Ahead of the 2014 World Cup draw next Friday, we look at world football rankings. How are Switzerland seeded when the Netherlands, Italy and England are not? The answer lies in the playing of friendly games, which can be incredibly unfriendly to your ranking if you play the wrong team at the wrong time. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Cato Daily Podcast - FDA Shortening the Life of Transfats
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Money Girl - 257 MG 5 Clever Ways to Save More Money
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On this week's show, we eat some humble pie, share some stocks we're thankful for, and talk about a few turkeys. And best-selling author and radio host Clark Howard serves up some advice from his book, Living Large for the Long Haul.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Filibuster and Obamacare’s ‘Super Legislature’
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Cato Daily Podcast - Immigration Reform a la Carte
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Start the Week - Bianca Jagger on human rights
Tom Sutcliffe looks at the future of human rights with the campaigner Bianca Jagger and academic Stephen Hopgood. Jagger points to the failure of the global community to tackle violence against women and girls, while Hopgood sounds the death knell for international Human Rights with the rise of religious conservatism and the decline in influence of Europe and America. Pakistan's Tribal Area close to Afghanistan is the setting for Fatima Bhutto's debut novel, and the playwright Howard Brenton examines the chaos of the partition of India in his latest production, Drawing The Line.
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New Books in Native American Studies - Kim TallBear, “Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
Is genetic testing a new national obsession? From reality TV shows to the wild proliferation of home testing kits, there’s ample evidence it might just be. And among the most popular tests of all is for so-called “Native American DNA.”
All of this rests upon some uninterrogated (and potentially destructive) assumptions about race and human “origins,” however. In Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), Kim TallBear asks what’s at stake for Indigenous communities and First Nations when the premises of this ascendant science are put into practice.
TallBear, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas-Austin and enrolled Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, conducted years of research on the politics of “human genome diversity,” decoding the rhetoric of scientists, for-profit companies, and public consumers. The result is a vital and provocative work, tracing lineages between racial science and genetic testing, “blood talk” and “DNA talk,” and the undemocratic culture of a field which claims it can deliver us from racism.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?
Ruth Alexander speaks to a statistician at the forefront of cancer research, Professor Terry Speed. He has just been awarded the Prime Minister?s Prize for Science in Australia. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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Shares of Tesla lose some energy. Target misses the mark. Green Mountain grinds out big earnings. And Campbell's Soup serves up some disappointing numbers. Our analysts discuss those stories and share three stocks on their radar. Plus, corporate governance expert and film critic Nell Minow talks JPMorgan Chase, CEO pay, and must-see movies.
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