Band of Horses released their 5th album in June 2016. In this episode, the band’s frontman, Ben Bridwell breaks down the song Solemn Oath, and how in the process of writing it, he confronted writer’s block, and balancing his life in the band and at home as a husband and father.
Curious City - Why Chicago Lightning Bugs Light Up One Neighborhood But Not the Next
A listener’s nostalgia for catching lightning bugs as a kid lead her to wonder: Are there any left these days? Our experts say they’re around, just really, really fickle.
Curious City - Why Chicago Lightning Bugs Light Up One Neighborhood But Not the Next
A listener’s nostalgia for catching lightning bugs as a kid lead her to wonder: Are there any left these days? Our experts say they’re around, just really, really fickle.
African Tech Roundup - Telkom South Africa In The Lead With Game Changing Mobile Packages
Data costs need to come down significantly if Africa is ever going to realise the dream of making access to the internet available to every single person living on the continent.
As things stand, according to a new research report by Global Market Insights, an estimated 590 million Africans still do not have access to electricity, to say nothing of reliable web access.
However, South Africa’s largest telecoms operator, the government-owned Telkom, has announced some game-changing 4G/LTE data-led mobile packages that may signal the beginning of the end of exorbitantly high data prices in that country.
Aside from throwing down the gauntlet towards its rivals, Telkom seems to be committing to a business model that seeks to sign up the masses and incentivise them to consume ever increasing amounts of data, as opposed to attempting to profiteer in the short to medium term. What’s not to love about that?
Also in this week’s African Tech Round-up, I speak to Frank Schutte, the former Retail Product & Marketing Managing Director of South Africa’s largest life insurer— Liberty, to found a startup called MobiLife, which is “Africa’s first 100% mobile insurance offering” that aims to transform micro-insurance in South Africa.
Listen in to find out what would possess Frank to take on the well-heeled incumbents who currently control South Africa’s highly-competitive multi-billion dollar life insurance industry.
Music Credits:
Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Serious Inquiries Only - AS261: Interview with a Chicago Police Officer
A listener named Elizabeth reached out to me offering her perspective on Black Lives Matter vs Blue Lives Matter and the police violence that has been dominating the media lately. Elizabeth talks about having to keep her liberal opinions to herself on the force due to bullying and intimidation, among many other things. She’s able … Continue reading AS261: Interview with a Chicago Police Officer →
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PHPUgly - 20:Man Down!
Show notes: https://github.com/PHPUgly/podcast/blob/master/shows/ep20.md recorded July 21st, 2016 Topics SDPHP Downtown Meetup Some changes that are coming to Laravel 5.3 How one Regex string brought down Stackoverflow PHP 7.1 hits Beta How Facebook can decide to revoke your license to React.js On a side note, we would like to welcome the newest member of the PHPUgly family, Nolan Congdon, new son of the host John Congdon. All our best wishes go out to the entire Congdon family. The hosts Eric Van Johnson Twitter / Github / Blog / About.me Tom Rideout Twitter / Github / About.me John Congdon Twitter / Github Follow us on Twitter @PHPUgly Email us at Podacast@phpugly.com
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #576 – Jul 23 2016
Interview with Maria Cork; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Carlos Juan Finlay; News Items: Replications in Science, Single Atom Data Storage, The Connectome, HAARP, Bio Bot; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Estivation; Your Questions and E-mails: Snake Follow up, Archaic Words; Science or Fiction
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Banks, Drugs and Money: Part 2
In the conclusion of their two part interview with Robert Mazur, the guys explore the ins and outs of money laundering. Tune in to learn how dirty money gets clean - and what happens (or doesn't happen) to the bad guys when they're caught.
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On The Gist, comedian Hari Kondabolu says he doesn’t mind updating his jokes to heed the sensitivities of his fans. His new stand-up comedy album is Mainstream American Comic. He hosts the Politically Re-Active podcast with comedian W. Kamau Bell.
For your Spiel fix, check out the three a.m. Spiels on the Republican National Convention. More of that to come for the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS More or Less: Ireland?s Shock GDP figures
The Irish Central Statistics Office has released figures showing that Ireland?s economy grew by 26% in 2015. That would make it the fastest growing economy in the world. But American economist Paul Krugman described this as ?leprechaun economics? as this growth rate is so unrealistically high. More or Less explores how multinational companies with headquarters in Ireland have led to an accounting headache for working out the country?s GDP.
Also, the mobile gaming app Pokemon Go has taken the US by storm and is now spreading across the world. But does Pokemon Go really have 26 million daily active users in the US? More Or Less investigates.