Month: November 2019

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The Best One Yet - Airbnb’s 7M-home trust pledge, Coke’s new (caffeinated) sparkling water, Toyota’s “muda” hatred

Airbnb’s suffering a sudden trust crisis so it’s responding proactively(ish) with a bold move: Verifying all 7 million of its listings by next year. Coca-Cola’s trying to succeed in the flavored sparkling water market (again) with an aggressive anti-LaCroix move — caffeinated sparkling water for your mornings. And Toyota is the profitable surprise among Japanese car companies because it hates “muda.” A lot. 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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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – WN TBD: The Uber Drivers Who Don’t Want to Be Employees

California recently passed a law that would classify rideshare drivers across the state as employees, rather than contractors. Among many other benefits, they’d be allowed to unionize, collect overtime pay, and take sick leave.

 

So why are so many drivers against it?

 

Guest: Harry Campbell, former Uber driver and founder of The Rideshare Guy

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What Next - What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future – The Uber Drivers Who Don’t Want to Be Employees

California recently passed a law that would classify rideshare drivers across the state as employees, rather than contractors. Among many other benefits, they’d be allowed to unionize, collect overtime pay, and take sick leave.

 

So why are so many drivers against it?

 

Guest: Harry Campbell, former Uber driver and founder of The Rideshare Guy

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - WN TBD: The Uber Drivers Who Don’t Want to Be Employees

California recently passed a law that would classify rideshare drivers across the state as employees, rather than contractors. Among many other benefits, they’d be allowed to unionize, collect overtime pay, and take sick leave.

 

So why are so many drivers against it?

 

Guest: Harry Campbell, former Uber driver and founder of The Rideshare Guy

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City of the Future - 10: Responsive Architecture

In the last century, we started to design our buildings in a way that was divorced from the environment. We made sealed, hermetic structures that never moved and never changed. But now, technologies and materials are allowing our buildings to move, evolve, and even respond — not only to their environments, but to us, too.

In this episode, hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk discuss the past, present, and future of responsive architecture with Sidewalk Labs' director of public realm Jesse Shapins, engineer and microclimate expert Goncalo Pedro, "Bubbletecture" author Sharon Francis, and renowned architect Liz Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. For a link-rich transcript of this episode, click here.

City of the Future is produced by Benjamen Walker and Andrew Callaway. Mix is by Zach Mcnees. Art is by Tim Kau. Our music is composed by Adaam James Levin-Areddy. If you want to hear more of Adaam’s work, you can check out his band, Lost Amsterdam.

 

 

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New Books in Native American Studies - Karen Routledge, “Do You See Ice?: Inuit and Americans at Home and Away” (U Chicago Press, 2018)

In the 1800s, explorers and whalers returning home from the Arctic described a cold, desolate world, one that could swallow up expeditions without leaving a trace. But this did not describe the Arctic of the Inuit, who called this world their home. Karen Routledge tells the story of Baffin Island’s Inuit community as they came into contact with western whalers and explorers in the nineteenth century. Even though the Inuit worked closely with outsiders, their views of the Arctic world, their ideas about meaning of home, even their concept of time itself remained very different from the men they encountered. Routledge is a historian for Parks Canada. Her book, Do You See Ice?: Inuit and Americans at Home and Away, was recently published by University of Chicago Press (2018).

Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration.

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What A Day - Bloomberg’s Billions

  • A judge orders President Trump to pay $2 million for using donations to his charitable foundation (good) for personal and political purposes (so bad!).
  • So far, two billionaires have lined up to challenge Donald Trump in 2020 and Michael Bloomberg could be the newest addition to the pack. We test your knowledge in a game called "Not My Rich President."
  • And in headlines: Bernie releases an immigration plan, it’s almost “time” for the MET Gala, and Donald Trump Jr. faces off with Meghan McCain in a battle of the sweet kids.

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Short Wave - The Mind-Bending Ascent Of Helium — And Why It’s Running Low

Helium is the second-most common element in the cosmos, but it's far rarer on planet Earth. As part of our celebration of the periodic table's 150th birthday, reporter Geoff Brumfiel shares a brief history of helium's ascent, to become a crucial part of rocket ships, MRI machines, and birthday parties. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

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The NewsWorthy - Bloomberg for President?, No More Mint & Digital James Dean – Friday, November 8th, 2019

The news to know for Friday, November 8th, 2019! 

We're talking about a new potential candidate in the 2020 presidential race, why the current president was just fined $2 million, and the cold weather on its way.

Plus: Juul is saying no more mint, why text messages were weird this week, and the late actor brought back to life on the big screen...

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:

Bloomberg in 2020 Race?: Politico, CNN

Sessions Runs for Senate: FOX News, CNBC, CBS News

Trump Fined for Charity Misuse: AP, Washington Post

US-China Trade Agreement: Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Washington Post, BBC

Newly-Identified HIV Strain: NBC News, CNN, Salon

Cold Temps Coming: CBS News, CNN, The Weather Channel

Juul Stops Sales of Mint Flavor: Reuters, AP, The Verge

Text Message Error: The Verge, Engadget

Older Devices Losing Netflix: TechCrunch, Yahoo, CNET

CGI James Dean: Hollywood Reporter, Variety, NBC News, CNN

Cookies in Space: Fox News, Space.com

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The Daily Signal - The Decline of America’s Military, and Why It Matters

None of us want to think about another attack on America. But nor do we want to be unprepared if such an attack occurs. Dakota Wood, the lead editor of The Heritage Foundation's Index of U.S. Military Strength, explains that right now the military's readiness status is

"marginal." In other words, between aging equipment and other problems, we're far from ready to fight if have to wage war against two

different enemies.


"Near the end of the Cold War, we had 770,000 soldiers in the active-duty Army. Today, we have less than 480,000. We had nearly 600 ships in the Navy; today we have 290 and most of that stuff is very, very old," says Wood, a veteran himself.


We also cover the following stories:

  • President Trump reacts to the news that the whistleblower's lawyer had called for his impeachment in early 2017.
  • Democrats have a new proposal to tax millionaires.
  • Donald Trump Jr. spars with Joy Behar and Whoppi Goldberg on "The View."


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