Month: October 2019

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - How Lonnie Bunch III Built The Most Popular Museum In America

How do you build a museum from scratch...that encompasses 400 years of African American history? How do you get it to tell hard truths, without making it a completely depressing experience for visitors? And how do you do it in a politically charged time, when the African American experience continues to shift and change? You talk to Lonnie Bunch. He explains how he managed to pull it off in his new memoir A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump

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The Gist - Meghan Daum’s Problem With Everything

On The Gist, Gordon Sondland testified before Congress.

In the interview, Meghan Daum is here to talk with Mike Pesca about her new book The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars. They discuss toughness versus sensitivity, age differences, and how we should appreciate the confusion of this time more.

In the Spiel, a dodeca-antentwig.

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Cato Daily Podcast - The Rediscovery of Tobacco: Smoking, Vaping, and the Creative Destruction of the Cigarette

While it's generally agreed that vaping is far safer than cigarette smoking, it's been swept up in a new prohibitionist frenzy where e-cigarettes are viewed as similar enough to cigarettes to warrant identical treatment. Is there a path back to tolerance for smokers and vapers? Jacob Grier is author of The Rediscovery of Tobacco: Smoking, Vaping, and the Creative Destruction of the Cigarette.

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CrowdScience - Is maths real?

Faced with one cake and eight hungry people, it’s pretty obvious how maths underpins reality. But as mathematics gets further from common sense and into seemingly abstract territory, nature still seems to obey its rules - whether in the orbit of a planet, the number of petals on a flower, or the structure of an atom. But what exactly is the relationship between mathematics and reality? That’s the impossibly difficult question CrowdScience has been set this week by our listener Sergio in Peru. It’s one that’s been pondered by humans for millennia: the Greek philosopher Pythagoras believed “All is number”. Is maths a human construct to help us make sense of reality - a tool, a model, a language? Does maths create its own reality? Or is it reality itself?

CrowdScience explores these questions with the help of experts from the fields of philosophy, mathematics and science: Dr Eleanor Knox, Dr Eugenia Cheng, Professor Lucie Green, Alex Bellos and Stefano Centineo. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Produced by Cathy Edwards for the BBC World Service

(Photo: A young woman with her eyes closed standing in front of chalkboard, working out maths formulas. Credit: Getty Images)

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Irish ayes? A new Brexit deal

Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson has a newly struck European Union divorce deal in hand. He has defied the expectations of many, but he still faces a tricky vote in Britain’s parliament. Turkey’s pummelling of the Syrian border area will pause for five days, but the decline of America’s role and image in the region has not been halted. And the burgeoning business of therapeutic psychedelics.
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Short Wave - Exploring The Rainforest With ‘TreeTop Barbie’

Pioneering ecologist Nalini Nadkarni takes us up into the canopy — the area above the forest floor — where she helped research and document this unexplored ecosystem. Plus: the story of her decades-long effort to get more women into science, and how she found a surprising ally in the fight — Barbie. Video and more from Maddie's trip to the canopy is here. Follow Maddie on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

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The NewsWorthy - Trump Resort Controversy, All-Female Spacewalk & Lyft’s Free Rides – Friday, October 18th, 2019

The news to know for Friday, October 18th, 2019! 

There's a lot to talk about today, including controversial comments from the White House that some are calling a confession. Also, did a ceasefire agreement with Turkey actually work?

Plus: a Brexit vote happening this weekend, a historic spacewalk this morning, and free rides from Lyft for weeks...

Those stories and many 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 under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...

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Sources:

Mulvaney’s Comments: NYT1, NYT2, FOX News, Washington Post, NBC News

G7 Summit: The Hill

Rep. Elijah Cummings Died: USA Today, Washington Post, Fox News, The Hill

Turkey Ceasefire?: AP, WSJ, ABC News, CBS News, Reuters

Brexit Deal: CNN, BBC, WSJ, NBC News

Bomb Cyclone: CBS News, Weather Channel, NYT, USA Today

All-Female Spacewalk: CBS News, Reuters, CNBC, NASA Live

Juul E-Cig Sales: USA Today, CNBC, The Verge

Venmo Credit Card: Engadget, Fox Business, MarketWatch

Google Map Update: TechCrunch, 9to5Google

Lyft’s Free Rides: Engadget, Quartz