories Wyatt writes about on her two albums, Felony Blues and Neon Cross, how live music can be a religious experience, and more!

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  • Hurt So Bad (feat. Shooter Jennings)
  • L I V I N
  • Your Loving Saves Me
  • Wasco
  • Stone Hotel
  • Goodbye Queen
  • Rattlesnake Girl
  • Just A Woman (feat. Jessie Colter)

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Unexpected Elements - Long Covid ‘brain fog’

Following a bout of Covid-19, a significant number of people suffer with weeks or months of 'brain fog' - poor concentration, forgetfulness, and confusion. This is one of the manifestations of Long Covid. A team of scientists in the United States has now discovered that infection in the lung can trigger an inflammatory response which then causes patterns of abnormal brain cell activity. It’s the kind of brain cell dysregulation also seen in people who experience cognitive problems following chemotherapy for cancer.

Also in the programme, the latest discoveries about the asteroid Bennu from the Osiris Rex mission, how Malayasian farmers led US researchers to a botanical discovery, and a new explanation for why dinosaurs took over the world 200 million years ago.

Artists can conjure up people, cities, landscapes and entire worlds using just a pencil or a paintbrush. But some of us struggle to draw simple stick figures or a circle that’s actually round. CrowdScience listener Myck is a fine artist from Malawi, and he’s been wondering if there’s something special about his brain that has turned him into an artist. It’s a craft that combines visionary ideas with extraordinary technical skill, but where does that all come from? Do artists have different brains from non-artists? What is it that makes someone a creative person, while others are not? And is artistic ability innate, or is it something you can learn? Presenter Marnie Chesterton goes on a colourful journey into the mind to find out how artistic people see the world differently.

(Image: System of neurons with glowing connections. Credit: Getty Images)

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The Best One Yet - 🌭 “The world’s cheapest wiener” — Costco’s hot dog strategy. SpaceX’s 1st yacht. HBO’s ad-pology.

The price of everything is going up… except for the $1.50 Costco Hot Dog & Soda combo (because the co-founder will kill the CEO if it’s a penny more). HBO just made one of the biggest changes in TV ad history: Commercials you won’t hate. And SpaceX just launched wifi for yachts because it’s building Invisible Infrastructure. $COST $WBD $TSLA Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 7.11.22

Alabama

  • Senator Tuberville reacts to Biden Exec. order on abortions
  • ALGOP Exec. Committee considers resolution denouncing 2020 election results
  • Lauderdale County man indicted by grand jury for sex abuse of children
  • AL man being held in KY will return to state to face kidnapping charges
  • Birmingham leaders say security is placed at al venues for World Games

National

  • Weekend polls spell bad news for Biden administration
  • A watchdog group files lawsuit against US department of Energy re: reserve oil
  • CA doctor looks to create floating abortion clinic off Gulf coast in federal waters
  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk signals a withdrawal from buying Twitter for $44B
  • Donald Trump holds rally in Alaska, mentions Musk and more

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Worst Roman Emperors

Depending on how you define it, there were somewhere between 70 to 100 Roman emperors between the ascension of Augustus to the fall of the western empire in 476. A period of about 500 years.

Some of them managed to be just and competent rulers who ruled for extended periods of peace and prosperity. 

Others….were not. 

Learn more about the worst Roman emperors who ran the gamut from insane to incompetent, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Jamie Susskind, “The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century” (Pegasus Books, 2022)

From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Pegasus Books, 2022) is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies? A Financial Times “Book to Read” in 2022. Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired, and the internet was regarded as a tonic for freedom and democracy. Not anymore. Every day, the headlines blaze with reports of racist algorithms, data leaks, and social media platforms festering with falsehood and hate. In The Digital Republic, acclaimed author Jamie Susskind argues that these problems are not the fault of a few bad apples at the top of the industry. They are the result of our failure to govern technology properly. The Digital Republic charts a new course. It offers a plan for the digital age: new legal standards, new public bodies and institutions, new duties on platforms, new rights and regulators, new codes of conduct for people in the tech industry. Inspired by the great political essays of the past, and steeped in the traditions of republican thought, it offers a vision of a different type of society: a digital republic in which human and technological flourishing go hand in hand.

Jamie Susskind is a barrister and the author of the award-winning bestseller Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (Oxford University Press, 2018), which received the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2019, and was an Evening Standard and Prospect Book of the Year. He has fellowships at Harvard and Cambridge and currently lives in London.

Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy.

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The City - Wondery Presents: Who Killed Daphne?

When a car bomb kills Daphne Caruana Galizia on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta, the hunt for her killers exposes secrets with consequences that go far beyond its shores. In the aftermath of her death an international team of journalists comes together to continue her work. Along the way they start to uncover clues that might lead to her killers. From Wondery, comes a new story about power, corruption and one woman’s fight for the truth. Hosted by investigative reporter Stephen Grey.

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