In 2007, a new father in the small Czech town of Kurim installed a baby monitor only to find that, instead of picking up the feed from his own home, he was receiving a camera signal from his neighbors’ house. The feed showed two young, filthy boys locked in a cellar, being tortured. This was only the beginning of the strange and twisted tale of the Kurim cult.
Mozambican officials say that disinformation on cholera recently led to a ferry disaster in which more than 90 people died. Why is it still proving to be a challenge to control outbreaks of cholera in southern Africa? What can be done?
How lack of basic hygiene in health facilities could be costing Sub-Saharan Africa billions of dollars.
Popular Nigerian celebrity Bobrisky pleads guilty to abuse of the naira. What's really at play?
Presenter: Richard Kagoe
Producers: Charles Gitonga, Bella Hassan, Yvette Twagiramariya and Paul Bakibinga
Editor: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi
Did Donald Trump help or hurt his chances in November with his statement yesterday that he did not want federal action on abortion? Did Joe Biden help or hurt his chances in November by announcing a new effort to pay off student-loan debt? Did Wolodymyr Zelensky help or hurt his nation's future by saying Ukraine would lose the war if the American aid package stalled in the House didn't pass? Did Bibi Netanyahu help or hurt his nation by acceding to Joe Biden's demands over the weekend and then declaring there is a date certain for the invasion of Rafah? Give a listen.
The UCONN Huskies are N-C-Double-A champions again. Shooting at a Las Vegas Law Firm. Sentencing day for parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley. CBS Correspondent Cami McCormick has those stories and more in todays World News Roundup:
The latest jobs report shows the U.S. economy is strong, but how consumers perceive and feel about it isn’t as positive. So, what’s really going on? Reset sits down with Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, to find out how the economy is doing and to get a lesson on how the Fed works.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
Should you get into Bitcoin mining? Is the AI infrastructure play real? We sit down with Steve Barbour, an off-grid Bitcoin mining pioneer.
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Steve Barbour, owner of Bitcoin mining and oil and gas services company Upstream Data, joins the show to discuss who should get into Bitcoin mining, what problems Bitcoin mining solves and what he expects going into another Bitcoin bull market.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:02:30 Introducing Steve Barbour
00:04:12 Bitcoin mining & energy
00:07:33 Upstream Data's origins
00:14:13 Upstream Data's naming
00:19:35 Canadian oil vs. Bitcoin
00:24:35 Upstream Data's services
00:32:54 Colorado oil & Bitcoin
00:36:11 Bitcoin vs oil cycles
00:41:45 Bitcoin & AI
00:45:00 Water vs. air cooling
00:49:05 Advice for new miners
00:53:59 Mining contract tips
00:57:19 When to start mining
01:01:31 Steve on Bitcoin ordinals
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Donald Trump wants to leave abortion policy up to the states. The Vatican calls surrogacy and gender theory "grave threats" to "human dignity." And Missouri plans to execute a man who shot and killed two of his family members nearly 20 years ago — despite an unusual coalition advocating against his execution.
And a bonus: What was it like to experience a total solar eclipse?
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Today's episode of Up First was edited by Krishnadev Calamur, Cheryl Corley, Lisa Thomson and Ben Adler. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Ben Abrams and Nina Kravinsky. We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott, and our technical director is Zac Coleman.
Linus Hakansson finds that he has been in the tech industry so long, that it is difficult to separate himself from what he does professionally. He's a family man, with a 2.5 year old son, and enjoys spending time with them and raising is kid. Outside of that, he enjoys soccer, sports, and cooking Italian food. In fact, recently he bought a pizza oven and started making his own dough and pie.
Linus has been working with API's since he started in the industry. In 2019, he was introduced to his current venture, as they wanted to create an open source API management software. After a couple of years, he partnered with the team, and then eventually - joined the company, to build something good.
After his son’s death, Valentino Rodriguez Sr. waited for the warden of New Folsom prison to call him. That call never came. In our season finale, we walk through the gates of New Folsom to ask the warden for answers. We also get a rare glimpse inside the world of correctional officer discipline and hear from Sgt. Kevin Steele in his own words.
Mental health resources
If you are currently in crisis, you can dial 988 [U.S.] to reach the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
In Russia inflation is under control, wages are on the up and supposedly tough sanctions have been successfully skirted. Why is the pariah economy proving so resilient? Despite the nasty rhetoric of many of its politicians, Britain has turned out to be quite good at assimilating immigrants (09:29). And how lorries can be electrified faster (19:11).
