Month: December 2023

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.4.23

Alabama

  • Congressman Carl wants states rights to prevail over abortion issue
  • The Medical Marijuna Commission issues another set of licenses on 3rd round
  • 2 out of 7 AL House members vote to expel NY congressman George Santos
  • A stolen car chase with police ends with crash into storefront in Mountain Brook
  • BMW issues recall on SUV air bag inflators due to explosion and metal shrapnel
  • TPUSA chapter  president at Auburn University featured on 1819 News Podcast

National

  • The USS Carney attacked by Yemen based missiles in Red Sea, no damage
  • Missouri congressman says DEI is destroying US military
  • Federal judge strikes down Biden initiated ban on certain firearm sales
  • Oversight committee members seeking docs from SC Jack Smith
  • Tucker Carlson and Roseanne Barr talk about psychopath liars leading nation


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Start the Week - Playing games

It’s play time on Start the Week. The mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy looks at the numbers behind the games we play, from Monopoly to rock paper scissors. In Around The World in 80 Games he shows how understanding maths can give you the edge, and why games are integral to human psychology and culture.

The historian Anthony Bale looks at game-playing in the medieval world. In A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, he finds travellers passing the time with dice and tric trac, as well as collecting pilgrim badges along the way.

Many of today’s most popular video games immerse players in historical settings, and the practice of collecting items along the way is nothing new to gamers. The co-director of the Games and Gaming Lab at the University of Glasgow, Jane Draycott, researches the historical authenticity of these online worlds, and especially the depiction of women.

And the mathematician G.T. Karber has taken his love of classic detective fiction and puzzles to create the murder-mystery riddle Murdle. A combination of Cluedo and Sudoku, what started as an online game is now a series of bestselling books. The latest is Murdle: More Killer Puzzles.

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NBN Book of the Day - Andrew C. McKevitt, “Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America” (UNC Press, 2023)

The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Second Amendment, or the history of gun safety, duties, and rights. Often, people assume that the number of guns is a natural state – the guns were always there. But were the guns always there? What caused the drastic boom in firearms, and when did it happen?

In Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America (UNC Press, 2023), Dr. Andrew McKevitt investigates how and when the guns arrived – and why so many people bought them. McKevitt argues that what Americans refer to as “gun culture” in the 21st century “emerged out of the intersections of the Cold War and consumer capitalism in the 1950s and 1960s.” A booming consumer market following World War II coupled with a surplus of cheap firearms readily available for American entrepreneurs to resell to citizens laid the groundwork for rampant firearm distribution in the country. War made the United States into a “gun country” but US gun politics – “interwoven with struggles over race and gender” cannot be detached from consumer politics. Gun safety and gun rights organizations both demand consumer regulation and protection.

Dr. Andrew C. McKevitt is the John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University. His previous book, Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (2017) was published by the University of North Carolina Press and he received the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

George Lobis served as the editorial assistant for this podcast.

Susan Liebell is a Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Farming

Over 10,000 years ago, humans began to cultivate and raise crops. Back then, a single farm could maybe grow enough food to feed a family and perhaps a little more.

Today, a farmer in a developed country can grow enough food to feed hundreds of people. 

The path from agriculture’s ancient roots to a modern mechanized farm wasn’t a straight line, and it relied on several major innovations throughout history.

Learn more about the history of farming and the innovations that increased production on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - American Warship Attacked, So Long Santos & Returnless Refunds- Monday, December 4, 2023

The news to know for Monday, December 4, 2023!

We'll update you on the war in the Middle East that's now expanded to the entire Gaza Strip and what to know about a U.S. warship attacked in the region.

Also, a historic and bipartisan move in Congress to kick one lawmaker out. It's already become the plot of a new movie.

Plus, we're remembering the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, one part of the country can expect strong storms this week, and an iconic American band is becoming the first to go virtual in retirement. 

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What A Day - Hundreds Dead In Gaza After Truce Ends

Hundreds of Palestinians were killed since fighting resumed after a weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas ended Friday morning. Israeli officials are also preparing for a ground invasion of the south of Gaza, and they ordered more residents to evacuate the area on Sunday. Meanwhile, it appears too soon to tell if negotiations for another truce will resume.

And in headlines: the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the legality of a $6 billion Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan, oil companies at the COP28 summit agreed to slash methane emissions, and Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year is “rizz.”

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Short Wave - Don’t Call It Dirt: The Surprising Science Of Soil

It's easy to overlook the soil beneath our feet, or to think of it as just dirt to be cleaned up. But soil wraps the world in an envelope of life: It grows our food, regulates the climate and makes the planet habitable. "What stands between life and lifelessness on our planet Earth is this thin layer of soil that exists on the Earth's surface," says Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, a soil scientist at the University of California-Merced.

In honor of World Soil Day tomorrow, we're revisiting our conversation with Prof. Berhe, who is also serving as Director of the U. S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Science. She talks to Aaron about the hidden majesty of soil and why it's crucial to tackling the climate crisis.

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The Daily Signal - Nun Hails Legal Victory for Life and Privacy in Pro-Abortion State

After filing a lawsuit, a Catholic community of sisters in New York has won a victory for life and for privacy.


In June 2022, New York passed a law allowing state officials to access pro-life pregnancy resource centers' sensitive information. The state Department of Health was granted permission to investigate pro-life pregnancy centers via demanding access to information about the centers’ policies.


The law was immediately concerning to the Sisters of Life because “It's so important that they feel safe,” Sister Maris Stella says, referring to the women they serve.


Stella, vicar general of the Sisters of Life, says the community of nuns is dedicated to serving women facing unplanned pregnancies, and part of that service often involves having “sacred conversations with them, and we come to know their history, their hopes, their fears, their dreams.”


To protect the nuns' privacy and the privacy of the women they serve, the Sisters filed a lawsuit asking a federal court for an order to protect them from government investigation. In November, New York agreed to comply with the federal court order.


Stella joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" with Mark Rienzi, president and CEO of Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which litigated the case on the sisters' behalf, to discuss the legal victory. Stella also offers her insights on the future of the pro-life movement.


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The Best One Yet - 🍔🚧 “New Big Mac” — McDonald’s Big Renovation. Rover’s puppy sleepover. Charlie Munger’s greatest hits.

McDonald’s just announced 50 changes to the iconic Big Mac — It’s a huge risk… and it reminds us of a quote in an old Sicilian novel.

Rover, the dog-walking app, was just acquired for a shocking $2.3B (that’s ½ a Lyft) — Because Rover pivoted to puppy sleepovers… and away from Mitt Romney.

And one of the world’s greatest investors passed away at 99: Charlie Munger, the architect of Berkshire Hathaway — So we whipped up Charlie’s Greatest Hits.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Is Amazon Too Big To Regulate?

Jeff Bezos said Amazon will be “Earth’s safest place to work.” But state and federal investigators are looking into the online retailer’s rates of on-the-job injuries. Is working in an Amazon warehouse inherently unsafe, or is the number of accidents unavoidable for the US’s second largest employer, as the company contends? Given OSHA’s limited powers, does the government have any options other than taking their word for it?


Guest: Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post reporter covering Amazon


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