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Weddings, school dances, birthday parties for your great auntie—if you’re having a big function, the Cha Cha Slide is going to be on the playlist. But how did the Cha Cha slide become so ubiquitous? Brittany teams up with the Gimlet fam over at Every Little thing to find out. Get ready to learn everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the Cha Cha Slide.
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Multiple Trump officials agree to testify for the impeachment inquiry, Trump’s call with Erdogan leads to disaster in Syria, and the Democratic candidates prepare for their fourth and largest debate yet. Then Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow talks to Jon Lovett about his new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators.
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The writer Fatima Bhutto celebrates the new global popular culture emerging from the East. She tells Andrew Marr that the West’s soft power dominance is on the wane as K-Pop, Dizi and Bollywood take the world by storm.
The Korean artist Nam June Paik was among the first to foresee the importance of mass media and new technologies, coining the phrase ‘electronic superhighway’. Sook-Kyung Lee is co-curating a global tour of his work, starting at Tate Modern.
A new play, Museum in Baghdad, brings together the stories of its British founder Gertrude Bell in 1926 with Ghalia Hussein’s attempts to reopen it in 2006 after looting during the war. The RSC director Erica Whyman says the play questions the role of culture in helping to create a nation.
And the writer John Burnside turns to the poets of the 20th century to give voice to an alternative cultural history of the time. He draws on the work of poets, both renowned and unjustly obscure, to give shape and meaning to the world.
Producer: Katy Hickman
Picture credit: Tate
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The news to know for Monday, October 14th, 2019!
Today, we're talking about the conflict and chaos in Syria (and America's role in it) as well as the federal holiday today that's not recognized across the country.
Plus: a big mystery surrounding the hugely popular game, Fortnite, and the next service Uber is getting into...
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 under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...
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Sources:
“Chaos” in Syria: AP, WSJ ,NYT, WaPo, The Hill, CBS News
Hunter Biden Resigns: WSJ, CBS News, Politico, Statement
Japan Typhoon: USA Today, Weather Channel, NYT
SoCal Wildfires: NBC News, CNN
No-Fur Law: NBC News, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post
Columbus/Indigenous People’s Day: ABC News, CNN
Simone Biles Record: ESPN, ABC News, AP
Fortnite Explosion: Cnet, TechCrunch, Business Insider
Google Pixel 4: TechCrunch, Engadget
Uber’s Cornershop: The Verge, CNBC
Weekend Box Office: THR, Variety, Deadline
Money Monday - Weekly Allowance: USA Today, NYT, American Institute of CPAs
Culture is constantly changing but there are principles of truth that will never change. It is those principles which the Imago Dei Leadership Forum seeks to empower young people with so they can be leaders who influence culture.
John Murray, Founder and President of Imago Dei Leadership Forum joins the Daily Signal podcast to offer advice on how we can bridge cultural divides in our nation and train up the next generation to be thoughtful leaders who live out their faith.
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The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or your favorite podcast app. All of our podcasts can be found at dailysignal.com/podcasts.
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Nobel prizes this week went to a range of discoveries that you might be familiar with, in fact you might be using one of them right now – the lithium ion battery. The scientists credited with its Invention got the chemistry prize. And the tantalising prospect of life on other planets plays into the physics prize win.
We see what salamanders have to offer in the treatment of arthritis.
Human life expectancy has been increasing for decades. In many developed countries, we can now expect to live into our 80s, and it isn’t uncommon to live to 90 or even 100 years old. But eventually our bodies fail, old age is undoubtedly a clear indicator of approaching death. This fact annoyed 79 year old listener Bill, who emailed in to set us the task of seeking out the secrets to a longer, healthier life. Bill has a personal target to live to 200 years old, so can he do it?