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The news to know for Wednesday, September 26th, 2018!
Today, we're talking about the UN Security Council, Bill Cosby's sentencing, Twitter asking for feedback and M&Ms newest creations.
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Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Trump Chairs UN Security Council: USA Today, CNBC
Tuesday’s UN Speech: NYT, The Washington Post, FOX News, TIME
Raising Interest Rates: CNBC, MarketWatch, NYT
Supreme Court Nominee Latest: USA Today, FOX News, NYT
Sonic Acquired: CNBCMichael Kors Buys Versace: Business Insider
Apps + Vote Campaigns: TechCrunch, Mashable
Google Changes: The Verge, Mashable
Twitter Policy Talk: 9to5 Mac, Twitter (scroll down to bottom for survey)
M&Ms Newest Creations: BuzzFeed
The Macy's at Landmark Mall in Alexandria, Virginia closed its doors for good a year ago. Then, the whole mall shut down. The empty department store become a homeless shelter. And a woman who once worked there, found herself sleeping there.
This episode will serve as our majority report on the movie Minority Report. We cover the movie's relationship to Utilitarianism and the common objection that we can't predict the future. Next week we will present our minority report on the short story Minority Report, where we'll cover how the story addresses prescience and determinism. The major difference is that this episodes content is beefed up with about 40 minutes of Tom Cruise running.
Paper on the epistemic objection to Utilitarianism: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=9C31837321834C184C99CC72FD34B700?doi=10.1.1.357.2120&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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Music
We hear Waltz from the score to Angels & Insects.
Movements IV and II from David Liptak’s Serenade for Alto Sax and Strings.
A bit of Violin Solo no. 1 from Peter Broderick.
Some of Zucht 2 from Machienfabrik.
A bit of Origami Tulips from Lullatone.
Unseen Forces from Justin Walter.
Midnight Moon from Annalisa Tornfelt and Gideon Freudman
Ida Lupino from Paul Bley’s Changes album from 1965.
And Lost Fur (Reprise) from the score to Where the Wild Things Are.
Notes
Many of my favorite things I read for this piece were contemporary newspaper tributes upon her death in 1911. They’re easy to find.
By far the most useful thing I read was Lenore Skomal’s *The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter: The Remarkable True Story of American Heroine, Ida Lewis. *It’s very well researched and highly readable.
On The Gist, Trump gets laughs at the United Nations.
After a few eccentric comedy specials, Bo Burnham next turned to his sympathy for the anxieties of middle school girls, and made a movie. If Eighth Grade (starring Elsie Fisher) seems to imitate life so well, it’s because Burnham watched hundreds of vlogs made by today’s junior high generation.
In the Spiel, standards of proof in the Kavanaugh case.
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