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Autumn loves to play The Sims. The life simulation game gives the 15-year-old an escape from her difficult home life. But after something terrible happens, the line between the game and real life starts to blur. Producer Wallace Mack brings us this week’s story on the journey to find peace amid tragedy.
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Senator Bernie Sanders believes that public assistance benefits provided to workers constitute subsidies to their employers. He couldn't be more wrong, according to Ryan Bourne.
Related paper: "Government and the Cost of Living: Income-Based vs. Cost-Based Approaches to Alleviating Poverty," by Ryan Bourne
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Cloudflare says it's made it easier to access the InterPlanetary File System or IPFS.
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Bancor partners with EOS for a new cross-chain product.
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A U.S. district court ruled to seize the assets and property of Alexandre Cazes, the deceased Canadian who allegedly was behind the darknet marketplace AlphaBay. Among that property? A 2013 Lamborhini Aventador.
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MIT Media Lab’s Michael Casey joins host Marc Hochstein to discuss the inverse relationship between the price of ether and the value of the Ethereum network.
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Special guest Rachel Monroe (re-)joins Mike and Sarah to talk about all the myths surrounding the second-biggest news event of the 1990s. Digressions include car crashes, September 11, Diane Sawyer and the terrors of teenage journaling.
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It is 40 years since Sir David Attenborough told the story of Life on Earth, from its very first spark 4 billion years ago to the abundance of plants and animals today. He tells Andrew Marr how more pieces of the puzzle have fallen into place over the last four decades.
The German ornithologist Michael Quetting spent a year hand rearing seven goslings: caring for them as they hatched, helping them learn to swim, and teaching them to fly alongside his aircraft. The project is part of an ambitious scientific research programme to understand birds in flight and use them to gather weather data for us.
Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, looks beyond the earth to ask about potential life among the stars. He sees the future of humanity as bound to the future of science, and believes that space explorers in the next century will be electronic and not organic.
A hundred years after Holst wrote The Planets, leading composers are again trying to capture the essence of our solar system in music. But this time they are working in collaboration with scientists. The geologist Dr Philippa Mason has helped bring deeper insight to Venus: a planet once thought to be a lush tropical swamp world, but in reality a crushing, violent inferno.
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The news to know for Monday, September 17th, 2018!
Today, we're talking about the historic rainfall and impact from what is now Tropical Depression Florence as well as an accusation against the Supreme Court nominee.
Plus: a private trip to space, the new software update from Apple and the Emmy Awards.
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes.
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned (click episodes) or see below:
Sources:
Florence Update: CBS News, CNN, AP, AccuWeather
Typhoon in Southeast Asia: BBC, NYT
Kavanaugh Accused: The Washington Post, USA Today, FOX News
Manafort Plea Deal: AP, NBC News
'Presidential Alert' Test: Digital Trends, TechCrunch
Space Tourist: Space.com, Tech Insider, WSJ
Longest U.S. Flight: CNN, USA Today
New iOS12 Available: CNET
Emmy Awards: The Atlantic, Variety, LA Times, Mashable
Weekend Box Office: Rotten Tomatoes, Variety
A black neighborhood fights back when a mysterious man with mob ties builds an illegal dump across the street from an elementary school. Along the way they confront corrupt politicians, apathetic bureaucrats—and a secret undercover FBI investigation.
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