Month: October 2019

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The Best One Yet - Zola launches “Honeymoons,” Target adds Disney stores-within-stores, and HP drops 10% because printers are like fax machines

Target is pulling a Best Buy — it’s adding Disney stores within its own stores (and it kind of looks like the future of malls). HP dropped 10% because printers are the new fax machines, but a shrinking business could become a growing one. And wedding registry icon Zola is engaged to become a unicorn — the $650M startup launches an end-to-end Honeymoon booking service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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World Book Club - Héctor Abad – Oblivion

The Colombian novelist and journalist Héctor Abad discusses his memoir Oblivion, a heart-breaking tribute to his late father. Héctor Abad Gómez was a medical doctor, professor and human rights campaigner in the city of Medellín, Colombia, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his brutal murder by paramilitaries in 1987. One of the most exquisitely written accounts of profound love between a father and son in modern literature, Oblivion paints a picture of a remarkable man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America’s recent history.

Presented by Harriet Gilbert

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Trade disunion: America’s tariff wars

Chinese and American trade negotiators will again be trying to avoid more eye-watering tariffs this week; meanwhile a years-long dispute with the European Union has sparked yet more levies. Where does it all end? We describe the recent “quantum supremacy” result, and what it realistically means for computing’s future. And, the coming submersion of 12,000 years of human history in Turkey.
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Strict Scrutiny - Calm Before the Storm

On this episode, Melissa and Kate break down the Harvard affirmative action case just decided by a Massachusetts district court; go deep on some of our favorite classic and recent books on the Supreme Court; preview the first two weeks of the Supreme Court’s 2019 Term; and dish about clerking. (This last is a conversation to be continued -- we got tons of questions we didn't have time to discuss, so stay tuned for more on clerkships down the road!)

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Start the Week - Lenny Henry

Lenny Henry was 16 when he first appeared on television making people laugh in the 1970s. He tells Kirsty Wark about coming of age in the spotlight at a time of casual chauvinism and blatant racism, all while under his Jamaican mother’s strict instruction to integrate.

The novelist Tessa McWatt knows only too well the complexity of fitting in. Born in Guyana, raised in Canada and working in Britain, McWatt explores themes of the outsider in society and conflicting ideas of belonging.

The writer and former sportsman Matthew Syed encourages breaking free of the echo chambers that surround us, to develop an ‘outsider mindset’. Cognitive diversity, he argues in his latest book, is the answer to many of the world’s most challenging problems.

And the social psychologist Keon West explains the research being done to reduce bias between different groups of people. He argues that mandatory unconscious bias training is not only pointless - but possibly detrimental.

Producer: Katy Hickman

Picture credit: © ITV / Rex / Shutterstock

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Start the Week - Lenny Henry

Lenny Henry was 16 when he first appeared on television making people laugh in the 1970s. He tells Kirsty Wark about coming of age in the spotlight at a time of casual chauvinism and blatant racism, all while under his Jamaican mother’s strict instruction to integrate.

The novelist Tessa McWatt knows only too well the complexity of fitting in. Born in Guyana, raised in Canada and working in Britain, McWatt explores themes of the outsider in society and conflicting ideas of belonging.

The writer and former sportsman Matthew Syed encourages breaking free of the echo chambers that surround us, to develop an ‘outsider mindset’. Cognitive diversity, he argues in his latest book, is the answer to many of the world’s most challenging problems.

And the social psychologist Keon West explains the research being done to reduce bias between different groups of people. He argues that mandatory unconscious bias training is not only pointless - but possibly detrimental.

Producer: Katy Hickman

Picture credit: © ITV / Rex / Shutterstock

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - How Long Will Affirmative Action Last?

Last week, a contentious affirmative action case came to a temporary resolution. In a lawsuit filed against Harvard by Asian American students and conservative opponents of affirmative action, a judge ruled in favor of the university’s race-conscious admissions process. The selection process, she says, helps create a diverse student body and does not discriminate against Asian American applicants. But here’s the catch: there are examples of bias in the application process. And this case is probably far from over.

Guest: Elie Mystal, executive editor of Above The Law and contributing writer at The Nation.

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The NewsWorthy - Troops Withdrawal, Historic Spacewalk & Joker Breaks Record – Monday, October 7th, 2019

The news to know for Monday, October 7th, 2019!

Today, we're talking about a shift in U.S. military policy and a second 'whistleblower' to come forward in the impeachment inquiry.

Plus: the historic spacewalk back on, PayPal backs out, ATM fees and which movie broke which record at the box office...

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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2nd Whistleblower: Washington Post, ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, The Hill, New York Times

U.S. Troops Withdrawal: AP, NYT, FOX News

North Korea Talks: Washington Post, BBC

Unemployment Down: CNBC, Reuters, WSJ

Historic Spacewalk: CNN, Space.com, NBC News

PayPal Exists Libra: WSJ, CNBC, Reuters

Google Research Suspended: NY Daily News, NYT, The Verge

ZenKey: TheVerge, TNW

Joker Breaks Record: Variety, CNN

Record ATM Fees: USA Today, CNBC

 

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S1 E9: Andy Abbott, Heretik

Andy Abbott has been a tech enthusiast for a long time, doing things that techies do. He built a BBS network so his friends could play games together, he created websites on geocities, and spent spring break on the beach… learning PHP. Post graduating from Purdue, he spent many years gaining a diverse set of professional experiences – from software to consulting to domain squatting to SEO to grocery shopping. Along with this, he built an active and successful Microsoft developer community in Chicago. After selling the company he co-founder, called BookedOut, he felt the pains of the contract review and diligence processes. From that experience, he set off to build Heretik, to enable the streamlining of contract review at scale.


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The Daily Signal - Decorated Combat Veteran Achieves New Heights as Bestselling Author

American combat veteran and bestselling author Sean Parnell joins The Daily Signal podcast to discuss the battles he fought in Afghanistan and how they inspired his works of fiction. 


Parnell joined the Army in the wake of 9/11 and served his country until he was wounded in battle in June of 2006. A highly decorated military Captain, Parnell shares his own memories of war and why he chose to write his first book, “Outlaw Platoon,” followed by “Man of War” and “All Out War.”


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• And we share a good news interview with the founders of the re-Ratify Project - a nonprofit dedicated to educating young people on the Constitution.  


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