Lawmakers want California to eliminate the state’s carbon footprint altogether by 2045. They’re taking all sorts of steps to get to that ambitious goal; from phasing out gas-powered engines in new cars and lawnmowers to electrifying home stoves. But there’s an even bigger plan ahead, one that environmental experts say could derail it all.
Today, we talk about California’s plan to pump carbon gas into the ground. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but that’s exactly what California says is key to be able to make the state carbon neutral. Can it work? Read the full transcript here.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times air quality reporter Tony Briscoe
Wildfires rage in the west as heat grips much of the nation. Steve Bannon agrees to January 6th testimony. Spirit Airlines plane catches fire as it lands. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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.
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!
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)
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.
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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.
