Host Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry after U.S. President Donald Trump raise tariffs against China to 145%.
Bitcoin fell below $80,000 Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump raise tariffs against China to 145%. Plus, crypto friendly Paul Atkins is confirmed as the new chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Pakistan seeks to utilize up to 10,000 megawatts of surplus energy for Bitcoin mining. CoinDesk's Christine Lee hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
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This episode was hosted by Christine Lee. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Christine Lee and edited by Victor Chen.
Chicago has a major rogue tow operator problem. Rogue towing operators prowl crash scenes, take vehicles away, and then stick drivers with massive fees to get their cars back. More than 500 predatory tows were reported in the Chicago area in 2023. But now, a new proposed ordinance making its way through City Council could crack down on the problem, and would allow drivers and insurers to sue rogue tow truck drivers. Reset finds out more about this issue from Mitch Armentrout, Chicago Sun-Times reporter.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
Chicago has a major rogue tow operator problem. Rogue towing operators prowl crash scenes, take vehicles away, and then stick drivers with massive fees to get their cars back. More than 500 predatory tows were reported in the Chicago area in 2023. But now, a new proposed ordinance making its way through City Council could crack down on the problem, and would allow drivers and insurers to sue rogue tow truck drivers. Reset finds out more about this issue from Mitch Armentrout, Chicago Sun-Times reporter.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
Pain, particularly chronic pain, is hard to research. New therapeutics are hard to screen for. Patients are not all the same. Sergui Pascu and colleagues at Stanford university have been growing brain samples from stem cells. Then they began connecting different samples, specialised to represent different brain regions. This week they announce their most complex “assembloid” yet, one that even reacts to hot chilli, passing a signal from the sensory neurons through to the thinking bits. The hope is that it can provide insights on how pain, and potential painkillers, work.
Human brains are notoriously large, particularly infants. Whilst for primates the human pelvis is quite narrow, to allow us to walk and run on two legs. This notoriously makes childbirth, well, not as straightforward as most other species. This evolutionary “obstetric dilemma” has been debated for decades. Marianne Brasil, of Western Washington University, and colleagues, have published this week a huge study of contemporary human genes and anatomies available from the UK Biobank to shed some more light on this ongoing compromise.
Malta is an island in the Mediterranean no less than 80km from land. So how come Eleanor Scerri and colleagues have discovered archaeological evidence of hunter-gatherers living there from 8,500 years ago? And they didn’t just visit and leave. They stayed for perhaps a millennium before farming arrived. Maybe a rethink of what nautical capabilities our ancestors had in the deep past is needed?
A year ago, Science in Action gate-crashed a conference looking at plans for meeting the forthcoming arrival of asteroid Apophis in 2029. This year the meeting is in Tokyo, and Richard Binzel, emeritus professor of Astronomy at MIT, gives us an update on how the space agencies are hoping to collaborate to maximise the scientific value from what will be a global, visible, phenomenon in just 4 years. Is there enough time to get our collective wits together?
(Image: 3D illustration of Interconnected neurons with electrical pulses. Credit: Getty Images)
Presenter: Roland Pease
Producer: Alex Mansfield
Production co-ordinator: Josie Hardy
Just before he paused the tariffs on Wednesday, an unusual spike in activity on the S&P 500 prompted speculation that Trump was orchestrating an insider trading scheme. After the markets closed, he joked with *the* Charles Schwab about how the financier had made $2.5 billion in trades that day. Meanwhile, Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate two former officials he regards as enemies—this comes on the heels of his efforts to intimidate law firms from taking on clients who oppose him. Plus, Trump's long obsession with white South Africans, and do Democrats listen too much to grassroots activist groups?
Andrew Weissmann and Patrick Gaspard join Tim Miller.
show notes
It's safe to say there's been a lot of confusion and even panic in the wake of President Donald Trump's tariff announcement last week — investors are confused, the markets are confused, even the president's Republican colleagues are confused.
But what do these tariffs mean for working people? Especially as many have seen their personal wealth take a sizable hit and their budgets likely be blown to bits.
We discuss what the tariffs could mean for America's finances in the near and far futures with The Washington Post's Michelle Singletary. We also hear from Martha Gimbel of the Budget Lab at Yale about the bigger economic picture.
The United States has long been a center for academic and scientific research. But two phenomena may be changing that and sending talent to Europe instead. The Trump administration has hit many colleges and universities with cuts to federal funding. And at the same time many academics feel like their freedom is under attack. Our correspondent in Rome tells us that European Universities are offering refuge to researchers in the U.S.
Ben Brown in London and Sumi Somaskanda in Washington, examine the key questions about the Trump tariff rollercoaster of the last few days. Why has the US doubled down on China, with even steeper tariffs of 145%?
