Interview with Susan Gerbic. She is helping to build a community of people that are working very hard on making Wikipedia better and more science based! If you want to make a difference contact her and learn how you can help.
Investing skeptically: What if everyone owned Index funds, How not to invest in real estate.
Motley Fool Money - The Race to $1 Trillion
Apple posts blowout earnings, pushing its market cap closer to the $1 trillion mark. Facebook shares record profits and plans to spend more on security. Starbucks closes the books on its online store and Tazo Tea. Ron Gross, Jason Moser and Matt Argersinger analyze the latest from MercadoLibre, Tesla, Under Armour, Activision Blizzard and more, and share a few stocks on their radar. Plus, Chris talks about the battle for the living room with NYU Professor Scott Galloway, author of The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. To check out the latest from Motley Fool Wealth Management just go to http://Personal.Fool.com.
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CrowdScience - How Did Life Get onto Land?
People often talk about being descended from apes. But go back a bit further and we have a more unlikely ancestor – fish. Improbable as it may sound, the creature that gave rise to every bird, reptile and mammal on Earth today lived a fully aquatic life.
So how did it switch to life on land? And how hard was it to swap swimming for walking and breathing fresh air? That’s what CrowdScience listener Pierre in France wants to know, and what Marnie Chesterton is in Scotland to find out. She goes fossil hunting with members of the TW:eed Project team, as they try to uncover remains of creatures that are crucial in helping solve the puzzle of terrestrial life. She also discovers the landscape these early ancestors walked into – an alien and relatively empty world completely different to what we see today - where grass and flowers were yet to evolve.
But not everything in this story is preserved in rock. Marnie goes to see a living relic of this period of evolution, and finds out what it can tell us about possibly the most important event in the history of our species.
Do you have a question we can turn into a programme? Email us at crowdscience@bbc.co.uk
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer: Anna Lacey
(Image: Artists impression of underwater environment of Carboniferous swamp depicting a rhizodont; a large predatory fish. Credit: Mark Witton)
Pod Save America - “The fog of bullshit.” (LIVE from Philadelphia)
Trump blames Schumer and the courts for terrorism, Republicans propose trillions in tax cuts for the rich, and Facebook testifies before Congress. DeRay McKesson, Brittany Packnett, and Pennsylvania Congressional candidate Chrissy Houlahan join Jon, Jon, Tommy, and Dan on stage in Philly.
Serious Inquiries Only - SIO90: Uranium and #DARVO: An Epistemological Crisis
A listener sent me an email about a concept called DARVO. It's a tactic abusers use and it's shockingly exactly what Trump (and maybe a certain other someone we all know...) is doing. I talk about that and then look into some questions like, did Hillary give 20% of our Uranium to the Russians? Did the DNC and the HIllary campaign collude with Russia to fix the election? Then I talk about why we shouldn't be talking about those questions.... It's meta. Medium Article Explaining DARVO; Fact checks on Uranium - 1, 2, 3, 4; WaPo on Clinton and Giustra; 2008 NYT on Kazakhstan Mining Deal; NYT 2015 on Uranium Deal; Clinton Foundation Money; Clinton Foundation Statement; Murdoch Outlets Bash Mueller; WaPo Dossier DNC Connection; Vox Epistemic Crisis Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email thomas@seriouspod.com
The NewsWorthy - Tax Plan, Oprah & ‘Fall Back’ – Friday, November 3rd, 2017
All the news you need to know for Friday, November 3rd, 2017!
Today we're talking about details in the proposed tax plan and why President Trump was kicked off Twitter (for 11 minutes).
Plus, a new study looks at stents for heart patients, Oprah teams up with Amazon Alexa and it's that time of year to 'fall back' and change our clocks.
All that and more - in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Opening Arguments - OA118: Indictment Monday & the View From Yodel Mountain
Today's rapid-response episode tackles -- of course -- the indictment of former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his protege, Rick Gates, as well as the guilty plea entered by Trump campaign official George Papadopoulos. What does it all mean? Listen to a special full-length episode and find out! After our full discussion, we end with a timely new Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Question #48 about co-conspirator confessions. Remember that you can play along with #TTTBE by retweeting our episode on Twitter or sharing it on Facebook along with your guess. We'll release the answer on next Tuesday's episode along with our favorite entry! Recent Appearances Andrew was a guest on Episode 6 of the How-To Heretic Podcast; give it a listen! Show Notes & Links
- You can (and should) read the Papadopoulos statement of offense.
- Papadopoulos has pled guilty to providing a false statement to a government official, 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
- After that, you can read the Manafort and Gates indictment by clicking here.
- Manafort and Gates are collectively charged with 12 crimes, including conspiracy to commit an offense against or to defraud the United States, 18 U.S.C. § 371; conspiracy to launder money,18 U.S.C. § 1956; seven counts of record-keeping violations under 31 U.S.C. § 5314; two separate violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act, 22 U.S.C. § 612 et seq.; and, of course, providing false statements to a government official, 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
The Gist - Get Inside the Brain of Michael Rapaport
The tax plan is out, and New Yorker writer Adam Davidson joins us to play One Question, One Question Only: Is this tax reform?
And the voluble Michael Rapaport unleashes his opinions about various “stickmen” (read: athletic Casanovas) and why he’s embarrassed to be a Knicks fan. Rapaport’s new book is This Book Has Balls: Sports Rants from the MVP of Talking Trash, and he hosts the podcast I Am Rapaport.
And in the Spiel, what went wrong in protecting Americans from armies of Russian trolls.
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Bay Curious - El Camino Not-So-Real: The True Story of the ‘Ancient Road’
Legend has it, El Camino Real is an ancient road that connects the Spanish missions. But is it true?
Reported by Rachael Myrow. Bay Curious is Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller.
Ask us a question at BayCurious.org.
Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.
New Books in Native American Studies - Jeffrey H. Cohen, “Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World” (U. Texas Press, 2015)
Jeffrey H. Cohen, a professor at The Ohio State University, has managed a rare feat: placing anthropology classics like Argonauts of the Western Pacific in the context of eating grasshoppers. His impressively readable Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World (University of Texas Press, 2015) is a retrospective on his first foray into the field, but it does a fair bit more than that. While recounting his own experiences in Oaxaca, Mexico, Cohen provides insight into how theory can be applied to the real world. The book transitions between high-level analysis of social relations in his adopted community and the harsh truths of working with human beings in less-than-comfortable settings. The result is a fun and interesting read, well-suited to undergraduate courses on introductory anthropology and field methods.
Jared Miracle is an anthropologist and folklorist whose research areas include violence, education, and digital culture. He is the author of Now with Kung Fu Grip! How Bodybuilders, Soldiers and Hairdresser Reinvented Martial Arts for America.
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