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The world’s population has never been bigger, and it’s still growing. but there’s a movement of “pronatalists” who see the slowing birth rate in wealthy, educated populations as a doomsday scenario in the making—and they’ve found their spokesman in one Elon Musk.


Guest: Sophie Alexander, reporter for Bloomberg


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The Stack Overflow Podcast - What can devs do about code review anxiety?

Carol is an applied clinical and intervention scientist: she develops and tests cognitive, behavioral, and social interventions that activate key mechanisms to elicit change. Learn more about understanding and mitigating code review anxiety (the full version of her article is here).

You can also check out the code review anxiety workbook.

Pluralsight’s Developer Success Lab is a team of scientists studying how developers work, learn, and innovate. 

Explore more of Carol’s work on code review anxiety, her bio, or her other work, from developer productivity and stress management to coding with GenAI. 

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CBS News Roundup - 07/04/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

July Fourth celebrations are taking place across the country. President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu today about resuming ceasefire negotiations. British exit polls suggest that the UK's Labour Party is set for a landslide win.

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Science In Action - Cleaner mining, cleaner batteries

Science in Action is at the UK's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, hunting for dark matter, melting ancient ice, cleaning up disused mines and looking for the batteries of the future.

Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

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Consider This from NPR - Wildfires are getting more extreme. And so is the need for more firefighters

Extreme wildfires doubled worldwide over the last two decades, according to a new study of NASA satellite data.

You'd think, if the wildfire crisis is getting worse, there'd be more and more firefighters in place to meet that demand. But at agencies like the U.S. Forest Service, adequate staffing has been a huge challenge.

But as organizations like the Forest Service raise alarm about firefighter shortages, there's also a whole group of people who are trained to fight fires and are struggling to get jobs in the field: formerly incarcerated people.

We hear from Royal Ramey, a formerly incarcerated firefighter who started an organization to help others build firefighting careers once they're released from prison.

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Consider This from NPR - Wildfires are getting more extreme. And so is the need for more firefighters

Extreme wildfires doubled worldwide over the last two decades, according to a new study of NASA satellite data.

You'd think, if the wildfire crisis is getting worse, there'd be more and more firefighters in place to meet that demand. But at agencies like the U.S. Forest Service, adequate staffing has been a huge challenge.

But as organizations like the Forest Service raise alarm about firefighter shortages, there's also a whole group of people who are trained to fight fires and are struggling to get jobs in the field: formerly incarcerated people.

We hear from Royal Ramey, a formerly incarcerated firefighter who started an organization to help others build firefighting careers once they're released from prison.

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The Bulwark Podcast - Clint Smith: A Reckoning with History

Author, poet, and native New Orleanian Clint Smith grew up in the city that was the heart of the domestic slave trade, but realized his understanding of the history within himself and his country was inadequate. So he set out to write the type of book he should have had in high school. On this Independence Day, we pulled a special selection from the Tim Miller Bulwark archive. Plus, love for the Crescent City, and dads getting too much credit for pulling their weight.

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